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The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07

Our fears were well grounded. The
house{o representatives, after q live
~ debate, extending over two days,
defeated the measure proposing con-
stitutional amendment empowering
congress to regulate trusts. It re-
quires two-thirds vote under the
Constitution to adopt an amendment
to the Constitution. The vote stood
ayes l54, nays 13l. The Affirmative
vote, therefore, was thirty EIGHT short
of the requisite two-thirds -I92. Only
five democrots voted for the measure,
and only two republicans voted
against it. Paste this on the foot OF
your bedstead, and let your earliest
thoughts and your latest thoughts
carry this truth: Democrats never
harmed a trust and never will. Vio-
lent in their pretentions, tireless in
making promises, the democrats are
false to all pledges and unmindful of
their obligations. They will fume
and fuss about the evils of life, but
whenever they are in position to do
good, they funk out. = This may
sound severe, but their past record
harmonizes with their present action,
and both unite to condemn their false
pretentions.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION.

i
The electors of the Independent
School District of the village of Be.
midi, Beltrami county, Mimi, (for.
merly known and described as School
Dist, No. ~, in said county, are here.
by notified that special school cleo
ton in and for said independent
school district will be held at the brick
school house in said village of Be
midi on the 18th day of June, 1900,
between the hours of 7:30 p. m. and
$50 p. m. for the purpose of issuing
the bonds of said independent school
district in the amount of $4,000 to
bear interest at the rate OF per cent
per annum and to be payable in 10
years after date of issue. Said s12,-
600 to be used in building, enlargiRg,
improving and equipping the school
house owned by said independent
school district and located in block
4, in the first addition to Benidji in
said independent school district.
This notice is given under and in
accordance with resolution of the
Board of Education of the Village of
Bemidii, Nina, adopted May 81, 1900.
Dated, Bemidii, Minn., June l, 1900.
Signed, MAURICE J. LEAK,
President Board of Education.
Signed, RopERrCK McLENNAN,
Sec. Board of Education.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07

hand Of the grey and found the grip
warm as that of brother. This re-
vival of brotherhood between the sec
tions is only one instance OF the ssera
Of good feeling which reigns through
out the nation. Prejudices arising
from the war have kept the south in
line with democracy. Now what sec
tional hatred has been largely sup
planted with common patriotism, and
a republican administration has ush-
cred in general prosperity, the south
will no longer vote without thinking
or think without voting. Republican
gains in the south this year will form
the brightest crown to triumphant re-
publicanism.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
. WE ARE NOT ANARCHISTS.

We viii have to quit throwing
stones at the lawlessness prevalent IN
certain southern states until the coun-
try has forgotten the horrible whole
sale murders near Anoka, as well as
the recent blowing up with dynamite
OF The property of a lumber COM
pany at Bemidii. Minneapolis Trib-
une.
How hath the mighty fallen! But
yesterday the word Of the Tribune
might have stood against the world,
now it has sunk SO low in the eyes Of
decency that not soul in this section
will do its reverence. The newspaper
that places the dynamite Of slander
beneath the good name OF any town,
is worse than an anarchist--worse
than a dam destroyer, worse than
southern law-breakers who consider
the voice Of mob the last court OF
appeal.
The Minneapolis Tribune has its
ear SO close to the mouth of its lum-
bermen, whose income from the woods
Of the north is poured into the thirsty
lap of that city, that Bemidji can
shout its protestations o. innocence
with no hope of receiving justice. The
course Bemidji took in removing an
unlawful obstruction from its lawful
property, cannot be condemned by
anyone who is familiar with the need
of the act and the method of its ac-
complishmept.
The blowing up of Scanlon & Clip
sons dam was not done by q mob;
nor by white caps, under the cover Of
darkness. It was accomplished under
the supervision Of the village and
county authorities, and in such law
full manner that the lumber company
damaged has decided that 1t will enter
no claim for damages. The Tribune
should get down on its knees and
weep for what it has said, If there is 2
drop Of conscience syrup in its With
cred old system.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07

From now until the convening OF
the county convention. candidates for
the various county offices will blos-
som on all sides. Aspirants for pub
lie offices in the hands Of the people
seem to be many this year, and the
voters will have large crop OF can
didates to choose from. Most Of the
present officials have given general
satisfaction, but there are numerous
"mute, inglorious Cromwells" who
imagine that Beltrami can not be well
governed without their occupying Of
fetal chairs. So the strife between
those who hold Office aud those who
have Office yet to get, will wage merri-
ly. No doubt there are just as good
men out of Office as in, but delegates
are sometimes hard to convince. sl
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
8REpUBLICAN CONVENTION AND
PRIMARIES.

