Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 14, 1908, Page 1

IO THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER. VOLUME 6. NUMBER 152. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY. EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1908. WINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOC[ETY.‘ FORTY CENTS PER MONTH SOME REPUBLICANS HAVE OPPOSITION FOR. OFFICE Democratic Candidates for County Offices for the First Time in the History of Beltrami County.—Full List of Official The closing of the last day on which candidates for offices can file for the general election in Beltrami county brought about a condition| which has not heretofore existed in politics in this county. For the first time in the history of the county there are democratic candidates for county offices. Here- tofore there has never been any party opposition against the regular republican nominees for county offices. This year conditions are changed and in addition to there being opposition for the judgeship, congressman and member of the legislature, there is also opposition for the following county offices; J. O. Harris, republicn nominee for register of deeds, has as opponent, F. M. Malzahn, democratic nominee; A. B. Hazen for sheriff is opposed by | Thomas Tedford; C. McKusick for county attorney is opposed by P. J. Russell, and W. B. Stewart has as opponent tor superintendent of schools Miss Vera Cameron. While it is possible that some of the democratic candidates may re- ceive a fair vote, no one yet has ex- pressed an opinion that any of them will be elected. The following are the names of all the candidates whose names will appear on the regular county ticket at the general election November 3: For judge of the Fifteenth district, B. F. Wright, republican; C. W. Stanton, “non-partisan” judiciary. For member of congress from the Candidates. | Ninth Congressional district, Halvor | Steenerson, republican; Ole O. Sageng, independent, and T. T. | Braaten, public ownership. For represeniative from the Sixty- | first district, Jens J. Opsahl, republi- | can, and Dr. C. G. Forrest, prohibi- tionist. | For county auditor, John Wilmann republican. | For county treasurer, George H. E French, republican. ! For register of deeds, J. O. Harris, ’republican; Fred M. Malzahn, demo- i crat, For sheriff, A. B. Hazen, republi- can; Thomas Tedford, democrat. Tor county attorney, Chester | McKusick, republican; P. J. Russell, | democrat. For Judge of probate M. A. Clark, republican. i For court commissioner, M. G.| ] | i Slocum, republican. { For county surveyor, i Bliler, republican. j For superintendent of schools, i | W. B. Stewart republican; Vera M. ! Cameron, democrat. { For county coroner, M. E. Ibert- i son, republican. For county commissioner, second | district, John Gilstad democrat; | Helic Cleméntson, republican, and | O. B. Olson, independent. ! For county commissioner, Fourth | district, Charles Durand, republican, and Viggo Petersen, independent. i For county commissioner, Fifth district, A. W. Danabher, republican and Ommund S. Huset, independent. Roy K. XTRA! Cubs Are Champions.| Chicago 2 Detroit, Oct. 14 —4 p. m ; Detroit 0. —(Special to Pioneer.)—In a |location for a splendid business desperate pitchers’ battle between Donavan, champion “heaver” of the “Tigers,” and Overall, the giant twirler of the “Cubs,” Chicago shut out Detroit and won the fourth game of the series for the championship; and the “Cubs” are now the undisputed baseball champions of the world. Detroit won but one game of the five which have been played. Today’s game resnlted as follows: ovan and Schmidt. Umpires. Sheridan and 0’Day. SEVERAL THINGS. There are several thing: to be considered in selecting your bank. Strength—financial stre-~gth. Ist 2nd The care with which the bank is managed. 8rd The courtesy and spirit of accoir modation displayed by the officers and employees. 4th The banking experience of its officers. 5th The ability of the bank to properly and promptly handle all your business. To those wishing desirable banking relations, we offer our services as an old established, permanent, and accom- modating bank, promising courteous treatment and careful treatment to all business intrusted to our care. The First National Bank of Bemidji Capital, $50,000 Surplus, $10,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS F. P. SHELDON, President A. G. WEDGE, Jr., Vice President P. J. SHELDON R. H. SCHUMAKER, Cashier W. A. GOULD 0DD FELLOWS PURCHASE WES RIGHT PROPERTY Lodge Will Undoubtedly Erect Splendid Business Block to Replace Iis Present Building. The Bemidji lodge of Odd Fellows has purchased the lot adjoining their property on the north, on Bel- trami avenue, opposite the post- office, and will undoubtedly, in the near future, erect a handsome three or four-story brick block to replace the present frame structure, which occupies their single lot. A deal was made, months ago, whereby the became the owner of the Wes Wright