Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 20, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIO VOLUME 8. NUMBER 275. ‘BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. T0 DRINK ON TRAIN T0 BE MADE CRIME Intoxication on Part of Passengers Will Be Prevented if Proposed Legislative Action is Taken. SENATE SQUABBLE OVER ‘U’ CASH Country Members Alert When More Is Asked in Addition to Origi- | nal $4,500,000. | 5 (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau St. Paul, Jan. 20.—For the first!| time during the present session bolhi houses of the Minnesota Legislature | are putting in four days of real work. Until today, it has been the practice to adjourn Thursday over Sundzzy.I There is so much important work | now facing the lawmakers that both | branches decided to convene on Fri-| day. ; KKK | A combined effort is on to stop the | disorderly scenes created by drunk-| en men on railroad trains in Minne- sota. This is of peculiar interest to northern Minnesota because the! sturdy, but thirsty, lumber-jack is| a notorious offender in this regard. Senator Frank Clague of Red| Wood Falls has taken up the ques- tion in the Senate by introducing a| P | bill similar to one already in the| House, which makes it unlawful for1 any person to enter a railroad train| in an intoxicated condition. The bill further provides that no! passenger shall drink -intoxicating liquor on board any train except in| a compartment licensed to sell liquor | or liquor lawfully served under pro-| tection of a license. Persons or corporations who vio-| late this law may be fined from $25 to $100 or imprisoned from 30 to| 90 days in a county jail. | The conductor is given summary authority to make arrests with or without a warrant. thus arrested will be turned over by the conductor at the first station to| any policeman or constable who will make out the complaint and bring| the offender before the justice of the| peace for trial. | Conductors are authorized to' take liquor, giving the owner a receipt, and the owner may redeem his liquid property within ten days by present- ing same. * KK Another bill having for its pur- pose an improvement of the public morals was introduced yesterday by Senator Ole Sageng of Dalton which, if it becomes a law, will make it un- lawful to play baseball on Sunday. Two years ago, at the solicitation of St. Paul and Minneapolis, a bill per- mitting Sunday baseball was passed. Senator Sageng now attempts to have | this bill repealed. * KX | The names of the five members who are to visit Beltrami and ad- joining counties to investigate thel needs of probably be announced early next week and the committee will the forest fire sufferers! will go north as soon thereafter as prac- ticable. x KK It now appears as if the Stephens- Saugstad contest would be the last of the three election contests to be considered by the senate. The Ah- mann contest is the first to be decid- ed and it is planned to take up the Farrington-Froshaug contest next. In the mean- time Mr. Saugstad is performing the duties of senator which may be taken away from him when Mr. Stephens’ mass of testi- mony is placed before the Senate. Unfavorable action by the Senate El- ections committee would not be a surprise to Mr. Stephens’ friends and this would leave the real fight for the floor of the Senate. . * KK There is considerable antagonism on the part of the Legislature to what some members consider extrav- agant demands for appropriations | to respond to several encores. { for the state university. | Z | |amount requested by the board of| More After January Thirty-first. | Such person | Bella Italia Troupe, who are making! a Hit at the Brinkman Theatre BELLA ITALIA TROUPE | foot- i | Show wf Brivkman Theatre Lastifout ball contest, is not as strong as| Evening Scored Hit of Season. Those who attended last evening’s entertainment at the Theatre were The which played treat. house last evening and will continue | the foot-ball season. i there the rest of the week conmsists | of five members and each member isgmidfl will have one old basket-ball a competent musician. is refined and up to the minute in|LoOuis Larson who will play centre,| and all music lovers| Moritz and Elletson at forwards and | |in Bemidji should not let the oppor- | SPencer and McDonald at guards are every respect, tunity of seeing and hearing this ex. traordinary attraction go by. This act has appeared as the leading at-| | [traction in all the best and higher| | priced vaudeville houses in this coun- | try and abroad. At both perform-| ances last night on the various se-| lections rendered they were forced 3 | | The total | | regents amounts to nearly $4,500,-| 1000, On top of this a request was| | made of the Senate, yesterday, toj pass an appropriation for $50,000 for the Elliott Memorial Hall f\lrv“ | nishings on the University campus. Senator Nelson thought an itemized | list of these furnishings should be | given. This caused a sharp tilt| | between the city and country mem- bers over the general proposition of appropriations for the university. The city members were eloquent in| their defense of shoveling out the coin while the country members, ad-| mitting that the university should | be properly cared for declared they | had to answer to their constituents| and intimated that said constituents | never go into raptures over big ap- Out of the total amount requested by the board of regents, $1,500,000 is to be used by the agricultural college and its sub stations at Morris, Crookston and Grand Rapids. A levy of a half | mill tax to supplant the present .23 | tax is urged for the general support | of the unieversity. 