Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 28, 1913, Page 1

7 e g - = Sy Lo S ~ WY EF T TR T T T ~gr VOLUME 10. NUMBER 308. FARMERS FAIL IN CANADA BY SCORES Henry Funkley Says Hundreds are Wiped Out and Cannot Get Back to the States. RAISE DUST IN THE WEST Montana, Idaho and Washington are Day Dreams of Railroad Boost- ers of Long Hauls, NORTHERN MINNESOTA BEST If We Were 2,000 Miles From St. Paul, the Half Could Never Be Told, He Says. In response to.a request that he give his impressions of the farming value of the west, Alaska and Canada in comparison with that of Northern Minnesota, Henry Funkley has writ- ten the following article for the Pion- eer. Mr. Funkley recently returned from a trip to Alaska on which he spent some time in the west and in Canada. The letter follows: “Dear Editor: “In response to your request for a statement concerning my trip to the far north and west, I have to say right at the start that I found no bet- ter place than Northern Minnesota, This is no idle talk, made for the sole purpose of pleasing somebody but is ‘based upon actual facts. Of course in Alaska, practically speaking, there is no such thing as farming. Potatoes and roots are rais- ed which grow to an immense size. On account of the long summer days, they mature unnaturally and are of little value for food. The climate along the Alaskan coast from Prince Ruport to Seward—2,000 miles—is much warmer than Minnesota, the temperature seldom dropping to zero. The land is rock and waste and unfit for farming. In the few valleys, the climatic conditions of the state of Washington prevail—too wet in win- ter and too dry in summer. The principal industry is gold mining with placer mining on the wane and quartz scarce and of doubt- ful value. The timber is neither abundant or large. Coal is awaiting government railroads, but if it had them would still for time to come wait for a market. The towns are small, ranging from a few hundred, like Seward, to 2,000 inhabitants, like Juneau, the capital. But what the Alaskans lack in po- pulation they make up in manhood. They are the best people I ever saw. There is no stealing and practically no crime and therefor an undesirable country for a lawyer to locate in. There are no uniformed policemen and no gambling but saloons never close. Good fellowship is the spirit of the north and equality among men is the unwritten law of Alaska. Montana and Idaho are the same as they have been—great wastes of rock and desert and dry as a bone. All the boosting the railroad companies have done have not changed conditions there any more than in Canada. The people from the states who are doing well in Canada are as a rule in the saloon and hotel business. They harvest the tourist crop which is not affected by either frost, fire, drought, flood or hail. They have a sure thing from the time the money is laid on the bar until it is landed in the till. If the railroad companies of Can- ada would publish one hundredth part of one per cent of the flat fail- ures that have developed where men with means from here went to that country to farm and are now too poor, but perfectly willing, to come back, Northern Minnesota would have a great boom. In the state of Washington farm- ing is impracticable and fruit-raising a fake. For a real money maker I would rather have a cranberry marsh in Minnesota than the best orchard in the Yakama. Over two thirds of the state is waste—perpendicular rock- piles. East of the Cascades irrigation is necessary to raise anything but dust which is everywhere and all- prevailing. West of the mountains it rains steady for eight months, during which time no crop can be raised for lack of sunshine, and dur- ing the other four months, when the sun does shine, it does not rain at all, making it necessary to irrigate even KHEKKRERIEK R KKK KK * MR. AND MRS JAY GOULD * KKK KK KRR KKK Photograph by Underwood & Underwood interested spectators at the Polo meet at Georgian Court, Lakewood, N. J. JOHN D. O'BRIEN DEAD Prominent St. Paul Attorney Suc- cumbed to Heart Trouble Sud- denly Sunday Night. (Copyright.) By United Pre: St. Paul, April 28—John D. O’Brien, one of the most prominent attorneys of the state, died here sud- denly last night. Mr. O’Brien had been with a party on a launch trip up the Minnesota river, He was tak- en sick on the