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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18
Card of Thanks.

W. wish to express our gratitude
to our friends for the assistance
given and many acts of kindness
shown during the recent sickness
and death of our beloved daughter,
and especially to the Scotland
Camp Of Modern Woodmen, for
valuable assistance rendered.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. 81. HE'LL ER.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18

If dyspepsia sufferers knew what Dr.
Shops Restorative would do for them.
Dyspepsia would practically be a
disease of, the past, DR.. Shoop's Restor-
alive reaches stomach troubles by its
direct tonic action upon the inside ner-
ves-the true stomach nerves. Stomach
distress or weakness, fulness, bloating,
belching, etc. call for the Restorative.
We recommend and sell DR.. Shops
Restorative. Sold by All Dealers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18

MIR. O. IL. Bruhn who went To
Canton a few weeks ago to take
charge of a drug store purchased
by himsel aud MIR. Zehnpfinnig of
Parkston, was in town last Friday.
Mr.. Zehnpfinnig also arrived from
Parkston and a deal was closed by
them for the purchase of the drug
store Of Gus. Scilmierer & Co. at
this place. The store at Canton
has been sold, and Mr.. Bruhn will
arrive in q few days to help invoice
and take charge of the store here.
He has rented the Henry Young
man house on Washington street
and viii move his family back TO
Scotland. The sale of the store
was quite a surprise to our citizens,
as Mr.. Schmierer has been doing
a fourishing business, possessed
the confidence OF the people, and
no one had any idea that he desir-
ed to sell. Mr.. Bruhn who will
have charge of the business under
the new management will need no
introduction to the people of Scot
land, as he left only a few weeks a.
go after a service of four years as
clerk in the drug store of V. B.
Diehl and later of R. w. Russell &
Co. and is held in high esteem both
as a citizen and a pharmacist. The
people of Scotland will be glad
to again extend to him and his
ia mily the right hand of fellowship
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Dunmire re-
turned from Rock Island. Ill. Mon
day evening. Mr.. Dunmire says
there were fully one thousand
delegates in attendance upon the
National Farmers Congress, this
state being represented by fifteen
delegates.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18

Miss Emma HELLER died at the
home of her sister, Mrs. John Hol-
bert, in this city last Saturday
morning, aged Is years, 10 months
and Is days. She was taken sick
the fore part of the week and on
Wednesday DIR. Stonebraker was
called and found her condition SER
ious. On Friday DR.. Moore was
called in consultation, and it was
decided as a last resort to perform
an operation. A large abscess was
found in the region of the spleen
which was removed but though she
rallied from the operation she pass
ed away early on the following
morning. Funeral services we're
held at the house Sunday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. DR.. Carson and
the remains buried in Rose Hill
cemetery. The parents of the de-
ceased, MIR. and Mrs. 9. H. Heller,
are living near Presho, but they ar
rived on Tuesday in time to minus
ter to hrr during her last sickness.
Though the tender care of ~friends
was %unavaiIing she had the cunsola-
ton of the entire family alound lief
i'm her last hours.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS.
So Old That Its Origin Is Lost In the
MiStS of Antiquity.

So Old That Its Origin Is Lost In the
Mists of Antiquity.
Draughts in some. shape or form is
doubtless very ancient pastime. In
deed, the safest thing to say about it is
that Its origin is lost in the mists of an
tiquity Representations of persons
playing at a game resembling draughts
are frequently found on ancient Egyp-
tan monuments at least 5000 years
old. The Greeks had a similar game,
from whom possibly it passed to the
Romans. At least the old Roman game
Of latrunculi seems to have been kind
Of draughts, though it is doubtful if the
game as now played is very ancient.
The game was popular and we'll known
in France and Spain in the seventeenth
century and was probably played there
and in England centuries before that
That it was from France the game
came into many of the other countries
is evident from the fact that the French
name-jeu de dames-passed with it.
Dam or damme was once the regular
English name for one Of the pieces. In
Germany the game is still called dame
spiel, in Holland the board is dambord,
and In Scotland dambrod still survives.
In the United States the less usual
name of chequers, spelled checkers, Is
employed. Polish, Spanish, Italian and
Turkish draughts are varieties of the
same game. The Polish game, which
has several peculiarities, was intro
duced in Paris in 1923 and was at first
played on board of 100 squares with
40 men-Chambers' Journal
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
CHICAGO MIGHT HAVE ONE.

