Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 6, 1912, Page 1

ling plaster. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 212. AGAIN AT 38 MARK; SOME DAMAGE DONE BUT WOODMEN GAIN Pipes Throughout City Burst, West Hotel in Danger and Pioneer Of- - fice is Deluged. ONE TRAIN FREEZES TO TRACK Requires Two Locomotives to Start | 17 Cars Whose Wheels are Locked With Ice. BUT LUMBERMEN ALL SMILE i Swamps Now in Cendition to Rush! Delnycd Work; Men Plentiful at TRAVELING STORES.. a Curious Among the many imelesung thlngs to attract the attention of the tourist in Cuba are the traveling stores, con- sisting of all sorts of queer vehicles which traverse the city and rural dis- triets. These portable shops are constructed in an ingenious manner so as to dis- play thelr wares to the best advantage. Every article used in a household and wearing apparel of- all kinds are on sale, and the owner of’ the wagon, ‘which resembles a department store, boasts that he can supply dry goods and notions of all kinds, from a paper of needles to a ready made gown. The sides of a shop on wheels are made of glass and so arranged as to give them the appearance of a shop window.]| Perfumery is one of the leading ar- ! ticles sold in this way, for, however poor the natives may be, they always have money ecmough to purchase co- logues and generally the most expen- | sive varieties. During carnival season a plentiful upply of masks, caps and grotesque uits is.added: to- the stock. Men with pushecarts laden with linens and laces or cobking utensils go about the streets of Havana, offering their goods to the women' who cautiously peer out from behind barred windows. These carts Reduced Pay. With its water pipes frozen and | many of its trains delayed, Bemidji and the north is slowly. énierging | from one of the coldest waves in its AL 3 4. m.-today again stood at the, low’ record df 24 hours before, 38 | “befow; at 11 a. m. it was 24 hom\»’ and at 2 p. m. 20 below. Many Pipes Frozen. ; Throughout the city therc were| numerous freeze-ups’ of wate . one.plumber report- many as 18 since day-break. | At the West Ifotel the 4-inch sew- er maiii was frozen solid and it took several hours work on the part of the plumbers to prevent further dam- The water pipe occupied by the G e {1 dence di in the building 1. Troppman Co., | en and all through the vesi- et ofthe _ city- similar | cases were veparted.” The. previous night pipes froze in the ofiice of Dr. D. L. Stanton on the second story of the Security Bank building, causing a flood which soaked through, drenching the Pioneer's orial rooms, and littering them with fal- Wheels Stick; Trains Late. Trainmen have experienced serious and dangerous handicaps as a result of the cold. In the North Bemidji yards it took two engines to start a train of 17 cars, hecause of frost locked wheels. The north-bound 4:15 a. m. Min- nesota & International train did not arrive until :20 a. m. and No. 32 southbound, on the same road, due at 8:15 a. m. was ten minutes la The casthound 9:45 a. m. Soo (Il(l not get in until 11 o'clock. The Great Northern passenger which is sched- wled to arrive here at noon was an hour late. Westbound Great North- 'rn Duluth to Grand Forks due at! 0 a. m. arrived at 6: 0 a. m. This afternoon’s westhound Great North- ern train due at 3:30 p. m. was on time. Usunal schedules are heing maintained on the Red Lake line. Agent Fisher up to 5 p. m. had re-| ceived o report of the evening Min- nesota & International. Logging Roads Again Used. Nevertheless the cold is proving a blessing in some quarters especiaily in logging operations, Northern Min- nesota's great winter industry. B. \. Lakin, of the Crookston Lumber company, here today said: “The cold blast has frozen up the swamps which have up to this time been too soft to permit of teams’| traveling through them, putting the logging season back more than a month. The roads have been frozen hard, making it possible for heavy sleds to pass over them, but the log- gers are waiting for the cold to ease up 2 bit now to melt the roads to Jjust the rightd egree. As it is now, the sleds pull hard and this means more horses to every team. We are not hauling as many logs as usually, either, the incessant frost on the rails making railroad transportation | exceedingly difficult.” Many Men for Camps. “Tiere has beon an over abundamce of men so far, although the demand now is stronger. “We have been