Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 21, 1913, Page 1

. THE BEMI HEARINGS - SLOW IN GRAIN PROBE John G. McHugh on Witness Stand All of Thursday Aftermoon— Quizzed by Drake. FAVORS MAJORITY VERDICT Senate Believes Ten Men are Suffic- ient to Agree After Twelve Hours —House Set Six as Limit. RECOMMEND DISTANCE TARIFF By Vote of 11 to 7, Transportation Committee Goes On Record Fer Cashman-Dunn Bill. BY United Press. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 21.—After a three hour session of the senate grain probe committee, Thursday afternoon during all of which time John G. Mec- Hugh, secretary of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce was on the stand, the members of the committee concluded that the hearings would! have to be expedited if anything was going to be accomplished. The fact that Thursday’s session accomplished nothing is due to Benj. Drake, a Minneapolis attorney, who was extended the courtesy of being permitted to examine Mr. McHugh after the latter had testified under the questions put to him by Hugh V. Mercer, attorney for the Chamber of Commerce, and the members of the committee. Yesterday afternoon there were only three committee members pres- ent. Senators Lende and A. L. Olson overruled Senator Works and Attor- ney Drake was permitted to quiz Mr. McHugh. Senators Sullivan and V. L. Johnson came in-later and made no objection, although they several times voted with Chairman Works that the: questions were immaterial, inasmuch as they pertained entirely to exist- ing rules of the chamber, which were already in evidence, and over which there was no dispute. Favor Majority Verdict. The senate Wednesday afternoon in committee of the whole recommended to pass the bill by Representative Porter allowing ten members of a jury to bring in a verdict, where the Jury has been unable to reach a un- animous decision after being out twelve hours. The bill as it passed the house, set the limit at six hours, but the senate, judiciary committee amended it so as to double the time limit. Distance Tariff Recommended. The house transportation commit- tee Thursday, by a vote of 11 to 7, voted to recommend the distance tar- iff bill introduced in tlie house by H. H. Dunn of Albert Lea, for passage. Mr. Dunn made a motion to recom- mend that the bill be made a special order at 11 a. m. next Wednesday, but withdrew the motion and an- nounced that he will make this mo- tion directly in the house. Should this motion carry the house will reach a vote on the measure a week before the senate does, the sen- ate having postponed the special ord- er on the Cashman bill from yesterday until 2 p. m. March 5. Liars Tagged Here. Dyaks, natives of Borneo, are ex tremely truthful. So disgraceful, in- deed, do the Dyaks consider the de- celving of others by an untruth that such is handed down to posterity by a curious custom. They heap up a pile of branches of trees in memory of the man who has uttered a great We, s0 that the future generations ‘may know of his wickedness and take warning from it. The persons deceived start the tugong bula—the liar's mound—by heaping up a large number of branch- es in some conspicuous spot by the side. of the path from one village to another. Bvery passerby contributes to it and at the same time reviles the memory of the man who told the Me. The Dyaks consider the addition: to any . tugong bula they may pass a sacred “duty, the omission of which will mewt with supernatura} punishment. Didn't. Know_ Stone's: Value. ‘While rummaging through an wood, W. Va., came across an old Stons that had been given her by & Telative: 27 years ago, and whioh- she it had-no valte. She showed guest 3t her home and he took VOLUME 10. NUMBER 253. T Lvwosrone comeus] REAPPORTIONMENT PASSED BY HOUSE By United Press. o 8t. Paul, Feb. 21.—By a vote of ‘84 to ‘33, reapportionment. passed the house late yesterday afternoon ‘after an all day debate. The“bill was not amended in spite of the despérate ef- forts to do so-in‘order to break do:,wn Newly Appointed Sergeant-at- arms of the United States Senate. Lea, headed the opposition and C..H. ‘Warner of Aitkin, chairman of the committee which drew the bill, de- fended it. - At times the debate grew hot: and personfl charges were made. " 1ie bill now goes to the senate. DONKEYS CAN'T MARCH By.United Press. ‘Washington, Feb. 21.—There will be no Democratic donkeys in the in- augural parade. The citizens’ inau- gural committee today adopted a for- mal resolution barring the emblems of Demoeracy from the ranks of march- ers, “Undignified” was the reason given. Photo by American Press Assoclation. | FRENCH PRESIDENT’S FIRST HolHIOPRL LoORS 4 s MESSAGE GIVES STRONG VIEWS Another high school team that appears to be in line for the champ- ionship of Northern Minnesota is Mc- Intosh. That team has defeated two strong teams and have an excellent chance to walk off with the honors. East. Grand Forks met defeat by a score of 26 to 23 at the hands of the Meclntosh quintet and the next night they played the Crookston Aggies and defeated them by the score of 28 to 26. The Aggies have defeated the Fosston team. By United Press. o Paris, Feb. 21.