Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 13, 1908, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE fistorical Society. VOLUME 5. NUMBER 278. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1908. SCHOOL ELECTION WENT SHORT DESIRED MAJORITY Vote at Last Night’s Election Was Very Light, and Is Not Believéd to Have Been Sentiment of All Living in District. BEMIDJI’S OVERCROWDED CENTRAL SCHOOL BUILDING. The proposition to purchase the new school site and vote the bonds of the Independent School District of Bemidji in the sum of $35,000 for the erection of a new school house on the proposed site, failed to carry by a two-thirds majority, at the elec- tion held in the Central school build- ing last evening; and the proposi- tion, as far as this election is con- cerned, was “'knocked out.” A total of 436 votes were cast, which is a very small proportion of| the population of the city of Bemidji that was entitled to vote at that election, At the recent city election, over 800 votes were cast, all of which were cast by the male population of the city. At last night’s election, the ladies were entitled to cast their ballot, and, conditions being right, should have brought a total ballot up to at least that of the city election, 800. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH Notice. Owing to the dissolution of the firm of Hagberg & Knopke, all parties owing accounts at the Bemidji Meat Market are requested to callat the market and settJe same at once. It is necessary that we secure im- mediate settlement of our out-stand- ng accounts in order to adjust our own business matters. Arthur Hagberg, Charles Knopke. LUMBERJACK SKY PILOT HAD SUGGESSFUL SEASON Rev. Frank Higgins Has Been Working Near Deer River.---Is Some- what 1l Rev. E. E. Higgins of this city, the only original “Lumberjack Sky | Pilot,” has been visiting in the city That the full, true sentiment of | during the past three days,recuperat- the residents of the city was not expressed is plainly evident, and it is believed if the proposition is again submitted it will easily carry by the desired two-thirds majority. Of the 436 votes cast, 288 were in favor of the proposition and 148 were against, the vote lacking just eight ballots of being a two-thirds majority in favor of the proposition. Another petition’ is being circu- lated and it is said that the proposi- tion will be re-submitted, and it is believed that it will carry. In deciding that a two-thirds majority is necessary in voting bonds, the members of the school board state that the action is due to the fact that the attorneys for the bonding houses, almost universally demand that any bonding proposition be carried by a two-thirds majority before they will offer a liberal pre- mium in taking up the bonds. Safety deposit boxes for rent. Lumbermens National Bank. St. Patrick’s day postal cards at the Pioneer office. E. L. Warren came over from Cass Lake yesterday afternoon and spent last night and part of today here, on business. ing from a strenuous winter's cam- paign among the lumber camps of northern Minnesota. Rev. Higgins is afflicted with an attack of laryn- gitis, brought on by excessive preaching and talk among the lum- berjacks. Rev. Higgins has but recently re- turned from a menth’s trip through the camps north of Deer River, along the line of the Big Fork rail- way, owned by the Itasca Logging company. He states that his work there was very successful, and that he made many converts and re- ceived much substantial aid for carrying on the evangelical work. He is much gratified with the re- sults obtained there, During two weeksof the winter, Rev. Higgins was at Indianapolis, and other points in Indiana, as well as at Chicago, and he says that much interest was shown there in the evangelical work being carried on in the northern woods. Rev. Higgins expects to visit the camps about Deer River once more before the spring break-up, and he left for that place this noon. €3203. DL S —— Money Cheerfully R efunded Clothing House In These Special Sale Goods, as well as in the New Spring Fashions now being sought by th= early buyer, we're dem- onstrating the difference between ours and and the ordinary clothing. The House of Kuppenheimer don’t make the ordinary kind. Bargains in $22.00 values. when the line ge's broken we put them inat............ {907 Fancy Weave Suits, $15.00 to $11.00 THE NEW STUFF IS MORE IMPORTANT Don’t let yourself miss the good things. in the Boys’ Department. Long legged boys can get stuff here, made to suit them, at You'll be as- latest idea of the Best Ever $7.50 up to $15. The Hat Section Is Doubling Its Usual Spring Business and Brims with Fine Styles. At $3.00 we have the Gordon line, as good as others at $3. lot of new ideas. Six shayes m stiff hats. In soft hats tan and pearl colors lead with a: big ma. jority at........ $3.00 50. A At $2.00 we have colors and shapes. A ing at.... see this showing at hats in the Belgian Hare, all If youwd like to see the handsomest stock of Spring Neckwear, in new greens, browns, smokes and tans; festuring the horizontal stripes, you must 50 cents. ot of éood great show- THE BRINKMAN FAMILY THEATER VERY PSPULAR Attractions Furnished By Manager F. E. Brinkman Are Well Worthy the Liberal Patronage Accorded. The patrons of the Brinkman Family Theatre are greatly im- pressed with the efforts of F. E. Brinkman to furnish first-class en- tertainments for the theatre-going people of this city. Since the diningroom of the Brink- man hotel was renovated and changed into the Famfly Theatre, Mr. Brinkman has given the patrons FRED E. BRINKMAN, Proprietor of Brinkman Family Theater. of the place the very best to be had in the way of moving pictures and vaudeville acts. The film service at the Brinkman has been the very best that money could procure, and the vaudeville acts have been all that could be desired, the performance furnished constituting up-to-date acts. Last evening Mr. Brinkman put on as an extra attraction Way, the “Great,” a slight-of-hand performer. Mr. Way, who isa traveling “man, is possessed of more than ordinary ability as an entertainer. In addition to Way, Leeland and | Lee gave a very clever turn. Their act last night was new and will be repeated tonight. They will put on their last performance tomorrow evening, The Brinkman Family Theatre is justly popular, and as three shows are given every evening there is ample time for any one who desires to see an entire performance. The first show begins at 7:10, the second at 8:10 and the third at 9:10. The Brinkman deserves the liberal patronage they are receiving. Got Fine Contract. Blackduck American: C. W. Jew- ett and M. D. Stoner have secured a franchise and will put in and operate an electric light plant at Baudette as witness the following dispatch to one of the daily papers: ‘‘Instead of installing its own electric light plant, for which bids were advertised for last week, the village council has entered into a contract with Stoner & Jewett, of Bemidji, the engineers who put in the pumping station, whereby this firm is granted a 15 year franchise for the operation of an electric light plant. This firm will provide lights, both arc and in- candescent, at a certain specified sum according to the number required, both public and commercial. Work on the new plant will be commenced as soon as the weather will permit and will be rushed to completion.” Mind Temporarily Deranged.. William Hoolihan of Grand Rapids, sheriff of Itasca county, arrived in this city this morning from Northome having ia custody Erick Erickson, a homesteader whose mind has become temporarily deranged. Sheriff Hoolihan left this noon for Grand Rapids, where Erickson will be given a hearing by the probate court to determine his sanity. Erickson has been living on a homestead near Squaw lake, a.i)out twenty miles southeast of Northome. Like many other' men who have made their homes in, the ‘“tall timber,” Erickson’s lonely life preyed on him until his mind gave away and he is almost a total wreck, allhough not of a violent disposition. Local news on iast page Warrants Payable. Notice is hereby given that there is money in the city treasury to pay all outstanding warrants registered against the general fundprior to October 1, 1907, and that interest will cease on same from and after thirty days from the date of this notice. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 10th day of March, 1908. Earl Geil, City Treasurer. GAUGHT IN ENGINE AND INJURED, AT BACKUS Arttiur Thompson Has Left Arm Ampu- tated and Fingers of Right: Hand Removed. Backus, March 13.—(Special to Pioneer.)—While he was in charge of the engine which furnishes power for filling the watertank of the M. & railway at Backus, yesterday, Arthur| Thompson “received injuries which may possibly prove fatal, and but for the timely arrival of assistance, his body ‘would undoubtedly have been literally pounded to a shapeless mass by the swiftly revolving wheel of the engine. Thompson was running the engine, which is but a short distance from the Backus watertank, when in some unknown manner his clothing was caught in the wheel and his body was carried around the track made by the wheel, striking the floor and ceiling with terrific force. A man who happened to be pass- ing the engine house heard Thomp- -son’s cries for help and entering the house stopped the engine. It took some work to get Thompson loose from the wheel, and an examination showed that his left arm had been crushed and his right hind also badly injured, while he was also burt internally. Thompson was taken to the hospital at Brainerd, where yesterday afternoon his left arm was amputated and two fingers were removed from his right hand. While Thompson’s injuries are! Neglected Houpt, -March 13.