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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20
THE HOMES OF THE POOR.

The fact that two and one half million people in
New York city live in tenements gives the impression
that there is necessary connection between poverty
and tenement house life for the metropolis contrves
to magnify its own conditions to national scale,
says the Saturday Evening Post But the authorita
tive book on the subject just prepared by Tenement
House Commissioner De Forest, Of New York and
Mr.. Laurence Veiller, conveys the cheering infor
nation that the evil hardly exists in other American
cities
Phladelphla is known everywhere as a city Of
homes. The tenement system does not exist there
and such bad conditions as there are in the small
houses OF the poor could be readily remedied. There
is no tenement house problem in Chicago. There
are slums in Baltimore, but practically no tenements
Tenement houses are "practicay unknown in
Cleveland.
They are not to be found to any extent in San Fran
cisco, in New Orleans, in Milwaukee in Detroit in
Louisville, in Minneapolis, in st. Paul in Providence
in Rochester or in Denver
Some important cities are fortunate enonpb to be
free, not only from the tenement problem but even
from housing problem. In Detroit. for instance
the homes OF majority OF the working men and
poor people Of the city are for the most part thor
oughly comfortable, and most Of the people live in
separate houses.
The only American cities outside of New York
that have really serious tenement problem are
Boston, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Hartford. The
evil in each case has been the outgrowth Of local con-
ditions that can be remedied In New York these
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

Much Importance is attached and very properly
so to the rapid and enormous growth of the foreign
trade in recent years but after all how insignificant
this trade is compared with the magnitude of the in
ternal commerce of this country According to an
estimate made by Mr.. o. p Austin, chief of the
bureau of statistics at Washington the volume of
domestic trade of the United States in 1903 reached
the total of $22,OOoOOOOOO, sum greater that the
aggregate Of our foreign trade for the last ten years
and equal to that of the international trade of the
world for 1903. Is it to be wondered at that the
rest of the world look with hungry eyes on such
market?
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

At meetnghed at the home of John W. Foster.
arrangements have been made for mass meeting to
be held shortly for consideration of an arbitration
treaty with Great Britain, Among those who will
speak at the meeting are Cardinal Gibbons, Andrew
Carnegie, Edward Everett Hale, chaplain Of the
senate, Clark Howell, Governor Durbin, of Indiana,
and Rabbi Hirsch of Chicago.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

The dissatisfaction on the bar dredge Chinook prob
ably arises from the fact that Captain Dunbar has,
like Marcus Susman announced that he is "the cap
tam OF the ship Discipline is necessary to the SER
vice, and Captain Dunbar is to be commended for
requiring it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

With due consideration for the law on the citv
statute books there is no more reason for man to
expectorate on the streets than there would be for
him to spit in some ones eye. The law ought to be
enforced
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

The Albany Herald says that relative of former
Governor Geer is interested in The Astorian This
will probably be news to the former governor and to
Mr. Elmore
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

Patti is in Seattle, to escape insoIent Portland
hote keepers but she isn't far enough away to escape
the funny men on the Portland papers. And such
humor
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-20

Senator Foraker will try to send an anti Hanna
delegation to the national convention He should
consult Tom johnson before leaping.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01

WILL WISE THEM
F. H. Hannifin Will Announce
His Candidacy to Friends in
Plenty Of Time.

Wednesday morning Frank 2.
Hannitin, the we'll Known Bemidji
hotel man, who formerly resided
in Wadena, passed through Wa
dena on his way to ST. Paul.
Mr.. Hannifn has been urged
to come out as a candidate for rail
way and warehouse commits
sioner, apositiops he is thoroughly
we'll equipped to fill. He has not
decided as yet just what he will
do, but will look over the field
with a view of ascertaining what
his chances might be. AS soon
as he reaches a decision, he will
take his friends and the pu blic
generally into his confidence.
Mr.. Hannlfn has a good many
friends in Wadena and Todd
counties, who would be glad OF
an opportunity to assist him, il
he should finally conclude to be
candidate. Wadena Pioneer
Journal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
EVENT OF SEASON
Leap Year Ball Last Evening Most
Largely Attended SOcialFunc'
ton of the Year.

