Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 10, 1912, Page 1

" THE BEMI VOLUME 9. NUMBER 242. BIOLOGICAL SURVEY DOING GOOD WORK Because of this Fact it is Generally Hopeq that it Will not be Hamp- ered Because of Lack of Funds ITS SERVICES ARE POINTED OUT Stockman Especially Are Interested in the Matter---Every Dollar Spent Returned 10-Fold AID TO CITIZENS OF COUNTRY Whole Fear is Because Congress is ‘Economically Inclined and That Appropriation Will Be Small Vs = By GEORGE CLINTON. ‘Washington.—Congress being eco- nomically inclined this year there is some fear among the government scientists of the biological survey, the men who work a large part of the time on behalf of the agriculturists of the country, that the appropriation for the survey may not be increased 80 that it can keep up with its fn- creasing work. The truth is that if the appropriation is not cut the mem- bers of the survey probably will be happy. Some years ago members of the house committee on agriculture seemed Inclined to cut out entirély the appropriation for the biological survey. Theodore Roosevelt was pres- ident at that time and his interest In the survey was well known, and it was hinted that it was a desire of the majority of the members of the agri- cultural committee to slap Mr. Roose- velt that led them to consider cutting out the appropriation entirely. ‘When {t was feared that no appro- priation at all was to be made for the survey by the members of the Fifty- ninth congress, news of the fact that the department might pass from lts sphere of usefulness was sent through the country by the Washington cor respondents. The response was in- stant. The malls were loaded with letters and protests from every state and territory. The chiet of the sur- vey had letters of support, and the members of congress heard In pro- test from hundreds of people whom no one supposed from their vocations in life would take any interest im natural history research. All Classes Interested. There were letters by the thou- 2ands also from the farmers and the stock raisers and from the studenmts of ornithology and mammalogy who had benefited by the palnstaking work of the naturalists whose headquarters are in Washington, but whose homes, when it {8 possible, are in the flelds and the woods. The weight of pub- He opinfon was felt by congress, and an interest was aroused among mem- bers who barely knew that there was such an institution as the biological survey. It might be asked what the biolog- fcal survey does to benefit the coun- try. Instances of its service are not difficult to find. The stock-raising in- terests of the western states suffer losses—or rather have suffered until recently—to the amount of about $12, 000,000 yearly through the depreda- tions of wild animals—wolves, coyotes and cougars. Pofson was the {nstrument em- ployed to kill the predatory animals. Strychnine was the means of death, and while it costs thousands of dol- 1ars a year, it was by no means effica- efous. The stockman complained that the wolves bred In the forest reserves and that the government’s policy of reserves was In a large measure re- sponsible for the increase in the sumbers of the ravening packs. This argument was used to com- bat the forest reserve plan of the government. Vernon W. Balley of the blologlcal survey went west and studled the wolf question. He found that the wolves did not breed in the forest reserves in large numbers. He located their breeding places, and In As report told the stockmen how to rld themselves of the pests without the necessity of resorting to the cost- 1y strychnine polsoning process. The reports show that the wolf work of the survey already has saved the stockmen many times the amount of money that the government supplies yearly for the support of the survey. Other Good Work In Hand. The sclentists today are engaged in the work of checking the depredation of the ground squirrels of the far west and northwest. The annual damage that these animals inflict on growing crops is estimated at $10,000,000. Nearly half a million is spent each year by the afflicted states in fight- ing the pests. The biological survey 1s at work on a plan for the extermin- atlon of the squirrels, a plan that promises success. One of the labors of the scientists of the survey has been to show the different states how the full benefits of game protection may be obtained, and how the game in each state may be made to yleld an important annual revenue. Illinois alone, as a direct pesult ot information from the biolog: | I ly momentous session. {ed trom Chlcago, Omaha, Milwaukee, |row, having been born on February Auckland, N. Z.,, Fed. 10— The New Zealand parliament assembled today for what promises to be a high- Neither par- ty as a result of the recent elections, has a large enough majority to carry on the affairs of the country. As a consequence the early fall of the Ward ministry is expected. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 10.—Interna- tional Bowling Association officials have completed the final details of arrangements for the annual tourna- ment, which will open in thig city tomorrow night and continue for ten days. The entry list is the largest in the history of the association. In- dividual and team bowlers are enter- Dubuque, Des Moines, Superior, Win- nipeg, Edmonton and a number of other cities of the Northwest and Canada. . West Orange, N. J., Feb. 10.— Thomas Alva Edison, the famous in- ventor, will be 65 years old tomor-| 11, 1847. It is said that no special plans will be mane for the celebra- tion of the anniversary and the in- ventor will probably observe the day in his customary manner. Two great problems at present are uppermost in Mr. Edison’s mind. One is the pro- motion of his scheme for concrets houses and furniture and the other is «he perfection of his storage battery car, whiih he hopes soon to secj adopted for automobiles and street railways. i Atlanta, Ga.,, Feb. 10.—Hundreds {of visitors throngeq the aisles of the Auditorium today and admired the latest product of te mothor car ma- kers at the opening of Atlanta’s sec- ond annual automobile show. The exhibition is given under the auspic- es of the Atlanta Automobile and Ac- cessory Dealers’ Association and is said to be the largest and most rep- resentative diplay of its kind ever seen in the south, The show will continue through the coming week. * Springfield, 111, field, the home of coln, customary celebration next Monday of the anniversary of his birth. Th» most notable feature of the observ- ance will be a bapquet under the auspices of the Lincoln Centennial association. The principal speakers at the banquet will be Senator ‘Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Repre- sentative Frang B. Willis of Ohio. Feb. 10.—Spring- Abraham Lin- fcal survey, has added to its in- come annually $125,000. The state of Missouri has benefited to the ex- tent of $50,000, and more money will eome to it if it follows more closely the directions which it can get gratin from the government officials. Not the one-tenth part of the good that the blological survey has done and Is doing has been® set downm here. The survey needs more money to carry on its fleld work. Every dollar spent means dollars returned to the people, and yet it is possible that congress will not be willing to grant the small additional sum which the sclentists this year ask that they may enlarge the field of their good work. The farmer is the man said to bo benefited most directly by the bie lozical survey, To Try Kaufman Murderers. Chicago, I11., Feb. 10—The trial of the four men who are accused of the murder of Mrs. Edith Kaufman, who was shot to death on the street near her home on the night of December 2, is scheduled to begin before Judge Kersten in the criminal court Mon- day. The murder of Mrs. Kaufman occurred while she and her husband, who is a prominent Chicago commis- sion merchant, were on their way home from the opera. The coupic were held up by four men who alighted from an automobile. Mr. Kaufman showed resistance and one of the robbers opened fire on him. The bullet struck his wife, however, and she was instantly killed. The men to be placed on trial for the murder are George Rabenau, John Stacey, Fred Boneham, and Wil- liam R. Channell. Boneham and Channell were arrested a few days after the crime, the first named in Chicago and the last-nameq on his sister's farm down the state, where he was in hiding. Both are said to have confessed to their part in tho tragedy and to have declared that Rabenau fired the shot that killed Mrs. Kaufman. The information which they gave to the police led to the capture of Rabenau and Stacey in Los Angeles on December 31. Ac- cording to the alleged confessions the four young men stole the aute- mobile and then started out to en- gage in a “stick-up’’ job, as they call- ed it. Mrs. Kaufman wore numerous jewels and- it is believed that these| first attracted the attention of tne Tobbers as they passed the couple in the automobile. It certainly is the bottom than better to begin at to end there. has completed plans for itsj._ BEMIDJI QUINTETT SWAMPS AKELEY High School Boys Easily Defeat Visit- ors From Hubbarq County Piling Up Score of 30 to 7. GAME FULL OF FEATURES Five From Here Show Up Well In Championship Contest and Team Work Responsible for Victory. PECK’ WAS STAR OF EVENING Big Bemidji Centre Secured Over Half Of Home