Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 20, 1911, Page 2

{ 3, THE BEMIDUI IIAII.Y PIONEER PUBLISAED EVERY AFTERNOOR BISEPT SUNBAY B THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. M. DENV. o.& GARSBNI Y r-umifim&u. -lnlmn. oo SUBSGRIPTION---$5.00 PEI YR Entored | CITY OF BEMIDI} County Seat. Population—In 1900, 1600 ; in 1910 5099. | Summér Reliort--:Hundreds of outsid- ers make their summer home ‘on 'Lake Bemidji. 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, Mississipoi river. ‘Water—Absolutely pure; sian wells. Water 'Mains—A bout ‘ten ‘miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—5:4 a thousand - in 1908, Annnal Rainfall—33.7 incHes. Temperature—20 above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About five miles. alxw-Twelve “miles: Lakestiore Drive—Ten miles. Parks—Two. ‘Water Frontage—Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpaysrs-—1200 Churches—s. School ‘Honsed““Four! I Bank Deposits—3$800,000. Manufacturers-—tlatdwoud handles, lumber, lath, shingies and various other industries. P Great Distributing Point—Lumber' products, groceries. flour, feed and hay. Postal Recelpt®=$20,375 for 1910, 10th place in the state outside of St.| Paul, Minneapolis «nd Duluth. | Postal Savings Bank<~-Only one in Minnesota. Railroads—Grea: Northern, Minne- sota & International, M., R. L. & M., Minneapolis, St. Paul ‘& .Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton & Northern, Grand Forks | to Duluth and Beridji-Sauk Centre. Railroad Depots—Three. Passenger Tralus—Fourteen daily. Hospitals—One Distances—To St Paul, 230 miles; to Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—TFou Handle Factorles—One. Boat Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three, Auto Garages—One, Two ‘arte- e OUK GLORIOUS SENATE. ' Although a good many things point- ed to such a catastrophe, it was hard to believe that the senaté would ‘set itself up above party platforms, po- litical promises, the pleading of the governor and voice of the people and refuse to pass a reapportionment bill. No part of the state more keenly feels this tyrannical action on the part of the upper branch of the legis- lature than do the residents of the north who have long suffered the in- justice 'of under representation. That the plain will of the people should be thwarted by a couple dozen sel- fish despots who have obtained power false colors sounds like the echo from the duma of Rusia rather than from a legislative body in free America. It is no wonder that the news- under papers scream with indignation for they but reflect the sentimeént of the public. Under the heading’ “The Senator and the Governor,” the Min- neapolis Tribune, which employs the highest salaried editorial -writer in the Northwest, if not the country, has this-to say: “The Minnesota: ‘senate has for- feited public confidence and fallen beneath public contempt. It seems pretty well satisfied with this posi- tion. The moderate enthusiasm of many of those in favor of keeping pledges and obeying ‘the law has been the occasion of remark from the beginning. “The Democrats are chuckling and the Republicans are in despair, but we do not see how either can call the other black. Both parties ‘are sol- emnly pledged to reapportionment. Members of both took an oath to up- hold the law. The questfon is no more partisan than robbing a bank entire andkeeping the plunder by some tech- | nieal trick. Men hang on to a polit- ical power they have no right to and tell the plundered to go hang. “Three classes' make up the vote against reapportionment, men whose districts possess lawlessly dispropor- tionate power; men who would lose two years of a good political job by doing their sworn and pledged duty, | and men whose seats were bought for them by the brewers and who ©must jump when the ‘saloon whip cracks. The first class is almost re- spectable by comparison, the last is too degraded by its origin to fall much lower and the second is the biggest and most contémptable of all. “What will happen to the senate in the future depends ~‘upon the people; what will happen to it now seemed to depend upon the governor till his brief and bright dream of party leadership was so rudely shat- tered. It is on the knees of the gods. “It is becoming neither for the governor’s confidants to make men- aces in his name, nor for a public journal to advise Bim. It is a critical point in his career. The contemporary biography of . Wood- row Wilson is easily accessible.” In the north there is a deep rooted feeling that Governor Eberhart is a friend who will continue to be a friend in need and the hope is freely expressed that the Tribune’s advice will probe of value to His Excellency But, returning to the senate itself, we find the St. Paul Dispatch speaks plainly under this caption “The Shame of the Senate:” “The Minnesota state senate was brutally frank in its opposition to reapportionment.” It made no effort to aisguise tne fact that it was not arrayed against' the particular plan embraced in the Congdon bill be- | be fair. ' .