Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 24, 1913, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI D ILY e VOLUME 10. NUMBER 278, ARM TORN MAN CRUSHED BY GASOLINE ENGINE Otto Kisner, Foreman at the W. G. Schroeder Farm, Victim of Pain- ful Accident Saturday. HERE FROM NORTH DAKOTA Arrived About Two Weeks Ago to Take Charge of Place—Injury Considered Serious. Otto Kisner, of W. G. Schroeder's Alfalfa Dairy farm, was badly mangled and injured Saturday afternoon when an iron bar which he foreman was holding was caught in the fly wheel of a gasoline engine. The bar| hit his right arm between the elbow and the shoulder tearing a great mass | of flesh and breaking the bone. Kisner had started the engine and was trying to connect the iron rod two! with an elbow but an inch or from the fly wheel. The bar in some manner is said to have slipped and| caught in the wheel. from his hands and flailed him ou the It was mrni arm. Kisner was rushed to the Sam- aritan hospital where it is learned that it will be months before he has the use of the arm. to North Dakota about .two weeks ago. Kisner came Bemidji from PREDICTS GREAT SUCCESS | Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, Says In- augural Weather Insures Good Administration from Wilson, Special to The Pioneer. 24 ration will be a Washington, Presi- dent Wilson's admin h great success. His inaugural weather forecasted that, and in twenty years, it has never failed.” So said Mayor Fitzgerald of Bos- ton, today, as he waited to pay his respects to Postmaster General Bur- leson. Senator Burton of Ohio, who stood near, nodded his head. “It makes me superstitious,” he said. continued Fitzgerald, “Harrison in 1889 “You see,” had a perfectly vile inauguration day—his adminis- tration was unsuccesstul. Cleveland had a rainy day in 1893 and went out defeated worse than any man until Taft. day was splendid. McKinley's first inauguration He gave the coun- try a successtul administration. His second inauguration was accompanied by 2 sudden rain that no one could explain. Later he was shot down by an assassin. “Roosevelt's inauguration day was perfect, and he was President Taft was a magnificent wept | executive. into office by one of the worst bliz- zards in the history of Washington and swept out by a storm of votes.” BEMIDII VICTORS AFTER FAST GAME The Bemidji High school basket ball team defeated Grand Rapids Sat- urday night in the fastest High school game played here this season. With about seven minutes to go be- fore the end of the second half, the Bemidji boys took a brace and play- ing like demons, held Grand Rapids. At the same time the ran up their :gcore until when the final whistle blew it was a tie at 17 to 17. An agreement was made whereby the first team to make two points was to be announced the winner. After eight minutes of play, Bemidji made the points by scoring-on two free 1 | throws, ending the game with €% the final score of 19 to 17. By defeating Grand Rapids, the Bemidji boys feel entitled to sec- ond honors in the High school class of Northern Minnesota, yielding first . ALBERT S. BURLESON. P I ———- Former Texas Representative Postm Now er General. ™ i ® by American Press Assoctitton POSTMASTER MAY COME| Washington, March 24.—Postmas-| ter General Burleson probably will| visit St. Paul in June to attend the convention of the Tri-State Postmas- | ters’ association made up of postmas- ters in Minnesota, North and South| Dakota. ! The invitation to make the trip isi to be extended to Mr. Burleson by| Representative Stevens, who will call at the postoffice department for the| purpose early this week. An order has just been issued by the postmaster general granting a six-day leave of absence to postmas- ters who desire to attend the conven- tion which will be held June 11 and‘ 12. JOUN KOORS HURT Ten-Year-0ld Boy Injured When Box On Elevator Pushed Him Off and Then Fell on Top. John Koors, the ten-year-old son of | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Koors, was| severely injured Friday night in the plant of the Fitzsimmons-Baldwin company when he was pushied off the elevator by a packing box which the next instant fell on his head. The boy’s face was badly crushed but this afternoon he was reported as resting easily. Mr. and Mrs. Koors and John haw been on the second floor and were taking the elevator down. When it was between the two floors, some- thing moved a large box so that it shoved John off and he fell to the floor below, falling on his face. The| box followed, striking him on the head, and crushing his face into the floor. He is being cared for at home and is expected to fully recover. | WOMAN LEAVES THE CITY| On the advice of Mayor McCuaig| and Chief of Police Lane, Mrs. George Edwards, 407 Park avenue, left Be- midji Friday morning. The mayor| suspected Mrs. Edwards of running a | disorderly houes and advised her to] leave town without police court ac- tion. She did. DOG SHOW IN APRIL St. Paul, March 24.