Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 29, 1909, Page 4

PROPOSED FRANCHISE [Conitinued from Fiist Page.] obstruct travel on any street, alley or ave- nue of the said city. Said poles and wires and operating fixtures, within the streets, alleys or avenues of said city, to be placed and erected under the dir- ection of the Light Committee of the City of Bemidji, and when so placed, located and erected, the same shall not be moved or ordered to be moved by said City dur- ing the term of this grant, without just or sufficient cause. *And provided further, that if at any time during the life of this grant the said ‘Warfield Electric Company, its executors, administrators and assigns, shall fail to furnish electric light in accordance with the provision of this grant, to said City and to the inhabitants thereof for thirty (30) consecutive days through the failure or neglect of said Warfield Electric Com- pany, its executors, administrators and assigns, then the right by this ordinance granted, shall cease and terminate at the option of said City Council, excepting however, as a part of such period of fail- ure aforesaid, such time as may be reas- onably required by said Warfield Electric Company, its executors, administrators and assigns, to repair or restore such works and their appurtenances, or any part thereof, as may at any time be in- jured by fire, lightning or other causes, which necessary time shall not be con- sidered as part of such period of failure to operate said works or to furnish light and power. “Section 2.—The said Warfield Electric Company shall at all times protect, de- fend, save harmless, and indemnify said City of Bemidji from all liabilities for damages which may arise or accrue against the said City from the injury of any person or persons, company or corporation or to any property from the doing of any work herein authorized to be done, or from the failure of said Warfield Electric Company, its executors, adminis- trators and assigns, or any of its employ- ees to comply with any ordinance relative to the manner of the use of the highways of said City, and defend the City from any and all actions at law and in equity on account of property or persons being injured by the using or occupying any of the streets, avenues or alleys of the said City by the said Warfield Electric Com- pany, its executors, administrators and assigns, in business herein set forth, and save said city harmless from any action the Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Company, its successors or assigns may institute by virtue of any right it or they may claim in and to any ofthe streets and alleys of said City, by virtue of any reservation said Townsite & Improvement Company may have made in dedicating the streets and alleys of said City to the public. “Section 3.—The said Warfleld Electric Company, its executors, administrators and assigns, in consideration of the grant- ing the aforesaid rights and privileges, shall furnish electric lights to said City and its inhabitants thereof at rates not to exceed the following to-wit: For commer- cial and residence lights, all night service, as follows: “FLAT RATE: 16 c. p., $ $1.00 per month. 32 c. p., $1.25per month. “For street lights all night service, the City shall be charged rates as follows: Arclights standard 712 Amp., 116 volts, $7.50 per month. *32 c. p. Incandescents$1.25ver month. “Providing, however, that whenever any person or persons desiring to use the said electric lights, demand that meter “be placed in his or their building or buildings, the same shall be furnished and placed in such building by said War- field Electric Company, its executors, administrators and assigns, at actual cost to the consumer, and the meter rate shall not exceed 12¢ per 1000 watts hours. “The following lights shall be furnished free to the City of Bemi “1-32 in City Clerk’s Office. *3-32 in City Council Chambers. -32 in Police Station. “1-32 in Basement City Hall. “2-32 in Fire Hall. “(The above to be all night service.) “Provided, that all persons using meters shall be charged a maximum rate per months as follows: “For the first 25,000 watt hours and under, 12 cts. per month per 1000 watt hours. “From 25,000 watt hours to 100,000 ‘watt hours, 10 cts. per month per 1,000 watt hours. “From 100,000 to 200,000 wa:t hours, 9 cts. per month per 1,000 watt hours. “From 200,000 watt hours to 300,000 watt hours, 8 cts. per month per 1,000 watt hours. “From 300,000 watt hours to 400,000 watt hours, 7 cts. per month per 1,000 watt hours. “From 400,000 watt hours to 500,000 watt hours, and over, 6 cts. per 1,000 watt hours. “For Power:—$1.00 per rated horse- power per month as service charge from one horsepower to fifty horsepower and in addition to said charge 3¢ per month, per 1,000 watt hours for all current consumed, during daytime, provided however, that above rates shall apply to all power fur- nished or to be furnished to the City of Bemidji both day and night. Section 4.