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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1907-03-23
OFFICIAL
PROCEEDINGS
the County Commits.
SiOnerS
of
Deltrami County,,
Minnesota.
Adjourned Annual Session Held at
Court House in the City of the
Bemidji, on Monday, March
4, 1902, at 10 O'clock

The board of county commissioners met in
adjourned annual session at the court house
in the city Of Bemidji, ON Monday the 4th
day of March, 1907
With the following members present.
Wes Wright. first district.
George Gunderson. second district
Fred o. Sbley, third district
J. Fl. Wagner. fourth district.
A. w. Danaher fifth district.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1907-03-23

G G Strander witness fees State VS.
Paul FOurnier and George CYL. IL "A
Charles LIE Rogue witness fees State
VS. Paul FOurnier and George Cyr 90
Ike HaIverson witness fees State
Paul FOurnier and George Cyr... As
Il attic HalverSOn witness fees State
VS. Paul Fournier and George Cyr 8 4s
Eugene Caldwell witness fees State
VS. Paul FOurnier and George Cyr 912
Grace Caldwell witness fees State VS.
Paul Fournier and George Oyr..... 812
VIM Kreiger witness fees State VS.
Paul F'Ournier and George Oyr..... S12
Ourn FOnrnier witness fees State VS.
Paul Fournier and George Cyr... 912
Mary Fournier witness fees State VS.
Paul FOurnier and George Cyr..... S12
Thomas DoOhr witness fees State VS.
Paul Fournier and George Oyr..... 912
Erick Johnson witness fees State VS.
Paul Fournier and George Cyr.... $50
John Gillstad witness fees State VS.
Paul Fournier and George Cyr.... 584
o M! NJ Sklnylk, = Justice fees State VS.
ishk skinvik. SGenEesa Justice fees State vs. 70
Paul Fournier and George Cyr.... 4 90
Q 1M,S!, N Skinvik: Justice fees State VS. ;, :
wMlter Mi,naM maryn r9S5er witness fees State 81 50
VS. William Foster. 172
Peter. Ant, witness fees State vs.
Mllsla@ n Aaery, EoSsGF Witness fees State vs. Y
M IS stoner, witness fees State VS. =
o1s wlieam se1Raas aester Witness ieas Stale vs. Il
Mr. Travercy. witness fees State VS.
William Foster. 72
Joseph schisel, witness fees State VS.
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Guy Welcome ...... so
Q N skinvik, justice fees State VS.
VIM Mack and Van Loan .......... q 95
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Charles Finnick.. Observation-Disclosures. LIZ
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Harry Holmes. ~ ..... 42O
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A \! I Moon witness fees State vs. Chas
L N Moon witness fees State vs. Chas
Finnick ................ 1 12
Hugo Lehman witness fees State VS.
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Peter Stern justice fees State vs.
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Helga PETERSON witness fees State VS.
= ul1us Peterson 2S0
Miss p White witness fees State VS.
Julius Peterson. ............... lao
Mrs Thomas witness fees State VS.
Julius Peterson. ................... 100
Mrs Olof Arneson witness fees State
VS. julius Peterson ................. 160
Olof ArneSOn witness fees State VS.
Julius Peterson Observation-Disclosures. 16O
julius Peterson witness fees State VS.
I. Julius PETERSON. Observation-Disclosures. 80
Mike Sawa witness fees State VS.
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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1907-03-23
bonds for repositories of county funds we're

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bonds for repositories of county funds were
acceEte Land approved.
The First State Bank of Rlackduck in the
sum OF twenty five Thousand dollars with
Prank P Sheldon, Esther Hastings executrix
OF astings estate. VIM. Ell. Roberts, Ernest
T. Rice and Sarah II. Roberts,
The First National Bank of Remidii in the
sum of fifty thousand dollars. with Frank P.
sheldon Esther Hastings executrix of Hast
lngs estate. VIM. II. Roberts. Raymond IL.
Schumacher and Sarah II. Roberts.
The Beltrami County Bank Of Tenstrike in
the sum of 4twenty. thousand dollars, with
Seth E. Thompson. Lewis Stadhaim. Emil E.
Schulke Henry W. Krahn, Andrew Forsyth,
Charles 8. Garter, Arthur B. Page and Fred
J. Wilson.
The Bank of Kelllher in the sum Of forty
one Thousand five hundred dollars, with
Frank p Sheldon. VIM. II. Roberts, ]. M.
Richards John E. Hanson and Walter A.
Gould as Sureties.
On motion duly made. seconded and car
rled the board adjourned to meet at 2
o'clOckp. m,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
ORANGE RATE REDUCED

