Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1910, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI VOLUME 8. NUMBER 251. BINNESSTA S8CIETY, TEN CENTS PER WEEK. GOES INSANE FOR THE SECOND TIME Calice Quesnel Adjudged Insane Yester- day in Probate Court By Judge Clark COMMITTED TO ASYLUM TWICE Subject to Spells Which He Regards as Dreams — Pioneer Beltrami County Man. Calice Quesnel, 40 years old, and a resident of Hornet Township, Bel- trami county was examined in Pro- bate Court yesterday afternoon as He was found to be of unsound mind, and was taken to Fergus Falls last night by Deputy Sheriff Rutledge. Quesnel is of Canadian birth and has been a resident of Beltrami county for over twenty-six years. He is married and is the father of six children. This is the second time that Quesnel has been found to be wrong mentally. He was committed to the Fergus Falls asylum three years ago last Jure, released on parole the following August and discharged as being in sound health in March 1908. Friends of the unfortunate man are of the opinion that he has never been well since his discharge several years ago, and say that he has re- peatedly shown spells of insanity. During these spells he has on sev- eral occasions, it is said, made many a:tacks upon the life of his wife, a razor being his favorite weapon. Upon regaining his senses he claims he has had a dream. One of his most repeated habits is to wake up during the night and swear that the house is full of men, and that they are after him. Quesnel at times is unable to recognize his own family. Judge M. A. Clark of the probate court has committed two men to the Fergus Falls Asylum during the last few days. Herman Louis Manck, of Gettys- burg, South Dakot?, who was found to be 1nsane Wednesday in probate court, was taken to the Fergus Falls insane ?sylum this afternoon. Because Manck was not a resident of Minnesota, he was not seat to the asylum upon being found to be of un- sound mind. Judge M. A. Clark re- ceived committment papers this morning from the state board ofcon- trol stating that the unfortunate man should be sent to the Fergus Falls institution. Maack is a woodsman, and was working at the Rebedew Lake camp whea he was first noticed to be act- ing rather queerly. to his sanity. Town of Langor. Thos. Johnson is here from Orth to spend Christmas with his family. Mr. Johunson is employed by Walter Nelson in Orth. Logging operations are seriously bindered at several of the camps owing to the scarcity of water for icing the roads. R. F. Juneau has gone to Thief River Falls to spend the holidays with his family. Hermanson & Neice are getting out a large amount of cedar and ties this winter, Mrs. Peter Hermanson visited her son Juluis, at Kelliher last week. G. Goodwater is reported on the sick list y Miss Orpha Johnson has arrived home to spend the holidays with her parents. C. A. Peterson is becoming quite a regular visitor in Langor Town. W. M. Higbee was a Bemidji visi- tor recently. Langor school closed Friday for a week’s vacation. Mrs. J. C. Hobland is visiting relatives at Bagley this week. Boe Bros. are busily engaged with their logging operations. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Higbee will spend Christmas with Mr. Higbee’s parents at Summit Hill Farm, near Hines. BEWARE OF HOLIDAY FIRES Christmas Decorations Bring Many Extra Hazards—CareShould be Used Christmas is a time of good cheer and universal happiness but it is not with unmingled pleasure that the fire insurance men view the appro- ach of the Yuletide season. This is because the holiday season always brings with it many disastrous fires. Fires mean insurance losses to be paid and the insurance men naturally deplore anything that means the payment of heavy losses for the heavier the losses the less the divi- dends of the insurance companies. Bemidji insurance agents gener- ally agree that fire los-es are gen- | erally ;heavier at Christmas time than atany other time of the year with the possible exception of the Fourth of July and and the week preceding. Window displays of the Christmas season also increase the fire hazard. Twinkling lights nestling in banks of flimsy white materials naturally present opportunities for a con- flagration. There are hundreds of chances to start a blaze when the Christmas season in on. Most are not in the gay windows, however, they are found, on the contrary, in the packing rooms. There an unusual amount of goods is constantly being handled. Much waste packing is scattered about. There is a constant rush and a whirl, ing turmoil. New clerks and inex- perienced helpers add to the confu- sion. Here and there is a cigaret smoker. A bit of glowing ash drop- ped in a pile of excelsior may mean a blaze that will cost millions. JOSEPH F. BOSS BURIED Omaha World Herald Tells of Former Bemidji Man’s Funeral. The Omaha World Herald runs the following regarding a former Bemidji wan. Fuperal services for Joseph F. Boss, who died suddenly at Chicago, December 14, were held at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at St. Peter’s church, burial