Notice is hereby given that there
will be a Republican county conven-
ton held at the court house, in the
village of Bemidji, Minn., Thursday,
June ii, A. ID. 1900, at o'clock p. m.
for the purpose of election six (6)
delegates to the Republican state con-
vention for the state Of Minnesota, to
be held on Thursday, June %, A. D.
1900, at the city of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, called for the purpose of ex-
pressing the choice of the Republican
party of the state of Minnesota 9for
United States senator to be elected by
the legislature of 1901, and for plac-
ing in nomination candidates for
governor, acknowledgements, secre-
tary of state, state treasurer, attorney
general, chief justice of the supreme
court, and three railroad and ware
house commissioners and also for
the purpose of transacting such other
business as may properly come be-
fore such convention. @"
The several precincts will be en-
titled to representation as follows,
to-wit: three 81 delegates at large for
each precinct. Primaries for the cleo
tion of delegates will be held in each
precinct on Tuesday, the 18th day of
June, A. D. 1900, at 2 O'Clock p. m. 4,
at such places as the precincts chair
man shall designate.
EDWARD KAISER,
Chairman Republican County Com
mittee.
r. J. DUNwooDY, Secretary.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07

The authorities at Bemidji are to
be complimented by the Northwestern
sportsmen on the stand they took to
protect fish in upper Mississippi and
the lakes tributary last week. Some
time ago the Scanlon Gipson Lumber
Co, damned the river short distance
below the outlet Of Bemidji thereby
stopping the run way for fish and as a
consequence millions of them We're dy-
ingdaily. Trembling company wasno-
titled but paid no attention to the mat
ter and the authorities took the mat
ter into their own hands and placed q
charge Of dynamite under the dam,
blowing it out of existence.
Grand Forks Courier.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
LOSS BY FIRE.

NY Only those who have been in the
vicinity of Buena Vista and seen
the neat and well-flled home of N. z.
Northun can. appreciate his loss by
fire last Monday week. His house, a
large two-story, ,32 feet long, andRall
its contents were destroyed with no
insurance. The fire caught from an
incubator, in shed adjoining, early
in the morning, and the family were
fortunate in escaping with their lives.
Besides the household furniture all
their keepsakes, SOC, pounds Of wool,
500 worth Of blooded poultry and
eggs and other property to the value
of $500 were destroyed. It was sad
blow, but from which the energetic
and wide awake fortune will, we trust,
soon recover.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
ANOTHER EXCURSION.

Bemidji is astir to catch the u. g.
T. by the offer Of banquet on
their trip from Grand Forks, and it is
very probable that they will stop here.
There are no one to advertise a town
like commercial travellers, and moth
ing is more apt to catch them than one
of those spreads that Bemidji ladies'
can get up. The Great Northern will
run special train to Duluth carry
ing the United Commercial Travellers
delegation, passing Bemidii in the af-
ternoon Of June IA, returning leaving
Duluth Sunday evening, June 17th.
The fare for the round trip is 81.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
New settlers are still coming to this

New settlers are still coming to this
county in large numbers and the popu-
.lation Of the country district is being
rapidly increased by these additions.
They are mostly OF a hustling class and
are very disirable citizens. While
land can still be purchased at low
figure the price is steadily increasing
and will soon be considered as valu-
able as that of other and more thickly
settled sections Of the State. For land
that is cheap but valuable, Beltrami
soil is the most desirable in the state.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
ONE TRAVELLER RETURNS.

