Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 1, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI1 WANESOTE v HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOLUME 9. NO. 308. HOUSE VOTES T0 DO AWAY WITH HANGING Also Passes Bill Making it Impossible to Pardon Persons Convicted of First Degree Murder. SPOONER DRAINAGE WINNER . Provides Expenditure of $40,000 for Elaborate Conservation Scheme— Reapportionment Outlook Dark. (BY F. A. Wilson) Pioneer Legislative Burean| St. Paul, March 1.—It isn't likely that there will ever be another offi-| cial hanging in the state of Minne- sota and it is just as probable thati from now on no murderers will ever receive a pardon in this state. Bemidji vesterday afternoon, by a vote of 95 to 19, the house passed the McKenzie bill, doing away with capital pun- ishment and a little later passed the Keefe bill, taking away from the; board of pardons the right to com-| mute or pardon any person conviet- | ed of first degree murder unless “in-| nocence is established doubt.” 1t is likely that the senate will| pass both bills and the governor is| certain to sign at least one of them. George A. McKenzie of Gaylord,| author of the measure doing away| beyond a with executions, read an exhaustive| argument against hanging, his strong point being that the taking of a life for a life has never had the effect of | decreasing or preventing crime.| Other members spoke in favor tention to the fact that G Eberhart, in his annual urged the legislature to take such ac-| tion. In a dramatic talk, full of hu-| man interest, Representative Knut-| son plead for the retention of the death penalty, declaring that the perpetrators of many would otherwise ultimately obtain! freedom. x X X Spooner Drainage Bill Passes. mittee meetings in theafterncon, was| a long, drawn out affair and aside| from the oratory over the abolish-| ment of capital punisnment and state| GHANGE AT THE MAJESTIC conservation, as provided by thel Spooner bill, was filled with import-‘! nat results. The Spooner bill; appro- priating $40,000 and authorizing‘ and empowering and directing the! governor, the state auditor and the! attorney general to investigate into! the feasibility and practicability of | the construction of certain canals, dikes, dams, storage reservoirs, to promote and facilitate drainage, pro- mote the public health and general develop water power and internal commerce and to report investiga- tions along this line to the next leg- islature, finally passed by a vote of 95 to 17. This is one of the most | far reaching acts along conservation lines probably ever passed by a state | legislature. If the plan in the expenditure of millions of dollars and the men behind the project say that whatever the expense it will bn an investment that wil pay large re- turns. Representatives O'Neill, Matt- son and Robertson voted for the bill. Other bills passed by the house were the game and fish bill requiring non- residents of Minnesota to take out a license when they wish to fish with hook and line at a cost of one dollar; the Lydiard bill, making it a gross misdemeanor for any state officer or state employe to be interested direct- ly or indirectly in any contract in which the tsate is involved; and the! Nash bill, establishing restrictions for owners and drivers of automo- biles. * X % Looks Dark for Reapportionment. It dosen’t look a bit good for the reapportionment bill which passed the house one week ago yesterday. The bill was to have been considered yesterday afternoon but it sion and no recommendation made. by the senate committee at a meeting wasn’t. The committee held only a brief ses- was Some of the senators present {made it known that they proposed to Epresent several radical amendments to the house bill, but they did not|Attorney General Refuses to Begin have them ready and so the commit- tee adjourned, not to meet again until on Tuesday of next week. In PENNINGTON COUNTY . DECLARED LEGAL Proceedings Requested By Red Lake Falls Citizens. addition to this the city papers figure ithat reapportionment was given an- other black eye by the senate when | the judiciary committee voted to re- {commend the Moonan-Haycraft bill, amending the state constitution so| that no county wil have more than THIEF RIVER FALLS JUBILANT Simpson’s Opinion Read At Mass four senators. and Duluth. | xxx Andrew Johnson Home; Promoted. Andrew Johnson, of Bemidji, who | has been in’the Twin Cities since be- | {fore the opening of the legislature, has returned home. Bemidji veyor Johnson's Dbrother Nels, voyage from New apolis company, in a x X X Sunday the senate, 27 to 20. X ¥ % Specific charges against George A. Ralph, state drainage engineer, were heinous erimes made to the house investigatig com- mittee by a special at the earliest moment. Entire New Program at Popular Little Theatre Tonight. “The Rough Rider’s Romance,” a melodramatic love story based upon a famous cavalry battle in the late Spanish war. This is a very interesting picture from start to finish and will hold | ® Sme, but in this case no fact or the attention of all those who are for- tunate enough to see it. “The Troublesome Baby,” a comedy that is a laugh all the way through. This is particularly objectional to St. Paul, Minneapolis Brother 1 After a day in he goes to his farm near Late | Kelliher. He will assist County Sur- Roy Bliler in complet.ing the survey of ditches 8 and 10. Mr. leaves on March 10 for South America where he goes for an indefinite length of{A. Duffy and others of Red Lake time as representative of the Min- neapolis Gas Traction company. Nels will sail from New York on March 20! for Buenos Aires, Argentina, which city will be his headquarters. York to America is scheduled at 23 Mr. Johnson is a gas engine expert and will participate, for his Minne- The‘ in the northern part of the state. By South days. | north end of Red Lake county erect- competitive demonstration, after which he will assist in introducing the Minneapolis engines into Argentina. ~| the election, however, citizens of Sunday baseball can continue to of | be played in Minesota, so far as the abolishing the gallows and called at-|jegislature is concerned. The sa-| FOVernor geng bill which sought to repeal the| message, | pill passed two years ago permitting games was voted down by subcommittee | composed of C. H. Warner, Albert | Pfaender and Garfield W. Brown. | The charges against Mr. Ralph will The first afternon session of the|now be taken up and the evidence house, in compliance with the Spoon- 1 pro and con sifted out and the com- er resolution, which calls for com- {mittee will report back to the house | how it worked. {PLAGUE REPORT 1S DENIED Physicians Say Spokane Deaths Were Due to Other Causes. Spokane. Wash., March 1.—Sensa- tional reports that bubonic plague had gained a foothold here and that three persons had died of the malady were scouted by physicians. Half a dozen doctors made a careful investigation of the three deaths and ed by the same complication, Girl Saves Two Lives. near drowning two young girl agad thirteen. who was drowned. ~Love in Quarantine,” it isn’t often. mind | that two lovers are quarantined in eventually materializes, it will mean |the same place but this is what hap- pened and it will do you good to see all agreed that death was due to a| complication of pneumonia and grippe. Persons reported suffering from the plague, the doctors assert, are afflict- | | Chicopee, Mass., March 1.—A brave | little barefooted girl, thirteen years | 0ld, Josephine Pizroski, rushed into the icy waters of the Chicopee river her home and rescued from friends, ‘while her collie dog, Beauty, was less successfully attempting to save the life of the third child, Mary Zybura, Meeting Called to Celebrate the Victory. Pennington county is to remain as it is, so far as Attorney General‘ Simpson is concerned. ‘He has de-i cided that the trouble between the people of Red Lake Falls and Thletl River Falls is not of sufficient im-| portance to the state as a whole for| him to take a hand by bringing quo| | warranto proceedings before the su-| preme court as was requested by J. Falls. This will end the litigation Whidl‘ has involved a large number of people diligent efforts of the people of the ed a new county at the last election, the county officers are in office and the county is running as are others of the state. Claiming there has been fraud in Red Lake Falls sought to have the | ! election set aside and appealed for| the assistance of the attorney gener- al. After a hearing ten days ogo;| Mr. Simpson has now decided that he lwill deny the petition. Word to this effect was read last evening at a big meeting in Thief River Falls, Pennington county, called to celebrate the victory. There are a number of financial problems involving the execution of ditch contracts in Pennington coun- ty which Red Lake county executed last spring. The legislature may be called upon for laws governing the situation, as there is mno present method whereby the new county may assume the contracts executed by the other. Mr. Simpson’s opinion embodied in his letter to Mr. Duffy, folows: “In the matter of your request that the Attorney General make ap- plication to the supreme court for a writ of quo warranto to test in effect the organization of Pennington] county, I have come to the conclus- ion after a very careful consideration of the whole matter, that the same should be and is refused. “Ordinarily an application of this nature is made when requested, if it appears that the public good requires argument has been presented to me from which the latter might be reasonably adduced. On the other hand, it does appear. on its face at least, that the new county was law- fully created. To attempt at this time to set aside the action thus taken, would, in my opinion, not only not be conductive to the public good, but would rather prolong an agitation which has existed of com- mon knowledge for years and which cannot be considered otherwise than harmful to the public welfare. In other words, from the standpoint of the state, I see no public good that will be subserved in making the ap- The interests of the state in my opinion are to the contrary. “I herewith return your bond. The other papers will be held together with this opinion as part of the files of this department.” plication you request. Card of Thanks. We desire to express sincere thanks to all those neighbors and friends sickness and death of Peter Lindberg. Bertha Johnson, Jens Johnson, who so kindly assisted in the last! BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1911 LENTEN SEASON ARRIVES Today Is Ash Wednesday and Marks Formal Opening. Today is Ash Wednesday and marks the formal opening of the Len- It is on Ash Wednesday {—the first day of Lent—that the | faithful, according to anFient custom, are exhorted to approach the alter before the beginning of mass, and there the priest, dipping his thumb in ashes previously blessed, marks upon the forehead—or in the case of clerics upon the place of the tonsure —of each the sign of the cross, say- ing the words; “Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou | shalt return.” The ashes used in this ceremony, are made by burning| the remains of palms blessed on the| Palm Sunday 6f the previous year. In the blessings of the ashes four prayers are u 4 , all of them ancient, and the ashesi are sprinkled with| holy water and fumigated with in- cense. In earlier ages of a peniten- tial procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed, HOPE FOR MILITIA PAY BILL ten season. Steenerson Measure Likely to Come Before House. i ‘Washington, Mareh 1.—The house committee on rules yesterday agreed to report a rule for the consideration of the Steenerson militia pay bill, which failed of passage last week because a two-thirds vote could not be mustered to-%rigg- about-its con- sideration” ynder “Wapedsion of the rules. i It is expected that the rule will be brought up late in the afternoon and that the bill will be passed, as its supporters claim to have a substan- tial majority for it. This bill provides that officers and soldiers in the national guard of the various states, who give a prescribed service, shall receive, in addition to their compensation from the states, a certain percentage of the pay of of- ficers and soldiers of the regular army, this pay to come from the fed- eral treasury. The national organization of offi- cers of the national guard is making a hard fight for the bill. The Young Bride’s First Discovery. Their wedding tour had ended, and they entered their new home to settle down to what they hoped to be one long uninterrupted blissful honey- | moon. But alas! the young brides troubles soon began, when she tried to reduce the cost of living with cheap big can baking powders. She soon discovered that all she got was a lot for her money, and it ‘was not all baking powder, for the bulk of it was cheap materials which had no leavening power. Such pow- ders will not make light, wholesome food. And because of the absence of leavening gas, it requires from two to three times as mush to raise cakes or biscuits as it does of Calu- met Baking Powder. Thus, eventually, the actual cost to you, of cheap baking powders, is more than Calumet would be. Cheap baking powder often leaves the bread bleached and acid, some- times yellow and alkaline, and often unpalatable. They are not always of uniform strength and quality. Now the bride buys Calumet—the perfectly wholesome baking powder, smoderate in price, and always uni- form and reliable. Calumet keeps indefinitely, xflzakea cooking easy, and is certail;ly the most economical | |ater an. | Robhers Shoot Conductor. Cranston. R. I, March 1.