Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 23, 1912, Page 1

MiNNERQT: HISTORICAL . SOCIETY. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE " VOLUME 9. NUMBER 226 BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. RAIL “EADS PLEDGE land owners put their land into A[@ ® 0SS S VGO GG S S & common management, agree to sell it |® QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, © 5 at extremely low prices, give long|® @ @ @O0 0O ®© ® © © & ON A PEACE MISSION ] time at law rates of interest, and ’I‘O BE RE AD AG AIN a ) SUPPORTTO BEM“)JI try to select a settler that fits the | 1i9UOr interests yesterday won : far-reaching victory in the supreme land. They ave not satlafied shmply) "0 "y detsion that rallroads to sell the land to anyone, but to et cayrry beer when offered for fsell it to someone’ who can make transportation into “dry” countieg of = President Elliott Promises Aid in|something out of it, realizing that anothper state i Bemidji Council Accepts Committee’s Getting Tourists, and Then Offers |2 Settler who is discontented and . Suggestion That Errors in Bills . . S Ad fails off-sets their efforts to a very Dr. Hairy E. Webster must spend Be Rectified = ome Advice. large extent. ! y 5% 2 [1axze extent ] y the remainder of his llife in the - Gemmell and Willard Busy. penitentiary for having murdered ~ “Our Mr. Gemmell, with headquar-|his wife, Bessie Kent Webster in PENNINGTON ALSO ENTHUSES | ters at Brainerd, is interested in this|Illinois last October. He was sen- ECKSTRUM GIVEN SOME PRAISE | whole question, and I am sending |tenced yesterday. . him copy of your letter and copy of * ——— R | this reply, and suggest you talk with| J. E. Rogers, 43 years old, prop- ¥ % Says Soo Roud is Willing to C0-0p- | him from time to time. rietor of the Rogers hotel, Unique Finances of Department Declared to erate With City and the Sur- | “Both he and Mr. D. B. Willard, | Theatre, several cafes, saloons and Be in Good Shape, All Money y o i our development agent, expect to be!other Minneapolis business enter- B rounding Country. |at Bemidji at a Northern Minneso-|brises died in that city yesterday Bemg Paid in. ! ta development meeting in the near|following an operation, the eighth in | future to do what they can to learn|as many years. \ S— ALL WRITE TO J. J. OPSAHL About the country and to help by' * MUST STAND CORRECTION COST i suggestion the movement in which A DLronze tablet to the memory of : |we are all interested.” the late Herbert Moninger, who or- . « " i iginated the system of scientific ‘'We Are With You,” Says Kenne; < i Officials and Agents Here Join in ;. Sy Y| training for Sunday school teachers, This to Be Brought About By Ob- + s | General Trafic Manager Kenne,|\as unveiled with appropriate cere- s . < Move to Bring Visitors and | of the Great Northern, says: monies today in the Northside Pres- servations By City Engineer and . Homeseekers. 1 “My Dear Sir: Your letter of Jan-| ) vterian church of Cincinnati. | Scott Stewart. uary 1Sth, addressed to President = SR Hill, received and _carefully noted, | qyq appeal in the case of Rodney | — and the offer of co-operation of your JI. Diegel, former sergeant-at-arms in = . o e +++« ¥, commereial club in building up SUM-{ (o Ohio b ‘ ropr B In a report to the city council last o | the o house of representatives, | night, th )\ 5 What Lures Them to the North mer travel to Bemidji and surround-{ oo up for eharing in the State su- ight, the water committee com- [r——— ing lake points is very acceptable. 'pmme court at Columbus today, Die»i mended Water Clerk Louis Eckstrum 3 ) Ilere are a few things pro- :'1 will ask our passenger department Eel 18 Gnder sentance. of lmprisony| for the manner in which he has car- duced by Beltrami soil and sun- :{to take the matter up with you at ment for com;)llcity in legislative | jried on the finances of his office us- : shine, backed by good farming. :ionce and co-operate with you 0| ipery. [ The Fifteenth Regiment Has Been Ordered to China in Response to Call From Ambassador Calhoun.