Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 16, 1912, Page 1

= o= THE BEMIDJI flIN&FSOTA HISTORICAL OCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 298. ) FAILURES LARGE IN FIRST QUARTER R. G. Dun and Company Figures Show Number Increased But Amount Decreased. ALL CLASSES ARE ENLARGED Trading Liabilities Less Although Those of Manufacturers Are Greater. A REDUCTION IN MINNESOTA Gopher State Losses Found to Be Diminished By Over Two Millions. The number of commercial failures in the United States reported to R. G. Dun and Co., during the first quar- ter of 1912, was 4,828, a very large total for that period. The amount of liabilities was $63,012,323, also a large total. The average liabilities per failure amounted to $13,051, which has been frequently exceeded in the earlier records, and which | compares with $14,969 in 1911, with $20.732 in 1910 and with $15,422 in 1908. It was, therefore, in number rather than in magnitude, of mercan- tile defaults that the first quarter of this year was distinguished. The three months’ liabilities $63,012,323, compared with $52,196,045 in the last quarter of 1911, with $59,651,- 761 in the first quarter of 1911 and with $73,079,154 in the first quarter of 1910. The number of defaults, 4,828, compared with 3,985 last year, 3,525 in 1910 and 3,850 in 1909. The failures were also 485 greater than in the last quarter of 1911. In every section of the country, ex- cepting the western, the number of defaults was larger than a year ago, the increase being greatest in the middle states and the central south. The largest increases were in the middle states, $25,644,029 against $21,003,039 in the corresponding quarter a year ago; in the central south, $8,888,662 against $5,931,149, and in the New England, $4,767,394 ggainst $2,157,469. The biggest de- crease was in the central west, $4,- 308,770 against $7,293,040. The increase in the number of de- faults extended to each business clas- sification, manufacturing, trading and other commercial, and also in bank- ing. The trading defaults were 3,559 against 2,910 a year ago, although the trading liabilities showed a de- crease, being $28,377,940 against $20,763,784 in 1911. The manufac- turing liabilities aggregated $25,- 706,157, against $23,539,177 in 1911, The brokerage and agency class re- ported liabilities of $8,928,226 as compared with $6,348,800 in 1911. While there were five more banking failures than last year, the liabilities were only $5,756,468 against $12,- 715,432. Failure statistics for three months are compared below for a series of years: Yr. No. Assets Liabilities. ‘1912 4,828 $41,653,365 $63,012,323 1911 3,985 38,360,036 59,651,761 1910 3,525 54,260,803 73,079,154 1909 3,850 33,147,908 44,460,950 1908 4,909 48,985,483 75,706,191 1907 3,136 19;453,364 32,075,591 Reduction in Minnesota. In the seven central western states .only two reported increased liabili- ties, while there was a reduction in Minnesota from $3,464,530 to $937,- 292; in Iowa from $751,200 to $638,- 130; in Missouri from $2,263,962 to $1,202,795, and also in Kansas from $570,395 to $539,953. While there were thirty-three more trading fail- ures in this group, the amount in- volved showed a decrease of almost $2,700,000, and manufacturing loss- es were smaller by fully $1,000,000, though a slight increase occurred in number. Two defaults of exception- al gize in the third class swelled the total above normal, the liabilities showing a gain of over $700,000 as compared with the previous year. Number Liabilities 1912 1911 1912 1911 Minn. .. 98 74 937,292 3,233,179 Towa 80 60 638,130 751,200 Miss'ri 126 134 1,262,795 2,203,952 N. Dak. 31 23 395,155 20?,315 S. Dak. 23 8 280,650 53,303 Neb’ka 53 38 305,795 273,696 Kansas 57 97 539,953 570,395 l)gwey Theater Absorbed. Minqeapohs, Apri] 16.—The Dewey theater has been bought by the Na- tional Amusement company, owpers of the Gayety, and hereafter the Gay- ety will e the only burlesque ho\:‘se in this city. 0000000000000 00 & CURRENT EVENIS. - ¢ POOOOOOCOO990 00 New Farmers Club. Carl E. Wallin has been elected president of the Quiring Farmers club. The. club has an initial mem- bership of thirty-two. . New Crookston School. Crookston, April 16—By a vote of 777 to 144, the people of this city passed a bond issue of $150,000, the mouney to be used in the erection of a new High school. . Cummer to Organize Band. Charles Cummer is endeavoring to organize a High school band. Mr. Cummer offers to start the band from new players and teach them to play inside of one year. The instruments will be purchased direct from the fac- tory and will be sold to the players at cost. The only additional expense will be three dollars a month for in- structions. 