Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 26, 1912, Page 1

i A i i THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE 3,205 CHICKS HERE LAY 503 EGGS DAILY Poultry Census for Bemidji and Ny- more Show 116 Flocks, Made up of 12 Breeds. AVERAGE 2 EGGS TO 13 HENS Wyandotte Birds Have Best Record | But Test Not Sufficient to Es- tablish Position. i | BERGH SHOWS VALUE OF FOWLS| Twice That of Potatoes, Three Times | That of Fruits, and Nearly | Equals Wheat. | W sy S AR I S *| : And Eggs 40 Cents Dozen. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 229 are but the mixed flocks also con tained blooded birds of different breeds. “It would be interesting to get new figures in about another month, and we may be able to do this.” Expert Talker Coming. On Saturday of next week N. E. Chapman of Owatonna, an institute talker and an expert’ poultry man, will speak at the Bemidji institute, which is to be the concluding gather- ing of a series of meetings through- out the week to be held Monday at the hall near Becida; Tuesday at Gu- thrie; Wednesday, Tenstrike; Thurs- day, Blackduck; Friday, Solway; and Saturday in Bemidji. KHE WAS A “PHONY” CARUSO Mayor Carter Harrison of Chlc noyed by Telephonle Grand Opera. An Ohicago.—Max Finkelstein, although # plumber by irade, was so sure he was Enrico Caruso that he called up Mayor Harrison and insisted on sing- Ing a few grand opera selectlons. Finkelstein started early. At 8:30 In the morning the mayor’s telephone rang. “Hello,” sald Mr. Harrison. “This is Caruso,” was the greeting that came over the wire. “I will come over this afternoon and sing for you." “No you won't,” sald the mayor. Bemidji and Nymore have 3 205 hens. A Number of eggs laid dai 03, Flock of 25 Leghorns average 1 22 eggs. : General average two eggs for : every 13 chickens. Value of poultry twice that of potatoes. Bemidji and Nymore have 3.205‘\ chickens and at the time the puuln-y‘l January 20,! census was completed, the number of eggs averaged 503 a| day. i These figures were obtained by | Professor Otto Bergh. agricultural | instructor of the Bemidji high school. and while he does not clalm: absolute accuracy, he feels that prac-| tically every flock of chickens hasj been included in the list and that these figures furnish grounds on which to make reasonable compari- sons. . i School Children Obtain Data. The chicken census was taken with the aid of the school children and all tabulations were carefully made. In Bemidji it was found that there are 94 flocks and in Nymore 22, making 116 flocks in all. The average size of the flocks is 27 birds. The per- centage of the laying hens is a little more than 16 per cent or a little bet- ter than one out of siv. Three of Finest Flocks. H Some of the best flocks are: J. A. Williams, Bemidji, 90 hens; | Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds; produce 49 eggs a day. Dora Evanson, Nymore, 25 Leg- horns, 23 eggs a day. Pete Bently, Nymore, 42 Wyan- dottes, 21 eggs a day, or at the rate of two eggs for every chicken. The Chicken Census Figures. Here is the complete census as tab- ulated by Professor Bergh: No. Eggs Breeds Hens Daily Plymouth Rocks 1,143 ”91 Leghorns 761 109 Mixed 606 135 Rhode Island Reds 394 33 Wyandottes 149 43 Brahmas 59 2 Cochins 37 1 Orphingtois 12 0 Minorcas 12 1 Black Spanish 8 0 Hondaus 8 0 Hamburg 6 0} Bantam 10 0 12 breeds ......... 3,205 Total eggs ..503 City Value of Poultry. “The significance of these figures,” said Professor Bergh, “can be appre- ciated when it is known that the value of poultry amounis to twice as much as all the potatoes raised; three times that of all the orchard fruits and it is near to that of wheat, “These figureg showing the poultry business in Nymore and Bemidji were taken just at the close of recent cold snap and at the period of the year when the hens do the least laying. A good general laying average for January is 30 per cent; in February | it creeps up to 60 per cent and in the spring goes to 75 or 90 per cent or even ihgher. Depends on the Care. “It must not be suvnnosed that our records establish the reputation of any one breed. The condition§ under which the hens are kept have much to do with their laving. The mixed flocks recorded does not mean that the birds are scrubs; a few of them . “Good-by.” “It was not long before the tele- phone bell rang agaln. When Mr. Har- rison took down the receiver he heard the same voice. “Listen to this,” it said. did-di-do. That's grand opera. I'm coming over to your house and enm~ tertain your friends.” From that time until 3 o'clock the offer was repeated every few minutes. Finally Mayor Harrison's patience gave out. He called up the office of the chief of police and suggested thas the man be found and locked up. About the same time the police re- ceived a complaint