Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 4, 1909, Page 4

DEGLAMATORY GONTEST WILL BE HELD FRIDAY Winners of First Place Will Participate Against Contestants of Schoals from Other Towns. A preliminary declamatory contest will be held Friday evening of this week at the City Opera House to determine what students shall represent Bemidji in the annual declamatory contest between the high schools of Akeley, Eagle Bend, Cass Lake, Park Rapids, Grand Rapids and Bemidji. The contest this year will be held Grand Rapids on March 19, and it is expected that all of the above- named schools will send representa- tives to the meeting. Last year the meeting was held at Park Rapids, and the first place was awarded to Grand Rapids, as that school took the two second standings. Park Rapids won first place in the serious and Cass Lake was first in the humorous at that time. Bemidji has several candidates of rare ability and will undoubtedly make an excellent showing at Grand Rapids. The judges will be Mrs. W. E. Neal, M. A. Spooner and Rev. Deniston. Those who will participate in the preliminary contest Friday evening are given below, together with their selections: Humorous— *Our Guide in Vienna and Ronie” —Emil Engels. “Aunty Doleful’s Cunningham, “Jimmy Brown’s Steamer Chair”— James Knox. Serious— “King Robert of Sicily”—Ethel Knox. “Andreas Holfer’s Arms”—Elmer Hilliard. “Patrick Henry’s Arms”—Grant Gill. “The Launching of the Ship”— Clare Fisk. Besides the readings that will be given at the contest, music will be furnished by Miss Hanson, Miss Ruth Wightman and the Glee Clubs. This will be the initial appearance of the Boys’ Club, and they will sing “Voices of the Woods,” by Ruben- stein. The Girls will sing “Croon” and “Blow, Soft Winds.” All have been doing excellent work preparing for Friday evening, and the musical feature of the program will undoubt- edly be very well received. Visit”—Olive Appeal to Appeal to Sunday School Meeting. The Beltrami County Sunday school association will hold its first annual convention in the First Presbyterian church of Bemidji, Thursday, Friday, March 11th and 12th. Each Sunday school in the county is invited to send one or more delegates. A. M. Locker of St. Paul and John Orchard of Fargo, N. Dak., both Sunday school experts; will be present. No Sunday school workers in the countv can afford to miss this convention. FEW PRISONERS LODGED IN BELTRAMI GO, JAIL The Local County Bastile Is the Official lail for Clearwater and Koochi- ching Counties. That the people of Beltrami,Clear- water and Koochiching counties, are for the most part, peaceful and law abiding citizens is evinced by the last monthly report of the Beltrami county jail, which is the official jail for Clearwater and Koochiching counties as well as Beltrami county. During the month of February there were only 23 prisoners in the Beltrami county jail, and this was in spite of the fact that the spring term of the district court was opened and the grand jury was at work during that month. Of the 23 persons confined in the local bastile, 3 were from Koochi- ching county, 2 from Clearwater county and 2 from the city of Be- midji. Neither Koochiching nor Clearwater counties nor the City of Bemidji have official jails and all three confine their prisoners in Bel- trami’s stronghold. One of the Clearwater county prisoners is serving time for violating the game laws, and the other is held for manslaughter; two of the Koochi- ching men are in for petit larceny and the third for assault in the second degree; the two from Bemidji are charged with vagrancy. Of the Beltrami county prisioners, one is held for murder in the first degree and one as a witness in this case, three for forgery, two for assault in the first degree and four for assault in the second degree. The remain- ing few are either awaiting hearings or are in on minor charges. Elk Meeting This_Evening. A regular meeting of Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, will be held at the Masonic ball this evening. There will be initiations, and busi- ness of importance, including nomi- nation of officers. —E. H. Jerrard, E. R. ‘LUMBERJACK SKY PILOT’ DID BIG WINTER'S WORK Rev. Frank Higgins Now Making Final Visits to Logging Camps, Before Spring Close. “Evangelical work in the lumber camps has been exceptionally suc- cessful this winter, and I am well pleased with the results I have obtained,” said Rev. Frank Higgins, who is in charge of the religious work in the logging camps of north- ern Minnesota,Wisconsin and Michi- gan. Rev. Higgins has of late been working in the camps north of Deer River and also near Schley, with an occasional visit to the camps of the Red River Lumber company, north of Akeley. Rev. Higgins made a splendid record during the month of January, 1909, and his report shows that he performed a large amount of labor for that month. During January, the “Lumberjack Sky"Pilot” walker 185 miles, preach- ed 31 