Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 9, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI Histortal Soctety =R PIONEE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 165." BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, COUNTY T0 COLLECT HAZEN'S BAD BILLS Commissioners Instruet Auditor to List Illegal Items; Report at Next Meeting. SHERIFF SHAVES OWN BILL $200 Decides to Accept $556 for Claim of $752—Held Up By Board Since Last June. OMITS ALL ARGUED CHARGES Revises to Compromise By Asking| But One Mileage and for Actual Distance Gone. Approximately $200 has been saved to Beltrami county by the action of | the board of county commissioners in holding up-a bill presented by Sher- iff A, B.'Hazen on June 12 last,| amounting to $752.40. | And on top of this, the commis- sioners, before adjourning their regu- | lar session here yesterday, decided to to take action looking toward a re- fund of all illegal charges since Sher- iff Hazen has been in cffice. This action followed a surrender | on the part of the sheriff regarding the $752 bill, Mr. Hazen cutting all objectionable items from this bill, which then was allowed. A resolution looking toward a re- covery of the money obtained illegal- 1y by the sheriff was introduced by Commissioner L. O. Myhre and reads as follows: To Check Up Sheriff. Resolved that the auditor be directed to check over-all bills of A. B. Hazen_ as sheriff of this | county, and to make a list of all | charges made by him in such bills for bringing prisoners into court, for attendance upon court, and mileage in bringing prison- ers into court in the district court during terms of court, and to also make a notation of all charges heretofore made by such sheriff in charging double mile- age for serving grand jurors and petit jurors, and to present such statement to the board at its next meet. Hazen’s Compromise. Sheriff Hazen’s communication to the commissioners follow: ~On June 12th I filed a bill against Beltrami county for services per- formed by me as sheriff during the months of February and March, 1911, for subpoenaing witnesses, grand and petit jurors and other services performed in and about the holding of the February, 1911, term of the district court of this county. “That bill was allowed on June 14 at the sum of $752.40, being the amount called for by the bill. { “No appeal was taken from the al- lowance of this bill, but your chair- man and the county auditor refused to issue a warrant therefor, on the ground that the bill contained cer- tain items of charges that were not legal charges against the county, and that other items in said bill were ex- cessive. “Thereafter I brought an action in mandamus to compel the issuance of a warrant for this bill, and in that action an answer was interposed by the auditor and your chairman claim- ing that the bill was not proper in that it contained items of charges for bringing prisoners into court, for at- tendance on court, and that excessive mileage had been charged in certain instances, as set out in such answer. On the hearing the district court re- fused to grant a°writ of mandamus ©on account of the charges contained in this bill for bringing prisoners in- to court, attendance on court and mileage in bringing such prisoners into court. Cuts Out All Over Charges. “I have prepared and herewith sub- mit for your approval twelve bills, being for the same items contained in the original bill above mentioned, ex- cept ‘that I have withdrawn from these bills all items for bringing pris- oners into court, attendance upon court and mileage in bringing such prisoners into court, and I have, for the purpos? of settling and comprom- ising all matters in dispute contained in my former bill, charged but one mileage for serving both grand and petit jurors, and only for the distance actually and necessarily traveled by me in making such services, and I have further reduced all charges in said original bill to the amounts claimed by your auditor and cha substantially to such amounts. “For the purpose of securing a set- contained in my original bill of $752.40 I ask that the present 12 bills now submitted by me, and ag- gregating the sum of $556.45 in lien of said bill of $752.40, and in case of such action on your part at your present November, 1911, meeting I agree to waive and surrender any {claim T might otherwise have against the county-on account of any of the items included in my original bill so allowed by you on June 14th, 1911.” Board Accepts $200 Cut. Commissioner Fellows |, presented the following resolution and it was adopted: “Whereas on the 12th day of June, 11911, A. B. Hazen, as sheriff of Bel- trami county, Minnesota, filed with the auditor of said county his bill against said county for the sum of $752.40 for services rendered as such sheriff during the months of Febru- ary and March, 1911, in subpoenaing the February, 1911, term of the dis- trict court of this county, and other services in and about the holding of said term of court and i “Whereas said