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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08
ELECTED DELEGATES TO
ATTEND CONVENTION | j ! VEN n
Commercial Club Directors Chose Rep.
resentatives TO St. Paul Meeting
on January 1917. -. -: 49,.

The directors of the Bemid il Com
mercial club held a !, meeting last
evening for the, purpose of selecting
delegates to attend the meeting OIL
the representatives of the CONNER
cial clubs Of the state, which will be
held in St. Paul on January Is and
II, for the purpose Of forming a state
federation of commercial clubs.
The following were selected as
delegates and alternates: -. . 2s
F. S: Lycan and w. M. Bowser
delegates. -.-.zz..--....s.
w. L. Brooks and c. J. Pryor,
alternates.
1t is the intention of the delegates
from the local club to advance the
interests of Bemidji and northern
Minnesota generally; and it is ex
pected that the meeting will result
in great benefit to this section o.
the state.
It is known that there will be
many speakers of note at the meet
ing and the representatives from
the country district will be giver
every consideration in forming the
proposed federation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08
May Possibly Evade lid. +"

If they so desire, bone fde club.
men will hereafter be supplied with
something more expensive than
water on Sundays and after II
o'clock, providing cognizance, is
taken Of decision filed Saturday by
Judge Kelly, of the Ramsey county
district court.
The state brought suit against the
Minnesota club, St. Paul's most ex.
elusive organization Of the kind to
determine whether it could be com
PEELED to take out a liquor license.
In the decision, Judge Kelley says
the orgnizc, ton is abona fide pri-
waite club, and is not subject to the
provisions of the state law regarding
the liquor traffic. ~1@4
This is taken to mean, not only
that a liquor license is not necessary,
but that the club is exempt from the
Sunday closing and the II o'clock
closing law. Any decision that
would apply to the private clubs at
St. Paul, under the state law, would
be equally applicable :, to private
clubs of any city in the state.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08
Was a Good Horse Race.

The Pioneer had neglected to
mention the race which was pulled
off on Lake Bemidji Sunday after
noon. There was quite a crowd
which lined the course on the lake
to watch the heats. The track was
in good condition and the race a
pretty one, considering, the fact that
the horses had mot practiced much
at racing on the ice.
Ida G., owned by Ole Anderson,
and Bemidji Belle, owned by William
, Begsley, went three heats. Ida c..
won two heats and Bemidji Belle
one.1
Mr.. Anderson recently purchased
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT
FOR THE RECLAMATION
Action Seems Probable in Congress
Looking to Drainage Work in
Minnesota.

Washington, Jan. In conform.
ity with a resolution of Senator
Clapp introduced the first week oil
the session the United States, geo.
logical survey today through Di.
rector Smith sent to the congress
an interesting report on drainage
and irrigation. Detailed statements
are made as to the work done in
surveying on Red Lake swamp and
around Mud Lake, Mimi, and the
withdrawal of lands from entry
pending legislation providing for
federal drainage supervision.
1t is regarded as certain that the
Stevenson bill which provides for
draining the Mud Lake district will
pass this session. Speaking of
Minnesota's interest in the bill,
Senator Clapp said:
The government has been max
ing definite surveys recently of GER
tain swamp lands in Minnesota.
The matter is of great interest to
the people of Minnesota, as it is
in fact to almost every state, and
l wished to get as exact informa-
ton as possible as to what has
already been accomplished in a
preliminary way, for the use of
congress in case it decides to fol-
low its action along national irri-
cation lines and consider federal
swamp reclamation. 1t is we'll to
know what has been done in locat-
ing and surveying swamps and
how near ready we are for drainage
construction. I voted with great
pleasure for the irrigation bill and
it has been surprise to the most
sanguine of us to see what splen-
did progress has been made by rec
lamation service in irrigation con
struction. Foreign governments
have spent not years, but decades
in getting ready for the building
of such great works as the
Salt river project in Arizona,
the Truckee-Carson project in
Nevada. the Minidoka project in
Idaho, and a half dozen others.
I believe that a large amount
of work has already been done by
the reclamation department which
can be utilized as preliminary drain
age surveys so that possibly drain
age construction could be immedi-
ately commenced. It is these facts
in regards to this which my resolu-
ton is bringing out"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08
Large Delegation of Odd Fellows Headed by Grand Master
Shearer, and Blackjack Degree Team. Started
the BABY" Lodge Last Night

