Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 2, 1913, Page 1

. ;O VOLUME 10. NUMBER 286. MAY CLOSEN. M.D.A. ROOMS THIS WEEK FUNDS ON HAND ARE INSUFFICIENT No Support Being Given Association In Minneapolis Although Promis- es Have Been Made. COUNTIES SLOW Money Coming in Faster Since Legis- lature Decided on Amount Com- missioners Can Appropriate MAY MOVE OFFICES HERE Much of Work Could Be Carried on From Bemidji if City Office Must Be Given Up. IN PAYING| JOSEPHUS DANIELS. North Carolina Newspaper Own- er New Secretary of the Navy. ® by American Press Assocfation. | J—He Visited the Atlantic War fleet i Today. | | coxexsxsrsrrerrres ELECTION RETURNS MONEY FOR THE N. M. D. A, * Walker, April 2.—The county % commissioners of Cass county yesterday voted $225 to aid the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association. * x * x * Park Rapids, April 2.—The % county commissioners of Hub- % bard county in session here yes- % terday voted $200 aid to the % Northern Minnesota Develop- ¥ ment association. * R KK KKK KKK KKK KKK * dok ok ok ok ok ok k k k ok ok Kk With barely enough money to pay the running expenses for fifteen days, the Northern Minnesota Development association faces the possibility of having to close its immigration rooms in Minneapolis. At a meeting of the executive committee held in Minnea- polis Saturday, it was found that the | association had only enough actual cash to pay the March bills. Yester- day, the county commissioners of Cass and Hubbarb counties voted $425 to the association and this will carry the work for less than a month. Although nearly every one of the thirty-three counties in the associa- tion pledged two cents per capita for the work of the association this year, the usual contributions from Minne- apolis and St. Louis counties have not materialized. Minneapolis last year! gave $2,500 and the Soo railroad $1,000 which made a (o(al of $3,500] from Minneapolis. . Louis. county this year subscribed 51,2 0 an to date has paid $150. Although A. G. Wedge, Jr., treasur- er of the association, has made fou trips to Minneapolis for the special purpose of meeting with the Civic and Commerce association, he and; Secretary W. R. Mackenzie, also of; Bemidji, have been promised money for the association but no money has, vet been paid. The association asked | this year for $4,000 from Minneapolis. St. Paul has not been asked to con- tribute as heavily as the immigration rooms are located in the mill city. The counties which are members of the association have not all paid in scridbed, the delay being largely due the amounts which they have sub- to the fact that they have been wait- ing for the legislature to determine the amount a county can spend for development work. Since this has been decided, the counties are paying their subscriptions as fast as their Commissioners Meet. The lack of appreciation in Minne- apolis of the locating of the rooms of the development association . there has caused some of the members to feel that the rooms should'be moved to St. Paul or discontinued if no support is received from that city. Both Secretary Mackenzie and Treas.- urer Wedge haye their homes in Be- midji and much of the work could " (Continued on isst page); ?Resu]ts in Duluth are Not Yet Public Because of Slowness in Count- : ing the Ballots. | Spectal to The Pioneer. Duluth, April 2.—Special at 2 p. m. —The result of the election here is still in doubt The preferential sys- tem makes the count of the vote slow and at this time the winners cannot be stated. McEwan, Silversteen; and Prince are running about even for Mayor. NEW AGENT HAS COME W. W. Lloyd of Fosston became thel local agent for the Great Northern | railway yesterday morning. He suc- ceeds E. E. Chamberlain who has held that position for the last ten years. Mr. Lloyd comes here with the best of recommendations and the Fosston [peop]e feel that their loss will be Be- ‘midji’s gain. Although Mr. Lloyd regrets leaving Fosston where he has made many friends during the time he was agent |in that city he considers his position ja promotion. For the past week he has been travelling with Division ISupt R. L. Knebel on the latter’s |special, train visiting points in Nor- {thern Minnesota for the purpose of isecuring support against certain pro- posed legislation introduced at the { present session and detrimental to irailways and employees and which ‘they believe would be of no benefit to anyone. Earnest