Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 17, 1904, Page 4

R 4 THEIR LAST SESSION Final Meeting of 0ld Board of County Commission- ers Held Today. NEW MEMBERS WILL SIT AT THE NEXT MEETING. Johnson, Anderson, McDougald Retire..-Gunderson, Wagner, Danaher Take Seats. Although the meeting of the hoard of county commissioners held today was unimportant in the amount of business trans- acted, it was more than of ordin- ary coansequence because after the adjournment of the present session three of the members of the board who now hold office will be replaced by the new men elected to take their places. Commissioner Anderson of the fourth district, McDougald of the second and Johnson of the fifth will retire after the present meeting is concluded and the n2xt session of the county dads will see the body composed of two old and threenew members* Andy Danaher of the fifth dis- trict will be seated, Joseph Wag- ner of the fourth district will take up the burdens of a county dad, and George Gunderson of Blackduck will be present to look after the interests of the second district, to succeed the present incumbent, John McDougald. The changing of three mem- bers outof five of a body with the wide powers vested in a board of county commissioners may make a radical difference in thz actions of the board, and it is possible that some radical changes will be made in its policy. The Present board of Commis- sioners Sibley, Wright, McDou- gal, Anderson and Johnson, has administered the affairs of the county in a manner which has created general satisfaction and expressions of regret at the re- tirement of Messrs McDougald, Johnson and Anderson are gen- eral. All the members of the present board have been faithful hard working commissioners and it is safe to say that few new counties have been so carefully and ably administered as has Beltrami. The new members of the board are gentlemen well known throughout the county and there is every rezson to believe that their administration of the county’s affairs will be as efficient and satisfactory as that of their predecessors. Go to Cass Lake. Tuesday a number of the mem- bers of the Masonic lodge and the BEastern Star of this city will go to Cass Lake to attend the joint installation banquet and dance to be given there by the Masons and Stars. It is though that about fifteen couples will go over. The Red Cross is coming. PRINCESS Grocery Co. We have a full line of Christmas Tree Decorations, Candy Toys, Candies, Ete. We will make a special price to Churches, Societies and Schools on these goods. Home Made Taffys Peanut Candy Mixed Nuts Bon Bons Chocolates Smokers’ Articles Fancy Box Tobaccos Case Pipes Look at these before selecting your presents. We will have for the Holidays a select line of Fruits and Vegetables. Select Oysters always in stock. Princess Grocery Co M. E. CARSON, Mgr Phone 282 DEVELOPMENTS . THICK AND FAST Farley to be Absorbed---Col- ony in Oregon--- Is Cash Running Low? Developments in the Hines col- ony affair in Blackduck township are fairly crowding each other in their haste for publicit.y. Here are a few hot from the wires. Bulletin No. 99. Turtle River, Dec. 17—A spec- ial to the Turtle River Pine Tree says that Jabez Hines has made the town of Farley an offer for all the land in the townsite and the buildings thereon. Kenneth Mec- Iver of Farley comfirms the rumor. Itis expected that the deal will be closed early next week. Bulletin No. 100. Tenstrike, Dec. 17—It is rumored that the Blackduck Zion will be the parent Zion and that little offsprings will be sprung from ocean to ocean. The first branch colony will be plant- ed in Oregon, and a special car with fifty new made Zionists will be shipped from this city and ad- joining towns within a short time. Bulletin No. 101. Hines Spur, Dec. 17—It is re- vorted that the Dowie colony is temporarily embarassed for funds. After showing Mr. Hines the inside of their gold vault the company unfortunately lost the key and beyond a mere million or two the funds of Zion No. 2 are tied up. Bulletin No. 102. Blackduck, Dec. 17—There is a wild rumor current on the streets here that the Blackduck American is on the brink of issu- ing a special edition setting forth Jabe Hines views on the establish ment of a negro colony at Hines Spur. HARRIS SAYS GOOD BYE Gives Farewell Reception and Ball to People of Ten- strike Last Night. J. O. Harris, proprietor of the Richards hotel at Tenstrike, and the choice of the people of Bel- trami county for the office of reg- ister of deeds for the ensuing two years, last night gaye a fare- well reception and ball at his hotel in Tenstrike and nearly the whole population of the thriving up line town turned out to bid Mzr. Harris good bye on the eve of his departure to Bemidji to take up his residence here during the time he holds office. Mr. Harris issued a general invitation to all the people of Tenstrike especially and the number of friends who turned out to honor him proyed his general popularity. The Be- midji orchestra went up to fur- nished music for the occasion, During the absence of Mr. Harris his brother, Walter, will take charge of the hostelry. BACKUS COMPANY WILL NOT QUIT Ask Premission to Cut 3,- 000,000 Feet At Koch- iching. Another turn- has been given to the water power question on the