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r THE BEMIDJ1 D el LY PIONEE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 63. BEMIDJI, COUNTY GIVES $1000 |NEW DEPOT OPENS JULY 23 BOOST TO AUDITOR e ;Conference of Officials Here, Follow- ing Inspection of Building, Re- Impressed With System Shown ing emitsin this Decition, Office, Commissioners Vote This Much for Clerks. {HELP IS YET TO BE NAMED FIND GEORGE ASSUMED RlSKS; Bemidji's modern new brick Soo- | Minnesota & International union de- pot will be ready for occupancy a week from next Sunday. June 23. Resolution Adopted Declares He Had‘ Employed Help at Danger of ; Personal Loss. [Eween W At-a conference this morning be- H. Gemmel of Brainerd, | general manager of the Minnesota & RITCHIE TO HAVE FAIR EXHIBIT | Superior, superintendent of this di- | vision of the Soo, held in Bemidji| | this morning, this was decided after {a careful examination of the new Tax Levies are Made and Maple|building had been made. | International, and J. R. Michaels of | PLAN §10,000 LAKE | ROAD IN 6 MONTHS Committee Appointed at Meeting| Last Night to Circulate Peti- ! tion as First Step. |STATE EXPECTED TO PAY HALF| | | ! If County Board Favors Project High- | ; way May Be Constructed Under ! New Elwell Law. | |INCLUDES NEW STEEL BRIDGE | 1Stmcmre to Be Erected near Outlet; MINNESOTA, WEDNESEAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1911. SOULNDZ AS A DOLLAR, UNCLE DICKERING % ; The depot was found to be in sat-| Ridge and Other Towns Get !igractory shape and in readiness for | Road Aid. | opening with exception that some of | | the required furniture and office fix- and Made Strong Enough for Street Cars. 1 So impressed is the Beltrami board | of county commissioners with the ! which will take care of both the Soo‘;meeting held systematic manuner in which County and the Minnesota & International |Commercial club rooms, for the pur-| Auditor George is maintaining office, | which system he has perfected by employing experts at personal risk, that they have decided to give $1.000 | a year for additional clerk hire. | The following resolution, which | has the official sanction of Attorney | General Simpson and Public Examin- | er Fritz, was presented by Commi | sioner Fellows and voted for by ll! commissioners, with the exception of | Commissioner L. 0. Myhre, who did | not vote: The Resolution in Full. i “Whereas, the condition of the | books and records in the auditor’s | office at the beginning of the pres- | ent year, showed the great ne(‘essit)’i of having a competent force of clerks employed at once for the purpose of systematizing and bringing the books and records up to such a state of per- fection. as is needed for the prompt | disposal of the current business; and, | “Whereas, the present auditor has| of his own volition and at his own risk employed such help, all of whom are now engaged in bringing up the back work, in connection with the| current work as it accrues; and, ‘ | Has Been Shy of Help. | “Whereas, up to the present time, | the clerk hire allowed by law, and | based upon the valuation of lh?! county. permits the employment of | much less help (both in number and; efficien than is absolutely neces- sary to accomplish the desired re-| sult in so large a county: and, “Whereas. chapter 325 of the Gen- | eral Laws of 1911, permit the board | of county commissioners to increase | the clerk hire of fhe auditor's office | on the approval of the attorney gen- eral and the public examiner: now, | $1.000 For Able Work. : ‘ “Be it resolved, that the auditor be instructed and authorized to em-| ploy such a force of efficient help in| bis work, as to enable him to put| the back work of the office in an up- to-date condition. and to carry on the current work in a complete and able manner. The total amount to be paid such a force of clerks. how- ever, is not to exceed the sum of $ 000 in addition to the amount now allowed by law.” Tax Levies Fixed. The commissioners, who expect to adjourn late today, fixed the tax lev- ies as follows: i County revenue, $45,000; road | and bridge fund, $12.000; sinking| fund, $35.000 | The list of names for the selecting | of the petit and grand jurymen for | the fall term of district court was| also drawn up at the Tuesday after- noon session. Maple Ridge gets $300 to be used in aiding that township in the bet-' terment of its roads, and another $300 goes to the town of Spruce Grove. Ritchie to Have Fair Exhibit. It was decided by the board that $400 should be donated to the state fair exhibit fund from the revenue fund. A. P. Ritchie was named to suc- ceed W. R. MacKenzie as the man- ager of the Beltrami county