Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 27, 1909, Page 1

THE BEMIDJ1 D VOLUME 6. NUMBER 240, ~ BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1909. BASKETBALL GAME WITH GRAND RAPIDS THURSDAY Manager of the Grand Rapids Team Insinuates That They Can Put Up a Rough Game, if the Locals Act That Way. » “Big Bemidg” will face the Grand Rapids basketball team on the floor of the Coliseum tomorrow evening in what will probably be one of the hotest games of the season. “Big Bemidg” will play with all her regular men back in their old Ppositions. Joe Markham, one of the stars, will “be there” at forward, after being absent from the last two games. Geil will assist Markham in making the baskets, while Bid- dinger and Peterson will be placed at guard and Brown will occupy the center. With the Bemidji boys playing in the above positions, the locals are fairly confident of defeating the fast team from the east. The line-up of the Grand Rapids five has not been sent here, but it is definitely known that Jerome Meyers, the redoutable football player, is captain and is playing on the “Rapids” team. The “Rapids” had always defeated ~ Bemidji in all sorts of athletics until the Bemidji High handed them a never-to-be-forgotten package of defeat in football last fall. The “Rapids” boys fully expected to keep Bemidji at the small end of victory for all time but the foot- ball season changed the tide, and now “Big Bemidg” will do their best to add another victory over the “invincibles.” In a recent letter from the mana- ger of the Grand Rapids team, he stated that they would send a fast team here which would guarantee the public a good game. The manager said, in regard to rough playing, that his team has a kind of “rep” in that direction itself and he was confident of being able to give *‘Big Bemidg” a hearty game. If the management of the local basketball interests can secure the support of a good-sized crowd at this game, the way will be clear to get the splendid Duluth Y. M. C. A. team here soon. BAILEY FUNERAL WAS HELD YESTERDAY P, M. Services Over Remains of J. H. Bailey Were Held at Methodist Church— Interment in Greenwood. The last that was mortal of J. H. Bailey, ex-Sheriff Bailey’s son, who died last Sunday of pneumonia at the home ot his brother,John, in this city, waslaid toits final rest yes- terday afternoon in Greenwood, Be- midji’s “City of the Dead.” The services were conducted by Reverend Deniston at 2:30 o’clock in the Methodist church, which was crowded to the aisles and door- ways with a large number -of the friends of the deceased. Special music was rendered for the occasion, Misses Lindeke and Shannon. Rev- erend Deniston spoke many words of comfort and cheer to the relatives of the departed. / The procession then~-moved to Greenwood cemetery where, amid a large amount of beautiful 'flowers, the body of James Howard Bailey was left to its final sleep through the ages of eternity. More Than Fifty Naturalized. R. K. Doe of St. Paul, a United States naturalization examiner of the Department of Justice, arrived in the city yesterday noon from Bagley and occupied the afternoon in check- ing up the naturalization papers in the office of the clerk of the district court. There were over fifty new citizens created by the district court in this city during the year 1908. Mr. Doe left on the midnight train for Duluth to continue his Big Falls, Jan. 27.—(Special to Pioneer. )—One of the most destruc- tive fires in the history of Big Falls occurred last night,andasa result two people are dead and four are in a serious condition. Shortly after twelve o’clock last night fire broke out in the rear of the second story of Audette & Gag- non’s building, which was occupied by Jack Tremain and P. Lawrence as a saloon, restaurant and lodging house, the fire being caused, so it is supposed, by the explosion of a lamp in one of the bedrooms. The walls of the rooms upstairs in Audette & Gagnon’s building were composed of heavy canvass and paper tacked to the studding and was very inflamable. The fire gained rapid headway and soon consumed the entire building and its contents, nothing being saved. The flames spread to EC Larson’s saloon on the south side and the building was destroyed although the contents were saved. J. J. Curley and Joseph LeBlanc, two homesteaders living in this vicinity and who were sleeping on the third floor, were burned to death being unable to escape from the doomed building on account- of the FORTY CENTS PER MONTH rapid headway made by. the fire. Mr. and Mrs, Paul Lawrence were sleeping on the second floor when the fire commenced and succeded in escaping through the flames, but only after being sevérely ‘burned. Mrs. Lawrence had her left side literally cooked and left shreds of flesh in her footprints as she hurried across the street to safety. Mr. Lawrence sustained burns on the hands, face and back of the head. Two unknown men, who were sleep- ing: at the hotel, ‘wére also badly burned. They attempted to get down stairs but the flames were - too hot and they were forced to ;jump from the second story window. The injured were given. medical attention here by Dr. Ratcliffe and sent to St. Anthony’s. hospital at Bemidji on this morning’s train. The property losses of the fire are estimated as follows: Audette & Gagnon, $3,000; Lawreime & Tre- main on stock and fiztures, - $2,000; Larson’s building, $1, 500 The volunteer] fire ' department did excellent - work aadis deserving of mach praise for saving the ad- joining property from the flames. J.J. Curley, who was cremated with Joe LeBlanc, was a homestead- A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE AT BIG FALLS LAST NIGHT Hotel Burned in the Dead of Night.