Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 30, 1911, Page 1

THE HISTORICAL . SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 156, ST. CLOUD TO HEAR EXTRA SESSION TALK Committeeman Koll and Secretary W. R. Mackenzie Discuss Reappor- tionment Plaus. FORMER IN PLEA FORGOVERNOR Believes it Up to Conveniion to Say Whether Executive Shall Keep Brainerd Pledge. SPICY PROGRAM OUT THIS WEEK Different Topics of Intense Interest to North to Be Discussed by Men of Prominence. That there will be a free and open discussion at St. Cloud December 8 and 9 of the proposition of calling upon Governor Eberhart o call an extra session of the legisiature this winter to pass a reapportionment bill, now is admitted by officials of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association. | Koll and Mackenzie Talk. The Pioneer today is able to print expressions from M. N. Koll 6f Cass Lake, a member of the Dcvelopment association both of particular im- portance because of the positions of power which they occupy in the or- ganization through which the North hopes for relief from her present un- der-represented condition. Koll's Message Timely. Mr. Koll’'s message is timely be- cause it will be construed as indicat- ing the attitude of the association toward the governor, and while he demands that the governor be given a square deal he urges that the re- apportionment propositon be agitated until the St. Cloud meeting. Mackenzie’s Statement. Secretary Mackenzie's statement follows: “Editor Daily Pioneer.—Regard- ing your request that 1 state my position in regard to activity in de- manding an extra session ¢n account of the failure of the late session of the Legislation, permit me to say that although the Goverior stated his position very plainiy at the Brainerd convention at no time has our association demanded of him that he call an extra session. “There is only one subject worthy of any consideration at au extra ses- sion and that is Reapportionment. “Our program for the St. Cloud Convention will be ready 1or publica- tion about the latter end of this week. It contains a good live num- ber of topics and the Executive Com-~ mittee believe it is the best yet pre- pared. The outlook for a large meet- ing is good.” Mr. Koll's Communication in full follows: Koll's Letter in Full. “Cass Lake, Minn., (*ct. 29. “My Dear Mr. Wilsou: have your letter of the 28th inst., asking me to aid in bringing about an extra session of the legislature next win- ter, through the Northern MinneSota Development association. “It is a self-evident fact that no Northern Minesota resident, who is fair to his section of the state is against reapportionment. There are those who from selfish motives don’t want it, but they work under cover. About the Governor. “The Association has a promise from the Governor that he would call an extra session of the Legislature, if they failed to pass a sa2tisfactory reapportionment bill. After the Legislature adjourned, or about that time the Executive Comm issued a statement in effect against a special session of the legislature. At Du- luth in our resolutions committee we did not think it advisable and the Governor has had a perf:ct right in my opinion to withhold a call for the special session as the very Associa- tion to whom he made ine promise has in effect asked him not to keep it to date. Thinks Attacks are Unfuir. “In my humble opiniona good many of the boys have heen unfair to the Governor, by throwing out in- sinuations of various kinds as to his reason for not calling the special ses- sion. So far as the association is concerned he has not been called up- on to make good his promise—in fact the reverse has been true and the as- sociation didn’t” want it. Now if Wwe as an association have changed | our minds, and do want the special session, it seems to me that it is poor ‘| with us, than has been the treatment diplomacy to have a good many of the press throw out insinuations of various kinds as to his reason for not calling it. If we want him to ‘re- deem that pledge, let’s be fair about it and be gentlemen with him. Let’s give him a chance to call it, on our request, inasmuch as we have had a stop order in all this while on it. Take It to St. Cloud. “Let’s agitate the matter till the meeting of the assoclation at St. Cloud, but let’s not try to ‘put the governor in a hole’ or be unfair in our statements as to Lis pledge. Give the reasons why he'has aat called on his promise to us. Use him right and then we may expect him to.use -us: right. I believe he will be fairer be has received in the last few weeks by some of our Northern Minnesota BOYS. “The association will be fair with him when they meet at St. Cloud and the matter will be thoroughly discussed add I am sure Governor Eberhart will not be ceusured, but probably asked in a fair way to call an extra session