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| LOCAL HAPPENINGS NOTICE.. 1 WANT YOUR REPAIRING THIS IS THE CHEAPEST PLACE IN THE CITY Men’s Sewed Soles, $1 Men’s Nailed Soles, 78¢ Rubber Heels that won’t slip............. 40c Repairing Done While You Wait M. NURICK 207 Beltrami Avenue, Opposite Hotel Markham PROFESSION. ..CARDS.. ARTS MISS DICKINSON ART OF PIANO PLAYING 407 BELTRARI AVE, MRS. JOHN R. STEWART Instruction on Piano, Pipe Organ and Harmony 609 Bemidji Ave. Phoue No.9 LAWYER . FRANK:. A. JACKSON LAWYER BEMIDSL - NN D. H, FISK d Counsellor at Law At o e Gver post Offca E.E McDonald Y AT LAW ;.-n%:TrE-(:R N]nl;‘o‘nm Swedback Block PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Dr. Rowland Gilmore Physician and Surgeon Office: [les DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon loek Office in Mayo g'u: phone 597 Phone 396 L. A. WARD, M. D. Phone Ne. 51 Office over First National Bank. House No. 6ot Lake Blvd. Dr. A. E. Henderson Physician and Surgeon Phone No. 351 Valentine post cards at the Pioneer office. ; When you are in need of tea or coffee do not forget the Bemidji Tea Store, Phone 423, Birch wood, jack pine and tamarac, four foot and sixteen inch: Hayth wood yard, rear of P. O. block. C. Storholm of Fosston arrived in the city yesterday noon for a short visit among the local business' men. Miss I. A. Boyle of Blackduck is visiting with friends in this city as a guest of Miss Blanche Panchot. Tke Berman Emporium have on display a complete line of oxfords in the newest makes, styles and colors. Miss L. M. Shearer returned yes- terday morning on the Sauk Center train to Park Rapids after spending a few days with friends in this city. Lawrence G. Larson of Hannah, N. D, arrived in Bemidji yesterday noon for a few days’ business visit in this section of the country. E. E. Putnam of International Falls came in last evening on the south-bound M. & I freight train for a short business visit in this city. Ask your grocer for 'Mrs. Kaiser’s peanut butter. James Collins of Osakis arrived in Bemidji early yesterday morning and spent yesterday on business in this city as a guest at the Remore hotel. E. J. Taylor of St. Thomas, N. D., was an arrival on yest_erday noon’s train and left last evening for the vorth country to look after his log- ing interests. Mrs. E. R. Martisonand Mrs. J. R. Slack returned last evening on the north-bound passenger train for their bomes in Big Falls after spend- ing two days shopping in Bemidji. Valentines and valentine cards; argest stock in town at Peterson’s. Wanted—500 cords lath bolts. Will pay $3.00 for balsam, spruce, Office over First Natlonal;Bznk, Bemidji, Mjnn Office Phone 36. Residence Phone 72 DENTISTS, DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY Dentist rst National Bank Bu 14’g. Telephone No. 230 DRAY AND TRANSFER. Wes Wright, Dray and Transfer, Phone 40. 404 Beltrami Ave. Tom Smart Dy bag Safe and Plano moving. Phone No 8™ | *'g18 America Ave. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Day phone 319. Nignt phones 115, 434 Calls Answered at All Hours for Hanging Up ings”” Moore l;ushfPins Moore Push-Tacks Moore Push-Buttons Vouveused thecelebrated MooreGlass Push.Pins e et e are Sounger genertons of the PUSH tan all =the fine quality STE! Covers the entite decorstive feld dhcrive fesnure of them For Sale at THE PIONEER OFFICE WEAVING ALL KINDS Patronize home industry. Get your old carpets made over at home factory. We call for and return work. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. E.M BRITTEN R.F. D. 1, Bemidji, Minn. Norway, white pine and jack pine lath bolts delivered at our mill. Douglass Lumber Company, Bemidji, Minn. Miss Lucile Clark, who teaches school -near 'Nebish, returned to Nebish Tuesday evening after en- joying a week’s visit with her mother, Mrs. J. R. MacDonald of this city. P. A. Gunders of St. Paul, one of the traveling men who often stop in Bemidji, spent yesterday on business in this city and left last evening on the north-bound M. & I. passenger train for International Falls. Valentine post cards at the Pio- neer office. Mr. and Mrs. William Burnette of Crookston arrived in the city yes- terday noon on the east-bound Great Northern passenger train and spent the afternoon in this city while on their way to Big Falls whére they will visit with relatives. * Dr. Monahan of Blackduck, ac- companied by Fred Forman, came in last evening on the M. & I freight train from the “Duck” for a short visit amon the local business men, They returned to the “Duck” on this morning’s Bemidji-International Falls “local” freight train. A complete line of 1909 dairies may be seen at this office. T.S. Ervin of St. Cloud, - who travels through northern Minnesota in the interests of the H. C. Ervin Milling company of St. Cloud, went to Bena yesterday noon on busi- ness for the Beltrami Elevator & Milling company of this city and returned to Bemidjion the afternoon train. A few children’s sleds at half price still left at Peterson’s. Bowling 1 have opened a first class Bowling Alley in the building formerly occupied by Klein’s moat market, and the public is cordially invited to try their Ghe PIONEER Delivered to your door every evening Only 40c¢ per Month J. P. °M|CH skill at this game. Wednesday and Saturday af- ternoons, from 2 until 6 o’clock, have been set aside for the ladies. Your patronage solicited. 