Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 8, 1908, Page 1

/1 VOLUME 5. NUMBER 222. INSTITUTED A NEW 0DD FELLOW LODGE AT MIZPAH Large belegation of 0dd Fellows, Headed by Grand Master Shearer, and Blackduck Degree Team, Started the “Baby”’ Lodge Last Night. Mizpah Lodge, No. 98, I. 0. O. F.| of Minunesota, was instituted at Miz- pah last evening, the work of insti- tuting the lodge being in charge of Grand Master Shearer of Mankato. He was assisted by the members of the degree team of “Summit” lodge, No. 1610, Blackduck. There were a large number of 0Odd Fellows present from Bemidji, Tenstrike and Blackduck, assisted enthusiasm, among whom were the following: Blackduck—David Ebner, P. G.; C. W. Dudley, N. G.; J. E. Dade, V. G.; Charles Angell, sec.; J. W. Baney, treas.; John Thompson, con.; S. S. Martin, warden; E. A. Richmire, chaplain; John Gilson, Charlie Green, Al Mayer, Ole Benson, Albert Chris- tenson and John Myers. Tenstrike—A. C. Forsythe, N. G.; E. E. Schulke, P. G.; A. L. Morris, F. G.; William Neudick, P. G.; Wm. who ,Fellows, R. S. of V. G.; Paul Trudell, warden; and J. H. Lacky. Bemidji—]. J. Ellis, C. L. Atwood, Joseph Titus, JJ. Jenkinson, Frank Wagner, Ben Erickson, Henry East, W. A. Cassler, E. H. Cornwall, J. A. Canterbury, Mr. Russell, J. A. Hak- kerup, and C. W. Speelman of North- in the demonstration of! PROSPEGTS ARE BRIGHT . FOR THE RECLAMATION Action Seems . Probable in Congress Looking to Drainage Work in Minnesota. Washington, Jan. 7.—In comform- ity with a resolution of Senator Clapp introduced the first week of the session the United States geo- logical survey today through Di- rector Smith sent to the congress an interesting report on drainage and irrigation. Detailed statements are made as to the work done in surveying on Red Lake swamp and around Mud Lake, Minn.,, and the withdrawal of lands from entry pending legislation providing for federal drainage supervision. Itis regarded as certain that the Steenerson bill which provides for draining the Mud Lake district will pass this session. Speaking of Minnesota’s interest in the bill, Senator Clapp said: “The government has been mak- ing definite surveys recently of cer- tain swamp lands in Minnesota. The matter is of great interest to the people of Minnesota, as it is in fact to almost every state, and I wished to get asexact informa- tion as possible as to what has already been . accomplished in a preliminary way, for the use of congress in case it decides to fol- low its action along national irri- gation lines and consider’ federal swamp reclamation. It is well -to know what has been done in locat- ing and surveying swamps and how near ready we are for drainage construction. I voted with great pleasure for, the irrigation bill and it has been a surprise to the most sanguine of usto see what splen- did progress has been made by rec ome. The work of instituting the lodge was commenced at 8 o’clock in the |evening, and after an all-night ses- | sion of hard work, the ‘lodge was | fully launched at 5:30 in the morn- 'ing. At midnight an elegant supper was served at the hotel, which did |much to refresh the brethren from their arduous labors. Grand Master Shearer instituted the lodge, which starts out with a charter list of twenty-eight mem- | bers. The following old members of the order have taken their cards from other lodges and are charter mem- bers of the Mizpah lodge: E. H. Hanchett, S. Buckmaster, E. McFar- ling, W. H. Hanchett, William N. Durin, G. Seaman and J. C. Cowins. The institution of the Mizpah |lodge was attended with much en- thusiasm and the meeting held last night will have much to do with the advancing of Odd Fellow- ship in northern Minnesota. All the visiting Odd Fellows left Miz- pah this morning for their homes. | Grand Master Shearer left for Baudette, where he will institute a lodge of the order. Was a Good Horse Race. The Pioneer had neglected to mention the race which was pulled off on Lake Bemidji Sunday- after- noon. There was’ quite a crowd which lined the course on the lake to watch the heats. The track was in good condition_ and the race a pretty one, considerin_g‘the fact that - the horses had fot p‘récliced much