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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-09
Demands That Repairs Be Made at
Public Expense Before Structure
Is Completed.
EVERETT STANDS BY REPORT
Still of Opinion That Repairs Can
Not Be Made and That Cement
Is Poor.

WIFI VISIONS Oh d typQOlQ epidemic
in Bemidji dangling before their eyes
members Of the city council at it's
regular meeting last evening, failed
to accept the report of City Engi-
neer Everett presented a week ago
in which he condemned the much de-
layed septic tank. The council in
Dictated that it favored taking i'm
mediate steps toward having the
tank completed so as to fulfill it's
mission of purifying the city's sew
erage.
Tom Johnson, who has the con-
tract for constructing the tank, pre-
sented a typewriter reply to the
city engineers assertion that the
tank was so badly damaged that it
could not be repaired. According to
Mr.. Johnson the tank can, and will,
be repaired and completed as soon as
repaired and completed as soon as
the council gives him the authority
to go ahead with the work.
Tank Involves $4,000 and Health.
Up to the present time the tank
involves an expense Of more than
$4,000. If the structure were to be
condemned, it would mean a dead
loss Of that amount, either to the city
or Mr.. Johnson, and at the same time
would leave the sanitary condition
Of the city alarming
"Something must be done, and
done quickly" warned Alderman
Brown at the meeting last night.
Tom Johnson's Defense.
Mr. Johnson's communication to
council in full follows:
"In answer to the City Engineers
report on the septic tank May /,
1911, l will hereby state my opinion
as to the actual condition of the
tank in a general way, which con-
dition will be found by anyone ex-
smining same.
That the City Engineer reports
finding a hole in the southwest cor
ner of the tank and a crack in the
southeast corner of the tank is true.
Said hole l noticed at the construc-
ton of the tank, but as pulled
away the casting at the time for clos.
Jag down the work / left same there
tc be. repaired in the spring or when
work was ordered started. The
crack at the southeast corner is not
in the main body of the tank 1t
has no material bearing as to the
durability and strength of the tank.
1t could be made to adhere to the
tank with rich concrete and as
same will be finished up both on the
outside and inside with a plaster
coat of cement, it will be made Just
as rigid and tight as though no
breaks were there. Also when rein
forcement slab comes on it will bind
the whole thing to the main tank
and make perfect job of same
Work Done Is Not Worthless.
I'm regard to the Engineers report
stating that the work done is worth
less and of no consequence, 1 will
have to say that his statement is un-
founded for the following reasons:
That he has not had proper chance
to examine the whole work. The
tank is now full of water to two and
one-half feet below the top, and al
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-09
Commercial Club, However, to Ex-
tend Glad Hand to Visitors
Who, Remain all Night.
PROMINENT PERSONS IN PARTY
Wholesalers, Bankers, Photographers,
Newspaper Men and Others In
Trade Exploring Trip.

On the evening of May % Bemidji
Will pass in review before prominent
citizens of Minneapolis who come on
special train to take peep at nor
thern Minnesota, visiting more than
100 towns between Winnipeg and
St. Cloud. ,ws
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-09
Why They are Coming.

This is the fourth trip of this
kind taken by our business men.
This time our journey is almost
wholly confined to Minnesota and our
sole purpose is to give our merchants,
bankers and manufacturers an OPP
portunity of seeing the Northern
Minnesota country and to get ac-
quainted with the business men who
are engaged in building up the towns
and cities of that region.
"Of course, ultimate trade adyan-
tages are hoped for, but the excur-
sion is in no sense business trip
Orders are not solicited; the whole
purpose is to get acquainted with
the northern part of the state and
its people in the hope that such ac-
auaintance may prove of mutual adj
vantage.
No Need Of Entertaining.
Our party does not seek enter
! +
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-09

