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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-12
DURING STORM
CHIEF OFFICER AND TWENTY-oNE
MEN OF AMERICAN STEAM
DREDGER LOST.

Waterford, Ire, Jan. 12.-The steam
or Zeno arrived here during the day
with the captain and twelve men of
the American steam dredger Texas,
from Dantzic via Southampton Dec 12
for Galveston, which foundered in a
storm off the Hebrides. The crew en-
tered the small boats. but one contain
ing the chief officer and twenty one
men sank Immediately and all it's oc-
cupants We're drowned. The survivors
drifted for several days before being
picked up.
The survivors, who suffered terribly
from cold and hunger, say that just
prior to sighting the Zeno they had
drawn lots to decide which should be
killed TO provide food for the rest
AGAINST RADICAL CHANGES.
President lntimates He Will Withdraw
Treaties.
Washington, Jan. 12-If the arbitra-
tion -reaties now pending before the
initial States senate are emasculated
the president will withdraw them from
consideration.
President Roosevelt has let this BE
understood clearly. At the confer
ence last Saturday between him and
prominent men of the senate and
house OF representatives he informed
the senator's that ne desired the arhi-
tration treaties to be ratified. In his
opinion such action is OF the highest
Importance. He desired them to know
that he would not permit the pending
treaties to be radically changed, as it
has been intimated they might be in
the course Of their consideration by
the senate, He says frankly that,
rather than have the treaties affected
in principle by their consideration in
the. senate, he would absolutely with
draw them.
The treaties now pending We're ne
gotiated by Secretary Hay with the
representatives OF the powers and all
of them were signed in Washington.
The conventions entered into were
with France, Great Britain, Germany,
Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain
and Austria-Hungary. The president
and Secretary Hay felt, in negotiating
the treaties, that. a long step toward
universal arbitration. and conse-
quently universal peace, had been
taken. Both have expressed surprise
that an attitude inimical to the con-
yentions should have been assumed by
some senators. The president has ex-
pressed the hope that this attitude
may not be maintained successfully,
as not only the people of America, but
the people of the world, as represented
in the conventions, are anxious that
these negotiations looking for peace
ful settlement of questions which
otherwise might cause war, should be
concluded.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-12
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
Resolution Relating to Cases Before
Commerce Commission.

Washington, jan 12.-Mr. Elkins
presented and the senate passed a
resolution calling on the interstate
commerce commission for information
giving the total number of cases that
have been before the commission. The
resolution asks for specific information
as to the number OF complaints made
to the commission by railroad compa-
MES, the number of complaints of ex-
#cessive rates and of unjust discrimi-
nations, and also the complaints of
violation of published rates. It asks.
also for information in each case as
to the number of decisions. the num-
Der of appeals to the courts and the
number Of aftirmations or reversals by
the courts In cases Of appeal.
POSTAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
iouse Committee Completes Prepara-
ton Of Measure.
Washington, Jan, l2.-The house
committee on postoffices and post
toads has completed the postoffice ap-
preparation bill and will report it to
the house early next week The items.
of the bill have not yet been computed,
but the approximate amount carried
is $1S0, 100000, which is slo,oOO,ooOs
greater than the current appropria-.
ton. No Increase of salaries are pro-
tided for and no new legislation Ia
cont tanned in the ILL
I rs q s 80 313S - Sc
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-12
Snow Storm General in the West and
Northwest

Topeka, Kan. Jan, 12-Snow has
been falling over Kansas for the past
tWenty-four hours and the ground is
covered tiveInches deep. Very little
wind has accompanied the snow, while
the temperature has remained at 10
degrees above zero.
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 12-Four inches
OF snow fell here during the night and
1t is still showing in Northern Ne
braska and South Dakota. The storm
is accompanied by a moderate wind.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-12

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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-22
SWEET GIRL (RADuAE : e=:=:. +=s==

