Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 29, 1911, Page 1

Y THE BEMIDJI D {RISTORICA, | - SOGIETY, oy, VOLUME 9. NUMBER 206, GRASSES FLOURISH IN FIRE SWEPT ZONE Dean Woods Informs J. J. Opsahl That State Free Seed Invest- ment Was Good One. POINTS TO RICH REVENUES Declares Northern Minnesota is Es- pecially Adapted to Successful Raising of Hay Crops. $50,000 PAID IN PARK RAPIDS Farmers There Stumble Onto Idea of Threshing Timothy and Pick Up $300 to $500. According to A. F. \Woods, and director of the department of agriculture of the University of Min-| nesota, the state legislature made a profitable last, when it voted free seed to the set- dean investment winter tiers of the fire zone of Beltrami and adjoining counties. J. J. Opsahl, of this city, who in- from W. M. “Caber, president of the First Nation- cidentally has a letter al Bank of Park Rapids, showing how farmers have “picked up from $300 to $500 off timothy seed, wrote to Dean Woods to know what the results of sowing the burned over lands had been. In reply Dean Woods said: Yields of 1 1-2 Tons Result. “Visits to the territory in which! seed was sown indicates that the re- sults are very satisfactory. In some cases one and one-half to two tons of hay have been cut this year from seed sown last spring. Numerous good stands are reported, and it looks as though the legislature had made a profitable investment in the distri- bution of grass seed in northern Minnesota. Advises Sowing of Seed. “That part of the state is so well | adapted to the growth of timothy| and clovers that we believe that no| opportunity should be lost to estab- lish grass seed wherever possible. Farly spring and late fall seedings on land that has been recently burned over promises to be a good policy. Weeds can be kept out in this way and a profitable forage crop provided which will add greatly to the producing powers of this part of the state. There is no doubt but the seed crop can be made quite a factor in many parts of the country, but the influence of the growth of grass on the production of live stock, especially dairy cows, would be quite as great a consideration. “I am aware of the fact that much grass seed was grown in the vicin- ity of Park Rapids this year and that very encouraging prices were received for the crop. All of north- ern Minnesota is looked upon as an especially favorable place for the rroduction of timothy and clover seed, and there is no doubt but the region will become one of the lead- ing seed centers in the near future. Clover on Burned Over Land. “We believe in the use of clover on the burned over lands and I think; that it should be sown wherever pos- le. On much of the land in north- ern Minnesota alsike clover would be preferable to the red. This var- iety furnishes only one crop per year, but it stays in the land more permanently and makes even better forage than the common red clover. For seed growing purposes the red clover will probably give larger re- turns, and will meet with more pop- ular faver.” $50,000 for Seed at Park Rapids. In his letter to Mr. Opsahl, the Park Rapids banker, Mr. Taber, has this to say: “Replying to your letter of Dec. 18th, will say that the statements that I made you at St. Cloud con- cerning the timothy seed raised in this vicinity were about as follows: There has been somewhere between $40,000 and $40,000 paid out for timothy seed at this point this sea- son. “W. 8. Flannigan hauled in one load with four horses for which he realized $1,115. He afterwards found that he had some 11 1-2 tons of tim- othy that he had cut for hay in his barn and noticed that it was well filled with seed and decided to thresh it. From this 11 1-2 tons he thresh- | temporarily chief of Kecuador, jold. ed 3,500 pounds which he sold for POOPOOPOPOO9OOO D © Outsile News Condensed. ¢ R R R RO OROROR RCRORCR R RORY The weather: Saturday continued cold and. generally fair. * From Nanking comes a cablegram announcing: “Dr. Sun Yat Sen has unanimously been chosen president of the new republic of China.” - Announcement was made at Pitts- burgh by the Joseph Soop Purchas- ing Agency of an advance in Penn- sylvania crude oil of 5 cents a bar- rel. * A brawl occurred at St. Petersburg among the sailors employed at the gunpowder works in the outskirts of St. Petersburg and soldiers. Two were wounded. . It was said at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York today that Dr. C. H. Mayo had spent a fairly | good night and that his condition