Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 15, 1907, Page 1

VOLUME 5. NUMBER 150. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SPOIERY. GEN. C. C. ANDREWS, STATE FIRE WARDEN, HERE TODAY Had Been to International Falls..--Leaves Here for Hib- bing.---Is Pleased With Work Done In }eventing Forest Fires This Season. seneral C. C. Aundrews of St.| Huss, chief engineer in charge of Paul, chief forest fire warden of the|the construction of the railroad State of Minnesota, was a visitor in|extension, to prevent fire along the Bamidji today, being on his w;\ylmilromd. There has not been a fire from an official trip to International | of any description, and the timber Falls and to Hibbing. | and shrubbery have not been harmed General Andrews went to Inter-|in any particular, despite a compara- national Falls Saturday evening and | tively dry season. Mr. Huss cer- ined that place and in that | tainly deserves great credit in keep- rem vidinity wuntil Moaday, when he ing the country free from fire. started for Bemidji. He visited the | “I am also pleased to note that Big Fork river and other points there have been no serious forest along the border and south to!firesat any point in this north Bemidji, and says of his trip: country, and I congratulate the “I am greatly pleased with what residents of this section on their I saw along the line on the new |thoroughness in preventing fires. extension of the M. & I railway| “I go from here to Hibbing, and from Big Falls to International|will look over a considerable portion Falls, relative to the prevention of| of the country west of that place, forest fires along the right-of-way. 5where, I am told, there is an excel-l “Itis a source of considerab]eilent example of the reproduction of satisfaction to note the extreme care | pine trees, in which I am greatly which has been taken by Geo. M. |interested.” The Irish Pawnbrokers, Oct. 16. NEW POSTMASTER NAMED; | e rehpovnraers, gt 1. AN UFFIGE HISGUNTINUEU phy, Murphy and Murp;y’s bread winner again this season. In creat- | ing their vehicle for them they com- Harry Thursdale Will Be Postmaster at| missioned Mr. Edgar Selden, who is Fowlds.---Postoffice at Oakwood Is Abandoned. | the author of many successful farce | comedies, to fit them with a vehicle in line with their former successes, Fred Dennis of Crookston, private ! secretary to Congressman Halvor‘ Steenerson, writes from Crookston that the postal authorities at Wash- ington have notified Mr. Steenerson | that Harry Thursdale has been ap- ' pointed postmaster at Fowlds, in: Beltrami county, the name of Thurs-‘ dale having been proposed by Mr. | Steenerson, and recommended by: Anton Erickson of this city. Mr. Thursdale has resided at Kel- liher for some time past, and is a\t1 present moving from that place to Fowlds, where he will engage in business and conduct the postoffice. Notice has also been received | and to say that Mr. Selden has achieved their purpose is drawing it from Washington to the effect that| mildly. He has undoubtedly given the postoffice at Oakwood, Beltrami | them the best play, as to comedy county, will be discontinued after | situations, they have ever had; the October 31st, the reason given for piece is intensely funny and has a the discontinuance being that the | fairly good plot, upon which hinges postmater at Oakwood had resigned most o the comedy situations. and that there was no candidate for —_— a successor, Local news on last page Five Hundred Imitations The very fact that there are over 500 imitations of the genuine ROUND 0AK heating stove is the very best proof that it is a good stove. You never heard of an imitation of an imitation. Imitators always counterfit the genuine article. Never yet has an imitation Oak heating stove equalled the genuine ROUND OAK as its great sale and fine reputation conclusively prove. You would never be satisfied [WHERE DID | GET 1 SUCH AY AWFUL ] SWALLOWING WHAT | WAS TGLD ABOUT 0D AS 2O N ,\',S‘J.JC with the «just as good” kind if you knew it. The purpose of this advertisement is to let you know that if you need a heating stove you can have a genuine ROUND OAK. You need not experiment—you need not take a chance. We back it up with a guarantee just as strong as we can make it. We invite you to see it if you are thinkin, of buying a stove. The genuine always has the name ROLND QA on the leg and door. W. M. ROSS Hardware, Furniture and Undertaking jwork of hoisting, on Kabekona lake, | been gathered in the Leech Lake .| the city, and he states that the work POWDER EXPLODES Oct. 15.— (Speciel to Pioneer.)—The Dupont Terre Haute, Ind., powder mills at Fontanet, eighteen miles northeast of this city, exploded at 9:15 this morning, practically wiping out the little mining town, killing twenty men and seriously injuring a hundred more persons. Narrowly Escaped Being Killed. Blackduck, Oct. 15.