Said concrete, when we pulled away
the castings or forms was found to
be in the best condition. The con-
crete four feet from the top and down
froze after certain length of time,
and right where the ice gathered or
froze up, l find the concrete to be
flawy and not as it should be, but
can, when the tank is pumped out,
be examined closer and said flaws
repaired and made practically as
good as though the conditions of the
concrete had been the best.
Charges Everett With Mon Know
ledge"
Therefore emitting the four feet
that are doubtful as to strength, the
balance of the work will without a
doubt be an improvement and of
value. Therefore / again say that
the Engineers statement was based
on non-knowledge.
"After the contract was let to me,
I proceeded at once with the work,
but was stopped by the City Officials;
first for not having the proper site
located; second for a certain patent
right question, which delayed me
about three weeks after my contract
was let. Same throwing my work in
an unfavorable season when it was
more expensive to do and unfavor-
able to the strength and quality of
the work. 4
Makes Formal Demand On City.
mo therefore, I demand that the
City order this work to be completed,
and that the part of the work that
shall be found weak or injured from
the frost shall be fixed up and re-,
paired before the slab is casted in
and said repairs shall be stood and
paid for by the City, for the follow
ing reason:
THAT according to my contract
with the city and specifications of the
work, it demanded immediate start
and completion of the work. There
fore had no alternative, until things
became impossible and / asked your
Engineer for discontinnance of the
work which he granted, The ex-
penses in repairing the tank to the
proper strength the same as though
the work had been of the best, should
not exceed $4,000.
Important Work Yet to be Done.
The part of the work embraced in
the tank construction which is and
must be of the full strength, is the
slab yet to be casted over the entire
tank. Said work is to be done, and
will be of the very best as the wealth
err is now favorable for such con-
struction.'
Mr.. Johnson's communication was
referred to the committee on sewers
of which Alderman Knute Roe is
chairman and it is understood that a
report clearing the way for definite
action will be presented at the next
meeting OF the council.
Tank Useless Reiterates Everett.
Mr.. Everett still maintains that
his report to the council was correct
and in upholding his position, today
said:
Il now believe, as did, after had
examined the septic tank, that it was
not properly put up, and l do not see
how the tank can be repaired, as is
suggested in Mr.. Johnson's letter to
the council. 1t was not necessary
for me to examine the inside of the
tank, as stated by Mr.. Johnson. l
found that the cement is of poor
grade, that any OF it will crumble in
ones hands, if slightly crushed. The
cement seems to grow less hard to-
ward the bottom of the tank. l
would suggest that some we'll inform
ed engineer investigate the tank"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-09

Our party does not seek enter
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

President Taft will run his messages
in serial form, taking up single mat"
ter in each. However. we do not antici-
pate the arrangement will abate the
interest in them. As matter OF fact,
such an arrangement is far more prac'
teal than the crowding of great mass
of material on many subjects into q
single message. No president could hope
that the public would be able to give
careful attention to a message which
contains every subject that pertains to
the presidential office, no matter how in
terestingly the president might be able
to write. Therefore, by combining his
attention to a single subject in single
message, and not making it too long,
President Taft should find himself talk
ing to a greater number OF people than
is customary. The trust message, which
is printed verbatim in to-day's paper,
il perhaps longer than the average per-
son wishes, but owing to the nature OF
the discussion it demands rather more
attention than almost any other subject
now before the people. 1t is to be ex.
pected that messages on other less inn
portant matters will be scaled down in
length to compare.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05
STRETCHING A POINT.

On what ground does the Ludlow
Tribune justify its statement that Jo-
seph A. DeBoer of Montpelier "was drawn
into a gubernatorial candidacy in the
face of definite protest previously filed
by him.? Mr.. DeBoer has never pro-
tested against being called to the gov.
ernorship of Vermont. Nor has he pro-
tested against being selected as a can
didate for the nomination. The extent
OF his protest, if we read the English
language correctly, was to the effect thai
he would not enter the list of Repub-
lican candidates in an unseemly scramble
for the nomination. The protest previ-
ously filed by him was against the meth
DDS hitherto existing in Vermont, mol
against being made candidate.
Therefore, the contemporary does the
Montpelier man injustice in asserting
that he was dragged into becoming a
candidate against his will and against
AllS uSoiltos ds Int 1llDuHe hDtS III TIE
following paragraph from last weeks
issue:
"The drafting process INDUCED in at
Montpelier the other night, by means of
which an estimable resident of that city
was drawn into gubernatorial candi-
dacy in the face of definite protest pre-
viously filed by him, appears not to have
generated great amount of enthusiasm,
even in the territory within which the
boom was launched"
As to the other part of the insinua-
ton, regarding the alleged lack of in
terest in his entry into the contest, that
is largely matter of opinion. Certain
it was, however, that several hundred
persons turned out at a time SO early
in the canvass that enthusiasm is neve,
looked for, that those several hundred
people received Mr.. DeBoer's statments
with thoughtful concern and that Mr.
DeBeor's remarks made deep impression
True, is was not the "rah rah" enthusi-
asm; it was something deeper.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05
La Toilette criticises raft's Tariff Board