——News Item. | fho g e words “we found the water Plums. per acre, $1,440. every way possible. You may alvmys . ! (CoRvIEtE, T35 fund in good shape,” but recommend- Potatoes. per acre, $450. jcount upon us in work of this kind.| 4 iaior Rutherford Page, 24 years ed that, because of many over- Onions, per acre. $1,150.15. “With |egm~d to the homeseekers ! a2 charges and under-charges, all met- e old, a Yale graduate and flying for [ ’ * $100. i o 1 | ¢ . , 1 o ing L2 have been paid too much be given B e ume you understand that early 1ast | ge) 100 feet to his death at the Los| " Crazy. s e i fall we arranged to put in h°meseek"Angeies aviation meet yesterday at- | 3 credit slips and those who have not Wheat, 46 bushels. {ers’ fares to northern Minnesota ter- | (o.noon He is the first aeroplane Henry A. Francisco of Spo- paid enough be compelled to make Oats. 80 bushels. :|ritory, and intend to put them in 4 Admitted at University That Shock- | . Financial Expert, Who Spoke Here|Proper settlement. Barley, 100 bushels ¢ | thi o h p man to meet death this year and the : kane, wants $15,000 damages Bert, P The eonitutttee. focommended thot ariey, Bls. his year on a basis at least as fav- o & o 2 x . o 114th due to aviation. ing Dance is Ind By Shev- |: from the Loyal Order of Moose 1 3 Corn, 90 bushels. : lorable as to points in western ad- ) g 1" i ulgu.i T, !+ as balm for charging Hlm With Last Week, Delayed in Plans by | ur. mokstrum bear the expense of ¥y d g *]"""’"g Atates | Declaring he favored the recall of in. Hell Girls. |+ insanity. In an action filed in : Sudden Attack. zz:;i:t:ezgfi'gs mv::chl’, sa":r::le ! Busy Boosting the North. the judiciary, but with restrictions |+ the Spokane county superior ed to City'E,,gi,,el;, gver’ts '::: Scot; At a special meeting of the Com-| “We have gotten out a Northern|and reservations with ‘”:‘li“‘;lhe ; :}‘:““‘ yietslterday he i‘t’egesr “t’:‘ : Stewart. i i ver- | would not surround the recall of leg- ¢ e visiting committee of e : mercial club tonight, J. J. Opsahl,| :r]l;;nes;fif:l\l\elttl: ‘aer;a otlcleer!ad;oer lsm:fi M i B BUT NOT WHEN MEN PRESENT lotee o LI RO aE s i A!‘HOPES TO KEEP SPEAKING DATE f'i?; water committee is composed N 8 V! eren 0 ur o v 3 DT Willi 3 Py a chairman of the traffic Cm““““eencm“my that has been put in the|Follette last night addressed so large | : instituted 2 charge of insanity :| Z\an ::l:lazldfl:"::::lchgil::'e:lr"dc‘hnl;;. will present letters from Howard El- ‘hfl,,ds of thousands of people. We|? meeting'in New York city that he P = W ggainst .him iast August, follow- :| . Ty ) & liott, president of the Northern Pa-|are advertising northern Minnesota|had to deliver another address in the| The “grizzly bear” and the-“tur-|: ing an illness or four weeks in :, Robert W. Bonyngs, former con- The committee’s report in full fol- —— = cific; Bmind Rennington, pxesmeml“l our exhibit car that is now jour-|Street to an overi}ow audience. key t‘rot," the latest creations in the iune nn;lA .I;:ly, IdBUt, ar}lld that 3"g’ressman from Colorado and a form- .. of the Soo: W. P. Kenney, genelal‘nezl :r‘ug in tf:e country tsm;mt of ui - terpsichorean art, _"“"7 been dancfad ¢ afm“’“ iscliarged ‘at a “‘:‘"g ‘{er member of the monetary commis- The Report in Full, traflic manager o [the Great North- ‘L:e (;le\e;li‘;m‘;:xy ‘(‘:1@ :o:t:er:_“l\ld‘;;. its second annual dinner to be given Wl wmct'“w,;"':;);v»';";;“:“ “;‘ and "ot 3 ex]‘l"e"lafg anlscu_ '“"f;f_fig[’;"‘;;""“““ S RS E—“ ‘;l“- ;f'(fl s ern, and H. A. Noble of the same! A at the Hotel 1a Salle in Chicago fo- | Minnesota; “but have beeh barred) . goys in his complaiit that the : Midil City Hall on monetary reform,| e Common Council of -the A |nesota so that the fertile lands in ; 4 road. from the regular dancing classes. | These letters are written in re- | sponse to inquiries by Mr. Opsahl as to what the railroads propose to| do in the way of bringing in