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

THE BEMIDJ1 D VOLUME 9. NUMBER 300. PROMPT AGTION IS EXPECTED Finance Committee of the United States| Senate Takes Up Reciprocity Bill. HEARINGS WILL BE BRIEF| Measure Likely to Be Reported Back To the Senate Without Re- commendation. | ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—The finance committee of the senate was called to- gether to comsider the McCall bill to supply the legislative machinery re-| quired to put into effect the reciprocal | trade agreement with Canada. Three or four days probably will be con- sumed by the committee in reaching a decision as to the manner of reporting | the bill, but even its most obdurate opponents are unwilling to bear the re- sponsibility of any longer delay than that. It was decided to limit hearings to two days Practically all of the re- quests for hearings came from agricul- | tural interests. Whether there are votes in the com- mittee to report the bill favorably could not be learned at the outset of the meeting. As a matter of fact the members of the committee feel that it is immaterial how the bill is reported, whether fayorably, adversely or with- out recommendation. The indications are that the latter method will be employed in the inter- est of the early transfer of the fight to the floor of the senate, in accord- ance with promises that have been made to President Taft. Has Three Ardent Supporters. The most ardent supporters of Cana- dian reciprocity on the finance com- mittee are Senator Cullom of Illinois, a Republican, and Senators Money of Mississippi and Stone of Missouri, Democrats. - Mr. Stone is‘a.new mem- ber of the committee, having been ap- pointed to succeed the late Senator Daniel of Virginia. -Senators Bailey, Taliaferro and Simmons, the other mi- nority members, probably will oppose the agreement. If Senator Burrows, acting chairman in the absence of Senator Aldrich, is guided by the action of the Michigan legislature. he will support the Me- Call bill, and Senators Smoot and Flint, though opposed to the agree- ment on the ground that it endangers the principle of protection, usually are found among those supporting ad- ministration measures. It is certain that these senators will not consent to any dilatory tactics in committee. Senators Lodge, Hale and McCum- ber are bitterly opposed to the agree- ment, which the position of Senator Penrose has not been declared. i IN COURT FOR CONTEMPT St. Paul Member of the Minnesota Legislature. St. Paul, Feb. 20.—State Represen- tative John D. O’Brien of St. Paul and his attorney, David F. Peebles, were before Judge Lewis of the district court to answer a charge of contempt of court against Dr. OBrien. After hearing the proposition argued Judge Lewis took the matter under consid- eration. Dr. O'Brien has brought suit for di- vorce, alleging his wife held him a prisoner for six hours in a locked room, Mrs. O'Brien holding the key. Judge Bunn icsued an order Jan.- 28 directing the lawmaker to pay his wife $50 a month for her living ex- penses and $100 attorney’s fees during the pendency of the action. Dr. O’Brien refused to obey the order and he was -cited for criminal contempt. WANTS SHARE OF PROFITS Secretary of War Dickinson Will Make Demand for Freight Rates. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—Demand for a larger share of the rates on freight sent from coast to coast, via the Isth- mus of Panama, will be made soon by Secretary of War Dickinson on be- half of the Panama railroad, it is stated. Such freight is now carried, on the Pacific side, by the Pacific Mail and California steamship lines. THREAT TO KILL OFFICIALS Secretary of the Treasury and Others Get Warning Letters. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—Signed with roughly drawn skulls and crossbones, letters threatening the lives of Sec- refary of the Treasury MacVeagh, As- sistant Secretary A. P. Andrew and Senator Smoot of Utah, have been re- ceived by these officials, warning them that unless they cease their ef- forts to introduce power presses into the bureau of engraving and printing they must die. Many employes fear the power presses will force them out of their vositions. \ SALOONS ORDERED GLOSED Mayor Parker Issues Usual Election | " Day Proclamation. Whereas, the 21st day of f‘ebmlry, l1911, is the day fixed by the city charter for holding a regular city election in the city of Bemidji, Bel- trami County, Minnesota, and Whereas, Section 17, Chapter 4, Act of April 21, 1893, contains the following provisions: Section 17. No spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquours shall be sold or given away, nor shall any store, saloon or barroom where such liquor 1s sold or given away be open on any general or special election day at any time hetween the hour of six; o'clock in the