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Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-04-30

1904 slock p. n, or there.
oboq8 >untv Court day, ]
o1o4 = 1lx months the fol-
Deoperty, to wit:
Of land on the
Gse'd. H. +. Fritts
Haynes executed the IA,
Ioril 1875 and from NJ. b.
hoirs Feb. 18th. 1886 both
aosher containing az acres
D1 - les and recordeded in deed
took L, page 272 and deed book T,
page Sc, and known as the homestead
Of the decedant, H. +. Fritts, said
deeds from the above named parties
to said Fritts are on record in the
Office of the Clerk Of the Crittenden
County Court.
For the purchase price the pur'
chase price the purchaser, with ap-
proved security or securities, must
execute Bond, bearing legal interest
from the day of aale until paid, and
having the force and effect Of a
judgement. Bidders will be prepar.
ed to comply promptly with these
terms.
j. G. ROCHESTER, Commissioner.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

Additional local matter will be found
on fourth page.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
ATTEMPTED TO suicide:
FOUND WITH THROAT CUT
Er'ck Bjerkman, a Slightly Demented
''Lumberjack," Is Now Dying at
Poor Farm.

Erick Bjerkman, half-crazed
lumberjack who has been lettering
about the city during the last few
days, was found this morning in his
room over E. K. Anderson's saloon
with a selt-inhicted cash across his
throat and the windpipe partially
served.
Bjerkman was taken into custody
yesterday afternoon by the local
police and submitted to thorough
examination He seemed to be
sane, with the exception that he
thought the railway officials were
after him, and was dismissed, appar-
emily able to care for himself.
The lumberjack then went to E.
K. Anderson's saloon and hired a
room. He was called about 9 O'Clock
this morning and stated that he
felt sick and wanted a doctor.
The bartender new the man to be
slightly demented and sent for the
deputy sheriff, John Bailey, who
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

Local News on Last Page.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
CITY OF BEMIDJI SPENT
MUCH ON IMPROVEMENTS
City Engineer Stoner Submits Annual Report Showing
$21,647.93 Was Spent by City During Year for
=.~ Cement Walks, Sewer, Etc.

1910 feet or 3 miles and 1 block.
Total cost of walks, $13,791.75.
Amount assessed to property,
$2955.O9. -- 49,.
Amount paid by city for alley
crossings, etc., $536.66.
Amount paid direct to cement
men by property owners, $1O,3O0.OO.
CITY HALL PLUMBING. =:
Amount paid for City Hall plumb
ing, $447.00. r.:
Street Grading, etc.
Amount of money expended on
street grading and other public
improvmen by the Street Commits
sioner Miller, $4206.04.
City Engineer.
Total amount paid the City Engi-
neer for 1908, $431.OO.
Total amount paid the City Engi-
neer for assistants, $168.5O.
Grand total cost of all public i'm
provements, $21, 647.93.
Total amount paid City Engineer
and assistants being 2.6 per cent of
total money expended.
Total amount of cement walk now
laid in the city 61z miles ranging
in widths from to IA feet.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
new BANK IN OPERATION
At INTERNATIONAL FALLS
N. F. Murphy Of Grand Forks and W.
J. Mooney Of Langdon, N. D., Are
Heavy Stockholders.

The international State Bank,
capitalized at $50, 900, opened up
for business Saturday and is now an
organized institution Of Interna-
tional Falls, according to the banks
president, M. F. Murphy Of Grand
Forks, N. D., who arrived in the
city this morning on his way hoEae
from the Falls" @.-. e.
This is the second bank establish
ed at International Falls and is a
criterion by which the prosperity of
the thriving little town on the
Canadian border can be judged.
This is the first invasion of
North Dakota capital in that section
of the country, the other bank at
that place being controlled by the
F. P. Sheldon interests of Minnea-
polls.
The officers of the International
State Bank are: M. F. Murphy,
Grand Forks, N. D. president; R. S.
Mcdonald, international Falls, vice.
president: John B. Mooney, Lang
don N. D., cashier; and Harry Hill
lard, Reynolds, N. D., assistant
cashier,
The controlling stock of the new
institution is owned by Mr.. Murphy
of Grand Forks and w. ]. Mooney
of Langdon, N. D. John B. Mooney,
cashier, is son of w. J. Mooney.
The remainder of the stockholders
are as follows: E. w. Backus, of
the Backus- Brooks Lumber company;
Chief Engineer Curtiss, of the power
company at International Falls; Mr..
Clark of Columbus, Ohio, fnancier
and speculator interested in this
section of the country. .~-
These residents of international
Falls are also interested in the bank:
R. S. Mcdonald; Mitchell Burton, a
clothier; F. H. Reyes, general mer.
chant; Peterson & Olson, merchants;
Mr.. Stone, who is heavily interested
in the townsite company there; and
E. L. Smith, store-keeper..
Mr.. Murphy was accompanied by
Stephen Collins, also of Grand
Forks and who is large stakeholder
in the new institution. The gentle.
men returned to their homes al
Grand, Forks on this afternoons
train.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
Doctors Take Notice.

