Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJ1 -} SOCIETY. 1LY PIONEER. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 285. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. COUNTY OPTION UP FRIDAY NOON Rines Bill to Be Special Order for Consideration on Its | Merits. i i SPEAKER DUNN MAKES REQUEST i Asks Temperance Committee to Re- port on Measure Without Rec- commendation or Amendment. The county option bill which was Friday. It will be reached at noon ! and Speaker Dunn will allow every- body to be heard. As soon as dis- cussion ceases he will ask for a third reading of the bill and it will be put jup for final passage with a call for| the roll. Certain members of the county option element are dissatisfied with ithe action taken by the committee Tuesday. Henry Rines declares that | it was simply a case of railroading the bill through the committee Chairman Palmer, although a coun- ty optionist, is satisfied with the re- port of the committee. He takes the stand that every member of the legis- lature has made up his inind and that stand that every member of the legis- the vote taken Friday will be differ-| ent from the one that might be mk-[ | en a month from now. | Other members of the house see introduced in the Minnesota house by | What they believe is the real reason Representative Henry Rines of Mora last Wednesday will be considered on its merits Friday noon. It it fails|Plans well. for the action. They point out that the county optionists had laid their They had decided to to pass it will be a dead issue; if it|delay the bill In the committee as succeeds, it will still have to pass the senate. ! The temperance committee met Tuesday and unanimously decided to | hasten the bill to afinal vote. This action was taken at the request of Speaker Dunn, who appeared per- sonally before the committee and asked that the pledge which he had made before his election as speaker ! be fulfilled. The bill will reach the| house without recommendation. “I make no reflections against any members of this committee or of the house or against the author ofthis bill, a gentleman I hold in the high- est esteem,” said Mr. Dunn, “but a| situation has arisen that makes it | necessary for me to come before this committee and talk to you plainly.” | He said that when he became a candidate for speaker of the house he made his position in regard to county option well known and thoro- ughly understood and that every member ofthe temperance committee knew that he was opposed to county option on principle and that he so stated to the voters of his district during his campaign. “During my campaign for speaker I went to members from the difiel‘~' ent districts and said to them that if I were elected speaker I would ap- point a temperance committee that “would promptly report out a county option bill on its merits, if one was introduced,” he declared. Then he made a strong appeal to the commit- tee to report out the bill on the floor of the house on its merits, without any hindrance so far as the action of the committee was concerned. “There is only one thing,” he said, “that this committee can do to keep faith with the speaker, and that is to report out this bill promptly just as the county option people have intro- duced it to you. Report it out on the floor of the house as a special order for next Friday. Let every mem- ber be heard and discuss it and then vote it down or pass it on its merits.” Representative Alex Nelson of Perham moved that the committee recommend the bill for passage. Re- Sibley county moved to amend by recom- mending that the bill be placed on a Re- presentative Whiting, a county op- tionist, seconded this. He agreed with Speaker Dunn in that nothing could be accomplished by discussing the bill in the committee and that it should properly go before the house. Representative Rines, the author of the bill, objected to this proced- He declared that certain coun- presentative MacKenzie of special order for Friday noon. ure. ty optionists were to have been pre- sent at the meeting, but had found it impossible. action be deferred until they could be heard. It was pointed out to Mr. Rines that it had been advertised in the newspapers that a public hearing was to be held on Tuesday and that any one wishing to be heard should Professor Frank M. An- derson of the University of Minne- sota, a county optionist, was called upon and agreed with Speaker Dunn. Chairman Palmer asked if any one else wished to be heard and hearing no reply put the vote. The Mac Kenzie amendment was passed unan- imously. This means that the county option proposition will be fought to a flmsh_ He recommended that be there. long as possible and then blame the speaker for its failure to apear in the house. This, it 1s asserted, would help the~county option clause two years from now, and that it would appear that Mr. Dunn had not kept his pre-election promises. BRINKMAN THEATRE | There Will Be An Entire Change of Program Tonight This evening at the Brinkman Lois Hobson and Compary will ap- pear in a most artistic and pleasing ola.” Miss Hobson is a headliner in vaude- singing fantasie—“Days of ville; known the country over. ored entertainers, put on & first-¢fass act in the Instrumental line and Both have good voices. This will be a splendid show with new pictures. NEW YORK BADLY SHAKEN Cargo of Dynamite Explodes in Jer- sey City.