Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 6, 1908, Page 1

« THE BEMIDJI Histotical Society. ). VOLUME 5. NUMBER 220. ]AILY P1 . BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1908. STATE GAME WARDENS MAY MEET IN ST, PAUL Convention Propased for Purpose of Getting Together for Co-operation.--- Good Services Being Rendered. It is very probable that a conven- tion of the various game wardens who are in the employ of the state of Minnesota will be held at the state capitol, within the next two months, for the purpose of “‘getting and formulating plans and as to the possible betterment of the service, together” receiving suggestions which, by the way, is at the present time as good as that rendered by any similar body of men in any state in the union. The warden at Crookston and the Bemidji warden have suggested to Carlos Avery, executive agent of the State Game and Fish Commission, that a meeting of all the wardens would be very benehcxal, in many ways. At present, the men who are em- ployed by the commission are not acquainted with each other, to any| wish it success. —Internatlonal Falls Echo. Mr. Tiller, referred to above, is at present in the employ of the Pioneer. {He is a first-class printer, and we have every reason to believe that he will give the people of Ranier a paper of which they may well be proud. Mr. Tiller will start the paper some time within the next ten days, but will probably not move to Ranier to make his permanent resi- | wards. Mrs. C. R. Martin Married. Wadena Pioneer-Journal: Satur- ! day, shortly after noon, Mr. O. C. Farnsworth of Whapeton, N. D., and Mrs. Clara Martin of Bemidji, were | married at the Commercial hotel in this city. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. I. N. Goodell of the Méthodist church. Mr. Farnsworth is a real estate dealer of Wahpeton. The couple left at once after their marriage for Texas and they will spend the winter in the south. The above was somewhat of a surprise to Bemidji people. Mrs. Martin is the widow of the late C. R. Martin, who owned the Beltrami County News, in conjunction with C. C. Christenson. great extent, and it is believed that| NEW FHASE IN DRMNAGE a meeting where all could get to- gether and offer suggestions and give impressions as to the work of the wardens would be of mutual benefit. The matter has not as yet assumed any tangible form, but has been simply suggested to Mr. Avery as a beneficial proposition. However, the further ideas of those who have suggested the meeting is that papers on given topics could be prepared and read at the meeting which would undoubtedly be of consider- able interest to all. “The service which is at present being rendered by the wardens in the field is done in an intelligent and thorough manner, and the Game and Fish Commission is to be con- gratulated upon having so good a corps of level-headed men in its employ—men who exercise excellent judgement in enforceing the law, so as not to unnecessarily antagonize the general public as to the game and fish laws,” said a prominent resident of Northome, who was in the city yesterday. “Time was when it was almost impossible to get the people living in the northern woods to have any respect for any portion of the game laws, but that sentiment is rapidly changing, and now the wardens in the mnorth part of the state are many times assisted by homestead- ers in bring pot hunters to justice.” Kelliher Has Been Progressive. William Lennon, the mayor of Kelliher, came down this morning and speat today in the city looking after some business matters. Mr. Lennon states that business was good with him during 1907, and that he expects the prosperous times‘to continue during 1908. The many municipal improvements made ‘at Kelliher during the past twelve months have placed that village in the front ranks of progressive mun- iciplaities. There are electric lights, waterworks, and a fine village hall. all of which were acquired during 1907, Will Start Paper at Ranier. Rainer is to have a newspaper to exploit its wonders and possibilities, and the first issue is to be published next week. According to A. J. Tiller of Bemidji, who is to be the manager, and who was in town the first of the week making necessary arrangements, it is to be known as the Ranier Journal and will be pub- lished by the Journal Publishing Co., which will be composed of parties of responsibility interested in the future of Ranier. Part of the material is now on the ground and if the plans of “Mr. Tiller work out right, the first issue will be published next week. The Journal is to.be a paper the same