Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 17, 1913, Page 1

. ! - VOLUME 10. NUMBER 223. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1913, TEN CENTS PER WEEK BOOZE PARTY TO BE INVESTIGATED Xnud Wefald’s Resolution Sent to the Committee on Resolutions by a Vote of 55 to 44. CONSIDER RABBITS GOOD GAME Bill to Allow Hunting With Ferrets Canses Wordy War Between House Members. O'REILL WORKS FOR WOODMEN Proposes to Have a State Law Allow- |’ ing Insurgents to Incorporate in This State. By United Press. St. Paul, Jan. 17.—Rep. Knud We- fald’s resolution providing tor a legis- lative investigation of ine alleged “booze party” at the capitol during the governor’s inaugural reception wes sent to the committee on public buildings of the Minnesota aouse of representatives Thursday by a vote of 55 to 44. Representative Wefald made a de- mand that his resolution calling for a special committee of investigation composed of five house members be appointed, and added an amendment calling for an investigation of all oth- er offices where liquor might have been dispensed. Rep. H. H. Dunn, who gave notice of debate last Tuesday, moved that the resolution be referred to the com- mittee on public buildings, declaring that “these petty special investiga- tion committees do little good and that & violation of the law should properly be a matter for a grand jury to take up—but let’s not take up the time of this house with such investi- gations, for they will discover noth- ing that every member of the legis- lature does not already know.” Representative Wefald said that he did not intend, as had been im- portuned, to drop the matter. Another wordy battle was started yesterday in the house when Rep. L. D. Lydiard, Minneapolis, moved the passage of the senate bill repealing the law preventing hunting of rab- bits with ferrets in Hennepin coun- ty, Rep. J. G. Lennon declared that| ‘the bill should go to a committee be- fore being passed. The measure was finally placed on the calendar and will come for final passage Friday. The biennial budget appropriation ofr the state university providing $1,300,000 was introduced. An antitreating bill appeared whereby Rep. H. I{. Putnam, Battle Lake, would prohibit treating and; impose a fine of from $5 to $10 on all persons who dispense free drinks, or ask another to have one. The sa- loonkeepers will also be subject toj penalty for dispensing snuch. “No | Treating Allowed” shall be the sign hung in every saloon , if the bill passes. The Woodman bill, permitting the insurgents of the M. W. A. to incor-| porate in Minnesota, was introduced{ by D. P. O'Neill, of Thief River Falls. 1t was referred to the judicial com-: mittee. Rep. T. J. Greene. St. Paul, was| joint author of a bill introduced to 7Cobtinved on last paxed. SCOOP [E,cus REPORTER FRED R. MOORE. ’ New York Negro Publisher Nameco by Taft as Minister to Liberia TWO IN POLICE COURT Two cases were tried before Judge Simons this morning, the first being that of Clarence Brown, charged with vagrancy. was looking for work when the po- lice told him to leave town, but he delayed and was picked up the next morning. Judge Simons gave him the choice of fifteen days in the coun- ty jail without option of a fine or five minutes to leave town. He left. The second was that of Tom Smith, charged wih being drunk. Smith said he came from Cass Lake to visit a friend in the hospital, and had been staying up with him every night. Last evening he claims he came down town and took a few drinks and then fell asleep in the depot. Chief of Police Hoyt picked him up and landed him in the city jail. Smith insisted that this was the first time he had ever been arresed in his life, but Officer Denley claims the man was sent from town once before and has proved a public nuisance for some time. Judge Simons gave him ten days in the city jail, MALONE MADE MANAGER. A dance will be given next Friday by the “Big Bemidg” basket ball team in the city hall. The team has a small debt which they wish to pay before taking on any other teams to play and the boys believe they can make enough from the dance to put them on a good financial condition. Brandon, Bemidji’s star forward, will not be here for two weeks but it is probable that the boys will play a game with Cass Lake some time in the near future. James Malone was appointed manager of the team to succeed Maurice Ryan. GILLETTE OFFERS PRIZES. M. S. Gillette has offered prizes for all persons bowling over 200 on his! alley. Fifty cents will be given to each person bowling over 200 and one dollar will be given to each person bowling over 225. Fifty cents will lalso be awarded making either a strike or spare in each frame. BARTENDERS TO DANCE, Next Friday night the bartenders will give their annual benefit dance in the city hall. The proceeds will go to the families of the deceased mem- bers of the order. Brown claimed he| Editor Who Was Found Guilty of| to every person;m“_ ANDREW ANDERSON DEAD Clearbrook Ma.n Who Was Working Near Funkley Died After Being Hit by Falling Tree. BODY TAKEN TO EAU CLAIRE Andrew - Anderson, of Clearbrook, died in the hospital yesterday morn- ing following an accident in a lumber camp near Funkley. Anderson had been working in thé woods this fall for the Coolidge-Schussler people and on Tuesday got in the way of a fall- ing timber and was hit. g He was brought to Bemidji on the night train and rushed to the hospi- tal where it was found that his spine was crushed. He died after being in the hospital one day. Relatives were immediately notified .and they came to Bemidji yesterday. Anderson’s home was in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, prior to his moving to Bagley and burial will be from that place. Anderson was forty-one years old and leaves.a wife. MYLIUS MUST BE DEPORTED AT ONCE Libel of King George of F:nglind, Cannot Enter This Country. By United Press. Washington, Jan. 17.