Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 27, 1912, Page 1

E BEMI DEMAND 25,000 FOR STATE SOIL SURVEY \ Commercial * Club Resolutions Also Seek to Have Department Agri- culture Established. STATISTICS REQUEST IS MADE Ang Would Have Immigration Com- mission Furnish Names of Home- seekers to Dealers. | VOLUME 9. NUMBER 230. jgiven them to accomplish. for accomplishments and develop- ments that the man who does not experience a thrill of pride in the mention of its name must be callous and lacking in the warm blood of appreciation of the things that make up his home. Club Can Do Much. “Your Commercial club can do much in the = way of assisting in bringing about development of the state possibilities and in enabling its people to achieve the things that are It means odirected well directed effort, well | publicity, and well directed push and energy. The spirit of the present | time realizes the necessity of getting the most out ‘of each unit of energy. “We have various forces at work along the line of devolopment. We {have our state fair, the state agri- i cultural college with various branch- {es,. we have agricultural education; AUTHIER SENDS HIS REGRETSM)“I' high schools, we have the county Unable to Come to Bemidji But Wires jer | working separately. Suggestions Regarding Work of Development. An immediate soil survey appro- priation of $25,000; systematic state boards; fairs’ associations, we have the state investment board and our immigra- tion commissioner with various oth- agencies. At present they are Tn unity there is strength. What He Would Have Said. “It 1 could have accepted the invi- tation to speak at your meeting it {would have been largely for the pur- pose of urging unity of effort, of con- a state department of agri-| centration of power of bringing those culture and accessible facts relative|separate forces so they would work to the resourves of Minnesota are !0 the best possible advantage with- things favored in a set of resolutions | out waste of energy. “A department of agriculture adopted at the district meeting “fihended by a man competent to Commercial clubs in Bemidji Thurs-| day evening. The resolutions complete follow: The Resolutions Complete. To the district meeting of the Feder-| ation of Commercial clubs in ses- sion at Bemidji 25th day of | February, A. D. 19 Your committee on resolutions do | hereby submit the following report: Whereas, it appears from the re- ports anq discussions of the delegateg in this meeting, that a comprehen-| sive soil survey is almost an nbsnlute; necessity for intelligent presentation | to prospective settlers, of the differ-| ent classes and kinds of soil that we| have at our disposal all over zhe) state; therefore be it Resolved, That the delegates lo this meeting do hereby call the at- tention of the parent nrganization to this fact to the end that proper ac-| tion be taken looking to recommend- ing to the next legistature that an appropriation of $25,000 be made by that body for carrying on and mak- ing such a soil survey at the earliest possible time. Wants Board Reorganized. Whereas, At the present time the state of Minnesota has no systematic and uniform organization of and cor- relation of various state boards and commissions, the duties of which re- late to agricultural welfare and de- velopment, and whereas, in other states such as New York, it has been found that such work of state boards and commissions can be most effi- ciently and economically conducted by grouping them under a State De- partment of Agriculture; therefore be it Resolved, That it is the sense of! this meeting that such a State De- partment of Agriculture would be most beneficial and advisable, and that all possible effort be exerted by| this organization toward the proper presentment of this matter before the public and the forthcoming leg- islature. To Obtain Statistics. | Whereas, It appears that it is dif-; ficult to get reliable statistics of the various products and resources of Minnesota under the present system of obtaining them, therefore be it Resolved, That the parent organi- zation -be requested to take action looking to the recommendation to the next legislature of legislation which will remedy this defect. And be it further Resolved, That the reported inten- tion of the Immigration Commission of the state to furnish legitimate Minnesota real estate dealers infor- mation regarding persons who desire Minnesota information, receive our hearty endorsement and approval. Respectfully submitted, M. N. Koll, F. S. Arnold, Chas. S. Carter, Committee of Resolutions. George Authier,,political writer of the