way back and the party stopped at Fort Snelling where a doc- tor was rushed to his aid. Death came before aid could be rendered. The cause is given as acute dilation of the heart. Mr. O’Brien was high in the Demo- cratic councils of the state and was a brother of Justice Thomas O’Brien of the state supreme court. Boys Paid One Cent a Do: Spooner, April 22—Pai Chances have to be. taken. on -frosts there as elsewhere. & Distance lends enchantment es- pecially to the railroad agent looking for the long haul. i If Minnesota were 2,000 miles from St. Paul, all the pulp-wood of Koochiching county would soon be turned into flaring advertisements proclaiming the advantages- and re- sources of Minnesota. Respectfully, Henry Funkley. who had been collecting some time. ‘When lre did not return a made and pieces of his found all over the lot. paving this summer. ERE KKK KKK KK KKK KKK x HORNET. * KRR KKK KK KKK decided to investigate the A meeting of the Literary society|P2Y forithe Improvement was held Tuesday evening at the Winan school. The following pro- gram was given: Music . . Phonograph Song, “Memories of Galilee,”. ... Miss Anvid, R. M. Cossentine, R. C. Shaw and Mrs. J. D. Bogart. Recitation, “A Deserter’”........ this year, more will be year. The Baudette .| winter. C AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Hattie Bogart Reading, “Michael”....Eva Murray| Baudette is to have Music .. . Phonograph Recitation. Clarence Stene Speech, “The Benefits of the Liter- ary Society”...R. M. Cossentine Song, “Flow Gently Sweet Afton,” Miss Anvid, R M. Cossentine, R. C. Shaw and Mrs. J. D. Bogart. Recitation, “Robert of Sicily,”... Funkley on Monday. Song, “How Can I Leave Thee,”. . Miss Anvid, R. M. Cossentine, R. C. Shaw and Mrs. J. D. Bogart Recitation, “At The Phone”...... . .Hattie Bogart Music . .. Phonograph Recitation, “The Last Hymn”.... R R & e Ojetta Bogart Reading, “The Debating Society”. . cetenans ..R C. Shaw Music .. .- Phonograph Jim Angell and Charles Bogart left the. telephone and good ing in Blackduck on Tues company, Herman Thom, was elected second vice p: day to Sam Ellis. She tions and readings. NO CANS IN SPOONER 064 by Business Men—Made a Seven Wagon Load Pile. BAUDETTE MAY PAVE STREETS rate of one cent a dozen, 23,064 tin cans. were brought to the Auditor- tum last week by ‘Spootier youngsters’ They were hauled out of town and dumped in a slough. Frank Longmore left home Satur- day with three sticks of dynamite. known how he met his death. funeral was held at Pinewood. Baudette may have one block of At a recent meeting of the Board of Trade it was and see if the property owners would lieved that if one block can be paved and Spooner mills started last week and 600 men are at work. The mills have enough! logs on hand to run them until next team financed by the business men. A brass band has also received the approval stamp of the Board of Trade and will be organized at once. Masle .o . Phonograph Reading, “Mr. Brown Has His Hair |on Monday for the “drive” at Third CUE 7t sy Martha Stene|river. X. Bernier and George Bogart |y mended the broken telephone wire at Two of the Quisnell children and .................. Miss Anvid| two of Herman Thom’s are sick with Essay, “Nature”...Mrs. J. D. Bogart [ meagles. Musle: o ids ««+.... Phonograph| jJoe Peltier, J. E. and George Bo- Newspaper............. R. C. Shaw | gart were among those who attended election of officers for the telephone B. F. Winans sold a cow on Tues- . Miss_Anna Anvid closed her school Friday with a picnic dinner, and a program, consisting of songs, recita- urday for her home in Summit. START ON TABERNACLE zen, for 23,- | Evangelistic Serviced in Bemidji to Begin Friday, Ma% 9, in Build- ing Holdingy1,000. “BILLY” SUNDAY'S!MAN COMING ; Work on the big tabernacle to seat 1,000 persons duringfhe evangelistic campaign_the goraiiig, "ggflp\tlg will: be started Wednesday. ' The building is to be located on'a lot south of the High school and will be built largely with donated labor. Under the direction of a committee of two each from the Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches a four weeks evangelistic campaign will be launched here May 9. I E. Honeywell, of Oak Park, Illinois, will be the minister in cnarge and he will be assisted by two helpers. Mr. Hon- eywell is one of “Billy” Sunday’s men and is said to_be a speaker and worker of power. Services will be held in the afternoon and evenings. The committee in charge of the services and building arrangements is composed of Reverend White, presi- dent; Reverend Flesher, secretary; and Reverend Chandler, A, A. War- field, George Smith, and 8. E. Hor- locker. The‘other churches of the city have been invited to help with the campaign but to date none have ‘joined the three which are going ahead with the work. The object of the campaign will be to awaken the sense of religion i the people of Bemidji and to draw more into ‘church memberships. d for at the them for search was body were It is not The proposition . It is be- paved next saw a baseball KRKK KK KKK KKK KKK SATURDAY BASEBALL ¥ KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansas City, -3; Louisville, 2. Indianapolis, 4; Minneapolis, 1. Toledo-St. Paul (rain). Columbus-Milwaukee (rain). (CAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia, 3; Washington, 2. Chicago, 1; St. Louis, 0. Boston, 8; New York, 5. C\Ieveland—Detroit (rain). roads meet- day. At the of this place resident. NATIONAL LEAGUE : Brooklyn, 5; New York, 3. Philadelphia, 10; Boston, 4. Chicago, 7; Pittsburgh, 2. St. Louis, incinnati, 5. left on Sat- SCOOP THE CUB REPORTER 5C00P Tt GOIer To MAKE ~(0v " JOYRIE" EDITOR- 1T Scoop’s System Isn't Good For His System BEST SYSTEM = BLACKDUCK ~ SWAMPED First High School Baseball Game of the Season An Overwhelming Victory For Bemidji. VISITORS WERE DEFEATED 17-1 Bemidji High overwhelmingly de- feated Blackduck High in the first baseball game of the season Saturday afternoon by a score of 17 to 1. The lone Blackduck score was made by Ivan Cann, the pitcher, in the sixth inning. 7 Thompson Blew Up in the First. Bemidji started the slaughter by knocking Willis Thompson out of the box in the first inning after having scored six runs. Ivan Cann replaced him and Thompson went to first. Cann had better luck but the Bemidji boys connected with him often enough to run-up a surprising score. The Blackduck boys were good losers and not a word of complaint was heard. N For the last three innings, Bemidji stopped trying to score on straight baseball and Coach~ Carson gave orders for. squeeze plays entirely: Riley tried the Ty Cobb trick of steal- ing home from third. He made it the first time but the ball was a foul. He tried it a second time but was winded and lost by a few inches. Earl Balley and Riley pitched for Bemidji and had good control. Black- duck connected with the ball at times but a Bemidji fielder was always there and the fly was caught or the man thrown out at first. Blackduck fielders did not show as good judg- ment as the local boys. . A return game will be played on in the rainy belt. It costs from $100 to $200 per acre to clear this land. And only one crop can be raised each yoar under the very best conditions. TEN CENTS PER WEEK KEKKKKKKKKK KK KKK * BRYAN GOES WEST * x5 " AS A DIPLOMAT % EREKKKKK KKK KK KKK KK Copyrigt by Underwood & Under- wood, N. Y. ‘William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state, who left for California April 25th, where he will bend his efforts towards having the alien land bill (before the Californian legislature), which Japan claims is an affront against the treaty, quashed. INDIAN CASE DISMISSED Andrew Johnson Withdrew Injunc- tion Suit Against Village Coun- cil of Mahnomen. Andrew Johnson, plaintiff in an injunction suit against the village council of Mahnomen to prohibit them from issuing liquor license.p, withdrew the suit last week. The matter was argued before Judge An- drew Grindeland. Johnson claimed that Mahnomen is on Indian ground .and that the council had no right to issue the li- tenses, “Tlre council'claited that the status of the ground had been chang- ed by the Steenerson and Nelson acts. With the withdrawal of the suit, Mahnemen will continue to be wet. e WATER TURNED OFF .Tnhfl‘ Hook Worked Hydrant Out of Socket and Loosed a Four-Inch Stream at Scrutchin’s. A large section of the city in the vicinity of Ninth and Bemidji was shut off from water at 10:30 this morning when John Hook loosened the hydrant on the corner from the pipe while trying to turn on the wa- ter . The water had already been turned on by Louis Eckstrum and Hook turned the socket