Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 2, 1912, Page 1

- — THE Histortal Soclety EMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 1 85. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER-2, v1912. “UNCLE SAM” AND CANADA AT WAR Bloody Battle at Brandon When Booming City Is Bombarded by Battalions of Men In Blue. | NORTHWESTERN MILITIA USED Reserves From Wisconsin, Minnesota | and the Dakotas Are Hurled Across the Border. FIGHTING PURELY IMAGINARY Has Resulted in the Killing of Noth- ing But Time—Officers are In | Deadly Earnest. oy United Press. i Brandon, Man., Dec. 2. — A new | war has broken out—not in foreign | lands, but here on the American con- | tinent. This may be news to the| great majority of the people, but, | nevertheless. war—bloody, cruel, bar-1{ barous war—now exists between Cen-| tral Western Canada and the states; forming the north central tier of the! United States. The reason that so! few people may be aware that hostil- | ities are now in progress is explained | by the fact that this war, though des- | perately waged, has resulted in the killing of nothing but time—it exists only in the imagination. | Today the beautiful little city of | Brandon, the gateway of Manitoba, | is withstanding a desperate assault, | only the strength of the Canadian troops being interposed to prevent the combined forces from the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin from rush- ing the breastworks. capturing thel! prosperous Canadian city and carry- ing it away in a shawl strap. | While the ruin and carnage and the smell of gunpowder, as well as| the blue uniforms from across [h?i border, are purely imaginary, the of- ficers in charge of the Canadian forces are real live, hustling, kicking, | scrambling human beings. bent upon; one purpose—the winning of this| battle—and if they do not prevent Brandon from being captured by the Americans (in their imagination) ir} will not be because they are not alert | and doing their level best. To be| taken prisoners by the Americans | would be a disgrace that they do not propose to be charged with. | But the hostilities raging in the| surrounding country have no terrors, for the peaceful inhabitants within | the city. Never. in fact, have they| moved about the streets and attend-| ed to their usual daily tasks with a| greater sense of security than in the midst of this “war,” when the boom-| ing of cannon and the hissing and bursting shells are shattering the im- agination of the officers. : Among the officers now in Brandon carrying out a plan of campaigning/ precisely as they would if Canada were actually in a state of interne- cine warfare, with the roaring of real guns and the flying of missles| that tear flesh, not the imagination, and who must be given credit they ! succeed in preventing the annexation | of Manitoba by the United States,| are the following: { Major F. L. Vaux, Major Le-| Chance, Major Posette, Captain Phi ippe and Captain A. C. Gray of Win- nipeg; Colonel J. G. Ratteray of Res- ton; Major J. L. Lipsett, Major Web- ster, Colonel A. C. McDonald, Major | Watt, Captain Mothersill. Lieutenam[ A. E. Shaw, Lieutenant A. C. Crixch—i ley and Major Mathews of Winnipe Captain Palmer of Virden: Major Young of Souris; Captain Parson of Regina; Lieutenant-Colonel Clark. Major McLaron. Lieutenant-Colonel Rankin, Captain Kiraday, Major Tem-| pleton, Captain Whitlier, of Bran- don. The directing officer if Major L. J. Lipsett, D. S. 0., W. C., assisted by Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Macdonnell, D. 8. 0., L. S H. R, and Major F. L. Vaux. Squirrels’ Instinctive Gift. Squirrels, it is said, know how to ludge distances accurately, for they seldom jump two distances alike, yet never fail to land safely when an inch too far or too short would mean dis- mster. And dogs run along beside horses’ heels, judging accurately the safe distance, and are seldom, if ever, Injured. Evidence. “Do you really believe, doctor, that your old medicines really keep any- body alive?” asked the skeptic. “Sure ly,” returned the doctor. “My pre scriptions have kept three druggiste and their families alive in this town tor twenty years."—Harper'’s Weekly, |spent the summer. 