The leap year ball held at the
opera house last evening will be
one of the land marks of the social
season of 1904. Over $50 people
were present and if any one of
them did not have a rollicking
good time he has not lived to tell
of it.
The affair was projected by a
number of ladies and few sue
cesses have succeeded as did
theirs. The ladies managed the
whole affair, squirrel the gentle.
men to and from the ball in the
most approved fashion, and
meeted out dances with a lavish
hand. The early part of the
evening was given up to attend
ing the Warner Comedy company
performance at the opera house
and dancing began about y
o'clock. A lunch was served at
the hall at o'clock and dancing
continued with such merriment
that the company did not break
up untilan ultra fashionable hour.
No pleasanter function was
ever given in Bemidji. The ladies
in charge of the affair announce
that they have a balance of $22 on
hand which will be turned over to
the benefit of the Bemidji public
library.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
DESERTED CHILD
Father of Little Ida Dahl Left Her
With Strangers Three
Years Ago.

Peter Bakken, a farmer living
in the town of Roosevelt, has
just filed a petition with the pro-
bate court asking to be appointed
the guardian of Ida Dahl, little
girl four years of age, whose
mother is dead and whose father
has apparently deserted her,
The child's father was Peter
Dahl, who is q ute we'll known at
Shevlin and other towns in this
vicinity. Three years ago he
left her with the Bakken family
and promised to pay for her care,
but since he left the Bakken
home after leaving her there he
has never returned or written.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bakken have be-
como attached to the child and
wish to have legal right to keep
her in their family.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
BEMIDJI BEER
First Brew of German Champagne
Will be Made at Brewery
Soon.

Contractor Greenlaw Hurst ar
rived Saturday night from Wa
dena to put the finishing touches
on the Bemidji brewery. Work
has been suspended for some
time. The cement floors are yet
to be laid and the machinery to
be put in position. The opening
of the brewery depends largely
on how soon the floors can be put
down and the machinery placed
in position. The plant is one OF
the finest in the state and the
equipment will be put in by an
expert. The first brew of Be
midi beer will be made within
a few weeks, however. The
trademark of the brand will be a
likeness of Chief Bemidji.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
Heavy Run of Routine Bust.
ness at Council Meet
ing Last Night.
INVESTIGATION WILL PERHAPS
OCCUR TOMORROW.
Formal Petition of Officers Re.
ceiyed and Placed On
File by Council.

Inc l1VoSGlSdblOli VI Gllo pollCe
department. which was promised
for last nights meeting of the
city council did not occur and
just when it will be had is not
yet definitely decided. 1t may
be had tonight or it may be had
tomorrow or it may be postponed
for some time, but it will surely
occur and the council has prom
ised to go into the matter in de-
tail.
The announcement that the in
vestigation would take place
drew out quite a large attendance
at last nights meeting. The com
munication of the police depart.
ment askln g that in view of GER
tain charges having been made
against the various mem bers
that the council institute an in
vestigation was received and
placed onfile.
The routine business last night
was voluminous and occupied the
attention of the council until a
late hour. A committee repre-
senting the interests Of the pub
lie school library were present
and asked the council for an APP
preparation for the library of
$500. The council listened to a
presentation Of the subject and
disposed Of it by adopting a
motion made by Alderman Hazen
to take the matter under advise
ment.
The purchasing committee was
instructed to consult with Chief
Cell relative to buying working
suits for the firemen. The boys
now attend fires in whatever garb
they are attired when the alarm
is sounded and several have
ruined their clothing. Besides
this ordinary apparel does not
serve against the igors O. the
weather in some cases and the
council was asked to take up the
matter of purchasing rubber
suits.
The discussion of the financial
conditions of the village and other
matters incident to the closing
administration was then taken
up and the council was at the
council chambers until nearly
eleven O'Clock.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01

