Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 20, 1911, Page 1

>3 " ryv HE BEMIDJ1 VOLUME 9. NUMBER 174. COSTS COUNTY $308 sz Proceedings of Commmissioners AlmE Show More Dumas Case Costs; 3 to block 2 to lots 1 and 2, townsite of Clementson, was on motion Bid of N. E. Tuller on 200 cords tam- TO ARREST GEARLDS |55 it e s s Moved by Commissioner Rako, second- Commissioner Myhre, that the above bid be accepted to the extent of only one received. ed by 100 cords only. Carried, and contract | made. The report of N. A. Otterstad, super- sor of assessors on land owned by O. J. McManus was read and accepted. The appiication of O. J. McManus for abatement of taxes on land in sec. 17- Food for Jury $282. {151-31 was taken up and on motion fav- BOND ISSUE OF $18,000 FAVORED 1 Needed to Complete Work of Con-| structing Judicial Ditch No. 5; | Money From State. ! GET PETITION FOR NEW TOWN| Twenty-five Residents Want it Es-| tablished and is to Be Known as “Wheeler:” Hearing Set. ! According to the official proceed- ings of the last meeting of the Bel-| trami Board of Connty Comm ners it cost $308.61 for Sheriff Hazen to| place Edward Gearlds under arrest at Portland and to bring him to Bemidji. The proceedings also reveal more of the expenses of the Dumas trial.| For feeding the prisoners a bill pre- sented by Lycan & Co. for $282 was passed. Thertson Gets $65.30 M. E. Ibertson was allowed $65.30 for serving special venires in the; Dumas case while performing the| duties of sheriff. Peter Wring, chief of police of Hibbing, who placed Dr. Dumas under arrest. was allowed $48.86 for witness fees. bE A petition was received asking for! the information of a new town to be known as “Wheeler.” to be fnrmed‘ from congressional township 162, The petition was signed A hearing was set! ue of §18,000 to secure a | loan from the state, was authorized| for expenses incurred in locating, | establishing and construeting judi- cial diteh No. 5 The proceedings also contain the| official documents in the revised| Hazen bills and the resolution in-! structing the auditor to prepare a| list of illegal charges heretofore ! made by the sheriff. | The Omicial Proceedings. | lar meeting of Board of C mers of Beltrami co nesota held at the Court House . on November Tth. 1811, at 2 p, to resolution. Viggo Peter Min- | The minutes of (he 1 Oct. 30, 1911, were read amended. Application of Frs to sell intoxicati t meeting held and approved as k Coolk for license liquors for a period of one year from Novemb 1911, in rain frame building N. 1-2 of NW. 1-4 of Town 1 (Town T! on of A e being no objection, and no- £ been given according to la mmissioner H. Clementson moved th sh) e havi conded by Com. . on roll call . voted ves. H. voted ves. L. O, ed no. Viggo Clementson. Commr., 2 trict, yhre, Commr. 3rd . vot- Peterson, Commr. ith distriet, llows, Commr. Petition of 0. Hendrickson for county road from ) d on motion filed. Order Road Established. Proof of posting of notice of hearing being in order and no objections being oftered Commissioner Fellows moved that the petition be granted and road established as asked. Seconded by Ci missioner Rako. carried, and order i sued. Petition of Andrew Johnson, that section 8, twp. 1.31, from school district 93 to school distri t for hearing at this time was heard, proof of posting of notice being in order, and no objections being offered, on motion of Commissioner Fellows, secs onded by Commissioner Clementson, the petition was granted and order issued. Prosper 2 contractor, appeared before the Board time for the completion of his contract Siate Road No. 17 be extended until Ju 1st, 1912. On motion of Commis. Sioner Fellows, seconded by Commission- hre, request was gran L H. Hanson and others appeared be- fore the Board asking for a bridge over the Mississippi in town 146-30, and were requested to submit proper petition and consent of court with permit at the Teg- vlar meeting to be held January 2nd. 1912, al, be set over Rogers Contract Extended. James Rogers, contractor, for part of Judicial Road between town 146-33 and Hubbard Co., asking that the time for the completion of contract be extended until Jupe 1st, 1912, was on motion of Commissioner Fellows, seconded by Commissioner Clementson, granted. Bond of the Bank of Bagley for de- posit of county fund was on motion of Commissioner Fellows, seconded by Com- missioner Rako, approved. Samuel Ellis, contractor, for part of |in Bemidsi, Be-| - i . and found favor-|] d asked that