Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 21, 1907, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER:= " MINNESOTA HISTORICAL ETY. VOLUME 5. NUMBER 52 HAD THEIR FILL OF NORTHWEST CANADA Two Former Residents of Bagley Have Returned From That Much-Ad- vertised Country. FILED ON HOMESTEADS AND . SPENT MUCH FOR IMPROVEMENTS Spent Six Years in the “King’s Do- main”---Have Been Considerably “Wised Up.” Bagley, June 21.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Two residents of Clear- water county who were attacked with the Canadian fever and left this place six years ago, have re- turned and will hereafter make their homes in this vicinity, content with the decisive conclusion that Clear- water county is far and away ahead of the much heralded “king’s do- as a desirable place of resi- dence, both from a climatic and money-making standpoint. Elling O. Braaton and Olaus Knuteson left Bagley six years ago, going to Saskatchewan, Canada, with the intention of getting one of the so-called “cheap homes” in the far northwest. The boys filed on homesteads, and with what money they had, they built good buildings and placed a good share of their land under the plow for cultivation. During the past three years there were good cropson the lands, but Braaton and Knuteson claim that the prices they received for their grain were so low that they did not realize enough to pay for the seed, labor and expenses of cutting and threshing. Wheat, for instance, is worth 45 cents per bushel in Can- ada, whileit is bringing 86 cents per bushel in the “States.” The railroads and elevator com- mains” panies of Canada take all the cream | and sweet milk, asit were, and leave nothing but the pans for the far- mers. During the first two years that Braaton and Knuteson were in Canada, new settlers swarmed into that portion of the Saskatchewan country in which they resided. Prices on all grains were then on a par with those paid in the United States. But since then the eleva- tor companies have become masters of the situation, much to the detri- ment of the settlers, and conditions have changed very materially. Braaton and Knuteson disposed of their Canadian farms for $10 per acre, realizing therefrom about the sum that the buildings on the land cost them; and they will be content with a permanent residence in Clear- water county. WILL PUT A STOP TO SHOOTING FIRECRACKERS Mayor Pogue Orders Chief of Police Knox to Stop the Danger- ous Practice. Of late, many of the youngsters of the city have been firing firecrackers (both giant and small), cap guns and the like, in the very heart of the business district of the city, without regard to the consequences. There have been several narrow escapes from serious, if not fatal, injury, and the city authorities intend to put a stop to the practice, in the down-town district, until the night of July 3rd and the day of the 4th, when a suitable place will be designated, where the “kids” can shoot the stuff to their heart’s con- tent. Chief of Police Knox states that the mayor has instructed him to put a stop to the firing of the crackers, etc., and that he intends to see that the orders are strictly obeyed. Good Fishing at Lake George, Stephen Rhodes, the Lake George pioneer, spent last night in the city. Mr. Rhodes states that bass fishing at Lake George is excellent, now, and that a number of anglers have been camping in that vicinity. Closing Out Sale. Boyer’s Cash thing at cost. Grocery. Come early. Every- Local news on last page BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING; JUNE 21, 1907 DISTRIGT COURT NEARING |A TIMELY ORATION FORTY CENTS PER MONTH M. & I. GRADE GOMPLETED GLOSE AT PARK RAPIDS FOR FOURTH OF JULY T0 BANK OF LITTLEFDRK Number rnl Important Cases Disposed of During the Week---Judge Spooner Presiding. Park Rapid?,vj\me 21.—(Special to Pioneer.)—District court is still in session and the work of the term will probably be completed tomor~ row afternoon. Judge Spooner is presiding. W. A. Raymond, an aged resident of the county who lives about twenty miles north of the village, and who was indicted by the grand jury for disposing of mortgaged property, when arraigned in open court entered a plea of not guilty. He gave bail and the case was con- tinued until the next general term of court, The case of Goldie Blanche Mead who sued J. C. Stewart of Laporte to - recover $10,000 for assault was given a verdict for $2,000. The court granted a stay of - proceedings for sixty days. In the personal property tax cases, the state of Minnesota vs. V. E. Segerstrom and Bonnes & Co., the state was awarded the full amount of tax as asked for in the citation. The divorce proceedings of Ben Gerschkowitz vs. Pauline Gersch- kowitz were heard by the court, the plaintiff sustaining his case, which was brought on the grounds of desertion. A decree was accord- ingly directed entered in his favor. The tax proceedings against the Grand Forks Lumber Co. were dis- missed on motion of the county attorney. Edwin C. Garrigurs vs D. C. Fuller etal. Case tried and sub- mitted. First National Bank of Park Ra- pids-vs School Dist. No. 53. Facts submitted to the court on briefs. State Land Sale. Park Rapids, June 21.