Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 30, 1912, Page 1

o — _‘ § .‘ - T EMIDJI1 Y PIONE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 232, CITY BOOSTS PAY BUT MAKES SAVING Municipal Judge $300, Court Clerk $25 Month and City Clerk $7. WATER JOB DONE AWAY WITH Duties Transferreq to City Engineer| Who is to Receive New Salary of $1.500 a Year. C. G. JOHNSON SEEKS WISDOM Wants to Know About Figures Pro- vided for By Ordinance But Not Available. Some salaries were raised and some economics effected by the city council for the coming year, th changes to take effect March 1 next. and include the combining of the dut- ies of the water board with those of the city engineer at a total saiary of $1.500. Instead of employing a city phy: sician at the rate of §$1,200 a year, the council decided to 2ccept bids for this work with the expectation of ef- fecting a substantial saving. It also was decided to accept bids for the operation of the city voor farm. The New Schedule. The new schedule, showing the amount of increase follows: Judge of the municipal court, $1.- 000 to $1,300. Cle; of the municipal court, $50 to $75 per month. City treasurer, $40 to §$40 per month. City clerk, $83 to $90. Chief. §85 to § Patrolmen, . Driver, fire department. $75 to $100. Fire department, engineer. $70 to $75 ight janitor, $65 to $65. Street commissioner, $75 to $80. Janitor, $10 to $10. Librarian, $40 to $40. Janitor, library, $15 to $15. Made Up By Committee. These schedules were made up‘by the salary committee of which C. C Crippen is chairman. The other members are Tom Smart and W. N. Brown. The committee recommended that the city engineer assuma2 the work of the water department. It has cost the city about $1,200 a year for the city engineer while the water de- partment has meant an expense of $780 On Duty All the Time. The increase for the driver of the fire department met little opposition when the council was reminded that this employe is on duty practically every hour of the day and night. Another incident of last night's meeting of the council was the pres- entation of the following communi- cation by C. G. Johnson: Johnson Wants Figures. Bemidji, Jan. 29, 1912. To the Common Council of said City: Gentlemen: T would call your attention to the provisions of section E, general ordinance No. 45, new water and plumbing ordinance, which reads as fol- lows: “The superintendent shall keep a careful and complete rec- ord of the exact location of each tap and shut-off cock near the curb line, the name of the piumber performing the work and date of same, which record he shall turn over to the city en- gineer at least every three months."” I have called on the city en- gineer to see these records, and he informs me that 1o such rec- ords are now nor have been filed in his office and further, that he has called on the superin- tendent of the water department for them, and been informed by said superintendent that there were none at his office. T woulq respectfully ask that some action be taken to have the superintendent comply with the requirements of said ordinance. This communication was received by the council and ordered referred to the committee on water and light. Socialists Out in Force. The was a large delegation of So- cialists present and some sort of a Gets Increase of |that the list of election judges had r—dflmunstr&liuu by them had been ex- pected but when President of the Council L. F. Johnson asked if there was anyone present who wished to say anything there was no response. A week ago President Johnson an- nounced, in reply to a communica- tion from the Bemidji Socialists, been made up and that it would be impossible to add Socialists to the list. It is believed this had some- thing to do with the presence of the Socialists last night. NEW YORK TO GET PURE WATER Mayor at Tunnel Opening in $162,- 000,000 Undertaking. | New York, Jan. 30.—Mayor Gayn-| or, accompanied by the members of {the Board of Water Supply and a | number of invited guests, went up to Storm King today to take part in the celebration of the completion of the tunnel work for the Catskill Aque- duet under the Hudson River be- !tween Storm King and Break Neck. | The opening of the tunnel marks a | most important step in the advance- | ment of the great Catskill aqueduct! |towards completion. The carrying {of the aqueduct. which will have the {A‘npz\(-i ¢ of a small river, beneath the | | Hudson viver and the hregular coun- | [try adjacent known &s the High- {lands presented an extremely diff-| The tunnel is 500 feet below the surface of the river jand extends from the famous head-| land of the Hudson known as Storm | | King to a point on the cpposite shore alled Break Neck. The building of the Catskill aque-; | duct, which is to afford the great city | jof New York with an adequate sup-| ply of pure water for s to come, !has been promounced by engineers !to be a greater undertaking than the building of the Panama Canal. The |aqueduct will cost about $162,000,-] 1000, which is in excess of the esti- I mated cost of the canal across the listhmus. The aqueduct will be six- | ty miles in length. 