Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 12, 1911, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER | PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOGN EXCEPY SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. ‘Q. E'CARSON. — e p Lm0 Entored In the Postoffice at Bomid, ‘Winnosela, ¥s second o elass matter, SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR '¥ 1DVANCE i The Bemidji-Pioneer-has es- i tablished and will maintain a : legislative bureau at the state capitol in St. Paul.' * Any of our readers wishing" information of any kind relative to the work of the legislature: ~ copies of bills, when introduced, by whom, votes on measures, status of pending legislation or anything in connec- tion with the proceedings of the : lawmakers will be cheerfullx : furnished without cost. Sucl : information will be confidential if desired. Address, Bemidji Pioneer Bureau, Staté Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. SENATOR CLAPP. The re-elction of Moses E. Clapp to succeed himself in the United States senate is assured by the legis- lature when it convenes in joint ses- sion on January 17. The continuation of Senator Clapp in the upper house at Washington probably meets with the general ap- proval of the voters of the state, al- though most of them would be unable to tell you why, except that “he’s pro- gressive and fought that tariff bill.” Still there are those who insist that the “Black Eagle” has about as much business in the United States senate as a bull in a china shop. To the old line republican, Senator Clapp is a nightmare and to some of the “more progressives” he is “dang- erous.” To the wild eyed, you-bet- your-life, open mouthed,, at-it-all- the-time “progressive,” the junior senator is an idol among men. To the unprejudiced and calmly careful investigator—or to the man who has followed with fairness the career of Clapp—the junior senator is neither a mighty statesman nor a dreary disappointment. He has served the state to the best of his ability and that ability has included courage enough to stand out before powerful influences to favor the things which he believed would be best for the people. The Pioneer believes that Minne- sota could afford to overlook a good many errors on the part of Senator Clapp because of his apparent deter- mination not to join that well organ- ized band of puppets that bark when they are told to or keep still when a nair auzen pald headed dictators con- clude that silence is golden to the diamond decked denizens in whose interests they cling to their power- ful seats in the senate. FIRE VICTIMS DESERVE AID. It is up to the Minnesota legisla- ture to unlock the state strong box for the benefit of those struggling settlers of our northern boundary who have withstood the fiery breath of the forest demon are still with us more determined than ever to carve out a home in this garden spot of the state. It seems that this appeal for aid will, so far as is practical, be grant- ed. It appears that the real prob- lem for the lawmakers is to ascer- tain just how far the constitution will permit them to go in appropri- ating funds for the benefit of forest fire sufferers. The attorney gener- al is of the opinion that the state can not make direct appropriations and that is a pretty sure sign that the state can not, for the attorney general wants to be governor and he knows that the popular thing for him to do would be to say that such a move would be legal. The fact remains that the state can appropriate money to buy seeds for the stricken farmers and this, we venture to prophesy, will be done. It may be surprising to learn that all the money contributed has come far from rendering all the assist- ance needed in the burned area. The total amount raised was large, but when it came to be distributed among the many needy applicants for aid, it didn’t go far, so far as permanent relief was concerned. At present many of the farmers are sufficiently cared for during the coming months, but they have no funds with which to buy seeds. Supplied with seeds they can plant their crops and a year hence be onm their feet again. A distribution of seeds appears to be the most lasting and important assistance possible to offer the sturdy settlers whose fine spirit is enough to assure the state lasting gains for all that she may do for them during this period of stress. Literal Lannigan. Mrs. Subbubs (who has hired a man to plant shade trees)—Digging out the holes, 1 see, Mr. Lanuigan. 'Lannigan —No, mum. Oi'm diggin’ out the'dirt an’ lavin’ the holes.—Exchange STEPHENSON IS ALLEGED BRIBER Legislative Report on Wis- consia Senatorship. VARIOUS “CHARGES™ MADE Committee Recommends That Federal Upper House Be Asked to Investi- gate Election of Badger Solon—Pre. meditated Scheme to Cover Up Meth- ods of Conducting - Campaign Is Alleged. Madison, Wis, Jan. 12.