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

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THE
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher.
Entered In the postofflce at Boniiuji, Minn
asisei'ond claws matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
PEOPLE AND BOATS.
Bemidji Lake glimmering in
the sunshine has ample for the
artist and pleasure seeker, but
did it ever strike you.how much
was being overlooked?
See the dancing waters spread
out before us like a little world
and there glides a dainty sail
boat goes when the wind blows,
and naturally stops when tho
wind stops.
This is like certain people, who
move when some excitement
comes along, but who ordinarily
sit wondering how Mi\/Smith or
Jones cornered the luck market.
Puff, puff, puff! and a gasoline
launch comes bobbing along, say
ing as plain as noise can,
THE D0UKH0B0RS.
The Doukhobor craze has sub
sided and the fanatics have be
come orderly Canadian farmers.
Peter Verogin, the former Sibe
rian convict and present leader
of the Canadian Doukhobors, has
brought peace to the troubled
communities at Yorktown, N. T.,
and at Nosthern, and has made
good progress in his self-imposed
task of converting the Doukho
bors into respectable farmers.
One of the most difficult features
of the Doukhobor settlement with
which the immigration authori
ties have had to deal was the re
fusal of the membors to home
stead the land. Their opinions
within the last Cow months have
undergone a "decided change in
this respect. Every male 'Douk
hobor over the age of 1'8 years
has applied for a quarter section,
and 1,743 homestead entries have
been made since Veregin's arri
val in this country. It is siyniti-
can.tll.iiit.the .name of JSimli .Ze-.
broff, who was the. prime leader
of the last two pilgrim'Bges, ap
pears as the attorney of live hun
dred of the settlers who have
made application during the last
month.
IMMIGRATION.
The immigration figures for
May, 1903, show that more than
twice as many persons emigrated
from Denmark to America as
during the same period hist year,
and the "American fever" shows
no signs of abating. It is shown,
however, that the money sent
DAILY PIONEER, 'home by the
tiers in the United Stntos off
sots, to a large degree, tlie loss
to tho country caused by immi
gration of so many of its best
citizens. Figures recently pub
lished in Christiana show
during 1902 a total of 14,000,-
ooo kroners were remitted in
this way to Norway alone in bank
drafts, postal orders and through
the steamship companies. A
considerable sum is also sent
back every year in the form of
loose bills enclosed in letters.
look, lookI' important!' Yes, -l^ camping parties.
there are those all-important peo
pie who make a great deal of i
noise and usually good headway,
but there's a certain something
which invariably accompanies
their progress and will hardly
bear investigation.
There goes an electric launch.
See how quietly sin.1
travels along
as if she was minding herj own
business and attending to her
own affairs, moves in a steady
fashion, not caring a snap
whether she attracts attention or
no.
Like a certain class of people her husband,
who work quietly and steadily
"with an unseen power in their
lives which is bound to "make
itself felt sooner or later. Mind
there own affairs and do their
wTork
well, regardless of the
sneers or praises of a fluctuating
populace. These form the back
bone of life.
Here comes a tug. Puff, puff,
puff! See how she drags along.
Well, what can you expect when
she has a load like that to hold
her back.
How many people we see who
are crawling along, held back by
the troubles and hard work of
life. Plod, plod, plod!
It's nothing but hard work
from morn till eve. They are
doing their work, 'tis true, and
doing it faithfully. Turn a little
more steam on. Buy fifty cents
worth of energy and mix with a
quart of cheerfulness. W. J.W.
Scandinavan set
FURIOUS FOREST FIRE.
Mining Timber Destroyed and Stand
ing Timber Damaged.
Sparta, Minn., June 23.A furious
forest fire has been burning all day
about two miles from here and about
one mile from the Genoa mine loca
tion. It started early in the morning
in the slashings where the Lake Su
perior Consolidated mines cut a large
amount of logs of mining timber dur
ing the winter. It is reported that a
large amount of mining timber and
cordwood have been destroyed and
the standing timber damaged. .A
drove of eight large deer and four
young ones were driven into the
Genoa mine location by the fire. It is
.'look'Hj!thought the fire was started by care-
CONFESSES HER CRIME.
Washington Woman Killed Her Hus
band and Buried the Body.
Pomeroy, Wash., June 23.Amanda
Latrigue has confessed that she
killed her husband on the night of
Sept. 23, 1! 02, with an axe and buried
the remains in the front yard of their
farm near here, where 4IK'V were
found recently. The woman asserts
that De Latrigue came to her bedside
while she slept, roused her and
threatened her life that he pursued
her into the yard and shot at her,
when she seized an axe and sunk it
into his head. She buried the body
herself the same night. Mrs. De La
trigue was twenty years older than
NO VACCINATION.
