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

THE BE IDJ1 DAILY PIONEE - MINNESOTA _ |HISTORICAL VOLUME 8. NUMBER 339. . “LUMBERJAGKS YEARN |of them had even | period from the until the 1] camp broke FUR GOSPEL! HIGGINs.commeucfld. and how they had then | worse instead of better. been on the ‘drive’ about thirty days | Sky Pilot of Woods Tells of Perils Experienced and Victories He Has Won. reach civilization. “They declared hold another and how it would be about that same length of time before they would good if 1 would come out again and meeting. So BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1911. remained over the time the the mercy of the saloon, the brothel and gambing hell.: And the sad part had | is, conditions have .been growing winter ‘drive’ “There are many more men in the woods, during the past fifteen years, than there were formerly. The oid- time lumberjack is fast passing away, and in his place we have an army of mere boys, from our farms, that| who come to the woods for a few it would do much spring, during the week, I would go|months to earn a winter’s ‘stake,’ over the trail to that part of the river to where the men were work- PLANS ON TRIP TO EUROPE ing. little realizing the many tempta- tions that are put in their way. The 1 always found them ready to| old timer went for away up the river, give me a kind welcome, and each | Where he remained all winter, away Explains How He First Began Cru- meeting was more interesting than | from civilization, and, thank God, sade Which Has Now Become . |l One before. Life Work. “That summer, when the men came made their headquarters, I was much | to Barnum, where many of away from the temptations of civil- ization. But these days the timber is controlled by large companies that build logging railroads that they them pleased to find that they would at-|may get out the timber they cut in Rev. Frank Higgins, the unique|tend church. the camps in the northern timber MY Visits on the regions, and who is known as the failure. “Lumberjack Sky Rilot,” has made a report of his work and to a friend COmmenced going to the in Bemidji writes as follows: | camps to work, 1 My congregation wasi one season. preacher to the men who inhabit doubled in attendance, proving that | roads surveyed through the “The following fall, when the men|ings, saloons, gambling halls winter other places of sin, spring up, until | No sooner are these forest ‘drive’ were not a| than small towns, often composed of !only tar papered shacks or log build- and received my invi-|today you can, in many cases stand “Having just closed my fifteenth | t4tiovs to go and preach to them.at the camp door and see the saloon. successive winter of missionary work 't Was a great pleasure for me to “Many of the men are too easily in the lumber woods of northern Min- 8¢ t0 the logging camps, for while tempted; and ofter years of neglect, nesota, 1 feel it is but right to the|! had been brought up in the woods,|on the part of the christian people, work and to those who have so king. | had never seen logging done on have given up in Iy helped me as well as myself to such a large scale as it is done in the and are now tramps and bums. I found the logging make the following statement: west. 1 "I commenced work while in field in Barnum, Minn.. in the spring of | charge of a small missionary Hoating logs down the stream that| ome of their number that spring, in|Jori before.) | the hospital, in the closing hours of | day of all. Much to my surprise, after the eve-| his life, begged me to continue my tWeNty quarts of whiskey, besides had been cut the winter ning meal, as we sat around the fire | Work among his companions. on the bank Gf the river, several of | lowing this, as I made a study of our| M€l Were going to camp, and have| ‘he men asked me to preach to them.| men in the forest, As | looked at that crew of men, I|find that there were thousands of Men fighting, helped to unload them, | “That is the last men, every winter, not only in Min.| it thelr drunken condition, at the| would have said: crew of men on the face of the earth | nesota, but also in northern Wiscon- that would ask a preacher to preach.’ | sin and northern Michigan, with even Notice they did not say, ‘we want| larger numbers in the west. you to talk or tell us a story.' but ka4 they used the term ‘preach,’ indica-|say that there are over 30,000 men ting to me by that word that they working in Minnesota and living in|Saloon; if he wants to sleep he goes There are not less| !0 & saloon; if he wants a shave or! wanted to hear the gospel. lozging camps. “After some hesitancy, 1 decided U'.an 10,000 in to do the best I could to accommo- date them. 1 took a large log for a Michigan; in platform: the men gathered We sang songs, offered prayers, read | fornia, there are not less than 20,- 11000 and in most of these states even | lumber companies take an interest | the scriptures. As best 1 could, gave the men a gospel talk. “1 will never forget that first meet- | in all my travels, ing on the bank of Kettle river— a missionary or a religious society|Put @ few of the companies find it that seemed that all ature had joined in beautiful spring evening. the service as 1 talked of those men days. Many of them took me by the hand and thanked me for the | forest. service, and made me promise that 1| have been going would come and visit them again.