Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 22, 1910, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY 1 1 { istorical Society. & Wik a N oAl . PIONEER; VOLUME 8. NUMBER 56. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVEN-ING, JUNE 22, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. NEIGHBORING FARMS VISITED IN A VELIE Barker Calls on His Customers in the Country by Using His Big Machine. NORTHERN SOIL FOUND TO BE WELL SUITED FOR DAIRYING Dairy Cream Collections for Bemidji Wholesale House Have Already Established Market. Mr. E. A, Barker and Fred LaFavar, in the interests of Barker’s Drug Store, have begun a tour of Northern Minnesota calling onall farmers in the territory tributary to Bemdji. Mr. Barker says, “Our business has grown to where it is impossible for us to ‘'know personally’ all of our customers and it is going to be our aim during this trip to meet our friends and to know them, We want a personal interview with the farmer. 'T'his country has devel- oped to where the farmer and his trade is a valuable asset not only to our business, but, to all the busi- ness houses in this city. "It is wonderful how this country bas developed. In our inital trip yesterday, out Becida and Maltby way, we had our eyes opened. Some of those thrifty farmers have farms that are a credit to any country. Some of our friends out there have lived on their farms for ten or twelve years and every year have made improvements until by this time they are prosperous. “They have applied themselves to their business. Farming ir_a busi- ness way. They have met with all kinds of set backs, have met with with discouraging results, but, THEY HAVE STUCK IT OUT and are to be admired for their pluck and skill. “‘Mr. Business Man! When you have a customer who is a farmer and upon getting acquainted with him, as you should, learn that that man settled in this country about ten years ago and started right in grub- bing out stumps and making a farm out of a forest, Mr. Business Man, sit up and take notice. That man has helped to make this country what it is. He has gone up against the real thing so many times that nothing is impossible for him. He is not only a capable farmer but he has eye to business. He is the man you want for a customer. “These are the people we are go- ing to meet during our tour and as far as possible we are going to get acquainted with every tarmer in this country. Our business will have some friends back of it that are stickers from the word go. “The farmer of this country has learned from experience that this is a natural dairy country and is work- ing to that end. One has only to notice how grass grows wild and how it sows itself every where to appre- ciate this condition. “One of our progressive firms here, namely, Melges Brothers Company Creamery, are awake to this situa- tion. Our friends out Becida and Maltby way tell us that Melges have established a cream route and it is possible for them to send their. cream to the Bemidji Creamery daily. Now that is business and it is those very things that Mr. Farmer is after. Make Bemidji his pwarket. “We are making all the territory we can in our Velie automobile and intended at first to cover part of the territory with a team, but this will hardly be necessary. The roads are fine. *“You town people should get out and see the country. We certainly have roads and miles and miles of them and we have the farmers that made them. Cheap (?) Insurance. The Supreme Court of Michigan has rendered an interesting de- cision in relation to the affairs of the Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which is in a receiver’s hands. It issued both stock and mutual policies, A controversy arose as to the rights of the dif- ferent classes of policyholders and the Supreme Court held that all losses and costs of receivership amounting to nearly $40,000,fall on the Mutual policyholders. Assessments are to be levied to pay off the legal claims, the Mutual policyholders being re- quired to pay not only all losses but return premiums on the stock policies from the date the com- pany failed, ENGLISH SPARROWS A MENAGE TO FARMERS Destroy Grain and Drive Away Useful Birds—Should Be Destroyed with Fine Shot. The FKnglish sparrow is looked upon by the Minnesota state ento- mologist at the experiment station as a menace to farmers, not only de- stroying grain, but also driving The division of eatomology suggests that a very humane way of destroying them is to feed them wheat for a few morn- ings in the winter, in a straight line, yard or field, and when the birds have become accustomed to the system to rake the line with a gun loaded with fine