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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12
TRYING CASES WILL TEST
PARTS FOREST FIRE Law
Some Attorneys Claim Railway Patrol
Requirement Is Class Legislation
and Unconstitutional.

Whether the section of the state
forest fire warden law requiring rail-
way companies to patrol their lines
in order to prevent fires originating
on their right-of-way and spreading
to adjacent property and causing
much damage is constitutional is a
matter which the state forestry
department, under General c.. c.
Andrews, state forest fire commits
sioner, is determined to have
definitely settled, and he has caused
the arrest of several representatives
OF railway companies for neglecting
to comply with the patrol section of
the law.
Three arrests have been made in
this vicinity, the Great Northern
having two cases to defend and the
Crookston Lumber company having
been served with papers in one case.
The Great Northern was found
guilty in justice court on both
counts and gave notice of appeal:
and the Crookston Lumber CON-
pany's case will be heard next Fri
day, when the company will answer
to the complaint of not patrolling
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Henry Logan, the travelling. repre-

Henry Logan, the travelling. repre-
sentative for the St. Benedictine
hospitals, came to the city yester-
day afternoon from his home at
Grand Rapids and will spend several
days in this vicinity in the interest
of the hospitals. Mr.. Logan asserts
that Grand Rapids is forging to the
front of the towns that are now con-
sidered in the iron range district,
and that the town will soon take
unto itself fine boom.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12
BAGLEY FLOUR MILL WAS
DESTROYED THIS MORNING
Fire Originated from Combustion and Mill Was Totally
Consumed.-Bagley Fire Department Did Fine Work
in Saving the Adjoining Property. .=

Bagley, July IL. - Especial to
Pioneer. 1.-The Bagley Roller Mill,
said to be the most complete seventy
fve-barrel mill in the state, was des-
troyed by fire between the hours of
4 and S o'clock this morning. The
fire department got to the scene of
the fire early and by hard work
saved the Bagley Lumber company's
sawmill and lumber yards, adjoining
the roller mill, and $4,000 cords of
wood which was piled east of the
mill.
Despite the fact that the depart
ment had three steady streams of
water pouring on the fire, it was
with difficulty that the flames were
confined to the flour mill. Fire
started several times in the lumber
yards as we'll as in the wood pile,
but was quickly extinguished.
The night passenger train going
We st was delayed over half hour as
two lines of hose were stretched
across the track and the train crew
held the train until the fire depart.
ment got the fire under control and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12

Word comes from International
Falls to the effect that everything is
in readiness for the celebration that
will be held in connection with the
services of laying the new Koochich-
ing county court house, tomorrow,
and that the people OF the border
town are preparing to give visitors
who may congregate within their
gates a most cordial and hospitable
welcome.
1t is expected that the affair will
be attended by many men of much
note in the Masonic circles of the
state, and prominenent speakers will
deliver addresses that will be we'll
worth hearing.
The affair is under the auspices of
Koochiching Lodge, No. 27O, A. F
& A. NJ, and many Masons will be
on hand to assist in the exercises,
the actual laying of the stone being
under the supervision of Grand
Master Swan and the other officers
of the grand lodge of Masons of
Minnesota.
The following is the official pro-
gram:
Forenoon.
Grand Civic and Citizens Parade.
Laying of Corner Stone by Grand
Master E. E. Swan and Grand Lodge
officers, assisted by Koochiching
Lodge and Visiting Masons.
Address of Welcome-J. G.. Cham
berlain.
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To Quebec and Return $4,000

