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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-04-13
SPREADING Will SONS GOSPEL
British Aviators Drop HE Speech In
eide tho German Lines.

06oVO0O NVuaSoTO 0IOP s0IO 0POOOSs W.
eide the German Lines.
President Wilson's address to con-
gress, translated into German, Is being
distributed literally over the German
lines by British aviators.
It IL understood the same thing is be-
ing done by French aviators.
A message from an American citizen
Of the middle west to Attorney General
Gregory suggested that the presidents
message be translated into German,
printed by the thousands and dropped
into the German trenches and in Ger
man territory by aviators of the allies.
The suggestion speedily found its way
to the embassies Of the allies in Wash
ington. The result has been the receipt
Of news from London that the plan was
being carried out. The words of Presi-
dent Wilson, which undoubtedly will
be held as seditious by the German
authorities, are being disseminated
throughout the territory Of the central
powers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-04-13
Wrens Good Insect Eaters,

The wren. according to A. A. Saun-
ders of Norwalk, Conn.,, is a valuable
and interesting bird. 1t has cheerful
song, and during the summer months
it sings almost necessarily. Its food
is largely insects. A pair of wrens
will work from daylight to dark dur
ing long June days gathering cater
pillars and other harmful insects to
feed their young. l have known them
to VISIT the nest with insects on an
average of three times in five minutes.
The number of insects destroyed by q
pair of wrens and their young in a
season is enormous.-Tree Talk.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-04-13
Bay State Road improvements.

Expenditures for road Improvements
increased 2O5 per cent in Massachu-
sets in 1914 over expenditures ten
years ago. according to road statistics
made public recently by the depart
ment of agriculture. The Bay State
spent over $G.OOO.OOO. giving her a per-
centage of 1853 surfaced roads.
Approximate expenditures for the
other New England states were: Con-
necticut. $3.G4O.OOO: Maine. $2,642,OO0;
New Hampshire. $1.59O.OOO; Vermont,
$1,O24 600. and Rhode Island. $446.50O.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-04-13
WILL take Agar
TO TRAIN AN ARMY
Doubtful if United States Will
Pig" Send Troops Before 1918.
MILITARY LEADERS DICTATE

imperfect Division Sent to tho Trench
% Would Be Only an impeachment,
Military Man Asserts-Our Regulars
No Match Now For Veterans Of the
Kaiser on Western Front.
"A United States army to be Of any
service whatever in France or on any
other battle front Of the European war
must first be fully equipped and thor
oughly trained. This is matter Of q
year or more. 1t Is idle to talk about
sending q small army to France for
sentimental reasons. It would not be
. drop In the bucket"
This statement was made BY q MILL
tiny expert who is giving close atten-
I'm to the developments Of tho war
with Germany. Continuing, he said:
There still are q lot OF people who
think man becomes a soldier tho mo-
0snt he gets into a Uniform and puts
q gun ON his shoulder. This - non
snSe, even If the man happens to be
u American.
livery man must be drilled and
trained before he is a soldier. In mod.
In trench warfare he must have q
different training from that Of here
to6ore, Why, the situation in Europe
+ changing from month to month.
Every general staff in the war has had
10 scrap most Of the rules and prac-
tces it had when the great struggle
started.
Must b Perfect Machine.
assuming that We have a real
army thoroughly trained and fully
equipped and send 1t to France, Of
course it would be an invaluable aid
10 tho allies. On any other basis an
American army would be an 1mpedi-
ment, il not menace. We can send
perfect military machine to Europe
II given sufficient time to prepare it.
Nothing else should be sent.
IAN American army Of several hun
dred thousand men if placed in France
after having been thoroughly accli-
mated would be worked into q section
Of the long battle front, just as new
troops from England or France or
Russia are worked ina little at a
time, a complete section ultimately
being turned over to the American con-
tingent.
Before this is done it would be
necessary for the American field COM
mander to establish his own lines Of
communication, his own bases for sup
plies and. in short, assume complete
control Of everything military on his
section Of the front. All Of this would
take time.
There Is every indication that pub
lie clamOr will seek to force the send
ing Of troops to France before they
are prepared to 60. This will never
be done with the consent of our mill
tary men. We are absolutely opposed
to sending a small contingent Of the
regular army. the only force now pre-
pared to 60.
TO do SO would be suicidal since
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-04-13
Moss Broad.

