Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 25, 1911, Page 1

THIE VOLUME 9. MAYOR J. C. PARKER CAUSES TWO ARRESTS Charles and Grace Jones Taken Be- fore Judge Pendergast on Sever- al Serious Charges. WOMAN IS FINED $103 TWICE Pleads Guilty to Having Run House| of Prostitution and Selling Li- quor Without License. Yesterday afternoon warrants were | sworn out by Mayor J. C. Parker for, the arrest of both Charles and Grace Jones, on three charges,- two being| against Mrs. Jones, one for running a | i l | | MAYOR J. C. PARKER | Who Made Clean Up of the *Blue Front.” house of prostitution and the other | for having sold liquor without a li- cense, the warrant against Jones was for having sold liquor without a li- cense. - Jones has been operating a res- taurant in the building which has been known as the “Blue Front” sa- loon building. ‘When arraigned before Judge Pen- dergast in municipal court last eve-| ning, Mrs. Jones entered a plea of guilty to both the made against her, and was fined $100 and costs for each warrant, a total of $206. | Judge Pendergast found Jomes guilty of having sold intoxicating li- charges quors without a -license and fined him $50 and costs or $53. [ It is very evident that Mayor Par- ker wishes to put a stop to all places which are being run in a question- able manner, and his action yester-| day, goes to prove that he will not| tolerate such conditions as he found | to be existing in the “Blue Front.” This is the second time in the past | six months that both Mr. and Mrs;BALL Tu “ET AB"UT sa,uau Jones have been arrested; on Septem- ber 15 Jones was arrested and fined $50 and costs for selling liquor with- out a license and on October 19 Mrs. Jones was arrested for conducting a house of prostitution and fined $100 and costs. The city council refused to grant Jones a liquor license several weeks ‘here from Palisade ) brother Gust of this place. ECity on business Wednesday. | held Saturday evening in Pelkey’s i been appointed postmaster at { ant call this week. He | where there’s a will there’s a way. | NUMBER 305. friends in Remer Wednesday. Among those from out of town who attended the masquerade ball Satur- day were, Barbara, Mary Bain, W. Bain, Jake Danielson, P. Ryan, Joe Mclverston, Frank Megany and F. Kastler of Bain; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. O’'Neil and A. Swanson of = Shovel Lake and William Megany of Wal- deck. All report a very pleasant time and say they will come again. E. A. and Henry Bergstrom are visiting their R. Troundle came over from Hill A basket social and dance will be school house. ChristiangHoeppner left for Cass| Lake Thursday to make final proof on his homestead. He took with| him several witnesses. “Root for REMER” is the latest. Mr. and Mrs. Elwin S. Stevens left | Wednesday for an extended visit in| the Twin Cities. | Robert Hinkle, chief clerk for the Pine Tree Lumber company was up spur Monday between He informs us that he has that | place and the name of the postoffice from the trains. is to be Lima. H. H. Coolidge returned from Du- luth Thursday. Miss Myrtle Thomas visited friends n Federal Dam the first of the week. | W. E. Moses of Northfield was a Remer visitor. Tuesday. Mr. Moses | has a large camp on the Pine Tree| spur about six miles east of here. Editor George J. Silk of the Pine River Sentinel made us a very pleas- had his camera along and got some nice pic- tures of our village. qeotge is a[ booster and predicts a prosperous | future for Remer. i * J. J. Piersch of Walker has been | here for the past week taking orders for men’s suits. ‘. A. C. Winger has just finished fi}-1 ing the ice house for Hotel Remer. Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey of Back- us were here the first of the week as guests of M. B. Pattn. We were pleased Thursday with a visit from four Longville men, A. H. Schafman, A. Yochum, Herman Yoc- hum and Wm. Lind. These gentle- men were farmers who were anxious The main object | of their visit was to secure our as- sistance in helping them to get a road from Longville to Remer. Their only market at the present time is Pine River which is thirty- From Remer they are only about fourteen miles but there are no roads. They would be glad to make this their trading point if they could get here. The saying is that to see our village. five miles. We certainly have the will. the way will present itself. Perhaps Sibley House Committee Will Get Approximately That Amount. Gross proceeds at the Colonial ball ago, there being a unanimous feel-| ing among the aldermen that he was | itorium in St Paul by the Daughters