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

THE BEMIDJI DALLY PIONEER PUBLISNED EVERY lmm‘m SuaBAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H, DENU. Q.E. CARSON. Entored i tho Peglotfics at Somi)l, Wlangssta, a3 aecont 5s matter, SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YFAR N aDVANGE CITY OF BEMIDJI County Seat. Population—In 1900, 6099, Summer Resort---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. Altitnde—1400 ‘eet above sea level. ‘Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississipi river. ‘Water—Absolutely pure. sian wells. ‘Watér Mains—About ten miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death Rate—5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annual Rainfal!—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 Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. 1500 ; in 1910 Two arte- 75 School Houses—Four. Bank Deposits—-5800,000. Manufacturers—tardwood handles, lumber, lath, shingles and various other industries. Great Distributing Polnt—Lumber preducts, groceries flour, feed and hay. Postal Receipts—3$20,375 for 1910, 10th place in the state outside of St Paul, Minneapolis znd Duluth. Postal Savings Bank—Only one in Minnesota. Rallroads—Grear Northern, sota & International, M., R. L. & M., Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault . Ste. Marie, Wilton & Nerthern, Grand Forks to Duluth and Bemidji-Sauk .Centre, Ratlroad Depots—Three. Passenger Trains—TFourteen daily, Hospitals—One Distances—To St Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Tifteen. Brewerles—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factorles—One. Boat Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three, Auto Garages—One. Minne- Paul, 2230 miles; to A sad, sad summer for the Chau- tauquas, with Champ Clark so busy. The government has ordered 500 mules to the front; it looks like business for Missouri. We could not approve of any war, lightly undertaken, just at the ad- vent of the fishing season. that be- Eggs are getting so cheap amateur dramatics may again come a hazardous occupation. . The new Maxim explosive is doubt- less presented to give peace advocates new hope in the theory that war can be made too terrible to be attempted. Physicians in Baltimore were un- able to determine whether a girl was a Caucassian or an Ethiopian. They should have tried her with a water- melon. Mr. Woodrow Wilson having dined with Mr. Bryan may expect to be un- der suspicion of having . borrowed ideas, which he may hereafter pro- mulgate. Senator La Follette looks across the border line into mexico and won- ders whether it may not “us insurgents’” become proper for to stand together even in war. KNIVES. Some unnamed taxpayer has had the timidity to wonder by what math- ematical process 423 slick, sharp Jjack-knives should be purchased by the state to be distributed among 120 members of the house of repre- sentative. Taxpayers are some- times an awful nuisance. JUST ONE INSTANCE. The attorney general of the state of Minesota is one of those cold blood- ed individuals who believe that it is right and proper for the state to take a man out and hang him by the neck until dead. Fortunately the Minnesota legislature manifests in- dications of a higher civilation. After the house had passed the Mackenzie bill abolishing capital punishment the attorney general came out with an opinion which, were the attorney general to be taken very seriously, might have jeopard- ized the bill in the senate. The at- torney general opined that if the present bill were enacted. into law one Martin O’'Malley, the LeSueur county murderer, would go scot free. Governor Eberhart who doesn’t re- lish the responsibility of naming the day on which the state shall proceed to strangle the life out of 0’Malley, has refused to permit the execution until the legislature has expressed its complete convictions on the sub- Jject. Note the difference between the governor and the attorney general. One refuses voluntarily sanction a|continue to exist unless a damper is { the money to pay for the road when legal murder while the other calm- ly interprets the statutes in'a man- ner that might jeopardize the Mac- kenzie bill. Now comes