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We mix paints toorder. Jones6t James Qainn of Nevis is in the city. W. H. Welch is here from De troit. William Gordon of Brainead is in town. J. A. Blackey of Becida is in the city. J. P. Moore of Crookston is in Bemidji. E. McBride is in town from "Blackduck. Fred Stark is down from Ten -strike today. Tom Harvey at the bat at Reed & Knudson's. 61-tf Frank Galvin of St. Paul ar rived in town today. For sale, tamarack wood, any length. C. E? Carson. 8-tf N. D. McKenzie of Guthrie is in Bemidji on business. F. F. Smith came up from Minneapolis yesterday. H. N. Sherman of Minneapolis was in Bemidji yesterday. H. M. Greenfield of Buena Vista is here on business. H. W. Valkenburgh of Duhith is stopping at the Markham. G. E. Bronsdon of Jersey City, N. J., is in town on business. Leave your orders for paper hanging, decorating, painting and sign writing with Steeoo, at PJean dette's tailor shop. 47tf Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Rutland of Bagley are visiting in the city. John Kelley of Verndale, Mmn., is in Bemidji for the summer. Commissioner Sibley was seen on the streets of Bemidji today. NoticeTwo fine residence lots and small house for sale on lake shore south of the hospital. See T. Beaudette, the tailor. 60-tf P. E. Seavey and wife of Mil waukee are registered at the City ^Hotel Furnished rooms for rent over the Boyer building. Inquire unstairs. 54-tf Try a want ad in the Daily Pioneerthe result will speak for itself. Ed Kaiser and Chocolate Carl son left for Long Lake yerterday on a fishing trip. Twenty bunches of bananas at 20 cents a dozen, this week, at Peterson's 66tf QMr. and Mrs. J. M. Young and daughter of Solway are regis tered at the Markham. Fresh raspberries, direct fro in growers, every day this week, at Peterson's. 66tf Miss Anna Peterson, who has been visiting with friends in .town, returned to Grand Forks today. Nice 25-foot lots for sale in a good neighborhood30 and S40. See T. Beaudette, the tailor. 60tf S. J. Rudser and Mr. Bergh of Hendrome, Minn., were guests at the home of M. A. Clark yes terday. Leave orders for hand made silk laces with Mrs. Lillibridge, 919 Bemidji avenue. Collars from $1.50 to $25. 63-6t Architect Keck of Crookston is in Bemidji today looking after some of the buildings he has un-^ der course of construction. The Third street bowling alleys are undergoing extensive repairs. G. Weetman, the proprietor, in tends to make the alleys equal to any in the Northwest, and with that object in view is making the repairs and at the same time ad ding several improvements. Farm for sale on the west shore of Lake Bemidji, only one and one-quarter miles from the city limits, one-half mile lake front, and a beautiful spot for summer resorts: good im provements. See T. Beaudette, the tailor. 60-tf DR. FOSTER DENTIST 3JILES BRICK BLOCK. BEMIDJI. MIN'X. Allen Stewart Declares the Rolling Match was Not a Fake. Allen Stewart, the champion log roller, who was defeated in the match on the Fourth by Geo. Riviere, emphatically denies that the outcome of the match was prearranged. Speaking to the Pioneer this morning Mr. Stewart said: "I was fairly beaten. I did my best to win, and I wish you would tell the public there was nothing on the fake order in the match. It is true that the prize money was divided equally among the four of us, but when we entered the match we had no idea who would come out winner. If the log had been lighter so that it could have been more easily controlled the match might have resulted differ ently. It is hard for a man to use any science on a heavy Nor way pine nineteen inches through. I am not complaining, however, for it was as fair for one as the other..' Bright vs. Duff. The suit brought by S. E. Bright against J. W. Duff for the recovery of $30 on a promissory note was tried before Judge Ach enbach this morning. A Judg ment for the plaintiff was en tered. Attorney P. J. Russell appeared for the plaintiff and At torney J. L. Reynolds for the defendant. CORNER LO F. B. Hannafin Gets Lots at Cor ner of Beltrami Avenue and Third Street. F. B. Hannafm yesterday pur chased from Bacon & Brown the lot on the southwest corner of Third street and Beltrami avenue for 6,000. It is understood that there will be no changes made in the building on the lot this year, but that next summer a brick block will be constructed on that corner. "vr. E. H. Marcum Located Here. Dr. E. H. Marcum, who DENIES STORY FOREST FIRES Los* re cently located