International boundary which indicates that Backus and Com- pany have noimmediate intention of giving up the development of the Koochiching Falls, not for the present at least as they have asked permission from the Crown Lands Department to cut some 3,000,000 feet of lumber on Stokes Bay up Rainy Lake, They state in their application that they do not wish select tim- ber in the way of pine, as it will be demolished after it is used with dynamite. Although the application does not say so, it is the opinion of Mr. Steeman, the Crown Timber Agent, that the timber is for the coffer dams and that the company intend getting it out this winter in readiness for construction in the spring. Revolution Imminent. A sure sign of approaching re. volt and serious trouble in your system is nervousness, sleepless- ness, or stomach upsets. Elec- tric Bitters will quickly dismem- ber the troublesome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, and clarify the blood. Run down system benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vahish under its searching and thorough effectiveness. Klectric Bittersis only 50c, and that is returned if it don’t give perfect satisfaction. MERCHANTS ARE BUSY Christmas Offerings Bring Large Number of Buyers to the City. TRADE THIS YEAR WILL BE LARGER THAN EVER. Indications Point to General Rush in Every Line of Business. The merchants of Bemidji at present are snjoying a very good trade and the buyers who crowd the stores daily for the purchase of Christmas gifts add to the re- ceipts of Bemidji business houses. As the holidays approach, it is expected that a much larger trade than has been prevalent will materialize, as the influence of Christmas and New Years up- on business invariably is good. This year business is expected to be much better than in.former years, as the city is in a state of greater prosperity at the present time than ever before. The past year has been exceptionally good for the local retailers and as a re sult large stocks of Christmas and New Year goods have been installed. A prominent merchant of Be- midji this morning said that dur- ing the time he has been engaged in business here his gross re- ceipts for each month have been greater than the month before, and that during the past twelve months his business had actually increased to twice its former pro- portions. This is a fair example of the conditions existing at the present. SURYEYOR THE WHOLE THING Settlers Must Abide By The Field Notes of Gov’t Surveyor. No further modifications of his ruling that the character of public lands claimed by the state as swamp shall be determined alone by the surveyors’ field notes will be permitted by E. A. Hitchcock secretary of the interior. A re- quest was made by the officials of the land office early in Novem- ber asking that bona fide settlers be allowed to contest by oral testimony the state’s claim to the lands. Formerly it was the practice to allow homesteaders to show by oral evidence the exact nature of tracts they had settled upon but had been selected by the state as swamp. Under the present ruling no testimony is permissable to con- tradict the surveror’s notes and the documentary evidence alone is conclusiye proof of the nature of the land. The field notes, it is asserted, are often misleading in character and it had been hoped by many local attorneys that the former ruling would be repealed. YARDS ON YARDS OF RED TAPE Special Agent Says That Set- tlers Must Live Strictly to Letter of Law. Special Agent Layman, of the U. S.land office, whose duty it is to see that the. homesteaders comply with the law, states that the law governing homestead residence and cultivation will have to be strictly complied with in the future and intends to in vestigate all cases of settlers proving up to see that they have complied with the law. Thisisa new departure in the land office and many who had no trouble in making final proof a few months ago would not be able to do so now. Especially do settlers who wish to prove up in fourteen months find it difficult. U. S. commissioners are at the present time compelled to have special agents present at the time final proofs are accepted and the red tape necessary for the actual settler to secure his final deeds isa great deal more complicated than it formerly was. The business done by the com: missioners in the northern’ por- tion of the state is very large and Mr. Layman expects to be kept very busy with the calls from one commissioner to_another to examine into the good intentions and the actions of intending final proof makers. Nothing can be better than'the Guaranteed by all druggist. best—Mark’s lung Balsam is the { best, Ki POWDER Absolutely Pure A chance of a life time for old and young to HAS NO SUBSTITUTE purchase Christmas Presents. GIVEN UNTIL Our Holiday Goods are displayed on tables in the center of our store and one glance will NEXT SPRING show that our Holiday Counters are not only covered with Toys but are laden with useful goods of all descriptions such as Fancy Handkerchiefs, Squatters Will Not Be Fired Valuable Furs of All Kinds, Ladies’ Fancy Belts, and the largest assortment From Chippewa Lands Until May 15. of Combs-ever shown in this city. 3 : 4 : 8 Secretary Hitchcock has grant- ed the request of Senator Clapp and Representative Buckman that