Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 11, 1912, Page 1

E BEMIDJI H | SCCIETY. ] "VOLUME 9. NUMBER 267. PLAN TO PLACE IRON ROAD SIGNS Automobile Club to Ask Town Clerks to Co-operate in Their Prop- er Placement. WILL CHART THIS COUNTY Are to Extend Line South to Brain- erd and Park Rapids and West to Bagley. | NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED E— i i Jewett, Barker, and Dr. Marcum to Act as Officials During the | Coming Year. { If the plans of the Automobile club are carried to completion, every cross road in Beltrami county will have a | large sign giving the direction and| number of miles to Bemidji and the | ¢ same statistics as to the nearest town | in the opposite directions. These | signs will be placed as soon as the| frost is out of the ground. | The signs are to be of galvanized | iron, sixteen gauge, and place on twelve foot cedar posts. Wherever | there is a cross road, the upper sign will be 12 by 24 inches and the low- er sign 6 by 24 inches. These signs will be placed by members of the club and are planned to extend as far south as Park Rapids and Brain- erd and as far west as Bagley. The club plans to have the town clerks of each town co-operate and the town share in the expense of the signs. W. L. Brooks has been appointed as chairman of the sign committee ' and says that orders for signs may be addressed to him. The posts will be furnished o tlie towns at $1 each! and no charge will be made until the signs are set and accepted by the town boards. Mr. Brooks has ad-| dressed a letter to the town clerks of | this county in which he sets fo!'tl\l the advantages of road signs and in-| vites the clerks to co-operate with| the Bemidji club. It is believed that once the country properly chart- ed, automobile parties into the out- lying districts will be more fre-! quent. | At the meeting of the Automobile club held last week, C. W. Jewett was elected president; Earl Barker, vice- president; and Dr. E. H. Marcum, secretary and treasurer. BIG TIME FOR ELKS. Spokane to Entertain Delegates Go- ing to Portland Convention. Spokane, Wash., March 11.—Spo- kane chamber of commerce and allied organizations have joined with Spo- kane Lodge No. 228. B. P. 0. E, in plans to entertain 20,000 Elks and their families going to and returning from the grand lodge reunion at Portland, Ore., July 8 to 13. The lodge also will send its band of 32 players and a large delegation, head- ed by R. H. Rice, to Portland on a special train. Several thousand dollars will be expended in decorating the business thoroughfares and reception com- mittees of prominent business and professional men will meet every train on the six trans-continental railroads entering this city. Ample entertainment, including receptions, luncheons and automobile trips, will be provided by the lodge and the commercial organizations. Mayor William J. Hindley, a member of the local lodge, will welcome the visitors. Al Jester has been chosen to repre- sent the local lodge. New Mexico to Elect Senators. Santa Fe, N. M., March 11.—New Mexico’s first state legislature con-|Max Blanck, owners of the Triangle| vened here today. During the first week or ten days the session the in terest of the lawmakers will be cen- tered almost wholly upon the elec tion of two United States senators. The Republicans have a majority of nine on joint ballot, insuring the se- lection of two Republicans as the first representatives of New Mexico in the upper house of the national Con- gress. The Journeymen Stone Cutters’ as- sociation reports that during last year 66 local branches secured a ma-! tnat different persons were named in| terial increase in wages, the total|eacp indictment. A special jury .to-! shakin’ my Plum Tree down. — - .| Kansas—They gotta quit laughin*i increase aggregating close to $300,- 000. In addition to this, 24 new lo- cals have been added to the associa- tion. P00 COOCOOOO “MEN AND ISSUES.” ® @ “February 26, a New York @ dispatch in the Washington Post said: ‘Politicians who have been following the national sit- @ uation, say that La Follette will @ shortly make an attack on Col- @ onel Roosevelt, showing that @ representations were made to him by friends of the colonel to the effect that he (La Follette) was the ideal man to make the fight against President Taft. ‘It is not a matter of great im- portance to the public why I be- came a candidate. “‘The issue of this campaign is the right of the individual, the farmer, the worker, every man who pays the tribute to free himself by lawful means from the unjust exactions of the tar- iff, the railroads, the trusts, the money power controlling capital and credit and every form of op- pression by special privilege. “‘In the presence of these @ great problems personal attacks ® upon candidates should have no place. “‘But to determine the fitness of a candidate to perform a par- ticular service, the public has a right to require the candidate @ to state each problem and offer @ his solution of that problem. @ “‘The public have the fur- @ ther right to know what the candidate has actually done to- ward solving the -problem, whether his course of action and the whole gives assurance of profound conviction and ability of judgment, whether he is best equipped by patient investiga- tion and practical experience to deal with those problems con- structively in the public inter- est. “‘Hence the exact record of the candidate on the tariff, the railroads, the trusts, the mon- ey power, subsidies and other forms of privilege is just as im- portant, it may be more import- ant than his present declara- tions. “°It. will, therefore, be neces- sary during this campaign to discuss the records &¥-eandi- dates as well as the remedies proposed by them to correct ex- isting social and political evils. “‘But such discussions cannot be distorted into an attack upon _the candidate. “ ‘Robert M. La Follette." " CHELHOOIOOOO®®® S 5006009060059 060 64 PR Ry © > DPOPOPPPIVPVPIPDVOOVPOVPPPIPOPPPDVPPIVIVPPOVOVOVVVOPVVOVIPOOOVVODOOOOOOOOPOO OGO et g g Be w = PY =S 660 Orchestra Makes Good. Chicago, March 11—A record breaking audience heard the Minne- apolis Symphony orchestra concert here Saturday night. It was the largest that has ever turned out to a visiting organization and appeared well pleased with the concert. B Arraignments in Dynamite Cases. Indianapolis, Ind., March 11.—The Government ‘has completed arrange- ments for the arraignment tomorrow «f the men indicted in the dynamite conspiracy cases. Forty-eight of the fifty-four defendants, all of them of- ficials, former officials or business agents of the International Associa- | tion of Bridge and Structural Iron- workers, are expected to appear be- fore Federal Judge A. B. Anderson at 10 o’clock in the morning to answer | Whether they are guilty or not guilty of the charges contained in the thir- ty-two indictments returned by the Federal grand jury here on February 16, The McNamaras, Ortie McMani- gal and several of the other defend- ants who are also indicted on the Pacific coast, are not expected to ap- pear in court,'but the most of them will be represented by counsel. . May Try Triangle Men Second Time. New York, March +1.—The erim- inal branch of the Supreme Court iwas the scene of something new in the line of court procedure today, when the question of whether per- sons who had been once tried and ac- quitted should be tried a second time was left for a jury to decide. The case was that of Isaac Harris and ‘Waist company, in whose establish- ent 147 working girls lost their lives in a fire a year ago. Recently Harris and Blanck Were tried and ac- quitted of a charge of manslaughter (in the first and second degrees. The Qistrict attorney was dissatisfied with | set a date for a second trial. Coun- sel for the defense opposed tire mo- ! tion on the ground that the question of second jeopardy was raised. To | this the district attorney replied that | there were several indictments re- maining against the two men, and day listened to ~the arguments. of counsel on both sides and will later render- its “decision in the. guestion of a second trial. the verdict and asked the court to‘ LEADS INCREASED BY FINAL COUMT Roosevelt, La Follette and Stanton Each More Than Double Fig- ures of Saturday. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MOND!/ DEBS CLOSE TO WILSON Socialist Candidate Polls But Four Less Votes Than the Leading Democrat, . LEE SAFELY BY EBERHART By a Margin of Twenty-sev- en Ballots. At Final Count. For President. First Second Roosevelt .. 1,746 814 La Follette ... 1,062 710 Taft 613 435 Wilson 295 323 Debs 291 “ee Bryan 87 14 Cummins . 42 28 Clark . ., 14 56 For Governor. Stanton . . 2211 146 Gordon 433 336 Lee . ... 337 338 Eberhart . 310 207 Dunn . 111 87 Morgan . 87 . Peterson 12 138 Lind . .. -4 13 The above figures are a correct count of the ballots cast in the Pio- neer contest. - ! H. C. Baer, Geo. W. Rhea. | Enough votes were polled . for Stanton and RoosSevelt™ at™th¥ Tast| minute in the Pioneer contest to moré than double their total as pub- lished Saturday. The count was boosted materially by ballots mailed from International Falls and vicin- ity and towns in the northern part of Beltrami county. La Follette passed Taft and made second place by a safe margin. The above results would apparent- ly indicate that the country covered by the Pioneer is strong for Roose- velt and La Follette, both Progres- sive Republican _candidates. The large number cast for Stanton is looked upon as being largely in the nature of a compliment for a home man as the judge has stated many times that he would not become a candidate. Of the other candidates, Gordon, Lee and Eberhart had a close Tun with the two insurgents in the lead. It will be noted that Lee received one more for second than for first. In spite of the ban placed on the contest by the Socialists, Debs made a good showing, lacking but four votes of equalling the total made by Wilson, the leading Democratic can- didate. In the state contest, Mor- gan did not fare so well as he was close to the bottom of the list. The total number of votes cast sur- prised those who had been following the contest and gave indication that the people in this section are watch- ing the candidates closely. Follow- ing the final count all ballots were @ PR R R R R R & WITH SHEARS AND PASTE. ¢ POV OOOOOOOOOOGO ! (Milwaukee Sentinel). The boy stood on the flimsy ice ‘When all the rest had fled. He did not heed their good advice, So solid was his head. The tale has oft appeared in books; | Men said: “How natural he looks.” * A Few More Slogans. (Cincinnati Enquirer). Missouri—They gotta quit kickin’. my dog aroun’. o { Massachusetts—They gotta quit kiddin’ my Sacred Cod. California—They gotta quit roast- in’ my Grizzly Bear. New Jersey—They gotta quit chas- in' my Octopus.” _ s Kentucky-—They gotta quit splash- !in’ my licker aroun’. in’ Donkey aroun*. { In® Wall Strect aroun’. ! Tllinois—They gotta quit hammer- in’ my Whitewash Brush. Pennsylvania—They gotta quit {'at my Blind Pig. Texas—They gotta quit bootin’ my ! | New York—They gotta quit knock- Takes Third Place in State Contest | ALY i | Ohio—They gotta quit handin: my. |Ple Shelt ‘aroun’, : ; When Does You: Subscription Expire ? Join the $1.00 Saving Brigade this week. Don't wait until your time is up unless you have to, The big rush expected the last week of March will be more that we can handle without some inconvenience to subscribers, The old rate of $5.00 per year for the been reduced $4.00 per $2,00 Six $1.00 Three Months Cash in Advance to . Year Months THIRD WRECK THIS YEAR[S ® ® * 2o o eseeoes Minnesota and International Train Leaves Rails Near -Black- duck Sunday. ENGINEER REPORTED -INJURED For the third time in,as many months, a “Minnesota - and- Interna- tional train’ left the tracks between here and Blackduck _.early Sunday morning. The train.was the one due in here from the Twin Cities at 4:30 a. m. and left the rails about one mile this side of Blackduck. It was rumored that the engineer was thrown through the window and in- jured his hand but the report could not be confirmed. General Manager Gemmel and the claim agents of the M. and I. and Northern Pacific were in Bemidji as witnesses in the case of J. P. John- son against the M. and I. They left for the scene of the wreck at once going by special train. The train PR = i ],elected:, The boys Glee club of the High school had their pictures taken yes- terday for the “Chippewa.” Fi The annual meeting of the Com-| mercial club will be held tomorrow evening at club rooms. The meet- ing will be devoted entirely to busie| ness and officers and directors will be ‘members have-been urged to be pres- ent. 3 : 7 . The case of J. P. Johnson vs. the Minnesota and International rafl- road reached the jury the jury this afternoon. The plaintiff claims that ke did not sign the releases shown by the railroad and that if he did rational at the time. $5,000 damages. The suit is for . Mrs. John Smith, and son, have returned from St. Paul where the lad was treated for infantile paralysis. He has been in tke city and county hospital for three months but is now able to walk a little with the aid of braces. It is expected that they may be removed by the first of April and the boy will be able to walk unaid- is said to have been proceeding at a°% low rate of speed and that the only damage done was to one coach and the tles over which the train bump- ed. 3 Alumni of the University of Min- nesota will meet in the chemis_try lecture room of the High school on On January 2, the road had a bad| Wednesday evening at 7:30 for the wreck near Farley, which resulted in some damage. The suits on in Dist- rict court now.are for injuries sus- tained in that wreck. A few weeks ago, a logging train went off the rails near the same place and tied up traffic for some time." Police Court Today. Joe Smith, on a charge of disorder- ly condict, was given $10 and costs. He paid $13 and was given until 7 p. m. to leave town. : Joe Nullet, " charged with being drunk, pleaded guilty and was fined $6 and costs. He paid $8. Clyde Stevenson, charged with be- ing a vagabond, was given $10 and costs or fifteen days. He was given until noon to leave town. Charles Hagen pleaded not guilty to a drunkenness charge and his case was continued. Louie Olstad, bartender at the Lake Shore, was up on a -drunkenness charge and his case was continued un- til tomorrow. purpose of organizing & Minnesota Alumni club. There are about twen- |ty . graduates of the University. liv. ing in Bemidji at the present. time. It is possible. that the organization may be extended to include gradu- ates from any college or university, . added a chemical engine to its fire- fighting equipment. Friday. The engine was purchased consideration of $450. The chemical engine is construct- ed for quick work. fire. The advantage of having' the machine is that it can be put on the engine is ready for servi The Amalgamated Lace Curtain Operatives of America will hold thei annual convention in New time in May. : | . coming. vear.. Alll. 'evening. The city of -Red Lake Falls has The engine ar- rived last week and was given a test from the W.S. Nott company. for a. It is not of much value for a long fight on a big Job. several minutes beforé the big. /INVITE WALKER MEN HERE ©06666600606060600 Bemidji ‘Commercial Club May Have Another Smoker Thursday 1 Night.. MAY COME : -ALSO " The Bemidji Commercial” club has invited the Walker Commercial club to a smoker and general get-to-geth- or to be held this week on Thursday « The invitation has not yet been answered but it is believed that -Walker will accept. they are not binding as he was not| This invitation follows on the one recetly extended to Cass Lake and whitfesulted tn the smoker held in the Bemidji club rooms a few weeks ago. If this invitation is also ac- Fcepted and the results are satisfac- tory, other towns may be invited here also. Commenting on the Cass Lake smoker, a Thief River Falls paper stated that it would be a good thing if -Bemidji buried the hatchet with some of its other neighbors. The Cass Lake Times replied -that “It makes no difference if Bemidji is not 3 big town. They. gotta quit kick- in’ Bemidji around’.” Labor Chiefs’ Case Before Full Bench - -Washington, D. C., March 11.—The contempt case involving President Samuel Gompers, Vice-president John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri- son of the American Federation of Labor came up for hearing today be- fore the full bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. | The case has been pending for several years before Justice Wright, and he. a3 already imposed sentences of im- risonment upon the three men. The Supreme Court, however; found er- Tors in his -procedure, but gave the lower court the right to renew'the roceedings. The controversy that riginally brought the labor leaders into court arose out'of a labor boy- cot of the Bucks Stove and Range company of St. Louis. Though this dispute has been .settled, Justice ‘Wright took the ground that the dig- ity of the Court’s orders had been dolated, and agaln cited the labor iefs to appear and defend them- G isTA BETOT TEN CENTS PER WEEK. TAKES A DECIDED STAND ON DUMAS {Cass Lake Times Makes Srong Plea To Voters Not to Return Present Mayor, ACCUSED OF BUYING SUPPORT 8aid to Have Used Pot-House Politi- cian Methods for Securing Nomination. TWO0 TICKETS IN KELLIHER Both Agree on Same Offices but Make Main Campaign On That of President. Interest for Bemidji in the town and village elections to be held in Minnesota tomorrow centers in Cass Lake where the town appears divided over the re-election of Dr. D, F. Dumas as mayor. In its issue of Saturday the Cass Lake Times takes a decided stand against another term &8s mayor for Dr. Dumas, citing as reasons that it has twice supported him and refused to.condemn him un- til proven guilty and that “we have been subjected to as much punish- ment as we can bear and have the right to select his successor without interference when we deem it necess- ary.” The Times further says:” “The Peoples ticket for .village offices is published in another column and merits the attention of every lover of his home and of good order and decency in the village. This ticket represents the law and order element of the town, and is the one which every law-abiding citizen should vote. The battle will be made for the head of the ~ ticket. The Dresent incumbent has been - twice elected to that position and we are not making any complaints of his administration, Since his last elec- tion he has been brought into dis-- repute by being arrested and prose- cuted and convicted by a jury of the erime of arson. It is true that his case has been appealed to the Su- preme Court and has not been deter- mined, but in the meantime he has become notorious and the town he has governed has sustained an evil name that is not only state wide but nation wide, and the notoriety has become offensive to a large majority of the law-abiding citizens of the town. “We had hoped to dissuade him from again asking the people for re- election, and at one time he prom- ised that he would not allow his name to go before the people unless, with- out effort on his part, they demanded his candidacy. This promise he did not adhere to and when the campaign began he entered into it with all the force characterizing the pot-house politician, spending large sums of money to secure the support of those who have not and never will have any interest in the town and whose only hope of reward is in the small sums doled out to him for immediate use. . “His nomination at the late caucus was brought about by the presence of hailf a hundred men who have nev- er had the right to cast a vote here and whose vote cannot be polled on election day. “The Times has tried to give him fair treatment and has never attacked him, not because there are no symp- toms of guilt, but because we do not believe a newspaper is the proper tribunal to try criminal cases. i “We now ‘ask our readers to seri- ously examine the situation and ask themselves if the village of Cass Lake and its representative-people have not suffered enough and if it is not quite time to demand a change that will convince the outside world that we are law-abiding? “We ask every. citizen voter to go to the polls next Tuesday and cast & vote for Cass Lake’s freedom and for a return of good government.” Caucuses in the village of Kelli- (Continued on last page) COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT. Dead Locks on Two Offices Expected to Be Broken. An adjonrned meeting of the coun- ¢il ‘will be held this evening. The breaking of the dead-- foes' of_ day_snginesr partment and ‘street MISTORIGAL ; -