Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 9, 1913, Page 1

—— ———— THE BEMIDJI . I0VOLUME 10. NUMBER 216. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1913, TEN CENTS PER WEEK. GREAT NORTHERN DEPOT FINISHED Agent Chamberlain and Crew Will Move Saturday and Be Ready For Business After Noon. MAY CELEBRATE ON THURSDAY January 18 Selected as the Tentative Date For the Reception for the Road’s Officials, J. J. HILL HAS A BAD COLD May Be Unable to Attend—Governor Eberhart and President Vincent to Be Invited. “The new depot will be in use aft- er the noon train Saturday.” The above statement was made by Mr. Chamberlain, agent of the Great Northern in Bemidji, at noon today, Mr. Chamberlain continued: “The interior is practically flnlsh_ed now and about all that remains to be done is to clean up. We will start moving in Saturday morning and expect to be in full possession soon ‘after the east bound train at 12:08.” Thursday January 16 is the tenta- tive date for the celebration which will mark the the building. T. J. Burke, chairman of the entertainment committee of the Commercial club, talked with J. J. Hill on the phone this morning and Mr. Hill said that any time between now and the twentieth would be best for the road officials. “I have.a bad cold,” sald Mr. Hill, “and may be unable to be present, but the road will be represented by officials from St. Paul.” The invita- tion sent by the Commercial club includes the high officials of the road who have their headquarters in St. Paul. Until a definite date has been set for the opening of the depot, invita- tions will not be sent to others. It s planned to ask Governor Eb:r- hart and President Vincent, of the state University, to come at that time and to have a banquet for the visitors. The entertainment commit- tee is planning additional features. Ray Murphy was on a train with Governor Ebertart a few weeks ago and the governor said that he expect- ¢d to be in Bemidji when the depor was opcned. The new station is 217 feet long and is surrounded with a brick walk which extends twenty-four feet on the south side to the passenger tracks. The interior is of red vitri- fied brick with sandstone trimmings nnd green woodwork. The floor plan is similar to that of the Union sta- tion. The Jadies’ room is in the west end and is connected with the men's room by a swinging door. The ticket office is located about in the center with windows in each room. It has a small projection which will glve a view both ways on the track. The baggage rooms, freight and express rooms are in the east end of the building. Each waiting room contains settees and in the ladies Toom are several rockers. The old depot is to be removed, it is under- stood, and the site used for a park. All wires will go into the new struc- ture from the rear so that there will be nothing to jar the estheic eye. The completed structure will have cost the Great Northern close to $40,000. completion of CASS LAKE RUSSIANS HIRE KOLL T0 TEACH THEM ENGLISH Special to The Pioneer. Cass Lake, Jan. 9.—The Cass Lake colony of Russians who are unable to speak the English language are de- sirous of acquiring it and have band- ed together and engaged an instruc- tor to assist them. The school starts out with an enrollment of fifteen but it is expected the number will be in- creased to thirty. The board of edu- cation has granted them the free use of the South Side sthool house, and M. N. Koll has consented to instruct them in the rudiments of acquiring their new language. Later on it is expected they will engage a professor from the high school, when they get far enough along to be able to under- stand him. Scholars range in age from nine- teen to fifty-three, fathers and sons included, and it is expected that wives and: sisters will. also attend Jater on, 2 THOMAS H. BARRY Major General Who May Succeed General Wood as Chief of Staff. @ 1912, by American Press Association KKK KK KKK KKK ) KKK K LOUD MAKES FIRST AN- NOUNCEMENT. * * * * * H. J. Loud, an attorney of * Bemidji, is the first candidate % to announce that he will run % for any municipal office at the % coming election. Mr. Loud’s ¥ announcement appears on an- % other page of this issue. He is % a candidate for municipal * judge. KR H KK KKK KK KKK KK Kk ok ok ok ok ok k ok ok ok ok kk NEW BANK AT LITTLEFORK. Littlefork, Minn., Jan. 9—Another bank is to be established in Little- fork, Differences are said to have arisen among the officers of the pres- ent First tSate bank, the result of which means Cashier Muus will be- come affiliated with the new institu- tion. The new bank will be styled the Farmer’s State bank, and its first in- corporators are L. A. Swanson, A, T. Scarlett, Abe Olson, John Vander- valk, T. J. Johnson and Nils Muus. Same sixty subscribers, other than as above named, have taken stock, the list including a large and substantial portion of the community. BOARD STANDS PAT. | Minneapolis, Jan. 9.