Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 3, 1911, Page 1

GRADUATES URGED ON BY DR. NELSON President of Minnesota College De- livers Interesting Address to Pu- pils Who Leave High School. SAYS “LIVE FOR TODAY” E. H. Smith, President of Board of Education, Presents Diplomas to Nine—Compliments by Dyer. HONOR STUDENTS ARE PRESENT Boys and Girls WhoHave Been Neith- er Absent nor Late During Year Praised By Superintendent. Urging the high school graduates to live for the present, and so pre- pare themselves for the time coming, was the theme of Frank Nelson, president of Minensota College, who was the chief speaker at the com- mencement cxercises held last eve- ning. “There is nothing greater than to live; to live, is the greatest feature of life itself,”” said Mr. Nelson. The speaker told of how he had seen high school graduates receive their diplomas, as a reward for their efficient work in the high school, only to form bad habits, get into bad company, and in this way totally lose all that which the diplomas so nobly represented. “If there were not so many lazy men and women in our country,” said Mr. Nelson, “we should have one of the greatest governments pos- sible.” Eleven graduates were given their diplomas by B. H. Smith, president of the hoard of education. The commencement exercises were prettily arranged. The high school faculty, and board of education were on the platform, when the graduates marched on while a march was play- ed by Miss Mabelle Wheeler. Several selections were given by the high school chorus, assisted by Messrs. Andrew Rood and Sherman Berge, which was much appreciated by the audience which completely filled Bemidji’s large opera house, the Armory. The class of honor, as they were referred to by Superintendent Dyer, were present at the exercises, being the students that have been neither absent nor tardy during the school year of 1910-11. Dr. Smith said: This might be called the harvest time of our Bemidji schools. They represent Bemidji's and Beltrami county's greatest product and by these products are we to be known and judged. The sentiments, de- sires and morals of a community are expressed by the results obtained in its educational and public institu- tions. They are what the people as a whole desire and make. The people of Bemidji have shown themselves to be desirous of having the best, to want to be leaders and not trailers. Not to spend money in needless ex- perimentation but once a thing has proved itself worthy to acquire and appropriate it to their good. It is true there was some delay in getting our present high schoo! structure. It was not due to lack of desire, but to the question of the best location. Once the location was decided upon the people were a unit in wanting to build and I believe the structure we now have is second to none in the state for capital invest- ed. The only fault with it is with the growth of Bemidji—we could use two or three more rooms to good ad- vantage. Once the building was completed it called for extra furnishings and equipment for the installation of other departments deemed necessary to make our school of the greatest benefiit to the greatest number and make schgoling more attractive and practical. To this end manual training, cook- ing, sewing and commercial courses have been added and that to my mind marks the greatest year of progress in the history of our schools. This is not meant to speak disparagingly of our predecessors in the schools but because previously there was no room for such courses and the time was not opportune. An inspec- tion of results obtained 1 think will confirm this and convince the patrons that it is money well spent. The Board at all times courts in- vestigation and criticism and sugges- tions, as the schools belong to you and we wish to follow your desires and Professor Dyer and the faculty would appreciate your co-operation. Class of 1911, of the Bemidji High Francis B. Loomis {s the commis- loner general of the United States to Jhe International industral exposition now being held in Turin, Italy. Mr. Loomis has had a long and honored career in the American diplomatio service, and also is a veteran journal- ist, School, it becomes my duty and plea- sure, not unalloyed with pain, to take the last step that severs your direct conmnection with our schools. Nothing we can say will add to the glory of your triumph and conquest of four years strenuous work. You have acquired something you can- not lose or man take from you. Many times you have been beset with problems that seemed unsurmount- able but you have come out with victory. - It has meant close application and diligence and self denial, attributes which 1 hope will stay with you in your future work. It is a case where the most fit survive. From a class of 27 you are the ones that have braved the dis- couragements and reached the goal. The further you pursue the higher your mount the less will be your company and the more courage re- quired. T note to most of you this is but a commencement to a higher education. e We compliment you on your judg- ment. May you succeed in that as you have in this. Our best wishes go with you. Bemidji will watch your progress, rejoicing in your suc- cesses, and grieve at your failures. You