Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1911, Page 1

BELTRAMI LINKED WITH KOOCRICHING This County Will Fair as Well In New Reapportionment Bill as In Congdon Measure. TO VOTE ON SUFFRAGE TODAY Fergus Falls Editor Writes Clague Interesting Letter—Red Wing Commi’tt«ee to Report Soon. (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Piomeer Legislative Burean St. Paul, March 27.—In the new reapportionment bill, Beltrami is linked with Koochiching as was the case under the Congdon bill; and the only posible @ifference so far as lhose! two counties are concerned is that! each may be given a representativei whereas, under the house bill, they! were delegated a senator and one representative. That the new bill will ever be| enacted into law is a question over which. different opinions are being| expressed, at the capitol, and the one best bet seems to be that it never can| be passed at the present session. In the first place there are breakers be- fore it in the Senate and even should | the senators behind it be able to} force it through that body, it would| have a bad time in the House where | it is almost certain that it would be amended and that would mean that| it must go back to the senate and be repassed. Today is the beginning of the last three weeks of the session |suffrage bill” is scheduled to come |demonstrauun from them may be a ates $500 for the placing of a portrait and with the legislature choked with | 1,500 bills, it begins to look as if little legislation of a general charac-| ter can emerge from the scramble! which will be on from today. i All this goes to indicate that there will be an extra session. The govern- or lets the reporters freely know! that he is still determined to try sndé force through a bill and if he cannot get it from the| regular sessic., he will try and do 80 from & specially convened session. * K ¥ A sensational sidelight on reap- portionment is furnished in a letter to Senator Frank Clague from Editor Elmer E. Adams of Fergus Falls, former member of the house, which | reads as follows: { “Hon. Frank Clague, St. Paul, Minn. “Dear Senator:—I don’t discover any wide spread sentiment for réap- portionment outside of the country and the twin cities and I have not seen any one wanting to lynch returning senators who voted against it. iron If they don't keep quiet about an extra sesion, tell them we are going to pass the Cashman bill if one is called, That will them sit down. make Very sincerely. | Elmer E. Adams.” | x KX ‘While Representative D. P. O'Neill is still optimistic that the bill legal- izing Beltrami county warrants will be enacted into law, it is quite a long distance from the goal. At! present the two bills bearing on this question are 102 and 103 on General Orders. This means that after the one hundred bills ahead of them have | been considered by the house sitting | in a committee of the whole, these bills will then go on the calendar and after being passed by the house must go to the senate. If they ever adorn the statute books, it will be a tribute to Mr. O'Neill’s ability to get action on them. * ¥ ¥ It is expected that the special com- mittee investigating the Red Wing training schonl will report its cou- clusions either late today or tomor- row, although no definite decision on this point has been reached. That there will be some sort of censure; either for the supetrintendent-of the school, is a foregone conclusion. * K K After having been buffeted about in committee rooms and on General E by Former Senator Stephens, that 75 reapportionment - Orders and once having its life saved by a tie vote, the Fosseen “woman’s before the senate for a final vote to- Mary McFadden, the little who has had morrow. newspaper woman charge of the measure, will be pres-| - ent with other women interested in the suffrage question and a mild feature of the session. * ¥ Ernest Lundeen, representative from Minneapolis, is the author of a | bill which seeks to protect the for- ests of the north from fire by com- pelling every railroad company not only to have a spark arrester on all locomotives but to keep their right of way 50 feet on each side of the track clear of combustible mnterifl.lsl from April 15 to December 1 and| further that the company shall not permit any employe to leave a de- posit of fire or live coals in the. vicin- ity of wood land and that every en-! gineer, trainman who | sees a fire in the woods ,shall give[ warning when the first telegraph | station has been reached. A penalty of $100 is provider for each offense. | * KK Representative Donald Robertson is pushing his bill, conductor or which appropri- of the late Judge Jaggard in the con-| sultation ‘room of the supreme court.i * K ¥ The house is this afternoon consid—f ering the L. C. Spooner bil, increas- ing the gross earnings tax ‘on ral-| roads to 5 per cent. ! * * X { recommendation of Presi-{ ident Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin, C. D. Stewart, engineer of the Wisconsin State Forestry Board, | will come to Minnesota and examine | the state drainage ditches. Chair-{ man Knapp of the committee investi-! gating Engineer Ralph is Mr. Stewart here: P X X % el i Upon bringing Women of Winhdom are so il\dlq“.