easily supplied | with labor this winter,” said Secre- tary_J. M. Richards of the Bemidji Lumber company, “even more than usual in spite of the lower- wage scale. At present $26 a month is the limit for the-erdinary lumber- jacks, most of them being road work- ers and swampers, while the same men received $30 last year. Sawyers and teamsters are getting $35 in the place of $40 last year.” haVve the appearance of ‘a street organ and are pushed among the splendid smooth avenues of- the city with ease. Often men wlll carry thelr ‘stock,” dis- playing it on a pole to which cross- | wise sticks have been fastened, like _the old .fashioned clotheshorse. Toys { ‘also form a part of the stock of these human edelivery wagons. Weekly. SPEED IN BASEBALL. | What an Infield Double Play Means In Time and Action. In an article on baseball in Every- | body’s Magazine the writer shows the wonderful speed that is used in making some of the plays. He says: Making' first base, though more dra- matic to watch, is an uneventful ex- pedition compared with the trip to sec- ond. It takes a fast man to negotiate the journey in 3 3-5 seconds. No thrown ball goes over 300 feet, and if a batted ball travels beyond the safe limits of a single throw it must be relayed by the fielders. While you are watching the outfielder scamper aftcr the_ball the relay line is being swiftly formed in the infield. There could be no such quick and accurateflelding - of..deep | outfield hits if the.outfielder taking the ball did not know that behind him was ranged his line of relays ready to take the ball the instant he could turn and throw it. The relay line in a profes- sional team forms almost automatical- 1y. To make a double play in the infleld the shortstop, for example, must field a ball that has been batted about 135 feet. He passes the ball from ten to twenty-five feet to the second base- | man, who must then throw it ninety feet to first. All this while the batter is running ninety feet, a trick that, as we have seen, it takes a snappy run- ner to turn in 3 3-5 seconds. It's a close call and a case of utllizing the fraction of a second, but with. sharp fielding the margin is all on the side of the fielders. The double play is the menace ever threatening the runner on first. Where the Fruit Grows. A politician in San Francisco who has been in office and on the city pay roll for many years was addressing a meeting of his fellow citizens. It was a labor meeting. “You men must know,” spouted the orator, “that you are the great body politic in this city. You are the roots and trunk of our great municipal tree, while we who represent you in office are merely branches on that magnifi- cent tree.” “True for you,” piped @ man in the back of the hall. “But did ye ever notice all the fruit grows on the branches.”—Saturday Evening Post. As Far as He Got. One day when Willlam M. Evarts, secretary of state under President Hayes, was a college student he was { called on to read Vergil in class, He started out bravely: “Three times I strove to cast my arms around her neck, and —and” —adding lamely — *“that’s as far as I got, professor.” “Well, Mr. Evarts,” said the profes- sor, “I think that was quite far enough.” Too Good to Lose. “Will you be my wife?” asked the star boarder. “Let me see,” mused the landlady. “You have boarded with me four years. You have never grumbled at the food. You have always paid promptly. N 1 can’t accept you. You are too good 2 boarder to be put on the free list.”— London Telegraph. Depressing. “Were there laughter and cheers during your speech?’ “Well,” answered the youthful states- man, “there weren’t many cheers, but now and then people in the audience looked at one another and laughed.”— Washington Star. Also Sharp. “Miss Polly’s father is a man who. is blunt.” “Yes; he wanted to know the other night if I were coming to the point.”— Baltimore American. Hard to Answi — Leslies| BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURD: ooolooo.@o,'oo&‘d"oo‘oo © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ® 0666000000600 666 The new $1,000,000 St. Louis pub- Hc library building was opened and dedicated thfs afternoon. : . To take 100,000,000 poupds of fish from the North Atlantic in"1911 coat Gloucester the lives of 62 seamen. 2 ik Three burglars looted a Ngwark, Ohio, jewelry store of diamends and $10,000. : . A The Ross County, {Ohio, mnd‘jyry adjourned without a single indlet: ment being returned for alleged e]ac- tion corruption. 