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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-01

tention to the 500 freight which pass
ed through Strandquist yesterday.
No one boarded it, however, at that
town or in the immediate vicinity,
1t is believed that the men who
were captured at Emerson must
have gotten on the train further
north. This would have been pos
sible and entirely probable.
After the posses had been search
ing the neighborhood in the vicinity
of Stephen, a report was received
that body had been found in some
brush eleven miles east of the town.
1t was supposed that it was the body
of the man who was thought to have
been wounded during the shooting at
the time of the burglary. The report
was investigated and was found to be
without foundation. No body was
found and nothing whatever has
been heard about the wounded man.
The reports of the arrests at Emer-
son did not contain anything about
a wounded man.
Thomas Olson, cashier of the rob-
bed bank, is of the opinion that
there were but five men in the gang
as stated in yesterdays Times. He,
states that was the number that had
been seen and the people of Stephen
are uniteP in giving this as the cor
rect one. It is understood that the
different posses will return to Stephen
tonight unless they strike a trail
which gives some promise of success.
It is felt that it will be useless to
make further search in the neigh
borhood, as the men would under no
circumstances remain this long in
the vicinity of their crime.
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SUPPOSED BANK ROBBERS
IN CUSTODY At EMERSON
Five Suspicious Characters Who Are
Believed to Have Robbed the
Stephen Bank.

Crookston Times.-Word was re-
ceived at Stephen at late hour this
afternoon that five suspicious char
acters were under surveillance at
Emerson, Canada, and they would
be held pending advices from the
authorities of Marshall county.
The five men came in on the 500
freight early this morning and from
descriptions given it is believed by
the people of Stephen that they are
the men wanted for the sensational
robbery.
The sheriff of Marshall county is
now on his way to the Canadian city,
and has hopes that his search for
the bank robbers is over.
1t has been stated that one of the
men apprehended at Emerson had a
peculiar cast in one of his eyes, and
man answering to his description
had been seen about Stephen the day
previous to the robbery. He was
stranger in the town and did not
seem to have anything particular to
do and just before dark he disappear
ed. Nothing has been seen of him
or heard of his whereabouts until the
message from Emerson was received.
It is believed that he was engaged
in sizing up the bank and otherwise
familiarizing himself with the ms
and outs of the towns and that he
was prepared to show his companions
the easiest means of escape after the
bold robbery. There is no doubt in
the minds of the people but that the
whole affair had been carefully plan
ned and the success with which it
was carried through gives evidence
of prearrangement.
The people of the section spent
all of yesterday and last night in
trying to get some clue of the robbers.
Six posses started out from Stephen
and others were organized in the
small towns surrounding. The
country was thoroughly searched,
but not trace could be secured of
the bandits. The information re.
ceived from Strandquist to the effect
that two of the robbers had attemp-
ted to hold up boy and relieve him
of his horse and buggy, seemed prom
Using, but thorough search failed to
locate the robbers. There is but
little doubt, however, that part of
the gang at least, went in that
direction.
The authorities paid particular at
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The following is partial re-
port of the proceedings had at the
hearing of the representatives of
the Beltrami County Tax Lea
que before the tax commission,
on April 18th, 1908. These ex-
tracts are taken from a stenograp-
hic report of the meeting, and are
correct in every particular.
There were present at the meet
ing: Messrs, McVeY, Hall and
Lord, comprising the Commission;
Hurd, their secretary; Messrs.
McKusick, Swedback, Neil and
Getchell, representing the Tax
League; and Messrs. Mcdonald
and Eddy.
A general statement was made
by Mr.. McKusick covering the
financial condition of the county
and figures were submitted by
him comparing the assessed value
of certain descriptions of pine
land with the value of these lands
on a basis of ten dollars per thou
sand feet for the pine on an esti-
mate made by Mr.. Getchel. Mr..
McKusick then proceeded to lay
before the commission what he
considered were timber towns and
the total value of the same.
At this point the following in
teresting colloquy took place be-
tween Mr.. Hall, Mr.. McKusick
and Mr.. Mcdonald:
Mr.. Hall-Do you know how
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GET OUT AND VOTE.