1t will carry thir- Ity times as much wator as did the | famous aqueducts of Rome combined. | | Tt will afford an outlet to twelve res- ervoirs constructed to hold the enor- ! mous flow of water from the various | watersheds of the Catskills and ad- jacent hills. The Ashokan resetvoir lalone will have a capacity of 170,- 000,000 gallons, or <more than the | three lakes of Killarney combined. }SCOUT BADEN-POWELL COMES cult problem. i British General, Father of Boy Or- | ganization, to Be Given Greeting. i et b cieh New York, Jan. 30.-—When Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the hero of | Mafeking and. the founder and chief scout of the British Boy Scouts, ar- rives here from Kingston, Jamaica, on the steamer Arcadian which is due in this port tomorrow, he ‘will meet with an enthusiastic welcome. Extensive arrangements have been made for welcoming him upon his arrival and for entertaining him dur- ing his visit to this city. The prin- cipal object of General Baden-Pow- ell's tour is to further the boy scout | movement of which he is the father. His tour will last six weeks and will take him to a number of the largest cities of the United States and Can- ada. N During hig stay in New York Sir Robert will be royally entertained. He will attend the second annual meeting of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America which will be held here February 9, and on the following day he will witness a dem- onstration of scout activities by more than 5,000 boy scouts. On the ev- ening of that day the General will igiven an illustrated lecture om “Scouting in Peace and War.” He | will also visit the George Junior Re- | public at Freeville, N. Y., in which he is greatly interested. There are about 300,000 boy scouts and more than 6,000 scout masters in the Unit- ed States alone and an equally large number in Canada, which in a meas- ure accounts for the great interest with which the arrival of Sir Robert | is awaited. From here General Baden-Powell |\vlll go to Boston and then to Wash- |ington, where he will mneet President | Taft, the honorary president of the i BoyScouts of America. At the con- clusion of his tour Sir Robert will ail from San Francisco for Austra- | lia. 5 Building New Logging Road. The steel is now laid on the log- {ging spur northeast of Little Fork to a point about two miles east of {the M. & L railway. The course af- [ter crossing the M. & I. one-half mile north ef the station at Little Fork is nearly due east to the state ditch from which point it heads more northeast. One of the results of the revivals in the Boer prison camps during the South African war. was the founda- tion. of the Boer Missionary Institute BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY DARROW FACES CELL AS BRIBER OF JURY Indicted By Grand Jury at Los An- geles on McNamara Brothers Case Charge. HELD ON BAIL BOND OF $20,000 To Be Arraigned on Thursday and Declares He is Glad Suspense Has Now Ended. MORE THRILLS AT INDIANAPOLIS Investigation There of Dynamite Con- spiracy Expected to Result in Arrests. Los Angeles, Jan. 30-—Two months of uncertainty and suspense ended last night for Clarence S. Darrow the noted union labor attorney, when the county grand jury, which for four Wweeks has been investigating allega-| tions of corruption in connection | with the trial jury in the McNam-| ara dynamite case, returned two in-| dictments charging bribery. There are four counts in the two| bills. Two of the counts charge Dar- row with the bribery and attempted corruption of Robert Bain, the first juror sworn to try James B. McNa- mara, the confessed dynamiter and murderer, serving a life term at San Quentin prison. The counts allege the bribery and corrup- tion of George N. Lockwood, a ven- ireman, stimmoned in onc McNamara case. May Mean Prison Sentence. Bert Franklin, the detective, who is alleged actually to have passed the bribe money to Bain and Lockwood, is accused.of the same offenses in in- formations filed some time ago in the superior court, and his trial has been set for Feb. 27. The maximum penalty that could be imposed upon Darrow for convic- tion on all counts will be 30 years’ imprisonment and fines aggregating $10,000. Darrow is at liberty under $20,000 bail, but last night the former chief counsel for the McNamaras said he was glad the suspense was over and that he faced his arraignment Thurs- day in the superior court_with an equanimity born of his own inno- cense. Mrs. LeCompte Davis, wife of Dar- row’s associate in fhe McNamara case, and Col. Charles S. Young, a friend of the accused lawyer, sup- plied the bail fixed by Judge N. P. Conroy, who sat for presiding Judge George H. Hutton. Indictments Expecied Soon. Indianapolis, Jan. 30.