—The first an- nual bench show of the St. Paul Dog club will be held in the Auditorium here April 3, 4, and 5. Cash prizes silver cups and ribbons are offered as inducements for the exhibition of pedigreed dogs. All entries close {strip five miles long through BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1913, CYCLONE OMAHA DEAD MAY TOTAL OVER 200 Tornado Easter Sunday Swept" Over Best Residence Section and Caused Big Property Loss, ONE SUBURB WAS WIPED OUT Village of Ralston Swept From Earth By High Wind—Fires Added to the Night’s Horror. Ed: note—The following dis- patches were the first of any kind to be received in Bemidji today as the storm here last night put the Western Union wires out of commission. It took these dispatches five hours to get here from St. Paul. By United Press. f Omaha, Neb., March 24, —Sixty-five persons are positively known to be dead, millions of dollars of damage{ done to property, more absolutely de- stroyed, 600 persons injured serious- 1y, and at least 2,000 are homeless as | the result of the worst tornado that| ever struck Nebraska. It swept aj the | fashionable northern part of this city Easter Sunday evening. At six o’clock this morning after a night of terror, in which women and children, frantic with grief, walked the streets cold and homeless, Omaha awoke to a scene of almost un- believable devastation. Ralston, a suburb, was entirely wiped from the map. The tornado swept past the city hospital to the west, continued in a northernly direction and wrecked forty-seven city blocks in its path. It traveled east to the river, and lost itself somewhere in the Iowa bluffs. Buildings were blown down or! picked up and hurled with terrific force many yards. Trees were leveled | and small structures completely wrecked by the cyclone which swept | directly across the most aristoeratic| as well as the most lovely parts of the city. Some of the finest houses| erected recently by Omaha’s wealth- iest people were swept away by the twister. Following the tornado and torren- tal rain, came an even greater menace in fires which broke out in scores of Dlaces. At least twenty houses were destroyed by flames. To add to the horror of the night, the electric lights failed, and wires went down leaving only the fitful flare from hundreds of | lanterns to light the scenes. | DEATH LIST MAY REACH 200 By United Press. | Omaha, March 24.—The full horror of last night’s tornado came from grief stricken Omaha at moon today when Governor Moorhead, Mayor Dahlman and Police Commissioner J. J. Ryder authoritatively stated that the death list would reach the appall- ing figure of 200 in Omaha alone. Tn Ralston, Council Bluffs, and other towns, the list of injured will probably be 1,000. Only one-third of the dead have so far been identified properly. The loss is conservatively estimated at $10,000,000. A canvass by only $500,000 insurance. prophesy handed down for centuries that Omaha was immune from cye- lones. This has been the confident but has never received any damage until last night. One hundred thousand grief-strick- en, sobbing, horrified people assailed belief of every resident as the city has! frequently been visited by high winds should be given in addition to the .U"iversity Poultry - Experts Says of every tornado insurance firm leadsnot overfed, but the hard grain and to the belief that the loss is covered [seed should be fed in a litter of cut This is due partly to the old Indian |falfa or clover. Some form of green TCoutinued oo laat paze) 3 \Copyright) E TEN CENTS PER WEEK, JUST KEEP‘ SWALLOW IN WATCH THE CHICKS { They Do Not Need Feed For the { First Thirty-Six Hours, THEY MUST HAVE PURE WATER With Easter past, farmers are now turping their attention to the