Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 22, 1912, Page 1

| ol THE BEMIDJI D. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 225 36 YOUNG MEN SIGN | UP FOR GYMNASIUN As Result Commercial Club is to Hold Special Meeting to Make Plans | Tomorrow Evening. | Dr. Dumas Still Optimistic. SIX MORE THAN LIMIT SET Dr. D. F. Dumas. This Number Can Be Still More In- creased, Declares Chairman Ralph Lycan. | ! | That Dr. D. F. Dumas may become | |a candidate to succeed himself as mayor of Cass Lake at the election in March, and that he is optimistic regarding charges pending against| +him is shown by the following print- . ed in the St. Paul Dispatch following OTHER ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE . it of the Cass Lake physician to| that city last Saturday: “Asserting that the charges President Burke Urges Full Attend- 382inst him were ‘cooked up’ and !were the result of -political and money plots’ and that he would be vindicated by the State Supreme| Court and the United States govern- ment. Dr. D. F. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake, Minn.. hinted at collusion § young men are knock- on the part of the attorney general's| ing at the door of the Bemidji Com-office this morning, when he dis-| mereial ciui; cussed at the Ryan hotel the charges| against him. ance Because of Pressing Busi- ness Matters. Thirty As a result President T. J. Burke has called a special meeting of the at Bemidji, and with a case pending! ¢lub for tomorrow night to act on the !against him in the federal court at] applications. | Fergus Falls, Dr. Dumas is cheerful The young men seek admission in'over the final outcome. a body because of the offered induce-; ‘I am certain to be acquitted by | ment of a gymnasium. The Commer-'the Supreme Court,” he said this( cial club has said that a fully equip- | morning. ‘1 2m absolutely sure also| ved and modern gymnasium would |of an acquittal at Fergus Falls. be installed if 20 young men would | When the government learns the real agree to join. truth it will be only too glad to drop I the case. Here They Are. “'When the Bemidji grand jury The young men came back with | meets next March,' he said, ‘there six more than the needed number.!\ill be more sensations. The arson They are: | cases will be reopened and I expect Jack L. Hillahy, | indictments 1o be brought against R. E. Fisher, |some of the prominent men respon- Chas. Cavanaugh, isible for my arrest and indictments. Thayer Bailey. "1 =1 can be re-elected at the Cass Geo. W. Noll, Lake primaries next March, if I Merrill Flesher, choose to run again,’ he said.” Bob Wright, 5 ¥red Chamberlain, Chas. Vandersluis, W. H. Brow¥ning. (ieo. French, A. N. Goulad, C. W. Jewett, C. J. Woodmansee, Geo. Kinney, John DeRushia, The art of engraving on soft steel Emery DeRushia, wag invented by Jacob Perkins of John Halseth, Philadelphia in 1812. Andrew Rood, L Ralph Lycan. | Peru leads all the nations for its Isize than any other country on the globe. | The system cf electing London al- dermen for life dates back to the i year 1394. e Paris began the construction of ‘her system of boulevards, now so A, L. Barker, much admired, in the year 1536. (iregg Malone, J. F. Herman, - For 2,000 years prior to our era W. H. Russel, irrigation was extensively practiced G. D. Donald, in Egypt for agricultural purposes. Chas. Engelbert. W. F. Finnegan, Wilbur §. Lycan, H. L. Berge (Cond.), Geo. Buxton, J. G. McCullough, . Morier, The earliest body of 0dd Felluwsi in the United States was Washing- | ton lodge No. 1. It was founded in| _Maryland, April 26, 1819, i The most famous bridge in the yworld, the Bridge of Sighs, at Ven- 1. A. Scharf, ice, so called Lecause it led the way W. B. Steenstrup, {to a prison, was built in 1589. . A. Titus, The cry is now for the individual Ralph Lycan. chairman of the com- drinking cup. In Queen Elizabeth’s mittee of young men, feels certain time every guest at a banquet that as soon as the gymnasium is in | brought his own spoon with him. order that at least 20 more young men can be obtained to join the club. . E. Kreatz. Lace was known in Venice at an early period. Tt was not unknown to Other Issues of Importance. i the Greeks and Romans. To protect In addition to action by the