Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 21, 1912, Page 1

il ~"THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE BN SOCIETY, VOLUME 10. NUMBER 202. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATJ: DAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK DIPLOMACY MOVES FlR[fl?lRE AT SNAIL'S PACE Seed Northwest Faces Shortage Conference of Ambassadors of Six Great European Countries Ad- journs for Christmas. Minneapolis, Dec. 21.—A six-story SERVIA TO GET A SEA PORT|srain elevator of the Albert Dickin- son company, the largest seed dis- tributing company in the Northwest,| was burned ta the ground this morn- ing entailing a of at least $100,000. The elevator was filled with seed corn and popcorn and as a i1-esu]t. of the loss of this stock the Northwest faces a serious seed corn THE BALKANS ARE DISSATISFIED shortage for the planting season of' 11913. i Pefinitely Agreed That It Will Have An Opening on the Adriatic as Requested. loss 1 i Believe Italy Favored Austria by Re- newing Triple Alliance—Capit- lNDl ANS MASS ACRE ulations Stick. ?Ya,qm's on the War Path Wipe Out 21.—The slow and| 4 Town of San Marcoal, Mexico, and Few Escape. London, Dec. devious process of diplomacy is ad- vaneing toward solution of the near! ~astern puzzle at a snail’s pace. The only definite achievement of | .be day was the agreement by the|Later Advices Say Citizens Fought Until Ammunition was Ex- hausted and Surrendered. ‘mbassadors of the six great Euro- pean powers that their government’s! would accept in principle the auton-; omy for Albania and a guarantee tof Servia of a commercial part on the%ny United Press. Adriatic. ! Douglas, Arizona, Dec. 21.—Cour- The ambassadors’ conference ad';viers today reported that the town of journed over Christmas. Turkey has|gan Marcoal, fifty miles south of Her- it's plenipotentiaries 10! nossillo, Mexico, has been wiped out include Greek delegates in the megn-iby Yaqui Indians and that a few of tiations for peace. {a population of 1,000 have escaped. Dispatches from Constantinople | say the Turks are confident, they now | El Paso, Texas, Dec. 21.—Advices occupy a better military POsition t0- | ..oived hers from Aqua Prista, Mex- ward Greece than when negonauons;liw_ confirm the rumor that 1,00 per- began and that Turkey wouldn’t Siganons had been slaughtered by Y: an armistice with them even if : Greeks requested it. The Balkan the Servians and Montenegrins, ex- press dissatisfaction with the state- ment made on Wednesday by Marquis di San Guiliano, the Italian foreign | Dausted. When the townspeople were minister, concerning the aims of the|forced to surrender, the Yaquis then . | rriple alliance. and remark that Italy |began the massacre of hundreds of had a unique position toward the Balkan states, having herself risen from nothing to a nationality through the union of kingdoms. They | ™ e =zpected her support in a similar TIED movement by the Balkans, whose res- ‘4'000 LOADED CARS UP IN urrection is now occurring, as pre-, TWIN CITY TRANSFER YARDS | dicted by the great Italian thinker | MAKE SERIOUS CONGESTION ~mpowered aqui It is said ithat fighting was desperate, the bat- delegates, especially | o jagting several hours, and that |citizens and Indians fought until the {ammunition of the town was ex- the 1pdians at San Marcoal. jinnocents. Prisoners were slain and i ishown no mercy. and agitator, Giusseppe Mizzini, | when in his Slav letters in the mid-| dle of the eighteenth century he fore- “y ted e saw the Balkan peoples uniting to Minneapolis, Dec. 21.—Strenuous ex_el Turkey from Europe. ‘}effur!s are being made today to re- voicing their objections. these lieve tie¢ most serious car congestion Zates point out that the Italian zovernment has followed a policy strongly favorable to Austria by re-| vards of 4,00¢ cars lovizd with mer newing the triple alliance sevenl"hand‘ge' grain and implements are lknown 10 city railwey men. Up\ FATHER ,THIS Is YouR HRISTMAS PRESENT FROM THE CHILDREN ANTI (Copyright) A STARTLING DISAPPOINTMENT T3 THE LAST TIME (| BuY PATION IGERMANS ARE RALLYING Captain Steunenberg’s Satire on @pr—ll e man. Trained Turkish Troops | Calls Forth Replies. 1 LATEST COMES FROM SPOKANE Special to The Pioneer. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 21.—With poetry and prose the Germans are rallying in a battle of wit and hu-| mor in answer to a satire on the Ger- man-trained Turkish troops, written by Captain George Steunenberg of the United States army, who is sta-! |tioned at Fort George Wright, in Spokane, and was formerly at Fort! Snelling, in Minnesota. | i Captain Steunenberg, hailed as thes poet laureate of the army, recently| thad the Kiplingesque verses publish- led in the Army & Navy journal, call- ing forth a note, with the Steunen—| berg name on the envelope, from General Leonard Wood. The first to enter the lists in op- { position to the captain is Arthur von Pulaski of Spokane, formerly a Ger- man officer and at one time colonel in the service of the sultan. After| declaring that the Turkish army is no longer disciplined by German methods, von Pulaski designates the| Steunenberg verses as the “penny- |ante sort.” He suggests that the cap- itain's literary talents might profit- |ably be directed