Minneapolis Tribune, who was to have spoken at the Bemidji meet- ing sent the following telegram: ‘Authier Wires Advice. “Personally and necessary reasons have conspired to keep me away from the Bemidji meeting. These circum- stances are a source of great regret to me. I would have enjoyed the op- portunity of taking some slight part in the excellent movement which the Commercial clubs are taking in the direction of the state development. | handle | to be the answer to the problem, but |of course, that is merely an opinion |and it might be bronght '\bout in { some other way. this important work seems “Please accept congratulations for the carnest work which the Federa- tion is doing under the presidency of D. M. Neill of Minnesota, in in- creasing the efficlency of the citizen- ship of the state. The Tribune is anxious to co-operate in this good i work.” MUST ANSWER FOR DEATH WIFE Allison MacFarland - Said to Have Used Deadliest of All l’ouonl. The trial of Allison M. MacFar- land, the Newark, N. J., advertising man, accused of the murder of his wife, Evelyn, who was found dead October 18 last from cyanide poison- ing, is to begin Monday before Chief Justice Gummers, of the New Jersey Supreme Court. This will reopen the case, which bears such a strong re- semblance to the famous Crippen murder in London. On the evening of October 17, MacFarland and his six-year-old son went to a theater in New York, spending the night in New York. Next morning upon his return home MacFarland found his wife’s body lying across the bed and their two-year-old daughter playing around it. MacFarland declared that | he had put cyanide in a bottle which had formerly contained bromide—a drug which his wife took frequently to relieve headache. It was his in- tention, he said, to clean jewelry with the cyanide. It is the tehory of Prosecuting Attorney Wilbur Mott that the motive for the murder is to be found in MacFarland’s alleged anxiety to marry Miss Florence Bromley of Philadelphia. EXPERT SKIERS MEET AT CARY Contests on Special Slide to Continue for Two Days, Skiers several hundred strong in- vaded Cary, Ill., today for the annual ichampionships of the National Ski association. The contests, will con- tinue two days. Norway has sent two of her most famous stars, Svein Welhaven and Ragnar Omtoedt. The new artificial course specially con- structed for the meet is the longest in the country. Situated on the crest of a natural hill, it affords a slide of from 500 to 600 feet in length, With an incline of about 45 degrees. The hill has a 370-foot natural ele- vation and in addition a steel struc- ture ninety feet in height. |NEW LIGHT - ATTRACTS CROWD Mercury Arc Rectifier at Majestic Halts Many Evening Pedestrians. A soft, soothing light, yet of un- usual brilliance, attracted many per- on Third street last evening. The illumination 'was causad by a mer- cury arc rectifier installed by Man- ager C. J.. Woodmansee and turned ‘on last night for the first time. the only machine operated Jn connec- tion with & moving picture show this side of St. P&\Il. This 1 ht to. much improve the pictures. There are still from 30 to 40 “We have such a wonderful state; :one with such numersus possibilities | “square riggers” nflult under the sons to the Majestic theater building 1t 18 said | R R RO R R R R RO R R © QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ©. 0000000 P9092C 000 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is 62 years old today. . 4 Representatives of the Socialist party in Indiana gathered in Indian- apolis today for a two, days’ conven- tion to complete plans-for an active campaign this year. Nominations for a State ticket -will be' made by the convention and submitted to'a| referendum vote. . Kansang in Washington are to cel- ebrate Monday the annmiversary of the admission of their State into the Union. - Plans for the observance of the day by the Kansas Association of Washington include a banquet -and appropriate exercises, with address- es by members of the Kansas delega- tion in Congress. . Governor Woodrow Wilson,”who is coming to Providence tomorrow for the purpose of conferring with the Democratic leaders of the State upon the coming presidential campaign jand the general situation in Rhode Island. During his stay here the New Jersey executive . will be the guest of former Governor James H. Higgins. * Emperor_ William celebrated his 53rd birthday anniversary at Berlin today. The usual court festivities! :were attended by royal and princely persons from all parts of the empire. Berlin observed the day as a general| holiday, the festivities being in the nature of a continuatien of the Fred- erick the Great bicentenary celebra- tion which has occupied the greater part of the week. . 