Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 16, 1912, Page 1

Historial Soclety = X THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 197. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1912. BLUEBERRY CROP | oot WORTH $2,000,000, " szoreme marme Special to The Pioneer. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 16—The task of raising half a dozen railway tracks through the heart of the city and without interruption to business of | Called Huckleberries In the South and Have Become an Important Product. Are either the city of the railway com- ipany, has been started in Spokane by the Northern Pacifis. Guthrie and PLANTS CAN BE CULTIVATED McDougall, contractors, of St. Paul and Spokane, have the contract for excavation, foundations and concrete work, and will assemble a crew of 350 men at the opening of the work. {The railway company will have a force clearing tracks, filling between {walls and such other work as is not included in the contract. The tracks will be elevated for a YIELD ABOUT $150 TO THE ACRE | distance of approximately four miles and all street grade crossings within the city proper will be eliminated. R iThere will be nineteen bridges carry- One Commercial Farm In Indiana|ing from two to sixteen tracks each Nets Good Profit On Season’s jover twenty-two city streets, about o qix three miles of concrete retaining Pmkm§s' walls having a volume of over 60,- 000 cubic yards, 6,000 tons of struc- tural steel and 500,000 cubic yards For the lovers of blueberry pie, of earth fill, required in the work. blueberry pudding, and the other de- | Cnanges in grades of streets, sew- S 3 . ers, etc., will involve excavating over licious desserts made with this popu- 100,000 cublc vards. of ‘material in lar American berry, the achievements |4y, streets, about half of which is of the plant breeders of the depart-|solid rock, and the repaving of 75, ment of agriculture in developing!| “< of surface. cultivated blueberries almost the size] The Work will be done under the N P isupervision of- A." H. Lupfer, of Spo- n:t(}oncord grapesshive apecial ]mer_.kane. formerly chief engineer of the { " s Thife: season’s resulis oF the work Df.‘Spokano and Tnland Empire railway Government Experiments Have Pro- | duced Fruit the Size of a Concord Grape. USE “CAFE” AS PLANT| cultivating blueberries have been the jFvstem; most successful attained during aj series of thoroughgoing experiments! extending over several years, and | Frederick V. Coville, the government | expert in charge of the investiga-| tions, believes that the way has been ! opened for a new industry and for a; new use of land which will yield | more profits than other forms of ! farming in many sections of the coun-! try. { Blueberries. or huckleberries, :a,sI the fruit is called in the Southern'! states, are a more important wild| <rop than many would think. It is estimated that this year there were! nearly $2,000.000 worth of blueber- | get. ries picked and sold in the markets ' of the country. There is only one| commercial blueberry plantation in ihe whole United States, and, with?: the exception of this crop, all of the|* tlueberries used are picked from wild pushes. *n working to improve blueberry | * riants, the botanist has discovered that it differs from ordinary plants |’ in its methods of nutrition, getting® nourishment from a peculiar root fun- | 8us, a principle in agriculture which | was not recognized before the mak- ing of experiments. Another inter- esting thing which has been learned is that the blueberry grows best in poor, acid soils, reversing the require- | ments demanded by other plants. Sandy bogs that can be drained make | : : dangerous the best land for blueberry culture. The importance of increasing the: size of the blueberry is that the larg-|* er fruit will be easier to pick. The|' labor of picking the small, wild ber-| ries is very tedious and expensive, and at present represents about one-| half to two-thirds of the market price of the fruit. Besides the reduction in{* the cost of picking another advantage | * of the large cultivated berries is that they present a better appearance, a quality making for quick sales and higher prices in the market. Farmers and suburban land own- ers who wish to experiment in the culture of the blueberry may do so by transplanting wild bushes and seedlings, or starting plants from cut- tinge. Coville has found through all his experiments for the department| of agriculture that the blueberry plant grows best in well-rotted peat, either of the bog or upland type, and that if given the proper start, the bushes begin to bear in three of four years. They grow to a great height under proper conditions, and in the onmly known commercial plantation in the <ountry, one of two and one-half acres, planted twenty years ago in Northern Indiana, the bushes are six to eight feet tall. In one of the pub- lic parks in Washington, there are|: twe bushes planted prior to 1871, which are mine feet high, with the largest stem about three inches in diameter. The large bushes yield about two gallons of berries, and with (Continued on Page b) {being pushed rapidly to an early { completion. NYMORE HAS A PAPER. Extensive new shops just east of the city limits of Spokane is another Northern Pacific project involving a large-expenditure of money and now The first issue of the Nymore “In- dependent,”” published by Andrew Rood, ..as been distributed to Bemid- ji friends. The initial issue contains a short double column article on Ny- more and a greeting from the editor as special features. The paper is four pages, six columns and largely home CHRISTMAS FIRE HAZARDS Christmas and its joys should : : not be allowed to blind men to the ordinary rules of safety for : the protection of the home and : the lives of the family. And yet : at holiday time parents who try : : to keep their children free from {: even the possibility of danger : will install in the heart of their : { : homes, where it is sure to be the : [+ center of attraction for the little : : ones, the most inflammable thing : that ever enters it—the ordin- : : ary evergreen Christmas tree. & ‘While it grows more dry and : TLHE PRICE OF PEACE (Copyright, AT HOME Minneapolis Shop Lifters Leave Grips| in Rogers Hotel to be Filled With Stolen Goods. SOME OTHER SMALL ROBBERIES | Minneapolis, Dec. 16.