summer tourists and honfeseekers, and in each | instance the railroad officials pledged | hearty co-operation and support. In addition General Manager A. L. Molander of the Red Lake line, has heartily joined in the movement, as| has also the Bemidji agents of the other lines of transportation. Pennington Favors Bemidji. President Pennington’s letter fol- lows: {our effort your territory will secure settlers if it is possible to do so. “There are no lands adjacent to our railroad that are more suscep- tible to cultivation, or that have a nicer climate in which to live, or | where the conditions are more ad- vantageous to the settler seeking a location with an opportunity to se- cure a good living while he is get- ting his farm in shape, than your section. Message From Louis Hill. “We realize this thoroughly, and has been in the past, and will be in the future, to get this in- morrow night, will have as its guest of honor and principal speaker the Right Honorable Sir MacKenzie Bow- ell, K. C. M. G., former premier of Canada. The club is composed of Belleville men who formerly lived in Belleville, Ontsrio. . The Sunday School Council of the United States and Canada, compris- ing the secretaries, editors, publish- ers and representatives of boards of the Sunday school organizations of the two countries, began its second annual meeting in Toronto today. The sessions will last three days and hall are known to go through the ing the noon-day hop in Shevlin capers among themselves, but their activities are entirely sub-rosa. They deny the charges that the “grizzly bear” was.in evidence to any extent at the Pan-Helenic dance Friday night, attended by members of nine- teen fraternities and sororities. In one or two cases couples went through the new dances, but for the most part they were avoided. The Boston dance prevailed through the Girl students of the university, dur-|: : action of the lodge has injured : his reputation and as a result he : : is unable to secure employment : : and is made the target of ridi- : cule and abuse. The lodge will : : contest the damage suit. cereemas K SCHOOL CONCERT IS PRAISED As Result Kipps Appearance, Schools Here May See Musical Acitvity. An audience of about 150 present at the Kipp string quartet concert last evening. About $36 was taken ‘| was able to be about. is at the St. Paul hotel under a phy- sician’s care. Saturday evening after being taken in. Yesterday he was improved and He Hopes to give one or two addresses in Min- nesota this week, before going to Milwaukee to speak next Saturday evening. Mr. Bonynge is assisting in the campaign of the Citizens’ league to educate the public on proposed monetary reforms. “Up to date,” said Mr. Bonynge, “we have been able-to keep politics out of the consideration of this ques- He reached St. Paul| City of Bemidji, Minnesota: Gentlemen: We, the mem- bers of the Water and Light Committee for the City of Be- midji, who were appointed by the council to look into the man- agement of the water depart- ment, 'and were requested to re- port at the regular meeting of said council Monday evening, January the 22nd, 1912, beg to submit the following report. We (the committee) called upon a number of water users of the city of Bemidji and read their meters and in a number of ) Will be devoted to thie consideration | SO 3 in, of which $11 was given fo the|UON I6.i8 @ purely cconomic sub-| (%S fune that the bills ren- Dear Sir: 1 have received your) formation to the people. Our presi-|op g yumber of important questions|12st few numbers. > sl ject and one that should be decided| U° A cop favor of the 18th, and T can assure|qent is particularly impressed with | ek SiGasY Hehool: Works. ‘Ra% “I don’t know what the ‘grizzly |High School’s stereoptican fund. The 2DAH {fromy ny pollties]. sost Reres the readings, that they were ov- vou that we should be very g£lad 10| this, and desires e to assure you| g o o g 2 "|bear’ dance is, so that I can hardly|music played was the best, every 8 er-charged or under-charged, as co-operate with the people of Bemid- ji and the surrounding country. 