Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 13, 1904, Page 6

1 CHOUNARD CASE STRONG State Board of Pardons Hears Plea For Clemency Yesterday. PETITIONS BEAR SIGNATURES OF EIGHT JURORS. Execution Will Occur at Walker July 29 Unless Clemency Is Granted. St. Paul, July 12.—The state board of pardons early today con- sidered the appeal of William Chounard, who is under death sentence for the murder of his common - law wife, Dora, last March. The murder took place in a house at Cass Lake, said to have been conducted jointly by the two. Jealousy was assigned as the cause. The plea for clemency was that the murder was not premeditated but committed while Chounard was under the influence of liquor. Petitions asking hife imprison- ment, signed by over 3,000 per- sons, were presented to the board. Included were eight of the jurymen, whose findings in- vited the death penalty. Letters pleading for mercy, signed by B. C. Buckman, of Little Falls, and Halvor Steenerson, of Crookston, were read. Two of the condemned man’s relatives, Mrs. Hitt, a sister and Mrs. Young, were present at the hearing. Chounard was sentenced to be hanged within ninety days from April 28 and if the pardon board denies clemency he will have to hang July 29.° PARDON DENIED, Information received in the city late this afternoon is to the effect that the board has deried the application for pardon. Gov* Van Sant has announced that he will fix the date of execution July 27. Mrs. Hitt, the con- demned man’s sister, who has made the most strenous efforts to secure a commutation of her brother’s sentence was overcome when informed of the board’s decision. SCHOOL MEETING Annual Meeting of Bemidji Dis- trict Occurs Next Sat- urday Night. Tho annual school meeting of Bemidji school distriet No. 1 will occur at the school building next Saturday evening. Among other things to come before the meet- ing will be the election of a clerk and trustee. D. C. Smyth term as clerk expires this year and George Tanner’s term as trustee. The meeting will be called at seven o’clock. Initiate Big Class. The local lodge of Maccabees initiated a class of nine new members at its last regular meet- ing. The event was noteworthy in the Instory of the local lodge and there was a yery large at- tendance. State Commander I. Jjellew was present and with District Deputy Harger assisted in the work, There will be an- other large class for initiation at the next regular meeting of the order. PRINCESS Grocery Co. M. E. CARSON, Manager. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY: Faney Peeled Apr c bor can. -« .25 Fancy Pears, 3 = Der can . .25 ‘Reguiar price Fancy Canned per can... Fancy Canned Ap per gallon can Fancy Home Cured Hams per b Fancy 3K Herring, each ........ ONIONS LETTUCE STRAWBERRIES RADISHES CUCUMBERS Princess Grocery Co " mi °| that charges TWO GAMES Sauk Center and Bemidji Play Ball Saturday and Sun- day Afternoons. The Sauk Center base ball club comes to this city Friday night for two games with the Bemidji team. = Sauk Center has a very fast team and has beaten every- thing in the vicinity of that town, From the reports which reach Bemidji it should be an aggrega- tion -worthy the mettle of the local club. Witt will pitech Satur- day afternoon’s game for the locals and Emerson will do the twirling Sunday afternoon. CENTRAL HURT Telephone Operator at Cass Lake Rendered Unconscious By Lightning Shoch. Lightning this morning came in the switch board of the tele- phone oftice at Cass Lake and gave Miss Bertha Schumacher, the operator, a shock from which it is feared she will sustain serious corfsequences. Miss Shumacher was found uncon- scious on the floor of the tele- phone office about ten o’clock. Mrs. Fahastock, the operator in this city, also received quite a severe -shock during the same storm this morning. FAIR CROP Blueberry Harvest Will Begin Next Week and a Fair Crop is Anticipated. The blueberry harvest in this section of northern Minnesota will begin next week and the cropis a fair one and wiil keep an army of pickers working for some time. It was at one time feared that carly frosts had done serious damage but it was insignificant. Many of the berries are already ripe but the picking will not be- gin for another week at least. The Indians are making prep- arations for a big harvest and in the vicinity of the reservation towns the squaws and children will be busy until the end of the season. Hundreds of bushels will gbe'shipped to] market from this city alone. WILL BE HIGH Big Meat Cutters Strike Will