Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 23, 1912, Page 1

— THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER OLUME 9. NUMBER 224. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1912. : WINNESOTA HISTORICAL S0CETY, TEN CENTS PER WEEK. ROOSEVELT LEADS IN PIONEER VOTE La Follette Second But is Far Ahead Of Others as the Second Choice EBERHART FOR GOVERNOR Distances Gordon by One Ballot With Lee Third—Contest is Very Close MACKENZIE AND STANTON UP Tocal Men Each Mentioned as Being Good Material for State Executive At press time today, Theodore Roosevelt leads all other for the pres- idential nomination on the Pioneer’s straw vote. La Follette was second for first choice, but was given sec- ond place on nearly every ballot cast for Roosevelt. In the state race, Eb- erhart lead Gordon by one vote but Gordon lead Eberhart for second choice by three votes. Among the other names mentioned for president are Wilson, Taft, Cummins, Bryan, Underwood in the order named. For governor, other names votes are Lee, Lind. Stantou, Mackenzie and Peter- son. The Pioneer has printed some ex- tra ballots in tab form, and these are to be placed where they may be reach-. ed conveniently. Readers are urged to turn in their ballots early in order that the work of counting may be lightened. The contest will close a week from tomorrow night, March 2. In the vote being taken by the weekly edition of the St. Paul Dis-, patch, Roosevelt is still leading La | foliette by a safe margin. Debs and | Bryan are both leading Taft. The order of the names is as follows: Roosevelt, La Follette, Debs, Bryan, Taft. Wilson, Clark, Cummins, Har- mon. Folk, Burke, Hughes, Hearst, L nderwood, Foss, and Kern. Straw votes in the Pioneer's cou- test are coming in rapidly and the first tabulation of results will be printed in this paper tomorrow. Those that have come in to date in- dicat~ a strong splitting up of party line= in national politics but a ten- dency to stay with the old parties is noticed in the ballots for choices for governor. H. C. Baer, of the Security bank. and CGeorge Rhea, of the North- orn National bank, have consented to wet ellers of the vote and will cer- tity the tabulation published to- morrow. Organizations wishing to take a straw vote of their members may get proper blanks at the Pioneer office. SPEAKERS NOT AVAILABLE State University Unable to Procure Men for Spring Farmers’ Courses. Otto I. Bergh has received a letter from A. D. Wilson, superintendent of the extension division of the depart- ment of agriculture of the State Un- iversity that he will be unable to sup- ply any more men this spring for speakers to the farmers in this vicin- ity. 1t had been planned to have one speaker here a week in March and one a week in April, but it appears that neither will be able to come. Mr. Bergh had planned on having speakers here to present the subjects of “Land Clearing” and “Building Si- los" sometime during the spring, but the inability of the University to furnish the necessary men will nec- esgitate the postponement of the stu- dies until a more favorable time. Mr. Wilson’s letter is as follows; “We cannot take on any more work this spring as we have all of our men that are hired permanently booked at least through April, and I do not dare to hire any extra men on ac- count of the scarcity of funds.” The latest recruit > vaudeville, & QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, © Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 23.—Thirty officials and employees of the Nation- ton, are said to have been indicted on charges of criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law by a spec- jal federal grand jury here yester- day. * Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—The report of the commission on second class mail matter recommending that the rate on magazines and newspa- i pers be raised from one to two cents a pound was forwarded to Congress yesterday with the president’s ap- proval. ® Big Falls, Feb. 23.—Albert Ship- ley, of Virginia, was here recently looking for a site for a $20,000 saw mill and electric light plant. He states he represents capitalists who wish to place a mill and dry kiln here and also furmish the city with electric lights. A * Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—Pres- ident Taft has informed Congress that he does not approve of Postmas- ter General Hitchcock’s suggestion that the government buy and oper- ate all telegraph lines as an adjunct of the postal system. He favors rate regulation and urges parcel post. * Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—Gen. Pedro Nel Ospino, Columbian minis- ter to the United States, was recalled by the Columbian government yester- day morning because neither his gov- ernment nor the Columbian people uphold his recent action in notifying the state department that the pro- posed visit of Secretary Knox to Col- umbia would be inopportune. « daughter of a night watchman at the Crookston mill, and Dommick Carvo, a musician, were arrested at Fergus Falls yesterday morning. Carvo is charged with the abduction of Miss Carron for immoral purposes. Carvo had been playing an engage- ment at a local theatre and left Wednesday evening with the girl. It is said that she is but sixteen years of age and wished to go on the stage. * Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—The Navy League of the United States, in anunual convention iu this city, held a “peace’’ session this afternoon with a view to impressing upon the public mind its belief that *“an adequate navy is the only guarantee of peace.” President Taft delivered the princi- pal address at the session, which was held in Continental Memorial Hall. The other notable speakers included Read Admiral Wainwright { Charles Francis Adams of Boston. * Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 23.