Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 18, 1910, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 7. NUMBER 309. i mstor\ca\ Society. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1910. MINNESOTA SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. DOUBLE VOTES EXTENDED TO 10:30 P. M. APRIL 23 Double Vote Offer Closed Saturday Night Mid Whirlwind of Votes. —Candidates Profit By It.—Voting Saturday Heavy.—Many Changes in Positions.—Miss Ben- 1st, Miss Cochran 2nd, Mrs. Freeburg 3rd. The for last week closed Saturday night great double-vote contest amid a regular cyclone of votes. The policy of the Pioneer in this <ontest has been, and will be, one of absolute fairness to all the candi- dates, and having received many communications from out-side towns asking for an extension of time of the double vote offer, has determined to extend the time for one more week., This is done In this <ity and the towns surrounding here the Pioneer for the following reason. business revolves around “pay day.” Summer is the principal business time in the year and “‘pay day” is| the principal day in the month. Many requests have been received for an extension of the double vote offer so that it will cover this all important date pointing out that it will only be a fair deal to those thus situated. Taking a liberal view of the situa-| tion, and perceiving that it is a fair proposition all around, the manage- ment has decided to extend the offer of double votes for another week, but positively no longer. Another Reason. Another reason that the manage- ment decided to extend a double vote offer to next Saturday night April 23rd was on account of the very unfavorable weather that pre- vailed during the latter part of last week. On account of the weather ‘many of the contestants complained of being unable to get in all their promises and see all the people they desired to. Taking this into con- sideration and the fact that so many . “pay days” occur during the com- ing week it was decided to make the extension as outlined. Personal Mention. Miss Besse Cochran in District A, Sub-district 3, who occupies the second place in the Mammoth Contest today is certainly work- { The double vote offer of last week has been extended to 10:30 P. M. April 23rd a request of many of the candidates. We announced last week that Double Vote Offer was The Best Offer of Any That Would Be Made During The Contest And So It Is. We Now Announce That This Offer Will Possitively Close at 10:30 P. M. Next Satur- day Night, After Which Time A Less Number of Votes Will Be l Issued on A1l Subscriptions, Separately or Collectively. Bear I This In Mind For We Mean Ex- actly What We Say, That A Less Number of Votes Will Be Issued H On All Subscriptions. L | Miss Cochran has a host of friends in Bemidji, Northern ing hard to win the auto. Minnesota as well as in Northern Wisconsin where she formerly resided. Miss Cochran is gathering in the sub- scriptions far and wide. At the clip she is going will certainly lead the other contestants a merry chase to win. Miss Bertha Benson jumps today from thind place to first, passing both Mrs. Freeburg and Miss Cochran, who have held the lead for several days. Miss Benson counts her friends by the hundreds and every one of them is taking a personal interest in her battle for votes that is surprising to all. Saturday night there_ were many of her acquaintenances who dropped into the contest department leaving their subscriptions with instructions to poll the ballots for her. Mrs. Freeburg of Blackduck is working away as quitely as formerly. Mrs. Freeburg says very little about her campaign but from the reports that reach the ears of the contest department the Blackduck Candi- date’s campaign for votes is not ended by any means. [Continued on Page 7.] HOW do you send money away from home? D6 you know that Bank Drafts, Foreign Ex- change and Travelers’ Checks can be purchased at the First National Bank of Bemidji ? Our rates are reasonable and drafts are the safest way to send money through the mails. Domestic Drafts under $10, 5 cents each: and 10 cents per $100 or fractional part thereof, are rates for larger drafts. The First National Bank Of Bemidji, Minnesofa ‘| cooperate with the WHAT IS BEMIDJI'S POPULATION TODAY? Help the Census Enumerators All You Can. Make the List as Big as Possible. The census enumerators began active work April 15th and director of the census E. Dana Durand is sending out the following points regarding the census: The enumerators will wear a badge inscribed *“United States Cen- sus, 1910.” The law requires every adult per- son to furnish the prescribed in- formation, but also provides that it shall be treated confidentially, so that no injury can come to any per- son from