Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 28, 1910, Page 1

e e THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER flistbricfl Socieey."fi%é‘! - - : TMINNESOTR | BISTORICAL | SOCIETY. VOLUME 8. NUMBER 205. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. SAILOR JACK, IN NEW TIGHTS, TACKLES EDD Again Takes on Man With Whom He Was Wrestling When Begsley so Rudely Stopped Match GETS CHALLENGE FROM DULUTH Fireman Champion Offers to Put Him on His Back Three Times in Hour; Mariner Accepts. “Sailor Jack” has bought a new wrestling costume aad is to go after Pete Edd again. Edd is the man who was showing up well against Sailor Jack im the little affair at the Armory Opera house Saturday eve- ning, when Brother Begsley reached over and grabbed the Sailor’s tights, which was sufficient excuse to stop even a wrestling match. Jack and Peter meet at the Star Theatre tonight and the plans and specifications read as follows. Sailor Jack’s Task OQutlined. “‘Sailor Jack agrees to throw Peter Edd three times within an hour of actual wrestling or forfeit the entire purse of $200. If he fails to do this Edd wins the match.” All of which looks fair to Edd who declares he is going to puta reef in Jack’s sails. On top of this comes more trouble for the navigator. It is unfolded in the following letter: “‘Sporting Editor, Daily Pioneer. “Dear Sir—In your edition of yes- terday I saw an account of a wrest- {ling match in which Sailor Jack “‘done things’ to his opponents in your city, It strikes me that the Sailor has a fondness for ‘roughing things’ where he is ‘cock of the walk.’ { would like a chance to take the mariner on in a wrestling match and, although giving him credit for being one of the best men of his weight in the country, I will un- dertake to throw him three falls in one hour of actual wrestling. Hop- ing a match can be arranged for the aear future, I am, Yours very truly, Martin Johnson, Fire Dept. Headquarters, Duluth, Minn.” “My weight is 168 pounds.” (“The fireman wrestler.”) Jack is Willing. Sailor Jack has been shown the challenge and he has agreed to meet the flame fighting athlete at the head of the lakes. “Of course,” said Sailor Jack, “he isa heavier man than I am but I will accept his proposition and if his wrestling is no better than his line of hot air dope, he won’t last long.” BRAINERD TO PLAY BEMIDJI Big Football Team Meets Visitors Here on Saturday. The recently organized Bemidji football team, of which Ted Getchell is manager and George Hanson, captain, will play a team from Brain- erd here Saturday. The game will be started at 2:30 on the fair grounds girdiron. The Bemidji boys have been doing some good practice work and as the Brainerd eleven is known to be a swift, husky team, a great contest is assured. The Bemidji lineup follows. Le Roy Lindsay, It Ted Getchell, ig Fay Brennaman, ¢ Claude Bren- naman, rg Otto or Gillis, rt Pete Edd, re Scott Stewart, gb McCul- lough, fb John Hillaby, 1h Gill Man- tor, rh Ceo. Hanson. SWEDBACK T0 USE STICKERS A Good Man Never Quits. Through circumstance over which I had no control, some of the peti- tions I had sent out to be signed in order to permit my name to go upon the ballot, did not reach me in time, and as a result my name is left out from the official compilation of candidates. But inasmuch asI am in receipt constantly of urgent support and solicitation to run, from different sections of the county, and further that my failure to appear upon the ballot with the rest of the candidates was not due to the lack of signers, but because one or two peti- tions did not arrive in time to be filed Tuesday Oct. 18, I feel it would be a disappointment to my friend to withdraw at this time hence I bhave decided to make the run with stickers, and feel confident that my friends will agree with me in my decision and will heartily support me inmy campaign. WhileI may be asking considerable of the voters in this county and this city to write my name on the ballot (or use sticker) besides marking an X, yet I think I have a sufficent number of friends who will be pleased to go to this extra trouble in order to see me elected. Yours for success, Charles S. Swedback. —_— BROWN BALKS PETTY GRAFT Associate Justice, Father of Bemidji Attorney, Refuses Dance Tickets. In referring to Justice Calvin L. Brown, father of Monte Brown, the Bemidji attorney, the St. Paul Dis- patch, in an item revealing the petty graft to which political candi- dates are exposed, says: “It has remained for Calvin L. Brown, associate justice of the state supreme court to produce a classic refusal of tickets. *‘Candidates for office are looked upon as legitimate prey by those ar- ranging social affairs having a finan- cial side. The sending of tickets to candidates and requesting a check in exchange is as customary as the receipt of mail. The members -of the bench suffer the least from this, but one such appeal came yesterday to Judge Brown, containing ten tick- ets to a dance. “The judge returned the tickets with: the following letter: “Dear Sir—I return herewith the ten tickets to the first annual ball of the ‘People’s Independent Republican club,’ appointed to be held in Minneapolis on October 26, which I received from you yesterday. I am unable to dis- pose of them. ““The truth of the matter is that the people over here in St; Paul are loath to go so far to attend a dance, and they decline to buy the tickets. Am out ot the habit my- self, and therefore return the tickets that you may not be de- layed in disposing of them to those who enjoy entertainments of this kind, Very respectfully, «C. L. Brown."” Announcement. Attorney