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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-17
Resolutions.

Whereas, it hath pleased Al
mighty God in His Infinite Wis
dom to call to himself Brother
James Doran, d. H. @. E. of ST.
Philips Court, No-12g4, c. "A.
of Bemidji, Minnesota:
Now therefore be it resolved,
by the Brothers Of St. Philips
Court, No. 1894, G. O. T., that in
the death of Brother Doran, this
Court has suffered an irreparable
loss, Bemidji has lost a good citi,
zen, and his bereaved family a
kind and loving hus band and
father.
To the Divine protection Of
Him who noteth even the spar
rows fall, and who doeth ssall
things we'll" we commend the
sorrowing widow and children.
May He in His goodness and
mercy heal their sorrowing,
hearts, and make plain the way
for that glorious resurrection and
reunion Over There. where there
will be no more parting and no
more tears,
Resolved further that these
resolutions be entered in the
minutes of our Court, and that a
copy be engrossed and presented
to the family of our deceased
Brother.
Dated, March Is, 1904.
MATT MAYER, V. @. r.
r. j. FENToN, P. G. r.
p. j. RUSSELL, c.. r.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-17
BLAIR WON OUT
One Armed BilIiardist Wins Ont
in Handicap Class of Elite
Tournament.

f. G.. Blair, finished last of his
series of games in the local bill
lard tournament. Mr.: Blair de-
feated w. W.BroWne by a score
of 100 tots. The game was one
of the best of the tournament and
was watched with a very great
deal of interest. Mr.. Blair
handicapped Mr. Browne ten
points. The standing of the first
class in the tou rnament at pre-
sent is as follows
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-17

learn that there wasn't WOODEN
sock in the city Of Jacksonville,
and he went away somewhat
chagrined. Most of the people
go barefooted down that way,
Mr.. Markham says,and the regu-
lation amount Of clothing necesz
sary even in the winter time is
not more than enough to wipe a
pair Of specks.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-17
evening.

where he will take charge Of a
large hotel business for his
father. Mr.. Brinkman has many
Bemidii friends who will extend
best wishes for success in his
new venture.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-17
OPENS TODAY
j. P. Young's Grocery Store
Opened To Public This
Morning.

The grocery store of j. ?.
Young, which has been closed
since the recent MalzahaD block
fire was opened to the public
this morning, the insurance ad-
iusters having reached a settle
ment yesterday afternoon. The
loss was settled at a $1,000. a
big fire sale will be inaugurated
at once and the store will close
out all it's lines to make room for
a new stock and admit Of naces-
sary repairs to the building, at a
sacrifice,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-03-17
To Manage Big Hotel.

Alex Brinkman, who for the
past two years has been en-
ployed at the Great Northern by
C-H. Miles, has resigned his
position and leaves in short
time for Michigan City, Indiana,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09
No Human Life There

en- keep the home off there, no child
rem play by the brooks or shout
around the country schoOlhOuse, no
bees come home to the hive, no smoke
curls from the farmhouse chimney, NO
orchard blooms, no bleating sheep
flock the mountain side with white
ness, and no heifer lows in the twi-
light.
There is nobody there, there never
was but a miserable and scattered
few, and there never will be. 1t is a
great and terrible wilderness, thou
sands of miles in extent and lonesome
to the very wild animals and birdR,
Left to the still visitation of the light
from the sun, moon and stars and the
auroral fires, it is only fit to look upon.
and then be given over to it's prime
val solitariness. But LOT the living
things of it's waters, the cod, salmon
and seal, which brings thousands or
fishermen to it's waters and traders to
it's bleak shores, Labrador would be as
desolate as Greenland. The time is
now coming when with good steam
ship accommodations the invalid and
tourist from the States will be found
spending the brief but lovely summer
here, Notwithstanding its ruggednes
and Observation-Disclosures Transcript
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09
Trees of Vast Age