—President Poin- care’s first ‘message to parliament. was read Thursday. It was short, but ex- pressed strong views as to the army and navy. “Peace is impossible by the will of one nation alone,” the message de- clared. “The adage that it is im- possible to remain at peace unless ready for war was never truer than it is today and France should not be G exposed to humiliation. It would be WHAT DOES “LURID” MEAN?|a crime against civilization to allow S France to decline in the midst of na- Popular Usage of the Word Is Opposed | tions which never cease to augment to Its Defl“nltlofl': Which their military forces. Let us, there- I Ee' fore, turn our thoughts toward our Two men got into an argliment re- | 2T and navy, which are our ?nost garding the meaning of the word useful aides to diplomacy and hesitate “lurid.” word, as_the police reporter uses it, to |to strengthen these forces.” _ describe ghefl red glare in_the sky|. .. made by 'a fire At night. “The other| - ? 5 S Ty man objected to this, asserting that| ROMANS USED SAFETY..-PINS the word “lurid” means “pale” in-|" e ®ead of “deep red.” Thereupon they | That Many Familiar Articles Are of applied to the dictionaries and found Anclient Origin Has Been Proved them agreed in defining “lurid” as by Finds Made. “pale, wan, ghastly pale.” [ —_ f But the Oxford Dictionary has| Pins fashioned exactly like those of caught up with the new and popular | today called by us “safety pins,” have meaning of the word.with this defini-| been found in-Roman and Etruscan tion: tombs, some being referred to a period “Shining with a red glow or glare | prior to the birth of Christ. amid darkness (said of lightning ‘The safety pin, it séems, was an ar- flashes across dark clouds or flame| ticle of common use in Italy long be- mingled with smoke).” , fore the Roman empire attained the But this seems to be gratuitous of | height of its glory. The material of the Oxford Dictionary. The word|which they were made, however, “lurid” started out it seems as a Latin| seems always to have been bronze. adjective meaning “pale, yellow.” It| The collar stud is another ancient was used chiefly of the complexion, | invention. While it is true the old much as “sallow” is used. Then it| Romans did not make use of buttons grew to have the meaning of “ghast:| for the purpose.of fastening their gar- 1y.” But its transition into the popu-| ments, and they wore no collars, yet lar meaning given it today seems to| they possessed a sort of collar stud, have been due to the willfulness of the| which was used in conjunction with press, which found-it a handy word| the safety pin in & number of ways. to describe a phenomenon for which ‘Who would imagine that the little no other word had, apparently, quite| paper fastener, with which we are fa- the desirable flavor.—Manchester | miliar, the brass device that holds a Guardian. number of loose sheets of paper to- . gether, was more than two thousand years old? Yet such is the fact, since Girl That Is Popular. such a device was employed by the The most popular girl in the school| Romgn goldiers of. that'era as an ‘inci-| will generally be a girl who excells in| ganta] of their costumes or uniform. games and outsiders often wonder| qpe pelt of thin.copper worn by the why this should be the case. The rea-| 14 Jegions was fastened to a strip of son is that to play most games well| oot gerving as a lining, with a serles a girl must be unselfish; she must| o yittle bronze clamps precisely like “play for her side,” and not for her the paper fastener in principle. own honor and glory, and she carries | ~ qyimples are ancient. Some’ spect- this out unconsciously in her daily| ,ong are known to be 2,600 years old. life. You do not find her thinking They are of bronze, and their outer that no one else is of any use in the| g fo0es ghow the familiar indenta- world, or putting on airs because she | 4,0 gor engaging the head of the happens to be better looking than needle. These thimbles are precisely her companions. She is simple and 1ike our modern ones, except that they natural and content to “give and take,” and is as strict in her code of ::;:rm’ o to o?ver Hidrend of (the honor’ as ‘her brother is in a public school. ~Such girls will always win, be rich in friends, and wherever they g0 they carry with- them a breezy Not Likely, spirit of joy and good fellowship. | *I wish you would shout at me, ust DN e S { tho same as you shout at the animals you are going to-kill,” #aid Judge Moss, at the Carnarvon (Wales) Geraldine—“Did you ever play kiss- | COUBLY court, to & butcher who was ing games?” Gerald—“Yes, and I re- giving .evidence quiet tones, . “I¢ member them as games that didn’t | YOU Were going to kill an obstreper have to be called ccount of dark- | U8 bull you would not whisper like ness.” biggey N this,” added his honor, SCOOP The Rabbit ‘Not Like the National Game. THE CUB REPORTER BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, _’FRIDAY ' its backing. H. H. Dunn, of-Albert| ] One of them had used the|at no sacrifice that may be necessary | .