Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 13, 1911, Page 1

THE B :I & e MINNESOTA “i : HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 8. NUMBER 345. REAPPORTIONMENT BILL IS KILLED ’1-.\0(]5 of the bill, said that it was | primarily intended to protect th lumberjacks of the northern woods. “It would wipe out those hell-hole brothels and dives that spring up wherever there is a lumber camp to the detriment of the hard working Senate Today Voted Against Motion | jumberjacks.” Mr. Dunn told of to Make Measure Special Order | Rev. Higgins' interest. in the bill and | for this Afternoon. said that “he told me it would be a! boon to a greatly imposed upon class |of humanity and that i T could se- | cure its passage he would pray for { NO EXTRA SESSION TO BE HELD me as long as he had breath in nis| @OVERNOR MAY TAKE ACTION | body.” The bill | 167 to 47, Executive Committee of Northerw! * KX Minnesota Development Assosda- | Another temperance measure pass- | ed by the house was Senator Hanson's tion to Issue Statemeft | bill absolutely prohibiting the sale | |of malt either intoxicating or non | | intoxicating in any place other than | | @ licensed saloon or for medicinal | burposes in SENATE EXONERATES SUPERINTENDENT ® State Legislature Will Not Ask Head of Red” Wing Training School to Resign. passed the house Rumors are Afloat that Chief Execu- | tive Will Demand a Complete Change in Management (By ¥. A. Wilson) Pioneer Legislative BULLETIN. (By ¥. A. Wilson) emidji Pioneer Legislative Bureaa, St. Paul, April 13, 3 p. m.— (Daily | | Bemiaji Burean drug stores. Brewery | representatives attempted to amend | St. Paul, April 13, 3 p. uL—tl.)ai]y;m(i bill to death but Representative | Pioneer Special Wire Service.)— | | Pioneer Special Wire Service)—The O'Neill was on the job and s“ccess."rhe senate last night voted, as| reapportionment bill was unceremon- | fully fought off all attacks, the bill | did the house the night before, to ex- fously killed by thesenate today, so| 8oing through by a vote of 98 to 13. onerate Superinténdent Whittier of quickly that it was all over before 't IS the mothers of the sons of Min-| o pog Wing Training school. The | nesota who ask for this bill,” said| vote was 24 to 33. Mr. O'Neill, “while the only opposi. Despite the action of the senate, | | tlon ‘comes: from the bln-plgBers.” |y 4 o0uime Enown today that Gover. As the bill has passed the senate ltg nor Eberhart would demand a com- | plete change” of management at Red Wing, and ihat Superintendent Whittier would probably be compell- | ed to resign in the near future. | x KK some of those present knew what had happened. Senator IHackney, chairman of the reapportionment moved | committee ! now becomes a law. the bill be made a special order for X X % | this afternoon. His " Hoffman bill & s | The compe]llngl voted down and with it went the . . | breweries to take out a state license last hope for reapportionment at the | | also passed the senate. present session. i Governor Eberbart has let it be| known that he will not call an extra session, motion was| St. Paul, April 12.—There imore to that midnight seance of the| | House Tuesday when it voted to up-! was| | made. ‘tration has changed and they are state cheap.” Members of the executive mmmil-j SOCIAL AND tee of the Northern Minnesota Devel- | opment Paul this afternoon, and it is understood ! association are in St. that some sort of a statement will be | issued. | * % % St. Paul, April —Superintend- ents of public instruction will here- | after be elected without the dang- ling of any political strings accord- ing to the Ole Sageng non partisan bill which passed the senate unan- imously yesterday afternoon. that candid- | ates for this office file for the prim- This bill provides didates with the exception that no political afliliation is specified. The i a half, spendi: much of his ti | hold F. A. Whittier, superintendent | o ne ey EXTRA iy L gt I N W\}‘{'\\‘ B l‘l}‘“"\[\\,w‘{\\\l\\:)v ul i " l\(}) “\h".'.{)\.)\l [N o —Bart in Minneapolis Journal. other boards and no complaint was State Board of Control wants to make Simply because the adminis- a report showing that they run the democrats’ is no reason why should be forced out'of office. | they Representative W. I. Nolan put| 1 the blame squarely on the Board of don't believe in this criticism. 