Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 28, 1912, Page 1

MISTORIGA TRAIN IS wmacxlsn EARLY IN MORNING Minnesota and International Put in Ditch at 5:50 a. m,, Near Farley Cars ® R ® SIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ¢ R R R R R oo e e Washington; D, C., Feb. 28.—The feasibility of breeding horses for the {army on Indian reservations was con- |sidered at a conference held at the Department of Agriculture today. Among those participating in the conference were the commissioner of Indian affairs, the chief of the bureau of animal industry and the quarter- master general and a number of other officers of the army. CAUSED BY . BROKEN . RAIL! by Believed Due to Cold Weather Last Night—None Are Known to be Injured SOUTHBOUND PEOPLE TIED UP Brought to Bemidji in Special Car, But Could Not Leave Until Late This Afternoon Several cars of a logging train on the M. & 1. went into the ditch near| Farley this morning about 5:5 The wreck is said to have been caused \)3 a broken rail. The rail is believed | to have been snapped by the cold| weather carly this morning. Because the traffic was blocked by the wreck, the south bound train to| Brainerd and the Twin Cities did not‘ arrive here until late this afternoon and it is not expected to reach Min- neapolis much before midnight. The north bound train to Interna- tional Falls passed through Farley hefore the accident to the logging train s soon as news of the wreck rns\ched the M. & L. office at Nymore, a relief train was sent out and work of clearing up and repairing the track was started at once. Later in the morning, a car was sent out and brought in the people wishing to come to Bemidji. The greater num- ber of the passengers took advantage AT this offer and remained here until | th regular train arrived. The accident is said to have hap- pened but & short distance from where the passenger was ditched something over one month ago. As far as can be learned, the wreck cauged no injuries. HOW GOLD PENS ARE MADE Metal ls Rolled Into a Ribbon and Pen Shapes Are Cut Out by Machinery. Thy tiny tip of white metal seen on the under side of the point of a gold pen may be of platinum, but it is more ilkely to be irldium. Iridium is a very hard metal and it is expensive; it costs about four times as much as gold. The purpose of the iridium tip | is, of course, to give the pen a more durable tip. The gold pen maker buys his gold at the assay office In bars of pure 24 karat gold, which he melts and alloya with his silver and copper to the de- gree of fineness required. Gold of 14 karats 18 used In the manufacture of the best American gold pens, that be- Ing the degree of fineness deemed most sultable for pen use; but good pens made in this country for sale in France are made of 18 karats, the French government requiring that all articles exposed for sale in that coun- | try as gold shall be of not less than | 18 karats. The gold from which the pens are to be made is rolled and rerolled until what was originally a thick, heavy bar of gold has been rolled into a thin gold ribbon about three feet in length by four inches wide. Then this gold ribbon is put into a machine which stamps out of it pen shapes, all still flat. Then on the tip of each of these pens is fused the iridium point, and ! then the shapes go to a slitting ma- chine, which cut the slit in the pen. From this slitting machine the pens go through another, which gives them thelr rounded, famillar pen form, and then the pens are ground and polish- #d and finished ready for use. American gold pens in fountain pens or as dip pens are sold in every coun- try in Europe In competition with pens of British or of German manufacture, and under the same competition they | are sold throughout the world, in South America, Africa, Japan, China, wherever pens are used. Woman's Sense of Honor. Much has been done by our own | higher education and widening field of work, and a woman now despises ‘what used to be by repute her most formidable weapons—a lle, tears and a-gkiliful appeal to the vanity of man. | San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 28.—As & result of a conference held in this city today it appears probable that the organized Progressive Republi- cans of California will drop their sup- port of Senator La Follette and” de- clare for Roosevelt as their choice !for the presidential nomination. | Chester H. Rowell, president of the La Follette League of California, has {set the example by declaring for | Roosevelt and it is believed that the majority of the league members will follow the same course. i Washington, D. C., Feb. 28, —After imore than forty years’ serivce, Col- onel Thaddeus W. Jones, until reecnt- \ly in command of the 10th cavalry | stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, was Iplaced on the retired list today on his own application. Colonel Jones is from North Carolina and was grad- | uated from West Point in 1872. Dur- {ing the Philippine insurrection he {was lientenant colonel of the 48th U. 8. Volunteer Infantry. With this ex- i ception his entire service of forty vears was in the cavalry arm. * i Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 28.