Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI VOLUME 9. NO. 314. WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE FAILS IN SENATE Motion That Bill Be Recommended For Indefinite Postponement Re- sults In A Tie Vote. | O'NEILL REDRAWS TWO BILLS| Ten O'clock Saloon Closing Measure Would Limit Female Working Hours. Introduced — Lundeen (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau ! cities of the third and fourth class. i restaurant business can work longer a law. This measure includes all * X X * Representative Conley has a bill in, appointing the governor a Panama Exposition commissioner and appro- priating $3,000 for the expenses of a deputy commissioner to visit - San.| Francisco to select a site for the pro- posed display of Minnesota at the fair in 1915. KKK No female employed in a manufac- turing, mercantile, laundry, hotel or than eight hours a day—except 12 hours in mercantile houses the week vefore Christmas—according to pro- visions of a bill introduced by Repre- sentative Lundeen. * X X Representative Mattson of Roseau as a bill in, appropriating $200,000 | for the drainage of swamp and!: St. Paul, March 8.—Woman’s suff- rage in Minnesota all but had the life | choked out of it yesterday afternoon, | the senate jumping on the measurei with both feet. It was first strangl-| ed when a motion was made, while| the senate was in a committee of the | whole, that it be recommended for | passage. The motion failed and then | Senator Carl Wallace moved that the bill be recommended for indefinite postponement. This thrust at the life blood of the measure caused its friends to rush to the rescue and by | a vote of 23 to 23—a tie—the vote| lost. “What does that do with the bill?” inquired Senator Rockne of Senator Schaller, who was presiding. “Don’t know,” admitted Mr. Schal- ler. It was finally decided that the bill should retain its place on general or- | ders, which means that it will again be considered by the senate in a com- ! mittee of the whole before a final vote is taken. i While the bill survived the attacks | of the day, it was mortally wounded. | 1t is known that thirty-seven senators are pledged to vote against the meas- | ure, which means that the bill, in- | troduced by Senator Ole Sageng, is} doomed and that women of Minnesota must struggle along for a few more ! years without the right to vote. | * % | Because the house judiciary com- mittee opined that O’Neill’s bill, of direct concern to Representative Bemidji, should have been drawn as| two bills, killed. | The gentlement from Thief River | his measure was Falls didn’s accept defeat, but re-| drew the measure as two bills, and‘ he introduced them yesterday. One that “all made by any board in aid of agricul- provides appropriations tural fairs or expositions to any agri- cultural society and all outstanding warrants issued by reason thereof are hereby legalized.” The second bill approved, by the way, by the Bemidji Club, that | “when any county board has hereto- Commercial provides fore appropriated money to aid any | town or viilage within such county | in constructing roads or bridges, such appropriationé and all outstanding warrants issued by reason thereof are hereby legalized.” Mr. O'N(‘ills says he will make a special effort to get these bills through the housz ard! senate. | KK i Another echo of the Baudette and | Spooner fire came in the house yes- terday when Répresentative Spooner | of Morris introduced a bill, calling upon the state to pay into the nation- al guard fund $2,311 to reimburse it | “for the equipment used at the forest fires of Baudette.” Incidentally, | Donald Robertson’s effort to have a; committee visit the fire zone has failed. REarly in the session, the Ar- gyle representative introduced a res- olution calling for a committee of three senators and .four representa- tives to proceed to Beltrami and ad- joining counties to just what the needs of the fire sufferers are. The resolution passed the house and went to the senate committee on forestry and fire protection. Here it was opposed by agents of the Red Cross and all hope of getting it out of this committee has been doned. ascertain aban- XK ¥ L Saloons in Bemidji will be compel- led to close at 10 p. m. instead of 11 if a bill introduced by Representa- ifor a uniform system of 'drainage, | | found who is throwing the poison! (FEATURE FILM AT MAJESTIC | nomination a ticket for the annual marshy land belonging to the state | and for the improvement of the state‘ ditches, half this amount to be avail-| able the coming July and the remain- der in July, 1912. The same bill ap- propriates $20,000 for the purpose of | defraying the expense of carrying a topographical survey of the various watersheds of the state and providing and $30,000 for continuing the work | of a water survey of the state. i SEVERAL DOGS POISONED Seven Have Been Killed in This WayI During Past Week. During the past week no less than seven dogs have been killed by hav-| ing eaten