the |~ orably recommended to state tax com- mission. Tax Abatements Pavored. On motion duly seconded the follow- |ing applications for abatements were favorably commission: T. C. Torgerson, Henrick Nelson, Jno. R. Pederson, Halvor Hang, Signe Lee, Themas A. Thompson, n Germunderson, Halstein T. Hang, John C. Nordstrom, Peter Pederson. recommended to state tax Clizabeth Erickson, John H. Kahler, 1. Herbert, Charles R. Parker. Onmotion duly seconded, the applica- {tion of Gust Palmer for abatement of | taxes, was rejected. ©On motion Board adjourned until 8 a m., November 8, 11, Board of County Commissioners met at & a. m., Oct. & 1611, pursuant to ad journment, all members present. Application of Pat Cassim, asking fol an abatement of $750 on his valuation on motion, duly seconded, recommended to the state tax commission for a re- duction of $500 only. Propse New Town of “Wheeler.” king that Congressional Township Range be organized as a new town to be known as “Wheeler,” was read and it appearing by affidavit that there were 25 legal voters in said town, on motion of Commissioner Clementson, the time of hearing set for January 3rd, , at 3 p. and order hearing issued. tion of Henry Berg and others for change of county road at sections 25 and 26, twp. 150, range 30, town of Hornet, was on motion duly seconded, laid on the table. FPetition of Norman Clementson, et al, ng for the formation of a new schoot rict comprising sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 36, town of Gudrid, twp. 160, range 30, read and on motion of Clemenison, seconded by Commissioner 0. time of hearing et for January 3r and order of hearing Sunde & Lemm. contractors, for part road between twps. 148 and 150, ap- ared before the board and asked that e for the completion of said por- d ™ ion of Commissionr Fellow v Commissioner Rakp, sai granted. on by Commissioner Rako, ihe Peter Bakke to complete the iled for by 'his contract on road 5. was extended work hetween T. 148-149, R. until June 1, 1§ Road Bills Passed. ioner Rako moved that the unde and Lemm for work on county road. towps. 148 and 149, range 33, amounting to $677.86, be allowed subject to filing of engineer's certificate, seconded by Commissioner Rako, car- ried. The report of the public examiner dat- ed Oct. 11,1911, was read and ordered filed. ©On motion Beard took recess until 30 p. m. Board reconvened at 1:30 p. m., all members present. On motion the following petitions, on for county road in twp. 154- on for completion county road en Birch and Taylor. Petition for appropriation for bridge on Rapid River, Application for road appropriation, road appropriation, caticn for road appropriation, ope. plication for road appropriation, for road appropriation, for road appropriation, Application for road appropriation, McDougald, Application for road appropriation, | Fronn, there being no funds available for this purpose. | _Bond of Frank Cook with U. S. Fidel- ity & Guaranty Co., as surety, was ap- d, and license issued to sell intoxi ng liquors in frame building in SW. 1-4, section 27, in town of M ish, On motion of Commissioner Rako, seconded by Commissioner Clementson, he auditor was directed to publish no- tice for bids for 100 cords of oak or birch wood to be dry, green cut, in car- deliverable on Court House grounds during the winter of 1911 and Bids to be opened on January 3, at 3 p. m. On motion, duly sec- nded, bond of A. M. Crowell as court commissioner was approved. B $18,000 Bonds for Ditch. Commissioner A. E. Rako offered the following resolution, and moved its s, it is necessary in the opin- ion of the board of county commission- s of Beltrami county, in order to de- the expenses incurred in locating, ablishing and constructing Judicial ech No. 3, county of Beltrami, in the state of Min- nesota, should issue its bonds in the ag- gregate sum of eighteen thousand dol- lars ($18,000), and obtain a loan of that |amount thereon and said county desires |to maké an application to the state of innesota therefor; Now, therefore, be it resolved, by the board of county commissioners of the vl i |county of Eeltrami, that the county of | COntract to coach the Williams Col- | hereby makes application to|lege baseball team. ate of Minnesota, for a loan of een thousand dollars (§18,000), up- Beltrami |he s eig) block 2, n property in townsite of Redby. was | etition of Alonzo Wheeler and oth- | m., at the Court House oad be extended until June 1st,| of Commissionér Myhre, | in said county, that