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The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-05-17

"Of cawse i'm shaw. HOW dare you
question my"
Il wasn't questionin' you, boss.
was just astin' you
He resigned himself to the despot,
and began to transfer his burdens to
the seat. But he did nothing to the
satisfaction of the Englishman. Every.
thing must be placed otherwise; the
catch-all here, the portmanteau there,
the Gladstone there, the golfsticka
there, the greatcoat there. the rain
coat there. The porter was putting
like a donkey-engine, and mutiny was
growing In his heart. His last com.
mission was the hanging up OF the
bowler hat
He stood on the arm of the seat to
paused to glare down with an attempt
at irony.
us they anything else?"
mo. You may get down"
The magnificent patronage of this
wilted the porter completely. He re.
turned to the lower level and shut
fed along the aisle in a trance. He
was quickly recalled by a sharp:
"Pawtah!"
"Yassahi"
What time does this balIy train
start?"
"Ten-thutty, sab"
But it's only ten now"
''Yassah. It'll be ten-thutty q lit
tie later"
do you mean to tell me that I've
got to sit hyah sor half an hour-just
waitin'?"
The porter essayed another bit OF
irony:
WELL" he drawled, II might tell
the conducta you're ready. And meb
be he'd start the train. But the timc
table says ten-thutty"
He watched the effect OF his satire
but 1t fell back unheeded from the
granite dome of the Englishman,
whose only comment was:
"Oh, never mind. I'll wait"
The porter cast his eyes up in de-
SPAR. and turned away, once more &c
be recalled.
"Oh, pawtah!"
"Yassah!"
II think we'll put on my slippahs.-
"Will WEI"
t1o be continued.)
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Darling return
ed from brief visit in Grand juno
ton last Saturday.
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man. Butsne could not settle on a way
to say it. So he said nothing, and
grinned sheepishly as he said 1t.
The young man named Harry was
wondering how they were to proceed
He had already studied the region
with dismay, when the girl resolved:
We'll have to take another taxi,
Harry"
Yes, Marjorie, but we can't take it
till we get it,
You might wait here all night wit
out ketchin' Gimp of one," the
chauffeur ventured. Il come this way
because you wanted me to take a
short cut
Its the longest short cut l ever
saw" the young man sighed, as he
gazed this way and that.
The place of their shipwreck was SO
deserted that not even a crowd had
gathered. The racket of the collision
had not brought a single policeman.
They were in dead world of granite
warehouses, wholesale stores and fac
tories, all locked and forbidding, and
full of silent gloom
In the daytime this was a big trade
artery Of Chicago, and all day long it
was thunderous with trucks and com
merce. At night it was Pompeii, SO
utterly abandoned that the night
watchmen rarely slept outside. and
no footpad found it worth while to
set up shop.
The three castaways stared every
which way, and every which way was
peace. The ghost of a pedestrian or
two hurried by in the far distance.
A cat or two went furtively in search
of warfare or romance. The lamp
posts stretched on and on in both d.
rections in two forevers.
In the faraway there was a muf-
fed rumble and the faint clang of a
bell Somewhere street car was
humping along its rails.
"Our only hope" said Harry Come
along, Marjorie"
He handed the chauffeur five dollars
as a poultice to his wounds. tucked
the girl under one arm and the dog
basket under the other, and set out,
calling back to the chauffeur:
Good night"
Good night" the girl called back.
Good night" the chauffeur echoed.
He stood watching them with the ten
der gaze that even a chauffeur may
feel for young love Fastening to a
honeymoon.
He stood beaming so, till their foot
steps died in the silence. Then he
turned back to the chaotic remnants
of his machine. He worked at 1t hope
lessly for some time. before he had
reason to look within. There he
found the handbags and suitcases. UNI
brellas and other equipment. He ran
to the corner to call after the owners.
They were as absent of body as they
had been absent of mind.
He remembered the street-number
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Post speaks o. "Robber Seventh"
Scat.-Durangc Democrat.
When a political convention meets
the delegates always look for real
artist to paint the scenery. They
call 1t writing the patlform.-Trini-
dad Advertiser.
Editor Patterson's $40 watch Is
not Waterbury. Another campaign
lie nailed.-Durango Democrat.
Mexico changes rulers oftener than
Nat Goodwin changes wives. Marked
copy mailed Perry Clay.-Durango
Democrat.
There has been spent 30 far on
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the Roosevelt third term campaign
about 100000. Who has contrib
uted this money, and why2-Monte
Vista Journal.
Tho Massachusetts fight resulted
In n draw between Bill Taft, the
present champion and Teddy Roose-
welt, the white hope. Tho latter il
we'll satisfied with the verdict.-La-
mar Sparks.
A good many of our readers are
for T. r., but all OF them NJ q for @.
X. For the assistance OF anyone
who Is not god guesser. It may BIO
stated that the last stands for Good
Roads.-La Jmta Tribune.
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CHAPTER II.
The Early Birds and the Worm.

