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IMPORTKNT NIOVE; the yelping of the pack it is r:i’l,;‘ | WILTON STORE lS the thivd hold-up of a business MADE Whist Club Considers the Matter of Re-organizing Along Different Lines. MEN'S™ A “BUSINESS CLUB > Jake and | | mated by the attorney that there| Were seve thousand of them. | This is a sure enough wolf story, vouched for by one of the most ! prominent business men in thoe | ¢ity, whose name is withheld out | | of consideration for his wife and family. Alex Is in Town. | The only original Alex Van| Praag arrvived in the city this al-| | ternoon and will visit the local | ROBBED S L Masked Highwayman Se- cures Cash From Safe Last Night. ROAD AGENT TURNS A VERY NERVY TRICK. thoroughly frightened. This i house which has occurred there| | during the past five months. Copyrighted Photographs. R. W. Reed and E. L. Bruce, of the U. S. forestry corps,returned this morning from their trip to the Pine [sland country, where they went to take some views of the logging camps. They drove in from Blackduck, a distance of seventy-two mile Mr. Reed PLANNED BY THE MEMBERS. r : s ded in securing some fine [lodge of L. O. O. [, tonight. Mr. views of the great logging road Plan Will Make the Club an Im- portantFactor in the Material | Van Praa; thusiastic state and with the is one of the most en-'| Odd Fellows in the has been connected | grand lodge of the time. He will Suceeeds in Making Good His Es- cape Before Robbery Is and some of the loads that were hauled on it as well as some fine pictures of camp. life and tyy The negatives will be copyrigh THE BAZAAR closed to allow insurance Growth of Bemidji. T T Discovered. by Mr Bruce and the picture entertain the Odd Fellows to will not be finished for some tim - 3 ’ni,, lll_. )Ixi: Van Praag ]i_‘“ Qs yet. a ]“Sters tO lnspect StOCk vocalist of nomean — ability. At the regular meeting of the Those who have never heard his Melby Bros.” store at Wilton Married at the Markham. ‘Whist club last evening an III" “Schneid: 3and” or “Mr.|was the scene of avery daring| Judge Clark yesterday per- formal business meetin, Dunderbeek” have missed much. | .oy Jortly after nine o'clock formed a marriage ceremony at held and the matter of rc izing the club was discuss d at length. It was the unanimous opinion of the members present that the club could be made of great value to Bemidji and to the| business interests of the city if properly « d to that end and it was voted to lay the matter before the entire membership of the club at a meeting to be held Thursday evening of next week at the club rooms. When the Whist Club was first organized it was hoped that 1n time it might be made a sort| of commercial club and so assist materially in induc to come to Bemidji, in getting] capital to invest here and 1 var jous ways promoting the welfure of the city. Ttis felt that the present is an opportune time to -| He should be 3| city hall while the old First Na- induced to give m tonight. them in his prog Primaries Tomorrow. i The first primary of the cam- paign of 1904 will be held tomor- | row when the ward caucuss: : will be held for the purpose of electing delegates to the county counvention to elect delegates to the congressional. convention | which chooses detegates to the national Republican convention at Chicago. The caucusses will open av 2 o’clock and the second wrd caucus will be held in the tional bank building will be the meeting place of the first ward republican Each ward is en- titled to ht delegates to the county convention. s | good his escape. 1ty when an armed and ked mghwayman entered the place and compelled the clerk to turn over the contents of the cash drawer and afterwards made Thos. Meiby, one of the pro- prictors of the store, had just gone home and lefy the business in charge of the clerk, Edward Solon. There were no custom- ers and Mr.