\_ nant over the conditions at Red Wing as shown by the investigation caused of them signed a protesting petition and have sent the petition to the sen- ate. ! KKK Schools in Minnesota employing second grade teachers will receive from now on state aid to the amount of $50 and will be known as graded schools of Class C. The Mattson bill, which passed the house several days ago, providing for this, has passed the senate and now needs only the gov- ernor’s signature to make it a law. Court at Grand Rapids. District court will convene tomor- row morning at Grand Rapids. Judge C. W. Stanton will preside, | he having just completed the Febru- | ary term of Beltrami county. i Judge Stanton will remain in Grand Rapids until relieved by Judge | McClenahan, of Brainerd. | The October Itasca county term was but recently completed by Judge Wright. MANY ARE ENTERING ARMY | Hghly Colored Handbills Used to In- duce Men to Join. Detroit, Mich., March 27.—Members of the local United States army re- cruiting office are distributing 10,000 highly colored handbills telling of the advantages of army life among the automobil> factories of the city in an effort to induce mechanics to forsake their overalls blue for army blue. The enlistments of the last few days have | nearly doubled. Insist Diaz Must Retire. l ‘Washington, March 27.—An official statement issued by the revolutionary Jjunta here states that the insurrection in Mexico will not stop with the resig- nation of the Diaz cabinet, but will continue until the “arch tyrant, Diaz himself, has been stripped of the last vestige of his power.” IMMENSE COAL LAND DEAL | Price Paid for Property in West Vw-l ginia was $1,350,000. Charleswn, W. Va.,, March 27.—One of the largest coal land deals put through in this section of the state for a long time was closed when the ‘West Virginia Coal Land <company, headed by Harrison B. Smith of this city and'a number of Pittsburg, Detroit and Eastern capitalists, purchased 27,- 000 acres of coal and timber lands, owned by the Gallego Land company, situated on Cabin and Paint fireeks and-along the waters of Coal rlver, paying $1,350,000. |Made Attempt to End His Life Last { Wilton, was arraigned before Judge| THREE COAGHES | | ville, Fla., was wrecked on a trestle | thirty-six*hours before the tracks are | cleared for traffic. |last of the week for WILTON MAN FOUND - T0 BE INSANE David Peterson Committed to Fergus Falls Asylum-By-Judge Clark, of Probate Court. RELEASED OF PAROLE IN 1909 Thursday, and From Testimony, Threatened Parents. Saturday afternoon David Peter- son, 24 years old, and a resident of M. A. Clark, Beltrami county Judge of probate, and was examined as to‘v his sanity. About two years ago Peterson was sent to the Fergus Falls insane asy- lum, from St. Paul, but was released several months later on a bonded pa- role furnished by his father, who is now a farmer living near Wilton. A bonded parole is simply the se- curing of a release of a man who has been committed to an insane asylum with the understanding that should the committed man be found to be insane again that he be returned to the asylum at the expense of the per- son who has secured his release, if, he became insane again within six months. i As Peterson has had his freedom for nearly two years he will be sent back to Fergus Falls at the expense of the county, as Judge Clark decided | the shallower the seed can be sown "tha! the asylum was the place for him." lt nppears (rom the zestlmony that Peterson has’ on several occasions at-| témpted tb end his life and even as late as last Thursday, tried to cut his throat with a jack-knife. When the judge asked him about this he simply sdid that he did it for fun. From the testimony it was found that he had also made threats upon his father and mother. ’ The unfortunate man has felt for the past year that sticks of wood were in his bed and that it was with | much difficulty that he was able to sleep. He was also of the opinion that some one was after him. Peterson was born in Sweden. GO INTO RIVER Ocifla, Ga., March 27.