Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 7, 1908, Page 1

"VOLUME 5. NUMBER 221. - BEMIDJT, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY(EW";MNG, JANUARY 7, 1908, DRS. LARSON AND LARSON INSTALL LENSE GRINDER Now Have the Very Best Machinery.---Have Had Great Success as Optimetrists and Eye Specialists.---Are Enjoying Fine Practice. C. J. LARSON E. W. LARSON A visit to the offices of Drs.|nature onthe same day they are Larson & Larson reveals the fact ~that these gentlemen have estab- lished in this city very extensive machinery for the glasses and eye specialties. Among the most improved machin- ery which they have at their offices is a machine used for the purpose of grinding lenses. Owing to the great increase in business it has been necessary for the doctors to put in this machinery in order that they may supply their patients with the latest improved glasses and spectacles for the eye promptly when wanted. Another inducement -in having the lenses ground here is that the doctors may personally observe the work of grinding as. it is" done, instead of sending the same to the factories, where it is just possible they may be ground defectively. " There is also.much delay in getting complicated lenses ground in the factories of the larger cities, which is one of the prime features in having the lenses ground here. The doctors believe that there is sufficient business in this line to warrant them in installing this machine. By using the machine which they now have, the doctors are enabled to supply glasses of a complicated manufacture of | | ordered; or they can be duplicated or repaired in a very short time. The doctors have other machin- ery in their offices, all of which is of the very latest make, enabling them to do the finest kind of work as optometrists and specialists of the eye. Drs. Larson & Larson have made a specialty of diagnosing and pre- scribing only for the eye for several vears, and have met with much success to the benefit of those who have been affected with ailments of the eye. Drs. Larson & Larson have been | located in Bemidji since the month of September, 1906. They for- merly resided at Park Rapids and visited Bemidji each month. Their business here increased so rapidly that they decided to locate in Bemidji, being a, central point for their practice and they came here with the highest recommends from the - physicians and surgeons of Park Rapids as optometrists and specialists of the eye. They are more than pleased with the business which has been ac- corded them since they have moved here, and have nothing but good words to say of Bemidji and the surrounding territory, which has furnished them a very lucrative business during the past year. Subseribe Fon_The Pioneer. Six Days (’LEARY & BOWSER Bemidji, Minn. Wednesday, Jan. 8th, to Tuesday, Jan. 14th WHITE GOODS SALE Six Days Muslin Underwear— 200 dozen Ladies’ muslin underwear, choice of any garment in. the 580 lot for Shaker Flannel—All our 6c and 7¢ Shaker flannel will be sold at, a yard Fruit and Lonsdale Mus- lin—20 pieces Fruit and Lonsdale muslin, a lOc yard Linen Crash—1 lot of 10 cent linen crash at, ayard Fleeced Goods—1 lot of fleeced goods suitable tor dresses and kimonas, 20¢ and 25¢ qualivies 160 Bed Spreads—20 dozen heavyMarcilles bed spreads $125 quality for, $l each Heatherbloom Skirts— Our entire stock of Ladies’ $1.25 and $1.35 Heather- bloom skirts will be sold at, each . 980 At 1-4 off Choice of any pair of lace curtains. Choice of any Ladies shirt waists. Choice of any Ladie. outing night robe. At 1-3 Off Choice of any Ladies’, Misses’ or Child’s coat. go at, a yard Wash Goods—1000 yards of white and fancy wash goods, 30c and 35¢ qualities, a yard. . 190 At 1-2 Off - Choice of any Ladies’ tailor-made suit. “Big Bemidg” Will Play Grand Forks.’ Grand Rapids Court Adjourned. Judge M. A. Spooner returned yesterday afternoon from Grand Rapids, where he presided at the term of court which has been held during the past three weeks. ent term of court for Itasca county were finished yesterday noon and the court cases were adjourned to March 3. . Mary A. Rosen (alias Mary A. Whitt) plead guilty to the charge of perjury and was sentenced to serve aterm of five years in the state pen- itentiary at Stillwater. The judge suspended the execution of the sen- tence for forty-eight hours and there- after, during the absence of the de- fendant woman from the state of Minnesota. The Rosen woman, who posed as the wife of Allen Whitt, was the principal witness in the trial of Judge Cochran of Deer River, who was charged with having murdered Whitt. Before the preliminary hearing of Judge Cochran, George H. Spear, attorney for Mr. Cochran, gave the Rosen woman a gruelling examination, with the result that he was convinced that she was lying. Later, Mr. Spear secured evidence in Wisconsin that the woman had deliberately - committed perjury, and upon . the showing of Mr. Spear, the case against Judge Cochran was dismissed and he was discharged. The woman was after= ward arrested on the charge of perjury. It is said that she has not hesitated on the order of her going and is getting out of the state as fast as the cars can carry her, and it is the general impression that she will not again set foot on Min- nesota soil. A similar sentence was meted out at the present term of court, to a man who was her part- ner in crime. The case of T. H. Root vs. Edward Chicoine, suit for conver= sion of a horse and rig, was decided in favor of the defendent. i Did Work in Dahl Cases. Bemidji people will be interested in the work which was done by the authorities of Pembina county, N. N, in ferreting out the mystery surrounding the killing of Arthur LeClaire at Neche, N. D., on the night of December 22. ' Through the efficient work of J. *|C. Fielding, a Pinkerton detective from St. Paul, the crime of having killed young LeClaire was fastened upon’ James O’Brien of Neche. Fielding, by a series of gruelling questionings, secured a _confession from young O’Brien. " Mr. Fielding was in" Bemidji dur- ing the trials of Wesley and Fournier, \who were convicted of having killed N. O. Dahl, and he did excellent detective work in those cases. Special Notice. All parties indebted to me are requested to settle their accounts at once and pay the same to C. F. Schmidt, City Meat Market. —H. F. Schmidt. Men’s Dept. Thursday morning we will place on sale 77 men’s and boys’ suits and 67 men’s and boys’ overcoats. They all bear. our old mark. You pay us Ex- actly One Half and take your choice. Only one gar- ment sold to a customer. Hat Department 100 Men’s $1.50 750 hatsat,......... $250 s ws, HL.25 All'of the jury cases for the pres-| City Council Meeting. Not much business of (importance was transacted atthe regular meet- ing of the city council, 'which was held last evening. All members of the .council were present, with the exception of Presi- nent Gould and Alderman Meyer; and in the absence of Mr. Gould, Vice-President Bowser occupied the chair. 3 The minutes of the previous meet- ing were approved, anda batch of bills were allowed. ‘The report of M. G. Siocum, city justice, for the term ending January 6, showed that $34.20," over and above co}ts and had been paid to the city treasurer; the report was accepted and ordered filed. H.A. Simons, city justice, also filed a report, showing a balance due him from the city of $5. This re- port was also accepted and filled. City Clerk Maloy filed4 report of the fees collected by him during:| 1907, showing a total of $67.40. The city clerk also submitted" an estimate of the propable expenses which would be incurred in con- ducting the city dfing the ensuing year, placing thesotat:at. $30,550. W. §. Lycan appsared béfore: the council’and stated that the schedule of ‘rates: for ‘water now in force by virtue of the recently-adopted ordi- nance provided for the establishing of meters was a burden on:the large users of water; and he requested that a lower rate would not be established for those who use large quantities of water. Under the old:regime, the Markham had paid a flat rate of $80 per year and Mr. Lycan estimated that the cost per year under the new ordinance would be at least $140. The matter wasreferred to light and water - committee ' (Aldermen Smart, Gould and Erickson) report at the next meeting. M. D. Stoner, city- engineer, submitted the following report as his| ! to| Iestimate of the cost of installing a new road bridge between Lakes Irving and Bemidji. “Bemidji, Jan.7. “To the Hon. City Council and Board of Commissioners: “Gentlemen: In tne matter of the construction of the wagon bridge over the Mississippi river be-. tween Lake Irving and Lake Be- midji, I desire to submit the esti- mated cost of said bridge built in various ways, as follows: g “A steel bridge having a_center span of 65 feet and two end spans of 60 feet each, the center span sup- ported by steel bents resting on: con: cretefilled steel tubes, projecting one foot above high water, and the ends of bridge supported by con- crete pier and wing-retaining walls, the trusses to be what is known as | pony trusses and being .about 73 feet high, or after ‘the floor is in place, they would be five feet above floor; the total width would be 24 feet, and having a 19-foot roadway and a 5-foot sidewalk, the latter be: ing elevated 8 inches above the road- way but not separated with :a rail: ing; the floor system would consist of steel beams ‘filled in' with con:] crete, as shown on plans, and ' extra heavy beams placed in bridge to accommodate a street railwav, when- ever one i3 built in the city; the 'entire bridge to be of either steel or concrete and therefore to be con- sidered asa very permanent struct: ‘ure; total-cost of said bridge com- plete, $8500. “Plan No. 2 would be to-erect a steel span of 65 feet in width, same] as described above, except that it would have no extra heavy beams for streetcar track and would have a plank instead of concrete floor, and would have a trestle approach on each end of 14 feet bents, all having a total width of 24 foot, same as the matter be investigated to see if Lee Heffron, manager-of the “Big Bemidg” basketball team, announces that the Grand Forks team will play in this.city on week, at the Bemidji roller rink. i The Grand Forks team is said to be a ‘very fast aggregation, and as the local five has never been deféated, a rattling game is-predicted. R e [ = S e e R : ; Friday and Saturday evenings of this stand with safety a ten-ton road roller: steel span complete on foun- dation, $3000; wooden approaches; complete; $1160; earth fill, $250; total, $4410. “Plan No. 3, to build an entire wooden structure to withstand the above described load and of same width as others and have a plain 44 foot 'wooden span over channel; approaches complete, $1340; 40 foot wooden span, $500; earth fill, $250; total, $2090. *“All of the above bridees designed for a 10-foot clearance above river.” Mr. Stoner stated that the city had never received any aid from the county for the building of bridges: Alderman Gould, Erickson and Smart, together with City Engineer Stoner, were appointed a committee to confer with the board of county commissioners relating to securing approprialion§ Jfrom the county to assist in erecting a new bridge over the “narrows” between Lakes Irving and Bemidji, should the con- templated report of the government engineer require. the putting in of the new bridge. The matter of fixing the salaries of the city officials was touched upon but no action was taken. It is understood that the charter pro- vides that the salary committee should make a report on the matter at any meeting in January. Council adjourned. Order Vaccination at Cass Lake. Cass Lake, Jan., 7.—(Special to the Pioneer.)—The school board of this place has passed a resolution whereby the pupils and teachers in the local schools will be obliged to be vaccinated. Their action is due j to a communication from the Lealth officers,who explained that inasmuch as the quarantine of smallpox had been raised, and since there were one or two cases in the village, it would be dangerous to the public if the children were vaccinated. The school board immediately passed a resolution requiring the vaccination of children. There are several par- ents in the village who object to having their children vaccinated, and claim thev cannot be compelled to, unless an epidemic should break out. Some of them are determined to fight the order of the board. above; the approaches built to with- FORTY CENTS PER MONTII PROPOSlTiON LOOKS GOOD TO CONGRESSMAN TAWNEY Writes to Son That Offer Made to Buy Timber Lands from Oregon Railroad at $2.50 Per Acre Will Win Out. . Recently, the Pioneer republished a letter from Congressman Steener- son, in which that gentleman ex. pressed the belief that the filings made