Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 25, 1911, Page 2

| THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVEAY AFTEANOOR EXCEPT SURBAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU. Q. OARSON. Pastetfice al-Bemid)i, Wiensents, 20 seconi cless mattor. - ——— SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR '¥ OVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. Population—In 1900, 5099. Summer Resort-—Hundreds-of outsid- ers make their summer home on Lake Bemidjl. Fishing, boating and bath- ing accommodations are second to none in the United States. Area—Ten Square miles incorporated. Altitude—1400 ‘eet above sea level. Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississippi river. ‘Water—Absolutely pure. sian 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 Drive—Ten miles. Parks—Two. ‘Water Frontage—Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippl river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200 Churches—S. School Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—$800,000. ‘Manufacturers—Hardwood handles, lumber, lath, shingles and various other industries. Great Distributing Point—Lumber products, groceries, flour, feed and hay. Postal Recelpts—$20,375 for 1910, 10th place in the state outside of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth. Postal Savings Bank—Only one in Minnesota. Rallroads—Great Northern, Minne- sota & International, M., R. L. & M, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks to Duluth and Bemidji-Sauk Centre. Rallroad Depots—Three. Passengor Trains—Iourteen daily. Hospitals—One Distances—To St Paul, Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Brewerles—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. ‘Wholeszle Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. 1500 ; in 1910 Two arte- 75 230 miles; to The Bemidji Pioneer has es- tablished and will maintain a legislative_bureau at the state i capitol in St Paul. _Any of our i readers wishing information of i 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 cheerfull i furnished without cost. . Such i information will. be confidential it desired. ddress, Bemidji Pioneer Bureau, Staté Capitol, St. Paul, Minn, SENATOR SUNDBERG AND OTHERS IN THE LIME LIGHT. Senator Sundberg, who represents the counties of Kittson, Roseau and Marshall, is a Norwegian by birth, a good specimen.nf the sturdy, hard working and most of the time sen- sible, sons of Norway who have come to America and made good in public life. That Senator Sundberg saw an op- portunity and was big enough to grasp it is finely emphasized in the following from Collier's Weekly: In the same issue the National Week- ly also says some interesting things regarding two other Minnesota men and because there is a close connect- ion between the two articles we re- produce them both. Some three years ago George S. Loftus of Minneapolis, a reformer of the “do-it-now” type, turned up at the office of James Manahan, his lawyer. “Jim,” he said, “I want you to sue the Pullman Company.” “What for?” “Oh, just sue them, and charge that their rates are ex- orbitant. I got in from Chicago I bhad an upper berth, and couldn’t sleep, and they charged me just as much as I would have to pay for a lower.” Mana- han drafted an innocent looking complaint, saying, in few words, that Pullman rates were unjust. There was no technical verbiage. He mailed this to the Interstate Com- merce Commission at Washington. Three months later Manahan was notified by mail that in ten days a special examiner would be in St. Paul prepared to hear Loftus’s case. Up to that date all the evidence Loftus and his lawyer had was Lof- tus’s one sleepless night the train. On the morning of the hear- ing the court room was filled with ex-Pullman porters. It was proved that the porters received $25 a month, out of which they had to pay for their meals on the road and their uniforms. They were com- pelled to replace all towels, combs and other lost articles. The public practically paid their salaries in tips. This was the small beginning of one of the largest results yet achieved in the prosecution of any trust. There was no loud proclam- ation of the setting of Government machinery in motion. One humble citizen had merely started to saw wood. It was proved that the Pullman Company earned $9000 an- nually on cars that cost them $15,- this morning. on that the porters made up ten million beds annually, and the com- pany made in 1907 over 383,600,- 000 gross. Its capital had in- creased from $100,000 to $150,000,- 000. The end has now come in an ‘order from-the Interstate Cemmerce Commigsion, reluctantly agreed to 'by the Puliman Company, reducing its rates twenty-five per cent on upper berths. It may have signifi- cance for some of our readers that George S. Loftus is the close friend and political deciple of Robert M. La Follette, -while -Manahan is" the close friend and apostle of the Ne- braska Commoner. These two re- formers, working together, have saved travelers at least $2,000,000 annually. Inspired by the example of Loftus, State Senator C. E. Sundberg of Min- nesota, a year ago, brought a simi- lar action against the express com- panies. That action is still pend- ing. Sundberg