*W*w!3PlPT* THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Arnold insults Taxpayers By Prevaricating A Few More Questions •y* AND BORDER BUDGET Continued from Page Four Why has Attorney N. B. Arnold and his gang of pirates refused Publishers of the Official County Proceedings Engineer Berg, services and expense, Nov.. 250.00 to answer the charges of the Press until after our establishment was burned out? Engineer Berg, services and expense/Dec.. 250.00 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Engineer.Berg, services and expense, January 250.00 Why has he refused to answer our allegations until he supposed GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager Assistanto to Engineers Berg and Hughs, rodmen we were helpless? and chainmen November 175.00 a it pa he ha of re or it vi is Entered at the Post Office at International Falls Minn as Second-class Matter Same for December 175.00 mission before he dared come out in public. Same for January 175.00 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR He charged the Press with attempting to prevent an investigation. C. Polenske, stenographer for Arnold, services, We charge him with being untruthful. November 50.00 C. Polenske, stenographer for Arnold, services The Press has always asked for an investigation, but we want The Press intended to give its readers another chapter on the subject for December 50.00 a thorough and honest investigation by honest men, who will show of our notorious "investigator being investigated" in this issue, but the no partiality, who will play no favorites, the way this gang is do-ing. C. Polenske, stenographer for Arnold, services fire has somewhat upset our plans for this week. We have plenty of material fro January 50.00 Arnold knows that we have got the evdenve on him and iar on hand and promise that the public will sit up and take notice before afraid that we will publish t. Incidental expenses, unpaid bills for labor we get through. This county has troubles enough with some of its own and printing, now on file, etc. 550.00 6,100.00 We smply ask for a fair and thorough investigation by the self-seeking law breaking citizens without importing others and paying proper authorities, the a torney general and public examner, who are them extravagant wages out of the taxpayers money while they are pulling Total $10,754.26 investigating and gettng results in the Hibbing and Cass county affairs, off their selfish and unprofessional stunts for the benefit of a very for the benefit of the taxpayers of Koochching county and not The above figures representing estimate expenses of November, few undesirable citizens backed by the worst outside influence in this state, December and January are exceedingly conservative by at least 25 under grafting methods. If Arnold was on the square he would step down and out and per cent. We have lived the past month in great anticipation of issuing the In addtion to these figures, the court actions at the January ask the attorney general's office to conduct the investigation as was Press in its present number, but twice the size, robed in Christmas splendor term covering investigation cases will take up all of forty days and the wish and intention of the three original and honest complainants and filled with words of gratitude and Christmas good-cheer from our many possibly more, which means an expense of an extra $9,000.00, figured from down river, but he is agraid to do so. He dare not meet the business and professional men in connection with the special advertisements very conservatively on a daily expense of $225.00. issue fairly and squarely. they wished published at this time. To try and cover up his tracks he Is he a competent person to conduct the county investigation? As has been our custom, we desired to give our readers and especially prints the following false statements property tax of $9.99. Honest Aroabout That is the question, and we challengt him to face it. the children in the homes of our subscribers a Christmas edition that the taxpayers who signed the He misrepresented the Buyck case. He does not say why it was H. W. Forrer, who still resides on would impress upon their minds the teachings of Him who came to bring necessary for the town to get an order from the judge of the district appeal as insulting and dirty as it the identical land near Littlefork, court compelling him to turn over the money. We have the recordsThey "Peace on earth, good-will to men," and to convey to all the glad tidings is false: which he homesteaded seventeen were not stolen at the time of the fire, because they were not of Christmas cheer. Personal years ago, has a tax of $65.79, besides there, we had them with us on our St. Paul trip. Arnold ducks the In order that we might be able to do this more impressively than Name Real Estate Property humiliatink censure the supreme court heaped upon his head and other lands.