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

* be present at the opeming of the, Dodds treasurer. The corpor- £d, by the/state. THE BEMIDJI D -VOLUME 4 NUMBER 211. TLY PIONELRH BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1906, MINNESOTA d lsTORICAL REPRESENTATIVE - ELEGT A NEW NEWSPAPER 70 BE |Micncasls e ben seceet GONTEST FOR NEW OPSAHL IN CITY TUDAYI KUOGH'GH’NG-‘GUUMY p“'ll:llli:h;adp:: ?illwl;.::m Spooner, —_ » LAUNGHED AT SPOONER sspeca tha he iatn e where the Matheu = Lumber|Henry Hughes, of Grand Rapids, Is of the “Northern News” will be Is Doing Well With Logging at Foy.—| ““Northern News Company” Incorpo- i L Sunday, ted With a Capitalization of < g 0 N e, % o company has large interests. Contestant, Representing Others January 6th. $10,000. . " : At the Court House. of Itasca County. 3 % Miss Keihm, the efficient clerk 15y J. J. Opsahl, representative-| The village of Spooner (for-|in County Treasurer French’s elect to the legislature from thig| merly Beaudette) is to bave alofice, hasagain resumed her la-| GEORGE H. SPEAR AND AAD A. district, came down this morn.[first class newspaper, backed|pors 'aftor having been confined| TONE RETAINED AS ATTORNEYS ing from his homestead near|by ample capital, officered and |y, her rooms for several days Foy postoftice, where he is doing| managed ny men experienced|ywith an attack of lagrippe. some logging this winter. in the newspaper field. Clerk of Court Rhoda has is- Mr. Opsahl will this wintar get‘ Articles of incorporation have sued marriage licenses to Ed- Contestant Alleges that Many lllegal Votes Were Counted in Favor ont 20,000 cedar poles, 2,0c0|been filed with Register of Deeds ward L. Haglin to marry Miss of Division. cords of pulpwood, and 800,000 Harris for the organizing of the Anna Long, both of Buens Vista. feet of'pine logs. He now bas|‘ ‘Northern News Company,’to| )0 ¢, Mhomas Johnsen to wed cut wnd skidded ready for haul.|Produce. publish, establish and |\pio puiga Krickson, residents ing 13,000 poles and 16,000 logs, [oPerate apaper lknown as the|, pio. ooy of Beandette. The entire output of the camp|‘Northern News’ and other County Auditor Wilmann and has ‘been sold to the Beltrawi|newspapers and periodicals”at| 58 PECCOr ©HERE S0 Cedar & Land company, which|Beaudette, the corporation to inegukyin rz:t the deliny uefzfax will haul the timber to Kelliher commence business December| . “" gbl‘ tioh- i tqhe official with a stoam hauler which was|1; 1906, The incorporators are| 'S%°or Pu ma,rlg llist eliden recently purchased in Wisconsin, | E- A. Schneider of Bemidji, ll:zmsmper:‘la‘ndereal estatode: and which is expected any day|Howard V. Dyer and G, H.| U i i s Dodds of Beaudette, and in lmquencxe_s. aqd will be ready Mr. Opsahl will return to Be.|forming the board of directors for the Pflntfi}‘ I:Btevl: da.ysl.)een midji next Saturday and leave} Schneider is president, Dyer milzofora&ilzzl}onzou::; i the following day for St. Paul to] Vice president and secretary and Haiin Relvaon 5 i T f the town of' Battle shipped in i inst. ation is captilized at $10.000, | 5 leg}slnturgms&- and the highest amouut of in: & wolf pelt and applied for boun- Moore Case Adjourned. debtedness that can be incurred [tY DY letter, “‘“dt YB”":]M"‘Y P. Sheriff Thomas Bailey 1e-|by the corporation is $2,500. Krogseng,dfllso’ o fli“ e,‘thwus turned last evening from Minne-j It is the intention of the in- at the au 1&;1- s". 9 tce ;’: S o apolis, where he had been in con-| corporators of the company tolpe"’ and application for bounty. nection with the case of J. R.