Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 2, 1909, Page 1

' THE BE VOLUME 6. NUMBER 269. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESD. Historical Society. LY PIONEER. Y EVENING, MARCII 2, 1009. T MINNES BISTBRICAL SOCIETY, v s FORTY CENTS PER MONTH SENSATIONAL ACTS ARE AT BRINKMAN THEATER Two Excellant Vaudeville Companies Combined Offer Excellent Enter- tainment to Patrons. ‘“The Adventuress” is the title of the headline act at the Brinkman theater, and last night proved to be the big drawing card. The theater was crowded and when the act was presented it furnished a sensation, and hearty applause testitied to the R. E. HILLIARD. merits of the excellent acting, both on the part of Russell Hilliard and Miss Phillips. It is doubtful if ever a better performance has been put on in this city. In addition to the above, the Spaulding brothers are included in this week’s program. These gentle- men need no introduction nor special advertising as they are well known here having become popular with the theater-goers of this city during a week’s engagement at the Brink- man theater last June, and it is by special request that they have been re-engaged. The Hilliard-Phillips’ company and the Spaulding Bros., combined, afford the best vaudeville entertain- mentever given in the northwest, and should be greeted by a crowded e MIGNON PHILLIPS. house in appreciation of Manager Brinkman’s efforts to give his patrons the very best, District Court. Rasmuss Orheim, a settler who lives in the vicinity of Orheim post- office, fifty-five miles east of Thief River Falls, and who was indicted last week by the grand jury, was arraigned yesterday afternoon before Judge Stanton in the chambers of the district court on a charge of maiming a companion. Attorney G. M. Torrance appear- ed on behalf of the defendent and County Attorney McKusick for the state. The case was continued until the September term of the district court because two material witnesses in the case, Mrs. Orheim and a young lady, are in poor health and are unable to make the fifty-five mile trip from Orheim to the railroad at Thief River Falls during the winter months. Orheim was given his free- dom upon furnishing $1,000 bonds. The taking of testimony in the case of Nangle vs. Godbout occupied the greater part of yesterday after- noon and this morning and bas been completed. Arguments were heard in this case by the court this after- noon. American and suit you. The Chicago Restaurant Chinese Style. Every order given our careful attention and cooked to Give us a trial. LEE & GOM Merchants Hotel Block . . ..... Edit [It is our aim to tell the of groceries and the quall nice line of fruit, such as: selling them for 45c¢. better on the market. butter in the city, and we none other. PHONE 206 Roe & Markusen’s the columns of this paper, what we have in the line This week we want to tell you that we have a very Strawbsrries, Raspberries, Plums, Pineapple put up in glass jars by Dunkley, Kalamazoo, Mich., sold all over in the cities fox 50c a can, we are Just a few words about our butter. orial people of Bemidji, through ity of them.] And then we have cranberry sauce and cherry pre- serves, put up by the Beechnut Packing Co. Nothing We have the best can prove it. Our PRE= MIUM BRAND CREAMERY BUTTER has no equal, put up in prints and full pounds. Last year we sold 12000 pounds, and that is proof enough that our trade likes it. Insist on getting the “Premium” and Mrs. Kaiser’s Peannt butter on sale at our store. Yours very truly, ROE & MARKUSEN, The Reliable Grocers. BEMIDJI, MINN. PHONE 207 St. Paul, March 2.—2 p. m.— (Special to Daily Pioneer.)—Honors are even between the representatives of the Cass Lake bill to establish a normal school at that place, and the advocates of the Hinds “general bill,” establishing the school and Jeaving the location to the members of the state normal board, the fight was waged on the floor of the house this forenoon resulting in the Cass Lake bill being placed ‘on general orders and the “general bill” being recommended for passage. When the order of minority report of McGarry was reached, the motion to place the report on general orders was adopted by a vote of 60 to 57, McGarry’s and Gunn’s boasted strength of 90 votes for their measure having dwindled by one- third. IS Who Fought Valiantly for the “General” Bill. . Immediately on adoption of theMc- Garry motion to place the Cass Lake bill on general ordgrét, Representa- tive Opsahl moved that the “general bill” be recommended for passage, which was adopted, By a vote of 62 to 54, the Cass Lake measure lésing seyeral of its old sl.