5 . Seniors Select Class Pins. The seniors have chosen their class pins for this year from a selection procured from the Barker Jewelry company of this city. The pins are very neat and are made of solid gold. B. H. S. in bright polished leiters on pine an attractive appearance. A small figure "12 set in raised enamel completes the figure. Talked to Students. Ir. E. H. Marcum delivered an ad- dress on tuberculosis to the High school students yesterday. Doctor Marcum warned the students about sleeping in closed rooms where there is no fresh air. He also stated that a great majority of cases could be pre- vented if the people subject to this disease would follow the doctor’s in- structions. Doctor Marcum says that a great majority of the people believe that tuberculosis is an incurable dis- ease and refuse to believe the doctors when they tell them they can be cured. MANY BILLS ALLOWED Council Orders Several :Handréd - Dollars to be Paidi-~--— Following is a list of the [bills passed by the council last night: R. F. Murphy .......... $ 16.50 St. Hilaire Lmbr. Co....... 36.30 George Kirk, stamps, etc.. . 10.62 Neptune Meter Co., pipe,. . 50.00 L. P. Eckstrum, poor farm D e dvisne smmeienens Same thawing séptic tank. . Street gang, April 1-14 ‘Watrous Engine Works, pipe Frank Miller, labor....... Beltrami Elevator, mdse.. . E. F. Netzer, mdse for fire {711 U Neptune Meter Co., meters. P. M. Dicaire, mdse poor,. . L. P. Eckstrum, jail pipe,. . ‘Wm. Peckles, septic tank .. L. P. Eckstrum, repairing mains, J. E. Harris, special police. S. E. Bogart refund. ...... Aug. Berg cord wood. . Special police ......... Schreider Bros., mdse ..... Wm. Streeter, sawing wood 7.00 Geo. Rhea, interest money. 2,709.39 5.10 20.00 174.37 25.02 6.25 32.60 1.60 50.00 2.78 3.45 50.00 56.20 14.00 37.42 Chas. Nangle, mdse. ...... 6.18 W.H.Utley ......... PN 3.00 A. B. Hazen, March bnard. . 110.00 Same, court fees ........ . 13.20 88.03 Northern Groe. Co.; mdse. . *ARMY TEST ORDERED. Provisional Regiment to March From Dubugque to Sparta. La Crosse, Wis., April 16—For the purpose of testing out the new mili- tary equipment, the new organization and the new infantry drill regula- tions, companies of three regiments of the United States army are about to be brought together at Sparta, Wis., according to announcement made here by Congressman John J. Esch, by authority of the war depart- ment. Next month a provisional regiment of war strength is to be organized from companies in the Fourth, Twen- ty-seventh and Twenty-eighth regi- ments, United States infantry. It will consist of twelve companies. of 150 men each, one machine gun com- pany of sixty-six men, one band of twenty-eight men, headquarters de- tachment of thirty-six men and fifteen mounted scouts. The troops will assemble at Du- buque, Ta., and march to Sparta. The march will be made to study the new equipment and several experimental outfits will be tried on the march. The regiment will be accompanied by alutomobile trucks, o test their suit- ability for military purposes, and a new cooking outfit will be experi- mented with. At Sparta the battle tactics of the new infantry drill reg- ulations will be used. It’is proposed a Roman gold back ground give the| 1350 LIVES LOST WHEN SHIP SINKS White Star Liner Titanic Known to Have Gone Down Early Mon- day Morning. BOAT COLLIDED WITH ICE BERG 865 People Learned to Have Been Saved But Over 300 Are Missing. LINER HAD A VALUABLE CARGO Diamonds Worth $5,000,000 And 3,424 Bags of Mail Were On Board. SECOND BULLETIN. Minneapolis, April 16.—(4 p. m. Special Pioneer wire service)—Lat- est estimate gives 1,314 as number lost on board Titanic. 866 saved. Among those known to be saved are Mrs. Snyder and Mrs, Douglas of Min- neapolis; Miss Constance Willard, of St. Paul; and Mrs. H. F. Chaffee, of Amenia, N. D. ‘ Bulletin, At 1:30 today, word reached the Pioncer by its special wire' service that 1,350 people on board the Ti- tanic were drowned without a shadow of a doubt. 