Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 10, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMID. \ VOLUME 9. NO. 316. AFTER DAY OF TALK | INITIATIVE BILL'IS KILLED BY HOUSE Doomed Measure Designated as “Most Vicious Legislation” Ever Pre- | sented in Minnesota. SENATE PASSES DUNN ROAD BILL | Renewed Stories Told of Cruelty at Red Wing, But Prominent Wit- nesses Favor Whittier. (By P. A. Wilson) ! Bemidji Ploneer Legislative Burean St. Paul, March 10.—After a day of speeches and amendments, the| house at 5 o’clock yesterday after-| noon, by a vote of 54 to 62 killed the initiative and referendum bill bear- | ing as authors the names of Repre-| sentatives L. C. Spooner, Campbell, Dr. W. T. Stone, J. N. Hillman and Kelly. At one period of the debate it was apparent that the house was friendly to the measure and at the time of the roll call enough members explained their votes to indicate that a ma- Jority favors an initiative and refer- endum bill but that by amendments| and lack of amendments the measure under consideration was so loosely | constructed as to be not only unde-! sirable but actually dangerous. ~It is one of the most vicious bills| ever before a Minnesota legislaturej and the most vicious bill to come be-! fore the present session,” declared | Garfield W. Brown of Glencoe in ex- plaining his vote after two of several; amendments offered by him had been | adopted. The vote follows: | Yeas—Anderson, A. V.; Anderson J. J.; Boothroyd, Burnquist, Camp- bell, Christe, Conley, Converse, Crane, | Davies, Davis, Farley, Ferguson,| Frankson, Greene, Harding, Hillman, Holmberg, Holton, Johnson, C. E., Johnson, J. N., Johnson, J. T., Klem- er, Kunze, Lee, 1. J, Lee, J. F., Liud-i berg, Lundeen, McMartin, Mattson, Morton, Nelson, A., Nolan, Nygren, O'Neill, Orr, Palmer, Peterson, A. J., Peterson, J. E., Putnam, Ribenack, Rines, Robertson, Robinson, Rustad, | Sampson, Skartum, Spooner, Stone, | W. T., Sulerud, Voxland, Warner, E Webb, Whiting. Nays—Aker, Anderson, Borgen, Bouck, Brown, G. W., L. D., Clarke, Denzer, Diessner, Dunn, R. C., Edwards, Fowler, Fuchs, Haff- ten, Hauge, Healy, Henion, Hex‘zberg,I Hopkins, Hurley, Jelinek, Just, Keefe, ! Kelly, Knapp, Kneeland, Knutson, Lee, S. N., Lennon, Libera, Lydiard, McDonald, McKenzie, McNeil, Mett- ling, Minette, Moriarity, Nash, Nel- son, H., Nye, O'Brien, Papke, Perry, Peters, Peterson, 0., Pfaender, Reed, | Rice, Saggau, Schuler, Schwartz, Stone, C. E., Sullivan, Thielen, Un- Andrew, Brown, | | voted against the bill. [Dunn road bill, | highway | was present. jand mitted to speak in any but their own chamber. Senators Sageng and Dale The second providing for the submission of a constitutional amend- ment permitting a one mill tax for road purposes, passed by a unanimous vote of 67 senators present after it had been amended to do away with the proposed appointment of a state commission. the signature that together with the C. H. Warner bill, which has passed the house by a vote of 99 to 9, appropriating $100,000 in aid for the common schools, means much for the rapid development ot‘ northern Minesota and ger.:eral im- | provement of Minnesota’s highways. The Warner bill will have the effect jof taxing state lands five cents anl! lacre for the benefit of schools. X KK ‘While most of the testimony in- troduced at another public hearing {in the senate chamber Tuesday eve- | ning in the investigation of the Red Wing training school was intended | as a vindication for the used by Superintendent F. A. Whit-| 3 .{ing of the material and tools, and tier, renewed charges of cruelty were’| that the excavati 11 be tak | | xcay Mrs. S. S. Mack came from | e | her home at Long Prairie to testify made. | that while visiting the school one Sunday she had seen an officer grab a boy from a marching line, throw him to the ground and kick him, re- peating the process for three times. As at the previous hearings, former | Senator A. D. Stephens of Crookston Judge Orr of the Hen- nepin county district court who also ! tified that of the boys he had sent to Red Wing none had complained of ill treatment, but the judge admitted jthat these boys were always more anxious to talk of the future than of the past. The judge referred to boys who had heen paroled. S. W. Lieavitt, formerly of Litchfield, butj ‘now living in Minneapolis ‘and a member of the state board of control, | ! from 1903 to 1909 went to the stand and admitted that the board knew that boys were being stripped and strapped. He was loath to admit | that corporal punishment was a de-| sirable method of