Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 3, 1906, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI D VOLUME 4. NUMBER 190. ILY PIONEER. WINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, MONDAY MNING, DECEMBER 3, 1906. TEN CENTS PER WEEK PENGIL VICTIM DYING SLOWLY; SMALL HOPE Little Albert Bower, With Stub Pencil in His Lungs, Growing Worse. JUST THE SHADOW OF A CHANCE OF COUGHING UP OBSTRUCTION For Over Two Weeks the 6-Year-Old Lad Has Fought Manfully for His Life. A report from St. Anthony’s hospital is to the effect that Albert Bower, the little fellow who swallowed a portion of a lead pencil last week, is slowly dropping away, with no hope of any relief. He is unable to par- take of nourishment and it isa matter of but a few days, so the attendants at the hospital state, before the end. The manner in which the boy swallowed the pencil is rather COMMANDER BAILEY IS CHOSEN FOR SIXTH YEAR G. A. R. Elects Officers for 1907--- Post in Prosperous Con- dition. At the regular meeting of R. H. Carr Post, G. A. R., No. 174, held last Saturday afternoon, officers were elected for 1907. H. W. Bailey, who has been com- mander for the last five years, was chosen to serve still a sixth year. The ofticers are as follows: H. W. Bailey, commander; T. H. Pendergast, S. V.C; K. W. Titus, J. V. C; E. N. Henderson, quarter master; George Smith, surgeon; J. M. Barnett, chaplain; G. P. Irish, O. D.; F, A. Cross, 0. G.; J. M. Phillippi, delegate to state encampment; George |encampment,. The post meets at 2 p. m., the first and third Saturdays of ievery month at Odd Fellows hall, |with a membership of thirty- 'two. The post is in-a very | Smith, alternate delegate to state | iprosperous condition, and is con- peculiar, He was pligingat his idered one of the best in the i8] home, near Lake George, beingl & alone at the time, when he swal- lowed a short lead peucil, includ-} ing the brass top and the rub- ber. His parents found him suf- fering untold pain and took him to an Akeley doctor, who could do nothing to locate the pencil and bad him sent to Bemidji. Albert was placed before an X-Ray machine, and the pencil was located, being at the open- ing of the right bronchial tube. The injured lsd was taken to | state. A good assortment of 1907 diaries at the Pioneer cffice. | i 'St. Anthony’s hospital, where it was hoped an operation might be performed, for the removal of the pencil, but the attending physician after a very careful examination decided that the use of the knife would but hasten the end of the unfortu- nate boy. NORTHOME DAM-BLOWING HAZEN FILES NOTICE LOCAL PLAYERS RESENT T0 HAVE HEATED SEQUEL OF SHERIFF hoNTEST BOASTS BY CASS LAKERS W. E. Stack, Arrested and Fined for Trespass, Appeals to District Court. A sequel to the dam-blowing near Northome last summer, (wherein Aad A. Tone figures quite prominently and one W. E. Stack was subsequently arrested for trespass, and fined,) will be the trial of the appeal of Mr. Stack from the judgment of the justice court at Northome, which fined him $5 and costs, and which Stack refused to pay. Mr. Stack was taken to Grand Rapids by O. M. Olson, deputy sheriff of Itasca county, where he made arrangements toappeal. He was in the employ of the Backus-Brooks Lumber com- pany and was accused of tres- passing on land which had been rurchased by Aad A. Tone. Another employe of the lumber company was also arrested at the same time, on a similar charge, but he paid his fine and held his peace. Now, Mr, Stack lassertis; he was wrongfully ar- irested and declares he will ‘‘do things” to those involved in the case. He came down this morn- ing from Northome and went to Grand Rapids this noon to be present when his case is called at the term of court being held ithere this week. F. B. Merrill, agent at Cass Lake for the Great Northern rail- way, passed through the city this noon, on his way home from a trip to Fargo. OR A WATCH ON SAVE A ¥ DIAMONDS ARE ON THE RISE_&2 OUR POPULAR INVESTMENT PLAN We Do Not of jewelry on our investment plan. want in the jewelry line, make a AND HAVE IT LAID ASIDE THIS IS NOT' A BIT TOO EARLY TO PURCHASE XMAS GIFTS do a credit business, but you can save a diamond, a watch, or any piece Select anything you cash payment e ot watch Watches: $13.75 We are selling a for twenty years wear, complete with 15- jewel American movement, Ladies’ watch. THIS IS A SAVING OF AT LEAST $5. WHY WE CAN DO 1 ! No losses—We buy for cash in large quantities—It is volume of business we are after and our motto is QUICK SALES, SMALL PROFITS BUY NOW! «DIAMONDS !4 A WISE INVESTMENT 7 Betler than a savings bank. Diamonds are predicted to increase in value, 20 to 50 per cent, during the next twelve months. We buy our diamonds diret from the cutters unmounted. Selling on a small