shot. Wheat, it has been said, may be soaked in whiskey and eaten by the away useful birds. sparrows inducing such intoxication that they may be picked up and killed. Destroying sparrows’ nests several times in succession, as they were rebuilt, has discouraged nest- ing in the locahty Destruction by means of active poisons is not recommended by the division because the dead birds are poultry, etc. The entomologist has discouraged their eaten by cats, roosting during the winter under the eaves of his own home and de- filing the building, by the use of a small collecting pistol of fine shot, shooting them off their perches at dusk. HORNET BRIEFS. Sunday school was held as usual in the school house on Sunday, June 11. Rev. F. J. Barackman preached in the school house Monday even- ing. The board of supervisors met at the town clerks on Monday and Tuesday for the purpose of paying the men who have finished their road work, and to transact other business matters. Jesse Fisher has bought acres of lqnd from Jake Miller. Miss Nellie Shaw, who has been teaching school in Argyle, returned to her home Monday night. Charles Green and Tom Willis went to Cass Lake Tuesday morn- ing to prove up on their claims. J. E. Bogart went as a witness for the two above named homesteaders, on Tuesday. He was accompanied as far as Bemidji by his neice, Miss Fanny Bogart. forty A very welcome shower of rain dropped in on us Wednesday morn- ing, Scandinavian Picnic Sunday. Members of the First Scandi- navian Lutheran church will hold a picnic next Sunday morning at 10 a. m. on Diamond Point in place of the regular morning church service. Rev. T. K. Kolste and Rev. C. E. Barrett will address the picnicers and Hiram Simons will give a ten minute address on ‘‘Keeping the Boy in the Sunday School and Church.” Between the speaking, a male quartette and the church choir will sing. Dinner will be served on the ground for 25¢ per plate. Ice cream, soft drinks, cigars and fruit in plenty. All people are invited to come and have a good time. Children 15¢ per plate. DELEGATES APPROACHED BY SMITH EMISSAHIES Good Autuority Says Effort Was Made to Buy Beltrami Men Saturday and Sunday. A report, which is based upon good reliable authority, has it that several of the delegates sent by Beltrami county to the state repub- lican convention in St. Paul yester- day were approached last Saturday and Sunday by Bemidji men who had Smith money. These men it is said, tried to bribe the Beltrami delegates to throw their vote for Smith so that he would get the nomination for state treasurer. ‘This all happened after the county convention here had instructed the delegates to stand solidly for Kaiser and see that he was elected. Smith men were present in the convention, but it was not supposed that they would attempt to buy the Beltrami delegates after they had received the instructions from the convention. It is a well kcown fact that Smith himself has not enough money to be buying votes and delegations on the eve of the convention, and aside from the fact that he and his backers were willing to go to such lengths, it looks shady when he has so much money to circulate. The Beltrami delegation selected by the county convention was com- posed of men who are well known for their reliability and honesty and as near as the Pioneer has been able to find out, none of the money offered was taken. COMMISSION TO PLAN A GONSOLIDATED SCHOOL Washington Board Will Also” Plan a Model Community Center for a Rural District. Spokane, Wash., June 22,—When the Country Life Commission of the state of Washington, appointed recently by Governor Marion E. Hay, meets in Spokane the week of November 14, plans will be pre- sented for a model community cen- ter and consolidated country school, to be established in one of the rural districts adjoining Spokane, early in 1911, David Brown of Spokane, chair- man of the commission, announces that Governor Hay and possibiy Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will attend the conference and assist in formulating a practical plan for the betterment of life on the farm, along the lines suggested in the report of the Roosevelt Commission on Coun- try Life, which, headed by Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey of Itasca, N. Y., made a tour of the larger farming districts of the United States the later part of 1908 and early in 1909, This is to be the preliminary step of a nation-wide movement, co-oper- ative with the various states and territories, in an endeavor to teach the youth of the land the funda- mental principles of agricultural and domestic economy and manual and industrial training, also giving the farmers