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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

Duluth has so many candidates
for sheriff that she has to keep
the list in alphabetical order to
keep track of them. Poor job up
there in Duluth, eh?
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

With the opening of spring
and the approach of Memorial
Day it is fitting that we call the
attention of the citizens of Be-
midi to the condition of the
cemetery and suggest that they
hx up the graves of: their loved
ones.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

"Do as say and not as I do"
is the sage admonition of John L.
Sullivan. But who ever heard
of anyone following good advice;
we follow examples.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

James Mills, for more than thirty
years an editorial writer on the Pitts
burg Post and prominently identified
with the press of that city for half
century, died at Washington, Pa. Sat
urday OF PARALYSIS of the brain
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

The Duluth Herald suggests
that pretty soon, maybe, the
consumers will go on strike
against the repeated suspensions
of industry for. which they al
ways have to pay. The idea!
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

The good stuff Of today is the
chestnut of tomorrow. You
couldn't drive the average man
to read a column OF San Fran.
cisco dope now at the point of a
shotgun.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

That girl who writes the
Quentin column in the Mime
apolis Tribune is alright. She
certainly is one of the best in the
business, and is improving right
along. ... n
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

The Crookston Times suspects
''that there is an Eddy in the
stream of gubernatorial candi-
dates. A better pun than guess.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

WANTED-For U. S. army able.
bodied, unmarried men be-
tween ages of 81 and IS, citi.
zens of United States. of
good character and temperate
habits, who can speak, read
and write English. For in
formation apply to Recruiting
Officer, Miles block, Bemidji.
Minnesota.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Beltrami.
On this 18th day OF March, 1906. before me, a
Notary Public. within and for said county
and stale. personally appeared j. M. Stafford
who being first duly sworn says that he is one
of the signers to the within and foregoing
petition. that he has read the same. and
knows the contents thereof. and that he
the uses and purposes therein expressed
j. M. STAFFORD.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day OF March. 1906.
- RUSSELL,
Notary Public.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.

| Minneapolis Wheat.
| Minneapolis, May 9.-Wheat-May.
s7sc;,s July, 1880; Sept, 77s4c. On
track----No. hard, size; No. 4 North
ern. 8OMc: No. Northern. 79Ac.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10
r:nuRRAYTSMNll1,A
WORTH A DOLLAR
- A DROP
SOLD By ALL GROCERS
S27 40 to Denver return from
St. Paul or Minneapolis

via
Chicago, Great Western Railway.
Tickets on sale June | to Sept.
30. Final return limit Oct. 81.
Equally low rates to other Colo
RADIO and Utah points. For fur
Their information apply to J. P.
Elmer, G. P. A., St. Paul: MINI.
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ONE CENT A ORD.
HELP WANTED,

WANTED--For the u. S. Marine
Corps; men between ages 81
and IS. An opportunity to see
the world. For full informa-
ton apply in person or by let
Ter to U. S. Marine Corps re-
cruiting office, cor. Beltrami
and Second Aves., Bemidji,
Minnesota.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

WANTED-Girl for homework.
Call at Mrs. Conger's millinery
store.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10
Minnesota 4 International
In Connection with the
Northern Pacific.

Provides the best train passenger
service between Northome, Funkley
Blackjack, Bemidji, Walker
and intermediate points and Mime
apolis, St. Paul, Fargo and Duluth
and all points east, west and south.
Through coaches between Northome
and the Twin Cities. No change
of cars. Ample time at Brainerd
for dinner.
TIME CARD
Effective June 4th.. 1905.
Dai1u axront C,r1av
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE Rubber stamps.
The Pioneer will procure any
kind of a rubber stamp for
YOU on short notice.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10
A. f. SMITH.
Attorney in fact.
Petition rsYacatiOn of Street.
Office OF the CITY Clerk-Citv Of r,