* Solon occupied a chair 'in the rear of the store when the lighwayman entered. He covered Solon with a gun and compelled him to go to the safe and get out the cash drawer. It contained about The road agent appropriated this and parlor B in the Markham hotel which united the future destinie of Olaves Evenvold and Miss Hulda Carlson, of Shelvin, The ceremony occurred at 8:30. bride was attended by Her sister, Miss Adrian Carlson, and C. B. Hoy, the well known traveling man, officiated as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Evenvold left this after- noon for Shevlin. They will reside on a farm a short distance from that village. Dispute With Health Authorities, Dr. Morrison this morning swore outa warrant for L.J. Morse, the Lakeside photogra- pher charging him with resist- ing a health offlcer. Mr. Morse home has been under smallpox quarantine for some time and this morning the doctor went up The | &7 after the-recent fire . .. .. Will reopen in a few days Will Open Monday. Miss Louise Hetland’s nery store which has been cl DEALMAY BEMADE A GOOD THING milh- ed May Be Cut Short a Month. The matter of closing the city “Ischools a month carlier than {usual is being discussed by the members of the school board, It to fumigate the premi There wasa dispute. Question of author- ity was developed which the doc- tor decided to have the court detinitely settle and accordingly the charge was brought. enlarge the sphere of the club’s usefulness and the idea that the club be re-organized as a “Busi- ness Men’s Club was tically di L committee con since the Malzahn block tire will be opened Monday of next week. The loss on the stock was ad- justed at $410 and the loss on the building at $10. The spring Headquarters of Pine Tree Lum-|gonat0r Swedback Goes to Minne- ber Co. Will Go to Village of apolis to Look Up Sash and Walker. Door Factory. after looking about the place and 4 sveral minor arti- cles of little value assured Solon chat the best thing he could do was to keep still. He advised Hitchcock, F. N, Lang, J. A. Lud- ington, B. H. Winter and W. L. Brooks was appointed to wait upon the members of the club, lay the matter before them and secure a full attendance at the meeting next Thursday evening | but the matter will probably when the matter will probably take definite form. Numerous members of the club have been interviewed in re- gard to the matter today and the reorganization idea is favorably received by all. Along just what lines the club will be re-organized is a matter that the meeting next Thursday evening will determine but the idea of a “Business Men's Club” for both business and social pur- poses was the idea which ap- pealed strongly to the members of the elub presentat last night’s meeting and the conviction is strong that in some such tl club may be made an organiz tion of great value to the city. Furnished Firewater. Nah tah-w h-bow, a Red Lake Indian, pleaded guilty to a charge of introducing liquor on the Red Lake rescrvation before Judge Brown at Bagley y Jay. He had furnished fire water to severel other Indians. A team- ster had left a bottle of alcohol in the manger of a barn where the Indian was employed. He had discovered it and asked his friends to drink with him. They all reached a very glad state and arrests followed. He was re- leased upon his personal recog- nizance and is to appenr before Grand Rapids Magnet: County the next term of the United|Attorney George M. Spear is at- States district court at Fergus Falls on the first Tuesday inMay. Wolves Chase A Homesteader A well known Bemidji attorney who returned this morning from a trip up the north line tells a story of how a homesteader was chased by wolves -last-night « short distance from Fonlk lake, railroad track when a pack swung in behind him and scared him badly that he ran all the to his cabin, The animals put in — | Melbye, his father-in-law, A. . WE SUPPLy | et whotended b, was in| are those made by Stein-Bloch Co., Rochester, N. S irertS B iwored ‘. T o Y., and B. Kuppenheimer & Co., Chicago, and we $25 per month for 3 months. feny of Meycrs dislocating one of ‘e also supply stenographers with ) B ing wWor ' ace. The same offer holds good to business men outside of Bemidji at $35 per month. CONWAY’S | the home of Helen MCarthy to- | COMMERCIA | morvow and as 't an_important g COLLEGE k ,m\fuli(u, all members slnlmld 1‘1["'\~[ TO[) Coats are heI’e fPOm . . 1s estimated that the tax collec- | tions will fall twenty-five per cent | short and the district will be pressed for money. Opinion on the board is divided as to closing cupy the attention of the board for some time at its next meeting Hin Wm. Hinchy, who has been one of the most extensive contractors in the vicinity of Tens trike dur-| ing the past winter was a pa | senger to the cities on the M. I. this morning. Mr. Hinchy several camps have been closed down and his teams have been | hired to MeLean & Mackey, the | tie contractors, who are operat- ing extensively on cedar at pres- ent. Mr. Hinchy reports the winter’s work acccomplished one of the most satisfactory in years. Six Times Mayor. Charles Kinkele, the genial