—Bis- hop John H. Vincent, whose home is in this city. celebrated his eightieth birthday anniversary today. Bishop Vincent probably is the most widely known of all the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. For nearly fifty years he has been famous as a pulpit orator, and his work in starting the great Chautaqua move- ment has given him a world-wide standing as an educator. In addition he had exerted unlimited influence through the international Sunday school lessons. He was one of the originators of the uniform lesson system, out of which grew the inter- national series and was for a num- ber of years chairman of the interna- tional lesson committee which se- lects and prepares the lessons which are studied weekly by nearly 25,- 000,000 scholars throughout the world. He is the father of Dr. Geo. Edgar Vincent, president of the Uni- versity of Minnesota. 5 Prof. Herschel C. Parker of Colum- bia university has left New York for Seattle to attempt an ascent to the summit of Mt. McKinley. As governor of Georgia, the Hon- orable Hoke Smith found the unus- ual but pleasant duty laid upon him of signing his own credentials as United States senator. Mrs. Winston Churechill, wife of the celebrated author, is said to be one of the most untiring workers in the New Hampshire campaign for votes for women. She is delivering afternoon and evening addresses, dis- tributing literature and conducting is Robert Edeson. In a condensed version of “Strongheart” he will ap- pear early in February. a house-to-house canvass in various parts of the state. Mr. Churchill is in entire sympathy with his wife’s views on the subject. = [ al Cash Register company, of Day-! Crookston, Feb. 23.—Delia Carron, ! E= = = mTTTIo— AN A0CIATION 70 RESTRA(N THE ové-_R- 00VCTION o e [TTTTHI Government's Investigation of the High Price of Food. CLUB T0 ISSUE BOOKLET | Cass Lake to Publish Pamphlet Ad- vertising Itself as Summer Resort. JAMES DUNN PLEADS GUILTY The advertising committee and the directors of the Commercial club met last night and let the contract for furnishing the advertising book- let which they are issuing to the Collier Lithographing & Printing and | company of Duluth. The booklet {will contain thirty photographs of |scenes in and around Cass Lake and {is intended mainly to advertise the beauties of Cass Lake as a summer resort. The booklet will be more elaborate than anything before at- tempted in an advertising may in this locality. The body of the squaw of Chief i Songa-ge-shij which was found dead on Cass lake across the line in Beltrami county and which was tak- jen to Bemidji for a post mortem ex- amination and coroner’s inquest was returned to Cass Lake last evening and the funeral took place today at the Indian burying ground on the shores of Cass river. James Dunn, who last week plead- ed not guilty to the charge of sell- ing liquor to Indians in Judge Ives” court, has changed him mind and be- ing unable to furnish bail after spending a day or two in the coun- ty jail at Walker went before Judge Wright at Park Rapids, changed his plea and pleaded guilty, receiving a sentence of six months imprison- ment. The firemen at a meeting held last evening elected delegates to at- tend the winter meeting of the Northern Minnesota Fireman’s Tour- nament association which will be held at Grand Rapids next Tuesday, February 27, the call for this meet- ing having been issued by President Peterson of Coleraine. The dele- gates who will represent Cass Lake are: Pat Cain, chief; Chas. E. La- Belle and A. F. Ittner. At this meeting the dates will be set for holding the eighteenth annual tour- nament of the association, the tour- naments usually being held in the month of June. The changing of rules or amendments to be made will also come up at this meeting and it is expected that three delegates will be present from each department be- longing to the association. The ter- ritory taken in by the association at present comprises Park Rapids, Ake- ley, Walker, Cass Lake, Grand Rap- ids, Cole¢raine, which towns have sent running teams to the tourna- ments: and also Bemidji,” Fosston and McIntosh to the west, and Black- duck, Kelliher and International Falls to the north. The tournament i NEW SETTLERS IN MOOSE Farmers Arrive from Austin and Set- ‘tle in County Adjacent To 1 Bemidji "PREDICT GROWTH THIS SPRING George Duffy, Joe“Lewis and Ole Olson, formerly of Austin, Minneso- ta, have bought farms in the town of Moose, Clearwater county, a short distance from Solway. The lands are said to have been purchased through a local agency. H. E. Fredenberg, also from the town of Moose, was in Bemidji yes- terday and said that the town was settling up rapidly. He states that with the approach of spring, many farmers from the southern part of Minnesota and from JTowa are mov- ing to this vicinity in order to get settled before the spring planting season arrives. The majority of those moving in appear to be coming from counties which in the past years have suffered from drouth. The farmers in the country adja- cent to Bemidji state that Beltrami county, together with its neighbor- ing counties, is in the heart of what is destined to be the best dairy and beef district in Minnesota and they are advising their friends in other localities to make their homes here while land may be purchased at a reasonable price. being held in the eastern end this year it is likely that several Range towns will be taken in in order to have more running teams contesting for prizes, thus making the races more interesting. GRAIN GROWERS’ CONVENTION Invitation Issued to Local Farmers To Attend—Date March 6. Farmers of this section of the state are invited to attend a convention of grain growers which is to be held in the Old Capitol in St. Paul March 6, 1912. The invitation includes farm- ers, farmers’ elevator companies, shipping associations, granges, etc. The call as issued states that the convention is not in the interest of