Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 6, 1913, Page 1

O'NEILL CALLED T0 HOUSE CHAIR * Represcatative From This Distriot Asked to Preside at Hot Session on Tuesday. CHANGE THE PRIMARY. IAW Many Amendments Have Been Intro- duced and Many Changes are * Expected, THE SECOND CHOICE IS HIT . Senator Stebbins Says Provision is Not Understood By One in Ten Persons. By United Press. St. Paul, Feb. 6.—Rep. D. P. O'Neill, Thief River Falls, was hon- ored by the speaker Tuesday in be- . ing called upon to preside at a meet- Ing of the committee of the whole, tor the consideration of bills on gen- eral orders. To say that Representative O’Neill had a busy time of it would be put- ting it mildly. One of the bills un- der consideration was the ome pro- viding that county assessors be elect- ‘ed by the county commissioners. The debate was fast and furious and was varied with motions and substitute motions until anyone with less knowledge of parliamentary proced- ure than Representative O'Neill pos- sesges, would have been in as much muddle as some of the representa- tives who were making the motions. As previously predicted, the prim- ary law is in for a series of amend- ments, which, if passed, will make it practically a new bill. . The senate has gone on record as favoring an amendment to make the Bull Moose paity a political party entitled -to have its name placed on the gemeral baliot. It has also gone on record as favoring the extension of the non- partisan feature to include county officers. The most radical departure was an amendment offered today by Senator Stebbins who proposes to eliminate the second choice feature from the law. Senator Stebbins contends that the second choice feature is not under- stood by one in ten persons, and that many are of the opinion that it was enacted to give those on the “inside’ VOLUME 10. NUMBER 240. CHARLES E. ELMQUIST vors tonnage tax. time from the first Monday in Decem- of January. COUNTY BILL READY of $8,389.78 to reimburse Beltrami county “for expenses incurred in the trial of the Dumas cases will be sent “|to St. Paul tonight by County Audi- copy will be sent each to Representa- tive O'Neill and Senator Hanson with a request that they introduce the bill. Since his recent trip to the cities, when he approached several leglsla- tors onsthe proposition, Mr. George has been going over the county books seems to be much sentiment in both houses in favor of allowing the bill. The Dumas gang operated over a wide area and the Beltrami county conviction was really a state service. DIED ON WAY TO FUNERAL Charles Rockensock was driving to his father’s funeral Wednesday, ap- peared to be sleeping in the rig. On examination, however, he was found to be dead. His death was due to held tomorrow from the Baptist church,. Reverend Chandler officiat- ed il ADDITIONAL LOCALS: mainder of the winter in the camps in that vicinity. an advantage by making it possiblety,. the past two weeks. for them to manipulate the ballots and tally-sheets. Another amendment which has al- ready been favorable reported by the elections committee of the senate, 18 the bill by Sen. Ole Sageng, advanc- ing the date of the primary election to the third Tuesday in June. Sen. Frank Clague has offered an amendment to extend the non-parti- san feature to state officers and members of the legislature. The fil- ing by petition for non-partisan of- ficers, after the primary, is prohibit- ed in another bill. With all-of these amendments, there is little likeli- hood that the present law will be rec- ognized when the session 1s ended. Sen. John Saugstad, after a.con- ference with Dean Woods of the agri- cultural school, has decided to have the request for an appropriation for % the Northwest agricultural school at Crookston incorporated in an omni- 2 bus bill, which will be introduced by the committee on agricultural schools, and which will provide ap- propriations for ‘the schools at -St. Anthony park, St. Paul, Mora .and Ctfookston. g . Senator Saugstad explained today that the move was intended to elimi- nate the school from politica so far as possible. .“I do not want to make a campaign issue of the fact that I was the one who obtained an appropriation . for the Northwest school at Crookston,” said.the senator. “If the appropria- tion is granted, I will have had a part in securing it, but I do not believe I will be entitléd to a re-election mere- 1y because the appropriation went through. “The people elected me. to look aft- 1y interested in the Northwest school, 80 I am doing only what they ex- pect of me. “This argument lbont getting ap- er their isterests, and they are vital-| K. K. Roe, who has been confined for the past week to his home with a severe attack of tonsilitis has again taken up his duties at the store. MEDITATIONS. ON THE COW. of Farm and Fireside writes: without reason. . For the cow does not flock to the cities to learn short- ter. Neither does she wear skirts so fore she thinks, and if she cannot say she says nothing. bit. they will be. propriations for “the school was ad- vanced in behalf of my predecessor candidate, it may be used to hel but I hope it will not be so used.’ Senator Saugstad’s bill changing]| and it I declde again to become af the time for holding terms of the dis-| trict court in Crookaton, was passed | One of -state railroad ‘and_ ware- Two places of business destroyed at house commission whose report fa-|Bottineau and $20,000 damage done: ber to the first Monday after the first jdone. Fire caused a loss of $1,000 in A bill calling for an appropriation Fosston, Feb. 6.—Both school tor George. Mr. George gays that &|os 333,000, At one time the fire in order that he might incorporate In |, "5 cost of $10,000. They stood the bill an itemized statement of the twenty feet apart. The fire started expense of the county in the Dumas|;, o High school; which was of trials. Mr. George says. that there Ernest Rockensock died Saturday from a hemorrhage and while hisison | natural causes, His funeral will be|Pullding at 6:15 and .stated . last ing. Mrs. Rockensock 1s also report- Fred Campbell left yesterday for|ter in this city involving a loss of Bena where he will work the re-|$25,000, with an insurance of-$11,- Mrs. Thayer Bailey returned this|store, an adjacent building was noon from Crookston where she has|glightly damaged by water and smoke been visiting friends and relatives| The fire evidently started in the boil- A contributor to the cufrent issuethe same building is a total loss. “The cow is deemed by many the all probabilities the theater would be most sensible of her sex, and mnot hand and sell dry-goods, but prefers| Grand Rapids, Minn., Feb, 6—|lips had instructed Rlpple to watch Fifty farmers attended the meet- to stay in the country and make but-| TheMontreal House, the Grand Rap-|the suspect but Kelly gave them both ing of the farmers club in town of narrow as to restrict the freedom of |store were destroyed by fire late her limbs. Nor does she speak be-|Tuesday night, causing a loss of about anything good about her nelshbors, people rooming in the hotels to dan- “And finally, her outlook on lifeftreme cold. The fire was: discovered FREE LUNCH ON ’monz; ROAD A, E. Nelson tested the milk of is such as virtually to exempt her|in the kitchen of the Montreal House,| = Employes of the Beltrami elevator several cows and said that he was from worry. . She will get, for in-la two-story frame structure.- The|and the Crookston mill énjoyed an|sutprised to find that the general| e for the benefit and civilization of stance, to measure nine or ten feet|fire department was badly hampered T about the waist and not mind it a|by frozen water. ‘The flames Spread “It is omly fair to say, however, |unusual rapidty and although all the|sive one, as the only trouble in' ob-|later sold. - From six percent,” the that it all her sex had feet like the|guests managed to get out, several of | taining it was to pick it“up from the|cows graded down to three percent.”. cow’s, corns would not be so common, { them had narrow escapes. - road leading to Nymore, and by that token tempers would be| - The Montreal was conducted hy better.. But hypothetical speculation|Sam Tatelle and his wife and- eight of that sort leads us nowhere. As & |children occupied rooms._on the se- certain great man has.pointed out, things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what|three blocks MAN}{] BAD FIRES — Damage %o Extemt of $186,000 Cansed to Northwest Towns By " Beries of Blages. Seven fires Tuesday and: Wednes- day in the Northwest caused dam- age estimated at $156;000 and im- periled many lives. A $26,00 fire de- stroyed a theater at St. Cloud, . Rdge- ley, N..D.; suffered a loas ot $30,000. Eight childrea narrowly . escaped; with their lives and $20,000 damage ('was done at Grand Rapids, Minn, Sevadflrovenhngvfiim,jfi' - - Order to Get to Bemidji in Time ' - - ~ for Afternoon Session. : : Thirty patients were carried from & burning hospital at Big River, Sask., and damage estimated at $20,000 was a hotel at Winona. . Lire last night destroyed .both Fosston schools and equipment. Loss estimated at-$40,- 000. : T i ; | - to Commercial Club Rooms at SRR > EVERY-THING (N HIS - 8. p. m. This Evening, Special to The Plomeer. : SEe o ’ POCKETS FROM IRON~ . % houses here and all equipment were | : giy 4 WL WICHES WL PINDRGN : destroyed in a fire which broke dut ¥ A RETICULE UERV ; . Bemidji Business Men. atl6:45 last evening. The loss is| - p 4 v HANOY The officers mmn of i ,0 ith 1 D g IR - estimated at $40,000 with