—Honest Arnold. usual we had purchased a special Christmas cover, which was the finest K. O. Foss, $43.32 Nothing tries to sneak behind a batch of figures in regard to the drainage. J. M. Gish paid a real estate tax work of art ever prepared in thatline. They arrived a few days before H. D. Bean Nothing Nothing We simply say that if the county board paid any illegal commissions of $11.94 besides his personal property the disastous fire and wee ruthlessly destroyed with everything else. H. W. Forrer $1.15 Nothing that suit should be brought but it should be placed in the tax of $32.24.—Honest Arnold. If we could have gladdened one heart or lightened the burden of a single R. K. Watt $8.58 Nothing hands of an honest attorney, not one of the "ambulance chasing" C. WL Speelman owns real estate individual for a passing moment we would have considered our efforts Oscar Douglass $38.81 Nothing kind, to recover the same. in South International Falls, Northome, well paid. Nothing W. J. Piatt Nothing Outside of the sale of the bonds and letting of the contracts* town of Ray, and town of Englewood, J. M. Gish Nothing $32.34 everyone knows that he whole transaction of rainage is one on which the taxes aggregate The fire which swept up the entire plant of the PRESS office at an $6.02 Nothing Ora Hazen of court proceedure, handled by a judge of the district court and over $50.—Honest Arnold. early hour on Sunday morning, is now an incident of the past. It oc C. W. Speelman NothingCompare $1.39 that the couny board or auditor has not power or responsibility in curred during our absence on business in the Twin Cities. We have not had time since our the above figures of Arnold's the matter. beautiful trimming by fire to consult We are now rapidly rearing up upon the ruins what will become with the following, which are Arnold and his henchmen attempt to make the public believe other gentlemen referred to, a better and stronger paper in the future even than in the past. We are proven by the records to be the truth that the auditor made the assessments of ditch liens against the lands but to our own knowledge F. O. Foss being overwhelmed with the many kind and sympathetic words of a host and you can judge what an honest benefitted by rainage. If hat is a fair specimen of his honesty of friends, both in town and over lond-distance 'phone. Our loss from the owns 1,500 acres in this county besides investigator Arnold has proven himself and ability, the county board certainly cheated the public when they fire which cannot be substantial, is more than offset by this spontaneous his home in this city upon which to be. pessed the resoluions Arnold himself prepared, hiring him at $25 and outburst of kindly words, and encouraging expressions. he pays $43.32 in taxes. W. J. Piatt, honest old soul, though $50 per day and all expenses. We are unswerved from that policy in the conduct of our paper which And we are satisfied to have the we often disagree with him, showed He certainly is some comical freak to offer such rot as an excuse has been its distinctive mark in the past. If anything, we are set to public consult the county records to for his actions. A fine specimen to be in charge of an investigation. to us tax receipts Nos. 7659, 3860, devote its pages in the future more completely to the cleansing, and improving convince themselves of Arnold's perfidy. A swell bundle of bunk to be signed as Taxpayers' Investigation 631, 192, 587 and 7031, for a total of this city and county, of all and every form of lawlessness, cort| Still Arnold's extravagance the Committee. of $136.65.—Honest Arnold. ruption, and public wrongdoing than ever in the past. present month aggregates over We are not condoning any wrong doing that has taken place ii* R. K. Watt took out his pocketbook We are conscious of a distinct duty to the lawabiding, reputable citizens the past, but would like to ask why we should be robbed as at $2,000. and showed tax receipts Nos. of this community who are here now, and the many who will come present? It is any wonder that he is resort 129, 2984, 2204, 2176 and 7022, aggregating here with the immense development of our local industries. If anything H6w much is Arnold dipping into the county treasury for? ing to insults and falsehoods to deceive $41.36, in addition to whie'i that the Press may do or say will throw around this body of decent people, Where will the extravagance end? the taxpayers? he has several more tax receipts at How long will he be allowed to string out his cases and count their families and their children, conditions of safety to life and property, home.