Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 12, 1911, Page 1

Histortal Soctety 7. X VOLUME 10. NUMBER 12. \ PLAN PIKE DINNER FOR STATE BANKERS Vincent and Tawney to Join in Fes- ivities Before Making Addresses on June 21. AUTOMOBILE AND LAUNCH TRIPS These to Be Followed By Business Session, Which Will Give Way to More Merrymaking. GO0 TO INTERNATIONALNEXTDAY Spend June 22 in That City, Return- ing to St. Paul in the Even- ing. George E. Vincent, president of the University of Minnesota; James A. Tawney, former member of con- gress from Winona and 200 leading bankers from all parts of Minensota as well as money men from Milwau- kee and Chicago will participate in a pike dinner on the shore of Lake Bemidji, as one of the big features of the Minnesota Bankers associa- tion convention here on June 21. The Bemidji entertainment com- mittee is made up of the following bankers, W. L. Brooks, Northern Na- R. H. Schumaker, First Na- tional and H. C. Baer, Security State and it will be assisted by G. D. LaBar of Brainerd and H. L. Wood of War- ren. This committee has the pro- gran’l in charge, and tentative plans tor the meeting include the follow- ing: tionl; Will Come on Special Train. Bankers from the southern part of the state, Milwaukee. Chicago and New York, will leave St. Paul on two special trains on the evening of June 20, and will arrive in Bemidji at 5:30 a. m. June 21. The bankers will breakfast on their train. During the morning the bankers will be taken for an automobile ride around the city and a launch ride on Lake Bemidji also will be made. At 11 a. m. a business session will be held during which the elec- tion of officers for the ensuing year will be held, and other business transacted. Then for the Fish. Then will come the pike dinner on the lake shore which will either be given at Diamond point or in the park. The dinner will last well in- to the afternoon, and will be follow- ed by an entertainment. Supper will be served to the bankers who occupy the specials in the dining cars while those who come from other parts of the state will be entertained at the hotels. In the evening a speaking program has been arranged at which time President Vincent, of the State Uni- versity, and former Congressman James A. Tawney of Winona, will de- liver addresses. Night Trip on Lake. Following the speeches a moon- light launch ride will be given the bankers to the lumber mills and they will be given an opportunity to wit- ness the sawing of logs into lumber. The ride will be proceeded by a band concert, which will be heard by the bankers and their wives from the launches. The bankers will leave Bemidji for International Falls June 22 at 2 a. m.,, where they will spend the day, and will visit the large plant of the Minnesota & Ontario Power com- pany, and will make various trips by boats on the Rainy river and lake. The bankers will leave tional Falls for Minneapolis’and St. Paul at 8:30 on the evening of June 23. CLASS PLAY FRIDAY Commencement Program Will Be Held Evening of June 2.—G@ift Giving Event. MERCHANTS ARE PREPARED Years ago it made little if any difference to the business world mencement exercises or graduation purposes. It effected it in no way in particular. _, A Today, commencement day, is one of the gift giving occasions, and the merchants in every city and hamlet are making preparations for this vent. Years ago very few of the merchants took little interest in catering to those who felt in duty bound to give sdmetllillg to either the girl or boy graduate. The graduating class at the local high school consists of ten boys and girls, and nearly every school in Bel- trami county will turn out a gradu- ating class of from five to fifteen scholars next month. Bemidji merchants are among the catering for this special business, the Barker Drug and Jewelry store not having lost a single week during the past - two months, in telling his patrons through the columns of the Pioneer about the special wares he has pur- chased expressly for the graduates. May 19th the senior class of the Bemidji High School will give their class play and on the evening of June 2nd the commencement exercises will be held. The citizens are becoming extremely interested in both of these events. The members of this class are already busy selling tickets for the play, which will be held in the Armory Opera House, providing this building can be secured for this eve- ning. “The Rivals,” a class play of five acts, has been selected and the class is being drilled under the direction of Miss Rica Graling. The play is filled throughout with many humor- ous situations. The cast will be as follows: Sir Anthony Absolute. Capt. Absolute. active ones in .Louis Larson .Alfred Neuman Faulkland......... Delbert Elletson Bob Acres......... William Russell Sir Lucius O’Trigger. Wm. McDonald PR von s S swnson Farnom Watson BOY: vois s 5 i s o0 James Malone Mrs. Malaprop...... Lillian Cochran Lydia Languish. . .Beryl Neil TR coin_graimie’ St adionawor Bess Cochran LOCY cove cruis svein sines Gertrude Malone Maid.o s v s Martha Galchutt LAKE DRIVEWAY FOR $3,000 It is estimated by W. A. Gould, chairman of the committee appoint- ed by the Commercial club, that a complete driveway around Lake Be- midji can be had for an expenditure of $3,000. According to Mr. Gould, the com- mittee found it advisable to construct the road as near to the lake as pos- sible, and that it should be built through . to Grand Forks, bay, and from there to the Omich and Clavin farm, to the head of the lake, where the road to Turtle River would b2 joined. The Turtle River road needs much repairing, as does the road leading from Nymore to Lavinia. How the money for building of such a driveway is to be raised is a problem yet to be solved. I Interna- whether there was a day for com- | SENATOR KENYON. Who Urges Jail Terms for Monopoly Chiefs. JAIL FOR HEADS OF TRUSTS Kenyon‘l Bill Propo:el Holding Offi. cers Responsible. ‘Washington, May 12.