—Two well- gowned women were arrested Satur- day night at a fashionable cafe here, | the checkroom of which they were said to have used as a “plant” for the assembling of goods taken from stores, after police department de- tectives, said they had seen them steal from a nearby establishment. A young woman, who could speak no English, caught in a department store carrying a big package of toys, Nine Days to Christmas »~ The Children Are Counting the Days. Are You Going to Disappoint Them by Failing to Get Those Presents? Get Them NOW. THARALDSON MADE AUDITOR was said by the police to have admit- | Bemidji Agent to Check Accounts In ted taking the toys to send to youth- ful relatives in Poland, whom, she said, would otherwise be forced to g0 without Christmas ‘presents. Cass Lake, Deer River and This City. Theodore Tharaldson, local agent | for the Fitger Brewing company has Three other women were arrested on |been given supervision over three charges of shoplifting during the|cities in the auditor’s department as eve, and a young woman bookkeeper was robbed of $25 which she said was badly needed at home and the assistant to the company’s regular auditor, News has the following to say re- garding the promotion: Mr. Hanson. The Itasca : ilias often : of homes? in the warm rooms : : they drape it with cotton for : snow, tissue paper loops and tin- : sel for decorations, stick candles : all over it, hang up toys that : : every child will grab for, and : then trust to luck and providence : : for safety from a hazard that : may prove as dangerous and as : deadly as a rattlesnake or an : : open keg of gunpowder. Just to play fair and take his end ito them in many places. Why not a Sane Christmas as well as a Sane Fourth? Why blighting of Christmas hopes. hotel cafe, loss of which, she said, meant the Detectives Oscar Martinson and Michael Duffy hurried to the Rogers Nicollet avenue and “M. L. Hansen, auditor for the Fit- ger Brewing company of Duluth, and Theo. Thoraldson, agent for the com- pany of Bemidji, were here the first of the week. Mr. Hansen finds his terrtory increasing so rapidly that Fourth street. when attaches tele-|he must have assistants and hereaf- phoned that two well dressed women |ter Mr. Thoraldson will be his audi- who had left big allgator bags'at the |toT for Bemidji, Cass Lake and Deer cafe check room were making fre- quent trips out to the street, return- River. :|ing each time with packages which | MARCONI WIRELESS TO : share of the chances pater fam- : surrounds himself : : with pillows, puts on cotton hair : : and whiskers and makes himself : : more of a menace than a help in : : case a fire should start. : fires do start, thousands of them : : every holiday season. : look forward to a run of Christ- : : mas fires just as they did to : : Fourth of July fires before the : : Sane Fourth movement put an : And : Firemen : should the children’s festival be : made the means of destroying : : hundred of lives and thousands Use little electric : : lights instead of candles, asbes- : : tos instead of cotton, non-com- : bustible decorations instead of : inflammables, and then watch : the tree with the utmost care, : especially when the children are around it. It’s better to be safe : than sorry, especially with the little ones at Christmas time. | | : |sie Carter of 416 Sixth avenue S. they deposited in the bags, and -or- dering food and drinks in the cafe|Special to The Pioneer. between trips. FIGHT FOREST FIRES Spokane, Wash., Dec. 16—Lumber- When the sleuths arrived the- wo-|men of Spokane are seriously consid- men were pointed out to them. On|ering adoption of the wireless tele- the next trip of the pair to the street, | graph as an effective aid in fight- the detectives said, they followed theling fires in the great forests of the women. tive Martinson said that when he A store was visited. Detec-|Pacific Northwest. On the success of a test to be made and Duffy saw lingerie taken by the| next spring by the Marconi com- women. On their return to the cafe|pany in one of the forests near Spok- ! the two were arrested and their trav-|ane hangs the future of wireless as eling bags seized. At police head-|a means of fighting fire. quarters, where they were locked up Spectal apparatus will be placed for the night without a charge being|on the trails used by the forest rang- placed against them, the women gave|ers, who will carry emergency aeri- their names as Bessie King and Jes-|als to string between two high trees at any point in the woods. By this Their rooms were searched and,|means it is proposed to have reported according to the police, silk garments|to a central station any incipient : [much lingerie and other finery were|blazes, so that fire-fighting squads GOOD NEBISH MEETING About Twenty Farmers and Their Families Heardy Nelson and Dane Sunday Afternoon. WORKERS AT PUPOSKY TODAY About twenty people attended the farmers’ meeting in the Hay Creek school house at Nebish yesterday. Every one present came in from a farm, some