Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 1, 1912, Page 1

LY PIONEER ®s0CiETY, VOLUME 10. NUMBER 81. TWINE SHORTAGE IS IN PROSPECT Minneapolis Jobbers Say Bumper Crops Will Need 67,000,000 Pounds in Harvesting. GREATEST NORTHWEST YIELD Trade Reports Show That Early Es- timates Gave True Light on the Situation. BEMIDJI STOCK IS HEAVY Local Dealers Say They Have Between Three and Five Tons to Care for Orders. Local dealers advise the Pioneer that there is no danger of a twine this vicinity shortage in as there are between three and five tons in Bemidji at the present time. Sisal and standard twines are selling for| 5 for fifty| ten cents a ball or $4 pounds. Manilla twine is selling| for twelve cents a ball or $5.50 for fifty pounds. Bemidji dealers say that any twine shortage in other parts of the country will not affect| local conditions. i Minneapolis, August 1.—If all the twine needed to bind the crops of Minnesota and North and South Da-jager kota this year were wound upon ajknown to the trade in this section | brobdignagian spool in Minneapolis, [of Minnesota. and a man took hold of one end of |the field representative, Edward Cur- the string and started would have to travel around the world to unwind it. It he went around the globe in eighty days and traveled continu- ously he would have to travel for more than sixty-one years to get it| all unwound. | It he could jump out to the moon and back, a distance of 239,000 ] miles, he would be able to make 29 jumps out and back or 14% round trips, and still have hold of the end of the string. That 67,000,000 pounds of binding twine is the requirement represented | by the great bumper, crops that stand on a great acreage in the three states, has been estimated. Sisal and standard twine has 500 feet to the pound, Standard Manila 550 feet, Manila 600 feet and pure Manila 650 feet. named varieties are most commonly used. The average pound of twine has 550 feet. That means 36,850,000,000 feet. It means 6,979,000 miles. Sixty-seven million pounds of bind- ing twine, by far the greatest re- quirement ever known, will be need- ed to bind the record making crops of Minnesota, North and South Da- kota, according to estimates of Min- neapolis men familiar with the situ- ation. About 48,000,000 pounds is available or will be delivered on con- tracts, but the crops are so phenom- enally heavy that there is need for 19,000,000 pounds of twine that does not exist at this time. Prices are up sharply, twine that sold, in Min- neapolis, in carloads, in February, when the year’s prices were first an- nounced, at 7% cents, being quoted at 11 cents and higher. Thousands of letters and nearly as many tele- grams are pouring into Minneapolis beseeching dealers to send out twine, . Thousands of letters back, advising country dealers to be calm. Even if it comes to a pass where some of the grain has to be bound by hand, dealers are writing their customers, not a bushel of the great grain crop need be lost if all pull together to relieve the situa- tion. Nothing like the existing condi- tion was ever known before in the northwest. but dealers say that while they see no immediate prospect for obtaining the twine that is needed they believe means will be found to prevent the loss of any grain. The twine shortage presents these three phases: away he are Pounds. Minnesota . «... 25,000,000 North Dakota . ... 30,000,000 South Dakota . ... 12,000,000 67,000,000 This is 15,000,000 to 18,000,000 in excess of the normal requirements. The causes of the shortage are: The big northwest crop. Tlie heavier yield per acre in the northwest, requiring more twine to the acre. Much greater Kansas, Texas, Ok- (Continued on 1ast page.) 279 times|Heink as brewer and Henry Helm| {as foreman of the bottling depart- The first and third | going‘ JESTER MAKES CHANGES Has Installed New Offices in Bemidji Brewing Company Plant and Put Salesman on the Road. PURE WELL WATER TUSED. A. H. Jester, who took charge of the Bemidji Brewing company -July 9 has effected a number of changes in this institution which will ma- terially increase the output of the plant and enlarge the scope of its labors, having installed new offices, placed a traeling salesman in the field and increased the capacity of the bottling department. J. C. Larson will be ry will continue as hookkeeper, Otto | ment. { The plans of the new management | are to branch out both in the coun- tey towns and of distributing their product for family use among the homes of this city and other towns. ; The product manufactured by this brewery ranks among the highest | of any produced in the world. The| plant is ideal in every detail, the| most modern and sanitary machinery baving been installed, the highest “(Continued on last page.) MAY CHANGE CURRENCY. | Government Considering Reductions | of One-Third in Size of Bills ‘Washington, August 1.