Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 2, 1910, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. N. DENV. Q. E. CARSON. Enterad o the Postoffic: Bomld)ly: Minnesota, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE _— CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. Population—In 1900, 1500; 7000. Summer Resort—Hundreds of outsiders make their summer homes on. Lake - Be- midji. Fishing, boating and: bathing ac- commodations are second to none in the United States. Area—Ten square miles incorporated. Altitude—1400 feet above sea level. Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississippi river. Water—Absolutely pure. wells. Water Mains—About seven.miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and. river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand in 1908. Anaual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20}. above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About]three$miles. Cement Sidewalks—Six and a miles. Lakeshore Drives—Tenjmiles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—Ten imiles, two laker and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200. Churches—8. School Houses—Three. Bank Deposits—$750,000. Manufactures—Hardwood handles, lum- ber, lath, shingles, and various othes industries. Great Distributing Point—Lumber prod- ucts, groceries flour, feedJand hay. Postal Receipts—$17,000 for 1909, 10th place in state outside of St. Paul, Minne- apolis and Duluth. Railroads—Great Northern, Minnesota & International, M., R. L. & M., Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks to |Duluth, and Bemidji-Sauk Centre. Railroad Depots—Four. Passenger Trains—Twelve daily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul, 230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. in 1910, Two artesian half Tom Taggart wants tobe senator from Indiana in order to be “vindicated.” Common report says he has the money, and what more can he ask for? Perhaps the United States senate is more profitably employed look- ing at baseball games than listen- ingto speeches that began no- where and end in nothing. John Sheehy of Montgomery doesn’t know whether or not he’s an avowed candidate for the Re- publican nemination . as State Treasurer, He has been telling everyone that he is, but the other day a little word from Washington put a crimp in his ambitions, Mr. - Sheehy is postmaster at Montgomery. (Postmaster Gen- eral Hitcbcock bas heen :informed thet he is seeking the -reasuryship nomination. Under a certain postal regulation a postmaster is forbidden to engage in *‘pernicious political activity.” - Seeking ~an office not already . hsld .comes within the provisions of this rule, As a-result: Mr. Hitchcock has asked Mr. Sheehy to. please speak up. Itis said at Washington that <t is.;understood . Mr.: Sheehy..is not himself .making. . the fight.” AS RESULT OF MAKY PROTESTS Commerce Commission Re- _opens Flour Rate Case. MAY-RESTORE-OLD- TARIFF Both Railroads and Millers Object to Reduction Ordered on the Ground That it\Would, Disarrange the Whole ‘Waestern Situation-and It Is Prob- able That the Commission: Will Re- scind the Order. This isn't quite the understanding that has existed hereabouts. THE “STRING FIEND.” In newspaper. parlance a “'string fiend” is a person who sells matter to newspapers for..publication.. The longer the “fiend” “‘strings,” the bigger the size of his check. Hence the tempation to ‘‘yarn it,”a temp- tation that the professional “string fiend” is rarely unable to resist, and in most cases he apparently makes no effort to resist. A case in point is the lurid story, appearing in the St. Paul Pioneer Press Monday morning, May 16, about a forest fire near . Bemidji. Over a column on the first page was consumed by a wierd tale in which the populace was represeated as gathering in the churches to pray for. rain, while the smoke poured in- to the sanctuaries so thick and fast that the prayers stuck in the throats of the supplicants. "The militia was to be called out, the town was threatened,. farm house after farm house was destroyed and so fierce was the fire that even Lake Bemidji seemed in danger of burning up. The Bemidji Pioneer, which has never been accused of belittling a sensational news item, printed the facts, which were that a forest fire that bad been smoldering some time, broke out and for a time threatened serious damage, but it was promptly subdued and-the-resultant--loss--did not -exceed - $2,000. - Bemidji : bas the sincere sympathy.of:Sauk.Centre, which has suffered for.some. time.now from the antics of one: of - the:: most | unreliable “string fiends” ever dis- covered. Herald, Sauk :Centre. Shake Into -Your-Shoes Allen’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder, It cures painful, Smarting, nervous feets jand instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions 1¢’s the greatest comfort.discovery of the age. ' Allen’s Foot-Ease malkes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a_cextaln cure for sweating, callous; swollen; tired, aching feer. Always use it to Break in New, shoes. Try it today, Sold everywhere. By mail for 25¢ in stémps. Don’t accept any substitute. For FREE trial package, address Allen S. Olm- ted, Le Roy, Y N. ‘Washington, June 2.