band box while others looked as
If they'd come out of a cyclone.
Did you ever Eotice that some
girls look perfectly angelic in q
f)rty cent shirt waist while
others looked like the devil in
silks and satins? Strange, too,
bat the fury type of girl always
thinks herself irresistible and
lis just egotistical enough to
imagine a fellow is admiaring
her because he looks her way.
Tits quite frequently the case,
however, that the fellow is only
counting the freckles on her
nose or wondering how much
her complexion cost or why she
didn't wear her other face.
Oration subjects were about
the same as usual this year and
was considered exceedinly bad
form for the sweet girl graduate
to write about the trials and
troubles of a village girls life, or
the gentle art of pulling papa's
limb for a new dress-or any
thing else with which she is
familiar. In order to show that
she is educated she must tear
the waddling clothes from the un-
born future and tell us what
we're coming to a thousand years
hence, or make Rome howl q
couple Of times by tearing it
down some more. Statistics
show that of mne million high
school orations delivered since
Rome fell only one contained no
reference to that great event and
the author of it went raving crazy
trying to find a substitute. Some
old fogies have the ideas in their
noddles the education should not
be made q odge.podge of moss
growing history, Greek myths,
geometrical theorems and other
flubdubbery-but they are all
wrong. Every sweet girl grad
uate SHOULD be able 10 draw a
geometrical figure on the wash
board with o bar of soap and
spout Latin at the baby simui-
taneously whether she knows
what the declaration of lndepen-
dence is sornot. All young wom-
an needs to fit her forthe battleof
life nowadays is some Roman
history, big oration and a white
dress, diploma and some fresh
chewing gum. She may need
other things but that's oil can
think of just now.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-22
GRIGGS AND EASTERN
FOSTER COUNTIES.
Farmers Excursion to State Agrl.
cultural College, Fargo, July
II, 1906. Tickets, I.26.

Ten boys, fifteen to twenty
| years old, and some mothers and
sisters, are wanted to brighten
this trip. None but farmers
and farmers people living on the
farm are eligible-except mem.
bers of the press.
This is not a junket! but a
pleasant outing of Investigation
and study. Those favored with
tickets are in honor bound to
attend meetings arranged for
their profit at the college
grounds. The railroad and col.
ledge authorities expect nothing
less than this and future favors
depend upon the character and
good intentions of present visi-
tors.
Applicants who have not al
ready had the benefit of these ex-
cursions will be given preference
over others, and if more than
seventy-five applications are
made tickets will be distributed
by lot, but in either case parties
entitled to tickets will be so nOti-
fed by mail July 10th. Apply
by letter or post card to
Maynard Crane,
Cooperstown, N. D.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-22

These are the things that tend
to make the modern graduating
address so helpful. They make
a fellow yearn to do great things.
They make him want to go forth
into the great seething and bubb,
ling world and do something en-
tirely different-until the speak
er gets through. 1t is the same
way with the graduation oration.
This years style of Grafton was
a thing of beauty and joy. It
deals as usual in pleasing off
hand manner with something it's
author never studied and knows
nothing about and had the GUS
tomary box plaits and frills and
curlimacues all over it. It did
not deal with ordinary things
pertaining to personal observa-
tion in everyday, life, but came
fresh from the depths of the
encyclopedia and ended as here
tofore with a nice batch of good
advice about things in general
and was tied with a cute little
dab of tutti frutti chewing gum.
AS usual the graduates dressed
in white and some of them looked
as # they had just come out of a
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-22

GRADlAHS /.
occasion will take tor his theme
the universe and al that there is
therein contained and will drag
insthe glory of ancient Greece
and the fall of Babylon and Nine
yah and call up as witnesses the.
learned Confucius, the cynical,
Diogenes, the erudite Pythagor-
as, the philosophical Socrates,
Hppocrates the wise, Solomon
the much married aud many,
more. It is always customary
to resurrect and parade these
old antedeluvians at commence
ment exercises. In fact, one Of
the chief features Of such blow
outs is to- rattle dry bones and
make Rome howl, and no ad-
dress on such an occasion
would be considered smooth un-
less it was>iubricated with some
ancient Greece. Such addresses
are always helpful to the sweet
girl graduate they fit her for
the. stern realities of life in the
cold cruel world.
The knowledge she gains in
regard to ancient Greece, for
instance, enables her to distin-
guish good butter from bad and
the knowledge of Solomon
teaches her, when waiting for
her lord and master till far into
the night, to drain comfort from
the fact that she is only one
while Mrs. Solomon was seven
hundred and worried according
ly. And OH, how encouraging
when darning socks for a large
family to muse on the greatness
of Socrates, the inventor of
socks! How strengthening,
when bending over the washtub
with back broken and mother
hubbard soaked up the front, to
dwell on the noble thoughts. OF
Confucius, the ancestor Of the
pigtailed washee- washea! And
when she goes through her hus-
bands clothes and extracts his
last nickel from a rear pocket,
with what gratitude she will re-
call her old friend Hippocrates,
the originator of the hippocket!
And if little Jimmy ties himself
in double bow knot with green
apples, can she not learn wisdom
from Diogenes and his lantern
and go on a still hunt for pare.
goric? Diogenes, you know,
was the Greek philosopher who
won distinction some years ago
by walking about the streets OF
Athens with atub on his head
which he sat on or slept in when
tired. That is, he sat on or
slept in the tub-not his head.
He was noted also for never hav.
ing used soap and for telling
Alex the Great to stand from be.
tween him and the Sun. But
the chief cause of his fame is the
fact that he got drunk one day
and went out on the street with
a lantern to look for, an honest
man. You can read all about
him and other ancient horse.
thieves in modern school books.
These are the things that tend
to make the modern graduating
address so helpful. They make
a fellow yearn to do great things.
They make him want to go forth
into the great seething and .bubb.
ling world and do something en-
tirely different-until the speak
er gets through. 1t is the same
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-22