1 KK | | | | | propriations for the university. Dr. Marclay, who has been super- intendent of the Walker sanitarium, leaves to assume his duties as secre- tary of the new tuberculosis com- mission of the state. His place at Walker is to be filled by Dr. L. D. at Walker. LR George H. Mattson of Roseau county got the largest mileage of | any member of the House, 840 miles, receiving $126 in cash. Donald }Robertson of Argyle was second with | $102 and Knute S. Aaker of Neils-| | ville, third with $96. | |GRANTED NUMEROUS PATENTS |Peter K. Dederick, Prolific Inventor, Dies in Florida. reached here of the death at Daytona, Fla., of Peter Kells Dederick of this city, who at one time had held more patents both in the United States and foreign countries than any other man in the world. Abcut 300 American apd foreign patents were granted to him, mostly for agricultural machinery. His hay- bailing apparatus was the means of starting the hay shipping industry, which has increased the value of hay flelds the world over. Brinkman | indeed given a rare Bella Italia Troupe} at this popular play- Their act|Plaver in their lineup, this being | big boom soon, which is sure to con- Ohlinger who has been an assistant | | profit on the printing could be made Albany, N. Y, Jan. 20.—Word has | BEMIDJI PLAYS DEER RIVER| Fast High School Basket Ball Fives Meet Saturday Night. Two fast high school basket ball‘ fives will meet tomorrow evening on the Bemidji floor when the teams re- presenting this city and Deer River} clash. | Since the defeat of last Saturday | by the Fosston quint the Bemidji boys have been practicing in a new spirit, seemingly having realized | that to win they must practice and practice hard. It was expected up till last even- ‘ing that Captain Neuman of thei | Bemidji team would take part in the | ! Deer River contest but because ofi éthe fact that his arm, which was [bmken in the Crookston-Bemid)'iE |had been expected it would be, he | 1wm not be allowed to enter the §contest by Coach Robinson. The; {loss of Neuman will be seriously| felt by Bemidji. Deer River is said to possess a fast aggregation of basketball toss- ers, and as they did not put a foot- ball team on the field last fall, their | boys practiced basket ball all during In the game tomorrow evening Be- in the game for the first time this| year. Chamberlain, Peck, Morrison, | Ripple, Bailey and Barber will likely | be given a chance in the contest. 1 STOP PRINTING ENVELOPES Postal Department Will l’ri.ntVNV'o | Postmaster General Hitchcock an- nounced that after January the gov- ernment will discontinue the printing of stamped envelopes and recom- mends that the same be done by the local newspapers and by special per- mit for the towns nearest the news- paper where a town has no paper of | its own. No large town will be al-| lowed to have a monopoly on the| printing of the envelopes to the detriment of the smaller newspapers. A uniform scale of printing will be prepared by the postoffice depart- ment and insisted upon or the news- papers will not be sold stamped enve- lopes for printing. The scale of printing will be such that a reason- able profit can be made by the office printing them. The department will also soon make a ruling that no first class mails will be allowed transmis- sion through the mails until it has a return card written or printed there- on. The above means that the enve- lope printing business will take on a tinue. The order relating to the printing of envelopes is a correction for an evil of long standing and against which the newspapers throughout the country have fought many years, for the reason that the price charged for | the envelopes was far less than the stock could be purchased by printers and the rate charged was such that a by the government. Hundreds of millions of stamped envelopes print- ed by the government are used an- nually throughout the country and Kthe contemplated change will be | greeted with pleasure by every print- ‘er and publisher who has felt the | loss of this class of business. FIFTEEN PERSONS ON' BOARD‘ | Lumber Laden Schooner at Mercy of | Hurricane. | Eureka, Cal., Jan. 20.