—Senator Ken- yon of Towa, former trust prosecutor in the attorney general’s office, has in- troduced a bill intendéd to make the j officers of corporations personally re- sponsible for trust act. Jail sentences for personal offenses i are made mandatory, leaving fines for the corporations. There is added to the law a provi- sion coveflh; the patent question: for- feiting the right to protection under a patent where the patentee or assignee of a patent joins with others in a com- bination in restrain of trade, using the patent as the therefor. violations of the anti- inslrumentallty CITY SWAMP NOW DRY In less than a year’'s tlme, a tract of land within the city limits, six blocks west of the high school build- ing, has been turned from a dismal swamp, which had all the appear- ances of 'a floating bog, into a well drained dry farm tract, awaiting only to be grubbed before plowed. being Sixty acres of this land, the near- est to the city is owned by C. L. Hef- ron who took Dr. Smith president of the board of education and the fol- lowing board members on a tour of inspection on Monday of this week: . E. H. Marcum, J. P. Lahr, S. J. Harvey and Superintendent of City Schools W. P, Dyer. This is one of the sites considered by the board for the new farm school and it is also been mentloned as the possible location of the grounds. The successful drainage of the land was accomplished by the digging ot judicial ditch No. 2 and with two laterals and a small privately con- structed ditch. More than 300 acres of land have been drained with surprisingly re- sults. Where a year ago water covered the base of the trees, men are at work grubbing. The trip over any part of the tract can be made without striking muddy ground, and in fact, was made by the above mentioned party. The main ditch is one and a half miles long. It has a fall from its source to mouth of about fourteen feet which is sufficient to send the water a]ong with a good current. The ditch with its branches has ‘done its work so well that teams make the trip across the tract and it has been decided that a properly constructed road shall be made; one oyer which automobiles can travel with ease. new fair il < until Wednesday evening ~ of Woman Arrested Here as Kidnaper to Be Given Hearing. On Monday next, Mrs. T. W. Camp- BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1911, HISTORICAL SOCIETY, TEN CENTS PER WEEK. [HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS FACE | THEY CO0K DINNER FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION| NEW- TROUBLE UNLESS —_— Refusal' of members: of ' the High School-cooking class to prepare a din- ner which was to have been given: members of the Board of Education tonight has: started . all trouble. TR Today it 'became known al the high school that Miss Eliza Loe, principal of thie High School, has come to the ‘decision that the rebellious girls must prepare the dinner or be expelled. “We never will serve that dinner, unless we are permitted to make up the v‘vorkb on the day that we were suspendfid," said one of the girls this afternoqn ‘speaking for the class. Should the threat to sorts of expel the girls be carried out it will mean that | four members of the class who were i] to “graduate probx;bly will be denied their diplomas. “These pupils —are “'Beryl -Neil, Bess Cochran, Lillian Cochran-and Gertdude Malone. The 'fijnper.intended‘ for tonight has bee}i postponed, say. the teachers; next week. = The cooking class girls will be expected to be on duty at that time. “That is out of school liours," the girls say, “and we will not be there. The talk of expelllng us does not frighten us.” The girls contend that they are un- justly deprived of marks which they had earned by proper work. None of the High School faculty wished to talk of the incident today. “I have nothing whatever to say,” was. Superintendent of Schools Dyer’s only comment. “The matter is entirely in the hands of Miss Grest, supervisor of domestic science.” Members of the Board of Educa- tion say they were not aware that a dinner had been planned for them. Dr. E. H. Smith, president of the Board of Education, could not be- lieve that there is really any f;‘ictlon between the High School faculty and the cooking class. “I have received no invitation to any dinner to be given by the class” he said, “and wish the Pioneer would be more careful in publishing High School news.” Members of the cooking class de- clare the facts as given in the Pioneer yesterday were substantially correct in every detail. Eee o R — “MAYARNOLD”IN COURT MONDAY bell, the young woman from Crook- ston ,v‘yho posed in Bemidji as “May Arnold,” and who was arrested here on a chnrge of kidnaping, will be givma “hearing_jg.Crookston on Monday. Her ‘downfall came when she was found with a 15-year-old girl, who gave her name as “Miss Arnold.” Mrs. Campbell, locked up in the Crookston jail, still maintains that she has been urfjustly arrested. She has made application to Judge Gossman of that city to have Attor- ney W. P. Murphy appointed as her attorney. The report that Mrs. Campbell reistered “back’ three days she went to the Brinkman hotel here was an error, says the Brinkman management. The Brinkman regis- ter shows that she registered on May 2, the day she came to Bemidji. when WHITTIERTO0GO,SAYS STEPHENS Coincident with the announcement of