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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-08-19

Automobiles, Motorcycles. BIZ
cycles, at sacrifice prices. All
makes slightly used, and In first
class condition. Write for prices
W, #. W. Whitaker. 1911 Broad
way, New York, N. Y. 1898
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-08-19

FOR SALE-Oliver typewriter,
perfect condition, low price. 8. b.
Leland. SO State st. Cup one flight)
Oct. 1, 06.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-08-19
WEATHER
LOCAL EVENTS

Fair today and Sunday.
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FOR SALE:--Farm of IT'S acres,
one mile and half from Mortified
all buildings in good repair. Timber
enough to pay entire cost Of place.
Hot and cold water in house. VIII
sell for 10 per cent Of cost of build
ings. Address, F. j. Sawyer. North
field. 1S1tf
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WANTED-A young Berkshire boar
to months old. H. s. Foster.
1S5-188 North Calais
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-06
death WAS RESULT OF
. BULLET WOUND IN NECK
Such Was the Verdict of Cononer's
Inquest in the FoWIds Murder
Case.

A coroner's inquest was held yes
terday afternoon at the court house
in this city to investigate the cause
of the death of Morris Fuller, who
was killer Sunday morning near
Fowlds, the verdict of the jury being
that Fuller met his death as a result
of a bullet wound in the neck infict-
ed by parties unknown to them.
The examination was conducted
by County Attorney McKusick and
Coroner Marcum. The jury being
composed of Earl Cell, S. C. Bailey,
Fred Major, G. E. Carson, A. H.
Clavin and K. K. Roe.
Archie Brown, w. E. Hyatt and
DR.. E. A. Shannon were the only
witnesses placed on the stand.
Brown testified that he had been
present at the shooting of Fuller
but that he was unable to describe
the man who had committed the
crime beyond tee fact that the
murderer was short and heavy.
Brown was unable to identify Barney
Nelson, the man who is being held
for the crime, as the one who had
done the shooting.
w. Hyatt, a saloon keeper at
Fowlds, testified that Nelson had
been drinking late Saturday night
and had displayed revolver, which
he was carrying, several times.
When DR.. Shannon was called to
the stand he testified that he had
been present at the post mortem ex-
animation of the body of Morris
Fuller and that the latter had met
death as result of bullet wound
in the neck.
Barney Nelson, charged with
murder in tie first degree, will be
given hearing next Saturday
morning before Justice H. A..
Simons.
G.. M. Fuller of Wadena. father
of the unfortunate man who was
murdered, departed for home this
morning in charge of the body of
the deceased, which will be laid to
rest in the cemetery at Wadena.
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THE PIONEERS SOUVENIR
IS ALMOST COMPLETE
Business Men Should Inform Us II
They Desire Space in this Inter-
esting Publication.

The Pioneer desires to notify the
business men of Bemidji that it will
be scarcely possible for it's solicitors
to call upon all of them in person to
secure notices they may wish to run
in the souvenir number it now has
in the course of preparation.
Already seventy of our leading
men have made arrangements fol-
space therein, and all those desiring
representation or the reproduction
of photographs, either of themselves,
their residence or business houses,
will either call or phone the office at
once, as Friday next will be the last
day for submitting photographs.
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BEMIDJI PIONEER MADE
COUNTY'S OFFICIAL PAPER
Commissioners Award County Printing for 1909 to the
Pioneer-Board Plans Economical Administration
Appointed assessors Of Unorganized Territory.