at racing on the ice. Ida G., owned by Ole Anderson, and Bemidji Belle, owned by William Begsley, went three heats. Ida G. won two heats and Bemidji Belle one. Mr. Anderson recently purchased | lamation service in irrigation con- Ida G. from Thomas Nary, the|struction. Foreign governments llogger. The mare is a trotter and|have spent not years, but decades ;rhas a record of 2:30. She is by |jn getting ready for the building Idolf, record 2:33, trotter, whose dam I of such great works as the {was by Adrian Wilks, sire of Roy|Salt river project in Arizona, { Wilks, record 2:06%. the Truckee-Carson project in " Bemidji Belle was by Dakota ’King, also a prominent member of the Wilks family. Both of the above horses are excellent racers and are a credit to | the city. Nevada, the Minidoka project in Idaho, and a half dozen others. “I believe that a large amount of work has already been done by the reclamation department which can be utilized as preliminary drain- age surveys so that possibly drain- age construction could be immedi- ately commenced. It is these facts in regards to this which my resolu- tion is bringing out.” { William McDougall came down this morning from Blackduck and spent today in the city. He was also in town yesterday, but spent last night at the “Duck.” x| CLEARY & BOWSER Bemidji, Minn. Wednesday, Jan. 8th, to Tuesday, Jan. 14th WHITE GOODS SALE Fire at Island Lake. Sam Hayes was in the city today Six from Island Lake. = He tells of the burning of his saloon building, Days with all the contens, at Island Lake, last night, while he was away from home. Mr. Hayes states that the building and contents were valued at $5,000, and that there was $2,000 insurance. He was away from home, and does not know how the fire originated, but believes, from what he can learn, that it was the work of an incendiary. Muslin Underwear— 200 dozen Ladies’ muslin underwear, choice of any garment in the 58c lot for Shaker Flannel—All our 6c and Tc Shaker flannel will be sold at, a 5c yard Fruit and Lonsdale Mus- lin—20 pieces ¥ruit and Lonsdale muslin, a 10 e yard Linen Crash—1 lot of 10 cent linen crash at, ayard Fleeced Goods—1 lot of fleeced goods suitable tor dresses and kimonas, 20c¢ and 25¢ qualiies 160 Mr. Hayes states that he will im! mediately get lumber on the ground at Island Lake and begin the work of rebuilding his place of business. A building belonging to F. O. Sibley, which adjoined the Hayes building, was also destroyed. Mr. Sibley was also away from home. He is in the city today, and places his loss at between $600 and $700, with no insurance. Bed Spreads—20 dozen heavy Marcilles bed spreads $1.25 quality for, each Heatherbloom Skirts— Our entire stock of Ladies’ $1.25 and $1.35 Heather- bloom. skirts will 98c be sold at, each . At 1-4 Off Choice of any pair of lace curtains. Men’s Dept. Thursday morning we Choice of any Ladies’ shirt waists. Choice of any Ladies’ 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, 30cand 35¢ qualities, a yard. . 190 At 1-2 Off Choice of any Ladies’ tailor-made suit. 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 e 2 7560 $1.25 150 Men’s ¢ $2.50 hats at, May Possibly Evade “‘Lid.” If they so desire, bone ‘ fide club- men will hereafter ‘be supplled with something - more ' expensive than water on Sundays dnd after 11 o’'clock, providing : cognizance = is taken of a decision filed Saturday by Judge Kelly, of the Ramsey county district court. The state brought- suit against the Minnesota club, St. . Paul’s most ex- clusive organization of the kind, to determine whether it could be com- pelled to take outa: liquor ' license. In the decision, Judge | Kelley says the orgniz-tion is .abona fide pri- vate club, and is not subject to the provisions of the state law regarding the liquor traffic. - This is taken' to'mean, not only that a liquor license is not necessary, but that the club is exempt from the Sunday closing ‘and the 1I o’clock closing law. Any' decision that would apply to the private clubs at St. Paul, under the state law, would be equally applicable _to _private clubs of any city in-thg state. ELEGTED DELEGATES TO. ATTEND GONVENTION Commercial Club Directors Chose Rep. resentatives