Via the South Shore in connec
ton with the Annual Pilgrimage tt
Ste. Anne de Beaupre. Tickets or
sale July 49,, 10, 20, Fl and 22nc
and good for stop over. Limit Aug
ust 31st. Excursion fares to all
Eastern points; tickets on sale every
day, return limit Oct. 31st.
For further particulars and reser
walton write A. ]. Perrin, Genera
Agent, Duluth, MINI.
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were able to remove the hose from
the track.
Had it not been for the fact that
the rain of yesterday evening thor
oughly saturated the lumber yard
and wood no doubt the sawmill and
lumber in the yards, the big pile of
wood aad the entire eastern portion
of the village would have been
destroyed as everything was as dry
as finder previous to the rain.
The Bagley Roller Mill was CON-
plete affair in every way, containing
the latest of all kinds of machinery,
including smut machines and cleo
trio bleachers. The loss was from
$4,000 to $4,000, with $4,000
insurance.
A good share of the flour in the
mill company's western warehouse
was saved.
At this time it is not known
whether the mill will be rebuilt or
not, but it is proba lie that it will be.
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Dissolution of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the
co-partnership heretofore existing
between Jens Johnson and Peter
Lindeberg as Johnson & Lindeberg,
has this day been dissolved by
mutual consent; and that all bills
due and payable to said firm are
payable to Jens Johnson, who in
turn will pay all bills now outstand-
ing against Johnson & Lindeberg.
Dated at Bemidji this 9th day of
July, 1909.
-Jens Johnson,
Peter Lindeberg.
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Z / - s 3. -, .
the railway line which it controls
extending from Wilton north tc
Island lake.
John P. Coleman, St. Pau
attorney, was sent here for the pur.
pose of prosecuting the cases; and he
will appear for the state in the case
to be tried Friday. g.. III,
There is wide divergence OF
opinion as to the constitutionality
of the patrol section of the fire law,
and it is expected that these cases
will be carried to the highest tribunal
in order to have the matter properly
determined.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12
STRONG CANDIDATE FOR
SENATOR 53RD DISTRICT
E. R. Dampier Of AkeleY Is Being
Pushed by His Friends as Good
Senatorial Timber.

A north-country attorney who is
rapidly forging to the front and who
is attracting considerable attention
in political circles is E. r. Dampier
of Akeley, county attorney of Hub
bard county.
Mr.. Dampier's reputation as an
attorney has extended considerably
outside his own bailiwik, as was evil
denced when he was called to
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banks. Whether the rain will be of
sufficient volume to assist in moving
the logs is not known at present,
but it is hardly likely that there was
enough rainfall to swell the streams
to the necessary depth to float the
timber.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12
Weekend Excursions.

Via the South Shore for Detroit
Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo by
rail to St. Ignace thence D. & c.. N.
Co.'S steamers, leaving Duluth every
Friday. June 4 to July 80. To
Detroit and return $17.OO. Limit
Sept. 18th.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12

Moral: Insure with the T. J.
Miller Insurance company.
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Notice..

The Merchants Credit associa.
ton meeting will be postponed for
one week.
A. A. Andrews,
Secretary.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-12
The RAIN WAS OF GREAT
Benefit TO THE CROPS
The Downpour Last Night Also ExtIn'
finguished All Forest Fires in
This Section.

The rain which fell in intermittent
showers late yesterday afternoon
and last evening and became
downpour later in the night, lasting
well on into this forenoon, has
proven veritable god-send to this
section of the state, and came just
in time to save small grains and
many varieties of vegetables from
being utterly destroyed because of
the extreme, drought of the past five
weeks.
The sun had shone so brightly
and the weather had been so
scorchingly hot for many days that
all kinds of vegetation that was at
all exposed to the SUMS rays was
being wilted and was rapidly being
Slapped of all vitality.
The soaking rain has revived all
vegetation and the farmers are con-
sequently happy, as we'll as owners
of fine lawns about the city.
Every log drive in north-central
Minnesota has been hung up because
of the drought, which caused the
water in the streams to be at
extremely low ebb and left thousands
of feet of logs high and dry on the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19