times, rode over 400 miles on the train making connections, and distributed over a ton of reading matter among the boys in the camps and others who attended the services. This record is- certainly a good one, and indicates the intense inter- est which the northern preacher has in his work. Rev. Higgins states that he will leave, at the end of the logging season, for his home at Rockford, Minn., where he owns a farm, and at which place he will spend the summer, Restaurant Opened Today. Jacob Lee and Charles Gom, the two Celestials who have leased the dining room and cafe of the Mer- chants hotel, formally opened their restaurant today with an excellent dinner. The mena was composed of both Chinese and American viands. The ‘clean and up-te-date manner in which Messrs. Lee and Gom are conduct- ing this establishment will doubtless bring them a large patronage. The young people of the Baptist church will give an Irish social the 17th of March. Please remember it. A. D. MOE, &se Tailor Suits made to Cleaning and special attention. New spring samples. 320 Beltrami Ave, order. pressing given A NEW KIND OF LID IS PROPOSED BY ALDERMAN State Senate Passes Bill Limiting Number of Saloons.—Would Affect Northern Towns. St. Paul Pioneer Press: ate yesterday in committee of the whole passed Senator Alderman’s bill limiting the number of the sa- loons to one for every 500 of the population. Senator Thorpe tried to have the proposed law amended so- that it will apply to present conditions in that places which now have more than the limit will be able to reduce their number. Senator Putnam also attempted to have an amendment so that 505 peo- ple would not warrant two saloons, but that the major fraction of 500 would be required before another saloon be permitted. Both were defeated and the orig- inal bill was recommended to pass. The bill provides that no more than the present number shall be permitted until the population of a city or town shall be more than 500 for each saloon. Many towns in the northern part of the state will thus be prohibited from having more saloons for many years, while those in the southern part may have more, as saloons are less frequent there. Rebekahs Initiated. At a regular meeting of the Bemidji Lodge of Rebekahs - held last evening, Mrs. R.]J. Russel, Misses Millie Wessberg and Katherine Smith, and D. A. McFarline were initiated. After the regular business was finished a lunch wasserved and an enjoyable social session held. Noted Divines Here. Rev. E. C. Clemans, D. D., of Duluth and Rev. E. H. Nicholson, D. D., of Minneapolis were visitors in Bemidji today, being here for the purpose of performing a pleasant duty in line with their clerical work. Rev. Clemans is superintendent of the Duluth district of the M. E. church, and Rev. Nicholson fills a like position in Minneapolis. To Entertain Pinehurst Club. The Pinehurst Club of the Pythian Sisters will be entertained at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon by Miss Ida Bailey and Mrs. S. C. Bailey at the home of the latter, 606 American avenue. All members are requested to be present. Mrs. A. E. Harris, secretary. NEST OF THE ORDER OF OWLS INSTITUTED HERE Deputy Supreme President Benson, Orgainized Nest In Eagles Hall Tuesday Evening. A Bemidji Nest of the Order of Owls was organized in this city Tuesday evening in the Eagles hall, with a charter of membership of twenty and iuch enthusiasm being shown. C. J. Benson, deputy supreme president and deputy supeme organ- izer of the Order of Owls, assisted by- Deputy Organizer A. O. Benson, installed the local nest and in- structed the new members in regard to their duties and privileges i The Bemidji nest will hold its first regular meeting next Tuesday evening and at that time will elect and - install the officers for this year. Deputy Supreme President Ben- son departed this morning for Eagle Bend where he will install another nest next Saturday evening. EARLY AND PEAGEFUL Servia Withdraws Demand for Territorial’ Gompensation, London, March 4.—It is learned con- clusively in London that Servia, in accordance with the advice of the powers, has withdrawn her demand for territorial compensation at the hands of Austria-Hungary. The semi- official news published in Vienna to the contrary is therefore erroneous. The question of the autonomy of Bos- | nia was not raised in the representa- tions made by the powers at Bel- grade. It is believed that this de- Bemidji, Minn. cision on the part of Servia fore- shadows an-early and peaceful settle- ment of her difficulty with Austri Hungary. The sen- -SETTLEMENT LIKELY ANTI-CIGARETTE BILL IS PASSED House Rushes the Measure Through, BOTH MANUFACTURE AND SALE Prohibited by a Bill Presented by L. C. Spooner of Morris—House Gets Tangled Up Over Normal School Measures—Bill to Tax Earnings of Light, Heating and Water Compa- nies Reported for Passage. St. Paul, March 3.