Sealed bids will be received by
the City Clerk of the City of Bemidji
to be opened before the City Coun-
Gil on January 4, 1909, for the SER
vices of a city physician to look after
and administer to the health of the
city's ailing and worthy poor, said
physician to furnish medicine, drugs
for habitual users, pay for assistan MT
physicians and transportation for
patients to pest house, for the year
ending January 1, 1910. The City
Council will give due consideration
to the lowest and best bids but
they reserve the right to reject any
or all bids. ~-
Bemidji, MIMI, IL, 20, '08.
Thos. Maloy,
City Clerk.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

Bemidji spent the sum of $21, 647,-
SO, during the past year, for public
Improvements over which the city
has jurisdiction, and the sum was
most wisely spent in the putting
in of cement walks, laying of new
sewer, grading of streets and repair
ing and renovating of the city
hall.
This is the sum stated by City
Engineer Stoner, in his annual
report, which was filed with the
members of the city council Monday
evening.
Mr.. Stoner's report contains much
interesting information relative to
the identifying of the city and in
stalling of public improvements dur
Ing the past year, and is as follows:
SEWERS.
Total number of feet of sewers
laid. 1917.
Total amount of contract for
same, $26O3.64.
Amount assessed, $1S11.O4.
Amount paid from permanent i'm
provement fund, 1872 so
SIDEWALKS.
Total amount of sidewalks built,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
E. r. DAMPIER REPLIES TO
HIS PARK RAPIDS CRITICS
Reerates Charges Of Msmana9ement of the tasca State
Park and Foresty School, Under Supervision Of
the Forestry Board.

of the uselessness of the school as
now conducted. To reply to those
charges by a mere denial of the
facts and charge of their being
false without attempting to show
wherein they are untrue will hardly
satisfy the thinking public. If the
statements are untrue, there should
be some facts to prove them untrue.
To merely brand them as false
leaves them as charges against the
board and school and discloses the
weakness of the position of the for
estry board and it's friends.
II have no personal intesest in
any way, shape or manner save that
of a citizen interested in protecting
the Itasca State Park from the de-
signs of Professor Green and the
neglect of the balance of the Forestry
board. I have been accused of
some personal animonsity toward
some of the members of this board
and to this I wish to reply that I do
not personally know one member of
that board.
The so-called meeting of the
Commercial club of Park Rapids
was as great farce as the Forestry
school is, for it was not a meeting
of the Commercial club at all. It
was not a public meeting of the
club. Very few of the club men,
bers knew of the meeting, and
those who did attend were there
by personal invitation, not by a
public call. Mr.. u. G.. Wray, vice
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

E. r. Dampier of Akeley, county
attorney of Hubbard county, has
sent the following communication to
the Pioneer, the same being a reply
to the resolutions proported to have
been adopted by the Park Rapids
Commercial Club, which resolution
is said to have censured Mr.. Dam
pier for his critisism of the manage
ment of the Itasca State Park,
which critisism was published in a
recent issue of the Pioneer.
"Akeley, Dec. ~.
ITO the Editor of the Bemidji
Pioneer:
Your kind offer of space in
which to make reply to the Park
Rapids resolutions at hand. I had
decided that the resolutions were
VI SulllClC1I " 1SNN1VS q
reply, but my friends and the friends
of the Park have urged me to reply,
and I accept your offer.
The resolutions spoken of were
claimed to have been adopted at
meeting of the Commercial Club of
Park Rapids and put that body on
record as stating that my former
letter was in effect false, and that it
misrepresented the sentiment of
Hubbard county, and that it did an
injustice to the Forestry school.
L shall take these matters up in
their turn.
my former letter contained ex-
plicit charges of mismanagement Of
the park by the forestry board and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

found Bjerkman in gasping and
bloody condition when he reached
his room. e..
Bierkman was taken to the county
poor farm and given medical atten-
tention but it is believed that his
death is only a matter of a few
hours. The unfortunate man ad-
mitted that his wound was self
.
inflicted in an attempted suicide.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

My reasons for the above deci-
sion were stated in open court. The
City Charter does not permit the
payment of the salary in question
and the action of the council was
a nullity.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
1909 Diaries.