Notice is hereby given that there has been
fled in my office by order of the City Council
OF the City OF Bemidji. petition for the vaca-
city Of Bemidji, described as follows to-wit:~
Commencing at the southwest corner OF block
nine (9 in Carson's Addition to Bemidji.
to point where the south line of said block
nine (a intersects the Great Northern Rail-
way Right OF Way. thence south twenty (2O)
feet. thence west parallel with the south line
south OF the southwest corner of said block
nine. thence north twenty feet to the place of
beginning.
Said petition will be heard and determined
by the City Council on Monday the 2lst day
OF May A. D. 1906. at the hour Of eight o'clock
p. NJ OF said day. at which time and place all
persons interested will be heard.
Dated April q. 1905.
THOS. MALOY.
Citv Hlorl.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-10

Bemidji. Mimi, March Is, 1906
To the Mayor and Common Council OF the
City OF Bemidji, Mimi. -. :
We the undersigned property holders own
ing property on or near First street. in the
City OF Bemidji, State Of Minnesota do most
respectfully petition your honorable body
asking that you yacate acertafn twenty foot
strip on the north side OF First street, de-
the southwest corner OF block nine (9 in Car
sons Addition to Bemidji. Minnesota. thence
east along south line to point where the
south line OF SAID block q intercepts the
G. n r. R. right Of way, thence south 20 feet.
thence west parallel with the south line of
block to 0 point 20 feet south OF the south
west corner OF said block g. thence north 20
feet to the place of beginning.
We ask that this portion of said street be
vacated and coded TO the Northland Trade
Company Of St: Paul. in consideration of their
building. cold storage plant upon said prop
erty together with block 9.
ReSDectfully Submitt ed by.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
THE FUTURE INIERuRBAN.

When the gasoline motor car, the
self contained" car, has been brought
to efficiency, the problem Of interur-
ban transportation Of freights and pas
sengers will have reached solution.
The hope that the time is not far dis
tant is accumulated by the report of a
self contained gasoline car operated on
the lines OF the st. Joseph, Missouri,
Traction Company. This car has been
in use for about eight months, during
which time it has covered over 10000
miles, making three trips daily and
hauling from one to three nineteen ton
passenger coaches. The distance COW
cred per trip Is about twenty-five miles,
in which four stops are made. The
average consumption of gasoline has
been about liz gallons per mile while
drawing one coach.
A car of this type would prove very
useful for operating in sparsely settled
localities where the traffic is not suf-
ficient to warrant the building of a
steam railway or an overhead trolley
system. It, would also prove useful in
operating on trolley roads at night at
ter the power station is shut down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
gss zraEa1tusr anpra, 9efe'nher IS 1906

collect, or shut off the service, in thirty
days.
5.-Continuing discrimination be-
tween consumers.
Excepting the consumers ledger sn
such shape as to puzzle expert ac-
counts.
Failing to enter liabilities in tho
ledger, thus showing false profit.
Poor bookkeeping, lax collections, un-
wise expenditures and lack of keen
business management in keeping up
improvements will always be faults
found more often in municipality owneN
utilities than in those managed for
private profit, but the conditions at
Dubuque seem to be worse than the
average. Many another town can
show water works plants owned by the
city which are not open to such sweep
shalltown, for instance. can stand up
and deny every one Of them, yet it
was only few years ago that a BUSH
nesslike councilman coming into the
craftsmanship of the water works COM
mittee, had the whole community on it's
ear because OF the waste OF water and
uncollected accounts that he found.
vigorous collection department and a
meter system installed amid oppose
ton accomplished the necessary reor-
ganization. Dubuque should not loss
faith in municipal ownership, but get
behind the Telegraph Herald and vote
in new administration. The people
can change the deal if they want to.
If they don't, they deserve all they get
in the way Of mismanagement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18

