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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 14c HE'S A FARMER LEGISLATOR Representative Bennett Rais es All His Garden Truck. MORE PROUD O THIS THAN OF LAWMAKING. Interesting Account of How an Acre Produced Many Fold. Representative Bennettof Foss ton was in the city yesterday on legal matters. Mr. Bennett made quite a record for himself last winter in the legislature and gained considerable fame as a maker of laws, but it is not gen erally known that he is also a farmer. Mr. Bennett must be a very modest man or he could never have run the office and not let it get out that he is a farmer. But it is a fact that he is very proud of his agricultural oper ations. Speaking to a Pioneer man Mr. Bennett said, "It is astonishing the amount of canned vegetables that is sold in this country. Why our farmers [live on canned goods. Think\f a farmer buy ing his vegetables in Chicago! Now I am only a lawyer but I have a few lots out behind my house and on those lots this year I raised all the vegetables that I shall use this winter. Sunday at-home I sat down to one of the most complete and one of the finest dinners that ever tempted any man and everything on the table from the oyster (vegetable) soup to the rubarb pie came out of my garden. I think this is pretty good for just a plain lawyer." Mr. Bennett takes great inter est in practical farming and will descant by the hour upon the re lative virtues of different varieties of potatoes or the best method of raising turnips. If the repub lican party knew its business Mr. Bennett would be a candi date for governor. Busy Police Department. The books at police headquar ters in this city show that the Bemidji police department is one of the busiest in the Northwest. Since March 23, when the books showing the business of the police department for this year were begun, 354 commitments to the city jail are shown. The charges range from drunkeness to petty larceny, but more than two thirds are for drunkeness. Vagrancy comes next. The -volume of business shown on the books does not represent all the work that the police department has done since March 23. There have been a large number of ar rests made which developed into state cases. When it is remem bered that an element, of neces sity, is always present in this city which is noted the world over for its troublesome procliv ities Bemidji isn't such a bad town, after all. however. Brand New Town. The town of Richards, midway between Leech Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish, was born yes terday. It is eighteen miles east of Cass Lake and is named in honor of Commissioner Richards of the general land office. A. G. Bernard is prominent among the directors of the townsite com pany. Advertise in the Pioneer A MODE PLANT Improvements to Equipment of Electric Light Plant Make it a "Hum Dinger." Improvements which are at present being made to the elec tric lighting plant of WTarfield Bros., in this city will make it without a question the most com plete electric lighting plant in this section of the state and one of the best in Minnesota. This week there has been placed in position at the plant a mammoth Filer-Stowell engine. Its capacity is is 720 horse and it is one of the finest pieces of machinery that has ever been brought to this section. The fly wheel measures sixteen feet across, weighs fifteen tons and will be propelled at an average speed of 95 revolutions per min ute. The engine required two flat cars in transportation trom the manufacturing establishment at Milwaukee to this city. It will be used to propel the dynamo which has a capacity of 10,000 sixteen-candle:power in- candescent lights which is at present on the road and is ex pected to be in position by the latter part of the present week. In the neighborhood of $20,000 has recently been expended by Warfield Bros, in improvements to their property. Bemidji has been growing the past five years and a visit to the plant is more than sufficient to convince the most casual observ er that this is a truth that can not be contradicted. There are at present three engines and dynamos at the plant. The one with which the plant was origin ally started had a capacity of 1,200 incandescent lights. This was soon found to be totally in adequate and a larger engine was put in to propel a dynamo which had a capacity of 3,000, and this was thought all-sufficient to meet every demand on the plant for some years to come. Not so, however, Bemidji grew faster than the Warfield Bros, anticipat ed and the last purchase was necessitated and Mr. Warfield says be isn't making any pre dictions as to how long the pres ent equipment will meet all de mands. The company at present has 500 lights wired which cannofbe run with the power at the plant, but as soon as the new dynamo arrives and is gotten in working order it is hoped to give the patrons of the company a light ing service that will be second to none in Minnesota. Gruesome Relic. The police officers of Bemidji have a strange collection of grue some relics at police headquar ters at the city hall. It includes the knife that was used in a Fin lander