Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 3, 1911, Page 1

THE EER. T WINNESOTA | - |HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SRS VOLUME 9. .NO. 310 NEXT DEVELOPMENT MEETING IN DULUTH Plans Being Arranged for. First Gath- ering Since the Convention in Brainerd Last December. U. of M. GREETS LAWMAKERS After Brief Session Legislature Visits Institution—"Reapportionment Dead,” Says McGrath, (By ¥. A. Wilson) Bemidji St. Paul, March 3—It has been de- cided that the next meeting of the Northern Minnesota Development as- sociation will be held in Duluth some } time between June 1 and 15. At the Brainerd convention on December 2 last it was decided that | the spring meeting should be in Du- luth but no date was fixed. Per- sons in charge of the Duluth end have been in St. Paul the past few days in conference with W. R. Mac- kenzie of Bemidji, secretary of the association, and the general under- standing is that the meeting will be held the first of June. The convention will extend over two days and probably will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, while on Friday a side trip to the iron| mines is being planned. * K X Declares Reapportionment Dead. “Deader than a door nail and the Twin City newspapers are mostly to blame for it,” is the declaration of Senator McGrath of Winona as to bill. Friends of the measure are not willing to ad- mit that it is quite a corpse but the the reapportionment most optimistic are willing to say—- in a whisper, of course—that the bill does look pretty sick and they confess alarm lest the bundle of amendments threatened by southern senators will Ploneer Legislative Bureau ago, when President Elect Vincent addresesd the lawmakers. * % % At Last! A Meritorious Measure. Senator James-P. Boyle of Eveleth is credited with having introduced a bill which provides a tax of $5 a year on all unmarried men who have attained the age of 30 years unless {they can prove themselves disquali- fied to contract marriage. = The mon- ey thus realized from taxing bache- lors, according to the provisions of the bill, is to be expended for the care of indigent spinstérs or women who are past the marriageable age. * KK After having amended the A. L. Hanson bill, which seeks to prohibit the sale of malt except in a licensed saloon, to allow drug stores to sell it, the senate temperance committee recommended it for passage. Every member of the committee agreed with Senator Hanson that the sale iplaces where children could buy it is very harmful. * KX The house has acted favorably on the C. H. Warner bill virtually plac- ing a tax of five cents an acre on state lands in organized townships. | This bill is of vital interest to the Inorth which will profit most by such a tax. The Warner bill provides a sum of §100,000 to be distributed among the common school districts of the state in proportion to the num- ber of acres of state land in the town- ship. The bill was amended so that it will be impossible for any district !'to receive more than $300 a year. Doings In Municipal Court. Only one case was brought up be- fore Judge Pendergast in municipal court this morning, that being the case of Gerhart Wick, he charged with drunkenness. fined $5 and costs which he paid. being He was Bibles-for Every Hotel. New York, March 3.—One hundred thousand Bibles have been ordered for general distribution by the Gideons, as the members of the Christian Trav- elers’ Association of America style themselves. The order is said to be prove a sufficient burden to carry it|the largest ever placed and it forms to its grave. It is a fact that sever- al senators are very indignant; yea, even much peeved, at some of the plain editorial expressions of the Twin City papers. The offended senators are especially wrathy over| part of a natfonal plan to place a Bi- I ble in every hotel bedroom in the country. RED WING SCHOOL a particularily bitter and vitriolic | editorial in a Mlnn;apolis ttx:)r:\in; PLAGE O TORTURE paper one day last week. “They ac-| swEAH wIT“EssEs cuse us of having our arms in fond embrace around the brewery inf.er-! —_— ests, that we have neither conscience nor heart and that selfishness pours from every pore,” say the senators who are pinched by these editorial shoes. These senators seem to fail to realize that the press but voices the sentiment of the peocple—some of | them can’t even see the wall, to say| nothing of the handwriting. A pub- lic hearing on the reapportionment | bill will be held in the senate cham-| ber at 2 p. m. tomorrow. x X ¥ . Co-eds Feed Solons, and Lobby. Brief but busy sessicus were held by the legislature yesterday morn- ing, hoth houses convening at the unprecedented hour of 9 a. m., early adjournment being taken so that the; (Continued from Yesterday.)’ H. C. Goldsmith, bright young man, who at one time note an overly was an inmate at Red Wing, and who, because of his lack of imagination was a damaging witness because it was apparent that about the best he could do would be to give the facts, the | pulse of all who heard beat faster, told some things that made | although testimony already in had them going double time. “You ran away five times,” said Superintendent Whittier. “Yep,” said Goldsmith, “and each time you caught me, for running away “How did they whip you?” queried representatives and senators might|Representativé Lydiard, who by this visit the state university in a body. At tire university, Governor Eherhart, | com Lieutenant Governor S. Y and Speaker D dresses of welcome from J president of the board of Gordor onded versity. eon at the univers ty by co-e improved the opportu to ad-| Cyres Northrup, president of the More than 100 members served lunch- | i s, who ity to shyly time. as were other members of the ttee, intensely interested in testimony. What They Did to Him. “Well,” responded Goldsmith, “they grabbed me and took me to the paint shon, took my pants down, put on a wet towel and went to it. They hit for 100 or 125 times, T don't T couldn’t count very welil after a’ hundred.” remind the slators that a new “The report from the school which gymnasi girls at the univ ve have here, erposed Senator sity would be zcceptable, The cam-|Clague, “says received fifty pus was decorated with flag: boomed a salute to the g | unintentionally blew out the windows | somebody made a false entry,” said| of the chen university cadets passed in review I)e-} fore Lind, the governor and solons. university bands furnished The visit of the members of legislature to the music cannon rnor, and | ry building, and the|the plain tall President Northrop, President|<“whe ‘Well, that just goes to show at o Goldsn said Mr. Whittier, Now, then,” ht the last time e Was you ca Two | you escaped from the school?’” “Well, it was Zumbrota,” said Mr. of malt at candy stores and other| T was whipped | ' BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING MARCH 3, 1911. - WILL INSTITUTE HERE NEXT SUNDAY Knights of Columbus Will Install Here—Fifty-three Candidates Will Be Initiated. BRAINERD TEAM GIVES DEGREE Bemidji Lodge Will Begin With Mem- bership of Over Eighty—Special Train to “Falls.” Arrangements are complete for the {installation of the Knights of Col- umbus council, which is to be held here day after tomorrow. | It has been officially announced ! that there are 53 candidates for in- |itiation and that about 30 members | will join the Bemidji couneil through transfer. There are three candidates from Duluth and two from Minneapolis who will enter the lodge here Sun- day. It is expected that the program Sunday will be carried out as fol-{ { lows: i Mass at 8:30 a. m. | First degree at 9:30 a. m. | Second degree at 1:30 p. m. Third degree at 3:30 p. m. Social session at 9 p. m. | The degrees will be given and the i social session held in the Armory. | The Brainerd team will give the first and second degrees while the Minneapolis team will give the third. | A special train, comprised of five | sleeping cars will leave the Minnesota & International depot Sunday at jmid-night for International Falls, | where a Knights of Columbus council | wil be instituted Monday. - It expected that all the dele- gations from the various towns and cities who attend the Bemidji instal- lation will make the trip to the bor- der city. The Brainerd and Minneapolis teams will also have charge of the| [ ceremony at International Falls. QUINT GOES TO GASS LAKE | | High School Basket Ball Five Will Play There Tomorrow. | Tomorrow, on the noon h"ain, the Bemidji high school basketball quint will leave for Cass Lake where they will meet the fast five of that city to- morrow evening. Cass Lake has one of the fastest basketball fives in this section of the state and it is very probable that they will make the Bemidji-boys work to win. The Cass Lake five has met and de- feated several of the best teams in Northern Minnesota and are deter- mined to defeat Bemidji tomorrow. | A large number of students will accompany the team to Cass Lake. GROOKSTON ELKS ELECT| Carlisle Re-elected Exalted Ruler and ! Boukind Secretary. i | At the annual election of officers in the Crookston lodge of «Elks num- ber 342, those chosen were as fol- lows: Exalted Ruler—W. T. Carlisle, t. Leading Knight—Fred Har- | vis. | son, | Fritz. | Secretary—Peter Boukind. Treasurer—Dr. C. E. Dampier. | bert Bang. |- Trustee—Sam | Rosenthal. w | | | Delegate to Grand Lodge—W. T.