from a confeo- tionery store at Johmston and Max- well streets that a crazy man was making the store his headquarters. Detectives hurried to the store and captured the disturber in the act of calling up Mayor Harrison for the purpose of singing a few grand opera | selections. Finkelstein at the Maxwell street police station gave his address as 818 West Fourteenth street.. Judge. Owen was called by telephone and gave in- | structions to have the man taken to the Detention hospital. There Finkelstein insisted that he Wwas not Insane, and to prove that his head was sound began to beat it against the wall of his cell. He was put where he could do himself no harm. TO BE THE RICHEST CHURCH Fifth Avenue Baptist, John D.s Place of Worship, May Be Absorbed by the Calvary. New York.—The wealthiest congre- gation in New York, if not in the world, probably will result from negro tiations now on foot for the consoli- dation of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church—John D. Rockefeller's New York place of worship—with the Cal- vary Baptist church. Real estate to- taling at least $1,600,000 in value is involved in the proposed merger. David C. Link, treasurer of Calvary church, heads a committee of fous ‘which has been conferring since last spring with a like number of repre- sentatives of the Fifth Avenue organ- ization with a view to uniting the two congregations. At a meeting held last ‘Wednesday, according to Mr. Link, the project finally took the concrete shape of considering the advisability of aban- doning and selling out the Fifth Ave- nue church property, valued at a min- imum of $600,000, at No. 8 West Forty- sixth street. The jolnt committees also took up the question of transferring the mem- bership of the Fifth Avenue church bodily to the Calvary church, which has one of the largest and most com- plete edifices in the city on Fifty-sev- enth street, near Sixth avenue. The Calvary church 18 valued at more than one million dollars. A year ago when the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked #hreatened to resign unless an adequate church edifice were provided, it took the Fifth Ave- nue Baptist congregation just twen- ty-elght minutes to raise $324,000 for the new building then talked of. The total was later increased to $422,000 within a few days. Browning Temporarily Forgotten. Professor Underdon (at the Boston Browning Club)—No, my hearers, we can not linger too lovingly on the grand words and refining thoughts of our great master of—" Child ot the House (entering suddenly)—"John L.’s goin’ by, 'if yer wan’ ter see him.” (Club suddenly adjourns to the win- dow.)—Puck. Climbing for Cats. A boy In northern Michigan was out hunting and saw two cats up a tree. The family needed a. pussy about, and : 80 he laid down his gun and took a clumb. What he didn’t know until too late was that the animals were wild- cats. Before he could lay hold of the cats they laid hold of him, and the doctor who attended his hurts count- ed up 41 bites and scratches. In hunt- Ing for cats be careful that you don’t get the wrong breed. “Umpte- COPCOPLROOPOPOPOPS O OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ CPPPPP9OPPOOPO® At Guayaquis, Ecuador, sixty men were killed or wounded in an explos- ion at the barracks yesterday. . Peter A. Livins, a merchant of Kenosha, Wis., died yesterday at the Alexand Bros. hospital in Chicago. His feet were frozen ten days ago and tetanus resulted. * Silas N. Phelps, the Monroe Bridge outlaw, was electrocuted at the Charlestown state prison near Boston yesterday for the killing of Deputy Shériff Emmett F. Haskins at Monroe Bridge on June 12, 1910. . James Conger, who murdered John Kurt in a drunken row at Timmer in Morton county, North Dakota, last week, yesterday pleaded guilty at Bismarck to manslaughter , in the first degree. The plea of guilty car- ries with it a sentence of from five to fifteen years. . The discussion of the new corrupt practice law of North Dakota with particular reference to its applicab- ility to the newspapers is one of the most important featura2s of the pro- gram of the North Dakota Press as- sociation’s annual me2ting which op- ened in Fargo, today, with a large attendance of memhers and unaaf- filiated editors. The meeting will adjourn Saturday. Bishop- Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, since 1902 the presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in |the United States, reached the 75th anniversary of his birth today. Ow- ing to the fact that Rishop Tuttle is absent from his St. Louis home, at- tending the celebration at Pitts- burgh, Pa., of the 30th anniversary of Bishop Whitehead’s consecration, no program far the celabration of his birthday at his home in this city was arranged. s . Governof, Woodrow Wilson is in New Engl@nd with