Have Serious Effect on Local Mar- ket in Bemidii. The strike of the Amalgamat- d Ass: ion of Meat Cutters and Butchers instituted at noon yesterday at all the great pack- ing centers of the country will have a very ndticeable effect on the meat market in Bemidji if it continues for any length of time and if it lasts a week it is confi- dently predicted that soup bones will be worth a_dollar apiece and in demand at- that figure, All the local meat dealers buy their beef and the greater part of their supplies from the Swift, Cudahy and Armour Co.’s and if the source of supply is shut off it is possible there will be a dearth of fresh meat in this city. The surrounding country does not produce much in the way of live stock and the situatton is al- together one that is giving local dealers some concern. CHARGES MADE Inspector Warren May be Dis- missed by Secretary Ryan For Promoting Townsites. Washington. D. C., July 12.— The charges against B, L. War- ren, forestry inspector at Cass ¢| Lake are now before Assistant Secretary of Interior Ryan, who will in a few days approve the recommendation of Acting Com- ioner Fimple for immediate dismissal of Warren. Itislearned st Warren are based upon his e¢ndering his offi- °| cial position to the promoters of c| the townsite of Beaudette Minn., |and doing acts contrary to the regulations of the land office which strictly prohibits any of .|its employes being in any way connected with the organization of townsites. Secretary Ryan yesterday de- clined to state upon what grounds Warren was to be zremoved other than it was necessary to dismiss him for the good of public service. License to wed was yesterday granted to Henry Spoerhaus and Mary Louise Agnew. Both the young people are from Buena Vista, ! 2k 5 LAND IS IN DEMAND Reason Why Number of Contests of Entries is Increasing. HUNGRY HOMESTEADERS ROAM NORTHERN WOODS. Settlers Find it Necessary to Live Up to Law Strietly. Records at the Duluth United States land office show that as time advances there is a con- tinued increase in the number of people appearing to contest the rights of the Northern Min- nesota homesteader. It was not many years ago that such con- tests were instituted only on very rare occasions in .the extreme northern counties of the state, due to the fact that there was so much good land remaining un- taken that anyone so desiring might pick out and file on a valu- able claim without contesting the alleged rights of some other settler in the territory. . A great change has been wrought ina comparatively shovt time by the big influx of settlers and land seekers into the north- ern woods. The fact that valu- able government farm and tim- ber lands were lying idle in this section of the state became gen- erally known through the cen- tral West three or four years ago, and when the people came to realize this to be a fact, the wild rush for Western lands was checked to a certain degree -and attention was turned to the more convenient territory in Minne- sota. The result was that the best of the available lands were soon filed on. Now this entire district, with the exception of unsurveyed and unopened town- ships and Indian reservations, is pretty well taken up. This fact does not discourage the average locator, however. He knows that to the watchful there are many opportunities for contest. Unquestionably there are many abuses of the homestead laws, and the locator is well aware that many men, and woman too, file on a piece of land and neglect it afterwards, not living up to the provisions of the homestead laws in several particulars, trusting to luck in caining final possession of the land. There was a time when such methods were successful, but this time is past. Northern land is becoming valuable. There are men who are continually on the lookout to get possession of some for themselves, or to locate some on which others may be placed. When a claim is dis- covered on which it is found the original entryman has neglected to live up to the homestead laws, the right of the entryman to the land is contested, and if it can be proved to the satisfaction of the land office officials that he has been too lax in complying with the provisions regarding resi- dence that are necessary to per- fect a title, the entry is cancelled and the man who started the contest is given a chance to make entry on the claim. Such contests will probably be more numerous this year in the Duluth district than ever before, because of the number of land seekers disappointed at recent sales of Northern