Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 9, 1912, Page 1

LN L 7y Iy WINNESOTA |HisTORICAL VOLUME 9. NUMBER 292. “IS EXTRAVAGANT” SAYS CONGDON Submits Table of Figures Secured From the State Tax Commission, PER CAPITA COST IS LARGE Report Shows Minnesota Per Capita Expense Greater Than Oth- er States. WRITES TO DULUTH HERALD Resents Statement Made By Eber- hart That State is Econ- omical. The Duluth Herald on March 29 published the following letter from Chester A. Congdon. Mr. Congdon is a prominent business man of Du- luth, has served in the state legisla- ture and is qualified to speak with authority. In the view of recent statements by Governor Eberhart that the state business is economical- 1y administered, the letter is timely. To the Editor of the Herald: I note from a .ecent address of | Governor Eberhart, delivered at Mankato, that he is under the im- pression that the government of Min- nesota is economically conducted. As proof of this he gives the cost per capita of what he terms “admin- istrative expenses” of Minnesota and neighboring states, as follows: Minnesota cents lowa cents Wisconsin cents Michigan cents The value of these facts depends entirely upon the meaning of the words “administrative expenses.” Whatever they mean, they cover less than four per cent of the state’s disbursements. It is not wildly exhilarating to the taxpayer to know that four per cent of his taxes are frugally administer- ed, if the other ninety-six per cent is spent like the wages of a drunken sailor. On the per capita basis select- : : ed by Governor Eberhart it can :| : be demonstrated that, taking all : : things into consideration, the : : governmental expenses for each : : inhabitant of Minnesots is great- : : n that of any other state. : * “enene su e e table for forty-three states. I divided the bursements of population of that state for the year 1900 (this was before the taking of the census of 1910), and thereby ob-|: tained the per capita expense of each state. The seven highest were as fol- lows: Néyada “oewinawe .$18.56 Washington . 8.71 California . . .. 8.2¢ Ttall © oo vvneswvoyers ssase B4 Massachusetts . ,.......... 6.69 Minnesota . ......,... vee. 6,08 Colorado . ..... o ohewisiae ol . 6.08 The per capita disbursements of our neighboring states, with condi- tions supposedly like ours, were: North Dakota ... $2.76 South Dakota 2.82 Towa . ...:.. . 1.87 Wisconsin . .. 2.96 Michigan . e . 3713 During the session of 1911, I asked the tax commission for a simi- lar table, based upon the population of 1910, with the per capita receipts and disbursements figured out by them. . Thetr states. The per capita cost for the five most expensive states is: table covered forty-one Nevada . $9.60 Minnesota 6.42 7.1, QAR Ao e 5.59 Massachusetts . California The per capita cost of our neigh- boring states was as follows. North Dakota . ..$1.53 South Dakota . .. 1.94 Towa . ...... seees 187 ‘Wisconsin eeens 2,63 Michigan . ... R ARy ) It will be noted that Minnesota has' passed Washington, California, Utah and Massachusetts, and if it keeps up its present gait it will pass Nevada within a year or two, The last named state is a mining-camp with a population of onmly 81,975. Dividing the cost of running a state among 8o few people necessarily gives high per capita results. There- fore, relatively, Nevada is more cheaply operated than is Minnesota. It will be noted that every:state receipts and dis-|: each state by the|: OOV POPCOOOOOS EORCIRCICRORCRORCIC R R AR RN Gearlds Jury Completed. Up till noon today eleven jurors on the Gearlds case had been drawn and the twelfth man was gelected short- 1y after two o’clock. Weds Roosevelt’s Secretary. Toronto, Ont., April 9.—The wed- ding of Miss Dora Augusta Prime, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Prime of this city, and Frank Har- per, private secretary to Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt, took place this after- noon in St. Thomas’s church. The ceremony was followed by a large reception at the home of the bride’s parents. Region Editor Here. ‘W. T. Noonan, editor of the Bau- dette Region of Baudette is in the city on business. Mr. Noonan re- ports the rebuilt city of Baudette in a very prospering condition and prc- dicts a busy season along building and commercial lines the coming sea- son. He is making plans to change his paper from a six column, eight page paper to a seven column, eight page. The change will take place about May first. Notables at Bay City Banquet. Bay City, Mich.,, April 9.