The board of county commission
ers re-convened yesterday afternoon
and occupied several hours in con-
sldering bids for the county printing
for the ensuing year, finally awarding
same to the Bemidjl Pioneer after the
latter had agreed to publish all
legal matter in both the weekly and
daily editions and also to mail copies
of the paper to allpersonal taxpayers
not subscribers to either the Daily
or the Weekly Pioneer.
For the publication of its legal
matter, the county will pay at the
rate of five cents per description for
the delinquent tax list, and twenty
five cents per folio for the first
insertion and twelve cents per folio
for each and every subsequent inser-
ton of all other legal matter.
A petition was presented to the
board, signed by eighty.four tax.
payers living in the vicinity of
Tenstrike, asking the commission
ers to conduct the affairs of the
county, regarding the salaries and
other expenses, in as economical
manner as possible. This petition
met with the hearty endorsement of
the members of the board and a
resolusion was unanimously passed
adopting the policy desired by the
signers.
AS another safe guard for economy
the commissioners intend that all
bills, before being allowed by the
board, shall be approved by the
county attorney as to their legality
and validity.
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the mouth of the Clearwater, has
been selected and-will be donated.
Those who are quite on the inside
of the deal feel quite jubilant over
the chances, as several very promi-
nent members of the legislature
have agreed to father and push
the measure to its passage. The
citizens of northern Minnesota ex-
pect normal school from the
coming legislature to be built some
where north of the Northern Pacific
and the citizens of Red Lake Falls
have had long lead in the landing
of the coveted prize"
It is more than likely that the
above is canard," as it is known
that there has been an understands
ing between Red Lake Falls and
Thief River Falls that so long as
the latter abandons its attempt to
deprive the former of the county
seat of Red Lake county, Red
Lake Falls will boost" her sister
city as the proper point for the
location Of the proposed sixth
normal school.
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St. Paul, Jan.-(Special to Pho.
neer. u. G.. Pendergast of Bemidji,
custodian of the old state capitol,
St. Paul, Minnesota, has written the
following communication to George
w. Cooley, secretary of the state
highway commission, who requested
Mr.. Pendergast to furnish the COM
munication as given:
According to request I submit
the following proposition for the
consideration of your Commission
and the people of Minnesota.
have always thought that town,
county or state never was the loser
by the use of any amount of money
honestly expended on roads. I am
heartily in accord with you in your
endeavors to improve the roads of
this state, and not only the making
of good roads but for all internal
improvements which will benefit the
state at large and be reasonably sure
to pay an interest on the invest
ments of at least four per cent, the
amount we pay on our bonded in
debtedness.
When we consider that the
United States in the short space
of one hundred years has built up
a country that is the wonder of
the world, and today has an assessed
valuation almost as much as the
three greatest nations of the earth,
we ask how was it all done? The
answer is, simply by going in debt
and using the money to good
advantage. If no improvements
had been made until we had money
enough on hand to pay for the
whole, this country would have only
a fraction of the wealth that it has
today. This was done mainly by
the optimists, those who had faith
in the future, and energy enough
to support that faith.
when Dewitt Clinton advocated
the building of the New York &
Erie canal he was called visionary,
and the conservative said that if
Clinton had his way he would put
the State of New York hopelessly
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-06
L. G. PENDERGAST WRITES
OF UPBUlLDlNG STATE
Former Bemidji Resident Writes Excellent Letter on
State Development to Secretary of State Highway
Commission and the People of Minnesota.

in debt, and ruin would follow. The
canal was built and has been en-
larged and improved several times
since and now the State of New
York has appropriated S1OO,00O,00C
for further improvements on that
same canal, yet the, State of New
York is not a bankrupt, but on the
contrary its wealth and population
far exceeds any other state of the
Union.
If we accomplish much in the
way of internal improvements we
must unite together all over the state,
and each one work for the interest
of all parts of this great common
wealth and be willing to grant exact
justice to all.
If the legislature should pass a
law allowing the state to bond for
the amount, say $1,OOO,OOO per year,
bonds to draw interest at the rate
of per cent and so run for a period
of twenty-five years each, and at the
same time allow the several counties
to levy tax for internal impro1 e.
ments, the state to help each county
to the same amount as the several
counties help themselves, it would be
great public benefit.
The assessed valuation of Min
nesota in 1880 was $25S,O55,543;
and in 1907 (27 years aftewards)
the assessed valuation was $1,O48,
20O,458, and this big increase will
be greatly augmented in the future.
The state could we'll afford to do
this as it receives yearly four per
of the gross income from over
5000 miles of railroad which the
counties do not receive any part of.
Also the United States government
has given the state about 100000
acres of land intended for internal
mprovements.
In connection with this, board
of public works should be created to
take charge of the building of all
roads that receive help under this
act. 1t would be possible for us to
build one thousand miles of roads
each year at a cost of $1,000 per
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-06
TWO BASKETBALL GAMES
WITH ST. CLOUD NORMAL
Big Bemid9" and St. Cloud Normal
Elves Will Play Here Thursday and !
Friday Evenings.

