Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 25, 1907, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE VOLUME 4. NUMBER 234 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1907 SURRENDERS TRAFFIC TO THE BIG SNOW BLOCKADE The Conditions on the Soo Line Are in a Chaotic State.--- Officials of That Line Take Off All Trains for Five Hundred Miles. Minneapolis, Jan, 24.—(Special ) stalled from Devils Lake to to the Pioneer.)—Surrendering | Minot. temporarily to the snow block- Staple commodities are run- ade, the Soo line has abandoned |ning low and even the news- traffic on its main line between |papers are hampered by alack of Glenwood and Pasqua, Sask., a|print paper and job stock. Mer- distance of 500 miles. chants report a scarcity of all Today, on the advice of Gen-|staple goods. eral Superintendent George R. At Rugby yesterday the farm- Huntington, who is at Enderh, [ers lay in ambush for a freight N. D., where he is attempting to'train laden with coal destined clear the line, the coast traffic was handled over the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Pacific. The main line between Glen- wood and Pasquaa is snow bound, having been visited with another heavy storm yesterday. The tie up takes two daily pas- senger trains off and leaves the people along the line without mail or a chance to get out. Minot, N. D., Jan. 24.—(Spe- cial to the Pioneer.)—Minot is completely isolated from the out- side world. There have been no trains on the Soo since Saturday night in either direction. The Great Northern has not had a train in the city for over 48 hours. A snow slide in the mountains is said to have buried a freight! train and traffic from the west will not be resumed for several days. West bound trains are for points beyond. The train stopped for water and the farm- ers made a rush for the cars. They had no trouble in locating the coal. The doors of the cars were ripped open and it was not very long before the farmers were driving home with their wagon boxes laden with fuel. The employes of the company did not interfere in the least, but let them take the fuel. Tales are being told of a fuel shortage .all along the lines. About Mohall the telephone poles are being cut for six- miles. These are being used to tide the settlers over until fuel arrives. The ladies of the Presbyterian church and some of their friends have been busy the past month getting ready for their play, “Parson Poor’s Donation Party.” This will be given at the city hall this evening. STATE AID IS WANTED T0 BUILD NEEDED ROAD The Road Would Be of Great Benefit to Farmers Living South of Bemidii. There is a movement on foot among a number of the resi- dents of Hubbard county, living directly south of Bemidji, look- ing to the soliciting of aid from the state for the making of a good wagon road directly from the village of Akeley to Bemidji. As conditions are now, there is practically no road from the south country by which the farmers living in the vicinity of Nary, Guthrie, Laporte and the other smaller places south of here can go back and forth from their homes to Bemidji or Ake- ley. A good road should be pro- vided for the use of these farm- ers with an outlet to good markets for their wecod or farm products, and also give them excellent trading marts. At present, there is but one road that is worthy of the name of a highway which can be used for any distance into Hubbard county south of Bemidji, and that is from this city to Lake George, not touching the villages on the M. & I., to the east, The route proposed by those suggesting the road is a feasible one, and the services of the rep- resentatives in the legislature from this and the Hubbard county districts should be se- cured at once for the work of assisting in procuring state aid in building the road. TEN CENTS PER WEEK SAYS IT'S HARD TO GET MEN FOR WOODS W. B. Sherman Tells Duluth Herald of Conditions as They Have Prevailed in'North Country. MANY MORE LABORING MEN ARE WORKING THIS YEAR THAN LAST Too Much Snow, and Weather Very Cold for Employes in the Woods. W. B. Sherman, the ‘‘man catcher” for Ross & Ross, has been down to Duluth, and he gave out the following to the Du- luth Herald: “I never saw.it 8o hard to get men for the woods.as itis right now. “Ihave been in Duluth for a week, representing one of the larger logging companies operating in Northern Minnesota and while I have rounded up a few lumberjacks, I have not got- tennearly enough to fill the order. The crew isn’tlarge enough to pay me for returning with it, in fact, I have sent the men up by themselves. ' Our camps are in the