The Pioneer from Bemidji, Minnesota • Page 1

fc VOLUME 8. NUMBER 205. SAILOR JACK, IN NEW TIGHTS, TACKLES EDO Again Takes on Man With Whom He Was Wrestling When Begsleyso Rudely Stopped Match GETS CHALLENGE FROM DULUTH Fireman Champion Offers to Put Him on His Back Three Times in Hour Mariner Accepts. "Sailor Jack" has bought a new wrestling costume aad is to go after Pete Edd again. Edd is the man who was showing up well against Sailor Jack in the little affair at the Armory Opera house Saturday evening, when Brother Begsley reached over and grabbed the Sailor's tights, which was sufficient excuse to stop even a wrestling match.

Jack and Peter meet at the Star Theatre tonight and the plans and specifications read as follows. Sailor Jack's Task Outlined. "Sailor Jack agrees to throw Peter Edd three times within an hour of actual wrestling or forfeit the entire purse ot $200. If he fails to do this Edd wins the match." All of which looks fair to Edd who declares he is going to put a reef in Jack's sails. On top of this comes more trouble for the navigator.

It is unfolded in the following letter "Sporting Editor, Daily Pioneer. "Dear SirIn your edition of yesfcerday I saw an account of a wrestling match in which Sailor Jack 'done things' to his opponents in your city, It strikes me that the Sailor has a fondness for 'roughing things' where he is 'cock of the I would like a chance to take the mariner on in a wrestling match and, although giving him credit for being one of the best men of his weight in the country, I will undertake to throw him three falls in one hour of actual wrestling. Hoping a match can be arranged for the near future, I am, Yours very truly, Martin Johnson, Fire Dept. Headquarters, Duluth, Minn." "My weight is 168 pounds." fireman Jack is Willing. Sailor Jack has been shown the challenge and he has agreed to meet the flame fighting athlete at the head of the lakes.

"Of course," said Sailor Jack, he is a heavier man than I am but I will accept his proposition and if his wrestling is no better than his line of hot air dope, he won't last long." BRAINERD TO PLAY BEMIDJI Big Football Team Meets Visitors Here on Saturday. The recently organized Berridji football team, of which Ted Getchell is manager and George Hanson, captain, will play a team from Brainerd here Saturday. The game will be started at 2:30 on the fair grounds girdiron. The Bemidji boys have been doing some good practice work and as the Brainerd eleven is known to be a swift, husky team, a great contest is assured. The Bemidji lineup follows.

Le Roy Lindsay, It Ted Getchell, Ig Fay Brennaman, Claude Brennaman, rg Otto or Gillis, rt Pete Edd, re Scott Stewart, gb McCullough, fb John Hillaby, lh Gill Mantor, rh Ceo. Hanson. SWEDBACK TO USE STICKERS A Good Man Never Quits. Through circumstance over which I had no control, some of the petitions I had sent out to be signed in order to permit my name to go upon the ballot, did not reach me in time, and as a result my name is left out from the official compilation of candidates. But inasmuch as I am in receipt constantly of urgent support and solicitation to run, from different sections of the county, and further that my failure to appear upon the ballot with the rest of the candidates was not due to the lack of signers, but because one or two petitions did not arrive in time to be filed Tuesday Oct.

18, I feel it would be a disappointment to my friend to withdraw at this time hence I have decided to make the run with stickers, and feel confident that my friends will aree with rae in my decision and will heartily support me in my campaign. While I may be asking considerable of the voters in this county and this city to write my name on the ballot (or use sticker) besides marking an X. yet I think I have a sufficent number of friends who will be pleased to go to this extra trouble in order to see me elected. Ypurs for success, Charles S. Swedback.

BROWN BALKS PETTY GRAFT Associate Justice, Father of Bemidji Attorney, Refuses Dance Tickets. In referring to Justice Calvin L. Brown, father of Monte Brown, the Bemidji attorney, the St. Paul Dispatch, in an item revealing the petty graft to which political candidates are exposed, says. 'It has remained for Calvin L.

Brown, associate justice of the state supreme court to produce a classic refusal of tickets. "Candidates for office are looked upon as legitimate prey by those arranging social affairs having a financial side. The sending of tickets to candidates and requesting a check in exchange is as customary as the receipt of mail. The members of the bench suffer the least from this, but one such appeal came yesterday to Judge Brown, containing ten tickets to a dance. "The judge returned the tickets with the following letter: "Dear SirI return herewith the ten tickets to the first annual ball of the 'People's Independent Republican appointed to be held in Minneapolis on October 26, which I received from you yesterday.

I am unable to dispose of them. "The truth of the matter is that the people over here in St Paul are loath to go so far to attend a dance, and they decline to buy the tickets. Am out ot the habit myself, and therefore return the tickets that you may not be delayed in disposing of them to those who enjoy entertainments of this kind. Very respectfully, L. Brown." Announcement.

