Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 11, 1911, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, Q. E. CARSON: Extored In tho Pastottice st Somiditi' Minnvastei av- seeead claes mattor $6.00 PER YFAR 1N $DVANGE SUBSCRIPTIO The Bemidji Pioneer has es- tablished and will maintain a legislative_bureau at the state : capitol in St. Paul. ~Any of our : readers wishing- information - of any kind relative to-the work-of the legislature: copies of bills, when introduced, by whom, votes on mensures, status of pending legislation o anything in connec- tion with the proceedings of the lawmakers will be cheerfull furnished without cost. _ Such : information will be confidential : if desired. dress, Bemidjl : Pioneer Bureau, State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn, The Bemidji Pioneer is planning to keep abreast of . the times and will station its editor, F. A. Wilson, at”the state capitol during the entire . legislative session in order to keep its readers posted as to legislation which may or may not be of vital interest to nor- thwestern Minnesota. The question of reapportionment is one that the people of this section will not allow to be sidetracked and the move of the Pioneer is a good indica- tion of the temper of the people.—Detroit Record. THE STATE FAIR SQUABBLE. Without saying it in so many words, persons who have done a little investigating of the methods used for the Minnesota State Fair intimate that funds used in carrying on the institution are juggled entirely too freely for the good of all, or nearly all, concerned. As a result there is to be a com- plete reorganization ordered by the legislature and the Fair association will be placd upon a strictly busi- ness basis and will be in every sense a state organization. For 1lo; these many years, the newspapers of the state have been crying .out against reckless extrav- agance and have cried lustily for re- form. These appeals have borne some fruit but it remains for the pre- sent glaring inaccuries in the fin- ancial accounting to bring the true force of the State Fair evil to the notice of the legislature, the direct result of the governor’s board of audit. Incidently, the State Fair manag- ars are making a special bid for the friendship of the newspapers of the northwest, a thing that has largely been lacking for a long time. Dur- ing the last fair, shabby treatment of reporters caused the big Twin City papers to curtail their space for fair news, which was not a very good advertisement for the fair as- sociation. Now the fair manage- ment courts favor by inviting news- paper men to attend a banquet and express opinions as to the best way to handle the fair. One thing appears certain: radical changes are to be made. If the fair remains under the control of the pre- sent management it will only be under promise of reforms in many departments. However, it appears quite likely that the actual control of the big show will be vested by the legislature in the state board of con- trol. The awakening was tardy, but now that it has come it ought to mean a good deal to the citizens of Minnesota who, through the legis- lature, have appropriated thousands of dollars for the carrying on of the exhibition. A TRAGIC WARNING. During the past few days the tele- graph wires have flashed the follow- ing item throughout the country. Memphis, Tenn.—As a result of his impertinence toward pass- engers on an inbound Frisco train, Jim Dunham, a negro por- ter, was beaten to death. The negro made some impudent re- plies to passengers whose names cannot be ascertained and’ they beat him about the head and body until he was unconscious. Travelers who have had much to do with negro porters are not sur- prised that Jim Dunham was beaten to death and while most folks will be humane enough to admit that capi- tal punishment is extreme, there will be no general regret over the death of the African, which should stand as a warning to the colored men. A white man dosen’t care to suffer impudence at the hands of anyone, and much less from a negro. Never- theless, it is not unusual to have the jungle tell then and women who are unfortunate enough to have ‘to be tucked away in a sleeping car berth where to “head in at.” Then again our Ethiopian lover of tips, hears with a disdainful-smile the requests of his guests for the night. This evil is not peculiar to the south. As a matter of fact, the south. suffers least from the imper- tinence of these scamps because in the south they have reached that “higher” stage where brazenness on the part of a colored servant means dicipline, even to the tragic dici- pline that awaited Jim Dunham. It is not an infrequent complaint of passengers out of Bemidji that the porter service is not all it should be at all times, although be it said to their credit, there are porters on the trains between here and the cit- ies who are the acme of politeness and are obedient and wise enough to know that it is for their good to be obliging to passengers. Generally speaking the porter ser- vice comes a long way from being all that it should be and it only will im- prove when travelers decide that they have suffered in silence long enough. PRESIDENT WILL REPRIMAND SIMS Naval Officer Went Too Far in London Speech. PLEDGED AID TO ENGLAND Chief Executive, in a Letter to Secre- tary of the Navy Meyer Directing the Reprimand, Says the Comman- der’'s Offense Was So Conspicuous That the Reproof Should Be Equally So. Department's Washington, Jan. 11.