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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-11

germs in $10-bills. They never keep
the money long enough to become
inoculated
4 4 =
A Chicago young woman who was
engaged to young man of the name
of Carr. ran away with streetcar
conductor. In other words, she
changed cars.
1t does the liver good these days
just to smell those wild-apple bios
SONS and sniff the perfume of the
lilacs. When a bee chased me this
morning for smelling of him by mis-
take, my liver was materially i'm
proved.
At five o'clock this morning |
counted four mudturtles on my lawn
and Rags" the cat, was having the
time of his life. No, was NOT just
coming home to retire! | often get up
early like that, to knead the bread!
Sometimes when l arise at that hour
| need eggs and toast and coffee, too.
But do you suppose those blamed mud
turtles came up to challenge me to a
footrace?
0-9-0
No Use.
He tried for years to find a cure
For badness on his shiny pate.
AT last he got a magic paste
That did the business sure as fate.
That day visitor came on.
He threw the magic paste away.
mo hair for me-" he moaned in tears.
My moth'r'n-law has come to stay"
600
Dangerous.
An Iowa editor recently printed in
his paper that If the rain didn't stop
before long, everything in the ground
would be peeping out. An old sub
scriber, reading the prognostication,
went out in the back yard and dumped
another load of rock ON the grave of
the family cat.
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Rag Time.

Most people don't worry about the
germs in $10-bills. They never keep
the money long enough to become
inoculated.
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What's the matter Cd
with Id A n 0 !

Thousands OF acres Of land have
been reclaimed TO cultivation by
irrigation In that State during
the past 10 years, Thousands
more will bs reclaimed within
the next 10 years. This means
an opening for many thousands
Of homes.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-11

A Chicago young woman who was
engaged to young man of the name
of Carr, ran away with a streetcar
conductor. In other words, she
chanppd ,sars
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-11

This is Frank Chances tenth ve.r
IN the game, all with the Chicago
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-11

speaking of tramps. there are MANY
'andlopers wandering about this
spring oIs' Ihey come to my back door
almost every day, take a look at INV
bulldog, back off a bit and ask re
specuully for a piece of bread ana
, pu.ler when' at the outset, they had
intended to demand pie. And we al.
S @"ys ieeo them My wife and have
inquired 1t out that it is better to feed
uozen worthless, lazy itinerants
man 10 miss one worthy man who
loaded! INC ouii'uog
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
An Effect in Europe.

That the hierarchy is greatly encouraged by the
attitude of the Senate and Administration of the
United States in their endorsement of the poly
gamous relation is told by Hans P. Freeze, convert
from the Mormon church, who is speaking against
his former beliefs in the cities of the East. Mr.
Freeze says:
When the Senate gave Senator Reed Smoot a
right to his seat in the Senate the Mormon church
took on more aggressive spirit of PROSECUTING.
Prior to this action by the Senate, Germany and
Hungary had excluded Mormon missionaries, and
Denmark, Norway Sweden and some other Euro
pean states the of taking similar action
But when the United States Senate gave its sanction
and support to the Mormon system in protecting
missed their intentions and took it for granted that
all this talk of polygamy and dsloyalty against the
Mormons bare fiction.
AS a result the Mormon elders are given free rein
in the various foreign states as we'll as in
country, and many missionaries have been sent
out.
The most productive missionary field in which
the Mormon proseytes labor is that which would
have been closed them but for the support given
to the poygamous by the Senate and the
Administration of the United States They operate
most successfully among the very poor and the very
ignorant, to whom the double incentive of home
on earth and home in the hereafter is a drawing
card.
The course taken by the Senate operated
official recommendation of an organization that the
people of the United States not very proud Of
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
The TwO=Thirds Rule.

