Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 28, 1910, Page 1

4 : ; ; Mitoricay Soctet 5 . i Sl < : iv HINNESRTA ; |RISTORICAL; | SECIETY, THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEE TEN CENTS PER WEEK. 7 — BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, - VOLUME 8. NUMBER 256: ~ WEDNESDAY EVENI&G, DECEMBER 28, 1910. T BUCKING CENTER. 5 PRESIDENT WISHES BEMIDJI SUGCESS Taft Tells Postmaster Result of New Postal Bank Here Will Mean | Much to Minnesota. S. A. CUTTER TO HAVE CHARGE Banking Department of Postoffice Will Be Opened for Business Tuesday, January 3. Bemidji's new postal savings bank, | under the expressed hope of Presi-| dent William Howard Taft that Post- master Anton R. Erickson will make | it a success, will be opened for hnsi-; ness next Tuesday, January 3. Mr. Erickson, accompanied by his wifl returned last evening from Washing-| ton, D. C., where, in company with, 35 other postmasters, he answered the call of the postal department to| receive special instructions in regard| to savings banks. i In company with Congressman Steenerson, Mr. and Mrs. Erickson called on President Taft at the White | House last Saturday morning, and| it was during this interview that the| president layed his hand on Mr. Erickson's shoulder and said, “I sin-| cerely hope that you will make the| postal savings bank system a suc-| cess in Bemidji. It will mean much | to your community and to your | state.” Needless to say, Mr. Erick-| son promised to do his best. | Twelve of the postmasters from distant parts of the United States, only one being sent from each state, had already received their ins!ru(‘-‘ tions. Mr. Erickson was one of the| 36 who answered the second call, the | Key West postmaster not appearing during the meeting and the South | Dakota official showing up just as the final adjournment was taken.| Only one woman postmaster, whom Mr. Erickson described as a “good looking and self-possessed, middle- aged lady from Oklahoma," attend-| ed the meeting. The postmasters were in session two days, receiving their banking instructions, but Mr. and Mrs. Erickson remained in Wash- ington two days longer as guests of Congressman and Mrs. Steenerson. S. A. Cutter, one of the oldest clerks in the Bemidji postoffice, will be placed in charge of the banking department of the local office, and will receive all deposits. This will entitle the postmaster to one addi- tion to his clerical force. ~Mr. Erick-| son, himself, will simply oversee the banking business and attend to his| present duties. The government will pay two per cent interest on all amounts left in the bank for a year or more. Un- ike the custom prevailing in state| and national banks, when a patron wishes to withdraw part of a deposit| made a few months previous, the government will date back the new| deposit check for the amount re- maining in the bank. Another fea- ture of the new bank will be the in- centive to children to save. A child will be able to procure a card for 10 cents, then buy stamps with its pen- nies and dimes received late and paste them on the card; when one dollar’s worth of stamps have been pasted on the card, it may be taken to the postoffice, where a certificate for a deposit of $1 will be issued to the child, and the stamps cancelled, the card being sent in to Washington. In speaking of the new banking de- partment this morning, Postmaster Erickson said, “The adminstration ex- pects these postal savings banks to persuade those foreigners and others who are afraid to trust their money to state and national banks o make deposits with the government, while the low rate of intersst will noc make the government a competitor of the other banks. Our savings bank de- partment will have only one deposit- ory in Bemidji until the system has been tried for three or six months. It will be one of the two national banks in this city but I shall receive my instructions later as to whicn one it will be.” HAS DEPOSITS OF $6,000,00( | New York City Bank Closed by State Superintendent. New Yerk, Dec. 28.