—President Taft has decided that Commander W. S. Sims, the United States naval offi- cer who, at a recent dinner given in London by the mayor of that city, de- clared that if Great Britain ever was seriously threatened she could depend on “every man, every dollar, every drop of blgod” in this country, should be publicly reprimanded. “His offense. has been so conspic- uous,” said the president in his letter to Secretary of the Navy Meyer, di- recting the reprimand, “that the ac- tion of the department in reproving it should be equally so.” The president says that whenever an officer of the American navy “is called upon in a foreign country to speak in public, so that what he says will necessarily be brought to the at- tention of the people of other foreign countries, it is his obvious duty to avoid invidious comparisons and to limit his speech and his expressions of friendship for the country whose guest he is to language that will not indicate a lack of friendship toward other coun- tries. “The navy is used much as an in- strument of peace. One of the chief functions that its officers perform when they visit foreign ports is the representative one of conveying to all nations the good will of the United States. They are under special obliga- tions to see to it that what they do or shall say shall not embarrass their government in foreign nations.” Commander Sims cannot escape censure, the president holds, “on the ground that what he said was a mere expression of his personal opinion; un- der the circumstances he must speak as an oflicial representative and he should have known that the words he used would at once call for severe comment in other countries than Great Britain and might involve this gov- ernment in explanations and disclaim- ers.” LOWER TRIBUNAL REVERSED Appellate Court Gives Automobile Combine Hard Blow. New York, Jan. 11.—The United States circuit court of appeals re- versed the decision of Judge Hough rendered in September, 1909, when he upheld the validity of the Selden auto- mobile patent. This patent is on the basic prin- ciple of the application of power to motor vehicles and the decision is far- reaching in its effects. The Selden patent seeks to control the manufacture of virtually all gaso- line automobiles in America. Many of the manufacturing companies hold licenses under that patent; but there are many others which operate inde- pendently and in defiance of the pat- ent. Under the ruling the ground for contest between the licensed and un- licensed dealers is removed unless the scope of the Selden patent is changed by a subsequent ruling of the United States supreme court. MADE DESPERATE BY HUNGER Wolves Attack Alaskan Their Cabins. Seattle, Jan. 11.—Several residents of the west coast of Prince of Wales island, southeast of Alaska, have been killed and eaten by wolves, according to Charles A. Sulzer, a brother of Con- gressman Sulzer of New York, who has just returned from the north. Mr. Sulzer says that the wolves, having killed off all the deer, have be- come desperate with hunger and now Settlers in lordly descendants of the African go up to the doors of the cabins of the mulzera. WILL VOTE o OUST LORIMER Crawford of South Daketa Attacks Illinois Senator. LATTER KNEW OF BRIBERY In Speech in Senate South Dakota Member Asserts That He Is Person- ally Convinced lllinois Man Knew of Crooked Deals Being Made to Secure His Election—Criticises the Methods of Illinois Party Leaders. Washington, Jan. 11.—In an ex- haustive and specially prepared speech Senator Coe I. Crawford of South Da- kota denounced the alleged methods employed by agents of Senator Will- fam Lorimer in the legislature of Illi- nois and declared it his conviction that Mr. Lorimer was not entitled to retain his seat in the upper branch of congress. More than usual interest attached to the speech, because Mr. Crawford took a stand directly opposite to that ‘occupied by his colleague, Mr. Gam- ble. In the face of Mr. Lorimer’s re- peated protestations of innocence Senator Crawford flatly charged that Lorimer was. cognizant of the ques- tionable practices of his lieutenants. “1 regret to say it,” declared Mr. Crawford, “but I am personally con- vinced that Mr. Lorimer knew enough about what was going on at Spring- field to put a reasonably prudent man upon inquiry; that Shurtleff and Browne were his political agents and that he ratified their acts and accept- ed