Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 15, 1912, Page 1

TH -~ VOLUME 9. NUMBER 297. IMPORTANT CROP. SEEDS ARE SCARCE A. J. McGuire Says That A Dollar Invested Now Will Return Tenfold. DAIRY' HERD IS PROFITABLE Thirty-one Cows Each Made a Profit of $46.65 Excluding All of the By-Products. POTATOES MEAN READY CASH Says Market Is Moving Steadily to the North and Acre Yield Is Large. A. J. McGuire, superintendent of the experimental station at Grand Rapids has issued a bulletin which should be of interest to farmers of this section. The bulletin follows: “The three most important crops in northeastern Minnesota are clov-| er, fodder corn and potatoes. The seed for each of these crops this spring is scarce and high priced, but no farmer should change his plan for seeding them on account of the high price of seed. A dollar invested in seed for any of these crops, may be made to return $10 and more in the crop. “Clover seeded on the Experiment al farm at Grand Rapids in 1911 cost $1.60 per acre for seed. In October this clover seeded in the spring (with a grain crop), was pastured with dairy cows. It provided pas- ture at the rate of one acre for thir- ty cows for one day without injury to the next year’s hay crop. It pro- duced twenty-two pounds of butter for each acre pastured, worth $5.50. This alone, was more than three times the value of the clover seed, not counting the 1912 hay crop. “Fodder corn on the Experiment farm in 1911 yielded from ten to fifteen tons of green fodder per acre. One bushel of seed was used for seed for three years. This spring Minne- sota grown seed corn is very high priced, but varieties grown farther south may be used for fodder corn, and this seed may be purchased from the large seed houses at from $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel. “The dairy herd on the Experi- mental form, consisting of thirty- one cows, averaged in 1911 5,356 pounds of milk per cow, and 253 pounds of butter per cow. These cows are only representatives of such cows as the average farmer may have. They were fed largely en clov- er and fodder corn, most of the fod- der corn in the form of ensilage. The value of the butter at the local mar- ket price was $77.90 per cow. The cost of feed was $31.24 per cow, leaving a profit above the cost of feed of $46.65. Dairying can be made a very profitable business for the farmers of northeasfern Minne- sota who will regularly grow the two above mentioned crops, clover and fodder corn. “Potatoes on the Experimental farm in 1911 yielded 250 bushels per acre. Carmen variety. 500 bushels have been sold on the local market at 75c per bushel. 1,000 bushels dre still on hand which will probably bring one dollar per bushel. The cost :of growing the potato crop, in- cluding seed, labor and rent of land, was about $25 per acre. Potatoes are the cash crop for the farmers of northern Minnesota. Farmers should not rush in for a big crop this spring because they are high priced, but should start out to annually grow as many acres as can be given pwoper attention and care. The potato mar- ket “is moving north, and the farm- er who will grow potatoes regularly, will profit thereby.” USED LIVE CHICKENS. Phil Kock Took Two Birds as Illus- trations in Saturday Night Talk. Two White Orpingtons, owned by Glenn Conger, were used by Phil Kock Saturday night in his lecture before the poultry club. Mr. Kock took the biids as examples, pointing out marks which tell good chickens from bad. The meeting was well at- tended and the date for the next one set for May 14. Wage Increase for 2,000. Willimantie, Conn., April 15.—A ten per cent wage increase was put into effect today at the mills of the American Thread company here. More than 2, 000 operatives are ben- efited. EXTRA HITS AN. ICE BERG World’s Largest Liner Sinking as Result of Collision While on Maiden Voyage. MESSAGE BY WIRELESS Minneapolis, April 15.—(Special Pioneer wire service)—The White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship the coast of Nova Scotia today and is in a sinking condition. The Ti- tanic was west bound on her maiden voyage. Responding to wireless calls, the steamship Virginia is rushing to the aid of the Titanic but little hope-is expressed that she will be in time. The last wireless message from the stricken ship contained the one word, “Sinking.” The -Titanic was completed the first of last week at a cost of several millions ‘of dollars and this voyage was her first. She has on board ov- er 4,000 passengers and a crew of about 900, making a floating popu- lation of about 5,000 souls. Among those