Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 20, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 19. PROMINENT WOMEN COMING T0 BEMIDJI Mrs. C. G. Highbee, President State Federation and Mary McFadden to Speak Here Tuesday. NINTH DISTRICT CONVENTION Fourteen Clubs Sending Delegates From Crookston, Fergus Falls, Blackduck and Other Towns, BIG BANQUET ON WEDNESDAY Will Be Given at Markham Hotel By Home Club to the Visiting Delegations. At a convention of the Ninth Dis- trict Auxilary of ‘the State Federa- tion of Woman’s Clubs, which is to be held in Bemidji next Tuesday and] Wednesday, Mrs. C. G. Higbee, pres- ident of the state federation, Mary D. McFadden, representing Woman’s Suffrage association, and other wo- men of prominence in the state will be present. The two days will be devoted to varfous programs, and a launch ride, while an elaboraté banquet is being arranged by the Bemidji club to be given in the Markham hotel, Wed- nesday evening for the visiting dele- gates. The program: Tuesday, 2:20 p. m. Opéning song. Invocation, Mrs. G. W. Campbell, Bemidji. Greeting, Mrs. E. A, Witting, Bemidji. Response, Mrs. G. S. Chesterman, Crook- ston. . o Roll Call, Three minutes talk on work. Business. Paper, “The civic club in a small town,” Mrs. G. 0. Welch, Fergus Falls. Address, “The library in civie work,” Miss Martha Wilson of state library commission. Reception of delegates. Year’s 8 p. m. High Schol Auditorium. Song, “Life’s Golden Dream,” Misses Murray, Wheeler, McGillan, Grest, Graling. Address, “The commission form of Government,” Mrs. W. C. Cobb, Brainerd. Song, “Du bist wie eine Blume,”— Pontius,—Mrs. C. G. Johnson, Be- midji. Address,, “The Federation and its part in progressive state work,” Mrs. Higbee, president state federation. Reading, “A Tale,”—Browning— Mrs. J. M. Freeburg, Blackduck. Address, “Equal Suffrage,” Miss Mary D. McFadden, St. Paul, re- presenting Woman’s Suffrage Association. Violin, “Suite No. 3"—Ries. Mrs. C. R. Sanborn, Bemidji. Song, “The Girl that Was Born on an April .Day,” Misses Murray, | " arrangement, Wagner. Launch ride, Lake Bemidji, 7:30 p. m. Banquet, Markham Hotel. Woman's Study Club to delegates. The ninth district of the state fed- eration is comprised of fourteen clubs, three at Crookston,’ three at Fergus Falls, Ada, Argyle, Warren, Barnesville, Blackduck, Moorhead and Bemidji, and delegates from each will attend the Bemidji convention. The committees in charge of the convention are as follows: Entertainment: - Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. McDonald; ‘Greeting at sta- tion: Mrs. Vye, Mrs. Denu, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Sanborn, Miss ‘Mills, Mrs. Witting; social, Mrs. McDon- ald, Mrs. Vye and Mrs. Denu; Music, Mrs. Sanborn, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Witting; decorating: Mrs. Huffman, Miss Mills, and Mrs. Given. SUTOR TO PAY ARGALL $3,000 Cass Lake Lawyer, Represented By Bemidji Attorneys Wins Suit. By a decision of the Minnesota su- preme court just rendered, Samuel Sutor, editor of the Cass Lake Voice, must pay Charles Argall, an attorney of that city, $3,000 as a result of having referred to nim in The Voice as a “Shyster” and “pettyfogger.” Judge Marshall A. Spooner and At- torney M. J. Brown, while under the firm name of Brown and Spooner, conducted the case for Mr. Argall in district court, Mr. Spooner having personal charge in the lower court. A verdict of $4,300 was returned but | this was cut down by the judge to $3,000 and accepted by the plaintift. | The case was appealed to the su- preme court and Attorney Brown ar- gued':the matter before that body. This was his first case before the su- premecourt and the decision Just] annouticed-shaws that his argument, was successful. NOW AFTER “LUMBER '.IR.US"K""I | Government Opens Fight on Retail Dealers, Charging Conspiracy. New York, May 20.