at Holy Sepulcher cemetery. E The Rev. P. A. McGovern, pastor, said the funeral mass, and the Rev. Father Dowd read the prayer at the cemetery. The deseased wasa mem- ber of the Knights of Columbus ard Modern Woodmen organizations, and _ previous to his illness was prominent in the lumber world of the middle west. Mrs. Boss is the daughter of W. A. McElroy of the Western Union granddaughter of the late G. M. O’Brien, one of the pioneers of Ne- braska, Floral tributes - were many and beautiful, * - The remains were accompanied o Omaba by the widow aod brother, E. G. Boss, of Sydney, O. . ’ Telegraph comgany of Omaha and a | IMAKES NEW BELTRAMI MAP Shows Every Part of County and In- cludes all Railroads. i A new map, showing Beltrami county to be almost a small empire in size and the first map to display every part of the county surveyed, has been completed and copyrighted by E. J. Bourgeois, civil engineer, of this city, during the last few days. No other township map of Beltrami county having been drawn during the last ten years, the new work of Mr. Bourgeous fills a long felt want among the settlers and business men of this rapidly developing section of the state, and as the compiler has been engaged in active engineering work in this county since 1900, its accurateness is unquestioned. The “northwest angle,” which lies on the opposite side of the Lake of the Woods and is not connected by land with the United States but is a part of Beltrami county, is shown Cornfield and Oak Islands in that lake, also belonging to Beltrami county'are exhibited “on the map. The entire north country, between upper Red Lake and the Baudette- Spooner region, is surveyed in de- tail, as well as all the new town- ships between Baudette and the east- ern boundary of Roseau county. The townships of Lee, Hamre, Steener- erson, Benville, Spruce Grove and Cinnie, northwest of Red Lake, are placed on a map for the first time. Beltrami county, including the “northwest angle,”” is 134 miles in length, from the southern to the nor- thern boundry, where canada bor- ders the United States; it has four counties, Roseau, Red Lake, Mar- shall and Clearwater, along the west- ern line; Hubbard and Cass on the southern boundery; and Itasca and Koochiching touching Beltrami on the east. The new “Soo” line, the ‘old and the mew reservation lines, and every logging railroad i the county are sketched on this map. The scale is two miles to the inch. Mr. Bourgeous has put these maps on sale at remarkably low price all under $2, and the price varying according to the weight of the paper used. They can be secured at any time at the Pioneer office. Kaiser Loses Property By Fire. Fire which totally destroyed the warehouse and woodshed - of Al Kaiser, cashier of the First National Bank in Bagley, broke out at an early hour this morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss will amount to $250, with no insurance. S Prompt work on the part of the Bagley fire department saved the ad- joining building from dstruction. ANY PAPER MAY PRINT THE DITCH NOTICES Judge Stanton Renders Decision in Cases Bron;llt‘by Publishers of the Sentinel. MAY CHARGE FULL LEGAL RATE Work at Contract Price of Connty Printing. Any ',__newspaper in the county awarded the work is entitled to publish the judicial ditch. notices arising ‘from the necessity of pub- lishing all proceedings in connection with the judicial ditches which are being - comstructed in Beltrami county, according to a decision which Judge C. W. Stanton of the district court handed down today. The decision was rendered in four suits, involving various amounts but totalling $75.55 which the firm of Rood ‘& Marcum brought against the county, the bills having been al- lowed by the board of county com. missionérs but later held up by the county ittorney on account of not being presented at the contract rate for confl;gv printing. The #ttorneys in charge of ditch ponytmétion believed that it was necess:fy to have the notices pub- lished in the official county paper an‘g l(:(:orgl}_pgly awarded the print. in od & M_;a:rz\ain. That firm, in making out its bill to the Lcounty, charged the full legal rate, considerable more than their con- tract rate for the official printing of the county, and although the com- missioners allowed the bill, Mr. McKusick held it up, believing that the publishers were required to print the notices at the contract rate. Judge Stanton’s decision grants the plaintiffs the amount claimed, interest from Aug.1, and the costs and disbursements of their action. In the memorandum following his decision, Judge Stanton said: “The only question involved here- in is whether it is incumbent upon Court Declares Unnecessary to Do This| i the plaintiffs, as publishers of the Bemidji Sentinel, to publish the notices of judicial ditch hearings as official county printing and to be re- stricted in their cbarge for said pub- lication to the rate per folio desig- nated in a certain contract entered into by the Sentinel Printing' Com- pany and the county of Beltrami on Javuary 6th 1910. *“The contract referred