Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 29, 1912, Page 1

"THE BEMI Jl D_ i "VOLUME 9. NUMBER 258. : BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY TEN CENTS PER WEEK. TAFT CATCHES UP WITH T. ROOSEVELT Pioneer Vote Today Gives Him Equal Number for First but He Lags On Second LA FOLLETTE BUT ONE BEHIND'the Nearly Overtakes Leaders as Primary Choice But Has Big Lead in The Other Column DUNN JUMPS PAST THREE Leaves Eberhart, Gordon and Lec Be- low on the Governovship Ballots First Second 15 1 29 Roosevelt Taft i La Follette .. Wilson . . . Debs .. .o o 14 0 Cummins . 2 0 Peterson, Viggo o 1 Clark .. 3 1 Bryan .... .. ! 1 Underwood . . { 1 [ Stanton .. ... kRl Dunn .. ..... E 5 Eberhart .. .. 26 6 Lo, . i P 12 13 Gordon .. ... P4 Lind Lubach ., Peterson ) Grant, J. H 1 smart .. ... “ 5 Russell ...... s 4 1 1 Mackenzie . . g Taft and Roosevelt (fed for Tt first IS tlie FestH-ot © spmt-tn tie' cago 1s using 4,000 cubic feet per séc: O R O R IR IR ORI ORI} OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ¢ PEP IO OO GR ; Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 29.— By lorder of the state board of health, all !public drinking cups, towels and combs will be abolished after today {on all trains and in all railway sta- tions in Missouri. . Crookston, Feb, 29.-—Fire in the St. James hotel yesterday afternoon destroyed about $100 worth of prop- ferty. The building is just north of Finch-Winslow-Carlisle whole- sale grocery house. St. Paul, Feb. 29.—St. Paul tall- ors announce that high water trous- ers are to be the style for men dur- ing the coming vear. 1t is said that the most down to date trousers will reach only to the instep. Washington, Feb. 29.—The feder- al bureau of labor will make an im- _mediate investigation of the wage and working conditions of the textile |mills at Lawrence, Mass. A repre- sentative from Washinkton left yes- terday for the strike-ridden city. . Duluth, Feb. .~—Mareus B. Cul- lum will cease to he mayor of Du- {luth at midnight tonigit. The new mayor. Dr. J. A. McCuen, assumes [the relgns of government Friday wmroning. He states that he is not ready as yet to announce his appoint- ments. * Washington, Feb. 20.—F. J. Mc- ( Rae, expert accountant employed at the Stanley steel trust committee, re- | ports that the books of the steel i trust show that J. P. Morgan and | company received nearly $70,000,- 000profit for organizing the steel Itrust. He also found that the cor- ! poration controls 80 per cent of the {iron resources of the country as ‘against 60 per cent which Judge Gary and H. C. Frick told Roosevelt !the trust owned. Washington, Feb. 28.—Arguments by the city of Chicago for the allow- ance of increased water from Lake ! Michigan into the Chicaso drainage {canal were heard by Scerctary of ar Stimson today. At present Chi- Pioneer straw vote by the friends ofiond but wants the right to use 10,- the present president; second choice for fifteen while Taft is second for ten so that Roosevelt is at the head of rhe lizst. The votes that have come to the Pioneer for the past twenty-four hours have becn for Taft in a great m The spurt of Woodrow Wilson als appears worthy of notice as he is but ten votes behind the leaders today. Kugene Debs has also come up from the bottom rapid 50 that it appears some Socialists are voting in spite of the order from the Bemidji local. La Follette appears as a strong third. In the state vote, Stanton retains his lead but appears close pushed by Rob Dunn who has jumped to second | place over Giordon, Lee and Bherhart. | IZberhart has also passed Lee and Gordon apparently indicating that the friends of the governor are com-| ing fto his rescue. Gordon has drop-! ~d down fourth place and Lee to] fifth. Votes have been coming to the Pioneer office in increased quantitis the past two days, the majority com- ing from districts out side of the city. It appears that farmers are taking a big interest for many of the votes r ceived are from the blanks of the Weekly Pioneer. The contest is (llu‘i to stop Saturday night. ) Among the scattering votes cast Viggo Peterson, of the hoard of coun- ty commissioners, received one se ond choice for president; W. R. Ma; kenzie one second choice for gov or; P. .J. Russell four second choices for governor; Tom Smart five second choices for governor; and Dr. C. I.| Larson, one second choice for govern- | or. Ballots may be obtained at the Pioneer office or the Markham hotel. A locomotive with ten cars must travel five miles before it can attain a speed of a mile a minute. But at this speed it can be halted by air-| brakes in 700 feet. ] In building automobiles to order to fit purchasers manufatcurers use a framework, in which the seat, foot- board and steeding wheel are adjust- able to various positions. ! A mnew British ship, the Hilde- brand. has been built in such a way that mosquitoes caunot get inside through the portholes, ventilators or doors. 