margin of profit, as our selling expens s are light, we can give you more for your money than you can procure elsewhere. counts in value WE HAVE DIAMONDS FOR INVESTORS ' 1 gold-filled case, warranted We guarantee our weights positively : correct. In many cases low prices mean short weights, as every fraction of a caret = We have a full stock of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Sil- verware, Hand Painted China, Cut Glass, Clocks, Ete., at PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT Articles Purchased of Us Engraved FREE of Charg > . —————————————————— ——————————————————————————————————————————. ————————————————————— SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY. GEO.T.BAKER& CO LOCATED IN CITY DRUG STORE, BEMIDJI. o Defeated Candidate “Alleges 1llegal CVoting in Baudetts, Spooner and Zipple. —_— CANADIANS VOTED FOR BAILEY IS THE CLAIM MADE BY HAZEN T Also Alleged That ilbple Is Not a Legally Constituted Voting Precinet. i A. B. Hozevo, defeated cindi- date for sheriff of Beltrami county, is to contest the election of his successful; rival, Thomas Bailey. Notice of contest in' the case was filed | late Saturday afternoon by Mr. Hazen with the clerk of court, and the matter will come up fur hearing before Judge Spooner within thirty days. 3 Hazen claims, ‘in his notice, that the voting at the precinets of Baudette, Spooner and Zipple was not legal, and asks that the returns from these districts be thrown out on that account. His allegations in full are. ¢ That on the 6th day of Nov- ember, 1906, at the township of Spooner and the township of Baudetts, there were cast 154 illegal votes, that is to say, said 154 voters were not residents of said state and county, but on the contrary, a large number of said voters were residents of Rainy River, Ontario, and a large por- tion of said, voters were foreign- ers, and not fiifi_\g}:a}ized citizens of the United States. And thatat said township of Zipple divers illegsl votes were cast by parties pot entitled to exercise the right of sufferage, to-wit: twenty votes; and that said township was not a legally orgauized voting precinct. That the said illegal vut s and the whole thereof were cast for Thomas Bailey.” The total vote cast for sheriff in Baudette and Spooner was 154, and in Zipple twenty, so that the allegation is that the total vote was illegal. In Bau- dette the vote stood: Bailey 61, Hazen 7; Spooner, Bailey 69, Hazen 17; Zipple, Bailey 19, Hazen 1. The allegation is made in the notice that the total illegal vote was cast for Bailey. Historle 014 New York. Greenwich village, in New York city, was first brought into prominence when Sir Peter Warren, descended from an anclent Irish family and vice admiral of the -British fleet, settled there in 1744. He married Susannah De Lancey and settled on a fine estate of more than 800 acres, running from Christopher street to West Twenty- first. It was laid out like an English park, with splendid hedges and ave-|* nues of trees and a fine old mansion, which was the resort of all the quality of old New York. His three daughters all made brilliant marriages in Eng- land. One became the Countess of Abingdon, and her name is preserved in Abingdon square. On the division of the estate at Sir Peter’s death the homestead fell to her. She sold it to Abijah Hammond, who sold it to Abra- ham Van Nest, and it i3 still remem- bered by many as the old Van Nest house, demolished in 1865, Among other distinguished persons who have lived in Greenwich were Oliver De Lancey, Willlam Bayard, Washington, Vice President and Mrs. John Adams, Aaron Burr and Tom Paine. Barrow street was originally named Reason street in compliment to the great in- fidel’s best known book, “Age of Rea- son.” - Useful Teeth. Many different reasons are asslgned by people for their unwillingness to submit to the extraction of teeth. But it was no fear of pain which was up- permost in the mind of Miss Mehitable Lamson of Willowby when told by the dentist that she would be much bene- fited by the loss of two of her prom- inent teeth. “You say they can’t be filled,” she sald, in evident distress, “and you couldn’t get any others In for me for more’'n a fortnight?” The dentist admitted reluctantly that it was so. “Well, then, I suppose I'll have to get on as best I can.” And Miss Me- hitable seated herself in the torture chair. “But I don’t see how I shall make out. Here I am, chambermaid to the Willowby inn during the sum- mer, and It's chock full of folks, with . " 2 SEEEATIVE PAGE High School Football Team Thinks ‘‘Lake” School Nervy in Claim- — S ing Championship. Some indignaticn is expressed here by the members of the Be- midji high school football team at the declaration made in a Duluth paper, by a Cass Lake cor- respondent, wherein