Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 10, 1912, Page 1

| + | 1 [ ae (£} e "y 'MILLERS e VOLUME 9. NUMBER 293. A. A. CLUBS AGAIN IN PENNANT RACE Tenth Season Since Organization of the Circulit to Start This Afternoon. ‘FANS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC ‘Bad Weather of Training Weeks Does Not Dampen Ardor of the Team Followers. EXPECT . TO0O WIN .Appear Confident That They Will Lead The Association For Third Successive Time. Indianapolis, Ind.,, April 10.— While major league cohorts are ab- sorbed in anticipation of the open- ing of the season in their respective circuits tomorrow, the fans of the American Association have their long anticipated opportunity today. None the less marked in point of interest and enthusiasm the followers of Tom Chivington’s circuit start on what promises to be the most successful of all A, A. seasons. In the initial contests today Kan- sas City plays at Columbus, Milwau- kee at Toledo, Minneapolis at Louis- ville and St. Paul in Indianapolis. The schedule which is the tenth of the association, calls for a season of 168 games, with September 23 as the date for the curtain to fall. Reports from about the circuit in- dicate that the outlook is one of optomism, notwithstanding the fact that all of the teams were handi- capped in their training by bad weather. Though the early opening date left little time to complete the work of preparation the teams swing into action today with every indica- tion point to a spirited race. Mud Hen fans, Saints enthusiasts and follow- ers of the Brewers, Cowboys, Millers, Senator, Colonels and Honsiers all have their eyes towards an eventual pennant-winning team. Minneapolis expects to cop its third successive pennant. Toledo, un- der the management of “Topsy” Hart- sell, looks good to finish well to the front of the race. Milwaukee, Indi- anapolis and Kansas City will be sur- prised if they fail to finish in this first division. The real strength of the Columbus club has yet to be test- ed, and the Louisville and St. Paul teams have problems to solve before they can hope to win. BASEBALL NOTES. Joe Delehanty, who was with To- ronto last season, has signed with the Atlanta Southern League club. The Pittsburgh club has released Pitcher Grover to the Hartford (Conn.) club and Pitcher Everett and Outfielder Irvin to Montreal. Must be something to this young Mr. Russell, the Baltimore pitcher, when he can make the Philadelphia Nationals lay down and play dead. Pitcher Howard Northrop, cham- pion flipper of the Tri-State League, looks good enough to become a reg- ular with the Chicago Cubs. Steve Yerkes may land a regular job at second base fer the Boston Red Sox. He has been covering the bag this spring and doing the work in July form. Manager Wolverton, of the High- landers, figures that his pitching staff will be able to put the art of fence- busting out of business this season. Owner Charley Somers, of Cleve- land club, has not given up the idea] of securing Moriarty, of the Detroit Tigers. With Turner crippled the Naps are weak at third base. The chances are that Rath and ‘Weaver will start the season in the infield for the White Sox, with the western Tannehill ready to jump in, in case the youngsters blow. President Ward, of the Boston Browns, says he would not trade Vin Campbell for Ty Cobb, and that in Miller, Campbell and Jackson he has the greatest outfield in the country. Bill Dahlen’s Brooklyn outfit has had a hard time to get in condition this spring. Rain and snow followed the Superbas from town to town and made ball playing Dpractically impos- sible. Harry McLean says he intends to cateh every game played by the Cin- cinnati Reds this season. Harry is twenty pounds lighter than he was last season, is working hard and showing Hank O’Day what a real backstop looks like. A story is going the rounds to the effect that Joe Cantillon has a quart 0300000600006 0606 @ CURRENT EVENTS. N4 ORORORCRCECRCECR R R R K] Want Horse Shoers to Be Licensed. Hartford City, Ind., April 10.—One of the most important subjects to be considered at the fourteenth annual convention of the Indiana Horse- shoers and Blacksmiths, which op- ened here today for a session of two days, will be the proposition to ask the legislature for the passage of a law which will require all horse- shoers to obtain state licenses. The object of the plan is to elevate the trade and to protect the public from the effect of poor and unskilled work- manship. * General Booth is 83. London, April 10.