The Early Birds and the Worm.
In the enormous barn of the rail-
road station stood many strings OF
cars, as if gigantic young CULVER
stabbed his toys there and invisibly
amused himself; now whisking this
one away, now backing that other in.
Some of the trains were noble equip
ages, fitted to glide across the whole
map with cargoes of Lilliputian mil
lionaires and their Lilliputian ladies'
Others were hubble and shabby
linked-up day-coaches and dingy
smoking-ca packed with workers.
like ants.
Cars are mere vehicles, but locomo-
tives have souls. The express en-
gines roll in or stalk out with gran
deur and ease. They are like EN-.
perors. They seem to look with scorn
at the suburban engines snorting and
grunting and shaking the arched
roof with their plebeian choochoo as
they puff from shop to cottage and
back.
The trainmen take their cue from
the behavior of then locomotives. The
conductor of transcontinental mods
to the conductor of a shuttle-train
with less cordially than to a brake
man of his own. The engineers of
the limiteds look like senators in
overalls. They are far-traveled men
leading mighty life of adventure
They are pilots of land-ships across
land-oceans. They have a right to
certain condescension of manner.
But no one feels or shows SO much
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they had given him as their destina-
ton. He waited till at last yawning
policeman sauntered that way like a
lonely beach patrol, and left him in
charge while he went to telephone his
garage for a wagon and wrecking
crew.
1t was close on midnight before he
reached the number his fares had
given him. 1t was parsonage lean
ing against church. He rang the
bell and finally produced from an up
per window nightshirt topped by a
frowsy head. He explained the stu
alton, and his possession of certain
properties belonging TO parties un-
known except by their first names.
The clergyman drowsily murmured:
"Oh, yes. ! remember. The young
man was Lieutenant Henry Mallory,
and he said he would stop here with
. young lady. and get married on the
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way to the train. But they never
turned up"
Lieutenant Mallory, Ell? Where
could l reach him?"
He said he was leaving tonight for
the Philippines"
The Philippines! Well. I'll be-"
The minister closed the window
lust in time.
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Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Darling return
ed from a brief visit in Grand juno
J ton last Saturday.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-09


Very thin sheets of the metal al
minimum are now used for wall COW
ering III placetof paper.
The conscience fund.- of the
United States treasury received its
first contribution 100 years ago.
The Chinese have prepared an in
ternational manual in order to make
the translation of foreign languages
easy and rapid.
The manufacture of wood pulp pa
per involves % separate operations
from cutting down the trees to sell
ling the product.
Clam shells take a fine polish and
the Chinese carve them into SNUFF
boxes, bracelets and similar articles
Point practically all the work is
"A New York inventor has combin-
ed the disk telephone and electric
light in one stand in such a man.
ner that the light shade collects the
sound of the voice and concentrates
| it within the transmitter.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-09
JUDGES AND POLLS SELECTED
Council Arranges for Election to Be
Held February 20.

For the city election which is to
be held on February 20, and for reg
istration day, one week before, on
the 10, the following judges and To-
cations of polls for the respective
wards were named last evening by
the city council:
First ward-Miller Grocery Store,
S14 Beltrami avenue; Judges, E, R.
Getchell, G. w. Kirk, ]. P. Riddell.
Second ward-Fire Department
Hall, 800 Fourth street; Judges, D.
c. Smyth, c. C. Shepherd, A. D.
Cameron.
Third ward-Carter's warehouse,
Eighth street, American avenue !;
Judges, P. M. Decaire, J. M. Phillip
pi, G. w. Schedwaldt.
Fourth ward-G. McTaggart
building, 80 Beltrami avenue; Judg-
es, w. E. Hazen, J. E. Groom, E. E.
Chamberlain. =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-09
RYNN1NG, FISH PEDDLER, DIES
Familiar Character About Streets
Ends Existence on Poor Farm.

