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MANYWILL REBUIL ~5Vf" S-r $*? I?: I id? i^.fik? Losers in Fire Yesterday Already Making Plans for New Buildings. M. E. BRINKMAN WILL ERECT BRiCK BLOCK. Brick Structures Will Also Be Installed by Other Property^ Holders. The progressive spirit of the citizens of Bemidji was never more fully illustrated than this morning. Hardly had the ashes from the ruined buildings on Third street which were destroy ed by fire yesterday cooled when plans were on foot by the losers to erect in place of the former frame business houses large brick structures, and as soon as the insurance is adjusted the erection of at least one large brick block with a 50 foot front will be immediately commenced and pushed to completion. Mrs. M. E, Brinkman owned the lots and buildings occupied by the Hub Clothing company and the Brinkman hotel, and she stated this morning that as soon as possible she would erect upon the two lots a one story solid brick structure which she will lease for store purposes. Bacon & Browne, owners of the building occupied by the John C. Larson saloon, will build a two story brick building on their lot, but Mr. Bacon is of the opinion that they will defer the erection until spring. It is stated upon good authority that Mrs. Ella Paddock and C. C. Woodward will also build blocks in the near future, and it is very probable that inside of six months the entire block formerly occupied by frame buildings will be the site of metropolitan brick structures. A. P. Henrionette, who owns the lot upon which the N. P. sa loon stood, is also contemplating the erection of either a stone or solid brick building which will cost in the neighborhood of $3,000. The losses to goods and build ings as given in the Pioneer yes terday is very nearly correct, although it is thought that the total will be swelled considerably when an adjustment Is made, as the estimate given yesterday was a very conservative one intended to give the amounts of losses and insurance as nearly correct as possible. PRINCESS Grocery Co. Don't forget that our line of Canned Goods is the best. Our Princess Brand Coffees and Teas cannot be beaten. We are selling those Fancy Ringrose, Dill, Medium Sweets and Sour Pickles Don't forget our line of Bon Bon Boxes Fancy Chocolate II Candy Candy Candy at wholesale prices Genuine Lether Cigar Cases fr-V** Case Pipes Pocket Books Tole Pouches Mixed Nuts Home Made Taffy Ripe Tomatoes Cucumbers Radishes Lettuce Celery Extra Select Oysters Fancy Greening Apples, $2.25 per barrel. & Princess Grocery Co Pft-M. E. CARSON, Mgr & Phone 282 y# Kfes MILITI A CO ASSURED E. H. Jerrard Telegraghs That the Appointment is Almost Certain. GEN. WOOD FAVORS BEMIDJI AS LOCATION. Prospects That Appointment of Company Will Be Made In Near Future. A telegram received by Capt. Reynolds from E. H. Jerrard,who is now advancing the interests of Bemidji at St. Paul regarding the appointment in this city of a company of the national guards, states that there is almost a cer tainty that the appointment will take place in the near future. Mr. Jerrard has conferred with General Wood, commandant for the state of Minnesota, and others interested in military affairs, and has received encouragement whichjenables him to announce al most positively that he will bring back the appointment. It has been known for some time past that General Wood has considered Bemidji a favorable location for a company, and that as soon as the right kind of an effort to secure the appointment were made by its citizens it would be landed. In the event that the appoint ment is secured at this time, it will be necessary for those that intend to belong to the company to respond promptly on evenings set apart for drilling, in order to make a good showing at the an nual encampment which will be held at Lake City next June. NORT COUNTR FARES WEL Secures Important Appoint ments on Committees in the House. The house committees were yesterday announced by Speaker Clague and northern Minnesota gets a share of the best appoint ments. Representative Simons of this district is chairman of the com mittee on banks and banking and secures fourth place on the com mittee' on census and sixth on drainage and taxes and tax laws. Representative Cole is chair man of the committee on Roads, Bridges and Navigable streams. Bennett of Fosston secures the chairmanship of the committee on Normal Schools, and Krostue of Polk county is at the head of the committee on Drainage. Per ley of Moorhead gets first place on Education and Elmer Adams erf Fergus Falls heads the com mittee on Elections. Murray of Wadena secures the committee onlmmigrati G. N. OFFICIAL S INSPECT LINE Gen. Mgr. Slade, Ass't Brown and Supt. Davis Pass Through Bemidji. A party of Great Northern offi cials, among whom were General Manager Slade, Assistant Gen eral Manager Brown and Division Superintendent Davis, passed through the city this afternoon in a special