Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 1

S— e A ‘HE BEMIDJI D LY PION VOLUME 10. NUMBER 274. PETITION IS READY T0 BE PRESENTED Judge Stanton to Be Asked to Appoint New Board to Draw Up a City Charter at Once, WANT THE COMMISSION PLAN Signers Ask That a Referendum Be Submitted to Voters Within the Statutory Limit. THE BUSINESS MEN WANT IT Are Unanimous in Qpinion That Time For a Change is Here—Prompt Action Expected. The petition was presented this | afternoon. i | With the most representative| names attached that have ever been | on a petition in Bemidji, one asking| him to appoint a charter commission which will submit a commission form | of government charter to the people ! of Bemidji will be presented to Judge Stanton this afternoon or tomorrow.| The petition is the result of a quiet | campaign for this form of govern- ment which has been going on in Be- midji for some time. When the first! charter commission | about two years ago, it was hoped that it would return a commission | plan, but nothing was done in the six months required by law and the commission automatically passed | trom existence. | Many Bemidji people have been in-| terested in the commission plan for| some time and have been quietly studying the charters of cities in which the scheme is in operation. The general plan is the same everywhere, | the charters being changed to meet local conditions. Once Judge Stanton appoints his commission, it is expect-| ed that action will be fast. The movement for the commission plan appears to be spreading. Man-| kato was the first Minnesota city to| try it but Mankato had to compromise with the old order of things and its charter is not considered a model. St. Cloud has the commission plan work- ing. Duluth will vote for its first commissioners April 1, Brainerd will! vote on the plan soon, and Fargo will vote on the plan April 7. Fifteen men must be named by Judge Stanton on the charter com- mission. They must submit a char- ter to the people within six months unless granted additional time by the court. The petition which was submitted to Judge Stanton was drawn up by F .S. Arnold and circu- lated by Mr. Arnold, K. K. Roe and Harold Dane. The text and signers are as follows: k “Whereas each and all of the mem- | bers of the board of freeholders ap- pointed May 31, 1911, as a charter commission for the city of Bemidji, have neglected to file within thirty days their acceptance of such ap- pointment, contrary to the provisions of section 749 of the Revised Laws of 1905; and “Whereas said members have neg- lected to file within thirty days their oaths of office, contrary to the pro- visions of said section, etc.; aud “Whereas said board has neglected to return within six months or any other time to the chief magistrate of said city a draft of a proposed char- ter or charter amendment, contrary to the provisions of sections 36 arti- cle 4 of the state of Minnesota as amended; and “Whereas, by reason of the prem- ises, fifteen vacancies now said board of freeholders and said charter commission is flunctus officio; and “Whereas we deem it expedient and for the best interests of said munici- pality that a charter commission or] board of freeholders should be ap- pointed to consider and draft for the city a charter embodying, among oth- er things, what is commonly known as the commission form of govern- ment, and to submit such charter, through statutory channels, to a| -referendum of the voters at the polls; “Now, therefore, we the undersign- ed qualified electors of said city, con- stituting ten percentumr or more of! the number of voters as shown by thé returns of the last election held therein, respectively petition and re- quest that such eharter commission be appointed, for the purpose afore- said, pursuant to the comstitution of Minnesota and the laws of the state 1in such cases made and provided.” U page) jrest room this last week: exist on|- ARTHUR T. HADLEY, President of Yale, Who Ia Recuperating In California. ! @ by Amerlean Press Assoclation, REST ROOM IS POPULAR | Farmers and Their Wives Taking Ad- vantage of Conveniences Offered during the next few days. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1913, CONTRACTS LET FOR TEN MILES OF ROAD Littlefork, Minn., March 19.— Work on the extension of the Deer River branch of the Minnesota, Da- kota & Western railway will begin Olson & Tully, the Aitkin railroad contractors, arrived in the village yesterday and announce that they have been awarded the contract to build ten miles of the road. With the completion of their contract there will remain but five miles of roadbed to build in order to-effect a connec- tion with the Minneapolis & Rainy River railway, better known as the Deer River logging road, and it has been rumored for some time that this connection will be made during the coming summer. The awarding of the Olson & Tully contract lends col- or to the report, in the opinion of local people ,and it is believed likely that the remaining link will be built as soon as the ten-mile contract is completed. The future of the M. D. & W. is the subject of considerable speculation