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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 131.
THE JURY AGAIN
DISAGREES
The Land, Log Und Lumber
Company Case Still
Unsettled.
CLAIMED THAT 98 LOGS WERE
CUT O N PLAINTIFFS LAND.
Petit Jury Dismissed This Morn-
ingCourt Will Adjourn
to November 5.
T'he jury has again disagreed
in the now-famous case of the
Land, Log and Lumber Company
against A. L. Godbout. Taking
evidence and listening to argu
ments on the -subject in hand or
cupied the attention of the court
from Monday morning to 11
o'clock yesterday morning, when
the case went to the jury. It
was announced this morning
that the jury had failed to agree.
This means that the case will
probably again come up at the
next term of district court. The
trial at the last term resulted
the same as this.
The trouble is over 98 logs
which the plaintiffs claim were
cut from their land. It was
shown in court by pieces sawed
from stumps on the plaintiffs'
land and nailed to pieces taken
from the ends of logs in God
bout's possession, that at least
five of the logs were taken from
the company's land. Bailey and
McDonald were attorneys for the
plaintiff and H. J. Loud de
fended.
The jury this morning returned
a verdict of $20 for the plaintiff
in the case of Joseph Berry vs.
Olie C. Predrickson. The trouble
arose out of the burning of some
hay belonging to the plaintiff.
Bailey and McDonald and Henry
Funkley were the attorneys.
The jury was dismissed this
morning. It has been decided
that when the court adjourns it
will adjourn to November 5 to
give a chance for the taking out
of citizen papers. There are
still a number of court cases.
It now looks as though the Henry
Buenther and state game and
fish commission matter will not
come up until next week.
Resolutions of Sympathy.
Whereas, it has pleased the
Great Spirit in His infinite wis
dom and judgment to call from
amoag our midst a dearly be
loved brother, Charles Jackson
Resolved, that we, brother
members of the Bemidji Aerie
No. 351, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, deeply deplore his loss,
and be it said that this lodge do
this day extend its heartfelt
sympathy to the wife of our
brother, and to the- bereaved
parents and be it further
Resolved, that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the widow
and also to the Minneapolis
Aerie, No. 34, and to the local
papers, and filed among the
records of this lodge.
Respectfu'l}- submitted,
By COMMITTEE!
COUNCIL MEETING.
Sept. 21, 1903.
Council met at 8 p. m. in re
corder's office at city hall.
All members present.
Minutes of last meeting read
and approved.
On motion of Graham, seconded
by Hazen, that the following
audited bills be allowed. Carried:
H. W. Bailey, one month
salary 25 00
WHIST CLUB
Steps Are Being Taken to
Organize One in
Bemidji.
Steps are being taken to organ
ize a whist club in Bemidji. A
meeting of those interested will
be held in the offices of Bailey
and McDonald this evening and
the organization will probably be
perfected at that time.
The plan is to engage good
quarters and equip them with
the necessaries for whist play
ing, with four or five tables.
There are at the present time no
club rooms in the city, outside
the saloons, where an evening
may be spent, and the project
for organizing a club is meeting
with great favor.
A New Store.
Mrs. Severson is expected to
reach this city next Thursday
from eastern markets where she
has been for the last two weeks
selecting millinery and women's
ready-to-wear garments for
James J. Severson's new dry
goods store, next to the First
National bank, which he expects
to open to the public next Satur
day, with an up-to-date stock of
ladies' and children's hats, skirts
and waists, dry goods, notions
underwear and hosiery. You
are invited to ca!l at the new
store, whether you intend to buy
or not.
E. Kellogg, labor, Pogue$ 6 00
E. M. Patterson, do 8 00
Standard Oil Co., oil 9 83
Standard Oil Co., oil 10 46
On motion of Hazen, seconded
by Graham, that the liquor li
cense bond of Frank Gagnon,
with Jas. Thurston, Felix Danse
reau and J. P. Duncalf as sure
ties, be approved. Carried.
Motion made by Bailey, sec
onded by Graham, that the pur
chasing committee be instructed
to purchase a stove for police
headquarters and have the same
put up at once. Carried.
