Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 5, 1911, Page 1

13 THE “INNESOTA | HISTORICAL | SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 32. WORK OF PAVING 11 BLOCKS BEGINS SOON Actual Work of Improvement Ex- pected to Begin By End of Pres- ent Month, RUSSELL OFF TO.GET MONEY Leaves for St. Paul to Complete Ar- rangements as Result of $20,- 000 Bond Issue Vote. STORM SEWERS TO GO DOWN This Will Be Followed By Surface ‘Work, Which Probably Will Be of Cement. Actual work of paving eleven blocks of the business streets of Be- midji will begin in the near future, probably not later than the latter part of the present month. This is made possible by the ac- tion of the voters last Wednesday when, 324 to 50, they authorized the city to issue $20,000 worth of bonds. City Attorney P. J. Russell leaves for St. Paul tonight to complete ne- gotiations with State Treasurer Walter J. Smith to secure the money. May Build Asphalt Pavement. The next step will be the printing of advertisements for bids on the paving work, bids being received for asphalt, creosote blocks, cement—as now down on Third street—or any other paving material. It is believed that the cement pav- ing wil ultimately be accepted as it is said to be the cheapest and best. It requires but one week to ad- vertise for bids. The ecity council then can award the contract to the most desirable bidder and work of putting down the pavement will pro- ceed. Streets to Be Paved. The streets to be paved are* From the Great Northern depot to Fifth street on Minnesota avenue. From the Soo depot at the foot ot Beltrami avenue to Fifth. Fourth and Second streets tween Minnesota and Beltrami. Before paving the streets, the city will advertise for bids for storm sewers, to be put in on the streets which are to be paved. The storm sewers will be layed three feet below the surface. They are protected by the pavement. be- A Critical Shave. John Hays Hammond once pald $5 for a shave, and he did it at a time ‘when he was not wortb much money. He was married in a small town in Maryland and arrived there the morn- ing before the ceremony after a dash across the continent. One of the things he carried with bim into the town was a thick but unornamental growth of whiskers, and one thing he did uot have was a razor. _ His search for a barber resulted in the discovery of the only one in town, an old negro who had been imbibing too freely for several days. As a re- sult of intemperance the tonsorial art- st was shaking like an aspen leaf in a gale. “Look here!” sald Hammond. “You are golng to shave me. If you so much as make a nick in my face I'll cut your throat! If you don’t cut me I'll give you $5.” The barber, after much effort, agony and tremor, finished the shave success- fully. But the straln was too great for him. Just as his hand closed on the five dollar note he falnted away.— New York Tribune. The Taste For Music. Public taste in America has progress- ed In no direction more rapidly than in music. Not only opera, but Instru- mental music of many kinds, is now thoroughly intrenched in the publie interest. An amusing contrast can be found In a letter which Bret Harte wrote to his wife in 1879. He had been to see “Tannhauser,” which he debmed the “most diabolically hideous and stupidly monotonous perform- ance” he ever heard. The orchestra to him was *“like a power factory at work in the next street.” The singing was a multiplication table, he claim- ed, lugubrious, ponderous and monot- onous. Bret Harte executed the idea better than most of the others. Not long ago the newspapers were full of Jokes about Wagner. Now he and all other great composers are accepted simply as great writers or great paint- ers, and Bret Harte, if he were alive today, would scarcely produce the same joke.—Colller’s. Always the Case. “Take away woman and what would follow 7" shouted the orator. “We would!” cried a man on & back seat. STREET CARS FOR BEMIDJI First Step Looking Toward Trolley System for This City Taken By Alderman Roe. EXPERT COME FROM WHAPETON Bemidji may soon have a com- plete system of electric street cars. Not long ago Alderman Knute Roe wrote to Whapeton, North Dakota, & town much smaller than Bemidji, for information relative to its street car system. Mr. Roe has received the follow- ing reply: “Whapeton, N. D., May 24, 1911. “Mr. K. K. Roe, “Bemidji, Minn. “Dear Sir:— “Being a stockholder and director in the Whapeton Street Car Co., your correspondence was handed to me by Mr. Forkner, with a request to answer. In reply will say that it would be necessary to have an expert visit your place who could tell in a very short time whether