Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 26, 1910, Page 4

[ v THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. Q. E. CARSON. Eatored In the Posteffice at Bomid]l, Mianessta, 23 second class mattor. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR 'N 10VANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI Seat. f’::l?tin—ln 1900, 1500; in 1910, 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 ten:miles. \ Boating—500]miles by lakeJand river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand;in 1908. Annual Rainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20,. above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains— About(fivelmiles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten] miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—Ten Jmiles, 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 JPoint—Lumber prod- ucts, groceries_flour,feed and hay. ' Postal Receipts—$17,000 for 1909, 10th place in statejoutside of St. Paul, Minne- apolis andDuluth. 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—Fourteenjdaily. 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—Une. Physicians say that it is healthy to drink ‘beer. Not when ‘‘Pussy- foot” is around. It will soon be so dry in North- ern Minnesota that you will have to prime the cow before you can milk her. It has been suggested since the Crippen ceremony a few days ago that if you must “ kill anyone, don’t do it in England. i Theodore N. Vail began life a messenger boy which probably accounts {or the fact thatit has taken him 65 years to reach the president’s office of the Western Union Telegraph company. The Walker Pilot runs an adver- tisement from a man who says: “Stray deer come to my place with a bell on its neck.” Most of the stray deer these days are wearing shipping tags on their necks. At Washington, D. C. on Thanks- giving day, Joseph Chlopicki was united in marriage to Wladyslawa Lichadziejewski and the only per- son who blames the bride for chang- ing her name was the man who had to pronounce it in performing the ceremony. ’ The Minneapolis Journal inquires to know: ‘“‘What do you think of a man who would whip his horses be- cause they fell on a slippery road? Can’t answer it. The compositor wouldn’t set it up and if she did it would melt the rollers on the press and anyhow if itever did get into the paper it never would go through the mails. But that’s what we think of him, just the same. BOOSTERS AND BRAINERD. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wed- nesday and then Brainerd. Bemidji boosters who have done yoemain service for this city, the county and all northern Minnesota in times gone by will then have an opportunity to boost where every boost may mean a victory. Preliminary skirmishes have clear- ed the field until it is poscible to fight the one big winning battle. It is a just fight and Bemdji will be in the thickest part of it. Itis to be hoped that the voices of our best citizens, a hundred strong, will help swell the shout to go up {from Brainerd demanding a just legislative representation, the con- struction of new roads, protective measures for our forests, fair and proper inducements to home- seekers. ' No town will profit more from these things than Bemidji and no county will settle more quickly this our own, There is every reason why Bemidji and Beltrami county should make a great show- ing at Brainerd. AN INJUSTICE TO CASS LAKE AND BEMIDII. Bemidji may have a little fun now and then at the expense of Cass Lake and Cass Lake may takea fling at Bemidji just as often, but where the interests of two towns are so nearly identical and where there is such strong bonds of kinship and commercial ties as exist between this city and its Cass county neigh- bor, the welfare of Cass Lake, in a broader sense, effects our own welfare and we believe that she wants Bemidji to be a splendid town—a credit to all northern Min. nesota. . Therefore, we deprecate as strongly as we can the highly mis- leading publication under heavy headlines and on the first page; the story in the Minneapolis Tribune of November 25 in which itis stated tbat at Cass Lake “‘several barrels of whisky were poured on the street and hundreds of bottles of liquor destroyed by the agent and his debuties,” and further along in the article, “Mr. Brents is the man who closed the