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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-11
Committees Have Been Named And
Will Begin Preparations At
Once.
MANUAL TRAINING EXHIBIT
Miss Ethel Murray, Supervisor of
Music in Bemidji Schools, Pre-
pairing Program.

According to an announcement
made by w. P. Dyer, superintendent
of the Bemidji Public Schools, this
morning, preparations have already
began to make the February teach
ers convention, which is to be held
in Bemidji, success.
At meeting of the grade teachers
last evening committees were ap-
pointed to look after the different
affairs and see that they art arrang-
ed for satisfactorily
The committee on entertainment
will consist of Miss Loe, principal of
the high school, chairman, and teach
ers' Brown, Mosford and Dunning-
ton. The committee on decorations
for the reception, which is to held
at the close of the convention will
have as it's chairman, Miss Anne Nc
Gillian, an instructor in the eighth
grade room. Miss Edna Hill will
be in charge of the exhibits.
The sewing, manual training and
drawing classes are busy preparing
an exhibit for the visiting teachers
The music which is to be given at
intervals during the convention will
be feature. Miss Ethel Murray
supervisor of music in the Bemidji
schools is spending a great deal OF
time in preparing special program
The girls glee club has been enlarged
for the occasion, and the boys quar-
tette is working hard on several new
songs. A chorus made up of grade
boye will also sing.
The high school orchestra, which is
gaining quite reputation as a musi-
cal organization, among those inter-
ested in high school doings, has re-
ceived few new selections and will
play them during the convention.
The teachers are becoming enthus-
iastic over the convention and are
doing all within their power to make
the affair a success.
All Bemidji ladies who are willing
to give the use of room to the
visiting school teachers will please SO
inform the chairman of the commit
tee on entertainment.
The high school literary society
will hold it's first debate of the year
next Wednesday evening, the sub
ject being "Resolved, that Lee Was
Better General than Grant,
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Up to date the clock in the house
chamber has rfused to work. but at
that it hasn't much of an edge on
most of the members.
Two MORE FIRE VICTIMS
Baudette Confagration Causes the
Death of Walter Fairless.

Walter Fairless, Of Baudette, who
while acting as a special policeman
at Rainy River, on the day after the
fire which destroyed Baudette and
Spooner, died at the Winnipeg Gen.
eral hospital last week from his
wounds.
While upon duty he was set upon
by gang of ruffains, and shot and
dubbed in a brutal manner. His
right eye was smashed in, and he re-
ceived other terrible wounds, but he
put up a wonderful fight for his life,
there was little hope for his recov-
cry however, and his death caused
no surprise.
No clue to the identity of the MUIR
derers was ever discovered.
Mrs. Joseph Beaver of Baudette
died at Rainy River, after an illness
of three months. She was i'll with
typhoid at the time of the fire and
had to be carried on a stretcher the
night the town burned. The ex-
posture and excitement told heavily
against her and she became a victim
of quick consumption. She leaves
five children. Her husband died
from typhoid a short time before the
fire.
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Rooming House Has Fire.

Fire which occurred this noon
damaged somewhat the upstairs OF
the building owned by P. J. O'Leary
located at 304 third street. The
lower floor of the building is not oc-
cupied while the second story is rent
ed by P. A. Pitman, and has been
used as rooming house. The di-
rect cause of the fire is unknown
Prompt action on the part of the
fire department saved the building
from being totally destroyed.
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COMPANY K. INSPECTION
Major Pratt and Captain Hatcher to
Conduct Ceremonies Tonight.

Company K the Bemidji company
of state militia will have it's annual
inspection at the Armory this eve
ming. The inspection will be under
the direction of Major Pratt, of the
third regiment and Captain Hatcher
military store keeper.
1t is very important that all mem.
bers of the company be present al
the inspection tonight, and that they
bring all equipment belonging to the
state that is in their possession.
The inspection will be held in the
Olive-drab uniform.
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COMMISSION FORM
OF GOVERNMENT