—Two armed men held up an electric car of the Rhode Island Stregt Railway com- pany and shot Conductor Daniel H. Coyle, probably fatally, before rob- bing him. A posse headed by Mayor Edward M. Sullivan jpined the police in search for the robbers, - T . CASS LAKE MAN GIVEN PRISON TERM Mike MoCoy Plead Guilty To Having Given Indian Liquor and Was Sentenced to Stillwater. FIFTH OFFENCE IN SIX WEEKS Intoxicated Red Skin Was Also Ar- rested and Fined Ten Dollars And Costs. Last evening’s train from Cass | Lake brought Sheriff Robert DeLury and Mike McCoy to Bemidji, and Me- Coy was arraigned before Judge C. W. Stanton on a charge of having given iptoxlcaung liquor to a per- son of Indian blood. McCoy plead guilty to the charge before Judge Ives in Cass Lake yes- terday morning and was willing to receive sentence from Judge Stanton rather than to await the action of the grand jury. ‘William Smith, the Indian who was found intoxicated from the li- quor he had received from McCoy | was assessed a fine of $10 and costs {or 20 days in the county jail. The Indian paid his fine amounting to $13.50. After giving the prisoner a short examinaticn Judge Stanton sentenced {him to hard labor at the state prison in Stillwater for the period of six months. County Attorney Richard Funck, of Cass county, is determined to put a stop to the furnishing of liquor to persons of Indian blood, and in this . o . i cage secured a-comvittion of the In-t { o’clock. \ it also, whick wil hielp put - stop’ to the practice. MILITA NOT NEEDED Detail May Be Withdrawn From Spooner and Baudette. ° Governor Eberhart yesterday morning received a letter from Chair- man W. A. McGonagle of Duluth, chairman of the Nothrern Minnesota Forest Fire Relief Committee, stat- ing that the militia is no longer needed at Spooner and Baudette and that the remaining detail may be withdrawn. Mr. McGonagle ex- presses the thanks of the committee for the efficient service rendered by the National guard during the relief work. Doings In Municipal Court. In municipal court this morning P. Crow was arraigned before Judge Pendergast on a charge of vagrancy, and was given fifteen days in jail. Gerttie Mitchell was arrested for drunkenness and her case dismissed. FOR EXTENSION OF LINES Unlon and Southern Pacific to Spend $75,000,000. Denver, March 1.—That the refusal of the interstate commerce commis- sion to permit railroads to raise rates will not prevent the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific from expending $765,000,000 for extemsions was made manifest here when the Union Pacific announced that the laying of track will begin March 15. The first extension will be from Dent to Fort Collins and the twenty- five miles will be laid in twenty-five days. The terminus at Fort Collins and the line will be ready for operation July 1. M'CUMBER DEFENDS J. J. HILL i Has Slurs on Rail Magnate Expunged From Senate Record. ‘Washington, March 1.—Senator Por- | ter J. McCumber of North Dakota had expunged from the senate records op- probrious allusions to James J. Hill The allus’ons were contained in a let- ter on th: subject of reciprocity, writ- ten by a constituent, to Senator Gron- na of thai state. P Senator McCumber paid warm trib- ute to Mr. Hill’s integrity, patriotism and: capacity and sald mo man had done more for the upbuilding and wel- fare of the entire Northwest. | John Neuman and family of Ne- BISHOP MORRISON GOMING Will Conduct Episcopalian Services Here Next Sunday. Annonnéement has been made that Bishop J. D. Morison of Duluth will conduct Episcopalian services in Be- midji next Sunday. There wil be Holy Communion. The services will be held in the Norwegian Lutheran church Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. MAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE Gust Efiekmn Fell From Steps of Coach—Will Recover. Cass Lake, March 1.— (Special)*— Gust Erickson had a narrow es- cape from being run over by the cars early this morning while attempting to board the east bound passenger. Erickson, was about to board the | train for Swan River when he thought of his partner who was| sleeping in the waiting room and went back to wake him up. In the mean time the train started up and Erickson made a run for it and ac-| cording to his statement got on the steps of the coach when he alleges the conductor, Mike Flynn, pushed him off. Erickson landed on the frozen ground striking on his head and receiving a bad cut, also receiv- ing bruises on his shoulder and left leg. He wil Irecover. Nebish. The Crookston Camp No. 1 broke camp Tuesday. bish moved out to Camp 3, where they will stay until camp breaks. ‘Wm. Betts spent Sunday in Island Lake on business. Art Billett spent Monday in Pu- posky. £ R.. E. Smyth of Puposky Tuestay in Nebish. Joe