A kind of bread is made along the
Columbia river by the Indians from a
moss that grows on the spruce 6r tree
This moss ia prepared by placing it in
heaps, sprinkling it with water and
permitting 1t to ferment. Then it Is
rolled into balls as big as a mans
head, and these are baked in pits.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Omaha Testimony

Mrs. Mary Adam, 1920 S.,Seyenteenth
St., says: Three years ago my back was
very troublesome. 1t bothered me great
deal Of the time, especially when | took
cold My kidneys then seemed to be more
affected. The kidney secretions annoyed me,
too, and no help came until ! began using
Doan's Kidney Pills. They removed the
pain and lameness. gave me more strength
and the trouble with the kidney secretions
was corrected"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
County Rights Sold to
Two Different Pe0nIe

A rather peculiar situation deyel-
oped today in the Lininger Imple-
ment company's Truckmobile exhibit
when two OF their statesmen closed up
the same territory with two dealers
from different towns in the county,
and it required great deal OF diplo-
macy to straighten the matter out
satisfactorily, which was done by
drawing line north and south
through the center of the county.
L. Z. Willis, territory manager OF
the Truckmobile, has been present at
all the larger shows this year and
he says that from the standpoint OF
actual business done and in the buy
ing interest shown the Omaha show
is second to none.
Mr.. Willis is firm believer in
newspaper advertising and bases his
conviction on the fact that large
percentage OF his sales have origi-
mated from inquiries obtained by
judicious advertisements in local
newspapers.
Two carloads, OF twenty to a car
load, OF truck attachments, have
actually been sold during the first
two days OF the auto show to dealers.
The Lininger Implement company,
distributors OF Truckmobile units for
Ford cars, have closed contracts in
western Iowa and Nebraska with sew
eral well known dealers for this real
engineered truck attachment and they
believe that the truck business today
is where the pleasure car business
was ten years ago. .-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Native OF ireland.

John Wallace Crawford, better
known as captain Jack" soldier,
scout, poet and lecturer, was born in
ireland, March 4, l847. He came to
America in 1861 and settled in Penn
sylvania. He worked first in the mines
at $l.7s week. Later he ran away
and joined the union army.
He was wounded several times in
the civil war and campaigns against
Indians. In 1867 he came to Ne
braska. In 1856 he was sent to the
Black Hills by Edward Rosewater as
a special correspondent of The Bee.
His letters were widely copied by
eastern papers and did much to pro-
mote emigration to that country. He
was the only paid correspondent in
the Black Hills for the first year after
the country was opened.
The "Poet-Scout."
Though a man Of practically no
school education, he learned to read
and write and cultivated the art Of
writing to such an extent that he be-
came noted writer of poems, serial
stories and plays and has been known
for years as the "poet-scout."
Following his scouting days he star
red with Buffalo Bill" in a play en-
titled 1.-THE Red Right Hand or
Buffalo Bills First Scalp for Custer"
But soon left it because OF scruples
against the blood and thunder" in it.
In 1898 he went to the Klondike on
what he later described as "a $l2,-
100000 fake" When he discovered
that the company in which he had
interested himself was without tang
ible assets he dictated an expose to-
The Associated Press and opened a
store to support himself, having a
capital OF just $50. Two years later
he returned to the United States and
went on the lecture platform.
He recouped his fortunes and had
large property interests in New
Mexico.
He was a cosmopolitan character
equally at home in miners camp or
an Indian village or at banquet
board surrounded by wealth and cul-
ture. F
Give your Want Ad a chance to
make good, Run it in The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Higher Prices Prevail On
The Omaha Grain Market

When the Omaha Grain exchange
opened Wednesday morning, follow
ing the holiday of Tuesday, traders
were at loss to know how the mar
ket was going to perform. However,
right from the opening, prices on all
kinds Of grain were higher than the
close OF Monday and .he advance was
held during the session.
Omaha wheat receipts were forty
seven carloads and sales were made at
$l.84H to $l.86H bushel, 2 to 2H
cents up.
Corn was fourth to cent higher,
selling at 96 to ~ cents bushel, with
ninety-hye carloads on the market.
Oats were up quarter and sold at
55M to 56I1 cents bushei The
receipts were hfty-hvc carloads.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
ANOTHER RED MAN
is DISAPPEARING
Cigar Store Indian Vanishes
Along With That Big Drug
Store Bottle.
GONE, TOO, is PAWN SIGN
BY A. R. GRoH.