|spend the winter, and while Many of them told me how they had|have seldom seen ice of the been up in the woods all winter|the v long, year after year, and hows some | they have all these years been left to is & conservative esi northern Wisconsin and as many if not more in northern | ! know, from experience, that a sa- western near: | Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Cali- | degrees below zero is better than a| Some will ask, ‘Do the| 50,000 men, living in the woods; and | It | doing a regular organized missionary work among this great army of men.| While they are in town. In fact, I do not know of any other | the companies are so out of patience of home, of mother, and of better class of men who have been so neg—‘ because of the way the men tramp lected as these sturdy sons of the|{som camp to camp and from town For forty years these men discouragement, camps have known almost a hundred sa- a better place to hold gospel meetings loons, besides many gambling places than even on the * drives.” and brothels, in the short distance of | “At the close of my first winter's| twenty-five miles along one of these | 1895, having gone with some friends Work, the men remembered me with | 108ging roads, all running wide open, | 10 see the Kettle river ‘drive’ (men|a liberal collection; and as I visited Might and day. Sunday, in the ma- ¢ of these places, is the biggest | I have counted over | Fol- | several jugs full, in a car, as the| 1 was amazed to‘ stood for hours trying to prevent the various camps. “ “The saloon has been and is yet, in the majority of places, the most | ate to|iDViting place for the - lumborjaclk: If he wants to eat he goes into a| a haircut he goes to a saloon. And Montana, | 100n when the weather is twenty‘ snow drift. in their men?' Yes, they care well 1 have not found| for them while the men are in camp, practical to do much for the men Many of to town, which is the result of the wide open policy, and they feel that iittle if anything can be done for up the rivers to| they the face or heard missionaries, they the men. “In the beginning of my work, I (Continued on Last Page.) O /Ansco Quality It is a beacon of light on a high mountain, showing to millions the way towards finer work and higher stand- ards in Amateur photography. The fame of The Ansco Products would surely spread even if we said nothing more about it than to put the goods into the hands of users one by one, and let them speak for themselves. But we feel that “Is Not a Candle to Be Hid Under a Bushel.” | Upon being asked as to which of | | the two he would take, Rosen said ELKS TO MEET TONIGHT| Bemidji Lodge of Antlered Order to| Install Officers. | This evening the Bemidji lodge of | BElks will hold their annual install- ation of officers. ‘While no special program has been arranged, a smoker will be held after the installation. Al. H. Jester, is the new Exalted Ruler and C. H. Woodward, gecre- tary. | | IANOTHER “BLIND PIGGER"| Martin Rosen, Former Saloon Keep- er, Arrested Yesterday. i Yesterday afternoon Martin Rosen was arrested on & charge of selling intoxicating liquors without & M- cense. When arraigned before Judge Pen- dergast in municipal court late yes- terday afternoon on the above charge, the defendant pleaded not guilty. % However, after a short hearing itfi was decided by the judge thate he was guilty and a sentence of 60 days or a fine of $50 was ordered. : that the 60 days looked the best to| him. I. CONDEMNS BEMIDJ! ARMORY | Lientenant Kobes Says Company K Has Poorest One in State. ' | Company K, the Bemidji member of the state militia, was given its an- nual government inspection last eve- ning, by Lieutenant Fred Kobes of the United States army. In sneaking of the conditions ot | the company the Lieutenant said. “The men of Company K are above the average, and are equal to any in ine state militia, but I am sorry to be| forced to say that the armory thel toys have to drill in is the poores! in the state. Fvery bit of the ejuin-| ment has been spoiled by the damp-| ness, and I am very much dissap- The Be- midji company is onme of the best drilled in the state.” At a recent meeting of the city council, the question of a change in the Armory was brought up, and it is very probable that in the near future the company will be given better quarters. pointed in this respect. T0 HOLD ROUSING SESSION 11!:1311'(1;’1’ 0dd Fellows Preparing Big | Program for Friday. l | \ | | Order of 0dd Fellows have practical- ly completed plans for a rousing| meeting to be held at their hall Fri-| day evening, April 7. A special | committee was appointed last week and-a special program has been pre-| | pared for the entertainment of the | members of the organization. | . One big feature, one that will in- | terest every 0dd Fellow, but one that | can not be disclosed at this time is| the special number that has been| Ansco Quality deserves tobe known more quickly than this method would accomplish. We are prepared to help you get better results from your Camera than you would think possible. Film and Cyko paper ase for sale at Ansco prepared. | , Some of the numbers on the pro-| | gram will be the initiation of the | candidates, after which supper will| | be served. Arrangements have also . been made for good short spicy fspeeches. Rev. R. L. Kelly who is | taking ‘charge of the Baptist church 1in this city, has consented to give a |short talk at this meeting. After | supper’ and during the course of ispeechmaklng a ‘smoker will be | given. i 1 | | { Plan now to hear the Swiss Bell Ringery, Wednesday the 19th, - !some reason its authors would REAPPORTIONMENT IS A DEAD ISSUE Senate Passes Bill Which Submits to the ?fople & Proposed Constitu- tional Amendment. GOV. REFUSES TO BE QUOTED Those Who Had Hoped for Redis- tricting of State Admit There is No Hope for So Doing. (By P. A. Wilson) Bemidji Pionser Legislative Bureaun BULLETIN. St. Paul, 1 p. m., April 5.