Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 6, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, DECIDES TO TEST OUT SEPTIC TANK Council, After Advise From Consult- ing Engineer and City Attorney, Votes to Complete Work. “UP AGAINST IT,” SAYS RUSSELL Warns City to Become Entangled in Law Suit Probably Would Mean Useless Expense. SALOON ORDINANCE IS READ Next Week Will Be Up For Amend- ment, Final Passage Being Pos- sible Following Monday. After having sunk $1,500 in a septic tank which is to cost, when completed, in the neighborhood of $2,500, and which is hoped to pro- tect the health of the city, although it admittedly is but an experiment, the city council at its regular meet- ing last night, voted to finish the structure, despite reports from the city engineer that the cement work of the tank is defective and that by putting on the cover which weighs 15 tons it may crumble the struc- ture. This action was taken after City Engineer Carroll of Crookston had been called in to act as a member of the board of arbitration, Mr. Carroll expressing his belief that the tank can be safely repaired. He estimat- ed the cost of a new retaining wall at $500 or that it can be patched up at a cost of $200. Johnson Presents Bill for $486. Tom Johngon, who held .the con- tract for building the tank, informed the council that if it proposed to condemn the tank he had a bill of $486.50 for work up to -date. This bill was laid on the table. ‘You are simply up against it,” advised City Attorney P. J. Russell. “You can get into a law suit but the chances are against us for the same thing has been tried out before and 1 believe the city would have to pay in the end.” Alderman.Brown ended the long drawn out controversy by making a motion which carried, to the effect that the septic tank should be com- pleted at once, the work to be done under the supervision and direction of the city engineer. Work Will Start at Once. Contractor Johnson will at once proceed to make the necessary re- pairs and to place the cover on the tank and he believes that so far as the construction of the tank is con- cerned it will prove successful. Its value to the city as a protection to health will only be determined by actual use. Mr. Johnson believes it can be completed within two weeks. The construction of the tank has been delayed different times, first be- cause of a fear that patent rights were being infringed upon and by the time this was straightened out, the weather had become so cold that work had to be suspended for the winter. City Engineer Condemns Tank. ‘When City Engineer Everett came to inspect the work this spring, he found that some of the cement walls ‘were in a porous and weakened con- dition and reported to the council| that in his opinion the tank was ‘worthless and should be condemned. Later, a board of arbitration was agreed upon, the city naming City Engineer Everett while Contractor Johnson chose M. L. Brown and these two ultimately decided wupon Mr. Carroll for the final word. Acting under authority of the voters who last Wednesday author- ized a $20,000 bond issue to finance the paving of eleven blocks, the council, last night, passed a resolu- tion issuing bonds to this amount to the treasury of the state of Minne- sota and authorizing the city attor- ney to arrange for the proposed loan. Saloon Ordinance Read. The ordinance prohibiting saloons in all wards other than the fourth was read for the first time. Two more readings must be made of the ordinance before it becomes effective. At the second reading, next week, the only opportunity to make amend- ments will present itself for at the last reading none can be made. Eight thousand acres of state land in the vicinity of ‘Warren brought . VOLUME 9. NUMBER 833. DRUMMERS HERE ORGANIZE & price of $7.76 per acre last week, Application Made By 27 for United Commercial Travelers Charter for Bemidji. NOW UP TO FARGO CONVENTION If a request to be presgnted the Fargo convention of the United Com- mercial Travelers on Friday of this week is granted, Bemidji will have a council of this order with a charter membership of 27. Harry Mayer, at present a member of a Chicago council and who makes| - Bemidji his headquarters, has led the movement for an organization nere. The following petition will be pre- sented to the Fargo meeting and un- less there is objection, will be ac- cepted and the work of completing the Bemidji council will be taken up at once: “To the Officers and Members of the Grand Council United. Com mercial Travelers holding jurisdic- tion in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mani- toba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. In convention assembled at Fargo, N. D. June 9, 1911. Greetings: “We the below signed members of the United Commercial Travel- ers in conjunction with the signatu- res