Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 11, 1912, Page 1

THE ILY VOLUME 10. NUMBER 193. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY EVEN]NG DECEMBER 11, 1912, AUSTRIA FLOATS $25,000,000 LOAN ance There Would be no Fight Between Big Powers. DENIES WARLIKE STAND But Uneasiness Is Generally Felt Ow- ing to Attitude Toward Servia by the Generals. FORCES ARE BEING MOBILIZED Rumors In London Persist to That _Effect Although It Is Denied. S New York, Dec. 11.—It was on the assurance that there was no Mlkli- hood of a war between the great pow- ers of Europe that New York bankers undertooa the flotation of a $25,000,- 000 Austrian loan in this country, as announced last night in Vienna. London, Dec. 11.—Official quarters in Vienna deny that any warlike sig- nificance attaches to the military changes, but these assurances fail to allay the uneasiness aroused by fears that the powerful military party in Servia may force the hands of the government. General Von Hoetzendorff, the new Austrian chief of staff, is credited with being sworn enemy of Servia and a long time possessed of the con- viction that nothing but the sword can settle the differences between Austria and Servia. Further proof reached London to- night that Austrian-Hungarian forces are mobilizing. Many Austrian and Hungarian residents of London. have been called to. colors. . The report says Austria intends to demand the diminuation of the present strength of the Servian army, a demand to which Servia, in her present temper, is hardly likely to agree. All ar- rangements for the peace conference have been made. “The resignation of War Minister Auffenberg and General Scheuma are said to have been prompted by the forebearing and hesitating policy of Count Von Berchtold towards Servia. It is becoming increasingly plain that war between Austria and Russia will be averted, but there appears to be no abatement of the tensions be- tween Austria and Servia.” “In well-informed quarters it would be wrong to interpret the resig- nation as an indication that warlike counsels are prevailing in the con- duct of the Austrian policy. The changes should e regarded rather as measures running parallel.to the mil- itary precautions which Austria has already taken. “While General Auffenberg and General Schemua are regarded as fully adequate to fill responsible po- sitions in normal times, the present situation, when war on two fronts is within the realm of possibility, is re- garded as justifying the summoning by the Austrian government of the two leading soldiers to the highest military positions. It is not impos- sible that both officials resigned vol- untary in a spirit of high patriotism to make way for better men. . General Von Hoetzendorff returns to his old post, which he left after be- ing worsted in a conflict with the late Count Von Aehrenthal whose peace- ful policy Von Hoetzendorff, as cham- pion of a mighty Austria, strenuous- ly combated. Von Hoetzendorff held that Aus- tria could only maintain her position in the Driebund by being a great mil- itary power.” Fight Spread of Cholera. Trieste, Dec. 11. — The Austro- Hungarian government is taking vig-| ‘orous steps to prevent the spread of cholera from the Balkan battle ground into this country. Today a mild sort of quarantine began. All passengers arriving via the Mediter- ranean and the Adriatic were held and subjected to the most severe med- ical inspection. It is-hoped that the cold weather will solve the problem by stamping out the cisease. Turkey Names Delegates. Constantinople, Dec.. 11.—The offi- cial announcement was made tonight that Selih Bey, minister of marine, Reichad Pasha, minister of agricul- ture and Osman Nazimi Pasha, am-| bassador to Germany, had been ap- pointed plenipotentiaries to the peace conference which will begin at Lon- don on December 13. ‘The delegates will start for London tomorrow, JOSEPH A. WALKER Massachusetts Politician. HOTEL, DEPARTMENT STORE AND SHOE COMPANY BURNED OUT IN CINCINNATI FIRE Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 11.