—Congratulatory messages from all parts of the world, including felicitous notes of greecting from King George and Queen Mary, were received by General Booth to- day on the occasion of his eighty- third birth day anniversary. The venerable founder of the Salvaticn Army recently concluded a Continen- tal tour and is now planning avisit to America next fall. Much depends, however, upon the outcome of on op- eration that is soon to be performed on his left eye. This operation, Gen- eral Booth has been assured, will not be attended with serious risk, and promises to give him an old man’s sight for one eye. At present he can- not see his audiences, but if it is suc- cessful he will be able to do a certain amount of writing and even reading after a time. » Missionary Work for South. Washington, D. C., April 10.—Sev- jeral hundred women, diréctly or in- directly connected with the mission- ary work of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, gathered at the Mount Vernon Place church in this city today to attend the opening ses- sion of the second annual meeting of the Southern Episcopal Woman’s Missionary council. The organiza- tion is the woman’s department of the general board of missions of the M. E. church south and the meeting which will occupy a full week, will be mainly devoted to the receiving of reports from the various mission fields and thé planning of the wom- en’s missioniary work for the coming year. Miss Belle H. Bennett, of Richmond, Ky., is the presiding offi- cer. There will be three sessions daily and on the last day of the meet- ing President and Mrs. Taft will re- ceive the délegates at the White House. ing. The “Rube” has caused man- agers too much trouble for Joe even to think of such a foolish thing. Honus Wagner and Mike Donlin, of the Pirates, represent two ex- tremes in men’s scenery. Mike chang-| es his clothes three or four times a day, while a slouch hat and a soft collar is Wagner’s swellest makeup. Still the Flying Dutchman is there when it comes to sport. He is a first- class crack shot, a basket ball expert, & hockey player, clever at golf, a skill- ful auto driver and takes down $10,- 000 for six months_work on the dia- mond. HER LUCK NOT ALL DESERVED Printed Prayer Responsible for Re- turn of Pocketbook Only There by Accident. She had been paying visits most ot the afternoon, and on reaching home and putting away her wraps she dis- covered that her cardcase was miss- ing. In it had been a dollar or two, her cards and a certified check for $200, which she had intended to de- posit, but had been too, late for her bank. “Heavens,” she exclaimed, “shall 1 ever see it again?” and sat down in her despair to think over everywhere she had been and might have left it. Suddenly the telephone bell rang. “Are you Miss Blank, and have you lost anything?” inquired the person at the other end. “Yes; 1 have just discovered the loss of my cardcase.” “What was In it?” sald the voice. “My cards, some money, a certified check for $200, and, oh, yes! a little prayer on a slip of paper. Did. you see that?” “Yes,” said the voice; ‘I picked the case up. And just let me tell you that it was that prayer that has brought your property back to you.” The cardcase owner heaved a sigh of relief and thought how lucky it was for her that a Catholic friend had slipped the little printed. prayer lnto ber cardcase last summer. Good Definition of Wit. ‘Wit is the power to say what every- body else was just goihg to have said. if they had happened to think of it. Light of the Soul. The light by which we see this world comes out of the soul of the observer.—Emerson. Bad Exerclse. Exerclelng a bad temper makes it of whiskey on the bench for Rube| worse and pulling 8 log is likely t4 ‘Waddell when the “Rube” is work- 'oause mmuu bowler, a billiard player, af.z CONGRESS EXCITED tion Point or Question” Mark For Memorial, Causes Hot Debate Among Cap- itol ‘Rhetaricians, BODY PLACED IN Being Prepared at Annapolis—Mon- ument To Be Placed In the Potomac Park, By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.—In the midst of all the debates and bickerings on the tariff and appropriate bills and all the tu- mult and shouting of politics Wash- ington is finding time to have some ex- citement over a matter of interroga- tion marks and exclamatlon points: The burning issue is how the inscrip- tlon on the John Jaul Jones statue to be erected in Potomac park shall be punctuated. While a crypt suitable to receive the body of the great naval hero is being prepared at Annapolis, the capital is seeking also to set up a monument, and, of course, the literarians are casting ' about for suitable lines to be inscribed on the plinth. According to the Washing- ton idea, a public memorial was not all plastered with inscriptions would be no memorial at all, so of course the usual collection may -be expected on the Jones statue. The controversy is over the cele- brated reply of Jones to the inquiry