Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 7, 1911, Page 1

']_“ 3 ey VOLUME 9. NUMBER 163. WAY FROM WINDOM COMES NEW PLEDGE “I Will Vote for the Hanson or Any Other Fair Bill,” Declares Sen- ator Olson. HILLMAN, SOCIALIST, JOINS IN “Record Me in Favor of Extra Ses- sion,” Writes Representative From Two Harbors. | { { DULUTH PAPER ON GOVERNOR| Evening Herald Asserts Present Ef- fort to Dodge Brainerd Promise | Will Be in Vain, Today's mail brings to the Pioneer | another positive declaration from a southern senator, A. C. Olson of Win-| dom, who voted against the Congdon bill, that he will vote a bill giving;j the North such representation as was | provided in the Hanson bill, 2 meas- ure never considered by the senate. Admits We Need It. Senator Olson says: ~1 do not believe there is any one either north or south but will ad- mit that the north is entitled to more representation and as near as I know all legislators from down this way have no objection to give you all you are entitled to, but it appears to us that the boys up there are bound to drag the large cities with them. There: is no one down here but believes the cities have about all the representa- tion they are entitled to and with that end in view, the Seven Senators bill was passed, and I think that all people whether north or south, east| or west, who believe in popular gov- ernment, would be in favor of the same and endeavor to secure its pass- age by the people, and when that is out of the way then will be the proper time to reapportion the state. But if a fair bill like the Hanson bill or what some claimed the Governor’s, I will vote for the same almost any time, but such as the Cogdon—never. | “Andrew C. Olson, Windom, Minn.” Hillman is in Favor. N. S. Hillman, of Two Harbors and | the only Socialist in the Minnesota legislature, goes on record as favor- ing an extra session but deplores the conditions which make such action necessary. To the Pioneer he says: ~I have gone on record as favoring an extra session, although 1 don’t consider it fair to those of the repre- sentatives that were there last win- ter in the interest of the common peo- ple, as we have to dig down our own pockets to pay for our keeping, and thus pay the penalty. “I am of the opinion that little can | be accomplished with a bunch of re- actionaries representing special in- terests, bought and paid to oppose the common people. Blames the People. “The people themselves ought to pay the penalty until they learn to secure legislation at the ballot box, and the press is the only means by which the people can be taught this valuable lesson. “The people of Northern Minnesota need many concessions besides reap- portionment. The state ought to aid the settlers in clearing land and get- ting this section of the state devel- oped. Cheap dynamite and power machinery that would clear land at small expense instead of leaving peo- ple to do hand labor in competition with the machine, and then place a tax on them besides for every acre thus developed, the exploitation of la- bor must cease sooner or later and as soon as the people get thoroughly aroused to their opportunity this will be accomplished, and not until then. You may record me as favoring the extra session. “Yours truly “Nelson S. Hillman, “51st Dist.” Herald on Eberhart’s Pledge. In a leading editorial under the| “What Next,” the Duluth| heading, Evening Herald has this to say: “Word comes from St. Paul, the headquarters of the opposition to an extra session of the legislature, that Governor Ebzerhart, invited to ad- dress the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association at its St. Cloud meeting Dec. 8, will not be present. “Asked to speak on ‘Justice to Northern -Minnesota,” he pleads a previous engagement, slips off to the East, and will send a substitute who will—above all things!—attempt to show that when Governor Eberhart promised the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association at its Brainerd meeting Dec. 1, 1910, that if the leg- islature failed to provide a just reap- portionment law he would call it in extra session for that purpose, he didn't promise any such thing. What Next? “What device will the opposition to an extra session produce next? “This particular one is the last we had expected. “What Governor Eberhart saxd to the thousand delegates at the Brain- erd meeting was said of his own ac- cord, perhaps in the warmth of his temporary enthusiasm for the cause of those gathered there and it was said extemporaneously and not from notes or a written speech. Perhaps if he had written out his speech and had it ‘edited’ beforehand he wouldn’t have said it. “But he did say it, and a thousand men heard him. They were men from nearly .every community in Northern Minnesota, certainly from every county. Never until this time, though nearly a year has elapsed, ihas anybody, least of all Governor! Eberhart, denied that it was sald. “The