318 Minn. Ave. The Continued * Story of Current Events. Home made taffy finest in the land at Peterson’s. Ask . your grocer-for Mrs. Kaiser's peanut butter. P. H. Mallett of Minneapolis came in last evening for a short visit at his old home in this city. A large shipment of new tailored and dress skirts in the 1909 models. At the Berman Emporium. Rev. S. E. P. White of this city returned on this morning’s train from Tenstrike where he has been holding Presbyterian services each week. Ed. Ebert, who travels for the Northern Grocery company of this ‘city, went to Walker on this morn- ing’s train for a day’s business visit there. Rev. Davies, of the Bemidji Epis- copal church, returned to the city on this morning’s M. & I. train from Loman where he held services yes- terday. Valentines at Peterson’s. A. K. McPherson of Walker, the north-country representative of the J. S. Pillsbury Timber company, re- turned home this morning after a brief business visit in this city. Deputy Sherif Mac Loman of Koochiching county came in yester- day morning from International Falls and left in the afternoon for Fergus Falls on official business. M. L. Griffiths of Crookston, the district manager for the Germania Life Insurance company, spent yes- terday and today doing effective work in this city for the company, Mr. Griffiths will go 'to Blackduck this evening. Joseph Bacon, who is enjoying the gift of one of “Uncle Sam’s” quarter-sections of land in the vicin- ity of Littlefork, came in this morn- ing from his homestead for a few days’ business visit in Bemidji. Otto Peterson, the local repre- sentative of the L. K. Deal Lumber company, returned to the city this morning on the M. & I. train from Mizpah and Gemmell where he spent the last two days looking over some cedar. Do it now! Select your valentine post cards from the Pioneer stock. J. D. Farrell, who travels for the Sauk Center Mercantile company, arrived in the city last evening on the Bemidji-Sauk Center Great Northern passenger train and spent today on business among the local merchants. Guy A. Aubol of Crookston, one of the deputy internal revenue in- spectors, arrived in the city last night on ‘the midnight train from the west and spent today looking over the local cigar factories and otherwise attending to his official duties. Charles Warfield, of the Beltrami Electric Light & Power company of this city, departed on the south- bound M. & 1. passenger train this morning for Minneapolis on his wav home to Princeton, Il., where he was called on'account of the serious illness of his brother, John, who is suffering with yellow jaundice. Archdeacon H. F. Parshall, of the Episcopal church, came over from his home at Cass Lake on the Great Northern freight train this morning and spent a few hours consulting with Rev. Davies of this cify. The archdeacon left on the west-bound passenger train this afternoon for Shevlin to hold ‘services there. Valentine post cards at the Pioneer office. COURT REVERSES ITSELF Upholds Ifiwa Liquor Law Once De- clared Invalid. Des Moines, Feb. 11.—Liquor so- Heitors taking orders for retail quanti- ties to be filled outside the state were barred from Iowa by the Iowa su- preme court in a decision that re- verses the former decision of the court and again puts In force. the statute which was before held to be unconstitutional. - Besldes forbidding the actual taking. of retail quantity orders in either wet or dry counties the decision’is held by Attorney General Byers to apply to the mall order business. .The case in point was that of the state of Iowa against Robert McConnaughby of. ‘Washington, Ia. He was enjoined from taking orders for a Kentucky liquor house to be filled outside of the state. The law prohibiting soliciting was passed -ten years ago and.held unconstitutional eight years ago. By. Collapse of Platform. Lorafn, O., Feb. 11.—By the col- lapse, of a platform upon which a gang of ‘men were .at work on a vessel at the plant of the American Shipbuild- ing' company here ‘three - men: were killed and five others. injured, two of ‘all import duties had been specific. "IN DEATH VALLEY REGION TAKES POISON AFTER ARREST "Woman Shoots Man Who, She Claims, Wronged Her. New. York,, Feb. 1f.