Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 5, 1906, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER VOLUME 4. NUMBER 118 'BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1906. e "WINNESOTA HISTORICAL [SQETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK COURT HOLDS AGAINST ELECTION IN FIFTH Judge Spooner Decides County Com- missioner Danaher’s Term Does Not Expire This Year. COURT'S RULING SUSTAINS THAT GIVEN BY SECRETARY OF STATE Names of Bright and Malzahn Will Not Be Placed on Primary Ballot. Marshall A. Spooner judge of the distric: ¢ -urt, has rendered a final decision in the matter of Judges of Election Named. The city council at its regular weeting last night named the voting places and the judges of election and their clerks for the election this fall. The polling places are as follows: First ward, MecCuaig’s barn, Eighth street between Bemidji and Beltrami avenues. Second ward, fire hall in the city hall. Dicair’s store. Fourth Bacon’s buildirg 208 i:at,reet, formerly occupied by the taxidermist. The judges and clerks are as follows: First Ward, Oscar Miner, |M E “Swith, John McDonald, |judges; Chester Snow and Mr. { Boss, clerks. Second ward, J. E. Cahill, George Smith and Joe Maloy, judges; D. D. Miller and S. Covington, clerks. Third ward, H. S. Annette, Ben Payne ward, whether an election will be heldjand L. G. Carothers, judges; n the Iifth commissioner dis- trict of Beltrami county to elect a new commissioner, by denying the application of W. D. Bright and I". M. Malzahn for an order requiring Courty Auditor Wil- mann to appear before the judge and show cause why he should not place the names of Bright! and Malzihn, prospective candi- dates for the republican nowmi- nation for the commissionership. on the ballot for the primary ele ti)n. Judge Spooner decided that there was no vacaucy in the office of commissionor of the Fifth district. The above decision conforms with the recent letter sent to the county auditor by the secretary of state. in which the latter de- cided that no election should be held for commissioner in the Tifth district. . When the original order came, several months ago, for an elec- tion to be held in the tifth dis- trict, A. W. Danaher, the present incumbent of the «flice, looked the matter up and presented the facts to th» secretary of state, whirch resulted in the order of the latter. Got a Nice Bunch of Ducks. Among the huuters who have been out after ducks and chickens since the opering of the season last Sstarday, none had better luck for the time they were out than Ted Winebrerner and Henry Miller, They were out Sunday and succeeded in killing twenty- three nice fat mallards. George Markham and George Kinney, c'erks. Third ward,’ Second | To Make Summer Home Here, Dr. F. B. Fitsa of Muskogee, Oklahoma, who accompanied Tams Rixby on his 1rip from |Oklahoma to Red Wing, B midj: jand Grand Falls, was greatly taken up with this community and the excellent boating and !fishing cffered here, as well as i the beauty of the lake and wood scenery. He was tuken for a ;trip up the Mississippi river and around Lake Bemidji and ex- | pressed himself as being delight ied with the environments. He stated it was more than likely Ithal he would build a ¢ottage in Bemidji ard bring his family ihere for the szmmer months {each year. The doctor is a candidat» for {the democratic nomination for governor of Oklahoma. H Addition for Nymore School. At a meeting of the schonl :hunrd of Nymore, District No. 4, i frame school building. held last evening, the mewbers Notice for Sealed Bids. !of the board decided that more Notice is hereby given that 'oom was needed for theincreas school district No, 4, of the vil- 12gscheol population of that vil lage of Nymore will receivela#e, snd the plans of specitica- sealed bids up to 8 o’clock p. m']uans }prepn.red by Th.n.ma.s Jobin- on Saturday September 15, 1906 SOn for a new addition to the for the erection of a two smryirssgss?(;sb:jilfiinbi ::l‘;zda‘;zip:lei Plaus and specifications may{erection of the two-room addition be seen at the store of O J. Tag- . contemplated. The new addition ley, Ny!r\xore Mian ; successful| Will be two stories, frame, 36x40, X * | R v bidder will be required to enter, and with the present two Tooms into a contract and give good and | Will give four large rooms in the sufficient bond for the faithful ! performance of the same. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Dated at Nymore, Minn, this Sth day of September, 1906. G. HOFFMAN, District cleri. Took Trip On The “‘Gopher.” | B. J. Swedback returned yes- terday afternoon from Daluth, where he was a member of the 'entire building. The addition is ito be completed within sixty {days. Schoolat Nymore will be- Igin next Moaday. The board has not yet engaged a superin- ]tendenb, but Miss Alice Pender gast of this city and Miss Mary Martinson of Fisher will have charge of two of the rooms. Lieutenant Dockery Here. Lieutenant O. H. Dockery of Duluth, who has charge of all the recruiting stations in the north party that was aboard the new! half of the state for the U. S. U. 8. 8. “Gopher,” on her trial army, came in from Dauluth last |trip. Mr. Swedback is enthusi- astic concerning the trip, and considers that he was very for- tunate in receiving an invitation o be a member of the party. The crew aboara the ‘“Gopher” {was put through several drills 'for the benefit of the guests iabcard, including the rescue of a ‘“‘man overboard,” the latter feat being worth the price of trans- I portation to Duluth to witness. Inight to look over the business Idone at the local station. He went t) Nebish this morning and put in the day fishing on a lake { near that place. The 1nfant son of Mr. and Mrs. !John Gibbons, born yesterday and living but a few hours, was buried this aftornoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons have the sym- pathyofa 'argecircleof acqu i t ances in their bereavement. cent less this oppo HUNTERS! HUNTERS! 25; DISCOUNT .ON SHIRTS. Any shirt shown in our windows for 25 per than its real value. Don’t miss rtunity. 2 : We are able to supply youA with anything the hunter may need in the way of Lunting boots, coats, pack sacks, etc. We carry the famous Chippewa sewed down cruiser, the most comfor.able and durable on the market. Also Patmans viscole hunting boots. the most reliable waterproof boot known 1o the hunter. DRESS GOODS K=~ep your eye on our windows for fall and winter dress goods. We are unpacking them every day and are confident that we have the things you wantat the right price. E.H.WINTER & COMPY HUNTERS! HUNTERS! e — | new sewersystem. TAMS BIXBY. MAKES A BRIEF VISIT HERE Noted Oklahoma Politician and Former Minnesota: Publicist Spends Few Days in Bemidji. ADVERTISE YOUR CITY AS A _ SUMMER RESORT, HIS ADVICE Bixby Also Sees in.Bemidji the Logical Wholesale Centre of North- ern Minpesota. Tams Bixoy, president of the Bewidji Townsite company” ui.d the Grand Falls Townsite com- pany, one of the old-time political war horses of thestate, and a big man by hfinan ly and . politi- c lly; p.i. Benidjiavisiotl e first of the week and- lookcd over the city that has grown from a jwkpine fovest, when he first invested here, .to a thriviog community of progressive, wide- awake people wnogre determined to make Bemidji the very best city in the north half of the state, i Mr. Bixby, is now . putting in most of his *time in Oklahoma, and has a fine home at Muskogee. He is in the front rank down there, polisically, and is regarded ‘ss one of the strongest men in the state. His coming to Minnesota was for the purpose oi looking over several of the ent’erprisea in which he is interested, including iuvestments at Red Wing, his old home, Bemidji and Grand Fal's, the townsits on the Big Fork river, opposite Big Falls, Mr; Bixby gaid, relative to Bi- midji and her industries, and his idea of things that c“;»"ould be done that would bk véry bgheficial:| “Hick: succeeding time I visit Bemidj, [ am more impresscd with the beau'y of the place. There are very iew cities in the entire country which are built directly on the shores of a pretty lake, You should advertise your summer attractions more to the outside world. The result would be astonishing. You would get people from all over the south, as well as from the northern states. “Bemidji offers peculiarly at tractive