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IB Bemidji Pioneer
EDW. KA I.SEK & K'.O.. JL'ub.liiu-i
PVJII,1S1IW) KVl-itY Tiliail.SjiAV
^eni.iS"rr$'1..50 Per Year in Advance.
Entered In the postoffice at Bomldjl, as sec
ond class jnatter-
THE OFFICIAL PAPER.
THE PIONEER having been the
first newspaper oyer issued within
the limits of Beltrami .county, anil
the Board of County .Commission-
ers having failed at their January
meeting to designate an official
paper for the county., it was a very
graceful compliment to the enter'
prise of the PIONE ER for the Board
.a.UJts last meeting to designate it
aa the oflicial paper for the coun-
ty. The publisher of the PIONE ER
appreciates the courtesy, and will
endeavor to render to the county
full value for all monies paid.
THE St. Hiiaire Spectator is a
jrery much improved paper of late.
BEMIRJI is rupidly"b"ecbiuing the
(Commercial .capital ot Beltrami
^county.
THE cripple who discovered
Cripple Creek is now daily expect
ed on the Jled Lake reservation.
CLEVELAND 'S gokl policy will be
recognized by the Chicago conven
tion mainly by a golden silence.
Bi*t sjlycf wijl have a voice to be
jueapd..
THIEF RIVER FALLS will soon
Jiave six saloons and some more
miles of sidewalk, if the "ad"
columns of the News are a truth
ful indication.
THE Minneapolis Trib'ine says
that the railroad and saw-log in
terests of Bemidji will take the
sails out of all other Beltrami
county townsites.
THE Nelon law and the instruc
tions of the commissioner of the
general land office.both say tlmt
tlie Red flhke lands shall be "dis
posed ot" to actual settlers only."
GOVKRNQR CLoro is not yet
.dead politically but the other fel
lows are compelled to meet tlua-e
at a time every senii-occasionaN|y
in order to concoct some scheme
by which they can head the blamed
fool off.
MATIIEW STANLEY QUAY took
the Pennsylvania delegation with
hardly a quiver of the eye-lids.
Mr. Quay will have a voice in the
St. Louis nomination, and he is
not very unfriendly to either Tom
Reed pr Win McKinley.
NAVIGATION on the great lakes is
again open, and what promises to
be the greatest season in the
history of their commerce has be
jnm in high feather. The Mesabi
range is responsible for a largo
portion of the promised big sea
son, and last year's wheat crop
for another large portion.
CRIPP LE CRE EK came near tak
ing the fire route to the hereafter
the other day, and did lose frame
buildings to the value of a couple
of millions. But they have gold
enough, at present inflated prices
of that metal, to put up good fire
proof structures to replace the lost
ones.
THH CUBAN situation is still an
interesting one, but the Venezue
lan atfair has lost much of its
alacrity. Th former will die out
with the last expiring groans of
the Spanish misrule, and the lat
ter will spring up like an' entirely
new deal as soon as the Monroe
doctrine is understood to have its
poor man's side.
WHEN the Brainerd and North
ern comes up to Bemidji, the peo
ple of the whole Red Lake country
will come here rather than to
Fosston or Thief River for railway
access to the middle of the state,
and to all the world beyond. Give
us the Brainerd & Northern, and
trood fortune is ours.
E
mamma -^c,
WHEN Congressn uu Ti i i
ready to run for arnHher inn he
should conic up to tlie 1.rati water-*
a ml sjje tht! boys. There are sonic
votes laying around t,ooe up bvar.
C. F. DONALD, of Ji Cloud,
would make admirable candi
diite for governor on the (Lemoc^a-
tic ticket. Ho has brains enough
i t~o appreciate the humor of the
situation that would be f./iruil u]
on him.
15ISIiTltAM ICO'J N'T Y.
The largest county in the State
of Minnesota, recent explorations
are rapidly convincing that it i"
also or.e of the richest, in natural
resources. A large portion of it
is .still unsurveyed public lands,
another large portion lies within
the limits of the diminished Red
Lake reserve, while all but live or
six townships are totaly unsettled.