of the legislature. Has Praise for Legislature. “Remember all the time that this same legislature that we are talking about did pass practically every measure that we of the northern part of the state needed exceLt reappor- tionment and that it was in my opin- ion a pretty good sort of a legisla- ture at that. If we get as much out of every one as out of that we won't need to worry so very much. Let’s not make the associatiou a political one, but stick to first principles and develop—but not too much political- 1y. We'll strike rocks if we do. “Sincerely yours, “M. M. Koll.” PLANNED HIS OWN DEATH. Judge Hankford Cleveriy Evaded the Law Against Suicide. Suicides often adopt ingenious meth- ods, but the art of the felo de se seems not tg have advanced materially dur- ing the centuries. The modern case of a heavily insured broker who on a feigned hunting trip stood barelegged in a quagmire for hours and willfully contracted a fatal pneumonia js match- ed in cleverness by one 500 years old. The following. facts are well vouch.. ed for and indeed were never ques- tloned, says the Green Bag: Sir Wil- llam Hankford, a judge of the king's bench in the reigns of Edward IIL, Henry IV., Henry V. and Henry VL and at the time of his death chief jus- tice of England, was a man of mel- ancholy temperament. He seems to have contemplated sui- cide the greater part of his long life, and during his later years the idea be- came a fixed purpose. The act was of peculiarly serious consequence in those days for the reason that the law treated it as a capital crime. The of- fender was buried at the crossroads with a stake driven through his body, and all his goods and property were forfeited to the crown, to the utter ruin of his family. Hankford made good use of his wits and succeeded in accomplishing his purpose without incurring either un- pleasant penalty. He gave open in- structions to his gamekeeper, who had been troubled with poachers in the deer preserve, to challenge all' tres- passers in the future and to shoot to kill if they would not stand and give an account. One dark night he purposely crossed the keeper's path and upon challenge made motions of resistance and es- cape. The faithful servant, falling to recognize his master, followed instruc- tion to the letter, as was expected of him, and Sir Willlam fell dead in his tracks. The whole truth of the affair was common knowledge, but it was impossible to establish a case of sui- cide by legal proof. The servant was protected by his instructions. Hank- ford had honorable burial, and his es- tate passed to those whose interests as heirs he had so wisely considered. Nature’s Only Timepiece. There is no need for clocks on the Aegean sea any day when the sun is shining. There nature has arranged her only timepiece, one that does not vary though the centuries pass. This natural time marker is the largest sun- dial in the world. Projecting into the blue waters of the sea is a large prom- ontory, which lfts its head 3,000 feet above the waves. As- the sun swings round the pointed shadow of the mountain just touches. one after the other, a number of small islands, which are at exact distances apart and act as hour marks on the great dial.—New York Tribune. A Collector’s Troubles. A Camden man always in debt was confronted again by the bill collector.- to whom he confided the usual story of hard luck. “Can’t pay me today, eh?” mused the collector. “But I shall be bere again tomorrow, and then’ “Yes, do come tomorrow,” urged the debtor, “and that will give me time to make up a brand new excuse and ; to decide when you ought to come again.”—Philadelphia Times. What More Could He Want? “What is your father's objection to me, Millie?" asked the young man. “He says you have no application. Gerald.” “No application!" he echoed bitterly: “T wonder if he knows I've been com- ing to see you twice a week for nurly six years!”—Chicago Tribune. 9000000000006 00 ¢ QUTSIDE .NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ 0000000000000 0 The weather: fair with slightly rising temperature; moderate winds. The annual State Fair under the auspices of fi;e South Carolina Agri- cultural andi'Mechanical Society' op- ened at Coluthbia today. The Denver ,Progressive Republis cans Saturday gight indorsed La Fol- lette as'the Repubhcun Presidential tion. i ena, Mont., from spinal injury caused by *kick-in-themeck received three weeks ago in a practice game of tuot— ball at Bozeman. Mrs. Laura Stannard yasterday was found not guilty at Ontonagon, Mich., of murdering her husbsnd, Charles S. Stannard of Greenland, last March ’ [ by strychnine poisoning. Joseph Pulitzer, proprictor of the New York World, died of heart fail- ure Sunday on board his yacht Lib- erty in theé harbor of Charleston, S. C., after an illness of two days. James J. Hill has comniended Pres- ident Taft for whatever influence the president might have exercised in the government’s now celebrated suit to dissolve the United Stnt-a.s Steel cor- poration. The people of Canada loday are observing the annual day of thanks- giving. Business halted throughout the Dominion. A feature of the day was the extensive.military maneu- vers in the Dundas valley. Joseph ~Pesch, 29, of Waltham, Minn., was instantly Kkiiled and a number of others severely shaken up whea Great Western passenger train No. 1, west bound from Chicago, ran into a freight train near Randolph, 30 miles from St. Paul, Sunday. The United Mine Workers through- out the three anthracite districts of Pennsylvania today held their annu- al celebration of Mitchell Day, in honor of the successful_termination of the great strike conducted by for- mer President John Mitcheil in 1900. Prominent. hotel men from all -parts of Oregon met in Portland to- day for the.annual coavention of their state association.” The sessions will continue two days and will be devoted to the discussion of numer- ous questions of common interest to the hotel keepers. A remarkable array of legal talent that included the ‘attorneys general of the principal Southern tobacco- growing States filled the United States Circuit Court room at New York today at the beginning of hear- ings on the reorganization plan of the American Tobacco Company. In the Federal.district court at Austin, Texas, today, a hearing was held on the petition of the Houston and Texas Central Raiiway Com- pany for an order to restrain officers of the striking shopmen at Austin, Waco and other points from inter- fering in any way with the employes of the railway. The seventh trial of Burrell Oates, the negro accused of the murder of Sol Arenoff at Dallas ia 1904, was begun at Waxahachie, Texas, today. Oates has been five times sentenced to death for the crime, but each time a new trial was granted. Holly Vann, a white man, charged with complicity in the robbery and mur- der of Arenoff, was hanged. A special session of the Butts county superior court convened at Jackson, Ga., today for the trial of William Turner and his three sons, who are charged with marder. The four men are accused of having fired from ambush upon a party of Butts county citizens returning to their homes from Indian Spring on the night of August 25, killing one of the party’ and seriously wounding another.” The most powerful fleat ever as- sembled in American waters is rid- ing at anchor in the Hudson river, all spic and span and ready for the great naval review tomorrow. The fleet comprises more than 100 vessels, ranging from the monster battleships of the dreadnought type to the tiny submarines. The New York and New Jersey shores are thronged with thousands of spectators, while oth- ers who wanted to see the fleet at closer range took passage on the steamers, ferryboats .and other craft plying up and down the river. . After her best hat has been out in a shower a woman thinks it is much more comfortable to go bareheaded. There is no place like home, which appears to be the reason why seme men spend most of their time elsewhere. Even though it rain the wise woman. weareth her new gown ere while: the cautious = maiden saveth hers till it is out of date lest per- chance she soileth it and thereby cketh a fresh one when she needeth candidate at the next national elec- Charles Lange died Sunday at Hel. her slower neighbor finisheth hers, |' . (Copyright, 1911L) FOREST FIREMEN HELD Cox Announces Intention of Main- taining Force Thronghout Winter to Burn Slashings. DECLARES JOB IS: “NO SNAP” Although the forest fire season is over, State Forester Cox expects to have-more.real work, for liis rangers and patrolmen during the next five months or so-than during the summer gseason. A large number cf the men employed during the summer have been - dismissed, but sixtean rangers and sixteen patrolmen will be on duty all winter. Their principal work will be to en- force the law requiring the burning of slashings and tops where ‘there are logging operations. Mr. Cox does not expect as much cutting of white and Norway pine as usual, but there will be considerable cutting of cedar, than last year, there .will be more small camps, and the department’s work will be more difficult. He ex- pects a decrease in the cutting of * | pine because there is a good supply on hand. ; “The work of enforcing this law will be no-snap job,” said Mr. Cox yesterday.” It requires that all slash- ings and tops shall be disposed of so as not to endanger adjcining prop- erty, but at the same time the lum- berman is to be permitted to do it in the most economical manner. “There will be so many - different conditions and therefore s0 many dif- ferent instructions necessary that the rangers will have to be exceed- ingly careful. Where cedar is cut and other