in the comunities the denefit of the most aproved methods of agriculture and allied subjects. The community center is designed to furnish a place where men and women can meet for the interchange of ideas, Primarily, the school is for the average boy and girl, whose institu- tional education ends even before they finish the secondary school, the purpose to train them to become useful men and women and capable of supporting themselves, and thus adding to the wealth prodution of the country at large and the districts in which they live and to better their condition- of life. Candidate for Sheriff. I hereby announce myself as candidate for the republican nomina- tion for theriff of Beltrami county at the primaries September 20th, 1 respectfully solicit the support of the voters of this county. Andrew_Johnson. TAFT RESORTS * T0 BIG STICK lns1sts on Passage of Pos- tal Savings Bank Bill, SAYS HE NEANS BUSINESS Cancels His Proposed Trip to Attend Yale Graduation Exercises and In- timates That Senate Must Approve House Measure or Stay in Session Until December—Declares It Would Be Infamous to Permit Bill to Fail. Washington, June 22.—President Taft resurrected the Roosevelt big stick and served notice on the lead- ers of the senate that he would insist on the passage of the house postal savings bank bill or hold congress in session until December. As an evi- dence of good faith of his intention to make good his threat the president cancelled his trip to New Haven, Conn.,, where he had iIntended at- tending the Yale graduation exercises, and sat back in his offair to await developments. The president’s determination to get his back up and fight for the postal bank bill passed by the house was reached after word had come to him from reliable sources that some of his own confessed friends in the senate were encouraging the filibusterers against the measure to take their time in opposing the bill while they, in turn, intimated that they would re- main silent. It was hoped that out of this situation some insurmountable ob- stacle to the passage of the house bill would arise, which would result in sending the postal bank legislation to conference where a dozen senators were ready to pounce upon it and in- sert special privilege amendments ga- lore. Keeps Faith With Progressives. To his senatorial callers, which in- cluded Senators Crane, Lodge and El- kins, President Taft let it be known that he proposed to keep faith with the comblned regular and progressive Republican strength_ in the 'house, which together, under the leadership of Representatives Weeks and Mur- dock, had brought forth the house bill out of the first Republican house cau- cus of the session and had it passed under the first Republican special rule of the session. He told them the sen- ate bill contained special privileges to the banks, and, in addition, that the fundamentals of the senate bill ‘were not based on sound banking prin- ciples. “It would be infamous for the ad- ministration to wobble on this bill at this juncture and the president will not discuss the question of sending the house bill to conference,” was the ‘way the situation was put by the close friedd of the administration. The president went even farther in his argument. He called attention to the fact that the house postal bank bill could not again be put through the house by the same vote hy which it originally passed that body. NELSON DEFENDS THE BILL 8tyles River and Harbor Measure Most Equitable. ‘Washington, June 22.—The recent Incidental reference of Senator Burton of Ohio to the river and harbor ap- propriation bill as a “pork barrel,” be- cause it happened to have 296 con- gressional districts represented in the distribution of the funds provided for river and harbor improvements, called forth a characteristic expression from Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota who said of the bill: “I regard it as one of the fairest ever passed by congress. In my fif- teen years on the commerce commit- tee of the senate, and having in that time to deal with the rivers and har- bors of the country, and a conferee on a number of the bills in that period, I believe the measure just become a was was as the most equitable ana best distributed that congress has ever passed.” WHEAT MARKET IS WILD Price at Minneapolis Advances Five Cents in Few Minutes, ‘Minneapolls, June 22.—In the wild- est wheat market witnessed in Min- nespolis for many years, the price ad- vanced nearly five cents in a few min- utes. September wheat, which closed Saturday at 94 cents, crossed the dol- lar line at opening in a wild upward dash to $1.02%. The pit was packed with frantic, perspiring brokers filling orders to buy that came in from the country on every wire. Bishop Busch Installed. Lead, S. D.,, June 22.