Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 6, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJL D Historial Society IONEER. muz‘éo HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NO. 312. CRISIS NEAR IN FIGHT FOR REAPPORTIONMENT Senate Committee Votes to Recom-| mend Bill for Passage and Fire- Works Begin Sizzling. HOUSE RESERVES BOLD PLANS!postulated Senator S. D. Works of| HAVE DONE MUCH GOOD WORK If Measure is Doomed By Upper Body, | Representatives May Resort to Sensational Tactics. (By P. A. Wilson) Ploneer Legislative Burean 6.—If Bemidji St. Paul, March anyone hears a noise from the direction of | 10{ Chisholm and Senator Boyle of \Eveleth to secure an increase for | the office of state treasurer, now held by Walter J. Smith of Eveleth, from $3,500 to $5,000 are meeting with onposmon and probably the increase |will be denied. The house bill is !now on “general orders” and will be |threshed out by that body sitting 'as a committee of the whole. x ¥ X “He is the reincarnation of Gul-| liver and Baron Munchausen,” ex-\ Mankato, in a violent denunciation of Lynn Haines, the writer of legis- |lature letters. Mr. Haines, who has | been ill for several days but who is| now around again, was not present: ,and when he heard what the sena- tor had said, merely smiled. Mr. | ‘Hames has frequently attacked thei ! legislative conduct of the senatcr‘: ! from Mankato. icompleted its work |Many Prominent Men Among Those {Cross Relief Committee has about BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1911. RED CROSS RELIEF COMPLETES WORK \ Committes Will Hold Meeting This | Week and Baudette Affairs Will Be Wound Up. | Interested Who Gave Up Their Time to Help Unfortunates. | Red | The Northern Minnesota in the burned| McTAGGART - SEADD GUILTY Draymen Carried on Business With- out Proper License. This morning in municipal court before Judge Pendergast the case of EJoe McTaggart and Henry Seado, al- | leged to have operated a dray huxi-' ness without a license was brought up. The attorney for the defense, E. E. | | McDonald, admitted that fendants had operated the drays on the de- the day named in the complaint but . | argued that the charter did not hold ! ‘{g00d in the case. The case is the same as was the | one against John Marin last week, ! = i mission extending the opening of the% I and the judge said that his opinion S5 Panl bwesk Hiay it HE¥SE I"lTIA'"[lN WAS schEssydlstnct of the north part of the‘ in that dhss Wonld-HoI. their minds that it is reapportion- ment fireworks going off in the sen- ate chamber. At tomorrow’s session amended with di- the reap- portionment bill, visions of three southern counties, will be reported to the senate by the committee with the recommendation that it “do pass.”” Senator Hackney of St. Paul, the senate reapportionment committee, has de- chairman of cided upon this action and the com- mittee voted for a favorable recom- ‘mm“gh”“‘ the mendation, 13 to six. ‘When the report is read to the sen- ate, Senator Hackney will move its adoption. It may be adopted and if ! so, the fight will come later when the | bill is up before the senate in a com- mittee of the whole or when it comes before the senate, as probably will be the case. as a special order of busi- ness. However, someone may move to indefinitely postpone the bill and if this is done a battle royal will be: “ participated at once. Supporters of reapportionment still insist that the bill as passed by the house will pass the senate without material change. This much seems *almost certain: the senate is not!' willingly going to pass the bill. There are rumors of sensational moves being planned by the house to force the senate to pass the measure. A good many things point to the! present legislative week as one that | will live long in history. * x x 1t is admitted by W. J. Brown of attorney appointed by the house to draw up bills, that Warren, special he has been requested to prepare a its object (he\ removal of the state training school measure having for from Red Wing. This is a direct result of the charges now being in- vestigated that cruelty is practised upon inmates of the place. It is not at all likely that such a bill can pass| as the state owns expensive stone structures at Red Wing and the transfer of the school would necessitate needless expense. The hearing of the mittee will be resumed this evening in the senate chamber. that