who sailed on the ship are Alfred Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Major Archi- bald Butt, aide to President Taft, Millett, the artist, President Hayes, of the Grand Trunk railroad, W. T. Stead, Benjamin Guggenheim, and four Minneapolis people whose names cannot be learned, COPPOPOOOQOQRQOOOP®P® 4 BEMIDJI BRIEFS. @ POPVPVOOOOOOOO O Erects Portable Garage. Charles Vandersleus, Bemidji av- enue and Tenth street has had erect- ed a new steel auto garage on the rear of his lot. Mr. Vandersleus an- ticipates buying an automobile i that near future. . Ice Piles Up. Ice piled up on Diamond Point to the heighth of eight or ten feet Sat- urday because of the stiff-east wind which had been blowing. The pan held solid, however, and boat houses nearer town were uninjured. Hitchcock to Resign, Chicago, April 13.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington says: Postmaster General Frank H. Hitch- cock will resign as a member of President Taft’s cabinet before July 1 next. He will enter business in New York city. It is understood he will receive a salary of $25,000 a year. . Teddy Wins Again. Philadeiphia, April 15.—Roosevelt has defeated Taft in the Pennsylvan- ia primaries and will control a ma- Jjority of the seventy-six delegates to the republican national convention. estimates varying from fifty-two to sixty-five. Woodrow Wilson will have the entire delegation of seven- ty-six to_the democratic national con- vention. - Runaway Horse Hurt. One of the Schroeder milk teams ran away Satfirday morning, starting on Dewey avenue and came to a halt in front of the Doctor Stanton resi- dence on Bemidji avenue. One of the horses were hurt and a small express wagon belonging to the Hak- kerup boys was damaged. It is re- ported that one of the boys was in the cart when struck by the run- away, but was uninjured. . Banker Pleads Guilty. Detroit, Mich., April 17.—Henry M. Dearing, formerly cashier of the Albion National bank, and his son, Palmer M. Dearing of Albion, Michi- zau) today in the United States dis- trici court pleaded guilty to an in- dictment charging forgery, fraud and misapprcpriation of thé funds of the wrezkad bank. Sentence will be pro- aourced by Judge Angell next Wed- nesday. . Indian Woman Chief. Spokane. Wash., April 15.—Mrs. George Stwire Waters, wife of the head chief of the Yakima Indian reservation, - today is the proudest! woman in central Washington, hav- ing been designated as a chief. This ig the first time that an Indian wom- an has been honored by selection to any office on the reservation. Mrs. Waters was educated in an eastern school and is a bright woman. The title was conferred by President Taft, the official advices being con- tained in & letter to the tribe from Representative W. B, McKinley. in the world, struck an ice berg ofll GOVERNMENT MAY PROTECT WILD FOWL Two Bills Introduced In Congress to Guard All the Migratory Birds, SPRING SHOOTING IS AN EVIL Comes in Mating Season -and Many Pairs are Broken By Poor Sportsmen, ARE BEING EXTERMINATED Once Immense Flocks Are Being Rapidly Reduced to Point of Exhaustion, By GEORGE CLINTON. ‘Washington. — Representative An- thony of Kansas, representing the west, and Representative Weeks of Massachusetts, representing the east, have iIntroduced into congress two bills to save the wild fowl of the Unit. ed States, which under the onslaught of the gunners are likely before long to be exterminated. Years ago it was thought that the wild ducks, the gee: the brant, the snipe, the quail and the other game birds were so plentiful in the United States that the supply never would be exhausted, but today it is a different tale and the fear of the sportsmen and bird lovers is that posterity will know of many of the game birds of America only by tradi- tion. It must be remembered that the United States has control In the in- dividual states only in certain mat- ters, largely matters which affect in- terstate commerce. The Weeks' and Anthony bills both are based on the right of Uncle Sam to regulate the commerce of the United States. Mi- gratory birds fly from one state to another. Hence by what is perhaps a have'the right to bring the birds un- | der federal control. Need of Protection Not Denied. No Democrat or Republican has been found in congress to deny that the migratory birds need protection. They start on their northward journey in the spring just prior to the mating season, many of them in fact mating on the way, and all along the line of flight in, on and over upland, marsh and forest, they are made targets of double-barrel and repeating shotguns. For