John E. Rynning, 80 years old, a
we'll known character who has ped
died fish on the streets of Bemidji
since the town first started, died yes
terday at the county poor farm. Ryn-
ming was picked up on the street
ragged and cold about month ago
and taken to the poor farm. The
funeral was held this afternoon from
J. T. Lahr's undertaking rooms, Rev.
T. S. Kolste, pastor of the Norweg-
ian Lutheran church being in charge
of the service. The dead man is
survived by three daughters living
in Vancouver, Wash, British Colum-
bia, and Big Falls, Mont. They
were not here for the services. In
torment was held in Greenwood GEM
stery. q,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-09
LOSES HIS PAL AND CLOTHES
Victim Tells Police He Was Robbed
of Stuff Worth SIS.

Poorly clad, shivering with the
cold, and with but cents in his
pockets, a lumberjack burst into po-
lice headquarters and told how his
bosom pal had, during the night, left
town as had also his suit case con-
tanning SIS worth of clothes and So
in cash. The lumberjack said this
happened while he was sleeping in
down town lodging house. The
two men had come in from the lum-
Der camps Friday night, and while
his companion had spent his past
months savings in drink, the victim
had invested his in buying clothes
for the winter. The alleged thief
. has not been traced.
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6 Die IN slO,OOO,OO0 FIRE
Twelve Story Granite Structure Of
Equitable Life in New York
is Destroyed.
MILLIONS SAVED IN BASKETS

Ii q ~. . ( rE IS 5a . .
New York City, Jan. o.. DAILY
Pioneer Special Wire Service) Six
lives were lost and $1O,000,O00
worth of property destroyed today
when fire burned the twelve story
granite building of the Equitable
Life Insurance company here.
Four bodies have been recovered.
Officials rushed into the building
and entered the vaults during the
fire and carried out millions of dol
lars worth of securities in waste pa
per baskets
Z. Officials declare that the vaults
will Withstand the heat and that the
policy records will be safe.
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Mr.. Johnson's figures were as TO-


When called upon to answer Mr..
Johnson's indirect charges of incom-
potency In reading the meters, Wa
ter Clerk L. p. Eckstrum said
Eckstrum Explains Readings.
Mr.. Johnson is right. Without
doubt | am trying to swindle the
people Of Bemidji. 1 have every rea-
son to swindle them; Of course. 1
have q business here, have been here
for the past eight year, am employ
ing four or five men all the time,
and am paying out q payroll Of $500
or 5000 month. But. these things
make no difference at all.
S. Now. why should try to swim
die Of Bemidji II these things are 90!
What object have l in swindling the
Icitixens Of this towns?
I've are all subject to mistakes;
y probably more than many Of you.
gentlemen. The ordinance on this
Subject says that where It is impos-
sible for the water clerk to read the.
meter he shall Ia submitting his bill
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-09
International Falls.
Minneapolis
Gulf Of Mexico.
St. L||ouis

0ull VI MSA1CO
It will be 1928 miles in length be-
tween the head of ocean navigation
on the Lower Mississippi river and
International Falls, Mimi. It will
pass through the richest valley in
the world, crossing SIS east and west
railroads, and passing through 200
cities, towns and villages, Is of them
county seats, besides opening terri
tory that will require at least 20 new
stations.
The road is to be standard gauge
and double track, and constructed
with view OF rapid transit Of live
stock and passengers from Canada to
the Gulf, estimating the trip at "a
hours.
Export -four from Minneapolis that
has, up to recently, found an outlet
to Europe via Duluth and Lake Su-
perior, will also be handled by this
line.
Naturally, If the road is construct
ed it is probable that Bemidji would
be included on the new line.
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Rubber and asbestos mixed has
been utilized successfully for the
manufacture of soles for outing
shoes. The material has the appear
ance Of thick, close felt, without
odor, and without any discomfort to
the feet, such as attends the use of
pure rubber. These will be extern
sively introduced next season.
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These Had to Talk.

