Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 20, 1907, Page 1

R A VOLUME 5. NUMBER 181. ILY PIONEE! MINNESOTA HISTORICAL BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1907. - FORTY CENTS PER MONTH BEMIDJI'S BASKETBALL PLAYERS WILL BE STRONG Squad Which Will Represent This City This Winter Is of Championship Calibre.---Splendid Schedule of Games Arranged.---First Game Friday. Prospects are very good for Be- midji having the champion basket- ball team of northern Minnesota, | during the coming winter. ! Last year the Bemidji team went| through the season without a defeat and was regarded as being the basketball team in the north half of the state, with the, exception, possibly, of the Warren five, it being impossible to arrange a game last winter with the latter | team. strongest This year there are several new | players in the city, who, together with those of last year who are| here, will give Bemidji a very strong bunch of players from which to select a winning team. Thete are | twelve candidates for membership on the regular team and substitutes, which will be used during the win- | ter. | This year the team has the ser- vices of Prof. Biddinger, a teacher\‘ inthe local schools, who will act as| coach of both the city and the high | school teams. Prof. Biddinger will | have charge of the squad, consisting‘ of the following members: 1 Earl Geil, Joseph Markham, Ed-| ward Gould, Erton Geil, Pheifer, Garnet Peterson, Jack Peterson,! Scott Stewart, Lee Heffron, Brown (captain), Harry Geil and Collins The first team has already been selected and will be as follows: Lee Heffron and Harry Geil, for- wards; Floyd Brown, center; Erton Geil and Garnet Peterson, guards. Of these players, Brown, the big center, is a very fast player. He| played center for the McAllister five | in 1900, when McAllister won two games from the Minnesota University | team. Lee Heffron and Harry Geil were members of the University of Minne- sota aquad of players. Will Collins, who will play with the first team when he is here, was for a number of years a member of the strong St. John’s University team. ; Erton Geil, Joe Markham, Pheifer, ‘I Garnet Peterson, Ed. Gould and| Earl Geil are all old players and have had considerable experience. Professor Biddinger, in addition to being the coach, will also play with the team. He was for a number of seasons coach for the Rochester, Indiana, College team, and is a strong player. The team this year will be known as the “Big Bemidji Basketball Boys.” The team has just received twelve handsome new uniforms, which con- sist of maroon shirt and stockings with four-inch wide stripes, and a| pair of black pants. Lee Heffron, who is manager of the team, has made arrangements whereby games will be played in the new Grand Opera House skating rink. It is the intention to have skating in the early part of the even- | played. ings, the games to be called at about 9 o'clock. The skating rink will make an exceptionally good place in which to play basketball. There is the finest kind of a floor, with plenty of room for both players and specta- tors. Manager Heffron has already arranged a series of games which will cover practically the entire winter, - The first public appearance of he basketball squad will be Friday evening, when two games will be The first game will be be- tween the “Firemen’s Five” and the “City Five.” At the conclusion of the first game the ‘‘Firemen’s Five” (which will be the regular team dur- ing the winter) will play against the high school team. There wlll be skating before the game, the game being called at 9 o’clock; 25c. will be charged for admission to the| | games. The following schedule has al- ready been arranged for games with outside teams: Nov. 28 (Thanskgiving) the Be- midji and Park Rapids teams' will play two games at Park Rapids, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, which games promise to be good ones. Last year Bemidji took two games from Park Rapids, the first by a score of 21 to §; the sec- ond, 29 to 12. Dec. 6 Park Rapids will play in Bemidji. On Dec. 19 and 20 the Great Northern team of Crookston will play two games here. The Great Northern players were considered the champions at Crookston last year. Dec. 27 aud 28 the Warren team, claiments of the basketpall cham- pionship of Northern Minn. last year, will play two games here. Warren did not play Bemidji last year, but the local team had fully as good a record as the Marshall county team. The two games to be played on Dec. 28 promise to be very exciting. On Jan. 10 the Park Rapids team will play another game here. The Duluth Y. M. C. A. team, one of the very strongest in the state, will play two games here on Jan. 24 and Feb. 25, Feb. 13 and 14 the famous Com- pany Iteam of Superior, the great Wisconsin National Guard five, will play two games here. This team has lost but one game in the four | years it has been playing, the Hud- son, Wisconsin, players turning the trick. The game was lost the first year, and Company I has not been defeated the last three years. On Feb. 21 and 22, or the 28 and 29, the strong St.Paul Y. M. C. A. five will play two games here. This team has already shown good form, having recently defeated the St. Olaf’s College team. It is probable that some other games will be arranged within the season. Performance Was Good. “The Merry Milkmaids” given for the second performance at the City Hall last evening, before even a larger crowd than that which was greeted the opera on the previous evening. The opera was again given in a splendid manner, the members of the cast having apparently im- proved by virtue of their first night’s experience, and the opera was given in a more polished manner. All members of the company were well up in their parts, and the ver- dict was that the second night was better