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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21

Rapids took a tack in that direction
yesterday when he introduced reso-
luton providing committee of nine,
one member from each Congressional
district, to be known as a estate
Affairs Committee" and whose duty
shall be to gather information on
important legislature facing the
present session, such records to be
open for inspection by all members
of the Legislature. This committee
will also pass on bills and resolutions.
A clerk at $40 per day is provided.
Xxx
After eulogizing the late dearly
beloved Governor John A. Johnson
as one of Minnesota's most brilliant
sons, bill introduced in the House
by Ole Peterson of New Ulm provides
for the appointment by the governor
of commission Of five to secure the
erection of an appropriate monument
over the grave of Governor Johnson
at St. Peter. An appropriation of
$4,000 is called for to cover the
expense.
x
Owing to the illness of Attorney
General Simpson, the claims of
Sheriff Hazen for remuneration from
the state for the list of persons the
sheriff has designated as proper
parties to receive money for aid
given the stricken towns immedi-
ately after the fire. This list, which
was sent by Sheriff Hazen to the
attorney general, is still in the Office
of that official.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
No Immediate Action Will Be Taken
On Minnesota Liquor
Situation.
Nicholson Shows That LOO Citizen
Indians Are Now Living OFF
Reservation.

Washington, Jan. 20.-Contrary
to expectation, no decision was
reached by President Taft on the
Minnesota Indian liquor situation at
last evenings White House confer
ence. The indication is that no
action will be taken until next week.
The conference was devoted mostly
to discussion of the administrator
powers of the president with refer
ence to the modification of various
treaties while the decision of Judge
Willard on the treaty of 1855 was
subordinated.
Those who participated in the dis
cussien were Secretary Ballinger, In
dian Commissioner Valentine, and S.
E. Nicholson, representing the anti
saloon league. W. 6. Calderwood of
the Minnesota prohibition committee
had not asked the president for an in
terwiew up to that time.
Secretary Ballinger and Commits
sioner Valentine continued to be 81
lent upon the subject, saying that
the president had the matter in hand
and would make, an announcement in
due time. Mr.. Nicholson was not
much more communicative, but from
what he said it was gathered that he
is to furnish some information to
Commissioner Valentine relative to
citizen Indians living outside the
reservation, and also on other mat
tiers on which Mr.. Valentine is to
render an opinion and is to send it
to the president.
Mr.. Nicholson had previously fur
nished Taft with data showing the
areas outside the reservation in
which citizen Indians are residing.
For instance, he showed that LOO of
the Indians live in the locality cover
ed by the treaty of 1855, in the nor
thern part of the state.
The anti-saloon league again urged
the president to order an appeal from
the Willard decision in the belief
that the supreme court will reverse
that decision.
w. G.. Calderwood, at his confer
ence with Assistant Attorney Gener-
al Dennisson, discussed the legal
questions involved in the Willard de-
cision. He strongly urged that an
appeal be taken to the supreme court.
Mr.. Dennisson indicated it would be
several days before he would be
ready to prepare an opinion.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
FARMERS HAVE TELEPHONES
Organize Company Which Will Build
System This Winter.

Several farmers living in the vicin-
ity east Of Bemidji have organized a
company which will build telephone
line running to the farm of ]. E.
Swanson, about twelve miles east of
this city. The line will connect
with the Northwestern Telephone ex-
change here. ......-..s~..
Officers have been elected, and are
as follows: Herman Eickstad, pres
ident; William Haberlee, treasurer
and Albert Brewer, secretary.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Would Narrow Country Roads.

