Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 4, 1913, Page 1

x VOLUME 10. NUMBER 238. SENATOR NELSON FOR SHORT TERM Favors Restricting President to‘Six Years in Office So That Nation Will be Given Attention. MAKES - EXCUSES FOR. TAFT Admits Tariff Attitude Was Not Cor- rect, But Says That He Was j Not An Expert. ARCHBALD CASE A PRECEDENT Judge fiu Impeached on Evidence on Which an Indictment Counld Not Have Been Drawn Special to The Plonser. St. Paul, Feb. 3.—“Restricting the term of president of the United States to one term of six years, is a good thing. It will mean that presi- dents will spend their time in the in- terest of the people, instead of build- ing a political machine for the next election. “President Taft’'s tariff attitude may not have been the right one, but he is'not an expert o tariff schedules and could not.reasonably be expected to over-rule the action of Congress in passing the measure, since they had ‘more time to investigate mat- ters than he had.” “The impeachment of Judge Rob- ert W. Archbald, of the commerce court established a precedent becanse he was impeached on evidence which would not be indictable. The im- peachment, however, may have a good moral effect on judges in gen- eral.” ‘The above remarks, made Monday by Sen. Knute Nelson, before the Jjoint session of the legislature, in the hduse chamber, were interpreted by many to mean: “Taft cannot be re-elected; Roose- velt must not have another term and any Republican is preferable to Wil- son.” “Taft’s mistakes were excusable, because he did not know what he was signing.” “Judge Archbald would not have been indicted if the same value had been given the evidence which. has been the test in the past.” Intrenched with andther six year term in the United States senate, Sen- ator Nelson evidently is willing to continue to take his chances with the so-called “standpat” element. Senator Nelson also thanked the legislators and the people at large for ré-electing him, and said that he con- s_idered their choice a vindication of his'record on national issues. During the course of his remarks the senator reviewed the work of congress during his incumbency in office in the past eighteen years. He' touched upon pure food regulation and the investigation of the packers’ combine and suggested that the regu- lation of railroads, workmens’ com- pensation, water power and corpora- tion income taxes could best be regu- lated by federal laws. T “The efforts of the states along these lines,” he said, “have been only partially successful. They are handi- capped because they have jurisdiction to regulate only intra-state matters, And because the laws of adjoining ‘states conflict.” Referring to the coming Democrat- ic administration, Senator Nelson said he did not anticipate any radical legislation to result from it. Senator Nelson also took up events at large, following the enactment of the Dingley tariff and the Spanish- American war and told of the growth of industries and the country gener- ally. As a concrete instance of this growth he cited the fact that in 1895 there were 3,700 national banks, ‘while, at present, he said, there are 7,600, 7 The speech was received with en- ‘thusiasm. Following the address the senator mingled with the representa- tives and senators, renewing acquain- tances and meeting the new members, many of whom had only heard of him previously. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Mrs. A. T. Carlson has left for her @ by American Press Assoclation. SENATOR KNUTE NELSON. . CHIPPEWAYS ~ MEET hundred delegates from the Chippe- way councils throughout ‘the North- west are in Cass Lake today for the:|that the Turkish commander sent two "~ BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESD. ADRIANOPLE IS SAID ON FIRE Sofia, Feb. 4.—Part of Ad,Flapople is in conflagration. The city ‘I8 threatened with destruction by fire. The biaze Was set by the Bulgarian bombardment which. " began. last night. It was resumed at dawn'to- day. & Lordon, Feb, 4,—The Balkan war ‘has been resumed. < The bombard-| | ment of Adrianople ~began at seven o'clock last night. A small skirmish occurred at the Tchatlja lines. 