Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1904, Page 4

ADJOURNED . Night. DECIDED TO ADJOURN IN RE-| ~-SPECTTOALDERMAN GRAHAM. to Meet the Council Was Disappointed. , There was no regular meeting It was decided yesterday after-! noon to adjourn the meeting out ! of respect to Alderman Graham, whose brother was buried ag Greenwood yesterday afternoon. In anticipation of the fact that the regular meeting would be held a committce representing the local W. C.T. U. and inter- ested citizens, was present to in- terview ‘the council regarding the suppression of gambling and | the social evil. The delegation Rev. McLeod, of the First Pres- byterian church, and Rev. Broom- field, pastor —of the Baptist church. The next meeting of the coun- cil will probably be the regular | meeting next Monday night and it is probable that the matter will be before it in some manner to be decided by the mass meet- ing which. will be ‘held next Thursday evening. Telephoned to Come Home, Mallard Call: Mr. Chenard, who has been employed at Pata- naude camp, received a telephone | message fiom Cass Lake Thurs- day, requesting him to come bhome at once that his son had murdered his wife. The son is in jail at that place awaiting trial. BIG QUARANTINE Dr. Blakeslee to Close Up Two Camps North of Northome. State Health Officer and County Physician Blakeslee left last night for the far north country to close up two logging camps under smallpox quarantine. The doctor received sealed orders from the state yesterday. The quarantine: will be much larger than the one at Kelliher, and the camps are about forty miles north of Northome. First Wedding on the Big Fork. The current number of the Big Fork Compass is at, hand -and tells of the first wedding ever oc- curring on the Big Fork River, consumated Jan. 21, when the . destinies of Miss Dora May Shy and James B. Sedore were united by the Rev. G. P. Watson. The Compass prinfs a cut of the bride, a list of the guests and gives the affair an elaborate and [ altogether deserved mention. Opens Dispensary. Dr. F. M, Prettyman, who formerly resided in Bemidji, but recently removed to Mallard to engage in the practice of medi- cine, is about to open a drug store at Mallard. The building formerly occupied by the Miss- issippi hotel office will be used for the new store, the stock has been ordered and is expected to be ready in a short time. Looking for “Trouble’. ‘A crew of linemen for the Minnesota Central Teiephone company were in the city last - night. They had just completed an inspection of the company’s —lines-between-Park Rapids-and this city whicd have not been working well -~ for some time, _Considerable repairs were made and the line is again in first class condition. Also Has a Claim. Mizpah Message: Rev. John 150-27, near Moose Lake, has holding revival . meetings " hero all week and has becn| G hing to large and attentive | ndiences. An effort will be made to perfect a church organi- zation here in the very near fu- No Session of the City Solons | Was Held Last | Committee of W. . T. U Present! of the village council last'night. 'are was composed of about twenty | moters Iadies and was accompanied by close to the present station of Kingman, who also has a claim in | COUNCIL MEETING WIPED FROM MAP _by the Orders of Major . G. L. Scott. The numerous tents compris- |ing the little village of Bena have ' disappeerd but those who occu- | pied them bave not yet given up ;and are -patiently - awaiting the decision of the -commissioner of the general land office.” Acting lunder the orders of Major G. L. Scott, IndianagentatLeechLake, |the Indianpolice have removed all the tents and placed them in the Fleming warehouse. The former occupants of the canvas houses the now residing in hotel.. The claimants to land on - the - proposed —townsite are not ‘all ‘put out -by this action, for they are prepared to show to the department that they have tried to comply with the law governing the establish- ment of towns'onthereservations, and if they had been' prevented by the athourities they can’'show it was no fault of theirs, ; The new townsites of Benaand Richdards are rivals and -are situated only one and one- quarter miles apart. The pro- . of Bena, which is Bena on the GreatNorthern road, are anxiously awaitingnevsfrom Washington that will end their suspense. The promotersof Rich- ards are not yet entirely out of the departmental tangle. Severely Burned. Ed Rose of this city sustained 'serious and painful injury by the explosion of a gasoline stove at Walker yesterday. Rose ‘is the proprietor of tke Royal Palace saloon inthis city and was dpen- ing a similar establishment at Walker. While fixing upa gaso- line stove it was in some way ex- ploded and he was severely burned about