Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 18, 1904, Page 4

| POLLED BIG VOTE Seven Hundred Thirty Four Votes Cast at School Elee- tion Saturday Night. TORRANCE AND ANDREWS ARE ELECTED ON BOARD. Result a Decisive Victory For Advocates of Better Schools. THE VOTE Graham M. Torrance........4 T. J. Andrews P. J. Russell D. C. Smyth J.P. Lahr. The school election Saturday eyening was the hottest thing ever pulled off in Beminji. Intwo-hours 734 votes were cast and the Messrs Torrance and Andrews were elected mem- bers of the board of education for the ensuing three years by a majority of alittle more than 100. The result is a magnificient story in the campaign for bet- ter schools, and the credit is due to the ladies of Bemidji, who originated the movement and teiled untiringly to push it to a successful conclusion, The people of Bemidji have become con- vinced that their schools are not what they should be and the vote of Saturday night shows con- clusively that they are deter- mined to mend matters. At seven o’clock Saturday evening the lobby of the high school building was crowded. The meeting was called to order by D. C. Smyth, secretary of the board of education. H. J. Loud was elected moderator, H. G. Hays was made assistant secre- tary and E. BE. McDonald and R. W. Hitchcock were appointed tellers. The reading of the re- port of the secretary was tem- porarily dispensed with and a baljot for members of the board was ordered. For two hours a solid mass of men and women packed every foot of standing room in the lobby passing to an adjoining room to vote. The heat was intense and thez air stifling but theerowd was good natured and there was no dis- order. Voting ceased at ¢ and in a few minutes the tellers had completed the count and the result was announced as given above, 1t was a representative gather- ing—the people of Bemidji were there. The jam inthe lobby of the school house was awful and the heat was terrific, but the laun- drymen took it philosophically. The faithful, earnest, persist- ent, work of the ladies of the city is what carried the day. The victory was theirs; the fruits of it will belong to the whole city. Some two weeks ago L. H. Bailey stood on a street corner in Bemidji and shook his fist in the face of a number of citizens and declared “I can carry thi city any old time on any old pro- PRINCESS Grocery Co. M. E. CARSON, Manager. Fancy Crawford Peach ; il ey R S 20 """ Fancy Lemon Clir B o ean .25 itex Fancy Peeled Ap: g bor cat. ... .25 Fancy Pears, 25¢ Der can......... Ri Fancy EEK T‘ln per can. per. Fancy Canned S per can... Fancy Canned Appl per gallon ca ONIONS LETTUCE STRAWBERRIES RADISHES CUCUMBERS c| yesterday -afternoon .| position. RUSSIANS REPULSED Two Divisions of Russian Army Assault Jap Position at Motien Pass and are Repulsed. Tokio, July 18.—Two divisions) of Russians yesterday made a desperate attempt to capture the Japanese position at Motion The Japanese resistance stubborn and effective, the Pass. wa Russians being repulsed .-and pursued a considerable distance. Lieutenant'General Keller was in command of the Russian forces. Kuroki’s dispatch to the govern- ment war oftice does not give the casualties. GORDON WILL RUN Local Real Estate Man Will Be a Candidate For Superin- tendent of Schools. Anton Gordon, a well known character about the city and a gentlemen of various attainments is said to be a positive candidate for county superintendent of schools. Mr. Gordon has many friends and is said to be in every way competent to fill the position. His chances are variously esti- mated, but he’s known as a hard campaigner and claims to be able to swing the solid Scandinavian vote. He has many bitter enemies who predict for him “atrimming” but his entry into the race will make the contest. more spirited. Fine Line of Curios. Henry Buenther the taxider- mist, has added a new line to his stock. -The addition is a curio collection which is undoubtedly one of the finest things in this section of the country. Mr. Buenther has local Indian carios, and curios from Alaska, the South Sea Islands, Australia and althost every corner of the world in fact.. Mr. Buenther is an en- thusiastic curio collector and has every reason to be proud of the line he has accumulated. Board of Equalization. The board of county commis- sioners is in session at the court house today as a board of equal- ization. TRe session will prob- ably be a short one. Little changes in the assessment or v’ulua.tmn are anticipated. Coun- ty Auditor Sylvester is author- ity for the statement that the assessors of the