Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 6, 1912, Page 1

| g "VOLUME 9. NUMBER 238, BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. BEMIDJI MAN TELLS OF PENSACOLA| Judge Pend‘ergast. Spending Winter | In Florida, Writes Much of In- terest, in Letter tc Russell MAN EATING .SHARKS THERE| Says Bathing is Dangerous, Because 0f These Man Eating Animals— Gives Brietf of Politics HAS GOOD JOKE ON EBERHART Residents of That County Believ Taft Will Be Nominated But That Wilson Will Win. Because of its interesting nature,| the Pioneer is herewith publishing a from Judge L. F. Pendergast of who is spending the winter! at Peusacola. Florida. The letter was! written to P. J. Russell, a Bemidji attorney. and is as follo “Pensacola, Jan, 27, 1912, “Hon, P. J. Russell, “Bemidji, Minnesota. “My Dear Russell: “Agreeable to my rromise, T will write yon a letter place. We arrived hera the evening of the 15th, and the rext morning, we were told, season.—twenty-four degrees zero. Since that time we have had good weather, from forty to fifty de- grees in the morning and during the day reaching fifty-five to seventy-five which is warm enough for me at any time of the year. There are very few flowers now and no small fruit, the frosts having put everything back.! | saw one dozen although yesterday bush with half a white flower: This town is one of the oldest in the state and has a population of about twenty-five thousand, over half of whom are colored. Winter is harvest time here as there are al- ways from fifteen hundred to two thousand tourists her: fo spend the! winter. Perhaps no place in the! south is better than this as a sum- mer resort for the reason that the| weather is everything that could be| desired. The ivater is fine, cool and| soft, and [ have been told that it is the healthiest city in the United States. In natural resources, this country is far behind the north The soil is very sandy and poor, and very little can be raised without fertilizers. Oranges and pineapples are shipped in from other parts of the south and most of the other fruit comes from farther north, one of the oldest settled of any of the rose beautiful stat its population is only about half that of Minnesota, and the wealth is not one tenth as much. The only thing here that can compare with Minnesota is the climate, and it is certainly the best T have ever seen. Pensacola Bay is one of the best harbors on our entire coast. It opens through the narro or seven miles south of the city into the Gulf of Mexico, the entrance to which is guarded by Fort Barancas on one side and Fort Pickins on the other on the point of Santa Rosa Island. This is a long narrow island extending east between the Gulf on one side and the Bay and Sound on the other, forty- two miles long and from ten rods to one mile wide, making a lang locked harbor forty-two miles long and from one mile to five miles wide, and deep enough for all ocean going vessels. The people here are waiting impa- tiently for the openinz of the Pana- ma Canal, from which they expect| immense trade. This is rather a dangerous place for bathing, the bay being full of sharkg of the regular man-eating va- riety. One was captured here a few days ago fifteen feet long and but a short time ago some tourists were out in a boat and one of them fell overboard and before he could be rescued a shark caught him and that was the last that hag been seen of him. Last Wednesday we went on an ex-| cursion up the Bay forty miles to the end of the Island to a place called “Ladies’ \Walk.” We time, landed on the inside of the Is- land is the most dreary and desolate | place one could imagine. It is all covered with white sand which, at a distance, looks like snow. No green of any kind on it except a few scat- tering pien trees, and no living thing The sand is different from In walking upon it, one leaves tracks the same as when walking in_snow, and it The upon it. any I have ever seen. looks like granulated sugar. in regard to this; was the coldest of the| above | Although Florida is| had a good SENTINEL CHANGES HANDS F. A. Wilson, Former Editor of the | Daily Pioneer, Becomeg Owner Of That Publication } TOOK CHARGE YESTERDAY | 3 | i | In a deal which was closed Satur-| day, F. A. Wilson, of this city, who for the past two years has been editor of the Dally and Weekly Pioneer, be- came the owner of the Bemidji Sen- | tinel. : ! Mr. Wilson severed his connection | | ' with the Pioneer Saturday and yes-| !terday took possession of his new purchase, the first edition under his| {control will be issued VFriday. ‘[ In the transaction Mr Wilson buys; { the Marcum printing franchise, good | will and subscription list. Sentinel will continue to be published at the }Olfl lecation on Beltrami avenue, with | i the new editor as its sole owner. | The deal does mnot, however, in- {clude the commercial job office, and | | that institution will continue under | the cwnership of W. ™. Marcum who {retains the printing machinery and! {other equipment which will be added | | to soon. i The Sentinel building office rooms| are being remodeled. There will be | a general reception and counting| room, with stenographer’s desk at the | | front, while at the immediate ngml me private office of the Sentinel will 'be established, and the Marcum | ! Printing company will have a like| enclosed office to the left. place called “the walk is of glistening white sand,” with nothing to break the monotony, not a green thing in the whole view. Ther2 is on old leg- end attached to this place. In early | settlement of Florida, over three hun- | | dred years ago, a Sparish family liv- lurl here, a daughter »f whom mar- ‘iriefl against the father’s will and ran away with her lover. They were crossing the Island when overtaken by the father. The lover escaped, but the daughter was killed at this | place called “Ladies Walk.” A curse was placed on the spot and no green thing has been allowed to grow there since, and no vegetation of any kind | will ever grow thereon Ever since| {that time her spirit walks across the | Islang at that point at just twelve| [o'clnck at night. Many of the whites {here and all the negrios believe this| and it is impossible to hire a colored man to land at this place after nxghl‘ {fall on account of the “hant.” We crossed over to the beach on the Gulf side. This beach is the fin- est I have ever seen, milk white, ten rods wide as far as the eye can see, with bright green watcrs breaking on the shore with a noige like thun- der. In my mind I could loek south | to the narrows between Yucatan and iCubx, where the waters of the Gulf {of Mexico mingle with those of the | Caribbean Sea, and almost ‘expect to see the white sails of the Spanish Buccaneers as they cruised these waters three hundred years ago. We have a Tourists Club that meets here every Wednesday afternoon to plan excursions. On last Wednes- day’s excursion there were present two hundred and eighteen people from the northern states, all the way from Maine to Washington; Wiscon- {sin and Iowa had eight each and Min- nesota, seven. Before closing I must tell you that on the way down here I have met many representative men .from all over and I have talked with many of them and I have yet to find one in favor of President Taft. The opinion of all was, however, that Taft will be nominated because of the federal ma- chine, but that Wilso1, if nominated, will surely beat him. I met one politician from Ohio and when he found out I was from Min- nesota he asked me if ! knew Gover- rnm‘ Eberhart. 1 answered that I was |slightly acquainted with him. He ! told me he heard a story about him, { while traveling on the cars in the east, that he played a game of poker and lost one hundred dollars, then had the winner arrested and tried to| get his money back. He wanted to know if 1 thought the story was true. T answered that I did not believe it {because when the Governor was at school he stood one hundred in de- portment, and I was reasonably sure {a man of that kind would not play | poker. As I am making this letter rather long, I will say good-by for the pres- ent. i i Your very truly i L. G. PENDEY‘IGASTA — T | Special at Grand Theatre. The late production of “Fall of Troy,” and “Cinderella’” Wednesday and ThursGay night. Price of ad- mission the same as usual. “In His Steps,”. by the Rev. Chas. Sheldon, may be dramatized. Yo "‘ROUND TABLES” FRIDAY P. M. TEACHERS' MEETING PLANS- COMPLETE, President Geo. E. Vincent of Minne- sota University Will Deliver Open- | ing Address Thursday Night BE FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION | 1 Educator’s Subject to be “The Duty of the New School,” Which Will Interest All Who Attend | Will Be Lead by Various Teachers Both From Bemidji and Towns Represented at Meeting. Next Thursday night at 8 o'clock | the annual meeting of the North Cen- tral Minnesota Teachers” Association! will be begun by a lecture on “The New Duty of the School,” by George E. Vincent, president of the Minne- sota University. This lecture will be delivered in the Armory build- ing. Dr. Vincent is one of the leading speakers of the day. His wealth of thought, beanty of express- ion and unsurpasssed flow of words have assured him a position among the greatest orators and lecturers of the