timber left standing, burn- ing the slashing is a difficult job. ‘Where pine is cut clean 1t is not so difficult, but it must be done with caution just the same. To have the rangers give the wrong instructions would not only make trouble for the department, bat might endanger life and property as well Ancient Peruvian Roads. Peruvians-in 1500 had admirable public roads, one of them extending 1,500 miles. The Welsh “Lian.” Prefix “Lian” occurs in the names of more than 450 places in Wales. It is a Celtic word and signifies an in- closure. - i Work and Food. ‘Work increases the appetite, but a brain worker needs less food than a manual laborer.” It makes some folks a lot more -contented to hear of a friend’s mis- fortunes. — 3 5 A man’s view of the next panic depends largely upon whether he has just inherited a large fortune or is jout‘of a job. 1t is only by standing for every- thing from an ice cream soda to, a hat bachelor uncles juutliy thelr exmenee. < and while the total cut juay be less|’ LAND SHOW FEATURES PLANNED Moving Pictures and Special Days on Official Program- Each state represented at the Twin City Land Show has been assigned a special day when the program will be ‘conducted with special reference to that state, the governor will speak and other state officials wliil partici- vate. Visitors will be conducted to tre exhibits of the states Ly the gov- crnor and his represenatives. In the lecture hall moving pictures tak- 2n in each state will be shown and some s'.crt addresses will be made by men familiar with conditions in the states they represent. Here are the special da,s set aside by the - Northwest Development League to be devoted to the states and cities represented: Tuesday, Dec. 12, school childrens’ day. ‘Wednesday, Dec. 13, Agricultural College and University day. Thursday, Dec. 14, St. iaul day. Friday, Dec. 15, Minuesota State day. Saturday, day. Monday, Dec. 18, Nortk and South Dakota day. Tuesday, Dec. 19, Oregon day. opening day, Dec. 16, Minneapolis Wednesday, Dec. 20, Governor’s day. Thursday, Dec. 21, Washington and Alaska day. Friday, Dec. 22, Montana day. Saturday, Dec. ‘23, Idaho and clos- ing day. It will be noticed that the exposi- tion will be closed on Sunday, Dec. 17, and the management will not keep the gates open for any purpose. This will make a record in Sabbath closing as no other land show has paid any attention to whather Sun- day was observed or not. The expo- sitions are usually keui open to “give a sacred concert,” but in fact to give another day for the exposi- tion. o Exhibits gathered from Beltrami county and Northern Minnesota, by W. R. Mackenzie, will be cn exhibi- tion. Satisfactory Excuse. “l am a self made man,” said the pompous- individual, with his chest expanded. The other looked at him critically. “Your excuse is satisfactory,” he said.—Brooklyn Life. Forgiven. Gladys—Edith says you are only making love to me out of revenge because she refused you. * Rupert—Pray tell her for mé that revenge is so sweet I’ve forgiven the injury.—Judge. Russia has the fewest doctors of any civilized country. Whistles have takeu the place of gongs on New York fire apparatus, It makes a lot of difference in a boy’s patience whose sister he is waiting for. 5 In Greece male domestic servants get $10 to $15 a month, women ser- vants $6 to $8. The Chinese government estimat- ed the total population of the coun- try at the beginning of this year as $438, 425 000. He “may be called a tactless' man who watches you trim a “lawn - for _flkeflut.- hal¢ an hour and ‘then tells you that Jones really knows how to do” a Job MACKENZIE HERE TODAY ~ gram Shows That Convention Will Be a Hot One. BUSY ON RECLAMATION WORK ‘W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the Northérn Minnesota Development as- sociation, and who has charge of the exhibits from the north part of the state at the Northwest Land Show at St. Paul in December, arrived in Be- midji today. Mr. Mackenzie came from Duluth after having spent a few.days at St. Cloud, where he made the first ar- rangements for the Development as- sociation convention which is to be held in that city Decembar 8 and 9. The executive committee of the as- sociation has worked with Secretary Mackenzie on the St. Cloud program, which, it is said; will ba ike “warm- est” which the associaticn ever has had. Mr. Mackenzie gives no intimation as to what topics will be discussed or who the men are that are to talk, Wut he admits that the publication of the program on Friday or Saturday of this week will be read with in- terest. From- Bemidji Mr. Mackenzie ex- Dects to proceed to towns in this sec- tion where tracts of land are being put under cultivation by means of the provisions of the reciamation act of the last legislature. Mr. Mackenzie indicates his ap- proval of the present campaign to hold an’extra session