was required last night for the annual
meeting and banquet of the Merchants
and Manufacturers association, one of
the strongest and leading business or
ganizations of Los Angeles 1t was an
occasion of good fellowship, and this
spirit, which was encouraged by Toast
master H. w. Frank, prevailed
throughout the session. Reports of
the president, secretary and treasurer
were read, the financial statement
showing a balance of $17S993 in the
treasury, which is $500 in excess of last
year at the same time. The total mem
bership is 600.
President Schneider in his report re-
viewed the work of the past year, MAX
ing special reference to the effort the
association, through a committee, was
making toward securing a reduction of
the transcontinental express rates to a
point within reason. He also suggested
that all of the trade associations of the
city during the coming year unite with
the M. and M. association in securing
such corrections and changes that are
worrying them in business and other
matters.
The speakers of the evening after the
feast were Frank G. TyrrelI, who spoke
eloquently on Business Unity" J. NJ.
Elliott, president of the First National
bank, who confined his remarks to
Banking in Los Angeles" dating from
1870 until the present time, the speaker
asking for the continued cooperation
of the depositors and a fair statement
Of actual conditions when desiring ac-
commodations; George w. Burton, who
was assigned the subject of Facts and
Comments and w. D. Curtis, who ad-
dressed himself to Legitimate Adver-
tising."
Toastmaster Frank took occasionn to
give his views on advertising, and al
luded to the habit Of some merchants
publishing remarkable statements about
being overstocked and having acquired
bergain stocks in New York at such
figures that he often wondered how it
came about that shrewd New York
business men allowed the stuff to come
west.
There were two unexpected events of
the evening. One was the gift of a sub
Stantial sum in cash to Secretary Zee
handelaer, who has served the associa-
ton for thirteen years and is soon to
return to his native land, to be gone
four months. The presentation was
made in neat speech by r. W. Burn
ham, manager of the Dun & Co. finan-
cial agency. The other unexpected in
cident was the address of Mayor
Harper
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19
WHITMAN TAKES
BARBER'S PLACE
COUNTY HOSPITAL GIVEN NEW
SUPERINTENDENT
APPOINTMENT OCCASIONS MUCH
GENERAL SURPRISE
Program of Supervisors All Cut and
Dried, Names Being Voted on
Without Any Dis
cuSsion

DR.. D. G. Barber, for many years
superintendent Of the county hospi-
tai, placed his resignation before the
board of supervisors yesterday and it
was accepted. He will leave the office
April 1 and be succeeded by DR.. Charles
H. Whitman. The latter'S selection
came as surprise to many, from the
fact that it was understood that Or.
Barber was slated for reappointment
and that DR.. Whitman is practically
unknown in the public life of the
county.
DR.. Whitman has offices in the Wright
q Calender building. He practiced in
Los Angeles for several years prior to
the earthquake in San Francisco. In
1905 he went to the northern city, and
was forced to return here after it's
destruction.
DR.. J. M. Dunsmoor, assistant to the
superintendent at the hospital, also ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
February 1. 1t was accepted, and DR..
Theodore G. Finley was chosen to take
his place.
Otto Reinen was appointed superin-
tendent Of county machinery, an office
created shortly after the new board
began it's labors.
There was no dissension at the meet
ing. A secret meeting had been held
Saturday in the little stock room, and
when the five men took their seats
yesterday each carried his little pat
ronage list. Everything was cut and
dried, and not an opposing voice was
raised as the names were offered to be
acted on.
Appointments made yesterday other
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19
From New ork world, June5
SUPPORTERS OF COOPER
THEORY MUL LTIPL YINC
Belief That Stomach Causes Extensive Illness
Grows in New York

L. T. Cooper's theory that the Ameri-
can stomach has grown weak and is re-
sponsible for most sickness is receiving
the strongest sort of Endorsement from
a surprising number Of New Workers.
Among many people who have re-
Gently become convinced that Cooper is
correct and his medicine all he claims
is Mrs. Eleanor Harris of 226 Rouney
street, Brooklyn.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Harris
called at the store where Cooper is
meeting the public, and when inter-
viewed said: Il am only too willing
to tell what a remarkable experience
have had with Cooper's New Discovery,
and what a wonderful medicine l know
it to be.
Il have had rheumatism for sixteen
years and took so much medicine in
trying to get rid of it that for the past
eight years my stomach has been in a.
fearful condition, as my digestion was
almost ruined. For ten years 1 con-
suited one physician after another, but
my rheumatism got steadily worse.
Finally my stomach got In such a state
that I had to stop taking medicine al
together.
when 1 first heard of Mr.. Cooper's s
medicine and what it was doing in New
York was afraid to try it, but finally
decided to take it, and if it did me no
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19