Burlington, Iowa, like other Iowa
cities which have adopted the plan,
is we'll pleased with the commission
form of government.
The economy of the plan in the
administration of city affairs has al
ready been proved. Commission
government was adopted by a two to
one vote last November and it went
into effect April and, according to
City Clerk Robert Krappach, who
writes a letter in supplementing
Mayor w. G. Cross answers to the
Herald's list of questions, all classes
of people are pleased with the new
system.
Burlington is a city of 10000
people and it's charter is drawn un-
der the state law, which was adopted
on the basis of the Des Moines char
ter. According to Mayor Cross.
the old ward and aldermen system
proved unsatisfactory in many ways
particularly on account of the d.
vision of responsibility. The small
pay for aldermen resulted in only a
few hours weekly or monthly being
devoted to city affairs. Under the
commission charter, the mayor and
aldermen are paid enough salary to
allow them to give all of their time
to the business of running the city,
just as heads of big business enter
prises would give all of their at
tention to the business.
In the first three months the COM
mission plan was in effect in Bur-
lington, $4,000 was saved and the
city was placed on cash basis. The
present debt is refunded in serial
bonds at IL per cent instead of 6
per cent as under the old system.
Taxation was equalized and more
work was accomplished at less ex-
pense. Most all of the bills are be-
ing discounted and the banks give
interest on daily balances.
The elimination of politics from
the city's affairs has caused the body
of citizens to take greater interest
in the city's affairs, according to the
clerks letter.
The one election in Burlington
brought out seven candidates fol-
mayor and sixty-seven candidates
for councilmen, but in cities where
the commission plan has been in eff.
feet for number of years, the can.
didates at elections do not number
any more than two or three for may.
or and fifteen or twenty for council
men. In Burlington the mayor re-
ceives $4,000 year and the coun.
cilmen $1,000 each.-Duluth Herald
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OFFICERS WILL OBEY
DECISION OF WILLARD

Washington, D. c. Jan. IL
DAILY Pioneer Special Wire Ser
vice. )-Secretary Ballinger has in
structed his officers to obey the order
OF the court in the liquor question
in the Indian country.
Later information is to the effect
that the case may me appealed to
the Circuit court of Appeals, but no
definite decision will be reached for
several days.
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Pass Reapportionment Bill If It
Cleans Out Senate" Declares St.
Paul Chairman.
SURPRISED AT OWN SELECTION
Intends Now to Secure Passage At
This Session of Proper Kind of
Measure.
(By z. A. WILSON,
Bemadjt Pioneer Legislative Bureau


Ssmadt Pioneer Legislative Bureau
st. Paul, Jan. 11.-Northern Min
nesota appears to have found a new
champion, as is shown by the fol-
lowing which, incidently appears
only in the Daily Pioneer simultan-
eously with its publication in a Du-
luth evening paper:
ct is the unquestionable duty of
this legislature to pass a reappor-
tionment act, and such act should
take effect for the next general cleo
ton even though this may mean the
legislating out of Office every
member of the senate"
So asserts Joseph NJ. Hackney,
member of the state senate from St.
Paul and chairman of the senate
committee on reapportionment-an
appointment which in the eyes of
Northern Minnesota at least, is the
most important assignment in the
upper house this session.
"My appointment as chairman of
the reapportionment committee" said
Senator Hackney, "came to me as g
great surprise. My constituents
are not worrying over reaportion-
ment, as it will make little or no diff
ference in my district.
"Yet 1 recognize the Importance of
the subject to the state at large.
Minnesota has been without reap
portionment many years to long.
The bill for this purpose should have
been passed two years ago. The
leading excuse for the neglect of
legislative duty at that time was
that reapportionment should be based
on the national census. No such
excuse can be offered at this time.
The people are rightly demanding
immediate justice in legislative re-
presentation. And it is indeed
more than time to act when the legis-
lative districts in Northern Mime
sofa have respective populations of
10000 and over, to populations of
little over 5000 in some southern
Minnesota districts.
CAS- chairman of the senate COM
mittee on reapportionment, I intend
to exert every HONORABLE effort to
secure the passage ola reapportion-
ment bill this sessioG which shall
take effect in time foi the next gen..
eral election. When the bill comes
to our committee, I will do all that
can to get quick act| on on it's hear
ings, and report badk to the senate
as speedily as possible recommending
the bill for passage.i So far as l
am concerned personally the state
will get fair and SO aare deal.
"The enactment of! a reapportion-
ment law is, in my opinion, the pre-
sent crying need of the state, and
the greatest duty to the people, which
the present legislature can per-
FORM
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Melges Bros. Leave Business.