A revival of the discussion of the abrogaton of
the twothirds rule that has been honored by Demo-
cratic conventions since the year 1882 is usual at
this stage of the four-year political period and the
customary reports now having their
The faction that parades itself under the name of
the stalwart Democrats has opened the subject and
seems disposed to pursue it in the interest of that
faction, for it have hope of success if it is
compelled to secure two-thirds of the votes of the
convention that is to be held at Denver
1t is said that a resolution has been prepared for
the consideration of the convention in which it is
proposed to abolish the tme-honored two-third re-
qurement and substitute a rule that will give the
nomination to majority candidate. If so, the
luton ought to receive careful consideration.
The custom is but an unexplained tradition that
has brought any effect of value to the party
1t has not given success at the polls changed
terially the prospects of candidates.
The Republican party has always been guided by
the rule of the majority and under that rule it
has had nothing to complain of in its encounters
with the other party. There is something worthy
of thought in the renewed suggestion that the two
thirds rule be eliminated from Democratic practice
even though it comes from the schemng minority
that seeks to return the party to its old moOrngs
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
Not a Democrat.

The Capital News which has not supported a
Democratic ticket for eight years. offers the Demo-
cracy OF the State platform of its own making
and IN the same issue protests against bossism. 1t
must be huge joke the paper is trying to perpe-
trate the Democrats
This from the Couer dAlene Press is significant
But in the community where the Capital News is
published it is not taken seriously.
1t is only masquerading as a Democratic paper
1t has supported the Republican party for the last
two campaigns and the reading public regards it
as under such obligations now to the Brady-Mor-
mon combine that it could do no less than defend
either, no matter what or both might do
In the last campaign, it not only refused to print
the initial address of the state chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee as a news item, but
refused it space at its regular advertising rates.
The machine is a powerful agency when it gets
under motion 1t seeks to deprive the public of
knowledge of events unless colored to fit is own YER
sion.
Such the deplorable conditions surrounding a
State which is under ring rule. But the people do
not long submit to such an order of things They
will smash this machine they have always smashed
them when their work became too coarse.
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tate the of Congress and, while the mem
bers of that body disposed to resent his inter-
ference, they not far out of the way in their
conviction that the constituency is disposed to side
with the executive, right or wrong
Thus the Republican party is seriously divided at
a time when unity is needed more than ever it was
and the longer Congress remains in session the
more pronounced becomes the differences.
If Mr.. Roosevelt going to remain in the
executive chair, it would be for the good of the
country to give him a Congress in accord with his
purposes, but if the Republican party counts on the
election of Mr.. Taft, any kind of a Congress will
do.
The situation is really an embarrassing one from
the Republican side of the question and a desire
to escape from the storm center is the prevailing
one
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
ROOseveIt's Warming.

To the Utah Legislature, the President of
the United States said:
I am deeply interested in the future of Utah,
in its material upbuilding, as we'll as the fu-
ture and best interests of the Republican party.
The election to the United States Senate
of an apostle would work great harm to the
State. 1t would be very unwise.
1t would certainly lead to contentious, strife,
and bitterness here, if not in Utah, and would
unquestionab1y be a misfortune to those who
are interested in all that goes to make the
State of Utah prosperous and great.
I have every confidence in the wisdom of
the majority of the members of the State Leg
is1ature, and I feel sure if they understand the
gravity of the situation it appears to me,
and as have heard it expressed by members
of the Senate, they will refrain from any
ton which will not result in good for the flu
ture of Utah and her people.
I desire you to place me on record as kindly
but firmly advising against the election of any
apostle to a United States Senatorship.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
Anxious to Go Home.

While there is general desire on the part of
members of Congress to shake off the cares of Of
fetal position and go home and find out what their
constituents are thinking about, it is not ex-
pected that adjournment will be effected before the
middle of next month
There is said to be serious concern over the po-
litical outlook, the continuous disagreements be-
tween the executive and legislative branches of gov
eminent having an effect the country that is not
understood within the limits of the capitol Mr.
Roosevelt abates not at all in his intention to die
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

around the democratic party with its clean cut and
wholesome declaration the most vital issue before
the people.
Whatever pretense may be made by members of
that party the vote of the Mormon church cannot
be gained by the Democratic party and the only
course for that party to take is to unite soldly
against the deceptive saints The south might then
be rebuked and punished for its attempt to mono
police the official positions for the advancement of
the churchly allies of Republcanism.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
The North in Protest.