out of the pipe. The water gushed in a four inch stream and soon wore a great hole in the street. Mr. Eckstrum was called in to turn the water off and men were at once put to work to repair the damage. It is expected that the wa- ter will be on at 4 p. m. Mr. Hook wanted water for use in fixing the new Scrutchin home. TAKE BOY TO OWATONNA Joseph Gilbert Bordeaux, a Kelli- her boy who is homeless, will be tak- en to the home at Owatonna tomor- row by one of the deputy sheriffs. He is being taken on-order of Judge Clark. ; the Blackduck grounds probably one week. from Saturday and the Black- duck boys claim that the result will be the same as last year when each team won on their home grounds by dectsive scores. . By "HOP" ‘|more in the country. CONSUMERS TO BE SAVED MILLIONS Tariff Bill Now Being D}lcuued Will Cut Cost of Living to the Common People. DUTIES REDUCED OR‘ ABOLISHED Rates on Such Necessities of Life as Flour, Sugar, Clothing and Shoes Lowered Materially, MEANS .= SAVING OF WASTE Obsolete Machinery and Ouf-of-Date = Methods Must Go to the ] Scrap Heap. By CLYDE H. TAVENNER. (Member of Congress.) Washington, April 28.—The report ¥ | of the Ways and Means committee on the Underwood tariff bill has been published. For the benefit of those who talk tariff with their neighbors, I will give briefly some of the salient facts brought out in the report. Since 1897 the wholesale prices of all commodities used by the Ameri- can people have advanced an average : of forty-seven per cent. But some of the prime necessities of life have ad- vanced much beyond that average. For instance, farm products have in- creased ninety-three per cent in price. Other food products have in- creased forty-seven per cent.” The increased cost of clothing is thirty- six per cent and house furnishings twenty-four per cent. At the same time there have been growing up under the fostering care of successive protective tariff laws gigantic trusts dealing in-the necessi- ties of life. The Underwood report names 224 of these industrial com- binations with a total capitalization of nearly $9,000,000,000 Another effect of prohibitive tariffs is the xesultant waste of the natural resources of the United States—re- sources which, when once exhausted, can never be restored. With foreign timber, ores and minerals barred from importation by prohibitive dut- ies, we have been exhausting our own = at a ruinous rate. ‘While industries within the coun- try are rapidly becoming monopolized and competition is being smothered, there has been no spur of foreign competition to make our trusts adopt the most efficient manufacturing methods. Obsolete plants, old mach- inery and out-of-date methods, wuici save practically been eliminated in foreign countries, exist in this coun- try. This is waste, and the public pays for every dollar of it. In the new bill the rates on per- fumes, fine chinaware, automobiles, Jewelry, tobacco, oriental rugs, Paris hats and other luxuries have been in- creased or maintained; the present rates on such necessities as lumber, soap, cutlery, sugar, meat, flours, cotton and wool clothing, paper and shoes have been greatly reduced or done away with altogether. Neces- sities placed on a free list will make a total annual saving to the Ameri- can consumer of close to $100,000,- 000; while there will be other vast savings in duties which have been reduced. The Republican theory of placing duties which shall equalize the dif- ference in cost of production at home and abroad, has been rejected, for the reason that, to quote the report, “a duty which equalizes this average difference protects no one, since it is more than is needed by the most ef-- ficient producer, and-less than is needed by the least efficient pro- ducer.” ~ As a matter of fact, because of American machinery, and efficient American' workmanship, cost of pro- duction here is no greater than it is abroad. G FIND GOLD AT KELLIHER John Goodman Believes He Has Eleven Acres of Bearing Rock— Samples’ Raise Hopes. John Goodman believes that he has eleven acres of gold bearing rock near Kelliher. On an eighty that he owns, he recently found some outcroppings. which showed signs of gold. He had some analyzed and the assay shows .98 of one per cent gold by weight. People ‘who have land mnear Good- man’s are excited and believe there is