Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 1

. —~7 THE BEMIDJI ILY PIONEE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 227. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. GYM PLANS JOLTED AT CLUB GATHERING! | Application of 36 Young Men Bring Doubts as to Advisability of Estab- lishing Athletic Room. COMMITTEE TO GET FACTS Report to Be Made as to Lowest Fig-l ure at Which Owner Will Rent New Quarters. BOOSTING BOOKS FAVORED Organization Authorizes Soliciting of Advertisements; Opsahl Presents i Traffic Report. | | Although 36 young men signed pe- titions asking them to joint the Com-| mercial club with the understanding | that a gymnasium was to be installed | |than a minute by that organization, it developed at the special meeting of the Commer-| cial club last night that the club is; by no meang unanimous on the g_\'m-!{ nasium proposition. i Doubt was expressed as to the pos- | sibility of maintaining interest in the gymuasium for auy length of tTme, without employing an instrue- | | tor or providing match contests. | Room May Be Too Small. The pessimists on the proposition pointed out that the proposed room | . : i at the rear of the ciud room quar-| ters would not be desirable—that it | is too small and not high enough and that the only equipment possible| would be floor articles; that it would be impossible to have either rings or| trapeze and that basket ball would| be out of the question. Dyer Expresses His Views. Professor W. P. Dyer, while ac-j knowledging the benefits to be de-| rived from gymnasium exercise, was| somewhat of a doubting Thomas as to | the success of the proposed plan. He explained that it has been his experi- ence in other towns that while inter- | est in a gym is keen for a few week it soon becomes tiresome, and sug-! gested that if this happened in Be- midji that the club would find itself under an additional burden with no benefit to be derived, once the life of the gymnasium ebbed. Dr. Sanborn Also. Dr. C. R. Sanborn expressed views | harmonizing with those of Professor | Dyer and went farther to say that he| had known gymnasiums provided with directors that had become no! attraction and were abandoned. ! “But the young men have been told that the club would welcome them in and that we would provide a well equipped gymnasium,” said Harry Reynolds. Swimming Pool? | “And that means a swimming pool, ete.”, suggested George Kreatz, i Graham M. Torrance called the| club's attention to the fact that it will be impossible, in any event, for | that organization to take the 36! young men in as a class, as had ap- parently been the intention. Must Vote on Each One. i “I call your attention,” said Mr.| Torrance, “to the provision of the| constitution which says that the; names of all applicants must be post- ed for two weeks and each name must be separately voted upon.” The discussion was brought to an end by President T. J. Burke ap- pointing R. E. Given, Harry Rey- nolds and Professor Dyer, a commit- tee to see Charles Nangle, owner of | the building, and ascertain the low-| est figures at which he would rent the large room acros sthe hall from the club quarters, gymnasium. to be used as a| Dyer Unable to Serve, Professor Dyer today informed President Burke that hecause of the teachers convention to be held here early in February it would be im- | possible for him to serve and as a ro- sult Ray Schumaker was appointed as the third member of the commit- tee. Opsahl Makes Reports. . J. J. Opsahl read the letter which | he has received from high railroad | officials pledging their aid to the| campaign to secure cheaper summer tourists rates and lessened rates for homeseekers. The question of print- ing 35,000 books advertising Beltra- mi county was discussed and the club’ | denly as it was taken. excitement, a slight shock,. and the| authorized the solicitation of adver- tisements for this book under the name of the club. Burke May Go to Chicago. Plans for securing certain outside enterprises were taken up and satis- factory results and definite an- nouncement along’this line is expect- ed in the near future. In this con- nection President Burke was delegat- ed to visit Chicago but Mr. Burke got into telephone communication with Chicago today with the result that it may not be necessary for him to make the trip. {AVIATOR JOKES WITH DEATH Lincoln Beachy Drops 400 Feet to Thrill Loss Angeles Spectators. Los Angeles, Jan. 24.Lincoln Bea- | chy, whose daring feats of flying have been the feature of the international aviation meet here, played a ghastly joke late yesterday ou a crowd that was still on edge as a result of the tragic fall of Rutherford Page Mon- day afternoon. After several thrilling dips, Bea- chy rose to an altitude of 400 