Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 25, 1908, Page 1

o THE BEMIDJI DAILY P VOLUME 5. NUMBER 288. & el BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNIQS&AY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1908. HISTORICAL MINNESOTA SOCIETY. IONEER. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH “UNCLE SAM"” IS GETTING AFTER THE LAND CROOKS Thieving Land Locaters May Find Themselves in the Grip of the Law. In the Duluth News-Tribune of yesterday, Neil Morrison, receiver of the U. S. land office at Duluth, sounds a note of warning against dishonest locators who have been in the habit of “stringing” those who want to be located on desirable homesteads or timber claims. Bemidji has had several locators, and there have been some in nearby towns, who have located local parties on claims. While none of these gentlemen can be accused of wrong- doing, in any particular, it might be well to caution those desiring loca- tions to be careful in dealing with locaters whom they do not know. The News-Tribune says: “The United States government is keeping a sharp lookout for “locat- ers” who deal sharpley with their clients. A number of cruisers who have been accused, on various oc- casions, of dealing unfair with their customers are in the limelight and the next move they make will cause them to be brought into court to answer for their wrongdoing. “If the men who file sn home" steads would only be confidential with us, we could help them out in a great number of cases,” said Receiver Neil Morrison of the local land office yesterday. “On various occasions we have told men who were seeking homesteads to look out for certain fellows who were locat- ing them, as they were crooked. In neary every instance the prospec- tive homesteader would become angry and as much as tell us that we did not know what we were talking about. Of coarse when they come to prove up their claim and find that they have paid several bhundred dollars for nothing they wish they had taken our advice. “It is an easv matter for a locater to fool the average man who wants to take up a homestead. The gen- eral public, as a rule, knows abso- lutely nothing about the lay of the land, directions or locations. When he istaken out and shown a tract of timber he can be harded any kind of a description and he cannot say whether it is right or wrong. Several times our attention has been called to instances where three or more men have been located on the same claim by the same cruiser and none of them had the right description. ‘““This kind of a locator usually shows his victim a nice bunch of timber with a river flowing through it, and he bites hard right away. He pays his good money, thanks the cruiser heartily for securing such anice tract of pine for him and goes on his way rejoicing. But when he comes to prove up he finds himself defrauded, he gets very sore. “Other locaters, who are not quite so bad, pick out homesteads for their clients and then watch every move to see that they live up to the very letter of the law. Any time that they do not they locate another customer on the same claim.” Mrs. ‘Coleman Dead. Mrs. Julia Coleman, aged 33 years died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. P. White.in this city last even- ing at 6 o’clock. Mrs. Coleman, who was formerly a resident of Nary, has been afficted with appendicitis during the past two weeks and on last Saturday sub- mitted toan operation. She was getting along nicely until Monday morning when eurenia set in and she rapidly grew worse until death relieved her suffering in the even- ing. Mrs. Julia Coleman was born at Halstad, Norman county, Minn., in 1875. She was married to Frank Coleman, two sons, Clifford and Ralph, aged 7 and 9, being born to them. The Colemans lived at Nary until recently when Mr. Coleman went to Park Rapids to make his home, tak- ing his sons with him, ~ Mrs, Cole- man has been living in the city for some time past. During the past two weeks she stopped at the home of Rev. and Mrs. S. E. P. White. The funeral will be held either in the I. O. O. F. hall or at the Norwegian church on Friday and the services will be held under the auspices of the Modern Woodmen. Passion Play at the Brinkman. Manager Brinkman, of the Brink- man Family theatre, has frequently been requested to put on the Pas- sion play at his theatre, as it has never before been put on in this city, and as Mr. Brinkman is ever anxious to please his patrons, has decided to grant this request, al- though it will be a tremendous ex- pense, as the Passion play, consist ing of 4000 feet of film will be put on tomorrow evening. Mr. Brinkman has engaged one of the most able pastors in the city to explain this great play as it is thrown upon the screen. This is something you should not miss. Bring the children, they will enjoy it and it will be very instructive. Owing to lack of seating place and the fact that the children as a rule hold a seat throughout the three shows, Mr. Brinkman will be obliged to charge 15 cents straight while this play is on. Purchased the Omich Store. T.J. Crane and Arthur Gould have purchased the business hereto- fore conducted by J. P. Omich in this city. This store is filled with the very latest things in novelties, cigarand smokers’ goods, etc., the stock consisting of about the best of its kind in the state. Messrs. Crane and Gould, who succeed Mr. Omich, are two of the most popular