Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 19, 1907, Page 4

llPENEI] BIDS FOR PINE ON THE TEN SEGTIONS Lumber Compauies Submitted Bids on Dead and Down Timber, at Cass Lake, Yesterday. Cass Lake, July 19.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Bids were opened yes- Lake United States land office for the sale of the terday at the Cass dead and down timber on what is known as the “Ten Sections” of the Minnesota National Forest Reserve, which surrounds the whole of Pike bay and a portion of the eastern shore of Cass lake. The timber offered for sale white Norway and jack pine, which has been blown down during the past three years, and which has been deteriorating in value very rap- idly. There was 1,682,500 feet of Nor- way pine, 373,000 feet of white pine, and 363 cords of jack pine wood. The bids submitted for the pine as it lays were as follows: J. Neils Lumber company, Lake,—$9.10 per thousand feet for both the Norway and the white pine, with no bid for the jackpine. Total bid $18,705,05. Burlington Lumber company, Bur- lington, Towa.—$9.20 for white pine; $8.20 for Norway pine; no bid for| jack pine. Total bid, $17,228.10. H. R. King, Grand Rapids, Minn. —$6 straight for both white and Norway pine; no bid on jack pine. The bids were considered the same as were those for other timber on the Chippewa reservation which had been of at previous sales since the adoption of the Mor- ris Chippewa law. The timber will be sold on bank scale, and the cut- ting will be done under the direction of Senator William O’Neil, superin- tendent of logging on the Chippewa reservations. Frank B. Walker, a clerk in the was Cass disposed general land office at Washington, D. C., who bears the official title of principal examiner of Chippewa log- ging, was present when the bids were opened and did the principal work of figuring out the bids. The bids will be sent to the de- partment at Washington, where they will be finally considered and the timber awarded to one of the bid- ders. Considering the condition of the pine, and the fact that it is in many cases scattered over a considerable area, the prices bid were very fair. The timber on the “Ten Sections” has been blown down by storms at different times during the past three years. Many endeavors have been made to have the pine logged, but there was no provision of the law that would allow the cutting of the timber. A special act, framed by Frank B. Walker, was passed at the last session of congress, permitting the cutting of the timber, to be done by sealed bids; and the opening of the bids Wednesday afternoon was in accordance with the provisions of this measure. Cemetery For Blackduck. Blackduck American: It is at last practically an assured fact that Blackduck will have a new cemetery. At the council meeting last Monday evening, Mr. Stuart, who repres- ents the Mississippi Lumber Com- pany, was present and told the mem- 3| bers of that body that the company would donate a site of five acres the only provision being that the council agree to land what pine there is on the site on the railroad track. The liberality of the company is to be commended and much credit is due Mr. Stuart who interested himself in the matter with the result above stated. The new cemetery will be located about midway to the lake on the south side of the track. Visiting Cards. A neat line of up-to-date visiting cards can always be found at this office. New and up-to-date type from which to select style of print- ing. SECRETARY OF STATE IS | SOMETHING .OF A JOSHER Writes County Treasurer French [About the Cantaloupe, and Refers to Boyhood Days. » 1 County Treasurer George French spent his boyhood days down Redwood Falls, Minn,, and used to fight and go ‘“a-swimmin” with Julius Schmahl, the present secre- tary of state. George and Julius used to be de- structive elements in the raising of the neighborhoods’ melons, and were undisputed authorities on all brands of vine fruit. Recently, Mr. French wrote to Schmahl and desired a short de- scription of the best kind of a can- taloupe to purchase for domestic purposes. Yesterday, Mr. French received the following reply from the Teutonic scrapper who works in the state house and .occasionally writes burning editorials for the Redwood Falls Gazette: “St. Paul, Minn., July 16, 1907. “My Dear George:— “The cantaloupe is a small, gray- ish-green fruit—now don’t pull a dictionary and try to prove it isa vegetablel—a small, grayish-green thing, then, that looks like an over- grown nutmeg and costs all the way from 10 to 25 cents at fruit stands. At some hotels itis served on a quart of cracked ice and is liberally sprinkled with powdered sugar, and an orchestra plays loud music to drown your remarks, and you pay 50 cents for it and incur the undying hatred of the waiter if you do not tip him a quarter besides. “The inside of the cantaloupe is generally as hard as the heart of a man with a mortgage on the widow’s homestead in a thrilling melodrama, and as greenas the man who answers matrimonial ads. It tastes like a mixture of gourd and pumpkin at Selections GILL BROS. Popular Priced