Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 8, 1911, Page 1

SO VOLUME 9. NUMBER 164. MILBACK, MAN OF ILLUCK, LOSES HOME House Near Solway, Together With Contents, Destroyed By Fire of TUnknown Origin. CASH IN HOUSE ALSO BURNED Wife Takes Children to School and Returns to Find Building She Had Left in Ashes. OWNER HURT LAST WINTER Fell 40 Feet From Telephone Pole, And Was Thought to Have Been Fatally Injured. Sometime between & and 10 a. m. yesterday the home of Peter Milbach, in the town of Jones, 6 miles south of Solway, was completely destroyed together with its contents, by fire. When Mrs. Milbach returned short- | 1y before 10 o’clock, after having tak- en her two children to school, she found her home a smouldering mass of ashes. The lost is placed at $1,000, and there is no insurance. Hurst By Fall Last Winter. Mr. Milbach is the telephone line- man who. on in January last—on Friday the 13th—fell from a tele- phone pole at Seventh street and Be- midji avenue, and received injuries which at first were believed to have been fatal and which confined him to the hospital for several weeks. In this fall Milbach had his nose, jaw, and skull fractured. He recov- ered, and continued his work for the telephone company and at the same time has attempted to start a small farm near Solway. Lost All of His Savings. In the fire of yesterday Mr. Mil- bach not only lost his home and his furniture, but a considerable sum in cash which had been drawn from a bank to be used in the purchase of cattle. ~It simply wiped out everything I had.” said Mr. Milbach, regarding the fire today. “There was no one present at the time my house burned, as my wife had taken the children to school and 1 was working here in Be- midji.” Origin of Fire Unknown. How the fire started is unknown. Mrs. Milbach says the fire in the stove had gone out when she left, but offers the possible explanation that' perhaps the stove pipe which ran along the ceiling, had become stuffed up and that it contained sparks of fire which ignited the wood- work. “I had been to Bemidji the day be- fore and had drawn money from the bank to be used in buying some cows, and this together with my watch and other personal effects, were consumed by the fire. 1 lost everything I had with the exception of the clothes I had on.” May Start Fund for Milbach. Persons in Bemidji who heard of the fire today, suggested that a fund in behalf of Mr. Milbach, who has been so unfortunate in the past year, be started. And plans for such a pro- ceeding may be decided upon. The Pioneer would be glad to lend what aid it can in pushing such a movement and by giving it all pos- sible publicity. Jud La Moure Not Dying. Nisswa, Minn., Nov. 8.—The first reports sent out about the serious illness of Jud La Moure appear to have been greatly exaggerated as the well known North Dakota senator is suffering solely from an attack of rheumatism which has been of an- nual occurrence, and although severe is not deemed to be of a grave or seri- ous nature. Whittier Report Held Up. Members of the state board of con- trol will go to Duluth Thursday to attend the three days’ conference of The report charities and correction. on the charges, filed against F. A. Whittier, superintendent of the state training school for boys at Red Wing, will not be made until after the re- turn of the board. Pennington Names Three. POPOPPPVO900000@ 4 QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © POOOOOOOEOOOOOO The weather: Thursday continued cloudy, with probable snow; mod- erate temperature; variable winds. Maine will continue to be a dry state. Official returns as accepted by Governor Plaisted give the drys a majority of 758 votes. After five weeks’ time there are but five men in the jury box in the McNamara trial at Los Angeles and even they are still subject to chal- lenge. The most disastrous fire in Grand Forks this year started in the Hart Grocery store at 2 o’clock this morn- ing in the Norman block. The dam- age is estimated at $10,000. | The Guild of St. Barnabas, com- | poscd of nurses of the United States, Canada and several other countries, assembled in Chicago today for its twenty-fifth annual council meeting. A. Delacy Wood, founder of 32 newspapers in the northwest, died of pneumonia in a Duluth hospital last | night. He was born in 1855. He organized the Minnesota Editorial as- sociation. John Smith, for 30 years at the head of the Mormon church, and| nephew of Josefh Smith, its founder! and first president, died at Salt Lake City last night of pneumonia. He! was 79 years old. i James Savage, a taxicab driver, | who several months ago ran down !aud killed William H. Stanford, an| { aged druggist, on one of the