Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 18, 1909, Page 1

THE BEMIDJ1I D VOLUME 6. NUMBER 259. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1909. “B0Y BLUE” TOMORROW NIGNTAT CGITY HALL Excellent Program of Local Talent Is Prepared.—Many Little Actors Appeared Before. The pupils of the public schools of this city have completed preparation for the presentatibn Friday evening of this week of a three-act operetta entitled “Boy Blue” at the City Opera House under the experienced direction of Miss Hanson, the local instructor-in music. The teachers and pupils of the local schools are sadly in the need of another piano, as the one which is now in the high school room is in use most of the time and one is needed for the rooms on the first floor of the building. It is with the intention of supplying this deficit that “Boy Blue” will be presented to the Bemidji public. “Boy Blue” is a very attractive operetta and will be presented by the children of the lower grades, many of whom have played their parts excellently before the local public on former occassions. The program for the evening consists of two songs by the High School Girl’s IOther Boys and Girls...Companions of Molly and Boy Blue. Miss Hanson has announced that the price of admission will be 25c for adults, with an additional charge of 10 cents for reserving the seats, instead of 35 and 50 cents as stated in the Pioneer Tuesday evening. Children will be charged 15 cents. Tickets are on sale at the City Drug store, where the ordinary tickets may be exchanged for reserved ones. There will doubtless be a large audi- ence present Friday evening as Be- midji people are fond of seeing the little children in dramatic work. The curtain raises at 8:45 o’clock sharp. PRESENTED MRS. ATWOOD WITH FINE GOLD WATCH Rebekahs Show Their Appreciation and Esteem of the Captain of Their Degree Team. The Bemidji Lodge of Rebekahs held a regular meeting last evening and during the social session which followed the disposal of their busi- ness, a handsome gold watch was presented to Mrs. C. L. Atwood, captain of the local degree team, by Glee Club, which has been greatly developed by the efforts of Miss Hanson, a song by a mixed double quartet and “Boy Blue” in three acts. The program for Friday night is as follows: “Row Us Swiftly”.. Glee Club. “Revel of the Leaves”......... Veazie Misses Wightman, ° Hanson, Haldeman and Alley, Messrs. Lucas, Campen, Jerrard and Thornton. “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” oiiviiiriniiiiiiniin Vogrich Glee Club. “BOY BLUE” Act I. Meadow. Time, Noon. Act II. Meadow. Midnight of Same Day. Act III. Meadow. Noon Next Day. Cast of Characters. Boy Blue. ....Clara Decaire Molly...., Dorothy Torrance Katy-She-Didn’t.......Essie Brannon Katy-She-Did.........Bertha Decaire Frogs...... Ralph Johnson, Chester Otto, Clande Bailey, Harvey Lord the members of the Rebzkah organi- zation as a token of their esteem and appreciation of her excellent work ascaptain. The watch wasengraved upon the back with the three links and Mrs. Atwood’s initials. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russell of this city, who were recently mar- ried, were presented with a set of dishes by the members of the 0dd Fellows lodge. The local lodge of Rebekahs have the reputation of being a well- drilled team, owing to Mrs. At- wood’s effecient efforts, and it is the intention to send the degree team to the state assembly in St. Paul next June. To Be Dressed in Costumes at Sale. The ladies of the Methodist church, dressed according to the custom during Washington’s time, will hold a Washington’s+ Birthday sale Saturday evening, February 20th and will also serve a New England supper in the City Restaurant build- ing next to Luken’s store. The lad- ies will have a large assortment of Elves .. Ten Girls Fireflie: .Twelve Boys and Girls home-made aprons, handkerchiefs, candies, jellies and canned fruit. To examine our state- People who intrust Due their money to a bank should know some- cy, thing of its financial nexed statement speaks for itself—on its strength we solicit “The old : Reliable” WE ASK YOU | Report of the condition of The First National Bank, at Bemidjl, In the State of Minnesota, at the close of business Feb. 5, 1909. b of diti RESOURCES. ment o s Loans and Discounts. . 