property, a 25-foot lot adjoinin the Odd Fellows lot, the consideration being in the neighbor- hood of $1,500. One of tee provisions of the deal was that Mr. Wright was to move his buildings from the property within sixty days. Mr. Wright began the preliminery work of mov- ing his house and outbuildlng , to- day and will have the lot cleared in the next two or three days. The acquisition of the Wright property gives the Odd Fellows what they have long desired, a desirable some two lodge block. While the plans have not been fully decided upon, there is no doubt but what the brick building to be erected will be not less than three stories high, and will include one of the finest lodge halls in the state. The Bemidji lodge of Odd Fellows is one of the most substantial organ- izations in this part of the state. The lodge has some eighty members and is in a splendid financial condi-[ tion. The lodge was organized in the year 1900, and Mr. Brown, who died some two years ago at Akeley, was the first noble grand. There are eight past grands and there is harmony and great interest in the lodge and its welfare. Bemidji is proud of her Odd Fellow lodge. i i Pnstoffice Report. i The business activity of Bemidji and its vicinity continues to grow rapidly as shown by the quarterly report of the Bemidji postoffice for the quarter ending September 30, 1908, which has just been completed, The report shows the total receipts for the quarter to be $4236.26 and the expenditures $258.64, leaving a net profit of $1681.62 which was turned over to the government. This is $701.71 more than was turned in to the national treasury at the end of the last puarter. The local office took in $3597.31 during the quarter ending June 30, 1908, and $3278.82 during the three months ending September 30, 1907. This indicates that the receipts; for this quarter are $658.95 more than for the last one and $967.44 larger than those for the | quarter one year ago. |SECURED A PARDON AND FAVORABLE FOR ANOTHER same P. ). Russell Also Got Target Rifles and Ammunition for the Use of Co. K. Attorney P. J. Russell returned to the city last evening from St. Paul, where he appeared before the State Pardon Board on behalf of Basil Thunder, a Red Lake Indian |who has served six years out of a sixteen-year sentence for man- slaughter, and also in the interest of Arthur Kenyon, a former Bemidji boy who was sent to Stillwater from Hennepin county for ten years. Kenyon has served three years of his time. Mr. Russell was very successful in his efforts, securing a full pardon for Kengon. Thunder’s case was taken under advisement and, in all probability, he will be given a con- ditional pardon. While Mr. Russell was in St. Paul, NEEEATIVE DACE The Merchant Who Is Wondrous Wise There is a Merchant in this Town, And he is wondrous Wise. “To make it pay he knows the way Is just to ADVERTISE. To whom this Hint applies. If they're discerning they'll soon be learning IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. Try Pioneer Advertising. and 6,000 rounds of ammunition from the adjutant general tor the use of Company K of this city during the coming winter. The rifles are the latest model being used by the United States regular army for indoor practice and are made for ranges from fifty to three hundred feet. “BIG BEMIDG” BAL[ 10 BE A SPLENDID AFFAIR Coliseum Is Being Completely Ren- ovated for the Great Event—High Schooi Supper. The Coliseum, ander the present management, is undergoing a thor- ough cleaning preparatory to the “Big Bemidg” basketball dance which will be given theré Friday evening, October 16. The large floor is being scraped and waxed and put into axcellent shape. Managers Heffror and Biddinger have secured the services of a five- piece orchestra and special new music will be rendered upen that occasion. It is doubtful whether any other dance this year will be furnished with as|good or better music than the “Hg Bemidg” ball. The managers will spare no expense in making this the| event of the sea- son. | ’ An impression }és gained ground public affair but| this is untrue, About 300 invit#ions have been issued and only jthose who have their “bids” wih them will be allowed to atgnd the dance. Several neatly pinted cards have been placed in th various windows of the city to renind those who have received invititins to be sure to attend. The girls of fhe Bemidji High School Athletic gsociation will serve lunch on the bagony of the hall for the benefit of jhe dancers. The high school hasin excelledt reputa- tion for servingfine suppers and it is fortnnate for{hose attending the ball that the gfls will do so next Friday evenin; Presbyterian durch of this city, left on this mornig’s train for St. Paul to attend the pnual synod. The Synodbf Minnesota meets this evening | the House of Hope church in Stfaul and the session lasts until ne} Sunday evening. The synod is compsed of a minister and an elder frq each Presbyterian church in th{state. he secured two indoor target rifles