Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 27, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI1 ILY PIONEE Historiay so;,,, VOLUME 9. NUMBER 306. “BACK TO FARM" WARNS “‘BLUE BOOK” Fire Scenes and Roseau Drainage Ar- ticle By Ralph Also Included in New Legislative Manual. | “LID” QUERY FROM BLACKDUCK Minneapolis Prohibitionist Attempts to Answer But is Wohbly on Wil- lard Decision. (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau St. Paul, Feb. 27.—Four graphic| protographs taken at Baudette and Spooner following the forest fires of last October, are printed in the 1911 legislative manual, or “Blue Book’ now being destributed by Secretary | of State Julius Schmahl. The book also contains an illus- trated article of four pages on the “Roseau Drainage Project,” written by George A. Ralph, state engineer. | Mr. Ralph explains that “this work consisted principally of cutting a| channel through Rosean lake and! deepening the channel of Roseau | This work was completed in the fall of 1906, the contract price being $14,107. In the spring of| 1907 a contract was let to Jerry Sher-| wood of Litchfield “for the improve-| ment of the remaining portion of the Roseau River,” and was com- pleted, after the removal of 500, 748 cubic yards of earth, at a cost of $52,328, in the fall of 1909. “It is believed,” comments Mr.| Ralph, “that this improvement will| forever prevent the overflow of the Roseau valley and render suitable for agriculture nearly 200,000 acres of the richest land in the state of Minnesota, 80,000 of which belongs| to the state.” river ." x X X There are three obituaries in the; “Blue Book.” The first is that of Governor John A. Johnson, the first governor of Minesota to die in office; Clarence Dinehart, state treasurer, who died in the Luther hospital in| St. Paul on the morning of June 1, 1910 and the late Justice Jaggard, who died in Bermuda February 13 last. Extraordinary efforts were re- quired on the part of the secretary of state to get the Jaggard apprecia- tion, which was written by Hugh T. Halbert, the St. Paul attorney, to the printers in time to be printed in the present volume. * KK Praises “Back to Farm” Cry. | Here is another quotation from the | “Blue book:" “The total population of Minnesota according to the 1910 federal census, 2,075,708 as compared with 1,751,~ 394 in 1900 and 1,301,826 in 1890. The increase from 1900 to 1910, ] therefore, is 324,314 or 18.5 per cent as compared with an increase for the preceding decade of 449,314 or 34.5 per cent. ' “The remarkable feature of the| government census, so far as it re-| lates to Minnesota, is the heavy drift of the population toward the large commercial centers. The census shows completely that a number of counties in Minnesota, outside of large cities are| located, have lost heavily in popula- tion, and the attention of the legis- those in which lature to whom this volume is dedi- cated, is respectfully called to this fact with the hope that some action the younger and future generations of Minnesota to remain on the farm. “This can be done by the enlarging and developing of the agricultural schools, by offering inducements that will make life on the farm an offset to the glar\e of the electric lights of the cities. “There can be but mild denial, if any, to the fact that the high cost of living at the present time is due to the fact of the lack of production of food stuffs and that lack of produc- tion can only be met by the’ develop- ment of vast acres of virgin soil in will be taken to encourage velopment the ery must be ‘Back to the Farm.”” * X X Blackduck Query and Its Answer. Some person writing from Black- duck and signing the query “subserib- er,” has addressed the Mineapolis Tribune as follows: Editor of the Tribune: Will you please explain in your paper just the point of law that is to be appealed from Judge Willard's de- cision in the Indian lid case? The Tribune replies in this fash- ion: “That a speedy reversal of Judge Willard’s recent decision that all anti-liquor Indian treaties were ab- rogated by the admision into the union of Minnesota as a state may be expected soon is the opinion of W. G. Calderwood, secretary of the Minne- sota Prohibition league. “‘Judge Willard based his deci- sion on the assumption that an in- tent to abrogaie the Indian anti- liquor treaties was implied in the ad- mission of Minnesota as a state into the union,” said Mr. Calderwood. “But I believe, and those who are pushing the appeal from the decision of Judge Willard believe, that this is not the correct interpretation of the law. “ ‘We admit that the president of the United States has the right by proclamation to abrogate some of the treaties, but the