Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 7, 1910, Page 1

stofical Society, e o MINNESOTA | HISTORICAL SOCIETY, H THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER 'VOLUME 8. NUMBER 17. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENfNG, MAY 7, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. DISTRICT JUDGE CONDEMNS THE STATE LAND POLICY Judge Stanton Denounces Method, Time and Place of Selling Minne- sofa’s Public Domain. CONTRARY TO GOOD BUSINESS, NOT SQUARE DEAL WITH U.S. Koochiching County Losing Popula- tion—Development Association at Big Falls Today. [Continued from Yesterday's Paper.] *'It should devolve upon the state to at all times make reasonable and constant effort to attract settlers and to provide them with opportunity to maintain and enjoy decent roads, good schools, religious societies, township organizations, and the many things incident to a comfort- able and happy i rural existence. And so I contend that the primary object of the state in dealing with its lands in northern Minnesota, should be to attract settlers, and| that every provision should be enacted with that purpose in view. The value of the land itself is insignificant in comparison with the value of the benefits ‘to the state, and particularly to the community in which the land is situated, of hav- ing it occupied and improved by a bona fide settler. The taxes on the property thus directly and indirectly added to the valuation of the state would soon exceed the value of the land, to say nothing of the manifold beneficial results of thus populating sparcely settled communities. The policy of the state should be founded upon the principle that every tract of land in the state should be some citizen’s home, and the nearer it comes to the accomplishment of that purpose the nearer perfect it will be. “Much of the state land in this county is of superior quality, as rich and productive as any in the state. This statement has verification in the fact that in the year 1908 the school lands sold in this county brought an average price of $8.86 per acre, while the aggregate sale in the state, including 19 counties, brought an average of only $6.58 per acre; and in the same year the swamp lands sold in this county brought an average price of $9.20 per acre, while the aggregate sales in the state, including 16 counties, brought an average of only $6.23 per acre. “The time is now at hand when actual conditions loudly and un- mistakeably proclaim that the people of Koochiching and neighboring counties must present their griev- ances and appeal to fairness and justice of the great commonwealth of Minnesota to do the right thing by that important portion of its domain which awaits development. i And this association, formed, as its name implies, for the purpose of aiding in the county’s development, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE T0 MAKE GOUNT BIG? Have You Given Any Information Out to the Enumerators? Have You Made Your Guess? Again we say, how big is Bemidji? Keep a coming with your guesses and don’t stop. Bemidji really looks is at once confronted with a real, live, important public duty, the manner in performance of which duty will conspicuously affect the future development of this section of the state. “The state must be induced to adopt a more liberal policy in the disposition of its lands,—a policy that will attract settlers and help to transform the wilderness into farms and homes. One suggestion that is not without merit is to place large quantities of this ‘land upon the market at frequent intervals, to be sold to actual, bona fide sel- tlers only, and to be so generous with the timber as to amount to an inducement for its purchase and settlement, This plan could be adopted as to both achool and swamp lands without the necessity of a constitutional amendment. «Another suggestion is to carry out the spiritand purpose of the swamp land grant in good faith by taking away the minimum price restriction and sell a large quantity of these lands at frequent intervals, at public sale, to the highest bid- der, who will be required to be- come an actual settler. To so dispose of this land for less than $3.67 an acre might require a con- stitutional amendment, but pro- bably enough of it could be sold to accomplish the result desired at this price and more, thus leaving the matter to legislative enact- ment. “Some method, at least, approxi- mating these suggestions can be de- vised and enacted into law, which will bring settlers in sufficient numbers, so that with liberal state policy to aid in the coustruction of roads, the now unoccupied, untaxed state lands will be the homes of thrifty settlers, the state will add many thousands of families to its population and the public wealth will be enormously enhanced. “Agitation is what is needed. There is work for this and similar organizations in northern Minne- sota to do. The people of Minne- sota are not acquainted with the facts. You must see that they are informed. That is all that is needed. The people are fair and want the right thing to be done always. But, like our neighbors in Missouri, they will insist upon being shown, and it is your duty to show [Continued on Last Page.