Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 2, 1911, Page 1

2 = ']_‘ i MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ~ VOLUME 9. NUMBER 30. LATE LEGISLATURE IS CENSURED Resolutions are Adopted By Northern Minnesota Development Associa- tion Censuring Legislature, OTHER RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Puts Disapproval on Seven Senator Measure and Commended Elwell Good Roads Bill. WHITSON ADDRESS “BOOSTERS” Wisconsin University Professor Talks on “Conserving Soil Fertility,” and Editor Knutson Speaks. Duluth, June 2.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)—Aflter a notable two days' session, the con- vention of the Northern Minnesota Development Association adjourned at 1 o'clock this afternoon. St. Cloud was named as the next meeting place, winning out over Thief River Falls and Warroad. The conventior. adopted resolu- tions censuring the legislature for failure to enact the re-apportionment bill. It also censured the legislature for failing to pass a bill creating a department of public. domain, bill providing for sale of foreign securi- ties in state treasury, bill providing for a deep water way from the Lake of the Woods toLakeSuperior,and for the report of the permaanent improve- ment clause relating to the state land sale. The convention put its disapproval on the seven senators state ‘constitu- tion amendment. 8. Commended Elwell bill for roads. Instrudted executive committee to appoint a good roads committee. Commended extension of agricul- tural education in the high schools and common schools of the state. Pledges to report to the reclama- tion board. Provided a full survey be made to make available more definite inform- ation for the guidance of prospective settlers. Provided for extension of drainage work. Owing to the sudden summons of President Maxfield to return home, M. N. Koll of Cass Lake was '.heu called upon to preside. The Bemidji delegates will return home this evening. A. J. McGuire had “Development” for his subject before the develop- ment convention. He spoke as fol- lows: “The reclamation of state land as T understand the term, means the fitting of the state swamp land for agricultural purposes. The land owned by the state in Northern Min- nesota, and which comes under this provision of reclamation, is known as the ‘state swamp land,’ and was acquired by the state from the national government in 1857. “In ceding this land to the state, the government had a specific pur- pose in view, and that purpose was that the state should improve the land. The law pertaining to this in the grant reads as follows: ‘The proceeds from the sale of said lands shall be applied exclusively as far as necessary to the reclaiming of said lands by levees and drains.’ “The government withheld this land from the homestead grant for the reason that in its natural condi- tion it was unfit for agriculture. It was such that the individual farmer could not use it profitably and the government wisely said, ‘let this land first be reclaimed, and for such reclamation, the receipts from its sale shall be used, and for no other purpose.” “The state accepted the land un- der this distinctly specified condi- tion—the condition that the land should be improved, reclaimed. In 1881 the state constitution was so amended that this provision of the government was completely re- versed. Instead of the proceeds of the sale of swamp land being used for its reclamation, this amendment provided that all proceeds should be forever retained by the state, and the interst accruing from the invest- ment of such funds was to be used for the public schools and the edu- « cational institutions of the state. Evils of System. “The swamp land grant gave to Minnesota over 5,000,000 acres. The sale of this land, and the sale of the timber and mineral is contained has enriched the treasury of the state and has made the public schools and the educational institutions of Min- good nesota second to none. There is no question but that the handling of these lands has resulted in great good to the state. No other system perhaps, could have resulted in greater good—but this system while doing so much for the education of the whole state, has entailed certain evils and hardships that now cry out for redress. “Thege swamp lands were largely located in the northern part of Min- nesota. While held by the state, they contributed no aid to the local tax fund. The burden of roads, schools and other vivic affairs had to be borne in many sections by less than one half the land. And again, the land sold by the state gave but little relief, for the reason that it was not purchased by farmers. While adding something to the tax fund, it did not materially add to the building up on the country. “The land has not been and is not being purchased