1 have referred your letter to Mr. W. | R. Callaway, cur general passenger that this company will do everything possible to work up interest in north- ern Minnesota in any way that will be of advantage to that section, and E. M. Fergusson of Philadelphia, Rev. A. L. Phillips of Richmond, Va., and a number of other well known leaders are among the participants. * give an opinion of it,”” said Miss An- na Butner, head of the physical de- partment for women, under whose direction esthatic dancing for wom- number being written by one of the great composers. "The crowd was deeply appreciative. Violin solos, played by Miss Hazel Kipp, and the tion. Mr. Bonynge is pleased with the manner in which Minnesota business men are taking hold of the proposi- the case might be, that some meters were running wild and did not give the correct amount used, that some of them were agent. from whom you should hear.” | you may always count on our co-0b-| A meeting of the board of trustees|eh i iven at the university. “The|piano playing by Miss Winifred, were :L‘;';c i:e;i;‘:lguf:: :‘1‘:‘_“;‘::90‘;‘;’: frozen, that some of them were . 1 & girls are not allowed to dance it|features. The latter acted as accom- g in the plumber’s shop for re- Elliott Takes it Seriously. el .y |0f Washington and Lee University - though, T understand that they | panist in all of the pieces, except|STéssman Lindbergh’s position. paifs (that 1sfa. Doran’s shop) President Elliott writes: “Our passenger department will|yy pe held at Lexington, Va., to- dance it at Shevlin during the noon |those in wWhich she played the vio-| ‘Practically all the shortcomings and that others were not acces- Dear Sir: Your letter of Janu-|Schd you such advertising as we have| ooy to consider the question of hoars” loncello. Liszt's “Rhapsody Hon- | il OUr Dresent currency system which sible, being in places that it was ary 18th, about summer travel to| ooreng your section, and Willly gyocesaor to Dr. George H. Denny, | ™' groise No. 2,” which she rendered, | Mr- Lindbergh points out we admit| oo 5ot and others l,(-m\(l]x AN Coloffst. TRtES T8 Fe- ;\e;iut:ts;:o:w\lvxth reference to summer r‘,ho r:.s{g:;‘: h:rzzsi:i(;: :sg:i:dazf g e . carried t!le c}"owd completely. ::i\l suggest a feasible remedy,” he were buried in sand. (“‘(;:llr company for years has been1 “Tithank you for {aking the matter ce‘:t“th‘; ;resiydency of the University 8 flwfl ouL Dl th:d:}'igi?pal:: :ui::;: :’:”:hteol;il;); K All Meters to Be Re-Read. advertising northern Mi"n?sma‘;m \:m‘ hye ?“;-l ass‘:re"y:.“ Of OuTlof Alabama. Among the well known Cheney Learns Cass Lake Man May |quartet. For two vears the Kipps|gAypEN DIES IN BLACKDUCK MF“:’" W:"“ ?lde“ic::;"iw:e lakes very liberally; also the ques-| hearty co-operation at al imes. men who are n:entioned for the place Become Candidate for Legislatnre. have been traveling over the state of able to ge v\;e etem v S: ;; tion of fishinz and hunting in that Noble Wants Photographs. are Senator Owen of Oklahoma, for- —_ | Minnesota, trying to create a taste|pion ot Resident o-f That Place Fails to {e~rew{;il all l;le ers, cn;l;:c na region, and we expect to keep on.| General Passenger Agent Noble’s|mMer Governor Heywood of South Car- Now comes Charles Cheney, poli- among school children for standard to Survive Stroke of Apporle of the bi iflnh givebcre slips The question of summer tourist rates | letter follows: olina, Professor Willlam P. Vance of | tical writer on the Minneapolis Jour- | sic' and pioneering a bill which Ppoplexy. to “allw d" m“!"e een h°‘f‘; and of colonist and settlers rates is| I shall be glad, indeed, to receive|Yale, Professor G. A. Wauchope of|nal, with the long distance guess| (i) pe hrought up at the coming ses-| ¢ 5 a. . todasiniiiy hoseiin c‘i'arlgle" ";‘o = :“;Z"T b eder_ T now under discussion and the points|from you any photographs and de-|the University