treaty that controls Cass Lake can only be abrogated by act of congress. This has never been done. We believe that President Taft tacitly acknowledged this in his re- cent order in which he did not in- clude the Cass Lake territory in the open territory.” ” As a matter of fact, Mr. Calder- wood is not entirely frank in pub- Judge Willard de- cided that argument of Judge Spoon- er to the effect that when Minnesota became a state the Indian treaties were abrogated was sound argument and based his decision accordingly and that is the decision upon which the higher court is to pass. * X X Stephens Shows Picture of Whipping Machine. As the result of the personal ap- pearance of A. D. Stephens, the Crookston banker and former sena- tor, before the investigating com- mittee appointed by the president of lished remarks. the senate and speaker of the house, a more searching investigation of the Red Wing training school than was first planned will be made. The com- mittee received a shock when Mr. Stephens presented a picture: of a flogging machine with a boy in its clutches, the picture presuming to represent an actual occurence at Red Wing. Senator A. J. Rockne of Zumbrota, in the same county as is Red Wing, is chairman of the committee. * kK L. C. Spooner’s waterway bill, call- ing for an appropriation of $40,000 for a commission to investigate the feasibility of a scheme of canals and dykes for the state, was recommend- ed to pass by the House in committee of the whole. It is considered cer- tain the measure will go through the House and there is every reason for believing it will steer clear of ob- stacles in the Senate. which is Kelliher Couple Married. Saturday afternoon in the office of judge of probate M. A. Clark occur- red the marriage of Moses Morris and Laura Holt. Both of the young people are of Kelliher. TAKE $10,000 FROM WOMAN Highwaymen Hold Up Postmistress at Kansas Coal Camp. Pittsburg, Kan,, Feb. 27.—Mrs. Gus Joseph, postmistress at Fuller, a coal camp near here, was held up by two highwaymen and robbed of $10,000 which she had just received by ex- press from Kansas City. The morey was to have been used to pay off employes of the Sheridan Coal company. . CANADA’S TRADE IS BOOMING Business With Foreigners Increased $70,144,290 in Ten. Months. Ottawa, Feb. 27.—The foreign trade of Canada increased $70,144,290 dur- ing the last ten months, according to official reports made public here. The total during that period was $634,- the state, To bring about this de- . 431,076, 2! BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1911 FASTING SEASON COMMENGES MARCH | Is Reckoned Is Mystery to A Great Many People. WHAT A CATHOLIC PRIEST SAYSI Episcopal Church Observes Period Also—Easter Comes on April 16 This Year. Lent will begin this year on March 1. How Ash Wednesday and the Lent season are reckoned seems to be a mystery to many people. Lent is alwa}s reckoned from Eas_t— er Sunday, but to many people this is equally myste}'ious. Easter Sunday always is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, March 21. the full moon is on Sunday, Easter is the Sunday following. April 16 this year. Lent is the period forty days before Easter. 4 Easter comes There are usually six Sundays in- tervening, but they are not counted in the forty days. Lent always begins on Ash Wed- nesday. It is always preceeded by Shrove Tuesday, which is the last day before Lent. A Catholic priest discusses the ob- servance of Lent as follows: “Lent is the christian season of ob- serving the forty days’ fast of our Savior in the desert and consequent- ly the church expects its members to follow the example of Christ in a small way at léast. other forms of amusement are fore- sworn. On Wednesdays and Fridays the members of the church eat no flesh of animals and on other days in Lent fish is eaten only once a day. Eggs and fish can be used at any time and to any extent, except that fish cannot be used at the same meal From these observations of Lent some aged and infirm persons are exempt.” The Episcopal church observes Lent also, but it does not indicate any method of observance other than various religious services held at in- tervals in the forty days of Lent. The Episcopal church observance of Lent is left by the church to the mood and temperament of the com- municant. The say: “The church orders such a measure of ab- stinence as is more especially adapted to extraordinary acts and exercises of devotion.” This means that there should be no formal parties or social functions but that the church does not place a ban on the so-called in- nocent amusements. The observance of Lent is left to the dictates of the communieant’s eonscience. as meat. rules CASHMAN BILL IS KILLED Distance Tariff Measure Fails to Pass Minnesota Senate. St. Paul, Feb. 27.