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

STRE NP miuwfisom | "; HISTORICALI SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 10. EXPERT HIRED FOR FARM SCHOOL HERE Otto I. Bergh, Expert From Hendrum, Given New Position by Board of Education. HAS WON TRIUMPHS FROM LAND“ Success So Pronounced on Father's Property That it Became Known As Experiment Station, | NEW TEACHERS ARE CHOSEN Vacancies Caused by Instructors Who Are to Leave Ar~ Filled—Special Meeting Friday. | At a meeting of the Board of Edu-| cation last night, Otto I. Bergh of Hendrum, Minn,, and a graduate of the Moorhead Normal school and well known as an expert farmer, was elec- | ted to have charge of the agricultur- al department of the Bemidji high school, at a salary of $1,400 a year. While the board admits that this! salary appears substantial, it was guided in its decision by the fact that Mr. Bergh will be required to work! twelve months in the year; that the supply of men competent to fill the position, which requires and practical training, is limited; | that Mr. Bergh upon whom the suc- cess of the farm school technical course so largely depends, is particularly well fitted for the place and that the other schools of the state are paying still higher salaries—Deer River for instance paying $1,500. Upon these facts and because he was recommend- ed by Superintendent Dyer, the sal- ary was fixed at the above amount. The Highest References. Mr. Bergh is years old, is a graduate of the Agricultural school at Madison, and also of the advanced course, of the school. He was born and raised on a farm near Hendrum, and upon the death of his father several years ago, took | Moorhead Normal charge of the farm, and proved so enterp: that the farm became known in the country sing a manager surrounding Hendrum as the “experi- ment farm,” so successful were his crops. The new director comes to Bommjil with highest references. The presi-| dent of the Normal school says that he has never had a student graduate from the school, “whom 1 so gladly give favorable mention.” Owing to the absence of Dr. E. H. Smith, president of the board and| Dr. ing definite was done in regard to| selecting the 10 acre tract for school. The members present agreed with Superintendent| E. H. Marcum, a member, noth-| the new farm Dyer that the site should be chosen | without delay, and it was that an decided | meeting of the hoard should be held on Friday eve- ning of this week. adjourned New Teachers Named. Several other selections of teach-| ers were made at last night's meet- ing. A. D. Bailey, who has for three years been in charge of the manual training department at Glencoe, was elected to the Bemidji vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Patrick. Miss Amy Berge, who is at the present time principal of the Warren schools, was selected to fill the posi- tion made vacant by the resignation of Miss Reca Graling, as teacher of latin and German. The vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Miss Ruth Witting, who will teach next year in Minneapolis, will be taken by Miss Karna Ander- son. Miss Edna Hill will have charge of the newly established normal de- partment, and her position as teach- er of the first grade will be taken by Miss Lulu McCrum, who is now teaching at Blackduck, THESE T0 TALK AT DULUTH New Forester, Senator, Bishop and Others on Development Program Now Being Made Up. Here is the official program for the convention of the Northern Minne- sota Development association to be held in Duluth June 1 and 2, so far as it is completed: 3 “State Development,” Rt. Rev. James McGolrick, bishop of Duluth. | S. D. Works, state senator, Mankato. “Federal Lands Geo. Welsh, state immigration com- missioner. “Department of Public -Domain,” Thos. Kneeland, Minneapolis. | “Conserving Soil Fertility, A. R.| in Minnesota,” | ;Whitson, University of Wisconsin. “Forestry,” Wm. T. Cox, state for- ester, “Commisison Plan for State Gov- ernment,” Ferman A. Wilson, editor Bemidji Daily Pioneer. “Newspaper Harold Knutson, president Nor. Minn. Edi- Boosting,” torial association. “Reclaiming State Lands,” A. J.| McGuire, member state reclamation board. The National Corn Show, Minnea- polis 1912, The Northwest Land Paul, Dec. 1911. (The management of these have Show, St. not yet furnished names of speakers.) “What Other States Are Doing,” W.