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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01

Red Lake Indian Agency, Oct. /.
Especial to Pioneer. )-Congress-
man Steenerson and Senator Moses
E. Clapp came to Red Lake Agency
Saturday over the Wilton and North
ern railway and held a council with
the chiefs of the Red Lake Indians
Saturday afternoon with a subse-
quent conference Sunday afternoon.
The matter presented to Congress
man Steenerson and Senator Clapp
was the sale of the reservation pine
and other timber and the allotment
of agricultural land and the subse-
quent allotment of what may become
cut-over lands, and the disposition
of the remainder of the lands.
The council was a very harmoni-
Gus one. The Indians were unan.
imous in their requests, and they
urged an early disposition of the
pine, stating as their reasons that
the timber had reached such size
and was so situated in reference to
risks from fire, that the decay in
the timber, the loss from fires and
wind storms would be more than the
increase of the timber by growth,
and that there was no appreciable
re-forestration with pine going on
and they expressed themselves as
more that pleased with the services
rendered by Congressman Steener
son and Senator Clapp; and ex
pressed their willingness to leave
their matters to the good judgment
of those gentlemen.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
! Notice to Skaters.

Notice is hereby given that the
skating rink will be closed to skaters
during the month of October: Dur
ing the time this is closed, improv-
ments will be made to the building
and steam heating plant t~put in
the building. X
However, the rink will be open on
the evening of the 9TH, same being the
night that Kilties band are to play
here.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
Barnett-B Butcher Wedding.

Martin VanBuren Barnett and
Miss Cynthia Viola Butcher were
united in marriage, yesterday, at
9 a. M, at the Baptist parsonage,
Rev. H. r. Mckee officiating.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01

pleases old and young alike, con-
tanning as it does many comedy and
dramatic situations. The play is
written in four acts which are beauti-
fully mounted with special scenery,
which is carried complete by this
company. Reserved seats should
be secured we'll in advance as this is
without doubt the very best attrac-
ton to visit Bemidji this season.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
John WiImann Smiles

Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilmann re-
joice today over the arrival at their
home this morning "a bright bit
of femininty, who will make her
home with them, hereafter.
And the county auditor smiles one
Of those long, satisfied openings Of
the countenance that is good to be-
hold.
IT'S we'll.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
Ruth Craven as Dora Thorne."

Dora Thorne," the beautiful
drama of English life will be the
attraction at the opera house, one
night only Saturday, Oct. 5th, with
Miss Ruth Craven in the role of
Dora. To say the play gives satis-
faction would be expressing it mild
ly. The story is a beautiful one and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
K: P,'s Attention,

All members of the local K. P.
lodge are requested to attend this
evenings meeting, as there will be
work in the first rank. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01

Mr.. Morrison tills his garden on
advanced principles, and is loud in
his praise of the wonderful produc-
tiveneSS of Beltrami county soil.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01

there will be large crowd of Elks
on hand to boost" and to also see
to it that the new members are given
their moneys worth.''
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
Notice to Exhibitors
and Others

Notice hereby given that meeting of the directors of the Bel
ram County will held the police head
quarters in the city hall, Tuesday at o'clock
persons having claims against the society requested to
hands the secretary that they be
audited allowed dsaowed All bills should be 20 KID by the
president party ordering the work order to be paid
will be listed rapidly possible
Job list the articles, animals and the public
quested patience the matter The rules in the
printed premium lists authorized the of premiums and
the Saturday October but payment will be made
before that and date possible.
IVES WRIGHT, Pres lent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
An Awful Cold Winter Night

dependable heating like the genuine ROUND
OAK back value received We dependable because the
have made good they and be
relied upon heat much e do the work steadily
all night long, the weather requires And a
tight sound years years. No joints the ash door
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01
Cedar! Cedar! Cedar!