exhibit to the state fair. Joe Lerum of Hagley, Bert Noble of Nebish, Matt Fisher of Funkley, and Al Jester of Bemidji were among those who appeared before the board yesterday on road matters. Horton is Grand Secretary. Samuel C. Horton of St. Paul has just been appointed grand secretary of the Royal Arcanum for Minensota. He will have his headquarters in Minneapolis. He was formerly au- ditor for the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine company. | eut, the points are never regained, al- tures have not arrived. The Union Depot, as it will be called will have but one ticket office, passenger business. This means that neither Agents Comstock or Walker will have any connection with the passenger ser- { vices in the future. The help to be employed at the| new depot will be chosen during the coming week. No appointments have | as yet been made. STEALS RATIONS OF SQUIRRELS —— i Why a Negro Menial About Capitol ! Grounds, Washington, Lost Job. | | Washington, D. C., July 11.— Squifrels that make their home in; the capitol grounds have not been getting their full rations lately be-! cause a greedy human being has been | stealing part of their food. The gov-| ernment furnishes daily seven pounds of filberts and pecan nuts for the bushy tailed public pets. Early each | morning an employe distributes the food at various points in the grounds. A negro employed as a menial about the capitol was discovered with | his ockets bulging with nuts taken | from the receptacles in which they | had been placed for the squirrels. | For weeks he had been robbing them. | He was promptly discharged. | sy | Gathering of Boy Scouts. ‘ Cooperstown, N. Y., July 12.—The | first national encampment of the Boy Scouts of America opened on the| shores of Otsego Lake today, to con- tinue until July 18. | Cod liver oil. used outwardly, is | fattening. Cornet playing will help to plump | the cheeks. ! For bronchitis an old and usefuli domestic remedy is the application of a raw onion, finely chopped. | Pineapple juice is a help in the di- gestion of meat, through a chemical ferment, bromelin, contained in the pine. Mustard poultices should be made with cold or tepid water. If made with boiling water the poultices are | spoiled. | In stomach cramp give hot drink. Mere warmth is useless. Hot clothes may also be applied to the painful| spot. Relief is rapid and certain. Eyelashes should never They are pointed by nature. be cut. ‘When though fresh lashes come in time. Headache and giddiness from hair preparations are not at all rare. It is especially necessary to beware of excessive use of jaborandi, quinine and cantharides in this regard. Trifling as scratches often seem, they should never be neglected. They should be bathed immediately with some good disinfectant and covered if possible until they are healed o\'er.j Often the most beneficial effects| from the use of iron follow minute doses, as a single drop of the dilute, tincture of the perchloride in half a pint of water. This affects the fla-! vor quite appreciably. | An old time preparation for the; hands is made by grinding rice to a| fine powder, and making it into a| paste with equal parts of egg yolk| and oil of sweet almonds; spread over | the hands at night, and wear large kid gloves. Quite a rumpus was caused ‘Washington recently when it was charged that the Nationals were “throwing down" Pitcher Walter Johnson. Manager McAlear says there is no truth whatever in the accusation. in i = | ! Much interest was shown at the I i last evening in the | pose of discussing the proper meth- |ods to pursue in the establishment iof a boulevard around Lake Bemidji, | | and plans were agreed upon which it | is believed will mean the construc-| 1 tion of such a road with the next six months. W. R. Mackenzie and W. N. Bow-, ser were named to circulate a peti-| tion, which when completed will be | sent to the board of county commis-| sioners. At noon today seventeen persons had signed the petition. State to Pay Half. If the commissioners act favorab- | 1y on the petition, it will be sent to} the state highway commission for| its approval, and if both bodies act| upon it favorably, the road will be constructed, as is provided for in the; Blwell law, passed by the recent leg- | islature, whereby the state will pay | one-half of the total cost of the Toad, | the county one-fourth and the other | quarter_to be obtained from assess- ments. The petition will be published and | posted, then there will be the hear- ing, the state survey and then comes the advertising for bids for the build- ing of the road. Preliminary Work Takes Time. It is probable that the work which will necessarily have to