—Loss is Heavy. New York, Feb. 2—A dynamite ex- plosion of tremendous force on the Jersey City water front caused an un- known loss of life, shook New York to its very foundation and caused heavy financial loss. The explosion occurred as the dyna- mite cargo of a lighter moored at a Jersey Central railroad pier was be- ing unloaded into a freight car. The explosion wrecked everything in the vicinity of the pier and shook Manhattan island, Brooklyn and the country within twenty miles of Jersey City. Window glass was smashed in thousands of skyscrapers in New York, including the financial district. Panics followed in a score of big buildings, but no casualties from this source are reported. | It wasdifficult at first to learn where | the explosion had occurred and it was not until the Jersey City police ap- ‘pealed to New York for ambulances and surgeons that any official knowl- edge of the scene of the disaster was made known. This was nearly an hour after the explosion. The concussion set off fire alarms in many parts of the financial district of New York and the clatter of fire apparatus and the shrill shrieks of the fire engines added to the con- fusion. Occupants Rush From Buildings. Men and women swarmed out of the buildings, some of them by the fire escape route, and added to the confusion. The firemen hunted in vain for a blaze. Instead they found the streets dangerously crowded and the sidewalks covered with broken | glass, while frightened storekeepers guarded their exposed wares. The shock caused some trouble in the telephone exchanges, which re- sulted in delaying the transmission of news regarding the disaster. As much’ commotion was caused on the water as on the land. New York fireboats and police patrol boats crossed the river to the scene and Jersey Central tugboats and other craft hurried to the foot of Hender- son streei, where what was left of the dynamite boat lay. The damage was heavy in many sections of Jersey City and the re- sult of the explosion resembled the visitation of an earthquake. In some buildings the ceilings fell. The dyna- mite boat Catherine C was unloading at the Jersey Central pier when the explosion took place. Just what caused it {8 not known. iiness for a successful convention. | i May the Schools of Northern Minne- | Billy and Helen Mo;rlson, the col- |, CONVENTION PLANS REACH COMPLETION Superintendent W. P. Dyer Announ- ces Program of North Central Minnesota Teachers’ Meeting. PROMINENT EDUCATORS SPEAK Session Will Close With Election of | New Officers and a General Re- port of All Committees. i W. P. Dyer, superintendent of the Bemidji public schools, has complet- ed the program which is to begiven at the North Association Central Minnesota Teachers’ Convention which s to be held in Bemidjt Feb-; ruary 9, 10 and 11, ! The services of several of Minne- sota’s most prominent educators have been secured, and Superintendent Dyer feels that everything is in read- The Thursday speakers and their! topics will be as follows: ! topic for discussion will be “How! The main sota Contribute Toward Its Devel- opment.” (1) “By Consolidation of the Rural Schols.” State Superin- tendent C. G. Schultz; (2) “By In- dustrial Contests.” Superintndent T. A. Erickson, Douglass county; (3) “By Normal Departments in the High Schools.” ~Superintendent A. M. Bank, Park Rapids; (4) “By Ag- ricultural Education.” Superintend- ent G. E. Keenan, Deer River. Friday addresses will be as tol-} lows: Pt ~ - - “The Organization of our Schools to Meet the Needs of the People”, State High School Inspector George B. Aiton; “The Schools Needs Teachers Who Are Able And Willing to Teach Something Outside of Books”, Sup- erintendent C. G. Selvig, Crookston School of Agriculture; “Arithmetic for Business or for Culture”, Presi- dent W. A. Shoemaker, St. Cloud Normal School; “Some Present Prob- lems”, State Superintendent C. G. Schultz; “The Purpose of Industrial Education”, Superintendent -R. E. Denfield, Duluth; “Vocational Train- ing”, Dr. George F. James, Dean of College of Education, State Univer- sity. » There will.be but one address Sat- urday morning being on “The Teach- ers’ Life of Service”, Professor A. S. Kingsford, Moorhead State Normal. After the lecture Friday even- will be held in the high school build- ing. % The convsngé'n will come to a close' Saturday: 1 orning after the re- port of the committees are heard and the election of officers is held. The present q\flcarn of the associa- tion sre as follows: Superintend- ent P. M. Larson, Cass Lake, presi- dent; Superintendent O. F. Hawkins, AkKkeley, vice-president and Superin- tendent W. P. Dyer, Bemidji, secre- |- tary and treasurer. |SENATE KILLS RE- APPORTIONMENT BILL . | St. Paul, Feb. 2.