size as The Echo, and as its outfit is to be a first-class one, and because Mr. Tiller is a news- paper man of ability, it isa safe prediction that Ranier will have newspaper in the Journal that will be a credit to that village. We FOR THE SWAMP LANDS Advantage Will Be Taken of the Exist- ing County and Judicial Ditch Laws. Grand Rapids Independent: A new phase in the drainage of swamp lands in this county is in process of execution. Heretofore, the people int_erested have depended upon the state to take the ma‘ter in hand and drain the swamp lands it owned, thereby also draining the private lands adjacent to the state lands.] The state, however, has been found to have too great a risk on its hands were it to drain all its lands, so par- ties who are interested in the devel- opment of certain sections of the country have taken time by the would probably have taken the state years to get done. By the law which allows the cor- | struction of county and judicia! dicthes, it will be possible for much drainage to be accomplished without waiting until the state gets ready. This drainage work is paid for by the county in which the work is performed, and the cost of the drain- age is then assessed against the property benefitted. Whether it be- longs to the state or to private in- dividuals, each subdivision pays its proper quota of the cost of construc- tion of the drains. Senator L. O. Cooke, of Wabasha, who, in company with Geo. Ralph, state drainage engineer, Secretary of State Schmahl, Immigration Com- missioner Welch and others, owns some six thousand acres of land in what is known as the Wawina country, to the east of here and lying partly in Itasca and partly in St. Louis county, with his associates is at the head of a movement to have a number of judicial ditches constructed so that their lands, as well as other lands in that neighbor- hood, will be benefitted, and during the past week, in company with State Engineer Geo. Ralph, Mr. Cooke was in that section laying out and locating the ditches. Patients for County Pest House. “There are seven smallpox pat- ients and three suffering with diphtheria, at the present time, in the Beltrami county pest house,” said Dr. F. A. Blakeslee,. county health physician for Beltrami county, when he returned from Kelliher ;this morning, where he had been to look after some smallpox cases in a lumbering camp. near that place. “I found two cases of smallpox near Kelliher, and the patients are being brought to the pest house overland,” continued the doctor. Dr. Blakeslee has been called [upon to care for quite a large num- ber of diphtheria patients ' during the past fall and winter, and has been universally successful in his treatment of the cases. dence for a week or ten days after-| — forelock and will do now what it || WINNESOTA HISTORICAL " SOCIETY. ONEER. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH ST “Big Bemidg”’ Wily‘l“iPlay Grand Forks. Lee Heffron, manager of the “Blg Bemidg” basketball team, announces that | the Grand Forks team will play in this city: on Friday and Saturday evenings of this ' week, at the Bemidji roller rink. The Grand Forks team is said to be & very ‘fast aggregation, and as the local five has never been defeated, a rattling game is predicted. RESULTS OF MEETING WILL BE FAR-REAGHING Delegates Representing Commercial Clubs of State Will Form a Federa- tion on' January 16-17. President Thomas Wilkinson of the Upper Mississippi River _|provement Association, a nation- ally accepted authority on river improvement, will be one of the speakers at the coming convention of Minnesota commercial clubs, which will convene in Saint Paul Jan. 16 for a two days’ session. President Wilkinson will discuss the advantage to the Northwest of a six-foot channel for the upper river and will recommend steps which will aid in securing the needed Im- great waterway in which Mionesota is most interested. His address will be one of the important features of the convention. It is considered probable that Presideni Miles of the National Retail Hardware association will be present and will speak on the sub- ject of the catalogue house. The program for the convention is prac- cally complete and will be excep- tionally interesting. George H. Welch,who is in charge of the new board of immigration, will be a prominent factor at the commercial club ‘meeting. Mr. Welch is a known friend of north- ern Minnes and he will give a comprehensive vvie’w of the work which he has already accomplished and also his plan for future labors along the line of inducing settlers to come to Minnesota -and make