Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 6, 1907, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PION ) MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 5. NUMBER 169. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1907. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH DISAPPEARANCE OF YOLA PEOPLE STILL A MYSTERY Mrs. Chase and Mr. Seiforth Have Not Been Found.---No Clue to Their Whereabouts Discovered by Neighbors Who Searched Diligently. Yola, Nov. 6.—(Special to Pio~fbo(l)' would speedily sink forever neer.)—The people living near Yola from view. Many think that the Hubbard body of Mrs. thse is 1ml.)nsoned 5 - under the floating bog in this flow- twenty miles south of Bemidji) are asieand. willneveriberesovered, Mr. Sieforth, who had a home- Mr. | stead about three miles from Yola, William Sieforth, who have been has not been seen for two months missing from their homes and of past. He disappeared from his whom absolutely no trace has ever| home about the First of September, been found. ‘\\'hen he was in the Yola postoffice Mrs. Emily Chase, who was about | the last time. 70 years old, disappeared from her Mr. Sieforth was about 80 years cabin about Junme 27. Persistent old and lived alone in his cabin. search was subsequently made by The belief is prevalent that he the county officials of Hubbard wandered into the woods and per- county and organized posses of ished, and that his body will be re- people living in the vicinity of Yola, covered some day, although many but nothing was found to indicate have searched through the woods where the old lady had gone or | to find some trace of the old man. whether she had been foully dealt| The two cases of disappearance in with. The country in the \'icinity:almost the same locality looks of Mrs. Chase’s home was covered | strange, but there is no positive with dense underbrush and there isiproof that there was foul play in also a large flowage where a human either case. postoffice (in county, still mystified at the disappearance of Mrs. FEmily Chase and Pleasant Reception. | Address—Rev. McKee, of the The reception given by the mem-| Baptist church. the Methodist Address—G. W. Campbell, of the i Presbyterian church. their new pastor, Rev. J. H. Dennis- ¥ " . 2 Solo—Miss Hanson. ton, in the Methodist church parlors . i == Address—Rev. Denniston. last evening, was well attended. The v < . s Solo—Professor Wilson. evening was spent in social dis-| K & After the program, refreshments course and getting acquainted. . p . | were served by the Ladies’ Aid. An interesting program was given, | Dr. E. H. Smith presiding. The | program was as follows: i Prayer—Rev. Olander. Anthem—The Choir. Reading—Miss Eva Grailing. bers ot church to W. H. McVeety, the logger, went | to Blackduck last evening to look ‘af[er his logging interests east of | that place. Lumber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a complete line of Lumber and Building Material, Dimensions, ete. Look us up for your winter supply of Coal and Wood We have a large supply St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. The Bemidji Pioneer Stationery Departm’t Up To Date Goods. Well Selected Stock The Right Place to Get It. The Pioneer in putting in this stock gives the People of Bemidji and surrounding country as good a selection as can be found in any stationery store Type Writer Supplies We carry a line of Ribbons for all Standard Machines, either copying or record; Type ‘Writer Oil, Carbon Paper, Box Type Writer Paper from 80c¢ per box of 500 sheets up to $2.00. Paper Fasteners The best and most complete line of fasteners to be found any where. We have the Gem Clips, Niagara, “0 K,” “Klip Klip,” Challenge Eylets and other va- rieties. Pencils Blank Books In this line we carry the Fa- Our blank book stock is a bers, Kohinoors, Dizons, in carefully, selected line of black, colored or copying. We books. Special books ordered have the artist’s extra soft pen- cils as well as the accountant’s hard pencils. on short notice. Our specialties are handy books for office or private accounts. We are glad to show you our stationery and job stock and invite you to call at the office. The Bemidji Pioneer A LARGE SUM IS BEING EXPENDED FOR DRAINAGE State Engineer Ralph Says $3,000,000 Will Have Been Used for Drainage, by January 1. Crookston Times: Before next year closes the state will have ex- pended $3,000,000 in irrigation or ditching problems, State Engineer Ralph. “Next year will be the banner vear for the digging of irrigation ditches in this state,” said Mr. | Ralph. ““There have been a large number of contracts let this season |for ditches