—Sweeping eharges of a gigantic conspiracy to malintain high prices, to blacklist con- cerns not regarded us “proper” trade, and to violate generally the Sherman ant)-trust law, are made in a govern- ment suit filled by Attorney General ‘Wickersham in the United States ceurt here against the so called lum- ber trust. Ten trade organizations and more ‘han 150 individuals are named as de- fendants in this suit, which may be the first of several planned by the de- partment of justice against combina- tions and retailers in staple commedi- ties and the necessaries of life to prevent the ultimate consumer from buying anywhere, except from local retailers. The government's suit is replete with sensational allegations and it is asserted that builders and consumers of lumber the country over are at the mercy of the retailers’ organizations in different sections of the United States. The suit filed is against the Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers’ asso- clation, which is the central body of Wheeler, MecGillan, Grest, “ Graling. | Wednesday, 9:30 a. m. | Piano, | Paper, “Woman as a public ser- vant,” Mrs. H. H. Crookston. 3 | Paper, “The Influence of Good| Books,” Mrs. S. S. Daniels, Ar-| gyle. Paper, “The Relation of the Indi-! vidual to Society,” Mrs. C. W.| N Dudley, Blackduck. Mrs. C. G. Johnson, Bemidji. " { Hodgson, Business. 2 p. m. Vielin, “Henry VIII Dances,”— German, Morris Dance, Shepherd’s. Dance, Torch Dance. Mrs. C. R. Sanborn. Addresses, “Social Hygiene,” Mrs. H. A. Tomlinson, vice president at large, St. Peter. Dr. Ethel Hurd, president Woman's Medical association, Minne- apolis, Piano, “To Spring and the Carni- val,”—Grieg,—Mrs. Capitola Bill- ings, Fergus Falls. Paper, “What music owes the danc- ing,” Mrs. C. E. Dampier, Crookston. Piano Tllustration, Mrs. Charles Loring, Crookston. Paper, “Holland,” Mrs. A. A..Mil- ler, Crookston, nine local organizations covering five states, the District of Columbia and the. cities of Baltimore and Philadel- Blackmailing System Alleged. The government charges, in brief, that by an elaborate system of black- listing not only individual consumers but some of the largest imdustrial corporations have been prevented from dealing directly with wholesalers. By alleged unlawful agreements and acts, it is charged, that all competi- tion for the trade of the contractor, the builders, the manufacturer of fin-| Ashed lumber products and the indi- vidual consumers has been thrown entirely into the hands of the retailers in the Eastern States' Retail Lumber Dealers’ association and its constitu- ent organizations. The government’s bill alleges that in some localities the wholesaler ;sell- ing to a consumer has either been heavily fined or expelled from the or- ganization. Officials’ of the department . of jus- tice regard the suit as the most im- portant in principal of any yet under- taken by the government against al- leged conspiracies sald to:affect the cost of living. It is believed that should the courts uphold the government’s contention that it is a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law to prevent the ultimate consumer from buyfng direct from the producer, other suits will be started against combinations of retailers al- leged to be'in control of the market- 4 ing of mauny of the commodities of Plano, “Tannhauser March,” Lisat. lite. Mrs. Palmer and Mrs: Given; ushers, | FIRES GIFT CLOCK INTO YARD WOMANONRAMPAGE FOUND 0 BE INSANE ing Fancy Roosters and Pulling Up Garden, Committed. o GREASED EGGS OF SETTING HEN 7 Also Said to Have Thrown Groceries Away and Spilled Milk on the | Floor. | Loaded Revolver Found in Bed and Neighbors Say They Feared for © Their Lives. Because she insisted on pnlling up everything in the garden, tearing down the stove pipe, killing fancy roosters and greasing setting eggs, breaking the furniture and throwing away grocellies, Mrs. Ida M. Pitcher, 52 years old, wife of a night mill worker, has been sent to the Fergus Falls ‘hospital for the insane, Mrs. Pitcher was examined as to her sanity before Judge of Probate M. A. Clark at which time a long list of eccentric doings on the part of Mrs. Pitcher were revealed. Loaded Gun Under Pillow. In_addition-to testimony showing that Mrs. Pitcher is inclined to gen-: eral destructibility of property, evi- dence was presented, showing that she was a dangerous character. Not long ago, a loaded revolver was found wifder her pillow. She frequently had, the witnesses saf@, ‘tHredtened to kill her husband and several of the neighbors. Her most prominent hallucination seemed to be that all persons were her