865 people were trans- ferred to the Parisian and are expect- ed to reach New York Thursday night. The names of 500 of the saved have been learned but they do not in- clude many of the notables known to have been on her sailing list. De- tails of the wreck and sinking will not be learned until the arrival of some of ‘the survivors. News of the disaster was flashed by wireless. from| Cape Race, 400 miles from the spot the Titanic is thought to have gome down. 365 people, beside the 1,350 known dead, are unaccounted for and unless they have been picked up by other boats, will go to swell the death list. New York, April 16—The White Monday morning at 2:02 a. m. fol- lowing a collision with an ice berg off the New Foundland banks. It is thought that approximately 1,500 lives were lost but details have been slow in reaching this city. The ship sank three hours and fifty-five min- utes after being struck. The 865 known survivors were left on the surface in life boats when the boat went down and were later picked up by other ships. As far as learned none of the not- ables on board are included in the list of rescued. Among the passengers on board the Titanic of interest to Minnesota peo- ple are Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Chaffee, of Armenia, N. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter D. Douglas, of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. John Pillsbury Snyder, of Minneapolis, returning from their honeymoon; Miss Constance Willard, of St. Paul; John Jacob Astor, and his bride, Madéline Force; Benjamin G. Guggenheim; George D. Widener; Isador Straus; Col. Washington Roebling, builder of Brooklyn bridge; and J. B. Thayer, vice-president of the Pennsylvania railroad. The cost of building the great liner was estimated at $10,000,000, and it carried $5,000,000 insurance by Lloyd’s and it is thought additional amounts in other places. It is under- stood that it had diamonds on board to the value of $5,000,000 and also bonds of great value. The freight carried was small and is not expected to reach over half a million. The liner was known to have on board 3,- 424 bags of mail, value unknown, and which are not believed to have been saved. Of the lists of rescued which have been received to date, nearly all of the names are those of women indi- cating that a large number of men are among those lost. Captain E. J. Smith was in command of the Titan- ic. The Titanic left Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage Apri} 10. She had a displacement of 66,- 000 tons and was 882 feet and 6 inch- es long. Limit is 320 Acres, St. Paul, April 16—Attorney Gen- eral Smith has ruled that one person or corporatlon cannot buy more than 320 acres of land at any state land sale. He says, however, that there s to determine whether the regulations |nothing to prevent their taking over | head turther amendment. of land from other : nul‘chnion Star Liner Titanic sank in mid-ocean | nrlrl:'m'm: DA nc RESULTS ON MONDAY. American Asspeiation. ‘Won Lost Pr.Cent St. Paul . 1 833 Columbus’. . =4 .838 Minneapolis . 1 .800 Toledo . ... 2 667 Louisville . 3 400 Milwaukee ., 4 333 Kansas City 5 167 Indianapolis . . 6 ..000 St. Paul, Leroy and Murray .... 7 At Louisyille, Northrup and Schiei Minneapolis, Olmstead and Smith- At Indianapolis, Merz.and Pearce At Toledo, Falkenberg and Carish Milwaukee, Nicholson’and Schalk At Columbus, Dean and Smith. . American League, Boston, Cicotte am{ Nunamaker. 1 ’| At Philadelphia, Plank, Thomas 4 Washington, Johnsen, Ainsmith. 1 At New York, Quinn ‘and Street 0 Detroit, Mullin and Stanage.... 7 At Chicago, White and Block .. 12 St. Louis, Pelty and Kritchell.. 5 At Cleveland, Mitchell, Easterly. 8 National J‘.ugne ‘Won Lost Pr.Cent New York, Mathewson, Meyers.. 0 Philadelphia, Moore and Dooin__ 10 At Brooklyn, Barger and Erwin 6 At-St.” Louis, Harmon: 11 innings. Pittsburg, Adams and Gibson .. 2 At Cincinnati, Fromme, McLean. 3 Bliss. 