Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 24, 1906, Page 1

VOLUME 4. NUMBER 160 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA. WEDNESDAY EYENING, OCTOBER 24, 1906. MINNESOTA @SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK LEGISLATORS ARE DEEPLY IMPRESSED BY FAR-FAMED WONDERS OF NORTH COUNTRY Northern Minnesota **0. K.,” Say Visitors From Southera Counties. —Second Junket Converted as Easily as Was the First. &o hand in hand. C. G. Gunderson of Alexandria, state senator from Douglas county, stated that he had seen enough to convince him of the possibilities of this country and its needs along the line of develop ment. He would make no promises as to drainage and development, but the people up here could bank on it that he “The half has ne’er been told.” |roots, grains and grasses, and|would not retard by his vote the Such is the consensus of opin-|svil, and considered it a wonder-|development of what he believed ion of the party of members of|ful showing; and he believed that|would become the greatest the legislature, jobbers and com- |this land was capable of growing | Wealth-producing part of the mercial men of the twin cities|better grains, grasses and vege-|state. and the southern aund central|tables than any other section of| J.H. Beek, secretary of the portion of the state relative to|the great “North Star State.” 8% Paul Jobbers’ and Manu- the agricultural possibilities of| Samuel G. Iverson gave an ex- |facturers’ union, spoke as to the undeveloped portion of north- | cellent talk on development of the | what was the reason for the ern Minnesota lying along the|north half of the state. He ap-|jobbers wanting to make the trip line of the M, & I. railway north | preciated the need of the state|as being their desire to develop of Bemidji. A party of thirty,|doing its part toward draining|this part of the state and make a aboard a special traio, spent yes- |its own lands and assisting in[greater Minnesota, and he real- terday at Big Falls, Northome,|developing and settling thejized that the continued prosper- Margie, Mizpah, Blackduck and|country. He believed that there|ity of the state depended on the other points, inspecting the soil, | would be greater activity here-|development of the north half of looking at exhibits of agricultural |after in assisting the nerth|the state. products and discussing ways [country, and he promised his| W.H.Gemmill, general mana- and means of assisting in- the |vigorous assistance in obtaining|ger of the M. & I., explained the development of the vast area of a larger appropriation from the|deep interest which the railroad land commonly termed by many |legislature to that end. is taking in the development of of the people of the twin cities as| At Northome, there was an-|this north country. He realized the “big swamp,”” and mapping other exhibit of agricultural|that the crop of lumber would out § campaign for drainage of|products that provoked sur-{soon be gone and the prosperity state lands in the north country|prised remarks from the party, |of the country would of necessity through legislative action during and such was also the case atldep@nd on the resources of the tbe coming winter. Blackduck. soil and its agricultural possibil- The special train of three cars,| Professor Shaw again spoke,|ities. Tbe railroad companies in charge of C. W. Mott, immi-|as did alse A. M. Cosgrove, presi-| had not an acre of land to sell; gration agent of the Northern|dent of the Minnesota State Fair | they wanted to see the country Pacific railway, W. H. Gemmill, |association, State Senator Gund-|settled and peopled by farmers, general manager of the Minne-|erson of Alexandria, C. W. Mott,| The special train arrived in sota & International railway, a.ndlimmigr&t.ion agent of the North-|Bemidji at 5 o'clock and the W. H. Strachan, superintendent|ern Pacific railway, George H.