Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 1

| THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 199. Historial Soclety x STONE SELECTS MINNESOTA PLOT Accepted Site For Gopher Building at the Panama-Pacific Exposi- tion Grounds. MANY TO0 TRAVEL THIS WAY Seventy Per Cent of Visitors, It is Estimated, Will Come Through This State. NETHERLANDS REPRESENTED Jonkheer Dr. John Loudon, the Min- ister For Holland, Attended the Ceremonies. By United Press. San Francisco, Dec. Glory, the red, white and blue of the Netherlands, and L’Etoile du Nord of Minnesota were unfurled at the Pan- ama-Pacific Exposition grounds Tues- day in a dual dedication of the sites selected for the national building of the little nation by the North sea and the state building of Minnesota. Jonkheer Dr. John Loudon, minis- ter to the United States for Holland, was the official representative of his country at the ceremonies. Cal E. Stone of Minnesota accepted the deed for the later’s site in the name of the governor and the people of his state. Several thousand people attended the exercises, both at the Presidio and on the Exposition grounds, and the program was said to be one of the best which has ever attended amy of the site selection ceremonies. In honor of the occasion, Colonel Cornelius Gardener turned out his entire post for dress parade and re- view by Dr. Loudon and the Minne- sota commissioner. During the midst of the review the large throng on the field was startled by the appearance in the air of Silas Christoferson, the aviator, in his hydroplane, the machine circling gracefully over the field and then disappearing in a flight over the bay. Vice President R. B. Hale of the Exposition company, presided at the ceremonies following the military re- view, and, in opening, extended a welcome to the representatives of Minpesota and the Netherlands. Chester A. Rowell, representing the governor of California, extended the greetings of the Pacific coast to the visitors as did also Colonel Gardener on behalf of the army. W. A. Cowen spoke on behalf of the Minnesota so- clety. Following the program at the Pre-! sidio the party adjourned to the Min- nesota site. At the request of Com- missioner Stone, Miss Nina Leona Babeock, a native of Minnesota, raised the flag of the North Star state at the ceremonies held on the plot of ground selected by Commissioner | Stope. Members of the Minnesota society of. California attended-the- exercises in large numbers. Commissioner Stone spoke briefly in aeeepting the deed to the ground in bebalf of Minnesota. - “In receiving this deed I pledge the support of the governor of- Min- nesota and of the people of that state to support and co-operate in making the exposition in 1915 which is to celebrate one of the greatest events of the age the greatest success pos- sible,” he said. “I am a plain busi- ness man, not an orator, and I think that this is the reason why my gov- ernor selected me for this honor—to indicate that he considered it a busi- ness matter and desired to see it car- ried through with all dispatch.” Affirming Minnesota’s interest in the exposition, Commissioner Stone said that seventy per cent of the peo- ple attending the exposition will pass through Minnesota, on either the trip out here or returning home, and that from this extensive travel through his state the people of Minnesota are expecting to share with California in the fruits which will follow the hold- ing of the exposition. 18.—01d | * x | Fourteen Different Towns. | | Fourteen different towns | | were represented on the refund | slips turned in to The Pioneer | office last night. Many traders | stayed over night and will turn | in their slips today or tomor- | row. x * SWITZERLAND IS READY FOR A EUROPEAN WAR By United Press. Berne Switzerland, Dec. 18.—The Swiss government today received from Paris a consignment of $5.000,- §000 in gold and silver which was lodged in the Swiss National bank. the government’s preparation for a gen- Ship loads of jwheat and corn arrive daily from {America and the governmeni granar- ies are being filled. {The importation was a part of eral European war. { PASSED ALLEGED BAD PAPER; NOW RESTS IN COUNTY JAIL ! | | David Dixon was arrested in Pu- posky Monday and brought to Be- midji Tuesday for the alleged passing {of forged checks. It is said that Dixon is the man who passed several forged checks on M. F. Cunningham, John Moberg and others on Bemidji Emerchants last week. The forgeries jwere discovered when the checks Ecame in to the banks. { On Monday, A. F. Warner, of Pu- i posky, brought in a check to the Se- {curity State bank and it was found ito be a forgery. H. C. Baer, the cash- (ler, compared it with those passed {here last week and found them so Esimilar that he swore out a warrant {when he learned that Dixon, as he is known here, was still in Puposky. A ;deputy sheriff made the arrest Meon- |day afternoon and brought in his ‘man on the Tuesday. train. i }A. C. GODDARD BADLY INJURED i . IN RED LAKE MILL ACCIDENT i | A. C. Goddard of Red Lake, was {badly injured in an accident at the QIndian school planing mill yesterday {when a board caught in the machin- :ery and knocked Goddard to the floor |of the mill. The board hit him in the head with terrific force and he was unconscious for nearly half an | hour. In the fall to the floor his hip was injured badly and started to swell {immediately and by the time doctors arrived