by farmers for the reason that in its present condition it is unfit for the immediate appli- cation of agriculture. “In a certain county in northern. Minnesota in which a great deal of state land is held, the records show that during the past four years end- ing Jan. 1, 1911, thirty-nine per: sons purchased land, and among their number the following occupants were represented: nine timber deal- ers, two real estate dealers, three merchants, two publishers, two car- penters, one scaler, one sheriff, one contractor, one postmaster, one at- torney, two county commissioners, one farmer, and thirteen whose oc- cupations were unknown. Of the entire amount purchased, only three pieces of land show improvement and not one piece of land purchased in this county four years shows a home. I believe that nearly all the counties in Northern Minnesota con- taining the great portion of the state swamp land will show similar re- cords. “This is certainly not reclamation, either by the state, or by anyone else. “While Northern Minnesota was without agriculture, and figured its possibilities chiefly in timber, there was no serious objection to the state selling its land.to the highest bidder and looking no farther ahead than the purchasing price, but for., the state -to continue that policy today while northern Minnesota goes beg- ging for farmers and agricultural. products, is not the part of wisdom. The policy practiced in the past may continue to make the state treasury rich, but it will leave northern Min- nesota poor. “I would not deny any man the right to own land who honestly in- tends to pursue agriculture at some future time, but the man who wants to farm this year is of more import- ance to northern Minnesota than the man who thinks he may want to farm ten years from now. Need Actual Farmers. “How the reclamation board can put the land into the hands of an actual farmer, under the present law, is a problem that the board still has to solve and until it is solved it will, in my opinion, prove a serious ob- stacle to the success of the work. In the reclamation of state land there are the following departments of work: “First, location of the land, and in this there must be taken into consid- eration the adaptability of the land to agriculture and its proximity to roads, markets, schools, ete. “Second, the clearing and drainage of the land, and third, its sale to a farmer. This latter point has al- ready been considered and it has been pointed out that the state law does’nt place any more importance upon a farmer than upon any one else, but the Northern Minnesota Development association does when it comes to farming, and I would ask the associ- ation to make note of this for future reference: That we want the state agricultural lands sold to farmers and to no one else. Needs a Survey. “Minnesota needs a survey of its state lands—a survey that will give full and accuraté information that (Continued on last page.) PUPILS SCORE AS = ACTORS Eighth Grade Graduates Present “The Sweet Girl -Graduate.” “The Sweet Girl Graduate,” which was given by the eighth grade grad- uates in the Armory last evening, proved to be a great success The differenT parls were taken satisfactorily and the entire play showed the fine trainng which was given the children by their instruct- ors, Misses Patterson, McGillan and Lyons. The chorus work, under the. di- rection of Miss Murray, was much appreciated, especially’ the little girls’ chorus and drill. 5 The orchestra, consisting of ten members of the Bemidji Hgh School played during the - entertainment, again making it evident that they are a musical organization of rare ability. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY. EVENING, JUNE 2, 1911. NINE TO GRADUATE | COMPLIMENT FOR BARKER| JUDGES APPOINT ‘The. following: counties are includ- |~ EBERHART WILL Minnesota’s Chief Executive to Be Here Saturday June 10—Guest of Commercial Club. SAM Y. GORDON ALSO COMING Lieutenant Governor Will Stop Over in City On Way to Editors An- nual Outing. WHICH PLANS ARE COMPLETE There Will Be Baseball Game, Row- ing and Foot Races and Various Other Sports. It was announced this afternoon by A. G. Rutledge, secretary of the Northern Minnesota Editorial Assoc- iation, that Governor 'Eberhart will be in Bemidji on Saturday evening, June 10. This information’ was brought about through a telephone conver- sation between Mr. Rutledge and Ralph Wheelock, the governor’s pri- vate secretary. It is very probable that the Minne- sota & International railroad will not be running its Sunday night pass- enger train to the cities by June 10, and as the governor is to be the chief speaker at the editors outing in Park Rapids, he will be required to leave Park Rapids Saturday after- noon in order to arrive in St. Paul before Tuesday morning. When