Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 4, 1909, Page 4

— MESSAGE ON THE SEGRET SERVIGE Continued from First Page based his statements thatethe ‘chief argument In favor of the provision was that the congressmen did not themselves wish to be investigated by gecret service men.'” This statement, which was an attack upon no one, still less upon the congress, is sustained by the facts. If you will turn to the Congressional Record for Ma 1 last, pages 5553 to b560, inclusive, you will find the de- bate on this subject. Mr. Tawney of Minnesota, Mr. Smith of Iowa, Mr. Sherley of Kentucky and Mr. Fltzger- ald of New York appear in this debate as the speclal champlons of the pro- vislon referred to. Messrs. Parsons, Bennet and Driscoll were the leaders of those who opposed the adoption of the amendment and upheld the right of the government to use the most effl- clent means possible in order to de- tect criminals and to prevent and pun- ish crime. The amendment was car- ried in the committee of the whole, where no votes of the indlvidual mem- bers are recorded, so I am unable to discriminate by mentioning the mem- bers who voted for and the members who voted agalust the provision, but its passage, the journal records, was greeted with applause. I am well aware, however, that in any case of this kind many members who have no particular knowledge of the polnt at issue are content simply to follow the lead of the committee which had con- sidered the matter, and I have no doubt that many members of the house stmply followed the lead of Messrs. Tawney and Smith without having had the opportunity to know very much as to the rights and wrongs of the ques- tion. 1 would not ordinarily attempt in this way to discriminate between members of the house, but as objection has been taken to my language, in which I sim- ply spoke of the action of the house as a whole, and as apparently there is a desire that I should thus discrim- inate I will state that I think the re- sponsibility rested on the committee on appropriations under the lead of the members whom I have mentioned. Replies to Request For Evidence. Now as to the request of the con- gress that I give the evidence for my statement that the chief argument in Xavor of the provision was that the congressmen did not themselves wish to be investigated by secret service men, ‘The part of the Congressional Record to which I have referred above en- tirely supports this statement. Two distinct lines of argument were fol- lowed In the debate. One concerned the question whether the law war- ranted the employment of the secret service in departments other than the treasury, and this did not touch the merits of the service in the least. The other llne of argument went to the merits of the service, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, and here the chief if not the only argument used was that the service should be cut down and restricted because its mem- bers had *shadowed” or Investigated members of congress and other officers of the government. If we examine the debate In detail it appears that most of what was urged in favor of the amendment took the form of the sim- ple statement that the committee held that there had beea a ‘“violation of law” by the use of the secret service for othee purposss than suppressing . counterfeiting (and ome or two other matters which ean be disregarded) and that such language was now to be used as would effectually prevent all such “violation of law” hereafter. Mr. Tawney, for Instance, says, “It was for the purpose of stopping the use of this service in every possible way by the departments of the government that this provision was inserted,” and Mr. Smith says, “Now, that was the only way in which any limitation could be put upon the actlvities of the secret service.” Mr. Fitzgerald followed in the same vein, and by far the largest part of the argument against the em- ployment of the secret service was con- fined to the statement that it was in “violatlon of law.” Of course such a statement s not in any way an argu- ment In favor of the justice of the provision. It is not an argument for the provision at all. It is simply a statement of what the gentlemen mak- ing it concelve to have been the law. There was both by implication and direct statement the assertion that it ‘was the law and ought to be the law, that the secret service should only be used to suppress counterfelting and that the law should be made more rigid than ever in this respect. No Restrictions on Service. Incidentally I may say that in my Judgment there is ample legal author- ity for the statement that this appro- priation law to which reference was made Imposes no restrictions whatever upon the use of the secret service men, but relates solely to the expenditure of the money appropriated. Mr. Tawney in the debate stated that he had in his possession “a letter from the secretary of the treasury recelved a few days ago” in