Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 24, 1911, Page 1

L “ nmer of readings, was highly enter- THE BEM VOLUME 9. NUMBER 22. GIRL SCHOOL GIVEN BOOST BY WOMEN Morning Session of Convention Given Over to Discussion of New Insti- tution at Sauk Centre. NIGHT PROGRAM IS PRAISED Audience at High School Pleased, With Addresses By Visitors and Home Talent Music. BRILLIANT BANQUET TONIGHT Notable Program of Toasts Has Been Arranged for Closing Event— Dr. Hurd Talks. MARY D. McFADDEN. Mrs. C. G. Higbee, president of the| state federation of Women's clubs, will respond to a toast at the ban-! quet to be tendered by the Bemidji Study Club to the delegates of the tenth annual convention of the Ninth district federation at the Markham tonight. Other speakers will make three minute responses. Mrs. Wit-| ting, president of the local club, will act as toast-mistress. It is the concensus of opinion among the delegates that the con- vention is the most successful of any held by the Ninth district federation heretofore. Mrs. Higbee, the “little gray lady” of Minnesota clubdom, made a pleasant impression on those who went to the High School audi- torium to hear her and others last evening. Mrs. Higbee's snowy hair and soft voice combined with a gra- cious personality lent her remark- able presence, and account for her great success in club work. Her re- view of the federation’s accomplish- ments was highly gratifying to-the club women present and her remarks| on state politics were illuminating. Rare Musical Talent Here. Mrs. Cobb, of Brainerd, read an exhaustive paper on the commission form of government, drawing her il- lustrations from Galveston and Des| Moines. The economy feature of| this municipal policy was featurea as well as its moral effect on the| social life of the city. Bemidji is probably well aware that its musical and dramatic talent is remarkable. Mrs. C. R. Sanborn, who is well known throughout the state as a violinist, never played more feelingly and seldom as per- fectly as last evening when she in- terpreted the Ries suite. Mrs. C. G. Johnson’s German solo was excellent and the singer was in good voice. The reading by Mrs. J. M. Freeburg, of Blackduck, contrary to the man- taining. The principal fault to be found with the singing of the teach- er's quartette is that there was so little of it. Mrs. Sanborn declined several insistant encores and her policy seems to have been adopted generally. Many Teachers Today. This morning’s session was featm’-i ed by several minute talks by Mrs. Higbee and particularly by a discus- sion of the State Home school for girls at Sauk Centre, the daughter and darling of the Minnesota feder- ation. = Mrs. Kinney, of Minneapolis, who did valiant service in obtaining a seperate school for girls, paid a handsome tribute to Mrs. Morse, the superintendent of the new school. Every parent in the city should have heard the discussion, carried on by Mrs. Higbee, Mrs. G. S. Chesterman, Mrs. H. A. Tomlinson and Mrs. T. T.| Kinney. Mrs. A. A. Miller, of| Crookston, took the delegates on a convineing. tour through Holland and was warmly applauded. Mrs. C. G. Johnson proved herself no less an instrumentalist than a singer, and her piano solo was the opening| number, Dr. Ethel Hurd Talks. This afternoon, Mrs. C. R. San- born opened the program with a series of violin interpretations of Henry VIII dances by German, play- ed in her best style. The principal features of this afternoon’s program were late, and were expressed in the talks on social hygiene, given by Dr. Ethel Hurd and Mrs. H. A. Tom- linson, of St. Peter. After the program this afternoon, a launch ride was given the dele- gates in the “Storm King.” Convention Notes, Its officers are: President, Mrs. Nelson; vice president, Mrs. Cham- berlain, recording secretary, Mrs. F. J. McPartlin, corresponding sere- SENORA CARMEN DIAZ Senora Carmen Romero Rubio de Diaz, wife of President Diaz of Mexi- co, has been one of the most popular women in the republic, liked by all classes, and at the same time she has been of great assistance to her hus- band in political and soclal affairs. Highly educated, handsome and gra- { clous, Senora Diaz has been a notable figure in Mexico for many years. tary, Mrs. Bacon; chairman con- stitutional committee, Mrs. Kinney. “Mrs. C. G. Higbee and her party organized a civic club at Inter- national Falls with twenty enthusia- stic charter members. The club will bend its efforts principally in the direction of getting the proposed new library built and equipped The St. Peter Women’s Literary club, of which Mrs. H. A.