Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 12, 1907, Page 1

| , issue. ‘ VOLUME 5. NUMBER 174, FORFEITED TA X SALE BRINGING GOOD PRICES There Is Spirited Bidding on Many of the Tracts Offered For Sale.---Much Interest Is Shown in the Land The forfeited tax sale of Beltrami‘ county, which was commenced yes-| terday under the supervision of' County Auditor Wilmann, to be one of the most successful sales ever held in this part of the promises state under similar conditions. About thirty-five tracks were dis- | posed of yesterday, all being sold | at good prices. One tract of land | was sold for considerably more than the total sum of the tax, pen- alty, cost and interest to date, and the purchaser considered that he| got a rare bargain at the price he | paid. | There were quite a number of tracts in Clearwater county which| ‘ding Sale. | were sold, all of which brought good prices. There was some very spirited bid- on a number of the tracts which were offered, which fact indi- cates a healthy demand for the agn- cultural lands in this portion of northern Minnesota. The sale will be continued until all of the tracts are disposed of. There are about 300 tracts of land left, ranging from single village and city lots to several acres of farm lands. Today County Auditor Wilmann offered a nunber county, all of which were sold at excellent prices. BAND WILL BIVE FIRST | GONGERT FRIDAY NIGHT | Best Musical Event Ever Given by; Band.---Will Give Dance \ After Concert. | | i The Bemidji band, the | leadership of Professor Thomas Sym-z give its first indoor | concert of the winter season at the | | opera house Friday evening. Professor Symington has been.| working assiduously with the ban for two weeks past, drilling the | various members so that the concert Friday night will be a successful | one from a musical standpoint. Mr. | Symington’s labors will be rewarded | by a general excellence of the play- ing on the part of the members of the band that is indeed gratifying, under ington, will i and those who attend the concert |k Friday night are assured of hearing | the best that has ever been given byJ‘ the local band. The program of the concert will be found on the last page of this| ‘The program shows many new and catchy up-to-date numbers, which were selected by Professor Syming- ton, after having gone carefully over a large list of new musical com- positions. At the conclusion of the concert, the Bemidji orchestra will give its first ball of the season. The Bemidji band consists of sixteen regular members, as follows: Four clarionets, three cornets, two altos, two trombones, one tenor, | one baritone, one bass and two In addtion to the insru- mentation named, there are three other musicians who play occasion- ally with the band, one of whom plays the cornet, one tenor and one clarionet. Professor Thomas Symington, the present leader of the band, came to Bemidji on July 19, 1905. Since he drums. took hold of the local band, the organization at all times has given high class music, indicative of the instructive ability of the leader. Pleasantly Surprised. Rev. Carl Stromme, pastor of the Bemidji Norwegian Lutheran church, was very pleasantly surprised by the members of his congregation and other friends on November 7th. November 7th was Rev. Stromme’s birthday and a large number of his friends and congregation met at the home of I. B. Olson, whither the pastor had been invited and made the victim of a very pleasant sur- prise. During the evening, Thomas Johnson, on behalf of those present, presented Rev. Stromme with a purse containing a liberal sum of money. Rev. Stromme was taken very much by surprise, but finally responded with a heartfelt speech of thanks. The choir of the Norwegian Luth- eran church rendered some very beautiful songs. Rev. Stromme intends to leave which is deeply regretted, not only | by the members of his congregation, but by the citizens of Bemidji in general. Waterworks for Baudette. M. D. Stoner of this city and C W. Jewett of Blackduck, under the \fi'm name of Stoner & Jewett, have ! been awarded a contract by the village of Baudette, to putin a water- | works system at that village. It is the intention of Stoner & Jewett to install a pumping station and a temporary water supply with ! sufficient pipe for fire protection r Baudette, until next spring. Begm- d‘mng next spring, Stonér ‘& Jewett| | will install-a complete waterworks system, including a high tower with a tank, and also