forenoon and the hour of seven o’clock in the after-| noon. Whoever violates any pro- vision of this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $300 for each offense, and in default thereof be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months. Whereas section 18 of said act contains the following provisions: Section 18. It shall be the duty of the mayor, sheriff, constable and | other officers and magistrates to see that the next preceding sections are strictly enforced, and the mayor on the next day preceding any, election shall issue a proclamation that the provisions of said sections be strictly enforced, and it he fails | oo perform the duties herein pre-! scribed, he shall be subject 1o a fine of une thousand dollars or imprison- ment in the county jail or both at the discretion of the court. But no! failure on the part of the mayor to issue said proclamation shall exempt any person violating said last pre: | ceding section from penalty hereiui prescribed. i NOW THERLEFORE. I, John Parker, mayor of the City of Be- midji, County of Beltrami, and State of Minnesota, in obedience to by proclaim, order and direct that the provisions of said section 17 will be strictly enforced, and all saloons, stores or bar rooms where spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors are sold or given away in said City of Be- midji, County and State aforesaid, be kept closed on said 21st day of February, 1911, between the hours of six o’clock in the forenoon and the hour of seven o’clock in- the afternoon. JOHN PARKER, Mayor of Bemidji. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., 20th day of February, 1911. BEL_ 116 A kA PPISPIUSRNS { | ¢ i Y Willing to Be Honest. Phil May, the great English artist, earned his first fame in Australia. One day a broken down minister applied to bim for charity, and May engaged him as a model. As a joke he also demand- ed that his eighty-vear-old pensfoner agree to leave him his skeleton when bhe died. When May left Australia he called his model in. “You've played me a dirty trick,” said May. “by swin- dling me ont of that skeleton. I could bave bought one in sound order and condition for half the money you've cost me.” The old fellow, conscious of his base ingratitude to his best and most patient friend, answered: “Don’t be angry with me, Mr. May. It's not my fault. I meant to keep my word. Stay in Sydney a few months longer and give me another chance to show you that T am a man of honor.” this | Redhot Plays. | “It is a tremendous undertaking to | et a new play accepted and produc- | ed,” once said the late Clyde Fitch to a friend. “So many are written, and 8o few ever see the light of day. An English playwright with a gift of hu- morous exaggeration illustrated this fact to me once. He told me how he submitted a play to a celebrated ac- tor and how in the course of the con- versation the actor remarked: “‘Don’t you think it is growing chilly in this room? “‘Yes; it is rather,’ the young play- wright admitted. “Then the actor rang a bell, and a servant forthwith appeared. “+James,’ said the actor, ‘this room is rather cold. You may put three more manuscripts on the fire.’ "—Lip- pincott’s. An Extreme Case. “What was the trouble between Swinton and his wife? Was it his get along together?" “It’s rather hard to decide. Tt ap- pears that whenever one of them had an irresistible impulse the other had an unalterable objection.”—Chicago Record-Herald. the duties imposed upon me do here-i fault or hers that they were unable to | BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY BEMIDJI ATHLETIC TEAMS WIN AND LOSE High School Baskethall 'Five Defeats| Walker While Crookston Wins in Hockey Game. > BOTH CONTESTS HARD FOUGHT Victory of Wearers of the Blue and White Over Cass County Boys Well Earned. At Walker Saturday evening the Bemidji high school basketball quint defeated the five of that city by a score of 23 to 15. The game was hard fought from the start and oot until the final whistle had blown did the spectators know which five was to be the winner. The Bemidji boys were much handicapped by the smallness of the Walker floor. Captain Larson and Forward Moritz of the Bemidji boys starred as did Bright and Johnson of Walker. ‘There will be no game here Wed- nesday evening with the Crookston quint as had been expected. The high school team will play Big Bemidg next Friday evening in the Armory for the city champion- ship. The lineup Saturday evening was as follows: Bemidji; Larson, centre; Moritz and Bailey, forwards; Peck and Spencer, guards. Walker; Oliver, centre; Bright and Hallier, guards; Johnson and Olivez, forwgrds. Goals, Oliver 1, Bright 2, Johnson 3, Larson’4, Peck 1, Bailey 1, Moritz 1 Points from fouls, Oliver 3, Lar- son 1, Moritz 8. Referee, Bright. man. Unmpire, Brenne- x K X - The hockey game