3 . The~armistice :lasted exactly two months. Bulgaria turned a deaf ear to-the remonstrations of:the powers unless Turkey. yields to the Bal-{" kgn' demands, 'the allied armies will}| dttempt to drive, her completely out ot “Burope. According.to a.dispatch from Belgrade. Scutari is.already on the’point of falling. It 1s reported| | purpose of forming themselves into: representatives ‘to the Servian com-}: an organization so as to better handle their affairs with the government. ] 1t was first believed ‘when the idea of calling a convention was broached about a month ago that the organiza-| tion could be perfected in one day: but it was learned this morning that the Indians will be in session all of: this week. il Over fifty delegate Tepresenting the Cass Lake, Leach Lake, White Barth, Red Lake, Bowstring, White Oak and Rose bud, South Dakota, and Odanah, other reservations of - Minnesota, ‘Wisconsin, arrived on train and more aré expected - this noon. They convened this morning at 10 o’clock with J. J. Coffey presid- ing, who outlined the work to be done the most important.of ‘‘which was along the line of organization and bringing -all the Chippewa tribe un- der one body. LOUD HAS A BILL Herbert Loud, an attorney who is one of the candidates for the munici-| pal judgeship, hias drawn a bill which he will endeavor to have submitted to the legislature at its present ses- sion. The bill covering the sale and. carrying of pistols and revolvers: It will prevent, in the future, he hopes, much of the shooting which has been done in many of the sections-of this state, Mr. Loud’s bill says that a per- son desiring to carry a revolver, au- tomatic pistol or pistol, shall make application to the judge of the dis- trict court of his county, the appli- cation’ describing in detail the par- ty applying, giving residence, 'age; occupation and name. It makes it necessary to have the application en- dorsed by two resident freeholders of his election district. After a sat- isfactory examination by “the judge, the clerk of the district court may be authorized to issue a licensein duplicate, whicl' license will provide for description of the Wweapon pur- the night mander to propose the:capitulation of Scutari. o £ 5 Dr. Daneff, head of the. Bulgarian delegation, in”an interview in Paris, said he’promised Sir Edward Grey, British; foreign. secretary, that if the Turks immediately accepted. the al- lies” conditions, they would conclude ppeace, but whatever happened, no further armistice would be agreed to. Osman Nazim Pasha, - the second Turkish- delegate, leaves tomorrow to resume ambassadorial duties at Ber- lin, He said that from information received from military sources, he be- lieves- the allies underestimate the condition of the Turkish army.and would find themselves confronted by a redoubtable enemy. CARRY OFF WOMEN By United Press. Mexico City, Feb. 4.—Twenty- two persons were killed, ten ;wound- ed, twenty women were carried away I—by Mexican revolutionists who shot up.-a trainon the San Rafael and At- lixer..railroad, fifty miles from here: today. :T'welve.of jthe military. guard on the train were killed. = All others were wounded. “~All womeh® passeng- ers not ‘killed or wounded were=car- ried off. JOHNSON - BOUND OVER A. Johnson, héld for murder of Sam Marin, was’ arraigned before A. M. Crowgll, court commissioner, Monday afternoon following the coroner’s in- quest. and was bound over to the .grand. jury. - Johnson waived pre- liminary examination;: The grand Jury will meet Feb. 25, A rumor that Johnson had com- mitted suicide gained ground Mon- day night, and today but at press] time Johnson'was &till"alivé and in his cell. FEWS chased, and which license shall be| CROOKSTON DEBATERS WIN. issued for fifty cents. . Crookston debaters are again com- “No person shall give, sell, loan or ing to the front’and landed the Ninth in any manner dispose of to any per- | congressional district championship, son not in possession of a license, any |[in the state-debatiig league of Min- pistol, automatic pistol or revolver.|nesota, Saturday night by defeating A person making- such. shall insert in the blank provided therefore in such license a full de: scription of the property together with the date of sale, and shall, with- in twenty-four hours of such sale mail such duplicate license to. the clerk of court by whom' it was issued, which duplicate shall be preserved by j: him, s “No person shall carry any pistol, automatic pistol or revolver without having obtained a license and . then only such firearm as is described in said license. This act.shall not apply to a twenty-two calibre firearm or any having a barrel twelve inches. or more in length, nor shall it apply to any regular office. of the United States, or state, nor ‘to' a soldier or militia man.” 7 Mr. Loud said, “I believe this will be the means of eliminating. such old home In Nebraska where she will | visit for a month or six weeks with her parents and relatives. This is the first trip Mrs. Carlson has made to her former home for a number of lears. -Mr. Carlson returned yester- day: from: Valley City, N. D., where he bas spent several days on business. Miss Carlson was formerly located in Valley City. . transaction |; e Ada debating team. The Crook- ston team * will. debate with the championship teams’from other dis- tricts until only two teams are left to debates and the winner will be entitled to the states” ¢hampionship which was won -by the Crookston] team last year. The question’debated on -last Sat- jurday was, “Resolved, thatall rail- roads doing an,interst_ate business should be owned and operated by the federal government.” -<'The debaters were Ruth Lindell, Edmund Sylvester and Donald Hughes' of Crookston and|: " ‘Alma Natick, Ruth Lee and Robert|" Steining ‘of Ada. The judges were 'President Weld-of the Moorhead Nor- mal, Professor Taylor of the Univer- sity of North Dakota, and County At- ‘torney -A. N.