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The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
THE JOKE OF A KING.
Historic Hoax Perpetrated by Gusta-
vus llI. Of Sweden.

Historic Hoax Perpetrated by Gusta.
vus III. Of Sweden.
King Gustavus Ill of Sweden had
been frequently invited to the little
court Of Schwerin. In 1883 he paid a
visit to Germany and as soon as the
Duchess Of Mecklenburg heard of his
approach she prepared fetes in his
honor. But Gustavus, who disdained
the petty courts of the small rulers,
sent two Of his attendants page
named Peyron, and Desvouges, a valet
who had formerly been an actor-to be
entertained by. the duchess. The two
personated the king and his minister,
Baron Spare, and sustained the char
acters throughout They accepted as
their due all the homage meant for
their master, danced with the Mecklen-
burg ladies who were presented to
them, and Peyron went so far as to
ask one of the ladies for her portrait.
Meantime Gustavus was enjoying him
self elsewhere in secret
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
GRATING is GENERAL
Chicago Officials Admit That Boodlers
Arc al NLnnk

Chicago Officials Admit That Boodlers
Are at Work.
Chicago, Oct. 2. - Every head of a
department in the city rail, excepting
one yesterday admitted that there
was grating by employees. Each
declared that he was powerless to
remedy the evil. These admissions
followed the sensational talk given
out by Mayor Harrison in which he
charged that petty grating and
wholesale grating were rife in the
municipal departments. While the
confession is openly made by the de-
partment heads that they are s'help-
less" the grand jury stands ready to
take up cases at a moments notice.
AS it is. there is some talk of such an
investigation, and word was given out
yesterday by city official that city
employe soon was to face the grand
jury on a serious charge. According
to the evidence the verdict in this
case, after it had passed through the
court, means a term in Joliet.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
WoRkMfN MUST NOW HUSTLE

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Oct. q. =
Mounted infantry and Canadian militia
patrol the Canadian 500 generally and
the points where the Consolidated
Lake Superior company has feared
possible acts of violence by the large
number of discharged employees, but
quiet prevails throughout the region IN
which the company is interested.
About 800 men employed in the
woods at Wilde, who have been de-
tanned at Wilde by the company Tor
several days, arrived on the Algoma
Central railroad last night in charge
i of the soldiers sent there yesterday
morning and received their pay
checks. They were. given tickets Tor
several meals and departed without
causing trouble.
Col. Buchan, who is in command OF
the troops, the remainder OF which ar
rived yesterday morning, has ordered
twenty-five soldiers to
Guard the Dynamite
magazine Of the company along the
railroad Col. Buchan is -contdenL
that the seriousness of the situation
is over. He said that he would prob
ably order a number OF soldiers back
to Toronto today. He believes that
the local militia, reinforced by sew
eral detachments already here, will be
able to cope with any possible danger.
There are 500 or COO men the company
has vet to bring ill. These men Will be
given their pay slips and be provided
with several meals. Numbers OF the
discharged men have left for other
places. No more arrests besides
those of two men yesterday morning
who we're charged with intimidation
and melting to riot were made. Mar
tial law, which was in force with the
reading Of the riot act Monday after
noon, when the mob attacked the OF
flee of the company,
lis Still in Force,
and probably will DE until the de-
parture Of all Of the troops. Mayor
Plummer, Col. Buchan and the othcers
of the Consolidated Lake Superior
company take hopeful view OF The
trouble with the men and expect re-
turn of normal conditions soon.
Shortly after noon Mayor Plummer
announced to large number OF dis
charged employees who for some time
have been cared for at Tagona Inn,
that they would be given no more AID.
He explained to them that the
municipality could not and would not
bear the expense any longer. and that
he had received word from the com
ipany that it would refuse to look after
their maintenance
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
What One Man Said.