dicipline but said | in general cases, properly adminis- tered it was advisable. Rev. Father | Goughan of Red Wing, who visits the school regularily to conduct religi- . ous services, praised the school and Supt. Whittier, but said that he had seen one boy“get a snapping.” Father Donahue, volunteer probation officer Catholic missionary worker {among boys in St. Paul, was not ex- !actly a success as a witness in behalf of Superintendent Whittier. He said that a mother had come to him with a story of complaint regarding her son at the school but that he was too busy at that time to pay much at- tention to her story. Dr. L. R. S. Ferguson, a member of the board of | visitors frankly admitted that he had visited the school without knowing there was any spanking device and that he did not even know that cor- poral punishment was being inflicted until the present investigation had tiedt, Utecht, Virtue, Washburn, Wes- cott, White, Wisniewski, Mr. Speaker. | Fisher, Hoff-| man, Warner, C. H, | Absent—Congdon, came up, yesterday morning, as a| special order and with it was to be considered the Pfaender bill which proposes a constitutional amendment | providing for the initiation and adop- tion of legislation. the day when the first bill was voted upon that adjournment was taken until 10 o’clock this morning and the Pfaender bill was threshed out today. | x x % Robert C. Dunn has won his fight for improved roads in Minnesota. His two bills which passed the house several days ago have now passed the senate. The first bill, provid- ing an annual appropriation of $150,- 000 to employ expert engineers to give demonstration in road making though Senator Ole Sageng attempt- ed several by a vote of 57 to 2] after Mr. Dunn had been accorded the privilege of speaking on the floor of the senate, an unprecedented court- esy, as members of one branch of the legislature are not supposed to be per- It was so late in | started. George D. Reilly, another member of the board of control also testified and reluctantly admitted { that he favors corporal punishment. The initiative and referendum bill Senator J. D. Sullivan who questions the witnesses has established the re- ‘While Mr. | Stephens has made no complaint, it putation of being fair. looks at times, as if privileges grant- The house | | will now agree to this amendment |and the two bills go to Governor ! Eberhart for | makes them law. These measures! methods | that a shed will be built for the stor- BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF NEW UNION DEPOT tional Station Starts and Will be Completed August 15. MATERIAL ALREADY ON HAND| Excavating Will Be Taken Up Next Week—Structure to Be Built of Brick. ‘Work has begun on Bemidji’s new Soo-Minnesota & International union | depot, and L. V: Phelps, representa- tive of the Bailey-Marsh company of Minneapolis, who were awarded the general contract, is in the city in charge of the building. Mr. Phelps announces that not {much will be done this week, except early next week. According to Mr. Phelps the build- ing will be completed by not later than the middle of August. Several car loads of material have arrived and it is expected that sever- al concrete mixers will reach here to- ay. The depot is to be built of brick on a granite base and will have Bed- | ford lime stone tri ings. ; has charge of the juvenile court tes-: ST The building in itself will be 110 feet long and 32 feet deep, and will consist of a general waiting room, womens waiting room, ticket office, baggage room and express room. The floors of the waiting rooms and ticket office will be built of fama stode Wodd while the foors-of the baggage and express rooms will be i made of maple. The depot will be modern in ever& respect, and will be finished in oak. The-new depot is being erected at the foot of Beltrami avenue. A strip of land a block in length has been filled in by the city. A drive way and side walk approaches will be con- structed and every convenience pro- vided for the public. The Soo will have the track near- est the depot and between it and the Minnesota & International track a plank walk will be laid. _— GOMPLETE WALKER LIBRARY Is Perhaps Smallest Town In State to Have Carnigie Building. ‘Walker's new Carnigie library will be turned over to the library board by the contractors this week and pre- parations are being made for a form- al opening of the building on April 1. Walker is probably. the smallest town in the state having a free Carnigie library. Carnigie donated $6,000 for a building there. Credit is due Attorney Daniel De Lury, who