1| Control but said that he would vote don’t believe Mr. Whittier was ever for the dismissal of Mr. Whittier if | cruel or ever used more severe pun-| assur ishment than is necessary.” ed that it would mean a bet- tering of conditions. { Representative Kunze, now a real Clinton Robinson, a sort of politi- | estate dealer in Minneapolis but at| cal organ who, although he doesn’t one time superintendent of the Red|know it, is the clown of the house, \Wing city schools, defended Mr. | gidn’t think much of the report. He! ‘Whittier in a speech of an hour and ‘ said | “I have seen a whole lot of reports { with such polish and style as it did| 16t the tortare taught Boys of Red\c“mg other institutions where cor-! | poral punishment is used. | Wing, than has been printed in the, " P i | v city newspapers. | Representative Campbell Iollowed‘ Nat Field of Tower was in Bemidji‘; Representative Lydiard of Min- With a bitter and dramatic e"“"cm'; today. ! neapolis, a member of the investi-| o Of the methods used at Red| | Remember “Fivelnd® at Hhie Ma-lgam\g committee, made a Wing and characterized Superintend- manly, | | jestic tonight. d esae P i S. G. Warner of Drainerd was a|©f the odium which a mountain of ~'Tistless, fatherless;’ _mgn. that “heart wrenching testimony has| ©uld be imagined and added that if| ! caused. The recommendation of the| they wanted - the 8bys properly committee, appointed specifically to| POUnded that the state should em- 5 . | make a thorough investigation and| ploy a man like Jack Johnson. Eraest Nauman of Margie, made! ! Representative D. P. O'Neill made o A i which was made only after pains-: this city a short business visit yester- as touching and yet convincing talk itaking, consciencious, fearless ef-| = forts, commanded but little respect | ® 31¥ delivered. He expressed the hope that the Dunn amendment| and all testimony discovered by the committee went like chaff before a would not prevail and added: . wind. Likewise Mr. Lydiard’s de-| | “Wa8 Present at the public Lear- PERSONAL | but losing fight, to purge Minnesota | ®'t Whittier as “the most godless, | Bemidji business visitor today. “Thelma” will be shown at the Majestic tonight for the last time. | Strickly . hick ary election the same as other can- | (reSh dressed chickens; | for Easter, not cold storage. Peoples | Meat Market. but this one is the most simplest Iy BAND CONGERT A SUGCESS Weather Conditions Bad and Only Small Audience Attends. Because of the weather conditions only a small audience listened to the endeavors of the Bemidji city band last evening. Never before has the band played | last evening, and those who missed | the concert certainly missed a trent‘! ever seen. It’s a political pull and| nothing else. Why, the day this resolution was introduced Mr. Ly-! A violin solo was rendered by Mrs. C. R. Sanborn, in her usual charm- ing manner, and that her efforts diard turned around in his seat and | were appreciated was shown by the said to me,—It's Stephens’ wife | extended applause she received. that's doing this’ and then he (LY- The concert was the last of the! diard) moved to include the girl's | school in the Investigation.” | | winter indoor concerts to be given by the“band, and during the summer “This charge brought Mr. Lydiard | weekly concerts will be given on the | to his feet with a jump. | “I want to say,” he shouted, “that | this is an absolute falsehood.” | The members of the State Board of i Control are responsible for that con- “ ‘Taint no falsehood,” piped back | dition, and the sentiment of this dock, the same as last year. " 5 N state should demand the resignation Mr. Robinson in his shrill tenorgot the members of that Board save voice. one: This important Board has been! ther ignorant or grossly negligent. T|They have shown themselves as a “I say it is,”” reiterated Mr. Ly-"ei diard. “Why, Lord bless you, est number of votes go on the ticket| 2 Bemidji business visitor today, at the general clection without party | I€8ving for his home this afternoon. designation. Sheriff Hazen returned this morn- | * KK ing from Interpational Falls, where | After it had twice been down and he had been called on official| out as a dead bill, Representative | bu:iness. | i ! ! ) el | two candidates receiving the high-| Dr- W. W. Moir of Excelsior, vas| Ole Peterson's measure, that a John| N. G. Bang arrived in Bemidji| A. Johnson memorial commission be ! recently from Park Rapids and has appointed, was resurrected and pass- accepted a position in N. L. Hak-! | mand that the members of the| Board of Control resign, slight consideration. received | To “Bob” Dunn, republican repre-i sentative from Princeton, belongs| the unique distinction of being the| only man appointed to the committee and who, although he took no active part in the investigation and was preseit at none of the public hear- ed b ythe house, yesterday afternoon. | This commission is to purchase a| monument for the Johnson grave at | St. Peter at a cost of not more than $5,000, | * kK % United States Senator Miles Poin- dexter of the state of Washington | addresed the senate yesterday morn-| ing and the house yesterday m‘ter-‘ noon. He told the