—The \\'eflding of Miss Lillian Marie Twit- chell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Twitchell of this city, and Ray Williston Collins, the well known I professional baseball player, took |place today at the home of the | bride’s parents. Mr. Collins, who has been one of the chief reliances of the Boston Americans’ pitching staff since his graduation from the Uni- versity of Vermont two years ago, first met his bride of today when the Boston team came to California for {its spring training last year. | Schenectady, N. Y., Feb, 28.-—Con- siderable interest is manifested in student circles in the annual contests to be held tomorrow evening by the Triangular Debate league, compris- ing Hamilton College, Colgate Uni- i versity and Union University. Each college will be represented by two teams, one to debate at home and the other abroad. The home team in each case will uphold the negative and the visiting team the affirmative of the question, “Resolved, That the Sherman Anti-Trust Law Should Be Repealed.” Columbia, 8. C., Feb. 28.—The Adams-Cochran-Harris faction of the | Republican party in South Carolina has completed arrangements for the holding of its State convention here tomorrow to select delegates to the national convention. The opposing | faction, known as the “Lily Whites” and led by oJhn G. Capers, National Committeeman, will hold its conven- tion later. Both factions eclaim to represent the “regular” Republican organization of South Carolina and the two delegations will fight for re- cognition at the Chicago convention in June. Each faction has declared | 1tself for Taft for President. - Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 28.—In con- nection with the 125th anniversary celebration of the University of Pitts- burgh, the authorities of the univer- :|CANDIDATES’ PLACES| CHANGEMATERIALLY New Count in the Pioneer's Straw Vote Shows Big Shakenp in Both Races LA FOLLETTE PASSES “TEDDY”| i But Roosevelt is Hot on His. Heels With Woodrow Wilson Making A Strong Third. STANTON AHEAD OF EBERHART Bgmidji Man Takes a Big Jump and Lands at Head of Gopher State Nominations F F - & First Second La Follette ... 37 28 Roosevelt 34 11 Wilson .... .. 11 6 Tatt . e s 9 8 Debs .. .. .. 3 o Cummins .. 2 0 Osborne . . 1 0 Bryan ... .. 0 1 Underwood . g I Stanton .. .... 34 6 Gordon .. ... 15 [] - [T 13 11 Eberhart .. .. 11 6 Dunn .. .. .. 9 1 Lund .. 3 0 Lubach .. .. . 2 0 Peterson e 1 1 Smart .. .. .. 0 5 Mackenzie .. ¢ 0 1 Russell ... [ 1 La TFollette jumped ahead of Roosevelt and Stanton distanced all others in the state race, when the resultsjof the votes|cast during the past twenty-four honrs were count- & up in“the Ploneer office at Press time foday. It was.also seen that Bob Dunn, advocate of good roads, had come up from behind and was close on Eberhart’s trail. La Follette now leads Roosevelt for first place by three votes but is second choice on twenty-eight bal- lots while Teddy is second choice on but eleven. Woodrow Wilson is third in the list topping Taft by two votes. This would apparently indicate that the people in this section are gener- ally Progressive in sentiment. In the state race, the relative po- sition of Lee and Gordon and Eber- hart remain unchanged although Lee has cut down . Gordon's lead somewhat and shows an increased se- lection for second choice. Votes for Bob Dunn came in & bunch and a few local names were also scatered in. Interest in communities outside of the city is being awakened and each mail brings in ballots from out of town subseribers. Contrary to gen- eral belief, the women are not tak- ing an active part in the voting. The contest will close Saturday night. vass of the nine counties comprised | ! &1'.1\‘129 \ (Copyright) FILEW ATER METER REPORT |Exerts and Stewart State Their In- vestigations Show Bad Condi- tions of Affairs. i | LARGE PER CENT OUT OF ORDER Some time ago the city council authorized a committee or the city engineer and Scott Stewart to investi- the- water- meter _conditions:in this city. The report was prepared and submitted to the council meeting a week ago. The report shows that about fifteen per cent of the meters of the city are not