The daily pioneer. [volume], October 07, 1903, Image 1

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IS IN VERY GOO
CONDITION
Roadbed to Kelliher and
Northome Pronounced to
be All O.K.
INSPECTED BY A MEMBER OF
RAILWAY COMMISSION.
Work on Extension Beyond North
ome May Not be Started
Next Year.
G. Miller, member of the
state railway and warehouse
commission, arrived in iBemidji
this morning from a tour of in-
spection of the Northome and
Kelliher branches of the M. & I.
I spite of the recent heavy rains
the roadbed was found to be in
excellent condition.
The Pioneer this morning
Mr. Miller said:
"Taking into consideration the
age of the road, the material ob-
tainab le for making improve-
ments and the heavy rains of the
past few weeks, I regard the
track between here and North-
ome and on the Kelliher branch
as being in remarkably good
shape. The service the road is
giving the people is .an excelle nt
one. I should be satisfactory.
The^newness of things #nd the
unsettled country prevents a
metropolitan service being im-
mediately established, but work
on the line in the way of improve
ments is being pushed, and it
.will not be a great while
there strips of roacl
befor.e
will* be
models of construction. I have
been*over the M. & I. between
here and Brainerd several times.
I find tjhp roadbed smoother and
in much better condition now
than it was the last, time I rode
over it.
"The right sort of gravel for
railvsay construction is not to be
obtained up
in this county. Near
ly all that used on the new line is
merely sand, which is easily act-
on by water. I view of this
fact I expected to find a rough
and crooked track, for we ha ve
had an unusual amount of rain
lately. I was happily surprised.
There are a few rough spots, to
be sure, but on the whole the
roadbed was alright and schedule
time was made.
"Northome is a hustling town
with first class hotel accomoda-
tions. I has no sidewalks, how-
ever. Northome mud is worse
than Bemidji mud, and it has
been raining hard there for
two days. I was dark when we
landed there. I haven't succeed-
in getting clean vet. They
have a fine, neat appearing depot,
which cost 83,000. Kelliher is
new, but contains promise of a
bright future. With i ts new
railway accommodations it will
doubtless soon develop into a
hustling and prosperous little
village."
Mr. Miller says that the
chances for extending the line
beyond Northome is very poor.
Thesurvey extends clear through
to the Canadian border, but it is
not likely, said the railway com-
missioner, that work on the ex-
tension will be started next year.
Notice!
All parties knowing themselves
to be indebted to the firm of
McCuaig and Ludington are re
quested to call and settle on or
before the 15th of this month.
W will close our books on that
date and place all unsettled ac
counts in the hands of an attorney
for collection.
dew32 MCCUAIG LUDINGTON.
WALL MAP
Large and Handsome One Pre
sented to School by E. E.
McDonald.
E. E. McDonald has presented
the board of education with one
of the large and handsome wall
maps of the United States gotten
out by the interior department.
The map is mounted on durable
cloth and measures seven by
five feet. I shows all the ter-
ritories and insular possessions,
extensive surveys of Indian,
government and military re-
serve and scores of other detail s.
The origin al thirteen colonies
are shown, together with all
acquisitions to the nation- since
then and the dates on which they
were acquired. I is interest-
ing to note that the site of Be-
midji, according to the map, was
included in the Louisana pur-
chas e, while the land just across
the Mississippi was not. This
means that all loyal citizens of
Bemidji should attend the Louis-
ana Purchase exposition at St.
Louis next year.
The map was given to the
school board on the understand-
ing that it should be hung in th&
school House for ready reference.
The New Domini on
I one of the romatic plays cal-
culated to give one a better opin-
ion of things theatrical. I is a
beautiful picture, true to life,
and after the deluge of trash
with which the public has been
inflicted it comes like a ray of
sunshine to relieve a cloudy day.
Mr. Clay Clement is a magnetic
actor, and works to please his
patrons. has had, too, the
good taste to see the necessity of
good support and has around
him a company of immense
strength. "The New Dominion"
will be played in this ci ty at the
Bemidji Opera House on Monday
night, Oct. 12th, when they will
be wolcomed with an enthusiastic
audience.
Go and see Cl ay Clement in
"The New Dominion" and an all
star cast, at the opera house next
Monday night. Oct. 12.
To obtain the best and quickest
results, use the Daily Pioneer
want column.
Furrier Here.
Mr. Chas. Vogel, the well
known and experienced^!urrier,
who is an expert authority on
styles, is now in Bemidji with a
full and complete li ne of fashion-
able ladies' fur garments and
gentlemen's fur .coats. Mr.
Vogel has with him an extensive
line of sample skins. All skins
are personally selected by Mr.