- -Eckstrom of Marshall county. ~After the debate the visiting team and supporters were ‘given.a re- (Copyright.) COST OF THE Cost of the Police Department for the Regular police salaries .. Special police salaries Team hire -........00 Equipment and repairs P Total Cost police department Cost police department, year 1912. Decrease this year . PRICES MAY LOWER ‘Labor Unions ‘and: Co,Qperative So- + cieties to. Get: Together -in :Big- By United Press. Minneapolis, - ‘Feb, - 4.—Farming co-operation societies and labor un- ions of Minnesota,- Wisconsin, North Dgkota and :South Dakota, will send representatives to:a three days meet- ing beginning here tomorrow for the; purpose of organizing a ‘federation for buying and selling farm products. Farmers of these four states seek merchants, ‘business” men, - :laboring men’ as’customers. Prices and gen- eral high cost of living are trembling on‘the brink of a dizzy drop, accord- ing to the men back of the co-opera- tive scheme who also see better prices for farmers. Some of the large organizations represented at thé convention are the Minnesota,”. ‘Wisconsin, North and South Dakota Equity societies, -the ‘North Dakota Grain Dealers associa-| tion, Minnesota ‘Independent Grain Dealers association, = Minnesota- Co- operative Butter. Makers association; adn the Minnesota Federation of Labor. - 2 . The speakers wjll include Presi- dent George B. Vincent, of the Uni- versity of Minnesota; Elias Steener- son, postmaster of Crookston; Profs. James Jacobson, ;Meyer and Boyle of the Nprth Dakota Agricultural col- lege, George S. Loftus and James A. Manahan, congressman-at-large: MAY CHANGE COURSE. ‘A _teachers’ meeting was held" at 4 o'clock ‘Monday- afternoon. in " the High school building. The: subject of changing the .course of study in the local High school was discussed. As yet no definite plans have:been made but the results will be publish- ed lat : fiscal year 1912 $3,978.70 242.45 6:00 10.26 B 2 $3,978.70 $4,004.20 . 8,978.70 $ 26.60 MILK DEALER GUILTY First- ‘Conviction Under Minnesots Minneapolis. - By United Fress. Minneapolis, Feb. 4.—The first conviction under Minnesota’s -anti- when a jury in the district court trust laws was secured late Monday here found A. R. Ruhnke, president Minneapolis Milk Cp., guilty of con- spiracy to raise the price of milk: The maximum penalty 18 fivé years in prison and a fine of $5,000. i ‘There are five other defeadants to be tried. i Ruhnke was the head of the Milk- men’s association. The evidence was secured by the; use of a dictagfaph during the meeting at which' the 'trust was] formed. WII.SON{ I8 ON m PROGRAM Minnesota Editorial Association to) Hold Its Annual Mesting. F. A. Wilson, editor of the Bemidji Sentinel, will deliver an address on “The Country Press and What it Should Stand For’ at the annual meeting ‘of the Minnesota Editorial association which will be held in St. Paul Feb. 20 and 21. James Ruana, of the Slayton Gazette, will give a paper on “After Politics What?”’ and Make the Country Newspaper a Bet- J. R. Landy, of Olivia, on “How -to ter Paying Proposition’’. MARDI GRAS STARTED. By United Fress. 3 New Orleans, Feb. 4.—Rex King of the Mardi: Gras carnival arrived here at-1 p. m. Monday afternoon with a flotilla of thirty vessels. The| king this year is Hugh McCloskey, president of the New Orleans Rail- ! TEN CENTS PER WEEK. COMMITTEE T0 {Matter of Normal School for North- | One Calls for Location at Cass Lake, - ern Minnesota is Being: Consid- ered in the House. | One at Thief River and One Leaves It to the State Board. WILL POILK COUNTY DIVIDE} Senstor Saugstad Wants Decixion | Lett to the People Most Aftected | to the house, but it will undoubtedly ‘ireland 8coh to Have Home Rule— News ttem. POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR 1912| MEETING IS IMPORTANT At Least One Twin City Newspaper Will Send a Special Correspon- dent Here Thursday. AKELEY ‘IS . ENTHUSIASTIC According to advises received from J. J. Opsahl, who has been in the %E'gnp meeting which twin clty commercial interests. The ‘Min- | neajolis Tribune, he says, will send a special correspondent: to-cover the meeting. | A communication has been received from the Crookston Lumber company stating that D..D. Tenney, of the Minneapolis'land department, and C. C. Cross, of tmy Bemidji land office, will agtend the meeting. |, Letters huvaig! ‘recelved, from Commercial clubs at Cass Eake, Akeley and Park Raplds stating that those towns are Rapids stating that those towns are interested in the sheep movement and will send delegations to the eve- ning meeting and for the afternoon session if possible. 