Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 12, 1909, Page 4

Blackduck, July 12.—(Special cor- respondence of the Pioneer.) J. F. Sullivan spent Sunday at International Falls. Mrs. Ola Bloss and daughter Gertie spent several days in town last week. D. K. Laurie was in town last Saturday and held services at Ouir- ing on Sunday. i Rev. John Kornbrust, pastor of the Catholic church here, held special services Sunday morning. The ball game on last Sunday between Nymore and Blackduck came out 2 to 9 in favor of Black- duck. Rev. Barackman and C. W. Con- way spent last Friday in Bemidji attending the school meeting held there. E. N. French and family took dinner with Farmer Hines on last Sunday and reported the first fried chicken of the season. Jim Reed and family and Mrs. Charlie Hayden enjoyed an outing on the lake Saturday. They had lunch at Farmer Hines’. Henry Dahlstul and Lars Ness, with their families, went to the island on Saturday, where they expect to camp for a few days. Otto Olson, who runs the island in Blackduck lake, plans to erect cottages forrent to those who wish to spend the warm weather near the water. We trust he will soon put his plans into operation. Chapman & Oherg, proprietors of the boat house, gave another popu- lar excursion around the lake Sunday night. The presence of the band proved an attractive and pleasing feature. E. C. Carlton and wife expect to leave this week for a visit in Dakota, where they intend to remain until fall. The winter will be spent on their homestead, near Bridgie. Their and although no names are mention- ed, we understand that Al Dicken- son can tell you the rest. S DESIRE TO ENTERTAIN TAFT White House Flooded With Telegrams From Many Cities. ‘Washington, July 124—'nce the an- nouncement of President Taft’s tenta- tive itinerary for his Western trip the White House has been fairly flood- ed with telegrams and letters re- questing that the tour be extended to include various states and cities that did not have a place on the presi- dent’s list. Senators and representa- tives from various sections of the country went up to the White House to ask the president to include their states in his long trip. Among those was Representative Tawney of Min- nesota, chairman of the house com- mittee on appropriations. Mr. Taw- ney asked the president if he could not so arrange his schedule as to stop at St. Paul and Minneapolis while on the way to Seattle. The president said that if a proper schedule could be ar- ranged he would be glad to stop at the Minunesota cities. The president’s travel appropriation has not yet been roade by congress. SWEET TOOTH FILLERS MEET Candy Makers Begin Convention at Wildwood, N. J. ‘Wildwood, N. J., July 12—The men whose biisiness is the satisfying ot America’s gigantic appetite for sweets —in other words, the National Jobbing Confectioners’ assoclation and the Na- tlonal Manufacturing Confectioners’ Balesmen’s assoclation, met here to- day for a week’s convention. ‘While here the delegates will dis- cuss the effect of recent food legisla- tion on the candy trade and other matters of trade interest. The presi- dent of the jobbing confectioners is D. L. Morgan of Scranton, Pa. Will- fam T. Brierly of Baltimore is presi- dent of the salesmen. UNABLE TO FORGET CRIME Maryland Murderer Gives Himself Up in California. Santa Rosa, Cal, July 12—Scott Johnson, who claims to have murdered & man named McAllister on a farm near Fort Deposit, Md., last April, gave himself up to a depuly sheriff at Sonoma and was brought to the county jail here. Johnson says he thought that by coming so far from the scene of his crime he would be able to forget, but the pangs of con- science finally drove him to give him- self up. residence here is leased for a year,|, BLACKDUCK| INUNDATED BY SUDDEN FLOOD One Dead and Many Narrow Escapes at Sioux City. CLOUDBURST THE CAUSE Rapid Rise in Perry Creek Renders One Tnoueand People Homeless and Causes Immense Damage to Property—Residents in Threatened District Aroused by Steam Whistles and by Police and Firemen. Sioux City, Ta,, July 12.—One man was drowned, 1,000 people were driven from their homes and many thousands of dollars’ worth of damage was done by a flood in Perry creck, a small stream which separates the East and West Sides of Sioux City. The flood was the worst in the city’s history. There were many narrow escapes, but only onc life was reported lost. A cloudburst north of Sioux City is believed to have been the cause. Leon Bethschider, aged twenty-one, an employe of the Bevins Van com- pany, was precipitated into Perry ereck by the bank giving way. He being unable to swim in the raging cur It is estimat populated di-t homes are :d that in the deasely <t g the creck 599 v water. The plant of the Sioux City Traction com- pany was flocded. No