Re- Board of Health at Deadwood
ceives a Severe Setback.
Deadwood, S. D., June 23.The de
murrer of the board of education of
the city of Deadwood to the mandam
us writ issued at the instance of the
board of health, to compel the exclu
sion from the public schools of all un
vaccinated children, has been sus
tained by the court. The case was
started during the early part of April.
The board of health was endeavoring
to enfoice vaccination as a means of
suppressing and preventing smallpox.
The board of education refused 'to en
force the order and the health authori
ties resorted to the court.
BEES ATTACK FARMER.
Doctor an
Saves His Life by Giving
Emetic.
Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 23Thomas
Dobson, a farmer of this vicinity, was
almost fatally stung by a swarm of
bees which he was endeavoring to
place in a hive. His head and face
were a mass of stings and swelled to
enormous size. The administration of
an emetic was all that saved his life
the physician in attendance says.
When found the family thought be
was dead, as he lay unconscious oh
the ground, while the bees were still
attacking him.
HANGS HERSELF TO RAFTER.
Demented Woman Commits Suicide
by Hanging.
Flandreau, S. D., June 23. Mrs.
Thomas Monson, living near here,
committed suicide yesterday morning
by hanging. She ran out of the house,
climbed a windmill trestle, jumped
into a lake of water, then ran to the
barn and while watched by two men,
who were waiting for her husband to
arrive, terminated her life by hang
ing herself to a rafter. She was in
sane.
Saloonkeeper Commits Suicide.
Stillwater, Minn., June 23. Hang
ing to a rope suspended from a rafter
in the woodshed adjacent to his resi
dence at Lake Elmo was found the
body of Carl Henry Severin. The dis
covery was made by his wife. Severin
owned a saloon at Lake Elmo.
Stabbed at a Dance.
Black River Falls, Wis., June 23.
During a drunken row at a dance at
Clay, twelve miles from here, Charles
Staffon and his son Tony were stabbed
by a man named Flood. The former is
in a serious condition.
Militia Protects Street Cars.
Dubuque. Iowa, June 23Street cars
resumed operations yesterday, with
four companies of militia guarding the
company's property. There was no
disturbance.
Big Crop of Wool.
Sturgis. S. D., June 23. The wool
growers of the range are beginning to
get their year's crop to the market,
and are very much pleased to find
that prices have advanced several
points since last year.
Rain in South Dakota.
Pierre, S. D., June 23. A general
drizzling rain prevailed over this sec
tion of the state last night, bringing
relief to vegetation, which was be
ginning to show the eSeets of the dry
i weather.
Tectotallsm in Texas.
When Gen. Horace Porter was IK
Texas he came a ,ross a man who
went about telling everybody, in great
surprise, that he "had struck a big
thing here." "What's the matter?"
people asked. "Why," he answered,
"I was sen down her bty a temper
that &
uc
to to
to
to to to
to to
societt in Kansaes distribute
these tracts. Well, whenever I hand
ed a man a tract he glanced over lt
hauled out a revolver from one pocket
and a quart bottle of whisky from
the other and then said: 'Look here,
you just have a drink of that, or my
gun'll go off.' Would you believe it!
I haven't had to pay for a drop of
liquor since I came here to distribute
teetotal tracts."
Not Looking for Notoriety.
No author of the day has been less
photographed than Joseph Conrad,
who ha* just published a book of sea
stories. His publishers, when his
book was about to come out, having
failed to persuade him to face "the
camera for a new picture, hunted high
and low throughout England and
America for sorr sort of likeness.
Finally, in the files of an old English
illustrated magazine, someone stum
bled upon a small oval head of him,
and it is from that half-tone, enlarged
and retouched, that all pictures of
Conrad recently published have been
made.
conecxrng uata or Temperatures.
The British weather service Is col
lecting reports- from the North Atlan
tic ajid 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.
BEMIDJI REED Reed and his work
of this vicinity.
Mr. Knutson ha
company for four year:
The Celebrated Scientific
Palmist and Clairvoyant
Has arrived and remains a short time only. The
Professor is recognized by press and public as the
foremost and most able Scientific Palmist and
Clairvoyant before the American public, and he
especially invites those to call who have been dis-
appointed or deceived in the past by some incompe
tent personthey will notice the difference be-
tween an adept and a pretender.
HRE YOU IN TROUBLE?
Do you find that with all of your natural gifts and talents that
you are "baffled, discouraged and unsuccessful? If so, come and be
advised and find out the cause of your bad luck, and how you can
change your bad conditions to success, joy and happiness. Thous-
ands live today to bless and give credit of their success and happi-
ness to this wonderful man. Are you sick"? If so, come to me
and I will tell you free of charge what ails you. I do not give medi-
cine, but tell you how to be cured without asking a single question.