to St. Paul Meeting on January 16-17. The directors of the Bemidji Com- mercial club held a. meeting - last evening for the purpose of selecting delegates to attend ‘the meeting of the represéntatives of the Commer- cial clubs of the state, which will be held in St. Paul on Jaguary 16-and 17, for the purpose of forming a state federation of commercial clubs, The following were Selected as delegates and alternates: delegatesio. o ileini o W. L. Brooks. and C. J. Pryor, alternates, It is the intention of the delegates from the local club to advance the interests of Bemidji and porthern Minnesota generally; and it isex- pected that the meeting will result in great benefit to this section of the state. It is known that there will be many speakers of note at the meet- ing and the representatives from the country district will be given every consideration in forming the proposed federation. FUNERAL WILL BE HELD - AT BRAINERD ON FRIDAY Taken to Brainerd Tomorrow Morning. The funeral and intérment of the body of Mrs. J. A. Armstrong, who died in this city yesterday after- noon, will be held at Brainerd (the old home of the deceaséd)on Friday afternoon. The body ‘will be'takén | from this city to Brainerd tomorrqw morning. The body of Mrs. Armstrong was placed in an elegant casket by under- taker Ibertson and prepared for buriel last night. Today the hotel Armstrong is closed to patroons of the place, and the casket was placed in the dinning room of the hotel, where all who desired could take their last look at the features. The hotel will be opened this evening where any others who desire” may view the remains. The employes of Mr. Armstrong presented a very beautiful wreath of flowers, consisting of carnations and roses. There were also other floral offierings which were very. beautiful. The body will be escorted to the M. & I. depot in /the, morning and will be accompanied to Brainerd by the grief stricken husband and taken to the old home of Mrs. Armstrong. The death of Mrs. J. A. Armstrong was a sorrowful blow to her aged mother, her husband, . sister and brother, all of whom will attend the funeral Friday. The sympathy of every resident in Bemidji is extended to Mr. Arm- strong in his great trial, which only time alone can assauge. F.S. Lycan and" W.- M. ]-31;wse.r, 8 Body of Late Mrs.- Armstrong Will Be | BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1908. DEGISION OF SEGRETARY ~ FAVORED THE SETTLERS gressman Steenerson, the Secre- tary Reversed an Order. | A special dispatch from Washing- to to the Duluth News-Tribune says: “At the conclusion of an ‘argu- ment made by Congressman Halvor Steenerson Saturday, Secretary Gar- field reversed an order of the general land office whereby about 100 set- tlers in notthern Minnesota, whose homestead entries were held for can- cellation, will be granted patents. The secretary ordered that the lands be patented to entrymen who had complied with all the requirements of the department prior to last January. At that time a ruling was made requiring 14 ‘months continu- ous residence on homestead lands. “Fred Lidgell, who was one of the entrymen, had resided for eight months on his land and had also been credited with the usual six months constructive residence, and when his entry was rejected on the ground that he had failed to live on the land for 14 months he took an appeal with 100 others. Congress- man Steenerson told Secretary Gar- field Saturday that unless the ruling was reversed he would take the the matter before congress. About 190,000 acres of land are affected.” It will be remembered that thisis a matter about which there was a great deal of correspondence be- tween Congressman Steenerson and the department of the interior be- fore Mr. Steenerson left for Wash- ington, and that Mr. Steenerson, in cfiampioning the cause of the set—* tlers, ‘maintained- that the govern- ment had acted in bad faith with the-settlers-in making them put in fourteen months actual residence on this land. Before the government threw open this land for settlement and at the time it was thrown open, the officials of the [government spe- cifically stated that the settlers who took this particular land, which con- sists