—In the haze of after-dinner cigars, the house mem- bers of the Minnesota legislature at night passed a bill forbidding the sale of cigarettes in this state. The bill was- presented by L. C. Spooner of Morris. The rules were sus- pended in ‘a flood of other bills, and the bill passed with ‘a rush, Alvin Rowe of St. Paul casting the only vote against it. The bill is comprehensive, forbid- ding the sale or gift or manufacture of cigarettes or any paper to contain tobacco for smoking. Defeated in their attempt at county option, temperance advocates in the house are urging a still more strict law. B. E. Lobeck of Alexandria pre- sented to the house a constrtutional amendment to be submitted to the people in 1910 providing that after Jan. 1, 1912, the manufacture and sale of aleoholic liquor for beverage pur- poses shall be forever prohibited in this state. The measure is similar to those which have been adopted in a num- ber of Southern-states and was re- ferred to the committee on temperance legislation. Gross Earnings Tax Bill. The bill to substitute a gross earn- ings tax for the ad valorem tax for gas, water and electric works and heating plants, introduced by Repre- sentative F. B. Wright of Minneapolis, was recommended to pass by the house committee on tayes. The sub- committee which was to fill in the blank spaces for the per cent of the tax reported the bill back with the following rates: Where the earnings are less than $100,000, 3 per cent; from $100,000 to $200,000, 3 per cent on the first $100,000 and 3% per cent on the halance; $200,000 to $500,000, 314 per cent on the first $200,000 and 4 per cent on the balance; $500,000 to $1,000,000, 4 per cent on the first $500,000 and 4% per cent on the bal- ance; $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, 414 per cent on the first $1,000,000 and 5 per cent on the balance; where the gross earnings are - over §$2,000,000, 5 per cent on the first $2000,000 and 5% per cent on theé balance. The taxes are to be apportioned among the state, county, city and school treasuries in the same propor- tion as school taxes are at present. There will be little primary election legislation at this session. The bills repealing the primary law were all Y%illed in the house upon recommenda- tion of the election committee, and the Saugstad bill changing the date of the primary from June to Septem- ber was practically killed. The house got itself into a tangle over the normal school situation, but after nearly two hours talking and parliamentary jockeying they found they were hardly any farther than at the start. If anything is indicated by the votes taken it is that it is not likely that any normal school will be established 'at all this year. Placed on General Orders. Representative McGarry of Walker, working for Cass Lake, was able to muster just sixty votes for his minor- ity report in favor of his bill and placed the bill on general orders with fifty-seven against it. A few moments later when the situation had been ex- plained a little further, the gemeral bill, introduced by Representative Hinds of Hubbard, which leaves the selection of the site to the normal school board, was placed on general orders by a vote of 62 to 54. The normal school committee -sent in the Hinds bill for passage while a minority, composed of McGarry, Em- mel and Jorgenson, reported for the Cass Lake bill. After considerable jockeying with rules of parliamentary practice, the house came to a vote on \McGarry’s motion to adopt the mi- nority report, and on this the vote stood 60 to 57. The first positive move toward pre- venting the floods of the Minnesota valley appeared in the senate when Senators R. G. Farrington of Orton- ville and C. A. Jobnson of St. Peter joined in a bill- appropriating $25,000 for the construction of dykes and dams at Big Stone lake so that the Minnesota end Whetstone rivers wm be restrained. It i= provided that the level of the lake shall not be above the usual high water mark. It is estimated that much of tke large damage done in the val- ley last year can be avoided by these reservoirs at the head waters to check the flow. X A. K. Ware of Northfield introduced in the house a bill providing for an election by the. women at the regular time in November, 1910. All women over eighteen are entitled to vote just as the men, but the only ballot they can use is one on which to express their sentiments about the proposition of women voting at all elections. * | REPORT ON SECRET SERVICE Recommendations of the House Select Committee. ‘Washington, March - 4—Legislation should be enacted by congress giving a permanent character to the selret service force of the government, ac- cording to the report of the select _commlittee of the house to investigate this force. The committee consisted of Representaflves Olmstead of Penn- eylvania, Cnrrier of New Hampshire; | Young of Michigan, Brantly of Geor- gla_and Bowers ~of Mlss;gnippl. ,J} [ acceptance thereof. was appointed To Invesugate e amount of appropriations devoted to secret service work and the number of employes engaged therein. The re- port is unanimous. “We deem it proper,” says the com- mittee, “to call attention to the fact that the secret service division of the treasury department now exists with- out permanent authority of law, de- pendent entirely upon appropriations made from year to year, and that the like force in the department of jus- tice is similarly without permanent authority of law and is pald out of a lump sum appropriation for incidental expenses.” HEPBURN LOSES ON RECOUNT Defeat of Veteran lowa Congressman Complete. Des Moines, March 4.