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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
.BEMlDJI soon TO
HAVE WEIGHTS And
MEASURE SYSTEM
Mayor Proposes Ordnance To That
Effect Be Drawn Up And Also
Suggests striqt Milk Inspection.
COUNCIL APPROVES OF IDEA
Authorizes City Clerk To Commune
cate With Other Cities In Regard
To Handling Such Laws.

Bemidji will soon have a city scale.
a strict milk inspection ordinance
and a system of weights and meas
ures, if suggestions offered by William
tMcCuaig, mayor, at the council meet
ing last vening, are followed by the
aldermen, and from their attitude last
evening it appeared that they are all
enthusiastic over the prospects.
Mr.. McCuaig brought out the fact
that proper precautions against dis
ease We're not being taken by Bemid-
ji,that it was a wonder more sick
ness is not had in this city, and that
the state laws ought to be enforced.
He believed that a milk inspection
ordinance ought to be drawn up
which would make it law that ev-
cry dairy, furnishing milk to Bemid-
j residents whether within the civ
limits or one hundred miles distant
should be inspected, the cows exam
lned and other precautions taken
Is Not Sufficient.
Alderman Smart remarked that
mere was such an ordinance covering
such law in the charter, but George
STEM city clerk, after looking it IN
found that the clause was not sprfi-
Gent for the one required.
The matter of installing a o,t-
scale and system of weights ana
measures Tres in Bemidji was then taken
up. Alderman Hannah stron p,v
urged that the mayor be upheld: j..
mls suggestion, and stated that he be-
lleved such a system should be carried
on IN zBemidji. The other aldermen
were Of the same opinion, and The
Guy clerk talf TX. was instructed to commnni-
cate with other cities relative to thei,
manner of handling such law n !,
expected that Mr.. Stein will have .
report ready at.the next meeting and
that at that time p. J. Russell ci+v
attorney, will be instructed to draw
~ IHe required ordinance.
Rooming House Ordinance
Inc mayor also suggested that an
ordinance of some kind be drawn I'M
which would deal with the operatione
OF hotel and. rooming houses, along
the same lines as that in force in m
luth and the Twin Cities.
Sherm Bailey, alderman of the Sec
ond ward, proved himself to be the
poor mans Santa Claus and moved
that the mayor and city clerk be Civ
en- the right to spend money to the
amount of $50 in giving the poor of
Bemidji things needed at Christmas.
The report of the clerk as to the
city finances was accepted.
In the absence of R. F. Murphy,
alderman at large, Joe Bisair pre-
sided
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
SMALL FIRE YESTERDAY
Bemidji Department Called To Put
Out Blaze in fuller Barn

Shortly after five o'clock Monday
afternoon the Bemidji fire depart
.ment was called to SOB Irvine avenue
where small blaze was discovered
between the partitions of the Full
Ter barn. Quick work on the part of
the department prevented much
damage.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS TREE
Sisters of St. Anthony's Hospital to
Entertain Patients

where by the patients and employees
of st. Anthony's hospital will be
royalty entertained Christmas day
by the sisters of that institution. Fol
lowing carefully planned program
the presents sent to the hospital for
this occasion will be distributed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
Standing, of Teams

The next game Of the series was
scheduled for tomorrow evening and
was to be played between the Bing-
ers and Spillers, but as there are to
be meetings of the Masonic and
Moose Lodges, the game has been
postponed until Thursday evening.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16

BODIES TAKEN TO CAss LAKE
Those Drowned Were Louis Larson,
Walter Tinde, 2. $, Goldamer and
Fred Krogan Murphy Assists.

