Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 15, 1913, Page 1

A 2 ~u P e ' ! | i o e VOLUME 10. NUMBER 271. OPTION FOR CITIES OF FOURTH CLASS If Bill Passed by Both Houses Is Signed By Eberhardt, Bemidji Can Vote on Saloons. SUPREME COURT MEN NAMED Homer D. Dibell, of Duluth, and My- ron D. Taylor, of St. Cloud, Ap- pointed Commissioners. O’NEILL MEASURE IS FAVORED Senate Committee Recommends Road House Bill—May Support Dev- s elopment Work. St. Paul, March 15—The house Friday passed Senator Frank Clague’s bill giving cities of che fourth class local option. The bill permits all cities of less than 10,000 population to vote on saloon issues. Local option heretofore has been granted only to towns and villages, and to some cities by home rule charters. The bill has been fought hard and defeated in several previous sessions. Nine other bills were passed. - One provides a state legislative reference bureau, the director to be named by a commission composed of the lieu- tenenat governor, speaker of the house and the president of the state uni- versity. A senate bill passed permits the es- tablishment of the fifth state fish hatchery at Granite Falls. A house bill providing that a fish hatchery be established in St. Louis county also was passed. Y Two state supreme court commis- sloners and two district court judges were appointed Thurdday night. The five judges of the supreme court named the two commissioners early in the evening and sent word to Governor Eberahrt. Before midnight the governor had named the district court judges and received their ac- ceptances. Homer D. Dibell, district court judge at Duluth, a Republican and in 1910 a candidate for the supreme bench, becomes supreme court com- missioner and his place on the district bench is taken by Bert Fesley, Dem- ocrat, now city attorney of Duluth. Myron D. Taylor, judge of the dis- trict court at St. Cloud, a Republican, is the other supreme court commis- sioner and John Roeser of St. Cloud, another Republican takes his place on the district bench. A law passed by the present legisla- ture creates the two commissioner- ships. The supreme court judges long have been overcrowded with work. The constitution prohibits there being more than five of these Jjudges. To relieve the situation the legislature created the commissioner- ships. The salary is the same as that of a judge of the supreme court, $7,000. Their power is almost as great. They are as near being judges of the supreme corut as the constitu- tion will permit. *x ok The senate committe on temper- ance Friday afternoon voted to re- commend for passage the bill by Rep- resentative D. P. O’Neill prohibiting boards of county commissioners from issuing liquor licenses. The bill has passed the house. Representative O’Neill appeared be- fore the committee, and made a very brief and pointed speech in behalf of his bill. He said: “I am sorry to have to impose such a bill on Southern Minnesota, where it might be all right to have places where the weary traveller can re- fresh himself. “But we need this bill to blot out . the places in the woods of Northern Minnesota which the lumberjack sky pilot truly calls ‘the very vestibules of hell’” e The project of placing county offi- cers on a non-partison basis, ratified by the senate, went by the board in the house committee on elections yes- terday afternoon. In point of fact, the idea had no defenders whatever in the committee, and it was not until the more violent partisans proposed to undo the work of the extra session in putting judges of probate and county superintendents of schools on a non-partisan basis that there was any evidence whatever of a perception that it is incongruous to continue on a partisan basis the election of mionr officials whose du- ties have no more relationship with pational party lines than the Aldrich JOHN PAUL FARRELL Held In New York as the Bomb Slayer of Women. Photo by American Press Assoclation currency bill has with the procession of the seasons. LY -Counties Wwill be able legally to appropriate money for the support of incorporated development associa- tions, such as the Northern Minneso- ta Development association, under a bill by Representative Charles W. Bouck of Royalton, which passed the senate yesterday and s now before Governor Eberhart for his signature. The bill has been backed by the Northern Minnesota Development as- sociation, and it allows county boards to appropriate up to five cents per capita for the support of deve]opmem.