Clothiers Next Door to First National Bank Gill Bros. GLEARANCE JALE IS IN FULL SWING ——— Come and Take Advantage of the Big Bargains . : All Summer Goods at 20 per cent Reduction Come Early and Get Good ; SR rind unless it has ice cream; and then it tastes worse. “When you werea boy you got good cantaloupes, didn’t you? Only they called them “mushmelons’ then, and they came from a patch about two miles out from town and the’way you got them wasto crawl on your stomach through a briar patch and evade two bulldogs and a man with a shotgun and get away with a mushmelon that was white as a blister on the inside. It tasted good. It had to. “But nowadays everything is so commercialized that there is a canta- loupe trust, and whenever a good cantaloupe is found it is saved for the governor. “The average cantaloupe lemon.” isa Attention Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. Iustallation of the officers will take place at I. O. O. F. hallon Friday evening, July 19. All mem- bers of Bemidji Lodge, No. 119, and all Rebekahs of Star of the West Lodge, No. 183, are cordially invited to meet with us and hold joint in- stallation on that date, and all visit- ing Rebekahs, and members of the subordinate lodges are especially invited to meet with us and parti- cipate in this part of our work. Ice cream, cake, coffee and sandwiches will be served in the dining room immediately after the installation. 3 By request of the members of Be- midji Lodge, No. 119. —H. S. Annette, N. G. *‘A Pair of Country Kids.” The above well known play will be at the Opera House for one night only, Tuesday, July 23, and to lovers of comedy this will be a treat. Hi and Trizie the “Kids” are a lively pair and keep things lively during the evening and are supported by a first class company of artists. All special scenery is carried and the play has a consistent plot and enough sensation to relieve the audience from being bored by too much comedy. Numerous specialties are introduced. Three Recruits for Army. Three recruits for service “Uncle Sam’s” army were sworn into service last evening by Lieu- tenant O. H. Dockery of Duluth, who has general charge of the recruiting offices in this section. The recruits, who were secured by Sergt. Eilek and Private Davis, were the following: Edwin Gonnier, Ger- hard Olson and Carl Wood. They will be sent to Fort Snelling for assignment. in Park Rapids Won't Be Here. The Park Rapids baseball team will not play here Sunday, Manager Otto having received word last even- ing that it would be impossible for them to come. An effort is being made to get the Deer River team for Sunday. Should that arrangement fall through, it is suggested that the county-city game be pulled off Sunday aftermoon, for the benefit of the band. - Annual Pilgrimage Excursion to Canada. Annual Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, will leave Duluth via the South shore, on Tuly 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Round trip rate $30.00. * Good for stop-over at Ottawa, Montreal and other intermediate points. Return limit August 31st. Through sleep- ing cars. Forreservation apply to A. J. Perrin, 430 West Superior street, Duluth, Minn. District Court September 17th. The fall term of court for Beltrami county will convene in this city on Tuesday, September 17th. WANTED IN FATHERLAND. Movement to Induce Swedes to Re. turn Home. Chicago, July 19.—King Oscar “is anxious to secure the return to Swe- den of the hundreds of thousands of ica and has begun an investigation to determine what were the conditions which prompted his people to leave the fatherland and what would be necessary for Sweden to do to induce them to return. This investigation Is a part of the industrial awakening which 18 now on in Bweden and the recent change in the, post of the Swedish minister to the Unlted States was made with a view to furthering the return of Swed- ish-Americans to their fatherland. Mr. Lagercrantz, the new minister, was charged to open a bureau in the United States through which a Bwed- ish-American desiring to return might secure Information as to the condi- tions in his trade in Sweden and the probahilities of his prospering there. Consul Ekman, who dled recently In Sweden, lett 400,000 crowns ($116,000) te the bureau which Mr. Lagercrante i to utnhlhh cen filled with |, 8wedes.who have emigrated to Amer- | PVIDENCE COMPLETED WATERIALITY OF TESTIMONY Attorney Darrow Insists on the Right to Show a Conspiracy of Mine Own- " ers and Detectives Against the Fed- eration of Miners. Bolse, Ida., July ¥.