in this section and it has been repeated- | ly asserted that the Backus interests, | who are promoting the line, are By Mrs. Thompson. | | | | i MORE USE IT EACH WEEK That the city rest room is popular| is shown by the fact that more iar-| mers and their wives are using thej rest room each week. The room is| was appointed | maintained by Mrs. Thompson, wio is paid by the Womans’ Study club trom a fund contributed by the city and business men. Many of the women plan to en:| their lunch in the rest room and a joined there by their husbands aft the teams have been watered and fzd | It is also becoming a meeting place| for the ladies of different neigliboi- hoods. Then can agree over th:| phone to meet at a certain time auw.ijed the house by a unanimous vote. lare doing so. i The following people have used th~ Mr. aad Mrs. Frank Patterson of Wilton; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Riley of Funkley; M. H. Slosson, of Bemidji; A. Schwartz, of Grant Valley; Annie Warner, of Aure; Arvilla Patterson of Wilton; . T. Pendergast, of Grant Valley; {Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Warner, of Pu- posky; Mrs. J. H. French, Bemidji;| Mrs. C J Winter, of Bemidji; Miss Ruby Case, of Bemidji; Mrs. N. J. Case, of Bemidji; Mr. and Mrs. Wa- caster, of Valley Farm; Mr. and Mrs. Hogan, of Breezy Point; Marjorie Steidel, of Northome; Mr. and Mrs. Nick Hirt, of Maltby; Mrs. H. O. Bjoring, of Eckles; Wm. Peterson, of ! Eckles; Olga Almondinger, of Ne-| bish; Mary Almondinger, of Nebish; | Mrs. K. Brun, of Red Lake agency; Mrs. Halliday, of Bemidji; Mr. and ! Mrs. Cousins, of Northome; Lucille; Steidel, of Northome; Wyman Ball,| of Grant -Valley; K. M. Brotton, of | Northern; G. Candland, of Frohn; Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Sandland, of Frohn; Annie Sandlan, of Frohg; | Mrs. Hanson, of Frohn; Mrs. M.! Stonedahl, of Leonard; Dr. McNabb, | of Duluth; Mrs. H. E. Tytus, of Be-| midji; Mrs. Cunningham, of Bemidji; | M. Pendergast, of Grant Valley; Mrs. i Augusta Paezoltt, of Scribner; Mrs. John Rochler, of Minneapolis; Mrs. | F. Boyle, Alexander, N. D.; Mrs.!| May Peterson, of Wilton; Miss Lily |Valley of Lavina; J. M. Frederick- !son, of Solway; Jacob Sorenson, of | | Solway; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Worth, of | Elmwood Farm; Mrs. Jas. M. Sever- ens, of Bemidji; H. E. Phillippi, of | Bemidji; Mrs. C. B. Everett, of Bast Bemidji; Evangaline Traversy, of | Kelliher; Prof. U. Curtiss, Lake City, |Minn; and Mrs. G. Slosson, of Be- midii. i “DOC” RUTLEDGE IN TOWN. Doc” Rutledge came to Bemidji {this morning from Minneapolis and |expects to return tomorrow night. !border to the twin cities. planning an electric line from the It is said that considerable progress in that direction has already been made. When the econnection with the M. D. & W. and the M. & R. R. is complet- ed about 100 miles of roadbed will be | provided on the north end of the line. DISTANCE TARIFF BILL PASSED THE HOUSE| By United Press. St. Paul, March 19.—The Cash-! man distance tariff bill passed the| house yesterday afternoon by a vote| of 71 to 42. The bill now goes to the; governor for his signature. The ini-| tiative and referendum bill also pass- THE KING IS DEAD | Saloniki, March 19.—King George | of Greece, was assassinated while| walking in the streets of Salonil{i; yesterday afternoon. t The assassin, a Greek of low men- ! tal type, giving the name of Alecke Shinas, shot the king through the heart.” The king was accompanied only by his aide de camp. The assa- sin came suddenly upon the king ani| fired one shot. | Shinas was seized immediately| and overpowered. The wounded | king was lifted into a carriage, ani| GUESs 5N (Copyright.) PUTHER , NOW THAT THE MOONS OnN THE [INCREASE WED BETTER WILL GO TO JAG' FARM Tommy Wilson First Bemidji Man to Take Advantage of State’s Cure For Inebriates. IN COURT MANY TIMES Tommy Wilson, who has been in; police court many times in the past | year for drunk and disorderly con- duct, has consented to go fo the state farm for inebriates at Willmar as soon as his present ten day sentence! is completed. He is the first man to go to the Willmar institution from Bemidji, Wilson was arrested Monday night While drunk and yesterday was found | guilty of disorderly conduct and re-i sisting an officer. He was given teni days in the county jail without the| option of a fine. The police talked to | him about the farm at Willmar and | he has consented-to go as soon as his jail term is up. - i The police picked up Ed Smith, who says that he hails from Boston, vesterday in the West hotel. He was seen giving whisky to an Indian and the arrest was made by Officers Burs- | ley and Johnson. The Indian gave| taken to the hospital, where he died | within half an hour. | Crown Prince Constantine, is expected to come at once. sassin refused to explain his motive!| for the crime, but announced he w'-.s{ against governments. Precautions were taken through- out the city and perfect order was maintained. BAUDETTE ‘BILL pASSED | Falls Tuesday afternoon where he By United Press. St. Paul, March 19.