Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 29, 1907, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER. VOLUME 5. NUMBER 9 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1907. TEN CENTS PER WEEK OUTSIDE TOWNS PREPARE FOR THE BASEBALL SEASON Local Movement at a Standstill, Awaiting the Call of W.J. Price of Fargo for a Meeting of the Representatives of the Proposed Prairie League. The baseball situation in this|called by President._ Price and city is still somewhat at a stand-| Will be able to give positive as- still, awaiting the call for a meet-|SUrance that they will havea team for the league. Bemidji bas raised enough money to guarantee a team and even should all the teams except has been|Fargo, Grand Forks, Crookston and Bemidji back out this would make a very fair league which wouvld furnish some royal sport this summer. ing of those interested in the formation of the proposed “Prairie League.” Nothing further heard from Mr. Price of Fargo, but it is ¢xpected that that gentleman will be out with a call for a meeting within a few days. In the meantime, no contracts have yet been made with players for the local team, and unless something is done within a few days several first-class players who have been available will have signed elsewhere. Moving Slowly at “Jimtown.” Jamestown, N. D., April 26.— (Special to the Pioneer.)—An ef- fort is being made on the part of some cf the local baseball en- thusiasts to organize a team to enter the Northern league. Suf- Crookston Organizes. ficient talent could be secured Crookston Times: That Crooks- | in the city, and all the boys need ton will have a team in the pro-|powis some financial support posed Prairie League is now an | for the necessary outfitting. A assured fact. The committee|meeting should be held for the was out again yesterday fora!purpose of organizing and ap- short time soliciting funds from | pointing someone to call on the the merchants of the city to help | public for aid, and it is certainty support suchateam and from |that the boyswould notbe turned the success which they have had {down in their effort to make a in raising funds ateam is posi-|showing of what they can do,pro- tively assured. They have only |viding they can get a chance. spent a few hours altogether in this canvass and they have now raised $800 toward the fund. A great many players throughout the valley have been signed to play with Crookston in this league and local boys from the Minnesota side of the Valley will Getting Busy at Bismarck. Bismarck, N. D., April 29.— (Special to Pioneer.)—If North Dakota is to have a baseball league this summer Bismarck is to have a team in the league. A meeting of some of the leading be given the preference in select- ing the team. Among the Crooks- ton boys who have signed are Chas. Handy, Andrew Carlson, Pat Martin and Palyntzky and several others have signified their intention of doing so. Each of these boys will be given a try- out and if they can make good they will be given positions on the team. Crookston will be re- presented atthe next meeting | fans was held last night and it was decided to raise a big bunch of money and elect a manager who will be vested with author- ity to organize the team and make all other arrangements leading up to the opening of the season. Business men and citi- zens generally of this city never were more anxious to have a team in the league and loyal sup- port at this end is assured. On Their Wedding Tour. A. A. Reid and wife of Grand Rapids, spent Saturday night in this city, returning from their wedding trip to the twin cities and points along the south hne of the M. & I. railway. Mr. Reid was but recently married, and the Grand Rapids Herald-Review says of the event: “Mr. A. A. Reid, bookkeeper home of the bride’s parents in Pequot, Minn. The young couple took a brief wedding trip to the Twin cities, and are expected to arrive in Grand Rapids tomorrow or Monday. The groom pur- chased one of the Sherman Cochran houses near the new ward school building, where Mr. and Mrs. Reid will start house- keeping. The bride was a pop- ular schocl teacher in Cass Lake.”’ for Henry Hughes & Co., was married on Wednesday of this week to Miss Lulu Tuttle, at the Mr. Reid has many frieads in Bemidji and they all join with Make Home Beautiful T ¥ ‘We wish to call your attention to this because you are interested. Because we are interested in helping you do this. Because we have established a nursery here in your midst and are in a position to give you hardy northern grown plants and shrubbery. About May first we will be transplanting a good variety of roses, peonies and ornamental shrubs in our new nur- sery, one mile north of the city. At that time we will have a limited number of these choice plants to sell at reas- onable prices, if taken before we transplant them. Mail your address on a postal card addressed to the Itasca Park Region Nursery Co., Box 236, Bemidji, and we will call and take your order for these plants. We also have a few fine box elders, ash trees and other . fine shade trees, as well as a number of choice fruit trees and shrubbery. 