car attached to train No. 14, en route to Cass Lake. The officials are making a tour of inspection of the line between Grand Forks and Cass Lake and it is probable that several recom mendations for improving the roadbed will be made. Messrs. Slade and Brown will go from Cass Lake to their homes in St. Paul and Superintendent Davis will return to Crookston. Dr. C. J. Larson, the eye spe cialist, will be at Hotel Remore, Bemidji, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 20, 21 and 22. Have your eyes attended to while the opportunity offers: Fine fruit at Peterson's. mm BULLETI N NUMBE 2 i Issued from Grand Rapids Experimental Station '%F- This Week. ^jfPl TREATS OFGROWTH OF SMALL GRAINS. Offers Valuable Suggesstions to Farmers of this VicinityPrac- tical Experiments. The northeast experimental station located at Grand Rapids this week issues a valuable bulle tin treating of the growth of small grains in this section of the state. The bulletin is as fol lows: Grand Rapids, Minn. January, 1905. The small grains, wheat, oats, barley and rye have been grown successfully at the northeast ex periment station foriihe past six years. The yield of the different grains and quality, varied accord ing to the season, the condition of the soil on which they were sown and the variety of seed used. YIELD: Wheat has given an average yield of 17 bushels per acre. Its highest yield was 28 bushels and its lowest 8 bushels Oats has given an average yield of 39 bushels per acre. Its highest yield was 78 bushels, its lowest 20. These figures as to the high est and lowest yields are not the average for the whole crop for the year, but that of individual fields and varieties. Barley and winter rye has given an average yield of about 24 bushels per acre. QUALITY: The best variety of wheat goes No. 1 hard. So far wheat has been practically free from ailments that commonly effect its quality in wheat grow ing districts. Even this year the rust had no noticeable effect on the wheat. Oats as a general tning seems to be of better quali ty than farther south. The ker nels fill out well and the whole plant is strong and vigorous. Our best oats this past year yielded 73 bushels per acre, the straw from the same going two tons per acre. Although the ground upon which this oats grew was rich in fertil ity there was no lodging. Quality was pronounced throughout the whole plant. Rust was quite bad in the oat crop this past year, but came on rather late in the season and did not seem to be very in jurious. Barley and winter rye have always been of standard quality. VARIETIES: Blue stem has proven to be the best variety of wheat for this section, out of 21 varieties tested. Its yield has been two bushels more per acre than fife and considerable great er than many of the other varie ties. Macaroni wheat is less pro ductive than blue stem in this section. Some very good work in testing varieties of oats was done by Mr. Chapman, former superintendent. Varieties were gotten from Europe, Canada and various parts of theTJnited States. All together 34 varieties were us:d covering a period of four years. From this lot seven var ieties were found of superior quality, namely Improved Ligo wa, Lincoln, Early Gothland, Early Swedish, White Russian, Archangle and White Wonder. Of these Improved Ligowa was best, and for the past three years this variety has been used for field oats on the experiment farm giving very satisfactory results. This oats may be secured for seed from the Northeast Experi ment Farm, but only in two and a half bushel lots, the object being to distribute the seed as widely as possible. Of 22 varieties of barley tested the following three were found best. Manshury, Champion of Vermont and Hous tons Golden Queen. Of these Manshury has been used for field barley. The yield this past year was 30 bushels per acre. USES:' There is but little de mand for wheat on the market in northeastern Minnesota at the present time. Till we have local flour mills and elevators the acer age must necessarily be small, its use being principally for chicken feed. Oats is by all means the better crop to growlfThe lum bering industry affords a good local market, and aside from this oats is always a profitable crop for farm feed,'~ especially for dairy cows. Not only the grain but also the straw is valuable feed. Barley like wheat has lit tle market."" Its growth should be for feed, especially for hogs. There is little necessity for grow ing rye except for early spring pasture. Winter rye does very well. Our crop this past year yielded 20 bushels per acre, after being pastured for -a mouth in the spring by sheep. One ad van tage of rye is that it will produce a crop on soil low in fertility. It is no relief however. Only a last resort on the way to failure for the farmer who allows his fields to become impoverished. Next week we will take up the subject of meadows, hay and pas ture. A". J. MCGUIRE. FIREME N AR E INJURED