Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 25, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. G. E. CARSON. Entored In the Pestoffice at Bémldl, Minnesots, as second ‘class maiter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANGE BE NATURAL. Heaven help the man who imag- ines he can dodge enemies by try- ing to please everybody! If such an individual ever succeeds, pass him over this way that we may have one look at his mortal remains ere he vanishes away, for surely this earth cannot be his abiding place. Now we do not infer that one should be going through this world trying to find beams to knock and thump his head against, disputing every man’s opinion, fighting and elbowing and crowding all who differ from him. That, again, is another extreme. Other people have their opinions, 80 have you. Don’t fall into the error of supposing they will respect you more for turning your coat every day, to match the color of theirs. Wear your own clothes in spite of wind and weather, storms and sunshine. It costs the irresolute ten times the trouble to wind, and shuffle, and twist than it does honest, manly independence to stand. “BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED.” If there is anything that tortures an editor more than anything else it is to publish a $15 or $20 obituary notice about some old, prominent citizen who never had the manhood to take the paper. Editors frequently put in such notices at the request of relatives and friends, but it grinds them to eulogize a man to the skies who was too stingy to support his home paper. A three-line notice is all that such fellows deserve when they'* shuffle off this mortal coi CAUSTIC COMMENT. (A. G. Rutledge.] The Taft reception committee at New Orleans will not wear silk hats or frock coats. Nothing will be done otherwise, either, to remind the president of the members of con- gress. It may be that we view things through older and colder eyes, but it does not seem that the arguments of Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Johnson re- garding their proposed joint debate have the romantic and heroic qualities that characterized the preliminary conversations of Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Corbett. Marriage licenses, out in the state of Washington have been reduced in price from 83 to $2, according to Andy McNab, a Bemidjite who recently returned from “out west” and who had evidently been looking up “family matters.” Thus it is possible for a young couple, out there, to save a dollar right at the start. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Aug. Sept., 95%c; Dec., 93%0; May, 97% @97%c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1- 01%@1.02%; No. 1 Northern, $1.00% @1.01%; No. 2 Northern, 975% @99%e; No. 8 Northern, 95% @96%o. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Aug. 24—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good, $5.00@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.25@5.25; veals, $5.50@6.75. Hogs—$7.50@7.90. Sheep—Wethers, $4.25@4.50; yearlings, $4.75@5.00; lambs, $5.00@6.50; spring lambs, $6.00@7.25. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Avg. 24—Wheat—On track —No. 1 hard, $1.03%; No. 1 Northern, $1.01%; No. 2 Northern, 99%c. To arrive—No. 1 Northern, 98%c; No. 2 Northern, 96%c; Sept, 96%c; Oct., 95%c; Dec., 93%c; May, 97%c. Flax —To arrive and on track, $1.45; Sept., $1.37%; Oct.,, $1.24%; Nov., 3184‘/;, Dec., $1.20%: May, $1.36. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Aug. 24.—Wheat—Sept., 975% @97%c; Dec., 94%@94%c; May, 98@98%c. Corn—Sept., 66%@66%c; Dec., 56%¢c; May, 57%c. Oats—Sept., 36% @36%c; Dec., 36%c; May, 39%c. Pork—Sept., $22. 40 Oct., $21.05; Jan., $17.65. B\llter—Crexmefles 24@280, dairies, 21%@25c. Eggs—18@21%c. Poultry — Turkeys, 160; chickens, 14%c; springs, 18c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicage, Aug. 24.—Cattle—Beoves, $4.40@7.53; Texas steers, $4.00@6.40; Western. steers, $4.40@6.40; stockers and feeders, $3.15@5.25; cows and heifers, $2.25@6.40; calves, $6.00@ 8.50. Hoge—Light, $7.65@8.20; mixed, $7.50@8.25; heavy, $7.20@8.25; rough, $7.20Q7.50; good to cholce heavy, $7.50@8.25; pigs, $7.00@8.00. Sheep —Native, $2.75@4.65; yearlings, $4.4¢ @5.50; lambs, $4.25@7.75. 24.