Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 27, 1910, Page 4

THE BEMIDJI BAILY PIONEER PUBLIGHED EVERY AFTERKOON EICEPT SUNDAY BY JHE BEMIDJ PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. G. E. CARSON. Eatered n the Postoifice at Bemidl, Minnesota, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR 1N 2DVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. Population—In £900, 1500; 7000. Summer Resort—¥undreds 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. in 1910, Water Power—2200 developed horse- | power, Mississippi river. Water—Absolutely pure. Two artesian wells. ‘Water Mains—About seven.miles. Boatipg—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. Cement Sidewalks~Six and a miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—-Ten miles, 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, groceries flour, 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 & 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 Dgluth, 167 miles, Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmitls—Four. Handle Factories—One. ‘Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—OUne. half two lakes OUR EFFORTS FAIL. Our attempt at humeor is a dis- asterous failure. In a moment of levity we attempted to extracta smile at the expense of the Metropolitan club, playing upon the ludicrous side of the Indian treaty tempest, Although it is pretty generally knowh that a majority of the best and most sub- stantial business men; men who would not for a moment counten- ance aily Sort 6f an irreguiarity, go 10 make up the club member. ship, our joke fell tlat, What we said was taken seriously. Never} again, Ol course, if worst comes to worst, there’s the lemon extract supply. We reiterate, with emphasis on the first word, ‘‘All eyes on Brain- erd.” Some folks will die a natural death while others will go deer hunting next month. | The turkeys will be sorry to learn that New Jersey has harvested an extraordinary cranberry crop. “Dry up,” seems to be about the only thing that ‘“‘Pussyfoot” can think of to say to Northern Minne- sota. Some persons may be unkind enough to attribute the present chill to Mr. Bryan’s appearance in this vicinity. The Minnesota football team leaves for Chicago tonight where on Saturday it will go through the “eat ’em alive” ceremony. Notice is hereby given that any item in this column less than five lines in lenght is not entitled 'to serious consideration. Aviator Johnstone went up in the air 7,303 feet. Had he looked around a little he might have found County Auditor Hayner. Certain things seem to indicate i that Mr. Grav will be able to stow his vote away in the left hand corner of his vest pocket. With tornadoes, tidal waves, vol- canic erruptions and cholera work- ing over time in Italy, good old northern Minnesota looks better than ever. Former Mayor Daniel Lawler of 8t. Paul declares the nomination of Gray was the result of a conspiracy cooked up by Frank Day. Ifso Mr. Day is apt to be branded a bum cook | on November 8. | FOR SHERIFF. the present stillness of our unusually { somnolent campaign by talking in a loud voice now and then in behalf { of Thomas Bailey for sheriff. There always is a tendnncy to “vote her straight,” and sometimes that is not a bad idea. Then again it may be a very bad idea, and we believe that to be the case in the| present instance. Mr. Bailey has proved his ability to perform the duties in the office of sheriff as they should be performed, fearlessly and without favor, and with the cardinal principle always before him, *‘a square deal to all.” The sheriff has to handle bad men. He ought, therefore, to be a good man himself. Mr. Bailey is. BOOST THE BAND. Most any kind of a brass band is an advertisement for a town. It may be uniformed, its leader may be foreign to technique and its players may revel in discords but if they have the spirit of loyalty, stick to- gether and get out and play, they are marking their town as a widea- wake place and though their music may be faulty it stirs the blood and inspires action. If this is the result in the instance of an organization of doubtful talent, how much greater must be the bene- fits derived from so splendid an ag- gregation of competent and well directed players as go to make up the Bemidji band, as fine a group of musicians as can be found in any of the smaller cities of the state, Thanks to the devoted members of this body and the untiring ex- pert attention of Director Harry Masten, Bem1idji has been privi- leged to listen to a season of open air concerts scarcely less note- worthy than the high priced pro- grams in the parks of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Now comes