played yester- day afternoon between the Given Hardware company seven of this city and the Crookston city team resulted in a victory for the team from Crookston by a 4 to 0 score. The game was fast and the Be- midji boys played a much better game than had been expected. The lineup was as follows: Be- midji: Scarrot, goal; Ripple, point; Dennis, cover point; Newton, rover; Sprauge, centre; Armstrong, right wing and LaBounty, left wing. Crookston: Boyd, goal; Hanson, point; Nelscn, cover point; Ford, rover; McMann, centre; Nelson right wing and Carlson left wing. ADVERTISED LETTERS List of advertised Letters for week ending Feb. 20, 1911. Unclaim- ed. Men Adams, Mr. J. J. Bakke, Mr. Andrun Brinegar, Mr. Jesse Herrigus, Mr. N. P. Jackson, Brary Johnson, Mr. Ray Kalland, Mr. Nils H. McArthur & Hohn J Moen, Mr. Andrew Miller, Joseph Mines, Mr. A. Nelson, Martin Néwron, Mr. G. H. Oman, Mr. F.S. Pollington, Mr. James Powers, Mr. William 3 Ryan, Mr, M. E. Ready, Mr. W. M. | Settle, Mr, Lisenby, 2 Seaberg, Mr. Leonard Women Colins, Mrs. Emma Lucas, Mrs. M. E. Martin, Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Lizzie Slightam, Mrs. Earl Torestenson, Miss-Grace VanDervori, Mrs. E. H. \ Exclusive Hospital for Measies. New York, Feb. 20.—A seven-story Dospital exclusively for the treatment | of measles is to be built in New Yor! city this summer at a cost of $275,000. It will accommodate 325 patients. | | the St. Anthony Hospital in this city Saturday night t after an illness lasting but one week. Mr. Saxrud, who was fifty years old, has been a hotel keeper at Fowlds for a number of years and is well known in this city and sur: rounding country, ‘and his death came asa shock to all who knew him. He wasat one time a Bel- trami County Commissioner. He is survived by his wife, who was present at the death of her husbaod, his father, H. E. Saxrud, who lives at Portland ' Oregon, four brothers, Albert of Osseo, Wis., Alvia of Leeds, N. D., Thecdore of Ancortes, Wash., Henry of Portland and one sister, Mrs. O, A. Falstad of Eau Claire, Wis. Word was sent to his relatives, Alvin Saxrud of Leeds, N. D, arrived in the city last night. Other members of bis family are ex- pected to arrive in Bemidji today. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon ‘at 1 o'clock under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias lodge, of which Mr. Saxrud was an esteemed member. Inter- ment will be made in Greeawood. MAY TALK ON MOVING TRAINS New York Expert Invents Wireless Telephone. New York, Feb. 20.—Dr. Frederick H. Millener, head of & corps of ex- perts who have been experimenting on the possibilities of wireless in con- nection with the operation of rail- roads for the Union Pacific, created a sensation in a lecture before 500 members of the New %ork Railroad club by announcing that he and his associates have comp! télephone With which" “have been able to converse with the crew of a moving train. At the close of the lecture a crowd of railroad men surrounded Dr. Mil- lener and eagerly demanded details of the invention. In reply to a question Dr. Millener sald the wireless telephone would not interfere with block signals or any of the other measures now adopted by the railroads to avert accidents. WITHDRAWS FROM MISSOURI Armour Company to Quit Business in That State. St. Louis. Feb. 20.—Officials of the Armour Packing company served no- tice on Secretary of State Roach that the company would withdraw from business operstions in Missouri. ‘What reasons prompted the ge- cision were not stated in the commu- nication received by the secretary of state. The Armour company is one of the defendants in ouster proceedings in stituted for alleged violations of the anti-trust laws of Missouri. The suit 1s pending in the supreme court of the state. HEAVIEST FALL IN MONTHS Entire Southwest Happy Over Drench. Rain. Kansas City, Feb. 20.—“Let the drought ridden Southwest cease com- plaining and give thanks,” said Pat- rick Connor, local United- States weather observer. “In the last twen- | ty-four hours, rains have soaked the whole district and is still falling. It is the heaviest rain since last Septem- ber.” Rain or snow, or a mixture of the two, is general over Iowa and the Southwest, according to Mr. Connor, The precipitation in this city was one ‘and a half inches. Fruit is believed to be unhurt. DYING FROM MOB ATTACK Newspaper Employe Assaulted by Newsboys and Sympathizers. New York, Feb. 20.—A. H. Kohn- felder, an employe of the business of-| fice of the Hoboken (N. J.) Observer, is dying with a fractured skull in a hospital there as the result of being stoned and snowballed by newsboys | and_hoodlums. The paper inaugurated a new sys- tem of distributing and volunteers from the office were in charge of tne wagons. Newsboys and sympathizers, loyal to a man who had formerly had tue contract, started incipient riots throughout the city. Twelve-Year-Old Ends Life. Baltimore, Feb. 20.