| the exerciseof the’ unfair, cause it was unfair or because not exhibit the limit of ‘endea reach an equitable system of dis ing. It opposed it'simply beca ‘was a reapportionment and the ma- Jority of the senate did not(duire reapportionment. It did not wish to It preferred to continue in; and -grossly ‘selfish’ powers it from a condition' of twenty Yyears ago and it threw down ‘the gauntlet to every principle of law, honor and political decency. “There’ is but- little basis ‘for the modified optimism expressed by Goy- ernor Eberhart. 'From legislators so absolutely selfish-there is nothing to hope. There is not the slightest in- timation from the majority of the plan” of reapportionment would--se- cure its approval. It is on record as opposed to the theory of reapportion- ment, as opposed to any plan and every plan which contemplates a fair and just represefitation of the dif- ferent sections of the state. - When an appeal to the senate is: justice, with which every man is supposed to be endowed, falls upon unhearing ears, the case seems hopeless indeed. “The action of the senate is a slap in the face of state honesty and a stunning setback to state progress and development.” Somewhat less peSsimistic than the Dispatch editor is the Minneap- olis Journal which urges the govern- or to call an extra session in an ed- itorial under the heading “The Sen- ate and Its Duties,” which reads as follows: Section 2, Article IV of the Con- stitution of Minnesota says: The representation in both Houses shall be apportioned equally throughout the differ- ent sections of the state in pro- portion to the population' there- of, exclusive of Indians not tax- able under the provisions of law. “Section 23, Article 1V, after pro- | viding for a state census in 1865 and every tenth year thereafter, declares: At their first session after each enumeration so made, and also at their first session after each enumeration made by au- thority of the United States,:the Legislature shall have power to ascribe the bounds of Congress- ional, Senatorial and -Represen- tative districts and to appor- tion anew the Senators and Re- presentatives among the several districts according to the pro- visions of Section 2 of this Ar- ticle. “This is the provision of the Etite i Constitution which the state senate openly violated by refusing to con- sider a reapportionment bill of any kind. It is a solemn injunction on the legislature to apportion the Sen- ators and representatives according to population. The representation is not so apportioned at the present time. sought to correct the manifest in- equalities. The senate declines even to consider that bill. It declines to amendment. bill as reported, or to perfect the | measure itself, or to have anything to do with the matter except to throw it out and in so doing to throw the Constitution out with it. “This is the situation at the pres- ent time, but, as the governor says, there is time tor the senate to change its mind. There is time for the sen- ate to reapportion. But there is no of any reapportionment bill except one based on the Constitution. We do not believe the Govérnor or any- one else seriously considers the Mur- bill. “The Republican platform, on which Governor Eberhart was elect- ed, pledged the party to “just re- presentation in both branches of the Legislature,” and quotes Section 2 of Article IV of the Constitution as the basis of the pledge. This is the only reapportionment that will answer the demand of the people. Unless the senate recants, and does its duty, sion.” The danger of complete disrup- tion of party lines is seen by the St. Paul Pioneer Press which says un- der “Defeat of Reapportionment:* “Members of the Minnesota senate will have none but themselves to blame if they discover at the next election that the voters refuse to acknowledge party obligations and refuse to be moved by the partisan appeals. The senate has released the voters from all such obligations by |its refusal to pass the reapportion- ment law, thus placing selfishness above popular demand and public | welfare. best in Minnesota, and that condi- tion is due chiefly to the fact that party leaders have persistantly and iopenly ignored platform pledges, practically serving notice on the voters that platforms are not binding on successful candidates at elections. The defeat of reapportionment simp- ly furmshes another justification for the independent attitude of the voters. “There might have been some ex- | cuse for