|party was taken to the Markham of the M. & I, left St. Paul Mon- | Ralph, state drainage engineer,lho"el, where supper was served. day evening and arrived at Big|and J. H. Beek, secretary of the| After supperaninformal meet- Falls at 7 Tuesday morning. St. Paul Jobbers’ aud Manu-|ing was held in the club rooms at The party was met at Big Falls facturers’ association. the Masonic block, where a dis- by a delegation of citizens and a' Mr. Ralph, who is probably | play of vegetables, wheat, oats band and escorted to a hotel, better able to talk of drainage|and corn had been prepared, where breakfast wess served, than any other single individual|Which included. a. squash that after which a fice exhibit ofjin the state, said that the proposi- | weighed sixty-seven, pounds, a agricultural products was shown|tion of draining the northern IPO"MO tipping the scales at. four and there were several speeches|part of the state was a compara- | pounds, and wheat that weighed: delivered. tively easy one; in fact, he was|sixty-one pounds to tne bushel Professor Thomas Shaw of St. |of the opinion that there' was no[and graded No: 1' hard, all of Paul, an expert on agriculture|locality 1n the United States|Which was duly taken note of. and one of the priacipal members| where conditions were batter forj Attorney G, W. Campbell pre- of the faculty at the State Agri-|the reclamation of wet lands than |sided as chairman of the meet- cultural College, spoke at some!right here. The agitation had |ing, and in a few well-chosen length. He had come up on this |interested the national govern-|words referred to the needs of trip to satisfy himself as to thelment and he believed that we|this commumty and introduced reports of the agricultural pos |had entered the decade when |the speakers to the audience. sibilities of this north country.|reclamation of lards would be| L.G. Pendergast was the first He was very favorably impressed, | the battle cry. Reclamation of| speaker. Hestated that there 3 s the lands was all that was needed | was not a spot on the American He had examiaed the exhibits of to populate the country, and continent tha siz2 of the mnorth WINTER GOODS We are able to show you a stronger line than‘ever before. SHEEP COATS & MACKINAWS Any length you desire. Com- pare our prices with the other fellow’s and you will be con- vinced that our merchandise is what you want. RUBBERS Lumberman’s star rubbers, men’s women’s and children’s The The overshoes and rubbers. most complete - stock. most reasonable prices. HEAVY WOOL PANTS We are showing a line fiom WOOL SOCKS The bggest bargain in men’s $2.00 to $3.50 that is very ‘hard to beat. Remember ab- solute satisfaction guaranteed or money cheerfully refunded. . H. Winter & Co. Bemidji, Minn., Phone 30, 50c all wool socks. Try them. drainage and good roads would[hslt of the state that bas such resources, He referred to the mineral wealth of theifon range, also to ‘the standing timber owned by the state valued at $250,000,000. He believed the soil to be as rich a8 that of the valley of the Nile. There were 400,000 square miles of territory, capable of supporting five or six million people, where only 350,- 000 to 400,000 lived. Heregretted exceedingly the practice followed by many hundreds of people in passing through Minnesota, never looking at the land that can be obtained here, and going to Canada. He alluded to the re- port of Mr. Ralph to the effect that it would cost but _$1.25 per acre to drain the state lands that would sell when drainéd for at least $10 per acre, ‘where now they would not sell for . $3. He gave some very pertinent re- marks anent the wants and needs of the people of the nurth half of the state and was loudly ap- plauded. R Prof. Shaw was called and spoke o= about the same lines as at Blackduck, except that he had noticed the soil about: this city contained much sand. . We need not lose sleep over thut fact, as intelligent tilling of that class of soil, which is mixed with clay, will bring just as large crops, with less labcr. He:advised the growing of rye, alfalfa and clover, and belicved that winter wheat could be raised here with great profit. F. B. Wright of Minneayolis, candidate for the legislature, was the next speaker. = He had been greatly pleased with his trip, especially with the pure air aris ing from the pines.: He had never traveled bare wuch, but he had long since came to the conciusion that theve was no poor:soil-in. Minnesat#, as he had seen the cut ovar sanflz‘y lands of other counties produxe “elegant sand was certain that this part of'the state was equally orodactive.