Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 14, 1906, Page 4

FOR MURDERERS Cass County Is to Give $500 for | Capture of Pat Holly Slayers. The county commissioners of Cass county have offered a re- ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the man or men who murdered Holly near Motley about two months ago. Mr. Holly was living alone some distance from - Motley and his team was found wandering around with the harness on. Suspicion was aroused and re- sulted in the discovery of Holly’s body in a heap of manure near the barn. It was found that an effort was made to sell the team of Holly at Brainerd after the murder and two men who are suspected, oune of whom answered the descrip- tion of the man who tried to sell the team here, disappeared just prior to the holding’ of the in- quest. It is thought that the offering of the reward may lead to some- one knowing the whereabouts of the suspected party giving the officers the tip. SHOOTS TWICE; VICTIM DYING Itasea County Settler Puts a] Tragic End to Quarrel With a Neighbor. A shooting affray occured near Laurel, Itasca county, last Satur- day and as a result a man named Hemming was badly injured and the man who shot him, Albin Johnson, is now in custody, says the Itasca County Independent. Johnson and Hemming with L two others had been at Laurel OFFERS REWARD |BEMIDJI GAINS George J. Britten to Remove His LARGE NURSERY Business From Brainerd to This City. George J. Britten, who has been running a nursery at Brain- erd for some time past, is so well pleased with Bemidji and the prospective future of this county that he bhas decided to remove his nursery stock from Brainerd to this city. Mr. Britten has secured an option on eighty acres near town and intends to plant trees and other hardy plants and raise them for the home market. His trees areall sold with a guarantee, and as he sets them out himself and watches their growth it is readily seen thata good nursery for this parf. of the state will be a valuable addition to the growth of the county. FIVE OF FAMILY BOY IS CRUSHED 5 _ |EDITOR HANDS BEMIDJI BOOST UNDER ENGINE Horrible Accident at Crooksion— iukevllle Herald Man Writes of a Body Literally Ground to ‘Recent Trip of Inspection to Pieces by Train. Bemidji. Crookston, May 14.—Gerrie M. DeMott, son of Richard DeMott, who resides on Ash streel, was struck by a Great Northern train some 400 feet north of the Eighth street bridge some time Friday night, and literally ground to pieces. How the accident oc- curred or at what time is not known, in fact mnothing was known regarding it until after daylight Saturday morning. Young DeMott’s’ head was severed from his body and crushed to pulp. The upper part of the body was also ground up by the car wheels, and with the head was found along- side the track near where the accident occurred. The lower part of the body and A short time ago - Andrew Strand of Eureka and Ham Clay, editor of the Lakeville Herald, made a visit to Bemidji with a view to studymng conditions in this section. That they were much pleased with the city and the surrounding country is shown by a write-up of the trip by Mr. Clay which appears in the last issue of the Herald. The article in part follows: Andrew Strand, of Eureka, and the Herald editor returned last Friday evening from an ex- cursion to Bemidji. There is no doubt as to the fertility of the soil about Bemidiji and there is no doubt but what -land invest- ments there are as good as old wheat in a mill. Mr. Strand was agreeably surprised in the country at finding such a hust- ARE IN ASYLUM Ole Torgenson of Frohn Commit- ted Today—Three Brothers and One Sister Insane. Judge of Probate Clark today committed Ole Torgenson of Frohn township to the insane asylum at Fergus Falls. Torgenson is a farmer with a family and has showed violent symptoms only within the last few days. For the last two days six neighbors have had him under surveillance. The man’s family has been most unfortunate, as three of his brothers and one sister are al- ready in asylums. B. W. Quick left this morning for Langdon, N. D., where he will spend the summer. during the afternoon. Johnson legs were found a short distance from the cattle chute near the Crookston Lumber company’s mill in the south part of the city, and was also badly mangled. SHUTOUT FOR CASS LAKE TEAM ling city as Bemidji and the thick settlement throughout the country. Six years ago the Indian tepee was the only habitation to be found on Lake Bemidji, while to- day that city has a population of more than 5,000, with numerous general stores, banks, hotels, newspapers, sawmills and other Ines of business usually found in a city of that size. They also have a fine court house, a sani- tarium, highschool, a pleasure resort and manychurches. The people are mixed in nation- ality, are full of push and enter- prise and they are leaving noth- ing undone in developing the country. They have confidence in the productiveness of the soil and the improvements that are being made are of the substantial order. The original t.opggra;l)]hy ) Y N of the country was timber, but 'J.he. Deer’ River managemiont this is rapidly finding its way to has sigaed anew battery and|ho gawmillsand the land is be- two other players, and are very |ing turned into good farms. much stronger than when they| Many sections which a few played Bemidji at Deer River|years ago were covered with heavy pines, hemlock and birch two . yeoks ago. el Cliae are today the most productive brothers, Indians from Tomah, farms in tho state, one man, we Wis., were in the points for Deer|we are told sold $2,500 worth of Deer River Aggregation Hands Rivals Goose Egg, the Score Being 10 to 0. Cass Lake, May 14.