principal | streets of Newark, N. J., was placed | on trial there today on a charge of | manslaughter. ! { ! An island suddenly has risen from‘ the sea in the Serpent’s Mouth Strait | between Trinidad and the Venezue- lan ‘coast. The phenomenon was pre- ceded by an extraordinary commotion in the sea, from which burst huge volumes and smoke. Marcus Vanrie, aged 32, while; hunting alone in the country ten miles north of Kewanee, Ill., was killed by the discharge of his gun while he was crawling through a hedge fence. His clothing caught was burned. The proposed canal across the State of Florida, which has been under dis- cussion for many years, was brought one step nearer to becoming an ac- complished fact today, when the board of army engineers appointed to determine the most feasible route met in Jacksonville to prepare its final report to the War Department. An event believed to be without precedent in the history of Freemas- onry was furnished at a special com- munication of the Masonic order at Palmyra, Ill,, today, when the degree of Master Mason was conferred on | seven brothers. The brothers ate Al- bert, Morris, Robert, Charles, James Edward and William Ross, all farm- ers, living near Palmyra. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia which convened for its au- tumn session at Richmond today is expected to take up next week the appeal in the case of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., the young man now un- der sentence of death for the murder of his wife. Should a writ of error be allowed it is probable that Beat- tie’s second trial will be set for the January term. : The first postal savings banks in the Panama Canal Zone were opened today. The establishment of the pos- tal savings system here is very grati- fying to residents who have long de- sired to put their savings in the hands of the government for safe- keeping. The system established here differs materially from that in the states, in that no interest will be paid on the deposits, the object be- ing merely to provide a depository for the funds of the Canal Zone in- habitants. At the Frankfort, Ky., state capi- tol this afternoon President Taft, Henry Watterson and other speakers of national fame delivered eulogies of the deeds and virtues of Abraham Lincoln.. The occasion was the un- veiling of the statue of Lincoln, 4 gift of J. E. Speed of Louisville to the State in which the “Great Emanci- pator” first saw the light of day. President Taft and his party arrived at Louisville from Cincinnati this morning and with the other distin- guished guests of the occasion, in- cluding several visiting governors, were entertained at luncheon at the home of Governor and Mrs. Willson. Immediately after luncheon the presi- dent was escorted to the capitol for the unveiling exercises. The Lincoln statue unveiled today is of bronze and was designed by A. A. Weinman, the well-known New York sculptor. A Thief River Falls, Nov. 8.—The pleasing feature in connection with following have been named delegates|the unveiling was the presence as in- from Pennington county to the St. Cloud convention Minnesota Development association: Mat Barzen, Peter Hedeen and Dan- iel Shaw, all of Thief River,Falls. vited guests of a score of former| of the Northern |slaves belonging to the Speed family. At the conclusion of the exercises President Taft shook hands with.each 40{ the aged negroes. " (Copyright, 111.) “The spirit of fraternal helpfulness pervades the commonwealth to. such an extent as to make the year 1911 epochial,” says Governor Eberhart in his Thanksgiving proclamation, which was issued yesterday. The governor says that not only in agri- cultural and industrial lines has the year been a prosperous one, but it has been attended by distinet ad- vantages in practical education, de- velopment of resources and moral up- lift. The proclamation, fixing November 30 as Thanksgiving day, reads as fol- lows: “In conformity with long estab- the blessings enjoyed during the year now drawing to a close and to ex- press their appreciation of the same. In few states of this nation have there been mere favoring conditions in all lines of activity than in Min- nesota. Material prosperity in agri- culture, in commerce, in jndustrial pursuits has been attended by dis- tinct advances in practical education, in development ‘of resources, and in moral uplift as applied to civic af- fairs. H “The spirit of | fraternal helpful- lished %isage and pursuant to the pro- | ness, of consideration for the rights; = B > clamation of the president of the Lof others, and of fairness and justice | democratic governors in New Mexi- United States, it is fitting to sum up |in all the relations