Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 5, 1910, Page 4

It THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EYERY AFTERNOON HEE" SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. Q. E. CARSON. Extorsd u the Postoffice at Bemid)), Minmesots, as second class mattor, SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR 1N SOVANGE 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. Altitade—1400 feet above sea level. Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississippi river. Water—Absolutely pure. Two artesian wells, Water Mains—About ten 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; summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About/five miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve 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—Four. Bank Deposits—$800,000. 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—Three. Passenger Trains—Fourteen]daily. Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul, 230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. H Handle Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. in 1910, 75 Cass Lake saloonkeepers are still seeing stars. And that reminds us: whatever became of that fire deparment -that was to shoot the government full of holes? Mr. Hayner admits that he has fought to the last ditch. We hazard the guess that on next Tuesday he will fall into it. If it is true that Minnesota has a population of 2,500,000, Eberhart is scheduled to receive a plurolity of about 2,499,000. With Warden Bailey on the job.| and backed by a stern judge ready to make law breakers fork over real money, the'‘dear” season seems to have opened. Persons desiring to visit Stillwater are, under certain conditions, insured | a swift, safe journey by the state. One of thc easiest ways to get there is to give an Indian whiskey. What we meant to say in last night’s Pioneer was that Major Mc- Laughhn had “‘completed a tour of inquiry,” but the commpositor in- sisted on making it “tour of injury.” Near Hancock, Minn., twenty farmers have organized themselves into a ¢Meat Club,” through which they are enable to have fresh meat at all seasons, in hot as well as in cold weather. On Friday of each week a beef is killed and cut up into twenty pieces; each being numbered. Each person takes a different num- ber each week, so that, at the end of twenty weeks, each one has had a whole beef. The beeves are furnished by the members of the club, and tlie meat is sold st from five to eleven cents per pound; the owner retaining the hide and paying two dollars for the killing and cutting. The kill- ing and delivering is all done ata central point in the neighborhood. The beef is hung up in'a cool { of deception clear of its malicious | ent departments with a total fee col- {Bailey received from all sources ‘cellar Friday night and cut up for delivery Saturday morning. OUR VANISHING DESERT. . A quarter of a century ago any mention of the Great American des- ert called up visions of a region of limitless extent, sun-baked, parched aud desolate. A country associated always with tales of suffering and death, of unfriendly savages, and | deadly reptiles, for years it was pass- ed over by congress as worthless. The marvelous transformation which has been wrought up in two |decades in thisland of silence and sunshipe furnishes one of the most interesting and inspiring pages in the annals of our republic’s develop- ment, The great American desert is van- ishing from the map. Its boundaries have shrunken and it no longer pre-| sents a formidable barrier to the| growth and progress of the far West. | Twelve million acres of this rainless | country have been subdued by means of agriculture and irrigation and are | producing bountiful and assured harvests every year. A quarter of a million families are residing on farms and as many more have found homes and occupations in the cities, towns, and villages which have sprung up in the midst of the agricultural areas. Pioneering in this new country calls for a good deal of grit and not a little hard work and compensation is far below like exertions in other parts of the country, and northern Minnesota is a .splendid example Nevertheless American industry has caused the desert to work. SHERIFF HAZEN, BELTRAMI'S DISGRACE. Water will seek its own level. A leopard cannot change its spots nor Neither can a candidate whose career is im- an Ethiopian, his skin. mersed in the slime of deceit, sus- picion and untruth be expected to conduct a clean political campaign. The mantle of charity has been Sheriff Hazen’s greatest protection and he has but his own stupidity and continued conniving to blame for the election eve indignation which has left him a blackened, howling cringing creature in the white light of publicity. Of his palpably unjust and false attack on Thomas Bailey we need say but little as Mr. Bailey him- self has stripped the Hazen cloak insinuations, leaving the unnamed and unclaimed ‘‘circular” but an. other evidence of the rottenness of a regime unequalled in Beltrami county for the depths to which unprincipled and schemirg poli- ticians can go. ) There is one point in connection with the distribution.of the Hazen “sheets of shame” to which we wish to call attention as a glaring evid- dence of the deceit practiced by our present sheriff—the sheriff who con- ducts his duties so “fearlessly” that when a jury list is to be made up affidavits of predjudice are filed against him so that the coroner or some other honest person is required to do the duty of the sheriff in order that criminals may be given a fair trial. We call attention to the part of the Hazen circularof illegitimate parentage where the bold head lines read: “A. B. Hazen, the present| sheriff, received during 1909” and then follows the names of the diffier- lection amounting