stabbing affray some time ago, the sash which a woman of the town tore from her dress and attempted suicide with, a reck which in the hands of a Russian Jew came near sending a Deer River man to his last long rest, the big mitt that was taken away from an alleged big mitt man, now doing six months at Stillwater, the bottle which con tained the knock-out drops with which a lumberjack was poisoned and a number of other things, that have equally interesting histories. All the relics are labeled with a legend done in the bucolic list of one of the boys and they make a very interesting col lection. Advertisements in the want columns of the Dailv Pioneer are as the train stopped at that place a drayman drove up to the plat form, and in some way slipped AMUSEMENTS The realistic and spectacular war drama "True Blue," will be the attraction at the City opera house Thursday and Friday even ings of this week, presented by local talent for the benefit of the Bemidji Independent Military company. The piece will bepro duced under the direction of Mr. C. P. Spaulding, who has success fully presented it at more than one hundred towns in Wisconsin and at some of the best towns in this section of Minnesota. The cast includes the best local talent available and that it is not ordi nary is attested by the fact that Mr. Spauldfng says that of the many times IK has produced the \$ piece he has never been better pleased with a cast than with the one lie has been able to secure in this city. The piece is given in four acts, is elaborately dressed and requires twenty people. It deals Avith the heroic incidents of the days of '61 and is full of stir ring incident from tilt opening line to the finale. It has been steadily under rehearsal for three weeks and its presentation is anticipated with a very great deal of interest. The seat sale opens at Barker's Drug store today. The Bert J. Royce company in :'At Sweden Valley" will be one of the attractions at the City opera house in the near future. Business Increases. The Great Northern is averag ing eight freight trains in each direction every day at present, and the volume of business^from the west which goes over the Fosston line to the head of the lakes at prospnt is steadily in creasing. The Great Northern's I A Narrow Escape. Never Too Late. Passengers on theGreat North-' John Mikkelson of Kandiyohi. from Grookston this morn- |county, evidently thinks that it ing tell of a narrow escape from is never too late to do the right i instant death at Posston. Just thing. Mr. Mikkelson is over 60 and fell directly under the heavy from securing a marriage license wheels ot his dray. The horses became frightened and started to run, but somewhat of the twinkle of a eye he rolled over and over and before the hori tied spectators had time to catch their breath he was out of danger and laughing at the incident, which came so near being a fatal accident: Bossy Makes Trouble. The Great Northern is exper iencing considerable difficulty by reason of the fact that Beltrami cows insist on pre-empting|not only the right-of-way but the very track itself, and are singu larly loath to make way for the trains. Today the west bound passenger was twice compelled to come to a full stop before the animals could be induced to get off the track. Despite the pre cautions taken by the employes of the road some of the farmers of the county may find some of train wliicli tlioy haul is their stock missing one of these 3t),ctH capacity, loaded days if this condition continues They Want a Game. Thereare aelevenhusky young lads at Fosston who think they can play foot ball and are anxious to measure their Skill and cun ning, and beef and brawn, with the high school eleven of Bemidji, and a gentlemen from Fosston who was in the city yesterday, and who was coaching the Foss ton boys, stated that a challenge would soon be forwarded. It is planned to have two games, one played here a week from Satur day and a return game at Foss ton. i years old and Olava Christine Nelson confosses to63 summers, but age did not prevent them from Clerk of Court Rhocla this morning. Mikkelson secured the the drayman was license early and the ceremony an athlete for in was performed this afternoon. The case is said not to be one of the sentimental ordinary every day affairs. Both the old people feel the need of a home and as they were of congenial natures they decided the proper thin- to do was to get murried and live happy ever after. They were put into service on this lino about throe weeks ago and will continue indefinitely. They are of the type known as 1100's, were manufactured by the Brooks Locomotive Works, and are said to be the largest freight engines in service any where in the world The average1 eighty capacity loaded freight cars and 125 empties. A train containing 125 empties is almost a half mile long. Amusements. Clay Clement more than pleas ed a good audience at the opera house last night. The attend ance wat not what it should have been for an attraction of the high standard of Mr. Clement's pro duction of "The New Dominion" but Mr. Clement may rest as sured that his work pleased the entire attendance and is on re