Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 16, 1911, Page 1

A\ % VOLUME 9. NUMBER 171. ‘CAMFOR IT WRITES H.H.DUNN T0 PIONEER Speaker of House Voluntarily De- clares in Favor of Extra Session and Reapportionment, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION BUSY President Knutson Urges Activity in Making St. Cloud Convention Big Success. PENNINGTON BACKS MOVE Delegate Hedeen Discovers Residents There Desire Bill Pagsed With- out Further Delay. In an unexpected and voluntary communication from H. H. Dunn, speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and an attorney in the southern town of Albert Lea, a new pledge from a man of power is; obtained in the present effort for a prompt reapportionment. Speaker Dunn’s letter to the Daily Pioneer follows: . .Albert Lea, Minn., Nov. 15, 1911 . . Editor Bemidji Daily Pioneer: I understand that Northern Minnesota is making an effort to secure an extra session of the legislature for the consideration of certain measures including reapportionment, and I am ad- vised that your paper has ear- nestly taken hold of the matter. I take the liberty to write you because I have been quoted as no longer in favor of reapportion- ment. I desire to correct this. | On the question of reapportion- ment I stand just where I stood a year ago when I asked the House members from Northern Minnesota to support me for ! speaker. As a matter of justice and a square deal to the northern part of the state, I believe a reappor- tionment bill should be passed that will do justice to all sec- tions of the state. During the session last winter I carried out to the letter every pledge I made in this behalf. And now, when I cannot be accused of asking or expecting anything in return, I beg to assure you that if there be an extra session I will do my utmost in behalf of reapportion- ment and what is more I believe we can pass a fair reapportion- ment bill. ) At the last session, my col- ' league, Mr. Henion, and myself both voted for and supported the Congdon Bill. While this bill ! has been somewhat criticized, I must say that I supposed it was satisfactory to northern Minne- ! sota, and I believe that all mem- bers from your section-of the state voted for it. And I might add that I have yet to hear the - first word of criticism from the : people I represent regarding my attitude on reapportionment. I understand the question of reapportionment will come up at the St. Cloud meeting and in view of the fact that I will not * have the opportunity to express myself at that time. I am thus writing you. Sincerely yours, H. H. Dunn. Editorial Circular Out. That the Northern Minnesota Edi- torial association, made up of 40 cen- tral and northern counties, of Har- old Knutson is president and A. C. Rutledge of this city, secretary, is actively behind the proposition to make reapportionment and other de- velopment issues live topics at the St. Cloud convention on December 8 and 9 is shown by the following offi- cial circular now being sent out by President Knutson: “As the time for holding the mid- winter meeting of the Northern Min- nesota Development association at ‘St. Cloud approaches (Dec. 8-9), I «desire to take this means to urge the ‘brethren of the press to kindly give ‘the matter as much pubhcny as pos- :sible. hok Ak hkAK KKk okkok ok kkhkk kkkkx kX i Reapportionment an Issue. ! “The coming meeting promises to be the most important of its kind ev~ er held and many topics of vital in- terest to Northern Minnesota will be taken up and discussed in an able and intelligent manner, among which may be mentioned reapportionment, good roads and drainage: Inasmuch as these are subjects that have re~ ceived a great deal of attention from the editors of Northern Minnesota in interest exists between the editorial and development associations and re- sults can best be obtained through harmony of endeavors, “In conclusion I wish to remind you of the meeting of the Northern Minnesota Editorial association which will be held at Long Prairie on Jan. 18-19-20, and I sincerely hope that you will be present. A splendid program of interest to the craft will be presented and the citi- zens of Long--Prairie will banquet) the visitors on the evening of Jan.