of the Serapis it he was ready to sur- render. It will be recalled that the Bon Homme Richard was an unsea: warthy old Indlan merchantman ‘when she was as: ed -to Jomee by .the French government, and her equip- ment was go outclassed by that of the Serapis that the only chance of the American commander was to fight at close range. So demoralized were affair on the Bon Homme Richard that an under-officer lost his head and re- leased a score or so of British pris- oner, who ran to tear down the col- ors, and might have embarrassed the American commander still more had not Lieutenant Dale set them at work et the pumps to save their lives. Many of his guns had been silenced, the en- | tire sides of his vesesl were shot away and the ship was afire when Jones was hailed by Captain Pearson with the demand, “Do you surren- der?” Question or Exclamation? his own account of the battle ¢ states that his reply was some- to this effect: “I do not, but I tritend to make you surrender.” Lieu- tenant- Dale, who also wrote an ac- count of the battle, ascribed to Jones the more spirited reply: “Surrender! 1 have just begun to fight.” It 1s over this world-famous phrase that the second battle rages. The con- testants do not hesitate to substitute the words of Dale for those of Jones, for the phrase is more striking, but, in the opinion of the critics, the writer of the inscription proposes to weaken the retort by means of second rate punctuation. Ignoring the peculiar punch and force of the exclamation point as compared with the quotation mark, he proposes that Jones' reply, Yankee-llke, begin with a question, and then he would fire a second rhetorical barrel by. exploding an ex- clamation point at the end of the sen- tence. Thus, waving aside the historical accuracy of the Jomes quctation, it would stand thus: “Surrender? 1 have only begun to fight!” Instead of thus: “Surrender! 1 have only begun to «fight.” Not very much, to be sure, on which to start a feud, yet, on the other hand, enough to make things hum a little when one has nothing else to do. 0ld Doctor Johnson tore open the literary heavens of his tinfe for less things than this, and even should the contest end disastrously for somebody, the flow would be of tears rather than of blood. Majority for Question Mark. The exclamation point agitators have put up their case to the authori- ties in charge and have been gravely informed that they do, not win. The question marks appears to have a'ma- Jority of the delegates, and there is no evidence to show that their con- vention was not regularly called under the approved rules of the national committee. The case can hardly be taken up to congress, for what con- gress does not know -about ‘punctua- tion must be supplied by tMe proof- readers of the government printing of- fice. Neither can the navy department take a hand, for it has a John Paul Jones memorial of its own, and one trouble at a time is enough. Speaking of the Jones memorfal at Annapolis, by the way, the inscription to be attached to that has bean select- €d by a ma of the art. It avoids OVER INSCRIPTION t Unable to Decide Between Exclama- ' ON JOHN PAUL JONES STATUE!. Punctuation of Naval Hero’s Reply | CRYPT| that | (Copyright.) v GRAY CHOSEN PRESIDENT Rod and Gun Club Elects Him to Succeed Symons—Heffron Secretary. FIRST SHOOT ! W. A, Gray was chosen president af the Rod and Gun club at its an- nual meeting Monday night. He suc- G»Ed! T, R. Synions. - Other officers dlectedlwern»r L. Heffron, seerptary L. .G, Crothers, treasurer; Tom Sy- mons, field captain, and Dell' Bur- gess, assistant field captain. Friday was chosen as the regular day for practice shooting at the local grounds and the first practice will be held next Friday afternoon at three o’clock. The members urge a good: attendance and invite all who are interested in sports, especially hunting, to be present. Thomas Symons and T: Bailey were appointed a committee of two to confer with the Interstate association regarding the holding of a meeting in Bemidji the coming summer. May Get State Shooters Here. The regular state shoot will be held at Warroad July 25 and 26 and from there the club will go to Bau- dette, then to International ¥alls and it is hoped by the local club that the state club can be induced to stop at Bemidji before returning to the Twin Uities. ing itself to a single virile phrase which in & line gives Jones the pio- neer place among American naval heroes and at the same time exalts him to the highest ranks. It is this: “He was the first to give to our navy the traditions of herolsm and vic- tory.” - Literally. Mrs. Flatt—What did you say to the Janitor, dear? Mrs. Flatt—I told him he could make some warm ffiends if he would only turn on a little heat. A Difference. “Have they tastes in common.” “Nb, but their tustes are common.” As They 8ee Us In England. Political riots in America are car rled out in a thoroughgoing fashion. Lord Rosebery tells a story of a triend of his who visited Baltimore when an election for congress was in progress. Turning in for a shave he complained to the negro barber that his razor was very blunt. “Vurry likely, sir,” was election ‘meeting.”