feet,| trom which he mad a sheer drop, al- most perpendicularly and disappear- ed in the gully, where Arch Hoxsey rell to his death a year ago. From the granstand it appeared that Bea- chy had fallen and when he did not reappear after an interval of more automobiles loaded with doctors, mechanicians and re porters dashed to the foot of the hill. It was fully three minutes later when Beachy reappeared at the north end of the course, flew past the grand- stand and laughingly waved to the erowd which had experienced all the | thrills of witnessing an aerial trag- edy. “TERRIBLE SWEDE” TO TRY REO Wrestling Match Saturday Between Svanson and Middleweight Champion On Saturday night of this week at the City Hall, Frank Svanson, known as the “Terrible Swede" will wrestle Young Reo of Seattle, announced as the champion middleweight of the Pacific coast. It will be a catch-as- catch-can go and the match will be to a finish. Peter Edd will act as referee. The evening’s entertain- ment will begin at 8:30 and Svan- son and Reo will enter the ring at 9:30. FIRST JAPANESE IN AMERICA He Was a Shipwrecked Lad and Was Brought to This Country In 1841, The first Japanese who ever came to America, as far as is known, was Manjiro Nakahama, a 14-year-old lad, who was picked up by the captain of an American fishing vessel in 1841, twelve years before the coming of Commodore Perry to Japan. Nakahama with four companions had sailed out into #he ocean on a fishing expedition, their boat had been wrecked by a storm, and they were finally washed ashore on a desert Island in the northern Pacific. Three months of dire privation were passed on the island before the little party was rescued by the American vessel. His companions were left in Hawali, but Nakahama, who became a great favorite of the captaln, was brought to the United States and sent to a New England school. And when Com- modore Perry came to Japan, Naka- hama was able to act as interpreter in the negotiations carried on between the American envoys and the Jap- anese feudal government authorities. —Dr. Jokichi Takamine in the Orlens tal Review. HOPE TO RESTORE HER VOICE | St. Loujs Physicians Are Trying Sug- gestive Therapeutics on Young Girl Who Cannot Speak. By humoring her in the belief that she has a sore throat and a pain in her lungs, surgeons at the city hos- pital hope to restore to Miss Ada Decker, seventeen years old, the use of her voice, which she has lost. The treatment is termed by the doctors, ‘Suggestive therapeutics.” “Communication between the brain and the nerves controlling the vocal { cords has been temporarily suspend- ed,” sald Doctor Sewing. “Her voice will not ‘be restored until this com- munication is re-established. This we | hope to do within a few days by means of suggestion. We are not giv- Ing her medicine, although she thinks We are, and we are agreeing with her that there is something the matter ! with her throat and lungs, despite the fact that they are perfectly healthy. “Her volce may be restored as sud- A moment’s brain will again communicate with the vocal organs, and she will be able to speak as well as she ever did.”—St. i Louls Times, - The Man of the Hour. The country is filled with reformers, But where is the man to be found that will stand for the things pro- posed by another faction aside from his own because it is everlastingly right?~Des Moines Capltal. The Republican State convention of Towa to select delegates to the national convention will be held in Cedar Rapids on April 24, . Senator LaFollette has notified his friends in Minnesota that he has made no deal with anyone and that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president on his own merits. That the wreck on the Illinois Cen- tral at Centralia, in which former president Harahan was killed, was due to negligence and not mechani- cal defect, is the verdict of railroad Investigators. . Today was the thirtieth anniver- sary of the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, Protes- tant Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh, and the occasion was celebrated with interesting all-day exercises in Trin- ity church at Pittsburgh. With the usual ceremonies the fourth session of the second Provin- cial legislature of Saskatchewan was openeq this afternoon in the magnifi- cent new parliament buildings. Im- portant measures relating to educa- tion, railways, internal improvements and other matters were foreshadowed in the speech from the throne. * New ‘York’s celebration in honor of the elevation of the Most Reverend John M. Farley to the cardinalate, which began a week ago with the welcome of the new cardinal upon his arrival from Rome, culminated today in notable religious ceremonies held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The