Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 12, 1912, Page 1

\ BEMIDJI ILY PIONEE " VOLUME 10. NUMBER 194, SPEAKERS FINDING GOOD AUDIENCES Extension Workers From Bemidji Talked to 100 In Kelliher and Over 100 In Blackduck. G00D MEETING AT KELLIHER Business Men Had Farmers As Din- ner Guests and Schools Were Dismissed. THE WOMEN STAY AT HOME Not One Attended Evening Session and Few In Afternoon In Blackduck. A. E. Nelson, F. B. McLaren and Miss Margaret Bull are in Northome and Mizpah today carrying the latest ideas in good farming into the back woods where agricultural trains and special speakers are seldom, if ever, seen or heard. Friday they will be in Tenstrike and Turtle River and will come to. Bemidji Saturday for the big farmers’ rally to be held here Saturday in the High school. The three speakers are making a tour of Beltrami and Southern Clear- water and Koochiching counties that will take them two weeks. The first meeting of the. series was held in Farris Monday and thirty-six farm- ers attended; the second was held in Kelliher Tuesday and over 100 men and women were crowded in the city hall, eighty-five percent being from neighboring farms; the third meet- ing was held in Blackduck Wednes- day with an attendance of eighty men—every_one a farmer. Although Miss Bull was to have come from the University in’time to be present at all ‘the- meetings,..she did not join Mr. McLaren. and-Mf. Nelson until yesterday as she got as far as Blackduck Tuesday and- did not know how to get to Kelliher. Just| when Miss Bull joined the party Mr. McLaren was forced to return to Du- luth for a day as he had been sub- poened as a witness in a court case. He rejoined the party at Northome today. Give Farmers Free Dinner. The success of the Kelliher meet- ing was in a large measure due to the activity of the business men headed by William Lennon, postmas- ter and county commissioner. The business men gave tickets to the farmers which admitted them to any hotel dining room. in the city and entitled them to the best in the ho- tel. As a result, when the meeting was called to order at 1:30 the speakers had an audience of over 100. Mr. McLaren talked on “Pota- toes” while Mr. Nelson talked on the “Dairy Cow.” The upper grades in the schools were dismissed in order that the students might attend the meetings. The forenoon was spent in the schools among the children. At the Blackduck meeting yester- day, Miss Bull talked on the “Rela- tion of Various Foods to the Body.” Although she was given a place on the program particularly to interest the women, the Blackduck women evidently believed were for men only as few were pres- ent in the afternoon and none in the evening. Miss Bull was vigorously applauded by the men. Nelson Talks About Horses. Mr. Nelson talked about the horse and outlined various classes but em- phasized the value of the draft horse. He advised raising large horses and claimed that they are never too heavy for the city markets as long as they are sound. Mr. Nelson said that the grey or roan draft horse sold best because it “dressed up” bet- ter in a black harness. He outlined fully the conformation of the better breeds of horses and advised the farmers to raise enough horses for their own use and so save the profits made on the sales, and shipping in of southern horses. Mr. Nelson was kept on the floor over two hours answering questions and at the close of the meeting was asked to address the farmers in the town of Summit the first Sunday in January. He will accept.the invi- tation provided.it does not conflict with other engagements. Farmers Lunch Here-Saturday. At the evening meeting, Miss Bull dwelt largely on the relation of agri- culture and domestic science to the public schools and Mr. Nelson urged the consolidation of rural schoois, of- ten referring to the school at Saun for bis {llustrations, Beltrami coun- that the talks|" CHARLES R. MILLER. Delaware Republican Who Ran for Governor. ty has taken the lead in consolidated schools and it is believed that more will be consolidated during the next year. Miss Eddy has made arrangements to serve a substantial lunch to the farmers who come to the Bemidji meeting Saturday so that it will not be necessary for them to bring food from home. The lunch will be serv- ed at noon in the High school. The first meeting will be at 10:30 a. m. and the second at 1 p. m. Miss Bull will hold a meeting for women only at 2 p. m. i RINES, NEXT HOUSE SPEAKER, PLANS TO CUT EXPENSES St. Paul, Dec. 12.