At the City Federation meeting in
the Waldorf there were many amusing
incidents. Husbands Of the broad
minded women tarried in the ante
room waiting for their spouses to go
home. One of these patient escorts
was Leroy Sunderland Smith. He
gazed through the glass doors once,
sighed and returned to his chair. Men
would come, inquire for their wives.
and then retreat to the cafe below. One
man heard a few minutes of a certain
paper. He said: 'If these women's
clubs did not struggle with the prob
lem Of how to raise other women's
children they would have no excuse
for being" He flung out the last
words savagely and then disappeared
to the place where highballs are con-
Ecocted.-New York Press.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
THE OUTLOOK FOR AUTHORS
Really Good Writers Meei NOT Fear
Discrimination


The rush of the crowd to read
book which may have no literary merit
or vitality, either of material or OF
presentation simply because it is
talked about, is never wholesome, and
II the crowd has grown more critical
and 'cear-minded in it's judgments,
and has ceased to move upon sudden
impulses and learned to decide for
ITSELF the loss will fall, not on writer's
Of real merit, but on few whose re-
wards were generally beyond their
deserts. The average of literary work
in this country in many departments
is high. If great books are not pro-
duced in large numbers, good books
are produced In very considerable
numbers, and in soundness Of knowl-
edge, ia good taste and literary work
manship, great advance is evident
over the work of an earlier generation.
It is a period Of quiet progress, a time
of preparation rather than a time Of
accomplishment.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
CAR VISITS VIENNA.

Extraordinary Police Precautions Are
Taken.
Vienna, Oct. 2.-The arrival of the
ear yesterday was not marked by the
same popular enthusiasm as was
shown during the visits Of King Ed
ward and of Emperor William. This
was probably due to the military and
police precautions, as both sides of the
streets were lined with infantry, cav
airy and artillery. Behind the hedge
of soldiers was thick line OF police
facing the populace. The emperor's
reception, however, was respectful ii
not as enthusiastic as might have
been expected The car on his ar
rival seemed tired, and on the way to
Schoenbrunn castle gave little evil
dence Of interest in the arrangements
for his reception. The police precau-
tions were extraordinary.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
CLEANLINESS AS A VICE.
Young Matron criticises Methods O


Her Mother-in-Law.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, I
know" said the young matron whose
mother-in-law lives with her, "but
there is such thing as carrying 1t
too far, think. Now, my husbands
mother is fearfully and wonderfully
neat. In fact, at times | feel that to
live in a pigpen would be relief.
From morning till night there is moth
ing but clean, clean, clean. Bits OF
carpet are laid, in the places most
likely to trip you up. These are in
tended to keep the floor underneath
free from stain and then the carpets
are taken up and the floor underneath
scrubbed as carefully as if it had not
been protected all the time. You can
not imagine just how trying it is But
the other day she reached the limit.
She came in, took off her shoes. care
fully washed them and set them out
to- dry! Think Of it,! It's a wonder she
did not wash her hat"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02

INJURED BY BURGLAR.
Aged Woman BrutaIIy Assaulted by an
Unknown Man.

Belleyille, ILL.,, Oct. 2. - Mrs. Ella
Powell, the aged wife of Gen. Powell,
internal revenue collector for the
Southern Illinois district, was brutally
assaulted and seriously injured by a
burglar at her home here early yes
&terday morning. Mrs. Powell was
awak ened by a noise in her room,
and, lighting the gas she was horror.
stricken to find man lying face down
ward upon the floor at the foot Of her
bed She gave a scream which brought
neighbors to her aid but before they
arrived tie burglar had felled Mrs.
Powell with several blows in the side
and on the head. rendering her in
sensible, after which he made his es-
cape and has not been captured
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
The Lonu-Sufferina Editor,

A Queensland contemporary re-
Gently published the following: "Our
foreman printer recently measured
up the space occupied by obituary
notices in the Herald during the last
couple of months or so, and found it
made three and three-quarters yards.
This is so much dead loss to the pa
per, and if fatal epidemic struck
the town ruin would stare us in the
face. We have, therefore, decided to
future to charge for such notices. So,
when people feel like dying, we hope
they will give directions to their next
of kin in respect of paying for the
same
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Reminder Of Old Times.