—United States Senator Isaac Stephenson is charged with a number of violations of the laws of Wisconsin in a lengthy statement filed with Governor F. E. McGovern by the 1909 state senate committee in its report on the investi- gation of the primary campaign and election of Senator Stephenson. The committee recommends that a copy of the report be submitted to the United States senate and that body ~investigate Mr. Stephenson’s election. Senator Stephenson is charged with violating " the statute which requires an account under oath of campaign ex- penditures to be filed and that such violation was premeditated. That he violated the law which pro- hibits any one from contributing mon- €y to assist a candidate for the legis- lature residing outside of the district in which the contributor resides. That the civil service law of this state was violated when he caused to be paid money which the evidence shows was paid to State Game War- den Stone and to L. B. Dresser, then president of the board of control. That he gave a sum of money to a supporter of McGovern for United State senator, such supporter ' after- ward switching to Stephenson, and that he paid large sums of money to others, which was afterwards used by them to induce other persons to assist in procuring his election. Planned to Cover Methods. “On the whole record, therefore,” the report states, “Stephenson is charged with knowledge of the man- ner in which his campaign was being conducted and the purposes for which money was being disbursed. “The failure to keep or require ac- counts and the practice of destroying original memoranda by those engaged in disbursing Stephenson’s funds in the campaign makes it clear there was premeditation and method on the part of Stephenson and his managers to cover up their methods of conducting the campaign. That he approved of these methods cannot be doubted. Those managers, in plain violation of law, gave considerable sums of money LTyl If. Danuium, G O. VWWenems gard, Thomas Reynolds, John Mulder, E. A. Everett and W. L. Smith, who then were candidates for nomination to the assembly. “A large part of the money dis- tributed in the Stephenson campaign, probably a sum in excess of $50,000, was used by Stephenson managers to unlawfully and corruptly procure the nomination and election of Isaac Ste- phenson to the United States senate. “Further, Isaac Stephenson was elected by the legislature to the Unit- ed States senate by a majority of three votes while the charges of cor- ruption against him were being in- vestigated by the legislature. Election Null and Void. “The findings of the committee are that the nomination in the primary and the election'to the United States senate by the legislature of Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin is null and void on account of attempted bribery, and bribery, corrupt practices by him- self and by his campaign managers, agents and workers, and of violations of the laws of Wisconsin defining and punishing offenses against the elective franchise. “The committee recommends that a <opy of this report be certified to the United States senate by the governor and the legislature, with the request that that body investigate the manner and means by and through which Isaac Stephenson secured his election to the United States senate for its action thereon.” The report further recommends that prosecutions be commenced by the-dis- trict attorney of Dane county against all persons shown by the evidence to have committed perjury in the investi: gation and that a like copy of the evi- dence be submitted to the attorney general, with the recommendation that he cause to be commenced prosecution against all persons shown by the evi- dence to have been guilty of corrupt practices or of perjury. When given as soon as the croupy cough appears Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will ward off an attack of croup and prevent all danger and| cause of anxiety. Thousands of mothers use it successfully. Sold by Barkers Drug Store. An Alligator’s Nest. Alligators’ nests resemble haycocks more than anything else to which they can be compared. They average about four feet in height and five feet in diameter and are constructed of grasses and herbage. Tirst the moth- er gator deposits one' layer of eggs on a mortar-like floor and, having cov- ered this with a stratum of mud and herbage about eight inches thick; lays another set of eggs upon that, and so on to the top. there being commonly from 100 to 200 eggs in a nest. With their tails the parents then beat down the tall grass and weeds to prevent the approach of unseen enemies. The female watches her eggs until” they are-hatched by the heat of ‘the ' sun and -then takes her brood under her own care, defending them and provid- ing for their subsistenca Wonderful Victoria Falls. “It i1s well nigh impossible to de- scribe a scene of such