for certain lands belonging to the O. & C. railroad, in Oregon, would not be of any value; in fact, the congressman was rather inclined to state that a fraud order would be issued to prevent correpondence in the mails pertaining to the matter. Those who have made filings through a representative will - be pleased to read the following, taken from the Umpqua Valley News, published at Roseburg, Oregon: “The matter of filing applications for railroad land of late has been going on and there - has been much said relative to this procedure to get1 possession of the land at the price of $2.50 per acre, as is declared by many the only price the railroad can demand from those who wish to purchase. Attorney C. I. Leaven- good of this city, is in a receipt of the following communication from F. P Rolfe of the Potlach Lumber Co., of Idaho,which throws consider- able light on this matter and will be of interest to the many- who have made applications for railroad land, The communication is as follows: Potlach, Ida., Dec. 18, 1907. Mr. C. I. Leavengood, Rosebuig, Or.—Dear Sir: - I will say for your information a son of Congressman Jas.” A. Tawney, of Minnesota, is ihere at Potlach and is one of the filers on O. & C. railroad land. He wrote his father at Washington tell- ing him what he thought kis chances were. Congressman Tawney im- mediately went to the land depart- ment and took the matter up with the Commissioner and_ writes his son that there is not 2 shadow of a doubt but he will get the land and that application “for purchase now made will give such applicant a prior right of purchase. Says it will take time, but that the matter is now in ligitation and that we will win. *“‘Congressman Tawney isa power in Washington and will help.our cause greatly. Looks good. Yours truly, —F. P. Rolfe.”” A. H. Kleven of this city, who has handled the offerings for a number of people living in Bemidji and other parts of Beltrami county, has returned from Oregon, and he is optimistic concerning the chances of those who have 1nvested in the proposition. _—_—— Succeeds Dr. Rodwell. Cass Lake, Jan. 7.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Dr. H, W. Smith, form- erly of Oklahoma,. has.arrived- in Cass Lake, and will-at ouce assume his duties as sub:agent in charge of the Cass Lake band of Indians. Dr. Smith succeeds Dr. T. F. Rod- well, who was for several years phy- sician in charge of the Indians bnre,l and who has been transferred to Tower, Minn. The new agent is said to be an excellent physician, and has also had considerable experience in handling Indians, and he will un- doubtedly worthily fill” the position |- left vacant by the departure of Dr. Rodwell. 2 : . Dr. Rodwell was connected: with the Chippewa Indians for a number of years, and he had many ex- citing experiences with the reds. He was located in. Walker *wHen the Bear Island Indifa’.ns went on the warpath and ' threatened to lick the whole United States army, being subsequently-. quelled only BEMIDJI CASH SHOE STORE RIGHT GOODS AT THE RIGAT PRICE . To make room for the spring and summer stock which will be the most complete in both stylish and serviceable shoes ever shown in this vicinity, we are offering our line of LEATHER LINED AS FOLLOWS $4 Shoes lined shoes‘only See table in the store for bfirgafns in odd lots which we are closing out at reduced prices. We guarantee satisfaction. BEMIDJI CASH SHOE STORE REPAIR WORK QUICKLY AND WELL DONE gtf) Shoes, all leathers $3. 9 5 The above applies to leather after a pitched battle on Bear Island, in which Major Wilkinson and several privates of the U.S, | army were killed. Dr. Rodwell never forgot his experiences inm . Walker, in those trying days, when men and women were armed nights, fearing attacks by the agency Indians. However, the doctor always got along nicely with the reds under his charge, as they thought much of him, and were somewhat afraid of | him. Additional Locals F. O. Sibley of Island Lake is in the city today attending the meet- ing of the board of county com- missioners. J. R. Pacha, the energetic Black- duck citizen who is one of the best of the good fellows there, came down from his home this morning and spent the day-in the city. Continued on Last Page - SHOES : -IVMIIN:NESOTA HISTORICAL SOCL ETY. i