Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 3, 1908, Page 4

S YOUR EARNING CAPACITY ought to enable you to do more than just make your living. You ought to save money. Then having saved, the next thing is to set your surplus to work safely and profitably. The best way for you to insure a steady reliable income from your savings is to se- tificates bear interest Capital $50,000.00 cure a Certificate of Deprsit in The First National Bank of Bemidji. cent per annum if lefu for 6 months and 4 per cent if left for oue year. Take out a Certificate today. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BEMIDJI The Largest and Strongest Bank in North Central Minnesota These Cer- at the rate of 3 per Surplus $6,000.00 BEMIDJI EIKS INSTALLED OFFIGERS LAST NIGHT Continued from First Page Carter, tiler; and Martin Lindem officiating as grand esquire. The following were the officers who | were installed for the ensuing term: Exalted ruler, E. H. Jerrard; es- teemed leading knight, Dr. G. M. Palmer; esteemed loyal knight, L. G. Crothers, esteemed lecturing knight, J. O. Harris; secretary, Chas. H. Rattinger; treasurer, James L. George; tiler, A. G. Rutledge; trustee (for three years) W. E. Neal (W.S. Lycan and E. A. Schheider held over as trustees); representa- tive to the grand lodge, C. L. Decker. As C. L. Decker passed from the| chair to assume the office of past exaulted ruler, a unanimous vote of thanks was tendered him for his splendid work in behalf of the lodge. The report of the secretary shows that Bemidji lodge now has a mem- bership of more than 100 Elks, and there are a dozen applicants waiting for initiation into the order. The membership includes many of the most substantial men of Bemidji and other towns in the north half of the state. While here recently on an official visit to Bemidji lodge, J. H. Guerin of Little Falls, district deputy grand exalted ruler for Minnesota, said of Bemidji lodge: “Of course whatever I say is to T point (not officially). In be understood from a personal stand- every lodge that I have visited, I have heard Bemidji and the State meet mentioned. Itis my opinion that you will get a very large delegation from the Twin cities, as many of the brothers have never been to your city and will go out of curiosity if nothing else. Fergus Falls seems anxious to get out, which will be their first visit away from home. Crookston is priming her ‘German band’ and Elk quartette for the occasion. The lodges on the range will come down stronz. I think the more time spent to get the brothers to take their families along, the more successful will be the gathering. At least I thought that the lady feature at the meeting at Stillwater added greatly to the success of the occa- sion. Indications point to the larg- est gathering of Elks ever assembled at any of the state meetings, and every lodze has its eye on Bemidji, 1052, for July 6-7-8.” Everything is moving along nicely for the state meeting to be held in Bemidji July 6-7-8, and all the com- mittees are working harmoniously. As suggested by the district deputy grand master, the Bemidji lodge is featuring the lady visitors during the meet; and a special committee, composed of wives of local Elks, will care for them. Food Sale. The Ladies of the Methodist church will hold a food sale at I. O. O. F. hall tomorrow arternoon and evening. DOINGS AMONG BEMIDJI'S COUNTRY NEIGHBORS Live Correspondents of the Pioneér Write the News from Their L Localities. Puposky. April 2; William Wagner and Charles Dur- and were Bemidji visitors last week. Miss Emberland, who teaches in the Puposky school, is spending her spring vacation at her home at Marsh Siding. . Mrs. Smyth, a music teacher of Bemidji, has organized a music class of nine scholars here,_and will give lessons once a week. Joseph Flaherty arrived from Sherrard, IIl, where he “spent the winter with relatives. ‘He- will re- main here to look after his father’s homestead. H. W. Vanderworth, who has been looking after the interest of the Be- midji Lumber company in this section, finished his work last week and left for his home in Be- midji. A. W. Wilcox and son, Harry, spent seyeral days at Grand Forks, N. D., where they attended the school land sale there April 1. Harry Wil- cox purchased a valuable piece -of land during the sale. Bemidji Wants Fish Hatchery. If applications for fish fry con- tinue to come in at the present rate, | the state will have to provide more fish hatcheries, is the opinion of S. F. Fullerton, superintendent of fisheries. He says that for some time applications have been received at the rate of 50 a day, and there will be a demand for much more than the state can supply even if the::hatcheries are worked to their limit. The limit for pike fry at present is 10,000,000 eggs. Four Crews will start in a short while for the purpose of gathering spawn. The biggest catch is ex- pected at Tower. Another crew will be sent to Fon du Lac and the St. Louis river, another to Gull Lake and a fourth to Pine River.