Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1912, Page 1

THE BE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 68. 'BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1912. MANY ATTENDING SCHOOL MEETING Annual Gathering of County Officers in Bemidji Being Held Today in High School. SPEAKERS GIVE GOOD ADVICE T. J. Martin, Dr. Shoemaker, Judge Stanton and Superintendent Schultz on Program. DINNER SERVED IN BUILDING One Hundred and Fifty Guests Sit at Desks and Tables in Eighth Grade Room. One hundred and fifty school offi- cers of Beltrami county are in Be- midji today attending the annual school officers’ meetings which are be- ing held in the High school. At noou today a luncheon was served in the eighth grade room. by Misses Newell and Probst and Miss Beth Horton had charge of the ser- It was prepared vice. After visiting the summer training school this morning. T. J. Martin, of Nymore, was introduced as the speak- er on “The Needs of Present Day Edu- cation.” Mr. Martin said that the school shonld be a means of teaching tho children to accomplish something. “Not only should they be taught the common branches but they should ha taught to use their hands to construct things. The school is not a place of leisure and the children must be edu- cated su that they can take their place in the world.” Following Mr. Martin, Mr. Carter told of the condition of the consoli- dated school at Hines and Mr. Krog- seng, of Saum, told of what had been At Saum a four room building is being accomplished in that distr completed at a cost of $8,000 and it is expected that the building will bo ready by fall. The school accommo- dates about forty-two sections. Superintendent Dyer talked on the re “on of the High school to the rural schools and was followed by Dr. W. A. Shoemaker, president of the state Normal school at St. Cloud. Dr. Shoemaker, who addressed the officers on “The Tdeal Teacher,” said that a teacher must have the quality to in- spire and to lead in order to be suc- cessful. He said that those Teachers which had a larger influence over scaolars than others were not neces- sarily those who have had a greater amount of school training but those who have character of enough force to impress the children. At the afternoon session, Miss Ella Probst, of Minneapolis, gave an ad- dress on “Incidentals,” and was fol- lowed by Judge Stanton on “The Making of a Better Citizen.” During the afternoon the summer school chorus sang several songs and twen- v-five students danced the folk dance “Reaping of the Flax.” C. G. Schultz, state superintendent of schools, made the closing address of the day on the “Better Rural School.” Mr. Schultz said that th: things necessary for a good school are good physical ments, better grounds, more equip- ment for the teacher, longer school term, more regular attendance, and betier salary for teachers. “Consoli- dazion is for the improvement of the raral schools. The hool state aid which is given to rural schools must be used to improve conditions, not as a means of lowering the taxation. “The better rural school will come about largely from a close supervis- ion by the county superintendent. He will be better able to supervise the schools when consolidation comes about. In order to have better rural schools we must have better roads. The movement in Minnesota, espec- ially in Northern Minnesota, for bet- ter highways, tends towards the im- provement of rural schools.” rural Gong Sounds Alarm, At 11 o’clock Tuesday night, the "\ burglar alarm gongs at the First Na- tional bank were set off through the vault door not being properly closed. A large crowd gathered in a few min- utes. environ- | CHARLES E. RUSSELL. Magazine Writer Named For Gov- by New York Socialists. ernor PROPOSE RED LAKE SURVEY. Washington, July 17—Representa- tive Steenerson is making plans to have included in the Indian appropri- ation bill now before the senate au- thorizing for the preliminary sur vey of the swamp lands in the Red Lake Indian reservation with a view to their drainage. Mr. Steenerson has been informed by the director of the geological sur- vey that snch a survey could be made this summer, and that the data com- piled would be ready for congress next winter for any further step it mig? t The proposed survey was requested by the Red Lake Chip- pewa at their council last July, at which time they asked that the mer- chantable timber on the reservation take. be sold and the proceeds expended in draining 150,000 swamp lands east of the “Eleven towns” and west of Red Lake. Other drainage projects on Indian lands have been successful that it is believed much would be gained through a drainage of the Red Lake lands. Hampton Negro Conference. Hampton, Va., July 17.