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The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1904-01-11
SHORT
Gus Beauleau Takes Place of
Postmaster at White Earth
During Investigation.

For some time there have been
rumors of impending trouble for
J. %. VanWert, the postmaster at
White Earth, and the trouble ma
terialized last Wednesday. AS a
result Mr.. VanWert is now in
Fergus Falls charged with a
shortage in his accounts to an
amount that has not been made
public, but which is stated to be
from $500 to S5O0.Mr. VanWert's
arrest followed an Investigation
Of the post office by the U. S. In.
spector. VanWert has been the
postmaster at White Earth about
two years and during that time
it is said that he has been drink
ing heavily and unfit for business
much Of the time.
Mrs. Gus H. Beaulieu has been
placed in charge of the Office.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1904-01-11
THE CITY
John McAvoy went to Mime
apolis on business yesterday.


apolis on business yesterday.
Rev. Mcleod will conduct SER
vices at the Union Mission to-
morrow night.
Hank ye to the peasant strain.
People are often saved by taking
Marks Lung Balsam.
Irwin g. O'Brien shipped a
crew Of men to their Lakeport
logging camps this morning.
Words are weak as water when
it comes to. telling of the wonder
(, full cures of Marks Lung Balsam.
- Miss Hazel Wood returned yes
terday from ten days visit with
friends and relatives at Brainerd.
Call on A. e. Winter the lead
ing jeweler for up-to-date goods.
Next door to First National
bank.
A. z. Wheelock is at Crookston
where he will buy two cars of
horses for a. ,SolwaY lum bering
concern.
r. w. Reed went to Lakeport
this morning to take some pic
lures of the logging camps in
that vicinity.
The second ice harvest on Lake
Bemidji has begun. The ice is
about two feet in thickness and
is being taken out near the inlet.
John McDougal, the Crookston
Lumber Co.'s cruiser, who has
been in the city for several days,
leaves tonight to do some work
in the vicinity of Kelliher.
Louis Kornman, travelling sales
man for Ederheimer, Stein &
Co., Milwaukee, is in the city to-
day the guest of I. Meyer. Mr..
Kornman is interested with Mr..
Meyer in his Bemidji business.
interest in the meetings at the
M b. church remains undated.
The sermons bv Rev. l.. Dodds
on Sunday will long be remem
bered by those who heard them,
for their evangeistic fervor and
direct common sense. He
breaches again tonight.
The revival meetings which are
being conducted in the Congre-
gational church at Nymore are
being very we'll attended. Rev.
Clark is being assisted by pastors
from outside points. Rev. u. D.
Arnold, of Akeley, spoke last
might. He was assisted by Rev.
Parks.
The Pioneer was misinformed
last week when it stated that
George Latulippe had purchased
the Peerless Steam Laundry.
Mr.. Latulippe has purchased a
half interest from the former
proprieJors who will continue
j with him in business. The sale.
was negotiated by -. j. Willis.
Judge Spooner and a party of
about a dozen gentlemen, COM
prising county officers from Bel
trami and Itasca counties, left
this afternoon for Kooch1ching,
where a special term of the dis
trict court will be convened The
party go in by way of Winnipeg
land expect to return about the
18th.
Pat Shane, one Of the best
known old time printers and
newspaper men in the west, was
in Bemidji this morning. Mr..
Shane was on his way to Duluth
for visit with relatives. He is
at present employed as city edi-
tor of the Butte Inter Mountain
and says the west is enjoying a
full measure of prosperity de-
spite the many reports which
reach this section to the con
trary.
Last night in the parlors of the
Hotefs Blakely at Farley, the Rev.
F. 3. Higgins officiating, oc
cnrrad the marriage of Miss
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1904-01-11
Subscribe for The Pioneer.