angwering the questions. The Census Bureau, prior to April 15, will distribute te every farm owner and tenant in this state a blank or schedule containing the Census questions relative to farm operations and equipment. This should be filled up, if possible, not later than the morning of April 15, W | but if anyone has been unable to fill it up by that time, he should do it as soon afterwards as he can. People who do not speak English or who do not understand the schedule completely should get help from others, if possible, in filling it up. The President has issued a pro- clamation, calling on all citizens to Census and assuring them that it has noth- ing to do with taxation, army or jury service, compulsory school attend- ance, regulation of immigration, or enforcement of any law, and that no one can be injured by answering the inquiries. It is of the utmost importance that the farm census of this state be complete and correct. Therefore every farm owner and tenant should promptly, fully, and accurately fill up the “Advance Farm Schedule” and carefully pre- serve it for the enumerator when he calls. If the residents of Bemidji new how much they could help the census enumerators they would no doubt extend every courtesy and assistance to them, When the enumerator calls upon you, you, no doubt, can give him all the information about yourself and immediate family that he requires, but should you have roomers in your house it would be a great convenience to the enumerators to not only secure the name of said roomers but receive answers to all the ques- tions you are personally asked, All these questions were pub- lished in the Pioneer on April 16, and will again be published in to- morrow’s paper. If these roomers can write out answers to all ques- tions asked you can readily see that you will save the enumerators days of time, NEW ST. PAUL HOTEL NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC Is Pronounced Most Modern Hotel Structure in Unllgd States, Costs $1,000,000. Saint Paul’s huge new hotel, built at a cost of $1,000,000 isin the last strenuous stages of the finishing process and will be opened at a banquet of Saint Paul business men who built it, tonight at a banquet such as the city never saw before. Tuesday all day and even- ing the great building will be open to the general public and the people of the Northwest,and will begin regis- tering guests, while for a week every evening will be a gala affair. Tables are being reserved already for even- ing dinners in the restaurant and cafe and the entire opening week will be a brilliant series of gala evenings. The magnificent restaurant is finished. Co-incident with thehotel opening, which was rushed forward for that purpose, Saint Paul is to enjoy a week of grand opera opening April 21, and completing the week, during which Geraldine Farrar, Gadski, Fremstad, Scotti, Destin, Caruso and Mme. Homer with a score of other great artists will appear. Lohengrin, Aida, Pagliacci and Madame Butterfly are to be produced while there will be added the delicate Hansel und Gretel and The Bartered Bride, the latter new to the wést. The Metropolitan Opera Company of New York has been brought to Saint Paul for these productions and an exceptionally brilliant season js anticipated. Although the new hotel will com- pare with any in the United States, it will bave 20 rooms at $2 per day, 130 at $2.50 and a limited number at $3, $3.50 and $4.00. The rates are low and manager Roth declares he would rather raise them if it should ever become necessary in the future, than to announce a scale so high as to be displeasing to the general public. The great annex filled with sample rooms for the ac- commodation of traveling salesmen, is fast nearing completion. PIGKPOGKET RAGES DOWN 20 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS Big Crowd of Tenants at His Heels Shouting, ““‘Stop Thief.”— He Escaped. New York.—Down twenty-one flights of stairs, in lower Broadway skyscraper, a pickpocket dashed for liberty, this afternoon, and although pursued by a crowd of tenant shout- ing “Stop thief,” escaped. An alleged confederate describing him" self as Charles Kramer, twenty-six years old, a bookkeeper, captured. Two men followed Raymond Mur- ray, a sixteen-year-old messenger for a large manufacturing company, from a bank where he obtained $800 in bills, and entered the elevator with him. As the lad was alighting on the twenty-second floor he felt a band lift the roll of bills from his rocket and grappled with Kramer. In the scuffle the money dropped on the floor and later was recovered. ‘was Dan Rose Will Furnish Room. Sister Benedict of St. Anthony’s hospital informed the Pioneer office late this afternoon that Mr. Dan Rose asked for the privilege of furnishing