Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 23, 1904, Page 4

T T SHEVLIN IS FIRE SWEPT The Entire Village Nar- rowly Escaped Destruc- tion This Morning. 0SS WILL REACH MORE THAN $16,000. Business Buildings Com- pletely Burned to the Ground. Six This morning at 12:30 fire broke out in the drug store of A. Gilmore & Co. at Shevlin and be- fore sufficient help could be had the flames were beyond control and were sweeping down the street and threatening to de- stroy the entire town. Just how the fire originated is a mystery. * A. Skie “who has charge of the drug store had been but a few minutes in bed, having just come from the train, which was late, when the fire was discovered by some men who were in anear by saloon. Mr. Skie had barely time to get out of the building and saved but a part of his clothm There was no fire in the bmmmry and he had no lamp and had not been smoking. The five dostr oyed every build- ing on the east side of the streeb with the exception of the banlk which was north of the drug store. The wind swept the flames to the south and all the efforts of the citizens to quench them were fruitless. The loss was almost a total one. Most of the buggies and carri- ages add all of the stock except one cow, were saved from the livery barn, but very little was saved from the buildings. Shevlin has no protection other than a hand engine which was totally m.,\dequ(n.e for such a fire, and although the citizens worked d»spelate!v nothing south of the drug store could ‘be saved. The losses and insurance are as follows: A. Gilmour & Co., Bemidji, stock of drugs $1600, insurance $1000. Leethead Drug Co. —store-building NK), £ $500. Martin Hippe, livery barn, rance $800. - 'William Brompton, personal X efiecte, $250 no insurance. - 'S.T. Odegard saloon building, Duluth, nsurance s aloou fixtures, Martm Nelson, Central hotel bnilding, $3000, insurance $1500. George Daniels, landlord, per- sonal property $500, noinsurance ~ Olia Olson, saloon building and fixtures, $2500, insurance T. Gram photograph galler; y, $150, no insurance. In addition all the fronts of the} buildings on the west side of the street was badly hed and many window panes are cracked and broken. - Chas Robinson, of Grand Forks and E. J. Regan, of Lari- more headed a party which left for home this afternoon after —a-day’s fishing-in—Take Bemidji: They made a vood catch and pro- mise to 1etum soon. The latest magazines at our news stand, Peterson. RACING CIRCUIT An Effort Being Made to Form One for Northern Minnesota. BEMIDJI HAS A GOOD TRACK AND SOME SPEEDY HORSES. Track Must be Fixed Up at Once or Horses Will be Taken From Here. An effort is being made to form a racing circuit to embrace various towns and cities of north ern Minnesota. . Dr. Warninger, who has organized very success fully ,~eveml racing circui this part of the state, has inter- sted himself in the matter. He left yesterday for Fosston and Crookston, where he will talk the matter up, and he may visit Ada, Hallock and East Grand Forks before his return. The necessary money to make such a circuit a success could un- doubtedly be raised in each town as past experience has proved that it is money most profitably spent. Each town would need to raise in the neighborhood of $500. Something must be done at once in Bemidji—if —the town wishes to keep the horses it now has. Qulte a number have been in training here and some have already been taken away because the track has not been put in proper condition. Bemidji with its track and enclosed grounds is s well prepared to join a racing circuit and.the track should be placed in co di non ab once. PROBATE COURT Judge Clark Disposes of a Num- ber of Important Cases Dur- ing the Day. The business in the probate court officé today has been-very large, Judge Clark having dis p();(-d of & number of nnpolt ant_probate matters. The first case that came up-this-morning. was that of Carl Martin, a young max of Turtle River who was ac- cused of feeble-mindedness. He was committed to the state school for the feeble minded at Fari- bault. The hearing of the final account of A. L. hmdon admin- istrator for the estate -of Joe afternoon and an adjournment was taken till 10" o’clock tomor- row morning. Evidence in the case of E. B Schulke, of Ten- strike, vs. the estate of S.. A Ciray, deceased, was heard be- fore the probate court this after- noon. Shulke claims damages jin the sum of $140 against Lho es- |tate for a carload of hay which he alleges he sold Mr. Gray. The evidence will be sent to the probate court of Stearns county, where the administration of the estateisin progress. Council Meeting. —The city counci!” meets tonight when tlie new city charter will come up for descussion. No other important business will come up before the meeting. Y NV VY Y tA SCRAP best style of m Reed‘s Studio and Lakes, which ha R. W. REED, Prop. e — : Of paper, if it is Artisto-Platino or Collodio Carbon, printed from a negative, well re- touched and well mounted on the