—Indication that the federal grand jury’s investi- gation here of the dynamite conspi- racy is drawing to a close, with the probability that indictments may be returned at the end of this or the beginning of next week, was shown yesterday with the dismissal of many minor witness. To Arrest All at Once. The present plan of the govern- ment, it is said, is_to cause all the arrests, if any are authorized, as nearly as possible on the same day. The indictments will be secret until ‘the men are-arrested. Local hotel clerks testified con- cerning persons who came to Indian- apolis to see J. J. McNamara at the timé he was sending the “dynamiting arew” about the country. |MAINE MAYOR IN TROUBLE Arraigned Today Under Provision of Corrupt Practices Statute. “ Portland, Me., Jan. 50.—On com- plaint of six citizens of Oakley C. Curtis, mayor of Portland, and five aldermen of the city appeared in the supreme court today to answer to charges of alleged corruption in the city election last month. The action against the six officials is brought un- der the new corrupt practices act in Maine. The proceedings under the complaint doa not constitute criminal action, the only penalty being the invalidation of the municipal election and the debarring of the convicted persons from holding public office for a time. Should ;the Supreme Court: sustain the complaint, however, the charges probably would be laid be- fore the May grand jury and it the defendants were then indicted and convicted they would be liable, under at Worcester, South Africa. the provisions of ‘the new -law, to fine ang imprisonment. % e remaining | (Copyright, 1912 EVENING, JANUARY 30 1912. BEMIDJI MEN AFTER IRONE : Members of $50,000 Colnpany Which | : is to Test Discoveries;of Ore Bed at Northome. DIAMOND DRILLS NOW WORKING Coincident with- the filing here of | articles of corporation bf the North- ern Minnesota Iron and Land com- pany, capitalized,at £50.000 , and| made up largely of Bemidji persons, comeg the announcement from Nor- thome that diamond drills are test- | ing out the real value of alleged rich i beds of ore in that vicinity, the dis- coveries including lands in which the new Bemidji concern is interested. Lloyd G. Pendergast is president of the new company and its other members are Hanna T. Pendergast, Jessie M. Pendergast, Alice Pender- gast, T. H. Pendergast, P. J. Russell, and Clare S. Todd, all of Bemidji, |: Beltrami county, Minnesota; Phillip S. Pendergast of International Falls, Minnesota; Florence Middleton, of Pierre, South Dakota; and A. H. De- lap of Northome, Minnesota. In telling of the iron ore opera-| & tions now on, this week's issue of the Northome Record says: “John Schultz, of Grang Rapids, arrived Sunday with a diamond drill for work on a contract from the Koochiching-Vermilion Iron Co. of Northome. “The drill ‘was set up on section twenty-one, 151-28, at the east end of Bartlett lake, a little better than a mile east of the village, and dril- ling was commenced yesterday. “Some work was done at this point with a church drill last fall and the indicationg are said to have been en- couraging, which prompted the com- pany to prosecute the work with a diamond drill. “Iron indications are very promi- nent in this locality and there is rea- son for belief that the drills will penetrate the ore body. “The Koochiching-Vermilion peo- ple have iron lands south of Island lake which will also be given fir- ther exploration. “An iron company at International Falls and another at Bemidji, with' holdings in this vicinity, are said to be preparing for an active campaign of exploration in the near future.” HURD FUNERAL HELD HERE Pioneer Resident of Bemidji Interred in the Greenwood Cemetery. Funeral services for the late Reu- ben S. Hurd, 60 years ald, who died at his home here Saturday, were held yesterday afternoon ‘n the Metho- dist church, Rev. Charles H. Flesher conducting the services. Mr. Hurd had -been ill for about seven weeks. He had been a resident of Bemidji for 11 years, coming