Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 20, 1913, Page 1

I LY VOLUME 10. NUMBER 275 BELL SYSTEM IS GROWING STEADILY Annual Report of President Vail Shows Increase of $20,000,000 In Gross Earnings. AMERICAN PEOPLE TALK MORE Comparison With European Figures Show That Foreigners Have But Two-Fifths of U. S, Traffic. Than Letters—Total Stations Number 7,456,074 ‘The announcement that the North- | western Telephone company, \Vhl(,hl is one of the companies of the Bell; system, will put a central battery plant in Bemidji is today followed by | the annual report of the Bell com- panies. The report, which comes; from President Vail, is as follows: “The report just issued by the| American Telephone and Telegra 1ph‘ company for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1912, shows that the tele- phone has become in the United! States, to a greater extent than an)-l where else in the world, a houseliold | necessity. There are now 70, \)(lllw towns, cities and hamlets from which | telephone messages may be sent. This is 5,000 more than the number of post offices in the United States; | 10,000 more than the number of rail-| road stations and nearly three times! the number of regular telegraph offices. There are altogether 7,456,-/ 074 telephone stations in the Rell| system. which is an increase over last | year of 823.449 stations. This com-| pares with an increase during the! previous year of 749.906 stations. Including the traffic over the long distance lines, but not including the: connecting companies, the daily av-;| erage of toll connections in 1912 ““"i about 738.000 and of exchange con- nections about 25,572,000 Thl&u compares with 645,000 and 22,484, 000 in 1911, Speaking broadly this | means that the daily average of tele- | phone conversations last year reach- ed 26,310,000, or at the rate of ;\Ibout{‘ $.472,000.000 for the year. as against | 24,129,000 in 1911 when the was 7.770,000,000 a year. Theodore N. Vail, president of the; company, gives some highly interest-| ing statistics comparing the tcle—‘ phone traffic in the United States and Kurope with the operations of the mail and telegraph services. The figures show that while Bur-| ope has three and a half times the telegraph traffic of the United States and nearly twice the first class maili traffic, it has only two-fifths of the telephone traffic, owing to the gxm\l- er efficiency and distribution of the telephone in this country. The Bell system showed a gross revenue-—not including that of tue| connected independent lines—of $199,200,000. This was a gain of $20,000.000 over the previous year. A careful appraisal conducted by the engineers of the physical property of the Bell system as of August 1 last. showed that while the book cost was | $736,000,000, the cost of reproduc-} tion at that date would have Dbeen $797,000,000. In other words, the} company was carrying the property ! on its books at $61.000,000 below its| actual physical value at the time of its appraisal. [n this appraisal thme‘ were included no intangible assets whatever, such as_good will, patents, | franchises, cost of .developing the| business, etc. For the year there was| an increase in assets of $92.300,000, of which $75,600,000 l'e])l‘esenled\ current additions to the plant, in-! cluding the necessary real estate. During the five year period between 1907 and 1912 the assets of the Bell| companies have increased $311,000,- 000 while the capital obligations and payable outstanding. have increased only a little over $199,000,000. The surplus and reserves have Increased from $61,300,000 to $164,200,000 or nearly $103,000,000, even after set- ting aside $8,854,000 for the Benefit Fund recently created for the em- ployes. The American Telephone and Telegraph company itself shows to- tal earnings of $42,717,992.75, and a balance of $6,047,357.64 after pay- ment of interest and the regular dividends of eight per cent per an- num. At the close of the year its; outstanding capital stock was $334,- 805,700, and bonds $105,002,000. For | the capital stock outstanding there rate | | % : . pleaded “not {will lecture on “Good and Bad Roads” ;midji sixteen year: | Ramsaell throughout the entire race. { Ramsdell now offers to bring a young |a hmman wonder ! the onicome of this proposal is as yet | lon this year unless Sherman again i leam’s favor. EATON'S WIFE IS NOW UNDER ARREST By United Press. Hingham, Mass., March 20-—“1 was in constant fear that my husband {would poison me or the girls,” is the statement made by Mrs. Eaton on | belng arrested on the charge of pois- | oning her husband, the late Rear Ad- miral J. G. Eaton. The admiral’s | step daughter, Mrs. Ralph Keyes, said | “I was atraid the admiral would pois- {on me.” A contradictory statement of Joseph Prouty, a neighbor, was, “I} |never saw a man show so plainly his | mortal dread of poison.” Immediately following her ar- | raignment, Mrs. Eaton accompanied | by two officers stepped into a waiting automobile and started on the thirty- | five mile ride to the Plymouth county | jail where she will await trial. She guilty” before Judge ‘\Pritt and was remanded until March |28, GENERAL GARIBALDL Italian Patriot, Friend of Slain Madero, In America Again. @ 1913, by American P [ - Fowss 1o ucuee | STAY AT HOME HERE ON GOOD ROADS ™74 7 New York, March 20.