Wanted cedar timber, logs or bolts.
Douglass Lumber Co., Bemidji, tele-
phone 81.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-01

Additional local matter will be found
on fourth page.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
PUBLIC NOTICE
To the People of Montgomery.

All persons in Montgomery must hold themselves responsible for any weakness or suffering caused from old age, chronic coughs or colds. bronchi- tis, weak lungs, run-d down conditions, stomach troubles, nervousness or poor blood when we are willing to sell them the real cod liver preparation, VinoI, and return their money if 1t dees not benefit.
 The reason Vinol is so successful in restoring health and creating strength is because it contains in addition to tonic iron all the medicinal elements of cod liver oil actually taken from fresh cods' livers. but without oil or grease to upset the stomach and re- tard it's work.
 Unlike fashioned cod liver oil and emulsions. it Is deliciously pala- table, agreeable to ' the weakest stomach, therefore. unequalled as a strength creator and tonic reconstruc- tor.
 Our local druggist, B. c. Fowler. says: Tt is because we know so well of what Vinol is made that we ask every rundown, nervous, facilitated aged or weak person in Montgomery and every person suffering from stub- born colds, hanging on coughs. bron- chitis or incipient consumption to try Vinol on our guarantee. E. G. Fowler, Druggist.
 Note. While we are sole agents for Vinol in Montgomery, 1t is now for sale at the leading drug store in nearly every town and city in the country. Look for the Vinol agency in your town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
What the State Papers
 Are Doing and Saying

A Hard Job. Pine Belt News.
 A correspondent of The New York Sun is attempting to discover "a cure Crushed in the waste basket 1t will rise again.
 Mud Throwing. Birmingham News
 If mud throwing were kept up so steadily in Panama for several years as it Is for the present in the Chica- go mayoralty contest the time requir- ed for the completion of the canal ought to be cut down about thirty
 Easy Money Coosa River News.
 Let's all quit work and proceed to sue the railroads, express, telegraph and other soulless corporations for 8 livelihood. Sue em for mental an- guish, Failure to be prompt" etc. - anything that will bear action. While let's all hurry to get some sort of case to the grand and petit juries.
 Robbing tbc Stricken Tuscumbia North Alabamian It seems that what was not swal- lowed up by the Frisco earthquake has been scooped in by. grafters by the wholesale. A pity these grafters escaped the earthquake. Only ghouls would rob the stricken, and San Francisco certainly received an over plus of destruction without the spe- cies of graft being unearthed.
 N N se
 Needed Legislation. Thomaston Post
 It is all very well for the Legisla- ture to carry out the party platform under the direction of Governor Co., mer. but there are other needs of the people besides railroad regulation. If our lawmakers at their adjourned session will put aside their prejudice against railroads long enough to pass laws regulating child labor and pistol carrying they will enhance their rep- utation considerably.
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 What They Must Learn. Florence Journal.
 AS long as the negroes persist in assaulting the wives. daughters and sisters of the white people, just so long will the scene enacted in Lau- derdale county be enacted. And such action is not confined to the country south of the Mason and Dixon line, as numerous instances of similar nature will testify. The negro is treated kindly and given many prfvi- ieges by the white people. but there is one thing that ne must learn not to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01

due next December. but almost every body VIII remember that the RepuD- lican majority was cut in two. Even this does not fully disclose how nar- rowly the Republlcans hold thefr places. for there were thirty Repub- ican Representatives elected by ma joritiAs below $50. It was even recks oned that change of 4,o00 votes in the Tight places would have given the Democrats control.
 The bearing of this upon Mir. Cleve- land's revival of the tariff Issue Ia the exceptionally bad showing made by the standpatters even when they were elected, The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. MT: Payne, and MT. Dalxell, from rock-ribbed Penn sylvania; McCleary. Babcock. and Lacey. from Iowa, who was 50 con- temptuous of the Iowa idea that he declared himself the original stand. batter from Standpattville all had dis closed to them differences of opinion between themselves and their con stituents of the most decided character Others, like Grosvenor, were not even able to get their names upon the bai- lot. If there fs any other issue which has an equally strong demonstrated position before the people it would De well for somebody to name 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
RIuH Called.