\ associations that will work to attract setlers. SHEEP ARE WANTED Ed. Opem of section five, town of Lake George, Yola post office,. was in the city yesterday and this morn- ing and ordered a carload of sheep, to be delivered as soon as the snow goes off. He will keep from 150 to 200 sheep for his own use and the| rest will be distributed among his neighbors. Mr. Opem has been rais- ing sheep on a small scale for several years. This winter he has cut the timber on his place’ and wants the sheep in order to keep the sprouts from growing up again where the timber has been cut. The box factory here has made a mar- ket for Mr. Opem’s small timber. J. T. Robinson, a farmer at Big Falls, has written J. J| Opsahl that he will take a car of sheep and C. L. ‘Wright, of Longville, has written to inquire about the proposition of the Bemidji Commercial club. INAUGURATION PICTURES Scenes Taken in Washington March Fourth Produced Here. The Brinkman theatre last night showed moving pictures of the in- Washington March 4. showed the Minnesota militia clear- 1y and some even thought they could distinguish Captain Otto, of Bemidji, as one of the aids. The pictures are the first authentic inauguration pictures to reach Be- midji and will be repeated tonight. MORE SETTLERS COMING IN Charles E. Glass of LeSueur, Min- but what we will be able to locate from 100 to 250 families in Northern Hubbard county in 1913, and in or- der to do this we will need your co- operation and also -that of the rail- roads and the lumber companies.” Most of these people Mr. Glass has in view are Polish people and good farm- ers. A meeting will be held at Akeley next Tuesday to boost the state park and also the canning factory of that place. Akeley will probably be made the gateway to the state park. 'SCOOP T, REPORTER auguration of Woodrow Wilson lnl CONFESS MURDER OF LITTLE CHILD By United Press. Winnepeg, Manitoba, March 16— The grand jury this morning brought in a true bill for murder against Vie- tor Pople, of International Falls and ‘Warroad, Minnesota, and Mrs. Eva Willls, of Rainy River, Ontario, con- fessed murderers of the latter’s infant daughter, Ethel Victoria Willis. The couple were arraigned today before Justice Cault and the caseis now proceeding. Both Pople and Mrs. Willis have expressed a desire that their trial be started as soon as possible. Both Pople and Mrs. Willis con- fessed that to taking the little six months old child from the boarding house where they had been staying and after choking its life out to placing it in a deserted boat in the Red River where its tiny body was found frozen stiff last Sunday night. BURKE APPOINTED By, United Press. ‘Washington, March 15—President Wilson today appointed Governor John Burke, of North Dakota, secre- tary of the treasury of the United States to succeed Carmi Thompson, The Burke nomination will probably be sent to the senate this afternoon. DOCTOR IS FREED By United Press. Winnipeg, March 15—After six hours of deliberation at Morden, the Manitoba assizes this morning acquit- ted Dr. George Erskine, of Sarles, N. D., of the charge of manslaughter in causing the death of Mrs. Wm. Mec- Leod of murder during confinement for childbirth. HOLLOW HORN BEAR SIOUX CHIEF, DEAD By United Press. Washington, March 15 — Hollow Horn Bear, chief of all the Sioux Indians, died today in the capitol of his great white father farm from his tepee on the prairies near Rosebud, South Dakota. The aged brave, with his little group of followers who came here to take.part in the inaugural parade and to offer the chief execu- tive the pledge of peace of his peo- ple, turned his eyes toward the happy hunting ground and silently went to sleep after losing a week’s brave bat- tle against pneumonia. * SKI MEET ON SUNDAY. |Barney Reilly and Other Stars to | Jump From Local Slide, Barney Reilly, Axel Hendrickson, The pictures: ,;3 payid Lind will take part in a ski tournament which has been ar- ranged for 2:30 Sunday afternoon on | the ski slide across Lake Irving. Reil- ly is a well known jumper and is of championship calibre; Hendrickson’s specialty is a summersault in the air after leaving the take off; Lind is said to be the only one-arm jumper in the world. The slide is on the south shore of nesota, writes J. J. Opsahl of tms[Lake Irving and may be reached by city as follows, “There is no question | griving across the lake. The boys said this morning that a drive has been ploughed out from the brewery to the slide. NO CASS LAKE GAME. The basket ball game between the Bemidji High school and the Cass Lake High that was to be played at Cass Lake tonlght was called off by ithe Cass Lake team this morning. Over twenty-fie Bemidji rooters plan- I ned to accompany the team. * Was It Beginner’s Luck, Or Is Scoop A Shark? (Copyright) i BIG BEMIDJI WINNERS Defeated Superior Athletes Last Night In Second Game of Series by Score of 19 to 10. WANT BOAT CLUB HERE In one of the most exciting basket ball games ever played in Bemidji, the “Big Bemidg” team defeated the Superior, Wis. Y. M. E. A. puint last night by the score of 19 to 10. The visitors took the-lead during the first few minutes of