} ~|Buy a Good Farm I am offering for sale SW of the SW of Sec. known as and occupied at C. F. Tramp. 33 acres cleared; 80 rods to a school house; 6 miles to Wilton, 4 miles to Soo right-of-way and 9 miles to Bemidji. The place has considerable timber enough, when marketed, to pay what owner asks). A good frame dwelling 16x20 with an addition 12x20 and 10x12. The house is back plastered and papered; also a good ba house. the work of the farm. seeded and goes with the Price, $ Tramp, at the farm. Miles Block This place is an excellent one, has been well kept up and is ready for the purchaser to take up This year’s crop has been You may talk with the undersigned or with Mr. C. J. Pryor the SE} of Sec 1, and the 12, Town 147, Range 34, the present by the owner, (nearly rn, granary and chicken place. 2,000.00 Bemidji, Minn. bigger today than it did a month or three weeksnago. The numerators carry a bigger smile than when they first started the count and judging from this, things are coming faster with them, Everybody should help everbody else and all together we should help the enumerators. A. G. Rutledge, enumerator in the fourth ward has nearly all the hotels and boarding houses to canvass and in order to get all the tenants that rightfully belong to Bemidji he must be up at all hours of the night and day. Before six in the morning and after six in the evening is his busy time. Boarding house proprietors and hotel proprietors can be of con- siderable assistance to the enumera- tors if they will only take the time to see thateverybody housed in their various establishments is properly listed. Make it a point that these lists left by the enumerators are filled out and returned to the proper enumerator. The guessing department of the Pioneer is kept exceptionally busy counting all the various estimates. A guess turned in by Henry R. Johnson of 10,000 is the highest venture up to date. Mr. Johnson lives in Nymore. Right here it would be well to give the public a little tip. If we want to reach over the 5,500 mark we have all got to help. How many of you have given the enumerators any assist- ance to date? What have you done to help boost the population count? Surely you know of someone who bas been or will be overlooked. Get busy. Keep thinking a few additional guesses. Genevieve Fosster. Mrs. A. Foster Altine Foster... George A. Secor Oscar Christianson Ralph Johnson Stanley Vye ... Hart Aubolie. Emma Klein Elanie Boyed. Elizabeth Anderson Evelyn Anderson ., Mrs: Leonard Nelson Esther Tennstrom Mrs. 1, Newton ., Jennie Newton Alex Newton , .5432 .5350 .6899 .5235 Mrs, James N. Bunn , Frank W. Schroder Mrs. G. V. Cady. Percy Botting. Kenie Botting Mr.G. L. Botting... Mrs. H. G. Botting Pearl Botting .... Effie Klungness Joe Klungness... Ruth Miner Henry R. Johnson Mrs. Bert Carver. SMALL PIKE FOR BEMIDJI. The state game and fish commis- sion’s private car, with from 75 to 100 cans of pike minnows, will come to Bemidji within a few days, according to a statement made by J. A. Wessel of St. Paul, 2 member of the commission, who was in the city on business yesterday. At least 50 cans of these pike, which have been taken from the state hatcheries at St. Paul and Glenwood, are the best variety, will be distributed in Lake Bemidji and nearby waters. The car, which is in charge of Superintendent of Fisheries Cobb, will come up by way of Park Rapids, over the Great Northern. Carlton Trial Today. John Carlton, who was arrested at Winnipeg two weeks ago for holding up a Blackduck farmer on the shore of Lake Bemidji, wag given a hearing late todaybefora Court Commissioner Slocum. BEMIDJI BOAT GLUB RENEWS INTEREST Will Co-operate With Improvement League in Beautifying and Clear- ing the Lake Shore LUMBER COMPANIES PICKING UP LOGS AND “DEAD HEADS” Former Docks Around Lake Shore Will Be Replaced.—Club Wants More Members. Members of the Bemidji Boat club are awaking to the boat- men’s needs on Lake Bemidji for the coming summer, and will hold their first meeting early next week. Dr. G. M. Palmer, commodore of the club, and H. E. Reynolds, secretary, are planning extensive improvements in boating in the vicinity for this season. The good work of the club in getting the lake shore cleaned last spring will be repeated, and the clyb expects to co-operate with the members of the :Bemidji Im- provement league in - keeping the boulevard, especially in the vicin- ity of the city boat house and the dock, clean and beautiful. Some members of the club desire to have grass seed planted between the streets and the lake in the business district. This, with a thorough cleaning and the repairs on the city dock and bandstand, will give Bemidji an exceptionally bright appearance at this much