One of the most important con,
tests of the season, in the light d
the basketball championship Of
Northern Minnesota, will be played
at the Coliseum Thursday and Fri!
day evenings of this week when
the St. Cloud Normal five will be
pitted against the big Bemidg''
aggregation.
Acting Manager Joe Markham
has completed all arrangements
for the big events and stated this
morning that Big Bemidg" is in
good condition and will use every
effort to down the visitors.
The St. Cloud Normal basketball
team has played four games so far
this season and won them all. Last
year this team disputed Big Be-
midg's" title to the championship
of northern Minnesota and it is
accordingly with great interest that
the outcome of these two games is
being awaited by the local fans"
Big Bemidg" will be greatly
strengthened by the addition to the
lineup of Ed Renner, who has ac-
cepted position with the North
ern Grocery company and is now
definitely located here. Renner
played guard last year on the Sid
ney (Ohio) basketball team which
was the championship five of the
State of Ohio. s..
Peterson, the crack guard, is again
in condition to be in the game and
will be in the lineup for tomorrow
evening. Garnet always makes
good" as will doubtless continue to
be evinced by his playing tomorrow.
The locals may also secure the
services Of Carey, the captain ami
crack" center of the Floodwood
team which played here a few weeks
ago.
The lineup of big Bemidg" for
tomorrow evening will be as follows:
Markham and Cell, forwards; Brown,
center; Peterson and either Renner
or Carey, guards. s
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Ora Ramona, vioIinst.

The music lovers of Bemidji may
have the pleasure of a rare treat
in the way of violin music, within
the next week, if arrangements now
pending are successfully concluded.
Mr.. Ora Ramona, the. violinist is
from New York, and has just com
pleted tour of the west, playing
all through Iowa, Nebraska, Wis
consin, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington and British
Columbia. His repertoire embraces
composition by Schubert, Schumann,
GODDARD, Dvorak, Drdla, Beethoven,
Mendelssohn, Pierne, Ole Bull, Leon
ard, Brahms and others.
Ramona gained wide reputation
through the middle-west and western
states, as is evinced by the following
clippings from the press of cities in
which he has appeared before the
public:
OF his playing the Mason City,
Iowa, Herald says: ''Zamona is
truly wizard of the violin" Butte
Mont Daily Miner, The thrill
ing, vibrating notes from Zamona's
violin held the audience spellbound.' y
Vancouver (B. c. Daily Colonist:
The Grieg sonata was spIendidly
played by Ramona, but it was in the
weird music of Griegs' Peer Gynt,
that the violinist fairly outdid him.
self"
Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily News:
Ramona has breadth, power, tenn.
permanent" Garden { Mass Daily
Press: One Of the finest recitals
ever given in this city" Seattle
(Wash.) Daily Post Intelligence:
Ramona more than met all expecta
TONS" Spokane (Wash.) Spokes
men Review: Ramona has com
mand Of his instrument at all times.
Aurora (Neb.) Republican,: Ia
mona is, by all adds, the fines
violinist who ever appeared on al
Aurora platform"
Little Falls Daily Transcript
Ramona has temperament and car
ries his audience with him. Hi
clear vibrating high notes held tn,
audience as if spellbound.
1 Mr.. Ramona is assisted by
most talented young pianoist, Mis-
verna Bohlke of st. Paul.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-06
RED LAKE FALLS WANTS
TO THROW US A SCARE
Light Leaks Through Hatched-ur
Scheme On the Location of Pro.
posed Normal School.

