Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 21, 1910, Page 1

"‘HE BEMIDJI D ATLY IONEER!"™ VOLUME 8. NUMBER 55. THIRD REGIMENT DUE TO BREAK GAMP WEDNESDAY Soldiers Slept in Pup Tents Last Night While on Practice March—First Injury Reported. Camp Lakeview, Lake City, June 20—(Special correspondent)—Com- K went onto the rifle range yester- day and made a total score of 618. Company G, of Princeton, won the shoot” with a total score of 842. Lloyd Carlson, corporal in company K, holds the high three range score of the company with a total of 124. ‘The regiment will leave on a prac- tice march today, the destination being unknown. The start will be made this afterncon and after march- ing three miles, tents will be pitched for the night. The return will be made Tuesday morning and the regiment will break camp Wednes- day morning. Hallan Huffman left for home to- day after receiving a telegram from his father via Captain Otto. Clyde Covington, a former Bemidji ac- qia'ntance, was with us for a day last week. Lloyd Carlson is sergeant of the guard tomorrow. Private Peter M. Hembre, Com- pany D Zumbrota, was struck by an automobile yesterday while crossing the street. He was in civilians clothes. He was taken to the hospital at once and it was found that he had suffered a Colles fracture of the right wrist. This is the first serious accident of the encampment. The annual reunion of the Fourteenth Minnesota Volunteers association was held Saturday night. The association includes all men who were enlisted in that regiment. The following officers were elected for the coming year: president, Capt. A. A. Caswell, Anoka; vice-president, Major Pratt, Anoka; secretary and treasurer, Capt. C. A. Caley, Princeton.—Evan Carson. SPORTING NOTES | Track Coach Dick Grant of the University has finally succeeded in establishing his long awaited train- ing camp at Lake Minnetonka, and will begin active operations as soon as the cottages now under con- struction are completed. The camp is a new institution in these parts and not generally under- stood. The idea is to provide a place where a regular course of training and athletic instruction may be obtained by young boys, athletes, or in fact, anyone who wishes to go and is acceptable to the instructors in charge. The idea is sanctioned by the athletic in- structors at the University and about the city. Mr. Grant has secured a tract of 100 acres at Mound on Lake Minne- tonka, within easy reach of the rail- road, yet secluded enough for the purpose intended. The tract is flat and will contain a quarter-mile track, a baseball diamond and a football gridiron. Facilities for swimming will also be provided. Dr, Grant and a number of University athletes will give daily instruction in gym- nastics and conduct and oversee all athletic exercises and contests. Track suits will be the conven- tional attire in order to get the full benefit of the hot sun. Meals will be taken at the camp and a rigid camp discipline enforced. No tobacco nor intoxicants will be per- mitted. The members will be divided into classes according to age and their exercises and instruction given accordingly. War canoes and boats will be provided and swimming allowed only certain hours of the day, under the supervision of the instructors. The camp will furnish an ideal place for University athletes to train and much benefit is expected to accrue ‘in that direction. Every form of athletic exercise will be indulged in and sprinting and dis- tance running practiced. A regular training diet will be enforced. These camps are becom- ing quite common in the east, but have never been tried in the west. Dr. Grant has had experience in the conduct of his brother's camp, Tecumseh, in the White mountains. —Minneapolis Journal. American Association Won Lost Pet .44 19 694 39 23 .629 . 38 23 .623 28 34 .452 4 34 44 24 35 407 .22 33 .400 22 41 349 Minneapolis. . . St. Paul .. Toledo. . Indianapol Milwaukee Columbus . Kansas City. Louisville. .. National League » | Chicago ... New York. Cincinnati. Pittsburg ... St. Louis. . National League Chicago 10—Cincinnati 3. American League Boston 9—Detroit 10. Chicago 4—Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 1—Washington 4. Amercian Association Minneapolis 5—Louisville 1. Milwaukee 2-1—Columbus 1-0. Toledo 3—Kansas City 5. Indianapolis 1-0—St. Paul 3-4. Yesterday’s Results. I American Association Minneapolis 8—Indianapolis 2. St. Paul 3—Louisville 2. Kansas City 9—Columbus 5. Milwaukee 3—Toledo 0. American League St. Louis 4—Detroit 2. Chicago 1—Cleveland 0. National League. Philadelphia 5—Boston 2. Brooklyn 4—New York 1. Chicago 6—Cincinnati 4. Pittsburg 3—St. Louis 3. (eight inn- ings.) BALLINGER CALLS DOWN MUCKRAKERS Secrafary Alfikes Rap at Glavis and Kirby. New York, June 21.