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i ..BEMIDJI.. The Spring Rush for Residence Lots on Bemidji and Beltrami Avenues We have a few has commenced. choice corner and inside lots at very reasonable prices. Call and make vour selection before it is too late. € Townsite and Improvement CO- Swedback Block. > Bemidji H. A. Simons. {|a “The Road With The Big Berths” This is the title given by the Chicago Tribune to the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY This railway owns and operates its own sleep- ing cars and other equipment. The berths are wider, longer and higher than berths in similar cars of other lines. The Pioneer Limited, The Fast Mail and three other daily trains from Minneapolis and St.Paul to Chicago. No extra charge to ride on these trains, but it is important that you name your route in purchasing tickets East. W. B. DIXON NORTHWESTERN PASSENGER. AGENT 365 ROBERT STREET, ST. PAUL Are You Gomg to Bulld or Do Any Repairing Shingles, per bunch $ .25 Lath, per thousand 2‘50} 6-inch flooring, short lengths - 6-inch flooring, long lengths - Rough Boards - - Dimensions: 12 ft., 14 ft 16 ft - Crookston Lumber Co. Estimares Furnished; Call Phone 45. ‘When taken with Lumber HENRY BUENTHER Naturalist and Taxidermist . 208 Second St. Postoffice Box No. 686 BEMIDJI, MINN. BIRDS, WHOLE ANIMALS, FISH, FUR RUGS AND ROBES and GAME HEADS mounted to order and for sale. 1 carry at all times a good assortment of INDIAN RELICS and CURIOS, FUR GARMENTS made to order, repaired and remodeled FURSIn season bought. guarantee my work mothproof and the most lifelike of any in the state MY WORK IS EQUALED BY FEW, FXCELLED BY NONE A Deposit Required on All Work YOUR TRADE SOLICITED Paxntxng Paper Hanging $ % Kalsomining‘ Shop in rear of < Swedback Block m&mmmhfl ...NEW HARNESS SHOP... SAM COLLARD has established a Harness and Repair Shop in the rear af the city hall. Mr. Col- lard has had 20 years’ experience in the business and is prepa.red to render prompt service and give entire satisfaction to all. 4 vwvmvvw: The Daily Pioneer PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON. PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By R. W. HITCHCOCK. ‘ntered in the postoffice at Bemid)i, Minn., a8 second class matter. Ofticial Paper Village of Bemidiji SUBSCRIPTION $5 PER YEAR Playing With Political Fire. THERE are a g00d many news- pa.pars' in the state that cannot forget the campaign of 1904 and that appear determined that no one else shall forget it. Both parties to the late repub- lican unpleasantness appear to be about equally guilty. It is pretty profitless to fight over a dead horse, but if we must do it we had far better wait until it is time to bury the horse. If the republican press of the state will absolutely close its pages to any rehash of the Dunn-Collins feud for the next twelve month s it wil greatly please the people of ‘Min nesota and render the republican party an invaluable service. The democrats, who alone can proflt by keeping the matter alive, have the decency to iet the un- If the re- publican press of the state lacks wisdom of its own, it might bor- row a little from the democrats. Undoubtedly a good deal of in- justice was done during the cam- paign last fall, but it does no one any good to keep nursing the fact in public. sayory mess alone. NOTWITHSTANDING the demise of the St. Paul Globe, “the only democratic newspaper of general circulation in the northwest,” the democrats of Minnesota do not seem to be worried for the want of an organ.. They are probably satisfied with the Min- neapolis Journal. vwwvmvv’- BITSINORTH § p b v % | COUNTRY ¢ Lm&mu‘j Verndale will walk on cement. —0— Tenstrike will bond for good roads. —0— Partridges promise to be a very plump crop. Lo ot & They’re bound to make Mr. Cole a senator, © —0— All mea are liars —when the fish begin to bite. —0— - It’s