Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 9, 1908, Page 4

WES WRIGHT Candidate for Republican Nomination for Sheriff, Primaries Sept. 15. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff of Beltrami county before the primaries to be held September 15, If elected to the office I will give the duties thereof the very best ability which I possess. WES WRIGHT. GHARGES MADE BY BROSE AND MOON FULLY REFUTED Continued from First Page were put in a better condition. To save the land owners from loss of land by the sale, I sent by mail a . notice to each person, whose name and address I could learn, that his land was about to be sold for taxes. The law did not require this, but I did it, and it saved many their land and much expense. I did not make a sale, but con- tinued my work of correcting the records. The state auditor came to Be- midji, and walking into my office inquired as to the forfeited tax sale. I exhibited the records to him and after satisfying himself of the condition of affairs, he rendered the following verdict, and I chal- lenge Mr. C. O. Moon as a witness to it: ““Mr. Wilmann, you are right. You have done exactly as | would have done were | in your place, and you are entitled to great credit for what you have done.” At the following session of the county board, held December 14, 1905, I presented the matter to the board, and realizing that it wasa great injustice to me that I should be burdened with the work neg- lected by my predecessor, under whom Mr. Moon worked, the board adopted a resolution aythorizing me to secure extra help and charge the expense to the surety company in which my predecessor was bonded. Colonel Johnson, the public examiner, stated repeatedly, that considering the work I had to per- form, the clerk hire allowed me by law, was inadequate. The charges made against me by Messrs. Moon and Brose is that I . have employed a clerk for about a year at $50 per month, entailing an illegal expenditure of $600 on current business. The report of Deputy Public Examiner Kain, who made an exami- nation of our county for over three weeks, is now in my hands and will be presented to the board of county commissioners and the other county officials at the session of said board to be held October 1, and the interested public is invited to be present to listen to it. According to my report, | have not drawn one centillegally fromthe county, and the special work for wbich | was authorized to hire help amounts to $179.31. Please carry these figures in vour mind until the first of October, when the report of the examiners will be read in full. As to the fourth charge accusing me of extorting money from Mr. Arthur Brose, depute under me, I submit the state- ment given at the beginning of this article. while working as} i The differende between me and a number others in the City of Bemidji, to whom Brose is owing money, is that I have success in collecting my bill, while the others have not. Itis an acknowledged fact that the letter written to C. O. Moon was not written or signed by A. B. Allen of the Sentinel, but was written by Tames L. George, one of my oppon- ents, and he induced Miss Allen to sign her father’s name to 'a com- munication he knew nothing about. I submnit that a person who will impose upon a young lady to the point of getting her to sign a name, which almost constitutes forgery, will impose upon and deceive the the public. Mr. Allen’s denial is reproduced from the Sentinel, in this issue of the Poineer. I leave it to the great jury—the people of Beltrami county to decide. —John Wilmann. How About Mogan? A rumor is wafted down from Northome to the effect that John Mogan, he of the truthful disposi- tion and religious propensities, has designs upon the matrimonial state and contemplates joining the ranks of the benedicts in the tfear future. It is known by truthful people in this vicinity that John, while visiting in Bemidji last Saturday, applied to the clerk of court for the necessary documents wherewith ht may take unto himself a helpmeet and some one who could reform his desperate career. When John left, Saturday night for Northome he took along with him an array of raiment that was decidedly suspicious, among the outfit being a. miscellaneous collec- tion of feminine clothing which no single man should have in his possession, . We await developments. J. K. Wagner a Candidate. County