18 CROWN PRINCE WILHELM. Son of - German Emperor Who Has Displeased Father. TENSTRIKE. Ed Ericksen and family and his| brother Joe returned from North Da- kota, Saturday. John Radschweit and wife and son RAILR[)AD MERGER Amso returned from Rouseau county | the first of the week. They raised a fine crop of flax there. the past sum- [mer, but were unable to harvest all of it. Mr: urd M. E. Knappen returned Sat- from Minneapolis, where she ‘While away she | visited points in lowa and Wiscon- n. Her many friends are glad to see that she is much improved in health. Ruth Jennings, a high school pu- pil of Bemidji, is spending her | Thanksgiving vacation at her home |east of Tenstrike. She visited Tues- day night with Mrs. McGhee. Two car loads of cattle were ship- ped to the St. Paul market Wednes- ay. Five carloads were shipped from here before this. Miss Doris Pemble, the teacher of the Funkley school, was home for her Thanksgiving vacation, A. L. Morris has completed a forty- foot extension to his barn. It has a concrete basement which will be used for a cow stable. The upper portion be used for hay. Paul Halupt- zok was the contractor. J. H. Pemble has sold his mare and two colts to S. E. Thompson for $500. Bernie Pravitz went to Blackduck Wednesday evening to witness the play. “A Noble Outcast.” Last Saturday evening the Ladies' |Ald of the Presbyterian church gave a sale and oyster supper at which they received $34. & Bertha Webster of Bemidji is vis- iting with Esther McGhee. Miss Hattie Smith, the teacher of the first intermediate departments of our public school is spending her va- cation with her brother Stanley, near Bemidji. Johnnie Pemble is visiting with his sister, Mrs. Leach of Funkley. The receipts. Wednesday evening from the dance given for the benefit of the Catholic church amounted to $31. Johnnie and Blanche Radschweit returned Wednesday evening from Wisconsin where they spent wne sum- mer. Miss E. Flo Murray, the pri- mary teacher. is spending her vaca- tion with Bemidji friends. Hair Mussed by Lightning. Edward Kones prefers in the futurs ‘0 comb his own locks and wishes lightning would leave them alone. When his house, in Sullivan county, was struck the electricity plowed small furrows about his skull, taking ihe hair off his head In every place it touched. His injuries, besides de- stroving his hair, it is said, were ht.—Philadelphia North American, |legislation declaring that the mone- BILLS CALL FOR BIG IMPROVEMENTS By United Press. Washington, Dec. 2.—Nearly $57,- 000,000 for rivers and harbors im- provements were in the estimates submitted to congress today. Six |million dollars is the estimate for continuing the work on the Missis- sippi river between St. Paul and Minneapolis where a thirty foot dam is being constructed to develop elec- trical power. $185,000 is the esti- mate for Minnesota and Wisconsin in the Duluth-Superior harbor, $375,- 280 is the estimate for the Mississip- pi between St. Paul and St. Louis. LINDBURGH WANTS INQUIRY PUSHED {BY United Press. Washington, Dec. 2. — A demand that the Pujo money trust investigat- ing committee get down to work at once was contained in a report sub- mitted to the house by Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota. He em- phasized the necessity for currency| tary committee’s report failed to dis- close any facts in regard to the money trust. Full information is demanded. He charged that the Pujo committee was dilatory. HELD AS ILLEGAL By United Pres Washington, Dec. 2.—The supreme court today ordered the dissolution immediately of the Harriman merger of the Southern and Union Pacific railroads. The highest court refused emphatically to invoke its “rule of reason” laid down in the Standard 0Oil and Tobacco trust cases to apply to. the railroad combine. The merger was declared “unreasonable” and in restraint of trade. SENATE MEETING BRIEF By United Press. Washington, Dec. 2—Twenty-four mintes sufficed for the senate for the opening session at noon today. The senate was called to order by Senator Bacon. Senator Lodge offered a res- olution making 11 a. m. as the hour | for meeting. His motion prevailed. | The senate adjourned after adopting resolutions regretting the deaths of Vice-president Sherman and Senators Heyburn and Rayner. NAVY BEATS ARMY PLil iphia, Dec. 2. — A record erov . estimated at 35,000 gathered here ay afternoon to see the jarmy =i navy football teams meet in their annual contest. The wonderful outdoor picture be- {gan to take form at 1 o’clock wher | spectators began to arrive. The | stands were half filled at 1:25 o’clock | when a brass band emerged from the | southwest corner of the field at the head of ‘two battalions numbering about 600 midshipmen. To the strains of a tuneful air they marched down the field, forty abreast. As the Annapolis boys were filing {up the aisles to their seats the gray coated army contingent preceded by a band came in at the same entrance. | There were 500 of them, divided into six companies. Navy scored in the third quarter. The final was: Army, 0; Navy, 6. | Very Much So. “Have you any drop ceilings in your house?” “Yes, in the kitchen where | i the plaster fell down.” g (Copyright.) BACK ON THE JOB MORE ARE ARRESTED| Seventeen ‘Jim Jam Jems” Dealers In Minneapolis Held On $500 Bail. NO MORE BOOKS ON SALE NOW | | Minneapolis, Dec. 2. — Seventeen Minneapolis newsdealers were arrest- ed Saturday and arraigned