—Many so- cial workers of prominence were pres- ent today at the opening of the six- teenth annual Hampton Negro Con- ference, held under the auspices of Hampton Institute. The conference program extends over two days and calls for reports from county school supervisors on the progress of negro educational work and the discussion of problems relating to health, agri- cultural and religious life, the work of negro administration, recreation and amusement in rural communities, and community work problems. Yeung People’s Christian Union. Pittsburgh, Pa., July 17—Members of the Young People’s. Christian Un- ion‘are here from every section of the country for their twenty-first annual convention, which assembled today for a four days’ session. The union is affiliated with the United Presbyter- ian church in North America, and some of the best known preachers and missionaries of the denominations are here to speak at the convention, Textile Manufacturers Meet. Louisville, Ky., July 17—The Mid- dle States Textile Manufacturers’ as- sociation held its third annual con- vention today at the Louisville Coun- try club. Among the speakers and their topics were the following: Leo Rodman, on “Freight Rates and Over- charges”; Philip 8. Tuley of Louis- ville, on “Costs Systems,” and Cap- tain Paul J. Marrs of Henderson, Ky., on “Experiences in the Purchase of Cotton.” Hearing on Interchange Question. ‘Washington, D. C., July 17 question of general interest and im- portance to shippers and carriers throughout the country is involved in the suit of the Illinois Traction sys- tem against the Peoria and Pekin railway, which was given its initial hearing before the Interstate Com- merce Commission today. The suit was instituted because the railway company declined to permit the inter- change of traffice, which action, ac- cording to the complaint in the case, has resulted in an injury to shippers. THIRD. PARTY CALL OUT State Convention to Be Hel@ in St. Paul July 30 of Those Who Re- pudiate Chicago. SPEAKER DUNN A SIGNER St. Paul, July 17.—A call was is- sued Tuesday for the “third party” state convention to be held in St. Paul July 30. It invites attendance of all “electors of the state of Minne- sota, without regard to past party affiliations, who believe that the re- nomination of President Taft in the recent Chicago convention was secur- red by unjust, fraudulent, and dis- honorable methods, and should be re- pudiated at the polls, and all Pro- gressives who desire to participate in the selection of a candidate for presi- dent of the United States by the na- tional Progressive party, to be voted for at the coming November elec- tions.” The convention will be held in the St. Paul Auditorium. Every one pres- ent will be considered a delegate from his county. . The call explains that the purpose of the convéntion is the selection of delegates to the national convention which is to be held in Chicago Aug- ust 5, one from each congressional district and three at large, and the naming of twelve electors to be'plac- ed upon the state ticket for Minneso- ta by petition. The call is signed by Milton D. Purdy as the Minnesota member of the national committee of the “Pro- BAGLEY WOMAN KILLED Bagley, July 17.—(Special to the Pioneer by wire)—Mrs. Mary Clute was struck and instantly killed at 10:30 a. m. this morning by a gravel train on the Great Northern railroad. Her body was slightly mangled. gressiye” party and thirty-three oth. er men. The names of seventeen of the delegates to the present Chicago convention appear. Samuel Y. Gor- don is the only one of the many can- didates for governor who has signed the call. One name on the list which caused surprise in political circles was that of H. H. Dunn, speaker of the house Last week Mr. Dunn gave out an in- terview repudiating the-“third- par- ty” movement and stating that he would stay within the\ranks of the Republican party. Mr. Purdy stated that he had been authorized by Hugh T. Halbert of St. Paul to place My. Dunn’s name on the call. Signers of Call. The following signed the call: J. F. Jacobson, 0. J. Larson, A. L. Hanson, H. J. Harm, Emil King, Job W. Lloyd, Hugh T. Halbert, George B. Edgerton, R. A. Wilkinson, Stanley Washburn, Andrew Davis, T. T. Ofsthun, A. J. Johnson, ‘W. A. Eaton, ¢ W. H. La Plant, h . C. L. Stevens, 7 H. H. Dunn, Samuel Y. Gordon, Walter H. Newton, L. T. Lincoln, P. V. Collins, b PO Teturned to Bemidji Saturday. Chas. F. Waterbury, E. B. McCrea, Mrs. Clute, who was about seventy years of age, was crossing the tracks and apparently did not hear the train approaching, The train was going| through the yards at a speed estimat- ed as between thirty and forty miles an hour. Mrs, Clute had been slight- ly deaf for someé time and it is thought that on this account she fail- ed to hear the train. Two sons, George and Lon, are left to mourn the loss of their mother. Mrs. Clute had lived in Bagley for the past eight years but the soms have lived iri Bemidji ,working in the mills there, and have many friends at that point. Funeral arrangements have not been made at this time. C. W. Gilmore, L. B. Swift, P. J. Sharkey, LY W. W. Rich, J. Q. Mackintosh J. M. Hackney, } A. 0. Stark, Thos. F. Conroy, J. G. Robertson, H. W. Lea. " PINEWOOD. Miss Bertha Klinger, who bias been visiting her parents the past weel, Miss Elsie accompanied her. ¢ Miss Hildegard Sthol of St. Paul and her cousin, Miss Myrtle Hebeisen of Carver, Minn., are visiting the for- mer’s parents. The many friends of Irving Lind- gren will be glad to learn that his condition has much improved. Mrs. Nels Grover, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Tronnes the past few days, returned to her home at Trail Monday. The best dance of the season will be given at Fram Hall Saturday. Mrs. J. K. Johnson and son Otto Who have been visiting at Plummer the past week, returned Monday. J. H. Dodge, who has been in Utah the past month, returned home Fri- day. \ Latham is Killed. Paris, July 17.