water mains to various parts of the village. Mr. Stoner was at Walker yester- | day and arranged for the purchase of a complete pumping plant, which was used by the village of Walker prior to the time that municipality installed its electric light plant. This | plant will be sent to Baudette, and installed there for use as soon as it is possible to get the machinery on the ground. Well"Known People Wed. There have been several weddings of late, not a few of which were surprises to friends of the contract- ing parties, as no general notice of the intention of the principals had been given. Hans Anderson and Hilma Ost- lund were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Rev. H. R, McKee, pastor of the Baptist church, performing the ceremony. James Henry Fallon and Miss Louise Hetland were upited in mar- riage Monday evening, Rew. McKee officiating. (A fuller account of this wedding will be given in to- morrow’s paper.) F. W. Rhoda and Miss Vinie Yunk were n_1arried last evening, the cere- mony being performed at the resi- dence recently purchased by Mr. Rhoda from A. Clavin. Judge of Probate M. A. Clark performed the ceremiony, which was solemnized in the presence of a few of the relatives and friends of the bride and groom. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoda left last night on a wedding trip to Duluth and other points. H. H. Wheelock Here. H. H. Wheelock, who was for many years a pioneer resident of this city and this section, isa visitor in the city, having come infrom Van- couver, B. C., where he is now en- gaged in a-lucrative business. Mr. Wheelock has established himself in the lumbering and furni- ture business, out west, and he is doing very well. He has some in- terests in this section which he will probably dispose of before returning to Vancouver. This is Worth Kemembering. As no one is immune, every person should remember that Foley’s Kid- ney Cure will cure any case of kid- ney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. E. A. Bemidji in the near future, a fact Barker of village lots| {located in differect parts of the E BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE MINNESOTA HISTURICAL BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1907. CONDITION OF CITY'S FINANGE FOR QUARTER — City Treasurer Earl Gell Files Quarterly Report of Condition of City Treasury. City Treasurer Earl Geil has filed with the city clerk his quarterly report for the quarter ending Octo- ber 31, which is as follows: GENERAL FUND. Balance on hand Aug. 1 Recelpts during quarter. Total Warrants § 53355 354300 Balance on hand, SINKING FUND. Balance, Aug. 1, Recelpts. Total Balance Aug. 1 Disbursements. Balance. ... PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT FUND. Balance Aug. 1. Disbursements. Overdraf! Balance Aug. 1 Recelpts ... Total.... Disbursements. Balance. POOR ¥U! Balance Aug.1.... ..... REVOLYVING FUND. Balance Aug. 1 ‘Warrants paid. Water tund Poor tund 108.44 Revolving 429.35 Total 863797 Overdratt. 490.48 Balanc Total balance last report. Total receipts.. .. Total.. Disbursements. 919| 75 . Balance $ 814149 The Ladies’ Aid society of the M. E. church will meet at the church parlors tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. Lunch will be served and a general invitation is extended to the public. i MORE CHEERFUL TONE Financial Conditions at New York Steadily Improving. TOTAL IS CLIMBING UPWARD —.+_. Gold Engagements Abroad Since the Beginning of the Present Strin- gency Aggregata: Nearly Fifty-five Millions of Dollars, New York, Nov. 12—The week opened with a cheerful tone in the financial district. (The two trust com- panies against which there had been severe runs were transacting business @ a normal basis, receiving deposits and paying out money on checks as though nothing had ever happened out of the ordinary. The flow of gold from Europe to the United States continues. The first engagements of the metal for import announced were by the Mercantile Trust company of St. Louis for $600,000 and by the Illinois Trust and Savings bank of Chicago tor $200,000. Both engagements were made in Lon- don. The St. Louis engagement is said to be the first instance in which a financial institution in that city has taken gold direct from London. The total gold engaged since the begin- ning of the financial stringency tis thus brought up to $51,831,810. The United States secured practical- ly all of the $3,000,000 gold offered fn the London market. There