Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 31, 1907, Page 1

B R T T e THE BE VOLUME 5. NUMBER 164. LOCAL ELKS € ONSIDERING NEXT SUMMER’S MEETING Charles Hunt’s ‘“‘Purple Boo k'’ Tells of Plans Being Con- sidered for Entertaining the State Association of Elks, in Bemidji, Next July. (From Chas, Hunt's **Purple Book.”) | if you | they will be in danger of a What would you say, Bill, with them Lot t souse that unless they appear knew that the homes of the best|in the lake. people in the city were to be thrown open to your wives and children | There are 250 launches and row- boats on Bemidji lake. All of these tor three days, that your loved ones|Will be free to visitors during the were to be entertained during that time and at told that there would be no charge —that the bill was paid? What would you think of this act for strangers, only because you were a member of the greatest fraternity in| the world> Well, that is just what will happen to you if you attend the | annual meeting of the State Elks’| association at Bemidji next July. It is only one of many attractions they will offer you to show you that their: hearts are in the right place, and that they want you to come and help them celebrate. dom, no feature like this has ever been offered. Bemidji has a population of 5,500. It would be reasonable to suppose| that such a city could not handle great crowds; but rest assured that arrangements are being made out there to take care of from 2,500 to| 3,000 people per day during the three day session of the association, and take care of them well. Con- ceding that the hotels and homes will be filled, tents, with complete| cooking and sleeping equipment, are| to be erected along the shore of the lake. from twilight till dawn the sleeping inmates against mnoc- turnal prowlers or irregulars who always follow crowds. In the warm days of July the delights of outdoor sleeping accommodations beside a! beautiful breeze-swept lake can be easily imagined. Not only are visit- | ing Elks requested to bring their wives and children, but they are urged to do so, and any buck pos- sessing such treasures is warned the end you were| In all Elk-| They will be set up street-| fashion, and a police patrol employed | to protect | | meeting, the only identification necessary for the visitor being a badge issued by the local committee or his Elk emblem. There will be something doing every minute. Two thour concerts will be given twice a day, aftetnoon and evening, by a While the Elks are busy at their business sessions of the association, the ladies jof Elkdom will be entertained {through a local committee of Elk ladies, who are to see that their time | is well employed. There will be a parade through the principal business streets, a big band at the head, followed by Be- midji lodge No. 1052 in costumes of | white, with white hats and purple |bands, the Elkish colors. The ‘side amusements have not yet been definitely determined upon, but ‘they will be of such numerical | strength that not a minute will be | strong band of forty pieces. | unemployed during the three days. ‘;The locel arrangements committee |is now negotiating for the band, but it is understood that it will be Flaaten’s famous Third regiment military band of Duluth, LeRoy | Thomas, the well known clarinetist and musical author, of this city, is at work upon a march to be called “Bemidji,” dedicated to Bemidji lodge No. 1052, and it will be played each day in the open-air concerts by the band. Bro. Thomas, a good Elk, is arranging the piano score, and it will be printed in the Purple | Book immediately after completion, | which will probally be in time for the November number. Those who have heard Bro. Thomas’ tuneful compositions will understand that | this effort will be a good one. KELLIHER FARMER RAISED SOME FINE CRABAPPLES John A, Carlson, One of North Country’s Most Prosperous Tillers of Bel- trami County Soil. Kelliher Journal: John A. Carl- son, the prosperous merchant and postmaster of Foy, Minn, was a business visitor in the city Monday. Mr. Carlson is booster for Beltrami county soil, and believes there is none better in the entire country to compare with it. This year Mr. Carlson raised an exceptionally fine crop of vegetables, which took several first prizes at the county fair. From an acre and a half seeded to timothy among some pine stumps he cut over five tons of hay, which at $12 per ton will yield him a nice profit. Besides his many other duties Mr. Carlson finds time to experiment in an orchard. Several years ago he. set out some crabapple trees,and this year gathered his first crop of the fruit. Only a few of the trees bore fruit, but the yield was good and the quality excellent. This is another indication of the resourcefulness of northern Minne- sota that our skeptical friends in the southern part of the state can con- template at their leisure. Pay Taxes Tonight. Today is the last day for the payment estate taxes and parties wishing to avoid should see that same sre paid today. In order public, County Treasurer French will keep G. H. Local news on last page the ten per cent penalty|fere with Mr. to accommodate the |from the race, the office open . until 9 o’clock this evening. Will Return This Week. Rev. Denniston, pastor of the Methodist church, will return this weekand will preachSunday morning andévening. Additional local matter will be found ton fourth page. JOHNSON WILL GIVE A GLEAR FIELD TO BRYAN an enthusiastic| T, D, 0’Brien So States in Washington Relative to Governor as Presi- dential Candidate. Washington, Oct. 31.