young men in the city, - For some time they have been connected wifh E. A. Schueider’s clothing store in this city and both have a large number of friends. They will undoubtedly do well in their new line of business. WILL MAKE APPEAL TO THE INDIAN DEPARTMENT Game and Fish Commission Will Try and Make Indians Cease Killing Caribou. The St. Paul Pioneer Press of yesterday contained the following: “Although it has been supposed for several years that caribou were no ionger to be found in Minnesota, except a stray animal now and then, it is now reported that there isa herd of fifty to sixty in-the region northeast of the north arm of Red Lake in Beltrami county. Reports have also been received bv Carlos Avery, executive agent of the state game and fish commission, that the Indians on Red Lake Indian reser- tion have been killing some of these caribou during the winter, and the matter will be taken up with the in- terior department in an effort to re- train the Indians from killing off this last herd. “Some vears ago, there were a number of caribou in this state, but of late years they have almost dis- appeared and it was supposed that following their migratory instincts they had left in a body in search of new feeding grounds. Recently, however, reports have been received of the presence of a herd of the animalsin the swampy inaccessi- ble region to the northeast of the upper end of Red Lake, “It was also reported that the Indians had killed a number, prob- ably about a dozen, during the past winter, and A. G. Rutledge of Bemidji, deputy game warden, has just returned from a trip into that country with evidence substantiat- ing the assertion. He found two fresh caribou scalps in the posses- sion of settlers who had obtained them from Indians passing through that part of the country. “The_ difficulty in stopping the slaughter of this last remnant of the caribou herds in this state is limits of their reservation. It was thought best to take the matter up with the interior department as the co-operation of that department would probably bem ore efficient in attaining the desired end than the arrest and conviction of the Indian offenders.” STATE LAND APPRAISERS WILL BEGIN THEIR WORK J. H. Beagle of Duluth, Alex Cameron and Nels A. Otterstad Will Ap- praise Stale Land. The State appraisers, who will ex- amine 15,000 acres of state lands in Beltrami county (which includes school lands owned by the state), were in the city today and will at once begin the work of appraising the value of all the lands, together with the timber and improvements, and will make complete returns thereof to the state auditor. J. H. Beagle of Duluth, state cruiser and estimator, arrived in the city last night, and, together with Nels A. Otterstad of Turtle River and Alex Cameron of this city, con- sulted today relative to the work to be done by the appraisers. Mr. Otterstad was recently ap- pointed an appraiser on behalf of the county commissioners of Beltrami county, and Mr. Cameron received his appointment a few days ago, at the hands of Governor Johnson. These two gentlemen will act in con- junction with Mr. Beagle in ex- amining these lands improvements and timber. It is estimaied that it will take at least a month to appraise these 15,000 acres, as they are well scat- tered over - different parts of the éountry. The three- appraisers are “good men, and the state will certainly re- ceive reliable appraisement at their hands. l PRESIDENT ACAIN PRODS, CONCRESS ;Another Special Message Urging Action on Certain Matters of Importance, CHANGES IN. ANTITRUST LAW Original Unwisely Drawn and May Mean Death to Legal Organizations. SOME COCMBINATIONS GOOD Medern Industrial Conditions Call for a Union of Forces and While Some Are Powerful Instruments of Wrong- doing Others Are Imperatively Nec- essary for the Business Men, the Wage Worker and the Farmer—Rec- ommends a Change in the Method of Naming Receivers for Public Utility Concerns. and Would Limit the Power of the.Courts in Issuing Injunctions—Believes the Time Has Arrived to Take Up the Subject of Tariff Revision, but Action Must Be Preceded by Careful Investigation. Favors Immediate Change of Duty on Wood Pulp and Paper Made of That Product. Washington, D. C., March 25.— (Special to the Daily Pioneer).— President Roosevelt’s imessage was submitted to congress, just before noon today, and is as féllpws: /To the Senate and the House of Rep- fesentatives: 1 call your attention to certain meas- nres a8 to which I think there should be action by the congress. before the -olose of the present -sessfon. There is ample time for their consideration. As regards most, if not all of the mat- ters, bills have been introduced into ane or the other of the houses and it 15 not oo much to hope tHat action will be taken one way or the other on these bills at the present session. In my message at the opening of the Presont session and, indeed, in vari- Ous messages to previous congresses I bave repeatedly suggested action on most of these measures. Child labor should be prohibited throughout the nation. At least a model child labor bill should be passed for the District of Columbia, It is unfortunate that in the one place solely dependent upon congress for its legislation there should be no law whatever to protect children by forbidding or regulating child labor. Employers’ Liability Law. I renew my recommendation for im- mediate re-enactment of an