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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21
Unites States Will Buy Lands
Overlooked by the Mis-
sissippi River.
OFFER OF 50 PER ACRE TURNED
DOWN BY SETTLERS.
Condemnation Proceedings Will
Be. Instituted to Gain Title
for Government.

AS leSulG OIL Gue operation VI
the government dams on the Mis-
sissippiriver below Lake Bemidji,
large tracts Of meadow lands
owned by settlers Lying along
the river will be overfloWed, and
the government is taking steps
to purchase the lands from the
homesteaders. The price offered
ed for the land is So per acre, but
this has been refused and the
government has decided to insti
tute condemnation proceedings
to obtain a clear title to the lands.
Those affected by the decision are
Gust Berg, Emil Nord, Charlie
Orberg, Fred Svenson, j. b. Sven
son, Omund S. Huset, 0. K. Ose,
j. B. Hanson, Gunder Aakhus,
Knute Aakhus, liver O. Ungstad,
Haugen o. Systad, John Phillips,
0. S. Hunt, Gunder G.. Moi, John
Kvale and Bergland. A majority
of the settlers affected live in the
town of FROM. They have been
notified of the intention of the
government, and letters of which
the following is a sample, have
been sent to each individual:
st. Paul, MINI.
Dec. Is, 1904.
Ommnud S. Huset,
Gunder G. Moi,
Paul T. Kvale,
Bemidji, MINI.
Sir:
The recently completed survey
of Lake Winnibigoshish Reservoir
has developed the fact that GER.
tain lands of which you are be-
lieved to be the owner, shown on
map and attached description
herewith, are affected by fowage
consequent on the operation of
the reservoir.
l am prepared to recommend
tie purchase of this land by the
United States at the>rate of $500
per acre, or total of $63.2O.
will be obliged if you will let
me know at your earliest convent
ence whether you will sell the
land at this price, which would
enable us to avoid the expense
delay necessary to acquire title
is the land for the United States
by condemnation proceedings
This offer is contingent upon
your having a clear title to the
land in question.
Very respectfully,
G.. McDerbey,
Major, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
Henry F'unkley of this city has
been retained as attorney for the
settlers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21
Spoiled Her Beauty.

Harriet Howard, of 2O9 w. 34th
St, New York, at one time had
her beauty spoiled with skin
trouble. She writes: 81 had salt
.rheum or eczema for years, but
nothing would cure it, until I
used Bucklen. S Arnica Salve." A
quick and sure healer for cuts,
burns and sores. 25c at all drug
stores.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21
Billiard Reappointed.

Gov. Johnson has reappointed
G.. 3. Billiard commissioner of
Itasca state park. The position.
was sought by a number of men.
in Beltrami county, prominent
among whom was J.P. Taylor of
this city. Mr.. Taylor is a lead
ing democrat and it was conf.
IDENTIFY expected by his friends
in northern Minnesota that he
would receive the appointment.
Where are you going to get
your dinner, tomorrow? At the
Grill, of course.
Buy Barlow's Best.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

SPRUCE TO LOCI have $780,
600 feet Of spruce, 80 miles
east Of Northome on Big Fork
rlver,to be logged at once-SO
rod haul Fl. l.. Hebron.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21
Buy Barlow's Best.

There is no lever so powerful
as plain and simple facts Marks
Lung Balsam will cure your
cough.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21

Nothing can be better than the
best-Mark's lung Balsam is the
best.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-01-21
PRINCESS
Grocery Go.

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
Candy Candy Candy
at wholesale prices
Genuine Lether Cigar Cases
Case Pipes Pocket Books
Tole Pouches Mixed Nuts
Home Made Taffy
Ripe Tomatoes Cucumbers
Radishes Lettuce Celery
Extra Select Oysters
Fancy Greening Apples, 1926
per barrel.
Princess Grocery Go
N. E. CARSON. Mgr
Phone 282
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THE NEW SEyAIOR.

