Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 29, 1906, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI VOLUME 4. NUMBER 139 )ATLY PIO BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1906 ESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK BEST HORSE RACING EVER SEEN IN C ITY IS NOW ON Happy Hooligan, Queenwood, Dan F., Fridley. The first heat went to Fridley, Happy Hooligan throwing a boot and not getting better than last place. Queenwood was second, Fine Weather; Fast Horses, Big Purses, and Large Crowds Combine | Dan F\ third. Time, 2:35}. to Make the Present Three-Day Meet a Suceess— Tomorrow Best Day. The first day’s races of the three-day’s meet being given on the Bemidji track under the auspices of the Beltrami County Agricultural Association, were pulled off yesterday and were productive of several close and exciting contests, with tinishes that brought the crowd at the track to its feet in wild applause- The rain of tha forenoon had damped the ardor of many who had intended to attend the races, but when “Old Sol" broke through the clouds, about noon, and the Bewidji band got out on the streets and began playing at 1 o'clock, there was a general exodus toward the track. The rain bad left the track in a very heavy cocdition, but Secretary McAvoy and Presideut Irwin kept the men workirg steadily and when the first race was called the course was inal fairly presentable condition, although soft and lumpy in many places. The 2:15 class, pace or trot was the tirst race called, with the following entries: Dr. Munp,| Lattle Jim, Baby Lew, ard Mixer. The first heat was won by Mixer and the little stallion was given & mighty shout for his wotk. Having been bred in Be- midji, he was popular with {the For a clear compiexion take . ORINO Laxative FruitSyrup | Pleasant to take Orino cleanses the sys- tem, and makes sallow blotched complexions smooth and clear. Cures chronic constipation by gently stimulating the stomach,liver and bowels. Refuse subatitutes. Price BOo. Barker’s Drug Store. crowd. Little Jim was second, Dr. Munn third and Baby Lew fourth. Baby Lew acted badly, breaking at every attempt to score, and the bunch were finally sent away with the mare “in the air.” She steadied after the first quarter, however, and gave a wonderful exhibition of speed the horses were very tired after ithe heat, on account of the heavy going. Time, 2:28}. The second heat was won by Baby Lew, The mare gota bad start, but went fast add was soon in the lead, keeping that position to the fimsh. Mixer was second, Dr. Munn third and Little Jim fourth. Time, 2:284. Baby Lew again came to the front, in the third heat, and won handily, although she was still nervous and inclined to break at the least provocation, before Iscoring. When the horses got | the word, however, she steadied tand paced the entire mile like a veteran. There was aclose finish beteen Mixer and Mr. Muan for second place, Dr. Munn winning fout by a scant length. Little Jim was bad fourth. Time, 2:30. In the fourth heat, the “Babe” again acted badly, and after the {fourth attempt to score, Starter Cherry sent them off, with “Lew” to the bad in the rear by iseveral lengths. Little Jim took the lead and paced away from Ithe other three, winning easily \the fastest heat of the race. Baby Lew was second, Dr. Munn third and Mixer fourth. Time, SUMMARY. Baby Lew. 4112 Mixer... 12384 Little Jim 2441 Dr. Munn 33238 Time: 2:284, 2:284; 2:30; 2:27. After the fourt.h heat was paced, it was decided to postpone the tinishing of the race until today. The Three-minute class, pace or trot, had the following entries: ithe remainder of the mile. All} In the second heat, Happy Hooligan struck his gait, imme- diately went to the front and was never headed. He paced a fine heat and wasgreatlyadmired. Fridley second, Queenwood third, Dan F. fourth. Time2:31% The third and fourth heats were a repitition of the second iheat, Happy winning easily, under a strong pull, and the other horses finishing in the same order. Time 2:34f% and 2:32}. d SUMMARY. Happy Hooligan. ........ 