Citrus fruit growers and shippers
are highly gratified over the announce
ment that the three transcontinental
railroads entering Los Angeles have
agreed to reduce the freight rate on
oranges from the prevailing rate of
SLIPS hundred to s1.15 a hundred. The
shippers have struggled many years to
get this rate reduction, but heretofore
have met with defeat.
1t is estimated that the railroads, in
agreeing to the demand, are giving up
$500,0OO which sum will be added to the
profits of the shippers at a time when
the crop is rather short and the season
a bit quieter than usual.
For this concession the railway COM
panies are deserving of all the COM
mendation they are now receiving.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
THE WOES OF BUTTE

The heretofore thrifty city Of Butte,
up in Montana, is in sore distress. It
Is afflicted with labor bosses of the
most malignant type. The aiiment first
attacked the newspapers and then
gradually extended until the whole
community seems TO be affected. Bust
ness paralysis Is reported and there Is
grave cause for apprehension that still
worse is in store.
The troubles of Butte began with a
demand for higher wages made by
pressmen of the four daily newspapers.
The publishers responded with the plea
Of inability based on the great advance
in the cost of white paper and other
elements OF newspaper production. A
strike followed in the effort to enforce
the demand and the papers promptly
suspended publication.
A live city without daily newspapers
presented a condition almost unbear-
able, but that was only the beginning
of woe. Non-appearence of the papers
with tLeir tempting advertisements
caused, as reported, "a falling off of
from % to go per cent in business of
the big department stores, and few
lines of business which depended en-
tirely upon advertising have practically
ceased"
But that was not the worst Elated
by their success thus far in paralyzing
the city's business, the labor bosses
have served notice on all employers that
on March 1 the wage schedule of all
unsltilled laborers will be marked UP
to $3.50 per day. Furthermore, the
Miners union, embracing thousands of
workers in Butte, announce a demand
for raise of wages from $3.50 to 81
per day.
Thus the outlook for Butte could
hardly be worse. A closing of the mines
in that section as consequence of the
new wage demand will alone, as report
ed, throw 10000 men out of employ
ment, including collateral lines of busi-
ness. The business men of the city are
strongly organized and they express de-
termination to fight to a finish what
they regard as unreasonable and ex-
orbitant demands.
Poor Butte! From an exceptionally
thriving and prosperous city 1t has
reached a condition so perilous that
the community is bordering on a state
of panic. The stoppage of business in
dustries means lack of means for sup
porting perhaps three-fourths of the
population. Such a situation would be
the forerunner of widespread suffering
probably accompanied by disorder and
lawlessness.
How prone men are to disregard the
wise admonition to "let we'll enough
alone" and instead to emulate the
tabled dog in his eagerness to grab al
the waters reflection of the meat ir
his mouth, causing him to lose what he
had
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
MARK TWAIN'S NEW SUIT