of the attached duly qualified aspirants to membership in our order, hereby ask that a charter be granted, and dispensation be given to organize a Council of United Com- mercial Travelers, in the City of Bemidji, Minnesota. And pray that same may be granted in the spirit of our tenets. (Signed) Old members to transfer. Harry H. Mayer, cil 30, Dayton Computing Scale Co. Chas. Van Der Sluis, St.Cloud Council 338, Janney Semple Hill Co. F. 8. Lycan, Grand Forks ui. W. H. Hagen, Great Falls, Mont. 349, Marshall Wells Hardware Co. John Burgo, Duluth = 40, Stone Ordean-Wells Co. ) “ Thos. Ervin, St. Cloud 338, H. C. Ervin & Co. Harry Koors, Duluth 40, Fitzim- mons Baldwin Co. Thos. J. Burke, Northern Grocery Co. Al. Harris, Crookston 88, Proctor & Gamble Distributing Co. W. H. Browning, St. Paul, Winston Harper Fischer Co. New Members. Manton Fletcher Williams, Arm- our & Co. Louis McCracken, American Tob- acco Co. Edward Willam Mullen, Semple Hill- Co. A. E. Ellison, Swift & Co. Edward M. Ebert, Northern Gro- cery Co. Lawrence E. Morier, Naugle Pole & Tie Co. Wilbur F.Day,Jr. Guiterman Bros. Fred E. Le Roux, Standard Oil Company. Luke Carl Dempsey, Stone Ordean Wells Co. 50, Janney Edwin F. Taber, Fitzimmons Baldwin Co. Thos R. Symons, Mpls. Brewing Company. Leon A. Nelles, Peyton Paper Company. George Hewitt, Armour & Co. Tom Kerrick, Briede Fru & Rogovski Geo. Noll, Fitzimmons Baldwin Company. Dwight Miller, Geo R. Baker. Emil H. Denu, Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co. Easy Enough. Just before the capture of Savannah | General Logan, with two or three of bis staff, entered the depot at Chicago to take the cars east on his way to re- Join his command. The general, being a short distance in advance of the oth- ers. stepped on the steps of a car, bu' ‘was stopped by an Irishman with: “Ye can’t go in there.” “Why not?” asked the general. “Because them’s a leddies’ caer, and no gentleman ’ll be goin® in there with- out a leddy. There’s wan sate in that caer over there if yees want it.” “Yes,” replied the general, “I see there Is one seat. but what shall I do with my staff?” “Oh, yer staff!" was the reply. “Go take the sate and stick yer staff out of the windy.” Wasn't a Bit Impressed. The chief of the clan of Mclntosh once had a dispute with a London cab- by over the fure. “Do you know who I am?” the high- lander asked angrily., “I am the Mc. Intosh.” “I don’t care if you are an umbrella,” retorted the cabby, “T'll have my rights!” In For It! First Small Boy—We'd better be good. Second Small Boy—Why? First Small Boy—I heard doctor tell mother to take plenty of exercise.—Woman's Home Companion - Chicago Coun-| GOVERNOR AT MERCY OF NEWSPAPER MEN Private Secretary Writes That He Will Present Himself at Park Rapids on Friday. COMES TO BEMIDJI SATUB Like President Vincent, However, He Will Be Too Busy to-Prepare Itasca Speech: AUTOMOBILES GO FROM HERE Possible That Lieiitenant Governor Will Be Taken From Here in Touring Car. Governor Eberhart has completed his official schedule 'which will carry. him to the gathering of the Northern Minnesota: Editorial Association on Friday of this week while on Satmr- day he plans to come to Bemidji, In a letter received today by A. G- Rutledge, secretary of the assacja- tion, Ralph Wheelock, secretary-to the governor, says: R “We have at last been ~able to figure out the governor’s schedule ‘which, in accordance with your sug- gestion, will get him..:into Park Rapids at 10 p. m., on Friday, after which he will be at thie merey of you and your fellow conspirators until he leaves for Bemidji on Saturday afternoon, as it will be necessary for him to reach home Sunday morning He is due in Fargo on Thursday and will go to Park Rapids by way of ‘Wadena on the Northern Pacific. There is no likelihood that the gov- ernor will prepare any set speech as his time will be too much occupied.” P ‘Vincent Too Busy to Write Speech. Ancther’ ‘prominent -speaker ' at Park Rapids, who algo is expected to come to Bemidji, i8 likewise too busy to prepare a speech. This is George E. Vincent, president of the Univer- sity of Minnesota. “I am so overwhelmed that I haven’t time to prepare a synopsis,” he writes Secretary Rutledge, “and anyhow I shall depend a good deal upon the situation so I am going to ask you to let me speak informally when the time comes.” In the same mail with the two above ‘letters came one from A. F. ‘Woods, dean and director of the De- partment of Agriculture of the Uni- versity of Minnesota, in which he says that the University party will leave St. Paul, Friday at 8:35 a. m.,, arriving at Park Rapids via Sauk Centre at 5 p. m. Dean Woods will speak and will discuss conditions in northern Minnesota, calling special attention to the advantages of this region. Dozen Machines to Go From Here. It is expected that not less