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The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03

of all his efforts, neither time,
pain or money is spared. Miss
leila Zee Leslie, who has been
the leading lady in all Mr.. Dodge's
productions for the past ten
years and who is a capable ac-
tress of more than ordinary
ability, is still with the comp ny,
Miss Leslie's work is always APP
preciated and in the engagement
of Mr.. Dodge there is a treat IN
store for the local theatre goers
which none should miss.
The Sanford Dodge company
will be seen here in Hamlet to-
morrow night.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
TRADE PICKING UP.

The lumber trade throughout
the Northwest has been excep
tionally good for the past two
years. Every man who has had
to do any building is very well
appraised of this fact, for lumber
has been higher than for many.
years. The demand, moreover,
has taxed the resources of the
big lumber companies.
For the past three months,
however, the lumber trade has
not been so good. But despite
the fact that Wall street is still
actively at work to depress
prices and curtail trade in it's
campaign against Roosevelt,
there are signs that the lumber
trade is picking up and that it
will be fully as strong next
spring as for the past two sea-
sons.
/, Prices are as good as at any
tipe during the season, and it is
believed that the brief and COM
paratiyely insignificant period of
depression is at an end
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03

Subscribed and sworn to before me
this IS tn. day of September, 1903.
w. l.. BROOKS
Notary Public, Beltrami County Mimi.
81 Notarial Seal.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
in FAVOR OF ANNEXATION.
Montreal Paper Says 1t Is canada''
Only Alternative.

Montreal, Nov. 3.-Le Combat pub
fishes an editorial in favor Of the an
nexation of Canada to the United
States. The paper points out that in
dependence is impossible for Canada
and that annexation Is the only al
tentative It is argued that each prov
ince of the Dominion should be repre-
scented by two senators and that II
this was given Canada its interests
would be quite safe.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
Clothes Caught. In Skating.

st. Paul, Nov. John Whipple,
fifty years old, was instantly killed
in the box department of Swift & Co.'S
plant at South ST Paul His clothes
caught IN the shafting, where he was
at work, and he was hurled to instant
death. Whipple was millwright by
trade.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03

G. G. Hastings being duly sworn,
saws that he is one of the signers of
the foregoing petition, and that hehas
read the same. and that the same is
true to the best Of his knowledge, in
formation an(-belief.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
! NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Cass Lake, Mimi,

Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the clerk Of
the district court Beltrami county at
Bemidii, Mimi, on November 18th,
1908 viz:
JOHN LINDEL1.,
who made H. E. entry No. 1862 for
the nj net, SCI ne4 and net set, section
26, township 147, north of range 30
west.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation of said land, viz:
l.. D. Johnson, Gustaf johnson,
Axle Johnson and Amanda 5Lindell,
of Solway, MINI.
J. D. JONES, Register.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
Four Of the Injured May Die.

indianapolis, Nov. 3.-Four Of the
thirty-four injured lying in the hos
pitfalls as the result Of the Big Four
wreck Saturday morning are in a
critical condition. They are John c.
Taylor of Lafayette, Hendricks John
son of Evansville, H. O. Wright Of
Pendleton, Ind, and L. G. Smith Of
I,afayntta
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
For a Bad Cold.

If you have bad cold you need
a good reliable medicine like
Chamherlain's Cough Remedy to
loosen and relieve it, and to allay
the irritation and inflammation of
the throat and lungs. For sale at
Bankers drug store.==
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
To the Honorable Village Council of
the Village of Bemidii, MINI.