—Waterlogged, drifting helplessly before a furious hurricane, the lumber laden steam schooner Lakme, with fifteen men, is in serious peril off Cape Blanco. The steamers Asuncion and Argyle are standing by, but in the raging sea they are unable to give any aid. How- ever, the wind, which reached a veloc- ity of about 100 miles an hour, ap- pears to be subsiding. {of her sister, Mrs. George Sterling, | officiating. | Greenwood. ! particularly sad one. WHO WILL BE THE FIRST? Mr. Taft feels that the best campaign card for 1912 will be to put some trust officials in jail.—News Item. MRS. GURTISS . BURIED | { i Was Visiting Her Sister Here When | Death Came.: The funeral of Mrs. fhereea Cur- tiss, who died on Monday,at the home Irvine avenue, was hel@ yesterday afternoon in the First Scandinayian Lutheran church, Rev. 7. 8., Kolste Interment-was made in | = g The death of Mrs: Curtiss is a She was on | her way to her old home at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, from Bluff- ton,-Ark., where she and Mr. Curtiss | have spent the past five months for‘ the benefit of her health. She ar- rived in Bemidji ten days ago on a brief visit to her sister, Mrs. Ster- ling before continuing her trip to Wisconsin, and was accompanied by her infant son. Mrs. Curtiss who was only 24 years old has been suffering from consump- | tion for the past year and a half and was seized with a hemorrhage of the | lungs immediately upon her nn‘ival;‘ in Bemidji. She was hurried to the | home of her sister where she died | Monday afternoon. Mr. Curtiss, who is also suffering | with consumption, is still in Bluff- | ton and in a precarious condition. He was unable to accompany his | wife to her home. Carl Gunderson and Aleck Gun- derson of Black River Falls, Wiscon- sin, father and brother respectively of Mrs. Curtiss, arrived in Bemidji Monday night, just two hours after Mrs. Curtiss passed away. They re- mained over for the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. GBorge Sterling have | adopted the infant son of Mr. and; Mrs. Curtiss. | IS REPORTED TO THE HOUSE | Bill of Congressman Moon Is Aimed at | Spies. | Washington, Jan. 20.—Representa- tive Moon of Pennsylvania, author of the bill designed to punish spies per- colating on United States territory in | time of peace, which was reported fa- | vorably by the house committee, said he would press the bill to passage at | once. He said that with Japanese spies overrunning the Philippines and with | reports constantly coming in of at-| tempts of foreigners to make sketches and photegraphs of our harbor forti- fications on both seaboards he be-| lieved the time had come when dras- tic action must be taken. I NOW READY FOR SIGNATURES Reciprocity Treaty With Can- | ada Is Completed. ONLY AN ENTERING WEDGE Agreement Limited in Application to Comparatively Few Articles, but Is Expected to Lead to Something on a Wider Scope—No Serious Objec- tion to Ratification Looked for in the Senate. ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—The reci- procity treaty that has been under negotiation for several months be- tween the United States and Canada is just about to be signed by the re- spective governments. A copy of it has been forwarded to Ottawa. Presi- dent Taft and his cabinet will go over the draft of the instrument now in possession of the secretary of state. If the present programme is carried out the treaty will be signed in a day or two at both Ottawa and Washing- ton and soon thereafter it will be for- warded to the senate by the president with the recommendation that it be | ratified. There is every reason to believe that when congress adjourns the Unit- ed States will have entered upon a plan of reciprocal arrangement with | Canada. While the terms of the treaty have been carefully guarded by the officials who have had charge of the negotia- tions it is understood that there will be no difficulty in having it ratified In the senate and securing the con- sent of the house to such revision of the tariff rates as the operation of the treaty will make necessary. According to statements made by officials the treaty is limited in its application to a comparatively few articles, being intended merely as an entering wedge to a reciprocal ar- rangement wider in scope and more general in terms. Stage Sword Hits Spectator. Hamilton, Ont., Jan. 20.—Robert Shiverick, who is a son of a wealthy American and who recently came here from Cornell university, probably was fatally injured in the Grand Opera House. Several soldiers were on the stage when one of the sword blades flew off th¢ handle and over the foot- lights. The point struck Shiverick squarely in the center of the forehead. It penetrated his skull and remained fmbedded. Nebraska Town Scorched. Omaha, Jan. 20.—Fire at Benson, Neb., destroyed the Eagle’s auditorium, the Omaha Lumber and Coal com- pany’s building and stock, the Dwork grocery and the barns of the Benson Ice and OCoal company -containing eleven horses. The total loss is $75, 000. -—————- KR KKK KKK KX KK KX K * % KKK KKK KKK KKK R K KKK * GOPHER FOOTBALL FOR 1911 & x * * i AmeRTlE 0 Sept. 30 . . . . Northrop Field * * South Dakota . Oct. 7 . . . Northrop Field * * Nebraska . . Oct. 21 . . Northrop Field * *ilowa ool Oct. 28 . . . . Northrop Field * * Chicago . .