—The senate de feated the Cashman distance tariff bill, the final vote being 29 for and 32 against it. The opinions of Attor ney General Simpson, ex-Attorney General Young and former Justice T. D. O’Brien that the passage of the bill would wipe out the work done by the state in the commodity rate cases were used with telling effect. But for these opinions the result might have been different. TRAIN OVER EMBANKMENT Two Persons Killed and a Score In- jured. Halifax. N. S., Feb. 27.—Two per- sons were killed and a score of others injured, some of them seriously, when a Halifax' and Southwestern mixed train from Port Wade and Mid- dleton jumped the rails at New Ger- many Junction. One passenger car and four cars of lumber went over a steep embank- ment and the wreckage was set on fire. “Gunnysack” Bandit at Butte. Butte, Mont., Feb. 27.—Phillene Sul- livan’s ‘saloon for the fourth time. in three months was held up by the lone bandit .and ,robbed, this time by the ‘gunnysatk” ,bandit, who. disguises himself by donning a gunnysack dress that extends from his head to his feet. He presents a.terrifying appearance with two guns held in’front of him. 1| All dancés-andl J. BURGE DIED YESTERDAY Well Known Lumbering Men Dies of Pneumonia. Yesterday afternoon in the hospital occurred the death of J. Burce, father of William Burce, who has charge of the Crookston Lumber coinpnnys in- terests in the Kelliher district. Mr.-Burce had been in the employ of the i for a nus 'VV on Lumber company ofiyears and was work- ing in Grand Porks at the time he | contracted & bad cold which devel- oped into pneumonia. The body“wil be taken to Eau Claire for interment. PETER LINDBERG DEAD Died of Pneumonia- Saturday After- ! nioon After Weeks Illness. Peter Lindberg, aged 37, died at the hospital Saturday afternoon of pneumonia. Mr. Lindberg was at one time the | proprietor of a saloon in this city, and had been sick for only one week. He was a widower and is survived by two children, a boy 5 years old, ! at present in Moorhead and a girl 3| years old. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Lahr undertaking room. Interment will be made at Greenwood. GOPHERS DEFEAT PURDUE Minnesota Still In Championship Race By Virtue of " Victory. In a game scintilating with bril- liant plays Minnesota defeated Pur- due at the university armory Satur- day by a score of 23 to 14. By this victory the Gophers kept a running chance for the conference champion- ship. The Minnesota team still ~has games with Wisconsin, Illinois and Chicago. ! A crowd of seven hundred people ‘watched the game from the floor and balcony last night, most of them re- maining for the dance afterward. The university band played. The first half ended 7 to 8 in favor of Purdue. AWFUL CONDITIONS IN CHINA Harrowing Tales of Misery Reach the State Department. ‘Washington, Feb. 27.—Harrowing tales of the misery and distress of the famine victims in China reach the state department with every incoming Oriental mail. One letter, just at hand from Rev ‘W. D. Bostick, a missionary in the stricken province of Anhui, abounds in details of the terrible plight of the people. A straw, stuck in a wheelbarrow o1 a piece of furniture is a sign that the article is for sale. Says Dr. Bostick: | “There are children to be seen on| the street with this same sign at- tached to them. What is more pitiful than what was seen a few days ago, a child in the parent’s arms with a straw stuck up on it, and one follow- ing. with the same sign attached?” CLOSING IN ON THE REBELS Further Fighting in Northern Mexico - Seems Likely: Fl Paso, Tex., Feb. 27.—It is an- nounced officially in Juarez that ar rangements have been made for clos- ing in on Madero’s forces. Colonel Rabadero, who left Juarez with 500 federals, is moving slowly toward Villa Ahumada, where Madero is encamped with about 2,000 men. Colonel . Mayol, who left Chihuahua Wednesday with a batallion of infan- try, is approaching Madero from the south, and Colonel Escuedero with 600 federals is advancing on him from the west. + Montana Has Primary Law. Helena, Mont., Feb. 27.—By a vote of 62 to 10 the house passed on third reading the so called primary law. rec- ommended by the majority of the joint conference committee to which it had been referred, the several bills on the subject measure being practi- zally a compromisSe between the Ore- BEMIDJI DEVELOPES SECOND GILL HARTLEY W. G.