—Following a whipping by his mother because of misbehavior, Ralph King, ‘dged twelve, committed suicide in his home here. ‘Without showing that he was brooding over the matter the boy left his moth- er and went to the bathroom, where he turned on the gas. NG, FEBRUARY 20, 19111 dust. WILL CONFER ON - LIFTING OF THE LID Minnesota Members of Congress Wil Get Together and Consider Presi- dent’s Special Message ON THE LIQUOUR REGULATIONS Maps Being Prepared Showing New Boundry Lines for Three Indian Reservations. Early this week a conference will jbe held bv Minnesota members of congress for the purpose of taking up President Taft’s special message, concerning the Indian country in Minnesota and to consider the new boundary lines which will be estab- lished over the White Earth, Leech Lake and Winnibogoshish reserva- tions, thereby diminishing the terri- tory to remain subject to federal jurisdiction so far as prohibiting the introduction and sale of liquor goes. The new maps are being pre- pared, showing just what areas will be covered, so that Representatives Miller, Lindberg and Steenerson can ascertain boundary lines. Some correspondence will be required be- fore the bill recommended by Presi- dent Taft is passed. WILLHAVE MONSTER PARADE Will Be a Feature of Mankato Sunday ) School Convention. . SRR T One of the great features of the Minnesota Sinday School Conven- tion to be held in Mankato, March 8910, will be a men’s Bible Class Demonstration in the form of a monster parade on the last night of the convention. A committee of Mankato’s strongest business men has the arrangements in hand. A Twin City Bible Class Special Train will carry 500 Bible Class men to the convention on Friday, March 10th, leaving Minneapolis at 1i o’clock a. m. and St. Paul at 11:30 a. m., and arriving in Maunkalo at 1:45 or 2:00 o’clock p. m. Each of the organized classes in Minnesota is requested to send a representative at least. Mankato alone is planning to have 500 men in line, and it is expected that 2500 men will march in the parade, thus exhibiting the virility of Sun- day School work and emphasizing the importance of Bible study. The Mankato Band will lead the procession and is expected that many other bands will lead ~delegates from other cities. This is only one -eature of the great three days con- vention in which four noted special- ists from outside the State and many great leaders in Sunday school work in our own State are engaged as speakers and instructors. A great Bazaar and Sunday School Exhibit will be opened for the study of all. Every Sunday school in Minnesota is requested to send delegates who will report the convention at an echo meeting on their return from the convention. ~Minnesota has more than 2000 Sunday schools with more than 300,000 enroliment. The eyes of this great army are now fixed on Mankato where the great con- vention is to be held. During the three days’ session it is expected that more than 1000 regular delegates ‘and many visitors will be present Apply for programs and informa- ion to the Minresota Surday School association, 871, Snelling Ave., St Paul, Mion. |LOSS IS HALF ‘A" MILLION Seven Firemen Injured Elevator Fire. Chicago, Feb. 20.—Fire destroyed the Calumet elevator, a six-story structure containing 500,000 bushels of grain, causing a loss estimated to be $500,000. Seven firemen were in- Jured while escaping from'the build- in Chicage FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT Judge Pendergast Decides that Terry In the municipal court Saturday Terry Lennon was made the de- fendant to a charge of assault, on a complaint of Christ Balstad. Balstad claimed that while riding on the Red Lake railroad passenger train one day last week he was as- saulted by Lennon. Judge Pendergast was so strongly convinced that Lennon was guilty that he fined him $100 or 90 days in jail. * "At this time he has not paid the fine. ILTIS VISITS MINNEAPOLIS Druggist, Judge of Probate and Under- taker at International Falls. In the Friday morning issue of the Minneapolis Tribune that paper bas the following to say concerning “Doc” Iltis, of International Falls, who is well known in Bemidji: “Doc” R. F. C. Iltis, judge of the probate court of Koochiching county, proprietor of the leading drug store at International Falls, and dealer in tombstones and epitaphs, is spending a few days at the Hotel Rogers laying in a stock of legal decisions, dope and marble slabs, "I am sorry I got here too late to attend the undertakers’ convention and school of instruction,” said he, Yds 1 think that line of work would fitin well with drugs, probating of willsand selling tombstones. That woujd fill theonly gap in the cycle. “No, I'm not a doctor of medi- cine even though I have the title, but I don’t need to be an M. D,, because [ have one who offices in my building and he turns over all his business to me.” “Doc” Iltis received that handle to his pame from his invention of a remarkable concoction known as “40 H. P.,” which has become immensely- popular in the water power city. It does great service on election days. It derives its name from the amount of extra steam t generates when properly intro- duced into the human system, HEADS GERMAN SOCIALISTS 3 Herman Molkenbuhr, ex-Cigarmaker, Succeeds Paul Singer. Berlin, Feb. 20.