2151245 - condition Overdrafts, secured ani 430,83 U. 8. Bonds to secure circulatio 25.000.00 Bonds, securities, etc. 5581105 Banking house, furnits tures .. Due from National Bank: (not reserve agents) ..... from approved re- serve agents. Exchanges an P Fractional paper curren- Lawful Money Reserve in lel k, Specle Legai-tender notes Redemption fund with U. S. Treas- urer (5 per cent of circulation). 1,250.00 Total - - $40,655.80 strength. The an- LIABILITIES Capltal stock paid in. -« §50.000,00 Surplus fan Undivided 5.410.00 8 Gashler's . check: your busiuess- prey 736.98 354,305.85 Total - - $406%.89 STA! T County of Beltraml. L R. H. Schumaker, Cashier of the above- named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement 13 true to the best of my knowledge Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of Feb, 1909, [Seal] My commission expires Aug. 21, 1915, . The First National Bank of Bemidji No. 5582, for ' clearing nickels, and cents.... i, 1013218 11,999,56 138,855.22 T OF MINNESOTA, |4, and bellef. H. SOHUMAKER, Cashier. H, J. Loun, Notary Public, Beltrami Co.. Minn. CORRECT—A ttest: F. W.A. GouLp. A -his way to Hibbing and other towns BILLIARD EXPERT GIVES EXHIBITION TONIGNT George E. Spears, World’s Greatest Exhibition Billinrdjs(, Will Appear at Gillette’s Parlors. George E. Spears, of St. Paul, the world’s greatest exhibition billardist, will give a public demonstration of handling the cue at Gillette’s Billiard Parlorsin this city this evening. Mr. Spears has been touring through Idaho, Montanaand North Dakota and is now in this city on along the iron range before return- ing to his home in the state capital. This expert billiardist offers odds of 100 points or no count to any man in America, barring none, and has an open challenge to play any | billiardist in the world at a 14 or 18 inch balk line. 5 Attorney G. M. Torrance, the recognized leading cue expert of Bemidji, will compete with Mr. Spears this evening, the latter be- ing handicapped according to his challenge, 100 points or no count. Mr. Spears will commence his exhi- bition of fancy shots at 8 o’clock this evening in Gillette’s Billiard parlors. R The Bemidji Billiard Tournament is now about half finished and the) standing of the different players is as follows: Player Played Won Lost Pctg. Wyler... 3 1 750 Markham. 3 1 750 Brooks . 2 1 667 Barker.. 1 1 - 500 Smith... 1 1 500 Crothers 1 2 333 Torrance i 3 250 Boss .. 1 3 - 250 Complete Change at Brinkman. Black &. Leslie, the comedians, who have been appearing at the! Brinkman Theater this week will be seen in an entire change of act this evening, presenting all new songs and monologues and will continue to afford the fun-loving public of Bemidji continuous amusement from the time their act starts to the tinish. The mysterious Zamloch & Com- pany will also present an entire change of program to-night present- ing many new and equally mysteri- ous tricks, which will be even better than before, if such a thing is possi- ble. Mr. Zamloch and his canaries, with which he performs, are sure to prove as interesting as all his other features while the *“Demon Bottle” certainly is a mystery of the first water. The management’ of the popular place of amusement are plainly shown, by the attractions they are placing before the public, their earnest effort to procure the very best obtainable. Owing to the extra heavy expen- ses Manager Brinkman announces that the price of admission will be 10 and 20 cents. District Court Matters. Judge C. W. Stanton of this city has announced that George P. Wattson of Granfalls, a village near Big Falls, has been appointed by the judges of the Fifteenth Judicial district to the office of court com- missioner of Koochiching county. This office was vacated by the resignation of Charles D. Taylor who was elected last November. Judge McClenahan of Brainerd will go to Duluth next week to attend to the duties in the district of Judge Cant, who is presiding over the Riddell-Riley election con- test case at Grand Rapids. This case has been on trial for two months and was recently adjourned until February 23rd, when it will be taken up again and will probably last from four tosix weeks longer. Cars Off the Track. Number 45, the Brainerd-Bemidji M. & I. freigth train, arrived in the city yesterday morning fourteen hours late, the delay being caused by three cars running off the track at the crossing of the M. & I. and the Great Northern tracks near Walker. The train was supposed to 1each Be- nllidji at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening. OPPOSE PUBLIG UTILITIES BLL Many Speakers Stala Views on the Measure. KNOCKS OUT HOME - RULE Main Argument Advanced by the Op- ponents of the Measuce Before Committee on General Legislation. Permanent Text Book Commission Created in a Bill Introduced by J. A. Gates of Kenyon. St. Paul, Feb. 17.