which the sccretary of the treasury “himself admits that the pro- ‘visions under which the appropriation has been made have been violated year after year for a number of years in his own department.” I append here- with @s Appendix A the letter re- ferred to. [Appendix A is a letter from Becretary of the Treasury Cortelyou to the chairman of the committee on ap- propriations of the house of represent- atives, dated April 29, 1908, protest- ing against the proposed law abridg- ing the right of the secretary of the treasury to detail secret service men to work in other divisions of his de- partment. Such abridgement, he de- clared, would be “distinctly to the ad- vantage of violators of criminal stat- utes of the United States.”] It makes no such admission as that which Mr. ‘Tawney alleges. It contains, on the contrary, as you will see by reading it, an “emphatic protest against any such abridgement of the rights delegated to the secretary of the treasury by ex- isting law” and concludes by assert- ing that he “is quite within his rights in thus employing the service of these agents” and that the proposed modifi- cation which Mr. Tawney succeeded in earrylng through wwould be “distinetly to (fie advantage of violators of crimil- nal statutes of the United States.” 1 call attention to the “act that in this letter of Secretary Cortelyou to Mr. Tawney, as In my letter to the speaker quoted Dbelow, the explicit statement is made that the proposed change will Le for the benefit of the criminals, & statement which T simply relterated in public form in my message to-the con- gress this year and which Is also con- ned In effect in the report of the ctary of the treasury to the con- gross. “Private Conduct” of Members. A careful reading of the Congression- al Record will also show that practical- 1y the only arguments advanced In fa- vor of the limitation proposed by Mr, Tawney's committee beyond what may be supposed to be contained by impli- cation In certain sentences as to “gbuses” which were not specified were those contained in the repeated statements of Mr. Sherley. Mr. Sher- ley stated that there had been “pro- nounced abuses growing out of the use of the secret service for purposes other than those intended,” putting his statement in the form of a question, and in the same form further stated that the “private conduct” of “mem- bers of congress, senators” and others ought not to be Investigated by the secret service and that they should not Investigate a “member of con- gress” who had been accused of “con- duct unbecoming a gentleman and a member of congress.” In addition to these assertions, couched as questions, he made one positive declaration that “this secret service at one time was used for the purpose of looking into the personal conduct of a member of congress.” This argument of Mr. Sher- ley, the only real argument as to the merits of the question made on behalf of the committee on appropriations, will be found in colummns 1 and 2 of page 5556 and column 1 of page 5557 of the Congressional Record. In col- umn 1 of page 5556 Mr. Sherley refers to the impropriety of permitting the secret service men to Investigate men in the departments, officers of .the army and navy and senators and con- gressmen. In column 2 he refers to officers of the mavy and members of congress. In column 1, page 5557, he refers only to members of congress. His speech puts most weight on the investigation of members of congress. Newspaper Article Reproduced, ‘What appe: in the record is filled out and explained by an article which appeared in the Chicago Inter Ocean of Jan. 3, 1904, under a Washington beadline and which marked the begin- ning of this agitation against the se- cret service. It was a special article of about 8,000 words, written, as I was then informed and now understand, by Mr. L. W. Busbey, at that time private secretary to the speaker of the house. I inclose a copy of certain extracts from the article; marked Appendix B. [Appendix B consists of an article from the Chicago Inter Ocean of Jan. 8, 1004. In this John E. Wilkle, chief of the secret service of the treasury Gepartment, is described as ambitious of becoming “the Fouche of the United States,” in imitation of Fouche, chief of the secret police of Napoleon I. The article declares that the secret service bureau exists without warrant of con- gressional action and that congress has always been antagonistic to the bu- reau.] It contained an utterly unwar- ranted attack on the secret service division of the treasury department and its chief. The opening paragraph includes, for instance, statements like the following: He (the chief of the division) and his men are desirous of doing the secret de- tective work for the whole government and are not particular about drawing the line between the lawmakers and the law- breakers. They are ready to shadow the former as well as the latter. Then, after saying that congress will insist that