—At the McKinley club banquet, which is to be given here tomorrow night on the eve of the Republican state conven- tion to select delegates to the Chica- go convention, the Taft administra- tion will be represented on the speakers’ list by Secretary of Com- merce and Labor Nagel. Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge of In- diana will appear as the chief spokes- man for the Roosevelt candidacy. has reduced its per capita expenses except Minnesota. This may be ex- plained by the fact that in the first table the cost of recent years was di- vided by the population of 1900, while in the last table the cost of the same or immediately. succeeding years was divided by the population of 1$10. In spite of this increase in the diyisor of Minnesota’s expenses its per capita expenses were greater. In_order to compare the per capita expenses of Minnesota for different years, we divide the disbursement of each year by the population in 1900, with these results: Per Capita Year Cost 1906 . .$5.44 1907 . 6.08 1908 6.78 1009 .« enioe s . 7.60 Minnesota has a constant increase in her cost of government. The per capita expenses of 1900 were thirty-nine per cent greater than those of 1906, N x| . Bie R R ks e b eersiane * The Tax commission gave me a|: : ing the state of Minnesota is : twice that of Michigan; two and four-tenths that of Wisconsin; : : three times that of Iowa and : : South Dakota, and more than-: four times that of North Dako. HETY 3 b R, migimiwi ey s ceaee X There are only three states in the Union which expend a larger sum of money annually than does Minneso- ta. They are the following: Annual State Expenditure Population New York ...$39,012,687 9,113,614 Pennsylvania 27,562,962 7,665,111 Massachusetts 18,776,342 3,366,416 Minnesota ... 13,322,963 2,075,708 Why should Minnesota spend more money annually than the following states, which are more populous and wealthy than is Minnesota: Annual State Expenditure Population California . .$12,236,998 2,377,549 Ohio . 9,570,038 4,767,121 Michigan 9,046,090 2,819,173 Ilinois . - 8,830,500 5,638,591 Indiana . . 8,667,002 2,700,876 New Jersey ... 4,680,596 2,537,167 Our neighbor on the south, Iowa, has a population of 2,224,771 and annually expends $4,165,640. Wisconsin, on our east, with 4 population of 2,323,860, expends $6,- 129,337. 4 ‘What reason is there why Minne- sota should annually expend 50 per cent more money than do any of the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, and twice as much as Wisconsin, and three times as much as Towa? What do the people of Minnesota get for their money, which the peo- ple of these states do not have? It would seem as if there were legislators of Minnesota - could well do to the advantage of its people. You will pardon the length of this letter; but as T have known for three years: that the government of Min- nesota is grossly extravagant, I am compelled to demonstrate the fact when its official head holds it up as a pattern of economy. Yours truly, 2 % —Chester A, Congdon. Dujuth, March 28. o ® CURRENT EVENTS. ® much work which the governor and: GEORGE CLINTON Tells P Were on Warpath With Geronimo, ON FORT SILL RESERVATION Explanation Given of Status of Apache Prisoners of the War. PROTECTION- AND . CONTROL States That Plans for Freeing the Filippinos Are Under Way— Effective 1821, By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington—Secretary of - War Stimson, in ‘Tresponse to a request from Congress, has told the law-mak- ers all about the Apache prisoners of war . who are mow on the Fort Sill, Oklahoma, reservation, There are 257 of the prisoners and 18 of the number are borne on the morning reports as scouts. Thirty of the Indians are known to have been engaged in hos- tilities against the United States or to have committed acts of violation | against white citizens. Six of the braves now held in check in Okla- home were on the war path with Geronimo and surrendered with that great chief In 1886. The secretary in his report gives the names of the six Indlans who were known to have been on the war path with Geronimo, After each name there is an annotation to tell of the health and the conduct of the pris- oner. It might be noted that they are all set down as being of fair report except one whose name is Christian, and he apparently now has had a change of heart and {8 reported as having been-“very-good--for- about & year.” B Their Status Explained. The judge advocate general of the army adds a memorandum to the sec- reary of war’s