Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 9, 1905, Page 4

MILLIONS FOR DRAINS State Treasurer Block Rec- ommends Sale of Bonds by State. - TO PROVIDE SCHOOL AND DRAINAGE FUNDS. ) And Money For Drainage Pro- ject—Bonds Can Be Sold at Premium of $265,000. Representative B. S. Bennett of Fosston who arrived in the city this noon from St. Paul, yesterday - interviewed State Treasurer Block and today gave out the statement that Mr. Block had, or would recommend the state investment board that the bonds of southern states held by the Commonwealth of Minne- sota be disposed of at market prices now ruling and the money turned into the state treasury for use inloans to school dis- tricts of the state and to coun- ties for drainage purposes. The amount of money held by the state in bonds of other states aggregates $2,800,000 and at the present high prices of the securi- ties they could be disposed of at a profit of $265,000. The bonds were purchased by the state “as means of investment at a price ranging from 58 to 93 cents on the dollar with a par valuation of $100 and the greater number of them are row selling aboye par. By disposing of the foreign state bonds which bear interest of but three per cent per annum the state will provide money for the school districts of the state now clamoring for funds at a four per cent rate of interest and also for the counties of the state which want money with which to carry on drainage. These loans to counties would also bring four per cent a considerable amount more than that now received from the funds as invested in bonds. LEAGUE IS IN GOOD SHAPE All Clubs Will Finish the Season With a Balance in The Treasury. The northern base ball. league is in better shape this season than ever before. A meeting of the magnates was concluded at Duluth yesterday when reports of the finances of the various clubs were received and plans | laid for 1906, The league will play out the complete schedule this season. There isa good bal- ance now in the treasury and the reserve fund exceeds $3,000. ‘While the article of ball furnish- ed has not been quite up to the standard of former seasons, the league has been conducted on a paying basis. Managing St. Hilaire Mill. E. R. Evans, formerly one of the office force of the Crookston Lumber company here, superintendent of the St. Hilaire milland Mr. and Mrs. Evans will remove to St. Hilaire as soon as possible. Mrs, Evans returned today from a few days spent at St. Hilaire, Regret his Leaving, The annsuncement in the Pio- nheer last evening that N. L. Hakkerup would dispose of his photograph gallery and leave Be- midji has caused many expres- sions of regret. Mr. Hakkerup has built up a very flourishing business by hard work and strict attention to business and his re- moval will be'a loss to the busi- ness interests of the city. is now | IT MAYBE THE G.N. RY. Interesting Theory as to the Bemidji-Detroit Rail- way Survey. ROAD WILL TAP SIX HUNDRED MILLION OF PINE. Of this Thomas H. Shevlin Owns More Than Two Hundred Fifty Million Feet. Interest in the railroad survey now being made by E. T. Abbott and a crew of fifteen surveyors from Minneapolis” between this city and Detroit is, great and there is much speculation. as to what road is behind the survey and as to what may be its pur- poses. In this connection the views of a prominent gentleman who has for many years been a careful observor or the develop- ment of this part of the state and to whom this entire secfion of the state is very familiar are of interest. “Has it occurred to you,” said this gentleman today, ‘“that it is the Great Northern that is be- hind this survey from Detroit to Bemidji. ” dred fifty million feet of pine be- tween this city and Detroit-and the proposed road will make it immediately marketable. Mr. Shevlin is displaying great en- ergy in railway construction and I have not the slightest douly that it is largely his influence which has caused the Great Northern to move in this mat- ter. The road will tap.about 600,000,000 feet of pine belong- ing principally to Shevlin, Walk- er, Ruggles and a few holders of comparatively smallamounts:”’ While this is no more thana theory it is the only theory thus far advancgd as to the project- ors of the road which has any facts for a foundation. WRECK