Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 28, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BY. THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. G. E. CARSON. Enterad In the Postoffice at Bemld)l, Minnesota, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE EXAMINER’S REPORT ON SCHOOL DISTRICT. In this issue of the Pioneer is printed in full the report of Deputy Public Examiner Gayner, who re- cently examined and audited the books and accounts of the Inde- pendent School District of Bemidji. The examination was made at the request of the board of county com- missioners of Beltrami county, and while not a lengthy document, makes really interesting reading. Judging from the report, the members of the present school board are giving the school district excellent service. The transactions of a former board are not quite clear, according to this report, because of the incom- plete records that were kept. THANKS, BROTHER. Says I. J. Courtright, in t h.e Staples Headlight: “The Bemidji Pioneer is certainly entitled to the thanksof the mem- bers of the North-Central Minne- sota Editoral Association for the complete and accurate report of the association’s meeting in that city. ‘The Pioneer is a credit to the city of Bemidji and under the manage- ment of its present editors has established a secure reputation as one of the leading dailies of the state. Editers Pryor and Rutledge are the right men in the right place- and every number “of the Pioneer is proof positive of that fact. “The editors who visited Bemidji last week will not soon forget the courtesies extended to them by the men who are so suc- cessfully advertising the commercial and social importance of the bustling metropolis of Northwestern Minne- sota. Bemidji, rich in natural and acquired resources, has no more important asset than the Daily Pioneer and it is very gratifying to note that the business men of the city appreciate it at its full value. It is well qualified to deliver the goods six days in every week.” numerous French Economy. “A man doesn’t have to go to Parls to learn something about the econo- my of French cooks,” sald a janitor. “All he has {o do Is to get a job like mine In a house occupied mostly by French families, and he'll learn some astonishing lessons in the art of sav- Ing. Up to two months ago I was working in a building of that kind. So far as attending to the garbage was concerned, I had the easlest time of my life. There was practically no garbage. The people lived well enough, I guess. Anyhow they re- celved packages from the butcher and grocer, but they never seemed to throw anything away. About the only thing they didn’t eat was coffee grounds and potato skins and tomato cans, :and there was preclous little' waste of even that. “Where I am working now the fami- lies are all American. That is where the food goes to waste. The people in that house throw away enough pro- visions every day to feed all those French families a week.”—San Fran- cisco Chronicle. - Made the Judge Perspire, SIr John Charles Day, the Knglish judge who earned the title of the “hooligan’s terror,” died at the age of eighty-two. In the nineteen years Sir John was a judge of the high court— from 1882 to 1901—he was noted for his gift of solemn humor and for his drastic flogging sentences. In fourteen years he sentenced 137 criminals to 8,766 strokes of the cat. Once he sald to a gang of Liverpool ruffians: “I am not going to give you men long terms of ‘imprisonment, but when you go in you get twenty lashes of the cat; when you have been in nine months you get twenty lashes of the cat; before you come out you get twenty lashes of the cat. And then you can show what you have got to your friends.” He was per- haps the only English judge who ever did “hard labor.” While on a visit to a prison he tried the treadmill, but when he asked to be set free the guard pre- tended not to hear his request. The Judge was perspiring freely by the time he was permitted to abandon his experiment. Eggs Barred. One evening a solid looking citizen, carrying a basket, bought a ticket and started to enter the opera house In a Long Island town. Just as he was going in the cover of the basket un- accountably slipped off, revealing two dozen eggs. “Hey!" said the ticket taker. {sn't Easter. them eggs?’ “None o' y'r business! Here's my ticket, all paid for an’ reg'lr,” declared the citizen. “Well, there don’t any eggs go in- slde while I'm .here,” said the ticket taker, and then the other saw the rea- son his burden was suspected and roared with laughter. He left tho eggs In charge of the man at the box office and entered, and he enjoyed every moment of the show. When 1t was over, the manager re- turned’ the eggs to him and said: “I was afraid you might put gour foot into the basket while you were “This Where you. going with HIDE SCHEDULE 18 LAID ASIDE Conferees Discuss the Gthér Matters in Dispute. QUESTION UP T0 HOUSE Conference Committee Awaiting Ac- tion by Lower Branch of Congress on Resolution Authorlzing a Reduc- tion In Rates of Manufactured Leather Goods Before Making a Final Decision Regarding Hides. Washington, July 28.