crossed the ocean forty years ago in the steerage of an immigrant ship. He now owns many farms in Minesota. A few years ago he had a breakdown of one of his threshing machines. He was { compelled to lay off twenty men until the broken machinery could be: re- placed. He wired to Minneapolis for the casting, which cost something over two dolars. It came by ex- press, and the express charges were $36. Years rolled by, as the story- tellers say. Sundberg was elected to the Legislature. He was ap- pointed on a committee which had and He found that the Adams to do with railroad charges. { Express Company -had accumulated over forty-five millions, besides pay- ing enormous dividends annually; that the American had accumulated a like surplus; that the United States Express Company had accumulated over fifteen millions; that the Wells- Fargo Company had assets amount- ing to $34,000,000, a large part which had accumulated in very re- cent years; and that the assets of these four companies in the year 1907 amounted to over $144,000,- 000. Then Sundberg began to won- der what was the legitimate field for express companies anyway. The railroads could as readi- ly have fast freight trans- portation for the public as for the express companies—why should the burden of -business be increased by duplicating the machinery of op- eration? Why should -a transpor- tation tax be levied, collected, and [diverted from the ‘public treasury for private profits by railroads who were supopsed.to be doing a semi- public work? Sundberg did not apply to the government for relief— some observation had taught him the futility of that. He hired Mana- han. They oplained access to the offices of the companies and served the subpceenas themselves on the pres- idents of each of the companies. The next morning Manahan stood in court against a brilliant array of lawyers. ‘When these lawyers of- fered trained witnesses, experts in the juggling of figures, as substitu- tes for the chief officials of the com- panies, Manahan stubbornly insisted that only the -officials themselves would do—and the hearing had to be adjourned to allow the officials They came, and the sturdy Norwegian farmer who had come over in the steerage succeeded to appear. where the government had often failed. We are led to hark back to that scene in the Seattle court room almost a year ago, when Sher- idan, fresh from the law school, singly representing this great Re- public, was pitted against private attorneys for reputation and experi- ence, in a suit which involved the vast coal deposits of Alaska, and ul- timately the commercial control of that great Territory. Chance for the Thirsty. Some good bargains can be picked up now in front row water wagon seats.—Superior, Wis., Telegram. Save the Buttons. The University of Missouri has in- troduced a course in the washing of clothes. If it can be shown that this work can be done without shucking the buttops, it will be worth & university extension course. —Minneapolis Journal. Frank Day’s Little Knock, The proposed legislative reappor- tionment scheme hitches Martin county onto Faribault county, with one senator and one representative. It is hardly necessary to remark that Senator Haycraft and Represen- tative-Saggau ‘will-vote no if such-a: express | I WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY 11 s presente 1t 1s al right but we don’t care to place good old Martin under her guardianship. —Fairmont Sentinel. Know of ‘Any in:Minnesota ? Speaking about the power of prayer, what are.we to think.of the man who lives pretty decently at home without it, and then turns out to be a grafter in.a legislature that is opened with prayer every morn- ing?—Walker Pilot. These are Our Sentiments, too. Sometimes a news item-escapes the notice .of the newsgatherer-and the newspaper is blamed for -partiality in the publication of those who come and go, and in the other matters of a more important -nature. The Dis- patch aimsto.give the news:while it is news and to:that end if people who have friends visiting them or who visit friends elsewkere will call up The Dispatch by telephone and give the -reporter the particulars of the news item it will be considered a favor and the item will be published. If you or:any of your friends enter- tain, or have any item of news that would be of interest to the public, The Dispatch will be under obliga- tions if the same is phoned to the of-1 fice for insertion while it is news. It is an impossibility to get the news and not overlook some one or some thing, use the telephone and thereby help the reporter cover the field completely.