poison. i Several indignant men who have lost dogs have, when they were in- terviewed by a representative of the Pioneer, said that if_the person is| that he will be prosecuted to the| limit. “Jean Goes Fishing” Will Be Leading Picture Tonight. The first picture to be shown at the Majestic tonight is entitled, “A Plain Song,”” acted by the Biograph Co. It is a pathetic story illustrating the commandment which inculcates honor for parents. “Jean Goes Fishing,” is the second the Vitograph dog that performs many remarkable stunts, everybody likes to see a dog perform and there will be picture, and of course Jean is no exception to the rule for Jean is| there with the goods. CASS LAKE HAS CAUGUS Present Council With One Exception Receive Nomination, Cass Lake, March 8.—At the cau- cus held last evening to place in village election next Tuesday, nearly all the present councilmen were nom- inated with the exception of the of- fice held by R. W. Koehn as trustee, ! H. N. Harding being the nominee, and R. W. Koehn being placed on the ticket as justice of the peace. The meeting was harmonious and the following ticket President, D. F. Dumas; councilmen, Henry Carter, Dave Jones, H. N. Harding. Clerk, A. F. Ittner; treas-; urer, Al. J. Hole; Assessor, F. L.! Gorenflo; justice of the peace, R. W. Koehn; constable one year, Dan Lilly, constable two years, Pat Cain. nominated: Woodworkirg plant for sale in DIBraiverd.. Buildings, lots and machinery near R. R. tracks, must be sold because of other business. Write to owner, E. J. Rohne, room 709, 324 Hennipin Ave., Minnea- tives J. F. Lee and Putnam becomes polis. jinvestigation so BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY BEMIDJI BOY SOUGHT AS CRUELTY WITNESS Lad Who Had Tooth Knocked Out At Red Wing Wanted In St. - Paul. LIND HEARS WHITTIER CONFESS Superintendent of Training School Admits That Boys are “Spanked” and Says it is Humane. (By ¥. A. Wilson) Bemiaji Plonser Legislative Buresu St. Paul, March 8—*“Walter Shores of Bemidji was the boy I saw knocked | down and his tooth Kkicked out,” swore Walter Stoddard, a colored | youth, a former inmate of the Red Wing school, in testifying before the legislative committee now investi- gating charges of cruelty. A. D. Stephens, former senator from Crookston, says a subpoena has been issued for the Shores boy and it is expected that he will be present when the hearing is resumed in the senate chamber tonight. Interest in the Red Wing exposures has increased so that it was im- possible to seat all who came to be present at the hearing Monday even- and the spectators were not curiosity, busi- men being In fact the the astounding and the important that a former governor of the state, John Lipg, who is now practicing law in Minneapolis, came Monday evening to listen to the testimony, and he re= mained until the hearing adjourned not long before midnight. . Superintendent Whittier was the feature of the evening. He was permitted to address the committee which he did at length, admitting that corporal punishment has been and still is being administered at the Red Wing school. “I think it is the most humane and altogether satisfactory punish- ment of the severer forms,” he told the committee. “Do you mean to say that you have to whip boys to run your school?”” queried Senator Sullivan. “Well, no, I didn’t say just that, and in fact we don’'t whip them— we just spank them, and we wouldn’t need to do that if we were provided with cell houses,” replied Mr. Whit- tier. Mr. Whittier admitted that a “spanking contrivance” was used in the schol up to July 4, 1905, when it was destroyed by fire. He said that since that time boys were “spanked” by having their backs bared, a wet towel applied and whip- ped, or as Mr. Whittier preferred to call it, “spanked” with a strap four- teen inches long and three and omne half inches wide, attached to a handle, Whip being twenty-two inches long. “We only spank them until they are throughly subdued,” said the superintendent, “Sometimes only fifteen blows are needed and.I don’t think more than 50 are ever admini- stered. Of course some of the boys who have testified here undoubted- ly honestly' think they were given more.”" Upon direct question from Senator Stephens, Mr. Whittier declared that there was not and never had been a machine with paddles attached, run by electricity and used as a whipping machine. ing, there out of idle ness and professional among those present. investigation is so searghing, evidence so the complete “I have been told there is such a machine,” was Mr. Stephens’ com- ment. Several boys, former inmates of the school, were on the stand and re- peated stories of cruelties at the school. Eugene Jennings said that he had been whipped on thé “spank-| ing machine,” with his 'hands tied to the floor and that when he got up his arms and back were so stretched that he could not stand up, whereup- on a guard said, “ztialghten up, damn 1 00nT "3ge. waad Tou HAD To PARE 508 Avvuow. fist blow. 