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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
FOREST WARNINGS OUT
Help" Posters Issued By Cox Calls
Upon All to Take Precautions
Against Spread of Fire.
SAYS ALL MUST OBEY LAWS

"Help' is the title of poster with
which w. T. Cox is preparing to
placard the northern woods to get
tile closest cooperation possible in
putting out incipient forest fires. Re-
Gently a ranger traced a forest fire
to a railroad construction crew which
in burning its slashings did not
watch the fires carefully. This rang
Ell compelled the entire crew to fight
the forest fire started in this way
It is estimated that the state received
about $1,000 worth of services graf
uitt usly. Mr. Cox believes that this
method is much better than prosecu-
tons and fines after the fire has done
it's damage. The poster reads as fol-
lows:
"Preserve the forests by preventing
forest fires. Let every one help.
Settlers in particular are asked
to assist in preventing fires in the
woods. Look out for the little fires
and those smouldering in the swamps,
they may soon become big ones and
endanger your homes and property
and those of your neighbors:. Slash
ings should not be burned, except
when it is impossible for fire to run
in the woods or when enough help
is at hand to make the burning safe.
Talk this over with your local ranger
and with your neighbor and get their
assistance.
| Campers and hunters cause many
fires through. carelessness It is
poor woodsman that leaves fire
burning. Let each one act the part
of an independent ranger, and make
the woods safe place to be in. Clear
space for your camp fire. Build it
away from stumps, logs, duff, and
peat. Make only small fire. Be
sure it is out when you leave. Put
out any uncared-for fire you find, if
you can. If you can't, notify ran
ger, any pubic Ohcer or the owner
of the land.
Gwen young timber has value
and it will soon be worth more. Ev-
cry one of us loses money if the trees
burn UP before they are cut and put
to use.
TT pays to be careful. If you al
low a fire to escape, you are liable
for the damage it does, and to fine
and Imprisonment. The state law in
regard to forest fires is strict, and it
is the duty of every citizen to help
the rangers enforce it. By doing so
you will be adding wealth to the
state and making Minnesota safe
I place to live in.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
WERE BOYS AGAIN FOR A DAY
Stanton and Burke in Party Which
Makes Merry at international.

ssE. w. Backus, Judge Stanton and
]. E. Cowan must have shown the
party of visitors who spent Saturday
and Sunday up the lake with them a
mighty fine time, Judging from the
joshing which was INDUCED in by
the party at the train yesterday eve
ming when the visitors were leaving -
says the International Fails Daily
Journal. 1.-THE weather wasn't the
finest imaginable while they were on
their outing but they made it a real
period of recreation by forgetting
their business and professional cares
and responsibilities, and it is said
that even Steve Collins of Grand
Forks, who was the patriarch of the
party, became so rejuvenated by
breathing the ozone of this region
that he enjoyed the pranks of the
crowd as much as he would have done
fifty years ago.
''The return trip was made Sunday
night, the party landing at Fort
Frances, where they spent the night.
The day yesterday was put in in
speeding the mills and although the
visitors we're themselves men of large
affairs, they marveled at the size
and Importance of the manufacturing
institutions of which Mr.. Backus is
at the head, and went away impressed
with the idea that city of at least
ten thousand people is assured when
the things Mr.. Backus has planned
for International Falls reach fruition.
"The visitors were: Steve Collins,
capitalist, of Grand Forks; M. F.
Murphy, capitalist and president of
the International State bank of this
city but whose home is at Grand
Forks; Jerry Bacon, proprietor of the
Hotel Dacotah and president of the
Times Publishing Co., of Grand
Forks; T. j. Burke, head of the Be-
midi Wholesale Grocery Co.; w. A,
Smith of St. Paul, special agent OF
the Great Northern railroad, and P,
Doran, a prominent citizen of Du-
luth. --s..
ssThe outing had its inception last
spring at Grand Forks when Judge
Stanton was there to deliver the
Elks' memorial address. It was
planned then that the gentlemen
from Dakota who were members OF
Sundays party should meet the judge
here in the summer time and togeth.
er enjoy a brief outing on Rainy
Lake AS it happened, Judge Slant,
on drew this term of court and MIR
Murphy had to come over to attend
to business in connection with the
International State bank, which facts
enabled the gentlemen to carry Out
the plans which they had partially
formulated at Grand Forks in the
spring"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
Grand Forks Version.

Grand Forks, N D. July 20
Word has been received in Grand
Forks>ear this morning that No. 2,
the East bound North Coast Limited
of the Northern Pacific, was held up
by three masked robbers near Buff
alo, N. D., about i O'Clock last night.
The men secured $500 in cash by
going through the passengers, shot
Engineer S. P Olson of Fargo twice
in order to make him stop the train,
and made a successful escape in an
automobile, which they had awaiting
them near the scene of the robbery.
The performance as executed, was
one of the most daring ever perpe-
trated in this part of the country,
and showed that the men were
no amateurs at the business, as every
movement was cleverly planned and
admirably executed. When the train
stopped at the High Bridge at Val
ley City the three men boarded and
went into the day coach. Heavily
armed and shooting recklessly in
order to intimidate the passengers,
they first lined the train crew up in
one end of the car and then proceeded
to search the passengers in the day
coach, one by one. In all they Sc
cured about $500 from this part of
their robbery
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
NEW STAMPS TO BE ARTISTIC
Utility and Harmony Also to Be Com
bined in Next Issue of Stickers.

Washington, July 2O.-Utility, are
and harmony, according to Third As
sistant Postmaster General Britt, will
be combined in a new issue of postage
stamps about to be authorized. The
head of President Washington will
appear on the first six of the series,
while the last five will bear the like
ness of Benjamin Franklin. All of
the new stamps denominations will
be in Arabic and this, as we'll as the
use of the separate color or shade for
each denomination is expected to
prevent the confusion of which con-
ventions of postal clerks have COM
planned.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
LIGHTNING DIsRoBEs A W0MAl
Not Stitch Left on Body But She Es
capes Uninjured.

Grover. Colo, July 20.-Mrs. Hen
rietta Wilson, living ten miles north
west of Grover, was struck by light
ming. Every stitch of her clothing
and her shoes were torn from heI
body. The bolt melted the bowl Of
a spoon she was holding in her hand
leaving the handle in her grasp. Not
single mark was made on her body
She was unconscious for some time
afterward. $3.50
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
FOUR R0BBERSGET
$1,000 FROM G..
SLEEP'ERS;; CAUGHT

another striking him on a rib, in
juring him slightly. After being
wounded and seeing that the men
were desperate, Engineer Olson
stopped the train and the three men,
who were all masked with polka dot
handkerchiefs, jumped quickly from
the train and ran into the darkness.
Engineer Olson, who is one of the
Oldest engine pilots on the system,
was brought into Fargo with the
train and is resting easily at his
home there. -s
Had Automobile Ready.
After leaving the train the rob-
bers went to an automobile, which
they had waiting nearby and were
rapidly flashed off into darkness.
The train was run into Fargo,
where United States marshals hurried
back on special train to pursue the
miscreants. Posses also started out
of Buffalo 1 5 minutes after the news
of the robbery was received and every
surrounding town and city in the
Northwest was phoned or notified by
telegraph to look out for the robbers.
A peculiar part of the robbery is
the fact that the express and mail
cars were not molested by the men.
1t is not known what amount the cars
contained, but usually the North
Coast Limited carries rich hallls and
it is thought the men took longer in
going through the day coaches than
they planned on, or they would have
tried their hand at blowing the ex-
press safe and rifling the registered
mail pouches H.
The Grand Forks police are watch
ing closely to see whether or not the
robbers are coming this way OF
course, no description is available,
but suspicious looking strangers will
have to give an account of themselves
on reaching Grand Forks.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
Leo's Anniversary Mass.

Rome, July 2O.-The eighth ami
yersary of the death of Pope Leo XIII
was observed today with requiem
mass, which was celebrated at the
Sacred College in the presence of the
high dignitaries of the church and
"a number of invited guests.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
POSTMASTERS IN SESSION
Dade Of Blackjack and Tagley of Ny.
more Represent Beltrami county
at Crookston Convention.
STEVENSON TALKS OF WORK

Beltrami county was represented
at the annual district postmasters
convention held in Crookston yester-
day, Postmaster J. E. Dade of Black
duck and Postmaster o. J. Tagley of
Nymore being present
| Other postmasters present at the
convention were Stephen Singer of
Kratka, Pennington county; J. P.
Mattson, Warren, Marshall county;
Chris Wiedenhoefer of Fisher, Polk
county; John A. Lunden of Stephen,
Marshall county; Secretary Bucking-
ham of Argyle, Marshall county; E.
P. LeMasurieur of Hallock, Kittson
county; John E. Fig of Eldred, Polk
county; Peter Moen of Shelly, Nor
man county; John Gregorson of Fer
tile, Polk county; C. Stevenson of
Climax, Polk county; and w. S. Bar
tholomew OF Avon, stearns county.
One woman, the postmistress of
Roosevelt Office attended the conven-
ton.
President Bartholomew Talks.
State President w. S. Bartholomew
gave an address on District Organic
atoms, in which he gave an outline
of what work could be done and is
being done by them. Elias STEINER
| son, postmaster at the Crookston
Office, spoke briefly on "Postmasters'
Conventions-Are They Worth
While?" The speaker brought much
force into his arguments and they
were so strong that no doubt was
left in the minds of the listeners.
Editor John P. Mattson of the
Warren Sheaf, who is also postmaster
! in that city read an excellent paper
on "What is Needed by Postmasters
of the Third Class Offices
Congressman Stevenson told of
the workings of the United States
postal service in an interesting man-
ner. In part the Congressman said:
Stevenson Tells Of Workings.
"The postal establishment of the
United States is the largest and most
benefcent, the most far reaching
single government enterprise in the
world. 1t has 100000 employees The
annual travel by railway cars, car
riers and messengers is more than
365, 100000 miles, distance greater
than five trips fron the earth to the
sun and return. Last year it re-
ceived, handled and delivered 49,
III, 607,806 pieces of domestic mail
matter, weighing 1,432,361,3
pounds, at a cost, including foreign
mail of $229,977,22450, and average
of $3.50 per capita. Returns were
$224,12S,657.6O, or $2.44 per capita.
A deficit of $5,s4S.56, or six cents
per capita.
There is no government service
that comes in such close contact with
all the people, or which effects them
as the postal service, and herce there
is no department of the government
service in which they take a greater
or more lively Interest,"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
Additional 40 Per Cent is Added to
Valuation Turned in By the
Regular Assessors.
SCHNEIDER OFFERS DIRECTION
Contends Injustice Succeeds and
Will Continue Argument at the
August Meeting.

After being in session for four
days, the county board Of equaliza-
ton, which is comprised of the board
of county commissioners and the
county auditor, adjourned this after
noon to meet again August 10.
The biggest boost in any of the
assessments made by the assessors
was in the taxing of the Bemidji
mills, the outcome resulting in the
assessments of the Crookston mill
being raised from $227,600 to $345,
900, and the Bemidji mill from $751;
O60 to $119,O65 and the Douglas
from $1,000 to $4,000.
: Merchants Given Boosts.
The retail merchants assessment
classes 16-B and 26-A, were raised
40 per cent. >.--.
E. A. Schneider, of the Bemidji
firm of Schneider Brothers, appeared
before the board this morning in an
endeavor to have his assessment
lowered. Mr.. Schneider said that he
was not satisfied that his assessment
was correct Ia comparison with those
of the various other Bemidji stores,
and gave a brief outline of his
reasons,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
President to Speak at Manassas.

Washington, D. c., July 20. Pres
ident Taft has arranged for trip
to Manassas, Va, tomorrow to take
part in the big celebration of the
Blue and the Gray. near the battle
field of Bull Run.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
BULLETIN:

st. Cloud, July 2O.-(Daily Pio-
neer Special Wire Service. )-Chief
Special Agent Al Ray of the Great
Northern has just received message
from one of his detectives, J. ]. Davis,
at Buffalo that three of the robbers
had been captured, but that the
fourth escaped. Part of the stolen
booty is alleged to have been found
on the men now under arrest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
Also Supply Their Homes With Fresh
Things From Ground-Busy
Now With Corn.
ALL ARE TO MEET TOMORROW
If Enough Attend Regular Friday
Session at 8 P. NJ, Photograph
Will Be Taken.

midi are now caring for A gardens
on the Board of Education's farm,
north of the fair grounds on Irvine
avenue, known as the Schuch place.
This means that in addition to the
technical and practical knowledge
which they are gaining under the
tutelage of Professor Otto Bergh,
they are supplying their own homes
with fine fresh vegetables.
Tempting Array Of Vegetables.
Here is list of the things to
which the gardens have been plant
ed: peanuts, watermelons, canta-
loupe, ucumbers, squash, beans,
peas, carrots, turnips, cabbage, toma-
toes, radishes, lettuce, corn and po-
tatoes.
During the past few days, garden
pupils have been picking raspberries
on the school farm bushes. A total
of % 1-2 quarts have been picked and
sold at 25 cents quart. The pick
ers are given five cents a quart and
the remainder Of the funds go into
the board of education treasury.
Important Meeting Tomorrow.
Every Friday afternoon the young
gardeners meet for a general instruc-
ton session.
This meeting tomorrow afternoon
will be of unusual Importance: first,
because if there is full attendance
the class will have a photograph
taken and second, because it will be
pay day" for the berry pickers.
The official list of gardeners con-
tains the following names:
Names of Gardeners.
Dave Vincent, Walter Mcdonald,
Alfred Mcdonald, May Anger, Bea-
trice Kirk, Marguerite Titus, Elvira
Angvald, Olive Clark, Arthur GAL
chutt, Conard Meyer, Martha Grimm,
Mary Heroux, Donald Smith, George
Galchutt, Edna Johnson, Clarence
Montague, Viola Miller, Doris Hell
mer, Dorothy Kane, Arlo Achenbach,
Albert Brose, Florence Thacher,
Helen Olson, Willie Jackson, Myrtle
Hayner, Clifford Montague, Carl
Tenstrum, Frank Phibbs, John Stech-
man, Clifford LePage, Roy Johnson.
Girls Winning Honors.
1t will be seen by this list that
nearly as many girls as boys have
taken up the work and they are CIV
ing the boys merry race for atten-
ton to the garden work and for
general neatness of land over which
they have jurisdiction.
At the present time the gardeners
are caltivating corn for the second
time. Some of the corn is the Min
rcs..ta yellow dent variety and al
though its late planting makes it
d'"l't.ul as to whether it will ripen,
1t in any event can be utilized for
f<';0e1.
The wheel cultivator, recently
donated by c. E. Battles is proving
popular with the young tillers and
is in use every day. A patent spray
er has been used on the potatoe
vines with the result that all the
bugs have been done away with.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
Narrowly Escaped Death;

Then the sleeping car was entered
and in order to awake the occupants
of the berths shot was fired down
the center of the aisle, narrowly miss
ing the head of one of the passengers
and embedding itself in the wood
work. After searching the occupants
of the berths, they clamored out of
the diner over the baggage and ex-
press cars to the engine, reaching
that part of the train, when near
Buffalo. They ordered Engineer Oh
son of Fargo to stop the train so they
could get OF, and when he refused to
comply with their wishes, two shots
were fired directly at him, one mir
acuiously glancing on his watch and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20
Merchants Given Boosts.
Wins Partial Victory.

Auditor George, member of the
board, was convinced that the as
too high and made motion that it
be lowered. : The motion was not
seconded, although the other men,
right.
Nothing was done with the assess
ment, other than that Mr.. Schneider
was asked to appear at the adjourned
session of the meeting in August to
further explain his case.
The personal property assessments
for the county this year show fall
ling off of about 100000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20

!. King and Queen Leave Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, July The royal
q isit to Scotland ended today with
the departure of the King and Queen,
the Prince Of Wales and Princess
Mary. for London.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20

st. Paul, July 20.-CDaily Pioneer
Special Wire Service. after hay
ing been held up by daring and mask
ed robbers, the North Coast Limited,
No. 2, of the Northern Pacific ar
rived in this city at SIS this morn
ing
The robbers who secured more than
$1,000 II, cash and some jewelry,
held IN all of the occupants of the
sseeners, shortly after II o'clock last
night while the train was dashing
through the night between Valley
City and Buffalo, at the rate of SO
miles an hour.
There We're Four Robbers.
There were four robbers and one
is believed to have been wounded by
Pullman car Conductor A. Beljard of
st. Paul, who fired one shot at the
bandits from the rear of the train
as they escaped in the darkness.
In a return fusilade Engineer S. P.
Olson was hit in the breast by bull
let from one of the robbers revol-
yers.
One of the robbers took up a posi-
ton on top of the rear car while his
three companions went through the
sleepers, the day coaches not being
molested. ,--.. --.. :.
Fire Shots to Brighten.
One of the men took up, position
at the end Of. the car and fired sever
al shots to intimidate the passengers,
the other two men then went down
the aisle, robbing the passengers in
their births, and when there was any
show of resistance their victim was
dragged out into the aisle and rough
ly handled
The robbers took for the most part
only money, although some diamonds
were gathered in. A bunch of
watches taken from women were left
on the car floor.fE -..s-s
After the men had made their
cleanup and had started to make
their getaway Conductor Beljard
fired through the glass door and saw
one of the men Sfhunch-up'' as if he
had been hit. Beljard had an auto
matte revolver but was unaccustomed
to it's use and was unable to fire more
than Que shot. ~-....
The robbers are presumed to have
boarded the train at the water tank
just out of Valley City. "
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20

Elsie Leslie is to be George Arliss'
leading lady in "Disraeli''
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-20

Lily Elsie will come to this coun-
try next winter in "The Count of
Luxembourg" This is the new op-
era by Franz Lehar, in which Miss
Elsie and Bertram Wallis waltz up a
circular staircase of twelve steps.
The excessive heat caused the can
collation. of the Sothern and Marlowe
engagement in New York. Mr.. Soth-
ern will sail for England for his
summer holiday and Miss Marlowe
will 60 to her home in the Catskills.
The Belgian aviator Olieslagers in
a monoplane made flight of 626 XII
lometers (3S8 miles) at the Brussels
aerodrome without stop. This beats
the worlds record for distance in an
uninterrupted flight, held by Tabu-
teau, of 5S4 kilometers 1852 miles).
Adele Verge, the French maid who
shot and dangerously wounded c.
Frederick Kohl at San Francisco on
June 8, was freed from the charge of
attempted murder, but was remanded
to the Superior court for examination
as to her sanity Kohl is recovering.
The center of population of the
United States, as enumerated in the
census of 1910, is four and one-half
miles south Of Unionville, Monroe
county, Ind. In the last decade it
moved west thirty-one miles from a
point six miles southeast of Colum-
bus. Ind.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-16
Lady's Six core skirt.

Six cores c0mpleta this akift and these
are armnged 70 fora fat paaels 10 front
and back. a small pleafl8s beng inserted
hAf say Gown t8s asse cores. which are
butio4ed over each other. or az .east
seem 49,
This SKIRT wiz be very pretty ID iaHeiaa.
pongee q foliafd a.ik. iu lasn or god
glngham, 10 Feile. ehsgiog aud oIler
Tol.leuL
TIE pattern. $3.50. f. e1t 20 sizes =
% 50 inches uaist aasasure- Medium
size reqllres 2 ysrls 81 - iach material
or 81 yards 3f - Inch.
Tie above pattern eaa t. obfalDea b.
seadl1s 10 cells g. The alsee ~ lbis papes