cars are run- ning and thousands were compelled to walk. In the wholesale distriet near the Missourl river front water from the creek ran aleng the ¢ and flood- ed cellars, ca ng hern Al Fourth and Water streets there was a foot of water on the first floors of the stores. The gas mains to the West Sido were broken by the flood and thou- sands of pecple were forced to eat cold breakfasts. Farmers up stream telephoned to this city at midnight news of the coming flood. As quickly as possible all available stcam whizties here were blown and residents in the threatencd districts were aroused by police and firemen, but the flced came so rapidly that many persons had close calls. _The, damag: » In Sious City s Real Estate For Sale Below we offer a few of the many farms we have for sale. These are desirable for investments and the intending purchasers will do well to give them careful attention. No. 18. ship 150, range 31 (Town Blackduck river. $900 timber on place which can be sold aod delivered on the river bank. Buildings which originally cost $1400 and esti- mated valuation at present date $1000; school house on one corner of land; 30 acres under cultivation; best of soil; some Selling price $2200. meadow. No. 19. $1280 buys 160 acres in section 8, town- No. 23. of Langor) on worth of saw Langor). 160 acres in farm. section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nicely located on miles east of Northome. and barn on place; soil excellent; part of timber on this quarter section is reserved. It will pay you to investigate this prop- osition. No. 20. Five 40-acre tracts bordering good road five No. 24. Good housz easy reach of suit buyer. on Blackduck lake; mostly hardwood timber; heavy soil; some meadow; all Prices range from within easy rarket. $10 to $15 per acre. No. 21. Minnesota. No. 22. Aun 80-acre farm five miles northwest acres 1 field; good buildings; good well and water; daily mail; from school house; place is partly fenced; 800 cords lath bolts and cordwood on the place. This attractive offer is the east half of the southwest quarter of section 23-147-34 (Town of $1000 will secure this place Eckles). for you. $300 buys the most attract- ive two-acre island in Blackduck lake. This is one of the most beautiful spots for summer resorters known in northern $3200 buys a half section of land in town 150, range 30 (Town of This place is natural meadow land and will cut upwards of 100 tons of hay; not a foot of waste land; heavy soil equal to any land in the state. timber enough on the place to pay for the land. The land is located one mile from school house; has running water and would make an attractive stock Terms to suit purchaser. There is $2000 buys a good 160-acre tract in sect'on 22, township 146, range 34, Grant Valley. Good agricultural land bordering on two lakes; 25 acres broken; balance easily cleared. Within good markets. Terms to No. 25. $2400 will buy 160 acres well-improved hardwood land bordering on Turtle River lake and one mile east of shore. resort. well-improved of Bemidji; 20 onehalf mile .00 range 32 1000 cords of No. 27. 30 (Town of timber; 2 1-2 village of Turtle River. cultivation; 1 mile of attractive lake An especially good bargain for one who desires the land for summer Terms, one-half cash. 8 acres under No. 26. $5 pex acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township . Good meadow, valuable timber; some improvements; terms, cash. 160-acre farm on Cormant river in section 17, township 150, range Hornet); valuable for its miles from market; easy terms at $10 per acre. - We have many other bargains and if you do not in above list what you want, we have a large list of other lands for sale. Remember we buy for cash and sell on time. FARMERS LAND (0. Bemidji, Minnesota Winter Block placed at more than $250,000. The city’s loss in damage to bridges will Tun into the thousands. HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST Rivers of Kansas and Missouri Again : Rising. Kansas City, July 12—Renewed heavy rains in Northwestern Missouri and in Kansas sent up the Missouri and Kansas rivers and their tribu- taries, but no serious result will fol- low, according to the local weather observer. At Kansas City the Missouri giver came up threetenths of a foot, the gauge marking 25.4. A further rise of one foot at this point is predicted be- fore the Missouri becomes stationary. At Topeka an inch and a half of rain fell and the small streams were once more bank full. The Kansas river there rose nearly half a foot and is still rising. The waters of the Marais des Cyg- nes river at Ottawa, Kan., also came up as a result of the rains. In the northern part of Dickinson county, in Central Kansas, a fall of nine Inches of water was reported and hundreds of acres of wheat were said to have been