dem- onstration was one of the most re- markable of its kind ever held in the metropolis and was participated in by eminent prelates and priests of the Roman Catholic church from many parts of the United States and Canada. . After a lapse of nearly two and a quarter centuries since his death, London paid a belated tribute to the memory of John Bunyan today, when the national memorial window in the north transept of Westminster Abbey was unveiled with impressive cere- monies. The memorial to the “in- spired tinker” was designed by J. N. Cowper and executed at a cost of $6,- 000, raised by popular subscription. The window, designed in two sections illustrates some of the chief scenes and episodes in Bunyan’s immortal “Pilgrim’s Progress.” . Great interest is being taken in the mass meeting which A. Bonar Law is to address at the Albert Hall in London, England, tomorrow. The speech will be the first pronounce- ment made by Mr. Law in London since his election as leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to prevent a possible demon- stration by the militant suffragists. ‘Women will be admitted to one sec- tion of the hall only, and no wom- an’s ticket aas been issued without a personal guarantee that the holder will not disturb the proceedings. . A contract for one of the most gi- gantic drainage projects ever under- taken in the South was let today by an engineering firm of this city. The project involves the reclamation of sunken lands in northeastern Ar- kansas, supposed to have been caused by an earthquake about 100 years ago. About 500 square miles are in- cludeq in the district. The contract calls for the construction of about 300 miles of ditches, 280 miles of which will be 40 to 50 feet wide and 15 feet deep. The main ditch will’be 55 miles long. Surplus water will be led into the St. Francis and Tyronza rivers. The reclamation will cost about $1,500,000. Whether there will be a general suspension of coal mining on April 1, when the present wage agreements expire, depends upon the success of the joint conference of operators and miners which went into session be- | hind closed doors at the Hotel Clay- Epool in Indianapolis, this afternoon. The miners are represented in ‘the conference by the special committee appointed by the United Mine Work- iers. Nearly all of the mine owners of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio are rep- {resented, together with some of the |independents of the western Penn- |sylvania and West Virginia fields. ing conditions for' the future were agreed upon by .the convention of the miners’ organization which has been in session here the past two { weeks. Some of the demands are re- garded as of a radical character by {the mine owners and there is little | possibility of an agreement being {reached unless the demands are sub: stantially modified. = The demands to be presented by the. {miners concerning wages and work-' YOU TWo HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF NOW GO BACK Home. EGGS ARE BRINGIN' 0000000000000 000| [~ — S e . HERE'S A REASON PO0OCOO0PPOCOOOO® L opvright 1912.) VISITORS TAL!( THURSDAY Immigration Comfii:doner Maxfield and Other Prominent Men to Make Ad"@resleu. S o NEW YORK ROAD-EXPERT COMES At the City Hall here tomorrow ev- ening addresses will' be made by the following men: State Immigration: Commissioner Maxfield. D. M. Neill, of Red Wing, presi- dent Minneso Federation of Commer- cial clubs. W. L. Harris, owner of the New England Furniture and Carpet store and otherwise prominent in Minne- apolis business circles. Curtis L. Mosher, state secretary of the National Citizen's League. Mr. Mosher resides in Red Wing. H. Von der Weyer, cashier of the National German-American bank in St. Paul. Dan Wallace, of Minneapolis, edi- tor of “Wallace’s Farmer.” D. E. Willard, soil expert of the Northern Pacific. . W. H. Gemmell of Brainerd, gen- eral manager of the Minnesota & In- ternational. George Authier, political writer of the Minneapolis Tribune. i W. L. LaFountain, New York high- way commissioner. Mr. LaFountain is at present in Cass Lake. When N. M. Koll of that city learned of the Bemidji meeting he suggested to Bemidji that Mr. La- Fountain, who is an expert in road building, might be obtaineq for a talk with the result that the New York man was given a place on the program and it is expected that his remarks will be especially appropri- ate. The gathering here is under "the auspices of the Bemidji Commercial club and was arranged by President Neill of the state federation who is holding meetings in various parts of the state. TO DISCUSS CHILD LABOR Jane Addams Among Speakers to Wrestle With Labor Problems. Delegates from 30 states, among them many men and women who condition of the working classes their life work, gathered in Louis- ville, Ky., today for the opening of the eighth annual conference of the National Child Labor committee. The conference will be in session several |days. Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, | Mrs. Florence Kelley of the National Consumers’ ‘League, Dr. Felix Adler jof New York, President Alderman of !the University of Virginia, P. P. | Claxton, United States commissioner of education, and a number of other {civic workers of national prominence are included among the scheduled speakers. The main subjects to be {considered by the conference are: The.relation of rural schools to child {labor reform, child labor and com- 1pulsory ‘education, increasing the ef- ficiency of the elementary school, in- dustrial education:-and yocational | guidance, federal® atd to education; |and unreasonable industrial burde; on women and children and the effec n ) 'have made the amelioration of the|. POOCOOOPIORPCOOOD & Politics and Politicians, @ R R R R R R R R R CRORY | The Democratic State convention off Missouri will be held in Joplin on February 20. —x— Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey will arrive in Chicago on February 12 to begin a short campaign in St. Louis to incor- porate the recall into the constitu- tion of Missouri. ey e Among the first of the conventions to elect delegates to the Republican national convention will be those of on March 12. s The Consolidated RepublicanClubs of the United States, an organization of negroes throughout the country, has declared for the renomination of President Tatt. —p Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, will be a speaker at the Wash- ington day dinner to be given by the Kansas Democratic club in Topeka, February 22. it . Frank S. Katzenbach, former may- or of Trenton and for many years a prominent figure in New Jersey poli- ties, is mentioned for the Democratic nomination for vice-president. e The Democrats of Oklahoma will hold their State convention in Okla- homa City, February 27, when twen- ty delegates to the national conven- tion in Baltimore will be named. itk Sl The Republican State Committee of Vorginia has adopted resolutions indorsing the administration of Pres- ident Taft, and pledging the Repub- licans of Virginia to work for his re- nomination and re-election. et The Association of Young Repub- licans of Missouri, organized at Kan- sas City fifteen years ago, has decid- ed to hold its yearly meeting and banquet in St. Louis on Lincoln’s birthday anniversary. s Mary Godat Bollamy, the only woman members of the legislature of Wyoming, is reported to be the lead- er of a movement to.have the vacancy of the United States caused by the death of Justice Harlan filled by a woman. Lo In” Illinois the congressional dis- trict conventions to elect delegates to the Republican national convention at Chicago have been called for Ap- ril 17. * The State convention to elect the delgates at large will be held | two days later. A } Alabama Republicans held a State convention last August, at which all factions were represented, and elect- ed Taft delegates, but this conven- tion having been declared null and | void, being before the call of the na- tional committee, another ' conven- tion has been called for March 7. —x— The Republican and Democratic national conventions are each to have 1,074 ‘delegates. A Republican can- didate is nominated by a majority of the- “delegates, therefore President Taft needs only ‘538 votes' for nomination. The Democratic na al convention nominatesa pres Florida, on February 6, and Virginia, | 88 10W 2 Progressive Republican, “lagainst Congressman Steenerson, is Secretary of State | on the bench of the Supreme Court| SAGENG GETS “IN BAD” Secretary of State Discovers Otter Tail Senator Holds One Too Many Offices. | ‘NIX,’ SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL The ‘late Populist party in-Otter Tail county—State Senator Ole 0. Sa- and four years ago a candidate “in bad” with Schmahl. A constitutional provision says no state senator shall hold any public | office except that of postmaster, dur- ing the time for which he was elect- ed. Articles of incorporation of the Park Region Mutual Telephone com- pany were received from James A. Brown of Fergus Falls. The secretary of state scanned them hastily and was in the act of passing them to his clerical force to be recorded when he happened to glance at a signature at the bottom. “Subscribed and sworn to before me, justice of the peace, for and in Otter Tail county, Ole O. Sageng,” reads the affirmation. Mr. Schmahl then hurried to the office of Attorney General Smith. “Can'a man legally be State Sena- tor and a justice of the peace, at the same