Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 31, 1912, Page 1

VOLUME 10. NUMBER 107. THEATRES BUSY ALL MEXT WEE Twin City Houses Have Booked Some First Class Attractions For the - Fair Visitors. CHAUNCEY OLCOTT AT THE ‘MET’ Will Take Role of a Young Fisher- man on the West Coast of Ireland in New Play. TWO PRODUCE VAUDEVILLE Orpheum and Empress to Cater to People Who Wish to See a Variety. St. Paul, Aug. 31.—(Special)—In “The Isle o’ Dreams,” which Chaun- cey Olcott will present at the St. Paul Metropolitan Opera House fair week, Mrs. Rida Johnson Young has writ- ten a romantic drama which stands on its own artistic merits, and she has well fitted her dramatic garment to the manly form of Mr. Olcott. In the new play Olcott seems to have come into his own as an actor, and he makes the most of every dramatie possibility the playwright has given him. As usual, Mr. Olcott’s play is su- perbly staged. As a young fisherman of the west coast of Ireland, who was cast on the shore by the sea when an infant, the hero, Ivor Kelway (Mr. Olcott), has opportunity to wear the picturesque apparel of the period, and needless to say he looks a ro- mantic picture. With exceptional beauty, Miss ' Edith Browning combines dramatic talent of a high order, and so adds to the charm and interest of Mr. Ol- cott’s play. Many persons who have gone to their local playhouses year after year to see Chauncey Olcott and hear him sing, say his new songs are the best he has ever written, and the scenic environment is conceded to be the most beautiful yet seen in any of the Olcott plays. A widely varied and attractive pro- gram of vaudeville novelties has been selected for state fair visitors at the Empress. The play house, which is located on Wabasha street, near Ninth, was built last year for the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville cir- cuit, and is the acme of the theater builder’s art, absolutely fire proof and perfect in every detail. The Empress has a large seating capacity, with modern smoking and retiring rooms, promenade and reception quarters richly furnished, and puts on better bills at less than half the price charg- ed by the older house. The feature of the bill fair week will be a pan- tomine and dancing pageant entitled “La Dance Au Violins,” with an im- ported ballet, special scenic effects and elaborate costumes. This is one of the most expensive acts in vaude- ville. Among other features will be a new photo-play from the Empres- scope by the daylight method. The balance of the bill will be of the laughing quality. “Dainty Marie” with the Yankee Doodle Girls at the Grand Opera House will be the St. Paul burlesque attraction fair week. The company headed by “Dainty Marie,” aerialist, who is arousing the circuit with her speciality, consists of forty people. “Louisiana Lou” the musical com- edy that holds the record for the number of performances so far given this season will be the fair week at- traction at the Metropolitan, Min- neapolis. The Minneapolis Shubert fair week will offer to its patrons “Bunty Pulls the Strings,” a quaint Scotch comedy. “Bunty” pulls the strings to adjust the matrimonial affairs of her fath- er, her brother and herself. Molly Melntyre will be seen as “Bunty” and she certainly “pulls the strings.” Exhibition at Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Que., Aug. 31.—Can- ada’s Bastern Exhibition was opened here today and will be continued throughout the coming week. In the number and variety of its attractions the exhibition this year eclipses all of its epredecessors. Several larg buildings are filled to overflowing with attractive displays of manufac- tures, fruits and flowers, agricultural products and live stock. Aeroplane flights and an excellent racing pro- gram are among the added attrac- tions for the visitors. CORONER FEINBERG. Who Conducted the Inquest on the Murder of Herman Rosenthal. St.. Paul, Minn.,, August$31.— (Special) —The state fair e_xhib}t from Beltrami-county arrived in first class condition from Bemidii and ig today being transported from the cars to the. exhibition booth. During the transportation”of this exhibit a con- tinuous down pour of raln slightly hampered the: work, but everything has been safely placed in the booth. E. SEIDEL ACCEPTS Milwaukee, Aug. 31.