—London Chronicle. : The Divine Law. . And whai is the divine law to a man? To hold fast that which is his own, and to claim nothing that is an other’s; to use what {s given him, and not to-covet what is not given; to yield up easily and willingly what is taken away, giving thanks for the time he has had It in his service— Enlctetus. 5 Genlus and Its Tribulations, “Geniun,” says the = Washington Post, “Is the most curious psycholog- ical nhenmunon with which = the | mind of man has ever grappled.”: And the great trouble is that the mind of Nan never can be sure even while the grappling is filltlenlnlll Teally. NEXT FRIDAY any competition fn language by confin- | the reply; “I was out last night at an | | EXTRA Convention Dates. County Democratic conventions are to be held May 29 and presidential caucuses, May 25. The dates were set by the state central committee. . Sweep For Teddy. Chicago, April 10.—Roosevelt’s vote in-the primary held here yester- day was nearly five to two tc that of Taft. The dele.gtg! .will be elected at later meetings ane elterg.y’s vote only. results- in-showing party leaders what the people want. - Clark won over Wilson by a large margin. Roosevelt headquarters now claim delegates thus far elected as follows: Roosevelt, 66; Taft,38; La Follette, TGOPHER SCHOOLS PRAISED Spokane - Editorial Commends The Manner in Which Agriculture " Is Taught. BANKERS ARE LAUDED Minnesota, which has twenty-five high schools teaching agriculture and -Which has reached twelfth place as a grower_of malze and-also increased its ontput of dllry products remark- ably, partly as the result of their ser- vice, is given full credit for its prog- ress in a leading editorial in the 36; Cummins, 4; uninstructed, 94; contested, 116, HOME PLAY SUCCESSFUL. Blackduck Talent Pleases Audience at Catholic Church Benefit. Blackduck, April 10.—(Special)— “The Two Burglars,” a home talent play, was given for the benefit of the Catholic church last night and proved to be pleasing and successful finan- cially. After the play-an orchestra played for a dance. The postal savings bank - opened yesterday morning. Mrs. E. L. Oberg and Mrs. J. M. Freeburg left Monday evening for St. Paul as delegates to the Sunday Schol convention being held there this wee. Mrs. C. W. Dudley accompan- ied them. T. A. Cross and H. M. Latteral are visiting in the Twin Cities. Mrs. J. E. Dade has returned from a visit at Littlefork with her par- cnts.. She was accompanied by her niece, Miss Esther- McKenzie. REV. 0'DWYER’S MOTHER DEAD. Succumbs After an Operation in a Private Hospital in Dublin, Word has been receive(’i announc- ing the death on March 27 of Mrs. O’Dwyer of Derry House, Kilshanny, in a Dublin hospital. ~ She was the mother of Rev. John O’Dwyer, form- erly pdstor of the St. Philips’ church of this city. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in that scction of the country, interment being made in the family burying ground at Kil- shanny, Thursday, March 29th. Expedition Across Greenland. The Swiss Soclety of Naturalists is raising funds to enable Dr. A. de Quervain to undertake a_ journey across the' inland ice of Greenland, from Disco bay, on the west coast, to Angamagsalik, the ~ only ‘inhabited il place on the east coast. The expedi- tion expects to leave Furope on the ‘gteamer Hans Egede April 1, 1912, and to start eastward from Disco bay the middle of, June. It is expected that four weeks will be required for the Journey, but provisions for twice that time will be carried. Two members of the expedition are to remain ‘on the| west coast of Greenland until - the spring of 1913 to carry on glaciological and aerological studies—the latter in connection with stmilar observati that are to be made at the same time d, and in Spitsbergen. - lr“me «east coast of Greenland, in- Spokane . Spokesman - Review, in which Dr, Edward Perry Noble says among other things: “The Roosevelt commission on rur- al life in the United States _ found that ‘everywhere there is a demlnd that education be relative to living and that rural schools educate by means of agricultural subjects.’ “The bankers’ associations, it is maintained, never took up a subject that has met with more hearty in- dorsement from bankers or been more popular than the betterment of Amer- ican farming. Minnesota bankers found that agricultural states are educating only six of every thousand children to be producers. “The committee therefore con- cludes that our boys and girls should be taught the dignity and desirable- ness of life on the farm and that farm, rightly managed, contains more opportunities for happines and prosperity than ary other calling of- fers. “No work means so much to the prosperity of the states and the na- tion as agricultural advancement.” “|ACTION AGAINST TEN CENTS PER WEEK. HAZEN IS TAKEN Flatley's Attorney Files Afidavit of Prejudice on Beltrami shfi'lfl. . SPECIAL VENIRE ORDERED Coroner Ibertson Instructed to Re- turn Twenty-five Men at 9 A, M. Thursday. GEARLDS CASE (CLOSING Rebuttal Being Heard and Will Probably Be Finished Before Adjournment Tonight, ———— John Gibbons, attorney for John Flately, this afternoon filed an affi- davit of prejudice against Sherig Hazen. The affidavit is said to be an outgrowth of the Flately trial of last week which resulted in & disagree- ment of the jury after it had been out twenty-eight hours. Judge Stan- ton this afternoon ordered then a special venire of twenty-five men be called and that the papers be-given - to Coroner Ibertson for service. The venire is returnable at 9 a. m. Thurs- day morning. Rebuttal testimony and arguments in the case of the state against Ed- win Gearlds were heard thie after- noon. At press time the ease had not gone to the jury but it is believed that the arguments will have been ade befare court adjourns tonight. The second Flately trial will be start- ed tomorrow. 2 Big Land Sale. . Over 3,000 acres of state land were sold today in the monthly sale held by Theodore Nelson, manager of the .{ido a year ago SPUR ITEMS. Miss Esther Krohfi, Jessie Dodge, Nettie Gerlinger and Charles Ger- linger returned to Bemidji Monday morning to resume their school work after having spent the Easter vaca- tion ‘at their respective homes. Miss Stella Minton spent last Sat- urday, Sunday and Monday in Bemid- 3. George Knott and family moved up from Bemidji Saturday to take pos- session of the farm which they re- cently purchased from F. O. Perrin. At the Christian Endeavor busi- ness meeting last Wednesday even- ing the following officers were elect- jfew days of last ed: President ....... Vice-president . ...Rachel Gerlinger Sec. and tress. .......Nellie Knott Committee chairmen: Jessie Dodge, Jessie Johnston, Charles Gerlinger, Nettie Gerlinger. ‘The regular C. E. meetings were begun again Sunday evening. Meet- ings will be held each Sunday even- ing at 7 p. m. Last Sunday afternoon ‘A number of people met at the home of Rev. S. Smith, where Mr. Smith delivered a brief Easter sermon. Mr. Smith has .Lawrence Dodge land sales department of the state au- ditor’s office. Because of the trial in the court room, the sale was keld in the city hall. The highest price paid was by Wes Wright who took forty acres at $26.75 per acre. The price averaged $7 per acre. A sale was held at Internetional Falls Monday and 15,000 acres were taken by buyers. The next sale will be held here May 8. Mr. Nelson will hold a sale in Walker Friday and one in Grand Rapids on Monday. He says that the price of state land is rising each year. Girls Busy Leap Year. The books in the clerk of court’s office show that forty-nine marriage licenses have been issued since Jan- uary first, but that for the same per- the number twenty-nine. This would apparently indicate that the Beltrami county girls are taking advantage of leap year. A license was issued today to Henry Scott and Mary Evelyn Adams. PINEWOOD. Mr. Jackson, of Solway, and Mr. Nims of Bagley, were callers ir Pine- wood Friday. -Martin Johnson spent Thursday in Bemidji. E. Diseth received the contract for building the new school house in Pinewood. Work will begin soon. Miss Alice Smith spent Easter with her parents near Leonard. Conrad and Otto Nelson spent a eek in Scribmer. Mrs. J. C. Park¥§ and daughter El- Ia and Miss Marfé"Burke of Bemidji, were guests at Sthol’s Monday. A large crowd gathered at the che church Sunday to attend the Eas- ter services by Rev. Parke of Shev- lin. N T. 0. Gelen went to Bemidji Mon- day. Matt. Berg went to Thief River Fallg, Monday. Mr. Clausen and family of Wilton were callers in Pinewood Wednes- day. Halvor Peterson and wife mnt Friday in Bemidji. Mr. Bratvold went to Bemidji on business Friday. ¢ Mrs. H. Dodge and children re- turned Thursday from Gonvick when they have been lemng the past month, Miss Mary Hetland of (bnvick is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. Dodn. Adolph Gelsner, the clerk ‘at Rog- ers in Wilton, was a Plnawmd caller Monday. - : Misses Elsle and Helen mm of Pinewood went to Bemidji on Mon- was _ | ~ 1