Those responding with short talks
were: Sc s,,~~e4sg- g., -. ID ., 49,
Thomas J. Burke, president of the
Commercial club, who congratulated
the young men on their activity and
pledged the support of his organiza-
ton; DR.. G. NJ. Palmer, premier story
teller; Thomas Mccain who impress
sed the value of education; E. H..
Denu who pleaded for team work;
Professor Otto Bergh, who briefly ex-
planned the working of the high
school farm course; F.. A.. Wilson,
optimistic over the future of Bemid-
il; w. l.. Brooks, Emil Schneider,
IN the only prepared address of the
evening, and A. G.. Wedge, Jr., who
believed the young men were to be
commended and who dealt with the
possibilities of this section as far
ming country.
Following these talks the question
as to what should be the next step
on the part of the young men was
discussed, Messrs. Fisher, Hillary,
Mayer, Professor Robinson, R. E.
Given and others urging that anoth-
er banquet be held and that some
sort of a permanent organization be
perfected.
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WOMAN SOCIALIST TONIGHT
Mia Upper Maynard to Deliver Her
Address on The Trust Busters"

At the City Hall tonight Mrs. Mia
Upper Maynard will deliver the
fourth of a series of Socialistic lee
lures being given by the Bemidji 10
cal. The subject is s'The Trust Bust
ers." Women will be admitted free
and four presents will be given
away.
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Thayer Bailey and Bride Arrived.
Attorney Thayer G. Bailey and
wife returned yesterday from a ten
days. honeymoon trip to St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth. Mr.. Bal
ley was married to Miss Gertrude
Stone of Crookston, on December 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey will be at home
to their friends after February LIST at
COS Minnesota avenue.
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Mass Meeting Called for Commercial
Club Rooms on Friday Even
ing to Make Plans.
SEVERAL MAKE SHORT TALKS
Toastmaster Erwin Keeps Guests in
Merry Mood and Many Happy
Remarks Given.

At banquet given here last
night at the Markham hotel by the
young men of the city, and featured
by decision to perfect a permanent
organization along lines to be deter
mined at a mass meeting to be held
at the Commercial club rooms on
Friday evening of this week, the
unique suggestion was offered by w.
L. Brooks, cashier of the Northern
National bank that the young men
name from their own number a can
didate for mayor at the election to
be held here February 20.
And if you organize right you
can elect your man for mayor. 1t is
UP to you young men,
Mr.. Brooks suggestion came in
the course of the evenings program,
different ones of the older business
men of the city being called upon
by Toastmaster Thomas Erwin for
remarks.
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o OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. .
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q OUTSIDE NEWS Condensed. q
g. o 9 O O 9 o . O . . . . . -
The coke industry in Fayette
county, Penn, is suffering on &C
count of shortage of labor. Many
plants are unable to start up.
A. R. Boone of Charleston is the
first candidate to file for the Mis-
souri, state primary next August. He
filed as Democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor. @
Sixty-seven tons Of melinite shells,
which were condemned after the in
quiry as to the cause of the explos-
ion on the battleship Liberte, were
thrown into the sea at Brest, France.
The British exports for the year
1911 total $2,271,412,300, or an in
crease of $119,4s8,44O over 1910
Imports for the year were $780,
795,S75, which is only $11,51O,755
over 1910.
George w. Wickersham, Attorney
General of the United States; J. J.
Jusserand, French ambassador at
Washington and E. Havenith, Bel
gian minister at Washington, with
their party. are in Havana.
The South Dakota Conservation,
Dry Farming and Good Roads Con-
gress, for which preparations have
been making for several months, met
in Sioux Falls today. Former Unit
ed States Senator ePttigrew was one
Of the speakers. The sessions will
last three days. Governor Eberhart
is on the program for an address
morning.
The New Jersey legislature met at
Trenton today and organized for it's
1CSu1dA duAuoA oCoSAOA. 1Ac 1Sc-
publican majority was elected on a
platform pledging a number of i'm
portant reforms. The party leaders
are determined that the legislation
shall be of such that Governor Will
son will not dare to exercise his
right of veto without endangering
his chances to secure the Democratic
presidential nomination
The one hundred and nineteen
delegates selected at the NovembeEa
election to frame new Constitu-
ton for the State of Ohio assembled:
today at Columbus, Ohio. 1t is ex-
pected that four or five months, per-
haps more, will be required to COM
plete the Constitution. Three big
issues will occupy much of the at
tention of the convention. These
are liquor legislation, taxation and
the initiative and referendum.
The family shoes will cost more
this year than they did in 1911. Ac-
cording to the statements made by
members of the National Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers Association,
which began it's annual meeting in
New York today, an advance is alb
solutely necessary because of the in
crease in the cost of raw material.
1t is expected that an advance of
from five to seven per cent will be
made in the wholesale prices of shoes
after the fall samples have been sent
out in March.
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Names Committee to Act.