Geological Expert Says an Earth
quake There Ii Not Imposstble.
There are slight indications that Chi
cago may experience al earthquake
within few years, according to Pro-
fessor j. Paul Goode of the University
Of Chicago geology faculty. The pres
ence of certain species OF rock In the
earth inside or near the city limits, he
believes, Is an indicat ton OF condition
that might result in the dismantling Of
a portion Of the city, says a Chicago
dispatch.
There Is no absolute geological
proof that Chicago may have an earth
quake in the next few years." Profess
or Goode declared. Zone can detect
slight symptoms, however. Certain for
nations Of certain kinds of rock under
meath Chicago might be taken as an in
dication. An earthquake Is as simple
as the breaking of timber. --
IL believe that the seat Of the dis
turbance at San, Francisco was about
seven miles below the surface of the
earth. 1t was quite probably slipping
Of the crust Of the earth. Generally
one block of the crust slips up while
the other slips down. The focus Of the
disturbance may be noted by the direc-
ton Of the cracks In the wrecked build
ingS" = zr
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
Costly Art Treasures Lost.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York has lost In the San Francis
co fire nearly all Of the paintings be-
queathed to 1t by Coils P. Huntington,
says the New York Tribune. The fire
that swept over Mob hill early the 9TH
er morning overwhelmed the old Coils
P. Huntington house in California
street, between Mason and Taylor
streets. Stored in the old house was
the greater part Of the art treasures
collected by the railroad man. In ad-
Mtion to the pictures comprising the
Metropolitan legacy were nearly a
hundred others Of lesser note Mr..
Huntington spent years in acquiring
this collection. When he died the best
pictures in his collection were willed to
the Metropolitan museum. A condition
In the will, however. left them in the
possession of the family during the
lives Of Mrs Huntington aud archer.
NJ. Huntington, and not until their
death could they be hung in the mu-
scum. Some pictures In the legacy
Mrs. Huntington brought east. and
they now hang In her Fifth avenue
house in New York and her house at
Throgs Neck. but they form only a.
fraction of the entire collection left by.
Mr.. Huntington, and the loss to the
museum represented by the destroyed
paintings will amount to many thou
Iands.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
DIE IN A BURNING HOUSE.

An Old Man and Little Child Gre
mated at GrayIlno, MINI.
Aitkin, Mimi, May ga man named
PREM, living at Grayling, east of here.
was burned to death during the night,
together with his little grandson, four
years of age.
The mother of the little boy laid him
on the bed asleep and went over to
visit her father-in-law, who lived but
a few rods away. When the house
was discovered to be on fire the old
man rushed over and entered the
building to save the boy, but he never
came out.
The house had been repaired and the
door to the bedroom changed, and it is
supposed that the old man got con.
fused, for he was heard rapptng on the
partition, and when the body was
found it was lying near the place
where the door formerly was. The
boys body was found on the bed
spring, the blankets, sheets and mat
tress having been burned away.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
QUEER EASTER CUSTOM,
The Way Filipino Penitents Tor
ture Themselves.