of South Carolina and | that Dr. D. F. Dumas, etc., is to be|gion of the legislature, which Will | Biackduck, b, wW. Hayden,, 68 years| onaeged. o fpeatins e raised by you are having most seri-|scriptive material regarding your lo- | Congressman John W. Davisof West|a candidate for the state legislature |, ovide for the organization and sup- old; and & plonesr of that vilage, ol atrge‘,‘vbana ;:n 19112 e ous consideration. cal resorts and opportunities and the | Virginia. . :":e"l;l::::":"r:;‘_;é ;t*‘;l:"“z‘}“’(‘;:a’:l"ez port by the state of high school duar-|died, a vietim of apoplexy. Mr: Hay- s T e | tourist advantages of your locality 4 e, tets, or concert companies, wWhich|den was stricken several da: Are We Ready for Them? | for use in our various publications. A convention of the head camp of | H. Warner of Aitkin. Says Mr. Chen-| w1 travel over the state, giving free Sadl it bt h;s rmve’;‘; :i‘; that l:;i chm;iebof ;;:e ;&;::ding “The railroads can do a certain| «jp poggiple, we intend to reissue |the Modern Woodmen of America, ey in the Journal: “Mayor D. F.|.oncerts in the different schools. The beerl held out. With his brother, should be paid by Mr. Eckstrum, amount to help, but what they €an|our ‘Where to Cast’ book thig year |composed of about 800 delegates rep- Dumas of Cass Lake, accused of be- object of this is to inculcate a taste|Charles, he has been in the timbex: and respfené{ullyErecommex;d the —_— do is not much compared with what |anq will see that Bemidji gets ample |Fesenting the 1,500,000 members of |ing the brains and directing force|sor good music in the minds of the bistntnd (at Biatkinek L for sverat | Dames o ;tty ngineer Everts the people themselves in any given ! epresentation. the order throughout _the country,iof the gang which terrorized north-|cpijdren. The schools organizing|years. He was a veteran of the. Civ- and Scott Stewart, as comp'f, community can do. They can adver-i «What can you do fm. us in the |met in Chicago today to consider and |ern Minnesota last year by arson and | thege companies will send their 1l War i Wilehoheserventin s tent men lot read“:ndhse:l the tice in the Twin City papers, in pa-|way of photographs?"” |act upon the question of raising the|robbery, is going after political vin- players to a committee of three Peo-|game company with his brother. His| meters, and to rectify the books. pers in southern Minnesota, in North insurance rates of the organization.|dication. Although resting under ple in the state who will examine|wite died a few v el We also: recommend that_an Dakota papers and they can make| The higher rates are proposed in or-|conviction by a jury at Bemidji of |thom and determine whether or not SAEsIvad by b daughte;'s Bt ordinance be passed making it a certain that there are clean, com-| GREAT NORTHERN TO HIRE 1,000 der to conform with the so-called Mo- | complicity in the:robbery of a store|iney are capable to do this work. it dBtalls: ottty denth Mv‘e FEe misdemeanor for any one- to — fortable, economical, little cottages! — |bile law, a measure agreed upon by|at Puposky, and indicted by a fed-| a5 soon as a quartet has been or-| teseived 1i. Bomiall and the featoal tamper with the meters or break and hotels where people can go. Plan for Straightening Track In-|a convention of fraternal organiza-|eral grand jury for robbery of the»g,,,,,zed it will be sent on the road |announcement will be made later. | 2™ seals thereon. “Suppose by the joint efforts of the volves Expense of $1,000,000. fnons held at Mobile a year ago,|postoffice in the store, Dr. Dumas in-|anq jts expenses will be paid by the 2 We also wish to state that the railroad and the Bemidji Commercial | R | which decided upon a uniform rate|timates that he will seek re-élection |gtate. - water fund was found “in good club, we could induce 1,000 new| Official announcement is made that |in order to meet the requirements of | as mayor of Cass Lake, in the village| protessor Dyer said a few