Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1907, Page 1

VOLUME 4. NUMBER 266 BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1907 pa — THE BEMIDJI DATLY PIONEE WMINNESCTA HISTORICA SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS - OF CITY COUNCIL SEATED| Accept Appointment of Charles Knox as Chief of Folice--- Appointment of Officers Improveme: The regular meeting of the city council was held last evening, and as this was the first meeting of the newly elected | council there were quite a pum- ber of spectators present. The couancil for the coming year isto be composed of the following persons: First Ward; W. N. Bowser, William McCuaig.- Second Ward; Thomas Smart, Anton Erickson. Third Ward; L G. Kinch, John Washburn. Fourth Ward: Georgs MeTggart, Fred Brink- man. A short communication from Mayor-elect Pogue was read in which he appointed Charles Knox as chief of Police and John C Ciine Captain. The balance of the police appointments were with held for a short time as Mayor Pogue deemed it best to have one or two patrolmen in citizens clothes. After the reading of the min- utes of the previous meeting and the usual allowance of bills the matter of the several appoint- ments was taken up and the following appointive offices filled: Chairman protera, W. N. Bow- ser; City attorney. John F. Gib-| bons; Street commissioner, James R. Miller; Water com- missioner, James R. Miller; Chief engineer of fire depart- ment, John McEiroy, Assistant | engineer and Janitor of city hall, Tim Quinn; City health officer, Made---New Council Plans nts for City Dr. Ward; City Scavenger, Charles Freiland; Sexton,}§S. N. i Reeves. The report of L. G. Pender- gast, justice of the peace was filed and accepted by the coun- cil. The matter of the securing of the back reports of O. M. Skin- vik was referred to the city at- torney. The application for liquor license of Wold & Nelson was accepted and ordered published. Tne resignations of 8. C. Bailey, N. W. Helmer and D. E, Smith as chief, captaia and patrolman of the police force were ordered filed. The petition of Chester Snow for permission to erect a build- ing contrary to the fire ordinance within the fire limits was re- ferred to Councilmen Smart, McCuaig and Erickson to in- vestigate and report same at next meeting. The city clerk was instructed to advertise for bids for the city printing, bids t» be opened at the next meeting. The bonds of Robert Clark and M. G. Slocum as justices of the ipeace, Thomas Maloy as city clerk, and J. E Cabhill,as assessor were approved. The city treasurer’s bond was fixed at $20,000 and the street commissioner’s bond at $500. A resolution was passed grant- ing the Commercial club the use of the council rooms this evening. _— NORTH COUNTRY IS PLAGE FOR THE TRUGK FARMER A. J. McGuire, Superintendent North- east Experimental Farm, Gives Brother Farmers Pointers. The question is still being asked: What is the future of Northeastern Miannesota? The question might also be asked, “What is the matter with north- ern Minnesota since tha rank and file of emigration is still passing on into western Can- ada?” The futvure of Northern Min- nesota is no longer s speculation. [tis only a matter of time. Its agr.cuitur:l possibilities are past the experimental stage. 'y here are various reascns why it is not receiving its share of cmigration, but more particu- larly due to the fact that in the past its disadvantages were bet. ter known than its advantages. While Northern Minnesota has considerable land which is untit at the present time for agricul- ture, it also has millions of acres that are well adapted to profit- able farming, and tho time is now come whan this land should | bo farmed B Already Northeastern Minne- sota has the greatust iron mining industry of the world. At the brad of Lake Superior prepara- tivns are being made for manu-| facture that will rival the East- ern cities During the year 1905 10,000 car loads of vegetables other than potatoes were shipped into Duluth and Superior. Practically | all of this was grown outside of northern Minnesota. The same may be said of the butter, meat and eggs consumed in Duluth and tributary cities. The point is this: Northern Minnesota through its minng, manufacturing and ehipping in- dustries, is fast developing what is to be the largest and best mar- ket for farm products in the state, and in fact in the whole northwest. This being the case ‘ib is self-evident that the agri- | cultural lands of northern Min- nesota will be used for that pur- | pose, and it is to the interest of | the whole state to assist in the ‘development { The floating population and e‘adventurous class fostered by jthe lumbering 1dustry is being ireplaced by permanent settlers. | An industry which is for the ‘lasting