will at times fail but Bemidji expects you, phoenix-like, to arise and build broader and better. That is not a failure but a victory as is becoming the sons and daughters of the North. Your responsibilities are greater and you will be held accountable for more than your predecessors because of increased advantages. Don’t for- get your obligations to your parents, and the community which has made your education possible. Repay by time and talent cheerfully given for their welfare when in your power. A pamphlet just given out by the Y. M. C. A. of the University of Minne- sota admonishes the graduates of that institution to: “Take some of your time to tackle at least one good, hard' job, for which you receive no money. It will provide needed relaxation. It will give you insight into some of the great problems of our day. It will offer you the acquaintance and com- radeship of the men and women who are actually doing something for their fellows and are helping to solve these tremendous moral and indus- trial problems of the times.” Can you subscribe to these ques- tions put by a Chicago university professor in an address: “Has education given you sym- pathy for all good causes? Has it made you easier to interest in them? Has it made you public-spirited, so that you look beyond your own door- yard and take interest in a clean city? “Has it made you a brother to the weak? Have you learned the proper valué¢ of money and time? “Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? Do you know how to be a friend to yourself? Can you look an honest man or pure woman straight in the eye? “Do you see anything to love in a little child? Will a lonely dog fol- low you in the street? Can you be high-minded and happy in the drudgeries of life? Can you think washing dishes and hoeing corn are just as compatible with high thinking as playing the piano or playing golf? “Can you be happy alone? “Can you look out upon a world and see anything but dollars and cents? “Can you look into a mud puddle and see the blue sky reflected? Can you see good in everything?” I hope you can answer-them in the affirmative. 1 take pleasure in now presenting you with the reward of your labor and may it serve to remind you of four happy years spent in the Be- midji High School and be an incen- tive to greater endeavor. NO EXTRA SESSION REAPPORTIONMENT Duluth Convention Agrees With Gov- ernor That It Would Be Needless Expense. “STOP TAXES” URGES McPARTLIN This, Too, However, is Considered Too Drastic By Members of the Association. WEDGE ON NEW COMMISSION Information and Advertising Bureau is Created With Competent Man At Its Head, Although the Northern Minnesota Development association, which ad- journed in Duluth yesterday after- noon after a two days’ convention, which the Bemidji delegates declare was a hummer, did not go on record as favoring a special session of the legislature to consider reapportion- ment, that subject was before the convention in different ways. F. J. McPartlin of International Falls proposed the following resolution: “We earnestly suggest to such counties of northern Minnesota as are not constitutionally represented in the state legislature, that ‘some action be taken to prevent the col- lection of the state tax levy in such counties until constitutional repre- sentation in the state legislature be given them.” This was considered too strong, however, and was turned down. The idea of a special session did not come squarely before the convention, as there was a feeling that it would be undiplomatic to make such a demand ‘at this time, Governor Is Hopeless. Governor Eberhart, who at the Brainerd convention last December indicated his willingness to reas- semble the legislature if reapportion- ment were lost, took the position that it would be useless expense to recall the legislature at this time, believing it to be impossible to get a fair reapportionment bill through the senate. On the other hand, Senator Works of Mankato, who opened the reap- portionment bills last winter and who spoke at the Duluth convention yesterday, while not urging an extra session, called attention to the fact that practically every member of the senate is on record in favor of a “fair’” reapportionment bill. One of the most notable achieve- ments of the convention was the es- tablishment of an immigration com- mission. This was provided for in the following resolutions: Wedge on Commission. “Resolved, That the Northern Min- nesota Development association ap- point a commission of five men, to be known as the immigration commis- sion of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association, whose duty it shall be to establish an information and advertising bureau, with a com- petent man in charge, with headquar- ters at St. Paul, Minn., who shall be known as the immigration commis- sioner of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association. This commis- sion shall consist of the following persons: W. A. McGonagle of Duluth, St. Louis county, Minnesota, chairman; C.M. Sprague of Sauk Center, Stearns county, Minnesota; John Rundquist of Grasston, Kanabec county, Minne- sota; A. G. Wedge of Bemidji, Bel- trami county, Minnesota; J. P. Foote of Crookston, Polk county, Minne- sota. This commission shall meet at Be- midji, Minn., Saturday, June 17, to perfect an organization and appoint a commissioner, and to make such provision for permanent organiza~ tion as shall seem best. STEAL GUNS OF Burglars Break in and Take Eleven Fancy Revolvers. Robbers forced entrance to A. B. Palmer’s hardware store store some time after 12 o’clock last night, se- curing 11 of the stores most costly revolvers. The front door of the building was its ‘socket. & Of a large assortment of revolvers only the more valuable ones were taken, making it evident that the thieves were accustomed to - their work. _Several high grade guns were left untouchea, and all of the poor ones. % PALMEfi torn open, the lock being ripped from zoep I’pn"l Ho®ors at Minne- apolis Music School. 