Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 20, 1906, Page 1

VOLUME 3. NUMBER 230 BEMIDJ] MIVNESOTA. SATURDAY JANUARY 20 1906 = TO DIVIDE ITASCA CO. Attempt “Will be Made Or- ganize County of Kooch- iching. PETITION FOR ELECTION WILL BE CIRCULATED. Hot Fight for County Seat Be'- tween Koochiching and Rip- ple is Expected. Itasca county will vote on a proposition for diyision of the county this fall. The north half of the county, comprising the Rainy lake region and the sec- tion along the Minnesota & In- ternational, wants to go it alone. C. W. Stantion of International Falls was in Bemidji today and left this afternoon for home, where he will begin the circula- tion of a petition. If this petition is signed by 25 per cent of the voters of the county, it will be filed and the governor will issue a proclamation submitting it at the general election. The new county is to be named Koochiching, and its county seat is to be International Falls, the town on the banks of the Rainy, river which basone of the greatest water powers in the world, and next year will be the terminus of two railroad systems. The line of division is agreed on. It will run between town- ships 62 and 63, in the ranges numbered from the fourth prin- cipal meridian, and between 150 and 151 in the ranges numbered from the fifth, - This will make a territory eight townships by ten, with an area close to 3,000 square miles, and a population of 5,000 people, according to the state census this year. It will be slightly larger than the part left to [tasca county, and will have an assessed valuation of $7,000,000. Both counties, how- ever, will develop rapidly. The new iron ranges about Grand Rapids are being developed, and the timber, manufacturing and agricultural resoarces of Kooch- iching county will be great. Grand Rapids, the county seat of Itasca, not opposed to division. Mr. Stanton met there Wednesday eyening with the business men, who declared they would not oppose it, The county is too large and division is in- evitable. Ripple, the present terminus of the Minnesota & International, would like to be the county seat, and may win out. “We have a fine site set apart for the courthouse,” said Mr. Stanton today, ‘“and there is every reason for making the seat of government at Inter- national Kalls. We have the Canadian Northern now, next year we will have the Min-| nesota & International snd the! Duluth, Virginia & Rainy River. With such railroad facilities our great resources and our magnifi- cent water power, we will soon 18 have a thriving city. Our present| - growth is remarkable.” INDICTED BY GRAND JURY. True Bills Against Alleged Slayers of Chicago Women. Chicago, Jan. 20.—Franklin C. Hol- lister and A. W. Gentry, who have each lost a wife in the last fortnight by a revolting murder, went before the grand jury during the day to give evidence which led to the indictment of Richard Ivens, the confessed mur- derer of Mrs. Hollister, and Frank J. Constantine, the alleged a]ayer of Mru Gentry. and | TENSTRIKE CLAIMS S00 Tribune of That Village Says Railroad Will Pass Di- rectly Through Town. - Tenstrike Tribune: According to an artficle in Saturday’s Be- midji Pioneer, dated from Buena Vista, and evidently compiléd by lour friend, J. W. Speelman, the “Soo” railway will be con- structed this year from Duluth to Thief River Falls and will pass directly through Farley and Buena Vista. This is, of course, merely newspaper talk, as no one knows at the present time what route the “Soo” will take or what towns the new road will pass, through. A letter from a high official of the ‘Soo’”’ to one of our prominent business ‘men, states that as yet nothing has been de- cided upon by the company, but that chances are that a new line will be constructed in the future from Duluth to Thief River Falls, and as to its course that part has not been decided. Place a straight edge on the state map touching Duluth and Thief River Fallsand you will find that the straight |line runsdirectly through Ten- strike, and this will, without question, be the course that the line will take. Horse Famine Is On. Local employment offices are having considerable trouble in supplying the orders of loggers for heavy draft horses, and at the present time a veritable horse famine is on. Oune of the local employment agencies now has three men on the road-—one at Wadena, another at MecIntosh and another at Grand Forks, but in spite of the efforts made by the agencies it is almost impos- sible to supply ’t,ho1 wants of the camps. NO SUCGESSOR ' TOMAJOR SCOTT Will Be Appointed in Near Future, Says Report From Washington. Washington, Jan. 20.—It is probable there will be no appoint- ment of a successor to Major Scott as Indian agent at Leech Lake for some time. Special Agent McNichol is in charge pending this selection, and mean- while Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner Leupp are giving the same careful consideration. Mr. White’s indorsement of Major Scott and suggestion that army officers should be asigned to Indian agencies is being care- fully considered, and some civilian applicants have also appeared in the field, bus their 'names cannot be ascertained. | Representative Buckman called 'a.u the Indian office a few days |ago and asked if he could present a name, and he was told that his | .candidate would be given as much consideration as others, Rev. L. G. Atkinson, D. D., president of Gammon Methodist Episcopal The- ological seminary of Atlanta, Ga., is dead. General Bartolome Mitre, former president of the Argentine Republic, is dead at Buenos Ayres. General Mitre was eighty-three years old. The senate committee on territories has ordered a favorable report on Senator Nelson's bill providing for a delegate in congress from Alaska. Dispatches to Dun’s Review indicate that business is progressing remark- ably well except where retoil sales are checked by unseasonab! 