inducements to the es- tablishment here of a wholesale grocery house. I mean a large establishment that could handle a big business. You have three lines of railroad, providing excel- lent shipping facilities, and the country triputary is the most promisiug in the entire state, Auother industry that will eventually become a big factor in the development of Bemidji is wholesale wood work—manufac- tarers of hard and soft wood articles. There is almost an unexhaustable supply of the quality of timber used in this work and you should go - aft.r this class ol manufactories. ©It is the small industries that. necessitste the employment of large numbers of men and makes possible the ‘bucket brigade,’ the laboring wer; with their families, who sp:nd vheir money for the necessaiies of life in the community sud greatly enhance the receipts ol the local wer- 'chants. Lf you have s numr ol vhese swmail industrier, you will never be ufll'ct d with whe ‘dull times’ coudition, for while there may be butasmall demand for one kind of product there is bound o be a live market in some other, offsetting the slack dewand in the lirst commodily. Exploit what you have in -I3.- midji and the surrounding country and induce capital t) b invested in the city. ¢ I note the work being done by the Commercial club and hop: the members will keep ‘boosting Bemidji’ as they have of late. I also note the installatiun of the This: i NO READERS PROVIDED, Chicago 8chools Resume With One of the Three “R’s”-Lelt Out. | Chicago, Sept. -6. — The public #chools have recpened for the fall and winter term with one ‘of the three “R's” left out. No readers were pro- vided and" the principals of all' the #chools had received the following or- der from the board of education: ' *“To Principals: Please advise the puptls of your school not to purchase any text pooks on reading until fur- thermotice.” | 'lfifmer was due to a-complica- tlon which has arisen over the effort to substitute a new. series of readers In the schools. The board made the change and then was informed the Teader which it had adopted was sold 3n Indiana for 58 cents less than it ‘kad been offered to the public schools of this city. There will be no readers In the schools until the matter Is straightened out. | FATHER _AND MOTHER KILLED. Two Children Escape Death in Cross- ing Accident. Cleveland; Sept. 4.—A spring wagon In which were seated Willlam Sauers, his wife and two ‘children-of Brecks- ville, O., was struck by -a Baltimore And Ohlo passenger train at the cross- Ing at Boston Mills, twenty miles south of here. Sauers and his wife were Instantly killéd and the seven- year-old son was slightly hurt. The two-year-old baby .was hurled forty feet into a cornfleld Lut was uninjured. The opening day's attendance at the Minnesota state fairiwas 97,256, break- Ing all records for any similar event. The government ‘of Brazil has ap- propriated $300,000 towards the fund for the reltef of ;tiie Chilean earth quake sufferers. Lieutenant Colonel James S. Pettit, Eighth infantry, i& dead at Washing- tun. He had been in {ll healta for a number of years. A dispatch received at the office of the quartermaster general of the army confirms the report from Honolulu that the transport Sheridan prac- tically will be a total loss. President Roosevelt will leave Sag: amore Hill for Washington Oct. 1. Three days later he will make a flying trip to Harrisburg and York, Pa, ‘where he will deliver speeches. Dr. Francis R. Beattie, one of the widely known ministers in the Pres- byterian church. and president of the Presbyterian - Theological - seminary, Jens J, Opsahl, candidate for ' possession of the farm and prides the legislature from the 61st flis-ihimself cn having one of Bel- trict, comprising the counties of trami county s best homesteads. Red Lake, Clearwater and Bel-| Mr. Opsahl, sicce becoming a trami, was born in Norway. injresident - of this county, has 1865, two years later the family |been the means of bringing more crossed the ccean, seltling in!actual setilers to the county than Munroe county, Wisconsin. any other person. The Battle At this time they were twenty- four miles from the railroad and experienced all the hardships