legislators to be| fearless in their work and urged| such reforms as direct election of | United States senators, the initiative | and referendum, a proper | of the tariff and declared ship subsidy. revision against On Friday evening of | this week, Colonel Roosevelt will ad- | dress a joint session of the Legisla-| ture in the house chamber. There will be no opportunity for the gener- al public to hear the former presi- dent. * X % There will be no sessions of the legislature Friday was made a legal legislature of 1907. This leaves but four more days in which bills| can be considered. * K X Robert C. Dunn, the bill preventing the promiscuous es- tablishment of saloons, gives much credit for the .passage of the meas- ure to Rev. F. E. Higgins of Bemidji, known as the Sky Pilot of lumber- Jjacks. saloon in any place where there are not 100 inhabitants in a district one half mile square. Upon motion of Representative L. H. Rice of Park Rapids, the bill was amended to in- author of clude any place having a depot, post office, general store and grain ware- house. Mr, Dunn in explaining th. kerup's photograph studio. “Thelma,” Marie Corelli's famous | story, at the Majestic tonight. The Episcopal Guild will hold an Easter food sale at McCuaigs store on April 14th. All donations are to be sent in early. Lame shoulder is nearly always due to rheumatism of the muscles, and quickly yields to the free appli- | cation of Chamberlain’s Linement. For sale by Barkers Drug Store. . Mrs. F. S. Lycan, underwent an| operation at the Bemidii Hospital this morni g, and late this afternoon it was reported that it was success- ful and that the patient is resting as well as could be expected. Miss Marnan White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. White of this city, returned last evening from St. ings, stood before the House as z member of the committee and urged Mr. Whittier. Mr.| Dunn frankly admitted that he had not participated in the work of the committee, but nevertheless offered the amendment to the majority re- port which excepts criticism of Mr. Whittier and the demand of his re- signation. Mr. Dunn said in part: “Now I know there is a feeling | throughout the state—worked up— exoneration of | that there has been gross brutality, | but T think it matters were known| all this is grossly exaggerated. I have known Mr. Whittier for many years and a nicer man I never knew. | I cannot believe, despite any evidence shown, that he is as black as he is painted. Now then the lmpression} abroad is that these boys sent to, Cloud, where she is attending the normal school. Miss White will re- turn to St. Clond next Monday. | Red Wing are angels. Why are | they sent there? Simply because ing when Mr. Whitti & whon Mr, Whittler, under oath, | yiso iy dven now that Stephens had i |ly incompetent and unfit for the e mn;p °r;l p“":hmemd V8 o wife. high duties reposed in them. An necessary. r. Kunze has read tel-| “Well, i’s your word sgainst outraged ' public sentiment is knock- | egrams from institutions using the! {ing at the doors of the members of | mine,” came back Mr. Robinson, the Board of Control and demand- lash but h itu- | aoh It hes hewany from an IelOU ey 5 g ver oy ecordsith. Bear-out tion readopting corporal punish- n i ? :‘e 5 :nce tt m:: bilin al;ollshed The Dunn motion to amend the re- l,kw‘"" a8 torwhat icee: boys ! port and thus nullify the ike. of | of kicks and curses where there is Bo, love.and kinduess. Now, atiout which was adopted does not even call tobacco. Is it natural that a boy| for the abolishment of corporal pun- will listen to the evil of smoking | 4 . f | ishment. Representative Ernest com;ng £rom hp_s:b chhhold 2 clga:-i Lundeen has presented a resolution the fumes of which curl eavenwm-d.:Whlch seeks to do away with the One word more,—I have the honor| . | lash. or belnge” director, o teboird of | ol vines Toatard and otitere education at Thief River Falls and still believe that the Board of Con- part of my statements.” i recom- | mendations of the committee carried, 53 to 30. That part of the report They come from homes ‘1 want to tell you that there is 0O sl shotld: e made o resign and corporal punishment there and the! pupils worship their superintendent .o for he rules by love and kindness."i Representative Lydiard’s remarks Representative W. T. Stone 1in defense of the majority report of Park Rapids admitted his ignorance (y¢ committee follows in full: of the testimony revealed at the! i report represents the findings public hearings of the committee| of the committee as to conditions as 4 | they actually exist at Red Wing. and apologized for not being better mhese findings are the conclusion to wntrenched with facts and then | which a majority of all the members iroceeded to