club|into England was prohibited in 1483. in regard to these applicants, other the native article its importation important business will come up for The national game of baseball transaction. There is one matter of' |owes its origin to a number of gen- special importance that can not be'{lemen who nsed to play ball on a mentioned in print. vacant lot in New York city, now oc- At the meeting tomorrow night|cypieq by the Madison Square Gar- final arrangements also will be made1 den. In 1845 these gentlemen or- for the meeting on Thursday even-|gapnized the Knickerbocker club, and ing which is to be addressed DY formulated a set of rules. Previous State Immigration Commissioner | (o that time the game was called Maxfield and othe |“rounders,” and was played under =—— | various rules, heing merely a school- Land in Japan can still be owned P0Y'S pastime. The first match game outright only by Japanese subjects, |¢VeT Plaved was on Jjune 19, 1846, the entire country being nominally |0 Hoboken, N. J., Dbetween the fiie/bropenty. olithe-emperor: Knickerbocker and New York clubs. The first series of contests for what Elizabethtown. or “Etown,” as it may be called the championship| is called for short by the natives, were played during 1857, 1858 and from being the “Gateway of the Ad-|1859, the Atlantic club of Brooklyn! irondacks” in the summer, becomes | winning the majority of games. From | practically the clearing house for|this time on the game has steadily deer carcasses in the winter. ‘increased in favor. TUDENTS BEGIN CIGARET AND VICE WAR War on the cigaret and the use of liquor has been declared by the Good Government club of the University of Minnesota. The same or- ganization which last year tried, unsuccessfully, to drive the cigaret off the campus, hag now decided to renew and extend its operations. It 4 iron gel with arking the will investigate Minneapolis vice conditions and possibly report its find- | became known Mrs. Rumball was in- | Yt th-pess marking ings to the authorities. The investigation will not be confined to the” sale of liquor and cigarets to university students, by any means. Sa- loons, shady hotels, cafes, cigar stores and public dance halls will be in- vestigated. The club also has decided to open at once a campaign of political education for voters in the poor districts of the city of Min- neapolis. % 0009990000000 :|® OUTSIDE. NEWS CONDENSED. & CEEE IR XXX ] Corporation Counsel Babson holds it would be illegal for Boston to com- pel contractors to employ only un- would have no power to enforce the union labor clause. . the Little Kenawha River at Park- ersburg, W. Va., cafriea $100,000 worth of river craft.into the Ohio river. The more valuable craft were rescued by towboats before they were damaged. * %, It will take at lea’st a month for the eight gangs of men at work on the ruins of the New York city Eq- uitable Building to tunmnel to the vaults of the Mercantile Safe Depos- it company, which contain millions in valuables belonging to depositors. * The Alberta legislative assembly convened today at Edmonton and was opened with the customary formali- ties. The session promises to be one of more than ordinary interest and importance. Railway development occupies a foremost place on the gov- ernment program. * Everything is in readiness for the special election at Janesville, Wis., tomorrow to decide whether or mnot “Acquitted at Brainerd, convicted|Janesville shall adopt the commis-| sion form of government. Advocates of the plan have waged a vigorous campaign and are hopeful that: the proposal will be adopted. B Henry Davis. believed by the po- lice to be the ringleader of a gang of counterfeiters that have flooded the country with counterfeit $10 notes on the Crocker National Bank of San Francisco, was. arrested in San Francisco. He had $350 worth of the counterfeit bills in his pocket. . The fourth annual exhibition of the Montana Poultry association, which opened in the Auditorium in Butte, Mont., today, is the biggest affair of its kind ever staged in this state. The exhibits number more than 1,000 and embrace a wide var- iety-of high-bred fowls. The show will last the entire week. . A big three-day celebration was ushered in at Key West, Fla., today in honor of the arrival of