7 an, formerly of this juate pupil of-the Min- neapolis: 1 of Music. The graduation exercises will take place Friday evening, June 9,-after which in take up their residence in Bemidji. At the plano recitals given by Mar- garet. Gilmour's pupils, under the auspices of tlie School of Music, Thursday evening, June 1,7 Miss Wightman’s work as- judged by critics was farisuperior to the other numbers, in artistic interpretation; technique and finish. She was the only niamber on the entire program receiving an encore, her modest, natural presence being s refreshing ag her music. Miss Wightman will graduate with honors next Friday evening, after which time she Wwill return'to Bemidji and organize a music class here. Her abllity as @ teacher and her knowledge af music should win her all the studénts she can possibly care for. % 3 The program of the recital was as follows: d i Songs Without Words, No, 30, No. 1. —Mendelssohn, ¢ Murmuring Zephyrs—dflleman-.lenseu Mabel. McNelly. Arabesque, No. 1.. Etude . .Debussy Henselt Romanza * . Py . .Schuett Witches’ Dance., . . MacDowell ' Anna Costello. Solfegietto .....5...........Bach Impromptu, C sharp minor,.Reinhold Valse, A la bien aimee. .. ...Schuett Lucille Prichard. Novelette .............MacDowell Romanza .............. Schumann The Juggleress. . Moszkowski The Spinning Girl.,.......... Raff Ruth Wightman, Rustlings of Spring .......Sinding Serenata ..... . Moszkowski Valse in E minor . Chopin Polonaise in A minor Chopin Florence Davies. March Militaire. . . .Schubert-Tausig Anna Costello and Ruth Wightman. Mrs. E. L. LaFavar of = Everett, Washington, is a guest -at the home of her son, Fred Ln@‘l\‘{ar. for a few days. - The G. A. R. of the Park Region will hold their annual encampment at Moose Lake, June 21, 22 and 23. The diptheria epidemic¢ whict has Leen prevelant in Minneapo!iq, has been effectually checked. Iron ore has been found near the BREN IN CELL ON §14,000 THEFT CASE Trusted Employe for Years of Univer- sity of Minnesota Held as Thief. OFFICERS RIDDLE HOLDUP YARN Find That There Are Several Dis- crepancies in Prisoner’s Story of Daylight Robbery. RELATIVE E. T. YOUNG INVOLVED Siscer-ifl-law of Former Attorney General Said to Have Been Gay With Acoused. Minneapolis, Minn.,, June 3.— (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Ser- vice.)—Accused of embezzling $14,- 000 of the funds of the University of Minnesota, Joseph D. Bren, for four years accountant of the University and a trusted employe for ten years, is behind the bars here. Bren still sticks to his original story of the holdup, but the detectives at work on the case declare they have found a number of contradictions. The detectives also declare that they have found where efforts have been made to cover up discrepancies in Bren’s accounts. The police learned, this morning; that Mrs. Maud Eddington of Minne- apolis, a sister-in-law of former At- torney General E. T. Young, has had possession of the key to Bren’s per- sonal safety deposit vault in which at times he has kept large sums of the University’s money, and contain- ing property of the institution such as certificates of deposit amounting to $31,000 of the Athletic Assoc tion funds. ek S A e Eddington is a baggageman of the St. Paul road. It is said by the detectives that Mrs. Eddington has told of numer- ous visits to cafes, chop suey houses and theaters with Bren. Miss Capitola Stewart entertained informally yesterday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Fred LaFavar who is to leave soon for St. Paul where she WOMAN KILLED IN 800 KRECK Wife Railroad President Cremated in Sn_malmp .Mile From -Vergas. St. Paul, Minn.,, June 3.—(Daily Pioneer Speclql ‘Wire Service.)—In a ‘wreck just before last midnight of the Soo Line’s “Winnipeg Limited,” the road’s crack north. bound train, Mrs. L. S. Berg, wife of the president of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Railroad, was suffocated and her body cremated. The wreck occur- red at a washout one mile southeast of Vergas. The private car in which Mrs. Berg was traveling was con- sumed by flames. Two other coaches were completely burned. The en- tire train jumped the rails and 17 .| passengers were injured. Locomotive Explodes; Kills 3. North Platte, Neb., June 3.