Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 22, 1913, Page 1

- Ane srid THE B ot VOLUME 10. NUMBER 277. SPRING USHERED IN- BY BAD STORMS From Milwaukee South, Country was In Grip of High Winds and Low Temperatures Yesterday. FIFTY-ONE KNOWN DEAD | Late Reports Confirmed Earlier Ones | and Added to List—Many More Were Injured. CHICAGO WAS ISOLATED ALL DAY Telegraph Companies Had All Wires Down But Two Going to St. Louis —Property Damage Large. AR R KK KKK KK KK VISCOUNT HALDANE. —_— England’s Lord High Chancellor to Address American Lawyers. SMALL - BOY DRUNK A thirteen year old boy by the name of Miller was found drunk on the down town streets yesterday. He was unable to tell a coherent story | but Mayor McCuaig invested person- ally and found that the boy had ob- tained liquor from beer bottles thrown out from saloons. | One of the small boys with him said | that they had been gathering bottles during the morning#nd that:the Mil- ler boy drank the dregs from several |of them. It is said that the boys also istole one full bottle of beer. ‘When the lad was picked up by the police, he was unable to walk and had to be taken home in a rig. 500 nfifl)flums Special to The Ploueer. Cass Lake, March 22.—The Soo de- |pot here caught fire this noon and |the waiting room and offices were {gutted. The fire started from an | overheated hot air register. The loss ;on the building is estimated at $700 | land on the contents at $300. The| | insurance is placed by the head office and the amount is not known. i 1 | | TOLL OF THE STORM. * * Poplar Bluffs, Mo., seven kill- ed, 100 injured. Hoxie, Ark., seven killed, | Temporary quarters are being fitted i‘up in the express office. i fifty injured. Walunt Ridge, killed, ten injured. Ark.,, teen killed. injured. injured, Tiffin, 0., one killed, six jured. Lower Peach Tree, Ala., four- Saline, La., five killed, thirty Frankfort, Ind., one killed. La Fayette, Ind., one killed. Columbus, 0. one killed, three Detroit, Mich., one killed. basket ball team will clash with the ; one ~lGrand Rapids quint in the Armory. Both teams are in the best of condi- | tion and one of the fastest lever played by either team is expected ' lation. Many of Bemidji at Grand Rapids a few weeks:of North Dakota. |ning tonight’s game. ‘and Lloyd Tanner, forwards, Claude! in- { Bailey and Delbert Elletson, guards, (Fuzzy) Johnson, center, Klein and| | Tonight the Bemidji High schoot | BIG FLOAT]NG I)()I)ULAT]ONi It is estimated that there are 500 !men in Bemidji today who are out of 8ames | work and constitute a floating popu- to be played. Grand Rapids defeated ‘few days before leaving for the fields ago but the boys are condent of win-|tained by averaging fifteen men to| The Bemidji iea(!h saloon in the city. iSULLIVAN FUNERAL SUNDAY them are here for a The number is. ob- Coldwater, Miss., one killed. Thome, substitutes. {Local Lodge of 0dd Fellows Will Con- (Coyyright.) ONE WEEK 70 LIVE Floyd and Claude Allen Preparing to Meet Death Penalty for the Hillsville Murders. | sl | MANN REFUSES TO INTE_RFER.E\ SAMPLE Recent Rule of Railroads Limiting| Sizes Upheld by the Interstate | Commerce Commission FORTY-FIVE INCHES IS LIMIT TRUNKS ~ HIT|TEAM ior Appreciated Treatment Received Here CONGRATULATED “Big Bemidg” Boys Told That Super- LOCALS CLAIM CHAMPIONSHIP Alamo, Tenn., one twenty injured. Uniontown, Tenn., Spring City, Tenn., New Haven, Mich,, tl Kok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok kok ok ok ok ok ok kN kR ok ok ok ok ok k kow BULLETIN, i Mobile, Ala ation of reports March that fon were killed in Friday's tornado Lower Peachtree, La., here late in the trains with nurses and rushed to the scene. said to have been wips Among the dead are: L. D. Bryant and entire family. James Clark. Two members of the Cooper fam- ily. G. . Williamson and son. Four Dead in Memphis.’ Memphis, Tenn., March 22.—Four are known to be dead, hurt and property damage is estimat- half a million dollars in the cyclone, which passed over Northern Tennessee ed at Mississippi, West Western Kentucky. In ansas, in the St. Fran storm was most werp blown three men crossing th river near Old water two hours, befo: Zenobia, Miss., one killed. Memphis, Tenn., four killed, Total dead, fifty-one. IR R R RS S S RE R REE RS afternoon. The entire town severe. from foundations Madison were in the killed. |STADSVOLD ELECTED CAPTAIN Francis Stadsvold, son of S.S. one killed. one killed. * x *x *x * * * * * x * * * *iline will be as follows: Earle Bailey | x *x * x * * * * * x hree killed. * * * in Northern Minnesota. Confirm- | 1rteen persons 92 the University. alison sprained his ankle. was received Relief | doctors were | NEW HIGH SCHOOL PAPER. The students of Miss classes are to conduct a High school i “paper” for a week or two. The news i will be collected by the members of the class and “printed’” on the black- board during the class hours. Ar- rangements have been made to re- print the besi of the matter in the pioneer. ed out. are strewn with wreckage. ., over twenty Chicago Was Storm Bound. Chicago, March 22.