present age. While he will treat of a subject of primary interest to teachers, others will be interested in the personality, if not the speech, of the man. Following the lecture. the Bemidji Commercial Club will give a public reception to Dr. Vincent and visiting teachers in the high school building. Friday morning at half-past nine, convention work will begin in earn- est. All general sessions: will<br ld: in the high school’ assembly room. The program for Friday will be as follows: Music, Sixth Grade Chorus. President's Address, Superintend- ent Geo. E. Keenan, Desr River. “By What Standards Should the Efficiency of a School bz Measured?,” | State Superintendent C. G. Schultz. “What Should be Eliminated in the Smaller School for the Proper Intro- duction of Industrial Subjects?” State High Schogl Institute Director | Geo. B. Alton. Music, Fourth and Fifth Grade Boy’s Chorus. “The Recitation that Counts,” President W. A. Shoemaker, St. Cloud Normal School. “What Advanced Steps along San- itary and Hygenic Lines Should be Taken to Increase the Efficiency of the Schools?”” Dr. H. W. Hill, State Board of Health; S. A. Challman, @raded School Inspector. Friday afternoon, after music by the Primary Grades and a lecture on “Educational Needs and Opportuni- ties,” by Professor C. W. Thompson of the State University, the conven- tion will divide into a number of “round tables” for the discussion of | has already been referred | committee on public buildings and | SEEKS FEDERAL BUILDING Congressman Steenerson Introduces Bill Whereby Thief River Falls Will Be Benefitted COST NOT TO EXCEED $75,000 Congressman _Steex ferson has in- troduced a bill in congtass wherein is provided Ior a federal huilding in the | olty of Thief River Falls. The bill to the| stands a very good show of passing. ‘The -bill provides for a _suitable! building with fireproof’ vaults, *heat- ing and ventilating apparatus, and approaches complete, for the nccom-; modation of the postofiice and other government offices in said city at a| total limit of cost, including site, of 75,000. That the building-wlien construct- ed shall be unexposed t0 danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space’ of at least fortyifeet on each side, including streets apd alleys. tables wll be led by dfferent teach- ers, as follows: g | Grammar Grade Round Table, Sueprintendent I. S. Hov, Bagley, Primary Round Table, Beulah Ben-| nett, Akely; English Round - Table, Rilla Palmer, Thief River Falls; Science and Agricultural Rounq Ta- ble, D. B. Jewell, Dear River; Nor- mal Department Roud Table, Alden Hewitt, Park Rapids; Industrial Round Table, A. D. Bailey, Bemidji; Rural Teachers’ Round; Table, Sup- erintendent W. B. Stewart, Beltrami County. ! Bemidji teachers will' take an im- least one of the high school instrue- tors being slated to appear at each of the round tables. Friday evening the Bemidji corps of teachers will give a special enter- tainment to all visitors. In regard to this part of the program, the circu- lar printed by Supermtendent Dyer | says: ~ea-apecial DrogTain’ Wit e~ given| in the High School Assembly Room by the Bemidji teachers and a gener- al good time provided. Every visitor is urged to be present Leave your dignity at home.” - Miss Marjory Knappen, teacher of the lower Eng- lish Classes in’the RPemidji School hag charge of this entertainment and all the teachers are working hard to make the program a success. Saturday morning ihe convention will reconvene at 9:20 in the high school assembly room. The program for the morning is as follows: Musie, High School Girls. “The Heroic Life,’” Prof. E. T. Reer, Moorhead Normal School. “A Business Man’s Views of a Practical Education,” Constant Lar- son, Alexandria. Business Meeting, report of Com- mittees, election of officers, Miscel- laneous business. All arrangements for the meeting have been completed Ly Superintend- ent Dyer. No School Friday. It has been announced by Superin- tendent W, P. Dyer of the Bemidji various subjects of interest to the teaching profession. These round public schools that there will be no school on Friday of this week, owing to the Teachers’ convention. portant part in these discussions, at | 'PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGE OF ASSAULT | | | Joha Bloke, Accused of Assault in | First Degree, Permitted to Enter | Plea of Guilty in Second | \’SENTENOED BY JUDGE STANTON 1 ‘Wln Rules that Man Who Shot Joe Maloney Must Spend Not More Than Five Years in Prison Says He Was Slightly Intoxicated at Time Pitt Shooting and Feels He Deserves Punishment -That "John Bolke, years old, must serve anindeterminatesentence in