ffturles were struck off by It, once and
for all, and a marvellous awakening
began--an awakening which Is rapidly
bringing the civilization of Spain once
more abreast of its sister nations.
Signs Of commercial and industrial
activity abound, the streets are swarm
ing with electric cars" Everywhere,
even In the remotest provinces, one
finds electric lights-and gramaphones!
1t begins to look as II the Spaniards
were not such degenerate race, after
all.
Knicker-Did your wife read the
presidents message?
Bocker-No, but I'll bet she would
have listened to every word If she
could have overheard 1t on party
wire-New York Sun.
A creed Is rod,
And a crown is of night;
But this thing is God,
To be man with thy might.
To grow straight in the strength OF thy
spirit,
And live out thy life as the light.
-swinburne. +
Teacher-What are parallel lines?
Micky Mulberry, what are you grim
ming at?
Micky Mulberry 'scuse me. Miss
Sharpe, but any loidy might make de
same mistake: yer means parallel bars,
don't yer?-Puck.
The excellent article appearing In
Saturdays issue of the T.-lR., dealing
with George Longs idea of gaining an
education at the age Of so, and sug-
costing better plan, was from the pen
of w. e. ("Billy") Hamilton, the bright
editor Of the Odebolt Chronicle, and
should have been credited to that ex-
cellent weekly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
A sIMrLE CHRISTMAS.
TFt. Dodge Messenger.J


We sometimes long for the simple
Christmas of earlier days; one that
we ourselves remember or one that
we have been told about when a jack
knife or home made doll, a ginger
bread man with some nuts and can
dies for the toe OF the stockings sat
isfled the most ambitious child and
grown people did not bother each 9th
err with presents. 1t sounds restful
and idyllic In the midst OF our pres
ent day rush and commercial activity.
But while there Is much that is cut
of joint in our Christmas OF today,
1t is not to be remedied by going
back In the first place, we do not
know how far back to go. Words
worth mourns that "the world is too
much with us"-so we cannot stop
at this date. A learned and we pre-
sumo rheumatic gentleman Of the
fourth century whose writings we
have lately come across signs over the
extravaganza and general degeneracy
Of his later days and wonders IN most
approved Roosevelt spelling what the
younger generation Is coming to. our
hurrying commercial Christmas offers
no new problem. 1t is only that at
Christmas the ideal and the actual are
brought into sharper contrast; CHRIST
mas is the climax of our commercial
activity; 1t Is also a time when every
one has vision of peace on earth anu
good will to men.
We would not take commerce out
Of christmas If we could. Toys are
brought from Nuremberg at price
which puts them within reach OF ev-
ery day laborer's family. For Christ
mas day at home man takes jour-
new half across the continent carrying
with him gifts the story of whose
manufacture and transportation from
the ends Of the earth would write the
history of modern achievement.
II, then, we cannot take commerce
out of Christmas, we must put the
Christmas spirit into its commerce.
That is the only solution of the
Christmas problem. Envy, extrava-
gance. insincerity, could have marred
the most primitive Christmas and they
alone can mar our Christmas today. II
our hearts are honestly filled with the
Christmas spirit so that there Is no
room for unworthy giving or receiving
if the light Of Bethlehem shines pure
and single in our lives, our christina
will be simple no matter how COM
plicated commercially its expression
of itself may be.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
az M~1~t@<
The IncurabIe is Cured.


Evan Roberts, the advertising expert
of Milwaukee, was talking the other
day about the disappearance OF the
reading advertisement.
~rhe reading advertisement" he said,
"the advertisement gotten up to look
like news, is no longer popular because
advertisers have found that, instead of
pleasing and impressing people, it an
gers them. It angers everybody, you
know, to be fooled.
"And some Of these reading adver-
tisements were enough to fool wizard.
In fact. know of one case"
MIR. Roberts paused and chuckled.
Then he went on:
"Old Aunty Cornsilk Of Croydon Four
Corners said to her husband on night:
"'Ephraim did that there story you
was readin' end happy?'
"Uncle Ephraim answered heartily
from his rocking chair beside the
stove:
"Gosh, yes, Hubby. The beautiful
heroine got cured of an incurable dis
ease and the story guv the name and
price of the pills what done the trick"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
a1lAhrEs PLANS WITH SALOONS.