it would pay to install a street car system in your city. We have such a man in our employ who is also connected with the company, whom we might be able to send in the near future. The president of our road is away at present but will be back the first of the week. I will discuss the matter with him and if we feel that we can spare this man for a few days, and you feci ihat 0 would be advisable to have lum, we will let him off. We will assisv you as muen as possible with statistics, prices on mateial, and the probable earnings of the road. “Kindly give me a reply in the near future, and oblige . “Very truly yours, H. T. CONNOLLY.” It is not unlikely that the Be- midji Commercial club will now take the proposition up and that the Whapeton expert will be brought to Bemidji jn the near future. ROOSEVELT TO AID TAFT. Position of Colonel Expected to Be Made Public Tomorrow. A Washington dispatch to the New York World says: From the day Colonel Roosevelt started down the River Nile on his return to the United States from his invasion of Africa these ques- tions havce ben agitating the poli- tical public; What does Roosevelt think of Taft’'s stand in the Ballinger-Pin- chot controvesy—the controvesey which resulted in the official behead- {ing of Colonel Roosevelt’s friend, Gifford Pinchot? What does Rooseveit think of “The Heir to his policies” after two years of administration by the heir —President Taft? Roosevelt For Taft. These questions will be answered by President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt tomorrow, when they w'.t meet for a conference in Baltimore. This w'il be the first public mee:- ing of ile two men since Mr Tal. s inaa-u.ation. Not culy does Colonel Roosevelt favor President Taft for remomin- ation in 1912, but he will work for the renomination of President Taft. George Von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy in President Taft’s cabi- net and Postmaster general in Presi- dent Roosevelt’s cabinet, was a guest of Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay Wednesday last. He went to Oyster Bay from New York City on the presidential yacht Sylph, On the trip to Oyster Bay Secre- tary Meyer arranged the details for the meeting on Tuesday. Plan of Convention. When President Taft and _Colo- nel Roosevelt meet tomorrow the whole plan for the convention, which will be held about a year hence will be laid before the colonel. the later’s plans for campaigning will be asked At the meeting also will be discussed many points of difference between the two. In addition to the President and Colonel Roosevelt, Postmaster gene- ral Hitehcock, who, as chairman of the Republican national committee managed the Taft campaign, proba- bly will attend the conference. Secretary of the interior Fisher has done much to bring the friends of the President and Pinchot together. The Redwood Falls high school will graduate a class of twenty-six students. Fairbault officials propose to fine all automobile speeders within the corporate limits. - BEMIDJI; MINNESOTA, MON MACKENZIE BRINGS BOARD; ISOFF AGAIN Reclamation Commissioners in Be- midji on Trip for Site-Selections of State Land. TWO0 HARBORS FARM CHOSEN Tract in Beltrami to Be Designated Near Blackduck in About Two Weeks. WEDGE TALKS OF NEW WORK Heartily in Favor of Immigration But Not Sure He Can Particpate in Venture, The state reclamation board, au- thorized by the recent legislature, was in Bemidji a few hours morning. W. R. Mackenzie of this city is chairman of the board and other members are A. J. McGuire of the Northeast Experiment farm at Grand Rapids and ‘W. J. Brown of Warren. The board came in from Duluth and proceeded on the morning train for Pine River. On last Saturday the board went to Two Harbors where the exact location for the reclamation work on state land there was selected. All the ten sites are now to be located. The one in Beltrami county to be chosen near Blackduck will be select- ed in about two weeks. Mr. Mackenzie will be in Park Rapids the last of this week where he is to address the gathering of the Northern Minnesota Editorial Assoc- iation. Mr. Mackenzie is expected to come to- Bemidji Saturday to spend Sun- day with his family. The reclamation boafd wili con- tinue its work until actual work of clearing land on each of the ten tracts is under way. On June 17 Mr. Mackenzie prob- ably will be in Bemidj for on this date the immigraton commission ap- pointed by the Development assoc- iaton at Duluth will meet in this city. W. A. McGonagle of Duluth is chairman. A. G. Wedge of Bemidji is a member. “My appointment on this board was a surprise to me,” said Mr. Wedge, “and I do