an unfit person to hold such a license. It is intimated that other arrests will follow shortly. NEWS LETTER FROM REM(R General Items of Interest From Be- midji's Neighbor on the Soo. Notices are out for the annual meeting to be held in Remer March 7th. Everybody should be interest- ed. Get out and vote for the good of the town. Mrs. F. L. Sanborn was a Bemidji visitor Monday and Tuesday. Joseph H. Flynn of Cohasset is here doing some extensive surveying for the Reishus-Remer Land Com- pany. He is being assisted by W. A. ‘Wickland and G. H. Fisher and is platting the forty south of town into one acre tracts. Hal Claflin of Cass Lake visited given Wednesday night at the Aud- ;of the American Revolution will |amount to about $3,000. Just what | part of this will be available for the | Sibley House fund it was impossible | for the committee to say. | It is estimated that the expenses | for the ball will approximate $1,000, | which would leave net $2,000. This money will be turned over to the Sib- Lley House fund association, to be used in restoring the home of Gen- eral H. H. Sibley at Mendota, the first stone house erected in the state. The $3,000 was derived solely from the sale of tickets, ball tickets, box seats and spectators seats. Many of the ticket sellers have not made a complete report, and it is said it will |be probably several days before the exact receipts are known. | The largest items of expense were the reproduction of Mount" Vernon and the canvass dancing floor. The former item was met by individual subscriptions from a number of wo- men. The other item, as well as all other expenses will be met out of the gross proceeds. CASHMAN BILL DEAD AFTER BITTER FIGHT After Afternoon of Debate, Senate Kills Measure By Vote of 32 to 20—No Session Today. REFERENDUM UP IN HOUSE Made Special Order for Mhrch 9— University Gets First Batch of Cash. (By P. A. Wilson) Semidji Ploneer' Legislative Bureaa St. Paul, Feb. 25.—By a vote of 32 entirely imposing, ceremonies by the senate shortly after 6 o’clock yester- day afternoon. This is the railroad rate measure which has stirred business circles: from one end of the state to the other the larger cities waging a strenuous fight against it. Senator Cashman of Owatonna claimed for his bill that it 'would bring about a more equit- able distribution of freight rates to the country towns. Opponents of the measure were vigorous in their warning that the passage of the bill {would mean demoralization in the commercial circles of Minnesota. Senator Cashman spoke at length in behalf .of his measure while Senator W. S. Dwinnell of Min- neapolis and Frank Claque of Redwood Falls opposed it, | making the convincing points that to pass the Cashman bill would mean to kill the present litigation before the United States supreme court over ‘the‘"commodity ‘rates authorized By the 1907 legislature, thig litigation extending over a period of three years and at a cost of more than $100,000 to the state. “The defeat of the bill today,” said Senator Cashman, “is not the end. The people demand such a bill and sooner or later they will get it.” * ¥ X The house was also in session yes- terday afternoon. The initiative and referendum bill was up and after sharp debate it was made a special order for 11 o’clock on the morning of March 9, this decision being made by a vote of 57 to 50 and indicates that there is some hope of the bill ultimately passing the house. An effort by Nelson Herman, representa- tive from Ottertail to kill the Lun- deen bill raising the value of human life by increasing the amount pos- sible to collect as the result of death of employes from $5,000 to $10,000 failed, the bill finally passing by a vote of 87 to 24. The house also passed the bill permitting street car companies to contract to furnish United States special mail messen- gers cheaper transportatiom than al- lowed other persons. x KK ' Although neither house worked on Wednesday (Washington’s birth- day) mnor Thursday (on account of Justice Jaggard’s funeral) adjourn- ment was taken by both houses yes- terday afternoon until 11 a. m. Mou- day. All of which goes to indicate that the present session will be as long as the law allows. * KK Newspapers will be prohibited from conducting voting, guessing, riddle or subscription contests, if a bill introduced by Representative Peters becomes a law. KKK Secretary of State Julius Schmahl is the recipient of a high honor, the | senate having passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Works of Mankato, complimenting him upon the manner in which he has issued the 1911 blue book and