toward composing a months before the date of the ex- packed in the twin city terminals. pi n and has made its srmemem;_\losy_ of thereon just at the moment when the !, _ fate ot this Balkans was bolig. decid. “ tardy transfers from one road te an- =d, while at the same time’the Italian ! other. people are favorable to the Balkan: o e cause, and the Italian reigning house| is intimately bound to those of Mon-!TAFT KEEPS TO HIS COACE renegro and Servia. | AS TRAIN SPEEDS SOUTH The G‘reek proposals will be more ON HIS JOURNEY TO PANAMA complicated than those of the other| allies, because they include the ques-! tion of capitulation, which Greece alone among the Balkan states en-| joys in Turkey with the great powers. The capitulations, originally imposed on Turkey by the republic of Genoa By United Press. On Board rPesident Taft's Special Train, Dec. 21.—Speeding through the southland on his special train en- |route to Panama, President Taft ihe congestion is due to| In 1553, include exemption from tax~ ation for foreign subjects, special courts, and other privileges. Greece is ready to accept a clause in the treaty with Turkey promising to re- nounce the right of .capitulations when the other powers do the same. Another Greek delegate arrived to- day. He brought important papers to Premier Venezelos. He is Rizo Rangabo, whose father, writer, poet, and archaeologist, was called the ‘Victor Hugo of Greece.” "Oh, Jim, mother ud be that wild if she was to see you a kissin’ of me.” “But I ain’t a kissin’ of you.” ‘Oh—I thought you was just goin’ to begin.” |only once aroused himself from his comfortable chair and book during nearly all of the first day’s Journey. tions alomg the road were generally {disappointed. The villagers of Flor- ence, 8. C., were the only ones favor- ed by a glimpse of the president. | There was a marked: improvement in the president’s cold, contracted in- the north, which gradually disap- peared as he penetrated'the south. Aboard the train are Senators will participate in- the reception planned for the president when' he reaches Jacksonville. The senators say they were mever escorted home for Christmas by so' distingnished a .personage before.- Small crowds gathered at the sta-| Bryan and Fletcher of Florida, who good marching song for the army. Meanwhile, Steunenberg, being an larmy officer, has said nothing, but| the world is having a good laugh ;over his swinging verses. | And now Stanley Mayall, a .promi- ;nent Spokane manufacturer, leaps |lightly into the saddle of Pegasus with the following: {“Oh! hark you Onkel Samuel: i far across der see. | Hier kommt ein voice in- answer. Just hear einmal to me. Villeicht we jetst can fight no more; ! und zu fett are to run. But we can do some odder dings besides use sword or gun. Von: “Und der is more ais Frenchmen, wot’s got a lot of Gaul, In fact when first such stuff- kam-| aus, der Yankee got most all; Und' Strassburg pies und Munich bier und candied fruit from Metz, They ain’t no fitting fighting food —which Kaiser Will forgets. “We got a scent called eau de Koln, und auch de Limburg cheese, Und from our Holstein cattle, we cut Hamburg steaks mit ease; ‘We have some ‘Maus Towers’ auf der Rhine, und :ats—keuérs to show Und sauer kraut und mileh, und udder dings also. take mein Dachshund dog, Y FOLR DAYS TO INELSON TALKS “HORSES” F-0-U-R—Count 'em! Then Count Qut Your Change | Quick For the Rest of Your Christmas Purchases. 'MANY HEAR DEBATE A crowded house heard the debate on “Socialism” in the city hall last night when D. P. O'Neill and W. N. Weber discussed the subject. No de- cision was made but Mr., O’Neill ap- peared to have the better of the argument as he fired facts which his opponent apparently could not repu- diate. BAILEY GETS A LETTER. Earl Bailey has received a letter from Clarence Spencer a former Be- midji boy but now of the Philippine Islands. Clarence was a student in the Bemidji schools until two years ago when he left for the east and worked in New York for some time. At New York Clarence joined the army and soon left for the Philip-. pine Islands. In Bemidji Spencer showed a great deal of ability in the pugilistic line and engaged in sev- eral friendly bouts with boy friends. After leaving Bemidji he entered inte a wider field in this line and in the army was given the chance to develop. At present he is engaged in a series of battles which if he wins will entitle him to the championship of the Philippine Islands. He en- closed in the letter a handbill which had been distributed through out Manild' announcing a bout which he would have with Kid Greenburg of the United States Eighth cavalry, at the Tylai theater. Spencer is known in the pugilisitc world as “Digger” Spencer. Out of eleven battles fought in the ring he has placed to his rec- ord four wins and seven knockouts: Und drop him in der wurst mach- ine und grind him up in-cog; lieb frau-|Und feed him to the Yankee bard wot says we can not fight, . Und give him such a nightmare his life’s cur-tailed mit fright.” Addressed Audience of La Porte Far- mers Friday Morning—Others Spoke in the Afternoon. S La Porte, Dec. 21.