play but the locals tightened and at the end of the first half were in the lead. During the first half the score was a tie nearly the entire time and neither side was able to gain over the other. Neumann, who did not play the game of which he was cap- able Thursday night, was a feature in last night’s game and made several points for the local team. Brandon seemed to be every where at once and although he missed several hard luck shots he made the majority of the baskets and shot all but two fouls. Peck, Bell and Jacobson complete- ly outplayed their men and kept them out of the game most of the time. The Bemidji team work was ex- cellent and the Superior boys were unable to break it up. Many believe that the local team would have de- feated the Superior team Thursday night had they been more confident. The Superior team congratulated Bemidji after the game and admitted that they had been beaten farily and squarely in one of the cleanest games they had ever played. Between halves and after the game they formed a cir- cle and yelled for the Bemidji team. In speaking of Bemidji before leav- ing, Manager Olson stated that the team had never been treated as well as did the local boys and citizens of Bemidji. After the first night’s game when they had defeated the local team in a close game they expected to hear sneering and other unpleasant re- marks by the crowd but nothing of the sort happened and the visitors were unmolested.. Although the crowds at both games were the largest that have ever attended a game in Bemidji, they were also. more order- 1y and hardly a sound could be heard when either team was allowed a free throw. The people on the side lines did not interfere with either side and the TFontinued on 1ast_page). MANY ATTEND PLAY Blackduck Opera House Crowded Last Night at Production of “The Three Hats” DADE AND MRS. PARKER STARS Special to The Ploneer. Blackduck, March 15—A crowded house saw home talent present “The Three Hats” in the -Blackduck opera house last evening. Jesse Dade, post- master, and Mrs. J. C. Parker carried the leading roles and so well did they read their parts that the audience ‘was kept laughing most of the time. Dade, as Sam Selwyn, engaged in | a fistic encounter one evening and in the fracas exchanged hats with his opponent. His wife discovered the hat and wished to know where he had been the evening before. To add to the confusion, a professor of penmanship appears on the scene and wants a hat also. Selwyn’s daughter read by Mrs. Ellenson, and Fred Bellamy, Selwyn’s friend, read by Albert Bye, are each in love with other persons but Selwyn wishes them to be married. After carrying the plot through three acts with a duel all but drawn off in the last, the trouble is finally straightened out. It appears that Selwyn traded the hats at the home of a common friend, that his fistic encounter was with his prospective son-in-law, played by Jim Sullivan, and that the owner of the third hat is Professor Blithers, played by Dr. Freeburg to whose daughter Fred has been secretly married. Mrs. Selwyn, hower, never did quite understand things. Ivan Cann as the man, Ella Hermanson as the maid, and Mrs. J. M. Reed as “Lottie” had minor parts which were well carried. Following the play, the Library as- sociation, for whose benefit the play was staged, gave a dance and inform- al supper. Several people came up from cemidji to attend the play. WERE MARRIED THIS MORNING John C. Riebe and Clara Johnson both of Nebish, were married by Judge M. A. Clark this morning. FINGERS WERE BADLY TORN Chester Otto had every finger on one hand badly torn in the box fac- tory this morning. He was taken to the hospital where his injuries were attended to and doctors believe they can save the fingers. 1 JUST WHAT IS A CORD State Leader of Weights Decides 110 Cubic Feet is Good After Wood Has Been Cut Twice. BILL NOW IN LEGISLATURE Minneapolis, March 15—An official state test made this week determined the size of a cord of wood as 110 cubic feet. A cord of wood is generally un- derstood to mean 128 cubic feet, but this decision means that a cord of four-foot wood, sawed into three or four pleces, is équivalent to that amount. The law reads that 128 feet shall constitute a cord of wood. This law has been in existence for many years and dealers found that if they sold that amoun as a cord when sawed they would be losing money, for the 128 feet when sawed and piled will measure on the average but 110 or 112 feet. To get around this techni- cally they have been selling sawed wood by the load. By this evasion, they give the consumer the same amount of wood as was contained in the original four-foot pieces.” The idea is prevalent that because 128 feet of sawed wood is not received, the purchaser is being cheated. This is not so and the official test made this