giving accurate readings. The report is as follows:— To the Council of the City of Be- midji: Gentlemen: Scott Stewart and myself being ap- pointed by the Council to read and 'seal all water meters in the city of Bemidji, accompanied by the present water clerk, Louis Eckstrom desire to report as follows: We have sealed and read all meters in the city of Be- midji that were accessable. In some cases the meters were located where it was impossible to get at them, and ice to & depth of two and three feet, which made it inadvisable to chop them -out as they would not be in running order. Out of 367 connec- tions, we found 56 meters out of or- der and in need of repairs caused by freezing and in some cages the meters were taken off to keep them from freezing. It appears to me that by using ordinary care to protect the in the district, says Roosevelt dele-|meters by putting a box of some kind gates will be named. around it packed with saw-dust or something else and having an air space, it would avoid a lot of trouble CREAMERY MEETING SATURDAY |ang expense repairing meters and al- {sity today conferred the honorary de- {grce of LL. D. upon Dr. Romulo S. Naon, the Argentine minister at Washington. ferred by Chancellor MeCormick in the presence of the university trus- tees and faculty and a large number of guests. The honor was conferred upon Dr. Naon in recognition of his important services as professor of constitutional law and member of Lty of Buenos Ayres, the foremost ed- ucational institution of South Ameri- ca. . Jefterson City, Mo., Feb. 28.-—In- now centered upon the Third Con- gressional distriet, the first in the state to meet for the selection of delegates to the Republican national convention at Chicago. The conven- tion will meet tomorrow at Platts- burz. The outcome will be watched with interest because of the active rivalry for control between the | | | | The writer has often noticed the |fricnds of President Taft and those markedly greater breadth of view and the truer sense of honor among the present-day girl students compared with that which obtained when she herself was a student, and which is still largely that of women of her own age today. An even more strik- ing fact is that the majority of men Ao mot seem to expect as keen a sense of honor from women as they do from themselves. This mental atmosphere has surely a deterrent effect upon the growth of that sense~A Woman Weacher, in London Spectatar, * - of Colonel Roosevelt. make a vigorous fight to prevent the directing the campaign for Taft del- egates and says that the two 'dele- gates selected tomorrow undoubtedly renomination. Jesse E. Tolerton, the governing board of the Universi- |, terest of Missouri Republicans is just [j i dread it, it must be done! | Farmers to Confer Regarding Chang- es to be Made in Association. Farmers interested in the cream- The degree was. con-fery have heen invited to attend a meeting to held in Bemidji Saturday. At this conference it is said some plan is to be proposed whereby ,the present association may be succeed- ed by a new organization and the creamery put on a paying basis. Elsewhere in this issue appears a : communication from J. J. Opsahl re- latl\e to the meeting and plans to !be proposed at that time. t ‘When the Worm Turned. “No power on earth shall make me do it!” he declared, firmly. She ap- proached close to his side. Her eyes Dblazed into his and her lips sneered. “You shall do it! However you You hear me?” . “I refuse utterly! Such a thing 18 unworthy for a man of pride and h®n- or to undertake!” he repeated, draw- ing back from her as from a whip- lash. Quickly she was at his side again, It is known'| gripping his arm with fingers slim, but that the Roosevelt forces intend to.| hard as steel. She slipped ‘a small knife into: his instruction of the delegates for Taft. | hand—a thin,' sharp-pointed . plece of E. L. Morse of Excelsior Springs is|8teel. “There!” she said. His ohstl- nacy ‘was momentarily. driving her to desperation. - Her voice broke with passion, and | she cried, in a'loud, angry tone: “Wil- will be instructed for the President’s } giam Tomkins, if you don’t do what T say and g0 peel those potatoes:at president of the Missourian Roosevelt § once, yowll go to bed -without any, clyb, who has made. a careful gan- {4dinner!”