lures are being treated to the fate
which threatens so many of our for
ests throughout the land-the saw
mill and conversion into the feeting
materials of commerce. The tree OF
which we have spoken, after defying
storm and fire for over twenty cen
turtles, fell a victim to the desire for
money about three years ago.
Only ten isolated groves of these
trees remain, and only one grove is
protected by government ownership.
The nation ought to own them all,
and it is earnestly to be hoped that
Congress will act favorably upon the
presidents request to buy two more
groves-a modest enough ambition.
Some of these trees are twice the size
of the one whose age has been ascer-
tanned and must be some fifty CEN
turtles old LOW, with possible long
lives ahead. If Congress fails to save
these ancient monuments and allows
them to fit through paltry buildings
to speedy nothingness it will have
added one to it's disgraceful failures
and omitted the opportunity to add
one to it's acts of wisdom and utility.
Golfers Weekly.
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The life of man seems indeed but a
transient hour, hardly long enough
ITO look about us and to de- when
we compare it with the existence of a
tree In comparison to some of the
secuoias Methuselah died in infancy.
A United States senator has lately
made public certain information re-
ceived by him about the amount of
history stored away in the great trees
of California. One of moderate size,
fifteen feet in diameter five feet from
the ground, reveals the following ex-
periences: In I'll B. C. it began its
existence. In 245 A. D., when it was
SIG years of age, a forest fire burned
on it's trunk scar three feet in width.
After 1876 years of placid life in
another fire, in 1441 A. D., the tree,
aged 1,712, received another injury.
Another scar followed in 1880 and was
not covered with new tissue for fifty
six years. The worst attack of all was
in 1877, when the tree, then 2,06S
years of age, was attacked by fire
which left a scar eighteen feet wide,
reduced by 1890, in 103 years, to four
teen feet. These vast historic crea-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

H. The territory of Oklahoma was or
gantzed the year after it was settled.
and has grown in fourteen years W!iD
amazing rapidity. Its cities rival those
of the East, and excel many OF the
other Western cities in enterprise and
accommodations. Indian Territory was
old before Oklahoma was born, yet il
to-day is absorbed by the growing In
FAINT. Some of the principal places in
Oklahoma are Guthrie, Oklahoma City,
Kingf1sher, Norman, Edward, Ell Reno.
Frisco, Reno City, Saltwater and
Union City. .,.-| - -
Indian Territory was purchased
with Louisiana from France in 1903.
I was not settled, however, until
twenty-four years later, being prae
tically founded by the Greek Indians.
AS it's name signifies, it was set apart
BY the United States for the Indians.
q territory in which the tribes might
pursue their natural course free from
the influences of the whites, but I'M
der government jurisdiction.
There is little snow or cold during
the winter months; no days or weeks
Of rain; just q silvery, mbroken.
spring, which leads to long and hot
summer, though the heat, because Of
the dryness Of the air, il never e..
cess; New York Ierald
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Letters Long ON Way

dress and could get no trace of him.
He had left Washington in the mean
time and had come South. Those
facts were, of course, unknown to
me at the time. never heard word
from him and never knew anything OK.
his whereabouts until some time after
my return to America; in fact, not I'M
til the year 1901, when suddenly ram
across him in the city of New Orleans.
secured employment here and was
surprised one day to learn that | was
working in the same office with: nay
long-lost friend. -.
"'By the way he said, when We
first met, 4 have a couple of letters
for you which | have kept for thir~
teen years, since shortly after we sep
arated in Washington-in 1883 He
gave me the letters. They were yell
lowed somewhat by age. They we're
from two very dear friends and II
asked my friend what had become OF
the boys, telling him whom the letters
were from. They are both dead hes
said, and have been dead for NUM-
Der of years. l suppose those two
boys died thinking just a little TN
kindly of me because of failure to an
swer their letters, for they never
knew the letters had not reached me.
It was a strange experience and one
which had no small amount Of pathos
in it for me, and one, too, which is
frightened by the pretty friendship
of the man who had kept the letters
all these years for me-"
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Romance of a Farm