not entirely under- stand just the scope of the work in- tended, I fear that it will be hard for me to find time to take up these add- ed duties. “It is hardly necessary for me to say that I am heartily in accord with a movement of this kind, and I shall do all I possibly can in aiding the work.” An Attentive Cl; The College of France, founded in Paris by Francis L., offers at the pres- ent day not only strictly academic in- struction, but opportunities for the higher eduecation in general. The fol- lowing anecdote from the Colour of Paris shows how far the college car- rles its scrupulousness. Every scien- tific subject, even the most abstruse, will continue to be taught there as long as one solitary individual in all ‘Europe desires to pursue it. Certain courses are followed by two or three persons only. They tell the story of a professor of mathematics, This pro- fessor, who was extremely absent- minded, had lectured for a whole year to only one pupil. He was perfectly satisfled that it should be so, but it occurred to him one day that he ought to congratulate his rare disciple, and he accordingly did so. “Monslem does not recognize me,” replied the pupil. “I am monsienr's coachman, and 1 always wait here un- til monsieur has finished bis lecture.” As They Used to View the Plague. An old work, a little book published in Cologne In 1685 under the title of “Geistliche und Leibliche Arzteney ‘Wider dle Pest” gives a crude ex- planation of the plague and its rav- ages. We learn that it is due to the eccentric movement of the planets, eclipses of the moon or sun, inunda- tions, earthquakes, famines and wars. Often also it follows the bad efluvium set up by pigs. ducks and geese. It is frequently attributable to the anger of God for man's sins, such as injustice in the law courts, the oppression of subjects by their rulers, the dearness of goods, the dance and gaming. The Bath In History. Hyglene, even cleanliness, is a mod- ern notion. *“It i3 not necessary,” says Miss Margaret Macmillan in “I'be State and the Child,” “to go back to Queen Elizabeth, who bathed twice a year and alvays in fear and within call of two physicians, or to Queen Anne, who lost eighteen children, in order to find people who set a bad example. The children of the worst areas today are, after all, no. dirtier than were the court tadies of yesterday.” this T most interest. DAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1911. AE French gavernment recently ordered from Roger Bloche, the sculptor, a monument commemorating those who have/fallen victims to the attempt of humanity to accomplish the conquest of the air. #ult of M. Bloohe’s Inepiration and labor is seen in the artistic and pathetic monument here pictured. It is on ez Libition in the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris, where its timely and appropriate nature has excited the ut The re [4 270 “DRUM” FOR BEMIDJI Conger and Grant to Do Traveling Man Stunt for Real Estate Men’s Exchange; WELSH PROMISES TO HELP LRSI T Much encoursxemé-t 18 being re- ceived by thesBemidilareal estate: ex- change from the staté immigration department, and in a letter to the exchange George Welsh, state immi- gration inspector said: “H. E. Reynblds, Secretary, “Bemidji Real Estate Exchange. ‘Dear Sir:— “l am sending you a quantity of literature “Minnesota Resources’ with some samples of others. I also inclose a number of statements which I think will be valuable in your immigration work. 1 believe the time is ripe for an active cam- paign as there are thousands going into the northern part of this state looking for land. I will be glad to co-operate with you to any extent in my power in the furtherance of your development work. Yours truly, George Walh, Commissioner of Im- migration.” Members of the exchange are gratified with the encouragement being given by the business men of Bemidji. J. J. Conger who for the past few years has been deputy register of deeds, and who recently became a member of the Real Estate Exchange, will leave for Iowa to act as a repre- sentative of the Exchange. J. H. Grant, who has been a member of the Exchange since it was first or- ganized, and is its president, will also visit points in eastern Towa and Illinois. These men will establish agencies throughout these districts for the purpose of boosting northern Minne- sota and selling land handled by the Bemidji Real Estate Exchange. $6,000 FOR BABY IS REFUSED Parents Though Unable to Support Child Declines Offer of Cash. Omaha, June 5.