| | Carlisle; alternate—J. D. McPhee. bert J. Fritz. | The Bemidji lodge nominated for| the result -of an invitation ex-|Whittier and as® that is Sena.mrithe coming year last evening, the ‘nded by John Lind, several da.ys’ (Continued on Last Page.) !election will be held on March 16. BAGLEY YOUNG MAN HURT Fred Peterson Falls Against Revolv- ing Wood Saw Gutfing Shoulder. Last evening nbo‘fut five o’clock, Fred Peterson, son: of ex-auditor C. F. Peterson, of Cl)‘anrw‘uter county, had the mis(onm':e; while assisting in the moving of {wnd saw, of se- verely cutting his agm, nearly sever- ing it from his shoufder. It seems that Peferson, who is a athletic young man X f 22, while pas- sing by the machhug was asked, by the man who was opérating it, to give a little helkp in movi it. The machine was'in motion, and Peterson in pushing; slipped in such a manner that he was thrown ngalnstl the revolving saw, which caught him | just below the left shoulder. The injured man sas taken to the Crookston hospital ofi this morning’s early train, and it i§ hoped that the arm may be saved. ; It was the opinion of the physician in charge that the gglendid physical condition of young }’eterson would aid materially in his__}recuvery. —_— el \THREE BURNEDTO DEATH Shack at Kelliher Burns in Which Men Were Slétping. 1 Late Wednesday evening fire was discovered in a limejshack about a mile and a half out pf Kelliher, in ! which three men were burned -to death. It is supposed that the men, whose names were given as follows, James Lepsett, James O. B,anl and John ‘McKinnon, "wer’e"’é:fl%f “when "tfié‘l shack caught fire, from an over- heated stove, and never knew that they were in danger. McKinnon was well known in Be- midj, he having spent several years in this locality in the capacity of cook. WADENA EDITOR DIES Charles Eastman is- Called After a Long Illness. Charles C. Eastman, editor of the ‘Wadena_Pioneer-Journal, died at 10 o’clock yesterday morning, after a long illness. The funeral will be held in Wadena Saturday afternoon, March 4. Grand Jury Completes Work. After a three day session the Feb- ruary term grand jury late yester- day afternoon completed its work. Up until this noon there had been nine arraignments. THE FOURFOOTED PEST Will Appear At the Majestic Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Majestic theatre continues to draw large crowds owing to the good pictures shown at that place. The program for the latter part of the week is bound to please the most fastidious theatre goer. “The Song of the Wildwood Flute,” is an Indian love picture which touches upon the gentler side of the Red Man’s characier, and introducing some of the little customs connected vith his wooing. “The Statue Dog,” the second pic- tho does won-| things that e and please. | A Fourfooted Pest,” the last pic-' ture is funny enough to make a| i surprising horse laugh. and sure enough, the horse Qoes. It is all about a horse the things he does, which are and iite human and most remarkable. “Oh, I don’t know—some little| Delegate to State Com’ention—Al-; You won't believe itiumtil you see the | junk town.” | university is this picture. Admission 10c. Illustrated song, “Good Bye Betty FREE SEED BILL NOW LAW; HOW IT WORKS | Persons in Beltrami County Wishing Such Aid Have Only to Request It of Auditor George. ALL MUST APPLY IN WRITING Official Notice Will Appear in Pio- neer and Commissioners Will Then Authorize Distribution. (8y ®. A. Wilson) Bewmiaji Ploneer Legislative Burean St. Paul, March 3.—Governor Eb- erhart has signed the Mattson bill which authorizes the expenditure of $25,000 for the benefit of sufferers from forest fires by the free distri- ‘bution of seeds. All that is necessary to secure these seeds is to make written application to County Auditor George. He will file all such applications and on or ‘before March 15 he will insert in the Pioneer, as the official paper, public notice of the meeting of the board of county commissioners, who are to consider all such applications. The Mattson bill is as follows: “Section 1. That the sum of twen- ty-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any moneys in the state trea- sury not otherwise appropriated to the Department of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota, for the pur- pose of purchasing and distributing timothy, clover and redtop seed, and such other seed as may be