St. Paul, Jan. 21.-About $5,OO0,0
worth of land is to be restored to the
farmers of Minnesota under bill
which was introduced into the house
by J. R. Keefe of North Redwood. Mr.
Keefe's plan is to cut the public high
ways from four rods to three rods
thus giving back to the land owners
the extra rod 1t is his contention
that this rod is not needed in the high
way and that all the room required
would be provided by the three-rod
road .~.~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Killed While Playing Hanqman.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-Albert Deeruntz,
sixteen years old, was killed while
playing hangman with his two younger
brothers. Albert was standing on a
barrel that was open at the top and
had around his neck the moose of a
rope which was attached to a rafter
The barrel tipped and the boy dropped
He died before his brothers could res.
cue him.
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Baptist.

Mems Bible class 10. Morning
service II. Sunday school 1915.
B. Y. P. U. 7; topic, The law of
prevailing prayer" Special music
by the choir. No evening service.
Rev. S. w. Scott for many years a
pastor in Ohio, will preach Sunday
morning in the absence of the pastor
who is supplying the pulpit at Park
Rapids.
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Presbyterian.

Morning worship at IL. At this
hour we will begin a series of dis
courses on The Bible, The Word of
God" Sunday school 1915. Young
Peoples, service 7. Evening Gospel
service at 8. Thursday eve at 7:3O
we will have our second study on
the Second Coming of Christ. The
public is invited.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Posto&ce Rearranged.

The postofice has been rearranged
so that the money order window,
which has been at the extreme end
of the Office in now near the general
delivery window. A special window
for the new postal bank has also
been installed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Date Of G. A. r. Encamnment.

Rochester, N. Y, Jan. 21.-The ex.
ecutive committee of the staff of the
commander-in-chief of the G. A R. an
nounces that the national encampment
will be held here Aug. d to &c.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Methodist.

Service in Masonic Temple.
Preaching 1O:45 and 7:3O. Morn
ing subject The Preaching of The
Cross" Evening subject Saved
by Grace" Sunday school H..
Epworth League $50. Topic
Life Building" The pastor will
lead. Special music.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Sunday Sermons in Bemidii


There will be no services as the
pastor will be at Turtle River, but
there will be Sunday school as usual.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
German Lutheran,

Services at the Baptist church
Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
FORTY MINERS ARE KILLED
Perish in colliery Disaster in Russian
Poland.

Berlin, Jan. PA news dispatch
from Sosnowice, Russian Poland. says
that forty miners lost their lives in a
fire in the Casimir colliery near that
place. Three hundred and sixty 9th.
ers ESCAPED,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Illinois Defeats Minnesota.

Illinois defeated Minnesota last
night in basketball game by score
of Is to II. The game was rough
in the extreme and the outcome was
in doubt until the final moment.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21

Skating at the rink tomorrow.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03
Due Precautions.

In town In Georgia there waH AN
old preacher whose knowledge OF the
world was not wide nor deep, but who
conceived it to be place where, II
one should trust his fellow men, no
should at the same time keep an eye
on his own interests. -.
One hot day he pulled off his coat
and preached a vigorous sermon, I'M
der the pines, in his shirt sleeves. At
1.-The close of the open-air service one
of his admirers approached him and
said, regretfully:
II don't suppose that you knew that
the editor Of one of the big New York
Sunday papers was here when you
pulled off your coat"
II reckon knew 1t well, for I'd
been told Of it," said the preacher,
calmly. II don't believe he's as bad
as he might be, and anyway, I put my
coat on the chair close by and had it
right under my eye all the time
Youths Companion.
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* hottest PLACE on R47ZZE.VNo y y 4