here from Hallock. | He is survived by his widow and sev- en. children and a brother at Nor- inger, Mo., who, with Mr. Hurd’s son Henry of Joliet, 11l., was unable to come to Bemidji to attend the fun- eral. The other children are: Arnold W., 17; Roy E., 15; Stanley, 12; Tre- sie, 10; Pansy, 8; Violet, 4. . Rose Melville (“Sis Hopkins”), : keep the whistle. New Whistle Causes Fire Scare, i Gane, " |LIKES - BEMIDJ'S MOVE| At the Crookston Lumber ¢ company’s saw mill Lere yester- : day afternoon, a newly installed : : fire whistle, the sound of which : carries 18 miles, was given its : first test. % : The Crookston mill’s at midnight to find It was late was_turned contrivance. to..the screaming nearly had heart failure. Someene rushed to a telephone : : and called up the mill only to : : learn therz was nothing on fire. : “Well, you are net going to : : blow that thing at 5 o'clock ev- : ¢ ery night, are you?” the mill : : was asked. “Not on your life,” came back the answer, “it takss too much": : steam and anyhow its only in- : : tended for fires.” H The mill men have decided to : They say it is : Steenerson Opposes Democratic Ac- tion But 20 Insurgents Vote ‘Yes.’ Washington, Jan. 30.—The demo- cratic metal tariff revision, to make reductiong averaging 35 per 3 new : : alarm is three feet in height, 18 : : inches in diameter, and makes a : : mnoise like a colored parson who : awakens : himself in a graveyard with a : : ghost on the job. yesterday after- : noon when 150 pounds of steam : The hideous noise : : came across the lake afd several : : members of the fire department : cent well known American actress, s 39 from the existing steel and iron dut-1 ies of the Payne-Aldrich law, passed the house late yesterday by a vote of | I 210 to 109. - Republican efforts to amend or debate the bill were brought to a sudden end Democrat- ic Leader Underwood refused to per-|t mit the offering of further amend- ments, and forced“the house to a vote upon the final passage of the meas- ure. Twenty insurgent republicans voted for the measure, while the democratic delegation for Colorado, Representatives Martin, Rucker and Taylor, dissatisfied with the great reduction proposed in the lead tar- iff, voted against the democratis ma- Jority. Among the republicans who supported the bill, all insurgents, were - Representatives Davis and Lindberg, Minnesota; Helgesen, of North Dakota; Kent, Stephens, Len- root, Morse and Nelson, Wisconsin, Among the insurgent republicans who voted against the passage were Representative ~ Anderson, Miller, Volstead and Steenerson, Minnesota. BROWNE SELLS DAIRY LUNCH Beltrami Avenue Cafe Purchased by William Abell, Who Takes Charge. W. W. Browne has_sold his Bel- trami avenue dairy lunch room and | cafe to William Abell, who has been |1 connected with the ' Institution for |* some time. Mr. Abell will conduct the - place along the same lines ag characterizeq it in the past. “And I shall ‘try to improve it, if possible,” added Mr. Abell this afternoon. Mr. Browne also has disposed of his mov- ing picture show at Jamestown, N. D., and considers the idea of ‘estal lishing himself in business in Can. ada. : : been induced to spend a part of the summer in this state, had they rea- those who went to Europe there were tens of thousands of others anxious economically as possible a short vaca- tion. somewhere and did go. Thousands of | them flocked to Chicago, St. Paul and other cities because the delights of our lakes and forests had not been brought to their attention. why concerted, consistent effort on the part of the people of the state, backed by favorable granted by the railways, should mot make Minnesota, as it cshould be, th® favorite of tourists and recreation hunters from all parts of the coun- try.” TWO OUT OF RACE FOR MAYOR John Gibbons and L. F. Johnson De- dates left to contest for the office of ‘mayor at the city election on Febru- ary 20, John Gibbons and L. F. John- ida, the improvement of his health being a large factor in his decision to go south at this time. son mever formally announced his candidacy, although friends circulat- .~ |pital for some time, was removed to; American Hen Defeats All Competitors in Egg Laying Contest.