the-action of the senate had there been issue over the advisabil- ity of a reapportionment measure, but the law was demanded by all parties and by all sections. The platforms of both the Democrats and Republicans pledged a reapportion- ment law at this session. The voters in the sections of the state where the representation might be reduced by a reapportionment measure ad- mitted ‘the justice of the plan and no opposition was offered to it. The defeat of the measure must be charg- {ed solely to the selfishness of the senators. For that exhibition of selfishness they must settle with their constituents.” Faithles to their oath and with 1o right to term themselves progressive is the position taken by the St. Paul Dajly News, in an editorial entitled “A Bratrayal of Justice,” scoring the men ‘who voted against reapportion- ment: No senator who voted against the reapportionment bill in the senate has any right to call himself a pro- gressive. “For one of the cardinal principles of progressivism whether it be label- ed Republican progressivism or Dem- ocratie progressivism, is rule by the majority of the people. “That is not the decision of the senators who voted against the Cong- don_bill. “For the vote of 36 to 27, by which . the bill was defeated, means that a minority of the people rule in’* Minnesota under ‘the ‘present dis- tricting-of .ne state. senate that any revised or improyed|make it their busines to bring The house passed a bill which | recommit the bill to a2 committee for It declines to pass the! time and no place for the passage! ray bill a substitute for the Congdon | it should be called back in extra ses-| “Party obligations rest lightly at| quires, and the gerrymandering of ‘which was limited to five districts on the iron range, and unjdst, if un- just at all, only to the penple of those districts, was defeated by a vote of 36 senators in‘swhose dmflnm last November only: 150,433 were cast, while the'27 uenntofis “who voted for it represent 157,732 votes avtually cast and - counted: at the same election, “Consequently men’ like Haycraft, 'republican; and Cashman and Mooa: democrats, who claimito ‘be progre: sives, .forfeited their ‘claim to that title- when* they imposed‘ 'minority rule on the people of Minnesota. “Not ‘only that,: but unless' they | to a vote in"the-senate before it adlourns some reapportionment as just, or even more equitable;-than the Cong- don bill, they and: their ! associates are faithless to the oath they took when they were seated last Janu- ary> The Pioneer~teproduces these edi- torial " expressions from the state’s most widely read papers as a strik- _Jng illustration of the popular di approval of the action of the Sen- ate and-as an indication of what is in store ‘for public 'servants who con- temptubusly -ignore the rightfiil de- mands of the people. R R R R R R CRORCR R R © WHATOTHER PAPERS-SAY - © 6000000906000 66060 Hats Off to Miller: | Congressman | trict showed what 'kind of stuff he | was made of when' the vote on Can- adian reciprocity was taken and he voted for it. Those styled Minnesota Davis, Lindbergh, and Hammond, voted against it. Take your “hat off to Miller.—Ely Miner. other - self- “progressives,” Steenerson Work: for All Willing to Werk. That No man | kicking for a chance to work. !man was a false alarm. :here in Clearwater county, at least, rwllo wants work these days needs to be out of employment ten hours. There is plenty of good land and also timber which can be had on time for iall those who are wiling to work and desire to make a home for them- selves.—Bagley Herald. | . | A Safe and Sane Fourth, The Duluth Herald has started the campaign for a safe and Fourth of July. It'sa good early lstart~hut none too early. When 11,662 people lost their lives and 35,- 620 have been injured in the last (eight years from the unsafe and in- sane way of celebrating the glorious Fourth, it is certainly time for a| cpange of program.—St. Cloud Jour-| sane ~nal-Press. Governor Did Right Gobernor Eberhart vetoed House File 66, the bill granting to street railways the right to give policemen and firemen free rides. The princi- pal reason given by the governor is that it is an entering wedge in re- storing the old pass system, and that it makes the privilege a ques- tion of bargain betwen railway benefited. are sound and the veto a proper one.