The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

in town all that day, but even he,
an officer, knew nothing of the
meeting until he was told by mere
chance. The so-called resolutions
we're prepared in advance by Mr..
J. D. Haradon of the Enterprise, a
personal friend of Professor Green,
and when introduced by him re.
ceived only four votes. Others
present refused to vote. : I doubt
very much. if this Star Chamber
session of the Park Rapids CONNER.
cial club will be taken as the sen.
ment of the people of Hubbard
county, even in Park Rapids, and if
public meeting of that club was
to be called and the same reso.
lutions were to be introduced, I am
of the opinion that they would be
beaten by a vote Of over two to
one.
The people of Hubbard county
have put themselves on record in
this matter in, no uncertain manner
as the following resolution was
unanimously adopted at the Repub-
lican county convention held at
Akeley, last June.
1t is the sense of this conven-
ton that the Park feature of Itasca
State Park be taken from the control
of the Forestry board and the con-
troll of said Park be reinvested in a
Park board
This resolution was adopted in
an open convention composed of
men from all over Hubbard county,
and to me it seems, that it better
expresses the opinion of the county
than does the resolution drawn up in
the Enterprise office at the sug-
gestion of Green and introduced by
his friend, Haradon, at a select
meeting of his particular friends. It
might not be out of the way to state
here that the chairman of the resolu-
ton committee who presented the
foregoing resolution to that conven-
ton, last June, was the same Har-
adon who now claims that the reso-
luton does not express the sentiment
of the people. It would be proper
for somebody to, now present this
gentleman's name to the Ananias
club.
THE third charge is that I have
done an injustice to the Forestry
school. In what way, even Mr..
Haradon could not tell me, for when
[ I asked him to state to me just one
thing of merit about that school he
was silent. I did not state the facts
about this school half so harshly as
they might be stated. That it is a
farce is more and more evident.
This past summer there were
twenty-one students there, and the
professors and their friends who we're
there at the expense of the state
numbered twenty-four. Professor
Green's work this year was mostly
political, for he put in the greater
part of the. summer entertaining
politicians at the Forestry school at
the expense of the state. That the
students accomplished anything
more important than running 12C
acres of the best pine on the park is
yet to be proven, but they did that
much is we'll known
The state has recently acquired
12O acres of choice pine land at the
entrance to the Park. The students
are turned in on this.pine to estimate
it and as they estimated tree, they
blazed it. Some of the trees are
blazed in two or three places. Every
tree is blazed at least once. The
trees are bleeding and the pitch
has run to the ground. If a fire
ever gets into that pine a great
part of it will be destroyed, fol
the fire will run up that pitch anc
do serious injury to the tree
! The public is interested in thu
question at issue, but they are no
interested il personal attacks upo1
the advocates of one side or tn.
other, and it is my suggestion tt
the members of the Forestry boart
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