—The O’Neill bill providing for the holding of terms of court at Baudette passed the house yesterday and now goes to the sendte: WEBSTER SELLING RADISHES Is Raising Hot House Stuffs and Re- tailing in Bemidji Homes. A. E. Webster the green house vegetables and will have ready for market next Saturday Sunday a fine line of home grown radishes, lettuce and green onions. REPORTER -TVE GOT & REPORTER | GAMBLING —~0u FRAME UP A LITTLE GaME. anD | TAKE. 50 MUcH MoNEY AwaY FROM Himy HE'LL u:vm [Ecoo T dusT Gov winb oF & wv s GaME. GVER. MIKES PLACE THAT LOOKS PRETTY SOFT — WHY DONT “ou DRAW A WEEKS PAY IN ADVANCE - Go OVER THERE. AND CLEAM UP who | examination and was bound over to succeeded George, was at Janina, and | the grand jury in default of $300 The as- | bail. for Easter | his name as Moses George and claim- | ed Canada as his home. Smith waived | CALLED ON DITCH CASE A. A, Andrews Goes to Thief River| Falls to Solve Problem. A. A. Andrews left for Thief River was called as attorney in a large ditch project which may be con- structed .in Pennington county. Mr. |Andrews has made a specialty ' of |ditch construction petitions and his advice is being sought threughout| | this section of the state. | RACE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP At 9:15 tonight Bertel Buckland | will race Ellsworth Ramsdell of Ake- ley. ionship of the city and defeated the champion of North Dakota but ltitles away from him so has chal- {have been made by both the young men’s supporters and many expect to isee the closest race put on in Bemidji| |meets with the approval of the stu- jdents as a spring vacation is out of Ramsdell still thinks he can take allhn conspicuous places. H KK KKK KKK KKK KK KK KK * AROUND THE HIGH*SCHOOL * KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK There will be no Easter vacation next week for the students in the Be-| midji schools but the following week | they .will be allowed their spring va-| cation. This delay in the vacation place at present. Another entertainment will be staged by the public speaking class shontly after the Easter vacation. “A Bachelor’s Banquet”, one of the short Senior class plays that will | be presented here on March 28, will| undoubtedly be one of the most comi- | cal plays ever staged by home talent in Bemidji. The first scene shows a | bachelor’s room in disorder and Fos-| ter and Stillman, the bachelors, pre- paring to give a banquet. The prep-| arations which they make and thej interruptions will cause a great deal! of fun. The cast of .characters for this play will be as follows: Dick| Foster, Harold Hayner; Major Pome- | roy, Sherrell Case; Nat Stillman,| Alex Cameron;. Mrs, Mortimer, Lot- tie Mattson; Della Mortimer, Anna| Hedman; Constance Oldfield, Ange- lina Munt. Another comedy entitled “The Elopement of Ellen” will also be pre- sented the same evening. The best talent in_the High school has been selected to take part in these plays| and a great number of Bemidji peo- | ple have already shown an interest. The Sophomore class is preparing| to give a sleigh ride next Saturday | night but this will probably be post-| poned or given at an earlier date as| | the High school basket ball team will | play Grand Rapids on that date. The class expects to drive out to the‘ Steidle farm where it will spend the evening. A class meeting was held | yesterday and a class vote was taken | to decide as to whether or not any | outsiders should be invited. Those]| in favor of outsiders won out and the class will probably invite about| teight who are not members of the: class. | Many of the High s¢hool students} are boosting the basket ball team by | selling tickets for the game next Sat-1 urday. The expenses for the team| will be heavy and as there is no money in the athletic treasury, a large crowd will be necessary to clear Buckland has won the champ-|expenses. | The Seniors have received = their | class pins and are now wearing them | The ‘Pins are | about the neatest that have ever been | and the present class appears to be| as proud of them as any former class. The pins were ordered from E. A. Barker. = | this year. (113 GOVERNOR ~ WILL SIGN Report From St. Paul Says Reappor- tionment Bill Will Be Made Law Without Delay. QPPOSITION FINALLY KILLED St. Paul, Minn., March 19.-—After a generation of injustice and vexa- tious delay, and after ten years of the hardest kind of fighting against obstacles of many kinds, reapportion- ment is at last a fact—or it will be as soon as the governor signs the ‘Warner-Johnson reapportionment bill, which the house Tuesday morn- ing repassed, concurring in the sen- ate amendments, by a vote of 94 to 116. The rhessage from the senate re- turning the bill with amendments had been lying at the desk since Monday, waiting for'a compromise upon the _ Anoka-Sherburne-Mille Lacs-Isanti-Kanabec county districts, which was reached Tuesday morning when Senator Swanson agreed to ac- cept the proposal that had been made to add Sherburne to Isanti and Ano- ka. This is to be done in a supple- mentary bill to be introduced later. As soon as this news came to the house, Representative C. H. Warner, chairman