4111 1222 23833 3444 Time: 2:35}, 2:31§, 2:344, 2:324. It was late when the half-mile running race was called. There entered for the dash Cianera, Assessor, Curley, Debbs and Little John. When the word *‘go”’ was given, all the drivers began whipping their mounts and it was a race from start to finish Sanders, on Assessor, brought his horse in ahead, Cianera being a close second, Debbs third, Curley fourth and Little Jobn a poor fifth. Time, 564. Before the second heat was giventhe ‘‘go” by Starter Cherxy, the whole bunch of ‘bangtails” broke and two of them, Debbs and Curley, went the entire half- { mile before being pulled up. The second heat was won by Assessor, Cianera second, Dekbbs third, Little John fourth and Curley, fifth. Time, 60. SUMMARY Assessor . Cianera. Debbs. . iCm-ley Wk Little John........c.oovvnnin Time, 564; 60. TODAYS RACES. The program for this after» “noons races included the 2:2 jclass trot and 2:28 pace, with the following entries: Bemidji Bell, jowned by J. H. Wonzer; Fridley and Happy Hooligan. The 2:20 class, pace or urot: Dr. Munp, Rupert, Sparkwocd, Little Boy, YN f -~ [ ,{__,-m/fi{m, children’s shoes statements. CHILDREN'S SCHOOL SHOES... We carry the largest line ot northern: Minnesota. A compar- ison with others will prove our to be found in Before buyin $3.50 suits. prised at the val CHILDREN’S CLOTHING... look over our line of $2.50 and You will be sur- g that boy's suit ue. HEAVY WOOL Mackinaws, wool socks. W 5 E. H. WINTER & CO., Phone 30 mackinaw underwear and heavy better yalues than ever before, EN GOODS... ‘flannel shirts, e can give you Bemidji. MARKHAM ESTATE. LOSES GASE IN DISTRICT COURT : i Judge McClenaha: Directs a Verdict for $500 in Fantous M., R. L. & M. Railroad Suit. e L The Markham estate must pay the $500 rightiof-way guarantee to the Minneanolis, Red Lake and Manitoba railrcad. This is the substance of a decision by Judge McClenahan rendered this morn- ing, in which he gives a directed verdict for the plaintiff railroad. The motion for the directed verdict, taking the case out of the hands of the jury, was argued yesterday afternoon by the at- torneys in the case, The points in dispute in the Markham suit are whether Mr. Markham signed’ the contract under false ' pretenses; and whether the contract is a joint and several oue, or merely a joint one. If it is the latter, each signer would be bound only for a proportionate share of the money actually expended, which would make the liability in each in- stance something in the neigh- borhood of $250, instead of $500. The case will probably be ap- pealed to the supreme court. Little Jim and George H. Ray. Half-mile race: Assessor,Cianera, Curley, Debbs and Little Johnny. SUNDAY’S RACES, The races which are scheduled for tomorrow promise the best contests of the entire meet. In the free-for-all there are en- tered a bunch of horses-that are very speedy, in facl, the pick of the north half of the state, and from Wisconsin: = Mixer, Billy Boggs, Jaffa, Baby Lew, Dr. Munn, Little Jim, Rupert and Lettle Tim, - In the 2:35 class, ‘tomorrow; Dan F, owned by J. W. [rwin, will start, also Vonnie X, the property of J. J. Jinkson; Happy Hooligan, Fridley, Queenwoud, Barney. The half-mile running race will include all the swift “hoppers” that ran yesterday and today. RACE NOTES The officials who had charge of the races yesterday were: Start er, J. C. Cherry; judges, J, P. Duncalf, O. D. Belodeau, K. Mec- Ivor; timers, Thomas Newby, A. E. Underwood, William Robin- son. There was some slight com- plaint as to the start in one heat of the 2:15 class, but otherwise the work of the officials received high praise. President J. W. Irwin and Secretary J. A. McAvoy have done much to promote the meet and the success of the races is due, in a large measure, to their efforts. The time made yesterday was very good, considering the condi tion of the track. The fourth heat of the 2:15 class was won by Little Jim, in 2:27. According to Starter Cherry and many of the drivers at the track, the course was at least tifteen seconds alow, and it is believed that the heat would have been good for 2:12, under favorable conditions. The band was liberal in the re- sponses to the request of Starter Cherry for “moosic.”’ S. J. Phillips, who owns and drives “Happy Hooligan,” which won the three-minute class yes- terday, also owns ‘Isinetta,”a green mare, that isa phenomenon. “Isinetta” has paced a mile this year, on the track at Hamline, in 2:074. She went to the half in 1:02, and finished the last in 283 seconds. She has not been star tad in any of the races of this circuit and wi'l probably uot go in a race this.year. Plague of Inventions. ‘Human ingenuity s a plague to mod- ern life, and there s some: excuse for the view of a great man who regarded the Inventor of rallways as a curse to his race, The truth probably is that no Inventlon is.at first perfect, and we have to suffer from its transitory im. perfections—London Lancet.. Sunday Worship. BAPTIST: Rally day exercises at the Baptist church to- morrow, from 12 to I o’clock p. m, Everybody invited. PRESBYTERIAN: ‘Preaching at 11. Subject, ‘“Belief and Its Reflex 'Action on Life.” Sunday School and Bible Class, 12:15; Junior C. E. 3 p. m. Senior C. E. 8 p. m, Praise service and address at 8 Subject; ‘“The Devils’ Prayer.”” All not worshiping elsewhere are cordially invited to worship with us. g METHODIST—A¢ the morning service there will be a recep- tion of new members by letter and from probation, also the holy rites of baptism will be administered. In the evening there will be a sacred concert and the follewing is the pro- gram: “Jesus Lover of My Sou] A with origin of hymn. Scripture lesson, pastor. Invocation, paslior‘ “Make a Joyful Noise,” choir. “The Holy City,” by best Edi- son machine. Solo, De Long. Violin solo, Geo. G. Moyer. ‘Blest Be the Tie That Binds,” with origin of the hymn. “Tell Mother I'll Be There,” by best Edison machine. Cornet solo, Mr. Symington, “‘Rocked in the Deep,” by best Edison machine. “Praise Ye the Lord,” choir. “God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” A silver offering will be taken. This will finish the pastor’s year’s work. LOST—Between Crother’s bar- bershop and the lake, a buck- skin purse, containing $48, a railroad ticket to Cass Lake, and a picture. Loser is a widow with three children and this was all the money she had Finder please return t, this office. St, Napoleon. Many people ignorant of the true his- tory of the chureh will be scandalized when they Tead the tiile of this article. Let them read it to the end. There was_in Corsica sonie hundred yeurs ago a very pious family called the Bo- napartes. Their first child was born on the 15th of August, Assumption day, and as he looked very small and feeble they wanted him to be baptized without delay. Their priest consented to perform the ceremony, but as it was customary to give to a child the name of the patron saint of his or her birth- day the good priest could not and would not call him “Assumption Bona- parte.” In his embarrassment he look- ed carefully over the “Lives of the Saints” and finally found the name of a saint martyr who in the first centu- ries of the church had been stoned to death on that very day of Aug. 15. Of course neither Mr. nor Mrs. Bonaparte objected that their firstborn -child should be named Napoleon, having tihus the high patronage of a brave martyr of the early Christlan church.— Letter to Philadelphia North American. A Blunder In Poets, Tennyson is not the only poet lan reate' whom Regent street has known. Southey relates a Iundicrous scrape into ‘which he and Campbell fell one day in the Quadrant. Campbell wished to relieve a poor woman and rushed into the nearest shop to change a sovereign. The shopkeeper was attending to cus- tomers and delayed to oblige him, and the generous poet lost his temper. Thereupon the shopkeeper jumped to the conclusion that he had two rogues to deal with and rashly sent for the po- lice. Campbell stood in helpless fury, but when Southey explained things to the constable that worthy, who happen- ed to be a Glasgow man, at once ex- claimed, “Guidness, mon, is that Mais- ter Camell, the lord rector o' Glaisgie?” After that it was difficult to separate Campbell and the shopkeeper, so warmly were their hands interclasped in explanations and forgiveness. — ‘Westminster Gazette. Cornish Fishermen. In the estimation of the average| Cornish fisherman rabbit is an omi- nous word, and should it happen to be used by any one in their hearing when they are on their way to sea it is suffi- clent to send them home again for that odcaston for fear of accident. In Corn- ish fishing circles many tales are told of disasters that have followed defi- ance of this superstition and persist- ence in putting.off in their boats after the unlucky word had been spoken. Formerly the word church was equal- ly obnoxious to the fishermen and was sedulously eschewed in conversa- tlon, on the watér particularly. If a case arose, as sometimes it would, in which a sacred edifice had necessarily to be referred to, “cleeta” was used instead of church, and whatever was ominous or evil in the sound of the latter was imagined to be thereby avolded. A Semaitive Uanine. Baxter—That dog of yours ie not & full blooded Boston terrier, is he? Bix- by—Hush, old chap; don’t let him