Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 13, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI D VOLUME 9. NUMBER 64. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK MANY CANS CREAM M. B. A. MEETING OPENS RECEIVED FIRST DAY |, any Delegates Present When Judge Clark Calls Convention to Order Farmer's Creamery Now Open Does | This Morning. Good Business, Ten Farmers Of- i fering Produce. WARREN GETS NEXT MEETING | BUTTERMAKER ONTO HIS JOB| Bemidji today is entertaining 100 | delegates from the ninth district to | the Modern Brotherhood of America Has Had Twenty Years Experience, |convention in session at the city hall. | and Was Instructor at Ames, | Delegates are to be named toattend | | the annual supreme council conven- !tion which Is to be held in Denver | next month. | ™ The convention was called to order IMPROVEMENTS ARE UNDER WAYl by Judge M. A. Clark of ~ Bemidji, | temperary chairman, at 11 a. m. s ! Mr. Clark in opening the conven- }tion said that on behalf of the Be- Door Being Cut in and All Machinery | miqji chapter of the lodge he wished is Placed in First Class Condi- |to welcome the visitors, and that afi . program had been arranged for their ! L entertainment which he hoped would | | prove enjoyable. i ! Samuel Gibeau of Red Lake Falls! U'p to noon today ten farmers had | Was introduced as the temperary taken eream to the Bemidji Farmer's creamery which was opened for busi- Of the convention. ness for the first time yesterday. Al-| The chairman was authorized to ready a total of more than 500 poands Na@me two committees of three each, | of cream have been received. the cradentials committee—George | C. H. Cleveland, buttermaker in|Sharp of Frazee, D. H. Flint of | charge, has completed a thorough | Breckenridge and John Sparks of | overhauling of the machinery of the | Nymore. Permanent organization plant and this morning said: {—John Falls of Bemidji, Joseph Be- | !lair and Anna Arrier of Crookston. | Machinery is the Best. | In order to give the committees| “\While the machinery of the plant iun opportunity to form a report and | is much smaller than [ am accus-|so that the delegates on the Soo0; tomed to using, it is all of the best |passenger which was delayed two Towa, College. I N kind, and [ am entirely satisfied with |hour’s a motion carried to adjourn |Northern it. All we need. is to have the farm- |until one p. m. ers take an interest in the creamery,| At the afternoon session the re- and there will then be no reason | port of the credentials committee why the plant cannot be a success. showed that there were seventeen “Another point which I would like | cities represented and that they were | 1o urge upon the farmers is that they | entitled to 39 votes. test their cows milk. We will do| There were four nominations as; this at the creamery. | am sure no|delegates to the Denver convention: | farmer wisies to maintain cattle | I. E. Leighton of Bemidji; S. Gibean! of Red Lake Falls, M. A. Clark of Be- | midji and C. C. Johnson of Crooks- Buttermaker is Experienced. |ton. Mr. Leighton and Mr. Gibeau | Mr Cleveland comer from the {yere deciared Siected. Crookston creamery to Bemidji. He| jnyitations for the 1914 meeting| has had more than twenty vears ex-| were extended by Moorhead and | perience in butter making, and for | warren. The vote resulted in a tie, | many years was foreman in two of | warren winning by a lucky draw| the largest creameries in lowa. For|from a hat in which the names of hree years he was an instructor in|poth towns had been placed. | the dairy school at the Ames College, | located in Ames, lowa, at; the short courses. which cannot pass the te which PRETTY ROMANCE ENDS HERE! et g | Big Churn Ready. | Florence, Daughter of Judge Pender-! Vue churn at the creamery, which | gast, Becomes Bride. will churn from 800 to 1000 pounds _— of butter at a time, is slow in swell-| A pretty romance of the Indian | ing s to put it into shape for use, | bureau of the Department of the In-| but this afrernoon the cream which |terior, culminated yesterday after- nas heen Licught in will be made into | noon in the Balsam Beach home of butter, {Judge L. G. Pendergast on the shores secretary, and he read a short call | members of automobile | Elwell law with the construction of | East Grand Forks and the Interna-| 35 COUNTIES JOIN GOOD ROAD EFFORT Will Have