The new United States Senator from the State of Connecticut is not such a surprise as some say. He has been pre- pairing for this very opportunity for a long time, and he was so we'll prepared that he reached the goal. being at no time during the balloting in any real danger of not reaching it.
 MT. Brandegee will certainly make a good Senator. He is a man of large ability and force. He is already ac- quainted with the way things go and don't go in Washington. He is young and healthy, and can and will grow in knowledge and capacity for work. Of course he will be kept in the senate by Connecticut if he lives, and he will soon become a senator of real weight and in- fiuence. It is well recognized all over the State that he is a big enough man for the place, and that no blunder has been made in choosing him. That will more and more clearly appear.
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natural. She has simply decided, as anyone would in her situation. that if We are not willing to do business with her on mutually consi6erate terms she will cut us off altogether and make her arrangements elsewhere. And 1t is Americans who will suffer the most from this policy.
 But suffering may not be per- manent. With the Newfoundland ex- clusion act hanging over them, the Gloucester fishermen are beginning to see that they were really acting against their own interest in protesting against the free admission of Newfoundland fish and fish products. and Senator Crane Of Massachusetts and Senator Hale of Maine have permitted them selves to be quoted as in favor of re- considering the Hay-Bond treaty at the next session. Under the pressure of events probably other Senators will be brought to take more rational view if a further opportunity to express themselves is given. With a view to this possibility Premier Bond has had inserted in the act now passing g clause permitting the suspension of the re- strictions on American fishermen when ever there is good reason therefor. This means, os course, that as soon as the United States gives satisfactory proof of a change of attitude toward New foundland interests Newfoundland will stay the heavy hand she is now about to lay on American citizens. Such an invitation to reconsideration on our part should certainly be accepted. To persist. in the present circumstances, in
 refusing concessions to Newfoundland would be, as was the original failure to ratify the treaty, simply protection
 gone mad. Providence Journal.
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 the box. however, held his attention. and he remarked rather severely, You'll have to put that in your berth; there's no room for a box of that size in the aisle.' 4 moment later step ped on the train, just as it pulled out of the station. The porter was busy making up a berth. so I set my box down and waited. Waiting with me was good natured looking fellow with whom exchanged a few words, and who happened to have the berth below my own. Presently, the little captiyes, getting hungry, no doubt, began to scratch on the side of their box.
 "Hello!" said the man. What have you got tbere?" . "Hush?' I answered, putting my fingers to my lips. Tomato plants
 "Ah! thought so by the sound,' he replied. Well, as have the berth be- low yours. I hope they won't grow through the side O. the box before morning." ... When the porter came, I let him take my bag and few other traps; the box handled myself, and swung it up into the berth, following as fast as I could, and keeping up a running fire of con yersation with the porter, to down the , whines and scratching of the babies, who were growing more hungry every moment. At last he was gone, and "drew the drapery of my couch around me-" without, however. lying down to pleasant dreams. The instant I took the cover from the box, the wolf pup pies scrambled out, and fairly bessegei i me. whining with all their might. In their eagerness for food, two of them scrambled to the very edge of the berth, and I just saved them from tunlbling over into the aisle by snatching them , back by their tails. But, hungry as they were, they had no knowledge ot either medicipe-droppers or nursing bottles, and I had warm time of it before I succeeded in pumping into my charges enough milk to last them until morning. In the excitement, fear we made more noise than I had been aware of, and just as Twas put ting the cubs back into the box, the curtains were drawn apart, and a black face appeared at the opening. A gs
 Whats de trouble, suh? An you sick, suh?" .E.-, /, ,s%.
 NO. just a little tired, that's all;' and as his eye rested on the face of one of the young wolves, which indis- creetly poked its nose over the edge of the box, I added Heres something for your trouble, and if I'm not dis turbsd again tonight, there'l be an- other for you in the morning .~,
 "A right suh,'' and showing ivory from ear to ear, he drew the curtains close together and disappeared down the dimly-lightedt aisle. ,,<@
 244.-,--;.-1 r1--..JLD BAYNES.
 (To be continued next week.)
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drawn up by Secretary Hay and Pre- mier Bond and submitted to the last Congress. It contained mutual con sessions believed to be for mutual ad- vantage. On the one hand it pro- yided for the permanent continuance to American fishermen of the privilege of buying bait in the island ports and it
 is also exempted them from various vexatious charges, as well as providing entry free of duty to most American manufactures. On the other hand. it
 provided for free admission into American ports of such Newfoundland products as coal, medals. ores and fish
 The ratification of this treaty would not only have averted the injury that is now about to fall upon American fishermen but it would also have cemented more closely and advan- tageously the relations between New foundIand and the United States, saw ing the former the necessity of enter ing into a commercial alliance with profit by the Newfoundland demand for commodities of ours not produced there,
 and that without any real sacrifice of domestic industries. But the thought
 Of admitting anything free into Ameri-
 can ports so alarmed the high pro tectionists of the Senate that under the leadership of Senator Lodge, they amended the treaty to death, as the current saving goes, refusing to ratify it except on the impossible condition that all the concessions. on New foundland products should be eliminate ed all the concessions to Americans be retained. That in these circumstances Newfoundland has entered promptly upon a policy of retaliation is entirely
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AusrRIANTM TMIGRATION.