Minnesota land, the one at Thief River Talls, in particular. Many per- sons found that the piece of land they had decided upon was pur- chased by someone else, leaving them to look elsewhere. In many instances these would-be purchasers turn their attention to neglected claims, and are now being piloted about the woods by cruisers and locators, looking for and opportunity to contest the alleged rights of the home- steader. Advices from northern counties have it that the woods are literally full of land seekers. The result is sure to be an un- usually large number of con- tests. Kicks On Train Seryice. The village of Kelliher boasts the most abominable train ser-| vice of any town in the world ac- cording to a prominent resident of that village who is in the city this morning. It has a daily train,but it is a logging train and altogether a very wonderful af- fair in that, no man can tell when it cometh and when it gosth. The train comes over from Hovey Junction and is liable to leave Kelliher under orders any time after its arrival. Vigorous pro- tests are being prepared, but as the town is the only one on the line it is very probable the people will have to bear with the present conditions until fall when busi- ness will pick up and warrant the M. & L. in improving the service. Go to Hakke SALE CLOSES Sale of Reservation Land at Thief River Falls Discontinued Until October. A total of $555,000 was taken in by the Federal government in the recent land sale at Thief River Falls and the officials who are about to close up their trans actions tomorrow at the Falls are well pleased with the results of the sale S As compiled by the govern- ment clerks and employes the sale has resulted-in the transfer of 91,000 acres at an average price of approximately $6 per acre. For lack of interest tha sale is to be discontinued tomorrow un- til Oct. 8, when the sale will be reopened in Crookston and the remainder of the tracts disposed of to the highest bidders in ac- cordance with the provisions of the department governing the sale. y Thief River Falls has been prosperous during the progress of the sale and has gained a large number. of actual settlers who will invest wealth and labor in the reservation soil during years to come. The men are generally of financial stable character and have money with which_to live upon their holdings the required time. STORY OF A STAND Interesting Incident Connected With the Legend of a Local Billboard. One of the largepictorial stands used to advertise the Richards & Pringle,s Georgia Minstrels which appear in this city atan carly date isa comedy bill en- titled “The Arrival of the Georgias on Their Own Special Train.” There are several of this par- ticular stand occupying promi- nent positions on the bill boards about the city, and there is an interesting story in connection with i, Along in the 70’s the National Printing & Engraving Company of Chicago. Ill,, received an appli- cation in writing from a party in a small town in Alabama, who desired a position as artist in their engraving ' department. They replied that they could use an artist who made a specialty of negro character, and told him to submit a sketch, which is the stand above referred to. S The sketch was accepted and a salary _of $80 a week' offered for the artist’s exclusive services. Nothing was heard from him, and a second letter was sent to the same address, which brought the following reply written in a feminine hand: “My boy, who was an invalid died the day your cder was received. We are very poor and no doubt the good news was too much for my poor boy.” The printing office sent the mother a check for $250 and Messrs. Richards & Pringle sent alikeamount. Every Christ- mas the mother receives a hand- some present which is gratefully received. s The Largest in the World. Gentry Bros. famous trained animal shows, the largest exhibi- tion of the kind in the world, will soon be in this city. The Gentry Bros. performance this season has been greatly augmented, in addition to which, is presented a miniature Zoological display, showing the various hay and meat eating animals in their in; fancy, an attraction which is ;alculated to increase the joys of the little folks, who are the main patrons of Gentry Bros. famous shows. In addition to the numer- ous company of performing dogs, ponies, monkeys and elephants, which have always been seen with the show, an entirely new innovation is introduced in the presentation of a drove of per- forming Siberian camels, believed to be the only ones ever