Team Scores and Out- Classes Opponent. In a basket with school ball game complete features, the Bemidji high boys casily defeated those from Akeley, the score being 30 to 7 The game started off with a rush and before Akeley knew that they were in a contest, Bemidji had scorerl three field goals. Never has a school five of this city played hasket ball as it was played by the pupils of Coach Robinson last evening. They were in the game and after the ball from the first blow of the whistle, and the fact that only one field basket wag thrown by the visitors during the entire contest shows that Be- midji played an exceptional defensive game. Akeley secured each of its points, AMfl@EAfl@N = ALIZATICA i LIMIT CONTINGENI FUND Attorney General’s Office Declares County Attorneys t_}lmmt Ex- " ceed $1,000. with the exception of the lonely field { BEARING ON nm.mnn CASES goal, and one point which was award- ed them because of a foul which was committed by a Bemidji guard as an Akeley man was attempting to throw a basket, from successfully throwing |date publishes the foll four-out of ten fouls. For_Akeley Foley at guard, played gpinion Was givew:s 2 good game, although inclined to bel iy efforts of‘the County Attorney cl EOSSRERE oy - The Minneapolis Journal of this o ing opinion ,F office. The rosult o of the Attorney Gene' rather rough, he at one time com- Hennepin County to investigate al- pletely lost hig head, and Was|jeged criminal matters in Minnea. cautioned by the referee that unless polis. he stopped his tactics he would be withdrawn from the contest. The|jiam J. Stevensom, in the Assistant Attorney General Wil- opinion, other men from the Hubbard county | gaiq. town seemed completely lost, and at no time play equal to the Bemidji quint. Peck, “While the county must usume the during the game did they}fnancial burden and responsibility of apprehending offenders, and pro- the ~heavy Bemidji centre|gecuting: for crimes committed with- was the particular star of the even- in its borders, the legislature does ing. peatedly threw field goals when it seemed that he was perfectly guard- ed. In all he succeeded in making 16 out of Bemidji’s 30 points. The fact that Bailey, Bemidji’'s clever midget forward could only find the basket for one field goal, was merely because he was constant- ly guarded by Foley, his large op- ponent, who was after him all the time, which made successful basket throwing an impossibility. However, the little fellow was in every play and his frequent feeding of the ball to Pect, largely resulted in that play- er's many field goals. Captain Rip- ple, for Bemidji, played a game which places him among the very best for- wards of Northern Minnesota, and his free throws from fouls were constant- ly drawing applause from the 200 spectators. B Achenback and Ryan at the guard positions for Bemidji filled them as _|they have not been filled in Bemidji since the days of the old Big Bemidji aggregation, and the fact that only one basket was registered ~against them proves them masters of their positions. The lineup:— Bemidji Akely rf.---Bailey Dunphy | Cohen Lamois Anderson rg.---Ryan Foley | Field baskets, Ripple 1, Bailey 1, Peck 8, Achenback 1, Anderson 1. Fouls thrown: Ripple 6, Foley 1, Lomios 3. Referee, Miss Olson of Akeley. Representative 0'Neill i Bemidji ' Representative D. P. @Neill of Thief River Falls, returned to his| home this morning after having spent. yesterday and teday in Be- midji attending the Teachers’ Con- vention, which came to & .close unis morning. . The representative 'was accompanied by Superintendent J. H. ! Hay of the Thief River Falls schools, Lycan and Brooks, Delegates. Acting upon imstructions of the Bemidji Commercial Club to appoint two delegateg to the State . Federa- tion of Commereial Clubs to be held in Minneapolis February 20 and 21,{modeled, uew~!urn£tln'e having been """' the omas: J. Burke has nam-{ instailed ‘i President ed Frank Brooks. Lycln and. He was every where, and re-|;ot seem’ to have contemplated that the county attorney should have even the implied power to pledge the cred- it of the county in excess of his con- tingent fund for expert or extra as- sistance to determine if a crime has actually been committed, or wio might be the perpetrator thereof, or his whereabouts. No Duty to Ferret Crime. * “Except for the act authorizing the contingent fund, the county at- torney is not given the duty of fer- reting out crime ang, criminals; the office created by the legislature is not endowed with any of the rights or duties of a common law office, and has only ‘statutory powers.” After quoting' the statutes on the county attorney’s duties, the opinion continues: ‘“From none of the foregoing can it