| 19. “Fraternally yours, “Harold Knutson.” Delegate Hedeen in Line. . Peter Hedeen, a delegate to St. Cloud from Pennington county has discovered that sentiment there is for an extra session and, therefore, is {for it. Mr. Hedeen writes the Pio- neer as follows: “Kralka, Minn., Nov. 15. | “About the extra session of the leg- islature will say that I have talked it over with our people and it seems that they are in favor of an extra session. T am very much interested in securing the quick passage of a reapportionment bill. “Yours truly, “Peter Hedeen.” TO HOLD FARMERS' INSTITUTES Professor Bergh Arranging for Series to Begin Early in December. Beginning December 6 and con- tinuing until December 9, farmers institutes will be held in Beltrami county towns, the last day being giv- en over to two meetings in Bemidji. Commissioner Joel G. Winkler, com- missioner of the state dairy and food department, will. be one of the speak- ers. A series of institutes will be held throughout the winter, the sec- ond meetings being in latter part of January and the last ones in March. Farmers will be invited to partici- pate in the discussions and tell what soil triumphs they have accom- plished. KKK KK KKK K KKK “Take out that want ad, I rented my house and won’t need it any longer.”" These were the words that came over the telephone this morning. Mrs. Henrionnet inserted the following ad in the Pioneer and it did the business: FOR RENT—5 room house with bath, 417 Minneso- ta Ave. Inquire at Hen- rionnet Millinery Par- lors, or phone 210. These little want ads are stimulators. Better try one when you are in need. They rent houses, sell houses, buy wagons and sleighs and do various oth- er things that so hard at first. | One half cent per word per is- ¥| sue. KKK KKK KK KKK KKK Fhhrkkhhkhk kkk ko hkkkk i@ Salt is added to all ‘wet snuffs to prevent moulding. A “hand” of tobacco is commonly about four ounces. Virginia tobacco is -one of strongest varieties. the The tobacco plant is 2 member of the night made family. Automatic striking eigaret lighters are now taxed in Spain. The first European twbacco was | grown in Portugal in 1520, Being willing helps some, but it is getting busy that counts. No doubt fhere are ' cheerful giv- ers—but did you ever see one?. jas to minimize the tendency of .the i The American Association for the * seyate in 1862 and made a place for | vented a way of preserving fresh wa- 0000808920000 06 & QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, © POOOO000OOOCEG6 S The weather: warmer With prob- ably snow Friday; moderate wind. ; At a meeting today in McAlther. Okln., of leading men of the Choctaw Nation a memorial was drawn up ask- ing Congress to abolish their tribal government, to sell the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands and to distribute the tribal funds. How to divert the large tide of im- migration into the various states so neweomers from foreign lands to set- tle in the largest cities is the problem up for discussion at a conlerehpe be- gun at Washington, today, by Federal and State immigration officials. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., will die in the electric chair at Richmond, Va., on Nov. $ young - wife,’Louise- Owen Beattie. Governor Manir, refused to mtertere 1 I believe Beattie is guilty’ u} the cruel ‘and . malicious murder: gt his young wnfo," said .Governor Mzmn in his decision, * The Minnesota football tean: meet Wigconsin:at Madison' Spturday and Capt. Earl Pickering, the Miinc- sota fullback,} will* not be 'in- the game. These two questions wer de- cided yesterday at Minneapolis, after a lengthy conference of the Minne- sota’s eligibility ‘committee and ath- letic board of control. Miss Marie Louise Elkins, whose share of the large fortune left by her father, the late William Elkins, amounted to about $2,000,000, was married today to Christian de Guigne, Jr., of San Francisco. The wedding| took place at the Belgravia in Phila- delphia and was attended by many prominent guests. Harry Olson and Enith Collins, New Duluth youths, brought down a 200-pound buck on Commonwealth avenue in Duluth yesterday. They had been humting in the vicinity of the city and had trailed a deer. They €hased the animal until it reached a point in front of an office building where they shot and Killed it. Study:and-Preveition of Infsat Mor- tality, which was organized “several years ago at a meeting in New Hav- en, assembled at the Hotel La Salle in Chicago today and began what prom- ises to be the most notable and prof- itable meeting in its history. Before an adjournment is reached next Sat- urday it is expected plans will have been completed for a nation-wide campaign to save the lives of the ba- bies. John D. Henderson, who, as a member of the United States senate from Missouri, was the contemporary and adviser of President Lincoln, is 85 years old today. Mr. Henderson was born in Virginia, butiearly im his \lceareer went to Missouri and for many %vears was prominent in the public Hfe of that