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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
D0WNP0uR OF Rain
CHECKING FLAMES
Situation in Western Canada
Still Serious, However.

Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 24--A steady
downpour of rain west Of the Koo.
tenay and Fernie district is checking
the forest fires, although fires are
still burning around Hesmer, Michel,
Fernie, Coal Creek, Morrisey, Jaffray,
Cranbrook, Moyie and Creston. Man
ayers of lumber companies are ex.
pending large sums in employing men
to fight the fire, which is a severe.
task, as at times the wind blows a
gale. The East Kootenay Lumber
company, the Wattsburg Lumber COM
pany and the Otis Staples Lumber
company all suffered heavy losses.
Valuable timber south of Nakusp, on
Arrow lake, and in the vicinity of
Cranbrook has been destroyed. The
chief sufferers ARE the railway and
lumber companies, although numerous
fruit ranchers throughout the valleys
lost residences and property. The
most serious fires occurred in East
Kootenay, the city of Cranbrook hav-
ing been threatened to such an extent
that many people buried their valu-
ables in the yards in anticipation of a
general cenfagration such as overlook
Fernie last year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Limitations of Practice.

In an Iowa town an action for eject
ment was tried "by the court without
a jury" the suit having been brought
by religious society to recover pos
session of a cemetery. The defendant,
a physician in active practice, had
bought the ground for the use of the
society, but when afterward he sew
cred his connection with the organiza-
ton it was discovered that he had TAX
en- the title in his own name and evil
IDENTIFY intended to hold on to it. After
duly weighing the evidence the court
ordered judgment for the plaintiff,
stating briefly the reasons for the de-
cision, whereupon defendants coun-
sci desired to be more fully enlight-
ened in the premises.
''Certainly," said his honor. I'm ad-
dition to what I have already said,
there are but two other reasons. One
is that the church seems to need a
cemetery, and the other Is that the
doctor has failed to show that his prac-
ttce Is sufficiently large to necessitate
his maintaining his own burying
ground"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
A Story of Blackie.

Professor Blackie of Edinburgh, E
martinez in the class room, WIS one dar
hearing class with the individuals
Of which he was not acquainted. Pre-
emily a student rose to read a par
graph, his book held in his right hand.
"Sir," cried the professor in his auto
cratic way, "hold your book in your
left handv'
The student was about to speak, but
the professor stopped him with a
peremptory command:
mo words, sir; your left hand,
say!'
Then the student held up his left
arm, which ended at the wrist.
"Sir," said he, Il haze nae left hand"
Before the professor could speak
there came perfect storm of Kisses
from the class, and when he did speak
the Kisses drowned what he said.
Then he left his place and went down
to the student whose feelings he had
unintentionally hurt, threw his arm
around him and drew him close.
my boy" said the professor, speak
ing softly, yet being heard by every
one in the room, you'll forgive me
that I was overweight. I did not
know! I did not know!'
Then he turned to the students, and,
with a look and a tone that came
straight from the heart he said:
"And let me say to all Of you that l
am glad to be shown that am teach
ing a class Of gentlemen"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
He Gave Them Latin.

Once, before he was president, An
drew Jackson was making a political
speech in some obscure campaign in a
backwoods Tennessee district. His adj
dress was very we'll received, but
somehow there did not seem to be ex-
actly the enthusiasm wanted for the
occasion. Having vainly tried to
"warm up" his hearers, the general
was Just going to sit down when the
chairman of the meeting plucked him
by the coattail. "For the Lords sake,
general, give 'em some Latin!' he hur-
riedly whispered in the speakers ear
'"They won't think you know anything
at all if you quit like this. Smith, the
opposition candidate, talked Latin to
'em half the evening"
Old Hickory rose to the situation.
Advancing to the edge of the platform,
he extended his arm and Numbered
out: 'E pluribus unum! Sic sempe1
tyrannls! Habeas corpus!'
The audience roared with applause
The credit Of the orator was saved
and the Jackson ticket won out in that
cOunty.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Another WAY Out Of 1t,