>, He wanted to see drainage in‘all parts of the state where neededt. In the southern part of the state the present law would be adequate, but up here 1t was different; the state owned much of the land here, and should drain its own lands. He would favor a large appropriation for internal improvements and drainage, R. H. Jefferson of Bingham Lake, a candidate for the legis- lature, stated that he had lived in the stats fifty-five years and had been a farmer all his life, He favored the draining of state lands, but not private lands. Settlers could not be diverted in this direction until the swamps are made tenable. Ambrose Tighe, 8 member of the last legislature, also spoke, and was favorable to drainage. He favored the passage of the amendment to the constitution whereby more money could be raised by reyising the taxation. George Ralph, state engineer, was the last speaker and his ad. dress was along the same lines as at Blackduck. = The delegation passed the night in their cars at the M, & I. depot-and left this morning at 7 ; o’clock for Brainerd and St. Paul. The following were members of the party: 2 St. Paul—Ambrose Tighe A. @G. Johnson, A. K. Pruden, J. H. Beek, Prof. Thomas Shaw, 8. G. Iverson, C. P. Stine, Ezra W. Gates, Garden City; R. H. Jeffer- son, Lewis, Lake Crystal; H. E. Han- son, Windom; Elias Rachie, Madi: son; Henrye B. Vullmer, Still- water; S. O. Morse, Slayton; O. G. Dale, Madison; W. H. Putnam, Red Wing; R. L. Mork, Bricelyn;' ‘Johr Abercrombie, C. J. Aber- crombie, C* J. Gunderson, Alex- andria; S. F. Alderman, Brain- erd; C. S.Cosgrove, LeSueur; S. i F. B.» A. Nelson, Lanesboro; Wright, Minneapolis; G. A, Ralph, Crookston; C. W. Mott, W. H. Gemmill, St. Paul; W. H. Strachan, Brainerd. N N recAYT it s -. B , have had much to do with the victory successfully I Bingham Lake; Jobn T.| o ntoes i wa/FULL DETAILS OF THE BUENTHER DROWNING paces, oo e WTRE) pEAGHES. FRIENDS HERE AFTER LONG DELAY Places: Taxidermist and Johnson Thrown Into Big Trout Lake by Collapse F. H. Pendergast will speak at Solway Saturday evening the of Portable Canoe.---Buenther Was Probably Seized ; With Cramps. 27th. Henry Funkley at October 29. Henry Funkley and some other speaker to be announced later at Blackduck October 30. Henry Funkley at Tenstrike October 31. The Methodist ladies will hold their rummage sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week at the building formerly occupied by Mr. McConkey on Minnesota avenue. There will be some great bargains. Naish McKinnon left this 'morning for Jenkinson, his former home, He has a number of horses at that place and will ‘bring them to Bemidji. The Methodist ladies will - hold their rummage sale Thursday; Friday and Saturday of this week at the building formerly occupied by Mr. McConkey “on Minnesota avenue. There will be some great bargains. The Helmet In the Scheolroom. German schoolmasters are said to Kelliher The first authentic information relative to the manner in which Henry Buenther, the Bemidji taxidermist, was drowned near Tower was given out here today, when C. F. Schroeder of this city returned from Tower, hav- ing been on a trip inspecting the country north of Tower. Mr. Schroeder, with a party of friends, had been down Indian Sioux River, north of Big Trout lake, (a trip which Buenther had planned to take) and returnea to Tower = yesterday afternoon, when he first heard that Buen- ther had met his death. 2 According to Mr. Schroeder, Buenther and Frank Johnson arrived in Tower Thursday even- ing and registered at a local hotel, ‘Buenther using an assumed name, “‘Henry Bounty.”’ They spent the night at 'fower and left Friday morning on their intended trip. They wentacross Vermillion lake on a steamer, and portaged three-fourths of a mile to Big Trout lake. The men had a portable canvas boat, which they put in Big Trout lake and started across. Big Trout is filled with danger- ousrock:, and it is supposedtom, and he believes that it will that the boat struck one of these. { be next to impossible to bring At any rate, they had not gone !it to the surface. far, when the boat collapsed,| 'Allan Benner and Charles Pprecipitating the occupants into Cassler loft this city Iast evening the water, ifor Tower and will assist the Buth Johnson and Buenther |party there in their efforts to lo- started to swim to the shore of ' cate the body, and bring it back Pine island, which is the center to Bemidji ; of the lake, and were easily breasting the waves and making good progress, when Buenther, without an outery of any kind, sank from sight. Johnson could render him no assistance and swam to the shore of the island. Buenther was nowhere to