Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 31, 1911, Page 1

« st&hfi;@!som today ME 9. NUMBER 157. NORTH CANWIN NOW SAYS C.R MIDDLETON Baudette Delegate Declares He Will Be at St. Cloud to Fight for Extra Session. BELIEVES BILL CAN BE PASSED Puzzled at Apathy of Governor and Favors Resolution Holding Him to Pledge. d ! BOUCK ALSO IS IN FAVOR Thinks Peapportionment One of Few Things Worthy of Reconvening the Law Makers. | ATTORNEY MIDDLETOHN SAYS: “I am only too glad to do every- thing that can be done to bring about an extra session. | We must have reapportionment. “I am unable to understand the| apparent apathy of the governor. | “Quite 2 number of those who vot- | ed against reapportionment now | would wote for it. + i I expect to attend the St. Cloud | conven'lon and will ‘most heartily | support 2ny resolution demanding of | Governor Eberhart that he redeem publicly adds his veice to protest against a continua- tion of the present unjust represen- tation under which this part of the state now struggles. It comes from Attorney C. R. Mid- dleton of Baudette. Mr. Middleton is a Beltrami county | delegate to the St. Cloud convention and he indicates that he shall im-} prove the opportunity to get into the fray at that time. Thinks Bill Can Be Passed. bill can That a reapportionment be passed at an extra session this winter, is Mr. Middleton's firm con- viction and he is just as positive that | a demand should be made upon the governor to insure just such action. Attorney Middleton strikes from | the shoulder and so far as the Pio- | tionment last winter would be glad for an opportunity to pass upon the|opinion handed down “yesterday by supreme court of the 'hmted | States. sy .convention, ing the coming winter. We must have reapportionmeént, we should have necessary railroad legislation and a gocd many other things that can be accomplished if the governor can be induced to call tke law mak- ers together. : Puzzled at Governor’s Attitude. “I am unable to comprehend the Northern Minnesota Development as- sociation since its organization, and was present at the Brainerd meeting last winter when th: zovernor in po- sitive and unmistakable terms assert- ed that if the legislature failed to tra session for that purpose. Believes Bill Now Could Pass. “Some of the actions of that leg- islature last winter doubtful if a fair reapportionment|®! still is, but many things have tran- spired since its adjournment which lead me to believe, and in fact, to feel{of certain that quite & number of the members who were against Teappor- matter again, fair and just to ull parts of the state. ment association to be held at St. Le redeem his pledge and call the leg- winter for the express purpose of | considering and passing a reappor- tionment bill, a bill that will be fair to the northern part as well as to all other parts of the state. Commends Pioneer’s Stand. “I heartily commend the stand the Bemidji Pioneer is taking and, with the Duluth Herald, and nearly all be brought to bear at th- St. Cloud{£® Minnesota is only demanding what|P® is just and fair, and that there north part of the state. E “Respectfully yours, “C. R. Miadleton.” Representative Bouck Favorable. Representative C. W. Royalton says: “Your letter of October 17th was duly received. Unless a special ses- sion of the legislature could be con-| o fined to the discussion of a few of neer has been zble to ascertain he; will be backed in his position by the | remainder of the Beltrami delega-| tion. | Middleton Gives His Views. Attorney Middleton's leiler in full follows: | governor’s calling a special session | apportionment but do not think the the most important issues, such as reapportionment and railroad rate legislation, I should be opposed to the at this time. “I am very much in favor of re- State should go to the expense of an ~Baudette, Minn., Oct. 26 My dear Mr. Wilson: “I have your valued favor of lhe‘ 21st inst., and am only too glad to assure you of my co-operation in any- | thing and everything that can be| legitimately done to bring about an| extra session of the legisiature dur-| extra session unless it could be con- chance now to be enacted than it had | in at regular session. “Yours truly, “Chas. W. Bouck.” " s D., today for the trial of Ernest C. Rail ........................... 