2 Iowa Company Purchases 640 Acres for a Demonstration Ground Near Nebish. RUN A SPECIAL TRAIN TODAY In order to demonstrate their stump puller, the Hercules Stump Puller company, of Muscatine, Iowa, |has purchased 640 acres of land near Nebish from the Crookston Lumber company. This morning a special train on the Red Lake line carried a large party to Nebish where the Her- cules puller was.seen in action during tho day. This {8 the first of a series of demonstrations planned by the » | Crockston people and it is understood that the next will be made by & pow- der company. This morning, the stump puller was put to work and the farmers of that vicinity shown how to clear their land for the plow. After the land has been entirely cleared; it is said that the company intends to put it on. the market. On the special train were D. D. Tenney, of the Crookston Lumber ‘company, Minne- apolis offices; B. A. Fuller and Miles Bateman, of Centerville, Iowa; Hor- ace Klein, of the “Farmer”; G. W, Lindle, Muscatine, Iowa; B. F. Saurin, Chicago; and Messrs. Lakin, Winter, Lycan, Bacon, Wedge, Burke and Schilling. Sun to Hide Her Face. - ‘Washington, D. C., April 16—Qb- servers of the celestial spheres are to- day discussing the eclipse of the sun ‘Wwhich' will occur tomorrow. Theoret- ically, it 18 a total eclipse, but prac- tically it is not, for the duration of totality will be but & fraction of a second. To the inhabitants of this section of the glnb it will be only a partial eclipse,.and will be visible only ;nvthe e_as!.ey tates and eastern Canada, ~ Per: line drawn through Pembina, N, D.,|as 4 , Memphis and Pensacola will niot: be ‘able 10 witness the pheno- 6 6 2 Kansas City, Fiene and O’Connor 6 | 7 3 2 Waon Lost Pr.Cent Philadelphia . ...,.3 0 1.000 Boston . . & 1 750 Chicago . . 2 .600 | Cleveland . - 2 .600 St. Louis 3 400 Detroit . . 3 .400 Washington . 2 333 New York ... 4 -.000 At Boston, Perdue and Kling... 3| iany accounting to show who received it. Chicago, Cheney nnd Areher 9. READY TO PULL STUMPS | living weet of al MAY-ZE-K The Chippewa chief was born in 1825 in what is now Crow Wing coun- ty, Minon. He is therefore eighty- 8even years old, is still in fairly good health and takes an active interest in public questions affecting his people. The old chief is progressive in his ideas, and believes that the interests Clugtnnat! 0 1.00070s his people will be best served by St. Louls . L .750 them adopting the white man’s ways. Boston 1 -750| He can see mo future for them as Brocklyn . ... 2 500 ! old-style Indians, and has strongly ad- Philadelphia . . 2 .5001VOCl[ed all progressive legislation, New York . 3 .250 such as the allotment acts and the Chicago . ... 3 .250 Clapp act, and also all measures for Pittsburgh . 4 .000 | the education of the Indians. Five mi'tion dollars of the funds of the Chippewa Indians have been ex- pended by the Indian Bureau without The Indians have been trying to se- cure an accounting for several years pest and Congressman Steenerson has' been very active in the matter. But in spite of their efforts the In- dian Bureau has so far been able to avold an accounting of these funds. It is the idea of the Indians that the attacks on Congressman Steenerson by Judge Burch and Congressman Graham are for the purpose of dis- crediting him and preventing him from forcing an accounting for the $5,000,000 of Indian money spent by the govern- ment officials. Origin of the Steenerson Act. Under ihe treaty of 1267, establish- ing White Earth reservation, each In- dian was to have 160 acres of land whenever he had'cultivated forty acres, or forty acres whenever he had culti- vated twenty acres, or twenty acres whenever he had cultivated ten acres. This is what is called the cultivation clause, and only about 200 Indians ever secured their full 160' acrés un- der this clause. The Nelgson act of Jan. 14, 1889, provided for allotments of only eighty acres each, but that law was not to take effect until ap- proved by two-thirds of the male adult Indians of each tribe or band. When the commissioners, Senator Rice, Bish- op Marty and Mr. Whiting, held the council with the White Earth Indians they refused to agree to the law, un- der which it was proposed to cede 4,000,000 scres of land in Northern Minnesota to the government, unless they were promised the 160 acres mentioned in the treaty of 1867. They promised, and thereupon, in consid- eration thereof, the Indians signed the agreement, and the Nelson act went intg effect. The land was ceded