---Two Homesteaders Cre- mated and Four Injured.---Mrs. Paul Lawrence Died at Hospital This Morning. er living eighteen miles down the Big Fork river from Big Falls and was _on his way to Minneapolis. He was about forty years old and un- married. LeBlanc was living on a claim thirty miles from this village on Caldwell Brook. Fred Gagnon, one ot the proprie- tors of the burned building,was saved from a horrible death by the sagacity of his shepherd dog, which jumped upon his bed and awoke him when the house was full of smoke. Gagnon and his dog were unable to get out by the stairway and were forced to jump from a -second story window, neither being injured by the fall. Mrs. Paul Lawrence of Big lFalls, wha was "so badly burned at that place last night and was brought to St. Anthony’s hospital in this city, died at 11 o’clock this morning from the effects of her burns. Mr. Lawrence is also suffering from severe burns about the hands and head. Erick Skogen and George Roy, the two men unknown to our Big Falls informer, ‘are also in a very serious condition as a result of the fire, Roy havihg dislocated his hip when he jumped from the window of the burning hotel. M. B. A There will be aregular meeting of the local lodge, M. B. A. at the LO.O. F. hall Thursday, Jan. 28 at 8 o’clock sharp. All members of Lodge No. 1523, are kindly requested to be present as there is business of im- portance. Visiting M. B. As are always welcome. Vera Cameron, Sec. C. M. Hammond, Pres. Odd Fellows Meet. Bemidji Lodge, I. O. O. F., will meet tonight in their hall. - Work in among which were two duets by examinations there. the third degree. of, Envelopes, etc. The First of February Will find a great many business and professional men out of office statiouery, viz: Letterheads, Billheads, Statements, You always use more of these toward the end of the month than you realize and then the first thing you know you are all out. Or perhaps your stationery is a trifle old, out of style and you hesitate in] the use of it because it does not conform to your ideas of twentieth century style in stationery. Look over your supply and see how you are fixed. need of something let us know over the phone, by mail, or come in person and we will fix you up in short notice. are now equipped to turn out work on short notice and give you the best that neat and artistic “'workmen are capable THE PIONEER We Are Printers of Everything. If you are in We NORMAL GOMMITTEES MAY VISIT- NORTH-TOWNS is believed that -this request will be granted and the hearing set for thought here that the senaté com- mittee will not concur in the deter- mination of the house to make a trip This Action Would Be Unfavorable Be- fore a Sixth Normal School Is Established. St. Paul, Jan. 27, 11:38 a. m.— (Special to Pioneer.)—The normal school committees of both the house and the senate will visit the different towns which are aspirants for the * | making a junketing tour and ' trying |passing a bill to establish a sixth location of the proposed sixth normal school, if the senate com- mittee will concur in the agreement reached by the house committee at a | meeting held yesterday afternoon. The meeting of the house com- mittee on normal schools was called to order at 2:30 p. m. and wrestled with the proposition to establish a site for the proposed school, some pretty “sparring”. being done. Cass Lake continues to -be deter- mined to railroad its bill through the committce and pass the same in] the house, McGarry claiming the earth and enough votes in the house to carry his bill through in spite of any other measure for the school, " There is no doubt that McGarry, ably assisted: by -members of the Duluth delegation, at first had the school cinched for- Cass. Lake but heroic work on the .part of the Bemidji delegation, aided by mem- bers of other towns, has changed the sentiment somewhat and many are of the opinion that if the Cass Lake: bill now went through-'the committee and came to a vote in the house, the measure would be defeated. Bemidji, Theif River Falls, War- ren and Park Rapids have made an amicable agreement to stick by a general bill adopted by Repre- sentative Hinds which leaves the location of the sixth normal to the state normal board. Strong objection is made to the committees of the house and senate to settle the question of a site before ichool, and strenuous work will . be done to prevent the trip for the best of reasons. to the different towns. * " As