Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 4, 1912, Page 1

\ E BEMIL P ILY PIONEE 'VOLUME 9. NUMBER 288. FORCRCRORCRCRORCRCECRCR R AR 2] FARMERS OF BIG o " ‘omnews rmms e FORK WIN VICTORY Sprinkler Working. A. A. Carter, street commissioner, had the street sprinkler working this morning laying the dust on the paved Rate Reductions Sought From Itasca | Streets: Logging Road Are Generally * Meeting of the Elks, Granted Al Jester has called a meeting of the Elks for tonight at which time there will be an initiation and instal- lation. WILL PAY SOME BACK TAXES . J. M. Richards Buys Ford Car. J. M. Richards of the Bemidji Lum- Company Agrees to Return to State ber company purchased a Ford, five passenger touring car from the $16,000 Omitted On Gross Northern Automobile company today. Earnings The car is a 1912 model. . New Lights Installed. The management of the Grand | NEW MERCHANDISE CHARGES|theater has had installed over the front arched door way eight electric lights which when lighted draw con- siderable attraction. . Cleaning Up Time Here. The back yards of the city are be-| Great Northern Schudule To Be Ac- cepted As Holding Good From Deer River B NS Bonfires may be seen smouldering in numerous yards as well as in the Deer River, April 4—The farmers|streets about the residence section living along the line of Minneapolis|of the city, and lawns are being & Rainy River railroad, better|raked and the rubbish cleaned up in known as the Itasca logging road, | general. and the merchants here and at-Big L Tork, won a big victory last week in the rate case of George Herried and | others vs. the Minneapolis & Rainy River railroad company, which was argued before the state railroad and | warehouse commission, when the Te-lon April 13 and one by the Majestic spondent company agreed to all the!on April 27. The committee now has reductions and changes asked by \he‘$415 towards the $750 they have to plaintiff with the exception of a 10W- | raise for the monument. er tariff on logs and timber products. * T}m company a_greez{ to make con- Roosevel to Vigit Granite State. cesslons abandoning its contended Boston, Mass., April 4.—The fight right to !m:l(‘e trackage charges for between Taft and Roosevelt for the merchandise from or to the Great| v\ England delegates to the Chica- Northern which was routed over its go convention will be renewed tomor- | road a.ml also agreed to accept mer- row, when Colonel Roosevelt will chandise at the same rates as come up from New York to look over charged by the Great Northern. the situation in New Hampshire, It obligated itself to accept any|go...“e o progressives. Colonel rate made by the commission on Roosevelt’s program calls for speech- agricultural products and conceded | "y F\ o Ol T Tt famehes the eealigity ot ‘thie -alleged -'eon | (o seioniod Walt spoke 1 e same net Wiich L€ “Ttasca Lumber| oS00 B ago. | company and the Deer River Lumber - company were given rates lower than ors the published tafiffs, which resulted Black Wolf Hide. in a charge being made that over| County Auditor George today re- $400,000 in gross earnings had been | c®1ved two wolf h.ldes from Theodore withheld from the reports furnished | Stebakken who lives near Baudette. the state. They also agreed to col- The animals were killed in the town lect that amount from of Spooner. One was a gray prairie panies. wolf but the set_‘,ond was a black Some time ago sult was started by | timber wolf the size of a Newfound- the state to collect a gross earnings |12nd do8. Mr. George says that the tax of over $16,000 on the omitted |OWNtY has paid out close to $500 in amount and they now agree to pay | WaIT bounties since January 1. Prai- this without suit. rie wolves are quite common but he The question of reducing the rate |53Vs that few of the big timber wolves on logs and timber products was|are ever killed. argued for the complaining petition- ) er by George H. Spear, who handled Kaiser Near the Top. the case for the business men and| Billie Kaiser is selling Saturday farmers, yesterday afternoon. He|Evening Posts in the hope of winning claimed there is still a large amount | the pony put up as a prize for the of standing timber along the route of | boy selling the most Posts between logging road, owned by the set-|{March 1 and April 30. Billie stands tlers and that unless the tariff is re-|eighth on the list now but says that duced, the development of that en-|he is sure he can bring the pony to tire section of the country will be|Bemidji as he has four weeks left. retarded. He claimed that under|He is competing with boys from all the exisiting rates they can not get |states but is the only Minnesota boy the timber stuff out except at a loss|on the head list. He lives at 611 and consequently they are making|Bemidji avenue. Billie also wears a little or no effort to clear the lands.