| Mylrea, Wisconsin Advancement Wausau; H. W. Reade, Northern Michigan Development as- I J. Gibson,| Western Michigan Development” Bu- reau, Traverse City." i H. association, sociation, Escanaba; W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the association was in Crookston yester- day on his way to Thief River I<‘:1llsI and will visit other points in the in-| terest of the convention before com-| ing to Bemidji on Saturday of this week. SAYBRIDGE BLOCKS NAVIGATION Owners of “Storm King” Notify Coun- cil That Structure Interferes. Kroken & Auble, owners of the “Storm King"” have notified the city that navigation is being obstructed by the city owned bridge at the out- let of the Mississippi river. It is said that the bridge is too low to permit the passing of boats. Alderman Moberg who vestigated the bridge recently also found that logs had knocked out one of the piles and that the structure The streets the larger in- was otherwise in bad shape. city council committee on and with the assistance of the city engineer will present a report as to the needed repairs to be made. PARSHALL TO SOON COME HOME Wife Returns and Brings Good News of Husband's Quick Recovery. Archdeacon Parshall of the Cass Lake and Bemidji Episcopal parishes, who was operated on in St. Cloud | last week is so much improved that it is expected that he can be brought tiome some time next week. Mrs.i Parshall was in Bemidji this morn- ing on her way from St. Cloud to Cass Lake and brought the news that her husband’s rapid recovery seems He is not yet able to sit up but is fast regaining his strength. assured. FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN Trains Leave Calumet to Assist in| Fighting Flames. Calumet, Mich., May 10.—The forest fire situation in the copper country | is still serious, although the danger of the destruction of Chassell and Lanse villages is passed. Fire trains ran out of here over the Copper Range and South Shore rail- | roads to fight the fires in Southern Houghton and Ontonagon counties, at Mass City, Pelkie, Hazel and Alston, where railway property was threat- ened. Fires at lLake View, west of Calumet, are still raging fiercely. More reports of farmers being burned out are heard, MACKENZIE HERE SATURDAY | WOMAN RUNAWAY - HELD AS KIDNAPER Posed as “May Arnold” With 16 Year 01d Sister But Proves to be Mrs. Campbell of Crookston. BEMIDJITES VICTIMS OF DECEIT Rev. S. E. P. White and Others Aid Her When Request for Employ- ment is Made. TWO CHILDREN PUT IN SCHOOL Told to Give Wrong Names When ! Questioned—Blames Her Hus- band. After a short and none too merry experience in Bemidji, Mrs. T. A. Campbell of Crookston, who posed as “May Arnold,” being accompanied by Olga Lunde, also of Crookston and who passed in Bemidji as “Miss Ar- nold, sister of May” is under arrest in Crookston, on the charge of kid- naping. Mrs. Campbell, an attractive wo- man of about 30, is married to a piano tuner of Crookston more than 70 years old. Mr. Campbell makes frequents trips to Bemidji. Claims She Was Deserted. “He deserted me,” Mrs. Campbell said, when arrested here yesterday afternoon as she stepped from a boat in which, accompanied by the Lunde girl, she had been out on the lake with two men. “We came to Bemidji to try and get something to do and I have been looking in vain for employment. I came to Bemidji last Thursday and put my two children, a boy of ten and a girl of eight years old, in the public schools.” Her Assertion True. This assertion proved to be true. The children were placed in school and Mrs. Campbell, after going to Hotel Brinkman where she regis- tered back four days, in an apparent effort to deceive anyone who might be looking for her, started out for work, after first having cautioned her children to give the name of “Arnold.” She first applied to Rev. S. E. P. White, of the First Presbyterian church, who took a kindly interest in her case. The woman posed as a professional nurse and finally was given a position at the home of L. G. Crothers, whose wife was in a dying condition. She delayed going to work, however, and applied at the Pioneer office in the hope, she said, that she might obtain a position as “surgical nurse.” 7 Police Get Busy. By this time the police at Crook- ston had been getting busy and the woman was traced to Bemidji, and with the aid of Chief of Palice Har- rington she was located and placed under arrest, late yesterday after- noon. The two children were found in school and when asked what their name was, replied faintly that they “guessed” it was Arnold but when asked if it really wasn’t Campbell they said they had been in the habit of -going under both names. The children are being cared for here by Mrs. Thompson, a trained nurse. kidnaping ' carries with it a penalty of ten years in the state penitentiary. The crime of Clapp Takes Borah’s Place. Chicago, May 10.—United States Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota one of the progressive Republican leaders, has been substituted for Sen- ator William E. Borah of ldaho as the chief speaker at the progressive Re- publican banquet to be held in the Au ditorium hotel Saturday night Three Men I n Gravel Pit. McPhergon, Kan, May 10.