Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 7, 1911, Page 1

- BEMIDJ1 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. AILY PIONEER. VOLUME 8. NUMBER 264. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENINGA JANUARY 7, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. STEFHENS HGHT FUH | Saugstad contest smoulders, but when SENATE SENSATION | it does belch forth its fire it is apt to be a volcano that will rock the state. I Sunday Sermons in Bemidji I Episcopal. Sunday school at 10. Reverend stad, “Sticker” Rival. il"arshall wnll' conduct the regular Sunday serviceat 8 p. m. Crookston Banker Files Notice of Contest in Senate Against Saug- “ | | Methodist. BOTH MEN GO TO ST. PAUL; Services in the Masonic Temple. | Preaching at 10:45 and 7:30. Morn- - |ingisubject “As Thou Wilt.” FEven- Latter, Confident of His Seat, Sworn t ing subject, “Wilt Thou be Made | Whole?” Special music. Sunday in, But Interesting Develop- |gchool at 12. Epworth League at i + ments Seem Certain Soon. 6:30. Special program has been | prepared. The pastor will lead. i'Vaur are invited to worship with | us. The Bemidji Pioneer has es- tablished and will maintain a legislative_bureau at the state itol in St. Paul. _Any of our s wishing information of any kind relative to the work of thé legislature: ~copies of bills, Baptist. i i i l Bible class 10. Morning service 111. Subject—"An old Truth Re- when introduced, by whom, votes : | vived.” :15, A oo Mensires, Slatls of pending 1vnrefl. Sunday schoo]"12‘1.. B. | cgislation or anything in connec- '8 jic— - tfon with the proceedings of the . | Y+ P- U. 7. Topic—"Blessed-to e W P gheertully : | Bless.” Evening severice 8:00. ucl [ furnished without cost. information will be confidential if desired. ~Address, Bemidji Pioneer Bureau, State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. | Subject—"The most popular verse “in the Bible.” Everyone made wel- ... .. % |come. Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau ! (By F. A. Wilson) Swedish Lutheran. St. Paul, Jan. 7.—Tt is likely that | Sunday school at 9:30. Regular the Stephens-Saugstad contest will| morning service at 10:30. Evening [ develope into a sensational episode | Service at 7:45. in the senate. Mr. Saugstad has| been sworn in as a senator, but Sen- | German Lutheran. ator Stephens' notice of contest has| Service at the Baptist church Sun- been placed on file. It will be remembered that Mr.! Stephens, | day afternoon at 3 o’clock. | | who, as senator Presbyterian. Crookston, has long been known asj Tomorrow at the morning service one of the keenest and ablest poli-|we will observe our quarterly Com- tical leaders of the state, won the | munion service. We earnestly de- republican nomination over John |sire all members to be present. | Saugstad, the latter being a county| Bible class and S. S. 12:15. Young | option candidate. Mr. Saugstad | People’s Prayer meeting at 7. Even- was dissatisfied with the result of the |ing Gospel service at 8. The public primaries and his name was herald- |is cordially invited to worship with ed as a “sticker” candidate and in | us. this way he won out over Mr. Steph-| ens. | Card of Thanks. Senator Stephens believed the elec-| We wish to extend our thanks to tion of Saugstad had been accom-|the friends and neighbors who so plished by over zealous friends of | kindly assisted us in the death and the county optionists, even to the ex- ‘ burial of our son. Especially do we tent of adopting illegal tactics at the | desire to tbank Mrs. Rensville and polls. A recount was ordered and| Mrs. Cline for assistance, and the the result will be known within :hef M. W. A. Lodge for floral tribute. next few days, but it is not likely3 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Thorsness. that, after all illegal ballots, as| construed by those in charge of the recount, will show any material re- duction of the Saugstad plurality o some more than 200 votes. ! Duluth Policeman Slain After Making Arrest. from Senator Stephens was in St. Paul | the first of the week, but his trip was brief and he gave out nothing for publication. Senator Saugstad, however, was | ready to talk, tell it all and then re-‘ peat it. To him it would be the| grossest injustice to deprive him of a| HAD HELD UP HOSTELRY seat in the senate. | “They have had a fair recount| and after having thrown every vote| Youthful Highwaymen Were Dis- that the supreme court has held| charged Employes of the Place and could not be counted, T still am the| Secured $50 From Night Clerk at victor by a safe lead. Point of Pistols—Murdered Officer Effected Their Capture and Was Taking Them to Lockup When| Shot to Death. “As for the senate seriously con- sidering the plan of throwing me| out of my seat, I canot believe that| so intelligent a body would be nar-| Duluth, Jan. 7.