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..tr?'*.^''*!* SNOW SPOILS PLANS OF CHIEF STATE FIRE WARDEN General Andrews in BemidjiDamp Woods Interfere With Further Investigation. General C. Andrews of St. Paul, chief state fire warden, was a visitor in the city yester diy, on official business. He had intended to visit the country a'ong the north line of the Minnesota and International railway, but the late storm had so dampened the woods that he deemed a trip of investigation at this time of but little value in gathering data which he desired. The work of Mr. Andrews, along the line of protecting the timber in the state from being destroyed by disastrous fires during the past five years, has been very commendable. The state of Minnesota owns timber worth $100,000,000, but despite the value of this timber, a wise legislature has appropriated the niggardly sum of only $10,000 annually for protection against fire, and this covers the amount to be expended in office work and expenses, field work, etc. The amount is altogether inadequate, but despite this fact General Andrews has done re markably well, the total loss by fire during the last fiscal year not reaching $10,000. Mr Andrews stated that he was well pleased with the co operation given him by the chair men of town boards (who are ex officio fire wardens) and private citizens thioughout the north half of the state in coping with that most disastrous element, fore&t fires. Carlisle Goes South. W. B. Carlisle, who has been] i 1 for the past six months, left this morning for LosVegas, New Mexico, and will spend the win ter basking in the southern sun, in the hope of benefitting his health. He visited the Pacific coast, a few months ago, and was somewhat benefitted, but not permanently His Bemidji friends hope he will speedily re turn, robust and "sassy." John MtE roy is in charge at the city hall during Mr Carlisle's ao sence SHEEP COATS & MACKINAWS Any length you desire. Com pare our prices with the other fellow's and you will be con vinced that our merchandise is what you want. WOOL SOCKS The biggest bargain in men's 50c all wool socks. Try them. G0UNTYGAN6ET FARMERS' INSTITUTE IF SHE WILLS All That Is Needed Is Co-operation of All in Securing Large Attendance. A letter has been received from Dr. J. J. Curryer of St. Paul, assistant superintendent of the State Farmers' Institute, stating that a farmers' institute would be held in Bemidji, if the busi ness men, farmers and others of Beltrami county would co-operate in getting out a large attendance to the institute. The date for holding the in stitute in Bemidji will be Decem ber 11, and arrangements have already been entered into with the management of the city hall for holding the institute in the hall, on that date. It is the desire that every resi dent of the county take hold of the matter of the institute in Be midji and assist in getting out the homesteaders and farmers to the meetings. In discussing the institute, it is claimed that this season's corps of instructors is equal, if not superior, to any heretofore sent out by the state in practical effect for the improvement of the actual work on the farm and care of stock, so much needed in many localities. The institute is free. No charges. No collections. Although Beltrami does not rank as the leading agricultural county of the state, she is rapidly forging to the ffont as the pro ducer of unequaled cereals, vege tables and corn, as demonstrated to the satisfaction of twin city visitors some weeks ago, and there will undoubtedly be great interest taken in the forthcom ing institute. Hallowe'en Ball. The Modern Samaritans will give a Hallowe'en ball at the Ma sonic hall Wednesday evening, October 31. The dance is an in vitation affair, and 200 invitations have been sent to residents of the city and outside towns. The Samaritans are known as good entertainers, and this ball will be up to their standard of excellence. Read the Daily Pioneer. WINTER GOOD S We are able to show you a stronger line than ever before. E. H.Winter & Co. Bemidfi, Minn.. THE BEMIDJI ITAILY VOLUME 4. NUMBER 159 BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1906. A. Cole of Walker, republi can candidate for governor, last evening made his campaign bow to Bemidji, spoke on the issues of the hour, tarried until this morning and then left to con tinue his whirlwind tour of the north country counties. Yet it was more than a cam paign bow it was rather the greeting of a neighbor. In his manner and in his speech one could see always something more than the stiff formality of a stranger. Mr. Cole acted and talked as though he were among friends and at home and he was. Several men of local and national note shared the plat form with Mr. Cole, and Senator Moses E Clapp followed him in the most brilliant speech that has been heard here