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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
ST,..PAUL BANKER IS
SENT TO WoRKHoUSE
Given Thirty Days for Reckless
il >AutomobI|ing,

st. Paul; Aug. 19.-Frank w. Water
man, president of the Ramsey County
State bank, was sentenced to the
workhouse for thirty days, without
the option of fine, by Judge John W.
Finehout in police court, for automo.
bile speeding. Judge Finehout scored
the banker, in scathing language be-:
fore @ronouncing the sentence.
Mr.. Waterman, with four men COM
panions, was driving along University
avenue when he collided with vehi.
Gle occupied by Percy Hagen and a
woman. The automobile wrecked the
vehicle, throwing the occupants to the
street. Mr.. Waterman sped on, leav-
ing the: injured persons dazed in the
wreckagef of the buggy. The Rondo
police were notified of the accident
and mounted officers captured the
speeding machine.
Mr. Waterman appeared in court
without an attorney and was almost
breathless when Judge Finehout pro-
nounced sentence. ~..
Il have worked fourteen years to at.
tain my position as president of the
bank said Mr.. Waterman, land if
have to serve this sentence my labors
will have. all been in vain. L shall
have to call meeting of the directors
and resign"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
WHY DO MEN ADVERTISE.

The man who conducts his bust.
ness on the theory that it doesn't
pay and he can't afford to advertise
sets up his judgement in opposi-
ton to that of all business men in
the world. Says an experienced
advertising authority: with few
years. experience in conducting a
small business on few thousands
of capitals, he assumes to know
more than thousands whose hourly
transactions aggregate more than
his do in year, aud who have
made their millions by pursuing a
course that he says doesn't pay" /
If advertising doesn't pay, why is
it that the most successful mer-
chants of every town, large or small,
are the heaviest advertisers? If ad-
vertising doesn't pay, who does the
most business? If it does not pay,
business firms in the world spend
millions in that way. Is it because
they want to donate those millions
to the newspapers and magazine
publishers, or because they don't
know as much about business as the
six-for-a-dollar merchant who says
money spent in advertising is thrown
away or donated to the man to whom
it is paid? Such talk is simply
ridiculous, and it requires more than
the average patience to discuss the
proposition of whether or not adver-
tising pays with that kind of a man.
His complacent selfconceit in assum-
ing that he knows more than the
whole world is laughable, and re-
minds US of the man who proved
that the world doesn't revolve by
placing pumpkin on a stump and
watching it all night.-Erskine Echo.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
HOW THE ELKS CAME INTO BEING.

Just after the Civil War there was
in New York certain crowd of
young men, for the most part con-
nected in one way or another with
the dramatic profession, who met
in a room every Sunday night and
called themselves the Jolly Corks.
One gathers from the existing
data regarding this group that
performers in the variety theaters
of that day predominated in its
membership. In a pamphlet issued
over the name of one of the charter
members of the Elks, the late
George w. Thompson, the origin of
the order is described. Having at
tended meeting of the Jolly Corks
at the invitation of one of the
regular attendants, he writes:
Il remember we passed a very
enjoyable evening and dispersed
with an agreement to meet on the
following Sunday. Brothers Riggs
and Mcdonald left with me and
the latter said: This thing is better
than a mere jolly crowd and will
one day amount to something." -
From The story of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks" in the
August Metropolitan Magazine.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20

Harold Dane, who has been city
editor of the Pioneer since the first
of last June, has severed his con
netion with the paper as an edito,
and will return to the University in
September for his senior year in
the academic department. F. A.
Wilson, of the St. Paul Dispatch,
will take Mr.. Danes position and
will assume his duties Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Dane will stay with
Mr.. Wilson three or four days while
he is getting acquainted with Be-
midi business men.
Mr.. Wilson is a man who has
been in the newspaper business fo,
several years and has been con.
nected with many of the large dali.
les in this part of the country. Mr..
Dane will act as special Twin City
correspondent for the Pioneer this
winter.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
CITY oF..BEM1DJI