+ Nov.4 . . . . Northrop Field * * Wisconsin, . . Nov.18 . . ., ., . at Madison ¥ ¥ Mlnois . . . . Nov. 25 . . . . at Champaign * A B R SRR S e R R R R R R R R SRR RS € = | car when the train was made up, and —De Mar in Philadelphia Record. " MAJESTIC THEATRE Program for Friday, Saturday and Sunday Evenings. “The Little Station Agent,” the | first picture, is a feature flm that | ranks as one of the best the Edison company has released for sometime. It #¥s a stiring railroad story with a This picture has made a big hit wherever |shown and. has held the audience ' It would be difficult to conceive of a more stirring film, love story to insure interest. spellbound. or one that would appeal with such irresistable force to any audience. “Hank and Lank,” is the second picture and once again these favor- ites appear in a lively and altogether laughable comedy and before the pic- ture ends it is safe to assume that’ one or the other will get into trouble. “Papa’s First Outing,” is the third picture and is another of the side splitting comedies and it will do you good to see it. the latest In- dian song hit sung by C. J. Wood- “Valley Flower,” | mansee and Hazel Fellows. WILL REPLAGE FULLERTON James A. Larson Temporarily In Charge of Minnesota Exhibi-| tion Car. James A. Larson, assistant secre- tary of state, has gone to southern Illinois to relieve Sam S. Fullerton, who has been in charge of the Minne- sota exhibition car in the train sent| to middle western states by the Great | Northern railroad. | The exhibition is one prepared by‘ State Immigration Commissioner Geo. ‘Welch. Mr. Larson will be with the car only until other arangements can |be made. He is adequately equip- éped to entoll the-excellencies of Min- nesota, having had experience in that line while with Commissioner Welch at the Chicago and Omaha expositions. Mr. Fullerton started out with the | his reports have been invariably fav- |orable. Thousands of Illinois people | have visited the car daily, and it is probable that it wil be sent into In- diana in the near future. Commissioner Welch has received hundreds of letters of inquiry about Minnesota lands from places the ex- hibition car has visited, northern Minnesota being particularly favor- ed in this respect. SOME GOSSIP OF THE GITY ELECTION Public Ownership Party Have An- nounced Their Candidates for Various City Offices. THEY WILL HAVE FULL TICKET Alderman Shannon Will Not Be A Candidate for Re-election—Three g Men After City Clerkship. At a meeting of the Bemidji Public Ownership party last evening in the office of Dr. Larson, the candidates for the various city offices were de- cided upon and they will have their petitions circulated in the near fu- ture. J. H. Grant will undoubtedly be the Public Ownership candidate for mayor, opposing Mayor Parker, if }if the present mayor should ask for | re-election. Garfield Akerberg will run for the ;nmce of city clerk, the office which is at present held by Thomas Maloy. It is very probable that Mr. Maloy will not be a candidate this year. Earl Geil, the present city treas- urer, will ask for re-election on the Public Ownership ticket. The different candidates for alder- men on the Public Ownership ticket First ward, N. L. Hakkerup; second ward, probably F. ‘W. Bell; third ward J. Evan Carson; fourth ward, Charles Swedback and alderman at-iarge-will -very Ifkely be F. M. Malzahn. E. W. Hannah will be their can- didate for assessor against James Cahill. are as follows: Dr. E. A. Shannon, alderman of the first ward has announced that under no consideration will he ask for re-election. The present city aldermen who will hold over until next year are Smart, Roe, Brown and Klein. George Stein, who has been acting as city clerk in the absence of Mr. Maloy, announced this morning that he will be a candidate for that posi- tion, thus putting three candidates in the field for the office with Charles Hoyt and the Public Ownership can- didate. BANQUET PLANS COMPLETED Everything in Readiness for This Evening’s Affair, Arrangements have been completed for the Commercial Club banquet which is to be given this evening in the High School building. It was at first planned to hold the banquet in the athletic quarters of the school building, but as the cook- ing room is on the second floor and the athletic quarters on the ground floor it was decided last evening by those in charge of the banquet that it would be asking too much of the girls of the cooking class to have them carry all of the dinner down the stairs,-and therefore the seats of the seventh and eighth grade room on the second floor have been taken up and this room will be used for the banquet. The entire dinner is being got up by members of the high school cook- ing class, under the direction of Miss Katherine Grest, who has charge of the cooking and sewing classes. The program will be the same as was announced in Wednesday’s Pio- neer. The banquet table will be set for 120, this being the number which have given notice that they will at- tend. nxfiuésofi . HISTORICAL SOCIETY.