4 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- cific and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads have arranged to resume through sleeping car service tomorrow to Los Angeles and San Francisco in connection with the Denver and Rio Grande and South- ern Pacific and Western Pacific lines. This service was discontinued last September, owing to a controversy between the lines east and west of Ogden. . eration of members of the denomi- nation throughout New England, to- day completed the elaborate prepara- tions for the welcome of Cardinal 0’Connell upon his return home from Rome. The new Cardinal and his Suite are passengers on the White Star liner Canopic, which is due to arrive at Boston Monday. The cere- monies of welcome will be contlnued an entire week. . Boston’s annual motor boat ‘show, the place where the boat builders, the engine makers, and the manufac- turers of nautical ttings for power craft disclose to the public their lat- |est product for the coming season, jopens in Mechanics’ Building tonight and will continue for one week. Ev- ery available foot of space in the big exhibition hall is filled with exhib- its. 300 manufacturers having been assigned places. . COX MAKES FIRE PLANS Boston Catholics, with the co-op-| Stockholders of the Virginia Rail- way, at their annual meeting in Nor- folk today, voted to increase the cap- ital stock from $36,000,000 to $65,- 000,000. The added capital, it is un- derstood, ig to be employed in exten- sive improvements, with a possible extension to the Great Lakes through new lines or' purchase of existing lines. The road was built by the late H. H. Rogers and is still con- trolled by his estate. . The revenue -cutters Miami and Unalga, the first Government vessels turned out by a private ship yard.un- der the eighty-hour law, were suc- cessfully launched today at the yards| of the Newport News Shipbuilding company. The two vessels, with a | displacement of 1100 tons each, will cost $250,000 apiece. The Unalga is specially fitted to do police duty in the North Pacific, while the Miami is designed for service on the Florldn coast. . : Albert W. Wolter, whose murder of 15-year-old Ruth Wheeler horrified New York two years ago, is to pay, the peanlty of his crime in the death chair in Sing Sing prison ‘early in the coming week. Though convicted on circumstantial evidence, the ver- dict was affirmed by the Court of |Appeals and the murdered must die in the electric chair. Ruth Wheeler,, who had just finished a course in stenography in a business college, left hér home on March 17, 1910, to answer an advertisement offering em. ‘ployment. She lp ed: to return and; disappearance to the pollc' later ‘Albert Wolter twas nrrutuu,l charged with abdueting her. He was about to"be released because of the ] weakness' of the evidence against! him, when the Wheeler girl’s body, wmr found, burned nnd wrapped in (Copyright, ANTICIPATION ; IIIII I REALIZATION To Have 15 Rangers and 150 Patrol- “men When' Dangerous Season Op- ens.in Spring. ASKS RAIL MEN TO BRAINERD To arrange for. co-operation be- tween the railroads and the state for- estry “service dixtlné the dangerous five season of " 'SIZf'W"T Cox, state forester has caued a meeting-of rail- road’ officials and forest rangers to be held at Brainerd, Feb, 10, to out- line a plan for fire prevention and fire protection. Although two months or more probably will elapse befoge the season for forest fires begins, Mr. Cox proposes to -have arrangements completed for protecting = northern Minnesota when that time arrives. Thirty invitations: have been sent out: from the forester’s office ad- dressed to railroad presidents, gener- al managers and superintendents; asking them to be present. Officials of all roads which operate in North- ern and Central Minnesota are in- cluded. The problems of patrolling right- of-ways, clearing them of combustible material, building fire-lines at the sides, equipping -engines with spark arresters, organization with the state forestry service, will be taken up. Effort will be made to take up matters of greatest interest to the roads, and ‘Mr. Cox believes they will respond to the call. Railroads are responsible fo property owners along their lines for damage from fires which are started by trains or section men, and it costs them thousands of dollars each year to settle claims which arise from such conflagrations. The railroads have not shown an antagonistic attitude toward the for- estry service on the