The city of Atlanta Is attempting
change in methods Of regulating the
liquor traffic. Stirred by the recent
riots and the danger of further riots,
1t proposes to make away with the
doggeries where the baser whites and
negroes get the stimulus to infiame
their passions and cultivate riot. Me-
gro saloons Of the lower type and their
contemporary drinking places for white
men. are breeding places of law
lessness and the peculiar crime
of the southern negro. So the
city council evolved scheme OF
taxation that should go far to eliminate
the larger number Of these pests. The
plan was to make a retail license for
whiskey sellers $4,000 and for beer sa-
looms $500, with rigid investigation
into the character Of every applicant
for license. In this way It was assumed
the city could rid itself of the dives
and quasi criminal clubs that support
them. It is an evidence of the power
of the concentrated liquor interests
that this committee, with the united
sentiment Of Atlanta and practically
the whole council behind it, came back
with a recommendation to cut whisky
licenses to $500 and beer licenses to
5000.
The Atlanta plan has its merits. In
crease in saloons means multiplication
of crime. Here in Iowa, and even in
Marshalltown, where saloons are COM
PEELED to live close to law, a system on
the Atlanta plan would work, to re-
form. Five saloons at a $4,000 mulct,
run by men whose character had borne
strict investigation, would certainly be
cleaner and easier of regulation than
wenty or more at $1,000. They would be
sufficiently easy of access. The pro-
.3rietors would have much to lose,
more than a $12 to $1S week job with
brewery company. Marshalltown and
Waterloo are the cities in Iowa freest
# crime, largely because they are the
cities in Iowa that most stringently
regulate saloons. But there is still
..oom for improvement In both these
owns.
With all the complaints against the
nulct it has never been thoroughly en-
orced in the state. There are thou
,ands of liquor sellers in Iowa evading
he retail tax, whisky drug stores, club
outlets, and blind pigs. 1t might be
that to tax the business "all the traffic
will bear" would set the man who pays
the tax looking after the regulation of
the other who doesn't, and bring about
a modicum Of reform from a source
most men are disposed to look upon as
degenerate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
A Powerful Relief.
[Cleveland Plain Dealer.l

[CIeVelduQ 1ldlIl OtdlSA.l
A southerner who has lived In New
York for some years went on the stump
druing the recent campaign. He was
fond Of making long speeches and OF
being praised for the same.
On one occasion he was accompanied
by an old colored coachman, who mad
served in his family for years. The
orator held out for two hours at an
open air meeting, while the coachman
sat on his box and listened.
When the speaker came to go home
he looked up and asked: well, Uncle
George, what did you think of that
speech?"
",Deed, Mas'r James" said the old
man earnestly, you shoreiy did git a
powerful lot Of trash out Of your sys-
tenn tonight"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
Topics Of the Times

The Hampton Chronicles assertion
that "Dolliver is honoring Iowa far
more than she is honoring him." is
more open to question than its other
elected with enthusiasm The senator
doubtless considers the honor paid him
by the state Of Iowa more than his
best services can repay. And he, or
any other man in his place, would be
absolutely correct in such an opinion.
Nevada has secured another prize
fight. About all that can be raised in
Nevada is fight promoters and hades.
Still, it would seem If any nation
needs churches France is the one.
Let us be thankful that no message
on the Storer incident is contemplated
by the president.
OF course, anything President Roose-
isn't this little hard on the messenger
boy?
| Seventeen thousand words are con-
tanned in Senator Bailey's denial of the
charges against him, two thousand
more than he was accused of getting.
| The Freeman-T Tribune, at Webster
City, calls" the Republican at Iowa
City very nicely for its charges of ex-
travagance against the Cummins adj
| ministration, by asking the Republican
| to point out the specific useless expen-
ditures contained in $4,000 estimate
for state university needs Just filed
| in the regents report. The Republican
believes that the campaign is over and
discreetly says nothing.
| When a catalog house goes out of the
grocery business just as the pure food
law goes into effect, even naturally
credulous and unsuspicious minds be-
gin to ask the reason why.
How many fresh cows could be sold
| if man could visit and talk to the
people who live in 10000 homes? An
ad in the T.-R. can do it for less than
Is cents per visit.
Senator. Dolliver was condemning an
opponents argument, says the New
York Tribune.
"In such an argument" he said, "the
! logic is absurdly false. 1t is like the
| logic of a young woman of Fort Dodge.
This young woman sat plying the
needle one spring morning on the pi-
azza Of her pretty little house. A coat
of her husband was in her lap. The
husband himself appeared, and she
said, fretfully:
ut is too bad, the careless way the
tailor put this button on. This is the
| fifth time 1 have had to sew it on for
YOU"
Now that almost decade has
elapsed since the Spanish AM ercan
war, the time has come when it is pos
sible to estimate the actual effects of
defeat upon the Spaniards. That is
what Havelock Ellis, the English sci
enlist, has done in a striking article in
the December Atlantic, "The Spirit of
Present Day Spain" For the defeated
| nation what appeared to be disaster
was, he maintains, the greatest pos
| sible blessing. The shackles Of cen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP FAILURE.

