Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 4, 1909, Page 1

i THE BEMIDJI D. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL ! SOCIETY, ! 1.Y PIONEER. " VOLUME 7. NUMBER 91. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1909. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH. COUNTY BOARD ALLOWED “PINE TREE” ABATEMEMT The Application for Abatement of 1908 Taxes of Pine Tree and Mississippi Lumber Companies Granted.— Board Adjourned Y The adjourned session of. the board of county commissioners held yesterday adjourned last evening, after giving their attention to a which large amount of business came before them. The petition of the Pine Tree Lumber company and the Mississppi Lumber company for abatement of 1908 taxes was considered by the board and the abatement as peti- tioned for by the lumber companies was granted, by a vote of 3 to 2. In their petitions the lumber companies asked that their assess- ments be left as returned by the assessor of 1908, the abatement asked for being the 15 per cent raise onreal estate as made by the state board of equalization. A petition of citizens of School District No. 13 for a special exam- iner to examine the treasurer’s books was granted and the county auditor authorized to notify the public examiner’s office of the board’s action. A similar petition from a majority of the taxpayers of the Town of Cormant was also granted. A school petition from citizens in Township 161-33, asking that a new district be formed out of territory in districts 102 and 91, was given a hearing. A remonstrance, signed by twenty-four resident taxpayers of these districts, was presented, pro- testing against the organizing of a new district and giving as their reason that lumber had been ordered for a new school house at Cedar Spur which would amply accommo- date most of the children in the pro- posed new district. The petition was rejected. William Lennon of XKelliher ap- peared before the board and asked that the county complete three miles of road on the public highway known as the Kelliher-Battle River road. Mr. Lennon stated that this road had been laid out for a number of esterday Afternoon. years and some work had been done thereon. After due consideration, the board authorized the advertising for bids for the construction of this road, separate bids to be given for each mile of road, plans and specifications to be drawn by County Surveyor R. K. Bliler. Louis Graw of Cormant, E. P. Squires of Battle River aud E. Die- drich of Quiring appeared before the board and asked that two miles of road be built on the town line between Battle River and Cormant, between sections 31 and 32, Battle River township, and sections 5 and 6, Town of Cormant. The board authorized the adver- tising for bids for the construction of this road, bids to be opened at their meeting to be held Sept. 7th. C. W. Scrutchin appeared before the board and asked the passage of resolution annulling the ditch assessments against the lands of Charles Tiller and Christine Long- coy, their land having been assessed for the Grass Lake ditch, the peti- tioners claiming that the distance of their land from the ditch was such that they receive no benefits there- from. The resolution was passed by the board. The price paid by the city of Be- midji for the board of its prisoners in the county jail was taken under consideration and upon the advice of Assistant Attorney General L. A. Smith, the sheriff was instructed to make all bills at the rate prescribed by statute and the board was auth- orized to see that such bills were paid per the statute price. During the winter of 1905-6 an agreement was reached between the City of Bemidji and the commission- ers of Beltrami county that city prisoners should be boarded at the rate of 30 cents per day. Under the new arrangements the city will be required to pay at the rate of 60 cents per day. GASS LAKE HELD LONG PRAIRIE TO 6-4 SCORE *‘Big 'Gene” Grady Pitched Fine Game Against ‘‘Champs.”—Johnson’s Catching Was Feature. Several Bemidji baseball “fans” went to Cass Lake yesterday and saw the game played at that place byesterday evening between the noted Long Prairie team and Cass Lake—and they witnessed one of the very best games ever played in this section, Long Prairie winning, by a score of 6 to 4. ‘The Cass Lake team made a much better showing than visitors outside of Cass Lake citizens thought it would be possible for them to do against ‘‘Rat” Johnson’s fast “bunch.” The “Lake” team was strength- ened by the addition of ‘“Toby” Farrell of Little Falls and Nason, formerly with the Flandreau Indians. These two players did good work, especially Nason, whose first base playing, outside the catching of Johnson, and the great twirling of Grady, was. the feature of the game. Grady, Cass Lake’s giant pitcher, was in fine form. He had such speed that it was impossible for Oman to hold his delivery at all times. He had good control and pitched a fine game against the men who claim the semi-professional championship of the state. .Grady