1t is expected that the public hear- ings will end this week. Mr. Steph- ens informed Chairman Rockne that he believed he has established the fact that abuses exist at the school and that he had but three more wit- nesses to call. o Superintendent Whittier left a bundle of letters with the committee written by boys out on_parole. These are unopened and Mr. Whittier ex- pects that when the committeemen open them that they will find that a majority of the hoys will have nics things to say of the training schgnl. MUNIGIPAL~ COURT: DOINGS Charles Graham and Ted McManus Arrested on Larceny Charge. | This sworn out by Chief of Police .Toseph‘ Harrington causing the Charles Graham and Ted McManus ‘on charges of having stolen grips from the Red Lake and Great Nor- morning warrants were arrest of thern railroad depots. Their case will come up for hear- ing tomorrow morning. Henry Merriman was arraigned be- fore Judge Pendergast this morning on.a charge of drunkenness, and was given a jail sentnce of 10 days. A fine of $5 and costs was imposed upon Duncan McCharles for drunk, which he patd. CROP SPEGIAL GOMING being Soo Line Improvement Train Will Reach Bemidji March 17. Word hag been received here that the Soo Line crop improvement spec- ial which is making a large number ‘of the Minnesota cities will be in Be- midji on the evening of March 17. The subjects to be discussed at the | lecture which will be held in the eve- ning will be “Good Seed and Soil Management.” The train will make ifs first stop at Buffalo Tuesday morning, March 14, and will stop forty minutes in all of the more or less important towns on the Soo Line, and will stop ‘eve-? nings in Glenwood, Alexandria, Thief | River Falls and Bemidji where eve-| ning lectures will be delivered. No one interested in farming Should fail to attend this lecture. Will Give Social Saturday. On Saturday evening of this week the Salvation Army of the Bemidji barracks will give a coffee and cake social, the proceeds of which will be used in the bettering of the work being done in this city. Music will GIVEN SIX MONTH TERM John Sullivan Pleads Guilty to Giving Indian Liquor. Last: evening’s train from Walker brought Deputy Sheriff Moricall, of Cass county, Richard Funck, county attorney of Cass county, N. J. Palm- er, clerk of court in Cass county. Ed. Rogers, a Walker attorney and John Sullivan, who wished to plead guilty to a crime of furnishing liquor to an Indian, to Bemidji and the defend- ant arraigned before Judge C. W. Stanton, of this city and given a sen- ténce of six months in the state peni- tentiary, at Stillwater. It appeared from the testimony that Sullivan, when asked to get the liquor for the Indian, Charles Tan- ner, had refused to do so, but that he, the defendant, after becoming in- toxicated gave Tanner pint bottles of whiskey. Ed. Rogers, the Walker attorney, and formerly captain and star end of the now famous 1903 Minnesota foot- ball eleven appeared for the defend- ant, asking that the court be as len- ient as possible in the sentence im- posed upon Sullivan, using the argu- ment that he, Sullivan, has always been known as a hard worker and had never done anything wrong. Richard Funck, of Cass, and who hag appeared be- fore Judge Stanton six times within the last six weeks on cases of this kind then addressed the court in be- half of the state, saying that while it was the duty of all public officials of the state to see that the laws were enforced, he believed that ' Sullivan should be dealt with as leniently as two county attorney | possible. Judge Stanton then imposed the sentence named above. JOURNAL TELLS OF BEMIDI City Paper Mentions Beltrami County In “Opportunities in Minnesota.” In a recent issue the Minneapolis Journal has the following to say con- county and W. G. Schroeder in its front page column entitled Minnesota:” “Beltrami county offerg great in- ducements for dairying, the foliow- ing concrete example showing what can be accomplished in this district: “W. G. Schroeder, a merchant of Bemidji, eight months ago purchased 240 acres of land lying three miles and half directly west of Bemidji, the initial cost being $3,100. Dur- ing the season of 1910, he built a barn 32x112, a 200 ton silo, milk house 16x20, these 'improvements costing $4,000, making a total invest- ment in building and land of $7,100, cerning Bemidji, Beltrami “Opportunities in be furnighed. you,” at the same time delivering a or lesg than $30 an acre. He placed 60 acres of land under cultivation in 1910 and expects to have 110 acres ready for 1911. Forty head of milch cows were purchased' and he now has twenty-nine milching cows, in addition to young stock. “During the month of January, 1911, his twenty-nine cows produced 22,000 pounds or efeven tons of milk. Total receipts during the month at 20 cents a gallon were $590. The total receipts during the month from veal calves were $50. The amount received from the sale of pork was $124.70. The total income for the m tg\; was