Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 9, 1909, Page 1

- HISTORIGAL } SOCIETY, - FORTY CENTS PER MONTH = - = B 3 2 = T CHANGES IN M. & L. TRAINS S5::";:g:{::‘,‘zzig;it"‘i:;;M Mfli@;g;w;fi fe{w :; | Fistrses OREGON PAPER TELLS OF - pooner wil e started sawing lum: i1 3 i¥ WILL GIVE FINE SERVICE 5 oot IO WOTHILL SERAERAEAES: - 7 LAND GRANT “SCRAP” 4 < gl;;y:;l!?tl;out the mill on night and Officers’ ot Bemidii. lmp i 2 i 5 _____ THE BE " VOLUME 6. NUMBER 202. & recent meeting of the local branch of the Women’s Federation of Clubs; ent Day Train Will Only Run as Far North as Kelliher.—Night thfg“e“;;‘aPesf‘;f”‘f‘:;g‘e‘:t ho 3| Leaguie Have Callad P;fl-w Meel- il be delivered at a public meeting | ““Offers Land for the Asking, With No One to Kick You - ! i ing for April 17th. in. the city hall. These essays Train Will Be Run from St. Paul to Inter- Shevlin mills, in northern Minnesota, 4 | were unusually fine and a careful Off,” Says the Cottage Grove (0regon) G !departed last evening for Spooner to | s S 7 perusal of them will undoubtedly aid | g L der M national Falls. see that the mill was started out‘ : : Sl DromotingZithe - Work Jalone’this eader Man. 3 right. | . The natural beauties of Bemidji|jine, - The work in itself is worthy i~ The Spooner mill is the same as| ithe Crookston Lumber, company’s | mills at Crookston and Bemidji. Knute Nelson, formerly day fore- man of the Bemidji mill, is superin-| are to'be preserved and cultivated of every encouragement and no and our city made more attractive| weman or man in this city should: is summer than ever, according to | Miss this opportunity of helping to the present plans of the members of | Promote the general welfare of Be- The M. & I. railway company, m'fur the south, reaching \/Imneapuhs conjunction with the N. P. railway | at 6:50 and St. Paul at 7:25 Lhe company, has issued the time card| followmz morning. The many people in this section| “An interesting state of affairs who have made application to the |has developed as a result of the re- California & Oregon Railway com-|cent Oregon & California land grant and schedule for the new night tram The train going north will leave | endent of the Spooner mill. ‘Vthe Bemidji Improvement L 1e, "“’\;Jl e pany to purchase land in their land | forfeiture suit that was submitted to which will be run over the N.P.|S 6:3 ., daily, except| When asked as to the timber sup-1 composed of most of the ladies of | et ,;:- eFJ" fir b “f flf egue grant for $2.50 per acre and are in- | Judge Wolverton in the local federal and M. & T from the twin cities to|Sunday, arriving at Bemidji at 3:40 | p1y a¢ Spoorer; M. e “They| the city. | a very efiicient corps of officers, |t regied in‘the suit now pending in|court last week, says the Portland of whom have had expenence ass of work-in other cities. S are: Mrs. Neal, presi-| A, P. White, vice “presi- J.-M. Richards, secretary; | International Falls, beginning Tues-|{a. m. and leaving for International | say there is enough r there for| The officers of the - lzague day, April 20. In conjunction with|Falls at 3:45,:arriving at the boundry | | sixteen years’ sav |called 2 mals meeting of the schedule and time card, the com- | town at 7:45 the followirg morning. | S | citizens inter i pany gives out information to G. A.|Sleepers will be attached to bot# of | Alex. Cardle of St Paul, general! natu Walker, the Tocal agent of the M. &|the night trains and reservations for!agent for the Cor ated In:u | the United States court to force, the | Telegram, ! company to sell the lands at that *‘Analysis of the situation incident price *in accordance with the orig-|to arguments on the demurrer of inal agreement with the government, | the Harriman system to the govern- i !'will be interested in the following, | ment’s bill of complaint indicates 1, to the effect that there will be a‘ towns north of Bemidji will be made | ance company, and W. H. Z and Mrs. W. N. Bowser, treasurer. taken from the columns of the Cot- | that 2,300,000 acres of the domain radncax change in the operation of‘ sy the agent at International Falli; ’1ep|esent’v ve - of | O s e { tage Grove (Oregon) Leader, which |of Oregon, valuable chiefly for agri- the present daily train which is being | and reservations for Bemidji and! Inmrarce company, camé to the city pre | Mrs. Reuben Southwick of Pequot ! is published in the heart of the ter-{cultural and timber purposes and Lhu-’ will of certain _run over the M. & I. jtonns south will be made by the According to the informaticn lagent at Bemidji. given Agent Walker, that traiv,! instead of running from Braiverd to| Iuternational Falls, will run from| Brainerd to Kelliher, branching off| . at Funkley from the main line and] q é ¥ taking the place of the a«,z,ommoda»lk tion train which has heretofore been run from Kelliher to Funkley. \ The time of the daily train gmne\\; f IN north will not be chinged from the \ present schedule, arriving at Bemidj | 5:50 and leaving at 6, and arriving | at Kelliher at 7:30. The time card | |: of the daily train going south \ull“ be changed so that the train “nl‘,-'- arrive in Bemidji practically an hour| earlier than the present time, the| train now arriving at 9:15 aund de- parting at 9:55. Under the new arrangements the train going south| will leave Kelliher at 6:30 a. m. an will arrive at Bemi E for the south at § he daily ¢ train will be operated daily, except | Sunday, as heretofore. |2 i The new night train will not bn‘; : put on for aervu until Tuesday, April 20, ] ain will run north | o from St. Paul Monday night, April 19, as a special and begin on ¢t regular night schedule the following night. The train will leave Interna tional Falls at 6:30 p.m. daily, except | Saturday, arriving in Bemidji at 10:30 p. m. and departing at 10:35 and tran as a guest at the Hotel M'nkhaml ritory where the timbered lands are | worth in the aggregate approximately night. located: $40,000,000, is practically “no man’s : land” at the present time -and sub- ject to indiscriminate settlement and occupancy for an indefinite period without danger of protest from any source. . “By tendering $2.50 an acre as the ourchase price which the rail- road company, for obvious reasons, is bound to refuse, a quasi right to enter into possession is established and any person is thereby privileged to go on a quarter section, cut suffi- cient timber to build a house and make other necessary improvements, and live in comparative ease and comfort the remainder of his earthly days without having his peace of mind disturbed by such phantoms as anticipated visits from the tax collector, rent agents or anything else of annoying character.” “In short he can maintain an existence there in a way that makes an Elysium dream look like a hide- ous nightmare, for as matters now stand nobody knows who owns the land, and the chances are the chaotic mists that have arisen in conse- quence now pending litigation be- tween the government and the rail- road company will not be dispelled for such alength of time that gen- erations may come and go before the war of titles is ended. The prospective settler need not necessarily have any money to attain this unprecedented goal. All the requisite qualifications to become eligible to membership in this Lazy Men’s Paradise Association is to write out any.old check for $400 and tender it with a pleasant smile as payment to the railway corpora- tiOI;I for 160 acres. “It is not at all essential that he should have a deposit in the bank to make the check good either, be cause they are obliged to turn up their noses at it anyway, and met- aphorically give ita swift kick out of their lard depariment. To accept the amount would mean ruin to them, since it would be in.the nature 2 of a recognition of the government’s P contention that the two million or so of the vast area must be sold to . 5 actual settlers only in quantities not are won. It S the Way any_ more than a quarter section to each purchaser, and at a price not exceed- o = ing $2.50 an acre. The chance c€ail (EffOl d to negleCt anythlng’ would be too great on a speculation of that kind. “Neither would Uncle Sam object to any settlement on the land. In y may be. and one of the thil’lgS fact, he would hail such a proceeding with joy, inasmuch as it would con- ey hexp your appearance, add to M| form to lines that he has maintained % vigorously for a fortnight or more 4+ > I through able counsel, and fr his tin 'Lfle ‘Vay a man feels Who 18 poiutgof :iew would carry 0(‘1::1 the terms of the grant made by Congress to the railway corporation more than 40 years ago. “In case the Harriman people un- dertook to treat a settler on these lands as an interloper and attempted - to erect him for illegal trepass, the R, & o United States would be in honor ‘v;herp I)V maklng clothes nght' by bound to arise in its might. as it has = done of yore, call out the army and ut all-wool fabrics when so many J|avy, likewise the home guards and all its available force, including the moral squad, and make Harriman INTERESTING CASE HOW - BEFORE PROBATE JuD Heir of Johan Johanson, Murdered by, ‘ Peter Mathieson, Securing Dead } Man’s Property. J‘ g | 1 { & | Through a petition ffled 2 few days ago in the probate court by th Northwestern Trust company, admin- . istrator, of St. Paul, for an order for W] license to sell certain lands ir Roseau county at private sale, 1hL murder of Johann Johanson at Ten-| strike two years ago is brought to | mind. the murder and gzivw a sentence by! [ Judge McClenahan of death, which | was changed to life imprisonment if by the state board of pardons at th +request of the tria! judge, drew $40( YOU want to win belonging tc Jjohanson from the H vl ; Scandia-American National ‘Bank of | {J fllCh (A" €ry man neec oo e foeqa et man 18 vour effectiveness, make you fee tryimng to win great or S“’fl’lu, which Heury Funkley of this city, count\ attorney at the time of the trial of Mathieson, was appointed adminis trator of Johanson’s estate and inst tuted a suit against the Scandia- American National Bank to recove the $400 secured by Mathieson, M Funkley later resigned from hi position as administrator and, at th. request of Hon. Johaunes Grunow are in front among all the the German counsul at St. Paul, who o~ w:s azfi‘;z for heirs in (::;rm\any correct Style b per‘CCt a d D ark, Judge of Probate - aCr;alk oim?hls city qppomtflél (he‘-Ew me t]&ClS thlnk pdii’ COttOn s 3 the Great re emble a mon, every- Fail v shsnomearn iy, St We sell these clothes because v eve tl hat kind of clothes; because we want to keep J|dey Fillipins. - Protection is a stern oG R VR ‘. = o 5 duty it owes to all its citizens, peny continaing the suit which M.\ 10 front. ‘They're the sort of cl hat senefit and a profit to everybody concerned; to you J|nether nativeborn or otherwise, and the fact that a person has taken the oath of allegiance to the Stars in Roseau county which Johanson| A 7 = I ! e : 3 i and Stripes would entitle him to all had mortgaged to Walter Anderson ihe Rocompanyine benette: 5 ath, ! ra i et . S & fi}', {ggg-e rsf},flil Jz"hhfa','ffé‘;’prfifiéif’ ! if you're in front amfl want to stay there; or if you want to get there, bere are the clothes for it. : “He would be a privileged charac- ¢ i, 7 3 ter so far as his occupancy of these at a sheriff’s sale for the face of th i 1 e e oo i - 5 2 lands is concerned, and could retire t d costs, amounting in al o x 1 o 7 B £ | I 8 mortage and costs, cmountiog i ol - This store is the home of Hart Sch Wiark clothes 2t night-—or e Gl day il more de ests of the foreign heirs, redeemed !}, - i ¥ Zevelaping onhic hideoor gs‘;‘:ns;to:.:s the land later. The land is now va > 2 TG of cold chills' doing the Marathon ‘,;,ed at $1,400, and the Northwestern'| stunt up and down his spinal column, rust company has asked for license ! B herrondi thou sHEE that ke Fvag to sell the property at private sale. immung tom i'langgér of being kicked The hearing will be held before Judge of Probate Clark in probate | ;sr;ltl; npremlses by a mercenary cor- courtionsMay; od; Whether this condition is in any wise respunslble for the unprece- dented rush of settlers to the Oregon country just at present remains to be The land in question is 160 acres who wear them most of all. P. J. McKeon of Brainerd, who i best know as the duke of “‘Hap land,” came to the city last evenin from Brainerd and spent the nigh here. (Continued on last page.)