Toastmaster Erwin, who kept the
guests in merry frame by a contin-
uous flow of wit, told of the difficult
ties encountered in arranging such a
gathering and appointed William
Finnegan, Ralph Lycan, A. L. Bar
ker and William Russell a commit
tee to arrange for the next banquet
and to act with the Commercial club
in effecting a permanent organiza-
ton.
President Burke offered the use of
the club rooms for a mass meeting
and the young men decided to gath
er there on Friday evening and de-
eide at that time where to amalga-
mate with the Commercial club or to
work along separate lines.
Last nights dinner was one of keen
enjoyment from the moment the
guests were seated at specially ar
ranged tables in the Markham dinife
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GULF Line TO Be BUILT
Railroad to Be Constructed from In
ternational Falls to Gulf, May
include psnlidji.
ENGLISH CAPITAL IS SECURED

i For some time It; has been known
that line Of railroad was being pro-
NOTED, the route Of which would be
straight line through the United
States from International Falls to a
point on the Cult Of Mexico. The
promoter and chief engineer is John
Riley Of Kansas City, a gentlemen
we'll known In railroad circles, and
under recent date he writes that he
has just returned from England
where he succeeded in financing the
project, and thatlwork of construc-
ton would soon be started. Re-
garding the proposed railroad the
steelville (Mo.) Leader has the fol-
lowing to say: -
It will be rather interesting news
to the people Of Ills section to learn
OF the promotion Us a new railroad
through thta Immediate territory. If
there is anything our people are in
terested in it is railroads, especially
under the present service of the
Frisco.
The North and South Railroad as
ISOLATION are the promoters of this
new line to be known as the Mexican
Gulf and Canadian Railroad. The
chief engineer of the proposed line
has been in communication with par
ties here for some time, and In his
last letter stated positively that the
line would run through steelville.
The proposed line as now outlined
will run on'a direct line from Cana
da to the Gulf Of Mexico as fol-
lows:
International Falls. ~.
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Refers Sarcastically to Intimation Of
aSwindle" and illustrates How the
Meters Are All Tempered.
COUNCIL ORDERS INVESTIGATION
1nstructs That Instruments Be Sealed
Tests Made and Report Given by
January 22.

Figures offered to show alleged
discrepancies in the reading of the
water meters of Bemidji were sub
mitted to the city council last night
by c. G. Johnson, real estate dealer
and investment broker, and their
reading caused the council to request
the water committee to make
thorough investigation and report a
week from next Monday night.
Mr.. Johnson appeared before the
council with a large number of pa
pers, bills and figures. He said:
Makes No Formal Charges. !.
II do not come here to make any
formal charges, but I want to- show
you figures which tend to show you
that an investigation is needed.
"My attention was called to these
facts by my water bill for the last
quarter. This bill showed the wa
ter consumption at my residence to
be $4,000. gallons for the past three
=. s OK -
months, while my bill for the quar-
ter ending June 80. during the hot,
dry months Of which I had used q
great deal Of water on my lawn,
charged me with a consumption of
only 10000 gallons.
There evidently was something
wrong, and SO started little In
vestigation on my own hook, which
brought forth the following figures.
While some of them may closely
tally with those of the water clerk,
most Of them go to show that there
has been some mistake in reading
the water meters all over the city"
Johnson Presents Figures.
Mr. JOhnsOn's figures were as fol.
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Mrs. A. X. Southworth went to
Bagley today where she will be the
guest of her aunt, Mrs: G. H. Hansell
for week or more.