To the Editor Pioneer:
Your editorial of yesterday
where my name is mentioned in re-
gard to ShermanBailey, causes me
to request you to make a slight
correction. [ have said time
ard again that as a citizen I had
no fault to find with Sherman
Bailey as chief of police. In fact,
I thought he was the right man
for the position, h $ always
turned fines into the city treas
ury promptly, kept good order
and did his duty we'll as far as l
know. However, | made the re
mark, when a friend Of his APP
preached me stating if was a
candidate for mayor | must give
my promise to support Sherman
Bailey or l could not be elected.
That such a challenge would put
a chip on my shoulder, and if
I intended to make run
I would go after it whether | got
certain support or not" latter
wards told the same party | was
not candidate, but should l be
and elected, I could do nothing
but cast my vote ior him.
: (Mr. Roberts states that he was
misquoted as to the action he
would take were he elected mayor
but his letter amply bears out
the Pioneers statement Of the
pressure which is being brought
to bear upon all candidates to
pledge themselves to use public
office for the private profit OF a
few. -ED.)
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
VILLAGE CAUCUS
Will Be Held At Court House To
morrow Night to Nomi-
nate Village Ticket.

Mayor Ludington today author
ICES the announcement that the
village caucus to place in nomi-
nation candidates for mayor, re-
corder, treasurer, three trustees,
a Justice of the peace, constable
and assessor will be held1 at the
court house at 8 O'Clock tomor-
row night. The meeting will be
called to order by Mayor Lud-
ington and the opposing hosts
will try out their strength on the
contest for the craftsmanship.
Several very brisk fights for the
different places on theticket are
in sight, much development OF a
sensational nature rising out OF
the existing strained conditions
lis expected and there is every
prospect that the meeting will be
very largely attended and just as
interesting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
N n"
I HERE is WHAT IL
COST
Summary Of Reports Of City
Recorder and City
Treasurer.
!. a BUNCH OF VERY INTEREST.
u. ING FIGURES.
City Orders Drawn For-feai
Aggregate a Total OF
$40, 76I.O3.
A summary of the annual

A summary of the annual
statements of Recorder IL, W.
Bailey and City Treasurer
] Brooks which the Pioneer is-to-
day enabled to publish will be
interesting to the taxpayers OF
the city generally. The state,
ments show all the money that
has been paid into the city treas
ury and the expenditures in the
various departments of city gov
eminent.
The items will be published IN
detail in the financial statement
Of the village, which will be pub
lished the latter part OF the
week. From the statement OF
Mr.. Bailey it will be seen that
city Nv orders have been drawn DUR
ing the past year for a total OF
nearly $4,000. From this it will
be seen that it has cost some
thing to run the city of Bemidji.
The statements follow and speak
for themselves:
nnropnTp,c crA TENIENT
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
The Conductor.

Conductor Warren of the G. &
N. w. R. r. says: I had been
suffering with a severe cold for
several days. and was so hoarse
I could not speak above a whis-
per, Nov. is, ! met one of DR..
Warmers agents on my train, he
handed me bottle of the White
Wine Of Tar Syrup, and one hour
after taking the first dose my
hoarseness commenced leaving
me. In twenty four hours my
voice was quite clear and natural
the cold nearly cured. It is the
best remedy I ever saw.
The Daily Pioneer want col
umns are good result getters.
Try them.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
Buys New Equipment.

A. M. Bagley, the liveryman,
Saturday placed an order with a
Columbus wholesale house for
some new equipment for his
livery business. Included IL the
order is a fine surrey. When
the stock arrives he will have one
of the bestequipped livery stables
in this section of the state.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01

Total receipts for fiscal year
ending March l, 1904. .s29, 462 so
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
Another Masquerade.