of life pervades co. the community to-a most encouraging |extent and marks this year of our Lord, 1911; as epochial in the history of this great and growing common- | wealth. “Therefore, I, Adolph O. Eberhart, Governor of ‘the state of Minnesota, earnestly recommend that all the peo- ple of Minnesota observe Thursday, thanksgiving, in sincere acknowledg- ment of the manifold blessings vouchsafed by the Almighty during the past year.” ire o e powace-ana 3 voas CUPS UP- AS SOIL PRIZES Sterling Silver Trophies Offered to Farmers By Northern Land Show at St. Paul. ! BEST WHEAT TO BE REWARDED Growers of choice grains, grasses, fruits and other soil products in the American Northwest will be reward- ed for their trouble in furnishing samples to their states, sectional or Commercial club exhibits at the St. Paul Land Show according to an an- nouncement made by the Land Show management, stating that forty hand- some sterling silver trophy cups, val-| ued at $4,000 have been offered by the St. Paul Association of Commerce and some enterprising business firms. To secure one of these cups the Northwestern Land Show does not require the exhibitor to go to the trouble nor expense which is usually necessary to win a prize. All the grower has to do is to furnish the sample to those in charge of the state exhibit or the Commiercial club which has charge of the display of a par- ticular section at the show to be held in St. Paul, Dec.12 to 23. These are some of the trophy cups offered at the St. Paul show by the Association of Commerce: Cup for the best state exhibit, open to Minnesota, North and South Da- kota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. Cup for the best sectional exhibit from American Northwest. Cups for best half bushel Minne- sota wheat; for best bushel of pota- toes grown in Minnesota; for best ten ears of corn grown in Minnesota and the best bushel of oats grown in Minnesota. For North Dakota cups are offered for the best bushel of wheat and the best half bushel of flax. In South Dakota the cups are for the best half bushel of -wheat and the best ten ears of corn. Chas. W. Clark of Montana has offered ten cups for various Montana products and the St. Paul Association of Commerce will give a cup for the best half bushel of oats grown in the Gallatin Valley. Cups are offered for the best bush- €l of apples grown in Washington or Oregon and for the best sample of al- falfa grown in either of these states. In Idaho a cup is offered fof the best five boxes of commercial apples. The Great Northern Railroad offers a cup to the person who furnishes offers a_cup_for'the best bushel of winter wheat grown in the American | Northwest. Through Jno. C. Kelly, manager, the Sioux City Tribune offers a hand- some silver trophy cup fer the best showing made from an acre of alfalfa |in South Dakota. CROOKSTON ELECTS SOCIALIST H. L. Larson Elected Mayor Over Re- publican Opponents by 91 Votes. Crookston, Minn., Nov. 8.—By a majority of 91 votes, H. L. Larson, socialist, was elected mayor of Crook- ston today over Mayor Allen McKin- non, the candidate on the citizens’ or saloon ticket, and Werlow, the repub- lican candidate, backed by the Young Men’s Progressive club. Lowe and McKinnon split the other vote equal- ly. McKinnon having sbout 5 votes more than Lowe. George Christianson, socialist, was also elected from the Sixth ward and John Kolbe, socialist, is neck and neck with Walter Stone for alderman at large. The armory bonds lost. Larson is a member of the firm of Larson & Larson, contractors and proprietors of the Crookston Sash and Door factory. He is a successful business man. DECIDE TO BACK MACKENZIE Minneapolis Commercial Club to Give Immigration Office Aid. The public affairs committee of the Commercial club voted today to get back of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment league, which is to estab- lish exhibition quarters in Minneapo- lis. Manager W. R. Mackenzie told the committee that the league would ‘meed financial assistance and the committee at its noon meeting voted to get Minneapolis to do its share to- ‘ward maintaining the bureau.