—Oscar Arneson, next chief clerk of the house, has be- gan the preparation of a scheme for the organization of the lower cham- ber at the suggestion of Henry Rines. of Mora. He has secured House File 510, passed by the house at the reg- ular session, which provides for a thorough reorganization of the em- ployes. This bill was introbuced jointly by Representatives Mattson, Nolan and Davis. - It was aimed at the extravagant system employed by the: house in establishing positions for needy constituents. It is believed that Mr. Rines will try to organize the staff of employes of the next house along the lines uf this Lill as nearly as the present cas- toms will allow. The bill failed to become a law at the last session. During past sessions there has been more or less elasticity in the roster| of employes. This bill fixes the num- ber at a few more than fifty or about twenty less than are usually employ- ed. The bill permits the speaker to ap- point a chaplain in addition to the offices now controlled by him. It gives the chief clerk authority to se- lect his assistant and provides for general assignment of the various committee clerks, rather than contin- uous service with one committee. One feature of the bill aims to cor- rect abuses in the purchase of sup- vlies and other legislative accessories by providing for an inventory of propenty at the beginning and the end of each session. It is further provided that the property unused shall be delivered over to the custod- ian of the capitol and kept by him “intil the next session. Mr. Rines will be at his headquar- ters .n the Merchants hotel Friday and faturday of this week. He plans ead two days of each week in conferving with members, both upon the reorganization of the uouse and proposed legislation. ¥ Heard the Rattle. The witness on the stand was being subjected to cross-examination. In an- swering one question he nodded. Whereupon the court stenographer, whe could not see the witness, de- manded, “Answer that question.” The witness replied: “I did answer 1t; I nodded my head.” “Well, I heard the rattle, but could pot tell whether it was up or down or from side to side,” answered the BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1912, FOR FOUR YEARS, CLAPP HAS BEFUSED TO ATTERD ANY REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES oY United Press. ‘Washington, Dec. 12."— Senator Clapp, the militant progressive from Minnesota, prides himself upon one unbreakable senate record. He is the champion long-distance caucus ‘dis- senter.’ “It has been four years since I went into a party caucus,” said the Minnesotan. “I was in a Republican caucus the last time, but never again: “I don’t believe in secret caucuses, or conferences. I think the sena- tors and representatives are serv- ants, not masters, of the people. I think the master should know what his servants are doing in his house —as a general rule, at least. Of course in time of war, it might be necessary for the protection of the| nation to hold secret conferences— secret for the good of the country, but not secret for the good of those taking part.” STORK VISITS BLACKDUCK WOMAN WHILE ON TRAIN Minneapolis, Dec. 12.—A’ Northern Pacific train and the stork started on a race for Minneapolis from Black- duck yesterday, but the stork got in the lead just before the city was reached. Mrs. Oscar Smith of Blackduck, who was most concerned in the race, was on her way home to her mother in Red Wing. She had two children with her. An eight-pound boy was born on the train just before reach- ing Minneapolis. Mrs. Smith was taken to the city hospital. The two children were sent on to theif grand- mother’s home. COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS WILL NOT BE REMOVED By United Pres < Washington, Dec. 12.—Not until a new vice-president of the United States comes into office or the Sher- man family take some action, will the photograph collection in which the late vice-president Sherman-took such a pride, be removed from the capitol. On account of the inabflity of the senate to elect a president, neither Senator Bacon nor Senator Gallinger who have been alternating as presidents pro tem, will occupy the office. No one has shown a disposition to remove the vice-president’s effects from his office and the little collec- tion of photographs will remain un- disturbed for some time to come. The principal photograph in the collection is an autographed one of Uncle Joé Cannon who was one of the vice-president’s closest friends. The vice-president took great pride in the collection. BUY RED CROSS SEALS. “Red Cross Christmas seals are'the best investment in health any ome can make. Science has demonstrated conclusively that tuberculosis, the world's greatest plague, of which we now have over 1,000,000 cases in the United States alone, can be prevented if these consumptives are properly cared for. In other words, every con- sumptive properly cared for insures your life against tuberculosis by the prevention of further infection from that source. Red Cross seals help to provide hospitals, day camps, san- atoria, dispensaries, open-air schools and visiting nurses for the care, cure . | and prevention of tuberculosis in this community. Every seal you buy, then, is a sound investment in your own health and in that of your fam- ily. Buy your Red Cross seals now and help to protect your home from disease.” Hypenated Episode. “What has become of your hypen- ated friend - “My hypenated friend?". “Yes; your friend Mr. Wombat- Wombat.” “He is ill of beri-beri.” “Where?” stenographer.