this was discovered, Secre- tary Rutledge began plans which will bring the chief executive to Be- midji. While in Bemidji the governor will be the guest of the Bemidji Com- “mercial club, and complete plans for his entertainment will be made at a meeting of the Commercial ciub to be held next Tuesday. The governor will be in Bemidji from -the time the Great Northern passenger arrives in the city, at 7:40 p. m., until his departure for St. Paul on the Minnesota & International at 11:40. Mr. Rutledge also announces that the outing program remains un- changed, with the exception that Al. G. Ray, chief special agent for the Great Northern railroad will not be able to attend. MF. Ray has informed the secretary that he is to be present at a meeting of the International Association of Police Chiefs, which is to be held in Rochester, N. Y., June 13, and will not possibly be in a position to be present at the editors outing. He was to have talked on “Crimes, Criminals and Reforms,” the subject of a book which he recently com- pleted. While no definite information has been received from L. W. Hill, presi- dent of the Great Northern railroad, as to whether he will be present at the outing, it is very probable that he will. Lieutenant Governor Gordon,- has informed Mr. Rutledge that he will arrive in Bemidji from points on the Iron Range Saturday afternoon, and will be prepared to spend Saturday evening and Sunday at Lake Itasca, as has been planned. Plans are now being made where- by the lieutenant governor will be met at the depot when he .arrives, and he' will be taken to the park in an automobile. M. Heinzelman and wife, have writ- ten Secretary Rutledge that every- thing is “spick and span” at Doug-| las Lodge, Itasca State Park, and everything is in readiness for the editors and their wives. The baseball game which-is to be played in Park Rapids on June 9, be- tween ' the fats and the leans, and which Governor Eberhart is to um- pire, will be played for a purse of $15, the ‘winners to receive $9 and the losers $6. Other contests such as rowing races (for - both lddies.and gentlemen), foot races, pitching quoits, and a fat mans race for which a purse of $5 has been offered by John Brandtjen, of the Brandtjen Manufacturing Co. Those who are to donate purses for the various races, are: \Mhmesuta Type Foundry. C. L. Johnson Manufacturing_Co. Printers Supply Company, Western Newspaper Union. Paper Supply Company. F. G. Leslie Paper Company. Peyton Paper Company. Minneapolis Paper Company. Wright, Barrett & Stillwell. Northwestern Newspaper Union. There Seéms to be no question as to the attendance at the Park Rapids VISIT BEMIDJ| tion claim that'it will be the most successful of any ever held. ed in the Northern ‘Minnesota Edi- torial Association: Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, = Benton, Beltranil, Cass, Oarlton; Clay, Clear- water, Cook, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Isanti, Itasca, Kanabec; Koochiching, Kittson, Lake, Mahnomen, Marshall, Morrison, Mille Lacs, Norman, Otter- tail, Pine, Red Lake, Roseau, Sher- burne, Stearns, Todd, St. Louls, Wa- dena and Wright. There- has. been some misunder- standing as to just what newspapers could rightfully: send representatives to the Park Rapids outing, and to this Secretary Rutledge says: “Every paper. publlsbed ‘in’ coun- ties included in ‘tme association list is entitled to two representatives at the outing, and no more. I have re- ceived letters asking for information in regard to thig matter from many outside papers, and have been forced to inform them that:Wwe will be unable to entertain- those who are not members.” Mary D. McFadden, - Minnesota's leading newspaper woman will be at Park Rapids early, and will assist Secretary Rutledge and President Knutson in carrying out the plans of the outing. A PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN Bemidji Real Eshfi Exchange Se- cure Services of Well Known Ad- vertiser, Arch E. Ray. COMES FROM MADISON, WIS, The Bemidji Real Estate Exchange has adopted the poliey of pushing an ageressive campaign of publicity of this district’s resources, and one of the means of accomplighing this pur- pose is the securing, during the pres- ent week, the services of Arch E. Ray of Madison,- Wis., who_has a national reputation as a real estate advertiser and through him have se- ‘throughout Iowa, Tilfnois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin ‘&nd Michigan and it is expected that before the close of the season we: will see sever- al-‘colonies: loeated an« farms. tribu= tary to Bemidji. The Exchange is also negotiating with a concern for putting in a large steam stump puller by which it is claimed that farm lands may be cleared at an expense of $5.00 to $10.00 per acre. Property sold during the last few days