the opening of the indoor concer¢ sea- soe, looking forwatd to with keen delight for otherwise barren winter evenings. Bemidji is proud of her Band of uniformed Musicians aid she has in different wayz Shown her ap- preciation; but, lest this apprecia- tion may fiot be made known in a substantial manner, a warning to the public, which so dearly loves the melody but is so prone to for- gets to ‘‘pay the fiddler,” must now and then be sound- ed. It costs money to buy uni- forms and to employ a competent conductor. In the present in- stance Bemidji can well afford to be liberal, A PLEA FOR JUSTICE—AND FRESH MEAT. Not long ago several arrests were made in the extreme northern corner of this county in what is known as the Northwest Angle, for alleged vio- lations of the game law and as a re- sult four men paid heavy fines in municipal court here. An echo of this affair comes in the form of a communication from a resident of the Northwest Angle who objects to the residents there being termed as criminals. This man, who prefers to be known under the nom de plume of “A Northwest Angle settler,” has this to say: “In glancing over some of the papers of this part of the state we noticed several articles describing the recent ‘big game catches of Northwest Angle’ wherein the people of this section were pictured as being criminals of the blackest type; leav- ing the reader under a wrong impres- sion, wherefore the writer respect- fully asks for a hearing in defense of our settlers, whom he knows are not all bad. “It is true, I admit, that this We feel constrained to puncture| section has’ a few undesirables, as -well as any other part of the state, but that does not mean that all of the residents of Northwest Angle are of that class. “I invite any man, who isa fair judge, to visit this region for a week and if he doesn’t go back home feeling that he bas been the guest of some ot the best people on earth, I am mistaken. “The Roseau paper stated that these 'big violations’ were carried on last winter, and coutinued, giving Messrs. Cooke and Munch a great deal of credit for their fine ‘detective’ work in apprehending the tors.’ ‘viola- I do not think their detec- tive work was worthy of mention. “They never would have found them out, had it not been for pro- miscuous squealing. “The warden did not have to make any strenuous trips over ‘almost impassable lands’ to serve, his warrants, as stated, because we have none of that kind of land out here, for one reason and, besides the gentlemen for whom he bad warrants did not try to get away, but sub- mitted peaceably to arrest. “They were taken not to Baudette but were hastened to Bemidji and tried before a judge ot the municipal court and fined altogether $540.00— hard money—for buying a piece of moose meat from the Indians. The informer was fined only $50 for kil- ling a caribou, on which there is never an open season—the same amount as the rest were fined for trading a little tea, flour, etc., to the Indians for a piece of fresh mest. It looks like something wrong to our people out here, “I defy any man, and even Mr. Cooke, to bring his family out here and live, where it is impossible to get fresh meat, and after living on salt pork for 5 or 6 months, and then had a chance to trade off a little provis- ions to an Indian, thereby helping the Indian out as well as gettinga piece of fresh meat for himself, I tbink he would also be tempted to do a little trading: and it wouldn’c seem to him as though he was mak- ing a criminal out of the Indian and himself. “And, again, if a nice deer or A Judicial Favor. A verdant local reporter whose pro- pensities incline to daring rather than to judgment and whose ardency in the quest- of news is one of his marked characteristics approached a judge of the United States district court and so- licited a little advance information on a case in progress in the judge's court. 1 “You see, judge.” said the youngster to the astonished jurist, “we <o to press in a few moments, and we all know your inclination to do a mnews- paper man a favor.” The venerable man eyed the youth sternly and said slowly and emphat- fcally: “Yes. young man, I'll do you a fa- vor this time, and you will see thut you don’t ask me again.” “That’s tine, your honor. Thanks, very much. Just a few lines will do.” *“I will do you this favor. I shall not send you to jail this time, but if you ever appreach me again with such a question your friends will not see you for some time.” The discomfited reporter retired ru- minating on the mysteries of the law and the dignities pertaining to the ju- diciary.