Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 15, 1913, Page 1

f i i VOLUME 10. NUMBER 297. STATE TAXES ARE T0 BE INCREASED Report of Both Appropriations Com- mittees Show That New Levy Will Be Higher. MORE THAN DOUBLE 1911 1913 Revenue Fund Calls For 2.3 Mills As Against .9 of a Mill Two Years Ago. SCHOOL EXPENSES ARE HEAVIER More Aid Provided and Money Must . Be Raised—Railroads are Hard Hit Also. GROWTH OF STATE TAX LEVIES | 1911 1912 1913 Revenue fund .. .9 1.9 2.3 Soldiers’ relief .... .1 .1 sl - State road and bridge .05 .25 1.0 4 - University campus.. .17 .15 .15 ¢ Prison building fund .25 .25 .25 g - - General school fund.1. 1 1. General university fund ........... .23 .23 Totals . St. Paul, April 16—The omnibus appropriation bills for the state in- stitutions and state departments in- .troduced in the senate by the senate finance committee and in the house by the house appfopriations com- mittee carries total appropriations for the biennial period beginning August 1, 1913, will aggregate $21,000,000. Two years ago the - total appropriations were approxi- mately $17,400,000. The tax levy for state revenue pur- poses will probably. be. 2.3, mills, said |« Chairman Frank Clague of the sen- ate finance committee. Two years ago the tax levy was fixed at a maxi- mum of 1.9 mills. The increase does not include the special 1-mill road tax levy provided under the R. C. Dunn good roads bill. School Expenses Larger. The largest contributing factor in . the increase is an increase of $1,750,- 000 in the special state aid to schools, the legislature in bills already passed having made provision for larger amounts to each class of schools and larger appropriations to take care of greater number of schools. State high, graded, semi-graded, rural, con- solidated and agricultural high schools are benefited. The 2.3 mills revenue fund tax with the I mill of roads, the 1 mill tax for the state levies will bring the state tax levy next year to 5.03 mills. For the present year it is 3.86 mills and last year it was 2.70 mills. Estimated revenue from railroad and other special taxes for the two years is $14,000,000, including a big - increase in railroad taxes. All that is appropriated in excess of $14,000,- 000 will have to be raised by direct levy on the real estate and personal property of the tax payers. As the 1-mill of tax levy raises only about $1,200,000 in taxes, the levy will have to show an increase over two years ago when it was 1.9 mills. No appropriation is included in the bills for the Panama-Pacific ex- position at San Francisco next year. Bills are in the committees allowing 3 $76,000 for a Minnesota building, but have beeh voted on adversely in both houses and cannot be brought out ex- cept by a fight on the floor. One University Building. . One new building for the Univer- I sity of Minnesota is provided in the | educational bill, which grants $145,- 000 for a new building for the school of mines, to replace the one burned, and $54,000 to remodel the present school of mines for the use of the g college of education. ~ Other University buildings are pro- vided for in the committee bill al- ready introduced, financing buildings to cost $700,000 by certificates of in-| debtedness for the university school of agriculture and the Winona, and Moorhead normal schools. ~ This bill provides $200,000 for a biology build- ing at the university. Other build- ings provided for in the omnibus bills made up today are as follows: Addition to Duluth normal school $80,000. New building for criminal insane at St. Peter, $70,000. New heating plant for Rochester insane hospital, $150,000. TWo new cottages at Anoka asy- lumm, $80,000. 2 . Two mew cottages at Hastings ssylum, $80,000, Copyright by Buck WIFE OF SECRETARY OF WAR Mrs. Lindley M. Garrison, Wife of the Secretary of War, Generally Con- ceded to Be the Handsomest Wo- man Among the Wives of the Mem- bers of the Cabinet. Two new cottages at Sauk Center home school for girls, $60,000. Introduction of the bills, which have been prepared in detail, was halted for consultation with Gover- nor A. O. Eberhart, whose veto power includes the right to cut out any item from an appropriation’bill. He was asked to read the bills in detail and give his views before they are in- troduced at his request. Several battles are looked for on the floor when the bills come up for a vote. One is promised on the board of visitors and one on the reduction in the salary of K. 8. Chase, state bank examiner, from $5,000 to $4,- 500. State Aid For Fairs. The board of control bill carries the appropriations for all state in- stitutions except the state university and normal schools. It is larger by about $500,000 a year than two years ago, owing to the increases necessary for the larger population of the in- stitutions, especially the overcrowded msane hospitals: i am " Several approprmtlon bill already have passed which must be accounted for in making up the budget. These include $100,000 for legislative ex- penses, $300,000 for the state high- wa ycommission, $250,000 for state aid to county fairs, $500,000 state aid for county tuberculosis hospitals and $5,000 for fire breaks in Northern Minnesota. Other smaller appropria- tions have passed and others are in a fair way to pass, and those mentioned involve increases in the state ex- pense, though the money goes out to the rural districts. ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT International Falls, April 5,—John McDonald one of the two prisoners who escaped from the county authori- ties last week, was captured between Ericsburg and Ranier Saturday. Mec- Donald and Barnhart, the other fugi- tive, together with another man, was walking on the railroad toward Erics- burg when two deputies riding on a freight passed them. After going some distance by the trio the deputies jumped from the train and proceeded back toward Ra- nier, when the fugitives saw them coming they took to the brush being routed from there they returned to the railroad and separated, one go- ing toward Ericsburg, one to the brush across the track and the other who proved to be Barnhart, toward Ranier. Each deputy gave chase to a man ‘and each was successful in making a capture. In the meantime a freight train passed on the way to- ward Ranier and the man Barnhart being an ex-railroad man had no dif- ficulty in flagging the engineer one half mile below the deputies and mak- ing his get away. - WORKING ON NEW VAULT Carpenters and contractors -have commenced work on the new fire proof vault in the city-hall. George Kreatz was let the contract last Mon- day by the city council. SCOOP I& on REPORTER PICKET LiME- | POPE 1S BETT ER Latest Report Says That He Continues to Mend With a Lowering Temperature. By United PFress. Rome, April 16.—The pope eonun- ued to mend this afternoon with a lowering. temperature and decreasing bronchial trouble,-says a bulletin put forth by his physicians. At the vatican preparations for the death of the pontift are going steadily on. FIRE PREVENTION Wisconsin to Have State Wide Clean- up on May 2—Purtell Issues General Order. ' By United Press. - Madison, Wis., April' 15.—State Fire. Marshall Purtell has designated May 2 as fire prevention day throughout Wisconsin. It will be the big day for the spring clean-up. MINNESOTA BOYS HELD Three Graduates of the Univujsicy Kept as Prisoners of War by Mexican Federal Troops. . By United Press. Minneapolis, April 15.—Arthur Barke, Harold Downing and Ralph Clawson are held prisoners in a Mex- ican fortress.by federal officers ac- cording to. a letter received here to- day by Norman B. Roberts. The let- ter was written by Downing and was smuggled through the lipes.by:.a Mex- ican boy who was bribed: Harold Downing was a classmate of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dane and Miss Marjorie Knappen, of this city, and of Miss Clara Shepley and W. E. Peik of Blackduck. His home was in Minne- apolis. Arthur Barke graduated in 1910 and came from Fergus Fallg. Ralph Clawson was a Minneapolis resident and graduated in 1912. CARL HAGENBACK DEAD Hamburg, April.15.—Carl Hagen- back, the animal collector and senior partner of the Handels menagerie and Tier park at Stellingen, near Hamburg, dled last night. Carl Hagenbeck was born in 1844. His father, who had commenced the animal business in 1848, with a few sedls and polar bears brought to Hamburg by a whaler, transferred the business to him when he was twenty-one years of age. In 1875 he began a collection of the representa- tive animals. of many countries throughout Europe. Several sover- eigns have bestowed decorations on him. ALL HEAD FOR MNABB'S No Money to Come Over the Bar on Saturday, “Andy” Says. Andrew McNabb’s saloon will be the most popular one in Bemidji Sat- urday. “No monmey will come over my bar that day,” said McNabb last. night before leaving for Minneapolis. Mr. McNabb married Miss Beatrice Niles in Minneapolis this morning and they will return to Bemidji from their wedding trip Saturday morn- ing. Mrs. McNabb formerly resided in Bemidji and was employed in the Markham hotel. She has been in Minot, N. D., but joined Mr. McNabb in Minneapolis this morning. Mr. McNabb says the house will be open Saturday. TRY Y0 SuLp BY THE REBEL Copyright) MAY BREAK THE RECORD Legislature Has Passed 271 Bills With Many More in Final Stages ~—Busy ‘Week Planned. SESSION WILL CLOSE APRIL 23 St. Paul, ApS'll lfi—th 271 bills now signed by< Governor A, O. Eber- hart, and_ already Micome laws, . the prospect is that-the output of the present legislature ‘will be the heav- iest in the history of the state. Hun- dreds of 'senate . ‘bills are awaiting action in the house, and hundreds of house: bills ‘will be voted on in the senate before ..midnight April 23, when the time limit ‘for passage of bills will be reached. Fully 600 chapters will make up the session laws of 1913. Most of the measures of first importance have been disposed of, or else are in the final stages. Important measures that are about to be disposed of are as follows: ‘Workmen’s compensation bill, passed both houses," difference to- be gettled by conference committee this week. Recall, passed both houses, senate to concur in house amendment this week and repass bill. Non-partisan primary bill, passed both houses, conference report ac- cepted, senate has repassed bill, house will consider its repassage as a spec- ial order on Wednesday. Minette bill for state regulation of telephones, passed house and a spec- ial order for Tuesday in senate. 