Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1910, Page 1

Lo mectne { e o sy HlNNESfiTA L HISTORICAL | S : ; S§CIETY. VOLUME 8. NUMBER 252. BEMIDJI, DETROIT{MEN WANT GLEAR LAND TITLES Action of Indian Department Has Stopped All Developements in That Vicinity. < BIG PROTEST MEETING DEC. 29 Semators, Congressmen and Business Men Urged to Meet at Detroit Next Thursday. Strong efforts are being made by the citizens of Detroit, Minnesota, to clear the title to lands on the White Earth Reservation in that vi- cinity, over which there has been considerable controversy during the last few months. The latest move in this direction comes from the Detroit Commercial Club, which is sending out a call to the business men of Clay, Becker, Wadena, Hub- bard, Mahnomen, Clearwater, Bel- trami, Polk and Norman counties to attend a meeting to be held at De- troit next Thursday, Dec. 29, for the purpose of influencing the gov- ernment at Washington sufficiently to clear up the matter. In its call for the meeting, the Detroit Commercial Club says: “There has been from 6 to 10 mil- lions of dollars invested within the last four years on the White Earth Indian Reservation in an area .of 32 townships of land (about equally divided between prairie and timber) capable of affording farm homes for an average of 1,000 people to the township, or in all about 32,000 people. A small part of this land has been bought by people who have come here from the east and south for the purpose of settlement, but a question of title having been raised, they hesitate to make the necessary improvements in the way of build- ings, opening of highways and gen- eral development. Practically all of the immigration to these lands has bten stopped. “Phe law known as the ‘Clapp Amendment’ invited settlers here, and Congress authorized the sale of all lands held by mixed blood In- dians. Through the action of the departments of government, immi- gration into our state, settlement of these lands, all business growing out of its developement, and much traf- fic have been stopped and are at a standstill because these departments claim that some Indians of full blood have sold their land, although no interested person has been accord- ed a hearing on the question of whether the Indlaus had white blood The case was tried before Judge! C. W. Stanton, Judge M. A. Spooner | appearing for the Douglass Lumber company, G. M: Torrance for Bell & | - Company, and E. E. McDonald and John L. Brown for the plaintiff.] The verdict was awarded jointly | against the Douglass Lumber com-; pany and Bell & Company. Judge Spooner, on behalf of his client, appealed to the supreme court,’ where it was argued November 30 ¢ by him and P. J. McLaughlin of St. Paul. The decision of the supreme court follows: H “Jacob L. Brown, respondent, vs.‘l Douglass Lumber company, et. al., defendents; Douglass Lumber: com- pany, appellant. “Syllabus: First—Whether de- B fendent Bell & Co. were, as inde pendent contractors, solely respen sible to plaintiff for injury sustain- ed while in their employ was in this case a question for the injury. % ‘Seeond—The degree of diligence | required of the owner of dangerous machinery in guarding it. as pro- vided by statute, is greater than is ordinarily required of a master to see | that machinery and appliances fur- nished by him are free from defects. “Third—Where the issue is wheth- | er one has absolved himself from lia- bility by turning over control of a mill or factory to an independent contractor, it is error to permit evi- dence that prior to the making of thei contract the owner had taken out employers’ liability insurance. “Fourth—When' the trial court in its discretion directs the jury in ad- dition to the gemneral verdict to ans-t wer specific questions, the jurors are not at liberty to disregard such di- rection. “Fifth—Permitting experiments in the presence of the jury rests in the sound discretion of the trial court. “Sixth—Several minor rnlings considered. i “Reversed. —O’Brien, J. ELKS TO HAVE NEW HOME John Moberg Will Add Second'Story To Garage for Use of Elks. Bemidji Lodge,.numeber 1052 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has received plans for its new lodge rooms, anq work will be started on the structure as soon as the contract is let. The new Elk home is to be located over the Bemidji Garhge, on Bel- trami Avenue between Fourth and Fifth Streets. The building is owned by John Moberg, who has agreed to construct a second story. The front of the building will be separated into two large rooms, which are to be used as billiard and reading parlors. Between the read- ing and billiard parlors will be two smaller rooms which are to be used as card rooms. This constitutes the club feature of the present pla_ns' and Edmon De Luxe - With List of Al Ohlldrqn in Famlly Who leé to. Heceive Gifts ~— fCopyright,. 1me, by.. American Press Association. | GRANDPA—Born: 2 long time ago, but still takes an interest in life. Begam to receive knit slippers as- Christmas gifts a few years back. Would pre- fer something else this year, maybe 2 meerschaum pipe. GRANDMA—Born 1 few years dater than grandpa and still ready has'on hand large stock of shoulder shawls received at Christmas, Fancies Chan- . tecler ponnets. . fo:‘ iold« helded canes. Um- breéliss rot barred. 