|medal for perfect school attendance He argued that the rate on the Itasca|at the fall term. logging road should be the same as| . - on all others laboring under exisit- Utah Claimed for Taft. ing conditions; that the reduction Salt, Lake City, Utah, April 4.— of the rates on foodstuffs would not|Members of the Republican state cen- Dbenefit the settlers unless there was|tral committee of Utah are rounding also a reduction on that which stood {up here for a meeting tomorrow to for their principal source of revenue|fix the date for the state convention at the present time. to select nationial delegates. The This case is the outcome of several | Taft men expect to control the con- protests that were filed with the|vention. There are many “insurgents” company by the farmers in thé among Utah Republicans, their oppo- northern portion of Itasca county|sition is directed chiefly against the and ‘the business men at Deer River, |state “machine”, with little reference Big Fork and Jessie Junction, and {o|to the presidential contest. Govern- which no attention was paid. The|or Spry has declared for Taft and the case was then taken up before the|Republican machine is for Taft, to- railroad and warehouse commission. |gether with their newspaper. ; * Benefit Nets $65. The benefit for the Soldiers Monu- ment given by the Brinkman theater last Saturday afternoon netted $65. A benefit will be given by the Grand these com- Indiana Teachers in Ghicago, Chicago, 111, April 4.—William J. Bryan of Nebraska, President Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago, President H. B. Brewn of | Valparaiso University and Charles A, o . _|@Greathouse, state superintendent of The Cas_s Lake Commer‘clal club's public instruction of Indiana, are hofllih.!t is off the prP:ss. The beoklet scheduled among the prominent contains 24 pages with double cover. speakers to be heard at the thirtieth Twenty-one of the pages are covered |, convention of the Northern with cuts and a one or two-line de-\yaio o tUE R O iation, which seription. underneath each. There opens in this city fonight for a three are only two and a half ‘pages of days' session. The chief reason far reading matter in the entire book, All the photographs are from origin- als taken by an expert landscape photographer ‘who was secured at con- siderable expense last fall. The cuts represent lJake and river scenery, In- dian scenes, primeval forest scenes on “What do you mean by ‘waving that Star Island, summer homes, farm|red flag and stopping the 'train?* scenes, fish and game scenes, and a:psked the irate. engineer. % few buildings. It is belleved that| “¥ou wrong us” replied Meandering the scenes—collectively, cannot be|Mike. “We was holdin’ a little meet: g ', What you saw was de new an: surpassed in beauty anywhere in the| D Whal 8 "chis state, ‘l‘: : st verslon of de Chautsugus sa: NEW BOOKLET OUT, Cass Lake Commercial Club Issues Publication, Cass Lake, April 4.—(Special)— year was to enable the teachers to inspect the Chicage schools, Elaborate Apolgs ginning to feel the effects of spring. . holding the meeting in Chicago this| BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1912. v - ANTIGIPATION FOREIGN "POPULATION 1S SHIFTING Census Figures Prepared for Minnesotd: Show Austrians, ‘Russians and Finns Have Greatest Percentage Increase, While Swed‘es Overtake i Germans for Largest Number in State. I Washington, April 4-—(Special)—Figures just issued from the census bureau on the foreign born population of Minnesota show that the increase of the foreign born population of Minnesota is gradually shifting from the Scandinavian countries to Austria, Russia and Finland. The Scandinavians | and -Germans-stiti-hold-the-lead by a wide margin-but the"Percentage in- crease for the past ten years is with the other countries. The figures are based on the