no easy thing to live up to your last year’s fish stories. —— Anyhow Bemidji was not bad enough to get a visit from John L. —— The Brainerd Arena says that Wisconsin taxes its bachelors $10 a year just to show how “‘cheap” they are. e - Away down south in Albert Lea they are enterprising enough to have page ads. At least the Enterprise is. —— The manager- for the “Way Down in Georgia” company is way down in the dumps in a Grand Forks jail. —— Crookston papers almost had a sunstroke over a bloomin’ orange tree that a denizen of the town had. The next week it snowed. —0— The Walker Pilot thinks that the Minneapolis Journal could hold those democratic subscrib- ers of the Globe a good deal bet- ter than the Tribune. X —— oz When a man leaves northern Minnesota for his health, says Brother Greeley, it is safe to say that his health was threatened by the sheriff. X —0— An untenanted fifteen dollar shack was burned to death at Pequot the other night and the Enterprise sadly records the mournful fact that ‘the heroic firemen had no chance 1o make daring rescues.” FOLHSMYH‘I‘AR ERRY ACQUITTED. Found Not Guilty of Setting Fire to * Plant at Hegewich, Il Chicago, May 8—Isaac Perry, who has been on trial charged with haying set fire to the Chicago Car and Loco- motive plant at Hegewich, Ill, to se- cure the {nsurance money on the plant, ‘was acquitted by a jury in Judge Kers- ten’s court during the day. The jury was out only ten minutes. The car and locomotive works, which were burned down several months ago, had beeh shut down for some time. Mr. Perry, who was president of the Na- tional Bank of North America, was also an officer of the Hegewich con- cern. The bank of which Mr. Perry Was an officer had loaned the concern several hundred thousand dollars and Mr. Perry was charged with setting fire to the plant to secure the insur- ance money to meet the claim of the bank. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. James G. Donnelly, a pioneer resi- dent of St. Paul and a well known un- dertaker, is dead, aged sixty years. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling has been placed on the retired list of the navy, having reached the age of sixty- two. ! Emil le Febure, Sr., a noted im- porter of Belgian horses, is dead at Cedar Rapids, Ia. He was seventy years old. Complete tabulation shows that the fifth Japanese internal loan of $50, 000,000 was oversubscribed more than four times. The Welsh Congregational church at Kingston, Pa., was partially wrecked by a dynamite explosion, causing a loss of $4,000. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hull of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Grizelda Houston Hull, to Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson. Sarrion de Herrera, former king-at- arms of the Spanish court, has been arrested at the instance of the Brazil- ian minister_at Madrid on the charge of conspiring with others against the government of Brazil. Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, is confined to her apartments in New York city, reported to be suffering from a severely sprained ankle. The Belasco theater, where she has been playing, has been closed. On account of a strike by seventy small boys nearly 600 employes of the Standard. Oil company in Long Island City are out of employment and it has. been round necessary to shut down the Devoe oil works temporarily. BASEBALL SCORES. National League. At New York, 5; Boston, 1. At Pittsburg, 4; Cincinnati, 2. At Philadelphia, 4; Brooklyn, 7. At Chicago, 10; St. Louis, 6. Standing of the Clubs—New Ym‘k 812; Pittsburg, .625; Chicago, .; Philadelphia, .500; Cincinnati, Brooklyn, .421; St. Louis, .313; ton, .294. American League. At Cleveland, 4; Chicago, 1. At Boston, 4; New York, 2. At Washington, 4; Philadelphia, 2. At St. Louis, 11; Detroit, 7. Standing of the Clubs—Washington, 811; New York, .533; Cleveland, .533 Chicago, .500; Philadelphia, .500; De- troit, .500; St. Louis, .471; Boston, .389. American Association. At St. Paul, 10; Milwaukee, 5. At Minneapolis, 5; Kansas City, 8. At Columbus, 3; Toledo, 5. At Louisville, 10; Indianapolis, 1. Standing of the Clubs—Columbus, Bus~ .723; Milwaukee, .667; Kansas Ciiy, .538; Louisville, .500; Minneapolis, 462; St ul; 384; Indianapolis, .364; ‘Toledo, R MARKET QUOTATIONS. Mlnneapohs Wheat. Mhmeapuhs, May 6.