4 el ilway. Editor of Tomahawk Declares Oppressed Northern Minnesota ; f?g,fi'fi;&;fii?fi?fii ;i:r;‘;c‘frs;g haul is $1.75 per thousand with an Should Rise in Her Might and Strike at Once. : |alleged murder vocurred last summer | #dditional charge of 50c per thou- A measure o important as reapportionment should mot be : |in the immigration deteation hospi- :::i e b suffered to hang in suspemse by reason of sectional opposition : |tal at Neche, on the international poss gfliz 95, per tho ‘m;‘n 4,7 whil and political expediency. i bmu?dury Iine and‘ Spractedmncy ab th;m;:;zh fikep < What the legislature should have done at its last session was tention on both sides of tue border. to have enacted legislation upon reapportionment. The political : Taft surprised a large audience at|commodity with a less distance to parties were pledged to this in their platform but the party in : the Hamilton club in Chicago yester-|the Bemidji Lumber Company mill power failed to keep its promise and some members of the mi- : day by what most of ‘the hearer’s|of about seven miles. nority failed to keep theirs. : construed as an admission of the pos- B Governor Tberhart addressing the Northern Minnesotu De- sibility of republican defeat in the|ly no personal interest in the Be- . velopment association in Brainerd last December had this to : coming national election. “Now We!|midji Lumber Company oc any lum- say: “If such a thing is possible that reapportionment does : |are at, some people think, a crisis in|ber company at this point but-we are not pass in the next sessiom I WILL CALL AN EXTRA SBS- :' |the republican party with reference|fully convinced that this discrimina- SION.” 2 to its continuance in the guidance of |tion will reduce the life of the saw Nothing was done at the last session of the legislature except : the nation. I am hopeful that the|mills at Bemidji and in protection to exhibit sectional and individual selfishness, and it is now up : good people of .the country, who|of our vested property rights affect- : to the members from Southern Minnesota to join forces with : know a good thing when they see it, : : those of the Northern section, and recognize the imperative voice : have only chastened us in an off year | ment of this rate to the end that this : of justice, and indicate to Governor Eberhart his duty to call an : |in order that we may be better here-|timber may be sawed.at this point. | extra session and thus to enable it to pass upon reapportion- : after, but with no intention of shift- A ment. & : ing from the shoulders that are fitted |son. of such discrimination ih the Every journal and newspaper published in the ravished ter- : to bear the burdens of present prob- past much timber rightly tributary : ritory should urge with might and main the governor to keep : lems and carry them to successful so-|to the Bemidji mills has been taken : the promise of his party, and his own individual'promise to the : |jution to those which are untried and |elsewhere for manufacture. Northern Minnesota Development Association to call an extra : which have new theories of action : session in case of the failure of the regular session to legislate : that we do not believe in, and that| way company will not be damaged : upon the question. : we don’t believe the people believe|by this adjustment because of the 2 In the spirit of patriotism Governor Eberhart should set agide : in. However, if so be it that they |continued prosperity of Bemidji. We : his jaunts made for purely political and personal interests and desire to make the change, we shall | feel confident that with our saw mills | : call legislators into extra session and urge with all the force : |loyally support the new government |in continual operation for ten years, of his eloquence the duty of the extra session to pass a favorable : under any conditions, with hope it|the development of the surrounding and just bill of reapportionment, and thus to give Northern : will endure to the benefit cf the|agricultural country will assure the Minnesota its right proportion of members. 2 country, -but with conselation that, 5 Under the present distribution representation is not equal, : {if after one trial the people think is not morally and constitutionally legal. : they ought to: go back to the old par-|by.” : Governor Eberhart, it is up to you to listen to the small silent ty that has served them so well in ¢ voice of conscience and the larger and louder voice of the peuple. i the progressive days of the nation,|bnsiness men: : —White Earth Tomahawk. & they will do so, we can bear thal., -y undergo an apparent apathy of the governor. I|the hope of restoring his sight. {have attended every session of the and would now sup-|the {port a bill that would be reasonably | it would seem that the|Versity. Go : ks governor must feel compelled to sit|t°F Watson and ‘a mumber of