Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 10, 1907, Page 1

\ THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE H || MINNESGTA HISTORICAL VOLUME 4. NUMBER 221. S e BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1907 TEN CENTS PER WEEE COUNTY BOARD ADJOURNS TO TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 Report of J, M. Phillippi, Superintendent of Poor Farm, Submitted---Salary of County Attorney Fixed at $1800 =---Appointing County Late last evening, the county commissioners completed their work for this session and ad- journed to meet on Tuesday, January 15, at which time they will reconvene and take up the appointing of a county physician and a number of other matters which need immediate attention, including the consideration of a number of bills. The salary of the county super- intendent of schools was fixed at $1,200, with an additional $200 for traveling expenses, The salary of the county attor- ney was placed at $1,800, and County Treasurer G. H. French was allowed $300 for clerk hire. Wes Wright was appointed a committee to look after repairs on court house and grounds. The auditor was instructed to prepare the financial statement and have the same printed in the Pioneer. A resolution was passed re- auiring county offizials to order all supplies through the purchas- ing committee, such officers to file a list of supplies needed with the county auditor, whoe in‘ turn is to take up same with the pur- chasing board. The petition for the organiza- tion of a new school district at Baudette was granted and said district will be known as district No. 111. Two other petitions were presented to the board and a hearing ordered on same at the meeting of the board to be held in March. i The board instructed the county auditor to advertise for bids for the performing of the duties of county physician, bids to b3 submitted to the board at the adjourned session. The report of J. M. Phillippi, superintendent of the county poor farm, was presented to the board and accepted. From this report we take the following facts and figures re- garding the Beltrami county Physician Laid Over. poor farm: At the beginning of the year there were eighteen inmates and afthe close of the year seventeen, During the entire year there were fifty-two difier- ent persons at the farm. repre- senting a total of 3,754 days. During the year there was raised on the farm 250 bushels of oats; 200 bushels of turnips’ 300 bushels of potatoes, 50 bushels of carrots and 16 tons of corn fodder. The farm also produced 2,500 pounds of dressed pork and 1,000 pounds of dressed beef. Ten acres of ground have been cleared of stumps and six acres of this broke ready for crop. 408 cords of wood have been hauled from the farm to the court house, representing a cash valua of $1,224. A number of improvements have been made to the farm building during the year, among which were a basement, 36x40, and a heating plant. A number of general improve- ments have been made and the equipments of the farm have been increased by the purchase of a garden drill, manure spread- er, spring tooth drag, hay rake and a steam pump. At present there areon the farm eleven head ef cattle, two| horses; four hogs fifty chickens. - There are 28 acres under cultivation-and 70 acres of pas- ture, and superintendent Phil- lipbi recommends an additional twenty acres be cleared, also that another team be purchased for the farm. Mr. Phillippi calls, the atten- tion of the board to ‘the fact that there are but 60 acres of timber left on the farm and recommends that less wood be cut than has been in the past, The improvements for the past year amounted to about $2,600.00. and about Chimney Fire This Morning. A chimney fire early this morning at the home of John Miller (518 Mississippi avenue) caused theturning in of an alarm of fire and the calling out of the fire men. The alarm was turned in to the central telephone exchange, and a few moments later an ef-| the fire, and they turned around and returned to the fire hall, But slight damage was done by the fire. ““Northern News” at Spooner. Spooner, Minn.,, Jan. 10— (Special to the Pioneer.)—The village of Spooner, originally kaoown as East Beaudette town- fort was made to countermand |Sit® has organized a corporation the alarm, but the phones were |X00Wn as the Northern News 80 busy with the main office that | ¢0mPany. The corporation is in- the operator could not be reached | stalling an up-to-date printing and the whistle was blown. press and job plant, which will The fire was extinguished be-| be one of the most complete out- fore the firemen with the hose|fits in Beltrami county. wagon had reached the scene of The company will issue the Northern News on Friday of each week., T. B. Miller of Minneapolis has been employed as editor, The first issue will not be out until Jan. 15, as they are waiting for an expert to put up the cyclinder press. The Pioneer recently published an article relative to the incorpor- ation of the “Northern News Company,” of which E. A. Schneider of this city is presi- dent. Operation for Appendicitis. Helen Bowers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bowers of Eckles towaship, submitted to an operation for appendicitis, yes- terday afternoon, at St. An- thony’s hospital. She recovered from the shock incidental to the operation, but is still in a serious condition. The girl was brought. to the hospital from her home Tuesday. The operation was decided on, after a careful examination. Ow- ing to the advanced stage of the disease, there was not much hope of recovery extended to the parents of Miss Bowers. Discussion Postponed. ‘Washington, Jan. 10.