wonder, such wilduess,” says Lady Sarah Wilson in ber “South African Memories” of the Victorla falls. But she gives this graphic description: “Standing on a point flush with the rivé® before it makes its ‘headlong leap; we ‘gazed first on the Swirling water losing it- -self In snowy-spray=which- beat re- | lentlessly on face and clothes while the great volume was noisily - disap- pearing to. unknown. and - terrifying depths. -The sightseér ‘tries to look across, “tostrain- his-eyes-and-to" see beyond that’ white mist which ob- scures everything, but it is an impos- sible task, and he can but guess the width of the falls, slightly horseshoe in shape, from the green trees which seem so far away on the opposite bank and are only caught sight of now and then as the wind causes the spray to lift. At the same time his attention is fixed by a new wonder— the much talked of rainbow. Never varying, never changing, that perfect shaped arc is surely more typical of eternity there than anywhere else.” Curran and Lord Clare. Curran, the Irish advocate, was on terms of intense enmity with Lord Clare, the Irish lord chancellor, with whom, when a member of the bar, he fought a duel and whose hostility to him on the bench, he always said, caused him losses in his profession- al income which he could not esti- mate at less than £30,000. The inci- dents attendant on this disagreement were at times ludicrous fn the extreme. One day when it was known that Cur- ran was to make an elaborate state- ment in chancery Lord Clare brought a large Newfoundland dog to “the bench with him and during the prog- ress of the most material part of the case began in full court to fondle the animal. Curran stopped at once. “Go on, go on. Mr. Curran!” said Lord Clare. “Ol, I beg a thousand pardons, my lord! 1 really took it for-granted that your lordship was engaged in con- sultation!” When buying a cough medicine for children bear in mind that Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy is most effectual for colds; croup'and whoop | ing cough and that it contains no harmful drug.. For'sale by Barkers Drug Store. The Filial Chinaman, Many examples of Chinese filial plety strike the cccidental reader as ridicu- lous,. There is- the -famous story of Lao Laitsu, which Mr. R. F. Johnston repeats in his *“‘Lion and Dragon In Northern China.” - Lao’s parents lived to such extreme old age that he was bimself a'toothless old wan while they were both still alive. ‘‘Conceiv- ing it his duty to divert their atten- tion from their weight of years and approaching end, he dressed himself up in the clothes of u child and played about in bis parents’ presence with the object of making them think they were still a young married couple con- templating - the innocent -gambols o cuelr mant son.’” A'similar case is'that of Wang P'ou, whose mother had an unconquerable dread of thunder and lightning. When she dled she was buried in 2 mountain forest, and thereafter, when a-violent thunderstorm occurred, Wang P'ou, heedless of the wind-and rain, would hurry to her grave and throw .himself to his knees. “I am here to protect you, dear mother,” he would say. “Do not be atraid.” Making' a Gunstack. A party of men were out--hunting, and an old woodsman who was with them ‘broke his' gunstock in'some way or other. It was just about nightfall when the accident occurred, and inas- much as he was very anxious to do some shooting early the next morning he decided to fix up his shooting iron. Finding a walnut fence rail, he set to work. His only tools were an ax and a big pocket knife. All night long he labored vigorously at his task, and by morning the gunstock was finished and back in place and ‘worked lke a charm. “How did you do it?’ asked one of the number; greatly surprised. “Very easy." ‘was this old hunter’s reply. “No trouble at alk: Just get a plece of wood about the size and kind that you want and then whittle away all ‘that you want ~ whittled ' away." ‘When you have all the wood cut off that you don’t want you have a!gun- stock.”—Kansas Clty Journal., Constipation is the cause of many ailments- and disorders that make life miserable. - Take Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver “Tablets,” keep your bowls ‘regular and you will avoid these diseases. ~ For sale by Barkers Drug Store. A Surprised”Landlord. The very young traveling ‘salesman was registering at-thervillage hotel. “I want a room with running water in it,” he remarked. “Runnin* water?’ cackled the land- lord. - “What do you want to do, mis- ter—practice indoor trout -fishin’?'