—The recount of ballots in Union county in the con- test between Congressman William P. Hepburn- and W. D. Jamieson for con- gressman in the Eighth district has been completed and shows a gain of. CONGRESSMAN HEPBURN. two votes for Hepburn. This com pletes the count in the three counties involved, with no change in the re sult so far as the election is con cerned. Jameson had 380 majority over Hepburn on the official returns. CHURGHES FARE WELL ~ WITH STEPHENSON Was a Liberal Giver During Primary Gampaign, Madison, Wis., March 4—That Sen- ator Isaac Stephenson made frequent donations to churches during the pri- mary campaign developed from the testimony of Mary F. Stringham, his private secretary, of Marinette, who ‘was on the stand before the primary investigation committee. Chairman Marsh of the committes during the examination told' other members of the committee that he could prove that during the campaign paid workers of Senator Stephenson went about the state saying the sen- ator had been “very liberal” to cer- tain churches and that if' he were nominated he would be “even more liberal.” During the examination a check for $1,000 for expenses of the ‘Wisconsin delegation’s headquarters at_Chicago during the national con- vention was cited: The check was mnde payable to former Speaker H. L., Bkern. Democrats of the legislature signed and sent to Senator Bailey of Texas a protest against the United States sen- ate seating Senator Isaac Stephenson. The protest recites the vote so far and goes into the contention that he was not elected on the showing of the “Beparate ballot Jan. 26. LACKS ONE OF ELECTION Stephenson Secures Sixtytwo Votes for Senator. - Madison, Wis., March 4.—Senator Stephenson lacked one vote of re-elec- tion. The twenty-second joint ballot of the Wisconsin legislature gave him 62 out of 124 votes; necessary for choice, 62. The vote stood: = Stephen- son, 62; Brown, 10;- Rummell, 4; Iisch, 9; Coopér, 7; Cleary, 2; Ban- born, 2; Sceit, 2; Blaine, 2; Kindlin, 2; Pearson, 2. Twenty others received one ezach. “Not a Ship Has a Scratch.” ‘Washington, March 4—“Not a ship has had a scratch,” said President Roosevelt, in approving Admiral Sperry’s coramand of the Atlantic fleet on - its cruise. Secretary. Newberry adds that the ‘trip reflected great credit on the entire :navy and Ad- miral Sperry, in - acknowledgment, pays tribute to his officers and men. The correspondence has just ' been made publie. Ends Life by Asphyxiation. Minneapolis, March 4.—Ferdinand Belanger, saged fifty, committed sui- cide by asphyxiating himself. The man was a grocer. He was found be- hind the counter of his store with a gas tube in his hand. Belanger was a reformed saloonkeeper. He left the saloon business a year ago and be- came a.grocer. Lately business has been bad and his wife is in the hos- pital. > Winthrop in Navy Department. ‘Washington, March 4.—President- Elect Taft has announced the selec- tion of Beekman Winthrop to be as- sistant secretary of the navy and his Mr. Winthrop was first offered and accepted the post of assistant secretary of state, but afterwards reconsidered. - Berlin in Gclp of Blizzard. . Berlin, March 4—Berlin is in the grip of a blizzard. Snow fell heavily for many hours and trafiic is almost at a standstill. Fifty people have heen seriously hurt - by fallirg on the streets. It has been necessary to put n-great many of the cuy cabs on run- ners. v | will of the late B. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, TEN PERISH IN INGENDIARY FIRE Black Hand Blamed for New York Holocaust, HEROIC WORK OF FIREMEN ms APIN—PUSH ITIN For Sule at = THE PIONEER OFFIO' WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. Flames Early Cut Off Escape anc Many Imprisoned Occupants Are Rescued by Ladders or Other Meth- ods—One Fire Fighter With Twa Babies in His Arms Catches An- other Thrown While on Ladder. New York, March 4.