one of the front rooms in the new annex to the hospital. Mr. Rose feels very grateful to the hospital sisters for the care and at- tention given to the late Mrs. D. Rose. Mr. Rose is indeed showing his appreciation for the services rendered in behalf of his wife while at the hospital. " Catholic Services, High Mass tomorrow will be cele- brated by the Rev. Father Korn- |} barst, who will preach in German and English after mass. Forty hour devotion begins in the Catholic church at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, which devotion com- memorates the forty days of our Lord’s stay on this earth after his resurrection, At 8 o’clock p. m., Rev. Father Hogan will preach in the English language to the whole congregation. ORGANIZE NEW POLITICAL PARTY AT FARMERS MEET? Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor Will Address Convention of Farmer’s at St. Louis, Week of May 2. Somehow, it seems to have leaked out that Mr. Samuel Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, who has promised to ad- dress the great farmer’s convention in St. Louis during the first week in May, next, will outline the plans of a new political party on that occasion. The American Federation of Laboris composed of about two and one-half million skilled work- men, scattered throughout the cities of our country. According to Owen Miller, recog- nized as the foremost representa- tive of organized iabor in St. Louis, it would seem that they consider this great convention of farmers an opportune time to suggest a new political party composed of organized farmers and organized laborers. Mr. Miller says: “If the laboring people and the farmers will vote together they can elect every officer from President down to constable.” It is also stated that President Gompers says he has endeavored to keep organized labor out of politics, but that labor unions of every de- scriptions have, during the last eigh- teen months, adopted resolutions calling upon the Federation of Labor to -organize a new national party, and that itlooks as though the Federation will have to yield to the demand. That the organization of a new po- litical party wasnot one of the origi- nal purposes for which the St. Louis convention was called is evident from the following communications that have passed between John Grady, Farmers’ Union Convention Manager, and Theo. G. Nelson, Secretary Convention Committee, American Society of Equity: St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 26, 1g10. Mr, Theo. G. Nelson, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dear Sir:—Has Mr. Gompers or any of his represntatives been authorized, either by yourself .or Mr. C. O. Drayton, to make state- ment that one of the purposes of the §t. Louis convention was to be the organization of a new politi§ cal party? Please wire me as S00R as you regeive this. Mr. Nelson's reply: ‘‘Have not authorized statement that we contemplate joining new political party. If Gompers or any one else wauts to suggest it in speech, presume they have a right to do so.” If it is Mr. Gompers’ intention to outline a plan for a new party, he will naturally give his reasons. Coming in the'midst of our unsettled conditions politically, and being a suggestion that will affect all classes of people, and especially farmers and organized labor, this one address alone will be worth going thousands of miles to hear. It is intended to make the St. Louis convention a people’s forum as it were. There- fore, it may be expected that all the other speakers who take part in the program will have something up their sleeve of equal interest and importance. _— _—_— MAN REGOVERS FROM BROKEN NECK; LIVES Taken To Hospital In ’St. Louis And Discharged ;As Fully Cured. Memphis, Tenn., April 18.—Ralph Owens, 27 years of age, of Memphis, who was taken to a hospital in St." Louis four months ago with a broken neck, of which he was un-~ aware, was diScharged as cured. When taken to the hospital little hope was entertained for his recov- ery. His head was placed in a brace and his refusal to die attracted attention to his case. Physicians declare his neck is as sound as ever. He suffered a fall four months ago and attributed the stiffness in his neck to rheumatism. date. . Phone 65 and 390 A Wonderful Discovery The people are discovering every day cheaper prices at our store. among the lucky ones? If not, make the discovery today. We are always up to Apples, 25¢ per peck. All kinds of Lawn Grass. Good whole Jap Rice, 6¢ per Ib. 3 cans Tomatoes for 25c. 3 cans Pumpkin for 25c. 3 cans fancy String Beans for 25c. 20 Ibs Prunes for $1.00. Fancy Salt Salmon, 10c per Ib. All Kinds of Green Vegetables. 2 one-lb cans Baking Powder for 25c, W. G. SCHROEDER Corner Fourth and Minnesota Are you ISTORICAL i