—The first day of spring opened yesterday with a 2041 0w and wind storn which extended Eastern Ark- : A over Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, cis basin, the|yyeoouri, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, MOuSes | yorthern Arkansas and Western tions and|ponnessee. ¢ e St Francis| qoiocraph and telephone wires were prostrated in many directions re they were Stadsvold of Fosston, has been elected | Thursday night, will be held from the to captain the University of Minne-|Ibertson undertaking rooms at 2:30 {sota basket ball team next year. Mr. |Sunday afternoon. The services will |Stadsvold- was on the Fosston High!be conducted by |school team before going to the Uni-:Order of Odd Fellows and burial will versity apd made a name for himsell’}be made in Greenwood cemetery. At the pres-10dd Fellows are requested to meet ent time he is a junior law student in:at the Ibertson morgue at 2:15 Sun- He started playing| day afternoon. with the team but early in the sea-! Knappen's | 88 the weather permits. There is be- Nashville railroad to Blockton, Ala., | duct Services. | | The funeral of Daniel Sullivan, who died at the St. Anthony’s hospital on the Independent; All ;HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM Work of organizing a High schnolf base ball team will commence as soon lieved to be some excellent material among the High school boys and a champion team will probably be turn- ed out. Seven of last year’s men ex- pect to appear as candidates. They are Earl Bailey, Claude Bailey, Lloyd | Tanner, James Sullivan, Earle Riley, { Lester AChenbach and Claude Melver. |Others that will probably be candi- | dates are Adolph Klein, Leslie Slater, “Alex Cameron, Fuzz Johnson and others. | | 3 | FIRST SPRING CROP CUT. | -W. H. Netwon bought a safety razor with which to shave off his winter beard. After cutting a swath |off one side of his face, Mr. Newton | decided he had better let a barber fin- jish the job. He went to the shop and had the rest of the crop cut. .Mr. Newton’s friends are now passing him { jcell of the state penitentiary awaiting rescued, when their gasoline launch | capsized. An engineer on a Frisco passenger train refused to start his train over the bridge over the Mis-| sisarppi river at Memphis. layed. Children In Danger. Pittsburgh, March 22.—Twenty school children aund the {eacher were penned in a Greensburg s(:hooli puilding which -was partly den:olssh- «~d when the storm struck Penusy vania. When the debris was clearad | away. it was found three of thel children were unconscions from fright. Three persons were injured| here. A building at the ‘Vesting- house electrical plant was blown down and several residences demol- ished by the wind. which reached ai velocity of seventy miles an hour. | S( :OO One Killed in Columbus. | Columbus. 0., March 22.—One! workman was killed and three oth-! ers seriously injured when a wall at| the Burrell sweat pad factory which ! is being rebuilt, was blown in by the high winds which swept this section today. wet snow and 1 idashes of rain driven by a forty-mile! wind from the west, struck the city | and environs before daylight within four hours telegraph lines in all directions. | transportation lines were crippled. had prostrated and railroad traffic was greatly de- -In Northern Arkansas a windstorm | ance. caused much damage. In Hoxsie, Ark. | several buildings were unroofed. Only two telegraph wires connect-i ied Chicago with the outside i for several hours. The only practical ; relief from this situation was by wa of an underground telephone cable to}| Milwaukee. : Sleet, occasional | TITen on Tawt e {by on the street as theabsence of| | whiskers has so changed his appear- BUMPED HIS HEAD. worla| Brick Simons, a lumberjack, while| idrunk last night, slipped on the side- walk near the old Rex hotel and fell. The back of his head was badly cut jand he was laid out for some time. | Police officers took him to the station { where he was ketp all night. and| MANY MARBLES IN EVIDENCE | Small boys playing marbles were a | Al fmailiar sight on the streets this ‘morning. The sunny weather brought j{had one_or two groups busy. | THE CUB REPORTER 3C00P-GAMBLING AROUND, 5 ORFKE. HAS GOT Yo STOP - T Ben‘r BaLiavE IN T AND WON'T STAND FOR. 1T~ NEXT TiMe. T CATLH You SHOOTING- CRAPS-YOU GET JHE. &, 8. 5-SH-JANWR- THE. Bo3s JusT CALLED ME. ON RoLLmG THE Borves- LETS SHooT up unper Y THE ROOE WHERE. HE. INT HE4R LS ! Richmond, Va., March 22.