9y Y Itasca Park Region Nursery Co. Bemidji, Minnesota GIRL WANDERS IN WOODS; HAS A ROUGH EXPERIENCE Miss Nellie 0’Dowd, a 19-Year-0ld School Teacher ‘c_)f Cass County, Is Prostrated by Fright and Exposure Walker, Minn., April 29.— (Special to Pioneer.)—Hopelessly lost, Miss Nellie O’'Dowd, the 19- year-old teacher of District No. 2 in Gould township, wandered twenty five miles through the wildest part of Cass county, in constant danger of losing her life in the swamps or through attacks by wild beasts. Her friends had no reason to believe her lost, and she was saved only by happening to find the shack of a homesteader who took her to better shelter. Later she was borne five miles on a stretcher. She has been laid up for a week as a result of her ex- perience, but will reopen her school Monday morning. Miss O’Dowd had planned to accompany a Miss Nelson to a party at the home of Charles Amburst, and a little before 2 o’clock in the afternoon she called at the Nelson home, but found her friend unable tc go. However, she decided to make the trip alone after Miss Nelson told her how to reach the Am- burst place, and she started to follow the trail through the woods. Miss O’Dowd had no difficulty for some time, but the way be- came indistinct, and she hurried along to pass the place, Sudden- ly she found that the trail had en to the Elements. tirely disappeared. She retraced her steps but could not find it again, and with a constantly in- creasing fear she hurried for- ward in what she believed to be the right direction. After al- most running for some time, she did not know how long, she rea- lized that she had lost her way completely, but the mnervous strain which she was under, im- pelled her to keep moving,though she had no idea where she was going. The partof the county which she was traversing, 1s one of the wildest -sections in Nor- thern Minnesota, and she knew the dangers of being out in the woods all night, The region is cut up by swamps, besides being the home of nearly every kind of wild thing, native to the state. As it got toward evening the thickness of the woods increased and she stumbled about, doing her best to keep to one direction, though she had no idea where her course would lead her to. At 7 o’clock she came upon the home of Lars Nelson, a bachelor home- steader in the Bear river coun- try, twenty-five miles from the house from which she had started at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The man hitched up his team and took her to the home of Mr. Wyerenem®a, who occupies a home district supposed that she had stayed with Miss Nelson, and the latter thought the teach- er had gone to the party, so none felt any anxiety about her. The first that was known of her hav- ing been lost was on the follow- ing morning, when they met and compared notes. A search was begun at once, the mea scouring the woods in the vicinity in which Miss -O’'Dowd had started out. During the afternoon word was received that she was at the Wy- ereneman homestead, and a party with-a team went after her, When they had got within five miles of the homestead it was found that the team could be taken no further on account of the swamps and rivers, and sev- eral of the younger men walked to the homestead and brought the girl back-on a stretcher, as ‘she was unable‘to belp herself on the journey. She was taken back to her bearding place in the township cf Gould, : Miss O’Dowd was prostrated for a day after returning home, but she has practically recovered from the shock -and exposure. Those who know the woods best cannot understand how the girl could travel twenty-five miles-in that region in the five hours be- tween the time she left Miss Nel- DRAINAGE MAY ADD HALF BILLION TO STATE WEALTH George H. Ralph, Enfiineer Minnesota Drainage Commis- --sion, Shows Marvelous Possibilities From Recla- mation of Swamp Lands. If drairage of swamp lands in Minnesota continues for the next ten years at the rate which it will prevail for the coming ¢wo years, every acre of the 10,000,000 acres of such lands will be drained, and the value raised frem a pure- ly speculative one of $50,000,000 at present, to an actual worth of $500,000,000. : On the same basis, ‘the 1,500- 000 acres of swamp lands in St. Louis and Itasca counties will in- crease in worth from $7,500,000 to $75,000,000. ‘ This is the statement of George H. Ralph of Crookston, state engineer of the drainage commission for -several years past, and a man who today was homestead about five miles away [son’s bome and that at which with his family. she arrived at the lonely home- Miss O’Dowd’s friends in her!stead. moericd souplo svory: auccesa in| PLEAD GUILTY; PAID life, Declamatory Contest Postponed. Cass Lake, April 29.