County Seat.
+ Population-ln 1900, 1900; in 1910,
1000.
Summer Resort-Hundreds of outsiders
make their summer homes on Lake Be-
midi. Fishing, boating and bathing ac-
commodations are second to none in the
United States.
Area-Ten square miles Incorporated.
Altitude-14OO feet above sea level.
Water Power-22OO developed horse
power, Mississippi river.
Water-Absolutely pure. Two artesian
wells.
Water Mains-About seven. miles.
Boating-5O0 miles by lake and river.
Death Rate-5.4 thousand in 1908.
Annual Rainfall-33.7 inches.
Temperature-20 above, winter; rs
summer, mean.
Sewer Mains-About three miles.
, Cement STEWARDSHIP and a half
miles.
Lakeshore Drives-Ten miles.
Parks-Tw0.
Water Frontaee--Ten miles, two lakes
and Mississippi river.
A Home Town-16OO residences.
Taxpayers-12OO.
Churches-8.
School Houses-Three.
Bank Deposits-$75O,OO0.
Manufactures-Hardwo handles, lum-
ber, lath, shingles, and various other
industries.
Great Distributing Point-Lumber prod
ucts, groceries: flour, feed and hay.
Postal Receipts-$17, 900 for 1909, 10th
place in state outside of St. Paul, Mime
apolis and Duluth.
Archaeological Northern, Minnesota g.
International, NJ, R. L. g. NJ, Minneapolis
St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton &.
Northern, Grand Forks to Duluth, and
Bemidji- -Sauk Centre.
Railroad Depots-Four.
PASSENGER Trains-Twelve daily.
Hospitals-One.
Distances-To St. Paul. ..23O miles; to
Duluth, 1877 miles.
Hotels-Fifteen.
Breweries-One.
Sawmills-FOur.
Handle Factories-One.
Wholesale Houses-Four.
Banks-Three.
Auto Garafes-Une.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
GREAT ENTHUSIASM SHOWN
People Of Austria Celebrate Birthday
of Emperor.

,Ischel, Austria, Aug. 19.-Emperor
Franz Josef is eighty years old and
the anniversary is being celebrated
with great enthusiasm not only by the
seventy-four archdukes and archduch-
esses, who have gathered here for the
affair, but by the people at large.
The programme began with an s
o'clock mass. The birthday dinner,
termed family affair."" was served
at 2:45 p. m. and the table was graced
by the greatest gathering of royalty
ever seen at a banquet board in Aus.
tria. After the dinner the emperor
appeared on the balcony of the palace
and greeted the populace, expressing
his appreciation at the kindly demon
str alton in his honor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20

We constantly hear people specu-
lating as to the reason why farm
lands are so much cheaper in Mime
sofa than they are in Iowa, Wiscon-
sin and Illinois. Our lands are
equally as good and in some local.
ties sbetter. They produce crops
more certainly and fully as abundant.
But values in Minnesota are not
much more than haH what they are
in other states mentioned. We
have not seen this reason advanced
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
WIPES OUT ENTIRE BLOCK

Fire Turns Two Thousand Families
-.> Into the Street. \
New York, Aug. 19.-Fire in the
warehouse district of Jersey, City
wiped out one entire block Of bust
ness buildings and factories, turned
1000 terrified families into the street
and caused the death of one fireman.
The losses are variously estimated at
from $1,OO0,OOO to $1,500,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
GOVERNORS ! O
West confer
Meet at Salt Lake on Call
Of Hay Of Washington.
SUSPECT EASI'S MOTIVES

Some OF the State Executives Present
Fear Older Sections Will Dominate
St. Paul Conservation Congress and
They Will Advocate State and Not
Federal Control of Natural Re.
sources. ". s..,...> ). as...,'v
Salt Like City, Aug. 19.-Governors
OF their representatives of nine Inter:
mountain Coast and Northwestern
states met with Governor Spry of
Utah to outline plans whereby the
rights: of these states to their natural
resources may be preserved and their
interests protected in the annual Ma
tional Conservation congress which
meets in St. Paul Sept. 5.
The present meeting was called by
Governor Hay of Washington, who be.
lieves the East is not playing fair in
handling the matter of conservation
OF natural resorces. He is outspoken
on the subject and his primary reason
for calling the meeting was to form a
plan whereby the so called North
western idea" may be presented to the
congress. This idea is briefly that the
states themselves should have charge
| of and the disposition of their re.
! sources.
Governor Hay classes the attitude
of some of the Eastern conservation
lists as alarming to the West and de.
! clares it looks like deliberate at
tempt to rob. the Western states OF
their resources and have these re-
sources administered from the nation
! al capital for the benefit of the nation
at large and not for the good of the
! states in which the resources are To-
! Gated.
Governor Spry and some of the 9th.
ers are more pacific in their attitude,
| but are agreed that the West must
| take prompt action to preserve it's
rights. He says:
Able to Hold Its Own.
"I don't think there is any serious
cause for alarm that the interests of
the West will be overridden in the st.
! Paul convention. The West has al.
ways been able to hold its own in mat.
ters of this kind and l do not see why
it should not be so upon this occa
sion.'
Governor Norris of Montana is un.
able to attend the convention and is
| quoted as saying that in his opinion
! the "cards are stacked'' against the
| Northwest by the interests of the East
and it would be useless for the West
to attempt to combine against the
| East" go -
| Governor Brady of Idaho, who is
present. is the possessor of some de.
cided ideas on the conservation cues.
| ton and considers it unfair to the
people of the West that their natural
resources should be controlled by the
| federal government. He is quoted as
saying that the East, after having ex.
! hausted it's own resources, now hopes
to fall back upon the West to obtain
through government administration a
share of the benefits of Western re-.
sources through royalties on water.
power sites, etc. t,hs.
| A delegation of three members, in.
Guiding his private secretary, is here
to represent Governor Eberhart' OF
Minnesota. This delegation urges the
importance of every Western state be.
ing represented at the coming con.
| gress. :... :
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
new CLASSIFICATION ASKED
Railroad Commissions Of Middle West
@ Begin Movement.