—Wheat— [ CANNON CALLS FOWLER A JOKE “Why in H--- Should I No- tice Him?” He Asks. WILL NOT ANSWER CHARGE 8peaker Declares It Is Beneath His Contempt or Dignity to Notice the Congressman’s Accusation That House Tariff Conferees Were Named Through an Arrangement With Sen- ator Aldrich. Mackinac Island, Mich,, Aug. 25— “Why in the h—— should I notice Fowler?” asked Speaker Joseph G. Cannon when asked if he had’ any- thing to say in reply to the open let- ter of Representative Charles N. Fow- ler of New Jersey attacking him for bis attitude on currency legislation and the tariff bill. The speaker read every word of Fowler’s letter—the speaker called it a “screed”—and then said to the news- paper men: “Get your pencils and take this down: “I have glanced at Representative Fowler’s letter. To those who have the patience to read it, if any such there be, it will appear, when in the CHARLES N. FOWLER. exercise of the duties thrown upon me as speaker of the house of repre- sentatives, I have failed to make him chairman of the committee on bank- ing and currency, to his mind I be- came thoroughly selfish and generally a bad citizen and representative. Let the House Be Judge. “Mr. Fowler and myself both are members of the national house of rep- resentatives and I am perfectly will- ing my action in not appointing him chairman of the committee on bank- ing and currency shall be endorsed or condemned by our colleagues of the house of representatives. This is all I desire to say touching his letter.” “Will you speak specifically of any of the items in the Fowler arraign- ments?” he was asked. “Why in the h—— should I answer him?” said the speaker. “He is a joke, all of congress knows he is a Joke.” Regarding Fowler’s charge that the house tariffl conferces were named through an arrangement between Can- non and Senator Aldrich Speaker Cannon said: “It is beneath my contempt or dig- nity to mnotice any statements made by Fowler that there was any sort of an agreement by which the house tar- iff conferees were named. It is be- low my notice.” It is reported here as soon as con- gress convenes again Speaker Cannon will call some one to the chair and will unburden his mind of what he thinks of certain “insurgents” who have been attacking him. FOUND ERECT IN GRAVEL PIT Caught by Caveln With Shovel Uplifted. Appleton, Wis.,, Aug. 25.—Standing erect and with a shovel in his uplifted hands the body of Leo Alesch was dug out of a cavein in a gravel pit near here. George Miller, a farmer, while driv- ing past the pit, saw a slouch hat on top of the gravel. He picked it up and discovered that it rested on a man’s head. Alesch had been dead several hours when his body was found. The pit was about seven feet deep and all but an inch of the vie- tim’s head was buried under the cavelin. DEATH LIST TOTALS ELEVEN Bodies of Three More Foreigners Found at McKees Rocks. Pittsburg, Aug. 25.—The bodies of three foreigners, supposed to have been killed in the strike riot Sunday night at McKees Rocks, have been found. Two were located in' some weeds at Preston. The third was found under railroad ties at the O'Don- ovan bridge. All had been shot and clubbed. It is belleved these men crawled to hiding places after being injured and died. The death list now totals elevan. FOURTH ORDEAL UNDER KNIFE Governor Johnson Must Undergo An- other Operation. Aurora, 111, Aug. 25.—Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota will go into a hospital Sept. 1 for a fourth opera- tion for appendicitis. A statement by the Minnesota ex- ecutive that he would be compelled to undergo this fourth ordeal under the knife was made public here. The information was greeted with much apprehension by Aurora women, as Johnson won his way into their Laborer regard by a strong advocacy of wo- man’s Suffrage at dn Aurora Chautau- qua last week by a naive confession in conversation that “he knew no man quite the equal of Mrs. Johnson, in- cluding the governor of Minnesota.” NO SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT Negotiations Continue in Wage Dispute. Chicago, Aug. 25.—No immediate prospect of an agreement satisfactory to the street car compapies and the employes was in sight when negotia- tions were resumed between the com- panies’ officials and W. D. Mahon, in- ternational president of -the.Street Railway Employes’ union. So far the attention of the opposing fnterests has been directed to outlin- Ing their several contentions, since the tentative agreement accepted by the local union officers was rejected by the employes in_a’ mass meeting. The employes are opposed to a graded scale, which will, in their opin- {on, discriminate against new men. CRITICISES THE HOUSEWIFE Uncleanliness Cause of Many of Our Ailments, Says Wiley. Denver, Aug. 25.