—Floyd Allen, the leader of the outlaw band| in Carrol county, and his son, Claude Swanson Allen, who are in-th#-gbath | their doom, have only one more week | to live. Governor Mann having re- fused to interfere in the case and all| legal resources having previously been exhausted in behalf of the pris-| oners, they will go to the electric! chair one week from today unless something entirely unexpected and| unforeseen should occur. The execu- | tion of these two men, who had been the principal actors in the “shooting up” of the Carroll County Court, at| Hillsville, on March 14, 1912, will| be the closing chapter of one of the most sensational murder tragedies ever enacted in this country. The tragedy at the Hillsville court | house was the culmination of years of lawlessness on the part of the “fight- ing Allens,” as the wealthy and num- erous family of the Allens were called | in thab mountain district. Some time | in February, 1912, two nephews of Floyd Allen were arrested for some minor offense by a deputy sheriff. While they were being taken to the jail, Floyd Allen and several other members of the Allen family attacked | the deputy, knocked him senseless with the butt of a revolver and res- cued his prisoners. Floyd Allen was arrested and indicted and his trial be- gan in the early part of March. - Floyd Allen, who seemed to be the leader of the clan, had openly boasted that he would never go to prison and the Allens had made frequent threats against the court and everybody con- nected with it. Floyd Allen was tried on March 13, but the jury did not bring in its verdict until the follow-| ing day. The prisoner being a man of prominence, his trial attracted a great deal of attention and on the! morning of March 14 the courtroom was crowded with spectators, among whom were half a dozen or more of the members of the Allen family. ADDITIONAL LOCAL. | | baggage, has been upheld by the In- { must be accepted as baggage. | | that section. Traveling salesmen in the habit of “Big Bemidg” basket ball team Art carrying “young houses” about on their trips, efther must train down | their waggage to more moderate size, 5 or pay extra excess. The recent rule | of the railroads regulating the size of | sample trunks that may be checked as! terstate Commerce Commission. | Millinery and clothing salesmen will be among those hardest hit by| the decision. The roads asserted four or five of their trunks practically choke up an ordinary baggage car, ! and ordered that any piece of baggage measuring over forty-five inches must | be charged extra, while a complete| ban was put on baggage exceeding | seventy-two inches in any dimension. | The order was passed about two| years ago, and shippers were given what was considered ample extension of time in which to allow their trunks| equipment to wear out and provide new. When at last it was enforced, | the matter at once went before the commission on the objections of man-| ufacturers and jobbers. | Theatrical paraphernalia comes un- | der another provision, and is not af- fected by the order. The commission | also ruled that whips in flexible cases not exceeding ninety inches in length twelve inches'in diameter at base, or| more than 100 pounds in weight| to say aboutsthe treatment the team received while in Bemidji a short timg ago. . % - “All the team appreciates the fine |treatment that we received while in Bemidji, and I wish to state that on all trips that we have taken since we began playing basket ball, we.have never met such a sociable bunch of people as we met in your town. “Our last game will be next Friday with the Shamrocks, and if we win | we are going to claim the champion- ship of the head of the lakes. I wish you the best of luck in the rest of your games and also hope that next season we can make arrangements for another trip to your town.” He enclosed a clipping from .the Superior Telegram which told about the two games played here and in speaking of the Bemidji‘team and the rooters it said: “We had a fine time,” Manager Art Olson said upon the teams arrival in Superior. “Two of the fastest games ever played .in Bemidji were staged. Thursday evening’s contest was a real battle and was not decided until an extra five minutes had betn played. | We didn’t play as well last night. The “Big Bemidg” has some organi- zation, all huskies and crack basket ball players recruited from all over STAGE PLAVS FRIDAY| The High school senior plays will |of the results of all their gdmes this be staged in the Armory next Friday| evening. students and an admission charge of fifteen cents will be made. The play promises to be one of the| best ever staged in Bemidjl and as the | there has admitted its defeat and has Armory is large, the management ‘ex-| been thoroughly satisfied with the pects about 500 people present. ne| proceeds from this play will be used the seniors. Deputy Sheriff James Cahill where he took a