fira problem, Mr. Cox said. They realize the import- ance of its assistance. During the dangerous season there will be fifteen rangers and about 175 patrolmen all doing more or:less to Pprevent dam&ge to property resulting from train operation. Last year many of the lines put “speeders” on their tracks to follow each train by the men operating them. The last season of the legislature, in amending the fire protection laws; passed an act which authorizes-towns and‘villages in.the fire zone to levy a 5-mill tax to raise money with which to pay fire patrolmen. These patrolmen will be added to the usual force this year and Mr. Cox: expects‘ to have the best organized fire-fight- ing brigade the state has ever had. FOUND DEAD IN FUNKLEY SHACK Tom Wallace Believed to Have Been Victim of Heart Disease. »Tom Wallace, 50 vears old, was found dead Thursday in his ‘shack near’ Funkley. He had' been living ‘“:'l & man by the nme ot Joe ‘Shine, COOOOOPOOODOOE OO ¢ Sunday Services in Bemidji! & PPPOLOCOOOOO GO EPISCOPAL. Sunday school will be held at 10 o’clock, evening services at 8 o’;ock.l FIRST SCANDINAVIAN LUTHERAN There will be services in the morn- | ing at 10:30. Sunday School will be held at 12 o'clock, evening ser- vices at 8 o’clock. 31 SALVATION ARMY. Salvation Army meetings Sunday 11 a. m.; holiness meeting 2 p. m. Sunday school 8 p. m. Young: Peo- ples’ annual. There will h’%!& ing, singing, recitations of u day school. Prizes will be given for faithful attendance. Adjt. Anderson. PRESBYTERIAN. The usual services will be héld at the Presbyterian church tomorrow. Preaching service will be held at 11 o’clock, " Sunday school and bible class will be held at-12:15. Young People’s meeting will be held at 7 o’clock and preaching both morning and evening. Rev. 8. E. B. White, pastor, is conducting special meét- ing in Kelliher. FIRST METHODIST I}PXSCOPAL. Preaching services will be held at 10:45 and 7:30. The subject of the morning sermon will be “The Gospel a Necessity to a Man’t Faith.” The evening sermon will be on “Changed to His Likeness.” The male quar- tette will sing at the morning ser- vice. In the evening Mrs. Dunning will sing “Face to Face” by Herbert Johnson. Sunday Schonol will be held at 12 o’clock. There will be no Ep- ‘worth League meeting on account: of the union meeting with the Christ- fan Endeavor of the Presbyterfan church.” Prayer meeting will 'be held Thursday evening. A .cordial invitation is extended to the public. Chas. H. Flesher, pastor. B LOUIS ANDERSON BUYS LAND To Clear 800 Acres at Nebish and Start Dairy and Stock !‘trml’ Louis Anderson, proprietor of ;the Lake Shore hotel here, -yesterday closed a deal for 800 acres of .land near Nebish. He will begin ‘at dnce to clear the land and will put adout 2,000 cords of wood on the: mniket next spring. After clearing the he will at once establish a dairy ’fnnd stock farm to supply the northern part of the county with butter, lpllk and beef. TS e . b HUNTER DEVOURED BY wox-.yr.s Reinains of Unidentified Man and His Dogs Found in Michigan. Eagle River, Mich., Jan. 27. partially devoured remains of identified hunter and two do dications are that the ma ed only after a fierce battle,?the lng four ‘dead wolves, also pal nouncem: 1t tfx wmlng mar?lm CAN BUILD CAR LINES Supreme Court Upholds Judge Stan- ton’s Decision Permitting Rails in International Falls Streets. OPINION IS GIVEN BY BUNN A supreme court decision handed down yesterday by Justice Bunn up- | holds the opinion of District Judge §tsnton in the action brought by In- ternational Falls.in an unsuccessful effort to stop the laying of Street car tracks in that city. The supreme court -decision fol- lows: . City of International Falls, appellant, vs. Minnesota, Dakota and West- ern Railway company, respondent. Syllabus: First—The legislature has power to grant authority to aj| railroad company to cross public highways and street, and authority to construct a railroad between des- ignated points implies authority to crossyYighways and streets which the railroad intersects. ~The legislature may require that a franchise be ob- tained from a.city or village before a railroad company is permitted to cross streets in such city or village, but in the absence of such require- ment, a franchise from the city or its consent is not necessary. Second—R. L. 1905, section 2641, construed, and held, following Min- neapolis-& St. Paul Suburban Rail- way company-vs. Manitou Forest Syn- dicate, 101 Minn., 132, not to require a franchise to be obtained from a city or village before a railroad company constructs its tracks across streets in such village or city. Third—R. L. 1095, sectwn 2916, construed, and held, 20t to require such a franchise, or that there be an agreement between the city or vil- lage and the railway company as to the manner, terms and conditions up- on which a street may be crossed by the railroad. ° Fourth—Conceding that under sec- tion 2916 a railroad company may. and must acquire the right to cross a street in a city or village by ‘con- demnation proceedings, equity will not enjoin such crossing before such proceedings are begun, it appearing conclusively that the necessity exists and that such city or village has at all times an absolute right to" com- pel the railroad company to make the crossing safe for public use.