was satisfactory. * William Patterson of Lincoln, Neb., a friend of Willlam Jennings Bryan, who disappeared Sunday at Plainfield, N. J., was found dead with his throat eut. * That General Morales is likely to| forfeit his life because of his last attempt at rebellion in Santo Domin- go is the tenor of advice received at \WVashington from the island repub- { lie. Carlos Freile Zoldumbide, who is has fixed the date of the election of a successor to President Emillio Es- trada, who died on Dec. 22, for Jan. 28. Death as a result of having been caught in a barbed wire fence on the rountainside at Pottsville, Pa., was the fate of Louis Steffregen, 80 years He was too weak to release himself. » * Blinded by a snowstorm three men were run down and killed by a train while working on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks yesterday between Eldred and Keating Summit in Penn- sylvania. . At Mukden, Manchuria, it is re- ported that Japan has just complet- ed a survey of the Russian frontier. Russian officials insist that hence- forth the Amur and Transbalkal pro- | vinces be closed to Japan officials. . The British steamer Guillemot, from London to Genoa, foundered in the Bay of Biscay on Dec. 21. The captain and fifteen of her crow were lost. Seven survivors were picked up by the British steamer Lincairn and landed at Glasgow * The McCumber pension bill will replace the Sherwood bill and be passed by both houses, say members of congress in Washington. The McCumber bill provides: pensions to veterans who served 90 days or more, 62 years old or more, $12 a month; 66 years old or more, §15 a month; 70 years or more, $20 a month; 75 years old or more, $25 a month. $12.50 per hundred or $437.50 and still had his hay left. Other Farmers Make Finds. “Numerous other farms are realiz- ing from three to $500 for their tim- othy seed which is about like find- ing it for them as they still have their hay left. Among a few farm- crs that had large quantities were | W. S. Flanagan, Chas. Pike, Corey Doran of Hubbard; Chas. Spencer, Harvey McCollough and Alex Me- Millan of Park Rapids.” Suicides at $100 Each. A gentleman who lived a number of years in the city of Amoy. in China, told me that he could secure any oum- ber among the common’ people of that town to commit suicide for $100 apiece. As human pature is the same every- where, he explained that as we may find many who will lay down their lives for their country and whom we highly bonor on that account, so an ordinary Chinaman Is willing thus to die for the benefit of his children in order that they may worship him | afterward as an ancestor who died for their bepefit. This esplains also that noble reverence for their parents which the Chinese display, because their parents will soon be endowed with all the mysterious powers of the pext world.—W. H. Thomson. M. D. LL.D., in “Life, Death and Immor- tality.” Porfoctly Safe. A tourist in a remote part of Ireland. baving stayed the night at a wayside inn not usually frequented by visitors. informed the landlord in the morning that his boots. which had been placed outside his room door tv be cleaned. had not been touched. “Ah, sure” said tbe landlord, “and you moight put your watch and chain outside your room door in this house and they wouldn't be touched. "—Lon- don Mail. 7 YEAR OLD SENDS GIFT TO POOR HERE Remer Boy Does His Part Toward Insuring Children of Bemidji Hol- iday Happiness. This, Presents and Novel Dutch Mill Arranged at City Hall By Salva- tion Army Workers. MORE TOYS ARE MUCH NEEDED Neither is Supply of Candy and Nuts Sufficient for All Who May Ex- pect Them. Because he never has been over- looked by Santa Claus, Floyd Renn, of Remer, the new town on the Sco Line, could not bear the thought of any child in Bemidji going through Therefore, Floyd sat wrote the following letter: Remer, Minn., Cadet Peter- son: Mamma read vour ad in the paper about your having a Christmas tree for the poor children of Bemidji. I am a boy 7 years old and as I don’t want any little boy or girl to be skipped 1 would like to give something so will send a box of bon bons and hope you will give them out at that tree. —Tloyd Renn. Will Give His Candy Away. The box of candy was safely re- ceived and it has been added to the -other presents which are to be dis- iributed "at the Salvation Army’s tree to be given in the City Hall at l8 o'clock tomorrow evening. ‘A novel feature of the evening will be an old Dutch mill, which to- day is being erected in addition to a big tree with glittering, candle dot- ted and present laden branches. In addition to this the hall will be a fairyland of lights and a pro- fusion of pine, holly and balsam dec- orations will greet the bright eyed guests. down and Christmas Program Arranged. A Christmas program has been prepared and here it is: Recitation. ... .