enemies and to “get even” she resorted, according to the testimony, to.such tricks as strewing sugar over the kitchen floor one day while the next she would give it a bath in milk. Tosses New Clock Away. Not long age, she requested her husband to bring home a new clock. He purchased an expensive time piece, thinking-it would please his wife, but her only appreciation was to grab it and throw it out of doors. In fact it was her ambition to get everything out in the yard which caused her husband to bring her be- fore Judge Clark. The Pitcher home is in Nye's-subdivision of the town of Bemidji. Mrs. Pitcher was once be- fore examined but was not commit- ted. Pulls Up All the Vegetables. Neighbors say that frequently the woman would carry most of the mov- able furniture out into the yard and once conceived the idea of pulling down a stove pipe and hiding it. One of her latest maneuvers was to go out into the garden and care- fully pluck all of the young vege- tables peeping through the ground. MINNEAPOLIS MEN DELAYED Special Train of Jobbers Can’t Come to Bemidji Next Week. Bemidji- is not to. entertain the Minneapolis business men who were | to come next week on the special train to investigate trade conditions. | The following letter from Wallace G. | Nye, Commissioner of the Public Affairs Committee, of the Mlnneapo-‘ lis Commercial club, has“been re- ceived by the Pioneer: “I regret to be obliged to-advise you that the Business Men’s Excursion from Min- neapolis through Northern Minne- sota proposed next week has been postpned for a time on account of local conditions which made the time set inauspicious. It is the present intention to make the trip about two months later in the season.” Invitations are out for the forty- first commencement of the St. Cloud 1da M. Pitcher, Who Insisted on Kill- | ) pictures, each sho: valuable pictorial records. *1 propose to fight it out on ing a ‘different view of General- Ulysses S. Grant in uniform, are highly They show the commanding general of the In the:midst of his herculean activities In the field. \ In each photograph, particularly the one in the center, the irm set lips alnost speak the determination, northern armies as he looked when this line If it takes all summer.” T0 GET BIBLE DIPLOMAS Graduates of Methudf:tflundnySchoal to be Honored at Special Program Sunday Evening. OTHER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT . /At an unique relfgigns service ‘to Be ‘held tomorrow: évening. diplomas | will be presented ‘to graduates of- the teacher’s training class made up of Mrs. J. W. Naugle'and Mrs. G. R. Martin with Mrs. Phibbs as teacher. The following program has been arranged. Hymn 544, Psalter, Page 83. Prayer, by Pastor. Duet, Miss Grest and Miss Crouch. Scripture Lesson. Offertory. < Address, “Need for Training”, F. 8. Stirrott. Sermon, “The Word in our Life,” Rev. Chas, R. Flesher. Presentation of Diplomas by Mrs. M. Phibbs. Hymn, followed by benediction. This service will be held Sunday evening at 8 o’clock in the Masonic temple. Services will be held at 10:45 a. m. the subject of the ser- mon being “Waiting on the Lord”. There will be special music. Sun- day school at noon, and &t 7 p. m. Miss Mae Jones, as leader of the Epworth League, will present a program. Thursday .evening prayer meeting will be held at the residence of A. W. Mitchell, 524 Irving avenue. Teachers’ BAPTIST. Rev. C. L. Kingsbury of Park Ra- pids, will conduct the regular Sun- day services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Young Peoples’ meeting at 7. Mid- week prayer meeting Thursday even- ing. SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH There will be Sunday School at 9:30 and a sermon at 10:30. Even- ing services will be at 8 o'clock. At Nymore services will be held in the Congregational church at 3:35 p. m. I SCANDINAVIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH. There will be no service in the morning but in the evening at 8 o’clock.” Sunday school at 12 o’clock. PRESRYTERIAN. Rev. 8. B.'P. White will conduct services in the Presbyterian church both ‘morning and evening at the usual hours, Freeborn Co'nnty’ I.ep_‘e:r‘;‘l " Inger. Wangen,-the Freel K ty leper, died a few days ago in normal on May 31. his cabin near Albert Lea. He was ‘the benefits of the Sanborn decision.’