—Declaring that the Minneapolis board of educa- tion is not introducing into the schools the round dance as part of the educational system when it sane- tions dancing parties in the high schools under proper supervision, the board, through President Elwell, has issued a statement to the committee of ministers which has led in the fight against school dances. Tne statement says the board has not been fit to reconsider its action, that the order allowing school dances was not taxen until after full consideration and that its ruling of Feb. 13, 1912, prohibiting social dances in school buildings still holds good. MISS EDDY MAKES CANDY. Miss Beatrice Eddy, instructor of domestic science in the Bemidji schools, gave the students of the High school a demonstration in candy macxing. Each student was permitted to sample the candy and they are looking forward to a simil- ar demonstration in’the near future. O’LEARY AND BOWSER BUSY. Carpenters are busy remodeling the interior of the O’Leary and Bow- ser building and painting.the front ‘|near Aure early this morning. KHE KKK KKK KKK KK KK * COUNTY P @ LET. ¥ % The board of county commis- ¥ % sloners this afternoon let the % % county printing for 1913 to the ¥ % Bemidji Pioneer at the regular ¥ ¥ legal rate and designated it as ¥ * the official county paper. The % * Pioneer will furnish supple- % & ments containing all ‘county % + printing to all legal papers in & % the county. * R KKK KK KKK KKK KK FARM HOME BURNED Special to The Ploneer. Pinewood, Jas. 9.—Fire destroyed the residence of Hans Kirkvold The family was able 1o save but a few articles of . clothing. started in the roof where a stove pipe was- being used in place of a chimney. The Kirkvold family will live in the Hogan Koppang home un- til Mr. Kirkvold can build. LEGISLATURE WEDNESDAY Adolph 0. Eberhart was inaugur- ated governor for the third consecu- tive term before a joint session of the house and senate. The cere- mony was followed by the reading of the governor’s message. In The Senate. Ole Sageng of Otter Tail presented a bill providing for a constitutional amendment giving the right of suff- rage to Minnesota women. ' The bill was the first that passed over the clerk’s desk. The initiative, referendum and re- call were also among the measures referred to committees. Senator Moonan presented a bill providing for a vote in 1914 on the question of holding a convention to revige the constitution. In The House. Representative Nolan, chairman of the house committee on rules, pre- sented a resolution to prevent the killing of bills by delay in committee. FINNS RAVE AT RUSSIA. By United Prem Helsingfors, January 9.—Intense indignation has been aroused here by the latest example of Russia’s bur- eaucratic methods. Two Russian ex- amining magistrates visited Viborg to obtain a protocal drawn up by the town council regarding a request based on the Equality Law to carry on trade in Finland. Russian offic- ials having no right to examine the protocol books of Finnish state in- stitutions, the mayor refused to grant them access to the document, and they departed. Later, however, the chief of po- lice appeared, armed with an order from the provincial governor, to in- spect the protocol, and as soon as he had got the document in his posses- sion, he produced another order, au- thorizing him to take it to the exam- ining magistrates which he did de- spite the protests of he mayor and couyncil. The supreme court is to be invoked. Further dissatisfaction has been caused by the appointment of an in- experienced Russian colonel to the post of director of public buildings in Finland, a ‘position which re- quires considerable technical knowl- edge. BREN’S DISMISSAL IS ASKED Minneapolis, Jan. 9.—Motion nas been made to dismiss the grand lar- ceny indictment against Joseph D. Bfen, former cashier of the Univer- sity of Minnesota, on the grounds that Bren’s testimony in the trial, which resulted in dismissal, jeapord- ized his defénse. The motion was made before Judge Jelley, who had ‘previously denied a motion to dismiss on grounds of delayed action by the county attorney. Decision was re- of the store. SCOOP rirorier REPORTER TVE UNGNERED g A CORKER 0F A / ut T THINK 7 ROOMS Wil - == served. ~ Scoop Wasn't Taki The blaze| ton on Judieial Diteh No. 1. “SNOWED IN"—WII:SW +BlG DITCH Farmers From' Clearwater County Flocked to Bemidji in Force at . Hearing Tuesday. THE MATTER WAS COMPROMISED Nearly two hundred farmers from points on the Soo liné in Clearwater county came:to Bemidjl Tuesday’ for for " the hesrig-betkrs: Jadge Stan: This ditch runs through Clearwater, Red Lake, Polk and Pennington counties. It was proposed to empty the wa- ter from the