“A Christmas Wish.” William Burns. Song..... +.....“Holy Night.” Five Little Girls. Recitation. ..“A Christmas Letter.” Master John Brown. Duet. ...“The Christmas Welcome.” Gordon and Norman Burns, “Christmas Bells.” Chorus of Five Girls. Recitation.“Just Before Christmas.” Thomas Stepp. Song....... +ev .. ... Cleo Fullerton, Christmas. .. ... What 1t Stands For Nine Girls. “What the Salvation Army Teaches” Six Little Girls. Presents to Follow Program. The distribution of presents will follow the program These gifts have been donated by the business institutions and private citizens of Bemidji, and the list includes: toys, clothing, candy, cakes and nuts, but in order to insure happiness for all the children who attend more dona- tions are needed, the Salvation Army workers being especially perplexed because of a lack of toy contribu- tions. More Things are Needed. “So far we have only a few card games,” said Mrs. J. C. Minnes, who with her husband, Captain Minnes, is assisting in the preparations, “and games and books for children be- tween the ages of 6 and 10 would be most acceptable. So far we have only a few card games, five toy rid- ing -whips, two doll beds, a doll cradle, two small boats, two picture books, 16 wooden horses, 25 sets of tin dishes, a teddy bear and 13 dolls, and of this assortment nearly all have seen much use.” Shy on Candy and Nuts. Nor ,is the supplies of Christmas goodies as large as will. be needed. The apple supply may be enough as rine bushels have been donated but More of each is needed. . A Massachusetts man. has invent- ed an electric light ang reflector for inspecting’ the insides of shoes. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EV! PUBLIC TREE TOMORROW NIGHT the holidays without some sort of§ |a present. there is only five pounds of -candy cn hand and but 10 pounds of nuts.| 5. (Copyright, 1911) A 7K ..m\\\\\mm {EGG PRICES MAY DROP Unless Cold Continues, Cost Decreas- es With End of Moulting Season Now Nearly Over. CRANBERRIES, PARSNIPS HIGH | Supplies of fresh lettuce, celery, radishes, and onions will be plenti- ful in the Bemidji markets for the New Year’s dinner. Country -eggs “are now 35 cents a dozen; the storage var- iety at 30 cents. The dealers are looking for a drop of ten cents a case during the first weeks of Jan- vary, the moulting season being over then, but the future movement of the egg market depends largely up- on the weather. Continued cold is likely to make eggs scarce and high. Butter, the price of which was of ccnsiderable comment two weeks ago remains steady at 42 cents a pound, and dealers give no hope for a decrease for at least another month. Cranberries are becoming more valuable as also are green things selling at south, Cranberries now sell at 15 cents per pound. Oranges, lemons, bananas, grape fruit, and malaga grapes are to be had, at prices which are about the same as a week ago. No catawba grapes are to be had, the sea- son fof this variety being now over. Cabbages, turnips, beets, carrots, rutabagas, and potatoes are un- changed in price and supplies brought in by the farmers are plen- tiful. Parsnips are high, selling at 60 cents a bushel. The cost is due to the difficulty of keeping this veg- etable during the winter months. Christmas supplies of fancy clus- ter raisins at 30 cents a pound are still on the market and specially pached figs at 10 cents for a 12 ounce package. PRESIDENT TO HAVE BUSY DAY Taft Leaves Capital Tomorrow For Philadelphia and New York City. Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—Ac- companied by a small party of prom- inent officials and diplomats, Presi- dent Taft will leave the capital to- morrow morning to fill public en- gagements in Philadelphia and New York. Tomorrow afternoon the president will attend the John Wan- amaker jubilee celebration in Phila- delphia. From Philadelphia he will hurry to New York to, speak at the citizens’ peace dinner to be given at the Waldorf tomorrow night. f SURVEYORS WORK NEAR HERE Indications That Minneapolis & St. Louis Busy Preparing to Build. Thief River Falls, Minn., Dec. 29. |—A large surveying crew has been at work in this vicinity for a week past, but no one knows whom they represent. Rumor avers that Min- | neapolis & St. Louis men are in the city and surrounding territory with a view of making Bemidji or Thief River Falls one of the principal di- vision towns on the proposed line to be constructed from the twin cities 1o Winnipeg. ¢ Chicago, 111, shipped in from California and the| x . . cesnes X Slxty Lynchefl Dumng Past Year. * Dec. 29.