—Opponents of the public utilities bill in the house gave some of their arguments against the bill before the committee on gen- eral legislation. The number of peo- ple present at the hearing was so large that they had to take the house chamber for the committee meeting. The principal argument against the bill was that it destroyed home rule. The bill is the one introduced by Carl Wallace of Minneapolis, W. H. Putnam of Ied Wing and J. H. Dor- sey of Glencoe, the committee which visited Wisconsin and inquired about the workings of the public’ utilitles law there. Some of the speakers in arguing against the bill said that the railroad commission, elected only to supervise the rallroads, knew nothing ahout other public utilities, could’ not under- stand the problems the cities have been struggling with for years, and are not experts in this line. This brought from Mr. Dorsey the state- ment that although he was a Demo- erat he would not be influenced by any slurs upon the railroad commis- sion. The commissioner had been elected by the people, and the people know something about what they are doing. James Manahan, who had sat silent until this, came to his feet with an impassionate reply, in which he charged the railroad commission with being unable to do its present work. Says Bill Is Experimental., ; J. M Bennet of. Minneapolis said that the bill was experimental, out of harmony with the principles of our gcvernment, never submitted to the! people or discussed in sny:campaign, that it violates every principle of home rule and self-government and that it was impractical because ;th& commis- slon knows nothing of local conditions in the towns. J. C. Michael, corporation attorney of St. Paul, thought it might be all right to place telephones under the railroad commission because they cov- ered more than local territory but the other plants ought to be left to the lo- cal authorities. Other speakers were Alderman Platt Walker of Minneap- clis and Vice President Grimsrud of the Minneapolis Wholesalers’ associa- tion, A second hearing will be given next Wednesday on the bill when the au- thors of the bill will present their ar- guments for it. A permanent text book commission is created in a bill introduced by J. A. Gates of Kenyon. The president of the state university, the superin- tendent of public instruction, the sec- retary of state, the state auditor and the state treasurer constitute the com- mission. This board is to Treceive bids for supplying printed books for the schools and may also receive of- fers of manuscript and offers to com- plle a series of books. The bill names the meaximum prices which may be charged for books, which run from 10 cents for first readers to 80 cents for geographies. 3 Batch of Bills Small. The batch of bills offered was small. One by A. K. Ware of Northfield pro- viding five members of the board of control instead of three and specify- ing that not more than three shall be of the same political party was per- haps the most notable. . A fourth judge is provided in the Fleventh district in a bill presented by C. A. Congdon for the St. Louis county delegation. Elmer Adams of Fergus Falls intro- duced the bill agreed upon by the temperance forces after the defeat of county option, which prohibits county boards from issuing any licenses. This would” do away with licensed saloons outside of city or village limits, The house in committee of the whole recoramended for passage the Adams bill requiring a license for the sale of liquor on railroad cars. The license fee is $50. The Nimocks bill requiring candi- dates for non-salaried offices to pay a fee for filing just as other candi- dates do was also recommended for passage. An involved bill of many sections relating to industrial insurance was,| introduced in the senate by J. F. Mc- Gowan of Minneapolis. His first bill gave permission to_large corporations and firms to organize insurance com- panies for