—"Governor Johnson is not a candidate for the presidential nomination and will not allow himself to be drawn in as a favorite son candidate to hold any states away from William J. Bryan,” said Thomas D. O’Brien in Washing- ton yesterday. “I have been much impressed with the favorable comment I have heard as to Governor Johnson, during my present visit to the east,” said Mr. O’Brien, who has been here upon the Young habeas corpus case before the supreme court. “Itisa most remarkable tribute to the man’s personality. He is held in the highest esteem throughout the East. *“Governor Johnson feels that the people of the Democratic party are ‘united in the opinion that Mr. Bryan is the logical candidate at the of the last half of real|Present time and he will not permit any use of his name that will inter- Bryan’s candidacy. “If Mr. Bryan were to withdraw Governor Johnson would be a strong probability for the nomination.” Mr. O’Brien was formerly Demo- cratic national - committeeman from Minnesota. Much interest is being taken in the Farmers’ Institute which will be held at the city hall in Bemidji next Saturday, Nov. 2, on which occasion it is proprosed to have a rousing meeting of the farmers in the vicinity of Bemidji for the purpose of getting together and listening to the dis- seminating of information on how to farm in an up-to-date manner. Prof. A. D. Wilson, superintend- ent of the Minnesota Farmers’ Institute, and A. J. McGuire of Grand Rapids, superintendent of the Northeast State Experimental Farm at Grand Rapids, will be in “FORKS” FOOTBALL TEAM NEWSPAPER GHAMPIONS Claim Championship of Northwestern Minnesota, But Show No Inclina- tion to-Defend Title. Grand Forks Herald: The chal- lenge of the Bemidji high school football team which appeared in Tuesday’s Herald is regarded by the supporters of the East Grand Forks team semewhat in the nature of a conversation with the Herald the local manager had the following to say: “East Grand Forks won the cham- pionship of northern Minnesota, out- side the head of the lake teams, in 1906, has successfully defended the title against all comers this year, and has at all times and with all teams, Bemidji included, taken an aggressive stand in the matter of securing playing dates. “As early as Oct. 15 our manage- ment wrote Supt. Ritchie for a game, asking at the time for but a $60 guarantee of the $78 necessary for the trip. 1In a letter on the 21st the Bemidji management virtually turned: down the request, refusing to stand more than $50 of the $72 expense. ‘It is not impossibIe, however, to meet you on that date, providing you would play us on Saturday, Nov. 2, and pay all but $50 of your ex- penses’ is taken from the epistle, “Does this sound as though the locals have flown the saffron flag, or does it rather appear that Bemidji would seem not unlike the little fly, which, perched on the axel of the carraiage and looking backward as the carnage sped along the highway, exclalmed ‘my, what a dust I am ralsmg *“But laying aside all previous in- ferences and communications the matter resolves itself into the one vital question: Has' Bemidji .any right in the least mite, to claim a championship? Was she not defeated by Grand Rapids, a high* school scarcely 40 miles east of her? If so, let her tend to her next door - neigh- bors before assuming a dictatorial attitude toward a top nother *half way across the state. “If Grand Rapids beat Bemidji, and the latter reluctantly admits she did, Grand Rapids, and Grand Rapids alone, would have a bid for the championship of northern Min- nesota. Grand Rapids, however, unhesitatingly refused East Grand Forks a game. The locals agreed to pay $40 of the $98 necessary for a trip to that city, but Supt. Free- man would not even consider paying the fare for forty miles of the way, stating in a letter: ‘It does not seem proper that Grand Rapids should pay the entire expense‘of the there is very little probability of the locals getting a return game either this or next year.’ “With these points to consider, will any one raise the ‘question that East Grand Forks has been pre- sumptious in claiming the champion- nnued the' speaker. pleonastic and pneumatic plaint. In; trip even to and from Bemidji, as ship of northern Minnesota?” con- DEFECTIVE PAGE. Speakers ‘of Note Will Be Present and Everybody Interested in Farming Is Invited to Be at the Bemidji City Hall Saturday, All Day. attendance at the institute and will address the farmers. i Messts, Wilson and McGuire will speak in both the forenoon and after- noon, and they will -have real live subjects for discussion with the other farmers who attend the insti- tute. The subjects to be discussed are as follows: Clearing land; dairy- ing; growing seed, roots, etc.; raising bacon hogs; marketing farm pro- ducts, and several other topics. The gentlemen announce that they will be prepared to answer any questions regarding any subject pertaining to farming, and more “We stand ready to play all comers from Duluth high, ‘down to the smallest in the state. We have offered to play Duluth Central and Duluth West End highs, agreeing to pay all but $60 of the entire expenses of the trip. We have taken the initiative in securing dates with Ada, Warren, Crookston, Fertile, Grand Forks, U. N. D. second team, Grafton, Lakota, Hillsboro, May- ville, Larimore, Devils Lake, Grand Rapids, and, be it not overlooked, with Bemidji herself, and C. A. Shannon, over whose signature the challenge in Tuesday’s Herald ap- peared, must have been ignorant of the fact that East Grand Forks had already been in communication with Supt. Ritchie—either this or he has the bad boy’s time-worn penchant for claiming things very much out of reach.”