insurance { [~ CAROEN]’E S RNILG the Commercial club urge you to: was practically ‘under control but a ; 3 b‘ Pl in - - =, M“u&oglao m attend the business and social broken hydrant allowed the blage to . meeting in the club rooms-at 8 gain headway which u was impossi- P. m. tonight. The.qity is enter- biie: to:stop. taining several -distinguished - The buildings burned ~were. the High school which was built seven guests and in addition, matters ~ Londen Chappies Are Carrying fetie ules—News item. e ARREST Fonmcouwcr WHAT WAS [T2/INDIANS HAVE TROUBLE years ago at a cost of $16,000 and of great importance to. this com- - a grade school built fifteen yeara ago . munity are to be discussed: Your: Deyuty- Sherift of Moriison: County e After Long Disoussion Agree ot to| B ntund. Traced Nebraska Man to-Be. (Noise Liks an Explosion and Ball|™ ©) e : : = brick, and spread to the wooden & midji and Ilfilh. e of- Fire Startled People Late rganize Uni ew. Meeting Visltors from the twin cities, and structure. . s » Tuesday Night. - 3 May 6. towns on the Sauk Center line of the - School sessions will start again one week from Monday. The board met last night after the fire and arranged for the use of the old woolen mill bullding by four grades. The other grades and High school classes will be held in different churches. A new building: will be started at once ‘How the fire started is a mystery T e S o any kind but-is-heated-froma powe; plant 300 feet away. The super[n‘-’ John Kelly. They will l:"h It ings were on fire because of the bril- tendent, who does not smoke, left the | Mediately to the Nebraska state pen-|1iant light. The shock!was felt in itentiary where he had made good |Bemidj! and commented om at the his escape some time ago. | Commercial club méeting which was in o [ them bein, 1d. Deputy Phillips has been following o ::““};;“m it Kelley for some time but did not caused the shoca and light but it have sufficient evidence. to arrest his|geams generally accepted that a me- man, Tuesday night Kelly appeared|teor struck in ‘the town of Liberty, at police headquarters and asked for | Some sixteen or seventeen miles from lodgings. Patrolman Burslay regis- :::‘:f*x"‘ ".::o: ;‘:fil::?“’ thas tered the man and gave him 8 bed In| g, o tarmers saw the light, snd the city jail. Wednesday morning he|felt the shock but ssw nothing in the told Burslay that he had come trom Canada where he had been employed with a threshing crew and -stated sky before the shock.: .The theory most generally accept- that ‘his home: was in Massachusetts, but at present’ he. wn hudod for ed is that a meteor.struck and - the Chicago. light was caused - by 1ts fiying to pleces from the impact. Deputy Phillips had been follow- ing him as he tallied exactly with a PLAY HERE SATURDAY ‘, 3 Mayne Stanton, manager of the |ties from the Nebraska prison. ‘2 High school basketball team, received Manaser Dazidton atated: thiat /iy reward of $500 had been offered for[word this noon that Cass Lake will his capture and the deputy of Little|be hero for.a game Saturday night. Falls and John Ripple = of Bemidji £ will probably. receive this sum. Phil-| ‘COWS SHOW A GOOD TEST. Great Northern, both lines of the M, & L, and Red Lake line are in Be- midji today to meet with the farmers and city business men'in the High ' GETS A $500 REWARD FOB MAN s “What was 1t?" is a question that SCORE HINTON AND HARPER has been. bothering ‘many people in {8chool to discuss sheep. A meeting the country to the north and west of of the business men and such farmers g o = Special to The Plonser. * |as wish to remain over will be held . Bemidji for two days. On Tuesday ‘Cass Lake, Feb. 6. in the Commercial club rooms this . night, about ten o'clock, many farm-|1ng en! 't wl i serles of resolutions ‘were passed wihch scored Messrs. Hinton and Harper as officlous: government men who were working against the best interests of the Indians. At the May 6 meeting, each reser- vation shall send fully accredited delegates with full powers to act as representatives. Action of the main council is to be ratified” by separate home councils of the Indjans. ' It was the opinfon of the council that the departnient at Washington wichel to be just to the Indians, The .Chippewa. Indian council in session here has developed into a fac- tlonal fight with the question -of Wwhether to organize or not to organ- ize a8 the bone of contention. Those who are in favor of organizing claim that the government -officials have been unduly busy among the full bloods urging them not to take part inor to prevent such an organization of all the Chippewas. .Those who fa- vor the organization call themselves the progressive Indians and :they style the others by the simple name of kickers, The progressives lmve come into possession of letters written by gov- ernment men, the evident intention of which s to create distrust in the M= movement. From the letters the in- 1lies. were represented and the women | ference is to be drawn, whil; not so at noon had to serve two tables.twice| gtating in definite terms, that Gus. before all had beén: given dinner.