—Puck, : o ey Cariea 8o .give the water clerk some little chance to get the correct amount of water used. As it is ncw the meters are taken off, the water shut off, without notifying the water clerk, which makes it impossible to get it. Our meter readings were taken Jan. 30-31, Feb. 1 and 2, and the city water clerk’s reading were taken about the latter part of December, 1911, 7 I find that out of 367 connections that 90 meters were either under or over read and most of these varied from 1,000 to 5,000 gallons, only in a few instances were there any. ser- ious mistakes, and it is hard to de- termine just how they were made. At Independent school at Eighth street and Beltrami avenue, the clerk’s reading was 143,000 gallons and our realing was 500,680 gallons and the quarterly amount used to January 1, 1912, was 53,000 gallons, according to the reading made Jan. 1st, 1912, !and Feb. 1st, 1912, or one month’s time the amount used.would be 357,- 580 gallons which is unreasonable. or the clerk has made a mistake in reading the meter. -There are only three or four instances like this | where it amounts” to . any great amount. 1 have made an itemized “list of each conenction showing the readings taken January 1, 1912, and February 1, 1912; also showing the ia; in some cases they were covered with } nt {1 KEEK KKK KKK KKK IR &K *_ Band concert followed by dance « at city hall this evening. J. H. i * Nagon, soloist. 4( TR H R KK E KR KKK R K K e pame and street number of each con- | nfifi””n. I have gone over the antlre Im: with Mr. Eckstrom and made the | necessary corrections on the bills that | haye pot been paid up to February 10, 1912 and he has made out new bills for them. For the parties that! hive paid before February 10, 1912} the correction will be made ‘at the| next quarterly payment, April 1, 1912. I cannot understand how you expect your water clerk to get the L amouat of water used by each consumer, when-ihie meters are thken off without notifying him .or the wa- ter shut off at- the curb by other parties than the water commission- er. It appears to me that when ever anything goes wrong with the water or meters that a permit should be ob- tained or that the plumber doing the repairs should be required to notify the water commisisoner, and if a meter is taken out, that he should notify him, giving the dates that it was taken out and also the date that it was replaced. (Signed) WILLIAM EVERTS, SCOTT STEWART. BUY :STREET CLEANERS Council Finally Decides to Accept Bid Made by Austin People Last October STUDEBAKER OFFER IS REFUSED Bemidji has a street sweeper! It also has a sprinkler! Both were ac- cepted from the Austin-Western Manufacturing company at;the meet- ing of the council last Monday even-| ing. The furniture in question has been in the city for several months but the official acceptance did not materialize until the recent meeting of the council. The sweeper costs the city $250 and the sprinkler $340 on bids submitted October 16, This action of the council ends an embarassing situation which started at Fair time last fall. The city was preparing to buy some kind of a cleaning outfit. Some of the “city fathers” saw the Austin outfit at the State Fair and concluded that it was| the kind needed here. The agent was ‘told to send the outfit to Be- Imldlt This was done, but as soon as other agents heard of the. deal, they told the council that it could not pay for the outfit legally, as no bids _had been advertised for. To straighten the tangle, the council advertised for bids, but when they were opened, jt | was found that the Studehlker peo- ple had underbid the’ rAns'fln Deople $10 on the sweeper and $60 on the The meter is therefore out of order|sprinkler. This appeared to ad¢ to the mud- dle 50" the council appointed a com- mitte of Johnson, Mobcrg and Parker to investigate the claims of the rival company and to report onthe outfit best adapted to the necds of Bemidji. This report was presented at the last meeting signed by Jolmsnm’and Mo- of water \ued. aceording to' the It appeared (svornblg FIELD CROPS ARE BIG Minnesota Stands Well Among States In Total Production for the Year 1811 PROF. BERGH COMPILES FIGURES Minnesota stands second in the production of barley, third in the production of oats rye: -and Tourth 1 the nrnu\lamxr or Wheat, flax segd, potatoes and milch cows acS cording to the U. S. Crop reports for.