his presidential boom. Today he is in Concord, N. H., where he is to confer with some of the foremost Democratic leaders of the Granite State. Tomecrrow he will be in-Bogtou,-speaking .in_the even- ing at the annual dinner of the Bos- ton Real Estate Exchange, and on Sunday he wijll run down to Provi- dence for the purpose of conferring with former Governor Higgins and other distinguished Democrats of Rhode Island. A two days’ conference on “Agri- cultural Education for Dependent and Delinquent Boys” was begun at the Hotel Chelsea in New York today under the auspices of the New York Child Welfare Committee. The pur- pose of the conference is to persuade the city to give agricultural instruc- tion in its public educational courses, so that many eity boys will acquire the ambition to work nn farms. The prominent speakers at the conference will include Mayor Gaynor and Pres- ident Brown of the New York Cen- tral railroad. - . Arrangements for the launching of the new revenue cutters, Unalga and Miami, which will take place at New- port News, Va., tomorrow, have been completed. Two young women well known to Washington society will be the sponsors. They are Miss Eliza- beth Hilles, daughter of the secretary to the president, who will christen the Unalga, and Miss Barnes Rich- ardson, daughter of Representative Richardson of Alabama, who will break the bottle on tfie bow of the Miami. The launching will be wit- nessed by many Washingtoniang and officers of the revenue rervice. Both vessels are built for speed. The Un- alga is designed for sarvice in Alas- kan waters, to protect the seal fish- eries, while the Miami will do duty off the Florida coast. They are the first of the cutters to he constructed in a private shipyard under the eight-hour law. They have'each a displacement of 1,100 tons and each cost $250,000. BURNQUIST UP FOR CONGRESS St. Paul Attorney Said to Be LaFol- lette Organization Candidate. Minneapolis, Jan. 26.—J. A. A. Burnquist of St. Paul, member of the last two legislatures and candidate for speaker the last time, is' said to have been decided upon by LaFollette organization as a candidate for con- =gressman at large. Alvah Eastman |of St. Cloud and Wm. H. Eustice of Minneapolis, are already candidates for congressman-at-large, but both expect to make their fight in the state convention under the attorney- general’s ruling that the nomination is to be made there. Progressives had talked of running Senator Lende of Canby and have turned lately to Burnquist, The tail of a young dogfish is said 1o be fine fried. i i BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26 1912. (Copyright, 1912.) “IT IS AN ILL WIND TURNS NONE TO GOOD” :] INDIAN GRAFTS CHARGED Raids at White Earth Alleged Byl Government Inspector on Stand in Minneapolis Hearing. ACCUSATION TAKEN SERIOUSLY Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 26.— Sensational charges involying Simon Michelét, former:agent on'‘the White Barth-reservatiotftwo ot Na dlévks, and two Minnesota lumber compa- nies are made in the report to the department of the interior by Inspec- tor Edward B. Linnen, and Professor W. K. Moorehead, special agent of the . department. The report made in 1909, was made public .for the first time yesterday at the hearing in the congressional inquiry into the White Earth Indian reservation mat- ters. Mr. Linnen and Mr. Moorehead charge that the passage of two bills in 1904, one introduced by Senator Clapp, was followed by a systematic raid on the reservation by two lum- ber companies, that lands on the res- ervation were allotted dishonestly by Agent Michellet, that lands allotted favored Indians in the interests of the Nicho, Cihohlmsslo;..PmfWhdu the Nichols, Chisholm and Park Rap- ids Lumber company, that the names of favored half-breeds to whom the best allotments were to go, had been selected in advance, that Gus Beau- lieu and Ben Fairbanks, acting as agents of the companies bought tim- ber from Indians, that Indians in many caseg did not receive all the money due them. So serfous are the charges that Chalrman J. M. Grabam of the com- mittee, declared-the committee would try to ascertain who had obtained the appointment of Michelet on the Indian reservation. Correspondence concerning his appointment will be asked from the state department. Aside from the introduction of the Linnen report, the sensational fea- ture of the day’s testimony was the statement of Judge M. C. Burch of the department of justice, that a bill introduced in congress by Represen- tative Page Morris, mow federal judge, had permitted the lumber companies of the state to “evade” the ‘state law prohibiting them from hold- ing more than 5,000 acres. Judge Morris presided at the recent trial of Gus Beaulieu on a charge of de- frauding White Earth Indians. Mor- ris dismissed the case after the state had presented its evidence.. E. C. O'Brien, associated with Judge Burch, declared the govern- ment attorneys would show the disas- trous results which followed the passage of the Clapp and Steenerson “riders” of 1904.