The legal Bemd nudng ladies) should remember
hat today beginnng held for the
purpose authorizing purchase site for new
school bulding the being at two
previous elections
Now high that
school running the streets
for lack the
condition if some action is Immediately.
Think the matter and the should
and purchase new site
Remember that simple proposition and 90
and register ballot by voting Yes you do
like your best judgement in
this matter. Vote for yes"
The Polls Will Not Be Closed Until O'clock Tonight
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much of an investigation the as.
SCISSORS make to determine the
character of the land up there,
and the timber?
Mr.. McKusick- think the
assessors as a rule: are wholly in
competent 10 perform their work,
especially in the timber towns.
The men who are elected there as
assessors are generally homestead
ers or somebody that has no
knowledge of the value of timber
whatever, and incompetent to
estimate 1t, even il. they were so
disposed.
MIR. Mcdonald DO you know
Mr.. William Austin of Nebish,
Jacob Christensen of Durand, w.
H. Neudick of Hagalli, w. c..
Patterson of Kelliher, A. F. War
ner of Maple Ridge, or Mr.. Huset
of FROM?
Mr.. McKusick-I do not know
the gentlemen you mention in
those timbered towns of that
county.
Mr.. Mcdonald Those are the
town assessors. Where do you
get your authority for the state
ment that the assessors are incom-
petent to perform their duties, if
you do not know them all?
| Mr.. McKusick-Why, by gen
eral reputation.
Mr.. Mcdonald Where do you
get your information that Mr..
Getchel knows the county so we'll,
from the same information?
Mr.. Kusick-W Well I am person
ally acquainted with Mr.. Getche]
and | think everybody thinks he is
an honest man and has been tim
Der estimating for a great many
years and has stood very high,
and has probably done more estf
mating than any one man in that
county. l think that is all we
can say.
| Mr.. Eddy then gave the following
statement:
In the village of Bemidji of 1928,
900 personal property !. tax the
Crookston Lumber Company paid
over $4,000 of it. In the county
the Crookston Lumber Company
paid over $4,000 Of the tax, being
over one-ffth of the taxable PROPERTY
of the county. So that you see it is
as much to the interest of the
Crookston Lumber Company to have
a fair assessment made as it is to
anyone else. I have had personal
charge of the payment of the taxes
of the Crookston Lumber Company
for the last ten years, and to my
knowledge, when we have bought
claims, comparing the assessment be-
fore we bought them and afterwards,
in great many instances, the assess
ment, since it appeared on the rec
ord that the Crookston Lumber
Company owned the claim, has been
double and in some places treble.
When it comes to a matter Of aid:
ing this Commission or any other
responsible body whose duty it is to
look after the assessment of taxes
throughout the state and in the
county of Beltrami, to get a fair
assessment Of all the property on an
Iequal basis you will find no one
] more willing to aid in such an effort
! ~ n
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Commission Requested Make Fullest and Most Complete
Investigation Cost Fortune for Com
mission to Re-Assess Beltrami County.

than the Crookston Lumber Com
pany.
Mr.. Lord-It looks as if you all
wanted the same thing.
Mr.. McVey YOU are simply ask
for a re-valuation Of property in
Beltrami county for the purpose Of
meeting the expenses of your county?
Mr.. McKusick- that is all,
exactly.
Mr.. McVey-I understood the
other gentlemen that they make the
point that the burden of the assess
ment has been thrown upon the
sCrookston Lumber company, and
also that the expenses of the county
are too high. That it is not mat
ter which should come before this
Commission for consideration; that
is question for the people in your
own county.
Mr.. McDonald-May it please
the Commission it must come before
you in some way, because your Com
mission has been asked to make the
assessed valuation sufficient
amount to bear the expense of carry
ing on the county government. Now
we object to your making that valu-
alton sufficient to carry on an
extravagant administration of our
government. It will perhaps occur
to you gentlemen that the first step
ought to be to stop the leaks and to
insure an economical, through a
liberal, administration of our county
government, and then take such
steps as may be necessary to raise
the amount of money to carry on
that government. But the first
thing, and important thing, is to
take such steps as to make the
expenses of carrying on the govern
ment what it ought to be, and on
that point we do not care to present
anything to this commission except
to say that in our opinion the
expenses are altogether too high and
always have been.
If you will just consult the records
70 this area here, Consulting the
map, you will notice it is mostly gov
eminent land, a few settlers, and
the settlers have not proven up yet
and their lands are not taxable, and
this is true of all these towns here.
Of course these settlers can prove
up in five years, but they wait seven
years to escape taxation. All the
state land outside of this, thousand
and thousand of acres, is not assess
able, but it goes to make a large
acreage for Beltrami County.
Now the matter which Mr.. Eddy
spoke about: / want to say to you
gentlemen that it is not every citizen
of Beltrami County that is asking
for an increased valuation, because
they realize this, and you gentlemen
realize it, that the rate of taxation is
not always lowered by the increase Of
the assessed valuation, it simply
gives the men in charge of admins
tering the county affairs that much
more money to use, and from. my
personal experience and the chances
I have had to observe the matter,
the result of increasing valuation
has been that the rate is never
lowered, there is simply that much
more money. B,
Now / am going te call your
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old Boys PREPARING
FOR MEMORIAL SERVICES
B.. F. Wright Of Park Rapids win De-
liver an Address. -Brainerd
Helps Its Post.