—William Muzzary, row and unjust.” aged twenty, and Algot Johnson, aged seventeen, discharged bellboy and night porter, respectively, of the Hotel McKay, held up, robbed and shot at the night clerk and escaped with $50 Nevertheless Mr. Saugstad will sleep more soundly when the contest finally is settled. It is freely ad- mitted that Senator Stephens would be given a hearty welcome back to his old seat in the senate if members of that body can convince themselves that there was an injustice done him at the polls. Then, hundreds of miles from being in love with county option. However, it is not likely that the senators would permit this prejudice to unjustly un- seat Saugstad, in case of a close de- cision, this would act in favor of Mr. Stephens. It is hinted by opponents of Sen- ator Stephens that should he be given Saugstad’s seat that twenty- five senators would at once resign. In reply to this a friend of the Crookston senator said: “Oh, that would be too good to be true. All we hope to do is to seat Stephens, and we can hardly ex- pect to get rid of all the senate riff raff at the same time.” too, the senate is several belonging to the hotel. They were arrested and placed on a street car after a chase through the Interstate bridge district. While being taken back to the city they asked that they be allowed to go inside the car, which request being granted one of the youthful bandits pulled a revolver from a pocket that had escaped the attention of Policeman Harry Ches- more, who had made the arrest, opened fire on that officer and killed him after shooting him twice in the lungs and once in the forehead. The robbers then held up the pas- sengers and crew of the street car and made good their escape over the Northern Pacific railroad bridge, it is believed. The two bandits have thus far evaded the police and citizens, a large crowd of the Ilatter having joined in the man hunt. Automobiles, motor cycles and the entire police force have been thrown into the saw mill district, where the robbers may be. Out on the ice of St. Louis bay policemen have been stationed to pre- vent an escape into Wisconsin. As the bandits are heavily armed it is thought that when their place of-| COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT WILL WRESTLE TONIGHT Person and Fraction to Meet on Mat This Evening. Although the commission form of government has been in operation only seven months in Sioux City,| At the Armory opera house this Towa, it has shown much greater|evening Joe Fraction, of Montana, efficiency than the old system, ac-|and Ch‘rls Person, of Duluth, will cording to A. A. Smith, mayor of that | wrestle, the style being catch-as- city. In answering The Herald’s list | catcli-can, the winer of the contest to of questions, Mayor Smith says that|take 60 per cent of the gate re- there has been a slight reduction in | ceipts. ficials of the city hope to make the Person, as a wrestler, has a rep- reduction greater next year. utation of being ofle of the best men In giving his opinion as to the|in the state, and if_ is expected that chief merits of the commission plan |he wil be better than ever in this Mayor Smith writes: evening’s contest of strength. “The mayor and four councilmen Fraction, is frox_n Montana, and are paid fair salaries and give their|more than that we canot say, except entire time to the affairs ofthe city. |that he is a big husky looking chap, Council meetings may be held at any | broad shoulders with a neck like a time. - The mayor and councilmen | bull. can visit any part of the city on a There is quite a difference in the few minutes’ notice and investigate | weight of the men, Person’s weight matters requiring attention. All are|being 200 pounds and that of Frac- elected at large and there is no par-|tion only 172. tisianship in elections of appoint-| The main match of the evening ments. Each is head of a depart-|will be preceded by two or three ment and responsible for it, so there | fast preiiminary.,’ contests, as there can be no evasion of responsibility.” | are four or fiyegyoung wrestlers in The population of Sioux City is|Bemidji who will no doubt be heard 47,828 according to the 1910 census. | of as experts on the “mat” before The commission plan was adopted at|long, the preliminaries will undoubt- an election Feb. 15 of this year, the|edly be above the average. charter being drafted as provided by It is the effort of the management the Towa state law. The plan had | to give the people of Bemidji, a good, | worked well for two years in Des|square, clean match and if these| Moines and Cedar Rapids in lowa and | methods are supported by the lovers in other cities in other states, and|of the “mat” art in this city, other careful study led the people of Sioux | contests wil be aranged for in the City to believe it was the proper sys- | near future. =~ While if there is nct} tem of municipal government. | 2 good attendance at the Armory to- | Mayor Smith says that, although |night, it is more than likely that| the plan cannot be abandoned until | there will be no more wrestling con- six years after adoption, he does not | tests in the city. believe that there would be any pub- lic sentiment in favor of a return to the old system. No weaknesses have been noticed since the new plan has been in oper- it i ioux City. Ma; ith & i adon: tnifloux:Olty vor Smith | {on insanity cases during the year writes: 1910. Twelve of these were found “The plan works well here because | i larl | to be of unsound mind and committed - f;‘" c‘;“"“ men are ‘:,““ 181V 40 the hospital for the insane at Fer- well fitted for their respec we‘pos\- gis Falls. 'Ths othier five lie found tions. It might be that councilmen to be sane and so they were acquitt- elected would be fitted for one de- partment, as finance and accounts, = and not wel qualified for any of the others, but as there is usually no| dearth of candidates, the voters could take care of this contingency.”—Du- luth Herald. Tried Seventeen Insane Cases. M. A. Clark, judge of the Beltrami county probate court, announced this morning that he had examined seven- Figure It Out For Yourself. If you want a hard case there is the case of a man who late at night bought a bottle of whisky at a public house—price, 8s. 6d.—says the London Globe. He handed over a five pound note, and the publican would not change it. “All right,” said the cus- tomer. “Give me the whisky and 16s. 6d. and keep my five pound note.” Next morning the customer came in, planked down four sovereigns and #aid, “Give me back my five pound note and we shall be straight” The publican and the sinner looked at each other. Can you tell at a glance which got the better of the bargain when the customer went away with his five pound note in his pocket? Woman Killed by Street Car. Fort Madison, Ia., Jan. 7.—Miss Min- nie Nelle, forty-six years old, part pro- prietor of one of the largest depart- ment stores here, was killed by a street car when returning from church. Where Time Doesn’t Count. A party of East Indian natives were b found sitting in a row on the plat.| The question puzzled a whole office form of a station after the traln had | full of literary, financial, sporting, left, and, being asked the reason, one | Philosophical and editorial men—until of the men replied, “Oh, sahib, we are | it reached a girl of eighteen who is en- waiting till the tickets are cheaper.” | g2ged In dealing with cash. All the e e———— rest were calculating Sn paper and A Nice Bull. reaching the result by devious ways. An Irishman, quarreling with au | The cash girl saw it in a flash of the Englishman. told him If he didn’t hold eye. Do you? Shut your eyes and do his tongue he would “break his im; | it in five seconds if you wish to beat penetrable hend and let the brains | the cash girl: out of his empty skull.” STATE WILL OBSERVE NATIONAL GORN DAY Promoters of Columbus Show, Which Will Be Held Next Month, Set Date. MINNESOTA TO SEND DELEGATES “No Reason Why Minnesota Should Not Be Best Corn State in the Union” Says Welsh. St. Paul, Jan. 7.