An important movement for the re- striction Of emigration will soon come before the Austrian Parliament The Austrian laws enforced at the present time, which were enacted in lS97. are .unimportant and incomplete as com pared with the emigration laws of near ly every other country on the European Continent Hungary enacted an emi- grafton law in 1903 modelled much after the Italian law, and Austria is about to follow suit. The proposed Austrian law, however, not only differs from the Hungarian law in many details, but differs from any emigration law now in force in Europe. In the first place it proposes to define an enligrant as any person going to a foreign country for the purpose of making livelihood. The usual definition is one who goes to a foreign country for long and continu- ous residence. The evident purpose of the Austrian government is to apply the emigration rules and regulations to all laborers leaving the country even for a short time. An official information bu- reau is to be established to furnish, free of cost, to intending emigrants in- formation in regard to the labor situ- ! ation in foreign countries. Twenty-two sections of the new law deal with the subject of contract labor, and provide for thorough government control of all such contracts in which Austrians are concerned. Hitherto the export of Aus trian contract labor has been practical ly unrestricted. Another provision en- acts that every transportation com pany in Austria, domestic or foreign, must have a license. Moreover, the agents of all foreign companies must be resident Austrian subjects. An Im- perial decree, forbidding emigration without a permit, is expected before long.
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The sI,enring

The day they cut the baby's hair
 The house was all fidget, .. Such fuss they made, you would have
 said
 He was king-the midget! Some wanted this, some wanted that:
 Some thought that it was dreadful To lay a hand upon one strand
 Of all that precious headful While others said to leave his curls
 Would be the height of folly Unless they put him with the girls
 And called him Sue or Molly. The barbers shears went snip-a snip,
 The golden fluff was fiying; Grandmother had a trembling lip,
 And aunt was almost crying, The men folks said, Why, hello Boss, You're looking five years olderm But mother laid the shaven head 4.s~
 Close, close against her shoulder. An, we'll; the nest must lose it's birds,
 The cradle yield it's treasure. Time will not stay a single day
 For any pleader's pleasure. And when that hours work was weigh @2 ed,
 The scales were even, maybe; For father gained little man ;
 While mother lost her baby! 4: ,-s Nancy Byrd Turner in St. Nicholas.
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IS LYNcnING 4 FEDAHAL CaiMhe

IS LYNCHING 4 FED kRAL CRTME? The Supreme court of the United States has now under consideration a case which involves the question wheth-
 CT the Federal courts have jurisdiction
 to punish lynching as a crime against
 the United States where the victim is negro. Horace Naples, negro, was confined in the jail of Madison county,
 Alabama, on charge of murder pre- ferred against him by the State author lities. A mob stormed the jail. took
 Naples from the custody of the sheriff and hanged him. A Federal grand jury,
 sitting in the United States Circuit
 court for the Northern district of Ala Thomas M. Higgins, alleged to be one
 of the 1ynchers, charging that he was actuated by race hostility and with a purpose to deprive Naples of the en-
 joyment of civil rights accorded by law lO cli Wdille lIetLiSH. niSSdllS SuSu ouI writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit court, alleging that State tribunals alone had Jurisdiction of such crime as that charged in the indictment. The
 case was heard by Thomas G. Jones, of the United States District court, who
 denied the prayer of the petitioner,
 holding that the Federal courts have Jurisdiction. It is this decision which
 the Supreme court will review. .''7' s It is significant that the. contention that the Federal courts have. jurisdic-
 ton to punish lynching is advanced by a southern man and Democrat. It is stated that his opinion bristles with new
 points. The Supreme court has never passed upon the exact issue involved in l the Alabama case, and its decision will ge awaited with interest by lawyers. :
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SAD 4 BoUf- 3HG sHAD,

