Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 5, 1912, Page 1

THE I EMIDJI DAILY PIONEER! WINNEISOTA HISTGRIGAL SOCIETY. " VOLUME 9. NUMBER 237. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY :5 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. BEMIDJI HAS NEW WHOLESALE PLANT W. A. McDonald Transforms His Bakery and Confectionery into a Wholesale Factory LOCATION COULD BE NO BETTER Plant Now Has Daily Capacity of 2.500 Loaves of Bread and 500 Pounds of Candy | EMPLOY FORCE OF 20 PEOPLE| New Machinery to be Added and Plant Will be Made as Modern As Possible ! | this city today with a large attend- LR R R R R CRCRC RO RN @ QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ POPPPPOOOOOOO O Miss Maxine Ellioit, well known American actress, 41 years old today. . John Walter Smith, United States senator from Maryland, 67 years old today. Simeon E. Baldwin, governor of Connecticut and one of the foremost legal authorities in the United States, 72 years old today. . A court-martial with Col. George Barnett presiding convened at the Philadelphia Navy Yard today for the trial of Lieut. C. W. Alger, of the Marine Corps. Lieut. Alger is charged with conduct nvbecoming an | oflicer. H Rochester, N. Y., Wel. 5.—Active | co-operation in the movement which makes for better agriculture and| larger crops is to be cue of the lead-| ing subjects of discussion at the an- nual convention of the National Can- ners' Association, which began in‘ ance. The-convention will L'ominue} in session until Thursdzay. | . Palatka, Fla., Feb. %.—This city is rapidly filling up with delegates Bemidji has u new wholesale house. | A company has recently been formed and incorporated for $25,000 | 0 b known as the Model Manufact- Co., to manufactire and whole- sale bread and other bakery goods,| candies. ice cream and articles of ! this nature i The stockholders nearly all local business men traveling salesmen of this tervitory who are| familiar with the splendid advantag- | s of Bemidji as a wholesale city and | are determined to make this one of est concerns of its kind in tate the 1 e company has purchased the entire stock equipment and plant of | the Model Bakery and lce Cream Fac- tory formerly operated by W. Mec- Mr. MceDonald is one of the heaviest stockholders and is presi- dent and manager. Mr. Frank J.{ Koors who s now connected with the Fitzimmons-Baldwin wholesale com- mission house of this city is the sec- vetary and (reasurer of the new firm. For the present the business will be conducted in the old location at 415 Minnesota avenue but an option on a suitable site has heen procured and a modern and well equipped plant will be built as soon as the business outgrows its present quart- ers. The plant now lhas a capacity of about 300 pounds uof candy, 400 zallous of ice cream and 2,500 loaves of bread a day but it is cxpected that this will be doubled in a short time and that the company will employ a torce of about 20 peopte. Modern machinery has been pur- chased and the purpose of the eom- pany in addition to conducting a larg: wholesale bake! nd ice cream factory is to supply the confectionery nd ice cream dealers through- out this part of the state their needs at all seasons of the year. A new t shipping case for candy has 1 adopted and during the winter Donald. stores paic months the firm will make a specialty of supplying the dealeys with fresh counter candies every week thus giv- ing them the advantare of having a candy kitehen in counection with their store with the evtra advantage of having the goods made in a large sanitary plant at less cost than they could make them in th~ir own place. With Bemidji's natnral advantages as a distributing point and the men behind the deal the success and growth of the youns “ompany is as- | sured i 1 | | But In Her Case-~ Woman's wit readily adapts ftselt to all places and all occasions. A woman lecturer was delivering a practical talk on beauty and the beauty cult for the entertainment of the Woman's Professional league of New York at an interesting session one afternoon. . In the course of her lecture the speaker emphasized the point that cers taln measurements were fundamentals ly important. Unhappily, however, the lecturer herself had a form—it her unusual bulk could be dignified by such a term—that was fashioned on anything but the lines of the Keller- mann type. Proceeding with her dissertation on| meagurements, she held up a very fat, | round wrist, and sald: “Now, twice| around my wrist, once around my| throat. Twice around my throat, once around my walst. Twice around my waist——" “Once around Central Park!” ex- vloded an irrepressible young thing out in the audience, and the storm of Jaughter that followed was altogether Immeasurable—Sunday Magazine. Outlook for Peace. “Scientists tell us that the sea I8 pradually cutting the continents RWay.” “That being the case, I suppose the time will come when there