The following resolution was
introduced by Trustee Graham,
seconded by Trustee Bowser:
Whereas, it appears to the sat
isfaction of the village council of
the village of Bemidji that a side
walk is necessary to be laid and
constructed along the west line
of Irvine avenue, beginning at
the northeast corner of block 7
in Bailey's first addition to the
said village of Bemidji at the in
tersection of said Irvine avenue
and Eleventh street in said vil
lage, and terminating at the in
tersection of Third street and
said Irvine avenue now. there
fore,
Be it resolved, that the street
commissioner of the village of
Bemidji be, and he is hereby in
structed to notify all owners of
property abutting on the line of
said proposed sidewalk, accord
ing to the provisions of chapter
49, section 1, general laws of the
state of Minnesota for the year
L899, to construct or cause to bj
constructed, a six-foot sidewalk
in front of his or her property
within two weeks from and after
the service of notice upon them
by publication as above provided.
Upon the call of ayes and nays
the following trustees voted for
the adoption of the above forego
ing resolution:
Hazen, Bowser, Graham and
Recorder Bailey. Trustees vot
ing against, none. Resolution
carried.
Council adjou.-ned.
A. LUDIN'GTOrs",
President.
W. BAII.KY.
Recorder.
i
Miss Barker at O'Leary &
Bowser's, will have a mPlineiy
opening Thursday and Friday,
Large and fashionable stock of
latest styles displayed. 131-32 I is under arrest
THE DAILY PIONE
TH E mum CAs
ACTION IS DEFERRED AT THE
REQUEST OF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT.
TO CONFER WITH LABOR ItADERS
PRESIDENT ASKS THEM TO DIS-
CUSS MATTER WITH HIM
NEXT WEEK.
MEETING WILL BE IMPORTANT
WANTS PRINCIPLES LAID DOWN
BY STRIKE COMMISSION
RECOGNIZED.
Washington, Sept. 23. According
to one of the leaders here, Roosevelt
effectually stopped any action by the
national executive council of Hie
American Federation of Labor In re
gard to the controversy in the govern
ment printing office over the Miller
case yesterday by sending a telegram
asking the members to meet with him
and discuss the case immediately
upon his return to Washington next
week. At least, according to one of
the members of the council, this is the
reason that the Miller case was not
taken up at yesterday's meeting.
Labor leaders refused to discuss
the telegram or to say with whom the
president communicated, but it is gen
erally understood that the message
was sent to John Mitchell, with whom
the president is well acquainted. Ha
learned to know Mitchell during his
early efforts to settle the coal strike
last year and was greatly impressed
by the conservative views entertained
by the president of the United Mine
workers.
Mitchell would not admit that he
had received such a message, hut he
intimated that the Miller case before
the executive council was indellnitely
deferred.
An ImDortant Meetlna.
it is expected that the president,
who returns to Washington Monday
next, will confer with the labor lead
ers a week from yesterday. The meet
ing and its result will be of the utmost
importance, as it is the president's ir
tention to induce labor leaders ger
erally to recognize the principle laK
down in the decision of the anthracite
coal strike commission of the right of
every man to work -regardless of the
fact whether or not he belongs to a
labor organization.
Since Mitchell arrived here with
his secretary he has been besieged
with callers. Some of the men anx
ious to get a word with him repre
sented the Democratic national com
mittee, which is doing all it can In a
quiet way to encourage organize*! la
bor to carry forward the fight against
the doctrine laid down by the ^resi
dent, that th government printing of
fice shall be an open shop.
President Mitchell since hie arrival
has learned something of political in
trigue, and it is believed he will take
the ground that the president of the
United States is simply standing up
for the law, the thing Mitchv.ll has*
always counseled his followers to do.
ROASTED BY EVANS.
Admiral Severely Criticises Members
of a Court-Martial.
Washington, Sept. 23. The com
plete record of the court-martial case
of Assistant Paymaster Rishworth
Nicholson on the Asiatic station, re
ceived at the navy department yes
terday contains a severe criticism by
Rear Admiral Evans of the members
of the court which tried Nicholson be
cause of the inadequacy of the punish
ment inflicted by the court. It was
alleged that -while on shore at Che
foo, China, Nicholson became intoxi
cated and, assaulted an elderly civil
ian The sentence of the court was
that Nicholson be reduced five num
bers in his grade. Rear Admiral
evans. in reviewing the case, says the
evidence was of a character that the
sentence should have been nothing
less than dismissal from tin- navy.
