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

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PION | WINNESeTA IH : Ly SECIETY, E ° VOLUME 8. NUMBER 196 BAUDETTE PRAISES RAINY RIVER'S AID Interview With Deputy Sheriff Rutledge Causes Mayor Williams to Issue Letter of Denial BEMIDJI MAN BACKS ASSERTION Declares Prices at King Edward Hotel Were Exorbitant and Offers More Evidence. The following statement has been given out at Baudette: “An article appeared a few days ago in one of the International Falls papers which purported to be an interview with Mr. Rutledge of Be- midji, a deputy under Sheriff Hazen, and also a member of Company K of the Third infantry, in which it appeared that Mr. Rutledge made the statement based upon his own experience and investigation that the people of Rainy River Ont. had failed to, in any manner, offer relief or assistance, or to help bury the dead. “Mr. Rutledge, according to this paper, made the further statement that he was charged $2 for a room and * in drinking drinks. to what 50 cents for a sandwich, the $1 for two soft The statement as one of licensed houses pur- ports to have been Mr. Rutledge’s experience we are not prepared to deny, because we do not know whether it is true or false, but all of the other statements in the article are unqualifiedly false. “A considerable portion of the town of Rainy River was burned the night ot the conflagration in Baudette and Spooner, and the people of that little town had been fighting fire constantly day and night for several days, but not- withstanding this they did every- thing in their power to aid, and as far as possible make comfortable the people who were carried into their town in forty box cars from Beaudette and Spooner, Practi- cally all of the best citizeas of Rainy River threw open their homes, and accommodated all the people they had room for, free of charge. Hugh Carson, mayor of Rainy River, has shown an in- clination to do anything that could be done to aid and relieve the dis- tressred. Probably 1,500 people from the destroyed villayes were taken care of in Rainy River for three or four days after the fire, and many of them are there yet. “We have made irquiry of a large number of these people, but in no single instance have we found any person who had occasion to com- plain, but on the other band every- bodv who was taken care of there commends the conduct of the officers and people . of Rainy River, and feel that they owe them a debt of gratitude they can never repay. —"J. U. Williams, ‘“Mayor of Baudette. —*"C. R. Middleton, “President Baudette Commercial Club.” Mr. Rutledge today said he did give out an interview somewbat along the lines indicated, but that he specified the King Edward hotel as being the particular offender. “I am not alone in my assertion that exorbitant charges were made in this hotel—there are at least half a dozen others who personally kaow that what I said was true. Istand by my original assertion which I should not have wade had I not known what I was talking about.” Night Chemistry Class Starts. Six young men met at the high school last night and under the direction of Professor Robinson took up the study of chemistry. It is hoped that the class may been- larged to at least nine, which num- ber will insure a continuance of the night work. S00 TO START NEW SERVIGE Trains to Run Between Winnipeg and Duluth, Says Report. Duluth, Oct. 18—There is a re- port in railroad circles that the Sco line expects to inaugurate passenger service on the Thief Falls division, between Duluth and Winnipeg, -Nov. 6. The line will be a little longer than the Canadian Northern be- tween the Twin Ports and Mani- toba metropolis, but it is said that the fare will probably be a little less as tbe Soo line will have a greater mileage where the fare is 2 cent a mile, The Sco line between Duluth and Winnipeg will have but 69 miles on a 3 cent basis, River in Minnesota, The Soo line is two miles shorter to Bemidji and Cass Lake, it is claim- ed, than the Great Northern. The Soo line will establish passenger ser- vice that will meet present needs to the Cuyuna range at about the same time that it puts trains in commis- sion on the Thief River Falls di- vsiion, The stations between Duluth and Superior and Winnipeg are: Black- hoof, Nemadji, Moose Lake, Find- land, Lawier, McGregor, Round Lake, Palisade, Bain, Swatara, Shovel Lake, Remer, Boy River, ERederal Dam, Portage Lake, Cass Lake, Farris, Rosby, Bemidji, Scrib- ner, Pinewood, Leonard, Clearbrook, Gonvuck, Gully. Trail, Oklee, Plummer, Thief River Falls, New- folken, Karfstad, Bronson, Orleans, Noyes, Emerson and Dominion City. QUEER GIFTS