1t may not prove of much Importance, but the
lewiston Tribune is protesting against the intention
of the Republicans of the Latter Day Saints coun-
ties of Idaho to take the lone Congressman away
from the north and give him to the south
The Tribune is a sort of brevet Republican news
paper, being a strong advocate of the right of the
bigamists of the State to live their religion and its
attitude ought to give it influence with the only po-
litica1 organization in the State that stands firmly
against persecution for conscences sake, the inter
probation being that of the machine.
The Tribune is disposed to censure Mr.. Brady
on account of his southern representation declara
ton through his official organ 1t believes that Mr.
Brady will be made to suffer, saying
There is great deal of Republican dissatisfaction
over the prospective nomination of Mr.. Brady for
Governor. Some very bitter and accusatory things
are being said of him by his part1sans The
Tribune hopes the charges untrue. Regardless
of that, Mr. Brady out of his mouth utters SEN
tments entirely out of keeping with candidate
for the high place in the State to which he aspires.
We very much fear that governorsh1p won under
circumstances which Mr. Brady indicates determ-
lining the right of men to hold office at the hands
of the Republican party, would be governorsh1p
of such sinister omen as to carry with 1t little OF
honorable distinction to the holder or of whole
some import to the State
When man becomes so strong through his
power to dictate the terms of the machine he con-
trolls he is not likely to suffer from fright at the
time when he is engaged in the apportionment of
the offices among the several localities of the
monwea1th he controls. The Mormon plan will be
carried out whatever it is, and if it contemplates
the shearing of the north the north will be shorn
The Lewiston paper is welded to the dogma that
the poygamous sect is entitled to the political
rights as are accorded to the lawabiding gentes of
the State Those rights are recognized only within
the Republican party, which enjoys monopoly of
the Mormon vote and will continue to enjoy it, be-
cause the church orders.
The only way to defeat the Mormon vote is for
the enemies of po1ygamy to .nite against it, rally
ing the anti-polygamistc sentiment of the State
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Politics in the East.

Through manipulation violence and perhaps some
instances of betrayal the political scenes have shifted
in the Far East within the past two weeks.
The New York delegation was rather violently
taken away from Mr.. Bryan, though if there is any
final surrender it may be transferred the national
convention.
By the Republicans of New York, Mr. Hughes
pushed to one side and if the State declared
itself for anything it for the field with an in
determinate candidate
Massachusetts has also manifested lukewarmness
toward the popular idols of the Republican party.
In fact the radicals of the party have not been
strongly recognized in the well-worn political pas
lures of the Far East
Under the developing conditions there is dis
position among Republicans to turn again to Roose-
welt and it has been intimated that he contem-
plates making third denial of his candidacy
This need be hardly necessary. If the reaction
aries muster enough strength to defeat in the
ton the policies he is trying to hand down to Mr.
Taft, they will have numbers enough to keep the
convention from turning to Roosevelt.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25

1t is announced the determination of the opera
tors of the Western Union and Postal corporations
to institute another strike the 1st of June 1t
will be strike against the reduction in wages that
followed the settlement of the last strike. The pros
pect is good for another paralysis in business.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-10
CUT.OVER BELTRAM COUNTY CLEARING.
This Kind Will Produce the Finest Clover Potatoes Crops