than the first. These performances have shown that Mr. G. T. Wilson, as a conduc- tor, has few equals in the northwest- ern states asa director. He labored diligently here, and the result wasa finished local-talent performance. The performances have brought midst some exceptionally clever people who are possessed of much native talent, and itis hoped that there will be more performances of a | like character. The members of the Ladies’ Aid society of the Presbyterian church, under whose auspices the perform- ances were given, desire the Pioneer to sincerely thank the members of the cast who took part in the play and also the public for its generous patronage. Attention, Elks. A regular meeting of Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, B. P. O. E., will be held at Elk hall Thursday even- ing, Nov. 21. Every Elk is urgently requested to be present at this meeting, as there will be business considered which is of vital importance to the lodge, among which is the matter of the State Convention, to be held out the fact that Bemidiji has in her next year. New Blacksmi that Turtle. Edward Peterson has started a new blacksmith shop at Turtle River, and is assured a fine trade. Mr. Peterson, as will be seen_by the adyertisement printed elsewhere, is prepared to do all kinds of black- smith work, and he makes a spec- ialty of horseshoeing. DYPHTHERIA AT TURTLE RIVER; SCHOOLS CLOSED County Physician Finds Family Afflicted With Dyphtheria and Many Exposed to Disease. Dr. F. A. Blakeslee, county physician, returned this morning from Turtle River, where he was called last evening to look after some dyphtheria cases of a serious nature. The doctor states that he visited the home of Joseph Chounard, where he found that a girl 9 years old was dead, having . died several hours previous to his arrival, from dyph- theria. The doctor also found that several other members of the Chou- nard family were afflicted with the dyphtheria in a malignant form. The doctor investigated the case and found that some members of the family had recently come to Turtle River from Little Falls, at which place they had been ill with dyph- theria and had not fully recovered when they came to Turtle River, and also that they had not been fumigated. The other members of the family have been exposed to; those who returned from Little Falls | ten days ago. Dr. Blakeslee took prompt. action in the cases and, after finding that the children had been at school and that several other families had been exposed to the dyphtheria he ordered the school closed and the homes of the families exposed quarantined. The girl that died had been sick only thirty-six hours. INSTALLED AS PASTOR OF BLACKDUGK CHURGH Rev. Barackman Will Have Charge of Presbyterian Church, Succeeding Rev. Hall-Quest. Last evening(at Blackduck) Rev. Frank J, Barackman was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church of that village. Installation services were attended by a large number of the people of Blackduck, who filled the church to its capacity. A Rev. S. E. P. White, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Bemidii, présided at the installation services REV. S. E. P. WHITE = and preached the sermon of the evening. He took as his theme “Redeeming of the Times,” and the discourse was a splendid one of church work. ~Rev. Phillip Schwartz, who will be installed as pastor of the Presby- terian church at Red Lake Falls, gave charge to the pastor,which was a splendidly-prepared address. Rev. Niel Gilchrist of Crookston, pastor-at-large of the Adams presby- tery, charged the people, and his talk was very well received. One of the pleasant features of the evening was the singing by the quartette, which rendered two selec- tions in a very creditable manner. Rev. Barackman succeeds Rev. A. L. Hall-Quest, who ‘left Blackduck recently for St. Joe, Missouri. The Blackduck Presbyterian church is in a most excellent condi- tion. Financially it is free from debt, and has 100 members. JAMES KENNEDY GIVEN $20,000 SETTLING GASE Was Injured at Cass Lake, and Sued ). Neils Lumber Co. for Big Sum. Crookston Times’ Attorney Chas. Loring of this city has just made the. largest settlement that has probably ever been made in the State of Minnesota in a personal in- jury case. Jas. Kennedy, who resides at Cass Lake, was injured in the sawmill of the J. Neils Lumber Company a year ago last October, by being thrown into the resaw while at work in the mill. He lost his left hand and his rizht arm in the terrible resaw and through his attorney, Mr. Loring of this city, he started suit against the Lumber company to se- cure damages. The case was to have come up for trial at the coming term of court which opens at Walker tomorrow, but through the efforts of Mr. Loring it was settled out of court by the payment of $20,000 to Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy is a man about 34 years of age who is now residing at Cass Lake, and has a wife and five children who will be provided for with the money which he received from the company. The J. Neils Lumber company is one of the Shevlin-Clark mills and is controlled by the same people who control the Crookston Lumber Com- pany. S crombie, Uniform Tablets 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 following stores: Pioneer Stationery Store, M. E. Ibertson, Mrs. Aber- Scott Stewart, Floyd Brown, Wm. Mageau Frank H. West @ Co. CROOKSTON LUMBER €0.’S SAWMILL CUT MANY LOGS Mill Shut Down for the Seasox ---Company Employed Nearly Six Hundred Men Constantly, and Paid Out Over $200,000 to Employes. The shutting down of the Crooks- ton Lumber company’s sawmill in this city marked the close of another successful season’s cut of lumber for the local plant. The mill began cutting logs the 26th of March, and was operated steady, without a single