FOR: VIGTIMS False Teeth, Bird’s Eggs, 40 Canes and Picture of Dewey. As an example of the instances of good hearted, but misdirected giving for the relief of the Baudette-Spoonor fire been offered. sufferers curious relics have Forty.two canes were contained in the bundles that arrived, also one set of false teeth, part of a garden hose, a flat derby hat such as the Dutch comedian wears and the handle of a wringer. A collection of birds eggs and a large bunch of keys are among other treasures. Forecasting the possibility that there may be a home in the pine woods left standing that has electric bells in the house, the two dry batteries that were wrapped up in a yachting costume with four stiff collars, a full dress muffler and a picture of Admiral Dewey may come in handy to the up-to.date farmer of the North. ROSEAU MAN WANTS WIFE “Kind, Funny” Farmer Yearns for “Kind, Youngish”” Mate. State Libriarian John E. King has received the following import- ant communication: “Roseau, Minn.—The State Libriarian. River, Minn., 10 12- | 10. Excuse card. Am expe- rienced as Supt. U. §. Sd. & other schools; farmer, traveller, writer, Athletic, clean, kind, funny, no bad habits. Ideal home among bear, deer, moose, & in city; foto, credentials, postage, I want kind, youngish, old fashion step-mother for my duplicate 3 yr. old. Mail, returnable. She must send foto. Give personal description & have reasonabie property. I can’t leave to hunt and you are circumstanced to judiciously publish such common, sensible numanitarian case where right women are plentier. In- formation used wisely & without reference to you if so requested. —A. M. Graves,” BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENINé, OCTOBER 18, 1910). RENEWEDAND URGENT CALL MADE FOR FUNDS Committee Collecting Money for Bau- dette-Spooner Sufferers Disap- pointed at Showing. LISTS TO BE CIRCULATED AGAIN Hoped That Subscriptions Will be En- larged Before Names of Donors Are Made Public. At a meeting in the Commercial club rooms last evening of the com- mittee appointed to gather funds for the relief of the Baudette-Spooner fire victims, it developed that Be- midji fails to realize the necessity of adding to the money already raised for the sufferers. As a result it was decided that a renewed and vigorous campaign for the collection of funds must be made. “Here we are,” said one of the members of the committee, “the county seat of the county most seri- ously affected and vet our relief fund is far from what it should be. Some persons probably are deceived re- garding the aid furnished. The relief supplies rushed on by Bemidji must yet be paid for and there is much relief work which still remains to be done.” Another member said: *“Minneapolis and St. Paul each bhave raised $20,000, Duluth has a fund of $10,000 and other places are making a grand showing and it certainly up to us to show our colors. Up to date we have rendered assist- apge that has been praised through- out the state but if we are to make a record compléte we must awaken to the necessity of contributing gener- ously. “I had charge of circulating the lists and I was somewhat mortified to find a good many who seemed to look upon the matter as a sort of a Fourt of July subscription list.” The committee decided to delay asking the city for an appropria- tion until next Monday, in the meantime circulating the sub- scription lists for a second time. The committee feels that in a number of instances the subscrip- tions will be enlarged when the seriousness of securing the funds becomes impressed upon the pub- lic, and before the list is pub- lished, The solicitors will begin a sec- ond canvass of the city at once. WELLMAN'S AIRSHIP LOST; GREW SAVED New York, Oct. 18— (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service)— Walter Wellman and his crew of five men were picked up this morning 160 miles off the coast of North Carolina. Wellman left New York Satur- day morning in his airship Amer icain an effort to fly across the Atlantic ocean, “ News of bis rescue were today received by wireless from the Royal mail steamship Trent, on her way from this port to Havana, The wireless message said: “Picked up Wellman and crew who had abandoned disabled air- ship. All are safe.” The messagealso gave the latitude and longtitude. BAILEY MAKES QUICK GATGH Bemidji Game er;len Secures Con- viction of Partridge Seller. S. C. Bailey today returned from Hackensack, south of Walker in Cass county where he had secured the arrest and conviction of Charles Wood, a hotelkeeper, on a charge of having served partridges. Complaints have frequently been made against Mr. Wood but it remained for the Bemidji