—“No amount of money could buy a single one of my little ones,” was the response made by John Rasmussen to an of- fer of $6.000 for his smiling 9- month-old girl, now in a waif’s home because her parents are poor. ; The parents remained obdurate, although the mother tearfully ad- mitted that if her husband, who is *an invalid, should die, she could not support the children. The White Earth Indian fraud cases are now being investigated by a grand jury at Fergus Falls, The Modern Woodmen of Fergus Falls will erect & $20,000 building Work will soon begin on its con- struction. Sixty cars of hay, valued at $10,- 000, breaking the record for hay shipments in Minneapolis, were re- ceived in that city Saturday: TEACHERS LEAVE FOR HOMES Bemidji School Instructors Begin Summer Vacation. Many of the teachers who were members of the public schools corps of instructors during the school year which closed Friday afternoon, have returned to their respective homes, where with a few exceptions they will spend their summer vacations. Miss Maebelle Wheeler of Winona, instructor in the fifth grade, re- turned to her home this morning. Miss Dorothy Clark, will return toj her home in evening. ™" Miss Anna McGillan,,a member, of the eighth grade corps of teachers, together with her sister, Rose, who has been visiting in Bemidji several days, left this morning for Port Wing, Wis., where they will remain two weeks, and will then return to Bemidji to spend the summer vaca- tion, Miss Ethel Murray of Anoka, Miss Francis Mosford of Clear Lake and Miss Lois Obert of Minneapolis, left for their homes this morning. All three will return to Bemidji this fall. Miss Eliza Loe, principal of the high school, left Saturday evening for her home in Minneapolis. Miss Loe will resume her work in Bemidji this fall. Miss Inez Patterson will leave this evening for Maple Lake. Miss Minnie Lyons left for Vern- dale this morning. Miss Edna Hill, who has taught in the first grade during the year, but who will return to have charge of the new normal school depart- ment, which is to be established in connection with the high school work next year will leave tomorrow morn- ing for Minneapolis. Red Wo‘nd Falls this PICNIC IN HONOR OF TEACHERS Merry Party Entertains Miss Endres, Ending With Dinner at Jester's. A picnic was given in honor -of Miss Rose Endres, a teacher in the Bemiaji public schools, yesterday afternoon, who left for her home at Faribault this morning. The day was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Wright near Maltby and in the evening dinner was served to the party at Jester’s at Lake Plantagenet. The guests in- cluded Misses Rose Endres, Grace Blythe, Lulu Dickenson, Estella Bailliff, Marie Gregwire, Florence Mariner, Bertha Larson, Lizzie Erickson, Belle Wallin, Signa Wal- lin, Mabel Blythe, Edna - Wright, Genita Annette and Jim Given, George Elletson, Frank Luebeck, Arthur Masten, Chas. Riee, Jim Pogue and Mr. Zahner. MALZAHN 475 ACRE FARM SOLD Brings More Than $7,000 From Buy- er Albert Graf, of Mankato. F. M. Malzahn has sold his farm of 475 acres to Albert Graf of Man- kato, Minn. The exact price is not made public but it is known to have been mora than $7,000. The Mal zahn farm is located nine miles east of Bemidji, It has a house and barn and is considered one of the most |- attractive farms in that section An interurban- electric line is to run from Albert Lea to Worthington T0 IMPROVE CEMETERY Association Organized to Effect Long Desired Changes at Bemidji Burying Ground. McIVER NAMED PRESIDENT Bemidji is have an association Articles. of incorporation have been drawn by City Attorney Russell for such an association for the city of Bemidji. This action is in accordance with a law which was passed by the leg- islature of 1911, and which provides that a corporation or association may manage a city’s own cemetery. Officers and trustees named on the articles of incorporation are: Ken- neth Melver, president; Tom Smart, vice president; P. J. Russell, secre- tary; J. O. Harris, treasurer and J. C. Parker and S. C. Bailey as addi- tional trustees. On next Monday the trustees will meet to adopt by-laws and resolu- tions, and, according to the articles of . incorporation a meeting of the trustees will be held on the first day of“August, for the first annual elec- tion of officers, the present officers to hold until that time. Complaints have been frequent that the Bemidji cemetery is in need of more attention, and only recent- ly was the fence repaired. The new association will have di- rect.control of the cemetery, and all lots will be sold at cost, the money received to be used toward repairs. At Brainerd an association has $2,- 300 in its treasury. Last year a vault was put in at a cost of $16,000 and it is hoped that similiar improve- ment