—Concealing a revolver in her muff Martha Erichson walted for several hours under the New York Central railroad viadue{ and as Ernest Schwanenam, a grocer, was crossing the street fired three shots at him, inflicting dangerous and perhaps fatal wounds. The police say Miss Erichson told them Schwanenam had taken her away from her home and had refused to marry her wher .she was left without family or friends .and that she said she hoped she ha¢ killed him., On her way to the police Most Radical ls Signed by Twenty- station Miss Erichson swallowed poi nine Republican’ Members and Pro-| 5on, which had been concealed in het vides for Gomplete Change In Pres- clothing, and waf taken to the hos pital in a dying condition. ent Mode of Procedure—Other Calls e o % HAT FAGTORIES OPEN AS NONUNION SHOPS "~ ARE DIVIDED Not a Unit in Attempt to Amend House Rules. —ia TWO RESOLUTIONS APPEAR ‘Washington, Feb. 1)—An {nsurrec- tion within an ifisurrection cceurred in the house when a. resolution was introduced to change the rules of the house. Two plans were presented in two resolutions. One resolution, pro- viding for what is designed as “calen- dar Tuesday” and for the appoint- ment of committees by a committee | e=—- on rules and committees to be select- ST ed by election from geographicallyl —New York, Feb. 1:'—Sixty-five hat grouped states, was signed by twenty- factorieg _throughout the country nine members. The other resolution | which formerly employed about 25,000 Dprovided merely for “calendar Tues-|'hatmakers attempted to open as mon- day” ang w“‘ signed byi SeVen mem-| ypjon ghops. The manufacturers, after l?s;:iut‘:ono Tefused to sign the first trouble with the employes of the 2 Guyer hat factory in Philadelphia HOME RULE THE VITAL ISSUE | over & scale of wages and the use of the union label, had determined to Resolution Adopted by United" Irish discard that label and the reopening League Convention, of the factories was the test of the employers to operate their shops Dublin, Feb. 1r.—The national con- | without union men. The Hatters' un- vention of the United ‘Irish league| fon was equally determined to contest adopted the usual home rule resolu-| for the existence of the label and ta tion and declared that this question | enforce its use in the factories-if pos: must be made a vital issue at the| giple. next general election, so there could Reports which came to. Samuel be no misunderstanding on the other | Mundheim, president of the Associ side of the channel regarding what| ated Hat Manufacturers, stated that was meant. The mayor of Sligo, who |- the Yactories in Danbury and South seconded this motion, explained that | Norwalk, Conn., and Philadelphia had what was demanded was “Ireland for | been reopened as open shops, but the the Irish, with our own native gov:| action was delayed in Newark, N. J. ernment in College Green. In Brocklyn Mr. Mundheim opened his An attempt to tack on to the resolu-| own factory and reported that four tlon pledging the support of the con-| teen memr had been ‘engaged - where vention to the Trish party an amend- | formerly 350 union men were em: ment instructing the party to “oppose | ployed. None of the union men had and embarrass the Liberal govern-| applied for positions in the Mundheim ment by every means in its power,” | factory. because of Premier Asquith’s refusal to. make home rule an issue in the general election, was defeated. Apply for Work. Mrs, Eversz Secures Divorce. Chicago, Feb. 11.—Mrs. Ruth May " Swift Eversz, who was-left a fortune of $5,000,000 by her father, the late Gustavus Swift, was granted a di- vorce from her husband, Ernest H. Information Re-| Hversz, by Judge Gibbons. = The garding Tariff Duties. ::large]again‘slt Mr.‘Evel;sz was deser- Washington, Feb. 1)—The senate | {108, although incompatibility of tem adopted the resolution of Senator E:;I ?flug;:en by Mre. Eversz as the Cummins calling on the secretary of il the treasury for information .in con- nection with proposed tarift revision. The resolution asks for the.aggregate. ADOPTED BY THE SENATE Resolution Seeking Receiver for Illinois Bank. Benton, I1L, Feb. 10.—A receiver was amount received as ‘duties on imports [appointed for the Coal Belt National |+~ during the last year on articles upon;|bank. The embarrassment of the in- which specific duties are opposed and | stitution is said to date from the de- the cost to the government of making | falcation a few years ago of R. A. collections. The same information is | Youngblood, former president of the required in connection with articles|bank, who is now serving a term in on which ad valorem duties are col-|:prison for his crime. lected. It is provided also that the secretary shall state to what extent the expense of administering the tar- iff law would have been diminished if Revival of Assassinations. Calcutta, Feb. 11.