5 = 4 The condition of Mme. Curie, at Paris, who suffered yesterday from! an acute attack of appendicitis, con- tinues to be serious. » It .is ‘stated in court circles that Queen Wilhelmina is expecting an interesting family event at the royal palace in The Hague. . Mrs. Daniel Stratton was killed and her baby fatally injured in an explosion of kerosene with which she tried to start a fire at Lowell, ;Ind- ® Dr. W. T. Whiting, aged 25, was killed at Louisville, Ky., when an au- tomobile in which he was driving was run down by an interurban car, * through the coming week the 12th National Automobil Show is to be New York. . The car shortage problem in west- ern Canada is becoming a serious one, especially affecting wheat traffic, and there are evidences of a tie-up. in.trafic at many points. ' g . With both feet frozen, Mrs. Clara Sommers and her husband of Pitts- burgh, were arrested at Lafayette, Ind. The woman was in male attire and, with her husband, was “beat- ing” her way on a freight train, oy : Hugh Robinson, the aviator who flew. down, the Migsissippi, sailed-te- day from New York £n route o St. Petersburg, where he is to give dem- onstrations in the Curtiss hydro-ae- roplane recently purchased by the Russian Government. * St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Denver Baltimore, New York—where shall the national convention of the Democratic party be held next sum- mer? This is the leading question to be considered and acted upon by the Democratic national committee at its meeting Monday in Washing- ton. . The executive council of the Am- erican Federation of Labor, composed of President Gompers, the eight vice presidents and the secretary and treasurer, will meet at Washington Monday to decide what is to be done with what funds remain in the $190,- 000 fund for the McNamara defense. It is believed arrangements will be made to distribute the balance among the subscribers. Old Leather Bottles. Leather bottles, or blackjacks, were common in Europe two centuries ago. other valuables, valued at morejthan Beginning tonight and continuingj held in Madison Square Garden at Crookston ~ Lumbe; compuy An- Rounces Pmel l& Photographs Crookston Lumber: company, the first of the larger .companies to_offer for settlement its. land holdings in the rich dairy and potato belt of Minne- sota, of a prize contest for photo- graphs which are to be used in a land pamphlet being prepared by that concern. This picture contest will close February 1. Every photograph ac- cepted will bring its owner a check for $5. i There_are.no restrictiops of any sort. Out of 40,000 acres of land in Beltram{ and other northern coun- ties last’ 'year, more than 23,000 acres were sold, mostly in farms of 40 and 60 acres. The pictures sought for merely are.such illustrations as will reveal to the intending home- seeker the natural attractions and soil possibilities of this part of-the state. There ig no limit as to the num- ber of these photographs that will be purchased and the contest is open to all persons. These photographs ultimately will The bottles were often made of one skin doubled up and closely stitched together, leaving an aperture for the meck. The thick plece between was inserted for the slip. It was meant to be slung at’the back, a leather thong passed throngh two loops placed om either side of the neck, and it was suf- ficlently flat at the base to stand when put down. The stopper was made of ‘wood, horn or old leather. A good deal of care was required in the prep- sration of the leather, which had to be olled and worked with hammers to make it supple and then washed with a lye so that all the impurity was en- tirely removed, leaving the leather clean and dry. . No moisture or air had any effect on it. Blackjacks were, in fact, flagons made in various sizes. They were sometimes pitched inside. A Hair Trigger Constitution. Some one has said that animals have' a hair trigger constitution, says Orison:| Swett Marden in Success Magazine. They go off on the slightest provoca- tion, because they act from impulse. They do not know low to control themselves. The animal instinct dom- inates. Self control is the first condition of all achievement. It is sald that the first sign of insanity is the loss of self control. When a person is no longer the master of his own acts he is not only in danger, but any degree of achievement is impossible to him. Every thought tends to result in an act, 8o that thought always leads. The mental attitude at any moment is the pattern which the ’ life processes weave. The lives of many of us are grotesque crazy quilts. b Mislaid. “1 mislaid $50 last night.”, Clinton—I.'suppose your little ones ask you many embarrassing questions? Clubleigh—Yes; they are just like their Wwother.