the state prison at Stillwater. for having shot Joe Maloney the | shoulder during a rrain row idast November, was the decision.of Judge’ Stanton yesterday when Bloke en-! tered a plea of guilty to assault in | the second degree. This means that | he will be kept at the prison for mnl more than five years. The charge which had been placed against Bloke was-that of assault in the first degree, but for various rea: sons, Graham M. Torrance, county attorney permitted him to plea to a charge of second degr.e. The story of the crime of \vhichi 24 in Bloke is guilty is a peculiar one. On November 17, 1911, he was riding on the Canadian Northera railroad in a passenger coach from Baudette to Pitt, and because of some trouble with the conductor, 25 to his fare, he was asked to leave the train. He started for the docr but as he did o drew _a revolver from his back pocket, and-admits having shot two | or three shots, two of Which entered the roof of the coach and.the other H hitting Joe Maloney in the shoulder, | who was only slightly injured. Following the shooting the train went on to Pitt W‘here Bioke left the train and walked off, being followed | by a crowd from the depct who order- ed him to stop. He 1id so, but just as he did was shot in the ankle by an officer, who claims that he was about to again draw his gun. This Bloke says ig not true Consequently the prisoner - will never be able to use his ankle to any advantage, although may be able to walk with it, it having been so! badly shattered. He has been in the Spooner hospital sinze the shooting, until given a preliminary hearing several weeks ago, before Justice Schmidt. . The penalty for having committed assault in the first degree is a prison sentence of not less than five nor more than ten years. i Bloke admits~that he had been drinking at the time ¢ the affais. Louis N. Parker's' drama, “The Cardinal,” which was used here by Edward Willard, has been revived in London. TABOOED | [WILL PROTECT VISITORS Ordinance Prohibiting Hotel Clerks from Crowding Trains: At last evening’s, session of the city counell, City Attor- |mey P. J. Russell, was instruct- ed to draw up an ordinance providing that all representatives of hotels be prohibited from crowding incoming passenger trains and great- =ly interfering with thcse who leave { GIVEN INDETERMINATE TERM | the varjous trains here The ordinance was passed after Ticket Agent Fisher of the Union Depot and Agent Chamberlain of the Great Northern-had explained to the council what a great niisance this made in dealing with the visitors to the city, and that it would aid them to no little extent if such an ordi- nance be passed. “Why,” said Mr. Fisher, It is getting so a lady or a gentleman can- not step off a train without having some rough man grab for their suit cases and start off toward some sec- ond-class hotel. We do ,not trouble with the men who represent the leading hotels, but simply with the lower class. It makeg a big nui- sance.” S WHITE EARTH INVESTIGATIbN Graham and George to Make First . Hand Investigation. Detroit, Minn., Feb. 6.—In the De- troit.courthouse, near tie édge of the ‘White Earth Indian reservation, Con- gressman J. W.'Graham of Tilinois, and Henry George, Jr., of New York, mittee hearing on the White Earth Indian affairs. In attendance at the {hearing were Major John Howard, successor .to Simon Michelet, as In- dian agent on the reservation, full- i Dloddeq and mixed-blood Iudians who have been mentioned at the hearings in Minneapolis, and northern Minne- sota land and lumber men who are interested. ‘Wieh fifty subpoenis issued for witnesses by Gus Beaulieu and otehr men against whom charges are made by the government, the Detroit hear- the case for the “defense.” Congressman Graham announced today that he and Mr. George would visit the reservation and study the Indian situation at firét hand. 'The two representatives will go among the homes of the Indians and they Wwill be unaccompanied by \govern- ment attorneys, Gus Beaulieu or any other men interested in the hearing. “We have heard stories-of suffering |and privation among the Minnesota Indians,” said <Chalrman Graham. “We are going to ascertain if the stories are true.” SOCIALISTS AT DEVILS LAKE Le Seuer to Make Fight in Third Con- gressional District - Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 6.—The first day of the state socialist gather- ing in this city saw rapid steps to- ward putting congressionaf candi- dates in the field. The socialists ex- pect to make their strong fight in the third congressionnal district and Al- thur Le Seuer was named as the candidate. There are 98 delegates attending the convention represent- ing’58 socialists locals and fully 250 socialists and visitors listened to the discussions today. 