The Retail Liquor Dealers as,
ISOLATION plans to give another
masquerade some time during
the present month. The date
will probably be March II. The
last event was pronounced sue
cess and so popular with the peo-
pie that it is believed thatanother
one would be well received and
the matter is being gone about
accordingly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
IMPROV EMENTS
Contractor Boyd Says Coming
Summer Will be One of Activity
in Building Line.

Contractor VIM. Boyd is author
ity for the statement that the
coming summer will be one OF
unusual activity in the building
line. Several local firms con
template the erection of hand
some business blocks in different
sections of the city and Mr.. Boyd
thinks the year will be one OF
the biggest in the history Of the
city city i'll the 1 building line. The
number of residences built last
year was large but there is every
prospect that it will be much
larger this year. A large num-
Der Of local people are figuring
on building at present and car
penters and building employees
generally will find plenty Of work
during all summer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01

smoke chop" or opium. The I'M
usual merry-making at the Chi
nese places last week was due to
the New Years festivities and
was not a super abundance of joy
induced by "hltting the pipe.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-01
Saloons Must Close.

Mayor Ludington is today pre-
pairing his official proclamation
for the closing of the saloons on
election day. The saloons must
remain closed during all the time
the polls are open and the exact
hours when they must be closed
and when they will reopen will
be fixed in the mayors official
instrument which will be ready
tonight.
w. H. Bohannon, who has been
in this section for some time left
this morning for St. Louis, where
he expects to be employed at
the printing business and remain
during the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy
the sense of smell and completely
derange the whole system when
entering it through the mucous
surface. Such articles should
never be used except on precrip-
tions from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten
folds the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls
Catarrah Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,
contains no mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous sur.
faces of the system. In buying
Hall s CatarrhCure besure youget
the genuine. tits takeninternally
and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F.J.
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, Toe.
per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13
Spread OF English Tongue

The need of a universal language
is agitated from time to time. but SO
far there seems to have been nothing
accomplished. When the effort was
made to introduce Volapuk we learn
ed two things, that the need of such
a language was great and also that no
artificial language would fill the need.
DIR. Schroer, German professor, says
that attempts to introduce any artifi-
cial language are hopeless as we'll as
unnecessary. for there is already a
universal language, and it is English.
A language without historical devel-
opments. literature or linguistic rela-
tons would not be studied by any
considerable number of people, and
hence could never become universal.
DR.. Schroer goes on to'say in favor of
English that it has great claim to
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13
Ode TO Disappointment

Come. Disappointment come!
Not in thy terrors clad;
Come in thy meekeSt Saddest guiSe:
Thy Christening rod but terrifes
The restless and the bad.
But l recline
Beneath thy shrine,
And round my brow resign'd, thy peace
full cypress Irvine.
Though fancy flies away
Before thy hollow tread.
Yet Meditation in her cell,
Hears with faint eye the ling ring knell,
That tells her hopes are dead;
And though the tear
By chance appear
Yet she can smile and say, "My all was
not laid here!"
Come. Disappointment. come!
Though from Hopes. summit hurled
STILL rigid Nurse, thou art forgiven,
Or thou severe vert sent from heaven
TO wean me from the world:
To turn my eye
From vanity,
And point to scenes Of bliss that never
never die.
What is this passing scene?
A peevish April day!
A little SUM- a little rain
And then night sweeps along the plain,
And all things fade away
Man (sOon discuss'd)
Yields up his trust.
And all his hones and fears lie with him
in the dust,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13
Cure to Stay Cured,

Wapello, Iowa, Oct. 10 Especially
One of the most remarkable cures
ever recorded in Louisa County is
hat of Mrs. Minnie Hart of this place
Mrs. Hart was in bed for eight months
Ind when she was able to sit up she
was all drawn up on one side and
could not walk across the room.
'Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her, Speak
ng of her cure, Mrs. Hart says:
Eyes, Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me
after was in bed for eight months
md l know the cure was complete
'or that was three years ago and
have not been down since. In four
weeks form the time started taking
hem l was able to make my garden.
Nobody can know how thankful am
20 be cured or how much feel. l owe
% Dodd's Kidney Pills"
This case again points out how
much the general health depends on
he Kidneys. Cure the Kidneys with
Oodd's Kidney Pills and nine-tenths of
he suffering the human family is heir
o will disappear.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13
Something Else Needed.