R. W. Langahr, the Blackjack
attorney, is IN the city on bust
ness today.
The Ladies Reading club met
this afternoon at the home of
Mrs. r. B. Foster.
The Knights of Pythias have
work in the second rank at their
regular meeting tomorrow night.
Superintendent Strachan and
Train master f. S. Parker, Of the
M. & l., were in Bemidji this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Mcdonald
have returned from a visit to
Duluth, and several Of the iron
range towns.
G, R. Martin spent yesterday
at Kelliher arran GIN for the first
appearance this week of the
Kelliher Journal.
The metropolitan appearance
Of G. H. Miles place is being en-.
HANGED today by a handsome
Illuminated sign, which bears the
legand Of "Miles.
H. b. Hart and V. NJ. Owen, of
Browerville, are in the city today
negotiating for the purchase of
some tracts of wood land in the
vicinity Of Tenstrlke.
Alphius Doran and James
Castles, who have been smallpox
patients at the detention hospital
| for some time past,Were released
from quarantine this morning.
/ A. P. White went to Grand
Rapids today to attend the annual
meeting Of stockholders of the
| First National Bank. The annual
meeting of the First National
Bank of this city occurs tomor-
row.
A. Hart was examined as to his
sanity by the insanity board this
morning. He was ordered COM
mitted to Fergus Falls by Judge
Clark and Sheriff Bailey started
with him this afternoon. Hart
was a farmer and lived near the
brickyard.
F. A. Carlson, who has been
farming near Tenstrike for some
time past, is in the city today
closing up his affairs preparatory
to leaving for Norman county,
where, he will reside in the flu
ture. Mr.. Carlson disposed of
his farm last week.
The general Offices of the
Crookston Lumber Company
opened in their new. quarters in
Bemidji today. Among the en-
ploves to come from Crookston
yesterday and today We're the
Messrs. Arson, Dodds, Scharf,
Boss, Richards, Lennox and
BigeloW.
The case of Frank Anderson
VS.. Robert Nelson is occupying
the attention of Judge Skinvik's
court today. I is for the re-
covery Of the sum of 500 which
Anderson alleges he left-in Mel
sons keeping in the shape of a
certified check. Nelson sets up
as a counter claim that Anderson
was in debt to his house for
drinks and money advanced the
entire sum.
A woodsman employed by the
Weaver Bros. at their logging
camp near Turtle River, had an
unpleasant experience one night
last week. He had gone down to
the landing to put some hay on a
bad place on the road when he
was beset by a pack of wolves
who chased him onto a tree
where he was compelled to re-
main all night. He was found in
the tree by the landing men
when they came to work the
next morning. Four large gray
wolves were keeping him com
pany.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1904-01-11
Four Hundred Miles by Stage.

A. r. Erickson, employed at
the county auditors office is
back this morning from a tripto
Oregon, which he made with Ola
Olson Of Sheylin in making final
proofin a stone ane timber claim.
Mr.. Erickson says the trip was
one Of the pleasantest lie has
ever taken. At the CAu'tes IN
the Silver Lake country he met
Joe Taggart, d former resident
of Bemidji, who has two claims
in that vicinity and likes the
country. At the same town he
visited Joseph Steidl, former
mayor of this city. lie found
the latter iii with typhoid fever.
The journey which Mr. sickson
took necessitated 400 mills Gravel
by stage.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12
Urges Government Ownership.
t s Chicago American.

From Hearst's Chicago American
The great meat strike has brought forth many
ideas from readers who deplore the battles oe-
tween labor and capital, and the following letter
comes from military man who has travelled
extensively and wishes to be signed "Patriot. "
He believes emancipation and happiness can De
secured only through the ballot. His letter
follows
"When will the working man learn that the
only way to control capital and labor is by the
ballot? To secure government ownership OF
the railroads, coal mines, packing houses and
all other great syndicates it is necessary that
men be elected to the Legislatures and con,
gress pledged to make the necessary laws
whereby the government shall acquire owner
ship of these great concerns, which are held
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12
TOM WATSON, REFORMER.