of the house reapportion- ment committee, called up the bill and moved a call of the house. Then he moved that the house concur in the senate amendments. The last aspiring flicker of the op- position blazed up feebly when Rep- resentative Thomas Frankson moved as a substitute that the bill be laid over a day. Representative Cleon T. Knapp of Chisholm and others opposed the no- tion, Representative Knapp saying that everybody understood the situa- tion and that there was no need of deloy. Frankson’s motion was de- feated, 23 for and 77 against. Then Mr. Warner’s motion to con- cur was adopted almost unanimously by a viva voce vote. The bill was then put upon its repassage and it carried with only sixteen negatives. As soon as it can be engrossed it- will go to the governor for his sig- nature. He will sign it, and that will end the issue of reapportionment, in- volving as it has a mischievous sec- tional bitterness and a useless con- iman is specializing in hot house |lenged him for a race. Many bets!selected by a Senior class in Bemidji|flict between city and country, for a long time to come. After the bill was repassed Rep- resentative C. H. Warner moved to (Continued on_last pagel. : Scoop Makes A Lucky Strike IM SICK- L cAN JUsT SEE SC00P SITTING THER By “"HOP” TEN CENTS PER WEEK, BEMIDJI BOOSTERS -GO TO CASS LAKE Accompanied By Band of Twenty, About Fifty Will Board Special Train Thursday Night. COMMERCIAL CLUBS TO MEET Men From Towns of Upper Mississippi {tomorrow night. To Discuss Improvements For the River. NELSON “0. K" THE 1913 BILL Says it is Freer From Objections Than Any Passed Before—$116,- 000 For This Part of State “On to Cass Lake.” This is the slogan which has been adopted by the Commercial club boosting committee which has charge of the trip. At noon today, fifty-one men had agreed to go to Cass Lake The special train will cost $100 and this will be divid- ed among the men who take the trip. The train will leave Bemidji at 8 p. m. and return- about midnight. At the rehearsal of the Bemidji band last night, the men voted to go to Cass Lake with the Commercial club so that the entire delegation from Bemidji will number about sev: enty-five men. As the special train has been obtained at a flat rate, the club decided that the band should be invited as the extra men made no in- crease in the cost of the train. The Cass Lake Commercial club is entertaining the commercial clubs of towns on the upper Mississippi in order that some concentrated effort can be made to secure the best expen- diture of the money appropriated by congress for the improvement of this part of the river. Congress has ap- propriated $116,000 to be expended between the Winnibigoshish and Pokegama reservoirs, and the Leech river from its mouth to the Leech Lake dam. While Bemidji is not directly in- terested in this part of the Missis- sippi, the Commercial club has been invited. As this is the first time since the normal school fight of six years ago that the two clubs have come together in number, -the Be- midji.club plans to go in force in order to show that the hatchet has been buried. Nelson Helped Minnesota. Senator Knute Nelson, late chair- man of the committee on commerce, says that the river and harbor bill passed March 4 is freer frow chjec- tions than any passed before. It is under this bill that the upper Missis- sippi was given $116,000. “Up to three years- ago,” said Eenator Nelson in a review of the river and harbor bill of 1913, “we had spasmodic bills for river and har- bor improvement. = Very frequently two years would go by and often three years elapsed before river and harbor bills were passed. “Those bills, under that system, were subject to criticism in that they piled up appropriations for a few large projects to the exclusion of a lot of small but deserving projects that had a great deal of commerce. Then there was another objection to those intermittent bills in those days—if it was desirable to initiate new improvements, the first step would be to order a preliminary ex- amination and survey, with the re- sult that such a long delay ensued, between bills, that it took from three to four years to get a real start on a meriorious project. “Three years ago, under the house chairmanship of Mr. Alexander of New York, congress inaugurated the plan of having moderate annual bills for river. and harbor work and of recognizing not only the larger pro- jects but also the smaller meritorious ones, those.in which a small expen- diture of money would lead to immed- iate and direct results. And where it was the purpose to inaugurate new projects a survey could be ordered one year, and if the report was fav- orable, appropriations could be made and work started the next year. “A number of the appropriations in the river and harbor bill which be- came a law, in the closing hours of congress, are for the improvement of so-called creeks, which, on their face, might indicate that it was money wasted to make the improvement au- thorized, but, as a matter of fact, these creeks are tidal streams - and carry, in many cases, a vast com- ‘| merce needing only e little dred