game warden to effect his capture with evidence so streng that' when arraigned before Justice Garritty, Wood pleaded guilty and was fined $10,00. The state law pro- hibits the selling of partridges in any way. g PAVEMENT . TO BE SWEPT Council Decides to Purchase Equipment and Employ Sweeper. Third street, recently paved with cement, is to be kept spick and span, a condition it is far from being in at the present time. There had been no provision made to keep it clean. , At the regular meeting of the city council last evening it was decided to purchase a street sweeping outfit, such as is used in the larger cities, and to employ a man to operate it. The street will first be flushed and then swept clean daily. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. LIQUOR LIGENSE GOST TOBE DOUBLED HERE Council Takes First Step Toward Boost. ing This Revenue From $500 to $1,000. NO MORE SALOONS PERMITTED Requests For New Permit Causes Aldermen, Backed by Mayor, to Ask New Ordinance. Beginning January 1 next, if the attitude of the city council manifest at its meeting last night is main- tained, it will cost saloohkeepers in Bemidji $1,000 to do business, in- stead of $500 as at present. A resolution was passed by the council calling upon City Attorney Torrance to prepare an ordinance increasing the cost of liquor licenses to the above amount. This ordinance is to come be. fore the council for consideration next Monday evening. This action was due indirectly to an application for a new saloon license from Peter Lindberg. The council did not take kindly to the propsoition of adding an- other saloon to Bemidji. It was also said that information from a reliable source was to effect that the government would not look kindly upon such a move. The Cass Lake muddle loomed up and there was a general feeling that Bemidji ought to continue along the same conservative lines which has marked her attitude since the Indian treaty order has been in the lime- light. City Attorney Torrance created a mild sensation by declaring that liquor was being sold in different places about the city where no licenses are held. “If you know that to be the case, swear out a warrant,” challenged Mayor Parker. “I baven’t the evidence, but I know it’s so,” replied Mr. Torrance. The Lindberg application was laid on the table and it was then moved that a high license ordinance be prepared. There was some talk of making the license $750 but this was opposed by Mayor Parker and others who believed if it is to be raised at all that it should go to $1,000. NOW FOR A NICE EASY LANDING PLACE WITH WORLD’S HONORS. NAECCENATI\/™ DANAr™ BOSWORTH TO BUILD JAIL Wins Contract in Close Contest With Other Bidders. Work today began on Bemidiji’s new jail which with the remodeling of the city hall is to be done by H. F. Bosworth ata total cost of $5,490. The contracts for the work was awarded at a meeting of the city council last evening,' There were four bidders: H. F. Bosworth, Tom Johnson, George Kreatz and John Whittemore. On the jail bidding there was a difference of but $70 between the Bosworth and Johnson bids’while on the city hall Kreatz was but $20 be- low Bosworth. The Bosworth bid for the jail and city hall work was $4,440, grand total including the heating and plumbing contracts. WANT SALOON MAN FREED Friends of Gauvreau, Takento Prison Today, to Ask Pardon A. E. Gauvreau, who was sentenced last week in district court here by Judge Wright to serve six months in the penitentiary on a charge of having sold liquor to a person of Indian blood, was today takea to Stillwater by Sheriff Hazen. Mr. Gauvreau has been in the liquor business in Bemidji for some time. He claims the sale of the liquor which resulted in his conviction was made by a bartender. His friends be- lieve the punishment extremely un- just and have begun a movement to have the board of pardons grant him his freedom. * Announcement. " On Wednesday, October 19, the representative of Young & Company, furriers of Minneapolis, will display their large and choice line of Ladies’ Fur sets, Muffs, Scarfs, Pony coats, etc., made in the latest styles, from which they will take your orders at prices from 25 to 40 per cent below competition. You are cordially invited to ex- amine these furs. A call does not necessarily obligate a purchase. Thanking you in advance for the expected favor of your call I remain, s Respectfully, Wm. McCuaig. Dry Goods and Groceries. Chamberlain on Vacation. A. F. Andrews of Warren, Minn., will take up duties of local agent of the Great Northern. E. E. Cbham- berlain will take vacation for a month. e DREADS ROOSEVELT ACTIVITY Head of Rapid Transit Company Dis- cusses