won’t be any land left above the water.” “It would seem s0.” “Peace may some day be estab- Mshed after all” jol alternates to the national conven- to tomorrow’s Republican State con- vention, which will elect six dele-! gates-at-large and an equal number | COX HAS NEW PLAN T0 AID CAMPERS State Forester Prepares to Put Up Several Hundred Signs to Point Way for Excursionists “NEARLY ALL NEED A GUIDE” Says Northern Minnesota Travelers of The Woods are Unfamiliar With Present Conditions WILL HELP FOREST PROTECTION Signs Will Be Made of Metal and Lettering to Consist of Some Durable Enamel For the purpose of encouraging outings around Bemidji and in North- ern Minnesota, and in order to make the travels of visitors through the woods easier, State Forester Cox is tion to be held in Chic#go next June. | Florida Republicans arc believed to! De a unit for President Taft, and it is | expected the state delegation will be | instructed for his renow.ination with- | out a dissenting vote. { . | The matrimonial dificulties of the Gnggenheims have been frequently before the courts of Ilinois and 1\'&\\'I York during the past ten years. Inj the present suit Mrs. Grace Guggen- heim is seeking to have the divorce she obtained from her husband in 1901 set aside on the ground that she was not a legal resideut of lllnois at| the time she received hor decree from the Chicago court. Thr remarriage of the husband since .he divorce has tended to further complicate the sit- uation. * Providence, R. 1., Feb. 5.—The re- maining indebtedness of the Union Trust company, which suspended on Oct. 25, 1907, was wiped out today | by the redemption of tne contingent| certificates held by its depositors. The deposits in the bank at the time it suspended aggregated nearly $22,- 000,000, and the depositors number- ed 30,960, On May 4, 1908, the bank re-opened, and several puyments have been made since that time, until a final 10 per cent. distribution today cleared up all of the indebtedness. In addition to the amount of their de- posits the depositors received inter- est at 3 per cent. Boston, Mass., Feb. 5.—\Villiam DeGraff, a hunchback, was placed on trial for his life in the United States district court here today charged with the murder of Captain Charles H. Wyman of the coal barge Glen- dower, on which DeGraff was the cook. The murder of Captain Wy- man, which occurred while the barge was on its way from Philadelphia to Boston, was one of the most heartless crimes committed for many years within the jurisdiction of the local TFederal court. The head of the skip- per wag crushed by a hlow from some heavy instrument, which was, it is believed, thrown into the sea after the murder. ® Chicago, 111., Feb. 5..—Perhaps the most peculiar- legal scandal ever ex- posed in a Chicago court will come to a focus in the trial of the suit of Mrs. Grace B. Guggenheim to annul the divorce granted bev in 1901 from William Guggenheim, millionaire member of the famous smelter trust family, which came up for hearing to- day before Judge Thomas G. Windes in the circuit court. Popular inter- est in the case has been aroused to a great degree because the suit now comes before Judge Windes as the result of charges made by Judge A. J. Petit that an attempt to influence him in his decision was made a short time ago by some onc acting in the interest of Guggenheim. . Muncie, Ind., Feb. 5 —A peculiar case relating to electicn laws and voting machines is to be tried out in the suit of Jesse G. White against W. A. O’'Harra, sheriff of Delaware county, which came up for trial in ,the cireuit court here today. White, |a Democrat, is seeking to prove that {he was elected sheriff in November, {1910, instead of O’Harra, his Repub- lican opponent. It is generally con- |ceded that White actually was elect- ed by a majority of 89 votes, a voting machine registering 199 more ballots for O'Harra than were cast. O’Harra maintains his right to the office on the ground that the Indiana law pro- vides no method of going behind the returns indicated upon a voting de- vice. {ern Minnesota. preparing to put up several hundred metal signs to mark the trails anad canoe routes. In a recent interview ‘with a Twin City reporter Mr. Cox said: “There are a great many people who would like to get into the woods in our northern counties if they knew where or how to go.” Travel up there at present is slow and con- fusing, and the stranger cannot go far without a guide. Most of them consider half the pleasire of an out- ing in the woods lost if they must have a guide. “We feel that the northern part of this state offers the wmost attractive camping grounds in the state, with some of the finest scenery and best fishing on the continent. One object of the forest service is to encourage the people of the state to visit North- One result of this will be that the people will know the conditions up there better, and will understand why it is necessary to