—Governor Eber- hart has given his approval to the plan of the promoters of the Nation- al Corn Show to be held in Columbus, Ohio to observe Friday, February 3 as National Corn Day. The govern- or set his stamp of approval on the plan when he appointed 100 dele- gates from Minnesota to the Colum- bus show. Following the governor’s sanction of the plan it was suggested that the people of Minesota have a cora din- ner on February 3. Professor C. P. Bull, of the department of agron- omy, Minnesota College of Agricul- ture, says it will be easy to fix up a palatable menu and has suggested the following: Corn Soup, Illinois Style. ' Corn Fritters, Illinois Corn Syrup. Corn Pone, Southern Fashion. Scalloped Corn, a la Minnesota. Towa Corn Bread Parched Corn Corned Beef, So. St. Paul Style. Corn Starch Pudding, Bourbon Sauce Parched Corn “Coffee” Corn Cob Pipes, (Missouri.) Minnesota, according to George P. ‘Welsh, state- immigration commis— sioner, has better reason for celebra- ting Corn Day than any other state in the union. “There was a time,” said Mr. Welsh, “when everybody thought Minnesota was too far north to produce corn in any quantity. | But we have fooled those skeptical persons in the last few years. Our | agricultural experts have found that the Minnesota soil is as good for corn as it is for wheat and the whole world knows about our wheat. Corn is now being raised throughout the 405 miles of the state’s length from Towa to the Canadian border. The yield last year was 58,000,000 bush- els and in 1909 it was 60,000,000. The decrease was due to the fact that fewer acres were planted in 1910.” Official figures show that Iowa having been excelled already, Illinois will soon have to look to her laurels asacorn producing state if Minnesota keeps up her achievement in this branch of agriculture. Thousands of acres of fine corn lands are lying beneath swamps, muskegs and tim- ber lands in Northern Minesota and thousands of acres of tiled lands are devoted to wheat, yet the average yield per acre for 1909 in Minnesota was 34.8 bushels as against 35.9 THAT WAR TALK. i P, & In the meantime the Stephens- concealment is discovered -tifere” o sibly will be a gun' fight.” DON'T MIND THIS WAR TALK, UNCL| ITS ALL BOSH bushels for Illinois and 31.5 bushels for Iowa. In the southern part of Minesota the average yield per acre is more than 45 bushels. _ The states average yield per acre in 1910 was 32.5 bushels. The Illinois and Towa figures are not available but it is understood that they made a better showing than in 1909. “Minnesota would be the best corn producing state in the Union if the farmers only took more care in its culture and were as good corn breed- ers as those of Iowa and Illinois,” continued Commissioner ~ Welsh. “The corn crops are not rotated as they should be, as Minnesota farmers prefer to make a specialty of wheat raising, thinking that they can do better by raising a crop that many other states cannot raise. There was no crop failure in Minesota last year. With the corn yield 58,000,- 000 bushels and the wheat yield 94,- 080,000 bushels conditions about the same as in 1909.” were MAY AFFECT STEENERSON New Congressional District May Change Boundaries of Ninth. Halvor Steenerson of Crookston, present member of the lower house of congress from this district, may be directly affected by the recent an- nouncement of the census of Min- nesota, as it means that the state legislature now in session must re- vise the congressional districts, add- ing one to the nine now in existance. The new district will have to be put in somewhere between the fourth fifth, eighth and this (the ninth) districts. Just how the carving up of the ninth district would affect the ter- ritory now represented by Congress- man Steenerson can not be antici- pated until the legislature has made some sort of a preliminary canvass of the problem. Minneapolis yearns for a new member but Hennepin county is large enough for two under the ratio of one to every 212,000, but her pop- ulation is 100,000 more than is re- quired for one member. But it is alsg true that the ninth is entitled to consideration on the same ground and to a less extent this is true of the fifth, eighth and third. Frank Remly Closes “Shop.” Frank Remly, who has been con- ducting a five and ten cent store on third street, between Beltrami and Bemidji avenues, has sold the prop- erty to Messrs. A. B. Palmer and Floyd Brown. Mr. Palmer will take possession of the hardware portion of the store and Mr. Brown will take the dishes and crockery. Mr. Remly has been in business for the past year. - IMPORTS OF LUXURIES GROW Increase Over 1909 Amounts to About $19,000,000. ‘Washington, Dec. 7.