It is the northern) ost county in
the state, its extreme limit being
that small body of laud on the
northwest shore of Lake of the
Woods, which is famout.- in history
as the American product of the
Webster-Ash burton treaty on the
Canadian boundary line.
Commencing at Lake of the
Woods on the north, where there
are some fifteen townships of sur
veyed land, the explorer finds him
self in the midst of a timber coun
try with a heavy soil, fit for and
capable of substantial farming
operations. In the extreme north
western corner there are several
towns of very hilly find
broken character, largely covered
with scattering pine, so the cruis
ers say, with considerable swamp
intermixed. Th PIONEER" does
not vouch for this latter character,
however.
From the south line of Hi'e sur
veyed towns on Lake of the Woods,
as far to Hie south as Red Lake,the
country is reported to be very
much diversified, with one long
marsh, about four or five miles,
wide reaching from Red Lake to
the head of Roseau river.
This is the famous 35-day marsh
that deceived the Duluth and
Winnipeg railway survey, and
which might have been almost en
tirely avoided by a route further
to the north, where the country
is mixed mef.dow, brush, and light
timber. Westward from the 35-
day march is the Thief River part
ofRe.lLake reserve, and in tin
twenty towns to be opened for set
tlement there is much good and
much poor land. Th settler will
take his choice.
The diminished reserve is that
tract lying between Clearwater
river and the town line between
towns 154 and 155. It is very rich
in meadow and timber lands, but
will only serve the white man as a
cattle pasture for twenty years to
come.
That part of Beltrami which lies
south of the diminished reserve
extends from the east to the west
line of the county, 50 miles, and
varies from prairie and meadow in
its northwestern part, to brush
and timber on the upper Clearwater
river to pine and jack-pine and
oak groves directly south of Red
Lake, and to heavy hard-wood and
pine timber in the east.
[That portion of the county
which includes the headwaters ot
the Mississippi is mainly within
the White Earth reserve and'is
nearly all heavily timberd with
pine. Th agricultural lands pi
the country will average up well
with Polk or Marshall or Kittson,
while the pine resources are meas
ured only by the billion feet. Six
billion feet would probably express
the pine timber in board measure,
much of which will go to Thief
River for sawing, while most oi
it must of necessity be sawed at
Bemidji. The mere pick-up pine
in the Bemidji country would serve
to keep three or four fair-si/.ed
mills sawing for seven or eight year
while it is a possibility that the
big pine land owners may at any
time see fit to put in operation here
a JOO.O00 feet per day mill.
Beltrami county then, it may
be fairly anticipated, will in i
very few years become poptofonf
and prosperous, and with Beauti
ful Bemidji for a rtapital, will com
mand considerable attention in tin
business world,
IfA IT
1
The Term ii'ttuai Settlors
O'lllJ-*'' lotcrpie 't-- M\n-
,'jiv) i.s THbJme 'ovr'.s
jioud-iit StzoM tip Iifllraini
Co.nii.Viiiul its r\ittireTown
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iVsrox. Minn.. April ^.--T):e
correspondent of Th Tribiim', in
stirred cp a horm L*s st in the
vicinity of Crobksfcoii. With the
Nelson law reading that the Red
Lake reserve lauds should be "dis
posed of *'to actual settlers only/'
and the circular of the commis
sioner oftlicJand office instructing
the land officers that entry should
only IK perniited to "actual set-
tlor:?,'' 'it. did look to the
Tribune correspondent as if (he
ruling of the Crookstcii officers
that entry would be permitted
without previous settlement, was
a trifle out of order. It *as not
his opinion, however, that he was
volcingi i
ut that some [itiiidieds oi
poor men who have alreadv sclec-tci
claiiitH witli il view to scttiemeiit. and
\vh. ti!' w.iiung tin- tim when ttiPJ
I'iin go upon liie land and make snei
iiii|)i-
as will inlitl:' them to
iii entry under the lawmen who arc
now waiting on the boundaries of tin
reserve or hi towns adjacent, and who
have taken the terms of tiift law for
their guidance, thinking that there
would be no mob law at the land
o!li"c door. to make this opening a
disgrace to civilization and to tin
land d('i-artint-Jit men \vli(c inin,i at
fm to pay other man SSO or Slop ti
reliiKiiiis)! a claim which the tilci
ncvi'i had any intention of li vint: upon
"'he early coning into the, markel
of the pine lands of the reserve, nov
promised from Vrashington, has ji.it
the ij-.irstion of available towusit
again to the front, and there is every
prospfct that at -least three tracts of
available pine land will be purchased
as much for their adaptability foi
plat lint and town-making as for the
pine that is upon them. The home
4tead lands cannot he utilised foi
town-making, inasmuch as no title
can be secured inside of live years
and it looked for a time a5 if the new
town of llemidji would have but on*
competitor for the county seat of tin
county of Beltrami, and that coinpcti
tor pretty well toward the rast side ot
the county, in tite Black Duck coun
try. If. however, the pine lands are
put upon the market, at an early day.