~Millions of dol- lars;and tens. of theusands of persons are involved in a rate question which the interstate commerce commission was called upon to consider when it began a rehearing of the oral argu- ments in the cases of W. J. Jennison and other Northwestérn millers against practically all the railroads which op- erate eastward from St. Paul and Min- meapolis. The commission a few weeks ago is- sued. an : order: reducing the freight rates.on wheat and. products from- St. Paul and_Minneapolis to Atlantic sea- board points to 21% cents a hundred pounds. Some time prior to-that, in waat were-termed the Benner Milling cases, the commission had reduced the rates from Buffalo to the Atlantic from 11 to 10 cents. Strong ‘protests, not alone from the railroads, but also from-the millers of far Western and Southern points, piled in, complaining that the new rates would: disarrange the whole Western country’s-rates .on.-wheat and; wheat flour to Eastern destinations. On that protest the commission decided to grant a-rehearing of the arguments in the.Jennison cases and.also permit the Banner Milling .people to appear. It may be some time before a final determination of the: combined :cases is reached by the commission, but it appears likely now that the commis- sion, in view of the vigorous protests which have heen: filed; will restore-the old rat®s, not. only from Minneapoiis and 'St. Paul to Atlantic seaboard points, but -also from Buffalo to the same paints-of destination. {.Should such action be taken the rate on wheat from Buffalo to tidewater will--go. back to 11-cents a hundred pounds. and -the rate on ‘wheat from iMinneapolis would go back to 231% .cents a hundred pounds.” These rates, it is -assumed, -would: afford- fair com- pensation - etween Buffalo . and the: Northwestern cities. {RAILROAD...STOCKS. CRUMBLE *Effect of Injunction Felt on the Stock Exchange ! -New ¥York; June -2-~There:was' an- other.marked break in:stocks.as a fur- ther effect of the granting of an in- Junction against the proposed advance i .Western railroad rates. The mar- ket had to.absorb: liquidation. from. for- eign sources which had the first news of the government’s action. Stocks of the railroads immediately affected. by -the.injunction were :the; weakest at the opening, St. Paul run- ning off 5 points, Union_ Pacific 3, Atchison 21, Denver and Rio trande, Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Ca- nadian Pacific, ‘Great Northern pre- ferred, Baltimore and Ohlo, Amalga- mated Copper and Consolidated Gas 1% to 2, and many other stocks a point or more. Supporting .orders: and.short cover- ing steadied :prices immediately after the opening,.:but ‘offerings continued very heavy, and prices;.broke again several points below the first decline. <Itch Relieved at Qace. That terrible.itch. disappears.with the FIRST DROPS of a simple com- .pound; of.oil of wintergreen, -thymol and. glycering mixedsin D, D, D, Prescription. This soothing, heal- ing lotion;:used externally. kills: the eczema germ; instantly. Heretofore the D. D. D. remedy has been-sold-only-in-$1.00- bottles; but as a special offer, any sufferer D. D. can now try this remedy in a 'special:bottle _at 25c. It cures.the itch instantly. We KNOW this. . Barker Drug Co. QUICK. ACTION.IS.. EXRECTED Expediting Certificate’ Filed in’, Rate Injunction.Case. St. Louis, June 2.—The :temporary restraining order:which kederal Judge. Dyer issued at Hannibal, Mo., prohibit- ing twenty-five railroads from advanc- ing freight rates was. certified to.the United States circuit .court here. Processes against the defendants were prepared and will be served by United States marshals in the districts. where the different railroads have their general offices. ‘Wickersham: an expediting; certificate providing for a speedy. determination of the issue was filed. A copy of the expediting order was mailed to Circuit Judges -Hook, Sanborn, Vandevanter and Adams. Railroad officials sdy it is too early to express opinions. The action of-the government ‘was a surprise to them. Jews_Boycott Russian Goods. New York, June 2.