—Edward F. Mylius, the English journalist, con- victed of libeling King George, can- not be-admitted-te-the United States; because the crime for which he was adjudged guilty, was not a political crime. This was Secretary Nagel’s decision Thursday afternoon, review- ing the finding of the Ellis Island board. Mylus will be deported on the first steamer after the Ellis Island ahthorities receive Nagel’s report. Mylius was found guilty in Eng- land of libelling King George by pub- lishing a story that the sovereign had conracted a morgantic marriage at Gibraltar with the daughter of a British admiral, prior to his marriage with Queen Mary. FIRE WITHOUT MATCHES. Fred C. Reed, a boy scout of Wash-| ington, D. C., has received a prize from Ernest Thompson Seton. chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America for his quickness in lighting a fire without the use of matches. Timed by two different watches, he made a fire in thirty-one seconds by the use of a bow and stick. The bow and stick is the method of friction that the Indians used. Reed’s record beats anything that Seton himself ever did, and also eclipses the record of Norton in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Nor- ton held the” record for several months. When he made it Seton sent him a bow and stick for fire lighting as a trophy to be held until his rec- ord should be broken." The bow and stick now goes to Reed in Washing- ANOTHER CHIMNEY FIRE. The fire department was called out ciis morning to a small chimney fire at the home of A. T. Hanson, 1504 Beltrami avenue. No damage was done and the fire was out before the! department arrived. INDIANS BADLY TREATED Evidence of Collision by Lumber Companies and Indians: CLAPP “RIDER” A BLURDER Washington, D. C., Jan. 17.—De- claring that the Chippewa Indians of the White Earth reservation in Min- nesota have been the victims of the greed of lumber companies, that leg- islation backed by certain Minnesota members of congress has resulted in the “exploitation and despoilation’” of the Indians and that the Clapp “rider” of 1906, which granted mixed blood Indians their lands in fee sim- ple was a “dreadful blunder,” the congressional committee appointed to investigate conditions at White Eartn made. its - official reportito cougress yesterday. Congressman James R. Graham of Illinois 'and Henry George, Jr., of New York, members of the committee, visited the Minnesota reservation in Febru- lary last and took the testimony of witnesses at hearings in Minneapo- lis, Detroit, Minn., and in Washing- on. . The committee finds that: “The Indians of the White Earth reservation have been the victims of a series of governmental acts design- ed only to aid lumber companies and real estate speculators. “In the first sale of pine lands on the reservation in 1900 there were ‘underestimates and collusion’ in the interests of big lumbermen, and that the Indians did not receive one-half the fair value of the timber.’ “The Clapp ‘rider’ of 1904, provid- ing.that timber on nllutments mlght bewfldi Steenerson. 1904, prov dhfi for addit ona%g;fiot- o followed by allotments Agent Simon - Michelet that the best pine allotments fell into the hands of those intended in. ad- -/ vance to receive them in the interest of the lumber companies. “Complaint against conditiom on the reservation,-made by Rev. Charles Wright, a Chippewa, a minister of the Episcopal.church, was’ unheeded by Indian Commissioner Francis E. Leupp, and that Leupp wrote Mn Wright ‘supercilious, aggravating and unjust letters.” “The Clapp ‘rider’ of 1906 was the rlimax of the drama, that land sharks and lumber companies anticipated the passage of the act and that its pas- sage was followed by ‘a period of de- bauchery and shameless orgies.’ “The manner of.passing the Clapp ‘rider’ ‘may be of more than pass- ing interest to congress.’ “Practically all the pine of the re- servation came into the possession of Nichols-Chisholm, the Wild Rice and the Park Rapids Lumber companies respectively, the territory being ap- portioned to them by prearranged subdivisions and in . most instances ‘mixed blood leaders piloting the un- offending victims to their downfall.’ “D. S. Hall was appointed‘removal agent for Mille Lacs Chippewas, re- (celved $31,845.45 in salary and ex- {penses and removed fifty-one Indians jfrom the Mile Lacs to the White Earth reservation in eight years., “Of $40,000 appropriated by con- gress to pay the Mille Lacs Indians Congressional Committee . Reports|’ PERRY BELMONT. He Is Urging Clubs to March In Wilson .Inauguration Parade. BOWLING ALLEY ROBBED Thief Entered Tepper and Lemke’s Place Wednesday and Cleaned Out the Show Case. Some sneak thief broke into the Tepper and Lemke bowling alley on Wednesday night and cleaned the show case of tobacco, . cigars, candy and other small articles.. Entrance was gained by breaking the glass in a rear window. No clue has been found as to who was the culprit.” It'" 18 thought by the’ proi)rfetbra that it ments of pine land permitted, were|was some local pergson tha Has been: by -Indian | visiing the alley as the: manner in in which|which they gained their entrance in-: ‘fraudulent partiality’ was shown,|dicates that the grounds had. been examined before hand. How the par- ties escaped without being noticed.is' a mystery unless a rig had been used as the articles taken were bulky and one person would have had consider- able trouble carrying them off alone without being noticed. * SENIORS MAY GIVE A PLAY. A meeting was held by the senior class of the High school last night and the prospects were discussed. Several play books have been sent for and the play to be presented will be decided on some time during the coming week. At! tue next meeting of the class a coach will be chosen to assist with the play. The best talent in the High school will be used in his play and will propably be a big success. NEW WARD IS OPENED. One large ward at the Samarital hospital ha® been opened and is al-| ready crowded with patients. Car- penters working on the private wards are rushing the work to completion 80 as to accommodate the patients that are now forced to occupy a room with other patients. Many of the private wards will be furnished by lodges of this city and local physic- ians. HIGH SCHOOL DANCE SATURDAY for improvements in getting them to move, Gus Beaulieu, leader, got $7,420. 5 “Terrible conditions of “exist in the full blood districts.” Why Not Coax It Up A Ladder'AndA Let It Break Its Neck - disease ; ton boys. After the High school basket ball mixed blood|game tomorrow night the boys will give ‘a dance to entertain the Foss- The dance will be held in the roller rink. By "HOP” of a class play, “NO_COUNTRY IS BETTER,” SAID HILL “Empire Builder” Enthusiastic Ovezy Bemidji, and Says the Land Only . Needs Development. COMMUNITY SPIRIT IS GOOD Told Banqueters That It Augured 'Well For the City 'That the People Pull Together. THOUSANDS SEE NEW DEPROT Many Disappointed That Former - Great Northern Head Would Not Speak; Was Talking Farming, Salient Sentences. At different times during his visit in Bemidji yesterday, James J. Hill said: “Manure is worth one-third of the value of the crop for it will increase: the yield that much and so is worth a. third of whatever the market will bring. “The people we need on the land are strong men with good families— men who are not afraid of work with their hands. “France teday is the banking coun= {try of the world. Why? Because its prosperity is founded in the soil. 'Spain’s gold mines were exhausted. “Siy jangis Drake was a good. olt 'pu-htel his day. - g am a farmer by proxy 1 flml the men and tell Lhem what T want done. The rest they *do themselves. . The tabulated report. of the woek done by Professor Crane and his sa= lslstgnts last “year will be published. inext month;” e “I feel at home in Bemidji. I feak ;that you are my neighbors and that we are good neighbors.. I like the community spirit here. It is one of the best signs of the time. You know, ‘the new depot here is the last one I ordered and beyond the possibility et a doubt ever will order. So I had & more than ordinary interest in it sad to see that it-was built to fully carry lout my promises. “I am geting old—will be seventy-. Ifive next September, if I live. Northern. But the company is im condition; its credit is good; and: there is but one bit of road yet ta be. built, that is through Montana, and . that is being built now. Younger men. iare carrying the burden but they are having it easier than I did in tht 'early days.” So spoke James J. Hill at the bamn- 'quet given in his honor at the Mark- ham hotel last evening. Mr. Hill was introduced by Judge C. W. Stan-. ton, chairman of the evening, whae- said: “Banquets are usually given . to men from who we expect to re- |celve something. This banquet Te- verses the usual order of things. We. are here tonight because we have al- ready received something and wish to acknowledge the gift.” ? Mr. Hill was in a cheerful mood: last evening and during his talk of: forty-five minutes he commanded the undivided attention of his aud- fence. He dwelt at some length om. the development of the Northwest. and said that the soil in this vicinity- was as good as could be found any-. where and a lot better than some. Mr. Hill looks for a great tide of im- migration into Northern Minnesota. next spring. Must Work With Their Hands. _The key of Mr. Hill’s speech was iue fact that men who are not afraid: of work are needed on the land. He: i pointed to France .as an example of: - what a large peasantry can do for a country. . Mr. Hill turned aside for 2 moment to gently roast the con~ gressmen wlo are back of the illi~ teracy bill which he claims will turn. £ood farmers from the United States and send them | to the Argentine, long ago, but the French gold mine - 1| s constantly growing richer, And I - want to live as long as anyone lives. _ I am no longer the head of the Great _