—Min- neapolis Journal. ¥y In the trial of Mrs. Minnie L. Mur- dock and Charles Merkle at Norfolk, Va., today, developments may come to light to show the case a parallel of the celebrated case of Mrs. Belle Gunnpess, the Indiana woman found guilty several years ago of conducting a “murder farm.” Like the Gunness ‘woman Mrs. Murdock is suspected of luring men to her little farm on the outskirts of Norfolk and then mur- dering them for their money. The Specific charge upon which Mrs. Mur- dock and her employe, Merkle, are tp be tried is the alleged murder of Harry Harding, 2 sailor, whose body was found in a shallow grave on the Murdock farm early last summer. Search of the Murdock house is said to have. brought to light scores of the best samples for a state exhibit in each of the seven states, while the {0 Donnet Shoe Company o{s:.f-,ul matrimonial 2 letters from men with whom the woman had corresponded _through L-J- HADLEY HEARD FROM Studebaker Man Who Recently Stopped Council From Street Clean- - ing Purchase, at Mankato. IN NEW TANGLE OVER FLUSHER The following from the Mankato Daily Free Press will be read with special interest in Bemidji because L. J. Hadley of the Studebaker com- pany recently appeared before the council here in an effort to sell street sweeping machinery to the city and as a-result of his agitation caused previous bids of the Austin Manu- | facturing company of Chicago to be thrown out and new bids asked. At present Bemidji is delaying purchase of street cleaning machinery pending an investigation of work done in oth- er cities. The Free Press says: “L. J. Hadley of Minneapolis, rep- resenting the Studebaker company, appeared before the city council at its meeting this morning to take up the matter of “street flushing. Some time ago the Studebaker company sold to the city a street flusher with a guarantee of one year. During the course of the year $80 has been paid out for repairs, and as the company guaranteed the flusher, the -city sought to have this money refunded. There was a balance of $39 due the Studebaker company on this machine and after Commissioner Humiston had taken the matter up, a compro- mise was agreed upon, whereby the bill for $80 would be cancelled and the company’s bill of $50 would be cancelled, thus making both bills cancelled. Some complaint has been made of .late by the citizens and of- ficials about the flusher, claiming that the force of the water wears {away the brick and the cement be- tween the brick. “Mr. Hadley then gave a little talk about -the success of the flusher in other cities where it is used on brick pavement. He stated that Faribault has a flusher and after using it for some time, thought so well of it, that the mayor would not resort to i the old time method of sweeping the streets, and so well satisfied. were the council that the mayor wrote a letter to the mayor of Bemidji rec- ommending the flusher as the only sanitary and economic method of sweeping the streets. Fargo also seems well satisfied with the flusher. It reduces the sprinkling cost and does the work better, so it is claim- ed. Commissioner Humiston, in 2 letter to the company, stated that so far there has heen 1o reason for complaint in Mankato as with the flusher in operation and a one-horse (Continued on last pag») November 30, as a day of prayer and| \GOVERNOR FOSS- AGAIN i Pothier-By Largely As Taft 'MISSISSIPPI SOCIALISTS Elections held yesterday in many Istates and cities throughout the Massachusetts, Kentucky and Mississippi, a republican governor in Maryland and Rhode Island, a republican assembly in New York, which will challenge the continu- ance of Governor Dix's policies; a New Jersey legislature with majori- ties probably not in accord with Gov- ernor Woodrow Wilson; with results of the state elections in Maryland and New Mexico still in doubt. Returns received late this after- noon show that the election of Bold-| borough, republican candidate for governor of Maryland, is assured by plurality of not less than 3,000. The democratic candidate for gov-| ernor of New Mexico was elected, but the legislature will be republican, in- suring the election of two republican | | United States senators. ;New Jersey Legislature Republican. In New Jersey both houses of the | legislature will be republican. | The solid republican congressional | delegation from Kansas was broken by the election of Joseph A. Taggart, a democrat, in the Second district. One of the most astonishing sur- country resulted in the election of | [the county board. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. New Mexico Elects Democratic Governor but the Legis- lature Will Have Republican Majority to Elect United States Senators. WINS IN' MASSACHUSETTS {Taken As Rebuke to Tariff But Rhode Island Flects Increased Majority Supporter. ALL BUT ELECT LESTER | bus. President Taft cast his vote at | Cincinnati. Marked socialist strength devel- lnped at various points, notably in Ese\'eral of the municipal counties of iOhio‘ where ten cities elected so- cialist mayors, also in Schenectady, N. Y., where a socialist mayor and socialist member of the state assem- bly, and in Mississippi, where a so- | cialist candidate for lieutenant gov- |ernor polled a considerable vote. lCan{on and Lima were among