surrounded it with a double row Of
pine trees, and these for miles maybe
seen from points along the road.
When the colonel was we'll along in,
years he fell in. love with widow,
and against the wishes of his family
married her, only to be divorced in q
few years. I
Within sight Of the Dysart Dom1
was the farm of Peter Durham, "A
sturdy German, the father of an in
dustrious family. Among tho children
was a daughter, Mary, who grew up to-
be as pretty a lass as could be~found:
in all Lee county, A farmers daugh.
ter, she in due time became a.
farmers wife, marrying Henry
Shippert. Both husband and
wife had not one but several
farms of rich Lee county land, but:
after the body of old Col. Dysart was
laid to rest and the property was Of
fered for sale, Mrs. Shippert bought it,
Then she proposed to the Evangelica2'
church, of which she is a member, to"
convert the little farm into an orphan!
age. The church accepted the charge
and only the other day the home OF
the kindly old colonel was dedicate6
to its noble purpose.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

wherever cultivated. Wheat and al
falfa are raised in immense quantities.
or vegetables every known variety is
grown. Fruits ripen readily and
grow to considerable size, including
oranges, lemons, lines, peaches, ap-
pies, apricots, figs, dates, olives and
berries, There is also great cattle
raising industry in this territory, up
ward of 100000 head now grazing
over the green fields of many thou
sand acres. T.. l.. e.. .s
In minerals Arizona is very produc-
tive. Millions of dollars have been in
vested in smelling, crushing and mill
ing plants. It is estimated that the
product of the mines yearly exceeds
$4,000. 600.
Tucson is the principal city. It has
six churches, five newspapers, gas, fce,5
electric light and water works. Some
OF the principal places in the territory
are Tucson, Phoenix, Tombstone, Pres
colt, Globe, Nogales, Tempe, Florence,
Flagstaff and Yuma.
New Mexico, which Arizona as a
state will absorb, was organized IN
1850, though it was settled in 1898.
New Mexico is larger than Great
Britain and Ireland, three times as
large as all New England and equal
n area to New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio combined. Vast mountain
-on Tes intersec. the tarr.ssGry, and tie
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

When the house of representatives.
passed the statehood bill on April 10
after a debate that lasted three and
one-half hours the good people of four
enterprising territories lying in the
southwestern part of the United
States were in position to sit up and
communicate with the flag weavers,
for If there is no hitch in the program
Old Glory will, next session, unfold
itself with the additional pride of hay
ing had two more stars added to the
forty-fve which now fill the field of
blue. -..
Oklahoma is taking in Indian Terri
tory, while n, Mexico will lose it's
identity by beEest3. absorbed by Arizona.
It is all the resEtsrr of bitter battle on
the part of the Westerners for the
rights which statehood bestows. There
was grim and violent opposition, po-
litical and personal, in the fight. The
was declared strictly party one.
The state of Oklahoma must perfect
it's stipulated state organization, and
on March 4, 1906, may send to the
house five members and two to the
senate. This bill appropriates money,
sets aside public lands for school
system and prohibits plural marriages.
The conditions relating to the ad-
mission of Arizona are about the same,
except that Arizona will choose only
two representatives 1t will be admit
ted six months after the approval of
the act if its citizens organize a state
government in compliance with law at
that time.
The capital of Oklahoma is fixed at
Guthrie until 1910. That of Arizona
will be Santa Fee.
Arizona will be the second largest
state in the Union It's combined area
will aggregate 235,600 square miles,
Texas leading with 265,7S0 square
miles. New York state, with it's 1910
~Quare miles, might be- lost to sight
in the wide domain Of it's new sister.
Oklahoma is not much larger than
New York, having 70,430 square miles
70 her credit. In population Arizona
is sadly lacking, but under the inspir
alton of statehood the wise states
men of Arizona maintain that few
years will see her in close competi-
ton with all of the Western states
The population of Arizona is 32S. 241
and that of Oklahoma 790,391. There
is almost square mile of land for
every resident of the new state of Ar
iona.
Artificial irrigation will reclaim i'm
mense tracts of waste lands during
the next few years. Crops are large
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

