Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 3, 1912, Page 1

VOLUME 10. NUMBER 135. NO RACE SUICIDE SEEN IN BEMIDJI TO CHANGE CANAL ROUTE. Cass Lake, Oct, 3.—Special.—Sev- eral months ago the Cass Lake Com- mercial club adopted resolutions and received the co-operation of the Wal- ker Commercial club urging a change from the adopted route of the canalf. to connect the waters of Lake Winni- HENRY H. CURRAN. New York Alderman Who Forced the Police Investigation. $166698 AWARD Figures of School Attendance Com- piled by Prof. W. P. Dyer Show Pupils Are Coming Steadily. 162 NEW STUDENTS THIS YEAR Many Scholars Enter First Grade and Kindergarten Classes—Rooms Fast Becoming Crowded. MAY BRING SO0 SPECIAL HERE Movement Started to Have Farm Train Come to Bemidji When on Northern Minnesota Trip. There is no race suicide in Be- midji according to report just made public by W. P. Dyer, superinten- dent of schools. Mr. Dyer’'s report gives the attendance figures for the month of September for the Bemidji schools and shows that not only is the school population keeping up but it is on the increase. The total enrollment for the month of September, according to Mr. Dyer's figures was 1,033. The average daily attendance was 967. Of the total attendance, 142 were enrolled in the high school and 162 in the seventh and eighth grades. There are 162 beginners who started in the first grade and kindergarten rooms this vear. “In order to show that our facili- ties are being crowded constantly,” said Professor Dyer this morning, “we have ten rooms in which there are forty or.more pupils. Educa- tors the world over agree that the largest number which can be han- dled in one room to the best advan- tage is twenty-seven. °The addition to the North side school will relieve some of the congestion but our class- es are growing at least as rapidly and this year faster than our facil- ities.” Professor Dyer states that he has no information to the effect that the Soo “Farm Special” will come to Be- midji on its trip through Northern Minnesota in November. An effort is being made to get this train to pass through Bemidji although it may not be able to arrange it as the special will start from Glenwood andl run to the border. Under a plan worked out by Dean A. F. Woods and with the approval of President George E. Vincent of the University of Minnesota, who ex- pects to 8o along, the state agricul- tural college will put an entire farm upon the special which will be com- posed of a train of eleven cars and «carry the farm on a ten-day trip into Minnesota, to show the farmers what good work can do. Everything but the actual acres and the farm build- ings will be taken along. Beef ahd dairy cows, sheep, calves, pigs, hors- es and chickens will travel in com- pany with a staff of lecturers from the college, which will include four women. So {ar as has been planned, Professors A. D. Wilson, Andrew Boss, C. P. Bull and N. C. Chapman state poultry expert, will be in the party. The train will be formed in this manner: Bagagge car with forage for stock. Stock car of automobile type, en- abling attendants to lead out stock at stations. Farm machinery car, carrying lat- est devices for simplifying farm work. Poultry car full of roosters and chickens, with incubators, trap nesis and all latest devices. * Dairy car, with full dairy exhi- bits. Seed car, ‘with good seed exhibit. Domestic science car, with four women in charge. Boys’ and girls’ car, sepcially pre- pared for instruction of children in farm help possibilities. Dining car. Sleeper. A strong appeal will be made to the women and children of the farms. Advance notices will be sent out along the route and school superin- tendents will be asked to dismiss schools in advance of the arrival of the train that the children may at- tend the lectures and see the exhi- ‘bits. The train will leave Minneapolis Noy. 6, and will make forty Soo line towng in Minnesots, | July, Photo by American Press Association. INSURANCE COMPANY SUED. Indianapolis, Oct. 3.—Suit for an accounting and the appointment of a receiver for the Bankers’ Life as- sociation of Des Moines ‘and the Bankers’ Life company, and for the possession and control of $18,000,- 000 assets, has been field here in the superior court. The action was begun by Charles W. McLaughlin of Portland, Ind., who said he was one of the 158,000 members of the -association which does business in more than half the United States. McLaughlin charges conspiracy on the part of the officers and directors of the corporations to get control of the $18,000,000 assets of the asso- ciation. to divert the funds from their proper use and trust character and to deprive the plaintiffs of their inter- est therein without compensgtion. The suit involves the quu ton of the right to change from an ment to a straight life plan. The association was organized in 1879, on the mutual assess- ment basis, with the members con- stituting the corporation and with no capital stock. Several Bemidji men have insur- ance in this company and will watch the outcome of the action with in- terest. WIFE SLAYER TO HANG. Montreal, Oct. 3.