to the United States in trust to be disposed of; the agricultural land to home: steaders at $1.25 per acre, and the timber land to the highest bidder. ‘When the secretary of the interior proceeded to allot the land to the In- dians of this reservation under the law he issued instructions and direct- ed that each Indian should only have eighty acres. The White Earth In- dians went to Washington and made a protest, and inyoked the promises government. The secretary of the in- ‘terior and the commissioner of Indian affairs asked the commissioners, Sen- ator Rice, Bishop Marty and Mr. Whit- ing, if tliey had promised 160 acres to each, and they wrote back and said that they had so promised, and re- ferred to the printed council proceed- ings, and said further that they thought they had’ the right to so promise and waive the cultivation clause of the treaty of '67, The secre- tary then, in 1892, wrote a letter to ‘the senate committee on Indian affairs requesting that a law be passed au- thorizing him to carry out the prom- iges of 160 acres of land made to the Indians, and Senator Dawes of Massa- chusetts, then chairman of the senate committec- on. Indian affairs, intro- duced and secured the passage through the senate of a bill which is exactly the same proposition as was after- wards passed and which is now known the “Steenerson act” of 1904. The Dawes bill failed of consideration in ntmnomsru are| | ADVOCATES HIGHER TEN CENTS PER WEEK. SALOON LICENSES T Brought Up in Council Meet- ing Last Night But Not in Proper Form. GRADED INCREASE IS PROPOSED Hannah Offers Scheme of Raising Fee $50 Per Month Until $1,000 Is Reached. WANT BETTER. PROTECTION Plants South of Rulroads Ask For An Additional Four Inch Water Main. Higher saloon licenses ‘were advo- E-GE-SHIG. cated by E. W. Hannah in the coun- cil meeting last night and Mr. Han- nah introducea a communication cali- ing for an increase in the license of $50 per month, beginning June first, made by the representatives of the | different sessions of congress by Com gressman Eddy, but failed to get con- sideration- until Mr. Steenerson took hold of it soon after his first election. The honor of the United States was Dledged to the Indians to pass the | “Steenerson act,” giving them the ad- tl ditional eighty acres. That promise was the consideration for the ratifica- tion of the Nelson act, under which more than 4,000,000 acres of land was ceded, and no one can justly eriticise congress for enacting the law, but a |t great deal of criticism can be laid against the administration of it by the |4, department. Adminietration of Steenerson Ast. The commissioner of Indian affairs now admits that these provisions of the act were so violated that there are four or five hundred Indians en- gfl dditional - allotments who cantio ve them because there is d was ample authority in the department to cut down the additional allotments to forty acres of agricultural land, and they could huve reserved from allotment3 all the pine timber for the |}, common benefit of the tribe; but they saw fit to so administer the act that the valuable timber was not only un- equally disposed of, but four or five |’ hundred Indians entitled to additional allotments were left without possibil- ity of securing even a partof the same. The Allotment Incident. In recognition of Mr. Steenerson’s services the Indians held a council and elected him a member of the tribe. They also decided he could have an allotment on the reservation, and the old chief wanted to give him his own a;lotment. Mr. Steenerson re- fused at the time, in the presence and within the hearing of thousands who had gathered to witness the ceremo- nies, but later he was visited by a delegation of Indians who explained that a refusal to accept the gift would be. regarded, according to In- dian usages, as an insult to the tribe, and he consented to sign an applica- | 4 tion on the condition that if anything came of it he would return the value of it to the tribe by estatlishing a hos- pital, or in some similar way. The C Indian council proceedings proposing |D: the enroll'nent of Mr. Steenerson were certified by. the Indian agent to the secretary of the interior and he held that the White Earth band alone could not authorize the enrollment, but that it required