saloons 1n Bemidji a few weeks ago. As a matter of fact only three bar- rels of whisy were broken open at Cass Lake and not a bottle was smashed. The agents requested the three saloon men there to pack up their goods and ship them out of this territory, and they did so, and that is all there was to it. The Tribune article also says: “Only one saloonkeeper made any resistance and it is said his building and equipment were considerably damaged before he gave up the fight. Sam Sutor is 'the name of the " resist- ing owner.” Neither Mr. Sutor, nor, be it said to the eredit of the town, anyone else offered the slightest resistance. Mr. Sutor, in fact, aided Special Agent Brents in his investigation as to shipments of liquor to Cass Lake. The Tribune’s remarks do Mr. Su. tor and the town of Cass Lake an in- justice. The assertion that Mr. Brents closed the saloons in Bemidji a few weeks ago is quite in keeping with the rest of the unfortunately in- accurate statements of the Tribnne’s wonderful tale. By creating the im- pression that allthe saloons in Be- midji bad been closed the Tribune is not establishing a very desirable reputation for reliability among its readers in this part of the country. | WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY [ Questions for * Pussyfoot.” Just why we must all be classed as Indians seems an injustice. There are a few of us yet that can claim a little manhood. Because a few have violated a law is no reason why the rest of us shall suffer in business. Go after the violators. There are no Indians in or near Bovey. No Indian could get a drink of anything stronger than Trout Lake material if he was warping for moisture. There is no complaint from here that a law has been violated. Will some one kindly tell us what it is all about anyway. Not a soul believes that it is the Indians that it is de- sired to save. From the beginning they have been wiped off the map and have been depositories for Win- chester lead so once they are valu- able to the extent that property will be depreciated in value over this territory and business disrupted to the extent of thousands of dollars. Will someone. stand erect and ex- plain the why of it all?—Bovey Itasca lron News. If Not Shipwrecked First, Most of the “schooners” in north- ern Minnesota are one by one going into dry dock.—Walker Pilot. Crops Bound to Grow. The probibition of liquor traffic among Uncle Sam’s Indians will not interfere with Minnesota’s greatness as an agricultural state. The grops will grow just as prolifically.—News Comment in News Tribune. Salome Dance Vs, Saloon Dance. The Salome dance is decried as demoralizing, but it is not nearly as demoralizing as the saloon dance— the dance in which one or more bu- man beasts, filled with poison, caper over the floor.—Princeton Union. Game Ruthlessly Slaughtered. The annual slaughter of deer is now in full blast with hundreds of hunters watching for the noble and harmless deer. Judging from the number already shipped from this point since the shooting season open- ed big game will in a few years be only a memory. In the interest of sportsmen and the inhabitants of the northern timber belt the killing of moose ought to be entirely prohibit- ed for a number of years and the number of deer per hunter reduced to one instead of two asat present. —Blackduck Americaua. Why They Were Thankful On Thanksgiving day the politi- cal man of the Duluth Herald ran the following ‘‘unauthorized” inter- views of certain great and near great men concerning why they are thank- ful: ) Teddy Roosevelt: Senator Black Eagle dead one.” W. Howard Taft: “Brcause I am “Because says 'mnot a permitted to ignore the best tariff ever for a little while.” H. Steenerson: “Because I don’t have to repudiate any interviews today:” ’ A. O. Eberhart: “Because I could write my Thanksgiving pro- clamation without grumbling:” E. E. Smith: ' “Why not?"