Politics. St. Paul, Oct. 18—E. W. Winter, president of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran- 8it company, formerly of St. Paul and at one time president of the Noithern Pacific Railroad company, who- ar- rived in St Paul for a visit with his daughter, believes that Theodore Roosevelt is a menace to the financial interests of the country and that “a certain pofitical movement which is gaining strength in the West may in the near future be responsible for a panic in the United States. At the Minnesota club Mr. Winter discussed for a few moments the busi- ness”conditions of the country and be- tween handshakes with a number of friends spoke of the politicel situation and made a forecast of possible events from his viewpoint. PLAN - AIR MAIL SERVICE Madagascar Officials Will Employ Fly- ing Postmen. < Paris, Oct. 18.—Flying postmen will probably be employed for the first time in Madagascar. M. Picquee, the governor general, is negotiating with the president of the French National Aerial league for the organization of an aeroplane mail service. Antana- narivo, the capital, is to be linked with towns situated as far as 250 miles distant, which can only be reached by letter at the present time in eight days. The distance can be traversed by aeroplane in six hours. Affected by Dolliver’s Death. Rochester, Minn.,, Oct. 18.—The news of the sudden death of Senator Dolliver of Iowa has caused a slight setback in the condition of Senator Robert M. La Follette, who is recu- perating from an operation for appen- dicitis at St. Mary’s hospital. STORM GATHERING IN SALOON CLOSING FIGHT Cass Lake Places, as Well as all Others, Will Remain Open, But New Blow Impends. TIMES FACES $10,000 LIBEL SUIT Agent Sero Serves Notice for Johnson Demanding Retraction of Article Alleging Money Deal. Cass Lake saloons will not be closed at the present time, nor will any saloons in the Indian district. There will be no more spilling of liquor. There will be no more searching of grips, except in extraordinary cases, This information comes direct to the Pioneer from W. E. Johnson, who, because of his connection with the Indian bureau of the department of the interior, has charge of enforce- ing the treaty which restricts the sale of liquor in a large part of Minnesota. At the same time Mr. Johnson em- phatically annoucces that there has been no change in the determina- tion of the government to stop the sale of liquor to Indians and he calls attention to severe penalties provided for persons who ship liquor into for- bidden territory, and also the gravity of selling liquor to Indians. While he doesn’t say it in so many words he intimates as strongly as his position would permit that the crisis in the present activity of the govern- ment in executing the provisions of the Indian treaty has nat been passed and that the saloons in all the affected towns are anything but safe. “I bave orders to enforce the treaty,” said Mr. Johnson. ‘“‘The people ought to know what that means. Every saloon which is doing business in northern Minnesota to- day is violating the national law. I could raid them all and throw their liquor into the gutter, but we are not going to do it.” The only ultimate hope of com- plete protection for the saloon men lies in the abrogation of the Indian treaty, and an effort to have congress do this at its coming session will, it is said, be made. Mr. Johnson has sent a special government agent to Cass Lake to make a report on conditions there. Mr. Johnson himself will not visit northern Minnesota. Mr. Johnson has demanded re- traction by the Cass Lake Times of an editorial in a recent issue which charged that Mr. Johnson had been paid $10,000 by Bemidji saloon- keepers. Agent Sero yesterday afternoon served notice of retract- ion on Judge Frank Ives, editor of the Times and this is to be followed by a suit for $10,000 damages on the ground that the offending article was libelous. BLAKELY LOSES BY FIRE Logs and Sleighs Consumed in White Earth District. In a fire which burned steadily all ‘|day yesterday in the White Earth timber, W. T. Blakely, logging for the Wild Rice Lumber company, lost 300,000 feet of logs, a number of sleighs and other camp equip- ment. This information’ was received by Mr. Blakely in Bemidji today by telephone who was advised, however, that early reports of the damage done by fire had been ex- aggerated. It was also reported that much damage had been done in-tne vicinity of Folds, but they could not-be verified. Toe rain which began falling early this afternoon removes the danger from many fires which were buring briskly in the woods to the south and sonthwest. ISTORICAL | 3530 55