oppcse the committee | could agree, yet the findings do not represent all that the members of report and declared he would wai-t| the committee think, and the verbal | statement which 1 am about to make should be accepted in the light of an He took the |additional report. This report shows that the com- ttee finds conditions at Red Wing ruled | hopelessly bad. It shows that the | spirit of kindness and good-will has been substituted by the rule of the of inore testimoay “to condemn my o.4 friend, Mr. Whittier.” Dposition that some boys were so bad | ; that they could hardly be otherwise than by a rod. To this | to men more fit. | renewed efforts along that line may | as Good Friday | holiday by the| The Dunn bill prohibits a| {they are incorrigible—because lhey} | can’t be handled by their own! Representative Washburn of people and they are far from being | Deapolis replied: | Meat Market, |angels. A good many of them ought| “I understand the gentleman from Mrs. S A. Nichols and Mr. William| to be in the reformatory or the state | Park Rapids claims to be a Chris- Clish eutertained yesterday after-| prison. In ten years the Red Wing tian. T am not but I don’t believe | | noon in honor of Mrs. Harry Titus’s| school has cared for 3,650 inmates} the boy lives who hasn't some good | Strickly fresh dressed chickens, Min- for Easter, not cold storage Peop es | | sister, Mrs. Hura ofMSuperh;r. lWis. | 2nd only a few have made complaint | in him and I don’s think it is Chris- | | The guests were, Mrs. Wheelock. 5 | tianti A N *|—Just a few Dblack sheep, and they | tianlike to take any other view. Mrs. J. T. Gibbons, Mrs. E. H | P T z joen“’ Mrs. Hurn and Mrs. Ha"y! are the cause of all this hysterical | Titus. Refreshments were served.|8ush of the kind hearted ladies nndftold of being at Red Wing when the = | Kind hearted men. Now I am not|authorities there did mot know who | New Manager for Alfalfa. | here to uphold corporal punishment | he was. He was plain in his criti- The arrival of a son and heir at|but it is often necessary and is used, cism of the Board of Control but said the home of Mr. and Mrs. Welling-|©F should be, in the public schools. | a mountain had been made out of a ! | ton G. Schroeder last Tuesday, ha¢ | Mr. Lydiard has made a nice li_me‘lmole hill so far as Mr. Whittier wa.g) fixe 1 a lasting smile upon the coun.|talk but it has all been aimed at the|concerned. | tenance of Bemidji's congenial mer- | Poard of control. I believe in the| “I have been at that school and‘ chant. Mr. Schroeder believes tha: | board of control for 1.was the author | have eaten there and I have had in this new comer he has an ideal|©f the bill creating it. I know all|some beefsteak that was so tough that manager for the popular Alfalfa|the present membery and believe|you couldn’t stick a fork in the Dairy farm, they are good men. There has been|gravy. Why fs this? Because the Representative John G. Lennon | lash. It shows that when love has been forced to depart from the souls of these boys, fear has entered. It shows that instead of recognizing the reform spirit of the institution, instead of recognizing the fact that modern thought has evolved a new method of dealing with delinquent children, armed with a whip, the pres nt superintendent of this in- stitution has ‘- gone about among these unfortunates as the incar- nation of the spirit of fear. In- fractions of discipline, boyish pranks, the usual effercescence of youth have been punished with brutal blows. Fastened to machine or appliance, hands shack- led backs bared, these boys have re- ceived ten, twenty, thirty and as many as a hundred lashes. - The superintendent is recommend- ed for removal. His assistants must go, but fixing -the blame upon these men alone is a mere subterfuge. It is merely fixing the blame upon the sub-ordinates for a fault that in the first instance belongs to men higher in authority. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, the shame of Red Wing is not the asset of a mere sub-ordinate. | RS | | result of this investigation thorough- | ing that they get out and give place‘ The testimony shows that the only | conception of its duties entertained | by the members of the Board of Con- trol has been that they are mere business agents. They have gone| on the principle that when they had bartered for brown sugar, dickered for coffee by the sack, had| purchased shoes and bought supplies | and had employed a state architect for $65,000, who could probably| have been employed for $10,000,0r ;SZ0,000, they performed their duty and had done it well. I cannot con- | ceive of a body of three men in this jpresent day of advance thought en-| tertaining so purile and petty an| idea of a most important duty. | While they have occupied