—The Deer River baseball team shut out Cass Lake, at Cass Lake, yesterday, the final score of the game being 10 to 0. Sues Wife for Divorce. Anton F. Anderson, through his attorney, Henry Funkley, has made application for a di- vorce from his wife, Mathilda Anderson, k The action is based on the grounds of alleged cruel and in- human treatment and the com- plaint cites a number instances when, it is claimed, the defend- ant lost control of her temper and was not always responsible for her actions. At present she is in Denmark where she went this spring and- there will probably be no defense made, THE PECTORAL FINS.. Without Them the Fish Would Stand om Its Head. Theé pectoral fins of a fish are the two fins, one on each side, just back of the head. These fins aid the fish to some exient in swimming. They are small oars which the fish feathers very beau- tifully and are of value chiefly to pre- serve its equilibrium. It is with these -fing that the fish maintains its horizon- tal position in the water when not swimming. Without them the fish would stand on its head. Sometimes a fish loses one or both of its pectoral fins by disease or by accident. A fish without pectoral fins is in a bad way. While most fishes keep a horizontal position In the water when not swim- ming, there are fishes that do not. One of these fishes Is the filefish, which when motionless suspends itself in the water, head downward, at an angle of forty-five degrees or even nearer the perpendicular. A filefish kept in an aquarium which had lost both its pec- toral fing inclined over backward past the perpendicular when motionless to about the same angle that It would have kept in the other direction if its pectoral fins had been intact, so that ‘when not in motion it seemed to be ly- ing at an angle on its back, In the same aquarium there was a striped bass weighing about a pound and a half, one of whose pectoral fins was attacked at the tip by fungus, which gradually encroached upon it. Finally the diseased portions of the fin were cut off with a pair of sharp shears, the cut belng made within the sound part of the fin. At first the fish was like 8 man in a boat pulling one long oar and one short one—it couldn’t hold a course. But it soon accustomed it- self to Its new condition, and there- after It got along very comfortably, SWISS EDUCATION. A Serious Matter, Guarded Jealously by the State. One reason why the Swiss fare well 18 that their publie school system is The purifying action and curative properties of this great remedy have made “S. S. S. For The Blood >’ a household saying, and thousands who are today enjoying perfect health owe their recovery from blood or skin diseases to this universally used blood medicine. . irely r herbs and barks which possess not only cleansing and healing’ ingredients, but building-up and strengthening properties to keep the blood in perfect order. S. 8. S. is made entirely from roots, No one can be well when the blood is impure ; they lack the energy and strength that is natural with health, the complexion becomes pale and sallow, the vitality is weakened and they suffer from a general broken down condition. When the waste or refuse matter, which nature il_-ntends §h'all be thrown off, is left in the system because of a sluggish, torpid condition of blood, making this vital stream ;vea:{d, ls)ou; g;u'l acrid, and its condition is manifest y boils, FREE FROM s the skin. S. S. S. goes into the circulation MINERALS. and removes every particle of blood taint or to the entire body. When the blood has been cleansed by S. S. S. all skin diseases and eruptions pass away and the smooth, clear skin, glowing with matism, Catarrh, Sores and Ulcers, Scrofula, Contagious Blood Poison, ete., are all deep-seated blood disorders, and for their cure nothing equals S. S. S. taken with perfect safety by old or young. Book on the blood and any medical advice desired without charge. the expelling members, it is absorbed into the GUARANTEED pimples, rashes, blotches and other eruptions of poison of every character, makes the blood fresh and strong and gives energy health, shows that the body is being nourished by rich, pure blood. Rheu- It does not injuriously affect the most delicate parts of the body and can be THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GAs A Little Domentic Economs, Anxtous to Repeat It. “What's the matter with Primly?’ Beck (despondently)—I said sowme- “Why, he went home with a new hat | thing my wife didn’t like, and she the other day, and it didn’t fit very | hasn't spoken to me for two days. well, so his wife cut his hair away | Peck (eagerly)—Can you remember wherever It stuck.” what it was you said? Wall Paper Mouldings J. A. HOFF Reliable Painter All Work Guaranteed. Shop_Rear Swedback Blk Varnishes lived about fifteen miles distant and when he returned to his homestead with one of the party, Hemming and his companions followed. Apparently Hemming and the men with him were on o ™ their way to visit a claim north of Johnson’s place. oo ___'The shooting occurred short = Jonnson’s and grew out of an al I tercation of some kind. Hem- ming was unarmed atthe time. After the shooting Dr. McKen- sie was called and discovered two wounds, one in the abdomen and the other in the arm, Johnson was bound over to the grand jury by Justice Erickson at Laurel, Sunday morning. [t is not known whether the wound- ed man will recover. RAILROAD BOOM NEAR NORTHOME Two New Spurs Are to Be Built Out of Village This Summer. There will be two railroad spurs built from Nerthome this summer, according to the paper in that village. Operations have already commenced on the spur into Bartlett Lake; and in a few days the engineers will run their line to Island Lake. It has been the intention of the M. & I to start the spur a1 Bridgie but later reports say it will be run from Northome, Engineer M. D. Stoner of Be- midji is on the ground with a number -of assistants who are pushing their work with all pos- sible speed. The M. & I. ex- pects to have both these lines completed and operated this summer as there are many mil- lion feet of logs in these lakes ready to be taken out this year. This will give a strong impetus to the opening up of the Island Lake country, and next year there will be more timber cut off this section than ever before. Bids Wanted. Notice Is hereby given that sealed b the erection of a Catholic Chureh i thasior of Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota, wily e received by the undersigned until the Snd 2y of June, 1906, inclusive. Plans and Spec- ificatlons may be seen at the office of the un- dersigned in ‘the city of Bemidji, and at the o?fi"e 'fo W. T. Bray, architect, Duluth, Minn. e board of directors reserves Teject any and all bids, o he FiFht to Bidders must ) o 5 ableond: guarantee to furnish a suit: P.J. RUSSELL, Secretary, QUICKSILVER MINING. An Occupation That Quickly Dooms the Workers. ‘The chief quicksilver mines in Eu- rope are in the Spanish town Almaden, ‘which 18 an Arabic word, meaning “the mine of quicksilver.”” These mines ‘were formerly worked by the Iberians and after them by the ancient Romans. Between 1645 and 1843 the Spanish death. The fumes of the mercury pro- duce constant salivation, and the Bys- tem becomes permeated with the metal. At first the victim Is selzed with tremblings and then the teeth drop out; pains in the bones follow and then death. The annual yield of mercury is 1,500,000 pounds, to produce which 4,000 men are engaged in this unhealthy employment. After Almaden, so far as yleld of quicksilver is concerned, comes Idria, an Austrian town, twenty-eight miles from Triest. These mines also were once worked by criminals, who, owing to the terrible qualitles of the mineral, explred after about two years’ service. There are now nearly 500 miners en. gaged in the work at Idria. They are induced to enter the mines by high pay. A pension is allowed when they are disabled, and provision 1s made for their widows and children.—Pearson’s, | Gunpowder. The explosive nature of gunpowder, Wwhich Is made of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter, is due to the fact that when fired the charcoal and sulphur are burned at the expense of the oxygen In the saltpeter, much heat is devel- oped and large quantities of gas are produced. This gas exerts great pres- sure on the sides of the gun; hence 1ts disruptive or propulsive effects, When gurpowder is fired in a gun the explosion is not Instantaneous. 'The expansive force of the gases produced acts on the shot all the time it is mov- lug along the barrel and gradually In- creases its velocity. If the éxplosion ‘were 50 sudden as to be practically in- stantaneous the greater part of the rorces would be exerted malinly on the sides of the chamber containing the powder and not, as is actually the case, on the shot. The Oldest® Prescription. The oldest medical prescription in ex- Istence bears date of 4000 B. C. It was discovered in an Egyptian tomb, writ- ten on papyrus, and has been decl- River. The pitcher allowed but two hits, and Cass Lake at no time had a look-in on a score. The players behind Chase made but oneerror, and were full of ginger at all times. Farrel, for Cass Lake, did good work on the slab, ke merved Joigrard vy, tEe gave Deer River but five hits and