Attorney A. A. Andrews has moved his office from the Schroeder Building to the ground floor building at 310 Minnesota Ave. Telephone 395. HITSAGENTSTHANKS PUBLIC Editor Oliver Happy in Belief "Law- less Cowboys" Are Doomed.

A. A. Oliver, editor of the Cass County Pioneer, while in Bemidji last evening, dictated the following card of thanks: "I wish to extend my thanks to representative citizens of the northern part of the state of Min nesota for their hearty good- will and support in the cases which I have been conducting to secure better government in our Indian department." Mr. Oliver has been active in his efforts to protect the rights of the citizens of this part of Northern Minnesota against unjust in vasions by what he terms "lawless cowboys turned loose by the Indian bureau of the interior department." It was Mr. Oliver who started the now famous Sero-Daviscase by swearing out warrants for their arrest on a charge of assault.

More recently he has been engaged in securing evidence charging different agents with extortion from saloonkeepers. "I think my work along this line is now about completed," said Mr. Oliver last night, "for our country is getting rid of the 'standing with which the government has seen fit to infest us. Every good citizen is willing to aid the government and demand obedience to laws when the government goes about it in a spectable manner." PLAYS IN BAGLEY T0NI6HT Masten's Orchestra to Give Concert Dance to Follow. Masten's orchestra left this afternoon for Bagley, where tonight it will give a concert to be followed by a dance.

The members of the orchestra who went are: Director Harry Masten and wife, H. E. Anderson, Arthur Brown, George Kinney, Herbert Wood and Andrew Rood. Mr. Rood goes as a soloist.

The orchestra will return on the late train tonight. Next Friday the orchestra goes to Cass Lake. WANTEDPlace to work for board and room while attending school. Address A. B.

Pioneer. Sweet cream, extra creamery butter, strictly fresh eggs, at Peterson's. 4 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1910. THE REASONS FOR HIGHER PRICES. From the Report of the Selecct Committee of flfce U.J.

Senate on Wages and Prices of Commodities. Among the many causes contributing to tl may be enumerated Increased cost of production of farm product land values and higher wages. Increased demand for farm products and food. Shifting of population from food-producing to food-consuming occupations and localities. Immigration to food-consuming localities.

Reduced fertility of land resulting in lower average production or in increased expenditu-es for fertilization. Increased banking facilities in agricultural localities which enable farmres to hold their crops and market to the best advantage. This results in steadying prices, but also tends to advance prices. Reduce supply convenient to transportation facilities of such commodities as timber. Cold-storage plants which result in preventing extreme fluctua- tions of prices of certain commodities with the seasons, but by en- abling the wholesalers tabuy and sell at the best possible advantage tend to advance prices.

Increased cost of distribution. Industrial Organizations of producers or of dealers. Advertising. Increased money supply. Overcapitalization.

Higher standard of living. advance in prices reason of higher SAW SI6HTS SOOH SUES. But Erick Cheltin Fails to Recover $83 Spent for Drugs. It cost Erick Cheltin, young, ambitious and inquisitive, $83 and much mortification as the result of his first trip along the primrose path. In municipal court today before Judge Pendergast, Erick appeared as the complaining witness against L.

Chandler And M. Torgenson, whom he accused Shaving swindled him out of the above sum by furnishing him with spurious drugs. It developed that, Erick set out one night not long ago to see the sights. As a result he appeared glad to avail himself of aid proffered by Chandler and Jorgenson, even to the extent of paying over $83 for the drugs which failed to effect a cure. Judge Pendergast was unable to see where the accused men had done anything illegal and dismissed the case.

UNCLE SAM WANTS HELP Has Positions to Offer, Paying Up to $2,000 a Year. Civil service examination to fill positions in the federal service paying salaries from $500 to $2,000 a year have been announced. The highest salaried position is that of l'notpye machinist at the $2,000 salary. Practical questions will give credits of 30 per cent physical ability will count for 30 per cent and training and experience for 40 per cent. A telegraph operator at $2.80 a day is wanted for the navy yard at Pensacola, and in this training and experience count for one-half the credits and common school subjects for the balance.

A baker for the Genoa Indian school in Nebraska is wanted at $500 a year and quarters. Physical ability counts for 40 per cent and training and experience for 60 per cent. The fourth position is that of blueprinter at salaries ranging trom $2.24 to $2.48 a day. Experience and practical knowledge count for all the credits for this place. All the examinations will be held November twenty-third.

Duluth Boy Dies of Football Injuries. Ithaca, N. Oct 27.L. B. Paine, Duluth, acting captain of the Cornell freshman football dead from internal injuries received while playing football.