Vogel, and manufactured by him.
His samples are on display at
Beaudette's tailor shop, opposite
the City hotel. A telephone mes-
sage to the Markham hot el will
bring him to the house, making
it unnecessary to make
down to see the groods.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 143. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEB 7, 1003.
a trip
Sold Out.
Grant Wolco tt has sold his bar-
ber shop on Third street to Paul
Focault, who has been in the m-
ploy of Mr. Wolcott for some time
past. The shop will be repaired
and improved in many ways.
The former proprietor will, it is
understood, establish a barber
shop at Northome.
For Sale.
Piano, steel range and other
household goods. 220 Irvine
avenue south.
141-7 MRS. JOHXSTON.
The best advertising medium
Bemidji is the Daily ^Pioneer
everybody reads it.
COUNCIL MEETING.
grader 300 00
Lewis Albert, inspecting
boiler on tire engine... 3 00
Warfield Electric Co., Sep
tember 249 35
Harry Bamen, lumber,
Po^ue 28 31
Council adjourned.
THE DAILY PIONEERe
A. LUDINGTON,
W. BAILEY,
tornai
aft rn
Oct. 5, 1903.
Council met at
p. m. in re-
corder's office at city hall.
All members present. Stabbed at Wedding
Minutes of last meeting read Hetena Oct. 7.During the
I revelry following the celebration of a
and approved. FhmJs
President.
Recorder.
MAY BECOME A LAKE.
Large Section of Missouri Valley Be
lw Level of River.
Sioux City, Oct. 7.The report of
G. C. Ldiott, expert drainage engineer
of the department of agriculture, upon
the best manner of draining the vide
Missouri valley contains the remark
aide statement that a tract from Sioux
City along the Missouri valley sev
enty miles and two to twenty miles
wide, is from eight to twenty-eight
feet below the level of the river. The
Missouri river runs through a trough
higher than the outlying land. This
great tract, including some scores of
.towns, is liable to become a lake if the
river should leave its course at some
high flood.
LEAPS FROM CAR WINDOW.
St. Paul Man Does a Queer Thing in
'orth Dskcta.
.Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 7. At
Blanchai John Gangle, a resident ot
St. Paul, on his way home from Se
attle, where he had been buying latik,
jumped from a ear window, and was
bauiy cur. -.nd bruised. He was taken
to the depot' and detained, but he
made his escape from there, and he
was recaptured only after a long
chase. A relative from St. Paul earn*
up to take him home. He had $1,500
on his person.
TOO MUCH WHISKY.
Farm Hand Dies and Alleged Bootleg
ger Is Arrested.
Amenia, N. D., Oct. 7. John Mi
near, a farm haud employed with the
Robert Morrow threshing outfit work
ing on the farm of Alex McLennan
near here, died of an overdose of
whisky last Sunday afternoon. The
liquor Is alleged to have been fur
nished by a bootlegger named James
Keeling, and was procured by him
by a Casselton dealer. Keeling has
been placed under arrest.
HALF THE TOWN IN RUINS.
Meager Details of Tornado's Work in
Michigan Town.
Xegaunee, Mich., Oct. 7~So further
details of_thc havuc_ crcatfcd_bv_tb^
W( Ming
O motion of Graham,-seconded] named Hunney receivedL stab wounds
by Hazen, that the following
audited bills be allowed. Carried.
Austin-Western Co.. road
ia
ii, tveci
Tl
most thai can be ffned is that
three persons were killed and more
than a scon Injured, \vhik at ieast
halt tht i.nvn is in rttiux
lg
a ru
lice. \y,a3 arrested, charged with
stabbing Hiinney Ik &till had a
knife in his hand when taken.
Immense Cabbage Crop.
Joe St. Germane, meals -kBojle county, has a six-acr irrigated interest to all hunters, for if the|
for prisoners 5) 75 cabbVi.- patch on which he has an ag- [court decides the Sob is acting'
Standard Oil Co., three,
hills 28 96
Liquor license bond of Prank
Gagnon, with Charles Nangle and
Young as sureties, pre-
sented also the bond of Thomas
Bailey and C. S. DaiLey, employ-
ment agency, American Adjus t-
ment Co., sureties, presented,
and on motion of Bowser, sec-
onded by Graham that said bonds
be approved. Carried.
Report of Justice Reynolds for
week ending Oct. 3j 1903 pre-
sented, and on motion of Bailey,
seconded by Hazcn, that the
same be placed'on file. Carried.
Report of Justice Skinvik for
the weeks ending Sept. li), 26
and Oct. 3, presented. And on
moti on Of Hazen, seconded by
Graham, the same be placed on
file. Carried.