—The size of all United States currency and na- tional bank notes probably will be| reduced by a third and their designs revolutionized by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh for the sake of economies to the government, con- venience to the public and - safety against counterfeiting. This deci- sion practically has been reached by ithe secretary. It is proposed to make the dimen- sions 6x2% inches. The paper mon- ey now in circulation measures 7.28- x3.04 inches. The designs of all pa- per money—United States notes and certificates and national bank notes —would be systematized and made uniform for every denomination. This move is expected to save the overnment about $900,000 annually |and the national banks, which pay ifor the plates for their notes and {part of the cost of redemption, about $200,000. The economies would be ‘effected in the steel for the plates, |in paper, and in labor. For many months the only deter- |rent to the step by executive author- ity has been the belief that it would ibe necessary for congress to appro- | priate about $1,000,000 to replace {the national bank plates which have been paid for by the national banks. This problem has been solved by a plan to have the geheral design of all national bank notes uniform, re- quiring only one engraved plate for each denomination, and to place on the notes by surface printing the name, location and charter number | jof the bank. This would do away with separate plates for each bank. The department is considering us- 1ing portraits for the proposed new bills as follows: $1 note, Washington; $2, Jefferson $5, Lincoln; $10, Cleveland; $20, Jackson; $50, Grant; $100, Franklin; $500, Chase; and $1,000, Hamilton. | Colorado Day in Denver. Denver, Colo.,, Aug. 1.—Colorado Day, the thirty-sixth anniversary of the admission of Colorado to state- hood, was observed in a semi-holi- day in Denver today. City offices and banks were closed and appropri- ate exercises were held under the au- spices of various civic organizations. BASEBALL PPOOOCOPOOOOOOO® ® STANDING OF THE CLUBS. © POOOECPOOOLOOOO D e . B0, New York . .....67 24 .736 Chicago 34 . .626 Pittsburgh . 37 584 Philadelphia . 43 489 Cincinnati 49 479 St. Louis . 55 427 Brooklyn 59 372 Boston 66 275 Games Yesterday. Boston 6, Pittsburgh 7. | New York 7, Cincinnati 0. Brooklyn 4, Chicago 11. Philadelphia 2, 6, St. Louis 4, 0. American League Won Lost P.C. Boston . ........ 30 891 Washington . 37 619 Philadelphia 41 573 Chicago . 46 511 Detroit . 50 490 Cleveland . 52 464 New York 61 3371 St. Louis . 66 .305 5 Games Yesterday. Chicago 3, New York 12. Detroit 4, Washington 1. | St. Louis 1, Boston 4. American Association. | Won Lost P.C. | Minneapolis . ..... 69 39 639 | Columbus . ..68 40 630 . [ Toledo . L2087 40 627 Azl THBTER), Kansas City ......58 55 .491| Manager of Bemidji Brewing Co. |y oot o R — ;SL Pl ¢ oo noe .49 62 441 The ability of Mr. Jester as a man- |J ouisville . 66 389 of business and men is weu;mdianapolis N 73 354 Games Yesterday. Columbus 4, Milwaukee 2. i Kansas City 3, 1, Louisville 4, 5. Toledo 0, 2, Minneapolis 3, 0. ! Indianapolis 7, 2, St. Paul 6, 7. | Anglo-American Wedding in Paris. | Paris, Aug. 1.—The wedding of| Miss Charlotte E. Kennedy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William N. Kennedy, of Pittsburgh, and Bustace Richard- son-Coy, an English magistrate re- siding in Wiltshire, took place today at the American embassy in this city. (Covyright) PLAY FOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. Buffalo, N. Y., August 1.