Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 5, 1913, Page 1

VOLUME 10. NUMBER 289. COMPANIES HIT Farmer Elevator Concerns Must Pay Seven Per Cent for Five and One- Half Money Say Probers. ASSESS EX'fRA FOR SWITCHING BY INTEREST RATE! NORMAN E. MACK. Former National Demacratic Chair- man_Slated For Ambassadorship. Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Said to Collect, $1.50 Per Car Where Railroads Do Not. ELEVATORS AND MILLS CONTROL Legislators Find No Competitidn in Bidding For Grain Sent to Ter- minals—Option Trading. The Grain Investigation. .- Chamber of Commerce assesses the shipper $1.50 per car switching charges on thousands of cars where no such charge is made by the rail- road company. Admitted that Chamber of Com- merce entered into deals with rail- Toads to charge shippers $1.00 de- murrage per car in violation of the law. Chamber of Commerce can make these assessments on shippers by rule of its board of directors unrestricted by any higher power. Shippers charged seven per cent in- terest for money which banks doan at five and one-half per cent. Farm- ers elevator company making such loan must agree to.send all of its consigned grain to company from which it gets loan. i Chamber of Commerce witness ad- mitted -that option trading on. the Chamber of Commerce can.be used to @ by American Press Assoclation. ERHHKKHHK KKK KRR * MOB LYNCHES NEGRO. * * Mondak, Mont., April 5.—A % +* mob last night took J. C. Collins, % * a negro, from the jail and hung * % him to a telegraph pole. Yester- % * day afternoon Collins shot and * instantly killed Sheriff Courtney ¥ and so badly wounded Deputy * % Sheriff Bumnaster that he died % % later in the hospital. The two ~& + men had gone to arrest Collins ¥ * for a murder he was alleged to ¥ | = = x| H.- A. Rider, executive agent of ‘the * have committed in Towa. e e R e e R ] KKK KKK KK KK HK K KKK * SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES * 28 2k ok 2k kb bk o %% First Scandinavian Lutheran: Sunday school at 12 o’clock. Even- ing services at 8 p. m. T. S. Kolste, pastor. Episcopal : the detriment of farmer and pro- ducer. = - Chamber of Commerce controlled by the line elevators and milling in- terests. No competition in bidding _grain at country points for shipment to Minneapolis. Membership in Chamber limited und the price is beyond reach of av- erage grain merchant. No restrictions on number of mem- berships large concerns may own or control. Strict rules against members trad- g with any outside the Chamber of Commerce. Any member doing so is suspended. Some of large companies owning Sunday school at 9:30 a. m., ver | ning services and sermon at -7:30.p. m. Archdeacon Parshall. Swedish Lutheran: Communion services at 10: 30 Sun- day school at 12. Evening services at 8 o’clock. H. J. Randahl, pastor. First Baptist: Sunday school at 10 a: m. Preach- ing at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. E. M. Hulett of Minneapolis will preach. Union prayer meeting Thurs- day evening at eight o’clock. C. G. Chandler, pastor. First Methodist Episcopal : ccmmission concerns and elevators #el! grain to themselves. Proven that Chamber of Commerce concerns bribe farmers elevator man- agers to'secure the control of ship- ments from such élevators. Shown that certain large commis- sion concerns, line elevators and mill are practically owned by the same parties through community of own- eiship plan. By C. J. BUELL. Special to The Pioueer. St. Paul, April 5.—Above are some of the more important points brought out in the grain investiga- * tion now on before committees of the Minnesota legislature. The senate committee was appoint- ed at the instigation of Semator S. D. Works after the house committee bad been at work for some time, It has been charged that the unprece- dented action of naming a second committee was done at the request of the Minneapolis Chamber of Com- merce which wanted to start a back- fire on the house investigation, with Preaching at 10:45 and 8. Sunday school at noon. 7. Union prayer meeting Thursday evening in the Baptist church led by Rev. S. E. P. White. See program Chas. H. Flesher, pastor. Salvation Army: Colonel Stephen Marshall, .accom- panied by Major C. R. Boyd of Min- neapolis, who are the leading Salva- tion Army officers of the Northern province of the Salvation Army with headquarters at Minneapolis, will be in Bemidji for a couple of days®to transact business'and hold special services Saturday. evening-and Sun- day. Colonel Marshall is a man of exceptional ability and an interesting musician and a singer. Services will | be conducted in the following order: Saturday evening at Salvation Army! hall; Sunday afternoon at thie Meth- odist church; Sunday evening in the| city hall. Two babies will be given | away at the Sunday evening service the additional purpose of “going after” the Farmer’s Equity Exchange and George S. Loftus, who is leading the farmers independent movement. To refute these reports, Works went on the stand before his own committee and gave a lengthy ex- planation as to why he moved for the second investigation. He admitted, however, that he had conferred with leading members and officials of -the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce at the Chamber of Commerce club in Minneapolis the day before he pre- sented his resolution in the senate. Works was the architéct of the proposed machine combination to control the senate, the combination which Loftus knock- ed into a cocked hat by exposing the names of the - men composing it. Works says.he has no love for Lof- tus. Great Struggle With Big Business. This is really one of the biggest fights with big business in the his- tory of ‘Minnesota and the North-| ‘west. On one side are the powerful Ohiamber of Commerce interests, in- tather and chief|” in the city hall. HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICE The High school base ball team will appear for practice for the first time next week. There are some good players who will and a rst class team seems assured. Epworth League at| New York hpr?me Court Hands Down Decision Which Makes ' “Them a Fact in That State New York, April 5.—Trial riages for young women under eigh- teén years of age, are legal in New York, according to a decision yes- terday by ‘Supreme Court - Justice Cohalan. If she marries with . the consent of her parents and leaves her: husband before she attains that age, the presént law in effect permits ‘her cree of annulment as a matter of | course, he declared. | “This is to all intent and purposes iproviding in such cases for trial mar- riages,” he said, “but it is a condi- tion the remedy for which lies with the legislature and mnot with the court.” The ,decision was in the case of {Mrs. Iva Mundell Coster, who sued to annul hey marriage with Norman B. | Coster. "The justice found that al- though Mrs. Coster’s mother had con- sented to' the marriage the daughter was only seventeen at the time and was entitled to maintain an action { for annulment. SAM FULLERTON GIVEN A A fist and cane fight in the state fire marshal’s office, between Sam Fulierton, deputy fire marshal, and State Game and , Fish commission, threw the Minnesota state capitol into excitement yesterday afternoon. Bad blood had existed between the two men and witnesses say that when, they met this afternoon Rider struck Fullerton over the eye with his fist, giving him a black eye, and Fuller- ton retaliated by whipping a cane over Rider’s head. Friends then separated them. NEW LIVERY. TEAM, 2 Hyatt and Fole §, proprietors of the- Melver livery stables have purchas- ed a registered driving. team which they believe are the best livery team that has ever been used in' Bemidji. The team is large and handsome. The animals are well matched and Mr. Foley says they can be driven by any one as they have been used in the cities and are not afraid of any- | thing. WILL NOT BOWL SUNDAY. Word was brought to this city from Grand Rapids by Mayne Stan- ton that the Grand Rapids team would be unable to come here and bowl Sunday. M. S. Gillette proprie- tor of the local bowling alley has not received any word stating that they would not be here but local bowlers | believe that the Grand Rapids team for schedule of cottage prayer meet-; ings on Monday and Friday evenings. | Every one invited to these services. is afraid to bowl against the local team out on their own alleys. ARE HAULING MATERIAL Brick is being hauled to the va- cant lot between Fourth and Fifth streets on Minnésota avenue where the new Moberg garage will be built. Work will commerce on the building in the course of a few days. The bundmg is to be only one story high but strong enough to build a second istory later if necessary. There will be no posts on the floor. speaker, while Major Boyd is a «mod} try for the team; ! ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Mrs. W. L. Preble of this city pass- jed away Friday evening at 11: 0, ,aner a rong il!ness, at the age of fllty three years.