morning establishes the legi- timacy of the 110-foot cord. Fifty fuel dealers, representing every district in the city, were pre- sent at the test. A cord of average four-foot maple wood was piled in a rack and measured under the super- vision of G. H. Staples, state inspec- tor o fweights and measures, and E. O. Sather, a deputy inspector. It was then sawed into four pieces, or what it known as three-cut, and measured again. hS The justice of the dealers’ conten- tion that there would be a big loss if the sawed wood had to contain 128 cubic feet was shown by the fact that though chips and-bark, in fact almost everything but the sawdust were add- ed, the pile shrunk to 110 feet. A second test was made of a cord of four-foot rough maple, sawed two- cut or into three pleces, and the spec- tators were astonished when the re- sult showed that the original amount had shrunk to 105 cubic feet. It was expected that the fewer pieces would occupy more space and the fact that it oecupied less was a distinct sur- prise. (Continued on 1ast page). By “HOP” county is divided into three districts REAPPORTIONMENT PASSED BY SENATE House Bill Changed By Addition of Two Senators and Five Represen- tives—Conference Necessary FOUR HOUR FIGHT WAS BITTER Fraught with Sectionalism—Led by Minnesota Members Who Would Not Give Up Offices. CITIES WERE ONCE IN DANGER Amendment Proposing to Leave Their Representation the Same As At Present Lost 38 to 20. By United Press. St. Paul, Minn., March 15—After a four hour debate, fraught with the bitterness of sectional strife, the senate late Friday afternoon passed tHe' reapportionment bill as reported by the committee, Sen. V. L. John- son, Center City, chairman. The final vote was 48 to 10. As passed, the bill provides for four more senators and ten more repre- sentatives than at present. As this is an increase of two senators and five representatives over the bill as previously passed by the house, it will necessitate tlie appointment of a joint conference committee to ar- bitrate the differences. The fight on the bill was led by members from Southern Minnesota, especlally those from the First and Third congressional districts, who tried to prejudice the country mem- bers from Northern Minnesota by tell- ing them the bill would virtually place the control of the state in the hands of the three large cities—St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth. The Northern members, however, refused to be mislead, although tempted by an amendment which pro- posed to allow the northern part .of the state the representation provided in the bill, but which proposed to leave the representation in the three cities the same as at present. This amendment was offered by Sen. F. E. Putman, Faribault, and the fight for it was lead by Senators F. A. Dux- bury and John Moonan. The amend- ment was lost by a vote of 38 to 20. When the opponents of the bill saw that the fight was going against them they made a vain attempt to have the bill re-referred to the re- apportionment committee, on the pretext that the committee ought to amend he bill and leave the repre- sentation in Ramsey, Hennepin and St. Louis counties as it is at present. This was lost by a 18 to 43 vote. Senator Johnson, in talking for his bill, made the point that there had been no reapportionment for sixteen years, and that during this time the southern part of the state had been over-represented. “Even now we cannot compel you to give up this over representation,” declared the chairman of the re- apportionment committee. “We must come and kneel before you in humble supplication and beg for what is justly due us and which does mnot belong to you.” . The attemipt to amend the meas- ure so as to deprive the three large countries from increased representa- tion was a revival of the seven sen- ator fight of two years-ago. Speak- ing on this proposition, Sen. J. D. Sullivan, St. Cloud, said; “Two years ago I supported the seven-senator proposition. If that was the issue at this time I would again support it. But it is not the issue, or should not be. The seven- senator proposition was put to the people at the last general election and it failed to pass. Therefore, in passing a reapportionment bill we must be guided by the constitution as it now is, and not by what the constitution might be or would be had the seven-senator proposition passed.” As pased by the senate, the ad- ditions of two senators and five {representatives have been given to Southern Minnesota. Beltrami and Koochiching counties are coupled with one senator and two representa- tives; Clearwater, Pennington and Red Lake are put together with one senator and one representative; Ro- seau, Kittson an-Marshall have one senator and. three ~representatives; Cass and Itasca have one senator and two representatives; and St. Louis