0O"ctNIn9 Else Neeoco.
One of the men employed in a GER
tain factory is keen judge of charac-
ter, and his mates declare that as a
detective he would give points and a
beating to Sherlock Holmes.
The other morning a couple of his
fellow workmen approached him and
one began:
Il say, Bill, here's a go! Jacks lost
his watch! He don't know exactly
how, but thinks he must have had his
pocket picked. Can you do anything
IN the matter?"
"Oh. yes" responded Bill, with a
sharp glance at the supposed victim.
I could get it back again, but should
want Jacks permission"
"You can have that, of course" muir
INJURED Jack, with a strange lack of
enthusiasm.
But you'd have to give me some
thing else as WE'LL" continued the anna
teur detective.
Whats that?"
THE ticket" was the instant re-
ply.
AS Bill shrewdly guessed, Jacks
watch was at "Uncle's," placed there,
moreover, by the owner himself, who
has not yet heard the last of that lit
lie transaction.-Cassell' London
Journal.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13

Nov caplated a mans hungrys
them folks would be willing to pay a
quarter for a good big homemade
sandwich, but they held back. They
was plenty would pay a dime. could
"a sold, out twicet over at a dime
each-but only sold five at a quar-.
ter.
"Tll wait till they get hungrier,'
SIS l. l went outside and set on q
snow pile and watched them fellers
shoveling out that train. Seemed to
me they want like to git the train
out before next summer so l didn't
hurry about going abroad again with
them sandwiches. Jes' as made up
my mind it was time, though, along in
front come one of them rotating
whlrligig plows they sent up from the
other way, and before you could say
Jack Robinson away went the train
behind it through the cut it made.
We'll, sir, as l sat watching that
train hadn't gone more'n two hundred
yards before see had made great
mistake not to sell them sandwiches
for ten cents. l see it plain as could
be. An I'm seeing it yet. for Aunt
Sarah an me has been living on ham
sandwiches fer three weeks, and they
amt half used up."-Youth's Com.
DaniOn n-
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13
v ncle Jed Too Grasping

1t lad long been almost proverb
In the village that Jedediah Perkins
didn't know a chance when he saw
one" The public discussion of this
falling had often come to Uncle Jed's
ears, and had sounded loudly in them.
Worst of all, he had to admit that he
was, in the language of his neighbors.
easy" He paid the most fer what
ne bought and got the least for what
re sold of any man within a dozen
miles.
but uncle Jed saw a chance at last.
A railway runs close to his house. and
IN the middle of winter during a ire
mendous snow storm, passenger
train was stalled in the cut through
his south pasture, and was unable to
go forward or back.
After it had been there about half a
Cay Uncle Jed saw his chance. There
were hundred or two passengers.
eager to buy food. He had a large
store of ham and bacon. He would
have Aunt Sarah make it up into sand
wiches, ard they would clear a small
fortune.
$50 that's what we DONE" SAID
Uncle Jed, telling of tt afterward.
We made up every bit of ham in the
house into sandwiches and took em
down there and offered 'em for sale
tor a quarter apiece.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-13

being universal because of its spread
over the whole earth, the ease with
which it is learned. and because it
has reached a position so far in ad-
vance of all others that neither nat.
ural nor artificial means can deprive
1t OF its assured position as the future
means of international intercourse.
Some facts concerning our language
seem to bear out DR.. Schroer's opin-
ions. English is spoken by the most
powerful and richest nation of Europe
and by the greater part of the people
of North America, South Africa, Aus
tralia, India and the Sandwich Is.
lands. Since the beginning of the
nineteenth century the number of
English speaking people has grown
from 25,0OO,O0O to 1875 ,OOO,0 900. and
there is no prospect of any check to
its ever increasing triumph.