There was Joy and general con
graduation in Bemidji last Fri
day over the return Of J. w. Hooper
freed from all suspicious Of the Kan
abec county murder. As could be
expected, his arrest was due only te
the zeal of an oyer-wise detective
whose clues We're so dreamy that the
court would not even allow an exami
nation Of his accused. Fred Leeman
OF. Grand Rapids, who was arrested
for completely in this crime, was also
released as easily.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
REPUBLICAN, STATE CONVEN
TI0N.

"a Republican state convention fo1
the state OF Minnesota is hereby called
to be held on Thursday, June 2S, a.
ID. 1900, at IL o'clock m. at the Audi.
torium building in the city OF st.
Paul, for the purpose of expressing
the choice of the Republican party O
the state Of Minnesota for United
States senator to be elected by the
legislature OF 1901, and for the pur.
pose of placing in nomination candi'
dates for governor, lieutenant-gover.
nor, secretary OF state. state treasur.
er, attorney general, chief justice d
the supreme court, one associate
Justice Of the supreme court, and
three railroad and warehouse COM
missioners, two of rFhom shall hold
their offices for asterm Of four years,
and one for two ,lears, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the conven-
tion. s
The Republican voters OF the state
and all other voters, without regard
to past poiitical Affiliations, who be-
lieve in the principles advocated by
the Republican party and endorse its
policies, are cordially invited to par
ticipate in the selection of delegates to
this convention. = #
Representation at this state conven-
tion will be in accordance with the
following resolution unanimously
adopted at meeting OF the Repub-
lican state committee, held at the city
Of ST. Paul on Tuesday, February Is,
"A. d. 1900:
Resolved, That each county shall be
entitled to one delegate for each 25O
votes or major fraction thereof cast
for the Republican candidate for
president in 1896, and thateach county
De Gl1OWGu Ill Huu1tiOA piCASpO - ~ 49,
eg gates at large.
It was further resolved, That as Polk
county has been divided sincethe cleo
tion Of 1896 to form Red Lake county,
thattwo delegates be deducted accord
ing to this apportionment from Polk
county to represent said Red Lake
county, and that Red Lake county also
be given five delegates at large.
In accordance with the above reso-
luton Beltrami county is entitled to
six deleg ates in the convention.
All county conventions in the state
for the election of delegates to attend
this state convention shall be held on
Thursday, June 21, A. d. 1900.
All primary elections in connection
Herewith must be conducted as pre-
scribed in the primary election law
for Minnesota enacted in 1895, as
amended in 1897. (
BY order of the Republican state
central committee. s .a
JOHN Fl. STEELE, chairman.
C.. A. RASMUSSEN, secretary.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
s6 A WEEK TO START.

We want intelligent ladies, or gem
tlemen, to accept permanent position
in own town; salary to start So week,
guaranteed, and commission. Many
make from sl2 10 s24 a week. You
can devote all of your spare time.
Send stamp for full particulars. Ad-
dress The Bell Company, Dept. c.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
TELEPHONE FRANCHISE.

n IEIJIIE IOINTa n -TINItIFOIII5E. -7-----
At the village council meeting on
Monday evening, a ten-year fran
chise was granted to J. Fl. Haner, AL
Kaiser and "A. d. Stephens, to put in
and operate in Bemidji a telephone
system. $500 was the cost of the priv
ilege to the promoters.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
Stock for Sale.

When you buy hogs, sheep or fowls,
you can buy the best almost as cheap
as scrubs. / have Polan China and
Berkshire hogs, Schropshire sheep
I have ever $50 small sucking pigs,
best breeds, for sale at SO apiece.
Call or write.
BuENA VISTA STOCK FARM,
N. II. FoRTHUN, Prop.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-06-07
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SHERIFF.

"A. B. Hazen, hereby announces
himself as candidate for nomination
ais sheriff OF Beltrami county, sub
iect to the action of the republican
county convention.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05
FOR PUERTO RICO.