than 12 automobiles will make the trip from Bemidji to Park Rapids on Saturday. Some of these machines will be used to bring back distinguished visitors from Itasca Park. It is possible that Lieutenant Governor Sam Y. Gordon of Brown’s Valley, who delivers a commencement address at Chisholm on Friday evening, will come to Be- midji Saturday morning and will be taken from here to the park in a touring car. Among the cars which will go from Bemidji will be the ones owned by W. L. Brooks, E. A. Barker, Dr. C. R. Sanborn, Frank 8. Lycan, Emil Schneider, G. E. Kreatz, and others. A meeting of the automobile club will be held this afternoon to com- plete arrangements. The editorial meeting opens with a smoker on Thursday evening and from then on until Sunday, when the gathering comes to a close, with a concert at Itasca Park, there will be something doing all the time. Sec- retary Rutledge leaves for Park Rapids Thursday morning. Punctuality In London. There is plenty of rush and burry in business London, just as in America, ‘but the English ways seem to be much more systematic and dignified. The man of business is always attired with care—pink necktie, chamois gloves, frock coat, spats—for business proce- dure in England must be met with due compliance to English ideas of propri ety. Appoiutments must be made by writ- ten notes—not typewritten, mizd—and when the appointment is made it is 1o be kept to the dot. 1 kept nine ap: pointments in wne day and found every man ready and waiting. When you think that old London Is slow -just wake up. They don’t make much fuss about things. but they just plan and do what they set out to do.—Joe Mitch ell Chapple In Natlonal Maguziie. TEACHER FALLS IN LAKE While Playing on“Logs With Pupils at Picnic Inez Patterson Has Close Call. SAVED BY HER OWN HEIGHT Because, in a spirit of fun, Miss Inez Patterson, eighth grade teacher in the Bemidji schools. decided to be as frisky as the girls of her class who were giving heér .8 plenic at Dia- mond Point, she nearly lost her life when she fell from floating logs into the lake. b *“Following i petic’ lufich in” the woods, the class ‘which: was- enter- taining, in addition to MissPatterson, Anna McGillan .and Minnie Lyons, took off their shoes and stockings and all went to the lake shore where they proceeded to have great fun in riding floating logs along the shore. Miss Patterson, a graduate last year of the St. Cloud normal and a splendid specimen of vigorous Min- nesota young womanhood, being not far from six feet in height, led the jolly picnicers a merry chase over the slippery, sinking logs and there were many exclamations such as “Oh, the ship’s going down! It’s turn- swim with the fish!” and there were S0 many narrow escapes that the fear of falling into the water became less pronounced. ~ With the bravery that comes to persons who become accustomed to danger, Miss Patterson started out to get a new record as 'a daring “sailor of the seas.” She jumped from log to log until she had.left the remainder of the party behind and was several rods from shore and close to the end of a sand bar which breaks abruptly into deep water when the log she was riding capsized and Miss Patterson was plunged into the lake. A chorus of screams and whoops and hgllers not unlike a largely at- tended Kickapoo Indian war dance followed and when the half hysteri- cal young women and girls finally re- gained their senses, a grand rush was made to rescue Miss Patterson, but, fortunately, the water was low while Miss Patterson is high and she safely struggled to shore. HOW TO CONQUER CUT WORMS Poison Will Get Rid of Them; “Plow Deep,” Says Schroeder. Reports daily are received of (ravages in garden and field from cut worms which appear to be more numerous this spring than for many years past. As a result, methods of 'getting rid of the worm, as well as how to prevent them, are being ad- ivanced. W. G. Schroeder of this city 'says if the farmers will but plow ‘deep in the fall it will be impossible [for the cut worms to exist. As a remedy for the worms already “on the job,” O. S. Keay of Park Rapids offers this recipe: One half pound each of white arsenic and Paris green mixed with fifty pounds of bien and six pounds of sugar moistened with water. This mixture should be placed in small quantities at inter- vals near the plant. It is sgid that two or three applications will clear a field of the pests. The conviction of a chinese waiter in & Minneapolis chop suey house, for. gelling liquor after hours was Lntrance o the Lxposition SEVELERS who have attended the international exposition at Rome unite In praise of the big affalr. It is ¥eihg well conducted and its handsome bulldings are full of exhibits of the highest degree of excellence. g ing over! Look out or we’ll be in the|. u Enm“ !l! court. —Boston Journal. BEMIDJI