| the year of 1911. The information was compiled by Prof. Otto I. Bergh, of the High school faculty, and shows Minnesota’s standing in comparison with the other states of the Union. “On account of the water condi- tions, principally,” said Mr. Bergh, “Minnesota did not get a first this year in any product, but it will be time by one of our neighboring states which happened to be‘ore fortunate in the matter of rainfall. If the present year is normal, I look for Minnesota to get a first in sever- al products.” The tabulation prepared by Prof. | Bergh is as follows: Livestock 1st 2nd Minn. Horses Towa IIL. 9 805,000 Mules Texas Mo. 31 6,000 Cows Wis. N.Y. 4 1,107,000 Ot'r cattle Tex. la. 9 1,151,000 Sheep Mont. Wy. 25 600,000 Swine Ta. O 11 1,702,000 Field crops No. Bushels Corn L la. 0 176,000,000 ! Wheat N.D. Kan. 4 44,000,000 Oats la. 1L 3 67,000,000 Barley Calif. Minn. 2 28,025,000 Rye Wis. Mich. 3 4,488,000 Flax seed N.D. Ma. 4 3,000,000 Potatoes - Wis. Mich. 4 26,000,000 ARMY STATION ABANDONED But Marine Corps Men Are Still Do- ing Business at Old Stand The recruiting station which has been maintained in Bemldji by the T. S. Army was abandoned last Mon- day and the men in charge returned to their headquarters. The station was opened here last summer. It is said that twenty-five men were en- listed from Bemidji while the force was stationed here. The marine recruiting station is still open, however and men are be- ing examined daily for the service. It is said that of ten men applying during the month of February, only one was accepted, the others being refused because of color blindness or having flat feet. Some Facts You May Not Know. At the Minnedota Experiment Station the increase in yield of oats from grading the seed was 9 1-2 bushels per acre. The average of six years’ experi- ments at the Missouri Station show- ed 16.4 bushels per acre in favor of the heavy seed. 2 The increase at the Towa Station was 15 bushels per acre. ‘At the end of 11 years of grading at the Ohio Station the heavy seed was yleldlng 19 bushels per lcre ‘more than the light. 3 A hint to the wlu sufficient. i DITCH BONDS SOLD Commissioners and Buyers Finally Reach Arrangement Agreeable To All Parties WORKING TEN MONTHS ON SALE Had to Obtain Degision of Supreme Court that Indebtedness Was Primary on County STATE TAKES $50,00 AT 4 Per Cent i - azw Balance Said to Go to Security Peo- ple of St. Paul at 5 Per Cent Due in Twenty Years Bonds to the total amount of $270,000 were sold by the county commissioners = yestertay. Of this amount $270,000 at five per cent are fo be taken by the Security Trust company of St. Paul and $50,000 at four per cent by the state. The bond buyers were given $5,000 for their services. This action comes at the end of a period of teh ‘months during which time a test case on bonds has -been carried to the state Supreme Court. The bonds were agreed to some months ago but the company mak- ing the bid found that they could not market the bonds until the Su- preme Court decided that théy were a primary indebtedness on the coun- ty ag:Wwell-ae on- the- Jdand ediasent to thel diten. = noted that with but onme or two ex-| ceptions, first place was taken each | sppears o 5 3 not to ta Yromi Bondsg Antiithe-attoriey geerti wud-euun- ty “eommissioners had reached some agreement over the expense bill charged up in connection with the Dumas case. This matter was sett- led today temporarily to the satis- Paction of all parties. ‘While the later matter was being discussed by Attorney General Smith with the county commissioners this morning the bond buyers are said to have offered to settle with.the state for the county out of their $7,000. The commissioners opened their eyes at this and finally had the buyers ac- cept $5,000. The buyers also had to stand the expense of the case be- fore the Supreme Court and the printing of the bonds. The $220,000 taken by the Securi- ty people runs for twenty years. while the $50,000 taken by the state comes due in two payments, one in 1917 and one in 1918. This action of the commissioners makes the ditch bond indebtedness of the coun- ty at present about $330,000. DIES OF HEART TROUBLE Joseph H. Condon, Great Northern Operator Passed Away This Morning. Joseph H. Condon, night opera- tor at the Great Northern station, died at an early hour this morning in his home at 514 Fourth street. Cause of death was given as'heart trouble. It is expected that the funeral will take place from the house tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, Rev. S. E. P. White, officiating, and that burial will be in Greenwood. Mr. Condon is survived by a wife and nine children. He had made his home in Bemidji for several years. Mr. Covey, of Bagley, father of Mrs. Condon, was expected to arrive at noon and assist in the funeral. Mr. Condon had been sick for the past two weeks, but his death was not ex- pected. TWO UP IN POLICE COURT Graham’s Case Continued But Indian Gets Fifteen Days James Graham was arrested yes- terday by Officer Denly on a charge of giving liquor to an Indian. Denly stated in police court this morning that he had caught -Graham in the act. The case was brought - before Judge Stmons who had it continued for one week. Charles Bouregard, an Indian, was brought before Judge Simons this.morning on & charge of being dmnk and was glven fllteen dayl