before| United States- Comniissioner Howard S. Abbott in the crusade begun by the federal government to suppress the sale of “Jim Jam Jems,” a month- 1y issued at Bismarck, N. D., whose | publishers, Samuel H. Clark, and| others, were recently indicted by the | federal grand jury at Fargo, N. D. They are charged with having accept- ed from express companies copies of the semi-annual number of “Jim Jam Jems,” shipped from Bismarck, last July. The newsdealers waived ex- amination and were bound over to| the next term of the federal grand| jury which will meet the first Tues-| day in April. Bail was fixed at $500| and the personmal bond of each was| accepted for the amount. | Those arrested Saturday were: James Adair, 626 Hennepin ave-| nue. Barney H. Bertleson, 6 East Third street. William H. Burd, manager for Fer- ris & Grady news stand, Andrews ho- tel. Lester E. Carson, partner in news stand, West hotel. Dean Efner, partner in World News company, 4043% First avenue. Carl Fisher, druggist, 1031 Henne- pin avenue. William O. Goodman, partner in cigar store, Nicollet hotel. David H. Hobson, partner in cigar| stand, Nicollet hotel. H Bert Mulvey, partner in cigar| stand, Metropolitan Life building. | Ben Ravich, partner in news stand, 4123 First aveune S. Louis E. Schmidley, druggist, Nicollet avenue and Lake street. Herman Schochet, manager Ly- ceum book exchange, 711 Hennepin. Albert R. Schweister, proprietor cigar and news stand, 302 Hennepin. ‘William M. Scott, manager of ci- gar and news stand. owned by Mich- ael Hanley, 101 Seventh street S. T. R. Stafford, proprietor news stand, Phoenix building. Charles L. Templeton, proprietor cigar and news stand New York Life building. Brewster Smith, proprietor of ci- REPORTER TVE GOT THE SYSTEM-— T HAVE HERE WHAT T Send A Stomach Pump To Room 93 CARRYING- OUT, MY IDEAS' BEFORE I WRITE @N BELIEVE WILL TENDTD OF ECONOMY TVE ARTICLE. OM DOME STIE SCIENCE - REVOLLTIONZE THE CONCOCTED A MUSHROOM T EXPERIMENT ON MY Own OF PUDDING MAKING-, e PUDDING FLAVORED Wity LITTLE Gas PLaTE' MOTHBALLS — we'Le = e ) Now PROCEED Tg, . 54 JASTE \T— & LB \ : E« i £ 9 ) ¢ \ S 8- > e 0 4 \ o L\fl N Sissun \ y = 2 = o e o = A e — = Dle {tors under the direction of R. D. {merce. RAINY RIVER Twenty-three Days to Christmas |Amol Annis and Michael Carey Lost | Lives Near Clementson Last Friday. Later—The Rainy river froze over without the bodies being recovered, and it is doubtful if they will ever be found. Twenty-three! Skidoo! Get your shopping through! This means YOU! Baudette, Dec. 2. — A double drowning occurred in the Rainy riv- er opposite Clementson Friday night. when Amos Annis and Michael Carey lost their lives. The young men who .| were working for farmers on the Canadian side, secured a small boat and started across the river to spend gar and news stand, Chamber of Com- | the evening with friends at Clement- merce. . son. The arrests made in Minneapolis| This was about eight o'clock and follow a similar crusade a week ago |shortly afterward cries for help were against St. Paul newsdealers hand-|heard by persons on both shores, but ling “Jim Jam Jems.” The informa-|nothing could be seen of the young tion on which the arrests were made |men. The boat was an old one and was secured by the postoffice inspec-|the general theory is that it sank in the middle of the river. Searching Simmons, inspector in charge, St.|parties were on the scene early the Paul. Inspectors John H. Chase, John [next morning but no trace of either H. Lucey, R. M. Hugdal and R. S.|the bodies or of the boat could be Greggs secured the information fur‘il‘o\md‘ The search for the bodies has the arrests in Minneapolis and turn-!been kept up ever since, but 'so far ed it over to the office of the United | Without success. States district attorney. The war-! The victims of the accident were rants were sworn to by Assistant Dis-|about twenty-nine years of age. One trict Attorney J. M. Dickey. They|Was a Scotchman and the other an were served in each case by United |ITishman. and they came from the old States Marshal W. H. Grimshaw in|Country only about a year ago. Annis person. The charge is a violation of {had established a home at the Can- section 16-18 of the the postal laws | adian side of the International bridge and regulations, which covers the|Where his mother and one sister re- sending of objectionable matter by |side. mail and express in interstate com-| Carey has one brother, George, who resides on the Canadian side opposite The semi-annual number of “Jim |Clementson. Jam Jems” which is specifically men-| The tragedy has caused deep gloom tioned in the warrants, is a volume |2t Sleeman and Clementson where into which all the monthly issues for | the young men were well known and the half year preceding are bound.