Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 25, 1913, Page 1

Ay St iod e ¥ VOLUME 10. NUMBER 279. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1913, COUNCIL HELD EXECUTIVE SESSION MONDAY All But City Attorney Russell Ousted From Room After Reguler " Meeting Adjourned. THE IMPORT IS NOT DIVULGED Believed to Have Bearing on Ordin- ance Introduced Last Night to Raise License Fee to $1,500. MURPHY APPOINTS COMMITTEES Names Member to Act For Coming Year—Building Line May i Be Limited. | | For the first time in at least three | years, the Bemidji city council went session last night after the regular meeting had been adjourned. With the exception City Attorney Russell, not a member of the council was ask- into executive of ! every person | 1 ed to leave the room. Mayor McCuaig and City Clerk Stein were ousted \vith% the others. The exact import of the secret ses-{ sion could not be learned from the] members of the counctl this morning but it is generally believed to have been over the higher license ordin- ance introduced last night by R. F.| Murphy, alderman-at-large. Mr. Murphy last night introduced an ordinance which, if passed, will raise the liquor license fee in Bemidji | from $500 to $1,500. The ordinance| was drawn up by Mr. Russell and was | given its first reading last night by| City Clerk Stein. Amendments and, discussions will probably be heard at! the next meeting of the council. Mr. Murphy called upon Mayor! McCuaig for a statement as to his| opinion of the ordinance but [llei mayor refused to say anything at this| time. Whether or not the ordinance will pass is considered a question. On the street this morning different ex- pressions of opinion were heard.| Some believed that the ordinance had been introduced by agreement be- tween members of the council and, that it would be passed unanimously. | Others believed that the council has been impressed with the feeling which the granting of the Tibbets’| license has aroused in Bemidji and that this is an effort to follow public opinion and cut the number of sa- loons by making the price prohibitive. | With the exception of Mr. Murphy,| the councilmen interviewed this morning refused to express them- selves on the ordinance. President Murphy last night ap- pointed the following standing com-! mittees for the year: Finance—Murphy, Moberg, Klein. Audit—Smart, Klein, Crippen. Water and light—Klein, Miller, Bisiar. i Streets and walks —Smart, Moberg, Crippen. Sewers—Bisiar, Miller, Hanunah. Buildings—Crippen, Moberg, and| Smart. + Fire—Miller, Crippen, Klein. Parks—Moberg, Hannah, Smart. Printing—Bailey, Klein, Miller. Salaries—Smart, Bailey, Bisiar. Health—Bisiar, Hannah, Klein. Poor—Bailey, Bisiar, Miller. Purchasing—Murphy, Moberg, and | Klein. | License—Smart, Bailey, Klein. It was voted that the city advertise; for bids for a seven by nine vault to} be constructed under the stairs of the city ball. Bills totaling $80 were passed. A transfer of license from | Naish McKinnon to John M. Anderson provoked a little discussion but was: finally granted. * The license runs un- til next July. Loitved and Goodman were the only bidders for city cement work for the coming year and were given the contract. The price is slightly high- er than last year. Sidewalks will cost nine and one-half cents per foot, curbs thirty cents per lineal foot, and street and alley crossings fifteen cents per square foot. An ordinance providing that all buildings erected on streets north of Sixth shall not be closer than sixteen feet. to the property line was given its first reading. Alderman Bailey wished to amend it to read twelve feet but was called out of order and { dismiss the proceedings. ‘of foreign-born whites less than 15; ! iparentage exceeds one-half. i The corresponding proportions WILLIAM ). BRYAN. Famous Nebraskan Now Secre- tary of State In Wilsoh's Cabinet. @ by American Press Association | KRR KR KK KKK KKK KK KK WRONG CHRISTIAN NAME *| The Pioneer last night stated * that “Mrs, George Edwards, 407 * Park Avenue,” had left Bemidji *| on the request of Mayor Me- *| Cuaig. The correct Christian *| name should have been “James”. *! The address given last night * was correct. Mrs. James Ed- * wards has left the city. *! KRR KK KKK K KKK KK ORDER IS RETURNED | Judge Stanton has issued the fol- lowing order in the mandamus case ' of F. S. Tibbetts vs. Wm. McCuaig: ! “Respondent moved to quash the alternative writ of mandamus and to| Kk ok k ok ok ok k ok ok k& fter considering the files herein and the argument of the counsel, on | the ground that the respondent is not ! required by law to affix his signa-| ture to the license involved, “It is ordered that said motion be granted and that the alternative writ of mandamus heretofore issued | be and it hereby is discharged and the proceedings herein dismissed.” 