be taken care of before the contract can be let will take three months, and as the road cannot be built in less than another three months, the boulevard can not be in use in six months and this 1t will be, if the plans arranged last evening do not miscarry. Roy Bliler, the Beltrami county surveyor, has completed an estimate of the cost of constructing the eight | miles and a half required to make the boulevard, which was read at the meeting last evening. Estimates Cost at $10,000. | The estimate amounts to $10,000 as the amount needed to complete the road, which includes the erect- ing of steel and cement bridge over the Mississippi river at the outlet of Lake Bemidji. “I have so drawn my estimate,” said Mr. Bliler, “that it will include the building of a bridge across the river at the outlet. The bridge to be entirely of cement and steel. It will be so arranged that if it be de- sired to run street cars it may be done, without rebuilding the bridge.” GRAND ARMY DAY SET FOR FAIR Veterans to Hold Reunion at the Grounds on Friday, September 8. The board of managers of the Min-| nesota State Fair association has des- ignated Friday, September 8, as the | Grand Army day, and veterans wear- | ing the regular Grand Army badge or | regimental reunion badge will be ad- mitted free on that day. The Association of Minnesota Civil War Veterans will hold its annual reunion at the fair grounds on the afternoon of that day instead of on Wednesday, as has been customary. | Comrades will meet in the grove near the administration building at 2 p. expected to hold their reunions in the forenoon of that day. —— H A . | Big Ditch Contract Let. Reseau, Minn.. July 12.—Bids for Kobler Bros., for $77,046.85. ern part of the county that has been practically impassable before, as roads will be built along all ditches and laterals. (Copyright, 1911) The current issue of the Twin City Commercial Bulletin runs the follow- ing editorial: “Merchants who have not writhen to-their congressmen concerning thy passage of a parcels post mehsu should telegraph their remonstrances: at once. “On July 12 the sub-committee wi cesume its session. onnonents of parcels post will have 1t is extremely import= ant that every retailer should throw their inning. T0 ENLARGE CEMETERY New Organization Meeg_,‘_ Appoints sl | Committees and “Decides on Improvements. PETRA TO CONTINUE AS SEXTON Work will begin immediately on improving and beautifying Green- wood Cemetery. This was decided at a meeting of | the trustees of the Greenwood Ceme- tery Association, held yesterday af- ternoon. Committees for the ensuing year were appointed as follows: Finance—J. C. Parker, Tom Smart and S. C. Bailey. Grounds—ZKenneth Mclver and J. A. McDonald. The grounds committee was au- | thorized to arrange for the purchas- the ing of additional grounds for cemetery. Fred Petra, the present sexton was re-named as the holder of that po- sition, and will be known as the su-| He will hold the posi- tion until the next regular meeting perintendent. of the association which will be held the first Tuesday after the first Mon- day in August. 12 KILLED; 40 HURT IN WRECK (New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Has Worst Smashup in Years. Bridgeport, Twelve Conn., July battered bodies in ford raiiroad. When the federal express bound from Washington to Boston, leaped|er points in the northern part of the cross-over | the embankment at a switch, the day coach next the bag- gage car was caught at the bottom of the heap and smashed into match- wood. Not a person inside escaped death or serious injury. and bruises. To Wed a French Noble. Paris, July 12.—Another import- |north to Cheboygan was interrupted | James Cahill. ant Franco-American the Viscount de Merlemant. lot. At that time theymen insisting that they should ac- 12— the morgue, 44 sucerers in the hospitals and a mountain of junk at the foot of a 20-foot embankment at the West- | left standing in the villages of Aus-| ern end of the city, tell a tale of the ‘worst wreck in 58 years’ history of | the New York, New Haven and Hart-| Five heav- ier Pullmans that crashed down, af- ter it held together, and the sleep- m. and led by the Morgan drum corps | ing passengers inside, although bad- | er, along the Detroit and Mackinac { will march to the place of meeting. | ly shaken, for the most part, suffered | railroad, were reported to be burning All regimental organizations are|no worse injuries than broken bones ' today, and Lewiston, in Montmoren- icy county, and Alger and Turner, in i I the entire weight of his influence in the balance at this moment, and if possible thereby to produce a senti- ment that will cause an