The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-22

Representative I. j. Lee, republi-
can from Glenwood, Pope county
opines that it would be a good idea
to know who is the power behind
the type and has therefore intro
iuced a bill compelling every news
PAPER having a circulation of more
than 5000 to print twice a year
the real name Of the owner or in
,ase of corporation the names of
he officers and list of stockholders.
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Senator Sundberg of the COM
nittee on railroads, to which was
referred the Rockne bill providing
for a greater clearance of structures
adjacent to railroad tracts than is at
present the case. has reported out
the bill for passage, but in a modi-
fed form and so that it refers only
to structure to be erected in the fu-
ture. The bill now provides:
That after the passage of this act
it shall be unlawful to erect, recon-
struct or maintain any warehouse,
coal schutes, stock pens, pole, mail
trains, standpipe hog drencher or
fixed struction or obstruction or in
excavating allow any embankment of
earth or natural rock to remain upon
it's line of railroad or on any side
track, at distance less than eight
feet measured from the centre line of
the track.
mo overhead wires, bridges, via
ducts or other obstruction over the
tracks shall be at height less than
twenty-one feet measured from the
top of the track rail.
1T shall be unlawful for any COM
mon carrier to construct any track
where the centre line is at a distance
less than fourteen feet from the CEN
tire line of any other parallel track
which it adjoins.'
A penal clause providing fines of
$500 a day is included in the bill,
and each day that any structure or
obstruction that is maintained in
violation Of this act shall constitute
seperate offense.
Captain Adam E. Otto and First
Lieutenant John Hillary, Company
K, NJ. N. G., may be called upon by
Adjutant General Wood to proceed
to Texas to view the military ma
neuvers now being carried on by the
United States regular army and thus
be in position to view actual war
fare across the Mexican boundary
and possibly participate, should this
country decide to intervene The
two Bemidji officers are included in
the list made up by the adjutant
general and forwarded to Washing
ton as members of the militia will
ing to go, south from this state.
Both have signitied their willingness
to go to the front.
Judge L. G. Pendergast, the Be-
midi democrat, who had the honor
| of being nominated by the democrats
for the Office of lieutenant governor
with Gov. Johnson at the head of the
! ticket and who was later named Gus
todian of the old capitol by Governor
Johnson, is having a spat with Gov
ernor Eberhart AS a result, Judge
Pendergast will vacate his office as
custodian of the old capitol on April
| /, two months earlier than he had
hoped. He sent in his resignation
to the governor, to take effect May
81 and the governor appointed
Charles Chappell, former sheriff of
Ramsey county, as his successor.
The governor indicated that he
would prefer to have Judge Fender
CAST vacate on May-1 and Judge Pen
dergast said some pretty plain things
in the st. Paul papers about the
governor whereupon the governor
| decided that he could get along with
out the judge as early as April 1.
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Forestry Commissioners Andrews