was lit- tle competition for' the offerings and the American bankers secured the precious metal cheaper than the price of last week. The stock market schowed a steady tone during the early trading, consid- erable investment demand for stocks belng reported by brokers. Lazard Freres has engaged $2,500, 000 additional gold for import. At the same time this engagement was re- ported it was announced that the Na- | tional City bank had cancelled an en- gagement of $1,000,000 made fn Lon- don at the end of last week. These two transactions bring the total en- gagements of gold since the present movement _began to''$54,000,000. The Midland Concert company at the City Opera House Wednesday evening, Nov. 13,under the auspices of the Ladies’ Aid society of the Presbyteria‘x church. = Seats on sale OCTOBER-APPORTIONMENT MADE BY THE AUDITOR County Auditor Wilmann Announces Apportionment of Funds on Hand * for that Purpose. County Auiditor Wilmann has just completed tabulating the Octo- ber apportionment. The received from the state apportion- ment is $6,045, and that received from county fines, license money, etc., is $3385.20. The number of scholors entitled to apportionment is 2418. This makes the state appor- tionment amount to $2.50 per pupil who has attended school forty days or more during the past school year, and the county apportionment amounts to $1.40, or a total of $3.90. According to this, the several school districts of the county are entitled to apportionment as per the following: ~ amount No. Amonnt. | No. Amount, 4 s e | 105 30 [ 12870 | 7 128 70 7 30069 | 80 86 30 8 89 70 81 152 10 9 4430 | 82 - 3 30 10 us20 | 88 109 20 13 2262 | 8t 70 20 16 2730 | & 46 80 5 soo | & 290 B o | 3120 o 200 | ® 109 20 s . 9% | % 101 40 5 . 630 | o 100 20 n 00 | 2 oL a0 4 15210 | B 100:20 ) 7 | ¥ 15,60, @ 0640 | % 19 50 r uin | % 28,10, % S0 | 62 40 56 23 40 8 50 70 57 mi | 9 31 20 5 1950 | 100 93 60 % 63570 | 101 5460 61 1560 | 102 2 40 ® w80 | 13 54 60 [ 62 40 104 70 20 ‘6 12880 | 105 62 40 4 9750 | 106 5990 i) 1560 :g_ fi x 7 31 n seeo |11 13 B 7 @4 |15 108 90 A new line of neat tomic postal cards has just been received at' the Pioneer office. at the City Drug Store. 50 cents. NEECATIVE DAAE Uniform Tablets Scott The public schools have adopted .a uniform tablet which the teachers have re- quested all pupils to use. These tablets were put up at the Pioneer office and are on sale at the fol'owing stores: Pioneer Stationery Store, M. E. Ibertson, Mrs. Aber- crombie, Floyd Brown, Wm. Mageau Frank H. West @ Co. _______J FORTY CENTS PER MONTH The following telegram from Crookston, which appeared in the St.”Paul Pioneer Press of Monday morning, will be of general interest to people living on the Red Lake Indian reservation, and also to the merchants and busiress menof Be- midji: “Crookston, Minn. Nov. 10.—The department of the interior has made an important ruling, permitting the Indians on the Red Lake reserva- ion to cut timber. “Atthe couference with the Indians held by Congressman Steen- erson and Senator Clapp last Sep- tember, the subject of allowing the Indians to cut the dead and down timber on the reservation with the exception of white and Norway pine, was discussed. “On Oct. 12 Mr. Steenerson wrote the department advising that the Indians be granted this permission, stating as his reasons that many of the Indians needed the money to buy the necessities of life and also stating that the disposal of the dead e R RRRRRRRRRERERRDRDRDDDRRDRDREE RED LAKE INDIANS MAY CUT TIMBER ON RESERVE Permission Has Been Granted Indians, by Authorities at Washington, to Cut All “Dead and Down” Stuff, Except Merchantable Timber. ! and down timber would help greatly in averting a fuel famine in the Northwest. “Mr. Steenerson has received a reply from the department, which says: ‘Under date of Oct 31, 1907, the president granted the authority re- | quested. The superintendent of the Red Lake Indian school bas been authorized to permit to proceed in accordance with the authority of the president.’”” As the Pioneer understands the intent and purpose of the grant given by the Washington authorities, the Indians of the Red Lake reserve are granted the permisssion to cut all “small stuff” on the reserve, which will mean a large amount of logging during the coming winter, and which will give the Indians a big revenue, all of which will be of considerable benefit to the mer- chants along the line of the Red ~— Lake railway and in Bemidji, as well