—Philadelpha Ledger. The Exclusiveness of Caste. An English oflicer who some years ago was wounded in a battle in India and left lying all night among the na- tive dead and wounded tells this story: “Nexr morning we spied a man and an old woman. who came to us with a basket and a pot of water, and to every wounded man she gave a piece of joaree broad from the basket and a drink frowm her water pot. To us she gave the same. and 1 thanked heaven and her. But the Soobahdar was a high caste Rujput, and, as this wom- an 1 Chumar, or of the lowest caste, he would receive neither water nor bread from her. 1 tried to per- suade him to take it that he might live, but he said that in our state, with but a few hours more to linger, what was a little more or less suffering to us—why should he give up his fate for such an object? No; he preferred to die unpolluted.” The Origin of Oxygen. That eminent scientist Lord Kelvin maintained that all the oxygen in the atmosphere probably originated from the action of sunlight upon plants. When our earth was a globe of hot Hauid it contained no vegetable fuel and probably no free oxygen. But as it cooled off plants appeared on its surface. and these began to evolve oxygen through the medium of the sunbeams. Upon the oxygen thus de- rived we depend for the maintenance of life by breathing. When we burn coal or other vegetable fuel we use up oxygen, and it is to plants again that we owe the restoration of the oxygen thus lost to the air. If they failed to keep up a suflicient supply the atmos- phere would gradually part with ity oxygen, and the inhabitants of the moose ran past his door and he was feeling hungry for a piece of tresh meat(we all have feelings) and he had a gun handy, if he did not get his game it would be bccause he couldn’t shoot straight. “The cry of Northern Minnesota is for more farmers and settlers to break and clear up the land so as to put it under eultivation and make it productive. But give them a fair chance when they do come. Give the settlers a square deal, thats all they ask. If the game laws were enforced as rigidly against the city and village ‘sport’ as they are against the poor settler, we would have less cause for complain.” The defy toany man, or even Mr. Cook” to exist without fresh meat is quite as convincing as our friend’s intelligent plea that the farmers of northern Minnesota be given a fair chance. Like the woman who missed ber intoxicated husband with a flatiron, his aim at times is poor but his heart is in the right place. Unanswered. To “Anzious Inquirer.” who asks us it there are rats op a catboat and ‘whether cowcatceheis 'were tirst put on milk trains. we Teply that rhe editor who knows all ‘ahout such things is busy looking up whetber or pot Rich- ard IM.. when he mtopped King Henry’s bier, thus became the first temperance crusader, and will not be able to answer Anxious Inquirer until he tests up a little—Browning’s Mag: ‘azine, Enlightened. “Before 1 married,” said Mr. Hen peck, “T didn’t know what it meant to support a wife.” “] presume you know now.” “Yes, indeed. I looked up the word ‘support’ in the dictionary and discov- ered that one of its meanings is ‘en- dure.’ ” Knows What's Coming. Hewitt—Gruet is discharged about every Saturday night. Jewett—Yes, during the week he feels as if he were between two fires.—New York Press. Nothing is law that is not reason.— Sir John Powell. s Nct a Good Son. Necessity turned sharply to inven- tion. “If ’'m your mother,” she said, “it's your duty to support me in comfort.” But invention, as we all know, usual 1y dodges his duty.—~Chicago Tribune. earth would disappear in. consequence of asphyxiation. In Westminster Abbey. Fox's tomb is perhaps the most ridie- ulous in the abbey, but others run it hard—the naked figure of General Wolfe supported by one of his staff in full regimentals and receiving a crown from Victory; William Wilber- force apparently listening to Sheridan telling a comic tale and coutorting his features in the endeavor not to laugh; the Sir Cloudesley Shovel, in periwig and Roman toga, which excited the mirth even of contemporaries, and all the monuments erected by the East India company, with palm trees and other tropical exuberances, to the memory of great soldiers, like Sir Eyre Coote. From the point of view of good taste a dictator would be justified in Fifteenth Jud JUDGE C. W. STANTON Non-Partisan Candidate for Judge of icial District —_— Carthage’s Great Snake. The ancients firmly believed in mon- ster serpents of all kinds and of both the land and marine species. During the wars with Carthage a great snake is said to have kept the Roman army from crossing the Bagrados river for several s. The monster swallowed up no less than seventy Roman sol- diers during this combat and was nol conquered until a hundred stones from as many different catapults were fired apon it all at one time. The monster skull and skin were preserved and afterward exhibited in one of the Ro- man temples. The driec creature was 120 feet in length, ac- cording to Pliny Throat Trouble. “You lonk bad. old man matter?” “Throat trouble.”” “l didu't know you were subject to it.” “Yes, I am. This throat belongs to} the newcomer in the next house, who practices singing at all hours of the night.” skin of thei What's the | Past is Past. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in. Forget them as soon as you can.—Emerson. The Drawback. “Can't you live just as cheap in the | suburbs as in town?” dismissing these and many more to the stonemason’s yard.—Cornhill Mag- azine. How Pausanius Died. Pausanius, the Greek general, died by self administered poison. When hotly pursued by those sent to appre- -hend him on a charge of treason and pacrilege he took refuge in the sanc- tuary of a temple. Unable to remove him by force and also unwilling to violate the sanctuary, the officers wall- ed up the entrance and began to un- roof the building. When he could be seen they noticed that he was chewing something which proved to be a quill filled with poison. By the time the work had sufficiently advanced to ad- mit of their entrance he was in a dy- ing condition. Secret For Secret. In the ‘days of Louis XIV. even war- rlors bandied epigrams with one an- other, The Marechal de Grammont had tak- en a fortress by siege. “ will tell you a secret” said its military governor after surrendering. “The reason of my capitulation was that I had no more powder.” «Apd, Secret for secret,” returned the marechal suavely, “the reason of my accepting it on such easy ‘terms was that 1 had no more balls.” Not So Absurd. “How absurd!” “What’s absurd?” “Five years are supposed to have elapsed since the last act, and that man Is wearing the same overcoat.” “Nothin’ absurd about that. He's !akln' the part of a married man, isn’t he?” Spiteful. Patience — Did you enjoy my last song? Patrice—1 might have if I had known it was your last.— Yonkers Statesman. Laziness travels so slowly that pov- erty scon overtakes him.—Franklin. - - - — —— “Yes. but everybody knows it out there.” —Life. Distance is a great promoter of ad miration.~ Diderot. o Suspicious. It was down in the market district. “Whar this country needs is plenty of bone and sinew.” said the tall one. “Yes, and plenty of grit and sand.” echoed the short one. “By the way. what busivess are you in¥" “Qh, I'm a butcher. And you?” “Wh—er—1 distribute strawberries when they arrive from the southern markets.”—Chicago News, A Telltale Tauch. “Is it true rhat sizhdess people ean ‘tell the color of things by touch?” some one asked a blind an: “Qccasionally, yes.,” came the an- swer, “If. for instance. I touched na redhot poker 1 could tell it was red.” A Pearl In the Trough. “How are you today? Feeling well?" “Do you really care a rap?’ “Not a rap. | merely asked out of politeness that | see was quite wast- KNOWN VALUES PUBLISHERS CLASSIFIED ADVERTIS- ING ASSOCIATION PAPERS ‘WE ARE MEMBERS Papers in all parts of the States and C_nnuda. Your wants supplied—anywhere any time by the best mediums in the country. Get our membership lists—Check papers you want. We do the rest. Publishers Classified Advertising Associa- tion, Buffalo, N. Y. HMELP WAKTED. WANTED—Sitvation as houskeeper in small family. Call at Mrs. Nelson’s rooming House. Old City Hotel Bel. Ave. WANTED — Chambermaids and Jaundry woman. Rex hotel. WANTED—Good dining girl at Nicollet Hotel. rcom FOR ¥ FOR SALE—Large piano cased organ; cost $135. Will sell for $50 if taken at once; easy terms if desired. M. E. Ibertson. FOR SALE—160 acres of good clay land three miles from Bemidji if interested call on Frank Hitchcock 714 13st. Bemidji Minn FOR SALE—Buggy, single harness, baby cab, tent, Eighth and America. FOR SALE—TFive room cottage on Beltrami Ave. 1309. Phone 446. FOR SALE—Heavy horses for log- ging purposes. Tom Smart’s barn. FOR SALE—Hard coal stove, cheap. Call 1221 Irving Ave. Phone 15. FOR RENT. PSSOV FOR RENT—Four rocm house. New. 1014 American avenue. phone 461. MISCELLANEOUS WANTED—To let the cutting stamping and ranking in medium sized ranks made soft from fire all the wood on my place N. E. %4 Sec. 34 Town of Eckles Beltrami Co. Minn. Also the piling and burning of slashings and other rubbish that may be on the ground. Address M. J. Lenihan La Keirlee -ed.”—Pittshurg Post. Minn. LIEGLER & ZIEGLER GO. “THE LAND MEN"" INSURANCE FIRE = LIFE = ACCIDENT FARM LANDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Go to Them for Qnick Action Office--Schroeder Buil A |- ] I ¥ «