—Law Notes. “In Walla-Walla.”—Exchange. SCOOP JHE cue REPORTER YOU GO W AMD TELLYouR. FATHER THAT \T5 & SHAME. AND A PATY To ROB THE CHILOISH MIND OF ONE OF T3 MONTANA WINS | PRIZE 3 $5,000 for Best Five Bushels Grain In American Northwest This Year Awarded Yesterday. GOES TO Tm RED' VARIETY Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 12.—The $5,000 prize for the best five bushels of wheat grown in the:American Thirteen Days to Christmas northwest during 1912 andgxibited | The Spaniard says, "Ma: at the Minneapolis l-aud"ahow‘. was awarded ‘Wednesday to Joseph P. Nash and Charles Bridgeman, part- ners, whose wheat is in the Shields valley of Montana, seventy miles north of Yellowstone park. The wheat is “Turkey red,” and weighs a few ounces more than sixty 'pounds to the bushel; it ylelded fif- ty-nine and one-third bushels to the acre, scored 92% points on commer- cial grading and milled at the score of 104.7. President Lewis Penwell of the Northwestern Development league, announced the award. The samples were passed through the hands of four judges, were then ground into flour, and baked into bread. The county surveyor of Park coun- ty, Montana, who measured the field, and threshermen, who measured the 3,085 bushels wheat threshed from the 52-acre field made afidavit that were the facts. The Howard wheat and flour test- ing laboratory, which has made tests for Minneapolis mills for twenty-five years or longer ground all samples submitted into flour. Prize winning wheat of Nash and Bridgeman con- tain but twelve per cent moisture. It had a cleaning loss of only one-half of one per cent, and a net flour yield of 76.6 per cent. No. 2 northern spring, to which it was compared has an average of 13 per cent moisture and a flour yield of 72 per cent. Twelve ounces of the fiour made from Nash’s and Bridge- man’s “Turkey red” wheat produced a loaf of bread contalning 168 cubic inches and weighed 18.25 ounces, when it came from the oven. Although - Park county ranchers had 923 points on the commercial score card and 104.7 on milling test; it was in the yield per acre they ex- celled more decisively. l The exhibitor showing the highest ‘nana."" Don't be a “Manana" Man. 1* Buy VYour . Christmas Presents Today. commercial scoring, but he set’the ‘pace on the yield with seventy-five bushels to the acre. This was con- sidered as a one hundred per cent yield. Bridgeman and Nash earned 78.9 ‘points on their yield of 59 1-3 bush- els to the acre. This made their final score 92.1 and their nearest competi- tor was Peter Debore of Conrad, Mont., with a final score of 84.2. SIDNA ALLEN GETS THIRTY- FIVE YEARS FOR HIS PART IN HILLSVILLE SHOOTING Witheville, Va., Dec. 12.—Thirty- five years in the penitentiary is the Denalty Sidna Allen will have to pay for his part in the shooting up of the Carroll county court house at Hills- ville last March, in which five per- sons were killed. Wesley Edwards will spend twen- ty-seven years there. The two sentences were the result of a compromise following the ver- dict of voluntary manslaughter in the case of Sidna Allen for the mur- der of Commonwealth’s Attorney Foster, the jury today fixing the pen- alty at five years, Previously Allen was found guilty of second degree murder for killing Judge Massie and was sentenced to fifteen years. Another indictment, pending for the murder of Sheriff Webb, was compromised, Allen pleading guilty to second degree murder, and taking fifteen years. The combined sentence is thirty-five years. The three indictments against Ed- wards were also compromised, Ed- wards taking a sentence of nine years THE TALE OF A BUTTON Lost From the Coat of a Bemidji Young Lady, Is Found But Again Disappears. WHERE IS THE BUTTON NOW? TR Mo itassesone Bicissese i Will the person who took the : gray coat button pinned to a : telegraph pole at Heltrami ave- turn it 'to the Pioneer?, - oG wih e S e e UORRRE ae ae s os oo N The above ad appears elsewhere in the Pioneer and has already caused no little excitement and conversa- tion. On the face of the ad, some one has lost a button. The ad states it was a “gray coat button.” The boys who are looking for that button do) not know whether to look for a black button which was on a gray, coat or a gray button which was on any kind of a coat. But the button’'was on a telegraph pole and what kind of a gray coat button belongs to a telegraph pole? Was the pole buttoned or was the button placed on the pole as the high sign of a secret society. Furthermore, a button can hardly be sewed to a itelegrgph pole but why was the but- ton pinned to the pole? There are many telegraph poles in Bemidji, yet a particular pole at Beltrami avenue and Fifth street is selected for the buttoning. More mystery. Only the clerk in the Pioneer of- fice knows who placed the ad with the Pioneer. She will take care of the button if it is