was steady throughout, Flemming caught a fine game until he was injured in the sixth inning. Henry Beauliean, of White Earth, succeeded Flem- ming, and did very well. The rest of the players back of Far- rell played exceeding ‘“corper- lot” ball, muffing fly balls, heav-| ing the ball to remote parts of the field and otherwise bungling in a way that made the local fans groan, It is very probable that Be- midji and Deer River 'will play a game here on the second day of the tournament, June 21. _Ability to See Everything. A New York surgeon, says the In- ternational Journal of Surgery, occa- slonally takes an applicant for a posi- tion on the house staff of the hospital with which he is connected and bids him look out of a window and describe what he sées. Some men practically see nothing at all; others notice but a few things, not always the meost im- portant, while the balance appear to observe everything. It Is from among the latter that the successful candi- date 1s commoniy chosen. It I8 to the men who see everything that every art and sclence is indebted for whatever progress they have made, and the sur- geon's method of gauging the probable value of a young man’s service has nothing In it that is trivial and unim- portant. The Ideal Camera. The Ideal camera for naturalist pur- Doses is one of the reflex type, in which the photographer can see his object— the size of it will be reproduced on his plate, the right way up—and can see potatoes from ten acres last year. All crops, including wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, potatoes grow in abundance. The next morning after we ar- rived in Bemidji, Mr. Strand, Mr. Scribner, an old time cruis- er, and the editor hired a boat and went fishing in the Mississ- ippi between Lake Bemk‘iii and caught pike till ihe elements got blue would be making it too tame. Anyhow, we caught all we wanted, THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS. S0 014 That Its Origin Is Lost In the Mists of Antiguity. Draughts in some shape ov form is doubtless a very ancient pastime. In- deed, the safest thing to say about it Is that its origiu is lost in the mists of an- tiquity. Representations of persons playing at a game resembling draughts are frequently found on ancient Egyp- tlan monuments at least 3,000 years old. The Greeks had a similar game, from whow possibly it passed fo the Romans, At least the old Roman game of latrunculi seems to have been a kind of draughts, though it is doubtful if the game as now played is very ancient. The game was popular and well known In France and Spain in the seventeenth century and was probably played there and in England centuries before that. That jt was trom France the game came into many of the other countries I8 evident from the fact that the French name—jeu de dames—passed with it. Dam or damme was once the regular English name for one of the pieces. In Germany the game is still called dame- splel, in Holland the board is dambord. and In Scotland dambrod still survives. In the United States the less usual name of chequers, spelled checkers, 1s employed. Polish, Spanish, Italian and Turkish draughts are varieties of the same game. The Polish game, which has several peculiarities, was intro- duced in Paris in 1723 and was at first played on a board of 100 squares with 40 men.—Chambers’ Journal. A Dangerous Practice. A —Is dying the bair as dangerous as the doctors would make it appear? B.—Certainly! You take my word for it. Only last spring an uncle of mine dyed his hair, and In threé weeks -he ‘was married- to a widow with four probably the best n the world, and with them public schooi education Is practically compulsory. You can send your child to a private school (in some cantons) if you Insist upon so doing, but the face of the government and the force of public opinion are sternly againat the practice. In the canton of Solothurn private schools are absolute- ly forbidden. In other cantons a pri- vate school pupil must secure a formal permit from the local authorities, and to the publle fands. ™ Tie dea fs that the public schools are good enough for all; that rich and poor are to meet there on even terms; that the public #chool is the nursery of democracy and patriotism; above all, that democracy is the lifeblood and strength and very soul of the republic, and the republic is 8witzerland, and without the republic 8witzerland is nothizg. Private schools for Swiss children are few In number, and such as exist are under the strict supervision of the state. Education is a serious matter In Switzerland. There I8 no escape from it. A parent must send his children to school or go him- self to jall. They kept a Seventh Day Adventist in jall for two years because he refused to let his child attend school on Saturdays. As It then seemed likely he would spend the rest of his life in a cell he surrendered.