Nobody had ever had reason to &C.
euse Abel Pond Of being dishonest, but
he was as sharp man in a bargain
as could be found in the county. When
the building committee applied to him
for a site for the new library he was
ready to sell them q desirable lot, but
not at their price.
II couldn't feel to let it go under
$780," he said, with the mild obstinacy
that characterized all his dealings with
his fellow men. 1T wouldn't be right"
'tYou ought to be willing to contrib
ute something for such an object" said
the chairman Of the committee. If
It's worth six hundred, why not let us
have it for five hundred and call it
you've given the other hundredY'
MINING, I couldn't do that" said
Mr.. Pond, stroking his chin, "but tell
you what will do. You give me seven
hundred for it, and I'll make out a
check for hundred and hand it over
to you, SOS you can head the list Of
subscriptions with good round sum
and kind Of wake up folks to their
y."-Youth's Companion.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
A Spoiled Scene.

q. H. Sothern once found his wit fail
him in time Of need. 1t was in the
fourth act of ''The Lady of Lyons"
Sothern played Claude Melnotte, and
Virginia Harmed was cast as Pauline.
Beausant, the villain, was pursuing
Pauline, and she cried loudly for help.
Claude is supposed to dash to her res
cue and catch the fainting Pauline in
his arms. Sothern dashed on to the
stage, but slipped and slid, sitting
down near the footlights. Losing his
presence Of mind, he detained the
line: "Look up, Pauline. There is no
danger" AS Virginia Harmed was
standing, this was, of course, an i'm
possibility. By this time the audience
was In an uproar, and when Arthur
Lawrence, who played Beausant, scorn-
fully said, "You are beneath me-" the
amusement Of the audience knew no
bounds.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
WILL ASK AN INVESTIGATION
Secretary of Federation Of Labor Dis
cusses Mckees Rocks Affair.

Secretary Of Federation Of Labor Dis
cusses Mckees Rocks Affair. !
Washington, Aug, 24.-secretary
Morrison of the American Federation
OF Labor proposes to ask the depart
ment of commerce and labor to in
vestigate the conditions under which
men are working for the Pressed
Steel Car company at McKees Rocks,
Pa. Not one of the men now on
strike, he said, is affiliated with the
Federation of Labor.
"These men, he said, shave been
COMPOUNDED with~the strikers of the
Iron and Steel Workers of America.
There is no relation whatever be-
tween the two.
"By the Introduction of foreign labor
that company has reduced the wages
and conditions Of the men to such an
extent that these aliens, who do not
speak our language, have revolted and
are struggling to obtain living condi
lions. An investigation by the gov
eminent would reveal astonishing
methods on the part Of the company"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
PRESERVING the Balance,

ET0SSTvUuS St0 0otAsSOs
A well known professor Of architec-
ture, commonly referred to as 'Ham-
N.Y. by his pupils, told a story Illus
trative of the remarkable degree to
which certain persons possess the sense
of symmetry.
It seems that there was once a
Scotch gardener who had charge Of a
good sized English estate and under
whose direction the formal garden at
the rear had been laid out with abso-
lutte symmetry, even the two summer
houses, one on each side Of the garden,
being Identical in even the most minute
detail. On one occasion the English
man became angry at his son and
locked him up in one of the summer
houses. AS soon as the Scotch garden
er heard of this his sense Of symmetry
was so outraged that he Immediately
sent for his own son and locked him
up in the other summer house to pre-
serve the balance. "Hammy" neglect.
ed to mention whether both boys were
dressed exactly alike, but it Is to be
presumed that even this detail was at
tended to by the aesthetic Scotchman.
New York Times.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF new TARIFF BILL
Standard Oil TO Cut Price Of
Crude Product.

Washington, Aug. 24-The interior
department, which guards the inter-
ests of the Indians, does not intend to
permit the Standard Oil company to,
reduce the price which the Indian oil
producers in Oklahoma have been re-
ceiving for their crude petroleum if
Acting Secretary Pierce can devise
any plan to require the oil company
to pay the Al cents barrel which the
Indians have been getting. It is al
legged that the Standard Oil company
is contemplating reduction of the
price to IS cents a barrel and the
charge is also made that in reducing
the price which it pays for the crude
oil advantage is being taken of the
new Payne tariff law.
Several conferences have been held
by Mr.. Pierce and Commissioner of
Indian Affairs Valentine to consider
the proposed action of the oil COM
7pany and devise plan for the protec-
ton Of the Indians. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24