A. A. Andrews has moved his office from the Schroeder Building to the ground floor build- ing at 310 Minnesota Ave. Tele- phone 395, and Prices of may be enumerated; Increased cost of production of land values and higher wages. occupations and localities. in increased expenditu-es for ferti Increased banking facilities in farmres to hold their crops and m commodities as timber. tend to advance prices. Increased cost of distribution, Industrial combinations. Advertising. Increased money supply. Overcapitalization. Higher standard of living, HITS AGENTS; THANKS PUBLIC Editor Oliver Happy in Belief “Law- less Cowboys’’ Are Doomed. A. A. Oliver, editor of the Cass County Pioneer, while in Bemidji last evening, dictated the following card of thanks: «I wish to extend my thanks to representative citizens of the northern part of the state of Min- nesota for their hearty' good: will have been conducting to secure better government in our Indian department.” Mr. Oliver has been active in his efforts to protect the rights of the citizens of this part of North- ern Minnesota against urjust in vasions by what he terms ‘‘law- less cowboys turned loose by the Indian bureau of the interior de- partment.” It was Mr. Oliver who started the now famous Sero-Daviscase by swear- ing out warraats for their arrest on a charge of assault. More recently he has been enegaged in securing evi- dence charging different agents with extortion from saloonkeepers. “I think my work along this line is now about completed,” said Mr. Oliver last night, “for our country is getting rid of the ‘standing army’ with which the government has seen fit to infest us. Every good citizen is willing to aid the government and demand obedience to laws when the government goes about it in a re- spectable manner.” PLAYS IN BAGLEY TONIGHT Masten’s Orchestra to Give Concert; Dance to Follow. Masten’s orchestra left this after- noon for Bagley, where tonight it will give a concert to be followed by a dance. The members of the who went are: Director Harry Masten and wife, H. E. Anderson, Arthur Brown, George Kinney, Herbert Wood and Andrew Rood. Mr. Rood goes as a soloist. i The orchestra will return on the|, late train tonight, Next Friday the orchestra goes to Cass Lake. orchestra | WANTED—Place to work for board and room while attending school. Address A. B. Pioneer. Sweet cream, extra creamery but- ter, strictly fresh eggs, at Peterson’s. THE REASONS FOR HIGHER PRICES. From the Report of the Selecct Committee of }lh 5 § Senate on Wages Among the many causes contributing to tlxg» advance in prices Increased demand for farm products and food. Shifting of population from food-producing to food-consuming Immigration to faod-consuming localities. Reduced fertility of land resulting in lower average production or results in steadying prices, but also tends to advance prices. Reduce supply convenient to transportation facilities of such Cold-storage plants which result in preventing extreme fluctua- tions of prices of certain commodities with the seasons, but by en- abling the wholesalers to-buy and sell at the best possible advantage Commodities. " 1 farm products:by reason of higher lization, agricultural localities which enable arket to the best advantage. This \ Organizations of producers or of dealers. e e e e S S | SAW SIGHTS; SOON SUES, But Erick Cheltin Fails to Recover $83 Spent for Drugs. It c‘)st Erick Cheltin, young, am- bitious; and inquisitive, . $83 and much mortification as the result of his first trip along the primrose path. In municipal court today before Judge Pendergast, Erick appeared as the complaining witness against L. Chandler gnd‘ }( _ Jorgenson, whom he accused ét.baving swindled him out of thé above sum by furnish- ing him with spurious drugs. It developed that, Erick set out one night not long ago to see the sights. Asa result he appeared glad to avail himself of aid proffered by Chandler and Jorgenson, even to the extent of paying over $83 for the 'drugs which failed to effect a cure. ' Judge Pendergast ‘was unable to see where the accused men had done anything illegal and dismissed the case. UNGLE SAM WANTS HELP Has Positions to Offer, Paying Up to $2,000 a Year. Civil service examination to fill positions in the federal service pay- ing salaries. from $500 to $2,000 a year have been announced. The highest salaried position is that of linotpye machinist at the $2,000 salary. Practical questions will give credits of 30 per cent; rhysical ability will count for 30 per cent and training and experience for 40 per cent. . A telegraph operator at $2.80 a day is wanted for the navy yard at Pensacola, Fla., and in this training and experience count for one-half the credits and common school subjects for the balance. A baker for the Genoa Indian school in Nebraska is wanted at $500 a year and quarters. Physical ability counts for 40 per cent and training and experience for 60 per cent. The fourth position is that of blue- printer at salaries ranging trom $2.24 to $2.48 a day. Experience and practical knowledge count for all the credits for this place. All the examinations will be held November twenty-third. Duluth Boy Dies of Football Injuries. Ithaca, N. ¥., Oct. 27.