to $4,778.73. This is the amount the circular says Sheriff Hazen secured in fees during the year 1909. The statement isl absolutely and unqualifiedly untrue. ! The amonnt Mr. Hazen did receive was $7,772.84 which is $3,014.11 more than the deceptive Mr. Hazen cares to admit to the voters of Bel- trami county. In still bolder type, the Hazen offspring says: ‘‘Thomas while sheriff $54,895.77,” Mr. Bail- ey was sheriff for eight years. If he had received $7,792.84 for each year of office, as Mr. Hazen received dur- ing the year 1909, his total fees for the same time it took Sheriff Bailey to collect $54,895.77 would amount to $62,342.72, which would be $7,- 446.95 more than Mr. Bailey re- ceived. I WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY. [ Go To It. The combat deepens. brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave Eberhart! . all thy banners wave, And, Day, charge with all thy chivalry.—Princeton Union. On, ye Worse Than Rats, A Big Stone, S. D., story tells of a grocery store where the rats carried off the chewing tobacco and nibbled it. That is notmuch. Ina certain Minnesota town human beings did that very thing and what is worse they spat upon the sidewalk.—Min- neaplis Journal. Is There Any Law? Every few days the public is treated to a new story as to what “Pussyfoot” Johnson, of the Indian bureau, has done over in Minnesota, or to some guess as to what he is going to do next. One day he is going to close all the saloons in the so-called Indian territory. The next day he is going to close them parti- ally, that is, to put a stop to the practice of selling liquor to Indians. Still later, he proposes to close all the saloons within certain arbitrary limits, and leave the others open. Is there any law governing this situation, and if so, ‘why is it not proclaimed and enforced? Why is there all this uncertainty? Is there a department of our government which is superior to law, and not amenable to it? Is there any subject pertaining to American government in which official action and the rights of in- dividuals are dependent on the whim or caprice of some jack-in- office’ We would be heartily glad to learn that there is legal warrant for the closing of every saloon in Minnesota outside of the three great cities, and there we do not be'ieve that closure would be feasible at this time. But outside of these cities we do not believe that there is a locality in Minnesota where proper regulations against the sale of in- toxicants.cannot be reasonably well enforced. If there is such a law covering the territory in question, and the interior department is charged with its enforcement, let the departmeut get busy and go at the thing in a sane and orderly manner. If the department has no authority, let it quit bluffing.—Grand Forks Herald. COMMUNICATIONS. Letters to the editor of not more than 200 words on topics of interest are solicited. The names of the writers must be signed, but not necessarily for publication. To the Editor: I wonder if the taxpayers of Be- midji realize that by. electing the re- publican candidate in the first dis- trict to the county board of com- missioners the city will, in no way be represented on this board. With due respects to the present republican nominee the voters should not overlook this fact. J. P Omich, the nominee on the Public Owner- ship ticket, has been a resident of Bemidji for the past fifteen years and would make an ideal commission- er as well as an able representative of the taxpayers of this city, he him- self being one of the oldest taxpay- €ers. Think it over, and help elect a resident of Bemidji as a member of the Board of County Commissioners, A Taxpayer | 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 Pakin’ the part of a married man, isn’t he?” Spiteful. Patience — Did you enjoy my last song? Patrice—1 might have if T had known it was your last. — Yonkers Statesman. Laziness travels so slowly that pov- erty soon overtakes him.—Franklin. The First Step. Young Woman (before milliner’s window, to her maid)—That hat is per- fectly lovely. I must have it. Marie, be sure to remind me to kiss my hus- o sl band when I get home. His Athletic Neighbor. A young man inmate of a boarding house bhad' been disturbed night after night by the boarder in the next room doing things with a punching bag he'd rigged up in the room some way. At breakfast each morning the young man would look over the crowd and won- der who the bag puncher might be. but there was no one in sight but a bunch of women and eight or ten men with narrow chests and retreating chins. One night he made up his mind to knock on the bag punching room- er’s door and ask him to put over his exercise until daylight when all the world's awake.: The man might be small enough to bulldoze even with all his athletics. The door opened and there, clad in a tight fitting red jersey, was a robust, buxom woman of per- haps thirty summers, *And what did you say to her?” the young man was asked. “I was so startled,” replied he, *“that I asked what afterward seemed to me the most natural request I could have made. 1 asked her if she'd lend me a couple of matches.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Persistency of Colds. Why is it that we are so heavily subject to colds? Other epidemic dis- eases—measles, typhoid, scarlet fever. diphtheria—may get hold on us once and there is an end; it is not usual to have any of them twice. We brew in our blood immunity. The poison of the disease evokes in us its proper anti- dote. Our bloed cells make a sort of natural antitoxin and keep it in stock, s0 that we are henceforth protected against the disease. A well vaccinated nurse, for example. works with safety in a smallpox hospital, where the very alr is infe e. but her blood is so changed by ation that the small- pox cannot affect her. By scarlet fe- ver, again, we are, as it were, vacci- nated against scarlet fever. The reac- tion of our blood against the disease immunizes us. No such result follows influenza or a common cold. We brew nothing that is permanent. We are just as susceptible to a later invasion as we were fo the invasion that is just over.