the men shall only be used to stop counterfeiting, the article goes on: Congress does not intend to have a Fouche or any other kind of minister of police to be used by the executive de- partments agalnst the legislative branch of the government. It has been So used, and it is suspected that it has been so used recently. * * * The legislative branch of the government will not toler- ate the meddling of detectives, whether they represent the president, cabinet offi- cers or only themselves. * * * Con- gressmen resented the secret interference of the secret service men who for weeks shadowed some of the most respected members of the house and senate. * * * When it was discovered that the secret service men were shadowing congress- men there was a storm of Indignation at the capltol, and the bureau came near being abolished and the appropriation for the suppression of counterfeiting cut off. * * ¢ At another time the chief of the secret service had his men shadow congressmen with a view to involving them in scandals that would enablo the bureau to dictate to them as the price of silence. * * * The secret service men have shown an inclination again to shadow members of congress, knowing them to be lawmakers, and this Is no Joke. Several of the departments have asked congress for secret funds for in- vestigation, and the treasury department wants the llmitation removed from the appropriation for suppressing counter- felting. This shows a tendency toward Fouchelsm and a secret watch on other officlals than themselves. At the time of this publication the work of the secret service which was thus assailed included especially the in- vestigation of great land frauds in the west and the securing of evidence to help the department of justice in the beef trust investigations at Chilcago, which resulted in successful prosecu- tions. In view of Mr. Busbey’s position I have accepted the above quoted state- ments as fairly expressing the real meaning and animus of the attacks made in general terms on the use of the secret service for the punishment of criminals. Furthermore, in the per- formance of my duty to endeavor to find the feelings of congressmen on public questions of note I have fre- quently discussed this particular mat- ter with members of congress, and on such occasions the reasons alleged to me for the hostility of congress to the secret service, both by those who did and by those who did not share this hostility, were almost invariably the same as those set forth in Mr. Busbey’s article. I may add, by the way, that these allegations as to the secret serv- ice are wholly without foundation in fact. Real Issue Named. But all of this is of insignificant im- portance compared with the main, the real, issue. This issue is simply, Does congress desire that the government shall have “at its disposal the most efficient_instrument for of “crfminals” dnd the prévention and punighment of crime, or does it not? The actlon of the house last May was emphatically an action against the in- terest of justice and against the inter- est of law abiding people and in its ef- fect of benefit only to lawbreakers, I am not now dealing with motives, ‘Whatever may have been the motive that induced the action of which I speak, this was beyond all question the effect of that action. Is the house now willing to remedy the wrong? For a long time I contented myself with endeavoring to persuade the house not to permit the wrong, spenk- ing informally on the subject with those members who, I believed, knew anything of the matter and commu- nicating officlally only in the ordinary channels, as through the secretary of the treasury. In a letter to the speaker on April 30, protesting against the cut- g down of the appropriation vitally necessary if the interstate commerce commission was to carry into effect the twentieth section of the Hepburn law, 1 added: “The provision about the employment of the secret service men will work very great damage to the government in its endeavor to pre- vent and punish crime. There is no more foolish outery than this against ‘spies’ Only criminals need fear our detectives.” (I inclose copy of the whole letter, marked “Appendix C." The postseript is blurred in my copy book, and two or three of the words eannot be deciphered.) [Appendix O Is a letter dated April 30, 1908, from President Roosevelt to Speaker Can- non protesting against the cutting down in the sundry civil bill of the ap- propriation for secret service work. “The only people benefited would be the very worst of the big railroad men whose misdeeds we are trying to pre- vent or correct,” were the words of the president.] These methods proved un- availing to prevent the wrong. Messrs. Tawney and Smith and their fellow members on the appropriations com- mittee pald no heed to the protests, and as the obnoxious provision was incorporated in the sundry civil bill it ‘was impossible for me to consider or discuss it on its