which will be completed next year. When a big ditch is planned it takes some time to go through the preliminary proceedings, such as making the surveys, holding {the hearings and apportioning the the costs on the land, so that the work of digging is usually extended over into the following year. “The counties are now planning a large number of ditches. We hear a new ditch talked of nearly every day.” Within the next two months con- tracts will be let for two large state ditches having an aggregate length of about 100 miles. These ditches will be dug in St Louis, Itasca, Koochiching and Beltrami counties. When completed they will drain about 200 miles of swampy land, transforming it into rich farm land. The largest of these ditches will be that from Little Fork to Rainy river. Through the arrangement which is now in force, the good roads move- ment is going hand in hand with the drainage movement in Northern Minnesota. All of the state drain- age ditches ar2 being dug with roads paralleling them, the dirt taken from the ditches furnishing material for the roads. This can be done easily, as the ditches in the main follow section lines and the roads can be built at a very small expense. according to Logging Contract Cut. Daniel Petrie of Park Rapids, sheriff of Hubbard county, who does considerable logging of timber in this part of the state, is one of the contractors who have been affected by the determination of the Red River Lumber company not to con- tinue to cut lumber the coming winter, Sheriff Petrie, who was in the city last evening, stated that he had a contract to cut four million feet of logs this winter for the .Red River company and was notified about a week ago that the com- pany would cancel his entire con- tract, on account of the determi- nation of the Red River people to cut down expenses because of straightened financial conditions. A few days ago, however, the lum- ber company notified Mr. Petrie that he would be given a contract to cut one million feet on the Akeley- Lake George railway, about twenty miles north of Park Rapids. Mr. Petrie will at once build camps and be in readiness to log as soon as the season opens. Mr. Petrie left this morning for the town of Rockwood, fifteen miles south of Bemidji,in Hubbard county in company with G. E. Crocker, manager for the Grand < Forks Lum- ber company, to whom he will sell a logging outfit, which he has there. The Merry Milkmaids. “The Merry Milkmaids,” a comic opera in two acts, in which the best musical talent in Bemidji has been enlisted to the number of about thirty-five, has been in preparation for the past week under the direction of Mr. G. T. Wilson. It will be produced two evenings, for the bene- fit of the Presbyterian Aid Society, about Nov. 18th and 19th. J. C. Schwartz, traveling auditor for the M. & I railway, came down this morning from: Northome and went on through the city to Walker, for the purpose of consulting the Walker agent for the M. & 1. Local news on last page FRST GOLD ARRIVE North @erman Lloyd Steamer Had .$1,100,000 on Board. MORE COMING ON FRIDAY Cunarder Lusitania, Due on That Day, Carries an Additional $10,000,000 of the 934,000,000 Engaged Abroad Up to the Present Time. New York, Nov. 8.—With $7,100,000 1n gold safely stowed away in her gold room the Krom Prinzessin Cecilie of North German Lloyd line arrived th the first consignment of the $34, 000,000 engaged abroad by American beokers to relieve the stringency in the momey market. The Lausitania, due to arrive Friday, will bring an additional $10,000,000. No apectal precautions were taken adeard the big liner to guard the treasure. Onoe locked in the big steel safe located aft on the main deck of the steamer the golden cargo was oconsidered as safe as it would have been had it been stored in the sub- treasury vaults in this city. Not even a guard was assigned to watch the gold room, as the big safe is called, according to the purser. Two hundred and thirty-five small ‘wooden boxes, averaging about eight- een inches square and containing about $30,000 each in gold bars and ooin, were carried into the gold room at Bremen in the presence of several of the ship’s officers. Consigned to Various Parties. Seventy of the cases are consigned to Heldelbach, Ickelheimer & Co., six- ty to Lazard Freres, thirty-five to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., twenty-three to the National City bank of this city and the remainder to banking concerns in Chicago and other interior towns. The gold will be removed from the ship at the pleasure of the consignees. The boxes will be carried ashore un- der the careful scrutiny of some of the ship’s officers, customs officials and others interested in its shipment. As $600,000 in gold weighg about a' ton several express wagons Wwill be neces- sary to transfer the consignment, the express companies contracting for its safe delivery. The Kron Prinzessin Cecilie was driven along at high speed in carrying her . precious cargo and succeded in breaking her best previous record by 1 hour and 25 minutes, making the passage from Cherbourg, the last port of call, in 5 days, 16 hours and 40 minutes. The average speed main- tained was 22.32 knots an hour, against & former best average of 22.08. NO CASH AT PITTSBURG. All Business Transacted by the Scrip System. Pittsburg, Nov. 6.