Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 20, 1910, Page 4

— _ Northern, THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEFT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. Q. E. CARSON. Entored i (ke Postoftice.at Bemid), Miniswola, us socond vy S class mattor, SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR IN 2DVANGE 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. Two artesian wells. Water Mains—About seven.miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20 above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About three miles. in 1910, Cement Sidewalks—Six and a half miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage--Ten miles, two lakes 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 other industries. Great Distributing Point—Lumber prod- ucts, groceriesZflour, feed and 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 & 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—OUne. Jack Johnson, when paying his ¢15 fine for high speeding, says he is out for advertising. May be a jail term would help some, Eggs are 60 cents (U. S. coin) a dozen in Buenos Ayres. Aren't you glad you live in these high-cost-of- living United States of America? America has the doubtful honor of teaching Chinese to smoke cigarettes instead of opium. A questionable reform with a worse odor. Speaking of the democratic candidate for governor, its sure a case of the office pursuing the man, and the chances are even as to whether it will catch him, Harold Dane, who has been city editor of the Pioneer since the first of last June, has severed his con- netion with the paper as an editor and will return to the University in September for his senior year in the academic department. F. A. Wilson, of the St. Paul Dispatch, will take Mr. Dane’s position and will assume his duties Tuesday morning. Mr. Dane will stay with Mr. Wilson three or four days while he is getting acquainted with Be- midji business men. Mr. Wilson is a man who has been in the newspaper business for several years and has been con- nected with many of the large dail- ies in this part of the country. Mr. Dane will act as special Twin City correspondent for the Pioneer this winter, We constantly hear .people specu- lating as to the reason why farm lands are so much cheaper in Minne- sota than they are in Iowa, Wiscon- sin and Illinois. Our lands are equally as good and in some locali- ties .better. They produce crops more certainly and fully as abundant. But values in Minnesota are not much more than hal} what they are in other states mentioned. We have not seen this reason advanced but it may be there is something in it. Farm lands increase iu value large- ly in proportion to the growth of country towus. Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois towns have grown during the past ten years while many Minnesota towns have not, and the nnly reason they have not is because of unpjust, unfair and discriminating freight rates. This condition can be remedied if the people will wake up to the condition and demand relief from the legislature.—Hutchinson Leader. e e HOW THE ELKS CAME INTO BEING. Just after the Civil War there was in New York a certain crowd of young men, for the most part comn- nected in one way or another with the dramatic profession, who met in a room every Sunday nightand called themselves the Jolly Corks. One gathers from the existing data regarding this group that performers in the variety theaters of that day predominated in its membership. In a pampblet issued over the name of one of the charter members of the Elks, the late George W. Thompson, the orgin of the order is described. Having at- tended a meeting of the Jolly Corks at the invitation of one of the regular attendants, he writes: “I remember we passed a very enjoyable evening and dispersed with an agreement to meet on the following Sunday. Brothers Riggs and McDonald left with me and the latter said: ‘This thing is better than a mere jolly crowd and wil] one day amount to something.” '— From “The story of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks” in the August Metropolitan Magazine. WHY DO MEN ADVERTISE. The man who conducts his busi- ness on the theory that it doesn’t pay and he can’t afford to advertise sets up his judgement in opposi- tion to that of all business men in the world. Says an experienced advertising authority: “With a few years’ experience in conducting a small business on a few thousands of capitals, he assumes to know more than thousands whose hourly transactions aggregate more than his doin a year, and who have made their millions by pursuing a course that he says doesn’t pay.” If advertising doesn’t pay, why i§ it that the most successful mer- chants of every town, large or small, are the heaviest advertisers? If ad- vertising doesn’t pay, who does the most business? * If it does not pay, business firms in the world spend willions in that way. Is it because they want to donate those millions to the newspapers and magazine publishers, or because they don’t know as much about business as the six-for-a-dollar merchant who says money spent in advertising is thrown away or donated to the man to whom it is paid? Such talk is simply ridiculous, and it requires more than the average patience to discuss the proposition of whether or not adver- tising pays with that kind of a man. His complacent selfconceit in assum- ing that he knows more than the whole world is laughable, and re- minds us of the man who proved that the world doesn’t revolve by placing a pumpkin on a stump and watching it all night.