—Hubert Latham, the famous Anglo-French airman and one of the piomeers of the heavier- than-air avitaion, was killed June 7 by a wild buffalo during a hunting expedition in the French Sudan. Latham was out with a number of natives in the forest when he shot and wounded a buffalo, which imme- diately gored and trampled him to death. MAY FREE JOHN DIETZ Wife of Defender of Cameron Dam Preparing to Ask Governor McGov- ern for a Pardon. IS IN PENITENTIARY FOR LIFE Hayward, Wis., July 17.—A move was made here Tuesday for the par- don of John F. Dietz, defender of Cameron Dam, who was convicted of murdering a deputy sheriff while de- fending his property, near Winters, in this county, late in 1910, and sen- tenced to life imprisonment in the ‘Wisconsin penitentiary. District Attorney Samuel J. Wil- liams of Sawyer county received a summons asking for Dietz’s pardon. The move was made by Dietz’s wife through her attorneys, Naber of May- ville, Wis., Malone of Beaver Dam, and McKenna of Fond du Lac. The hearing will be held before Governor McGovern at Madison, Aug- ust 15. NORTHERN. Frank Freeman and daughters of Bemidji, were guests of his sister, Mrs. John Noels Sunday. Miss Mary Hannah is stopping with Mrs. Glidden for a few weeks. Miss Guthrey was entertained oy Mr. and Mrs. Glidden Sunday. Mrs. G. G. Buell and little daugh- her husband is attending summer school, visited her home Monday, re- turning to town Tuesday. Mrs. Chillaw and children came up to view their new home Monday and will be the guest of Mrs. Reynolds for a few weeks, Mrs. Reynolds began making his regular trips to town with raspber- ries Tuesday. These last few rains have been the saving of the farmers in this vicinity. Mr. Worth visited Bemidji Monday bringing out a load of feed and flour, ete., for the store. Farmers club meets with Mrs. F. E. Anderson, first Wednesday in Aug- ust. Mrs. Rice was the guest of Mrs. Grover Sunday. NEW STORE AT WHITEFISH. E. M. Tschoepe is preparing to op- en a general store at Whitefish Junc- tion on the Red Lake road. Mr. Tschoepe has lived in the vicinity of Whitefish for the past five years and says that he thinks the time has ar- rived for a store as there are eighty- five settlers within a_range of six miles of Whitefish. He has orders for fifteeen carloads of potatoes for fall delivery and says that close to fifty cars will be shipped from White- fish this fall. . HORNET. Joseph Peltier and J. E. Bogart were in Blackduck on Saturday. Some of the farmers have menced haying. Fanny Bogart and Ruth Green went to Blackduck on Tuesday. Mrs. Jake Miller, George and J. D. Bogart went to Bemidji on Wednes- day, to attend the school officers’ meeting. com- Jesse Bogart is helping Joseph Pel- tier cut hay. o (OOE BAKK ter, who is stopping in Bemidji while | 5 Snapshot of the New York Mil- lionaire on the Deck of His Yacht. WINS FROM WHITES Alex Everywind, Seventeen Year 0ld Chippews, to Represent Beltrami County at State Fair, ESSAY TOOK THE FIRST PRIZE Is a Student in the Sixth Grade at the Government School at Ponemah and Lives on a Farm. @ 1912, by American Press Association. COMMISSIONERS’ PROCEEDINGS, The board of county commissioners met last week. An outline of their work follows: Hearing on the consolidation of school district 91 of Beltrami county and district 76 of Roseau county postponed until August 14 at 10 a. m. Voted to complete in 1913 road between ranges 30 and 31 in towns of Taylor, Birch, Blackduck and Summit provided it was properly cleared and grubbed by residents of those town. Petition of Wm. Gerlinger for a road in the town of Taylor acted on favorably and road ordered establish- ed. Road was ordered between towns of Port Hope and Turtle River on petition of John Souder. Public examiner requested to in- vestigate affairs of town of Steener- son and school district 119. Bids asked for on grading five and one-half miles of the county road in the town of Quiring beginning on the line between sections 30 and 31 and running four miles east and one north. Road ordered from section 4-146- 132 to section 6-146-31. $300 voted for the county fair. Checked up cash in county treasur- er’s office. $350 held back on the contract of Peter Bakka for poor work on road between towns of Buzzle and Roose- | velt. The following amounts will be rais- ed by taxation for 1912: County revenue $50,000 Road and bridge... 