—Under the heading, “The Muckraking of Public Officers,” Richard A. Ballinger, secre- tary of the interior, has a signed arti- cle in the current number of Leslie’s Weekly, which is his first public de- fense in the conservation controversy. It is a denunciation of the muckraker and the muck publisher. “The interior department,” he says, “In matters affecting the public’ do- main and Indian affairs, offers the most fertile field for the mendacious journalist and politician and hysterical exaggeration of any case results in un- told mischief.” “The muckrakers,” the secretary adds later, “have devised a new grade of patriotism—the cautious patriot who betrays his official superior on considerations of personal emolu- ments, disguised by the pretense ot having acted pro bono publico. If this doctrine could prevail under civil gov- ernment, loyalty to official duty would be a mere matter of personal con- venience and monetary consideration.” “Muckraking,” the secretary con- tinues, “when animated by the spirit of purging the public service of un- worthy public officials, is laudable in so far as the muckraker reaches muck and removes it from the public service. But .the muck writer who seeks to place slime upon a worthy public offi- cial is the greatest criminal of the age ~—barring, of courge, his master, the muck publisher. The muck writer may be likened unto a bee that stings, but lays up no honey. He is, in the extreme sense, an assassin of charac- ter, and drives his pen as near to of- fending the law of libel and slander as he dare. He s essentlally a coward, because he strikes without warning and gives no chance to parry the blow,” U s S e | the bond fssues. bld carried 184 to ‘| Slocum.. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDA "EVENING-, JUNE 21, 1910. GOUNGIL AUTHORIZES BAND STAND REPAIRS| First Concert to be Given on Friday Night—Large Majority on Paving Bonds. The first band concert of the year will be given on the city dock Friday night. At the meeting of the council last night, a resolution was passed authorizing the repaira to the band stand which were necessary before a concert could be played. The stand will be enlarged and screened in. Four ballot boxes containing the Votes,cast at the bond election: last week were opered and the votes comtitedy: The résults showed that 57. The vote by wards wawas follows: First, 41 to. Second™,594 Boston to'14; Third; 43 to 18; Fourth, 41 to 8. Steps weére taken to realize on American League the bonds as soon as possible so i i Won Lost Pet | ypap the work can be started at once. ;::aie‘:;h_m' . 38 :: gg: Routine business was put out of Detroit . 35 21 .g34[the way last night. The usgal Boston.. .25 23 .521|monthly bills were passed. Alder- Washington. 24 28 .461| man Bisiar was in his place for the Cleveland 19 24 440 | firgt time in several weeks. Chicago. 20 28 .423 PR i s St. Louis. . .12 37 285 PECK TOOK 6UN CLUB EVENT BY GLOSE SGORE Broke 29 Out of 30 Birds Given Him —Results of Last Four Rounds Given Below. In the final event of the Gun club meet last Saturday afternoon, Peck won the Gun club prize by dropping 29-out of 30 birds. He also won the’Markham prize the day before and it was generally conceded. that he would take the final event. The scores of the last four events in the shooting the first day have not been published and are below. The second day’s were run Saturday In the last four events Friday, 80 birds were sent out to each man, The hits recorded were: Professionals Dockendorf. Amateurs, Peck . Rose . Feldman . Chezik Bottger. Chesterman Mantor McTaggart. Spellman . Simons.. ALL ON BOARD TAKEN OFF Pleasure Boat Carrying One Hundred Passengers Springs a Leak. Chicago, June 21.—The steamer Lo- Ia, a pleasure boat, plying between Kensington and Riverside Park, sank in the Calumet river while en route to the park with 100 passengers. All on board were rescued by three or four launches that hurried to the disabled boat. The vessel sprung a leak when near the Kensington and Eastern railroad bridge and was run aground. OPENING OF PUBLIC LANDS Hundreds of People on Hand to Se- cure Homesteads. St. Paul, June 21.—Filing for gov- ernment land is proceeding rapidly at Crockston, Duluth and Cass Lake, sev- eral hundred persons being on hand when the doors of the land offices were opened. About 250,000 acres of land is subject to entry at the polnla named. Milwaukee Merchant Killed. Milwaukee, June 21.