may be made in Bemidji. CARLTONS HEARING WEDNESDAY Bemidji Couple Face Examination in Neste Murder Case. On Wednesday of this week Lloyd Carlton and young wife of this city will be given a preliminary hearing at Park Rapids on the charge of hav- ing murdered Mrs. Carlton’s father, Peter Neste, on the Neste farm, five miles south of Bemidji in Hubbard ‘county. E. E. McDonald of Bemidji will appear for the defendants. The hearing will take place before Justice of the Peace Ryan. If the Carltons are bound dver to the grand jury they will be tried at the next term of the Hubbard county court which will be presided over by Judge Mc Clenahan. Some of the charred bones and. the foot found on the Neste farm will be exhibited by County Attorney Wooly as evidence. More Money for Postmaster. _Postmaster. Anton Erickson today received official notice that this salary had been increased from $2,- 500 a year to $2,600. Fifteen young men and women graduated from the state hospital at Rochester, gaining diplomas show- ing that they ' were sufficiently | Chairman of the County Board i(ade trained to act as professional nurses. TEN CENTS PER WEEK STORM GATHERS IN HAZEN OUSTER CASE Decision From Attorney General De- lays Proceedings But Governor is Expected to Act. PETERSONENCOUNTERSSHERIFF. Subject, He Declares, of Tirade of Abuse. SAYS HE IS GOOD “JOHN DEITZ” Also Said to Have Made Threats of Personal Violence Against His Enemies. Private advices received in Be- . midji today from Governor Eberhart indicate that the chief executive proposes to see to it that the charges made by Viggo Peterson, chairman of the Beltrami board of county com- missioners, against Sheriff Hazen are given proper and as prompt as possible, attention. . Immediately upon receipt of the charges the governor turned them over to the attorney general, as is customary in such cases. The attor- ney general is inclined to believe that the alleged acts of wrong doing were committed in a previous term, and that Hazen can not be removed. A written opinion from the attorney general, has not, however, been re- celved. What the Charges Allege. The charges against Sheriff Hazen allege that he has collected money on the pretext that he has personally served subpoenas’ when, according to affidavits on file, the papers were served by mail. It also is alleged that the management of the county jall has been improper and that prisoners have been. permitted to escape. To these charges Sheriff Hazen makes a general denial. It is under- stood that so far as the bills present- ed by Mr. Hazen to the county is concerned, he is bocked by County Attorney Funkley, who it is said, has advised the county that they might properly be paid, believing that there was no intent at fraud. Viggo Meets Alvin, Viggo Peterson came to Bemidji again today from his home at Pu- posky. He met Sheriff Hazen on the street and the latter requested Mr. Peterson for an explanation. Mr. Peterson felt that he had been plenty lucid enough in his published explanation but when the sheriff in- sisted that he had “something” to say,” Mr, Peterson accepted his in- vitation for-a “five minute. talk,” i and according to Mr. Peterson. the | sheriff manifested a degree of indig- nation of the attempt to “get” him that made the air blue. A Regular John Deitz. : It is understood that Mr. Hazen made threats of personal violence ; against those who seek his removal and that he even went so far as to de- clare that he proposes to “knock the i block” off somebody if he is forced out of office. Likewise, it is understood that’ Sheriff Hazen bore evidence as to his own bravery reminding Mr. Peterson that if driven to it he would made a first class John Deitz. Mr. Peterson refused to take the sheriff seriously. B DECORATE GRAVES 0F WOODMEN Bemidji Lodge and Royal Neighbors Hold Impressive Sunday Service. In the presence of many members of the Bemidji lodge of Modern Woodmen of America and its woman “ auxiliary, the Royal Neighbors, nine graves were decorated in the ceme- tery here yesterday afternoon. Usual memorial services were held. -Rev. & Charles Flesher of the First Method- ist church officiated. The only ‘Woodman to-die and be buried here during the past year was Gunder Christ Johnson, the young man who was drowned while out sailing on Lake Irvine several days ago. Other graves decorated were: Act Plum- mer, L. H. Bailey, M. D. Miller, Frank Shirley, William Carlyle, A. P. Henrionette, J. M. Stafford and P. J. Walsh. £ White Earth Indians will hold a jollification Jume 14 to. celebrate their success in securing an invest- igation from the government in con- nection with alleged land rauds.