Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 13, 1910, Page 4

“THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISNED EVERY AFTERNOON EXGEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. 0. E. CARSON. Entered In the Postotfice at B , Miansssla, as second class matter. SUBSGRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR It :DVANGE 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 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; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About[fivelmiles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drives—Ten miles. Parks—Two. Water Frontage—-Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. p 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 Tmnu—Fourteen'daxly Hospitals—One. Distances—To St. Paul, 7230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Benks—Three. e o Auto Garages—OUne. in 1910, Recent developments go to show that after all, law books are not always dry reading. “Pork chops, loins and tenderloins are higher again,” pipes a market report. Well, when wern’t they. A proofreader on one of the Min- neapolis papers has been adjudged insane. He probably had to read all of the president’s message. Winona is indignant because folks don’t pronounce it We-no nah. Cen- sus returns indicate that it isn’t be- ing pronounced at all by many people. Maybe Minnesota’s ‘‘Progressive a la Pinchot” tendencies has had something to do with Secretary Bal- linger’s determination to hammer down the “lid” in this state. Burnquist refus3s to turn over the speakership to H. H. Dunn. Mr, B. still contends that he has a “fight- ing chance,” but it must be admitted that it is more fight than chance. A Milwaukee telegram says a man walking in his sleep was frozen to death. It doesn’t say who. the man was, but knowing something about Milwaukee, we suspect it was a policeman. In St. Paul its plenty cold enough to snow and so dusty that it ought to snow but still it doesn’t snow, which is reason No. 4,697 why Bel- trami is the best part of the best state in the union in which to live. ‘The Pioneer Press says that Con- gressman Fred Stevens is to urge “dam legislation.” There has been too much of that sort of thing by congress of late years, without mak- ing any special reference to the tariff bill. 91,972,266 From the scattered two millions which inhabited this country when the Revolutionary war was fought, the United States in a little more than one bundred yeau, has grown to 91,972,266. These figures represent those living beneath the Stars and Stripes in America alone, while the addi- tional population of the possessions brings the total up to more than 101,000,000. And still America is young and although she boasts the largest ga- thering of civilized races under one government, she has not approached the zenith of her glory. No more striking example of the possibilities—added power, -popula- tion and prosperity—lurking in the future is to be found than in north- ern Minnesota. - Here the woods their tribute in timber and open'a wider avenue of success and develop- ment, by baring; for bountiful crops, the soil which is going to make many a man independent, while he feeds the toiling, ill‘paid army of palld men and women who are unfortunate enough to be forced to struggle for a living in the cities of the land. ! And what is true here is also true to a lesser degree in other parts of the country, which means that the wealth and strength and power of grow. EVEN THE SAVIOR WAS CRUCIFIED. He came to His own and His own received nim not. At St. Hilaire in Pennington county, a weekly newspaper called the Spectator is issued. Pennington is the new county carved out of Red Lake. Red Lake is a member of the Norchern Minnesota Development association and one of the first things which the association, which reflects credit up- on Pennington, Now read what the Spectator has to say of the Brainerd conventiou: “The meeting of the Northern Minnesota Development association beld this week at Brainerd was not such a very great success—from the people’s point of view, and our ex- pacity. phone number 1 is bowing beneath sturdy strokes pay_;_ your \Uncle Sam will continue to| new born county did was to join the | changes are not saying much about | mere center for polmcnl lnmg the most pronounced bargain conu-| ter type.” And thus does the Spectator knock the greatest power for the development of its own new ‘county. and all nortbern Minnesota and as it diligently bammers away at the anvil it deceives its readers and low- ers its standardas a newspaper by saying, ‘‘our exchanges are not say- ing much about it.” ‘ There hasn’t been a meeting in the ! state of Minoesota which has receiv- ed the volumne of well deserved space that the Brainerd con- vention 'has received and contin- ues to receive. The declarations of that. gather- ing were of sufficient importance-to rinfluence the governor of the -state, exact just_pledges from members of the legislature and the records of the conventiou stand as an omnious warning to the lawmaker who dares deny a long suffering domain of forty | counties the representation to which it is entttled. We disagree with our St. Hiiaire contemporary; we believe the Brainerd meeting was a decided suc- cess. IWHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY ], How About it This Year Ballinger? During the last year the United States consumed 163,000,000 gallons of whlskey.—(Kansas City Star.) 1 " Nor the Money for Lectures. Dr. Cook has not taken the trouble to return the freedom of any! of the cities that conferred it upon| him.—Chicago Record Herald. ! Bismarck's Way of Advertising, : A Bismarck, N. D., man fell from | the top of a seven-story btilding and broke- two ribs. Something desperate probably had to be done to call public attention to the city’s new skyscraper.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. One On Frank Eddy i\t. To all appearances it was a! Suitable Frank Eddy says the Dembcrats? 573. ¢ -~ i On the vigil of St. Martin (says Grace i and more cruelly, than many others v nything for iood govern- ment. That’s a ' mistake. They]| voted on mnot - -sending him to con- gress, but there weren’t enough of them.—Little Falls Transcript. * What He Needs isa Haircut The office of the Rainy River Ga- zette caught fire last week, while Rube Allen was busy launching his weekly ship of news. Rube attac- ked the fire fiend with the office towel and put him to rout. He ex- pects to apply for a Carnegie medal. —Warroad Plaindealer. Ballinger's Coat of “Whitewash." .The report of the majority in the Ballinger case will neither surprise nor ‘interest .the public. It.will be accepted as a partisan-act, a “white- wash.” For this -not merely the public’s babit of building ‘its rough verdict upon certain salient facts is the cause. The unfortunate bias and very patent prejudgment dis- plaved by several of the distinguish- ed members of the majority early in the inquiry, and throughout, as well as the sweeping character of the in- dorsement, have largely contributed | to discount heavily, if not utterly to discredit, the majority opinion.— Chicago Tribune. Courtaut the Wolf. Paris has forgotten the time when it used to in terror of the wolves which carried off women and children from the streets and even raided the graveyards. At one fime they became | so mad with desire for luman flesh that in a single week they devom’edl fourteen persons, all between Mont- martre and the gate of St. Antoine. James in “Joan of Arc”) there was hunted aund taken a horrible wolf, “which it was said had done riore, put together. That day he was killed, | He had no tail, and from that he was | called Courtaut. There was as much | talk about him as if he had been an ouflaw of the woods or a cruel cap- tain, and when he lived folk said to one another as they went forth to la- bor in the fields, ‘Look out for Cour- taut’ And on this day he was taken through Paris in a cart, dead, with his great jaws open, and all the peo- ple avent to see, and they made holi- day and rejoiced. because Courtaut could trouble them no more.” Christmas Gifts What will make a more suitable Christmas Gift than a handsome piano, organ or sewing machine? You can look the world over and find nothing quite so acceptable, is a pleasure to receive as well as to make. Pianos for $250, $275, $300, $350, $400 and $650 Organs for $50, $65, $75, $85, $90, $110 and $125 Our repair department 1s equnpped for pianos, organs and sewing machines. We carry a com- plete line of needles for every machine made. We have made aerangements with the factory to dealin a Wholesale as Remember also that we have movec] from. Third street to 318 anesota BEMIDJI MuUsIC HOUSE J. BISIAR. It is a gift that- 1s easier to make than most at the same amount for this reason:---You can buy either a piano, organ or sweing machine with a small payment down and the balance on terms that will suit your purse. The Singer and Wheeler & Wilson Sewing machines, of which there is no better make on the market will be sold at reasonable time payment terms. 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