The sad news comes that the 1905 .shad season is practically dead fail-
 ure so far as the collection of shad eggs
 by the government is concerned. On
 account of the severe cold of the spring and the consequent low temperature of
 the waters sought by these fish for
 spawning purposes the eggs have been
 slow to ripen. The fish are being taken
 by millions by ruthless fishermen, and
 although there is almost no limit to the amount of roe available, it is worthless
 for propagating purposes. George M
 Bowers, chief of the fish commission,
 tells a doleful story of the shad pros-
 poets of the present year. Instead of the usual take of shad eggs, aggregat-
 ing several hundred millions, the gov
 ernment will be lucky to get 30,000, 900
 or 40,OOO00O eggs this year. It is not
 too late for fairly good catch, and if the weather turns suddenly warmer and
 remains so enough eggs may be taken
 to repay the government for the labor
 and money expended in watching the
 fishing grounds. Only the greed of the
 shad fishermen makes it impossible for
 the fish commission to delay it's take of feggs until the spawn has an opportu- |nity to ripen.
 With the coming of the warm days the shad prepare to leave their winter haunts in the salt sea and seek the
 warm waters of the bays and rivers.
 They have been running now for a
 month or more. Their destination is the shallow depths of the fresh water rivers, where their eggs will quickly ripen. Great numbers of pound nets, stretching mile after mile, have blocked the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay with the running of the first schools of fish. Higher up the river gill nets have caught those that escaped the bigger | perature of the water practically none
 of the spawn has ripened. There is no end of shad roe to be had, but it is ab-
 solutely useless for matching purposes.
 MT. Bowers says that a single haul may
 bring up 1000 captives. There may be 1,200 roe fish in the lot, but the eggs of
 not more than half a dozen of them
 will be ripe. He has men down among the fishing fleets who are on the lookout for ripe eggs, but so far they have had their trouble for their pains. The gov- ernment pays the fishermen ten dollars per million of eggs, and for this pur- pose there is an annual appropriation of $250,0oO.
 A pity, indeed. What will there be good to eat when the shad, the lob- sters, the clans, etc., etc., are extinct?
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Fare said the street car conductor. Thank you" replied the country girl, blushing prettily. .-Houston Post. < Bill-Did Lusher see any sea serpents while he was south? Fsy Jill-No, he only thought he saw them.- Yonkers Statesman. 5"Is your husband very confidential with your"
 very! He tells me everything he
 suspects I've found out about him. -
 Life '' "' Z Wilkins-Did Bilkins' get-rich-qhick lscheme fall through? X Bcth--Yes, he proposed to an heiress and she threw him down, ,-Detroit Free
 Press. *@ Fs
 Does that man speak in his official lcapacity?'' 1av & Certainly not" answered Senator Sorghum. ''He Invariably speaks in
 his official incapacity. ashington
 Star. ..c ....s Aunt Ann-How doyou girls get along at your club? s | Miss Mandy-Well, of course we don't Eget along at all, but we have a good
 deal better time than if we did.-Chi- icago Tribune.
 Mrs. Farmly-Well, how did yew find
 our son Reuben at college? Was he at the top of the heap in language? a Fl
 MT. Farmly-No, b gosh! He was at
 the bottom Q thr heap in scrimmage.
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INFANT TIMBER WOLVES,