Kelliher, district, up the Minnesota & International. “This is a bad season of the year to get help for the woods. The men are coming into town, and they dislike to return to the camps again, prefering to wait awhile and get in some.other line of employment. The cold wea- ther has something to do with this dislike. Other companies ITASGA PAPER GOMPANY DOING FINE BUSINESS A: C. Bossard Says the Paper Mill is Principal Industry at Grand Rapids. The Itasca Paper company, which owns a large millat Grand Rapids, is enjoying a large busi- ness, at the present time, and the operation of the paper-mak- ing plant at the “Rapids” is of great benefit to that town, according to A. C. Bossard, gen- eral mansger of the company, who was in Bemidji yesterday. Mr. Bossard states that the mill, which bas a capacity for turning out twenty-five tons-of | paper every day, is being run the entire twenty-four hours, and that everything is running smoothly at the plant. For some time after the mill was established at Grand Rapids, much trouble was experienced in operating the ‘plant, owing to the low stage of the water in the river, which * furnished the power. This was caused by the closing of the gates of the goy- ernment dam at Pokegema. How- ever, the dams are being oper- ated differently, at present, and there is ample flow of water for all purposes,-as far as the mill is concerned, There ‘is a large demand for the paper manufactured at Grand Rapids, -but the Itasca company supplies but little out- side of regular firms at Des- Moines, Omaha, St, Joseph and Kansas City. The. company. could supply a much larger LEGISLATIVE SOLONS ARE DOING MUCH BUSINESS Special Correspondent of the St. .Paul, Minn., Jan. 24— (Special to the Pioneer.)—The legislature met again Tuesday, after a three days’ adjournment, and the real work of the session began then. More than twice as many bills have already been introduced as in any correspond- ing period during former ses- sions, and many of them are of great importance. Pioneer Tells of Measures of Interest to Northern Minnesota.---Associated Press Report of Legislative Proceedings Yesterday. (By Associated Press.) St. Paul, Jan. 24—The election of Senator Knute Nelson of Alexandria for another six-year term was com- pleted when the senate and the house met in joint session and confirmed the election made Tuesday. The joint sossion was held at noon and there were no speeches or demonstrations of any kind. The roll of both houses was_called and the journals of both houses relating- to the election ‘on Besides this | Tuesday were read. Since Senator a large number of investigations|Nelson had a majority * of the votes are on foot into the affairs of some of the public service cor-) porations. Among the more mport.ani measures introduced so far are several rate reduction bills and| 2.cent passenger fare, reciprocal demurrage, county -option. bills. An anti-rebate bill is to bs. intro- duced by Lennon, of Minne- apolis, providing for imprison- ment of from one to - tenyears for railway officials giving re- bates, ‘and making it a mis- demeanor for anyone to receive or-solicit a rebate. Bjorge, of Becker, has a bill for licensing dogs, a state license of $2 being required for males and $3 for females. = The money 80 received is to be used 1n testablishing a Pssteur institute under control of the state, where ‘east in each house and a majority of éach house was present on Tuesday he was elected and. the .- speaker so.de- [elared.. - Secretary of State Jullus A ,!arwnrded the.certificate of election to the Benator at Washisigton.: Joint Tesolutions miemorializing con- gress and asking the repeal -of the \ariff on lumber and wheat were intro- duced. in the legislature. Senator: G. P. Wilson of Minneapolis introduced & wheat resolution In the senate and lumber resolutions were Introduced in both houses by Senator S. A. Nelson in the senate and Representative J. A. Gates of Kenyon in the house. ~ * ‘The resolutions-all provide that the Minnesota senators and -representa- tives in congress be requested forth- with to inftiate and work for legisla- tion that will at once secure the plac- Ing of these products on the free Iist and the complete and absolute repeal of all tariff duties pertaining to them. 8afe and Sane Fourth of July. A “safe and sane” Fourth of July is the purpose of a bill introduced in the house by Henry W. Libby of Winona. The bill permits no sort of demon- stration of an explosive nature axcept e quantity,-could the mill manu- facture it, but the capacity of the plant is taxed to fill orders already received, which take the entire output. all “persons bitt:n by dogs small - firecrackers: It ‘prohibits” ab- afflicted with rabbies are to re:|#olutely the manufacture, sale, use or 3 to: B ceive treatment free of charge. :83;{,“:," :rt other a;:: m’;é’m, ulply! The report of the State Board of | containing dynamite, ~or firecrackers 5 Health shows that Minnesota is|more ‘:‘:’; :z“{ng"’l’:sd}m;“ three- = second on the list of states inthe| g 0 Morse of Slayton has Intro- Union 1n number of cases of|duced a Lill in the house designed to are having the same trouble. A few men quit every week, and in the aggregate, when a com- pany has fifteen or twenty camps, the total is quite a considerable one, making it necessary o se- |GI0US DOGS BECOMING cure more woodsmen every once ; ; Akt n rabbies, which is certsinly|5top: clgarette smoking. penalty of in a while. The men this winter ALTOGETHER TOO BOLD e B Avonsthe" antiiels ::d::}::dft;;rfl:fiefl:::o::e:;::‘m are very independent, and poor workmen for the most part, It takes f:.bou% twoof them to do|Qwners Should- Tie Them Up, or an ordinary man’s work. Several Suits for Damages May “My company recently re- * Ensue. ceived a steam hauler for use in 3 thewoods. Themachineisagreat invention. It will pull half a dozen sleighs at one fime, and the sleighs can be loaded to their full capacity, with room for not another log on them. The speed is six miles an hour, so you see the hauler has teams beaten all to pieces. The roads are in fine which have run at large with the| fine 1s made $100 to $500. :s leu of a i i i fine the penalty 18 made thirty days rabbies and communicated it to for the firet offonse and thirty dava to others in the state during the There is every prospect that there will be a general uprising of citizens in a common move- ment to exterminate a score or more of useless dogs, whose own- ers have been cautioned to either place their canines where they can do no harm or kill them, six months for a second offense. last year-are 85 dogs, 1 horse, 1] “Two bflls for the nomination of cow. Others afflictd but killed | ate officers by direct primarles wero offered in the house, omne by 5 before they did any. damage are|Rockne of Zumbrota and the other by 127 dogs, 14 sheep, 7 horses, 8| John Saugstad of Climax. Both of the hi 23 4 1 Onp’ hundred 'nd bills come: In the form of amendments 08s, ca 5 ,e n .re : 2 to the new code and make the whole ninety-six-dogs were killed on|change by striking out the clause ex- an suspicion. -~ These figures do not “P':fll "Wfl officers from. primary . B nominations. : include St. lf’a.nl and M.h.melpoh.s, ‘Gas inspection in the thres large where the city authorities are in| cities of Minnesota s provided in a charge. bill introduced in the house by Will- fam Brown of St. Paul. State super- A bill has been, introduced in{ viston of gas plants is the tntention of the senate for the esnblluhment the bill. A state gas Insp is to Books > Beginning the New Year early every business will need new sets of books. shape now for its operation, and plenty hard enough and solid enough to sustain the heavy weight. “A good many more men are employed inthecampsof Northern Minnesota this year than there were last, and the total cut :of timber will be larger than usual. Iinclude in this the cedar, pulp- wood, etc, There may not be any more cut than there was a year ago, but more camps are established in the cedar ‘and spruce belts than ever before. The company- I represent gets The Pioneer carries a full line of books and an in- spection of the stock will show that we carry all sizes, styles and bindings of books. We have the two, three, our and five column day books and journals. A good line of cash books; a well selécted stock of ledgers, single or double entry, one hundred to eight, hun- dred pages. out ‘cedar almost entirely, al- though we cut a certain amount of pine.” Lovely Weather, Down South. Harvey Woodward, son of Mr. and Mrs. C, C. Woodward, little knows the pain he is causing his parents, also his sister, Miss Blanche, by writing such a letter as was received by the latter a few days ago, from Ardmore, Indian Territory, where Harvey is now living. In the letter, Harvey enclosed & bunch of blooming violets which he declares were picked by him- self and a Mr. Moore the day the letter was sent. - He also in- timates that the weather down there is balmy and all kinds of flowers are in bloom. Woodward family. We are now reveling in some six feet of snow (and this just on the_level as it {fell), with the thermometer Of late there have been many complaints lodged with Chief of Police Bailey and Superintendent Ritchie, concerning