| || Monaire general Bolicitor of the Atch- DEFECTIVE PACE WHITE AT JEFFERSON FUNERAL Assisted in Services at Duluth of Father of Mrs. Andrew Warfield. Rev. S. E. P. White returned this morning from Duluth, where he as- sisted in the funeral services of Er- nest R. Jefferson,’ father of Mrs. Andrew Warfield, of this city, who died suddenly at his home at Bay Lake, near Deerwood, Tuesday even- ing. - CLASS PLAY NETS $1001 High School Actors Under Direction of Miss Graling Show Careful Training. PLAYERS PICNICING . TODAY Mr. Jefferson, wag one of the uu-eie* Chargggliffi§ the talent displayed, survivors of the First Minensota. He went to Duluth in 1869. He " en- tered the Union army when 18, and was 69 at the time of his death. As a member of the assembly of Duluth and while a commissioner on the St. Louis county board, he be- came well known because of his en- ergetic and business like methods. Death was unexpected. Mr. Jef- ferson had been in poor health since an accident last winter, when he was thrown from a cutter, but-his con- dition was not thought to be serious. He leaves, besides his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Warfield of Bemidji; two sons, Robert of Eveleth, and John, who is attending college at Valparaiso, Ind. COURTAUTHORIZES3CENT RATE Minnesota & International, and Other Roads, Win Plea for Injunction. St. Paul, May 20.—Stockholders of six railroads—the remaining common carriers. operating in Minnesota not affected by the recent decision of the United States circuit court of appeals ‘2 the Minnesota rate cases—have been grantied temporary injunctions by the United States circuit court against the operation of the 2-<cent passenger law of 1907. Of these six roads stockholders of five were grant- ed temporary injunctions against the operation of both the 2-cent law and the commodity rates. The roads affected by the latest or- | der are the St. Paul, Northwestern, Omaha, Great Western, Rock Island, and Minnesota and International. The last 'named .is a new case, instituted only a week ago. An original bill was introduced in its behalf and the in- Junction prayed for and obtained is | only against the passenger rate. Sup- plemental bills were filed in the other cases, ‘The defendants, restrained froni en- forcing the law of the legislature and the order of the railroad and ware- house commission, offered opposition only to the original findings of Judge. | Otis, master in chancery and the af- firmation by Judge Sanborn. They agreed that if the court held to these findings and the affirmation, sufficient grounds had been shown by the attor- neys for the stockholders for the in-| clusion of the railroads involved in Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping. § Las Vegas, N, M. May 20—WiH! Rogers pleaded guilty to the charge of kidnapping Waldo Rogers, the grandson of Henry L. Waldorf, the mil- ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad: Joe; Wiggins, an- ex-convict: and ‘al- éd accomplice of Rogers in. the kid: Bapping, pleaded not guilty. an - audience-witich “completety - filed Bemidji’s large opera house, the Armory, last night saw the.-Senior class. present their class play, Sheri-| dan’s “The Rivals.” Every character was well taken and showed careful training. The play was presented under the person- al direction of Miss Reca Graling, in- structor of la;igunges. Alfred Nanman, as Captain Abso- lute, -revealed: real dramatic ability and carried his heavy part in an ex- cellent manner. Louis Larson, as Sir Anthony Ab- solute, was good, and in the scene where he and his son Captain Abso- lute disagree, both ~show marked ability. Lillian Cochran, caused rounds of laughter in her role as Mrs. Mala- prop, by her misapplication of words, |. while Beryl Neil and Bess Cochran as Lydia Languish and Julia, respec- tively, displayed histronic talent. The part of Lucy was played by Gertrude Malone, who also made a great hit with the .audience. She was sweet and pretty and clever. ‘William Russell; William McDon- ald; Fay Brenneman, Delbert Ellit- son, Farnom Watson, James Malone, Fred Cutter, and Martha Galchutt, won-merited approval in their vari- ous parts. More than $100 were cleared by the class. After the expenses, which amount to more than $90, have bee paid, thig amount remains. 