Mizpah Lodge, No. SO, I. 0. O. F.
of Minnesota, was instituted at Miz-
pah last evening, the work of insti.
tuting the lodge being in charge Of
Grand Master Shearer of Mankato
He was assisted by the members OF
the degree team Of Summit" lodge,
No. 1910, Blackjack.
There were a large number OF
Odd Fellows present from Bemidji,
Tenstrike and Blackjack, W G
assisted in the demonstration OF
enthusiasm, among whom were the
following:
Observation-Disclosures Elmer, P. c.;
c. w. Dudley, N. G.; J. E. Dade, V.
c.; Charles Angel, sec.;J. w. Baney,
treas; John Thompson, con-; S. S.
Martin, warden; f. A. Richmire,
chaplain; John Gibson, Charlie Green,
Al Mayer, Ole Benson, Albert Chris:
tenson and John Myers.
Tenstrike-A. C. Forsythe, N. c.;
E. F.. Schulke, P. G.; A. L. Morris,
F. c.; William Neudick, P. c.; VIM.
Fellows, R. S. of V. G.; Paul Trudell,
warden; and J. H. LaCkv.
Bemidji-J. ]. Ellis, C.. L. Atwood,
Joseph Titus. JsJ. Jenkinson, Frank
Wagner, Ben Erickson, Henry East,
w. A. Cassler, E. H. Cornwall, J. A.
Canterbury, Mr. Russell, J. A. Hak-
kerup, and C. w. Speelman of North
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08

g. What promises to be the best
season of basketball playing ever
seen IN this city will be on Friday
and Saturday evenings of this week,
when the Grand Forks basketball
team will contest for supremacy
with the big Bemidg" five.
The team which will play here
against the locals is considered the
champion team of Grand Forks,
and is a very strong aggregation,
the team having beaten everything
in the North Dakota city this win.
ter, and is without a peer. ~
The Bemidji basketball team has
not been defeated during the last
two seasons in which it has been
in existence, and the locals are re-
garded as one of the strongest teams
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08

William McDougall came down
this morning from Blackjack and
spent today in the city. He was
also in town yesterday, but spent
last night at the Duck"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08

in the entire state.
The two teams will line up as
follows: !.
Big Bemidg"-H. Cell and J..
Markham, forwards; Hebron, center;
G. Peterson and Brown, guards (sub.
ject to slight change). /
Grand Forks O'Keefe and
Woods, forwards; Oliver, center;
Mclaughlin and Holmes, guards
In addition to the game to be
played between the big Bemidg"
and Grand Forks teams, game will
be played between the first and
second girls teams of the BemidE
high school. The girls always put
up fast game and the game to be
played Friday night gives promise
of being very good one.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08

The work of instituting the lodge
was commenced at O'Clock in the
evening, and after an all-night ses.
sion of hard work, the lodge was
fully launched at $50 in the morn.
ing.
At midnight an elegant supper
was served at the hotel, which did
much to refresh the brethren from
their arduous labors.
Grand Master Shearer instituted
the lodge, which starts out with a
charter list of twenty eight men,
bers.
The following old members of the
order have taken their cards from
other lodges and are charter men,
bers of the Mizpah lodge: E. H.
Hanchett, S. Buckmaster, E. McFar-
ling, w. H. Hanchett, William N.
Durin, G. Seaman and J. C. GOWNS.
The institution of the Mizpah
lodge was attended with much en-
thusiasm and the meeting held
last night will have much to do
with the advancing of Odd Fellow
ship in northern Minnesota. All
the visiting Odd Fellows left Miz-
pah this morning for their homes.
Grand Master Shearer left for
Baudette, where he will institute a
lodge Of the order.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08
Attended Funeral of Sister.