AT BRAINERD Passenger and Switch En- gine Have Head On Col- lision-No One Killed. A wreck on the Northern Paci- fic at Brainerd yesterday tied up that branch for several hours. A local passenger train was re- ported half an hour late, but drew into the yards only 12 min {utes behind schedule time. A switch engine was on the main line and a head-on collision oc- curred in which both engines were wrecked and the conductor and several passengers bruised, but no one seriously hurt. The strikers claim the wreck was caused by lack of telegraphic communication. Payment at Red Lake. A payment of $’25,,00() will be made at Red Lake some time early in September, no definite |date having been set as yet. The payment willbe one of a series which is being made to the Indians for the dead and down timber which has been logged on the reservation under the capable administration of Major Scott, —_— Open Air Concert. The second open air band con-| cert of the season will be given by the Bemidji Band at the cor- ner of Minnesota Avenue and Third Street, tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock. ; Christiania, Norway, July >Z.—The special committee of the stonhlng, to | the bedsile of Archbishop Chappelle,., which was referred the government’s | who is ill with yellow fever, are to proposal for a referendum on the dis- |the effect that the venerable prelate solution of the union with Sweden, has {is about holding his own, with the unanimously decided to recommend | physicians Still unable to predict with confidenct the outcome of the attack. the acceptance of the proposal, , TWO SITES School Board Calls Special Election to Bond Dis- trict for $5000. ELECTION SET FOR SATURDAY "EVENING AUGUST 19. Ten Thousand Dollars Loan Authorized by District Cannot Be Had From the State. At a meeting of the board of education last evening it ' was de- cided to call a special election of the voters of the Independent district of Bemidji to vote on the proposition of authorizing the board to issue bonds in the sum of $5,000 for the purchase of two school sites. Some months ago the board was authorized to make appiica- tion to the state for a loan of $10,000 for the purpose of pur- chasing a site or sites and erect- ing buildings. It is found im- possible, - however, to borrow from the state for the purpose of purchasing sites and a second election is therefore necessary. The board propoSes to pur- The logic of the situa-|chase the Catholic church pro- tion seems to indicate that it is.|perty on Third street consisting Thomas H. Shevlin has two hun-|of the church and four lots,which can be had for $1,500 and also the Wagner property of two acres in the northwest corner of town which is offered for $150. The church will be converted into two school rooms and a two room building, which may later-be ‘en- larged to four, will be erected upoa the Wagner property. This in brief is the plan of the board in case the bond issue is author- ized. This action will relieve the crowded condition of the schools at once and that without the ex- penditure of much money or greatly increasing the debt of the district. A SMASH UP AT CROOKSTON Night Passenger Smashes In- to Freight Cars in Car- man Yards. The Duluth bound passenger due here at 12:39 this morning reached Bemidji about 4 o’clock, having been delayed at Crooks- ton by what might easily haye been a serious wreck. The train was pulling out of the yards at Carman and was running about 18 miles an hour when it smashed into two box cars which had been dropped from a local freight. The passenger did not. leave the | track and no one was hurt though everybody was hadly shaken up. The freight car- were thrown in- to the ditch and practically de- molished. The. train ‘“felt its way’’ on to Duluth, being with: out orders, and laid up“on the side track at Wilton for a long time waiting for the west bound passenger to pass it. Goes to Hot Springs. C. R. Martin, editor of the Beltrami County News, wio has. been a sufferer for many weeks with rheumatism, left this morn- ing for the Hot Springs.- Mr. Martin. has been sick for four months with an unusually severe! attack. of rheumatism. These attacks have always yielded readily to treatment at the Hof Springs, however, and Mr. Martin’s many h;ieuds hope to see him return to Bemidji com- pletley cured in a very short time, | New Orledns, Aug. 9.