be seen.. The water was bitterly cold, and realizing that he would perish if he remained on the island, Johnson, with commend- able plvck, again jumped into the lake and swam to the mainland. He walked around the arms of Big Trout | .to the outlet of Bear creek, a distance of twenty miles, where he boarded the steamer and wentto Tower, from which place he telegraphed to Bemidji the brief announcement that Buenther was drowned. A searching party was sent out from Tower yesterday, bat no news has been received from there relative to the success of the cxpeditio. in finding Buen- ther’s body. Mr. Schroeder states that Big Trout lake, besides being filled with rocks, is very deep at the point where Buenther sank, being perhaps 200 feet to the bot- of the Germans in their late war with France, and in this connection Sir Henry Roscoe tells this incident of his | Inspection of the professional school in Rouen, Irance: “Among the usual ob- Jects I noted with surprise a Prussian soldier’s helmet. On being asked why ihe placed it there the schoolmaster ‘stated that it was picked up In the streets of Rouen during the German Invasion. And he added that it was of great service to him, for when the scholars did not attend to their work be used to bring this down and put it in his desk and, pointing to It, say: ‘Now, if you do not make progress and learn properly this will happen to you again. The surest way to bring it upon you is to neglect your studies and grow up in ignorance and to become in- ferior in intellectual tralning. -The ‘Women' Cannot Cut'Diamonds. “'A lot of women seem. to be possessed these days of an ambition to learn the trade of diamond cutting,” the New York-Sun reports one jeweler as say- ing. “Every little while an applicant for a situation as an apprentice gives display of that helmet,’ explained the of shame ‘to the cheeks of ‘my students = and to rouse their patriotism-and thejr-| - ¥ tealifor thelz stadics, . Often as 1 have seen Notie- Dame, 'm i to Parls with no thought or time m.u.,j ‘and then on my way over one: ots:hés' - bridges across the river perhips I-see e Ay Word From Flaxton, N. D., Tefls of - towers high above the high roofs: of houses and palaces, and the view, now tor, ‘never fails to bring the blush the marvel of it never grows less:: I'go fo i it o hnugi <ic. PAINTER, DIES IN MKIITA : it again on its Island, the beautiful $udm Demise.-~Lived Here us a call. But we can't afford to give 80 famillar, strikes mé affesk b all | et 1 Yi 3 them a trial. They can never master the wonder of my first Imp 5 ears. the art. In other branches of the jew- st wonder. ouly: saema grut.:mltnnl ~ elry trade women have made some un- qualified successes. Not one of Eve's daughters, from royalty down, I should . say, that Isn’t an artist in the wearing of diamonds. Many are well versed In the tricks of buying and selling them, while others give excellent satisfaction in polishing and preparing them for the market. But when it comes to the real cutting of the stones they lack the patience, judgment and steadiness of nerve which constitute the expert's stock In trade.” turn, as I am always tempted to, and walk down the quays on the left bank, ; - Muyor Carter received-aletter. the towers before me and with every I e mayorofFiaxton, step coming more and more complete- |;T0dl‘)y hfiouf "hetb‘ g ly together, by the Pont Neuf, to the - U-s™! ating ¢ Andy m‘ T, island and at last to the great square & painter, who claimed to have where Notre Dame fronts me in its Jigeqd in Bemidji for four years, b calm.—Elizabeth Robins’ Pen- | 5 % e ey {had died there, and that if he had any friends or relatives living in “Take 8 hand?’ queried Smith as | SOXIdil to write or wire as to Jones stood watching the poker game | What disposition to make of the at the club. 1emains, ::'Vo.hnt'?:ll:':mutter—folfl feet?’ Miller, who about 38 yeprs “No. I always come out loser.” -of age, has lived in Bemidji most “I never saw you lose in my life.” |{of tne time during the past five “I know you never saw me, but 1 . lose: If T bappen to win a litttle here, | 3. e‘“‘o e .‘”'""’h drom = Walker my wife smilingly insists on my divia- oD, O.tario, where he has a ;ng my winnngs when I gohhom;.