—At the con- clusion of the morning’s business the Brownsville resolutions were laid be- fore the senate, but discussion -was postponed on the statement of Mr. Foraker that Senator Tillman was still indisposed and unable to address the senate as he desired. ILIEUTENANT DOGKERY IS SLATED FOR PROMOTION t lPopuIar Recruiting Officer, Well Known Here, Has an Army Captaincy in Sight. Lieutenant O. H. Dockery of Duluth, whe is superintendent of recruiting stations in this dis- trict for the U. 8. army, came over from Duluth’ last night to note how matters were progress- ing at the local station under the direction of Sergeant Eilek. The lieutenant is slated for prometion to a captaincy in the army, and a Duluth paper says concerning the matter: “First Lieutenant O. H. Dock- ery has received a communica- tion from the 'secretary of the examining board of the United States army staff at Fort Leaven- | worth, Kansas, notifying him that he may be expecting a call before theiboard at any time for examination for a captaincy. There have been 29 promotions due from the list of first lieu- tenants in the infantry and there |are only 22 ahead of Lieutenant i Dockery. fast as a vacancy occurs in the i rank above them and during the “The officers are promoted asl next few months there w.ll te many vacaucies, giving an op- portunity for others below to attain higher place. “Lieutenant Dockery has been in charge of the Duluth recruit- ing station since November, 1905, and his term will end next Nov- ember, when he will return to his regiment, which is now in Alaska, unless he is ‘promoted, in which event he may be sent to some other regiment. He has been in the service for eight years and during this time has been in Cuba, Hawaii, Philippine Islands and Alaska. “The notice for his appearance before the board may come at any day, but it is probable that it will not be until next summer and may be as late as November, Lieutenant Dockery -is spending all his spare time studying for the examination, which will con- sist of all the branches taught in the public schools, besides a very strict course in technical sub- jects bearing on engineering work necessary for army duties.” BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The Chinese maritime customs col- lections for 1906 were $30,000,000, the largest ever recorded in one year. Ernest Miller, 2 Memphis politician shot and probably fatally wounded Morris B. Hedgepeth, -a saloonkeeper. Secretary Taft appeared before -the house committee on military affairs and urged the necessity for an in crease in the artillery corps. [l—iEMIDJI IS THE LOGICAL LOCATION FOR STATE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR THE NORTH North Half of the State, Beyond the Actnfil Geographical Center, Has Two Normals, at Extreme Eastern and Western Boundaries---Bemidji Center of This Territory «-Three Normals South of Center of State. The proposition to establish the sixth normal school in this state is being widely discussed, and it is-generally understood thata bill to that end wi'l be in- troduced in the present legisla- ture. The five normal schools now established are located as follows: Duluth, Moorhead, St. Cloud, Winona and Mankato, leaving nearly one-half the state without a local normal school. Three of our five normal schools are located in border cities, lviz.,, Duluth, Moorhead and Wi- nona. Mankato 18 strictly a southern Minnesota town. St. Cloud is located more than fifty miles south of the geographical center of the state, and by the way is our nearest normal school by railway. Bemidji is in the center of this vast unrepresented territory, and is easily reached by railroads from every direction, having two lines each from the north and i the south and one from each the east and the west, with many other branch lines connected with these. Prospects are also good for other diagonal roads. Besides being the geographi- cal centre and having fine rail- road facilities, Bemidji does not blush, but is proud, in presenting her local claims for sucn an insti- tution as a state normal school. We already have a population of 5,000 bright, energetic, progres- sive citizens. Our beautiful lakes and rivers are unsurpassed in picturesque beauty. We are sheltered from the blizzards of the bleak prairies of Moorhead and the cold, chilly breezes of presenting nearly all the woody growths found in Minnesota. ‘We have a climate for health and vigor, that is unsurpassed by apy locality in the state. Bemidji has long been known as a health resort. These are a few of our claims why Bemidji should be selected for the sight should such an in- stitution be established. That there is room for another state normal school in Minnesota there can be no doubt; and why pupils have as good a right to demand trained teachers as the southern part of the state. According to State Superin- tendent Olsen’s report, last year more than one thousand teachers who could not pass the teacher’s examinations were trying to Duluth, by a primeval forest re-! should net mnorthern Minnesota! teach school in Minnesota, and the most of them in the north half of the state. Itis hard to find a normal graduate in the rural schools, where they are needed most. Such an institution would be a credit to our city.