Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 1, 1909, Page 1

~ THE BEMIDJI D VOLUME 7. NUMBER 12. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1909. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH WILL ASSESS BELTRAMI COUNTY AT 50 PER CENT County Assessors Held Meeting in the Coart House and Received Instructions and Assessment Books from County Auditor Wilmann. A meeting of the assessors of| Beltrami county was held Thursdayt afternoon in the office of County| Auditor John Wilmann of this city | at which a resolution was passed; property county at one-half its actual value. | County Auditor Wilmann pre-‘, sided at the meeting and trans- mitted the general instructions sent | out by the state tax commissiun.‘ Many matters pertaining to the| duties of the assessors were dis-| cussed and the county auditor dis-| tributed the assessment books to | the assessors of the different dis-| tricts. Instructions from the Minnesota | Tax commission to the assessors§ were distributed among the assessors at the meeting. | A circular letter was received by! Auditor Wilmann from the { mission, in which the law was| quoted which requires all property | in the state to be assessed at full| value. During the session of thei legislature, just closed, the commis-| sion recommended to that body'} that a law be passed requiring as-! sessors to assess all property in the : state at the uniform rate of 40 peri cent of real value, but the “solons” | failed to consider and act on the| suggestion. | Heretofore, despite the ‘“full-| value” provision of the assessment| law which has existed for severan to assess the in this| com- Alaska—James Wynne, Island Lake. Battle—Axel Peterson, Foy. Benville—J. M. Langness,Gryglia. Bemidji—Knute Aakus, Bemidji. Blackduck — John Jorgensen, Hines. * Buzzle—Louis Tegner, Solway. Baudette—John Bird, Baudette. Birch—Chas. R. Alsop, Blackduck. Cormant—D. W. Tozier, Inez.- Chilgren—Nels Nelson, Williams. Durand—Henry Sporebouse, Pu- posky. ) Eckles—Henry Anderson, Wilton. Eland—(not qualified.) Frohn—Iver O. Ungstadt, Rosby. Grant Valley—Wm. Schroeder, Bemidii. Gudrid—Herman Vang, Baudette. Hornet—C. S. Angell, Blackduck. Hagalai—W. H. Neudeck, Ten- strike. Hamre—Corneluis Brownell, Car- mel. Jones—Jacob Sorenson, Solway. Kelliher—Henry Pfund, Kelliher. Lammers—Dan Carroll, Solway. Liberty—Iver Myre, Wilton. Langor—John Ingelbert, Black- duck. Lakewood—Oscar M. Servis, Arneson. Lee—A. H. Cleven, Gryglia. Maple Ridge— Wm. J. Tisdell, Fowlds. Moose Lake—B. A. Ronning, Louis. McDougald—Martin O. Akre, years, it has been the universal cus-tiacetou. tom, all over the state, to assess all| property atabout 350 per cent OII value. | The assessors present, their dis~f\ tricts and their postoffice addresses | are as follows: ’ Minnie—Frank J. Malcom Hendrickson, Northern—D. W. Mohler, midji. Nebish—John Lank, Nebish. Port Hope—Frank Perrin, Farley. Be- “The Little Watch Factory” SPOONS The speon shown in the cut is the Chatsworth pattern of the famous Holmes & Edwards line of silverware. ities. This is furnished m four qual- I usually carry in stock the extra sec- tional plate which carries 50 per cent more silver than standard plate. In the prices given below those to the left are for the 5 oz. quality which carries 25 per cent more silver than ordinary standard plate. PRICES Teaspoons (set of six). Dessert .. Table.... Postoffice Corner SPECIAL Advertising Sale “New Royal” Sewing Machines For the next ten days we can save you 50 per cent or more by buying a “New Royal” Machine, and still get the very best values on earth from a standpoint of quality and beauty of design and finish. All machines are ball-bearing, high arm, high grade and light running. Complete set of attachments, be- sides the usual accessories and Instruction Book, as well as a ten year warranty goes with each machine. Sewing Machines, ranging in price from $12.98 to $35 sold on easy terms if desired, Come “NEW J. BEMIDJI P. ROYAL and see them even if you don’t huy. IS CHIEF” LAHR MINNESOTA Quiring— C. J. Carlson, Quiring. Roosevelt—P. K. Peterson, Aure. Summit—Jonn Gilstad, Blackduck. Spooner—Ingvert Gaustad, Bau- dette. Spruce Grove—K. J. Haslemo, Orheim. Shotley—Ole S. Thompson, Shot- ley. Steenerson—Ferdinand Swenson, Thorhult. Turtle River—R. M. Kingston, Turtle River. Turtle Lake—G. W. Butler, Turtle River. Taylor—C. A. strike. Walhalla—]J. B. Grignon, Pitt. ‘Wabanica—Frank Ogden, Pitt. Zippel—Riley Swinehart, Zippel. City of Bemidji—James Cahill, Bemidji. Matheny, Ten- VILLAGES Blackduck — Henry Orhlstud, Blackduck. Baudette— Wm. Cathcort, Bau- dette. Funkley—(not qualified) Nymore— ** * Townsite of Redby—(not quali- fied) Turtle River—Frank Vantassel, Turtle River. Tenstrike—R. G. Tufford, Ten- strike. Spooner—Geo. E. Ericson, Spoon- er. Wilton—Ole L. Stortroen, Wilton. Island Lake—(not qualified) Fowlds— 2 * UNORGANIZED TERRITORY First District — Nels Otterstad, Turtle River. Second District—John Reihe, Ne- bish. Third District—Chris Espie, Kel- liher. Fourth District — Ole Miller, Domaas. Fifth District — C. G. Stenmon, Grigley, Sixth District — Mr. Spooner. Seventh District—B. A. Arneson, Arneson. ELKANAH GOMMANDERY WAS GRANTED GHARTER Flinders, Grand Lodge Officers Will Be Present