°Tomlin- son is president, has declared un- animously for woman suffrage. Mrs. Tomlinson is a delegate here from this club from the town that pro- duced John°A. Johnson, who took up and championed the suffrage cause many years ago, as editor of the St. Peter Herald and continued strong in the faith until his untimely death. PRAISES GORDON AND SAGENG Mary McFadden, in Woman Suffrage Speech, Tells of Legislative Aid, Miss Mary D. McFadden in an ad- dress favoring the right 8F"Women to vote, made at the club-women’s meet- ing at the High School last night, pointed to Lieutenant Governor Gor- don and Senator Ole Sageng as cham- pions for the cause. Her talk, filled with keen thrusts, was in part as fol- lows: “Miss Essie Williams and myself had the task of trying to iuterest the legislature to submit to the male in- telligence of the state the question of the Minnesota Woman’s fitness to handle the ballot. After a campaign which was as thorough as we could make it and we were assisted by wo- men whenever we called upon them, the Senate decided by one vote that the intelligence of Minensota men is not strong enough to stand the test. ‘We are willing to make our plea di- rect and take our chances. “We say in pride that equal suff- rage is now a state issue and every woman in Minnesota, whether she knows it or not, is under deep obli- gation to Lieutenant Governor Gor- don for his sympathy and fair play and to Senator Sageng who intro- duced the amendment and fought like a trojan for its success. “Today women vote on the same terms as men in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Washington. The legislatures of four more states are submitting the equal suffrage amend- ment at the next election. These are Nevada, California, Oregon and Kansas. “You know how close we came to getting the amendment submitted in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Women have school suffrage today in twenty- six of the states and territories and tax payers suffrage in four states. “This year, February 2, an election was held on the question of recalling the mayor of Seattle. Convincing evidence had been brought out to show that the mayor and his chief of police had farmed out the vice privileges of the city to a syndicate and had drawn a percentage of the profits from the white slave traflic. 22,000 women voted and that mayor was recalled. “It has been suggested that women would find jury service embarrassing. I do not think women would shirk jury service to any greater degree than that duty is shirked by men to- day. There are more valid reasons that the average woman could urge for being excused from jury = duty than can be advanced by the average man. From what little T know of juries, I have gathered the impression that women on a jury would not lower the average intelligence. “Sex equality has always found ad- vocates among thinkers. Our great- est men have been suffragists. Plato was an advocate of sex equality and Abraham Lincoln was an outspoken believer in political equality for men and women.” Grand Forks has a juvenile cornet band. FOR MEMORIAL DAY Services Next Sunday to Be Followed on Tuesday By Open Air Ex- ercises, | GRANITE FALIS TUDGE TO SPEAK —_— Usual Parade Headed By Veterans, . Goes to-Cemetery Where Stanton Will Speak. LINCOLN’S ADDRESS TO BE READ Glee Club to Sing, School Children to Drill and General Orders Will Be Read. Open air exercises in the -lake shore park when Judge Powers of Granite Falls will speak, the usual parade of the old soldiers to the cemetery where Judge C. W. Stan- ton will speak, a Sunday ser- vice May 28 when Rev. Charles Flesher of the Methodist church will preach are some of the features of the Memorial day program which hag been prepared by the Bemidji Robert Carr post and Major Wilkinson ecirele. Decoration day falls on Tuesday of next week. The complete official program fol- lows: Memorial Sunday, May 28. - R. H. Carr Post and Major Wilk- inson Cirele No. 51, will meet at the L. 0. 