'The platform committee concluded its deliberations | this evening after an all day session and will offer the state platform in the morning. 5 N Unable:to Decide on Play After a stormy session of one hour, the Brotherhood of Da¢id which met 1last night in ‘a special session to: de- cide on what play they shall.produce next spring, decided that another week was hecessary to settle the mat- ter, and they adjourned until the regular meeting next AMonday even- ing. After the:routine of business was gone through, the prince took the and the king entered into the | discussion. Three plays have been put-before’the boys by different com- mittees, “Lying Will Out” a four-act] melodrama; “London Assurance,”’ a four-act comedy, and “The Great Um= brefla’ Case,” a ome-nct farce. The ma:oflty of the boys were in favor of ‘the most appro- Council Orders City Attorney to Draw “A BIG NUISANCE,” SAYS FISHER today resumed the congressional com- ! ing promises to be a presentation of | have ! i | SOCIALISTS DEMAND ELECTION JUDGES In Mandamus Proceedings Brought Against City Council This Party Wants “Reason Why” CLAIM THEY WERE IGNORED Cite Sections of the Laws of Minne- sota Which They Claim' Have Not Been Carried Out CASE TO BE ARGUED SATURDAY When City Attorney Russell and At- torney Weber will Appear Be- fore Judge Stanton Mandamus proceedings were brought against the members of the Bemidji city council, whereby they are ordered to show cause why they shall not appoint a Socialist judge in | each of the four wards for the com- ing city election, by the yesterday. - To support their case the Socialists Socialists cite the following portions of Minne- sota election law, which they claim have not been followed by the coun- of the judges, which list was made out on the eighth day of aJnuary. ‘Sec. 228. Judges in cities and villages.—The council of every municipality, at least twenty-five days before any election, shall appoint, three qualifieq voters of each district therein to be judges.” “Sec. 230. Selettion of judges from certified party lists.—At cilmen in their selection tion in any municipality having two or more distrists, the local committees of the several par- ties participating in the preced- ing election may fnrrish to the appointing authorities a list of qualified voters, certified by the clerks of the committees, to act as judges in the several dis- triets.” S The leaders of the Socialists claim that they have complied with all of the above laws, but that the council has not done so, and for titis they demand an explanation. It will be remembered that the judges for the various wards were named at the meeting of the council held on the evening of January 8. At the next meeting, or rather on the day that there should have been a meeting, but there was none, for the reason that there was not a quorum present, the Socialists presented their certified list of those who they wish- ed appointed' judges. 'This action be- ing made more than thirty ddysb8fore the day of election, and according to their views, complying with the laws of the state of Minnesota. Nothing was done 'with the matter until the next meeting of the coun- cil which was held on January 22, less than thirty days Lefore the elec- tion, and because of this_ fact the council refused to do anything with the list. It was following this meeting that the matter was taken before Judge Stanton, and he signed the manda- mus papers requiring the council to show cause as stated above. Judge Stanton will hear the argu- ment on the legality of the council’s action next Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the afternon at Interna- tional Falls, where he is now holding the February term of district court. As the Socialists claim that they are a party which has taken part in at least one preceding election, and that they were impos2d upon, the de- cision of the judge, as (o what action shall be taken ,will be watched wlth much interest. Tn speaking of the matter this morning P. J. Russell the city .at- torney, said. _“When the judges of the coming election Wwere named, the list was madé out without the slightest thought,us to politics, and I could @he politics of more t‘mn one or two of the judges Is. ~The socialists do not cluim thlt they are not satisfied with: all the ludges, but that they want what they are “entitled to.” Clnb Meeting. '.l‘hxs Evomng . jEvery—memher of the Bemidji Com- MINNESOTA HISTORICA:. ® BBCIETY, least: thirty days before an elec- - not for the life of ‘me tell you what -