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Efforts to locate the bodies of the
four Woodsmen who were drowned
in Boy, River early Sunday morning
were successful yesterday and the re-
mains of all of them were taken to
Cass Lake where they were prepared
for burial by Coroner Miskella, who
was assisted by R. F. Murphy, the
Bemidji' undertaken.
The dead are:
LOUIS LARSON, Moorhead.
WALTER 1TINDE, Moorhead.
r. S. GOLDAMER, Neilsville, Wis.
FRED KROGAN, st. Paul.
Watches found on the bodies would
show that the accident happened at
1915 Sunday morning.
Were Woodsmen.
The men were employees at the
d * :. i II, NJ
Clement and Kennedy lumber camp,
located three miles from the village
of Boy river, and it is believed that
they were on their way back to the
camp when the ice gave way and be-
fore assistance could aid them they
were drowned.
Rumors are to the effect that the
four men were in company with sew
eral other lumbermen, and these mar
roWly escaped the fate of their COM
panions.
AS one of the men who went to his
death fell into the water he grabbed
the hand of one of his mates, and on
ly the fact that his mitten came of,
prevented him from going down.
Could Not Get Facts.
- Until a late hour yesterday after
noon it was impossible to gain any
information concerning the tragedy,
and not until the return of the cor
oner to Cass Lake could anything de-
finite be learned. Boy River is re-
mote from telephone and telegraph
and the particulars were not avail
able.
One of the victims was camp cook
whose mother lives in st. Paul and
went to Cass Lake about year ago.
The bodies of the two Moorhead
men were prepared by Undertaken
Murphy and sent to their former
homes last evening.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
ROLLET TO LECTURE HERE
Will Take AS His Subject, Japan
Public Is Invited To Attend.

Thursday night at the Episcopalian
church, Rev. C. G. Rollet, department
secretary of the church, will lecture
on Japan. His lecture will be ac-
companied by stereoptican pictures,
The lecture is to be entirely free and
the public is invited to be present i
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
Sure Sign of Summer

Another >'sure sign Of spring has
been added to the budding trees, be-
ing in the form of a mosquito. The
insect was discovered in the home of
R. E. Fisher. d
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16
Walter Camps All American
s Eleven

x End-Hogsett, Dartmouth
X Tackle-Ballin, Princeton
X Guard-Pennock, Harvard
x Center-Des Jardien, Chicago
K Guard-Brown, Navy -.. ..-s
x Tackle--Talbot, Yale .....
y End errilat, Army
X Quarter Huntington, Colgate
x Half Back-Craig, Michigan
X Half Back-Brickley Harvard
X Full Back-Mahan, Harvard
Il 4 Il 4 4 4 Il Il II II II II r. ~ r ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16

FRANK CULBERTSON
LYNCHED BY A MOB

Williston, n. D. Dec. 16 Especial
to the Daily Pioneer Frank Cul-
bertson, recently convicted Of the
murder Of three members Of the Dill
Ion family, on a farm north Of here,
was lynched by mob who broke into
the county jail early this morning.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-16

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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
MIKE VS.. IKE.

Said Mike to Ike: "You dirty jew
III whale the stuffin's out of you!
You blatherin', unbaptized galoot, I've
a DANCED good moind to smash your
snoot!"
Said Ike to Mike: You Christian
dog, you r-rotten beast Vot lifts on hog,
ven dot church r-rings dot OF church
bell, delIs der pope to go to HE'LL"
And then the blood and whiskers
flew between the Christian and the
Jew.
Now both these Holsters worked all
day for the self-same boss at blamed
small pay, and devil bit did this boss
care for bleeding mugs and gobs OF
hair. "lf l." said he, "can keep these
two-Mike the Christian, and Ike, the
Jew-scrapping about their creeds and
such, can skin 'em both to beat the
Dutch; but If they lose their myths
and creeds, their COLLINS, ghosts and
strings of beads, and find their in
terests are one, the two would have
me on the run!"
And the boss lay back and smole a
smile, and dreamed of next years
qoodly pile that he would swipe from
wealth that grew from sweat of Chris
tan and of Jew. And he blessed the
ghosts with all his heart that kept
poor Mike and Ike apart.-Meltng
Pot
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
THE GUTTER o.