—(Daily Pioneer Special ~ Wire ;Service).—Another blow for the north was struck by the senate today when, by a vote of 29 to 31, it killed the Hackney reappor- tionment resolution, which provided a limit of 63-senators and 126 repre- sentatives. y The resolution was passed by the house a few days ago. The discussion of the resolution was the most dramatie so far during the present session. It is taken by many to indicate that reapportionment has received a fatal set back. Senator Dwinnell, who circulated a call for the caucus of Republican members on reapportionment said after today’s sebsion of the senate that the action ,:ot the senate made such a caucus impossible. WALKER PLAYS BEMIDII High School Basket Ball Fives to Meet At Armory Friday Evening. Tomorrow evening in the Armory the basketball teams representing | Walker-and<:Bes#¥igt- -high - achools will clash for the first time this season. Not much is known of the Walker quintet except that théy defeated the Deer River five last week by a score of 17 to 10. Although defeated last Friday eve- ning by the Bagley five, the Bemidji boys are not at all discouraged and have been practicing hard all week, with a determination to win from Walker. Another game has arranged with Bagley for March 18, the game to be played on the Bemidji floor, Coach Robinson said this morn- ing that he felt Bemidji could more than hold their own when the two teams meet again. As a curtain raiser to the Walker- Bemidji contest tomorrow evening the Freshman and Sophomore quints will play for the high school cham- plonship. This game will start at been ing of Dr. James a public reception 8 o’clock. INTERESTING LETTER IN INDIANA PAPER James Wright Writes to Albion Dem- ocrat Telling of Doings in and Around Bemidji. SAYS HE NETS FISH UNDER ICE Was Arrested This Morning On A Charge of Having Fish Illegally In His Possession. Several days ago Deputy Game Warden 8. C. Bailey of this city was given a paper published at Albion, Indiana, in which issue was publish- ed a letted from James Wright, of this city. The letter 1s as follows: Bermidji, Minn., January 5, 1911. Kind Friend: I received your paper all o. k. and was glad to hear the news around in Noble county.. As I am a Green township boy myself, I will write you a little sketch of the northwest if you want to publish it. It is winter up here for sure now as the thermometer registered 27 below zero for the last few morn- ings. Up to that time it had been real pleasant. The snow is about sixteen inches deep. One nice thing about this climate when it gets real cold there is no wind and the air is dry. This is a pretty wild place up here in the big woods. There are lots of wild animals and the wolves come right up to -your door. There were lots of deer killed here last fall. .| The men are busy now. cutting the pine treea 80 they can go to saw- ing mills’ here in Bermidjl. The largest one cuts 250,000 feet of lum- ber every ten hours. It employs 450 men and it runs night and day. They start up in March. The forest fires burnt over a lot of the best timbered land last summer and destroyed a lot of homesteaders. There is a lot of land to be taken up yet, but it isn’t much good after the timber is taken off. The summers are too short to raise much, except garden truck. This sand will pro- duce lots of potatoes. The principal business is lumber- ing and fishing. This is the head- waters of the Mississippi river and therefore there are many lakes. Minnesota has 10,000 lakes, with many additional small lakes that are mile long. There is.an abundance of fish. I am out on the banks of a lake three by not counted under a . AN INCIDENT IN' THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. ~—the hat dealers are under suspicion. —Wilder in Chicago Record-Herald. over a yeer. At present I am netting under the ice. You draw the net from one hole to another and then pull it back with & cord. I looked at it yester- day for the first time for four days on account of the cold weather and I .caught a lot of pickerel, the two largest weighing twenty-two pounds each, besides a couple hundred white fish, perch, pike and others. There is a ready market for them for six cents a pound. I have a ton and one-half frozen. I take them to town in that way. It is great sport to fish here In the summer time, but when you stand out on the ice way down below zero in the winter and take out fish until you think you are frozen it is not so pleasant. . Bermidji is a town of 9,000 popu- lation and there isn’t a factory of any kind with the exception of the saw mills. Up to a couple weeks ago there were forty-four saloons, now there are only twelve. It seems as though there was atreaty made with the Indians fifty years ago to the effect that no booze was to be sold, and it looks as though that and the temperance sentiment was go- ing to clean them out. It takes in everything north of Minneapolis. The lumberjacks come from miles around Bermidji to get their last drinks, as the other, towns are closed. Well if you feel as though this would interest the readers of the Democrat you can publish it. As this is the first letter I ever wrote for a paper I don’t know how it will go. - Yours truly, JAMES WRIGHT ‘Warden Bailey, who had arrested Wright once before on a charge of il- legal hunting, at once made an in- vestigation and found that Wright was doing his fishing in Hubbard county, but that he had several pounds of fish here, which were il- legally caught. He arrested Wright ¢ ‘when arralgned. befors Judge Pendergast .this morning he plead guilty to the charge and was fined $10 and costs. RECOMMEND THAT SAUGSTAD BE SEATED St. Paul, Feb. 2.