3 The proceeds of the entertainment will be used by the senior class to purchase a farewell gift for.the high school: 1 'had been the desire to se- cure enough money to buy certain pictures for the study hall; but the Dproceeds were so much more than had been expected a more suitable present wil be purchased, This afternoon, the students who took part in the play are enjoying a picnic at the head of the lake. WANTS NO CHANGE IN PACT President WIll- Fight for ‘Adoption of " Bill as Introduced. ‘Washington, May 20.— President Tatt-is opposed to amendments to the reciprocity agreement, no matter who 18 their sponsor. It has become known that the president looks with disfa- vor on the proposed amendments of Senators Root and Lodge, two of his personal friends and close advi: Mr. " Taft. believes the should' go through congress’ introduced: = He” will make along that Iine, no matter publican leaders attémpt to do. - TEN CENTS PER WEEK. - THAYOR HOME;FIRST ACT PAVING B0 Says He Was Forced to “Fib” on Western Trip to’ Keep Up Be- midji’s Reputation, HANDS HOT SHOTTO0“KNOCKERS” Believes Welfare of City Dem;mdn Improvements of - Streets and Urges Bond Issue. FOUND FRUIT DISTRICTS PRETTY Also Discovered Former Residents Prospering in Great Timber Dis- tricts of Idaho. Brown as a berry from the health giving suns of the West, John C. Parker, mayor of Bemidji, after a month’s trip which took him through Portland, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, has returned, ac- companied by his daughter Ella, who has completed a year’s work as teach- er in the public schools of Rose Lake, Idaho. One of the first things Mayor Parker did was to inquire, “How is the paving deal coming on?” Paving? “Great Scott!” “Well, what do you think about it, yourself?”” he was asked. “Great Scott, everybody knows what I think about it,” said the may- or. ‘I was a charter member of the ‘Fur-plty-aake—p}ive club.’: I was in- strumental in gétting what paving we have and started the present move for getting-additionai-payement and I am glad that the public has kept at it. The only unpleasant experi- ence I had during my trip was when I had to sort of /fib about Bemidji pavement. I found all the towns the size of Bemidji and smaller have much more pavement than we have.” Nothing to Tempt Him From Here. Mr. Parker spent much of his time in investigating the great timber areas of Idaho and other western states, especially the Potlatch prop- erty in the vicinity of Potlatch, Idaho. “But I found nothing to tempt me away from Bemidji” he said, “at least not for a long time to come. . “I found several former Bemidji residents out west including Fred Smythe, son of our David C. Smythe, and Lee LaGore, at one time cashier of the Minnesota & International Bemidji office. Smythe and LaGore are together in a store at Rose Lake. The Fruit Trees are Pretty. ~ “We came back by Vancouver over the. Canadian Pacific and into Be- midji on the Soo. It was a great /trip and some of the fruit scenes in the. west were bewilderingly beau- tiful. The while blossoms of the plum and the pink tinted flowers of the apple trees stretching great areas, “Vegetation .in the west is no far- ther/dhead than it is here. Some of the &a_ys ‘Were extremely chilly and uncomfortable. Of all the towns 1 visited Spokane impresed me most favorably. ; “Bown With the -Knockers.” “But that has nothing to do with paving in Bemidji. We need it, we ought to have it, there is no reason why we should not have it, it will not make a cent’s difference in the taxes. Down with the knockers and up Wwith the boosters.” Miss Parker was favorably . im- pressed with her work in’‘the west and has been requested to return to Rose Lake at a substantial increase in salary but has.not decided to ac- cept. out in Taft Mum on Roosevelt Attack. ‘Washington, May. 20.—Efforts to draw the White Houée into replying directly to foriner«Fresident Roose- velt's attack on: the proposed arbitra- tion treaty with England and France proved unavailing. = President Taft took the position that the: question 'was one in which evéry man having onal’ vilews has the right"to ex-