the attorney general that the leg- islature investigation of F. A. tier, superintendent of the Red Wing training school, is a dead letter so far as the Board of Control’s right to remove Mr. Whittier, is the fol- lowing from former Senator ens at Crookston: “I feel that Whittier is trying to| take advantage of the technicalities and it seems incredible that it should | be necessary for a private citizen to spend his time and money in bring7 ing about a reform that seems so necessary to practically all the people of the state (outside of a few of the people of Red Wing, who have got the wrong viewpoint) and a few of- ficeholders. “I still have hopes that the proper authorities will take proper action, but if this is not done, I do not pro- pose to rest without making further effort and continue it until there is a final determination whether or not Mr. Whittier can ‘successfully defy|' all the people of the state and the governor.” H. A. Rider arrived in Bemidji last evening in his special car “Glen- wood,” returning to St. Paul this morning. He was acqpmpamed by Mrs. Rider and Superintendent of | Fisheries Cobb and wife. No fry was brought, but in a week the car will come back with crappies for dis- tribution here. ,|it will be-unnecessary to hold an Whit- | Steph- i SKELETON THAT OF LAMIRE Coroner So Sure of This Probably No Inquest Will Be Held. So apparent is it that the skelefon found Wednesday on the farm of F. M. Pendergast, south of town, was that of Peter Lamire, that Cor- oner Ibertson practically decided that quést. The corgner left this afternoon for his second visit to the Pendergast | farm where he will gather up the re- maining bones of the skeleton. Mr. Ibertson agrees with Dr. Smith and Dr. Henderson that the body I[lad been dead three or four years, which does away with the theory that the bones were those of Al Vandercar, one of the robbers who held up the Puposky postoffice, on the morning following Thanksgiving day, 1909, when his pal was killed by a bullet fired from the gun of Deputy Sheriff Johnson, who was dangerous- ly injured in the exchange of shots. IMEXICAN REBELS PLAN NEW ATTACK Chihuahua, | (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.) Mexico, May 12.— —Two thousand insurrectos, part of the south of here, are marching on Chi- i the band uprising in district ‘huahua, and already the armed guards are encompassed around the just daylight today, entered Mombre de Dios, a suburb, rified all the stores city. An armed mob, before and took all the horses, despite the presence of 1500 troops. TO OPEN NEW EXPRESS OFFICE Western Company, With Soo, Ar- ranges for Money Order Branch. W. W. Winter, route agent for the Western Express company, which operates over the Soo lines was in Bemidji perfecting arrangements for an uptown office to be opened at | Abercrombie’s some time next week, 'atter which the money orders may be secured at any time during the day or evening. Mr. Winter says his company is much pleased with the amount of business that is being done in Bemidji. \DEITZ MAKES PLEA; CASE GOES T0 JURY . Defender of Cameron Dam Delivers Convincing Talk, Citing Favor- able Testimony. STATE URGES "GUILTY” VERDICT Prosecutor and Former Attorney Gen- eral Contend Evidence is Over- whelming, “DISAGREEMENT” IS THE GUESS Not Believed in Hayward That De- fendants Can Either Be Convict- ed or Acquitted. Hayward, Wis.,, May 12.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)— Former Attorney General Sturdevant, council for the prosecution in the Deitz murder trial, made the closing argument for the state this afternoon and the case goes to the jury about 5 o’clock. John Deitz for two and a half houps .this morning appealed to the jury for acquittal from the charge of murder in the first degree against him, Mrs. Deitz and Leslie for the alleged killing of deputy sheriff Os- *Harp; October-8-last. Deitz -Proves Convmeing. Mr. Deitz made a convincing argu- ment to the jury by analysing in de tail the evidence tending to show that the bullet which killed Harp could not have been fired by any one of the Deitz family. He talked fluently and for most part, kept well limitations. ..i the within legal The closing arguments began this morning at 9 o’clock, when district attorney Davis spoke for three hours. Says Defendant is Guilty. He told the jury that the evidence of the Deitz guilt was conclusive and that as jurymen, sworn to do their duty, they must bring in a “proper verdict.” There is a feeling here that the Jury will be out for a long time and that it is probable that the ultimate result will be a disagreement. FEAR LOSS OF DOORSTEP BABY Mrs. Gagnon, Alarmed Lest Mother May Come, to Adopt Infant. Following the first throb of joy over the finding of a fine, healthy month old boy baby on her door step several day ago, comes the fear to Mrs. Frank Gagnon, 420 Minnesota avenue, that, after taking the child in and giving it a home, the mother who deserted her daughter will, some day, come back to claim it. Because of this fear Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gagnon already have» taken steps toward legally adopting the de- serted waif, and this, as the result of laws revised by the recent legis- lature; will not, it is thought, be dif- ficult to do. The child has been baptized in the Catholic church. It continues in the best of health and already is regarded as a rare treasure by its foster parents. There has been no clue found as to the identity of the infant’s moth- er and the woman has offered no fur- ther information than was contained in the note pinned to the baby’s clothing before she left it on the IGagnon doorstep. MINNESOTA s