—The farmers’ | meeting held Friday in Woodman hall was not so lafgely attended, es- pecially in the morning, as it should have been. Prof A. E. Neison, director of agri- culture in the Bemidji High school, was the first speaker, and occupied the morning mour in speaking of horses. His remarks were full of “good horse sense,” and his hearers listened closely to every word he had to say. Among other things he said that stallions should be animals with ibig heads, wide between the eyes and jears and not have too short a neck. He also believed that stallions should be worked, and not allowed to stand in the barn and become “soft” as is too often the case. He emphasized the necessity of having collars that were not too wide, and that the hames should be adjusted at the top as well as at the bottom. He strongly denounced the use of sweat pads, and advocated the use of hard collars, but have them fit. In warm weather the position of the collar should be changed during the noon hour while the horse is rest- ing so the shoulders can get cooled off, and at night they should be bath- ed with cold salt water. This kind of bathing is better than any spavin cure or “quack’” medicine that can be bought. In the afternoon the attendance was larger and more satisfactory, the time being occupied by Professor McLeran on “Potato Growing,” and Miss Mary Bull on “Housework Sim- plified. The speakers left last evening for Guthrie where they were billed to speak, and from there they go to Walker, where they hold meetings Saturday. CANADA TO THE GULF RAIL- ROAD COMPANY INCORPORATED Special to The Ploneer. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 21.—Plans for a railway extending from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico were made known today when the Midland Con- tinental railway filed papers of in- | corporation. The new road will build the first link of its road from Boyd eounty, Neb., to Mix county, S. D. The incorporation is made wp of WANTS TAFT T0 ARBITRATE MATTER Everett Wheeler Believes Contro- versy With Great Britain Should Cause No Trouble. SAYS THAT THE LAW IS PLAIN Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Proposed by the United States Calls For Such Action. JUSTICE CAN BE OBTAINED Judges at The Hagume Called Men Who Are of High Character and Ability. N ‘Washington, Dec. 21.—A resolu- tion urging Taft to accept the offer i arbitrate the Panama canal com- | troversy between Great Britain an@ the United States, as provided in the treaty between the two cauntries, which would refer the dispute to the Hague, was introguced last night by Everett Wheeler, of New York, at Ithe American society for judicial set tlement of international disputes. The resolution was referred tQ the- (éxecuti\-e committee, which wil] re- port today. The United States should submit the Panama canal controversy be- tween Great Britain and this country,~ to arbitration, is the opinion of Ever- fett P, Whesler, of New York, who spoke at the opening session here of, {PARTY I§ IN BRAINERD TODAY’the American socfety for judicial set- tlement of international disputes. “It is inconceivable,” he said, “that after the United Statés has settled by arbitration far more important com= troversies between itself and Geeat Britain than any that can possibly crise with reference to the Panama canai, it should refuse to refer to an impartial tribunal, formed in pursa- ¢nce of a treaty which the United States itself proposed, this question of law—what the Hay-Pauncefote treaty means.” ' The speaker scouted the idea that it would be impossible to procure un- biased and imparial arbitration. He said this was “dealing great injustice to the judges who form the panel of the high court at the Hague, who are not arbitrators put forward by each nation to maintain its own interests, but are judges of high character, learning and ability. FERGUS FALLS MINISTER IS SHOT AND KILLED BY A BOY Fergus Falls, Minn., Dec. Rev. John Cling was shot and in- stantly killed at his home near Don~ nelly Wednesday night, presumably by Olaf Christofferson, a sixteen- vear-old boy of this city. The bay had been drinking here and had giv~ en his mother trouble. Rev. Mr. Cling came to this city and held revival meetings and, tak~ ing an interest in the boy, hired him to go back to Donnelly to work on his farm. Cling lived with his two sons two miles from that village. On Wednesday night the sons were in~ vited to town to spend the evening. They left supper on the table for their father and young Christoffer- son, and on returning about mid- night, found the father lying on the foor dead with a shotgun wound im Lis neck. The boy had left the place, taking a horse, buggy and shotgun. The sheriff from Morris followed him all day Thursday and late in the after- noon overtook him north of Elbow Lake. He was running behind the buggy and made no attempt to resist arrest. He told the sheriff he had not been in Donnelly; that the horse and bug~ 8y belonged to his mother here, and that he had just driven down from Fergus Falls. - Later, when asked@ why he shot Mr. Cling, he said he di@ not knew. He has been taken back to Morria and will have a hearing there. He ia not very bright and may be adjudged insane, but this is by no means cer- 21— Chicago capitalists and the head-|tain. The family here is highly re- quarters will be in Omaha. spected. ! [ == i = ISTORICAL e St ok A A S SN D