bill was allowed by said sum of $752.40, and “Whereas thereafter the chairman of this board and the auditor of said county refused to sign a warrant to said A. B. Hazen for said bill, but contested the validity of the same,| and claimed that the same was ex-| cessive, and “Whereas, thereafter the said A. B. Hazen instituted an action in mandamus in the district court of this county to compel said chairman and auditor to issue to him a warrant for said sum of $752.40, and said chairman and anditor interposed an- swers in said action, and upon the hearing thereof said action in man- damus was dismissed by said court, because it appeared that said bill contained items of charges that were not legal charges against said coun- ty, being for bringing prisoners into court, attendance upon court and mileage in so bringing prisoners into court, during said February, 1911, term of said district court, and Twelve Bills Accepted. “Whereas said A. B. Hazen has pre- sented to this county board at this meeting twelve (12) bills, aggregat- ing the sum of $556.45, being for the same items of charges contained in said original bill, except that the items expressly found by the court to be illegal and the other charges claimed by said chairman and auditor to be excessive have been withdrawn, and “Whereas, said A. B. Hazen has, by written request, filed with the au- ditor, and by way of compromise and settlement of the matters in dispute growing out of the items contained in said original bill, asked that said 12 bills so now presented be allowed and paid to him in place of and as substitutes for said original bill, and in consideration of such allowance and payment that he will waive any and all claim or claims might he might otherwise have on account of the items contained in said original bill of $752.40, “Now, therefore, be it resolved, that said twelve bills s0 now pre- sented by said sheriff be and the same are hereby allowed and approved, and that the action of this board in al- lowing said original bill of $752.40 on June 14th, 1911, be and the same is hereby rescinded and vacated. The following is a statement of said 12 bills so now allowed: Serving grand and petit jurors, subpoenas and court orders for Feb- ruary, 1911, term of district court. $16.60, $170.70, $11.90, $10.60, $105.90, $46.50, $9.20, $26.60, $29.00, $20.00, $19.00, and $90.45, making a total of $556.45. FAILS TO SELL DRAINAGE BONDS W.-J. Brown Says New York Men Know of Board’s Investigation. W. J. Brown of Warren, former county attorney of Marshall county, is back in Minnesota from New York, where he went a week ago to float about $200,000 of Marshall county drainage bonds. Mr. Brown said that Eastern investors looked askance at the Minnesota drainage bonds be- cause they knew all about the inves- tigation which the legislature had been making of the drainage board last winter. It is probable that an action will be brought in Marshall or Roseau county shortly to determine the question of whether the county is liable on the drainage bonds. bonds are issued to pay for the ditch- levied upon property benefited, and the question has never been settled whether the whole county could be held liable for the payment of the bonds or only the property owners benefited. It i3 proposed to bring the question up fo the state supreme court, man to be proper legal charges, or|® QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ¢ tlement and compromise on the items witnesses, grand and petit jurors for | delegation of members of the Grand {of the monyments the county board of said county at|field of | denf David Starr Jordan of Leland | Committee on Appropriations of the |Houes of Representatives, left New The | es in anticipation of the assessments | COOCOOPPVOPOOOLOS POOOOOOOCOCOOOP The weather: rain or snow Fri- day; moderate northerly winds. - The city of Hankow, China, has beeqi destroyed by fire over two- thirds of its extent. The lowest es- timate of loss is $50,000,000. Margaret Wood, 18 years old, ac- cidentally was shot and killed late to- day by Timothy O’Neil, 15 years old, near Winnipauk, Conn., O’Neil and a companion had been out hunting. Foo Chow has fallen into the hands of the rebels after a short resistance. The viceroy and Tartar general have escaped. Tamen has been burned but all foreigners are safe and well pro- tected. Federals and rebels met in a bat- tle yesterday at Juchitan Oaxaca, in Mexico, according to information ob- tained from official sources. Two hundred are reported dead. The city is cut off from rail and wire commu- nication. Headed by Governor Foss,’ a large Army and of patriotic societies left Boston this afternoon for the South to attend the dedication next week erected by the State of Massachusetts on the battle- Petersburg and at Valley Forge. THe 59th annual convention of the Wisconsin Teachers’ Association op- ened in the Milwaukee Auditorium today for a three days’ session. Presi- Stanford university, Sarah Louise Arnold of Boston, Dean L. H. Bailey of Cornell University, and Booker T. ‘Washington, the negro educator, are among those to speak. Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown was today installed as seventh chancellor of New York University. After Dr. Brown had been invested with the key, seal and other insignia of office the assembly listened to addresses by Senator Elihu Root, Dr. Lyman Ab- bott, President Lowell of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale, President Schurman of Cornell and other men of national prominence. *Nearly a score of members of the York today on a three weeks’ jaunt to Panama and Cuba. At the Isthmus the congressmen will inspect the pro- gress of work on the canal and forti- fications. On the way home they will stop at Havana with a view to deter- mining the advisability of further appropriations to raise the wreck of the Maine. The movement inaugurated five years ago by Robert J. Collier of New York for the erection of a suitable memorial to Abraham Lincoln at Hodgenville, Ky., the place of his birth, is now an accomplished fact. Today, in the presence of a gathering in which Mason and Dixon’s line was obliterated, impressive exercises were held in dedication of the magnificent structure surrounding and covering the old log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born, February 12, 1809. The corner-stone for the memorial structure was laid by President Roosevelt on the centennial anniver- sary of Lincoln’s birth two years ago last February. At the dedication to- day President Taft was the central figure. The exercises were held at the Thomas Lincoln farm, which was purchased by the Lincoln Farm asso- ciation several years ago with a fund raised by popular subscription. The memorial building is an imposing structure of white stome. It is of namenting the front and two sides. The entrance is approached by a broad flight of terraced steps. The House Committee on Expendi- tures in the Post Office Department, of which Congressman Ashbrook of Ohio is chairman, are in St. Louis today to resume the investigation be- gun in Washington last summer of the charge of E. G. Lewis that offi- cials of the postal service were in a conspiracy to ruin him. Lewis is the financial “wizard” whose alleged get-rich-quick schemes have bothered the authorities for several years and incidentally have caused several men prominent in public life to regret {their acquaintance with him. Start- ing some ten years ago with capital about equal to the price-of a box of cigars Lewis organized the American Woman’s League, which he subse-! quently employed as a medium to promote innumerable enterprises, in- cluding weekly and daily newspapers, co-operative colonies, banks, and realty and development companies. In the promotion of his schemes he {is said to have drawn nearly $10- 000,000 from the purses of women |throughout the country. When the government closed down on him and | returned an indictment on charges of | {using the mails to defraud, Lewis: retaliated by bringing charges of con- | spiracy-against officials of the Post Office Department. In the present investigation he is represented as at- torney by Edwin C. Madden, former classic design, with giant pillars or-| : s AY EVEN.NG, 3o GO Y B ot NOVEMBER 9, 1911. HOW’RE YOUR POTATOES?, Man in Washington Wants to Know ‘Who Here Has Produced the Big- gest Yields, | RESULTS TO BE PUT IN PRINT Out in the state of Washington, the big yields of Minnesota have become so much talked about that a resident of that state now wants to know just how many potatoes'can be grown on an acre of Minnesota land. Beltra- mi and surrounding counties probab- ly best can tell him. The request has been made of the Minneapolis Journal, which newspa- per promises to publish all accounts of big yields. If the raisers in this district will send the Bemidji Pio- neer an account of ‘their potato pro- duction, this paper will see to it that the Journal also gets a copy. Here is the communication that has started the potato warfare: “Potato farmers of- Minnesota, which of you has raised the biggest yield this year? Thé fame and pres- tige of old Minnesota has been spread abroad by the big crop and the ques- tion of how heavy theyields were has aroused wide interest. “The world has learned that not only is Minnesota great in wheat and other grain, in butter, and fruit, and other products of the farm, but that the potato farmers made a record this year of which the state is proud. “It is being talked of from the At- lantic to the Pacific, in the southwest where Minnesota seed potatoes are shipped, and in other states that raise big yields. | The following letter has been re- ceived from the far-away state of Washington: The Journal, Minneapolis— Gentlemen: Will you please ask through your paper the greatest yield of Irish potatoes known in any section of your state? This is to settle a dispute regarding yields in Minnesota. “The Journal will print the records of yields per acre, total yields on any farm, total money value of the prod- uct, or other information of interest about the potato crop.” DR. WILE¥ IS FOOLED BY CANDY Says “What Fine Ssusages” When In- specting Pure Food Show. Washington, Ngv. 8.