Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 2, 1907, Page 1

VOLUME 5. NUMBER 139. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1907. NORTHOME CO -OPERATIVE FAIR HAS GOOD EXHIBITS Much Interest Shown by Up- Line Farmers.---A. J. McGuire of Grand Rapids Gives Practical Address.---Splendid Line Northern Minnesota Products Shown (CONTRIBUTED.) Northome, Oct. 2.—(Special to Pioneer.)—The second annual fair of the Northern Farmers’ association was held at Northome Oct. 1st. It was the Northern Farmers' associa- tion that put up such a creditable agricultural exhibit in Northome last fall when the delegation of business men from Duluth and the twin cities were investigating the resources of northern Minnesota. The good work was continued this year with excellent results, not only in producing farm products of higher quality but in bringing the farmers into co-operation with one another. The association held meetings dur- ing the year with the view of organ- izing their effort toward a right system of farming. The best quality of seed possible to secure was bought by the association and distributed This showed Considering the quality among the farmers. in their fair exhibit. the unfavorable season of the products was above average. | All kinds of vegetables of commercial value were in the exhibit. Potatoes made the best showing. The pota- toes that took the blue ribbon were pronounced by one of the judges as fine as any at the state fair. The exhibit was not as large as expected owing to the rain that set inin the early morning and con- | tinued nearly all day.. In spite of the weather more than one sturdy | pioneet from back in the woods packed his exhibit in on his back. | | The Northome farmers have the | stuff in them to win. They have | faith in the country and in them- selves and when the logs are gone they will have well developed farms. A. J. McGuire, superintendent | of the Experiment Station at Grand ' Rapids, spoke to the farmers in |the afternoon. He commended the farmers on their organization say- ing that co-operation was the founda- tion of success. “In a new country, beginning farming,it is important to begin right.” “Twenty years ago| if a farmer made a mistake in his method of farming he was to be excused.” “He had no guides except his own “Today the state is hundreds of | thousands of dollars to teach farm-| ers the most profitable system of farming.” experience.” expending “Northern Minnesota to be suc- | cessful in agriculture must husband the small farm.” “Few acres thor- oughly tilled.” “Dairying to be the leading branch of farming.” “In northern Minnesota are many obstacles to overcome.” ‘““The ab- sence of roads and the need of "drainngel’ “The - state has large | holdings of land in this section.” | “It’s school fund which will soon be |second to no state in the Union, comes almost entirely from the | northert part.” “T'he state officials are coming to recognize the agri- cultural resources of northern Min- nesota and it is believed that the next legislature will do more to assist in its devélopment than ever before.” WILL CROOKSTON MILL ! BE MOVED TO BEMIDJI? Crookston Papers Discuss This Ques-; tion and Say Mill May Be Moved | to Bemidji. | | | ‘The possibility that the Crookston | lumber company will remove its saw- | mill from Crookston to Bemidji is| causing considerable of a stir among the residents of Crookston, judging from the following article taken from | the Crookston Times: | “Perhaps the subject of most general discussion on the streets| here the past few days has been the | announcement by the Crookston | Lumber Company of its intention to discontinue its mill at this point at| it than has been vouchsafed it by the ocal officers of the company, and than is deduciblefrom the arguments prevalent over the city as to the likelihood of the company’s being in earnest in the discontinuance an- It seems a matter of public interest that both views of the question be presented its col- umns.” nouncement. in Night Phone Rates Raised. Orders were issued from the Min- neapolis office of the Northwestern Telephone company yesterday direct- ing all telephone stations within the statejto charge the regular day rates for night messages. No explanation is offered for the change, but accord- ing to good authority the reason is found in the immense increase of night toll messages. Up to the present time night tele- the close of the seasen and pull out| phone messages have been trans- It is understood that the company believes the recently established advance in freight rates on log shipments made by the Great Northern road, would | not give the maximum of profit from | its capital invested here, as com- pared with the return from a similar investment made nearer the base of | timber supply. for another field. “While there are various opinions expressed in street and office discus- | sions of the situation, there is a large number of our citizens