II. w. Bailey, commander of r.
II. Carr Post, G. A. R., of Bemidji,
and other officers and members of
the local post, are already planning
for the proper observance of Me-
mortal day, and enough has already
been agreed upon to insure fitting
service of commemoration of these
comrades who have gone before.
The citizens of Bemidji who are
not old veterans will cooperate with
the post in carrying out the intents
of the day, and every aid will be
given the old boys in blue.
Commander Bailey recently ex-
tended an invitation to B. F. Wright
Of Park Rapids to act as the orator
OF the day on May 3Oth, and last
night he received the following ans
wer from Mr.. Wright:
Hon. H. W. Bailey, Bemidji,
Minn.-Dear Sir: Your letter of
the 10Th inst. was received by me
this a. m. I should deem it not only
a pleasure but great honor to de-
liver the memorial address at Be-
midi on the 30th of May. While I
have never posed as an orator. I
will give my best efforts in prepar-
ing something fitting for the occa-
sion. l shall deem it great favor
to hear from you definitely as soon
as possible so that I may have. as
much time as possible in which to-.
to prepare"
The members of the post will prac-
tically complete the program at the
meeting to be held tomorrow after
noon.
The following letter ! received
from A. E. Veon, past commander
of Pat Thomas Post No 80, Of
Brainerd, shows how memorial day
is celebrated in Brainerd:
H. w. Bailey, Bemidji, MINI.
Dear comrade:: Yours of yester-
day is before me. Replying to
your Memorial day inquiry.
The city council has donated
to us, in cash, $50 or $75 at differ
ent times. Sometimes the business
men have raised the amount needed
by collecting it for us, sometimes
the comrades and the w. R. C.
have raised it. The city council
refused us but once.
I have been told within the
past few days that the. Board of
Trade will propose to us soon to
take charge of everything on that
day and let the old boys take it
cool as guests, as far as work and
worry goes, and I think that will be
the plan adopted this year. It is the
right and proper thing to do as the
boys are about all in now, physi-
.
cally,and are embarrassed financially,
at least, that is the general case
here.
Preferably in T. c. and T.,
A. E. Veon."
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School Play Will Be Given Soon.

The senior class of the local high
school is diligently practicing on
new play, The Merchant of Ven
ice Up-to-D Date" to be given in.
about three weeks. The proceeds.
will be used to purchase a memorial
of the class for the assembly room
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-01

D. H. Congdon and son Of Black
duck went to Redby today, where
they have contract to erect some
new buildings.
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Additional local matter will be found
on fourth page. g.. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-01

Our shoe section this week
displays a special lot of service
comfort shoes that are excel
lent values at $3.50 for $l65.
Box calf, vici, kid, velours, in
single and double ~ OK
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MADE
FOR EQUITABLE
ASSESSMENTS

The Minnesota State Tax Commission Listened to Some In
terestng Information, Last Monday, Concerning Bel
trama County Assessments and Some
Proposed Changes.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25
@rHE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING"

CHANGEABLE world after all The public
death Of the
expresiden patent
migned he
Cleveland
wfy accused by Bryans
democratic The
had been ssaed by the republicans as
He
temperance and against
and enced his voice and pasied
suddenly
He had
methods of his contemporaries but
etamorphosed into idol
Of his position the only
acknowledge him honest Ceve
politician with selfish interests to
country be
literary that he has
made him a
public he uttered have endeared him to the political
This
his his devotion angling brought
Bad good husbands
the
with while he fondes his
small be loved and be
the
the the Cleveland will
always be history
pen
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25
.erHIs DATE IN HISTORY
June 25.