In a deal closed yesterday after
noon, the firm of Melges Brothers,
wholesale grocers, retire from the
management of said firm.
The concern will be in charge of
Harry Koors in the future, Koors
having taken possession this morn
ing. r.
Mr.. Koors is we'll known in Be-
midi, having lived here until he
moved to Duluth about a year ago.
Mr.. Koors will move his family here
in the near future.
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Senator Quay's Widow Dead.

Pittsburg, Jan. 11.-Mrs. Agnes B..
Quay, widow of Senator Matthew
Stanley Quay, who died in 1904, is
dead at her home, Oak Spur, Road,
Shields station, near here. Mrs. Quay
was born in Beaver, Pa, and was mar
ried to Senator Quay in 1854.
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Cass Lake Council to Act on Licenses

Cass Lake Council to Act on Licenses.
Next Monday evening the village
council of Cass Lake will act on five
applications for liquor licenses, all
of which are dated to run one year
from January l6.
The five applicants for liquor Ii
censes are: George Hanson, C. F.
Nelson, VIM. Kirchhof, The Tedford
Estate and Samuel Sutor. The Ii
cense fee at present is set at $500.
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after having consumed plate of
Blue Points in St. Paul restaurant.
The ptomaine poison appears TO have
affected the eyes, the jurist suffering
no other lasting effects from his ILL.,
ness. For two weeks he has been
unable to distinguish persons as far
away as across the street. He has
gone to Philadelphia to consult a
specialist and from there will go to
Bermudas where he hopes complete
rest may restore his sight.
At the present time prisoners at
the Saltwater prison and the St.
Cloud reformatory are sending 1900
a month home to relatives, as the re-
suit of money paid them for labor by
the state. This is a new thing in
M1uIeSOId, Tile last LEGISLATURE du-
thorizing payment to prisoners of
from ten to fifteen cents a day. At
present there are 1876 married men
in the Saltwater prison; "a married
who have no children and 115
married who have children.
A $4,000 bath is in store for the
new state capitol if present plans
carry. A bill has been prepared au-
thorizing the expenditure of this sum
to defray the expense Of rubbing
the white marble of the big building.
Much interest is manifest here over
the working Of the newly installed
postal savings bank at Bemidji, and
it is proving to be quite an ADVERTISE
ment for the city. In recent issue
the St. Paul Dispatch ran a two col
umn feature on the bank, printing a
half tone picture of Postmaster
Erickson and Samuel Cutter, the
clerk in charge.
Up to date the clock in the house
chamber has rfused to work, but at
that it hasn't much of an edge on
most of the members.
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p Justice E.. A. Haggard of the Min
nesota state supreme court may be-
eaten oysters. Some time ago, JUS
tice Jaggard was made violently ill
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CAT GIVES TIE ALARM
Saves Mora (Minn.) Man From Per.
iShinu in Fire


Mora, MIMI, Jan. l1-F. A. Nc
Pherson, proprietor of the Mora Drug
company, who has living apartments
over his drug store, was suddenly
awakened from his slumber by his
faithful house cat jumping onto his
bed and scratching his face
Upon ewaking Mr.. Mcpherson
found himself nearly overcome by SUI
location, the room and building was
dense with smoke and only by a mira.
Gle was he able to grope his way to an
outside stairway and, slightly clad
with the mercury registering 20 below
zero, he ran block to give the alarm
of fire
The stock of drugs and merchandise
although not burned, are worthless
from smoke and heat
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Caroline Jenkins, statistical clerk
in the Office of the state labor COM
Paul, was formerly telephone oper-
ator in the Duluth Board of Trade.
She was given her St. Paul position
by Labor Commissioner William E.
McEwen
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LABOR IN CONTROL,
IN THE ANTIPODES
Special Gable to The Tribune.