—Honest Arnold. How much longer is the county costs? and conditions favorable to the moral safety especially of their H. D. Bean paid real estate tax to board going to stand for this deception? Is a man of his stamp and character a fit man to conduct the children, our mission will have been achieved. Until that mission is fulfilled the amount of $73.80, ftfld personal the affairs of this couny without resraint? we shall be untiring in our efforts, ruthless in our condemnation and He will soon bankrupt this county by his ignorant and selfish: merciless to bring t9 their just deseta all who 4 ftteiiaee to such de-' MOULD ON THE HUMAN LUNGS sirable conditions. I methods. Let us have a thorough and impartial investigation into all our Vft doiift expect every reputable citizen to see eye to eye with us on A certain housewife went to the fruit cupboard lately to get a county's affairs, but let them be conducted by the proper state authorities all points. That is impossible. We only ask the credit for our intentions, jar of raspberries for supper. She had picked these berries last summer, as law he requires. j. jjj which is due them from every law abiding citizen. If this city is to and sealed them up very carefully. What was her surprise to find be cleaned, every such self-respecting citizen must stand shoulder to shoulder that the jar she took first was spoiled. with every other man of his kind. With such a consolidated front the tional Ralls. had received his commission Chas. She looked at it, and the top of the fruit was covered with a fine end of all that we are fighting will not be far off. Hoyt, an ex-saloonkeeper at Gemmell Why not hire a detective to find. fuzzy growth, of various shades of color. HoHw did that get there? she and an assistant, Joe Bush, were out how much financial assistance asked herself. Then she looked ait the other jars of fruit, but all were Reports come from Bemidji that Mayor Keyes has given some of the Seymour W Backus caught on the train by Mr. Arnold's sound and just as fresh and nice as when she ppt it up. Arnold tried to hire out as an investigator "piggers." representaties as they were going Then her mind began to work on this one jar, wondering what could in Beltrami county, but his We would suggest that Mayor into Gemmell from here with eight Seymour Backus and his bride arrived have caused it. Why should it get mouldy, and all the rest keep perfectly *l* reputation got there first and he could quarts of alcohol and were taken to Keyes hire Howes, and thus make last Monday to make their el not get anyone interested in his Bemidji before a U. S. commissioner, some more fine picking for Arnold, home here. We wish to extend When fruit spoils and mould forms on the top of the jar of it, something counterfeit ware. where they were bound over to the Keyes and Wilson, et al. The lights has grown there, which was not killed when the fruit was put up. to them our congratulations, federal grand jury in the sum of in the Commercial hotel could then Of course that something was the minute and invisible seeds or spores of and heartiest wishes for be turned out, lights in the hardware $500 each. A third man was held We greatly appreciate the many the different kinds of mould that she now sees on the surface. their future happiness, and along and as a witness.—Daily Journal. and furniture store would burn low, kind words of sympathy that not life together. Seymour The fruit is good food for such things to grow on. The warmth of the prosperous During the last term of court Attorney and the public could wonder where. only our personal friends, but the has taken the one final house favors that growth. All that it needs is for some of the fine smail step N. B. Arnold volunteered his the boys and girls were congregating. general public have seen fit to express necessary to round him seeds or spores to survive alive in the fruit when it is put up, then you out services to defend blind piggers Of course there are no blincl over our loss, and are especially have the process which/ spoils the fruit. as a man. For months past, who were under indictment. Now he pigs or gambling joints or houses of' grateful to the friends who have though still young in years, he has In some respects the human lungs may be compared to this spoiled prostitution in is evidently giving them the double International Falls, oh so generously tendered us their assistance. rapidly been assuming not an ordinary jar of fruit. There are minute seeds or spoes of living things whose only cross so he can draw his $50 per day. no. It helps to keep up one's natualgrowing place is the human body. Many times these gems, as they man's job, but a big man's job. It is certainly to realize th ?t spirits and makes us realize that we rich are called get into the human body. They may get into the lungs, or any True to the inherited instincts, talien after the mayor had closed them ail are not alone in the world after all. THE RICHEST YET other location in the body. But in many bodies there are very active, strong from a father who has done big in five minutes, then give them permission policemen. Thi system of police of a human body as a rule is perfect. things, Seymour has shown already to open again after three Mayor Frank H. Keyes asked the We are especially grateful to EcRtor No policeman sleeps on the job. There are no germs so foxy that they a capability for big responsibilities, days of absolute drought that he city council last Monday evening to C. B. Montgomery for giving us and tasks. Those who have best been can put it over on them, So the minute a