—St. Cloud Times. company and the parties The governor's reasons | . . | All Get Together. | We happen to notice that the towns which have good, live, up-and- doing commercial clubs did not fare as badly in the recent census returns as did the villages where the people let the town run itself and every- body worked for their vidual interecsts. Many towns sim- ply die of stagnation. They fail to create a ripple in the world, and people do not care to move into a town of that kind, .and do not like to invest their money in a village that is sleeping—silently Our town has always been classed as one of the liveliest on the map. Let us all get together and make it We own interests when we are trying to advance the interests of the town in which we live—Waverly Star. extraordinarily from now on. are working for our “Boy,” the Great Question. The greatest question before the | American people today is the ‘Amer- ican boy.—Pioneer County Journal. Insults Sporting Fraternity. .tives prohibits the use of all repeat- ing and automatic shotguns in Min- nesota. Something similar to this bill'is introduced every year by some crank who has not brains enough to introduce something legitimate. Minnesota has some- excellent game laws and the bill referred to is a direct insult to the sporting frater- nel. Let the School Remain. ' The attempt of moving the Red Miller of this dis-| We heard a man ‘the other day| the street: own indi-| sleeping. | A bill in the house of representa- | nity of the state.—Pine River Senti- | pupils Even if leged {1l treatment of the should mot e thought of. eation. 1t the management is bad put men in churge that will do bet- ter, but do not at the same time sacrifice’ ' property - worth nearly bition of some other town:that wants a state institution.—St. Peter Free Press. ROOSEVELT DAM| Figureat Celebration. | ONE OF LARGEST IN WORLD | lfleelzmahon Project. of _Which the Dam' Is the Leading Feature Has Cost Nine Millions ‘of Dollars and Two Millions More:Must Bé Expend- ed Before the' Work Is Completed. | Phoenix, Ariz,, March 20.—The for- | mal deilication of the great dam named after “former President Roosevelt oc- | curred in the presence of the colonel, who was the principal figure in the | celebration of the completion of the leading feature of the Salt river recla mation -project, which- has cost the government about $9,000,000 and | which ‘will probably cost $2,000,000 | ‘more to complete. | The Roosevelt dam reclamation | project is situated a half mile below the confluence of Tonto creek and up- per Salt river, at the head of a canyon through which Salt river flows for | many miles. It is the most imposing | feature of the Salt river project, the | first one undertaken by the United States reclamation service under the provisions -of the reclamation act, ap- proved by President Roosevelt June 17, 1902, and after whom the town at. the dam site is named. It is seventy- six miles east of Phoenix, which is sit- | uated in the center of a valley of which 240,000 acres is signed to the Salt River-Valley Water Users’ asso- ciation. This corporation represents | the farmers in their dealings with the government, guaranteeing payment of ‘ the construction cost of the project. Creates Immense Reservoir, The dam creates a reservoir extend- ing twelve miles up. Tonto creek and thirteen miles up Salt river nearly to feet long. The capacity of the reser- ! voir is 1,284,204 acre feet, the largest | artificial lake in the world, Though | the dam is not the largest in the world, l it is among the largest. The founda- tlon rests on bed rock forty feet below river level. It is 235 feet long, between the can- yon walls, and 170 feet wide., From the river level to the crest of the spillways 220 feet, that being the greatest depth of storage possible. The spillways are bridged and over the bridges and the top of the dam runs the only highway in that region connecting the mountain country on the north and south sides of Salt river. This roadway is twenty feet above the highest storage and a coping four feet high protects the road- way. From the bottom of the founda- feet. The dam is curved, ‘arching ‘up stream, and at the top is- 680 feet long and sixteen feet wide. The spillways at either'end are 200 feet wide, 5o the Hlength, inclusive of the bridges over the spillways, is 1,080 feet. The spill- ways are blasted from the mountain sides. ONLY ONE-“‘BEST” | | Bemidji People Give- Credit Where Credit Is Due. People of Bemidji who suffer with sick kidneys and bad backs :want a: kidney remedy ‘that can be depender upon. The best is Doan’s. Kidney Pills, a medicine for the kidneys only, made from;pure roots and herbs, and the only one that is backed by cures in. Bemidji. Here's: Bemidji testi- mony: Mrs. Henry Revor, 808 Bemidji Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “I con- sider Doan’s Kidney Pills by far the best ‘medicine I have ever known of for disordered kidneys. For weeks at a time.I suffered from backache and it seemed that ¥ could get noth- ing that would relieve me perma- nently. Doan’s Kidney Pills how- ever, acted differently: than any other preparation. I had ever tried and made me ‘feel likeanother