A rich man who has joined the null
titude in New. York since his quick
fortune came to him was entertaining
friends at dinner the other night. The
service was magnificent and so was
the dinner. The wife, gorgeously clad,
reigned over the table. During lull
in conversation the rich man watched
a servant who was dexterously remov-
ing crumbs from the table, Then he
looked down the glittering table at
his jeweled wife and remarked:
Sadie, remember when you used to
shake the tablecloth out Of the back
door to the hens?"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
An Enterprisino Woman.

Miss Jessie McCubben of Alamo,
Oregon, is the owner of a valuable
mining claim in the Granite district,
which she Jumped" precisely as the
year 1903 came in. Learning that the
claim would be vacant the LIST day of
January, she drove through a blind
ing snowstorm on the night of Dec. 81,
the mercury IA degrees below zero,
and, waiting the advent of the new
year, staked her claim. Another pros
pector had done likewise earlier in
the evening, but Miss McCubben was
legally in the right, and the court sus-
tanned her. She is Portland girl.
10 years old.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
BRITISH AMBASSADOR DEAD.
Sir Michael Herbert Is a Victim OF
Ccnsumpton.

Sir Michael Herbert Is Victim OF
Consumption.
London Oct. 2. - Sir Michael Her
bert, the British ambassador to the
United States died yesterday at
Dayos- Platz, Switzerland, after a long
and plucky fight against consumption,
which terminated with tragic sudden
ness. The first announcement OF the
ambassadors untimelye end was made
at esterday afternoons session OF the
Alaskan boundary commission. Han
mis- Taylor, in behalf of the United
States, had finished his lengthy argu-
ment at 3 y. m. and Sir Edward Car
son, the solicitor general was replying
with an intricate legal argument deal
ing with maps and the ancient Van
couver controversy when Chief Justice
Aversion held UP his hand and Sir
Edward sat down. A second later the
commits sion, counsel, secretaries and
spectators sat spell-bound as Lord
Aversion, with trembling voice and
tears coursing down his cheeks, an
nounced that Sir Michael Herbert was
dead With dramatic pathos the in
ternationa1 Contestants became fellow
sympatnizers, listening in stunned
amazement to Lord Alverston's trib-
ute to the man whose death none ex-
pected Jacob Nj Dickinson of Amer
lean counsel, voiced the American -soy-.
row and proposed an adjournment of
the commission. Solicitor General
Carson followed and the commission
quietly broke UP until to-day.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
CONGO Road for Motor Cars.

The Congo Free State government
is cnstructing road in the northern
part of the state for the transport Of
passengers and goods by means Of
motor cars. The new route, of which
nearly $50 miles have been completed,
will join the important trading centers
OF Dongu and Lado. While making
the road local engineer hit upon the
happy idea of driving forty elephants
up and down the projected highway
until the thick underground was
trampled down, allowing the natives to
complete the task.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
The Butcher and His Hat.

II always thought it paid to be po-
lite until I got into this business" re-
marked a prosperous retail butcher,
"but find that it costs me about s25
year. My trade is with nice people,
and when fashionable women come
into the shop have to tip my hat to
them. A butchers fingers are always
more or less greasy from handling the
meat, and in about a month new hat
is no longer fit to wear. Grease is
about the only thing that won't come
out OF a derby, and will be the hat
ter's best customer until the weather
grows warm and ! will be able to go
bareh eaded."
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
UNION WINS A VICTORY.
Danger of Strike in Packing Industry
--.---R elieved- to-Re- Over.---------A-

Chicago, Oct. O. All danger of a
strike in the packing industry is be-
lieved to be over. When the commit
tees of the packers and the meat cut
tiers and butcher workmen last
night the. union submitted their ulti-
matum for the employment of union
men only without the men doing an
extra amount of work to obtain an in
crease in wages. After a short con
situation, the wage demandsaof the
union were taken up. Nothing was
said by the packers representatives
as to whether the demands OF the
union are accepted or would beDreject-
ed, and for this reason the unions
committee believe it has won a vic
tory
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
A Good Place to Stop.