0. F. Hall at 10 A. M. and march in a body to the Masonic Temple where Rev. Chas Flesher will deliver the Memorial sermon at 10:45 All members of the Post and Circle are urged to be present. ~Memorial Day Morning, May 30. The Post and Circle will meet at the I. 0. O. F. Hall at 9 o’clock and leave for cemetery at 10 o’clock sharp, headed by the band and mili- tia and other civic and fraternal orders. The Post'and Circle will be conveyed in Autos headed by the Mayor. They will proceed to the cemetery where the usual program will be given. Judge Stantun Wlll give a short address. Memorial Day Afternoon. At 1:30 the Post and Circle will form in line in front of the I. 0. O. hall headed by the band and militia and will march to the City Park (weather permitting.) where the fol- lowing program will be given. i Song America by the audience. Invocation by the post chaplain, Rev. T. J. Martin. Song by the Glee Club. Reading of general orders by the past commander, Geo. Smith. Drill by the school children. Solo by Mr., Berge. Reading of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by Mrs. H. W. Baliley. Song by the Glee .Club. Address by Judge Powers of Granite Falls who will be intro- duced by Professor W. P. Dyer of the city schools. Song by the Glee Club. : Benediction by Rev. T. J. Martin. Should the weather be unfavor- able the exercises will take place at City Opera House. Dinner Will be Served. On’ Decoration Day there will be a dinner served to the Post and Circle at their hall at noon. Hot coffee will be furnished to out of town friends who may wish to lunch picnic fashion. ARGALL DIES IN CASS-I.AKE Attorney, Recently Awarded $3,000 Libel, Victim of Tuberculosis. Attorney Charles Argall one of the pioneersof CassLake diedat hishome there Monday after-a lingering ill- ness.Death resulted from tuberculosis. Mr. Argall has been failing for some time and six -weeks ago hope of re- covery was given up. He leaves a wife and two children Gladys and Mildred, ten and twelve "years old respectively. Mr. Argall has held may responsi- ble positions during his practice as a lawyer. He was village Attorney of Cass Lake several terms. The day before he died the Sup- reme Court upheld a decision of the lower court in his libel suit against Samuel Sutor of Cass Lake, the ver- dict being $3,000. The funeral was held at the home at 2 P. M. and the body was.interred in the Cass Lake cemetery. - The funeral was held at the house at 2 P. M. and the body will be in- terred in the Cass Lke cemeétery. COMPLETE PROGRAM | - F. | necessary papers are being made out | tered a Sixth avenue establishment SCHUCH FARM APPROVED By 132 to 4, Public Sanctions Board of Education Choice of Demon- - stration Tract. TEACHER HERE NEXT WEEK "By o vote of- 13&:9‘4 the votera.scandal at Red Wing in her address: of the -Bemidji independent school district last night approved of the Board of Education’s selection of the Schueh property as the proper place for the new demonstration farm. This farm is located éleven blocks north of the High School. It is im- proved, has a house, windmill, hen- house and fruit bushes. Ten acres are under cultivation. The action of the voters last even- ing authorized the Board of Educa- tion to-'draw its warrant for $2,750, the price asked by the owner. The and the actual transfer will be made at a special meeting of the board some time this week. While the school comes into im- mediate possession; the present oc- cupant retaing the right of residence until - September 1. Mr. Schuch is clearing another farm a mile north where he will make his future -home. Crops planted by him, not demanded by the school, will continue to be his property. Otto Bergh, the new agri¢ultural instructor, is finishing a course at Madison and will arrive in Bemidji the latter part of next week. Work on the farm by the school children will then be taken up. NEW YORK GAMBLERS AT WAR | Armed Members of One Clique -Rob Establishments of Rivals. New York, May 24—Details of a battle bétween rival cliques of New York gamblers, in which one side lost nearly *$25,000 in cash, is common property along Broadway. The warfare between the gamblers of the city has been on for some time and several recent bomb explosions in the uptown theater districts have figured in it. The latest development appears to have been an attack by two armed and masked members of one clique against several of the establishments of the rival faction. The two masked men, it is said, en- and at the point of revolvers robbed the proprietors of about $16,000 in cash, most of which had been won from a single wealthy patron in the night’s play. Later the same masked pair visited several other well known gambling houses.and - succeeded in getting away wnh the "hnnk" in each place. ? ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT Treasurer. of Defunct Savings Asso- ciation in Court. ' New York, May 24.