—Emil Seidel of Milwaukee, nominee for vice presi- B ‘{dent on the national ticket: of the social democratic party, today made public his letter of acceptance of the Photo by American Press Association. COOOP0OOOOOOD OO © SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES © COOOVOOOOOOOOO O First Methodist Episcopal. £ Preaching 10:45 and 8. Sunday school 12. Epworth League 7. Topic: bility of Youthful Enthusiasm.” The male quartette will sing at the morning service. The Ladies’ Aid society will meet at the church Wednesday at 2:30. The Epworth League is collecting a barrel of canned fruit for Asbury Hospital, Minneapolis. Anyone wish- ing to contribute money or fruit, please send same to the parsonage for forwarding. i Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Everybody welcome. Chas. H. Flesher, Pastor. “No- Presbyterian. The regular services of our church will be resumed tomorrow at the reg- ular hours of service. Dr. D. B. Duncan, of Fairfield, Wash., will preach in.the morning,\r Many will remember “Dr. Duncan from his former visit, and will be glad to again hear him. Bible class and Sunday school at 10 o’clock; preaching by Dr. Duncan at 11; Junior Christian Endeavor at 4; Young People’s meeting at 7 Gospel sérvice at 8. The public is cordially invited. S. E. P. White, Pastor. Salvation Army. A memorial service for General Booth, the founder and organizer of the Salvation Army will be conducted in the Salvation Army hall, 213 Min- nesota avenue, on Sunday evening. Special songs, etc. We invite all christians to take part in this service and everyone is cordially invited to attend. NEW TRAIN STARTED. G. N. Commences Temporary Train Service on Fargo-Surrey Cut-off. Fargo, N. D., Aug. 31.—The new line of the Great Northern railway extending for 225 miles northwest from Fargo to Minot, N. D., has been completed in time to enable the rail- road company to take care of the im- mense crops which have been raised in territory tributary to this line this year. A mixed train service will be start- ed on September 1st, and this will be continued until regular freight and passenger service is established about October 1st. The new line passes through Cass, Steel, Griggs, Foster, Eddy, Well, Pierce, McHenry and Ward counties, which contain about seven million acres of agricultural land, about 80 per cent of which is under cultiva- tion this year. The new line brings a tremendous area, which was form- erly from ten to twenty miles from a railroad, within close hauling dis- tance of first class transportation fa- cilities. SCOQOP THE CUB REPORTER nomination. 2 10 SUPREME COURT ‘Washington, D. C.;" Aug. 31-—The fight between Taft and Redsevelt forces over the presidential electors from Kansas was today transferred officially from the courts of that state :munzsmfk HISTORICAL ETY. to the supreme court of the United States. £ CONVICT IS cAUfiflT Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 30—Frank Erwin, short term convict who was among those who escaped from the penitentiary Tuesday evening was lo- cated by Warden Tellstrom today. Erwin was found nine miles south of FORECAST FOR. COMING WEEK. ‘Washington, D. (fi, Aug. 31.—Like the three-ring circus, there promises to be something doing every minute in_the field of politics the coming week. #2 i Colonel Roosevglt! will leave New déé}y Monday, morn- McKenzie and thirty-five mile from the N. P. He was sleeping near the railroad track when he was picked| up. Erwin is the second of the con- viets of four to be captured. New York, Aug. 31.—“Whitey” Lewis, and “Dago” Frank Cirofici, indicted.in the Rosenthal murder case were_reported today to be ready to turn states evidence on the condition that they be let off with a light sen- tence. The men were received fav- orably it was said. The offer was to a certain lawyer who visited them in the Tombs today, to use his influence with District Attorney Whitman to get them off with light punishment in return for the “squeal.” The lawyer assured them that this was their one chance to escape the extreme penalty of the murder charge against them. According to the re- port, they could probably get oft with five years each. The gunmen then authorized the lawyer to negotiate terms with the district attorney, it is said, but owing to Whitman’s depar- ture for Manchester, Vt., to remain over Sunday, no action was taken by the lawyer. Sun Cult Leader to the Bar. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 31.—At the term of the federal court about to convene in this city Otoman Zar Adusht Han- ish, leader and founder of the Maz- daznan sun cult, will be called upon to face the bar of justice. Hanish was indicted by the grand jury some time ago on a charge of sending obscene literature, including the “Inner Stud- ies,” to a young woman in Brook- field, Mo. The indictment was voted after Richard E. Hanish, father of the cult head, had related the life story of his son. The father, an aged musician of Milwaukee, in poor cir- cumstances, refuted the sun cult lead- er’s romantic story of his birth. Han- ish had led his followers’ to believe that he was born in Persia and rear- ed in a monastery by followers of Zoroaster. Sensational testimony is expected at the trial. Among the followers of Hanish are said to be nu- merous women of social praminence in Chicago and in Montreal and Low= ell, Mass.,, where branches of the Mazdazman colony existed. ¥ 5 h=mpking tour that Wwill'extend as fargithe Pacific coast |- ‘more than half the states of th& .Union. After a short - detour into'New England, where lie is scheduléd for two labor day addresses, 1 strike out for “Re is to speak at arty convention n St Lot day will be-de- voted to a swingdbioseh lowa, with, speeches in- Keokuk, Oskaloosa, Ot- tumwa, Des Moines, and other cities. St. Paul and Minneapolis will have the third-party standard-bearer on Thursday, and the remainder of the week will be divided between the Da- kotas and Montana. Governor Woodrow Wilson will make his first speech in New York city on Wednesday, when he attends a dollar dinner of the Workingmen’s ‘Woodrow Wilson club. Vermont’s state election, the first of the year, will be held Tuesday. Re- publican, Democratic and Progressive tickets are in the field. Congressmen as well as state officers are to be elected, so the national significance will be apparent in the returns, at least to those who still hold to the old tradition that the result of the September state elections indicates the way the-general elections will go in the following November. Governor Johnson of California, vice-presidential nominee of the Pro- gressive party, will open his speech- making campaign at Syracuse, N. Y., on Thursday, when he will address the delegates to the state convention of the Progressive party. 'and carry him Other events on the political cal- endar of the week will include the Michigan state Democratic conven- tion at Grand Rapids, for the comple- tion of a state ticket; the Montana state Republican convention at Great Falls, to select a complete state tick- et, presidential electors and candi- dates for United States senator and representatives in congress; Demo- cratic primaries in Louisiana to select candidates for supreme court judges and representatives in congress; pri- maries of all parties in New Hamp- shire for the selection of candidates for state officers and representatives in congress; primaries in Nevada to nominate candidates for state officers and representatives in congress, and state conventions of the new Pro- gressive party in Missouri, North Carolina, Iowa, North Dakota and several other states. (Cupyright.) THE PARCELS POST LAW Will Go Into Effect January First, 1913; Summary of Provi- sions, TABLE SHOWING NEW RATES The new Parcel Post Law, which will be put into effect the first of next January embodies many features which Will be of interest to the citi- zens of this section of the country-as well as every portion -of the United States. Tn respopse to many inquiries for information, Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., chairman of the senate committee on postoffices and post- roads, has prepared the following summary of the provisions of the new Parcel Post Law which will become effective January 1, 1913: Any- article is mailable if not over 11 pounds in weight nor more than |72 inches in length and girth com- bined, nor likely to injure the mails or postal equipment or employees. Flat rate of 1 cent per ounce up to 4 ounces regardless of distance. Above 4 ounces, rates are by the pound or fraction therefor, and vary- ing with distance as follows: each addi- first tional 11 b. 1b. 1bs. Rural route and city delivery .. .05 .01 .16 50-mile zone 150-mile zone 300-mile zone . 600-mile zome ... . E 1000-mile zone .. .09 .07 .79 1400-mile zone .. .10 .09 1800-mile zone a1 .10 Over 1800 miles.. .12 12 1.32 The postmaster general may make provision for indemnity, insurance, and collection on delivery, with addi- may, with the consent of the inter- state commerce commission after in- vestigation, modify rates, weights, and zone distances, when experience has demonstrated the need therefore. Queen Wilhelmina’s Birthday. The Hague, Aug. 31.—Queen Wil- helmina today celebrated her thirty- second birthday anniversary. Many congratulatory messages reached her Majesty during the day and many valuaple presents were received from the sovereigns of Europe and personal friends. Through the country the people observed the anniversary as a general holiday. Don’t Let Him Catch One As Big As Yours, Scoop tional charges for such service, and | TEN CENTS PER WEEK. ANOTHER ELECTOR QUITS. D. P. Barnes and H. H. Aaker Resign as Taft Delegates. Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 31.—An- other Republican elector has resigned from the ticket, making three out of the five nominated in the March pri- maries to quit the race because of their opposition to William Howard Taft as the Republican presidential nominee. D. P. Barnes of Glen Ul- len is the latest elector to quit the electoral ticket. He will support Roosevelt. - The fifth elector from whom no de- finite statement had been Teceived up to yesterday, stated that he very probably would resign as an electoral candidate. He is opposed to Presi- dent Taft, he says, but he does not believe that in resigning as an elec- tor; he will affiliate with the new par- ty. Another important political devel- opment of yesterday was the issuing of a statement by H. R. Aaker of Fargo, who quit as a Republican lec- tor, to the effect that he is not a can- didate for governor on the third state ticket, even should such a ticket be decided upon. . _Centenary of the Comet. Glasgow, Aug. 31.