* : Socialist to Dance Tonight. At the City Hall tonight the Be- midji local of the Soclalist organiza- tion will give a dance for the pur- pose of raising campaign funds to be used during the present city cam- paign.- The tickets'are 50 cents. Mrs. G. F. Robinson of Funkley, is spending teh day in the city on a shopping tour. Mr: Rcbingon form- EVENING TALKS AT CLUB ROOMS | Bemidji Gets Some ‘Boquets at Clos- | ing Meeting Here Last Night. At the Commercial club rooms last night, a day of activity under the auspices of ; the state federation of commercial clubs, came to a close j with several talks from Bemidji bus- iness men and visitors from out of the city. W. H. Gemmell, of Brain- ‘erd, presided, and some of those who spoke were, D. M. Neill, president of the Federation of Commercial clubs, who urged closer relationship ; be- state body; Curtis L. Mosher, of Red Wine, who. again spoke o monetaty. lines; R. R. Wise, and Carl Capffe, of Brainerd, who spoke in glowing terms of Bemidji and her possibility; A. Kaiser, of Bagley; J. J. Opsahl, and A. P. White. Yesterday afternoon Highway Commissioner LaFountaine of New York, described the advances being made in perfected highways. He came to Bemidji from Cass Lake where he is temporarily staying, and was accompanied by 'N. M. Koll of that place. The out of town visitors left for the south last night in a private car of General Manager Gem- mell which was attached to the south- bound Minnesota & International. HIGH COST OF LIVING AN ISSUE Milwaukee Socialists Also in Favor of Municipal Ownership. Milwaukee, Jan. 26.—The trust problem and the cost of living are the most important issues in the coming spring election in the platform drawn by the social-democratic party lead- ers and issued yesterday. The docu- ment contains 2,000 words, discus- sing accomplishments claimed for the first two years of the socialist admin- istration. Municipal ownership of public utilities, including street cars, gas, stock yards, rendering plants, lodging houses, quarries and street paving plants is indorsed. The plat- .form pledges the party to abolish the contract system in public = work. Wholesome recreation and relaxation is claimed to be the best antidote for immorality: The saloon is called the club of the proletaria and intemper- ance is blamed to the capitalistic sys- tem. ~ INJURED MAN BROUGHT HERE Frank Julin Falls From Tank at Blakeley Logging Camp. Frank Julin who was driving one Inf the big water tanks for the Blake- ly Logging company, ot wedged be- Itween the tank and a bank. It is {said that he was wedged so tight that a team hag to be hitched to the side of the tank to move it enough ‘so that he could be gotten out. He was brought to town here Wednesday and taken to Bemidji on the train, It is feared his collar bone is broken and that there may be internal injuries. —Bagley Clearwater Crystal. Tigers and leopards are the ani- mals that kill most cattle in India and Burma. - Alaska has its first dining _car, made out of an old coach ip the Cor- dova shops and managed A and his. wife. It is on.the Copper River & Northwestern railroac tween the local organization and thé'| iOUENCH MIDNIGHT FIRE Quick * Work by Fire Department Saves Doran Bros., Plumbing Shop From Dangerous Blaze, TOTAL LOSS PLACED AT $500 Fire, originating from unknown causes and making rapid headway, did damage to the extent of $500 at “Doran Brothers plumbing shop, et and Minnesota avenue, at midnight last night and but for the exceedingly prompt response and efficient service of the fire depart- ment the building must have been re- duced to ashes. Two lines of hose were pouring water into the flames shortly after the fire iad been discovered and this together with work by chemicals proved so effective that, although the rear part of the shop was a mass of flames that were leaping upward to the ceiling like a blast from a blow- pipe, the blaze was extinguished with comparatively light loss. The fire started in the cellarway. It is not known whether it was caus- ed by spontaneous combustion, crossed wires or mice chewing match- es. In any event it had a good start and when the fire burst through the rear «door the fire had eaten its way through the floor and a cabinet fell with a crash. Bicycles in the repair shop were bmi!y damaged by the heat and the ceiling and wall shelving in the re- pair shop were badly scroched. The damage to the stock proper was smal. The building was insured. A/ club dance at the City Hall, across the street on Minnesota av- enue, from Doran brothers had just broken up when the alarm was turned in and the dancers rushed to the fire, many assisting in putting out the fire. SIRG There was no damage to the Del Burgess cigar factory in the base- ment of the Doran building and the Doran shop today is doing business as usual. 