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)— After a forenoon of heated debate, the Senate at noon today, passed the Duxbury-Mooan-Wels bill, which is a slap at reapportionment for all time, as it submits to the people a proposed constitutional amendment limiting the number of senators from any county to six, no matter how great the population. The original bill made the limit at four, but it was amended today to 6. Senator Wilson presented an amendment providing for a propor- tionate- reduetion of taxes for the counties involved, but it was lost by 44 to 62. The final vote in favor of the bill was 54 to 52. Friends of redpportionment admitg that the passage of this bill means that all hope for reapportionment is gone. * X % St. Paul, April 6—Driven to des- | peration by the dilatory tactics of | southern senators who had. failed to keep their promise to introduce a new reapportionment bill, friends of the measure, acting under the ad- vice of Governar Eberhart, caused Senator A. L. Hanson of Ada to at- tempt to put the bill in yesterday | afternoon with results so disastrous that the last gleam of hope for re- apportionment at this session of the legislature is all but enveloped by darkness. It had been expected that the au- thors of the new bill would present | it Wednesday morning. understood by friends of the It was so the governor bill. The morning session wore away and no bill ap- peared. For nearly a week the measure has: been ready but for Dot turn it in. Therefore when the senate met at 3:30 yesterday after- friends of reapportionment took “the bull by the horns”, so to speak, and had Senator Hanson offer the measure. The senate had passed the order of business permitting the introduction of bills and to introduce the measure required and noon, unanimous consent. “Mr. president,” said Senator Han- son, addressing the chair, “I ask un- animous consent for the introduction of a bill.” Senator Julius Coller, democrat from Shakopee, Scott county, “smell- The local lodge of the Independent | ed a mouse”, and arose to inquire: “What kind of a bill is it?” “Reapportionment,” replied Sen- ator Hanson. “1 object,” was the sharp rejoin- Ider of Senator Coller . The attempt of Senator Hanson to introduce the bill had the same ef- fect on the southern senators who had drawn the measure and who had promised to that the waving of a red flag in the face of a bull would have. It was a move they did not figure the northern senators were brave enough to make and it changed the southerners position as tentative friends to active foes. “I introduced the bill as a direct request from the governor,” said Senator Hanson. “I intend to push it, unles the governor wishes other- wise. I am strong for reapportion- ment and believe it is time that something was done.” Exx Senator Hanson put his bill in this introduce it from their morning. Senator Hackney, chair- man of the Reapportionment com- mittee, announced that this commit- tee would meet at once and report a bill back without delay. He called for a caucus of the members and also several “senators together last night and it was soon ap- parent that it is now impossible to unite the warring factions on re ap- portionment and that reapportion- ment for the present session is a | dead issue. Governor Eberhart refuses to be quoted, reserving whatever he may have to say regarding a possible extra session until after the Hanson bill has been disposed of by the senate. x X & It is now apparent that friends of the bill will offer no compromise and that the suggestion that its provis- fons do not go into effect until 1914 will be ignored. The bill as presented by Senator | Hanson provides for a senate of 64 members and a house of 126. Bel- trami is linked with Koochiching for & senator and ome representative each. Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis are each given an addit‘onal senator and representative. Cass and Itasca get a senator and two representatives. Pennington, Red Lake, Clearwater and Mahnomen get a senator and two representatives. * ¥ Four year terms for county offi-| cers are provided to replace the bresent two year term in a bill passed by the House yesterday after- noon by a vote of 71 to 30. Effort to amend the bill by reducing sal- aries failed. The offices affected are | auditor, treasurer, register of deeds, sheriff, attorney and superintend- ent of schools. Other bills passed by the House were the one figing license fees and regulating employment bureaus, the S. N. Lee bill authoriz- ing a constitutional amendment re- lating to the investment of school | funds|on_improved farm lands; the bi1l requiring physicians to report to the commissioner of labor -all cases of from lead, phospliorus, arsenic or mercury or from anthrax or from compressed air illness; and the Lennon bill by a vote of 88 to 35 extending to the Minneapolis city council the right to grant liquor licenses to the Radisson and Dyckman hotels. * X X Yesterday was drainage day in the House and five bills as important to northern Minnesota as any yet acted upon were embodied in one measure and unanimously passed.