by the Bemidji Real Estate Ex- change: Joseph Kronberg, residence, lot 5, block 3, original townsite, sold to Geo. L. Markham. John S. Hanson, residence, lots 11 and 12, block C, original townsite, sold to Marian Sullivan. F. M. Malzahn, business property, lot 11, block 15, original townsite, sold to Hoganson Bros; i G. BE. Carson, 39 acres in city lim- its, lot 2, section 8-146-33, sold to J. H. Grant. F. M. Malzahn, dairy farm, 476 acres on Wolf lake and Mississippi river, sold to Albert C. Graff. A. L. Morris, city property, lots 23 and 24, block 8, third addition, to J. G. Ziegler. A. L. Morris city property, lots 13 and 14, block 9, sold to J. 0. Hagan- cured the services of about 30 agents|- FROM HiGH SCHOOL Class of 1911 Will Hold Graduation Exercises in Armory This Even- ing—Receive Diplomas. DR. FRANK NELSON TO SPEAK Prominent Minnesota Educator Will Deliver Address on Subject “The Life That Now Is.” TWENTY-EIGHT LEAVE GRADES While Eleven Others Will Be Per- mitted to Enter High School on One Condition. This evening in the Armory the high school graduates of 1911 from the Bemidji high school will hold their graduation exercises. The class this year comprises nine pupils, as follows: Elizabeth Harva Cochran, Lillian Marie Cochran, Martha Galchutt, Beryl Ridderdale Neal, Farnham Scott Watson, Louis James Larson, Gertrude. Evelyn Malone, Eilsie Elizabeth Miller, Alfred John Neumann. Dr. Frank Nelson, president of the Minnesota College will deliver the graduation address. Dr. Nelson is known as a forceful speaker, and Be- midji is indeed fortunate in secur- ing him for this occasion. The presentation of diplomas will be made by Dr. E. H. Smith, presi- dent of the Bemidji Board of Educa- tion. ‘exercises held last evening,”twenty- elght boys and girls were awarded their diplomas by W. P. Dyer, super- intendent of the Bemidji schools. Those graduated from the eighth grade are: Margaret Anderson, Jean Begsley, Mabel Booth, Inez Buckland, Bugene Cahill, Genevive Crouch, Harriet Davids, David Dunavon, Catherine Durand, Harry Erickson, Gertrude Huntosh, Raymond Lord, Jesse Mc Pherson, fargaret McCee, Julia Moritz, Ciare Nangle, Leslie Nuss, Jean Richards, Harold Schmidt, Earl Secord, Edwin Simons, Clyde Spen- cer, Merle Spencer, Margaret Thome, Elizabeth Titus, Ray Titus, Roy ‘Wells, Ruth Winebrenner. Eleven students who have attended the eighth grade during the past year will be admitted to the high school next fall, although they have failed in one subject. These students will be required to take the one grade subject, although a member of the high school, but will not secure a grade diploma. Arrangements have been made by Superintendent Dyer, whereby all students of the public' schools who son. _bout and Gansevoort markets. outing, and newspaper men from-the territory embraced by the associa-| DEFFOTIVE DACE His Store’s Prescription Department Considered One of Best in the Northwest. GAINS CONFIDENCE OF PUBLIC “I believe that your store has the most systematic and responsible pre- scription department of any store in the northwest,” said the representa- tive of one of the largest drug houses in the United States to Mr. Barker the other day. “This is a department we pay very careful attentlon to and it is one that is gaining the confidence ©of the citizens in this community,” said Mr. Barker when approached on the subject. On another page of this paper there is a display advertisement of the Barker Drug Store illustrated by the famous cartoonist C. E. Zimmerman. The- illustration resembles one of Barker’s careful prescription clerks. _—_ during the school year, will be ad- mitted to the graduation exercises this evening. The list of those who are regarded as honor students fol- lows: Kindergarten—Merton Denley. First grade—Luther Bauer, Lily Hovey and Henry Becker. Second grade—Catherine Bagley, William Halvorson and Neil Marin. Third grade—Bertha Endres, Evelyn Kirk, Alma Martin, Ethel Marin, Ervin Johnson .and Charles Raco. Fourth grade—Rubie Collard, Robert Taylor, George Teeters, Hazel Anderson, Clarence Montague and Grace Cleveland. Fifth grade—Beatrice Kirk, Mar- tha Grimm and Edith Schmitt. Sixth grade—Severne Huck, Her- bert Raco, Arlo Achenbach, Milre Achenbach, Elaine Boyd and Mabel Gaines. Seventh grade—Geo. Anderson, Josephine Clark, James Gaines, Juno At the eighth grade commeucemeqmgmuse- E";r_laqn(lord and Mildred ichardsox “Efghth " grade—Raymond = Lord, Earl Secord and Margaret Thome. High school—Alma Loitved, Mae Simonson, James Sullivan and Mar- garet Slough. The school work for the year 1910- 11 was completed yesterday after- noon, when the final state examina- tions of the year were given and the exercises this evening will give'a formal closing to the year's work. Von iLenbach, the Painter. Franz von Lenbach, the