it is stated that the Cass Lake high school eleven claims the championship of northern Minnesota. The Bemidji team played a game with Oass Lake, which re- sulted in a tie, neither eleven be- ing able to score,and all whosaw the game are unanimous in say- ing that if there was any su- periority in the playing of that game it belonged to Bemidji, as the ball was in Cass Lake terri- tory most of the time. The Pioneer is informed that the boys of the local team wrote many leiters to the Cass Lakers for a return game here, but that the beys up the line would not play a game here. On these grounds the Bemidji players claim that Cass Lake has no right to claim the championship until Bemidji was defeated. However, the ‘“‘dope” usually handed out by the statistical fiend would give the baunner to Cass Lake, as she defeated Grand Rapids, which team won from Bemidji. Shoveling Snew. Wilbur Nesbit, the “Innocent Bystander” man in the Chicago Evening Post, has the following to'say on the subject of shovel- ing snow, The remarks are timele and will he anpreciated by EVEry wa. had any ex- perience in tussisrg we “beauti- ful” from his front walk before going to work in the morning. The time of the year is aj proaching when the average man begins telling how he used to shovel paths through eight feet of snow at 4 o’cleck on mornings when the thermometer reg- istered so far below zero that the mercury rattled around in the bulb like a mustard secd. That is the sort of man who will go out the first heavy snow and show his family how to clean the walks. He will have a nice uew dollar snow shovel sent np from the store, and will begin operations by slipping and fall- ing down the front steps. Dur- ing his siide several bushels of snow will surreptitionsly become inserted between his shirt and his undershirt. How in the name of time it gets there is 2 mystery as deep as the cause of the aurora borealis or the produaction of radium, but tha fact remains that it gets there. The man will overlook it for :h2 moment, however, and begin ing great shovelfuls of snow to right and left, and he will be working like a steam plow when the old man who lives up street and who has a bad temper and rheumatism will happen along and get forty pounds of snow in the face. After the ensuing ar- gument the average man will re- sume operations. By and by his back will begin to ache, his neck to bestiff and sore and his arms to feel as numb as though they had been paralyzed since he was 10 years of age. But he will stick-tv it, for his wife and children ' will be watching papa from the window, and the baby ' will be pounding the window pane with its sticky ! twenty-five and forty, as she was In ! the greatest transition period of her | fingers and goo-goving gleefully. At last, after years and years of lifting and shoving, the walks will be cleaned, and the man will | * straighten up painfully and start to the back door when his wife will open the frontdoor and ery: “You left a little bit of enow tehind the horseblock dear!” - At Which Aget An amuring discussion recently took place between an artist and an author as to which period of her life a ‘woman was the most fascinating. Ac- cording to the artist a woman should not be painted between the ages of life, The author, on the othier hand, *declures that she I8 at the helght of her fascination and beauty between the ages of thirty and forty. The ques: tion ‘unsettl tur NOW IS THE BEST TIME |CITY PREPARING TO T0 DO HOLIDAY BUYING WELCOME B. P. 0. E, Shop Early in the Season Is the Ad- vice of the Experienced Ones. 3 “Do it now—your Christmas shopping.”’ Bemidji people, in all serious- ness, should make this resolve and keep1t. There is no reason why Christmas shopping should be puv off until Christmas eve. Here are some reasons why the gift buying should be done now: Weather—Better now than when the extreme cold sets in. Crowds—Smaller now than on the eve of the holidays. Goods displayed—Stocks are complete and prices as low as they will be three weeks hence. Clerks—Store employes have more time, and not being. tired out, can give customers better service, Fully as important ‘as the ad- vice to shop early in the season is that to shop early in the day. Crowds are smaller in the morn- ing; stocks have wnot been “picked over’’ ard the clerks more inclined to display 2oods. In shopping, as in other affairs of life, the early bird getsthe worm. \ The prudent ones, before this, have taken their pencils in hand and written down the mames of those to whom they want to give Christmas presents and those to whom they “must” give. The list may be revised time and again before the day arrives of the dainty bundles in tissue paper and holly, but the mere fact of its existence “is an evi- dence of good faith and of the