Cullman Democrat.
 The expected has happened, the rail- roads have called Corners bluff and have secured and injunction from the United States court restraining the Railroad Commission and Attorney General Garber from putting into effect the spite legislation enacted by Co., mer The railroads declare the laws confiscatory and in violation of the property rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States.
 It will be recalled that Conner passed law forfeiting the right of any for eign corporation to do business In Ala bans that carried any ease to the are up against it. Either do business now or quit the game. All railroads have carried the case to the United States court. and. under your laws, they have forfeited all rights to do business in Alabama. In order for d citizen to ride to Montgomery. he would have to walk to the first station in Tennessee and buy an interstate ticket The Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile wholesale houses cannot ship goods to any point in Alabama, but the Nashville, Cincinnati Atlanta and other firms are all right. Gull man shippers must send their produce outside the State
 We stand squarely with the rau- roads against the spite laws of Conner and we hope that the right to do bus- ness in Alabama will he forfeited by every railroad in the State. This State will he a beaut under Conner ism and the best way to destroy a crank Is to give him plenty of rope and let him hang himself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
What They Must Learn
CASE OF DEsTFTUTION.
Young German Woman and Babe Fur
 cd From Home.

Young German Woman and Babe Turn
 cd From Home.
 Gadsden March 3l.-(Special.) J. A pitiful case of Restitution came to light this morning. Mrs. Wagner. young German woman with six weeks old baby being the victim.
 The woman was found wandering Tn the streets this morning with the baby in her arms and was taken to the sheriffs office where she. was made as comfortable as possible.
 According to her story, which she told in broken English, she was eVict- ed from her home in Alabama City last night by special officer of the Southern Steel Company, and her fur- niture and other belongings thrown in- to the street She states that her hus- band drew his pay from the company yesterday, and left the city. without leaving her any money.
 She says that he Is very fond of her and the child. and will either return or write to her soon. The case mas attracted the sympathy Of the officials and they will make an investigation of the case and see if any injustice
 Two men. suspected of being. the ones who robbed the safe of J. M. Adams at Keener a few nights ago, were captured at Portervtlle yesterday Mir Adams and several other citizens went to that place this morning to try to identify the men.
 The descriptions of the men In GUS | tody, tally almost exactly with those seen in Keener the night before the robbery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
MONDAY. APRIL I. 1907.
BAD PLACE FOR BAD NEGROES.

Z
 The newspapers of Wednesday last contained brief accounts of what was spoken of as race riot in Muskogee, Indian Territory, but it turns out that 1t could not fairly be called by that term. The Times Democrat of that city says of the affair. in an editorial of Wednesday:
 It appears that the negroes who re- sisted arrest yesterday and opened fire on the officers were an organized band of desperadoes. They had terrorized the law abiding colored people of this com munity under the pretense that they were officers. They wore badges pur- porting to come from some spurious detective agency in Cincinnati Their career had been one of lawlessness and they met with but slight resistance un- til they shot a policeman. To shoot policeman in 'Muskogee means some thing. especially if the officer Is in dis charge of his duty. A policeman or a deputy marshal may not be handsome sohJect with his pendant side arms and belt of cartridges, but he represents the law as we know it in this country. He must not be wantonly shot down by a white man or negro. Yesterday a renegade negro shot a policeman h. stantly the spirit of the people was aroused. The news spread like wild fire. Horsemen with Winchester rifles came from all directions One young man dashed up to hardware store. He leaped from his horse and entered the building. The next instant he appear ed with three rifles in his arms and a half bushel of cartridges. Mounting his horse he rode away like the wind to the scene of the conflict. Arriving there he calmly handed two loaded rifles to two unarmed men and kept one him self as he sat surveying the battle that wAs in progress between the officers and the barricaded negroes Such things are significant The law-abiding negroes of Muskogee are glad that this band of desperadoes has been broken up.
 From the news columns of the same papsr we learn that the cause of the trouble lay in a negro secret organ isation calling themselves The Unit ed Socialists" organized by a negro named Wright, whose object was to prey on society. He sent to Cincinnati and procured a lot of imitation de- tective badges which were worn by his followers, and which were for the purpose of deceiving the peaceable and orderly negroes of the town and caus- ing them to submit to whatever de- mands or requirements might be made on them. They became 60 bold and law less that they terrorized many of the people, and the culmination came when one of them resisted arrest and shot a policeman.
 This is the brief history of the affair, and 1t is another object lesson to the law-abiding negroes of any community. This band was organized for the pur- pose of living by criminal methods. It can hardly be doubted that its mem bers were known to other negroes, but they would not expose the scoundrels. partly through fear, it may be, but largely through race prejudice. The af- fair shows that Muskogee is not a lovely place for "had niggers."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
prrp sCHuaar.