q w. G.. Gould returned lastevening
from a trip to St. Cloud and Fair
haven, Mimi, where he : went to
attend the funeral and interment of
his sister, Mrs. Doble, who died last
week.
Mrs. Doble died at her old home
in St. Cloud, and her body was
taken to Fairhaven(a short distance
from st. Cloud and buried with
other members of the family, who
are inferred there. ..: .-5
The deceased left two little child
rem, both of whom are girls. -
New Year postal cards at the
Pioneer of41ca st-sa .-.,.J
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DECISION OF SECRETARY
FAVORED The SETTLERS
After Listening to Arguments Of Con.
gresham Stevenson, the Secre-
tary Reversed an Order.

A special dispatch from Washing
to to the Duluth News Tribune saws:
At the conclusion of an argu-
ment made by Congressman Halyor
Stevenson Saturday, Secretary Car
field reversed an order of the general
land office whereby about 100 set
tiers in northern Minnesota. whose
homestead entries were held for can
collation., will be granted patents.
The secretary ordered that the lands
be patented to entrymen who had
complied with all the requirements
of the department prior to last
January. At that time a ruling was
made requiring IA months continu-
Gus residence on homestead lands.
: Fred Lidgell, who was one of the
entrymen, had resided for eight
months on his land and had also
been credited with the usual six
months constructive residence, and
when his entry was rejected on the
ground that he had failed to live on
the land for II months he took an
appeal with 100 others. Congress-
man Stevenson told Secretary Gar
field Saturday that unless the ruling
was reversed he would take the
the matter before congress. About
100000 acres of land are affected"
1t will be remembered that this is
matter about which there was a
great deal of correspondence be-
tween Congressman Stevenson and
the department of the interior be-
fore Mr.. Stevenson left for Wash
ington, and that Mr.. Stevenson, in
championing the cause of the set
tiers, maintained that the govern
,ment had acted in bad faith with
the settlers in making them put lin
fourteen months actual residence on
this land. Before the government
threw open this land for settlement
and at the time it was thrown open.
the officials of the government spe-
officially stated that the settlers who
took this particular land, which con-
slsts of eleven towns east of Thief
River Falls, would be. allowed to put
in what is known as six months con-
structive settlement and eight
months actual settlement, to count
as the fourteen months settlement
required under the homestead laws
when communication proof is made.
He evidently made Mr.. Garfield see
that this was an injustice, hence
the reversal of the order. -..
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FUNERAL WILL Be HELD u
AT BRAIMERD ON FRIDAY
s... -r"s'-.E =;
Body Of Late Mrs.. Armstrong Will Be
Taken to Brainerd Tomorrow
Morning.

The funeral and interment of the
body of Mrs. ]. A. Armstrong, who
died in this city yesterday after
noon, will be held at Brainerd (the
old home of the deceased Jon Friday
afternoon. The body will bestaken
from this city to Brainerd tomorrow
morning. 81 ~.
The body of Mrs. Armstrong was
placed in an elegant casket by under
taker Ibertson and prepared for
buriel last night. Today the hotel
Armstrong is closed to PATRONS of
the place, and the casket was placed
in the DINING room of the hotel,
where all who desired could take
their last look at the features. The
hotel will be opened this evening
where any others who desire may
view the remains. s
The employees of Mr.. Armstrong
presented very beautiful wreath of
flowers, consisting of carnations and
roses. There were also other floral
offerings which were very beautiful.
The body will be escorted to the
M. & I. depot in the morning and
will be accompanied to Brainerd by
the grief stricken husband and taken
to the old home of Mrs. Armstrong.
The death of Mrs. ]. "A. Armstrong
was a sorrowful blow to her aged
mother, her husband, sister and
brother, all of whom will attend the
funeral Friday.
The sympathy Of every resident
in Bemidji is extended to Mr.. Arm
strong in his great trial, which only
time alone can assauge.
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Ida G.. from Thomas Nary, the
logger. The mare is a trotter and
has a record of $50. She is by
Idolf, record 2:33, trotter, whose dam
was by Adrian Wilks, sire of Roy
Wilks, record 2:O6a.
Bemidji Belle was by Dakota
King, also prominent member of
the Wilks family.
Both of the above horses are
excellent racers and are a credit to
the city.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-01-08

New Year postal cards at the
Pioneer Office &~.
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District Meeting Of Rebekahs.