On motion of Bowser, seconded
by. Graham, that the recorder bo
authorized to draw a warrant on
register order fund for $214 to
pay interest-OilxegiateTetJ orders:
also order on same fund, 210, to
pay coupons. Carried.
Petition of Dunwoody, S,
C. Bailey and others for electric
lights on American avenue, Sixth,
Seventh and Eighth streets, pre-
sented, and on motion of Hazen,
seconded by Bowser, that the
same be referred to the electric-
light committee. Carried,
gregato of 46,000 cabbages, They ar
estimated to weigh an average of fiv
Two Injures at Willmar.
Wjllmar, Minn.-, Oct. 7. Yesterday
forenoon wliili ui tding boarding
shacks at Kandiyo! i st i:')':
Shot by Cowboys.
Missoula.. Mont., Oct. At Trout
Creek, Mont.. Ragsdtrhr. a salotrfp
keeper, and h]s bartender, name un
known, wereshot and l-iind by cow
boys whom Ragsdalp bad ordered out i
of the place Sheriff Thompson has
gene to-Trout Cr wuli a posse.
Two Brakerheh Injured.
Salem, S. 1. Oct. 7.A collision oc
curred on the Omaha in the yards at
this place at 5:15 la^i evening, in
which two br'akemen were severely
bruised.
Killed while Hunting.
Hokah, Minn.. Oct. 7 Hugh Kolly,
oldest son of Merchant Kelly of
Hokah, met almost instant death Sun
day by the accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting near hero. He was
twenty-one years of age.
Injured in a Fight.
Milwaukee, Wis,, Oct. 7. Three
members of the crew of the steam
barge Roswel! P. Flower, lying at the
foot of Cherry street, were painfully
injured in a fight wjth a gang of Ital
ian coal heavers.
by ifche recent, flood: in the Nacos
river, but th aggregate will be
enormous. The destruction of crops
up the river is so complete that it is
safe to fix the damage to cotton at
$DOU,UUU. Railroads In trie valley aro
heavy sufferers
WHOLESALE
A
RETAIL
which will prquabiy prov fatal. After The Sdoroad has issuedorders
a hard fight, during which. the city to its-trainmen to refuse same
marshal was knocked down and his i
revolver taken from him, a Finn
Polvwaiia, S. D., Oct. 7Christopher
Jordan of this place, ex-sheriff of
dx-acre irrigated [interest to all hunters, for if the
pounds each, or a total of 230,000 the state may follow, its lead, and
pounds, and will be sold at about 2 the breaking of game laws right
cents per pound, which will give him
a good return for six acres of ground.
Dy ..miters Fail to Appear.
Butle. .Mont.. Oct. 7. Despite the
fact that the date set by the black
mailing dynamiters who ask $5,ooo jingfeir the purpose of consider
from the Northern Pacific has expired |i the atfotude of the raihvav
without violence, the greatest precau
tions are taken here. All hunters out
ward bound are deprived of their
guns. the detectives fear the dyna
miters might enter the train as sports
men.
John Cos
tello, foreman of the Willmar yards, Q I\\Q.rnad
had his leg broken by th falling of "a
shark o::'hi-.. P.eTor DTBI ioctioi lla iso
hurt internally. Both were brought
to this tit for treatment.
Two Killed by Torrndo.
Anther, t. Wis. Oct
lacorer, was struck on the chest andi in Minnesota courts in which the
ri Saturday's
tornado was fatal to two persons near
hero. A little daughter, of Pan! Ki
toski in oanock was crushed between
two floors when the house felh Albert
Johnson, a farrnei nineteen years old,
was i irried vi 'al foi I .n! thi air
and thenj.-droj d, being Killed in
stantly.
."image Will tie Enormous.
Torreon, Mex., Oct 7. It is yet im
possible to estimate the damage done i secretary for the admiralty, succeeds
Sao Road to Prevent Sea roll in P.
Baggage for Illegal
Game,
ward ens the rig ht to search bag-
whose name is not known to tin po- [gage ill its eaiv. at depots ami onj Til AY I 1ST VFAR
trains. "Plus action is likely to
lead to a lengthy battle between
the game and tish com mission
ami tla* road if enforced. -The
outcome of the bat will be
within the law the other roads in
and loft woUld probably follow.
Executive- Agejit E-ullerton of
the state game ami tisb commis-
sion has issued a call for a meet?
company. Mr, Fullerton, while
not. divulging EKe future course
of the commission in the matter,
has said that if the Sdo persisted
in refusing the game wardens
the right to search tlm luggage
the commission would use its
legal right to arrest tl officials
The smallest want ad is ctire
fully read each day by hundri (Is
o1 people. A few cents'expend
iture puts you in close touch with
those hu lid rods.