educated either -in this or foreign lands. The many resources of Gentry Bros. combined exhibitions will oe properly indexed and dis- played in the combined street parades, which. will be given on the morning of the date of ex- hibition, Bemidji, Friday, July 22. To Fence Grounds. The board of county commis- sioners this morning awarded to Boyd & Erickson, of this city a contract for constructing a fence of brown sandstone around the court house grounds. It will greatly improve the appearance of the grounds which are the prettiest in this section of the city, the cost is moderate and the commissioners very wisely decided that it might as well be built now as after a time. The firm of Flatley & Thurston, which has been dissolved for some time, has resumed its co- partnership and will hereafter duct the N, P. oon und. AT THE BAZAAR STORE “As usual,” talk is cheap—paper and pénci]s are willing. The editor does not MIDSUMMER CLEARING SALE! Black on White Plain Figures---Guaranteed as represented or money refunded. care whero you gzt your advertising ideas. Take the following goods home, show them to your dressmaker, your neighbor, your friend, or compare styles, quality _ or prices in Bemidji or any other city, the big or little stores. Remember our motto:—“Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded.” For the rest of this month every table in our store will be its own salesman. Take what tyou want at the plain marked price. If not satisfied no questions will be asked. 1 piece Wool Voil worth $1.25, now 85¢ 2 pieces Cotton Voil worth 25¢, now 12'],¢ The Bazaar Store. 1 lot Men’s Underwear worth 50c, now 27¢ All our Shirt Waists at 1-4 off to close out. The black and white figures will do their own talking for this sale. LRR R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R S ) “It is what you Save, not what you Earn, that makes Wealth.” DO IT NOW! O_éen a Savings Bank Account. GET A HOME BANK FREE! TODAY! No charge for the Little Bank. It is loaned to you FREE. The first dollar you deposit is held as a guarantee that you will return the lit- tle Bank. However, this dollar belongs to you, draws interest and can be with- drawn by you any time you return the little Bank. foR RN R RoR Ao R R RoR - RoRo Koo oo Ro R - ReRo R oo Rl R o] Savings Department First National Bank, Capital and Surplus, $30,000. C. W. Hastings, Pres. Bemidji, Minn. F. P. Sheldon, Vice-Pres. A. P. White, Cashier. [oR-RCRRCR - RoR R R ROk Rk RoRo R o R R R Ko RNk RoR Rk -] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@&fi@##@@@&@@#@@@# o —FOR— Wedding and Baby Pictures HAKKERUP § { Up-to-Date Work and Prices Reasonable. Enlarging, Framing and Finishing 2l o e 2 2B 0 0 e 3B e B B B e o B B oo B B B THE "FAULTLESS" ..STUMP PULLER.. Most Simple and Durable- Stump Puller on the Market. World’s Fair Prize. WES WRIGHT, ie VNV VY VO R - Local Agenu for Amatuers. Hakkerup Studio c\ Two Doors East of City Drug Store. OSSO Married at Jackson. The marriage of Miss Minunie Wiley and A.E. King occurred last week at the home of the bride’s parents at Jackson.Minn. The groom is a popular employe at McConkey’s grocery in this city and the bride is the daughter Conway’s Commercial Col- lege is organizing a class in Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewriting for school teach- ers and those who have at- tended school during the year who wish to take up these studies during vacation, month’s free lessons given to s all who enroll during July. Conway’s Commercial College, . Box 741. 108 Sixth Street, betw: Bemidji and Beltraml Avenues. One of highly respected parents at Jackson and a very estimable young lady. Mr. and Mrs. King returned to this city the first of the week and begin married life in Bemidji with the best wishes of many friends. W. E. Verity, one of the pro- prietors of the Sentinel, who has ] been spending several days in|large clientele of hi - retu his h b a large a Has New Location. The Fair Store yesterday occu- pied a new location at the old Silversack building on Minnesota avenue. The store has much more commodious quarters in its new home and will be able to handle | Northern R: larger lines and branch out con- si era,lilly. It is popular with a Wédding Groups Souvenirs Baby Picture Lakeside Studio, on Lake Front. M. J. MORSE, - Proprietor. Excursion to Lake Superior July 22. Special excursion train to Du- Huth and Superior, via the Great way leaves Bemidji at 9:34 A. M. Fare for round ip $3.00. Take this opportunity trons and en-|ofseeing beautiful LakeSuperio; constan