—Apparently rec- onciled to his fate, though with lit- tle left of the iron nerve that he dis- played throughout the trial, John Cummings. the wife slayer, is await- ing the dawn of tomorrow, when he will mount the scaffold in the Mon- treal jail to pay the full penalty of the law. The crime for which he is to be executed was committed on November 21 last. Early in the even- ing of that day Cummings approach- ed his wife, with whom he had not’ been living for some time, as she was walking in the street with a young man, and fired two shots, kill- ing her almost instantly. The evi- dence showed that Cummings had been dringing on the day of the mur- der, and that he had previously made threats against his wife. DE PALMA WINS RACE. ‘Wauwatosa Race Course, Wis., Oct. 3.—Ralph de Palma, driving a Mer- cedes car, yesterday won the eighth Vanderbilt cup automobile race over the new Wauwatosa road course in 4 hours and 20 minutes and 31.54 seconds, for a distance of 299 miles, 2,764 feet. This was an average speed of 69 miles per hour, or five miles per hour slower than_ Ralph Mulford’s time. in last year’s Vander- bilt race at Savannah. Hughie Hughes, Mercer, was second, 42 4-5 seconds behind De Palma, and Spen- cer Wishart, Mercedes, third. Hughes averaged 68 4-5 miles per hour. THE CUB REPORTER I -, bigoshish with Leech Lake, to one designated as the Pike Bay route. The proposed Pike Bay route for thej canal is from Pike Bay to Leech Lake and will give a water boundary along the entire west side of the Minneso- and permit of quick transportation of fire fighting ta National forest forces in case of emergency. The Commercial club is now in receipt{’ of a copy of a letter written by John C. Scofield of the war department in which he explains that congressional action will be necessary to change the route but that the apprepriation of $61,200 made June 25, 1910, by congress for the original project will be held so that the entire matter can be brought to the attention of congress in the annual report for the fiscal year 1912. It is understood that the war de- partment, the department of the In- terior and the department of Agri- culture are all favorable to the pro- ject as urged by the Cass Lake and ‘Walker clubs, and it is believed that the project will meet no opopsition and that active work will begin early next spring. PELLAGRA CONFERENCE MEETS. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 3.—Many medical men of international prom- inence were present here today at the opening of the second triennial conference of the National associa- tion for the study of Pellagra. The initial session was held this morning in the assembly hall of the South Carolina state asylum for the insane. Dr. J. W. Babcock, superintendent of the asylum and president of the as- sociation, occupied the chair. Dur- ing the day papers or addresses deal- ing with the prevalence and geo- graphic distribution of Pellagra-and possible factors in the causation of the disease were presented by Dr. J. F. Siler, of the medical corps of the United States army; Dr. P..E. Gar- tant surgeon United States Dr. W. J. McNeal, of New York City; Dr. R. M. Grimm, assistant sur- geon of the. United States public health and marine hospital service; Dr. H. H. Hagen, of Washington, C.; Dr. K. K. Beall, of the Texas state board of health, and Allen H. Jennings, of the bureau of entomol- ogy of the United States department of agriculture. UPPER PENINSULA TEACHERS. Iron Mountain, Mich., Oct. 3.— Iron Mountain is entertaining for two days a small army of public school teachers in attendance on the annual convention of the Upper Pen- insula Educational association. Pres- ident W. D. Hill, of Crystal Falls, presided at the first of the general sessions today. Among the promin- ent speakers were Professor Earl Barnes of Philadelphia and Dr. S. D. Fess. president of Antioch College. OHIO M. E. CONFERENCE. Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 3.—The reg- ular order of business at the annual session of the Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was suspended today, while the delegates and the members of the local church- es participated in a celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Ohio conference, which was formed in Chillicithe in 1812. Bishop An- derson of the church took part in the anniversary exercises. - TAFT TO TAKE PART. Salem, Mass.,, Oct. 3.—President Taft has promised to come to Salem tomorrow to attend the dedication of a memorial tablet in honor of the officers and men of the First regi- ment, heavy artillery, M. V. M., who died in defense of the Union. The total losses of, this regiment in bat- tle were exceeded by only fourteen of the 2,000 or more regiments in the war. The memorial tablet is of bronze and was designed by Bela Pratt, the Boston sculptor. The Big thht Was Called 0ff In the Second Round D. |Dix had been withdrawn. New York Democnhfi Congressman Named to Head State Ticket of His S BOSS MURPHY SCORED. Syracuse, Oct. 3.