in Bemidji, is now pleasantly situated in offices above the Palace restaurant, which are completely fitted with the latest and most approved in struments known to medical science for the practice of his profession. The doctor is well prepared for the work which he has set out to do. He is a gradu ate of the Hahnemann Medical college of Chicago, and for two years was a teacher in the dis secting rooms of this noted insti tution. Aside from this he has for the past year been assistant to F. H. Honberger in his hos pital confinement cases. Thus he is thoroughly fitted to be an expert in surgery. Dr. Marcum is also a graduate of the North western College of Ophthmology of Chicago, and of the Ustion Medical Society of the World. For Saler S56080 acres two and one alf miles directly north of the thriving city of Bemidji: this is a level piece of land with small timber it should make a good general or stock farm includes them, SW, Sec. 28, Twp 147, Ege. 33. 81000200 acres in compact body, five miles north of the town of Turtle River, two miles from shipping station, five miles from Tenstrike my reports show black loam soil with clay subsoil sev eral thousand posts and poles, which will sell readily at neigh boring stations also includes good meadow land: this is as good land as grows in Beltrami county. SWi of NWi, W$ of SWi Sec. 5, E* of SEi of Sec. 6. Twp. 148, Rge. 32. W. D. WASHBURN, JR., 302 Guaranty Loan Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Government Will Make a Study of Them in Northern Minnesota. A study of forest tires- begun in the South this spring will be continued during the summer in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Mich igan by a party under H. J. Tomp kins of the government bureau of forestry. Tompkins^ will in quire into the methods" used by the inhabitants in putting out tires, and determine, if possible, how these methods may be im proved. He will then attempt to devise some general system of tire control for .the states visited so that the bureau, if called on, will be able to furnish their legis latures with recommendations for fire laws based OH a thorough knowledge of the conditions. This is the,first step in the direc tion of a thorough examination of conditions in tLe tint herd sec tions of the Northwest. New Sidewalk. The council met last night, but transacted little business. There were two sidewalk petitions in which it was voted to grant. One of the walks which it is proposed to build starts at~The entersec tion of Eighth street and Minne sota avenue and will run south ward along the west side of Min nesota avenue to Fifth street. To obtain the best and quickest results, use the Daily Pioneer want column. tf FOND O CASH Madame West Leaves Town, Like wise Debts and a Bad Reputation. Miss Hortense Shay, who came herefrom Eveleth six weeks ago and established herself as a| dressmaker under the name of i Madame West, surreptitiouiy several debts and a bad reputa tion. Miss Shay took with her, it is claimed, cloth tor a dress belong- i DEATH IN AN AWFUL FORM. Engineer Slowly Scalds Before Help less Spectators. St. Paul, July 7.John E. McGowan, an engineer on the Northern Pacific railroad, was killed at 10:30 yesterday when his engine jumped the track at Dellwood, White Bear Lake. His right arm was broken near the shoulder and his left leg was fractured below the knee. Death resulted from being scalded. The train was only a short distance from Dellwood station when the track sank beneath the weight of the locomotive. The coupling of the engine and tender broke and the en gine tipped over on the right side, where McGowan was sitting with his hand on the lever. He was caught with his hand under the cab and was pinioned to the ground. The steam began to escape and the engineer was slowly scalded to death while hun dreds of lake visitors watched htm die and were powerless to render any as sistance. BABY FALLS INTO BONFIRE. He Is Unable to Get Up and Is Roasted Alive. St. Paul, July 7.Wtadystaw Mal ecki, the six-year-old-son of Albert Malecki, wats fatally burned by falling into a bonfire early last evening while playing with some companions near his home. He died at 11:30 last night. While he was playing with some other children they started a fire with some old paper which they picked up. The blaze was only a small one, hut as the child was running to escape one of his companions who was chasing him, he stumbled and fell face down in the fire. He was unable to get up. His clothing caught fire