Helland will have charge of the Fosston agency until a regular agent is appointed. Mr. Lloyd will bring his family here in the course iof a few days. E. E. Chamberlain land family will leave tomorrow for Montana where he has taken up some DR. SCHAPER WILL AI]I]HES HALL TONIGHT UN GUMMI Thele pictures, taken at Columb\ll, 0., during UBLIC “helght of the flood, show how bridges were swept away and houses damaged. The upper view was taken in the heart of the stricken district. Notice how the corner of the residence was ripped out.” This shows £ that way. They thought their homes were safe and sou, t safety on the s force of the flood. - Many lost their lives in " just econd floor or-on the roof, and later their home was partly wrecked or whirled away entirely. The lower picture is of the Town street bridge after the flood had destroyed it. A few hours before this;bridge went down- curious people flocked to it and stood on the lpun ws.tchmg the mshmg river, which wag then almost up to the floor of the structure. READY FOR WAR PLAY Annual Game of Atlantic Fleet Began “This Morning- With a Target Bombardment, WILL LAST SEVERAL A WEEKS By United Press. * Southern Drill Grounds, via Nor- folk, Va., April 2.—Bobbing a dull grey against the background of a| churning sea, the ‘Atlantic fleet lay at anchor this morning, ready to begin its annual war-play in Chesapeake Bay. Far out, little flecks of white, showing gull-like above the waves, swayed the targets—food for the first day’s long-range firing. The war game, which began today | and which will last through several weeks, will in reality be a mimic naval battle on an immense scale. Through the night ships steaming at full speed will fire at imaginary tor- pedo boats and destroyers, miles out on the sea; their search-lights will flash through the darkness and from widely separated points the dread- raughts will unleash their ten- twelve and sixteen inchers at the flimsy tar- gets—that imaginary foeman which unless destroyed mean death and de- struction for those on board the bat- tleships. The day practice, which began ‘to- day, consists entirely of long range firing and fast ‘skirmishes. Chesa- peake Bay was chesen as the drill grounds because the water is always rough here, and an effort is made to| make the target drills as difficult as| land. possible, Nine permanent targets| SCUTARI IN FLAMES Report Says That Montenegrins Have Captured Three of the Taraboosh Forts in That City. 1 By United Press. | Cettinje, April 2.—Scutari is in uames today according to a report made public by the war office. It was asserted by the Montenegrins that they had captured three of the Tara- boosh forts defending the city and that the fall of the remaining two is but a matter of hours. CHISHOLM WOMAN KILLED By United Press. Chisholm, April-2.—The body of Mrs. John Fontaine was found in her of the head. beside the body. The woman’s hus- band is missing. Fontaine was ar- rested last week on a charge of beat- ing his wife but was released upon his promise to reform. KKK KKK KKK KK KK KK KK * COMMITTEES APPOINTED ¥ KKK EKEKKKKKKKKK KKK At the meeting of the Commercial club last night, the.report of the committee on tommittees was approv- ed'and the appointments made for the | coming year. ed of F. 8. Arnold, J.'L. George, T. J. Burke and W. L. Brooks. The new committees together with a membership list will be published by the club as an insert to the booklets | published last year. - 3 SCOO REPORTER THE CUB There ‘Are Some Things That Even Scoop Won't Stand For T Down \ £ S'T Downt Q| THere. an’ home today with a bruise on the back | An axe lay on the floor | The committee consist-| S00 TRAIN IN THE DITCH West Bound Left the Tracks Tues- day Afternoon Near Palisade and Engine Overturned. TWELVE HOURS LATE IN HERE ‘With the engine on its side in the ditch and all of the cars off the rails the west bound Soo passenger had a | near wreck between Bain and Palis- ade yesterday afternoon. No one was seriously mured and no lives were lost. The track was torn up for a dis- tance of fifteen rail lengths and about 100 ties. The wrecker from Federal Dam relaid the track and put = the train upon it. Although all of the train left the track, the enging was the only thing turned over. The wreck delayed the train so | that it limped into Bemidji at 4 a. m. today. On the return trip it did not reach here until 11:45. ?, KKK KKK KKK KKK * NELSON BILL SUBSTITUTE * IR EE S SRS RS R R - A dispatch-from St.