ruined. ‘Water is running three feet deep in the center of Marion, Kan., because of a four-dinch rain along the Cotton- wood river. Nearing the Flood Stage. St. Louls, July 12—With the Mis- sissipp! river 2.5 feet below the flood stage of thirty feet the weather bu- reau forecasted between 31 and 315 feet here by Monday night. The Provi- dent association has hegun collecting provisions and clothing for the flood sufferers of Northwestern Missouri. FOR INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE Legislators Ask Aid of Employers and Workers. - Milwaukee, July 12—Co-operation by both employers of labor and indus- trial workers in the framing of indus- trial Insurance legislation was pro- posed at a meeting of the special committee of the Wisconsin legisla- ture on industrial insurance held here. At the meeting a resolution was adopted asking that both employers of labor and labor appoint representa- tives who shall assist the committee in framing the bill. The committee hopes to have a bill ready to present to the special session of the Wisconsin legislature. Near Beer Evidently Intoxicating. Atlanta, Ga, July 12—Notwith- standing that in the state of Georgia “near beer” is the nearest approach to an exhilarating beverage the rec- ords of the Atlanta police department at the close of the six months of 1909 show 1,875 arrests for drunkenness. This record is in excess of that of last year, 1,123, and almost equals the record for tho first six months of 1907, STRUCK BY AN AUTOMOBILE Mother of Five Children Killed at To- ledo, O. Toledo, O., July 12—Mrs. Robert Beyer, aged forty-five, mother of five children, was strack by an automo- bile and dragged nearly 150 feet. The accldent occurred near the United States military tournament and the hospital corps hurried to the scene in the army ambulance. The injured woman died in the ambulance. Waking a Deaf Person. “Fo waken a deaf person who wishes to be called at a certaln hour'is about the hardest proposition a hotel clerk runs up against,” said a member of that genlal fraternity. “To ring the telephone 1s uscless because the man couldn’t hear if you rang until dooms- day. Knocking, for the same reason, 18 equally futile. Now and then a guest who has lost his hearing suggests that he leave kis door open all night so we can walk right in and shake him, but even though he does appear to be & dead game sport there are so many chances of somebody else less guileless than ourselves walking In ahead of us |- that we cannot consent to that. So far the only satisfactory way found for waking a deaf lodger is to tle a string to his wrist, pass the string through the keyhole and then tug away at it at the appointed time. That method, however, is rather primitive. It seems to me that the man who can patent a harmless artistic device for waking the deaf Is sure of fame and fortune, not to mentlon the gratitude of hotel clerks.” —New York Sun. A Famous Story. Every section has its famous story. A famous story that 1s being retold in Oregon is about a very rich banker who got his start by doing work for the government. His bill was $5,000, and 1t had to be submitted to congress. Congress has a habit of cutting its bllls in two. To make allowance for this he jumped his bill to $10,000. He sent the bill to the governor for his approval. The governor, having also heard that congress generally appro- priated only half as much as was ask- ed, jumped it to $20,000. The bill was then sent to one of the congressmen. Being friendly to the contractor, he Jumped it to $40,000 and sent 1t to an- other Oregon congressman for his ap- proval. The second congressman jump- ed it to $80,000. Congress allowed the ‘whole $80,000, aithough the contractor was entitled to only $5,000. This is told as a fact in Oregon. The mau who got the $80,000 got his start on 1t and is now a millionaire.—Atchison Globe. The Wickedest Bit of Sea. Nine out of ten travelers would tell Inquirers that the roughest plece of water i that cruel stretch in the Eng- lish channel, and nine out of ten trav- elers would say what was not true. As a matter of fact, “the wickedest bit of sea” 1s not in the Dover strait or in yachting, for example, from St. Jean de Luiz up to Paulllac or across the Mediterranean “race” from Cadiz to Tangler, nor Is it In rounding Cape Horn, where there is what sailors call & “true” sea. The “wickedest sea” 1s encountered in rounding the Cape of Good Hope for the eastern ports of Cape Colony. Preserving the Balance. ‘A well known professor of architec- ture, commonly referred to as “Ham- my” by his pupils, told a story illus- trative of the remarkable degree to ‘which certain persons possess the sense of symmetry. It seems that there was once a Scotch gardener who had charge of a 8ood sized English estate and under ‘whose