of tue legisla- ture this winter to pass a reappor- tionment, bill and his viws on this subject will be found on auother col- umn of this issue. John J. Williams and Philip Girard were in Cass Lake on business Sun- day. Earthquakes. Andaman islanders, lowest of sav- ages, think that' earthquakes are caused by the spirits of the dead who, impatient at the delay of the resur- rection, Shake the palm trees on which they believe the earth to rest A Nose For Snuff. The §cotch are great users of snuff. It was a Scotchman who cnce asked a big nosed stranger if he took snuff and, receiving a negative reply, re- marked: “What a pity! You have such a grand accommodation.” <First Business Letter. “What “is the first thing a young business man should learn?” was asked of the successful one. “That mailing bills is not collect- ing money,” was the prompt reply.— Indianapolis News. The First Taxes. About 2,500 years ago the first taxes were levied on- the Athenian people by the legislator Solon. T Toa Mms.chusett,l man-has been granted a patent for an slectrlc lamp and reflector ‘for inspenting m in- nil!e nt shoes. i Intimation Regarding St. Cloud Pro- TEN CENTS PER WEEK. BOOM STANTON FOR GOVERNOR IN 1912 Next to Conmal@ Hawmmond, Be- midji Jurist Said to Be Most Prominent. REFUSED HONOR LAST YEAR Silence Now Marks His Attitude, Although Friends Continue to Hope. ORATORY CITED AS FACTOR Looked Upon as One of the Best Cam- paigners in Ranks of Minne- sota Democrats, Judge C. W. Stanton, of this city, looked upon last year 2s a Moses to lead the Democrats out of the wil- derness but who preferrcd the dis- trict bench to the Moses business, is again being discussed as a democratic candidate for governor. Friends of Judge Stauton have known for a long time that he would be given substantial support if he could be induced to enter state poli- | tics. Can't Hear the Call. ' To these temptations Judge Stan- ton has turned a deaf ear. Silence marks his attitude on the latest story connecting him with mnext year’s campaign, which appears in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and reads as follows: Here's the City Story. “Some of the Minnesola Democrats are talking of Judge C. W. Stanton for governor next year. Mr, Stanton for some time has been considered & possibility by the members of his par- ty, and they may fall back onhim next year. “The party leaders have made no public utterance regardiag Stanton, but Democrats from various parts of the state who have visited the capital have gone home filled with the prais- es of the Bemidji man. He Is There With the Talk, “Next to Representative Hammond Mr. Stanton is probably the most promising of the Democratic candi- dates to date. Through his residence in two or three different places in the state, and his experience as a country editor, lawyer and judge, he has made a wide acquaintance. Be- sides, it is said that he is one of the best in the party as a stump speaker. Still Hope for Harumond. “The Democrats have not given up the idea of getting Hammond to run, but there is nothing to indicate that he has changed his preiiously an- nounced inclination to run for Con- gress again. At the same (ime, some of the leaders are not sure that he would make the best run on a manu- factured issue. But the Judge Looks Good. “The party leaders, as ias been ap- parent for some time, have been planning to make the increase of the gross earnings tax, together with the failure of Governor Eberhart to call an extra session, their issue, and they have been preaching that through their papers. To drop that and pick up new issues might be em- barrassipng. But Hammong is an in- dependent sort of a person, and might not do well at all if he were to take the stump on an issue framed up by the party leaders. He has > | ideas of his own that he has studied out and likes to talk about, and that is one reason why some of the Demo- “ | crats think that Judge Stanton might do better than Mr. Hammond, al- though they all admit that the rep- resentative can go some wkhen he gets on the stump with a subject that he is posted on. That County Optxon Speech. “Mr. Stanton made a speech last year declaring for county option, but the Democrats do not think that will make much difference. It was gen- | erally taken for granted that he made the speech to avoid being nominated last year when there was no hope of being elected, and no one paid any attention to it. He Once Was an Editor. “The judge was formerly an editor at Appleton, but moved %o Interna- tional ‘Falls and opened 2 law office. In 1907 he was appointed distriet judge to fill a vacancy, but in 1908 he wag defeated by a Repeblican. In 1909 the legislature increased the number- of judges in that district, and Governor Johnson agaia appoint- €d him to the bench. la 1910 he ‘glected to the bench for a six- y;r\fiam L