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Fred Vickory, a laborer, who 1s working on the hoist on the Blackduck lake, received injuries yesterday which might have been fatal, but which fortunately were not, but were bad enongh as they were. Vickory was assisting in loading logs, when a large hook swung to where he was standing, hitting him in the back of the head on the left side. The hook cut a deep wound in Vickory’s head, opening the scalp to the skull. The injured man was taken to the office of Dr. Monahan, where the wound was sewed together, and he is getting along nicely, and will be out again in about a week. Vickory thanks his “lucky star” that the blow from the hook did not break his skull and terminate his earthly existence. Hoisting Timber at Kabekona. A. C. McLean, the north-country | representative for the Martin Bros. Tie Co. of Duluth, is completing the a large amount of timber which has country. There have been over 60,000 pieces of timber taken from the lake, which will be shipped to Brainerd. The timber consists principally of railroad ties and pulp wood. Mr. McLean spent last night in of hoisting the timber will be com- pleted at the end of the present week. FINE VEGETABLES TAKEN FROM KELLIHER GARDEN Thomas Morrison Gathers Crop from His Garden and Result Astonishes the Natives. The Pioneer has always main- tained that the county could distance the world in soil of Beltrami the matter of raising vegetables and other products. We have shown many proofs of this assertion, and is the latest to tell of a mammoth pro- duction of vegetables at Kelliher, as now the Kelliher Journal follows: “Thos. Morrison, whose vegetable display took such a large number of prizes at the county fair, this week gathered his crop of potatoes and other vegetables. The yield was even greater than was expected going nearly 500 bushels to an acre. “On 5 acres of land Mr. Morrison gathered nearly 1800 bushels of pot- atoes, besides several thousand head of cabbage and a large amount of other vegetables. With potatoes at the average price it can be readily seen just where the small farmer can make at farming in Northern Min- nesota.” Walter Markham Home. Walter Markham has returned from his trip to the East, and will remain in Bemidji for some time to come. . Walter came back last evening, and states that the institution which he intended to attend this winter was not what he expected. Aid Society Meets Tomorrow. The M. E. Ladies’ Aid society will meet tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock at the church. Lunch will be served. A cordial invitation is extended to all. g BEMIDJI, Mmgtsom, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1907. —_— The mills are burning and the bodies of those killed cannot be recovered. Every building in the town and within a radius of half a mile, including the school house, was wrecked. The Big Four railroad ran a Special tr%in to the scene of the FORTY CENTS PER MON | accident, with physicians, and the injured are being brought to hospi- tals in this city. Superintendent Monahan, of the | powder mills, is missing and is supposed to have been killed. Many automobile parties left this city with physicians supplies. and relief | | | near the Red Lake NO WORD RECEIVED AS T0 DISPOSITION OF THE BOD |Relatives of Arthur Chambers Not Heard From,---BodJ Wiil Be Held Until Tomorrow.---Several Theories As to How Chambers Met Death. The body of Arthur Chambers, | from Chambers’ relatives, 1t will b which was found in the river here, | interred in the cemetery. Several theories are advanced as Railway com- to how Chambers met his death. METHODISTS MET AND OUTLINED YEAR'S WORK Committees Were Appointed and Lunch Was Served After Adjournment of ‘the Meeting. The members of the official board of the M. E, church, together with a number of the members and friends of the church, met at the home of Dr. E. H. Smith last evening, for the purpoee; of organizing for the coming year’s work of the church in this community. There was much enthusiasm and interest shown in the work as out- lined,and all those who were present looked forward to the most success- ful twelve months in the history of the church, The following appointed: Finance committee—Prof. A. P. committee were | Ritchie, Dr. E. H. Smith, S. J. Har- vey, Dr. E. A, Shannon and H. C. Tuller. Ggneral Repair Committee—Mrs. M.'V. Smythe, S. J. Harvey, G. E. Moyer. Official Board—Rev. J. H. Dennis- fon, chairman; G. E. Moyer, -secre- tary;. S. J. Harvey, treasurer. A number of the members of the Ladies’ Aid society of the church were -present, and they discussed plans for their work for the coming year. After the meeting adjourned, a light lunch was served and there was a general social time until a late hour. Rev. J. A. Denniston, the new pastor, who came to this congrega- tion from Minneapolis, is making a most excellent impression and the members of the congregation are pleased with his work, so far. Goats Destroy Brush. Guy Martin, who bought nine Angora goats a little over a month ago and placed them on his farm near this village, informs us that he is highly pleased and satisfied with his investment and with their work as destroyers of brush. After getting them he placed them ina two-acre tract of brush land which they have practically cleaned up,so much so in fact that he has to chop down trees for them to browse upon until he can fence in another pasture for them. He says that the Angora goat naturally prefers to browse upon brush to eating grass and that a few days ago he gave them some green corn but that they would not touch 1t so long as there was brush to feast upon. Their fleece is worth from 35 to 45 cents a pound and as their flesh is more palatable than mutton the goat is considered superior in all points to the sheep.