Senator La Toilette, writing his auto
biography in the December American
Magazine, refers to what he calls. "the
present so-called tariff board appointed
by Mr. Taft" and goes on TO say;
"While the present tariff board may
gather much valuable information, it
has no power of commanding the facts
from unwilling manufacturers; II does
rot meet the requirement that every
member shall be specially trained for the
service, it is insuiliciently supplied with
funds, and it reports to the executive
rather than the legislative branch Of the
government. It's lack of power was
well expressed by its capable chairman,
Prof. Henry G. Emery, in speech to
the American Association Of Wooden and
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

Worsted Manufacturers on December s,
1910. He said;
You must not think ] am joking
about this thing, but there is a joke
about IT. and the joke is this; have
no powers whatsoever, The tariff board
has no powers. There is really no such
thing as tariff board. The law says
that for certain purposes the president
may employ such persons" as he sees
fit. am one Of "such persons" That
is ALL
"The tariff commission should be at
the service OF the houses of Congress-
instead of the semi-confdential advisers
Of the president. For il is Congress
which is charged with the duty Of franz
ing the tariff laws and there are other
things besides mere statistics that Con-
gress must pass upon. Congress must
determine whether a given industry shall
be protected at ALL Then, before Con-
gress decides that a given industry shall
be protected, we want to know how
much of its claim fer protection is due
to its own ineliciency."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05
TALK OF THE TOWN

Good place to buy your winter under
wear at Yaughan's.
The ladies' aid society of st. Monica's
church will hold supper in Woodmen
hall Tuesday evening, Dec. 5, from 5 to
s o'clock Everybody cordially invited.
Admission, 25c.
Monday arrivals at the hotel Otis were
as follows: ]. S. Whitaker, Boston; ].
y. Kempton, Syracuse, n. y; j. A.
Bond, Burlington; C. f. Wyman, Bos-
ton; Sara c. Gosselin, st. Johnsbury;
G. A. Silver, Greenfield, Mass; j. Layery.
jr., Rutland.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

such cold weather that charity IT.
self shall catch cold."--Franklin
Almanac.
Big, plush Lined Over
coats.
Warm, woody Under
wear.
Cozy Sweaters, and all
clothing comforts here
for you and for people
whom you want to make
comfortable.
Overcoats, Sf2 to S45.
Underwear, SOC to So
per garment.
Sweaters, So to S..
Fur Coats, SIP to 100.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05
TALK OF THE TOWN

New waists just received at Yaughan's
New handkerchief them at The
Vaughan Store.
Tickets for "The Gamblers 90 on
sale at Hendricks tonight at o'clock
On account of sickness, there win be
no meeting Of Over-the Teacups club this
week.
Special meeting of Winnetta council
No 10, d. of r., Wednesday, Dec. O.
at 1880 p, m. for degree practice. 1t
is requested that all the degree team be
present.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05
A PRIZE NUMBER

oh article large orsmal sold at auction Prizes awarded
must be presented at time of awarding good chance
gilt. Remember the City Auction Rooms is the place
0. II. HALE AUcTIoNEER
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

When Vermont framed law in 1908
to prevent "white slave traffic, the law
was thought by many TO be needless
Still it was necessary so that it would
not have to be used
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

That saving of s2l ,2sS,92l.43 in the
federal expenses for the next fiscal year
came too late for Thanksgiving, but it
viii be just as welcome.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

Congress opened with fireworks of the
Littleton brand. However, it is urgently
hoped that the supply was exhausted at
the first exhibition.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05
TOO LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED

FoUND--k sum OF money. owner can have
same by proving property and paying charges
a. Frank McGuir6s, Upper GranitevilIe. 22sta
TO RENT = Shed room. Inquire Of Smith
Brothers Granite Company, 2!st6s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

They might as well try to separate
fish from water as to disassociate John
d. Rockefeller from Standard Oil.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

We haven't heard of Rockefeller civ
ing his oil stock to feed the poor
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-05

The snow win be welcomed, If FOL
nothing more than to lay the dust.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20
,cretans Always Ride.