—William Grob- ben, a wholesale oyster dealer, died at a local hospital of injuries received in’ an automobile accident at Brooksfleld, Wis,, Two others, John Kelley, who has a broken thigh, and Myron Boin, with un arm broken in three places, are in a serious condition, Conservation Bill Amended. ‘Washington, June 21.—In conform- ity with an'agreement .entered into with the house of representatives, which agreement was engineered by President Taft, the senate feconsid- ered the conservation bill passed by that body containing a rider providing for the issue of $30,000.000 on reclama- tion bonds, struck out the rider, and passed the bill. - e Wb i BOINTED 4 That Claim e It Can HAVE CONTEST CASES STARTED State Law Says That S;Inluen Have Fight Aayway. Mauy hundreds of would-be set- tlers were dislppoinmd{at Cass Lake, Crookston and Duluth yesterday. he Twin City plpell{lnd the As- Sociated Press-had’ published broad cast that all the settler had to do was to stand in line and receive his land and that he would have prior tights over squatters. The state law says that the land must be seen before it can be filed on and that squatters l;lve prior rights. At Cass Lake, the largest number were - disappointed. . They had flocked in from all points of the compass because more land was to be opened there. Many came from other states and had not ever seen the land they wanted. i They had to return with nothing’ito show for their time and expense. The land around Cass Lake has ‘been settled for several years by squatters wait- ing for this opening, and as they had prior rights, verv little was left for the new comers who had merely seen the land._ For those who had not even seen' it, there was nothing at all. X ‘Several contes ave been started at Cass Lake.. They have been filed by the squatters against the men who filed on their land. Attorneys who have the cases say that in every case the squatter is sure to win out for the state law is plain. A special from Crookston received this morning says that Fred Tyndall and Andrew Lien, the first two to file, have contest cases against them as someone was already on the land on which they filed. Five other contests had been started by evening yesterday. The claims con- tested in Crookston are on the Rapid river and worth from $5,000 to $10,- 000. Many who were disappointed in the opening say that the whole story was fabricated by the rail- roads so that they could get the transportation. The Great Northern got the most of the transportation as it runs through all of the fling towns., The openings themselves were quiet, but later developements seem to promise excitement, INGREASE INALIEN GONVIGTS One Prisoner in. Every Four is an Alien. One prisoner in every four pris- oners in the State prisons of New York today is an alien, and the situation has been growing more and more serious for several years past. From 1906 10 1909 the pop- ulation of these prisons increased 939, and over one-half of the in- crease were foreign born, Paren- thetically it ‘may be stated that Italy contributes 473 of the 1gor aliens now confined in these pris- ons, But this is ‘not the problem of]| New York State alone, In: the 1908 report of the United States Commissioner General of immigra- tion is to be found the interesting fact that in the penal institutions of the United States there were, according to this latest ‘census, 15,323 criminals not naturalized — ¢The Alien Peril,” in the June Metropolitan Magazine. Wood for sale,—50 cents per cord. Shingles - $1.50 - per thousand. Douglas Lumber Co; - 3 ‘ganization DAHL TAKEN TO JAIL 10 SEIWE SIXTY DAYS Ten Days Allowed for Filing Appeal Elapsed Without Any Action Being Taken. A. J. Dahl, former patrolman on the Bemidji force, is now confined to the county jail under a sixty day sentence. Dahl was convicted on June 2 of an assault on John Orenger committed on May 31. An appeal was to have been taken but the ten days allowed by the law elapsed without the filing of a bond with the judge or mnotice being served on County Attorney Mec- Kusick. Committment papers were issued last Thursday and Dahl taken to jail. At the trial, Graham Torrance prosecuted in place of Mr. Mc- Kusick and the evidence brought out was about the same as was published in the Pioneer soon after the assualt. Orenger is the man man who testified in the Langdon case that Dahl and Patrolman Smith had been frequenters of the place. His testimony made ‘Dahl mad so the next time he saw him, he struck him on the neck. Smith was a bystander at the time of the assault and held Dahl’s star