—Hewitt Banner. ‘Nother Hotel for Kelliher. Kelliher Journal: The recently renovated and remodeled Paris Hotel has been opened to the public by the new proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Bardau of East Grand Forks, Minn. The new management an- nounce that they will conduct a strictly first-class hostelry, with all modern conveniences and acgom- modations. Rates will be $1.00 and $2.00 per day. " ' “‘Colonel” Funkley Heard From. “Colonel” Henry Funkley, who left Bemidji a few days ago to visit Portland and other points in Oregon, including the “Dalles,” has been heard from. In a card to the Pioneer man, NEEEATIV/IE DA = | the “Colonel” says, as near as we| are able to decipher the Spencerian | hand of the county attorney: “Spokane, Oct. 12.—Arrived here | O. K. this morning. Will leave via| O. R. & N. this afternoon for place | called Briggs. Irom there will take | auto trip through Oregon almost to | the California line. Will return via | pany’s bridge, Sunday afternoon, is . It does not seem at all likely that lying at the J. P. Lahr morgue " 'he met with foul play, as it was this city, awaiting instructions from | known that he had no money on his what disposition to make of the in this city (September 28) as he applied to the office of the M., R. L. |& M. Ry., and asked for money, istatmg that he was “broke,” and | there are no marks of violence on Up to a late hour this | the body. remains. A brother of Chambers lives Canada, and he has been communi- cated with. n It is the generally-accepted ex- Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and 2fternoon, noword hasbeen received | across British Columbia.” Big Price for Pine. | from anyone relative to the disposi- | planation that Cnambers accident- ltxon of the body. | ally fell from the bridge and was so ‘ Deputy Coroner Lahr will keep stunned from the fall that he was ithe body until noon tomormw,‘drowned before he recovered con- Kelliber Journal: Homesteaders when, if no instructions are received | i sciousness. who have proved up on their claims| —_— in the Battle River country will put! in a large amount of timber thex: | coming winter. Busy at Postoffice. \ The prices are the| Employes in the Bemidji postoffice | best they have been for years, white | 2T€ as busy as the proverbial bee, | and Norway pine bring $11 and this week, and it all comes through | will be expected to be in the best of humor at all times, as usual. Pioneer Crookstonite Here. $12 per thousand feet and tamarack, spruce and other timber $8 and $9. Espicopal Services. Communion services will be held in the Norwegian Lutheran church Thursday morning at 9 o’clock. | Rev. E. E. Fulton, of Wadena, will conduct the service. Services will also be held in the evening at 8| o’clock. Notice.- - All bills due the “late firm of Hawkins Bros., are due and payable to C. C. Woodward, who will attend to collection of same. J. F. Hawkins. - “|far-as possiblé, of the entire amount M.R. Brown of Crookston, one of | the oldest settlers of the Red River ing and counting mail, handled in| Valley, and who h‘:ls been a resi- | the local postoffice. ident of Crookston since the memory During the whole of the present|of the oldest inhabitant of Polk | week, every piece of mail that is re- 1 county runneth not to the contrary, | ceived in the Bemidji postoffice, as|Was a visitor in the city today. Mr. | well as what is sent out from here, | Brown was looking for some good, |an order from the postal department | at Washington, in sending, weigh- | must be counted, and an account |honest stove wood,and having heard | must be kept of the revenue accru-!of Wes Wright, came at once to that ing from the same. ‘gentleman for relief. He will get This work is necessitated by a de- ; the wood. sire on the part of the postal author-;‘ Mr. Brown has been mayor of ities to secure an accurate check, as|Crookston, and in his time has seen }the farmers in the Red- River Valley of business done at the postoffices|develop their-farms from scrub-tim- | throughout the United States. | ber possessionsto actes: of ‘money: The work will mean a large| producing, grain-growing lands. | amount of additional “hustling” for“ | the force at the postoffice, but they Local news on last page SPECIAL SALE None Better AT Made THE BAZAAR" We are Tuesday and e 4N ez full line of the celebrated '\ pleased to announce that ¢n Wednesday, Oct. 15 and 16 e will have on displaya = 5 M Kibbin ] m Furs ade up in JACKETS, CAPES, SCARFS, MUFFS and in all Small Furs. You are cordially invited to inspect this superb line of finely made garments, and will find this your best opportunity to cbtain the newest styles at moderate prices. TUESDAY AND AT WEDNESDAY, The Bazaar Store - 4 - | | | the relatives of the dead man as to person when he was Jast seen a!ive.L_A