tDy r. ". Sorviee)
You're sick of the game. we'll now,
that's a shame
You're young and you're brave and
you're bright.
You've had "a rlw dealt" I know but
don't sQuoal
Buck up do your damdest and
fiuht
It's the plugging away that will win
You the day.
So don't be piker. old pard!
Just draw on your girt; It's so easy to
quit;
It's the keeping your chin up that's
hard
It's easy to cry that you're beaten
and die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight, and to fight when hope S
out of sight
Why, that's the best game of them
all!
And though you come out of each
gruelling bout
All broken and beaten and Scared,
Just have one more try-it's dead easy
to die.
It's the keeping on living that's hard.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Know where Arlington is? That is
the place that made Sinclair famous.
Well up there a couple of polite
ians want the people of the city to
vote as to whether they want Sinclair
to teach or not A slush fund of $500
has already been raised by these re-
spectables to "get" Sinclair The So
cialist school directors were wise in
not falling for this game. The polite
ians were going to pay for the election.
And of course it would have been their
election. Who is fool enough to pay
for something and not get it?
Judge HUMPHREYS has another count
against Wells. The judge wants to
also disbar Wells because he is a So
cialist and therefore espouses doc
trines inimical to the U. S. govern
ment While the judge was still but
lawyer he laid claim to being one
of those me too but" Socialists.
Right then he forthwith Gas Blathers
would say gave his check for ten dol
lars to the Socialist party to help it
espouse these self same doctrines in
imical to our government He must
have been prosperous lawyer, even
then. But this is before the point.
The question is: If Wells is to be
fired out of the lawyers union for
espousing, when will the judge bring
proceedings against himself for help
ing to espouse the same brand of red
dope?
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
MOVE WITH THE MOVEMENT.

tFrom War- r.. KrkpatrcbO
that e
My friend you
something else but pay this one n
about equivalent to the expense
\ million quarters
dollars mon
organization Think of it, .,,,ir,o
Do |
the movement WONT you
help little regularly? -. :. I'D
HelpB
PROTECT this movement
FelpG
You-a
We needles other. Let's get together .,ouo
the of
the
as soon
humility one OF
all to h
the Socans
until pledge
membership accepted you can
the methods pohc
candidates This no
this
struggle between the
working
distinct opposed 10
hereby declare that
PARTIES and endorse the
SOCIALIST PARTY including the o
membership
O.
blank membership
fair hep
must be done. sion. Enist WITH THE MOVEMENT
who fights ALONE
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
HOW TO CONDUCT A LOCAL OR
BRANCH.

Sell Socialist books.
Get subscribers for Socialist papers.
Get now members.
Hold public meetings Whenever you
can get good speakers, and see that
the meetings are well advertised.
Hold business meetings not less than
twice "a month Plan work for the
cause. and then carry out the plans.
Be sure your secretary is a live
member and that his books are audited
regularly at least every three months
BE sure the minutes are kept OF
every meeting.
send notices of meetings to your
local papers.
Keep a complete list of Socialists in
your territory, whether members or
not. See that they register on time
and that they vote on election day.
See that all foreign born Socialists
ere naturalized and that they register
and vote.
If possible have a committee at the
polls i'm each precinct all day on cleo
ton day.
Always have watchers at the polls
after they close, to watch the count
and keep tally on the vote.
Hold a social session occasionally
and bring the members into close
touch with each other.
Hold discussions and debates, in or
der to thoroughly educate the men,
bers and develop local speakers.
Select a good Socialist book and de-
vote some of the meetings to a sys-
tematic study of it.
Keep the meeting place clean and
attractive. Let all the members re-
frain from smoking while in the same
Remember that in building up the
membership, quality counts more than
quantity Be sure that a newcomer is
a real genuine Socialist before you in
vite him to join. Self-seekers are
dangerous and drones are worthless.
A local branch with five members, all
of whom are sincere, aggressive and
well versed in the party's principles
and tactics, is a strong organization
and will become stronger; while a
large local or branch, with majority
of Indifferent, poorly posted and self
seeking members, is a weak organiza-
ton and pretty certain to die.
Remember that a member who can
pay his dues, but will not, has no right
in the councils of the Socialist party.
Let him lapse and keep out.
Get the women to join the local.
Then cooperate with them in making
the meetings of interest to both men
and women.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
NO !! /! j!

This issue does not tell much OF
crime, riot, injunctions, patriotism,
flags, Iawless judges, Iewd editors,
prostitution, child labor, poverty, wage
slavery, strikes, murder, thugs, free
speech, anti-fat, doughnuts, kings, suf-
fraqettes, ice, hell, ETC., and so forth,
ct cetera.
EvERYBoDYs DOING THAT.
This issue says: RIGHT ABOUT
FACE. TAKE A LOOK AT THE
BUNCH YOU ARE WITH. SEE IF
THEY ARE PROPERLY PUNCHED.
Are you off some place, all by your
self, trying to make a noise? Well,
we do not hear you. You are about
as effective and useful as flea on an
oyster.
Got a crouch? Somebody disagree
with you at the last meeting? Won't
YOU work with Jimmy because Jimmy
chews snuff instead of gum?
FORGET 1T.
GET TOGETHER.
That's the kind of an issue this is.
If you do not SEE THE POINT, we
do not expect you to appreciate the
contents.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
WHAT BECOMES OF IT?