—London Spectator, The Festive Codfish. A correspondent of the New York Fost vs that the codfish frequents “the tablelands of the sea.” The cod- fish no doubt does this to secure as nearly ax possible a dry, bracing at- mosphiere. This pure air of the sub- marine tablelands gives to the codfish that breadth of chest and depth of lungs that we have so often noticed. The glad. free smile of the codfish is largely attributed to the exhilaration of this oecanic altitoodleum. The cor- respondent further says that the *cod- fish subsists largely on the sea cherry.” Those who have not had the pleasure of seeing the codfish climb the cherry tree in search of food or clubbing the fruit from the heavily laden branches with chunks of coral have missed a very fine sight. The codfish when at home rambling through the submarine forests does not wear his vest unbut- toned as ke does while loafing around the groceyy stoves of the United States. —Bill Nye. The Dollar Mark. “Have you seen the Washington mon- ument?" “Yes," replied the New Yorker. *It's a pretty tall building, but what’s the good of it without any offices for rent?”’ —Washington Star. Economy. Husbapd—Excuse me, dear, but don’t you cook’ much more for dinner than we can use?—Wife—Of course! If I didn’t how could I economize by utiliz- ing leftover dishes?—Cleveland Leader. Our Eccentric Phrases. Why do we always talk of putting on a coat and vest? ‘Who. puts on & coat before a vest? We also say put- ting on shoes and stockings. Who puts on shoes before the stockings? We also put up signs telling people to wipe their feet when we mean their boots or shoes. And a father tells a boy he will warm his jacket when he means to warm his pantaloons. We are a little eccentric in our phrases at times. - An Odd Epitaph. The following epitaph is to be found in a cemetery within seven iles ot New York’s city hall: Reader, pass on; don’t waste your time O’er bad biography and bitter rhyme, For what | am this crumbling clay i sures, And what I was Is no affair of yours. In the Game. “I am in the bands of my friends." olitical sidestepper. eplied the harsh eritic, *and every time your friends look over their hands they seem impatient for a new ¢ deal.”—Washington Star. The Proper Tree. Curious Charley—Do nuts grow on trees, father? Father—They do, my son. Curious Charley—Then what tree does the doughnut grow on? Father— The “pantree,”” my son.—Purple Cow. Never Good. Fogg—That’s a bad cold you have, old man. [I‘enderson — Did you ever hear of a.good cold. you idiot?—Bos- ton Transeript. A fool’s heart is in his tongue, but a wise mar's tongue is in his heart.— Quarles. A Bismarck Incident. It used to be the privilege of Aus- tria’s representative at any conference of representatives of the German states to smoke. the others refraining. This was supposed to be an acknowl- edgment of Austria’s supremacy. At the first conference that Bismarck attend- ed as Prussia's representative he be- gan to puff smoke across the confer: ence table as soon as the Austrian dip- lomat lit up. That set everybody pres- ent to-smoking on equal terms, and i Austria’s supremacy got a blow. Don’t Get Run Down. Weak andmiserable. If you have Kidney or Bladder trouble, Dull head pains, Dizzi- ness: Nervousness, Painsin the .back,and feel tired all over, get a package of Mother Gray’s Australian-Leaf, the pleasant herb cure. It neverfalis. We have many testi- monials from grateful people who haue used this wonderful remedy. As a regulator it has no equal. Ask for Mother Gray's Aus- tralan-Leaf at Druggists or sent by mail for 50 cts. ~Sample WREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N, Y. OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Residonce Phono 58 618 Amorica Ave. Offics Phone 12 EW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday and Mon- dayllto12a.m.,1to 6 p.m.,7 to 9 p. m. Snuday 3 to 6 p. m. Monday 7to 9 p. m. BEATRICE MILLS, Librarian. Every Stationer Should Investigate | 1s aow wed g frms and Tien me I 1» indispensable.” stationers write for Prepaid 78c., money back If wanted. PEERLESS MOISTENER CO. For Sale at The Pioneer Office. Want Ads FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer MR. RENTER Have you ever stopped to think that every few years you practically pay for the house you live in and yet do not own it? Figure it up for yourself. Theodore Roosevelt says: . “No Investment on earth is so safe, so sure, s0 certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty.” We will be glad to tell you about the City of Be- midji. and quote you prices with easy terms of payment if desired on some of the best residence and business property in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to us will bring you full particu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call on H. A. Simons, at Bemidji. The Soo Railroad will be running its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji within a few months; es offered for business on a small or large scale. 8T. PAUL investigate the opportuniti Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. 404 New York'Life Bullding MINNESOTA Walnut Caramels Hapetha Caramels Cocoanut Bon Bons Mexican Kisses Cocoa Molasses Caramels BROWN & LANKIS Philadelphia Candy Maker - JOHN BROWN Arrived in town this week and has turned out some ' new kinds of candies---pure and fresh. New Goods Made This Week We always keep a fresh supply of Cream at hand IGE CREAM ALWAYS - - Bemidji Candy Kitchen Take a Peek At Our Windows PINTS 15¢c QUARTS 20c e 1