the lagging informa- tion that if the senate passes the Mackenzie bill, as is freely predicted “lit will, the board of pardons will commute the O'Malley sentence to life imprisonment. THE ELWELL ROAD BILL. Senator J. T. Elwell has a good roads bill Dbefore the legislature which is of special significance to northern Minnesota, and inasmuch as it does in no way conflict with either present or proposed laws will appeal strongly to all who study it. Under ' the. provisions of the El- well bill, whick is an optional mea- sure, a road may be built at any cost to suit the needs of the locality | in which it is built. It is especially adopted to use in northern ,Minne- sota, where long stretches of good | roads are sorely needed, and-where | it will be made to serve the double purpose of being a good. road and a fire: brake at the same time. This would mean protection areas of forests and growing timber land..maKing it easy to patrol long distances in a day with modern con- veyances. The bill proposes to- permit a for icounty or counties to lay out and finance new. roads under supervision of the state highway commission. County certificates of payable in from one to ten years.are authorized. The county is to be re- imbursed by the state paying into this fund at least one half the entire cost of such road, it paying its one half in ten.equal yearly installments. The bill provides that the county pay one fourth the cost in ten equa.ll annual payments at the time taxes | are due and payable. With this method of payment the county has it is finished, and the state fund is not entirely used on a single road in a county and the one tenth of one fourth raised each year by the county and individual will make it easy on all. The bill further provides that gifts may be made to help the town, county or individual assessed. Altogether, the bill looks good to the North. NO TIME FOR A WHITEWASH. It is not. difficult to stir up public indignation, and often. without real facts to back charges made, where a public institution or public officers are concerned, but it is not so easy to pile up the mountain of corrobated testimony presented the legislative committee showing plainly that un- desirable conditions exist at the Red Wing training échonl, The public pulse thrills at the story of a lad who claims to have been beaten on the bare skin until the “disciplinarian” be- came exhausted -but members of a nonprejudiced committee demand that such.evidence be substantjated by other and more reliable witneses and it fell to the lot of former Sena- tor Stephens, who has won the ap- plause and thanks of the state, to present an abundance of proof to show that his often repeated asser- tions that cruelty is practiced at Red Wing are indeed founded truth, no matter how deep the blush of shame which mantles Minnesota’s brow as a result. Eliminating all testimony offered by inmates and former inmates, of mothers . of inmates and former em- inhumane on ployes, there remains dence from the lips of the men in charge of the Red Wing institution to condemn it while the revelation of the investigation as a whole is not a glowing tribute to the manner in which the state maintains such institutions or to. the boards and of- ficials who must be held directly re- sponsible for irregularities. Minnesota. doesn’t want a school, ‘where boys are presumed to be train- ed, in which the youths are flogged as were surly slaves in the ’50s, nor wherein the lads are made to eat from swill pails, chained to iron cells, or knocked prostrate by blows from clenched. fists of brute attendants. And it will appear to most people that the state can get along without the services of a superintendent who by his own admission has delivered fifty blows on the bare back of a boy enough evi- | under his guardianship. The last thing the investigating committee should think of is the whitewash brush and the last thing to influence the verdict is sympathy for those guilty of the cruelty prac- ticed upon the state’s wards at Red Wing. Senator Stephens has estab- lished the facts as they have existed for a long time and stil exist and will large ! indebtedness | laced on them. It is mow up to th dict which is to be finally passed up- on by the legislature itself. The ctommittee has worked hard and long and is now in a position to give, and it probably will, a fair and unbiased jopinion as to the reforms needed. nt the reform school. i When you have rheumatism in your foot or instep apply Chamber- | lain’s Liniment and yo:x will get quick relief. It costs but a quarter. | Why Suffer? For sale by Barker's Drug Store. STANLEY RD_BISDN: Louis National. Club Dead. . Owner. of St. League . Baseball i i i Cleveland, March 25.