1912 TO HAVE FOUR ECLIPSES First Takes Place in April; Florida to See Darkening oi the Sun. During the year 1912 there will be four eclipses; two of the moon and two of the sun. The first will appear April 1; a partial eclipse of the moon, invisible here, or any part of the United States. The second Will be'the annual total eclipse of the sun on April 17, to be seen in the United States eastern boundary as a partial eclipse. It will be a total eclipse for one second only near noon in northern Portugal and Spain and briefly visible at Paris. On Septem- ber 26 there will be a partial eclipse of the.moon and this will be visible in Bemidji. On October 10 there will be a total eclipse of the sun, visible for about one minute 2nd 30 seconds in a narrow path across Florida, the eastern part of Mexico, Porto Rico, Cuba, in Central America; Quito to Rio Janeiro and visible as a partial eclipse in the remainder of South America. . The lighthouse service of the Unit- TEN CENTS PER WEEK. MIKE DAVIS T0 BE BROUGHT TO TESTIFY |80 Says Janes After Having Inter- viewed Prisoner in Michigan’s Branch Penitentiary. AS TO SHEVLIN BANK ROBBERY Convicted Man Refuses to Talk But Men From Minnesota Indicate They Got What Wanted. HARRY HUTCHINS GUILTY Owner of Alleged “Yegg” Holdout at East Grand Forks to Quit or Pay Fine, Marquette, Mich., Jan. 26.—Fire Marshal Keller and Assistant Attor- ney Janes of Minnesota yesterday in- terviewed Mike Davis at the branch Michigan penitentiary here. The Minnesota officers were seek- ing evidence in connection with a bank robbery at Shevlin and the post- office robbery at Walker. Janes Sure it is Davis. Davis, who was convicted a few weeks ago for being implicated in a robbery at Gaines, a small town in lower Michigan, under the name of Callahan, has been identified as the bandit wanted in connection with the attempted burning of the postoffice at Puposky. The prisoner will uot admit that he is Davis, but the Minnesota offi- cials are so sure that he is the same - man, Janes said last night he would probably be taken to Minnesota to testify against Dr. D. F. Dumas. Say They Got Information. While the Minnesota officials would not divulge what they learned from Davis, it is said they found out about all they wanted to know with refer- ence to the northern Minnesota crimes. Keller and Janes left today to re- turn to St. Paul. Harry Hutchings in Trouble. ‘Whether Harry Hutchins, of East Grand Forks in whose saloon Mike Davis is said to have been located last fall, pays a fine of $400 or is given a greater penalty, up to a fine of $1,000 and serving a year in the state penitentiary, depends upon whether or not he keeps a promise made in open court at Crookston yes- terday afternoon. Pleads Guilty in Crookston. At the recent session of the grand jury, Mr. Hutchings was indicted on a charge of running a disorderly house, and yesterday he appeared be- fore Judge Watts in district court and pleaded guilty to the charge. On the promise that he would get out of the saloon business in East Grang Forks on or before June 1, sen- tence was deferred by Judge Watts. Faces Fine of $400. County Attorney Ilagen at East Grand Forks, said last evening that a fine of $400 would be imposed it he was out of the saloon business by June 1. In the event that Mr. Hutch- ings is still in the saloon business at that time, Mr. Hagen stated that the court would take the liberty of im- posing a greater sentence from any amount above that to a fine of $1,- 000, or a year's imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Stillwater, or both. Parsons was Sentenced. Albert Parsons, who was arrested in East Grand Forks last Saturday, Dpleaded guilty to forgery in the third degree. He was given the minimum sentence of one year. Parsons is the man who last Monday was bound ov- er to the district court on a charge of passing a forged check for $10 on a local business man, during the year 1907. It was learned yesterday that aside from spending one year in the state prison at Stillwater, he had also spent two.years in the North Dako- ta state prison at Bismarck. Had Plenty of Legal Talent. When he was arraigned-in court yesterday, Parsons was not wanting for legal representation. Attorney A. A. Miller of Crookston was appointed by the court to represent Parsons during. the proceedings of pleading guilty. Mr. Miller made a plea for leniency, after which County Attor- ney Hagen and Attorney G. A. E. Finlayson of this city tid the same. Mrs. Boreen May Plead. County Attorney, Hagen ‘said that (Contifusd on Tast page)