MAY GET CREAMERY Real Estate Exchange and Commer- cial Club Takes Up Proposition. Bemidji will have a creamery if the combined efforts of the newly or- ganized Bemidji Real HEstate Bx- change and the Commercial club prove effective. At the regular meeting of the Real Estate Exchange last evening a com- mittee was appointed to investigate as to how many of the owners of cows would aid in the support of & creamery if one should be established in Bemidji. F. M. Malzahn and V. L. Ellis were named as an investigating committee and they are to make a report at the next regular meeting of the exchange. : Among other matters discussed by meeting. was: the. es| hing jof. 8} room’ to be known s “The-Sample Room,” in which vegetables and grain grown in this territory would be on exhibit to visitors to the city and prospective land purchasers. A. R. McDonald a cruiser and real estate man with 20 years experience in cruising this portion of the state was added to the membership list and he will act as crusiser and locat- or for the Exchange. ISAIAH YOUNG, . 78, ~ DEAD Succumbs to Old Age at Home of Daughter, Mrs. W. L. Preble. Isaiah Young, 78 years old, father of Mrs. W. L. Preble of Bemidji, died early this morning at the home ‘of his daughter, on Beltrami avenue, of old age. Mr. Young was born in Canada in ‘1833, coming to Minnesota when 22 years of age and settled at Merri- field, remainng there until retiring from active service several years ago. He is survived by his widow and 'six children, three boys and three girls, J. M. Young, E. L. Young, U. G. Young and Mesdames Hopkins of Bowden, N. D., H. M. Goff of Still- water and W. L. Preble of this city. Interment will be made at Still- water and the body will be taken there tomorrow morning. Walter Marcum of the Sentinel Publishing company left this after- noon for Crookston, where he will visit several days with his parents who leave for the west next week. Applied Science. When James Russell Lowell was minister to England he was guest at & banquet at which one of the speak- ers was Sir Frederick Bramwell. Sir Frederick was to respond to the toast “Applied Sclence.” It was long after midnight when the toast was pro- posed, and several speakers were still to be called. Rising in his place, the sclentist said: _“At this hour of the night, or, rath- er, of the morning, my only interest in applied science is to apply the tip of the match to the side of the box upon which alone it ignites and to apply the flame 80-obtained to the wick of a bedroom candle.” 3 ‘A moment later Lowell tossed a pa- per across the table to him bearing these two lines: Oh, brief Sir Frederick, would that all could catch Your happy talent and supply your match! A Day's Work. “T call jt a good day's work that 1 did today,” a friend sald to me yes- | terday, and of course I asked: him what 1t was. > “Well,” he replied, “I put down a linoleum, laid a hardwood floor, put down two carpets, papered four rooms and set up a stove.”. 3 I looked at him incredulously, when he hastened to add, “In & doll's house.” GREAT EXHIBIT PLANNED Governor Names Men to Prepare Dis- play for St. Paul’s Big Land Show. MACKENZIE IS IN THE LIST St. Paul, Minn., June 6.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)— Following a conference between St. Paul men and Governor Eberhart, the governor appointed the followw ing members of a committee to ar- range for a state exhibit in the land show at St. ‘Paul next December, un- the members of the exchange at t\lwgr the ,guspices of .the. Northwest ‘Development. Bssociation. The members of the ~cdmmittee named by the governor who is chair- man ex officio are: E. L. Kluckhohn, vice chairman; J. H. Skinner, E. S. Warner, A. D. T. Johnson, Dean A. F. Woods, State Agricultural college, George Welsh, state immigration commissioner: and J. H. Beck, secretary, all of St. Paul. 0. P. B. Jacobson. W. R. Mackenzie, Bemidji. 'G. G. Hartley, Duluth. J. B. Irvine and Joseph Chapman of Minneapolis. L. E. Potter, Springfield, Minn. John Rice, Red Wing. John J. Furlong, Austin. C. W. Glotzfelter, Waterville. Thig committee will meet as soon ds. practicable and adopt plans for obtaining products from all parts of Minnesota, making it the most select and elaborate display possible. Bound to Have Results. As the hospital ambulance dashed up to the curb and_ its surgeon sprang off Into the curious crowd the patient on the sidewalk partially recovered from her fainting fit. “I don’t want to' go to a hospital,” she declared when she observed the approach of the uniform- ed doctor. “I'll be all right in a few moments; I'm not going in the ambu- lance.” “I don’t want to go back without you if I can help it, madam,” rejoined the young physician earnestly. “We ran down three persons to get here without delay.” The Egg and the Shell. Eggshells are made chiefly of car- bonate of lime, and the yolk is half water, half ofl and albumen, while the white of an egg, as it is called,” con- sists of water chiefly with albumen and a little phosphorus and sulphur. The yolk always floats at the ‘top of the white, 80 to be as near as possible to the hen when she sits upon it to hatch it, while two cords attached to the yolk, one at each end, prevent it from actually touching the shell. Ignorance. A Scottish minister was asked to pray for rain. He did so, and the rain came down in floods and destroyed the crops. Irritated at the result, one dis- gusted elder confided to another that “this comes o" intristin’ sic a request to a meenister wha isna acquent wi’ agriculture.” 