Now, there are othér Merchants here | i in the city that the dance is to be a| BELIEVES A WOMAN WHO SUIGIDED WAS HIS WIFE C. C. Barber Looking for Infant Son Who Was With Woman Who Killed Herself. C. C. Barber of Staples came in yesterday from Blackduck, where he went to learn the identity of a woman who was living in a house of ill resort at that place and who com- mitted suicide there about six weeks ago by drinking carbolic acid. Mr. Barber came to the conclus- ion, from the pictures of the woman which he found at Blackdbck, that the woman had been his wife, this idea being strengthened by the fact that Mrs. Barber had attempted to commit suicide by drinking poison just before she left him one year ago last February. Mr. Barber stated that he and the suicide had been married six years ago in May at Hubbard, Minn. While living at Northome,another man came between them and she left her home on February 28, 1907, taking her nursing baby with her. One son died last February, when almost four years old. Mr. Barber then went to Staples and heard nothing of his former wife until he went to Northome last week to look for the little infant son who is now nearly two and one-half years old. While in Northome, Mr. Barber became convinced that the woman who commited suicide at Blackduck had been his wife. Mr. Barber would greatly appreciate any information leading to the discovery of the present whereabouts of his littie child. Warden Loman Secures Conviction. International Falls. Oct. 14.— (Special to Pioneer. )—Chris Willson, who lives at Graceton, northern Bel- trami county, has been convicted of deer-killing, out of season, in justice court at Pitt, Minn. Willson was arrested by Game Warden Loman, who is in the employ of the State Game and Fish commission. A fine of $50 and costs was im- met with the general approval of all settlers in the vicinity of Pitt. Warden Loman has been doing ex- cellent service for the Game and Fish Commission, and is one of the best wardens in the state. Samaritan Meeting Thursday. A regular meeting of the Modern Samaritan lodge will be held in the I 0. O. F. hall Thursday evening, October 11. All members are ur: gently requested to be present at that time. During the winter months the lodge will meet on the third { Thursday of each and every month. REV. DENISTON RETURNS T0 LOGAL M. E. BHURCH Conference Appointments Made for Brainerd District of Church as Announced by Bishop. The annual conference of the Brainerd district of the Methodist Episcopal church of Minnesota has given out a list of appointments of ministers to the different congrega- tions in the district. Rev. J. H. Deniston has been re- turned to Bemidji, and will be with us another year, which action on the part of the board is well received here. Ministers were designated to the congregations in this vicinity as follows: E. K. Copper, Brainerd, superin- tendent of district; J. H. Deniston, Bemidji; R. G. Green, Akeley; Edwin McCoum, Big Falls; C. F. Davis, Brainerd; George Parish, Cass Lake; G. P. Watson, Gran Falls; W. H. Robinson, Interna- tional Falls; M. A. Soper, Menagha Circuit; E. R. Stevenson, Park Rapids; B. A. Barber, Pine River; Lafayette Dodds, Staples; J. C. Jewell, Walker; W. H. Ferrell, Wadena; W. A. Tracey, Northome and Blackduck. posed on Willson, which penalty| Judge Stanton Heard Argum The cases of Judge Bailey and of Clerk Fisk, of the municipal court of this city, against Mayor Pogue, who refused to sign the warrants for their salaries for the month of Sep- tember, was taken up before Judge Stanton in the district court at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. Pogue appearing for a hearing on why he had not obeyed the writ of mandamus recently issued to compel bim to sign the warrants. Fisk appeared for the plaintiffs and Graham M. Torrance for the de- fendant. Mr. Torrance stated that the peti- ition to the judge for the writ of mandamus had declared, either with or without the knowledge of the defendant’s attorney, that there was sufficient money in the city treasury to pay the warrants at the time Mr. Pogue refused to sign them. Mr. Torrance said that the charter provides that no money can be paid out of the tund in the city treasury unless there is sufficient money in that fund to pay the warrants and all other outstanding warrants against that fund since the adoption of the charter. He did not believe that the mayor or the councilmen knew of this provision at the time Mr. Pogue refused to sign them but that did not prevent the law. from being applied in this case. Mr. Fisk then argued his side of the case. He certainly had not known that the general fund of the city treasury was empty at the time he presented the “petition to the judge and when he had found it out ihe had omitted that statement from the peremptory—writ of mandamus. The plaintiffs’ attorney claimed that a city warrant is no more than a promisory note to pay a debt at some future time; the giving of the warrant or note does not discharge the debt, that is removed only when the debt is paid in money. disputed section of the city charter prevented the payment of debts D. H.