—“The Warfield Electric Company, its executors, administrators and assigns, shall at all times during the continuance of this grant keep the electric lights, apparatus and lamps used by the city in repair and good order, without any expense to the City. The Light Committee shall have the right to locate all lights rented by the City. “The City of Bemidji reserves the right to at any time designate the number and character of the lights that it shall need for the lighting of said city, and to in- crease or decrease the number and char- acter of said lights at will; and the said Warfield Electric company, its executors administiators and assigns hereby agree acter of lights it may designate at a price not to exceed the prices specified in Section 2; of this franchise. “All buildings in said city which are to be wired and in which electricity is to be installed, shall be wired in conformity to the rules of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. “Whenever any building or other struct- ure is being moved or about to be moved over or along any street, avenue, alley or public ground, and the wires of said Warfield Electric company, its executors, administrators or assigns obstructs or interferes with the moving of such build- ing or structure, the said Warfield Elec- tric company, its executors, administrators and assigns, shall at their own expense, upon at least ten (10) hours notice, re- move such wires and thereafter replace the same. “Section 5.—All poles are to be peeled and straight in the construction or exten- sion of any and all lines transmitting electricity. All electric conductors shall be placed not less then thirty (30) feet above the ground in the business districts of said city, and not less than twenty-five (25) feet above the ground in the resi- dence districts of said city. “Section 6.—The acceptance of this ordinance shall not In any manner impair any existing rights touse the streets which the Warfield Electric Company now have, if any, nor be construed in any manner as a waiver thereof, “Section 7.—The said Warfield Electric Company shall file their written acceptance of this ordinance with theCity Clerk with- in five (5) days after the passage thereof. “Section 8.—This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from the date of its publication and acceptance. “First Reading, September 20, 1909." “Second Reading, September 27, 1909. DISTRIGT MEETING 0DD FELLOWS FRIDAY NIGHT Grand Officers Will Be Present, and Many Visiting ““Three-Linkers” Are Expected. The members of the Bemidji lodge of Odd Fellows are making extensive preparations to care for the “three-linkers” who will gather here on Friday evening of this week, when a district meeting of the Odd Fellows will be held, at which most important business will be transacted. It isexpected that Grand Master Barber of Brainerd and Grand Secretary Bolton of Minneapolis, as well as several other grand officers, will be present and participate in this district meeting. Several candidates will be initiated at the meeting and it is the intention to make the meeting one of the very best occasions of the kind ever held in the district. The lodges at Tenstrike, Black- duck and Bagley have already sent word that delegations of Odd Fellows will be present from those towns and it is expected that delegations will be present from several other lodges in north-central Minnesota. The local Odd Fellows will give asupper and a program during the meeting; and they extend a general invitation to all Odd Fellows in northern Minnesota to come to Be- midji and participate in the meeting, Frank Stirratt Happily Wed. A pleasant event which has oc- curred of late, and which it gives the Pioneer much satisfaction to chronicle, is the marriage of