making a four or five mile drive in spite of the threatening weather. The meeting was address- ed by A. E. Nelson, who spoke of “Dairying” and Harold J. Dane, who spoke on “Co-operation and Boost- ing.” The meeting held in Bemidji Saturday was well attended for this time of the year but was not as large in point of numbers as the one held in October when Governor Eber- hart was an attraction. The Bemid- ji meeting was large enough to bring the attndance for the week over the 600 mark. Mr. Nelson went to Puposky from Nebish this morning and was joined there by Mr. McLearn and Miss Bull who drove from Bemidji this morn- ing. They held a meeting early this afternoon and had between twenty and thirty farmers present. This evening they will speak in the In- dian school at the Red Lake agency and will have an audience of about 200 Indian boys and girls together with the older folks who live in Red Lake village. Meetings will be held tomorrow in Leonard, if the party can make the Soo freight west, and in Clear- brook in the afternoon. Wednes- day will be spent in Wilton and Sol- way; Thursday at Becida; Friday in La Porte and Guthrie and Saturday in Walker. WILL DEBATE ON SOCIALISM. D. P. O’Neill, state legislator from this district, and W. N. Weber, rec- ent Socialist candidate for the dis- trict bench, will debate in Bemidji December 20 on the following reso- lution: “Resolved: that Socialism involv- ing the collective. ownership of all industries collectively used and the ultimate ownership of all means of production for which the people col- lectively depend is not the proper remedy for the political ills of the present day.” Mr. O’Neill will handle the affirm- ative and Mr. Weber the negative found. - The police searched the two|may be rushed to the scene in time to|side of the question. Judge Stanton bags and reported the finding of sev-|{prevent the fire from gaining head-|will preside. F. A. Wilson will act eral packages of dry goods, fresh|way. from the stores. An . investigation The Marconi people claim to have as timekeeper for Mr. O'Neill and E. W. Hannah for Mr. Weber. Each was commenced to determine wheth-|perfected the apparatus so that eli- speaker is to be allowed an hour and er the women ‘were. professional shop-|matic or fire conditions would not|a quarter and the rebutal speech of Mr. O'Neill is not to take over fif- teen minufes: lifters, many down town stores hav-|prevent ‘Ing reported recent loeses. transmission of electric waves. BADLY INJURED Party of Blackduck Young People In Hospital As Result of Sunday Accident. CAR TURNED OVER TWICE Landed Right Side Up In Ditch Crushing Miss Emelia Sherberg and Brother Charles. YOUNG MAN MAY NOT LIVE Physicians Say He Is Holding His Own But Chances For Recovery Are Not Good. Five persons were injured, one sa severely that for a time it was fear- ed he would not live, in an auto wreck in Blackduck Sunday. The party was in a 4,400 pound Reo car which went into the ditch on the. Blackduck village-Blackduck Lake road while trying to speed up for a small hill. The injured were: i Charles Sherberg, aged twenty- five, crushed through the chest and not expected to live. Emelia Sherberg, aged nineteen, crushed in the pelvic region. Marie Sherberg, aged seventeen, strained back. Fred Sherberg, aged fifteen, driv- er of the car, practically unhurt. John Bauscher, aged about twenty- five, crushed in the chest. The young people left Blackduck with Fred Sherberg at the wheel. When about half way to the lake the car skidded to the right when being speeded up to make a small hill. The driver threw his wheel over to the left and the car answered but be- jfore he could straighten them into the road, one of the wheels snapped off and the car turned over twice landing in the ditch on the left of the road right side up. It is said that the steering gear was so loose that the wheel had to make nearly a full revolution before catching the axle. Girl Is Thrown Out. When the car first skidded, Miss Emelia was thrown out but when the car finally stopped she was found pinned beneath with the car across her abdomen. Charles lay to one side of the road barely conscious and Rauscher was on the ground with & crushed chest. Fred and his sister Marie tried to lift the car off Emelia and were able to lift it far enough for her to be rolled out. This lift- ing strained Marie’s back and in & few minutes she was lying in the road screaming in agony. The injured people were taken inte the village by persons who heard the screams and medical attendance was: given them at once. At noon today the doctors in charge reported that Charles Sherberg was ohlding bhie own but that he was not yet out af . danger. It appears that Miss Eme~ lia is injured more than was thought. at first and she may be disabled for life. Marie will recover as soon as the strain on her back muscles is overcome. Accident in a Fill. The accident occurred in a fill be- tween two small hills. It is said that the car was going at a good rate of speed. The rain of Saturday night and the frost in the ground made the road slippery so that once out of the beaten track the driver practically lost control. Rauscher was in the front seat with the driver and the two badly injured ones were in the rear seat with Marie. It is said that the car turned completely over twice and some think three times before it landed right side up in the ditch. Emelia Scherberg is a student in the Blackduck High school and a member of the senior class. She ig said to be an unusually bright girl and was expected to be valedictorian of her class: The parents of the Sherbergs live in the town of Summit about one and three-quarters miles from Blackduck.