issue, if the report from. St. Paul is correct, is a question of ver- acity between Governor Eberhart and | the thousand hearers of his promise ! “Which will the state believe?” “BOOSTER” TIPS ARE RECEIVED Development Association Calls Atten- tion to St. Cloud Convention. The following under the signature of Secretary W. R. Mackenzie has been received in Bemidji: “Mr. Boos- ter: Have you thought of the coua- vention to be held at St. Cloud, U cember 8th and 9th? If not it’s time vou were making up your mind to go there and boost. The Executive C ne- mittee is very anxious to have a successful meeting as matters of great and vital interest to all of us are to be considered. Our program | will be mailed you shortly. Immi- gration Commission are now open- ing headquarters in Minneapolis and every effort must be put forth by you and all others interested in aiding the Commission to put such a dis- play from your county that will be ai credit to you. Talk this over with| others. Don’t leave it for the other fellow to do. We are going to show the world our advantages and let us all pull together JUST ONCE. It will win if we try, and don’t forget on Nov. 5th, 1912, to vote for the Good Roads Amendment.” TRAMPS BEWARE! ROCK PILE City Decides to Improve Streets With Aid of Guilty Guests. Anyone who has any rocks lying around loose can now sell them to the city of Bemidji at $4.50 a cord. In- cidentally, this action of the city!| council last night will prove a stun- ning blow to J. Raglan Patchmore | and his brother travelers of the tramp fraternity for the rocks the city purchases are going to be used to improve the streets and any tramp knows what that means. The coun- cil got the hunch that it would be better to have the prisoners guilty of minor offenses preparing the rock for street macadamizing than the present system of permitting the guil- ty guests to shake the dust of the city from their feet. So it was de- cided that a rock pile be established and that the price for rock be set at $4.50 a cord, and a cord, said Alder- man Tom Smart, who was not con- tradicted is made up of 14,000 pounds. i STUDENT EDITORS PICK NAME Decide on “Chippewa” for High School Annual Publication. “Chippewa” was the name for the high school annual that was decided upon by the school publication’s staff at a meeting held last evening.- This name was selected from a number suggested. Although - no definite plans have as yet been made for the first volume of the Bemidji High School annual, it is to contain, be-| side representative literature from| the pupils of the high school, pic- tures of all the classes and high school organizations, photos of the schools and instructors as well as pupils. The book will be gotten up on somewhat the same plan as the Minnesota University “Gopher,” and will be made as elaborate as possible. One of the features planned is the illustrating. This department is un- der the charge of Miss Lucile Steidle, a freshman; and she has already be-! gun work upon it. The staff has adopted as its motto: kind in Minnesota.” nut that the Pennsylvania judge who anisa.mamedmn. i POPOOORLRRL09009 @ & QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © LR RRICR S TR R The weather: fair Wednesday; brisk northwesterly winds. ‘While attempting to get a duck which had landed on thin ice, Thomas. Turley yesterday drowned near New Rockford, N. D. A. Delacey Wood, founder of many newspapers in Minnesota and the Da- kotas, is dying of pneumonia at St. Mary’s hospital in Duluth, H. H. Aaker has withdrawn as a | possible candidate for the Progres- sive Republican nomination for gov- ernor of North Dakota in favor of J. A. Buchanan. Congressman Morris Sheppard, one of the five candidates already entered in the contest to succeed Joseph W. Bailey in the United States senate, opened his speechmaking campaign at Paris, Texas, today. Clark ‘Sayner, aged 13, of Sayner, Wis., son of the founder of the town, while hunting near his home shot {himself in the arm. Before medical aid could be summoned he had lost so much blood that he died. Rushing waters of the swollen American river swept the Mountain Quarries bridge from its concrete piers at Auburn, Cal., last nignt, car- rying several workmen down in the {crash, killing three and seriously in- | jurying five others. Members of Immanuel Baptist church at Cambridge, Mass., last night refused to accept the resigna- tion of Rev. C. T. Richeson, their ‘pastor, who is in jail charged with The resignation was laid on| murder. the table until November 24. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard. University, started today from Boston on an eight months’ tour of the world. His intention is to spend much of the time visiting interior points in In- dia, China, Japan and the Philip- pines. Fire broke out yesterday at Crook- ston in the basement of the Empori- um Drygoods store owned by C. C. Peterson and a $10,000 stock of goods was damaged $3,000 by smoke. It originated from a cigar stub thrown into a basement window where rubbish had collected. The presence of President Taft on the list of speakers served as a mag- net to attract an immense crowd to Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, today for the opening of the annual meet- ing of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes. . The case -of McClain Cooper, the Traill county youth, who last sum- mer shot and killed Frank Ross, was called at Hillsboro, N. D., today for trial. Ross was foreman of the farm owned by the Cooper boy’s father. The shooting resulted from a quarrel over who should direct affairs in the absence of the elder Cooper. Great preparations are being made for the entertainment of President Taft, who is to stop off in Louisville tomorrow on his way to Hodgenville to attend the Lincoln Farm Memo- rial dedication. The Louisville Press Club will give a banquet in his hon- or. In addition to the president the speakers will include Henry Watter- ison and Senator W. O. Bradley. Booker T. Washington failed to convince a New York City jury that he was unjustly assaulted on March 19 last by Henry A. Ulrich, a white man. Ulrich was acquitted. Wom- en swore Washington was peeping in at their keyholes; one swore he said, “hello, sweetheart,” and Ulrich testi- fied that Washington struck the first blow. Ulrich was rearrested as a wife deserter. Mgr. Faleonio, the apostolic dele- gate, left Washington today to pay a visit of state to Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore before he leaves .for Rome to attend the Consistory at which he is to be made a Cardinal. Megr. Falconio probably will sail from New York in company with ~Arch- bishops Farley and O’Connell. All three will receive the red hat from the hands of the Pontiff at the same time. Many prominent guests from out of town are expected for the wedding of Miss Ella Clapp, daughter of Unit- ed States Senator and Mrs. Moses E. Clapp, and Dr. Roy Adams of Wash- ington, D. C. The ceremony will be performed tomorrow evening at the home of the bride’s parents. Miss Clapp will be attended by Mrs. Frank Randall of Duluth 2s matron of hon- or, and Dr. Owens of Washington, D. C., will be best man. = Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, is al've with women vis- itors who have come from the North as well as the South to attend the “The 1912 2nnual genmeral convention of the Chippewa will be the best book of its| | United Daughters of the Confederacy. | The sessions began at the Hotel Jef- ferson today with Mrs. MeSherry of _| West Virginia presiding.” A large It's dolla}s to the hole.in a dough- | delegation from New. York is waging! an active campaign in behaif of the adviged an acegsed man never to|candidacy otnrs.‘hvinm Roe m\ytothemhotmmgwwomi Schuyler (Copyright. 1811) the rigorous rights hitherto imposed on the Chinese press is a notable sign of the times. Chinese papers today | published with the greatest freedom | long accounts of the Hankow mas- sacres, giving details and attributing —_— i Hundred Passenger Craft Being Con- structed for Captain ‘MacLachlan to Use Next Summer. S Lt 9,600 CARRIED THIS YEAR ‘Work has been started on the big- gest boat for regular passenger, freight and mail service ever floated on Lake Bemidji, the craft to carry 100 passengers and to be christened “The City of Bemidji.” W. M. Mac- Lachlin, owner of the “Yankee Doodle” is the builder and owner of the new vessel and he will be in per- sonal command. “The City of Bemidji is to be 56 feet long with a 10 foot, six inch beam. It will be equipped with two be sent through the water at a rapid speed by twin screw propellers. It is to be built of oak. During the season just closed Captain MacLachlan ran the “Yan- kee Doodle” 8,000 miles and carried 9,600 passengers. In addition to this he carried mail and freight and did some logging. “I want to thank all who aided in making the season on the beautiful waters of the upper Mississippi a successful one,” says Captain Mac- Lachlan. - “My new boat is made necessary by the rapidly increasing lake traffic, caused by the growth of ’{our city and the increasing number of summer tourists.” The schedule of “The City of Be- midji,” which will start with the opening of the season mnext spring, is announced as follows: 6:30 a. m. and 5:30 p. m—Be- midji mill. 9 a. m. and 2:30 p. m—Grand Forks Bay, Riverside and the dam. 1p.m. and 7:36 p. m-—Grand Forks Bay, Lakeside, Lavina, Be- midji Beach and Birchmont Beach. The. boat now under constraction will be ready for the water as soon as the ice goes out in the spring. = COMR.GIAL CLUB TONIGHT Fmtl{eetmgml‘wolonthtonc ofUnnmnlImporume At the Commercial club room. to- night a meeting of that organization {will be held for the first time in two months and questions of unusual im- portance as well as a much accumu-. lated routime business will be dis- posed of, and President Burke urges ia large attendance. -“We have some Ithings to be considered,” said Mr. Burke “that demand llmmpt and careful attention.” Several applica- tions for membership are on file. A | plan for -a series of winter social events also will be discussed at the | called tom'der,at 8 o’clock sharp. PEKING, Nov. 7.