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*s %im~, GREA NORTHER N DEPO FINISHE Agent Chamberlain and Grew Will Move Saturday and Be Heady For Business After Noon. MAY CELEBRATE ON THURSDAY January 1$ Selected as the Tentative Bate For the Reception for the Road's Officials. J. J. HILL HAS A BAD COLD May Be Unable to AttendGovernor Eberhart and President Vincent to Be Invited. "The new depot will be In use aft er the noon train Saturday." The above statement was made by Mr. Chamberlain, agent of the Great Northern in Bemidji, at noon today, Mr. Chamberlain continued: "The interior is practically finished now and about all that remains to be done is to clean up. We will start moving in Saturday morning and expect to be in full possession Boon after the east bound train at 12:08." Thursday January 16 is the tenta tive date for the celebration which will mark the completion of the building. T. J. Burke, chairman of the entertainment committee of the Commercial club, talked with J. J. Hill on the phone this morning and Mr. Hill said that any time between now and the twentieth would be best for the road officials. "I have a bad cold," said Mr. Hill, "and may be unable to be present, but the road will be represented by offlcialB from St. Paul." The invita tion sent by the Commercial club includes the high officials of the road who have their headquarters in St. Paul. Until a definite date has been set for the opening of the depot, invita tions will not be sent to others, il is planned to ask Governor Eber hart and President Vincent, of the state University, to come at that time and to have a banquet for the visitors. The entertainment commit tee is planning additional features. Ray Murphy was on a train with Governor Eberrart a few weeks ago and the governor said that he expect d to be in Bemidji when the depot was opened. The new station is 217 feet long and is surrounded with a brick walk which extends twenty-four feet on the south side to the passenger tracks. The interior is of red vitri fied brick with sandstone trimmings md green woodwork. The floor plan is similar to that of the Union sta tion. The ladies' room is in the west end and is connected with the men's room by a swinging door. The ticket office is located about in the center with windows in each room. It has a small projection which will give a view both waya on the track. The baggage rooms, freight and express rooms are in the east end of the building. Each waiting room contains settees and in the ladies room are several rockers. The old depot is to be removed, it is under stood, and the site used for a park. All wires will go into the new struc ture from the rear so that there will be nothing to jar the estheic eye. The completed structure will have cost the Great Northern close to $40,000. CASS LAKE RUSSIANS HIRE XOLL TO TEACH THEM ENGLISH Special to Th Pioneer. Cass Lake, Jan. 9.The Cass Lake colony of Russians who are unable to speak the English language are de sirous of acquiring it and have band ed together and engaged an instruc tor to assist them. The school starts out with an enrollment of fifteen but It is expected the number will be in creased to thirty. The board of edu cation has granted them the free use of the South Side School house, and M. N. Koll has consented to instruct them in the rudiments of acquiring their new language. Later on it is exper ted they will engage a professor from the high school, when they get tar enough along to be able to under stand him. I Scholars range in age from nine teen to fifty-three, fathers and sons included, and it is expected that wives and sisters will, also attend THE BEMIDJI THOMAS H. BARRY Major General Who May Suooeed General Wood Chief of 8taff. 1912, by American Press Association, LOUD MAKES FIRST NOUNCEMENT. AN- H. J. Loud, an attorney of Bemidji, is the first candidate to announce that he will run for any municipal office at the coming election. Mr. Loud's announcement appears on an other page of this issue. He is a candidate for municipal judge. NEW BANE A HTTLEFOBK. Littlefork, Minn., Jan. 9Another bank is to be established in Little fork. Differences are said to have arisen among the officers of the pres ent First tSate bank, the result of which means Cashier Muus will be come affiliated with the new institu tion. The new bank will be styled the Farmer's State bank, and its first in corporators are L. A. Swanson, A. T. Scarlett, Abe Olson, John Vander valk, T. J. Johnson and Nils Muus. Same sixty subscribers, other than as above named, have taken stock, the list including a large and substantial portion of the community. BOARD STANDS PAT. Minneapolis, Jan. 9.Declaring that the Minneapolis board