Walker landlord, is recciving the congratulations of his friends on his election to the office of mayor 1t Waller for the sixth consccu- tive time. Mr. Kinkele is de- servedly popular with the travel- ing public who visit Walls 1 ial character and his election a source of much gratification to his many friends, George Spear’s Father Dead. tending the funeral of his father, Eharles H. Spear, in Minneapolis. Mr. Spear, Sr. died on Thurs- day at El Paso, 'IX The cause of his death was of a pul- monary nature, caused by ex- posure and ha 1ips during the civil wary during-avhich he s in - thre K Minmes | Broken Shoulder. During the jubilecafter election at Bagley in the saloon of Hans ting on the shoulders The Sunshine elub will meet at and be present. [1t Don Any And in the end it don’t cost as much R 't Cost| More to _have your work done at the Reed Studio -“ulzu'm for some little time and | labout medium height and ?&hMM&MAAAMMAAA&&A&M&AM‘&&& 2 B i 2 3Tix 700 % 2P Wl B 2 B 30 o 2B B 3B P B him that if he made a move to get | out of the store or spread the| alarm he would be shot to death. Before leaving the store he tore the receiver out of the tele-i phone, Solon did not give the; was finally given out s no trace of the high- wayman. Heis described as a comparatively sped o neatly | dressed young man wearing a red sweater and a frieze top coat, ! not | when it there w bad looking. The authorities in this city woere immediately notified and the Messrs. Melby ceme to Be- midji on the morning train. No trace of the man was found here | and late advices from Wilton are that he was tracked a distance of about a mile west of that city, where the trail was lost in the SNow. Wilton people are becoming A AA Allowed to Answer. Judge Spooner this morning filed an order in the case of the| State of Minnesota vs. the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. al- lowing the defendant an oppor- tunity to answer. The case isa tax matter in which judgment was rendered against the railway. company. Itaskedan opportun ity to answer and will attempt to show that the taxes in question have been satisfied under the gross earnings tax law. Brother Is Dying. The police department are this afternoon looking for a man named James McCalvy believed to be in this city. McCalvy’s brother is dying at Horly, Wis., and several telegrams have been received for him at Blackducl. The police had been unable to Jocate him up-to 4 o’clock. at of Our Hat Department Makes Ours the Splendid Sueccess That It Is.............. 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This will mean something to Walker. Senator Swedback left this morning for Minneapolis on a business trip. The senator has several minor matters to attend to, but the real purpose of his visit is to look up the sash and door factory which is anxious to come to Bemidji. The proposi- tion of its location here has been nery furnishings very fortun- ately was at the depot when the fire occurred and will be shown with the opening of the store. Theline of pattern hats and milli- is one of the finest the store has ever handled and will especially interest the ladies. All the company’s supplies will be brought there in the future and the removal of the head- ¢ . bt quarters will substantially in- of prominent business men offer crease the population of the town, |the factory substantial en- The Weyerhauser interests are|couragement and the senator is heavily represented in the Pine|well pleased at present with the |§ Tree Co. and as they were|outlook for securing the factory. among the most successful bid-|Upon his return he will have|H ders for the Leech Lake reserva-|had a definite understanding |§ "',“‘.'l"l’ S e tion pine and will be cutting on|with the parties who own the B Tt the reservation for some years to|plant and will have a proposition | & M. J. MORSE, come the removal of the head-|from them upon the acceptance e 2 quarters is a matter of necessity | or rejection of which will depend § Lakesid« Photographer. and convenience as well. the coming of the factory. b e . quite favorably received. —City|p Attorney Russell and a number can do for you. GhHe Best Clothes in Existence Are Those in This Store Today. In Saying This We Make No Idle Boast; But Are Prepared to Demon- strate the Truth to Every Caller. We Court COMPAriSON.....cccevereeerveeeirerreenans €2725. Ghe Clothiers the 3121330 T TV ETETETETETETEe Step in and see what we Our studio is on the ground floor, two. north of ghe City Boat house, on