this year, yet the meeting was from be ginning to end a Cole meeting Cole was the chief figure, and Cole enthusiasm ran high. The opera house was packed to the doors, packed even more tightly than at the Johnson rally, and the good old-time republican spirit was everywhere in evi dence. It showed itself partic ularly when Mr. Cole entered the room. The men in the rear of the hall who saw him first broke into cheers, and the refrain was taken up by those in front with a will. When the republican can didate stepped upon the stage and took his seat, the enthusiasm knew no bounds women ap1 plauded and men cheered in a demonstration lasting fully two or three minutes Mr. Cole was perceptibly moved by the greeting he bowed and smiled, and there was a faint twitching of the mouth, and just the suspicion of a tear in his eye. When he arose to speak he commented on the demonstration, and it was plain to see that he felt deeply the warmth and enthusiasm shown by his neighbors. RUBBERS Lumberman's star rubbers, men's women's and children's overshoes and rubbers. The most complete stock. The most reasonable prices. HEAVY WOOL PANTS We are showing a line from $2.00 to $3.50 that is very hard to beat. Remember ab solute satisfaction guaranteed or money cheerfully refunded. :*^e-f^gg 6) e^l COLES PLAIN, STRAIGHTFORWARD STYLE WINS HIM MANY FRIENDS IN BEMIDJI Republican Candidate for Governor and Senator Moses E. Clapp Address Enthusiastic Assembly at Opera HouseDrainage Is Cole's Theme, While Clapp Tears the Disguise From Many of Johnson's Pretensions. A. L. Cole is Hot an orator and he makes no pretensions to elo quence, yet he made a speech of fully an hour and a half last night which held his hearers in close attention from beginning to end. At times there were bursts of true eloquence, but it was not these which moved the crowd but rather the plain, unvarnished, straight-forward style of the man The people had not come to hear an oratorical effort from the republican candidate. They had come to hear a plain, sincere message from a man who doe?, as Senator Clapp put it, as con trasted with a man who talks (referring to Johnson). Henry Funkley, the republican candidate for county attorney of Beltrami county, "did the honors" of the evening. He in troduced each speaker in turn, and prefaced the introductions with a few brief and pointed re marks. The first speaker was A. G. Bernard of Cass Lake, who dwelt on Mr. Cole's relations with the drainage question years ago when they were fellow citizens of Walker, and before fame had singled out one of them for ad vancement. Following Bernard, the candi date for governor stepped to the froDt Again there were wild applause and cheers and it was some time before jr Cole could begin. "As long as I live this occasion will be remembered," said Mr. Cole in opening his address, and then in tones of appreciation he referred to the good feeling which Beltrami counlty had al ways shown him, and especially the aid the county had rendered him at the state convention in securing the nomination. The speaker then launched himself into the gist of bis ad dress. He said he understood that when "a certain gentleman" was here a short time ago, he (Cole) had been charged with petit larceny, with the theft of an idea. With some show of feeling the speaker denied his guilt, and showed that while his opponent was fighting drainage in the legislature, he (Cole) had been working for state develop ment with all his strength. Mr. Cole took up at some length the question of drainage and told how under the old way of appropriating money, part of the appropriation had been spent for draining private lands, simply because the legislature was not in a position totell which lands were private and which were public. The first thing he did, declared the speaker, when he planned hi3 ''comprehensive system of drainage," was to provide for a topographical survey, which would enlighten the legislature on this essential point, and guard against any such misuses of public funds in the future. This drainage bill of his, said M'. Cole, was such a business like bill that when the congress of the United States wanted to provide for the drainage of the Red Lake Indian reservation swamp lands, it adopted all the essential features of it in full. The republican candidate then took up the question of immigra tion, the twin sister of drainage in state development, and showed how Minnesota needs new immi grants, and how she can secure them if she advertises-properly. This advertising was a theme on which Mr. Cole grew eloquent. He showed how the state has been losing settlers for many years simply because the rail roads have sold practically all of their land and are not advertis ing Minnesota any longer. A report prepared by the state auditor from sub-reports from fifty-three county auditors shows that only three counties out of the fifty-three can boast of an increase in population during the last year, and then of only 260 persons.