of educa tion is not introducing into the schools the round dance as part of the educational system when it sanc tions dancing parties in the high schools under proper supervision, the board, through President Elwell, has issued a statement to the committee of ministers which has led in the fight against school dances. Tne statement says the board has not been fit to reconsider its action, that the order allowing school dances was not tanen until after full consideration and that its ruling of Feb. 13, 1912, prohibiting social dances in school buildings still holds good. MISS EDDY MAKES CANDY. Miss Beatrice Eddy, instructor of domestic science in the Bemidji schools, gave the students of the High school a demonstration in candy maxing. Each student was permitted to sample the candy and they are looking: forward to a simil ar demonstration in'the near future. O'LEARY AND BOWSER BUSY. Carpenters are busy remodeling the interior of the O'Leary and Bow ser building and painting the front of tne store. HVOLUME 10. NUMBER 216. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1913. CUB E CPAAD TH OKAJKJL REPORTER A CORKER OF A STORH \F IT ?^N* OUT UV(E I TVMHK IT COUNTY PRINTING LET. The board of county comtnis- -fc sioners this afternoon let the county printing for 1913 to the Bemidji Pioneer at the regular legal rate and designated it as the official county paper. The Pioneer will furnish supple st ments containing all county printing to all legal papers in the county. FAR HOM E BURNE Special to The Vtoneer. Pinewood, Jas. 9.Fire destroyed the residence of Hans Kirkvold near Aure early this morning. The family was able to save but a few articles of clothing. The blaze started in the roof where a stove pipe was being used in place of a chimney. The Kirkvold family will live in the Hogan Koppang home un til Mr. Kirkvold can build. LEGISLATURE WEDNESDAY Adolph O. Eberhart was inaugur ated governor for the third consecu tive term before a joint session of the house and senate. The cere mony was followed by the reading of the governor's message. In The Senate. Ole Sageng of Otter Tail presented a bill providing for a constitutional amendment giving the right of suff rage to Minnesota women. The bill was the first that passed over the clerk's desk. The initiative, referendum and re call were also among the measures referred to committees. Senator Moonan presented a bill providing for a vote in 1914 on the question of holding a convention to revise the constitution. In The House. Representative Nolan, chairman of the house committee on rules, pre sented a resolution to prevent the killing of bills by delay in committee. OVE TH E WIRES FINNS RAVE AT RUSSIA. By United Vreea. Helsingfors, January 9.Intense indignation has been aroused here by the latest example of Russia's bur eaucratic methods. Two Russian ex amining magistrates visited Viborg to obtain a protocal drawn up by the town council regarding a request based on the Equality Law to carry on trade in Finland. Russian offic ials having no right to examine the protocol books of Finnish state in stitutions, the mayor refused to grant them access to the document, and they departed. Later, however, the chief of po lice appeared, armed with an order from the provincial governor, to in spect the protocol, and as soon as he had got the document in his posses sion, he produced another order, au thorizing him to take it to the exam ining magistrates which he did de spite the protests of he mayor and couyncil. The supreme court is to be invoked. Further dissatisfaction has been caused by the appointment of an in experienced Russian colonel to the post of director^of puhlic buildings in Finland, a position which re quires considerable technical knowl edge. BREN'S DISMISSAL IS ASKED Minneapolis, Jan. 9.Motion aas been made to dismiss the grand lar ceny indictment against Joseph D. Bren, former cashier of the Univer sity of Minnesota, on the grounds that Bren's testimony in the trial, which resulted in dismissal, jeapord ized his defense. The motion was made before Judge Jelley, who had previously denied a motion to dismiss on grounds of delayed action by the, county attorney. Decision was re served. PROTEST ON BIG DITCH Farmers From Clearwater County Flocked to Bemidji in Force at Hearing Tuesday. THE MATTER WAS COMPROMISED Nearly two hundred farmers from points on the Soo line in Clearwater county came to Bemidji Tuesday" for for the hearing beSrfe7 :-^^fi|--v/SN0W ED IN"WILSONS Judge Stan- ton on Judicial Ditch No. 1. This ditch runs through Clearwater, Red Lake, Polk and Pennington counties. It was proposed to empty the wa ter from the river about twelve miles nearer the mouth than the farmers