Commissioner J. H. Wagner, who has served as com- missioner from the fourth commis- sioner district for the past four years, is a candidate for re-election. During the four years of his incumbrancy of office, Mr. Wagner has given the district his best ser- vices and. secured a number of improvements for his district. Owing to the fact that Mr. Wagner has been sick for some time and in the hospital, he .asks the voters of the district to bear with him for not calling upon them. He further wishes the Pioneer to assure them that if re-nominated and re- elected he will give the district his best effcrts. All typewriter ribbons except the FANNED TO'LIFE " BY FIERGE WIND Forest Fires f{gain Threaten Northern Minnesota. i | — MANY TOWNS IN DANGER S Flames Raging Throughout a Terri- tory One Hundred Miles Square and Settlers Are Being Burned Out by the Hundreds—Citizens in a Score of Little Villages Fighting Desper- ately to Save Homes. bl pb bbb bl t+ Duluth, Sept. 9.—Only a 4 cHange in the wind can save the s * n of Buhl from the forest fire. * tires are steadily advansing < L the little village in spite of < +* perate efforts to fight them < cl t + * ol vligle cle oo ok oo ol b o ol oo oo ol ol ol e Duluth, Sept. 9.—All of Northern Minnesota seems to be ablaze with forest fires. Reports coming in indicate that the region covered by the fires extends as far along the north shore as Grand Marais, as far west as the Western Mesaba ranges, south to within ten or fifteen miles of. Duluth and as far north as the extreme northerly edge of the ranges and perhaps much fur- ther. Throughout this district, a territory 100 miles square, fires are raging, set- tlers are being burned out by the hun- dreds and it will be impossible to estimate the total loss for weeks to come. It will run into millions of dol- lars. Citizens in a score of little villages such as Buhl, Nashwauk, Wrenshall, Aurora, Mitchell and many mining lo- cations are devoting all their energies to fighting back the flames. No more towns of any importance have been burned since the destruction of Chis- holm, but constant vigilance is need- ed to save Hibbing and the little town of Snowball, with 100 inhabitants, is wiped off the map. Duluth has raised $20,000 for the sufferers and relief trains are being rushed forward from here. Homeless settlers are arriving in Hibbing and Duluth by every train telling tales of hairbreadth escapes from the flames. Up to the present time no lives have been reported lost. Aurora, a town of 1,000 inhabitants, ‘was threatened all night, but it is re- ported safe for the time being. A brisk wind is blowing in the ter- ritory affected and unless it dies down or a drenching rain comes the entire district mentioned above may be swept clear of standing timber. Desperate Fight for Life. The district about Grand Marais is cut off by the flames and from 600 to 1,000 settlers are fighting for their lives, with no means of escape. Th~ fire has penned them in and the flames are rushing toward the lake shore with fearful rapidity. Many. settlers may be forced to take refuge in the waters of Lake Superior. A frantic appeal for help was sent to Duluth by the steamer America, which brought down many of the set- tlers. The United States steamship Gopher, with two companles of the maval reserves, has left for the morth shore with provisions and will pick up all settlers found along the shore of the lake. Grand Marais, a village of about six hundred inhabitants, it is feared will be a total loss. There are no telegraph connections with the vil- lage and no railroad there. Many lives may be lost if the fires destroy the town, as there would not be hoats enough to pick up all the inhabitants. Between Nashwauk and Hibbing, a reglon of twenty-two miles long, the forests are,one continuous battle front of flames. From Hibbing it is an ap- palling sight and big clouds of smoke are pouring over the threatened city, hiding the sun as though the sky was overcast with rain clouds. Northwest of Hibbing the flames have spread over a wide area of tim- ber and the burning district is increas- ing rapidly. Between Chisholm and Buhl, a distance of eight miles, there are many small fires, which threaten hourly to be fanned into conflagra- \ions. Wisconsin Towns Ask Help. Superior, Wis., Sept. 9.