—Charged with having stolen $1,705 belonging'to the- Knickerbocker Savings mdnfii'm as- soclation, which was summarily closed on Saturday by state officials, Thomas A. Black, treasurer of the company, ‘was arraigned in general sessions. . Black is sald to have gotten away: with $15,000 of the Knlwm as naclauon'- money. NOW COMES TH% HARROWING NEWS THAT THE QUEEN WILL BAR HOBBLE GOWNS, PUFFS AND BIG HATS. MRS.HIGBEE ON CLUB TRIUMPHS Federation President,' Incidentally, Praises Mrs. Morse, of Red Wing. Modest and indirect defense of Mrs. Fannie Morse, who as superintendent of the girls’ school at Red Wing has faced bitter opposition and a public investigation, was the nearest that Mrs. Higbee, president of Minnesota Federation of Women's clubs, came § saying anything about the prese at the open meting at the High School last night. Mrs. Higbee, af- ter reviewing the causes which have separated women from the spinning wheel and loom, gave a recital of club women triumphs’in the way of public reforms in Minnesota. Mrs. Higbee said in part: “Before talking to you about the federation, I should do our organiz- ation a great injustice if 1 did not thank you for our delightful welcome today. You have a beautiful place here and you have made us feel at home. You have given us so much enjoyment that I feel the club hus- bands must be behind it. I thank you and I want to congratulate you upon your beautiful city and upon the many things which recommend this place to visiting strangers. “It would be a surprise to many, no doubt, to find how much of li- brary work and of civic improvement originated” in true relation to club life. “In 1895, the clubs were formed into a federation. At that time the federation consisted of 15 clubs; it now boasts of 230 with a member- ship of nearly 13,000.‘ It reaches from the center to the circumference of the state. Literally so since the club has been formed.-at Internation- al Falls. “The first effort of the clubs is generally = toward library work. Through the efforts of the federation an appropriation was secured from the state for & traveling library. We now have over 400 of these libraries and these libraries form a nucleus for permanent ones. After being successful in this, an art commission was formed. “Then, too, it occurred to women to do something about the forest re- serves. Former President Roosevelt spoke before that magnificent aud- ience in St. Paul in high praise of the work women had done in forest re- serve. “Then came the work of separat- ion of the boys from the girls in the state training school in Red Wing. This work extended oved - several sessions of the legislaturs. I heard our governor say, before a large aud- ience, that, except for the Women’s Federation, that never would have been done. The school will be com- pleted at Sauk Centre, this month, I am happy to say, and the girls will then be remoyed from Red Wing. Let us rejoice that that move will soon ‘take place and that Mrs. Fannie French Morse has been secured to take care of the unfortunate girls of the state. % “We have never appeared before the legislature without being treated with the utmost consideration. This year we were able to secure a lnrgp appropriation for the girls' school and the name has been:changed, by the way, to the “Minnesota Hom for Girls.”” Is not 'that a suggestive | name?” g SO g 2 RECECECEATIA/IEE DA™ following Xnternatlonal Falls CLUB WOMEN IN PERIL Boat on Which Federation Officers Are Riding Crashes on Rock in Rainy River. 3 DROWNING MEN PICKED UP ik Deatly by drowning, or at least a night on a rock smashed boat, was narrowly averted by Mrs. Higbee, of St. Paul, president of the Minnesota Federation of Women’s clubs, Mrs. H. A. Tomlinson, of St. Peter, vice president of the Federation, Miss Martha Wilson of the State Library Commission, and a score of Interna- tional Falls club women, when the excursion launch on which a trip was being:anade went on the rocks near Rainy| Lake City. Federation officers, who arrived in Bemidji yes- terday to attend the convention here, give graphic accounts of their exper- iences. The women were taken from the; imperiled craft late in the evening but their thrills for the day were not yet over, for while passing the Ranier rapids three men were res- cued, after their row boat had been turned upside down by the treach- erous waters. ’Twas to Be Pleasant Outing. The accident took place on Sun- day. The state officers as guests of International Falls women, boarded the “Koochiching,” a 50 passenger power boat. A pleasant run was made on the Rainy river to Rainy Lake city, a distance of twelve miles. All went well until the return trip was started. Then