Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 10, 1911, Page 1

TN THE BE ILY PIONEEF MINNES SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 292. BAUDETTE GAMBLING AROUSES GOVERNOR school as a present from the pres- ent legislature he may as well dis- illusion himself. There will be no normal school bill passed by the present legislature. * ¥ ¥ Senate to Face Option Bill Despite the slaughter of the coun- ty option bill by the house on Tues- | day of this week, the senate will do ga little slaughtering of the measure on its own account. Late yesterday afternoon, the temperance committee ! decided to refer the county option | bill to the senate without recommen- | | dation, with the suggestion that it be Comments on New Member of Forest- i made a special order of business at ryBoud—Appointment of Boil- 11Aa. m. on Friday, February 17. | This move has the sanction of the er Inspector Not Made. | county optionists who will thus be {enabled to get the senators on re-| ! cord. | Declares If Law Is Being Violated | Despite Local Authorities, He Will Aid Citizens. EBERHART PRAISES WEDGE (By F. A. Wilson) LS 3 : midji neer Tiegis: | Bamigil o Tegidlative: Buseen The Pioneer wishes to correct an St. Paul, Feb. 10.—If there is 0Den | o\ o1 i thig column which recorded gampling at Baudette, as alleged in a | T. M. Ferguson of Barker as voting letter of complaint from a prominent | against the county option bill in the| Representative Ferguson, | the Beltrami county town, ad-| who was ill on the day of the con- sideration of the bill, dragged himself {to the chamber of the house to vote to be stooped and stopped QUICKY. | ro; 1y big) and not aghinst it. EE S House Favors Reciprocity. The Minnesota House of Represen- merchant and member of the council | house. of dressed to Governor Eberhart, it is declares the governor. | In the communication from Bau-| dette, the name of the author being | withheld at his own request, the | tatives yesterday, by a vote of 60 to 150, declared in favor of the Canad- \ian reciprocity treaty as proposed by President Taft. The vote came up on a resolution by S. M. Lee, directing ! the representatives in The governor who, because of the | Congress to oppose reciprocity. The forest fire desolation, feels extremely | democratic members voted —solidly | kindly ;against the resolution and they were | has sent | . N jaided by several republicans. The L ‘omc:al message. o Banidetts In {motion was opposed and reciprocity which he says that if the local auth-| avored by D. P. O'Neil, representing orities find that they are unable to| ; . | the Bemidji district, which, by the! Sape With the gamblors, Re will por- | way, would suffer as much as any in sonally see to it that the attorney 7 | the state if the treaty goes through. ““h}"l am going to try and be broad County: Attorney ‘Fdakley, enforees | . ough to see this questionimits the gambling law. i _ | benefit to the greatest number con- x K X | cerned”, Said Mr. O*Nel. To Name Boiler Inspector. i rpege d‘xou @an tell. ithe pevnple' 011 B:; President Elect Vincent, chosen to miaji?, sald Ralph W. Wheelock. |, 0000q Gyrus Northrup as the head private secretary to Governor Eber- of the University of Minnesota, has hart, “that;the'governor hasimotide: [y oy jioitod fn-aidress; the legisla- cided ‘who 15 0.be: boller inspector|,. ., 1 orne sesston &t 11 8. m. next for that district. Any report that a‘Thursday. dicision has been reached is this mat- | ter is erroneous. governor is told that flagrant viola- tions of the state gambling law are taking place, and that no real effort | ‘has been made to curb the evil. Minnesota towards Baudette, general, working in harmony * K % There are s0 Many, o) 0r Moonan has a bill in, in- applicants for this position that weicreasing the dental board trom five t6 | seven members, four of whom shall | be recommended by the state dental iboard. He would have examiners | receive $10 % day and the secretary $500 a year. find it is not an easy matter to make We shall, take up the matter for definite de- cision within the next few days. I cannot say just when the announce- ment of the selection of the inspeo-| tor will be made.” KK Wedge Is Praised. a selection. however, * X X It will be impossibe for first cous- ins to marry in Minesota if a bill by Senator Anderson carries. He makes A. G. Wedge, president of the Be-|second cousins the mearest blood re- midji Commercial Club, vice presi-||a¢jon capable of executing such a dent of the First National Bank of|.ontract. Bemidji, has been appointed a mem-| ber of the Minnesota forestry board | to succeed Patrick J. Russell, the at- | torney and democratic leader of state * XX Representative Diessner has a bill requiring peddlers of medicine to secure a license from the state board | of pharmacy paying a fee of $20 a “I named | year, Mr. Wedge”, said Governor Eber-g‘ hart, “because he is a splendid, wide | awake young business man who, be- wide