A special telegram from Red Lake
Falls to the Duluth News Tribune
tells the following interesting tale of
the Red Lake Falls peoples ambi-
tons for the proposed normal:
Red Lake Falls, Mimi, Jan. a.
Information coming from reliable
sources has leaked out that Red
Lake Falls business men and other
parties interested have about COM
pleted plans whereby they expect to
be able to have a bill passed at
the coming session of the state
legislature to locate state normal
school in this city. A beautiful
site of 10 acres, overlooking the
Clearwater and Red Lake rivers, at
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Chester McKusick was requested
to report to the board the status of
the action brought by this county
against Clearwater county as to the
share of Beltrami County's debt
which Clearwater county should
stand. basing their claim on the divi-
sion made six years ago.
A. Larson and John Thoreen,
respectively treasurer and clerk of
School district Number 1913 ,appeared
before the board and asked that the
money in their treasury be divided
between School Districts 1913 and rs,
both of which were recently created.
The com missioners authorized the
county auditor to divide the money
according to the assessed valuation
of the two districts.
Two hundred and fifty dollars
were taken from the general fund
and set aside for an incidental
fund.
The board then appointed the
following men to assess territory in
the unorganized townships:
First district, Nels Otterstad:
second district, John Reibe; third
district, Chris Espe; fourth district,
Ole Miller; fifth district, C. G. STEM
mon; sixth district, B. A. Arneson.
The board also appointed the
following persons to look after the
burial of deceased soldiers:
First district, J. NJ. Phillipi; sec
ond district; liver Myhre; fourth dis
trict, Mr.. Mcknight; fifth district,
Benjamin Carter.
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mile and have half the money left
for other improvements.

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for other improvements.
The common schools in the
rural districts should be improved
so that the scholars could have a
chance for high school education.
Normal schools should be located
wherever needed throughout the
state. Wisconsin has a population
about the same as Minnesota
with less resources, yet Wis
consin supports eight norma
schools, while Minnesota has only
five. Clearly Wisconsin has too
many or Minnesota has too few.
Let me call your attention to the
drainage proposition. In the whole
state we have ten million acres of
swamp lands, or one-ffth of the
whole. This land, in its present
condition, is practically worthless.
With a good system of drainage that
Mr.. Ralph estimates can be done at
an average cost of $1.5O per acre,
and when so drained will become
the most valuable in the state. In
many places roads and drainage can
be worked together to good advan-
tage. Last year the state made a
ditch through the Little Fork swamp
ten miles long, eighteen feet wide,
and six feet deep. The dirt from
the ditch was placed on one side
which made a passable road the
whole distance, the center of the
roadbed being ten feet from the bot
tom of the ditch. I am informed
that in no place in that ten miles of
ditch that the cut reaches through
the top soil.
What would be the cost to the
state in taxes for all this? The
principal and INTEREST on this would
amount to an average payment of
100000 per year for the next
fifty years, which would really
amount to forty-five cents per capita
a year geadually decreasing to the
amount of fifteen to twenty-five
cents per capita at the time it was
all paid. It is not incredible how
anyone would object to that amount
of tax, when it accomplishes so
much. Every mile of the kind of
road proposed would Immediately
increase the value of every acre on
each section thot it passed through
to the amount of $500, besides the
the saving of time, team and wagon.
How many people in the older
part of the state have an idea that
this taxation would be unjust to
them, thinking that they pay nearly
all the taxes collected. In the
minds of some, the northern half
is sandy desert and valueless when
the timber is removed. Unfortun-
ately this idea exists in the minds
of many. Let us examine and see.
Continued on Last Page1
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Jebe's Endorsed.

Mr.. Jebe possesses full tone of
the purest quality, is master
technician, and is very dramatic.
Mrs. Jebe is intensely dramatic and
she has power to sway her audi
ence in a wonderful manner."-
Times-Record, Valley City, N. D.
At City Opera House Thursday,
Tan. 7.
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Union Week of Prayer.

We desire to meet large congre-
cation at the union service at the
Presbyterian church this evening at
8. The subject for the evening is,
Gods Faithfulness and Mans Re-
sponsibility." There will be praise
service at the beginning.
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Horses for Sale.

will have for sale in the City
of Bemidj one car load of heavy
draft horses, weight thirteen to
seventeen hundred pounds. Horses
will be here in a day or two. John
Wahlberg.
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Jebe Entertainers.