their homes. Every commsercial club in the state should send a strong delega- tion to the meeting to be held on Jan. 16-17, as the results will be far-reaching to every community in Minnesota. A Correction. The Pioneer “balled” a news item, last Saturday, to a “fare-ye-well,” through misunderstanding the infor- mation given. We stated that John Johanson was held to the grand jury to answer the charge. of assault in improvement to the portion of the | the second degree, and that D. H. Fisk was Johanson’s attorney. We make but few errors, and when we do, are anxious to correct them. We should have said that Johan- son’s case was continued until the 11th inst.,, and that E. E. McDonald was his attorney; and that Herman Geise was held to the grand Jury, on the charge of assault iir the second degree, and that D. H. Fisk was Geise’s attorney. Local news on last page COMMISSIONERS MEETING T0 BE HELD TOMOHROW Much Important Business to Be Trans-l acted at First Meeting of New Year. . Tomorrow the county board of commissioners will hold their annual meeting, the first meeting of the new year, at which time the board will re-organize and transact much important business. Among the business which will be taken up at this meeting is the following: The reorganization of the bo®rd for the coming year, the election of a chairman and a vice chairman, the appointment of a county physician, overseer of poor, overseer of roads, assessor for un- organized territory, and a janitar for the court house; the salaries of the appointive officers, county sup- erintendent of schools, county treasurer, will be fixed, and the amount which the treasurer will be allowed for clerk hire will be fixed; looking over the county audi- tor’s financial statement for 1907, the ordering of the publication of the financial statement, and tte designation of the official newspaper and the newspaper in which the tax list is to be published. alone. Nobby Suits, ranging in $1€ to $26. Your choxce this sale anywhere from §6 to $‘2 Your choice this sale, . Suits, ages 3 to 7, Watch This ‘paee Lot No. 3 Dependable goods, the best makes, worth Children’s Suits All our $4 50,$5,$5.50 and $6 sale price, . All our $3, $350 and $4 Suits, ages 3 to 7, sale price, , Beginning Monday We Launch Qur Great January Sale We Need Both the Money and the Room Lot No. 1 price from . $4.48 $3.00 $2.00 Our Shoe Department is Bristling with Special Bargains Trade with the Concern That Sets the Pace. We Always Undersell. Yours Anxious to THE MART = . .. THE HOUSE OF BARGAINS Lot No. 2 Fancy Mixtures, Worsteds, Serges, ex- cellent values at $12 to $16. Your choice this sale Men’s and Boys’ Overcoats At 50c on the Dollar Only a few left—you’ll have to hurry Ha.ts and Caps McKibbin Hats. In all shapes and snappiest hat on market, ., $3 00 Soft, the very latest, $1.50, $2 and $3 Caps worth $1, $1.25 and $1.50, now 75¢ THE HOUSE OF BARGAINS QUALITY FOR QUALITY---OUR PRICES ARF ALWAYS THE LOWFST Clothing Bargains - Without Precedent After havmg done a Phenomenal Clothing Business through December, we are willing to unload the balance of this splendid stock at a price to you that is less than the value of the material $7.88 Please Watch This Space rmystery as, if, since the Women and Doors. *‘A door appears to a man, a sim- ple enough object, the mastery of which is reasonably easy to acquire,” said Earl Barker, recently, while in a reminiscent mood. “Neither in purpose nor composition is it ob- viously complex. Itis intended to admit persons and to keep out the weather and thieves. It consists of wood, glass, a handle, hinges, and generally is embellished with the: legend ‘pull’ or ‘push.” Yet such a door is utterly beyond the com- prehension of the average women. It is today as mcuh of an nnsolved +days of Eve, womankind had dwelt in tents. “To see a woman approach a door is more thrilling to those be- hind her than to see her “urge a horse at a four-bar fence. The timid halt in terror and strong men instinctively throw up their hands to protect themselves. In the hands of 2 woman a door becomes- a deadly weapon with which she smites before and behind. “She rushes at it madly, hurls it upon those who have gone through before her and then sends it swing- ing back to fell those who follow. It is her two-edged sword. “Itisa matter for deep regret that double doors did not exist in the days of Solomon, for then that worthy might have explained why a woman always enters by the left hand door. Itis unfortunate -that swinging doors were as yet unknown when Methuselah lived, for perhaps from his fund of general experience