—The one hun- dredth anniversary of the launching of the steamer Comet, which marked the beginning of the shipbuilding in- dustry for which the Clyde district is famous, was observed today with an elaborate celebration conducted un- der the auspices of the corporation of Glasgow. The chief feature of the program was a naval pageant on the Clyde, participated in by a squadron of first-class battleships and a divis- ion of destroyers. At the corpora- tion banquet speakers of prominence delivered eulogies on Henry Bell, the designer of the Comet. During the day thousands of persons visited the shipyard in Port Glasgow where the Comet was built. New Commander at West Point. ‘West Point, N. Y., Aug. 31.—Col. C. P. Townsley, recently in command of the Portland, Me., artillery district today assumed the duties of superin- tendent of the United States Military Academy. Col. Townsley succeeds Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, who was recently assigned to the command of the Eastern division, with headquar- ters in New York. C. H. Olson, a farmer living near Bemidji and father of Miss Hazel Ol- son of this city, was in the-hospital last week. While chopping “wood, Mr. Olson completely severed-four of his toes. ANDRIST SCORES - THE REPUBLICANS Democratic Candidate for Governor Goes After Eastern Capitalists on, Iron Ore. e - =7 WOULD INVESTIGATE TITLES Says, That Party in Power Per- - mitted Timber to Be Taken Unjustly. “GO0D YEAR FOR DEMOCRATS” Says, “Political Lines are Shattered and Republican Fences Are Torn Down.” Charles M. Andrist, candidate for the .nomination of governor on the Democratic ticket, was & guest at the Commercial club rooms last evening, having been escorted there by Attor- ney P. J. Russell for the purpose of meeting with the business men of this city. As it was not known that Mr. Andrist was coming until shortly before his arrival, the business men ‘Were not sufficiently notified to war- rant a large turnout. He discussed politics freely. “When I stood on the iron range and saw a steam shovel taking out five tons of Minnesota ore at a dip, it made my blood boil to think that the state of Minnesota does not re- ceive on cent for that ore beyond the wages that go to the laborers, while the rich capitalists of the east take the profit. What will be left to the state in a few years? The timber is already out of reach. If I am elected governor, I will have the titles to the Minnesota ore lands investigated by the state legal department. We must save some of that great natural as- set.” Said Charles M. Andrist in an in- terview last evening. Mr. Andrist, who is a professor of French in the state university, is a Democrat, and is after the nomination for the gov- ernorship in opposition to P. M. Ring- dal of Crookston, Mr. Andrist came to Bemidji Friday afternoon after having spent several days on the range and left last night for Crook- ston to carry the fight into the en- emy’s country. Mr. Andrist proved not only to be a good -Democrat but a good cam- paigner. He scored the Republicans for having been in control of state affairs for so many years and yet al- lowing the timber to be taken un- justly and often illegally and then to allow the ore deposits “which are the richest in the entire world to go the same way—and all that some pea nut politicians might make a few dol- lars for themselves. I'd hate to have to go where those men will some day.” Commenting on the Republican sit- uation, Mr. Andrist said, “It is a queer year. No one knows what is going to happen and no candidate knows where he is at. Political lines are.shattered and fences are down. I believe that order will eventually come out of the chaos but at present, all is a guess. I believe that the Democrats have a good year before them.” New Car Service Rules. Chicago, 111, Aug. 31.—New rules anpounced to be put into effect to- morrow by the roads affiliated with the American Railway Car associa- tion are expected to remedy a griev- ance of long-standing in the railroad world. Up to the present time all railroads have been in the habit of using foreign equipment to any part of the country, providing it was re- turned to the company within a rea- sonable length of time. Under this method the smaller lines have had the use of more cars than they actual- ly owned, while the larger roads which owned the equipment have ex- perienced a car shortage, their ap- peals for the return of their property often going unheeded. The new rules provide that all the foreign equip- ment must be returned to the own- ers from the point of destination, and not used by the railroad in whose territory the equipment happens to be to haul freight to points farther away. Severe penalties are to be im- posed on the companies violating the agreement. Tabor Day Monday. Some of the business places are planning to close at noon Monday to allow their employes a half holiday. Bemidji has made no plans for a cele- {bration as have some of the larger cit- ies throughout the country.