the Village of Bemidji, Mimi.
We, the undersigned, being the
owners of all the real estate On both
sides of Woodland Avenue, in said
Village, respectfully petition your
honorable body to vacate and discon-
tinue part or strip OF said Woodland
Avenue twenty feet wide on the North
side thereof, being the twenty feet
directly south of, and joining thesouth
part of Block Six (6) in Carsons Add
ition to the Townsite of Bemidji.
Your petitioners respectfully repre-
sent that said Woodland Avenue is
about 348 feet in length, and common
ces at the West line ofMississipi Ave
nue. and extends to the West line of
Irvine avenue, from southwestto north
east. That it is not extended either
easterly or westerly into any other
street or Avenue, but intersects or
JONES Mississippi and Irvine avenue.
snd there ends: That it is one hundred
feet in width as now laid out, and is
not and never will be travelled orused
to any considerable extent.
That your petitioner Cora B. Carson
owns the south part oflotFourl4) and
the East half of lot Five(5) in said
block six, and also the strip of land
south of said Woodland avenue, exte-
nding to low water mark on the shore
ofLake Irving, and thatyourpetitioner
G. G. Hastings owns the west half of
lot Five, (5) in said Block six (6),
and that no other real estate is con-
tiguous to said Woodland Avenue, and
that the plat hereto attached is an
accurate platof said Woodland avenue
and the real estate adjoining thesame,
and that your petitioners desireto use
for residence and business purposes
and said strip of twenty feet on the
north side of said Woodland Avenue
Dated at Bemidjl, Mimi. this 22nd
dayof September, 1908.
CORA B. CARSON.
G. 6. HASTINGS.
State of Minnesota County of Bel
trami-Ss.
Cora B. Carson being duly sworn,
says that she has read the foregoing
petition, signed by her, and that the
same is true to the best OF her knowl-
edge, information and belief.
CORA Is. CARSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 23rd day Of September 1903.
HERBERT LOUD.
Notary Public, Beltrami County,
Mimi. Notarlal Seal
State of Minnesota County of Bel
trami, ISIS.
G. G. Hastings being duly sworn,
says that he is one of the signers of
the foregoing petition, and that hehas
read the same, and. that the same is
true to the best of his knowledge, in
formation and belief.
G.. G. HASTINGS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this IS tn. day of September, 1908.
w. l.. BROOKS
Notary Public, Beltrami County Mimi.
81 Notarial Seal. /
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
THE BUDDING CITY.

The Pioneer is glad to see that
there is a determination on the
part Of the people Of Bemidji to
put off the swaddling clothes Of
infancy and put on the more
suitable garments of manhood.
1t is time that Bemidji, in
reality a city, ceased to use the
village form Of government. We
believe there is no division of
sentiment as to the advisab ility
of adopting a charter and incor
porating as a city, and we regret
that there should be a division as
to the proper mode Of incofpofa
ton. But either of the two
methods proposed is better than
the present form of government,
and we, congratulate the people
of Bemidji upon the prospect of
an early change for the better.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION.
Land ONCE at Cass Lake, MINI :,

Oct. I, 1908
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support Of his claim and that sale
proof will be made before clerk of dis
trict court Betrami county at Bemid-
il, Mimi. on November 18TH 1903,
viz:
AMANDA LINDELL,
who made homestead entry No.
1864 for the net nw4 WI ne4 section
%, township 147 north of range 30
west. s.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation Of said land, viz:
Id. Johnson, Gustaf Johnson,
Axle Johnson and John Lindell, of
solway, MINI.
j, D, JoNEs. Receiver.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-03
DROPPED A HUNDRED FEET.

Three Workmen Killed at East Provi-
dence, r. |.
Providence, R. l., Nov 3.-Three
men employed in the construction of
a stand pipe at East Providence were
killed by the fall of a staging upon
which they had been working. The
breaking of rope let the men drop a
hundred feet to the ground.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

the present prices Of land will not
long continue but will advance to a
nearer point of equality with lands in
the older states which will produce
no greater amount of wealth from the
same or from greater labor.
The actual worth of these lands is
better understood now than it was a
few years ago. The tanning process
by cultivation is showing here what
has been shown in Minnesota and
Iowa and other older states: and
there is no reason to doubt that the
price history OF the farm lands in
those states will be duplicated in this
state and in a less time than it has
taken elsewhere. Any soil that will
pay for itself in one or two crops is
not going to remain without bidders
at higher prices each succeeding year.
until the price reaches a reasona bic
figure compared with other lands that
produce no more for the same labor.
1t is this knowledge and feeling of
confidence in the future values of
these lands that is causing all tile odd
quarters to be purchased by the far
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

and can be seen, as the traveller ap-
prOacheS, from a distance Of several
miles. Ten years ago this fall the first
whistle OF the 500 road sounded for
the station. 1t was new but cheer
ful sound on the prairie, one that had
never been heard there before and
while it frightened the thousands of
wild fowl in the neighboring sloughs
and ponds, it meant much good to
the farmer. For several reasons, dur
ing the last few years, the town has
not shown the activity of neighboring
towns, as well situated, and gained
but little trade from the farmers who
went elsewhere. One reason was that
no pushing, enterprising men with
capital got together and undertook to
move things, on a scale commensurate
with the natural advantages Of the
town. But as the country settled up
the time came for the town to take
start also, and this summer it has be-
gun to grow in dead earnest. kensal
is fortunate in having as citizens. a
number OF live. progressive men. loyal
to the interests Of the town. They
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
(ME IMPROVEMENTS IN SIUISMAN COUNTY IN 1902
PwsNew Stores and Farm Buildings
tie County Seat and Metropolis of the James River Valley.