who believe that the company will not discon-| tinue the operation of the mill here so long as it can get logs to supply it—and this the company declares it can do for the next eight or ten years. “These skeptics assert that thel recent announcment of the company is made with the purpose of secur- ing active assistance from the city of Crookston in an endeavor to in- fluence the railroad company to re- duce its rate, or rescind it altogether. At the present time, it is quite likely mitted at one-half the day rate. Of late, however, it seems that it has been the custom to use the long dis- tance lines at night, thereby saving one-half the toll to the subscriber. As aresult of this practise the Bell Telepone company decided to make | the night rate for the use of long lines the charged in thejday. Orders were issued Sept. 1 by the Bell company providing that . night rates be issued according to the same schedule of rates that is charged during the day, but the order fixing the night rate the same as the day on interstate rates is a new move on the part of the telephone company. distance same as - are Lloyd Starter at Pine River. F. L. Lloyd left this morning for Pine River, having received a tele- phone message from that place last night, requesting his services to act as startar of the horse races to be be held in connection with the Pine River fair. Mayor Pogue is in Pine River that of those in the city who have|acting as judge of the horse races, given any thot of any kind to the subject, a majority are unwilling to accept the avowed intention of the company as likely of fulfillment, be- lieving to put it frankly, that the company is “blufl'ing" in order to get as much backing as possible in its attempt at rate production, “The Times knows no more about By b also judge of the live stock and it was on his recommendation that Mr. Lloyd was sent for. Mr.. Lloyd thoroughly understands the running of races and is a most excellent starter. Additional local matter will he found on fourth page. SHALL CITY OF BEMIDJI BUILD AND MAINTAIN DRAWBRIDGE Major Shunk and His Engineers Hear Evidence and Go Over Ground to Determine the Question.---Would Cost Over $20,000, and Be Exgensive to Maintain. Whether the city of Bemidji, the M. & I Railway, the G. N. Railway and the M. R. L. & M. Railway are to be forced to build draw bridges costing many thousands, across the narrows, between Lakes Irving and Bemidji, on the Mississippi river, so called, and also at the outlet of Lake Bemidji, three miles east of the city, is the complaints made to the war department, that navigation is being interfered with, will probably be de- termed by the result of the meeting held in this city, which was presided over by Major Francis R. Shunk, in charge of the U. S. government engineers for the district of St. Paul. The fact that the meeting was to be held here today was given much publicity and representatives of the city of Bemidji, the railway com- panies mentioned and also repre- sentatives of several lumber com- panies were on hand, prepared to furnish arguments to convince Major Shunk, and through him, the officials at Washington, that while theoretic- ally the Mississippi may be navigable for a considerable distance at the disputed points, for all practical purposes, it is decidedly not navigable and that the railway com- panies and the city should not be forced to go to the enormous expense of putting in draw bridges to satisfy the single individual, or at best two or three, who have seen fit to “enter protest to the government. The meeting was held at the city hall and was called to order at 10 o’clock this forenoon. Major Shunk presided and was assisted by J. E. Mead, his secretary. All of the interests effected by the complaint made to the government were rep-| resented, and Mr. McLachlan was present in person, to give his side of the case. W. B. McLachlan was first inter- rogated and gave an emphatic state- ment, as to the bridges, interfering with his operating his boat, ‘“The North Star,” on the Mississippi, be- tween Lakes Irving and Bemidji, also the logs making it impossible for him to make trips up the Missis- sippi beyond Lake Irving. E. E. McDonald questioned Mr. McLachlan and asked the date when logs in the river prevented him (McLachlan) from going up the riVer, the latter answered that it was in the early part of June, ‘this year. Mr. McLachlan stated that the logs were between Lake Irving and the sand bar, that they took up most of the stream. He was shown a map and indicated the point. He stated that there was no drive coming down the river at that time and could not say for sure where the logs came from. He could not see as to the exact size of the logs, as he was one hundred yards down the river. Mr. McLachlan stated that he attempted to go from Lake Bemidiji to Lake Irving, about a week ago and found a boom strung in such a manner as to obstruct the passage way. He gave an evasive answer