insurance’ of employes: agalnst accidents. This bill relates to smaller institutions and the state itself. The bill gives the cholce of four ways in which insurance compa- nies may be organized to insure work- men. 2 One of: the provisions allows the state insurance department to go into the insurance business and receive premiums ané pay. iosses to members of corporations' or. to employes of the state or cities and countles. INJURED AT FOWLDS; DIED FROM TETANUS Frank O'Nejl ‘of This City Died Tues- day; Funeral at Catholic Church Tomorrow Morning. Frank O’Neil of this city, who recently had his foot amputated below the knee, died Tuesday after- noon of tetanus which manifested itself a few days ago. Mr. t7Neil was employed on the Crookston Lumber company’s steam decker for loading logs near Fowlds and had his foot crushed by a heavy chain on February 2nd. He was brought to the St. Anthony’s- hospi- tal in this city and his foot dressed. On the 5th, inst., it was found neces- sary to amputate the injured leg just below the knee. the operation tetanus was manifested and the patient, weakened by his injury, was unable to withstand the disease, dying Tuesday. It is understood that tetanus was caused by germs contained in Mr. O’Neil’s sock at the time his foot was crushed. The sock driven into the foot and the blood took up the tetanic germ which was carried into other parts of the body before the leg wasampu- tated. Mr. O’Neil is survived only by a wife, there being ne children by their marriage. * Mrs. O’Neil’s father and brother are now in this city. J. P. Lahr, the undertaker, has charge of the funeral which will be Neld tomorrrw morning at 9 o’clock from the *Catholic, church Father O’Dwyer- conducting the services. Interment will be held in Greenwood cemetery. Nine days after Card of Thanks. We take this means of extending our heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends in and near Becida who so kindly assisted us in the sad death of mother and sister. Their sympathy and generous help will ever be most highly prized and ever remembered. May God bless them one and all. —Oscar Lund —]Jennie Hillstead —Helen Hillstead —C. N. Johnson. Local Couple Married. Gustaf Stahl of Kelliher was mar- ried at the Methodist parsonage in this city Mon_day to. Miss Mabel Runyan of Bemidji, Reverend J. H. Deniston performing the ceremony. The young couple left on the even- ing train for Kelliher to commence house-keeping at once on Mr. Stahl’s farm near that village. Pinehurst Club. The Pinehurst Club of the Pythian Sisters will meet at the home of Mrs. J. J. Opsahl at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon. All members are request- ed to be present. —Mrs. A. E. Harris, Secretary. Joe Markham Resigned. - Deputy Sheriff Joe Markham has handed in his resignation to Sheriff Hazento take effect March 1st. “Joe” expects to accept a much better proposition in the near future. THORPE AND CARPENTER MAY HAVE ANOTHER RACE Crookston Man Believes Thorpe Should Have Another Chance on Account of Accident. . A. L. Wyler, manager of the Coli- seum skating rink in this. city, has received a letter from C. D." Billings of Crookston, in which the latter suggests that there should be an- other race skated between Al Thorpe, the Fargo skater, ahd Harry Carpenter, the Crookston ‘‘crack,” because of the unsatisfactory ending of the third and deciding race be. tween the two skatérs which was held at Crookston last week. § In last week's race, SOCIETY. FORTY CENTS i’EB. MONTH l easily won, because of the fact that one of Thorpe’s skates broke, at the end of the first- mile, throwing Thorpe so heavily that he was in- jured and rendered unable to finish the contest. As each of the skaters bad won a previous race from the other, the Crookston race decided the series. Y E There is a general demand for another . race betweenh Thorpe and Carpenter, and an effort will be ‘made to have the boys skate another race in this city. Many believe that Thorpe -is Carpenter’s superior, when luck breaks even. Thorpe was leading Carpenter by about twenty-five feet when his skate broke at Crookston, and- his supporters are positive that he would have won the race but for the accident. Manager Wyler is- writing to Mr. Billings suggesting a race in Bemidji, and it is likely that Thorpe and Carpenter will ‘get together again. APPEALS FOR AID FOR SETTLERS’ GHILDREN Miss Anna E. Shelland Asks Legislflive Aid for Educating Children of Re- mote Settlers. A recent issue of the Duluth News-Tribune contains the followir g article of interest to people in our neighboring county on the north: St. Paul, Minn, Feb. 15.