ss;2s3y - e1lla lellOW can Z PICK up q
period dical without finding some
thing thefein on the subject Of
sweet girl lpates, its natural
thathe should become in culated
with the equil ma | q arnsto
say . few thing him self
whetherhe knows much about
the subject or not. I never was
q sweet girl graduate myself
though my wealth of golden hair
and delicate pink and white com.
plection might easily cause .
strangerto m,state me for one
but / have known and had my
leg pulled by lots of them. l
have also attended a few gradual
ing blowouts from which /
soaked up more or less wisdom
of various sorts. / feel compe-
tent, therefore, to discuss the
subject in a calm and unbiased
manner without sloshingoverlike
my. contempory who said, ''Go
ahead ladies-the nation is with
you and God is behind the nation
and how can you fail?" That, /
think, is smearing it on gener-
ously for as a usual thing the
sordid nation don't stay awake
nights to boost the sweet girl
graduate up the ladder of fame
nor hold it's breath to listen to
her Grafton. l have made a care.
full study ofsthis question and /
find that. the nation generally
goes right on digging bait, no
matter how sweet the graduate
is-and some of them are pretty
doggoned sweet.
An enthusiastic newspaper
man, after attending a high.
school commencement where
fifteen young ladies graduated,
went into his sanctum and wrote
for his paper: "The French. gir]
is vivacious, the German senti
mental, the italian passionate
the Spanish romatic, the English
queen'y,-and then added-but
blend together the English
queenliness, the Spanish ro.
nance, the Italian passion, the
German sentiment, the French
vivacity, add bea uty and grace
then spice the mixture with q
dash of irrepressible independ.
ance and you have the American
sweet girl graduate" That's all
very lovely-sometimes she's all
that and lot more-but quite
frequently she is a snare and a
delusion and a freak of the first
water. I had a little experience
with one of the latter variety al
my boarding house some years
ago. She was a girl who came
into the world with a stubbed
toe, a headache, q pretty face
and a tired, delicate feeling-but
no brains. l always wrote her
class essays for her, but when it
came to writing her graduating
Grafton 1 rebelled and she got
mad. l was feeling somewhat
huffy myself and incautiously
expressed my opinion of her to a
friend. The next day she came
at me like an August thunder
cloud and said she was informed
Irefered to her as a "slobbering
idiot" 'Thats very unfortun-
ate, said and she straightway
demanded" Well, didn't you?"
'sNo," I replied, / did not refer
to you as a sl0bberind i1i0t-I re-
ferred to you as a gi6bering
IDIOT" After that the migrate
full thing refused to speak to me.
But I have d,gressed. Did
you ever attend a high school
graduation? They are almost as
wildly hilarious and exciting as
a midnight funeral. Next to
robbing the grave of my own
dear grandmother. I don't know
of anything l would rather do
than attend high school grad
uation. This years style of
graduation was very similar to
those of former Years. tt was
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

1902 TO import tumble bugs from Mexi-
co to combat the pest, and it is hoped
that Messrs. Koebele and Perkins, the
entomologists who are now in the an
tipodes, may be able to send us some
bug or insect to prey on the larvae and
thus bring relief to the herds.
AT the present time the Territory
supplies all the beef consumed locally
AS methods improve there is d prob
ability that there will be an overprod-
uction and new markets must be
sought. Possibly they may be found
in supplying the United States Army
transports en- route to Manila. It is
believed, however, that one or two Sc
we're droughts such as we have had in
the past will probably stop overproduc-
ton.
Honolulu is the chief market for beef
and mutton in the Territory. Hawaii
has but three harbors in which the
steamers Of the interisland fleet can
tie up to the wharf-Honolulu, on the
island of Oahu; Hilo, on the island OF
Hawaii; and Kaunakakai on the
island of MoIokai.
From July L, 1903. to July 1904, from
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01
ABOUT THE LIVE
STOCK INDUSTRY