it was impossible to deter- imine whether it was crushed, broken jor dislocated. Goddard was injured last spring in a motorcycle accident when he had a leg and ankle broken 1and was in the hospital for weeks. He has not fully recovered from that accident and it is feared the omne one Monday will prove more serious {than if he had been in shape to with- stand the shock. HIGH SCHOOL AND GRAMMAR { Fast basket ball games between {the classes of the local High school have been played during the last two weeks and a great deal of rivalry has sprung up between them. So far the freshmen have proved themselves the fastest class team in the High school or grammar grades. More games will be played during this week and the championship team will be decided as a result. A first team will be picked from the class teams and will begin practice together immediately after Christmas vacation. Ray John- son sprained an ankle last night dur- ing practice but will probably be able to play with the first team after Christmas. Coach Carson Carson has been corresponding with Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Fosston and sev- eral more towns and all seem enthus- jastic over a game with Bemidji. SLEEPER FOR BEMIDJI FRIDAY R. E. Fisher, joint agent in Be- midji of the Soo and M. & I. lines re- ports that the application for an ex- tra sleeper to be spotted here Friday night has been granted. The sleep- er will probably come up Thursday night so that people coming from the cities Thursday will not have to get up at 4 a. m. The berths will be ready Friday night at 9 p. m. % (Copyright.) BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1912. Do Your Shopping Eariy in the Day. TEN CENTS PER WEEK $30,000 TIMBER SALF State Auditor Iverson and Treasurer| Smith Found Many Buyers This Morning. TOOK IN $11,850 IN oASH Ninety per cent of the timbér of-| fered by the state at the timber sale held in the courthouse this morning| Much of it| was taken by buyers. went for more than the appraised price, some selling for an increase of twenty-five per cent. The timber was mixed stock running about ten per cent pine. The pieces lay tribu- tary to Blackduck and the timber has been somewhat injured by fire or windfalls. “It has been ‘the policy of the state for fifty years,” said Mr. Iverson, “to sell timber only to save it. That sold today has been injured to some extent and would have been lost had it not been sold at once. The virgin stuff has never been sgld by the state but is left on the land. We will hold a sale in Grand Rapids Thursday, one in Duluth Friday and will be in Two Harbors on Saturday.” Buyers of timber present at the sale today were the St. Croix Pine & Cedar company, A. E. Witting, Kaye & Carter, C. W. Dudley and John Cann, all of Blackduck; V. M. Owen BOYS PLAYING BASKET B, Iof Hines; the Larson Brothers Lum- ber company of Winthrop, and the J. Neils Lumber company of Cass Lake. YOUNG MEN OPEN COLLECTION AGENCY FOR BEMIDJI HOUSES Maurice Ryan and By Russell have opened offices over the Murphy furn- iture store and are doing a collection business as the Bemidji Collection agency. Maurice Ryan is the son of Mrs. Ray Murphy and By Russell is the son of P. J. Russell. The boys are still doing some school work but have taken the collections of about twenty Bemidji firms and from reports are making good. MANY ROLLER SKATING. A small boys’ race at the roller rink last night was won by H: Rako. W. B. MacLachlan has a special pre- paration which he puts on the floor and which is dustless and is much better than chalk. The race last week between Backlund, Wright and jTanner was won by Tanner. Back- lund had the advantage at the start, but was handicapped by an unfamil- iar pair of skates and withdraw after 1a few laps. Mr. MacLachlan will run a series of races during the holidays including ladies’ and girls’ races.. A igirl’s race was held last week and was won by Miss Dorris Helmer. | [ talking until midnight before Seven Days to Christmas o L ° . . e L3 . ° - . Ld e . Just One Week More. Start It Right by Finish- ing Your Christmas Shopping. 100 OUT AT CLEARBROOK Bemidji Extension Workers Find En- thusiastic Audience and Talked Until Midnight. GOOD CROWD AT LEONARD One hundred farmers attended the extension - meeting at Clearbrook Tuesday night and forty attended the megting at Leonard in the afternoon. At Clearbrook the speakers were kept the meeting broke up. After hearing the -addresses by Miss' Bull and ‘Messrs.| McLeran and Nelson, the meeting was turned into a good roads meet- ing and more speeches were heard. Miss Bull, Mr. McLeran and Mr. Nelson returned to Bemidji this morning and left soon after dinner for Wilton where they held a meet- ing-this afternoon. This evening they will drive to Solway for a meet- ing and are expected back in Bemidji about midnight, Tomorrow they will drive to Becida for a meeting and Friday will be spent at La Porte and Guthrie, going to Walker from Guth- rie Friday night. The meeting at Walker will end the run of two weeks. The three speakers are enthusias- tic over the receptions they have met and believe that the effort has been worth while. Up to last Saturday night they had addressed 635 persons and this week up to Tuesday night had addressed 323 more. They believe that they will have reached close to 1,500 people before the last speech is finished Saturday night. SPECIAL PROGRAM FRIDAY High School and Grammar Grade Students to Unite in a Christmas Celebration. NEW, GLEE CLUB ORGANIZED Next Friday the grammar grades in the - High school building will unite with the high-school students and present a Christmas program in the High school assembiy room. Miss Marjorie Knappen is assisting the students that will speak or take part in the debate. Special preparation is being made by both sides and each seems confident of victory. Miss Helen McDonald has charge of the musical part of the program. All the parents and friends of the students are invited to attend the program, which will begin promptly at two o’clock Friday afternoon. The program will be as follows: Song...........Grammar Glee club “Joe’s Search for Santa Claus”. . ................ Jane Hayner Debate—“Have we godd reasons for believing the reign of univeresal peace and good will is at hand Song, “Nazareth,”............ . .High School Girls’ Glee club “What Christmas Really Means” ....Lottie McDonald Dicken’s “Christmas Readings from Carol:” A—“Two Views of Christmas” ................. Earle Riley B—The Christmas Party at Scrooge’s Nephew . Mona Flesher C—Christmas at Bob Cratch- A8 asaaasmsaa Dorothy Torrance ...High School Boys 'Glee club Miss Helen McDonald, the new music teacher, has organized a High School Boys’ Glee club. At present the boys are practising songs which they will sing at the program which will be given in the High school as- sembly room next Friday. Miss Mc- Donald has chosen the best. male singers in the High school for this glee club and will add this feature to nearly all of the programs for the rest of the year. The present mem- bers of the club are Wilbur Lycan, George Graham, Earle Riley, Fred Graham, Floyd Chandler, Delbert Elletson and Leslie Slater. More good material will be added later. DULUTH STORM DELAYED WEST BOUND TRAINS ON TUESDAY Mail due in Bemidji at 3:20 Tues- day. afternoon from Duluth did not reach -the city until 4:35. The train was delayed by the bad snow storm which hit Duluth yesterday. All other trains into the city yesterday were reported on time. ] e TR AN R SR B Bl B P B Bl o e TR, AN - .- . [ SHOULD NOT SELL ITS FOREIGN BONDS Auditor Iverson Believes State Will Be Looking For More in Three Years. FEW LOANS ARE UNSATISFIED Investment Board Cares For All But About $400,000 Asked During The Year. MORE MONEY IS COMING IN Fund Will Be Augmented By Increase In Ore Royalties, Land and Timber Sales. “I am in favor of selling the Vir- ginia bonds any time that it becomes necessary,” said State Auditor Iver- son to The Pioneer this morning. Mr. Iverson was asked if the statement that he was opposed to the selling of the bonds was correct and gave the above answer. “I do not believe that it is necessary at this time,” con- tinued Mr. Iverson. “The state is loaning money to counties, townships, school districts, etc., and at the present time has ap- plications for about $400,000 in loans which it cananot meet until next year. The funds for these loans are not de- rived from any taxation nor interest income. They come from the state royalty on iron ores, timber and land sales, repayments of former loams,; ete. “Next year the state will receive between $600,000 " and - $700,000 which will be paid back on loans which have matured; it will receive $350,000 from the matured bonds of the state of Tennessee; and it will have the income from the land and timber sales and ore royalties of 1913. In 1914, this fund will be aug- mented by $225,000 of Louisiana bonds which mature then. “The investment board is composed of the president of the board of re- gents, John Lind; chief justice of she supreme court, Justice Brown; the governor, A. O. Eberhart; the state treasurer, Walter J. Smith; and the state auditor, Samuel G. Iverson. This board has been able to care for all loans applied for last year with the exception of about $400,000 which have to be carried over. Beltrami, Koochiching, Roseau and Marshall counties have been loaned all they asked for. We have not been able to care for some of the larger cities. “In three years the state of Minne- sota will be looking for investments for moneys in this fund for the irom ore royalties are going to come im faster than we will be able to loan the money. But this money wilt probably be largely used in the build- ing and development of good roads and highways and Northern Minne- sota will get at least its share. Min- nesota has not made a loan to a for- eign state since 1902, although some people appear to have the idea that the state is now loaning money to other states when it is needed at home. “At the present time, the state has between 813,000,090‘ and $14,000,- 000 loaned out for domestic improve- ments. The old law reads that loans could only be made on three per cent of the real estate valuation but that percentage has been increased to fif- teen per cent and the classes of loans greatly enlarged. “Other members of the board have expressed themselves as feeling the same as I do about this matter—that is, we will be agreed to sell any time that we believe it is necessary. At the present time, we cannot see the advisability of selling these Virginia or any other bonds when within a few years the state will be looking for investments.” OPEN NEW BOWLING ALLEY Lemke and Tepper will open a new bowling alley next Friday night at 304 Third street, next to the Ma- jestic theater. Contests and touran- ments will be held during the winter. - S e e S —