the | Ohio cities electing socialists. Democrat Wins in Kansas. Four congressmen were elected to fil vacancies; namely, Joseph A. Taggart, democrat, in the Second Kansas district; W. D. B. Ainy, re- publican, in the Fourteenth Pennsyl- vania district; William J. Browning, republican, in the First New Jersey district; and probably Daniel V. Stephens, democrat, of the Third Ne- braska djstrict. The socialist gains marked the elections held today and gave the party power in districts where here- tofore it had been unable to muster a counting vote. In Schenectady, N. Y., the social- ists elected a mayor, all the city of- ficials except one and a majority of In addition- the assembly district, in which Schenec- Drises of all the socialistic show of | strength was the vote polled by | |James P. Lester, socialistic candi-| date for lieutenant governor of Mis-| sissippi. He came within 2,000 votes | of being elected. In Massachusetts, Governor Foss, | democrat, was elected by a reduced | plurality of about 8,000 over Louis| |Frothingham, republican. The con- test was unexpectedly close, and ear- 1y returns indicated Governor Foss's| defeat. The republican candidate | for lieutenant governor was elected | by 7,000 majority and other republi-| can state candidates are probably | elected. Pothier Has Easy Victory. In Rhode Island, Governor Pothier, | republican was re-elected over Louis| A. Waterman, democrat, by a greatly | increased plurality. The state senate | is solidly and the assembly largely | republican. | New York state furnished one of the chief surprises of the election,{ reversing the present democratic ma- | jority of 24 in the state assembly and electing a republican majority of 50 or upward. The change removes the united support which both branches of the legislature heretofore have| been given Governor Dix’s policies. | In New York City, Tammany’s con- trol was shaken, but not overcome, the Tammany candidates in Manhat- | tan and the Bronx being elected‘s while those in Brooklyn and Queen’s| county were defeated by fusion can- didates. | Republicans in New Jersey. New Jersey similarly furnished a surprise by the probable reversal of the control of the legislature, the | legislature securing republican ma- | jorities in both houses, In Kentucky James B. McCreary, democrat, was elected governor by a plurality of 30,000. A democratic legislature also was elected which in- sures the choice of Congressman Ol- ilie James as United States senator from Kentucky. - Mississippi elected a democratic governor and state officers by a de- cisive majority. James P. Lester, socialist candidate for lieutenant governor of Mississip- pi, came within 2,000 votes of being elected. YR A Ohio municipal elections resulted in the election of democratic mayors tady is situated, returned a socialist assemblyman. Socialist Victories, Ohio was another winning ground for the socialists. The returns se- cured in half a dozen chief cities, in two of which they elected mayors, give them a total thousands in ad- vance of any previous showing and puts them close in order, numerical- 1y, with the two old parties. Where the actual socialist candidates were not elected, progressives of more or less radical views were returned by the republicans. Besides Schenectady, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton were the most favorable cities for the younger par- ty. In the Second congressional dis- trict, where a successor to the late Congressman Mitchell was elected, socialists made extensive gains. In several other states, among them New Mexico, where socialists had a full ticket in the,field, further gains were predicted. FRED S. GEORGE DIES HERE Brother of County Auditor Vietim of Heart Disease. Fred S. Geoegr, 60 years old, died this morning at his home at 610 America Ave., of heart-trouble. Mr. George had been ill for some time but not seriously until four weeks ago. He leaves a wife and one child six year old. Mr. George came to this city 10 years ago. He was employed by Geo. Cochran as a log scaler dur- ing the past two years. He is a brother of County Auditor James L. George. The funeral will take place Friday, November 10, from the resi- dence, interment will be made at Greenwood cemetery. CORRECTS POOR FARM ERROR In a communication to the Pioneer today, J. C. Smith takes exception to the assertion that Alderman Moberg and Brown had talked with a blind woman inmate and said: “I would like to make a correction of the state- - ment of the investigating committee concerning the blind woman as that statement was faise; as the aldermen dig: not see her as she left on the - |in Cincinnati; Cleveland and Colum-|3:30 a. m. train yesterday morning.” \