the first train over the 127-mile oversea ex- tension of the Florida East Coast railway, giving Key West its first direct comnection with the main- land. Many are there for the celebration. . Today was the seventh anniver- sary of “Red Sunday,” when Father Capon led a demonstration of the people before the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, ‘Russia, and many were killed by the troops. Owing probably to the extra precautions taken by the. police the anniversary passed without any disorderly dem-| onstrations. . A special election will be held in Detroit, Mich.,, tomorrow to settle the street railway controversy, which has been a hurning issue ever since the late Hazen S. Pingree, during his term as mayor, inaugurated a cam- paign for three-cent fareg some fif- teen years ago. At tomorrow’s elec- tion the voters will decide the fate of the Thompson-Hally three-cent tension of the present street railway franchises until 1924 with eight tickets for a quarter in the day time, six at night, and universal trans- fers. At the same time the voters will pass upon a proposal for out- and-out municipal ownership of the street railway. It is generally be- lieved that the three-cent fare plan will be carried and the proposal for municipal ownership defeated. . Mrs. Emma L. Rumball was ar- raigned in’ court at Oroville, Cal., to- day to stand trial for the alleged murder of her 13-year-old stepdaugh- ter Helen Rumball. The little girl wag found dead, in the attic of her home there last June. In the morn- ing of the day of her death, her stepmother had whipped her and bound her to the studding of the at- tic because, according to the step- mother, the little girl had misbehav- ed. It was one of the hottest days of the year and the consequent heat in the attic was increased by an in- cubator in operation. The supposi- tion is that the girl fainted from {the heat and in falling to the fioor i was strangled by the rope with which she was tied. The medical examina- BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY ion labor on the ground the courts The breaking of an ice gorge in distinguished visitors 6 fare plan, which provides for an ex- |1 sl N A 2 DAYS BELOW ZERO Observations Taken |]t High School Farm Show January 12 Coldest at 37 Below. —_— 4 4 ABOVE WARMEST IN PERIOD first 19 days of January, there were er crawled up to above gero, and then that time it hovered several days be- low 30 and on Jan. 12 it curled up to 37, the record low temperature mark. These obgervations have been kept at the High School farm under the direction of Professor Otto Berg. The readings follow: Temperature Prevailing Barometer a.m. 8p. m Wind Pressure Dec. e 25 x2 2" w. 28.52 26 10 1 w 28.41 27 5 x4 w 28.7 28 o 2 NE. 28.83 29 4 2 NE. 28.82 30 x2 x8 NE. 28.56 (dropped 6 degrees) . (7:30 to 8 p. m. ) 31 x4 10 NW. 28.48 1912, Jan. 1 14 18 w 28.54 2 26 22 w 28.7 3 16 22 S.a.m W.p.m. 2841 4 28 16 Nw. 28.64 5 30 32 w. 28.94 6 36 32 w. 28.71 7 30 10 S. 28.21 8 22 10 S.a.m. NW.p, m. 28. 9 18 24 Nw. 28.54 10 35 26 NW. 28.84 11 36 28 w 29.14 2 37 10 S. 28.72 13 3 *2 S a.m NE m. 2861 NW. p. m. 14 4 18 NwW. 29.20 15 33 1 S. 28.60 | 16 x4 x10 8. 28.21 17 x10 x2° ~ NW. 28.44 18 14 15 NW. 28.62 19 22 15 w. 28.51 Professor Berg has added the tak- ing of the atmospheric conditions as one of the regular duties at the school farm and they will be con- tinued throughout the y%ear. A halibut weighing 700 pounds was recently brought to an English fish market. In Burma last year 7.851 cattle were killed by wild animals and 6.~ 528 were killed by snakes. Ants will carry loads 40 or 50 |times as heavy as themselves. The | beetle can move a welight 118 times its own weight., ® Whales, because of their great size, are not fast swimmers. They | can make only about 10.or 12 miles ian hour, In the city of London at the time From December 25 and for thej: only six days when the thermomet- |’ only to four degrees, ‘while during|’ of King John every vintner was re- tion showed that her neck was brtfl(-lq“i‘_e"I 16 -hang-ontside his;ehop; an en in two places. When the facts| dicted for cansing the death of her|/Terent auantities sold. stepdaughter. Arthur Lewis, a A copy of the New York Mercury, brother of Mrs. Rumball, was indict-|{dated Jan 20, 1764, records the ed as an accessory. Lewis was tried | death of an unmarried woman at the several weeks ago and convicted of |age of 109 years, and adds: “She al- manslaughter. ways wanted a husband.” 