May 28th, at Institution of Elkanah. The members of Elkanah Com- mandery, Knights returning to BemidjifromMinneapolis Templar, are where they spent the week attending the annual meeting of the Grand Commandery of Minnesota, bringing nothing but praise for everything connected with the meeting except the “beastly weather.” The members report that there was a large attendance at the meeting of the Grand Commandery, there being about 500 Knights Templar present, but the customary parade was omitted on account of the rain in Minneapolis Wednesday. Elkanah Commandery, No. 30, U. D., received several compliments at the meeting for the excellent showing they made, considering how young the lodge is, and this com- mandery was granted a charter by the grand lodge. The Elkanah Commandery will be instituted May 28th in Bemidji and about ten or twelve of the grand officers will be present to conduct the ceremony. Great interest has always been displayed in the Elkanah Comman- dery and out of the thirty-six mem- bers of the local lodge thirty attended the Minneapolis meeting. The lodge will doubtless be more popular than ever since it has been granted a charter and will be instituted within a few weeks. No Meeting Last Night. About twenty-five residents of the city gathered at g o’clock last evening in the city hall in answer to Mayor Pogue’s request for a mass meeting of the citizens to discuss the best methods of spend- ing the $50,000 recently secured for the sale of bonds to build the new waterworks system, As the the crowd was so small, the meet- ing was not called to order and was allowed to drop. THE HATGHER-SWEDBACK JURY COULD NOT AGREE Jury Had Been Out 46 Hours.—Ex- TreasureesShinn's Arraignment Was Posiponed. After being out forty-six hours, the jury in the case of A. T. Hatch- er vs. E. J. Swedback came into court this morning ~ and stated through their foreman, that they had not reached a verdict and could not agree. Judge Stanton then dismissed the jury. In this case the plaintiff seeks to recover $165 for driving 90,000 feet of logs down the Mississippi river in 1906 and Mr. Swedback sets upa counter claim of $1057 for part of the same logs, which he alleges Mr, Hatcher drove down but did not turn over to him. O. J. Shinn, the ex-treasurer of Beltrami county who was recently secured by Sheriff A. B. Hazen at Portland, Ore., after much trouble, was arraigned this morning before Judge Stanton and asked to have his arraignment postponed until his attorney, Judze M. A. Spooner of this city who is at present in Spok- ane, Wash., returns, not later than May 12th. The court granted the request The jury in the case of Soren Sorenson vs. Christ Jenson, in which Sorenson attempted to recover dam- ages for an alleged tresspass of the defendant while the latter was building a road across his farm in the Town of Durand, re- tired at 3:25 yesterday afternoon and returned a verdict in fayor of the defendant fifty minutes Ilater. A stay of twenty days was granted. Attorneys A. M. Crowell and A. A, Andrews of this citysppeared respec- tively for the plaintiff and defend- ant. The case of Albert Gustafson vs, T. M. Partridge was taken up yes- terday afternoon, A. A. Andrews representing the plaintiff and Gibbons & Torrance the defendant. The case was concluded and sent to the jury this noon. Fire Last Night. Fire last night completly destroyed the residence of H. P. Botting, cor- ner of Thirteenth street and Bel trami avenue, entailing a loss of $2,100. The fire broke out about 11:30, being caused, it is thought, by the explosion of a lamp, which Mr. Bott- ing had left burning when he went down town in the evening. The fire department responded promptly but the water pressure was not sufficient to throw a stream higher than the eayes. 'The fire lads saved almost all of the furniture and contents, only about $100 worth of furnishings being lost. The residence was a pretty home and valued at $2,000, insurance to the amont of $£1,500 being carried on the house and $500 on the con- tents. i Moral: Insure with the T. J. Miller Insurance agency. Good Program Next Week. The bill at the Brinkman Family Theater this week is a very strong one, in fact it is considered by those who have seen it, to be the best that has ever been put on in this city, but all will look forward with great anxiety'to the one for next week, when Madell & Corbleyand Noles & Noles will appear, having been en gaged for the week. Madell & Corbley are noted throughout the northwest and are the highest-priced team on the entire circuit. They have become popular through their musical act, “Summer Boarders and Sum-R-Not.” Noles & Noles, impersonators, need no special advertising except to mention the fact that they are playing a re-engagement, as they played here last season and made a great “hit” in this city. Meet to Form Fire Company. Every man living north of Tenth street is invited to meet at8 o’clock Monday evening at P. M. Dicaire’s store on Irvin avenue and Eleventh street to form a fire company to use the fire equipment now placed at the corner of Mississippi avenue and Twelfth street, which was recently furnished by the city council. This company will co-operate with and be under the charge of Chief Geil of the fire department in suppressing fires in the northern part of the city. ““One Consolation, Anyhow.” “Isn’t this fine weather for the opening of the fishing season?”’ sarcasticly remarked Judge of Pro- bate Clark this noon, but then (more cheerfully) we know that we can fish if we want to and that there is no law to keep us from it. That’s one consolation, anyhow.” GASE WAS BROUGHT T0 TEST ALDERMAN'S LAW| Judge MWright Adjourned Court at Grand Rapids to May 12.—County Attorney Busy. Judge B. F. Wright of Park Rap- ids arrived in the city yesuerday afternoon from Grand Rapids, where he had just adjourned a term of the district court for Itasca county after presiding there six weeks. The adjournment was faken in order to allow the county attorney te catch up with the rush of work in his office. Court will reconvene at Grand Rapids on the 12 inst. with Judge W.S. McClenahan of Brain- erd presiding on the bench. Attorney A. R. Thwing aud Assistant Attorney General Weeks appeared before Judge Wright Tues- day with Edward Laughlin in order to test the constitutionality of Alderman’s one-saloon-to-every-500 inhabitants law. Laughlin had wished to put in saloon at Orth and the county auditor had refused to publish his application for a liquor license. The case was argued Tues- day and will be submitted by briefs. Whatever Judge Wright’s decision is, it is understood, the case will be appealed to the Supreme Court and an attempt will be made to have the constitutionality of the law settled at the present term of that tribunal. Local News on Last Page. GROSS ERRORS MAY MAKE NEW STATE LAWS INVALID Unlawful Interlineations in Enrollment Threaten to Ren- der Worthless Acts of Minnesota Legislature According to St. Paul Dispatch. The St. Paul Dispatch last even- ing said: “Are the 500 or more laws passed by the late legislature of any validity? “Do they constitute a menance to the state and a scandal to the legis-| lative enrollment committee which gave them approval? “For the first time in 50 years all bills, after receiving the approval of the legislature, were enrolled in type-writing. In the old days, all} bills were written in long hand and,i asa precaution against mistakes, only experts were employed. “One of the rules and, in fact, the law is that there shall not be auy| interlined words in an enrolled bill nor shall there be any erasures. The last warning is explicit and the com- mittee in charge is forbidden to re- | port any bill as correct which con-| tains such. That is for the purpose of preventing tampering. “The laws passed by the legisla- | ture are in the custody of Secretary | of State Julius Schmahl, and experts, ' who have examined the same, say their botched condition is without parallel in the history of the state. Erasures of the rankest kind are in evidence in over two-thirds of them, while, as to spelling, almost anything when it came to giving the names of counties and persons. e “One member, who followed the work of the enrolling force, reports that, when what is known as thei “park barrel” bill was submitted | for approval it was found that the’ typewritist in charge had left out an entire section. This ommission un- der the rules, completely invalidated the bill, but the fact did not bother those in charge. With the aid of a rubber eraser, sufficient white space was secured and the ommitted sec- tion inserted. “Governor Johnson, in looking over the bills submitted for his signature, commented more than once on the botched condition of the enrolled bills and intimated that his message to the next legis- lature would haye something to say on the subject. He does not be- lieve in the typewriting of bills, as the danger of tampering is most ap- parent. “To guard against such dangers, all blank lines following the com- pletion of a sentence are filled out with red ink lines, but this pre- caution is conspicuous by itsab- sence in some of the enrolled acts now in the vaults of the secretary of state. b “One of the soft snaps of the leg- islature was the enrolling depart- ment of the two houses, and dis- gruntled employees have been doing more or less talking since the session closed. The approval of nice fat vouchers in which they failed to par- ticipate, seems to be the trouble maker. “One employe of the department, so the story goes, through the medium of a friend on the commit- tee, had several fat vouchers for services rendered approved in oppo- sition to the head of the department. The contention ‘was that the vouch- ers were for more money than he was entitled to. “The last three days of the session represented fat picking for those employed in the enrollment depart- ment. One stenographer drew a warrant for $130 for bills typewrit- ten and two other warrants were for sums almost as large. “Crawford Sheldon of Little Falls was enrolling clerk of the house. Subscribe For The Pioneer. day suit sale. or money refunded. “The Model for Good Clothes.” The Model Clothing Store An extraordinary one day special suit sale, in pure wool worsteds, cash- meres, tibbits, cheviotsand all-wool blue serges in the latest styles and new shades All our $15.00 to $18.00 suits at $12.00 Saturday, May |, only. Don’t miss this grand offering. Come and be convinced of this marvelous one Satisfaction guaranteed