deck just peep1ng above the water. When the
sea was calm and the sky was clear the sun
beat down on the metal and the men who had
stood the night watches and were trying to
sleep suffered more severely than do the
people in the crowded back tenements in New
York city on hot July night when death
walks through the streets. An officer who
served a monitor during the Spanish war
told me that the average temperature for
long period of time in his cabin was 104 de-
grees.
Recently two young officers not long out
of the naval academy were forced to resign
from the service because they were constantly
seasck while on service on the battleships.
The young fellows stuck it out for several voy-
ages, but when 1t is remembered that seasick
man a rule is so sick that he is perfectly
willing to die, it can be understood what these
young fellows suffered during the weeks of
the voyaging. They resigned from the navy
simply because they could not be of any serv-
ice. They were sick from the moment the voy-
age began until they were back once more In
port. They were competent officers and since
their resignation they have been given land
berths us officers of heavy artillery in the
United States army.
asked an old naval officer recently, man
who served on the old frigate Constitution If
he knew of any cases of chronic seasickness
of the service. He said he knew Of only one
case, that of an officer who developed seasick-
ness after some years of service, but that 1t
thought that slight injury to his spine
had affected his stomach and that it was this
more than the motion of the vessel which was
the cause Of his aiment
This same veteran officer said that there
is considerable seasickness today in the navy,
although comparatively few cases that could
be called chronic, and that they were DUE he
believed, more to the heat of the modern steel
vessels than to the motion caused by the
waves. In the old days of wooden ships with
sail power only, there no heat board
except that given out by the galley and by the
small stove which occasionally was to be found
in the captains cabin. The old-time ships in
winter were kept in warm climates as much
possible or otherwise the men would have
frozen TO death.
The old wooden vessel jamestown, once
commanded by Commodore Perry who opened
the ports of Japan to the commerce of the
United States, is anchored in Hampton Roads,
where it is used as marine hospital service
station. surgeon stationed on the jamestown
once told me that in the old days, when the
vessel was in commission the only way the
captain could warm himself without going to
the galley was to have roundshct heated in
the stove then dropped into bucket of sand
to be carried aft to his cabin, where it gave
out just enough warmth to temper for few
moments the cold of the quarters.
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He called in his first lieutenant and said: II
have here orders transferring you Immediately
to Vermont. You have done a noble work here
There is no reason why you should stay longer
You have been through enough of this awful
thing. Co."
Bell said Captain, don't want the order
If read it suppose shall have to obey simply
because it is an order. You keep it in your
pocket until the fever is over and then I'll read
it and co.
Langdon shook hands with him.
Bell went on with his work. In a few days
he felt the hot hand of the scourge on his brow
He went to his tent, pulled up his little camp
table and wrote official letter to the assist
ant adjutant general at headquarters of the de-
partment of the gulf Holly Springs, Miss. It
was a long letter, covering many pages. There
was In Bells heart that day the fear that he
might die and leave undone an act OF duty to
others. He cherished the thought of the loyalty
of the surgeons and the enlisted men who had
so nobly performed their duties to the sick and
dying, facing the fever and death itself without
finching. He mentioned in this official com.
munication each doctor and man Dynamo recon-
mending them for recognition at the hands of
the department. OF himself he said nothing,
his whole thought was that recognition should
be given to others.
Lieut.. James e. Bell put down his pen went
to the hospital and in three days was dead.
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special ordnance board, with four volunteer
sailors agreed to stay on board the Puritan
when the explosive was detonated. More than
this. Captain Knight had the task of punching
small holes in the explosive with lead pencil
to permit the Introduction of fuses. This was
an exceedingly delicate operation and because
Of the fact that the explosive was new COM
bination 1T was possible that something might
happen during the puncturing, lightly 1t
was performed. After the fuses were inserted
Captain Knight connected electric wires with
them and then went forward to position on
the berth deck with the four enlisted men
who elected to stay on board with him.
The ordnance board officer turned switch
and the explosion took place. The report was
thunderous. 1T felt like earthquake" said
Captain Knight afterward. With his men the
venturesome captain escaped injury, but their
heroism was just real as If they had been
blown to atoms, for because Of the fact that
tho explosive Was a comparatively unknown
quantity, no one could tell definitely what
might happen.
Writing of the Puritan, which is monitor,
brings to mind the fact that officers and men
serving on vessels of this type undergo hard
ships of which the people Of the country know
little. The monitor gradually is passing as an
active service vessel and it is not likely that
anybody connected with the service from ad-
nlral down to cooks mate Is sorry for it. The
heat IN the monitors is something intense, and
as the waves wash the low decks of the
vessels when any kind of breeze is blowing
the men are confined below with no air except
such as IS pumped down to them by way OF
the engine room, and this air is hot, oily and
productive on many occasions of sickness,
called sea Sickness but which in reality Is
nothing of the kind, although 1t has all the
attendant symptoms of the real article
The modern battleships are frightfully hot
below decks, especially when they get into
tropical and sub-tropical waters. A civilian
who went to Panama with President Taft said
that in his cabin when dressing for dinner he
was obliged to stand directly in the draught Of
blow pipe to prevent the profuse perspira-
tion from so melting the bosom of his dress
shirt that it would be unpresentable when he
appeared at the presidents table. The Their
mometer in the staterooms stood at about 112
degrees.
Some years ago officer who was sta
toned on monitor was found dead in his
berth and the surgeons pronounced his death
to have been caused by apoplexy, heat apo
plexy the officers of the ship called It, An old
naval officer in Washington has told that
the thermometer in the cabin of the officer
who died stood at 40 degrees and that the
death was due solely to a heat stroke.
During the Spanish the monitor Man
tonon1ah was on blockading duty off the port
Of Havana, Cuba. The Miantoncmah is an old
steel monitor cased in metal and with the
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ginius back TO America M1dshlpman Onder'
wood was one of two or three omcers VINO
were assigned to the Virgtn1us TO look a1ter II
while the towing process was on.
The life on board the Virginus Is one that
1t is impossible to describe. The Spanlaros
had left her in such filthy state that h'ing
on board was intolerable even after cleaslng
processes had been tried After few days on
board that ship the men looked as though
they had been through a siege OF Sickness
Finally when off the Virginia capes the Vlr-
gnius gave every evidence of being In Sink
ing condition. She foundered quickly and the
officers and men on board escaped to the U.s.
sipee, being obliged to leave their belongings
behind. The benefcent United States govern
ment, because of some red tape reason or
other, declined to make good to the devoted
sailors the property which they had lost
through no fault of their own and in direct line
of duty.
Captain Underwood was for two years In
command of the United States government sta
ton in the Samoan Islands, He was consid-
cred one of the handsomest men in the service
of his country. He was over six feet high.
finely proportioned and fine physical speci-
men generally. No war with man went on in
the Samoan islands, but the heat and the food
and the devishness of the climate generally
did the work of the battlefield. II Captain
underwood naQ never Deen gwen an assign
ment at the Samoan islands it is probable
that he would have continued in the active
service until the age limit of sixty-two years
was reached. The dangers of warfare are not
the only ones by any means that navy and
army officers are obliged to meet.
1t may do no harm here to recall the story
Of the heroism of Lieut.. James E. Bell of the
United States army, who died because of his
devotion to duty, died at time when no bull
lets were flying, but when an even deadlier
foe of necessity must be met. This story has
been published many times, but it has it's ever
lasting lesson.
Fort Jefferson, on the Tortugas, in August
of the year 1873 was garrisoned by Battery NJ
First United States artillery. Outside of the
surgeons there was only one officer, Lieuten
ant Bell, at the post. Capt. L. l.. Langdon had
been granted a leave of absence to go north
to the bedside Of his dying father. On August
% yellow fever appeared at the post Within
two days four of the garrison had died. Upon
the first announcement of the appearance of
the scourge Lieutenant Bell sent all the women
and children and some of the married men to
an island three miles away. Within day or
two he sent to the same place nearly all the
well men of the garrison, retaining only
enough to nurse the sick There could have
been no criticism of Bells course had he gone
with the garrison, leaving the sick to the care
of the surgeons and the nurses. He stayed and
devoted himself to the sick in the hospital, as
sisted by the men who had volunteered. The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03
MARKED BY A MIRACLE