Come and be convinced. Palmistry and Clairvoyant taught.
Prof. vSeaton is located at
Roo 8 Remore Hotel
recentl
to II7E
hav
ML-LTING OLD PLATES
._
Ton* ut Tho?e Used for Printing 3Iouey
to .Serve at Ship lialUst,
This was "melting day" at the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing. All
the plates, roils and dies u.cd in print
ing gold and silver certificates, postage
and revenue stamps, bonds and postal
cards during 19Q1 were loaded early
this morning en two big trucks. Al
though the precaution had been taken
to spoil the face of each plate with a
file, four trapping employes of the
Treasury Department rode on each
truck. A Treasury committee rode in
a carriage.
The procession went to the Navy
yard foundry, where the plates were
unceremoniously dumped into one of
the furnaces, to come out as pig steel
and to be used for ballast for war
ships. There were twenty tons
plates, rolls and dies, from which
were printed last year $2,200,000,000 in
gold and silver certificates of various
denominations, and $88^000*000 m\
postage stamps, besides hundreds of
millions of bonds, revenue stamps and
postal cards.
The engravers are now at work on
the plates, rolls and dies for 1903.
Those in use now will be destroyed
next February.New York World.
Plunged From Balcony.
Savannah, Ga., May 21.Robert J.
Hilton, aged thirty-four, a civil engi
neer employed by the government in
Savannah harbor work, committed sui
cide yesterday by jumping head fore
most from the balcony of St. Joseph's
hospital. lie wont to the hospital the
previous night to be fcr-e.utad for fever.
C- & & & &.9L & & &&&& fltfc&^&S- ^St^&S-^.
Lakeside Bakery
MAGEA BROS., Props.
to Choice Candies, Fruits
and Confections Stock
ill $ Ives Ice Cream
purchased the bakery and conf ection-
($/ Wl ery business which was formerly part of the estate
of the late Mrs. A. E.Milne. The building will be remod-
\D eled and thoroughly renovated. We handle the celebrated
to O East Third Street. BemidjMMinn.
REED & KNUTS0N
Blacksmith and
Wagon Makers
& KNUTSOX have opened a blacksmith and wagon shop one
door south of The Pioneer, atrl are prepared to handle any and
all work in their line and guarantee satisfaction to all corners. Mr--
makes a specially of horseshoeing and general blacksmith worK,
11 known to need any introduction to the people
is too we
MINNESOTA
been in the employ of the St. Hilaire Lumber
and comes well recommended by that company.
Give the new firm a chance to show you what
they can do, and you will not be disappointed
REED & KNUTSON
Second door south of postoffice, BEMIDJI, MINN.
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Prescience.
Still tho Pky was fjray and prfrn,
By the winter's hreath concealed
Hare ami gaunt vere bush and limb,
White and bleak were moor *n field.
But beneath the frozen sod
Stirred a host of blossoms, sky,
Saying, with triu.nphant nod:
"Spring Is nigh!"
Through the grove a rustle ereptf
Neighbor unto neighbor spoke
Dryads who for long had slept
In their cells of bark awoke,
Felt a subtle, eager thrill,
Stretched their arms, by rigor numb,
Passed the word o'er vale and hill:
"Soring is come!"
'Blind, insensate things!" I thought,
"All the world Is Ice and snow
Yours a hope too dearly bought,
As a few short days will show.
Spring, you prate? When deep amid
Frost and drift He leaf and spun-!"
But, behold, een while I chid
Spring was hers!
Of Edwin L. Sabln, in New England Maga
zine.
It -was dinner time when Jumbo Sam
rode up to the Hat Six ranch. Hospi
tality is the first law of the cattle
country, and Jumbo Sam, who had
eaten breakfast seven hours before,
was in no mood to transgress It. His
saddle creaked as it was relieved of
his 200 pounds, and the jadeci cow
pony shook himself with satisfaction.
"Dinner is now ready in the dinin'
car," sang out the cook. "Come an"
git it while it's hot."
In response to the welcome call tho
crowd of cow punchers filed into the
dining room.
"Come on, Jumbo," said Ru?
Thompson, foreman of the Hat Si*.
"Better hit the grub trail right now, if
you don't want the cook to work over
time. Them cow hands is liable t^
clean off that table as quick as a
beaver workin' in a patch Q' fresh wil
lows. They ain't got no more manners
than one o' yer bears when it sets
down to an antelope carcass."
Jumbo Sam was a bear hunter by
occupation, and the simile was not
lost on him. He made a hasty pre
tense of scrubbing his bearded face
in the water trough at the side of the
kitchen, and followed Thompson into
the dining rcom.