| Mr. Fisk did not believe that the | HEARING HELD YESTERDAY MUNICIPAL COURT TANGLE ents of Attorney Representi;m Mayor and Counsel for Court Officials, Whose War- rants Mayor Refuses to Sign. allowed by the city council and had been “0. K.’d” by the comptroller, there being money in the proper fund to pay the warrant. Mr. Fisk contended that Mayor Pogue’s duty Iin the present case, just as Mayor Ames’ was, is simply ministerial in signing the salary warrants for the regular city officers. Mr. Torrance, for the defendant, then said that the council could easily create a salary fund and pay the city officials out of that. He repeated that he believed that his honor would not have granted the mandamus writ if he had known that there was po money in the general fund, of the city treasurer. He had no more to say, as the law in the charter was plain. Judge Stanton asked Mr. Tor- rance whe‘her he believed there was any difference between a claim aris- |ing from the operation of a law and one created by action of the council. Mr. Torrance held that there was not. The judge replied that, as he saw the case, it was simply whether the mayor should be compelled to sign a warrant on a fund which is overdrawn or not. In conclusion, Mr. Fisk stated | that he believed that the liability clause referred to those debts which are illegally established and are contrary to the charter. Judge Stanton stated that he would like time to find a similar case and took the question under advisement. . From the evidence presented it would seem that the whole case lies on the question asked Mr. Torrance by Judge Stanton, and the interpretation of the following section of the city charter: | “The resolution providing for the iissue of a warrant shall state the fund on which such warrants shall be drawn, and every warrant shall designate the specific purpose for which it is issued, and the specific fund upon which itis drawn, and shall be payable out of none other. already contracted, although no new | Each warrant shall be payable to unnecessary obligations could be | the order of the person in whose entered against a fund in which there was no cash. He claimed that if this clause can be construed to mean that the officers of the city government are not to be paid as long as there is no money in the general fund, the section is unconsti- tutional. The plaintiffs’ attorney then quot- ed the law to the effect that a city shall not go over a certain percent- age in its indebtedness, but stated that it is a point of common law that no matter how great the indebted- ness of a city, it is always necessary and customary to pay the salaries of | the officers. Mr. Fisk cited the case of the Minneapolis Tribune against Mayor Ames, of the city of Minneapolis, in which the Hennepin County court issued a writ of mandamus compell- ing the mayor to sign a warrant for city printing which had been favor it is drawn. No warrant on any specific fund shall be drawn or issued until there lis sufficient money in the treasury to }the credit of such fund to pay the same, together with all other war- irants issued since the adoption of !this charter that may then be out- fstanding against such fund, and the icouncil is hereby prohibited from Eauthcrizing the issue or ordering paid any such warrant, until there’is sufficient money, as aforesaid, in the treasury, applicable thereto, to meet such warrant, together with all other | warrants which may be outstanding against said fund. No officer or i official body of the city shall have any power to contract or create any Eindebtedness against the city, but {the same shall constitute a personal iclaim against the officer or officers issuing the same. or attempting to create such indebtedness.” GOVERNOR JOHNSON WILL SPEAK HERE THURSDAY Will Address Meeting to Be Held at City Hall in Evening, at 8:30. Governor John A. Johnson, demo- cratic candidate for governor, will address: the people of Bemidji and vicinity at the city hall on Thurs- day evening of this week. The governor will speak at Cass Lake Thursday afternoon and will arrive in Bemidji on the 8:20 G. N. train in the evening; and he will speak in the opera house immediately after arriving here. Local democrats are making pre- Ipa\rations to give the “governor a royal welcome and a number will go to Cass Lake to make the journey from that place to Bemidji with the governor. Music will be furnished by the Bemidji band.. The local committee expects a large crowd to hear the governor. School Tablets. The Pioneer has prepared a special school tablet of the uniform size, 6x9, which we will retail at 5 cents per tablet. This tablet has been . prepared especially for the Bemidji public schools, and with cloth back, which makes the tablet very durable. These should be purchased by all pupils. 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