census made April 15, 1¢10. The figures show that Austria has made the greatest gain in numbers and in per centage, gaining in ten years 16,356 people or three per cent. Fin- land gained 15, 875 people or three per cent; Russia gained 10,231 people, or two per cent. In the state as a whole, the Swedes show an increase of 7,036 and the Norwegians of 363. The German foreign borns fell off 15,733 and the Irish 7,434. The Germans, who held first place in 1900 with 125, 188 people, now have but 109,455 and are second to the Swedes who had second place in 1900 with 115,475 and now have first place with 122,511, The proportion of foreign born Swedes to the total foreign born population shows a decrease of two tenths of one per cent for the decade. Following is a table of the leading foreign born people showing increase and decrease for the period 1900 to 1910: Per Per Cent Cent Country 1910 1900 Difference 1910 1900 Austria . . 37,252 20,896 16,356 7 4 Finland . .. .. .. 26,602 10,727 15,875 5 2 Russia . .. .. .. 17,617 7,286 10,231 1 3 Sweden . ..122,511 115,476 7,036 22.7 22.7 Norway . . ..105,258 104,895 363 20.6 19.3 Germany . .109,455 125,188 *15,733 24.7 20.1 Ireland . .. «.... 15,859 22,425 *7,434 4.4 2.9 *Indicates decrease. Following is the table of the census bureau showing the changes for the state and for the two large cities. The table deals with only persons born in foreign countries and now living in Minnesota. Minnesota Minneapolis St. Paul Country 1910 1900 1910 1900 1910 1900 Total foreign-born - white .. 543,010 504,935 | 85,938 60,983 | 56,5624 46,748 Austria . 37,262 20,896 6,104 1,302 3,971 2,874 Belgium . 1,456 957 63 32 70 40 Bulgaria . . 1,008 ‘e 82 ‘o 32 N Canada-French . 10,977 12,047 1,637 1,702 1.067 1,012 Canada-Other . ..[ 29,592 35,380 | 5,855 5,626 | 3,216 3,539 Denmark . .. . 16,130 16,298 2,025 1,473 1,410 1,205 England . 12,136 12,018 2,798 2,288 2,136 2,002 Finland . .. 26,602 10,727 861 348 3 51 France . 1,460 1,447 293 206 276 289 Germany . 109,456 125,188 8,663 7,550 | 14,048 13,692 Greece . ........ 1,661 75 463 56 130 16 Holland . 3,642 2,714 209 96 - 194 119 Hungary . 5,310 2,182 | 1,108 681 | 1,856 659 Ireland . ....... 15,859 22,425 2,867 3,213 4,184 4,891 MAly ;. iit e i 9,668 2,223 653 222 1,994 529 Luxemburg . i 481 430 46 24 23 67 Montenegro . 1,210 yoe 120 g 22 e Norway . ... 105,258 104,895 | 16,401 11,632 4,063 2,900 Roumania . 2,008 483 1,412 417 267 5 Russia . ,,.... y 17,617 7,286 | 5,675 2,160 | 4,341 1,264 Scotland 2 4,351 4,810 1,060 8165 -666 673 Sweden . ., +| 122,611 115,476 | 26,455 20,034 11,335 9,852 Switzerland . . 3,003 3,258 319 303 544 492 Turkey (Asia) 670) 167) 171) Turkey (Burope) . 529) 126 66) 23 29) 39 Wales .., .7 iyss 1,023 1,288 213 230 73 70 Other countries not, { o specified ., , - 2,341 2,309 | 333 251 343 431 | NINE BARBERS EXAMINED, [(9#99¢6066 60066066666 T |® WITH SHEARS AND PASTE. ¢ | Work Before State Board in Order tj®®000006 asu @P® 050 ® 0 Regeive Licenses, | : I Returned Empty. Nine Bemldjl barbers were exam- “Why had that boy so long tol ined by -the state-Dboard of barbers|wait, Jane?' asked the mistress of ‘here Tuesday afternoon, The hoard|her servant, who bhad Jast taken in} |stopped off hero on its way from Du- a siphon of soda water. g |1uth to Staples. The men taking the| “Please, mum, hg wafted for the examination, which was conducted.|bottle,” .cheerlly replied Jane. in the Finch parlors, were O, St. Mar-| ~ “Bottlel What bottle? queried | tin, William Clish, Ira Clark, ‘Wil- |her mistr X 3 liam Garrison, Willlam Breen, Wi & ford Raeburn, Carl Bach, Harry. Bi chard and Arthur ‘Wittmer. During| the examination, the shop was crowded with boys and men waiting for a free haircut. mpty, so 1, ! od it ! (J:’!n I give 'im == . REALIZATION 2 immediately preceding PP AT ) e — ==— EXTRA Majority Close to 120,000. - Milwaukee, April 4 —Late primary election returns show that La Fol- lette carried this state by a majority of close to 120,000. It is said that ‘Wilson will have twenty of the twen- ty-six Democratic_delegates. . First Boat in the Lake, Captain McLachlan launched the City of Bemidji at’ 3:30 this after- noon. It was netessary to cut holes in the ice at the start but a short distance from shore the ice was thin and honeycombed and was easily broken. ‘water. . Eberhart in a Box. St. Paul, April 4.