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

-4 S S— - THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE i MINNESOTA ISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 28 3. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. A CREAMERY IN ABOUTTHIRTY DAY Commercial Club Committee Told to Purchase Necessary Ma- chinery. ROOM IN THE MAJOR BUILDING Will Use One Formerly Occupied By Engineers of the Soo Line. MANY COWS ARE AVAILABLE Island Lake Farmers State They Will Send the Product of Nearly 200 Cows. Members of the Commercial club together with the creamery commit- tee met at the Commercial club this morning and arranged for the pur- chasing of a refrigerator and the necessary working machinery. The actual purchasing was left to R. L. Given and Charles Warfield as a committee, It is expected that the plant will be in operation in about thirty days. The new creamery will occupy a room in the Major building on Min- nesota avenue near the Soo freight depot. This room was occupied by the engineers of the Soo road when the right of way was being built. uPBe boiler will have a capacity of ten horse power and the refrigerator of eighty tubs. Of the necessary funds, $1,100 have been subscribed by Bemidji| business men who will stay in the; company until it is fully organized and the farmers are able to buy this stock up at par. Efforts are being made to have the farmers take stock so that they can own their own plant. The name will probably be “The Farmers Creamery Com- pany.” Applications have been made to the committee for cream stations as far north as Little Fork. Island Lake is early on the list promising to send the product of 200 cows from that vicinity. It is believed that 800 cows will be available as soon as the rcreamery is in operation. The com- mittee appears enthusiastic and work on installing the machinery will be started as soon as possible. BOOKS ON GARDEN Miss Mills Has Received Several Works of Interest to the Plant Lovers. ARE ON FILE IN THE LIBRARY Miss Mills, librarian at the public library, has laid in a supply of books on gardening. They will be particularly interesting to those who are planning gardens or flower beds for the coming summer. The list of books is as follows: Three Acres and Liberty...... Hall Woman’s Handy Garden ..Ely LawWhs,ws oo sme s .Barron Garden Making....... .Bailey First Lessons with Plants. Bailey Principles of Fruit Growing. .Bailey Asparagus Hexamer Onion Culture ............ Gremer How to Make School Gardens. . ... Hemenway Celery Cultur® ............. Beattie Gardening for Profit..... Henderson The Potato ......... .Fraser Home Vegetable Gardening... Rockwell ‘When Uncle Sam get through vac- cinating the tropics the microbe will not be so closely confined to business and will have more time for out-door sports. CPORROOORPOOCOOO ® RPPPOPOOOOOOGOGSOS Educational Topics Discussed. Ann Arbor, Mich.,, March 29.—A large number of school teachers and principals are attending the annual meeting of the Michigan Schoolmas- ters’ club ,the general sessions of which were held today in University hall. Vocational training, the social center, and teachers’ pensions were the three leading subjects dealt with in the addresses and discussions. . One Suspect Held. Minneapolis, March 29.—Sheriff Langum has arrested John Whelan in connection with the Matthews murder. He had blood stained un- derclothes and a long scratch on his face. The state has added $500 to the reward fund making $1,000 available to the finer of the mur- derer. . Theater Changes. A twelve foot entrance is being built to the Grand theater today. The former entrance was about three feet wide and the new one will give freer access to the building. It will also assist materially in the ventila- tion. The Majestic steel picture booth has been finished and is being instal- led today. It is one of the most com- plete and fire-proof booths in the state and corresponds with the rec- ommendations of the state fire mar- shal. New Farmers Club. A farmers’ co-operative club was organized in Summit a week ago Sunday with a charter membership of seventeen. The organization will affiliate with the Blackduck Farmers’ club, and it is the first of a number which it is hoped will be organized in the near future in the neighbor- ing towns. Officers for the ensuing tterm were elected as follows: Chas. R. Parker, president; Chas. Olson, vice-president; John Gilstad; secre- tary; Henry Berg, treasurer.—Black- duck American. - Taft to Visit Philadeiphia. Washington, D. C., March 29.— President Taft is arranging for a vis- it to Philadelphia tomorrow evening to fulfill several which he accepted invitations some time ago. The president will be in the Quaker City only a few hours and it is understood that nc politi- cal significance is to be attached to his visit. In the early evening he will address the members of the Chamber of Commerce on the benefits that will follow the creation of a new commercial organization to take the place of the present National Board of Trade. After delivering this address the president will be the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Ohio society. Road Making Starts. Cass Lake, March 29.