allowed but six hits and struck out seven. Koehler pitched for Long Prairie. Five hits were made off his delivery, and he struck out but three. The crowd was pleased with Johnson’s work behind the bat for Long Prairie. The famous col- ored backstop is about the best catcher in the state, barring none, and the ease with which he catches, with one hand, and his precision in throwing to bases, is wonderful. He didn’t do much with the bat, not getting a hit off Grady. The showing made by Cass Lake greatly elated the supporters of the players and they are entitled to much praise. Carl Deane in ““Faking Mediums.” Manager Cunnigham of the local Opera House, has secured Carl Deane in an “‘Fxposure of the Pre- sent Day Methods of Faking Me- diums.” Owing to the rank frauds perpetrated by some mediums travel- ing throughout the country, several state legislatures have taken action in the matter, and people generally are interested in the subject. Mr. Deane is said to actually demonstrate the various methods used by those who are said to be fakirs, and in such aclear manner that no one need be duped aftea seeing one of his ex- posures. Every citizen will be glad to learn just how Deane performs. Mr. Deane appears at the Opera House Fridayand Saturday Aug, 6-7. General admission 25c; chlldren 10c. Ray Holmes, a son of T. B. Holmes of Grand Forks, N. D., arrived in Bemidji yesterday after- noon on the Great Northern train from the Pacific coast and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle, where he has been enjoying a vacation since school adjourned in June. Ray reports a fine time at the fair, which he thoroughly en- joyed. He was accompanied by Harley Hanson, who is “summer- ing” across Lake Bemidji, and they returned on the evening train to the Holmes summer cottage at Lake- side. Minnesota State Fair. What the Northern Gounfies Will Have fo Beat. Morrison County’s Prize Winning Agricultural Exhibit at the 1908 Captain Otto, Out West. The Chinook (Washington) Ob- server says of the recent visit of Captain A. E. Otto to Chinook, and his renewing his acquaintance with old comrades and friends at that place: “Adam E. Otto, six years ago a sergeant at Fort Columbia, arrived here on ‘a trip to see the ‘boys’ who served with him Monday. Most of the civilians of Chinook remember Otto as the big baseball player who hit the ball so hard that it looked like a fly speck going through the air and far beyond all the fielders. He was a terror at the bat. After leaving the service he went to Bemidji, Minn., where he is now assistant postmaster in a town of 10,000 inhabitants. He is married and doing well in social and business life. The people at Chinook and the boys at the hill gave Mr. Otto a royal welcome back. He came out to see the A. Y. P. E. and could not resist the temptation to run down here and visit old friends.” ADJOURNED TERM GOURT WAS BEGUN YESTERDAY Case of the Nortland Produce Company vs. A. D. Stephens Was ihe First Action Called. An adjouned term of the district court for Beltrami county, to hear cases for trial without jury was convened yesterday in the city, with Judge C. W. Stanton presiding. The first case taken up was that of the Northland Produce company vs. A. D.Stephens, trustee, the plain- tiff being represented by Attorney Harris of Duluth and the defendant by Attorney O’Brien of Crookston. From the evidence it' appears that the Northland Produce com- pany, at the time of its organization in 1907, deposited the title to the company’s property in this city with A. D. Stephens, who was then cashier of the Merchants National Bank of Crookston, to open up a credit account to the limit of $7,000. The Nortland Trade company, to whom the Northland Produce com- pany is alleged by the defendant to be the successor, had owed the Merchants National Bank of Crooks- ston $1,800. The Northland Produce company gave notes for a total of $5,000 but has paid back this amount and repudiates the $1,800 debt of [the Northland Trade company now seeking to recover possession of the deed to their plant. The case will probably be conclud- ed tonight. School Warrants Payable. Notice is hereby given that there is money in the treasury of School District No. 71 to pay outstanding warrants Nos. 92 and 93. Interest on same will cease from and after thirty days from the date of this notice. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 4th day of August, 1909. —Gust Berg, Treasurer, P. O. Box 796, Bemidji, Minn, He Did All Possibl The St. Cloud Journal-Press makes some ‘very grave charges against a Cass Lake physician (whose name is not mentioned) in connection with the death ot Nicho- las Neutzling, whose thigh was| crushed and who died two hours after being brought to St. Anthony’s» hospital in this city. The Journal- ; Press says: “That the death of Nicholas Neutzling, the St. Cloud young man iwho died at Bemidji yesterday morn- ing, following a railroad accident at Cass Lake, was due to negligence on the part of the attending physi- ciau in caring for bis wounds, is.the hypothesis advanced by Drs. Dunn, Lewis, Boehm and Hubert, who held a post mortem examination of the remains this morning. opinion that Neutzling, had he re- ceived proper medical attention, would have recovered, but that he was allowed to slowly bleed to death. “An examination of the wounded leg showed that the ‘femoral artery was torn in the accident and the blood of course flowed fast. To check it nothing beyond administer- ing some drug to thin the blood was done. Had the leg been tightly bound above the laceration of the artery the life of Mr. Neutzling would have been saved. As it was he survived but two hours after reach- ing the hospital at Bemidji. “It is said by those who know CASS LAKE PHYSICIAN IS CHARGED WITH NEGLECT St. Cloud Physicians Assert Nicholas Neutzling Bled to Death, Through Neglect.—Dr. Christensen Says e for Injured Man. that the doctor who was called to attend to the wounds of Mr. Neutz- ling was in a state of intoxication at the time and that on the long trip to Bemidji little if anything was done in the way of binding the wounds.” While at Cass Lake yesterday, a representa_tive of the Pioneer had a talk with Dr. Christensen, the physician who cared for Neutzling, after he was injured in the yards at that place, the regular G. N. physi- cian being absent. Dr. Christensen was considerably angered by the article printed in the St. Cloud paper. He asserted that he had done everything possible for a buman being to do to relieve Neutzling; there is no hospital run- It was their| ning at Cass Lake; that the injured man had been brought to the Bemidji hospital as rapidly as possible and all that surgery and medicine could perform was done. & He also indignantly denied the insinuation that he was intoxicated at the time; and intimated that he seriously contemplated instituting suits for damages against the Jour- nal-Press and the physicians who made the assertions given. There is likely to be an interest- ing legal combat over the article which the Journal-Press has printed and the charges made by the doc- tors who examined the body of Neutzling when the remains arrived at 5t. Cloud from Bemidji. Mrs. Earl Geil of this city went to Tenstrike last evening for a brief visit with friends, expecting to return to Bemidji on the 10:30 train tonight. | The State Map Most complete and at- tractive. Made from the latest Government Sur- veys, Post Office Records, Railroad and Private data, Aiming to show more towns than have ever been represented on similar en- gravings, Exquisitely col- ored by counties, Town- ship and range numbers and lines, wherever such lines are surveyed. Inter- urban Railroad Lines, and all other features necessary on up-to-date and com- plete maps. Size of map plate proper, about 20x28 inches. The highest priced school and office maps are not as complete nor as at- tractive. The Pana_ma Ganal An etching of a Topo- graphical Drawing, show- ing Nature of the land surface, locks, distances, U. S. Canal Zone and Districts, etc. U. S, Special Map 1llustrating the growth of U, S. by Purchase and Wars. advance. 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Speciamatures Portraits of Leading Rulers, Coats of Arms of Nations in colors, etc., etc. chief Our BLACKDUCK Blackduck, Aug. 4.—(Special cor- respondence of the Pioneer.) Dr. Koch was called to Funkley Saturday evening. S. A. Blair of Duluth occupied the Presbyterian pulpit Sunday morning. Hudson Gaslin and Archie Jardine are assisting in Allen’s store for a few days. H. A. Simonson was up from Bemidji, for an over-Sunday visit with his family. A cement sidewalk is being built on the two sides of Allen & Com- pany’s store buildings. Miss Alice McKensey came in on the Saturday evening train for a visit with her uncle, Mr. Boyle. A deal has been practicable closed whereby T. H. McAllister and wife will assume the management of the Palace hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thompson plan to retire to the farm adjoining town on the south, for a well-earned rest. The Bemidji Knights and their ladies are to be congratulated upon sucha successful celebration, well carried out. The excursion around the lake in the afternoon was most enjoyable, the parade in the evening most attractive, but the program in the evening was the most entertain- ing because of the sentiments so splendidly expressed. Last Thursday morning’s train carried a good delegation to the K. P. celebration in Bemidji. Besides the twenty-one members of the band the following persons were in attend- ance: Mr. and Mrs. John Cann, Mrs. M. J. Leak, Mrs. E. P. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Conway, Mrs. J. C. Koch, Mrs. J. M. Freeburg and son, A, E. Witting and J. M. Reed. - A. W. Danaher, who lives ona farm near Tenstrike and is a member of the board of county commissioners of Beltrami county, was in Bemidji yesterday attending a meeting of the county board. Mr. Danaher returned to Tenstrike last evening accompanied by his little daughter, “Dodo” (Dorothy,) who will visit at Tenstrike a few days.