frequented place, 3 The steam tugs of the Bemidji and the Crookston Lumber 'companies are picking up the loose logs which bad bécome scattered ‘over the lake and hauling them to the booms, near the mills. The companies are also attempting to thoroughly clear the lake of “dead heads;” an act which will be appreciated by every boatman who likes to go on the water at night. The boat club will probably make arrangements to have the booms between Lakes Irvin and Bemidji kept open most of the time, so that there will be no interference with trips on the upper Mississippi and to Lake Plantag- net. 0Old docks at advantageous places around the lake, which have been carried away or stolen since last summer, will be replaced for this season by the membres of the boat club, and all necessary repairs will be made. The club established docks, which proved very conveni- ent, at Diamond Point, at the out- let of the Mississippi river at Birch- mont Beach near Mayo’s cottage, and just north of Lakeside, last summer, ’ The Bemidji Boat club has an enrollment of 45 members, who carry the club flag on their launckes. The boat club flag'is dark blue with the white letters, ‘B. B. C.” m monograph form, There are about 145 gasolines launches on Lake Bemidji this spring, and the mem- bers of the club will conduct a mem- bership campaign this season to get all of the owners interested in the organization, RAILWAY HAS FARMS TO SUPPLY DINING GARS. Chicken, Dairyand Truck Farms Main- tained by the Northern Pacific Railway Company. For something over a year the Northern Pacific has maintained a poultry farm at Kent, Washington near Seattle, where, on fifty-two acres, a flock of seven thousand white leghorn chickens is produc- ing 150 eggs a day for use on Nor- thern Pacific diners. Experiencing such marked success with its poultry, the railway com- pany will hereafter secure the milk and cream for its commissary depart- ment from a herd of three hundred thoroughbred milch cows maintained KING EDWARD VII IS DEAD PRINCE OF WALES, KING. London May 7.—King Edward 7th, who returned to Enaland froma vacation ten days. ago' in best of health, died at 11:55 last night in presence of family after illness less than three days. Prince of Wales succeeded to crown immediately according to laws of kingdom without official ceremony. King Edward is dead. The end came at 11:45 last night in the pres- ence of the family and after an ill- ness of but three days. The last words were “Well it is all over but I think I have done my duty.” These words fell from King Edward 7th in a waking interval late yester- day. A gloom has been hanging over the City of London and the provinces all day yesterdav. Bulle- tins’ have been issued every few minutes as to the king’s condition. During the King's illness the throngs were so absorbed in His Majesty’s illness that the arrival of the Prince of Wales attracted prac- tically no attention, - Early yesterday afternoon the members of the diplomatic corps called and signed the visitors book as did many other prominent personages. All left the Palace betraying by their expressions, the fears entertained. Various telegrams issued for the press yesterday were as follows: London, May 6th. “There is the highest unofficial authority for the statement that the King’s illness has already developed into double pneumonia. Lonnon, May 6th. The following bulletin was issued from Buckingham Palace at 6 p. m. The King’s symptoms have become worse during the day and His Majesty’s condition at this hour is critical. The death of King Edward will doubtless change the program for Mr. Rooseveit’s visit. The public entertainments will necessarily be postponed as will also the Guild Hall ceremony for the presentation of the freedom of tne city of London, the much planned gayety is turned into gloom. this the company has also planted four hundred acres of garden truck at the station of Paradise in Western Montana, a favored spot for veget- able culture. The products of these three institutions are to be consumed by the Dining Car Departmest. The Northern Pacific is the first railway in the country to undertake the production of edibles for its own dining cars, It also maintains a large bakery in Seattle, and is now building another one in St. Paul which will turn out all of the breads, pies cakes and pastery used. The bakery which the company has been maintaining for some time in Seattle became overtaxed in its efforts to supply all the cars on the entire sys- tem, hence the necessity of building a second bakery in St. Paul so that the cars may be supplied ateach end of the run. The Northern Pacific has gained considerable . notoriety -~ from the great -big baked potatoés which it serves.on its diniug cars, each of which weighstwo or over, the mam- moth spuds exciting much comment among travelers, and arousing the interest of Madame Schumann-Heink recently to the extent of causing her to get a barrel of them for planting on her New Jersey farm. BEMIDJI TO HAVE EGGS NUMBERED, AND FRESH Roe & Markusen Will Sell Faultless Eggs to Bemidji Users.