1 ISR | KRR AR R KKK KK KK * COLOR AND NATIVITY. *| KK KKK KKK K KKK KK KK The white population of Minnesota is divided into four groups: (1) Na-| tive, native parentage—that is, hav- ing both parents born in the United States; (2) native, foreign, parentage —having both parents born abroad; (2) native, mixed parentage—having one parent native and the other for- eign born; (4) foreign born. Of the total population of Minne- sota, 757.081, or 27.7T per cent, are native whites of native parentage; 941,136, or 45.4 per cent, are native | whites of foreign or mixed parentage; and 543,010, or 26.2 per cent, are for- eign-born whites. The corresponding percentages in 1900 were 24.3, 46, and 28.8, respectively, the propor- tion of hative whites of native percen-| tage having increased during the| decade. The percentage of Indians| is 0.4; of negroes, 0.3. In only one| of the 86 counties is the percentage; in 6 counties it ranges from 15 to 25; in twenty-two counties from | twenty-five to thirty-five; and in sev-| en counties exceeds thirty-five. In: thirty-five counties the proportion of native whites of foreign or mixed; i Of the urban population, 29.2 per cent are native whites of native par- entage; of the rural, 26.7 per cent. tor| native whites of foreign or mixed | parentage are 41.1 and 48.2 per cent, respectively. The percentage of for- eign-born whites is 28.8 in the urban population and 24.3 in the rural. The negro population is_almost entirely urban, and the Indian population al- {Richard Ford | ment agency and_June Haverhill, | SENTORS T0 PRESENT TWO PLAY§ THIS WEEK ] — “A Bachelor's Banquet,” and “The Elopement of Ellen” to be Staged Thursday and Friday. MATINEE FOR GRADE STUDENTS Both Performances to Be Given in the Armory—Reserved Seats Went g on Sale Today. In a matinee on Thursday after- noon which is being s.aged especially for the benefit of the grade school children and an evening pertormancel Friday to which the older people of | the city will come, the seniors of the High school will present their class plays. The plays this year will be the “Elopement of Ellen, and “A Bachel- or’s Banquet.” The seniors will be assisted by two juniors and a fresh-| man. In “A Bachelor’s Banquet,” the leading roles will be taken by Alex Cameron, Harold Hayner, Angelina Munt and Anna Hedman. The play | is a one act farce which hinges on! the fact that the two men are to give | a banquet and are suddenly interrupt-| ed by visitors. Complications ensue | but are finally worked out to the sat- isfaction of all concerned. The “Elopement of KEllen” princi- pals are Edith Ryan, Flora Todd, Claude Mclver and Lester Achenbach. “Ellen” is the maid of Mr. and Mrs. (Leon Battles and| Hsther Fleischman) who has eloped. | The Fords have sent (o an cmploy-! (Flora-Todd) seeks their employ. She! is a Wellesly girl who is looking for material for a paper on the working! girl. > June is recognized by Max Ten| Zyck :Claude Meclver) as tac girl to] 17 = (Copyright) BAUDETTE IS BOOMING City Wiped Out By Forest Fire Two Years Ago is to Have a Forty- Seven Room Hotel, | LOOKING FOR BOX FACTORY; Special to The Pione Baudette, March 25—A three-story white brick hotel is fo_be built this spring in Baudette by a Duluth brew- ery according to plans which have' been received here. The hotel willj contain forty-seven rooms, each with | hot and cold running water, and whom he has given a kalf promise; of marriage and he believes she has| come to claim him. On the othe:;l hand, he is engaged to Dorothy March (Edith Ryan) and if he breaks | the engagement, will lose several| thousand dollars to each of them. Bob Shepherd (Lester Achenbach) | also knows June. The story is carried through three acts and after many complications, is| brought to a close by the pairing off | cf the couples to the satisfaction of all concerned. The following castes will produce the two plays: A Bachelor’s Banquet | Major Pomeroy .. . .Sherrell Case Dick Foster. . Harold Hayner | Nat Stillman. .. Alex Cameron Mrs. Mortimer. .Lottie Madson | Della Mortimer. ..Anna Hedman | Constance Oldfield...Angelina Munt| McGinnis—heard but not seen. . | The Elopement of Ellen Richard Ford. . .Leon Battles Mollie Ford......Esther Fleischman Dorothy March........ Edith Ryan Max Ten Eyck......Claude Meclver| Rob Shepherd.. .. .Lester Achenbach June Haverhill: . .Flora Todd| John Humes. . ... ..Don Shannon | Seats for Thursday afternoon have| been placed at hfteen cents each and| {the first play will be started at 2:30. The seats for Friday evening will cost thirty-five and fifty cents each. Reser- vations are now being made. "ADDITIONAL LOCAL. {lis, left last night for Chisholm on a| business trip. FIRE MEETING TONIGHT. Firemen will meet in the city hall | eventually to get enough to keep big tonight. Pay day. 4 | The last log has been shipped from | B. C. McGregor, superintendent for! the Northland Pine Co.., Minneapo-! {himself. | there will be several rooms with pniv-| ate baths. A barber shop in the base-| ment will have its entrance from the street. The hotcl is to be erccted on the Colling' jots which are opposite ihe | First State lank and a coment alley | will be placed between the hotel and | the Jessup building. The building| i | will cover a space 75x140 feet and in | many respects will be a duplicate of the Rex at International Falls. The estimated cost has been placed at $35,000. : . E. T. Jobnson has announced his| intention of erecting a two-story brick or concretesstore building. » A box factory with a payroll of | forty men is a possibility for Bau-; dette. The matter has been taken up by the board of trade which is in communication with an eastern com- pany. 1 *. Baudette and Spooner residents| will now be able to have more cases| tried at home as the Baudette bill as| passed ‘by the legislature provides! that certain cases shall be tried here. Formerly if one of the attorneys ab—l jected, the cases could be taken to| Bemidji. Where the amount was| small, this was the same as stopplng! the trial as the cost would be more| than the amount involved. Wiz John Parker, the Bemidji logger, has just completed his two years’ con- tract for the Engler Lumber company. Cedar Spur to the mill yard, and the camps are being closed for the winter. Next year Mr. Parker will be back at | Cedar Spur taking out timber for He has purchased more than | 1,000 acres of timber, and he expects EXT MAY HAVE SOLD MILL Rumor at Spooner Says That the _Backus-Brooks Interests Have Taken Over Shevlin Properties. CANNOT BE CONFIRMED HERE Special to The Pioneer. Spooner, March 25.—According to arumor on the streets here last night, the Backus-Brooks people of Interna- tional Falls have taken over the Shev- lin-Mathieu interests in Spooner and in the future will conduct the mill here. The Backus-Brooks interests have immense holdings of timber in the :country back of Baudette and it is be- lieved that they intend to extend the Minnesota, Dakota and Western through this country and north to Baudette and Spooner. Men connect- ed with the mill here will not affirm the rumor “although they allow the impression to prevail. At the Crookston Lumber company toffices in Bemidji this morning noth- nig could be learned of the proposed change. It was said that they had not been advised of any and would not! until it was made public by the Minn- eapolis office. KKK KK KK KK KKK KK KKK *.MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED * L e e e e Marriage licenses have been issued this week to August Boquist and Florence Guerard of Spooner; Ed Borley of Little Falls and Adeline Dugas of Bemidji; and Selmer Braten and Minnie Behlke of the town of Frohn. NEW NICKLES ARE HERE A few of the new.1913 nickles have arrived in Bemidji and are the ob- ject of much curiosity. Instead of a V on one side and the head of the goddess of. liberty on the other, the new nckel has an Indian head and a buffalo. | [ i i i | jof the street. The Indian heall is that of|glasses and veil that morning prob- ‘ Parcels Post Delivery. From Two to Six Weeks. Behind.—News Item. BERG - WRITES . OF FIRE Former Resident of Spooner Says That Wife Had Narrow Escape in Hot Springs Explosion. WAS IN MATTAR BROS. STORE Albert Berg, formerly of Spooner, writing of the acéident at Hot Springs Ark., which resulted so seriously for Mrs. Berg says, “I presume that you now have at least some tidings of the accident which befell my wife Friday March 7. Even the accounts in the local press, were distorted and unre- lable. “The morniog of the accident I was stricken with an attack of lumbago and coula not accompany Mrs. Berg or the accustomred walk abou: town. She iock her walk and reahed Mat- tar Bros. Oriental store whiere an auc- tion sale was just starting. She went in and took .a seat. Fellowing her were two gentlemen who passed her aud took seats a few feet aheac of her. “Immediately there was a texific expiosien of natural gas iv the base- ment that sent her and the goods to- wards che ceiling and *he momentum threw dier back towards