-Schroeder, Beltrami County’s " Leading Dairyman, Making En- viable Record As A Farmer. ENTIREHERDPASS HEALTH TEST and there are few who. know the dairying business as well. A recent test of a sample of cream taken from the Schroeder farm and made by the state dairy and foed de- partment, brought the following let- ter: ; “St. Paul, February 25. “Mr. Schroeder, Bemidji, Minn. “Dear Sir:—The sample of cream I took at your place a few days ago tested 25 per cent. “Yours truly, “H. A. Lindenberg.” The law requires that cream test Twenty-nine Cows Averaged 5,494 Pounds of Milk A Week During Last Three In February. Nearly everybody in northern Min- nesota has heard of the famous Gill Hartley farm. The Great Northern Railway passes by this famous farm going from Bemidji to Duluth. Nor- thern Minnesota tillers of the soil look with pride upon the wonderful accomplishments made in this strip of land formerly known as common swamp land. It is a dairy farm second to nore in the entire north- west. = Another Gill Hartley has been dis- covered in northern Minnesota, about| four miles west of Bemidji. Though' a young man in years, he has made an enviable record for himself as a farmer. This man is none other than one of Bemidji’s leading mer- chants, Wellington G. Schroeder. With L. F. Collins as foreman of this new modern dairy farm, known throughout this section ofthe coun- try as the Alfalfa Dairy Farm, it is| making a record for itself that even farmers in southern Minesota and other states have become amazed. ,A The first tuberculosis tested herd in Beltrami county were the 29 cows belonging* to “W. ~G. Schroeder. Every cow was found perfect. An accurat® continuous record has been kept of the milk produced by this herd and during the first 25 days of the month of February, 19,670 pounds of milk at an average test of 4.2 per cent was the yield of this herd of cattle. Getting right down to figures to show what modern dairying can do in Beltrami county, the following figures have been carefully gone over and found to be in accordance and correct. The 19,670 pounds of milk brought $590.10. The cost of feeding these cows for the 25 days can be summed up as follows: 9,775 pounds of ground feed T valued at..........0000 $126.62 13,456 pounds of hay valued Al siaie vt o i 80.74 18,125 pounds of corn insil- age valued at.... Hired help and other ex- penses ....... RN e 90.00 Interest on Investment..... 50.00 < Total expense.....$369.86 This expense deducted from the gross income leaves a net profit for the first twenty-five days in February of $220.24. One can hardly realize the fact that these results were obtained from just common cattle in 25 days’ time. When asked how he did it, Mr. Schroeder replied: “By giving them good care, good treatment, comfortable quarters, keeping the barn clean and sanitary, with a liberal amount of daylight, a good currying each day (not with a pitchfork) and keeping the barn good and warm.” “Why,” continued Mr. Schroeder, “the foreman, Mr. Collins, even takes the pains of giving to each cow a tablespoonful of salt each day. The cows. are watered twice daily and with the present arrangements one man can do the work of half a dozen, when compared with the -ordinary conditions that existed previous to our recent modernization.” Mr. Schroeder keeps in close touch with the Experimental Farm known - Grand Rapids, of which Professor A. J. Mc Guire is the superintendent. It is known that many dairy men lose nearly fifty per cent of the earning power of the cow from: lack of good care. Professor McGuire gives. ad- vice® gladly and. freely at all tfmes as the Northeast Farm at gon and lowa systems. 15,680 pounds. at least twenty per cent and milk three and one half per cent.- The average run of cream produced on the Alfalfa Dairy Farm has been about twenty-five per cent and the milk somewhat over four per cent. The record for the past three weeks of milk produced by 29 cows at the farm is as follows: First week, 5,361 pounds; second week, 5,641 pounds and the third week, This shows a gradual increase week after week for the month of February. Many visitors have called at the Alfalfa Farm during the winter months, and to all it has been inter- esting and instructive. Mr. Schroe- der is always pleased to entertain all those who wish to investigate meth- ods:adopted by him in the successful management of Beltrami county’s leading dairy farm. CHANNEL FOR GOLUMBUS Strange Actions of Man, Apparently A Teacher, at Warroad. Several days ago a stranger ar- rived in Warroad, Minn, and start- ed cutting ice in the harbor and con- tinued at the job until Saturday. He was interrogated by the village marshall as to the purpose of his ac- tivity and informed the officer that he was opening a channel for the en- trance of Christopher Columbus and his three Spanish vessels which were out in the Lake of the Woods and were seeking entrance to Warroad harbor. The marshal took the man into custody and lodged him in jail to await his identification. He appears to be a teacher, as he has several report cards for schools on his person. He is unable to give any account of himself or state any- thing coherent as to his home. Municipal Court Doings. In municipal court this morning John Anderson and George Sheehy ‘were each given 20 days in jail by Judge Pendergast for vagrancy. An- drew Fintland was fined $5 and costs for drunkenness, which he paid. _""<|INTEND TO KEEP UP FIGHT Progressives Discuss Direct Election of Senators. Washington, Feb. 27.