5 Why They Are Cleaner. “Women’s minds are much cleaner than men’s,” sald a woman to her hus- band. * “They ought to be,” replied her hus- band. “They change them so much oftener.”—Ladies’ Home Journal ' Spiteful. “I wonder why Mabel looks in the glassiso often.” 23 _ “Maybe she has a grudge aguinst herself.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer: = - 'Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.— TEN CENTS PER WEEK CLASH AT CAPITOL OVER HAZEN CASE Governor and Attorney Gemeral in Warm Encounter as Result of Conflicting Views. EBERHART FOR INVESTIGATION — But Simpson Thinks Otherwise, Al- though His Assistant is Said to Differ From Superior. PETERSON CITED AS PERJURER Affidavit Sent to St. Paul Charging Sherif’s Accuser With Being Himself Criminal, St. Paul, Minn., June 6.— (Special ‘| Service Daily Pioneer.)—“Diplomat- Ic relations,” long at the breaking point between Attorney General Simpson and Governor Eberhart, ap- pear to have broken with a snap as the result of charges made by Viggo Peterson, chairman of the Beltrami board of county commissioners against Alvin B. Hazen, whom Mr. Peterson wishes removed as sheriff on the ground that he has been guilty of malfeasance and nonfeasance in office. Not only, according to persons at the capitol building, who know, has there been a complete rupture be- tween the governor and the attorney general but the latter official had a “bad session” with one of his own assistants who dared to take issue with-Mr. Simpson in his contention that action against Mr. Hazen can not legally be taken, although there are several affidavits on file showing that the Beltrami sheriff swindled the county by making false returns on-the Serving ot subposnas. - - Peterson Charged With Perjury. Another incident ‘of the affair which promises to be a maker of state politics, is the arrival of an affidavit from persons friendly to Mr. Hazen charging Mr. Peterson with perjury. This is taken as an effort to discredit the Peterson pe- tition which asks that investigation be ordered that Peterson may pre- sent evidence which he claims would show Hazen to be an improper offi- cial. The break between the governor and the attorney general and the at- torney general and his assistant came after the governor had pre- sented the Peterson petition asking for an investigation of the Beltrami sheriff. Attorney General Obdurate. The attorney general was ob- durate and has so far refused to even render a written decision. “We do not ask anyone to condemn a man without a fair hearing,” was the position assumed by the govern- or, who insisted that the charges | preferred by the Beltrami county chairman were so serious that an in- vestigation should be made, and if Sheriff Hazen should be guiltless that he should be given an oppor- tunity t& establish his innocense. On the other hand, if the charges are true the governor felt that the sheriff should be removed at once. The Governor Decides to Act. But the attorney general, for some subtle reason, appears to be preju- diced in favor of Mr. Hazen; or per- haps it would be nearer the truth to say that he is “agin” the govern- or. X In any event the governor is not a quitter in the ecase.- It is known that he proposes to see to it that the Hazen charges are given proper consideration and that he will lend his influence to the removal of Hazen, if he becomes convinced that Hazen has done wrong. In fact the governor has decided upon a precise line of action. PAY ROLL OF $1,186 PASSED City Council Pays Employes; Re- ceives Municipal Court Funds. During the month of May it cost the city $1,186.66 for work done by its different employes. A bill for this amount was pagsed by the coun- cil at its meeting last night and in- cludes salaries to the chief of police, four patrolmen, city clerk, city at- torney, driver of the fire team and other city hall employes, street com- missioner and others. Reports re- ceived from D. C. Smyth, clerk of the municipal court, show that for the week ending June 3 fines from the court produced a revenue of $124 while the previous week. they amounted to only §$18. T ESOTA