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THE DAILY PIONEER.
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher
Entered in the postoflice at Bemidji. Minn.,
as second class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
N0T1QE TO ADVERTISERS
Copy for changes of advertisements in
The Daily Pioneer must reach this office by
10 o'clock a. m. in-order to insure their
appearance in the issue of same day.
TATE suicide of Roland C. Bow
man at Minneapolis Saturday
was a shock to the whole north
west. Bowman, the cartoonist,
whose fame is national, com
mitted suicide at his residence
in Minneapolis from the effects
of gas poisoning self admin
istered on Friday. During his
short career on the Minneapolis
Tribune he has gained a reputa
tion second to none, and his rash
act is attributed to overwork.
Mr. Bowman was only thirty-two
years old, and leaves a wife and
two children.
HE BEMIDJI PIONEER has
branched out as a daily, Vol. 1,
Fo. 30, having just come to hand.
This indicates that the hustling
little lumbering city is putting on
metropolitan airs of late, and the
fraternity will extend Bro. Kaiser
its best wishes for success in his
new daily paper.Hinckley En
terprise.
HE GAZETTE is in receipt of
the Bemidji Daily Pioneer, a re
cent entry into the daily field in
that thriving city of the pines.
Well edited and running over
with advertising, it ought to serve
as an eye opener to the vast re
sources of northern Minnesota.
Wilkin County Gazette.
IN NEW YORK the other day a
gathering of the knights of the
green cloth bolted when an ocean
liner reached the wharf. It ap
pears there was nothing doing.
It is asked: "Why should they
operate on salt water when there
is plenty of land?"
HE man who, even in a small
way, adds to the volume of local
business by patronizing home in
stitutions, is a builder of the
town or city in which he has his
home.Fargo Gall.
UNCLE SAM'S new gun is a
dandy. Every time the trigger
is pulled it sends forth twenty
five projectiles. It is claimed it
will be barred when* deer season
opens.
Log Rolling Contest.
Ed Roach and Black George
gave another log rolling contest
on Lake Bemidji last night. The
men were in tine form and put
up an excellent contest. George
succeeded in getting Roach into
the drink three times, while
Roach threw his man in twice.
The contest was witnessed by a
large crowd of spectators, and
had it not been for Roach sprain
ing his ankle it would have been
much better. As it was both
men were game1,
and the crowd
enjoyed the contest.
Work Started on Diamond Point.
Ed Gallagher took a crew of
men to Diamond Point to start
the work of clearing the grove
and laying out the grounds. The
famous point will be the finest
resort for the summer visitor in
the state of Minnesota when the
work is completed. The owner
has several extensive improve
ments in view, which will greatly
add to the natural beauty of the
place.
Small Blaze.
The fire department was called
out this morning at 11:30 to put
out a fire in a shanty in the north
western part of the city, but the
flames were extinguished before
the department arrived. Mr.
Thome's little boy fell in the way
of Thomas Smart's team on their
way to the fire and narrowly
escaped serious injury.'
COMMENCEMENT
Exercises at the Opera House Fri
day Night Well Car
ried Out.
The commencement exercises
held at the opera house1
on Fri-
day night were a success. The
salutatory, "Death Bed of Bene
dict Arnold," showed careful
preparation and was well deliv
ered. The oration, "A Modern
Hero," by C. Lee Heffron, and
the valedictory, "Joanne D'Arc,"
by Miss Gussie Heffron, were
well received by the audience and
both speaker's'showed much nat
ural talent.
L. H. Bailey addressed the
class, speaking on the advantages
of an education and the growth
of our schools here. He dwelt at
some length on the future of the
coming generation. His address
was pithy and to the point and
was well received by the audi
ence. The quartet rendered
some selections and were heart
ily applauded.
This is Bemidji's first com
mencement and the different
speakers of the evening acquitted
themselves well. The Pioneer
extends the glad hand to the class
of
03 and wishes them every suc-
cess through life.
THE WAYS OF ROOSTERS.
Philosopher Asserts They Do Too
Much Crowing.
"I've heard a good deal in my time
about the foolishness of hens, but
when it comes to right-down, plum
foolishness, give me a rooster, every
time. He's always strutting and
stretching and crowing and bragging
about things with which he had noth
ing to do. When the sun rises, you'd
think that he was making all the
light, instead of all the noise wheD
the farmer's wife throws the scraps
in the henyard, he crows as if he was
the provider for the whole farmyard
and was asking a blessing on the
food when he meets another rooster,
he crows and when the other rooster
licks him, he crows and so he keeps
it up straight through the day. He
even wakes up durir.g the night and
crows a little on general principles.