—Superintendent of Banks O. H. Cheney has taken pos- session of the Northern bank of New York, having nine branches about the city. The institution has a capital stock of $700,000 and had a book surplus Nov. 10, 1910, of $185,965. Its deposits at that time were $6,912,583. The state banking department has been conducting an investigation and, according to Superintendent Cheney, it was decided to close it because of alleged irregular transactions said to have taken place while the examina- tion was in progress. D. C. SMYTH, Youngest of Family of Thirteen. “The others are no "spring chickens.' " SMYTH FAMILY REUNION Pioneer Resident of Bemidji Going to Ontario, to Meet Relatives. D. C. Smyth, one of the pioneer residents of Bemidji, custodian of the Crookston Lumber company’s reading room and clerk of the mu- nicipal court, will attend a family reunion at St. Charles, Ontario, New Years day. *“I am the young- est of 13 children, three girls and ten boys, so you can see the others are no ‘spring chickens,’ said Mr. Smyth this morning . Mr. Smyth will visit at his old home in Canada and then attend the reunion, which will be held at the home of his sister Mrs. J. M. Carder of St. Thomas. He expects to be gone a week or ten days. Thayer C. Bailey will attend to the duties of clerk of the municipal court during Mr. Smyth’s absence, and F. L. Bursley, alderman from the second ward, will have charge of the reading room. INSTALLED OFFICERS A. F. and A. M. and Eastern Star Held Joint Meeting Last Night. A joint installation of the officers of the Bemidji lodges, A. F. and A. M. and the Eastern Star, was held at the Masonic Hall last evening. Following the business meeting a social session was enjoyed and the ladies of the Eastern Star served supper to the members of the two lodges. A. F. and A. M. installed the fol- lowing officers: J. P. Riddell, Stanton, J. W.; J. H. Crouch, S. S.; M. E. Smith, J. W.; W. B. Stewart, treasurer; G. A. Walker, secretary; E. J. Bourguois, tiler. Mrs. G. E. Carson, who was re- cently re-elected worthy matron of the Bemidji lodge of the Eastern Star, was again installed, with the following officers: C. C. Crippen, patron; Mrs. A. B. Palmer, associ- ate matron; Mrs Cora Kreatz, con- ductress; Mrs Gertrude Ibertson, associate conductress;” Miss Beatrice Mills, secretary; Mrs. Florence Bren- neman, treasurer; Mrs. Margaret McDonald, Ada; Miss Anna Mills, Ruth; Mrs. J. E. Crouch, Hsther; Miss Eva Getchell, Martha; Mrs. Ackenbach, Electra; Mrs. Anna An- drews, Chaplain; Mrs. Grace Baker, marshall; Miss Eva Getchell, organ- ist; Mrs. Ruth Gould, wardress; Mr. Bert Getchell, sentinel. THREE TRAINMEN ARE KILLED Chicago and Alton Passenger Hits Freight. Kansas City, Dec. 28.—Three train- men were killed when train No. 2, known as the “Red Hummer,” on the Chicago and Alton railroad, struck a freight train near Farber, Mo. None of the passengers was injured, say the officials here. The passenger train struck the ca- boose of the freight, which had failed to clear the main track in going to a switch. Pullman Porters Organize. Chicago, Dec. 28.—About 200 Pull- man car porters met in Chicago for the purpose, it is said, of forming a union. The meeting was secret and very little of the proceedings became public. The union, when it is fully organized, will be along the lines of labor unions generally and will also have a death benefit feature. South Dakota Centenarian Dies. Renville, 8. D., Dec. 28.—Samuel T. Potter, who celebrated his 100th birth- day anniversary last fall, is dead. The old man had been in good health until a short time before his death. A son and several grandsons in Grant county survive. TAFT AND ROOSEVELT ARE AGAIN FRIENDS If Ever There Was A Break It Has Been Healed According to statements made in Washington by persons close to the administration President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt have been in close communication for many weeks past. The president, according to friends, has received and sent many letters to the colonel and has in other ways communicated with him almost daily for a long time and if there was any break between Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt those who ought to know say it has been healed. Their relations now are said to be as close as ever in the past. The letters and other messages that have passed between Messrs. | Taft and Roosevelt have not been | confined, it was sald, merely to the| triendly exchange of news of the| day. They have touched upon questions of domestic concern, In- ternational affairs and party poli- tics. Since the November elections Mr. Taft has seen William Lloyd, Jr., Lloyd Griscom, Herbert Par- sons and other New Yorkers who are close to the colonel and who are also friendly to the administration. Instead of a widening breach be- tween Taft and Roosevelt friends of the president see coming a closer allianc between the two men. In- istead of a dispute as to who shall control the New York delegation in the national convention of 1912 pol- iticians here say the forces of the president and the colonel will be brought together in an effort to swing that delegation to the form- er. The information that President Taft has kept up correspondence with Colonel Roosevelt is taken by many here to indicate more clearly the position he assumed recently to look with kindly eye upon the house ‘and senate progressives .There has been of late no line of distinction | between those who follow the ban- ners of Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon and the smaller contingent who think and act with Senators | Cummins, Bristow and others in the senate, and with Representative .