returned to the Pioneer office. But she is worrying for fear she will not be able to recog- nize the right button when it comes in as she says.sne never before heard of a gray coat button being pinned to a telegraph pole and does not know how the sizes of telegraph pole buttons run. It is said that the ad was placed by a prominent young lady of Be- midji but efforts to learn her name are unavailing. Concrete an Old Story. Rome was not built in a day, not built as fast as Tammanytown, nos bullt in structural steel, but it turns out that most of Rome's mighty structures, temples, circuses, baths, aqueducts, were built in concrete, not reinforced with iron and steel, as we i build now, but a good quality of sand, | stone and cement nevertheless. On this powerful central core of cement | was fitted an ornamental facing of ! yield lost out in the milling test and! imprisonment on each of the three. ~finest marble. Oh! So You're The uy By "HOP" 3 i TEN CENTS PER WEEK. MAY HAVE NEW SERVICE BOARD Legislature Expected to Eniarge Pow- ers of Tax Commission at the Coming Session. CORPORATIONS TELL THE TRUTH Have Come to Recognize it is Geod Business Policy Since Vail First™ Started the Custom. ROBINSON I8 INVESTIGATING University Professor Has Been Look- ing Into the Cost of Municipal Ownership for Some Months. Special to The Plomser. - St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 1%—Creation of a state public utilities commission by the enlargement of the state tax commission’s scope is practically as- sured for Minmesota by the legis- lature this winter. Recognition of the commercial menace in Soclalism and municipal ownership is said to be responsible for this fact. All factions of the Republican party apparently concede that state regulation of paib- lic utilities 18 far more to be desired than permitting the growth of a so- cialistic proganda which is starting in municipal ownership, the practice of which principle has proven so dis- astrous in many foreign countries. When Henry Rines of Mora, the next speaker of the legislative house, held a conference a few days ago with Commissioner Samuel Lord of the state tax commission it was cur- rently reported that it Wwas for thé purpose of making preliminary plans for the drafting of a bill for the en- largement of. the preseat comunle- power’s. It is-believed that the creation of such a commission, giving them rights to control all util- ity corporations just as the present railroad and warehouse commission controls railroads and warehouses, would do away with much of the 1iti- gation and dissatisfaction in many cities now over rates. The proposed commission would be empowered to make a thorough in- vestigation into receipts, expendi- tures and operating expenses and up- on its figures establish the rate to be charged the public for the commodi- ty, allowing a reasonable interest on the investment to stockholders. Corporations have come quite gener- ally to accept absolute publicity and truthfulness of their business with a fair return on their investment as profit, ever since a few years ago when Theodore E. Vail, on becom- ing president of the American Tele- phone company, published the truth about the company’s business—dis- couraging facts — which the direc- tors feared would run down the value of stocks and wreck the company. Truth;” however, worked different- ly. The value of stocks went up and the 18,000 stockholders increased in number to 50,000. Since that demon- stration corporations: generally have become convinced that the public should know the truth and be taken into their confidence. A law that will assure them definite profit of a certain per cent on their investment, will put their stocks and bonds upon such a firm financial basis, it is claimed,- that small investors will eagerly buy them when they are is- sued for extensions and improve- ments and thereby the people will actually become owners of the util- ities, with the state supervising and guaranteeing economic and honest management. - ¥or some months Professor Robin- son of the University of Minnesota economics department has been mak- ing an exhaustive investigation into the cost-of muniecipal government un- der the direction of the tax commis- sion, and will soon make his report to that body. It is said that this re- port will reveal some interesting facts concerning the cost of muni- cipal operation of utilities. It wfll show that while the rates are some- times 'pointed out as lower under city ownership the fact remains that the service is costing the taxpayers more for services in the somewhat hidden means of a large tax levy, caused by the toll demanded to pay interest on large bond issues put out by the city to purchase, improve and maintain utilities plant, and in the extravagaant operation, due to polit- ical influence. Another conference with all the members of the tax commission has been arranged for this week by Mr. Rines and 'C” H. Warner of Aitkin (Continued on last page),