Frank Stirrat of this city to Miss Merino of Hager City, Wis. The marriage was solemnized at the 'home of the bride’s parents, at Hager City, on Monday, Sept. 20, and was attended by a number of friends and relatives of the contract- ing parties. Mr. and Mrs. Stirratt arrived in Bemidji last Monday even- ing and are making their home at Mr. Stirratt’s house, corner of Twelfth and Beltrami. The groom is stenographer for the Crookston Lumber company and one of the most popular young men in Bemidji. The bride is spoken of as being one of Hager City’s most prominent young ladies. The Pioneer joins in extending congratulations to both Mr. and Mrs. Stirratt. Secretary Kane Well Known Here. Local firemen were shocked yes- terday when they learned of the death at Minneapolis of Captain B. L. Kane, of the Minneapolis fire department, and who is also secre- tary af the State Firemen’s associa- tion, . Captain Kane was overcome by smoke last Saturday night and died Sunday. Mr. Kane visited in Bemidji over Sunday, last June, while on his way to attend the state association meet- ing at Cloquet, and he met a number of Bemidji people while here. He was a fine fellow, -a heroic fireman and was well liked by all who knew to furnish said city the number and char- him, TRIAL OF SHINN CASE - WAS GOMMENGED TODAY Douglass Lumber company and T. W. Bell, and also asking a new trial, in case the motion to set aside the verdict is denied. : The motion was made by Judge Attorney General Simpson Trying the | SPooner, asattorney for the Douglass Case for the State.—M. J. Brown Defends. The case of the State vs. O. J. Shinn was taken up in district court this morning and the work of secur- ing a jury was commenced. O. J. Shinn, who was formerly treasurer of Beltrami county; is charged in the indictment with the crime of grand larceny in the sec- ond degree. It is alleged in the indictment that Shinn unlawfully -appropriated 8350, the same being a sum of money claimed to have been paid by the J. Niels Lumber company to Shinn, county treasurer, as interest JUDGE B. F. WRIGHT, Who Is Presiding at Present Term of Court. and penalty on a certain land sale wherein the Niels company bought land from the State of Minnesota. Twenty-six venireman, including a special venire of three, had been examined, at 11:30, when eleven jurymen were secured, as follows: John Halvorson, Samuel Benson, J. H. Mastin, John J. Wallace, James Winebrenner, August Webber, A. W. Sowder, I. O, Ongstad, Eric Nelson, J. P. Omich and James Taylor. It was necessary to issue a special venire for three venireman return- able fortwith, and court adjourned at 11:30 for fifteen minutes. After the brief adjournment the names of the three veniremen were turned over to the court and the twelfth juror was secured, he being W. J. Irish. Attorney General George T. Simpson is representing the state and prosecuting the case against Shinn. M. W. Brown, of Spooner & Brown, of this city, is represent- ing tho defendant, Shinn. Attorney General Simpson opened the case for the state and told of the transaction, as the result of which Shinn was, several years afterwards, arrested and returned to Bemidji, and was indicted on the charge of grand larceny in the second degree. The attorney general said that the state would attempt to prove, and would prove, that the J. Neils Lumber company had, on July 8, 1903, paid, in checks, to O. J. Shinn as county treasurer, the sum of $355.42, the same being the pay- ment of interest on a coufract with the state; that Mr. Shinn had cashed the checks and issued receipts; that although the rule has always been to issue receipts in the order as made, the receipt given to the Niels Lumber company were not issued in regular order, but had been taken from the back of the receipt book. The evidence would show, said the attorney general, that the checks were deposited to Mr. Shinn’s own private account, and that Mr. Shinn subsequently left the state. The judge cautioned the jury not to discuss the case among them- selves or to allow anyone to talk to them about it, and adjourned court until 1:30 this afternoon. Yesterday afternoon the court considered the case of the Edward Thompson company vs. Henry Funkley. Thisis a suit to recover on a note. Mr. Funkley moved that the case be dismissed on the ground that the plaintiff, a foreign corpora- tion, had not filed a proper. bond