|Norris and the other house pro-| gressives Commissioni Form of Government. The commission form of govern- ment puts the affairs of the city on a business basis and gives the people full control. Its essential features are the ini- -tiative, referendum and recall, with the administrative and legislative W.|duties and powers devolving upon an |M.; A. P. Ritchie, 8. W.; Dr. D. L. optional number of commissioners, all elected by the city at large. Each member of the commission has a department of the city gov- ernment in his charge and is re- sponsible for the administration of its affairs. Should he prove remiss, the people have in the recall an agency by which he can be removed, his successor being elected at a special election following close up- on the exercise of the recall. Not only are ward lines elimated under the commission form of gov- ernment, but partisan politics is excluded from municipal affairs. Candidates for places on the com- mission cannot run as membes of a political party, all party designa- tions being barred from the ballot. The result of this provision is that candidates are selected on their per- sonal merit, without regard to their political affiliations Under the commission form of gov- ernment, the public business is transacted by the commissioners on the same basis as that of the-suc- cessful private corporation, the com- missioners being in the same rela- tion to the people as are the direc- tors to the stockholders, with the advantage to the people of having the privilage of initiating measures and of exercise the recall when need- ful. Wastefulness -and delinquency are penalized under that system by forfeiture of “office, whereas under the present system the people must wait. for election day before they can rebuke unfaithful servants. .The commissioners devote all their time to the business of the -city and are paid a reasonable compen- sation. It is incumbent upon them to advance the interests of the whole city and all its people rather than those of a ward or part of a ward, of a party or a ring within a party.—Duluth Herald. Holiday Excussion Fares. To points in Michigan and East- ern Canada via The South Shore. Please apply to agents for particu- lars, INJUNGTION IS SEGURED Tri-State Seeks Permission to Erect | Phone Poles in Thief River Falls. | A temporary injunction has been secured by the Tri-St‘ne Telephone & Telegraph company in the federal court at Minneapofil against the city of Thief River Fa!ls, whereby the company seeks to compel the city to permit it to erect its poles and s‘ring wires within the city limits without interference by the city authorities: ~The wriii# returnable on Dec. 30,.and Attorney Guy Hal- vorsen will appear for Thief River Falls. The telephone company holds a franchise which it purchased from H. Frant, the original owner, three vears ago, grantiog the right to operate a local exchange. The city authorities claim this franchise is invalid and they do not desire the company to make further extensions of their lines nor any more improve- ments thereon. When the com- pany attempted to set a line of poles in one of the alleys two weeks ago, the work was stopped by the police force and the action indic- ated above has been started. A legal settlement is the only method of determining the rights of the two parties and it will be fought out to the limit. What makes the city desirous of preventing more improvements is the possibility of the voters deciding at some period to install a city owned system as an electric lighting plant and the water works are municipally owned and prove to be paying in- vestments. It is thought that a telephope exchange operated in a similar manner might also prove a wise move. Valuable Papers. Found. Valuable papers which were stolen from the Peltrami Elevator & Mill- ing company or Dec. 14, when the safe was blown open and the office wrecked. were found near the eleva- tor yesterday by “Mike” Downs, a switchman in the local- M. &L yards. Downs wasswitchipg some cars near the elevator’'when he noticed a heavy piece of copper half buried in the snow near the edge of the build- iog. He pulled i;\' t and found that it was the missing drawer to the elevator company’s safe, con- taining a large. number of mining shares and other papers, non-negoti- able. Mr, Downs immediately re- turned the property to. - the office, much to “the relief of T.S. Irvin, manager of the company.. Attend New Years Ball. At Armory Theatre, Saturday evening given ynder management of Armgry Co. Cordisl invitation ex- tended toall. Masten's Orchestra will play, Tickets $1.00, —Taylor in Los Angeles Times. MONOPLANE FALLS; 2 MEET DEATH Paris, Dec. 28.