—Blame " Laid. No more bad eggs for Bemidji. Something that has been looked for has at last reached this city. It is being distributed into nearly every home in Bemidji and will no doubt be greeted with much welcome. The firm of Roe & Markusen are placing on the market numbered eggs. Each egg delivered to their customers bears the number of some farmer who guarantees that the egg is strictly fresh. The numbering is done in this manner. The farmers are supplied with paste-board car- tons that hold one dozen eggs. The carton bears the label of the Hal- stad Creamery company and the guarantee that the eggs therein con- tained are strictly fresh. This com- pany has an agreement ‘with a cer- tain number of farmers, who, under contract, agree to gather their ‘eggs twice daily and gurantee them to be strictly fresh and full size. A note on the cartoon calls especial atten- tion to the fact that if the eggs are not strictly fresh, clean, and full size you will confer a favor to report to the local dealer, giving the num- ber found on the egg. The local dealers, Roe & Markusen, will in turn report to the Halstad company and the company will notify the farmer, and, if necessary, the farmer will notify the ben; so if the egg is bad it can be traced right to the hen that laid it. All that is lacking on these eggs is the name of the hen. Mr. Roe stated that this idea had been pending for sometime and he felt very much gratified that the plan was meeting with much favor- able comment and the approval of everyone who has thus far passed upon it. It. goes without saying that this firm will doubtless enjoy a in the same vlcln;ty.‘ In ;ddifion to large portion of Bemidji's egg busi- ness, : DOINGS IN THE VARIOUS GHURGHES OF THE CGITY Hours of Worship and Subjects of Ser- mons to Be Delivered in the City Sunday. Episcopal—Services will be held in the 1. O, O. F. hall at 8 p. m., con- ducted by Rev. H. F. Parshall. Sunday school at 4 p. m. Norwegian Lutheran—Services will be heldin the morning at 10:30; Sunday school, both Norwegian and English, at 12; and evening service at 8 o’clock, conducted by Rev. T. S. Kolste. All are cordially invited to attend these services. Presbyterian—Tomorrow will - be the annual observance of Mother’s Day. A special interest centers in the observance of this day. There will be special music. Please wear a white carnation in honmor of mother. The public is cordially invited to participate in this service. Bible class and Sunday school 12:15 J CE3p.m; Sr.C.E. 7 p. m. Evening service at™8. Strangers always welcome with us. BIG MASS MEETING AT GITY LIBRARY TUESDAY Bemidji Improvement League Have Called Meeting to Discuss Plans for City's Cleanliness. « Next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock there will be a mass meeting of the citizens of Bemidji in the Carnegi¢ library building for the purpose of discussing matters of cleaning the streets of Bemidji and year, and on that of Bemidji, Seed Gorn Contest All parties who have enrolled their names in the Seed Gorn Contest of - the First National Bank of Bemidji, Minn,, Can now receive the corn by calling or sending to the bank. There is difficulty in - securing seed corn this call before May 5th. All who enter this contest have an opportunity to win $2.50 to $10.00 by - bringing in a sample of the corn 2 raised from the seed furnished, to the Beltrami Co. Fair in the fall. ‘The First National Ban the parks and lake shore. Itis the desire of the Improve- ment ] league to have as many as possible present at this meet- ing. The director of the state sanitorium at Walker will address the meeting and many ideas that will be helpful will be contained in this address. ‘ The Bemidji Improvement league desires chairs, rugs and tables to furnish their rooms in the basement of the library and gladly receive aid from local citizens. NOTED SCHOLAR-EDITOR AT BIBLE GONFERENGE Bemidji Bible Conference, July 24-31, Will Be Addressed by Well Known Speakers.—Plans. Dr. A. C. Gaebelein of New York City, editor of “Our Hope,” and a Bible scholar of international repu- tation, will be present at the Bemidji Bible conference July 24-31. Rev. S. E. P. White, who received assur- ance of Dr. Gaebelein’s presence yesterday, stated that the visit of this speaker is sufficient to insure a large attendance at the conference. Dr. H. C. Swearingen, of the House of Hope church of St. Paul, will deliver an opening address, and will speak on the first of a series of studies on Hebrews. Other speak- ers of wide reputation are being se- cured for the week’s religious meet- ings which will be held in Bemidji. Reverend White and a committee are working energetically in prepara- tion for this meeting, which will be both interdenominational and mnon- sectarian. The conference will un- doubtedly be the largest ever held in Bemidji. account be sure to Mimesota =