*" F. A. Day: “Its justa habit.” Ralph Wheelock: - “Because the eternal fitness of things seems to be recognized and acquiesced in.” J. A. O, Preus: “‘My contentment is insured and ‘I am commissioned to be thankful.” Dan Lawler: ‘“‘Huh!” James Gray: “I like newspaper work.” BANKING IN ENGLAND. Started by London Goldsmiths In the Seventeenth Century. The business of banking was not in- troduced into England until the seven- teenth century, when it began to be undertaken by goldsmiths in London, who appear to have borrowed it from Holland. It was attacked, as innova- tlons commonly are. Mr. Gilbart in his “History and Principles of. Bank- ing” quotes from a pamphlet publish- ed in 1676, entitled “The Mystery of the New Fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers Discovered,” a passage that may be reproduced: . “Much- about the same time—the time of the civil commotion—the gold- smiths (or new fashioned bankers) be- gan to receive the rents of gentlemen’s estates remitted to town and to allow them and others who put cash into their hands some interest for it if it remained but a single month in‘their hands or even a lesser time. There was a great allurement to put money into their hands, which would bear interest till the day they wanted it, and they could also draw it out by £100 or £50, etc., at a time as they wanted it with infinitely less trouble than if they had lent it out on either real or personal security. The conse- quence was that it quickly brought a great quantity of cash into their hands, so that the chief or greatest of them was now enabled to supply Cromwell with money in advance on the revenues. as his occasion required upon great advantages to themselves.” Permanent. “Mr. Smith,” spoke up the young lawyer, “I come here as a representa- tive of your neighbor, Tom Jones, with the commission to collect a debt due him.” “I congratulate you,” answered Mr. Smith, “on obtaining so permanent a Job at such an early stage in your career.”—Success Magazine, From His Pa’s Side, “She doesn’t know where the baby gets his bad temper.” . “That’s strange. Most young moth- ers can place that sort of responsibil ity in a jiffy.’—Lonisville- Courier~ Journal. . —— . Among the Honors. One of the last times that Bishop Burgess of Long Island dined out was at the Press club, where the waiters are all negroes. The hedd waiter bowed Bishop Burgess and his host profusely to their places. “This way, adm’ral,” said he. “Tek this table. You get a bettah view of the harbor heah, ad- m’ral.” “I am not an admiral,” said Bishop Burgess, smiling. “My mistek, sub,” said the head waiter. “Ah mout er known all the time T was er talkin’ to a mwilitary man. You like dis table, colonel?” “I am not a colonel.” said Bishop Burgess, smiling more broadly. “Iam a bishop.” “To be shuab, suh,” said the head waiter. *“To-o be shuah! Ve'y sorry for mah mistek, suh. I got dem titles of adm’ral uand colonel wrong. suh, but Ah was all right on de main issue. Ab knowed soon as Ah saw you dat you was one of de face cards of your pro- fession, sub.”"—Cincinnati Times-Star. Purely Hypothetical. “Tincle Henry, 1 want to ask your advice.” “Well 2 “But you mustn’t mention it to a liv- Ing soul. Suppose you were a young girl of my age and three men had pro posed to you. one of them a young preacher. fine looking and well edu- cated, the second one a handsome young man in business, swell dresser and thinking the world of you, and the thi:d a ri~h foreigner with a distin guished air about him and well spoken of by everyLody. Which of the three do you think would make the best hus- band?" “Why, Aunabel, child, consult your own heart Which of the three do you love best?” “Merey, ["ncle ITenry! Nobody's pro- posed to me vet. I'm only trying to get pointers, so I'll know the right man when he comes along.”—Chicago Tribune. The Preparation of Parchment. Parchmeni ix the .kin of sneep or other animals preparcd in sheets to reuder them fit for being written upon. The heavier parchment. used for drum- heads, is made from the skins of ass- es, older calves, wolves and goats. All these . are similarly prepared. The skin, being freed from the hair, is placed in a lime pit to cleanse it from fat' The pelt is then stretched upon a frame, care being taken that the sur face is free frotn wrinkles. The flesh is pared off with a circular knife, after whi¢h it is moistened, ard whiting spread over it. Then the workman, with-a’ large pumice stone, rubs the skin. He next goes over it with an fron instrument and rubs it carefully with pumice stone without chalk. Fi- nally the skin is gradually dried, tight- ening being occasionally required. A Fast Express. The: slow train is still the target for the shafts of the humorist. Recently an English wag sent the following let- ter to the editor of his local paper: “Sir, is