—The evidence |s all in, analysis arguments have be- un and within the next seven days e fate of Willlam D, Haywood will be in the hands of the jury. The de- lense rested without calling a single vitness in rebuttal. The morning session was given up fo Clarence Darrow, who in behalf of Haywood argued that the showing of the deportation from Cripple Creek during the strike period and' connec- Mon.of the Pinkertogy detectives and hired “gunmen” should be allowed to %0 to the jury. Mr. Darrow reviewed the Colorado situation. He charged the mine own- ers and the detectives with planning a wreck on the Florence and Cripple Creek railway, with blowing up the Independence depot and with creating riot through hired men. Darrow was impassioned and hurled Invective without stint at the detec- tives and at Orchard. He closed with » whirlwind appeal for the right to show a conspiracy against the West- arn Foderation of Miners. CGoeur d'Alene Troubl, Beginning with the Céeur ‘&’ jane troubles of 1899 Mr. Darrow o the pourt’s attention once re to the lact that William D. Haywood at that tie had nothing to do with the gen- eral organization of the Western Fed- s ation, but was an obscure member & local union in Silver City, many iundredn of miles from the scene of the dlsorders. As to the employment of detectives Mr. Darrow declared that most or practically all of the testimony in this case was secured by Pinkertqns and It would be impossible to disasgociate them and their methods from the is- sue. Taking up Orchard’s crimes &s sonfessed by him Mr. Darrow sald the defendant at bar was compelled, in refutation of a charge of having mur- lered Frank Steunenberg, to meet all sorts and conditions of allegations. “The state was allowed through Or- shard to bring in something about an alleged attempt to wreck a train and, of course, this defendant was held up a8 the guilty party. Was it {mmate- rial for us to show that the attempt was made by deteotives in the em- ploy of the railway ‘company and the Mine Owners’ assoclation? I think not. Nefther is it incompetent for us to show that the men who perpe- trated the crime merely wanted to reate an impression or appearance ot a traln wreck so as to trump up an- other charge against the Western Fed- eration of Miners.” Have Right to Contradiot. As to the Bradley explosion, clalmed by Orchard, Darrow sald it was entirely competent to produce tes- timony that the explosion was caused by gas. It was also the proper course, he sald, to show that the Vindicator mine incident might have been an 1coldent rather than the result of de- siga. Mr. Darrow spent some time in dis- nssing and oiting authorities as to e materfality of the evidence show- g threats on the part of Orchard asgrinst Governor Steunenberg. He de- Mared that if there was any question as to the relevancy of any of the tes- E?wny in the case the doubt should régolved in favor of the defendant. Mr: Darrow charged the Independ- pnce explosion directly to K. C. Ster- dog, the detective of the Mine Owners’ tgdpoiation. Three undisputed wit- negses, he declared, had told of see- n# Orchard “sneak” into Sterling’s 160m at night on at least fitteen occa- jong, The explosion was a part of e éonspiracy, the attorney asserted, st the men~who were “engaged in the laudable oocupation of driving out very man who had ever shown any yfhpathy with the Western Federa- !lon of Miners.” The men who defled ‘thoriffs and courts and set themselves 1p &8 the only competent judges. Sterling Was Not Called. Btorling sat in the courtroom for a Bga and was not called, sald Mr. arfow, and this he took as an admis- Hon of the testlmony of three wit- 1eskes who saw him so frequently ifi ionsultation with Orchard. Arguing as to the competency of the testimony given as to aonditions nd depertations in Colorado Mr. Dar- row held that the defense should be tllowed equal latitude’ with the state, “A man defending his life,” he ex- laimed, “should have even a wider titude than is glven to those who ire seeling to send him to his death. We claim the things charged against Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone were mmitted by others and we must be lowed to shéw evidence, conditions ind circumstances which tend to bear s out. All that the mine owners did —the deportation of nien, the deflance if law, the forbidding of merchants to sell food and supplies to the familles of the man driven from the state—all that they dld In furtherance of thelr criminal oconspiracy to destroy the Western Federation of Miners is com- petent testimony and it should be left to the jury to determine its value,” ARMY ON THE DECLINE. Reorulting Officers Unable te Keep the Ranks Full. Washington, July 19.—“There 8 romething wrong with the army,” sald General Bell, chief of staff, in a West- ern speech recently, and that state- ment is being echoed in.various bu- reuus of the war department. There are “different explanations adyanced for that disquieting critioism, but the Welght of opinion at the war depart- ment s that Secretary Taft summed GEO. T. BAKER & €0. Located in City Drug Store See Our Windows up the case wién he remarked that the trouble with the army was that there was not enough of it. The gen- eral siaff has been compiling some tables that bear out this statement and these will be made the basis for a strong presentation of the needs of the army to congres: "t the next ses- sion. For instance, thero .; a company of coast artlllery, by regulatlons required to number 105 men, whici, according to the last returns to the department, musters just eight enlisted privates in its ranks. Of course company drill with such a skeleton organization is Impossible. And this is only one of a number of such organizations, malnly in the coast artillery, it is true, but every branch of the service feels the same decline. According to the statement the men will not re-enlist at the expiration of their first terms of service. Wages outside the army are so much higher that they attract the most energetlo soldlers into private life.