—Once a year the professional and amateur golfers meet on equal terms for the national title of “open This year’s champion.” championship . for the open championship was inaugurated auspiciously at the Buffalo Country *lclub today and will continue over | tomorrw. The entry list is one of the largest and most representative of any tournament of the kind held since the organization of the United States Golf association seventeen years ago. The contestants include many of the best players:from. the Atlantic to the Pacific and”from the lakes to the gulf. Canada also is prepared to make a strong bid for the honors of the tournament, having sent some of the foremost amateurs ‘nnd professionals from the clubs in TITANIC MESSAGE FOUND. Pawtucket, R. I, August 1.—A message purporting to be the last word from Major Archibald Butt, aide to President Taft, was picked up in a bottle of Block Island Wed- nesday, and read as follows: “April 16—Midocean—Help—on a raft—Titanic sinking—no water or food.—Major Butt.” - The message was written on a wireless blank, bearing the official imprint of the Titanic. - Colonel Conklin Retired. Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.—After more than thirty-one years' service Col. John Conklin, .recently in com- mand of the Second Field Artillery at Vancouver barracks, was placed on (the retired list of the army today on his own application. Col. Conklin is from New York, and was graduated Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. from West Point in 1884. Scenes Following Pennsylvania Cloudbursts Which Killed Score and Did $1,000,000 Damade. Photos by American Press Association. s A series of cloudbursts in Pennsyivania efiused a score of deaths and did damage amounting tc a mliilion dollars. In piaces the force of the resultant flood was so great that raflroad rails ‘were twisted like lead pipes. The upper pic- ture shows how the debris carried down by the flood hiad shows a tamily bomeless, grief stricken and hungry.. formed a dam and washed out & bullding. 'nnouurnmn BIG FISH TAKEN, Twenty-Two Pound Northern Pike Caught Off Third Point. Tom Nisbet, of Grand Forks, caught a twenty-two pound northern pike off third point while trolling with a small motor boat Sunday morning. The fish is a cross between a pike and a pickerel in size and marking. It had the build of a pike but the head and color is that of a pickeral while the meat has a slightly red color. The head measured about eight inches through at the neck and is being dried at the Viking Boat company_dock, Mr. Nisbet thought that he had a “Muskie” until Captain Aubolee named the fish for him. CASS LAKE EXCURSION. Cass Lake, August 1.—Special.— The Soo Line will run an excursion from Thief River Falls to cover in- tervening points to Cass Lake on Sunday, August 11, at a fare and one third for the round trip. The follow- ing committees were named by the commercial, club: Arrangements— Geo. LydicH, L. C. Curtis, and M. N. Koll; steamboat excursion and re- freshments—Andy W. Johnson, H. L. Carter and Juliug Neils; baseball—J. G. Oman, C. A. Kohout and J. L. Grady; reception—J. E. Lundrigan, chairman and a committee of twenty- five business men. A steamboat excursion on the “Zelah May” will be given on Cass Lake around Star Island for the visit- ors immediately after the arrival of the train. A baseball game between Thief River ‘Falls and Cass Lake will be a feature of the afternoon pro- gram. The commercial club also appoint- ed the following committee to ascer- tain sentiment in Baltrami county looking to a mutual exchange of ter- ritory along the Mississippi in order to make the river the boundry be- tween Cass and Beltrami counties, instead of each county crossing the river at certain plaees. The idea of the exchange being that Cass county be put in a position where it can legally assist in building public bridges across the river. The fol- lowing committee was appointed on this subject: F. L. Gorenflo, J. E. Lundrigan, Geo. Lydick, and Wm. O’Neil. The commercial club has taken ac- tion looking to the gathering of agri- cultural exhibits, These exhibits will be gathered in territory tribu-|. tary to Cass Lake and will be sent out from here for the Northern Minnesota Development association exhibit in Minneapolis, the state fair exhibit, and the exhibit of the Great North- ern Railway in the east. The fol- lowing committee was appointed to gather exhibits during the summer: M. N. Koll; N. E. Jondahl, A. S. Wil- liams, J. T. Gardner, L. B. Galbraith, A. J. Swanberg, C. M. Taylor, and Walter Neils. New Suburban Fare System. Chicago, 111, August 1.