Do you want to know what becomes
of this 25 cents a month you pay for
dues? 1t is divided so many times,
comrade, that you will wonder how 1t
can possibly be enough to go around.
Part of it goes into the general fund
for general expenses; part of it goes
into the campaign fund; part of 1t is
applied to the convention fare fund !;
part of it to the convention expense
fund; part of it is used to pay for the
expenses of organizers to improve and
enlarge our organization. Then the
state organization sends part of this
same 25 cents a month to the national
office This is ued to pay for the ex-
penses of national conventions, ma
tional campaigns, printing propaganda
paying organizers to assist
the weaker states. Then the national
office sends part of this same 25 cents
to the International Socialist bureau.
And this is used to solidfy the inter-
national movement, used to propagate
Socialism the world over; used to ag1-
tate for worldwide peace. So you see,
your 25 cents a month will be put to
immense use. You should be ever so
willing and glad to join our Interna-
tional Socialist party where you will
be able to do so much for the cause
with so little money.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

see thing which should never be
If you should die tonight and on your
card of red the last months due
square should not be pasted. If you
should die, say, and on the local roll,
it should be found you had not paid
your. dole-you would not join the
fluffy angel throng, and sing content
ment's glorious song, but with the
scabby bats you'd flap and squeak, and
feel just what you'd be-a sordid
sneak-if you should die tonight and l
should look and find no last months
due stamp on your book.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
OUR FUNNY CORNER.

Wife-John, go for the doctor quick.
Willy has swallowed a penny.
John-Doctor? Why, no, it's the
preacher you want He knows most
about getting money out of people"
The Commonwealth takes second
place to no preacher in the art of get
ting money out of people. However,
the fellow who first said that you can
not get blood out of a trump never
really realized how many turnips there
would be in this era of unparalleled
prosperity that we've just got to get
blood out Of
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
THE POWER OF THE PRESS.

Surely there is no need for us to
spend time and space to again tell you
of the immense power the capitalist
press Yields.
The capitalist press lies. 1t lies and
lies and lies.
1t lies all the time, and thousands
of workers believe these lies. Yes,
even though the lies are against the
workers.
And the ANTIDOTE?
It is this-A POWERFUL SOCIAL
IST PRESS.
Help build it. Help by subscribing
for this paper TODAY. Help by get
ting others to subscribe for it.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Comrade M. L. Strong of Coupeville
was the most disappointed man at the
Boomer-Kellogg debate. He came
prepared to lay out Boomer and fur
the Coupeville undertaken.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

The fellow who stays out of the
union and the party of his class be-
cause he fears his standing" in his
community will be injured, is hardly
worth half a whoop in that iceless
region the ministers tell about. Dur
ing all the ages all of the gods have
hated and despised towards. There
was never a master who ever respect
ed a slave.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Do something for the cause before
the next meeting of your locai-dis-
tribute some leaflets, sell some sub
scription cards for Socialist papers.
And then go to meeting and tell your
comrades about it.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

The man or woman who is not will
ing to work for the Cooperative Com
monwealth does not deserve it. And
the fellow who is brainless enough to
suppose that it will come as a gift to
him, wouldn't know how to live in it
if he had it.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Knocking officials is perfectly legal,
but be sure your hammer is loaded
with the truth 1t is difficult to get
honest men and women to take Jobs
when their bosses are irresponsible
fault-finders and heresy hunters. Be
sure you are right
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
1916 COLBY
THIS---OUR FUNNY WORLD

happen if he allowed those bad So
cialists to produce "The Colonel and
His Friends" in the Moore theater last
Sunday. But the mayor wouldn't
scare a bit. The owner of the theater
did though. He locked the doors on
the Socialists after they had made
deposit on the rent. Who has. the
power?
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