Representatives in Bemidji at Great Meeting to Be Held on July 25. ° COX AND ELWELL TO TALK County Attorneys, Commissioners and Automobile Club Members Ex- pect to Aid in Move. TO ARRANGE FOR 4 HIGHWAYS | | Two of These Trunk Lines Expected to Pass Through Bemidji, if Pro- posed Plans Carry. | attorneys, commissioners,’ clubs and| other persons interested in the con- struction of new roads will meet with | Senator James T. Elwell of Minne- apolis, State Forester W. T. Cox and members of the Good Roads commit- | tee of the Northern Minnesota Devel- opment association at what promises to be the greatest good roads meeting ever held in the state, to be held here Tuesday, July 25. Promises to Come. W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the Minnesota Development association, has received assurances that not only will Senator Elwell and | Forester Cox come but that a repre- sentative from the State Highway commission, probably State Engineer George W. Cooley will come. George E. Marshall, United States forester on the Cass Lake Indian reservation, also will be present. For Four Big Roads. At this meeting definite plans will be @-cid:d unoa to proceed under the County four trunk roads: East Grand Forks| to Duluth; Moorhead to Duluth; St.| Paul to Duluth; St. Paul to Interna-| tional Falls. It is likely that the| tional Falls roads will pass through | Bemidji, and the Moorhead and the| International Falls road probably i will strike Brainerd. Good Roads Committee. The Good Roads committee is made up of C. M. King, Deer River, chair- man; F. A. Green, Stephen; D. P. O’Neill, Thief River Falls; Chris Burns, Cass Lake and James Pardee, Duluth, secretary. 1t is probable that the meeting| |ISSUES CAMP FIRE WARNING I ERQIUATY IO ETy = PERPETRATED BY WALT MCDOUGALL = \\‘./, i og is S{l"’ang jus ) sl _Pol‘c"\_y hatel,cos’ seven Plurl rink, hair an inthe U.S who had “-e P|ace Price "WHAT INTHUNDER HAVE YOU GOT THE GOINGIT BLIND. on e a sure sign o elieve me. death, Portrail of the young man who believed that comie JuPe ing so scarce at the seashore and who fell for o weeks board df a ks Perdiem,wi"’l sandin hisfood, |an sl‘loes. unfil he goll’le’.)to“'le fact that every man needis a bree: i jeaf aniJ dum"l:as o paflicidnato make life reall endurable these was also' on flmjob of the same Portrait of the GIRL SWEARS SHE WAS STRIPPED AND BEATEN AT SCHOOL llllxgu'et Burns at Red Wing Hear- | ing Today Also Declares She Was Held Prisoner. LOCKED UP; NO BED OR CHAIR Says She Received Twenty-four Blows From Rubber Hose By Teacher Present. =CI’I‘ES OTHER WHIPPING CASES Witness Faces Woman Inmstructor Brought From Pennsylvania to | Appear for the Defense. St. Paul, Minn,, July 13.—(Daily quy (or gen-| 7 / 7 Z g { Pioneer Special Wire Service.)—The tHeman) who dy.When THE LIMIT OF e FUTILITY . —=, HUNT? HELP SAVE E(JRESTS% : State Forester Appeals to All Sports- men to Aid in Preventing Flames. | { | An appeal to sportsmen to aid in the work of preventing forest fires|: has been issued by State Forester W !'T. Cox and copies of the appeal will | be printed and attached to each game | : o jof Lake Plantaganet when Richard . or fish license issued by the state! < b ly 25, will be held at the 2 To Make Butter Daily. _ | Middleton of Tacoma, Washington, :'emjug At ELLE U | game or fish commission. The appeal It is probable that butter will be | claimed Miss Florence Pendergast as| ‘' o s reads as follows: ! made every day, as soon as the estab- | pis pride. Rev. S. E. P. White of the | 35 Counties Involved. i “All sportsmen are interested in | lishment is well started. depend largely on the This will| Bemidji First Presbyterian church amount of | performing the ceremony, in the cream brought to the creamery. and | presence of relatives and a few close | of the 35 counties to be represented the days on which it is brought. buttermilk will be sold. At present the only way in which cream can be taken into the creamery All priends. Pendergast, former old capital cus- todian and democratic candidate for is through the storage room of the|jjeytenant governor, has been an in- Fitzsimmons-Baldwin wholesale|getor in Indian schools and she house, and this inconvenience will be | g ¢ mat Mr. Middleton, who also is ¢ with in the next few days|employed in the Indian bureau, at when a door will be cut in the south | o Leech Lake reservation at Walk- side of the buil(liu.g and a ?arge plat- | o Since then Mrs. Middleton’s work form erected. This work is 10w De- | carricd her to the Red Lake reserva- ing done. [tion in this county, Nebraska and | Pierre, South Dakota. ! i h vas decor- ELKS HOLD LONG PARADE| The Pendersast home was de ated with flowers and ferns from the B : - | forest and the bridal couple stood be- Thous;::‘s”dP!asasthfi:ré\: gieti;)re Blg;neath a bower of balsam, evergreens . and ferns. Miss Tinnie Pendergast, July 13.—This | Sister of the bride was bride’s maid. % Donald Harries of St. Paul was best The bride was given away by Little Marguerite Pen- The bride Atlantic Ci : was the day of the big parade, the| spectacular feature of the annual re- | Man. union of the Benevolent and Protec- | her father. tive Order of Elks, and thousands of | dergast was ring bearer. members of the order from every | Was attired in white. section of the United States and Can-| The ceremony was performed at ada and from Hawaii, Porto Rico and other distant places marched along the leading thoroughfares of this famous summer resort and past the reviewing stand where were seated the grand lodge officers, official re- presentatives of the state and city and numerous other persons of prom- inence. A dozen divisions with a score of bands and many handsome floats made up the procession. New York Lodge No. 1, the parent organ- ization, held the place of honor, with other state lodges following. repast was served. The following guests came from St. Paul: Donald D. Harries, Es- tella Harries, Beatrice Harries and | Mrs. S. F. Ward and children. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton will spend several days at the Pendergast Bal- sam Beach home. Their future place of residence is unknown as Mr. Mid- dleton expects to be transferred from Tacoma, which city has been his Leadquarters for several months. The Knights of Columbus have ) issued invitations for a picnic to be | Truck Gardners Say Their Crops Are given Sunday, July 16, at Stony| Ruined—No Rain for Month. Point. — | Mrs. Middleton, daughter of L. G.| continuous roads state roads. 3:30 p. m., after which a wedding HEAVY FROST AT DEADWOOD| [¢ Hill and wife, accompanied by Mrs. Hill's mother, Mrs. Jos. Fleckenstein and sister, Grace Fleck- enstein, left this afternoon for the formers home at Winnipeg. While there Mrs. Fleckenstein will visit another daughter, Mrs. O. Hess, Deadwood, S.D., July 13.—A heavy frost in the night is reported within truck farmers declaring their gardens ruined. The frost lay as white on the ground as on a November morning. No rain has visited this section for nearly a month. a radius of 10 miles, a number of It is expected that plans will be adopted asking county commissioners | to join 1n the movement to make all The counties involved are the counties north of St. Paul, Anoka and Chisago, while not in the development assoc- iation, joining in the good roads work, and will have representatives at the Bemidji meting. | MEMBERS OF SECTROLLIN STRAW Strange Scenes at Pentecostal Conven- i vention of “Gift of Tongues.” Pittsburg, Pa., July 13.—Remark- able scenes were enacted at the pen- | tocostal convention of the “gift of tongues™ sect. More than fifty per- sons, men and women, rolled about in the straw of the tents seeking a! manifestation of the gift of tongues. The enthusiasm of the religious meet- ing broke up a dance given under the auspices of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid society at Homestead Park. The principal speaker was Mrs. James B. Hebden of Toronto, Ont., whose husband, the Rev. James Heb- den, lay on his stomach on the plat- form throughout her address, shout-; ing and wriggling his ears. i | Washington, D. C., July 13.—After| forty-five years of honorable service, | filled with adventure and interesting| | experiences in many parts of the! | world, Rear Admiral Samuel P. Com- the navy today on account of age. | Admiral Comly is a native of New {Jersey and entered the Anmapolis| |academy from that state in 1865.| |Early in his career he accompanied | the famous Juniata expedition to the Artic. During the war with Spain he was an officer on the battleship Indiana, and participated in the naval battle on Santiago. His last duty was as commandant of the navy yard at Philadelphia. the protection of our forests. This! could not be otherwise, since the for-| est constitute the natural home of all | big game within the state. With the| disappearance of the woods the game will disappear also. Many of our| games fishes can live only in our| wooded lakes and streams; the pro- tection afforded by the forest and tl.» | character of run-off resulting from a forest cover appears essential to their existance and propogation. “The sportsmen, before all otherS»i appreciates the forest for its own sake. The lure of the woods is one of the greatest incentives to the| camper, hunter or fisherman. Who | would care to go on a lengthy canoe | trip or camp in the northern wilder- | ness were it not for the call of the| woods? ! “The forests of this state havel been steadily reduced in area and im- | poverished in character by fires, and | this is an appeal to pou to do all in your power to prevent forest fires by | exercising care in camp and by put- | ting out small fires when you find | them. “Under the new forest law any per- | son leaving a fire unextinguished is liable for the damage it does and is | subject to prosecution as well. “The state has more than one hun- | | dred rangers and patrolmen on duty, | districts $41,000 a year to run their | t \ but every sportsman should be a vol- |schools. 1f consolidated the schools Meeting of the board, for Tuesday END 45 YEARS FIGHTING WORBK | uncer ranger and game warden and | would receive the state special aid |AUSUSL 8, the county commissioners help protect the forests and the game.” i 5 i NORTH DAKOTA SEEKS SETTLERS | Toward Stopping Drift to Canada. | inot, N. D., July 13.—Represen-| tatives of the various commercial | | clubs of North Dakota assembled here | | today for a two days’ convention, the | jobject of which is to form a State | federation which will wage a syste- | matic campaign to attract settlers to| North Dakota and at the same time stem the tide of immigration to Can- ada and.the Pacific northwest. | : engineer of the Great Dome Mine | | | | TO CUT PRESENT COST OF $41,000 | oo i i st i WANFS,0B0HARVEST NEN | Toronto, Ont., July 13.— : Daily Pioneer Special Wire Ser- : : vice.)—A. D. Miles, construction | Farmers of North Dakota Put in Calls :| for This Number to Handle the : estimated the loss of life by for- : | Crops. : est fires to be 200. The proper- : ty loss will aggregate millions : : of dollars. B Superintendent Black of the : Northern Ontario Railway at : North Bay says that fires in : : Porcupine District are now umn- : : der control. The® town of La : Grange is reported to be sur- : : rounded by flames. 2 Falling rains have the situation. | — | | 1,000 MORE FOR WESTERN MINN. More than 9,000 harvest hands are wanted in North Dakota by August 1, according to answers to circular let- . |ters sent out to agents of the com- - | pany by E. C. Leedy, general immi- | graticn agent of the Great Northern | Railway. In addition, answers from School Gardners Attention. stations in western Minnesota, indi- Professor Otto Bergh has set cate that the number of men wanted aside Friday afternoon, from 3 to 4, in the two sections is close to 10,000. as garden day and all pupils are ex-| The number of men needed at the pected to report every Friday during fol_lowmg points in North Dakota is: that hour. Clifford, 80; Loraine 150; Lansford * 5200; McCanna 20; Arvilla 200; Ar- SIX SCHOOLS WAY UNIT | dock 20; Minto 200; Hamilton 50; improved : | Reynolds 150; Fargo 500; Aneta 150; Wahpeton 100; Berthold 100; | Lawton 200; Erie 100; Devils Lake |500; Union 30; Langdon 300; Inkster |60; Hanson 20; Warwick 50; Havana Public Meeting at Tenstrike Attend-| 5! Burch 100; Casselton 400; Pet- ed By Stewart Sees Advantage in : ersburg 100; Kempton 75; Chaffee i 100; Churches Ferry 300; Westhope Consolidation. 1200; Stampede 35; Noonan 50; Wo- | burn 20; Crookston 250; Bartlett 70; Edinburg 100; Pekin 75; Colgate 100; Thompson 25; Willis- ton 200; Waleott 75; Willow City | 75; Deering 100; Lignite 75; Paler- Consolidation of six schools, in-!mo 50; Antler 100; Calvin 300; Clyde | cluding and surounding the Tenstrike ; Perth 50; Finley 400; Orr 100; district, was discussed at a public | Pisek 200; Tolna 25; Shannon 100; | meeting in Tenstrike Tuesday eve-|Munich, 100; Crary 200; Minot 150; ning at which time W. B. Stewart,|Coulee 30; Lakota 200; Brockett county superintendent of schools, was | 150; Addison 50; Cavalier 200. | present. H The six schools involved are dis- | tricts 46, which is the Tenstrike JANITOR SISCHO QUITS JOB school, 51, 70, 24, 126 The total | — | valuation of these districts is $200,- | Commissioners Appoint George Os-| 000. | trander—Road Overseers Get $2. | At the present time it costs these | e "After fixing the date of the mext for the consolidated graded schools 2djourned late yesterday afternoon. of $2,100. A compensation of $3.50 a day was At the present time there are 165 | VOted to the appraisers and also $2 a pupils enrolled in the schools of the day compensation to road overseers. proposed consolidated district. One of the surprises of the afternoon There are at present but two con- |Session was the reading of the resig- 1y was placed on the retired list of | Heeting at Minot Today First Step solidated districts in ‘Beltrami coun- |nation of J. W. Sischo, as janitor of ty, No. 81 in Battle River and No.|the court house, which was accepted 128 in the Hines district. (and will take effect September 1. Several other districts are talking | George Ostrander was selected as | the successor to Mr. Sischo, and he | will receive a salary of $75 a month. | P A corkscrew does the opening turn. ‘The _delmquent personal. ;property | tax lists were passed upon. of consolidating. Unless a man is alive to his oppor- tinities e s £dead one. Prayer meeting of ‘he First Meth- There are times when a silent wit-|odist -Episcopal church will be held ness is an unspeakable nuisance. | tonight at 8 o’clock at the parsonage. light of publicity was thrown this morning full upon the disciplinary methods used in the former girl's | department of the training school at Red Wing, when the hearing before the board of control was resumed to- day. Shocking Testimony Given. -1 For more than two hours the board | 1istened to the testimony of Margaret Burns, 18 years old, who was sent to the girl's department November 128, 1908 and left May 6, 1911. She said she had been stripped of clothing and beaten twenty-two |times with a piece of rubber hose and then locked in a cell for thirteen and a half days with no bed or chair and with only two old quilts and an old blanket for bedding. Knew of Other Cases. This she said took place more than a year ago. The witness said also that she | knew of at least nine girls who were beaten with a piece of hose so bad- ly that three of them came out with skin on their backs broken open and flecks of blood showing on their flesh. | Objects to Girl Witnesses. Judge Wilson objected in vain to the introduction of the girl's testi- mony. Six girls, inmates on parole or former inmates now discharged were in the room to be called as wit- nesses. Accused Woman Present. The Pennsylvania witness, wanted by the defense, was also present, be- ing Miss Edith Kassing, former ma- tron of the girl's department and now superintendent of the state training school for girls at Morganza, Pa. The witness, Margaret Burns, this morning testified to beatings re- ceived from Miss Kassing. DR.H.W.WILEY, FOOD EXPERT, MUST QUIT Washington, D. C., (Daily Pioneer Special July 13.— Wire Ser- Grand Harbor 200; Moor. | Vice.)—Dr. Harvard W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the de- partment of agriculture has been found guilty by a committee and per- sonnel of the department of agricul- ture with a recommendation to Pres- ident Taft that he be permitted to resign. Attorney General Wickersham in an opinion on the case submitted to the president reconimended the com- mittee’s action. 1t is said that Dr. Wiley permitted an arrangement to be made with Dr. H. H. Ruseby of the Columbia Uni- versity for compensations in excess of that allowed by law. INSTALL ODD FELLOW OFFICERS Impressive Ceremonies to Be Held Here Tomorrow Evening. Installing officers Earl Geil and Hazel E. Phillippi, of the Odd Fel- low and Rebecca lodges, respectfully, wil ltomorrow evening install the newly elected officers of these orders. Teh new Odd Fellow officers aré R. L. Given, noble grand; C. F. Schroe- der, vice grand; Dwight Miller, re- eording secretary, and of the Rebec- cas, Mrs. C. F. Schroeder, noble jgrand; Mrs. Emma Brownlee, vice grand and Miss Margaret Slough, re- cording secretary. The usual pre- cedure of the installation will be gone through with, and will be fol- lowed by a banquet. SOCIETY. e ILY PIONEER.