other| Walker. up and take notice that Northern|leading men of the State will also The woods on the mountainside| | near Catskill where legend says Rip Van Winkle nap, are ablaze. been burned over. Secretary 8f Agriculture Wilson pass a just and fair reapportionment | has approved the recommendation of bill at the regular session he would|the special committee that all 13,000 call that body together again in ex-|employes of the department of agri- culture be vaccinated against typhoid fever. - took his “Ten thousand members within a made it seem |Ye3T and & minimum wage scale of This motto has been |bill could ever be passed by that|2dopted by Chicago stenographers in body, constituted as it then was and | ‘Reir campaign for better pay. The un: 2 a week.” ion ‘now has 300 members. Complete control of all rallroads the country by the interstate com: such control is"foreshadowed- in the The 48th anniversary of the ac- Will Be There to Fight. | cession of King George to the throne “I expect to attend the Com,(,‘nmn?of Greece, was celebrated throughout of the Northern Mignesoia Develop- tPe country today. tion of the emperor of Austria-Flun- Cloud in December, and will most|E2rY King George has reisned longer | heartily support any resolution de-|tPaD any other living sovereign of | manding of Governor Eberhart that|ZUurope. Because he allowed his prejudice | islature together again the coming|against automobiles to carry him to the extent of drawmg a pistol on- attire in antxclpatxon of fhe commg of the papers in Northern Minnesota|Of President Taft and a number of fighting along the same or similar|Doted educators, tomorrow, for the |lines, and with such pressure as may | [auguration of Dr. Thomas E. Hogg s president of West Virginia in attendance. Goat's milk is the latest rémedy|T2iled today; one to General Man- should be no delay in his taking such | for the drink habit. action as will redeem his pledge.and | Abbott, superintendent |as is his duty to the pecple of the|partment of health and heredity of | the general traffic manager of the the Boston Woman's Christian Tem- 3 perance union, declares that it is a| .0 he state Railroad and Warehouse specific and recommends that the city keep a herd of goats in Franklin park and distribute the milk once or | St21c¢e Were the same and read as twice a day to enebriates throughout Bouck of |the city. Dr. Adeleide M. After serving the State of Connec-|which have come to our knowledge ticut for 40 years as supervisor of | relative discriminating rates on logs hangings, George A. Bisden, warden | in favor of ‘Walker, Minn., as against the State prison at Wethersfield, ceases his duties tonight and retires on a pension granted in recognition|and Leech Lake Lumber Company of his long and faithful service. Since | purchase about twenty million feet 1894 all executions have ‘aken place |of government timber lying along at Wethersfield, and it has been Bis-|the Great Northern Railway Com- den’s duty to place the rope around pany’'s tracks and around Bena, the neck of the condemned and ad-|Minn. Y Jjust the black cap. Admission Day, the anniversary of |-imately is forty-two fined to the matters T mentioned, I|the admission of Nevada to the Un- Great Northern and 4,367 feet on the | doubt very much whether a reap-|ion in 1894, was observed as a semi-| M- & I Railway. | portionment bill would have a better | holiday throughout the, State today| TemOving these ‘ The| Minn,, courts, banks and other public insti- | L@ke Lumber Company at Walker, tutions remained closed. A special term of court for Pembi- ——== | Da county convened at Pembina, N. accordance with custom. % |friends, that is all.” = = twenty-year Many acres have With the excep- Governor Glasscock, Sena- of the de-|Sot? & International at Brainerd, one in Lnndon in e L R 4 D 4 A TSN 1 ISES PROTEST| Bemidji ig’ n arms because of - |&lleged railway rate discrimination on the shipment-of !3@ in favor of Three communications, each s:gnedv by leading business men here, were ager W. H. Gemmell of the Minne- Great Northern at St. Paal and one Commission at St. Paul. These communications in sub- follows: “We, the undersigned business men of Bemidji, do hereby present facts Bemidji, Minn. “The Bemidji Lumber Company The distance of Bena, Minn., to the Walker sawmill dock, approx- miles on the The rate made for logs irom Bena, to the saw mill of the Leech Minn., is $1.75 per thousand feet. “The distance from Bena, Minn., to the Bemidji saw mill dock is 35 miles and 4,900 feet on the M. & 1. The rate made for this This makes the Lumber Company pays $1.75 per