‘ l: father who is engaged in the lose, I get a lecture on the evils of | 4 q i gambling, and the next day, In order [ eFCantile business and who is to get even, my wife runs bills down a0 influential and wealthy citizen town to the amount I lost. If 1 tell |of that place. He also hasasister her I came out just even, she takes half ;}: oot $hb misiiey t0 prevent Ty losing W'Y ihvmg ia Illmols‘, mt_i a brother, have, 80 I am bound to, lose.” the latt r a veterinarian, who re- _— sides at Spokane, Washington. Miller was a painter by trade, 'and he worked about this city for rEbst s e Syt Am different people. He came from \us a, real ritain resent ’ and several other lands that number Is !‘he same place as Wes Wright, sald to a “baker’s dozen.” In Italy it {and the latter wasa sort of ad- is referred to as the “cobbler’s dozen,” | vigor for him. He was known as there being a tradition that there was ) formerly a law which compelled cob- n."good fellow” who was not of s blers to put twelve tacks or nails round | Vicious - nature, and was well m edfis oll;e: boot l;leel-' l‘lnall{. w:::: liked by all who knew him. nails ame cheap, a ceuter 2 s e Wit Hen o5 ek Mr, Wru.:ht has notified Mil- ler’s relatives of the latter’s death, and it is probable that they will attend to caring for his body. Why He Quit the Game. Thomas Moore. Measured by the popularity and mar- ket value of his poems when they were written, Thomas Moore has no rival among the poets of Ireland. While en- " gaged at his Irish melodies, in which he | Was at his best—for they called forth , the powers in which he most excelled— he was pald £500 a year by his pub- ! lighers. Their immense and well merit- fed success induced Longman to give Moore 3,000 guineas—the highest price that had up to that time been paid for a poem—for “Lalla Rookh,” the gor- geous eastern romance which dazzled ! and delighted readers of that day, but 'is now rarely read. As a lyric poet ; Moore was, like Burns, one of the best | writers we have ever had of “words " for music,” and, In his case at least | the words are inseparable from the “music. Goldsmith, a poet of a different order and with a wholly different ex- perience, got little popularity and less money for his poetry, but in *“The Trav- ,eller" and “The Deserted Village” he i has a better chance of immortality than his compatriot.—London Tit-Bits. The Doxen. In all the civilized countries of the world thirteen is referred to as being somebody’s “dozen.” In A Famous 014 Building. Evensong was held the other day on the site of the ancient oratory of St. Gwithian, one-of the many Irish saints who descended upon Cornwall in the fifth and sixth centuries. In a waste of sand near the Godrevy lighthouse, ‘which marks the eastern horn of St. Tves bay, lie What are regarded as the i remains of ‘the oldest Christian build- ing in England. 'The nave bulges with sand to the level of the plain and thiough a grass covered hillock over the demolished altar protrude a few rough stones. During a stormy night of 1828 the sand shifted and revealed the, lines of a structure about forty- eight feet long by twelve feet wide, with a prlest’s doorway, a small win- dow, traces of stone benches and an altar of masonry now gone as the re- sult of the building being forthwith used as a cowshed.—London Globe. Warned In Time. A man visiting a lunatic asylum re- cently was conversing with some of the outdoor patients when a man rode up on horseback. The pace called for: —_— comment among the party, and one of the patleats said he had seen a horse Wreck at Kelliher. !;:I)nnlnl mucl:df:;ter tllun that one. | There was a wreck at Kelliher “Oh,” exclals e visltor sotto voce, ! i “r hlv:xuee:. a horu' fiylng.” “Dinna li“. nigt.:t, seven flatcars be)ng let the doctor hear ye sayin’ that, my | thrown in the ditch. The wreck man,” interjected an old Scotch luna- | caused a delay in the departure tonn i hacaag ™ @ for fax 1e88 | of the branch-live train from ; - Kelliher to Funkley, and the i x main-line train on the M. &. I _ Intrepldi S o M,: 6:’»11!. 'h',:h nm 'was delayed an hour in ' reaching th:i ,hv::hg. W -:ul p.eflnlmfluu Bemidji this worniug. No one which -the sight of greal 8 can | wag injured by the wreck and arouse in it. By this strength heroes | “mv» cars were. not badly maintain a calm aspect and preserve | ¥ eir reason and liberty in the most | damaged. surprising and terrible ‘mccidenta~ | Rochefou The learned man has always i -Phaedrus. e ISTORICAL THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEEF