The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-19
FORM ORGANIZATION
TO ACT IN LID CASE
Each City Of Territory Included to
Have One Member Of Business
Mems Treaty Committee. .
REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETING
Urgent Need Of Immediate Action
Was Brought Out and Entire Dis
trict to Request Hearing.

! . &
With the understanding that Cato
Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs
at Washington, is likely to issue an
order at any time calling for the en-
,forcement of the provisions Of the
1855, treaty, the urgent need of i'm
mediate action on the part of the
business men of the territory in or
der that a hearing might be granted,
was brought out at meeting of rep
resentatives from many towns Of the
district, at a meeting held last even
ing. IT,. ~ =. ~.
Organization Formed. We =
There are more than one hundred
towns within the territory covered
by the treaty and at the meeting last
night an organization was formed for
the. purpose of causing a united ef-
fort to be made that a representative
Of the department of Indian. affairs
might be sent here that the facts
concerning the enforcement of the
law may be presented. The .pur-
pose of the organization is not TO
assist the liquor interests in con-
tinuing the sale of liquor but for the
many business reasons. 81
+ Bemidji Man President. *~
In order that the organization
might have a working head, thereby
making Impossible that certain work
might be accomplished, it was de-
cided to name president, vice-pres-
ident and secretary. sE. A.. Barker
was elected president; M. T.. Dunn
of ,Brainerd, vice president. and M.
N. Kohl of. Cass Lake, secretary. = No
liquor dealers are in any way con
nected with the organization.
1t is not known just when Com
missioner Sells will issue an order j.
for the. enforcement of hestreaty pro-
visions, but there is every reason to
abelieve that it isr his present inten-
ton to do SO and that his order will
be given out very soon. unless it is.
show9A that the business men of the
district involved are DESTROYS that a
more thorough investigation be made.
Each one of the one hundred towns
of the district will have one man on
the Treaty committee, sixty of these
representatives already having been
named. VI IE} w ! =zzzS s-s'.Tta. 81
kilograms Being Sent.
Hundreds of kilograms are being
sent to Washington asking that con-
ditions be investigated in order that
should Sells issue his order, his
department will understand fully the
existing conditions -. n T.
The treaty was made when the ter
r1tory was a Wilderness; since that
time it has become populated 10y 4OO,-
900 whites and there reside therein
less than 5000 Indians, confined to
few localities; therefore to enforce
the Treaty throughout the entire
country at this time, will, in addition
to preventing the introduction of IL
quors for medicinal and sacramental
purposes, work a hardship not onto
to the individual rights of the white
people, but deteriorate and destroy
both real and personal property to
the amount of many hundreds n of
thousands of dollars and seriously in
terfere with the further settlement
and development of the country.
Favor a Limit.
While there are none that feel the
Indians should be in a territory di-
rectly in contact with liquor sellingI
establishments, the idea is strongly
favored which would cause the Gre
ating of a boundary line such as the
game protecting limits at Yellowstone
National park and at the sItasca state
park. It is the opinion that twen- 4
ty-mile boundary for the Indian res
ervations would be agreeable to those
who are opposed to the fulfillment
of the treaty laws. This would mean
that the sale of liquor would not be
allowed within twenty miles Of the
reservation limits. 81
There will be a dance in the city
hall this evening. Remfrey's or
chestra win play. The arrangements
for the affair were made by Christ
Neumann.
519E1T-- T-5g $1,000
4 Clerks in the Philadelphia mar
.riage license bureau are working oy-
ertime issuing licenses to June
brides.