reputation who was an appoin- tee of Governor Johnson. * XK Representative Hauge has a bill in | the house which the colored popula- | tion may look upon as class legisla- tion. It provides a reward of $50 for the capture of chicken thieves. KK Mapleton and Ruluth are the lat- ‘est towns to get into the game for | agricultural schools. ! * X X Tonnage Tax Up Again. The iron ore tonnage tax question, | fought in many previons sessions, was | cause of his knowledge of our forests in the north, will make a valuable addition to this extremely import- ant board.” Z. D. Scott of Duluth | was named by the governor to suc- ceed himself as a member of the forestry board. x x x Many Towns Want New Asylum. While Bemidji probably ates the interest taken in her behalf by Representative D. P. O'Neil, in his voluntary offer to do all he could to land the proposed new hospital for the insane for Bemidji, his task, had Bemidji decided that she cared for the new institution, would have been a hard one. No less than nine towns, all north of St. Cloud, are already seeking to land, either open- ly or under cover, the asylum. At least two towns are ready to donate the site of 640 acres free. The new |taxes to be assessed on the advalor- hospital is to be built large enough|em basis as now. The"tax is fixed at to ultimately take care of 3,000 pa- } 3 cents a ton for ore testing less than tients. The towns seeking the asy-|49 per cent, -3 cents for ore testing lum figure that to secure so big an institution would be a commercial triumph. The two towns the most likely to be at the finish are Eveleth and Virginia. If anyone in Bemidji barbors the hope of a new normal appreci- raised in the present Minnesota leg- islature today for the first time. A bill which is almost identical with Henry O. Bjorge’s bill of two years ago was offered in the house by Thomas Frankson of Spring Valley, J. N. Johnson of Canby and J. J. Mor- iarity of Bell Plaine. Like the Bjorge bill it provides for a gradu- ated tax on the output of iron mines, for state purposes only, the local | 49 per cent and up to 54, 4 cents| from 54 to 59, ard 5 cents for ore testing 59 per cent or over. This measure may indirectly have an effect on reapportionment, being used as a “big stick.” RECIPROCITY FIGHT OPENS Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, Sup- ports Agreement in the United States Senate, URGES PROMPT APPROVAL If This Opening Wedge Proves Suc- cessful It Is Certain to Be Ex- tended, He Declares. Washington, Feb. 10.—The first gun in the congressional battle over Ca- nadian reciprocity was fired in the senate. Senator Beveridge of Indiana, a progressive, was the marksman and he lined up on the side of the admin- istration. He did rot make pretense of representing others of the progres- sive Republican camp. Mr. Beveridge welcomed the com- pact as the first concrete evidence of the establishment of such relations with Canada as he thought the United States should maintain with a coun- try so closely adjoined physically and with a people so intimately allied with Americans in kinship and interest. Contending for the importance of the principle involved he urged the neces- sity for prompt and decided action. The details, he said, were of com- paratively little significance and might well be left to future’ adjustment. “Shall the United States and Can- ada begin the policy of mutual trade concessions and commercial friendli- ness? Or shall we make permanent the policy of trade obstruction and commercial hostility between the ocountries?” Announces General Position. Mr. Beveridge said these were the real questions which must be answer- ed in dealing with the reciprocal agreement. His general position was then announced as follows: “If some think that the agreement | is mot all that it should be because of the “treatment of ‘2 fewarticles; the answer is that even if this objection’ Held'in is sound as to those few details, yet # is negligible when compared with the importance of getting this great national policy established. “As a matter of fact it will be found that the objection to a few scattered items is not sound; for this is a mat- ter of agreement, and mutual conces- sions are necessary. Even so, our government has done surprisingly well in the concessions it has secured. “If the agreement is enacted into law and proves beneficial to the na- tion as a whole, it is certain to be extended as time goes on and the two peoples experience its good effect. If, on the other hand, it should prove barmful to the nation as a whole, it could and would be repealed quickly.” RESIDENTS ARE RETURNING Rebel Attack on Juarez Not Expected at Present. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 10.