"S'jt yere, Jumbo, right acrost from
Peg Simmons. You know Peg. At
least if you don't you'd orter."
Other than an involuntary start,
Jumbo Sam gave no sign that he rec
ognized Simmons. He took the seat,
however, and bent his head so low
over his plate that Jack Fulmer, his
nearest table companion, said after
ward that he thougnt the hunter was
ahout to ask a blessing.
This expectation was not realized,
for Jumbo Sam, with head still loW'
ered, swept the table with sidelong
glances and heiped himself liberally
to beefsteak, biscuits and potatoes as
the food was passed to him. As he
had a reputation for conversation of
that personal variety known as brag
gadocio, his silence was noticeable.
His close attention to the business in
hand, however, seemed to remove any
mysterious cause for this lack of lo
quacity. Not once did he refuse ta
help himself to the contents of the
meat platter or pav of biscuits. Had
it not been for his peculiar manner
during the meal his reticence might
have been passed by without com
ment. Not once did he raise his eyes
to Peg Simmons. The strange twist
of his thick neck suggested rheuma
tism, spinal trouble, earache, almost
any ill, in fact, which could be con-,
tracted by a man who sometimea
tracked a grizzly in fresh snow for
two or three days with stopping until
he found his game.
Peg Simmons on the other ^and
seldom looked at his plate. His smaH
blue eye rested almost constantly on
the bowed head across the table. He
was a little manhardly five feet
eight, and his slight frame contrasted
sharply with Jumbo Sam's bulky fig
are. Moreover, he was a cripple, One
day while trying to head a refractory
steer in gopb-r ground his pony had
stepped in a p-airie dog hole and
thrown him. Simmons' left leg was
broken o badly that it had to be
''Heerd you bean shootin' off
yawp about Nell," he says.
I amputated. The surgeon did the job
in such bungling fashion that the op
eration had to he repeated. When
Simmons recovered he came to the
Hat Six ranch, where he formerly had
I been employed. The proprietor gave
him money to buy a wooden leg, and
a few weeks Simmons had won the
nickname of "Peg," and the rspatat/on
ef being one of the best cow punchers
In the Big Horn basin in spite of his
misfortune. No-man in the outfit was
his superior in roping a eteer, nor
according to common reportin hand
ling a six-shooter.
(flan Column
SITUATION WANTEDYoung
woman of ability desires posi
tion as stenographer, book
keeper or cashier: can furnish
highest metropolitan refer
ences. Address I, Daily
Pioneer. 51-2t
WANTEDExperienced girl for
general housework. Salary $20
per month. Inquire at this of
fice. 48-tf
EXCELLENT chance for- man with
small capital to get into paying'
hotel business at Crookston, Minn.
For particulars address letters to
proprietor of Commercial hotel,
Crookston, Minn.
STRAYEDGame' to my prem
ises one white dog and pup.
J. Gilbertson. Diamond Point.
ANYONE desiring to buy a rotary
sawmill of 20,000'feet capacity write
"No. 300." care this office.
FOR SALETwo thousand cords of
Ki-inch wood. Wes Wright. 34tf
LANG & CARTER exclusive agents
for Bailey's addition.
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Miss Cleveland Runs a Farm,
Miss Rose Cleveland, the sister of.
ex-President Cleveland, is a success
ful farmer. She now owns about one
half of a 700-acre island near Isles
boro, Me., having within a few days
acquired an additional tract of land.
Miss Cleveland has about 800 chick
ens, a large herd of cows and a big
vegetable garden on her island, where
she raises prize pumpkins, fat chick
ens and makes prime dairy butter. She
handles her affairs herself, it is said,
but employs a large force of men.
There is but one other cottage on th
Island.
THIRD STREET
BOWLING ALLEY.
For Week ending Tuesday, June 23rd, tlio
following prizes will be offered:
MICH SCORE IN TEN PINS
Fancy Whist Set, furnished by
E. A. Barker.
HIGH SCORE IN SEVEN BACK
Dressing Case '-rnishe by I
rieyer & Co.
G. WEETMAN. PROPRIETOR.
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Livery Stable
A. M. BAGLEY
SUCCESSOR TO J. J. JINKINSQN
New Carriages
and Good Horses
New and Second Hand
Carnages For Sale
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BEMIDJI MINN.
Decorating Floor Finishing.
Granite Floor Finish
WALL PAPER and PAINTS
W. J0J1ES
TELEPHONE 20
Office' Opp. City Boat House.
vwwwwvw FOR SALE!
TWO 35F00T LAUNCHES
Strong, Durable Boats
Gasoline Engines
Address 223 Manhattan
Building, Ouluth. Minn.
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