—Minne- apolis Tribune. If another state fish hatchery is to be established, there is no.reason why Bemidji should not be designat- ed as the point for such additional station. = i Glenwood and Brainerd have their hatcheries (at least the former place Money Cheerfully R efunded 3209. Clothing F you’d like to see House the newest, latest thing in Spring Suit Fabrics come in here and we’ll show it to you---the “Zebra” stripe, just announced as the thing in New York. As usual we are th e first to offer this very smart novelty in Bemidji; and you’ll find it more than a mere novelty; it will be generally popular; very handsome goods, made up especially for us by The Heuse of Kuppenheimer. : You can buy $15 suits anywhere, but you can’t buy the pure brown stripes, brown checks and brown thibets and fabrics, in worsteds in plaids, in 3-button and 2-button styles of . the anywhere elge that you get here $l 5 star suit Boys’ Clothes that stand the wear Double breasted two - piece suits, bloomer or plain pants styles, belted or otherwise, size 7 to 16, at “Woolton” worsted suits; serges, other standardji*Woolton” our excellent assortment season’s popular colors, ‘values Your Hat is waiting for you and you will find your style and color here in some one of the fifty varieties at $3.00. Gordon stiff or soft hats that are $3,50 values at has one and one is soon to be placed at Deerwood, near Brainerd) and Bemidji presents every advantage that either Glenwood or’ Brainerd can advance, and the co-operation of everyone in this city and vicinity would be given the State Game and Fish Commission in locating the hatchery at this place. Bemidji can be considered as an applicant for a new state fish hatch- ery, should one be established. . Tide of Immigration. “Now that the tide of immigration has been turned from the Canadian northwest, I look for an influx of landseekers and homebuilders to the fertile lands of northern Minnesota during the coming year,” said S. J. Ellison of St. Paul, assistant general passenger agent for the Great Northern railway company, who was in the city yestesday. i Mr. Ellison is a close observer of conditions throughout the northwest and in Canada, and his predictions that there will be a healthy move- ment in land matters in this part of the state is an encouraging indica- tion of forthcoming activity. Mr. Ellison states that since the tide “of immigration has' been turnedfromCanada,landsand inNorth Dakota ‘that were at one time considered as “cheap” lands for investors, are now much dearer than the excellent lands which are operating to the thrifty fertile soil throughout northern Minnesota. Lands in this part of the state are much cheaper than those in the Dakotas, according to Mr. Ellison, and they will be in most every way as desirable when some conditions are complied with. The recent demonstration of the farmers living in this part of the state, showing that these lands are very fertile, has lent added interest to those desiring investments in lands, and who also want new homes. Mr. Ellison states that his com- pany will co-operate in every way in assisting the members of the local committees in making a success of the forthcoming meeting of the State Association of Elks'and that equip- ment will be furnished ' sufficient to properly handle the crowds that wil come to Bemidji at that time. See the Show Tonight Tonight. At the QQera House tonifiht, Be midji Theatre Goers will have their first opportunity of seeing the cele- brated Artists, Eugene West and Catherine Henry and their fine sup- porting company of sixteen in a magnificent scenic production of the great New York success, The Man in the Case. This company comes direct from the larger cities and during the past week played at Fargo and Crookston before large and fashionable audiences. The Man in the Case is described as a beautiful high class society play of intense heart interest in which Miss Henry is said to wear some of the most remarkable gowns ‘ever seen on the stage. The company will also play here tomorrow . night, when they present the great rural comedy, entitled, The County Sheriff. There will be also a special matinee tomorrow afternoon at three o’clock for ladies and children. Prices for matinee 15 and 25 cents. " Nearly all the seats are sold for tonight for The Man in the Case and if you wish to obtaina good seat. Hurry to the telephone. Seats on sale at the City Drug Store. Night prices, 75, 50, 25c. This'is the society event of the season. Pay Box Rent in Advance. Postmaster Anton. Erickson has) been the recipient of many inquiries relative to the requirements of the| postal department as to the rental of boxes in the local office, and he says, concerning the matter: “The law requires me to place bills for rent in the boxes, ten days| before, the expiration of the quarter, and if the amount of the rent of the box is not forthcoming “hefore the expiration of the quarter, I must de- clare the box vacant and offer it for rent. The law in this matter is as follows: “‘Sec 348.