The district meeting of the Rebek-
abs for this district will be held in
this city tomorrow afternoon, begin
ming at 2 o'clock. There will be a
session in the afternoon, and one
also in the evening. Miss Whiting
of Minneapolis, district president of
the Rebekahs, will be present at
both meetings, and will deliver
addresses. .@ II
All members of the Rebekah lodge
are urgently requested to be present.
F. G. Horton, who. represents a
marble works concern, left this
morning on a business trip to
Walker. q
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
Y. NJ. C.. A. BieNnia! Convention
Win be Held . at Winchester
February 20 to %.

Henry L. Roseyear. State Sec
rotary of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association Of Kentucky, an
nOunces that the next biennial
convention of the associations will
be held at Winchester February
20 to. %. The invitation for The
convention was united in by the
Winchester Commercial Club, the
Ministerial Association of the city
and the faculty and Young Mems
Christian Association Of Kentucky
Wesleyan College. 1t is expected
that the forthcoming gathering
will exceed in size and representa-
tive character the last convention
held i'll Lexington in 1906, when
over 400 delegates were in attend
ance. The State Executive Com
mittee is planning a strong pro-
gram for the convention. and
among the speakers will be GOV.
h. b. Glenn, of North Carolina.
who will address the convention
on WASH ngton's Birthday. Win
chester is making elaborate prepa-
rations for the entertainment OF
the convention, and is planning to
follow the convention with can
vass for a $4,000 Young Mems
Christian Association building.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
SHAKE WE'LL.
Advice Of N0lci Authority. Also
Gives a Simple Home Pre-
SCriDtiOl.

Now is the time when the doctor
gets busy, and the patent medi-
cine manufacturers reap a harvest.
unless great care is taken to dress
warmly and keep the feet dry.
This is the advice Of AN o. d
eminent authority, who says that
rheumatism and Kidney trouble
weather is here, and also tells what
to do in case Of an attack.
Get from any good prescription
pharmacy onc-half ounce Fluid
Extract Daudelion, one ounce.
Compound Kmgon, three ounces
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla.
Mix by shaking in a bottle and
take a teaspoon full after meals and
at bedtime.
just try this simple home made
mixture at the first sign Of Rheu-
matism. or if your back aches OF
you feel that the kidneys are not
acting just right. This is said to
be splendid kidney regulator,
and almost certain remedy for all
forms of Rheumatism, which is
caused by uric acid in the blood,
which the kidneys fail to filter out.
Any one can easily prepare this at
home and at small cost.
Druggists in this town and vic
unity, when shown the prescription,
stated that they can either supply
these ingredients, or, if our readers
prefer, they will compound the
mixture for them.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15

SO many freight trains on the
G. & O. had been broken into and
robbed between Salt Lick and
Olive Hill chat the railroad COM
pany employed tectives with
'bIoodhounds to try to capture the
robbers. After the robbery of II
car several days ago the bod
hounds followed Il trail % lhe
home Of Grover and Nar Fle.l.ccy
near Olive Hill. The house was
searched and enough goods found
to stock store. The Flanerys
were not at home, but Geo. Tabor,
L. =. Deputy Marshal, took uE
the hunt and traced them to Devon,
W. Na.. where they were arrested
with them was found another
brother, John, who was wanted
here on the charge of killing
James Perry Tor Whitel some
years ago by reckless shooting.
Perry and Flanery had been at
show at Salt Lick and were goine
towards Midland City when the
killing was done. Flanery had
evaded arrest and there was q
State reward offered for him. The
officer brought Grover and Van
tIanery to the Grayson jail Al
John on to the Owingsville
Sunday. - Owingsville Outlook,
Jan. 9.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH.
Three Persons Killed in South
ern Disaster and Eighty
Are Injured.