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)—At Issy to- day, Marquis Paulla and Alexander Laffon, chief pilot of Antointte, School of Aviation, were killed in an eighty-foot fall of their mono- plane. Laffon’s wife witnessed the tragedy Laffon was piloting the machine and Paulla, the owner, was a passenger. They were contesting for the purse of $20,000 offered for - the speediest two passenger flight from Paris to Brussels and return. The machine capsized. FIHE GASES REMOVED Judge Stanton Grants Canadian Northern Change to Federal Courts. Heotor Backster of St. Paul, United States attorney for the Ca- nadian Northern Railway company; today appeared before Judge C. W. Stanton in the district court and se- cured the transfer of six cases, brought by settlers in’ the northern part of Beltrami county against the Canadian Northern for alleged dam- age caused by fires set from the en- gines, to the federal court, each case involving an amount of $2,000 or over. Eighteen more cases, in each of which the amount of damage claimed is less than $2,000 but in which the total exceeds $32,000, are pending in the district court. As a foreign corporation, the Canadian Northern has the right to have cases involving amounts exceeding $2,000 tried in the federal courts. Mr. Backster stated this morning that in the Fifteenth and the Fourteenth judicial districts, the one just west of here, cases are pending against the Canadian Northern in which a total of over $80,000 is claimed for damage caused by fires alleged to have been started by engines belong- ing to the company. Mr. Backster wished to have many of the cases transfered to the United States courts but Judge Stanton per- mitted the change in only six in- stances, these being cases where the damages claimed were greater than the maximum allowed for trial in state courts. THREE CHILDREN CREMATED Were Locked in Home During Ab- sence of Mother. Glasgow, Ky., Dec. 28.-—Leaving her three children, aged five, three and one years, at home alone Mrs. Robert Boles of Wisdom, this county, found the house in ashes and the children burned to death when she returned. It was evident that the children had tried to get out, but when Mrs. Boles left home she locked the doors. 2 Wreck on New Haven Road. Pawtucket, R. I, Dec. 28.—A passen- ger train from Boston for Providence, on the New York, New Haven ant Hartford railroad, when just out of At- tleboro, crashed into the rear end of a freight train and seriously injured a flagman, Gilbert D. Smith. The pas- .sengers of the Boston traln were bad- 1y shaken up, but none of them was hurt. The accident was due to a dense fog. - |rare_ elsewhere. BEMIDJI FIREMEN ELECT Chief Earl Geil Re-elected to Head the Department; Doran Retained. At a meeting last evening the Be- midji Fire department held its an- nual election of officers and sub- committees. Chief Geil, who has been at the head of the department for several years, was re-elected, as was John Doran assistant chief. Albert Halverson, for many years secretary, resigned several days ago and “is: to-be’ succeeded by M. F. Cunningham. “John Gobdman was elected treagurer. ) The Firemens’ Relief association will bave as its president Herbert Doran, vice president George Han- son, secretary S. T. Stewart. A committee consisting of George Hanson, Fred Baumgardner and John Goodman were appointed to draw up resolutions as to the admit- tance of new members. D. R. Burgess, Ray Dennis and John Falls was named to form the finace committee. A lunch was served after the regular business had been transact- ed. Beale Again Escapes Jail. James Beale of Houpt, who was arrested last summer charged with baving set fire to a general store at Houpt, has broken jail for the second time, judging by a recent request which Sheriff A. B. Hazen received from Grand Rapids offering a re- ward of $25 for the capture of Beale. Beale was arrested at Houpt following the burning of a" stock of goods and taken to Grand Rapids. He managed to escape from the Itasca county bastile and worked his way across the country to Red Lake, where Deputy Sheriffs Seaman of Grand Rapids and Rutledge of Bemidji recaptured him. Beale was taken back to the "Rapids” but again escaped a few days ago. Flower Growing in Southern France. The climate in the South of France makes possible the growiag of flowers during the winter season, during which tume they are generally very : Taken before re- tiring a glass of golden grain belt beer -insures sound sleer and you awake rested and refreshed and good for a-hard’s work. Try it and be convinced. Order of your nearest dealer. B FORCE NEGRO SEGREGATIO! Baltimore’s Mayor Signs Ordinance of Drastic Character. Baltimore, Dec. 28.