report. He says: “The band of Apache Indians who were established on the Indian reser- vation at Fort Sill in 1894 had been engaged for many years prior to 1886 In acts of hostility against the people of the Urited States. These acts were terminated by their surrender to the military authoritles near Fort Bowie, Ariz, in September, 1886. With a view to their protection they were sent to San Antonio, Texas, where they remained for a tfme until some permanent arrangement could be made for their care and protec- tion. They were finally located at Fort Marion, Fla., where they re- mained for a number of years. As Fort Marion was. found to be an un- suitable place they were subsequently removed to Mount Vernon barracks, Ala. “As the climate at Fort Marion and Mount Vernon barracks was quite different from that to which they had been accustomed in San Antonlo, Arizona and northern Mexico, disease from which they had therefo- fore been immune crept in among them and upon full consideration of the situation by the secretary of war they were permanently established on the Fort Sill Military reservation in 1894, “As these Indians had been engaged In the commission of hostile acts for a number of years they were regard- ed, at their surrender, as occupylng the status of prisoners of war and were subsisted and maintained as such. As the hostilities in which they had taken part have long ceased to exist, their temporary status as pris- oners of war terminated, and they have since been regarded as a band of dependent Indians held in custody of the United States and under the epecial protection and control of the war department. This status, as to some of its essential incidents, con- tinues to. exist.” X The judge advocate general in clos- ing his report recommends that the military reservation where these In- dians are confined shall be contin- ued and used for its present purpose, at least until the Apache prisoners can be transferred eventually to some { other reservation which is suitable and to which they may be willing to come. The government does not like to force the Indians to change their scene of life from a place which they like to one where they may be dis- contented. Plans for the Filipinos. | It the Republican majority.in the senate and the rresident shall agree to it. the Filipinos may get complete independence on April 4, 1921, for guch is the program of the Democrat- fc house. The Democrats in congress REPORTS U.S.WARDS| of Indian Prisoners Who] 3 ! nent would be restored. It is believed ot o BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1912. (Copyright.) FIRE WASTE IS RUINOUS Court Asks Jury for Recommendation And It Stands for More Investigations. CASE DISCLOSES FACTS N | Courts are waking up to the im- portance of the -fire waste and to the ruinous. proportion‘of preventable fires. ~Judge Swanfl; ot New York city, after participation in the trial} of Antonio Bartolino the other day,| who was found guilty of arson by a jury, took up with the fire marshal and the district attorney the preva- lence of arson and the restrictions which might reasonably be imposed upon the crime. By questions he ascertained that there were 17,000 fires in Greater New York last year, with only occa- sional convictions for arson, although the evidence in this case had shown that the crime was general and wide- spread. In. consequence, Judge Swann has sent to Fire Commission- er Johnson a letter stating the facts disclosed in the Bertoline case and inclosing a transcript of the remarks made by the court, the jury and the assistant district attorney, urging an increased appropriation to enable the fire marshal department to investi- gate more carefully the great num- ber of suspicious fires. of himself in an absolutely independ- ent national exlstence. Representative W. A. Jones has pre- pared a bill which will let the Filf- pinos begin a course of “qualified in- dependence” on April 4, 1913. By the terms of the bill a Philippine con- gress is created and a system of gov- ernment modeled upon that of the United States is established. Suffrage Is to be granted to all the natives with certain well-defined restrictions. This condition it is intenaed, if the bill becomes a law, shall continue until 1821, when full independence will be granted. The bill probably will not pass congress. The plea will be that “we must not cut-the leading ptrings until thdy can guide them- Belves.” . Doubtful About the Joke. My daughter had tried to inculcate courage in her two-yearold boy by telling him when any accident befell him that “it was only a joke.” .One pight a tornado struck the neighbor- hood, and while trees were crashing around them and- they expected mo- mentarily to be carried away he crept up to his mother and, pulling her dress, sald, “Mamma, is this just 8 joke?"