Dr. Sweeney. who testified at the last hearing that 50 to 100 lashes are injurious physically, morally and mentally to children, will be called upon for additional evidence. Other witnesses have been summoned. In speaking of Superintendent Whittier, in charge of the boys school, Assist- ant Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, Barney Seiz, whose home is at Red said: ~In Red Wing Supar- is held in 1the Wing, intendent Whittier highest respect. He is believed to be a kind. courteous, competent offi- cer.” At a meeting of the Bethel club of St. Paul the Red Wing school was declared to be a “place of bar-| barism” and that a new superin-; tendent is imperative. * KK The Saturday session of the hou was pretty much of a farce. It w with difficulty that a quorum was rounded up and even then the af- tendance was so light that no at tempt was made to pass any bills.| Several were introduced, including a | batch from Representative Spooner| making appropriations for the main- tenance of different state depart- ments during the ensuing two years. * & Efforts of Representative Knapp investigating com-| Tt is possible | | Forty-four Candidates Join Bemidji Council of Knights of Columbus. Forty-four candidates were initi- ated into the Bemidji | Knights of Columbus yesterday. The jo'clock in the morning and continued | day. in the evening after| the routine of i ation had been | completed, the election of officers was held, which resulted as follows: Thomas McCann, Grand Knight. P. J. OLeary, Deputy Grand Knight. R. S. Murphy. Financial Secretary. couneil of initiation began at At 7 o'clock J. P. Lahr, Recording Secretary. P. J. Russell, John Gibbons, Advocate. J. F. Herman, Treasurer. E. J._Gould, Warden. A. A. Andrews, Lecturer. | J. M. Neuman, Outside Guard. Edgar Irvine, Inside Guard. Father O'Dwyer, Chaplain. Howard Day. J. 0. Harris and T. J. ' Burke, trustees. After the election the installation of officers was held with Grand| meght Crowin, of Minneapolis, Hen- | nepin council, Chancellor. as installing officer. A social session was held until a | and the delegates were here left for International Falls initiation at that place will take place today. | | | | | | late hour, who where an 'MINNEAPOLIS HAS $1,000,000 FIRE March 6.—(Daily | Pioneer Special Wire Service.)—Fire | Minneapolis, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, threat- | ,ened to destroy the entire down-town | | business district and did do damage! | to the extent of more than a million | dollars on Nicollet avenue, between | Fifth and Sixth streets. The losses approximate as follows: Syndicate Block, $300,000; Min-| neapolis Dry Goods company, $350,-| 000; Model, $200,000; Young & Quinlin, goods and furnishings, | $125,000; J.B. Hudson & Son, Jewel- ers, $100,000; Woolworth & Co., five and ten cent store, $50,000; thirty eight office tennents, $30,000; New England Carpet & Furniture Co., $10,000; L. F. Donaldson Glass Block, $5,000. | It was at first reported that two| ! women had been burned, but late to- |day the missing women were found | and this established the fact that no| ives had been lost because of the| dry | fire, which is hehe\ed to have been] | caused by spontaneous combustion | in a photograph gallery in the Syn- dicate block. | | Every fire apparatus in Minnea- polis was called to fight the flames, | sent aid. The members of the Eastern Star | Tuesday evening from where 'hzy will proceed by team to Mr. A. P. Ritchie’s residence 2 miles west of town. which were so thick that the St. Puuli % lies £ ished for th .| fire department was called upon and | Dountiful:snppiles Murnighedyor tie will meet at the Masonic Hallat 7 30 | ;up at that meeting. \acomphshed by this committee, in its/| 8:30 | |Bemidji Basketball Team Wins in -2U lefforts to fairly and | distribute the vast amount of relief | supplies donated by the good people | [ thousand persons who had lost prac- | tically all of their worldly goods and | fairs, and pre-eminently fitted | | this vast undertaking. B i !D. M. & N. Ry. Co., and resides in Duluth. | |is secretary of | Clark, the treasurer of the commit- {and everything that was brought to {in their power. | and many of these persons are known | stacles encountered” by the commit-| | ritory. A meeting of the committee is to‘ be held at Baudette some time dur-| i | pected that its affairs will be wound | |GASS LAKE QUINT DEFEATED It is