3 INDIANS ARE IN WANT Decrepit Indians on Leech LakeReservation Suffer- ing Pangs of Hunger. CHIEF FLATMOUTH WILL PRE- SENT CASE TO OFFICIALS. Usnal Suppy of Rice Was Not Yielded and Fish Suppy is Inadequate. A story of pitiful want and rank injustice appeared on the front page of yesterday morn- |ing’s News Tribune, couched in the dispassionate wordingof news matter. . The simple,fact is, as reported, that the Leecl Lake Indians are suffering from the pargs of hunger. Even those. who assume that the government is a.ctmg in good faith must admit that the delay in payment of principal and in- terest due the Indians Washington is working hard- ship to the old and decrepit mem- bers of the tribe, on whose be- half Chief Flat Mouth wants to go to Washington and ask aid of the government by presenting the case directly, usual supply of rice has not been yielded to them for their gather- ing and that their fish supply is inadequate. He points out that as the Indians are government the paupers among them® by local authorities as i§s made in the case of whites in need. He re- calls that Captain Mercer,former agent at Leech Lake, made a sort of refuge in abandoned govern- ment buildings for the destitute Indians of the tribe,but that this plan is not being carried out at the present time. The need, as described by the aged chief, is insistant. The In- dians are looking to Washington for aid, and are unanimous in their wish that Flat Mouth make the pilgrimage there to secure ment is ready to - discharge its indebtedness to them. Meanwhile, by means of forged ; white men in the northern part defraud the Indla.ns Vemson Case Dismissed. The case against George Bess, accused | gast’s court on motion of the at- torney for the statc. The case was being tried by a jury of 12 | was made. witnesses testified that they number of other important wit- nesses whohad been expected to appear in the case could not be found. As aresult no evi- dence leading to the conviction of Bess could be introduced and the state’s attorney was forced to dismiss the case. Interesting from | Theold chieftanreports that the | § wards, no provision is made for} relief for them until the govern- | of Minnesota is seeking govern. | ment aid in a further attempt to | & of unlawfully having |} | venison in his possession at his | home near Wilton, was this after- | § noon dismissed in Judge Pender- | | when the motion for dismissal |} were unable to tell the difference |8 between beef and venison, and a | & deyelopments are expected in the case against Albert: Martin, an Eckles township homesteader who is also charged with unlaw- fully having venison on his premises. lNDIANS HOLD ‘ BlG GOUNGIL W'tll ‘Send Protest to Wash- ington Against Forest Reserve. White Earth, Minn., Jan. 20,— The Mississippi. band of Chip- pewa Iadians on this reservation held a general council here today in which the forged petition in favor of the forest reserve re- ceived a greater portion of the attention: of the council. The employment of an attorney was authorized by the bands and a committee of five persons was ap- pointed to write letters to the authorities at Washington and congress protesting against the | forest reserve. Vote on Question of Strike, Scranton, Pa., Jan, 20.—It is learned’ that most of the firemen on the Morris and Essex division of -the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad favor a strike, while the sentiment is Rbout evenly divided on the Scranton division. EIGHTEEN WERE KILLED Dlsaster In West Vlrgmla Mine Results “Inthe Death of Every Man In the Colliery. EXPLOSION. OF DUST WAS THE CAUSE Charlestas, 7. een men were killed by a terrific dust explosion in one of the mines of the Detroit and Kanawha Coal company ‘at Detroit, on Paint creek, this county, twenty-five: miles from here. Every mau in the mine at the time of,the explosion was killed. ~All the hodies have been recovered. That more men were not in the mine at the time of the accident was due to-the fact that almost all of the day men were eating their dinners on the outside and thus escaped the fate of their comrades: The force;of the exnlosion was so Va., Jan. 20.——E!ghb—| great that the hills trembled, Tons of wreckage and debris were = hurled from the mouth of the mine, blocking the entrance and making the work of rescue difficult. Body Brought to Wisconsin. Sparta,. Wis.,. Jan. .20 —Governor Frank Higgins of New York and Mrs. Higgins and a party of elghteen ar- rived here during the day with the body of Mrs. A. R. Noble, mother of Mrs. Higgins. Mrs. Noble, who was a pioneer resident of Wisconsin, di’_ed while ‘on a visit to-her daughter at Olean, N. Y. .and. her body was brought- home for interment. MATT J. 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