shut-down, until November 15. It was not even necessary to stop the mill for repairs at any time, the work of pre- paring the mill last season for the season’s cut having been done in a |very thorough manner under the supervision of E. H. Dea, -foreman of the mill. From 550 to 600 men have been given steady employment during the past season, and there: was not a single serious accident during the nine months that the mill was oper- ated,which is a remarkable showing, and speaks well for the manner in which the mill was run. While the mill was being run, over $200,000 was paid out for labor, a large part of which sum was given general circulation in the city of Bemidji, and was a considerable factor in the “trade accorded the business men of the city. ‘The following comprises the corps of men who were in charge of opera- tions at the mill during the past season. i Dea; superintendent of the logging, B. W. Lakin; chief engineer, John | Neuman; head millwright, Andy Larson; day foreman; Knute Nelson; night foreman, Pete Dainerd. It is expected that all of the above men will be retained for next year. It is certain that the Crookston Lumber company will not log as extensively next year as last year, for various reasons. However, this will have no effect on the running of the mill next year, as the plant will saw logs night and day, the same as during the past season. There are about 10,000,000 feet on hand with which to commence next season’s work. — e “‘We Are King” Coming. Walter M. Roles, advance man for “We Are King,” was in the city city today, arranging with the man- agement of the City Opera House for the appearance here Thanks- giving night of that great play. It will be remembered that this play was given here last winter, and it was by far the best performance seen at the local play house during the season. Bemidji theater-goers should not miss the opportunity to see this excellent performance, on Thanks- giving night. HAS NEVER STATED HE FAVORED PARGELS POST Congressman Steenerson Writes a Letter to Anton Erickson Con- cerning the Proposition. A few days ago, some person mailed a letter in the Bemidji post- office to Congressman Steenerson at Crookston, in which the writer called the congressman to account for his (Mr. Steenerson’s) support of the the parcels post proposition. The letter was an anonymous one, bear- ing no signature. g This morning Anton Erickson, Congressman Steenerson’s com- mitteeman from Beltrami county, received a letter from Mr. Steener- son as follows, concerning the parcels post: “Crookston, Nov. 19. “A. R. Erickson, Esg., Bemidji, Minn. “My Dear Sir:—The enclosed letter came to me yesterday without any signature. I have never in any interview stated that I favored the parcels - post proposition advanced by the Postmaster General and which has started this discussion. I was first interviewed by the Crookston papers and then stated what the Postmaster General intended to recommend but did not say that I favored the proposition, but in the head lines the “Times” stated that I favored parcel post. Afterwards the Pioneer Press interviewed me and I took pains to explain that I never favored and did not favor the pro- position of the postmaster general on parcel post. If you can find the author of the enclosed letter I wish you would explain this, but I presume that you cannot find him in as much as he does not sign his ‘name. My impression is that he is a store keeper, probably a hardware ‘dealer in Bemidii. “Yours very truly, —""H. Steenerson.” A new lineb of neat comic postal cards has just been received at the Pioneer office. LITTLE JIN” IS PROVEN 70 BEA RANK “RINGER” Speedy Pacer, Which Has Raced in | Bemidji, Is Found to be Guy Rex. { Duluth News Tribune: Another i St. Louis county race track scandal will be aired by the stewards of the American Trotting association this winter. Little Jim 2:14%, a bay ipacing gelding, owned by Frank Ansley of Hibbing, president of the St. Louis County Fair association, is on the carpet, the charge being "ringing.” Last summer the Ans- ley horse was raced through the Wisconsin circuits where he made an excellent showing, copping some handseme prizes. It is said that certain Wisconson horsemen, who are familar with the animal, identi- fied him as Guy Rex, 2:11%, and in a number of places entered protests which tied up the winnings. When the matter was brought to the attention of Secretary W. H. Knight of the American Trotting association he began an investiga- tion which has resulted in the com- plete identification of Little Jim as Guy Rex. It is stated that Mr. Ansley purchased the horse in good faith, believing him to have a record of only 2:19% and accordingly raced him in that race. As far as is known, the associa- tion exonorates Mr. Ansley from any attempt at crookedness. The offi- cials are willing to believe that the horse and his record were misrepre- sented. As president of the St. Louis County »ssociation Mr. Ans- ley has, on every occasion, shown himself to be good, square and hon- est, always giving the visiting horse- men far more than they had com- ing. Duluth horsemen are unwill- ing to believe that he would resort to “ringing horses.” “Little Jim” has raced in Bemidji, and has always shown a fast clip. This fall he won the the free-for-all pace or trot at the races of the Bel- trami County Agricultural associa- tion, making a mark of 2:14 .1-4, which is the track record. Everyone likes the little pacer, as he is game and a“speedy traveler, and always a “good actor” on the track, Social at Baptist Church. The Baptist young people will give a Thanksgiving, social and en- tertainment in their church Tuesday evening, November 26. 3 All are cordially invited. ~ W: for further notice. AR four Additional local matter will be ldnnlanm page. | Superintendent of the mill, E. H.