He really ought not to have gone
into the Latin class that day. He was
called up first, and read as far as he
had prepared. Then he skirmished on
a little farther. This is the way it
went: 81, Ulysses, saw her (Dido's)
heavenly form advancing like a god
dess in the sunlight. | sprang to-
ward her, and she welcomed me. Her
hair fell down upon her shoulders like
the sunbeams on Olympus. Her eyes
shone like two jewels of the sea. IL
threw my arms-my arms-about-
about her-her neck-neck-and-
that's as far as got, professor. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Advancement Of Women.

At meeting Of the English Wom-
ems Liberal association a letter was
read in which the daughter of George
Meredith, the novelist, said: "My
father, George Meredith, wishes me to
say that it heartens him to see women
banded together in union. What ma
ture originally decreed men are but
beginning to see-that they are fitted
for most OF the avenues open to en-
ergy, and by their entering upon ac-
tive life they will no longer be open
to the accusation men SO frequently
bring against them Of their being mar
row and craven. Much more he could
say, but he has short time at his COM
mand."
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Governor Saves Boys Life.

It is fortunate for one Georgia youth
that Gov. Garvin Of Rhole Island is q
physician and surgeon Of standing.
The governor and number Of north
ern friends were at Andersonvtlle to
attend the dedication of monument
in memory Of Rhode Island soldiers
who died in Andersonville prison.
While tbs exercises were IL progress
a carriage team took fright, rs.n away
and upset the vehicle. Edwin Gala
way, one of the occupants, had his
leg broken, the jagged bone severi2g
an artery. Gov. Garvin, on hearing OF
the boys plight. hurried to his help,
tied the severed artery and cut the
broken bone. just in time to save the
sufferer from bleeding to death.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Painting the Dome of the Capitol.

The dome of the capitol at Wash
ington is being painted. Every five
years it's coat is renewed and $4,000
gallons of white lead are used in the
process. The work is being done by
eighteen men, under the direction Of
Chilly" Lewis and "Al" Ports. The
latter has been employed for such
work about the capitol for thirty nine
years. Ports is the only man who
ever climbed to the top of the Statue
of Liberty surmounting the dome. He
did this on Labor day, 1894, and fas-
tened garland of electric light bulbs
around the neck Of her majesty.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Etiauette of the Eeud.

There's just one thing, sah," OBJ
serbed Col. Gore of Kentucky, in
which we are away behind Turkey
whats that?" Col. Bullet asked,
quickly. We'll, sab, after a general
KILN the porte always sends polite
note of apology to the survivors of
the massacre. If we could only end
our feuds in that way, sab" But
we can't, sab, exclaimed Col. Bullet,
excitedly, for the simple reason, sab.
that when one of our feuds ends no.
body's left, sab, to apologize tot"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
The Artists Revenue.

A Chinese story tells how very
stingy man took paltry sum Of
money to an artist, who always ex-
acted payment in advance, and asked
him to paint his portrait. The artist
at once complied with the request, but
when the portrait was finished moth
ing was visible save the back of the
sitter's head. What does this mean?"
cried the sitter Indignantly. Well"
replied the artist, u thought man
who paid so little as you did wouldn't
care to show his face"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
STATISTICS or NIGHT HERoNs
They Are Sought by the Smithsonian
Institution.

Institution.
Eight hundred night herons are wan.
dering free about the United States,
each wearing on one leg an aluminium
band inscribed Smithsonian Institu-
ton" and number. If any person
shoots one of these birds he should
write to Paul Bartsch, biologist Of the
Smithsonian, telling where it was and
how large was the bird The night
heron is one of the most beautiful
Of the aquatic birds of America, but
scientists know less about it than they
are satisfied with. Last year Mr..
Bartsch discovered several breeding
places of these birds on the Potomac
in the District of Columbia. Recently
he visited the place with several as
sistants in the night and the 800
aluminium hands we're fastened to the
legs of as many young herons Science
is anxious to know how long the night
heron lives, where 1t spends the Win
tiers and how much of the country it
covers in its wanderings. 1t is be-
lieved that by the time few OF the
numbered aluminium bands haze been
reported some of these facts will have
been established to the satisfaction of
the ornith ologists. ~ Cleveland (O)
Plain Dealer
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
No Roval Road.