direction the formal garden at the rear had been laid out with abso- lute symmetry, even the two summer houses, one on each side of the garden, being ideutical in even the most minute detail. On one occasion the English- man. became angry at his son and locked him up in one of the summer bouses. As soon as the Scotch garden- er heard of this his sense of symmetry was so outraged that he immediately sent for his own son and locked him up in the other summer house to pre- serve the balance, “Hammy” neglect- ed to mention whether both boys were dressed exactly allke, but it is to be presumed that even this detail was at- tended to by the aesthetic Scotchman. —New York Times. Postage Stamp Gum. Bvery time a person licks a United States postage stamp he gets a taste of sweet potato. The gum with which the stamps are backed is made from that succulent vegetable because Uncle Sam’s leutenants consider it the most harmless preparation of the sort. All of the gum used on Amerlcan postage stamps is mixed by the government at the bureau of engraving and printing, where the stamps are made. It is spread on the sheets after the stamps | have been printed. The gum, in a Hquid form, is forced up through pipes | from the basement, where it is made. These pipes lead to a series of ma- chines consisting of rollers, between ‘which the sheets of stamps are fed, one at a time. A continuous fine stream of the liquid gum falls upon one of these rollers. The sheet with its wet coating of sweet potato mucilage passes from the rollers into a long horizontal flue filled with hot air. When it emerges at the other end of the flue the gum is dry.—New York Telegram. Straight From the Animal. A London gentleman, having taken a small farm in the country as being the correct thing to do, as well as to get a little fresh air, had invited some of his friends down to see his new Ppossession. Having viewed the domain and not- | Ing the absence of creature life about the place, one of his friends remarked: “With a nice, open place like this, I wonder you don’t have some animals about, as is usual on a farm. Some cows, for instance, so as to have your own butter and cream.” “No-0,” drawled his host, “don’t care about butter or cream.” “Some chickens or ducks, then. You surely like fresh eggs?”’ “No-o, don’t care for eggs. But I've sometimes thought I'd like a sheep. I rather like kidneys for breakfast. — | Liverpool Mercury. The Palisades. To see New York clty from the Pali- sades i3 to witness the multiple beau- ty and wonder of the Palisades them- selves. One of the most astonishing facts concerning these towering masses of grandeur is that they lie so close to the most artificial, man sub- jugated area that civilization bhas evolved, writes Philip Verrill Mighels in Harper’s Magazine. To come upon the Palisades from the rear at night is like stepping to the edge of the world, where the slender, dark island lies low beyond as if it were only a part of space, its countless lights looking like millions of stars stretched for miles across the sky. The illu- slon is dispelled when the wind flows up with the tide to the base of the cliffs and lifts up the full throated roar of the substantial city. Approaching It Gradually. An old farmer, on paying his rent, told his landlord he wanted some tim- ber to build a house and would be much obliged to him'if he would give permission to cut down wood for the purpose. The landlord answered peremptorily, “No “Why, then, sir,” sald he, “will you glve me enough to build a barn?”’ “No.* “To make a gate, then?” “Yos. “That’s all I wanted,” said the farm- er, “and more than I expected.”—Pear- son’s Weekly. _ Complimentary to Him. “Really,” said Cholly Sappey, “I cawn’t understand Miss Rood at all. She actually called me a crank.” “The idea!” exclaimed Miss Cutting. “How flattering!” “Flattering?” “Yes; a crank, you know, is a man Avith one dea.”—Cathollc Standard and Times. Defays Are Dangerous. “This milk is sour, and I won't take 1t,” declared the lady. “That’s your own fault, ma’am,” re- torted the dealer. “I offered it to you day before yesterday when it was fresh, and you wouldn't take it."— Oleveland Leader. A Happy Medium. Uncle luquired of little Bobby if he had been a good boy. Bobby—No, I haven’t. Uncle—Why, I hope you haven't been very bad. Bobby—Oh, no; just comfortable.—Delaware Coun- ty Democrat. Habit of the Postman. Why s it that the postman never stops at your house when you are ex- pecting a check and always does when you are expecting a bill?--Columbus (0.) Journal. ¢ Diverging. Husband—I'm ef7aid I'm becoming ¢ross eyed, my dear. Wife—The idea! Why do you think that? Husband— This thing of trying to look at my in- come and our expenses at the same time 1s slowly but surely getting ftg work in.