unfavorable eport to be made on the Sulzer bill, nown as H. R. No. 14. Even those “merchants who have written a letter ‘should follow it up with a strong tel- egraphic message to their congress- ‘tively defend the interests of retail amerchants before the sub-committee. “If merchants generally follow this advice it is.sure to produce a favor- able effect. -, “If your '_‘iongressman receives a deluge of telégrams within the next few days it will be hard for him to dodge the obligation that will fall} upon his shoulders, in addition he will have the best possible backing for the arguments he should lay be- fore the committee. Every mer- chant should consider this a matter for his individual attention. Tele-i graph now!” | BEMIDJI CREAMERY NOW OPEN Farmers' Enterprise Begins Opera- | tion Here Today, Paying Cash for Cream. ! emidji’s™ co-operative creamery. | probably the one farthest north in the state, opened its doors for the first time this morning in the build- ing two blocks west of the Great Northern depot, formerly used by the Melges brothers as a cold storage building. Buttermaker Cleveland was assisted today by A. P. Ritchie, secretary of the Farmers' Co-opera-| tive association. Duluth prices are being paid in cash for cream, much of the Bemidji supply being shipped in. The first butter will be made| tomorrow. NOTHING SOLD AT LAND SALE State Expects New Appraised Tracts Will Prove Inducement to Buyers. No land was sold at the state land | sale held this morning at the court house under charge of Theodore Nel- son, who represents State Auditor Iverson, at all land sales. The sales| during the past few months have been small, owing to the fact that| Iland which is placed on sale at the present time, has been on sale for the past year and there is no demand for it. Relative to this Mr. Nelson said: “Several of the appraisers were here this morning, and they in- formed me that they have complet- ed the appraising of more than 6,000 acres in Beltrami county, and will be for sale in the near future.” FOREST FIRES SWEEP MICHIGAN Several Persons and Much Property Consumed by Spreading Flames. Detroit, Mich., July 12.—With hardly more than half a dozen houses {able and Oscoda, with the city of Al-| pena fighting a disastrous fire, and with forest fires raging along the line| 1 of the Detroit and Mackinac railroad ! | from Ausable to Cheboygan and oth-| lower peninsula, a heavy rain is needed now to prevent possible beavy loss of life, such as attended | the destruction of the village of | Metz, Oct. 16, 1908, and the burning, of nearly a score of persons, seeking | safety on a relief train. The smaller towns of Metz, Millersburg and Tow- ! Arenac county, were said to be seri- | ously threatened by forest fires. The wire service from Ausable| matrimonial | this afternoon, but news of the fires decrease of $215 over that of the county ditch No. 9 were opened by |alliance is to be culminated here to- [at Alpena, Oscoda and Ausable was|last assessment, which showed $1,- the auditor and the contract let to| morrow, when Miss Agnes Lawrence, | forwarded to the Associated Press by This the daughter of John. Lawrence of ditch will open country in the east-| New York, is to become the bride of The re- ligious ceremony is to be performed at the Church of St. Pierre de Chal- a train to East Tawas, where wires were available for transmission to Detroit. There are rumors that some lives were lost in the first at Oscoda’ and Ausable, but it was impossible tonight to obtain any confirmntionq‘ {Johnson is the ranger stationed at [ Monday. SCHOOL ELECTION SOON, Directors to Sueceed Lahr, Harvey and Warfield to Be Voted For on Saturday. | | | ROE AND PHILLIPPI CANDIDATES There are to be spirited contests at the annual school election to be| held here on Saturday of this week when three directors are to be chosen to fill the expired terms of J. P.[ Lahr, S. J. Harvey and A. A. War-| field. Mr. Lahr, who is secretary of the board of education, will be a candi- date to succeed himself. Mr. Har- vey, who was appointed to the board to fill the vacancy caused by the res- ignation of A. A. Melges, is also an announced candidate. Mr. Warfield refuses to permit his name to go be- fore the people for re-election. New candidates are known to be Knute Roe and J. M. Phillippi. It has been rumored that P. J. Russell would be a candidate. “Not me,” said Mr. Russell. “I'm not going to| run—I've run too much already.” The election will take place at the Central building, the polls being open at 7 o'clock. Women are per-| mitted to vote. TELL IT TO FOREST RANGERS! W. T. Cox Says Fires Should be Re-! ported to Them Directly. | — | Announcement has