Lttest and ount and-done -at Is sure to please yourself and friends. Iun- dreds of Portriats, fnd some of the-oldest ]m lnws been made new. 3 Views about the Town Door to Post Oftic ee Nest 22, You are Alway e e o 2 B0 B P P B o HENRY BUENTHER Naturalist and Taxidermist 208 Second St. BIRDS, WH! and GAME HEADS mounted to order and for FUR GARMI FURS in sea: all times a good assortment of INDIAN RELI Postoffice Box No. 686 BEMIDJI—MINN- IOLE ANIMALS, FISH, FUR RUGS AND ROBES 1 carry at nd CURIOS, ENTS made to order, repaired and remodeled son bought. I guarantee my work mothproof and the most lifelike of any in the state MY WO RK IS EQUALLED BY FEW, EXCELLED BY NONE A l’)epn%lt Required on All Work X O UR TRAD E SOLICITED Michaud, was brought up this{ YOTE ON JUNE 28 Charter Commission Held Its Last Meeting Satur- day Evening. LET CONTRACT FOR PRINTING THE CHARTER: Printing Must be Completed and in the Hands of the Voters This Week. The charter commission, which has been holding some strenuous sessions during the past ten days, Lmnplcted its labors Satur- - |day evening, when a meeting was held to allow various bills and to let the contract for the printing of the charter so that every one may have an opportunity tostudy it and know exactly what it pro- vides in the way, of a city organi- zation. It was decided by aunanimous vote to receive bids for printing the charter and it was also de- cided that all bids must agree to publish the charter by Vlay 27 and that all bids must be accom- panied by a certified check for $250 as a guarantee that the work would be completed within-the sified time. The: Sentinel bid §166, but would not_agree to print the charter before June 2 and did not accompany its bid with a certified check. The Pioneer bid § and agreed to complete the work this weele and furnished the certified check re- quired. The contract was ac- cordingly let to the Pioneer, and the charter will be published in the Daily Pioneer this weelt and supplements will be furnished to the News and the Sentinel, The News holding that there might be some queatmn as to whothm “lthe charter should be printed by the city or by the commission re- fused to make a bid. The commission will probably hold no further meetings until there is a demand for amend- ments to the charter. The com- mission is a perpetual body, or at least will be so, in case the charter is adopted. The date set for the vote is June 28 and by priuting it this week the people of the city will have a full month in- which to discuss if. SAW BIG FlSH“ Big School 'of Sturgeon in Big Fork Hinder Passage of " Small’ Boats. Big Tork Compass: E. F. Crawford, Bemidji’s leading at- torney who has cluded the orgat Falls village, arrived Saturday nigit by way of Winnipeg and the Rainy. With two boatmen he encountered a spectacle that was not- so wonderful ten years ago. About twenty-tive miles down the Big Fork they baheld ahead of them the surface of the river disturbed with what they thought was rapids, 30 yards long and ex- tending across theriver, save a smooth strip next to the banks. In hugging “the bank to ascend the “rapids,” they discovered that the foaming water was only made by a crowded school of big stuvgeon. It took an hour to paddle past this living watersprout, all the time their bury being threatened with ng by the six-foot monsters swam close beside. Mr. Crawtord y passed three .| such schools,the succeeding ones being smaller, and many straggl- ing bands of one to hall” a dozen sturgeons. The sturgeon are now lm\m" Lake of the Woods fto deposit eggs in the streams. /Dan Camp- bell has already caught two stur- geon this spring at the falls. He says these fish “would come here by the thousands before the fisheries were established at the mouth of the Rainy. Is thisto be an old-time season? Crawford y$ S0. 5 Paid: $5 and Costs. A gentleman well known in the city was fined $5 and costs be- fore Judge Reynolds this after- noon for raising a fray and act- ing in a disorderly manner gen- erally —on lower” Mis avenue, near the residence of .J A. Axdahl. The lesson will probably act as a stimulant to his future good behavioe. Fishing Good. Tishing has 1ot been better in Lake Bemid nd Lake Irvine for several years than at the present time. Not so many | la fish are caught as at the beginning of the season but pike and perch are both plentiful Perch are biting very lively and most of those ('aughl are ex- ceptionally large fish. the men half| 1S NARROW ESCAPE Lumberjack at Tenstrike Takes Carbolic Acid for Despondency. REPENTEDWITHTHEACIDHALF WAY DOWN HIS THROAT. Man Still Lives But His Throat is Terribly Burned—May Be Crazy. Late Saturday afternoon = a lumberjack named King at tempted to end his life at Ten- ike by taking carbolic acid “the stuif started down his throat he repented and spat it out: Now he lies in the juil at Tenstrike, half sanc and half crazy. King had been working near Tenstrike in the camps and was discharged Friday. He came to town and went lo see a woman of