—(Special) —State Engineer A. W. Moulster, of Pine River, and County Commission- er B. L. Perry of Backus, returned last evening to their homes via Cass Lake from Shovel Lake, where they had gone for a trip of inspection lasting several days, with reference to the state road running from Shov- el Lake west across Cass county via Backus. Commissioner Perry states [that work on this road, 50 miles long, will be begun in earnest as soon as the weather permits and a road built which meets all the re- quirements of the state highway com- mission, in order that state aid may be obtained. This road is to form a part of an almost direct line from Duluth to Moorhead. * Annual Sham Battle. Minneapolis,, March 29—The Uni- versity of Minnesota and St. Thomas cadets will have their annual sham battle May 20. The annual inspec- tion will be held at the Uuivergity in the morning and the battle at Fort Snelling in the afternoon. Cadets will go to Fort Snelling from Sep- tember 11 to 17 next fall for the an- nual encampment. The new camp will be called Camp John A. Johnson. For the sham battle, the varsity troops will have 10,000 rounds of ammunition, two field guns, signal corps, wireless telegraphers, medical and hospital corps. St. Thomas will make the attack this year. The Uni- versity won the first battle and St. Thomas the second so that the fight on May 20 will decide the tie. @ CURRENT EVENTS. o engagements for | Remfrey, Only subscribers who are paid in advance will receive papers after tomorrow. See to it at once. NEW BAND LEADER HERE A. M. Remfrey Arrived From Grand Forks Yesterday With His Family. MINSTREL DATE IS CHANGED Bemidji’s new band leader, A. M. at the rehearsal next Tuesday night. Mr. Masten and his wife will go to Grand Forks Sunday. Mr. Remfrey "EXTRA + Lorimer Vindicated. Washington, March 29.—A special committee of eight Senators who have been investigating the Lorimer case decided today by a vote of five to three that he was innocent of any knowledge of legislative corruption. Edward Hines also got a vindication. s arrived from Grand Forks!'rhe case will come before the Senate with is family yesterday and he will next week when a assume the uties of his new position will be held. protracted debate - Another Allen Captured. Hillsville, Va., March 29.—Claude comes to Bemidji| Swanson Allen came out of a laurel well recommended as it is said that thicket on the Blue Ridge yesterday he is a soloist as He is also a piano tuner and will probably organize an orchestra. Mr, Masten goes to Grand Forks to take charge of the Grand Forks Military band for which he has a contract for one year. The date for the band minstrel show has been set one day later so that the show now is planned for Friday and Saturday nights, April 12 and 13. The band will. be assisted by a chorus of about twenty darkies. The program will be made up of in- strumental numbers, songs and black face jokes. Gretna Green Records at Auction, London, March, 29.—Many cele- brated romances that occurred dur- ing the reigns of the three Georges and William IV, and in the early Vietorian' era, were recalled by the sale at Sotheby’s today of the origi- nal certificates of marriages at Gret- na Green. The lot embraced more than one thousand runaway match certificates, upon some of which ap- peared the names of men and women {of wide celebrity. s Gretna was the nearest and most accessible point in Scotland from the sister kingdom, and in its neighbor- hood fugitive marriages were long contracted. The practice is said to have been begun by a tobacconist named John Paisley, who lived to a great age, and died in 1814. The general assembly, in 1826, vainly at- tempted to suppress the system of Greta Green marriages, but an act passed in 1856 made such niarriages illegal after that year, unless one of the persons married had lived in Scotland 21 days. This idea of “busting” the money trust is a bad onme. What we com- mon folks want is more trusters and fewer busters. well as a leader.|ang gave himself up to a posse that has been hunting for him for nearly |two weeks. He declared that he did not know where other members of his family were-located. LAKE LEVEL IS DOWN Within a Foot of Low Water Mark of 1910—Rise Expected When Snow Melts, 1911 ICE WAS OUT BY APRIL 25 Lake Bemidji is within a foot of the low water mark of the summer of 1910, according to a statement of Captain McLachlan who has been taking accurate observations. Al- though the lake is low, it is rising, and it is believed that there will be a good stage of water this summer. The snow on the lake has been melting during the past week and the water has honeycombed the ice sp that it is turning- white. The snow in the woods has not melted to any extent as yet but lumbermen say that a few more days of warm weath- er will see it go. As soon as the snow in the woods melts it is ex- pected that the lake level will rise rapidly. Conditions at present appear to point to a late opening of the lake. Although the ice broke up earlier, the dates when the lake was entirely free from ice during the past four years are as follows: 1908, May 20; 1909, April 4; 1910, May 10; 1911, April 25. Coptain McLachlan ex- pects to have his new boat in com- mission by April 25. FIRE AT TURTLE RIVER Destroys Six Buildings and Threat: ens Entire Town Early This | PROPERTY LOSS ABOUT $3,000 Turtle River, March 29.