At Dubuque all 10 not lovely in mu-
nicipal ownership of water works. An
outsider reading the telegraph
would wonder whether municipal own
ership could be all that is claimed for
it elsewhere were he not cognizant of
different conditions in other towns. At
Dubuque there seems to be a commits
sion plan of water works management,
o board of trustees, which board, the
Telegrap PHI Herald asserts, is guilty of
"these specific violations of law"
1.-Contracting Indebtedness without
authority.
2-Making false and misleading re-
ports of the condition of the trust.
3.-Failng to make these reports as
periods and in manner specified by
law.
Then the same paper declares: bad
management is proven in these estab :
lished sins of omission and commits
SION:
Installing machinery which has
never been used, and failure to buy
necessary boilers which should effect
a saving in coal; installing an air COM
pressor, since abandoned which mui-
tiplied the coal consumption by two.
2-Making main extensions which
yielded nothing in increased revenue.
3-Loading UP on meters, etc, which
will not be installed for years, paying
for these as for machinery, extensions,
etc, on money borrowed at the bank
at per cent.
permitting credits of more than
$1,000 to accumulate in old accounts
which a gas or electric company would
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18
THE PRESIDENTS DILEMMA.

The president has done an unpopu-
lar thing. The proof appears to be
ample to sustain the assertion; and of
course the proof must be ample to
enforce conclusion that the president
could possibly do an unpopular thing.
Nobody was looking for trouble for
him in the direction of photography,
and that it should have come in that
quarter affords fresh illustration Of
the mysterious ways Of providence.
The reform to which he gave his Of
flee was modest to the ear, involving
only 300 words; but as Mr.. Sullivan,
of Massachusetts,, pointed out, the in
novation placed the door ajar to un-
limited power. If he could reform
by proclamation 300 words, there was
nothing in the way of his reforming
in like manner an unlimited number
of words. Mr.. Sullivan, to be sure, is
a Boston democrat; but it is we'll to
listen to anyone from Boston on a
matter involving the purity and eu-
phony Of English. Col. Watterson
may have had this very matter in
mind when he called attention, in his
New York address, to the rapid
strides, under executive power, toward
GENERALIZATION.
AS matter of fact, 1t is hard
enough for senators and representa-
tives to learn to spell once. They are
safe in counting on public sympathy.
in every printing office, and the per-
plexity of the government printing Of
flee under the double standard is well
calculated to enlist publicity. 1t is
easier to maintain two standards Of
money than it is to maintain two
standards of spelling. The president
on reflection, must be convinced that
the dictionary is a family necessity
and if confidence is broken in the re-
pository of correct photography the
pride Of the American people in their
spelling will be destroyed.
The president is being familiarized
with the trend of legislative and
public thought He prides himself
on being a law abiding citizen. He
| is a great leader in this regard
What is his plain duty? Obviously
having been Informed of the will OF
| congress, his plain duty is to subor-
dinate his personal preference and re-
scind his order. In that way he could
make unnecessary the paragraph in
the appropriation bill the house Of rep
resentatives has elected. The house it
self might withdraw the rebuke, and II
the house could not do it the senate
with the utmost dignity. would find il
possible to eliminate the reference. Bet
ter yet, Messrs. Plat and Lands. said
to have their heads together, woule
lhave no further excuse for the con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-18

coction or independent legislation in
support of accepted dictionaries of the
English language.
The president is up against a new
experience. 1t has been pride with
him not to know when he was whipped.
He has been successful in bending the
lawmaking power to his will. He must
know he cannot break IT,.
Clearly, it is the part Of duty to
withdraw in the most graceful man
ner possible the executive ukase in
behalf of simplified spelling. That
would be the simple way out Of the
perplexity.