15,000 Debt and interest.. 20,000 Sinking fund ..... 25,000 Total . . ovviese .$110,000 Revenue in 1910 was $92,000. Varicus bills were allowed. TWO JURIES SELECTED. At their meeting last week the county commissioners selected the grand and petit. jurors for the coming year. Following are the grand jur- ors: Bemidji, A. A. Warfield, B. C. Bergh, R. H. Schumaker, Joseph Mur- phy, Bert Getchell, A. H. Jester, T. G. Prendergast, 0. C. Rood; Clement- son, Ole Clementson and Ed. Farder; Jones, Nels Sorenson; Lammers, J. P. Rock; Grant Valley, Charley Schroe- der; Red Lake, Omar Gravelle; Ben- ville, H. G. Thorson; Blackduck, J. M. Reed, H. J. Kolden, J. C. Thomp- son; Turtle River, A. O. Johnson; Taylor, Freeman Allen; Frohn;"L. T. Bjella and Albert Schultz; Quiring, George Ten Eyck; Battle, Sam Dal- gaard. Petit jurors were drawn as follows: Bemidji, J. W. Peck and G. C. Shep- ard; Nymore, Willis Nye; Baudette, Frank Johnson; Alaska, Math Berg; Wilton, Peter Frodahl; Eckles, Ira Moor; Liberty, John Benson; Grant Valley, Harry Falls; Minnie, Martin Stokke; Steenerson, C. W. Peater; Liberty, John Erickson; Taylor, George Smith; Blackduck, Frank Brooks; Taylor, John\ Masten and John Pemblo; Birch, Horace Kam- man; Summit, John Gilstad; Hagali, Albert Almundinger, Emil Falk, Chas. Wild, Walter Rice; Shotley, Bernard Espe. TEIRTY SHOOTERS HERE. Thirty trap shooters are thé guests of the Bemidji Rod and Gun club at the second annual shoot being held on the shores of Lake Irvine today. This morning, five events were cover- " |ed and five more were covered this afternoon. Complete scores of all events up to Thursday noon will be * |printed tomorrew. BOARD TO PAY ALL EXPENSES Will Be Treated as Guest for One Week and Railroad Fare, Board and Lodging Furnished. Alex Everywind, a full-blooded Chippewa Indian, is the boy from Beltrami county who will go to the state fair in September as the guest of the fair board. He is seventeen years old, a student in the sixth grade at the Ponemah school and lives on a farm in the Red Lake Indian reserva- tion. In competion with all of the boys in Belframi county between the ages of twelve and eighteen, Alex Every- wind’s essay on “Our Home Farm” was selected as being the best. The judges were W. B. Stewart, county superintendent of scohols, A. E. Ra- ko, county commissioner, and A. G. Wedge, Jr., vice-president of the First National Bank of Bemidji. All ‘of the boys in this county, within the age limit, were asked to write essays on “Our Farm Home,” the boy with the best essay to attend the state fair as the guest of the man- agemen. "Mr. Everywind’s expenses will be paid by the board, and ihess include railroad fare from the reser- vation to St. Paul and return. After returning from the fair he will have an opportunity to win other prizes by writing of what he saw at the fair. The essay which follows is divided into sections to answer the ques- tions outlined. The essay was neat- ly written on stationery of the In- dian service, department of the in- terior: OUR HOME FARM. A: My home is out in the coun- try. The house is built of logs and lumber. The land has timber on it and this should be cleared up, and the brush and logs should be burned, the stumps should be pulled out and the land well plowed. We have no fences, and just a little square piece of land, about an acre, has been cleared and plowed. ‘We have one barn, one wagon and one sleigh, one team of horses and an ox team, also a few pieces of ma- chinery. B: 1 desire to stay on the farm because I think I could make a good living there, and I like farming, be- cause it is composed mostly of out- door work. I like to work in the fields getting the soil ready for the crops, and then watch them grow and do all I can to make good crops. " In hay-making time I like to work in the hay fields, cutting the grass and raking ‘it up for the stock or hay mow. In harvest time the grain must be cut and the bundles put up in little shocks. Then after a few days the grain can be stacked. The reason for stacking is that it gives” the grain a better color and makes more solid kernels. After the grain has been in the stack and has gone through the sweat it is ready to be threshed. After the threshing comes the fall plowing. Then the winter months are easy months on the farm, for there is but little work to do and we can look back to see how much money we have made in the past year and plan our work for the coming spring and sum- mer, and after the holidays we can begin to prepare for the spring ‘work, C: More land should be cleared up and larger fields made. Fences should be built around tha pastures and fields. Such machinery as mowers, break- ing plows, discs, hayrakes, wagons, buggies, and harrows, are needed, al- 80 buildings, as barns, warehouses. and machine sheds. More cattle, horses, hogs, and chickens should be kept to help sup- .- (Continued on 1ast page.) Pl