Three officers of the court recom
mended clemency.
"These three rjffiers,'* says Admiral
evans. "have proved to the convening
authority and to the fleet their Em
worthiness hereafter to act as mem
bers of a court."
KILLED HIS WIFE.
Woman Is Murdered Because She Re
fused to Live With He- Hu3band.
Kittanning. Pa., Sept. 23.August
Troutman shot and killed his wife last
night at Aladdin, a mining town near
here. Mrs. Troutman left her hus
band's home and went to where two
Italian brothers were living, and was
on the porch of their home when the
husband went a/ter h*-jr.
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1903.
She refused
to return with him and he shot her
through the heart The couple were
married three months ago, Troutman
THREE BUILDINGS
New Bemidji Business Blocks
Will be Finished Next
Month.
The old court house, remedied
under direction of Mr. Swedback
and faced with brick, will be
ready i'or occupancy early next
month. The two new business
blocks being built by Frank
MageaTj the contractor, one fox
the First National bank and the
other at the corner of Second
street and Beltrami avenue, wil 1
not be finished for three or four
weeks yet. The Avails of both
buildings are up and work is now
being clone on the inside linish
ingss,
E. J. WILLITS
The real estato man, can sell
you a home so cheap that it will
be wise to buy now instead of
paying rent.
Seven-room house and 50 foot
lot across from school, $2,000.
Six-room house, 50 foot corner
lot, one block from city hall,
$1,750.
Six-room house, 50 foot lot,
SI, 250.
Five-room house, 40 foot lot, on
Irvine avenue near lake, $775.
Four-room house, 25 foot lot,
in hospital block, easy terms,
$575.
Four-room house,Presbyterian
church block, easy terms, $025.
Four-room house, 25 foot lot,
two blocks from school, cash,
$475.
Fifty-foot residence lot near
Mr. Ludington's residence, easy
terms, $450.
Snaps in vacant lots too num
erous to mention. Please call
and see me 129-30-31
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Good Entertainment.
The entertainment at the Meth
odist church last nitfht. given by
the Columbian Male Quartette,
was of high order throughout,
and easily the best attraction in
ts line that has visited Bemidji
this year. Those composing the
quartette a'l have remarkably
line voices. Applause, frequent
and hearty, showed the apprecia
tion of the audience. Miss Fisher
Shipp, "a reader and a young
woman of remarkable versatility
and power," to use the advance
notice expression, found great
favor with her hearers and re
ceived several encores. Miss
Shipp is a very pretty young
woman, of rare grace and un
usual powers of expression, and
not for a moment could one's
interest in her recitals hvj
The Daily Pioneer want col
umns are good result getters.
Try them.
WHOLES A E
A
RETAIL
sELE ciT
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State Timber Board Prepares to
Advertise Stumpage for the
Coming Sale.
The state timber board met in
the governor's office in St. Paul
yesterday to determine the
tracts of stutnpage that will beof
fered at the auction sale Oct. 21.
W. S. Dedon and James McRen
zie, the land department cruis
ers, have been all over the
ground, and they reported yes
terday the condition of the tim
ber, nearly all of it located in
Northern Minnesota. The board
selected about 75,000,000 feet of
marketable timber and will ad
vertise it for sale next Tuesday.
CROPS NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL.
Actual Damage to Corn Is Much Lc-r
Than Expocted,
St. Paul, Sept. 23. South Dakota
and Iowa' farmers art' now willing to
rev/lao their corn damage stiniateo
and to authorize tho statement t! .\t
the injury done by recent frosts does
not exceed 20 per cent and probably
will be found to bo even less. In many
sections careful investigation shows
that tho dtunuyo is much less severe
than was at first thought Railway
reports received over Sunday ifulii-.itc
thnt while tae crop In both Rtatiia is
hurt, the damage is less severe than
was believed. In the northern soctlon
of the Northwest damage estimates
are revised as well, and the actual
condition of wheat fresri from the
threshers in found to be better than
was thought. Although almost the
entire Red river valley was thorough
ly soaked by the rains, and all of
North Dakota and the greater par? of
Western Minnesota received a
thorough drenching, the rains have
been followed by almost ideal weather
for drying oat grain.