Senator Forakers bill providing a government for Puerto Rico is at least something that can be used to build upon, and some will think it does not need a great deal of improvement By | the provisions of the bill the president is to appoint governor, supreme court, seven heads of departments and also five native citizens, who, with the heads of departments and governor, are to be the upper branch of the island legislature. The lower branch is to have thirty-flve members, elected by the citizens of the island. Senator Foraker
 proposes to declare all the inhabitants
 of the island citizens of the United
 States and to extend the Constitution and the laws of the United States to the island so far as the latter are applicable.
 Export duties are prohibited and free trade is provided for between the island and the United States proper Articles imported into Puerto Rico from other countries than the United States are to pay the same duties as those imposed i'll the ports of this country. The money thus collected is to go into the island treasury, but money realized from the internal revenue collections is to be cov- cred into the national treasury of the United States. For the present no fran chises are to be provided, except upon the approval of the governor of the island and the president of the United States.
 This bill, it will be noticed, provides for the free trade which the Admins tration wants, and which the tobacco, the sugar, the rice and the southern vegetable interests do not want.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

The special town meeting held in Hamden last evening was an interest ing affair-interesting to both Hamden and New Haven. At that meeting the vote passed by the town meeting of the 10th of July, 1899, that thereafter not more than thirty dollars be paid to- wards the tuition fee of any child that attends a High School in another town in any one year" was rescinded, and 1t is understood that hereafter Hamden will pay the $60 charged by the Board of Education of this city for out of town pupils. Thus ends a curious controver- sy, and it may be remarked that Ham, den is getting her moneys worth when she pays New Haven $60 for what costs nearly or quite three times that,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05

the ancient Ophir. He said that he had been exploring the country between the Iambesi and the Pungwe in Portuguese East Africa and Eastern Mashonaland. information which led him to believe that Fura was near the eastern en- trance of the Lupata Gorge. There he found it. It was situated on the banks
 of the Muira river, about fifteen miles south of the Zambesi and halfway be-
 tween Sena and Tete At the time of
 his discovery he had with him MT.
 Puzey and two mining engineers-Mr.
 Gramann and Mr. Napolski Fura was
 the native corruption of the word Afur,
 by which name the Arabs of the six
 teenth century knew the district. Afur
 was the Sabaean, or South Arabian, form of the Hebrew name Ophir He
 had ample proof that the Fura which
 they discovered and explored last sum- mer was the Ophir of the Old Testa- IHellt. The natives called themselves Makalanga, which means People of the Sun. They were to this day sun and fire
 Worshippers. They were quite unlike the ordinary African, and had distinct Jewish type of face. On arriving in the district he soon found that the na- tives had some idea of the existence of
 the ancient Ophr. In fact, they wash ed gold themselves after the rainy sea son, and aafter storing it in quils did fairly large trade in it with Beira and Tete. A chief gave him valuable infor- nation regarding the position of an- cient workings which he at once inves- tigated Going to the spot indicated, he found ruins of undoubtedly Semitic type, Fura itself he found to possess a formation of quartzitic slate and dior ite between which gold reefs were rum ming. The workings which he found were not only surface workings, but shafts and roads hewn into the rock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05

Such finish of fur isn't necessary but makes the garment finer. The huff should match it, or be left in camphor. Nowadays, too, 1t takes full hat with neck-fur and huff, to complete set, Sable and chinchilla are the furs most used for these sets. On the fur hats go feathers, velvet, tulle, gauge or flowers, and for the theater there are many white tulle hats trimmed with fur. They are pretty. but not nice things to hold during the play. Ermine and Persian lamb are used, too, on headgear.
 Requisites are finicky about their hair pins. Though celluloid pins of fine quail ity are to be had these particular folk will not risk them. except perhaps in amber. The celluloid looks just like the shell when new. but few days wear gives them a dullness that to some is ruinous The shell hair pin costs from eight to sixty cents for the small sizes, up to five dollars for the large. They are perfectly plain and much varied in coloring. A combination of amber and mahogany marking is esteemed. These must be kept bright and clean, and should always be polished with silk be- fore wearing. Real shell does not break as easily as does celluloid, and pin warmed in the hands before being used will yield considerably without snap ping. They do lose as easily as the commonest wire. Even Miss OverNice must admit that FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05
I'll ERE IdRE OTH FRS.