| The most important change over the present law is that this bill provides that at a ditch petition hearing a ditch must be favored by 50 per cent of the owners of the land and if it is not so favored the ditch can not be authorized. The Pioneer will ex- plain the bill at greater length at some future time. *x X x Three measures of direct interest to Bemidji, and fathered by Repre- sentative O’Neill have been passed by the House. The first is the one authorizing the Beltrami county commissioners to provide more clerk hire for County Auditor George, un- der sanction of the Public Examiner and Attorney General. Another of the bills was the one to legalize cer- tain appropriations heretofore made in Beltrami county appropriating money for the construction of roads or bridges while the last bill was the one to legalize certain appropria- tions heretofore made by the county board in aid of the agricultural fair. Both these bills were amended so as to give the county board final say as to action. poisoning new * ¥ Representative O'Neill has the dis- tinction of having passed more bills than any other member in the House. All of the measures fathered by him, 27 in number, have been passed. KK Theodore Roosevelt will be in St. Paul on April 14 andwill be invited to make a talk before a joint session of the Legislature. * X x Speaker Dunn, who it has been ex- pected would resume his duties as presiding officer of the house today, is still too ill to take up the gavel. His wife and daughter are also sick both being confined to a hospital at {be no let up. Albert Lea. AGRICULTURAL SGHOOL NEEDED “Man Who Wants to See Bemidji 25,- 000” Believes That Department Should be Established Here. WILL MEAX MUCH IN FUTURE Says, It Would Tend to Awaken an Interest in a Very Important Study. This morning the following letter Wwas received at the office of the Pioneer and is, without doubt, the opinion of many Bemidji citizens: “In your issue of March 28th un- der the heading ‘Agricultural School for Bemidji, All that is needed to ob- taln department is a united effort upon the part of citizens.’ Certain- ly that sounds good, and it is en- couraging to note also how prompt- ly the commercial club has taken a_ hold of the proposition. Let there We want and must There is nothing so vital and important for the welfare of Bemidji as an earnest interest in agriculture. “Higher education, the study of languages and ect never hurt any- one, but why not fit the school boy and girl for the things they are go- ing to knock up against in every day life. “Our heritage is rapidly disap- pearing and our forune dwindling, so We must turn attention and efforts to securing a more lasting and sure income, forgetting the woodmans' ax and with'the dairy cow, the hen _ und the plow g0 W work. Bankers, doctors, merchants, lawyers, black- smiths, churches, schools and all de- pend upon the man in the country, that man may be cutting the tim- ber, working the mine, or cultivat- ing the land. Our trees are all counted, and at the present rate of cutting will not last long. Our mines support comparatively few and this leaves us to fall back on the man who cultivates the soil and our future depends upon him. “The great advantage the farmer has is that his mine is never ex- hausted, every year, if he will take care of it, he can renew his land and repeat the crop of the year before. That is what is going to build up our city and we cannot build our ity iaster thzn we have a country to sup.port if. “An agricultural department would be a step in the right di- rection, it would tend to awaken an interest in a very important study. With a small farm near the city properly cultivated, raising a var- jety of crops best adapted to our soil and climate it would be of much value to our farmers and our citizens and of much interest to strangers visiting our city. “It would draw capital and people to us and the establishment of such a school would in a few years work have a school. wonders in the development of our county and the building up of our city. Stop for one moment and watch the results obtained by the by displaying agricultural products in cars which have this winter been traveling through southern and east- ern states. P “The products exhibited simply amazed the people. “They knew nothing about the northwest and as a result more home- seekers are passing through the Twin City gate way to the northwest at present than to any other section of the United States or Canada. Can not we afford an agricultural de- partment as a starter? “One who want to see 25000." Bemidji Solway Merchant Dead. Word was received in Bemidji late yesterday afternoon to the effect that Ray Dickenson, the Solway merchant died in the hospital at Gully early yesterday morning. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock in Sohyly.