There was an important conference at the White House on Saturday night last. The conferees were Roosevelt, Cortelyou and Tim weodrunf, of New York The talk lasted two hours and after it was all over, Woodruff told a reporter that the PreAidential cam paign of 1908 was discussed. though no candidate was mentioned. Now, that's what gets away with us. Say ing nothing of the participants in the confab, we are free to confess that we fail to understand how those three could talk so long on presidential pol itics and not discuss candidates. Pos as The Charleston Post suggests, they may have had much to say about can- didates without calling names. A good deal may be conveyed by suggestion and implication, especially when men understand each other.
 And yet. as in many other matters this one has another side. 1t may be rather blind side. but 1t gets to the light through .he Washington cores pendent of contemporary, who gives out the firm belief that cortelyou him. self Is really the Roosevelt candidate for the succession. The President, 1t is stated, is merely having fun" with Foraker, Taft, Hughes and other aspir- ants who are now engaged in the ar duous work of holding up presidential lightning rods. This plan, it is inti. mated, is to coddle all of these hungry souls so as to keep them feeling good and keep them on his string.
 Btu while this is the way it looks ing shrewd game of politics, which he knows how to do when 1t suits his plans. Like the mole, he can work in the dark to further his own schemes According to this view, he is giving encouragement to all the aspirants ir order to generate spirit of antagon. ism among their supporters. Then al the proper time Cortelyou will be sei up as the choice of the administration with the hope and belief that the
 
 ing no hope of success for their own man, will unite on Rosevelt's man. ."Di- vide and conquer" was the motto of 6 famous military leader, and 1t is not a bad one in politics.
 The suggestion that Cortelyou is really the Presidents favorite and heir. apparent is not an unreasonable one. Roosevelt has shown such a decided partiality to his Secretary of the Treas ury. and exhibited such evidences oi fayoritism towards him, that his SC. lection as the man upon whom the pres, idential mantle must fall is not far fetched suggestion. And those who feel inclined to dispute the suggestion of the Washington correspondent should not lose sight of the fact thai no finite mind may predict just what Roosevelt will do in the future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
TT SHOULD BE PLAIN.