—The forest fires in Douglas county were fanned up by a brisk wind after having al- most died down. Farmers and resi- dents of small towns have called for help and men are going out from Su- perior to join the fire fighters. Th~ villages of South Range and Coyne are now in most imminent danger of burning. Mining Location Surrounded. Calumet, Mich., Sept. 9.—A flerce forest fire surrounds the Ahmeek min- ing location, near here, being held in cheok twenty yards from the town by two fire departments and a hundred volunteers. The town and thousands ef dollars’ worth of valuable mining property are endangered, but it is be- Heved the flames can be kept back. Explosion Causes Three Deaths. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 9.—By the ex- plosion of a gasoline launch on Rainy lake, near Fort Frances, Moses Infelt, owner of a fishing fleet, and two fish- ermen in the boat were drowned. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery. The body of Mrs. Joseph Duret of Funkley, who committed suicide Sunday evening by drinking carbolic acid, was brought to this city this morning and buried in Greenwood cemetery, Rev. I. Peart of this city two and tri-color ribbons or special makes on sale at thePioneer office at the uniform price of 75¢ each. conducting the services at the grave. Mrs. Duret was twenty-two years old at the time of her demise and SETASCEE) A C i - i A.B. HAZE} 5 Candidate fr,r the R epublican 'Nomination for Sheriff. 3 OEIICE [ ITER Ty A. B. Hazen of this city has filed for republican nomination for sheriff of Beltrami county at the primaries to be held September 15. ~There is probably no man in Beltrami county who is better known or who has a larger acquaintance than pioneer residents of Bemidji, and has move calculated to advance the best county. A. B. Hazen. He is one of the always been prominent in every interests of this city and Beltrami was an inmate of one of the houses of loose virtue at Funkley. Her: companions report that she seemed | very cheerful and can ascribe no! motive for her action. Deputy Coroner Lahr of this city went to] Funkley Monday and decided that’ an inquest wag unnecessary as the| case was plainly one of. suicide. i f Reed Returns From Red Lake. R. W. Reed and C.C. Crippen [ have returned from a week’s trip in the Red Lake country. Mr. Reed announces that this is his last trip for this year and he can be found in the gallery during the balance of the year. While away, Mr. Reed secured a number of valuable Indian views for Fis fine collection. FIVE MEN PERISH'IN DENVER HOTEL FIRE Some Are Suffocated and Oth- ers Die by Jumping. Denver, Sept. 9.—Five men lost their lives and a score of persons were injured, several of them seriously, in a fire that gutted the Belmont hotel, & three-story building. The dead are: Edward Moore, aged fifty-five, real estate agent, -Philadelphia, killed by Jumping; = George Burtell, Pullman conductor, suffocated; John D. Kane. Colorado Springs, suffocated; George Bode, Middletown, N. Y., died at hos- pital of injuries sustained by jump- ing; George Ott, Lodge City, Kan., died at hospital of injuries sustained in jumping. Guests awakened from their sleep by the cry . f fire rushed pell mell into the halls, hemmed in by flames from all sides, cnd in an effort to escape fought and struggled, while rescuers were forced back by columns of smoke and the mounting flames. It is believed that the fire started from defective wiring in the third story. Patrick Treadwell, a fireman of Crip- ple Creek, Colo., who was stopping in the Belmont when the fire started, is gredited w'th havipg saved at least ten lives by inducing entrapped guests to jump from the upger story win- dows across a fivefodt alley to the roof of an adjoining building and catching them in his arms. More than }score of persons jumped from win- 0ws before the department arrived. NEGROES BUYING ARMS, Colored Residents of Kansas City Fear Race War. Kansas City, Sept. 9.