Mark Twain is still joker; but of
late his humor has taken a new form.
Now, instead of writing his witticisms,
he wears 'em. In other words, he is
having fun with masculine attire. His
latest joke is a white suit of evening
clothes.
Mans toggery, be it said in all ear
nestness, though it be a subject for
discussion, is hardly a delectable topic
of conversation. Time was when the
masculine garb was a thing of splen-
dor, rivaling the butterfly in gaudi-
ness and shaming the lily for gorge
osity. But in the passing years it has
sobered down until now it is admit
tedly about as ugly as it we'll could
be. 1t shocks every artistic taste;
sculptors despair when directed to
make statues of men in pants" and
painters weep when they come to
linn their subjects in choker collars
and frock coats.
And the so-called evening clothes are
even worse. A man in the au fait
clawhammer and open front waistcoat
looks much like an animate4 coffin
with the lid removed, and is an OBJ
ject of funereal misery.
But is it fair in Mark Twain to
take out upon his own sex his sense
Of humor, or to vent his mirth in
of the venerable laughmaker to don
white dress togs when all the sar-
torial laws demand black?
Perhaps Mark Twain aspires to be
a reformer. Mayhap he hopes to ex-
orcise the gloom coincident to the put
ting on of the shroud-like evening ap-
parel of the day. Possibly he hopes,
with his white suit to prove by con-
trast the worth of his idea. Maybe.
But it won't do.
White, dear old apostle of jollity. is
the emblem of pTrity-and ~ all the
nine gods, no man in society is en-
titled to that token. Imagine a Pitts
burg millionaire in such spotless raj
ment. Think of a habitue of New
York's 400 on the great white way"
VI luC ItllNSIlOllli ~ SdIDtus tOI-
ceive Of a denizen of Chicago's North
Shore drive emulating the lily. Por-
tray an Angeleno of the auto set in
speckless immaculacy. 1t is beyond
the ken of the widest fancy.
That the formal uniform of the
sterner sex needs Illuminating, bright
ening up, relief from its grave-like
cerements, no one gainsays. That a
touch of color now and then would
help out cen the handsomest men no
one denies. That varied hues would
take away f m a gathering OF men
that checkerboard, magpie aspect is
gladly admitted. But white? Oh, it
is to laugh. Mark Twain, you have
sprung no funnier nor more saturnlne
Joke in all your three score and ten
years than this!
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
sThTEs MusT car ToorTHHR

The New York legislature has under
consideration bill to call meeting In
Albany Of three delegates from each of
the states Of the Union to advance the
cause of uniformity in state laws upon
subjects Of concern to the whole coun-
try. It is proposed to have these dele
gates, guests of New York state, con-
slider and discuss uniform divorce, labor,
fire and life Insurance, public utilities
and commerce laws, and to recommend
to the legislatures of the several states
that action be taken to bring these
statutes into consonance. AS It is now,
hardly two states have laws alike on
these subjects. yet the interchange be-
tween the commonwealths makes this
extremely desirable.
This movement which is yet only in
cipient, is nevertheless what must be
undertaken sooner or later II the states
wish to preserve their identities-this
or some similar plan. AS It is now. the
states are so slack in their duties and
so inconsderate Of their sister states
in their laws that it is impossible for
conditions to go on in this fashion much
longer. If the states do not act in con-
sonance on affairs that concern all of
them the rapidly centralizing govern
ment at Washington will have good ex-
cuse for taking the work upon Itself
and 1t has already done so to a degree
vastly greater than liberal view of
the constitution warrants.
The people of the whole country are
all the time growing closer and more
intimate In their relations, and state
lines no longer confine their activities.
Where once a mans interests were con-
centrated and restricted they are now
widely dispersed. That man who finds
it necessary to do business in New York
and Texas, to sell goods in Delaware
and California, must face the further
fact that he will do the most ordinary
act of business under totally different
laws in each of the states. Perfectly
legal acts in one are outlawed in an
other. Necessary compliance with laws
in some states bars him from others.
The situation is intolerable.
In seeking remedy, however, the
true one is seldom mentioned. Congress
is appealed to instead of the several
states-the real remedial power. A ten
dency to ignore the commonwealth in
favor of the nation, to remove the bur-
den from the direct to the indirect rep
resentatives of the people, is the rule.
This is wrong; the people are the real
source of legal right; the closer the
laws are kept to the people the better.
The state is much nearer than is the
government at Washington.
So the state should be made to as
sumo her responsibilities. 1t would be
unwise to surrender an iota of it's power
to the United States as such. This is
not a question of Estates rights" but
of government "by the people"-and its
wisdom is self evident.
The one reason advanced by the GEN.
tralizationists is that state laws con-
f1ict, and good ones only apply in states
that pass them. This New York plan,
if carried out, would easily and quickly
remove that objection by securing uni
form laws in all the states upon topics
concerning all, yet preserving state au-
tonomy and leaving each free to enact
it's own purely local laws as it sees fit.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
AFTERWARDS