4 The meeting is being held under the ‘Buspices of the Commercial ¢lub. - REMODEL BAZAAR STORE Room Improved With New Steel Ceil- ing and White Tables. Contractors -have practically com- pleted the work of remodeling the Bazaar store on Beltrami avenue. A new steel ceiling has been installed. The stairway ‘entrance to the base- ment display room will be changed from the center of the.floor toward the front directly under the stairs that go to the offices above. Eight new, white enameled tables have been placed in the center of the floor, allowing for passage room on either side between the show cases and. the tables. = They have been .placed there for the convenience of the shoppers and will facilitate the handling of & crowd. The store has been departmentized and Miss Marie Simons of Minneapolls will have charge of the ready-to-wear depart- ment. - She is an experienced sales- lady. Eric Ives, proprietor of thef store, plans on adding another. de- partment before spring. He says that way company, and the queen is Misé|it will be one much needed in Bg- Dorothy Wilmot, a local society bell H R midji —May Amend the Law. By United Press. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 4.—The Nor- mal school fight of four years ago, in the Ninth district, is on again in the legislature. At present it is confined creep into the senate shortly. Bemidji, Thief River Falls and Cass Lake have already made a bid for the school, while a general bill has been introduced which proposes to leave the selection of a site to the normal school board. g P. H. McGarry of Walker, will " again champion the Cass Lake cause. His fighting ability and influence are well known, inasmuch as he succeed- ed four years ago in having a bill passed by both hpuse and senaté, which proposed ‘to establish the insti- tution in Cass Lake. Gov. John A. Johngon: settled the difference be-- tween the citles by vetoing the biil.. D. P. O'Neill, of Thief River, has already introduced a bill providing for establishing the school in hiscity. midji is also in his distrlet. !'It is‘'npparent, however, that Rep- resentative ‘0’Neill intends- to-favor his home city although ke said today that he would remain neutral in the matter, except to the extent of hav- ing the school located somewhere in his district; instead of in Representa- tive McGarry’s district. % The mormal school bill drawn' up recently by the -Bemidji Commercial club, which was sent'Mr. O*Neill, was introduced in the house by Rep. John Anderson at ‘the former’s request, be- cause, he says, he did not want to appear inconsistent. Som It is expécted that there will be a meeting of the committee ~to-Which the house bills were referred; some time during the week. - This will un- doubtedly provoke the ‘beginning of™* actual hostilities. ' "Sen. John Saugstad, - Crookston, yesterday introduced ‘a bill which ‘| will make it Harder for the Northern portion of Polk county to form a new county in that section. 3 _His bill proposes that not only must the proposition to establish an independent county receive the ma- jority of the vote cast thereon in each county to be affected by the change, but that it must also “recelve a ma- Jjority of the votes cast in the terri- tory forming the proposed new coun- 5 : . “If the majority of the voters in 5 the northern part of the county want to form an indeepndent county, T am not here to oppose them,” said-Sena- tor Saugstad. “However, I am ‘not sure that the majority favor seces- sion from Polk county. For that rea- son I hope to have the amendment to” the law passed, which I introduced;- in order that the matter will be up to’ the people in the territory af- fected. %! “The persons who are looking fos personal gain, such as those who have property,: are the ones who are mak- ing the most nofse. - . . “I can seé no-logical reason to the argument that the county seat. of - Polk _county 18 too far removed from .. ‘| the northeril part of the county, sfnce the ‘railroad “Service ; is adequate throughoit:the entire county, so far - as accessability is concerned.” 2 ‘bearers were selected from thi