various towns this year wereas a whole the best lot of assessors the county ever had. Has Offices at Grand Forks. Dr. George Moody, formerly Judge M(,Clomnhan s court re- porter was in the city yesterday for a short visit with friends. Mr. Moody is now located at Grand Forks in the practice of chiropractic. He has fine office rooms and a nice practice. George has hosts of {riends all thro: xvh this section who will be glad to learn that he is success- ful. Bitten by Vieious Horse. Walter Smyth, who drives the delivery wagon for the Bemidji Mercantile Co. was séverely bit- ten by a vicious horse this morn- ing. He was harnessing the animal in the stall when it bit him in the back, taking out a large chunk of flesh and fractm ing two ribs. He is under the doctor’s s care and his i m]unes are quite serious. Will Try For Crookston. The management of the local basaball team today opened negotiations for a game with the Cmol\smn ball team in this city next Sunday. The home team is much stronger now than when it met Crookston before and if -|the game can be arranged it will no doeubt draw a very large - | attendance. The funeral of Mrs. Martha Harragan, of Tenstrike, occurred from the Presbyterian church and was c|very largely attended. The in- terrment was at Greenwood. If you don’t believe it put up a ticket and see.”” Well *| we see, alright: The election was another de- .| monstration of the fact that the people can always get a thing :| when they want ‘it bad enouoh to go after it. The ladies who were organ- izing the Torrance-Andrews t.neket hired all the livery rigs in the city early in the week. and the opposition was hard put to it for conveyances. County Attorney Loud’s firm stand against allowing Iumber- jacks to vote cut the gentry off with a smaller representation than they have had at an election in Bemidji for a longtime. After Modeaator Loud in hig capacity as county attorney threatened to cause the arrest of all illegal voters the word was passed down town that “bums don’t go” and the contest was! Ieft to the people of the it MAY CONTEST Defeated Contingent in School Election Fight Said to Be Anxious For " Contest. A number of rumors concern- ing the late school election are current about the city today and one of the most interescing is that D. C. Smyth, who was de- feated for a position on the board is anxious to contest the election. Mr. Smyth is said to set up as grounds upon which the contest' may be undertaken the fact that the election was not held during the proper hours. City Attorney Russell who was defeated on the Smyth ticket ac- cepts the situationphilosophically and is said to be violently op- posed to any such action. De- velopments are expected. LET CONTRACTS City Council Will Award Several Important Contracts at To- night’s Meeting. The city council will have a regular meeting tonight and one of the most important things to come before it will be the award- ing of the contracts for building the new city pumping smtion and laying the vater mains. A number of bids are submitted, all by local contractors. The bids will be opened tonight- and the contracts awarded. LOST IN WOODS Gus Fossberg Lost in Big Woods|3 Near Kelliher Since Early Saturday Morning. Gus Fossberg, an employe of John Koler, the contracter who will build the state ditch near Kelliher is lost in the big woods near Kelliher and grave fears are entertained for his safety to- day. Koler and I‘oflqberv went out Saturday morning to look over the proposed site of the ditch. Insome way they became sep- arated and Koler returned to Kelliher without him. Fossberg has not been seen nor heard from since. He has undoubtedly lost his way in the woods and may wander for days - before he reaches any seftlers cabin or place where he may be directed back toKelliher. Heis a Scandi- navian, has been in this country but a short time and is not famil- iar with the woods. Searching parties leaye Kelliher today to look him up. School Elections. Schools elections were held Saturday night in all the school districts in the county. John Guthrie, of Turtle River town brought in the first report from District No. 17 this morning, where Peter N. Grandby was elected treasurer. At Blackduck seventeen votes were cast and L. G. Townsend and E. J. Taylor were re-elected trustees and fill a vacancy on the board. Goes To White Rock. A. C. Liysacker, who has been a popular employe of the Golden Club for the past two years, has severed his connections with Mr. Miles and left this afternoon for White Rock, S. D.. where he will engage in the saloon business. Mr. Lysacker has been a popular employe and has made a host of triends in the city who regret to see him leave Bemidji but wish him successin his new venture. Married Men Drubbed, The Single Men and the Mar- ried Men played ball at Black- duck yesterday and the Bene- dicts were defeated by a big score. The single men assert that they have been very chesty since a game they won some time outcome. The game furnished amusement for a large crowd. R R Weareoverstocked on ironbeds and for this reason we will offer our entire stock of beds a.t actual ‘cost. B L. Naylor. John Thompson was elected to|. ago are highly elacted over the| - MORE SCALPS DANGLE Sauk: Centre Comes For.