years sportsmen of the proper spirit and the bird protective organi zations have tried to induce the leg- islatures of the different states to pass laws prohibiting spring shooting. If & law of this kind had been passed by every state tem years ago and en- forced. Uncle Sam would not feel to- day the necessity of becoming a game warden for the country. Spring shoot- ing 18 recognized by everybody who knows anything about bird life as an evil. Several states have forbidden the killing of migratory birds during the time of the northern flight, but other states have refused to stop the spring slaughter, the refusal being due in most cages to the pressure brought to bear on the legislators by the ap- peals of hunters. Some real sports- men have held that with the spring hooting cut out there would be no shooting at all in their sections of the country. Why the Bills Are Opposed. There is, considerable opposition in congress to the passage of either bill to give the federal authoritles power to protect the game. The opposition springs from the belief of some of the members that either law proposed ‘would constitute an “invasion of state rights.” The necessity of the law is admitted, but its constitutionality is doubted. It is held generally, how- ever, that unless Uncle Sam does act and the states rights quibble is dropped, there wfll in a decade be few birds to protect. Representative Anthony has said that if congress thinks that the bill of Mr. Weeks is better than his bill, he hopes that it will be accepted and passed. The Kansas man’s bill fixes & closed season for game in all parts of the United States from January 10 to August 15 of each year and provides a penalty of not less than $100 or more thnn $1,000 for a violation of the act.’ Seemingly the Weekn measure, from the sportsman’s and the bird protec- tor’s point of view, is preferable. I permits members of the biological sur- Vey of the department of agriculturq to fix various periods of non- shooting in different parts of the country lu accordance with the known flight hab: its of the birds. It is-entirely possible that under this provision sportsmen in sections of the country where there is shooting at only one time of the yea; might be allowed to have their day or days afleld without injuring the general cause of protection. The spe: clalists of the biological survey are men who want to secure the co-opera- tion of sportsmen in all parts of = -waukee “te 666069 & D 04 4 mmwom SPORT. 0006606066066 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League. St. Louis, 5; Chicago, 4. Pittsburgh, 7; Cincinnati, 11. 3 St. Loufs, 4; Chicago, 1. Cleveland, 0; Detroit, 1. American Association. Columbus, 5; Miwaukee, 4. Louisville, 2; St.<Paul, 0. Minneapolis, 12; lndianapolis, 3 Toledo, 0; Kansas City, 3 RESULTS ON SATURDAY. Amencan Association. R H E StAPanl Lt a1l 187 8 Indlanapolis . ...:, . 1165 ! R. H. E. Columbus (10 innings) .. 2 9 0 Kansas City ............ 111 1 R. H. E Milwaukee . <..........'9 10 1 Toledo .. .......vifisiec. 2 6.8 National League. H. E. New York .......... 5 0 Brooklyn .. ...... Shaenie s 9 3 e Wi e o B S Philadelphia . ....! 2 Boston . ..... TR R 4 H. E. St. Louis ........ifueysn 9 3 Pittsburgh . .., 13- H. E. American St. Louis ... -2 3 .2 Chicago . . -0 53 Detroit . .12 13 3 Cleveland . - 411 9 Boston . .8 7 2 New York . .4 5 4 BASEBALL NOTES. Magee being injured in a practice .game is surely a case of tough luck for Charley Dooin and his Quaker! and. Manager Harry Wolverton will keep himself in trim in order to act the role of utility lnflelder ror hxs Highlanders. Manager Hugh Duffy; of the Mu~ “has_ sign®d ~Pitcher Hume who worked in the Wisconsin Tllinois League last season. Elmer Stricklett, the inventor of the spitball, has been relensed by Brooklyn to the Binghamton team of the New York State League. Whether the Superbas will start their games at home at 3:30, 3:45 or 4 o'clock will be decided by a vote of the Brooklyn fans. Foster, who is playing third base for the Nationals, is a “ringer” for Kid Elberfeld in the field, and is a faster runner than “Old Tobasco.” It is said the Athletics have a su- perstition that they won’t win the American League pennant if they wallop the Quakers 'in the spring series. Pitcher Nick Maddox, the former Pirate, has refused to join Charlie Carr’s Kansas City team, and will play semi-professional ball this sea- son. New York scribes are sweet on “Cozy” Dolan, a third base recruit, with the Highlanders. They claim he is made of the right stuff and will shine in fast company. With Miller on first base, Manag- er