—Operating officials of railroads throughout the gountry are interested in the new method of collecting and punching tickets which the Illinois Central road put into operation today on its suburban trains. The system is the first of its kind adopted for subur- ban traffic by any . railroad «in the United States. It embodies many of the features of the pay-as-you-enter BUSINESS MEN T0 PROTEST INCREASE Raising of Assessed Valuations of Beltrami County Merchants Arouses Oppositi MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT All Interested in Having Increase Abated When Board Meets In- vited to Attend. FIFTY PER CENT BASIS USED Many Say That Figures Are Inaccur- ate and Taxes Will, if Sustained, Drive Them Out. Thoroughly aroused over the re- cent raising of the personal property assessments, Bemidji merchants who believe that they are being made the tools of small politicians have called a meeting of merchants to be held in the Commercial club rooms at 8 p. m. Friday night. At this meeting some decision will be reached as to the steps necessary to secure abate- ments of taxes where the increase is considered unjust. The county board of equalization met the third week in July and af- ter it had finished its work, the as- sessed valuations on personal proper- ty of the majority of the business firms of Beltrami county had been raised and the total of fhese firms increased from $768,868 to $1,193,- 655. The board set Monday, August 5, as the date at which time it would hear applications for reductions. Since the increase has become gen- erally known, the merchants have been up in arms over the matter. It Wwag at once proposed that an indig- nation meeting be held but the mat- ter was not pushed. This morning, several merchants were consulted with the result that the meeting for tomorrow night was called. Busi- ness men from neighboring towns who have had their taxes increased have been invited to attend. The largest increase was that given the Crookston Lumber com- pany, which has its valuation raised from $248,800 to $523,250. Officials of the company said that the raise ‘was based on a cut of 3,000,000 feet along the Red Lake road and that they were charged with having 60,- 000,000 feet in the mill pond, neither of which estimates were any where near the truth. Mr. Lakin stated that it would take all the southern end of the lake to Diamond Point to float 60,000,000 feet of logs. It was rumored this week that if the assessment stood, the company would do all of its sawing in the Crookston mill. The assessments Are supposed to be based on fifty per cent of the ac- tual value of the property but many business men are complaining that the assessments represent nearer 100 per cent of the actual value. A Be- midji merchant stated last week that the valuation on which he was as- sessed last year, his taxes amounted close to five per cent of his proper- ty value and that if they were rais- ed he could no longer afford to do business in this city. He said, “They seem to think that we are picking money off bushes the way they load on the taxes.” Outside of the city of Bemidji, uearly all of the increases were made on firms connected in one way or an- other with the lumber business. The board of equalization will meet again on Monday in the court house and if every firm which had its val- uation increased is represented, the court house will be a busy place. Order of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Ind., Aug. 1.—The general chapter of the Order of the Holy Cross, which meets once every six years to legislate for its members and consider proposed changes in the laws of the order, convened at the University of Notre Dame today for a week’s session. Delegates are in attendance from Italy, France, India, Canada and the nUited States. Miss L. F. Nettlefold, a member of the Woman’s Social and Political Un-. ion of England, has been placed equal to second in the First Class Honours List of the Cambridge Law Tripos. “Votes for Women” says: “Brilliant academic successes of this kind accentuate the injustice perpet- uated at the two older Universities, where women are not allowed the system and designed chiefly with a view to checkmating those who at- tempt to: sllll'le” transportation. recognition of a degree, however ab- ly they may have qualified themselves for it.” MINNESOTA ISTORIGAL |