first conceived the idea of this public building and carried the project through to completion. Other members of the library board are George Crow, Gustav Ku- lander, F. A. Dare, Arthur Lindeke, ed the defense was purposely denied | Archie La Vigne and Charles Kin- _bearing on the investigation but he “you can't intro- duce them at this time.” * KK It is just possibie that Bemidji's was cut short with, (Continued on Page 4) Nymore lodge, M. B. A. will give participating must mask in dominoes, in black. An invitation is extended to the public to attend. An admis- sion fee of 25c wiil be charged at the door, and ‘dance tickets will cost 25¢ extra. a domino. place at 12, midnight. a masked ball on Saturday mnight,! March 11 in the Nymore ball. Those | was passed without amendment, a]--_fl’e ladies in white, the gentlemen No one will be al- lowed to dance who does not wear The unmasking will take him. An effort on the part of Mr.|kele. -~ Stephens to introduce three telegrams| ROD AND 6UN CGLUB ELECT | Re-elect T. R. Symons as President : of Organ.izafion. | At the meeting of the Bemidji Rod {and Gun Club held in Crothers Hall {last evening, an election of officers for the ensuing year was held which resulted as follows: T.. R. Symons, president. D. D. Miller, secretary. L. G. Crothers, treasurer. James Given, field captain. The date of the first shot will be set by the ‘president. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY Work on Soo-Minnesota & Interna-| INTEREST of KT." “All the Comforts of Home,” the play which is scheduled to be pre- sented the 21st of this month at eith- er the Armory Theatre or the City Hall is creating lnuch excitement and not a little comment among the ‘citizens of this city. The play will be given entirely by local talant. As has already been explained, the proceeds are to be used toward the buying of books and.furthér furnish- ing the flew publie Iibrary building. | The working com!:!ttee, lead by Mesdames McCann and Vye, are meeting with encouraging results in the work of getting out & suitable program. More than 75 of Bemidji’s business and professional men have responded liberally; in the way of buying advertising ppace in this pro- gram. The timeisitoo short to make a second canvass and those who have either been overlooked or who were not at their place of business when the committee called, and who feel as if they wish to give something to- ward this great charitable work have yet time to do so by either telephon- ing members of the committee or bringing their copy direct to the Pio- neer office. The comminee means to slight no one and’as there is yet work to be done, ‘toward the per- fection of the prel@ntntion of the play, further soliciting will be im- possible. The library board expect to have a number of rehearsals under the di- rection of Miss Graling and the cast of characters cannot be announced until the next rehearsal. It is a cause, the_ value of which cannot be overestimated. On the night. nf the play t.h‘gre Should not be a cmzen in BemufiF" outside ‘thef opera house. G0OD SHOW AT MAJESTIC Management Presents Unusually Strong Bill This Evening. The management of the Majestic Theatre presentg to its patrons a pro- gram of unusual interest. The fol- the which opens at this playhouse to- night: 1. Overature,—The Golden Butter- lowing is complete program fly— Miss Hazel Fellows Picture—The "~ Police (Edison)—A 2. Motion Force of New York. very interesting picture of some of the phases of police life in New York. 3. Illustrated Song,—“Silver Bell” Misg Fellows and Mr. Woodmansee 4. White Roses, (Biograph)—A comedy of a bashful man. 5. Recreation of an Heiress, (Bio- graph)—A very funny comedy that will make you all laugh. ~ Great Eastern “New Ideal” Accumu- lative Accident Policy. This policy offers $1,500 in ¢ase of accidental death, increasing 10 per cent annually until the maximum rea- ches $2,250. i It pays $21 weekly indemnity and | hospital benefits of $25 per week. It provides indemnity for death by ac- cident from any cause in .or out of business and contains a table of fixed Gives medical and financial aid. Specified sums for the breakage of any bone in the body, with indenti- flcatio;n and registration and key pro- tection. ~ Also. covering either sex. | The first-and only secumuigtive pol- |icy of the kind 1ssued. : All this cost is $5.00 a year. rates. Mr. -|C.'W. Woodford, the District manager for the Great Eastern is in the city. Don’t fail to lecure a policy when he calls vt Business Men Baok “All the Comforts : SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW| WHAT