In Thomas f. Watson, CT Georgia, the Pop
ulists have a striking presidential candidate
Eight yeats ago, when he was known chiefly
as All irreconcilable fanatic who he'd served
term in congress and prodded Cobb, OF Ala
bama, into the unsteady speech made memora-
BILE by its pathetic inquiry: "Mr Speaker,
where am l at?' A fanatical reiormer, pare
aud simple, isn't an attractive figure. NO.
body likes to be lectured by man who is blind
to all the facts which alone can explain the
issue in which he is interested.
But since the campaign of 1896, Mr.. Watson
has published brilliant though defective HIS
tory of France" similar "1.ife OF Napoleon
and suggestive ellie of Thomas Jefferson.
From these books the public has become ac-
auaiuted with the author. They are the
products of tremendously earnest and emo
tional man, who treats all history from the
standpoint of the Populist platform. Julius
Caesar, for instance, Mr.. Watson regards pre-.
cisely as he would modern plutocrat "Ce-
sar," says this stern historian, "was one of the
boldest money.hunters that ever plundered
temple or conhscated an estate or sold nation
under the hammer of the auctioneers." The
authors hatred of the money power lmpels
him to the further suggestion that the great
Roman probably invaded Gaul "partly at the
instance OF the Roman spectators and partly
.at the suggestion Of his own financial necessi-
tiles and hopes"
When man holds such views of the classic
dead, it is no wonder that he has no patience
with slow methods of reform. Mr.. Watsons
books reveal him as hater of injustice and
champion of liberty and progress and high
ideals generally. He is much more of man
than was supposed in 1896, and it is impossible
mot to respect his motives.
Emersou's remark about Thoreau applies to
ahe bitter relormer from Georgia. "Whie we
love Thoreau," said the glacid sage of Con-
cord, eve do not like him. kansas City Star.
The foregoing opinion from newspaper of
the opposition speaks volumes in favor of the
man who heads the Peoples ticket. Watson is
the intellectual superior of either OF the old
party candidates. He is man of courage, in.
dependence and of advanced thought Any
admirer or supporter of w. j. Bryan in the
past two campaigns need not hesitate to vote
for as good and able man in the person of
Tom Watsou.-Kansas Commoner.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12

Der Of tracks to paorm the work of the road.
"Second- xsed in the construc-
ton OF the road and equipment IS of the best
material Third-Enough men are employed
to do the work of the road without compelling
the men to work many hours overtime. Fourth
The safety of the inhabitants is the first con
sderation; consequently, laws are enacted with
an extreme penalty for violation of the same
by any individual.
"For instance, they fine you $500 if you are
found walking on the track
"'There are no grade crossngs-all depots
provided overhead crossings for passengers. And
there is the ever-present railroad police to see
that you don't step off the platform onto the
track, even if you should forget the $500 fine
for so doing. | remember that the fare from
Yokohama to Toxic was II cents for ride of
sixty five miles in first class coach. OF course,
the government did not want more than enough
to pay the actual run ling expenses.
''In like manner could all of our enterprises
be conducted by the government. Instead OF
ncreatng hardships for the many, it would
couduce to their welfare and happiness. Now
it is up to the common people to secure a leader
who will unite all for the purpose of securing
legislation to the end that the government shall
own and control the enterprises now in the
hands of the trusts.
"The ballot is the weapon that will solve the
problem. The people must WELD the weapon,
and neither the professional politician nor the
millionaire trust owner can control the result If
the people unite to that end. Such happiness
as would ensue is we'll worth serious considera-
ton. Then, indeed, would we be free coun-
try, and the flag of America would float over
the homes of happy and contented people
one where the laborer is worthy of his hire"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12

by few milionares to the detriment Of the
great mass of the people.
'I.et the government once assume the man
agement of these vast enterprises, and employ
the labor at wages acco. ding to the skill and
ability required to perform the work, and cstab-
lish the working day at eight hours, making
the lowest wage good living wage for the low
est grade of work, increasing the compensation
with the increased skill required, and there will
be no more strikes and labor troubles will be at
an end.
''It was my good fortune to see the actual
working of this system of government owner
ship of the railroad in Japan in 1899. In the
first place, there are few, if any, accidents.
Why? Because the government has built the
road with view to the safety of the inhabh-
ants, providing the same with sufficient num-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12

In letter of eulogy on Joseph Folk, Will
liam Allen. White declares that ''it is better to
be bolter to the party than to the country"
That saying is trite and pithy, and it will be
good thing for good many people to remem-
Der in Reno county as we'll as in Missouri
Neither does it apply to one party alone. Dem
ocrats are prone to consider that it is better to
be boter to the party than a traitor to the
country only when the bolter is Republican,.
And Republicans are prone to believe that way
only when the bolter is Democrat And so
it happens that it is theory that is not very
often acted upon. In the of Folk it is
mighty sure that every boodler in the Demo-
crat party will vote against him, as we'll as all
Republican booders. 1t has been thought that
he would be elected almost by acclamalon, but
it yet remains to be seen whether there are
more honest men who will bolt their ticket
than dlers.-Huchnsou Gazette
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12
THOMAS II. TIBBLES.
Industrial Advocate, FL Dorado.