| Fifth—A city or village has no pro- prietary rights in its streets. What- ever rights it has are held merely in trust for: the public use. It is not entitled to compensation when a rail- way company crosses its tracks, and the constitutional provision that pri- vate property shall not be taken for public use.; mmnt Just compensation first pnld or secured; dues not‘apply Order affirmed. —Bunn, J. Reuben S, Hurd Dies Toda Reuben 8." Hurd, 706 Thirteenth ltre'st, an' old. resident .of Bemid /| general. _The emn-t-*holds the pro- - TEN CENTS PER WEEK. FORBIDS WRESTLING BOUT IN CITY HALL Following Protest, Acfing Mayor Johnson Stops Match Between Ter- rible Swede and Reo. HELD QUESTION OF MORALITY Sparring” Exhibition of Spooner on New Year’s Has Bearing on Ac- e tion Taken Here.. MEN - ADMIT ACT IS RIGHT No Written Lawsto Prevent Contest But Official Believes it Would * Be Improper. The “Terrible Swede” will not go up against Reo tonight. 5 At least this wrestling match will not take place in the City Hall. L. F. Johnson, president of the city council and, during the absence of Mayor John Parker, acting mayor, has officially forbiddea the bout. These Were to Clash. Frank Svanson, known as the “Terrible Swede”” was to-have taken on Young Reo, champion middle- weight of the Pacific. It was to be a match. Handbills ~ were distributed an- nouncing the impending battle and giving the City Hall as the place and Saturday evening as the time. Citizens Remember' Spooner Match. Certain citizens began to ponder over the idea of permitting such a proceedings in the City Hall. They didn’t think it quite the proper thing. Then 'they remembered that at Spooner on New: Year’s night there was. a sparring mateh in the City HaH and that the next day one of the contestants died. Since then Spooner has been in the limelight and Bemidji' persons op- posed to the match tonight figured that perhaps this city would be sub- ject to criticism. Johnson Takes Action. . “These objections sounded reason- able to me,” said Acting Mayor John- son this afternoon, “and even the wrestlers admitted the point raised so I declared the match off. While there is nothing in the written law forbidding a wrestling match, the moral law hardly would harmonize with permitting an event of this kind to be pulled off in property owned by the city. Anyhow, the people re- quested that the bout be stopped and I wished to request their wishes.” - Had Leased the Hall. The wrestlers had leased the hall but in a round about way. The council several weeks ago extended power to the mayor to lease the hall and when Mr. Parker is out of town Mr. Johnson sanctioned the renting of the hall, and when Mr. Johnson is unable to attend to it, City Clerk George Stein attends to the leasing. " When the wrestlers applied for the hall, it so happened that neither Mayor Parker, President Johnson nor City Clerk Stein were here and in their absence the lease was executed by Special Officer Fred Bursley. DITCH BONDS HELD VALID Decision in Roseau Case Elmbfishes Legality of Proceedings. County ditch bonds to the amount of $2,700,000, held in the permanent trust funds of the state of Minnesota, were indirectly held valid obligations of the -counties issuing them and the state authorities relieved of ap- prehension as to: the security for loans of that amount by a decision of the supreme court in a Roseau county drainage ditch bonds case. A small issue -of bonds for a ditch in that county. caused a suit by W. E. Van Pelt, as a taxpayer against County Auditor S. C. G. Bertilrud and the county commissioners, in which he sought to restrain the sale on the ground that he would have to pay interest on obligations for which he | would receive no benefit, as the pro- powed ditch was not in his part of the county, Because of rhe threatened | peril ‘to the state’s $2,700,000 of se- | Curities, & brief on behalf of the state ‘was filed: by C. Louis Weeks, attorney