impossible to tell the wonder- | ful amount of good that has been| economleally of this and other states. [ The territory embraced within the burned district was large, and irelief was extended to nearly four | many of whom were in sore distress. | The men selected and placed at the head of this relief, are all men of af- forI W. A. McGonagle, the chairman of | i the committee is president of' the Major H. V. Eva, the secretary, the Commercial| [ club of Duluti. E. T. Lies, vice chairman, is sec- retary of the associated charities, Minneapolis. J. H. Beck, a member of the com- is secretary of the St. Paul Kenneth mittee, Jobbers Association, and tee, is president of the Merchants’ Bank, St. Paul, and is treasurer of The American Red Cross Association. All of these men gave their time to the work of this committee freel of charge, and paid their own ex-| penses. | Necessarily, they had to put other men in charge at Baudette and other | places, and it is possible that in the selection of these men, some mistakes may have been made, but anything the attention of the committee was remedied at once, so far as was with- Some fault has been found, and it is not improbable that in a few isol- ated cases, mistakes were made. There is, however, ome thing notable in the matter of complaints, and that is, that a great many of | them have come from people who received more relief than they were justly entitled to. A great many persons sought re-| lief who were not entitled to any,| to have done a good deal of kicking. | On the whole, however, we believe | it can safely be said, that consider- ing the many difficulties and ob- | tee, it has done its work well, and | that the Governor, and the people of | the state generally, have reason to congratulate themselves upon the work of this relief committee, and the fair and just distribution of the | aid of those in the devastated ter-| Band Rehearsal Wednesday. It was announced this that the’'band rehearsal which was to be held on Tuesday evening has been morning |ing the present week, and it is ex-|peared for the city. It is thought that the cases will | be appealed. Attorney Graham Torrance ap- “Prize Fight” Contest. Saturday evening in Cass Lake the high school basketball quint of this | city defeated the five of that place by a score of 23 to 22 in one of the roughest contests ever participated in by an athletic team of Bemidji. | The first half ended with the Be- midji five in the lead by eight points. In the second half the Cass Lake |boys in their mad determination to win, began a series of line smashes which the Bemfdji boys could not, witheut the afihof either-the referee, or umpire, stop. The game became a sort of a min- iature football contest, and by the time the whistle blew for the close of the game there was mno little trouble in deciding which of the two, | teams was the victor. { | The score was 22 to 22, a tie, with only a few minutes left to play, when the referee called a foul on the Cass Lake five. The foul was thrown, adding one point to the Bemidj: score and putting them in the lead. After the ball had been thrown up i the center of the hall, and play re- sumed, the umpire, a Cass Lake man ordered the scorer to disallow the Be- midji point, on the ground that the Bemidji player in throwing the foul stepped over the foul line. As the umpire had no jurisdiction over the ball or the thrower of the foul the point was allowed by the referee. After the game the Bemidji boys had to force their way out of the hall the Cass Lake residents lining up in front of the door. The lineup was as follows: Bemidji—Larson, centre; Peck and McDonald, guards; Bailey, Moritz and Neuman, forwards. Cass Lake—Gannon, centre; Christenson and Fulton, guards; Christenson and Johnson, forwards. Baskets—Larson 5, Peck 1, Mec Donald 1, Bailey 3, Christenson 1, Chrisfenson 1, Johnson 6. i Fouls thrown—Larson 1, Moritz 2, Johnson 6. Referee, . Professor Scott, Deer | Umpire, Warren, Cass Lake. | River. DIETZ ARRIVES IN HAYWARD WILL HAVE NO ATTORNEY Hayward, Wis., March 6.