Bemidji will have its hands ftili keep
'n^ up with the procession, though i!
will in all probability la able to dis
tance the others *oy reason of its su
perior location from a railroad .point
of view.
There is now abroad in Beltrami
county a strong feeling in favor oi
county organization, as the moon
venienees resulting from the present
oiiuection with Becker eonnfy nr
seriously felt as handicapping t!i
transaction of even t!i{' commonest
business belonging to the county af
fairs. Detroit is nominally the mini
seat of both Becker and Beltrami
without even a deputy auditor in tin
latter county, and Detroit is flfj milch
in a straight line from Bemidji. with
no rail connection between. At ores
ent there is no general law for the or
ganization of new counties, and sp"-
ial legislation of that sort is forbid
den by the constitution. There are
some new towns desiring organization
ind.there will be one or more"vi!la'e
as soon as the reserve opens, but the
difficulties ih the way are consider
able, and much that should be done in
dial direction hi the next six months
will probably be neglected.
CRAIG & CO.' S SAW MILL.
Messrs. Craig & Co. began saw
ing operations on Monday, at their
mill near the mouth of the School
craft river. They will have about
300,000 feet of pine logs to split
into boards, and will put the butts
into shingles, for which there is
now a good market in Bemidji.
OKANDPA PEA SE of the Anoka
Herald was so 'pleased oyer the suc
cess of his scheming for the new
Insane hospital that he put a yard
wide smile on the oJJice cat, and
[dunged the animal into a vat of
molten gold, afterwards presieht
ing it to Auditor Bob Dunn as a
memento of his boldness in issu
ing the $15,000 warraiii.
JOHN STEIDL
Lumber,
Latn,
Shingles,
Ceiling,
Flooring,
Siding.
DEALER I N
Proprietor of the
BEMIDJI SAW MILL-
PJf!lt '.iio'i''.' II!' li inl.'t'.tlOll til
:II.IK- Uit prwi Mipporl
i: -1,4 i.,,. 1/i'ul Office ut Bt. Cloud, .Minn., April 2.,
bus commuincatioii or hist, nunday m..,,.
HutAct) in iini'i'liycivi'n ilrit tho foiViwin niini-
B(lKt*tt!orhti liii-il -.1! se of his Intention lo
ai.tU'i* fin l proof in lli jj.nt h:s (.'iaiiri il
tnat miid iirnnl' will 1K a.i.ili' hi-fori' tho lli'KiMcr
lic.'i-iv.'f Of V. S, UH.f Otlico, I'ro.iktiton,
.Mii on Junn !':h, 1". f.
J. too. l, f.v: 14 rjf.Sl
Ko a.Hiii's i!.'.' follown witaewiCd lo prnvohh'
joutuniouK rtnidtJiiceupon md cultivitlioti of,
,.rd land. \'.t.
l-'r-cinnn P.-nd, Thci''!- to i-'ny.U''. (i. n.
('ari-o.i, Carhon. nil of Ik'inMji. Jiinn.,
TltJEO. HiiciMat, JiCK.nttr.