Chicago, Aug. 19.-Railroad commits.
sioners of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Ohio and Indiana, after series
of meetings in Chicago, have an.
nounced a movement to induce the
railroads of this classification territory,
which includes the district east of the
Mississippi and north of the Ohio, to
add two classes to their freight classi.
fication. At present there are only
six sets of class rates, whereas in
other territory there are several addi.
tional classes
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
BY THE WAY

Be sure your principles are not
your prejudices, before you try to
force them on others.
Because you have done something
is no reason for insisting that others
do likewise. }.@-' r.
Perhaps it would be a compli-
ment to Colonel Roosevelt for the
Pullman company to raise the berth
rate. -
The weather is never quite right
for the lazy man. 49, a'@s T
The automobile that "honks" the
loudest is usually exchanging greet
ings with the mortgage on the house.
Tai]ors announce that the fall
style of man will have narrow
shoulders. How about the size Of
his hat? g..
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
hoW'a Thisf

Weoffer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
Halls Catarrh Cure. gr
+. J. CHENEY & co.. Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned. have known F. J.
Cheney for the last IS years. and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions, and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm.
AZ WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O..
Halls Catarrah Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by ali Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20

Speaking of the democratic
candidate for governor, its sure
a case of the office pursuing the
man, and the chances are even as
to whether it will catch him.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
Farmer Dies of Anthrax.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 19.W William
Kirk, a farmer, ffty-eight years old.
who since 1887 has been resident of
this vicinity, is dead here as the re-
suit of being inoculated with anthrax.
he contracted the disease several
days ago while skinning a neighbor's
cattle which r. ad died of the disease
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20

Eggs are 90 cents Gu. S. COIN a
dozen in Buenos Ayres. Aren't you
glad you live in these high.cost-of-
living United States of America?
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20

Jack Johnson, when paying his
SIS fine for high speeding, says he
is out for advertising. May be a
Jail term would help some.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
NO CHANGE IN THE RESUL rs
Later Returns From Nebraska Pri
mary Election. <

Later Returns from Nebraska FRI
mary Election. f
Omaha, Aug. 19.-The Bee an.
nounces that Cady practically con.
cedes his defeat by Aldrich in the
race for the Republican nomination
for governor, and that Aldrich claims
a majority of over 10000. Dahlman
has secured the Democratic nomina:
tion, although Shallenberger still
claims it. l.....: .... 4
Aldrich has been a strong advocate
of county option, while Dahlman is as
openly it's opponent. Both Shallen,
berger and Cady took a middle ground
on the question. " j. < E.%@-' ~ .t,.s
United States Senator Burkett and
Congressman Hitchcock have secured
the nominations for the senatorship
by heavy majorities. =@@s $
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
but it may be there is something in

but 1t may be there IS something ~
it. ~ .5.a
Farm lands increase in value large
ly in proportion to the growth of
country towns. Iowa, Wisconsin and
Illinois towns have grown during the
past ten years while many Minnesota
towns have not, and the only reason
they have not is because of unjust,
unfair and discriminating freight
rates. This condition can be remedied
if the people will wake up to the
condition and demand relief from the
egislature.-Hutchinson Leader.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
Milwaukee Gains 81 Per Cent.

Washington, Aug. l9.-The pobula-
tion of Milwaukee is 373,S57, an in
crease of SS,542, or 81 per cent, as
compared with 2S5,315 in 1900. The
population Of Des Moines is 86,368, an
increase of 24,22s, or 80 per cent, as
compared with 61,139 in 1900. +
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20

America has the doubtful honor
of teaching Chinese to smoke
cigarettes instead o. opium. A
questionable reform with a worse
odor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1910-08-20
Iowa Boy Burns to Death.