the! PRPOOOOOLP0O0009 © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © 009000000000 RLROS Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who recently passed over the reins of Canadian government which he had held for nearly fifteen years, celebrated his 70th birthday anniversary at Ottawa, today. Several thousand bankers, . repre- senting every state in the Union, as- sembled in New Orleans today for the thirty-seventh annual convention of the American Bankers’ Association. | The attendance is the largest in the history of the association’s annua\l gatherings. i Mexico today observed the first an- | niversary of the beginning of the rev- olutionary ‘movement which resulted! !in the overthrow of the Diaz Govern- {ment and the election of Francisco] | 1. Madero to the presidency. It was | on Nov. 20, 1910, that the first armed | |outbreaks occurred. Two. days later | | Madero proclaimed himself president | i of the Provisional Government. Thomas W. Kallam, an editor, charged with the murder of H. G. | Whitaker, is to be tried at the No- {vember term of | Court which convened at Dobson, N. | . today. The killing occurred on the main stret in Pilot Mountain, on | October last. Both men were| | prominent residents of Pilot Moun-| tain. Whitaker was an attorney, while Kallam- is an attorney and also editor of the Dobson newspaper. It is| understood that Kallam will make a | Dlea of self-defense, declaring that he ! shot Whitaker only after the latter had threatened him with a knife. A snit brought by Laura Biggar.‘} the former actress, for an accounting of the estate of Henry Bennett was| |called today before Vice-Chancellor Garrison. Bennett, who was a promi- nent theatrical manager in Pitts- burgh, died several years ago leaving an estate estimated at $1,000,000.! His will left Miss Biggard, who claims to be his widow, a 60 per cent inter- est in the estate. The death of Ben- nett was followed by much litiga- tion which was supposed to be endefli when the former actress settled her | claim against the estate for $100,000. She now declares she was under dur- iess when she made the settlement. The select, committee of the Houss | of Representatives in Washington | [that is investigating the United States Steel Corporation resumed its sessions today. The first inquiry will | be directed toward the ore supply of the United States, of which it is al- |leged the Steel Corporation virtually | has had a monopoly, and the rates| | charged for the transportation of ore | by the steel trust roads in Minneso- ta. While the committee has not | made public its list of prospective| | witnesses, it has been understood for some time that Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan and several other! of the most important men in the fin- ancial world will be summoned to tes- tify. | | i Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, {the “show girls” who are charged | with attempting to murder W. E. D.| | Stokes, the millionaire owner of the| | Ansonia Hotel, will be placed on trial | ithis week in the Criminal Branch of | the Supreme Court in New York city. The shooting of Stokes occurred on June 6 last in the rooms occupied by the two young women in an uptown |apartment house. The millionaire was shot three times and as a result was confined in the hospital for several| weeks.” The accused girls declared at the time that Stokes was endeavoring| to recover a number of letters he had | | written to Miss Graham. Stokes |maintained that Miss Graham and her friend endeavored to make him the victim of a blackmail plot and that| (he was deliberately shot when he refused to sign a check for $25,000. The wedding of Miss Miriam Cable and Baron Major von Hernes of Vien-| na, will take place tomorrow evening at the home of the bride’s mother,| Mrs. Herman B. Cable, in Evanston, | (1L l | LECR AR B R R R R RO P R R ® BASEBALL NOTES. & POOROCOOCPROOOS®OO Pitcher “Cy” Morgan, of the Ath- letics, hit 21 batsmen last season. | ®* Andy Cookley, the former 1:'l:|i1adel~i | phia-Cincinnati pitcher, has signed a The Fond du Lac team in the Wi the Surry County|. | evenings to young and old for social | to as many persons as could crowd in- on the bonds of said county, to be used | consin-Tilinois league will probably be | shifted to Elgin, Ill., if the Elgin fans in defraying the expense incurred or to| be incurred, in locating, establishing and | . ! construeting Judicial Ditch No. 5 in the | 4ig and produce the necessary pleas- mty of Beltrami, and