legislative manual. x X ¥ An effort is being made to have the legislature make July 28, the birth anniversary of the late Gover- nor John A. Johnson,-a legal holi- day. : x X % to 29 the Cashman distance tariff bill was put down and with noisy, if not| i n“ 1 Hifi f —Macauley in New York Worid. the senate yesterday passed the uni- versity deficlency appropriation bill which calls for the expenditure of $572,102 to be Ii)ent in completing buildings under way. The bill passed the house several days ago and now needs only the signature of the governor. * X % In the list of printed opinions pre- pared for the benefit of the members of the legislature, the following ad- dressed to County Attorney Funkley is made public: “Henry -Funkley, Esq., County At- torney. “Dear Sir: 'Tn Teply td your letter of' January 7th which has been re- ferred to me by the Attorney General for answer, I have to say that I do not think that the once disallowed bill of A. B. Hazen for serving tax citations is a proper bill to allow. There are two reasons for this opin- ion. First, it is held in the case of Miesen v. Ramsey County, 101 Minn. 516, that “no fee is allowed for ser- vice of citations and no charge could properly be made therefor.” Second it was held in the case of State v. Peters, 107 Minn. 460, that “when a board of county commissioners has once deliberately acted upon a claim and the time for appeal has run, it cannot, at least in the absence of fraud or mistake, set aside its deci- sion and take some other action upon the claim.” “Yours truly, “LYNDON A. SMITH, Assistant Attorney General.” * k% Ray Murphy, the K Bemidji furnmi- ture dealer and undertaker, was a visitor at the capitol yesterday. Un- fortunately neither house was in session because of the fuameral of the late Justice Jaggard. x ¥ X Senator Pugh, 80 years old, the oldest member of the senate, has not missed & day during the present ses- sion. Senator Pugh was a Minne- sota pioneer and it was he who ex- ecuted 29 Indians at Mankato, fol- lowing the New Ulm massacre. xx x Despite the resolution received from the LeSueur grand jury to the legislature agking why the governor has not fixed a date for the execution of Martin O’Malley, the governor will not name a day, for the hanging. 0O’Malley was convicted of poisoning two ptep children. The governor calls attention to a bill before the legislature which seeks to do away with capital punishment. He says that if this measure passes O’ Malley never will hang, but that if the legie- lature goes on Tecord in favor of hanging, he then will name the date. In the mean time; Mr.. O’Malley is considerably interested.in the doings of the legislatyre. % TEE Half a million dollars is to be Under a suspension of. the rules, jepent .on anlntllu_, the capitol j Sunday Sermons in Bemidji | Episcopal. Sunday school at 10. Reverend Parshall will conduct services in the evening. Methodist. Services in the Masonic temple. Preaching at 10:45 and 7:30. Morn- subject “The Incarnation.” Evening subject, “The Lord Our Rogk.” The male quartet will sing morning and evening.=" Bundsy school at 12. Influence of a Great Passion.” 8. E. Hurlocker, leader. Prayer Meeting Thursday evening at the home of Dr. A. E. Shannon. Everybody wel- come. Charles Flesher, pastor. Scandinavian Lutheran. There will be services in the morn- ing at 10:306. Sunday school at Evening service at 8 o’clock. Everyone is cordially invited to at- tend these services. noon. Baptist. Men’s Bible class 10. Morning service 11. “Faithful Sayings.” Sunday school 12:15. B. Y. P. U. 7. Leader, Miss Julia Cleve. Evening “The Enormity of Sin.” “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”—Heb. 10.25. service 8. Presbyterian. Worship tomorrow at the usual hours. Morning service at 11. San- day school at 12:15. Young People’s meeting at 7. Evening gospel ser- vice at 8. All are welcome. grounds, if a bill introduced by Sen- ator Denegre passes. x % x Pleasant faced physicians who flit from town to town for the benefit of humanity in general and themselves in particular received a jolt in the senate yesterday when Senator Fros- haug of Benson, who is himself a pbysician, introduced a bill requir- ing “itinerant physicians” to pay a yearly license fee of $500. Senator Froshaug’s idea is that the doctor who has to travel from place to place to do business should be made to pay for the privilege. Card of Thanks. We desire to extend our heartfelt thanks to our neighbors and friends for the help and sympathy extended to us during our recent bereavement. In the time of sorrow may you be so blessed with kind friends. Mrs. George A. Hanson Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hanson and family. Ep worth Leagie at 6:30. Topic “The| TULLER FUNERAL TODA After Services at Home Body Was Taken to Grand Rapids. Funeral services were held this morning at the Tuller home for Henry C. Tuller, who died Thursday evening. Reverend Flesher of the Methodist Church conducted.the_ services. The body was taken to Grand Rap- ids this noon, where interment will be made. Reverend Flesher together with a large number of panied the body. relatives accom- STEENERSON BILL FAILS Measure Providing For Pay of Mili- tia Does Not Pass. Washington, Feb. 25.