—(Spec- : ¢ ial)—The lynching record for : 1911 shows a distinct though : : slight ~ improvement over the : : records of previous years. The : number of persons lynched since : January 1—sixty—is slightly : less than that of any other re- : : cent year. All but two of the : : 60 persons lynched were ne- : :_groes. Of the fifty-eight negroes, : : one was a woman. The crimes : charged against these victims : : range all the way from insult to : criminal assault and murder. Georgia leads with the most : lynchings—ssventeen. - Lynch- : ings occurred in thirteen states. All of these were Southern or : border States excepting Penn- : : sylvania, which furnished the : only instance of the year where : : the vietim was burned at the : stake, Contrary to the record of pre- vious years the majority of the : victims were not accused of : crimes against women. The vic- : tims accused of attacks on wom- : * en numbered eighteen, while : : thirty-one were accused of mur- : : der. Two negroes were lynched : : for insulting white women, four : : for attempted murder, one for : threatening to murder, one for : highway robbery, and one for persistent stealing. Two were : charged with plain assault and : : one was being held in jail as a : suspicious character. : : In several instances race riots : were reported in which both : : whites and Dblacks were killed. : : These are not included in the : : record of the year. TAFT TO EAT AT PEACE DINNER Cardinal Gibbons, Knox, Sherman, Clark, Towne and Others to Attend. New York, Dec. 29.—Arrange- ments completed for the citizens’ peace dinner to be given at the Wal- dorf tomorrow night indicate that the affair will be the most notable cf its kind that New York has seen in a long time. President Taft will he the special guest of honor. Other notables in attendance will include Vice-president Sherman, Secretary Clark and a number of the leading foreign diplomats at Washington. The President will be the first speak- er of the evening, and will be fol- lowed by Andrew Carnegie. Cardi- nal @ibbons is to pronounce the in- vocation. Among the members of the committee in charge of the affair are J. P. Morgan, Henry Clews, Aug- ust Belmont, John Temple Graves and former United States Senator Charles A. Towne. Covers will be laid for 1800 guests. Mrs. Mary McDermaid 111 Mrs. Mary McDermaid is seriously i1' at her home on Third street. She .|Lecame ill on Monday and her con- dition now is regarded dangerous. Mrs. McDermaid owns the McDer- maid hotel on Third Street. The castoff shell of a crab serves as a barometer to the inhabitants of the southernmost provinces of Chili. In France there has been invented a flourless breadmaking machine which transforms the whole wheat into dough. ! KLEVEN TO GET EXHIBITS Assumes Work of Preparing Display for Immigration Room Being Opened in Minneapolis. VEGETABLES NEEDED THE MOST Owing to the fact that A. G. Wedge, first appointed to have charge of the exhibits finds himself too busy to give the duties the nec- essary attention, Albert K. Kleven has been appointed to gather for Beltrami county farm products to be displayed in the new show room be- ing opened in Minneapolis under auspices of the immigration commis- sion of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association. The following was received today from W. R. Mackenzie, who is in charge of the Minneapolis display room: Kindly send all exhibits for the Beltrami county exhibit at our exhibit room at 39 third street south, Minneapolis, to Al- bert K. Kleven, of Bemidji, in- stead of A. G. Wedge, Jr., as Mr. Kleven has undertaken the work owing to Mr. Wedge being too busy to attend to it. Mr. Kleven said this afternoon that he had taken hold of the work and that he should be glad to get any Beltrami county products. Vegetables especially are wanted as few contributions in this line have as yet been received. Mr. Kleven expects to send this week a number of prize exhibits of the last Beltrami county fair, con- sisting of buckwheat, blue stem and macaroni wheat, alfalfa, white Rus- sian oats, several