—Stanley Rob- ison, owner of the St. Louis National League baseball club, died of blood roisoning at the home of his sister-in- law, Mrs. Frank de Haas Robison. CONSIDERABLE:DAMAGE DONE Two Bombs Exploded in Omaha’s New Courthouse. Omaha, March 25.—Two explosions in the basement of the new million- dollar courthouse created censiderable excitement and brought out the po- lice reserves. ‘Windows were shattered in build- ings two blocks away and consider- able other damage was done. The police believe the explosion re- sulted from dynamite.. A short piece of fuse. was found in the basement, in the vicinity of where the explosion oc- curred. Two men and a woman were seen running from the fenced enclos- ure surrounding the building just be- fore the explosion. The most common cuuse of inso- Chamberlain’s Tablets correct these disorders and enable you to sleep. For sale by mania is disorders of the stomach, { Barker’s Drug Store. Abolish Common Drinking Cup. New York, March 25.—After Oct. 1 it will be unlawful to have a “common drinking cup” in any park, public building, factory, theater, school, rail- road station or ferryhouse in this city.. A regulation adopted by the board of health as an additional sectic.i to the santitary code rates the common drinking cup as a public nuisance and prescribes penalties to prevent its use. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapalis Wheat. Minneapolis, March 24.—Wheat— May, 95%¢c; July, 97%c; Sept., 92%ec. On track—No. 1 hard, 97%c; No. 1 Northern, 95%@97%c; No. 2 North- ern, 93% @95%c; No. 3 Northern, 91% @94%c. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 24—Wheat—To ar- rive and on track—No. 1 hard, 97%c; No. 1 Northern, 963%c; No. 2 North- ern, 933% @94%c; May, 963%c; July, 97%ec. Flax—On track and to arrive, $2.46; May, $2.45. St. Paul e Stock. St. Paul, March 24.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; fair to good, $5.00@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.50@5.10; veals, $5.00@6.00. Hogs—$6.50@6.60. Sheep—Wethers, $4.25@5.00; yearlings, $4.25@5.15; spring lambs, $5.00@6.10. ® Chicago Grain.and Provisions. Chicago, March 24.—Wheat—May, 885%c; July, 881%c; Sept., 883c. Corn —May. 47% @47%c; July, 48%c; Sept., 50% @50%c. Oats—May, 303% @30%c; July, 30%¢c; Sept., 30%@30%c. Pork —May, $15.97; July, $15.65. Butter— Creameries, 156@24c; dairies, 14@20c. Bggs—13% @15%¢. Poultry—Turkeys, 19¢; chickens, 15%c; springs, 15%ec. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, March 24.—Cattle—Beeves, $5.20@6.75; Texas steers, $4.50@5.60; Western steers, $4.80@5.80; stockers and .feeders, $4.00@5.30; cows and heifers, $2.65@5.90; calves, $5.25@7. 25. Hogs—Light. $6.80@7.70; mixed, $6.65@7.10; heavy, $6.45@6.90; rough, $6.45@6.65; good to choice heavy, $6. 65@6.95; Dpigs, $6.60@7.10. Sheep— Native $3.10@5.35; yearlings, $4.75@ 5.60; lambs, $5.00@6.50. If you have trouble in getting rid of your cold you may know that you are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a cold should hang on for weeks and it will not if you | take Chamberlain’s. Cough Remedy. For sale by.Barkel Drug Store. committee to bravely render the ver-| b L Lweriers signed by Adjutant General Ains- 1 at Chihuahua, Mex., has been instruct- | captured with the insurrectos.at Agua i i [ | | | worth of Washington. {R. Kenny, in charge of a recruiting ‘State -Department Probing Reported Execntmns. OFEICIAL NEWS LACKING Friends of John. H. Dignowity, One of icans Said to Have, Been | Shot to. Death_in:Mexico'Following a Drumhead. Courtmartial,” . Certain That He Had Taken.No, Part. in the| Insurrection. Washington;. March 25.