chijcks which will later in the year come on tEe-market as broilers and roasters:| The following circular on the care of chicks has been mailed from the Uni- versity experiment farm in Hamline: “When hatched the chick contains a natural supply of food, sufficient for thirty-six hours. For this reason it should not be fed until this natural | food is absorbed and it is able to run| ahout and seek food for itself. ! “This first feed should consist of hard boiled egg. (shell and all mash- ed together), stale bread crumbs, stale bread and milk, pin-head oat-| meal or rolled oats. Any of these will be found a satisfactory.food for the first two or three days. For brooder chicks the dry feeds are rec- ommended. Chicks should be fed these feeds on a board or shallow pan and what is not eaten within ten minutes or so should be removed from the pen and the board or dish cleaned. Five meals a day is sufficient, though if convenient they may be fed more often and in smaller amounts. “After the first few days, these feeds should be replaced with such grains as finely cracked corn, pin- head oatmeal, cracked wheat and millet seed. The prepared and al- ready mixed chick-feeds that are found on the market are usually sat- isfactory. Corn bread (baked rather hard or dry), either dry or moist- ened slightly with sweet milk, pieces of stale bread, cottage cheese, and similar articles of diet make delicac- ies that are relished by the young chicks, if fed occlgionnlly. “The manner and time of feeding these is immaterial if the chicks are straw, cut hay, hay chaff, or cut al- food should also be given.- “Pure water should bé supplied, sufficient for a day’s requirements, each morning. If possible, milk water; for young chicks, the milk should be perfectly sweet. A good rule to follow is to keep chickens busy REGULAR TEAM WINS Bowlers Which Defeated Grand Rap- ids Week Ago Repeat on Second Five of Bemidji. RETURN GAME NEXT SUNDAY On their return from Grand Rapids a week ago, the five men who defeat- ed Grand Rapids were-challenged by a second team of Bemidji: The game was played yesterday on the Gillette alleys with the result that the first team won by 121 pins. ’ " Three games were played. In the first, the challengers won 826 to 764. In the second, the first team won 801 to 710 and repeated in the third by 939 to 847. The three games netted the first team a total of 2,504 pins and 2,383 for the challengers. The first team is composed of ‘Nat and Jim Given, Barney Popp, Barney Erickson and Henry Cominsky. The challengers were composed of Bill Herrigan, Lée Heffron, Mayne Stan- ton, Gene Holmes and George Don- Grand Rapids will come to Bemidji for a return game next Sun- day. NEW LAW EFFECTIVE aldson. Juries. in Itasca County Cases to Be First in This District to Re- turn Majority Verdicts. Juries which will sit in Itasca coun- ty cases at the spring team of court beginning in Grand Rapids tomorrow, will be the first to use the majority rule recently provided by the state legislature. " The bill was signed by | Governor Eberhart last week so that hereafter, a jury in a ¢ivil case may return a verdict from ten jurors if the jury has been out ten hours. Judge Stanton left this noon for Grand Rapids and will call the cal- endar tomorrow. Court Reporter Lee La Baw expects to go over Tuesday. —_———— Ihungry enough to run for the food. They will not develop quite so rapidly and hungry. “Do not feed them until they are under- ‘this. method, but will 'be { healthier.” - SCHAPER - MAY COME University of Minnesota Professor Expected to Give Lecture in Be- midji Some Day This Week. IS AN EXPERT ON GOVERNMENT Dr. William A. Schaper, head of the department of politics at the Univer- sity-of Minnesota, will give.a'lecture on’ the commisgion” form of govern- ment in Bemidji.some evening this week if the necessary arrangements can be made. Thief River Falls has been treating with Doctor Schaper for either Tues- day or Wednesday night of this week and if he makes the trip to Thief Riv- er, he will give a lecture in Bemidji the following evening if his health permits. . Doctor Schaper is one of the best known experts on the different forms of government in ‘the United States. He was educated -in Wisconsin and then spent several years abroad studying the governments of the European countries. Since the com- mission plan has come to the front, Doctor Schaper has spent much time in studying the different charters. At present he is a member of the Minn- eapolis charter commission which ex- pects to report April 1. The Bemidji charter commission had its first meeting Saturday after- noon but owing to the fact that but few of the members had filed their acceptance of the office, as required by law, nothing was done. The sec- ond meeting will be held Tuesday evening. TO ISSUE SMALLER STAMPS Government Tired of Those Now Used in the Parcel Post. Washington, -March 24.