We have to go back to very early
date to find the Cretans without hors-
es. The earliest record Of the ccaifng
Of the horse to Crete is In my posses
sion. 1t ra.y even point to the first
horse that every arrived in the island.
The figure of horse, with tree in
the background, is cut intaglio in one
side Of thrce-sided sealstone. Per-
haps the owner, who used it to stamp
the clay seals of that prehistoric Pc
riod, was horse dealer, like the 1ceni
Of Norfolk, only thousands of years be-
fore them. Or perhaps in the course
of bis import and export trade, carried
on nearly $500 years before Christ.
he had acquired horse in exchange.
One wonders whether his neighbors
envied him this strange animal, and
asked him sarcastically If he were 60
ing to keep a menagerie, and chaffed
him about his white elephant. Now
the Cretans are so welded to their
animals that they have saying that
nobody walks but asses and dogs, and
tho Greek word which signifies an es.
tate means in Crete an animal.-Prof.
G. H. Halves, in Wide World.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20
MADE HIS ESCAPE IN TIME
Spouse In the Breast Of the
Farmer.

The millionaire accepted the farm.
er's cordial invitation to ride, and with
much scrambling gained a seat on top
Of the hay.
my good man." said the millionaire,
patronizingly, "this swaying, rolling,
sweet-scented divan is couch upon
which I could win slumber and be If.
resistible to the arms of Morpheus
whenever l courted sweet Sleep"
The farmer stiffened. "I'll hear no
more of your talk; I'm a respectable
married man, an I'll ask you where
you're goin' so can avoid the place."
Dreamily the millionaire smiled.
I'm getting back to Mother Nature,
who has been outraged and abused by
me for years; / am broken man,
and she will forgive me and bring mo
back to health"
The farmer stopped the team and
pulled three-tined pitchfork from
the brace socket-but his passenger
was gone.-Success Magazine.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20
GOOD Fertilizer FOR CORN
II Gives the Plant Uniform Vigorous
Growth Which Continues
Through the Season.

The value of good corn fertilizer
consists in giving the corn uniform
vigorous early growth. The stalks are
stout, roots many and spreading,
foliage dark green and healthy. This
strong, vigorous growth continues
throughout the growing period. The
crop natures early, the grain and fod-
der ripening fully 10 to 16 days earlier
than corn planted the same day on
the same quality of land and given
exactly the same careful cultivation.
To obtain profitable yield select
sound grain taken from the middle of
the ear; plant when soil is warm and
mellow. Corn, like wheat and rye,
must have fertilizer having full
supply of phosphoric acid. The stalk,
leaves and grain require considerable
potash. For these reasons an animal
bone phosphate containing eight per
cent. of available phosphoric acid, two
per cent. of nitrogen and three per
cent. of actual potash should be
bought. A fertilizer of this quality ap-
piled at the rate Of 300 pounds to the
acre in the corn hills, the ground being
rolled sod, will under careful culture
give a profitable yield of grain. On
the other hand, when cheap acid
phosphate is used the strength of the
fertilizer is used up in stalk and
leaves, and, unless there is sufficient
plant food in the sod to make the
grain, the yield of corn is small. When
raw or long yard manure Is snread
broadcast and plowed under, or
heavy sod plowed down in the spring,
1t Ia most profitable to put the corn
in with $50 to 300 pounds of some
good standard bone phosphate to the
acre, as the manure and sod will not
be available as plant food until rotted.
which will not be until midsummer,
and not then If the fore part of sum-
nler should be hot and dry.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20
How Sea Birds Drink.