—This city is prac- tically doing business with checks. Payments in cash are scarce, thou- sandg of workingmen have affiliated with banks and the necessities of life are being purchased with serip. In every section of Allegheny county the | checking system is in use and no in- convenience has resulted. The scrip in circulation is in denominations of $6, $10, $15 and $20, marked on the face “payable only through the Pitts- burg clearing house.” On the back in four different languages is printed: “This check may be deposited but will not be paid in -cash by the bank.” ‘Warning has been made to all persons not to allow scalpers to charge them & commission for cashing the checks, as there is no necessity for this. The excellent manner in which the checking system is being utilized has brightened the local financial situation mué¢h, It was the one thing needed, according to bankers, and the success of the plan is unquestioned. Superintendent McQuaide of the Pittsburg police, fearing an epidemic of orime, has issued a warning to per- sons not-to hoard mordey in. their homes. He has received reports from all over the country that many thieves are coming to Pittsburg attracted by the enormous payroll of the Pittsburg district. The police and detectives are on the lookout for such people. To Discuss 8witchmen’s Demands. Chicago, Nov. 8.—A conference be- tween the local committees of the branches of the Switchmen’s union of North America of Buffalo, St. Paul and Minneapolls and the railroad man- agers will be held in Chicago next Monday. The conference is called for the consideration of the demands of the union for a new Wwage schedule glving an advance of 6 cents an hour and the arbitration of grievances. France Aids Bank of England. Paris, Nov. 6.—The Bank of France has made its firat shipment of gold to the Bank of England in order to re. leve the tension there caused by the American demands. In pursuance to the decision reached last week the Bank of France, at the request of the Bank of England, purchased £3,000, 000 time sterling bills, remitting for them English sovereigns and Amer- ican eagles. Faster Than the Lusitania, New York, Nov. 8.—Vernon H. Brown, the New York agent of the Cunard Steamship company, has re- celved a cablegram saying that the new turbine steamer Mauretania on a trial made an average of 27.86 knots per hour over a 300-mile course. This s nearly a knot faster than the Lusl. for the same distaace on AT O AURk SEASON FOR NETTING OF WHITEFISH OPENS 0TH License Must Be Secured from State Game and Fish Commission at St. Paul. The lawful season for netting whitefish opens November 10th(next Sunday) and as many have asked concerning the provisions of the law i as to netting, we herewith reproduce law that covers the matter referred to: that section of the game “In all of the inland lakes in this state, permission having been granted therefor, but not otherwise, a net may be used for the purpose of taking and catching whitefish or trelipies for their own domestic use, from Nov. 10th to Dec. 10th of the ! same year. Said net shall not ex- ceed one hundred (100) feet in length and three feet in width, and the meshes of said net shall not be less than three and one-half (3%) inches in size of mesh when the same is extended. The sale of whitefish and trelipies so caught is hereby prohibited. “Any person desiring to use any such net shall first make application for a permit therefor to the commis- sion, in writing, and shall state that | the said netis to be used by them for the purpose of obtaining fish for their own domestic use and not for the purpose of sale, which applica- tion shall be accompanied by a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each net, but no person shall be permitted to use more than two (2) of such nets, and such fish shall not be sold or offered for sale.” There is another provision of the law relative to the storing of game, which it might be well for everyone to read. “Section 60.