Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1910, Page 3

R WILSON TALKS ON HIGH PRIGES Homesteader Partly Respon- sible for Conditions. REDUCES MEAT HARVEST Settiing of the West, the Secretary Says, Has Limited the Field of the Ranchman and Greatly Affected the Production of Live Stock—Improve- ment of the Country's Farming Op- erations Absolutely Necessary. Chicago, Nov. 21.—Secretary of Ag- riculture Wilson blamed the home- steader of the West in part for the bresent high cost of living in an ad- dress at the opening of the United States Land and lrrigation exposition. “The homesteader,” he said, “is re- ducing the field or operations of the ranchman, which is reducing the meat harvest of the West and becoming quite a factor in the cost of living.” Other causes, he said, were the great immigration to this country and the movement to the cities. The re- cent tumble in prices of meats he at- tributed to drouth in the range coun- try and to the big corn and oats crops. He declared that much remains to be done in improving the country’s farming conditions, in spite of the great progr already made in this direction. Ixpansion, exploitation and soil robbery, he continued, ha¥e been too much the practices of the past. The new lands opened up under the homestead act of half a century ago “were often exploited,” he asserted, “for temparary profit by soil robbers who were experts of their kind.” Ow- ing to such farm management the vield of the acre in the United States gradually decreased. Very little in- tensive farming was done. “But noune of our soils,” he added, “are beyond redemption. The soils of the country are the greatest asset the nation has. Progress in all directions depends upon the condition of the soil and there is no material inquiry of such great value as that which per- tains to our soils.” Irrigation Will Increase Crops. “The day will come,” he declared, “when irrigation will be applied, as a matcer of national necessity, to the growing of crops in the humid regions of the country, something that has been done for hundreds of years in European countries that have over forty inches of rainfall. We will have to begin at the sources of our rivers, in the mountains where the rivulet forms the creeks and the creek event- ually forms the river. Reservoirs will be built at the heads of our streams to be used in periods of drought. All countries of which [+have any krowl edge have periods.of drought. Some of our states have ninety inches of rainfall, and yet they have periods of drought. These dry times prevent the growing of maximum crops. “But more is needed than irrigation. Those who grow crops by irrigation depend too much upon the added wa- ter and too little upon cultivation of the soil. “It is only a question of time,” he said, “when the South will ship fat cat- tle and hogs to the great centers of population and contribute toward the food of our people. It has raised its maximum crops the last two years. All parts of the country, the East par- ticularly,” he said, “should produce more of its own fruits, which,” he added, “are at home there but not grown anywhere in sufficient quantity to enable the people of the United States to get fruit at reasonable prices. Fruit just now is a luxury.” MORE TROOPS DEMANDED Pacific Coast Asks for Additional Pro- tection. San Francisco, Nov. 21.—If the United States congress does not give the Pacific coast states what they think they are entitled to it will have to deal with the Pacific slope congress. The latter congress adopted resolu- tions calling for the free passage of American ships between American ports through the Panama canal, de- manding that congress provide twen- ty-five additional regiments of infantry for the protection of the Pacific coast, demanding corresponding increases jn the Pacific coast cavalry and artillery and the doubling of the present harbor defenses. Ringlings Buy Canadian Lands. Wibnipeg, Man.,, Nov. 21.—One of the largest real estate deals that has taken place in Western Canada for some time past was brought about when Ringling Bros., the world famous circus magnates, bought through a lo- cal realty broker a tract of land in Saskatchewan comprising 70.000 acres. The exact price paid or the purpose for which the land is intended has not yet been learned here. Auto With Three Wheels. Detroit, Nov. 21.—A three-wheeled automobile will be manufactured in Detroit soon by a company now in process of organization. A sample car has been run 5,000 miles. The single wheel is in the rear. It is claimed that this arrangement does away with skidding. Yes, He Was Good. “Were you a good boy in school to- day?” “I think so. dad. Anyway. teacher ralled me a holy terror.”—Buffalo Ex press. Lived on Water. The Tramp—1 once lived on water, lady, for sis months. The Lady-Yon don’t look like it. How did you man age it? The Tramp—I was a sallor. To have failed is to bave striven: to have striven is to have grown.