—(Special to Pioneer.) — The declamatory contest between the high schools of Park Rapids, Grand Rapids, Akeley, Bemidji and Cass Lake, which was to have taken place Friday night, has been post- poned, owing to the sickness of several of the speakers, ADJOURNED TERM OF THE DISTRIGT GOURT NOW ON Several Important Cases Taken Up and Disposed of.— Remainder of Term Will Be Brief. —_— The April term of district court for Beltrami, which was adjourned from April 18th to April 29th, was reconvened at 10 o’clock this morning, with Judge Marshall A, Spooner on the bench, The roll call of the petit jury (which bad been excused from 13th inst.) was read by the clerk and showed all members of the jury present with the exception of Thomas Johnson. The first case taken up was that of the state vs. Albert Behlke. On motion of the county attorney, the two cases against Behlke were nolled. Bert Bivins vs. Leigh LeGore Case dismissed on motion of plaintiff. Dickinson vs. Stechman. Con- tinued, by consent. Larkin vs. Nangle. * Continued, 1 allowed to plead, through his at- torney, John Gibbons of this city. The first charge to which Moore sl’uflu Gnun MONEY answered was grand larceny in the second degree. His attorney ST requested that Moore be allowed 1. R. Moore, the Persuasive Seller of | t‘; ;:Illmngelh.he. plea V];h“’l_‘ he midi 7 . at the preliminary hearing—tha Staoks ?nd s_ec“rmes’ ar of not guilty—to guilty, and Mr. raigned in Court. Gibbons explained that Moore had made full restoration:of the 3 amounts secured from Ilocal HAS.MADE RESTORATION OF people. In passing sentence, AMOUNTS SECURED BY FRAUD Judge Spooner fined the defend- lant $500, not imposing any im- prisonment sentence, stating that his leniency in this respect was due to the unanimous re- quest of those whom Moore had victimized. County Attorney Thwing of Has Been An Inmate of Beltrami, County Jail Since December 23, Last. J. R. Moore, the gentleman with the persuasive argument relative to high financing in stocks, securities, etc., and who has been languishing in the Bel- trami county bastile since last December as a result of his finan- Itasca county appeared and read a charge against Moore, in which the latter was accused of grand larceny. in the second degree. Moore-was fined $500 in this case also, and after the fine was paid he was allowed to go., cial deals with several local peo- ple whereof he was accused of forgery, larceny, etc., etc., in district court before Judge Spooner today paid two fines of $500 each for his carelessness in being caught at his own game. Moore was arrested last De- cember, after a considerable of a chase which included the twin cities, Crookston and several other places in the state, being charged with forgery in the th second degree and grand larceny P in the second degree. He was arraigned and bound over to await the action of the grand jury. NEW BAPTIST GHURGH AT MIZPAH- DEDIGATED Rev. Broomfield of This City and Other Pastors Held Meetings _Last Week. . On Wednesday, the 23rd inst.; e new Baptist church at Miz- ah was dedicated. The Rev. E. R. Pope of Minne- apolis preached ' the ' dedicatory sermon. ~ These who took part in . the Moore employed Col. Dodge of |gervices were Mr. -E. Fagen- St. Paul as his counsel, and strom of Minrieapoli, Rev. T. every effort was made to secure| g omfiald of Bem#ji - and‘the by consent. The court made an order re- leasing from 'custody Albert Behlke, who was detained asa prisoner in the Beltrami county jail. This afternoon, the' attention of the court has been occupied with the case of Charles Bru- nelle vs. A, E. Winter. A jury was impaneled and the case has been tried. his release, but without avail, pastor of the Mizpah church, The late .grand jury indicted|Rey, T, M. Gilpin. ¢ Moore, after he had occupied a| Services wére héld every night cell in the county jail since the|qyring the week, conducted by latter part of last December, and | Roy. Broomfield, assisted by, the his cases have attracted more|joca] pagtor, The meefings were than the usual amount of atten- good, ‘resulting in ‘a number of tion, on account of the smooth |, otesged conversions, Rev.Dr. manner in which Moore did his|poligh of Laporte will conduct “high financiering.”” . |the meetings this'week. - _ His cases were called in the - . district court today, and'’he was'® Local news on ghe:la.st_ page. re-elected to the position ata sar- ary advanced ‘from $1,800 to $3,000 a' year. The meeting of the drainage commission was in- formal and the election of Ralph the only business transacted. But- another meeting isto be held Tuesday at which the work of the past year will be reviewed and plans