—Governor Eb- erhart is accused to having partici- pated in a conference Monday in which it was decided that the state should not have a preferential pri- mary. Governor Eberhart admits that he attended such a conference but left before the matter was brought up. Rogers Killed. Long Beach, Calif.,, April 4.—Gal- braith P. Rogers, the first aviator to cross the American continent in an aeroplane, was killed here at 3:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon’ when his biplane fell from a height of 200 feet. His body was caught beneath the en- gine and horribly mangled. He lived but a few minutes after striking the earth. Rogers had been making daily flights here for about a week. WESTERN UNION PENSIONS. Company Adopts Sliding Scale for Benefit of Employes. New York, April 4.—(Special)— A pension plan for the benefit of the Western Union Telegraph company’s | 30,000 employes was announced to- day by President Theo. N. Vail. The plan in detail is as follows: After twenty years of service and up to and including the twenty-fifth year of each service one per cent of the average salary for the ten years retirement multiplied by the total years of ser- vice. After twenty-five years of service and up to and including the thirty- fifth year of such service one and one-half per cent additional for each additional year. “After thirty-five years of service, and up to and including the fortieth year of such service two per cent ad- ditlonal for each additional year. After forty years of service fifty per cent. The minimum pension al- lowance to be $25 per month. Bx- cept ‘when otherwise directed. No pension under this plan to ex- iceed $100 per month. School Bonds Pass. Ninety-six votes were cast at the scliool bond eleetion at the Central| school last night, ninety-one. being {n favor of and five being against the bonds. The election was held to de- cide whether or - not $5,000 bon: should be issued with which to ratse The boat is entirely in the Are Planning to Hear Russell on “La Follette Progressivism” Tonight, MEETING IS OPEN T0 PUBLIC Progressive Repiiblicans are plan- ning to attend the meeting to be held in the city hall tonight at 8:30 when C. A. Russell, of Brainerd, will gpeak on “La Follette Progressivism.” Al- though the meeting has been called by La Follette men and will be ad- dressed by a La Follette supporter, it is believed that the audience will contain those who are not in favor of the Wisconsin Senator for president. Sentiment throughout this section of the state appears to be that Bel- trami county should send an unin- structed progressive delegation to the state convention at Minneapolis, May 16. Progressive Republicans Who have been seen state that they believe that progressive principles will best. be served by sending an un- instructed delegation and allowing it to use its judgment as to whether to vote for La Follette or Roosevelt, conditions on the floor of the conven- tion to govern. The meeting tonight will be open to the public. As there are many Democrats in the city that are pro- gressive, it is expected that many of them will be found in Mr. Russel’s audience. R TENSTRIKE ITEMS Mrs, M. E. Knappen writes from Des Moines that she will go to Min- neapolis for Easter and return home to Tenstrike - within a couple of weeks, A. P. Reeve moved Monday to his new home near Nebish. Mr. Reeve has been a resident here for a num- ber of years and hiag made-a number of improvements on his farm, ane of the best * of which is a silo. A. L. Morris the banker, who purchased this farm will keep a large number of dairy cows. Geo. Thompson has sold his farm four miles north o fhere for $3,000 cash. | _ Miss Nellie Shaw, one of the Blackduck teachers, visited with Goldie Eplar the first of the week. Rev. J. C. Mapson and family at- tended the Farmers Imstitute at Hines, Monday. Reverend- Audrie, of Minneapolis, and Reverend Holden of Bemidji, held services in the Presbyterian church, Sunday evening. Rev. Map- son held services at Kelliher. . NORTHERN NEWS. The “Farmers’ Club” was enter- tained by Mrs. Grover at dinner on ‘Wednesday.” The day was enjoyed by all, Mrs, Cronamiller and son, Ralph, Who has spent the winter at her home in Chicago, returned Wednes- day to spend the summer with her son Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and family are moving into their new