^ Thirty counties, de clared the speaker, showed an actual falling off in population of 6,375 in six months. And the reason? Simply be cause the state and its advan tages aie not being advertised properly. The streams of im migrants which should be stop ping off here to settle on our farms are pushing on through to points in Canada and in the West which have been most, alluringly advertised. Let us advertise, was Mr. Cole's gospel. With a minute ness that showed a thorough familiarity with the subject, he told how at the 1905 session of 1 the legislature he had secured the appropriation of $7,500 for advertising the state and attract ing settlers. The railroads entered into the spirit of the move, and furnished free passes for newspaper men and all who wished to make trips of in spection. The result was that editors from other states )urneyed to Minnesota and on returning home wrote column after column about the state. People outside began to awake to the desirableness of our lands, and when the next public sale was held, from $100,000 to $125,000 more was realized than at any previous sale, Mr. Cole opined that this was a prttty good return for a $7,500 invest ment. When he had fust introduced the bill to secure this appropri* ation, said Mr. Cole, he had been ere at and ridiculed, and his bill was killed, and it was only after he had sent out circulars and created a public sentiment favoring it, that he was success ful in pushing it through the legislature. "There will be an appropri ation at the next legislature," said the speaker, "how much I don't know, but it will be because of the agitation I started, and you know 1 started it." After referring at some length to his first study of the drainage question, Mr. Cole spoke of his Kenyon speech in which he had defined his position on the rail road question and asked his hearers to read it carefully. His opponent, he said, had announced that there were rail road laws enough if they were only enforced, but with this the speaker differed and pointed out several new laws needed badly. Senator Clapp was the last speaker of the evening and after touching up the democratic party and paying his tributes to W. J. Bryan, whose vocal organs, he declared, were as near an approach all had ever been discovered to perpetual motion, he spoke a handsome word for Roosevelt and for his colleague, Senator NelsoD, and then devoted himself to state issues.^- "'"vt The senator took up some of Mr. Johnson's claims and tore them to shreds and tatters be fore the eyes of the audience. His speech was eloquent, and powerful in its argument, and he closed with a happy appeal to the voters of the county not to give encouragement to Bryanism and Hearstism and the other "isms" by helping to turn Minnesota over to thedemocrats foranother LEGISLATIVE JUNKET IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON Public Is Invited to Attend Reception This Evening in Matonic Block. The special train containing the members of the legislature, jobbers and commercial men from the twin cities passed through south Bemidji bound for Big Falls at 5 o'clock this morn ing. The train consisted of three private cars for the use of the party and car No. 50, occupied by General Manager W. H. Gem mel and Superintendent W. H. Strachan of the M. & I. The train was met at Big Falls by a delegation of citizens and breakfast was eaten there. An hour was spent inspecting some grain, vegetables and corn, and the train sta/ted on the return trip, reaching Northome about 10 o'clock, where another exhibit was shown, which also included samples of soil. Blackduck was visited and the fine exhibit shown two weeks ago was again dis played, after which the train was started for Bemidji. The train was expected to ar rive in Bemidji on the return at about five o'clock, and the party was to be shown through the Crookston Lumber company's sawmill and plant, after which supper was to be served at the Markham. A reception is to be tendered to the party at the club rooms in the Masonic block, after supper, and a general invitation 4s ex tended to the public to attend. Cass Lake to Absorb "16." George Lydick, owner of the famous Section Irj^fcftment at Cass Lake, was in the city fyes terday evening. Mr. Lydick states that it is the intention of the residents of the townsite nof Cass Lake to take in the allot ment as a portion of the village of Cass Lake, giving the people on "16" the opportunity to vote and participate in the governing of the village. Apparently, the feud that has been waged for five years between the residents of the two sections of that com munity has been called off and peace and harmony will here after reign supreme in the baliwick where strife and con tention deterred the develo-d ment of the place. Will Seek Wife Here. Grand Forks Herald: Barney Klupp, a Logan Centre township farmer, whose wife disappeared suddenly a week ago, has re ceived information that she is now in Bemidji, and has gone to that city with a view of securing a reconciliation. The couple had been married four years, and the wife is now but 22 years old. They have one child, aged two years, which Mrs. Klupp left at Larimore. Mr. Klupp later took the child to a sister-in-law, and when he learned that his wife had gone to Bemidji started in pursuit. ^____ Hla BaUtac* Goae. GuileTaylor bet all the money he had In the bank that he would walk a slack wire for twenty feet QuayDid he win or lose? GuileHe lost hla bal- two years. *s The audience last n'tght^wa* swelled by a large contingent of enthusiasts from Cass L*ke and Walker, and the Cass Lake band was also on hand and vied with the Bemidji band in entertaining the crowd with music during the long wait before the speaking began. gAfter the speechmakmg in the opera house an informal recep tion was held in the Crookston Lumber company's club rooms in the Masonic building, where hundreds took occasion to meet and shake hands with the sena tor and the candidate for gov- MNESOTA HI8T0MCAL MCIEIY. TEN CENTS FEB WEEK LACK OF DETAILS GIVES DEATH AIR OF MYSTERY No Word Conies From Tower Telling Further of Drowning of Henry Buenther. There is an air of uncertainty connected with the reported death by drowning of Henry Buenther that is certainly puz zling to his family and many friends here. Up to a late hour this after noon, nothing further had been received from Tower beyond the brief telegram from Frank John son, announcing that. Mr. Buenther was drowned last Friday. Mayor Carter sent a message to the mayor of Tower, request ing that all means possible be used to recover the body and that the expenses would be paid from here. No response was re ceived to this message, and not a word has been sent here relative to the manner in which Buenther methis fate or if anything was being done to recover the re mains. It is thought that Mr. Johnson is making a search for the body and that when be finds it, he will return to Bemidji. In the meantime, Mrs. Buenth er is suffering from the suspense of waiting for a confirmation of the news sent by Johnson. 6IRLS MAKE A SERIOUS GHAR6E AGAINST FATHER Parent of Runaway Children Held Awaiting Return of County Attorney McDonald. Of the three girls who ran away from Turtle River Sunday and were taken in charge by the~ city authorities yesterday morn ing, Lillie Forkey, the oldest of the trio, was allowed to return to her home, on promise of remain ing with her father. Sadie Stone and Elnora Stone were held here and their father sent for. The elder of the Stone girls tells a revolting story concerning her father, and he is being held here, awaiting the arrival of County Attorney McDonald, when he will be charged with a serious crime. Mayor Carter states that he has information that Stone is a man who has little regard for the chastity of his children and has for years abused them shamefully. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. *******************r***VT^MV)flfUVIAfMVUVViJLfiJ'- WANTEDGood girl for gen eral housework. Must be good cook. The Wreckers of Sclllr. As far back as the time of Henry I. there were royal grants of "the Islands and their wrecks," and frequent was file phrase in centuries following. With loyal encouragement, why ahould they not be wreckers? One Sunday, long ago, in Scllly, service was In progress When there came the cry of "Wreck!" The men started from their seats. In a moment there would have been a stampede, but they cowered back as the minister sternly thundered a warn ing. He strode to the door. Again his voice arose. "Let's all start fair!" he shouted, throwing off impeding cassock as he ran, while his congregation la bored at his heels. Most curious of all wrecks was that of a bark, with a car go of beads, that went ashore 200 years ago. So generous has been the ocean with this treasure that throughout these two centuries it has Intermittent ly been tossing beads ashore, yet so frugally that the supply is not yet ex hausted, for in a few minutes' search I found that some had been thrown mere since the last search of the is landers.Robert Shackleton In Har per's. -J 3 *r.- Th* TrMfcHak. ^i^lbisf% te trunkflsh Is one of the peculiar Inhabitants of the ocean. It is called the trunkflsh because its tack Is com pletely covered with bony plates of a regular shape, forming a complete coat of mall. It hi protected so completely that it can move only Its tall, month and small part of ftp gills, which pass through the armor. It is quite &Jf mall fish and la found only la the warm waters of the aootnern tramlaal **^r JF ^*3&M SP*