—Erskine Echo. [ BY THE WAY | Be sure your principles are not force them on others. Because you have done something is no reason for insisting that others do likewise. Perhaps it would be a compli- ment to Colonel Roosevelt for the Pullman company to raise the berth rate. ' The weather is never quite right for the Jazy man. The automobile that “honks” the loudest is usually exchanging greet- ings with the mortgage on the house. Tailors announce that the fall style of man will have narrow shoulders. How about the size of his hat? your prejudices, before you try to} GOVERNORS OF WEST CONFLR Meet at Salt Lake on Call| of Hay of Washington. SUSPECT EAST’S MOTIVES Some ot the State Executives Present Fear Older Sections Will Dominate St. Paul Conservation Congress and They Will Advocate State and Not Federal Control of Natural Re sources, Salt Like City, Aug. 19.—Governors of their representatives of nine Inter: mountain Coast and Northwestern states met with Governor Spry of Utah to outline plans whereby the rights of these states to their natural resources may be preserved and their interests protected in the annual Na- tional Conservation congress which meets in St. Paul Sept. 5. The present meeting was called by Governor Hay of Washington, who be- lieves the East is not playing fair in hand!ing the matter of conservation of natural resorces. He is outspoken on the subject and his primary reason for calling the meeting was to form a plan whereby the so called “North- western idea” may be presented to the congress. This idea is briefly that the states themselves should have charge of and the disposition of their re- sources. Governor Hay classes the attitude of some of the Eastern conservation- ists as alarming to the West and de- clares it looks like a deliberate at- tempt to rob the Western states of their resources and have these re- sources administered from .the nation- al capital for the benefit of the nation at large and not for the good of the states in which the resources are lo- cated. Governor Spry and some of the oth- ers are more pacific in their attitude, but are agreed that the West must take prompt action to preserve its rights. He says: Able ‘to Hold Its Own. “I don’t think there is any serious cause for alarm that the interests of the West will be overridden in the St. Paul convention. The West has a:- ways been able to hold its own in mat- ters of this kind and I do not see why it should not be so upon this occa- sion.” Governor Norris of Montana is un- able to attend the convention and is quoted as saying that in his opinion the “cards are stacked’™ against ‘the Northwest by the interests of thé East and it would be useless for the West to attempt to combine against the East.” ¢ Governor Brady of Idaho, who is present, is the possessor of some de- cided ideas on the comservation jues- tion and considers it unfair to the people of the West that their natural resources should be controlled by the tederal government. He is quoted as saying that the East, after having ex- hausted its own resources, now hopes to fall back upon the West to obtain through government administration a share of the.benefits of Western re. sources through royalties on water- power sites, etc. i A delegation of three members, in- cluding his private secretary, is here to represent Governor Eberhart' of Minnesota. This delegation urges the importance of every Western state be- ing represented at the coming con: gress. NO CHANGE IN THE RESULTS Later Returns From Nebraska Pri: mary Election. Omaha, Aug. 19.—The Bee an- nounces that Cady practically con- cedes his defeat by Aldrich in the race for the Republican nomination for governor, and that Aldrich claims a majority of over 10,000. Dahlman has secured the Democratic nomina- tion, although Shallenberger still claims it. Aldrich has been a strong advocate of county option, while Dahlman is. as openly its opponent. Both Shallen berger and Cady took a middle ground on the question. . b United States Senator Burkett and Congressman Hitchcock have secured the nominations for the senatorship by heavy majorities. WIPES OUT ENTIRE BLOCK Fire Turns Two Thousand Families Into the Street, 4 New York, Aug. 19.—Fire in the warehouse district of Jersey City, wiped out one entire block of busi ness buildings and factories, turped 2,000 terrified families into the street and caused the death of one fireman. The losses are variously estimated at from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Farmer Dies of Anthrax. Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 19.—William Kirk, a farmer, fifty-eight years old, who since 1887 has been a resident of this vicinity, is dead here as the re- sult of being inoculated with anthrax. de contracted the disease several days ago while skinning a neighbor’s cattle which t.ad died of the disease. FRANGIS JOSEPH, Eiaperor of Austria Cele- brates Eightieth Birthday. GREAT ENTHUSIASM SHOWN People of Austria Celebrate Birthday of Emperer. Ischel, Austria, Aug. 19.