the ground a violent gust Of wind
tore the balloon from the grasp of
the forty men who were holding it. It
was thrown against some trees and
telegraph poles nearby, ripping the
gas bag to pieces. The ship then fell
into the River Seine. The four occu-
pants had stuck to the car during
these happenings. Upon landing in
the river they left the shattered ship
and swan for the shore. They were
picked up by small boats.
BY the terms of the contract with
the Russian government this balloon
was to have maintained an altitude of
$500 to $500 feet for one hour. Colo
mel Nasch described his experience as
follows: T.. e. ~
= We made a wonderful ascension,
attaining to height of 4,5O0 feet.
This beats the worlds, height record
for dirigible balloons. We remained
aloft for over an hour, never coming
below 5000 feet" .,..a
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Little One Laid to Rest.

The body of the little baby
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Peckel, aged months and 20 days,
was laid to rest in Greenwood
cemetery this afternoon, at the con.
clusion of funeral services, which
were held at St. Philips Catholic
church, and over which Rev, Father
Schmitt presided.
There was a number of friends of
the bereaved family present at the
funeral and genuine sympathy was
extended Mr.. and Mrs. Peckel in
their great loss.
Sometime, the little flower which
we welcome as the dewdrop, droops
and dies, but its delicate face has
inspired US to hope, and perfumed
our life with thoughts of purity. It
was even so with our baby''-the
tiny blossom of humanity that came
four months ago to the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Peckel.
The sunshine of love could not
warm her life nor the affection of
parenthood beguile her from dropping.
Her breath went out like the exhila-
ton of sweetly fragrant minion of
the woodland and in her stead was
left only holy and beautiful memory
"a memory that will last and sane
THY as long as parental existence.
The small body was laid to rest in
Greenwood by hands that had tried
to make her young life happy. May
Gods purest angels guard her
slumbers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Queer Weddinq Effiqy.

There is a curious custom still prev
alent In the Bellary district Of India
in connection with the wedding cere-
monies among certain Brahman fam
lilies. Just prior to the close of the
feastlng a hideous efgy Of male
figure, Enthusiastically robed in rags, sup
posetl to represent the bridegroom's "a
Their, is carried along the streets In
procession under the shade of sieve
adorned with tassels Of onions and
margosa leaves. Every few yards dur
ing the procession the feet Of the efigy
have 70 be reverently washed and It's
forehead decorated with a caste mark
by it's living spouse, the bridegroom's
mother. The bridegroom's other fe-
male relations have several mock at
tention:; paid to them by the women
Of the BRIDES party.-St. James Ga
Zette ..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Art Comes Hiuh,

"A New York lady," said a Partisan,
''once ventured to demonstrate with
Paquin because he had charged her
$500 for ball dress.
""The material,' she said, could be
bought for 500, and surely the work
would be we'll paid with $50 more
'Madame,' said Paquin, with his
grandest air, go to your American
painter, Sargent, In his little lite
street studio and say to him: 'Here
is yard of canvas, value so cents, and
here are colors, value 81. Paint me a
picture with these colors on this can
vas, and will pay you $1.75." What
will the painter say? He will say,
MADAME, those are no terms for
an artist" l say more. I say, If
you think my terms too high, pay me
nothing and keep the robe. Art does
not descend to the littleness of bag
Cling"
We Work Too Hard.
Lady Headfort during her American
tour said In New York that she ap-
proved of International marriages.
"They correct u.s." she explained
"Our Englishmen work too little, your
American men work too much, and
the International marriage tends to
bring about happy mean. Your men
do work too much, you know" said
Lady Headfort IT have an English
friend who attended the funeral of
one of your hardest workers, a multi
millionaire. My friends wife said
rather bitterly to linn at the funeral:
"'How you have missed your oppor-
tunities, my love! Place yourself be-
side Mr.. Ritch there. You are both of
the same age. You both began life to-
gether. Yet you are poor man, while
he died multimillionaire.'
ayes said the English husband.
There Ritch lies, dead of nervous pros
tration, without one single penny in
his pocket, and here I stand, hale and
hearty, with wallet in my coat con-
tanning quite hundred dollars"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
His Cough Cure.