—(Special to the Pioneer.)—At the state land sale held here yesterday, 2,300 acres were sold, bringing an average price of $7.50 per acre. A number of bidders were present; the highest price paid per acre was $10.50. gain, Rockers Phone 178-2 FURNITURE Removal Sale June 20 Two Weeks July 5 Having decided to move my present store building to the back end of the lot, I offer my entire stock of Furniture and Furnishings at greatly reduced prices. My loss will be your All goods marked in plain figures and reductions will range from 10 to 30 per cent. Dressers worth $26.00, now $18.20 "~ Dressers worth $9.75, now $7.32 Iron Beds worth $3.00, now $2.25 - Iron Beds worth $11.50, now $8.63 Brass Beds worth $28.50, now $22.80 now $6.19 Rockers worth $3.75, new $2.82 Diners, Extension Tables, Center and Library Tables, Side- boards, Buffets, China Closets, Combination Cases, Chiffoniers, Mattresses and Springs, Art Squares and Rugs, Cupboards, Couches, in fact everything usually carried in an up-to-date Furniture Store will be included in this sale. J . P ° LAHR 323 Minn. Ave Bemidji, Minn. worth $8.25, —_— ““Spell-binders” Will Find [nspiration in Observance of Day in the Past. DISCHARGING .OF FIREARMS AND WHOLESALE USE OF EXPLOSIVES This Means of Exploiting Patriotism Is in the Ascendancy---Much Damage Results. ¢ Many of the “spell-binders” who will be called upon to tell a patriotic ‘public about this glorious country on July 4th;are no doubt worrying themselves as to just what they will say on that memorable occasion. Now, the editor of the has given the matter much deep thought, and we have prepared the following, which is not copyrighted, Pioneer and anyone is welcome to use the “‘speil,” without any compensation, to us. “Fellow citizens, such of you at least as are able to hear what I say above the roar of the giant cracker which is about to explode near yonder sweet youth, who will shortly mourn the absence of two fingers from his dexter hand, this is a me- morable and immortal day in the annals of our beloved country. “This day a year ago was indeed a glorious Fourth. One hundred and fifty-eight joyous souls awoke on its morning but did not live to witness its magnificent and inspiring close. They fell valiantly in celebration of this great-day. _Five thousand three hundred and eight, to be exact, survived the occasion in more or less mutxlated condition.. “Twenty two of these . devoted celebrants lost their sight com- pletely; seventy-two gave up one eye to the cause; fifty-six parted with legs, arms or hands; two hun- dred and twenty-seven lost their fingers; the remainder were injured in sundry and divers ways impossible to enumerate. “Due credit for this magnificently patriotic demonstration should be given to the agencies by which the results weré achieved. The blank cartridges mangled nearly a thous- and; firecrackers were responsible for sixteen hundred; the joyous can- non accounted for about four hun: dred; three hundred and fifty fell before or behind firearms; stray bul- lets caught one hundred and eighty- seven; one hundred and sixty were victims of canes and caps, while powder and fireworks laid low some sixteen hundred. “In the face of this impressive showing what caitiff will dare chal- lenge the liberty of the American, the”greatest, the freest, the most happily careless of life of all the world’s people? Who will venture to insinuate that the Declaration of Independence has lost its meaning or that those who celebrate the anni- versary of its signing are unaware of its significance? Not I, my fellow citizens. “Independence is freedom, and freedom is license, and license is manslaughter, therefore continue to maintain and perpetuate your method of celebrating as long as there re- mains an arm to be blown off or an eye to be put out. “Live the republic! Down with ordinances designed to protect life and property! ' Hurrah for a free and murderous Fourth of July!” Blackduck Teachers. Blackduck American: ing year: Principal; Andrew B. Jardine, Dundas; Asst. Supt.,, Miss Minda. Lovaas; 6th and 7th grades, Miss Daisy Beebe, Shjrley Kno%, Bemidji; Miss Minnie Peterson, Moorhead. Additional local matter will be fourd on lounh pm At a meet- ing of the school board the following teachers were elected for the ensu- Mankato; 4th and S5th grades, Miss Jennie Leak,’| Blackduck; 2pd and 3rd grades, Miss primary. water this morning for confinement in the state’s prison. Sheriff ‘Bailey had in William Chute, who on Monday plead guilty to the charge of forgery Expected That Bridge Across River|in the third degree, before Judge = Will Be Completed Within the Next Week. Little Fork, June 21.—(Special to Spooner, and was sentenced to serve a term of four years in the “pen.” Sheriff Walsh took with him Will- iam Ellis, who also - plead guilty to the charge of forgery in the third degree and was sentenced to one Pioneer.)