and by the time he was dragged from the Are he was frightfully burned about the waist, the flesh being roast ed almost to a crisp. in to a young girl who was i a large harena laird treedemolished TAMS^IXBW-WORK Believe Heatwole Will Run. can hardly be any doubt as to Mr. Heatwole's real intentions. He-has been regarded all along as the probable manager for Mr. Dunn's gubernatorial campaign, and there are some Minnesota politicians who still insist thai Heatwole and Dunn have an understanding. But Mr. Bixby's wager and his positive manner of declaring that Heatwole would be a can [didate. would indicate that ^khe former congressman is prepar ing for a campaign. SOUTH DAKOTA WOMAN BURNED. Fatal Gosoline Explosion Occurs at Redfield. Redfield, S. i. July 7.Mrs. George F. Johnson died last evening ui 9 o'clock a* the result of burns received from a gasojine stove. Slio loaves a husband and two children, Harry E. lohnson a a contractora promhw-nt merchani of oi wd left the city Monday morning on (thisw city, and Grace Johnson Rarflett, the 3 o'clock train. She left!It lf Lead, S. D. Tornado Does Damage. La Crosse, Wis., .July 7.A tornado passed four miles south of Bangor, eigh mile a sano ridnVna'Wa'eei&.arft haailfoes tatkra lowfor a distance of three miles. No one was injured. working as her assistant, beside goods of other of her customers, i She owed for room rent, electric Chickens Destroyed by Rain. light rent, board and, -as near as Clontarf. Minn., July 7. Rains In this vicinity have caused almost a total can be ascertained, for every-1 destruction of the prairie chicken thing else she took Upon credit, "crop" this year, as many dead chicks while in Bemidji. She had a strange aversion for a cash busi ness, except when the coin was coming her way. an(, level(?f] and vege- and eggs are now floating on the watere of meadows. GRAVE TELLS WOODS TRAGEDY. Probable Burial Place of Unfortunate Deer Hunter Is Found. Clintonville, Wis., July 7. While looking over timber land in Forest county Messrs. A. Van Zlle and R. Miller of this city made a gruesome find. In the dense forest, where Ore axe of the woodsman has never re sounded, they found a grave. The surroundings indicate that the grave probably contains the remains of some unfortunate deer hunter. During last season three m. went into the woods in quest of deer and were never heard of afterward, and this may be one of them. The conditions of the ground show that the grave was ring off som mon when the ground was frozent.h HZ" WOULD LYNCH OFFICER. Hang Jamestown Mob Threatens to Enoch Russell. Jamestown. N. D July 7.An an?ry crowd gathered In front of Spanker's billiard hall last evening and threat ened to lynch Officer Enoch Russell, following the faial shooting of W. W. Hamlin. Russell attempted to arrest a drunken man in Spangler's and was resisted. In the tucounter the officer was thrown to the floor. He drew his revolver and shot twice, one bullet entering near the heart of Hamlin, who was standing near by. When threats of lynching was made special officers attempted to disperse the mol) which gathered and pleas were madn to let the law take its course. RiiFsell was spirited away aad the crowd dis persed. Jay Reynolds Attorney-at-Law. Office: Over Lnmbermens Bank FORECAST O N THE POINT GROUNDS Wakes a Wager That Heat- The Beautiful Young Birch Carpenters Making the Town wole Will Be a Candidate for Governor. Trees Are Fast Being Destroyed. BETS A $40 SLIT OF CLOTHES! IS PROPOSED TO ARREST AXI) (i. A. R. EXCAMPMRXT TO BE WITH A FRIEXI). FIXE THE OFFENDERS. BIGGEST YET HELD. Believed Bixby Has Reason to If Necessary A Fence Will Be Indian Sports Will Be Features P& of the Four Days' Splen did' Program. Place About Th Park. The St. Paul Dispatch pub lishes the following dispatch from Washington today: I strong on Diamond Point, where Chairman Tunis Bixby. chief there is a beautiful growth of of the Dawes Indian commission and promoter of the town of Be midji-, in which he is interested, for the land office, indulged in a political prophecy the other day. It was. in fact, more than a prophecy, for ,\lr. Bixby wag ered a :-4 suit of clothes with a former congress man I'rom Minne sota that Joel P. Heatwole will be an active candidate for governor i tree destroyers, and the com- town, and the carpenters will be TnrxTYeaTT" pany proposes to make an e'xH kept busy from now until on- Coming from this source, there i ample of the tirst offender jcanipmeut time A Japanese caught It tli.' not be stopped fence