the head and face. He was taken to the Northern Pacitic sanivarium at Brainerd for treatment, TRIES SUICIDE Wm. Chenard Attempts to End Existence by Hanging at ‘Cass Lake. Wm. Chenard, who is being held in the city jail at Cass Lake to answer a charge oi fatally shooting his. wife, attempted suicideSunday night by hanging. He was discovered before he could accomplish his object and cut down by ‘the attendants. Since the death of his wite the grief and remorse of the unfortu- nate man has known no_bonds. At times he is morose and sullen and again he gives way to the most violent bursts of grief. He was bound over to the grand jury and taken to Walker yesterday. Before the Governor. The impeachment proceedings against Sheriff Torkelson of Clearwater county will be con- cluded before Governor Van Sant at St. Paul tnis week. The evidence has all been forwarded to the governor and Torkelson’s attorneys lett for St Paul to make their argumentslast night. Itis not-believed that—the-gov- ernor’s decision in the matter un- der the evidence adducted will be adverse to Torkelson. 0dd Fellows Entertain. The local lodge of Rebekahs and 0dd Fellows entertained af a card party and social at Odd Fel- |lows hall last night. Theattend- fance was quite large and twelve tables were played at cinch.,, At midnight supper was served and the remainder of the evening was ,given over to pleasant social in- |tercourse. The event was one of the pleasantest social functions i which has been given by the Odd Fellows this season. i e : Sawmill-Sold. | Shaw Bros.” sawmill at Little [Fork has been sold to the North- ern Boon & Logging Co., a Minneapolis - corporation, who have extensive timber holdings in that vicinity. The equipment !is to be improved by the addition of a planer and a moulder, and the shingle mill will be run steadily. The company has con tracted for 100,000 feet of cedar to be delivered at once at the shingle j mill. {Tents of Bena Settlers Removed [ what they elaim “as™ theit rights’ record. i _|in due time they are freed from BEMIDJI SHOULD WISE THEM up Eastern Divorcees Qught to Know of Its Summer Re- sort Advantages. SIOUX FALLS AND GRAND FORKS e WANING.-AS. MECCAS. Local Attorney Says-an Advertis- ing Campaign Would Bring Many to Bemidji. “Advertising will do the ‘busi- ness. All the people of the effete and aristocratic east to whom the marriage ties have become irk- someand who seek a sundering need ,to know to make Beimidji ‘one of the most populal summer resortsin the country, is that the 'divorce laws of Minnesota are not -substantially ‘more 'strict than those of South or North Dakota, that in all Minnesota there is not a more picturesque Spot than Bemidji and they- will come here in numbers that will exceed the palmy ‘days of either Grand Forks, Fargo or, Sioux Falls, litigation in the divorce line will flourish like horse radish in a sunny side hill, and every attorney in the town will have-a business that will gain him a comfortable competence and put the red lines on the right side at the banking houses when the end of the year-rolls around. “I saw in the Pioneerthe other day that thirty divorces had been granted in Beltrami county dur- ing the year 1903 and up'to the 28th day of Japuary. That doesn’t represent nearly all the divorce actions that have been before the district court in this county. I will venture that the number will be tripled if Clear- water and Hubbard counties are talen into consideration with this. This is something of a “You know in the east when people find that they are mis- mated, especially those that move in the higher social circles, they have a horror of the publicity of the divorce court and they come west, acquire a residence and if they have a just cause of action the marriage bond that is mu- is a mistake to call the divorce courts -of the Dakotas divorce mills. great difference of ‘opinion as to the moral right of divorces, and there are unquestionably some abuses of the laws, but it is a mistake to censure andcriticise the courts. Its duty is to put a fair and equitable construction upon these matters according. to the law and I believe it is nearly always done. However, as long as people are going to be divorced it is a fact that is perhaps not generally known that the divorce laws of Minnesota are quite as lenient at present as those of North Dakota and the same thing is true of South Dakota, except that a di- vorce action may be begun in that stateafterasix months residence is acquired. “Now Bemidji’s hotel facilities are good at present and T under- stand we are promised another large and modern house in the near future. Summer here 15 a tually disagreeable to both. It} Of course there is a very | IS NOT UPON THE * SQUARE Complaint of Business Man Closed