extraordinary excitement has been caused
among the peasants in the neighborhood Of
k1ltimagh, County Mayo. this week, by a
series of what described as miraculous hap
penings at the convent there, a Dublin CORE
spondent of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat
writes.
Among the children who are being educated
by the good nuns of Kiltimagh is girl Of
thirteen, who has been an inmate of the con-
vent school for the last three or four years.
She Is described extremely docle and af-
fect1onate and more than usually religious. A
few nights ago one of the nuns was awakened
by fearful screams from the dormitory where
the girl slept, and on going to her she was told
that the child had had a terrible dream, in
which she Christ on the cross and SOL
der driving a lance into his side.
The nun comforted her and she went to
sleep, but in the morning she complained that
her arm sore and on examination it was
found to be marked with a in red and
underneath the cross were the letters Il. H.
S." few days later a crown of thorns ap-
peared below the cross and the letters II NJ
R. l." and these were followed by the appear
ance of chalice surmounted by a host in
red. The marks have been examined by the
parish priest, Rev. Father O'FIara and by Dr.
Madden of Kiltimagh, who vouch for their be-
ing there, but decline to express any opinion as
to their cause. 1t is said that during the doc
tors examination the stigmata bled freely. The
nuns maintain stoutly that the child had no op.
portunity of inf1icting the injuries, If injuries
they be, on herself and understand arrange
ments are being made for thorough investiga-
ton of the mystery by a committee of &C.
clesiestics and medical men.
Another illustrating in another way the
credulity which still is to be found in some
parts of Ireland has just come to light by the
prosecution at Granard of an Australian who
had been travelling the country extracting
money-not teeth-from country people who
are afflicted with toothache. Thomas Herman
said that the man told him he could cure him
by extracting the nerves Of his teeth and that
when he consented to undergo the treatment
the man took an instrument like long
needle, picked at his teeth awhile and then
laid what looked like little white caterpillar
on his sleeve, saying this was the nerve and
that he would never suffer from toothacne
again.
OF course, he did suffer, and when he went to
a medical man for relief and told his Etary he
learned how he had been swindled.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03
Father of the Man.