—At least seven persons were killed and more than a dozen injured when the Dixie fiyer on the Atlantic Coast Line, run- ing between Chicago and Jackson- over the Alapaha river near here. The first and second class coaches and the first Pullman sleeper went in- to the river, carrying away about 400 feet of the trestle. The wreck was caused by the break- ing of an axle on the engine midway of the long trestle. The coaches in. the river are about ten feet under water and it is said the list of dead may be increased when the debris is cleared. Seven bodies have been recovered. The injured were i brought here and later sent to the Atlantic Coast Line hospital at Wayecross, Ga. First reports of the wreck were that the entire train went into the river | and that forty persons were killed out- | vight. | The scene of the wreck is in a re- mote section of the state and it was several hours before accurate informa: tion was obtainable. Relief trains were sent to the scene | | from Waycross, Tifton and Willa:' cooche and it is stated that it will be | Murdars Woman and Himself. .| New York, March 27—Kachel De- rolan, an Armenian laborer, returning | city his future place of residence: & to his home here, shrieked with harror | when he found the body of his young | wife Iying on the kitchen floor with | her head nearly severed from the body. In the bedroom lay the body of a man with his throat similarly cut. ‘The ‘dead man clenched a bloody razor | cannot get’ the food put of the soil ! soils are naturally compact enough, |ate: B | where he BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1911. |SEED BED IS INPORTANT W. C. Palmer Gives Valuable Infor- mation Regarding Sowing Corn, “The importance of & good seed bed is often u‘erlooied It is very im- POTtant; if it is not right, the plant that it needs to make its growth,” says W. C. Palmer; of Grand Forks. “It will be a good deal like a steer that is' tied in - his manger, but the food put so far away he can not reach it. One of the features most often neglected is to plow it ‘deep enough, but that cannot be retedied now, as the spring is_not the time to plow deep. &y - 5 “Amnother eondmnn that is cften neglected is to have the seed in such soil it sends out few feeding roots, the result is that the plant is starved { “It is not too late to provide the' compact seed bed. The best tool to make it with is' the sub-surface pack- er. The next best tool is the disc, setting the discs stflight The smooth roller is not ' good for this purpose, as 1t packs t00 much near the surface and breaks up the soil granules so that the soil will drift easily. The other two do not dis- turb the surface soil, but pack the lower layer of the soil, making a good contact with the subsoil. “The soil must be studied as some while others-are too 1loose. The loose condition is qujte eommon in North Dakota. ! s “It wil not be necessary to sow the grain so deep on well packed land as on soil that is loose, s the mois- ture will be nearer the surface and the better, provided it is deep enough so that it gets moisture to germin- “The-surface of the seed bed should be loose, as that will keep the mois- ture from getting to the surface and evaporating. “It will also warm the soil quicker and to a greater depth if the sur- face soil is loow " THREE TICKETS AT BRAINERD Democrats, Republicans and Social- ists Have Candidates for Mayor. Three tickets will be presented to the voters of Brainerd at the coming city election in April. The Republicans have nominated Edward Crust, a @rominent foreman of the Northern Pacific Railway shops as mayor, including a com- plete ticket. The Democrats today nominated H. P. Dunn, a druggist, as mayor and several candidates for alderman and minor offices. The Socialists have placed a tick- et in the field headed by the present mayor, A. Ousdahl an electrical en- gineer and superintendent of the Northern = Pacific = railway- power house. A - = The city platform endorses the in- itiative, referendum and.the recall, as well as many improvements for the city. One of the political fights in the history of Brainerd is promised by the pnrusans of the three tickets. warmest Melges Returns to Bemidji- G. A. Melges, who was ‘formerly connected with the wholesale firm of Melges Brothers im this city, return- | ed to Bemidji yesterday.:" Mr. Melges has spent the past week or ten days in the Twin Cities and Chicago on a business trip. He will} leave the Minneapolis has _ business interests which will cause him to make that Parsimony and; E: “Papa,” said a ehild! difference . between . parsimony and economy ?” “1 will