The Way Filipino Penitents Tor
ture Themselves.
One Of the many curious customs
practlced by some persons in the Phil
ippine Islands is the way in which they
observe the week before Easter. For
the Thursday, Friday and Saturday
before Easter the streets or roads on
the outskirts of some villages and
sometimes the principal streets of the
town itself are filed with crowds, who
have come to see the natives inflict
self torture.
The willing victims are stripped to
the waist, their faces are covered with
a thick cloth and around one hand Is q
heavy hemp rope, with a cluster of
from fifteen to twenty smaller hempen
cords. TO each of these is fastened q
small piece Of hard wood. The whole
thing is just long enough so that when
lung over the shoulder it will not quite
reach to the waist.
When the penitents are ready to start
out Filipino, who has been appointed
as sort Of overseer, takes the flesh of
the back between his thumb and first
nnger and cuts the skin with long
bolo. This is done all over the back.
He then cries, "Alla, sigie" eco
ahead"D. Then the penitent begins to
beat his back by flashing his cluster of
little pieces Of wood and cords first
over one shoulder, then over the other.
until the back is so lacerated that it
somewhat resembles raw beef. All the
While the onlookers and victims also
are singing, or, rather, chanting, a most
DISMAL, unearthly funereal chant.-New
York Tribune.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
QUICKSILVER MINING,
An Occupation That Quickly DOoms
the Workers,

An Occupation That Quickly Dooms
the Workers.
The chief quicksilver mines in Eu-
rope are in the Spanish town Almaden,
which is an Arabic word, meaning "the
mine Of quicksilver" These mines
were formerly worked by the Iberians
and after them by the ancient Romans.
Between 1915 and 1S43 the Spanish
government employed galley slaves in
them, an occupation that soon ended In
death. The fumes of the mercury pro-
duce constant salvation, and the sys-
TEN becomes permeated with the
metal.
At first the victim is seized with
tremblings and then the teeth drop out;
pains in the bones follow and then
death. The annual yield of mercury is
l,5OO,OOO pounds, to produce which
1000 men are engaged in this unhealthy
employment. .- H..
After Almaden, so far as yield of
quicksilver is concerned, comes Idria,
an Austrian town, twenty-eight miles
from Triest. These mines also We're
once worked by criminals. who, owing
to the terrible qualities Of the mineral.
expired after about two years service
There are now nearly 500 miners en-
gagged in the work at Idria They are
induced to enter the mines by high
pay. A pension is allowed when they
are disabled, and provision is made for
their widows and children.-Pearson's
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
DRAINAGE BILL
BEING PUSHED
House Committee May Con
slider the Stevenson
Measure Today.

Washington, D. O, May 3.If
the report of the state auditor of
Minnesota, showing what the
state and various counties have
done toward draining swamp
lands is received tomorrow as is
expected. Representatives Steen-
erson and Volstead will call up
the Stevenson drainage bill at
the meeting of the house com.
mittee on public lands. Both
Steeneoson and Volstead are now
quite confident they will be able
to secure favorable reply by
the committee on the bill and
have some hopes of securing it's
passage at this session. In any
event they hope to get it through
the house so it can be taken up
in the senate the first thing next
session.
Congressm Bede is conduct
ing an energetic canvass in favor
of his resolution authorizing the
secretary of war to utilize the
dams in the upper Mississippi,
primarily for the prevention of
foods instead of aids to naviga.
ton. + He is receiving consider
able encouragement, and is in
clined to believe that the resolu-
ton stands a fair chance of being
favorably reported by the rivers
and harbors com mittee. Should
the resolution be passed it might
solve the question of protecting
Aitkin county from floods and
Overdows.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
OTHER BIG EARTHQUAKES.
Disaster RecaIled-ThOu
-.a sands Killed In Japan.

Charleston Disaster RecaIled-ThOu-
sands Killed In Japan.
The last great earthquake in the
United States was that Of Charleston,
8. c., in 1886, says the New York
Tribune. This earthquake was preced-
ed by minor tremors, to which little
attention was paid The principal
shock occupied about one minute, and
other shocks followed at intervals with
gradually diminishing violence. At the
end Of four weeks they had ceased to
be destructive, but tremors were &C.
casionally observed for several months
longer. III. ---.....
In Charleston the movements were
less violent than at the center Of the
disturbances, a point fifteen miles west
of the city. A large number Of houses
in the city were thrown down, and
nearly all the buildings IN the city
were more or less damaged. The dam
age was computed at $S0OO,0OO. Tween
ty-seven persons were killed outright
and others died afterward from In
juries received.
Following is list Of the most de-
structive earthquakes Of the last two
centuries:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
ABILITY to See Evervtbtnr.