as those having stores at the Red Lake agency. City Council Meeting. All the alderman except Mayer were present at the regular weekly meeting of the city council, last night. Outside the rezular routine busi- ness, ‘including the auditing of a number of claims, the most impor- tant matter taken up was the Taying over for one week the approval of line franchise, which was adopted some time ago. The acceptance filed -was signed only by two of the * three parties to whom the franchise was granted, as individuals, and in a lengthy opinion the city attorney held that the acceptance was not within the terms of the franchise. The city attorney also filed an opinion to the effiect that the city council is the proper body to approve liquor license bonds, instead of the mayor. The claim of the Jerrard Plumbing Company for discount on part of the paper in which they were paid for the sewer contract was also the sub- ject for an opinion by the legal advisor, in which the council was advised not to allow same, The library board presented a report recommending the closing of the public library unless funds were available for new books; and on motion the the board -was voted $200. Mrs. Sanger Dead. Mrs. Sanger, who has lived near Lake George for some time past, died at the St. Anthony’s hospital in this city last evening at 7 o’clock, as the result of an acute attack of erysipelas in the head. M. E. Ibertson today prepared the body of Mrs. Sanger for burial, and the remains will be shipped to Iowa to be interred at the old. home of the deceased. Mrs. Sanger was' 26 years of age and was. born in Iowa in 1881. She is survived by a husband and a daughter. Mrs. Sanger was attacked with erysipelas several days ago, and was finally brought to St. Anthony’s hospital for treatment, but the disease had gained such inroads that a cure was impossible and she ex- pired last evening. First Deer Shipped. The first deer of the season to be shipped in from the north country, arrived this morning over the M. & L. south-bound passenger train. The dnimal was consigned to Leon Airhart at Warren and had been shipped by this gentleman from filackduck where he is hunting. The deer was a small buck and will make most delicious eating. Local n last the acceptance of the street car| PHILADELPHIA DOGTOR TELLS OF APPENDIGITIS Says Disease Is Something of a'Jnke, and Many Cases Cured Without Surgery. Duluth News-Tribune:' James E. Wilson, M. D., of the Medical Society, Philadelphia, Pa., who is in - the ‘city ‘demonstrating upon the. treatment of disease at the various hospitals, states that there is not as much appendicitis in the country as there was two years ago. “Two years ago it was quite the thing,” said Dr. Wilson last nightat the McKay, “for people in all walks of life to have appendicitis. In the majority of cases the people affected had some minor ailment or some- thing worse and palmed it off as appendicitis that they might be in the swim. “Todaywe find conditions reversed and a spade being called a spade. It is no longer fashionable to have appendicitis for the general public has come to the conclusion that the average case of the disease isa joke. _ “Doctors, in treating appendicitis, have made wonderful strides during the past 25 month and it is possible now to cure the most serious cases without the use of a surgeon’s knife. A little medicine and skillful treat. . ment as a rule result beneficially without any resort to surgery. This probably has had something to do with the falling off in the number of - appendicitis cases as there is a certain percentage of humans who - . think it quite an honor to go upon the operating table for a surgical operation.” Ike Lederer lil. ‘The many Bemidji friends of Ike Lederer, the popular commercial traveler for the David Adler com- pany of St. Paul, will besorryto | learn that Ike is confined to his room at a St. Paul hotel, suffering from a complication of diseases, with the prospect of being bedridden for some time to come. G. W. Casper,. who is in the city today, is making several of the towns which Mr. Lederer covered, and he states that Ike is a very sick man. Mr. Lederer assisted in the msu- tution of the Bemidji lodge of Elks and he made many friends here at the time the lodge was started. It is hoped that Tke will soon regain his wonted robustly healthful physique. ' Returned Home from Rachester. - Mrs. W. H. Poupore and littlg' child returned last evening from Rochester, Minn., where they had.