30 Days for Taking “Nip.” Because they took one “nip” : from a newly purchased bottle : of whisky, the first and last they : : had, Hans Bush and John Swan- : : son will spend the next 30 days :! : as the guests of Beltrami coun- sty : : The two men, workers in the : : woods, made the mistake of tak- : : ing their swallow of liquor after : : they had boarded a Minnesota : : & International passenger train : at LaPorte. They were caught : : in the act hy Conductor Galen- : busky who turned the men over : to Patrolman Smith. & In municipal court today the : men: admitted having taken the : : drink but insisted-it was the on- © ly one that they had had and : : that they were not the slightest : : intoxicated. . : 3 But the new state law makes : : it unlawful to drink on a train : : so that Judge Simons was com- : : pelled to sentence the men, the : : minimum punishment being $25 : : or 30 days.in jail. B 4 PROMINENT MEN KILLEDIN COLLISION Centralia, 1llinois, Jan. 22.—Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service)—In a collision here this morning the fol- lowing men were killed: Janies T. Harahan, former-president of the Il- linois Central; Frank O. Melcher, second vice-president of the Rock Is- land system; Eldrich Wright, son of former Secretary of War Luke Wright, and E. B. Pierce, general council Illinois Central. All the dead men were in a private car attached to the Panama Limited southbound. The train crashed into a northbound train standing at a water tank. It is believed the engineer misunder- stood or disobeyed orders. Resolutions declaring ‘war on the middleman were adopted by the Col- orado State Grange at Denver. An- other resolution urges the govegn- ment to inaugurate a parcels post. The nutritive value of milk as compared with buttermilk is not near so great as some appear to think. "It is about as 20 to 18. % As shown by the last tax levy the aggregate gross income of the inhab- itants of the British Isles amounted for the year tc $5,045,000,000. Australia has no orphan asylums. Every child who 'is not supported by parents becomes a ward of the state, and is paid a pension for support and placed in-a private family, where board and clothes are provided. Among the innumerable articles of interest brought to light by the ex- cavations of Pompeii are many small jars and vessels which contain the so-called precious ointment used in the famous Pompeiian baths. Last year 22,478 deaths occurred in India from snake bites and 2,400 persons were killed by wild animals. The deaths caused’ by snakes and wild animals in the province of Bur- ma in 1910 amounted to 1,273 and: +| 80 respectively. e | {HEARD BY STUDENTS TODAY | | | | KIPPS PLAY HERE TONIGHT |- i | | Quartet, Touring State in Interest of Musical Education, to Give Con- | cert at High School. | | | | | I In the auditorium of the High School here at 8:30 tonight, the Kipp string quartet will give a con-| cert, including violin solos, piano s0los, vocal musie; violonecello- solos and a talk by F. W. Kipp. Mr. Kipp is carrying on a crusade to bring about state aid for music in public schools and has a bill pre- pared which will be presented to the next legislature. ! His quartet is composed of him- self and daughters, Hazel, Maud and Winifred. | Today the quartet is giving free concerts to the pupils of the public schools, playing appropriate music for each grade, the primary grades singing their songs with the quartet | as an accompaniment. | At the concert tonight an admit- tance fee of 25 cents for adults and 25 cents for children will be charged, the High School receiving half of the proceeds. Two of the Kipp players gave mu- sic at the Presbyterian church last evening much to the pleasure of the audience which crowded the church. | “They are just fine,” exclaimed Rev.