ern buyers come in, when land will
more than double in price, as it will
pay good rate of interest on $50 per
acre. Land, like water, seeks it's
levels. Therefore, land here which
produces the same income per acre
that eighty dollar land does in Iowa
and Illinois must in the course Of
time have the same market value.
Only few years ago Iowa land sold
from $40 to $15 per acre, but soon
sought it's level with the states farther
east.
History will repeat itself, and land
here will bring prices according to it's
productivenesS.
There are a number of new and
thriving towns in the northern part
of the county and one Of the best of
them now fast getting to the front in
the race for trade and population is
the handsomely located town Of
kensal.
The enterprising men who are at
the helm in Kensal az looking ahead
for the business which their unex-
ampled location will surely bring, and
are building up the town on scale
commensurate with their advantages.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

yellow clay, and the soil is so fertile
we raise flax one year after another
on the same ground and the third OF
fourth crop is as good as the first. 1t
is natural flax as well as wheat
country. Wheat goes from twenty to
forty bushels per acre. Corn does well
on old ground. Potatoes and other
vegetables find their natural home
hdre, some turnips weighing over IS
pounds and cabbage over 80. Apples
and small fruits grow with very little
cAltivating Good railroad facilities
oh the Northern Pacific and the main
line of the 500 are to be had. There
are several very fine groves and lakes
near Kensal, and an abundance Of
game and fish. The water is eXcep-
tionally fne-no alkali-and lies from
twenty to thirty feet below the sur
face. The price of land at present is
Regulated by one neighbOr buying
from another, and is being sold at
from fifteen to twenty-five dollars per
acre. Dozens of new farms have been
paid for with single crop of flax.
A great many Of the farmers came
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
Gre growing in populatioIand

Gre growing in populatioIand
Mcn.
nan county is one Of the arg
pest in the state for mixed
4 Its lands are rich and pro-
ywhen properly farmed: and
aan almost untold wealthlying
Tass Of its broad acres, only
4 transformation into food for
lorses and sheep, that bring
4 all times in the markets
nprld. This county has been
" for years in the scramble
further north and east and
Mhe best and cheapest farm
gthe state have been neglected
$ Of twice the price and of no
Nality. That time has now
7, however. The stream m Of
coming to Tins cUsnty and the
erprises that are elterin,g the
points and makin9the towns
bow that a great advance in
On and agricultural prosperity
I'D not only for the fortunate
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

in the world, is such that it is cut
with a mower and stacked near by to
be fed to stock in winter days when
they do not seek the dried but fatten-
ing grasses left on the prairie.
The presence of some boulders or
small round stone is nearly always to
be on all the farms but these stones
are easily hauled to the edges of the
fields and used in building founda-
tions. They are becoming more valu-
able each year and no farmer does not
expect to make use of the scattered
stone to be found on his land. 1t
has become well known to every
farmer that where the stone is scat
tered around and the tall wild grass
grows, there can be grown the tall
wheat, that will yield, as is seen this
year, from 20 to 80 bushels to the
acre. Wherever there is tall grass
and scattered stone the soil is strong
and with proper cultivation soon
makes the farmer independent of the
world.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

are backing the enterprises Of Kensal
in hearty, substantial manner and
are already getting the reward for
their energy and good Judgment.
The best developed part of the
country tributary to Kensal lies at
present, on the north of the town in
Stutsman and Foster counties. Trade
comes to kensal from distance of IS
miles in this direction, and the coun-
try is now under close cultivation.
The last five years have witnessed
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

east and Darlington, in Foster county,
is too far away to draw the trade of
the region. Every mile of hauling is
an additional expense and is avoided
by farmers as matter Of economy as
well as convenience. Kensal people
realize their advantages in location as
a trading point, and last spring a
veritable building boom took possess
ion of the town.
Kensal is situated on a high point
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

but the size and number of trees
show what can be done in tree culture
and the numerous timber claims on
which groves of 10 acres of fine trees
are growing show that the farms can
all be Ornamented with trees if the
owners take the time and pains to
plant and properly care for them.
The farmers and all others who
know the results Of the farm work in
the past few years, are confident that
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

1t an Exceptionally we'll watered
cottry with no drouth, and failure
hanever been known. Even in 1900.
win Mini 1lesOta, Wisconsin and Iowa
ha a drou uth this country averaged
twve bushels of flax to the acre,
so,e pieces going over twenty. Last
seson the average yield Of flax per
act was i little over seventeen BUSH
cid and . few pieces went over thirty.
1Elhre is from two to three feet of
Mvy Jack loan underlaid with
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
kENSAL