bear you. He thinks he s —Woman'l Home Companion, i Every one gings as he | and marries as h the Portuguese. SICK MAN CUTS HIS THROAT AFTER DISMISSING NURSE Walker Invalid, Thomas Halvorson, Despondent Because of Iil Health, Gets Attendant Out of Room on Some Pretext and Then Commits Suicide With Knife. Word comes from Walker of the suicide at that place yester- day of Thomas Halvorson, about 40 years of age, who had become despondent on account of an in- curable attack of rheumatism and paralysis. Halvorson had been ailing for some time past, and was in such & poor condition of health that he required the services of a trained nurse at all times. From reports given the Pion- eer, it appears that Halvorson asked the nurse to leave the room | on some small pretext, and when the latter returned, the patient was bleeding freely from several bad gashes in his throat, which he had cut with a knife lying on the table. The wounded man never re- gained corsciousness, and was dead a few moments after being found by the nurse. Halvorson had lived at Walker for a year or more past and was considered a good citizen, although unfortunate in his ill- ness. Will Move to Bemidiji. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Dunning- ton expect to leave next Tuesday morning for their home in Minne- apolis after a visit in Bemidji of five weeks at the home of their son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A, A. Melges. Mr. Dunnington is in the real estate business in Minneapolis, and came there about a year ago from Redwood Falls, where he was in in charge of the governmentland office for a number of years. The Minneapolis couple were very favorably impressed with Bemid- jiand expect to return here this fall and make their permanent home. ¢I like Bemidji,”” said Mr, Dunningto in speaking with the Pioneer, “I like the city and its people, even better than the cities and the people in the lower part of the state 2 The Innkecper of England. England’s = unpopularity, °~ with. . the- Englishman—and the = American—is largely due to the country innkeeper “If any class of public servant ought to be made to:pass an examination it is certainly the licensed victualer,” writes V. V. V. in the London Sphere, for at present any man may obtain a license without any knowledge of cooking, housekeeping, sanitation—any knowledge of anything but of the due pulling of a beer handle. Moreover, his wife may be the most incompetent of housewives, even for her own family. On the continent innkeeping is an art to be studied. In England it is too often the refuge of the man who wants an easy chair to sit in. An Hour Before Dawn. A curious mystery is the temporary uneasiness of animals about an hour before dawn, no matter at what hour this occurs. Children turn and moan, elderly people awaken and turn over for another sleep, cocks crow, dogs be- come uneasy and horses and cattle move about for a short period, when stillness returns for a time. What is the cause? Ave the animals affected by some magnetic wave which pre- cedes sunlight an hour or so, or is the habit one of heredity passed down through numberless generations from an original wild state, when an alert- ness just be daylight was neces- sary for protection from enemies? I Schlegel’s Praise. Of the play “Romeo and Juliet”’ Seclegel, the German critic, elogquently remarks: “Whatever is more intoxicating in the ordour of a southern spring, languishing in the song :of the nightirgale, or voluptuous Im the lirst epening of the rose, is to be found in this poem. The sweetest and bitterest love and hatred, festivity and dark fore- bodings, tender embraces and sepulchres, the fuliness of life and self-annihilation, are all here brought close to each other; and all these contrasts are so blended in the harmonious and wonder- ful work into a unity of expres- sion, that the echo which the whole leaves behind in the mind, resembles a single but endless sigh.” Bemidji opera houseOct. 8. “Taming of the Schrew Oct. 2nd.-' engineer who was badly injured in the wreck at LaPorte (an account of which was given in last evening’s Pioneer) was this morning removed from St. Anthony’s hospital, put on the south bound M. & I. passenger train and sent to Brainerd, where he will be placed in a local hospital for treatment. He was accompanied by Peter Johnson. While Urness is painfully hurt, his injuries are not cousidered serious. T00 LATE TO CLASSIFY. 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