be claimed that there is any express or!implied duty resting upon said of- fiters, either- to go oui personally ang investigate. crimes or engage otherg to do so.” ' From this opinion it would seem that our County Board used the good judgment in thus far hesitating to allow bills presented tirough the Attorney General’s office, against this county, forIncidental Expenses. incurred by the state officials’ in in- vestigating criminal cases last year in this county. From the above it would seent; that the Attorney General’s office ig2 of the opinion that the total expense to be incurred by the County Attorney, outside of the ‘actual trial of crimina1 cases, cannot exceed $1,000 in any one year. KING TAKES CHARGE OF REMORE Was Until Recently Manager of Browxe Dairy Lunch Levi King, who during the past two years has managed the Browne Dairy Lunch, in this city, today took charge of theimanagement of the. re- modeled Remore hotel and cafe. .\ Mr. King is'‘a competent hotel and restarirant ‘man -of much experleme his nbw enterprise in which: will command patronage. The Remore hotel was recently. r: 1 “the! rooms and the dgr:o‘nx extensive 2009 OPPOOPOOGQPRPIOSGS < If the party who addressed a % @ communication to this office over {© the signature of “A Father and ® Tax Payer” will either call, ® phone or write the editor of the @ Pionneer over his name, we +© should be pleased to direct him © into the proper channels for an | & explanation. (AKX A2 A E X R R =2 2 R RN 006000066 3 THREE CORNERED FIGHTS Prmnt'A]demen Who Seek. Re- Least Two Candidates. s WITH EXCEPTION OF SMART That the coming municipal elec- tion in Bemidji will be exciting by the fact that there will be a three- cornered fight for the office of alder-| man in all of the wards, with the exception of the one in which Tom Smart is seeking re-election, there is no -doubt. With the announcement of R. E. Miller yesterday that he would op- pose W. N. Brown, places two candi- dates: against the present fourth ward office holder, while Klein in tke first, and Roe in the thirt, are op- ,posed by C. G- Johnson and C. A. Parker, respectively. Each of the candidates will also be opposed by a Socialist candidate. BIG FALLS WOMEN DIED FRIDAY Mrs. John Zacharias Dies After Illnmfer of the sixth grade. 2 Of Two Weeks. Mrs. John Zacharias 27 years old, died yesterday afternoon at her home in Big Falls, from blood poisoning, following an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Zacharias is the wife of John Zacharias, who is connected with the Bradley Timber company in Big Falls. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Lahr undertak- ing rooms, Rev. Charles H. Flesher, officiating. Mrs. Zacharias is survived by her husband and two children. Rutledge To Travel A. G. Rutledge, secretary-treéasur- er of the Northern Minnesota, Edi- torial assoclation, who for the past few months has been editor of The Sentinel at present has charge, 28 Tepresentative of the Marcum Print- mg Co., of the distribution of a | booklet setting forth the advantages of Beltrami county and which is to be published under the sanction of the Bemidji Commercial club. This work . will carry Mr. Rutledge tb every town in the country. y ~ Jewish Historical Sociéty. Boston, Mass,, Feb. 10.—Many noted Jewish scholars and educators luve arrived in Boston to take part in me twentleth - umul meeting of |AS DOES THE ONE ACT FARCE ithe staff-of instructors of Bemidii. TEACHERS ENTERTAINED Excellent Program Given by Bemidji Faculty for Visiting Instructors— Orchestra Makes Hit Last evening at the Teacher’s con- vention. was given up to the enter- tainment.of the visiting teachers by “The program which'had been ar-| ranged was begun by a Ladies’ Quar- tette composed of Mrs. W. P. Dyer and Misses Ethel Murray, Mable ‘Wheeler and Marjory Knappen. The quartette was repeatedly applauded and responded several times. Miss Clark, teacher of the third grade, then gave a recitation entitl- ed “The Widow.” Miss Clark’s se- lection was very humorous and she wag encored enthusiastically. The next number ‘was a selection by the teachers’ ‘orchestra. With the assisi- ance of muffled instruments and a phonograph, the teachers delighted their audience by their production of high class music. Miss Marjory Knappen acted as director for the orchestra, but the convention was uncertain whether she was a snake- charmer or a circus acrobat. 