—Everybody's Mag- azine. The Man Who Sings. Give us, oh, give us, writes Carlyle, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is superior to those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time, he will do it better, be will persevere longer. One is scarce- ly sensible of fatigue while one march- es8 to music. The very stars are sald to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous Is the strength of cheerfulness; altogether past calcula tion are Its powers of endurance.. Ef- forts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sun- shine, peaceful from very gladness heautiful because bright. In Anticipation, Howell—Rowell s always borrowing trouble. Powell—Yes; he's the kind of fellow who, If he thought he was going to get fat, would go out and walk off the weight before he got it. Her Claims to Patronage, When Mrs. Lombard offered to rec- ommend Miss Simpson (o her friends as a dressmaker she was honest in her wish to help the little woman, but her phered by an English professor, It bears evidence that It was Intended for some baldheaded Egyptian and reads as follows: it until the moment of exposure. Such & camera with a long bellows and = lens which is intended for a plate at least one size larger than the plate be is using in his camera and also pro- vided with a curtain shutter which works just in front of the plate, with speeds varying from a time exposure up to one two-thousandth part of a second, Is the kind of instrument used by most of the naturalist photogra- phers whose work appears in print— Qutdoors. Parts. Dog’s paw (calloused part) Dates . scalp actively with the mixture, Egyptlan history does not say wheth- er or not the patient regained his lost halr. Hasheeah, Hasheesh, or the Indian hemp, is a A Swindle. resinous substance produced from the| An old couple went to a Dublin thea- children.—Fliegende Blatter. The First Man. Dressmaker. The first male celebrity who made hls mark as a dressmaker was Rhom- berg, the son of a Bavarlan peasant from the neighborhood of Munich. One day In the month of May, 1730, a beau- tiful equipage was seen driving about Parls with an escutcheon in the shape of a corset and an open pair of scissors in the middle painted on the panel of each door. That was Rhomberg’s. coat [ tinued Mrs. Lombard, with haste, as of arms, and It told its own tale. He | 8he saw signs of inquiry on the faces was a genius in Lis way and owed Lig| Of her friends, “suppose se doesn't fit success chiefly to his skill in disguis-| Yery well. That doesn’t alter the fact Ing slight deformities and bringing out | that she has an invalid brother to sup efforts bore more evidence of honesty than of tact. v “I wish you would try Dora Simp- son,” she said earnestly to three of her friends who were cailing upon her one day. “She’s such a good little body and so unfortunate! Her old customers have dropped off one by one till there's scarcely a person in the neighborhood ‘who employs her now. “As 1 often say to my husband,” con- tops of the plant in India, Some au-| ter to have a night’s amusement, The thorities state that it Is gathered by |8reat Mrs. Siddons was playing “Mrs. | men who dress themselves in leather | Haller.” and the poor bodid% were kept clothitig and run to and fro In the|Cr¥ing all the evening. At length, at hemp flelds, afterward scraping off the | One of the scenes where the great lady resin from their garments, while other | C8me in with her handkerchief agaln authorities say that it is gathered by| © her eves, the old man could stand it rubbing the tops in the hands and aft- | 0© longer and, starting to his feet, erward scraping the hands. Its nar-|Cried out. “Ye long nosed thief, ye call eotic properties are well known, this divarshun!” foS R S e i the most attractive charms of his fair [ POrt and that she tried everything else, customers. He rapidly made a fortune | from stenography to cooking, and only and left his helrs an annual income of | 100k up sewing as a last resort and 50,000 francs. Under the first empire| Just hates every stitch she takes and |- and the restoration Leroy supplied the [ 81Ways has. Now, do try her, some of dresses of the ladies of the court and| YOU. Bhe’s been with me for the last the higher nobility from his splendid| four days making a jacket for my Jim, mansion In the Rue Richelieu. An ef-| Dora is just as patient about it as can fusive encomium was written upon| be, though we've had it all to pleces him by Auger, 2 member of he acad-| three times.”—Youth’s Companion. J. P. POGUE'S LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE BEMIDJI, MINN Souveni Envelo;m_s OF Bemidji on sale at Pioneer Office Opposite Post Office e Four Four If you want good flour letus send you a sack of our ‘Pilshury’s Best” “ADA” or “OSAKIS” hest. Butter! Good dairy butter, strictly first-class, in five or fen pound jars or pound and half pound prints. We handle a nice line of fruits, always fresh, as we receive daily shipments. Strictly fresh Eggs a specialty at our store. Remember for good goods trade at the old Reliable Store. SCHROEDER & SCHWANDT, 314 Minnesota Avenue. Phone 65 Bemidiji, Minn.