- Services will be |held at the residence Sunday at 2:30. . S. E. P. White officiating. The |h0dy will be taken. to Stillwater Monday morning for burial. The out- of-town relatives present are Mrs. F. D. Dansereau of St. Paul, her daugh- ter, Mrs. H. M..Goff of St Paul, her isi\ster‘ Mrs. Dr. Boerner of West Du- luth, her neice,” B. L. Young, of Ossipee, Minnesota, her brother, and Mrs. Sarah Young, of Ossipee, Minne- | sota, her mother. mar-| to come into court and obtain a de-|, BLACK EYE BY H. A. RIDER | ~}this.morning. when %flusly injured from a delivery dray after | the horses el I i (Copyright) A. D. Cameron Hurt When Team Bolted This Morning and Hit the Lunn Wa¥ehouse. RAY DICKENSON ‘IN ACCIDENT i __A. D. Cameron, of: fhe firm of Falls and Cameron, was. had Dolted. He has been delivermg south of the tracks.. While coming down the hill back of the Lunn- ware- house, the horses became scared and ran away. At the bottom of the hill| they crashéd into the building. Neither of the horses, ~Wwhich belonged to Naish McKinon, were in- jured but Cameron was thrown from his seat by the shock. The pole was splintered. “Cameron was badly cut about the face and one shoulder was wrenched. It is believed that he will | be laid up. for several weeks:* " Ray Dickenson of Buena Vista had a narrow escape about a week ago when 'his clothing became entangled | in a shaft in his box factory plant. Mr. Dickenson was whirled'and: if the clothing had not ripped off, it is said that he would have been killed. As it is Mr. Dickenson is in bed with a badly wrenched and torn shoulder.. MOVES TO FIRST NATIONAL BLK. John F. Gibbons Changes Offices from Schroeder Building. John F. Gibbons, attorney, has changed his law offices from the W. G. Schroeder building on Minnesota avenue to the second floor of the rst National Bank building on Third street. These rooms were for- merly occupied by Dr. L. A, Ward. Dr. Ward has:taken one of the rooms previously occupied by Dr. E. A. Hen- derson as his private room. ‘Doctors Ward and Tuomy use the room be- tween the two offices as a‘ joint re- ception room. 2 5 Mr. Gibbons:is one of the oldest at- torneys in Bemidji in point.of prac- tice, having come to Bemidji about fifteen years'ago.’ MRS.-FALLON RECOVERED for the past three months, has fully recovered and will again assume her duties at the Hetland —and Fallon millinery parlors. { ®.figures by quarters were: SCOO! Kcrow aouT Savs T wiL SHoo T Yoo SHOTS EVERY “THE CUB REPORTER THAT MACHINE- GUN,5Co0P - HE. Scoop Is Too Practical To Make A Good “Soldado” KILL 400 MEXICANS:A MINUTE-CLEAN UP ALL KRR KRR K KKK KKK KKK * POSTAL RECEIPTS * For the % year the postal recelpts of the * Bemidji office have exceeded ¥ $20,000. The total for the last * fiscal year was announced today * by Postmaster Erickson. - The * 1 April 1 to June 30.$4,107.94 % 2 July 1 to Sept. 30. 4,666.60 3 Oct. 1 to Pec. 31.. 5,692.40 4 Jan. 1 to March 31. 5,648.73 Total for year...$20,115.68 EXRKEKKR KK R KRN 18" “DIVIDED| x * * x' x For preliminary work to the evan- gelistic compaign, May 9 to June 16, Bemidji has’been districted as fol- lows: South district, all of the city trict, from the rail roads to Fourth street; first district, Fourth to Eighth streets east of M(nnésota'avenue; second district, Eighth to Twelfth street east of Minnesota avenue; third district, Fourth to Eighth street west of Minnesota avenue; fourth district, Eighth' to Twelfth streets, west of Minnesota avenue; northwest district, all of city north of Twelfth street. Cottage . prayer meetings - are "|scheduled as follows, Monday and Fri- day ‘evenings: South district, Miss Margaret Hult- gren, Second street south. Business district, Mrs. D. G. Miller, Second street north. First district, Baptist church Second district, Methodist church. Third district, Presbyterian church. Fourth district, - Presbyterian church, 3 3 Fourth district, - Mrs.- Emma Col- lard.® Northwest district, Robert McLeod. All services at 8 p. m. The cottage prayer meeungs are to begin Monday, April 7 as scheduled and the different denominations are to unite in each district. = The first Thursday evening union prayer meet- ing will be held in the Baptist church “April 10, -conducted by Rev. S. E. P. White. ’ The subjects for cottage prayer Mrs. J. H. Fallon, who has been ill | meetings in all the districts Monday ievening, will be “Prevailing Prayer”, | Mark 11:24, ining, Subject for Friday eve- “Parable of the Sower,” Matt- hew 183. $20,000. x| third consecutive | **_'k:k***fi**** |reportéd back amended by the senate jand succeeding reapportionment. south of the railroads, business dis-| sy senate will be ‘reapportionment had ‘amended 'ing out the clause “no county or any |time the right man had jumped to DULUTH POLICE 'ARREST MAC LEAN "{Man We=ted in Bemidji F. eged Forgery is 8aid Hela on White " Slave Charges. DREW CHECKS ON BRINKMAN One for $12 Cashed by Markham Hotel and One for $5 Was Taken By Harry Mayer. IN TROUBLE IN SUPERIOR ALSO Obtained About $200 From Moving Picture House Managers About Feb. 1—Unequaled Nerve. H. M. Mac Lean, wanted in Be- midji for the forgery of two checks March 24, was arrested in Duluth % yesterday afternoon. He will not be brought here for trial, hofiever, as K the Duluth officers have telegraphed SEVEN SENATORS NOW | b ik s oot b hold him. It is said that his Duluth trial will.be on white slave charges. Mac Lean, who traveled for the - Laemmle Film company of Minneap- Bill. Establishing Limit Passed_Sen-|olic until'last January, came to Be- ate Ffiday by Vote of 33 to 25 |midji about two weeks ago and rep- —Two Others Through. resented-that he was still in #he em- ploy of that firm. He stopped at the Markham Hotel as usual and on i March- 24 presented a check for $12 SHORTEN BLACK BASS SEASON|drawn on Fred Brinkman, The check | was cashed and went through the clearing house. The same day he also cashed a check for five dollars on Brinkman at Harry Mayer’s restaur- By United Pre: I . St. Paul,. April 5.