Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 9, 1904, Page 4

‘IS “CLOSED” TODAY . and Resorts.. BIG EXODUS OF SPORTING FRA- ; 'rmmv‘ TODAY. Order Effective at 2 0’clock This Mornlng Closes all Resorts Without Protest. | ‘Bemidji is a *‘closed”’ town to- day. Shortly after midnightlast night Chief of Police Bailey, act- ihg under instructions from the ity ‘council, visited the various gambling houses and resorts and notified them to.suspend. The order was received without much protest and was promptly obeyed by all whom it affected. Gaming layouts were removed from the saloons and put in stor- age and an exodus of the sporting ‘fraternity to greener fields and pastures new has been going on all day. A large contingent left on the early morning trains for the Twin Cities, a cousiderable delegation went to Walker, an other will go to Blackduck to- night and the close is the most effective in the history of the city. At the regular meeting of the council last night the petition - which has been cireulated by the W. C. T, U. was presented tothe| conncil. It bore about four hun- dred signatures. The council was asked to close the places im- mediately. A somewhat lengthy discussion, which was at:times decidedly sensational followed and the meeting adjourned by adopting a motion to the effect that the petition be received and pla,ced onfile and that action be taken at the earliest practical moment. Mrs, Trask on behalf of the W. C. T. U. withdrew the petition before the motlon could ; be adopted. The W, C. T. U. then with drew and the council went into executive session, the outcome of - which was the promulgation of a general closing order. The W. 0. T. U. committee had intended to ask the county attor- ney to close the places this morn- ing and in the eventthat he found * ‘himself unable to do'so the mat- tor was to be taken before the _____governor and to the grand jury. New Year’s and Chop Suey. Yesterday was the Chinese New Year’s and there was great gladness in Chinatown last night. Chop- suey was on tap -atthe Chinese resfaurant and all the celestials of the city gathered to do honor to the occasion with Sing Lee, proprietor of theplace. After the chop suey had been disposed of the Chinese fiddles were produced and there was music by all the Chinamen pres- ent. Wednesday Al Lee and " Sam Wing leave for Minneapolis, where they will attend the state convention held annually by Min 7&50&& Chinese. Chapter Three Ready. Chapter three of the proposed charter of the city of Bemidji will be ready for the charter stenograpner tomorrow morn- ing. It is the second section prepared and covers the duties of vfllage officers. DISAPPEARED | SUFFER Kentucky Relatives of Charles Frost Belie‘ve He Met With Foul Play in Bemidii. 4 2 Regikter of Deeds Phibbs is in receiptof a letter from Fred C. Frost, of Flatmouth, Kentucky, asking for information regarding his.. nineteen-year-old. . brother whom he last heard from in this vicinity in November, 1908.. Mr. F'rost “believes his brother has met with foul play. He states that he had a considerable sum of money realized from' the sale of some land about three miles from Bemidji. An inyestigation of the records at the register of deeds’ office does not show any Tecent transfer urder the name of Frost. No one in this section seems to know anything of the missing man. Bad Wreck on N. P. A bad wreck occurred on the Northern Pacitic Sunday morn- ing about six miles from Grandin, a small station'a short distarce from Grand Forks. A freight train :became stalled in a snow drift and one of the brakemen was sent back to flag and wire for a snow plow. He boarded the plow when it came and started back to the train, but: misjudged the distance and the rotary crashed into the caboose, in- stantly killing Conductor Mongo- van and seriously injury Brake- man Cameron. Mongovan was one of the oldest men on the line and was employed as a trainman on the old Brainerd & Northern, when the road was first built. Rev. Clark’s Claim Contested. Attorney D. H. Fisk went to Blackduck last night to appear today before the United States commissioner in a contest case started against the stone and timber claim of the Rev. Allan Clark, of this city. = Mr. Clark has lived religiously up to the requirements of the laws and it is a matter of regret to his many friends that he is not allowed to make final proof without this an- noyance. Van Praag Will Manage. ““Alex Van Praag, the well known traveling mah, is to man- age the Duluth base ball team in the Horthiern league this season. My, Van Praag is an enthusiatic fan and a sportsman who is well known all over the state and his many friends hope he may have a suecessful season. A meetthe of the northern league officials is being held in Duluth today and among other things it will pro- bably decide the statusof Bemidji so far as the northern league games proposed for this city are concemed * . Tendered a Surprise. Mr. and Mrs. A, M. Clark,who for some time past have con- ducted the palace hotel at Black- duck and ‘who are about to re- move to Iowa were tendered a very pleasant surprise by their many friends at . Blackduck last night. The guests came pre- pared for an evening of genuine enjoyment, ard they carried it to a very successful realization. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were much honored. Subscribe for The Pioneer. BEMIDJI, Minn., Feb. 9, " To the Public: ; During the past 1904. few months we have Mooseand Deer Exhausted With Severe Winter and Heavy Snow. ° The deep snows of the present winter: make 1t one of the hard- est for years on deer and moose in northern Minnesota. The deer will come out of the rigors of the winter weak and emaciated. The same thing applies to moose, but if ‘anything they will “be even poorer than the deer. Moose feed on swamp grass, now buried, beneath two feet of snow in most places, and on pop- lar sprouts and twigs. Before they can get at this food it 1s necessary for them to paw away the snow. I[n the spring they are often so weak they can" walk only with difficulty, and many will die from tho unusual ex- posure, just as the range cattleof the west. Both deer and moose are fall- ing a frequent prey to bands of timber wolves. - Deer are com- paratively an easy prey, but the hungry timber bandits encoun- ter an enemy worthy their mettle when they assail a‘monarch bull moose.— They are well aware of this fact, and when they find one that is weak from hunger they dog his footsteps day and night until he falls a prey to their con- stancy. Inopen a battle they will kill a wolf with a single stroke of their hoofs. A cruiser for the Beltrami Timber company recently came upon a moose standing in the middle of a small slongh, knee deep in the snow. At a safe and couveniet distance around him was a pack of eight wolves. How long the moose had been surrounded is a question. A few shots from the woodman’s Winchester dispersed the band. The moose was so weak that it gained the shelter of the under- bush nearby with difficulty. GIVES BOOST Man Who Writes “Thoughts on | Things” Advertises Bemidii as Divorce _Reso'rt. Ralph: W. Wheelock whose “Thoughts on Things,” a daily une, have gained him quite a reputation in the northwest, has this to say of Bemidji and the divorce resort proposition: An enterprising Bemidji attor- | ney suggests through the Pion- eer of Lhan town that its attrac- vion_as._a_divorce resort should] receive more attention. He points to the fact that there were 30 divorces in Beltrami county last year and he doesr’t sse why, with judicious advertising, east ern divorcees should not ‘‘come here in numbers that will exceed the palmy days of either Grand Forks, Fargo.or Sioux Falls, and litigation in the divorce line will flourish like horseradish on a sunny side hill. Homesteader’s Plight. John Switzer squatted on his claim a few miles from Big Falls after receiving, assurances from the Duluth office that the land was vacant. When his town was opened to settlement last month' he lerrned that his claim had been scripped for years. If the "Blackduck Times which tells the following story -is correct, Mr. Switzer can still secure his orig- inal claim by amending his filing. The Times says: ‘He has three buildings on the land and consid- erable clearing and had made a comfortable home and was nearly crazed with grief after he found .made more fine photographs than any other : gfiliery in Minnesota outside the big cities. You are cordially invited to {t our new studio and see them. REED’S ART STUDIO. TR TR the land was taken. He was in- formed at the Duluth office that { nothing could be done, but word ome way got to Washington e officials telegraphed back Eheawould be entitled to his |l filing. But in his dispair and desperation he filed on a piece of swamp land adjourning his old claim and did not know until too late that he was eatitled to his rights.” feature of the Minneapolis Trib- || T. B. Walker Obtained Permits to Load on Our Lakes During the Coming Summer. . Mallard Call: Last week T. B. Walker obtained a charter from the state, granting him privilege to put two hoists on Mallard lake and two on Itasca lake for load- ing logs on the cars in summer. Some have formed the impres- sion that the railroad will be taken up, but it 'is a permanent thing, The above mentioned move on the part of Mr. ‘ Walker, is enough to convince the most skeptical of its pefmanency. More than that we are authori- tively informed that Walker & Akely company have purchased four hundred millions of pine on the reservation near Mallard, and that forty million feet of it will be logged next winter, and the bal- ance, each