Fe, ,7,019l feet above the SCI, With with a
beautiful climate; Las Vegas, the riv-
er OF. Denver; Albuquerque, with its
railroad machine shops employing two
thousand men,: Socorro, devoted to
mining; Silver City, with smelling and
reducing works; Las Cruces, fruit
raising and farming, and Deming, min
ing and stock shipping. The territory
has several railroad systems interseet-
ing it. H.. 81 @ss g. -
Before the government purchased
Oklahoma from the Indians it occu-
pied the central portion of the Indi-
an Territory, a great, fertile county
toward which white settlers in other
states had always looked with envious
eyes. The land WAS purchased from
the Creek Indians and thrown open to
home seekers in 1889, a wild company
Of people gathering on its borders in
that year ready to rush forward at
the starting gun to reach the most
fertile sections of the country which
Uncle Sam was ready to bestow.
Before the opening Of the grant,
Payne and other adventures, were re-
pulsed by United States troops, who
patnp11ed the frontier. During the adj
ministration Of President Harrison the
opening Of $4,000, 900 acres Of Creek
land was, proclaimed. Also 500, COO
heres Of Seminole ia- d. .#E
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

A romantic story, one in which a
number of stirring incidents are relat-
ed, is told of a little farmhouse and
forty-seven acres of land that within
the. last week have been turned over
to great church organization for an
orphanage:
The property is located on the main
line of the Northwestern road, about
two hours out from Chicago, and ad-
joins the little village Of Nachusa. The
land was handed down from genera
ton to generation by family of the
name of Dysart. By member of this
family it was originally taken up from
the government, and remained in the
family until it fell into the possession
of Col. Alexander Dysart, who for
years was one of the best known citi-
zens of this section. He was man
of some eccentricities, but beloved by
the whole community. He raised a
family of sons, three Of whom became
engineers on the Northwestern road
and are now running trains. The colo
mel. during his lifetime, improved the
old home, which in early years was
but a cabin, until it assumed the pro-
portions of a fine country home. He
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09
Where Men Live Long

A person over 100 is a phenomenon
in England, and his or her death is an
event to be chronicled. All through
Morocco, Algeria and Tunis, however,
centenarians are as common as black
berries, and hale young fellows of 70
and 80 are regarded as being on the
right side of middle age.
Every traveller in the "Barbary
States" as they used to be called, is
Impressed by this remarkable abund-
ance of centenarians. A gray-bearded
old man of 70, who is trying to sell
curios to a tourist for thrice their
value, exclaims:
by the beard of the prophet, may
my grandfather die if what I tell you
is not true!"
Looking at his gray beard, you think
he is quite safe in calling down that
curse upon himself; but when you
make inquiries you find that he really
has a grandfather living, aged about
10, and that the old gentleman is still
going about doing business on market
days.
Life is not. wearing in fAII-S'em
Africa A. man never does anything
in a hurry there. Naturally, he does
not even grow old in a hurry. When
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

The coast of Labrador is the edge
of a vast solitude of rocky hills, split
and blasted by the frosts and beaten
by the waves OF the Atlantic for un-
known ages. "A grand headland, yell
low, brown and black in its nakedness,
is ever in sight, one to the north
of you and one to the south. Here
and there upon them are strips and
patches of pale green moses, lean
grasses and dwarf shrubbery. There
are no forests except in Hamilton
inlet. Occasionally miles of precipices
front the sea in which fancy may
roughly shape all the structures of
human art.
j More frequent than headlands and
perpendicular sea fronts are the sea
slopes, often bald and tame and then
the perfection of all that is pictur-
esque and rough. In the interior the
blue hills and stony wales that wind
up from among them from the sea
have a summcrlile and pleasant air.
One finds himself peopling these re-
gions and dotting their hills, valleys
and wild shores with human habita-
tons, but a second thought. and a
mournful one it is, tells that no men
toll in the fields away there, no wom-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