Under the headline, Where Do They
Get Water? writer in the Young
Folks Catholic Weekly says: when
I was cabin boy l often used to
wonder, seeing birds thousands Of
miles out to sea, what they did for
fresh water when they were thirsty.
One day squall answered that ques.
ton for me. It was a hot and glitter
ing day in the tropics, and in the clear
sky overhead a black rain cloud ap-
peared all of a sudden. Then out Of
empty space over hundred sea birds
came darting from every direction.
They got under the rain cloud, and
waited there for about ten minutes,
circling round and round, and when
the rain began to fall they drank their
fill. In the tropics, where the great
sea birds sail thousands Of miles away
from shore, they get their drinking
water in that way. They smell out a
storm a long way off; they travel
hundred miles maybe to get under it,
and they swallow enough raindrops to
keep them going."-New York Trib.
une.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20

ing, and I'll have it all settled wheul
l come back. Don't you worry about
my part of it."
The young man went away whis-
Ting as merrily as If he had been
told that his aunt had made a hun
dred thousand dollars, and when be
returned with couple of bass it was
to say:
Aunt, I've struck 1t. You've lo1t
money, and I can't wait to learn law
or medicine or to become a second
Horace Greeley. / spoke about book
canvassing the other day. It's a light,
genteel employment, and it's mostly
outdoor work. knew fellows at col,
lege who made big money at 1t during
vacation"
"And you will take it up?" wa.
asked.
Sure. l get hustle on me to-.
morrow. I go up town to interview
a publisher. When I come back III!
begin right here in the country, H.
you'll lend me the pony and phaeton,
I think I'll try book of poetry"
If you do, think l can tell YOU
where to make sale. The Jewettx
live two miles up the road Miss
Polly Jewett is something Of a poet
herself, as I have heard"
"All right, aunt. Miss Polly may
consider herself my prisoner"
When Aunt Hildreth saw that her
nephew was in earnest, and that the
changed order of things had already
reused him, she was conscience-stricks
en-; but she had made a resolve ana
she stuck to 1t.
The trip to the city was made. n
publisher interviewed, and Mr.. Fret
Wanless returned with the outfit OF
book anvasser-canvassing in this
case for: "Fireside Memories in
Verse;" The publisher had predicted
great things for him. His commits
sions should amount to at least 5000
a week. He was sure to reform the
profession of book canvassing, Just as
clerk from gents" furnishing
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20
You Never Can Tell.

A certain 'cellist was once snow
bound for three hours at a small rail-
read station. He unpacked his cello
and played his dozen fellow sufferers
a request program with the result that
one Of them took him to Europe for a
year. You never can tell as you bear
your precious f1ddle-case through the
streets what magic easement may not
open on the foam (of steins), and
what fairy hand may not beckon you
within to do the one thing needful to
opus fifty-nine, or draw valiant bow
in the battle Of Schumann quintet
Robert H. Schauffler, in the Atlantic.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20

Fred" said Aunt Hildreth to the
young man who had come down with
rod and gun and dog for a weeks
stay, you have finished with col
lege."
And college has finished with me"
he laughed.
"You barely scraped through"
Barely, aunt"
And you haven't yet seriously
thought of profession?"
why, aunt, couldn't run frog
farm! I'm a dead failure. don't
know as much as l did before you
spent all that money to send me
through college. It's absurd for me
to talk of taking up a profession. l
might possibly make book convass-
er, but l can think of nothing else.
I'm careless, happy-go-lucky lot, and
I'm here to own up to it. guess you
spoiled me by being too good to me-"
Fred Wanless was Aunt Hildreth's
nephew. She hadn't legally adopted
him, but he had lived with her since
he was boy Of ten, and now he was
past 49, She had money, and 1t was
generally understood that every dol
lar would be left to him. He hadn't
been unduly pampered. and he hadn't
taken advantage OF her kindness and
generosity, but he was one of the
thousands of young men who are
easy-going, and won't work until
obliged to.
Nothing further was said on the
subject for two days, and meanwhile
Aunt Hildreth carried a very sober
face. Fred noticed it, and it worried
him. At length he asked If she was
worrying about anything.
Yes. l am" was the reply. Erred,
I'm sorry to tell you that I've lost
money"
That was strictly true. She had
lost flve-dollar bill the week before
he came.
That's too bad, aunt" was the re-
ply. "You got sure tip and lost On
1t, of course? Well, you must cut
down my allowance"
I'm afraid I'll have to-. I'm afrat.l
you'll have to do some serious tkinA
ing about your future"
I'm willing. I'm going over tn
the pond for couple Of hours fish