—Malt bie D. Babcock, 7 Do not fail to care for your notes promptly the day they are due, and do not overdraw your account. A Home For the Future - Most every young man has the hope and ambition to s'me day have a home of his own. Such an ambi- MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED DEA Result of Revolutionary Riot at Puebla, Mex. TOWN IS AGAIN PEACEFUL Troops Were Rushed to the Scene and the Disturbance Quelled in Short Or- der—Most of the Victims Killed by Explosion of Bomb Hurled at the Police, the Others Being Slain in Subsequent Fightifg. Mexico City, Nov. 21.—Reports from ‘Puebla, where revolutionary rioting occurred, are that the town is quiet. Similar reports are received from in- terior cities. Estimates of the num- ber killed in the fighting vary from 100 to 170. The trouble began when a number of policemen, headed by the chief, at- tempted to break up a meeting of anti- re-electionists which was being held in a large hall. As Chief of Police Miguel Cabrera and his men advanced toward the building a door was opened by a wo- man, who shot and killed the chief. . A fight then ensued between the police and the occupants. A bomb was thrown trom one of the windows in the midst of the policemen and rurales, the latter having been called to assist the officers. The bomb ex- ploded, killing many. The other casualties occurred,in the course of fighting which took place in the streei. So far as known there were no Americans killed. The Seventeenth battalion left here for Puébla by special train and other trains are in readiness to transport ad- ditional troops to the scene of the riots. IN BATTLE OVER A -GIRL Two Men Killed at Roadhouse Near Mount Kisco, N. Y. Mount Kisco, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Two men were killed at a roadhouse in a fight over a girl. One is an unidenti- fied Italian and tke other, James Mc- Cann, a relative of the proprietor of the roadhouse. The girl disappeared from home a few days ago and her brother sought her at the roadhouse. He could get, no satisfaction and left. Later there was an attack on the house. The at- tacking party was repulsed. The attackers took up a position down the road and opened fire. The garrison of the roadhouse answered in kind and one on each side fell. The bullet that brought down McCann passed through the door. The Italian was in the attacking party. Burma's Gilded Pagoda. Rangoon, the principal city of Burma, grew up around the sacred spot on which s built the great Shoay Dagon pagoda, one of its principal wonders. “Rising to a height of 360 feet, its size 18 greatly enhanced by the fact that it stands ov an eminence that is itself 166 feet above the level of the city,” says a writer. “It is covered with pure gold from base to summit, and once in every gencration this gold is complete- ly renewed by public subscription. Yet throughout the intervai the process of regilding goes on perpetually. Plous people who seek in this way to express their veneration and to add to their store of spiritual merit climb up daily with little futtering packets of gold leaf, which they fasten on some frac- tion of its great surface. There is no more picturesque sight offered by it than that of a group of these silken worshipers outlinéd high against its gold in the act of contributing their small quota to its splendor. The pago- da itself has no interior. It is a solid stupa of brick raised over a relic chamber.” Old Man of the Mountain. The title **Old Man of the Mountain™ was first applied to Hassan Ben Sab- bal, who founded a formidable dynas- ty in Syria A. D. 1090. He was the prince or chief of the sect of the Mo- bammedans. Having been banished from his country, he took up his abode in Mount Lebanon and gathered round him a band of followers, who soon be- came the terror alike of Christians, Jews and Turks. They paid the most implicit obedience to his commands and belleved that if they sacrificed their lives for his sake they would be rewarded with the highest joys of paradise. For 200 years these “‘assas- sins,”” as they called themselves, con- tinued to be the terror of the country. Whenever their chief. the *‘Old Man of the Mountain.” considered himself injured he dispatched some of his as- sassins secretly to murder the aggres- sor. This is the origin of our use of the word assassin for a secret murderer. Serpents and Music. Barnard concludes from his personal observation of cobras In Ceylon, says the Scientific American, that the ser- pent’s traditional love for music is a pure fable and that the ouly effect of music is to arouse the reptile’s curios- ity, which Is excited by any loud and acute sound. The cobra protrudes its head from its burrow alike on hearing the snake charmer’s flute, the rattling of a chaln or the sounds made by beating the ground with a switch. It appears to perceive only sounds of high pitch, for it puys no attention to the low notes of the flute or the beat- ing of the drum. Barnard also con- firmed in Ceylon the results of obser- vations made in the London zoological garden on the supposed power of fas- cination exerted by serpents upon birds. and he concludes that this pow- er of fascination is also purely imag- inary. Arms and the Men. *“1 see you have your arm in a sling.” said the inquisitive passenger. “Bro- ken, Is it?" *Yes. sir.” responded the other pas- FAIL TO MAKE WORLD RECORD | senger. Hawley and Post Covered Less Than Twelve Hundred Miles. New York, Nov. 2l.