—The ¢onsul ed by the state departpent to inquire into the.report ‘that John Hamilton Dfignow;y and, three other Americans had, been shot to death in the state of Chihuahua under the Mexicanv court- martial. - The consul at Nogales will investigate the reported..execution of four Americans, Adams, Young,.How- ard and Shanley, after. haying, been Prieta. . State department officials an- nounced that they haa no official infor- mation of the reported executions. New York, March-25.—“If ‘Ham’ Dig- nowity was_shot by Mexican federal ! soldiers,” said R. G. Johnson, “there’s going to .be trouble about it. ‘Ham’ was in Mexico to protect the property of his family and for nothing.else. He was no-insurrecto and had no part in any revolution. .. He kept to-his, own business, but he had no end of nerve, and so have all his family. They’ll never let this matter drop if they have any cage.” Mr. Johnson, until recently, was in business here with Colonel J. V. Digno- wity, an uncle of Hamilton Dignowity, reported in dispatches from San An- tonio as shot by order of a Mexican courtmartial for taking part in the in- surrection. Colonel Dignowity, who is a mine owner, had no confirmation of the press dispatches, but he, teo, was sure his nephew could have had no part in the insurrection. “We' shall ask for a full investiga- | tion and the punishment of those re- sponsible, he said. John Hamilton Dignowity, said his uncle, was a mining engineer and owned considerable property in Mex- ico. Since the insurrection began he had been much troubled with roving ! bands of marauders. | ANXIOUS TO GET RECRUITS | Men - Not Meeting Physical Require- | ments Accepted in Chicago. i Chicago, March' 25.—The war de- ! partment is so eager to enlist men that in several cases recruits who did | not come up to the regular physical requirements were admitted on waiv- Lieutenant F. station, said that the waiving of quali- fications was unusual and an indica- | tion that the men were urgently ueed- ed. Nearly all are being enlisted in the infantry. One of the men admitted was four pounds below the minimum, weight, 128 pounds, and another was five feet, three inches tall, an inch shorter than standard. REBELS FORCED TO RETREAT | Lose Thirty-six.Killed. in Battle. With | P Federals. ! Agua Prieta, . Mex.,. March 25.— | Thirty-six rebels and eight federals are | dead as the result of a nine-hour bat- tle at La Colorado,. south of Hermosil- lo, according to an official report re- ceived here. The rebels had possession of the town but after hard fighting were driven out. It is believed now that the town of Hermosillo is safe from attack, as the routing of the rebel forces from La Colorado - will. deter Juan Cabral’s band of 250 rebels, which had been maneuvering to enter La Colorado. The united rebel force had contem- plated an attack on Hermosillo. NEVADA 1S STILL DIVORGE. PARADISE Governor . Signs. Bill .Making Residence. Six. Months. Reno, Nev., March 25.—Clouds that have oppressed the Reno divorce colony passed away and .the sun shone on Nevada as the ‘“divorce paradise” when Governor Oddie = signed the “time lock” divorce bill. As a result a party of women, di- vorcees-to-be, who have been waiting in a Canadian city, are “on their way to Reno.” The bill takes out of the courts all doubt as to the term of residence re- quired to insure jurisdiction in divorce cases. It provides that six months’ resi- dence in any county in'the state, ex- cept in emergency cases, when ab- sence from the county is permitted, shgll give the Nevada courts jurisdic- tion. No power is left with the courts to inquire into the question of intent or good faith when the question of resi- dence is under consideration. Mill City Gambler Ends Life. Minneapolis, March 25.—R. L. Scott, familiarly known .as “‘Scotty,” a Min- neapalis, gambler, died in the city hos. pital a suicide. He attempted his life Thursday by shooting, and it was be- ! 'second Elég&méntnf»#qrmer Mrs. Brown, Ends; Unhappily. FORMER _MRS. BROWN SUES Wants Divorce ,From Rear. Admiral Ford’s Son. Baltimore, the first, has ended court. March 25.