It's almost as easy to get a reason
able workingman to vote the Socialist
ticket as it is to sell a clout a
fitch of bacon when he's hungry; but
sometimes it's as hard to get him to
join the party as it is to sell woman
a hat she doesn't want
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

The Seattle Times, the crook of
crooks of the Northwest, is now trying
to make it's readers believe that the
Socialists are gathering in dark alleys
plotting the destruction of the editor,
Col. Blethen, and his paper. Dyna-
mite is to be used in the act. And
some dupes are really believing that
the plot is brewing. Who is the traitor
that SWITCHED on us? Hang him to the
nearest lamp post. Eth, HUMPHREYS
We can be fierce too, at times.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

We are waiting, waiting, waiting and
waiting-for more news of the prose-
cution of the rioters. And Wen wait,
too, don't worry.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

If the men of your vicinity won't
join the party give extra time and at
tention to the women. There are u
562,S23 reasons why working men
should be party members, but there
are twice that many reasons why
working women should join.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Team work is the thing and the
larger the team the stronger and the
better its work.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
eff YOU SHOULD CROAK.

If you should die tonight, and l
should come to your cold corpse and
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

The time of the hot-air Socialist is
past. We cannot build the Co-opera-
tive Commonwealth on super-heated
atmosphere. 1t takes work.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31
FROM NEBULA TO MAN

making
axmd starting Sunday a
venn nmplea SO tina
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

A school teacher gets good results
by repetition Emphasis is also an
essential. We want to repeat and we
want to emphasize the lesson of sol
idarity taught in the simple story of
the bundle of sticks-how strong
when bound together-how weak and
easily broken the single stick. So with
the workers. Our interests being
identical, why not unite and show this
world of oppressors that we have the
to free ourselves.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Subordinate everything to organiza-
ton.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Democrats don't pay dues and after
the election there is nothing due
them. They expect nothing and they
are never disappointed.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31


the plot is brewing. Who is the traitor
that SWITCHED on us? Hang him to the
nearest lamp post. Eth, HUMPHREYS
We can be fierce too, at times.
Blethen said this on December 20,
1907: at does not matter how antag-
onistic the idea of Socialism may be
to a vast majority of the people of
this country; those who hold the So
cialistic theory have as much right to
discuss the same and endeavor to
propagate the alleged principles as if
it were the soundest of all dogmas."
Well, well. And what does this same
institution say today?
You see, he uses the Socialists Tin
the columns of the dirty Sheet to hit
Seattle mayors he can not use over
the head with.
He said it twice now. That friend
of labor" Judge HUMPHREYS. He said:
1--WE patriotic Aemricans will hang
those undesirables on the nearest lamp
post until they are dead, if they don't
leave town" He said this twice. So
he must mean it. Did you vote for
this fellow, or other similar chamber
maids of the ruling class? Chamber
maids, we beg your pardon.
Our goat is got Our esteemed con-
temporary, the Everett Daily Herald,
says that a SMALL crowd attended
the Boomer-Kellogg debate. Small?
Well we should say it was small
There were only about twenty-five
capitalists present. And then there
were about 700 Socialists and work
ing men present also. But these do
not count.
By golly. That Judge HUMPHREYS
is some hot potato. What funny things
he can't think of to do or say ''jest
amt" He now seeks to disbar Hulet
M. Wells, Socialist state chairman;
wants to fire Wells out of the lawyers
union. Wells is not practicing law.
Wells says that the practice of law
would make a crook out of God him
self And as Wells is not as yet even
an angel, he isn't taking any chances.
However, Wells was admitted to the
bar Chat means the lawyers union)
at one time. Just recently Wells wrote
a play called "The Colonel and His
Friends" The Colonel" in the play
is Blethen. The main friend" is
Judge Humpty-Dumpty Now Humpty-
Dumpty wants to fire Wells out of
the lawyers union. Gee, but the life
of a dynamic Socialist is a hard one.
But then, we can't hold no brief for
Wells Not being a crook, he does
not belong in the crooks union.
Just by way of mention. If you
don't like the Seattle Times as pur-
veyor of black ink on white paper, try
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

Just by way of mention. If you
don't like the Seattle Times as a pur-
veyor of black ink on white paper, try
THE COMMONWEALTH for while.