he could haveltold us why it is thata woman;leavesmecry behind when she approaches a swinging portal. These things they might have: explained but a congress of all the wise men that ever lived could not make clear why a woman tries to force inward a door marked ‘pull’ and to pull out- ward a door inscribed ‘push.’ 7. George Markham Stays in Hibbing. Georze A. Markham, who was! associated with C. H. Miles in the proprietorship “of the Miles Hotel, has won a host of friends in the two years he has lived here, and it is with pleasure that they will learn that he is to remain in Hibbing. Mr. Markham will open the People’s Theatre with a moving picture and vaudeville show. He hopes to be {ready for business by next Mon- day.—Hibbing Tribune. Mr. Markham’s Bemidji friends will wish him success in his new venture. Local news on last page NORTH-GOUNTRY PEOPLE WANT LAND OFFGE HERE Forced, fo Unnecessary Expense and Delay Going Through to Cass Lake. The agitation for the proposed re- moval of the U. S. land office from Cass Lake to Bemidji is assuming proportions that promise some defi- nite action concerning the -matter, notwithstanding the statement made by Congressman Steenerson recently, that the movement was simply a Bemidji local affair—a “tempest in a teapot.” - Today O. M. Skinvik, a former resident of this city who is now liv- ing on a claim in the Black River country, fifty miles west of Inter- national Falls, was in Bemidji on his way to the land offlce at Cass Lake, Mr. Skinvik was accompanied by N. P. Nelson and L. Mogenson, two residents of Black River who went’ to the Cass Lake land office for the purpose of filing a contest. In order to reach Cass Lake to be at the land office at the hour set for the hearing, Messrs. Skinvik, Nelson and Mogenson were _compelled to leave Black River on Saturday. They staid at International Falls over Sunday, as there is no train léaving that place for Bemidji. They came to this city this morning and waited here unitl noon, whcn they went to Ciss Lake. With the land offics located at Be- midji, the gentlemen referred to above could have left their homes on Monday and arrived in Bemidji +Tuesday morning and would then have had the entire day in this city, which would have allowed them- to return to_their homes the samei night. Asit is, with the land oflicef at Cass Lake, anyone going fronx‘ the north country is compelled t lose at least three days of time im making the trip, on account of poor] railroad cennections, althouzh the distance from Bemidjiis less than | twenty miles to Cass Lake. ! In talking ot the proposition to re- * move the land office Mr. Mogenson <ald “By all means get the land office in Bemidji. It is the logical loca- cation for this district. Were the office located at Bemidji it would meana great saving of time and expense to settlers and homestead- ers in that part ot the district where there is still government land, over which the land office has jurisdic- tion.” ROLLER RINK FURNISHING ing the rope at three feet, ten inches, his world’s record, which has stood EXGELLE"T ATTBAGTI““S bunchallenged for a year. Hair-Raising Act for Three Nights This Week.—Davidson Did Fine Skating. There’s no use talking, John F. Davidson can’t be told anything about roller skating. He performed Saturday night and Sunday after- noon at the roller rink before a large crowd and his work' fairly dazzled the spectators.~ With marvelous speed and dexterity he went through his wonderful exhibition of fancy skating, his graceful movements drawing round after round of applause from the audience. Adjec- tives could be exhausted. in describ- ing Davidson’s skating, but plainly he is all and more than could be expected of the world’s premier skater. At jumping he is wonderful, clear- The next attraction at the skating rink will be “Rollo, the Limit,” who will give one of the most hair-raising and bewildering = exhibitions ever seen—being a loop-the-loop act that is a thriller from the word go. Rollo coasts down a steep incline with a rush and the velocity he attains sends him high in the air. While in mid-air he will turn a complete summersault and lands on the track some eight feet away and descends in safety. This act will be produced at the skating rink on Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday evenings of this week. Only 25c admission will be charged. There will be skating before and after the attraction, which will be pulled off at'9 o’clock. The management of the Bemidji roller rink is to be.congratulated on securing such excellent attrac- tions which have been billed re- cently.