river about twelve miles nearer the mouth than the farmers wanted as the engineer claimed that as the river was so sluggish, the ditch water would flood it. The mat- ter was finally compromised and the men went home. apparently satis- fled. FIRE LOSS WAS HEAVY. Scott Stewart, secretary of the Be- midji fire department, explained at the last annual meeting Bemidji's fire loss in 1912 was $127,930. The department answered thirty-five calls, two of which were false alarms, and attended thirty-three fires, two- thirds of which started in chimneys. The worst were the destruction of the Harry Gunsalus corner January 13, in which the total loss was estimated at $70,000, and the burning of the Rex hotel, in which about $50,000 wag lost. The department now . numbers twenty-nine. P The officers. of the relief associa- tion were elected as follows: Presi- dent, Charles Bailey; vice president, R. E. Miller; secretary, John Falls; treasurer, John Goodman. ~ NAVY MASCOTS “CANNED” Norfolk, Va., Jan. 9.—A belliger- ent goat’s lack of respect for the uni- form, it was sald yesterday, was the cause for an order of Rear Admiral R. M. Doyle banishing all, of the sailors’ pets and mascots from.bat- tleships, cruisers and receiving ships at this station. Admiral Doyle is supposed to have been inside the uniform when the goat, a mascot aboard the New Hampshire, butted it so vigorously| that it toppled over on the deck. The goat now is an exile and with | wim went a long train of cats, dogs, | KILLED A COW MOOSE Homesteader From Rapid River Country Fined $75 and Costs in Police Court Yesterday. PLEAD GUILTY TO AVOID TRIAL Charles Cook, a homesteader in the Rapld River country sixty miles south of Baudette, was fined $75 and costs in police-court yesterday for having the meat of a cow moose in his possession. ~ His brother Fred Cook, who was in district court here last spring on a criminal charge, was also arrested and brought into court. Charles Cook plead guilty to the act and Charles was released. The Cooks were taken by Deputy Sheriff William Hazen as his last of- ficial act. He was sent out under the Hazen administration and re- turned under the Johnson. Evidence in the case was gathered jointly by Sherm Bailey, local game warden, and E. C. Cook, who is no relation to the arrested men, of Thief River Falls. Charles and Fred Cook are alleged to be two of a group of homesteaders in the Rapid River country who have made a habit in the past of killing moose in season and out and selling the meat as “beef” in Thief River Falls. The game wardens wanted the limit of $100 assessed on Charles Cook but his attorney threatened a jury trial if the fine was not less and in order to save the county the ex- pense of such a rial, the fine was made $75. : Mr. Bailey learned some time ago that four homesteaders in that coun- try had six moose in their possession and prepared at once to take a trip to find out. The movement was tipped oft to Frank Cook of Nebish, a broth- er of Fred and Charles, and he at once sent a man to warn his brothers. The messenger left Nebish late on a Saturday night and traveled on horse back across the Red Lakes and up the ‘trail ‘to the Rapid River country. Two of the moose were at ‘once hidden. Mr. Hazen went into the home- stead country by way of Warroad and Baudette.and had a mileage ac- count of 404 miles. B SMALL CHIMNEY FIRE. At 10:30 last night the fire de- partment was called to 112 Thlrd street, to the building occupied by the saloon of William Meyers, where parrots, bears and other goats. WELL YO0 SEE 175 LiKE THIS- A TURNED Dowtt SUITER F6R THE HAHD M55 GUSSIE PRATILE SENTHER THIS Bo, a oF CANDY - SHE Dl ng Anything For they put out a small chimney. fire. /| Granted - SHE DIED VERY SUDPEMLY LA HIGHT AWD HER Fou's THMK AT-Wias THE CaMY - THEY WE \T. T0 ME TO HAVE (T TESTED: Mow Tt mmfi! STORN ‘AS Soon A5 T SEE - =+ \Pow THE CANDY AFFECTS Nou HILLIGOSS TELLS A STORY Great Northern Land Man Here With Griffin Familiar With Every Minnesota Township. WAS ONE OF BEMIDJI'S PIONEERS J. Wt Hilligoss, land man for the Great Nortnern railway, was here this week with.J. H. Griffin and. at- ‘ténded the-meeting of the Commer- cial club at“which the sheep proposi- tion was discussed. Mr. Hilligoss was familiar with this country be- fore .the Great Northern built rough from Duluth o tirand Forks and had some good stories to tell. He claims to have been in every town- ship in Minnesota. “You know,” he said, “that at one time I had an interest in the Bemidji Townsite company and sold out be- cause I thought the Great Northern would not hit the town '~ a fact. When they surveyed through, they wanted to build between here and Lake George and spend many months trying to figure out 'a way through the hills as to come to Bemidji meant the addition of several miles to the route. “But I do not believe a railroad will ever be built through that coun- try. Coming in from the west, the astgd ||CITY POLITICIANS ARE LINING UP Johnson and MeCusig to Fight Agein for Mayorship While Four sre Out For Police Judge. ~ ELECTION 'ON FEBRUARY 18 In Addition to Above Officers, Voters Must Select Four Aldermen and One-at-Large. SHERM BAILEY FAVORS SIMONS - Says Present Official Is Satisfactory, But Believes All Candidates - Should Draw Lots. The City Ticket. Mayor—L. F. Johnsonm, McCuaig. Aldermnn-at—largs;nly Murphy. First ward—John Moberg, - (prob- able). Second ward—=Sherm Bailey. Third ward—J. Bisiar, (probable). Fourth ward—Open. Police Judge—H. A. Simons, L. G. Pendergast, John L. Brown and H. J. Loud. William At the present time it looks as though the ballots for the next city election, which will be held Febru- ary 18, will read with the above names. The Socialist candidates are not named since their referendum hag not yet been held and the candidates selected. g Messrs. Simons, Loud and Browa. are practically the only candidates openly in ‘the fleld &t ‘tliia tim their friends are circulating nomina- ting petitions. Mr, Johnson and Mr, McCuaig have not yet made public announcements of their candidacles but have told their friends that they will run. Ray Murphy considered the mayorship at first, but when ad- vised that there were two other can- didates, withdrew with heir support for alderman-at-large. Crippen Will Not Run. John Moberg is out of town but.it is understood that Moberg will be up for re-election. C. C. Crippen said this morning that he will not. John Dalton has been urged to run from the Fourth ward but cannot.as his election would invalidate his saloon license according to a recent court decision. Joe Bisiar said this morn- ing that he was not yet ready to make an announcement but that level rises with table after table of land and then suddenly drops off. The grade is too long and high to climb and the expense of cutting through is prohibitive. “This country used to be pretty wild through here. I remember one time when I was in through the coun- try a few miles north of Bemidji, I had been walking all morning and about noon sat down to eat. I wason a windfall and was eating out of my pack. » “After I had been munching away a few minutes, I felt a jar on the log, and turning my head saw a big lynx not four feet away from me and crouched to spring. ‘Hello old boy,’ I said, just like that, ‘where did you come from?’ The cat never moved. I kept talking to uim and slowly bent down and picked up my automatic with ‘my left hand. Shics-~ it to the right and slowly stretched out my arm and pointed he gun. “When my arm was ready, the end of the gun was not a foot from the cat’s head. All the time he was watching me ‘with those green eyes and .tail as stiff as it could be for its length. My hand was as steady as it {Continued on last page). By hHOP” OH 15 THAT S0 - WELL ~ JUST EAT 1T YOURSELF k < AND THEN WRITE L JYHE. STORY ! | talls on the efgnteentd, . many friends had been urging him to try for re-election. Sherm Bajley announced his candidacy the first of the week. The large number of candidates for police judge has led to the suggestion that a mass meeting of voters not Socialists be-called for some evening about two weeks before the election and the candidates eliminated until one is selected to run agains the Soc- ialist. It has been pointed out that the ‘split field for the judgship and mayorship is practically sure to re- sult another Socialist administration. The Socialists at present have one alderman, E. W, Hannsh, who holds over for another year. Bailey is For Simons. Speéaking of the police judge situa- tion, Sherm Bailey "said, “I favor Judge Simons for re-election as I be- ~ lieve he has made a good judge. He has not yet served a full term but I have found. him -satisfactory in cases I have brought before him. But I am in favor of some public meeting whereby one capdidate will be selected to run against the Social- ist. If any candidate from my ward comes out for-alderman, I am ready to draw cuts with him to see which .| one makes the race.” Ray Murphy expressed himself as in favor of any plan by which one man will oppose the Socialist candi- date for each office. Mr. Murphy séid that he was willing to draw lots-with any .non-Socialist opponent in order that a three-corner fight would be avoided. He cited the case of the re- cent election in Minneapolis where the Socialists ' nominated by petition after two regular -candidates bad been selected at the primaries. One of the regular nominees withdrew and the Socialist was defeated, Whefe- as it the fight had continued three- cornered, fhe minority candidate would have been elected. . ' s , 'The Bemidji-election comes the third Tuesday. in- February which