—2. Box rents must be collected at the beginning of each quarter for the entire quarter, but no longer. Ten days before the last day of each quarter postmasters are required to place a bill (on Form 1538 or 1538% ) bearing the date of the last day of the quarter in each rented box. If a box holder fails to renew his right to his box on or before the last day of a quarter the box shall then be closed and offered for rent, and the mail will be placed in the general delivery.” Resolutions of Sympathy. Reésolutions of sympathy from Star of the West Rebekah Lodge, No. 183, Bemidji, Minn. Whereas, It haspleased God in His infinite wisdom to ' remove from our midst our beloved sister, Mrs. E. J. Jones; be it therefore Resolvod, That we as members of this order unite in extending to the bereaved brother and family our deepest sympathy; Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on our minutes and a copy sent to the bereaved brother and also the charter be draped for a period of thirty days. Elsie Atwood. Charlotte Naylor. Mary Courtney. District Court. The case of the state vs. Tom Kennedy, “charged with forgery in the first degree, was taken up in court this morning. A jury was se- cured and court adjourned until this afternoon. Judge McClenahan pre- sided, with Judge Stanton as an associate. Judge Stanton will go to Inter- national Falls this evening in order to wind up his business affairs and move his household goods here. The judge and his daughter will make this city their home in the future as this is the centre of his official duties. 5 George W. Moody, court reporter to Judge McClenahan, arrived in the city last night and assumed his. -offi- cial position in court today. Judge Spooner Leaves. Hon. Marshall A. - Spooner and wife left yesterday noon for St. Paul via Duluth. Mr. Spooner expects to return next Monday or Tuesday, and will remain here for one day only, on his way to Spokane, Wash. He will enter into partnership with an eminent law firm of that city and will certainly make a brilliant addi- tion tothe Washington bar. Mrs. Spooner will visit friends and rela- tives in St. Paul for several :weeks before leaving for her future home near the coast.” New Firm Doing Well. The new firm of Phibbs & Klein has commenced business, succeed- ing Phibbs & Erickson, Mr. Erick- son having assumed his duties as postmaster of Bemidjt. * Messrs. Phibbs & Klein are popu- lar and they will undoubtedly do well in their line of lands, insurance and collections. : Notice. All ladies having articles for ‘the Methodist Aid apron and fancy work sale should leave same with Mrs. A, Larson, 715 Minnesota Ave., Mrs. Butler, 304 Third street, or Mrs. Minor, Eleventh and Beltiami. Articles may be left at the hall Sat urday morning after 10 o’clock. WHITE 'HOUSE CONFERENCE John Mitchell Selected as One of Five 8Special Guests. Indianapolis, April 8.—John Mit- chell, ex-president of the United Mine ‘Workers of America, i3 one of five Americans selected by President Roosevelt to be special guests of the conference of state .and territorial governors to be held in Washington May 13. This conference will last three days and the sessions, which will be held in the Bast room of the ‘White House, will be presided over by President Roosevelt. The five special guests will be Grover Cleveland, Will- iam J. Bryan, James J. Hill, Andrew Carnegie and John Mitchell. Thomas R. Shipp was sent to In- dianapolis by the inland waterways commission, which ig arranging the conference for the president, and he talked with Mr. Mitchell. Suicide’s Head Cut Off. Cleveland, April 3.—Placing his neck on a rail of the Wheeling and T.ake Erie tracks at East Forty-ninth street in front of a rapidly approach- ing locomotive a well dressed uniden- tified man sought death. The man’s head was cut off and carried upright on the pilot for several blocks, a ghastly spectacle. E Suicides to Aid Helpless Sister. St. Louis, April 3.—Marie Lehman, twenty-six years. old, committed sui- cide with carbolic acld and investiga- tion proved that her motive in taking hetlite was to leave $1,000 life insur- ance to her helpless invalld’‘sister Maggle, nineteen years old. o M.B. A Pins, Buttons and Charms Made in Solid Gold, Gold PACKEDINSOLIDNASS Occupants of Buriing Tenement Helpless on Fire Escapes. THREE PERSONS LOSE LIVES Fifteen Others Injured, Some Seri- ously, by Jumping From Windows. Filled and Plate. Made with Hard Epamel and Hand En- Prompt Action of Policemen Respon- sible for Small Number of Fatalities. | graved. New York, April 3.—Three persons were killed, fifteen were injured, some of them seriously, and the lives of nearly a hundred persons were endan- gered by fire in a five-story tenement house at 44 Hester street. The dead are Berel Weinstein, his wife and their oneyear-old- son. They were suffocated and burned in their apart- ments on the fifth floor. That more lives were not lost was largely due to the prompt action of three policemen, who, seeing flames in the hall, rushed through the building and aroused the members of sixteen sleeping families. By that time the stairways were a masg of flames and the only means of exit was by the fire escapes. In their mad attempt to escape scores of scant- ily clad men, women and children crowded the narrow iroh platforms And ladders until they beoame wedged in solid. masses on the fire escapes, unable to extricate themselves and blocking the way of those who had not yet succeeded in getting out of the building. Many Jump to the Ground. This was the situation when the firemen arrived and began to run up ladders to take the panic stricken fugitives from their perilous posi- tlons. In some instances the com- bined efforts of half a dozen firemen were required to drag a woman or child from~the tightly