|'In my boyhood there came to our
town." said clergyman, "a gentle min
lister who, the very first Sunday Of his
incumbency, stopped effectually his
coughing congregation.
1T was a congregation, too, Singh
larly addicted to coughing. Rattllng
volleys Of coughs ran over it every few
minutes. The minister, indeed, that
first Sunday could hardly make himself
heard. He had rather weak voice. q
"Well, after his sermon had proceed
ed for ten or twelve minutes, now au-
dible enough, now drowned under great
waves of coughs, he took a resolution.
and when the next outbreak was at its
height he ceased preaching.
AT once the coughing ceased. There
was a profound silence. The minister
smiled.
":tMy friends said he, it seems that
when stop you STOP
:'From that day in that church they
coughed no more" g.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
HEAVY DECLINE
IN CASH wheat Il:
Price at Minneapolis Drops
a.: Twenty-Five Cents.
DUE, TO LARGE RECEIPTS

Large Movement in the Local Market
Results in Fall Of Ten Cents on
Opening Quotations and This Is Fol-
lowed by a Further Drop of Fifteen
Cents-New No. Northern Now
Selling at $1.O5.
Minneapolis, Aug. 24.-Old No. 1
Northern wheat broke Is cents from
the opening price, dropping from $1.25
to $1.10. Opening figures were 10
cents under TIE previous days quota
lions of $1.35, making total decline
of y cents. This was due to the heavy
movement into the local market. De-
mand was good at the lower prices.
Early in the day old No. / Northern
sold as high as $1.25, but after the
first hour $1.10 was the general price.
Most offerings were new spring
wheat. New No. 1 Northern sold
mostly at $1.05.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Extreme Cruelty CHARGED,

New York. Aug. 24.-In a scathing
report issued at Albany, in which
charges of extreme cruelty to inmates
are made and the management Of the
house of refuge on Randalls island is
sharply criticised, a special committee
of the state board of charities I'M
yelled shocking phases of life in the
Fourth" or disciplinary division Of
that institution. 80:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
PAUPER INHERITS 100000
Promptly Offers to Pay County for
Care in the Past

Promptly Offers to Pay County for
Care in the Past
Bloomington, ILL.,, Aug. 24.-Through
the death of Oliver Newhouse of In
dianapolis Albert Newhouse, inmate
of the poor farm of this county, be-
comes heir to the formers fortune of
$200,000 The legatee is thirty years
old and has. been sick, penniless and
friendless for some time. He had
been employed at local hotel as
porter for several years, but he suf-
fered severe attack of rheumatism
six months ago and was compelled to
go to the poor farm.
Newhonse received the information
regarding his fortune without any dis
play Of emotion. He Immediately Of
fered to pay the county for the ex-
pense of his care, although he did not
possess enough money to buy a
postage stamp. Albert Newhouse has
a brother, but they have been enemies
for years.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
AWAITING COURT DECISION
Kidnapped Child Held in Police Sta
ton at Kansas City.

ton at Kansas City.
Kansas City, Aug. 24.-After a night
of weeping because Mrs. J. J. Bleakley
of Topeka, Kan, from whose home
she was kidnapped Saturday, was not
permitted to remain with her, little
Marian Bleakley, the incubator baby,
declared to newspaper reporters that
she wanted to "go home with
mamma"
''This is a bad place." she said, and,
stretching out her arms imploringly
to Mrs. Bleakley, who visited the po-
lice station, asked: when will we
go home, mamma? want to go
home"
Mrs. Bleakley, while demurring at
the pending court proceedings, de-
clared that she was confident of re-
tanning possession of the child. 81
am baby's mother" she said, land no
honest Judge will take her from me. "
Mrs. James G.. Barclay of Buffalo,
N. Y, who, in company with J. N.
Gentry of Kansas City, is being held
on charge of kidnapping, would not
talk. She is ill in the police matron's
room.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
MAY FREE INNOCENT MAN

Minnesota Convict Confesses to Hold
up Six Years Ago.
Rochester, Mimi, Aug. 24.-Frank
Farr, who is serving a life sentence
in the Washington state penitentiary
at Walla Walla, may secure his free
dom through the instrumentality of
James Desmond, recently a convict at
Saltwater, but now an inmate of the
Rochester state hospital for the in
sane.
Farr was arrested for holding up
the meat market of Miller Bros. in
Spokane in 1903 and he was convicted.
Six years have passed and now Des-
mond, an insane patient here, absolves
Farr of all completely in the crime.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
DROWNED in THE ST. CR0Ix
Three Young People Perish by Cap
sizing of Boat.