state. He went to the himself in history by framing the Thirteenth - Amendment to the Con- stitution, which abolished slavery in the Wxited States. For many years he has resided in Washington, spend- ing his retiring years in “Henderson’s Castle,” at the head of Sixteenth street. Oculists say that ome form of blindness is caused by smoking. A ‘Russian army surgeon has in- ter. A French inventor claims to have made durable automobile tire of pa- per. Frank Curzon of London is nego- tiating for the English rights of “The Shepherd King.” About 220,000,000 cigars are an- nually exported from Havana. In order to live a man must work —=even if he only works somebindy else. ‘A woman’s love letter is two- thirds imagination and one-third) hysteria. ! i Necessity is the mother of inven- tion and matrimony is; the mother. of contention. It takes a diplomatic liar to make people sit around with ‘open mouths when he talks. was invented for the special benefit,, You can please almost any nmflxerl by praising her children and. roasting ! those of her meighbor. ) that eating sauerkraut prolongs life. [} But why prolong it if one must-eat.f sauerkraut? I Much resembling America.n plux tabacco is compressed. tea, formed im- convenience of trnvelers. A boy who recently died at t.ke age of 13 in Indiana, from excersive smoking, had consumed in the phlt the past I feel that a community of \ five years 50,000 cigarets Perhaps, -after all, the harem nklrf.* of the press agents. 1l l work of a German inventor. - One of the scientists nas found uutj to block by an English firm for. the Jess 80. A machine_has been invented to paste paper lalels on botties of any and every shape. India rubber nails for use in places where ordinary nails are liable to cor- rosion are a German novelty. A-steel “chest protector™, against ‘bullets and knife thrusts, in t'te form ‘of & vest, has been patented by a Tex- " A parachute that can be guided fu] ‘its fall by pulling cords that draw in its sides has been invented by a Frenchman. A machine which sews up the open end or side of a filled bag and knots the thread without human aid is the - A double-ended tooth brush-espec- ially designed to reach the inner sur- faces of the teeth, has been invented by a dentist of Memphis, Tenn. A French physician has discovered j the means of planting artificial eye- ‘1zshes and eyebruws. The former op- -eration is very painful, but the latter An’ auto car has been designed in 24, for the murder of his} i -ACopyright, 1WIL) YOUNG MEN TO EAT--TALK At First Gathering of New Club, Russell, Burke and Others Will Speak. McCANN PRESIDES; MUSIC, TOO At the Markham hotel next Men- day evening there will be.a unique gathering of the young men of Be- mfdlt, the first of five to be-held.: Edgar Irvine and Ralph Lycan, acting as a committee, have sent out jinvitations together with the follow- ing announcement and program: Toastmaster . .. .Thos. McCann Address .. Hon. P. J. Russell Piano and Violin Duet. ... .Selected Edgar Irvine and Geo. Buxton. Three Minute Talk..Thos. J. Burke President of Commercial Club. Impromptu three minute talks. Music by Masten’s orchestra. “On Monday evening, Nov. .20, 1911, at eight o’clock, the first of a series of five dinners will be given at the Markham Hotel. “This proposition has been talked up among the younger men of the ity and every person who has been interviewed is heartily in favor of the plan. “It is the intention of the commit- tee in charge of the first dinner to appoint a toastmaster and make out a musical program that will be full of life and keep things humming all the time. “At this dinner, the toastmaster for the next dinner will be elected and he will have full charge of pro- gram menu and finances. “The committee wishes to empha- size several points which if observed, will help to make these dinners one grand success. “First—The dinner is:not a ban- quet and is to be strictly informal from start to finish. “Second—In order to avoid any possible notoriety, everybody is asked to keep a firm seat on the good ship | ‘Lithia.’ This point cannot be made too strong as there will be plenty of ‘calamity howlers’ watching for us to slide into the ‘cooling depths.’ There- fore, please look up the local repre- sentative of the W. C. T. U. and take the pledge for that night. “Third—The _dinner’s worth de- pendg mostly upon co-operation. If everyone mixes and does his share, it will be a corker. “Take a8 good look at the program and see how you like it. It’s a boost for the city and a good cause all around, so fill out the enclosed card saying “I'11 be there:' Tickets $1.25.” WHO WILL AID FARMER BOYS! Seyeral Want High School Short Course if They Can Get:w Although the sho:t course at the Bemidji High School wag due to be- gin November 13, it is announced by Professor Otto: Bergh, instructor in ‘agriculture, that it is mot too late The Infant Welfare Assoclation Mests in Chicago. . iy WOMEN’S PROGAM ANNOUNCED Mrs. Starkweather Also to Speak Sat- | urday at Commercial Club. The Woman’s Study Club has is- sued invitations to a musical pro- gram which will be given under its auspices Saturday at 3 p. m. at the Commercial club rooms. After the program refreshments will be served. The committee on invitations is made up of Miss Beatrice Mills, Mrs. A. E. Witting apd Mrs. F. S. Arnold; re- freshment committee, Mrs. C. E. Bat- tles, Mrs. D. L. Stanton and Mrs. G. w. C?mphgl-l entertaipment com- mittee, Mpsi. C. G,.Johpson, Mrs. E. E. McDonald and Mrs. EJ H. Depu. Following is the official m-om Social ‘Woman'’s Study Club. Saturday, November 18, 1911 Program. Humoresque .. .. .Dvorak Masten’s Orchestra. Song: Sehnsucht Dee Asra .. Als Die Alte Mutter, B Ich Liebe Dich.... J. H. Nason. Reading ....... ....Gilbert Parker “A Lane that has no Turning.” Scene I. Scene IIL Miss Clara Fisk. .Rubenstein Song: Miss' Knappen. Polonaise ..............Ringleben Masten’s Orchestra. (Clarinet solo, H. E. Anderson) Songs: Murmuring Breezes . . .Jensen My Desire ........ .Nevin Thine . . . . .Bohm ason. Suite: Chiffon Caprice. ...Lockwood Moore Perfume Barcarole. .... ceee High Heels and Buckles. . ...Battata Masten’s Orchestra, Mrs. Perry Starkweather, of the state labor bureau, will be present and will deliver a talk to the woman, although she does not gome to Be- midji under the auspices of the Wom-~ en’s club, POEM TELLS OF PEANUT FROLIC Used as Invitation By Methodist Young Women for Social Event. The young women of the Methodist Sunday school are sending out invi- tations for a peanut social to be held in the basement of the new Methodist church, Friday evening at eight o’clock. The invitation is in the form of poetry as follows: It will give us great delight To meet you Friday night, In the basement of the M. E. Church. There’ll be lots of fun-in store And there’ll be peanuts galore. And for a good time you need no further search. About 200 of these invitations are being sent out today. A program has been arranged for, which will in- clude all the latest and old time “peanut games.”” The proceeds will go to the church’building fund. An admittance of 15 cents ‘will be charged. G 4 ~ for students to: enroll. - Superintend- the pames: of several young men the eountry who wish to. W—flfls | course but-who are unable to do so France, the top and sides of which age constructed of heavy plate glass. mmt to follow' and. obul've bal: unless they find a place fp the cuy | where they can ent Dyer ‘and Professor Bergh have | A reguhr meet!ng of the Mrn fStar Lodge will ‘be- held tomorrow night at the Masonic hall. Afternoon by Imvitation of | POTATO CLAIMS MADE Cass County Men Say They Make Net Profit of More Than $50 Per Acre. HOW ABOUT BELTRAMI COUNTY? Are the Beltrami county farmers going to permit someone else to run away with the potato prize? J£ not, notify the Pioneer of your | yleld and profit..- - ‘The Minneapolis Journal says: “Cass county is in with the first answer to The Journal’s question about yxelda o( potatoes in Minnesota, and the case of a farmer who got $50.42 an acre trom a potato crop is cited by Jay P. Brnwer of Pine River. The yield was 170 bushels to the acre. Mr. Brewer has four burbank potatoes, he says, that weigh ten pounds together. “Wehber & Hill acres of potatnes, one and a half miles north of Pine River. They hired the work done. Including seed, harvesting and marketing the tota] costwas $220.30. The yield was 1,937 bushels and fifteen pounds ov- er. Mr. Brewer bought the potatoes at 40 cents a bushel, He paid $774.90 for the lot” which left $554.60 net for Webber & Hill, or $50.42 an acre, “Although Cass county was in first with a report, the older potato growing portion of the state is not to be outdone by northern Minneso- ta, and Barnesville today sends in the record of Charles Bergquist, a farmer near that place, who sold thirteen acres of potatoes for $1,684, while Frank Perry, a farmer also near Bar- nesville, got 250 bushels to the acre, “Osakis, Minn,, is also in with a good report, ePter Butler, near that town, getting 2,600 bushels of pota- toes from twelve acres of land, a yield of 217 bushels to the acre, or 216 2-3 bushels, to be exact, “On one acre separately planted to the Rurpal New York variety, he got 308 bushels. This was done, Mr. Butler