Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 18, 1918, Page 2

—f PAGE TWO BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER —————PUBLISHED EVERY AFTEENOON EXCEPT SUNDAY: THE BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. B. CARSON E. H. DENU TELEPHONE 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn, as second-class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to annonymous contributions. Writer's name must be kn:wan to the epdltor, but not necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office not Jater than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue, —_— e BUBSCRIPTION RATES One year Six montks . Three months BY MAIL. THE WEBKLY PIONEER Ten pages, containing & summary of the news of the week. Fuhlished lvm.:mm'v":na sent postage pald to any address, for, in advance $1.50. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS WHEN THE STATE STRETCHED FORTH ITS ARM. Perhaps some have taken it upon themselves to laugh and sneer at the Home Guard of the state of Minnesota. Thou- sands of the ardent supporters of the foes of the state and government have shouted themselves hoarse in tirades of abuse, baseless and senseless accusations, spewing their idiotic male- dictions upon Governor Burnquist, Minnesota’s loyal war governor. All this and more in frantic attempts to tear down the structure of government and revert to lisence and lawless- ness at the hands of a horde of malcontents of anti-American- ism. The terrible holocaust, which swept miles of the most prosperous portions of the great state of Minnesota, which took a dreadful toll of nearly a thousand lives, red blooded settlers, their wives and children, swept all the earthly pos- sessions of the survivors, including their very body covering, left thousands of little ones fatherless, and motherless, scarred and mained for life, stamped indellibly the merits of the Home Guard of the state of Minnesota. Among the first to leap to succor of the devasted district, they worked heroically, battling flames, rescuing victims and caring for refugees. - They did everything that human could do in such a crisis. They per- formed their duty nobly and are entitled to the highest com- mendation possible to bestow. Before the smoke had commenced to die away upon the awfulness of the smoking and charred embers of all that stood in grandeur, the thousands of homes, the prosperous towns and villages, Governor Burnquist, head of the much maligned (by some) Public Safety Commission, accompanied by the com- mission members, were on the scene at Moose Lake and other points laid waste. The strong arm of the state of Minnesota was thrown around the wretched, stout hearted survivors in all their misery and extended to them the hand of mercy and comfort. There is no fund upon which to draw in such an emer- gency. Such has never been thought of nor considered. No special session of the legislaaure could be held to provide re- lief. Immediate action was necessary. In the midst of the desolate waste of Moose Lake, fire swept, with not a vestiage of life visible, countless charred bodies mute evidence in the charnel house, Heavenly domed, Governor Burnquist called his commission together and they took the necessary action that transferred to the relief of the fire victims every cent in the treasury of the Public Safety com- migsion, amounting to thousands of dollars, appropriated by the last session of the state legislature, for the protection of the people of the state of Minnesota, And in the hour of such need the “despised” Public Safety Commission, headed by Min- nesota’s chief executive, defied all precedent and extended succor, aid and comfort to peoples of all in the great North Star state,.bereft of their homes, their earthly possessions and their loved ones. And the people of the entire state will uphold them in their action. e L PUT IT TO A VOTE. The Republicans of the senate have by unamimous vote endorsed the resolution introduced by Senator Weeks of Mas- sachusetts proposing a Joint Congressional Committee on Re- construction. The plan is a well-considered, comprehensive, and vitally important one, and should be pressed for action at once. The Democrats may be expected to assume their usual attitude of opposition to constructive measures proposed by Republicans. If they do, the Republicans should insist upon an early vote, so that the country may have a clear understand- ing of the issue. We put off prepardness for war until we were in the midst of war. If we are to put off preparedness for peace until peace has come, then the responsibility should be definitely fixed. SRR WELL, WHAT ABOUT IT? One of the present important questions: - On’ the return of peace shall we be reconstructed by a committee appointed by congress or a commission appointed by the president? There seems to be no doubt in the general mind that we must all be reconstructed by some agency. TR HERE IT IS FOLKS. And now they tell us that Spanish influenza, despite its name comes straight from the Orient. A name has not much significance. For instance, we have always known that Ger- man Kultur, despite its name, came direct from the devil. R e ST The Woman’s Suffrage bill in the senate appears to have within one vote of enough to carry it. When the fate of the bill is decided, you may depend upon it that the senators will either be suffragists or sufferers at the hands of the suffragists. Ao S L You undoubtly have already an excellent collection of Liberty bonds. We would strongly advise you to add to it as many specimens as possible of the Fourth Liberty 16an. PR N AR Now everybody. Get out your little gasoline wagon Sun- day, fill ‘er up and Oh Boy. “Aint it a grand and glorious feelin’?” ~ Read The Pioneer Want Ads D et - THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER R FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1918 A T S R T oL DL s a3 T WAS SWINDLER FOR 50 YEARS reer of Picturesque Character. HIS VICTIMS ARE MANY Qold Brick Artist of Early Border Days, Who Stole Million, Dies In Baltimore Hospital Dead Broke. Baltimore, Md.