}i Visit and Drops Two > Games to Bemidji. BROOKS AND BARKER INDIANS “T0O FAST FOR VISITORS. Doty, the Famous, Loses Yester- day’s Game on Strength of Ancient History. Two more scalps dangle at the belt of the Brooks & Barker Indians. They did things to the Sauk Centre base ball team yes- terday and Saturday and won both games so handily that everybody is well satisfied. The visitors played fast ball and both games were fast and were won strictly on their merits by tbel home team. The locals r.oolr Sacurday’s game easily by a score of 5 to 2. It was a very good exhibition and a feature was the fast work of the local infield. ‘Witt pitched ‘and allowed but five hits and his support through- out was gilt edged. The locals made some bad errors but they were all on fast chances and oc- curred at times when they were not costly., Gilchrist was in the box for Sauk Centre and pitched a good game. bunched on him, however, and this fact combined with high and lofty throwing was sufficient to lose the game > for him. The at tendance at Saturday’s fla.me‘ was very small. esterday’s game was one of the most mterestmfl seen on the local grounds this season and was one in a fireworks finish: Doty, the famous, was in the box for the visitors and pitched a fine game. He was unable to with- stand a strenuous per sonal talle fest from the rooter’s blea/chers, however, and weakened in the eighth allowing hits sufficient to win the game. Mr. Doty’s reputa- tion had preceded him and he was freely reminded of a game he pitched against the Litchfield club for Royalton at St. Cloud several years ago, when accord- ing to information received by the rooting contingent he had al- lowed thirty- throe hits, eleven three-baggers, eleven two-bag- gersand eleven singles. For the first three innings 117 looked like a victory for the visitors. The locals did not break into the score-getting until the sixth when ‘the hits were combined The hits were™ G AT THE . BAZAAR STORE WATCH THIS SPACE , for next week. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Demonstration . F_"JK])!E B e B S BB e xuui ¢ Wedding Groups ; L # Souvenirs t g = e % Baby Pictures ; X & % Lakeside Studio, = on Lake Front. g ?’ M. J. MORSE, - Proprietor. gl I R R s with the visitors errors for three runs. The same thing happened in the eighth and won the game. Emerson pitched for the home team and his werk was beyond criticism. The rooting was a feature of the game and the crowd was one of the most enthusiastic of the present season. The attendance was better than for some time 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. One month’s free lessons given to all who enroll during Julv Conway s Commercial College, Box 744, 108 Sixth Street, between Bemidjl and Beltrami Avenues and the home team played a game which everybody appre- ciated and will result in a better attendance at the home games from this time on. The baseball game between the Tenstrike club and the married men from Blackduck did not occur yesterday. Ten- strike has no grounds and there will be no more baseball there this summers <WW<>%Q T O, @ (=% (—% 5 | ™ 32 7 Baby Pictures 'HAKKERUP Up-to-Date Work and Prices Reasonable. Lnlarging, Framing and Finishing for Amatuers. Hakkerup Studio Two Doors East of City Drug Store. STEIN- BLOCH Fine Suits On Sale. Regent Shoes $3 50 Shoes for Ralston Health Shoes New lot.s all shapes; $4 00 and $2.85 - at less than Cost. Light, Comfortable Milans, French Palms, Stylish Manilas. ~ sszoo $1:50 and $1.25 Hats, at f§ choice for 90 cents HINEIDER BROS. THE CLOTHIERS. %Semx-Annual Clearance Sale! A Sale organized on the widest possible scope, intended to quickly clear away all broken assortments of our high- grade Merchandise. $24.00, $22.00, $20.00 and $18.00 Suits. ‘Cheviots, Tweeds, Serges, Homespuns, Worsteds. . Suits You All Know Abdut! STYLISH MEN'S.STRAW HATS $14.75! $14.75! $14.75! for Stein-Bloch Suits i " X