— Three men were_killed yesterday by the explosion of a locomotive boiler ‘on the Union Pacific railroad six miles west of here. * Dead: Warren Kelley, North Platte, engineer; Ralph Smith, of Salina, Kansas, fireman; “Tad” Thomas, North Platte, brakeman. All bodies were terribly mangled that of Kelley being thrown 500 feet and literally torn to pieces. DARROW TO SUITS Will Ask Big Damage From-Los An- geles Officials in McNamara Case. START San Francisco, June 3.—Clarence S. Darrow, counsel for John and James McNamara, accused of murder in connection with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building, con- ferred with local labor leaders here yesterday over suits, which, it was announced, will be started against Los Angeles city officials for alleged “conspiracy and false imprisonment” of men arrested for picketing. Di- rectors of various manufacturing plants, it was announced, also will be made party to the suits, which are to be for $25,000 damages in each case and would amount to about $1,000,000. Darrow expects to leave for Chi- cago and Indianapolis today to per- fect his kngwledge of the case. Taft on Talking Tour. ‘Washington, June 3.—President Taft accompanied by Secretary of the Interior Fisher and = Secretary Hilles left last night for Chicago, where tomorrow he will continue his campaign for Canadian recprocity by speaking before the Western Eco- nomie society. Mankato Elks dedicated their new Brainerd city limits. OHN HAYS HAMMOND, officlal representative of the United States at the coronation of King George, 18 one of the most dis- tinguished of Americans, and the battleship Delaware will be larger than any British war vessel there. The Delaware 1s shown in figure 8, and figure 8 is a view of its deck, showing six of the 12- will make her home. $55,000 home last week. AMERICA TO BE WELL REPRESENTED AT CORONATION |NEWTROUBLE AHEAD TEN CENTS PER WEEK FOR SHERIFF HAZEN Despite Attorney General’s Oral Re- port That Charges Are 01d, Case Will Not Be Dropped. WRITTEN OPINION IS AWAITED Viggo Peterson in Bemdji Today Re- fuses to Comment But Says End Is Not Yet. CRIMINAL ACTION NOW HINTED Should State Official Succeed Blocking Proposed Investigation This May Result. in Despite the attitude of Attorney General Simpson, who has said that the charges of Viggo Peterson, chair- man of the Beltrami county commis- sioners, against Sheriff Hazen do not constitute malfeasance or nonfeas- ance in office, that incident is far from being completed history. It is now said that, if the attorney general’s office officially announces that Mr. Hazen can not be removed, that crimnal action will be instituted against the sheriff. No written opinion has been re- ceived from the attorney general but press dispatches quote Mr. Simpson as follows: “The acts complained of were al- leged to have been committed in 1909 and 1910,” Mr. Simpson said, “and the law says plainly that an officer cannot be removed for acts performed during a preceding term. Sheriff Hazen is serving a different term now, and I believe cannot be removed by the Governor for acts of a previ- ous term.”’ ) ‘It is understood that Attorney General - Simpson - gave . the above opinfon orally, bfit' has instructed Assistant Attorney General L. A. Smith to look farther into the matter and that a written opinion will be given later. It will be remembered that Attor- ney General Simpson took personal charge of Sheriff Hazen’s famous bill which sought to collect from the state for aid given the Baudette and Spooner victims after the fire of last October. Viggo Peterson was in Bemidji to- day, returning this afternoon to his home at Puposky. He refused to comment on the charges until the written opinion from the attorney general’s office has been received. He indicated, however, that he was determined that Mr. Hazen must ul- timately be compelled to quit his office. CAN FISH FROM STOCKED LAKES But Only for Private Use Warns Game Warden Bailey. Because of the continued com- plaints of farmers and scttlers liv- ing near lakes in Beltrami county, as to the catching of fish out of stock- ed lakes, Game Warden S. C. Bailey, inquired of the state game and fish commission for some way in which to stop the practice. He received the information that no fish could be caught from a stock- ed lake and then sgold, but that ‘fish could be caught for private use and to give away. Stocked lakes in Beltrami county are, Little Turtle Lake, Moval Lake, Turtle River Lake, Gnatt, Big Turtle’ Lake and Three Island Lake. Warden Bailey was informed that all rivers leading either in or out of a stocked lake, were considered as stocked waters by the commission. BEMIDJI EXTENDS INVITATIONS Governor and Louis Hill Asked to Come Here. At a meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Bemidji Commercial club it was decided that invita- tions should be sent to Governor Eber- hart and party and Louis Hill and party to be the guests of this city on next Saturday. Both gentlemen Lare to attend the Northern Minnesota Editorial association outing at Itasca State Park next Friday and Saturday, and as the train service is such that they will be unable to reach St. Paul before Monday evening, if they re- main at the park over Saturday, the invitations are issued. It is expect- ed that answers to the invitations :| will be received during the next few days, and just as soon as they arrive definite plans for the entertainment of the distinguished party = will - be made.