—Herman Molken- bubr, member from Saxony, has been elected president of the Social-Demo- cratic faction of the reichstag, thus recelving the mantle of the late Paul Singer, who, up to his death, shared the presidency of the faction with the aged leader, August Bebel. Bebel has been compelled to retire almost completely from active poli- tics, on account of his age and health, leaving the responsibility for the par- liamentary tactics on the shoulders of Molkenbuhr. The latter is a writer, originally a cigarmaker by trade, who, on account of his political activity, was expelled from Germany in 1881 and-spent three years in the United States. Well Known at Washington. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—William H. Duckstein, curator of arts in the Cap- itol and a well known figure about the building, died at his home here, aged sixty-nine years. Aged Woman Smoker Cremated. Paris, 11, Feb. 20.—Mrs. Mary Julian, eighty-one years old, was burned to death by setting her cloth- ing afire with a match while lighting her pipe. Wounds Daughter; Kills Herself. Kuttawa, Ky., Feb. 20.—After cut- ting the throat of her nine-year-old daughter, inflicting a wound that ex- tended from ear to ear, Mrs. Noble Williams severed her own jugular vein and died before assistance could arrive. The little girl has a chance of recovery. Meanings of Several Names. Asia means morning or east; Eu- TOpe, evening or west; Australia means lying to or in the south; hence we may consider that these names mean east- ern land, western land and southern land. Asia is a Greek word, Europe] is a Hebrew word, and Australia is'a Latin word. . The origin of the word Africa 18 uncertain. Some conjecture ing following an explosion of grain that it is a Semitic word meaning “land of:wanderers.” % TEN CENTS PER WEEK. TOMORROW IS CITY ELECTION DAY Third Ward Voting Place Changed From Pogue’s Livery Bara to Carter’s Warehouse. POLLS OPEN FRO! M6AM. to TP.M. Entire List of Election Judges and Can- didates for the Various City Offices. Tomorrow is city election day. The polls will be open from 6 o’clock in the morning until 7 o’clock in the evening. Only one voting place bas been chaoged, that being in the third ward, where the booth has heretofore been located in Pogue’s livery barn, but tomorrow will be located in Carter's warehouse, Eighth street between Mississippi and Irvine avenues. / The judges of the election tomor- row will be as follows; first ward, Ted Getchell, William Neal and C. Miller; second ward; C. C. Sheppard, Alec Cameron and D. C. Smyth; third ward; P. M. Dicaire, A. A. Carter and George Knott; fourth ward; George McTaggart, W. Blackburn and John Croon. The candidates to be voted upon for the various city offices are as follows: Mayor: William McCualg, Ind. John C. Perker, Ind, J. H. Grant, P. 0, Alderman at Llrn Thomas Maloy, Ind. L. F. Johnson, Ind. F. M. Malzahn, P. O. Assessor: James Cahill, Ind. E. W. Hannah, P. 0. Treasurer: George Rhea, Ind. Earl Geil, P. 0. Clerk: C. B. Hoyt, Ind. George Stein, Ind. Charles Schroeder, Ind. Garfield Akerberg, P. 0. Alderman First Ward: John Moberg, Ind. N. L. Hakkerup, P. O. Alderman Second Ward: F. L. Bursley, Ind. T. W. Bell, P. O. Alderman Third Ward: Joseph Bisiar, Ind. J. Evan Carson, P. O. Alderman Fourth Ward: C. C. Crippen, Ind. Charles Swedback, P. O. No one tomorrow. “TAG DAY HELD TOMORROW should fail to vote Proceeds To Be Used in Finishing Swedish l_.ullunl Charch. Tomorrow the ladies of the Swedish Luthern church will hold a “tag day,” the proceeds of which will go toward the finishing of the Swedish Lutheran church, which is now béing erected.” Women will be stationed at each corner of the streets and no one will be allowed to pass without first pur- chasing a “tag,” for which they will pay any sum they desire, from 10¢c up. The cause isa worthy one and no should fail to donate as much as they can afford. > Doings in Municipal Court. In the municipal court this morn- ing Oscar Berg, Martin Oakley, Charles Larson and William McIn- tosh were arraigoed for being drunk, George Madden for disorderly con: duct and George Smith for vagrancy. They were each fined $5 and costs but on giving promise that they would leave the city if released their sentences were suspended. 1