INSTRUMENTATION OF Maria Theresa as
queen of Hungary.
1795-Union college founded at sche-
nectady, N. Y.
1S07-Total defeat of the Turkish army
by Ibraham Pasha on the Euphra-
tes
1s4O-Montreal and Quebec incorpor-
ated as cities.
1S57-Capitulation of the Europeans at
Cawnpore to Mana Sahib.
1S59-Commodore Tatna11 of u. S. navy,
in Chinese waters, made his famous
utterance: Blood is thicker than
water"
1S67-North German constitution pro-
mu1gated
1S6s-Humaita evacuated by the Para
guayans
1S72-Earl of Dufferin assumed office
as governor general of Canada.
1S93-Monument unveiled in VALID
helm cemetery, Chicago, in memory
of the 'Haymarket anarchists"
1S96-Lyman Trumbull, famous lawyer
and statesman. died in Chicago
Born in Colchester, Conn, Oct. IL
1913.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25
INDIANA CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoRs.

Evansville, Ind. June 25.-The In
diana Christian Endeavor union is cele-
brating its coming of age with a largely
attended convention in this city. Sew
eral hundred delegates and visitors
from all parts of the state were on
hand for the opening today and many
more are expected to arrive before to-
morrow morning. The program for the
gathering covers three days and is
filed with attractive features
A number of prominent divines. edu-
Gators. evangelists, and public men are
to be heard at the convention. Among
the speakers and their topics will be
Attorney General James Bingham of
Indianapolis. on the Duties of Citizen
ship; Professor Ebert Russell, of
Earlham college. on The Making of a
Man; Charles Hahn, Of Winona Lake,
on The Boy Problem" and the Rev.
Stephe ]. Cory, secretary of the For
eign Christian Missionary society. on
The Evangelization of the World"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25
Grover Cleveland!
BY ONE WHO KNEW HIM.

The death of Grover Cleveland
aroused genuine sympathy throughout
the country. There is no man of any
party or place or creed who does not
freely acknowledge the worth Of this
great man or fails to pay respect to his
memory.
And now as the euconiums and eulo-
gies are being penned and the biogra-
piles written well may we pause and
review for the moment the enduring
qualities that insures Grover Cleveland
a place in the Va1ha1la of Nations.
Born and reared in poverty, deprived
of the earlier advantages of educa-
ton and training; without the bril-
liancy and dash that have character
lied many of his compeers, this man
rose to exalted eminence and respect
in the eyes of the world principally
because OF his rugged honesty, his sin
certify and tenacity of purpose. His
single desire and determination to do
his duty as he found IT and an entire
absence of Interior motives or ques-
tionable methods.
Grover Cleveland was not a scholar
In the stern school of necessity the les
ment or establishment, and still his ad-
vance was more rapid. his development
more marked than any man Of his day.
From 1881 as mayor of a fourth rate
city of New York. to 1897. retiring az
ter being twice a president of the
United States and thrice a candidate,
is record that few men have ever
approached. and all without the pyro-
technics. the calcium light, the cheap
habiiiments so often overplayed in
these later days. And If you seek the
reason you have not long to look.
Where others were specifically in
telligent. Cleveland was studiously in
tellectual; where others lodged and
trimmed and covered and crossed he
Kept determinedly on his way. Where
others, when the ways were uncertain
and the storm clouds lowered, hest
tated and compromised, he went brave
~ on, faced doubt and opposition,
wrath and fierce imprecation, never
hating, never taking a backward STEP
In many momentous hour when pol
icy pointed to easy routes and stern
duty to the stubborn rocks, he chose
the latter. Where advantage and ease
held aloft the prize which the world
excused and mimic men approved and
honestly pointed to the contest the
troublesome way to the barren fruit as
viewed by the worldly, he chose to fol-
low where honor led and scorned the
trophies of questionable ease. And in
all ne was great. and in his greatness,
modest, which is after all the final
measurement OF intellectual greatness.
Fearless to do the right he encoun-
tered opposition and courted the com
bat of disappointed expedients, but
even there he fought without offensive
obtrusion and sought not to win ac-
claim with cheap appeals to the excited
galleries, and when the qualities of
honesty. candor, fearlessness and de-
| termination are presented in form con-
crete, they will wear the habiliments
of Grover Cleveland.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25
THE CREAM OF THE
Morning News