—(Daily | | Pioneer Special Wire Service)—Jahn Dietz, accompanied by Clarence and Leslie, his sons, arrived in Hayward iat 1:15 this afternoon to be present |at his trial, | morning. ‘which begins tomorrow The entire town turnmed out nnd lined the sidewalk to watch the fa- | mous defender of Gamaron Dam. Mr. Dietz said that he would have no attorney to conduct his trial; that he proposed to-conduct the trial postngnul until Wednesday evening. alone and without any legal aid. - “ [this section of the state, and if the jernor Eberhart, it will aid very ma- | terially in restoring good bass fishing | | . eral sumer resorts where residents of ! resorts of this section. SHOULD SHORTEN THE BASS FISHING SEASON { Warden Bailey Says Bill Now Before Legislature is Meeting With Ap- proval of Fisherman. | MEANS INCREASE IN NUMBER ‘Believes Measure to Cause Non-resi- dents of State to Obtain Fish License Should Pass. { i I “The bill which has been prepared {by the State Game and Fish Com- {bass fishing season from May 29th ALD June 15th, and which bids fair to i bewme a law, is receiving the hearty !endorsement of all true nimrods in i the legislature and is signed by Gov- conditions to the lakes of northern Minnesota, more so than any other single action which can be taken at this time,” says S. C. Bailey of Be-l midji, game warden for the Game and Fish Commission and one of the most efficient officials of the depart- ment. “Owing to the backward weather conditions every spring in this sec-| tionof Minnesota, when the bass fish- ing season opens on May 29th, the fishermen are catching hundreds of black and other varieties of bass, none of which has -as yet spawned. Last year, in particular, I took pai- ticular pains to note the condition of large numbers of bass caught in the lakes near Bemidji, and without ex- ception the fish at the beginning of the season were filled with spawn that was not yet nearly ‘ripe;” and Tmillions of black bass eggs were thus destroyed that would have undoubt- edly developed into lively fry that would have greatly augmented the supply of gamey finny ones in our lakes. “The lengthening of the season for bass is one of the reliefs sought to increase the supply of bass as it is a well known fact that this varity of fish is growing less in all the lakes of northern Minnesota. “Another measure which is pro- posed to be enacted into a law at this session is requiring non-resident fish- closed ermen to take out a license, costing| $1, for the privilage of fishing in Minnesota. This would increase the revenue for the Game and Fish Com- mission and would certainly not work a hardship on visitors to the summer resorts of the state. The law al- ready provides that a non-resident may take with him fifty pounds of fish; and certainly the privilege of| fishing to one’s heart content and taking away fifty pounds of the finest ‘brain producing food’ is worth $1 to even the poorest nimrod. This law >would_ have some effect in the neighborhood of Bemidji. On the| shores of Lake Bemidji there are sev- North Dakota spend the hot months of the year. These summer visitors would be compelled to take out li- censes, whereas now they"enjoy the fishing for nothing. And I do mot believe that the imposing of this $1 license would tend in any way to keep summer visitors from any of the | “Another change I would like to see made is the placing of trelipies in a class with suckers and not giv- ing them the same protection as| whitefish. These trelipies are as fond of spawn as the sucker and they have fully as voracious appetites for the unnatched fry. | “There has been but few violations of the fishing laws this winter, those who had licenses to maintain fish houses on the lakes hereabouts being very careful in not offering to sell their catches and exercising excellent measure is passed by both houses of | MARKHAM GHANGES HANDS F. 8. ‘Lyeln Company Became Owner of Hostelry Today. Late this afternoon a transaction was closed whereby F. S. Lycan & 2 ! Company, of this city, purchased the F. S. LYCAN Prominent Bemidji Hotel Man, and Member of Firm Who Today Pur-; chased the Markham. Markham hotel property for a con- sideration of $30,000, thus ending a I'deal which has been under way for the past two months. The Markham has been in opera- tion here for about eleven years and has been managed by F. S. Lycan during the past five years, being con- sidered northern Minnesota’s lead- ing hostelry. It was said by Mr. Lycan this af- ternoon that the Markham would be thoroughly remodeled and refurnish- ed. - P With the completion of the Mark- ham deal this afternoon probably marks the largest real estate trans- fer ever made in Bemidji. The purchasing of the Markham by the F. S. Lycan company sub- stantiates that Mr. Lycan has much faith in the future of Bemidji, and; casts aside the rumor that Bemidji is to lose this popular hotel man. | Inot yet any final determination of The location of the Markham is an ideal one for a hotel, being in the centre of the business district, and| being less than a block from ground on which the new Soo-Min- nesota & International union depot is to be built. Painters and decorators will go to work within the next two weeks in the remodeling of the Markham. An addition of 22 rooms will be built, all of which will have bath, on the east end of the building. New sample rooms will be ranged for. i ar- FATHER OF FAMOUS MAYO BROTHERS DEAD Rochester, March 6.