—Less than twenty-two miles separates the official distance made by Allan R. Hawley and Augustus Post in the balloon America 1L from being a world’s record. According to official measurements received from William Welch,' chief draughtsman of the war department, the flight of Hawley and Post from St. Louis to Peribonka river in the inter- national cup race last month covered a distance of 1,17113-100 miles, in- stead of 1,355 miles, as reported at the time of the race. The world’s record is 1,193 miles, made by Comte Henri de la Vaulx in his flight from Vincennes, France, to “Meet with an accident?" “No. Broke it while | was trying to pat myself on the back.” “Great Scott! What for?" “For minding ‘my own business.” “l see. Never could happen to me. could it?” “No.” “And if it did 1 wouldn’t be blame fool enough to tell it Then there was silence in the car.— Chicago Tribune. The Change of a Name, How family names change in the coirse of many years is {llustrated by, the conversion of “Botevile” into “Thynne.” An English deed bearing date In the closing days of the fifteenth century shows three brothers then R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beltram| Ave. Phone 319-2. THE MODEL DRY CLEANING HOUSE HOCANSON BROS., Proprietors Telophone No. 537 ° 106 Second Stres Dry Cleaning of Ladies’ and Gents’ Clothing, Rugs, Carpets, Household Furnishings, etc. Also Sponging and Pressing on Short Notice. Raw Furs Raw Furs Furs Repaired Highest market price paid for Mink, Skunk, Coon and Musk- rats and all kinds of Raw Furs. Ship direct to us and Save Fur Dealer’s profit. We use our own skins that’s why we can pay the Mighest Market price for your skins. Send us your horse and cow hides to be made iuto Coats and Robes. One trial shipment-of Raw Furs will convince. PIONEER 'FUR CO. 1183 Beech St:ISt. Paul, Minn. Expert[Fur Repairing Reasonable Price FACIAL Defects | QUIGKLY GORHEG:I'ED ’ The chief surgeon of the Plastic § Surgery Institute quickly rights i all wrongs with the human face g or features without knife or pain to the entire satisfaction and de light of every patient. The work is as lasting as lifeitself. Ifyou have a facial irregularity of any Lind write ~ e Plastic Surgery Institute Corner Sixth and Hennepin @ MINNEAPOI ", MINN. NOTICE OF APPLICATION —FOR— LIQUOR LICENSE STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Beltrami, ss. Uity of Bemidjl. Notice is hereby given, That application has been made In writing to the city council of sald city of Bemidil and filed in my office, praying forlicense to sell intoxicating liauors for the term commencing on Nov''r 22nd. 1910, and terminating on N ‘yember 22nd, 1911, by the following person, and at the following place, as stated in said application, respect- ively. to-wit: IVAR HOCKSTAD At and In the tront room, ground floor of that certain two-story frame building located on lot four (4), block seventeen (I7), original townsite Bemlidji, Minnesota. of Nov'br’, 1910, at 8 o'cloc: p. m. of that day. Witness my hand and seal of said City this 8th day of November, 1910, THOS. MALOY, City Clerk. 8th and 21st of November. F. M. FRITZ Naturalist Taxidermist Thanksgiving Dinnerware Dimnerware sotoor - mor--$10.00 1o $16,00 ?)ilfill;itl:;fi a(ihmamgluu’ $21|30 fllld $25|00 ztl.{aviland Dinnerware setfsas»lun a“d $65'un “Splendid Christmas Presents” A complete stock of Books, Sleds and _ Skis Santa Claus Headquarters Floyd Brown 317 BELTRAMI AVE. Toys, Here's a Money Saving Suggestion for the Women You are going to use a lot of canned fruits and vegetables this winter aside from what you put up yourself. Perhaps you can judge pretty accurately how many dozen cans of all kinds of fruits and vegetables you will need this year by what you used last year. Now, the new goods are here and our sugges- tion is that you make up an estimate of how many cans you will need then come to us and let us help you make up an assortment on which we will make you a very attractive quantity price. You will be surprised at the amount of money this plan will save you. tion is commendable, yet of itself, 1t will not bring re- sults Energy and purpose, together with ambition and a savings account will bring him to the desired goal almost before he knows it. There is no better plan of saving for a home than the savings account. We will open an account for one dollar. We pay three per cent interest. Interest is compounded twice a year. We treat all our depositors right. We will do the same by you. flourishing—John Botevile of Botevile and Thomas and Willlam, Botevile. The trio are distinguished from all oth- BANDITS LOOT POSTOFFICE|" Boteviles by the explanation “of the Korosteychew, Russia. Inne,” or family residence, the title to Secure $1,125 in Cash and Stamps at ;:;‘fh _"‘:lfn?;i;;s;g“;::lnx:sf; Lakeville, Minn. Ralph Botevile-of-the-Inne, from which Lakeville, Minn., Nov. 21.