—Breaking’ Charles A. Forbes, assistant engin- ' Association. his rule of silence, Dr. Frederick Friedman today issued a public state- " |ment urging tuberculosis sufferers in eeriol the:slate highway c““"“"""’"; {all parts of the country to stay where ithey are until his government tests 4 p. m. in the'have been concluded as it is impos- The lecture will be!sible for him to give treatment in Friday afternoon at Majestic theater. lillustrated by about 100 slides which | New York. “Do not come to New York at this show good and bad roads in difterent | time. Stay at home and have pati- parts of the United States and’ ence. It will not be long before you Europe. {will have opportunity to receive Mr. Forbes also expects to spend a| treatment.” llittle time explaining the Dunn good o o which pas psd 0 b | CASHMAN BILL A LAW lecture is fres and will last about half an hour. Mr, Forbes says that b b 1 1 int ted 4 By United Press. he hopes all people interested In| g payy March 20.—Governor roads will attend the lecture and! 2 i Eberhart signed the Cashman dis-| ‘:_" yagts 1 ‘f“]”““““d that the 12| e tariff bill today. It now be- ““‘5[ w Ir ’1.: “"'f?"‘g- sineer who | COMeS @ 1aw being effective January X . mh 88 WS lxet e{_‘“‘;:oe'(“apoj 1, 1914. The governor did not com- | lald out the original townsite of Be-y o5y on Ghether ornot he thought it | ago this month. | | constitutional. . BUCKLAND WINS | MANY HORSES HERE. Local livery stables are crowded with horses owred by farmers and Jertel Buckland defeated Ells-|Dorse dealers-all over over Minnesota worth Ramsdell in a twenty lap race |2nd the Dakotas, who have been at the roller rink last night, The WOrKing in the woods this winter. race was not close enough to be ex-| About thirty head were brought to citing as Buckland took the lead at|Bemidil this morning on their way the startand continued to gain on | to Thief River Falls and other points. Nearly every day camps in this vicin- ity break up and the majority of the men flock to Bemidji with their teams as Bemidji affords better ship- ping advantages than the smaller stations. wman from Akeley whom he claims is on the skates but not Frown. Last night's race is probabiy the last one that will be put | |SOCIALIST LECTURE SUNDAY | Paul H. Castle will be the first lec- | ‘(mex on the Socialist lyceum chIl‘fiel MANY WANT BASE BALL TEAM'in Bemidji. He will speak next Sun-/ The “Big Bemidg" basket ball team |42 at § p. m. at the city hall. The | {is undecided as to whether or not to;Subject of his lecture is “The Social- ist Challenge.” Ischedule a basket ball game or to start a good base ball team. It the| M. Castle at one time held several weather continues to be cold a baslket |Important ministerial charges, from ball game will probably be scheduled | Wl e was asked to resign on ac- 1ramy have requested that the Du- | Ount of the Socialistic ideas which Juth team be brought here. There is| Predominated in his teachings. some good material for a base ball| For many years he has been an ar- team in Tiemidji and many believe if} dent speaker for the cause of Social- a team be organized at the beginning | 1SM- of tite scason a stccesstul one, can be nad. ihere is promise of a down towh baseball park this year and everything appears to be in a good challengzes Buckland. GRAND RAPIDS HERE SATURDAY Final arrangements have been made between the Bemidji High and | Grand Rapids High school basket! ball teams for.the game which will be played here next Saturday night. | i iticism. < - 1 A Wesxfi'";uiféif vitic thus | The Grand Rapids team will come speaks of a prima donna: “She had, | lere confident of winning as they de- feated the local team at that place a short time ago. The locals have been preparing for the Grand Rapids | and we suppose still retains, a mag- nificent voice for a fog whistle. Its compass was perfectly surprising. She H Opsahl, chairman of _the special Com- ;mercial club committee, must solve. ling leter from George A. Rhame, of | | Minneapolis. lunder the protection ~ of the United BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1913. THE OLD BARN YARD (Cobyrizht) HAVE ~ OPSAHL'S GOAT Geo A, Rhame Writes Sheep Are Not the Best of Land Clearers, As - He Has Tried Both. GOODMANSON SHOULD KNOW Goats vs. sheep. | This is the problem which J. J.