that the bonds ure getters. |interest at the rate of 4 per cent per {annum, in the sum of eighteen thousand | The Cardinals have two reasons for dollars ($18,000), be and they each are p.; 3 = e hereby issued, payable as follows: being famous (in St. Louis). They ! Bonds Payable in 1917. are the only ball club owned by a January | Woman and they are the only team| One bond for 1,000 pavable 1917 One bond | 1st 1018, | One bond 1st 1919, { One bond 11st 1920. for §1.000 | Manager Ned Ezan, of the Ottum- January | wa team in the Central association,’ January | B2s all the minor league managers payable 3 for $1,000 pavable £1,000 payable h d county I3 i ing | 3 < = & 4 L Putcounty of Deltrems bearla A St. Louis scribe waileth thus: Richmond, Va., Nov. 20.—If the goed roads cause is to be advanced by the intelligent discussion of the subject by able men representing all sections of the country it is certain to receive a decided impetus from the American Road Congress which met here today under the auspices of the American Association for Highway Improvement. The gathering will continue four days and will be addressed by many men of wide prominence, among them United States Senator Martin of Virginia, Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, Congressman J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, James S. Harlan of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Edward S. Pearson, Secretary of State of New Hampshire. KEEP GIRLS FROM CITIES,” WARNS MRS STARKWEATHER - WHO STIRS LARGE AUDIENCE WITH PATHOS AND HUMOR Branding as the “basest of sland-|x ers and the wickedest of ljes” attacks | on the-character of Worl girls of Minnesota and urging that-thesehool houses” of Bemidji be thrown open to Men Tonight. At 8 o’clock at the Commer- cial clab rooms tonight, Mrs. Starkweather, who is at the head of the Woman’s and Children’s : department of the state labor bu- : reau, will speak to the men of : Bemidji. events, including—although the sug- gestion shocked some—dances, Mrs. Perry Starxweather last night talked . “I hope,” says Mrs. Stark- : weather, “that there will be a : representative attendance to- night, as I have some important : suggestions I wish to make in- to the Presbyterian church. Warning for Parents. Although Mrs. Starkweather’s re- marks were filled with heart interest | : they were not without a humorous cluding one for the formation of : tinge. She was splemn in her warn-|: a boys’ club.” ing against permitting “the sweet|: . flower of our land; our cherished{: “I am simply delighted,” said daughters” to seek employment in the!: Mrs. Starkweather, “with my vis- cities where, she said, “they are com- it to Bemidji. The Saturday af- ing in an endless chain to health | : ternoon gathering goes to show destroying factories that pay less|: that Bemidji is one of the real than a living wage.” cities of the state. There surely Mrs. Starkweather’s tribute to the|: must have been close to 200 wom- : working girls of Minnesota was posi-{: en out and the interest shown tive. was pleasing. Incidentally I nev- : - . - er have seen so many beautiful : Tribute to Working Girl. : gowns in such a small place.” “There is no higher virtue and no|* nobler character than that of the pure, honest working girl for none other faces so many temptations and under such trying conditions,” she looked up at me with that magnifi- cent head of his with a sort of I- might-as-well-confess look, and said, said. “Mrs. Starkweather, the proud day of “St. Paul has the largest number|my life was the day I went home and of homeless girls in the United States, i told my mother that she would not Lowell, Mass., is second and Minne-|have to work any more.” ” apolis is third,” she continued, cal- Mrs. Starkweather explained that ling attention to the fact that Minne-|at the pregent time there are 150,000 sota is the omly state in the union|working girls in the state of Minneso- having a women’s and children’s de-|ta ‘and that they yearly earn $50,- partment. Mrs. Starkweather secur-|000,000. ing the passage of the bill creating| The average wage is $8 a week. such a department and she has been|In the fatories each girl has one par- at its head since its establishment in | ticular thing to do. In making a pair 1907. of shoes 126 persons are used, each deing some one thing. Thus, one girl will put on the buttons another will sew gloves together, another will do some other one thing. In mak- ing a shirt 46 different girls work on it. “Think of the monotony of doing one thing day after day,” said Mrs. “At the time Governor Johnson was | Starkweather. “It is no wonder that being spoken of as a candiddate for|they seek diversion. It is no wonder president I met him in the capitol one | that we have to warn to keep out of day and T said, ‘Governor, its pretty fine that you are being talked of for|temptation; it is no wonder we have so high a place.’ His face broke into|to warn them not to go to the parks that loving smile of his and he said alone. They must seek diversion—it socmething about not being a big!is natural. o enough man for such a place. I didn’t “We took five girls from the publie agree with him on that point and Ijdance hall in one night to their par- told him that I felt a thrill of-prideents and when we told two of the about it and asked him, ‘Now, really, | fathers it was'a wonder they wouldn’t governor, down in your heart, aren't‘keep them out of such places they you just a little set up about it— said it is a wonder you don’t get aren’t you a little bit proud?” but the ! scme better $lace for them to go.” great governcr leaned over and with that deep earnest lock characteristic of ide man said, ‘No. I've had my rreud day”’ 1 asked him if he meapt when ke was elected governor and ke said, ‘Ne," and sterted away. T A Johnson Incident. Mrs. Starkweather gives the late Governor John A. Johnson and Gov- ernor Eberhart much credit for the passage of this bill. An incident of deep pathos was recited by her of Governor Johnson. She said: to the fact that at the free employ- ment bureaus there daily is a long line of girls seeking work and that in 99 cgses out of a 100 when asked what they wish to do the reply is, §1.000 payable outside the fence when it comes to ran after him but he would not tell “Oh, anything but housework; I State Road No. 4 asked that the time |l 9,7 of his contract be extended until June | 'Sy 1921 $1,000 payable January | ejase. Ned was married recently to ist, 1912. On motion of Commissioner Fellows, seconded by Commissioner Ra. | ko, said request was granted. Application of Ole P. Olson to trans- fer his license to sell liquors from lot January | Miss Kate Drummond, of St. Paul,’ $1,000 payable January 1st 1923. (Continued on Page. 2.) eymi 0?_“- and the happy couple are taking a me. You know I will keep after you trip around the world for their hon-{until you tell me jgnc that proud |speaker “if they don’t know how to do me. The next day I went to his of- don’t like to do that; I don’t kmow fice and said, ‘Governor, you know how; its drudgery.” “Of course it is drudgery,” said the moment of your our American life today is the decline of tljé dignity of the household. And it is worthyto note that the records | turned over as it settled and only ' show- that men who have wives who can cook seldom, if ever, get a di- vorce. “I hope in the near future that the public schools—not beginning with the last course of study—through all grades will teach the art of house- keeping. Art and Goose Grease. “And that reminds me that not long ago I was talking to an art class of married women. Now art is a fine thing amd it is lovely to be able to paint beautiful pictures, and I ad- mired the paintings on display. There was one that especially appealed to me. It was that of an infant— dimpled arms and smiling lips. But there was something I wanted to find out, so I said to one of the women, ‘Have you any children?’ and she said | ‘No.” SoI said to the mother who had painted the infant ‘Have you any,’ and -she said, ‘Yes, three.’ asked her about housework and she said no, she didn’t do it, that she had devoted her life to ‘art.’ I said, ‘Now, my dear, as a matter of fact, if your child had the croup, hadn’t you rath- er know how to put on the goose grease than to paint the finest pie- ture?” ” Mrs. Starkweather urged the open- ing of the school houses as social centers and told of the success which had met such a plan at Rochester, 8. 