New Haven is by no means the only is school question in Worcester Mas
 sachusetts, whose mayor rises to re- mark that the expenditure of the school
 department has reached point that demands more than passing attention. He points out that the cost per pupil in that city has increased in ten years from s21.08 to $2742 per capita, making a total annual increase on 1886 pupils of s116, 56724. He says that 47 per cent of the total amount expended for mu- nicipal purposes has gone for the sup port of schools, to say nothing of the amount expended for schoolhouses, and it is high time for the citizens and tax payers to pause and reflect.
 Probably Worcesters mayor will be promptly told that he doesn't know anything about education, and that he has no business to try to induce citizens to pause and reflect upon educational matters, as long as there are educators and board of education to do the pausing and ref1ecting for them.
 Even the magnificent school system of cultured Boston isn't perfect. More buildings are needed there, and the Bos- ton Herald does more than hint that buildings are not all that are needed It says Spelling and grammar do not have much show. Possibly the teachers are not to blame for that yet they must be at fault, when their pupils wreck the rules of grammar out of school and so many young men and women employed in the stores cannot spell correctly. This inaccuracy in educational results is not due to the lack of adequate buildings, for it has been principally noticed among children, and even graduates, of public schools already established, and before the classes were as crowded as they are said to be at present. It is, in fact, no new blemish on Boston's school system.
 If Bostons splendid school system has a blemish isn't it barely possible that New Haven's has one, and that some of ed for speaking their minds about school matters here may have spoken some tr11th2
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05
The Place ofthe "Naught" In Compnta-

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 MT. Chapman's presentation of the Century question, which followed my own in Thursdays Courier, although it takes the opposite view from mine is yet perfectly correct SD far as the calcu- lation is concerned. His statement that a child born January 1st, 1900, will have lived one hundred years, or a century. by December 31st, 1899, and would com mence his second century with the year 1000, is true, but don't you see MT. Chapman, time was born at the begin ming of the year l and not at the be- ginning of the year 0, as 0 year is impossible. A year is one year, and not a naught year, for years are the units we are counting when we say 1909 years. or 1900 ones, or 1900 units, or a century of units It is all the same whether we are counting years, units, dollars cents, or figures. Nothing is nothing, starting point, and that is where the whole matter of this disagreement among bright people hinges. Each side may reason with perfect correctness, but it all depends on where you start to count. DO you say 0 l, Z, 3, 4, D, 6, ', s. 9, 10, il, 12. 13, IA, etc, or do you say 1, 3, 3, 1, 5. 6, ', 8, 9, 10, Ii, 12, etc. Do you put the in at the be- ginning or when you have reached ten?
 MT. John M Hubbard in recently printed article shows that the naught indicate a fractional part, which is true as 1t signifies 1-10 which is ex- pressed as 10, 2-10 expressed as 20, 3-10 expressed as 30, and so on; or you can say one naught, two naughts, three naughts, etc, but it's very expression 1 o signifies that that is the first O. then 20 is the second naught---2 0s, 30 three naughts-3 Gs, etc. The naught is fractional part of a unit, and in count ing units we begin with units-one ap- pie, two apples, three apples, one year. two years, three years, and one hundred years is not completed until the end of the one hundredth year which com pletes the century, and the end of 1900 years completes nineteen centuries Then we start the next century with January 1st, 1901
 COLUMBIA.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05

Would man entering business on January 1st speak of this year as his year in business?
 Or having had two or more wives would he allude to the first as the 0 wife?
 Is Sunday the day of the week and Saturday the sixth?
 Was George Washington 0 in war, 0 in peace and 0 in the hearts of his countrymen, the President of the United States?
 Was Adam the 0 man of the human race?
 If these questions can be answered afiirmatively it will do to consider the year at the beginning of the era, oth- erwise not.
 The Christian era began with the first day of the first month of the first year of the first century, and not with the day of the month of the year of the century.
 w. H. MANSFIELD.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-05
OPHIR.

Unless the gold mines of Ophir were worked out by those who worked them in Bible times perhaps the gold of Ophir will soon figure in an important way in the finances of these times. pr
 Carl Peters who arrived in London the other day from Africa, has given soma further details concerning his discovery of what he believes to be the ruins of