great por- trait painter, painted three portraits of the poet Adolph Wilbrandt. On one occasion the sitting lasted through the whole day. The afternoon passed, and dusk came on, but still Lenbach work- ed away without appearing to notice the falling light. At last it grew so dark that Wilbrandt could scarcely see him. He called his attention to this, saying that it seemed impossible for him to paint any more, but Lenbach begged him, unless he was tired, to continue sitting. ., “But what can you see of me?” asked the puzzled ‘poet. “Quite the best of all. Excellent. Sit still, please.” And the sitting only have been neither tardy nor late ended with the last. glimmer of light. CREMATION OF SHORT MEASURE BUSHEL BASKETS A ., EW YORK.—A cremation .of short measure market baskets took place recently . at _the Brooklyn, by order of Commissioner of Weights and Measures Walsh. There were over three thousand of them; all were of the bushel persuasion, and the late property of farmers who wend their way daily to Walla- For some. weeks inspectors had been waylaying the wagons of the guileless rns- . tics with the result that many of them were found to contain “bushel” baskets that were from four to fourteen quarts short. It-is stated that the selzures will probably result in congress taking action to the end of com- ~pelling. a standardization of so-called barrels and bushels all over the country. ‘Wallabout market, As matters stand, the terms are (4 {erpreted in different sections, and invariably to the dludmun of the oouunur TEN CENTS PER WEEK CHARTER BOARD Board of Freeholders Named Whose Duty It Will Be to Revise City Charter. HAS LONG BEEN MUCH NEEDED Officials Have Been Much Handi- capped for Some Time By Condi- tion of Charter. ' CONFLICTS WITH STATE LAWS On Numerous Occasions Propositions Have Gone Before Council Which Could Not Be Decided. Judges W. S. McClenahan, B. F. Wright and C. W. Stanton, of the fifteenth judicial district, have ap- pointed a board of freeholders, or charter commission, comprising 16 Bemidji men, whose duty it will be to revise the charter. The charter has long been in need of a revise, the city, seemingly, hav- ing outgrown it in its present con- dition. During the past few years the city officials have been more or less handi- capped by its condition, and on num- erous occasions matters have come before the council which could not legally be decided or- arranged for by them, as conflicts would oceur between the charter and the stat: law. The order of the judges, tollows STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF BELTRAMI. IN DISTRICT COURT, FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Order appointing new board.of free- . holders -as Charter Commissioners for the City of Bémidji, County of Beltrami, and State of Minnesota. It appearing to the satisfaction of the undersigned, Judges of the Dis- trict Court in and for the Fifteenth Judicial District, in the State of Min- nesota, in which said Judicial Dis- trict the said City of Bemidji is situ- ated, that the term of four years for which the members of the Board of Freeholders appointed by the Judges of this Judicial District to frame a civic charter for the government of said City of Bemidji, has expired, and that no appointment of the suc- cessors of said members of said Board of Freeholders has been made, Now, Therefore, Pursuant to the provisions of Section 749, R. L. 1905 and the laws amendatory thereof, we do hereby appoint each of the fol- lowing named residents of sald City of Bemidji,-each of whom has been a qualified voter of said city for five years last past, as a member of the Board of Freeholders for said city, as provided by Section 749 R. L. 1905, viz: P. J. Russell, J. C. Parker, L. F. Johnson, F. W. Rhoda, E. J. Swedback, A. P. White, R. H. Schumaker, F. 8. Lycan, E. E. McDonald, Andrew Warfield, ‘W. A. Gould, 8. C. Bailey, Kenneth Mclver, ‘W. G. Schroeder, R. C. Gilmore. Dated May 31st, 1911, W. S. McCLENAHAN, B. F. WRIGHT, C. W. STANTON. District Judges. UNIVERSITY TREASURER ROBBED OF $14,000 St. Paul, June 2.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)—Joseph D. Bren, treasurer and accountant of the University of Minnesota, was held up by three highwaymen and robbed of $14,000 on the river bank back of Millard Hall op the campus _this morning at 9:30 o’clock. The funds were being taken by Mr. Bren from the Northwestern National Bank to the University for refund by break- age, book rent and locker fees used by the students. Of this sum $5,000 was to have been deposited in the St. Anthony Falls Bank this morn- ing: Minneapolis detectives are. scour- ing the district n an attempt to get the - robbers. The highwaymen, who trom con- clusive evidence, had long planned the robbery, escaped and are still at large. “in the