been made that fires breaking out in the forests| should be reported to the nearest ranger. Information is being sent direct to the forester’s office at the capitol, and much time is lost in transmitting it back to the rangers. State Forester Cox has prepared a list of the rangers and their ad- dresses, to whom fires can be report- d directly. - Mr. Cox says that while t is important that such information each the state forester’s office, it would be much more effective if the rangers are notified directly. L. F. Bemidji. FEWER DIAMONDS IN BEMIDJI —— | Assessor Finds Only $1,535 Worth; Horse Value Placed at $12,075. There are $1,535 worth of dia- monds in the city of Bemidji, accord- in tho the report of City Assessor This amount shows a| 700. This year’s report also shows that there are 277 horses in the city of Bemidji, valued at $12,075. The board of equalization, which com- prises the board of county commis- 'sioner and the auditor will meet next TEN CENTS PER WEEK $3,000 BLACK PEARL INRIVER NEAR HERE Young Clam Hunter, on Last Trip, Stumbles onto Fortune in Wa- ter Near Dam. GEM ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD Weighs Nearly 44 Grains and Bemid- ji Expert Says There is No Limit to Value. REFUSES A $1,000 CASH BONUS Finder's Father Let Thousands Slip Away and Son Proposes to Play Safe. ‘Y A black pearl, second in value on- ily to the diamond, was found in the | Mississippi river near here yesterday {by William Bates, a professional jclam hunter and when brought to | this city it was found to weigh with- |in a fraction of 44 grains and that its value could not be less than $3,- 000. The pearl, almost perfect in shape, is about the size of a small hazel nut. Its color is a deep, velvety black. Has Found Many Smaller Ones. Mr. Bates, whose father makes a business of hunting for pearls in the vicinity of Red Wing, has been at work on the river here since the first of April and he has found many small pearls and few worth from $20 to $100, all of which he has sold to the George T. Baker & Co., jewelry store here. When he found the big, black beauty, Mr. Bates at once took it to Mr. Baker for an estimate as to its value. Mr. Baker was astonished at the gem and frankly admitted that its price was what a person might ! wish to pay for it, as there probably is not another gem like it in the world. Refuses $1,000 Cash. “I have been offered $1,000 cash and half of what the second pur- chaser pays for it,” said Bates today of the pearl which is on display at the Baker show window. “But I will not take that. I am going to take the pearl east. I don’t know just how much I will get, but I fig- ure that it has paid me to stick around Bemidji, and it was a good day’s work when I pulled this prize out of the water.” The pearl was taken from a clam of not unusual size found down the river about one-half mile below the power dam. The pearl was com- pletely covered by meat, near where the clam joint is found. Fortune Buried in Clam Meat. “At first,” said Mr. Bates, “I could not tell whether it was a pink pearl or what it was, but when I got it out of the meat I saw that I had a black one, and I knocked off work for the day.” Mr. Bates was out on his last trip of the season when the treasure bearing clam was found. He has been wading about in the river since early this spring and as a result is in bad physical condition, and sev- eral days ago he decided to leave the river and join his relatives in the southern part of the state. Now Sees Visions of Wealth. Mr. Bates is an unassuming young man, whose appearance would indi- cate that never before did he realize that in all the world is there as much as $3,000. Now he is beginning to think that after all $3,000 is not so much. He remembers that his father sold a pearl not so long ago, just an ordi- nary, prettily tinted white pearl for a few hundred dollars and that it found its way into the hands of Tif- | fany of New York who soM it to a wealthy customer for $80,000. Only One in the World. As the pearl in Bates’ possession is the only one of its kind in the world its real value can not be ac- curately estimated, but Mr. Baker places its minimum value at $3,000. The pearl probably will be taken from Bemidji east either tonight or tomorrow night. Mr. Bates is await- ing telegraphic instructions from jewelers in the east. In the mean- time, as custodian of his sudden for- tune, he is interested in the price of revolvers. A chance to get a good location for business, three year lease, in rum- ning order. Step right in. See me at once. J. G. Ziegler, 0dd Fellows Bldg. i BINNESOTN HISTORICAL SOGIETY, e e | £

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