sgso.eo. Against this ,we‘iev,_f:hlrges,"‘food for stock and maintaining farm- house, $300.11 and for labor, $104, which leaves a net profit for the month of $276.60. “Mr. Schroeder estimates that half of the profits for sale of veal and pork should be credited to previons months leaving a net income for the month of $189.60. This shows what a business man can do towards devel- oping agricultural laids, and Mr. Schroeder expects to have 110 acres under cultivation in 1911 and even- tually place 200 acres under culti- vation. ‘ “August Jarchow of Bemidji town- ship, five miles southeast of Bemidji, located in the county, coming from Washington c¢ounty, and is unqual- ified in his indorsement of agricul- tural possibilities of Beltrami county. “With prices of good land ranging from $8 to $12 per acre, good settlers and near to first class markets, Bel- trami. county offers unexcelled ° in- ducements for the settler who de- sires to become independent.” PLAY REHEARSALS BEGIN “All the Comforts of Home” Charac- ters Chosen and Start Work. Last evening the second rehearsal was held for the home talent play entitled, “All the Comforts of Home” which is to be given in a short time. The rehearsal was very encourag- ing to those who are interested in| the movement of putting the Bemidji Public Library on a more substantial financial footing. Mesdames. McCann and Vye, who are members of the library . board have been devoting much time of late to the securing of adyertisements for the program which is to be used on the evening of the entertainment, and at noon had received ads amount- ing to a little over $140. W. L. Broo_ks, president of the Northern National Bank in this city, has consented to handle the financial end of the “All the Comforts of Home” company. The 'cast of characters will be pub- lished within the next few days. TEN CENTS PER WEEK VAN TASSEL ASSAULT GASE NOW ON TRIAL Prosecution Rested Shortly Before Noon And Defense is Now Intro- ducing Its Testimony. BEING TRIED FOR THIRD TIME Gust Rachuy Will Be Taken to Peni- tentiary Tonight to Begin His Seven Year Sentence. Keen public interest in the Frank IVan Tassel trial is evidenced by a | erowded court room today, many wo- |men being among the auditors. After an all day session yesterday in securing a jury for the trial of Van Tassel, the following men were accepted shortly before court ad- Journed last evening: Paul Foucoult, Bemidji, Barber. Peter Becker, Turtle Lake, Farmer. Frank Miller, Bemidji, Carpenter. P. J. Lebang, Benville, Farmer. John Halverson, Bemidji, Laborer. S. 8, George, Bemidji, Laborer. Henry Miller, Bemidji, Merchant. J. W. Tanner, Bemidji, Retired. i William Helin, Bemidji, Sawyer. W. A. Gould, Bemidji, Lumberman. A. E. Otto, Bemidji, Assistant Post- master. John Gordhamer, Town of Bemidji, Farmer. The prosecution rested about elev- en o’clock this forenoon and the de- fense is now introducing testimony to prove an alibi. The testimony of the state sought to show that John Lehner was as- saulted in his cabin about two miles from Blackduck on the evéning.of March 24, last, by the defendant who inflicted many wounds upon Lehner’s head with a hatchet. Van Tassel took the witness stand in his own defense and testified that he was in the Village of Tenstrike at the time the crime is alleged to have been committed. Theé case, which is being tried for the third time, will likely go to the jury this evening. It is very probable that Gust Rachuy, the man who was found guil- ty yesterday of carnal knowledge with a female child under the age of consent, will be taken to Stillwater this evening to begin his seven years of imprisonment. CROOKSTON WANTS: PAVING Citizens Insist That Contracts Be Made This Year." Crookston, Minn., March 8.—More than a tempest in a teapot has been stirred up in Crookston because of the inability of members of the coun- cil to get together on the city pav- ing proposition. The people have | petitioned for about $60,000 worth of paving. The city, under the new charter, pays about one-fifth of the cost, and this amount has to be in the treasury before the contract for the paving is let. About $8,000 has been lying idle four or five years, and the assessments last year will raise the amount to about $18,000 in cash on hand. The people are determined to have the paving done this year, but for months the council has been unable to get together, one faction favoring asphalt and another Wwestrumite. One bid for asphalt was recently ac- cepted for a portion of the paving, but Mayor McKinnon vetoed the ac- tion saying the high bid was accept- ed. The council says that while it was the high bid, it was for asphalt the peoplé had asked for and similar to that already laid. D Three meeting have been held by tax payers affected and it has been decided that unless action of some kind is taken regarding paving, and which insures paving this year; a pe- tition for the recall of several alder- men will be circulated. ‘me;asm,‘; HISTORICAL SOCIETY, i s