—8ince the kill- ing of a white. man by a negro here last Saturday there has been a grow- ing alarm of a race war among the colored population and the police have learned that many of them are pur- chasing firearms. A pawnbroker on Bast Eighteenth street reported that the negroer had purchased all the shotguns, rifies and revolvers in his store, besides a large amount of am- munition. Robert Thomas, a negro, was arrested at a circus for carrying & revolver. Robert Maupin, another nesro, probably fatally wounded him- self while cleaning a revolver, which, it 18 believed, he intended to carry for his own protection. Excited groups of colored men have been -dispersed by the police, but nd| violence has ocopyred. : DEADLOCKER ON _ SENATORSHP Towa Standpatters Refuse to Yote for Cummins, FIRST BALLOT IS TAKEN ‘Governor Secures Sixty-five Votes, Seventy-six Eeing Nescssary for a Choice, and His Opponents Declare He Cannot Be Elected—Democrats Give Their Complimentary Vote to Forter. Des Moines, Sept. 9.—By deadlock- ing both houses the “standpatters” de- clare that they have defeated Gov- ernor A. B. Cummins for election to the short term as United States sen- ator from Iowa. The honse vote gave Cummins 44 (the strength of the “progressives”), Claude Porter 31 (the strength of the Democrats), and the “standpatters” scattered their votes. The senate vote gave Cummins 21 votes and Porter 14. The “standpat- ters” again scattered their votes. Seventy-six votes are necessary to elect on joint ballot and the “stand- patters” claim Cummins will not get more than the number he was able to poll on separate ballot—65. The “standpatters” announced as a reason for their action that they thought the election should be delayed until after the people express a choice at the November election. bbb dobdbdbd bbb bbb bbb % PROMINENT FIGURE IN ATLAN- i g TIC CITY SHOOTING MYSTERY AR bbb MRS. W. 8. G. WILLIAMS. bottom of the Baking Powder Question. Buy a can of Calumet today. Put it through the most rigid baking test that you know. If it does not fully come up to your standard; if the baking is not justasgood or better—lighter, more evenly raised, more delicious and whole~ some, take it back to the grocer and your money. 0 Calumet is the only strictly high- grade baking powder selling at a moderate cost. FOLLOWS RIVAL FROM SICILY Love for Same Woman Cause of ‘Mur- der at Cleveland. Cleveland, Sept. 9.—Rivalry for the hand of a woman, which began in Sicily several years ago, resulted In a murder here when Angelo Mazzo, a Sicilian, was stabbed through the heart by Carmen Bulone, a Sicilian, Both men loved the same girl in Porta, Sicily, but Mazzo won and married the. young woman. Bulone swore vengeance. In order to escape Bu- lone’s wrath the couple came to Amer- fca. Bulone, however, followed. them and, on a crowded thoroughfare, killed Mazzo with a stiletto. Bulone fled, .but was cartured at the Union station 88 he was about to beard & train for New York. —and get it. CA Don’t accept a substitute. UMET &2 ' Powder Received Highest Award World’s Pure Food Exposition, Chicago, 1907. Insist upon Calumet REGENT DEPRESSION WAS A GOOD THING Powderly Sees Benefit to This Gountry and Europe. i Pittsburg, Sept. 9.—“The recent business depression has been the best thing for the country in one sense that could have happened,” said T. V. Powderly, chief of the division of in- formation of the bureau of immigra- tion, who was a Labor day orator here, in an interview. ‘Y mean in the spread of American ideas in Europe because of it. The| return to their old homes of the thou-( sands of workmen because of the in-i dustrial shutdown has meant that to almost every nook and eorner of the| world there has gone some apostle of | Americanism whose precepts xmd‘ practice, however humble and insig-) njficant they may be, still cannot work | but for good. No matter how shert the stay in this country of some of | them has been they are better for it ! —and it is safe to sy they wii} not retrogade. Neither can it be doubted that they will spread the influence of America wherever they go. “Will they come back? edly the most of them. remain will send their brothers or| friends, to whom will be given the| benefit of their own experience. 8o| that America as well as Europe will! be the gainer. “Do you know that were all the great mills and other industries of the | country te start up tomorrow there| would not be half enough men to do the work?” . 8oriously Hurt in Auto Wreck. Boone, Ia, Sept. 9.—An imenn-banl oar on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern railway struck an auto- mobile containing S. A. Boone, gen- eral chairran of the joint protective committee . f the Brotherhood of Loco-| motive Fir- nen, and his father-in-law, James cIntosh. Both men were se- verely injured. McIntosh probably eannot recover. ‘Undoubt- Those that | Admits 8erles of Frauds. | Copenhagen, Sept. 9.