home, Sawing for Season Begun This Morn- ing By Day Shift. Six o’clock whistles this morning gave warning that in an heur, the Bemidji mill would start sawing and the local season would be one. Whistles - took up the call until it could be heard for miles. The Be- midji milt will run a crew day and night until another winter stops op- erations. The Bemidji people are putting in an extra 10,000,000 feet at Bena and this extra cut will keep the mill hands busy two shifts a day. It is belleved that about 250 men will he employed, making the payroll about $800 per day. Misdirected Books. The post office sale of misdirected books, which formed no inconsider able part of the $10,000 worth of mis cellanegus articles disposed of. by auction in last year's clearance sale of poatal matter of unascertainable owis ership, amounted to 1,222 pack: Nearly every language spoken in our broad land was represented in the eollection, “which included;, &s a spe- clal curiosity, a Choctaw version of the Book of Psalms, In the entire lot Bibles and books on religlous topics predominated. -~ 2 1,000 books were 18 or formerly the residence of F. W. Smith’s family. 3 BEMIDJT MILL STARTS, Other j token of their good will. TEN CENTS PER WEEK PROGRESSIVES T0 ATTEND|| ICENSE REVOKED AND IS SENTENCED Louis Anderson Must Cease Business, Pay $100 and Serve Sixty Days in Jail. —_— GUILTY ON TWO CHARGES Kept Drinking Place Open on Sun- day and Also Sold Liguors to A Minor. OTHERS ARE TO BE TRIED SO00N Edwin Gearlds and John Flately Un- der Indictments on Similar Charges. License revoked, fined $100 and sentenced to spend sixty days in the county jail are the penalties Louis Anderson must pay for violating city and state laws. Mayor Malzahn re- voked the licemse last night and Judge Stanton passed the sentences vesterday afternoon. Anderson is ths first of three men, the others being Edwin Gearlds and John Flately, to be tried on saloon law- violations, In passing sentence yesterday, Judge Stanton stated that the ex- treme penalty for the first offense, that of being open on Sunday, was a fine of $100 or a jail sentence and that he sentenced Anderson to pay $100 fine or thirty days in the coun- ty jail. For the second offense, that of selling liquor to a minor, the said extreme penalty was $1,000 fine or one year imprisonment, and that he would sentence him to sixty days in the county jail. - = It was Brought put in- the irial and Anderson’s attorney also told the Jjudge that others had done the same thing, but this was not considered an excuse for Anderson. The conviction of Anderson is the first to be secured by the new city administration work- ing with the county authorities. Chief Geil has stated that the police can- not get evidence of violations prior to their assuming their duties as po- lice. The cases against Gearlds and Flately will probably be tried next week. Anderson has been out on bonds since his indictment but was com- mitted to the county jail last night. GIVE DUMAS A PIPE Cass Lake Council Presents Retiring President With Token of Good Will, NEW APPOINTMENTS MADE Cass Lake, April 4—Special— Tuesday: evening the old village council met for the last time under former president D.F. Dumas. Un- finished business was taken care of and just before adjournment Council- man H. N. Harding on behalf of his associates and himself on the coun- cil, presented the retiring president with a fine Meershaum pipe as a Dr. Dumas answered in a brief speech very feel- ingly, and it was evident that he was deeply touched by the action of his associates. After his speech the council ad- journed and the mew council under Andy W. Johnson held their first meeting. - Mayor Johnson’s appointments were all ratified by the council un- animously as follows: Smith, chairman board of health, succeeding Dr. G. A. Christensen; Wwho had been chairman for several years; Jos. Johnston and Geo. Lydick as other members of the board of health; J. E. Lundrigan was reap- pointed village attorney; George Dederick was reappointed village marshal; James Leary was appointed marshal to succeed Fred L. Warner. ‘The president ~also appointed the following standing committees for the year: jail, fire hall and fire de- partment, Oman and Jones; ~ streets and alleys, Harding and Oman; or- dinances, Carter and Harding; cemetery, Carter and Jones. Dr. Wm. H. ~