2 ll!dra Nothing too good for % to. nrth when he i gets the lirl. MISS G%DYS—-About nineteen now.. Dolls ind Teddy bears no longer. receivable. Boxes of qu\bans. echocolates pre- ferred, not refused. cCandy kisses acceptible, but prefers the mistletoe make. Willing “to |receive anything from a considérably younger. Al-: nwhaw. but will lettle down : icumsrms. SERVICES Two Days of Yuletide Festivity for Bemidji Homes—Monday 'Legal Holiday. CHURCH EXERCISES TONIGHT Banks and Business Houses Close Monday—Only One Delivery at Postoffice. N BEMIDJI SUNDAY Monday will be generally ob- served in Bemidji as a Christmas holiday, so for two days the merry spirit will prevail in the city. Banks and the leading business houses will close,, and the postoffice will observe holiday hours, only one delivery be- ing made during the day. The re- maining church entertainments will be held this evening, with the ex- ception of the Episcopalian, sched- uled tomorrow afternoon and all congregations - will have special Christmas services Sundav. The Methodist Episcopal tree ex- ercises will be held at the Baptist church this evening, when a program will be rendered by the Sunday school. Similar exercises will be -{held - at the Presbyterian chureh, both .programs being commenced at 7:30 o’clock. The final rush of Christmas shop- pers is on today, and the stores are last purchases. Following are the ‘stores that will observe Monday as a legal holiday: ‘I’ “0’Leary-Bowser Company T. J. Crane & Company. Berman Emporium. R Gill Brothers. Schneider Brothers: Model Clothing Store. Given Hardware Company. A. B. Palmer Hardware Company. First National Bank. Northern National Bank. Security State Bank. Battle’s Hardware. BREAK POWDER HOUSE DOOR ' Explosive May Have Been Same Used to Wreck Safe In the Ele- 1 vator Office. , Fifty pounds of dynamite were stolen from the powder house of the Given Hardware company on the west side of the city during the last filled with customers seeking their ; or not. is to be used by Elks only. hatpin to an ofl‘er of ten days, according to a discovery pe- “This commercial club has re-| The balance of the building, n{.rfl“,_ : made by members of the firm today. ; quested the presence of Senators|Which is 70 feet long, is to be Mr. Given believes that this was the i Clapp and Nelson, Congressman |divided into six rooms consisting THE'HEAVENfiYTWINS—Born explosive used to wreck the office of i Steenerson and others at a meeting |of the following: tiler’s room, ante severil years sgo and grow- the Beltrami Elevator & Milling : of business men of Northern Minne-|room, preparation room, ladies’ re- indrapidly. Willie’s tastes run company early on the morning of sota to be held at Detroit on Thurs- | tiring room, kitchen, banquet hall] to kfitey 'lleds ind-motors December 14, when robbers secured day, December 29, 1910, at 10 a. m., |2nd main lodge room. cydles b‘hlllé wants so many no cash but stole valuable papers = at which time they will be urged to| The banquet hall is on the north thingd she hardly kngws what from the elevator. take immediate action for -the relief |side of the lodge room, which is to The powder house Wwas a mnew, of these conditions, which they have |be 56 feet long and 32 feet wide, is strong building with a heavy door, the power to do, and that such action |to be seperated from the lodge room and located in the middle of the may be taken as will require the is-|by large callapsible folding doors, swamp where no damage could be suance by the department, without|Which will swing back to the ex- fliinkfully : done by possible explosions. The delay, of fee simple patents upon all | treme ends of the banquet hall; thus recefved. - If teri m snths, high door was found battered in today, i lands of mixed blood Indians.” forming a room which may be used ¥ but only 50 pounds of dynamite had —————— for dancing or othe‘r purposes. been taken from the building, where l“JuRY GASE IS HEVERSED In building the'new quarters the | between four and five tons of the main idea of the building committee, explosive were stored. which consists of W. 8. Lycan, chair- Men from the storehad visited the Zuanfi “‘71 1: BOV;“I\- g LE ?Ezrge. powder house last on December 13. X . H. Jester and Anton Erickson, I discovery tod: Jacob L. Brown Loses Damages|nas been to so plan the structure ;r_sfiai?gsa‘;g’tgle thi::k thit m:; = Awarded Against Douglass Lum- ber Company. The award of $3,500 damages, which the jury gave Jacob L. Brown, partly against theDouglass Lumber company in the district court near- ly two years ago, for injuries re- ceived while working in the Douglass Lumber company’s mill on Lake Ir- vine, will not stand, according to a decision of the state supreme court handed down yesterday. The su- preme court reversed the decision of the lower court and sent the case back for retrial. E ' fyat00s V¥ that it will be available for other lodges, giving these lodges the use of the entire building with the ex- ception of the billiard and reading rooms, which of course are to be used by the Elks at all times. A feature of the new club rooms’ is to be the method of lighting, in which the architect has planned to use concedled lights; the ventilating system is to be unique. "Holiday Excursion Fares. To points 10 Michigan and East- ern Canada via The South Shore. Please apply to agents for pamcu- 2 lars. 4 gv:lfls‘-“ PR one must have needed dynamite badly for some special purpose, to have taken only such a small amount and I believe the men who blew up the safe of the Beltrami Elevator & Milling company 10 days ago are the ones who stole the dynamite. The door had evidently - been bat- tered in -with a log, but, although we had nearly five tons of dynamite in . the building, only 50 pounds were taken.” Christmas Dinner at Rex. _ Christmas dinner will be served at/the Rex hotel next Suriday from 5:30.t0 7:30 p. m. MrrrrATI\N "™ AN