adapted for dairy products and
root crops. I contend that a given
tract of land in northern Minnesota
will pasture nearly double the amount
of cattle or any other live stock
that will be the same area in the
more highly developed sections of
the Mississippi valley.
We have upwards of 100000
acres of land in this region known
as swamp lands,' all of which
can be easily drained; and as a
large part of them are now de-
nuded of timber, when drained, can
be Immediately turned into farms.
This state is doing magnificent
work in this direction, which is
aiding in a large measure the SETTLE
ment of this district of Minnesota.
The cheapness of the land, the pro-
ductiveness of its soil, the timber
thereon which can be used for
fuel and building material by the
incoming settlers, makes this most
desirable location for man of
limited means to build a profitable
farm home.
No better opinion can be formed
of the capabilities of Minnesota to
produce agriculturally than by a
short review of what she has accom-
plished. In 1853 the entire farm
products of the state amounted to
less than 100000, while in 1907
the combined products of the farms
amounted to $265,OOO,0OO, notwith.
standing the small per cent of land
under cultivation.
From the foregoing it will readily
be seen that there are two PROPOSE.
tons confronting the Minnesota PEG.
pie to bring her agricultural products
to where they should be; first, more
people to till the soil; second, a
more scientific method in til]age b,
specializing products."
In giving brief examples of won
derful showings made in north
eastern Minnesota, Mr.. WEIGH says
&C. C. Hartley of Duluth opened
up farm in the swamps of western
St. Louis county, and after drainin;
land which was not valued to exceet
( 81 per acre, the following year pro
duced on tract of 10 acres, $1O,OOt
worth of celery.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-10
SUPERIOR NORMAL WILL
PLAY HERE THIS week
Wisconsin Basketball Team Comes
Here With EnyiabIe Reputation as
Being Extremely Fast.

Ellis N. Calef, manager of the
Superior Normal football team, has
written to manager Hebron as fol-
lows concerning the last Normal
team which will play two games
with the Big Bemidji" team in this
city Friday and Saturday evenings
of this week:
Dear Sir-Replying to your favor
of Nov. 10: We are pleased to
hear that you have arranged for two
games December 11-12). This
should make it more satisfac tory all
around. Under this arrangement
you will, no doubt, repeat your
original offer of allowing us eight
men instead of six that we were to
take when only one game was con-
sldered.
Relative to our last years record
will say: Whitewater Normal White
water, Wis, defeated all the Normal
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school teams in the state south of
Oshkosh last year, but were de-
feated twice by Superior, both times
by a decisive score. This gave
Superior a clear title to the Normal
championship of the state.
The Blaine High School team of
this city won the high school cham
pionship of the state at the annual
tournament at, Appleton, Wis. We
played two games with this team.
In their gym. we were defeated, but
in our gym. they were 'skun.' Super
ior Normal was the only team that
succeeded in turning the trick on
them last season. -.
I'VE defeated Duluth Y. M. C. A.:
Ashland, Wis. Y. M. c. A; Nelson
Dewey (Superiorj high school and
Alumni; Ashland Y. M. C. A. defeat
ing us in their gym, which was
much smaller than ours and early in
the season.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-10
Speaks Well of Bemidji Nursery.

Superintendent A. ]. MCGUIRE, of
the Northeast State Experimental
Farm at Grand Rapids, paid high
compliment to Bemidji yesterday
afternoon when speaking of the
nursery farm near this city which is
owned by The Itasca Park Region
Nursery company. Mr.. Mcclure
said, in part:
II consider this section of
Northern Minnesota very fortunate
indeed in having a nursery in this
part of the state. What Northern
Minnesota needs in the way of
orchards is stock which has become
accustomed to this climate. Mr..
Anderson has a nice little nursery
and if he succeeds in raising an
apple tree which is acclimated to
Northern Minnesota, he will be
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-10