—Even Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry and most renowned food expert in the United States, makes a slip sometimes, as was evidenced at the pure food show of the Washing- ton Retail Grocers association. He was being shown around the hall. As he passed 2 booth he stopped and said: “Those are fine looking sau- sages.” & 3 3, The youzrig woman in charge looked up in’surprise. “Stop your faolin’,” she said;: “that’s candy from the an\a\mand Candy Meat Mariet,” “All of which goes to show that things are not -always what they seem,” observed Dr. Wiley. * ‘The sensible mastuline view would be that there is no pbjection to wom- lthlrd ~assistant postmaster-general. FEDERAL DAM NOW VILLAGE Ed. Gannon Named President at Election Held Yesterday. At the first election in-the new village of Federal Dam on the Soo, held yesterday, the following were elected: president, Ed.. Gannon; trustees, S. H. Putmon, Oscar Elling- son, W. J. Duval; recorder, Barry Du- cat; treasurer, Y. Stevens; justice of the peace, Geo. F. Comstock; con- stable, Ed. Billington. Federal Dam voted to incorporate as a village on| October 27, and the officers elected yesterday were sworn in immediate- ly and Federal Dam started on its career as a village. : BEAULIEU CASE SET FOR TRIAL Ninety Indian Witnesses Are Sum- moned to Appear at Fergus Falls, It has been decided to try the case against Gus Beaulieu and his asso- ciates, who are charged with conspi- racy to defraud, in connection with the securing of deeds from Indians on the, White Earth reservation, at the term of court which opens at Fergus Falls Nov. 14. Deputy Marshall C. B. Buckman was in Fergus Falls yes- terday and made arrangements for accommodations for ninety Indian witnesses who have been summoned by the government. The civil calen- dar will be cleared. up first and all of the jurors except those selected to try the case, will be discharged. The witnesses have been summoned to ap- pear Nov. 20. LAKE NOW COVERS TOWN Village of Roosevelt, Idaho, Obliterat- ed in Peculiar Manner. Roosevelt, the principal town in the Tunder Mountain distriet in cen- tral Idaho in 1902, today is covered by a lake 600 yards in length and 200 yards in width and of an aver- age depth of 25 feet. It was the scene of a gold strike nine years ago and thousands braved the hardships and hazards of the trail. It proved a disappointment, though much pay ore was developed nearby. The circumstance which wiped the town of Roosevelt from the map was peculiar. It resulted from a land- slide two years ago, starting near the source of Mule creek, a mile and a half from the settlement. The great avalanche of earth and stone plough- ed its way through' a virgin for- est with a roar that was heard for miles. Twenty-six hours after the break occurred the mass stopped ab- ruptly across the lower part of the town, forming a dam for Monument creek, which has now formed a lake where the townsite stood. There were few residents in the town at the time of the slide and all escaped with their possessions, owing to the slowness of the avalanche. A log school house and two cabins out of its path, now stand as silent senti- nels to mark the vanished town. The buildings are situated above the wa- ter line and as the lake has rigén to a point that it has an outlet, it is not likely the water will become deeper. Roosevelt camp today is deserted, the residents having moved to other holdings. The “pasha skirt is the latest. You can make one by sewing two flour sacks together down to a little below the middle and punching hole through the bottoms. Try it. We haven’t time. i o 6,000 ACRES SOLD HERE State Land Sale Yesterday Well At- tended and Auditor Iverson is Grat- ified at Result. REFUTES FALSE STATEMENTS At the state land sale here—the first since the newly appraised lands were placed on sale—6,000 acres were sold. State Auditor Iverson and his assistant, Theodore Nelson, per- sonally conducted the sale. At the sale in Hubbard county, 4,- 000 acres were sold and in Wadena 2,500. Tomorrow a sale will be held at Walker and on Monday at Interna- tional Falls. Mr. Iverson took occasion to refute the statements that Minnesota lands are going into the hands of specula- tors. He has compiled a statement showing that of the 102,758 acres sold during the present calendar year, the average number of acres bought | by ehch person was 110 and that 934 | individual buyers made investments. The state received $679,21.37 for the | 102,758 acres, an average price of $6.62. Of the 934 individual buyers, 141 came from other states and took up 25,280 acres, or approximately one- | fourth of all the state land sold. The 1$6.62 an acre which they paid does not include the timber rights where there is valuable timber. Neither does it include mineral claims. The land is sold on forty years’ time on payment of 4 per cent down. Not more than 320 acres may be sold to one person. All the proceeds of the sales go to the permanent school fund. These figures do not include any of the November sales. GETS REDUCED POTATO RATE Brainerd Commercial Club Secures Concession from Northern Pacific. Brainerd, Minn., Nov. 9.