—By .a vote of ant. 33 to 25 the.seniite Friday afternoon| ~@u_ March passed the bill known as the seven lett Bemidji senators bill. It now goes to the|hotel . bill.; . Ralph Lycan went house. With the exception of two|t® see Fred Brinkman: .and amendments the bill was passed as|asked where Mac Lean had gone. l}rinkman claimed that he had not committee on reapportionment. On|Seen Mac Lean for two months and motion of Sen. G .H. Sullivan the bill | When told of .the check said that he was made to take effect at the next|Dad not signed one. The two then d went fo the bank where the two for- On motion of Senator Haycraft the | 8eries were discovered. composed of sixty- Deputy Sheriff Denly was sent to three members. .The committeée on |Duluth to trace the man and while the | there received word that he had been bill to read. fifty members. Senator |aPPrehended in Minneapolis. Denly Haycraft’s amendment was adopted |Went to- Minneapolis but found the by a vote of 32 to 18. man held was H. M. “Mc”Lean who Sen. G. P. Wilson, Minneapolis, |is also in "e film busipess. . re- failed to have his amendment strik-}turned to Duluth but in the mean- 725" he sud«my without - paying ~his part thereof shall constitute or be a|the range. On his trail were the 2 part of more than a seven senatorial | Duluth and range police, the Bank = distriet.” Protective association’s detectives The vote on the amendment was 28 |2nd men from the Hotelkeepers’ as- to ‘32, After the passage of the sev-|Sociation. He was caught when he en senators bill the senate contin-|returned to Dultuh Friday. ued the special order on congression-| ~ That Mac Lean displayed unequal- al reapportionment to next Wednes-{ed nerve when he cashed the checks day at 10 a. m. Adjournment was|in Bemidji is agréed by those who then taken until Monday. are familiar with his history. On a i February 5 he was in police court in Pass Compensation Bill. Superior on alleged charges. growing The senate rose magnificently tojout of his obtaining money under its opoprtunity—and to its. duty— |false pretenses. He had been visiting and passed the Rochne-Boyle-Schal-|the moving picture men in Duluth ler-Sullivan-Fosseen workingmen’s |and Superior and borrowing or cash- compensation act by a unanimousiing checks with each of them for vote. small sums. A representative of the e Before taking that action, the sen-[house with which he had béen con- &2 ate voted down every amendment that|nected went to Superior at the time of Y might seem to imperil its final pas-|the trial and in order that no stigma sage; and the only amendment of |would be attached to the house, he consequence. that prevailed was one|paid the claims. They amounted to by Senator John Moonan of Waseca,|almost $200. absolving employers from liability In Superior Mac Lean was arrested under the act when they have insured {in a down town hotel in which it is the risk in lability insurance com-|said he was found with a woman who panies approved by the state com-|was not his wife. It is said that the missioner of insurance. charge on which he is being held i grew out of this feature of the Super- e Initiative and Befere?ld 5 for case. Upon being released in Su- p Initiative and referendum, so-far perior he at once went on the road as the legislature can compass it, is| iy nis old tactics. Had the hotel an established fact in Minnesota. men, the bankers or the restaurant Both branches of the legislature have : pedple remembered the press notices - = adopted the report of the conferemce | s n¢ Shiperior: cassy ko would: have 2 "Continued on 1ast page). been taken here. That he assumed such a risk is without parallel. An- other unique feature of the case was the arrest of another man with al- most the same name who was also in the same line. of business. Mac Lean is well known to both the Duluth and Superior police and his measurements are in the Bertil- lon records of both cities. ‘If he is released from the present charge or receives a short sentence, he will " probably ‘be brought to ' Bemidji' to stand trlal for forgery. & OVER TO THE GRAND JURY George Williams was bound over to the grand jury yesterday from po- lice court .on a - charge - of robbery _|{from the person. It is said that Wil- liam@ took: $20 from . the person.of