—Exchange. Continent That Wag Lost. ©One of the wonders of the word that men hear little abont is the Lost Con: tinent. Sea-going men are familiar with the chain of little islands that ex: tend from the continent of Asia down to Australia. Should the ocean go down five hundred feét this Lost Conti- that a few aeons ago the Lost Conti- nent really existed. # have shown from the time that .we took the Philippine islands that they think the Little Brown Brother will be fitted for the task of governing kimself sooner than the Republican think that he' will be. The president 8 -quoted as’ once ‘saying. that forty |3 : ired’ to ‘ma yeara woul He Also Serves Who—— T If you want to “serve the people” 1t isn’t necessary to run for an affice. ‘Work hard, attend to your own bus , and pay your bilis on the first HH KKK KKK KKK KK R KK * HOME PATRONS CREED. * I BUY AT HOME—hecause % my interests are here; ¥ BECAUSE the community * which is good enough for me to * live in is good enough for me * to buy in; * BECAUSE T'want to get what ¥ I buy when I pay for it. ¥ BECAUSE my home dealer * “carries” me when I.“run short” * - BECAUSE every dollars I % spend at home stays at home * and works for the community * in which I live; * BECAUSE the man I buy * from stands back of the goods. % - BECAUSE I sell what I-pro- % duce, here at home, and ‘here * 1 buy. * BECAUSE the man I buy * from helps support my schoois, % my church, my lodge, my home. ¥ BECAUSE when ill luck, mis- * fortune, or bereavement comes, * the man I buy from is here with * his kindly greeting, his words of * cheer and his pocketbook, if * need be, * be. * Here I live, and here I buy * * 1 BUY AT HOME!- LR ERR L ETE R R R S Ak ok hkhk kA kA hkhk kb Ak rh Ak Ak bk Ak ok dhkkkk EXPRESSION IN MODERN HAND Denotes Thoughtfulness to the Obserw or, as Well as S8ome of the New Virtues. s There 18 no doubt that the expres. sion of the hand in higher civilized races has changed, in a hundred years, #aid an observant woman the other day, quite as much as that of the face. “The perfect hand of the paint- ers,” says Richard Pryce.in his novel, “Christopher,” “the Hand Beautiful of convention, lacked subtleti Now these subtleties may be preceived any night at any dinner table where Su. perior Persons are gathered together.. The modern hand is a thoughtful hand, and makes use of gestures which de- note the new virtues of pity and altru. {sm, as well as an extraordinary feel- ing for the arts, especially that of music. If you took an audience at one of the classical concerts and exs amined their hands, you would hardly find one of the old, blunt, sguare-fin- gered, brutal type among them. Sir Henry Irving had beautiful and essens tlally “modern hands,” and he used them with extraordinary effect in his acting. How often one would look at bis hands instead of his face in some Breat scene—so expressive were they of his emotions. In medieval times only saints and martyrs possessed the kind of a hand which you see nowa. days belonging to a high school teach- er or a celebrated physician. Yet Mr, Pryce's heroine belies her intellectual hands. She is an arrant coquette, and, in spite of her superfine and modern emotions, contrives to. treat the hera very shabbily. These modern with all their subtletles, are therefore not to be trusted. Indeed, their ‘Yery complexities are a snare to the ume wary observer. Japan Fosters Home. Industrise, The Japanese are making greal strides in the woolen industry, and by importing the latest modern ma: chinery are s{riving to manufacture all clagses of woolen goods that find a market in Japan. BOOTLEGGER IS TRAPPED Cass County Offcials Secure 40 Day Jail Sentence for Edward Mork. HE WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT Cass Lake, April 9.—(Special to Pioneer) .