The largest and best line of 1909
diaries ever carried in this part of
the state can now be seen at the
Pioneer office.
We have made special efforts OF
secure the largest assortment ever
shown in the northwest. Those who
want special kinds should call early
and make their selection.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
No Paper New Years Day.

New Years Day being a legal
holiday, the Pioneer will not be
issued on that date. All notices in
tended for Friday should reach this
office by noon tomorrow.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
Dance Friday Evening.

There will be a dance Friday
evening in the Masonic hall for the
benefit of the members of the Be-
midi Dancing Club. All members
are requested to be present.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30

Two hundred pounds new soft
shelled walnuts, special New Years
price, IS cents a pound at Peter
sons. g.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
MAYOR OF CITY IS NOT
ENTITLED TO A SALARY
Such Is the Decision Just Filed by
District Judge W. S. McCIenahan.
Judgment Ordered.

Judge Nc Clennahan has filed his
decision in the case of the City of
Bemidji, municipal corporation,
against A. A. Carter, mayor of said
city during the year 1906, in which
he directs judgment against Mr..
Carter for the sum of $4,000 and
costs. Soon after Mayor Pogue's
election to office, he declared that
the city charter made no provision
for the salary of mayor, and that
the mayor was entitled to no salary.
Proceedings were brought by Mr..
Pogue, through City Attorney John
F. Gibbons, for the recovery of the
salary paid Mr.. Carter.
The decision in its entirety is as
follows:
State of Minnesota, County of Bel
trami. ..-
In District Court, 18th Judicial Dis
trict.
City of Bemidji, a municipal cor
poration, plaintiff, VS.. A. A. Car
ter, defendant.
The within cause having been duly
tried before the court without a
jury on the within statement of
facts which the court adopts as its
findings of fact and further decides
as
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
l.. That the defendant was not
as upon the: facts as stipulated en-
titled to receive a salary for his
services as mayor of the City of Be-
midi, pursuant to the action of its
council on January 18th, 1906 and
the charter of said city.
2. That the plaintiff is entitled
to judgment against the defendent
for the amount demanded=gin its
complaint with costs and disburse-
ments. Dated December 21st, 1908.
w. S. McClenahan,
District Judge.
MEMO
My reasons for the above deci-
sion were stated in open court. The
City Charter does not permit the
payment of the salary in question
and the action of the council was
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-30
Marriage Licenses.

Fred NJ. Kelsey to Josephine
Gravelin.
Simon Kittleson to Caroline Lar
son.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
Commercial Printing of all Kinds Neatly and Prompt
ly Executed at The Journal Office

3eigh5or. Jim Smith. for Sill aud
Jones will find it ont and feel that he
as been treated unfairly, and Jones
S right about it, too There is one
owa. a county sect in western
state. a place of nearly 300 popula-
ton. It's trade territory extends for
. dozen miles in each direction. The
ouatry has a large foreign popula
ton They are the best classes of
customers. liberal buyers and not
qubblers over prices. Sill, they de-
sire just treatment A few years ago
thousands of dollars in trade was di-
verified from the town through deal
or in agricultural implements being
a poor business man. 4 wealthy Ger
man purchased from him several hun
bred dollars worth Of agricultural ma
chinery, wagons and other goods
The farmer wanted harrow. \
price was made-s33 A few DAYS
later the farmer was at town where
there were but two stores and an ele.
yator He saw the same Kind of har
row and was told that $3.50 would
buy it, He visited the county seat
| Few days later, called on the man
from whom he purchased his nipple
ments and again asked the price Of
the harrow, and was told the same
as before He item stated that the
same make aud kind of harrow had
been offered him for $50 less After
some talk he was told that he could
have tha niece of machinery for the
anne rr,ee. lie did not tale it. but
7ecured the one offered him by the
nan IN the smaller town lie did net
Ike the style of tie dealer IN the
ser town. II taet, he concluded
aat the othe~ storeEeeaars of the
lace We're cf the same caliber. He
glit trading, and NOT alone was his
r2de lost to the couaty scat town, but
ne trade Of a score Of his neighbors.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
Keeping Colony Record.