—Modern house- wives are veritable Lucretia Borgias, declared Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the-United States chemistry bu- reau. “The modern Lucretia,” he said, “Is here in flocks, using the telephone, handing out poison from the icebox, from the broiler and the skillet and the little tins of dinner she buys when breathlessly rushing home after her exciting bridge game at the club. The average icebox Is a charnel house, which not only holds death, but spreads it. And, too, many house- keepers allow disorder and uncleanli- ness to prevail in their kitchens and larders through ignorance or indiffer- ence. If they will give over the tele- phone habit, personally supervise their marketing, kitchens and larders the present, as well as the future citizen, will be more useful to the community and nation.” SGORES OPINION OF FEDERAL EXPERTS Address of President of Pure Food Gommission, Denver; Aug. 25.—Food experts from every section of the country, includ- Ing Secretary of Agriculture James ‘Wilson, Chief Chemist H. W. Wiley and representatives of the United States dairy commission and the bu- reau of animal industry, were present at the opening of the thirteenth an- nual convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments. Tn his annual address President J. Q. Emory scored the uee of benzoate of soda as a food preservative and vig- orously opposed the finding of the ref- eree board appointed during President Roosevelt’s administration that the preservative was not harmful. He pointed to Secretary Wilson as having recommended to the president that the finding of the board be not rein- vestigated, although a committee of the association applied for a reconsid- eration of the subject. That benzoate is harmful in Whnt— ever form it is used, whether in soda water or In pickles, was the emphatic conclusion of the speaker. Recom- mending a breaking away from the federal pure food laws as not meeting the necessities of the Individual states Mr. Emory urged a wide breach be- tween the state commissioners and Secretary ‘Wilson. He favored the submission to each state legislature the “model” pure food law as pro- posed by Dr. B. F. Ladd, state food commissioner of North Dakota. No sooner had these views been expressed than a dozen other speakers contend- ed that a breaking away from the fed- eral laws would result in a chaotic multiplicity of state laws all out of harmony with one another. It was determined that the whole subject should be threshed out and reported upon by a special committee. Steamer Has Cholera on Board. .Antwerp, Aug. 25.—The steamer Singapore has arrived here from Riga, Russia, with five members of her crew dead, presumably from cholera. This has caused much apprehension. The Singapore has been placed in quaran- tine. MOST STATES REPRESENTED Insurance Commissioners In Session at Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 25— The fortieth annual national conven- tion of insurance commissioners opened in this city with 350 delegates, representing practically all of the states, in attendance. President Ben- jamin F. Crouse of Maryland intro- duced Governor John F. Shafroth of Colorado, who delivered the address of welcome, which was responded to by Hon. Fred W. Potter of Illinois, vice president of the convention. THIRTY DAYS FOR SPOONING Court Holds Only Married or Be- trothed Persons Have Right. Omaha, Aug. 25.—A jail sentence of thirty days was imposed on' James Kenney and Clara Reeves by Judge Alstadt because the young people had been caught “spooning” in broad day- light in a little park in the central part of the city.. In passing sentence the court said that only betrothed and marrfed persons have the right to “spoon” and even they not in public places. Bleriot Breaks a Record. Rheims, France, Aug. 25.—M. Bler- iot covered a lap in his monoplane in 8 minutes 42; seconds. The distance is six and one-fifth miles. The best record heretofore was that made Mon- day by Curtiss, 8 minutes 85% sec- onds. CURTAILS POWER - OF COMMISSION Chicago| " Court Decision ini Missouri River Rate Case. INJUNCTION IS GRANTED Interstate Commerce Commission En- Joined by United States Clrcuit Court From Enforcing an Order Re- lating to Joint Rates From the At- lantic Seaboard to Missouri River Cities. Chicago, Aug. 25.