—Wm. Sulzer, representative in congvess from New York City, was nominated for gov- ernor early this morning by the Dem- ocratic state convention. It was the | seventh -time -he- has® been - & candi-|- date for the nomination. Sulzer was formally decllred the nominee on the fourth ballot after Murtin H. Glynn was nominated for lieutenant governor. Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 3.—The Dem- ocratic state convention was thrown into an uproar late yesterday by the oratorical attack upon Chas. F. Mur- phy, the Tammany leader, by Thom-. as M. Osborne, who has long been identified with efforts to dislodge Murphy and his friends from their positions of prominence in the party in New York state. The occasion was a discussion of the party platform which Mr. Osborne wanted to amend in certain important particulars. Mr. Murphy’s friends accused Os- borne of being actuated in his at- tack by disappointment over his fail- ure to be chosen as the party candi- date for governor or United States senator. When Osborne opened fire he was interrupted in almost every instance by hoots from the delegates. “His hour is about to strike,” he said, referring to the Tammany lead- er. “The delayed storm which the conditions of New York city have long been preparing has already burst; lightning already; and already his great reputation has come crash- ing to the ground. And this man who sits here now, surrounded by sat- ellites, dispensing favors, dictating Dolicies, distributing nominations of the great party—look at him well, for this is the last time you will look upon such a scene. For him, too, the hour will soon strike and upon the ruins of his fall will arise New York democracy of the future.” “Choose ye this day,” concluded Osborne, “whom ye will serve. On one side stands Woodrow Wilson, and the principles of progressive democracy, on the other Charles F. Murphy and cohesive power of pub- lic plunder.” i Alton Parker took the opportunity (By United Press.) Many Useless Models. ‘Washinton, Oct. 3.—Hundreds of models of freak devices to make rail- road travel more save are being tum- bled from dusty shelves of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, upon the removal of the Commission to its new building. These models were submitted during an ancient inquiry of the Commission into the use of block signals. Some are practical, some freakish and some utterly worthless. ~Among. the models is a passenger car, gua.n.nteed _not to zelesmpe in 8 wreck. curved, instead of square. The in- ventor forgot to calculate what would happen to passengers if the car was shunted to ome side and avoided telescoping. ] 3 ‘With the many models in a small mountain of blue prints, ink draw- ings and photographs—all adding to Uncle Sam’s scrap heap. Many Drinkers of Beer. ‘Washinton, Oct. 3.—Nearly 8,003,- 745,000 gallons - of beer was the world’s production in the year 1910, according to a report to the state de- partment from Counsul Heingartnew at Liege, Belgium; quoting figures from the “Actino Economiquo.” Of this enormous amount 7,925,000,000 gallons were consumed during the same period. The United occupied first place among the beer producing countries, with an output of 1,908,010,377 gal- lons. Germany was second with 1,- 703,666,460 gallons, manufactured by 13,186 breweries. Great Britain ranked third and Austria-Hungary fourth. Cavalry Faces Horse Famine. ‘Washinton, Oct. 3,—Uncle San’s cavalry is up against the problem ni another “horse famine.” The Second and Fourteenth Cav- alry regiments, which have just re- turned to the United States from the Philippines, have had to be entirely remounted because a disease made it impossible for the regiments to bring back their mounts from the islands. The remount stations which sup- ply horses for the cavalry, have been almost stripped bare of serviceable mounts, and if there should be any additional demands for horses the government might have to go odt and buy horses in the open market. ~ Owing to the activity of the Mex- ican rebels on the border the de- mands for cavalry have been large. (Continued on last page). (Continued -on last page.) T Sued the County for $3,107.52 Be- cause Commissioners Allowed $978.50 for Services. —_— ACTED IN THE DUMAS CASES p—— ‘ Was Special Prosecutor for County In Puposky and Brainerd Trials In Fall of 1911, SERVICES VALUED BY EXPERTS ) Attorneys Loring, Janes, Aldermax; Andrews and Brown Tell of Worth of Time in Court Work. E. E. McDonald was awarded com- Densation of $1,666.98 for his ser- vices as special prosecutor for the county in the Dumas cases by a jury in district court yesterday. Mr. Me- Donald had been