1t will ply to Brazil. Hamilton Wright Mabie: “Christ ~eemed to be always touching the fu- ture. The descent of the dove and the declaration of the voice from heaven at the baptism; the myster-| ious temptation; the transfiguration; 1le ministry of angels in Gehtsemane —=all these events and many others revealed the far-reaching spirtual associations and revelations of his lile, and prophesied the resurrection and the ascension.” tosevelt is| | takes up any dirt or 200, Representatives from other ilake cities, on both American and | Canadian sides, state that the lake is ! alveady below normal and that every | foot the level is lowered means an jannual loss to shipping of about 1$100,000,600 Peoria, repres 1L, Feb. 29.—Delegates nting the branches of the | Young Men’s Christian Association throughout Illinois have assembled here in force for the annual state convention, which opens tonight with addresses by Chancellor Frank Strong of the University of Kansas and the Rev. Dr. William J. William- son of St. Louis. The {wo days’ pro- gram is one of the best ever prepared for a meeting of the organization in this state. A notable feature will be a dinner at the coliseum, at which 1,000 men are expected to attend. . Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 29.—Stock- holders of the Vacuum Oil company, a former subsidiary of the Standard Oil company, voted at a special meet- ing here today in favor of the propo- sal to increase the company’s capital stock from $2,500,000 to $15,000,- 000. It is stated that the purpose of {the increase is to take care of $8,- 000,000 indebtedness to the Stand- ard Oil company of New Jersey and further finance the company. 1t is also in line with the announced poli- cy of the former subsidiaries of the Standard Oil company to increase their capital stocks to correspond more closely with their assets. . Minneapolis, Feb. 29.—A patented device for quickly ascertaining the cleanliness of milk was today sup- plied City Milk Inspector John H. Lyle and Assistant Inspector Frank Johnson and they believe it will ma- terially reduce the number of bac- teria tests mnecessary and expedite prosecutions. The device is a metzal bottle with {a wire strainer and absorbent cotton wads in the top. By foreing air in- to the chamber after the milk sample has been poured in, the milk is forced through the cotton which unusual sedi- ment. Where tests show that the milk is dirty, the dealers will be ar- rested and without the formality of the regular bacteria test will be summoned into court on charges of selling adulterated milk. On an average the Scotch are the tallest men in Great Britian, the Trish next, the English third and the Welsh last. Phillips Brooks: “Only to find our duty certainly, and somewhere, some- how do it faithfully, makes us strong, happy and useful men and tunes our lives to some feeble echo of the life of God. 7 | from_the, county. attorney’s contifg: | | can achieve them.the right and noble ATTORNEY GENERAL RECALLS HIS BILL Was Presented to Board of Com- missioners For Nine Hundred - Dollars for Dumag Trial WAS NOT PROPERLY ITEMIZED Smith States New One Will Be Pre- pared to Agree With Law in Form and Fact VICTORY FOR BELTRAMI COUNTY Janes Tried to Collect the Sum By Order From One of the District [ Court Judges Lyndon A. Smith, attorney gener- bill of the/| state against Beltrami county for in-|{ cidental expense in the Dumas trial. | The bill amounted to about $900. 1it! is safd"that it was not dvawn up in’! legal form and contained items not| allgwable. Mr. Smith stated that his| office wvould draft a new bill and pre- sent’it>at the mext meeting. of the| commissioners. * The first bill was presented to the | board ny *fisistant Attorney General Janes who insisted on its allowance At that time the board took | ontlie claim at is avas in- the_county attérney that roperly. itemized and_in legal foj A motion to-allow and one to afeallow wete made but neith- er was se¢onded. Mr. Janes appear- ed then to abandon-his attempt to collect through . thé ' commissioners | and has since unsuccessfully attempt- ed to secure an-order for its-payment al, has withdrawn the ent fund from one of the District court judges. Attorney General Smith stated to the commissioners that the bill was not in proper form nor properly item- ized and that he would attend to the matter at once. He further pointed out that there might be a quesion as to the liability of the county for such expenditures incurred by his office and that if the commissioners! were in doubt, to disallow the bill and allow the matter to be tested in the courts at once. In doing this, he said the commissioners would be do- ing him a favor as until that point was ruled upon, he had some hesi- tancy in again going into a county and incurring expense as his conting- ent fund was limited. From the action taken by the at- torney general, it would appear that the county officers have been right in their refusal to pay the presented Dbill. .t is believed that the action of the board will secure a substantial ing to the county when the mat- or is finally settled. “THIS IS MY 40TH BIRTHDAY” * Captain Cuthbert James Captain Cuthbert James, promin- ent among the colonial administra- tors in the British service, was born February 29, 1872, and is a son of the second Lord Northbourne. After completing his education at Oxford University he became an officer in the British army in 1894. Five years later he joined -the Egyptian army, and distinguished himself in the White Nile expedition against the Khalifa. The next year he was appointed administrator of Wadi H " gained in the election of a legisla- Halfa. Since 1900 Captain James ture and four out of the fire repre- has served successively as deputy assistant civil secretary of the Sudan government, as assistant financial secretary of the Egyptain army and as one of the assistant directors of the ministry of the interior of the Egyptain government, Congratulations to: William Drummond Hogg, a Ben- cher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and one of the leaders of the Canadian bar, 64 years old today. Rear Admiral French E. Chad- wick, U. 8. N.. retired, 68 years old today. x Frank Gavan Duffy, distinguished Australian lawyer and a lecturer at the TUniversity of Melbourne, 60 years old today. Northern European forests consist MR RN i\\\\ N W WHICH ONE? (Convright.) EINA, MENA, MINA, Mo- Band Soloist Well Received, Especial- ly In Rendition of “Oft Thru The Night” REGULAR DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT J.'H. Nason delighted a fair sized audience last_night with his songs midji band. “Oft Through the Night” was especially weii received preter as well as a singer. cert but the regular Friday night band dance will be held in the city hall tomorrow evening. It was an- nounced last night that another con- cert would be given some time dur- ing the month of March and that a minstrel show will be given shortly after Easter, with April 11 and 12 selected as the tentative dates. Harry Masten, director of the band, has accepted a similar position in Grand Forks which will take him thére about April 1. He said last {night that arrangements were being made for another leader to come to Bemidji and take charge of the band and that the orchestra would also be kept up. WEST VIRGINIA UNCERTAIN Was All for Taft, but Delegation May Go to Roosevelt. “Parkersburg, W. Va., Feb. 29.— Republican leaders representing nearly all of the counties of West Virginia assembled in conference here today to discuss the course to be followed in the coming national and state compaign. So far as:the state ticket this year is concerned the party leaders feel that an energetic campaign will result in a Republican victory, notwithstanding the confi- dence felt by most of the Democrats that they are going tb sweep the state and add to the advantages they sentatives in 1910. Considerable uncertainty appears to surround the attitude of the Re- publicans in regards to the president- ial nomination. Until the past few weeks it was generally supposed that little or no opposition would devel- op and that the West Virginia dele- gation would cast its votes for the re- nomination of President Taft as a matter of course, The La Follette candidacy, even when at its flood- tide, appeared to make little impres- sion upon the Republicans of this state. Roosevelt, however, has al- ways had many admirers and .sup- porters in West Virginia and it is re- ported that today’s- conference was called with a view to crystallizing the Roosevelt sentiment. This 're- port is strengthened by the fact that almost entirely of white and pitch|the call for the conference was issued pine, ‘of which nearly 70 per cent is! white. Massinger: “Man was marked a friend in his creation, to himself, and may with fit ambition, conceive the greatest blessings and the high- est honors appointed for him, if he from the office of Governor Glasscock, who is an ardent Roosevelt man. In a statement issued last month Govegn. or Glasscock. declared that a careful canyass of the political situation in West Virginia had convinced him that the people of the state are over- whelmingly for Colonel Roosevelt for way.” the Republican presidential nomina-| NASON PLEASES AUDIENCE!: ° * sovar o s * & and showed Mr. Nason was an inter-| | No dance was held after the con-|Glausen vs. J. A. Irvine company ap- {parently did not prove his case in POOBVOPROOOOOOO®®E® Final proof of homestead was made | with Clerk of Court Rhoda this af- ternoon by Charles Lundberg, of |Maple Ridge. * {made returnable this morning. The men are W. S. Chapman, Matt Mayer, Martin Golschutt, Tom Wilson, Steve Harris, of Baudette, held to 'the grand jury on a charge of as- sault in the second degree, was re-| at_the‘February comeerty of the Be-ileased yesterday no indictment being | Beltr: found against him. He was said to] have used a knife to good advantage | in a Blackduck fight. . Plaintiff in the case of James V.| A special venire of six jurors wasj | Adolph Kline and Fred Petrie. | VACANT FORTIES SETTLED Thirty-six Occupied Since News of Judicial Ditch 6 was Made Public. . Thirty-six quarter sections of gov- {ernment land in the northern part of county have been settled as homesteads, according to Attorney Middleton of Baudette, since it was announced that judicial ditch 6 would be built. This ditch has not yet been started but is to begin at a point six miles from Williams and court this morning for the court awarded the case to the defendant. Clausen was suing for the value of a horse last in the woods. . Agnes David was given a verdict of $1,000 against Gustav Rachay in dis- trict court yesterday in a breach of promise suit. Mr. Rachay is at pres- ent serving a seven year sentence in the penitentiary having been con- victed on a criminal charge growing out of the same case. . The board of county commissioners elected Viggo Peterson chairman to succeed A. E. Rako. This action was necessitated by the fact that Mr. Pet- erson was chairman of the board ‘when the ditch bond question was started and had to be chairman to sign up the final proceedings. He ‘will probably resign at the next meet-~ ing and Mr. Rako be re-elected. .. The old Indian chief from Cass Lake, held on a charge of murder in the first degree by the coroner’s jury, was released yesterday by the grand jury. It is understood that the evi- dence against him was of an uncer- tain nature and that the witnesses would have to be brought from a dis-~ tance making the trial expensive to the county. He returned to Cass Lake on the midnight train. GRAIN DOORS CONTRACTED Farris Man Receives Order From Great Northern for 100,000. T. H. Mackey of Farris has taken a contract to furnish 100,000 grain doors for the Great Northern railway during the coming spring. This is| said to be the first order for grain doors received in this vicinity and it is expected that a much larger amount will be contracted for before the moving of grain begins in the fall. CASS LAKE FIRM CHANGES Burns and Lydick Mercantile Co., Be- { comes Burns-LaFountain Co. | i R. H. La Fountain of Tupper Lake, New York, who came to Cass Lake about two months ago has purchased a one-half interest in the Burns & Lydick Mercantile company from A. M. Lydick. The firm nsme will here- after be Burns-LaFountain Merca; tile’ company.. Conch shells are used as a substi- |tue for o run eleven miles north into an arm of Zipple bay. 1t is understood that the contracts for building this ditch have been let and that as soon as the fiost is out of the ground, actual construction work will start..: As the ditch car- ries a road with it and has laterals running back for two miles on each side of it, the project will give these new settlers an opportunity to get their crops to market. i Mr. Middleton said that the land in this part of the county is the best in the state. “It consists”, he said, “of a black clay that runs from twelve to fifteen feet in depth. When this clay is turned up to the weather it disintegrates and will not again become lumpy and hard even when wet. It is rich in soil food and grows good crops.” |, “Considerable criticism is heard in the northern part of the county | against the state officials because | they do not invest more of the school fund in these ditch bonds. The bonds pay foui per cent while the best the | state appears to be doing on outside loans is two and one-half and three per cent. This would give the school fund- one per cent more interest per state for home improvements. When the state makes loans of this nature, it goes into the county and dees its own assessing and collecting so that the matter is in its own hands at all times.” Mr. Middleton concluded by say- ing that while in many . cases the ditches themselves are ot of much importance, they are made necessary by the fact that the country needs to build these roads unless they are built with the diteh. The roads can- not be built alone so the two are built together.. He -says that the people in the northern part of the county expect a big infiux of settlers in the spring. A NARROW ESCAPE Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rood Nar- rowly Misses Feb. 29. Andrew Rood is passing the cigars today. He says that when he arriv- ed home this morning, after his Chi- cago trip, there was another voice in the family. It is an eight pound girk and arrived last night. Mr. Rood sithat the baby wili probably be aged later on in life to find that, 4 birthday every vear instead in four years as would have ase had it arrived a few: NORTHERN LANDS SAID FERTILE | year and also keep the money in the; roads and at present there is no way' LAND BUSINESS T0 BE ATTENDED HERE Crookston Lumber Company Plans to Open Headquarters in the Markham Hotel MOVE MINNEAPOLIS OFFICES To. Combine Them With Bemidji - Branch and Conduct all Mat- ters from This Point OVER 100 LETTERS PER DAY Have Been Answering Large Number Of Inquiries and Say They Expect More Announcement has been made to the effect that the land offices of the Crookston Lumber company at Min- neapolis and this department of the local mill offices are to be united and operated in the WMarkham hotel building beginning March first, as one real estate business. These of- | fices will be in charge of George W. Winter of Minneapolis. Mr. Winter will arrive in' Bemidji to-morrow and begin arrangements at once for the equipment of the of- fices and other work in connection with the operation of a first class |1and office. A large sign will be erected across the walk, bearing the words, “Crookston Lumber Company Land Office.” R. H. Muncey of this city, who is considered one of the best land esti- maters in the state, will have charge of the showing of the lands and other outside work. ‘With this change in effect, it will mean that all the work in connection with the landselling for this com- pany, which was handled at the Min- | neapolis offices and local mill offices here at Bemidji will be looked after {by this down town office. { During the past winter months this company is said to have received dai- ly at it’s Minneapolis and Bemidji offices more than 100 letters of in- quiry for lands in this community, During the selling season of 1911 this company sold more than 25,000 acres of farm and cut over lands. Preparations are under way that will result in better service and the ability to handle a greater number of people. This company is carrying adver- tisements in twenty-five farm papers throughout the northwest and is dis- tributing circulars, booklets and fold- iers setting forth the opportunities in land buying in this county. | | . i CHANGE AT REX Hotel in Future to be Operated on < European Plan | Beginning Friday, March 1, the Rex hotel is to be operated on the European, or the “pay for what you get” plan, according to the announce- ment made today by F. S. Lycan. Mr. Lycan has been operating the Rex on the American plan since he took it over from its former proprietor, Tom Bailey. Al Jester has been resident manager. Mr. Lycan states that it is the in- | tention of the management to install {an up-to-date dairy lunch in that {portion of the building now used for dining room purposes. This feature {is expected to be ready for use some- time between May 1 and May 15. |The room will be remodeled on the plan of those now in use in the Twin Cities and Duluth. CALIFORNIA STUDENTS WORK Celebrate Feb. 29 by Using Picks and | Shovels on Their Campus. | Berkeley, Cal., Feb, 29.—As a re- sult of today’s experience some of the students at the University of Cal- ifornia doubtless are glad that Feb- |ruary 29 comes only once during their university career. Fjollowing a custom inaugurated by the university authorities in 1896, the fourth quad- rennial Labor day was abserved at the institution today.. The ' “observ- ance was all that the designation of the day implied. Bright and early this morning the students turned out in overalls and flannel shirts and with picks and shovels and wheel-bar- rows laboréd throughout: the greater part of the day in improving the campus and grounds of the universi- The young women students sup- plied the laborers with luncheon and 1ater in the afternoon the celebration . With a program of outdoor