thousand for the same | “We allege that we have absolute- ed thereby, we request a fair adjust- “We allege further, that by rea- “We further allege that your rail- stability of our city and your inter- ests as well as ours, ennse:ved there-. This is slgned by tha following M. E. Smith, rshll !nmber. Gill DEFECTIF <y g and jewelry; L. L. Berman, Bemidji Emporium; Chas. Nangle, general merchandise; 0. C. Rood & Co., dry goods and shoes; J. P. Lahr, furni- ture; W. G. Schroeder, general mer- chandise; Given Hardware Co., hard- ware; Graham & Doran, meat mar- ket; E. A. Schneider, merchant; R. F. Murphy, furniture; P. J. O’Leary, dry goods; A." G. Wedge, Jr., vice- president of the First National Bank; H. C. Bfer, cashier Security State Bank; J. L. George, county auditor; Geo. E. Kreatz, contractor; E. H. Denu, Bemidji Daily Pioneer; Roe & Markuson, grocers; Ed. Netzer, drugs; Wm. McCuaig, merchant; O’Leary & Bowser, dry goods and clothings C. E. Battles, hardware; A. B. Palmer, hardware; Northern Na- tional Bank. SAGENG TO MAKE SPEECHES Minnesota Senator to Begin Tour at Grand Forks, Nov. 6. Progressive republicanism will have an eloquent advocate in Ole Sa- geng of Dalton, Minn., who begins a speaking tour of eastern North Da- kota on Nov. 6, says the Grand Forks Daily Herald. Senator Sageng is one of the most eloquent and forceful speakers in| Minnesota and has made a remark- able record for himself in construe- tive progressive legislaiion in the legislature of the Gopher state. It will be welcome news to the many who know him in this section that ,|he has been secured as one of the great corps of speakers who are to appear in North Dakota during the coming campaign. The senator is a warm admirer of Robert M. LaFollette whom he char- acterizes as one of the greatest statesmen, who has ever taken a part in American public life. He is en- thusiastically for his selection as the nominee of the republican party for president. A detailed schedule of Senator Sageng’s tour will be pub- lisheq later. COMES TO OPEN NEW STORE J. B. Hanson-of Cohassett to Start| Grocery on Minnesota Avenue. | J. B. Hanson, who recently came here-from Cohassett has leased the building on Minnescta avenue form- erly-occupied by the Soo officers and will open a modern grocery store stocked with a complete line of staple and fancy goods. The store is located between First and Second streets near the Soo right of way. Contractors are now at work remodel- ing the building, erecting shelving and getting the room ready for occupancy. It will be opened for business about November 6. Mr. Hanson was, formerly connected with the Cohasset Mercantile Company and has followed this line of work for more than five years. He will move his family to Bemidji as soon as he can find suitable quarters. He has a wife and four children. The Same Old Issus. .He had just launched the momen- tous question. The preity girl shook her head. *No.” she replied. Then she blithely added, “But we can- always remain good friends.” = - He smiled bitterly as he re-ched for bis hat. ‘Reciprocity wlfllmt menflon bmmm.mm BEMIDJI TO HAVE SLEEPER Minnesota & International Soon to Determine Which Days in Week to Put it On. DAILY SERVICE UNWARRANTED It soon will be possible for passen- gers bound from the Twin Cities for Bemidji to retire without thoughts |of “its 4 a. m.—hus{le out for Be- midji,” haunting their brief dreams. For some time it has been planned by the Minnesota & International management to put a special sleeper on for the accommodation of the Be- midji trafic, but the business six nights out of the week has not, the officials say, warranted such an ar- rangement. Today, Traveling Auditor Schultz of the Brainerd Minnesota & Inter- national general offices, was in Be- midji and told of a new plan soon to be tried. This plan is to pick two nights a week on which a sleeper direct to Bemidji, and to be set off here, shall be run. What nights will be chosen have not as yet been decided, but it is the desire of the railroad to chose the two nights most convenient to the traveling public. “When these nights have been des- ignated,” said Mr. Schultz, “many persons will make it a point to use them for travel.” At the union depot here a side- track has been put in so that the special sleeper could be set off and the passengers would then be en-| abled to sleep as long as they wished in the morning and awakening find themselves at the depot. $10,000 OF STATE FOR SCHOOLS Beltrami’s 3,462 Pupils Caunse This Amount of Aid to Be Given. The regular state aid to Beltrami county schools, known as the “Oc- tober apportionment,” this year, amounts to $10,386 according to State Superintendent of Public In- struction C. G. Schulz, who, in an of- ficial communication to County Au- ditor George, says: “By the annual report of W. B. Stewart, county su- perintendent of schools, Beltrami county is entitled to share in the October 1911, state apporiionment of current school funds for 3,462 pu- pils, at the rate of $3 per pupil, mak- ing a total of $10,386.” According to the report submitted to the state superintendent, of this total of 3,- 462 pupils 1,731 are in the Bemidji high school and the graded schools of the county and 1,731 are in the ru- ral schools. The high school of Be- midji (meaning the entire school population of this city’s schools) has 1,035 pupils drawing apportionment and there are 696 pupils in the grad- ed schools outside of Bemidji, as fol- lows: Nymore, 175; Blackduck, 225; Beaudette, 186; Spooner, 110. Precocious Youth. ‘Walter {aged five) — Papa. when 1 grow up may 1 get married? Papa— My son, 1 regret to see you anticipate trouble so early in life.-Chicago News. up a headstone over its grave—Dick ens. B, SR B POLICE TO PREVENT HALLOWE'EN RAIDS Traps Laid in Effort to Save Prop- erty and All of City to Be Guarded. CURFEW ORDINANCE IN FORCE Chief Joe Harrington Warns Par- ents Children on Strest Will Lead to Arrest. SUPERSTITIONS OF THE DAY iIn Days Gone By, Ireland and Wales Regarded, Ooccasion as Index to Future. { Hallowe'en in Bemidji will bring with it the usual Hallowe en stunts which includes merry parties, danc- | es, general jolly making and, the po- | lice fear, destruction of property. | In an effort 1o prevent the expen- sive pranks of boys, unusual precau- tions have been taken for the pro- tection of property. All parts of the { Police Harrington nouncement: To Enforce Curfew. Not only will the usual Hal- lowe'en raids of destructive boys be prevented but we shall en- force the curfew ordinance, which means that all children must be off the streets at 8 o’clock. 1 want to warn the par- ents that we shall make arrests. makes this an- In addition to this private citizens, victims of Hallowe’en parties in the past_have laid plans which probably will mean trouble for some of the youth. Traps of different kinds have been laid. In the Olden Days. Hallowe’en, night of spirits, has long been observed. Iu former times, in Ireland and Scotland it was firmly believed that children born on Hallowe'en preserved through their youth the power to converse with spirits. It was also considered the | best time during the whole year to discover just what sort of a husband or wife one is to be blessed (or other- erwise) with. There were various methods of de- termining this superstition, the most common and one that is said to be practiced today in our own Southern States is that of walking down stairs backwards with a mirror up to the left shoulder, and holding a candle in the right hand, and the intended wife or husband’s face was supposed to appear in the glass. Other Superstitions. In the early days many other sup- erstitious practices were irdulged in on this evening in Wales, and many are said to be carried out to this day, although superstition has died away. In those days each family built a large bonfire near their home, and as it was dying out each member of the family would throw a white stone into it, the stones being marked for further identification. Then all said their prayers and went to bed, and in the morning they tried to find all the stones again. If any stones were missing it betok- ened that the owner of it would die within a year. Followed By Fire and Feast. These bonfires in Wales were of- ten followed by feasting on nuts, ap- ples, etc., and by the playing of games. Sometimes nuts were thrown into the fires, and in the belief that they indicated prosperity to those who threw them if they burned well, and the reverse if they simply smoul- dered 2nd turned black. - Love Tests. It was also customary to place nuts on the grate side by side in pairs, and named for supposed lovers. If a nut burned quietly and brightly, it indi- cated sincerity and affection. If it cracked and jumped it indicated un- faithfulness, while if the nuts burned together the youth and maiden would be married. Then again, two hazel nuts were thrown into the hot coals by a maiden. She secretly gave a lover’s name to each. If one of the nuts burst, then that lover was un- faithfyl; but if it burned with a ‘When you bnryln!muflydn m‘:a steady glow until it became ashes, she knows that her lover’s faith is city will be guarded and Chief of .