merits, as 1 should have done had it been in a separate Dbill. Therefore I have now taken the only method available, that of discuss- ing it in my message to congress, and as all efforts to secure what I regard as proper treatment of the subject ‘without recourse to plain speaking had failed I have spoken plainly and di- rectly and have set forth the facts in explicit terms. [Here the president gives Instances in which the secret service men have been instrumental in securing convie- tions of offenses against federal laws, clting especially the land fraud cases.] In connection with the Nebraska prosecution the government has by de- cree secured the return to the govern- ment of over a million acres of graz- ing land, in Colorado of more than 2,000 acres of mineral land, and suits are now pending involving 150,000 acres more. Department’s Agents Dishonest. All these investigations in the land cases were undertaken in consequence of Mr. Hitchcock, the then secretary of the interfor, becoming convinced that there were extensive frauds com- mitted in his department, and the ramifications of the frauds were so farreaching that he was afraid to trust his own officials to deal in thorough- going fashion with them. One of the secret service men accordingly resign- ed and was appointed in the interior department to carry on this work. The first thing he discovered was that the spectal agents’ division or corps of de- tectives of the land office of the inte- rlor department was largely under the control of the land thieves, and in con- sequence the investigations above re- ferred to had to be made by secret service men. If the present law, for which Messrs. Tawney, Smith and the other gentle- men I have above mentioned are re- sponsible, had then been in effect this action would have been impossible and mest of the criminals would unques- tionably have escaped. No more strik- ing instance can be imagined of the desirability of having a central corps of skilled investigating agents who can at any time be assigned, if necessary in large numbers, to investigate some violation of the federal statutes, in no matter what branch of the public serv- ice. In this particular case most of the men investigated who were public servants were in the executive branch of the government. But in Oregon, where an enormous acreage of fraudu- lently allenated public land was recov- ered for the government, a TUnited States senator, Mr. Mitchell, and a member of the lower house, Mr. Wil- llamson, were convicted on evidence obtained by men transferred from the secret service, and another member of congress was indicted. Stopped Naturalization Frauds. From 1901 to 1904 a successful inves- tigation of naturalization affairs was made by the secret service, with the result of obtaining hundreds of convic- tions of conspirators who were convict- ed of selling fraudulent papers of nat- uralization. (Subsequently congress passed a very wise law providing a special service and appropriation for the prevention of naturalization frauds, but unfortunately at the same time that the action against the secret serv- ice was taken congress also cut down the appropriation for this special serv- ice, with the result of crippling the effort to stop frauds in naturalization.) The fugitives Greene and Gaynor, im- plicated in a peculiarly big government contract fraud, were located and ar- rested in Canada by the secret service, and, thanks to this, they have since gone to prison for their crimes. The secret service was used to assist in the investigation of- crimes under the peonage laws, and owing partly thereto numerous convictions were se- cured and the objectionable. practice was practically stamped out, at least in many districts. The most extensive smuggling of silk and opium in the history.-of the treasury department was investigated by agents of the se- cret service In New York and Seattle and a successful prosecution of the of- fenders undertaken. Assistance of the utmost value was rendered to the de- partment of justice in the beef trust investigation at Chicago; prosecutions were followed up and ‘fines inflicted. The cotton leak scandal in the agri- cultural department was Investigated lon ' and the responsible parties located, What was dofie fii connection with lottery investigations ts disclosed in a letter just sent to me by the United States attorney for Delaware, running’ as follows: The destruction of the Honduras Na- tlonal Lottery company, successor to the Loulsiana Lottery company, was entirely the work of the secret' service. * ¢ ® This excellent work was accomplished by Mr. Wilkie and his subordinates. I thought it might be timely to recall this prosecution, Lottery Cases and Others. Three hundred thousand dollars in fines were collected by the govern- wment in the lottery cases. Again, the ink contract fraud in the bureau of engraving and printing (a bureau of the treasury department) was Investis gated by