BY ALBERT F. JUDD in Governor
Carriers Annual Report to the secre-
tary OF the Interior.
It is not an easy matter to report
briefly the present state of the live
stock industry in Hawaii. In the first
place there is little informa ton avail
able. even in the office of the secretary
OF the Hawaiian Live Stock Breeders
Association. The association is young.
An accurate report at the present
time could be made only after personal
inspection OF the ranches on each is
land. The second difficulty is caused
by the absence of any history of the
industry, although cattle and sheep
have been raised here, and horses also.
since the days of Vancouver.
RANGES,
1t is difficuit also to concisely de-
scribe the ranches themselves. situat-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

the aforementioned port there were
shipped to Honolulu 500 head of cattle.
none from Hilo. and 5,70S from the
other ports on the islands (the Oahu
grown cattle are not figured in this ac-
COUNT. Every one of these 5,7e3 head
had to be roped, tied to ships boat
tcwed to a steamer, and hoisted a.
board before making the trip across
the channels to Honolulu. This is one
of the difficulties Of the live stock In
dustry in Hawaii. Anyone can apPre-
ciate the fact that this method of send
ing to market can not compare with
sending to market on the hoof or by
train. It is doubtful, however. wheth..
er these conditions can be much inn
proved.
DAIRYTNG. y
Outside of the town and village cen-4
tiers dairying is carried on primarily
for the advantage which is derived
from tanning and handling the youngr
stock. Butter is made ON most ranchesJ
but, considering the number of cattle
carried on the ranges, to a very small
extent
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

BY VIM M. BRUNER in Governor
Carriers annual report to the Secretary
of the Interior
The coffee crop of 1908 was the larg-
est in the history of the islands, and
exceeded 100000 pounds. The total
value of all coffee exported TO TIE
United States and other countries for
the year ending June 80 1904, was
$E84, 80; for 1908, it was $4,000, while
for 1909 it was only $I26.o44
While coffee is grown in all the prin-
cipal islands of the group, o5 per cent
of it is produced on the Island of Ha-
waii, of which over 100000 pounds or
30 per cent of the total Hawaiian pro-
duction is produced in the district of
Kona (whence the name Kona Coffee
where it may be stated roughly that the
industry furnishes employment to 1000
people
The entire area planted to coffee and
now producing on the islands is under
4,5oo acres. Much of the planting is
classed as wild coffee; that is, the trees
are not topped and are cultivated only
in an irregular manner. These trees
are cheaply cared for, growing some
what under shade and in rocky ground,
the growth of weeds is small and while
the crop of coffee on such trees is no
more than 700 or 300 pounds per acre,
it is cheaply picked, for it ripens al
most uniformly. In better soil where
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

ing factor in the coffee producing world,
has ceased. Frost in 1902 and drought
IN 1903 put g1od MANY plantations out
of bearing, while the long period of low
prices caused hard times, without anv
new planting, and thousands of the Ia.
boring class are leaving the country
1t is said that over 10000 left last year
I he United States is the largest pur.
chaser of coffee. using about II pounds
per capita, importing in 1908 So. $40. s6a
worth, of an average value of 6 IN
cents per pound Four-ffths of this
coffee came from Brazil and was paid
for mainly in cash. for the total imports
from Brazil for the year amounted to
$oo.ooo,ooo. while the exports from the
United States were only $4,000, GOO
leaving SSo.ooo,ooo to be paid in cash.
To show what this means in long
period, during the years I83o-Ioo3, m
elusive, according to statistics by the
United States Government. the imporss
of coffee into the United States total
p, I25,ooo.ooo pounds, valued at S., 5oo,s
OOO, 1000, import price.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

the trees are topped, overbearing IS the
result to z<l1e very great detrinent of
the trees, but by the application of fer
tilizer these trees are maintained IN
good condition, while the yield Of coffee
per acre is more than double that from
the untopped, so-called wild trees.
The cost of production in Kona is
about I-2 cents per pound, and the
coffee is bringing the producer about
10 cents at present. The cost of produc-
ton in Han1akua is probably 10 cents
and should net the producer II cents,
as the Hanailua bean is larger and
more sought after by the coffee roaste-s.
The difference in the cost of production
in the two districts, which produce the
bulk of the crop, is due chiefly to the
difference IN the cost of picking, for IN
Han1akua coffee does not r1pen as reg
ularly and uniformly as it does in Kona.
The price of coffee has been very low
for the past seven years, but the year
1903 was the most remarkable in its
history, for during it prices reached
their lowest basis and production its
largest maximum While the Brazil
crop has very materially failed from the
enormous IooI-2 crop of 100000 bags,
her production has been great and there
has been an oversupply of Brazilian
coffee At the same the production of
mild coffees, in which c1ass all coffee
except Brazil production is included,
has been on the increase, and in 1903
was over 100000 bags This. affect
ed the sale of the Hawaiian coffees,
and will no doubt have depressing
effect on the sale of the next crop. So,
that while Brazilian production has
fallen off, and is likely to continue to,
on account of the prohibitive tax