BALFOUR'S NEW CABINET.
FIGHT CERTAIN jAPPORTIONMENT
$3,088
TJ
1
now pending
Northwestern road figures as the
defendant, Action was brought
ii year ago to allow the searching
of baggage but up to the prese nt
I IS not come up
for trial.'
Premier Himself Evidently Has Little
Hope of Ita Durability.
London. Oct. 7.-The three weeks'
cabinet crisis bus ended in a manner
more remarkable and dramatic than
that of its inception. .Mr Hnll'our'n
new ministry affords i measure of the
enormous difficulty he has had to rout of the veur, till
contend with in the- task of recon
si ruction, and its composition scorn.'-
to indicit. that the premier himself made on this basis
can huve little belie) ot its durability.
The withdrawal of .the duke of
Devonshire, whose resignation was
announced yesterday, is a avy blow.
Had he remained the government
might possibly have survived another
parliamentarj session by avoiding
legislation dealing with the ilsc ii
problem, but with him K"*'S the sup
port of the Btrong party of Liberal
Unionists, The now cabinet Is com
posed as follows:
Mr. Brodriclt, formerly 'secretary of
war, succeeds Lord Georr Hamilton
as secretary for India Austen Cham
berlain, postmaster general, succeeds
Mr. Ritchie a.s chancellor of the ox
chequer Alfred Lyttleton succeeds
Joseph Chamberlain as secretary for
the colonies H. O. Arnold-Forster,
Mr. Brodrick as secretary for war
Graham Murray, lord advocate of
Scotland, succeeds Lord Balfour of
Burleigh, secretary for Scotland
Lord Stanley, financial secretary nf
the war office, succeeds Austen Cham
berlain as postmaster general
FRED ('.[SMYTH, President TH0S. P. SMYTH, Sec.-Treas. I). C, SMYTH, Manager
BEMIDJI MERCANTILE CO.
Opposite the Old Court House
Groceries, Flour, Hay and Grain
Phon
2 1 5
TEX CENTS PER WEEK.
Beltrami County Gets That
Amount from General
School Fund.
$ ENROLLMENT IS 825 LOWER
Fifty-two Counties in the State
Show a Large Fall-
in Off.
Beltrami county lias been ap-
par-tioned 3,0^8.90 by the state
this year as a school aid. The
enrollment o{' pupils entitl ed to
aid in this county is shown to be
1,343, making the apportionment
for each child S2.50.
This enrollment shows a de-
cided falling off from that of last
yearwhe the enrollment, in
Beltrami county was 2,168, or
825 more than this year.
But Beltrami county is not the
only one-showing IL falling off.
The total number i\~ pupils in the
state entitled to receive the ap-
portion mm it of the general school
fund for )otoU'i\ l'.Mi is 1. 12.2
less than a year ago. A falling
oil' is noted in 5 counties. This
is all theinore remarkable when
iowod in the Light that the un-
rolhnotis in k'.tobor, 1.902, was
2(),()( ij' more i hail in IV
:md
that there was a iroportiona te
increase in all previous yoais as
far back as 1802, when records
were first kept by the state
superintendent of-public instruc-
tion.
It was point ed out at the office
of the state superintendent that
those figures do not indicate
necessarily that tlai school popu
lation of the state is decreasing.
The figures jrive the number of
pupils that have attended lodays
tlielit
ipportion-
ment of the general fund bei ng
Subspribe for the Pioneer.
Daily Pioneer want ads are a
success. Try them,
MANY JEWS ARE SLAIN.
The Rumors of a Massacre In Russia Are
Confirmed,
New Vork. Oct. T. :erolrig thi re
ported massacre Jwu in Mohilcv'. l'o-
dolla, Aiicid Koloi, secretary of the cen
tral relief committee iar Jews, has re
ceived I.) cable tie twllowlng dispatch:
"Here all la peaeer*ut, bin it Is rumored
thut there is trouble at Vlohllov gbyeW
The ,.iHt word shows tluit the city o
called i* the capita] town, Is in North
west Russia] while the it her Mohlley Is
la the southwest
A message from Vienna of the same
date states that the rumors fighting in
Mohjlev In Nortn^vest Ruaslft. were cor
recl. There was "a bt&wly stre.it tiKnt"
between Jews :r,d peasants, resulting In
the killing "f ::M .,f tin- tanmac. Tle
peasants lost but arc reported .is
'everywhere in overpowering force.'' The
pniice .in- [wwerless, the message says,
THINGS
GOOD TO
EAT