- Never be- fore have the recruiting officers found their work so hard and unprofitable. The demands upon likely young men for the rapidly growing navy have also developed a new competitor for the recruiting sergeants. FOR GENERAL ARBITRATION Joseph H. Choate Makes Plea at Peace Conference. The Hague, July 10.—At a commit- tee meeting Joseph H. Choate, one of the American plenipotentiaries, made an important stetement of the reasons that had induced the American gov ernment to propose a general treaty of arbitration. He said: “The dangers and mischief threat- ening the world from constant prep- aration for war and the acoumulation of arms have been somewhat mitl- gated by the excellent work of the first peace conference in recommend- arbliration to the nations as & ment at The Hague of a pérmanent oourt. “Sinoe this time great events have ocgurred and two terrible wafs, which {nflioted untold miseties upon many, have led to International agreements of arbitration, separately and in pairs. There is no reason why nations that sgree by each other or two by two should not agree all together to ex- actly the samd thing.” Continuing, Mr. Ohoate referred to the excellent work done in this direc- tlon by the Pan-American conferences at Mexico City and Rio de Janelyo; and it was under these circumstafices, he sald, that the United States pro- posed general arbitration correspond- fng in form and substance to the many Individual treaties which have been entered into, including those ne- gotlated by the United States in 1904, but reserving the right of the senate to partioipate in any speolal agree- ment which might become necessary for carrying the treaty into effect in particular cases, Mr. Gheate's remarks were inter- rupted often by the applause of his hearers and when e was through he was warmly congratulated by many of the delegates, DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED. American Na Anloho R-'nud En trance to Shipyard.. Berlin, July 19.—Lieutenant Com- mander Howard, the ngval attache of the American embassy in Berlin, tried to obtaln admiesion to the ous Schichau shipyard at D}ntalc.‘%jart several big vessels f kafsor's navy are under constrijotion, put ad: mission was refused him. The re fusal followed a visit which mmsn- ant Commander Howard bed just made to the government shipyards at Dantzic, Count. von Reventlow, the German naval expert, explained that the Bchi- chau yards wero private property and the government had no connéction whatever with them, but the action of éh prop“lgtg as regards Lieutedant oraman oward was wholly fhex- plicable,. because forelgn . naval et- taches ware admitted without ques tion to government yards, The inol- dent, he added, was wholly devold of political sigpificance and was certain| to be viewed untavorably bY the .Ger-| man “"’,M matltuts for war and the establish- | HELP WANTED. WANTED—For U. S. army, able- bodied, unmarried men - between ages of 19 and 35, citizens of the United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English. For information apply to Recruit- Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji, Minn. |WANTED: For the U. S. Marine Corps, men between ages 21 and 35. An opportunity to see the world. For full information apply in person or by letter to Marine Recruiting, 208 Third street, Be- midji, Minn. [ ] WANTED—A good girl, for general housework. Good wages and good situation fo right party. Apply 514 Minnesota avenue. Mrs. Abercrombie. s R S RIEOTe WANTED: Competent young lady for office work. Must understand stenography and typewritlng. Ap- ply at Red Lake depot. WANTED:—Boy, 15 or 16 years old, for restaurant work. Apply at Model Bakery. WANTED: Girl to do general housework. Apply upstairs over Model Bakery. FOR SALE. A SNAP: Business place for sale. Annual rent $900. Willing to sell at $3,800 Cash. Act quick, Ad- dress Pioneer. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE: Household furniture; cheap. Apply at corner Third street and Mississippi avenue. FOR SALE—Magnificent moose head mounted; will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office. " LOST and FOUND AN AN A7 NSNS LOST—Vellow-headed parrot. Find- er will be rewarded by leaving same at 306 Third street. H. F. Smith, _———— FOR RENT. AN PP P NN, FOR RENT: 24x80 store room, Shelving and counters. I. S. Boyer, 320, Minn. Ave. P et B ana g MISCELLANEOUS. e S Su PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues- days and Saturdays, 2:30 to 6 p. m. Thursdays 7 to 8 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court S _House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librar- ian. Want Ads FOR RENTING A - PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR OBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer e