Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1912, Page 1

ILY PION EER. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 262. STRAW VOTE COUNT | POOPPOCOOOOOSPO®ES @ OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED € PPPOOPOOOOOQCS® {ate vesterday x'mmunml the appoint- lmml( of Mahlon Pitney as justice of i the Supreme Court. . Roosevelt and Stanton Maintainingl Cloquet, March 5—It is expected Leads in Their Respective |that the Cloquet lumber mills will Divisions start operations as soon as the weath- Ler permits. Two of the mills are| Bl planning day and night shifts. : = LEE GOES BY BOB DUNN!| St. Louis, March 5—The jury in the Kimmel case yesterday reported | that A. J. White, the claimant, was| an imposter and that Geo. A. Kim- Is Now Ahead By Seventy Votes—‘ mel was dead but that the jury could Debs Ballots Cease to |not telt when he died. . Come In. Red Wing, March 5—Fire swept i the Gladstone block here yesterday - | morning causing a loss estimated at 30,000. The first fl f the build- CAMPAIGN ~ APPEARS QUIET!’ The fiest floar ol the bul {ing fell to he basement. The fire is jexplosion of gas. National and State Political Circles! E | 5 -, o Washington, March 5—The gener- Showing But Little Activity |4 parcels post provision included in At Present. i the appropriation bill was reported {10 the House yesterday by the post- office committee. 1t provides for the ari ng of pareels throngh the mail For President. fat a flat rate of twelve cents a pound ! Roosevelt . with a limit of twelve pounds. | La Follette . ¥ i Taft Grand Rapids, Minn., March 5— Wilson . Harry Collier, who was being held in| Debs . the county jail here as a witness in - the case against James McGuire, For Governer. charged with Killing ‘Charles John- Stanton . ....iveererseens son at Stingy Lake, fourteen miles Gordon northwest of Hibbing, February ¢ : I2berhart 319 f1ast, committed suicide in the : Lee . 212 {here this morning by cutting his f Dunn b e -j(hmm with a safety razor. ; = Little change is noted in the count Columbia, S. C., March 5—The de-| of the straw ballots today in the Pm-n,a“"a team of Davidson College wmev neer's contest. Lee passed Dunn m‘m Coltimbia today to engage in the| fiest shotee for governor, but otter!annual forensic tilt with representa- relative positions arc the same.|tives of the University of South Car- Roosevelt and Stanton maintain their{olina. Davidson has the afirmative | safe leads. and Carolina the negative side of the| Owing to the small number of sec-!question: “Resolved, That it is for| ond choices indicated on the ballots, ! the best interest of the municipali-! it has been decided not to count them | ties in the United States that they in the future and the column appear-iown and operate their g nlemricf ing is the count of the first choices. | light and traction plants. The last count will be made Satu * day and published in the Pmnoer{ Roston, Mass., March 5—The local Monday, March 11 | historical and patriotic societies today The presidential campaign appears|peld exercises in observance of the! to have quieted down during the past|one hundred and forty-second anni- few days. Roosevelt is said to be|yersary of the “Boston Massacre,” on busy doing jury duty at Mineola, L.|yarch 5, 1770, which claimed three I He was excused until tomorrow |op the patriots who were defending when he will return for service. their homes and demanding their The state campaign has not shown | yjghts against the onslaughts of the any activity for some time. The lat-| British troops who had made life est explosion came from the office of | anything but pleasant to the people the governor when Ralph Wheelock | of Boston during the period after the stated that the governor had not used | ropeal of the Stamp Act. any state office to build up a personal | Rosenting the insults put to them machine. Some parties appeared to|py the men and boys of Boston, the| have taken exceptions to the state-|pyitish troops protected themselvas ment but no one has ag yet brought | eainst the charge of the indignant forward any proof or tried to take up | Bogton men. When the smoke of the Wheeloe | British guns cleared away there were | eleven men stretched on the ground, of whom three were killed and eight wounded. Although the demonstra- ALL AUTHORS ARE TALKATIVE — tion of the Boston citizens was but a If You Know One, Be Tactful and Let| defensive move, it had a great deal © Him Converse About His to do with the hastening of the Revo- Work. | lutionary war. I know nothing about really great) authors, but I think I speak for a large number of the followers of the trade when I say that they like to talk about their work, one great rea- son being that writing is a lonely pro- It is proposed to dam the Blue Nile {and thus provide irrigation for 500,- 000 acres. The opium traffic from India into believed to have.been caused by an |SiX miles. i the case, an extra line will be strung BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1912. FARMERS TO HAVE PHONE | Main Office to Be in Tenstrike and Line Planned Eventually to Bemidji, AN ASSOCIATION Farmers near Tenstrike have or- sanized the Tenstrike Telephone | company and as soon as the frost-is jout of the ground, it is said that the | work of putting in the poles and jstrmgmg the lines will be started. strike. From the office, the line will run |around the north shore of Gull lake and back into the country for about It is the purpose of those back of the line to extend it even- tually to Farley and along the rail- road to Turtle River coming into Be- midji by way of the north and west shore of the lake and Buena Vista road. At present the line has fifteen subseribers and the backers believe that as many more will come in be- fore the line is Working. If this is as fifteen appears about the limit for one line. An association has been formed. in accordance with the state law and it has elected E. E. Schulke,- presi- dent; S. E. Thompson, vice-president; A. L. Morris, treasurer; and Harry Stechman, secretary. R R AU RCRCRCRCR R R R R R & WITH SHEARS AND PASTE. ¢ R R R R R R RO IR Two of the University of Pennsyl- vania track runners passed a learned and preoccupied professor showing a young lady vlslror through the “gar-! dens.” With a dainty shiver the glrl re- | marked: “It's dreadfully cold—isn't it—to be without stockings?” The professor’s mind turned for a moment from contemplation of the fourth dimension. “Then why did you leave them off 2" he asked.—St. Paul Dispatch. * A certain German-American citizen of a Massachusetts town is by nature a most suspicious person, but he ap- preciates a reasonable proposition, as will appear herefrom. One day a traveling butcher came to him and bargained with reference to eight head of fine cattle. The price proving satisfactory the butcher felt in his pockets, to discover that he had not brought his money with him. “I haven’t got the money with me,” said he, “but I'll tell you what I'll do. I will drive the cattle to town and send the money back to you.” “Nein!"” exclaimed the other em- phatically. “Dot goes not goot. You brings de moneys first.” “Then,” frankly came from the butcher, “I'll drive only six of them in and I'll leave the other two as se- curity for the debt.” The Teuton reflected deeply; then his face lighted. “All righd,” said he. “Dot is chust so goot. Ven you leave dose two you had bought den it is sure you comes back und pays me!”-—St. Paul Dispatch, * FORMED | Gourt today. | The office. will be located at Ten-!or two on h“hms i The queerest newspaper ever print- fession. If you write. as a rule you|China is to be decreased gradually must do it by yourself; or if you do|yuyntil 1917, when it will cease en- attempt it in company, you or the tirely. company will be sorry. Therefore, when the writing is done, and a sym- pathetic listener offers, the writer is glad to wipe out some of the lonely hours with a little conversation. 8o, if you know an author, don't be too breathless about his calling; treat him like a human being. Let him talk & little, and do not be shocked if he manages to keep the tears back when he tells you about his last short story. Only, be tactful. Do not say, as an eager acquaint- ance once sald to me: “Oh, I do think it 18 so interesting to write. It must be just fascinating when your manu- scripts come back!” I discovered af: terward that she meant proofs in- stead of manuscripts, but the mistake of just that single word made me, who am usually so garrulous aboat my trade, feel for the time being that I really did not care ever to speak of it again. So I repeat, let the poor author talk, but be tnctml—Atlnnue Monthly. Out of Mouths of Babes. Little Harold, aged five, helped his grandfather last summer setting out | fruit trees, and was telling his father ubout it the other night. Thinking to' improve the oppor- | tunity of pointing a moral, father | asked: | “Who made the trees, son?” The kid thought for a moment, then bis face lit up with a knowing smile. “I guess God made the trees,” he sald. “But grandpa stood ‘em up.’— Milwaukee Free Press. Dark Thoughts. “I can read your mind. \Jn dark thoughts.” \‘Yes. 1 was wondering when we 11d get our coal” I see there- “SAP'S RUNNING” (Copyright.) ed in southern California was a re-|the reclamation service of the Unit- cent issue of the Sawtelle Sentinel,|ed States, 50 years old today. and publisher of the paper, makes an thief entered thith office and carried | away all our etheth, and for thith reathon our thubtheriberth will have i to do the very betht they can in read- ing thome of the articleth, which are thpelled in the manper which they may-have noticed in thith announce- ment.”-—The Continent. “THIS IS MY 47TH BIRTHDAY.” | tensive contributor to the. magazines | on educational topics. RO CRORCRUR RO R R R R 3 o COURT HOUSE BRIEFS, © 9000000006068 0069 The grand jury luyectedvihe city and county jails yesterday. b x Viggo Peterson was down from Pu- posky today on court matters. o S SR The case of Fred Moller vs. Hen- ning Kirkvold was tried in Dlltrlct The grand jury has brought in an indictment against Wm. Sly charg- ing him with larceny in the second degree. . ~Alexander Janes, assiatant.attor- ney general, arrived from Crookston last night and will be here for a day At the request ot County Attorney Torrance, M. J. Brown was appointed his assistant today. Mr. Brown will have charge of the prosecution of certain criminal cases. z % { No damages were giver:Joe Peckles in his suit against Geor terday, the jury _returning g yerdict. for the defendant after liay tired for less than an.how was for $5,000 damages. The muit EARL GELL APPOINTED BY MALZAHN T0 FILL OFFICE OF CHIEE OF POLICE Titus, Henderson and Denly Made futrolmen—llew Mayor Addresses Coun- cil and Outlines His Policy as Being Square Deal to All— Vsual Bills Allowed And Bonds Fixed. ¥ FUTURE MEETINGS ON FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY NIGHTS . John Kosopki, charged with lukmgv eight pairs of shoes"fromi: Sehnelderl Brothers, was given a sentence of | $25, and costs, or thirty days in jail by the police court this morning. He' chose the latter and started serving his sentence at once. which made its appearance ‘withnut.‘ the letter “s.” Henry Schultz, editor | explanation as follows: | “At the time the Thentinel wath' about half thet an-evil-dithpothed | Eugene A. Noble, Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, predident | of Bickinson Collewe; ‘was born in. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 5, 1865. " He was a student at Garrett Biblical Institute, at Evanston, Ill., ordained as a Methodist Episcopal minister in 1892. Bridgeport, 1895, and in Brooklyn from 1895 to 1897. and was He was pastor in Conn., from 1892 to Dickinson College is one bership in many of the learned socie- ties of America and has been an ex- Congratulations to: Herman Ridder, publisher of the New York Staats Zeitung, 61 years old today. ¢ Louis A. Taschereau, prominent in public affairs in-Quebec, 45 years old. today. Silas C. Swallow, Prohibition can- didate for president in 1904, 73 years old today. Frederick H. Newell, director of In 1898 he became president . of the Woman’s College of Baltimore. : This position he.held until called to the presidency of Dickinson College last year. of the oldest colleges in the United States, having been founded in 1783 as a Methodist Episcopal institution of learning. Dr. Noble holds: mem- EARL GEIL Former City Treasurer, Now Chief of Police. { -Earl Geil was. recommended for chief.of police by Mayor Malzahn and the recommendation passed by the council last night. J. K. Tiths, George Denly and G. A. Henderson were appointed as patrolmen. The meeting was the first of the council since the election, and Alderman Klein was the | only absentee. < 4 In an informal address to the council, Mayor Malzahn gave a hint as tho the position he would-take when he reads his formal address to the | In part, Mr. Malzahn said: to shrink from enforcing the state law. council next Monday night. “I don’t propose I"also believe thai the fast run- ning of automobiles, teams, etc., is dangerous to the. safety of our ‘women and children and that their speed should be brought within the speed Timit.” In regard to the saloon sitwation, he said: “Personally, I hold nothing against any one of the saloon men. They all pay a license tp do business. But I feel, nevertheless, that they should do business according to law and that no favoritism should be shown.” To this portion of the mayor’s address, L. F. Johnson, president of the council, replied that he believed in giving the saloon men what is theirs and no more, but that there were others who should also reccive the atten- tion of the administration. food stuffs. Chairs enough could not be supplied to seat the men who crowded to the council chamber to hear the first words of the new mayor and members of the council. Long before the time for the meeting, all available space was filled, When the council was called to order, the room became quiet at once and when the new mayor was introduced, he was greeted by a large round of applause. After addressing the council as quoted above, the mayor read his list of appointments und the council proceeded to fill the vacancies of other offices. Other offices were filled as follows: City Attorney—P. J. Russell. Street -commrssioner—council split even on four ballots on the names of A. A. Carter and Joe Harrington. Vacancy was carried over untjl next meeting. * Driver_for fire department—Jerry Brennan. Day engineer and janitor—council split even on four ballots on the names of F. L. Bursley and J. J. McElroy. Vacanecy carried over until next meel— ing:" Night enginger—W. A. Walker. Water elerk—George Kirk. A .City engineer—W. M. Everts. Scayenger—William Peckles. The reports of the sinking fund committee and the municipal court for the year were read and ordered filed. Upon motion, the following amounts were' fixed for the bonds of various appointees: city treasurer, $20,000; superintendent water works, $2,000; city clerk, $2,000; city engineer, $2,- 000; city assessor, $1,000; street commisgioner, $500; scavenger, $500. It was also decided that the city should pay the premium on the bond of the city treasurer. The bonds offered by Cahijll, Everts and Goodman were ac- cépted. - St < A fund of $200 was set.aside for the mayor as a contingent fund to be taken out of the general fund. “A fund of $100 was algo. vated for: adver- tising purposes. The city clerk was ordered to advertise for bids for the city printing, the city physician and the.caretaker df the poor farm. Twice a month was decided as being often enough for a council: meet- ing in the future and on a motion the first and third Mondny nights were selected. The following bills were allowed* N. E. Tuller $ 27.00 Charles Nangle 3 24.16 Falls: and Cameron ", : 1.76 L. P. Eckstrum . .... 51.00 Charles Nangle . 5.29 D. E. Smith ... 14.00 Doran Brothers . ‘William Begsley . Warfield Electric Warfield Blectric Warfield Electric Co: Warfleld Electric. Co. *. . Warfield Eleutrlc ©o. L. rhield: Electrlu K 5 . TEN CENTS PER WEEK. i particularly anxious to i He cited instances of merchants giving t.hx'eei quarts of vinegar for a gallon and of short weight and measure in other | '¢fi¥*¥¥*¥i**¥¥¥¥ SUBSCRIPTIONS LOWERED APRIL i New Rate of Four Dollars Per Year Becomes Effective First of the Month. IS YOURS PAID IN ADVANCE? By Caring For it Now, There is No Danger of Missing Any Issues. CO-OPERATION IS NEEDED | Promptness Will Assist Pioneer In Making Necessary Changes of Record, Those last Pioneer letters remind- 1ing you that you have not yet ar- iranged to have the Daily Pioneer sent ito your address after April 1 were |mailed March i. 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The present price of the Daily Pio- neer is $5 per year. The new price after April 1st will be $4 per year, {which is 25 per cent less, and a sav- ing of that much to every subseriber. The bills sent out to subscribers with the last letter, March 1st, included a nadvance payment of $4 for a full year. The subscribers are at liberty to change this amount to either $1 or $2, which credits their account in advance for three or six months re- spectively. In order to bring about this change as speedily as possible this paper de- sires the co-operation of all its sub- scribers and at this time will appre- ciate promptness of action above any- thing else. * TEST YOUR SEED CORN, * - * * Farmers All Over Minnesota Tell * of Poor Seed They Had Ex- pected to Plant This Spring. Do you know your seed will grow? Seed can be tested at home on'a damp cloth between two plates in the kitchen. See if it will sprout. If it won’t grow in the house it won’t grow in the field. Tnsure your corn crop by a little effort just now. KKK KKK KK KKK K * ok ok Kk k ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ko * ok ok ok ok k ok ok ok ok ok kk kX NEW PARTNERSHIP FORMED. Dailey and Swinson Agree to Enter Real Estatg and Insurance Line. Chas. S. Dailey and Thos. W. Swin- son have formed a partnership to be known as the Dailey and Swinson company. They intend to do a gen- eral real estate and insurance busi- ness operating principally in the northern part of the state with head- quarters in Bemidji. They will also continue in the employment business in which Mr. Bailey has been inter- ested for the past nine years. Mr. Swinson- is a civil engineer and sur- veyor and has been connected with the county surveyor’s office for. some time. He was formerly in the real estate and insurance business in Wis- consin. POIVOOIP OOV OO &S © POULTRY MEETING TONIGHT < . HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM! © Q@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ There was a atrlking falling off of 1 increase of the population