Running at speed of thirty
miles an hour, the second section
OF an excursion train on the South
ern railway, from Cleveland. O.,
known as the Collver special, and
bound for Florida points, plunged
through trestle over Copper
Mine creek, about fifty miles west
OF Atlanta, Ga, Tuesday after
noon, and as a result three persons
are dead, two others are fatally
injured and eighty passengers
were so seriously injured as to re-
quire medical attention.
1t was nearly midnight when
the Southern railway relief train
reached Atlanta, bearing the body
of Engineer James Edwards and
about fifty Of the injured. Road
Foreman OF Engines Schnapps and
the negro fireman, Nose Baldwin.
both fatally injured, were also ON
the relief train. Schnapps and
Baldwin died soon after reaching
the hospital.
Many of the other injured were
lifted from the car windows i'm Al
Ianta and conveyed to hospitals.
while some Of the hurt were able
to take cabs to local hotels.
The wreck occurred about 3
o'clock in the afternoon. live YES
tibuIed PulImans being precip.Ja-
ted twenty-five feet to the bed of
the creek, one of them being torn
asunder. Two hundred passcn-
gers went down with the coaches.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
$50 Reward.

l will give a reward of 5000
for the arrest and conviction of the
person who removed the signboard
on my land on the Levee pike in
Montgomery County, KY, upon
which l had painted the word
posted" and fastened to a tree on
said farm. in conspicuous place.
The same reward will be given for
the arrest and conviction of any
person who may hereafter remove
one of said signs.
20-13t II. G.. HALL.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
Governor Requests Ayres to Re-
main.

Gov. Wilson and Insurance
Commissioner Bell have asked
State Fire Marshal Mott Ayres to
continue in Office until his success
sOr is named and qualities. Col.
Ayres' services were deemed nee
essary because of his knowledge
of conditions in the recent night
riding outrages in the tobacco dis
tricts. He consented to serve
longer only on the condition that
he be not required to conduct any
more Investigations, as thus far
his efforts in this direction have
been unavailing. On this condi-
ton he is holding on.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
After Others fail.

ID. G. Scott, Avon, KY. says: Il
used Bourbon Hog Cholera Rem
edy after other remedies h d
failed and it speedily effected a
cure. 1t has cured several herds
in my neighborhood without the
loss of a single hog"
Sold and guaranteed by w. S.
Lloyd.
Did the uncle you took care of
SO long leave you anything %
He left me'broke. Baltimore
American
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
The Vice of Two Worlds.

Since the days of Hippocrates,
no doubt, the evil effects OF the
growing drink habit among
women" has been a fruitful topic
of discussion among reformers and
physicians. just now London.
Paris and New York are wrestling
anew with the problem of what is
to become of the future genera
tions if the mothers of the future
generations are to be tipplers.
London, Paris and New York
are in the habit Of thinking of
themselves as the world, and even
in the habit of committing the
Craver error of thinking of their
tenderloin districts as places in
which the world is to be studied.
London. Paris and New York
are spectators of the disquieting
spectacle of women of the best
society" drinking intoXicants in
restaurants. The world is. there
fore, going to the bow-wows. If
the women of our best society"
are victims of drink, we're lost.
according to the arguments of
learned physicians.
Women, in America at least, are
abstainers. Exceptions to the rule
are women of the demi monde and
some of the women of the grande
monde. Where there are hand
full of feminine consumers of cock
tails in what is called society,
there are thousands of women who
do not know the taste of cocktails,
and who know the color of cham
payne by hearsay only. There are
other thousands in what is custom
AIRY to call the lower walks of
life" equally innocent of a con-
sumer's knowledge of the taste and
effect of mixed drinks.
That women ''Of the best So
ciety" are seen drinking in public
places does not indicate that the
world is more wicked or in greater
danger than it has always been,
but merely serves to call attention
to the fact that in some ways
the grande monde and the demi
monde are not so far apart. They
were not when Babylon fourished.
Of course, society" women
might do well to set inferior be-
ings better example, but, as Kip
ling often says, that is another
story. -Courier-JOurnal.