exphm the difference by an. example,” ‘the father replied. in his hand and had apparently killed,| ¥ the woman and Imnselr His 1dentity. ll unknown. % & |the Crookston mill, in the saw mill, °| Wisconsin tied for fourth place with | Mri and ‘Mrs. Leonard Freeman; of |/ OPERATIONS BEGUN BY BEMIMI MILLS Both Lumber Companies Started 1911 Cut This Morning end Wil Con. > tinue Until November. WORK BOTH DAY AND NIGHT Crookston MtMy Pay-roll Ammum onan Average, to $30,000—Paid Every Two Weeks. Both of the Bemidji saw mmills, the Crookston and. the Bemidji; re- mened operations th morning. The mills have been shut ‘down sinte last November and 'during the period which they have been. closed Mmu,asm HISTORICAL snmm TEN CENTS: PER WEEK. BUYS BEMIDJI CORN SEED George Stubbins of Le Sueur Has ' Faith in Beltrami Grain. on !ut\Sn{urday George E. Stub- bins of Le Sueur, Mlnfiesotn. pur- chased five bushels of Northwestern Dent ¢orn, from A. L. Godbout, the owner of the original Alfalfa Seed and Dairy rarm. Mr. Stubbins secured as much of the seed as he could from Mr., God- bout, and said that he regretted that Fhe could not get more, as he valued the seed very highly. Doings at Remer. " H. N. Harding of Cass Lake was a Remer -visitor between trains Wed- nesday on business conected with the g‘lnt State Bank. +Mrs. Joseph Peterson left nesday for an extended visit at her hove been entirely repaired and-tae | 1OMe 10 Monteceo, Towa. She was machinery gone over. The Crookston mill will run day and -night, ag’ will the Bemidji mill. About 550 men are. employed by yard and planing mill, and nearly a full crew was put to work. The Bemidji mill employs a few less than does the Crookston, and started in work this morning with a full Crew. Both mills expect the usual cut of lumber this summer, and the Crookston mill will put in enough logs to keep them running until the middle of November. “The monthly pay-roll of the Crook- ston averages about §30,000 and the | men are paid every two weeks. A large boom has been erected by the Crookston mill, during the past| winter. This boom-extends from the. mill” proper, to the 2fisstssippi rives inlet, and was built for the puf-puée of avoiding logs ‘from slipping un- der the boom in rough weather, as has been the case during past years. The boom is welcomed by the motor boat owners of the city, as they have had more or less trouble with stray logs. i University Summer Session. The summer session of the Univer- sity of Minnesota opéns for a six weeks term on June 18. .Teachers and others who cannot attend during the college year will be greatly inter- ested in the variety of courses in lan- guages, and literature, history and the other social stiences, mathema- tics and the physical and biological sciences, philosophy' and education. The facilities of the university will be available in all these lines. For bulletin, address the Register, Uui- versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis. FIRSTMEET WON BY CHIGAGO Minnesota Takes Third Place and " Northwestern' Last, Chicago, March 27.—The Univer- sity of Chicago carried off first honors in the first annual western inter- collegiate indoor track meet Satur- day night, gah!lng 8 total of 36 points, ¢ Z The University of Illinois was second with 33 points, and Minnesota third with 14 points. Purdue. and 10 points, and Northwestern Univer- sity finished last on its own track with but four points. Cutler Victorious. Buffalo, N. Y., March 27.—Charles “Kid" Cutfer of Chicago defeated Dr. B. F. Roller, western wrestler here Saturday night. Cutler won two straight falls, the first in 52:03 by a hammerlock and head scissors hold, and the second in 12:21 hy the same hohi Boy Arrives at ‘the Freeman ‘Home. On last Friday a boy was born to [ Thursday for accompanied as far. as Duluth by her son Martin, W. H. Green spent the first part of the week in Duiuth. R. Troendle of the Troendle Tie | & Cedar Co., has been spending the week in Remer. . Dr. T. F. Rodwell of Cass Lake exaniined candidates Wednesday and the M. B. A. lodge which is being organized here. M. B. Patten was a Bemidji visitor Tuesday and Wednesday or this week. George H. Glandon has secured a lot next to Patten’s and will erect a two-gtory hotel. E. L. Warren of Federal Dam was a Remer visitor Wednesday. J. G. Scarlett, president of the Em- kg l_.an@ company and C. S. Fred- lookmg over lands the first of the weelr. The town board was out Thursday viewing roads. H. H. Coolidge returned Minneapolis Thursday, Peter Wocelka left Saturday for Medford, Wisconsin and returned Monday' btinging his wife and little girl with &im. ~ Emmigrants are begining to ar- rive. A. Johnson arrived Saturday bringing a carload of horses and farm machinery and moved out to Grave lake where he has a farm. from Vacant Houses. There is no need of your house being vacant. I furnish good ten- ants promptly—John G. Ziegler. ECHO OF THE LORIMER CASE State Senator Broderick Acquitted of Bribery Charge. Springfield, I, March 27.