—Three of the city’s leading establishments, the Gibson hotel, the Rendigs-Loth- man department store and the Doug- las Shoe company, and hundreds of offices were destroyed by fire last night. The offices of the Missouri Pacific railway and ten floors of the Union Trust building were practically gut- ted. Whether there is any loss of life is uncertain. The hotel management says guests did not have time to escape, but the police are of the opinion that few lives were lost. The fire started in the hotel, the flames spreading rapidly to the ad- joining buildings. The total loss is estimated at $690,000. Many firemen were overcome effecting rescues and were taken to a hospital. port that a number of scrubwomen. working on the fifteenth fioor of the Union irust building were overcome and died cannot yet be verified. Makes for Smooth Existence. There i8 a good deal said about the loss of individuality, a loss when real which we all deplore, but a man is more likely to keep his individuaMty, with his life, if he follows in his mo- tor the formulated lines of traffc rather than meet another man in his motor on the wrong side of the road. If both men happened to be in a civie parade there would be no loss of in- dividuality to the man who kept his place behind instead of driving out from his place in order to get farther ahead of the man behind him, or in order to slip in ahead of the one ahead of him. Keeping in line means a simple thing often, but it is ome of the trifles that make for a perfect 1y smooth existence. There are seeming restrictions in life that hamper, but there are a great many others that forward. It is easy to understand the gains when compli. ance of a purely mechanical sort—but very necessary—has been made. By reasoning from their analogy we may find out to our advantage that thers are many others less tangible, a com- pliance with which would do wonders in making the world go round, and,in making ourselves the happiest and most successful people. Stolen Turkey. Rev. Algerncn S. Crapsey, in an ine terview during the Little Falls strike, eald of a very religious and very torious child-labor millionaire: *This man reminds me of Uncle Cal: houn Clay. “Uncle Cal was accused of stealing a turkey, and the Sunday after the ac- cusation being communion Sunday, | the old fellow was one of the first com- municants at the little white church. “His pastor, Rev. Washington White, said to him reproachfully, after the service: “‘Calhoun Cley, I'm ashamed of you. The idea of your coming to commus nion after stealing a turkey!’ “‘Lands-a-massy, parson,’ sald old Uncle Cal, ‘do you think I'd let a skin- ny old turkey, hardly worth ten cents a pound, stand betwixt me and the Lord's table? SCOO THE CUB One re- | ARE STILL COUNTING - The special board of canvassers ap- pointed to recount the vote in-the Harris-Moon fight had not finished.#t| press time today. They refuse to.give out any information until the couat{ is' completed although an unofficial statement was on the streets last night that the count stood even at that time. GIVEN FIVE YEAR SENTENCE ON WHITE SLAVE CHARGE|. St. Paul, Dec. 11.—After twenty ‘hours of dissension, lasting from 3 p. m. Monday until 11 a. m. Tuesday, a jury in United States district court| returned a verdiot of guilty against John McKay, alias Buck McKay, and Mrs. Rose McKay, violators of the white slave traffic act. The verdict ‘was accompanied with a request to Judge Willard to deal lxghtly with both prisoners. Judge Willard sentenced McKay to a five-year term in Leavenworth peni- tentiary, and imposed a fine of $5, 000. Rose McKay received a sen- tence of three years at Leavenworth and a fine of the same amount. The woman wept quietly while sentence was being pronounced on McKay, but appeared to ‘bear her own sentence with more fortitude. An additional charge was given the jury by Judge Willard at 40 o’clock in the morning. George R. O'Reilly, acmng for the two prisoners, based a motion to ar- rest judgment on the contents of the additional charge, §n- the ‘intent of congress in passing. the white slave act of June, 1910. Mr. O'Reilly said that this law was intended to protect previously innocent women, but Judge Willard disagreed as to the purpose of the statute and denied the motion. The sentence passed on McKay was the maximum under the law. The McKays last December pur- chased transportation for Mabel Grundermann from St. Paul to Ken- nedy, Wis., where she was lodged in a disorderly house. CANADIAN PACIFIC PLANNING PERFECTION-OF LINES WEST By United Press. ‘Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 11.—Accord- ing to its present plans the Canadian Pacific railway 'will build more than 1,000 miles of new lines in Western Canada in 1913. This includes 250 miles of double tracking between the head of the lakes and the Pacific coast. It is proposed to build between 600 and 700, miles of branch lines and 160 miles of sidings for termin- al facilities. The projected branch lines will open up a vast stretch of new térritor)’. OFFICER’S MISTAKE -COSTLY. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 11.