than the above were as follows:
Beatrice Hutchinson, matron, county
farm; William Stokesbury, farmer at
county farm, with an increase in salary
Of $40 month; Joseph H. Martin and
Mrs. Lydia Martin, warden and matron
respectively of the harmless insane
ward, county farm Stella M. Cham
bers, bookkeeper at county hospital; T.
7. Windheim, engineer at hospital;
James GoOdhue, ambulance man; G. j.
Goodhue, driver; Earl Summers, en-
gineer at hospital; Miss Effie Pollard,
clerk at hospital; William Lindsay,
gardener at hospital. J. G. Harper.
laundryman at hospital; E. c.. Howell,
engineer county Jail. Henry Schultz,
bee inspector; H. B. Aldrich, assistant
custodian; e. H. Hutchinson, deputy
sheriff, county hospital; John w.
Powell and Miss Clara Fowler clerks,
board Of supervisors; Miss E. w. Wiley,
operator. tax collectors office; ]. u.
Ross, head gardiner; M. O'Brien, gar
dener; Martin Wetsel, engineer; Helen
Fletcher, stenographer; A. Eberle, in
charge Of cemetery; G. G. Stephens,
carpenter; G. M. Palmer, carpenter;
Robert Peters and A. E. Bates, watch
men; r. Sepulveda, elevator operator,
court house; H. Trego, watchman;
James Clark, w. T. Patterson, G. W.
Booth, A. Osborne, H. Wright, l.. ].
Robertson, William Martin, A. Thur
man, A. Simpson, A. J. Andersen,
Charles Stoval, J. Thomas, George Ray
ford and Adam Pleasant, janitors.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19
MAYOR SAYS CITYS
NAME BESMIRCHED
MIR. Harper Addresses M. and M. Asso-
citation, AIluding to Charges
Made Against His ADJ
n1inistration

Mayor Harper was a guest of hon Or
last night at the annual meeting and
banquet of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association held at Levy's.
The chief executive of the city was
not down on the original program for
an address, but he improved the occa-
sion to deliver a typewriter speech,
mainly in answer to illusions made
through the columns Of the local press
during the past few weeks. No topic
was assigned to Mr.. Harper by the
toastmaster, who simply presented him
as the mayor.
The mayor made a general allusion
to the strength of the association in
commerce and in the upbuilding of the
city of Los Angeles and said he was
grateful for the opportunity to address
the members assembled. Contrary to
his custom in delivering short ad-
dresses and mainly for fear that he
might be misquoted, Mayor Harper at
the outset stated that he had taken
the precaution to write what he had %
say. whereupon he withdrew from an
inner pocket a bunch Of typewritten
matter. After generalizing on the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

CATHOLIC BISHOP DIES-The Right
Rev. Bernard McQuaid, bishop of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Rochester, died early
yesterday 1 Rochester, N Y, aged IS years.
LAWMAKER HL-Congressman J. NJ.
Limantour of Mexico City. Mex, is i'll in
Chicago. He was on his way east on busi-
ness connected with the interests of his
brother, secretary of the Mexican treasury,
when stricken.
TO TOUR EAMES-Henry Wolfsohn has
completed arrangements for a tour Of TWEEN
ty concerts to be undertaken by Emma
Eames, commencing in Boston February 20
and to continue until the middle of May,
ending with the music festival in Saginaw,
Mich.
GIRL SWALLOWS PINs-Medical men Of
New York are interested in the case of Flor
ence Smith, a 15-year-old girl of Patchogue,
L. L, who has swallowed a half paper of
pins, from which she has suffered compara-
lively little but who will be taken to New
York for an X-ray examination this week.
GOOD ROADS MEET-The National Good
Roads association will hold a convention in
Chicago February IL. Arthur c. Jackson,
the president, is urging the beginning of a
system of national highways to connect
Washington with the capital of every state
and territory. The governors of all states
and mayors of all large cities have been in
vited to name delegates.
AMERICANS ATTACHED-Three Ameri-
can sailors from the battleships in the har-
terday with a gang of local ruffians A
party of the sailors comrades came to their
| rescue before anybody was seriously hurt
and by the time the police arrived four out
Of the five assailants were prisoners in the
hands of the blue Jackets The fifth /es-
capped.
BODIES NOT FOUND-Although life
savers worked practically all night and re-
| newed their endeavors early yesterday a
sailors REFER which was cast up about a
quarter of a mile down the Long Island
coast from the scene of the III fated little
fishing schooner Swallow of st. Johns N F.
which driven onto the breakers off Long
Island and torn to pieces during the storm
which ragged Saturday night.
DIES SUDDENLY-Paris Kilburn. for
nearly a quarter of a century state bank
commissioner and San Francisco harbor
commissioner, died at his home in Pacific
Grove early yesterday. While visiting
friends on Saturday he stricken uncon-
scious by apoplexy and never emerged from
state of coma. He leaves a widow one
son, Cleon Kilburn of Berkeley, and daugh-
| ter. Mrs. Jessie Leighton Of Syracuse N
| Y. He was in his seventy-ffth year. and
| formerly farmed extensive tracts of land in
the Salinas valley.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19
unity of action in advancing the best