development of the {country isin its beginning: That jof farming. The system of farm- iing we take up and the intelli- J,fience we use in our work will determine our progress. There is a right and a wrong system of |fa.rming and it is the part of i wisdom in the beginning to be- | gin right. The Northeast Experi- ' ment Station has been working {out a system of farming for this siction of the state, and this system will be given in succeed- ing bulletius, f The greater part of northern Minnesota is adapted by nature to agriculture, and whatever its | possibilities may be in mining ‘and manufacture, it is only through agriculture that the {greatest good may be brought jabout for the greatest number of people. —A. J. McGuire. A Pleasant Surprise. A number of the members of Et‘he D. of H. and A. O. U. W. i gatbered at the home of Mrs. S. i N. Keeves, the occasion being {her birthday. They were not invited and the affair, of course, was a complete surprise to Mrs. Reeves. The evening was spent in playing games and social dis- jcourse. i Warrants Payable. Notice is hereby given that | there is money in the treasury to pay all outstanding warrants registered prior to January 1, 1907, and that interest will cease on same on and after thirty days from the date of this notice. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 4th day of March, 1907, —Earl Geil, City Treasurer This Evening b G 50 4 Commercial Club To Meet A meeting of the Commercial Club will be held in the council rooms this evening, to- which all members of the association are urgently requested to be present. G. E. CARSON, Treasurer WILL ASK RESIGNATIONS OF TWO STATE GRUISERS Timber Board Incensed—Section - of Timber Land Near Bemidji In- volved in Controversy. St. Paul, March 5.—A regular meeting of the state timber board was held in the office of Governor Johnson Saturday and rumor had it that, as a resolu- tion, the board will ask for the resignations of two timber cruisers, T. S. Finney and A. L. Bachuller. It is alleged by some that the board is much incensed at the action of the cruisers in going before committees ¢f the legislature and testifying as to the sale of certain timber lands. The cruisers testified before a joint committee of the house and senate, Thursday evening, ap- pointed to investigate the state’s rights relative to the pine and timber lands. Mr. Bacheller stated that one section of timber near Bemidji, in Beltrami county, bad been disposed of for $200, and was worth ten times that much. Under cross-examination Mr. Bacheller said that the particular section near Bemidji had been brought to the attention of the state timber board, which had sent three cruisers toinvestigate how much timber was on the land and whether all that was cut had been paid for. The cruisers made a hasty ex- amination, Mr. Bacheller said, and reported to the board that all of the timber that had been cut had been paid for by the lumber concern which, it is said, bought the timber. Upon this report the state timber board decided not to prosecnte the firm. The cruiser said that he then went to the office of the surveyor general of logs, and that he found that 500,000 feet of timber had been cut. He reported this to the special counsel in the at- torney general’s office. Mr. Bacheller said further that when he made his report nothing had been done in the matter of prosecuting the lum- ber company. None of the members of the timber board, Governor Johnson, Attorney General Young and State Auditor Iverson, would commit themselves as to what the timber board discussed to- day. Govarnor Johnson said that Bacheller and Finney still had twenty cases or so to look after for the state, and that they would be allowed to follow up these cases. Hold Caucus at Nymore. At the village of Nymore the following caucus ticket hss been nominated: President, O. J. Tag- ley; Trustees, Willis Nye, E. Staf- ford and E Newman; Recorder, G. E. Lasher; treasurer, H.R. Trask; assessor, M. Larson; jus- tice, G. A. Hoffman; constable, Tom McManus, NORVAL BAPTIE BREAKS WORLD'S SKATING RECORD The Bathgate Skater, Well Kr;own [ Here, Cleaning Up Everything | in the East. Pittsburg,March 5.