But when you hear from a hen, she's
laid an egg, and she Jon't make a
great deal of noise about it, either"
From "Letters from a Self-Mace
Merchant to His Son," by George
Horace Lorimer. By permission of
Small, Maynard &x Co., publishers,
Boston, Mass.
Wealth of Leading Countries.
The total wealth of Great Britain
Is 11,800,000,000 of the United
States of America, 16,200,000,000
of France, 9,600,000,000 of Germany,
8,000,000,000, and of Russia 6,400,-
000,000.
Scots on the Sun.
During the year 1901 twelve groups
of spots were noticed on the sun's
surface. There were in all 392 sep
arate spots, and only on sixty days
were there no spots visible.
Sweden Has Arjcient Vessel.
Sweden has the oldest vessel in
Europeperhaps in the worldin the
chooner Emanuel, built in 1749. She
was first a privateer, and is now in
th* timber trade.
Grave of Pioneer Located.
The long neglected grave of Senator
William Cocke., one of the most nota
ble figures in the pioneer history of
the South, has been located at Colum
bus, Miss.
Meteors Common in Mexico.
More meteors have been found in
Mexico than in any other country.
The ten largest known Mexican me
teors have an average weight of 9 1-10
tons.
INDIANS SELL THEIR LANDS.
Many of the* Tribes Are Rapidly Dis
posing of Their Possessions.
Those Indians who are allowed le-1
"ally to sell their lands are rapidly
doing so. Last year members of the
Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Peoria, Mia
mi, Wyandotte and Chippewa tribes
have made 305 conveyances, aggregat
ing 30,000 acres, for $204,000.
The Fort Berthold Indians have
ceded 208,000 acres for $260,000. to be
paid in stock, cattle and agricultural
implements, after setting aside $50,000
for a poor fund and paying out $54,000
per capita. The Rosebud Sioux have
^eded 416,000 acres in Gregory county,
South Dakota. The Red Lake Indians
in Minnesota have ceded 256,152 acres
for $1,000,000.
The Devil's Lake Indians in North
Dakota have ceded 104,000 acres at
about $3.30 per acre, to be paid in
cash, $145,000 down and the balance
in ten annual payments of $20,000
each.
Electric Plow Not New.
So long ago as 1879, a field at Ser
maize, in France, was plowed by an
electrically-driven plow.
Coldest Hour of the Day.
Year in and year out the coldest
hour of the twenty-four is five o'clock
in the morning.
An Embarrassing Situation.
What a situation that must have
been at a recent reception in London,
where a lady appeared in a gorgeous
gown looted from the imperial palace
at Pekin, and later in the evening
found herself face to face with the
Chinese ambassador! It may be de
scribed as "curdling." The ambassa
dor, for a moment, apparently thought
some lady of the royal family of China
had suddenly appeared in a London
drawing room, fcr the material of the
g*w had never been worn by any but
Chinese royalty. He couldn't conceal
his agitation in meeting an English
lady thus arrayed, but she fortunately
had the tact to leave the reception,
and thus somewhat relieve ihe embar
rassment, but the incident, it Is re
ported, will pot soon be forgotten by
those who witnessed it. One cannot
envy or pity a woman who would wear
a looted gown, transformed though it
might be by the fashionable dress
maker.
Complied With the Law.
M. Baron, the French actor, recently
accepted a railroad pass, and as the
French law requires that all such bil
lets shall have a picture of the holder
upon it Mr. Baron had himself photo
graphed as Mephistopheles. In this
character he is better known than as
a private individual, and both the rail
way and the government officials are
content to regard the law as fully
complied with.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires in a Con
densed Form.
Gen. Maya Rodriguez, a very distin
guished officer of both the Cuban revo
lutions, died at Havana.
Zemro A. Smith, for the last thirteen
years associate editor of the Indianap
olis Journal, is dead. He was sixty
five years old.
H. A. Losier, sixty-six years old, died
of heart disease in the Waldorf-As
toria hotel in New York. Mr. Losier
was president of the Boulay Spectacu
3ar Art company.
Edward Coer Dubois, formerly an
engineer of railways in Michigan, died
at Lima, Peru. He had been a resi
dent of Peru for thirty-two years and
was much respected.
