The daily pioneer. [volume], May 23, 1903, Image 2

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THE DAILY PIONEER.
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher
Entered in the postoffice at Bemidji. Minn
as second class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Copy ifor changes of advertisements in
The Daily Pioneer must reach this office by
10 o'clock a. m. in order td insure their
appearance in the issue of same day.
"A GREAT FUTURE."
After two years of more or less
miserable cowardice on the
merger question, the Minneapolis
Journal finally got as far as a
sitting position, and on the 21st
of this month contained the fol
lowing editorial under the above
heading. Six months ago the
Journal was poking fun at W. P.
Street for having been defeated
for senator on the merger plat
form:
"In these days the Pacific north
west receives much free advertising.
It is related that at the launching: of
the great Minnesota at New London,
Conn., in April, inquirers were heard
to ask whether Seattle was on Lake
Superior. It is not long that such
crass ignorance will be common. The
commercial news and gossip of the
day has much to say about the forg
ing ahead of the North Pacific ports
in competition with San Francisco.
An English engineer, just returned
from the Orient, has declared that Se
attle^ destined to become the Liver
pool^of the Pacific. The railroad
editors ail over the country are begin
ning to learn that oriental traffic Hows
not west but northwest. The northern
transcontinental haVe made rates
that put the southern out of the run
ning. The latter begin to understand
that if they are even to hold what they
have they must put forth tremendous
efforts. Curves must be taken out,
grades shoveled down, mountains tun
neled, mileage shortened.
"Harrim: is beginning to do for
the southern lines what Hill began to
do for the Great Northern fifteen years
ago. In these times fifteen years is a
long lead. The great route for ori
ental trade will for years, if not for
ever, be along the northern lines to
Seattle. That will make Seattle the
great American port of the Pacific.
As the population of the United
States grows and its productions in
crease, as trade relations are estab
lished with the trans-Pacific countries,
the Pacific commerce will become a
vast one. The skeptical are wonder
ing what J. J. Hill will find to stow
away in the huge bulk of the Minne
sota and Dakota, with their capacity
of 2,500 freight cars each. The freight
will soon be ready. One per cent
grades brought railway freight to Se
attle, and these great ocean carriers
will attract the water-borne com
merce of the Pacific to the same port.
"To an inland city like Minneap
olis it may make no vital difference
whether San Francisco or Seattle is
the great port of the Pacific, yet it is
-something to be on the main traveled
road. If the commerce of two and
perhaps three continents is to roll
by our doors we ought to get some
benefit therefrom."
RUSSIA has grown with won
derful speed through years of
bloodshed, oppression and fanati
cism, developing in the few years
since Peter the Great's time,
wonderful power. Throughout
the history of this growth the
chief feature has been murder
murder on the thronerulers
slaughtering each other and even
their own children wholesale
murder in Siberia where thous
ands of Russian subjects perish
miserably because they speak
for liberty, and now it is a whole
sale murder of the Jews in the
name of a religion borrowed
from the Jews. "What next?
IT LOOKS as though the insan
ity plea was working overtime in
the criminal cases. The defense
in a murder trial at Salt Lake
City urges the consideration that
the defendant, who was a street
car conductor, sometimes forgot
to ring up fares.
THE crop outlook in Dakota
never was betterbut the grain
isn't in the bin nor the money in
the farmer's hands yet, and
many things have been known to
happen in that state between now
and threshing time.
IT IS time that the people of/
northern Minnesota united in a
determination to solve the ques-
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tion of drainage without delay.
Tehave too feebly appreciated
oar needs in this respect, and we
have been too modest in our de
mands. We have attempted
great things ourselves, but we
must attempt greater. We must
quadruple, the ditches we are
digging, and we must demand
that the state take up this matter
upon a large scale. Now is the
time to begin the agitation of this
matter. It is a duty incumbent
upon the state to properly develop
the northern part of Minnesota
by an extensive system of state
ditches. Thousands of dollars,
hundreds of thousands are
needed, and the state must be
made to see that they must be
furnished.Crookston Times.
RALPH WHEELOCK,
CRUELLY MANGLED.
Engineer of Electric Light Plant Is
Caught by One of the Large Belts.
Brainerd, Minn., May 23.Nicholas
Heller, engineer at the Brainerd elect
trie light plant met with an accident
which may result in death. He was
caught in a large,belt and one arm
was almost pulled out of its socket.
One leg was broken and he sustained
other serious internal injuries. He is
one of the oldest employes of the plant
and well known in Brainerd, having
lived here many years.
Strikers Sentenced.
New Orleans, May 23.Judge Booli
man yesterday sentenced to three
months' imprisonment the elevea
street car men who were convicted of
interrupting the progress of mail cars
during the street car strike.
Kills the Wrong Man.
Middlesboro, Ky., May 23. John
Moore, aged twenty-four, a railroader,
was shot and killed by Edgar Ball,
aged eighteen, yesterday In Shelby
Turner's saloon here. Ball was shoot
ing at another person.
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inhis politi
cal column in the Minneapolis
Tribune, says there is veiy little
danger that Judge Spooner will
have any opposition when he
comes up for election next year.
THE BEMIDJI PIONEER is now
issued as a daily. Bemidji is fast
forging ahead and will soon be
incorporated as a city.Norman
County Index.
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Near Schools and Churches
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from $100 up. Terms easy enough for anybody to have a home.
Street & Gibbons, Agents, Bemidji, Minn.
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