—The local | the transition to Ralph Thyme is easy. postoffice was robbed of $1,000 in|His descendants bave been Thynnes stamps, $125 in cash and a registered | ever since. letter believed to contain a check for a small amount by cracksmen, who He Wanted Figs. blew the safe with nitroglycerin. Sev-| At a small stag dinner the only eral persons were awakened by the | young and unnoteworthy person pres- —_—_— Fur Dresser Mounting: Game Heads, Whole Animals, Birds, Fish, Fur Rugs 2 8o, and Horns Decorative and Scientific Taxidermy in all its branches best for about what And aside from the money saving you wi'l also have the goodson hand with a fine variety to select from for any occasion and by getting them in quantity this way you can get the ity in single can lots, Call and see us about this and arrange to lay in a winter’s supply. Roe& Markusen you pay for a second qual- your own. Let us help you realize your hopes of a home of explosion when the safe was blown, but they thought that the noise was caused by blasting that is being done along the air line. ent sat throughout the meal commun- ing with his own bashful soul, afraid lest by speaking he betray nis sophis- tication. Dessert being served, he felt All" Work Guaranteed MOTH PROOF and First Class in Every The Quality Grocers The First National Bank L 0f Bemidji, Minnesofa 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, so 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; investigate the opportunities offered for business on a small or large scale. ’ Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA The robbers after their rald went|he must have some of the candied to the barn of John Brooks, where | fruit at the other end of the table. they stole a horse and buggy and | Clearing his voice, he fised the nearest drove north toward the Twin Cities. waiter with a glittering eye and. amid e a sudden total silence, peremptorily called out at fhe top of his voice, “Pigs, INDIANS DIE OF SMALLPOX [ geasr—Eschange. Arapahoe Band in Wyoming Being ' Found Wanting. Rapidly Exterminated. Mrs. Laytebyrd (as Laytebyrd comes Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 21.—Ninety- | in unsteadily at 3 a. m.)—You have no three Indians on the Arapahoe Indian | excuse for coming home at this hour reservation have died of smallpox |and In this condition. Laytebyrd—I within four days, it is reported. Offl-| had one, my dear. and It was a grand cers in charge of the reservation are | one, but I can't think what it was. fighting vainly to halt the sweep of the pestilence, which is said to be present in its most malignant form. The Head of the Family, In Germany the father Is the head of - the family. In France the' mother, in Cannot Stop Hiccoughing. England the eldest son. in America Beimar, N. J., Nov. 21.—Violent and | the daughter.—Don C. Seitz. incessant hiccoughing have so worn down the strength of Rev. J. W. Me- The Present Time. Laughlin of this town that physicians Now is the only point of time of in attendance have slight hope of his | great moment to you. If you devote recovery. Four years ago he had a | yourself to now the past will be & similar but milder attack and was { dream, the future a present realization only saved with great difficulty. The present attack began last Tuesday. Nothing Is stronger than averslon.— Wycherly. Good Policy. Mrs, Stubb—Why, John, the last family that occupied this house left Poison In War, someyum jars ur: the pantry, Mr. | When the French beat the Formo- Stubb—H'm! Mary, that is a good | 8208 along the coast in 1881 the latter policy. Mrs, sm{f,’_wm 1s a good retired to the Interior. When the policy? Mr. Stubb—Why, when you | French pursued them they found a move leave yoir family jars behind | queer line of defense, beyond which you.—Chicago News, they could make no progress-and in : storming which many died. The For- Cooking a Hare. 8! “ " ng | ter courses, etc.,'as they retreated. and a z::rv’e lieard the recing, fos Coomtag the cdmpaigns of the French agalnst “Yes. First catch your hare.” them never got farther than the poison “No. First catch your cook.”—Cleve fi:&l;'::.p;?:l: : A mauve cue, s e Particular Minnesota Phone 206 Bemidji Phone 207 Bemidji Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Jobbers The Following Firms Are Thcrought; Reliable and Orders Sent to Them Will Be Promptly Filled at Lowest Prices The Crookston Lumber Cs. Wholesale Lumber, Lath :nd| WHOLESALE GROGERS Building Mat:rial NORTHERN ~ GROGERY COMPANY GhHe Given Hardware Co. Successors to John Fleming & Co. Melges Bros. Co. Wholesale Commission Frultiand Procuce Wholesale and Retail mosans had pofsoned the springs, wa-. Hardware Manufacturers of Creamery Butter Model Ice Cream, Snowflake Bread and Deelishus Candies Made at The Model Wholesale Bakery, Man- facturing Confectionery -and Ice Cream Factory 315 Minnesota Ave. BEMIDJI; MINN. Send your Mail Orders to GED. T, BAKER & G0, Manufacturing Jewelers and Jobbers They are especially prepared to promptly fill all orders in their various lines of merchandise. Largest stock of Diamonds and Watches and the finest equipped work- shop in N:nhflngi anum.l.m Spdllm order work given prompt attent Estimates furnished.