—A po- liceman’s mistake cost the life of El- mer Finnegan, a seventenn :year old ‘high school student of this city, yes- terday. The youth was shot and kill- ed by Patrolman Hoffman as he was fleeing .from a garage where he and another lad had stopped to play a prank on the proprietor. The boys entered the garage and demanded that they be permitted to examine an -automobile, saying they were detectives. The garage keeper shouted for the police. As the boys ran, Patrolman Hoffman appeared and opened fire on them. Finnegan was struck in the head and died an hour later. Patrolman Hoffman said he had aimed into the aig, but stumbled as he fired. Literally True. “Say, Chimpie, wot's a suffragette?™ “A suffragette’s 2 woman who wants & chance to knock the stuffing out of the ballot-box.”—Judge. Scotoh. “I ken, Donald, we've had two fine days the month.” “Aye, mon, and one was snappet up by the Sawbath.” Hard Job. It 1s golng to be difficult to gl'. women to quit judging other women | by the furs they wear. | that. (Copyright.) His First Job. WANT LIBERTY BELL| Petitions Ask That It Be Loaned For Panama Exposition and Return- ed Through Minnesota. TEACHES LESSON OF PATRIOTISM Special to The Plonser. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 11—Western patriotism fm‘ Chicago to Portland, Ore., is_being, argused in a campaign to have the Libérty Ben shlpped back to Philadelphia from San Franvisco exposition by the Northern route, route, giving the people of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illin- ois, Indiana and Ohio an opportunity to act as host to the Revolutionary relic. Secretary Harry C. Wuerth of the| Spokane Chamber of Commerce will start tomorrow the circulation of pe- titions in the state of Washington, at the same time requesting united action by chambers of commerce and commercial clubs in every town and city of the states just named. Fpl- lowing the example of San Francisco which is waging a determined fight to bring the Liberty Bell to the Pan- ama-Pacific International exposition in 1915, 225,000 school children of Washington will sign petitions re- questing that the bell be returned by the Northern route. In this state the petitions will be signed aleo by citizens generally, the mark set being 1,000,000 signatures in the state of Washington. - If the Liberty Bell is sent west in 1915 it will be just as easy to return it east by the Northern route as by the Southern, stated Secretary Wuerth of the chamber of commerce. “The lesson in patriotism it would teach all along the line would be well worth the effort expended in show- ing the bell to millions of people in the nonthwest.” ~ No Place for It. *“Yes, sir, I'll be sixty years old on the seventeenth day of next month and I can put‘my palms on the floor without bending my- knees:” “You don’t look as if you could do Let’s see you try it.” “Oh, I dom’t want to get down on my stomach here.” : ‘Give Scoop A Medal--He's A Hero S-SH-SH-T DIDNT FOURTEEN DAYS TO | | | | | | “ - Only Two.Weeks Left. You Will Be Left If You Don't Shop Right Away. DANISH WOMEN WANT TO JOIN THE NATIONAL ARMY By United Press. Copenhagen, Dec. 11.—Danish suf- fragettes confident that the coming session of parliament will grant them the vote now have on foot a project to compel the government to introduce military service for women, it was learned today. Mdny of the suffragettes are said to be anxious to join the armies. PAL BROWN FIGHTS AGAIN. Special to The Pioneer. Superior, Wis., Dec. 10. — Pal Brown of Hibbing, Minn., and Danny Goodman of Chicago are matched to box ten Tounds in an exhibition be- fore the Superior Athletic club De- cember 23. Northwest fans are watch- ing Brown's career with interest and look to see him outgo the veteran Ohicago boy. ! The Opulent Bard. “I can’t understand how that poet’s wife is able to dress so well. I thought there was no money in poet- v “I guest there isn’t; but her hus- band has the job of writing all the advertising rhymes for one of the biggest breakfast food concerns in the country. Have you seen their newautomobile?” i | If one gave voice only to one’s thought’s one ‘vauldn t talk so much. Some of the charity that begins at !home isn’t worth making a fuss about. WIND ALWAYS BLOWS Canadian Town of Macleod Gets Steady Breezes From the Crow’s Nest Pass. PILES UP STRAY TIN CANS BY United Press. E,mfl!!