—The removal of | BIG NEWBOATFOR BEMIDJlj engines of 56 horse power and will |30 days. the blame to the imperalist leaders for both the Hankow and Shanghai outbreaks. Asa consequence of these | publications there is increased ani-| | mosity towards the Manchu, Ad- vices from allies say the city is al- most in a condition of anarchy. The NAP IN CAFE LEADS TO CELL Thomas Kelly Breaks Window at i Brown’s and is Arrested. Because he attempted to take a nap at midnight last night on one of the tables in Brown’s cafe on Minnesota avenue Thomas Kelly was told to go hire a bed by B. Vaughn, in charge that’s what started the trouble. In munieipal court before Judge Simons this morning Vaughn testified that Kelly pushed his head through one of the restaurant windows but Kelly said he was pushed through it by Vaughn. Anyhow, the window was broken and Kelly put out. Vaughn told the court that when he found Kelly asleep on the table and awak- ened him, Kelly was irritated to the point of wanting to fight and in this desire he was accommodated in so far as a violent ejection was concerned. Patrolmen Smith and Denly soon ap- peared and took Kelly to jail. Judge Simons imposed a fine of $26.50 or This announcement was re- ceived with indignation by Kelly and he finally found himself under shel- tering arms of Deputy Sheriff Nor- man Helmer who escorted his man to the county jail for a month’s tar- Ty. NEVER DID HOP ONTO TAFT CAR Miss Cochran Says She Wouldn’t Be So Indiscrete, But Did Get Picture. Miss Bess Cochran, the Bemidji young woman who is attending the Milwaukee-Downer college "at Mil- waukee takes exception to informa- tion furnished the Pioneer by her Bemidji friends to the effect that she stepped on the Taft automobile and took a picture of the president while the car was in motion. She explains that she did step onto the running board.of the car but that the ma- chine was at a standstill. Miss Coch- ran offers the following explanation: “Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 4: I just read in the Thursday evening Pioneer an article to the effect that I ‘ran alongside the Taft automobile and jumped upon the sideboard while the car. was moving in order to get a picture of the president’ You evi- dently were misinformed and I want you to correct the article. The presi- dent was here visiting at the col- lege, and his car was at a standstill. 1, with many of the other girls had my camera ready to get a snapshot of him, if possible, when one of the president’s party invited me to step up on the running board of the car, that I might get a better view, which 1 did, and the president, seeing me, smiled and raised his hat. I wish you would correct the mistake, as I do not care to have my Bemidji friends think I am as indiscrete as your pa- per intimates. Yours respectfully, “Bess Cochran.” With two explorers at the south gathering thisenamn _which will be | PPle, the objective points for future expeditions may actually lead to pleasant’ spots. of the restaurant at thetime, and}- <rs and the customs commissioner has taken refuge in the Japanese con- sulate. Two hundred and fifty Brit- ish troops at Hong Kong have been ordered to Shanghai and 200 Russian troops to Tie Tsin. Italians are es- tablishing wireless between Shanghai Taotal has ‘escaped on foreign steam- |and Tien Tsin. DUMAS CASE UP TUESDAY Federal Grand Jury at Fergus Falls To Consider Puposky Charge at That Time. TO BE FIRST AT BRAINERD TERM On Tuesday of next week the fed- eral grand jury at Fergus Falls which is to consider charges against Dr. D. F. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake, in connection with the attempted rob- bery of the postoffice at Puposky on the night of June 16 last, will con- vene. It is expected that Judge Amidon will preside. Who will handle the prosecution for the government has not been announced. On Saturday of this week Dr. Du- mas, accompanied by his attorney, A. A. Andrews of this ecity, will leave for Fergus Falls to answer to any in- dictment which may be returned. ‘While the federal charge is not ex- Dected to allege a more serioug crime than did the civil authorities here, the penalties provided by the govern- ment are more severe, although a fine is possible as punishment. Punish- ment is fixed by a fine, imprisonment or both. The Blackduck charge against Dr. Dumas will be taken up at the open- ing of the Crow Wing term of court at Brainerd on December 6~ Judge McClenahan has notified attorneys on both sides that the Dumas case will be the first one taken up and that if there is to be a trial at all it must be held at that time. 5 The preliminary examination of Edward Gearlds, released together with his brother, Edwin, upon mo- tion by the state last week from grand jury indictments, only to be re-arrested on the same charge will come up in municipal court before Judge Simons on Monday of mnext week. It is understood that Mr. Gearlds’ attorney, George Spear of Grand Rapids, will endeavor at that time to have his client dismissed. 