THE FAMOUS BOY SCOUTS ARE Some Facts About the Movement That is Spreading so Fast in 'Unitgd States. A BEMIDJI MAN INTERESTED L. S. Dale, Northwest Organizer, Will Visit Here and With Reverend White Start Patrol. “The whole object of our scheme is to seize the boy’s character in its red- hot stage of enthusiasm and to weld it into the right shape and encourage and develope its individuality so that the boy may became a good:man and a valuable citizen.” This is the'object of the Boy Scout movement as expressed by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, “father” of the Scout idea and Chief Scout in Eng- land. But it is the way this object is ac- complished that appeals to boys. There is a certain amount of energy in the boy that he’s got to get rid of. If he dosen’t do something good he’ll do something bad. Scouting gives him something good to 'do— something that appeals to his im- magination, fires his spirit of chivalry and strengthens his sense of honor. It takes him out into the open and teaches him the lore of the woods, the handicraft of the pioneer, and absolute self-reliance at the same time that it builds him up physically. It ig a practical, common sense educa- tion presented in such a form that its allurement Six or eight boys form a patrol, named after some animal, and head- ed by a.patrol leader who is himself a boy. Two or more patrols form a troop, which is in charge of a scout- master, who must be a man, and should be one who remembers how life appeared to him when he was a boy—a clean, energetic man, with imagination enough to’enter into the scout work with the same enthusiasm as the boys themselves. It is mnot hard to persuade such men to take up.the work, for it just such men that the work appeals to—the opportunity for doing good attracts them. Weekly meetings are held at which the boys practice such features of the work as knot-tying, first aigi and ban- daging, signaling, memory work, compass reading, and a score of other things, while they make plans for their scouting excursions into the country. On these excursions they track, judge distances and direction, observe animalg and trees, cook meals, build -shelter camps, and do other things that may be suggested by a resourceful scoutmaster. There are three degrees of scouts, and the scout advances from one de- gree to another only on passing a set examination on the most practical subjects. A To attempt to go into details of the work is futile, for they would fill volumes. But there are two things that stand out very clearly. One is the Boy Scout motto, “Be Prepared.” The other is a part of the Boy Scout law—oh, yes, they have laws, not so stringent as to scare a boy out, just enough to hold him in check without infringing upon his liberty.! In this law, which a scout pledges, on his honor, he ‘will obey, the -scout promises to do “a good turn” every day. It’s the old golden rule again, practically applied. Such is the movement which has spread over the United States in less than a year, which has enlisted boys by the hundreds of thousands, and which has been taken up by clubs, societies, individuals and churches. The men behind the movement are proof enough of its character. Pres- ident Taft is ‘the honorary president, Theodore Roosevelt is vice president | of the national committee, Ernest Thompson Seton is Chief Scout, and Admiral George Dewey, Gifford Pin- chot, David Starr Jordan, Dan Beard Boy by A. P. White, president of the Bel- trami County Fair Association, that A. P. Ritchie, formerly superintend- ent of the Bemidji public schools, but now a successful dairyman, has ac- cepted the position of secretary of the fair board. of W. R. Mackenzie has been accept- ed by the association board. new duties at once, and already plans gre being mage for the 1911 fair healthy red-blooded boy can resist mh will:paheld In. Sentember. MUNIGIPAL GI!IIIIT DOINGS Two Cases of Vagramcy Arraigned the cases of Frank Kylie and John Tully were broyght before Judge Pendergast, the; being charged with vagrancy. found guilty and given their choice between paying fines of $10 and costs or taking a jail sentence of 15 days. less fortunate and is assisting street commissioner Carter, this afternoon. drunkenness and fined $5 and costs which he paid. ENTIRE TIGKET IN FIELD Nymore Has Complete List of Social- pmnlnant men who are mumbsrg ot the national council. In dozens of towns in the North- west Boy Scout patrols and troops have been organized, and scores of other towns are preparing to intro- duce the movement. Most