The Jebe entertainers will appear
at the City Opera House Thursday
afternoon January 7, at $50. The
Jebe's are now touring the North
west and their appearance here will
meet with favor. Admission so.
cents.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
Plan LARGE HOUSES!
-Four To Be Built on Vest Side at'd
Cost of $500, 900.

Plans have been filed for two six story apart
rnent' houses to be built for Jacob Hirsch' az
owner on the Broadway block from lbZd 10 A0ou
street They will have frontage OF s9.n reet anu
depth of 115 feet each. Each house viii contain
fortv-hve suites Of apartments. The houses VIII
be of brick trimmed with limestone and terra
Gotta from designs by Schwartz & Gross ana o.
n Marcus. They will cost H5o000
Plans hsvo also been filed for two SIX stoIy
apartment houses for the Waunegan Realty CoIii-
p0ny in 16Sd street, west OF Broadway from ue-
signs by the architects They Will haFe
twenty-five suites each. and to cost SlfooW
Plans have also been filed for a two story stoi .
building with Offices on the second floor 10 ue
built at cost OF $4,000 for G. l. Lawrence at 0
Nicholas and 1slst street fronting lIS.' rect
in Broadway and 225 feet In the street ana also
for a Ave story loft and of1ce building 10 DC
erected for ]. W. T. Nichols at No III t1rahu
street at cost Of $1,000 which will be connected
with the present loft building of the same owner
at No. III Grand street G. +. Pelhaih ""u
schweitzer & Diemer are the architects
Plans have also been filed for remodeillng the
five story tenement house and store at the noTlh-
east corner Eleventh avenue and 8th street.
into an office building. with stores. the change OF
occupancy being made for the Otis Elevator COM
pany, as owner William Bomann, jr, Is the
architect
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07

Perhaps the best instance OF what may be done
by Of this work of structural alteration of
old buildings may be in what has been done
for the lung block OF ghastly memory. The past
grim history Of this block is sufficiently well known
TO render # unnecessary to recapitulate It In de-
tail. It received its and fame from the
enormous death rate from tuberculosis which pre-
vailed there. and from the individual histories of
disease misery, contagion and desttution that
forced themselves upon the attention those who
concern themselves with the affairs Of the other
half After a plan to tear down these centres Of
contagion and create park had failed the Tene-
House Department took active measures to
improve the old buildings, least TO the extent
OF bringing them up 10 the standard required by
law. There % old tenements. housing s2S fani-
lies. or the o. houses 36 had school sinks as the
only accommodation for their ever families In
the 81 houses 449 dark interior rooms and
over half had dark Railways. while q had made
work all these defects have been removed except
in three houses, two Of which were vacated by
the department, and one is undergoing alterations
in the mean time law tenement house has
been erected the block indication OF
further progress TO something better
IN THE LOWER HALF OF DISTRICT.
The lower part OF the great East Side has been
the scene of little model tenement house building
ly populated region which is likely to be extensive
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07

the East Side, that is what the building statistics
OF the district show.
DEFECTS OF OLD TYPE HOUSE.
Edmund J. Butler Commissioner of the Tene-
ment House Department. in an article which he
recently wrote for the Standard Real Es-ate An
n11al" says in referring TO the alteration Work
which has been done in the great Est side in
part follows:
The principal evil of the old type CT tenement
was lack of light and ventilation The rapidly IN
creasing population of New York, together with
the peculiar conformation Of the city. had favored
a system of housing that consisted In cTowding as
large a number Of families possible on a given
ground area which resulted in typical tenement
house covering practically the entire surface of
lot. running up many stories into the air and
divided off into many small rooms A large proper
ton of which had no access whatever to the outer
air The results OF such system are inevitably 10
reduce the general vitality of those who have 10
live under 1t and TO favor the spread of diseases
and especially that disease above all Others
which thrves in darkness and which already causes
more than one-tenth OF all deaths in our Guilty
tuberculosis Since the tenement house law went
into effect windows have been cut into dark rooms
10 the number Of JOS and 1853 of these have been
cut since January l, 1907. while other structural
work has been accomplished in proportion"