cord as the best tiling ever seen in the city. Mr. Clement may always be sure of large busi ness if he over decides to return to Bemidji again. line from Crookston to Duluth promises to bo one cf its best in point of business transacted in a very short time. This season's business will be much larger than~tllatr~of lasf_"season, w^f BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1903. TEN CENTS PEE WEEK. mes Big Engines on G. X. and others- in I mid jl as well. Twenty of the largest type of Mr Allen's resignation will eome freight engines in the world are in the nature of a surprise to now in service on the Cass Lake division of the Great Northern, and" while it is largo at present it will not be at its height until the Da- love kotaw heat crop begins'to a in good shape W W Will Occupy Its New Quarters in the Swed- back Brick Block B. Allen, Superintendent oi Fosston Line of G. N. Goes to Rock Island. L. B. Allen, who for the past six months has been superinten dent ol the Northern and Cass Lake divisions of the Great Northern tendered Ins resigna tion to the company Oct. p. Mr. Allen has been with the lb N. for ton years in various capacities Daily 'lollopr want Try them. success. OFFICIAL CHANGE MADE THEM GOOD INDIANS superintendents on the andtwas.regarded abl as one of the system. His headquarters have been at Larimore, but he is quite well known to local railroad men many friends all along the line. He was regarded as having a bright future with bhe'G. N. The Northern and Cass Lake divisions of the N. are acknowledged two of the hardest divisions on the system to handle. Many of the best men the road ever had have been Unable to make good on them. MI*. Allen's efforts had always been satisfactory and he leaves the division in much hot ter shape than when he assumed its management, lie will bo suc ceeded by ,J. C. Howard, who comes from the Eastern Minne sota and has been at, West Super ior for some time past. Mr. Allen will take a position with the Rock Island. Trouble at Milton. Buck St. Claire, a lumberjack, was arraigned In Judge Reynolds' court this morning on a charge of assault preferred by Anton Geisness, proprietor of a hotel at Milton. St. Claire together with a friend,, both in an intoxicated condition, went to Geisness' house. Then there was a scene, everybody talked at once, and Mr. Geisness was punched. St. Claire set up a plea of self de fense. Neither party was repre sented by counsel and Judge Reynolds had his hands full un raveling the mystery. This was finally accomplished ami a fine of SI and costs was imposed upon St. Claire. Upon payment of the costs the line was remanded. ads nrc BEMIDJI MERCANTILE CO. Thursday, Oct. 1 5 Phone Orders Promptly Filled. Phone No. 215 Fatal End of Drunken Row on the Blaekfoot Reser vation. IV 01T OF ONE ARE SLAIN. FAMILY Wakes-Up-Last Will Never Wake Up Any MoreFour Arrests. frowning, Mont., Oct. 13.-~Stvr persons have been killed and two vvniuuW'd JtUXillS a drunken row on flu1 Blaekfoot Indian reservation near here. The rloail are Wakes-Up-Last, wife and three children Mrs. Silvan Dig Road ami .Mis. lattle Plume. The wounded are Alice Big Road, shot in the log, will recover J. Li&le Plume, throat and arm cut. recovery doubt ful. A number of Indians secured a quan tity of whisky Sunday night and start ed on a big spree. Jn some manner Wakes-Up-Last became engaged in a row with the rest of the party. Dur ing thi' altercation one Indian \vat slightly wounded. Wakes-Up-Laat shortly afterward went iu bod. Later in the night six friends of tho wounded man deter mined to kill Wakes-Up-Last, although it is liy no means certain that he was the wounded Indian's assailant, WaUos-Up-Last was shot through tin- head while in bed. ll.s wife awoke and started to run from tho house with her youngest child, when the Indians rusluM at her and, plac ing a revolver against the child's head, fired! killing mother and child with one shot. The other two children were shot through the head. Susan l"8 Road was shot through the head. Mrs. Little' Plume's throat was cut from ear to eax Four arrests have been made. CASE WILL GO TO TRIAL. Prominent Citizens of Des Moines A cused of Jury Tampering. Des Moines, Oct. 13.Tho motion for the dismissal of tho cage of nvo prominent citizens charged with con tempt of court by means of jury tam pering was overruled by Judge Given and tho cases will go to trial on Thursday. E. H. Hunter, banker and politician .iosso O. Wells, ox-aldor man and capitalist W. L. White, shn merchant Michael Grady, ex alilcrman. and F. A. Marvin, con tractor, an- the men accused. CITY OFFICIALS ARRESTED. Town of Nome, Alaska, Has a Munic ipal Scandal. Seattle, Wash, Oct.. 13Annie Brown, a dance hall woman of Nome, has preferred charges of blackmail against Noble Walllngford, chief of police E. 10. Hill, city councilman, ami Patrolman Hackott, all of Nome. Tho three were arrested Sept. 21 by a dep uty marshal and set at liberty on $500 bail cacti. The woman alleges that tiic three officials forced her. to glvo them $700. Our Warehouse is Crowded with New Stock which Will Be Dis- played Thursday. Watch for Our Grand Opening Announcement 4 4 4