—Cut off from escape by a burning stairway ten per- sons perished in a fire in a five-story tenement house. The victims, wha were all Italians with the exception of an unidentified Frenchman, ranged in 8ge from eighty years to an infant girl of five. Five persons, including a policeran who was cut by flying glass, and a male child about a year old, were injured and taken to hospitals. It is helleved the blaze was incen “dlary, following a “Black Hand" blackmailing letter which an occupant of the building received several months ago,’ There were about thirty famildes, mostly of Italians, in the tenement house and policemen and firemen res: cued many of them by ladders and swinging them across from windows to neighboring buildings. Several babies were thrown from the windows and caught by firemen who were standing on the extension ladders. The street floor of the building was occupied by the undertaking rooms of Patrick McDonald and the Lincoln restaurant, while Antonio Urso, a barber, cccupied the basement. The fire started in the bottom of an air shaft and was discovered by Patrick Monks, a watchman in the undertak- ing rooms. Awakens Many Occupants. Monks ran up stairs and awakened the McDonald family and Mr. and Mrs. McDonald and their four children ‘were passed across a marrow alley way to the windows of an adjoining building, whence they escaped. Monks then returned to the burning building, the. hallways of which were then ablaze and filled with smoke. He rapped on the doors of the apartments up to the third floor, awakened the occupants and then-turned in a fire alarm. ° *: A fireman found Mrs. Mulann Ara not unconscious in her rooms on the fourth floor and attempted to carry her down a ladder to a window, but was himself overcome. Other firemen saved them both. Standing on . an extension ladder outside the windows Robert Nelson, a fireman, caught two children as they were thrown to him by another fire- man from the windows. As Nelson started down the ladder with the two babies in his arms the man again ap- peared at the window and called out: “I have got another baby here; catch it.” Before Nelson-could reply the man threw the baby out of the win- dow and Nelson, with two babies al- ready in his arms, managed to catch the third and carrfed them all down the ladder to the street. All but two of those who perished in the fire were occupants of tene- ments on the upper floors of the burned building. - Apparently they ‘were overcome by smoke before they could getto the windows. REMAIN OUTSIDE OF STATE Filibuster FOR SALE. Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Two hundred acre farm land. Will make vety easy term.s Inquire of C. C. Wood- ward, MISCELLANEOUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30t06 p. m.,, and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Donald, librarian. WANTED—To rent April 1st, good five-room house, with yard, easy walking distance from P. O. Good tenant. Inquire at Pioneer office. WANTED—Balsam lath bolts. Will pay $3.00 per cord for Balsam lath bolts delivered at our mill. Douglass Lumber Co., Bemi . flx‘smmmuu 084257 S, Yo, & Solld glass, detachable eprivg. JAMES ADAIR _PITTSBURG, P4, For Sale at The Pioneer Office Every Stationer_Should Investigate ! Last Fall the Generat Elearic Co. of Schenee. A1l who have tried the Peerless Malstesst sey 1w intiponaatie.” Eetal sefioners write o o -n_ Prepald T3c., tiozey back if wanted. PEERLESS MOISTENER CO. For Sale at * The Pioneer Office 7 of Tennessee Senatora Continues. Nashville, Tenn.,, March 4.—The thirteen filibustering senators have now been absent from Nashville six days and a settlement of existing con: |, ditions seems as far distant so far as the statewiders are ‘concerned as on the first day of the quorum' breaking:| In an interview on the legislative muddle Governor Patterson justified the action ~f the filibusters, declaring the rights of the majority had been {gnored. HUNDRED AND FIFTY DEAD Town in Asiatic Turkey Reported De- stroyed by Quake. London, March 4.—A telegram re- ceived here from Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, says that the village of Mas ran, near Jerusalem, has been de stroyed by an earthquake. One hun- dred and fifty persons are buried in the ruins. No confirmation is obtainable here of the reported destruction of this village, nor can the place itself be located. Want Ads FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Demonstration: for Jeffries. New York, March 4.—James J. Jef fries, retired heavyweight champion of the world, was accorded a remark- able demonstration on his arrival here. A crowd of nearly 2,000 people gath- ered at the Grand Central station and wildly cheered the pugilist as he el- bowed his way to a carriage. Jeffries was accompanied by his wife and sparring partner, Sam Berger. 5 Montana Anti-Jap Bill Killed. Helena, Mont., March 4—The legis- lature was in session until midnight. After a hot fight the Clayberg anti- Japanese bill, framed after the Cali- fornfa measure, which would have prohibited the holding of lands by the Orfentals, was killed by & vote of 24 to 22 in committee of the whole. E:hte Worth $25,000,000. Los Anseles. Cal,, March 4.—The the famous turfman and plunger, dis- S sing ol property valued at about $ placed in court by his ; lttomey. Bradner W. 'Lee. All of Baldwin’s near relatives are recipients ot lu'll ‘bequests. |