—Brainerd Dispatch. Does This Effect Bemidji? In the first place, an organization of retailers should be effected and maintained outsiGe of the regular commercial club which includes all enterprises. How ‘many times have you seen three or four business houses that seemed to do the adver- tising for the whole town? The wonder is, that any merchant can sit down and let some other mer- chant draw his thade from him. It is quite true that tiue non-ad- vertiser reaps the benefit to some ex- tent of the enterprise of the mer- chant that does advertise; but what a sponge! He is like the fellow who never pays anything for a Fourth of July celebration or any other booster movement, but is al- ways “Johnnie-on-the-spot,” to get his share of the proceeds. From the retailers organization just mentioned, should come an-ar-| rangement by which all live con- cerns, shall agree to take a greater or less advertising space in the lo- cal newspapers and shall take such space regularly and systematicaily There is no reason for making the matter of advertising such a buga- boo. It is no greater problem than forty others that merchants and conquer. This systematic advertising is dif- ferent from the spasmodic efforts that some towns put forth, like mar- ket day or special bargain push that may be 0. K. for a diversion, but wi'l come to the trade as a bait. It prob- ably will be raken for what it worth, but will never make substan tial, steady trade.—Dry Goods Ite- porier. meet is Where Plato Taught. ‘The ‘famous academy of Plato was in a suburb of Athens, about a mile mnorth of the Dypllum gate. It is saidto have belonged to the hero Academus; hence the name. It was surrounded with a wall and adorned with walks, groves and fountains. Plato possessed a small estate in the neighborhood and for some fifty years taught his “divine philosopby” to young and old assem- bled in the academy to listen to his wise words. After Plato’s death in 848 B, C. the academy lost much of its fame, but the beauty remained ‘for centuries after the great teacher was no more.—New York Amerlcan. Poet Laureate. ‘The office of poet laureate practical- ly begins with Chaucer, who assumed the title about 1885. After Chaucer the office was more or less in the shadow, but from Spenser in 1599 .the line of poet laureate 1s pretty well filled down to the present time. The office is largely honorary and has not always been held by the greatest of English poets, Dryden, Wordsworth and Tennyson being the most illus- trious of its holders.—Exchange. Why They Got the Freedom of the City Bxtracts from old records, showing how people had earned the honor in former days, were read at Canterbury by Alderman Mason when the mayo?: and ex-mayor were granted the free- dom of the city. One citizen received the freedom for ‘“undertaking to serve as cook at every mayor's Michaelmas feast,” another “because he cured Nicholas Johnson’s leg” and a ‘third’ “because he married & widow with a large family.”—Pall Mall Gazette. Many Sided Kicks of the Camel. A camel’s ‘hind legs- will reach any ‘where—over his head, round his chest and-on to his hump. Even when lying down an evil disposed animal will shoot out his legs ‘and ‘bring you to a sitting posture if he wants to. Com- pared with a camel, a mula ia really a’} most considerate “kicker, 8o -beware 'hnnflm camel 1ooks as' umtm ‘World, - The Rich, It is & great mistake to belleve thatt: the rich are holding us down. As a matter of faet, they are pulling us up. It there were no rich people to keep | our eyes glued upon the great gulf |: “between. having endmot having none of us would hustle. e have to have | the rich man'siamansiens prodding us, |- his power scourging ®s and his auto- mobile butting us to get anywhere at all. We have to see his wife and daughters in -silks and jewels and ‘vealize;what our own.wives:and daugh. ters without these things think of us as providers to peel -our-ceats off-and get into the game. None of us can go out driving with such as we have and suffer-the-rich-man- to -whiz-past us in prism glass and burnished brass, throwing dust in our eyes and gasoline 1n our hair, without doing better in the: great area of human endeavor for the next two or three days anyway. Bless- ed are the rich, for they fill us :with shame and new resolve and make us to wonder what in the Sam Hill we have been doing all these yearsi—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Byron's “Bride of Abydos.” It was after Lord Byron arrived in Greece that he wrote that beautiful poem “The Bride of Abydos” and:that exquisite song the “Maid of Athens,” which, says a Paris contemporary, every Englishman of culture knows by heart. Documents enable us to estab- lish the true identity of the heroine of this"poem, She was one of the three daughters of Mr. Black, English vice consul at Athens,.at-whose.house Byron for:some time lived. After the departure of the poet Theresa Black married -an-archaeologist, M. Pittakis, whose ‘widow -she became .several years later. Her beauty, her charm, her elegance, conquered -every heart, including Byron’s. In 1873 the hero- ine of the poet was an old woman of upright figure.and still showing signs of her former beauty. With age had come -poverty. The London Times, moved by her distress, opened at this epoch. a.subscription In her favor. She died in-1875.