|establish an up-to-date newspa-| Moore, who was arrested in the|per at Beandette, which has re-l J. The newly organized couaty of Koochiching = will not be hewed out ol the morthern por- tion of Itasca county and al- lowed ‘to remain. permanently as a self-governed ~ “bailiwick” without overcoming serious ob- stacles in the line of contests and legal protests against 'the manuner in!which' the establish- ing of the county was obtained, A rotice.of . contest was filed yesterday - with ‘the clerk: of court of Itasca county at iGrand Rapids, in which allegations are made as to. the legality of the recent’ election, which was :de- clared to be’in favor of the es- tablishing of the:new county of Koochiching, 2 George H. Spear of Grand Rapids and Aad: A. Tone of Northome appeared as attorneys for: Henay Hgggs, contestant Peterson Cannot Live. A telephone message received this afternoon. by the Pioneer from the poor farm states that Iver Peterson, the wife beater, cannot possibly live, and he will |, 1 “Mill” city last weeir, charged|cently been incorporated as a with f..rgery, and who instituted | village under the name of Spoon- | habeas corpus proceedings. Mr [er. A first-class printing plant Bailey states that the case hasjhas been bough} in the twin cit- been continued until Monday, on{ies and is now on the road to probably not last longer than to- |g¢ 1 account of the illness of the pre-‘Spooner,” The services of an |njght, or at the farthest - tomor- siding judge. experienced newspaper man of'row noon. E. Baiisou; secrewary of stal M. A. Spang, couuty auditor of Itasca county; the board. of Hugh ' MclIntosh ‘and = R. Me- Donald, whose names appear in the _original petition for the election for the establishing of the county, as the board of county commissioners for the new county; and also to I, D- Rasmussen, clerk of court tor Itasca county. The original petition for the calling of an‘election to vote on|] establishing Koochiching county {|: was filed with the governor Jan- uary 25, 1906, The election for the division of Itasca county and establishing of the new county |} was held at the same time as_the||- general election, and on Decem- ber 18 last the state canvassing board declared that the proposi- tion ‘had been carried. On December19, Governor Johnson, on the returns made by the can- vassing board, issued a proclnm- ation establishing Koochiching! county. TomFranlilyn Nye In “JESSE JAMES” lishing Koochiching: county. and 893 cast againgt the. proposition, that there were 1320 votes cast at the election which were against the establishing of the county and were not counted; also - that thére were 671 illegal votes cast| that were counted in favor ‘of|| division, The 1829 votes cast against division were from seven-’ teen precmcts that were' wholly thrown ‘out and some ' other scattering. votes beca) alleged improper relumsfi Opera House TONIGHT count.of | ,Iie votes cast in thele uaventeen precincts. the proposition be made, ana| 1GA) HEL| ' EXGHANGE |PURGHASED AN INTEREST prays fer judgment that the pro. position establishing county of Koochiching did not carry. The parties who have institug. | Now Occupies Entire Second Floor of ed the contest claim that they have the best grounds for believ- ing that their contention that the election did not legally resultin ‘the carrying of the proposition and establishing of the newjhas been county is well founded and will{the interior so that the quar- be proven when the contest is settled in court, Frank Arnold, bartender for|change, and the place h s been ceived a telegram from Salmon, Idaho, brother, Ward Arnold, had died at that place yesterday morning. Ward Arnold is well known in|contact with the public, and the Bemidji. worked in different shops in this| wags the case formerly. city. He left here a year ago for Tdaho and located at Salmon, The deceased was 81 years of!are now 400 ‘phones in use by age, and was born at Redwood |local parties. Falls, - parents still reside. married five years ago and handle the local and long dis- had no children. subject to heart trouble and this ailment is supposed to have been the cause of his death. The body will anda@tedly be shipped from Salmon to Redwood Falls for burial at the old home. Arnold was well liked while he lived in Bemidji and had many |wires of the long-distance sys- frieads here. © |tem. 