will be shore to keep visitor the White Earth Reservation. OF VANDALS^STARTEDWORKON The White & -Street Townsite No effort is being spared to Company is finding vandalism make the eoiirittg A. R. en eanipnient to be held in Bemidji young birch trees. It is the I district encampment over held in wish of the company to make any of the central states. It the Point one of the beauty-spots will equal some of the state en- of Minnesota, but the vandal campments in size. with the itching for birch bark! Today a crew of carpenters is rapidly putting the ghost started work" on the grounds, trees.at the mercy of wind and There is considerable carpenter rain by girdling them for the 'work to lie done where the tents A guard has been pa' on, are to be pitched, also on the wli-wihuet the names 61 the several arches to be placed about WISHT O REM AIN^ve seating spaoo.uthViontfor i several hundred j3eopfe4 Wodnosday, July 22, will be Indians Do Not \fant to Move to^adies' day. and the program will be devoted exclusively to the ladies of the A. R. and W. K. The presiding officers and [their respective stall's will be i i present, and tho ladies'"organiza^ \ccorciing- to reports roeeivonI tin4 Indian bureau at Washing at ton the officials at While Earth are halving considerable difficulty in-removingthe Indians at Mlllo Lacs in accordance with the pro visions of the act passed ttt-ttuT lasi session of congress Agent Miehelet reports that while the majority of the reds desire to go to White Earth many of them express a preference for Leech Lake. The Washington authorities want the Indians to goto the former agency, as there is adequate land there for allot ments, ['revision cannot be made made for the Indians at Leech Lake. The White Earth agent has been instructed to make a thor ough report on conditions at Mille Lacs and submit an es timate of the cost, of transporta tion of the Indians and the amount that will be necessary to supply them with the equipment Lhorses and cattle, authorized by congress. Eyje^ Big Pee_d barn. effort will be made by the Wash ington officials to have the Mille Lacs Indians to White Earth". The Daily Pioneer want col umns are good result getters. Try them. F. O. E. Fraternal Order 61 Ka^le*, Bemlnjf Aerie No. 331. Meets every Sunday at S p. m., Oilmore's Hall. .Iiiscr 1 flarnnifton, W. ('resident M. LeBleu. \V. Secretary Visiting eagles cordially invited. REED & KNUTSON Blacksmith and Wagon Makers BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA |EED KNUTSON have opened a blacksmith and wagon shop one door south of The Pioneer, and are prepared to handle any and all work in their line and guarantee ati-fa--tio to all comers. Mr. Reed makes a specialty of horseshoeing and general blacksmith work, and his work is too" well known to need any introduction to the people of thi* vicinity. Mr. Knutson has been in the employ of the St. Hilaire Lumber company for four years, and comes well recommended by that company. Give the new firm a chance to show you what they can do, and you will not be disappointed REED & KNUTSON Second door south of postoffice, BEMIDJI, MINN. Ready to Receive the Old Soldiers. duly 21, 22, 23 and 24 the biggest vandal is in can- honse-of comfortable proportions barbed wire is to be .erected in the park. Thia built along the will bo tin- headquarters for tbo off unwelcome QM soldiejjs. A great variety of seats will be provided, and it is planned to tious have proved a royal enter taimeni. The national pfesid'ents of both association's will be here. Mrs. Lodusky ,1. Taylor ot Le Sueur, Minn., is president of the W. b\ C. Every week- new features are added to the already attractive program. It has been recently decided to have Indian dances, dog feasts, canoe races and other Indian spoils features of the four days' program. Chief IJe midji, the famous peace chieftain of the Chippewas, after whom the town is named, will be pres ent with his tribesmen. A special rate* of one and one third fare has been granted by all the roads from all parts of the state, and the tickets will be good for one week. One hundred and sixty acres of good pasture and water two and one-half miles from town for Inquire at -t Want Column. ANYONE desiring to buy a rotary sawmill of 20,(Miu feet capacity write "No. WW," oare this office. FOR SALETwo thousand corda of lb-inch wooa. Wes Wright. .'54-tf LANG & CARTER exclusive agenta for Bailey's addition. WANTED Girl for general housework. R. Mudijett, Trask house, beyond the saw mill. ti.Vtf