says, on old land that had been formerly devoted to wheat rais- ing, and no fertilizers were used.” planted eleven | SEEKING A ROUTE TO0 WINNIPEG Snrveyors Officials of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway, accompanied by sev- eral engineers, have spent the last six weeks in a close examination of the territory lying in eastern Polk county, Pennington, Beltrami county, eastern Marshall and Roseau. They have criss-crossed the country by au- tos and teams in all directions. They say they will build somewhere through this section next season, but will not state just where. ‘They are seeking a direct and productive route towards Winnipeg. One route ex- amined was eighteen miles east of Thief River Falls and came from the direction of Bagley, in Clearwater county, and continued northwesterly towards the Canadian boundary. An- Falls and continued to Roseau and north to Winnipeg. The former route will tap an unoccupied country of ‘rich prairfe 1and, all well settled, and capable of producing a_heayy traffic. _ TEN CENTS PER WEEK, ‘HELD WITH INSANE, SHETELLS GOVERNOR Woman at Fergus Falls Appeals to Eberhart, Alleging Husband is to Blame. WED AFTER MAIL COURTSHIP i Settled on Farm Near Crookston, “And He Tock My Money,” Wife Writes. DECLARES LIFE IS TERRIBLE ,Informs Chief Executive Detention Is Due to Selfish Desires of Man She Married. Wedded as the result of a court- ship by mail to 2 man who brought her to Northern Minnesota, near | Crookston to live, a woman now con- fined in the Fergus Falls hospital for | the insane has written Governor Eb- erhart, declaring that she is held prisoner at the hospital at the in- stance of her husband, who wants to get rid of her. The woman asks Governor Eber- hart to help her obtain-release. The hospital authorities have told her, she says, that she may go as soon as her husband comes after her, but that he refuses. Letter Impresses Governor. The straightforward, clear way in which she writes and her apparent sincerity and saneness, . has caused Archie M. Hayes, the governor execu- tive clerk, to consider the communi- cation seriously, and some action may be taken, if developments warrant it. The letter says in part: Writ¢s Lucid Letter. “I am here in the state hospital, placed here by my husband the 24th or 25th of last May, not for insanity, but to get rid of me. He is a good *worker, well liked for his work, earns a little more than $10 a month; but - spends it as fast as he earns it. He has used up all of my money. I paid in some on our place. Have Ten Acres of Land. “We have ten acres with a log - house and barn, the land partly un- { der cultivation. I have worked faith- . fully at home while he worked out. T bought our cow with my money, but he has sold it and used the mog- ey. “The doctor tells me I can go home, but my husband will not come after me, for the reason that he wants to use his earnings for his own pleas- ure, Says It Is Terrible. “Can not he be made to take care of me after using up my money? We were married through correspond- ence. He is 55 years old and I am ’2. Could you not help me? It is terrible to stay in such a place among the insane, knowing and rea. lizing everything. Please help me to get out,” MAY TEST FUEL SAVING DEVICE Board of Education Contemplates Putting “Irons” on High School, At the regular meeting of the board of education last evening the proposition of placing storm win- dows on the 107 windows at the High School building was discussed and the idea of testing out an iron arrangement whereby the windows are made weather proof. The iron device is easily adjusted and re- moves the necessity of putting on and taking off the cumbersome storm windows. The expense of installa- tion, however, may prevent their purchase. ‘The usual monthly bills were allowed. Directors Smith, Roe, Lahr and Wedge were present. The tobacco fields of Siam embrace 6,000 acres. The taboceo plant is from three to six feet high. " Iron tobacco pipes are popular in Central Asia. Mabel Frenyear may appear in vaudeville in a one-act French play. Gerald Griffen is appearing this season in a comedy entitled “The Lady Killer.” That New York school teacher who ‘was fined $1,200 for hugging women teachers has evidently both loved and lost. Meerschaum is White and soft’ - other route was towards Thief River |~ - Lobsters are 85 cents a pound, but |human lobsters are as chea; DFFF(‘.TI\IEDA ~Ar | The route through this city is short- ind- more direct, and will also traverse much good new country. when dug from the earth Mt it soon hardens. The wnlng of the | word is said to be “troth er the sea.” T ——————— §