1 GOVERNOR’S FUND DISAPPEARS Nearly Half of Contingent Allowance Spent in Three Months. With but three months of the state’s fiscal year gone, Governor A. ‘0. Eberhart has spent nearly one-half of the contingent fund voted him by the state legislature for the year end- ing July 31, 1912, according to the books of the state auditor. There 'was available August 1, for his pleas- ure $5,000. Of the $2,019.05 al- ready has been expended. In the first place it took up a deficit of $600 from the previous year. The Red ‘Wing hearing cost $375, of which all but $75 went directly to E. O. San- { | PLACE FOUND TO BE PROPER TEN CENTS PER WEEK. POOR FARM ROAST STIRS CITY COUNCIL Investigation Results When Dieaire Tells of Language Used by Wom- an Over Telephone. Alderman Brown and Moberg Make " Personal Inspection and Find Charges Grossly Unjust. SMART FAVORS INSTITUTION Declares Bemidji is Being Imposed Upon and That Paupers Being Treated Too Well. Acting on intimations made by P. M. Dicaire and J. C. Smith that the city poor farm under the manage- ment of George Carlton is not what it should be, N. W. Brown and John Moberg, of the city council poor com- mittee, this forencon made a search- ing investigation of the institution and came to the conclusion that the accusations were unjust and that the place was being conducted in a prop- er manner. Aldermen Moberg and Brown not only authorized the Pioneer to make this statement but urged it in justice to the poor farm management, an especially good word being spoken for Mrs. Carlton. The language referred to by Mr. Dicaire in his talk to the council, given below, was admitted, -{ but Mrs. Carlton said the aggravation was great, making counter charges against the propriety of Mr. Dicaire’s conversation. All Inmates Contented. “We interviewed every one of the seven “inmates” said Alderman Brown, “and they all said that they - were being given good care and had 1o serious complaint to make.” To this Alderman Moberg added: “Our talk with the inmates was confidential. They were thus in a po- sition to talk freely and they told us that they had good beds, proper at- tention and plenty to eat. We found the place tidy, neat and in good con- dition throughout. We talked to the blind woman mentioned by Mr. Smith _ and she laughed at the suggestion that she was being abused or was to be put in the pest house.” Alderman S. C. Bailey, chairman of the poor committee was unable to join in the investigation today. Dicaire Addresses Council. Charging that he had been insulted by a woman using profanity over the telephone when he called up the eity poor farm to inquire regarding an in- mate, P. M. Dicaire last night ap- peared before the council and de- manded that official cognizance be taken of the incident. In addressing the council, Mr. Dicaire said: Over the Telephone. When I called the poor farm and asked that I be informed re- garding the condition of an aged and ill inmate being received at the farm, some person, a young woman judging by the voice, re- plied, “If you are so damned par- ticular why didn’t you take care of him in the first place.” Aged Invalid Involved. The person in whose interest Mr. Dicaire made his inquiry is John Ryn- ning, old and feeble who yesterday was taken to the poor farm upon or- ders of Dr. L. A. Ward, health officer, who found him to be in bad condi- tion from exposure and lack of food. Rynning had been existing in a hovel, a sort of a dug out and had been without proper food or protec- tion for several days. He has three daughters, none here, but one at In- ternational Falls, who is ill. What He Was Interested. “I merely asked the person at the poor house when I called up to inform me just what the condition of the old gentleman was,” continued Mr. Di- caire. “I had helped to care for the man and was interested in his case as I wanted to inform his daughter. I have no way of knowing the identity the telephone, but I want to say to this council that the taxpayers are not going to stand for any such thing —they are going to demand that the poor be properly cared for and if a person there can talk that way over | born, counsel for Ralph W. Wheelock, ‘the complaining witness. Other items the telephone, what must the lot of the unfortunate folks who are com- A Philadelphia public man thl.nh ineclude $100 for four mileage books, | pelled to exist there?” 0Ameflu.nr afl.\ehmmmrtwflluphltflwm that nmmmmmemduq on|to upset it, as far as. pucfiul nmlfi - Alleges Abuse of Blind Woman- :.-c.mmmm;mm it to of the person who swore at me over _