From the Industrial Advocate. FL Dorado.
Thomas H. Tbbles, the Peoples party nom
inee for vice-president, is possibly unknown to
many of our readers. The Springfield Massa-
chusetts, Republican gives the following short
history of the man:
Mr. TiIbles, of Nebraska, should not be
ignored, although he naturally attracts little
attention as candidate fol vce-president on the
Popullst ticket. Eastern friends of the Indians
have known him as an earnest defender of the
rig hts of the Poncas, and later as the husband
of bright Eyes," the remarkable Indian wo-
man. Mr. Tibbles' life has been romantic to
an unusual degree. AS young man, he joined
John Brown in Kansas, and was captured by
Ouautrell the border ruffan, and hanged to
tree. He was strung up twice, and then taken
down by his captors in the hope that he would
divulge the hiding place of Browns men in
order to save his life. The third time he was
hanged, he was left to die, but was saved by
the timely appearance of friends. AS a frontier
experience, this is more than Mr. Roosevelt
can boast of. After the civil war, Mr.. Tibbles
turned to the ministry, but later, he drifted into
journalism and politics. He has conducted the
Independent weekly organ OF the Popuist
party, at Lincoln, Nebraska, for number of
years.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12

WE call attention to our piano contest. See
the announcement on this page.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-12

VIZ DO JoB PRINTING-the best, too.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28

pansion. He started the modern Rus.
STA on her career and established tho
autocracy which after centuries is only
beginning to feel the impulses of the
common people for share and voice in
the government. In Peter the Great we
have the rare spectacle of nation being
formed by the work of one man within
the period of 43 years. He was not
afraid Of hard work himself and learned
the trade of shipbuilding in Holland.
He transformed the customs, habits and
costumes of the Slavs. He opened up
schools and colleges, and the mobiles and
burghers were encouraged to educate
themselves. He ameliorated the con-
dition of the serfs without abolishing
slavery.
Such were the great reforms which
Peter established, and in Catherine H..
who caG1e to the throne, or rather, who
seized the throne 81 years after Peter
had passed off the stage of life, he had
a worthy successor. Not only did she
continue his work of conquest, adding
territory to the west and south to the
Russian domain, but she also was active
in bringing about reforms within the
nation. She reorganized justice and
education, that is for the higher classes.
She collected about her the most emf
nent French philosophers, and French
literature became the model which Rus
sian writer's endeavored to copy, and
with her reign begins Russian litera-
ture. But the condition of the serfs was
not relieved. They were still fast bound
in slavery, and the civilization which
was SO marked was of merely fictitious
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28
NEVER DISPLAY EMOTION.
Amusing Instances Of the Undemon-
strative Nature Of the
British

We Anglo-Saxons are apt to pride
ourselves upon being undemonstrative.
Max Adler tells a tale of a boy who
was sent out by his father to fetch in
some wood. The boy took the oppcr-
tunity of disappearing and did not
snow his face again beneath the pa
rental roof for over 20 years, says NJ.
A. P. Then one evening a smiling,
Well-dressed stranger entered to the
old couple and announced himself as
their long-lost son.
well, you haven't hurried your
SELF" grumbled the old man, land
blame me if now you haven't forgot
ten the wood
I was lunching with an Englishman
In London restaurant one day at a
table near by, and, glancing round
and meeting my friends eye, smiled
and nodded.
Excuse me minute" said my
friend; Il must just speak to my
brother, haven't seen him for over
five years."
He finished his soup and leisurely
wiped his mustache before strolling
across and shaking hands. They talked
for awhile, then my friend returned to
me.
"Never thought to see him again."
observed my friend; ''he was one of
the garrison at that place in Africa
what's the name of it-that the NAH
di attacked. Only three OF them es-
capped. Always was lucky beggar,
Jim.''
"But wouldn't you like to talk to
him some more?" suggested; II can
see you any time about this little BUSH
ness of ours"
"Oh, that's all right" he answered;
1--WE have just fixed it up-shall be
dining with him Tomorrow"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28