—Three men were huried under from gx tc ten feet by a cave-in of a gravel pit two miles east of here. The men werc dead when reached. Fifteen men foeen |~ /Fay,wevs (RADISHES AT OUR rHousE "y § LIVING ON LEGMORNS*' GiMME PLYMOUTH il i i —Bradley in Chicago News. HEAVY RAINS BRING JoY Put Soil in Splenq‘id‘ Condition and End Fears of “Danger From Brush Fires. | WINDSWEEPS CITY AT MIDNIGHT Heavy rains, heaviest just before midnight last night, which have fal- len in all parts of. Beltrami and ad- Joining counties tie- past - twenty- four hours have been of inestimable benefit in putting farm land in fine condition and in extinguishing fires, which in some places were causing some apprehension. “Every rain drop was worth its weight in gold,” was the way one man who is familiar with forest and farm conditions put it. “It is just what the good people have been pray- ing for. The precipitation was near- 1y an inch, which means that we got a good soaking.” The weather forecast is for clear tomorrow, but hovering clouds are ex- pected to yield more moisture during the night. Shortly after midnight last night, during a let up of the rain, a gale from the southeast blew with almost the velocity of a tornado, toppling small structures and alarming many persons” by its noise as it shrieked through the trees. The wind sub- sided after half an hour and the rain continued intermittantly throughout the night. VINCENT TO ADDRESS ERITORS President of University Writes Ac- ceptance for Itasca Meeting. George E. Vincent will visit Itasca state park for the first time on June 9, at which time he will be the guest of the Northern Minnesota editorial association which ‘will be in session at that time. The following letter was received in Bemidji today by A. G. Rutledge, secretary of the association: 5 “Your cordial letter of May sixth has been received. It gives me much pleasure to accept the invitation of the Editorial Association to be pres- ent at Park Rapids and the Itasca State Park on June ninth and tenth. I shall leave here the evening of the eighth, and T must be back by Mon- day morning the 12th. “l am looking forward with much pleasure to this outing. I mnote that| vou want me to say something on“ Friday evening June 9th. 1 shall| regard this as a definite engage- ment.” | It is also probable that W. B.| Douglas, /tormer’ attorney, gereral, will be present and make & short ad- dress. . Mr. Douglas was 'a prime mover in improving. ihe__ park, pre- were in the pit-when the cavein oc- curred, S not take fifty dollars for it. | 5 serving the timber and eatablishing trail A ¥ - MAY 17 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED Norwegians Arrange Holiday Cele- bration of Music and Oratory. Norwegians of Bemidji having in charge the May 17 celebration in honor of Norway’s national holiday, | today announced the following pro-| gram which will be given in the city | hall: | Overature, Faust,....... Emil Tavan Masten’s Orchestra Ret Som Ornen Stiger,. .. .John Dale‘ Male Quartette Short Address in English on Norway, M. J. Brown Norwegian Dance, Op 35......Greig Masten’s Orchestra Violin Solo, Romance, Mrs. C. R. Sanborn Short Address In Norwegian by Rev. Dale of McIntosh Solo, Naar Fjordene Blaaner, Paulson Andrew Rood Ja vi Elsker dette Landet,. .Bjornson Male Quartette Violin Solo, Et Saeter ‘Besog,0le Bull Mrs. C. R. Sanborn Solo, Le Cor....... . .A. Flegier Andrew Rood Sele Clion from Aida....Emil Tavan Orchestra ‘The meeting will ve at 7:30. and early evening a supper will be served in the Odd Fellows hall. An admit-| tance fee will be charged at the city hall. opened During the afternoon 17 FIGHT NORTHOME NIGHT FIRE Succeed in Savixig Threatened Build- ings—Farmers Aid Neighbor. Northern, Minn., May 10.—Brush fires that for a time endangered sev- eral buildings was got under control at midnight Saturday after seventeen men’ and boys had fought the flames, Farmers in this vicinity held a “plowing bee” at F. E. Anderson’t place Monday. They plowed and harrowed all his fields. Mr. Ander- son’s wife has been ill for several weeks so he has not been able to do much farm work, A horse belonging to E. 0. Glid- den strayed from home several days ago and has not been found. Mr. Glidden tracked the animal south on the Bemidji road to Wagner’s corner where she turned west on the Wilton road. - She was a bay with white feet and a Anyone finding such a horse please notify Mr. Glidden, Bemidji, Minn,, R. F.