Special Gable 10 The Tribune
SYDNEY. Oct. oS.-Labor is enthroned
in power in tho commonwealth In two
states, New South Wales and South AUS
tralia. with q good chance OF capturing
one or two of the remaining states at
these victories ''off its own bat so 20
speak: it enjoyed tie support OF num-
bers OF the smaller farmers and settlers.
as well as OF an immense bodJ OF urban
voters who stand outside the unions
These supporters rs-known collectively as
''the sympathetic vote"-may at any time
BE- detached, 8 possibility which has had
s.cadyinG effect upon the labor minis
tries NOW in power. But there Is un-
doubtedly a revolutionary element in the
party. and in the eudeavor 10 placate
both clements ministers sometimes find
themselves between the devil and the
deep sea.
From the necessity OF making a choice
between the two Will probably arise the
inevitable split In the party. which is
already threatened. The iTreconcilable
element views with the utmost stern
ness any backslidns OH the part Of min
listers or members. For their share in
defeating the Tcfereuda proposals OF the
state ministers. Mr.. Holman. the acting
premier. and MIR. 6eeby. the minister for
soor and industry. arc TO be solemnlY
tried soon by labor conference specially
summoned for the purpose The disci-
pine OF labor is Spartan, and those out
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|ER FORTY YEARS
ssn, s. g., Woman Receivers
from Stomach Trouble.

arc who is not we'll rourishcd can
,od rstured. That is why dyspep-
>fe always irritable.
n stomacb trouble can be cured In
n all cases. even after years Of suf-
q, Mrs. Sarah &. Ammous, Cam
4 e. says: 81 suffered from merry
|rspepsia for forty years and feared
nd never get over it. IT kept me
i<rry all the time. ] was terribly
1oru, could not slccp-tbought my
d was ruined.
"a spring | began taking Ninol
b has no equal. soon began to
1re and now ] am well woman
It Tor the first time in forty years.
petite is good, ! sleep well and
% stomach trouble at all. These
|1t plain facts. y
ID our word for il. when YOU arc
md run down, cannot eat or
4 }iDol ;s what you need for il will
f. Iou up and make you strong, We
rIec Vmol 10 please-your money
# u ii does not. DruchI & Frank ksn.
% Man; Smith Drag Co., '>The
Iorrcr =; Smith Drag Co. No. ..
m Main,
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Dyspepsia Twenty Years.

Mr.. Sidney Vessels, MerrittoD, Ont,
Canada, writes:
"I have been troubled with dyspepsia
and Indigestion for twenty years, dur
ing which time I tried different doctors.
but did not get the desired results. !
time to give up work. being completely
prostrated | had to confne myself to a
milk diet. as nothing would remain on
my stomach.
f'I had about given up. thinking my
case iDcurable, when ] heard Of PeTuna
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before daylight The dawn began as
they reached Timpie, nearly sixty miles
west of Salt Lake Good roads made
this time possible. Here the party left
the route to Fish Springs and beaded
west across the mud flats for the desert.
Good going was encountered until Low
was reached. about sevcntY-five miles
west of Salt Lake Here all roads end.
The next six hours werc spent trying
10 reach the edge of the desert from
Low. Although IL was only ten miles
away, not the least sign of road could
be loc cated in a distance of twenty miles
north and south from Low. An effort
was made TO follow the railroad right
of way, but knolls of sand for mile after
mile stretched ahead of the automobile.
Numerous sheep trails were picked up
and followed only 10 end in the sage
brush. Finally, after hours of search,
the big Pierce was headed straight up
the mountain side and reached The
summit From here the party could
sec for $50 miles with the aid OF a
strong pair of binocular glasses. bat
there was no sign of road OF any kind.
Where Eniigrants Perished.
Where the railroad strikes the desert
stretch of mud and water twenty
miles wide could be plainly seen proving
conclusively that no automobile will
ever cross the desert at this point. Far
thcr south, miles ard miles of sand
knolls greeted the vision, and on the
north n. chain of mountains extended
to the desert edge with no signs of a
road,
Within SIN miles Of where the party
stood was the desolatc mud lst where
party Of cmigrants perished in the
early days of transcontinental travel.
The fat, partially covered with water,
was brought in plain view with the
glasses, and il was quickly decided that
this was no place for an automobile
The party returned home fully con
WINGED that no automobile will ever
cross tho desert nj this point. How
ever. it is believed that route further
north can be found. Whether it IS feasr
ible or not cannot be determi ned until
| it has been tried.
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Three Salt Lake Enthusiasts
Encounter Rough Sled
ding to the West.