o, to think tat the world will go on
After we are dead!
Lovers will go on loving,
The old. old words Will be said.
New blrds will bloom In April,
And white be the apple Dough;
June will return, the birds troop back,
The earth will be as glad as now.
The long. green pageant of summer
Will march Its accustomed way,
And year after year the autumn pomp
WIN crimson the pallid day.
bowers will go on loving,
The words that we said will be said,
When you and l are forgotten,
When you and are dead
Charles Hanson Towne.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
EARLY CLOSING OF SALOONS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.-Editor Her.
aid: l wish to call your attention to a
schedule for liquor selling licenses
which will be of immense benefit to the
city and every city, if adopted.
One class, those in disreputable parts
Of the city, to close at or near sundown; /;
next class at s p. M; another possibly
at 10 p. m, and all at 11:30 p. M, as
there is no good business which requires
liquor as an aid to its transaction after
1880 p. m.
This plan will save the city hundreds
of thousands of dollars annually, many
robberies and other crimes, many lives,
many costly trials, and what Is of
more Importance, the honor and virtue
of hundreds of young girls and boys.
If 1t saves one girl, boy, woman or man
it is worth while. Try it. r.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
WHY

wHY7
why don't you give me presents since
we wed7
You used to crafty my every Wish"
His wife thus did complain;
He hastened TO explain;
Does the angler give his bait to the
caught hsh2"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Mrs. Thaw's mother is said now to
be on her daughters side. She should
never have been anywhere else. Her
aid to the prosecution has been the
biggest scandal the case has unearthed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

If the capital were removed at all
sat through a session in Sacramento
would favor it's coming to Los Angeles,
the real garden spot of earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
IT'S A SHAME TO TEASE HIM

Il do not control one mile of railroad.
do not believe in one man or any one
company controlling vast interests Of this
klnd."-E. H. Hartman.
l know some things of railroads; they are,
so to speak, my lay.
But I'm interested only in an academic
way.
I don't control mile of road; I think 1t
would be wrong
For any man or set of men to grow SO
very strong.
A man who owned a railroad or controll-
ed a railroad might
Be tempted now and then to do thing
which wasn't right
He might turn the market upside down,
as peasured his caprice;
He might fleece his fellow-man and line
his pockets with the fleece.
He might meddle with insurance and
bring into disrepute
Our most sacred Institutions through his
appetite for loot
Good gracious, yes! a bold bad man with
power of that nature
Might even go so far as to corrupt the
legislature!
And that Is why, despite the fact that
railroads are my lay,
/ am interested only in an academic way
often say to Gould and Hill L think IL
would be wrong
For any man or set of men to be so very
strong. Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

If those legislators who went to
Berkeley yesterday would doff the at
mosphere of Sacramento and take on
that of the college they saw, the trip
were not in vain.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Thirty Japanese school children under
16 caused all that row and war talk
on San Francisco's part. AS a buffer
the upstate town takes the bakery.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

1t is evident that the worst is yet to
come in Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's
testimony. Have we then been blush
ing all too soon?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Judging by the inspiration he fur
nished those Dutch life savers, the hus-
band of Wilhelmina has a purpose in
the world after all.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

And the next big comedy in San
Francisco will be Fiddler Schmitz in
his great monologue mot Guilty; or,
Shouldn't Have Been Ketched."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

A New York newspaper says the
Thaw case ranks first of all sensations
in the United States today. The rank
part is all right.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

There is nothing surprising in the
fact that a 95-year young Angeleno did
a dance on his birthday Friday. No
one is ever old in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Ten cents reduction on citrus fruit
rates is not much but every little bit
helps. And if 10 cents for emergencies,
why not all the time?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

The railroads are not fighting the new
taxation bill in the legislature-which
makes every one mighty suspicious Of
the niger concealed in it's woodpile.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

If San Francisco wants the favor of
the southern end of the state in its
worlds fair scheme let it be a little
more decent and friendly, That's all.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

THAT statesman would rather manage
the political destinies of other men than
to be a candidate himself"
"Yes. He isn't content with one presi-
dental bee of his own. He wants a
swarm of em."-Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Upper California is bowling against
a segregation of the lower part of the
state. Well may it; the better part of
the state will be gone when this end
quits.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Somebody seems to have whitfield The
big stick into a shingle, judging by the
rearward look of San Francisco's s
"pants."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Councilman Wallace is right; what
Los Angeles needs most of all-and The
Herald has been saying so for weeks-is
street paving.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Charles A. Dana said he wasn't
ashamed to print anything God let hap
pen. But that was before the devil
created Pittsburg millionaires and the
"Florodoro" sextet.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