allowed $978.50 by SULZER FOR GOVERNOR W ASHINGTON LETTER BiG GAMES ON SATURDAY s s’ 2 oo o5 Mr McDonald conducted his own case. His suit was based on the Football Selm Will Be Formally|claim that a proper charge for court d b t Games in W, work_was $50 per day and for out- Opened by Eighf et side preparation $25 per day. The ern Conference. county board had decided that this charge was too large and had cat it down. Mr. McDonald’s charge was based on $50 per day for court BEMIDJI GOES TO AKELEY. work in the Puposky case, $50 per day for court work at Brainmerd, $33.33 per day for work before the grand jury in the Brainerd case, and $25 per day for preparation. Mr. McDonald’s witnesses were Charles Loring, of the firm of Steen- erson and Loring at Crooksion, Alex- Chicago, Oct. 3.—All of the big teams of the east and eight of the conference teams jn the middle west ’vigjfl into n Saturday when the-Br§t-veat foot games of the season will be . .played:. +—-Minneso The car ends are sharply| will play Ames and has to play Ne- braska also before meeting any other conference team. Conference elevens have been at work but ten days. Other teams, however, have been in the field for three weeks with the added advan- tage of a training table. Many of the contests will be on the champion- ship order and will eliminate losers from the raee for the title. In Minnesota; the Minnesota- Ames gageswill attract the most at- tention. “Minnesota was defeated by South Dakota last week by a score of 10 to 0. Those who have been fol- lowing the Minnesota team say that it is due for another defeat Satur- day as all advices from Ames are that ander Janes, assistant attorney gem-. -jeral of Minnesota,Sam Alderman; of Brainerd, A. A. Andrews and John L. Brown. All of the men testified that a charge of $50 per day for court work and $25 per day for pre- Dparation was a customary charge. Mr. Janes testified that he considered a charge of $2,500 for services in the entire matter would not have been unreasonable by Mr. McDonald. No witnesses apepared for the county and the case was sent to the jury on the testimony of the plain- tiff. Judge Stanton charged the jury that it was not bound to adopt the values placed on the services by the plaintiff’s experts but it was its duty to judge and weigh the force of the experts opinions by its own Clyde Williams has a team of veter-{common sense and knowledge of the ans and is out to get revenge for|subject of inquiry. He stated to the the many blanks at the hands of the|jury that if it believed the amounts Gophers. Minnesota rooters are also|given by the experts were not cor- interested in the college games of |rect, that it had a right to say so Hamline, Carlton, Macalester and St.|in its verdict. Olaf which will be played Saturday. Following the reading of the ver- The Chicago-Indiana battle at Mar-|dict,- County Attorney Torrance took shal Field in Chicago will attract the|a stay of thirty days in order that attention of rooters in the middle|the county commissioners might de- west. Indiana played DePauw last|cide whether or not they wish to ac- Saturday and showed that it had a|cept the verdict or appeal for anoth- good team. The Maroons have yet|er trial. The verdict as given Mr. . to play their first game but in spite| McDonald is about $100 more than of the bear dope sent out by Coach|the difference between what he want- Stagg it is believed that Chicago will|ed and what the commisioners al- have a team that will at least hold |lowed originally. Indiana. The jury in the case was composed Northwestern will get into action|of J. Peterson, Jr., Henry Falls, against Lake Forest at Evanston.|George Smith, Carl Radi, C. C. Ha- ‘Wisconsin will meet its old foe Law-{gen, Peter Trodahl. Robert Nelson, rence at Madison. The University|Demp Mohler, Fred Iverson, Hans of Jowa will play the Iowa Normal|Torgerson, A. R. Garrow and Fred school at Iowa City. Purdue will|Ferdette. play DePauw and Michigan will play Case at Ann Arbor. In the high school games, Bemid-|FINGERS CRUSHED IN MACHINE.. 3i will travel to Akeley and a close{ W. A. Cassler had the tips of two game is looked for. Coach Carson|fingers on his left hand cut off yes- has had his men out every night|terday afternoon when they wWere this week but owing to the small|caught in the weéd chain of a pota- number of candidates, has been un-|to digger. The accident happened able to send his men into scrimmage|on his farm four miles west of the —m.m.m;'m page). city. Mr. Cassler is able to be about the farm today but the accident will keep him from working for some By "HOP" = HOLD SERVICES IN GERMAN. Otto Brauer has made arrange- ments to hold the German Lutheran chureh services in the Baptist church Sundays in the afternoon. Sunday school will be held at 2:30 and preaching service at 3. All services will be read in the German lang- uage, " A H. Warner will lecture at the Grand Theatre tonight and Friday