Patterson Stewart, one of the best
known horsemen in the United States,
and who in years past had owned some
of the fastest horses in the country,
died at his home in Kansas City of par
alysis.
BEASTS BORN IN CAPTIVITY.
Those That First See the Light in
Bristol, England, Are the Best.
The birth of a litter of lions' at
Haslemere Park, a private menagerie
In England, leads one of the English
papers to note a fact that Ijas for long
puzzled biologists, and that is notori
ous among those who interest them
selves in the study of wild beasts in
captivity, this being that nearly all the
lion, tiger and leopard cubs born in
that country have a cleft palate, which
prevents them from being properly
suckled, and usually leads to their
premature death. But, beyond this, a
more astonishing fact stilland one
that also greatly puzzles biologistsis
that which determines that of all the
wild animals born in England those
born in Bristol are regarded as the
finest and as the most likely to live.
So well known is this to professional
showmen and ^menagerie keepers that
"Bristol born" is a recognized bracd in
riie wild animal trade
Took Pcson Together.
Connersviile. Ind., May 19. Miss
Clara Sherwccd, daughter of a saloon
ist, was yesterday found in a grove
near here suffering from the effects of
carbolic acid. She told where the
body of Van Moore could be found,
and it is supposed that they took poi
son together. Moore was a married
man.
Lightning Strikes a Church.
Rockton, 111., May 19. Lightning
struck the Methodist church while
aervices were in progress and three
persons were seriously burned. Their
clothing was literally torn off. The
church was not much damaged.
Home From the Philippines.
Fort Meade, S. D.. May 19. The
first squadron of the Sixth cavalry,
consisting of headquarters, band and
two troops, are now here from the
Philippines. Col. Smith is in com
mand.
A Slight Misunderstanding.
A young man whose gallantry was
largely in excess of his pecuniary
means sought to remedy this defect
and to save the money required for
the purchase of expensive flowers by
arranging with a gardener to let him
have a bouquet from time to time in
return for his cast-off clothes. So it
happened that one day he received a
bunch of the most beautiful roses,
v.bich he at once dispatched to his
lady love. In sure anticipation of a
friendly welcome, he called at the
hcjse of the young woman the same
evening, and was not a little surprised
at a frosty reception.
After a pause the young woman re
marked in the most frigid tones: "You
Bent me a nuU to-d^w"
"A noto-r-I?"
"Certainly, along with the flowers."
"To be sure, I sent you flowers
but
"And this note was with the bou
quet. Do you mean to deny it?"
And the young man read: "Don't
forget the old trousers you promised
ui the other day."
Good Pineapple Crop In Cuba.
Cuba is exporting 200,000 barrels of
pineapples this yearin all, some
fourteen millions of the fruit.
ART IN SKIRT LIFTING.
French Girl Excels American In This
Matter.
"Inherent grace is no greater In
French girls than In *morionn jjirls,"
said Mine, fiaker at the natioua' con
vention of dressmakers. "But in the
dainty art of carrying their skirts In
their hands while taking the air of
the boulevards, French girls we In
comparably superior to their Ameri
can cousins. The secret is that the
French maid's petticoat is made to
clear the ground, while the Ameri
can's drop skirt is as long as the
outer garment. The American must
lift both skirts to prevent their trail
ing in tfce dirt of the streets.
She
grasps a great bundle of unwieldy,
cloth, so heavy and clumsy ^th'at
almost invariably she pulls it around
in a way that plays havoc with the
effectiveness of her gown. The
French demoiselle has only the outer
skirt to care for, and she has no need
uf muscle to lift with fairy grace the
fabric.Chicago Record-Herald.
BOLOED BY PRISONERS.
Capt. Ciough Overton Makes a Fatal
Mistake.
Manila, May 19.Capt. Ciough Over
ton of the Fifteenth cavalry and Pri
vate Harry Noyes, who were killed
May 15 at Sudatlai, Mindanao, met
their death at the hands of insurgent
prisoners whom they were guarding
Their companion in this duty, Private
Hartlow, was wounded at the same
time. Capt. Overton's troop of the
Fifteenth had been scouting in the
department of Misamis, Mindanao, on
the trail of the insurgent leader,
Flores. The .cavalrymen captured
fifty of Flores' followers and confined
them in a house. Capt. Overton and
three men remained to guard the pris
oners while Lieut. Cameron continued
in pursuit of Flores. The prisoners
suddenly broke out of the house where
they were confined, secured their
boles and rushed the four Americans
on guard. Capt. Overton was slashed
with a bolo and bled to death. After
escaping the insurgents gathered and
renewed the attack on the Americans.