in- cident to pioneer life, In the year 1889 he moved to Todd county where he spent three years, afterwards moving to Moorhesd where he hud charge of thelarge retail lumber yard belonging to Shellabarger Lymber Co. In the year 1896 he resigned his position with the luwber River country and the Rapid | River country has been particu- ilarly settled by the ¢fforts of { Mr. Opsabl and many an actual settler in these parts of the county will, on the 18th, testify to this by the vote he will receive in i that part of - the county. Fifteen yeafs ago when the government survey was made in 1this county Mr. Opsahl was with the crew-and today is in a posi- il.itm 1o locate theoid land marks. died- suddenly” at Loulsville, Ky, of |¢Ompany and moved -to Felton, |~ His experience in this line, and heart taflure, The-menthly -atatement. ot the pi Bc debt shows that at the close of business Sept. 1 the debt, less cash.in the treasury, amounted to $970,366; 383, which is a decrease for the month of $3,488,418. Investigations of the International Harvester company have been insti- tuted by C. C. Coleman, attorney gen- wral of Kansas, to determine whether the concern is operating in violation i of the state anti-trust laws. Georgians Endorse Bryan, Macon, Ga., Sept. 5—The unani- mous nomination of rfoke Smith for governor of Georgia and the endorse- ment of William J. Bryan for president In 1908 was the principal business transacted by the Democratic state convention, sire on the part of the city officials to provide the best of sanitatien. Mayor Carter and his associ- ates appear to be the right kind of ‘stuff.’ i “I have every kind of faith in the future greatness of Bemid She has the best class of husil- iig citizens 1o be found in the eitire northwest, and her situa- tion is such thet she is bound to a vance. “I do not want to flatter, but 1 do ‘desire 10 cungratulate the Pioneer Publishing company on tie very excellent daily paper which it is publishing. You cer- t .inly show commendable enter- prise in issuing a daily in a ci'y the siz3 of Bemidji. The pap.r is a credit to the city and certai - ly deserves the uuited support of your business uien. I hear ivery flttering rem ks concern: ing the paper from outside parties x Relutive to the townsite of Grand Falls, in wh ch Mr. Bixvy is interexted, together wrh the ! Backus-Brooks company, Judge Keith of Princeton, Hariis Rich 'rdson ‘of St Paul and Dun !Campbell of Grand Falls, Mr Bixby had but little to ssy, !beyond the stut:ment tnat he intended to make a report to the directors at St. Paul and that it was their intention to open the town and push the place, which has been stagnant for some time, Mr. Bixby left yesterday f St. Paul, lew day Minnesota, where he went into] which is strengthened on every business for-Himseld in- the gen—ftrip he makes-into thit-country— — eral merchandise line and- ulsojtogether with a number of origi :ontinued in the lumber business | nal ideas on the develois'menb and for himself, b drainage of that part of the In the year 1901 the Selkce|state; makes Mr. Opsahl a prac- Lard - & Mercantile Co., wis!tical and strong man for the formed by Mr. Opsahl and|position he seeks at the hands of M s:r , Dahl & Melbye, with the | the people. min office at what is now called| He stands on a good road, Wilton. drainage and development of this Since becoming identified with|part of the state, platform, is a the interests of this county Mr.ipract,ical man for the place, Opsabl took up a homestead in|knows the condition of northern the Battle River country, wherei Minnesota as well as any man in be and his family spent a year of | the state, and if nominated and frontier life, improving the farm jelected will prove an influential and erecting suitable buildings |and practical man for the legis- thereon. Mr, Opsahl is still in lature. J. O Har In veting for J. 0 HARRIS FOR REGISTER s, the present register of deeds, is seeking renomina- tion and is making the sams quist and clean campaigan he urs ago. Mr. Hurris is serving his fiest terw: an 3 ! It naturally follows that ome - A OF DEEDS. two and during that sfaction of the people is Mr. Harris, you vote for.a . ommodate SRR RS