—The confer- ees. on the tariff bill devoted the day to other subjects than hides, pending decision by the house on a resolution suthorizing the committee to reduce the rates in the lcather schedule. - It 1s not true that opponents of free hides are willing to accept free hides if they can get free leather and free leather goods. If they have to take free hides they want the hi products also free, but they do not in reality desire that either hides or leather or leather goods should be placed upon the free list. Therefore, many of the hide men will refuse to vote for the resolution authorizing a reduction from the house rate on leather and leather goods. Not only will they vote against this resolution, but they are dolng all they can to antagonize it. Sald one of them: “I am a protectionist. I want leath- er and leather products protected as well as other manufactured articles. 1 think the house made the rates low enough. To reduce these rates still further would be to surrender to the Democrats, and, for one, I will not do that.” The hide men are making a strong appeal to the representatives from the tanning and shoe manufacturing districts in the hope that they will see that the placing of hides on the free list, together with a reduction of hide products, is a tendency towards the Democratic doctrine and they claim to be making some headway with them. Strong Sentiment for Free Hides. Still the sentiment in favor of free ‘hides is very strong and the repre- sentatives of the manufacturing cen- ters are quite as active as the hide men. Many of them are willing to make a slight reduction in order to’ procure the complete surrender of the hide advocates. They have with them on the new proposition for the reduc- tion not only the most of the repre- sentatives from the manufacturing districts and the president, whe is un- ceasing in his efforts, but also the Republican advocates of a lower duty and in addition to all these forces they expect to have practically the solid Democratic vote of the house. The Democrats do not want free hides without free leather, bhut i forced to vote for lower rates on leather it is contended that they will be compelled to do so as in the lino of Democratic doctrine, regardless of the effect the vote will have upon hides themselves. Before entering the conference Chairman Payne of the house conferees sald that no effort would be made to have the house act on the proposed re- duction resolutlon before the latter part of the week. Meantime the con- ferees will make an effort to have all portions of the bill except the hide and the leather schedule in shape for prompt presentation to congress as soon as the work on that schedule is finished. PLANS OF BRIAND CABINET Ministerial . Declaration Made in Chamber of Deputies. Paris, July 28.—The ministerial dec- laration with which the new Briand cabinet presented itself in the cham- ber of deputies declares that the re- mainder of the present session of par- lament will be devoted to passing the budget, the workingmen’s pension bill and the income tax bill, postponing the electoral reform bill until the next parliament. The declaration commits the new government to the foreign policy of the outgoing cab- inet. The chamber of deputies voted con- fidence in the government’s declara- tlon, the vote standing 306 to 46. TRAIN TIPPLERS IN TROUBLE South Dakota’s Prohibitory Law Be- ing Enforced on Railroads. erally from over the state indicate general enforcement of the law against drinking intoxicating liquor on trains. One man was taken from a train at Lemmon and fined after ig- noring a warning from the conductor. Another was taken off a few days ago between Huron and Plerre and fined at Miller. When & drunken man at- tempted to board a train here he was given back his money at the ticket window and saw the train leave with- out him. < Mistakes Wife for Burglar. Boston, July 28.—In excitement cauvsed by a belief that burglars were in the house Harry Plerce, a shoe de- signer, shot and fatally wounded his wife. Pferce has been taken into cus- tody pending -an Investigation, al- though the police &ay they believe that the shooting was acoidental WORLD'S EDUCATORS MEET Many Men of Highest Rank at Lelp- zig Anniversary. Lelpzig, Germany, July .28.—An event of interest to educators through- out the world: began here today with the opening of the celebration of the five hundredth aniversary of Lelpzig university, which 1s surpassed-in age in Germany by Heldelberg alons * in size by Berlin and Munich only, The world has seldom seen so dis- tinguished a gathering of educators as the one now assembled in Lelpzig. applauding.” - i i Practically every university of high standing in the world has gent ofie or more delegates to the jubilee. The festivities began with a reception to the guests and will last three days. Among the American delegates to the jubilee are Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins university and the Smithsonian _institution, = Professor John W: Burgess of Columbia univer- sity, Professor Hans Oertel of Yale, Provost Charles C. Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania, President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell uni- versity and many other American edu- cators of the first rank. WOULD SETTLE THE ~ QUESTION FOR 600D Governor Comer Favors Con- stitutional Prohibition, Montgomery, Ala., July 28.—In a message to the legislature Governor B. B. Comer advises making prohibi- tion constitutional because the mem- bers who enacted the present law had in mind fixing legislation so that the state would never again have saloons or liquor licenses. In his opinion pro- hibition should be disposed of so that it will not be recurrent at every elec- tion and become a disturbing factor in. the politics of the state. Necessity for further statutory pro- hibition acts are found, the governor thinks, in the fact that in many sec- tions the law has been disregarded and defied. It has become almost a question, he argues, whether whisky shall dominate the state or the state control whisky. He deplores the ef- fort to defeat the laws by spending money and thinks it a sad state of af- fairs when citizens have to organize law and order leagues to enforce the laws that officers are paid to enforce. Two Men Crushed to Death. Winnipeg, Man., July 28.—Enoch Rees, city agent of the Prudential Life, and E. 0. Ollett, a laundryman, wiile avolding a car, ran to one side, get- ting caught in the “death strip” and were crushed to death. Hit by Ball; Dies Instantly. Des Moines, July 28.—Harry Rubes was struck over the heart by a pitched ball in a baseball game near Spen- cer. He dled instantly. PASSING OF NOTED PEOPLE MAJOR EDWARD CHYNOWETH, Seventeenth infantry, U. S. A., a vet- eran of the Spanish war, died at a private sanitarium at Atlanta, Ga. The remains will probably be sent to Oregon, Wis., his former home. MRS. MARY 8. DICKINSON, one of the wealthlest women in Kansas City and the aunt of the wife of Vice President James 3. Sherman, is dead after a long illness, GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolls Wheat. Minneapolis, July 27.—Wheat—July, $1.23; * Sept., $1.03%@1.08%; Dec., $1.02%@1.029%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.25%; No. 1 Northern, $1.26%; No. 2 Northern, $1.223%; No. 3 North: ern, $1.18% @1.20%. Duluth Wheat and Flax, Duluth, July 27.—Wheat—On track —No. 1 hard, $1.28%; No. 1 Northern, $1.27; No. 2 Northern, $1.25; July, $1.26; Sept., $1.04%; Dec., $1.0214. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.48; July, $1.47; Sept., $1.39%; Oct.,, $1- 8514. 8t. Paul Unlon Stock Yards. St. Paul, July 26.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.50; fair to good, Plerre, 8. D., July 28—Reports gen-" $4.50@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.256@5.23; venls, $5.75@6.50. Sheep—Wethers, X yearlings, $5.25@6.75; lambs, $6.00@7.00; spring lambs, $7.- 00@17.76. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, July 27.—Caitle—Beeves, $4.50@7.40; Texas steers, $4.00@5.75; Western steers, $4.00@6.00; stockers and foeders, $3.00@5.10; cows and heifers, $2.25@6.75; calves, $5.50@ 8.00. Hogs—Light, $7.65@8.15; mixed, $7.50@8.20; heavy, $7.45@8.25; rough, $7.45@17.65; good to ®hoice heavy, $7.65@8.25; pigs, $7.00@7.95. Sheep —Native, $3.00@5.40; yearlings, $4.60 @6.10; lambs, $4.75@7.90. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, July 27.—Wheat—July, $1.- 06%; Sept., $1.03%; Dec., $1.02%@ 1.02%; May, $1.05%. Corn—July, 69%c; Sept., 66@6%%c; Dec., 553%@ B5%c; May, h6i%c. Oats—IJuly, 48%c; Sept., 89% @39%c; Dec., 40c; May, 42i4c. Pork—July, $20.72%; Sept., $20.85; Oct., $19.80; Jan, $17.10. Butter—Creameries, 221,@26c; dai- ries, 20@23%c. liggs—18@22%ec. Poul- try—Turkeys, 14e; chickens, 13c; springs, 16 s The Poor Milkman Agaln. The milkman was bolling over with indignation. “And you wean to say my railk don't look right?” he snapped. “Why, lady, this can of milk is a picture!” “Ah, yes,” laughed the keen house- wife; “a fine water color.”—Exchange Making Practice, “These mere vassals of the town have the audacity to say my poems make them sick,” said the proud bard. “You don’t object to them, do you, sir?” i *“No, indeed,” answered the stranger. “And may I ask who you are?” “Why, I am the town physician.— Chicago News. Virtue of Hospltality. Hospitality solves and annuls even the mysterious antagonisms that exist between races. This glorious and beau- tiful and sacred rite makes all men brothers.—Cassell’s S8aturday Journal. ) Poor Eve. Eve (In the garden)—Adam, I've got to” have another dress. . Adam—Fve, you're the most resolute woman I've ever known. You're always turning over a new leaf.