The star colony in bee keepers
aplary is the one that gives the most
surplus honey and keeps it up the
longest by this test every one of
us must test our colonies and try to
bring all the rest up to its standard.
or at least as nearly SO as possible.
A record should be kept of all colo
MES, each hive having a number.
says Bee Culture. In offering an APT
airy Of over 20 colonies of bees recent.
". the owner wrote: Il have every
queen clipped. and every queen and
colony numbered, and keep a record
of them and know of what strain
each queen is, and what is the record
of each colony" But how many bee
keepers think this worth while and
10 it?
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
Nonproaressive Peonle.

A commercial club. business
mems association or whatever it may
be called, that is useful in furthering
the interests of any city or town is q
highly useful organization. The field
for work is unlimited. It's extent is
only limited to the power of the mem
bers to act and accomplish. One OF
the chief aims of all such associations
should be to advance the varied in
terests of the towns in which they are
started. Sometimes these organiza-
lions fail in their purpose because
they are not started rightly. Some
person who has nothing to do but col
ieet rent, pay his money for supplies
to some mail order house. and collect
interest from the bank, or the ones
whose property is mortgaged 10 him
is made the president. or given a place
on the executive board What is the
result2 The club goes under. It's us o.
fulness has been destroyed even be
fore its organization The only suc
cessful clubs are the ones that are
under the control of the live bust.
ness men of the towns, who have
made their money by their business
connections and Who depend upon the
growth of tie town for their continued
success. Keep the knocker cut Of tha
commercial clab He is sure to b.
disturbing factor. His place in the
club affords him plaea=to turtle
his own selfish nteress s. which II
ninetH-nfne cases cut Of the hundred is
ia keapins back every enterprise that
will possibly increase his taxes.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
CARE FOR THE NEST.
Ways in Which You Can Encourage
the Hens to Lay.

Do you know that you can train a
hen to be poor layer?
Do YOU know that she can and will
keep her eggs wa@n ready to lay for
whole day?
If this condition IS allowed to con-
tinue she may and probably will lay
fewer and fewer eggs. finally becoming
an Indifferent layer, hence the neces-
sity of having plenty of clean, COM
Portable nests
Did you ever notice how shyly the
young pullet will go about looking for
a secret place where she may stealth
lily deposit her precious eggs?
How very particular she is about it!
If there is an insufficient number of
nests, or If they are unelean, or too
much exposed she is likely, after
some delay, to lay the egg on the floor
and among the other hens, which may
lead to egg eating.
Comfort is one of the essentials of
egg productions, and what is more
necessary than randy, clean and com.
Portable nests?
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27

132. Good three room house and
two lots, only two blocks from busi-
ness portion of town; will be sold
cheap and on easy terms.
Il. 14l acres fine cane and timber
land on Black river miles north of
Paroquet; on river front.
10l. leo acre creek bottom farm 81
miles from Newark, l mile from post
office and school; 100 acres in cultiva-
tion, balance good timber; four room
frame house and small tenant house,
barn and other outbuildings; cyStern
and spring Of good water; land in cul-
tivation is good creek bottom land
and produces we'll.
103. 120 acres fine Oil Trough bot
tom land, all in timber except twenty
acres which has been cur off; 3 miles
from postofl1ce; miles from Newark;
land lays well and when put in cult
walton will be worth $40 per acre: land
adjoining grows bale OF cotton or 30 TO
10 bushels corn per acre, and will also
grow alfalfa; land is inside of fencing
district and has good timber on it.
rs. Fine White river farm of 220
acres; l75 acres in cultivation; only .
miles from Newark; will grow bale of
cotton per acre, and is extra due for
clover and timothy.
lis. Farm Of I'D acres fine White
river land, four miles from Newars !;
good four room house, barn and other
outbuilding: good orchard, garden
and good water; s. acres in cultiva.
ton. This is tiae White river cane
land, only % acres subject to
overflow. 4 bargain.
120. 80 acres fire cut-oyer timber
land in Black river bottom. Fine for
stock pasturage.
80. 81 acres creek bottom farm
miles from Newark; p acres in culti-
walton; good room log house; good
creek bottom land and bargain at SIS
per acre.
126 Good so acre creek bottom
farm miles from Newark; % acres in
cultivation; good log house and small
barn; extra fine creek bottom land.
127. Good four room house, nearly
new, and -four lots in East Newark;
good frame barn and good well of
water.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
VIM 6rNucae-