A direct route for automobiles west
from Salt Lake--one that. viii save
time and distsnce-and route that is
feasible, is Il problem that has heen
bothenng the motor public ever since
transcontirental automobile travel be-
gan, AT present there are two routes
contcnding for public favor. one north
of the Great Salt lake and the other.
south via the desert and Fish Springs.
Both have arguments in their favor, but
as a matter of fact neither might be
called good route.
Perhaps every person who looks at a
map of Utah and Nevada wonders why
II would moi be feasible to cross the
desert west OF Salt Lake on Il line with
the Western Pacific. THIS would cut
100 miles off either of tho present
routes and in addition would keep the
tourist close to telegraph communica-
tions and water at all times. For the
past four years the possibility of this
route has been discussed at every meet
ing Of Salt Lake automobilists, but it
remained for party consisting of Wal
lace Bransford. Frank Bot:rll and w
D. Rshel to End out that IT is jmpos
shle for any automobile ever built to
cross this part of the desert on it's own
power without using the railroad tracks
for roadbed.
Pierce Heads West.
AT ) clock ON Monday morning Of
last week this party left Salt Lake in
Wallace Brausford s big 4S siy.cylindel
Pierce. a rrow, headed west. Thirty
eight minutes afterward the tourist:
passed through Garfield and GraatsyIIlc
forty.one miles away, was reached long
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and decided to try it, One bottle made
n great change, and after using another
bottle of this wonderful medicine L
had complete freedom from pain, my
appetite had returned and I could again
ENJOY my meals.
81 believe Peruna is the grandest
medicine under the sun. Today ! weigh
over 22j pounds. Is it any wonder that
! praise PerIna7'i
Pneumonia Followed La Grippe.
Mr. T. Barnccott, Aylmcr. West, On
tario Can. writes: Last winter l.
was i'll with pneumonia, after having In
grippe. | took Peruna when | became
quite well. and | can say that any one
can he cured by il in reasonable time
at little expense
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water so b divides the water and uses
same. VIII B acquire permanent right
TO water by- continual use extending
over period Of years, and if so what
is the length Of time whereby P can
claim water right. and what should A
do to prevent 2 getting the rightl
STGRED WINTERGREEN.
The danger Of allowing r to use the
water begins at once on such use. The
only safe WAY is TO require 3 TO rccoe-
nize 4 8 right by paying him for the
water used
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Garfield. Utah Oct. o5.

FHTIIPId, Ufah. OCT. %.
VIII you please answer the following
in the columns of your paper?
]. Can a postmaster of a third class
postoffice fix the hours of opening
general delivery on holidays and Sun.
days?
,. Is there time specified by law
to keep general delivery opcn1
3. Is ii lawful to lock the postoffice
up on Sundays, holidays and in the
evening as early as $50 p. m, thereby
those having boxes from
getting mail2 OLD SUBSCRIBER.
First. YES; second, no; third. YES.
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In conclusion of the programme
s wore served. Tho refresh
sn rsrs donated by the u; G. NJ. !,
Nnact Brothers. to which firms
',snS snSV foIks express iheir deep
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side parliament have little sympathy
with the lspscs or those Inside The
constant surveillance OF the outside
unionists is the chief embarrassment OF
the labor governments. they exist in
Australia today, II they seek to depart
from tho platform OF the party they in
vite condemnation from the extremists,
IL they placate these extremists they will
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Salt Lake City. Oct. 81.

viii you kindly tell in your Ques-
tions and Answers for Sunday: Has a
silver Sc piece with star on one side
and the Roman numerals III. circum-
scribed by a large ''C' on the other,
any value, As near as ! can make out
with the naked eye the date is 1887.
Yours respectfully, T. f.. a,
There was no Scent silver coinage
until 1851, If your coin is 1857 it is
worth six cents
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Salt Lake CITY. Oct. p.

'JhI Hs"NF lINN VI's :
Will YOU kindly answer in your Ones
tion column of Sundays paper: What is
the state limit law of interest allowed
on a note or mortgage in Colorado7 :
And does a note need to be renewed il
not paid when due, to be legal7
a SUBSCRIBER.
(D Six per cent: but any rate is al
lowed OF agreement, (2) A note may
run SIX wears.
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Santaquin, Oct %.
Kindly answer the following ques
ton; A buys vacant property in Salt
Lake City, water right going With
\ has no immediate use for