- It would help to make usan educational center and would bring a desir- jable class of citizens to our city. Students would come here and live among us and thus help to build up our ‘business enter- prises, It would give our city a wholesome advertisement that no other state institution could give. Every citizen of Bemidji, and every resident in this entire section of the state, would be benefitted by the location of a normal school here, and all should lend their aid in securing 1it. A. P. RITCHIE, [The above communication sets forth excellent reasons for the establishment of a state normal school in Bemidji, The consid- and the Pioneer invites discus- sion in its columns. We will jgladly publish any communca- tion on this subject which is not too lengthy to be easily handled, | —EDITOR ] CLOTHING HOVUSE Mighty Mid-Season Overcoat Clearance Absolute and bona fide reductions; 203 253 303 B. KUPPENHEIMER & CO’S. Renowned Quality Overcoats. $18 for $22 quality overcoats. $18 for $28 quality overcoats. $18 for $30 quality o'coats. $18 for $25 quality o’coats. Nothing but this season’s swellest garments. Every style in- cluded. Mid-season assembling of what formed the main- stay of our great overcoat display. $22, $25, $28 & $30 grades now cut to Copyright 1908, by The House of Kuppenheimer Notice for Bids for County Funds. | Notice is hereby given ‘that the Board of : Audit, in and for Beltrami county, Minne- ; “sota, Will meet at the auditor’s office in the city of Bemidjl, on Saturday. Jan. 26, 1907, at 10 o'clock a, m.. for the purpose of recelv- ;ing and opening bids for the deposit of county funds as by statute provided, | Ench bid to be accompanied by a statement showing the amount and kind of bond to be ; furnished and what interest on monthly bal- ; ances’of the amount deposited on_condition that the said funds, with accrued interest, i shall be held subject todraft and payments, ; at all times, on demand, and also what in er- ; est would be paid on such funds or any part ! thereof if deposited for any certain length of | time. i _Dated at Bemldji, Minn, this 1ith day of | Jan. 1907, 11 JOHN WILMANN, County Auditor. Notice for Bids. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will De received by the board of county commis- {sioners of Beltrami county, Minnesota. up i untll 1 o'clock p, m. Tuesday, January 15. 11807, at the office of the county auditor, at | the court house in the clty of Remidji, for & | physician for the county poor and chairman ! of the county board ot health. Whose dutles shall be as follows: | _“Such physician a resident of Be- {midji, and in the performance of his duties i must,’ at his own expense, furnish all medi- clnes, bandages ant materlals appertaining | thereto: and all taansportation for all con= | tagious cases, except for non-residents of the | state, to the poor farm and. pest house: and furnish at his own expense all necessary morphine ‘and_cocaine and all necessary drugs and medicines, bandages and ncces- sary materials for the poor residents afflicted with contaglous disease: attend medically { upon all the poor at the poor farm and at his | own expense furnish all necessary assistance {in operations and in the performance of all {bis duties, quarantine when necessary and | pay all the expenses thereof, and attend | thereto according to the rules of health; and | keep a true and correct record of all non- resldent patients:"t Successful bidder will be required to enter into contract with the county for the faithful { performance of the work as above described and bid for. - The board of county commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the board of county commis- sioners of Beltrami county. Minnesota. Dated January 9, 1907. WES WRIGHT, Chairman of county board. JOHN WILMANN, 3 County Auditor. Firemen’s Dance. A grapnd ball will be given in ithe city hall Friday night, for |the benefit of the Bemidji fire department. Symington’s orchestra - will furnish the music, and as thisor- ganization is gaining an enviable reputation for the excellence of its numbers, the dancers will have the best obtainavle in that iline. If you wish to have a good time, don’t fail to attend this dance. Buchite “‘Not Guilty. ; Brainerd, Minn, Jan. 10.— William Buchite, charged with manslaughter in shooting Lewing Kling, in mistake for a deer, Nov. 14, was found not guilty yesterday. eration of this matter is timely,{ the companies named are owned by appear and make answer to the alle- THOMAS SHEVLIN WILL BUILD ROAD TO SPOONER Will Join the M. & I. at Kelliher---This, Together With the International Falls Extension, Will Mean Much : for Bemidji as a Wholesale Center. Thomas H. Shevlin, the Minne- sota lumber king, announces that he will build a railroad to the Rainy river, extending from Kelliher northward. The new line will measure fifty-five miles in length, and work onmit will 'probably begin this year. The road will have its northern terminus at Spooner and Bau- dette, two border towns. On the American side of the river at this point Mr. Shevlin has an immense sawmill, employing 600 men. On the Capadian side he is operating a mill employing 500 men. Within the past sixty days the townsite at the American mill has been joined to the town of Spooner, and plans for con- necting the enlarged town by rail with the outer world, have now been perfected. While pri- marily a road for getting out logs and lumber, the line will operate freight and passenger trains in connection with the Northern Pacific, which controls the Minnesota & International. The development of this piece of territory will mean much to Bemidji. The country through which the line will run is excel- lent