—With the “di- rect election of senators” resolution practically killed in the senate by the Sutherland amendment the senate progressives declared that the fight for the measure will go on to the finish. If the measure is beaten at this session the battle will be continued in the next session, according to Sen- ator Borah (Rep., Ida.), who has led the supporters of the proposition. RATE ADVANCES SUSPENDED Coal Industries and Dairymen Are Affected by Suspension. Washington, Feb. 27.—The inter- state commerce commission has sus- pended rate advances which would have vitally affected the tap lines and coal industries of the South and West and the dairymen of Ohio. Recently filed increased tariffs om Ohio milk products were suspended until June 26. Advances in rates on coal ‘shipped from West Virginia mines to the West and Middle West were postponed until Sept. 15. KILLED BY IRATE. HUSBAND Man Was Leaving Home of Staysr's Wife at the Time. - “Clinton, 111, Feb. 27.—Arthur Jones is/in jail here charged with the mur. der of U. S. Grant Kendall, whom he shot :and killed as Kendall was leav- ing the house occupied by Jones’ wife. The killing is .the outcome of do- mestic difficulties Which resulted a few' days ago in Jones suing Kendall for; $10,000 on the charge of “alienat- inw the affections of Mrs Jones. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. DISTRICT COURT WILL GONVENE TOMORROW Ten Inmates of County Jail Whose Cases Will Be Presented to the Grand Jury. JUDGE. STANTON WILL PRESIDE Civil Calendar Comprises Sixty-three Cases, Thirty-nine of Which Were Continued. District court will convene tomor- row for the general spring term with Judge Stanton presiding. After charging the grand jury at 10 o’clock the remainder of the day will be devoted to the call of the calendar, preliminary motions ‘and petitions for citizenship. There are ten inmates of the coun- ty jail whose cases will be presented to the grand jury. Two of these are charged with the crime of carnal knowledge, five with larceny, two with assault and one furnishing in- | toxtcating liquor to an Indian. Frank VanTassel is also in jail awaiting his third trial on thé charge of assault, in the first degree. He was tried twice at the last term, and both juries failed to agree. The civil calendar comprises 63 cages, 39 of which were continued from the last term. Many of these are court cases. Among the new cases for trial is the case of Beltrami county against Clearwater county to recover the al- leged proportion of county indebted- ness due from Clearwater at the time that it was seperated from Beltrami county; also the action of T. 0. Tor- gerson against John Parker, Albert Kaiser and others, co-partners as the S. P. K. Lumber and Cedar com- pany to recover damages claimed to have resulted from the overflow of lands in Clearwater county. The Soo railroad company is the defendent in two cases, one brought by Harry Murphy and the other by John Wallin. | SOLD 669 BAGSGRAGKERJAGK Girls of Methodist Church Broke Sale Record Saturday. Six hundred and sixty-nine bags of Methodist crackerjack were sold Sat- urday by the members of Mrs. Naug- les Sunday school class. This breaks the former record by a hundred. The factory under the management of Mrs. Naugle is turning out from 500 to 700 bags of the now famous confection for each Saturday sale, and the salesladies are finding new purchasers every salesday. The sales are being conducted for the benefit of the new Methodist church which is being built at the present time., No one should forget the girls next Saturday. Two Chimney Fires. Fire alarms were sent into fire headquarters Saturday evening about 8:30 o’clock and 2:30 this afternoon. Both fires resulted from dirty chim- neys. The Saturday fire was in the bome of G. Coughlin and the one this afternoon was in the home of C. W. Shannon. The damage done was slight. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank all kind friends and neighbors who assisted us dur- ing the sickness and death of our wife and mother; especially do we desire to thank the ladies of the Nor- iwegiln Lutheran church. > Fred Hershay and son.