—Henceforth no white person may move into a block in Baltimore where the majority of the residents of that block are negroes, where the majority of the residents are white. This is the mandate laid down in by Mayor Mahool. It is expected the its constitutionality. CASS LAKE HAS PLAN T0 RESTORE SALOONS Contends That Special Act of Con. gress Authorizing Townsite Sale Abrogates 1855 Treaty. TWO ‘PIGS’ REPORTED THERE Said to Be Doing Thriving Business With No Prospects of Being In- terfered With. Rumers are afloat that Cass Lake has a “hunch” that she possesses a legal right to sell liquors and run as many saloons as she desires, “Pussy- foot” Johnson, antiquated Indian treaties, Secretary Ballinger, the In- dian bureau and the entire depart- ment of the interior not withstand- ing. Coincident with the announcement that Cass Lake is to resort to courts in an effort to reopen her saloons as quickly as possible comes the news, freely admitted by those who ought to know that there are two “blind pigs” doing a thriving business in that city. It is even said that Mayor Dumas himself is aware of the unlicensed sale of intoxicants but declares that there has been, and will be, no inter- ference with the sale of liquor in that village Cass Lake’s contention that she is entitled to saloons despite the In- dian treaty of 1855 is based on the ground that the townsite of Cass Lake was purchased from the govern- ment. It is further contended that this purchase was authorized by a special act of congress and that there were no restrictions whatever and the sale by the government abro- gates, so far as Cass Lake is con- cerned, that village. I will .be remembered that it was this town that so strenugualy. objected to the “lid” being applisd by the Indian burssu whed the or- der came out that her three ssloons’ must close, the original order belng postponed until Oct. 15,-%nd them, after Mayor Dumag had gone to Washington to confer with Secre- tary Ballinger, the order was again withdrawn, the saloons continuing to do business until a few weeks ago when they were closed by Spe- cial Agents Brents. It was said in Cass Lake at the time her saloons were closed that they would open again before long, but it was not given out on just what grounds the legality of the liquor business was expected to be established. Legal lights there began to delve into the ramifications of the treaty covered that the townsite had been purchased from the government and was, therefore, not under the obnoxious treaty provisions It is shown that there is & feeling in Cass Lake that, with saloons in Bemidji doing business and her own saloons closed, she was being discriminated against, and every effort is being made in certain quar- ters to do away with this alleged in- Jjustice, the contention being that this city profits at the expemse of Cass Lake by being an “open” town. It is freely said by those who favor saloons in Cass Lake that, since the saloons closed, business has been rather quiet. It is con- tended that the present effort is merely to show that Cass Lake is not affected by the 1855 treaty and that this is but an act of self pre- servation Cass Lake Resident Dies. Cass Lake, Dec. 28.—Charles Cota died at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Dan LiJly, yesterday of Brights disease after an illness of three months. Deceased was born in Marshish, Canada, January 17, 1836, where he resided for nearly forty years, having resided at Three Rivers, Canada, several years. Thirty-three years ago he moved to Morrison county, settling on a farm eight miles from Little Falls, where he resided until 1907 when he came to ‘Cass Lake and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Dan Lilly. Funeral services were held this ,|morning from the Catholic church and interment made in the Cass Lake cemetery, Reverend Father Korn- brust officiating. Mr Cota was the father of 13 children, seven of whom are now living. Special Services Next Week. service at the Presbyterian church. We trust there will be a large the so called E. H. West race segre- | 2umber who will set apart each eve- gation ordinance which has been signed ning next week for this purpose. ‘We cordially invite the public to act will be taken to the courts to test | join us in these services. S. E. P. White, Pastor. Next -Sunda; ing, Jai Y, 7 nor may & negro move into & block | o '11;":: g‘;;:’:n:; n'n:p:z“