| meeting,and i NING, FEBRUARY 21, 1913. iConyrizht ) INITIATION-ON_SATURDAY| PP FELLOWS MEET ToNgir To Confer Final Degree Upon Three Candidates at Regular eunm The local lodge of the Independent Order of 0dd Fellows will meet in reg- ular session at their hall on Beltrami avenue tonight at 8 p. m.. The offic- ers have issued special requests to s : | members and brother Odd Fellows to MANY VISITORS ARE EXPECTED |be present at this meeting, A spec- - 3+ » (ial program has been arranged by the noble grand and third . degree ‘work .will be conferred upon three candidates. = Kuights of Columbus to Take Forty- five new Members Into Lodge in Annual Service. Forty-five new iq"pmhers will be initated into the TocAl lodge of the Knights of Columbug at the annual 3 ¢ity -hall tomorrow :morning at ten Feb. 21.—The hmfie o’clock. Initiations are held but once |yesterday- morning passed the reso- a year and many visitors are expected | lution introduced by Representative from out of town lodges. Steenerson requesting- the president The initiation tomorrow will'be|ic give congress all the information given under the direction of the de-|Dow in the possession of the postoffice gree' team from St. Paul and Brain-|department and other - branches of erd. In addition, the following offi- [the government as to practicability cers will be present: Neil M. Cronin, [¢f exteénding-a two-cent letter pos- Minneapolis, state deputy; John A.|[tage rate to Norway, Sweden, Den- Barry, St. Paul, past state deputy; |mark and the Netherlands. The Leo Ball, Duluth, past district|Steenerson resolution also asks for in- deputy; Dr. Ed. Fahey, Duluth, dis-|foermation as to whether any of these trict deputy; John Mahon, Duluth, |countries have offered to enter a pos- state secretary and James Nolan, |tal agreement with.the United States. Brainerd, district deputy. —_—————— The class to be initiated will be|neister, J. F. ¥Magun, Joseph A. Jones composed’of candidates from Be-|and Rev. Patrick J. Ryan of North- midji, Thief River Falls, Cass Lake, [omnc; Francis @ummings and John L. Blackduck,Remer, Northome, Little|5rady, of Cass Luke; Wm. ™. jHolland, Fork, Park Rapids and Deer River.|of Little Park; and Henry F. Remer, Visiting delegations will come from|of Remer. . Brainerd, International Falls,” Crook- ston, Virginia, Duluth, Superior, St. Cloud, Melrose and Grand Forks. Low mass will be celebrated in the St. Phillips church at 9 a. m. In the evening, the ladies of the church will serve a dinner at the church for which 150 plates have already ing heart been engaged. - Saturday night, the ;':2::; -:izhw:v‘ér lct‘:ru:;:g:‘::‘ cit- entire party of visitors, degree team| jo5 and frozem hills. As we watch and outside officers will go to Brain-| thats flight of untrammeled wing we erd on a special sleeper and- will ini-| wish that somehow we might cap- tiate a class in Brainerd Sunday. The| ture that blitheness and teach it to men coming thla way wifl remen-to, 3o SO0 SO G S g Bf’:‘t'm on a special train Sunday |y, vo that joy abide so fixedly that'it nignt. would become a ce. The holiday The following will be installed: season is like that. It stoops for Wm. J. Twohy, W. J. McDonald, J.| a little out of space, draws near our J. Traut, Clarence Jackson, Charles| dim earth, and sheds its brightness Tardift, 0. J. Birthcne, U. J. Riede,| 8mong men. As swiftly as it came, so Morris Ryan, James McManus, Ed-| 8Wiftly it goes again. And yet each ward Tabor, Herbert S. Kaliher, M, | Joor it draws more close and stays Brief Holiday. Joy is like a bird in flight, which dips in its paseing and touches us with its wings. It comes from out of a far country and it tracks its way on high. After that brief hovering it will recover its former ‘attitude, its ‘Why should it|’ Money For Postoffice Appropriated by /| Congress and Now Location is the Question. FIVE PLACES ARE CONSIDERED Court House and Lake Shore Lots Do T Not Meet With General Approval : &4 Because of Distance. ; CHOICE NARROWED TO TWO Business Men Favor the Land Near. 2 5 Beltrami and Fifth or on : Second Street. With the passing of an lpprofirh- e | | tion bill by the national house of representatives allowing -$75,000 for a mew federal building - for Bemidji, speculation is rife as to the proper lo- cation of the building. = It appears that there are several sites available from the point of view of convenience = but the price at which the land is held is_believed so high - that ‘the amount left for the structure may be = - Movement Started in Duluth to Peti- | depleted. | tion the G. N. and N. P. Lines For some time it has been the gen- For Through Trains. : ‘eral opinion that the half block op- e < posite 'the court house has been kept by the town site company in order v that the federal building might be a placed there. - Since it -has been learned that the money for a federal building: is available, there has devel- oped much opposition among the bus- niess men to that site. @ AST SERVICE MAY COME BACKED BY COMMERCIAL CLUB _Backed by the Commercial club,-a glant petition g’ being circulated in Duluth asking the Great Northern and, Northern, Pacifig..