settlers or squatters in the Chippewa forest reserves be al- lowed to remain in their present homes until May 15 next. The settlers are clearly squatters but are living upon these lands under a misapprehension of the law in the premises, and it is asserted it would do a grievious wrong to (g v cause them to remove in the win- ter, and their time of removal is therefore ~extended till next spring. ; TRAIN WRECK AT TENSTRIKE Bemidji Commercial is now in a position any and all subjects t: week days, sbrmght subjects. : Car Loaded With Horses Leaves Track Causing Serious Damage. Box 744, 108 Sixth by that school for $1.00 per week nights, and $1.50 per P. J. CONWAY, Principal. Street, between Bemidji and Beltrami Avenues. College teach aught All for Christmas DIREOTIOHS FOR USE: trade. A freight car loaded with heavy horses intended for the woods left the track at Tenstrike last night, seriously injuring two of the horses, and itis probable that ab least one of the animals will be dispatched. The regular way freight was making its trip up the line and while switching at Tenstrike the car jumped from the rails and turned completly over. Help was speedily sum- moned and the car was broken open and the animals released. The horses were owned by far- library. A fee of $1 for and 50c for 25 books is books teneu if desired. There are still a few application blanks and payers, who agree to be respon- sible for the proper care of the for each library to cover cost of transportation both “ways. may be retained six months, but will be changed of- to be located this winter. information, apply to Miss Clara F. Baldwin, librarian, Minnesota state library commission, Masonic Temple, Minneapolis. Wiggle-Stick around in the water. e = 50 books charged A Frightened Horse. Running like mad down the street dumpmu the occupants,or a hnndred other accidents, are every day occurrences. It be- hoves everybody to have a reli- able Salve handy and there are! none as good as Bucklen’s Arnicnl 'Salve. Burns. cuts, sores, ec- The libraries For further R. R. BLY, MODEL Bakery Will be Headquarters Trimmings and Holly. A full line of Candies con- stantly in stock and our special effort will be to please the Xmas We have the very best and the moderate priced goods. Our facilities for making Wed- ding Jakes and Christmas Cakes are unsurpassed and all orders will receive careful attention. Remember the Model Bakery for “‘GOOD THINGS TO EAT" Trees, Prop. . zema and piles, disappear quickly under its soothing effect. 25c¢, at all drug stores. 515 get the news. Subscribe for the Pioneer and mers from Benoitand were being taken to different Jumber camps in the vicinity of Kelliher. CANNOT BUDGE THE INDIANS Free---A Tur- keywitheach Settler Scared by the Pres- ence of Too Many Red Men. purchase of $15 or more Finding that his homestead claim is occupied by Indians, who he alleges, he did not know were on the land, Andrew Karvela, a settler in township 64-20, on the | § banks of Pelican lake, about forty miles north of Hibbing, has peti- tioned the land office to relinquish his claim and give him land atan- other point. Karvela asserts that there are from sixty to eighty Indians ‘on.the land and|s that he is afraid to move his fam- ily to the claim. 3 The Indians have refused to go and Karvela states, have built additional shacks on theland and seem disposed to make it their permanent home. FREE LIBRARIES OF MANY BOOKS Fine System in the State at Service of Country Residents. It may not be known to many residents of Bemidji that our state has' a free circulating 1 brary which now contains nearly 12,000 volumes. This library is|J under the control of the state li- brary commission, which was es- tablished by the legislature in 1899, and is loaned in traveling libraries of 50 or 25 books each. N o.xurrennrmenaco THE CLOTHIERS. ——GREAT=—= I)lsplay of Men’s High Grade Overcoats | From America’s Foremost Makers of Clothing. season’s make. new and up-to-date. : as plain; a strictly hand- made Overcoat nobby, rich Overcoats at $10 You will re- ||ceive a Tur- [ key free with each pur- chase of $15 or more : : 250---SUITS AND OVERCOATS---250 to select from; the cream of this Not a last year’s coat nor an old one in steck; all Stein-Bloch Suits and Overcoats $12 and $15 Overcoat values;|Men’s $20 Overcoat values, in ) with belts and plain back;|elegant fancy patterns as well & $15 and double breasted in plaxds, strong-wearing season’s newest styles hand-tailored Suits $10 Men’s $12 and $15 Suit values| Men’s $20 Suit values; beauti- real Scotch materials, *single|ful, fancy worsteds and Scoteh ¢ $15 These libraries are especially de- signed for the use of farming communities and small villages which cannot support alocal pub- lic library, and id many cases||| have proved an incentive to the establishment of libraries in such villages. They are also of great for Xmas. service t0 small public libraries which cannot have HOLIDAY GOODS AT PURSE-PLEASING PRICES We have placed on sale thousands of dollars worth of everything that is new and proper ;) Our prices will prove a revelation to the Bemidji Public. Smoking Jackets, Neckwear, Fancy Hosiery, Fancy Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Dress Shirts, Bath Robes, Mufflers, Night Robes, Underwear, Seap Caps, Pajamas, Cloth Caps.