words, |ED. LaFOND STILL MUCH ALIVE| Shepe and that Mr. Eckstrum summer tourists to land at Bemidji? | 1,000 men will start work early in|the insurance laws of many of the|election March 12. He is popular in which he expressed his apprecia- = turned over to the city every ‘3 Have you got the accommodations for | February on the Great Northern rail- |states. Many of the local camps of |personally in the town and has a|tjon of the program. He said that|Little Falls Man Protests Against cent collected by him in the in- —— them so that they will be happy andl‘ way between Sandpoint, ldaho, and contented and go away in frame of mind that they will want to come back and ask their friends|have.a contract involving $1,000,000 | 25 miles of main line. | to come back? As to Selling Land. “In regard to the marketing of lands: This is a most important such a!the Washington-Idaho line, where Guthrie & McDougall of St. Paul to straighten The contract also calls for raisihg |the track to prevent flooding. A minimum curve ‘'of 3 per cent is to be established and the grade line matter and T suggest that you get!made uniform. A speaker at the an- the plan of the Southwest Washing- ton Settlers association, with head- quarters at Chehalis, If you write to Mr. J. E. Barnes, secretary, he can tell you about their plan, which briefly is, that the large nual meeting of the Spokane cham- ber of commerce, said in his address Washington. | that railroads, private investors and the municipality will expend more than $10,000.000 in and near Spo- kane during the next 12 months. the Woodmen have protested against | the proposed increase and the oppg-| sition has gone so far as to threaten secession from the parent crganiza- tion if the assessment is raised. Soup made of wasps'is regarded| as a delicacy in China. Much valuable tortoise shell is se- | cured from the Florida coast. | Death by prevention of sleep is al legal form of punishment in Chlnn. The art of manufacturing nl‘lll by machinery was first practiced in 1790 strong following, so it is considered possible that he will win. Dumas has appealed to the supreme court from his conviction at Bemidji and is out on bonds. +and also in the federal courts. In case he is re-clected mayor and wins the court cascs, it is said, he will run (for the legistature this fall as a re- publican candidate in the fifty-sec- \ond district. He has told his friends that he will not be satisfied with ac- i quittal in court, but will go out for an indorsement and vlndlcntlon ‘at the polln.” He hopes to win|warq the orzanization of an orches- ‘the appeal and get Tree-in this case!tps here, which in time may send lout a quartet. he was heartily in favor of any pro- vision which will bring to this school and others music of this kind. Steps may be taken in the near future to- Gievs Stove to Poor, Ted Maloy has donated a stove to be used by a Bemidji:family in need of assistance.. Private charitable workers fouad, - during. the recent Report That “Passed Beyond.” The Pioneer has received the fol- lowing from Ed. M. LaFond, man- ager of the Little Falls Daily Her- ald: “Gentlemen: I notice in your issue of Jan. 19, Secretary Rutledge’s report to the Northern Minnesota Editorial assoeciation and in which be says’that the writer has passed beyond. I am still very much alive, Denu can testify, because he saw ‘me walking around in St. Paul on Tuesday. I may be a dead one but cold snap, several persons in need ot _|temporary. mln nce. I haven’t ‘passed’ yet. Get all the| gars you nnfm Eutledse. cumbency of his office. The Water and Light Committee. Report is Accepted. Scarcely had City Clerk Stein fin- ished the reading of the report be- fore Alderman Brown moved that it be accepted and placed on file and this motion readily carried,. follow- ing which president of the council, L. F. Johnson, “wanted to know it there was anyone present who wish- ed to say anything regarding the water investization. C. G. Johnson, Who first caused the investigation t