- Paul says that a compromise measure was intro- duced yesterday in the senate by the temperance committee. The new bill authorizes the reduction of saloons twenty per cent annually until there |15 only one saloon for every 500 resi- dents of each city and village. ‘The measure is a redraft of the S. duction of- saloons to one for ‘every 1500 population. {Bis Fous Tevee Broke Last Nigh Let A. Nelson bill, providing for the re-| EETING AT CITY IUN PLAN OF GOVERNMENT LADIES ARE INVITED AND ARE WALTER H. PAGE, Named as Ambassador to England CAIRO IN DANGER ting Water Through Fifteen Foot Gap into Low Lands, BY United Press. Cairo; April 2.—Shortly before six o’clock last night, the Big Four levee gave way and the water is now pour- ing into the lowlands through a fif- teen foot break. It means that a vast area will be covered by from ten to twenty feet of water: Traffic over the Big Four has been discontinued. Dayton, April 8.—One hundred and twenty-nine bodies have been recov- ered here.. ; Columbus, - April - 2.—Seventy-one bodies have been recovered. Efforts to penetrate the debris on the west side where many bodies the believed to be,buried have failed. DEFIANT IN THE DOCK Mrs, Pankhurst Says That She Expects to Be. Convicted. By United Press. London, April 2.—Half a minute before she stepped into the prisoner’s dock at Old Bailey today and in a conspiracy charge against her, Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, militant leader of England’s suffragettes, told a Unit- ed Press correspondent that she fully expected to be convicted. Further she gave back warning that she would stop at .nothing to beat the case or escape from prison if | possible. “I fully expect jail and am prepared for the tortures of impris- onment and forcible feeding,” she {* The committee says: clear tone pleaded not guilty to the| ibeen appointed there. WELCOME BAND TO PLAY A CONCERT AT &5 Charter Commission in Charge anfl Talk Will Be Along Definite Practical Lines. MEMBER OF MINNEAPOLIS BODY Speaker Has Served in Home City and is Considered Foremost Author- ity in Minnesota. HERE FROM THIEF RIVER FALLS Addressed Audience There Last Night —Spoke in Commercial Club Rooms. This Afternoon, EREE T T TS T e “Don’t * * stay at home because of the wet * * weather. Be.a duck.” * KRR KKK KKK KKK K KKK Dr. William A. Shaper, a member of the Minneapolis charter commis- sion and head of the department of politics in the University of Minne- sota, will address a public meeting of the Bemidji charter commission ixi the city hall tonight at 8:30. At'8:15 the Bemidji band will meet in the city hall and will play a short concert until Dr. Schaper is ready to talk. The meeting tonight Deople—women as well as men—are urged to attend and get first hand in- formation on the benefits of the com- mission plan of government. Dr. Schaper is recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the coun- try and without a peer in Minnesota when it comes to his subject. Since the plan was first adopted in Galves- ton over ten years ago, he has fol- lowed it in theory and practice: Last summer he spent several months studying ilie actual working of the plan in many of the different cities in which it is now in force. As a member of the Minneapolis charter commission, Dr. Schaper has been brought face to face with many of the problems that confront a com- mission when it tries to draft a new city government. The Minneapolis charter has been completed up to the redraft for the printer. It is-believed that it will take about two weeks to get the charter in final shape. Dr. Schaper came to Bemidji over the Soo this morning from Thief Riv- er Falls. last night was not well attended as the meeting was the first step taken to secure that form of government for Thief River. No commission has yet This afterncon he met the charter commission in- formally in the rooms of the Com- mercial club and advised them on many of the problems they will have ‘to meet. He will return to Miunupo— 1is tonight, the Commercial club and the members “{in charge urge that the: visiter be given a good audience. It will not be more than six months before the men - of Bemidji will have to go to the.polls” and express themselves on the sub- Jject. Dr. Schaper is here to tell them of the experiences of other, cities in order that they know something is not only open to the public but the He stated that the meeting - The meeting tonight is backed by -