employers’ lability law, drawn to conform to the recent decision of the supreme court. Within the limits indicated by the eourt the law should be made thor- ough and comprehensive and the pro- tection it affords should embrace ev- ery class of employe to which the power of the congress can extend. In addition to a liability law protect- ing the employes of common carriers the government should show its good faith by enacting a further law giving compensation to its own employes for injury or death incurred in its serv- ice. It is a reproach to us as a na- tlon that in both federal and state legislation we have afforded less pro- tection to public and private employes than any other industrial country of the world. Limit Power of Injunctions. I also urge that action be taken along the line of the recommendation I have already made concerning in- Jjunctions in labor disputes. No tem- porary restraining order should be is- sued by any court without notice; and the petition for a permanent in- Junction upon which such temporary restraining order has been issued should be heard by the court issuing the same within a reasonable time, say not to exceed a week or there- abouts from the date when the order was issued. It is worth considering whether it would not give greater bopular confidence in the impartiality of sentences for contempt if it was required that the issue should be de- cided by another judge than the one issuing the injunction, except where the contempt is committed in the presence of the court or in other cases of urgency. SR Should Amend Anti-Trust Law. I again call attention to the urgent need of amending the interstate com- merce law_and. especially the anti- FOR out at |in keeping the Indians “within the Ladies’ Waists waists, 1908 garments, $1 25 to $2.00 qualities, Ladies’ Sateen Petticoats We are over stocked on black sateen petticoats, and our entire line of $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00 garments will be closed $LI9 Hose black, pink and blue, - SPEGIALS - Wednesday and 1 hursday Supporters I lot of garters, includir_)g ladies’, misses’ and chil- dren’s, +heavy web, colors . I trust law along the lines fndicated fn my last message. The interstate com- merce law should be amended so as to give railroads the right to make traffic agreements, subject to these agreemets being approved by the fnterstate commerce commission and published in all of their details. The commission should also be given the power to make public and pass upon the issuance of all securi- ties hereafter issued by railroads do- ing an interstate commerce business. A law should be passed providing in effect that when a federal court de- termined to place a common carrier or other public tility concern under the control of a receivership the at- totney general sheuld have the to nominate at least one of o ers; ot else in some other interests of the stockholders should be consulted, so that the manage- ment may not be wholly redelivered to the man or men the failure of whose policy may have necessitated creation of the receivership. Receiver- ships should be used, not to operate the roads, but as speedily as possible to pay their debts and return them to the proper owners. MOST UNWISELY DRAWN. Anti-Trust Law Condemns Legal Or- ganizations. In addition to the reasons I have al- ready urged on your attention it has now become important that there should be an amendment of the anti- trust law, because of the uncertainty as to how this law affects combina- tions among labor men and farmers, if the combination has any tendency to restrict interstate commerce. All of these combinations, if and while existing for and engaged in the promo- tion of innocent and proper purposes, should be recognized as legal. As I have repeatedly pointed out this anti-trust law was a most unwise- ly drawn statute. It was perhaps in- evitable that in feeling after the right remedy the first attempts to provide such should be crude and it was ab: Bolutely imperative that some legisla- tion should be passed to control, in the interest of the public, the busi- ness use of enormous aggregations of corporate wealth that are now a marked feature of the modern indus- trial world. But the present anti-trust law, in its construction and working, has exemplified only too well the kind of legislation which, under the guise of being thorough going, is drawn up in such sweeping form as to become either insffective or else mischievous. All Combinations Net. Bad: In the modern industrial world com- binations are absolutely necessary; they are necessary among business men, they are necessary among. labor- ing men; they are becoming more and more necessary among farmers. Some of these combinations are among the more powerful of all instruments for wrongdoing. Others offer the only effective’ way of meeting actual busi- ness needs. It is mischievous and un- wholesome to keep upon the statute books unmodified a law, like the anti- trust law, which, while in practice is only partially effective against vari- ous combinations, has nevertheless been so construed as sweepingly to prohibit every combination for the transaction of modern business. Some real good has resulted from this law. But the time has come when it is im- perative to modify it. Such modifica- tion is urgently needed for the sake of the business men of the country, for the sake of the wage workers and for the sake of farmers. The