,nts of Stutsman county,
D over a county covering an
Iome 48 miles square, do not
% what extent some of the
1.-THE county are being settled
bd class of farmers, and how,
some of the new towns of tho
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

here in the last few years with very
little money, If any, and bought land
on crop payments, and today they
are worth from five to thirty thousand
dollars eadh. There has been no land
boom herd as yet, and one can buy a
farm and bay TO the same out Of the
first crop1 at present prices of land
and fax. YARNS pay the owners in
rent more Der acre than Iowa or Illi-
r1ois land, j Now Is the time to buy
ss.iile land is cheap and before East
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

of this county but tor thbse
|in on the ground floor, while
Re low and opportunities
the country settles UP ard
|ners cultivate the soil thu
pi Yer more chances for the
na4, nd more conseniences
I'm. community.
lie a region as there is ll
lkota Is the land lying be-
James and She yennes n very. 4
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
KENSAL ON THE 500.

Kensal is the northern most town
in Stutsman county, surrounded by a
large tributary region of fine land,
which is specially adapted for raising
stock both from the native pasture
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
GENERAL ADVANTAGES.

One of the general advantages of
this part of the state is the abund-
ance of pure water that can be had
almost anywhere in wells from 20 to
30 feet deep and wells, capable of
watering 100 head Of stock are COM
mon. At the railway station there
is little park where no attention
has been paid to the care of the trees
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

lands that lie to the west and south
and to the exceedingly rich farm
lands that are east and north. Kensal
is located about 80 miles north Of
jamestown, the county seat, and some
2 miles from the south line of Foster
county. On the west, about 5 miles,
is the James river and its expansion
into Arrowwood lake, draining a
great scope of country and making
an ideal farm and stock region, the
trade Of which is naturally tributary
to Kensal and which is coming to the
town as it should, since the new blood
of business life has taken the place of
the sluggish current that did little
for several years to make kensal a
place of Importance on the map.
Kensal merchants have commenced
to seek and get the trade Of farmers
not only in Stutsman county but from
the counties Of Foster and Griggs,
and are now competing with the older
trading towns Of the counties.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
A FINE FARMING COUNTRY.

The land around Kensal is rich,
rolling prairie whose soil is exception
ally strong and productive for the
raising Of all kinds of grain crops.
Such has been the success of farmers
in that neighborhood, that lands
which three or four years ago could
have been had in any quantity at
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

from So to So an acre has advanced to
$l5 and $2O an acre. This is looked
on rs high prices by the old time set
tiers who have been content to farm
in the old ways, but to the men from
other states where no better farm
land sells from $50 to slOO an acre, the
price of these North Dakota lands
seems ridculously low. And all that
is necessary to prove the productive
ness of these lands is to visit the
farms and watch the returns from the
threshers, inspect the stock in the
cOrralls and pastures, see the gardens,
the farm houses barns and granaries,
the poultry and the improvements
that have been made in very short
time--all from the labor OF the farm
erS on the soil.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01
PLENTY OF HAY.

One Of the great natural farm ad-
vantages is the abundance of native
hay always to be found in this part
of the county. The great stacks of
hay mean that stock can be raised
much cheaper here than in states
where labor on cultivated crops is
necessary to raise stock from young
animals to maturity. Hay can not
only be had in the low places and
swales but on the uplands the thick
growth of grass. the most nutritious
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-01-01

seeing farmers at home, as we'll as by
the sfrewder land buyers and land
Speculators abroad.
A NATURAL TRADING POINT.
AS said before kensal is the natural
trading point for this part of the
country, and is situated so that its
nearest competitor on the north is a
small station, McHenry, some q
miles distant. Courtenay is 10 miles
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-10-10

INTEGRITY LODGE 80 ie3. 4. o. Y. W.
Meets first and third Fridays Of
month at Fircmcn's hall.
HANS JOHNSON. Recorder
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-10-10
MACCABEES BUILD wIGWAM.

No hall in Battle Greek will hold the
biennial convention of the Maccabees
which meets there in June next and
the tent faces the proposition OF
building wigwam. Calhoun tent No.
81. the second largest in the state Is
setting about the job in methodical
STYLE. having named hall commit tee
which is already looking after the
grounds.
Mrs Burns and Miss Bower. great
commander and great record keeper
respectively of the Lady Maccabees,
cot abead of the men in securing head
ouarters and will have the parlor floor
Of the POST tavern. Record Keeper
Slay was there one day later but found
the ladies had stolen march on him
and the great camp officers will have
TO climb story higher than the ladies.
The ladies' also hired the auditorium
for their convention. They will have
some 400 delegates while the knights
will number over 1000
Record Keeper Stay states That on
August 81 reports TO his office showed
that there were ll5. $40 members OF
the order in this state gain of $40
IN tie last year.