—Cold storage. The placing or receiving within or stor- age of any game bird or game ani- mal, or any part thereof, in any cold storage plant is hereby pro- hibited ond made unlawful.” Merry Milkmaids Pleased People. The Atkin Age has the following to say of the comic opera produced at Aitkin the 18th and 19th of last month, and to be given in Bemidji under the auspices of the Presby- terian Aid Society the middle of the month: “The comic opera, the ‘Merry Milkmaids,” by home talent under direction of G. T. Wilson for the W. R. C. ladies, as presented at the opera house Friday and Saturday nights, was a very pleasing produc-! tion and drew good houses both nights. The first performance was good, but the second was much better and was highly complimented by the audience. All of the mem- bers of the company did the parts assigned them in a creditable man- ner, the costumes and novel features appealed to the audiences as well as the splendid solos and chorus work, and the readings by Mr. Wilson were well received.” Hurt Playing *‘Shinney.” While Dr. Blakeslee was at Ten- strike last evening, he was called upon to attend to the injured hand of Guy Brant, who was injured while he was participating in a strenuous game of “shinney.” One of the ardent participants in the “‘shinney” game hit young Brant a vicious swipe on the back of the hand, with the result that two of the knuckles were driven nearly through the hand. Young Brant will be laid up for a few days. The parents of the young ‘“‘shinney” players at Ten- strike have been very busy since yesterday burning “shinney” sticks. Attention, Elks. There will be a regular meeting of Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, B. P. O. E., Thursday evening. All members are urged to be present, or there will be “something doing.” The “‘carriage” is liable to work, as a penalty. : C. L. DECKER, Exalted Ruler. . Local news on last page. ELECTIONS YESTERDAY - WERE HOTLY CONTESTED Tom Johnsos, Democratic Candidate, Re-elected Mayor of Cleveland over Congressman Burton.---Hugh Dunlevy Elected Mayor of East Grand Forks. ; Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 6.—(Special i ous’in Massachusetts. Pennsylvania to Pioneer.)—Mayor Tom L. John- |and Kentucky- The Democrats won son was yesterday re-elected for the |in Maryland and Rhode Island and fourth time as mayor of Cleveland \ possibly in New Jersey, where con- in a hard fought battle in which the ‘ test was very close. republican ticket was headed by, The Tammany candidates were Congressman Theodore Burton,|elected in New York city over the chairman of the house committee on | republican-independence League rivers and harbors. Chairmar | Fusion. Baker of the republican committee | has conceded the election of John-| East Grand Forks, Nov. 6.— son by 5,000 plurality. At the|(Special to Pioneer.)—In what was Johnson headquarters his majority | one of the warmest campaigns that is placed at a higher figure. The | was ever fought here, Hugh Dun- election of the entire city demo- | levy was elected mayor of East cratic ticket is indicated by 5,000 or | Grand Forks yesterday by a majority more. The democrats elected a|of four votes over O’Leary, the majority of councilmen. | present incumbent. T. A. Sullivan S { was elected municipal judge over Chicago, Nov. 6.—(Special to|Attorney Massee. It is believed Pioneer.)—Summary election results: | there will be some decided changes Mayor Taylor and District Attor-|in municipal regulations—which will ney Langdon were re-elected at San |tend to fasten the lid down even Francisco, by large pluralities. The | tighter than it has been for the past Republican state ticket was victori- | few days. Good Entertainment. to singers. The program will con- The second entertainment of the ! sist of violin and vocal numbers, and also one or two select readings. This concert will be a rare musi- cal treat, and it is the universal opinion wherever they have been, that they are of the best, and the concert one of real merit. Lovers of high-class music should not fail to attend this,® the second number, of the lyceum course. course being given by the members of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Presbyterian church, will be given at the city hall Wednesday evening, | November 13th. This number is a ladies’ quartette, who come highly . recommended as good entertainers. The four ladies comprising this company are capable of filling, with| Additional local miaiter will be found honor, the very best positions offered | on fourth page. He sees best who sees to the consequences. 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