there no way to put a stop to begging along the line of the railway? For instance, yesterday an aged men- dicant with a wooden leg kept pace with the afternoon express all the way from Blankton to Spaceley and an- noyed the passengers exceedingly, go- ing from one open window to another with his importuneate solicitations.” L — A HINDU WIZARD. His Trick That Puzzled an Occidental Master of Magic. Some “of the tricks of the Hindu wizards are past understanding, ac- cording to an occidental master of magic who was speaking of his orien- tal rivals. This is what he says he saw a Hindu wizard do in a club in Lucknow: . “He took .a board and placed it on four glass goblets, thus elevating it from the floor. A youngster sitting on the board was requested to place his hands together, palms up. Then the Juggler took a glass of water and poured it into the outstretched hands of the boy. In the meantime the boy had been mesmerized, and his atten- tion was fixed on a point indicated by the magician. Gradually the water turned green in color and then devel- opel into a jelly which increased in denssity until it became as solid as a stone. Out of the center of this ap- peared the head of a snake, which gradually developed until in the place of the water there appeared a hissing reptile. I was amazed, I can assure you, but the trick was not yet com- pleted. Hitting the reptile upon the head with his wand, the juggler took it up carefully and placed it back in the glass. As we looked it became transformed into a jelly, which in turn melted into a greenish colored water. Clearer and clearer became the fluid until it was of its original color, and then the juggler placed it to his lips and drank the entire contents. This was the most wonderful trick I ever saw performed, and it is as mysterious to me today as it was then.” Cape of Gooda rope. The Cape of Good Hope lies at a considerable distance from the end of South Africa and is. in fact, the middle of the three promontories, severally inconspicuous, which jointly terminate a slender peninsula, some twenty miles in length, forming the barrier between False bay and the Atlantic ocean on the west. These three headlands, lying near together and commonly undivided on a map of moderate scale, are locally designated Cape Point. It was here that Bartholomew Diaz first encoun- tered in full force the prevalent south- easterly gales and denounced the rug- ged. threatening, threefold promontory under the sounding appellation of the Cape of Storms., to be afterward re- christened by pious, trustful bearts the Cape of Good Hope. Proceedings of the City Council Bemidi, Minn.. Oct. 24th, 1910, Council met in council room city hallat 8p. m : A quorum being present council was called to order by Ohairman Kirk. . Members present on roll call. Shannon, Smart. Bursly, Risiar, Brown, Kirk—Absent Klein, Roe, Schneider. Minutes of last meeting were read and ap- proved, moved and seconded a special com- mittee consisting of the mayor, city engineer and city attorney be appointed ‘to ascertain the condition on which a road can' be estab- lished between the beer storage warehouses and the lake to report two weeks from date to_council, carried. Z P The city attorney was instructed to investi- gate the Metropolitan Olub as to wh{ they should not be compelled to take out a liguor lcense carried. G GT T The use of the city opera house was grant- g‘? 5%»1' one night to Bemidji dancing club rent The mayors action in placing Simohson girl in boarding place nntil used as witness was approved. application of Peter Lindeberg laid on table last meeting be reconsidered and that he make new application, carried. m. Varng was appointed secton of Green- wood cemetery without pay from city. City attorney was instructes to obtain deed from Matt Phibbs for stripof land without cost 10 city in section 5.146,33 for street pur- poses, carried. The following bills were on motion and seconded allowed. viz. Jno. C. Parker Mayor, fire break gang $295.82 g’ny stéreen znr;z teams lnbol;. .. 27465 . D. Oct. 6§ 78.00 Snow & Wes Wright 1000 yards dirt on grade BUuuooiioiioiicl Liovanasiabs. sieasind 215.00 Chas. Nangle Mdse to Kibby pauper 506 Bemidji Fire dept. fires July 4th to Sept. 18th. 317.50 St&Amhony ....... 200 Nels Loitved cement sidewaiks $356.65 alley crossings 248............. 330.85 J. O. Harris Registering 4 deeds. 