Clarke of the Pirates will have to use either McCarthy or Viox on the second station. Both boys have been displaying fine work. Miss Virginia Kling, the six-year old daughter .of Pilot John Kling, is the official ' mascot of the Boston Braves, while Jake Stahl, Jr., age 4, holds the same position with the Boston Red Sox. The Indiana and Ohio league was recently organized and will have teams in Richmond and Union City, Ind., and Greenville, Sidney, Urbana and Piqua, Ohio. Bob Spade, ths former Cincinnati pitcher, will man- age the Greenville team. * During the coming two weeks a large number of ‘youngsters now -be- ing tried out in the big show will [be shipped back to' the minors, as each major league club is allowed but twenty-five men on the club roster from May 1 to-August 20. . President Charley Murphy of the Cubs, says that in. Chance, Evers, Tinker and Lennox he has the great- est infield in the world. Perhaps Charles has made it a little too strong by saying the “greatest,” but you have to admit it is certainly some infield. Tulep that would work as littie hard.: ship possible tq.the men who:love Bport. Recently the’committee on alm:ul- the house gave-a hearing.on ks and Anthony bills: There ‘Wwere present. sportsmen; and -hird om all parts of the . Unlted 1 the ![twsec on behsif of ost of them were aus country in protective work. They | have been trying for years to secure | taken | this co-operation and it can for granted that they Would " ALEX- M'KENZIE. There are 1,070 full-bloods and 2,448 mixed-bloods on the present official roll of the White Earth reservation, known as the Hinton roll. The average white blood is 55.8 per cent and Indian blood 44.2 per cent among the mixed-bloods. Alex” McKenzie is seven-sixteenths Indian and nine-sixteenths white. He {s the average mixed-blood of the White Earth tribe, Ma-dausbh. is a full-blood Indian. The mixed-bloods live by farming, working for wages and by business, exactly the same as white people. They are fairly well educated and have been self-supporting for many years. The full-bloods live by hunting, fish- ing, gathering of wild rice and raise The house in the upper corner has been used for winter quarters. These are the Indians infected with disease. They are under the. direct care of the Indian agent at. White Earth and get rations when they need KREATZ LOWEST BIDDER Local Man’s Figures Accepted For New Block on Minnesota and Third Streets. TO ERECT FIREPROOF BUILDING George Kreatz was the successful bidder for the contract to erect the new brick block at the corner of Third and Minnesota. streets accord- ing to a telephone message received from Minneapolis this morning. Tha bid figure . was not '« given. ~Mr. Kreatz has not yet returned from the Twin City, but it is understood here that work on the building will be- gin in a short time. The new strue- ture is to replace the one destroyed by fire in January. The property on this corner is owned by two parties but the build- ing, will be -done entirely by Mr. Kreatz. The structure will be two stories, with rooms for saloons and a clothing store on the ground floor and a large lodge hall on the second. The lodge hall will be npproximltely 50x30 in size. It is said that the Dlans call for a modern fireproof building with two heating plants and entrances to the second floor from both Third and Minnesota streets. The bids opened were from several Bem{djl and out- side contractors but Mr. Kreatz was the successful one, e INJURED BY FALLING TREE. Small Boy Has Leg Broken When Struck By a Crooked Cedar. meyery aged 12, was ‘and verely’ injured by a nmng ree Sat. urday. ’Phe boy. and a younger| brother, was _felling cedar at his|h MA-DAUSH. a little garden. They get rations from the Indian agency when destitute, They are generally ignorant and are weak physically. - They object to cleanliness.and a large percentage of them are afflicted with trachoma and tuberculosis. The mixed-bloods were given the right to sell their lands by the Clapp act, but the full-bloods were not given such right, and have not been affected, except that some of them have man- aged to-sell to over-anxious specu- lators who were disposed to take long chances on low prices. These deals were not because of the Clapp act, but contrary to it, and such sales will be annulled and the full-bloods get their land back. Tensmke, April 15— Edmrd Nei- |- The route of the Graham committee was through the full-blood settlements. Group of Full-Blood Indians in Summer Camp. them. They are the Indians the Graham committee investigated on its trip, and are not affected