\pi::orters. The trial of strength is taken by the sui)porters of lhe" "f‘zenergl bill” MUGH INTEREST SHOWN- AT FIREMEN'S- MEETING Albert Halvorson Returns from Gather- ing of Tournament Promoters Held at Crookston Yesterday. Much enthusiasm was manifested at the meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Northwestern Fire- men’s Tournament association, which was held at Crookston last evening, according to Albert Hal- vorson, secretary of the Bemidji Fire Department, who attended the meeting as a delegate from the Bemidji department. Delegates were present from Crookston, Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls and Hallock, and the delegations from Warren, Ada and Bagley sent word that they could not- attend but would participate later. It was decided to hold the annual tournament and business meeting at Crookston, some time during the month of July, the exact dates to be selected by the members of the Crookston department, who will have charge of the tourney and meet. An agreement was made at the meeting whereby several of the rules of the association were changed very materially. The distance to be run in the hub- and-hub hose race was changed from 200 yards, the former distance, to 150 yards, it being the unanimous opinion that the shorter distance would give much better satisfac- tion. 3 The ladder climbing contest was changed so that under the new arrangements the climber will be required to touch the first and last rungs of the ladder. This rule pre- vailed in 1907, but was changed, and it was thought best to go back to the old rule, which will do away with many disputes. Another rule which was adopted, and which will have much to do with bringing off events with much more regularity, and do away with un- necessary delays at tournaments, re- quires teams participating in races to be on the starting line, ready for the starter’s signal, not later than ten minutes after the race has been called. Failure to comply with this requirement will subject the offend- through the Crookston city hall, where the firemen have elegant quarters. i It is hardly . likely that the Be- midji department will send a run- ning team to participate in the tournament, bt the “lacal firemen| will undoubtedly continue to ‘hold their membership in the associatiqn. Sunday School Meeting. The Beltrami County Sunday school associationt will hold its first convention in the' First Presbyterian - church of. Bemidji, Thursday, Friday, March 11th and 12th. Each Sunday school .in the county is invited to.'send ‘one or more delegates.- - A. M. Locker of St. Paul and John Orchard of Fargo, N. Dak., both Sunday school experts; will be present. No Sunday. school workers in the county can afford to miss this convention. SAM SUTOR IS BETTING - EVEN WITH: “‘JOBBERS” annual Cass Lake Hotel ‘Man Was the Victim of a Fake Horse ' Race, to the Tune of $5,000. A special telegram from St. Paal to the Duluth News-Tribune says: “‘St. Paul, Feb. 28.—Samuel Sutor, of Cass Lake, Minn., who was one of those recently swindled by the gang recently- exposed at Little Rock, Ark., passed through St. Paul this evening on his way tp Council Bluffs, where he will appear, against J. C. Maybray and others who are charged by the government vflith perpetrating the gigantic swindle, Sutor says he lost $5,000 on a fake| horse race at Council Bluffs more than a year ago.” Rumor has it tHat Sutor, who is 4 prominent hote] man at Cass Lake, was “taken irf” to the amount of not less than $5,000 by the “sharks” who havebeen “getting” nearly every sportitg man of pro- minence in’the couniry. t in limbo; and he will undoubtedly derive consid- to how they got thereby assist in- s{nding the *‘con- ners” to the penitentiary. Sutor is “well kndwn in Bemi be ‘able ndt only td assist in send- ing department to a fine of $5. At the conclusion of the meeting were treated toa banquet at the Grill restaurant and were also shown at Crookston, the visiting delegates'| and it is hoped h;nr that he will ing the swindlers to jail, ‘but that he will: also get back some of his “GENERAL” BILL IS ON EVEN TERMS WITH CASS LAKE BILL Members Discharging Their Pledges to McGarry and Some of them Are Changing to Support of the Hinds “General” Normal School Bill. as a good omen for the passage of that measure, After the vote on the McGarry resolution, several members who had pledged themselves to McGarry and Gunn, earlier in the session, volun- tarily came to the supporters of the general bill and unhesitatingly stated they would now support the “gen- eral” bill; and it is believed that within the next two days Cass Lake will have lost out on her proposition to “hog”the school for that place. It was annouanced that the fight in the senate on the Cass Lake and Be- midji bills would be again taken up at 3 .o’clock this afternoon, when it was expected that another close vote would be recorded, and it was possible that the “general bill” would be brought out as substitution for both. SENATOR HANSON WANTS BANK DEPOSIT GUARANTY Upper House Representative for This * District. Infroduced His Banking Bill Yesterday Morning. — St. Paul, Minn.,, March 1.