—London Tatler. Beer Money and Churches. In the eighteenth century there were no temperance societies or bands of hope, nor Rechabites and blue ribbon army. To be as “drunk as a lord” was the height of human fellcity. It was the age of “three bottle men,” of con- vivial toasts, of drinking songs. Even the church: {ndirectly encouraged in- temperance. There were certain dis- tricts where at Whitsuntide the church- wardens were accustomed to levy con- tributions of malt from the parishion- ers. This was brewed into strong ale and sold in the church. The Whitsun- tide topers had, however, a plous method in thelr madness, The money spent on the beer was expended by the churchwardens in church maintenance, and the muddled Tolsterers no doubt belleved them- selves to be pillars of the church even when, under the influence of the alco- bol, they rolled upon its pavement. They thought themselves supporters of the church “when they ‘wanted “sup- porting” themselves and deemed them- selves most saintly when they were most soddened. Untfl as recently as 1827 (when the license was withdrawn) a church and public house were cov- ered by one roof at Deepdale, midway between Derby and Nottingham. A door that could be opened at will sery- ed to separate the consecrated Interior of the church from' the common tap- room of the taverni—Chambers' Jour- nal. Good Bait. “I got Cleveland’s autograph,” sald the friend, “by addressing to him a lit- tle ode on his splendid work in the ‘White House anent the Russo-Japanese war—or was it something else? Atany rate, I shall never forget my delight when, by return mall, Mr. Cleveland wrote: “‘Dear Sir—I have read your verses with interest. They appear to me very deficlent in sense and substance.’ “I sent a sonnet of sympathy to Ber- nard Shaw on the faflure of his play, ‘His House In Order, or some such title. Mr. Shaw replied on a post. card as follows: ““Thank you very much for your son- net, which seems at least sincere.” “I once ventured to address a ron- deau to Ellen Terry. In it I praised her beauty passionately. Miss Terry sent me a long and interesting note of acknowledgment, in the course of which she said: “‘I noticed many faults and weak- nesses In your rondeau, which, howev- er, made me laugh heartlly.’ "—Ex- change. At Last. Mrs. Bilas Bennett wds a philoso- pher. On a certain dismal occasion some of the neighboring women were condoling with her. With commend- able cheerfulness she replied: “I've raised four girls an’ three boys, expectin’ every time they'd be twins and red headed like their Grandpa Ben- nett, an’ yet they ain't. “An’ T've worried consid’ble over smallpox breakin’ out In my big fam- ly. So fer ’taln’t, “Last summer durin’ July an’ August an’' mebbe part of September I was real meloncholic, fearin' I'd got an ap- pendix, but I guess I ain’t. “An’ through it all it never onct oc- curred to me that I'd be the one to fall through them rotten old meetin’ house steps an’ break my leg in two places, but I be.” In Extremls. Late one night a clergyman was called out to minister to an old man— ‘a worker upon the adjacent rallway— who was supposed to be dying. The summons was brought by another old man, the elder brother of the stricken one. While he was bustling about, making preparations’ for ~departure, the clergyman forgot momentarily the soclal status of his visitor and asked, “Is he in extremis?” The old man was not golng to be beaten. “Aye, he's right in, your rev- erence.” After a pause he added as a clincher: “Clean in, poor chap. Right up to the neck, sir.”—Cornhill Maga- zlne, _— He Had Been There. Rodrick—Howdy, old man? We are going on a camping trip soon. Did you ever enjoy a campling trip where you had to do your own cooking and sleep beneath the stars? Van ‘Albert—Nope. Rodrick—What? Do you mean to say you have never been on a camping trip? Van Albert—No. I mean to say that I never enjoyed one.— Chicago News. — e Hospitality.. Mamma—Tommy, I see you took two Pleces of cake instead of one, as I told you. Why did you do that? Tommy— Well, mamma, I was playing that an- other little boy was visiting me, and I knew you wouldn’t mind me glving him a piece.—Chicago News. — ol e Learning Early. A Sunday school teacher had been telling her class the story of the good Samaritan. When she asked ‘them Wwhat the story meant a little boy said, “It means that when I am in trouble my neighbors must help me.”—Uni- versalist Leader. Won't Figures Lie? Mrs. Hoyle—I am just twenty-three, Mrs. Doyle—I don’t see how you figure it. You were twenty-two when you had your black silk, and you haven't bad a new dress for ten years.—New York Press. A Royal Snake Slaughterer, The “secretary bird” 1s one of the most preclous birds in-South. Africa. It 1s royal game, and any person de- stroying one 1is liable to a fine of £50. Majestic looking - birds, they stand about three feet high and generally 80 in pairs. They are of drab color, with black, feathery legs, and are valued for thelr propensity for killing snakes. ‘Where the secretary bird s seen there are sure to be many reptiles about. The bird beats down its adversary first with one wing and then with the other, at the same time trampling on it with its feet until the snake is suffi- clently. stunned to catch it by the head with its claws. Then the bird rises far up in the alr and drops 1ts victim to the ground, to be killed. By this means thousands of venomous reptiles are destroyed.