—Boston Transcript. “Hard lines! Can't you think wh . you put 1t?" > be placed before the eyes of thou- sands of persons now . residing in southern Minnesota, ‘Towa, Illinofs, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and other states. Photographs must be plain as cuts are to be made from them. - All: pic- tures submitted in the contest should be sent to John P. Riddell, care:of Crookston Lumber company, Bemid- §1, Minn. jFarm scenes, farm buildings, witd lands, stock, crops and natural scen- ery furnish a list of the things of which photographs are desired. Any illustration . indicating the magic possibilities of the North in the bus- | iness of raising potatoes or other root crops, are especially ‘desired. Announcement : of those whose photographs are accepted will be made at' the earliest moment ‘and no picture can be utilized after Febru- ary 1, as théy must be available for the booklet descriptive of Northern Minnesota which' the company is now preparing.’ ‘"No Enception, Mlu Young-- Ix: Torkey. & womn- doesn’t know her husband tiit after she’s married him. Mrs. Wadd—Why -{ mention - Turkey gspeclnltn-— Boston Transeript. The Grekter Blessin ¢ Jawkins—Ah,. my boy, it'a a fine thing to have u rlend_ \whomn you, T “t!llllfllll!"lw W Ve Ield for Hitting Mother-in- I.lw #r;rwo T00 ILL T0 TEAC : Because he rapped his 75- B % year-old “mother-in-law over the. head with a stove poker on the night of December 10, Robert Stanley, of Turtle River, was to- day bound over by Court Com- : missioner A. M. Crowell to await : the action of the February grand : Anne McGillin and Alice Crummett to Be Absent When Schools Re- open Monday. Jury on a charge of = “assault while in the possession of dan- : gerous ‘weapons,” H : . The blow which tSanley dellt t : on.the head of the aged mother, : of ‘his wife eaused that woma; Mrs. Margaret Guylett, to by NIGHT COURSE PLAN POSTPONED Monday momlng’ ‘the sctioo] “bells Witnesses ‘testiffed that Sten- : ley went to the Guylett home : : and demanded that he he permit- : ted to gee his wife with whom he : previously had been estranged. : According to the:.testimony he : forced his way into the Touse : where he was confronted by his : wife whom he thrust asfde and attacked her mother with the : poker. : Stanley asserts that he was : compelled to do what he did in : self defense. He was given his liberty on a bail bond of $500. REY. RICHESON weeks teachers afid”pupild have en: joyed a midwinter-vacation. Al teachers in the’ high school will be on hand, but there will be ‘[two - absentees in the list of grade [arrers:-- i ne: McGillin, who the pust two. 10.:. 188! tluxm gram- mar -in ' the seventh’ and eighth return'’this y vear on ‘account of sic] ness. . it Miss Alice Crummett of Detroit, will take her place. Miss Jennie|y Meysrs, teacher of the third grade is also unable to be present, having written Superintendent Dyer that she has “a swell ¢ase of mumps.” Short course work in agriculture, bookkeeping and manual training will begin as soon as enough pupils from the rural districts report for the work. No further plans have CONFESSES CRIME|: Boston, Mass., Jan. 6.—(Dally|peen made by the school board for Ploneer Special Wire Service)—Rev. | the night school. It is probable that Richeson today made a. full confes- | this course will not begin for several sion in which he admits having mur- | weeks, dered Avis Linnell, the young wom-| Next Thursday the period exami- 8n to whom he was engaged to be|nations will start and will continue married. The confession is made in until’ the following Tuesday. The a letter to his attorney, and he says|first State Board examinations will the deed was done in order that he|ajgo he given within the next two might marry Violet Mundst, weeks. Pupils who pass these exam- v inations will not be required to take the final State Board examination in the spring; those who fail will be It Happened in Bemidji. * Most any woman can out-stare her ¢ war traits still cling'to_bim. | ast night, and .be gave the permitted to try