—Mrs., Mabel Michael Ford’s second elopement, like in the divorce | In papers secretly filed in the | circuit coyrt she petitions for divorce | arch” that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely ‘destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the wl tem when entering {v through the mucous surfaces, : Such articles should never be used exunb on presciiption of reputable physi- ci da, amazs qh@: will do is tenfold O. Gnro. manufact ld Chent T n merc-u-y. n-d is taken tnwrnl]lv. .m‘{lnl directly upon the blood. and ol the system. In buying H ll ati Cure be sure you get the Zenmine. It I8 lllan internally and l!.lll‘la in .Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. O 'l‘esblmonl%% ha&mt i Dper bottle. Take fllll sl- lmll’ Pills for constipation “M. MALZAHN & CO. ¢ REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE FARMS AND CITY PROPERTIES 407 Minn. Ave. { | |'T'OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING [ Sosdoace Phona 58 18 Amrica Ave. Ofics Phon 1 | | | Automobile, -Gas Engine-and Motor Boat EXPERT REPAIR WORK Shop, Lake front foot of 4th St. Phone 152 E. H. JERRARD —tor— LIQUOR LICENSE. ‘from her second husband, Lawrence | Ford, son of Rear Admiral Josh D.| Ford, retired. Mrs. Ford's first husband was Frank | £ Brown, Jr., son of ex-Governor Frank |of said city of Bomid was stormy. She sued the ex-governor for'l"ll $100,000 for alienation of his son’s ai Brown. Theu marital ‘career tections, but compromised for $: Four months later she eloped with | if the news is confirmed,” | Ford. MOTHERS n-.).'rm\lc. with PERI SOOTHLS the CHILD, SOI COLIC, an QA 1t is ab Be sure and ask for “Mrs ‘olutely harmle: winsiow's Soothing Svrup,” and take no other sind Twenty-five centsa bottle. County of Beltrami City of Bemldjl Notlce is ‘hereby bas been made STATE OF MINNF.SOTA.} ss praying for license .o'sell intoXicating liqu for” the tern commencing on April 14rh, and terminatingy on April lath. 1912, 7 the following person. and av the following | s stated in sald application. respec- | wit: J.E. MALOY at and in the front room sround floor of that cer wi brick_buildims located on original townsite Iuv, A, Minn, Said application will be heard and det mined by said city council of the city Bemidji at the council rooms in the city hail in said ci v of Bemidji, in Beltrami County. | and State of Minnesota, on Monday, the Jouh | day of April Lhnl day Wi 111, at 8 o'clock p. m. of my hand and seal of City of Be- ji. this 24th day of March, 1911, ) GEO, STEIN. City Clerk. . Last Apr.1. 2t Sat, First March possibly derive from | Bemidji, Minn | NOTICE OF APPLICATION| ven, That application : il Bemidji. PUBLIC LIBRARY NEw Sunday and Mon- Jnyllwslzl.am..lw'ilp.m.’;msp.m. Snuday 3 to p.m. londay 7 to % BEATRICE MILLS, Librasia = Bought and. Sold " If you have North American or. Vermillion to sell; Call on C. G. JOHNSON r . BROKER Office 0'Leary-Bawser Bidg. BEMIDJI, MINN. | | i Phone 641 Beginning March 10th I will have for sale {{. Macaroni Seed Wheat |{ White Russian Seed Oats || Green Russian Seed Oats All seed is thoroughly cleaned ready for seeding. CONRAD LAJAMBE Cor. Irvine and- 13th, Phone 267 Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S. P. HAYTH Telephone 11 R F. MURPHY i = FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 B mi Ave. Phone 319.2. has just been awarded the Grand Prix atthe Brussels International Exposition ® THE CRODKSTON LUMBER 0. WHOLESALE LUMBER: LATH AND BUILDING MATERIAL Fitzsimmons - Baldwin Company Successors to Melges Bro. Co. Wholesale - Fruits and Produce . .FarmersProduce bought- or seld lieved for a time he.would, survive... - on Gommission..... Quick..refurns - Bemidji Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Jobbers The Following Firms: Are Thoroughly. Reliahle and Orders Sent fo- Them Wil Be Promptly Filled at Lowest Prices NORTHERN - GROGERY COMPANY WHOLESALE GROGERS The Civen Hardware Co. Wholesale and Retail Hardware Phons 57 316 Mipneseta Ans. “Watches and the finest equij ‘work- Model Ice Cream, Snowflake Bread and Deehshus Candies Made at The Model Wholesale Bakery, Man- facturing Confectionery and Ice Cream Factory 315 Minnesota-Ave. BEMIDII, MINN. Send your Mail Orders to GED. T. BAKER & CO. Manufacturing Jewelers ' .and Jobbers They are especially “prepared : to Eromm.lyflllallordeumtheuwmm.: ines of merchandise. Largest stock of Diamonds and ndum‘n Nl given prompt attention work n | |