germ gets into the body these should be asking the council for an make an appropriation to hire detectives policemen arrest them and without judge or jury execute them at once. the use of his typesetting machine and able to observe him since his assumption appropriation to hire detectives to to find out whether or not Once in a while there may be a human bodywhose police force is weak newspaper press, thus enabling us to of the vice-presidency of the M. find out where they are. there are any blind pigs in Interna­ and slow at their job. Then these germs get into the lung for instance. get out our paper until such time as & O. Power Company, and allied interests have noted favorably They are not there long before they bgin to feed on the lung and the we get our own machine replaced. this aptitude for work, and juices of the body. This one germ soon becomes millions. These need more A responsibilities. You may not eb able food, so they keep on breaking down the tissue of the lung in thair Arnold says that he is going to neighborhood. In this way they establish a big strong community in that to put an old head on young shoulders, run Koochiching county politically part of the lung. but the young head may still and otherwise. That he is going to give fine promise of unusual ability. When such a germ as that of tuberculosis gets into the human lung*, CALL ON fcfrive some business men into bankruptcy Seymour Backus has shown that and establishes itself in that way, then you have a person with tuberculosis. and others out of the county, E E E A promise. 1 the county is evidently paying Arnold We are sure that now as a fully Luckily these germs of tuberculosis wont live very long outside a for his efforts to make good this oft rounded man, domestically, his wide human body, which is their natural growing soil. So that if these germs reported threat at $25 and $50 per are spit out by some one with the disease, nature has so made them that business interests will not prevent day. Is it safe to oppose the gai-g they live only a few hours or days out in the cold world. So that contrary him taking the interest rightfully of while the county is paying the bills? to the common notion, there are not a great many tuberculosis germs every man as an American citizen. loose in the air. Great interests, and wealth, are bestowed for your cabinet work and everything as a trust in the hands of our The commonest way this disease is taken, is from being constantly We take this opportunity of publicly and closely in the company of some one with the active disease. younger generation of wealth. That thanking Editor C. B. Montgomery The examination ofthousands of bodies in hospitals after death shows trust is not alone to take the ten talents of the Echo and Journal, Editor inlthe carpenter line. Picture that ,a great many people at some time have had this disease and gotten and make other ten, but so to J. A. Osborne, of the Fort Frances over it, to die a ripe old age of some other disease entirely. In such participate in the life of this nation Times Editor J. A. Walker, of the people, their body police finally got strong enough to arrest, and wipe out framing and furnituee that has given him and his before Fort Frances Standard and Editor E. the germs. him the opportunity of amassing H. Denu and staff of the Bemidji If this can occur without anyone knowing it, then an early case of Pioneer for generously extending us great interests, as to conserve all repairing. tuberculosis, detected at once, may, under care, stand a good chance of the hand of helpful sympathy by inviting that has made this nation really getting well. us to use their equipment great. The finest type of manhood fte One of the commonest things that prepare the lungs for this disease while recuperating from the disastrous this world affords is the finest type a is along neglected cough. If cough does not get well in a week or two fire which completely destroyed It? M&-' of American manhood. And the after you get it, but lingers along for weeks, see your 'doctor. You are our plant. Even editors are human in a very dangerous way to become a consumptive. and there always exists a strong youth of fortune and prominence in ,1 bond of fraternal feeling between the commercial life of this great nation, ARNOLD DOUBLE CROSSES the camps of the International Falls then even though they differ on publie Handling of Plate Glass a Specialty who ranks as one of its finest BLIND PIGGERS Lumber Co. at Gemmell. Gemmell is issues and sometimes indulge in type of manhood, in the interest in the Indian country. Special Officer |§k a war of words. 13®:• A month ago the .county board Brandt of the government service shown in the upbuilding of all that asked N. B. Arnold, special county had attempted to locate the makes for true greatness, is serving Subscribe for the Press attorney, to see if he could stop the source of the booze and failed, but his country to the fullest degree. fV & blind pigging which has disrupted inside of two weeks after Mr. Arnold meam