—State Senator John Broderick was found not sullty by a jury in the Sangamon county circuit court. The jury was out twenty minutes. Broderick was charged with bribery in commectign with the election of United States Senator William Lori- mer. Testimony was heard at the trial that he had given $2,500 to for- mer’ State Senator D. W. Holtslaw of Iuka in consideration of the Iuka senator’s vote for Lorimer. ENGINEERS QUIT POSITIONS Refuse to Take Out Any More Trains on Queen and Crescent. Somerset, Ky., March 27.—Two more ‘Queen and’ Crescent engineers are in the hospital here suffering from" severe wounds as the result of armed clashes with strike sympathizers. The victims are William O’Donnell and Frank O’Connor, whose trains were sprrounded at Robbins, Tenn., and Kings Mountain, Ky, and fired | upon until both men fell wounded. All ‘engineers here refused to take. out any more trains. FOREST - FIRES REPORTED Valuable Timber Destroyed in Black ‘. Hills Forest Reserve. Deadwood, S. D., March 27 —Lack ot moisture is causing the ‘forest fires in the Balck Hills national ‘forest to commence much. earlier than usual. | Fires have already been reported near Redfern, Mystic and two small ones near Deadwood, while a larger onme north: of Rapld Creek menaced hnphr&mnfichs timber railroad and | “a_wood trestle bridge and 1, ‘valusble tmhor hofou it} Wed- | TED McMANUS GIVEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS Held to Grand Jury on Charge of Grand Larceny This Morning— Later Pleaded Guilty. SENTENCED BY JUDGE STANTON Sccond Time During Past Few Months That Prisoner Has Been- Before Court Commissioner. This morning at 10 o’clock Ted McManus and Charles Graham were arraigned before Court Commissioner WA, Simons on charges of ‘grand larceny in the second degree. It was claimed that both of the prisoners had a hand in the stealing of several grips from the Red Lake i railroad depot about a month ago. After the hearing Judge Simons ordered that McManus be held to the grand jury and that Graham be dis- charged, this being done after Gra- ham had promised to appear at the next term of court as a witness for the state. v This afternoon McManus was tak- en before Judge C. W. Stanton, who ig hearing court matters in this city, and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of grand larceny in the second degree and after a short examination during which the prisoner gave his age and answered a few other gues- tions the judge imposed sentence of 18 months in the state penitentiary at Stillwater, ~ McManus is the man who was ‘held to the grand jury a.bwmh! ago on the same charge;, but the testi- mony against him was not strong enough to hold or indiet him. EXCELLENT FILMS TONIGHT IPichu'e: at Majestic First Half of Week Unusually Good. ““Claney,” a picture by the Vita- graph company, tells a typical and true story of a New York policeman | whose life is not always a merry one. In this picture we see Clancy in line of the annual police parade of the metropolis, also we see him in his line of duty protecting the public. “Sea Birds in Their Haunts,” is a magnificent colored educational pic- ture which was taken at the risk of the photographer’s life. In taking some of these birds the photographer decends 80 feet down a rope and dangled over a. precipice having a hundred feet, On this same reel, “The Tables are Turned,” a comedy in which Betty, for once, manages to get the best of her Dad. Three shows every night. sheer drop of three Seed Meeting Tomorrow. Viggo Peterson of Puposky, chair- 1zn of the Beltrami county board of :ounty commissioners, arrived in Be- midji this morning. In connection with other business interests which called Mr. Peterson ro Bemidji, he will attend the meet- ing of the county board which has been called for tomorow afternoon. [for the purpose of discussing the mat- ter of the free seeds which the state tis: giving to all settlers who lost vroperty in the conflagration 1ast fall. Doings In Municipal Court. Business in police headquarters vmre, not very rushing Saturday night lnd Sunday, only one man be- ing’ brousht before Judge Pendergast in lhunlcipnl court this morning when' court was convened. This being 'l'hnmn Clark, charged with drunk- ennsu. ugtenee was lulpemwl i i