‘f‘ is always blowing in Macl indeed, even on the calmest uummer da§s there is gener-| ally a slight breeze in that section. The wind is believed to shoot out from the funnel of Crow’s Nest Pass which is some fifty miles due west in the Rockies. On most days, to an easterner’s mind, this “slight breeze” has the proportions of a gale u'u the Southern Alberta town. Thne stones show sharp- lyithréigh the metalling of the road while all odds and ends of paper are whirled away until caught by the nearest wire fence or other obstacle. Tin cans are the special. delight of these high winds, which send them fiying, bumping and rolling over the prairie. In old ranching days when the then little town was not so parti- cular visitors were regaled with a curious sight. There was a deep coulee or ravine on the edge of the settlement. Here piled in chaotic mass was a deposit of old tin cans swept there by that tireless scaven- ger—the wind. A scientific explanation accredits hot southern winds in the Canadian west to the passing of the air over the huge areas of corn fields in such state as Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa and other western states where corn is the staple crop and where the ra- diation of heat from the ground is intense. Sometimes hours in advance of a chinook wind in Southern Alberta a low distant roaring ean be heard from the mountains. The well known chinook arch over the Rockies al- jways betokens a strong blow from the west. | | MERCURY DOWN LAST NIGHT | The mercury went down to thir- 'teen below last night and hovered laround six below for most of the \mornmg Weather forcasts sent out jfrom the government bueraus say ‘uhat, continued .cold may be expected. By "HOP" Calgary, Alta.,, Dee. 11—There is e WILL BUILD ANNEX T0 HOTEL MARKHAM Lycan and Company Have Arranged For Three Story Addition to Be Put Up At Once. FLOORS REINFORCED CONCRETE Rooms to be Large and Half Will Have. Private or Connecting Bath—All Modern. OLD BUILDING WILL BE RAZED Work to be Done In Three Units and Hostelry Will Be Finest North of Twin Cities. _ A three story concrete fire proof hotel is the Christmas present which Lycan and company will make to Be- midji. The hotel will not be com- pleted until another and maybe two more visits of Santa Claus but the work will be started at once and the first unit is to be ready for use by July 15, 1913. F. S. Lycan recently returned from Minneapolis, - where, after several conferences with one of the leading architects, a plan was worked out whereby the Markham hotel will not only be enlarged by the addition of a forty room anuex to be built at once but this annex will be one of three units of the same design and archi- tecture. The other two will be built as soon as the first is complet: The completed Markham wilk have the shape of a capital E. The three units_will be_the three arms of the E and the south side of the hotel will be built in as the units are being fin- ished. Work is to be:started at once on the first unit which will lie on the east side of the building and cover the present alley and vacant lot. The kitchens-and dining room “will be moved from their present “lucalion into the first unit. This will' con- tain about forty rooms all of which will be outside. R The sécond unit will be placed about where the kitchens are now lo- cated and will be built as soon as the first is completed. The present kitchens and diniag room will be razed and the front of the first and second units connected with the main building of the present hotel to give. the south facing. The secomd unit will also comtain . about forty rooms. When it is completed, the third unit or the west side of the new hotel will be built. This will front on Beltrami avenue and con- tain office, lobby, store rooms, sample rooms, etc. “This building,” said Mr. Lycan this morning, “will be the most com- Dlete hotel building north of the twin cities. It is being designed by an experienced hotel architect with a view of giving to Bemidji something out of the ordinary in the way of ho- tel accommodations for a city of this size. The annex will be built on the east side of the present hotel and the other units built on to the west side of the new part.. “When completed the hotel will have about 120 outside rooms. This does mot include quarters for the help. The building will be absolute- 1y fireproof and will have all mod- ern conveniences such as running water, telephone, electric reading lamps, etc., in every room. More than half of the rooms will have pri- vate or connecting baths. The build- ing-when completed, will be 125x1%0, three stories high and of ommmm pressed brick.” Mr. Lycan 's architect is maktng a plate of the completed hotel and this will be published in the Pioneer:in the near future. CLAPP COMMITTEE AGAIN -~ POSTPONES mGATIOI BY .Usited Press. Washington, Dec. 11. — Anqther postponement of the Clapp committee ‘| investigation was announced Tues- day when Clapp. Pomerne, Paynter and Oliver were to have taken testi- mony in the alleged activity of the Standard .Oil company. A ‘message from Senator Jones now in the west stnung he could not reach here be- :|fore_next Monday gecided the com- inittee’s action. . The man who takes no interest in public schools, good roads, religion, or pomiu. isn’t even s -thumry