1 One of the features of the evening was a one-act farce. The actors ‘were Misses Backus, Bickford, Lyons, Grest -and Johnson and Mr. A. D. Baliley. The program was concluded by “The Humanophone” which = was played by Miss Mable Wheeler, teach- When this en- tertainment was done, the teachers retired to the second floor, where they laid aside their dignity and ev- erybody had a good time: There was no formality but the gef-to-gether meeting was successful to the high- est degree. Girls of the high school cooking clasg served sherbet and la- dyngers in the eighth grade gram- mar room adjoining the superintend- ent’s office. GIVES POTATO SHIPPING PRICES General Manager Molander Forth New Tariff. Sets General Manager A. L. Molander of the Minneapolls, Red Lake and Manitoba railroad has prepared a new tariff sheet covering the ship- ping of potatoes over his line in car load lots. ‘The rate per hundred from Warn- er to Bemidji is three cents. From ‘Nebish to Bemidji thre and one-half cents and from Redby to - Bemidji four cents. Many of the potato ‘growers in’ this section of the coun- ty tributary to the Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba road express themselves as much pleased with the new tariff. * Go To International Falls: ttorneys P. J. Russell and Weber le!t this morning for !ntar tional Without' courage, conacien .on—y nut.-—-aeorn Meredith TEN CENTS PER WEEK UNIVERSITY MAN TALKS T0 TEACHERS Professor C. W. Thompson Says, “That We Must Adjust Our- selves to Two Worl OF NATURE AND OF HUMANITY Music Drill by Eighty-two Primary Youngsters Brings Forth Much Admiration. ROUND TABLES ARE GIVEN At Which ‘Special Features of School Work Were Interestingly Dis- cussed by Instructors Sharply at 2:15 yesterday after- {noon the Teachers' Assoctation re- convened in the high school assembly {room for the afternoon session of their convention. Primary Music a Feature The program was opened by & mus- ical drill by 82 primary pupils of Bemidji. The plan was that each group of children, attired in a man- ner befitting to their number, should come forward on the platform, sing their song, and then retire to the back of the stage, where they waited until all of the little singers were there with them. At the end the en- tire chorus sang in unison. Y This plan worked perfectly. The youngsters were frequently applaud- ed, and when the entire drill was done, there were many plaudits for Miss Ethel Murray, who traineq the children and conducted this part of the program. The program for this drill follows: —ten little girls, Robin Red Breats; six ‘little girls, October Party; three-girls and - six-- boys, | Thanksgiving Song; five girls and four boys, Holy Night; eight first graders, The Eskimos; four boys, Lit- tle George Washington; three little girls, Spring Song; Vera Cutter, Solo; nine girls, Dandelions; - six Sweet Peas. Especially worthy of note in thig drill was the solo sung by little Vera Cutter. This little soloist is eight years old and in the second grade, but her voice carried beautifully, and she accomplished her part without a single break-down. In “Holy Night,” one of the little boys, Louis Brown, accompanied his school-mates on thc violin while they sang. This, too, called forth mach admiration and ap- plause, University Man Talks. The only speech of the afternoon ‘was given by Professor C. W. Thomp- son of the Economics Department of the Minnesota University. The gist of Prof. Thompson’s lecture is as fol- lows:—There are two world’s to which we must adjust ourselves if we are to be successful and happy, name- ly, the world of nature and the world of humanity. In order to adjust our- selves to the first of these we must, first, learn Nature’s laws; secondly, obey them. Primitive man knew the force of nature only.as powers of de- struction, but the beginning of hu- man history was when “somewhere in the dim dawn of human beginning there came into man’s mind a desire to turn upon Natures’ world. and to turn these t0 some human use.” In order to. win out in the world of hn- manity we have two paowers which are the normal 4nd mental fuculties. ‘We have too assist us in finding a so- cial balance institutions such as the church, schools, clubs and other or- ganizations. “The great underlying idea of American democracy is a place of moral equality,” and to es- tablish this more perfect adjustment is the object of civilization and edu- cation. Round Tables Are Given. After this lecture the convention broke up into a number of round tables, at which special features of school work were discussed by the ‘teachers. This round-table program ‘was follows: Grammar Grade Round Table, Supt. I. S. Hov Bagley; Prim- ary Round Table, Beulah Bennett, Akeley; English Round Table, Rilla Palmer, Thiet River Falis; Science and Agricultural, D. B. Howell, Deer River; Normal Department, - Alden Hewitt, Park Rapidn. Industrial’ Round 'l‘lhlb, A, O. Bailey, Bemidji; Rural Teachers, County Superintend- ent W.B. suwm Bemidji. WINNTSOTA 18TORIGAL SOCIETY, girls - Z o