7 Speaks to Women on Saturday. At the Commercial club rooms last Saturday, Mrs. Starkweather spoke to the about 175 women, and covered much of the ground which she went over in her talk at the church last night. The Women’s Club gave the pro- gram including a dramatic reading by Miss Fisk, and a solo by Miss Mar- jorie Knappen. Refreshments of cof- fee and cake were served. Mrs. C. R. Sanborn, president of the club, presiding. Speaks at High School. This' morning Mrs. Starkweather public dance halls—places of sin and | spoke in the high school assembly room before the seventh and eighth grades and the high school pupils. She said that it is upon the children and young people of a city that the reputation of the place is dependent; that one of the first lessons to be learned in the school is good citizen- ship, and appreciation of public prop- erty; and that school children should | value their schools and take care of them as carefully as they do.their Mrs. Starkweather - called attention | own property. Mrs. Starkweather spoke highly of the Boy Scout movement, and empha- sized the fact that every Seout is sup- posed to do some kindly deed every day. That Mrs. Starkweather made an impressicn upon the school children was testified by the applause she re- ceived several times during her|tickets each year to the Yale-Harvard speech, and the undivided attention|game Yale will build a stadium to _then he|it and one of the saddest things in {that was given her. S 5 Then I | talks also are on the program. S00 TRAIN SETTLES 7 FEET IN SWAMP - Passengers Exposed for Hours to Chill of Winter Weather Near Moose Lake. > { | RAR INTO ‘SINK HOLE' SATURDAY ; Warnings Prevented Bad Wreck as | the Train was Moving Slowly - 5] at the Time. MAN WALKER BRINGS RELIEF ‘Goel to Town Spreading the News That Those on Board Needed Food and Water. | Passengers on the delayed Soo pas- |senger'last Saturday tell a different istory of the delay than did the Soo . |officials at Duluth who said the train - {was derailed by frost spreading the |rails. Passengers say the train-ran {into a sink hole. | A dispatch out of Duluth says: | “Marooned on the top of a Soo line passenger train, which settled seven feet in a swamp five miles east of | Moose Lake. Minn., 100 passengers ‘Wwere exposed for hours to the ravages {of a northwestern winter until a | wrecking train reached them late on | Saturday. | “The Soo line passenger train, No. 116, left Duluth at 9 a. m. and was due at Moose Lake at 11 a. m. Most of the trackage in the Deerwood country is over swamps built up by years of filling. When on the most treacherous part, near Black Hoof, the entire train began settling and it did not take it long to sink to a depth of seven feet. The engine the roofs of the coaches were visible - above the marsh. “The surrounding country fis sparsely settled and the news was brought to Moose Lake by one of the 3 passengers who walked the entire way. He said that the passengers were suffering from lack of water and food. A wrecking train was sent out from the Superior yards and re- - turned late Saturday night with the . travelers, none of whom had been in- jured, but many of who had suffered from the severe cold and the hours of exposure. | F “The train went down in the mire in a sink hole. The train consisted of two day coaches, a smoker and the locomotive. The three coaches were derailed and could not be occupied by the passengers for shelter. “Wreckérs treid to put the track in condition for travel but were unsuc- cessful. Fifteen cars of gravel were > deposited in the sinkhole and all ‘went out of sight. This work will be continued until it is possible for the trains to pass. “Train erews had been warned of the sinkhole and had been told to go slowly. The following of these in- structions prevented a more disas- trous wreck.” YOUNG MEN TO DINE TONIGHT Will Carry Out Plans for Dinner and Program at Markham Hotel. It was announced by those behind the project today that the proposed Yyoung men’s dinner and musical and speechmaking program arranged for tonight at the Markham hotel would be carried out as originally intended. Interest in the affair has grown to such an extent that an attendance of -about 40 is now expected. Tom Me- Cann will act as toastmaster and City Attorney P. J. Russell and T. J. Bur- ke, president of the Commercial club, will speak. Several three minute Mas- ten’s orchestra is to furnish the mu- sic. The affair will be informal and any guest who wears a dress suit will do it at his peril. 2900000000000 OS °. FOOTBALL NOTES. @ POPPPPPPPPOCOOO®S Jimmy Johnson, Carlisle’s former star guarterback, is practieing dent- istry in the Tropics. Apparently the shift of Captain Fisher to tackle has strengthened the Harvard eleven. Five hundred undergraduates ac- companied the Michigan team to Cor- nell for the ganfe with the Ithacans. Both Captain Potter of the Har- vard baseball team, and Captain Mer- ritt of the Yale quarterbacks. Owing to the over-application for - nine are varsity seat 70,000 people. 2