Commenting on an editorial which appeared in The Advertiser some days ago In relation to cotton manufactur- CTS in the United States, The Elba Clip per says:
 How The Advertiser can have senti- ment like the above and yet oppose the exemption of cotton mills from taxation Is remarkable. This State needs more cotton mills, and exemption from tax ation will help to get them. Let us have the mills, the taxes they will pav after the exemption period expires will amply repay the State for the apparent loss during the exemption period
 position is more remarkable. We op- pose such exemption because it is un- just and unfair to subsidize capital in- vested in one industry in Alabama and not in all others. We oppose 1t be- cause we do not believe in bribing cap ital to come to Alabama by such open and fragrant favoritism. If Alabama wants to pay cotton mills to come here let it do so directly out of the Treas ury and not by selecting them as ob- jects of special favor to be exempt from paying their share of the burdens of government.
 We oppose this exemption for much the same reason that we oppose a pro tective tariff. The tariff Is intended to enrich a favored few at the ex- pense of the great body of the Amer ican people. Exempting cotton mills is intended to enable favored few to get rich at the expense of the great body of taxpayers They amount to about the same thing in principle. Both are one-sided, unjust and un-Demo- cratic, and both ought to be condemned by all who believe in a government of fairness and equal rights for all. Cotton mills in Alabama are assured of jus tice. fair treatment and the protection of the laws. They are not entitled to special favors and should receive none Cotton will be grown, marketed and manufactured in Alabama without leg islative favoritism or indirect bribery.
 Hope The Clipper is answered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
PRESSURE OF GAS.
Natural Fuel Causes Little Interest In
 Huntsville.

Huntsville, March 31.-(Special.)- The new gasser of the New York-Ala- bama oil Company, was successfully capped last night and today test of the pressure was made showing 1t to be 200 pounds to the inch. This is one of the greatest pressures ever found in a gas well.
 The company is moving the drilling machinery from the well to another point nearby and another well will be sunk immediately. The second drill- ing outfit of the company is boring a well mile and a half west of the city and the two outfits will be kept busy in the future.
 There is not much excitement here over the situation as the average clti- zen does not appear to realize what 1t means to have natural gas available in unlimited quantities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
HARLAN ON MASON.
Protest Against Some Latter Day
 Usurpati0ns.

Usurpati0ns.
 Washington Post.
 Mir Justice Harlan's lecture on George Mason, ranking him among Americans as second only to Washing ton is notable not only as profound study in political philosophy and a splendid composition of forensic elo, in the school of Hamilton to the found CT of the school of Jefferson. George Mason had little confidence In ana harbored much jealousy agalnst tHe ne arms to defend in 1861. He was the author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, the grandest political polity the mind Of man ever conceived or the pen or man ever formulated. He was the au- thor, too. of the ten amendments 10 the Federal Constitution. with some assistance from Patriek tts ara mehry, cn,orture for a revival of the principles of Mason than now, when the chiefs of both of our great political parties are agreed N States is nothing but the interpreta- tions me ninau thorfty may place upon it. The great danger of the present IS not so much from monopoly and pr1vl" lege, serious as that peril is, as from government by construction. There Is a feverish and peevish and frenzied idea abroad that. whatever seems ex- to enact and 1t is the duty or the court to uphold. The death struggle between paternalism and lnd1VtduallSm VIII not be postponed much longer
 Judge Harlan's lecture reminds that strict construction Democrats are ind ing things to approve in the adJudiea- tions of John Marshall, that gave such poignant concern to Jefferson and the disciples of Jefferson In that earlier day of the first half of the last century Again, the party that nominated Abra- ham Lincoln in 1869 claimed to have in- herited the most of its principles from Thomas Jefferson. the rebel and the slaveholder, though it was then the party of Hamilton and has since car Tied the ideas of Hamilton to a length at which Hamilton would have stood aghast and against which Hamilton would have raised the standard of re- volt.
 We might also cite that William J, Bryan claiming to he the Democrat par excellence. cannot make an ex- haustive political address without loud appeals to Lincoln and cordial approvals of Roosevelt, though Lincoln was less Democrat than any other President except Roosevelt who Is less of Dem oCrat than Lincoln. Senator Tillman of South Carolina. also is a regular Iincolnite, second only to Colonel Bryan in approving Democratic phil osophies with texts from the first and greatest of Republican Presidents.
 Justice Harlan has done his country a service in pointing the youth of the land to the teachings of the greatest political philosopher the Western Hemisphere has produced. No man can study Mason's works without profit.