What has become of the wooden
Indians that used to stand in front Of
Omaha cigar stores; of the big bottles
OF colored liquid that once were the
mark of Omaha drug stores and of
the three golden balls that formerly
hung outside Omaha pawn shopsf
They are gone: they have vanished.
might say they have vanished "as
completely as though the earth had
swallowed them up But that
wouldn't be any completer job Of van
ishing than just plain, everyday I'M
metaphored vanishing.
Twenty years ago man would no
more have thought of starting up
cigar store without a many-colored
and much-befeathered Indian at the
door than he would have thought OF
starting up without any cigars and
tobacco.
The red man usually bore a toma-
hawk in threatening attitude in one
hand, while he held out bundle Of
cigars in the other, seemingly giving
you your choice of cigars or death.
Sometimes gay members Of the
midnight crew" would attack the In
dian at night, cutting off his nose and
otherwise torturiug and mutilating
him.
The cigar dealers met this difficulty
by having their Indians mounted on
wheels SO they cotld trundle them
inside at night, like the Trojans did
the wooden horse. 1t never occurred
TO them to dispense with the Indians.
A Radical Comes.
Then a man came along with radi-
cal ideas. Il will run my cigar store
without an Indian outside" he de-
clared. Presumably the other cigar
men laughed at him, said it couldn't
be done and all that, just as people
have always laughed at radical men.
But the innovator made a success
OF his store without the Indian, Just
by selling good cigars and tobacco
at reasonable prices. And from that
moment the wooden Indian was
doomed
Did you notice the last time you
were at the pawnbroker's--
No. no. / beg your pardon. [
didn't mean that. ! meant, did you
notice, recently, as you walked past
pawnbrokers' shops that they no
longer display the three golden balls
over the entrance?
Well, hadn't noticed it either un-
til | went and looked, in order to get
accurate information for your enlight-
inent.
went down on east Douglas street,
where found thirteen public "un-
cles" doing business with their reedy
ncphews and nieces in the three
blocks between Eleventh and Four
teenth streets.
And not one OF them displays the
three golden balls. These have ac-
companicd the wooden Indian into
limbo.
Those Colored Bottles.
Twenty years ago a druggist
would never have attempted to open
a drug store without three big, egg
shaped bottles in the window, one
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Weeping Water Doctor
Fined Here for Speeding

DR.. Merton Welch of Weeping
Water, Neb., was "rara avis" when
he appeared in county court. His case
was one Of the rare instances in
county court when motorist has
been up for hearing charged with
having exceeded the automobile speed
limit on county highways,
Joseph Hazuka, the complaining
witness, testified that he was repair
ing his car beside the. road along the
Sarpy Mills highway December IS,
1916, when the M. D. came dashing
along a la Dario Desta and crashed
into his machine.
After hearing the evidence Judge
Crawford assessed DR.. Welch SIS and
costs, which amounted to $47.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
captain JACK"
CRAWFORD Is DEAD
Scout, Soldier, Lecturer and
Poet Dies at His Home
Near New York City.
FORMER WRITER FOR BEE

New York, Feb. 28.-John Wal
lace, better known as Captain jack
Crawford, a noted Indian fighter OF
early frontier days, died last night
at his home at Woodhaven, L. l. He
was stricken with pneumonia more
than month ago.
Captain Crawford wrote a number
Of plays, stories and poems and was
known as the poet scout" He was
chief OF scouts under General Custer
at the time of the Custer massacre,
but it is said that he was on his way to
Clusters headquarters with dispatches
when this event took place. Later he
played an active part in the pursuit
OF Sitting Bull.
Crawford was born in ireland in
l847. He served in the civil war, and
the story is that he learned to read
and write while in the hospital re-
covering from a wound. ".
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01

filled with red liquid, one with green
and one with yellow. He'd as soon
have tried to get along without drugs.
These bottles have gone the way
of the three golden Balls and the
wooden Indian. Drug store windows
in Omaha today are filled with candy,
cigars, tooth brushes, writing paper,
toilet articles, razors, soap, thermos
bottles, dollar watches, alarm clocks,
hair brushes, cameras and other heal
ing drugs.
J Peace to you, wooden Indian, and
peace to you also, three golden balls
and three bottles OF colored liquid.
You served well the generation that
needed YOU
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
South Dakota Soldiers
Leave for Home SATURDAY.