—Anna E. Shelland of International Falls, superintendent of schools of Koochi- ching couuty, appeared before State Supt. Schultz today to appeal for legislative aid for the children of settlers . in - that™ .county, who are bereft _of school facilities. Com- plaints had already reached the de- partment that in one section children of the settlers were unable to secure school facilities. Miss Shelland explained that there are about: sixty children scattered through unorganized town- ships in Koochiching county, that cannot go to school, because there are not sufficient funds available. The county board levied a tax to care for such children, but it did not furnish enough money and the schools had to bé abandoned. Miss Shelland suggested;: and the. state superintendent\ approved the idea, that the legislature cught to be asked. to appropriate about $25,000 to provide education for the children of the settlers, who must stay upon their homesteads in order to get title from the gov- ernment, but who are so isolated that the ordinary school arrange- ments will not reach them. WILL BE FINEST BALL EVER GIVEN IN BEMIDJI Company K’s Second Annual Ball on Washington’s Birthday Will Be Un- ~ doubtedly Brilliant. The members of Company K, Be- midji’s quota of the national guard, are making gala preparations for their second annual military ball which. will be held next Monday evening in the city hall, and which without doubt will be the finest agair of its kind ever given in Be- midji. Captain Otto an(Lieuten- ants Hillaby and Kelley, together with the remaining members of the company, have been working hard to insure the success of the occasion and 'their efforts are becom- ing apparent. Beautiful - invitations have been issued on the cover of which are 'splendid pictures of Washington, on the night of whose birthday the ball isto be given. An orchestra of six pieces has been obtained .for the occasion "and good music will certainly not be lacking. C. C. Collins, the decorator for O’Leary & Bowser’s store has charge of the decoration of “the City Hall. He has been busy for weeks prepar- ing flags, shields, streamers and re- volving lights to present an artistic picture to the eyes of the dancers. The following committees have been appointed to take charge of the - different departments of the work in preparation of the ball: .Executive Committee—Captain A. E. Otto, chairmap, First’ Lieutenant John Hillaby and Second Lieutenant Kenneth H, Kelley. Printing Committee—Sergt. J. M. ‘Markham, -chairman, Privates J. E. Carson, Fred Newton, John Fleming and S.-A. Cutter. Decorating committee—Private Burnhart Erickson, chairman, and Privates Levi King, Edward Mullen, L. Snelling, V. Kackelhoffer, Alex Doran and Del. Burgess. Music committee—First Sergt. H. F. Geil, chairman, and Privates Huffman,:S. T. Stewart and Clio Boyer. Floor and reception committee— Sergt. Geo. T. Baker, chairman, and Privates L. Lloyd, V. Kachelhoffer, S. T. Stewart, Ralph Lycan, Carl Mitchell, L. King, B. Erickson and Edward Mullen. Bruised His Fool. August. Kuehne, who works at Fowlds for the Crookston Lumber company, had his foot crushed by a log yesterday and was brought to the St. Anthony’s hospital where he is being given surgical attention. - Norway fi“ est autumn caught oil. in half pound cans. say the same. We also have BONELESS CODFISH put up in glass, Jars, and you get nothing but selected fish. Don’t forget to include a jar in your next order. In. CANNED SALMON we have the Blood Red, and the Sockeye; and the Pink, in one pound and | To those that like HERRING we want to say that we just got in genuine Three K Norway Herring— the best we ever had, and if you like herring you will “Yours very truly, ROE & MARKUSEN, Roe & Markusen’s Editorial Lent is near—commencing the twenty-fourth of this month—and we want the people to know about a few things that we have in the fish line. * We just got in a shipment of the finest Sardines that ever come to to this city; packed by Concord Can- ning Co., Stavanger Norway, and they guarantee that these Sardines are packed from the fish, and in pure oliveb RN