—Reports frofit Mrs. U. B Wise:— flour. THE Beminsi ELEVATOR Co. H.C. CALVERT, Mgr. Bemidji. Minn., Aggust, 1965. If you love your husband, feed him good bread. There is nothing that makes a good husband like good bread and there is nothing that makes good bread like Barlow’s Best Yours for Bemidji, Beltrami and Barlow’s Best, BEMIDJI ELEVATOR CO. BOTH CLAIM A VICTORY Telegraphers Say Freight Traffic is Paralyzed. Northern and the Northern Pa- cific officials declare that the telegraphers strike is ended so far as the roads are cencerned. Officials declare that the roads have sufficient operators to move all trains properly and assert that freight traffic is moving with regularity. President Per- ham, of the telegraphers says his information shows that the freight. traffic of both roads is paralyzed. REBEDEW, C. A, Matheny contemplabes‘ having a ‘“‘shingle bee” in tbe near future. Masters Roy and M. Thomas visited Friday with Louis Web- ster at Louis. H. K. Matheny visited one day last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Coleman at Funk lake. Several people from Blackduck were down to Rebedew lake one day last week picking raspber- ries. We are pleased to state that Geo. Garrison, who has been suf- fering from an attack of rheuma- tism for the past three months, is improving. Mr. andsMrs. H. K. Matheny entertained - Wm. Sheridan of Pimiah lake, H. Alsop of Louis and Mr. Damon of Decker lake one day last week. 3 Mr. Damon of Decker lake came down and visited all the settlers at Rebedew. Mr. Da- mon was recently elected Justice of the peace at the election of the new town Birch, Messrs. Alsop, Webster, Rich- ardson, Rebedew and HEsterdahl completed the new road from Rebedew laxe to Blackduck last Satmday St. Paul, Aug. 9.—The Great| THIRTY CASH DEAD OF : BOYS GONE in DepartmentStore Col- lapse at Albany. Albany, N. Y. Aug. 9—All but one, of the women .employed in Myers department store which collapsed here yesterday are ac- counted for. The number dead is thirteen and it is not thought that the list will grow much, al- though thirty cash boys out of seventy five are still missing. GAS TANK EXPLODES. Young Clerk in a Minneapolis Drug- store Killed. Minneapolis, Aug. 9.—The bursting of a tank highly charged with Zar- bonic acid gas attached to the soda fountain in -the drugstore of A. B. Crowell of this city caused the death of W. L. Hughes, a young clerk, and injured one other person. man was in the basement attaching a cylinder of carbonic acid gas to the gas and water tank of the fountain. It is not known how the explosion oc- curred. The young man’s body was torn to pieces. LAND SEEKERS IN LINE. Fond du Lac Reservation Will Be Opened Aug. 15. Duluth, Aug. 9.—The opening of the Fond du Lac Indian reservation to settlement does not take place until Aug. 15, but the line of homeseekers has begun to form at the door of the United States land office here. At the Cass Lake land office, where Chippewa lands will be opened on Aug, 15, men have been in line since The young | THE FEVER iRo‘ads Say Strike is Ended— | Thirteen Women Clerks Dead | Arch Bishop Chapelle at New Orleans This Afternoon —New C(ases. New Orleans, Aug. 9--Arch Bishop Chapelle, who has been suffering with the yellow feyer, died this afternoon. New Orleans, Aug. 9 —New cases 60, total to date 605, deaths 5, total to date 118. The funerals of yellow fever patients are proceedings without interference from the heaith authorities. Unless present chaotic quarantine conditions are speedily terminated Govenor Blanchard announces that he | will call out the milita. N Feed and Sale Stable. LIVERY ATTACHED Goods of All Description Stored J. P. Pogue. of Excellence. E.N.FRENCH @ CO. CITY DRUG STORE. 25,000 DEAD Killed with our Poison Fly Paper and Insect Powder. The standard Corked or Tin Capped homes. ~ 130,388,520 Bottles of Budweiser Consumed in 1904 More than three-fifths of this amount used in the This fact marks the decline of strong alcoholic drinks, and is the greatest step in the direction of true temperance. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass’n St. Louis, U. S. A. Orders Promptly Filled by C. H. Miles, Distributor, Bemidji, Minn._ .50 » 1) 8 » er 3