The South Dakota soldiers, now at
Fort Crook, waiting to be mustered
out, will be paid off and leave for
their homes Saturday Of this week
Two special trains will leave the fort
during the day, one leaving Omaha
over the Milwaukee for Bristol, S.
D., and the second over the North
western for Aberdeen. The company
from Lead will be carried in two
sleepers by the Burlington.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Nebraska Solons
Invited to Attend
Auto Show Friday

The Nebraska legislature, now in
session in Lincoln, has been invited
to come to Omaha Friday for the
Auto show. Clarke Powell, manager
OF the show, this morning wired
George Jackson, speaker OF the house.
and Edgar Howard of the senate
an invitation for the solons to visit
the show and offered to set Friday
aside as Legislative day If the law
makers would accent.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Can't Enjoy the
Children

A mother who suf-
fers with kidn e y
trouble finds II hard
to keep up her daily
work. L a m e n e 5 5,
b a C k-a c h e, sharp
pains when STOPPING.
and s C X, blue, "
nervous or dizzy
spells make home
life dreary. Active
kidneys bring back
vigor, health and a
pleasure in family
duties. Thousands Of
W o nj e n say that
Doan's Kidney Pills
have meant e W
life to them. II the
kidneys are weak,
try a box.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Burglar Steals Candy,
Soap, Matches, Pennies

What kind of burglar is it who
is apt enough in his profession to
pick the lock on a big front door
and, when once within the house,
will steal such things as fifty pennies,
match machine, soap and candy? If
you have any theories, tell them to
the police or bring them to John
Anders, 1901 California street, whose
home the burglar entered. -
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01

land, valued at $4,000. Defendants
are Hiram Chase and others, now
claiming the farms as their own or
occupying them as tenants. Law
less, white man, alleges that he is
the rightful owner as heir of Clarrissa
Chase and Frederick Clay, Omaha In
dams. The latter's Indian name was
o hungenuzzhu.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
and Cattle Prices
Soar 10 New HIGH Marks

Hogs and cattle prices set new
records here Wednesday.
The lordly porker brought $3.50
a hundredweight and the market price
az cattle was $ll.50 hundred pounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
LawIess Cites Old Treaty
To Prove Land Ownership

A treaty made in 1865 between the
Omaha Indians and the government
is made the basis of two suits filed in
federal court by Eugene Lawless to
secure possession of and quiet title in
$40 acres OF Thurston county farm
Evening star., 1917-04-10
LINER NEW YORK STRIKES
MINE OFF LIVERPOOL BAR
Ship Reported Not Much Damaged
and Passengers and Crew
Are Safe.

The American liner New York struck
a mine at 7:4O o'clock last night, five
miles off Liverpool bar. No casualties
were reported. The vessel later pro-
ceeded to Liverpool.
Consul Washington at Liverpool, re-
porting the incident to the State De-
pa rtment today, said: Company re-
ported passengers landed at LiVerpool
except four, who were still on ship.
Vessel proceeded under her own
steam and is now q O'Clock this morn
ing) entering her dock" he added.
NEW YORK. April 1o.-The Ameri-
can line steamship New York left this
port on March 30 for Liverpool with
fifty-eich ut passengers. cargo and mall
The passengers included seven Ameri-
can citizens. She carried navy
crew of gunners and was armed. Ihe
ship's crew of 234 men included l44
Americans The American citizens VINO
were passengers on the New YORK. Win
their addresses given when passage
was secured. were; john Nj. curtis. M1s
Maude Augusta Bowling and r. II.
Gamble. New York city: Archer Ii
Jones and Mrs. Jones. Richmond. Va. ;
Charles F. Gale. Philadelphia, and Capt
Laerie, Elizabeth. N. j.
The New York is commanded by
Capt. W. J. Roberts. The gun crew was
in charge of naval lieutenant The
vessel, of 1923 tons gross. was the
third American passenger ship to leave
armed from a United States port.
The New York docked safely at LlV-
erpool at l am. (English time). and
all passengers are safe. according to a
cablegram received here today by the
American lines. The damage to the
vessel was small. the message stated.
The mine came in contact with the
ship about 200 feet from the bow. but
the message did not say whether on the
port or starboard side.
The bulkheads of the New York are
longitudinal. There are fifteen of these
compartments. and the mine struck at
hold No 4, which has a cargo capacity
of 2O9 tons. The cablegram said the
damage was confined to this small
space no other compartment being in
jured.
1t was stated here that so strongly
is the New York built in the construc-
ton of it's bulkheads that whenever a
plate is removed for repair purposes it
has to be dynamited, and to tAis
strength is attributed the small dam
age caused by the mine.
Evening star., 1917-04-10
MOVIE VIEWS TOMORROW NIGHT
IN STARS RECRUITING SERIES