the town with -whom he was infatuated. She would not have anything to do with him and he returned to town, secured the acid in some unknown way, and made the attempt at suicide. It was thought at first that the man would die but he is still liv- ing and will probably be brought to-Bemidji this evening or tomor- row morning to be C\'unmud as to his sanity. The man raves a good share of the time but in his more-lucid spells he declares that he was tired of life but seems to be anxious to shield the woman in the case. BATTLE OF BALLOTS Approach of the End of Be] midji Contest Brings Out Heavy Voting. OVER 65,000 VOTES CAST IN BEMIDJI TODAY. Everybody Interested and Every- body Hard at Work For His Favorite. The vote toLh y: FIRS' Mny‘vnuumn Ferne Spences Hattie, Halderman. Edna Tanner.... SECOND_DIS 5 CARE, TENSTRIKE, TAGLEY, WALKER: Elizabeth Ness, Tenstrike. Nellie M. Brewster, Bagi Emma Spencer, Walker. . Dora Hermanson. Blackduck - | Theo McfcClasky, Bagley Julia O’Brien, Cass Lake .. The Pioneer’s great c nbe\t for a trip to the world’s fair at St, Lopis will end Thursday of this weelepromptly at noon. The near approach of the end calls— for the vity of the friends of each of the candidates and from this time on there will Thousands of votes have been issued and the final vote will bea big one. Miss Villemin today polls ¢! 0 %50,000 votes, -while Miss Spencer polls nearly 90,000. contest besween these two ladies ble to predict the result. Each 'has a large number friends who are determined that their favorite shall win and lay- ing the question of the contes there are two more popular young ladies in the city. The issue of the contests will be watched with the greatest mterest. The contest in the outside towns continues to grow spivited and mltlmu"h not so rge a number is being voted cach day being rese d. LOG ROLLING Some Very Interesting Promised for the People of Bemidii. Allan Stewart, well lknowy throughout this section as an ex- pert log roller, desires to ostab- lish his prowess beyond possibility of question and he | challenge: [ hereby challenge Ed.- Roach toa log rolling contest to take place in Bemidji or any other place where a purse may be |offered, winner to take both side |bet and purse and contest to | tale place on the Fourth of July. The log to be used “shall be a dry log. twelve feet long exceed seventeen inches in diam- | with the probate office. be a big. vote: polled every day. W yse that it would be simply | vy of | 1 W $3.00 HAT enmdy aside it is doubtful if| more | - reat many votes are W Sport | i the thorefore issues the following |y Our annual Donation] HARD CASH. To Each and Every Church, Society, Library, Club or any Organization of above nature: Commencing Monday morning, May 23d, 1904, and continuing one week for each Society who wishes to avail themselves of this opportunity, we will give 5, of Gross Receipts in every department of our mammoth Department Storefor ONE WHOLE WEEK. For further particulars apply to E. Ives Dry Goods Department or J. Young Grocery Department. All applications taken as they come; first come, first served | THE BAZAAR STORE. LUNG MARK’ - BALSAM The Great Cough Cure For the cure of all affections of -~ the lung; throat-and chest, such as Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, Whoop- ing Cough, Hoarseness, Etc., Bronchitis, Lagmppe, and will prevent consumption when taken in time. Guaranteed. Price 25 and 50 cents. | PREPARED ONLY BY PETER M. MARK - Manufacturer of MARK’S CELEBRATED REMEDIES, FOSSTON. MINN. eter. Winner to be determned | by best two out of three or three out of five. Am willing to agree to any-reasonable rules to govern | contest. ALLAN STEWART. © | Mr. Stewart considers Roach the best log roller in the United States with the exception of him- self and he proposes to settle the question of championship in this contest. Final Proof. Peter M. Dysthe, of Wilton proved up on a valuable home- stead-in the vicinity of that town | I)nl"me Clerk of (,'nulb Rhoda to- 4 Hendricks Here. J. A, Hendricks, of Fosston, a prominent candidate for=the re-: puablican nomination for: ¢ attorney of Pollk county i city-today on business connected He wwll temain here for :cvemf days. Ghe Clothners( ANNIVERSARY SALE 10 Most Extraordinary Values; your ad- miration doubly assured. Large display of the handsomest Spring Fabrics. Supremely best Suits, Top $ Coats and Rain Coats, Men'’s Soft Hats. Brown, Black and- Tan Regular $3.00 hats $1.48 Most trustworthy offering of beauti- m ful Clothes, produced by best wholesale tailors in America, in double and single '!\ breasted sacks in numerous different m weaves, colorings and patterns as well m as plain blacks and blues; $12‘ and $15 m values; sale price $1000 " FREE! Two Hundred and Fifty Dozen more m beautiful Cut Glass Tumblers given away :p free during our Anniversary Sale. Ask )\ ) Anniversary Sale Hats. THE ‘GORDON* The equal of a or 4 Iat. " AllNew Styles for Summer of $5.00 or more. 3333333333333333333333333;