—In the pres- ence of more than a score of priests and 500 spectators Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul formally installed Right Rev. Joseph F. Busch as bishop of the diocese of Lead. The ceremony was held in St. Patrick’s cathedral ad- joining the episcopal residence. Severe Storm Strikes Gotham. New York, June 22.—A severe elec: trical storm swept the upper part.of | Manhattan island and Bronx borough, lightning striking ‘several bulldlnn and doing extensive damage. HEAVENS LOOSEN UP WITH MUCH NEEDED RAIN General Fall Reported West of Us But More Must Come if Crops are to be Saved. Jupiter Pluvius took a hand in the weather ths morning and dished us out a little dampness, The rain was quite heavy west of us but the amount that fell here was only a drop in the bucket“to what is needed. Early reports from the Red River valley say that the rain came there just in time but that more is needed. Because of the weather reports, the Minneapolis wheat pit was wild yesterday. Wheat advanced six cents after a five cent rise the day before. Telegraph wires were so busy with buying and selling orders that few reports on crop conditions could be handled. Farmers along the railroads sent in bear stories] which helped bull the market. Travelers coming up here from the Southern part of the state say that conditions here are much better. The grass down there is burned brown and it is hard to find a green blade even in the cities where they can use the garden hose. A hard rain for three days is needed all througb the southern counties. SPORTING NOTES Chicago, June 20.—Coach A. A. Stagg will deliver a lecture on “Japanese Baseball” to his diamond candidates tomorrow as a preliminary to the preparations for the Univer- sity of Chicago invasion of the Flowery Kingdom this fall. Before the Maroons start on their summer training for the games thh Waseda and Keio universities, the coach will admonish them against ]| overconfidence, on the basis of news from Japan as to the native skill in baseball. The Maroon leader received a letter yesterday from a former Maroon, who saw the Japanese team in action this year, and warns Coach Stagg against expecting too many honors in the series of ten games. The coach is fully con- vinced of the strength of Keoi and Waseda, and says he is not willing to predict any one-sided victories for his team. “Wisconsin had a good team last year, and Waseda and Keio gave them all they could handle,” said Coach Stagg. “I believe our team isgood enough to represent fairly the best class of college baseball in America and the contests will have a true internal significance on that account. The summer training for the games will be thorough and severe.” 2 The Keio team defeated Wisconsin three out of tour games, and Waseda took one of the three games played with the Badgers. The Badgers have repeatedly declared their respect for the Japanese game, and the Maroons will not bave any too much confidence when they leave for Japan in September if Coach Stagg can help it. i American Assoclation Lost Pct 19 .703 23 635 24 “.619 Indianapolis 28 35 444 Milwaukee 24 85 407 Columbus 24 36 .400 Kansas City. 33 41 Louisville.... 41 .359 National League Won Lost Pet Chicago . . 34 16 .680 New York 30 21 .588 Pittsburg 532 Cincinnati =500 St. Louis. . 462 Brooklyn . 451 Philadelphia 23 26 .489 Boston . ..18 36 .333 ’ i American League o Won Lost Pct *| Philadelphia. . ., .. 82 17 .653 36 21 80 18 26 24 1520 485, 2024 24 29 .453 20 29 .408 12 39 .235 Washington. Chicago. St. Louis. . Yesterday’s Results. American Association Minneapolis 3—Indianapolis 2, St. Paul 6—Louisville 5. Kansas City 6—Columbus 3. Milwaukee 4—Toledo 7. American League St. Louis 0—Detroit 8. Chicago 2—Cleveland 3. (12 innings— first game.) ‘Washington 2—Boston 3. Philadelphia 7-7—New York 4-1. National League. Philadelphia 12-2—Boston 0-1. Brooklyn 1—New York 12. Chicago 1—Cincinnati 0. Pittsburg 5—St. Louis 0. (First game.) ALL ROADS SHOULD BE 'WITHIN SMALL GRADE Experiments Show That the Pulling Power of Horses is Decreased By Slight Rise. A one per cent grade on a road means a rise of one foot for each hundred feet traveled up the hill A ten per cent grade means ten feet rise in each hundred feet so traveled. A one per cent grade, then, means that in traveling up hill one mile an ascent is made of 52.8 feet, while a|. ten per cent grade means a rise in altitude 528 feet in a mile, Accurate tests . have shown the Minnesota experiment station that a horse which can pull 1,000 pounds on a level road can