—The quar- ter-mileindoor ice-skating record {was broken last night by Norva! Baptie, the Canadian champion, covered the distance in :38 1.5. The former record was made at the garden last week by Morris Wood, whose mark was :40 3-5. within 10 seconds of his world’s straight-away record made last year. Baptie also captured the one- mile race from Johnny Niellson last night, going the distance in 2:49 35, although he loafed on| the stretch. The half mile race, NORVAL BAPTIE skated backward, was won by Jack McCulloch, Baptie was second and Bellefuille third. Baptie has visited Bemidji on many occasions, and when his brother owned a rink here, four years ago, he spent most of the winter in this city, He skated three races here against Neillson of Minneapolis, champion at that time, and won but one of them. Heis a very gentlemanly young fellow, and his victory at Pitts- burg over the arrogant Neillson will be a source ef considerable satisfaction to the Bemidji friends of Baptie. Trustees Meet Thursday evening. The trustees of the Norwegian Lutheran church will hold an im- portant meeting at the church Thursday evening March 7, at 8 o’clock. All members of the board are requested to be pre- sent. K. K. Roe, clerk of board Meet Friday Evening. The regular mouthly business meeting of the Epworth League will be held at the home of Mr, and Mrs. G. E, Moyer Friday evening. They will be enter- tained by the Misses Beth Hor- ton and Inez Woodruff. Additional local matter will be found ‘nn fourth page. at Duquesne garden, when he | Baptie's record last mnight is) in 1:30 1:5.] i | i RIGHES GOING TO WASTE IN THE NOXIOUS WEEDS Some of the So-called Worthless Weeds of Untold Value to Other Crops. In the wise economy of nature, nothing is misplaced, nothing 1s wasted, nothing is utterly use- less, has long been an axiom of those who have devoted their lives to the study of the great mother’s ways, says the Duluth Evening Herald. If they have failed to find any use for different varieties of products, they have never blamed nature herself but have ounly redoubled their exer- tions to extract or compel her secrets from her. Everyone can remember how for years and years the Canada thistle and the cactus were placed side by side as absolutely useless pests of the farmers of the sec- tions where they flourished. Then, all of a sudden, investi- gators discovered that both of these thorny, spiny weeds possessed great and varied values and they are no longer despised by intelligent agriculturists. The national agricultural de- partment, part of the business of which is to search out the secrets of nature, has published recently a bulletin in which it declares that the average American farm- er has riches goiog to waste in many kinds of so calleG noxious wieds that are destroyed ruth- lessly. It avers that millions of dollars may be made each year by the farmers if they will study their weeds and keep in touch with the demands of commerce. One of the most profitable of these weeds, the moderate culti vation of which would pay better than wheat or any other staple crop, is the heretofore despised and reviled jimson weed. Such uses have been found for it that leaves, stalks and seedsare in steady demand. Equally valu- able is the lowly poke root, the bane of many thousands of farmer boys. Burdock and yel- low-dock are imported in goodly quantities because the American farmer will not take even the trouble to dig them upand pre- pare them for market. Other weeds are in the same category. Of course, if the farmers or farmers’ boys should go exten- sively into the cultivation of the weeds named in the list, present profitable prices would fall to a level to make cultivation useless. But, nonetheless, the agricultur- st, and their children should not berate and consign to a warmer climate the hated weeds until, atleast, they shall learn whether nature did not place them on the farms for wise pur- poses. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Norwegian Lutheran church will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. D. Backlun, 1115 Bemidji avenue at 2 o’clock. Local News on last page. UPHOLDS THE MEASURES PROVIDED IN CLAPP LAW Prominent Duluth Man Claims Clapp Law Is Alright---The Measure Alliws Mixed Reservation to The sale by half breeds on the White Earth reservation of their individual allotments and the stories of dealings between land men and the full bloods, repre- senting themselves of mixed blood has caused a great deal of comment. A promiment Duluth man, who has had extensive dealings with Minnesota Indians for many years and who has a large per- sonal acquaintance among them, made the following statement with rcgard to the current mat- ter challenging the attention of all who are interested in the affairs of the Indians: “The act passed by the last congress, known as the Clapp law, empowering the mixed bloods on the White Earth reser- vation to sell their allotments, is agood law and a- move in the right direction. The only fault to be found with it is that it does not go far emough. It should extend toall the reservations in Minnesota and in the country. It would be better still if the government would give all the Indians, mixed bloods and full bloods, perfect title to their al lotments, and the same right to sell them thata white man has to dispose of his property It would be better still if the