—(Special to Pioneer.)—The dead body of Frank Rassier was found in an abandoned residence shack, about one mile east of this place, this morning at 9 o’clock, by John Kemp, who was hauling cordwood into the village. Kemp states that when he found the body there was an empty car- bolic acid bottle lying beside the dead man, plainly indicating that Rassier had taken his own life. Kemp came to the village and word was at once telegraphed to the coro- ner of Itasca county, at Grand Rap- ids. It appears that Rassier had been drinking quite heavily of late and had been visiting at Blackduck and Northome yesterday. He is the father of four children and owing to the fact that he had beer neglecting them they had been DESPONDENT FROM DRINK TQOK HIS OWN LIFE TODAY Frank Rassier of Houpt Drank Carbolic Acid and Met a Suicide’s Fate.---Had Been Drinking and Had His Family. sent to St. Joe, to some of his rela- tives there. That Rassier’s act was premedi- tated is evident from the fact that the carabolic acid was obtained at Northome, as there was a Northome label on the bottle. Rassier returned from Northome yesterday and wrote a long letter, enclosed it in an envelope and had Mrs. Bereman, wife of the landlord of the hotel at Houpt, direct the letter to his daughter, Miss Barbara Rassier, Bergville, Minn. Rassier left Houpt about about 10 o’clock last night,taking a lantern with him. He was not much under the influence of liquor when he left, although he had been _drinking heavily of late. This was the-last seen of him until found this morning by Kemp. Indications point to Rassier’s death as having been a deliberately planned suicide. —_————— No More Excursions. No excursion rates to any of the Minnesota summer resorts. This was the decree handed down yesterday by the passenger officials of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo lines at a meeting held in St. Paul to consider the matter. This decree will have no effect upon the interstate tourist rates to and from Minnesota. The rates from all Missouri river points to the Preific coast will be the same as those of last year. The agreement entered into yes- terday does not include the Omaha road, and it is possible that the line will offer the usual summer rates. very painful and quite serious, it is| not thought they will result fatally.' Misses Bernice Bentley and Clara Contest at Park Rapids Tonight, | Rapids, where they will this evening participate in the declamation con- test to be held at that place this evening. They were accompanied by A. P. Ritchie, superintendent of the Bemidji, Walker, Cass Lake and Akeley schools, and will be a contest worth seeing. Send in Elected Officers. County Auditor Wilmann desires to inform all town clerks, through the Pioneer, that they should at once send in the names of the town officers who were elected at the election held on Tuesday, as the names must be forwarded to the state officials as Tequired by a recently passed law. Additional local matter will be found Fisk left this morning for Park on fourth page. TOWELS 1 case Hmnd Towels, each, 4¢ TORGHON LAGE 1lot of 72 dozen yards torchon lace, a yard . . , 50 Or $1.50 for a piece of 36 yards. sell your choice, a yard, le DRESS GINGHAM 600 yards of good 9¢ and 10c dress gingham, a yard 8¢ new SHIRT WAISTS Closing out all 75c and $1,00 win- ter waists at, each, dren’s Caps. est ever shown in the city. Q) L'eary @ Spring Styles in Men’s Stift Hats---Yeoman, $5.00; Roelof, $4.00; Lanpher, $3.00. FRIDAY AND SAT- URDAY BARGAINS RIBBON REMN'TS See the R 49¢ in ribbons. Muslin Underwear FRIDAY, between the how:s of10 a8, m. and 4 p.m. we will Muslin Night- gowns, made of good quality muslin and finished with ruf- fle at neck and sleeves at, each Ladies’ (Limiv two to a customer) & SATURDAY, same hours, ' SKIRT-‘BINMNB we will will sell Ladies’ Short GHMHENS SHOES 1lot of skirt bind-} Muslin Skirts 9 1 lot Children’s il ing worth up tolbe,l @t..............oL L. Sl C $1.50 (Limit two to a customer) Remember the Time GHILDREN'S CAPS Ask to see our line of Chil- Fin- 98¢ Basket for bargains Oc BED SPREADS 50 heavy Bed Spreads, each Bowser LADIES' SHOES 1 lot Ladies’ $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 Shoes, a pair $1.19 ibbon MISSES’ SHOES 1 lot Misses’ $2:00 aud $2.560 Shoes, a pair $1.50 and . $2.00 Shoes, a pair $1.25 LADIES GOLLARS 1 lot Ladies’ Col- lars, slightly soiled, each ¢