to a direct question, if it was not cus- tomary to string a boom in order to get the logs through the narrows. Mr. McLachlan stated that he had taken the “Moose.” one of his boats, as far as the dam, on Lake Planta- genet. W. G. Marson, general manager of the M. R. L. & M. elicited from Mr. McLachlan that the ‘Moose’ was built in 1900; the ‘Moose’ had a mast, and was used as a sail boat; and that he had used it on the river. W. H. Strachan, superintendent of the M. & I. Railway, stated that the M. & I. wasalready the defend- ant in a suit, where Mr. McLachlan was plaintiff, as to whether the Mississippi, at the point where the gable stream, in consequence, the bridge interfered with navigation; that the company would do nothing until this case was decided. Mr. Strachan stated that the com- pany would file a copy of the plead- ings in this case. At the request of John Lind, Mr. Strachan gave some interesting information as to the business done in Bemidji and also as to the prob- able cost of a draw bridge. He stated that it would not be practicable to elevate the M. &. L. tracks and crossing, between the lakes, to a height sufficient to allow a boat eight, ten or fifteen feet high, or higher, to pass under. He stated that many alterations would have to be made to the yards here, in order to install the draw bridge and that the cheapest bridge, of this kind, would at least cost $25,- 000. It would take at least two men to operate the bridge and the expense of handling the draw bridge would be $1,200 per year. The draw bridge would be a constant source of danger and obstruction to the railway operations. Most of the switching of Bemidji is done over the present bridge, the average for a year being from eight to ten trains daily. 2 Mr. Strachan stated that it would not be practicable werea draw bridge construcied, to maintain the present station on this side of Lake Bemidji. The Company would prob. ably be compelled to erect a station and depot on the east side of the channel. Question made by Major Shunk to Mr. Strachan that the abandoning of the present station, on account of the draw bridge, would be necces- sary, owing to the extreme danger, while switching. The local switch engine being used about fourteen hours daily and a large portion of that time it was at work on this side of the lake. John F. Gibbons, city attorney, appeared for the city of Bemidji and read a letter from Mayor Pogue, who was unable to be present. Mr. Pogue objected to a draw or span bridge and stated hisreason. That the Mississippi, at the disputed point, was not a navigable stream, the water not being over twelve or fourteen inches deep at any time. No boat of any size would go over over without artifical head-waters. If the new bridges were ordered to be put in, it will be a hardship to the city. He believed that no other person. but Mr. McLachlan was responsible for the complaint made to the government. Mr. Gibbons also spoke relative to the bridge, at the outlet of Lake Bemidji. He claimed that the water was only from twelve to fourteen | inches deep and it was impossible to navigate in any kind of a boat; on account of the rocks, A. C. Patterson, assistant chief engineer, gave some interesting in- formation reletive to the Great Northern, interests in the proposed bridges. He estimated the cost of putting in a draw bridge at about $29.000, to be operated by manual power. . The draw bridge would be a great obstruction to traffic and an element of great danger. Mr. Patterson stated that Bemidji was on the main line of the Great Northern from the Pacfic to Duluth and that traffic was very heavy. He stated that the present bridge had been built in 1898, and during the past nine years this was the first time complaint had been made, that it had interfered with navigation. Ex-Governor, John Lind of Min- neapolis, attorney for the M., R. L. & M. Railway, was the next speaker. Mr. Lind stated that his com- M. & I. spans the river, was a navi- | { that the road was a short line, run- ning from Red Lake to one and one- half miles east of the Bemidji bridge. Before the bridge was constructed opinion of Mr. Lind had been asked, as to whether it was safe to build a bridge similar to the other bridges, already built. N He had found that the public highway, crossing the city bridge was an old state road; that the state legislature had appropriated money toaid in the construction of the bridge, aud also, at the last session of * the legislature, $800 had been appropriared to renew the present highway. Mr. Lind advised his company not to put in the bridge, in as much as in his opinion, the Mississippi at this point was not navigable, except for logs or very small boats. He had noticed that the government is not taking any action in improving the water of the Mississippi river, for navigation purposes. Mr. Lind stated that the traffic on the Red Lake road does not pay the operating expenses;that the road cannot put