wanted as the engineer claimed that as the river was so sluggish, the ditch water would flood it. The mat ter was finally compromised and the men went home apparently satis fied. FIRE LOSS WAS HEAVY. Scott Stewart, secretary of the Be midji fire department, explained at the last annual meeting Bemidji's fire loss in 1912 wad $127,930. The department answered thirty-five calls, two of which were false alarms, and attended thirty-three fires, two thirds of which started in chimneys. The worst were the destruction of the Harry Gunsalus corner January 13, in which the total loss was estimated at $70,000, and the burning of the Rex hotel, in which about $50,000 was lost. The department now numbers twenty-nine. The officers of the relief associa tion were elected as follows: Presi dent, Charles Bailey vice president, R. B. Miller secretary, John Falls treasurer, John Goodman. NAVY MASCOTS "CANNED" Norfolk, Va., Jan. 9.A belliger ent goat's lack of respect for the uni form, it was said yesterday, was the cause for an order of Rear Admiral R. M. Doyle banishing all of the sailors' pets and mascots front bat tleships, cruisers and receiving ships at this station. Admiral Doyle is supposed to have been inside the uniform when the goat, a mascot aboard the New Hampshire, butted it so tigorously that it toppled over on the deck. The goat now is an exile and with uim went a long train of cats, dogs, parrots, bears and other goats. KILLED A COW MOOSE Homesteader From Rapid River Country Fined $75 and Costs in Police Court Yesterday. PLEAD GUILTY TO AVOID TRIAL Charles Cook, a homesteader in the Rapid River country sixty miles south of Baudette, was fined $76 and costs jn police court yesterday: for having the meat of a cow, moose in his possession. His brother Fred Cook, who was in district court here last spring on a criminal charge, was also arrested and" brought into court. Charles Cook plead guilty to the act and Charles was released. The Cooks were taken by Deputy Sheriff William Hazen as his last of ficial act. He was sent out under the Hazen administration and re turned under the Johnson. Evidence in the case was gathered jointly by Sherm Bailey, local game warden, and E. C. Cook, who is no relation to the arrested men, of Thief River Falls. Charles and Fred Cook are alleged to be two of a group of homesteaders in the Rapid River country who have made a habit in the past of killing moose in season and out and selling the meat as "beef" in Thief River Falls. The game wardens wanted the limit of $100 assessed on Charles Cook but his attorney threatened a jury trial if the fine was not less and in order to save the county the ex pense of such a rial, the fine was made $7JT Mr. Bailey learned some time ago that four homesteaders in that conn try had six moose in their possession and prepared at once to take a trip to find out. The movement was tipped off to Frank Cook of Nebish, a broth er of Fred and Charles, and he at once sent a man to warn his brothers. The messenger left Nebish late on a Saturday night and traveled on horse back across the Red Lakes and up the trail to the Rapid River country. Two of the moose were at once hidden. Mr. Hazen went into the home stead country by way of Warroad and Baudette and had a mileage ac count of 404 miles. jr SMALL CHIMNEY FIRE? At 10:30 last night the fire de partment was called to 112 Third street, to the building occupied by the saloon of William Meyers, where they put out a small chimney fire. Scoop Wasn't Taking Anything For Granted By "HOP fS Ht W*tVtR SUPPCHVN t*^ MWtt AVfo HER Fouft THiMV ff-WM Ht CAHfH THEV CrAVt VT TO TO HAVt IT ITES^EP- HO*/1M. WRITE THt STAB* AS SOOH ft Sfce jftow THE CAHtN/VFtcnVOoJ HILL1G0SS TELLS A STORY Great Northern Land Man Here With Griffin Familiar With Every Minnesota Township. WAS ONE OF BEMIDJI'S PIONEERS J. W. Hilligoss, land man for the Great Nortnern railway, was here ibis week^y^J. H. Griffin and at tended tt^-oaeeting of the Commer cial club at which the sheep proposi tion was discussed. Mr. Hilligoss was familiar with this country be fore the Great Northern built -rough from Duluth +o Grand Forks and had some good stories to tell. He claims to have been in every town ship in Minnesota. "You know," he said, "that at one time I had an interest in the Bemidji Townsite company and sold out be cause I thought the Great Northern would not hit the town Tt'~ fact. When they surveyed through, they wanted to build between here and Lake George and spend many months trying to figure out a way through the hills as to come to Bemidji meant the addition of several miles to the route. "But I do not believe a railroad will ever be built through that coun try. Coming in from the west, the level rises with table after table of land and then suddenly drops off. The grade is too long and high to climb and the expense of cutting through is prohibitive. "This country used to be pretty wild through here. I remember one time when I was in through the coun try a few miles north of Bemidji, I had been walking all morning and about noon sat down tt eat. I was on a windfall and 'was eating out of my pack. "After I had been munching away a few minutes, I felt a jar on the log, and turning my head saw a big lynx not four feet away from me and crouched to spring. 'Hello old boy,' I said, just like that, 'where did you come from?' The cat never moved. I kept talking to aim and slowly bent down and picked up my automatic with my left hand, SM**- it to the right and slowly stretched out my arm and pointed he gun. "When my arm was ready, the end of the gun was not a foot from the cat's head. All the time he was watching me with those green eyes and tail as stiff as it could be for its length. My hand was as steady as it Continued, on last page). O ISTHAT50-Wtwu 0*T CAT IT VOURStLPJ ANp THEN WRrre TMe. CIT POLITICIANS AR E LININ UP Johnson and McCuaig to Fight Again for Mayorship While Four are Ont For Police Judge. ELECTION ON FEBRUARY 18 In Addition to Above Officers, Voters Must Select Four Aldermen and One-at-Large. SHERM BAILEY FAVORS SIMONS Says Present Official Is Satisfactory, But Believes All Candidates Should Draw Lots. The City Ticket. MayorL. P. Johnson, William McCuaig. Alderman-at-largeRay Murphy. First wardJohn Moberg, (prob able j. Second wardSherm Bailey. Third wardJ. Bisiar, (probable). Fourth wardOpen. Police JudgeH. A. Simons, L. Q. Pendergast, John L. Brown and H. J. Loud. At the present time it looks as though the ballots for the next city election, which will be held Febru- ary 18, will read with the above names. The Socialist candidates are not named since their referendum has not yet been held and the candidates selected. Messrs, Simons, Loud and Brown. are practically the only candidates openly In the field at this, time-- as** J^M^-z their friends are circulating nomina ting petitions. Mr. Johnson and Mr* McCuaig have not yet made public announcements of their candidacies but have told their friends that they will run. Ray Murphy considered the mayorship at first, but when ad vised that there were two other can didates, withdrew with heir support for alderman-at-large. Crippen Will Not Bun. John Moberg is out of town but it is understood that Moberg will be up for re-election. C. Crippen said this morning that he will not. John Dalton has been urged to run from the Fourth ward but cannot as his election would invalidate his saloon license according to a recent court decision. Joe Bisiar said this morn ing that he was not yet ready to make an announcement but that many friends had been urging him to try for re-election. Sherm Bailey announced his candidacy the first of the week. The large number of candidates for police judge has led to the suggestion that a mass meeting of voters not Socialists be called for some evening about two weeks before the election and the candidates eliminated until one is selected to run agains the Soc ialist. It has been pointed out that the split field for the judgship and mayorship is practically sure to re sult another Socialist administration. The Socialists at present have one alderman, E. W. Hannah, who holds over for another year. Bailey is For Simons. Speaking of the police judge situa tion, Sherm Bailey said, "I favor Judge Simons for re-election as I be lieve he has made a good Judge. He has not yet served a full term but I have found him satisfactory in cases I have brought before him. But I am in favor of some public meeting whereby one candidate will be selected to run against the Social ist. If any candidate from my ward comes out for alderman, I am ready to draw cuts with him to see which one makes the race." '"^j,.* Ray Murphy expressed himself as in favor of any plan by which oho man will oppose the Socialist candi date for each office. Mr. Murphy said that he was willing to draw lots with any non-Socialist opponent in order that a three-corner fight would be avoided. He cited the case of the re- ||p cent election in Minneapolis where ^A the Socialists nominated by petition after two regular candidates had been selected at the primaries. One of the regular nominees withdrew and the Socialist was defeated, where- Mf: as if the* fight had continued three- jH cornered, h minority candidate* would have been elected. .*J||*||g| The Bemidji election comes the third Tuesday In .February which falls os the eighteenth. 4 tic 1 ag &. ~-m '45 r* *i Xi