as provided by the statutes. The motion was denied and the court gave the defendant three days in which to file a new bond. Court adjourned until this morn- ing at 9 o’clock. Before Jndge Stanton. In chambers today, Judge Stanton listened to arguments for judgment for the defendants, nothwithstand- ing the verdict of the jury, inthe case of Jacob L. Brown vs. the Lumber company, and by G. M. Torrance as counsel for Mr. Bell, the motion being opposed by E. E. McDonald, C. W. Scrutchin and J. L. Brown, on- behalf of the plaintiff, Jacob L. Brown. This suit was for personal injuries, the plaintiff suing for $10,000 dam- ages. At the February term, judg- ment was given Brown in the sum of $3,500. ~ Yesterday afternoon, Judge Stan- ton gave Robert Taylor a jail sen- tence of thirty days, for contempt of court, Some time ago, Taylor’s wife, who had instituted divorce proceedings, applied to the court for alimony during the pendency of the pro- ceedings, and Taylor was ordered to pay $5 per week, on every Mon- day. Yesterday, when two payments due had not been paid, Judge Stan- ton caused the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of Taylor to show cause why he should not be declared in contempt of court. The hearing was held this morn- ing, and the court regarded the claim of Taylor, that he was unable to make the payments, as insuffi- cient and held Taylor guilty of con- tempt in disobeying the court’s orders, and he was sentenced to con- finement in the county jail for thirty days. BLACKDUCK Blackduck,Sept. 29.—(Special cor- respondence of the Pioneer.) Master Mal Freeburg was on the sick list last week. Miss Selma Witting spent last week in Blackduck. Miller, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jewett, was very sick Saturday night, but is much better now. Mrs. E. A. Hastay has been hon- ored by the young ladies’ club, by being selected the matron of the club. The Young Ladies’ club gave their first social of the season in the city hall 'én Friday svening. A large and appreciative crowd enjoyed the program and partici- pated in the jolly games which followed. The program as ren- dered: Selection, Garwood’s Orchestra; piano solo, Edith Bordsen; read- ing, Mrs. J. M. Freeburg; solo, J. F. Sullivan; selection, male quartette; violin solo, Miss Ander son. h Notice to Contractors. Sealed bids will be received at the office ot the undersigned up to 8 o’clock p. m. September 30, for the construction of the super- structure of the Episcopal church at Bemidji, any or all bids subject to rejection. Plans and specifications may be seen at my office, 315 Minnesota avenue. —W. A. McDonald, Secretary and treasurer, Attention, Co. K. The regular weekly drill of Com- pany K will be held at the armory Wednesday evening, Sept. 29, at 8:30. —A. E, Otto, Captain, Co. K, M, N. G. 1909 Diaries. The Pioneer still has a few 1909 diariesleft which will be closed out at half price. The assortment includes some of the best aswell as the cheap- er books, Automobiles. I handle the Buick line. Kindly let me make your acquaintance, C. W. Jewett, 413 Bemidji avenue or telephone No. 3. Subscribe for The Pioneer. | ‘Munufacturers of GAS, GASOLINE and STEAM ENGINES, PULLEYS, i HANGERS, SHAFTING, CLUTCHES and all POWER TRANSMISSION SUPPLIES, direct fo the consumer. Largest Machine Shop in the West MINNEAPOLIS STEEL AND MACHINERY CO. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. REGISTER AT BISMARCK,N.D, FOR A FREE HOMESTEAD OCT.4 to23 SPECIAL RAILROAD SERVICE ALL THE VICTIMS ARE STOCKMEN Six Persons Killed in Rail- . road Wreck at Chicagq. CABOOSE TORN TO PIECES Car in Which Unfortunates Are Sleep- ing Crashed Into by Engine of Pas- senger Train and Fire Adds to Hor- ror. of Situation—All of the Dead Residents of North Dakota and Montana, Chicago, Sept. 29.