| Interested in seeing.sheép brought| into the country, Mr. Opsahl was led astray for a moment to.inquire about goats and now they appear to have| “got” his, Yesterday he received the follow-| Mr. Rhame is on the stafl of the Minneapolis Journal and in his spare moments raises goats a1} Bethel, Minnesota. ‘l have just returned from the Bethel farm and find that I can spare 150 angora goats and will sell them for 2500, £. o. b. Bethel, delivery May 15, all goats to be sheared of their (leel‘r ; The reason for the late delivery | is to allow this spring’s crop of kids | to-be horn and strong enough to go iLI alone. Of the 150, about half are| does “ind the others bucks with a few | wethers. “The shipment to Bemidji is a com- | paratively short one and we will | suaranice to lay them down in good condition. In your study of the land clearing proposition I am sure that you will find that the angora goat is best and far better than sheep. Do not take my word for it but come to our farm, see a land that has been tleared by them and look over the goats themselves before they are clipped. G. 1. Goodmanson, who lives near Turtle River, has a few goats on his| place and says that they are better land clearers than sheep since they +ill eat a wider variety of brush. i CATHOLIC POPULATION LARGE New York, March 20.—There are 15,000,000 Roman Catholics in the United States proper, according to} the 1913 edition of the official Cath- olic directory, and over 23,000,000 States flag. would shake the chandelier with a wild whoop that made every man in- stinctively teel for his scalp, and fol- Jow it up with a roar that ‘would shame a bassoon.” boys and believe they can defeat them by as large a score as théy were | defeated. If Bemidji wins this game they can claim second place as they| have defeated every team excepl Grand Rapids and Fosston. THE CUB SCOO REPORTER . HOow DO YOU LiKE MY DIAMOND 80557 - BOUGHT \T WITH THE- MONEN T WON N THAT POKER. GAME YOUR FRIEND RUNS - OVER, TN\ Mes PLace! Nearly 18,000 Roman Catholic priests reside in the United States, and over 15,000 churches have been built. North Dakota has nearly 15,- the found that the La Porte creamery land will endeavor to establish a sta-| STYLES IS BUSY MAN| New.Buttermaker for Creamery Went to La Porte Yesterday and Is in | Blackduck Tonight. ESTABLISHING NEW STATIONS! E. C. Styles, the new buttermaker for the Bemidji creamery, is taking advantage of the delay in starting operations by getting out to the small { towns “around Bemidji to establish| cream stations. Yesterday he went to La Porte and Guthrie. At La Porte| intends to start about March 24. He found a few farmers in Guthrie who| will ship direct to the Bemidji créam- | ery. The La Porte buttermaker will be C. R. Adrams, formerly of Foss- ton. Mr. Styles went to Blackduck this| afternoon and will confer with J. M. Reed and Postmaster Dade about a| cream station in Blackdiick. One wiil! probably be establsihed in the Rm’;dfi | store, but Mr. Dade will be requested | to take the matter up with the far- mers. A. G. Wedge, Jr., who was| {elected president of the creamery as- sociation to succeed A. E. Nelson, ex- pects to go to Kelliher in a few days | tion there. The De Laval company will send a man to Bemidji sometime within the | mext month to assist in the develop-| ment work. The man is a graduate | ‘of .an agricultural college and has farmed- in Illinois where there are many creameries. He has been in- structed not to mention the word| “geparators” but is to talk dairying! A BIG DELEGATION T0 GO Bemidji to Be Represented in‘ Cass Lake Tonight by at Least Eighty-Five Men. SPECIAL TRAIN BOTH WAYS ” Bighty-five men have signed up for the Commercial club trip to Cass Lake tonight. This is the first jun- ket of the year for the club and the only one that has been taken by the club as a whole for some time. The Bemidji band will take the trip also and is expected to be the only band on the scene. The special train will leave the Great Northern depot this evening n+ 8 p. m. and will return at about mid- night. The train will probably be composed @f two coaches. As the cost is a flat $100, it makes no difference how many take the trip as the cost will be prograted except to the mem- bers of he band. The directors hope that every member of the club who can do so will take the trip, At noon today, the following men had agreed to take the trip: E. E. Kenfield, M. Kenfield, Dr. R. Gilmore, W. L. Brooks, Harold Dane, E. H. Denu, G. E. Carson, Frank Lycan, James L. George, J. P. Hen- essy, A. A. Lord, Carl Johnson, S.-J. Harvey, F. Brandt, Homer Baer, Geo Kreatz, Wm. McCuaig, J.