—An unsuc- cessful attempt was made yesterday to pass through the house under sus- pension of the rules the Steenerson militia pay bill. The bill proposes to allow militia officers from 5 to 20 per cent of the pay of officers in the regular ar'my and enlisted men 25 per cent of the pay in the army.. A majority of the members pres- ent voted for the measure, but under suspension, a two-thirds vote was necessary. The record vote was 151 to 106. ' M RRY MUS'GIANS TONISHT No Bemidji Theatre Goer Who Likes Music Should Miss Show. Tonight in the Armory Theatre the Merry Musicians will show. Press comments throughout this part of the state have nothing but praise to offer this company, which they claim is one of the best. The Eckhardts have appeared in Bemidji before and no introduction to theatre goers of the city is neces- sary. The songs which are to be sung by the Merry Musicians this evening are all good, and no person Who likes music should fail to attend the show this evéning. Reserved seat tickets will be on sale until 7:30 o’clock at the City Drug store. HIGH SCHOOL WINS GITY CHAMPIONSHIP Defeat Re-organized “Big Bemidg” Five in Interesting Basketball Contest. SUPERIOR TEAMWORK DECIDES 0ld Time Unbeatables Seemed to Be Unable to Keep Pace With Younger Opponents. Last evening’s basketball game played between the re-organized “Big Bemidg” and high school fives for the championship of Bemidji, re- sulted in a victory for the high school boys by a score of 19 to 13. The “Big Bemidg” five was com- posed of men who were considered as stars, during the period several years ago, when the “Big Bemidg” organization was considered unbeat- able. Brown and Heffron, centre and for- ward, respectively, of the old time stars, were in the game, and at times during the contest proved to the spectators that they had not entirely forgotten how the game is played. Getchell, another old timer back at guard, and just to show hat he was still some basketball player he allowed his opponent to make only one field goal. Captain Larson, of the high school five was the chief scorer of the game, scoring 7 points, Heffron of “Big Be- midg” following with 6. * “Big Bemidg” was first to score, but the high school boys then settled down to work, and at the end of the first half had gained a lead of .6 points, the score being 10 to 4. Superior teamwork on the part of the high school boys was the main cause of “Big Bemidg’s” defeat. During the first half of the game Coach Robinson, of the high school team sent his second team into the game, who by the way, have been de- feating the first team in several of the practice games during the past week. In the second half the “Big Be- midg” five was much strengthened by Neuman and Spencer entering the lineup. The lineup last evening was: High School; forwards, Neuman, Elletson, Bailey and Moritz; centres, Brenne- man and Larson; guards, Ripple, Mc- Donald and Peck. “Big Bemidg”; centre, Brown; forwards, Heffron, Erickson and Neuman; guards, Ryan, Getchell and Spencer. Points scored by high ‘school: baskets, Neuman 2, Elletson 1, Bren- neman 1, Larson 2 and McDonald 1. Points from fouls, Elletson 1, Bren- neman 1, Larson 3. Points scored by Big Bemidg: Baskets, Brown 2, Heffron 2, Neuman 2. Points from fouls, Heffron 1. Referee, Robinson. was GONFER TEMPLAR DEGREES Three Candidates Were Admitted In- to Elkanah Commandery. Yesterday afternoon and evening three candidates, Fred LaFavar, formerly of this city but now of Crookston, Richard Funck, of Cass Lake and John Doran of Bemidji were given the templar degrees by Elkanah Commandery. Both afternoon and evening were taken up with the routine of work, which is gone through on such oc- casions. After the work of the evening had been completed a smoker was held. The following were out of town men who were present at the session: E. A. Mills, Crookston; Mr. Dheal, Cass Lake, Lester Bartlett, Cass Lake, Doctor Rodwell, Cass Lake, and_ John King of Walker. s §