the secret service and the guilty parties brought to justice. Mr. Tawney stated in the debate that this was not investigated by the secret serv- ice, but by a clerk “down there,” con- veying the impression that the clerk was not in the secret service. As a matter of fact, he was in the secret service. His name was Moran, and he was promoted to assistant chief for the excellence of his work in this case. The total expense for the office and field force of the secret service last year was $135,000, and by this one investigation they saved to the government over $100,000 a year. Thanks to the restriction imposed by congress, it is now very difficult for the secretary of the treasury to use the secret service freely even in his own department—for instance, to use them to repeat what they did so ad- mirably in the case of this ink con- tract. The government is further crip- pled by the law forbidding it to em- ploy detective agencies. Of course the government can detect the most dan- gerous crimes and punish the worst criminals only by the use either of the secret service or of private detectives. To hamper it in using the one and for- bid it to resort to the other can inure to the benefit of none save the crimi- nals. = e Secretary Cortelyou Sustained. The facts above given show beyond possibility of doubt that what the sec- retary of the treasury and I had both written prior to the enactment of the obnoxious provision and what I have since written in my message to the congress state the facts exactly as they are. The obnoxious provision is of benefit only to the criminal class and can be of benefit only to the crim- inal class. If it had been embodled in the law at the time when I became president, all the prosecutions above mentioned and many others of the same general type would either not have been undertaken or would have been undertaken with the government at a great disadvantage, and many and probably most of the chlef offend- ers would have gone scot free instead of being punished for their crimes. Such a body as the secret service, such a body of trained investigating agents, occupying a permanent posi- tion in the government service and separate from local investigating forces in different departments, is an absolute necessity if the best work is to be done against criminals. It is by far the most efficlent instrument possible to use against crime. Of course the more efficient an' Iistrument is the more dangerous it i§ if misused. To the argument that a force like this can be misused it is only necessary to answer that the condition of its use- fulness if handled properly is that it shall be so efficient as to be dangerous if handled improperly. Any instance of abuse by the secret service or other investigating force in the departments should be unsparingly punished, and congress should hold itself ready at any and all times to investigate the executive departments whenever there is reason to believe that any such in- stance of abuse has occurred. I wish to emphasize my more than cordial ac- quiescence in the view that this is not only the right of congress, but em- phatically its duty. To use the secret service in the investigation of purely private or political matters would be a gross abuse. But there has been no single instance of such abuse during my term as president. The President’s Appeal. In conclusion, I most earnestly ask in the name of good government and decent administration, in the name of honesty and for the purpose of bring- ing to justice violators of the federal laws wherever they may be found, whether in public or private life, that the action taken by the house last year be reversed. When this action was taken the senate committee, under the lead of the late Senator Allison, hav- ing before it a strongly worded protest (Appendix D) from Secretary Cortel- you like that he had sent to Mr. Taw- ney, accepted the secretary’s views, and the senate passed the bill In the shape presented by Senator Allison. In the conference, however, the house conferees insisted on the retentiom of the provision they had inserted, and the senate yielded. [Appendix D con- sists of a letter from Secretary Cortel- you to the late Willlam B. Allison, chairman of the $enate committee on appropriations, dated May 5, 1908. In it the secretary protests vigorously against the amendment to the sundry civil bill prohibiting the payment of “any person detalled or transferred from the secret service divislon.” He gives reasons for such details and in an appendix cites instances in which the secret service men have been de- tailed effectively in cases outside the treasury department.] The chief of the secret service is paid a salary utjerly inadequate to the importance of his functions and to the admirably way in which he has performed them. I earnestly urge that it be increased to $6,000 per annum. I also urge that the secret service be placed where 1t properly belongs and made a bureau in the department of justice, as the chief of the secret service has repeatedly re- Guested. ‘But, whether this Is done or not, it should be explicitly provided that the secret service can be used to detect and punish crime wherever it 1s found. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, Jan. ‘4, 1000. « Source of His Money. “How did he lost his money?” “His father-in-law failed.”—London Mlustrated Bits. .- He only 1s exempt from failures whe makes no efforts.—Whately. ¥ — MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE WILL CONVENE TOMORROW Many Important Measures to Be Con- sidered.—The Legislators Will Now Be on Salary. The Thirty-sixth Minnesota legis- lature will convene on tomorrow, January 5. There is no United States senator to be elected and for the first time the members will be on salary instead of per diem. Legislative reapportionment is one of the big problems of the ses: sion. There has been no reappor- tionment since 1896. Other import- ant questions to be taken up are: A system of county agricultural schools under state aid. An act to prohibit brewers from owning or controlling saloon licenses. A public utilities commission, after the New York plan.. Extension of the direct primary law to restore some features of con- vention system. Liberal appropriation for state immigration board to use in adver- tising the state. Railroad and tax legisiation will not cut as prominent a figue this year as in past sessions. The establishing of a proposed sixth state normal school, for the location of which the city of Bemidji will put forth strenuous efforts. Ora Zamona, Violinst. The music lovers of Bemidji may have the pleasure of a rare treat in the way of violin music, within the next week, if arrangements now pending are successfully concluded. Mr. Ora Zamona, the violinist is from New York, and has just com- pleted a tour of the west, playing all through Iowa, Nebraska, Wis- consin, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. His reportoire embraces composition by Schubert, Schumann, Oodard, Dvorak, Drdla, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Pierne, Ole Bull, Leon- ard, Brahms and others. Zamona gained a wide reputation through the middle-west and western states, as is evinced by the following clippings from the press of " cities in which he has appeared before the public: Of his playing the Mason City, Iowa, Herald says: ‘“Zamona is truly a wizard of the violin.” Butte (Mont.) Daily Miner, “The thrill- ing, vibrating notes from Zamona’s violin held the audience spellbound.” Vancouver {B. C.) Daily Colonist: “The Grieg sonata was splendidly played by Zamona, but it was in the weird music of Griegs’ Peer Gynt, that the violinist fairly outdid him- self.” Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily News: *Zamona has breadth, power, tem- perament.” Garden (Mass.) Daily Press: “One of the finest recitals ever given in this city.” Seattle (Wash.) Daily Post Intelligence: “Zamona more than met all expecta- tions.” Spokane (Wash.) Spokes- men Review: ‘Zamona has com- mand of his instrument at all times.” Aurora (Neb.) Republican: “Za- mona is, by all adds, the finest violinist who ever appeared on an Aurora platform.” Little Falls Daily . Transcript: “Zamona has temperament and car- ries his audience with him. His clear vibrating high notes held the audience as if spellbound. Mr. Zamona is assisted by a most talented young pianoist, Miss Verna Bohlke of St. Paul. Auction 300 Horses. Grand Opening Auction Tues: Jan. 5, 09. Commencing 10:30 at New Sale Pavillion South St. Paul Horse Exchange, Loggers, Farm Horses and Mares. Horses of all kind. Ifyou want one horse or car load attend this great auction. Every animal -must sell to highest bidder, nothing reserved. Union Stock Yards, So.St. Paul, Minn. Auction every Tuesday. ~Auctioneer —Baird. : : Eclipses, 1909. There will be four eclipses during the year, 1909. Two of these, a total obscuration of the sun, and a total eclipse of the moon, will be visible in the United States. First. A total eclipsé of the moon June 3. Visible to South America and Atrica, and in part to North | America, Europe. and Suuthweifl_ern Asia. 3 Second. . A total eclipse of the sun June 17. Visible to North America as far south as a line drawn from San Francisco tothe mouth of the Rio Grand river and from the northern and eastern portions of Asia. Third. A -total eclipse of the moon November 26-27. Visible to North America and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in parts of South America, the extreme western por- tions of Europe and Africa and the eastern portions of Asia and Austra- lia. Fourth. A partial eclipse of the sun, Dec. 12-13, Invisible to the United States. Visible to the south- eastern part of Austrilia, the south- ern portions of New Zealand, and’the southern polar regions. Bound Copies of City Charter for $3. The Pioneer will soon print and bind copies of the Bemidji