—(Special to the Pioneer by phone)—_—six build- ings' were burned here this finrning in the worst fire that has ever vis- ited this village. It is estimated that the .property loss will be about $3,000. For a time it looked as if the entire town would be wiped out, but by hard work such a catastrophe was avoided. The fire started in a dwelling owned by A. O. Johnson and occu- pied by A. Guyet. It is believed to have started from a defective stove pipe in the second floor as the en- tire upper part of the house was on fire before the blaze was discovered. From the Guyet home, the fire spread to and destroyed the village -hall, owned by A. O. Johnson; warehouse, owned by A. O. Johnson; town of- fice; vacant building; and dwelling occupied by Mrs. Lattimer. All of the goods in the A. O. John- son store were moved outside as the building was in the path of the flames. The store was not damaged beyond the handling of the goods. A Diamond Star at 45. Boston, Mass., ‘March 29,— Forty- five years old and still able to pitch ball up to the big league standard is the remarkable record of “Cy” Young, who is training in the south with the Boston Nationals in preparation for his twenty-second season as a pro- fessional player. Young ‘was born in the town of Gilmore, O., forty- five years ago today. After a season or two with clubs in cities near his home he went to Cleveland, where he played from 1890 to 1899. After leaving Cleveland he was with St. Louis two years, and went to Boston in 1900, when the American league placed a club in that city. He helped Boston to win the American league and world’s championships and re- mained there until 1909, when he was disposed of to the Cleveland SMALL GIRL TELLS OF MISTREATMENT Thirteen Year Old Alice Wilcox On the Stand for Four Hours in Distriet Court. THE DEFENDANT IS FRED COOK Is Alleged to Have Had Carnal Knowledge of Her When She Was But Twelve. B SENDS SLY TO PENITENTIARY Judge Stanton States He Believes He Is "Not l)'eprivi:ng Family Of Support. With bated breath, a room full of spectators sat in District court yes- terday afternoon and today listening to Alice Wilcox and other witnesses tell of her alleged mistreatment by Fred Cook. The girl was but thir- teen years old last December and Cook is on trial charged with car- nal knowledge, the act being said to have taken place May 31, when the girl was but twelve. Alice Wilcox was the first witness placed on the stand by the state and for four hours yesterday afternoon she stood direct and cross examina- tion and told a determined story of her treatment by the defendant. The | testimony showed that Cook had been living with Alice and her moth- er, in the capacity of hired mam; on the Wilcox farm in the town of Ben- ville. She further testified that he had mistreated her several times be- fore the one act complained of im the indictment. On May 31, Cook is alleged to have again mistreated her. But in the meantime the girl had told her moth- er and two men had been hidden that day in the garret to catch him in the act. One of them, Martin Windness, gave his testimony this morning and was unshaken on cross examination. The other will be examined this af- ternoon. Witnesses and principals are all well known parties of the town of Benville, which taken with the youth of Alice Wilcox brings un- usual interest to the case. William Sly Sentenced. William Sly was sentenced to the state penitentiary yesterday by Judge Stanton as punishment for grand larceny in the second degree of which he was convicted the fore- part of the week. The term is one to five years. Sly’s attorney made a plea that because of his wife and children that the sentence be a fine or jail term. The county prosecutor objected as it appeared that Sly had used questionable methods in trying to establish his innocence. The judge stated that he did not believe he was depriving Sly’'s family of ma- terial support by sending him to Stillwater and so sent him to that place. Gearlds Pleads Not Guilty. Edwin E. Gearlds pleaded “not guilty” to the indictments charging him with selling liquor on Sunday and also to a public woman. It was agreed-with the county attorney to try this case after the two cases of the State vs. Anderson on similar charges. The Anderson case will follow the Cook case and the Gearlds case will be followed by the state vs. Flatly. Judge Stanton this morning an- nounced that a judicial ditch hear- ing will be held here Friday, April 19. Coal Strike Certain, Cleveland, March 29.—Unless a compromise is reached between mine club. In the latter part of last sea- son Young returned to Boston to play with the National league club in that city and has been signed with the same organization for this year. 3 | operators and miners here, 350,000 men in the bituminous fields will quit Sunday night and the suspension would in effect be a strike. At pres-~ ent there seems to be little prospect’ of an agreement. | |