any real estate dealer, commission company or booster but solely in the interests of the farmers of the north- west. It further state that speakers of national reputation are to address the gatherings. The call is signed by Ira Chryst, Hudson, Wis.; Magnus Johnson, Kimball, Minn.; C. R. Whit- aker, Hastings, Minn.; W. I. Low- thian, Milbank, S. D.; and A. A. Trovaten, of Fargo, N. D. The Chinese ~postal rates ' are among the lowest in the world. | ! {hard and fast and the FOSSTONWINS THIRD GAME High School Basketball Boys Unable To Overcome Apponents Lead of Six Points FINAL SCORE IS 37 TO 31 In a~game that belong fo either team until the last five minutes of the second half, Fosston defeated Be- midji in basketball at the city hall last evening by a score of 37 to 31. Both teams started the game off with a rush, but Bemidji scored the first basket. Fosston came back immed- iately and soon jumped into the lead. The game was the third of the sea-| son of Bemidji. The second half proved to be ex- citing and brought the crowd to its feet several times. Both teams played score soon stood with but two points separating the teams. Bemidji threw a basket tying the score, but it was not al- lowed as Referee Johnson claimed he had blown his whistle for a foul on Bemidji. Fosston failed on the foul but made a basket putting them in the lead four points. Both teams seemed handicapped by | the slippery floor of the hall but the officials appeared lenient in calling fouls caused by inability to preserve balance. Unnecessary roughness ap- peared at times on the part of both teams, a large number of fouls were called. Contrary to the usual custom, the referee and umpire did not change duties the second half. The crowd seeing the game was a large one and filled the available space. The two captains were the stars of their teams, Ripple making 22 out of Bemidji’s 31 points and Peterson, of Fosston, throwing 13 baskets out of 16 chances. Every man was in the game from whistle to whistle and it was well contested throughout. Wal- demar Johnson, of Bagley, referred and Mayne Stanton acted as umpire. The Duchess of Manchester gets the right to wear the $3,000,000 jew- els left by the dowager duchess. But she can’t own them. That/ would start an ’orrible precedent, don’t y’- know. The advertising value of equal suf- frage campaigns becomes more and more apaprent to the workers at Na- tional suffrage headquarters, where the daily mail is laden with pack- ages of newspaper. clippings from every part of the world containing reference to the states in which such campaigns are pending. The activity of the movement in various countries is becoming so pronounced that in- terest is focussed on the sections where the prospects for success ap- pear to be most favorable. BAGLEY BUSINESS BUILDINGS BURN Blaze Makes Clean Sweep From Hotel .To Mercantile Company’s Brick Block. SIX, ARE SAID TO RE DESTROYED Origin of Fire Unknown But Believed To Have Started in Plant of The "Phone Company TOTAL LOSS OVER $25.000 Figures Considered Conservative and Damage May Prove to be Much Greater Bagley, Feb. 23.—(Special to the Pioneer) :—Fire destroyed six busi- ness buildings and caused a property loss of approximately $25,000 here early this morning. It made a clean sweep of all the buildings between the hotel and brick block of the Bag- ley Mercantile company. The fire was finally controlled by the local de- partment. While the cause of the fire is un- 'i:’éi‘f.;in at the present time, it is ru- mored that it started in the plant of the Bagley-Omega telephone company and might have been caused from de- tective wiring. The building next to the telephone plant was empty, it preyiously having been occupied ag |a feed store, The -fire swept north until it encountered the fire wall of the Bagley Mercantile company build- ing. The buildings destroyed are as fol- lows: Central office of Bagley-Ogema tel- ephone company and also the office and plant of the Bagley “Herald,” published by Jones and Son. Empty feed store. Restaurant. Myer’s pool hall and confectionery stand. Office and plant of the Bagley “In- dependent,” and the United States postoffice. Olsons’ meat market. Direct communication with Bag- ley was destroyed as the burning of the local plant also destroyed the wires of the long distance system. Men were sent from the Bemidji of- fice on the afternoon train and at press time it was announced that communication would be re-establish- ed this afternoon about five o’clock. The fire is said to have been the worst that has visited this town in many years and while the exact loss is unknown, conservative parties place it at about $15,000. It is said that the hotel was saved by its fire wall. COOOOPIOOOOOROROO © LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ¢ POPOVOPOOOOOOOOQ Rome, Italy, Feb. 23.—A royal de- cree for the annextion of Tripoli and Cyrenacia was presented today in the chamber of deputies and senate. . New Orleans, Feb. 23.—Twenty persons were killed and at least three score injured in a cyclone storm which swept through a strip of northern Louisiana and Missississippi Tuesday evening. * Chicago, Feb. 23.—A dispatch from Washington states that Sena- tor Henry Cabot' Lodge has notified the administration that as an inti- mate friend of Colonel Roosevelt he feels impelled to support the latter as a candidate for presidential nomi- nation against President Taft. Mrs. W. T. Johnston, wife of the Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, for many years prominent in the Federation of Women’s Clubs, has laid aside her club work that she may devote her undivided time and energy to the suffrage campaign in her - state. Every county is being systematically organized and earn- est workers are constantly in the fleld. Mrs. Johnston is president of the Kansas Woman Suffrage Assn., and Mrs. Stubbs, wife of the Gover- nor, is its vice-president. | ! | i | | 1