them- |selves in this way the delinquent; children of the state, the boys to whom nature and society have con- | spired to deny a fair chance have | been dwelling for years undisturbed |and unthought of in this charnel house of torture. It was only a little |more than fifty years ago that the Amercian public’s sense of decency | and humanity was outraged by the | presentation of the picture of the | bared backs of slaves running red | under the scourging thongs of the slave-driver’s whip. Yet the testi- mony in this case shows that day! |after day and year after year, the %same methods have been going on in this institution which should be |an institution of reform but which {in reality has been a house of tor- | | ture. { | Instead of reforming boys, imtemhl |of making better citizens this insti- | tution has been a penal institution with an annual output of warped {and hopeless souls. As superintendent it is right and just that Mr. Whittier should be held responsible but in holding Mr. | Whittier responsible, the State Board {of Control cannot escape an even greater responsibility. It is their duty to employ the superintendents of these institutions, yet on their own evidence and the testimony of | & former member of the Board, it is shown that they even did not know ithat whipping was carried on or if |they knew they did not care. One of them joined with the superintend- jent in saying that scourging was the most humane and in fact the omly successful method of discipline. It develops that neither the Board nor the superintendent has taken the trouble to study the methods used in other institutions. At Red Wing there is in existence an arcaic form of moral suasion whose foundation is fear and britality. A boy compelled to be ood and if not, he was brut- ally whipped and on the testimony of the superintendent he was licked un- til the beating treatment was succes- sful. In other words he was beaten had | l‘.il tomorrow morning, at the sugges- IMRS. TEN CENTS PER WEEK COUNTIES TRYING - T0 SETTLE DISPUTE Members of County Boards of Bel- % |~ trami and Clearwater Counties | Meet for Such Purpose. i | END OF LITIGATION MAY RESULT Aftempted Settlement is of Matters Which Should Have Been Ad- justed Many Years Ago. Beltrami and Clearwater counties are making an effort to get together and effect 2 compromise ~ settle- ment of the suit now pending in dis- trict court,, in which Beltrami coun- ty seeks to recover from Clearwater county a portion of the amount of the indebtedness of Beltrami county at the time Clearwater county was created in 1902, The county board of each county has appointed two of its members— Viggo Peterson and A. E. Rako for Beltrami county, and T. O. Nelson and Theo. Welte for Clearwater county—to endeavor to reach a mu- tual agreement, and these gentlemen, with the attorneys for each county, are today investigating the facts in- volved. Clearwater county contends its tax payers were required to and did pay to Beltrami county taxes for county revenue purposes, levied in 1902, in the aggregate sum of about $18,000, which said taxes were il- legally levied, and for which Clear- water county should now have credit. The pending action has been before ‘the district court several times'in a preliminary way and an order of the district court on one of the points involved was affirmed by the preme court about a year ago. su- Issue was finally joned in the case a fov months ago and a trial is to te had at chambers in this city, be- fore Judge McClenahan, in the near future, if the attempt at an amicable adjustment proves futile. MUNIGIPAL COURT DOINGS Two Women Arrested for Disorderly Conduct—Trial Tomorrow. Police headquarters were rather quiet today, only two being arraign- ed before Judge Pendergast court convened this morning. Mrs. Ella Decosta and Miss Clara St. Laurance were arrested yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct, but upon being arraigned this morn- ing, their cases were continued un- ‘when tion of the attorneys. WILLIAMS BURIED Funeral of Island Resident Who Died Tuesday, Held. Yesterday the funeral of Mrs. Mary Williams, of Island Lake, who died Tuesday was held in Bemidji. Mrs. Williams was 58 years of age and had been ill during the past winter and died Tuesday of brain fever. She is survived by her husband, two daughters and three sons. Bagley Girl Married. Miss Anna Bylen, of Bagley, who has for the past four years been deputy register of deeds in Clear- water county, was married last even- ing 1o Elmer Movold of Fosston. After the wedding a reception was held for the newly married pair. Mr. and Mrs. Movold will make their home in Canada, where the groom has land interests. A large number of Fosston people attended . - (Continued on Last Page.) the wedding..