—London Scraps. ALL WRONG. The Mistakeis Made by Many Bemidji Citizens. Don’t mistake the cause of back- ache, To be cured you must know the cause. " It is wrong to imagine relief is cure, Backache Is kidney ache. You must cure the kidneys. A Bemidjiresident tells you how this can be done. Clyde Johnson, living at 1014 Bemidji, Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “For some time I endured a great deal of suffering from" kidney com- plaint. There was a pain in my back and during the early part of the day I felt lanquid and tired. I decided to try a reliable kidney remedy, went to The OwlDrug Store, Ldmbef and - IBuilding Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwilding material of all descriptions. Call in and look over our .special line of fancy glass doors. We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB WO0OD St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. and procured a box of Doan’s Kid- ney Pills. I used them according to directions, when the pains disap- peared and the tired, lanquid feeling vanished. I know Doan’s Kidney Pills to be a reliable remedy and can recommend them to anyone suffering from kidney complaint.” For sale by all dealers, Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other. “*Devices for Hangi the Little Thir Moore Push-Pins Moore Push-Points Moore Push-Tacks Moore Push-Buttons ‘Vourve used theelebrated MooreGlass Push.Pins 5 the s hree are younger” generations ot the Sit Tamily.” The dininciv eatue o1 them o ‘olor. from Koc per 34 dor. (o 10c. or 4 dos. Atsiationery. ardware and drug stores or 10 centa witl g you full Astoriment and paniulars: HERE'S A PIN—PUSH ITIN For Sale at The Pioneer Office The ROYAL fandard Typewriter THE ACKNOWLEDGED STANDARD OF TODAY Will turn out more neat, perfectly aligned work, with less effort and with less wear on its working parts than any other typewriter made. You can PAY more, but you cannot BUY more Royal Typewriter Co. Royal Typewriter;Building New York 412 Second Avenue South Minneapolis, Minn. attention. Blackduck river. timber on place which can mated valuation at present miles east of Northome. osition. on Blackduck lake; within easy warket. Prices $10 to $15 per acre. No. 21. for‘summer resorters known Minnesota. farm five miles northwest of cordwood on the for you. . in above list what Winter Block 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 No. 18. 160 acres in section 8, town- ship 150, range 31 (Town of Langor) on $900 worth of saw delivered on the river bank. which originally cost $1400 and esti- school house on ‘one corner of land; 30 actes under cultivation; best of soil; some meadow. Selling price $2200. : No.19. $1280 buys 160 acres in section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nicely located on good road five Good house and barn on place; soil excellent; part of timber on this quarter section is reserved. It will pay you to investigate this prop- No. 20. ~ Five 40-acre tracts bordering mostly hardwood timber; heavy soil; some meadow; . all $300 buys the most attract- ive two-acre island in Blackduck lake. This is one of the most beautiful spots No. 22. An 80-acre wellimproved acres m field; good buildings; good well and .water; daily mail; one-half mile from school house; place is partly fenced; 800 cords lath bolts and 1000 cords of place. This attractive offer:is the east half of the southwest quarter of section 23-147-34 (Town of Eckles). $1000 will secure this place We have many other bargains and if you do not other lands for sale. Remember we buy for cash and sell on time. - FARMERS LAND (0. No. 23. $3200 buys a half section of land in town 150, range 30 (Town of Langor). 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. There is 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 farm. Terms to suit purchaser. be sold aod Buildings date $1000; No. 24. $2000 buys a good 160-acre tract in section 22, township 146, range 34, Grant Valley. Good agricultural land bordering on two lakes; 25 acres broken; balance easily cleared. Within easy reach of good markets. Terms to suit buyer. No. 25. -$2400 will buy 160 acres well-improved hardwood land bordering on Turtle Riverlake and one mile east of village of Turtle River. 8 acres under cultivation; 1 mile of attractive lake shore. An especially good bargain for ‘one who desires the land for summer resort. Terms, one-half cash. range from in northern No. 26. $5 pex acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township 150, range 82. Good meadow, valuable timber; some improvements; terms, cash. Bemidji; 20 No. 27. 160-acre farm on Cormant river in section 17, township 150, range 30 (Town of Hornet); valuable for its timber; 2 1-2 miles from market; easy terms at $10 per acre. you want, we have a large list of Bemidji, Minnesota 3