A New York surgeon, says the In
ternatiOnal Journal Of Surgery, occa-
sionally takes an applicant for posi-
ton on the house staff of the hospital
with which he is connected and bids
him look out of window and describe
what he sees. Some men practically
see nothing at all; others notice but a
few things, not always the most i'm
portant, while the balance appear to
observe everything. 1t is from among
the latter that the successful candi-
date is commonly chosen. 1t is to the
men. who see everything that every art
and science is indebted for whatever
progress they have made. and the sur
geon's method of gauging the probable
value of young mans service has
nothing in it that is trivial and unim-
pOrtant.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
The Ideal Camera.

The ideal camera for naturalist pur-
poses is one Of the reflex type, in which
the photographer can see his object
the size of it will be reproduced on his
plate, the right way up and can see
1t until the moment Of exposure. Such
a camera with a long bellows and a
lens which is intended for a plate at
least one size larger than the plate
be is using in his camera and also pro
vided with curtain shutter which
works just in front Of the plate. with
speeds varying from time exposure
up to one two-thousandths part of a
second, is the kind of instrument used
by most of the naturalist photogra-
piers whose work appears In print
Outdoors.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03

destruction of the buildings SO inti-
and so typical Of lt-buildings that
were built by the pioneers and the
wiping out Of that first beautiful pic
ture that impresses itself like mothers
cooking, never to be replaced by any
others quite as good
Once gone, always gone A new city
may grow, but it will be built with
the memory Of awful times New San
Francisco will never look like the old
one. Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, Joe
Goodman and Ned Hamilton looked
like San Francisco The George
Knights, the Reuben Lloyds, the Louis
Strausses and John P. Irish were char
acters in keeping with San Francisco
and the Golden Gate | am fearful
that when the new San Francisco ap-
pears it won't harmonize with the low
cut velvet waistcOats and the watch
chains that circle around the neck;
that the bohemian clubs, though Uncle
George Bramley may continue to re-
cite when the Cows Come Home"
will never be quite the same. Mob
hill will never appear as it is in my
memory
The landmarks of time are gone.
They couldn't have been bought by
man and can't be reproduced by man.
While the homeless gather on the
warm sand hills Of Golden Gate park,
peering through wet, glazed eyes upon
the harbor called Golden Gate, that ad.
mitted their ancestors In better days,
they will realize that all the associa-
lions with those golden days have gone
have been wiped out by the same
destiny that made their landscape and
their people so beautiful.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
GunpOwder.

The explosive nature of gunpowder,
which is made Of charcoal, sulphur and
saltpeter, is due to the fact that when
fred the charcoal and sulphur are
burned at the expense Of the oxygen
In the saltpeter, much heat is devel-
Oped and large quantities Of gas are
produced. This gas exerts great pres
sure on the sides of the gun; hence
It's disruptive or propulsive effects
When gunpowder is fred in gun the
explosion is not instantaneous The
expansive force of the gases produced
acts on the shot all the time it is NOV
lug along the barrel and gradually in
creases it's velocity. II the explosion
were so sudden as to be practically in
stantaneous the greater part of the
forces would he exerted mainly on the
sides of the chamber containing the
powder and not, as is actually the eases
Vn the shot
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
A Pathetic Incident.

The meaning Of the San Francisco
disaster to thousands throughout the
United States was brought out the 9th
er afternoon by little incident Ia the
New York Times Office. A young wo-
man asked there for the latest infor-
nation from San Francisco. A map Of
the city was shown to her and the zone
of danger pointed out. Her home was
only few blocks away. In vain she
was assured that the fire had not
reached SO far. She saw for herself
and began to tremble as she looked,
then burst into tears Her father and
mother and two brothers are in San
Francisco. and she could get no word
OF them. Her father is eighty five
years old and almost helpless The
young woman said she believed she
would never see them again and might
vever even have word Of their end.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
INDIANS SUE
FOR 5000
Which They Gave Gus Beau.
lieu to Buy Land for
Them.