for agricultural purposes, and eyen now is well settled up. As soon as what timber as re- mains is cut away it wil bea prosperous farming, dairying, and stock-raising district, with busy towns and tlie region tribu- tary to them thickly populated with progressive people. : Bemidji will be the nearest city of considerable size tothis dis- trict, and can offer good shipping facilities for handling the whole- sale trade that will develop 'in this north country, as a result of the building of the two exten- sions of the M. & I, and this city now offers most excellent advantages for the establishment bere of several wholesale con- cerns. Being directly connected with the two border communities Bemidji will have a great advan- tage in distance over either the twin cities or Duluth. Spooner is in this county about seventy-five miles below Interna- tional Falls, where both the Rainy Lake road and the Backus- - Brooks extension of the Minne- sota & Iuternational will .have terminale. The Shevlin road will thus give a third outlet to the Rainy River country, and the stimulus in values . there is already apparent. Some 800 acres of land along the Long Sault rapids, twenty-five miles above Baudette, have just been acquired by unrevealed interests. In some instances as high as $50 an acre was paid for the land. The rapids are said to be capable of supplying as much power as = the falls at International Kalls. BEGINS OUSTER SUITS MISSOURI'S: ATTORNEY GENERAL —..WOULD DISSOLVE ‘MERGER OF GOULD ROADS. ALSO SEEKS TO REVOKE CHARTERS SUBSIDIARY CONCERNS ORGAN-| I1ZED BY RAILWAYS CON- TRARY TO LAW. St. Louls, Jan. 10.—Suits to dissolve the alleged merger of the Wabash, Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain ailway companies and the Pacific Ex- press company and to revoke the M- censes and charters of the Pacific Ex- press company, American Refrigerator Transit company, Western Coal and Mining company, Rich Hiil Coal Min- ing company and Kansas-Missouri Ele- vator company have been filed in the supreme court by Attorney General Hadley. The petition alleges the stocks of the same interests, the Goulds, in vio- lation of the provisions of the constitu- tion and laws of Missourl. Concern- ing the nature of the suits Attorney General Hadley said: “These suits are brought for the purpose of forcing a discontinuance of the ownership of the stock of the Wa- bash, Missouri Pacific and Iron Moun- tain companies and the control ot these three companies, two of which are 'paralleling and competing lines, by the same interests and to force a discontinuance of the ownership of the stock by these companies in the Pa- cific Express company, American Re- frigerator-Transit company, Rich Hill Coal Mining company, Western Coal and Mining company and the Kansas- Missouri Elevator company. By this stock ownership these roads have, in fact, been engaging in business not authorized by their charters and pro- hibited by the constitution and laws of the state. The forfeiture of the charters of the coal mining companies and of the Kansas-Missouri Elevator company is prayed for, the license of the Pacific Express company and the American Refrigerator Transit com- pany to do business in the state is asked, but the forfeiture of the char- ters of the railroad companies is asked for only in case they should fail to discontinue, within a definite time, these usurpations, should the courts so order. Illegal practices exist to'a greater or less extent in the case of a number of other Missouri roads and other suits will be begun as soon as the work in my office will permit.” Chief Justice Gantt of the supreme court made quo warranto writs asked by Attorney General Hadley return- able in the supreme court on Jan. 23, upon. which day the defendants must gations in Hadley’s petition. —_—— R e e NORTHLAND TRADE . ELEGTS NEW OFFIGERS Charles B. Gale, the- President, Wil Move to Bemidji.—Lunn and Melges Re-elected. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Northland Trade company was held yester- day,and the officers and direct- ors for the: ensuing year were elected, as follows: _ President, Charles B. Gale. Vice president, C. T. Ekstrand, Secretary-treasurer, John D. Lunn, Directors, A. A. Melges and Jno. F. Spencer., Mr. Gale, the president of the company, resides in New York, and is a member' of the New York Produce Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and several other produce annd grain exchanges. He visited in Bemidji last fall, and was so favorably impressed with this city that he has de- cided to make his home here. He will move from New York to Bemidji some time during this year. C. T. Ekstrand, who succeeds 0. C. Simonson as vice president, was formerly assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Cloquet. e = resided here during the past ten months, in charge of the North- land Produce ‘company’s * busi- ness men and .are taking their place among the progressive citizens of thistommunity. New Ofticers Fire Department. At the regular meeting of the fire department held last even- ing, the following officers “were elected: Chiet, Earl Geil (re-elected); assistant chief, John Pogue (re- elected);.secretary, Albert Hal- vorson.. A. H. Harris was re- elected secretary of the relief association.. John Gioodman was re-elected as treasurer of both the department and the relief association. -The reports of the department and the relief association wer) laid over uantil the next regular meeting. - Messrs, Lunn and Melges hase_ ness. Both are substantial busi--