—(Daily Pio- neer Special Wire Service.)—Dr.| William M. Mayo, father of the| Rochester surgeons, died here at 4 o’clock this morning, at the age of 94 years. | JUDGE PENDERGAST BUSY Municipal Court Had Much Business This Morning. This morning in municipal court Victor Rivar, Jacob Carlson and John Jones were arraigned for drunken- ness, each was given 10 days. Swan Swanson was arraigned for stopping a woman on the street and was fined $10 and costs. Maney Strand was arraigned for interfering with an officer and fined $10 and costs. Gertie Mitchell was arraigned and given 60 days for drunkenness. The judge feeling that she should be severely punished as this was her judgment in selecting the rough fish.” second offense in the past month. i the | TEN CENTS PER WEEK. REAL STATUS OF “INDIAN LID” GASE Erroneous Impression Correction— Government Has Never Ordered An Appeal to Be Taken. DEFENDANTS FILED ANSWER To Which Attorneys Spooner and Mc Donald Have Until First Monday In April to Reply. Many and varied statements have been recently published concerning the present status of the suit begun by the twelve saloon keepers of Be- midji, generally known as the “Indian Lid Case.” ** This morning a representative of the Pioneer called upon the attor- neys for the saloon keepers, Judge | M. A. Spooner and E.E. McDonald, to ascertain just what the situation of | the case referred to now is. Upon such inquiry the fact is eli- |cited that neither the government nor the defendants, W. E. (Pussy- foot) Johnson or his associates have taken any steps to appeal from either of the orders of Judge Willard re- i cently made granting a temporary injunction and overruling the de- | murrer of the defendants to the bill. Instead of appealing, as so often and erroneously stated in the pa- pers, the defendants have filed an answer in the suit, admitting in large part the statements in the bill, but denying others, and setting up | new n}it_fe_r‘ to which the complain- ants have ¥mtil the first Monday in April to file a: reply. Under this course, after a reply is filed, it will be in order for the par- ties to produce their testimony, after which the matter would be represent- ed to Judge Willard for and the order for a decree. It will thus be seen that there is findings, | this case in the lower court, and the | matter is yet far from being settled. It would seem that there is yet considerable to be done in the way of hearing witnesses and taking tes- timony and in arguments before the court before the matter is to be sub- mitted to the United States court in which the action was begun. The questions involved in this case are of much importance to every grocery man handling essences and extracts, every liquor dealer, drug- gist, physician, "hospital and every citizen who desires to keep in his house any wines or liquors for med- icinal purposes. DISTRICT GOURT GRIND Case af State Against Gust Rachuy On Today. Gust Rachuy is on trial in district court today on the charge of crim- nally knowing and abusing Agnes David in the month of April, 1909, when she was under the age of con- sent, eighteen years. , He is defended by J. L. Brown. The jury was secured before 11 o’clock and the testimony is now ‘being taken. The next trial will be that of the State of Minnesota against Frank Van Tassel on the charge of assault in the first degree. Thi§ case was tried twice at the last term, the trials resulting disagfeements of the jury. Van Tassel will be defemded by M. J. Brown, the young Bemidji at- torney. In the case of Ole Olson versus J. A. Irvine company, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $50.00 Saturday afternoon. The case of Charles Johnson versus J. A. Irvine company was dismissed at the close of the plaintif’s case.