Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 7, 1911, Page 2

= N THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER B blished every afternoon except Sun- ' dul;uby!the Bemldji Pioneer Pulsl!hln‘ Company. G. E. CARSON. B. X. DENU. F. A. WILSON, Bditor. In the City of Bemidt the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer & favor if they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. ‘Al papers are 'continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, and until arrearages are paid. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrie One year, by carrier Three months, posta; Six Months, postage paid. 50 One ‘year, postage paid. The Weekly Pioneer. Eight pages, containing a. summ: of ‘the news of the week. Publisher every Thursday and sent postage pald to any address for $1.00 in advance. ENTERED_AS SECOND CLASS MAT- MiBye AN GBS s A op MARCH 3, 1879. AT On .8 .45 ¥ oo SS CEOOOOOOOOTOOG & THIS DATE IN HISTORY. August 7. Duteh New York. 1795—Joseph Podman Drake, noted poet, born. Died Sept. 21, 1820. 1804—Second bombardment of Tripoli by the American squadron under Commo- dore Preble, s 1826—TFirst election held in Chicago. 1830—The Duke of Orleans ac- cepted the crown of France as Louis Philippe 1855—A bloody riot occurred in St. Louis between the Irish and the American party. @ @ @ @ 1673—The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ K @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1858—Ottawa selected as the & @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ® @ @ @ 4 @ @ recaptured capital of Canada. 1870—Paris declared in a state of siege. 1882—Commander David S. Me- Dougal, U. §. N.,, who with a single ship de- stroyed a Japanese squa- dron at Shimonoseki, died. Born in Ohio, Sep- tember 27, 1809. o 1888—William C. Van Horne succeeded Sir George Stephen as president of the Canadian Railway. 1903—Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles issued an address to the army on the occa- sion of his retirement. 1904—The British, under Col- onel Younghusband, en- tered Lassa unopposed, the Dalai Lama having fled to a monastery. R R R R R R R R RO R Pacific PPPOPPIPPPPVOOOVOOVVOVVIVOVVOVVIPVIDPOOVPOVPIOOIPOOLOEO®OGOO® GOOD ROADS. In a recent issue of the Duluth News Tribune, “The Bear’s Club” had this to say: “Suppose Minnesota should spend $6,000,000 on good roads within a year. That would be going some; it would attract attention, and it would presumably hasten development of the undeveloped portions. If that much money was judiciously spent it would have an important bearing on the future of the state. “Under the Elwell act it is pos- sible to spend $6,000,000 within a year. “The state has $300,000 a year on the present basis for construction. That is in addition to the $150,000 allowed from the general funds for administrative purposes. Wherever the state spends one dollar, the coun- ty and the locality benefited must between them spend a dollar to match it. As fast as the state spends $300,000 another $300,000 will be spent with it. Under the law the money may be spent for ten years in advance. “It is time, as Senator Elwell says, to do things in a large way. No railroad company would let its con- tracts in measly little snaches, a mile here and a mile there. Under this law a county or several counties can join in building, under state super- vision, long blocks of road. “Instead of the shovel and the hoe, the roads can be built with steam shovels and traction engines. In- stead of wheelbarrows, a string of four-ton wagons. Instead of sod from the ditch, gravel from five to ten miles away. And cost, perhaps, not more than half what it has cost to build roads under primitive meth- ods. “The constitutionality of the law has been questioned. It is Senator Elwell’s belief that the question is not serious. This law is founded on the ditch law, which has been af- firmed. The court which found the drainage law valid will not seek for flaws in the same measure translated to another purpose of similar import. “Under the Elwell law, as under the preceding law, no_country can take in any year more than 8 per cent of the total, and not less than one-half of one per cent must be ap- portioned to every county whether it is used or not. A little simple arithmetic will show that any 24 countles that apply -for the maximum " can absorb 70 per cent of the state’s WORMS fund.. “The fFemaining 30 per cent must bé reserved fof the -other 60 counties. If advantage is taken of the 10-year claugeé.the counties which first imptess on the highway com- mission the merits of their projects will have tied up that portion of the fund for 10 years. “The heft of this money ought to g0 where it will do most good. Now we may be mistaken, but we think it is needed in some of the northern counties more than anywhere- else. That is for the state highway com- mission to determine after it has heard all the stories, but we are go- ing on the theory that by their need and by, the good it will do them, most of the 24 or 25 counties that should get the lion’s share are among our neighbors. “There is another reason why the northern counties should be interest- ed. Under the ordinary procedure, state and federal lands do not pay their share of road work. Under the Elwell law, lifting bodily the ditch law, state lands pay