-D. No. 1. A fine Guernsey heifer was born to white nose. N. G. Reynold's best cow - Sunday night. Mr. Reynold’s says he would Tawney Denies It. James A. Tawney in St. Paul em- phatically denied a story which said that he and Attorney General Simp- son were to form a law partnership FIRE FRIGHTENS TENSTRIKE Every Available Man Fights Flames When Brands Ignite Business Houses, HAGALI TIMBER IS DAMAGED Tenstrike, Minn., May 10, 1911, — Fires which burned briskly all day Monday were -pretty well under con- | trol early last night, even befors rain made further danger impossible. At one time it seemed as if the town would go. The fire was car- ried by the wind and fire brands on the roofs of some of the business places, caused some lively fighting. It required the united effort of every man in the village to preveut the spread. Damage has been done to standing timber throughout all of Hagali township besides cord and pulp wood. Tenstrike Local News. While Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bryant were driving Sunday three miles from town one of their horses dropped dead. Professor J. C. McGhee spent Sat- urday with his family near Bemidji. Will Bryant of Bemidji is visiting in town. Chas Jacobson has returned to Tenstrike from Alberta, Can:, where he has been living on a claim. Rev. J. C. Mapson has recovered from his attack of measles, and was able to conduct services Sunday. Miss Elizabeth MacGregor spent Saturday in Bemidji. Mr. Leonard of Seattle arrived in Tenstrike Saturday and will visit at the home of John Zeck. 297 OUT OF 8,000 ACRES SOLD State Gets $385 Cash—Land Sale Held Here Today. Two hundred and ninety-seven aeres of state land were sold this morning, by State Auditor Iverson and Theodore Nelson, manager of the state sales department, when 8,000 acres were offered for sale. At 2 p. m. a total of $385 had been turned into the county treasurer’s office, but this sum will be added to by later payments. One of the reasons why the sale was not larger is because the land that was offered for sale is the same that has been listed at previous sales. The following ~ purchased land: Peter Millbach, purchased in Jones; Henry Scott, in Hines; Nels Andrew Johnson, in Port Hope; Nellie E. Fuller, in Northern; Lars H. Imber- land, Eckles and Elias L. Sathre, in in Winona. ) Liberty. . |FOREST FIRE LIBEL | NOW UP T0 EDITORS Bemidji Commercial Club Sends Res- olution of Protest Against False Reports From North, CHICAGO PAPER SENSATIONAL Prints Dispatch Telling How Train Dashes Through Flames and That Homes Burn. FIFTY TOWNS TO JOIN CRUSADE ° Formal Request Made They Use Their Influence in Checking Yarns That Do Damage. Coincident with the publication in Chicago papers and other eastern publications of graphic descriptions of the “forest fires raging in the north,” is the action of the Bemidji Commercial club, calling upon the publishers of Twin City newspapers and those of Duluth to exercise more care in handling this class of news. Here is a sample of the stories be- ing run, the following appearing in the Chicago Record Herald: A Sample of the Yarns, “Walker, Minn., May 7.—Danger- ous forest fires are raging north of this city on the Minnesota & Inter- national Railroad. At Spur the St. Paul train was forced to run through the flames, which are being swept . northwest by a strong wind. Many settlers have loat their homes and a large amount of sawed lumber has been destroyed. & - “Walker, Akeley and other ‘towns are well protected, as hundreds of men are out backfiring. Thousands of dollars’ worth of property is be- ing destroyed.” The resolutions authorized by the Commercial club and mailed out by Secretary Harry Reynolds to more than™fifty northern Minnesota Com- mercial clubs as well as the newspa- per publishers, follows: . What the Resolutions Say. “Whereas the Bemidji Commercial | club regrets the fact that false re- 2 ports have been sent out from nor- | thern parts of the state and have il been published in the city papers, rel- ative to the alleged fires in this sec- tion and “Whereas said reports have been printed in these papers, setting forth in lurid language that the forests of the north are filled with fire, lead- ing their readers to believe that property in this country is in immi- nent danger of destruction and that the woods are a smoking volcano; “Now therefore be it resolved that efforts be made by this club to stop the sending out of such libelous ar- ticles as were printed in the outside’ city papers, as they needlessly jeo- pardize business interests and keep away settlers, and “Be it resolved that the Commer- cial clubs of all the other cities and towns in this north country be asked to co-operate. g “And be it further resolved that the city papers be asked to take every precaution in articles of such damag- ing nature to northern Minnesota, and that such articles be not publish- ed unless proof positive is furnished them, and “Be it resolved that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to every Commercial club in northern Minne- sota and also to the city daily pa- pers.” Wheelock Promises Aid. That some note of the crusade is being taken by persons in St. Paul is shown by the following extract from a letter to A. G. Rutledge from Ralph W. Wheelock, secretary to Governor Eberhart: : “I note ‘what you say about e’xag- gerated stories through the local pa- pers and will-do my best to prevent . publication of the same so far as any’ | partment is concerned.” information from the executive de- B