—Wheat—May, $1.00; July, 94%c; Sept, 797%c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.05; No. 1 North- ern, $1.02%; No. 2 Northern, 99c. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, May 6.—Wheat—To arrive— No. 1 Northern, 94c. On track—No. 1 Northern, 94c; No. 2 Northern, §7@ 903%¢c; May, 94c; July, 92%c; Sept., 797%ec. TFlax—To arrive, on track and May, $1.40%; July, $1.38; Sept., $1.29; Oct., $1.27%. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, May 6.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.00; common to fair, $4.50@5.25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.75@4.75; calves, $2.00@ 4.25. Hogs—$5.25@5. Sheep—Good to choice yearlings, $4.50@5.50; good to choice native lambs, $5.25@6.00. - Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, May 6. — Wheat—May, 92%c; July, 82%ec; Sept., 783%c. Corn —May, 48%c; July, 47T@47%¢c; Sept., 463jc. Oats—May, 30%c; July, 29%c; Sept., 283c. Pork—May, $12.0214; July, $12.30; Sept., $12.52%. Flax— Cash, Northwestern, $1.39; Southwest- ern, $1.25; May, $1.25. Butter—Cream- eries, 20@24c; dairies, 18@22c. Eggs —16c. Poultry—Turkeys, 14@15c; chickens, 12¢. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, May 6.—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.60@6.75; poor to me- dium, $4.40@5.40; stockers and feed- ers, $2 @5.00; cows and heifers, $2.- calves, $3.00@6.00. Hogs— and butchers, $5.40@5.62%%; good to choice heavy, $5.45@5.65; light, $5.26@5.60. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, shorn, $4.45@5.00; Western sheep, shorn, $4.00@5.00; na- tive lambs, shorn, $4.00@6.00; West- -orn, $5.76@7.15. - BRIEFT BITS OF NEWS. The condition of Senator Platt of Connecticut is again critical. Major James Stewart, U. S. A, re- tired, is dead at his home at Fort Thomas, 0., aged seventy-nine years. Rey. Stewart Bingwall Fordyce Sal- mond, principal of the United Free Church college at Aberdeen, Scotland, and the author of many religious works, is dead. . Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl— vania hu signed. the ‘Greater Pitts- We offer one hundred dollars reward for any caseof catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him per- fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able, to carry outany obligations made by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholsale Druggist, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure. is taken| internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucuos surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall’s Family pills for constipation. F. O. Praternal Order of Eagles, Bomldf Acrie No.351. Meets every Wednesday a Gilmour’s A.T.Wheelock, = = = - W,President H.LeBlew, =~ =~ - - W. Secretary. Visiting Eagles cordially invited. Dr. J. Warninger Veterinary Surgeon Office Phone 78. Residence 114 Irvine Avsnue Phone 248 Located at Bagley Livery Barn *&*m&fim q 4 20° O {Discount On all Wall Paper for § the Next Ten Days at 4 Webster @ Cooley Wall Paper & Paint Store wavvm s New Wood Shop T. M. HARVEY, Prop. Wagon Work and General Repairing Located in Pingle’s Blacksmith shop, two blocks west of city hall. g g T T T S T U T i rooms. Inquire 110 Irvine avenue South. FOR RENT—Two five room houses one block from school house. J. P. Duncalf. {FOR RENT—The one story‘ PIONEER WANT COLUMN TryaPioneer Want Ad--1c a word FOR SALE. FORSALE—Seed wheat,choicest grienies. Bemidji Elevator 0. WANTED—Capable nurse HeLP WANTED, Ap- Ply at this office. WANTED—To supply your type: writer wants. The Pioneer. FOR SALE— Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp mr vou on short notice. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Nice front room. Inquire Lumbermens State - bank. FOR RENT — Two furnished frame building known as t.hel Viking Saloon on Minnesota WANTED—To fill your wants Nothing does it like a Pnuneer want ad WANTED—ForU S. army able- bodied, unmarried men be- tween ages of 18 and 385, citi- zens of United Sta,te= of good character and tempera,te habits, who can speak, read and write English. For in- formation apply to Recruiting Officer, Miles block, Bemidji. Minnesota. MISCELLANEOUS. A AAAAAAAA AR NN A AN AN PUBLIC LIBRARY — Open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat- u\davs 2to 6 p. m. Thurs- day 7 t08:30 p. m. also. Li- hm.ly in basement of court avenue. Apply A. L. (/ol]mdl House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, li- 910 Minnesota avenue, brarian. i Nymore Hous» i PROFESSIONAL . Jee : CARDS A first class house for hoard by the day, week or month. Transient 'trade solicited! 3 LAWVYERS, . Moser, Proprietor. D. H. FISK Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office opposite Hotel Markham. Great Northern R’y ALL POINTS IN THE NORTHWEST EAST BOUND, ...Park Rapids Lme ects with Flyer at Minneapolis about 3: No. 3t...Duluth Express.. « 38 “ 0 .5:30a. m. ., arrives formerly 4:45 J12:27 pom 12:49 a.m WEST BOUND 3:52 p. m. 56 a. m. ..Park Rapids Line7:50 ‘¢ ‘¢ 33....Fosston Line... “ 35 “ o «107.. Full information from E E. CHAMBERLAIN, Agent Bemidii. Minn . n | JustArrived W The finest and most complete W/ line+of W o ...Fishing Tackle. :i" $ ever shown iv Derl.ji. g W A _glance atfo; i [line will couvince you that th: ahove “ asser{’on is correct. l&l }f Bristol Steel Rods W \v Spli 1 Fenloc Rl \‘l Shakespeare & Carltpn Iisals W Minnow Pails Fishing Hats \f Bait and Tackle Boxes “ Scales and Stringers 2 Lines of all kinds, includin \‘/ the famous ¢ Bcumjl w Silk Line. W Hooks, Sinkers, Etc.; in all : W sizes and styles. Buay now and get first choice. \" = W W FLEMING & DOWNS = =« Phone 57 W vy Ve 3332333333333 333333353 JERC RN O O 0 | x He Will Hang To a Good Thing When He Sees lt. Our Line of Shoes can’t be beat for Style and Long Wear. 33 Gents ‘We would be pleased to show P. J. Russell Attorney at Law BEMIDJL. - = - - . [UNN. Bailey & cDonald LAWYERS Bemidji, Minn. Office: Swedback Block PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. L.A. Ward, .D., Physician and blu Zeon. Diseases of the Eye a specialty. Glasses fitted. Dr. Rowland Gilmore Physician and Surgeon Office: Tiles Block Dr. Blakeslee Physician and Surgeon Office: Miles Block, Bemlnil Dr. E. H. Marcum Physician and Surgeon Office: Swedback Block Residence Phone 221 Office Phene 18 DENTISTS. Dr. R. B. Foster, DENTIST MILES BLOCK. Dr. C. M. Smith, DENTIST Otfice over E. H. Winter's Store. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. Palace Cafe, FRED THROM, Prop. Meals gk | 219 Third Street, DRAY AND TRANSFER. Wes Wright, Dray and Transfer. 404 Beltrami Ave. Phone 40. Tom Smart, Dray and Baggage, Safe and Plano Moving Specialty. Phone No. 58 | 618 America Avenue Minnesota & International In Connection with the ..Northern Pacific.. Provides the best train passenger service between Northome, Hovey Junc- “on, Blackduck, ~Bemidji, Walker and intermediate’ points and Minne- apolis, St. Paul, Fargo and Duluth and al! points east, west and South. Through coaches between Northome and the Twin Cities. No change of cars. Ample time at Brainerd . for dinner. gnu STATIONS Daily ex Daily except Sunday Lv -Kelliher.. *.Hovey Junction. You some late arrivals from the East. 3 3 3 llll-lllll N llll E. S. Straw Next Door to First Nat'l Bank. llllllllllllllll fl SHAREDE 6