while he hit Orenger. Smith was also implicated in the Langdon trial, When Dahl told him to arrest Oren- ger, he refused. Neither reported the case to their superior, Chief Benner. At the time of the assult, Mayor Parker was out of town and acting Mayor Kirk removed both policemen and told them to await futher action until the mayor returned. . Mayor Parker reinstated Smith and he is now on the force.. Dahl was later arrested on a charge of assault. and was unable to clear himself. . Dahl will now have to serve his sixty days in jail unless his fine is paid. At the time of going to press, proceedings in the nature of habeas corpus have been instituted and a hearing will be had before Judge Wright at the courthouse at 4 p. m. this afternoon. GOYERNOR MAY ATTEND DRY FARMING CONGRESS But Eberhart Says Minnesota Is Not Directly Interested in Intensive Agriculture. Spokane; Wash., June 20— Governor Eberhart of Minnesota will probably participate in_ the de- liberations of the Dry Farming Con- gress, which will have its fifth sessions in Spokane, October 3 to 6, when it is expected there will also be in attendance a large number of the chief executives of north and southwestern and Pacific states. -John T. Burns, secretary of the Congress, has just received a letter sent to Charles Patterson of St. Paul, executive committeeman of the or- for Minnesota, by Governor Eberhart, who says among other things after promising to make a special effort to be present at the Spokane convention: “Iam in hearty sympathy with the objects of the Dry Farming Con- gress, which I believe is in line with the general development program in the Northwest. The effect of these gatherings cannot help bat be of great benefit to farming generally, [even though our state is not directly interested in what is known as in. tensive farming, There cannot be too much education along these lines, and you and your associates are certainly to be congratulated on the success thus far of this new move- ment in agcicultural education.” * Governor Hay of Washington will pass the entire week ‘in Spokane and assist at the ’entert'ninment of visiting governors and delegates to the congress. '~ Governors of' the western® nntn are keenly alive to the importance of the dry farming and they have indicated in letters to e l TEN CENTS PER WEEK. the Washington board of control that the official delegates will - be more representative and larger in number than have ever been sent to these gatherings, Brush Fire at Lavinia Firewarden Shannon was called to Lavinia yesterday afternoon to fight a brush fire that was slowly getting beyond control. The fire was started in the brush by a settler, but the wind soon swept it into the dry underbrush where he found that he was unable:to cope with it alone. A back fire was started so that the fire would not spread and it had burned itself out by morning. Small brush fires to the east have frequent for several days, but none have assumed any size and no dam- age has been reported. The woods are getting dry and a soaking rain is needed to do away with the pos- sibility of a bad fire. THE MART WILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS SOON Much Needed Mecantile Enterprise Will Fill Noticeable Gap In Bemidji. Filling a long felt want in Be- midji of creating a2 home market where people can come and see the goods first before investing instead of as now sending to the large mail order houses that handls the same class of goods. The Mart will fill a gap (in these times of high living) between the small country store and the large up to date retail stores in Bemidji. Weaim to hold the trade at home instead of serving it to the Twin Cities and Chicago. Thursday June 23rd. 1910 the Selcke Land and Mercantile com- pany will open for merchandising the Mart at 320 Minnesota avenue. (In the Boyer building.) Their aim through the Mart is to offer retail and wholesale merchan- dise jobs at popular prices and at special‘sales from time to time, at from 15 to 65 per cent on the dollar. Connected with the purchasing end of the Mart will be the Chicago buyers of one of the largest depart- ment stores in Iowa., Bankrupt and midwinter fire sale jobs of merchan- dise will be made a specialty. Daily and weekly, announcements will be made of bargains.- A stock of $11,500.00 will be placed on sale Thursday the 23rd. ' Watch Wed- nesday’s Pioneer, ROOSEVELT ATTENDS HIS SUN’S WEDDING Thendnre, Jr., Married to Eleanor B. Aexander. New York, June 21.