—Representatives of the Federation of Jewisa Organiza- tions here have laid plans for aination- wide boycott .on all. Russian goods on account of the action of the Russian authorities at Kiev in banishing ‘the Jews. “The federation also:has before it a proposition to bring tc America all the Jewish orphans from the vicinity of Kiev. There is. more Catarrh in thissection of the country than all other diseases put_together, and until the last few years was:supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and - prescribed local remedies, and by constantly- failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it In- curable, Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constithtional treatment, Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J:.Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure directly on the biood and the s)'ls%em. Tl}gv,ofl'er.ona hundreddollars for any .case it fails to'cure...Send for cir- culars and testimonials. signed city clerk of the City of Bemidji..to be ornefl ‘betore city council on Monday the 6th-day of June, 1910, for the laying of cement sidewalks, curbs, and curb and gutter, to laid.according.to Ordinance No. 41 .regnlat- in this town:who. has: never«tried.D.. Under orders of Attorney General| e ‘mucous surtaces of. ress: . J. CHENEY: & CO., Toledo. | st Ko ihany Hormita abo ors ] Ohio. ‘Anderson 1030 S0l by Drugeiste, Toe, s b o) Take Hall's Faniily Pills-for constipation. 209 St AD 5| ; Sty Amimny's Hosnital £ e 4 ”» . Anthony’s Hospital, care of Bids Waated. Fohnson... ot Sealed bids:will be recetved: by- the under- | Ubarley Gouid, job for poor honse 400, . E. Smith, lumber for city dock. 9903 Ing the construction of same, Blds to be per square and lineal footand to be mnln‘? blds for constructing cement sidewalks and curbs, The clty council reserves the right to reject OF a1 bids, snv or 8l B rHomAs MALOY, . City Clerk. May 31st, June 2, 3 and 5, -May-9th, 1910. Office of Olty Clerk. = Bemidjl, Minn,, May.9th, 1910, Councll met tn_council roomcity’ hall af, o m, quorum_ belng present, council llé calied to order: by, Qhsfrman Kirk, 4 Present, Aldermen Smart. Bursely, Roe, Schnelder, Brown, Kirk. Absent, Shannon, Klein, Bisiar. inutes of:last meeting were read and | l]ifimfl! 3 t was moved. and seconded that Mrs, Buenther (a,;poor person) case be referred to the Door committee. Carried. Moved and seeonded the city engineer give ilines on city lot where water tank stands and street commissloner is hereby instructed to fence said lot. Carried. ; & Report of Olerk of Municipal Court. weekl| ending 4. 30,10, with $10 flues pald: wreasurer; ‘ed on motion and.second. Affdavit of Mrs, N. A. Anderson asking to have ber liquor licenso. transferred: to Tillle | Larson was_accepted, to be- grapted when ! terms of Ordinance are complied with. : Report of commissioners in the matter of yacating certaln streets. and alleys in the clty of Bemidji was considered to intro- duced again at-next meeting of council on 16th inst. Report of E. J. Gould supt. and clerk-of water works taps made and meters soldMarch and April $142.20 pald treasurer was accepted. Petition for.extension of Park Ave.. which was Teferred to the committee on streets and sidewalks, waslald over for2 wks:from date at-verbal request of committee. 7 TRenewal of Jease for skating rink..was des glared 10 be fu"the Lands of” the armory ard. Oontract- and -specifications for ‘grading Iryine avenue was accepted and filed. 5 Bond of 1st Nat'n’l b'k in $20.000 as -deposi-’ tory for city monies with Erank P..Sbeldon; Walter A.. Gould, ‘Artbur Wedge, Raymond H. Schumaker and Andrew A. Warficld, sure;; tles, was approved on motion and second. | RESOLUTION. 39 At a regular meeting of, the clty council held at council-chambers in-:the eity ' of{ Bemidji. on May th, 1910, the following reso- lution was introduced by AldermanSmart seconded by Alderman Bursely. % Resolved, . that. the following places. b@ designated as voting places in.the city ot Bemidjl for the special election appointed to- held en June 14th, 1910, and the follow- /ing; named citizens .are. hereby. appointed judges of election in. thelr. respective wal‘ds.I viz: 1st Ward, Wm. Mageau, W. B. McLachlan, R. I. Murphy, Judges; polling place, Midway/| Grocery store. 2nd Ward, Frank Miller, D. C.Smyth, Ca}] Sheppard, Judges; polling place, City Fire all, 3rd Ward, P. M. Dicaire. A. A. Oarter, Ohas. Nangle, Judges; pollingwlace, Pogue’s Ware=: ouse. P 4th Ward, Fred Bereman, John A..Dalton; Gillett, Judges: polling place, at Armory. On roll call the following aldermen in I'avorI of this resolution voted “*Aye:"” Smart. Burs ley. . Brown, Kirk.’ Those opposed : vote “Nave,” none.'Absent, Schueider, .Bisiar, Kletn, Shannon, Hanson. 1 Resolution declared carried. Approved May 13th, -1910. Attest: JOHN C. PARKER. Thomas Maloy, Mayor.:5 City Clerk. The following -bills were: on motion an second allowed. viz: % Street_gang: labor’city dock 8- 63507 Chas Nangle, m’d’se.for. poor. 105 Walter 8. Booth & Son, 1 b: 4 seals . 2| Peter Or 7 wagon pole F D. D 1350 Falls & Cameron, 1 ton hay ¥ D.... 14 0¥ J.A. Smith, sca¥ 3 dogs put . away. . 