—County Attorney Funck and. Marshal Geo. Dederick have se- cured the conviction of another boot- legger, Edward- Mork, “who halls from “at large” was trapped and caught in the act of giving an In- dian whiskey and Judge Ives has giv- en him forty days in the county jail to think it over. Mork was seen coming in from the Indian country with a gunny sack full of empty whiskey bottles on his back and Officer Dederick thought he ands, | would bear watching, and he did. TO COMPLETE PHONE LINE. Line from Cass Lake to N Beach To -Be Started Within & Few Days. Work on a six mile stretch-of tele- phone line will begin within a’ few days, and another line ten miles long will be built from Cut Foot Sioux station to the extreme north edge of the reserve. When completed the forest reserve system will take in Bena, Schley, Norway Beach, Star Island, Round Lake and Winnibi- goshish Dam. To Be Gathered Near Cass Lake By Supervisor G. E. Marshall, Cass Lake, April 9.—(Speclal to Pioneer).—U. 8. Forest Superior G.| E. Marshall received orders to ship 5,000 pounds of dry®moss to the ‘Western reserves, which will be used for shipping young nursery stock. He will also ship some Norway nur- sery stock to the state of Michigan. HORNET. : Robert C. Shaw was in Blackduck on Monday. Keith South visited his sister, Miss Helen, the early part of the week. < 0. P. Stene, wife and children went to Bemidji on Tuesday. Henry Plummer has returned from Canada. - 3 Ed. Green went to Canada Wed- nesday to live on his homestead. A -son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Thoms this week. Mrs. Thoms will remain for a. while at the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Cossentine,. in Blackduck. Miss Nellle C. Shaw, who. spent part of her Easter vacation at her homé, returned to Blackduck on Sat- Miss Helen - South J. B."Bogart hauled some lumber CREAMERY MEETING WEDNESDAY NiGHT Secretary Given Urges All Who Are Interested to Be Present. PETERSON NEW BUTTER-MAKER 8t. Hilaire Man Engaged By the Of- ficers of the Local Organi- zation. WILL TAKE CHARGE MONDAY The New Machinery Being Installed and the Cement Floor is Al- ready Laid. A meeting of those intefested in the New Farmers’ Creamery Com- pany has been called by Secretary R. L. Given to be held at the Commer- cial club rooms Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to elect permanent offi- cers and a board of directors. The secretary urges that all who have already subscribed for stock should be present and also extends an invitation to all interested in the new enterprise. A new cement floor has been put in and the machinery is now being installed under the direction of Ole Ongstad, Bemidji’s local machinist. Every possible speed is being made to complete the work in order to get the creamery in operation as early as possible: Members of the Creamery associa- tion firmly believe that the success the_hugineig, 1s certain as the lo- cal creamiéry will receive the prod- uct from more than 500 cows in this vicinity. . Secretary R. L. Given stated today that Oscar Peterson of St. Hilaire, had been engaged as butter maker. Mr. Peterson learned his business at the St. Hilaire Creamery and was with a creamery of known reputa- tion. He comes well recommended by Mr. Winkjer of the State Dairy and Food department. Mr. Peter- son will arrive in Bemidji Monday and will take charge of the cream- ery Monday morning. LEE VISITS CASS LAKE. Long Prairie Man to Speak at Grand Rapids Tonight, Wm. E. Lee of Long Prairie, can- didate for the republican nomination for governor of the state, will speak at Grand Rapids tonight. He was at Cass Lake today looking over the po- {Htical situation and expects later on |to make speeches In both Cass Lake 5,000 POUNDS MOSS GOES WEST, [*"d Bemidii: Honor for Dubuque Priest, Dubugque, Ia., April 3.—The inves- titure of Rev. George W. Heer, pas- tor of St. Mary’s church, with the title of prothonotary apostolic, re- cently bestowed upor him by Pope Pius X took place today and was-at- tended with elaborate ceremonies in which many prelates and priests of the Roman Catholic church took part. Incidental to the imvestiture, which consisted in the giying of the mitre, the pectorsl cross-and the ring, a sermon appropriate to the oc- casion-was preached by Archbishop Keane. : 4 Roosevelt Invades Penmusylvania: Pittsburgh, Pa., April 9.—Begin- ning with a speech in this city to- - night, Col. Roosevelt plans to make 8 whirlwind tour of Penusylvania in an effort to secure as many 8s pos- sible of the sixty-four delegates to the Republican national convention who will be selected in the state pri- maries next Saturday. In addition to delivering set speeches in Pitts- burgh, Philadelphia and Scraaton, he will make numerous car-end ad- dresses in the large cities and towns. ; went d;'m'snmmwmu- Paul. ‘|home_ in Blackduck Saturday to ~|spend Easter. < - 8t. Paul, Minn., April 9 |men and women of wide prominence in Sunday school work were 4 < ! 1 i bt ST