James S. Sherman, I'll in Cleveland
hospital, is improved.
July dividend and interest disburse
-ments will exceed $195. 200, 900.
It is understood that Stuyvesant Fish
has sold 10000 shares of Illinois Gen.
trail stock and s disposing of his hold
ings in that property.
wild money schemes of the Rhodus
brothers amazes the federal grand jury.
Indictment of four persons will be
asked for fraudulent use of the mails.
Wife Chinese Ambassador WI Ting
Fang and her little granddaughter pass
through city.
D. r. Forgan and ]. M. Roach are
appointed receivers for the eight lines
of the Chicago Consolidated Traction
company, and it is believed that the I'LL
innate plan IS to consolidate with the
Chicago Railways company
Ground will be broken next month
for first building of the Jesuit univer-
sity
Public schools close today and 1880
pupils will be graduated from the nor
NAL high and elementary schools.
Price of four advances with other
ICCmmOQlIl6S OWlHS W SASdlSA OSiIdHQ
following high prices put on meat.
Vigorous protest against Henry w.
Hering's appeal for release from pri-
son will be made by depositors who
suffered by wrecking of bank
Congressman Foss opens his cam
paign for the United States senator
ship with big meeting at Galesburg.
| Iowa republican convention cheers
cummins, Kisses Dolliver and indorses
governors progressive policies.
Situation at Denver reveals W. ].
Bryan as complete master of the dem
ocratic convention.
! Drastic action of the American gov
eminent in breaking of diplomatic re-
iatfons with Venezuela gives President
Castro a shock.
Wheat and oats show fair gains, with
corn barely steady; provision list firm;
cattle and hogs higher; sheep strong
Business on the New York Stock Ex-
lchange falls OF and leading issues gain
lfractionally.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25

Columbus, o., June 24-The reply of
to the criticism of Mr. Bryan on the
republican national platform, has sug-
gested a further question as to how
the anti-injunction plank, as finally
adopted, came to be written. On this
point Mr.. Ellis has made this state
ment:, THE anti-injunction plank, as
finally adopted, was written by the
friends of Secretary Taft on the sub
committee on resolutions and was ap-
proved by the secretary and the presi-
dent before it was proposed as a sub
stitute for the original plank on this
subject. In fact. every plank and
practically every sentence in the re-
publican platform, as finally adopted,
was approved by the secretary, al
though those portions referring prac-
tica1ly to the work of administration,
were not submitted to the president.
Even the unimportant verbal changes
between the draft as published before
the convention and as finally adopted
by the convention were made with the
secretarys knowledge before the tenta-
tive draft was submitted to the COM
mittee.
This statement is made in order TO
make clear the fact that the republi-
can platform contains no suggestion
of retreat from the Roosevelt poll
cies. stands squarely by the progress
sive principles of the party and was
adopted because it had the emphatic
approval of the party's candidate"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-25
ssrHIs is MY 4sTH BIRTHDAY
bishop QuayIe.

Rev. DR.. William A Quayle, preacher,
lecturer and author of wide repute, who
was elected a bishop by the recent
Methodist conference at Baltimore, was
born June 25, 1860, in Parkville, Mo-
Both his father and mother were born
and reared on the Isle of Man. His
early life was passed in Kansas, then
in its pioneer stage. and he was gradu-
ated from Baker university in that
state In 1885. He had served as tutor
two years prior to his graduation. and
afterwards became assistant professor
of ancient languages. In 1880 DR..
Quayle was elected to the presidency
of Baker university, thereby becoming
the youngest university president in
the United States. He held this posi-
ton until 1894, when he resigned to
accept the pastorate of church al
Kansas City. For several years past
he has been pastor of st. James church
in Chicago.