—The death of Jim Jordan at the ripe age of seventy-five years in the Jo¥ns Hopkins hospital, has brought to an end the career of one of the greatest and most pictur- esque swindlers that America has ever produced. Jordan was not a ‘“yeg” or a “gunman” or a “holdup man.” He played the confidence game in the early border days, when three-card monte was the center of attractions in the numerous gambling shacks in the West, and later sold “gold bricks” to the innocent tenderfoots. Toward the end of his career as a confidence man Jordan became a poker shark. He crossed the Atlantic on the luxurious- ly-equipped liners’ and never was averse to play a “qulet little game,” He made a fortune estimated at a mil- lion during the half century he op- erated as a confildence man, but when he dled he ran true to form and was broke. 7 Began Career as “Steerer.” Jordan served his apprenticeship un- der “Canada Bill,” the most successful confidence man who roamed the West during the -early days. He first was employed as a “steerer,” but showed such early proficiency that he rapldly came to be full partner to “Canada BilL” Jordan soon abandoned the monte game and went into the broad- er und more lucrative field afforded by the “gold brick” industry, and rose step by step to be one of the most suc- sassful poker sharks that operated on trans-Atlantic liners plying between New York city and European ports. Jordan had a cloge call on the ill- fated Titanic, which was destroyed at séa several years ago. The swindler had been booked for passage and would have sailed had not the gteward discovered his 1dentity. Jim killed two and perhaps three men in the early days of the West. One of his victims was *“Bill” Mat- thews, killed in Chicago. Jordan made a run for it and reached California, but eame back and was picked up by the police In a Chicago eafe, Jim was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in the penifentiary. He served four years ‘when he was pardoned. Jim then Joined up with some raflroad gamblers and went to Denver, Colo.,, where he He Shot Cliff Sparks. shot Cliff Sparks, an fnnocent bystand- er, in a fight in a gambling house, They didn’t hang a man in those days for mistakes and Jordan came clear. “Sports” of Border Days. In the early border days Jordan’s name was known throughout the West, With his partner, “Canada Bill,” head- quarters were established at the fa: mous Marble hall, the rendezvous of “gports.” They posed as farmers and didn't need any makeup. During the Leadville excitement Jordan and sev- eral of his confreres organized a gang that worked the cattle ranch game near Denver, Colo. They secured a small ranch of about forty acres that had a wide range extending into the foothills. Tn those days there were many Englishmen going to the West Jooking for ranch Investments and some of these visltors knew very little about Western ways. Jordan would get in touch with one of these tenderfoots and take him out to his ranch where he would round up a pumber of cowboys who would geach “headquarters” just for the fun of trimming their guest. They would have a fake ranch superintendent and a fake set of books, showing how many calves they had branded that season. They would polant to the wide expanse around their minlature ranch and call it their range. Jordan and his gang probably soid the ranch a dozen times for big figures. DRINK HOT WATER IF YOU DESIRE A ROSY COMPLEXION Bemidji Pioneer Pub. Co, Bemidji, Minn. Says we can't help but look better and feel better after an Inside bath. To look one’s best and feel one's best is to enjoy an inside bath each morning to flush from the system the previous day’s waste, sour fermenta- tions and poisonous toxins before it is obsorbed into the blood. Just as coal, when /it burns, leaves behind a certain amount of incombustible ma- terial in the form of ashes, so the food and drink taken each day leave in the alimentary organs a certain " hangers. Address. ... lIHH amount of indigestible material, which if not eliminated, form toxins and poisons which are then sucked into the blood through the very ducts which are intended to suck in only nourishment to sustain the body. f you want to see the glow of healthy bloom in your cheeks, to see your skin get clearer and clearer, you are told to drink every morning upon arising, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it, which is a harmless means of washing the waste material and tox- ins from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, thus cleasing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary tract, before putting more food into the stomach. Men and women with sallow skins, liver spots, pimples or pallid com- plexion, also those who wake up with a coated tongue, bad taste, nasty breath, others who are bhothered with headaches, biliuos spells, acid stom- ach or constipation should begin this phosphated hot water drinking and are assured of very pronounced re- sults in one or two weeks. A quarter pound of limestone phos- shate costs very little at the drug store but is sufficient to demonstrate that - just as seap and hot water cleanses, purifies and freshens the skin on the outside, so hot water and hosphate act on the inside organs. e must always consider that internal _sanitation is vastly more important than outside cleanli- ness, because the skin pores do not blood; limestone absorb impurities into the while the bowel pores do. There is something for you in the Want Ad column today. It’s on’the last page. - Economy Expressed _In Fall Clothes--- Good ', Clothes cost more today-there is no getting around that fact.. 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