— Argonaut. * The-Getaway- Fellows, “What Is this ‘wanderlust’ yon read of 8o often as compelling people: to leove home?" “I don't know.” replied Mr. Cumrox; “but, judging from my observation of people who have it, ‘wanderlust’ is German . for ‘creditors.” ”—Washington Star. Medicines that aid ‘nsture are al- ways most-€effectual.. Chamberlain’s Cough'Remedy ‘acts’ on' this ‘plan. It allays - the~icough; relieves the lungs;-opens: the secretions and aids nature in restoring: the'system to a healthy-condition: - ‘Thousands have testified to-its superior excellence. Sold by Barkers Drug Store. A Famous Vine. In the Cumberiand Lodge portion of the royal gardens at Windsor there is a vine, kiown ail over England as the Cumberland Lodge vine, which is a shoot of a still older vine which grows at¥Hampton' Cotft, but the shoot -has ¥ ‘outdistanced:dts parent in dimen- #fons-and Productiveness. In England’ *grapes'. are.generally grown.*under glass, and the Cumberland Lodge vine has a great glass structure, 120 feet long by 20 wide, all to itself. Growing with: astonlshing ‘luxurlance,’ the vine spreads itself over a-roof.area of 2,400 square feet and bears annually 'a crop of “approximately a thousand huge bunches of the finest flavored grapes. These grapes are frequently found on the royal table, and the subject who is -presented with-a basket of them' con. siders--himself highly favored. The shoot from which the great vine has grown “was: planted in 1775. Cliff of Natural Glass, A cliff of natural glass can be seen in“Yellowstone park. It is half a mile long and from 150 to 290 feet high, the‘material-of which it consists being as good-glass as that artificially manu- factured. The dense glass which forms the base is from seventy-five to a hundred feet thick, while the upper portion, baving suffered and’ survived many-‘ages of wind and rain, has natu- rally worn much thinner. Of course the color of the cliff is not that of nat- ural-glass—transparent and- white—but I8 “mostly black and in some places mottled and streaked iwith”brownish red and shades of olive green and brown. Do you know that fully nine out of every ten cases of rheumatism are simply “rheumatism of the : muscles due tocolds, or damp, or' chronic rheumatism, and require no internal treatment whatever? berlain’s Liniment freely and see how quickly it gives relief. For sale by Barkers Drug Store. Punishment 1n rersia. Among the Persians the usual mode of punishment Is the- bastinado, from ‘which men of the highest rank are not exempt. Tt Is inflicted with very great severity. frequently so as to render the | sufferer almost a cripple for life. The vietim is thrown upon his face, and each foot is passed through a loop of stroug cord attached to a pole, which is raised - horizontally by men, who, twisting it round. tighten the ropes and render the feet immovable. Two executioners then strike the sole alter- nately with switches of the pomegra- nate tree well steeped in water to ren- der them supple. A store of these switches is geunerally ready for use in the pond which adjoins the courtyards of the houses of the great. 'The pun- ishment frequently lasts for an hour or until the unfortunate victim faints from paiu. Heckling Humor. A parliamentary candidate was hold- ing a meeting in Auld Reekie at which the heckler was much in evidence, and tho ombamawsed candidate failed to give a siugle-nswer-which was judged (0 be satistactory by-the audience. To- ward the end of the meeting an elector rose and quietly asked, “Sir, would you tell ‘us ‘what might be the name your second initial stands for?” 'fhe unfor- tunate candidate. greatly puzzled at the purport of the question, ed in what way the information could inter- est the audience. *“In this way,” ex- plained the interrogator—‘"we should Dbe able to see if you could answer one question!"—Tiondon Tatler. An Easy Cure. A correspondent for a local paper writes that his sister sent “him' four fun lines which :are cguaranteed to cure any case of strenuosity in the family. The lines are to be repeated three times heartily .in-the face of any domestic difficulty. Here they are: The dog is in the pantry; ‘The cat Is in the lake: The cow-is-in the hammock. ‘What difference does it make? ~Nautilus. $100 Reward, $100. ‘The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there -is° at-least-one ' dreaded lisease that sience has been able to cure in all_its stages,-and-that is-Oatarrh, Hall's Cavarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to-themedical-traternity. - Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con- stitutional: trestment.. Hall's Catarrh Oure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and- mueous- surfaces of - the system, thereby ‘destroying the foundation of the ase, and giving: the' patient strength by building ‘up the constitution and assisting nature. in ng its- work. - The proprietors have s0 much faith in its curative powers that they offer One-Hundred Dollars for any case thay it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J: CBEILEY&UOA. Toledo, O. 