the situation now stands, Cass Lake is the sole opponent to a fair measure ofa general bill, establish- ing a school and leavmg the loca- tion to any fair -minded board, McGarry evidently believing that Cass Lake cannot get the new insti- tution except by rushing tactics. —A. G. Rutledge. Woman’s $1.75 Efforts are being made tnrllyto have Hinton, chairman of the senate commiftee, give a. public hearing |of the committee to listen to argu- | ments in favor of a general bill. It omorrow or Friday. “ Tt is genefally | Men’s $2 00 shoes, sale price........... shoes, sale price.... $l-45 - Womans$l 25 shoes, saleprice.............. .............8L10 : AI.I. BOYS' MISSES’ AND: cHll.DREN's SHOES BELTRAMI COUNTY MAY ‘GROW THE TOBACCO PLANT Soil Here Is Favorable to the Growth of Tobacco, According to the Opinion of George Welsh, State Commis- sioner of Immigration. George Welch, state commissioner of immigration, is of the - opinion that tobacco-growing could be en- gaged in with profit by the farmers of Beltrami and adjoining counties, and that a superior quality of “the weed”” can be produced on the ver- dant soil of northern Minnesota, the wonderful producing qualities of which are beginqinz to receive acknowledgement as in front ranks of agricultural lands. Mr. Welch has prepared a letter | giving the results obtained by Eber- hard Heibel, a farmer living at Clear Lake, Minn., whose land is in nature very similar to that of Beltrami county. Mr." Welch’s statemenr, in part, is as follows: “Eberhard Heibel, a prominent farmer of Clear Lake, Minnesota, has been experimenting the last two years with the cultivation of tobacco. He has procured the service of an expert tobacco grower, Mr. Theodore Hegland, of Madison, Wis. The past season he has grown a crop of twelve acres. The results obtained are promising for the future. Mr. Hegland who stayed around Madison for some time this fall, took a sample of this tobacco along, and everybody who inspected it thought it was better than the type grown in the state of Wisconsin.” “The soil, upon which Mr. Heibel is ‘growing his tobacco, being of average soil in that vicinity, isa| very rich, sandy loam,and ' consists| according to the writer’s judgment, of about 75 per cent sand, the rest being silt and clay. “The’ tobacco was sown about April 15th. The first was trans- planted June 16th, and the last July 8th. It was harvested between the first and ‘the 20th of September. The curing shed is 28x200 feet, and built at a nominal cost. dts capa- city is about 15 acres. Men’s shoes, sale price.. price = a2 Men’s - Men’s $1. $l 50 Woman’s $5.00 shoes Woman'’s $3.00 shoes oaiy.Pe $3.95 &k $2.59 Woman’s $4,00shoes = Woman's $2,560 shoes sale price sale price 1 95 ; only ...l.l.. $3 15 only ... $ = Woman’s $3 50 shoes W?man s $2.00 shoes only.>c $2.85 Gy P . $L.76 ON SPEOIAL SALE Men'’s $3.50 shoes. $3 00 shoes, $2.50 shoes. sale price...... Woman’s $1.60 shoes, sale pric.... 3 P “The seed was sown in what is called a cold bed, but it was found advisable to prepare the ground as for a hotbed in this state. The covering being of cheese cloth, glass not being necessary. The plants were transplanted by machine. “A sample of this tobacco was sent to the Wisconsin Experiment Station for examination, and the fol- lowing is the report received from Prof. E. P. Sandsten, who has charge of the tobacco investigation of that station. *‘Mr. Edward -Heibel, Clear Lake, Mion. “‘My dear sirr—VYour letter of recent date was duly received. Ialso received the sample of tobacco that you sent. I have examined the sample andam really surprised at the quality of the tobacco. While I previously know that tobaccp could be grown in” Minnesota, as I had some ex- perience with it myself at St. Anth- ony Park, I was npevertheless much surprised at the quality of the sample. There is no reason why this® should not make a good binder if properly handled. It seems tobe cured all right. < * ‘Of course it is too earlyto say how this tobacco will sweat-out, and what flavor and burning quality it has. This can be told after it has gone ' through sweating and fermen- tation. If you do not sell your crop, I think it would be a wise plan for you to retain a case of tobacco for at least a year in a moderately dry place. This tobacco in the box should be_ packed quite tight with the butts towards the side, and ‘should hold 300 or 400 pounds. This shoul left to stand for about-a year, wher” you can tell what the burning quality is. - The - quality of tobacco - sent is the ‘same as ‘we are. Mr. Calkins : growing in this state. got his seed from us. To me the tobacco looks very favorable, and I have no doubt but what you should make a success of tobacco growing in your state. It is very important though that the farmer shouuld start right, as failure in the beginning is very apt toupset the [Continued on Last Page] , = SHOE SPECIALS Our great Mid-Winter Sale includes Shoes. - Now is the time to stock up on spring footwear. $6.00. and $6.50 > $4.95 S.?'f.$2.00 50 shoes. $l.25 $1.25 ‘MINNYESOTA | HlSTfiR!fiALi ‘ & SOCIETY. § 3