protect the forests.” One set of signs will mark the principal trails, giving their names, where they lead to, and the distanc- es. Onother set will mark the canoe routes, also giving the names, direc- tions and distances. Portages will be marked, because they sre very mis- leading. The signs will show how long they are, and the distance to the next portage. Arother set of signs will have the words: “Please camp here.” The object of this is to assist campers in finding safe and suitable sites, and alsc to have the camps located where there is the least danger of fire. T'f the rangers know where the camps will be locat- ed they will be better able to watch them. The signs will be made of metal, and the lettering will be of some dur- tble enamel, which will withstand the weather. HER DINING ROOM FURNITURE How the Kind-Hearted and Gifted Rosa Bonheur Helped a Young Wife. “We are not brothers for nothing,” Rosa Bonheur once wrote in jesting affection to her brother Isidore; and in truth the wonderful, quaint, boyish little woman, with her bright eyes, cropped curls and breesy ways, was almost more a brotherly chum than a sister to the "Dodore” whom she so dearly loved. Much of the time on her country estate, in her studio and among her animals, wild and tame, she wore the masculine costume which her manner of life required, to wear which she had—with one other ‘woman, a famous explorer and arche- ologist—received express permission from the French government. Yet this very mannish little person was far from- unwomanly in her sympa- thies; and her latest biography re- cords a pretty incident related by her friend, Joseph Verdier, the landscape painter. “One evening she was dining with me and some friends. Among the friends was a young lady recently mar- ried, who gave us an account of the | furnishing of her house.” All the rooms were furnished except the din- ing room; for this last her husband could not yet give her the money, and she was compelled to hold her little re- ceptions In her sleeping room. “After dinner Rosa asked me for a large sheet of drawing paper, and ‘while we were talking she sketched & delightful hunting scene, which she signed with her full name. Then, un- der cover of a general conversation on music, while tea was being served, she approached the young wife, and sald to her: “‘Take this picture to Tedesco on your return to Paris and he will give you at least 1,500 francs for it. . . Then you will be able to furnish yousr dining room.’ "—Youth’s Companion. THE YELLOW PERIL (Copyright, 1813.) JUDGE HOLDS MAY0 INDICTMENT VALID Stanton Says 'Tflat Former Druggist Must Stand Trial for Death of Carl Akerburg THE CASE IS FOUR YEARS OLD Begun by Géorge Simpson, Then As- sistant Attorney General, and For Various Reasons Postponed [DECXSION TO BE APPEALED If Opinion Should be Reversed by Supreme Court Means That This Prolonged Case Will End It will be four years next month since a grand jury in this county re- |turned an indictment against Frank A. Mayo, then a druggist in this city, for the felony of permitting an em- PSS COLEBROOK IS GUILTY Youth Confesses That He Stole Clothes, Money and Watch From Hotel Last October HE IS WARNED AS. TO FUTURE Aiter having been in the Beltrami county jail for more than four months for having robbed a: stranger in a Bemidji hotel of hisizlothes, money and his watch, Arthur Colebrook was today seiitenced to serve five years in the state reformatory at St. Cloud, following his confession of having committed grand larceny in the sec- ond degree. Colebrook who is but 19 years of age, told Judge Stanton when ar- raigned today that he has never been a “real bad” boy and that he felt that if he should be dealt with lightly he would show his gratitude by his good conduect. Judge Stanton told him that be- cause of his past record and the opin- ion that he has formed of him as to his ability to behave he would sus- pend sentence, and ordered that the boy be put in the care of Rev. James Parsons of the Society for the Friend- less of Minneapolis. Rev. Parson was ordered to report at the opening of the September term of court, and inform the Court of the boy’s actions and at that time the future care of the boy will be de- cided upon. Among the restrictions which were placed upon Colebrook while he-is in the care of the society is that he can neither drink intoxicating liquors or enter a place where they are sold. Alpheus W. Wilson, one of the old- est bishops of the Methodist Episco- pal Church South, 78 years old today. Critloal Moment, At the beginning of the Uivil war men who knew little about military tactics were sometimes temporarily in command of small bodies of the troops Wwhich flocked into Washington, and it 18 sald that Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, afterward vice-presi- dent of the United States, was for & time assigned to the captalncy of a company of recrufts from his natlve state. He