-S. E. P. White, “and the con- cert -tonight is sure to be a musical treat for Bemidji.” HIGH MASON COMES FRIDAY Deputy Grand Commander Stowe to Conduct Instruction and Inspection. There will be a schol of instrue- tion held at the asylum here on Fri- day, Jan. 26, beginning at 3 p. .m Inspection will be held in the even- ing at 8 o'clock. Both meetings will be conducted by Emminent Sir Knight, George M. Stowe, deputy grand commander. Announcement to this effect was today made by John M. Richards, commander. - | Judge Stanton in Bemidji. Until he opens the Koochiching county term of court the first Tues- day in February, Judge Stanton will be in chambers at the court house here. Attorney Thayer Bailey and sister, Miss Minnie Bailey, spent Sunday in Bagley as the guests of their sister, |not an TEN CENTS PER WEEK. $2,000 PAID INDIANS | HERE BY UNCLE SAM ard and Staff at City Hall Today. ALL SALQONS ARE CLOSED No One Intoxicated, Say Authorities, Although 200 Red Skins Flock to Town. i PAYMENTS LARGER THIS YEAR | iCnss Lake Man With 9 Children Gets | Most; Two Women With Long . Names. More than $2,000 is being paid White Earth reservation in their an- nual annuities. The paying staff is made up of Superintendent John R. Howard; W. G. West, chief clerk; William Dailey, assistant chief clerk, and C. A. Pet- erson, stenographer, George Tufkins, chief of police, all from the White arth agency. At the request of Major Howard all the saloons here were closed to- day between the hours of 10 a. m. |and 4 p. m. and the police say that intoxicated Indian resulted from the bundle of money given the Indians. Howard Praises Bemidji. “They couldn’t get liquor at the saloon,” said Superintendent How- ard, “it’s the bootlegger that causes the mischief. Bemidji has done fine; treated us splendid last year and that is why we came bick this year.” To Indians from Cass Lake, Bena and Ball Club $1,235.30 was paid and at noon 49 Indians from the Red Lake Agency in this county-had re- ceived their gold—or rather ‘checks. Thumb Prints for Checks. Incidentally, when an Indian is unable to endorse his check, the gov- ernment compels endorsement by thumb print process; that is to say that instead of making his mark the |Indian stamps the back of the check with his right thumb, which is a safe proceeding, say the government offi- cials, as well as a vindication of .the “Puddenhead” Wilson theory. $1,650 Paid at Noon. At noon $1,650 had been paid out and the City Hall, where the pay- ments were being made, was filled with.-Indian men, squaws and pa- Pooses. The money given the Indians is the interest from the Chippewa trib- al funds held in trust by the gov- ernment. The annual payment us- ually is made earlier but the agents were delayed this year and the cash at this time is particularly appropri- ate as many of the Indians are in straightened circumstances as a re- sult of the recent cold. Annuity This Year $9.63. The annuity this year is $9.63 while last year it was only $6.25. Each member of the family is en- titled to an annuity. James DeJordan of Cass Lake took the prize today, drawing an annuity for himself and nine children. At Beaulieau last week one Indian re- ceived payments for himself and 12 children and stands so far this year as the most Rooseveltian Indian fam- ily in Minnesota. In the crowds of Indians which flocked into Bemidji were many in- teresting types; gray headed war- riors to whom the memory of war- hoops of 50 years ago'still cling; In- dian women clad in the garb of civi- lization and demure maidens not un- like high school girls. Pronoucne These Names. It is worthy of notice that among Mrs. G. H. Housell. (Continued on 1ast page) LOSTALL NIGHT IN WOODS; 20 BELOW ZERO After kissing his sweetheart, whom he had escorted home from a MINNESOTA ISTORICAL , SOCIETY, | Checks Passed Out By John R. How- out here today to the Indians of the those present were: Wah-we-yay-ge- ~ dance, goodnight, Jack Greenan, youthful station agent at Pitt, a few miles west of Baudette on ‘the Canadiap Northern, started back to Pitt. He lost his way in the woods and walked through the darkness, from which now and then howls of Wolves came, all night and with the ther- mometer hanging at the 20 below mark was in danger of freezing. To keep life in his number body he stumbled along until 7 a. m., when he sighted the nome of Robert McAnnaney on the Winterroad river, and was so ‘weak from his all night tramp that he he was put to bed. After hours rest he was able to continue to Pitt where he has resumed