Milton, Ia, Aug. 19.-Pat McClurg,
three years old, was burned to death
in fire which destroyed the barn of
his father, DR.. Curtis McClurg. Only
9 part Of the body was recovered.
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NapolcOn'S Grit

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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-02-18

is the rough hillside below the Court House.
Sincere men desire that these bonds shall be
voted. I doubt the propriety of purchasing
that land for park purposes. l believe so
large sum of money can be better expended
in the development of the park and play
ground system of our city. In few years
more Denny Park just off of Westlalke Ave
nue. near Seventh Street must be brought
down to conform to the re-grade of the
streets in that vicinity. This tract of land
can be then treated as our Central Park. [
realize that in eastern cities breathing places
are highly essential, but the climatic con-
ditions of Puget Sound are such that the
rooms of our tenement houses and homes do
not become bake ovens Thus the so-called
breathing places are not an essential here,
as they are in the cities of the Middle West
and the Atlantic seaboard. Instead of a
Central Park which will cost such a large
sum of money and which in after years may
have, at an enormous expense, to be graded
to conform to changed street conditions, let
us establish near in more Fairgrounds
For the extension of our water system
81, ,080,000 is asked. By all means let us vote
for these bonds. Let us have an abundant
supply of pure, cold water. Let us use it
freely upon our lawns.
For the acquisition of four lots Immediate
ly back Of the land whereon was situated the
old City Hall, we are asked to vote 1926, 900.
Individually I am opposed to the issuance of
these bonds until we have fully determined
whether we want the future City Hall situ-
ated at this point. One of the proposed
amendments to our City Charter is for the
establishment Of a commission upon civic
improvements. Let us all vote for this
amendment to our City Charter Let us plan
now that our city may be constructed on
proper lines. do not question the ability
or honesty of purpose of our present City
Engineer to plan for our city and even ad-
mitting that he is a power in our city gov
emment, still he had been forced to COM
promise on almost every measure which he
has brought before the City Council. Should
the Civic Plans Commission be created, and
we should be fortunate enough to procure
the services of such men as Burnham, Ohm
Sl6du anu our proS0HG ClIy EHSluo0E Or
George F. Cotterill, and these should plan
the future Seattle, it is probable millions Of
dollars will be saved to the tax payers of this
municipality
For strictly municipal purposes the City
Fathers are asking for $471, 900, $57, 900 for
the construction Of sites for fire engine
houses, $4,000 for a site for city stable,
$4,000 for City Fire House, $4,000 for an
Isolated Hospital, $4,000 for a sub-police
station, $4,000 for combined fre-house and
dock, $4,000 for bridge on Spokane Ave
nue. across the West Waterway, $4,000 for
a bridge on Westlake Avenue across the
Government Canal at Fremont, 100000 for
a stable in Edgewood Addition, $4,000 for
a pulmonary hospital, $4,000 for extra stalls
at the public market There appears to be
slight discrepancy in the segregation of
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-02-18

presence of the automobile for children to
play on our public streets. Withdraw our
boys and girls from the alleys and the dark
places of our city and bring them into the
open field of sport so that they may CO.
operate and learn to treat each other fairly
and with equality This is not only Christian
but humane.
Let us have our parks where the working
man can take his family on Sundays or holi
days to enjoy nature in all its lovliness. Let
him and his feel that these parks are as much
theirs as they are the richest mans who
rides through them.
Right here let me suggest that one of the
duties of our modern civilization which we
have not yet undertaken to bear is this;
Organized labor has properly demanded and
gained shorter hours for labor. No one any
longer seriously maintains that the laboring
classes should be over-worked. The shorter
hours of labor for the working classes Of our
cities give to them many hours OF ideness.
These hours Of idleness are proving their
undoing They are too often spent IN sa-
looms or brothels. We may raise the child
so that he is as pure as the driven snow yet
if as man we turn him loose for several
hours day with enforced idleness and no
proper place for him to go to but the tipping
room and the abode of those who wear the
scarlet robes of sin, we have performed but
one-half Of our duty to our fellow creatures
Today the great English nation is decadent
Millions of pounds are being exacted by way
of taxes and revenues to feed the unem'
ployed and those no longer having the ability
to earn a living. Tottering through the
streets of London and what was once the
busy marts of old England are men and wo-
men not old in years but old in sin and vice
and such as these are now one OF the great
est burdens that our Mother Country has to
bear Cad as it may seem, an analysis OF
their lives shows that idleness during many
hours of the day was their undoing. Let
anyone walk the streets Of the lower portion
of our city or visit the drinking houses OF
that locality, and they will not fail to ap-
preciate the undoing of the laborlng men.
While we are establishing the play grounds
for the children we must go farther and es-
tablish the reading room, the lecture hall and
places of innocent amusement for the work
ing classes that they may be properly cared
for during their idle hours. | am pleased
that in the labor temple of our city organized
labor has established reading rooms and
other places where innocent games are
played. The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and the Young Women's Christian
Association are magnificent institutions, and
even the Salvation Army is doing splendid
work. but the tax payers must from now on
consent to be even further taxed that the
Drawn and muscle and intelligence OF the
working classes during their idle moments
shall not be sapped, for the economic fact
that underlies all our prosperity is the work
of the artisan, mechanic and day laborer
Destroy the effectiveness Of this and pros
naritv and nrOpress cease Thus | saw to YOU