discussed for a cam- paign of state drainage such as has never been undertaken be- fore. Mr. Ralph has heretofore been devoting ‘but. part of his time to state work. Under, the new arrangement, he ‘will have an office in either the old or the new capitol, and devote his en- tire time to the state. Mr. Ralph is perhaps the best posted man to be found on the subject of state swamp lands and their drainage, in view of the fact that this subject has been his to investigate for years past as & business proposition. “ “There is a revival started of land drainage, such as has never been known before,” said Mr. Ralph in an interview today. “This applies to state lands, to county drainage, and to work for the benefit of private proper- ty. Individual counties are go- ing into drainage as never be-|¢ fore, with a belief that no other investment will yield such good returns. Clay county has nearly $300,000 worth of ditches. Wil- kin, Otter Tail, Stearns, Aitkin, Kandiyohi, and other counties are arranging to drain their swamp lands on a ‘scale hereto- fore unheard of in Minnesota. At a conservative estimate, I would say at least $1,000,000 witl be invested in drainage for each of the coming two years, and practically all of it in Northern Minnesota.” State ‘and private lands will both be benefited by the passage of the recent state drainage law. This law appropriates $100,000 for each of the coming two years. Of the annual allowance of 8100, 000, $50,000 is to be ~ used for co- ‘opers,tion with county drainage. Much of it will doubtless be ex- pended in enlarging natural waterways which are becoming overtaxed because of the large number of drainage ditches fed into them. State ditches, under the new law, are to be paid out of assess- ments on abutting and improved swamp lands. Heretofore private corporations holding large wet tracts on speculations, have gained much by state ditches in- directly draining their lands as well as state acreage. The pres- ent law assesses costs to private property for immediate payment where such property is bettered, and where state lands are drained, the assessments are added to the price at which the lands are to be eventually sold. Thus the state drainage appro- priation, to a certain extent, 18 but a revolving fund, to be used temporarily for immediate ex- penses of new ditches. Theswarr plands when drained; - are the richest and most fertile agricultural lands to be found. State authorities believe they will increase in value from $5 to at least $50 per acre when pre- pared for agricultural purposes. The swamp land soils have been analyzed under state direction, and declared to be the most ideal for general agricultural of any soils in the state. An. authentic statement of all swamp lands in Minnesota, as distributed among the counties, has been prepared under direc- tion of the state engineer, and is as follows: County Acres County Acres Aitkin. 520,880 Anoka Blue Earth Oottenwood Crow Wing Freeborn.. Goodhue .. 4,400 Grant . ... 33,000 Hennepin None Houston .. 2,200 4,000 Traverse .. X 42000 Wabasha .. 10240 Kandiyohl 80120 Wadena.... 50,000 Kittson... 184.000 Waseca .... 27,016 Lacqui Parle 51,000 Washington 15,380 708,600 Watonwan 6,000 12,000 Wilkin ... 50,000 ! 1200 Winon 9600 ]Lyon ...... 18,000 Wrigh 3,000 MeLeod .. 9,000 Yel, Med,, 51.000 {Marshall. 15820 Total...... 10,112,720 +- Returning From Canada. Cass Lake Times: Nota few of ‘the land-hungry who strayed off to Alberta and Saskatchewan last fall are coming back, con- tented to let well enough alone, Some of the prodigals are re- ticent and don’t want to be questioned, but others,therough- 1y satisfied that the new Eldorado is a fraud, are notloth to say just what they think. One of our county - farmers went wild with Saskatchewan fever last fall and pulled up all his moorings and sailed for the promised land with all his household goods, cattle, hogs, dogs, cats and children. He has returned and says he has enough of it. Snow four feet deep the middle of April and mercury going down so low that it can’t be found in the morning is too strenuous for the old time Minnesotan and now that he is back his aim' will be to select a lnew home in the forest where fuel 13 plentiful and mercury in the glass. can be found when wanted. Excellent Services. There was a generous attend- ance at the Methodist services yesterday morning, Miss Blanche Boyer sanga solo very accept- ably, and the sermon by the pastor was a very good one. 5 Married. ‘On : Saturday - evening, at 8 o’clock, Mr. Thove Strand of North Dakota and Miss Alma Olson of this city were united in marriage, Rev. S, E, P.. Whte officiating. Government Seeds. - Anton Erickson has received a large consignment of government seeds which he will be pleased to distribute with the compliments of Congressman Steenerson, Loeal news on last page