The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-10-10
Capital
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Bits others Gathered at St. Paul
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(SpcclaI CorrespondenceJ


I OF the school, and when the Legislature
meets it is expected that an appropria-
| ton will be asked large enough to pro-
vide for a dormitory and a library
building. The school would lge money
| enough also to erect an executive
| building, The amount that will be
asked for has not yet been decided, for
| thu, details of the new buildings have
not yet been determined. The rapid
growth of the school, Principal F. p.
! Tucker says, makes these additions alb
solutely necessary. The school opened
last week. and already the enrolment
| is $50, SO more than last year. land MI.
| Tucker is confident that the number
will reach 400. Twenty-Five per cent
of the students are young women.
| Last year the school received about
| $4,000 from the legislature. The new
veterinary hospital to cost $25,000 will
| soon be ready. A meathouse is being
built at cost Of about $4,000, and ex-.
tensive additions are being made to
the girls dormitory and the blacksmith
shop.
There has been one addition to the
faculty this year. w. A. Wheeler, a
graduate Of the University Of Minneso-
TIA, has the chair Of botany. MT.
Wheeler is also temporarily hearing the
classes in entomology which were
formerly in charge of the late Dr..
Lugger.
A course Of lectures has been arr
ranged for the winter, including Ebert
Hubbard, the EDITOR of the Philistin
of East Aurora. N. Y. He will speak
on William Morris; or the Gospel Of
Work" 5
Thorough the efforts Of Dairy Com
missioner Mcconnell and his assistant.
Inspector Yroman, p. Monaghan of
Elma, Iowa, a travelling grocer, was
fined $50 on each Of two charges OF
selling at Kasson, MIMI, baking pow
der not bearing the legal label. Mon
Afghan, the commissioner says has
been in the habit Of sending five sales
men in advance to the small towns.
From each town the statesmen, hiring
teams, would go out into the surround
ing country and get orders for grocer
les. Delivery of the goods would be
made from freight car at the town
where the statesmen separated. Among
the goods sold by Monaghan at Sasson
was the baking powder County At
torney J. ]. McCaughey conducted the
trials before Justice August Anderson.
\ Monaghan did not take his goods
from Kasson by rail He loaded them
into wagons. He is supposed to be re-
turning to Iowa.
State Auditor Dunn and Land Clerk
George "A. Flynn have begun the sale
Of 100000 acres of state lands In the
wheat counties of the Red river valley
district. Sales will be held this week
at Wndena, Detroit, Moorhead, Fergus
Falls and Roseau. The sales will I'M
doubtedly be the most satisfactory
ever held by the state. Even yesterday
more than score of Inquiries regard
ing the sale We're received, mostly from
Iowa. The local land agents at the
places where the sales will be held, re-
port that the towns are filed with
homeseekers awaiting the sale. The
majority are farmers from thickly set
tied communities who have sold their
farms for from $50 to 500 an acre, and
will now purchase larger farms at
figure that viii leave a surplus to equip
them and render the owners comforta-
bly, well-to-do from the start.
The state timber board has approved
estimates made by the state cruisers
Of timber on state lands believed to be
liable to waste or in danger Of fire.
The estimates include about 40,000,0 00
feet Of timber mostly in St. Louis,
Itasca, Beltrami. Cass and Lake coun-
ties, which will be offered for sale at
the state capitol Nov. 5. The appraised
value of the timber is about $4.75 per
thousand, AT least a rs per cent cash
must accompany any pur-
chase. The state auditor can require a
still larger per cent If he deems 1t
The balance is paid after
the timber has been scaled by the sur
veyor general of the district.
The state normal board has practi-
cally agreed to an honorable surrender &
to the state board of control. The nor
NAL board is to be recognized, however, n
and the resident directors are still to /.
serve as purchasing agents but with
out compensation. All back vouchers
Of the normal schools are to be sub
mitted to the board of control and in
the future all accounts are to be sub 81
mitted promptly. This proposition was
made at conference of the state nor
NAL board and President Leavitt and
Mr.. Gould of the board of control. The
was taken under advise
nent.
The board of control has received
from the Fergus Falls, hospital for the
insane statement of the changes in
salaries that institution according to y
he boards recent schedule Excluding
he salaries of hospital officers. the re-
,ised payroll shows total net change
If only $50. There are 212 employees.
Perhaps the most important change
vas the addition of 50 monthly in the
Jay of each trained nurse and the de-
luct:on of So from the pay of each nm
rained nurse.
Gov. Van SAINT has received a SOM
nunication from Olivia Sanford of
oittsburg. calling attention to the
movement begun in the East for re-
orestation in honor of President Nc
<inley, whose love for trees was well
,nown In addition to suggesting