acter. we quote from Fergusson's His
tory OF the Modern Styles of Archi-
tecture:" "1n Belgium it Is French
most notable specimen of the building
art which has been produced, the truly
magnificent Palais &c Justice at Brus-
sells, if it were the design of French
man, would certainly entitle him to be
called the representative of very ad-
vanced and original school. The SUI
preme majesty of the edilce-aided
immensely by the majesty of the sit
uation-strikes the beholder with the
greatest force. and the boldness Of
the grouping and the play of masses
appear to carry his mind quite beyond
the considerations of criticism; but,
nevertheless, when the design comes
to be INTELLECTUALLY examined, there
Is no doubt that, if it still pleases the
eye, it fails in certain particular points
to satisfy the intellect. The impress
iveness of the composition depends
largely upon the introduction of GER
tain Unfortunately massive features, cas-
lily recognizable, whose omission, or
reduction to the prevailing style of de-
sign, would probably diminish the
grandiose effect considerably In fact,
there are several scales in the compo-
sition, which it is more than difficult
to attempt to reconcile; and there ara
few better effects to be found for the
student than that which would be fur
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28
HAND MADE LACES OF INDIA
Hindoo Weaver May Be Illiterate and
Ignorant, But His Work
Is Exquisite.

The hand-woven, hand-dyed and
hand-embroidered laces of India are a
revelation of decorative possibilities
dear to the heart of the artist. The
Hlndoo weaver may be illiterate and
stupid to everything else, but in the
matter OF lace-making he is an expert.
whose work is not to be successfully i'm
1tated by any machine-made textile. At
the worlds fair, says the Detroit News
tribune there are now being shown
examples OF this work that are simply
marvellous. A writer, who has been care
1ully viewing these laces in all their SUBJ
tie coloring, says that ''the eve of the
trained critics finds an individuality and
soft blending of colors and weird de-
signs In the hand-wrought fabrics which
no machinery can duplicate
The Indian weaver and dyer lives
"here human life and labor are most
superintendent and cheap, and time al
most valueless. He is an illiterate man:
and all OF the rules of his art, all the
mlnutlae of his wool, all the Sc
crets of his dye pots, all the
iormulae for his fabrics and de-
signs, are oral traditions mem
rlzed and repeated in a monoto.
nous s1ng-song as he performs the pro-
scrlbed manipulations in his slow, care
ful and absorbed manner. You would
tnlnk him performing some mystical re-
llglous rite as you hear him singing his
directions to himself while preDarlnc
his various dyes, or twisting around his
cloth the knots and wreaths of thread
that are to shield it in spots from the
dye and produce the wonderful pattern
OF his dream after succession of plunges
| in the different colors,
The beautiful lace dye is made OF
myriads of minute insects and never
fades. The printing of silks and cottons
by means of hand blocks is another In
dian Industry, producing prints artist
cally superior to any machine printing,
While the men do this exquisite weav-
Ing and coloring, the elaborate and
much-admired emoroideries of India arc
the work OF women. The designs and
stitches are handed down as precious
heritage from mother to daughter. and
the expert can easily tell where each
product halls from.
This is especially the case with re-
spect to the Phulcari patterns, which
form part of the bridal outfit and dowry
of the Hindoo woman. The silken petit
coats of the Rajputs are often used in
decorative arrangements. The metal,
wrought wooden fabrics shown are useL
as table spreads or saddle covers, and
the refined gold used in them is unfair
nishable. The subdued and blended col.
Oring of these textiles makes them in.
valuable for harmonizing stronger tints
in decoration"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28

HE Peace palace, at The
eUfG N Hague, is to be built, on
y SAk smaller scale. on the plan
@A II of the Brussels Palace of
SN1N2 Justice. The Palace Of JUS
~ tice. famed for it's noble
beauty, is a structure of
comparatively recent building, and was
formally opened April, 1883.
The subject of municipal art is one
In which the residents of Brussels are
vitality interested, a matter in which
they hold leading place. Artists and
public-spirited citizens combine to
make of Brussels city beautiful, one
that will prove attractive to travellers,
as well as to townsmen; and, as Brad
ford Colt De Wolf says, writing in the
Art Journal: Modern art, it is thus
expected, will do for the Belgian cities
what medieval art has done, and still
does. for Venice, Pistoza, and also for
Bruges. >. i. Nothing is considered too
unimportant to come within the scope
of the new movement, from a door
knob to the facade of a cathedral"
The Rue de la Regence IN Brussels Is
lined with handsome buildings, and it
terminates in the vast Palais de JUS
tice. The harmonious proportions Of
the palace of justice. designed by the
Belgian architect, Joseph Poclaert, at
tracts many art pilgrims to Brussels.
Up to 1880. it was the largest archi-
tectural work of the nineteenth cen