300 - A 17 o 4, block B, First Add . sl John O. Parker Mayor contingent fee 200 00 Julius Andrae-& Sons Co,, 2-electric lanterns (police). o oTs0, S. P:Hayth, 4 cord hall..... ... .60 George “Knott. " caring for 14" poor 4 . one wi- < 198 Doran Bros. Greenwood 572 50 Daran :Bros., B!oi c[tynw Mlsh ulLd % arker's Drug Store, drugs for poor / Mch & Apl,- 1910. o Barker’s Drug $to; prescription Mrs. Moved we adjourn. Adjourned. THOS. MALOy, Oty Clerk. I H RE INSURANCE " (This Federation is not an nsurance (Nlémpany‘) 'WE STAND FOR LESS FIRE WASTE AND. LOWER FIRE TAX,ASSESSIEITS; Property: Owners Federation 304 Northwestern Bullding; Minaeapolis;Minn. -BULLETIN NO. 9 The representatives: of the Stock Fire Insurance compa- nies are circulating an anomy- ‘mous twenty page booklet en- titled “A Story Incomplete (But Sad.” It is a _“mud slinging” “‘attack on.the Mutual Fire In- (surance system, and.it :is little wonder that the Stock company ‘officials, their local agents, or even the. publishers, refuse. to allow their names to appear in the publication. This . booklet .and - similar screeds that have gone before, review a lot of old-time, irrele- vant court decisions and list the retired Mutual companies under the head of “Companies that have failed,’” knowing very-well that a similiar list made up of failed and retired Stock compa- nies would outnumber the Mu- tual retirements fonr to one. Clinching the truth of our statement, we refer the reader to onr State Insurance Commis- sioner’s last' published report, which devotes about eight pages to listing the Stock com- panies thathave failed or re- tired since our State Insurance Department has been estab- lished, while only two pages were required to record Mutual failures or retirements. There are ten times more Mutual than Stock companies. operatihg, in the United States, and the old- est.companies are Mutuals. The Stock company represen- tatives rely on the good sense of the Mutual company : managers not to retaliate in like manner. The average business man, en- deavoring to establish a State Bank, would not use as an argu- ment a list of all the National banksthat had failed or retired. It is not very apparent that stock company agents try to S Property Owners -Federation : By K. Neutson, Sec’y. Attention! £ 1 alarm ‘the public as: to the lia- bility of Mutual policyholders, in order that their stockholders may take the same liability and reap the profits? Stock com- pany shareholders and Mutunal }mlicyholdersgach have similar0 imited liability, except .that Mutual policyholders avoid - the liability of large city conflagra- tions which are the graveyards for Stock companies. “These large city conflagra- tions have ruined a majority o: the stock companies that carry such risks, while the: survivors combine to raise the rates gen- erally, placing unfair burdens on property that is not exposed to such hazards. The gain is net surplus to the New York Stock fire insurance: companies last year was over $11,000,000. - The net surplus gain to .the other Stock com- panies in the U. S. was over $12,000,000 in 1909, Over $5,000,- 000 was sent across the Atlantic last year to the foreign com- panies. An obscure Russian company received nearly $500,- 000 last year from -the United._, States after paying losses and expenses. Isit any wonder that. the managers of these compa- nies will takelong chances on: shady efforts to keep the public mind poisoned against Mutual Fire Insurance? It is theironly; - available weaponin the unequal” warfare which the relentless, unerring hand of economy. is waging against them. The: stock fire insurance agency sys- ‘tem is-wrong in principle, per- nicious and harmful in practice and its abolition rests wholl]y on the will and patience of a long suffering public that “is now “asleep at the switgh.” i Arrangements have been made at.. the Handle Factory to saw lumber, .at.$4.00 per thousand. ‘'Parties wish-- ing logs sawed may inquire ‘at the factory.: “Sam ‘Marin. We are going t. give you the lowest cash price on every piano in the house .and will We are going to give you the.greatest Piano Bargains that were ever given in Be- midji and surrounding country. sell it to you on time. If you intend to buy a piano.sometime do not put it off just because you do not-have the money to pay cash for it. We are giving you the-Kimball Piano at a cash price on monthly payments. | same terms, :payments. +Notethese:prices: “Regular $450 Kimball Piano-$375 “Regular $425 Kimball Pian.$350 ' Regular-$400 Kimball Piano' ‘Regular $375 Kimball Piano'$300 "Regular $350:Kimball Piano -$275 ‘Regular $325-Kimball Piano $250 ‘Regular:$300-Kimball Piano-$225 “Above prices-include:-Stool,:Scarf and Book. We also have séveral used Pianos, which ‘will be sold on the Organs, new and second-hand, at factory prices on -monthly Remember, these: prices are the lowest on pianos.that ever was or ever will be offered in Bemidji-or surrounding eountry. $325 i H i i