recom- mended. by--the Deanof said Depart- ment, for the destitute settlers’ lands and for experimental purposes of state lands burned over in part or in whole by the fires in the year 1910. Section 2. Any such destitute person desiring to avail himself of the benefits of this act, whose land was burned over in part or in whole by the forest fires of 1910, shall make an application in writing, ver- ified by his oath, stating the number of acres that were burned, and the number of such acres he plans to sow to grass crop in the season of 1911, and the number of pounds of timothy, clover, redtop or other seed necessary to sow the same, which application he shall file with the Auditor of the county in which he resides. It shall be the duty of the county auditor to file all such applications by him re- ceived, and on or before March 15, 1911, he shall give public notice by publication in the official paper of| the county for at least one week be- fore the day of meeting, that the County Commissioners of said Coun- ty will meet at his office at the date to be named in said notice, for the purpose of considering the applica- tions which may be received on or before the day of such meeting. The board of county commissioners shall meet on the date so fixed by the aud- itor and consider all such applica- tions, and make all necessary in- quiries into the circumstances of such applicant to ascertain that his case comes within the intent of this act, and thereupon shall, by resolu- tion, fix the amount of timothy, ¢lov- er, redtop or other seed to be allowed each applicant, and the total amount for which said county makes appli- cation; but no such applicant shall be allowed seed more than is neces- sary to seed 25 acres of land and the said county auditor shall forthwith transmit a copy of such resolution to the Dean of the Department of Agriculture of the University of Min- nesota, who shall file the same in his office, and such resolution shall be deemed and taken to be an applica- tion by said county for the amount of timothy, clover, redtop or other seed specified in said resolution. All applications shall be filed with the said Dean on or before April 1, 1911, and no application received after that date shall be considered. Section 3. The Dean of she De- “[partment of Agriculture of the Uni- versity of Minnesota shall immedi- Brown,” sung by C,J‘Woodmnmwe ately upon their receipt consider all e applications aforesaid and shall thereupon dis- tribute the timothy, 'clover, redtop or other seeds purchased by moneys fmade available by this act, between the several counties whose aunditors have certified said applications, and in case the amount of seed made available by this act is less than the amount asked for by said counties, sald Dean shall set apart to each ap-| plicant such proportion to amount of its application as the amount.-asked for bears to the whole amount ap- plicable under this act. .But no county shall be awarded a greater amount of seed than is known to have | been applied for. The amount of timothy, clover, redtop or other seed alloted each county shall be sent to the auditer of such county; but be- fore sending same the Dean of the Department of Agriculture ‘of-‘the University of Minnesota shall seal the amount each applicant is entitled to, seperately, and attach applicant’s name thereto. It shall be. the duty of the county auditor to distribute the seed to the applicants, but before delivering said seed the auditor shall require receipt for same from said applicants. Section 4. Where the Dean of the Department of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota deems it necessary for the suppression of nox- ious weeds and for experimental pur- poses to sow timothy, clover, redtop or other seeds on burned over state lands, said department is hereby authorized to do so with ‘seed pur- chased under this act. Section 5. Any county commis- sioner who knowingly allows or aids in allowing to any such applicant under this act any timothy, clover, redtop or other seed, unless such ap- plicant belongs to the class referred to, who is destitute of needed seeds, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 6. It shall be the duty of eyery person who shall be allotted and receive any of said seeds under the provisions of this act to sow or plant the same in a good and hus- bandlike manner on the burned over portions of the lands for which the seeds have been so obtained and any person who shall sell, give away or divert any such seeds to any other or different use than that intended by this act, shall be guilty of a