in a bridge; that the road has not paid one penny on an investment of one half million dollars. It would be necessary, if a draw bridge was ordered put in, it will be necessary to abandon the bridge in connection with the M. & I. rail- way. S Several other witnesses were ex- amined, among them A. B. Allen, owner of the Sentinel, who was present to give evidence in behalf of Mr. McLachlan and who finally admitted that he knew but little as to whether the Mississippi wa$ nav- igable or not. Further proceedings of the investi- gations will appear in tomorrow’s paper. Hearing adjourned until afternoon. Local news on last page Mr. and Mrs. Earl Geil and two children returned last evening from their sad trip to Milbank, S.D. They have the sincere sympathy of the entire community in their recent bereavement, the untimely loss of their little daughter. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE FORTY CENTS PER MONTH JURY IN MATHIESON CASE SELECTED.---TRIAL BEGUN Panel Completed Last Evening and County Attorney Henry Funkley Opens Case for the State..-Witnesses Are Being Examined. The selection of a jury in the case of Peter Mathieson, on trial for the murder of his companion, Johan Johanson, at Tenstrike last winter, was completed last night, and County Attorney Funkley outlined the case of the state to the jury before adjournment was taken. Mr. Funkley outlined briefly what the state would prove, beginning with the finding of the body of Johanson in Gull lake, tiue cashing of his certificate of deposit by Mathieson, the latter’s flight west, and subsequent arrest and con- fession.’ 4 The examination of witnesses for the state began this morning, and up to noon the evidence had been confined to the finding of the body of Johnanson, the coroner’s inquest, Ppost-mortem examination, and other details. Mathieson has witnessed all the details of his trial up to this time with becoming calmness, and makes a good impression. He isan inno- cent-appearing individual, 28 years of age, and would be the last man in the world anyone would suspect of committing murder. He is being defended by Gibbons & Torrance, and judging from the time they consuméd in the examina- tion of jurors,and the-care exercised, it appears that they expect to make a hard fight to save their client. What their defense will be has not been given out yet, although it is likely they will claim an accident. W. H. Cole Dead. * W. H. Cole, one of the pioneer residents of Tenstrike, died at his home last night. Mr. Cole lived on the north shore of Gull lake, across from the village of Tenstrike. Last Thursday he crossed the lake to his home. The weather was very chilly, and he un- doubtedly caught a very severe cold. Friday morning, G.A, Leopold, who lives near Mr, Cole, noticed the old gentleman was not about, so he went to his cabin to ascertain the cause. He found Mr. Cole in bed, suffering with great pain and unable to care for himself. Dr. Osborn of Blackduck was summoned and did all he could for the relief of the sick man, but with- out avail. Mr. Cole was suffering with Bright’s desease and other complications, which vroved fatal. Will Log Ten Million. C. S. Cox, a prominent logger, has taken a big logging contract from the Red River Lumber Co., of Akeley, and will operate extensively in what is known as Kabekona Gulch, in Hubbard county, about twenty-five miles south of Bemidji. Mr. Cox has been in Bemidji for the last two days, looking up help and making the preliminary arrange- ments for the winter’s logging, which will begin as soon as cold weather sets in. g Mr. Cox will log on the east end of the Kabekona Gulch, where the Money;Cheerfully_ Refunded 2205 Clothing Hou Red River Lamber Co., and Walker & Akeley have jointly constructed a railroad for -the purpose of getting out the big stands of pine on their cut. Ten million feet of timber will be logged by Mr. Cox. N. Perrault Dying in Minneapolis. Edward Bennett and wife of Big Falls passed through the city this morning on their way from their home to Minneapolis They were called to Minneapolis by the an- nouncement that N. Perrault, father of Mrs. Bennett, who has been in a hospital in Minneapolis for the past two weeks, wasdying. Mr. Perrault has recently submitted to two oper- ations for the relief of an ailment, but it appears, the work of the sur- geons has been of no avail and that his recovery is impossible. Mr. Perrault at one time lived at Turtle River, subsequently moving to Big Falls, where he has been con- ducting a saloon for the past vear and a half. He was generally liked and the news that his illness is necessarily fatal will be received with general regret. Estray Notice. Notice is hereby given that I have taken up and have at my barn, one black yearling mare colt. When found a part of a halter was on neck of colt. Owner can have same by proving property and paying all expense. J. P. Pogue. 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