°M. Rich- ards, R. H. Schumaker, H. Wilcox, H. M. Clark, J. P. Riddell, B. W. La- "kin, T. J. Burke, T. Hughes, A. L. Mo- lander, E. A. Barker, Geo. Winter, Andy Johnson, Fred Rhoda, Earl and show the farmers what is the best feed for dairy cows in the win- r | R L. Given has resigned as secre- | tary of the creamery association andI the work will be done by Mr. Styles| until the creamery has a gond start. | The books will then be taken over| ‘and kept by Oscar Nelson of the! ‘Northern National bank. - i | SLEIGH RIDE TONIGHT. At a meeting of the Sophomore class of the High school yestevrd‘uyl afternoon it was decided to hold the| sleigh ride which they hive been| planning for ‘some time tonight in-| stead of Saturday nlght as was forin- erly planned. The class and a few/ outsiders: that were inyited =will| { 000 Roman Catholics and South Da<‘ ! kota 73,000. {they will spend the evening. drive out to the Steidle farm where; Geil, M. A. Clark, C. Cominsky, W. Robinson, W. N. Bowser, Nat Given, | P. J. Russell, J. C. Black, W. A. Gould, R. C. Hayner, C. E. Battles, A. M. Bagley, T. S. Irvin, T. A. Mec- Cann, W. H. Donovan, H. Reynolds, . Mayer, Prof. W. P. Dyer, C. War- field, G. M. Torrance, K. Mclver, J A. Younggren, Dr. L. A. Ward, Geo. Noll, C. W. Jewett, Dr. D. L. Stan- ton, Geo. Stein, Harry Koors, Geo. | Baker, Del Burgess, Hiram Simons, Jr.,, Walter Marcum, Scott Stewart, A. B. Palmer, A. A. Andrews, C. W. Brandborg. FREE BAND ODNCERT MARCH 27 The Bemidji band will give a free band concert March 27 in the city hall. Following the concert, the band will_give a dance for which there will be an admission charge of fifty cents. Evidently The Boss Isn't As Lucky As Scoop @ &, 715 15 SCooP - MEET 00 OVER. 1M THE ALLEY PAAC OF MIKE! PLACE ?-AND HURRY UP-T GOTCHA- QT T THE : o HA HA BIZNUSS “YouRs Yo Go BACK AND 51T WNOWITH - TEN CENTS PER WEEK. WILSON CONFERS WITH TWO BODIES President, House and Senate in Con- ference Yesterday Over Prelim- -~ inaries of Tariff Revision. FIFTEEN PER CENT ON WOOL Duty Aéreed Upon in Conference But Is Expected to Make Trouble In the Senate. MAY RECOGNIZE REPUBLIC China Has Been Treated As Such But No Official Confirmation Has Ever Been Given. Washington, Mar. zv.—The house, senate and president came together informally Thursday afternoon for the first time on the “preliminaries’ of tariff revision. A short conference was held between Senator Simmons and Wilson, followed by a longer con- ference between the finamce sub- committee and Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee that laid the ground work for a ser- ies of three-cornered conferences to follow before the tariff revision bills ‘were presented to the senate in April. As a result of the discussions, it is said, the two houses have practically agreed upon the details of the tariff revisions before the bills reach the house. A fight over free wool decided in favor of a fifteen per cent duty by the ways and means committee, will re- cur in the semate and a reduction of the sugar tariff will also be a stum- bling block. Considering China. Washington, March 20.—President Wilson is giving. serious attention and consideration to the question of formal recognition of the Chinese re- public. M His statement yesterday on the loan question contained no specific reference to the matter of recogni- ion, although many officials here are of the opinion that China will find in it comfort, and hepe of an early ac- knowledgement of her government. The president apparently had not set- tled definitely- on the question of rec- ognition, and it is believed that sev- eral conferences on the subject and meetings of the cabinet will be neces- sary before the administration’s at- titude is defined: . For months the United States has dealt with the Chinese republic as a defacto government, and formal rec- ognition is largely a matter of senti- ment. China, it is believed, will be in a better position to carry on loan ne- gotiations if she had the official ap- proval of her new government from the great powers and the feeling of friendship for the United States would be increased with commercial advantages resultant therefrom. Will Go to Session. Washington, March 20.—Wilson will confer frequently with members of the house and senate during the extra session according to a White House announcement. . ‘Wilson intends to. make himself accessible to the members of congress on the days when tariff legislation reaches its most important develop- ment. He will go to the capitol, it is said at the White House, in the spirit of friendly co-gperation, however; he believes he can go as a party leader. Wilson believes he can treat the tariff as a party measure. The pres- ident spent a busy day, meeting a number of congressmen on questions of appointments, receiving .visitors, and he took an automobile ride. It is also authoritatively stated that theé nomination of Charles P. Neill as commissioner of statistics will be gent to the senate again when congress convenes April 7. Wilson was formally congratulated on his election by a committee of the American Philosophical society, of which eight members' greeted the president. He also received a com- mittee from the national conservation congress, that told the president it wanted to dispel any impressioa that the organization was affiliated with | the national progressive party, or any other’ political party. Tt said that it approved ‘Wilsons’ principle of “re- M‘thm :nd ot ‘conservation. <