'The Catholic ladies wish to-an {¢hange will have a Jclerk in yunce to their friends that their |the person of Miss Julian of xt card party will be held msday evening, January 3 i ~Cr-Dé-Barter; - of ~Crook pStreet tuttamg southi of the district manager for the North: resent .at. this,. the firstof a|terday and expressed himself series of four parties to be held |35 Well pieased with the man- before lent. - You may play cards county commissioners of Itasca|all evening aad partake of a fineland also that he was satisfied county.and to Fred Smith, Nels|lunch, but remember it costs with the liberal patronage given W. Olson, . Charles M.. Bowman, | twenty-five cents to get out, - ! - mail order customers and we trust that our efforts to please you the following year will % be equally appreciated with the year 1906. : llere S Wlshmg yeu a Joyous and Prosperous New Year -tho new DOING A 600D BUSINESS IN THE BIJOU THEATER Roy Lasher, an Oid Showman from Kansas City, Will Be Assooiated i With V. L. Ellis. Guy Lasher, of Kansas City, Mo., has purchased an interest in the Bijou theatre of this city. The firm name of the new man- agement will now be V. L. Eilis & Co: Mr. Lasher is an old showman, having been in the busineas ever since antomatic pictures came out; when the machine weighed 580 pounds, and when the pic tures, instead of being on films as they are now, were pasted on tape. He is an operator eof ex- ceptional ability, having run every make of machine in use in United States. He established the first electric show Kansas City ever had. He put in the first show of this kind Kerkuk, Ia., ever saw. He also- established the firss show of the kind in Brainerd, two years ago. He has run and operated eleesric shows in nearly every stats in the. Union, among them five in Chicago at one time. Mr. Lasher and Mr. Kilis are both men with families: snd-will in the future be residents of ‘oar ] city. They have the necéssary e finance and experience’ to make : this show among. the best in'the 2 state, and will spare nefther _— money nor paing in doing so. 8 To Our Patrons. __After-Jan:"1;:1907, ali premiam Lumbermens Bank Building.— Better Quarters, The local telephone exchange rearranged ' on beyond contention | ters where the ‘‘hello” employes serve the public are now a model of convenience. The entire sec- “lond floor of the Lumbermens 'bank is now used by ’'the ex- "Ward Arnold Dead. H._ Sullivan, yesterday re-| partitioned so that there is a pri- vate room for the manager, also that hisla room for the eclerk and ccief operator. - The *‘hello” girls are stationed in a room away from announcing He was a barber, and japparatus is not in view as The Bemidji exchange is doing a very nice. business. There A. E. Harris is this state, where hisimanager of the exchange and He was|there are six operators that He was|tance business, as follows: Miss AnnaJacobson, chief operator; Miseess Lauretta Smith, - Grace Abrahamson, Katherine Bradley, Gena Everson and Setha Slough. There are two linemen, Horace Dunn being the local lineman and Ole Kittleson attending to the Card Party. The first ot January, the ex- ilmar, a sister of Mrs. Dec western Telephone Exch: mpany, was in the city yes- kham'Hotel. A special in- n is extended to all to be must be presented at time of purchase or not receive eredit for same. Be sure to bring your card with you. The Mb sm Local news on last page. 190 6= 1907 A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION ESOLVED That during the year nineteen hundred and seven we will R o exert every effort toward the betterment of our store and business in every way possible and by giving the highest class of merchandise at consistently low prices, adjusting all complaints and by serving our patrom in a per- fectly satisfactory manner, continue to merit their custom and good will. O’Leary @ Bowser We Thank You For the most liberal patronage enJoyed by us the- pa.st year. The success attain- en by our business house we attribute to the generosity of our resident, vmtmg and ner in which Manager Harris was handling the local exchange, the company in Bemidji. o DRY Goons I)EPARTMEHT Will be bountifully awcked mth new 1907 fabncs, dress - _goods, silks and domestm £ NOTION. SECTION will retmn its popu]a.nty by keeping well lfiooked mth the articles' 80 necessary to-woman’s wants:: RWEA_ AND HOSIERY COUNTERS ; always be filled with the goods you want in all nzel. : EADY-TO-WBAR GARMBNTS Tn Fashious latest decrees will alwnya be found in plentnful ~_asortments. SHOE SHELVES to uphold their grea,t sellmg b ot_)ngxe- 2x approval shoes of exuepho!{:l‘:roxth