—M. Alberti, ‘who retired ree¢ently from the post of minister of justice, has surrendered te the police and confessed to a series of frauds against the Bondestandens Sparkashe, a savings bank of which he was president. The minister of | finance and a number of banks had | dealings with this institution, but they are secured against any loss. Burned to Death in Sleeper. Staples, Minn., Sept. 9.—A North. ern Pacific sleeping car in the yards here caught “fire and Mrs. Joseph Pitts of Lisbon, N. D., was burned to death. All others escaped from the car. The train had been made up for Duluth, but a crew was not in charge at the time. The origin of the fire is not known. 2 MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. jnneapolis, Sept. 8.—Wheat—Sept., $1.00%; Dec., $1.00%; May, $1.04% @, 1.04%. On track—No, 1 hary $1,03% @1.04; No. 1 Northern, $1.081 @1.03; No. 2 Northern, $1.00@1.00%; No. 3 |- Northern, 973 @98%c. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Luluth, Sept. 8.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.03; No. 1 Northern, $1.01@1.02; No. 2 North- erp, $1.00; Sept, $1,00; Dec., 99%c; May, $1.08. Flax—To arrive, on track and Sept, $1.35; Oct, $1.24; Nov., $1.9¢; Dec., $1.32%. 8t. Paul Union 8tock Yards, St. Paul, Sept. 8.—Oattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good, $6.00@5.75;- good to choice cows and heifers, $4.00@5.00; veals, $3.75@5.75, Hogs—$6.50@6.65. Sheep—Wethers, $3.78@4.10; yearlings, $4.00@4.25; spring lambs, $4.50@3.26. Ohicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Sept. 8.—Wheat—Sept, | 98¢; Dec., 97%c; May, $1.00%. Corn —Sept.,, 79%c; Dec., 68%c; May, 66% @86%c; July, 65%c. Oats—Sept., 49%e¢; Dec., 60%c; May, 523%c. Pork —Sept., $14.65; Oct., $14g72%4; Dec,, $14.80; Jan., $16.37%. Butter—Cream- eries, ~181, @22%¢; dairies, 17@20c. Bggs—20c. Poultry—Turkeys, 17; chickens, 9%c; #prings, 14c. Chicago Unlon Stock Yards. Chicago, Sept. 3.—Cattlo—Beeves, | $3.60@7.60; Texans, $3.40@6.80; West- ern cattle, $3.25@5.90; stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.40; cows aud. heifers, $1.75@5.70; calves, $6.00®7.75. Hogs —Light, $6.35@6.85; 7.06; heavy, $6.85@7.10; rough, $6.35 @6.65; good to choice heavy, $6.65@ | WANTED—Bell bey. WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANAA A8 WANTED FOR U. 5. ARMY: Able. bodied unmarried men, between ages of 18 and 35; citizeas of United States, of good charactér and temperate habits, who can speak, read, and write English For information apply to Recruit ing Officer. Miles Block, Bemidji Minn. WANTED—A middle-aged woman to do housework and look after children. Must be kind to chil- dren. Will pay good wages. Address Box 188, Tenstrike, Minn. WANTED—Competent girl for general housework. Inquire of Mrs. Thomas Bailey, at sheriff’s residence. WANTED—Good girl to assist in general housework. Apply over | Model Bakery. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Inquire at 1111 Dewey Ave. WANTED—Good Lady cook. Ad- dress, Box 501. Bemidji, Minn. Inquire at the Merchants hotel. FOR SALE. A~ A~ e FOR SALE—Small house and two lots in Lake Park addition to Bemidji. Will sell cheap if taken soon. Terms if desired. 1008 Doud avenue. O. Ulseth. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—16-inch dry slab wood $1.25 per cord delivered. M. E. Smith Lumber yards. Phone 97. FOR SALE—One new six horse power Fairbank’s Morse gasoline engine. Douglass Lumber Co. FOR SALE—A $60 invalids tri- cycle cheap. Inquire Mrs. Ander- son, Bazaar Building, Bemidji. FOR RENT—A 7-room house, 581 Beltrami avenue. Inquire at 520 Beltrami avenue. FOR SALE—Good residence prop- erty. Inquire 923 Minnesota avenue, FOR RENT—Large furnished rooms. Inquire 1002 Bemidji Ave, FOR RENT. B S-S SN FOR RENT—Seven-room cottage with electric lights. Inquire of M. L. Morse, 1120 Beltrami avenue. MISCELLANEOUS. A r AN PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30t06 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Harriet Campbell librarian. BEWARE A telephone says to burglars. Has your home this invaluable and inexpensive protection? Order the Northwestern Bucklen’s Arnica Salve The Best Salve In The World, DR.KING’'S NEW DISCOVERY mixed, $6,35@ [~ Will Surely Stop That Gough, , $2.25| Dr.King’s New Life Pills 7.10; pigs, 34966,00. § 9‘% yw:l&-. #4.20@4.58; Tambs, L The best in the world.