—Six men were killed and a dozen seriously injured by an outbound Panhandle passenger train crashing into the rear end of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul stock train. The victims were stock- men and members of the stock train crew. No persons on the passenger train were injured. ‘When the accident occurred most of the victims were sleeping in the caboose of the stock train. This car was completely demolished and the victims badly mutilated. Many of the injured were extricated with dificulty from the burning debris by firemen and others who hurried to the scene of the wreck. The identi- fied dead are: H. POTTER, Dion Lake, N. D. DON SCHLANGER, Fayette, N. D. W. J. STEVENSON, Livingston, Mont. JACOB MOTZ, Kulm, N. D. FRED KOCH, Dickinson, N. D. JOHN POSTLE, Winona, N. D. The passenger train, which was bound for Cincinnati, was moving rap- idly and had just rounded a sharp curve when the engineer sighted the stock train only a few yards in front. After applying the emergency brakes the engineer and fireman of the pas- senger train leaped from the cab, es- eaping injury. No opportunity for escape was glven the sleeping stockmen in the way ocar, as the sound cf the warning whistle was drowned in the crash as the heavy locomotive plowed through the caboose and three other cars. Fire added to the terror of the wreck and greatly hampered the work of rescue. BRAVE GIRLS SAVE VILLAGE Telephone for Help While Exchange Is Burning. Painesville, O., Sept. 29.—The brav- ery of two telephone girls, Hazel Christian and Alice Warren, sleeping in the telephone exchange at Perry, a village near here, saved that town from total destruction by fire. Fire broke out in a store beneath the exchange. The girls were alone, but stuck to their posts and tele- phoned the sleeping citizens. ‘While the girls were calling to the Painesville and Madison fire depart- ments for help the telephone wires burned and the operators in their night clothes stumbled down the stairs through the smoke to the street. Two stores, a livery stable and resi- dence were burned before aid from ather towns arrived. TROOPS DISARM PEASANTS 8Ruatlon Still Serious In Spanish Province of Catalonia. Cerbere, France, Sept. 29.—Strict censorship over news dispatches con- tnues to be enforced throughout the Spanish province of Catalonia. Ac- eord/ng to news that reached here milttary searching parties are scour- ing Catalonia, disarming the peasants. It is understood that the authorities, in order to allow the popular il feel- ing to cool, have decided to postpone further trials by courtmartial until the end of November. They will not, however, make any concessions in the matter of reopening the lay schools in which anarchistic doctrines are taught. ILL AND WITHOUT A HOME Soldier Who Marched to Relief of Custer Dying. New York, Sept. 29.—Daniel CHf- ford, one of the persevering and much suffering soldiers who marched to the relief of General Custer and who was within forty miles of the Little Bis Horn when Custer and his men were massacred by the Indians, is dying in a hospital here from starvation. Since Friday the veteran, who is now sixty- efght years old, had had nothing to eat and he dropped from exhaustion on a street crowded with Hudson-Ful- ton celebrators. He had been ill and without a home for several weeks. ALONG RUSSIAN FRONTIER Persian Bandits Committing Numer ous Depredations. Tiflis, Sept. 29.—Local authorities have sent an urgent request to St. Petersburg for aid in suppressing the numerous bands of Persian bandits that are preying along the Russian border. The depredations of these bands have increased until life and property in isolated spots are no long- er safe. Several small Russian outposts have had encounters with the Perslans and been worsted. NUMBER OF STRIKERS RETURN Better Street Car Service at Omaha and Council Bluffs._ Omaha, Sept. 20.—With additions to the working force by the return of a nvmber of striking carmen the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company was able to resume more nearly normal service than at any time since the strike began. The cars were more liberally patronized, al- though the streets were still lined with men and women walking to busi- ness. - The real test is in the baking. Other Baking Powders may make broad claims, but when it comes to the production of real delicious biscuit, cakes and pastry ALUMET BAKING POWDER proves its real worth. This is because of its much greater leavening power and the strict purity of its ingredients. It costs only a trifle more than the cheap and big can brands and much less than the Trust Baking Powders. Received Highest Award World’s Pure Food Exposition Chicago, 1907. TReferring to a proposal by the com: pany that hereafter new men will be required to agree not to join a uvnion State Labor Commissioner Maupin is quoted as saying that such a require- ment would be a violation of the Erd- man act, as the company is an inter- state concern, operating in Nebraska and Iowa. Acting under the state referendum law the strikers began circulating a petition to submit to the voters at the November election an ordinance providing for 3-cent street car fares. GORGEOUS SCENE IN NEW YORK CITY Half Hundred Floats Pass on Growded Streets. New York, Sept. 29.