time?” he asked. “He can not,” Mr. Smith said. Whereupon the secretary of state returned to his office, wrapped up. the articles of incorporation to be re- turned to Mr. Brown at Fergus Falls, and dictated, in part, as follows: “I notice that the official taking the jurat is Ole O. Sageng, and signs him- self ‘Justice of the Peace of Otter Tail county.” Is not this gentleman the senator from that county? If so, there is a constitutional prohibition against him holding any other office but that of senator, with the excep- tion of postmaster, and consequently the occupancy of the office of justice of the peace is invalid and this ac- knowledgment void.” Later, Mr. Schmahl went to the state treasurer's office and compared the signature on the articles of in- corporation with the signature on the voucher which .Senator Sageng receipted when he drew his salary. He declared them to be the same. FLOYD BROWN STORE CLOSED Taken in Charge Today by Credit Man from St. Paul Institution. J.'W. Treise of the Northwestern Jobbers Credit Bureau of St. Paul today took charge of the Floyd Bell Bazaar store on' Fourth street. The store will be closed for a week pre- paratory to closing out the stock. Mr. Treise today asked that special police protection be supplied for the store during the time it is closed. Babcock Talks on Socialism. J. - B.. ‘Babcock of Minneapolis spoke at the hall two miles north of Pinewood Saturday. He dealt in a convincing. manner with ‘the prob- lems of the Soclalist party. = = $10,000 FOR FIRE LOT; PLANS BRICK BLOCK Harry Gunsalus Buyg From Schnei- der Brothers Third Street and Min- nesota Avenue Site. FITGER FIRM ALSO TO BUILD Company Decides to Erect Two Fire Proof Structures That Will Be Credit to City. ANDERSON TO START UP Secures Permit for Frame Saloon and Will Reopen Not Later Than Next Monday. Harry Gunsalus has purchased from Schneider Brothers the busi- ness lots at Third street and Min- nesota, 25 feet on Third and 100 on Minnesota, at an announced consid- eration of $10,000. The deal was consummated last week and today Mr. Gunsalus an- nounced that he would erect an ab- solutely fireproof, two-story brick fiullding, work to be started at the earliest moment that the weather will permit. Where All is Ruin Now. It was on the lots now purchased by Mr. Gunsalus that three of the five two story frame buildings which were destroyed by fire Jan. 13 stood. The new Gunsalus building is to be constructed of concrete and Ro- man brick, which is of a light gray color. The structure is to-be ready for occupancy some time during the coming summer. ~ Fitger Company Also to Build. It was also announced today by Theodore Tharaldson, agent for the Fitger Brewing company, that his company would erect two new brick buildings, one on Third street, next to the Brinkman hotel and the other on Minnesota avenue where the Lars Lind place, formerly known as the “Blue Front” stood. The Fitger company owned the buildings that were destroyed and al- 50 own the lots. Mr. Tharaldson re- ceived word from headquarters today that it had been decided to put up “brick buildings that will be a cred- it to the town,” but the specific plans have not been decided upon. To Put Up Temporary Building. In the meantime, E. K. Anderson, who operated the saloon next to the Brinkman, which was destroyed, has made application, backed with a peti- tion of Third street business men, to the city council for permission to erect a temporary building in which to conduct a saloon, until the brick building can be erected. The council granted this request at its regular meeting on Monday night and work on the temporary building has begun. It will be 14x32 in size and is being constructed by Contrac- tor Matt Wheeler. It will be ready for occupancy on Saturday of this week or Monday of next. Work to Start in Spring. “Work on the brick buildings,” said Mr. Tharaldson today, “will be- gin just as soon as our plans are per- fected and the weather will permit.” The ruins of the fire which have | beenl smoldering since the destruc- tion of the five frame buildings, have 80 cooled that it is now possible to begin clearing away the debris. REPAIRS TO BRIDGE COST $23 City Engineer Makes Final Réwrt on Mississippi River Structure. * To complete all needed repairs for the bridge across the Mississippi riv- er, placing that structure in condi- tion to be used for 8 or 10 years, except that the piling may have to be replaced in two or three years, cost the city, according to a report filed by City Engineer Everts, $623. The structure is now opened to all lines of traffic. i3 Mrs. A. J. Neal of Crookston is in the city, a guest of Mrs. Theodore Tharaldson. = - 5 Mew repre- rge A.: Neeley, - v from . the +dn - Con| WNNGOTA | STORISAL ;