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We will be glad to tell you about the City of Be- midji. and ‘quote you yrices 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 part'cu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call on H. A. The Soo Railroad is now running its freight and ' passenger ‘trains into Bemidji; investigate the oppor- tunities-off>red for business on a small or large scale. - Bomidji Townsite & Improvement Co, 404 New York Life Bullding MINNESOTA GED. A. HANSON A. D. S. Drug Store POSTOFFICE CORNER WOOD!| S.P. HAYTH| a fair trial, return the bottle and I will cheerfully re- My ‘Almond Gream Is Guaranteed PHONE 304 BEMIDJI, MINN. JOHN G. 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BEAUDETTE 315 BELTRAMI AVE. —_—_— Notice of Emergency Sale of Timber Stumpage on State Lands. Notice is hereby given that I will offer for sale at public auction at the Court House in Bemidji, Beltrami county, Minnesota, on Friday, January 27, 1911, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, certain timber belonging to the State and liable to waste. Following is a list of the lands upon which such timber is situated, and a statement of the estimated quantity of each kind of timber thereon that will be so offered, and of the appraised price of each kind of such timber, | per M feet, or per cord, or per piece, as the case may be: All of Sec. 36, T. 152, R. 31:—5 M pine @ $6.00 per M; 10 M; 10 M_tamarack P , s "‘;fiES“fiSr“fi‘.’r‘ Mx @ $2.50 per M; 240 cords spruce @ tamarack ties @ 10 cents each; 600 cedar poles @ 10 cents each;: cedar posts @ 1 cent each. 8% NEY%, NW}% SW and SE% of Sec. 14, T. 151, R. 30:—50 M tamarack $2.50 per M: 500 tamarack ties @ 10 cents each; 100 cords spruce @ $1.0 Dper cord; 10 cords halsam @ 50 cents per cord; 500 cedar poles @ 10 cents each: 3,500 cedar posts @ 1 cent each. SE% SE¥ of Sec. 22, T. 151, R. 30:—10 M tamarack @ $2.50 per M;: 100 tama- rack ties @ 10 cents each; 10 cords spruce @ $1.00 per cord: 500 cedar ; SE% NE% and NEY SEY of Sec. 24, T. 151, R. 30:—30 tamaraclc @ $5.50 per M: 500 tamacack fes 6 13 conty sosh e tiordd spruce @ $1.00 per cord; 20 cords balsam @ 50 cents per cord: 200 cedar RokSe @ 10 cents each: 1500 cedar posts @ 1 cent each: , T. 150, R. 30:—10 M tamarack @ $2.50 ;50 - Tack tes @ 10 cents each; 50 cords spruce ® $1.00 ner eoosh 3 cotal®ma: et L coonts Der cord] 1,000 cedar poles @ 10 cents each; 5,000 cedar N% SWi and SE% of Sec. 12, T. 150, R. 30:—25 M pine @ $7.00 per M; §pruce @ $4.00 per M:'5 M tamarack @ $2.00 per M: Tod CamBomein 1oy H 10 gents each: 250 cords spruce @ $1.00 per cord; 10 cords balsam @ b9 cents per cord; 1,000 cedar poles @ 10 cents each; 2,000 cedar posts @ 1 cent each, SE%"S‘E,‘,A of Sec, 25, T. 150, R. 30:—20 M pine @ $7.00 per M; 5 M tamarack @ : @ 10 cents each; 5 cords spruce @ $1.00 Cord; 100 cedar poi 4 i .00 per N% NEY, of Seos Ppes,@ 10 cents each: 500 cedar posts @ 1 cent each. Datsam @ 50" cents per onpo0 40 COTds spruce @ $1.00 per cora: 20 corda This sale is to be held pursuant to the rovisions of General Laws of Minnesota for 1905, as nl:nended by c‘rim:?rfv%‘ :tt g: General Laws for 1909, and pursuant to the recommendation of the Board of Timber Commissioners, as provided in Section 17 of said law. Timber estimated and appraised per M feet will be offered and sold per M feet; timber estimated and appraised per- cord will be:offered and sold per cord; all cords to be single cords; and timber estimated and appraised as tie or pole or post timber will be offered and sold per tie, or pole or rty -bidding the: highest price for all on the lands in the different sections. 88 than the appraised prices as given ea;‘:ie a“(m ?}l:nrai!ed prices shall be by T ed to the appraised price of each kind of timber advertised on the land. No bi 5 DS Snsor e Srertisedo and. No bids of less than 5 per cent will Purchasers of any of said timber at said sale musi t pay down i time of sale 50 Der cent of the appraised value of the L‘i’mybgr, bl;x:dc:;ht;: estimated quantity, and must give bond to the State in an amount at least None of the timber can be sold for le: herein, and any bidding over and abov Der centage”, the per cent bid to be estimate) clean, acre by acre, and paying the State th due therefor, and for the faithful performance al’eallet::h tlonsh of the law governing such matters. purchasers, good up to and toexpire on June 1, 1912, for the removing of such timber, and the law allows the Tim‘berrBu:rde ultlt;nfn:mi- mous vote, to grant one extension of time, of not more than one lo gl season, if good reason is given for not havi bttt nce that may be terms. and condi- Permits. will be issued to the Permit. All timber cut is to be scal z Leflm; State Land Examine, o dedi !m;l counted on the land where cut by un it has been so scaled or count B B o B0 el unted, and final gettlement is to: be-based Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this:30th:day of'December, 1910. 8. G. IVERSO : ~ State Auditor. =