|liked. The homesteaders are bending The publishers, indicted by the grand |eVerY effort to recover the bodies jury at Fargo, N. D., early in Novem- | Without delay, as the river is expect- ber are out on $2,500 bail. The max-|®d to be frozen over any day now. imum penalty for conviction of the| charge is $5,000 fine and five years | imprisonment. | Either Sunshine or Fire. Minneapolis newsdealers said today | 5 o “;‘;‘n:;“,:::p;‘;’;’";ig :;"";; that they had removed “Jim Jam possible, not only for airing, but also Jems” from their shelves as soon as| to freshen them and make them small they were aware that the federal au- | sweeter. thorities had declared it objectionable literature. None of them would ven- What Did He Mean? ture an opinion on the probable out- “Now look here, Maria,” said Mr. come of the grand jury hearing. They| Wombat, “if you don't stop playing bridge all the time I'll take a hand.” Ev nHOPu ‘Continued on last page). | HOLY MACKEREL NOPE JusT) WHLT CaLL A PDAwe ram i 'St poc fix DocTor @wicr! J [ \Swiewel/ Promame £ K POVIENING?) ,\ kS [SETSLL EvH BODIES ARE NOT RECOVERED TEN CENTS PER WEEK. IINATION'S RULERS AGAIN AT WORK | Third Session of Sixty-Second Com- gress Opened at Noon Today In Washington. HOUSES ADJOURNED PROMPTLY Action Taken Out of Respect For De- ceased Members Whose Desks Were Buried with Flowers. ARCHBALD TRIAL ON TUESDAY Senate Will Devote at Least Two Hours a Day to Hearing Evi- dence In the Case. BY United Press. Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.— “Whack, whack, thumpety-thump.” “Rat-a-tat-tat.” With these gavel strokes today, re- spectively, in the house and senate, exactly as the bronze clocks pointed to 12, the third session of the Sixty- second congress was convened. The Ppeoples’ servants were at work again. From the crack of the respective gavels, congress settled into the traces of legislative business, to end only on March 4, when a new presi- dent and a Democratic congress step in. History-old scenes were repeated today at the opening of both houses. Ancient precedents, almost law from hallowed observance, were rigorously followed. In the senate, Senator Augustus O. Bacon, large, florid and the person- ification of “Senatorial dignity,” did the honors. His was the hand which lightly tapped the marble-topped desk of the presiding officer. Speaker Champ Clark, with vigor- ous and resounding thumps of his gavel, did similar duty at the south end of the capitol. In both chambers, death lent a somber touch to the opening cere- monies. The senate mourned in its bereavement of Vice-president Sher- man and former Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, both of whom died during the recess since last August. In the house, a half-dozen ma- hogany desks, covered with flowers, and draped with crepe, brought a tear to the eye of many returning mem- bers. Out of respect to their deceased members both houses adjourned with- in a very few minutes after conven- ing, after transacting minor and nec- essary initial business. Senator Root of New York, in a feeling eulogy, officially announced in the senate the death of Vice-presi- dent Sherman, in whose absence the president pro tempore of the senate, Senator Bacon, acted as presiding of- ficer. Senator Borah, of Idaho, fol- lowed the New York senator with the announcement of the death of his former colleague, Senator Hey- burn. Resolutions were then passed expressing deep sorrow of the sen- ate, and sympathy for the bereaved families. The senate then adjourned until Tuesday. Similar recognition of their dead was made in the house. “The house will be in order,” were Speaker Clark’s salutatory remarks, with a wide smile—for the speaker. A roll call was then ordered, to ascer- tain if a quorum of the house was present. Appointment of committees to no- tify the senate and president Taft that the house was in session again and ready to do business, with a faint hint to the president that the house was ready to receive any mes- sage or legislative suggestions from him, was then the final business be- fore the house adjourned until noon Tuesday. Presentation of President Taft's annual message is on tomorrow’s pro- gram in both houses. It is almost uni- formly transmitted on the second day of every session. Opening of the impeachment trial of Judge Robert D. Archbald, of’the Commerce court, is also scheduled to- morrow. Strife of recent battles on political campaign fields lent both a humorous and a tragic angle to today’s: brief session. Many war-scarred veterans of a generation of campaigns looked upon the opening gayety for the last time. They were the ones defeated last month in the Democratic land- slide. Despite their political misfortunes, the “lame ducks” laughed and joked across the aisles to their victorious opponents. This aftermath of the re- (Continued on last page). i i