gov- ernment would go still further and pay over to the Indians— in full to every Indian in sever- alty, as fast as he reaches the age of maturity—all the money due the different tribes for tim ber and land sold. “The way to get the best re- sults from an Indian or a white' man is to put him on his own re- sources. Then it isa case of survival of the fittest. If any Indian or mixed blood does not want to use his allotment and prefers to sell it he should be al- lowed to do so. Then if he wants to squander the proceeds of the sale let him do so, and the sooner he has to get down to work fora ! living the better. the government treating the Indians as wards or children is a mistake, “Under the old laws aund rul- ings of the department if the heirs desired to dispose of the allotment of a deceased Indian it must be sold through the agent, who would deposit the money in a bank and eke it out to the heirs as he took a notion. “The fact is that a large ma- jority of the mixed bloods on the This idea of | Bloads on White Earth Sell Allotments. | White Earth reservation, and many of the fall bloods, are bet- ter capable of handling their per- sonal affairs than the agents are to handle them for them. And I do not mean this as any reflec- tion on the present Indian agents i Minnesota, as I believe them to be exceptionally good men for their positions. ‘“Certain interests have always opposed any policy that tended to allow the Indian to handle his own property, especially his tim- ber lands, because they would rather buy his timter and land from government officials than the open market. These inter- ests are now proclaiming the Clapp law a failure and insist that full bloods are posing as half breeds and selling their allots ments illegally. This matter only interests the Indians and the land buyers, and I don’t know why any of the rest of us should worry about it. Some of these Indians may practice fraud in their land transactions. If they do they will not be the only ones. “There are over 10,000 Indians and living on the frontier who are brought into contact with the rougher element of the white people, yet [ will venture the as- sertion that there isn’t a village or community in the state of Minnesota or in this country con- taining a like number of white ‘people whose record of crime for the last ten years is notlarger than that of these Minnesota Indians, It would not be strange if the : Indians were dishonest in view Iof the example set for them by ithe government. While it may inot be the intention of its officials i to treat the Indians unfairly, the fact is that about the blackest page in the history of our gev- ernment is the record of its |transactions with the Indians. | The sooner we get our conscience jand good sense at work and pay the [ndian what we owe him, and turn over to him such prop- erty as belongs to him, not only in the White Earth reservation {but on every reservation in the | country, the better it will be for all concerned, and it is certainly ja move in the right direction that the half breeds on the White Earth reservation have been given the right to sell their allot. ments without interference cn the part of government officisls or other interests, ” —_—ee = ADJOURNED SESSION OF THE GOUNTY BOARD Petitions for New School Districts and * Other Matters of Importance Being Discussed. Aun adjourned session of the county board is being held at the court house and a large amount of routine business be- ing transacted. At the opening of the session anumber of county bonds as well as bonds of band depositor- ies were approved. An appropriation of $300.00 was granted the village of Bau- dette out of the road and bridge fund for assistance in the build- ing of a bridge accross the Bau- dette river, : Kyle & Young and Hassett & Treflin were each granted a re- fundment of $396.08, same being granted upon showing made be- fore the board that license had been paid.to the village. A number- of abatement of taxes have been under consider- ation, of which some have been disallowed and the balance re- commended for cancellation or abatement. | i (M. & I TO BETTER TELEGRAPH SERVIGE 4A No. 2 Wire to Be Strung From Be- | midji to Big Falls---Work to Com- I mence in About Ten Days. [ The Minnesota & International i Railway company has decided to extend their telegraph service and a number 2 wire will ‘be strung from hera to Big Falls; The cempany now has two good lines to Bemidji and this will give them additional service to the Canadian boundary. g W. A. Ferris, lineman for the company, says the work will commence about the 20th of this month and he expects to have a sufficient force of men to beg;en- abled to complete the work in thirty days. S Loeal news on last page. i e and mixed bloods in Minnesota . H 1