When the men supposedly benefited
thereby object to the pernicious eight
hour law isn't it time 1t were vetoed?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Thaw's attorneys having had their
usual recess row, the case will be al
lowed to proceed Monday as before.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

That cafe looter who stole a sack of
pennies was not so centsless as he
seemed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Europe is full of antique fakes, says
a cable. Also few modern ones, as
our heiresses know.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

But after all, what does the Southern
Pacific think of capital removal?' That
will settle it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

If San Francisco opposes a division
of the state let it repent and be decent
and we may stay with 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Between the Elks and the Shriners
yesterday Los Angeles scarcely dared
call itself it's own.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

If Governor Gillett is really friend
of the laboring man he will veto that
fake eight-hour law.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Anyhow, that capital removal stunt
was the excuse for bully junket on
the part of the entire legislature. And
what's about all Berkeley will get for
.asf pains.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Evidently what we need in saving
survivors of an ocean wreck is prince
consort.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Roosevelt says it's a crime for women
not to wed. How about those not
asked?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Hash is the connecting link between
the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

II this photograph business keeps on
Evelyns face win be better known even
than Lydia Plnkham's.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

That Georgia man who committed
suicide because he hated work-howTl
he enjoy shovellng coal?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

According to Nine. Melba the stage
favorites should eat plenty of fruit
and vegetables. This is an improve
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
BEAUTY SECRET


California's most beautiful woman at
tributes her good looks to the fact that
she plows an hour every morning. We
didn't know it was necessary to do
anything in that climate in order to be
autiful.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

'es it costs California $S,OOOOOO to run
kpg ears for the benefit of the South
ns eific how much less would it be
r'.e a government of, by and for
TA2
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Harry Thaw is said to be victim OF
st. vitus' dance. Also of the "Floro-
dora" dance.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
COARSE WORK

COARSE WORK
Frank Coldwell visited Miss Annie
Knowlden Sunday night, but he did
not stay long.
Miss Annie K-owlden says that she
nearly froze Sunday. Sequachee
(Tenn.) News.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Delmas has leased a New York office.
win the Thaw trial last that longY
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Lemon-So It can circulate, o. course
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SOCIETY
Bidden to
Big soiree.
Just a minute,
Tho, to stay.
Go a-rushing,
Gowned so swell
Glad to meet youl"
Looking wellr'
Mrs. Bilkins.
Mrs. White"
"Ah 80 happyl"
C'What a frighti")
Pretty frock you're
Wearing" "So7
Very glad in
Deed to know"
Crash of music,
No one hears:
Thro' the press now
Each one steers.
'Tis the hostess
"Beautfulr
Such a happy"
Tug and pull
Past then on, to
Where they serve
Coffee. biscuit,
Never swerve
Grab a sandwich;
Bolt n cup;
Snatch an ice, and
Eat 1t up:
Crunch a cracker,
Swap a lie,
Now, an olive
Do or diel
Then again you
Buck the line"
For the front door
Simply fne!"
Say your goodbye:
80 much fun!
Farewell, dearest!'
Cut and run!
Worn and weary;
More than mad,
"Ah, that's over!
I'm so glad!"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
PI LINES AND PICK UPS

ment on the old regimen Of snowbalIs
and scenery.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Orange-Does he still stutter badly
Lemon-No, he's an adept at 1t now.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Blame 1t on the sun spot.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

There is a comet headed toward the
earth. BE ready to dodge.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Get busy with that street paving.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

"There is a Count de Castellane' ci-
gar on the market"
Something that costs altogether too
much and looks painfully cheap, 1 sup
pose"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

After the thaw trial Mephistopheles
should be able to contemplate his
Easter retirement with more or less
equanimity.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

Very few men are vain enough t
carry pocket mirrors.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

The wonder is that Thaw has any
finger nails left.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
ON THE WING

ON THE WING
orange-why do you say that money
has wings?
Lemon-so it can circulate, O. course.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

reses for running California
~ ! to come are figured at
Wfunting the part that the
contributes in fees to
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24

The whole story being threatened In
the Thaw case, the rush of the 400 and
the chorus girls to Europe is on in full
force.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
Population of Los Angeles. Isl 1854

Pave the streetsl
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
THE REASON

THE REASON
Poppy-why do they call it the smart
set?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in 1t tries to
make everyone else smart.