the favorable ac- tion of all the Chippewa bands of Min- nesota, and as soon as Mr. Steenerson was notified of this he requested that his application for _allotment be with- drawn and nothing more was done with it. The facts in regard to this episode were extensively published in the newspapers throughout the district |, at the time and were referred t0 in b Mr. Steenerson’s official biography. Mr. Steer:erson has been elected to congress three times since and the whole maiter was forgotten by nearly |b: everyone until now resurrected for po- |aj litical purposes. This is all there is to the allotment matter. The news- paper reports of the Graham investi- gation have sought to create a wrong impression by insinuation and infer- ence, so that many good people got the idea that Congressman - Steener- son received an allotment and sold it for $12,000, and it 1s proper that they should be set right on that. peint, for the insinuation is utterly unfounded. “Of course Mr. Steenerson’s pelitical opponents will question his sincerity in stating® what he expected to do u twice a year. the Cameron Septic Tank company, of until the sum of $1,000 is reached in March, 1913. sion of opinion-was taken by the council as the matter Wwas not.intro- duced in proper foryti ‘but it is under- No Jction or “expres- tood that it will be re-introduced at he next meeting in the_form of an ordinance. Although no formal vote was taken sentiment on the council appeared di- vided as to the advisability of raising he licenses. Mr. Bisiar objected when it was’'suggested that the mat-" er be left to the license committee and said that it was a matter for each member to investigate for himself. It is probable that the issue will coms. to a head at the meeting May 6. The bids of the city banks for de- posits of the sinking fund started a liscussion as to condition of finan- Each of the anks bid three per cent for the sink- ing fund monies and it was decided that the deposits should be made in roportion to their capital. Communications ~ cre read from the handle factor; and Fitzsimmons- Baldwin company asking that anoth- er water main be laid across the Great Northern and Soo tracks so that they could have fire protection. At present but one four inch main carries water to that part of the city- and should this one break, the entire section would be left without fire pro- tection. Mr. Chamberlain to take up with the Great Northern and George Stein for the Soo. The matter was referred to The septic tank caused consider- able discussion as it was found that it was costing the city over $500 to clean it and that under present con- itions this would have to be done A communication from hicago, was read in which the com- not-enough.land to-go around.~ Theze {88 With the resuit that the finance. committee, the mayor, and repre‘sen— tatives of the bank are to meet next Monday and discuss plans for putting the city on a cash basis. any offered to change the present ° tank to correspond to their patents and then care for it for a considera- tion. The matter was left to the city clerk and attorney for further cor- respondence. Application for a transfer of sa- loon license from Ryberg and Nelson to Ed. Fay was granted. Application for a renewal by Matt Thome was granted and bond approved. Tibbetts applied for a license to date from May 6, the saloon to be con- F. 8. lucted in the building now occupied )y the Model Clothing store. Dun- can McDougal applied for a license to conduct the saloon formerly operated y Louis Anderson. Larkin and Daie pplied for a renewal. The fire committee was instructed to meet with-the firemen and draw p a series of signals by which fires can be located in different sections of the city. TO MEET HERE TOMORROW. Members of the Beltrami Develop- ment Association Coming. The annual meeting of the Beltra- with the allotment if he got it. ‘That is politics. ‘But Mr. Steenerson has a record of mi County Development association will be held in the Commercial club rooms tomorrow afternoon. A large thirty years of honorable dealings with & the. people of Northwestern Minneso- that will stand the test. Thirty years ng whnich he has tou(ht for the er, for lhe farmer, and the small |- ttendance is expected trom out of ta that will not be forgotten; dealings ‘0'""