—The permanent Injunction sought by Western rail- Wways against the interstate commerce commission in the famous Missouri river rate case was granted here by Judges Grosscup, Baker and Kohlsaat of the United States circuit court. The decision, if sustainedy ‘by the United States supreme court, will, it 18 sald, limit the power of the inter- state commerce commission to the settlement of cases of rate discrim- ination. The railroads in the Missouri river rate case sought to have the inter- state commerce commission enjoined permanently from enforcing an order of the commission made June 24, 1908, relating to joint rates from the Atlan- tic seaboard to Missourl river cities. This order sought to create a system of through rates from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missourl river that were a reduction from the sums of the local rates. This, according to Western roads, threw the burden upon them. The joint rate now in force from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri river on first class matter is $1.47 per hun- dred pounds. The reduction proposed by the commission was $1.38. The through rate now in force on the same matter from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippl river 1s 87 cents, ‘which, plus the through rate from the Mississippi river to the Missouri river (60 cents), makes the same total, $1.47 per hundred pounds, as the joint | * rate from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri river. Effect of Commission’s Order. The commission’s defeated purpose would have allowed the Atlantic sea- board to deliver goods to Missouri river cities on a joint rate 9 cents less than could have been done if the shipments were sent first to the Mis- sissippl river and then resent to the Missourl river. Speaking of the power of the com- mission the opinion says: “We are not prepared to say that the commission has not the power to enter upon a plan looking toward a system of rates wherein the rates for longer and shorter hauls will taper downward according to distance, pro- viding such tepering is both compre- hensively and symmetrically applied —applied with a design of carrying out what may be the economic fact that, on the whole, it 18 worth some- thing less per mile to carry freight long distances than short distances. “But it does not follow that power of that character includes power, by the use of differentials, to artificially divide the country into trade zones tributary to given trade and manu- facturing centers, the commission, in such cases having as a result, to pre- determine what the trade and manu- facturing centers shall be; for such power, vaster than any one body of men has heretofore exercised, though wisely exerted in specific instances, ‘would be putting in the hands of the commission the general power of life and death over every trade and manu- facturing center in the United States.” The opinion holds that the commis- sfon in attempting to enforce its or- der sought to exercise this colossal power. QUIET AT MKEES ROCKS Additional Company of State Con- stabulary on the Scene. Pittsburg, Aug. 25.—With armed guards at the Pressed Steel Car com- pany’s plant augmented by the arrival of Troop B, Pennsylvania state con- stabulary, from Wyoming, Pa., and the attention of the strikers and sym- pathizers occupied in making prepara- tions for burying their comrades killed in the recent riot conditions at Mc- Kees Rocks are quiet. Troopers are now in possession of every part of the strike zone. Unless by assault there is no way of ap- proaching the big mill by persons not desired. About 1,000 imported men are busily working in the car plant. Reports from the hospitals state all the injured are improving. PROMOTION FOR EFFICIENCY Chicago’s New Chief of Police An- nounces Policy. Chicago, Aug. 25.—Merit_and the milk of human kindness are to be the new rules by which the Chicago police department will be governed. Colonel Leroy T. Steward, at the close of his first day as chief of po- lce, indicated that he fayored both. The new chief will base his promo- tions on graded efficiency. Out of re- gard for the police and their families there will be no shakeup scares. Before he- left the office after his first day’s actual duty the new chief let it be known that hard work and harmony were to be the keynotes of his administration. Johnson Begins Training. San Francisco, Aug. 25.