con- gress cannot afford to leave it on the statute books in its present shape. Serious Blow to Progress. It has now become uncertain how far this law may involve all labor or- ganizations and farmers’ organiza- tions, as well as all business organ- {zations in conflict with the law; or, if we secure literal compliance with the law, how far it may result in the destruction of the organizations nec- essary for the transaction of modern business, as well as of all labor or- ganizations and farmers’ organiza- tions, completely check the wise move- ment 'for securing business co-opera- tion among farmers and put back half a century the progress of the movement for the betterment of labor. A Dill has been presented in the con- gress to remedy this situation. Some such measure as this bill is needed in the interest of all engaged in the in- dustries which are essential to the country’s wellbeing. I do not pretend to say the exact shape that the bill should take and the suggestions I have to offer are tentative; and my views would equally apply to any other measure which would achieve the de- sired end. Bearing this in mind I would suggest, merely tentatively, the following changes in the law: Restraint of Trade Condemned. The substantive part of the anti- trust law should remain as at pres- ent, that is, every contract in restraint of trade or commerce among the sev- eral states or with forelgn” nations should continue to be declared illegal; provided, however, that some proper governmental authority (such as the commissioner of corporations acting under the secretary of commerce and labor) be allowed to pass on any such contracts. Probably the best method ot providing for this' would be to en-| ket that any contract, subject to the prohibition contained in the anti-trust law, into which it was desired to en- ter, might be filed with the bureau of corporations or other appropriate ex-- ecutive body. This would provide publicity. With- in say sixty days of the filing—which period could be extended by order of the i departmont; swhencver. for_any Continued on Last Page I. 0. 0. F. ENCAMPMENT BEING INSTITUTED HERE — Several Odd Fellows of Note Present to Assist in the Exercises Today. AnlL 0. 0. F. Encampment will be instituted in this city this even- ing when Drew Whittimore of De- troit, grand chief patriarch of Min- tfe | nesota, will officiate as the officer in charge of instituting the new lodge. Grand preparations have been made for this big event in local Odd Fellows circles, and " there promises to be some great “doings” tonight. The degree teams of Bagley and Tenstrike encampments are in the city and they will exemplify the work at the meeting this evening. The following are the members of the two teams: Bagley—August Moline, Ole Hal- vorson, Andrew Ostrem, Gilbert Olson, L. Jensen, Val Post, E. R. Sletten, Charles Wagner, E. H. Reff, C. A. Covey, John Strethlin, Hans Dagerness, Carl Lundin, H. O. Courtney and O. L. Halseth. Tenstrike—Joseph H. Carter, S. E. Gregg, R. C. Hayner, G. A. Lei- pold, E. E. Schulke, Ira Price, W. H. Neudick, Viggo Peterson, V. M. Owens, S. S. Carter and Payl Trudell. J. A. Bolton of St. Paul, grand scribe of the state encampment, is in the city and will participate in the instituting of the lodge, and among the other outsiders who will be present is Tim Hastings of Crook- ston, who never misses any -Odd Fellow doings that occur anywhere within a radius of 200 miles from his town. He’s here and he purposes to enjoy the occasion thbtoughly._ Indicatiqns point. to the ‘encamp- ment being started out with a fine membership and the best of pros- pects. Pythian Sisters Reorganized. Last evening’s meeting of the local Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters was of more than ordinary interest. In addition to a very interesting meeting * of the knights, the Pythian Sisters lodge was teorganized, Mrs. Adsit of Man- kato, grand chief sister of the order, being present and having charge of the instituting of the lodge. Mrs. Watson of Melrose, grand junior, was also present, and as- sisted in the work of instituting the lodge. The following officers were elected: M. E. C,, Mrs. G. A. Walker; E. S., Mrs. A. E. Otto; E. Jr., Mrs. J. E. Patterson; Mgr., Mrs. C. C. Shepherd; M. F., Mrs. D. D. Miller; M. of R. and C., Mrs. A. E. Harris; protector, Mrs. J.J. Opsahl; O.G., Mrs. M. A. Clark. The new lodge starts out with a fine membership and much enthu- siasm that promises well for the organization. The new lodge numbers 40 mem- bers. Mrs. Symington Worse. Prof. Thomas Symington, leader of the Bemidji band, left yesterday for Pontiac, Mich,, in response to a telegram from his son, Ira, which read as follows: “Mother growing weaker; wants to see you; come.—Ira.” Mrs. Symington has been afflicted with a cancer during the past year and after consulting several noted medical authorities, was finally given up as being incurable. The telegram probably means that Mrs. Symington’s end is near. The many Bemidji friends of Mr. and Mrs, Symington will learn with sorrowful regret of the hopeless con- dition of Mrs. Symington, and sin- cere sympathy is extended to Mr. Symington in his trouble. Nymore Lots for Sale. I have for sale a few choicc lots in Barrett’s addition to Nymore. Cheap for cash or on ‘easy terms. C. E. Barrett, corner 6th street and American avenue, Bemidji. 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