their assessment and government lands are expected to bear their part. We have heard of towns where no improvements were possible for want of property taxable for the cost. If such a town will vote only a part of the money, it can get the Elwell law to do the rest—as long as the state allowance for the county is not exhausted. “The Elwell bill is designed to do the most good to the sections that need it most. It provides for the first time for comprehensive road work, instead of fragmentary im- provements. It provides largely that the cost of the improvement shall be met from the enhanced value estab- lished. “The first county to get action is Winona. Winona county is spending $120,000 under the Elwell law for' about 20 miles of macadamized road at $6,000 a mile. The state pays $60,000 of that and the county $20,- 000, and the Winona banks under- took to see that the debentures were placed at 4 per cent. The other $20,000 was raised almost entirely-| by subscription instead of assess- ment.. The sum was subscribed by wealthy farmers, who wished better automobile runs to the city, by vil- 'ages through which the road would pass, and by the people in the cities, who wished the opportunity to get more easily into the country and en- Joy its, refreshment. s ‘Winona thereby absorbs for the nert 10 years 2 per cent of the state fund, u'n_leas the state increases in the meantime its levy. So not all the 25 counties that get the maxi- mum can be in northern Minnesota. We do not begrudge Winona the money. It would not do us any good if we did. The money will be well spent and the expenditure will re- dound to the benefit of the whole state. Furthermore, any county, where the people take enough inter- est in the project to subscribe volun- tarily one-fourth of the amount, ought to get pretty near anything they ask. “But there are counties among our neighbors that need state high- ways every bit as much as Winona, and from our point of view more. There are sections where a slashing through the woods would look bet- ter to hewildered eyes than an as- phalt road in Winona. “The state of Minnesota is in & po- sition to spend next year $6,000,000 for roads under the Elwell act. That is going some. But do you know, a district is not thoroughly equipped || unless it has a road every mile. road every mile would call for 25,- 000 miles in St. Louis county, exact- i ly the distance around the world. “At the lowest practicable figure it || The job of || road building in St. Louis county will |} would cost $25,000,000. not be finished this year. Neither will it be finished in Koochiching So let’s do what we can today and leave the rest.” Worth Bearing in Mind. The surest way of governing, both in private family and in the kingdom; is for a husband and a prince some- times to drop their prerogatives. Always. 1 ‘When a man begins by saying: “I want to tell you a good joke on my- self,” you may be sure that he is One [} going to make somebody else appear ridiculous. i Doctors laugh at “worms.” Mothers. pooh-pooh ' worms. Fathers suiff at worms, but children go on. suffering With worms Just the same. Surprising how - Kickapoo Worm Killer will kngck - “pig-headedness” out of some parents and make them| ashamed of letting their. ' children suffer needlessly. Try K. W. K. and! you will believe in worms and guit. knocking. Price, 26c.; sold by drug- gists everywhere and by = 'A COMPETENT WITNESS. | ‘The Mule’s Testimony Was Taken and iccopted by the Judge. The originator of a widely known probation system, Judge William J. Pollard of a St. Louis police court, is |- the subject of a Boston Herald story which illustrates his unique way of dealing out justice to minor offenders. A driver had been brought before 1 sicharged with cruelty to @ Bad been driving a'galled mule, but, he had an expert witness in a veterinarian: who testified that the sore on'the mule’s back did not pain | the animal in the least. 5 The judge listened attentively to the long technical opinions and then de- manded to know the mule's where- abouts. ‘He was informed that it was harnessed to a wagon which stood on the street in front of the courthouse. The judge then ordered that court to be adjourned for five minutes. He took his cane and proceeded to the street, went up to the mule and with the end of his cane gently touch- ed the sore spot on the animal’s back. The mule promptly tried to kick the dashboard off the wagon. Once agaln the judge touched the sore spot with his cane,-and the mule responded as before. Judge Pollard returned to the bench. The prisoner was called before him. “With all due respect to the expert || testimony you have had introduced in your behalf to show that the mule’s back does not pain him, I will fine you $50,” announced the judge. “I asked the mule if the sore hurt him, and he said it did.” Cuts, Lameness, Strains, Bunches, Thrush, Old Sores, ° Nail Wounds; Foot Rot, Fistula, Bleeding, Etc. Etc. Made Since 1846, A Antety Price 28¢, 50¢c and $1.00 All Dealers o S, o Has the Largest AN you afford the risk, Circulation when you have costly s and delicate prized and fragile garments t» clean, can you afford the risk of cleaning them at home or having them done where you know nothing concern- iug the reliabilty and ex- perience of the cleaner? 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