Saltwater, Mimi, Aug. 24.-Miss
Hilda Peterson, aged twenty years,
daughter of Louis Peterson of Lake.
land; Miss Sigria Peterson, her cousin
daughter of Michael Peterson of Moose
Lake, who was visiting her, and Louis
Wendell, aged eighteen years, only
son of a widow of Lakeland, were
drowned in the st. Croix river at
Lakeland.
Harry Staberg, young man with
them, was rescued, clinging to skiff.
The four in skiff and another
group of voting people in another boat
had been at Hudson, Wis They start
ed home about the time a hard wind
and rain storm came up. The St. Croix
is wide at that point and the waves
were running high and swamped the
Skiff,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
CUT IN EXPENSES OF ARMY
Taft Orders Ten Per Cent Reduction
of Enlisted Force,

Washington, Aug. 24.-President
Taft's order for a 10 per cent reduc-
ton in the enlisted strength of the
army is said to be part of the general
plan of the administration to econo-
mize.
The army cut is expected to save
Uncle Sam about $6,000,000. The re-
duction of the force to $4,000 is not
expected to impair it's efficiency in the
least. There will be no recruiting for
the next eight months. The natural
decrease of the enlisted force between
now and July, 1910, will be about
10000 -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
LEGAL Fiction.

Says Sir Henry Maine in his can
cient Law "A legal fiction is the as
sumption which conceals or affects to
conceal the fact that rule of law has
undergone alteration, its letter remain
ing unchanged while its operation has
been modified. The fact is that the
law has been changed; the fiction Is
that it remains what 1t always was"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
Secured Many Notes and Bonds.

Jackson, Mich, Aug. 24.-The safe
in the hardware store of Godfrey &
Vervalin, in the village of Para, ten
miles west Of this city, was wrecked
by burglars. Farmers notes for 49,
500 were secured, also stocks and
bonds to the value of several thou
sand dollars.
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frenzied Financierina.

Columbus Washington Johnson Smith
Watts de price er dem watermelons,
Mr.. Jackson?
Mr.. Jackson (cunningly)-Ten cents
erpiece and picks 'em; 20 cents err
piece and you picks 'em, Mr.. Smif.
Mr.. Smith-All right, Mr.. Jackson. ]
guesses I'll take 'em all. and you picks
'em, ef you please PUCK.
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HORSE RACE FATAL TO ONE
Ten-Year-oId Girl May Also succumb
to Injuries.

st. Cloud, Mimi, Aug. 24.-As the
result of friendly horse race between
Ferdinand Kieke and August .Benoit,
who live on farms near St. Augusta,
three miles south of this city, Mrs
Kieke was instantly killed, her ten
year-old daughter was probably fatally
injured and Catherine Ruhman of st.
Cloud will lose the sight of one eye.
They were returning from church and
Kieke tried to pass Benoit. The road
is narrow and steep at that point and
as they were going at breakneck speed
Kieke's buggy skidded off of the road
and hit telephone pole. Mrs. Kieke
was on that side of the rig.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24

Excursions leave. Duluth on Night
Express Sept. 18th, 18th, 10Th, 22nd.
Rate to Toledo $3.50, Cleveland
$3.50, Buffalo $14.00.
Apply early for reservation to -
A. ]. Perrin,
General Agent,
F.: Duluth, MINI.
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Wanted Sometime Quicker.

Some few years ago issued pol
icy on the life of man who was far
from being a model husband. I called
for the premium every week and rare
ly got it without grumble from the
wife. The last time called she said:
II amt going to pay you any more.
There's Mrs. Smith only had her old
man in MS society three months, and
he's dead, and she's got the money.
I'm going to put my old man in that,
so you needn't call again."-Liverpoo1
Mercury.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
1909 Diaries.

The Pioneer still has a few 1909
diariesleft which will be closed out at
half price. The assortment includes
some of the best aswell as the cheap
er books.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-24
EstraYed

Livery bay pony, weight 700,
white strip in face. Seen last west
of Marsh Siding. $40 reward for
capture. Write R. E. Smyth, Nebish,
MINI.