succeeding winter un- til it is out. This will take at least fivé years. Committee Meeting. The charter commission com- mittee on ward divisions and elections held night. The matter of dividing thecity inte wards wasdiscussed. The plan of division which will probably be adopted will divide the city into four wards. All the' part of the city south of Third street will constitute one ward and Beltrami and Irvine avenues will be the dividinglines between the other three. The ward be- tween Beltrami and Iryine avenues will probably include much of the outlying territory of the city. A Short Letter from Kansas. Tredick: & Co.. of Kingman, | Kansas, write:—We have known| Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup for a number of years. Itis a standard remedy and a good seller, and where once tried a meeting last! BE MAYOR {Many Friends of the Popular County Surveyor Urge Him to be a Candidate. UNDERST00D THATMR. STONER HAS GIVEN HIS CONSENT. Would Make a ‘Mélst_.;‘!'l:fcé'llent Mayor Representing all Classes Fairly. Thus far candidates for mayor have been very backward in de- claring themselves, Many names haye been mentioned but no one has consented to accept the posi- tion. Among' those who haye been prominently ‘mentioned is M. D. Stoner, the - popular county surveyor. Mr. Stoner has 'large business interests in Bemidji and. in other parts of the county and has been loathe to give up the time that it will be necessary for a mayorof Bemidji to devote to his public duties. It has been felt in many quarters, {however, that Mr. Stoner is ex- ' coptionally well qualified for the position and so much pressure has been brought to bear upon ‘him from all classes of citizens that he has finally consented to stand as a candidate.” Few men in the city are more Ifpopula,r than Mr. Stoner and per- j haps none are better qualified to | be mayor of the city. Heis one of the heayiest tax payers of the city but represents also in a peculiar ~ degree the laboring classes and under hisadministra- tion the various interests of the city would be represented to a degree which would not obtain, Perhaps, in the case of any other of the numerous”availalbe can- a steady customer is obtained. For saleat City Drug store. | didates. The city is to be conoratula.ted‘ IT lS PERMANENT WANT STONER TO CAMPS GLOSED Winter's Cut at Hinehy's Camp Near Tenstrike Is Completed. John Hinchey’s logging camp which has been in about four miles from Tenstrike and has given employment to 100 men _|ever since the opening of the log- .| ging season was closed down yes- terday affer having completed its winter’s cut in the neighbor- hood of 4,000,000. It had one of the most favorable seasons in years and the contract was fin- ished in much better shape than had been hoped for at the open- ing of the season. Dan Raek’s camp about & mile and one half from Tenstrike will be closed down some time this - week, having also completed its. winter’s cut. . The camps are the first. to suspend. work in this. vicinity. that so acceptable and so capable: a man as Mr, Stoner has con- sented to run. Whether Mr.. Stoner will have any opposition. | or not canuot be said at this time but no one is at present willing: to declare himself a candidate. Leap Year Club at Blackduck. Blackduck young ladies haye: organized a leap year club, ac- cording to reports which reach this city. The members of the: organization are bound by an: oath when admitted to member- ship that before the end of the present year they must make a. proposal of marriage to at least one eligible young man. Free to All Ministers. .I will send one bottle of War ner’s White Wine of Tar—the: best cough remedy on earth—free: toall ministers who will recom- mend it to their friends after giv- ingita fair trial. Address, Dr.- C. D. Warner, Coldwater, Mich. For sale at City Drug sture. The last week of our great ISEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE fSALE“ hned underwear cut to Short lines and discontinued lots of 25¢ and 35c neckwear cut to . . Qdds and ends in men’s 75¢ fleeced Schneider’s clearance sale wnll continue this entire week. Wewant. to bégin the spring season with all § fresh and up-to-date goods. . A GREAT PANTS SALE! Actual $3,$2.75 and $2.50 trousers in worsteds, thibets, cassimeres and cheviots in- all sizes and all manner of colorings, short lots and odd lots from our regular lmes, all reduced to . $1 men’s colored laundried shirts, sizes 14 1-2 to 16 1-2, cut to 69¢ $1.88 MEN'S FURNISHINGS PRICED AT MARVELdfis SAVINGS 0. AMAZING FLANNEL SHIRT VALUES se Over 20 varieties, representing most cele- 9¢ ' 38¢ brated makes and qualities, stripes and solid colors, plain fronts, corded pants and double breasted styles with non- shrinkable neck bands, $1.50, $1.25 and $1 values. for.this sale cut to in plaids, 6o¢