—The de- sign of a new and smaller parcel post {stamp to replace” those now in use {was approved .Saturday by Postmas- |ter General Burleson. Numerous [complalnts that the present stamp, all denominations of which are the same color, is hard to distinguish as to. value and easily “raised,” caused the change. The new design will possess no ar- tistic merit, but bear only a large nu- meral. The various denominations will be in different colors. Approxi- mately $50,000" yearly will be saved by the smaller stamps, it isesti- mated. March 27. THE CUB SCOO L REPORTER (SCo0P, THE MANAGING— EDITOR Has DECOED Yo 31TuATION FoR 0UR PAPER, - \ TS a4 RUSH ORDER. So ou BETTER HUSTLE AND GET READY, Scoop Had Read All About Mexico DRIFTS TRAIN SERVICE IS DEMORALIZED Snow Forces Railroads to Jse Double Headers or Get Passengers in Late—Storm was General. S00 LINE HIT THE WORST East Bound Arrived About Three O’clock Instead of Ten—M. & 1. On Time. The Easter Sunday storm which swept over Northern Minnesota yes- terday demoralized trafic on the railroads. The Minnesota and Inter- national arrived but a few minutes late from Kelliher this morning. The train was a double header as one en- gine would have been unable to buck the drifts. On the Great Northern, the east bound train arrived a little after 12:30. It was slowed up in the prairie country to the west but made up time as soon as it struck the shel- ter of the woods. The freight traffic on the Great Northern last night kept the line open pretty well. The east bound train on the Soo did not arrive until nearly three o’clock as it encountered deep drifts west of Bemidji. The train must go to Moose Lake before it can be turned and is not expected back in Bemidji until late this evening. A week ago Friday it was also stalled by snow and did not-get to Bemidji until the afternoon of the following day. The east beund Great Northern this morning was late also. Railroad men say that they have not faced similar operating conditions in the month of March in many years. The Red Lake train arrived and left on time. MAMMOTH EASTER EGG Laid by Rhode Island Red Hen in Pomona, California Sunday—Larg- est on Record in the World. Pomona, Cal, March 24.—An Easter egg six inches long and eight inches in circumference was laid by a Rhode Island Red hen belonging to Dr. A. J. Farley, who began looking up egg records Saturday. So far as the poultry ranches in this valley are concerned the Farley hen has the record. —_— KKK KKK KK KKK KKK K * N. M. D. A. VISITORS * KRR KKK KR Week Ending March 16. S. E. Olson, of Ada; G. H. Mattson, of Roseau; J. G. Allen, of Grand Rapids; Judge C. W. Stanton, of Be- midji; Dr. E. W. Johnson of Bemidji; A. L. Kaiser, of Bagley; M. J. Kolb, of Bagley; J. M. Reed of Blackduck; John Cann of Blackduck; Charles Trondson, of Blackduck; C. W. Con-. way of Blackduck; C. W. Johnson of Hawley; George Erickson, of Spoon- er; F. J. McPartlin, of International Falls; F. A. Fuller, of Grand Rapids; George Noll, of Bemidji; E. H. Denu, of Bemidji; C. F. Mahnke, of Moose Lake; Mayne Stanton, of Bemidji; A. G. Wedge, Jr., of Bemidji. Week Ending March 22. J. F. Opsahl, of Bemidji; Andrew Johnson, of Bemidji; Walter Mark- ham, of Virginia; M. G. Slocum, of Bemidji; Harry Cole, of Duluth; Geo. L Reid, of Duluth; Richard Cole, of Duluth; B. L. Perry, of Backus; A. J. Swanberg, of Cass Lake; J. M. Elder, of Brainerd; Judge M. A. Spooner, of Bemidji; F. B. Logan, of Royalton; Harold Knudson, of St. Cloud. CUMMER OPENS JEWELRY STORE Charles Cummer, who was former- ly in the jewelry business in Bemidji, but who for the past year has been in business in Alexandria, has opened a jewelry repair shop at 214 Beltrami avenue. Mr. Cummer is well known in Bemidji. At present he carries a . small stock of jewelry and watches, as he intends to devote his time to re-