prisoner. | The class will probably | classes. Scoop Has A Bad Influence On-The Boss i I “They have the spirit up there. Over 500 people attended and nearly all of them were rooters.” ~ The “Big Bemidg” boys are proud year as they have not only won the A matinee will be given |championship of Northern Minnesota on Thursday afternoon for the grade |but they have also won the confidence The games played have of the people. been the cleanest ever played in Be- midji. Every team that has played treatment it has received. They have praised Bemidji and the Ito defray the graduation”expenses of |team in their home towns and their local papers have printed long arti- re-| present the assembly room with a pic- | cles about the clean games played and One young woman was blown un-:them out in force and every bare spot turned this morning from Stillwater | ture as has been the custom of formerithe excellent treatment received at (Continued on last page). By “HOP” KRR~ \ Iron Furnace Wrecked. Birmingham, Ala, March 22.--| Several buildings were razed and a' Bessemer, Ala., iron furnace wrecked ! by a storm which swept this section at three o’clock today. Several per- sons were slightly injured but noae| killed. Tracks of the Louisville & (Essen) T, Z \PPs! — ] - ] d WY s scoor\| LTI | oL 4 ~ T WOULDNT a SYAND FOR O\ T T Anp * wont! /|2 In a letter to the manager of the Olson, the manager of the Superior Y. M. }. A. team, had the following _|Lumber company has not set a date SPECIAL EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES Bemidji Churches To Celebrate Anni- versary of Christ’s Resurrection By sppropriate Fxerciscs KNIGHT TEMPLAR TO CONVENE Will Meet with Episcopalians at 4 p. m., Archdeacon Parshall TO HAVE A SUNRISE PRAYER Presbyterians to Gather at 6:30 a. m. —Signs of Spring but Snow and Ice Remain EASTER SERVICE PROGRAMS First Methodist Church Motning service as follows: Voluntary, Mendelsohn’s “Spring Song.” Doxology Hymn 162, “The Risen Lord,” Charles Wesley. The Apostles Creed. Prayer. Anthem “Praise to our Risen Lord” Marie M. Hine. Scripture Lesson, I. 15:20-58. Gloria. Anthem “The Light of Easter Mor- ning”, John D. Creswell. Offertory. Self-denial offering. Sermon “The Resurection is the Complement of the Christian Life?". Anthem “Gethsemenae”, Ira B, Wil- son. Corinthians Services at the Presbyterian Church: Baster services.will-begin at $:30 with sunrise prayer meeting in the church. Sunday school at 10 o’clock. Morning worship at 11, subject, “The Resurrection. The Keystone in the Arch of Chrisianity”. Special music in the morning. Anthems by the choir “Great is the Lord.” “Christ Hath Won the Victory”. Solo “Breaks the Morning” by Miss Lizzie Erick- son. Junior Endeavor at 4 o'clok. Young People’s meeting at 7. Even- ing services at 8. Subject, “The Incon- tesible Evidence of the Resurrection.” Special music by the choir, “Blessed are the People.” Duet “Wake Sweet- est Strains”, by Misses Armstrong and Erickson. Tk~ Episcopal Churci Sunday school at 9:30 and evening service at. 7:30. There will be a ser- vice for the Knights Templar at 4 p. m. Swedish Lutheran Church Special Sunday school program at the evening service. First Baptist Church Special Easter music at both ser- vices First Scandinavian Lutheran Laster services at 10:30 a. m. Easter Sunday will be celebrated in the Bemidji churches With appro- priate services in the morning, af- ternoon and evening. The one speci- al service in the afternoon will be in the Episcopal church where the Knights Templar will convene. Se- veral of the churches will have spe- cial exercises by the children of the Sunday school. Although Minneapolis has no snow and will probably have a green Eas- ter there are about two feet on the level here as the storms this past week have added to the depth ma- terially. If the weather Sunday is like it has been today, Bemidji will probably see some millinery display as the shops have been reporting steady business since the spring open- ings and the women have been saving the new hats until Easter. Spring is in the air although actual cohditions seem hardly to warrant the assumption. The Crookston Lum- ber company has been cutting a chan- nel through the ice from the logs to the mill and reports that the ice is two feet thick. As there is a heavy fall of snow on top of the ice, lake the ice is all out of the lake. Tt went out April 24 last year: The Crookston Lumber company has been intending to start sawing April 1 but stated yesterday that un- less the weather moderated the mill would be unable to start at that time. At present the snow is so deep in the yards that the men are unable to get |their trucks through. = The Bemidji for the start of its sawing operation “MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOUIETY, men believe it will be May 1 before |