—A state bank deposit guaranty plan is provided in a.bill offered in the senate yesterday morning by Senator A. L. Hanson of Ada. Bauks are divided into classes, A and B, the the latter in cities over 50,000. Deposits are limited to ten times the the capital and surplus in Class A, and eight times in Class B.' Class Class A banks are to pay into the guaranty fund one-tenth oflper cent, and Class B one-fifth of 1 ber-cent, and out of that fund depositors in failed bauks are to be reimbursed. Dan Rose, pulp man and general north-country representative of the Watab Paper company, passed through the city this morning on his way from Northome to the com- pany’s head offices near St. Cloud. former in cities under 50,000 and| Meeting of Priests. An important meeting of a few of the Catholic priests in this section of the country was held in this city yesterday and much business in regard to the affairs of the church was transacted. The following churchmen attended the meeting: Fathers O’Dwyer of Bemidji, Hogan of Virginia, Floyd of Eveleth, Walsh of Fosston, and Kileen of Fveleth, They returned to their homes today. Have a Little Daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Miller of this city are the proud parents of a 9-pound baby girl which was born Saturday night. Both mother and baby are doing nicely and “Hank” is “grinning all over himself.” DEGLAMATORY GONTEST WILL BE HELD FRIDAY Winners of First Place Will Participate Against Contestants of Schools from Other Towns. A preliminary declamatory contest will be held Friday evening of this week at the City Opera House to" determine what students shall represent Bemidji in the annual declamatory . contest between the high schools of Akeley, Eagle Bend, Cass Lake, Park Rapids, Grand Rapids and Bemidji. The contest this year will be held at Park Rapids, and the first place was awarded to Grand Rapids, as that school took the two second standings. Park Rapids won first place in the serious and Cass Lake was first in the humorous at that time. : X | __Bemidji has several candidates of rare ability and will undoubtedly make an excellent showing at Grand Rapids. s M. A. Spooner has been named by Professor Ritchie as one of the judges of the contest Friday evening. Those who will participate in the preliminary contest Friday evening are given below, together with their selections: 2 Humorous— *“Our Guide in Vienna and Rome” —Emil Engels. “Aunty Doleful’s Visit”—Olive Cunningham. “Jimmy Brown’s Steamer Chair”— James Knox. Serious— “King Robert of Sicily”—Ethel Knox. g “Andreas Holfer’s Arms”—Elmer Hilliard, ‘““The Launching of the Ship”— Clare Fisk. Appeal to Additional local matter will be found NEW MEMBERS COUNGIL TOOK SEATS LAST NIGHT City Employes Named for Ensuing Year.—Mayor Did Not Make His Appointments. The first meeting of the newly- elected members of the city council, together with the old members who hold over, was held at the city hall last evening, and the meeting was surcharged with more than ordinary interest. The council was presided over by George Kirk, alderman-at-large, who showed during the evening that he would rule very strictly in his presi- dency of the aldermen. One of the most important actions of the meeting was the selecting of the city employes who are named by the members of the council. Alderman George Rhea was elected vice president; ‘John F. Gibbons was re-elected city attorney; William McCuaig, -clerk of - the water board; James R. Miller'was re-elected street commissioner and superintendent of waterworks; J. McElroy, janitor city hall and engi- neer; W. A. Walker, assistant jani- tor; M. D.- Stoner, city engineer; William Pickles, city pohndmaster. The matter of appointing a city physician was laid over until next meeting. 3 A batch of bills were allowed, including the city pay roll for Feb- ruary, $758. The bonds of city officers were filed and accepted, as follows: City Clerk Malloy. $2,500, with A. Klein and Matt Mayer as sureties; City Assessor Cahill, $1,000, with surety, laid on table temporarily; motion overruled and bond accepted. The licence of the Empire Em- ployment company was._ transferred fronr the members of that company to A. A. Carter, the latter present- ing an affidavit that he had pur- chased the business. Report-of municipal court, show- ing $54.10 paid, was accepted. 5 The liquor license _application of Jobnson & Lindberg was - accepted. Street Commissioner Miller filed a report of the tools and . other property of the city, which was accepted. City Clerk Maloy arose -to a question of personal privilege and stated that the city charter provided that they pay him an adequate salary; and threatened, with accus- ing finger, to take the matter into the.courts, if necessary, for vindica- tion. (Continued tomorrow.) Meeting Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid. ‘The members of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society will meet. at the church *parlors Thursday after- noon at 2 o’clock. 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