—If figures may be taken as a criterion the year 1910 was a most prosperous one in the im- ports of commodities commonly termed luxuries. The bureau of sta- tistics has compiled figures relative to the importation of diamonds and other precious stones, laces, art works, wines, tobacco and manufactures thereof and other articles of like char- aoter. These show an immense in- crease when compared with the im- ports of similar articles for the previ- ous year. The importation of dia- monds and other precious stones for the fiscal year 1910 aggregated $48,- 000,000, while in 1909 they reached $29,000,000, and in 1908, a year of gen- eral ‘business depression, they fell to $16,750,000. Automobiles, art works, laces, furs, feathers, wines, liquors, tobacco, dec- orated chinaware and other articles were imported in large quantities. The total value of imports of this charac- ter will reach between $200,000,000 and $300,000,000. Packers Increase Capial. Chicago, Jan. 7.—At the ‘annual meeting of stockholders of Swift & Co. the capital stock was increased from $60,000,000 to” $75,000,000. The report for 1910 shows a gross business of $250,000,000 and met profits of $7,- 050,000. Sin to Read Certain Papers. Lyons, France, Jan. 7—The arch- bishop of Lyons has issued a dioces- san decree. forbidding Catholics read- ing four republican-mnewspapers pub- lished in the diocese and declaring the reading the paper a sin. IPUBLIC SCHOOLS REOPEN MONDAY New Half Year Subjects Will Be Add- ed to Second Semester High School Program. NO' CHANGE AMONG TEACHERS Chemical Laboratory Has Been Im- proved During Vacation—New Students May Enter. Bemidji public schools will re- open after the Christmas vacation next Monday morning. The grade and also the high school personnel of teachers will remain the same as before the recess, with the exception that Miss Ruth Whitt- ing, who was forced to leave her position early in the school year be- cause of her health will resume her duties as kindergarten instructor. The second school semester will begin in two weeks, and at that time three or four half-year subjects will be added to the high school pro- gram, so as to enable the pupils who took up half-year subjects at the start of the school year to con- tinue through the remainder of the year, hereby adding another half credit to their list. In speaking of the matter of add- ing the new subjects, Superintend- ant Dyer, of the Bemidji schools said this morning: “We intend to add civics and high- er algebra to the program of studies, at the beginning of the new semes- ter, and possibly one or two other half year subjeets-will also be start- ed, if there is sufficient demand for them. If there are any new students who would like to begin school at this time, they may doso, by taking up the new half-year studies we will offer.” A new hood has been added to the chemical laboratory during the va- cation, which is for the purpose of allowing all gas fumes and odors to escape. The establishing of this hood in the laboratoy makes the Be- midji high school chemical depart- ment one ofthe most complete of any high school in the state. MANY MARRIED IN 1910 One Hundred and Sixty-seven Li- censes Issued Last Year. Fred Rhoda, clerk of the district court, announced this morning that he issued 167 marriage licenses dur- ing the year just passed. Mr. Rhoda says that he usually issues not less than 250 licenses a year. Judges W. S. McClenahan, C. W. Stanton and B. F. Wright, of the fifteenth Jjudicial district, granted thirty di- vorces to Beltrami county residents during 1910. Kitichi Postoffice Burned. On Tuesday night a fire which completely destroyed the postoffice and the home of the postmaster at Kitichi occured. Nothing was saved from the building except the postoffice furniture and material. S.-M. Schaak the postmaster lost everything including all the clothes of his wife and family. George Cochran, Jr., the Bemidji contract- or, consented to allow Mr. Schaak to occupy one of his empty logging camps. Jewett Moves to Bemidji. C. W. Jewett, manager of the Blackduck Electric and Telephone Company, has retired from that posi- tion and wil go into the automobile busines here in Bemidji. The electric light plant business at Blackduck wil be managed in the future by M. D. Stoner, of this city, along with his other interests at Blackduck. Mr. Jewett wil move his family to this city in the near future. s