again in May. husband when he remarks that her biscults closely resemble stones, but when the two-year-old baby holds|CLARA m TO GIVE READING out in its chubby hand a piece of her bread and innocently warbles “Bone, | Andrew Rood: Also to Sing as Fea- bome”—!11 ture of Band Concert Wednesday. At Last. - At the concert to be given by the A well known clergyman, called to | Bemidji band on Wednesday even- other duties, says & writer in the West- |ing of next week Miss Clara Fllk ern Christian Advocate, preached bis |the Bemidji elocutionist, wll'l give last sermon before the Installation of 3 reading and Andrew Rood will bis successor. ‘The local paper, 10 lging «Iove Dreams” and “The Har- D Ovting the order of services. €218 | hor of Love,” both songs being giv- t“‘s‘-rm;:;&m Rev. Blanl “wm en with band accompaniment. The qulrtet, *Hushed at Length.'* concert begins at 8:30 and at 10:30 s there will be dancing: An admit- tance fee of 50 cents will be charged Stranger—What wondzrtnl tales old |for the concert and a llke fee for the Blinks relates! - He must have been a | dance ‘great traveler'in his day. Native .| was never outside the county in. life; but, you see, his mind has wll e forr’__.__ ; °_While he was governor of Kentucky = ¥ _ | Proctor Knott sent to the Hon. Stod- & e Tis. dart Johnston a cmu. % Penam—Colonel ~ Bloodyman's :‘;:d.-. “.::.“mm duly commis. n “Mister,” which he said How. s0? - Penam—1 dined distinctive and honorable title grades, will not report:and may not) CAR KILLS ONE;L0G CRUSHES OUT LIFE. * OF ANOPHER MAN —_— mYlldl!en Lllt!i!lll‘ Ground to Death TREE CRUSHES E. MONTRIEUL ‘Woodsman Walks: Bomie-to. Die An Hour Later. the ice coated wheels of a Minneso- ta & Interfiitional freight car-in the yards here which mearly decapitated: its victim and cut his arm and leg off and another crushed.by a falling log at Kelliher are tragic racords for Bemidji today. 2 Henry S. Larson, 30 years old and married, a switchman for the Min- nesota & International was the man killed by the train, his death, taking place at 6 p. m. last night while switching near Mill Park. No one saw the accident. At the coroner’s inquest held here this afternoon, Mike. Downs, a switchman who was working on ‘the engine at that time of the accident and who found the body, gave these facts. Shortly after six o’clock last night Larson had thrown the switch near Mill ‘Park which allows: the cars to move between- the Minnegota & In- ternationsl and 8co-tracks, and hsd then gone esst down the -trsek to flag the Soo treln and thus' protect thie swetéh eugine; which had gone westward ub the track to get three cars, Larson was neves séen-alive ustal sound. They’ missed Latgon about twenty minutes after he had left the switch when he ‘was supposed to meet the engine on.the' south-leg of the “Y”, but they switchéd onfe the north leg to .drop off a csr, Iflnrfllch they intended to go to: “North Be- midji station where ‘was thought he might have gone to Warm him- oft fiom the cars AN u Downs who was standing on the footboard in ilg body of Larson fall down between the rails. Tt was: found- that the body was already dead, and ‘the men went to the station where they tele- phoned for the coroner. and Doctor Sanborn, who arrived soon after and took charge of the corpse. - Mr. Down’s story was corroborated by the engineer, John McLauchlin, the fireman, C. Ramsey,r and the switchman, J. M. Sines. Ry It is supposed that Larson met his. death while he was returning from flagging the Soo passenger train. He had with him at the time a lantern, but no light was visible. It is thought that the light was extinguished on account of the cold, several others being frozen up during the last two or three days. The body must have been dragged at least a quarter of a mile from the time it was struck down by the engine. Ole Larson, of St. Cloud, father of the dead man, arrived this morning and tonight the body will be taken to St. Cloud for burial. Other lfll— tives here are Rev. John Larson, at - one time an- Episcopla: mmenlt‘; at but. now pastor of ' the Grand Rapids; Mrs. Scribner mother of the dead man’s widow is here - from Grand Rapids with her daugh- ter, Miss Emogene s&tmr who is teaching near Northoms also 18 fere. The dead man | planned on quitting railroad ml ‘to-engage. the dairy business on :his farm- miles south of Bemidji children. = 3 lhlg!nn‘ l[ontrlqfil. AL One man ground to desth beneath - s