—Emperor Franz Jo 5 cighty years old and the anniversary is being celebrated with great enthusiasm not only by the seventy-four archdukes and archduch- esses, who have gathered here for the affair, but by the people at large. The prograinme began with an 8 o’clock mass, The birthday dinner, termed a “family affair,” was served at 2:45 p. m. and the table was graced by the greatest gathering of royalty ever seen at a banquet board in Aus- tria. After the dinner the emperor appeared on the balcony of the palace and greeted the populace, expressing his appreciation at the kindly demon- Stration in his honor. ST, PAUL BANKER IS SENT TO WORKHOUSE Given Thirty Days for Reckless Automobiling, St. Paul; Aug. 19.—Frank W. Water man, president of the Ramsey County State bank, was sentenced to the workhouse for thirty days, without the option of a fine, by Judge John W. Finehout in ‘police court,-for automo- bile speeding.’. Judge Finehout scored the banker. in. scathing language be- fore “ronouncing the sentence. Mr. Waterman, with four men com- panions, was driving“along University avenue when he collided with a vehi- cle occupied by Percy Hagen and a A Remarkable Diamond OPPORTUNITY The market price of DIAMONDS has been so steadily advancing for years that these stones are now generally conceded one of the safest and most profitable investments. Only withn . the past few months has come the \\\X\”//// annonncement that prices have gone Q\ \ Z up again owing to the greater cost of —= — labor and other reasons. By means 7/ S S 1 of our purchasing power and greatly ‘/// I l\\\\ increased business we are able to purchase our Diamonds Direct from the Importers and Cutters in Original Packets; allows us to sell as cheap as the jobbers. There is no middleman to share any por- tion of the profit. Even the Jeweler in the Large - Cities cannot sell Diamonds at figures we can. WHY ? The expense of doing business is our chief reason. High Rents and numberless other expenses which burden, we are not compelled to bear. A few snaps in Diamonds we have at this date, but will not remain with us long at these figures. One 2 carat size, perfect, fine white, $320.00 One 7-8 carat size, white, slightly imperfect, $125.00 One 1-2 carat size, whits, $60 If you are at all interested step in and ask to be shown what we have in . DIAMONDS GEO. T. BAKER & CO. Near the Lake Bemidji, Minn. Bemidji Gandy Kitchen “Get Your Spoon” or come without it, we’ll furnish one for you. 1y ' 5 X S ] woman. The automobile wrecked the vehicle, throwing the occupants to the street. Mr. Waterman sped on, leav- ing: the: injured persors dazed in the wreckage of the buggy. The Rondo police were notified of the accident and ‘mounted officers captured the speeding machine. Mr.. Waterman appeared in court wlthom an attorney and was almost breathless when Judge Finehout pro- nounced ‘sentence. . * “I have worked fourteen years to at- tain my position as president of the bank,” said Mr. Waterman, “and if I have to serve this sentence my labors will have all been in vain. I-shall have to call a meeting of the directors and resign.” NEW CLASSIFICATION ASKED Railroad Commissions of Middle West Begin Movement. Chicago, Aug. 19.—Railroad commis- sioners of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michi- gan, Ohio and Indiana, after a series of meetings ' in Chicago, have an- nounced a movement to induce the railroads of this classification territory, which includes the district east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, to add two classes to their freight classi- fication. At present there are only six sets of class rates, whereas in other territory there are several addi- tional classes. Milwaukee Gains 31 Per Cent. Washington, Aug. 19.—The pobula- tion of Milwaukee is 373,857, an in- crease of 88,542, or 31 per cent, as compared with 285,315 in 1900. The population of Des Moines is 86,368, an increase of 24,229, or 39 per cent, as compared with 61,139 in 1900. lowa Boy Burns to Death. Milton, Ia,, Aug. 19.—Pat McClurg, three years old, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the barn of his father, Dr. Curtis McClurg. Only & part of the body was recovered. How'’s This? ‘Weoffer One Hundred Dollars Reward_ for any case of Oatarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. ,F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known K. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- tions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm, ‘WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrah Oure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucons surfaces of the system. Testimonials f; Price, 75¢ per bottle. Sold by all Druggi: | Take Hall's Family Pills for constipatio:, | Pure and Sanitary is every product we put out. Our Ice Cream is the finest manufactured in the city. Plain and Assorted Ice Cream In Bricks for Your Sunday Dinner Bemidji Candy Kitchen [ wat HE value of a Bell telephoneis particularly evident in emergency situations. It opens a quick way to relief. Accidents, delays, hurried departures, unexpected ' e arrivals, sickness, fire, burglary—all come in this cate-. gory. Time, money, convenience—often life itself—depend upon prompt communication. * Relief may be in sight, or a thousand -miles away. It matters not. The Local and Long Distance Bell Telephone can be used in either situation. NorthwesternTelephone Exchange Company