ibe entrance a distance of twenty feet ammongst a lot of cebris and glass. . ‘4., landed in a sitting position and called for help. She 'was soon rescued and taken in a carriage to the hotel where we are stopping. “The two gentlemen who came into the stdre immediately after her and who with Mrs. Berg were the only customers in the store and were eith- er buried beneath the debris or fell into the basement through the aper- ture caused by the explosion. Their bodies were recovered the next day. “Mrs. Berg’s left leg received a compound fracture below the knee, (and was smashed for a space of five inches), her face was severely bruised on the right side and a deep gash cut in her chin. Her nair, eye brows and eye lashes were singed. Had she landed a foot closer in she would have fallen into the basement where rescue would have been impossible and had her rescuer been one minute later she would have been so burnt that it is doubtful that she would have sur- vived. “Her hat was blown into the middle That she wore her Chief Hollow Horn Bear, the Sioux,|ably saved her eyes from injury. who died about a week ago while in crews going for at least two years. most entirely rural. THE CUB SCOOQP kerorrer & B0SS SAGS NOW THAT WE ARE IN ELPAsO - BETTER STUDY UP 0N SPANISH BEFORE. CRO55ING- VER To TUAREZ | I BELEVE AT THAT T KkNow As MUCH SPaNisH - | Washington. The Boss Had No Businesso Ask, “Where Are You Going?” “When the carriage came up to the (Continued from first page). By uHOPu IDEATH LIST FRON TORNADO MOUNTING Later Repo.ts Give 180 to 20y Jead in Omaha and Housing Prob- lem is Difficult. ALL WIRES WERE DOWN MONDAY‘ United Press Service, Received by Pioneer, Only One to Issue From the Stricken Cities. STORM ALSO BAD IN CHICAGO Several Killed When High Wind Wrecked Buildings—Nebraska. Troops Ordered Out. Reports which came into Bemid: today of the storm in the central mid- dle states Sunday show that the story printed in the Pioneer Monday night was not overdrawn. Not a telegraph wire was working out of Omaha until the United Press wire was opened at 7:30 Monday morning. The news was flashed to St. Paul and there re- filed to Bemidji. The Minnesota state wires were down, however, and the news reached press time. The Associated Press had no wires working out of Omaha but was able to get news over the long distance to Denver and then by wire to the oth- er cities of the country. - A car load of linemen was sent from Minneapolis Monday to assist in the restringing of the Omaha wires. ‘The Pioneer was twelve hours ahead of any other paper in the state in getting the news to its Bemidji readers. the Pioneer just at Chicago, March 25.—Two hundred and twenty-three are dead and 694 were injured in Sunday’s storm throughout the central states, the to- tals being based on reports from var- ious districts received late last night. Omaha’s dead number 153 and Terre Haute, the second largest num- ber at one place. reports eighteen dead. Sixteen at Yutan, Neb., and twelve at Council Bluffs are the oth- er places where more than ten were killed. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Towa and ebraska are the . tes where the storm took the death toll. Floods swept Wisconsin cities, causing thousands of dollars damage. Sleet, snow and wind were general throughott the central northern sec- tion. Mayor Estimates Dead. Omaha, March 25.—Mayor Dahl- man of Omaha, who is in charge of the relief work, estimated the dead in Omaha and surrounding territory at 200. ' Bodies are known to be under the debris of forty homes. Because of the huge amount of wreckage it will be impossible to reach the dead for some time. Troops on Guard. Omaha, March 25.—Last night the stricken section of Omaha was pa- trolled by troops from Fort Omaha and the state militia. Governor Morehead has taken personal charge of the state troops. There has been little or no looting. The business men are co-operating in every way. Hotels have thrown doors for the injured. Every train into Omaha brought a score of physicians from nearby towns having friends and relatives here, and they made up-a continual stream of visitors to the morgues and hospitals. open their Repair Men Sent. Minneapolis, March 25.—One hun- dred and forty telephone repair men left here Monday for Omaha, sent there by the Bell company. The men were from Minneapolis, St. Paul and other towns in_this district. Milwaukee Hit Also. Milwaukee, Wis., March 25.—A terrific rain and wind storm here did damage to the extent of $200,000. The temperature rose to fifty-nine degrees and -a tornado-like wind swept over the city,'blowing in win- MANY DIE