-to efteet...ar-|. gt i forth rangements wherer e erinnl, "0 S SO B may be run from the head of . the 7R < lakes to the Pacific coast. Should | house site s too far from the business - such a service be secured over the |district.. Many concerns do a-large Great Northern, it will come through | mail order business:and it is -neces- Bemidji. sary to have mail delivered as soon a8 At a banquet given _for President — Howard Elliott of the Northern Paci- the, tralng jarclve 1n°arcer-1hut an; fic in Duluth last week, it was de- [SWers may go back on the next re- cided that this was oné way in which [turning train. Often the time~ be- to brifig to the attention of the roads | tween trains is so short that it would the fact that there is a demand for|pe jmpossible to answer mail deliver- such a service. . AMthe present time|ed by carrer. The only recourse, all coast trains from Minnesota are|then, would be to a special messen-' operated from St. Paul and people in [ger, ~ K the Northern part of the state| Interviews with about fifteen bus- go there, to Grand Forks or to Fargo. | iness men brought out the fact that The Surrey cutoff in North Dakota | the site generally favored is the one is nearing completion and it i8 be- | oppogite the present postoffice. Should lieved by some that it makes possible [ the building be placed on the inside the operation of through trains. -E. |jots, it will be necessary to purchase E. Chamberlain, local agent of the|gix; on the outside lot, five only Will Great Northern, said yesterday after- | ho necessary. The corner lot is owns= noon that he had heard of the move-|qq by the townsite company, the-two. next by the Odd Fellows ani the in- ment only through press reports. A 3 side ones by the town site company. Other locations talked ~for the building are the lots on the morth- west corner of Bemidji-avenue and Fourth street facing the -lake, the same corner of Bemidji and Third street, and the same corner of Bel- trami and Second streets.” Of these three, the last mentioned appears to be the mort favored inasmuch as it is within the quarter mile zoné of ‘the depots and-the railroads,would then have to deliver the mail to the build- ing without charge. Another argument put forward in - favor of this location is that a sight- 1y federal building there would im- Her Infinite Variety. prove the first appearance of the city As we sit down and ponder over the | to. people coming here for the first JEWETT NAMED AS PRESIDENT C. W. Hewitt of Bemidji, was elect- ed president of the State Auto Deal- ers’ association while in the twin cit- fes recently. Mr. Jewett was active in the formation of the association. ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Morris Ryan arrived in Bemidji at 3:10 this afternoon and will attend the Knights of Columbus meeting here tomorrow. Morris is time keep- er in the Welsh camp this year. I'. Corrigan, Anton Schusser, Wm.| Soniad e s more sleean ot o Raussell’ and Byron Rassell, of Be-| grace and truth.—Collier's Weekly. midji; J. 1. Foeter; Phillip Bryant, Geo. P. Cunan, John Kielty, Robert McGinn, M. R. Bazen and J. H. Carew e of Thict River Falls; P. V. Murphy, | sove ot ey oo foll the Bat Thos. Kane, Nichols F. Harig, Frank| wag such & g00d cook, when you know. W. Foster and . R. D. Ratican, of |1 can’t even bofl a potato?” Hubby— Blackduck; Dr L. F. Boucher, of Miz-| “I had to make some excuse; my dear, No Alternative. ummer oourtship we find the hand |time and would also be nearer for the that wislded the canoe paddle. now [millg and. wholesale houses. With m“m&:' m":'o' ’:n:'mml O | the new Markham h‘mz‘i- and ‘phouihiliy - room. - The gazing at the sky in sum: | ® new Rex, the view om_ e -rail- mer time 18 now looking to see if the |T02ds would- be a solid ‘line of sub- wash can safely be put out. The |stantial well built structures. : 3 band in the wash tub is the hand that | It has been proposed that a meet- that trailed over the canoe side. The |ing of the Commercial club be held Soft voice in quiet lanes 18 now— |in order that the different opinions % pah; T. J.‘Taydsn and H. D. Keen: | and I didn’t know what else to say!® of Minneapolis; “alentine T. Kucher-| —London Opinfon. Was Absolutely Safe--The Auto Wasn't Don't you think it's & cruel world?— |; (g1t be brought forward and pos- Birvood) G - |sibly-a decision reathed -befors: the . government engineer who ‘will pur- : chase the property arrives. Postmag- - ter A. R. Brickeon said this morning. that he believed the engineer will be here within threé ‘months and ‘that I the building is located. on inside lots, land must be proyided for forty foot space on each side of building 4a the governnient assimes its own fire risk and will not pl 'building within forty feet of another.’ CLOSE FOR LEGAL HOLIDAY- The postoffite ard ‘the three banks will: e closed tomorrow:in" honor. of of : the, birth of The