—London ‘Globe. The Gun Charmers. Among the more superstitiously in- clined of the sporting Cingalese are gun charmers, who allege that a gun may be charmed in different ways and by different methods. An essential part of the process, however, appears to be the muttering of certain formu- lae. A gun, the.charmers say, may be charmed in-any one-of the following four ways: (1) So that it will wound the animal fired at, but will not kill outright; (2) so that he who carries it shall find nothing ‘werth shooting; (3) 8o that it will not kill anything fying, but will kill animals that run, and (4) so that it will not kill anything that runs, but will &ill:anything fiying. No gun can be charmed at all if the owner takes the precaution of rubbing some pork fat on the barrel or at- taches a plece of the outer skin of the rat snake to the.stock in such a way that it cannot be seen. How a Goal 'Fire ‘Protects itself. A curious way in which-a-fire in the | heart of a cof] plle keeps {tself from being put «m is noted in a mining journal. ‘Such ‘fires.often start in-the interior of large pllu of -coal owing to heat developed by slow oxidation, which is prevented by the size of the pile from esciping into the air. Such fires are difficult .to:put out owing to the fact that the burning mass turns the coal around it into coke, which is nearly impervious to water. The pile may thus be thoroughly drenched without putting .ont:the-fire, - which it never really -reaches. _The .only way to deal with the situation is to drive into the pile a sharpened firon pipe, long enough to reach the burning coal, and then to couple a hose to the upper end and turn-on ‘the -water. s Like Stealing the Money. First Artist—A Mr. Struckoyle offer- ed Dobley a hundred pounds for that Dpicture yesterday. Second Artist—And didn’t he grab it? First Artist—No; he sald he wanted time to consider. Second Artist—Poor_ fool, to .let his conscience trouble him. like -that!— London Scraps. DEEDS, NOT WORDS Bemidji People Have Absolute Proof of Deeds at Home. It’s not words biit deeds'that prove true merit. B . The deeds of Doan's Kidney Pills, For Bemidji kidney sufferers, Have made their local reputation. Proof lies in the testimony of Be- midji people who have been cured to stay cured. Mrs. L. Kane, 615 Fourth. St., Be- midji, Minn., says: “I was afticted with kidney trouble for a number of years. My system was filled with uric acid that my kidneys failed to remove and I was often bothered by a shortness of breath, A few weeks ago I procured a’supply of Doan’s Kidney Pills ‘and I am well pleased with the results I have thus far:re- ceived from their use. I intend to continue taking this remedy.” (Statement given :in August 1907). @00D WORK Mrs. Kane' was interviewed on October 6, 1910 and she said: “1 am glad to again 'endorse ‘Doan’s Kidney Pills. They effected & com- plete and permanent cure in my case.” " For sale by all deslers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,:Buftalo, New York, sole: -gmu for the United States. Remember = the . name—Doan‘s— Want and take ‘no other. ime Old Story. “How shall l break the newu to 1y plrentl that I have fafled in my es- ams?”’ “Merely telegraph them: ‘Examina tion over. Nothing new.’ ”—Fliegénde Blatter. = e AL Roughinyg {t. “Dees:your wife:enjoy-roughing it7" “Does she? ‘Well, say, you shovtd Bee her in a bargain rush.”—Detrmi Free Press. Nobllity without virtue is a One - ting-without a_gem.—Porter. Free o [ Medicine, for the Sick [ (Y nmguny Excuse to. Be Oonstipa. ted, Weak Stomached, Weak Kid- neyed, Weak Livered, Brain Fagged, Thin or Haggard. Hoalth Is Fr Sead Your Name and Address Todey Fer & Treo Trial Packagoand Leara The Grand Trath. 17 you ara alok a¢ alling 't ts bacause the very foundation of your existence 1s gradually'belog 0 uarve forae whie f your belng1s pa ry, Curo Grains of Life, Testores your vitality and renaws your old ti strength and vigor by giviog your uervous| eystem the fond it 1s eraving. 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Snudaysmep.m Monday 7to0 9 p. BEATRICE MILLS, Uhmnnn. OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Nasldonco Phone 58 818 America Ave. Offics Phoss 12 T. BEAUDETTE | Merchant Tailor Ladies’ and Geats' Suits to Order. Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing a pecialty. 315 Beltrami Avenue Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S. P. HAYTH Telephene 11 and Engines Have your repairs done now before the rush. It Will Gost You Less All Work Guaranteed Capt, W, B. MacLachlan Telephone 233 William C.Klein Real Estate . Insurance | Real Estate & Farm Loans O’Leary=-Bowser Bldg. Phone 19 Fire==Life- Co to Him for Farm Loans FACIAL JOHN G. ZIEGLEER “THE, LAND MAN* INSUR A NCE-==Acident REAL ESTATE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES ° FARM LANDS BOUCHT AND SOLD M. MALZAHN & CO. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE F. 107 Minn. Ave. Bemidji, Minn ‘R« F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beitram! Ave. Phone 318-2. Defects QuICKLY GOBIEGJ'EII The chief surgeon of the Plastic Surgery Institute quickly rights all wrongs with the human face or features without knife or to the entire satisfaction and de- light of every patient. The work is as lasting as life itself. lf you have a facial irregularity of my kind write Plastic Surgery lnstltute Corner Sixth and Hennepin @ MINNEAPOL'S, MINN. Our Sacrifice Sale Is Still On Although our holiday trade has been far beyond expectations our stock assortment is still in fine condi- tion. Take advantage of these .deep cut price reductions on all men and boy's -suits, over coats and furnish- ings. M. 0. Madson & Co. One Priced Clothiers Office--Schroeder Bullding has just been awarded the Grand Prix atthe Brussels lntematlonal Exposatwn q ] i 0 \