person. I feelcertain that this preparation has completely driven kidney trouble from my system.” For sale by all dealers. -Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New YOI‘)(, sole agents for the United States. Remember the naem—Doan’s— and take no other. the charges were ‘true it would not|. vm![fn £00d grounds for & changé of lo- $500,000 merely to gratify the am- | 407 Minn, Ave. 1SDEDICATED Former President Principal what is known:as the intake dam, 400 at either end of the dam the height is| tion to the top of the coping is 284 § Kickapoo Worm Killer makes children regular; stops = mussy habits; makes their bowels act naturally; stimulates the liver; clears out malarial’ symptoms. Acts as a safe tonic and health- || builder. 'It is the best worm medicine known, and also the finest general tonic for children. Price, 25c., sold by drugglsts everywhere. . M. MALZAHN & CO. | * REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE “{FARMJLOANS, RENTALS FARMS AND CITY PROPERTIES Bemidji, Minn OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING uce Phone 58 - 818 Aworica Ave. Office Phose 12 T. BEAUDETTE Merchant |Tailor Ladies’ and Gents' Suits to Order. French Dry Cleaning, l;reuing and Repairing a pecialty. 315 Beltrami-Avenue (HOMESTEAD LAND IN NORTH DAKOTA The Berthold Reservation | will be opened this summer. | It is all first class farming land.. If you want complete! |information - regarding this! opening send ten cents in! .isilver to Ryder News, Ryder, North Dakota. Leave your orders for | seasoned Birch, Tam- | arack or Jack Pine |! Wood with S. P.HAYTH| Telephone 11 i { | Automobile, 6as Engine and Motor- Boat | EXPERT REPAIR WORK Shop, Lake front foot of 4th St. Phone 152 E. H. JERRARD | R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR i AND EMBALMER | Office’313 Beitraml Ave. ‘Phone 319-2, Defects QuICKLY y GUHIIEGTEII The chief surgeon of the Plast:e H | Surgery Institute quickly rights { all wrongs with the human ace jor features without knife or pain to the entire satisfaction and de- | light of everypatient. The work 118 as lasting as lifeitself. Ifyou have a facial irregularity of any kind write Plastic Surgery lnshtute Corner Sixth and Hennepin & MINNEAPOL'S, MINN. "JO‘H‘NG ZIEGLER L “THE LAND MAN® Life—~-INSUR A NCE—Acident REA’I. ESTATE IN ALL ITS 'BRANCHES FARM: LANDS BOUCHT AND SOLD Qo to' Him for Farm Loans Office--Schroeder Building FFire Life Health Personal Accident Marine Burglary Theft T o7 iy | REAL FARM AND =z k] ESTATE . CITY LOANS' |2 i - & R 5 TELEPHONE 395 OFFICE IN POSTOFFICE BLOCK 5 o S % 2 £ ] ; L. ELLIS [ & Q g GENERAL, INSURANCE £ -1 w 4| SURETY - RENTALS AND => E BONDS COLLECTIONS BB‘ o o 3 Employers' Liability ~ Elevator = Personal Effects Steam Boiler :.5 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. sTheodore Roosevelt says: “No Investment on earth is 80 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 yprices with easy terms of payment if desired on some of the best residence and business property in that rapidly growing City. [JA 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 is now running its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji; investigate the oppor- tunities off-red for business on a small or large scale. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA Fresh Milk and Cream Have your milk delivered to your table in sterilized bottles Fresh From The Cows on the Alfalfa Dairy Farm 3} miles west of the city Order your milk and cream with your groceries each day Gream, quart hottles, 38¢ less 4¢ for bottle Cream,. Pint bottles, 20c less 3¢ for botte Gream, 1-2 pint hottles, 13¢ less 3cfor bottle Milk, quart hottles, 12c less 4¢ for bottle Milk in Gallon Lots or more 25¢ per gallon Kindly get your milk orders in before 8 o’clock a. m. in order to have them delivered by first delivery. First delivery leaves the store at 8 a. m. ‘W. G. Schroeder Fourth St. Phone 65 " Minnesota Ave., - Cor. Bemidji Manufa The Following Firms Are Thoroughly THE CROOKSTON LUMBER GO WHOLESALE LUMBER: LATH AND BUILDING MATERIAL Fitzsimmons - Baldwin Company Successors to Meiges Bro. Co. Wholesale Fruits and Produce Fa on Commission. rs -Produce bought or sold ‘flllgk returs: cturers, Wholesalers and Jobhers Reltable-and Orders Sent fo Them Will Be Promptly Filled at Lowest Prices Model Ice Cream, Snowflake Bread ‘and Deehshus Candies Made at The Model Wholesale Bakery, Man- facturing Confectionery and Ice Cream Factory - BEMIDI, MINN. NORTHERN - GROGERY COMPANY WHOLESALE GROGERS 315 Minnesota Ave. Send your Mail Orders to BEO. 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 -Northern' Minnesota, Special order work given prompt attention The Given Hardware Co. Wholesale and Retail Hardware 316 Mimesse hn. 0 67