Blackduck Gam- bling Yesterday. MAN WHO DIDN'T PAY BILLS _ GAMBLED AND LOST Said the Present Order of Things Will Not Last, but Opinions Differ. —_— The fact that a ‘man who owed 'a Blackduck merchant a bill gambled his wages and lost them and then made the assertion that he had been fleeced was -re- sponsible for the closing of the gaming houses &t Blackduck yesterday, according to the best information available this morn- ing. ?n appears that the complaint against the games was made by a owed a bill which he had prom- ised to pay. He lost all his tmoney at the place character- ized as ‘a “big mitt”’ joint, and the merchant in a fit of anger complained. Besides this fact thereis dis- sension: among the ranks of the caming fraternify locally. One place 1n the city has repeatedly been accused of being a “sure thing” joint. Fleecers in all lines thrived at it’to the detri- ment of the other places. i Just how long the reform will last is now a question, sponsible for ‘the closing move- ment say that it is permanent; but there are those who wink the other eye, and none of the gam- ing fraternity “are preparing to leave the village, . —————————————————————— sojourn up north, His trip evi- dently did kim much good, phys- expressions, looked ‘‘as juicy and fresh as a cherry in an old maid’s mouth, bejeezes.”’ merchant to whom the man| “lored tradition”a ata gambling house in that city|| | ) GROUND HOG DAY Festive Rodent Sees His Shadow and-Will Hibernate for Six Weeks More. ' Today is Candlemas day or in the parlance of latter days “ground hog day” when accord- d time hon- ent “of certain-conditions is taken to de- termine the prospective length of the winter. e According to a well established ing to an ancient story itis the day whentheground hog comes out from his winter quarters to take an inventory of ‘the weather and it is said if he sees his shadow he returns tohis winter - home to -sleep for six i weeks more. If thedayiscloudy, however, he remains out and the back of the winter is said to be broken. Any ground hog who was in- discreet enough to come out of his lair this morning took chances on being severely frost bitten and itis safe to venture that-he--- was badly frightened by the size of his shadow. So if there is anything in the ground hog tradi- tion six weeks more of winter weather is assured. - W Tel, 20 Office, 311 Bemidji SEE ’ . C. JONES § The Awning Man, for Awnings Tents of all kinds and descrip- § tions for sale or rent. Equipments, Flags, Camp Fhr- niture,” Ete. Covers ‘and all kinds of Canvas Gloods 2 B - e = Estimates Free on Application” Hunters | Wagon and Stack OUR MOITO: . TRADE WITH THOSE THAT TRADE WITH YOU. In Order Thosere- | - icially, and using one of his old | - Reduce Stock We will during January sell ‘ FURNITUR " at a very low price for cash. J P I BHR to 75 and 50c¢ Mufflets 38¢ * 'Ways’ Pure ‘Worsted MMufflets, Patent Fasteners, Assorted Colors, cut'to ‘380 ; paradise; that neither of the Da- Kota towns can hope to:equal. Why then don’t ‘we have some of this business. Advertising is the great lever that moves all lines of industry. If the people in the east thoroughly under stood would come here quite as readily as they go to the Dakota towns: Think of the fee in a case like Mrs. Molineaux’s. Think of the advertising Bemidji would get and then get busy and tell the people about it.”’ Back From the Land of Erin. Ed- Goodrich, one of the well our- divorce laws they || Copyright - 1902, = MANZ « Chicago: known lumberman of this section was at the Markham last® night. Mr. Goodrich has just returned from—a —trip—to HEurope:-—He: visited many of the historic and picturesque spots in Ireland and Scotland and enjoyed his trip very much. He has interests in this vicinity and is here to look after them at present. Dad Palmer Refreshed. Tartle River Pine Tree: “Dad” Palmer, the veteran newspaper man of the county, dropped oft in Turtle, yesterday, enroute to Bemidji, froma three weeks’ single or double soles, 1903 models, worth $3 and $2:50, for quick selling at Ghe Clothiers The Final of Schneider’s Great Semi-Annual Clearance Sale! Utmost Best Models Worsted, neat © hair stripes, -splendid sizes, at . . . Stirs the Co.’s Men’s Shoes Calf, Vici ‘Kid and Velour {8 ot e o Trouser Clearance of Importance Best Materials Choice of $3; $2.75'aud§2.50 trousers—made from Reading Cassimere, Lakeside line fitting, all A Shoe Offering That Grand Sale of M. A. Packard & Several hudnred of these famous bench made shoes, all highly fin- ished, stylish, up-to-date, in Box $1.98 Showing Advance Styles in Men’s Hand Tailored . . o « Suits for Spring . . . 75 and 50c Boys“€aps 25¢ Clearance of Winter Capsin Kerséys and ‘ Faney Chevliots, All Styles-at 25¢ Best Values 51.88 Community [