of eleven towns east of Thief River Falls, would be allowed to put | in what is known as six months con- structive settlement and eight nmonths actual settlement, to count as the fourteen months settlement required under the homestead laws when commutation proof is made. He evidently made Mr. Garfield see that this was an injustice, hence the reversal of the order. After Listening to Arguments of Con- | MINNESOTA SOCIETY. FORTY CENTS PER MOMNTH What promises to- be .the best season of basketball playing ever seen in this ‘city will be on Friday and Saturday evenings of this week, when the Grand Forks basketball team will -contest . for supremacy with the “Big Bemidg” five. The team which will play here against the locals is considered the champion team of Grand Forks, and is a very strong aggregation, the team having beaten eyerything in the North Dakota city "this win- ter, and is without a peer. The Bemidji basketball team has not been defeated during the last two seasons in which it has been in’gxis(ehce, and the locals are re- garded as one of the strongest teams “BIG BEMIDG” WILL PLAY - THE GRAND FORKS TEAM Champion Team Over West Will Play Two Games Friday and Saturday Evenings.---Girls’ Tqams of " - High School to Contest. “BIG BEMIDG” BASKETBALL SQUAD. in the entire state. The two teams will line' up as follows: \ “Big Bemidg”—H. Geil and J. Markham, forwards; Heffron, center; G. Peterson and Brown, guards (sub- ject to slight change). Grand Forks—O’Keefe and Woods, forwards; Oliver, center; .McLaughlin and Holmes, guards In addition to the game to be played between the “Big Bemidg” {and Grand Forks teams, a game will be played between the first and second girls’ teams of the Bemidji: high school. The girls always put up a fast game and the game to be played Friday night gives promise of being a very good one. e Attended Funeral of Sister. W. G. Gould returned last evening from a trip to St. Cloud and Fair- haven, Minn., where he. went- to attend the funeral and interment of week. Mrs. Doble died at her old home in St. Cloud, and her body was taken to Fairhaven(a short distance from St. Cloud) and buried with other members of the family, who are interred there. The deceased left two little child- ren, both of whom are girls. New Year postal cards at the Pioneer office., his sister, Mrs. Doble, who died last; District Meeting of Rebekahs. The district meeting of the Rebek- ahs for this district will be held in this city tomorrow afternoon, begin- ning at 2 o’clock. There will be a session in the afternoon, and one also in the evening. Miss Whiting of Minneapolis, district president of the Rebekahs, will be present at both meetings, and will deliver addresses. All members of the Rebekah lodge are urgently requested to be present. F. G. Horton, who represents-a marble works concern, Ieft: this morning on a business trip to Walker. - quality suits cost. treatment as 1233334 33333333333333 333333 333 33333333 3333333333 333333333333333 !2‘)1‘)‘]5)!% w A Statement From Schneider Bros. e A great many of our patrons and newspaper readers in general who have noticed our -announcements and who will benefit by our great sale, which will be opened Friday by Schneider Bros’ Clothing and Shoe House, will express amazement. that we will take such an enor- mous loss on such high-grade goods as will be sacrificed. Disastrous weather conditions this winter, coupled with our large purchases of B. Kuppenheimer & Co.’s suits and overcoats, finds us now with twice as much stock as we had at this time last year, consisting principally of high - Only heroic measures could move this extra stock, and that we have resorted to, and we are now placing in the hands of the people over . twelve hundred fine suits and overcoats at manufacturers’ This great sale will make Schaeider Bros.’ store a host of friends, and will be conducted on same honorable lines characteristic of this store: of business and you may be assured of the same courteous and overcoats heretofore. SCHNEIDER. e ; 3 : g : i : 3 i 2 i 2 i 2 i : w W We are not going out ’ 23333333333333333333 BROS. \mmmufiafmmwt CEEFEEEEECEFEECEEEEELECEECEEEEEE CEEEEEEEEEE W W W W W v w 4 %. ‘STO'BICAL » g \l