by the Clapp act, as they were not. given the right sell their allotments.! HOLD SUMMER SCHOOL Professor Stewart Ammincen That Session Will Begiin on Mon- day, June 17. SPECIAL TEACHERS ARE COMING Six weeks of summer school will be held in Bemidji starting with June 17, dccording to an announcement made today by W. B. Stewart, county superintendent of schools. The term will be held in Bemidji and is the first since 1910. Tt is expected that the northern half of Cass county will Co-operate with Beltrami in the mat- ter. Ninety students attended the ses- sion in 1910 and Mr. Stewart says that the enrollment this year is ex- pected to be larger. A special in- structor, furnished by the state de- partment, will spend a week in Be- midji teaching domestic science and another will be here. for three days teaching use of the library. The latter will probably be Miss Martha Wilson. The session is held at the expense of the state. Following are-the teachers which have been appointed to date:. W. B. Dyer, conductor; hlmry, civics and allied subjects. ohn E. Palmer, superintendent at Inte ernational Falls; mathematics. % Bertha M. Newell, eighth grade Minnehaha school, Minneapolis; grammar and drawing. Ella G. Probst, principal Harriet 8chool, Minneapolis; primary and drawing. mto 1. Bergh lgflmlmre. DFFF(‘TI\IB DAAE. - {pi river by the current. The boat. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. UNIVERSITY WEEK - IS THIRD IN JUNE Prot_umr Quigley Writes That Be- " miidji Will Have Place on the Northern Cirenit. ARE WORKING OUT PROGRAM Committee in Olmrge Expects to Finish and Report Late A TENT CITY FOR .THE BOYS To Be Used So They Can Attend Meeting With Individual Cost Small. In a letter written to the editor of the Pioneer, Prof. Samuel Quig- ley, of the University of Minnesota, states that the University week to be held in northern Minnesota will be given the third week in Jume. This is the same week as the meetings of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association but as the latter will take but two days, it is not be- lieved that they will interfere with each other materially. As announced elsewhere, the summer session of public schools will be opened Monday, June 17, and the program is being arranged so that those attending will be as free as pos- sible to go to the University meet- ings. Professor Quigley further states that the committee in charge is working out the details of program and that it will be finished by the end of this week,- . * Grand Rapids, Cloquet, and three range towns are on the same circuit with Bemidji, but Mr. Quigley states that Bemidji has given the idea a more enthusiastic reception than any of the others. It is the purpose of the University authorities to bring trained expects to these cities for a period of one week each that the People “back home” may get in touch with the University and the Univer- city with them to mutual advantage. The program is being designed to be of interest to business men, home keepers, farmers, and school chil- dren. "It is also planned to have a tent city for out of town boys so that they can attend the meetings at a small expense. The first two weeks of June will be spent in cities in southern Minnesota so that the rout- ine will be well established by the time Bemidji is reached. ON SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. Father Phillippi to Lecture Thurs- day Evening in the City Hall, For eleven years, Father Phillip- pi, pastor of St. Phillip’s Catholic church, was in the South Sea islands as a missionary and on Thursday ev- ening will give a lecture in the city hall telling of his experiences with the people of those lands. The lec- ture ‘will begin at § p. m. The South Sea islands are situated on the equator and until a few years ago, the inhabitants were all canni- bals. Not all of them have -been converted as yet and it is said that in some parts, cannibalism is still practiced with too much frequency to be pleasant. Father Phillippi came in close touch with the natives while their missionary and will have some interesting experiences to relate. ' THREE BOYS AFLOAT. Rescued From Lake Irvine After Be- ing Carried Out by the Current. Three Bemidji boys, all aged about twelve or thirteen years, were res- cued from Lake Irvine Saturday af- ternoon. They were in an open boat without oars and had been carried out into the lake from the Mississip- left the shore about noon but it was | nearly. six o’clock hefore the rescue was effected. The police were noti- i flsd And Fred hlll!!.wllfik Hillaby, nl!lNESU" 1 \'“STOR\GAL ; SOCIETY. +