the fruits of their corrupt prac- tices, of which he must at least have had some knowledge—and that he was not legally and duly elected to a seat in the senate of the United States by the legislature of Illinois.” Senator Crawford began by review- ing the testimony taken by the senate sub-committee of the committee on privileges and elections, which was instructed to inquire into charges against Mr. Lorimer. His study of the testimony, he said, had forced him, reluctantly, to arrive at a conclusion different from that of the majority of the committee. Resuit of Prearranged-Plot. The evidence, in his opinion, showed conclusively that the election of Mr. Lorimer was the outcome of a care- fully laid plan, beginning with the election of Edward Shurtleff, whom he described as a “bitter enemy of Sen ator Hopkins and a political hench- man of Mr. Lorimer,” to be speaker of the legislature and Lee O’Neil Browne to be the leader of the minority. “A game was being played,” said Mr. Crawford, “in which at the very beginning all party principle was abandoned, the expression of the party vote at the primary was unceremoni- ously disregarded and the control of the house was seized by unscrupulous and unprincipled men with dark lan- tern schemes to promote.” The senator carefully analyzed the évidence of alleged bribery, which, he said, proved t6 his satisfaction that money was used in the garnering of Yotes for Mf. Lorimer. Shurtleff and Browné wefe the active agents in the eampaign of corruption, contended the senator, and he charged that Mr. Lor- imer. was aware of what was being done Mr. Crawford concluded by an- nouncing that he stood ready to vote for a resolution to unseat Mr. Lorimer, DELAY IN HIGH DAM HEARING Matter May Not Be Settled for Some Time. ‘Washington, Jan. 11.—The hearing that was to have been held before the senate committee on commerce on the amendment to the rivers and harbors appropriation bill relative to the high dam for the Twin Cities was post- poned because the war department had not submitted its report showing what part of the cost of the project may be charged properly against the water power feature of the improve- ment. No date was set for the hear- ing, but Representatives Stevens and Nye will ke notified and asked to ap- pear before the committee when the department has sent in the figures. It is possible that final decision as to what is to be done with the water power to be created by the high dam will be deferred for a year. Yeggmen Wound Officer. Minneapolis, Jan. 11.—After shoot- ing and painfully wounding Mounted Patrolman James J. McGuire of the East Side station, three yeggmen fired their revolvers into the air until as- sistance arrived and then fled. Patrol- man McGuire was hurried to the city hospital, where it was said that, al- though his wound is painful and will incapacitate him for some time, it is mot serious. Would Disfranchise llliterates. Denver. Jan. 11.—In his message to the Colorado ' legislature ‘Governor John F. Shafroth recommended the disfranchisement of illiterates to pre- | vent election frauds. At the caucus of Democratic members of the legis- lature Champ Clark was endorsed for speaker of the mational hcuse of rep resentatives. HOUSE |;A_SSES PENSION BILL Measure Benefits Those Serving Nine- ty Days in Civil War. Washington, Jan. 11.—The house of representatives passed the Sulloway general pension bill, which grants pen- sions ranging from $12 to $36 a month to all soldiers who served ninety days in the United States army in the Civil war, or sixty days in the Mexican war, and who have reached the age of sixty-two years. The Dbill adds about $45,000,000 a year to the pension roll. Night Riders in Missouri. | St. Joseph, Mo,, Jan. 11.—News has| reached Si. Joseph of the burning of | the tobacco barn and 20,000 pounds of tobacco belonging to W. W. Kyle, a| grower living about ten miles north-| west of Weston, in the new tobacco| growing country. The fire was of in- cendiary origin, it is said, and night riding is feared. JOHN G. 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CHANGE IN TIME On and after january ist, 1911, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry. trains will arrive and depart from SO0 LINE UNION STATION Sixth Avenue West and Superior Street FACIAL DULUTH Defects QUICKLY GDHHEGIED LEAVE The chief surgeon of the Plastic Surgery Institute quickly rights all wrongs with the human face or features without knife or pain to the entire satisfaction and de- light of every patient. Thework is as lasting as lifeitself. Ifyou have a facial irregularity of any kind write Plastic Surgery lnshtnte Comer Sixth and Hennepin Train No. 8, dai.y (for all points east)............... veeeeeenen 6:15 PO ML Train No. 6, daily except Sunday (for local points) 45 A. M. ARRIVE Train No. 7, daily........occovcinmmiiiiiniiinnnn.,. 10:30 AL ML Train No. 5, daily except Sunday.....................................5:40 P. M. it