? The proposition of the Bemidji team was clear and very fair, and the heated atmospheris ‘speil” given above is no answer to the chal- lenge issued to the team to play a especially to ‘the requirement of the farms located in northern Minne- sota. Institutes have been held in St. Louis county during the past week and they have been well attended. Reports from Institutes are to the effect that great interest has been manifested in the subjects discussed by Mr. McGuire and Mr. Wilson. Everyone interested in agriculture and the best methods ' of farming is urged to attend the Institute, as the addresses which will be delivered at the gathering will be of great benefit to those present. : game, either at Bemidji or East Grand Forks. Come over, boys, and show us that you are entitled to the “cham- pionship.” It takes games to win{ championship laurels, not newspaper| talk, The upshot of the entire matter is that there will undoubtedly be no game here Saturday, with any out- side team, and probably the “‘Forks” team will never play here. The above sounds very much like a back-down on the “part of the “champions of northwestern Minne- sota.” The true status of thé standing of the East Grand Forks high school football team is (so the Pioneer is informed, by one who should be well informed) that at least two men, the team who have no right to be members of the team. It is said that Quigley, one of the strongest players on the “Forks” eleven, is taking but two subjects at ‘the school, and that he is a post-gradute of the East Grand Forks High School, which is strictly contrary to and possibly three, are playing on |, The coroner’s jury which was selected to determine the cause of death of Carl Akerberg, reconvened in the city last evening for the pur- pose of reaching a verdict. The jury listened to - the reading of the report of the state chemist on the analysis of the stomach and contents ‘of Carl Akerberg, after which the members returned a verdict to the effect that deceased came to his death from causes to the jury unknown. Young Akerberg died rather sud- denly on Sept 19. Some of the symptoms accompanying the death indicated poisoning. There was something resembling a sensation when the relatives of young Akerberg intimated® that death was caused by poison and +J desired a coroner’s inquest over the remains of young Carl. County Coroner Marcum called an inquest with a jury and a post- fifortem was held on the body of young Akerberg. The stomach of the dead boy was sent to St. Paul to be anylized, and the coroners jury adjourned until report of the finding of the state chemist would be received. This report was re- ceived a few days ago and was read to the jury last evening, as follows: “State Food and Dairy Department. “St. Paul, Mion. ‘Dr. E. H. Marcum, Bemidji, Minn. - “Dear Sir:—1I have completed‘the analysis of the human stomach and part of the liver which you: forwarded to-me by Great Northern Express, on Sept. 19th, 1907. I made the first analysis on about one-third of the rules governing eligibility. the stomach and contents. The CAME TO HIS DEATH FROM CAUSES UNKNOWN TO JURY Coroner’s Jury Reached Verdiet a Inquest Held to Deter- . mine Cause of Death of Late Carl Akerberg Who Died September 19th. results showed that there was pres- ent in that portion a small trace of strychine, in fact, too small a quantity to atfempt to isolate .n the pure state and weigh. By an indirect method, I estimated that the amount of strychnine was not to exceed one-sixth thousandth of a grain. ““The next analysis was made on the piece of the liver, without serious_ difficulty, I isolated strychnine, but again in very small quantity, and scarcely more than was obtained from the stomach. my attention again to the remainder of the stomach, usiug this time, a somewhat modified method of @naly- sis, which I have found to yield good results. After a week pains- taking effortsI finally obtained again only a quantity of strychnine, amounting to not more than a trace, and hardly giving a reaction equival- entto that which I repeatedly ob- tained on one-sixth thousandth ofa grain of alkloid. “I have not analyzed the kidney, believing that in view of the above results, such analysis would be use- less. “Yours truly, “Julius Hortvet, Chemist.” A subpoena was issued by Coroner Marcum, for Garfield Akerberg, brother of the dead young man, re- questing him to produce the powders, concerning which there was consid- erable controversy. Mr. Akerberg appeared but was unable to produce the powders, or the analysis of the same, as the latter was under lock and key and the owner of the safe was out of the city. The Most scientious dealings. This Sale offers the greatest opportunity to buy your Seal, Mink, Squirrel, Persian Lamb, Astrakan Every style or grade rep- furs. Jackets, Sets, Scarfs, Muffs. Sale Saturday and Monday, Nov. 2-4, 1907 Eventful Fur Sale of the Season At the Berman Emporium MR. BRUNSWICK, a representative of LASKIN & CO., one of the most noted " Fur Houses in the United States, will have on display at our store for two days the complete line of the Celebrated Laskin F urs Any garment or set delivered from ‘stock or orders taken to your measure for any garment you may select. Every article guaranteed the rellablllty of the Laskin House and our own long standing reputatien for con- resented in this sale. It will be of exceptional interest to examine the various beautiful styles in Furs that the style makers of this season create. Any price of Fur at a great saving. Don’t fail to come to our store Saturday and Monday whether you wish to purchase or not. Berman Emporium Ithen turned - - | — -+