—L. B, Paine, Duluth, Minn., acting captain of the Cornell freshman football team,is dead from internal injuries re- ceived while playing football. “HAD TO SHOOT:” JENKINS ““Approached My Wife,” Says ‘ Rosen —Prisoner Bound Over. Joseph Jenkins, arrested on a charge of having _attempted to kill Martin Rosen and wife at whom he fired four shots from a 38 calibre revolver Wednesday evening, was today bound over to await the action of the grand jury. Municipal Judge Pendergast, be- fore whom Jenkins was arraigned fixed bail in the sum of SSOO and in default of bonds Jenkins was locked up in the county jail. In court Jenkins claimed that he had used the revolver in self defense and that Rosen had threatened him with a gun, following a dispute over the price of a soft drink which Jenk- ins claims he purchased in the Rosen place on Second street. Rosen, who swore out the com- plaint, tells a different story. He says Jenkins forced his way into the living rooms of himself and wive and and that Jenkins made an improper proposal to his wife. Rosen says that when he entered the room and objected to Jenkins presence, Jenkins pulled the revolver and be- gan shooting. ) One of the bullets wounded Jenk- ins in the fleshy part of his arm, but the injury 1s not serious. Nothing is “just as good” as the best. Lowney’s chocolate bon bons| are the best. Only at Peterson’s. ATTORNEY GENERAL GITES GLUB RULING Following ths decision of the city council Monday evening to determine the legal right of tbe city to compel the Metropolitan club to pay a $500 saloon license, the Pioneer appealed to the at- torney general for an opinion on the supject. The reply from St. Paul follows: “In reply to your letter to the At- torney General under date of Octo- ber 25, I have to say that the Su- preme Court held that the Minneso- ta club could not distribute to its members, for a consideration, intoxi- cating liquors in less ‘quantities than five gallons. “You will find this case reported in 106 Minn. 515. “Yours Truly, “Lyndon A. Smith, Assistant At- torney General.” ' The Minnesota club is an organi- zation of the most prominent busi- ness men in St. Paul and is similiar to the Metropolitan club here. The Great American Play. For local playgoers the taret of the season comes next when at the Armory Theatre the United Play Company will present Eugene Walter’s drama of New York life of today, “Paid in Full”, The Brotherhood of David meeting, which was to have been held tonight, has been indefinitely postponed. All the Sunday papers, all the magazines at Peterson’s. Steenerson Alters Date. Congressman Steenerson will speak at Blackduck on _the even- ing of Nov. 1, He speaks in the afternoon of that day at Turtle River, Oct. 31 he speaks ‘in Kelliher. Fancy fruit for the .table or sick room, everything in the market al- ways, at Peterson’s. FOREST FIRES STARTED BY RAILROAD ENGINES Canadian Northern Held Responsible for Destruction of Spooner and Bau- dette, Say Investigators 29 ARE DEAD; LOSS $5,000,000 As Result "uy Prosecutions Against Transportation Company for Dam- ages Have Been Started. The Cavnadian Northern railroad is held responsible for the fire which destroyed Baudette and Spooner, in a report made to C. C. Andrews, forestry commissioner, by George Chapin of St. Paul and Frank Curtis of Roosevelt, who have been investi- gating the origin of the forest fires in Minaesota for the past two weeks. Fire Tracked to Railroad. The report says there Is sufficient evidence to show fhat a fire was set by the railroad on the Canadian side curing the latter part of July This fire covered about eight square miles. It burned up to the west side of Baudette and lay smouldering until Oct. 7. About the same time a fire was set on the right of way just east of the Winter Road river. This fire work- ed east three miles and about two milés back on each side of the track, where it connected with the fire which was started on the Baudette side of the river. Moss Holds the Flames. This fire also jay smouldering in the moss, gradually eating’ into the root of the timber and feeding it, mauking conditions favorable for an- other fire. Four, other fires also were started in this vicinity in August, covering from one to eight square miles. These fires were also fanned into life Oct. 7 and resulted in the terrible disaster. Eight prosecutions against the Canadian Northern railway for allow- ing combustible material on the right of way are now pending in the dis- trict court of Beltrami county. Loss is $5,000,000. The loss from the recent fires is estimated at about $5,000,000 by the agents of the forestry commis- sion. Of this, property valued at $1,700,000 was destroyed in the towns. The exact number of dead is placedat 29. This is below the last reports sent from Baudette which placed the loss of life at 34. 800 Persons Homeless. In a report to the governor, Gen- eral Wood says there are 800 home- less families to be provided for. He has already arranged for the ship- ment of enough lumber to build 50 houses in the fire district. General Wood reports there is great jealousy between Baudette and Spooner and that the relief com- mittee will have to use great di- plomacy. The general reached St. Faul last night. Three Demand Pay from Railroad. Fergus Falls, Oct. 28—Three suits have been begua in the United States court here against the Canadian Northern for dam- ages sustained by the recent fires in Beltrami and adjoining counties. The suits are brought by William A. Smith, Frank B. Emrey and William Haugen, @The complaints. allege that the Canadian Northern between War- road and Baudette, negligently per- mitted dry grass, weeds and other combustible materials to accumulate on its right of way, and that weeds took fire from sparks from . passing engines, and the fire spread and destroyed the property of the plain- tiffs, who own adjacent farms. Mr. 'Smith asks damages of $2,177. Mr. Emery’s losses. were confined to 'timber, and he asks- $2,500.. “I NDEFECTIV/VE DANCE | | L aepilithamdlle [ o