scheme to establish big college of
advanced education for teachers
in connection with the state univer-
sity.
The meeting which was semi
executive in character and rather
informal, was held in Minneapolis,
between most of the regents of the
university, and a delegation of
normal and high school presidents,
and other educators. The visitors
were attempting to line up the
regents for a request of $150,00O
from the. coming legislature for a
building for the college for
Educators'-so that this department
of the university might at once
spring into prominence. and have
accommodations which would CON-
pare favorably with the select
quarters of the medical and the
mining colleges.
The various members of the
visiting delegation, including Asst.
Supt. of Public Instruction C. G..
Schulz, had their say, and then
Former Governor Lind threw his
bomb. ~
Governor Lind told them he
favored extension, if necessary, of
the normal school accommodations;
that the normals are doing a great
work in creating an army of new
and we'll equipped teachers; that
the university is big enough; that
if the regents asked for $15O,00O
from the legislatures for the pro-
posed new building, the country
would at once say the cities -espec-
tally Minneapolis-were trying to
hog" it, and to take away the pres
I tige of the normals scattered through
out the state in the small towns. He
enlarged on these points, and showed
very plainly where he stood. There
was little more said when Governor
Lind finished. Governor Lind prac-
tically killed the scheme for the new
college building, and there seems
little chance that a request will be
made for the structure"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-10
THE STATE SHOULD AID in
GIVING CHEAP DYNAMITE
Charles S. Carter of Hines Believes State Could Furnish
the Explosive at Rates Which Would Be Within
Reach of Settlers 49,

Charles S. Carter of Hines (abou t
twenty miles north OF Bemidji) has
put forth the plan of asking the
legislature to furnish dynamite to
northern farmers at cost, Mr.. Carter
believing that the problem of clear
ing cut.over lands is as important
as drainage, good roads, etc.
In a communication which he asks
to have published, Mr.. Carter says.
Hines, Mimi, Dec. 9.-The
writer attended the meeting of the
state agriculturist experts which
was held at Blackjack on the 5th
inst, and noted with much gratifca-
ton the ever-increaslng interest
that is being manifested by the set
tiers, the business men and other
residents of the community, in
these meetings.
AS surely as great improvements
have been made in railroad systems,
in manufacturing enterprises and
other industries by close study Of
economies, of improvement and
unity of purpose, just so will the
future of northern Minnesota resi-
dents be made prosperous and happy
by attending the lectures and prac-
teal demonstrations of the men
sent out by the state for our special
benefit.
After hearing the practical expert
ence of Mr.. McClernan as he
explained by drawings, etc. it is
plain to see that we have pursued a
more or less expensive method of
clearing stump land; and we should
profit by his experiences and our
own.
1t has been clearly shown, and
most all residents of timber coun-
try will agree, that the cheapest and
best method of clearing stump land
is by the use of dynamite. And
right here I wish to say that the
sole object of the writer in asking
that this article be published is for
the express purpose of awakening
our representatives to the fact that
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George WEIGH, director of the
state immigration bureau, has pre-
pared an address for the Academy
of Social Science of the Minnesota
university, which says great things
for the natural resources and future
of northern Minnesota.
Mr.. WEIGH tells of the oppor-
tunities awaiting acceptance at a
merely nominal price, in a most con-
vincing way.
mo greater field for agricultural
development is to be found" says
MIR. We1ch, than is offered by this
state. Minnesota has, approx
mately, 100000 acres of land, 90
per cent of wiiaalr;l is capable of agri-
cultural production. Of this, not
to exceed 100000 acres has ever
been plowed."
Relative to north-central Mime
sofa, he says.
THE northern section of our state
is but little known to the people of
Minnesota, and not at all to the
inhabitants of other states. This
region was originally covered with a
dense forest, the popular opinion
being that it was all pine, but I am
informed by our state engineer that
not to exceed 20 per cent of north
ern Minnesota ever had pine on it.
Il mention this because it is a
popular impression that pine grows
only upon sandy soil-which is
erroneous in the extreme. Pine
timber may be. found on soil so
sandy that it is valueless except for
reforestation, and it may be found
on the heaviest of clay soil. Tests
have been made in this district in
the production of all kinds of pro-
ducts, and it is today the universal
opinion of those who know that
there is no section in America that
equals this northern part of Mime
sofa for production of root crops
and tame grasses.
Nor do I wish to be understood
that this section has failed to pro-
duce cerea! crops, for such is not
true; but the place to produce any
given commodity is where it can be
produced the best and the cheapest
and for that reason I state that this
region of Minnesota is particularly