"HAD TO SHOOT:" JENKINS 'Approached My Wife," Says Rosen Prisoner Bound Over. Joseph Jenkins, arrested on a charge of having attempted to kill Martin Rosen and wife at whom he fired four shots from a 38 calibre revolver Wednesday evening, was today bound over to await the action of the grand jury. Municipal Judge Pendergast, before whom Jenkins was arraigned fixed bail in the sum of $500 and in default of bonds Jenkins was locked up in the county jail. In court Jenkins claimed that he had used the revolver in self defense and that Rosen had threatened him with a gun, following a dispute over the price of a soft drink which Jenkins claims he purchased in the Rosen place on Second street. Rosen, who swore out the complaint, tells a different story.

He says Jenkins forced his way into the living rooms of himself and wive and and that Jenkins made an improper proposal to his wife. Rosen says that when he entered the room and objected to Jenkins presence, Jenkins pulled the revolver and began shooting. One of the bullets wounded Jenkins in the fleshy part of his arm, but the injury is not serious. Nothing is "just as good" as the best. Lowney's chocolate bon bona are the best.

Only at Peterson's. ATTORNEY GENERAL CITES CLUB RULING Following ths decision df the city council Monday evening to determine the legal right of the city to compel the Metropolitan club to pay a $500 saloon license, the Pioneer appealed to the attorney general for an opinion on the supject. The reply from St. Paul follows: "In reply to your letter to the Attorney General under date ot October 25,1 have to say that the Supreme Court held that the Minnesota club could not distribute to its members, for a consideration, intoxicating liquors in less quantities than five gallons. "You will find this case reported in 106 Minn.

515. "Yours Truly, "Lyndon A. Smith, Assistant Attorney General." The Minnesota club is an organization of the most prominent business men in St. Paul and is similiar to the Metropolitan club here. The Great American Play.

For local playgoers the taret of the season comes next when at the Armory Theatre the United Play Company will present Eugene Walter's drama of New York life of today, "Paid in The Brotherhood of David meeting, which was to have been held tonight, has been indefinitely postponed. All the Sunday papers, all the magazines at Peterson's. Steenerson Alters Date. Congressman steenerson Will speak at Blackduck on the evening of Nov. 1.

He speaks in the afternoon of that day at Turtle River. Oct. 31 he speaks in Kelliher. Fancy fruit for the table or sick room, everything in the market always, at Peterson's. Historical Society.

HISTORICAL S9CIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. FOREST FIRES STARTED BY RAILROAD ENGINES Canadian Northern Held Responsible for Destruction of Spoonerand Bandette, Say Investigators 29 ARE DEAD LOSS $5,000,000 As Result Many Prosecutions Against Transportation Company for Damages Have Been Started. The Canadian Northern railroad is held responsible for the fire which destroyed Baudette and Spooner, in a report made to C. C.

Andrews, forestry commissioner, by George Cbapin of St. Paul and Frank Curtis of Roosevelt, who have been investigating the origin of the forest fires, in Minnesota for the past two weeks. Fire Tracked to Railroad. The report says there Is sufficient evidence to show fhat a fire was set by the railroad on the Canadian side during the latter part of July This fire covered about eight square miles. It burned up to the west side of Baudette and lay smouldering until Oct.

7. About the same time a fire was set on the right of way just east of the Winter Road river. This fire worked east three miles and about two miles back on each side of the track, where it connected with the fire which was started on the Baudette side of the river. Moss the Flames. This fire also lay smouldering in the moss, gradually eating into the root of.

the timber and feeding it, making conditions favorable for another fire. Four, other fires also were started in this vicinity in August, covering from one to eight square miles. These fires were also fanned into life Oct. 7 and resulted in the terrible disaster. Eight prosecutions against the Canadian Northern railway for allowing combustible material on the right of way are now pending in the district court of Beltrami county.

Loss is $5,000,000. The loss from the recent fires is estimated at about $5,000,000 by the agents of the forestry commission. Of this, property valued at $1,700,000 was destroyed in the towns. The exact number of dead is placed at 29. This is below the last reports sent from Baudette which placed the loss of life at 34.

800 Persons Homeless. In a report to the governor, General Wood says there are 800 homeless families to be provided for. He has already arranged for the shipment of enough lumber to build 50 houses in the fire district. General Wood reports there is great jealousy between Baudette and Spooner and that the relief committee will have to use great diplomacy. The general reached St.

Faul last night. Three Demand Pay from Railroad. Fergus Falls, Oct. 28Three suits have been begun in the United States court here against the Canadian Northern for damages sustained by the recent fires in Beltrami and adjoining counties. The suits are brought by William A.

Smith, Frank B. Emrey and William Haugen. flTbe complaints allege that the Canadian Northern between Warroad and Baudette, negligently permitted dry grass, weeds and other combustible materials to accumulate on its right of way, and that weeds took fire from sparks from passing engines, and the fire spread and destroyed the property of the plaintiffs, who own adjacent farms. Mr. Smith asks damages of $2,177.

Mr. Emery's losses were confined to timber, and he ask $2,500..