I was standing in front of the wolf dens in a big Geological Garden, when the quiet voice of a keeper arrested my attention.
 Look out there, sirl That Liz tim Der wolf in the last cage is a devil: if you put your hand within reach. he'll have your fingers off before you know it. He killed and ate two of his own cubs the other day, and since then, when a wolf in the next cage stuck a paw through the bars, that fellow chewed it right off,
 This was surely an interesting brute, and I took a step back to get a good look at him. He was not such bad one to look at. He was big powerful fellow, with a handsome head, and an air which suggested considerable self confidence. A long red scar on one side of his head showed one result of re- cent combat, and with one eye on wolf in the next cage, he was whining much after the manner of a big dog who sees an old enemy, but is re- strained from clinching with him. a | which is very expressive. Just then the wolf in the next cage came close to the dividing bars, and the change which came over the big fellow was marvellous to behold. The moment before, he was a big restless dog, now he was a great gray timber wolf, the long hair of his back and neck rising on end, and giV- ing one the impression that he was half as tall again. He could not get at the other wolf, but he was ready for an emergency. His head would have made good study for 'Ferocity." There was a savage light in his eyes, and his lips were curled back from his half open jaws, displaying two long lines os white fangs, which were streaked with blood flowing from wound caused by grappling with the iron bars.
 That" said the keeper, with a jerk of his thumb toward the satanic brute before me, 'is the father of those cubs you've come for, and guess they're all wolf, that is, all that's left of them.'
 "All that's left of tfiem'' proved to be four; their amiable' father had de- NOuEGu LWO UeIOT6 HG-WHS, removed. We went round to look at the babies and found them lying all together in a nest in a corner of their den; just one bunch of gray fur. Their mother, an alert-looking creature, but not nearly so formidable as her mate, watched us anxiously as we looked her, youngsters over. Then I went to attend to some other matters, and when returned, the little wolves were all together in a box, covered with wire netting and ready for their long railroad journey to my home in New Hampshire. Of course the infants would have to be fed frequently en route, so the first thing to do was to get a. supply of milk, with the necessary 'dropper'' and baby's bottle with which to administer it.
 I was going by way of Boston, and my train started from the Grand Gen. tral Station, New York, at Il D. m. reached Forty-second Street at 10:55, too late to get anything but an upper berth, and started out on the platform The watchful ticket-puncher threw a glance of his eagle eye at the big box containing my wolves, but, as the net ting was hidden beneath cloth, he never suspected livestock. The size of
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His language. Maria. I won't repeat
NEWFOUNDLAND's RETALIA- ,-- TON.


 The bill excluding American fisher men from Newfoundland waters which is now going through the Colonial Legislature at St. Johns and is likely to become a law by the end of the week. must work grave injury, during the coming season at least. to the fishing interest of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and those of the State of Maine, though a clause in it will enable American fishermen to recover their old and in- dispensable privileges in Newfoundland ports after this season if only Congress lat its next session will recede from the .senseless position taken by its prede- cessor on the Hay-Bond reciprocity treaty. The bill provides that Ameri- can fishing vessels found within three miles of the coast of Newfoundland with bait, supplies or outfit purchased on the island shall be seized and for feited, together with their cargoes: and the whole burden of proving that the bait and supplies were not purchased on the island is thrown upon the cap- tain of the apprehendeds vessel.
 This is very drastic legislation in- deed, but candor compels the admis- sion that it is only legimate re'r n for American disregard of N land interests. The bait rec -. :. 7 / the Gloucester and Maine fis.4-. .-l..n can be obtained nowhere except, on the shores of the island: Since 1888 New 5foundland authorities, by licensing system have permitted Americans to purchase this bait under a modus yiYendi which has all along been under stood to. be but a temporary arrange ment that would sometime give place to permanent agreement between the two Governments. Such an agreement, in the form of a reciprocity treaty, was
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It is said that Mrs. Carrie F. Adams, of Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, is the only Daughter of the American Revolu- ton who is of Indian blood. One of her ancestors was John Ross, who was chief of the Cherokee nation for forty years. Her husband, Richard c. Ad- ans, is a Delaware Indian, who for sev- eral years past has been representing his people before the Department of the Interior and the Dawes commission. He is direct descendant of Captain White Eyes, who was an officer in the Revo- lutionary war.