The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-11-22

the two saloons are running along in
the same old way which has re.
ceived the approval of Chief Special
Officer Johnson in months past
Walker Pilot. I
EXTRA! CAss LAKE IS GOOD.
We are Mortified over the way
things go on in Bemidji. Special
Indian agents forcibly defied andre
sisted, were struck on the mead and
legs with beer bottles, and gen
orally maltreated, SO they were
forced to protect themselves with
revolvers. Horrible horrible!
Now, why cannot our big neigh
Dor pattern after US, we did not
act like that; we proudly showed
the Indian Department, its agents
and other cohorts, that we were
obeying the laws and regulations,
and that nothing was doing in
Cass Lake that was not strictly in
compliance with the ten COM
mandments and the demands Of
Mr.. William E. Johnson, chief
special agent of the United States
Indian Department. 1t pays to
be good, Sister Bemidji.-Cass
Lake Voice.
ADMITS CAss LAKE DIDN'T WIN ALL
Under the headings. "Bemidji in
the Toils-But has no Leader
and no fire department." the Cass
Lake Times says:
We have the usual amount of
sympathy for any of our sister towns
when disastsr meets them and have
no disposition to crow over them
when the actual pinch comes. Cass
Lake inaugurated the first fight and
while she did not win everything ask
ed for, the battle cleared the atmos.
phere for time. While we were doing
battle our sister stood proud and
regnant, heaping all manner of abuse
aud contumely upon US. We harbor
no fraction of revenge, and from now
on until the end we will manage our
forces so that every town in the dry
d strict may be at liberty to call on
US for the assistance we are able to
give.
We have maintained from the be-
ginning of the ruction that the old
treaty under which the special agents
are working Is not. and has not for
twenty years been in force. y
That the special agents who have
assumed authority to seize and de.
stroy liquors have exceeded their
authority we have no doubt and that
the federal government will in due
time be compelled to foot the bills
of all who have lost their property
by such raids, seems certain.
TOOK LICENSE FEE, BUT NOW REJOICEs
Some of our exchanges, the Be-
midi Pioneer for instance, report
that Bagley is very indignant owe,
the late closing of saloons here
They had better change reporters OF
else come up and investigate.
The fact of the matter is that
four.ffths of the citizens of Bagley
and nine-tenths of the citizens Of
Clearwater county are glad and re-
joice over it.
1t is true that few red.nosed old
soaks who have long been dead to
the world of usefulness are sore, also
that few young "bullies" hanging
around taking up primary work pre-.
paratory to eventually take the place
of the former ones, are slightly
offended.-Bagley Clearwater Crys.
tai.
TAKES A DIFFERENT VIEW.
Suddenly, and without warning,
l Ike a bolt from a clear sky, Indian
agents Way, F.. S. Kalberg and an.
other deputy, started in here Tues.
day morning in Carrie Nations style
of smashing up'' the Bagley saloons
in general by knocking in the barrel
heads and dumping the whisky,
wines, brandy, ETC., in the snow, in
the back yards. AS both saloons
before November LIST had gone to
considerable expense in repairing
and getting ready to open. up their
business on the first of the month,
and besides paying $1,000 each for
village license as we'll as securing a
government license many Bagley