Assistant Chief Pogue Steps On Rusty Nail During Fire Yesterday. A number of injuries were sustained by firemen during the disastrous conflagration yester day, and as a result one is laid up and his confinement may be pro longed for some time. Assist ant Chief Pogue was seriously in jured by stepping on a rusty nail and at the present time is confin ed to his home on Third street. After he had received the injury he kept on with the work of fight ing the flames until they were subdued, afterwards going to a doctor's office, where the wound was taken care of. He was ad vised to go home and remain there for several days, but he did not heed the advice of the physician and in the afternoon attended his duties as commis sioner of water works in thawing out several hydrants which had become frozen. Last night the foot grew steadily-worse and at 10 o'clock Mr. Pogue was deieri ous as a result of the intense pain he suffered, fle is still in bed but the condition of the in jured foot is somewhat better and he hopes to be out in a few days. Thos. English was injur ed by a piece of glass from a window of one of the burning buildings, and his right hand is out of commission, while Chris Christen son received a cinder in his right eye which temporarily blinded him. WOODSMA N HUR TREE LIMB N. 0. Johnson, Employe of Clearwater Logging Co., Badly Injured. N. O. Johnson, employe of the Clearwater Logging company, was brought to the city last night and confi zed in St. Anth ony's hospital, where he will be treated for injuries received *at one of the company's camps near Wilton yesterday afternoon. Mr. Johnson was sawing down a tree and when it fell one of the limbs broke off and was thrown through the air a considerable distance, striking "him on the head and causing a fractured skull. He is under the care of Dr. Rowland Gilmore, who is of the opinion that the man will recover, al though the injury is often fatal. Chief Morris Entertains. A banquet was given last night by Chief Tom Morris of the Crookston fire department cele brating the twenty-fifth anniver sary of his membership in that organization and the tenth anni versary as his election as cliief. Invitations were issued to many old members of the department who have removed from Crooks ton and a number of prominent men from all parts of the state were in attendance. At the close of the feast Mr, Morris was pre sented by the members of the Crookston fire department with a handsome upholstered chair and he accepted the gift with an appropriate address to the as semblage. Our entire line of Calicoes, in light and dark colors, worth 7c per yard sale price... 4c Apron Ginghams, during sale, per yd... 5|c Cambric Linings, per yard. 3c LADIES' CLOAKS, SUITS AND SKIRT. $20 Suits now $15.00 $18 Suits now $13 50 $15 Suits now U.25 $13 Suits now 975 1 Ladies' Tourist Coat former price $22.50 now...... $13 75 Short Coats, from...:../ $5.75 to $1250 25 per cent discount on our entire line of La dies' Skirts. DRESS GOODS. $2.50 Broadcloth will sell during this sale for Per yard $ Fancy Tourist Cloth, 54 in wide per yd $1.87 Fancy Striped Mohair two waist patterns in a piece per yard $1.12 Goods Delivered to any part of town. Your Money CheerfullyRefunded 5 Clearance of .^iiSi'%^ .r^. Our entire line of $1 Winter Caps in torf "Yacht, Brightons and Rose^^jr^ styles must be closed, out at*v|Ov/ :Sit:-\ *A\Pur $ %-?%'*'J ~\':r'-, ^kt.&^\&&&^ We are going to close out our Grocery Depart- ment and in order to do so quickly we have decided to offer goods in all departments at a discount of 25 per cent from former prices. SaleCommencesMonda Morning,Jan9 end will cbritinue \mtil Feb. 1 Below we quote a few of our many bargains: I8 7 We can save you 25 cents on every dollar's worth of goods you buy from us during this sale. This is no bluff it is strictly a business propositionv Remarkable as our past sales have been we have never offered such great val- ues to the public as we will during this sale. Remember everything goes at a 25 per cent discount! THE BAZAAR.KPhn The Clothie rs Men's Suits, worth $12.50-$15.00, now Men's Overcoats worth $12~$15 now Winter Caps, Underwear, 5 Shirts, Sheep Lined Coats ^erby Ribbed Wool -Underwear to close out atvOt/C 0u 3 Sheep Lined A few Grocery Bargains. Just the things for Hotels and Restaurants. 5 lb can Calumet or Hunt's BakingPwd 1 gal can Tomatoes Sardines in Mustard, 7c a can 15 cans 5 lbs Allspice in wood box reg price 175 5 lbs Pepper 1..75 5 lbs Cloves 2.00 5 lbs Ginger -].75 Choice Tea Siftings, 1 ltfpkg 25c 1 gal can Rhubarb Sugarine in bottles new thing 1.00 W^ have on hand 5 full cases Search LightJMatches, generally sold for $7 a case sale price Cream Wheat, reg price 18 Shredded Wheat Biscuit 12c Malta Vita 15 5 lb pkg Oat Meal 25 Bemidji. Minnesota^ is No. 42. i 75 23 I 00 1 15 I 15 1 30 I 15 19 13 75 75 II 9 10 19 Mair Orders Promptly Filled $2.75 50 Corduroy Hom rl^^bat Collar^ ati Hill- rJft- -m 1 &- ir