|H. Beaulieu and John Carl were at The meeting was held at’the home of | the bottom of the movement, Atten- Mr. Reynolds. tion is called to the - fact that the Clapp act “was hatched by this same class”of people, and ‘was supposed to A delegation from - Akeley -and - Park Rapids came to Bemidji last night and mornixg trains.on the M. & I and Red Lake lines brought in® ‘many more. The meeting promises to be the best farmers meeting ever held in Bemidji and apparently indi- cates that sheep have come into their own as agents for clearing land. Directly after the meeting this atternoon, the visitors will be taken to the Brinkman theater where they will be the guests .of the manage- ment at the production of a.400-foot moving picture film of the new stump puller being used by the Soo line on Wisconsin cut over lands, The pictures ‘show the land before it ‘is - cleared, the stump puller ‘working, a close view of the way in which the hooks and chains are put on the stumps,-and-the way the road grader works. - Harry Funston, one of the So0 engineers who was here when the road was put through, i here with the pictures. ~ A. E. Chamberlain, development agent of the Great Northern, and J. . H. Griffin, division freight agent, are R here for the meetln‘ and Mr. Cham- * berlain talked this afternoon. This is Mr. Chamberlain’s first visit to Be- midji in fourteen years. He says that the only time he was here before was shortly after the- Great Northern’s old depot was bullt. Mr. Chamberlain finds that:the city has made a wonderful growth, He says'that the Sunday he was here, he spent the day with the Bailey family. ‘At that time the house was thought to be out in the woods many blocks away . from “the city. ' There were but a few buildings and saloons and - | gambling houses lined the streets. The Great Northern was Just’ com- pletlng ‘the depot and right of way. That sheep are - looked upon as practical animals for- clearing land at & low cost is testified to by the large number of farmers who have und sheep who are in the city today. Some of them have ' driven In'from eighteen miles up the country:while L TOR | others- have “driven : ‘to depots and - come the rest of the way. by ‘train. <. A delegation from'Akeley and m.h- er points in Hubbard county arrived last night. In the Akeley delegation are:C. F. Sbeers, editor of the Akeley- Herald-Tribune; Bert Rodman, cash- ate bank; D, Theriault, C."R. Flink, C. "Winkelhammer and g Giese. Louis Hansol eount} & loner from Becids, and J. night that there was no trace of smoke when he left. St. Cloud Theatre Burns - . St. Cloud, Minn., Feb. 6—(Special) —Fire early yesterday morning com- pletely destroyed the Davidson thea- 000 The Benson Brothers’ groeery er room and had gained tremendous headway before the department was. called t Mr and Mrs Fetter, occupying the upper story, escaped in their night clothes and were’.both “slightly in- jured - Paul Beaudreau’s saloom, in rebuilt. Have Narrow. Escapes ids House and Niles & Alton’s feed |4y gip Wednesday morning, but was| NOTthern yesterday. Twelve fam- traced to Nebish where he was caught on his way to a lumber camp. $20,000 and subjecting a number of gerous exposure because of the ex- afternoon linch yesterday consisting|run was good. “I found one cow that|the Chippewa Indians of the White of a big ‘variety ' of ' fresh baki tested six percent,” he said. “This|Earth reservation. Yon all know the goods. The lunch was not an expen-|cow was raised by Mr. Reynolds and{ result.” “The last paragraph of the letter of Thos. E. Harper dated January 2, 1913, 18 “I ask you to consider well before taking any steps that will place you and yours in the hands of those who only live by defrauding the Indians of the last foot of land that they may call their own.” The ay in her bare feet{denly when it was frightened 'by .- Already they are OM- progressive leaders claim that it is ~—— |1arge plece of paper. 3 8 e aat through the Montreal House with '-The members.of the club claim that This new: fad in delivering blkery it is the oldest farmers club in' the goods was started by Elmer Ander-|county as it has been running sever- son, driver: for the Bemidji Home |al years. They are at present fnter- cond floor. They. barely got out alive, | Bakery, when his horse ‘became un- |ested in hail and firs insurance and One of the little girls later. was found}controllable and qwerved around sud- (expect. to start a oo-operltlve com-