—Although the insurgent forces of Orozco, Alaon- co and Blanco gre belisved to be in the immedinte vicinity of Juarez the residents of that city fear mo attack, for they are returning in large num- bers That there will be no attack on Juarez at present seems evident from the disposition of the insurgent forces and there is a growing belief that Orozco will not enter Juarez in the immediate future. It Navarro, at the head of 1,000 sea- soned veterans, manages to keep up and enter Juarez, it is mot believed here that the insurgent forces will ever venture to attack them. With the loyal .troops already im the city, reinforced by Navarro’s veterans, fighting behind earthworks, it is not believed Orozco’s untrained guerrilla fighters could be persuaded to try to take Juarez by assault. KAISER TO GO ON CRUISE German Emperor Soon to Start on Long Voyage. Berlin, Feb. 10.—It is unofficially stated that the kaiser will shortly start on a Mediterranean cruise on the advice of his physicians. The kaiser is said to have a slight cold, but there is a general feeling that the official announcerient understates the gravity of his coundition. In addition to his cold, which has caused a cancellation of all engagements, the kaiser is suf- fering from his old throat trouble. Dispatches from Calcutta say that Crown Prince Wilhelm is also suffer- ing from an aggravated cold: The crown prince’s Oriental tour was cut short at Calcutta on account of the Chinese plague. He will start home at the earliest opportunity. John Brown’s Son-in-Law Dead. Pasadena, Cal, Feb. 10.—Henry Thompson, who was one of John Brown’s lieutenants at Harper's Fer- Ty, died at his.home here. He was eighty-nine years of age. After the .surrender of Lee, Thompson married Brown’'s daughter. She died here five years ago. - “BEMIDJI, LHNNESO BAND CONCERT WEDNESDAY Director Harry Masten. 'On Wednesday qvening the Bemidji band will give its February concert in the city hall. B & These concerts are becoming very popular with the residents of Bemidji and it is expected that an even larger gathering than was present at the last concert will greet the band boys next Wednesday. The program will be as follows: 1. March—*“The Two Bills"— Wm. Sweeney | 2. Selection from “A Stubborn l Cinderella”. .. .. - .Jos. E. Howard | 3. Patrol—“Of the Guards- 1 men’. . F. H. Losey Barotone Solo by H. S. Berge—“The King. of the | Vikings, Am I".....H. S. Philips 5. Overture—“Light Calvary” ......... ...F. V. Suppe March—“What's the Mat- ter With Father”..... J. P. Lamp Clarinet Solo played by H. E. Anderson—Comin’ Thru 1 the Rye”. . ...... E. S. Thornton; 8. March—*“Universal Peace” | ................... J. P. Ldmpe 9. Soprano Solo by Miss Ma- bel Hanson—a. “But Why,” b. “Ecstacy” ............. Frederic K. Logan 10. Selection from DeKaven’'s | Comic Opera—*“Robinhood" ............... George Wiegand 11. March — “The Canton- 808", .o i a0 Russell Alexander Of Minnesota Sunday Schoolss to Be| Minnesota’s Fifty-Third Annual Sunday School Convention will be held in Mankato, March 8-9-10, 1911. It promises to eclipse all previous conventions in size and strength ot{ program. Many Sunday School specialists from outside the State will attend. Here are some of them; W. C. Pearce, Chicago, Superintend- ent of the Adult Bible Class Depart- ment of North America; Herbert H.| Moninger, Cincinnati, Ohio, writer of many books and manager of the Standard Publishing Company of Cincinnati and expert on Teacher Training; E. 0. Sellers, Chicago; composer of music and director of the music of the Moody Bible In- stitute, ‘Chicago; Mr. Sellers will lead the music at the Convention; Judge McKenzie Cleland, Chicago, who has done for the men and women of Chicago, who are down and out, what Judge Ben Lindsey has done for the boys of Denver. Every.man in Minnesota should hear Judge Cleland. The people of Mankato are making preparations for at least 1000 visitors. The business men of Man- kato are raising nearly $500 to prop- erly care for this convention. This fact gives some idea of the interest Mankato has in the coming conven- tion and indicates something of the hospitality and enthusiasm of the “Key to Minnesota™ City. Each county is entitled to as many delegates as can be induced to come. County officers in every county of the State are the “Boosters Committee” | for that county. Mankato is expect- | | ing at least 1000 regular delegates. 1 WOMAN AROUSES GCCUPANTS | Heroic Act Probably Saves Lives of Tenement Dwellers. | Chicago, Feb. 10.—More than 100 men and women, residents of the Stan- ley Terrace apartments, fled down fire escapes in their night clothes and fled through the snow and zero weather for safety when a fire was discovered in the building. Many women, too | frightened to move, were taken off of third-floor fire escapes by, firemen. That there were no lives lost, the firemen declare, was due to the brav- ery of Mrs. Anna Manning. Awakened by the smoke Mrs. Manning carried her two children to safety, awakened her husband and then ran through-the hall of the building, pounding on doors ! day. | two thousand words in length, gives jcase and the great TA, FRIDAY EVtNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1911. SENATOR LAFOLLETTE ASKS QUESTIONS Assails President Taft In Today’s Is- sue of His “Truth” Maga- zine, DEALS IN CUNNINGHAM ENTRIES Would Like to Know Whether Chief Executive Is Going To Rule Or Not. Madison, Wis. Feb. 10.