pull only 810 pounds on a rise of one foot in fifty, and ona rise of one foot in ten be can pull only 250 pounds. These facts show that the greatest load that can be hauled over a road 1s the load which can "be tiken ‘up the steepest hill on that road, or through the deepest mud hole. It is therefore advised that all high- ways traveled by heavily loaded vehicles should be kept within a three or four per cent grade if ' prac- ticable. To do this may require a change of location to get around hills, always keeping in mind that the lower thte grade the larger the load may be hauled and the cost of haul- age kept at the lowest point. SENATOR GLAPP, ° Minnesota Solon Endorsed by Republicans of State. Judge Ryan of Fargo Dead. Fargo, N. D, June 22—The death of Judge Martin Ryan is reported in Canada, where he was on a summer vacation. He wac police magistrate here and territorial attorney. He was North Dakota commissioner at the world’s fair in Chicago. Judge Ryan had recently gone East after nervous prostration and had apparently recov- ered when stricken with heart failure. Death Parts Aged Twins. Appleton, Wis., June 22.—Death has separated Mrs. Barbara Benoit and Mrs. Agnes Schaefer, said to be the oldest twins in the country. Mrs, Benoit had been eritically ill for some weeks, but was determined to live to ‘celebrate with her sister their eigthy- sixth birthday, which was on June 16. Artificial Jaw_of Pure Gold. New York, June 22.—A remarkable operation has just been performed at “|'the Post Graduate hospital, by which <|'a man has been provided with an ar- tificial jaw of pure gold to replaze a {awbone destroyed by disease. KAISER LOSES FIGHT FOR STATE TREASURER His Defeat by Smith of Eveleth Due to Action of Convention on Duluth Judges. TAFT ADMINISTRATION GIVEN AN INDORSEMENT UNANIMOUSLY Resolution Reaffirming Support to the Policies of Theodore Roosevelt Laid on Table. St. Paul, June 22—(Special to the Pioneer)—Walter Smith, of Eveleth, defeated Albert Kaiser, of Bagley, for the republican nomination for state treasurer in the convention here yesterday. The fight was a hard and" close one and was not decided until the final ballot. The nomina- tion of the supreme court judges had resulted in neither of the Duluth candidates winning, so that the Duluth delegation demanded that Smith be given a place on the the ticket. The ticket nominated is: Governor—A.O. Eberhart, Mankato. Lieutenant Governor—S. Y. Gor- don, Browns Valley. Secretary of State—Julius A. Schmahl, Redwood Falls. State Auditor—S. J. Rushford. Attorney General—Geo. T. Simp- son, Winona. State Treasurer—Walter J. Smith, Eveleth. “Clerk’ of Supreme Court—]J. C. Casswell, Anoka. Associate Justice Supreme Court —E. "A. Jaggard, St. Paul; P. E, Luverne; C. L. Brown, Morris; D. F. Simpson, Minneapolis. Railroad and Warehouse Commis- sioner—C. H. Staples, St. Paul. Senator Moses E. Clapp, was unanimously nominated to succed himself as United States Senator. The platform adopted straddles on the tariffi question. The couven- tion went on record as favoring the policy of protection as defined in the republican platform in 1908, A resolution in faver of conserva- Iverson, Brown, tion of natural resources along the suggested by Theodore Roosevelt was adopted, but another indorsing other Roosevelt policies was laid on the table by an over- whelming majority. A resolution de- nouncing the Aldrich.-Payne tariff bill asa “repudiation of the pledges of the republican party to the American people” was also defeated. The convention, without mention of county option, pledged the party in Minnesota to a free face and full discussion of all proposed legisla- tion for the regulation of the liquor traffic. A minority report of the resolutions committee which pro- vided for a county option plank in the republican platform was de- feated by a vote of 638 to 435. One of the surprises of the con- vention was the nomination of Brown of Luverne, to the Supreme Court. While it was know that the two Duluth men were fighting each other hard, it was not thought that a third man would win out. The ticket as named is a southern Minnesota ticket as Smith is the only man from the northern part of the state,. St. Paul won out on Jaggard as justice of the supreme court, but lost on Dix as clerk. lines The platform and resolutions will belpublished tomorrow. Parochial School Opens, The parochial summer school at the Scandinavian Lutheran church opened this morning. Mr. Egge, of Concordia college at Moorhead, has charge of the "instruction. Each child entered will be given one hour of instruction every day. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL | SOCIETY.