Capt. Overton is criticised for having
kept three men only on guird and for
having neglected to destroy the .in-
surgents' bolos.
The Art of the Palmist.
The girl who was the picture of
health came out of the palmist's
booth with a startled expression on
her face. "Do you know," she said
to a bevy of girl friends"do you
know, that palmist told me I was in
perfect health. Now. you know, I'm
never ill but how could he tell that
from looking at my hand?" And her
fiiends murmured, "How wonderful!"
Spread of Irrigation Works.
The government is to begin the con*
struction of irrigation works in five
localities. The Sweetwater dam, Wy
oming Mill river, Montana the Gun
nison" tunnel, Colorado Truckee, New,
and Salt river, Arizona. The cost of
the five plants is estimated at $7,000,-
000 and they are expected to furnish
water for 60,000 acres.
Two Masters.
In the primary class of a certain
Sunday school the lesson was being
reviewed by a visitor. When she
finally asked for the Golden Text, a
little boy on the back row eagerly
raised his hand and proudly repeated:
"We cannot serve God and women."-
Little Chronicle.
Monster Cake a Feature.
At the ninety-ninth birthday cele
bration of the Bible Society at the
Guildhall, London, a few da/ ago
the cake weighed ninety-nine pounds.
The cake is an institution among the
juvenile collectors, and a pound is
added to its weight every year.
uonectrng u"ta or "Temperatures.
The British weather service Is col
lecting report?- from the North Atlan
tic and Mediterranean of the tempera
tures observed by shipping masters.
The data thus collected are to be
worked up in charts. This will show,
among other things, the extent of the
gulf stream.
Bad Proofreading.
Is there such a thing as literary
perfection? Dr. Henry Van Dyke an
nounces that he has found five gram
matical errors in the original West
minster confession, "including a split
infinitive and a singular verb to a
plural subject."
Regret Action of United States.
Dr. W. E. Inksetter, a prominent
citizen of Costa Rica, says Costa Ric
ans consider the rejection by the
United States of the Nicaraguan
route one of the greatest misfortunes
that ever befell their country.
But He Won't Do It.
Johnny's mother had been anxious
to instill into the miud of her youth
ful son the necessity of reading at
least a few verses from the Bible
each day. She is anxious that her
son shoulc have a knowledge of the
Bible as well as other books in fact,
she thinks a reading of the great
book the best means of gaining a
good understanding of English and
history. The little fellow has been
adding a verse through the Psalms,
Proverbs and those books as he ad
vances in reading. The other even
ing he was reading in a particularly
deliberate style when he came upon
the passage, "Keep thy tongue from
evil and thy lips from guile." "Keep
thytonguefromevilandthy
lipsfromgirls," he drawled out.
HACKS DRAW FIRE APPARATUS.
Town Authorities of Salina, Kan.,
Evolve Good Scheme.
A Ke-ituck an, who recently visited
Salina, Kan., writes to a Kentucky pa
per as follows: "1 wish to tell you of
something I saw in Kansas. As I sat
in the hotel in Salina the fire bells
rang. In a second three rubber-tired
hacks standing in front of the hotel
started. Before I could ask I saw
three hose carts hitched to the axles
of the hacks, abcut one dozen firemen
comfortably seated in the hacks, and
under whip the procession disappeared
at full speed." Not being able to
maintain a team o? horses at the fire
station the town resorted to the ex
pedient of offering a good price for
the first team that shall arrive and
hitch to the hose cart. The "hacks,
being on constant duty, often vie with
one another for the prize, and the
general result in point of quick service
is not so much behind the city system
as some might suppose.Kansas City
(Mo.) Journal.
PARIS BANTING IN NEW WAY.
To'Eat Cold Food Only the Latest Plan
of Reducing One's Weight.
The new Parisian cure for too much
flesh is to take all food, or nearly all,
cold. The early breakfast of toast
and eggs is eaten cold, and the food
Is -washed down with cold coffee or
milk.
At luncheon there is nothing but
cold meatb and cold puddings, with
bread, cheese and salads. At night
the meal consists of only mayonnaise
of fish, cold entrees and entremets
no hot vegetables, but perhaps, as a
bonne bouche, a hot cutlet, lean, of
course
Many people in Paris who are in
clined to be stout, especially among
the women, are assiduously following
the new cure, and most of those who
tried it assert that they have ob
tained satisfactory resi.Us.