ST. Clair Mekelway- believes that
the journalism of the future will be a
profession and that men will be espe-
cially educated for it. They are and
always have been. Did that important
and valuable member of the profess
sion never hear OF "the hard school of
journalism" There is no other, and
never Will be, worth a pinch of snuff,
in our humble estimation. The uni
yersity of experience is the one which
gives the real degrees in journalism
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Chorus Girls OF Wealth.

Among the twenty girls who took
part in an amateur comic opera per-
Torrance in Philadelphia the other
evening were fifteen whose fathers
are millionaires. 1t is said that the
girls in question represented some
$4O,00O,O00 The affair was the big
gest event among the Hebrews Of
Philadelphia for twenty years. A
trainload of wealthy New Workers
went over specially to take part in or
witness the performance, which was
given under the auspices of the Mer--
camille club.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
a Paper Nav Criticise.

A trial jury in England gave the
manager of a ffth.rate show a YER
dict Of $3.50 against a newspaper
which published an adverse criticism.
The Appeal Court reversed this, and
held that the jury had no right to sub
stitute it's own opinion of the merits
of the play for the critics opinion
The court said it was Of the highest
Importance to the public that the crit
ic should not be exposed to the risk
of having a jury pass upon his taste,
and held that the trial Judge misdi-
rected the jury.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
The Ones That Suffered.

An aged Scotch minister, who was
very boastful, says ex-Speaker Joseph
L. Barbour Of the Connecticut legisla-
ture, once said to his good friend.
Think of it! preached two hours
and twenty minutes last Sunday!"
Didn't it weary you very much?" in
CURED the other so1icitously. ooh, no,
said the minister. But you should
have seen the congregation! NEW
York Times.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Was Always Runninn.

The Duke of Argyll tells this story
of Winston Churchill, which shows
that the talent for talk developed
young in the author and member of
parliament Some years ago he visit
cd Harrow, and noticing a boy run
ming around the cricket field all by
himself asked what he was doing it
for That's Lord Randolph Church
ills son, and whenever he talks too
much we make him run three times
round the cricket Geld" ------
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
The Worlds Rarest Bird.

To find the rarest bird in existence
you must go to the mountains between
Anam and Loas, where there is a Ger
tain kind of pheasant. For many
years it's existence was known only
by the fact that it's longest and most
splendid plume was in much request
by mandartns for their headgear- "A
single skin is werth $500, and the
bird living would be priceless, for It
soon dies In captivity.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
He Mas Kent Busy.

That was curious little confession
made to an interviewer the other day
by Color-S Sergeant Barry, for twenty
seven years keeper of the stage door
at the Lyceum. In reply to remark
about his knowledge of plays and play
ers, Sergeant Barry remarked: 81
have never seen play in all my life.
My place is at the stage door. have
never any time to see what iso going
On on the staga"-Lnpdon Tit-5its.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Brave Sailor Soon Forgotten.

Discouragingly tardy progress is be-
ing made with the proposed monument
to Rear Admiral James e. Jorrett. 1t
was thought that the gallant conduct
and wide popularity of the admiral
would have called forth generous re-
spouse to the committees appeal, but
that expectation has not been realized.
The headquarters Of the association
are in Washington and Rear Admiral
A. E. K. Benham is chairman of a
committee having the matter in imme-
date charge.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-10-02
Production of Nitrate of Soda.

The annual report of the Nitrate
Association of Chile, which controls
the worlds supply ofgnitrate of soda,
shows the production in 1902 to have
been 2,9S2,522s0 pounds from sew
enty-eight works. The nitrate beds
are near the surface and are worked
as stone quarries. 1t is anticipated
that the immense amount of nitrate
the United States now gets from
Chile for use in fertilizers will ulti-
mately be supplied by factories maxi
ing it by electrical process from the
air, as is being done at Niagara Falls.