—“After assuming the responsibility for the patenting or withholding from pat- ent in the Cunningham entries, do you now wish to be relieved of it? “Is it your desire that, at the elev- enth. hour, congress should take from your hands the jurisdiction of the case—a jurisdiction you voluntarily and publically assumed? If so, up- on what grounds of public policy or of public benefit?” These pertinent questions are ad- dressed to President Taft in an open letter to the nation’s chief executive in La Follette’s Weekly Magazine to- The complete letter, nearly the entire history of the Cunningham harm which might come to the nation if two bills, introduced on January 9th by Sena- | tor Nelson, are passed. “You have yourself assumed all the responsibility for the disposal of this case. You have taken it out of F":'"_ T“"“] GQHVE“"“" | the hands of the Interior department. There is in this case, therefore, no so-called “vicious circle” of investi- getion and adjudication by officers of the same department. It is a msttér solely-of “executive “duty; of executive responsibility. “This being the case, it i preper and important that congress know the executive attitude toward these two bills. It is, in this particular instance, quite as important that the public know it. L “The first is a special bill for the transfer of the decision of the Cun- ningham case from your hands to the Court of Appeais of the District of Columbia, “says the letter in speaking of the two bills introduced by Speaker Nelson. “The second is a general bill, providing for the transfer of the decision of all land cases from the executive to the courts and authorizing a retrial de- novo in cases which have already been heard before the interior de- partment. “Under either bill the decision of the Cunningham case may be taken from your hands and turned over to the Court of Appeals of this district. “You, yourself, have stated in a published letter that the responsi- bility for the executive act of patent- ing or withholding patents in land cases lies with the executive. Since 1836, the executive branch of the government has disposed of all such cases, and the Supreme Court of the United States has upheld his author- ity to do so. “You have either directly or indi- rectly, given the country to under- stand it was your fixed purpose to make personal disposition of the Cunningham case. “But now that you have assumed the responsibility of the decision, there appears no reason why the ex- traordinary step of seeking legisla- tion to wrest the case from your hands should be taken—a step which will effectually postpone the cancel- lation of the Cunningham claims for an indefinite period. “If the first bill passes, there will result the protracted delay and great expense of additional delays. The fraudulent character of the claims is already proven. Yet, if this bill should become a law, the claimants will be given the chance of making one more effort to defeat the govern- ment’s case. “If the second bill passes, the claimants will be given the hither- to unknown privilege of having the case tried over again denovo. and spreading the alarm. . “The government has already prov- en the claims fradulent. If the case is tried over again, the government will be in a position of being obliged to prove them fraudulent a second time before they are cancelled. “Never before in the history of the land office has such & burden been placed on the government as is now recommended by the bill proposed in behalf of the secretary. “No such stumbling block to prompt disposal of land cases was ever devised until the Cunningham claims were pending before you for adjudication. “Moreover, if either bill becomes a law, in the second consideration of this case the claimants will have the extraordinary advantage of knowing in advance the exact lines of attack of the goverximent, both as shown by the records of the hearings already held, and as indicated in the brief recently submitted to you by Messrs. Gifford and Amos Pinchot. - “It may be argued in favor of transferring all land patent cases to the courts that the present system of precedure is defective, in that officials of the same department both investigate land claims and sit in judgment upon the record of such in- vestigation. “This argument may be answered upon several valid grounds. “But whether it is or is not as- sailable is a matter which does mot relate to the question of whether congress, at the request of Mr. Ball- inger shall take the Qecigion of the Cunningham case away from you.” BANKERS MEET IN BEMiDJI New York Banking Paper Makes Note of Convention In This City In the last ispue of the American Banker, New' York, it has the fol- Towing to say concerning the conven- tion of the Minesota Bankers Associ- ation, which is to be held in this city next June: “The Minnesota Bankers’ Associa- tion will hold its annual convention this summer at Bemidji, in the nor- thern part of the state, and at the point :.where the postal savings bank is located. Bemidji is a rapidly de- veloping town in a newer portion of Minesota, located upon a large lake, and ajacent to others, so that fishing and summer sports are available. The convention will make a special trip. to International Falls, Minn., on the Canadian boundary line, and in- spect the great power dam there.” GAUTION FOR FISHERMEN Bailey Tells What Kind of Fish May = be Legally Speared. There seems to be a misunder- standing among a few of the fisher- men in Beltrami county as to what fish may and may not be speared during the winter months. For the benefit of these fishermen a representative of the Pioneer this morning asked Deputy Game Ward- en 8. C. Bailey, what fish might le- gally be speared, to which he an- swered: “The state of Minesota fish laws al- low fishermen who have licenses to spear certain kinds of fish Lh.rough the ice. Pike, trout, white fish and trelipies, can not legally be speared, while all rough fish, such as picker- al, red horse, suckers karp and bull heads may be speared at any time of the year.” Do This. If you intend to buy a lot this spring, call.at John G. Ziegler’s of- fice. He has a nice bunch to select from. Prices from $25 up. Terms given. J. E. Nash, State Secretary of 'Public Ownerskip party, will lecture oh Socialism at City Hall, Saturday, Feb. 11, beginning at 8:30 P. M. Women especially invited. Ad: mission_free. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. SCHOOL CONVENTION VERY INTERESTING Meeting Opened Last Evening With Addresses By Superintendents Banks, Keenan and Erickson. DR. JAMES TO SPEAK TONIGHT Musical Program This Afternoon To- gether With Four Round Table Discussions. Last evening in the assembly hall of the Bemidji high school building the North Central Minnesota Teach- ers’ association convention was be- gun. The sesslon was attended by over one hundred teachers of sehools in the northern part of the state. ternational In- Falls, Big Falls, Nor- thome; Tenstrike, Grand Rapids, Deer River, Cass Lake, Shevlin, Bagley, | Thief River Falls, Fosston, Walker and several other schools have repre- sentatives at the me;tin; The session last evening was brought to order by Miss Anne Shel- land, superintendent of schools of | Koochiching county. The first speaker was superintend- ent A. M. Banks, of Park Rapids, who talked on the subject, ‘Normal Departments in the High Schools.” He brought out several good points in regard to the way in which stu- dents should be educated in our high schools. to- act as teachers in the rural schools. 4 State High School Inspector George B. Aiton, then spoke'in regard to the way in which the:high schools were already turning” out | for the rural schols. Sup'erint_sndent G. E. Keenan of Deer River, and Superintendent of Schools T. A. Erickson, of Douglass county, addressed the teachers in a very interesting manner on the sub- ject, “How may the Schools of Nor- thern Minnesota Contribute Toward Its Development.” This mornings program was at- tended by a larger assembly than was the one last evening. The Be- midji teachers quintet composed of Misses Murrar, Wheeler, McGillin and Graling, sang. Superintendent P. M. Larsonm, of Cass Lake, president of the associa- tion gave a short talk, in which he called the attention of the visiting teachers to the sewing display of the Bemidji high school sewing class and the work of the manual training departments. He also said that none of the teachers should fail to visit the room which is being used to dis- play the work of the grade pupils in painting, weaving and sewing. He then made his committee appoint- ments, which were as follows: Resolutions, Banks, Park Rapids, Shelland, International Falls, and Keenan, Deer River; Nominations, Hawkins, Akeley, Hor, Bagley and Ross, Walker. Mr. Larson then pro- ceeded with his address, during which he brought out many facts concerning the many advantages of being a high school graduate, and laid much stress on the fact that children can not be educated at home. The teachers then again listened to State High School Inspector George B. Aiton, who gave a short but very- interesting talk. Dr. Colgrove, of the St. Cloud Normal was then introduced. He appearing on the program in place of President W. A. Shumaker, of the St. Cloud Normal School. Dr. Cos- grove’s remarks were sharp and to the point, his chief argument being - “Teach the Children to Think.” Superintendent J. H. Hay, of Thief River Falls, spoke on the sub- ject, “Civics and Training for Citi- zenship.” “The Schools Need Teachers Who are Able and Willing to Teach Something Outside of Books” was the subject on which Superintend- (Continued on last page) 0TA HISTORICAL o