the vicious acts of several dogs whose own- ers live in the north end of town and unless the ' warnings of the officers and the superintendent are heeded, there is very liable to be action taken in court to do away with the nuisance. It was but a few days ago, when one of the teachers: at the high school building was set up- on by one of the numerous curs that frequent the community, with the result that a valuable coat that the teacher wore was badly torn and utterly ruined. Children; gomg and coming from school have been attacked by these dogs, and complaints are many as._-to the viciousness of the brutes. The chy charter confers no authority upon the chief of police or any other city official | power the only recourse is asuit against the owners of the dogs for dam- ages. Itis more than hkely that several suits will be brought against the owners of these dogs registering around 40 degrqeq (their names are known) unless the dogs are taken care of at once. below zero, and great fear pos: This is hardly fair to the-sassing the hearts of the good farmers hereabouts lest the banana crep be ruined, ; Harvey lived here, at one time, and he knows how it is, himself. Local News on last page, to destroy any dogs, and about; of a normal school at Cass Lake. The writer happens to know. that the leading-educators of the'state arein favor of another normal! further north, the one of Maor- head being' ‘crowded far bgyond its capmn.y, but ‘we havé only. heard of two places being men- tioned as the desirable location— Bemidji and Thief River’ Falls. Beltrami county’s - representa- tives this session are the right kind* ‘Senator ‘Hanson is - mak- ing himself felt m the: senate, and was given some of the best committee assignments, faring better than many of theold mem- bers m this respect ‘Mr. Opsahl was the only ‘one of the new members in the honse from the ninth district to get a commiltee chhirmanship on emigration. It is perhaps needless for me to say to:those that know him that he is making good—nothmg else wonld be expected by you folks who know him. Another drainage. blll has been introduced in the house, giving township officials the power to lay out and construct drainage ditches, somewhat in the same manner as counties do now. Holten, of Polk county, has a bill changing the date of the pri- mary election to the third Tues- day in June, which will probably be far more Batisfactory to the farming districts of the state and as good as kny ov.her time to t.be resti: e - MARTIN. be appointed by the governor for a term of two years. He is to Inspect and test at-least twice each year the #as plants, kind and quality of gas end material used, the receptacles and the pressure. State ‘Immigration Bureau. Bills for the establishment of a state fmmigration bureau were introduced {in both houses, in the house by Elias <Rachie of ‘Madison and in the senate (by.L. O. "Thorpe of Willmar. The . board is to have five members, the governor, -the state auditor ‘and the state treasurer and two others se- lected by them, and serve without ‘compensation. The board shall elect for an indefinite term a general execu- tveo agent to be known as the “com- missioner of immigration.” > His dutles shall be to collect sta- tistics and- information showing the advantages of the'state as a.place of residence and to spread this informa- tlon by correspondence, mesuengers. public lectures and all formsof, leg!'.l mate advertising. Life insurance companies are given an incentive to keep out of .politics this state by a bill introduced by Sefia- tor Fosseen. . The incentive %8 in the form of a fine of $1,000 and im- prisonment for not over one year tor fallure to comply with the request con- tained in the act. It provides that no insurance company, including fratersial beneficlary assoclations, doing busi- ness In the state, shall directly or tn- | directly pay, use or agree to pay any ‘money or property for or in aid of any political party, committee or organiza- tion maintained for polmgu Purposés or for or in ald of any candidate for political office, or for nomination for ‘puch office, or for any political pur- pose whatever, or for the reimburge- ment or indemnification of any person for money or property so used.. The resolution calling for the con- solidation of the investigation into va- rious alleged monopolistic organiga- tlons and investigations- into the state’s rights in pine and mineral lands and the methods of taxation of ores and ore_lands, under three heads and the appointment of three commit- tees to take charge of all of the pro- posed. Investigations, was adopted by