Many Tons of Ore Mined.
Never during the winter has so
jtalich ore been mined and hoisted to
surface at lake iron mines as this sea
son, in the region about Duluth, Minn
Stock piles have been as large as now,
but the ore on ground was an accumu
lation which several seasons of poor
demand had helped to make. Last fall
there was very little on surface, as
shipments had about cleared up the
stocks of the previous year's work.
Now this newly mined ore is ready by
the millions of tons for the opening of
lake navigation.
Composition of Gas Mantles.
The composition used in gaslight
mantles is 99 per cent thoria and 1
per cent ceria. The foundation of
the Welsbach mantles is cotton fiber,
but the Lehner fabric, composed of
artificial, silk, made from collodion,
gives a more brilliant light and a far
longer life, but such mantles are nat
urally more expensive. The experi
ence of Buhlman of Berlin with man
tles made of-rami fiber have given
most encouraging results.
A Dramatic Reprieve.
On the stage it happens that the
hero is reprieved at the eleventh hour
when on the scaffold, and there are
canes recorded in r.istory. Few, how
ever, have been so close to death as
Joe Campbell, a negro, who had been
condemned to death for murder at
Yazoo City, Mo. The negro had the
halter about his neck and the trap
door was ready to be sprung open.
Campbell then turned to the sheriff
and confessed the name of his accom
plice. He was instantly reprieved.
Copper on Lake Superior.
The richest copper region is that of
Lake Superior, the copper being all in
the native state. In a Minnesota mine
one mass taken out was forty-five feet
in length, twenty-two feet at the great
est width and thickets part was
more than eight feet. It weighed
about 420 tons and was over 90 per
cent copper.
For Those With Stomach Habit.
A Philadelphia. baker is authority
for the assertion that the latest fad
of dyspeptics is bread made with sea
water, instead of fresh water. "It
haj a saltier taste," he says, "than
we are accustomed to, but it is very
palatable. In fact, he who likes salty
things is apt to like it better than
the other kind of bread. A physician
asked me about three months ago to
make some of this bread for his
patients. At first I made six loaves
a day, but now I make thirty. My sea
water comes up to me from Atlantic
City three times a week. The dys
peptics who buy the bread say it is
the only kind they can eat fresh
without discomfort."
To Protect Czar and Emperor.
It is said that when the czar of Rus
sia and the German emperor visit
Rome they will be guarded by 1,200
detectives, who will masquerade as
pilgrims, peasants, priests, nuns and
other characters abounding in Rome
and will lodge in all sorts of hotels,
high-priced and low inns, in cloisters,
private rooms and even houses of ill
repute.
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 elec
tric 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, haying
lived here many year*.
SAWMILLS CLOSED.
Owners Refuse to Submit to Demand
for Increase of Wages.
Ashland, Wis., May 30.The setters
and carriage riders of all the nine Ash
land sawmills quit work yesterday
morning and all mills are closed. The
men notified the mill owners last Mon
day that they demanded an increase of
50 cents per day for setters and 25
cents for carriage riders, giving the
nwreus until yesterday to consider
their demands. The owners met last
night and decided that they would
shut down rather than to grant the in
ciease. and all the mills shut down.
VALUE OF A HORSE TRADER.
For Killing One the Penalty Is Three
Months in Jail.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 30The pen
alty for killing an itinerant horse
trader in Des Moines is only three
months in jail. This was fixed at the
conclusion of the trial of Ed Plunkett
for killing Alex Euchre. The two got
into a quarrel about six weeks ago and
Euchre wi.s killed by a blow on the
head. Plunkett was found guilty of
assault to commit great bodily injury
ant5
Judge Given sentenced him to
t-:rce ?TjC"*fc3 *rc the nenitentiarv.
School Children of the World.
The ratio of school children to pop
ulation is 17 in 100 in England, 19 in
the 100 in the United States and 3
per 100 In Russia.
The New Chinese Minister.
Rev. William E. Griffis corrects a
published statement that Sir Chen
tung Liang Cheng, the new Chinese
minister, is, a graduate of Yale. He
merely studied there, being one of
120 students brought to this country
by Yung Wing. The minister ex
plains that the first part of his name,
Chentung, corresponds to the Ameri
can John. The middle part, his fam
ily name, is pronounced Leeang. His
title, about which there has been a
good deal of talk, was bestowed by
the British government after the au
thorities of his own country had con
sented that he acce"* it.
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