it was discover- ‘'ed that a couple had been left be- hind. In order to pick up these persons, the boat started to turn around and it was at this time that she crashed onto a rock, which held her fast. Small Boats Offer Aid. A small boat from the Bennett summer hotel came alongside the marooned excursionists and offered aid, and after obtaining services of another small boat, took on board 15 of the women and started for Inter- national Falls. Mrs. Higbe and other Federation officers were in the first boat and they passed the rapids at Ranier without incident, When the second boat reached the rapids, its occupants were horrified to see an upturned boat and three persons struggling in the water, and it was presumed that it was women from-the first relief boat. Three Saved From Drowning. There was all sorts of excitement for a-time, but after much maneuver- ing the three struggling persons ‘were rescued, but not until one was going down lor the last time. They proved to be three fishermen. Included in the party were the Wo- men: Mesdames Frank Lang, F. J. Mc Partland, C. B. Kinney, R. F. C. II- tis, Heilei, M. BE. ‘Withrow, R. C. Frasier, M. S. McDonald. ‘The women who were compelled to remain on the stranded launch were not taken off until 2 o’clock Monday CARLTONS CHARGED WITH NESBIT DEATH Husband and Young Wife Arrested Here Taken to Park Rapids On Murder Charge.: STILL MAINTAIN INNOCENCE Will Be Given Hearing as Soon as County Attorney Can Arrange : Date. BONES FOUND IN PIECES Indications That Body Must Have Been Hacked Up, Then Thrown in Brush, Lloyd Carlton and his young wife, Gena, were taken to Park Rapids this morning, where they must an- swer to thie charge of having murder- ed J. O. Nesbit, on his farm in Hub- bard county, and having burned the body by having placed it in a brush pile, which was later fired. Carlton 'and his wife assumed the same nonchalance when taken from thg county jail to the Great Northern depot, this morning, that has char- acterized their appearance, since they were arersted, last Sunday. Maintain Their Innocence. The Carltons still maintain that they know. nothing of the crime, except that they saw Nesbit leave the house on the day that he disappeared on either March 28 or 29 and that the first they had heard of the murder was when they were arrested by Sheriff Hazen. It was disclosed at the investiga- tion made yesterday by the Hubbard county -officers, ‘that “‘the bones found in the brush pile, are in hun- dreds of small pieces, varying in length from one to two inches, giv- ing an appearance of having been hacked, as did the foot which was discovered a short distance from the brush pile, slightly burned. Mystery Grows Deeper. . Within several feet of the brush pile which was burned, are three raspberry bushes, these being slight- ly scorched, indicating that the fire caused by the burning of the brush pile was not enough to have cremated the body of Nesbit. Certain things indicate that the remnants of the body were dumped into the brush heap. The spot in which the bones were found, can be easily seen from the house as well as from the road which passes, a few rods from the place on a slight grade. Hearing Date to Be Set. While the date of the preliminary hearing had not been definitely set, County Attorney Wooly, of Hubbard County, and Attorney E. E. McDon- ald, retained by the defense, will agree on a date tomorrow. Mr. Wooly has been detained by federal court at Fergus Falls. Carlton and his wife are charged with murder in the first degree. Bull Kills Small Boy. The eight yeaar old son of John Rath, near Gackle, was attacked by 2 bull while he was driving home the cows, and before help came had been so badly gored that he died the next day. Ships 2,000 Tomato Plants. Henry Peterson of Little Falls, who has made a business for years of supplying parties with tomato plants, hag received an order for a shipment of 2,000 of the plants to Minneapolis. ALL THE PASSENGERS SAVED Steamer Bound for Dawson Sinks in Alaskan River. Dawson, Y. T., May 24—The steamer La France, a member of the first fleet sailing from Lake La Barge for Dawson, struck a submerged rock and sank in Thirty-Mile river, twelve miles above Hootaling, and now lies with. two feet of water over her decks. The La France is' the second river steamer lost this season. All the passengers and most of the cargo were saved. ‘eung uy [neg 8 Ul 8q 0} S| UO3UIUSBAM 03 BjeSD I8P d110380de jeded ‘Oluodied ‘13N ‘[I1q WripueJe}or o) passed aInjel morning. -8190T UISUOISIAL Y} JO esnow oy