unity of action in advancing the best
interests of the city Mr.. Harper said:
In those early days of the city 5
history we had no reactionaries nor
defamers of our city, but were all,
including the press and pulpit, united
in our object of sincerely wishing good
speed and godspeed to Los Angeles.
I'VE did not assume the cant of the
PhariSee in lauding our own purity as
individuals and in pointing out the
secret defects and blemishes of our
city; We did the best we could, and
bury1ng our private and political ami
moslt1eS we cO-operated as practical
and common sense men and acted as a
collective unit, and where we could not
at once improve we covered these de-
fects with the mantle of charity and
quietly, shoulder to shoulder, worked
zealously and steadfastly for ultimate
improvement.
'We recognized that a city is the
resultant of the people who compose
1t and that just as cruel slander and
libel injure the individual and impede
his efforts for good, so also the need
less criticism of a citys fair name and
fame injure the welfare Of the city
and retards its industrial and material
advancement; and you, the members
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
association of Los Angeles, have been
the prime, most active and honorable
factors in the great municipal evolu-
ton, and you have happily and de-
servedly lived to see the fruit of your
individual and cooperative zeal and
labor and to behold Los Angeles of
today, city without peer for indus
trial growth and educational facilities
and uneXcelled for the moral worth and
orderly government of its people,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19

good l would never take any medicine
again. | started the treatment six
weeks ago. The first effect it had was
to give me a better appetite than L have
had for ten years. Then my food be-
gan to digest and no longer distressed
me for hours after eating. At the end
of the third week 1 noticed that l was
not suffering as much from rheuma-
tism, and each day the pain and stiff
ness grew less until l no longer had any
rheumatism. For the past week l feel
as though | had been made over en-
tirely, as 1 have no pains nor aches and
eat three hearty meals day, with no
indigestion whatever.
my two nieces and my sister have
had stomach trouble When they saw
what the medicine was doing for me
they all tried it. 1t has helped them
just as it did me, and they are de-
lighted with their improvement. One
of them told me that it was worth
more than it's weight in gold to her.
This sounds almost impossible, but ev-
cry word of it is true"
Cooper's New Discovery has made a
wonderful record in New York and 9TH
er cities. 1t is now on sale at leading
druggists everywhere. A treatise by
L. T. Cooper, describing the cause of
most i'll health and how to guard
against it, sent free upon request. The
Cooper Medicine Co., Dayton, Ohio.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-19
DISPUTE OVER LEASES
ENDS IN COMPROMISE
Central Department Store Creditors
May Realize in FuII-New Build
ing to Be Erected on
Hill Street

By compromise reached yesterday
prolonged litigation in connection with
the lease Of the Central department
store, 609-619 South Broadway, has
ended and a large new building will
be erected on Hill street, between Sixth
and Seventh streets, on the premises
which run through from Broadway.
The South Broadway property is
owned by the Broadway Realty COM
pany, which gave a twenty -f1ve-year
lease to the Broadway Central Build
ing company. The latter then erected
the present building and leased it to
the Central department store. For
feiture Of the lease was claimed by the
building company when the store went
into bankruptcy, but the courts upheld
the contention Of the latter that the
lease was it's most valuable asset.
The cost to the Broadway Central
Building company of erecting the
building was $125,000. This will be re-
paid, and a group of local men will
acquire the lease of the premises,
which has twenty-three years to run.
From the sale of this lease it is hoped
by the trustees to bring the bank
ruptcy assets up to the figure of the
liabilities, $460,000.