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service).—The senate today received the Election commit- tee’s report on the Stephens-Saug- stad contest case and recommended that Saugstad be seated. This does not mean that Saugstad will'be seated as the contest case was made a special order for next Tues- day at 2 o’'clock, when the entire senate will take a final vote on the contest. REPEALS COUNTY OPTION Indiana Legislature Kills Plan After Two Year Trial. Governor Marshall, of Indiana has just signed a bill repealing county option in that state, and re- t-placing local option as the working control. ‘Indiana was the ‘ideal state in ‘which the prohibitionists worked, and which they expected to point to with pride as a success. The county option law has been working for two years, and the speakers in thelegislature urged that the law had resulted in pro- hibitory features which had driver the young men of Indiana to the pocket flask, and cheap whiskey, to the exclusion of wholesome beers. So general was the demand for the repeal of the county option law, that the vote in favor of its appeal in the house, was 60 to 39. The sen- ate, strongly city, urged by the min- ister, voted in favor by only 29 to 21. Her Attractiveness. Mr. Nervey—Miss Roxley, I adore you. Will you not be my wife? Miss Roxléy (haughtily)—The idea of your proposing to a girl in my sta- tion! You should know better. Mr. Nervey—I do know better, but 0o richer.—Phfladelphia Press. five miles and hlve“been fishing for BEMIDJI HAS s?uon 2 CONFLAGRATION Lakeside Bakery, Stechman Build- ings Burned Early This Morn- ing—Stocks Are Total Loss. THE FIREMEN FOUGHT BRAVELY Fire Caused From Over Heated Stove In Rear Room of \Bl.hry— Buildings Partly Insured. Fire which totally destroyed the stocks of the Lakeside Bakéry and of the Stechman saloon occured at 1:45 o’clock this morning. The bullding occupied by the bakery Is & total loss, while the Stechman bullding, according to & statement made by the dwner this morning may be ‘epaired. The total loss of the two buildings is estimated at not less than $7000 with insurance to about half that amount. Fred Baumgardner, nozzleman of the hose company No. 2, while in- side of the bakery building was over- come by smoke and his fellow fire- men carried him from the fire. Baumgardner was taken to the fire- men quarters at the city hall, and for a time his condition was con- sidered serious, although this after- noon he is feeling no ill effects from the incidence. The bakery building is owned by William and Fred Meageau, while the stock and fixtures was owned by Miles Burgett. Henry Stechman is the owner o!—‘h*w?unflu.u@ the saloon stock. Mr. Stechman had just completed remodeling the building, putting it in first-class condition, The cause of the fire, while not directly known, is supposed to have been started from an over heated stove in the rear room of the bakery building. The work of the firemen was much hampered by the late arrival of the hook and ladder, which carries the axes and ladders, the firemen being without the use of these articles for several minutes after they were on hand and fighting the fire. In speaking with a representative of the Pioneer this afternoon Mr. Burgett said that he held his loss at $2000 with insurance of $1000. Mr. Burgett had just received a ship- ment of new goods, amounting to a little over $400, and his fictures were less than a month old. Mr. Burgett said that it is his in- tention to reopen the bakery as soon as he can secure a building and new fixtures. FOR SAVINGS AGCOUNTS First National Bank Will Accept De- posits Saturday Evening. Cashier Schumaker, of the First National Bank, of this city, an- nounced this afternoon that the First National Bank will open every Saturday evening in the future for the convenience of those who wish to deposit money in connection with the savings bank. No other banking business, aside from that of the savings department will be done, and no accounts will be accepted aside from those which are meant to be deposits in the sav- ings bank., Doings of the Municipal Court. Oscar Hegg and Herman Olson were arraigned before Judge Pender- gast this morning on a charge of be- ing drunk. They both were ordered to leave town, which they did, after they had assisted the street commis- gioner in removing the snow of yes- terday’s downfall from several blocks of sidewalk.