The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-09-25
'Chippewas Want Agreement
of 1889 With Government
Lived Up To IN
Err CETCHELL EXPLAINS
ICE SUPPLY SHORTAGE
Tax Levy Reduced Next Year,
Reports Lahr, Chairman
of Committee /.

Bemidji Association members are
becoming intensely interested IN the
Question as to whether they feel IN
clined to adopt a resolution request
ing Minnesota's representatives. hI1n
congress to use their utmost An4Ets
in bringing about enforcement 0f, the
agreement of 1889, made by the, gov
eminent of the United States and
the Chippewa Indians. BY this agree-
ment, the Indians ceded to the gov
ernment all lands of ten Minnesota
reservations not taken up by allot-
ment, and these were to be disposed
Of! under the homestead laws, and
the timber sold, the money to be
placed to the credit of Indians The
interest, it was agreed, should be di-
vided each year, three-fourths going
to the Indians and the remaining
fourth to be used for educational pur-
poses by them. %tf'>Ff
Contention Of Indians. !:
1t is the contention of those favor
.ng enforcement. of the agreement
that, Indians capable of Gazing for
themselves, are being kept wards Of
the governments = many Of them in
reality being double-taxed! They also
claim that hundreds of acres of ag-
>rirultural land is LETT undeveloped
and unproductiye as consequence.
The opposition claims that the time
for such enforcement has not arrived,
and that the demand for it's full
operation is no, sufficient to warrant
such action. ..
For and Against.
The Chippewas favoring enforce
ment of the treaty, and who spoke
al. the Association meeting yester-
day, were Ed. Rogers of Walker,
county attorney of Cass county and
former president of the General Coun-
Gil of Chippewa Indians, and John
Morrison, the president at this time.
Those opposed to such action, and
who addressed the Association men,
bers, were George w. Cross, superin-
tendent O A.Ae Red Lake reservation,
and Attorney E. E. Mcdonald, of Be-
midi, who has made a study of the
proposition. At the next meeting,
w. q. Robinson, j. P. Lahr and John
Wilcox, the investigating committee,
will make its report.
Other Interesting Features. ~
But the Indian proposition was not
the only feature of interest on yes-
terday's Association program.
E. R. Getchell, Of the Smart
Getchell Ice company, explained the
.city's ice situation, the shortage pre-
sentipg problem of seriousness. Mr..
Getchell told that his company has
for, more than a month made efforts
to secure ice in other places but
without success, and that the short
age is not restricted to Bemidji, but
that numerous other cities are suf-
fering from such a condition. He
said that although larger quantity
-was stored last year than ever before
in Bemidji, the increased demand has
resulted in the city's first shortage.
Mr.. ,Getchell explained that the
company has sufficient ice for about
ten days, and that this supply will
be divided among the markets and
families of the city in which there
are infants. His explanation was
much appreciated.
These Also Sneak.
Interesting talks were given by
F. B. Lamson, at one time secretary
of the Bemidji Commercial club and
now holding similar position with
the Marshfield, Wis, Chamber Of
Commerce; Bueford M. Gile, former
ly agriculturist in the Bemidji
schools, and now connected with the
vocational training department of
the University of Minnesota; DR..
Frank A. Hass, Bemidji's new dentist,
and Ernest Bartholomae, who recent
ly, with Arthur Danuser, purchased
the Knapp shoe store. Miss Olive
Curtis, of the c. w. Jewett company,
and one of the Associations new
members, expressed herself as being
delighted with the work being ac-
complished by the organization and
with the splendid spirit of co-opera-
tion made evident by such we'll at
tended and enthusiastic meetings.
Tax Levy Reduced.
J. P. Lahr, chairman of the COM !
mittee on taxation, reported that the
proposed tax levy for Bemidji is
fixed at 19 mills, as against 27 mills
last year. The school district levy !;