assisted In drilling them to the best of his ability, but one after- noon, he marched at thelr head up Pennsylvania avenue, he met his Wa- terloo. He had been getting along very well and was beginning to feel quite proud of the proficlency of his the coping and fence extending south in his forward patch. He could not think of the order which would swing his command into Fifteenth street, and thereby avold the obstacle, Near- er and nearer the company approach- jed; the men were almost upon his | heels, when in desperation he shout- ed: “Come round like a gate!” and | the situation was saved. | | Most furs are durable, experts say, and will last for a long time if guard- i ed from moths, high temperatures and i 'spring sunshine. A less durable fur is | broadtall, as it is taken from young | animals. Chinchilla and ermine are | also delicate, both in color and tex- I ture, and should be carefully treated. Places that make a specialty of stor- Ing furs keep them at a uniform win- ter temperature. SR men, when he suddenly realized that from the treasury building was right | Most Furs Wear Long With Care. - x ... PLEADED NOT GUILTY Los Angeles, Feb. 5..—Clarence : i S TLarrow, former rhief counsel : for the McNamara brothers, ¢ two indictments charging him : {1 with jury bribery. The pleas : | |1 were entered after presiding : | i: judge Hutton. of the superior court, overruled i demurrer : Ik 1% filed in behalf of Darrow, and a motion to quash the indictments. 183 i | McKusick to Try Injury Case. | . Attorney Chester McKusick went jto Minneapolis today {o try a case.in district court wherein Dis clieiit seeks to recover from the Crookston Lumb- er Company damages in the sum of $10,000 for personal injury. | T il | Attorney John Gibbons to Travel. John Gibbons will depart this evening for a trip of several weeks to various, southern points in company with his brother Father Gibbons, of St. Paul. " Their itinerary will in- clude Cuba and the Isle of Pines. WORKING HOURS OF WOMEN Beoveral States Have Passed Laws | Limiting Them to Sixty Hours or Less a Week. | During thelr last session the leglsla- tures of several states passed new laws regulating the number of .work- ing hours for women. South Carolina passed a law limiting them to 60 per week in mercantile houses and the textlle mills, of which there are so many in the state. In Ohio and Massachusetts a 54- hour bill has been enacted. The Ohio bill applies to everything excepting botels and mercantile establishments. Ttah and Missourl have also passed nine-hour laws, says Health Culture. The ten-hour law which the legisla- ture of Illinols enacted in 1909 is en- larged 80 as to include practically every kind of establishment where women are employed. Wisconsin has established a 55~ hour week, excepting night work, which 1s less. Minnesota has strength- ened its ten-hour law by extending the penalty for violation so as to include manufacturing and mechanical estab- lishments. The states of Washington and California have passed elght-hour flay laws for women. The law of ‘Washington applles to the usual mer- cantlle and mechanical establish- ments, restaurants, hotels and laun- dries, but the California act applies also to telegraph, telephomne, express jend transportation offices. | Upliffing Power of the Press. “It (the press) lifts us out of the {local rut and gives 'us the broader spirit and intelligence of common citi- cens of a great country. Still further, it extends our sympathiés beyond natural bounds and gives us the feel- ing of human solidarity.”—Dr. Albert | Shaw. 5 3 | | In Rushing Boston. He stood in the thickest of the rush ! at Park street subway station, tall, lean, lank—typical comical supple- ment ruralite, even to the ‘‘comfort- able handful” of tobaceo-stained beard. By him surged the 5:30 crush of th homeward bound. Jostled, elbowed, squeezed*and trampled, he worked his way to the rim of the crush. Wiping his. perspiring brow he exclaimed: | “Gosh! ‘Where be they goin'?: And, why in tunket don’t they get thar? i ‘Wher’d they: all come from? Bemidji Men Cuts Claim to $285. $6,000 ?CASE TRIED BEFORE MORRISON Following a trial of more than -10 i days the jury in the ~ase of Ruggles | versus Tom Smart, Wes Wright, Tom Johnson, John Goodman gnd Nels Loitved, which-was tried before Fed- eral Judge Morrison, late Saturday brought in a verdict in favor of | Charles Ruggles for $485. The case is the ourgrowth of the defendants having taken sand from the Ruggles gravel pit, located three and a half miles from Bemidji, and for which Mr. Ruggles wished to re- cieve damages to the xtent of $6,000. E. E. McDonald, of the Bemidji law firm of McDonald & Clark represented Messrs. Smart, Wright and Loitved, and D. H. Fisk had charge of the case against Goodman and Johnson, while Attorney Bailey of the Wash- burn, Bailey & Mitcuoll law firm tried the case for Mr. Ruggles. The various claims as ordered in