Anderson of Bemidji spent Sunday at Ten Mile Lake. | spent Mae McGregor and Ethel Knox of | Nebish spent Saturday in Bemidji. | Mrs. Wheelan of Island Lake spent Saturday in Bemidji. | Mr. and Mrs. Colins of Island Lake came up Saturday evening from Be- midji where they have spent the pastf week. | M. Dwyer spent Saturday in Ne-! bish on business. He left Monday for Wisconsin where he will visit his uncle. Richard Oberg of Island Lake left Wednesday for Canada where he will spend the next six months to look over land. Mr. Hickerson, one of Island Lake’s merchants, was in town Wednesday afternoon. Miss Ethel Pingle left Thursday morning for Bemidji where she in- tends making her home. Knute Hagen of Nebish spent Tuesday at Ten Mile Lake. . - | Charlie Dickenson of Island Lake| returned Monday evening from Sol- way where he spent a week with his brother Ray, who has been sick. FINISHED AHEAD OF TIME Five-Mile Tunnel Drilled Through Solid Granite. Los Angeles, Cal, March 1.—With world’s records broken for low eost and rapidity of construction the bor- ing of the great fivemile Elizabeth tunnel, the most important feature of the new $26,000,000 municipal water project of Los Angeles, has been com- Dpleted. It is the second longest water tun- nel in the United States.. It pierces the crest of the Sierra Madre range at a point sixty-seven miles northwest of this city and has been drilled through 26,780 feet of solid granite. ‘Work began at both ends of the big bore on Oct. 5, 1907, ‘and went on day and night. it The work was finished a year ahead of time and $411,800 under the esti- mate. It has a total capacity of 650, 000,000 gallons a day. Erickson and his partner were in the | GOURT CALENDAR v)‘ebmnry Term Will Be Rather Short —Criminal Calendar Will Prob- ably Be Reached Monday. SEVERAL ARRAIGNMENTS MADE First Civil Jury Case Will Be Heard Tomorrow Morning—Several Jurymen Dismissed. At the opening of court this morn- ing Judge Stanton announced that EWilliam Gallager, Henry Krahn, E. | L. Oberg, William Vail, Gust Bere, Charles Peterson and David Gill had been dismissed from the petit jury and that Jacob Christenson, Roy Car- ter and E. A. Alger from the grand jury had also been dismissed. ‘ The court calendar for the Febru- depot waiting for the train and he,|ary term, the present term, is un- usually light, and it is very likely that the term will be short. At this time it is expected that the criminal calendar will be reached not later than next Monday. As there were no jury cases ready to be heard at 1:30 this afternoon the petit jury was dismissed until 9 o’clock tomorrow morning. Several arraignments were made late this afternoon. The first jury case will be that of Retail Sattler Liquor company ver- sus Frank J. Gustafson, which wilk be taken up tomorrow morning at 9 The followlng ceses have bee\.\. Dplaced at the foot of the caléndar: Itasca Park Reglon Nursery com- pany versus E. O. Estenson. Oliver J. Weekley versus W. L. Brooks and A. M. Bagley. Shevlin-Mathieu Lumber company versus Rat Portage Lumber company. Marshall Wells Hardware company versus E. 0. Moore. T. 0. Torgerson versus John Park- er, Albert Kaiser and others, co-part- ners as S. P. K. Lumber and Cedar company. William Bryson versus Bemidji Lumber company, a corporation, E. 0. Moore and J. K. Standland, co- partners as E. 0. Moore and company. John Wallin versus Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Rail. | road company. Six cases were continued, 21 will be tried by jury, 9 will be court cases and the remaining cases have either been settled out of court or have been | stricken from the calendar. TAKES ON REGIPROCITY James Bower Says It Is Good Thing for Farmer. Ottawa, Ont., March 1.—“As far as the reciprocity agreement goes it has the complete approval of western farmers, but dissatisfaction is = ex- pressed at the smallness of the re- duction in the duty upon agricultural implements.” This was the statement today of James Bower, president of the Can- adian’ National Council of Agricul- ture, and of the united farmers of Alberta, who is in Ottawa to urge the government to grant in full the demands made by farmers. “The contention of some is correct, that the agreement is but the first step toward breaking down the whole system of protection; farmers may well hail it with unqualified satis- faction. B “By opening up new markets the agreement would without question give great impetus to the agricultur- al industry, particularily in western Canada, and would prove equally ad- vantageous to the farmers of eastern Canada, especially in dairy produect &nd pay.” UNUSUALLY LIGHT