stalks of 14 foot Strawberry dent corn, alsike clover, Siberian millet, a number of varie- ties of grasses of unusual height, and a number of specially fine pump- kins and citrons, said by experts to be the finest of their kind ever grown. NAME BURSE KELLIHER MAYOR Council at Special Meeting Decides on Successor to A. A. McGill. At a special meeting of the Kelli- her city council held in that place cn Wednesday evening, William Burse was named mayor to succeed the late A. A. McGill, who died here last Sunday. The new mayor of Kel- liher was chosen without opposition. He will hold the office until the reg- ular city election in March. Mayor Burse is engaged in the timber busi- ness and is the Kelliher representa- tive of the Crookston Lumber com- pany. Mrs. 8. C. Bailey’s Father Dies. - Mrs. S. C. Bailey left this after- noon for Faulkton, 8. D., called there by the death of her father, John Small. . Mr. Small has been ill for the past few years, and his death was oot unexpected. The inventor of a new kind of lin- MIKE DAVIS SAIDTO BE IN PENITENTIARY |Arrested for Postoffice Theft and Quickly Sentenced to a 15 Year Term. NEWS TO OFFICERS HERE Neither Attorney General Nor Fire Marshal Aware of the Puposky Man’s Capture, INCLINED TO DOUBT IDENTITY In Long Distance Message to Be- midji Proposed Steps Regarding Affair are Told. St. Paul, Dec. 29.—Mike Davis, the notorious yeggman, who is al- leged to have participated in the at- tempt to rob and fire the Puposky. Minn., general store and postoffice last June, in which plot Dr. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake is also said to have been implicated, is now an in- mate of the Michigan penitentiary at Jackson, having been arrested at Flint, Mich., December 183, for a post- office robbery and railroaded to .pris- on with a pal a faw days later. He was given 15 years. . Refuses to Talk. At the time of the Puposky affair Davis or Callahan as he is also known and his pursners ‘asserted he had been shot in the gun combat which followed a raid Little has been discovered as to Lis whereabouts till today when the Michigan authorities informed that state fire marshal’s office that their man was once more safely behind prison bars. Efforts to' get Davis to tell of his escape from Minnesota have proved futile, according to reports from the Wolverine penitentiary. In his re- cent aet of lawlessness. Davis was aided by two others, but one of the party escaped immediately after the Gaines, Mich,, postoffice had been looted. Bemidji Men Doubt It. In a long distance telephone mes- sage between Bemidji officers prom- inent in the arson cases and the at- torney general office at St. Paul this afternoon it was learned that the man in prison in Michigan has not positively been identified as Mike Davis. Neither the fire marshal nor at- torney general’s office was aware of the arrest of the Michigan man. Capitol Officers Dubious. Telegrams were sent from St. Paul this morning to the Jackson peni- tentiary and until a reply has been willing to believe that it was the Puposky bandit whom the Michigan officers captured. DAVIS NOT IN GRAND FORKS Chief of Police Sullivan Says Beltra- mi County Men Had Wrong Tip. East Grand Forks, Minn., Dec. 29. —Chief of Police P. J Sullivan de clared once more that insinuations which have been made against his department relative to the supposed escape of Mike Davis, the yeggman, from a detachment of detectives, Beltrami county authorities and at- torney general.office attaches in this city last September, are without feundation and are wholly false. “The officers under me, as well as myself, did everything we could to ce-operate with the officials at the time they supposed Mike Davis was in Bast Grand Forks,” the chief said, “and charges to the contrary are ab- solutely false. Mike Davis is no fool, ard it is not to be supposed for a minute he would come to East Grand Forks, at the time he was said to be here, for he is very well known here.” NEW BRIDGE NOW OPENED River Structure Ready for Team Traffic, Says Street Commissioner. Street Commissioner Carter this afternoon announced that the new constructed bridge across the Mis- sissippi river has reached a stage of completion that from now on will permit its use by teams. “For the ing bricks claims they are impervious to moisture and so light they will float in water. present, pedestrians will be com- peHed to use the wagon part of the bridge. *al Soctery, received the state fire marshal is not o | %0