FIRST WHIPS FATHER,
Then Weds Daughter, but Joseph
Finally Lands in Jail.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 22.Joseph
Oe and Miss Emma Carpenter of
lErriery wished to get married without
having a family row over the matter,
but the yoittitf lady's father was bit
terly opposed to tho match, chiefly be
cause of the insignificant name of the
intended brltlegroqm. He did not like
the idea of riis daughter reducing her
name to only two letters But Oe was
not to ho defeated in bis purpose to
marry the girl. Ho whipped the
father of his sweetheart and then took
the girl uj Ethan, where th.. cere
mony was peri'c nned. The father of
the bride men had his new son inlaw
arrested on t)w charge of abduction.
SCHOOL-MA'AMS MAY STRIKE.
Object to Ban on Visits of Young
Men.
Eagle, 8. I)., Sept. 23.--.At a recent
meeting oi t.lu. school o(iiei rs of this
district a ban was placed upon the
visits of young men to th school
roomB while school was In session.
They are alleged to materially inter
fere with tho work of the pretty
school ma'ams dust, what the teach
ers will do la view or the action of the
school officers in not known, but they
may decide to jo on a strike until the
obnoxious .I'M is rescinded.
Foul Play
Grundy -it
Haines of this
relatives are inab'
u-pected.
wa Sept. '1?,.J.
plSoe i lost and
to tocote him.
In company with .lohn Cea he weal
to Chicago and while there appeared
fen bshaV9 hi-'|. I? -i I a 5'f-"T l(T!t
FRED C. SMYTH, President TH0S. r. SMYTH, Sec.-Treys. I). SMYTH, Manager
BEMIDJI MERCANTILE CO.
Opposite the Old Court House
Groceries, Flour, Hay and Grain
Phon 2 1 5
TEX CENTS PER WEEK.
LYDICK FAMILY
WINS OUT
Get the Three Tracts
Controversy at Cass
Lake.
in
OXE OF THEM INCLUDES A FART
OF THE TOWNSIJE.
Settlers on Land Will Have to
Vacate Unless Eviction is
Delayed.
A dispatch frciui Washington
states that Acting Secretary of
the Interior Kyan yesterday an
nounced that ht hail refused to
set aside the decision rendered
bySecretaryHitchcock in Decem
beriast to allot three SO-acre
tracts at and near Cass Lake to
Nellie Lyclick and her two chil-
drenTh allotment awarded to
Mrs. Lydirk is occupied by a
portion of the town oi' Cass Lake,
and this decision means that the
settlers on the land will have to
vacate1
unless the depart nu'iit de-
cides to delay eviction, pending
action "by congress authorizing
Mr s. Lyd.ck to sell her allot
ment. Such a proportion was
under consideration when the
lirst decision was rendered last
winter, hut no action was taken
because the case reopened at the
request of Senator Nelson.
The ac-ting secretary of the in
terior yesterday approved for
patent 807 acres of Swamp lands
iti the Dnluth land distr'n 1, these
lands now passing to the state el
Minnesot a.
A want ad in the Daily Pioneer
is a winner. Try one.
Why is it that Daily I'iotieei
want ads bring such good results?
and'they atartetl norne wmie en
route n. he l-ri the car In company
with a Strang it and has neither been
seen nor ,)e ir:l of sine'1.
He leaves a
wife here who is dlstrncted and ean
not aeenu.ii fi his strange disappear
ance, and foul play is feared
Last Sawmill Cloyes Down,
ba (Jrossi \Vi:-. Sept 28: The
sawmill of th L. Col man I.' inbr
company shut down Saturday for
good. It Is i\* is si-wen Til-" mill
Is the hist of the Mj concerns to so
out of the lumber business, the ma
chinery In il! the others having been
shipped to oilier points long sinoe.
It was built In 1854, burned twice, and
rebuilt again at cost of $!f),000
Only ii couple of small mills are left
of the dozen institutions once here.
Hanycd Himself.
Helena, Mont.: Sept 23. Because
the rope with which he essayed to
hung hi' ISI If was too long and per
mitted his el to touch
WetO, a rial l,vc I Nor
out relal 1%os
the floor, .John
vay-r-a id with-
shipped
weunda from
No dans is
that Weto
not take kind-
r. I ii ro
out a razor a -I tvflfctl
which death n-'i
known for the deed
had a black eye and dii
ly to th dies of his fell
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