city charter, bound volumes of which have been greatly desired for some time, and will deliver the books, neatly and substantially bound, to order, for the small sum of $3. A representative of the Pioneer will call on you, or you can call at he office and sign for one or more volumes, at the stated price. Obtaining copies of the charter has been a matter that has worried many people of the city, and how to get them printed has never been taken up. As stated before, the Pioneer is taking orders for bound volumes of the charter and will de- liver them for $3 per copy. Leave your order early if you de- sire a copy. WILL CONSIDER BIDS AT MEETING ON JANUARY 15 Bemidji School Board Will Receive Bids for the New High School Building. dent School District of Bemidji will meet Friday evening, January, 15, for the purpose of opening bids for the sale of the $35,000 bonds, which were authorized to be issued by an affirmative vote at an élection held some two weeks ago, for the purpose of erecting a new high school build- ing. As the issuance of the bonds were carried by a vote of 6 to 1 it is more than likely that there will ebe ro trouble in selling the bonds. If the bonds are successfully sold, it is the intention of the board to at once “‘get busy,” adopt plans and specifications and let the contract for the construction of the building. The building will be completed in time for the fall term of school. The new school building will be known as the High School Building, but will also house quite a number of grade students, Writ Denied In Standard Oil Case. Washington, D. C. Jan. 4.— (Special to Pioneer.)—The Supreme Court of the United States today denied a petition by the government for a writ of certiorari in the $39,- 000,000 fine case of the Standard 0Oil company. This action of the Supreme Court practically upholds the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals which reversed the $29,000,000 fine im- posed by Judge Landis of Chicago on the Standard Oil company.. . Grand Masquerade Carnival. A grand masquerade carnival will be given at the roller rink Monday evening, Jan. 4. Grand march at 9:30, masque at 10 o’clock. Only those in costumes or masqu- ed will be allowed to skate. Costumes can be procured at Crane & Gould’s at reasonable rates. General ad- mission 10c, with skates 25c. Geo. V. Adam. Mgr. Jebe Entertainers. The Jebe entertainers will appear |- at the City Opera House Thursday afternoon January 7, at 8:30. The Jebe’s are now touring the North- west and their appearance here will meet with favor. Admission 50 cents. % Building New Burner at Mill. T. L. Johnson and son, Paul, two mill-construction experts trom St. Paul, arrived in the city Saturday evening and are now putting in- new brick-work in the big burner at the Crookston Lumber company’s mill Horses for. Sale. I will have for sale in the City of Bemidji one car load of heavy}i draft horses, weight thirteen to seventeen hundred pounds. Horses will be herein a day or two. John' ‘Wabhlberg. Subscribe for The Pioneer.- The school board of the Indepen- | Giveo for any sibstance fn- {irious to heabh found iafood sesulting from the ude of Will Attend Officers’ Meeting. Captain Adam E. Otto, and First Lieutenant John- Hillaby and Cor- poral Stewart of Company K, Be- midji’s representation in the Minne- sota National Guard,} departed on this morning’s train for St. Paul to attend a meeting of the state militia officers which is being held there to- day and tomorrow. 1909 Diaries. The largest and best line of 1909 diaries ever carried in this part of the state can now be seen at the Pioneer office. We have made special efforts ot secure the largest assortment ever shown in the northwest. Those who want special kinds should call early and make their selection. WANIS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. CIGAR SALESMAN WANTED— In your locality to represent us. Experience unnecessary; $110 per mo. and expenses. Write for par- ticulars. Monarch Cigar Co., St. Louis, Mo. WANTED —Lady canvassers to solicit orders for flour in Bemidji. Avply at the Northern Grocery company’s office Tuesday, Jan uary 5. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an. short notice. oo R BB S WUV R Y, FOR SALE—A good-running sew- ing machine; cheap. Mrs. A. B. Allen, ’phone 301-2. FOR SALE—Horses, harness, sleds, at my barn in rear of postoffice block. S. P. Hayth. FOR SALE—Carey safe, in best condition. Inquite at Interna- tional Hotel. LOST and FOUND AN A AN AN FOUND—A shepherd dog; owner can have same by calling at the home of Mrs. William Love, 909 Bemidji Ave., and paying for this notice. MISCELLANEOUS. A e PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Harriet Campbell librarian. YOU OWE it to your family; a means of instant, certain and inexpensive communication wita the outside world. ‘Order the Northwestern Want Ads FOR ERENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer et A A A i} =