of these will be assisted by L. S. Dale, the Northwest organizer, whose work is Ramsey Council No. 1, Boys’ Scouts of America, at St. Paul and by the officials of the national council in New York. r.'Dale will come to Bemidji and explain the movement, and assist in organizing patrols. Reverend S. E. P. White, of the Presbyterian church, has during the past summer and winter spent a large portion of his spare time in interesting the boys of his Sunday school in the movement, and he now has over thirty boys who ke believes will join the patrol when Mr. Dale visits Bemidji. RITGHIE NAMED SECRETARY Fair Association Board Accept Resig- nation of W. BR. Mackenzie. It was announced thig afternoon This means that the resignation Mr. Ritchie will begin upon his YOUNG GIRL TELLS STORY OF CRIME Olive Simonson Relstes to Jury Story of Il-Treatment by Her Uncle, Charles Stebbins. VAN TASSEL JURY STILL OUT Testimony of Thomas and Zeck Read For Benefit of Twelve Men Who Can Not Agree. Little Olive Simonson was on the witness stand in district court this morning reiadng one of the most re- volting stories of crime ever told to She says that she is 13 years old and that in the month of October last, after she and her four year old brother had been abandoned and left alone by her mother, her uncle, Charles Stebbins, 36 years of age, lived with them, and that nearly every night for about three weeks and until knowledge of the situation came to the city police her uncle car- nally knew and abused her. The 'defendant, Charles Stebbins, is represented by attorneys E. E. Mc Donald and J. L. Brown. The case will probably go to the jury some time tomorrow. The complainant, Olive Simonson, is now a pupil at the State School for neglected children at Owatonna, she came here as a witness under the es- Before Judge Pendergast. This morning in municipal court In both cases the defendants were Kylie paid the fine, but Tully was Joseph Schwaser was arraigned for ist Candidates. Nymore socialists have a complete ticket in the field for the village elec- tion. They have announced the follow- ing list of candidates: For President of the Council—A. L. Synnes. For Recorder—J. W. Smith. For Trustee—L. F. Larson. For Trustee—Fred Brockway. For Trustee—F. D. Bardon. For Treasurer—F. R. Bispham. For Assessor—W. S. Ridgway. For Justice of the Peace—Jack Olson. For Constable—T. E. McManus, Bemidji Couples Married. Yesterday afternoon in the office of Judge M. A. Clark occurred the marriage of Lloyd Carlton and Gena Olson, both of Bemidji. 4 Henry K. Finch and Miss Louise Routman were married last evening cort of Miss FElizabeth McGregor, one of the faculty. Jude Stanton called the Van Tas- sel jury into court Just before: the: noon adjournment to ascertain whether they were likely to reach a verdict. The foreman said that there was some disagreement as to the testi- mony of Witness Thomas, whereupon the court informed them that the testimony of this witness would be read to them at 1:30 o’clock. At 1:30 o’clock this afternoon the jury was again brought before the court and asked that the testimony of both Witness Thomas and Wit- ness Zeck be read to them. The re- quest was granted, and the jury is now out. BASKETBALL GAME TONIGHT Grand Rapids and Bemidji High School Quints Will Play. This evening in the Armory the Bemidji and Grand Rapids high school quints will meet, in what gives promise of being one of the best basketball games of the season. Grand Rapids has played 10 games during the year and has won all but two, while the Bemidji quint has won 6 out of 8 games played. The two teams are very evenly matched and the Bemidj(i boys will do their best to win, as they have never defeated a Grand Rapids bask- etball five. The Bemidji lineup will likely be as follows: Captain Larson, cen- tre; Bailey and Mority or Neuman, forwards; Peck and Spencer or Mc Donald, guards. 3 There will be a eurtain raiser be- tween the seventh grade and Fresh- men fives at 8 o’clock and the big game will begin at 8:30 o’clock. “Hack” and Gotch Win. Wichita, Kan., March 10.—George Hackenschmidt threw Dr. Roller here twice last night. The first fall in 1 hour and 37 minutes; the second in 14 minutes 47 seednds. Hacken- schmidt threw Roller through the in the Presbyterian * parsonage by Reverend Holden. Orangesper peck 45c at llchl s and Jacob Riis are among the fifty w.y_ % ropes twice and was hissed for his roughness. B Winnipeg, March 10.—Frank Gotch last night took two straight mu from George Eborg, & Swiss, in 21 and 12 minutes respectively. f I‘iNNESOTfi; HISTORICAL