—Jack John- son; toting the heavyweight champion- ship of the world, a broad smile and considerable surplus poundage, has started training for his fight of Oct. 12 with Stanley Ketchel. Johnson gave his weight as 235 pounds. He wants to scale at 210 in the mill with the Michigan “assassin.” STRAIN TOD GREAT, Hundreds of Bemidji Readers Find Daily Toil a Burden. The hustle and worry of business men, The hard work and stooping of workmen, The woman’s household cares, Are too great ‘a strain on the kid- neys. = Backache, headache, sideache, Kidney troubles, urinary troubles follow. g A Bemidji citizen tells how to cure them. Sam Collard, “living at 1007 American St., Bemidji, Minn., says: “For some time I suffered from pains in the small of my back and a sort of rheumatic stiffness in my joints. At times my back was so sore that I was scarcely able to do my work. A tired, languid feeling was with me constantly and head- aches bothered me a great deal. I tried many remedies but did not re- ceive any relief until Doan’s Kidney Pills were brought to my attention: I procured a box of this remedy at the Owl Durg Store, and from my experience I can recommend it very highly to other persons suffering from kidney trouble.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Bufialo‘, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other. Every Stationer. Should Investigate'l Propaid Thou, ok 15 il PEERLESS MOIS‘I’ENER CO. For Sale at The Pioneer Office. Lumber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line-of lumber and buwlding 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- lNCl! SLAB W00D St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. Listen! NEVER. will there be a more favorable op- portunity to invest in city real estate than the present. o Why not call on our local agent, H. A. SIMONS, Postoffice Block, and let him show you some real’snaps in business ‘and residence lots in the city, or at Oak Beach, on the north shore of Beautiful Lake Bemidji. Write or call on us for detailed information re- garding the city as a business, residence or manu- facturing location. Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. St. Paul Minnesota Subseribe For The Pioneer. 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. 19. 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 on Blackduck lake; mostly hardwood timber; heavy soil; some within easy rarket, $10 to $15 per acre. No. 21. $300 buys the ive two-acre island in Blackduck lake, This is.one of the most beautiful spots for summer resorters known in northern Minnesota. No. 23. farm. No. 24. $2000 buys a good 160-acre tract in section 22, township 146, range 34, Grant Valley Good agncultun] 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 River lake and one mile east of We have many other $1280 buys 460 acres in section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nmely located on good road five Prices range from $3200 buys a_half section of land in town 150, range 30 (Town of Langor). This plnee 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. 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. No. 26. $5 1 per acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township 150, range 32. Good meadow, valuable nmber, some improvements; berms, eash. No. 28. - 400 acres in one body. Blackduck river running through - the land as well as school house in one cor- ner. Land partly improved; good level toil, free from stones; not one foot of waste land in the entize ground. Forty acres in crop and timber enough to pay for land. Timber can be delivered on the bank of the river. No richer land in Minnesota. - $12.50 per acre._ No. 29. 81,000 buys 160-acre tract east of thtlefork, in township 66, range 23. Saw timber has been,sold and ‘par- ties have eight “years to remove same. No taxes to pay until timber is removed. This is good land for investment. Three fourths of mineral right~goss with land. Good land and geod prospects for min- eral. - Terms: all or part cash. No: 50, Two 160-acte tragts five miles north of Blackduck on: the Corrhorant river. House and other improvements on onequarter.. Good land; - good roads; a snap at $11 per acre, one- half cash. No. 31..' 40 acres one mile north of Blackduck. * 15 acres nice stand of spruce tlmber—bala.nce good land. Snnp at.$500 Good houss meadow; all most attract- There is No. 3 200 acres at:north end of Lake Bermdji » &0 per acre. bargams and if you ‘do not see in above list what you want, we have a large ]lSt of other lands for sale. TENe ; Remember we buy for cash and sell 6n tifne: FARMERS LAND ¢ Winter Block