—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was married to ‘Miss Eleanor Butler Alexander in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian ‘ church before probably the greatest social gathering of the season; ~Colonel Roosevelt, Just back from his trip abroad, was pres- ent. Invitations were sent to about 1,500 persons and the church was crowded. For the reception at the home of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, an aunt of the bride, between 800 and 900 invitations were issued. "~ The ceremopy , was performed by Rey. Dr. Henry M. Saunders, a great uncle of the bride, assisted by Rev. Gordon Russell, Cranford, N. J. ~Miss Alexander was attended by Mrs. Snowdon Andrews Fahnestock as ma- tron of honor, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, ‘Miss Harriet Alexander, Miss Janeta Delano, and Miss Jessie Millington- Drake of Paris. Kermit Roosevelt acted as best man, owing to the death of the fathér of Evelyn Irving, the first choice. The ushers were Hamilton Fish, Jr., an ald friend of the bridegrooin; Francia Roche, Fulton Cutting, George Roose- velt, Monroe-Robinson, Grafton Chap- man, E. Mongan Gilbert, Elliot Cutler and John W. Cutler. The bridal party walked through a lane of lilies of the valley from the church door to the chancel. Lilies of| the valley and bride's Toses carpeted. of the altar and the chancel rail was. hun; with garlands of white Toses. TIGKET SLATERS FAIL AT STATE CONVENTION No Cut and Dried Work This Year— Frank M. Eddy Chairman of Resolutions Committee. St. Paul, Minn. June 21.—(Special to the Pioneer at 2:30)—The re- publican state convention was called to order by ' Chairman Brownj Mayor Herbert Keller, of St. Paul, was elected temporary chairman and He delivered a address sounding the keynote for the party in Minnesota. ranging Committees were then appointed, Frank M. Eddy being made chair- man of the committee on resolutions. Anadjournment was taken until 2 o’clock when the committee was to report. " No nominations for state officers will be made in the convention until late this afternoon. At the conference of the. executive com- mittee, - it was decided that the report of the committee on resolu- tions should be framed and abopted before any nominations should be made. This is a radical change from the procedure of past vears when nominations have been made and balloting started immediately following the appointment of the committee on resolutions. Slate makers failed utterly in their efforts to cut and dry things, and on the places where cantests are expected, everything is up in the air. THEATRICAL GOMMENT. A fair bill is being presented at the Brinkman this week. Ifit was a little- better balanced; it could easily be placed in the “good” class. The pictures are above the average, and especially the one dealing with the story of Nero and the burning of Rome. - The illustrated . song is neither catchy nor - pretty and the pictures shown with it are excellent examples of what a man can stand when nothing better is in sight. Whitworth and Pearson head the bill with a skit called" Pure Insanity.” It is pure and clean. The situation is possible and is well worked out. The number is a good one and worthy of its place. - Miss. Mable Cassidy has some songs that are catchy, one which is a parody on “Anybody here seen Father” having two verses on Mayor Parker and Chief Benner. Miss Cassidy has a pleasing voice when she does not straid it. Her mono- logue is just a trifle shady. *“The Wilsons,” who use the flying rings, have two or three clever exer- cises, but the others are simply strength tests. Miss Wilson is too prone to pose to suit the average audience. The bill will be put on again tonight at 7:20 and 9 p. m. ANew Lincoln Anecdote. Jaspar Alban Conant tells the following new anecdote of Lincoln in the June Metropolitan Maga- (zine: “One of the comical characters in Washington during the war was jolly old Isaac Newton, the Phila- delphia Quaker whom Lincoln appointed Commissioner of Agri- culture—a new office just created by Congress. Newton, who tried and at the same time amused the President, had made his reputation on a dairy farm; beyond - this he knew little of agriculture, “Hearing which, I could not refrain from asking Lincoln why he had appointed such an ignorant man to the office. ¢« ‘Because I think he’s compet- ent enough to attend to all the agri- culture we will have till the war is ended,’ was the answer.” I 'hereby. announce myself as candidate for the republican nomina- tion for sheriff (of Beltrami county at the primaries September 20th. - I respectfully solicit the support of the vuum of this county. o Andml Johnlon. MINNESGTA ISTORICAL SOCIETY. 3