—Ashutosh Bis- was, & public prosecutor, was shot dead in the court at Alipur, a suburb of Caleutta, by a- youthful Bengall. Biswas was the official who prose- cuted the recent anarchist conspiracy GLACIAL PARK IN MONTANA R case. This revival of assassination, House Committee Fayorably Reports after a period of comparative quiet, Bill-for Its"Craation. has caused a sensation. The murderer ‘Washington, Feb. 1.\—The house|was arrested. - committee on public lands has author- A e ized a favorable report on a bill creat- - s 5 ing Glacier National park in North- Chided by Wife; Ends Life. west Montana. - Watertown, 8. D., Feb. 11.—Chided The bill provides for -the setting by his wife for running in a fight H. aside of 1,300 Sguare miles of moun-|H. Schleuder, aged twenty-five years, tainous coyntry, some of it 10,000 feet |'a young: business man, of Florence, above the sea, contalning 250 lakes | took “carbolic -acid and died in six and over sixty glaclers. It is con; tended that this region-contains the only glaciers in the United States out- v side of Alaska. The claim is disputed, Don’t Try Uncertain Recipes. however, on behalf of Colorado. It i3 entirely unnecessary to experiment with this, that and the_other recipe. Why OFFICE BUILDING BURNED te time, money and patience when you can get from vour grocer, for 10- cents, a Spectacular Features Attend Rescue of Tenants, Very Few of the OId Employes|- [ y cough? Stop coughing! Coughing rasps and tears. Stop it! prepares the throat and lungs for moretrouble. Stopit! Thereis nothing so bad for a cough as coughing. Stop it! Ayer’s Cherry Pectoralis a medicine for coughs and colds, a regular doctor’s medi- cine. Use it! Askyour doctorif this is not good advice. 3:S:ArEe:: PEPPER & PATTERSON Wholesale Liquor Dealers We are in a position to supply the saloon men in Bemidji and “vicinity. We carry a full line of staples and can compete with Twin. City and Duluth houses on quality and prices of goods. We are also distributors of the famous “Cedar Brook” Whiskey. PEPPER & PATTERSON, Bemidji,. Minn. " Lumber ,and : Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and building material of all descriptions. Call in and look over our special line of fancy glass doors. We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W0OD St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. | BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence ‘part of town which will be sold on easy terms. - For fnrther particulars write or call 'Bemidii Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bo_!nlrlh. The Da.ily Pioneer ' 40c per Month package of "OUR-PIE” Preparation—Lemon, Norwich, Conn.,: Feb. 1).—Fire re- Ohocolate or Custard—for making pies that are so good that when you eat one picce you will want another? The way to please the men-folks 18 to glve them good pie, sulted in the destruction of the Shan- non building, containing offices, living apartments and stores, and the burn- ing out of the upper stories of the adjoining _ buildings. The loss s $300,000. v In the upper floors of the Shannon: building were forty offices and apart- ments and the rescue of many of the occupants was attended with spectac- ular features. Fatal Panic In Leiter Mine. Zelgler, I, Feb.' 1).—Two miners were drowned in a wild scramble for safety in the Leiter coal mine here, fourteen ‘others escaping without -in- jury. -Thé panic was caused by ‘a slight explosion in the workings, Wwhich did comparatively' little dam- age. - The sixteen men comprised the working -force and all rushed for the shaft. . Two of them fell into & water hole near the bottom of the shaft. Dollar Party of Seyen Lost Prospectors Res- b “ cued by Searchers. San Bernardino, Cal, Feb. 1\—The, Melrose party of seven persons-which 3 left Nevada recently and became lost{M in the Death valley. reglon, has been |M = The rescued by searchers, who found the | 3 lost prospectors huddled together in £ a cave in the Panamint mountains, TE L where they had taken shelter from'the : heayy showers.' y For three days'the men of the party | had been. without . food; the: scanty: supply heing sufficient ;only for the two women and children.” A short i@ .. timo before their rescue they had shot |- X “two jackrabbits. One of the children : was_ill, but was recovering despite " the unusual hardships endured. ey attribute their golng astray to the lack of desert sign posts, | | [ i The “Eagle The Best Pen is always ready for use and may be carried: in . _any positiqn‘withput da.ng«_ar of lea_,lgage . Ask for Russet Foyunt&i}r\‘ Pens at ,' Russet” Fountain[Pen Fountain Pen the Market 2 — | i | | :