to obligates the Sentinel Printing Company to publish, during the year 1910, certain designated county statements and proceedings and ‘all other legal county notices required by law tq be published’ for :about one fourth of the legal rate for such publications. I bave assumed, n view of the evi. dence, which conclusion is perhaps questionable, that the plaintiffs are bound by the contract made by the Sentinel Printing Company. “Under this contract, then, the plaintiffs are required to publish all legal county notices required by law to be published. The test, 1t seems to me, to ascertain what is a legal county notice, is to determine whether the notice is required by law to be published in a newspaper officially designated by the county. In other words, would the require- ments of the law be complied with by the publication of the notice in any other legal newspaper in the county? If it could be sollpublished then this contract does not control, because these plaintiffs cannot be re- quired to publish fory thg reduced rate a notice which they could not, under the terms of their contract, demand the right to publish.” “The law requiring the publica- ion of the notices of the hearing in- volved herein (Sec. 2, Chapter 469, laws of 1909) reads that said notices shall ‘be published for three succes- sive weeks in a newspaper; printed and published in said} Scounty.’ There is no requirement that they be published in any particularfnews- paper, or in a newspaper designated by the county as the official news- paper for any purposes. It seems plain, therefore, that the publication of the notices in the Bemidji Senti- nel, notwithstanding the said con- tract, was subject to the same legal charge therefor, to which any other legal newspaper would have been entitled.” G (17 7 MR. HILL AGAIN PREDICTS HARD TIMES. ONE OF THESE DAYS HE’LL STRIKE IT RIGHT. —McCutcheon in Chicago PRESIDENT TAFT T0 TAKE THE LID OFF An Executive Order Expected Regard- ing the Indian Treaty Regulation. STATE RIGHTS TO BE CONSIDERED Temperance Bodies Protest Against Any Modification of the Terms of Treaties. From the best information that can be obtained the indications are that President Taft eventually will issue an executive order removing the liquor ban from a large part of the Indian country in Minnesota. The president has given R. E. Nicholson, of the Anti-Saloon League of America time to make an investigation as to whether there are citizen Indians in any numbers in parts of the territory covered by the treaty of 1851, fol- lowing which he will be prepared teo act. Congress also is to be asked to ex- ercise its authoity and modify the treaties which the president cannot touch, so that the sale of liquor will be prohibited only in territory in which Indians actually live in num- bers.: Following a declaration that the activities of the government in sup- pressing the sale of liquor in Minne- sota is an invasion of state rights, the members of the Minnesota dele~ gation, who have come to the front, decided that congress should be asked to supplement the president’s execu- tive order by opening ‘a part of the tertritory covered by the two treaties of 1855 and possibly those of 1847 and 1854. Representative Miller, who is a member of the house committee on Indian affairs, is named as the official sponsor of the proposed legislation. It is expected that he will introduce a repeal bill immediately after the president acts and immediate action will be secured. It is belleved that Secretary Ballinger will not interpose serious objection to the passage of the bill as he indicated in his annual re- port his belief ‘that the government should not exercise police supervision over white communities nor over l‘n— dians from whom all other restric- tions had been removed. President Taft’s conference with the temperance and reform advocates yesterday indicated that he was most anxious to keep liquor from the In- dians, both citizen and non-citizen, and that he is inclined to continue the ban at any place where he is con- vinced there are Indians in large numbrs. ‘Where he can he is in- clined to exercise his authority and “open” white territory. Rev. Wilber F. Crafts and former Senator Blair of New Hampshire, representing the International Re- form bureau, and Mrs. Emma S. Shelton, representing the W. C. T U. opposed any modification of existing treaties. Mrs. Shelton prsented telegrams in support of her attitude from Mrs. Rosetta Hendricks, pres- ident of the Minnesota W. C. T. U., and from several Minneapolis persons whose names she did not furnmish. Her statement to the president was short and was a vigorous protest against & change in any of the ex- isting treaties. $10 REWARD offered by the Public Ownership, (Socialist), Party local of Bemidji to any one that will best Ralph Korn- gold in debate at Armory tonight. . Will any one accept? Of course they will. Socialists are “all wrong.” Come and‘see the fun. Admission’ to this lecture will be FREE. Bring your friends. HISTORICAL | ILY PIONEER BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1910, . b