—The track layers com- year in the state’s prison. pleted the roadbed to the west bank of the Littlefork river Tuesday fore- noon, and the road between here and that point is in good condition. After Big. Bass. E. R. Farley and C. M. Bacon, champion bass catchers, left this Rails were laid to’ within three |morning for Hackensack, where they miles of Little Fork last Saturdayfwill proceed to depopulate the lake and it will take about two weeks tolat thatplace. construct the bridge over the stream, Both gentlemen are enthusiastic from which point the grade will|anglers, and are possessed of much then be in readiness to allow the|native ability—when it comes to the steel crew to go uninterrupted -into International Falls. “big ones that got away.” The Northern Pacific is construct- PAFEH AND PULP Mlu_ ing the extension from Big Falls as not the Minnesota & Internatxonal. The extension will be known as the Big Falls & International railway, MAYBE, FOR LITTLEFORK and the line will be leased by the|Representatives of Watah Company M. & I. for operation. Banged by Bagley. A bunch of local baseball players, headed by the irrepressible Jim Carlton, went to Bagley yesterday to give the ball team of that place a practical demonstration of how to play the great American national game. Alas and alack for the misguided youths who sought to uphold the dignity of Bemidji on the diamond. They met the enemy (the Bagley nine) and were smitten, hip and thigh, the final score being 19 to 4,! in-favor of the Clearwater county boys. ; - However, there is consolation in Were Looking; Over the Twenty- Mile Rapids Recently. -~ N Littlefork, June 21.—(Special - to Pioneer.)—There is a strong prob- ability that a paper and pulp mill will be erected at this point and that the mill will be of large capacity and operated by one. of the best paper and pulp companies in the northwest. M. AbCouk and Dan Rose, rep- resentatives of the Watab Paper company of Wisconsin were in Little- fork recently, and information since their departure is to the effect that the fact that the team that went |they looked over the vicinity for an over to Bagley is not the first regu-|available site for a mill. lar team of this city. WII_I_ TARRY‘ FUR AWHII_E the Littlefork river. WITH WARDEN AT “‘PEN” They were -especially interested the. Twenty-mile Rapids in They ~made thorough examinations of thé rapids and stated they believed that 1,000 horsepower can be developed at these rapids, with but a small out- Sheriffs Bailey and Walsh Take William | lay, and it is more than evident that Chute and William Ellis to Stillwater. Thomas Bailey of Bemidji, sheriff of Beltrami county, and P. A. Walsh of Big Falls, sheriff of Koochiching county, took two prisoners to Still- the location received very favorable consideration, Littlefork is-well located for the establishment of a paper and pulp mill, as there is an almost unlimited supply of ‘“‘raw material” in pulp wood adjacent to Littlefork. Local news on last page custody MUNN IS ARRAIGNED; WAIVES EXAMINATION Man Accused of Murdering August Franklin, at Spooner, Given Hear- . ing Last Evening. HIS ACTION SAVES THE COUNTY EXPENSE OF A LONG HEARING Munn Adheres to Original Story of Manner in Which Franklin Was Killed. W. S. Munn, who shot and killed August Franklin at Spooner on Fri- day, June 14th, was-arraigned in justice court here yesterday evening, before Justice M. G. Slocum. Munn waived examination and was held without bail to await the action of the grand jury at the next term of court for Beltrami county, which will be held next fall. ™ There was some apprehension that Munn might not waive examination, in which case the county would have been put to a very heavy expense in bringing witnesses from Spooner, the northernmost town in the county, the journey to Bemidji of necessity being made by way of Winnipeg. However, when Munn was arrest- ed by Sheriff Thomas Bailey, he promised the latter that he would waive examination and not put the county to the expense of a long pre- liminary hearing, Munn sticks to his original story of the shooting, which coincides with that given by Mrs. Franklin, indicating that Franklin was “look- ing for trouble.” However, the fact that Munn armed himself for the encounter will probably injure his plea of self- defense. Lynn Hulett Married. Cards have been received in'" this city announcing the marriage of Lynn Hulett to Miss Emma Ander- son, the ceremony having been pér- formed at Grand Forks on the 15th inst. Mr. Hulett is a son of Mrs, C. E. Hulett of this city and is well known here, having lived here at one time, while the bride is a resident of | Grand Forks, N. D, Excursions « Red Lake Commencing Sunday, June 23, 1907 and contmumg every Sunday thereafter during the summer Tram leayes Red Lake depot at Bemidji at 10:15 a. m, Return- ing leaves Redby at 6:45 p. m, " Good Meals Can Be Had at Redby Round Trip Only $1.00 The large double-decked steamboat MICHAEL KELLY will make a two hour trip on the lake every Sundav afternoon. Plenty ‘of shelter in case of rain Rouhd Trip Only 35 Cents Take your lunc_h basket and family; have a good time and see _: 'BEAUTIFUL RED LAKE . No Liquor is Allowed on the Reservatlon Insurmg a Qmet Emoya.ble Txme to All