misde- meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five _dollars § ($25.00) or by imprison- ment for not less than twenty days. “Section 7. It is hereby made the duty of the Dean of the Depart- ment of Agriculture of the Univers- ity of Minnesota to cause an exam- ination of the lands in the several counties to which seed has been fur- nished pursuant to the provisions of this act for the purpose of ascertain- ing whether or not the experiment of seedifig such lands has been success- ful and the person making such ex- amination shall report his conclus- jons in reference thereto to said Dean of the Department of Agricul- ture as soon as reasonably may be after his appointment. The Dean of said Department of Agriculture before purchasing said seed afore- said shall retain from the appropri- ation of $25,000.00 hereinbefore specified such reasonable sum as in his judgment may be necessary for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of making the examination and report provided for in this sec- tion. “Section 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.” HOCKEY TEAM TO TAKE TRIP Given Hardware Seven Leave For In- ternational Falls Tomorrow. . Tomorrow night the members of the Given Hardware hockey seven of Bemidji will leave for International Falls and Fort Francis. On Sunday afternoon they will play the International Falls team while on Monday they will meet Fort Francis in that city. Although the Bemidji boys have not won all the games they ‘have played, they understand the game fairly well, and enter into a contest with the kind of spirit that wins TEN CENTS PER WEEK. F. S, LYCAN COMPANY PURCHASE REX HOTEL Popular Bemidji Hotel Firm Became Owners of That Modern Hostelry Yesterday Alfimnl. A. H, JESTER IS NEW MANAGER Markham Will Continue Business Un- der Same Management—Insures Bemidji of 2 Good Hotels. Yesterday afternoon the Rex Hotel of this city became the property of F.S. _Lycnn & Company. The Rex has been run during the past year by Thomas Bailey, and re- cognized throughout the morthwest as one of the most modern and up to date hotels in Minnesota. Mr. Lycan, one of the firm who S’ester‘day purchased the Rex, has been in the hotel business for more than ten years, in Crookston and Be- Has had personal management of the Markham, in this city. There is, perhaps, no better known hotel man in the state than Mr. Lycan, and dur- ing the period he has operated a hotel in this city Bemidji has been able to boast of one of the best,.if mnot the best, hostelry in this part of the country. The Rex which is modern in every respect, having running water, both hot and cold, in every room, will remain as it is, as to the furni- ture and fixtures, except that an ad- dition of fifty rooms With a large per- centage of ‘them with-bath, may be made. . \ \ A. H. Jester, who is known as the proprietor of one of Bemidji’s most popular summer hotels, will have personal management of the Rex. The Markham Hotel, which dur- ing the past five years has been under the management of Mr. Lycan, will continue to be run by him, with Ollie Neilson, the genial young man who has acted in the capacity of chief clerk for Mr. Lycan during the past several years, as manager. McPARTLIN VISITS BEMIDJI County Attorney of Koochiching County Here on Legal Business. F. J. McPartlin, county attorney of Koochiching caunty‘and also city at- torney for International Falls, is in Bemidji today, and appeared before Judge Stanton on several legal mat- ters in which he is interested. He is also president of the Koochiching Northern Minnesota Development As- sociation delegation. Mr. McPartlin was elected county attorney of Koochiching county on the republican ticket, and it was known that he was to force all sa- loons to observe the state laws as to the running hours which had not been so very strenuously enforced, if elected. Several weeks ago Mr. McPartlin issued orders to all saloons whereby they were informed that if they did not live up to the laws of the state in regard to the closing of saloons, that they would be punished to the limit. The Northome Record has the following to say, ‘concerning this order: 7 “Probably the local liquor dealers will keep their ‘lids’ on straight af- ter this. What County Attorney McPartlin said in his recent closing order goes, and don’s you forget it.” Attention Scouts. All scouts are requested to reporc tomorrow (Saturday) morning at the Presbyterian church at 10:30. Bring lunch, including meat and potatoes (raw) to be cooked out-doors. 7 S. E. P. WHITE, midji, and during the past five years * Scout Master,: =