—Five miles of Hudson-Fulton guests, massed in solid lines along both sides of Fifth avenue and Central park as far north as One Hundred and Tenth street, witnessed one of the most elaborate events ever presented in New York. Fifty-four floats, representing scenes of Amer- fcan bhistory, accompanied by 2,000 men, women and children gorgeously costumed, composed the ribbon that unwound its brilliant hues from the upper end of Central park to Wash- ington square. The day, which dawned with rain, cleared later and the parade was favored by sunshine. The pageant began at 1 o'clock and lasted for four hours. MEDAL FOR WAR SECRETARY Dickinson Rescued Man From Drown- ing in 1895, j ‘Washington, Sept. 29.—For jumping into the river at Detroit, Mich., and rescuing James F. Joy, a Detroit law- yer, in August, 1895, Secretary of War Dickinson has been presented with a gold medal. The presentation was made at the war department by As- JACOB M. DICKINSON. sistant Secretary of the Treasury Hilles. The presentation of the medal was suggested by President Thomas H. Herndon of the American Cross of Honor. During the American Bar associa- tion convention at Detroit in 1895 the delegates were entertained on the river in steam yachts. On the return to the city the steam yacht Truant reached her dock at a late hour and in the darkness Joy fell overboard in attempting to cross the gangplank. Judge Dickinson jumped in after him and both men came cut of the inci- dent unharmed. BELIEVE IT WILL- END WAR Spaniards Celebrate Capture of Mo- roccan Towns. Madrid, Sept. 29.—The capture of the towns of Nador and Zeluan by the Spanish forces in Morocco is being celebrated here as the virtual end of the war with the Riffs. Dispatches received here from Melilla say that all the villages in the foothills of Mount Guruga, which has been the Moorish stronghold, are in flames. Hundreds Pursue Murderers, Lexington, Ky., Sept. 29.—A report from Buchanan county, W. Va., just across the Kentucky ctate line, says that more than 300 men are engaged with bloodhounds in a chase over the mountains after the men who mur- dered George Meadows, his wife, three children and his mother-in-law and then burned the family’s home at Hurley, Va. It is unpleasant to turn back, eved though it be to take the right way. German Proverb. WANITS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. WANTED—Agents to sell northern nursery stock and make big money. Highest cash paid weekly with part expenses, to good man. Out- fit free; home territory. Write The Hawks Nursery Co., Wauwa- tosa, Wis. WANTED—Lady dishwasher. In- quire at Field’s restaurant, 214 Minnesota. WANTED — Girl for general housework. 508 Beltrami Ave. Charles Bourcier, FOR SALE. AN AN FOR SALE—This beautiful resi- dence property. Inquire at Bemidji, Meat Mar- ket. e FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Large seven-room house on lake shore. See T. Beaudette, 314 Minnesota Ave. FOR SALE—A No. 7 Oliver and a No. 7 Smith-Premier typewriter. Inquire at Pioneer office. FOR SALE—Entire household fur- niture of furnished house. Inquire 609 Bemidji avenue. FOR RENT. For Rent—Barn at rear of postoffice, known as the S. P, Hayth barn, apply at 406 Minnesota avenue. FOR RENT—Cottage at 916 Min- nesota avenue. Call at the Henrionnet millinery parlor. FOR RENT — Nicely furnished rooms. Inquire 915 Lake Boule- vard. — _—— LOST and FOUND BVt St syt A LOST — Large garnet brooch, be- tween I.0.O.F. building and Melges’ residence. Finder please return to Pioneer office. MISCELLANEOUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library - in basement of Court House. Mrs. Donald, librarian WANTED — Second-hand piano, quote price. Address E. A. B, 1024 Beltrami Ave. M. E. IBERTSON COUNTY CORONER AMD LICENSED EMBALMER Undertaking a Specialty Day and Night Calls Answered Promptly Phone—Day Call 317-2; Night Call 317-3 First Door North of Postoffice Bemidii, Minn **Devices for Hanging Up the Litele Things"" Moore Push-Pins Moore Push-Points Moore Push-Tacks Moore Push-Buttons i e Ao