ton with The Stars campaign obtain for the
United States Navy will be given night The
pictures will be shown to be erected the
war map on the 11th side Of the building beginning
at 8 clock.
the Navy Department showing life in the United States
Navy several reels Of pictures taken the battle
front in France also will be presented
The band of the Presidents yacht the Mayaower,
will be on hand and will give of patriotic airs
beginning at 80 clock The band also will play during
intermissions between the reels.
Advantages of the United States Navy for the young
man and reasons why he should enlist will be explained
bv Yeoman A. L. Thompson, U. S. N.
Still another feature Of the program will be the exhib
ton Of motion picture film entitled The Big Question,
production of the firm Of Sidney B. Lust Incorporated
of this city This picture tells of the Presidents Of
the United Washington, Polk Lincoln. Mckinley
and concluding with Wilson,
Evening star., 1917-04-10
FIRE WRECKS ELEVATORS,
lNCENDIARISM HINTED

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. April 10.-Two
grain elevators were destroyed by fires
believed to have been of incendiary origin
early today. The total loss will be nearly
100000. it was estimated. National
guardsmen patrolling the district reported
that in both instances several explosions
were heard in the structures before the
flames were discovered.
The Marfield Grain Company was the
heaviest loser. More than 100000 bushels
of wheat, valued at about 100000. were
burned. The building was valued at
$15O.0O0.
An hour earlier the Quinn Stephenson
Company's elevator. several blocks away,
was DESTROYED by fire. with loss esti-
mated at $4,000. The structure contained
90, 900 bushels of corn.
More than $4,000 bushels of grain in box
cars on side tracks near the elevators.
valued at 100000, were damaged by fire
and water.
Evening star., 1917-04-10
DRY AMENDMENT APPROVED.
National Prohibition Commission
Favors Measure of Senate Committee

Approval Of the proposed national
constitutional prohibition amendment,
in the form recommended by the SEN
ate judiciary committee at the last
session of Congress, has been announc-
ed by the national prohibition amend
ment commission. representing the al
lied prohibition and temperance forces.
The executive committee Of the Anti
saloon League of America also an
nounced that it had indorsed the
amendment in that form, and had in
structed the legislative committee Of
the league to give careful considera-
ton during the present extraordinary
session of Congress to the question Of
emergency prohibition legislation. par
ticularly with reference to conserve
ton Of the food supply and the EN-
cheney Of the military and naval forces.
Evening star., 1917-04-10
RAN AWAY FROM U-BOAT.
Standard Oil Tanker Sequoya Es.
caned DESPITE Shower of Shells.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 10.-The
British steamer Sequoya, Capt. Phil
lips, of the Standard Oil Companys
fleet, which reached a Pacific port Sum-
day from England, bore the scars of an
encounter with a German submarine,
which, somewhere in the Atlantic, made
an unsuccessful effort to torpedo the
tanker.
According to the Sequoya's officers,
the torpedo missed by narrow mar
GIN The Sequoya put on full speed.
The submarine came to the surface and
followed. sending showers of shrapnel
into the tanker with the evident design
of disabling the steering gear. Part of
the bridge was shot away and severa!
Of the Sequoya's boats were shot full
of holes before the tankers superior
speed took her beyond the U-boat's
range.
Evening star., 1917-04-10
Five-BiIIion- Dollar Bond
Issue for Financing War
Being Whipped Into Shape

Preparation of measure authorizing
huge bond issue, in accordance with
the administrators program for financ-
ing the war, was the task before the
House ways and means committee to-
day.
The program, as announced by Sec
retary McAdoo last night, following
conferences with congressional leaders
and others, was ready to be laid before
congress today. 1t calls for the au-
thorization of a bond issue OF $1,000
00O. 600, of which $4,000, 600. 600 would
he loaned to the entente allies.
The committee measure probably will
he laid before the House tomorrow.
and IT'S consideration begun THURSDAY.
Indications are that it will meet with
prompt approval by both House and
Senate.
Expects oversubscription.
Secretary McAdoo said today he was
confident that the proposed bond issue
would be overwhelmingly oversubscribed.
He will take advantage. he said. of offers
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