Liiad O.Ucu at Ht. CloaJ, Aliaa., April 83,
lK'i
Notice IK hereby trivoa that tin following
nsni'dl settlerIHM itlort notice of his inti-ntt'T
to raakw iinat pr fin Hijiportof hi* chiiui.niid
:l,at t-r priioJ will belllflUo uefofo tho liiv iHU'r
J(i'i-'ivi-r of U. S. JjJi.ul Oliii'ti at I-Vookiftou,
Uinii., on lii.'i'l',ili. lMHi. vi^::
CleorKO K. ('rtivin
K. N 1 i'.ni. for tli- *'!i toH H.-C 8, nnl
l.ir I. '.iv,-p. IW, r. JB.
li iiamea the followiii/s wiluetwe*
leak at all km.
Groves
& Olson.
oOo
Jvery and Fee Stable.
oOo
Horses Bought and Sold.
Feeding a Specialty.'
Bemidjif Minn.
WILLIAM^,
DEALER I N
lie Wines Lipors ill
ikm.
Zzllrama Aus., Bemidji.
Bemidji
AND
^ark Rapids
Stag aed
Expres Line
WM. BARTLESON, Prop
jtage leaves Bemidji Monckiy und Fr:
day's Park Hapids Tuesday's and
Saturday's at 6.30 a. in., arriving at
destination tlie same day.
GH0. McTAGGARD,
Architect and
Contractor.
Bemidji, Minn.
121'XiKSU4SkK3H: Jt.SE.t. H^J3BUBEjlBi_*:3r jr3r2C
I -i. loml. M,nn.. A il 2'.
(jivon, tlutt the following nam.
UI'H claim
i a fii'ior will bo lO'i I" bpre the cj.'-^'".
or ttevejvor U.'ti. .am! Officii .u Cruokkturt,
lian. oa Juue B. i, via
Ilf'lll til I). I.'iUl.l
H.I:. No. I SCSI for the *V4 wk andlot4on
I, twii. 1 I r". ...i.
Ko nnineji I he following wibioww to p.roro his
iniiiiiiiiiM iidot)if upon .'ii.ii cultivation of.
:vi 1 lam I vi
i i-111--ii K. Derrick Theodore Snyder, (I.
'':..n M. E i'.u-soi., iiU "f 1 -miiljl. Mum
VlilvV lijil.'I.'NMl. IS.-JilKf cr.
tt
Braes) i D*iT nk
ii. K.NO. iii:i::i, fortlie i-v.'i mv1,,
lot^ l, 2 mm
prove
his ooatinmiijs reeidencfi QOOO nod culuv.ition
Said luiiil, vi/.:
i''n-:-tiiiiii I). Ooiitl, K-riPMt rc. DorriaPc, Theo.
Snyd..-.-, Wilnn allot I! -midji, Aliuii.
'1 H!:.). iii n:N.:i:. Ked*ter.'
THH GE
Restaurant
-SMIT i BATES
PROPIETORS.
STOVES AND TINWARE,
III.* .fl ...W
THH BEMlDjI HARDWARE CO.
Is opening up one of the completed lines of Hardware and
Harness Goods in Northern Minnsota.
NAILS AND CARPENTERS' TOOLS
Will bo our specialty to start off with, and
Will be a Staple Line. In
HARNESSWARE
GET YOUR
Groceries,
Dry Goods,
Knick-Knacksy
Furnishing Goods,
Tlie Farmer and Teamster will find that we keep everything,,
and that our Repair Work is First Clas s.
COMB AX I) SHE US.
Bemidji Hardware Co.
VvILLIS BRANNON, MANAGER.
W WHITE &
Corner Store Bemidji.
CIlOCKEItY AMGLASSWARE
GARDEN SEEDS -PACKAGES O BULK.
WHERE YOU CAN BUY THE CAEAPEST.
lood Prices for FARM PRODUCTS
We five early on the (/round, anil tviU cater any
trade that comes our way.
DOORS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS.
J. It, White & Co.
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