st. Paul, May 3.-The supreme
court today had before it the case
of Aims. Dus- Oke-Shig, Me- Ge
Sus, Ne.Gwa-Ne-Bi No. ! ana
No. 2 respondents, VS.. u. IT,
Beaulieu and Wah We.Cum LIZ,
appellants, all Indians.
The case was submitted on
briefs. 1t involves the posses
sion of $4,000 and grew out OF
the sale by the government OF
the landed possessions of the
Mile Laos Indians in the north
ern part of the state. The tribe
realized $40, 900 odd from the sale.
From the amount $4,000 Was
divided among the tribe and the
balance deposited to their credit
in a Stearns county bank. inns
amount was in the names OF the
chiefs who are plaintiffs in the
case and they turned a check
covering it to Gus Beaulleu, a
half breed, to buy the tribe a
tract of land on Mile Laos lake.
1t is charged that Beaulieu did
not buy the land agreed upon.
1t is for the possession of this
money that the chiefs are now
asking,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
A swindle.

An old couple went to Dublin thea
ter to have a nights amusement. The
great Mrs. Siddons was playing "Mrs.
Haller,' and the poor bodies were kept
crying all the evening. At length, at
one of the scenes where the great lady
came in with her handkerchief again
. her eyes, the old man could stand 1t
no longer and, starting to his feet,
cried out. .'Ye long nosed thief, ye call
this divarshunv'
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
PAYS
BEMIDU VISIT
Candidate for Governor in
the City on Legal
Business.

g = 8 i ~
Senator A. D. Stephens of
Crookston, the north country s
candidate for the republican
gubernatorial nomination, is in
Bemid il today.
Senator Stephens arrived on
the 1890 train and spent the af-
ternoon at the courthouse, where
he was interested in a legal suit
before Judge Spooner.
He has also taken occasion to
make a few calls on friends and
discuss the political situation in
this locality.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
Andrew E. Anderson Dead.

Andrew e. Anderson died at
his home over the Bazaar block
at 8 o'clock last night after a five
weeks illness with dropsy. The
funeral will be held from the.
home tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock and will be conducted by
Rev. b. M. Peterson of the Nor
wegian Lutheran church. Mr..
Peterson was IS years of age and
leaves, besides the widow, two
sons, Carl and Edwin and two
daughters, Olga and Selma.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-03
MEMORIES OF FRISCO.
Mark Twain's Description Of Earth
quake He Saw In Stricken Cftx

Mark Twain's Description Of Earth
quake He Saw In Stricken City.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain),
after his recent lecture at the Carnegie
hall, In New York, for the benefit OF
the Robert Fulton Memorial associa-
ton fund, spoke as follows about the
earthquake stricken city Of San Fran
cisco:
'"The poor, smitten city. | have no
close friends there at present, although
I have some at Alameda. l see that
all Of the district around Montgomery
street Is destroyed. The place where l
lived while there and the place where
l boarded is gone. l knew the dis
trict very well, as l was reporter on
the Call and 50 Of course got around
pretty we'll l worked first as a re-
porter on the Virginia City Enterprise
and In September or October, 1862,
went to San Francisco. was On the
Call until 1856.
II was there when they had one
healthy earthquake, however. 1t was
the worst ever heard Of. 1t was one
Sunday afternoon, hot and close |
was walking along the street when l
was jiggled. did not know what had
happened. l thought there had been
quarrel or something between the
houses. l saw the front of six story
brick house fall across the street and
form bridge. l sprung up against
the wall. But, say, that was the only
house IN town that did such a thing.
l don't know how it happened. No
one else saw it but me. l never told
any one about it.
''The last time l was there, think,
was in 1868. The town then had 49,
600 people-that is, $4,000 Chinese and
10000 people. | was there in 1868 and
wrote 'Roughing 1t In sixty days 1t
would take me six months now. The
town has grown from what 1t was
when l was there to what it was two
days ago since l left. There were no
big buildings there then"
After his address at Carnegie hall
he made an appeal to the audience to
remember IN their hearts and with
their purses the people In "San Fran
cisco, the smitten city"