packed plat- forms. While firemen on ladders and others on the ground were calling out to them that there was no danger and that help soon would reach them they began, one by one, to jump from the windows. David Miller sprang from & fourth story window and sustained B 3 s1i injuries which probably will cause his ‘fi%flgfi“"‘ Setles-lock, bemidy death. Rosie Gallmann, Fannie Ber- : soff and Ryman® Mettlemann, who |wANTED: jumped from windows on the second and third floors, have broken limbs and were taken to hospitals. Several others were internally injured. Many others who sustained more or less serious bruises refused to go to hos- pitals. . ‘Weinstein and his wife and baby were found lying dead in their rooms on the top floor of the burning build- ing_after the flames had been extin- guished. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The United Traction company of Reading, Pa., has announced a reduc- tion of 10 per cent in the wages of conductors and motormen. Harmon Schroeder, said to have been the first rofiner of sugar in the United States, is dead in New York city, aged elghty-eight years. The gunboat Paducah, which has been at Port au. Prince, Hayti, look- ing after the protection of American interests, has salled for Guantanamo. A quarterly dividend of 18 per cent has been declared by the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway com- pany. This is unchanged from the last previous quarter. Thomas F. Smith, secretary of Tam- many Hall, is on his way to Denver to engage hotel accommodations for the Tammany Hall host which will go to the Democratic national convention. Secretary Smith will engage rooms for 800 persons. Frederick E. Rice, superintendent of the Northwestern division of the Pullmen company and formerly dis- triot superintendent in St. Paul, is dead at his home in Chicago after an illness of some months. He was fifty- five years of age. Representatives of ‘the Great North- ern “Steamship company, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship company, Dowell & Co. and Frank Waterhouse & Co. have adopted a schedule of rates on wheat and flour to the Ori- ent, which 1s a reduction of $1-a ton over the former schedule. —_— MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, April 2—Wheat—May, $1.03: July, $1.025%. On track—N 1 hard, $1.06%; No. 1 Northern, $ 04%; No. 2 Northern, $1.02@1.028%; No. 8 Northern, 940@$1.00. Prices as follow:: Heavy Plate, warranted. ....35¢ Gold Filled, light weight.....50¢c Gold Filled, heavy weight....75¢ Solid Gold, light weight.. .. ..85¢ Solid{Gold, heavy weight. ..$1.25 We Manufacture any Special Design Mail Orders Receive Prompf Attention GEO. T. BAKER & CO. Located in City Drug Store.. Near the Lake. WANITS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY: Able bodied unmarried men, between ages of 18 and 35; citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read, and write English For information apply to Recruit Competent girl for general house work. Will pay $5.00 per week. Mrs. R. H. Schumaker, 608 Bemidji Ave. WANTED—Laundry girl, chamber- maid and dishwasher. Wages $4.00 per week. Hotel Stechman Tenstrike, Mian. WANTED—A girl to do .general housework. Apply to Mrs. L. Amadon, 417 Minnesota Ave., Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE. FOR - SALE—One . 75-horsepower engine and boiler, with comblete sawmill; in first-class order. Ad- dress E. J. Swedback, Bemidji. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. 2 FOR RENT. mrrrrnnnnocnneonn FOR Rent—One nicely furnished front.room with privilege of bath. 320 Minnesota. FOR RENT: Furnished rooms. In- quire 1002 Bemidji Ave. MISCELLANEOUS. A AR PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Harriet Campbell librarian. WANTED TO RENT.—5 or 6 room_house for small family; water and Fsewer Ldesired. Apply to Pioneer office. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, April 2.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.0854; No. 1 Northern, $1.035%; No. 2 Northern, 98%c; May, $1.01%; July, $1.08%. Flax—To arrive, on track and May, : $116; July, $1.18%. ‘ Want Ads 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, April 2.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.76; fair to good, $6.00@6.98; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.00@8.00; veals, $3.76@5.00. Hogs—$5.85@6.00. Sheep—Wethers, $5.7506.15; good to choice lambs, $7.00@7.40. FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS. OR OBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, April 2.—Cattle—Beaves, $4.60@7.35; cows and heifers, $2.00@ 6.10; Texans, $4.00@5.40; calves, $4.75 @6.75; Western cattle, $4.40@5.50; stockers and feeders, $3.25@5.30. Hogs Pioneer —Light, $5.85@6.25; mixed, $5.85@ ‘ $.30; heavy, $5.85@6.30; rough, $5.85 i 33 @86.00; pigs, $4.90@5.70. Sheep, $4.75 @6.80; yearlings, $6.25@7.60; lambs, $6.00@7.90. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, April 2.—Wheat—May, 93%c; July, 88%c; Sept, 86%( = 86%c. Corn—May, 66%c; July, 64340, Sept., 631gc. Oats—May, old, 53%c; May, 52%c; July, old, 47%c; July, 45%c; Sept., 38% @38%c. Pork—May, $18.50; July, $13.87%; Blgt., $14.27%4, Butter—Creameries, 22@£9q; dairies, ; I 20@260. Eggs—ldc. t:&y - b : kays. 14c: thickens and sbrink. 18c. : ! {