The eiyins eff a bonus to gain ira l.
is prima taefe evidence that the deal
er Is selling goods At a price which "a
fords tire giving away Of a portion e
lis Profits Would it net be better
to reduce the rice, ard with the saw.
ing to RE customer ne could buy what.
ever be wants. But the people wan
something fer nothing. aid think that
hey are getting L when they pay
een or Gftcen Der cent more than they
should fer gaads, and in recognition
Of their aea's receive coupon Or
ticket TO- some a4tiele valued at
ab3uz ha6 the extsa money they paid
the dealer As lorg as people figure
this way. il seems thar their wants
must BE- satisfied.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
WBAT GREEDY, sc7T.sla47Eo
Pc Pt.E Do.
WAYS Tat KILL CusTo-I
Fair Treatment ty Tra5esnen ASSISTS
in Bu.tcin9 Up Towns ana In
grasses Business for
A II


One of tie troubles in small towns
seems to be that q tty jeI,oasies keep
the business men from Working in hGr-
mony. There is just 50 much business
to be had. aud il either goes to the
home stores the mail order houses
the department stores or some near-
by city, CT perhaps is let 90 to a
more progressive ne.ghhoriug town
1t should he tie ain Of ovey town
TO make its trade territory as large
as possible Il IS the attitude Of the
business men that counts One good
live man in business in a small town
is a benefit To the whole place. H
brings trade TO all People are
swayed to and FIRE by opinions that are
formed sometimes without careful
reasoning Il Is Che bast policy to
treat each and every eae fairly aas
honestly.
Let the AVERAGE farmer think Tia
he has been given the worst end e
a bargain. ard ha viii aader over tie
matter for yeafs 1t is net a ee0d
idea for a merchant to have a scale
of prices fer different customers
Charge John Jones $I2 for sUt -
clothes. and sell the same su.t TO d IS
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-03-27
Real Estate For Sale.
Some Bargains in Desirable Farm and City Property
Offered by the Henderson Real Estate Go.

13I. Tract of Is acres good land
one mile from Union Hill postoflic, 10
miles south of Newark; 5 acres in cul-
tivatiCn, acres in pasture, acres in
orchard, good small box house, fine
spring and plenty Of stock water; To-
Gated near school aud church. Price
So per acre.
80, so acres fine cut-oyer river bot
tom land. very high and seldom over
flows; can he cleared very cheap and
will make fine small farm; river
front with railroad running across one
corner; half mile from station and
postoffice. Price 80 per acre.
IS. Ten acres nice residence proper
ty in northeast part of town, four room
box house, small barn and good wen
of water, 100 peach trees, % grapes
and Il plum trees; good property.
III Ten acres of land and five
room house II miles west of Newark:
good large log barn, smokehouse, good
we'll and good orchard OF about three
acres. A big bargain in this If You
want a home.
1C2. Good upland farm Of 125 acres.
six miles north Of Newark, . acres in
cultivation, two houses, two wells,
spring and running creek on place;
some good creek bottom land on this
farm; located only one mile from post
Office and school.
rs. Fine river farm of 800 acres,
10 acres ia cultivation, 20 acres in
pasture; 6 frame houses, main house
being we'll finished Groom frame build
ing with ali coavenienceS, large barn,
small orchard, good outbuildings, etc.
other houses all good comfortable
buildings with good small barns: right
at railroad station and postofiice, and
only one mile from school and church,;
good hardwood timber ON land not in
cultivation; near river bottom, sur
rounded by tine range and in an ideal
location fer stock raising. A rare
bargain.
124 Nice two story, seven room
residence and fun block of land near
business portion of town; fine water,
good barn ano all conyeniences; we'll
finished in every respect. Price $500.
rs. Two acres of land and good
five room house in North Newark;
good barn, smokehouse and garden
and good we'll of water. Cheap for
cash or will trade for farm property
anywhere near railroad station.