possibility that-the last days will 1 not be wild and anxious ones. * As already stated, there is b reasen why the Christmas shop- ping should not be done now and there are many reasons why it should. All the beautiful and seful things which the factories and shops have been fashioning for the season’s trade are to be seen in the stores now. The bestselection can be made now. The goods have not been ‘‘picked o/er,” and the lots prac- tically are unbroken. Later in the season they will lose some «f their freshness from much hand- ling and many tossings iuto their boxes or drawers. There will be no marking duwn between now and Christmas—of that the Christmas shoppers can rest as- sured, If the shopping is done early, better select ons can be made, because there is more time in which to consider the suitability of the gifts. Perhaps you never have rushed wildly to a store and bought at random a!mest any- thing to finizh out your list. If you have not, you arean exceg- tional person, or else you have done your Christmas shopping early. Bennington Monument. Edward R. Grignon of Duluth, the northwestern representative for the Twin City Granite Works of St. Paul, was in the city today and putin place in Greenwood cemetery a fine monument, a tribute to the memory of J. P, Bennington and wife, who are buried in Greenwoud. The st .ne is of Barre granite and weighs over two tons. and Mrs. Bennmngton departed this life this year. They were survived by two sons and a daughter, who reside here, and His Complaint, queer patient you were telling me about last spring? Dr. Price—Oh, he’s got a complaint now that's givin & great deal of trouble! Inkwirer—In- deed! What is it? Dr. Price—Why, a complaint about the amount of my bill. [ saving Time. ~ “You shouldn't treat your boy ®o barshly. You'll break his spirit.” “Well, he’ll probably get ht Various Committees Hustiing to Get Everything Ready for the Visitors. LOCAL LODGE OF ELKS IS TO BE INSTITUTED DECEMBER 5 Hundreds of Outsiders to Be Here-- Business Men Urged to Dec- orate Buildings. The committe of Elks having in charge the local arrange- ments incidental to the institut- ing of Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, B.P.O. E, are hustling with their various assignments of duties and the arrangements for caring for visiting Elks and properly giving the “fawns’’ all that is coming to them Wednes- day is pregressing very nicely. A rate of one and one-third fare for the rcund trip to and from Bemidji has been secured trom the Gceat Northern rail- way, for parties of twenty-five or more, and it is expected that at least two special trains will be ruu to this city Wednesday, one conying from Crookston and the other from Little Fulls. The banquet, which will be served at the Markham, promises to surpass anything of the kind ever attempted. in ‘this part of the state, and is receciving the personal attention of F. S. Liycan, a prominent member of the order. 2 Several of the business houses of ‘the - city are decorating .in bonor of the instituting of the lodge and the prospective visit of the “Best People on Earth.,” The committee argesall business men, whether Eiks or not, to drape their places as much as possible in the purple and white of the order, as considerable honor is being bestowed upon the city by the instituting of an Eik lodge in & city of this size. |MNGR. HARRIS SORE, BUT MUST GRIN AND BEAR IT Has No Recourse Against Show Company Which Broke Its Engagement. Considerable disappointment was expressed at the non-appear. ance of the ‘“Millionaire Tramp’ dramatic company at_ the opera house Saturday evening, as it was believed that the company was one of the best thathad been billed for the local play house this season. None were more disappointed than Manager Har- ris and the members of the fire department. Considerable ex- pense had been incurred, for billing, etc., and the advance sale of seats up to noon Saturday had been very encouraging. Mr. Harris bad every reason to expect the compeny here on the noon train from the west and when no one showed up on the train, he got busy with the tele- phone and telegraph lines, with the result that he received a tele- gram, in the widdle of the after- noon, stating that the company had that morning missed the J. P. Benuington died in 1903, train out of Grand forks and it would be impossible to play here; to cancel the date and ship every- thing to Superior. date. 2 The local management is able Inkwirer — What became of that 0 do nothing to recover for the lexpense incurred in connection with this company, as the .con- tracts which these companiea promulgate are such that the local manager is open to damages weling troupe is liable : to no one but its conacience and who purchased the monument. |00 8lternative but to cancel the