The daily pioneer. [volume], June 05, 1903, Image 2

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THE DAILY PIONEER.
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher.
Entered in the postoffice at Bemldji, Minn..
aslseeond class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Copy for changes of advertisements in
The Dally Pioneer must reach this office by
10 o'clock a. m. uin order to insure their
appearance In the issue of same day.
AND Brother.. McPherson jn
his Little Fork Guardian says:
"If you want to look real beauti
ful don't go to the toilet and
plaster your face with paint and
try to look pretty. You cnn't.
It is not Nature's way of beauti
fying. Rather spend that much
time every day taking a hike in
the woods or basking in the sun
shine. Unlatch that artificial
face of thine from the real one
and then you will be pretty, yea,
beautiful.
EDITOR GREELEY of the Big
Fork Compass pours forth thusly:
"A vegetable diet makes a mush
and milk sort of mai, lifeless,
cold and clammy. It gives him
the energy of a turnip, and his
only ambition seems to be to
make laws for the protection of
fish and game.'5
After all, we
think it would be better for all
concerned if there was a law to
protect both fish and uue
BEMIDJI'S building boom has
never known a day's sickness.
(Jrookston Times.
BACKJ N '29
ByF. N. LANG
Away back in 1829, before Chi
cago was hardly known, Galena,
111., at the head of navigation on
the Eever, became quite a notable
point on account of its shipments
of lead ore that was dug from the
surface of the ground in the
county northward. The country
was filled with English miners
called "Cousin Jacks." Lead or
galena was worth $100 per ton,
money was Jlush, the country
new, and times were* wild/ It
was the frontier mining district
of the country.
In 1849 the gold, discoveries of
California and other and later
gold excitements in Colorado
allured these miners from their
safe and profitable "diggings"
westward when, at the close of
the war lead dropped to $80 per
ton the western gold fever caused
those who" had remained to go
also, thus' leaving the country to
the farmers. The soil being of
the very richest character, and
the settlers being content to farm
for a living, the old pits, shafts
and trenches.anade and left by
the miners were filled and leveled
for farming: purposes sometimes
at a cost of $50 per acre, and the
country settled down to farming.
Today a ride through this dis
trict (Grant county) shows a roll
ing country, nearly every acre of
which is crop or pasture. Large
farm houses and barns, luxuri
ant grasses and clover, beautiful
elm and maple shade trees, sleek
cattle and horses in the pastures,
well-to-do farmers in buggies be
hind good roadsters are con
stantly seeneverything looking
prosperous, and at least one-third
of the farmers being fully aware
of the fact that they own not only
a farm worth $100 per acre for
farming purposes, but also that
below the surface has an untold
-wealth of zinc and lead which
will some day be opened up by
those intereste in mining. The
top soil is a black, rich loam, and
one wonders at first why the
plowed fields show so many spots
about a rod in diameter of red
dish soil. The face of the coun
try looks as if it had the small
pox. These spots prove to be
the remains of the "diggings" of
.early days, and could they but
tell of the wealth of mineral that
the pick and shovel had drawn
from the loose, top soil, the world
could hc-rdly believe it.
The mining industry of this
section has lain dormant for
many years, but the past two
years has seen something of a
change, as a few hea parties
have invested small sums in de
veloping properties, and in every
instance where the money was
judiciously expended in sinking
a shaft and developing a mine it
has proved a financial success.
The veins are wide, long and well
defined, so that mining is safe
amV'.isure. suri'aee indica
tions are so positive" that the find
ing of the veins is an easy mat
ter.
The ores are well distributed
through the veins, and in this re
spect differ from the deposits of
the Joplin, Mo., fields in which
the ores occur in lenses or iso
lated deposits, which make for
tunes for those who find them,
and break those who do not hap
pen to strike them when search
ing by drilling, sinking shafts or
drifting.
Mining in the Plattville district
resolves itself into a matter of
using fair judgment in the selec
tion of a location and following it
by decently, economical work.
Neither this country, nor in
fact, any other will warrant the
reckless expenditure of money,
such a" is all too frequent among
managers of mining properties
who carry the check book for a
wealthy syndicate or stock com
pany.
TO BE CONTINUED
Quality Is Never
Stinted Here.
Price Always Is.
I. MEYER & CO.,
High Art Clothiers.
VESTA BANK ROBBED.
$2,500 in Currency and Ail Notes
Taken by Cracksmen.
Redwood Falls, Minn., June 5.
Burglars cracked the safe In the
bank at Vesta and robbed it of all its
contents, including $30,000 in currency
and all of the notes. A farmer three
miles north of Vesta reports t-hat
three men stopped at his farm for a
drink. They were well dressed young
men, one being rather fleshy, with a
heavy-set jaw. They were dressed in
medium light-colored clothes.
Village Wiped Out by Fire.
St. John's, N. B., June 5. A tele
phone message from Norton says tht
village of Briggs' Corner, Queons coun
ty, was wiped out by fire, only on*
house and a hall being left. Loss, $30,
000 to $40,000.
PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT.
Satchel Full of Dynamite Found Hid
den Near Lincoln Depot.
Bloomington, 111., June 5. There
was a sensation at Lincoln yesterday
morning over the discovery of a
satchel full of dynamite hidden near
the Chicago & Alton track.- in Lincoln.
This was located within a few feet
from where President Roosevelt was
to leave the train this morning, and a
plot was suspected by the police. A
thorough investigation is in progress.
Conectiny u"Ta oT Temperatures.
The British leather 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 bo
worked up in charts. This will show',
among other things, the exiont of ihe
gulf stream.
Bad Proofreading.
Is there such a thing as literary
perfection? Dr. Henry Van" Dyker.'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."
Do You Believe in Sims
If You Read Ours You Do.
I. MEYER & CO.,
High Art Clothiers.
Historic Portrait Spoiled.
Among the best portraits in the
white house previous to the recent
'"renovation was that of Mrs. Benja
min Harrison by Daniel Huntington,
for many years America's foremost
portrait painter. In the "restoration"
this portrait has been rehung to suit
some modern interpretation of the
alleged original plan of the mansion
by George Washington. In doing this
the paint has been scratched and
scraped and in some important spaces
has been knocked off entirely. Worse
than this, a hole about three inches
long has been punched in the canvas.
They Catch the Suckers.
"What's the good of 'bucking'
against the Wall street game, when
an ordinary broker can afford to pay
$2,000 for a sign- to catch suckers?"
said on,j*sho had "bucked" in vain to
another who was seeking advice.
They were standing in front of -a
Broadway skyscraper, on either side
of the entrance to which were enor
mous bronze signs of brokerage firms.
I do not think $2,000 would begin to
cover the expense of certain signs
in the financitl district. They are
bigger and finer than the most costly
historical tablets.
Painting Is Appropriate.
Some very handsome paintings were
placed recently on the wails of the
cafe of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York. The man who hung them evi
dently had a good idea of the eternal
fitness of things. Suspended just over
the sign of a firm of Wall street
brokers is a picture of a flock of sheep,
the thickness of whose fleeces indi
cates that they are about ready to be
shorn. "Very appropriate" is the in
evitable comment oi those who notice
the juxtaposition of the sign and the
painting.
American Internal Commerce.
In view of the establishment of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
it may be interesting to note that the
internal commerce of the United
States last year has been estimated
bv the government statistician at'
$20,000,000,000. Fifty years ago it I
was only $2,000,000,000. The manu
factures of the United States are near
iy double those of Great Britain and
Ireland, and about equal to those of
France, Germany and Russia com-j
bined
Lesson in Chaplain Milburn's Life.
It was of the late William H. Mil
burn, the -blind preacher chaplain
of the house, and afterward of the
Senate, that William R. Morrison
once said: "Mr. Milburn is a man
who fears God, hatos the devil and
votes the straight ticket." -Mr. Mil
burn's life illustrates what one can
do in the face of hardships. He was
totally blind before becoming of age,
but became a Methodist clergyman,
successful lecturer and author, keep
ing at his work until a few months
before his death at the age of eighty.
The newspapers were read to* him
every day and he kept fully posted on
passing events.
Full of Absentees.
There was a larger attendance than
usual in the "Ame" comer" at the
Fifth Avenue hotel last night, and
these we-e some of the interesting
stories told: "Judge Gildersleeve," re
marked George W. Wanamaker, "was
telling the other night of a laughable
'bull' made by Maj. Leach, once fa
mous as the head of the Irish rifle
team. The judge was visiting in Ire
land and remarked: 'Major, is it true
that much of the trouble in this little
country of yours is caused by ab
sentee landlords?' 'It is, sir,' re
sponded the major. 'Sure, our little is
land is full of them.'"New York
Mail and Express.
The One Thing Wrong.
A foreigner went into one of Bos
ton's hi:: -hotels, one Sunday morning
not long ago and asked for a typical
BGEtcn breakfast. ..After J=ome con
ference with the-head.waiter_an. espe
cially nice breakfast was served, in
cluding of course codfish balls, brown
bread and pork and beans. The visitor
ate with apparent relish, but after
some minutes summoned his man.
"These beans are delicious," he said,
"and the coffee could not be better,
but"pointing to the codfish ball
"you may remove the little bun.
There appears'to be something dead
in it."
Future Center of Learning.
The principal owner of Boomtown
was showing the capitalist over the
site of the proposed metropolis. This
plot o' ground." he said, "is where
the railroad depo is gnin' to be locat
ed Over there where you see them
cottonwood trees we'll have the court
house. Back of us about half a mile,
where them cockle burrs is growm',
we'll put the electric light ptant.
"And how about that patch of swamp
land over there on the right?" asked
the capitalist. "Well, I first intended
that for the stockyards, but I've
changed my mind. That's where the
university'll be."-Chicago Tribune.
A Much-Married Man.
An inhabitant of Creglingen, in
wurttemburg, whose name is Eritz
Kottman, claims to be the champion
benedict of the world. He has been
married no fewer than eleven times.
His first three wives died young, the
next two were drowned, one commit
ted suicide, three died in succession,
the tenth was gored to death by a
bull, and he has just recently married
the eleventh, who had a leg cut off
by a railway train last year, so that
the wedding had to be postponed till
now.
Chamberlain Not to Be a Peer.
By way of stamping with absurdity
the report that Joseph Chamberlain
has accepted a peerage, it is pointed
out that King Edward would not think
of offering a peerage to minister who
is within measureable distance of ob
taining the premiership, nor would a
minister who is in such a position
think of transferring himself to the
other house unless he had decided to
round off his political career.
E. J. Willits
Dealer In
REA ESTAT E
38,000 acres
of good land
for sale
Correspondence Solicited
BEMIDJI, MI N
Mean to Enforce SabDath Laws.
Sheriff Cummings of Lewiston Me.,
has undertaken a partial enforcement
of the old blue laws by compelling the
confectionery shop c-wners to shut up
on Sunday. These storekeepers are
charging discrimination and now
threaten to serve papers upon the
sheriff in an action which will force
him to carry his crusade even further
and enforce to the very letter all the
famous old purity statutes. This will
mean, as is their purpose, that busi
ness and labor of all kl^ds must
cease upon the Sabbath, ana even the
newsboys will be driven from the
streets and the electric cars prevent
ed from operating.
Rising American Oarsman.
A young man with the poetic name
of Feniand DemovueUe, son of a for
mer police commissioner of New Or
leans, will be the representative of
the- Yeu-n-g Men's Gymr.asi.ic. club of
that city to compete in the trying out
of the American oarsmen on Harlem
river, New York, on the occasion of
the Harlem regatta. If he succeeds
in passing he will be one of the com
petitors for the diamond sculls to be
awarded at the Royal Henley regatta
in England. Mr. Demoreulle has made
an enviable reputation at the Cres
cent city as an oarsman.
Specialists in Demand.
One of America's most successful
oculists, Dr. Critchett, a specialist, re
fused $35,000 to go to India to oper
ate on a powerful native prince, and
Dr. Gelezowski of Paris got $25,000
for ridding the second son of the late
shah of Persia of a troublesome eye.
A certain duchess paid $25,000 to a
London specialist for eliminating a
trouble which seriously threatened
her beauty. Dr. Sheldon of New,
York, for curing the daughter of a
Standard oil magnate, received se
curities worth in the open market
$87,000. Who would not like to be a
specialist at these figures?
A Chinese innovation.
Some foreign clothing has been tak
en into the palace at Pekin for the
emperor and em pi ess dowager to try
on, so that they may come to some
decision regarding its introduction in
official circles. Should the emperor
and empress dowager sanction the
wearing of foreign costumes by the
court an unprecedented departure will
have been taken. In no way is the
conservatism of the Chinese shown
more strongly than by their adherence
to their national dress, even when
living in Western countries.
Women Want Palace Cars.
Society women in New Orleans have
begun a movement to have the street
railway company put on palace cars
for their convenience and comfort.
They say they can not ride in the
present cars when they are in after
noon or evening dress, as the cars are
dirty and there is no telling who their
eeatmate may be. They do not mind
paying extra fares for the use of ex
clusive cars.
Twice Told (Shirt) Tales
Come in and Listen.
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High Art Clothiers.
"Robbery," a New Magazine.
A magazine has been started ID
Bolglum to chronicle the doings of
the criminal world. It is called "Rob-
bery," and will appear quarterly. It
will contain accounts of famous
thefts in days gone by side by side
with descriptions of the most up "to
date methods employed by thieves,
burglars, etc., though it is not to be,
so far as known aa organ of the
trade. Space will be also devoted to
illustrating the various tools and In
st: -ised by tbe craft on noc
turnal excursions in town and coun
try,
Common Sense
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Livery Stable
A. M. BAGLEY
SUCCESSOR TO J. J. JINKINSON
New Carriages
and Good Horses
New and Second Hand
Carriages For Sale
BEMIDJI MINN.
THIRD STREET
BOWLING ALLEY.
For Week endiriff Tuesday, juiie 9th, the
fpllbjtvlrijj* prize-.-, will be offered:
HIGH SCORE IN TEN PINS
One pair Gold Cuff Buttons
Furnished by E. A. Barker.
HIGH SCORE IN SEVEN BACK
One Negligee Shirt Furnished
by I. Meyer & Co.
G. WEETMAN, PROPRIETOR.
Jay Reynolds
Attorney-at-Law.
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