the ver- dict of the jury were as follows: against Smart, Goodman and Loitved $250; Johnosn $90; Wes Wright $90 and Loitved $ WAS VERY HARD TO PLEASE Broker's Wife Would Appear to Be One of Most Unreasonable of Women, A prominent broker remarked the other day that he thought his wife was the hardest woman to please in the world. She was always asking him for money when he had none. “John,” she would say, “give me 47 cents. The grocery boy is here with a bill” “I can't give you 47 cents,” he would say, “but here’s half a dollar.” you're. the funniest man. You never have the right change.” A dozen times 8 day she would ask for a few odd Ppennies, i - Finally the broker went into the sub-treasury and obtained $100 worth of bright new pennies. There were 10,000 pennies and he packed them in a suit case and lugged them home. Then he went to a blacksmith shop and had an iron tripod made, and upon this he hung the suit case filled with pennies, his bill. It amounted to $6.67. “John,” iuld the wife, “give me $5.67.¥ “Yotu Will find it on the tripod,” he explain- ed. The wife returned in & moment in & great rage. *“Why, John,” she cried, “I'm not going to count out 567 pen- nies for this man; I'd be ashamed. It's & wonder you can never have the vight change.” vl ] Explaining a Resentment. - “I am an American citizen,” sald the man who got into trouble abroad. | “Well,” replied the Oriental official, of your own statesmen and understand our resentment of pernicious activity in politics.” Good Plan. ‘Write down a list of things you Intend to do in spare time and do not let a week slip away, nor a day, if you can help it, without doing one of them. Hach month will bring new interests which will be worth trying take up,” “Oh, | The next day the butcher came with | “In that case you can consult some| {ployec, who was not a registered | pharmacist, to vend a poisonous drug {to Arthur Agerburg, which drug was TGIVEN SMALL VERDICT o o S i = | The state was at that time repre- |sented 'y George Simpson, the assist- ant attorney general. .\ demurrer was : | Federal Jury in Case of Ruggles vs.|interposed to the indictment on the it pleaded not guilty Saturday to : | ground that it failed to state facts constituting a public offense. Hear- iug upon this legal point hag been de- ferred ‘rom term to term since then because of the comsent of all parties interested to await the trial of the civil action growing ont of the same unfortunate incident, and. for the rurther reason that each county at- torney lias desired to Lave the Attor- ney General’s office make the argu- ment to sustain the indictment drawn by Mr. Sompson. .. Finally, however, a few weeks agd the arguments on the demurrer were submitted to Judge C. W. Stanton by Attorneys E. E. McDonald and P. J. Russell in behalf of Mr. Mayo and G. M. Torrence, county attorney, rep- resenting the state. | Judge Stanton has now filed his de- cision overruling the demurrer and sustaining the indictment and the question involved will he certified to the supreme court for final determin- ation. k If Judge Stanton’s opinion is af- firmed Mr. Mayo will be required to appear and plead to the indictment at the September term of court; if reversed, the end will have been ireached in this prolonged prosecution. | It will be remembered that the {civil action, referred te, resulted in a verdict against Mr. Mayo for $3,000. | | McVAY BROTHERS ON TRIAL. Are Accused of the Murder of J.-W. Ethridge—Case Sensational. Pine Bluff. Ark.. February 5.— The case of the McVay brothers accused of the murder of J. W. Eth- ridge was called for trial today. The case is one of the most sensational in the criminal records of this coun- ty and the trial promises to attract | wide attention. Ethridge was shot ‘and killed in the courtroom here while he was on trial !or the alleged ‘assasination of Albert McVay, a prominent stock dealer, who was shot { down and killed by an unknown ‘as- {sassin at his home near Pine Bluff on | the night of July 5, 1998. The murd- iered McVay was a brother of the {men who are to be tried for killing Ethridge. | Elmer Akerburg Dies at Phoenix Garfield Akerberg yesterday re- ceived a telegram telling of thie death |of his brother, Elmer Akerberg at | Phoenix, Ariz. Mr. Akerberg has been suffering for the past three years with Jung trouble and a year ago was taken to Phoenix in hopes of nis recovery. His mother, Mrs. | Mathilda Akerberg joined him at {Phoenix two months ago and has been with him since that time. Inter- {ment will be made at Phoenix. Meeting Tomorrow -Evening. Tomorrow evening st 8 o’clock there will be a meeting of the Be- | midji -Commercial Club at the club rooms. As there is much business jof impertance to be transacted it is jurged that as many members as pos- isible be present. Kubelik, the famous violinist, gave 220 concerts last year, at an average fee of $1,200, making his year’s in- come nearly $205,000. A