—Chicago News. Caught Him, Mrs. Hoyle—I've found out where my husband spends his evenings. Mrs, Doyle—Where? Mrs. Hoyle—At home. You see, I had to stay in myself last aight—Ha | marksmen.—London Stan +A Dispenser of Smiles. Her mother said: “Oh, dear! Isn’t that awful? What will people think?”’ but the people themselve: med to think it about the prettiest incident they had met that day. She was a very litile girl, white frocked, pink red, brown eurled. With her mo! train at the G usual confu elers g and exclaimed, here?” T shouted out d express train [ and bundle: “Oh, do we change on the platform | ctions for local .‘mdi and the guards of that particular car adjured the passenge frequently and _yehemently to “Step ! lively!” and to “Watch th ep.” Then | ell of a sudden {here uproar. The little girl was leaving the car. She stopped the door, loz)k-: ed back and waved her band. i “Goodby, everybody,” she said. | The words carried to the far end of i the car. They made every one sit up. Two or three.persons called out a re- | sponsive “Goodby,” two or {hree said | ‘“Bless the child,” and all smiled.—New { York Pres: | The 8 rpent. ‘When fourtee he coast of | Brazil M. J. Nicoll, of “Threc | Voyages of a Natur observed a | sea serpent fifty yards of could see was feet long from the ish black n about | “All that we | 1t four | it two feet | a brown- | Be- | ctly see | < pateh, but | pe of the | the fin | Sud- | feet | ereature. disappearc denly an lIong and | was an o has been 1, for want of a better e ‘great sea | serpent.’ I fecl veu that it | was not a re; , but a | mammal.” i yn surprised by fuch a de 1t app t the wri ilecting m: jelectro him of a va not long be Journal dev that the pay in the work in I lated. lald bef | { than a Ge ticle of bl and when T thi all these years of it my Dl {man from talk falling on d most blood cur had the ni; “I must tell [ last night,” 1 | “Let me ask f jant or an u 1 met a wo- what 1 dreamed a pleas- | id the | t tell it!” “Friday night’ Is sure to come tr i Aust; All children i but the clder by Australian 1 of the cadet ¢ school has i wear neat armed with which the Every yes matches, a among the who have read ving Them Cred “You know,” said the distir “that the CL printing from t rgo?” “Yes,” being inter Iy I don’t original inventor point.”—Washingto Handic. Judge—Remembe sworn to tell the trut the truth. Witnes ing my durade; faced slob of a lav me!—Chicago T but that r there won't Half “If 1 were lor to the ben know why.” “Well,” was the reply. know why, 1 suppose th battle!”—Atianta Constitution. Not by levity of floating, but by stub- | born force of swimming, shalt theu wake thy w Not an “Did you hang up an Christmas? ed Era “'Deed I didn't,” Miami DBrown. answered Miss “I's got a little toc much pride to advertise foh de ordinary | courtesies dat a lady has a right to| expect.”—Exchange. v 8uspicious, Widow (at washtub)—Are you post- tive you love me? Suitor—Of course I am, Widow—What's the matter? You ! baven’t lost your job, have you?— | Pittsburg Press. e B SRR a Tull in the | | FOR | FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. 1 PUBLIC LIBRARY-—Open Tues e I didn’t know r Moore Pus -i’ins Moore Push-Points Moore Push-Tacks Moore Push-Buttons Veuwveused the criebrated Moo Glass Push-Pins D S For Sale at The Pioneer Office \ ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. ‘ WANTED—An experienced dining- room girl. Cafe. WANTFD—Woman cook. at Lake Shore Hotel WANTED—Lady second cook. Bereman cafe. WANTED-—Woman Cook. Hotel Remore. Apply at Bereman Inquire Inquire FCR SALE, FOR SALE—Good homestead re- linquishment, a cedar claim on Tamarackriver. $200 Cash. Also good dairy farm in Todd county. $500 down, balance easy terms. W. J. O. Box 85, Northome, Minn. SALE.—Nine-room dwelling house and barn. Dwelling house strictly modern. Also good lot in Mill Park, Inquire of Peter Linde- berg, 707 Beltrami avenue. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a bber stamp for you an short —C’i RENT. INT—Finely furnished, large. airy rooms, 700 Bemidji avenue inquire at Peterson’s. LOST and FOUND —Pink Amethyst pin with pendant. Leave at 609 Bemidji avenue and receiye reward. SCELLANEOUS. 1ys, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30 to € p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court Mrs. Donald, librarian. tooms, Rooms: Those having rooms to rent to The Bemidji Bible con- ference, July 20 to 25, should notily Rev. S. K. P. White, tele- hone 338. ‘ery Stationer Should investigate ! g ‘frms v Bhines mea, o havo tried the Poerless Molstenor say “It ispensablo.” Rotall stationors write for pricss. raid monoy back 1f wanted. LESS MOISTENER €o. For Sale at THE PIONEER OFFICE FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS € OR GBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. ioneer o