Speaking of the curious routes let
destination" said an old newspaper
man, in the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat, reminds me Of an extraordinary
experience I had in 1901, when re-
ceived tWdssletters which had. been
mailed to me in 1888, thirteen years
before. I had been with a friend in
Washington up to early in 1888, when
concluded that would go to my old
home in4sBoston., ! remained in Bos-
ton few days, going from there to
New York. My movements were so
sudden that he did not at any time
know exactly where to find me. The
two letters to which have referred
were sent to my Washington address,
and, fortunately, fell into the hands
of my friend. Not knowing exactly
where I was after hearing that I had
left Boston, he did not know where to
send the letters, so he just kept them,
thinking that he would finally learn
my address and would send them on
to me. While ]oafng around in New
York I was suddenly seized with a
desire to go to Europe and, without
Saying anything to anyone about my
intentions, boarded ship and start
ed for foreign lands.
For nearly four years was
abroad and during that time, while
communicating with relatives and
friends on this side never wrote to
my friend whom l had left in Wash
ington, for did not know his ad.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

he is 70 he is beginning to get over
the first flush of YOUTH he is no long
er counted as one of the boys. But
not until he is at least 80 does he
expect people to pay honor and rev.
erence to him as a veteran, and even
then he must take back seat and lis
ten deferentially when the hale and
hearty centcnarians approach. In the
country districts the centenarians are
even more in evidence than in the
cities, and many of them are of the
softer sex.
Many of the "marabouts," or holy
men, who are to be found at the
sacred shrines and tombs which are
scattered so thickly all over the Bar
barry States, live to incredible ages.
There is one at Marakesh who is said
to be over $50 years old. His body
is shriveled up like mummy's, his
face is the color Of ashes, and the skin
is drawn tightly over his cheekbones,
like the parchment on a drum. Yet
his eyes are bright and fierce, and he
walks unassisted every morning to
the, tomb, where he sits all day long
to receive the offerings of the faith
full and listen to their petitions.-Lon-
don Express.
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climate is semi-tropical. The peaks
run high into the heavens, including
Castillo Peak, 1856 feet; Taos, 49,
145; Mora, 1920; Truchas, 1880;
Jicarita, 1852, and Brady, 1855 feet.
The plateaus are covered with wild
gramma and other grasses, but are
arid and desolate toward the west.
Sage brush, pinon and stunted cedar
cover some of these plains. Fully
fourteen million acres are in noun
tains and four million are reclaim
able deserts, or grazing lands, leav-
ing thirty-nine million acres of irriga-
Bile domain. Fully two-thirds Of the
territory is open for settlement The
Rio Grande flows 1856 miles through
the center of New Mexico
Gold and silver mines are worked
at many points, and with profit. There
are also large deposits Of iron, copper,
lead and zinc.
Among the chief cities are Santa
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

It appears that Germans of known
bad character are allowed to escape
on condition of leaving the country.
England is practically the only refuge
open to them so they flock here and
among them the expert German burg
lar visits us in ever-increasing num-
bers. 1t is said that Germany is TIE
country of specialists, and the criml-
nal but intelligent Teuton makes a
speciality of his business, to which he
applies the latest scientific methods.
The extent to which the art OF Dur
glary has been developed is evidenced
by the fact that ingenious house
breaking tools are manufactured, such
as portable ladders, portable phos-
phorous and electric lamps, ratchet
drills, sheet iron cutters, adjustable
jimmies, pick locks and various kinds
of skeleton keys. Some of these are,
of course, legitimate and necessary
tools, not necessarily nor mainly used
for felonious purposes. ~ -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

Guthrie, the now thriving city, arose
in less than a day with 10000 inhabi-
tants. Oklahoma signifies beautiful
country" and was rightly named. 1t
is a paradise, a boomers paradise, :"
again rightly termed. The first gov
ernor was George w. Steele, appoint
ed by the president.
Oklahoma is about the size of Ohio,
and is bordered by Texas, Colorado
Kansas and the Indian Territory.
Green valleys, great forests of oak
and silvery streams make up the coun:
try. Some of the plains are treeless
and arid, principally in the west, but
the other sections make up in rich
ness what the western lacks. Many
Indian tribes, supported by the gov
eminent, roam over the: unsettled sec,
tons of the territory. Upon the res
ervations the Indians are well-to-do
farmers, and are gradually cultivatine
aataste for thrift and industry.