—News Item. T | St. Paul Dispatch, in Editorial, Cites Plan Launched Here to Obtain Summer Tourists. SEES SUCCESS IN THE EFFORT Today’s issue of the St. Paul Dis- patch sdys editorially: “The Bemidji Commercial club has “tnanied “committeés to take up with other commercidl clubs, cities, the press and the state immigration de- ‘| partment the development of Minne- sota summer resort possibilities. It * tis not explained what is proposed, but undoubtedly something practical will be attempted and real results should be obtained. “The movement is along the right line. There is almost unlimited op- portunity in tourist'traffic to Minne- sota. The only reason. we do not have hundreds of thousands instead of ten. of thousands coming to spend a few days, weeks or the entire sum- mer each season, is that we have | +B:BUCoRse, B : {made no effort to attract visitors Trrtrrereeeeeesesseeeeeeess ¥rom other states and countries. “Americans are very much given HOUSE CUTS IRON TARIFF|to travel, as are our neighbors in Canada. Tourists from this country spent $350,000,000 abroad last year. Much of that was expended in visit- ing lake regions that cannot compare with many places to be found in the North Star state. No doubt, many of those who went abroad might have ized what we have to offer. “But, leaving out of consideration 0 enjoy to best advantage and as Many of them wanted to go “Altogether there seems no reason tourist rates cide to Withdraw from Contest. " Now there are only three candi- on ‘having decided to withdraw Tom the race. Mr. Gibbons s to ake an extensive-trip through Flor- Mr. John- etition in his behalf. ° Mrs. Mary E. McDonald who has en: confined to St. Anthony’s hos- TEN CENTS PER WEEK. CAPITAL IN ALARM HALTSNEW RAILWAY Proposed Line, to Include Bemidji, Blocked By Action of Eastern Capitalists. As Result Minneapolis & St. Louis Extension Must Wait for More { Settled Times. ONE CANDIDATE REAL “SHAKE” { Official Comments That if “Certain” Man is Elected Building Stops For Four Years. i i i i ! i | nual practfeal courses in agricultur- Uncertainty as to what will be the outcome of the national election this year and its effect on the finances of the.country is said to be the cause of delay in the construction of a line to the Canadian boundary by the Minneapolis & St. Leuis railroad company. High officials of the company do not deny tifat a survey has been made of the new line and they have i frankly admitted to men from Be- midji that this city would stand an excellent opportunity of being in- cluded in the new road, if that road were to be built. In Tangle Over Money. The same officials, however, are just as frank in admitting that trials and tribulations have developed over the financial end of the proposed un- dertaking. At one time it appeared that all obstacles had been removed and that Wwith the opening of spring the actual work of construction will begin, ten- tative --arrangements for . obteining. the right-of-way . having been com- Dleted. “Retrench” is the Order. Then came news out of the east that instead of supplying funds for the building of new roads, the policy until after election was to be re- trenchment, to the point of almost unprecedented economy. Therefore, at the present time, plans for building the new line to Canada are slumbering in Minne- apolis, and the only sound that can awaken them, say the rail officials, is the jingle of money. To Build, Sometime. However, it is said that the pres- ent inaction merely is a delay; that rails are to be laid to the boundary is only a question of time, declare the men in authority, who add that this time depends upon how long it takes the finances of the country to Teact, following election, into a set- tled condition. Takes Shot at LaFollette. “It may take four years or long- er,” was the comment of one rail offi- cial to a Bemidji man, “if certain of the proposed candidates for presi- dent should happen to be elected.” No names were menticned by this thrust but it is taken fo be aimed at Senator LaFollette. DENIES DIRT AT WALKER CURE Vasaly Admits Sanatorium’ Kitchen Small, But Says It's Clean. Charges against the Walker sana- torium of filth in the kitchen and in- adequate food, are denied by Charles Vasaly, member of the state board of control. Mr. Vasaly admits that the Kkitchen in use there is-too small and improvements are needed, but says dirt is not in evidence. “We asked the legislature for money with which to improve conditions at the sana- torium,” Mr. Vasaly said, “but.did not get it. We are spending more money, per capita, in caring for the inmates there, - than at any other state institution. . It is true that the supply of fresh eggs has been cur- tailed, but it was because we could not get them. The price of eggs is high, but we haye been spending money. for them just the same. An- other sanatorium mnear there “has stopped serving them altogether be- cause of their price, but the state has not.” S - University Opens Farmers’ Course. Madison, Wis., Jap. 80.—The an- POLITICS HELD UP AS PERIL