—Through the efforts of the Brainerd Commer- cial club, the Northern Pacific Rail- ‘way company has issued a supple- ment to Potato Tariff No. 550 to take effect on December 1, publishing re- duced rates from Brainerd and other points in Crow Wing county to the Missouri Tiver, reducing thé rates on potatoes from Brainerd to Kansas City territory to 25 1-2 cents per 100 pounds and from Brainerd to Omaha territory to 24 cents per-100 pounds. This will mean a saving of more than 3 cents a bushel to local shippers. The action is greatly appreciated by farmers shippers and thé Commer- cial club. A Manayunk woman found a chunk of rubber tire in a sausage. Truly the automobile is supplanting the horse all along the line. A church about to disband in New York has a membership worth about $750,000,000. The task of getting that treasure laid up in heaven seems to be a difficult one. The trolley cars of some lines on the Pacific coast carry mirrors at the rear, adjusted in-such a way that Ppassengers are compelled to see ap- proaching automobiles, and other ve- iyou personally. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. EXTRA SESSION? ‘N HINTS GOVERNOR; ‘YES' SAYS WEDGE Eberhart in Letter to Mackenzie In- dicates Adverse Attitude Toward Possible Prompt Relief. BEMIDJI BANKER SPEAEKS UP Declares He Heard Implied Pledge at Brainerd and Predicts Success for New Bill. CHENEY SEES SQUALLY MEETING Minneapolis Political Writer Expects Lively Convention at St. Clond Next Month. Governor Eberhart, in a letter to W. R. Mackenzie, now made public, ireveals the fact that he does not wish a resolution passed at the St. Cloud convention calling upon him to as- semble the legislaturé this winter to pass a reapportionment bill . But on top of this admission on the part of the governor comes added de- mands that the chief executive be called to account for his Brainerd talk and that every effort be made to pass a reapportionment bill this win- ter. How Wedge Stands. In Bemidji today A. G. Wedge, Jr., high in the business circles of the state and treasurer of the immigra- tion commission of the Northern Min- nesota Development assoclation, mot only declares in favor of the extra session but says he was present when Governor Eberhart made his Brain- erd talk and that there can be no doubt as to the implied pledge made by him. Here is the statement given by Mr. Wedge under his own signature: Now that the agitation for an extra session for reapportion- ment to give Northern Minneso- ta adequate representation has assumed sufficient importance to demand attention, I desire to state my views regarding same. 1st. I do not believe the pres- ent agitation was started with any idea of embarrassing Gover- nor Eberhart. I was present and heard the remarks of the gover- nor, which were substantially as follows: “I do not believe that with this demand of Northern Minnesota the legislature can disregard the passing of a just reapportionment measure, Should they do so, however, I might consider it my duty to call a special session for that pur- pose.. Do not consider this a -threat because I do not believe it is necessary.” - Now, I believe by calling such a session the govermor will strengthen his position through- out the state, both north and south. And with present pledges from senators who opposed the reapportion measures of last winter, giving sufficient encour- agement that a just and equit- able measure can be passed at a special session. I believe Gover- nor Eberhart should rise to the occasion and make good his im- plied promise to the Northern Minnesota Development associa- tion. Northern Minnesota will not view without protest the ab- solute disregard of justice so far - as political representation is con- cerned. Governor Eberhart’s letter to Sec- retary W. R. Mackenzie regarding the St. Cloud meeting, is as follows: Governor’s Letter to Mackenzie. “Your favor of Oct. 30, giving no- tice of the coming convention of your association at St. Cloud, came duly to hand; but as 1 have.already advised It may not be pos- sible for me to be present on that occasion. I now expect to go with the Governors’ Special on the trip through the country, beginning Nov. 27 .and extending to Deec. 19; and while I may not take the entire trip, I have planned to be in Washington, D. C., for the annual convention of the National Red Cross on Dec. 5, and for the rivers and harbors congress on Dec. 8. Unless I rearrange my plans therefor I cannot get back to the state in time to come to St. Cloud, but I think it will be advisable for me to be represented there, and I will make arrangements accordingly. “I note what you say about the at- hieles, when they leave the car and|titude of the members of the execu- thus avoid accident. i (Continued on last pagw) & i j i {