4.00 Bex;:‘ldg‘lnl’losneetr pub. efficial. 873 n g, Sept.. . . Jfi:{. Pendel‘k‘s’st E DOFLS............. - 35 George Knott caring for 9 poor, 1 wk. 47.25 Report of Mucpl. conrt week ending 15th ard 22nd insts. were approved on motion and seconded. Soo R. R. ordinance No.50 fire limits read 18t time. Ordinance NO. 49 “'sale of fresh meats” was read 3rd rime and rejected by the following vote, “Ayes’—None, “No's.” Shannon, Smart, Bursly, Bisiar, Brown. Kirk. Absent, Klein. Roe, Schneider. Ordinace declared lost. Liquor license application of John A. Dal- ton was granted by the following _vote, “Ayes” Shannon. Smart, Bursly, Bisiar. Brown, Kirk. Nays—None. Absent, Klein, Roe, Schneider. Liquor license bond of John A.Dalton with John Grabam and H. Steck- man sureties was approved on motion and seconded. Liquor license application of Tillie Larson was granted by the following vote, “Ayes™ Shannon, Smart, Bursly, Bisiar, Brown, Kirk. “Na»s” None. Absent, Klein, Roe, Echneider. Liquor license bond of Tillie Larson with John Marin and A. G, Schwant sureties was approved on motion and seconded. Liquor license application of John H. Sullivan was granted by the following vote. Ayes” Shannon, Smart, Bursly, Bisiar, Brown, Kirk, Nays—None, Absent, Klein, Koe, Schnelder. Liquor license bond of John H. Sullivan with J. P. Pogue with W. E. Haz- en sgéetles was approved on motion and sec- onded. Liquor license application of Frank Gagnon was granted by the following vote, “Ayes” Smart, Bursly, Bisiar, Brown, Kirk. “Nays” Shannon. Absent Klein, Roe, Schneider. Liquor license bond of Frank Gagnon with Charles Nangle and Roger Martin_sureties was approved on motion and seconded. - Deed of J. F. McLeod and Robert McLeod and wives and Mary A. Canterberry and hus- band with report of city attorney on same for title to east 14 ft. of 1ot 9, block 1, White's addition to Bemidji, consideration 2508, report and deed accepted. Shannon got leave of absence. M. D. Stoner tendered his resignation as city gngllnger and on motion and seconded it was abled. Resolution raising liquor license to 10008 after Jany. 1, 1911 and petitions of business men, tax payers and saloon men protesting against suchincrease was presented to council and reso'ution failed of adoption by the following vote. “‘Ayes” None “Nays” Smart, Bursly, Bisiar, Brown, Kirk. Absent, Shan- non. Klein, koe, Schneider. Resolutions de- clared lost. Resolution authorizing the mayor to employ dabor at 2§ per day to clear a firebreak 80 rods Wide across the north boundary line of the city of Bemidji was adopted by the following vote, “Ayes” Smart, Bursly, Bisiar, Brown, Kirk., *Nays”--None. Absent, Shannon, Klein, Roe, Schuelder. Resolution carried. Moved we adjourn, Adjourned. J. Bisiar, Vice Chairman. Thos. Maloy, City Clerk. e —— ] i SUMMoNS STATE OF MINNESOTA, | County of Beltrami. District Court, 15th Judicial District. William T. Blakely, Plaintiff. vs R. M. Kingston, Defendant. The State of Minnesota to the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint of the plain iff in the above entitled action. a copy of which said complaint has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, at the city of Bemidji, insaid county and state, and to serve a copy of your answer to said complaint. on:the subscriber at his office in the Schroe- der Building, in the city of Bemidji, in sald ‘- County ard State. within twenty days afcer the service of this summons tpon you. ex- clusive of the day of such service; and if g\) fail to answer sald complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will take Jjudgement against for the sum of Two Hun- .dred Twenty seven and 56-100 [£227.56] Dollars, and interest thereon from the 23rd day of February, 1910, at the rate of six per cent per annum, together with plaintiff’s costs and | disbursements herein. Dated November 23rd, 1910. Chester McKusick, Attorney for Plaintiff. Bemidjl, Minn. First Nov. 26th. Last Jan. 7th. oved and seconded the liquor license 1911 Calendars! ‘We have in stock 10,000 fancy 1911 Cal- endars appropriate for all lines of business ‘Can You Use Any at Your Own Price? ‘We will take your order for lots of 50 and up, printed any style you like, and deliver them to you before the holidays At Your Convenience Step in and look them over. Pioneer Publishing Co. Security State Bank Building