Miss Amelia Austin listened with
breathless attention to Mrs.: Amasa
Hunting's radiant account of the do
ings of James Hunting, her husband
younger brother, who had left Wo-
brook-in-the-Hills in his youth and
had become a millionaire.
where is Jim this summer" Miss
Amelia inquired, at the end of the 70
cital.
Gle has gone abroad for baths" re-
piled Mrs. Hunting.
Il amt one mite surprised to hear
that" Miss Amelia said. Ellis mother
never could make him wash his
neck."-Youth's Companion.
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Punishment to Fit Crime

Rigorous but well-merited punish
ment was administered by Judge Hay
den ofSwoyersville, Pa, when Albert
Gay, a wife-beater, was dashed till he
begged for mercy and promised never
to strike his wife again. Gays wife,
a small, fraile woman, appeared at
court covered with cuts and bruises
caused by her husbands brutality
Judge Hayden sent for the husband
and met him at the court with a heavy
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03
A Poultry Problem.

(Which is correct" ask the sum-
mer boarder who wished to air his
knowledge, ito speak of sitting hen
or a setting hen?"
II don't know" replied the farm
er's wife. "and what's more. don't
care. But there's one thing I would
like to know: when hen cackles,
has she been laying, or is she lying?'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03
Plan Memorial to Carlvle.

"A movement is on foot for Scot
fish national memorial to Thomas
Carlyle, the great essayist, historian
and philosopher. It is proposed to
erect statues at the village of Eccle-
fechan, where the literary giant lies
buried, at Edinburg, and possibly at
Kirkcaldy and Glasgow.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03

Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are, tonic
to the stomach. liver and nerves. They
invigorate instead of weaken; they en-
rich the blood instead of impoverish it:
they enable the stomach to get all tho
nourishment from food that is put into
it.
These pills contain no calomel, no
DOPE, they are soothing. healing and
act without physic. Price % cents.