3 Local option for fourth-class cities, passed both houses, conference report pending in both houses. Many other bills of general interest have progressed to a point where they are sure to be voted either up or down before the adjournment. The list includes the .following: Congressional reapportionment, passed senate, in house committee. Minimum wage commission, passed house, on senate calendar. O'Neill “roadhouse” - bill, house, on senate calendar. “Seven senator’’ bill, passed senate, in house committee, “Efficiency-committee’” plan for re- organizing state departments, passed house, “in senate committee. - County aid for ‘insane, pending in calendar in both houses. Gunderson-Lee - bill prohibiting dancing in public schools, on house calendar and senate general orders. Sundberg bill - prohibiting public i (Contin on last page passed As Somebody Once Said, “War Is Hell” Z AUTO DRIVERS WARNED Chief of Police Lane Says That the State Law for Driving in the City Will Be Enforced. RECKLESSNESS TO BE STOPPED Chief of Police Lane has issued a warning to all owners and driyeu of. -automobiles that the state law- must be observed and that recklessness and fast driving will not be tolerated in the city. The city has no ordinance on the subject as the state law covers cities of this class. After a conference this morning between Chief Lane and C. W. Jewett, president of the Auto club, Mr. Jew- ett announced that Sunday morning he will furnish two experienced driv- ers with autos to lead a parade fn which speed will be within the law and corners will be turned properly. Chief Lane said yesterday that too many auto drivers have been speed- ing on the city pavements and that several serious accldents have been narrowly averted. BARS MUSICAL AUTO HORNS French Judge Says Law Requires Single Note, Grave, Even Sinister Paris, April 15.—The musical au- tomobile .horns wihch threatened to fill the main streets of Paris with snatches of popular or classical airs instead of the usual “honk, honk” A test case was brought against two motorists of Douai, who enliven- ed the night trumpeting the leitmo- tiv of “Die Walkure,” and it has been decided that these instruments-are illegal here. .The decision brought out a judicial definition of the word “horn,” which had hitherto been rather widely interpreted. “The latter,” said the judge, “must be for the purpose of sounding an alarm and be used to warn the public, not to amuse it. - It must give forth a single note which should be grave, even sinister, in order te call atten- tion to the impending danger. “The new fanfare horns,” added the ‘judge, “lack seriousness, and are therefore outside the meaning of the act.” 5 have come to a quick finish in France. | CLEANING UP BEMIDJI Mayor and Police Active in Ridding the City of Disorderly Houses and Notorious Women, MUNICIPAL COURT KEPT BUSY Since Mayor McCuaig assumed of- fice; between fifteen -and twenty wo- men " sald to have arnished reputa- tions -have .been-ordered o tenve tire| city and have done so.- The last to be ordered to leave were Betsey Lo- berg,” who is to leave by six o’clock tonight and Minnie Vaughn, who left at noon. The two have been living on Fourth street and the police found indications of a disorderly house. Mrs. King, alias Minnie Robau- deau, alias Mrs. Bordeau and Elias Anderson, of the town of Eckles, were arrested in a hotel last night on a ‘charge of disorderly conduct. After registering as man and wife they were given a room but were taken out by the police before they had re- tired. Anderson pleaded guilty this morning, was fined $10 and costs and went to the county jail in lieu of the fine. Mrs. King paid a fine of $10 and costs. She has a jail record in Bemidji and was well known to the court officers. Because he jumped a board bill with Joe Blondo, J. B. O’'Dea was ar- rested and brought into municipal court. Judge Crowell advised him to :pay the bill and ordered his release. Andy Murray, a cripple, was given 1ve days in the county jail for being drunk and causing a disturbance on the street. ~Edward Nerland was found lying in the gutter at Second and Beltrami yesterday morning and was fined $2 and costs. He paid his fine and was released. Mayor McCuaig is watching other houses in the residence ~ districts which have been reported as housing disreputable women and says that it will be but a few days until they will be sent out_of town also. BICYCLE HOURS NAMED. Chief Lane stated this morning that the bicycle hours for this year would remain the same as last year and any persons caught riding on the sidewalk outside of hours would be arrested. The hours set for the use of the side- walk by bicycle riders are between 5 and 8 a. m,, 11 a. m. and 2 p. m. and 5 p. m and 8 p. m. This does not permit the use of the sidewalk on Sunday or where the streets - are paved. : 'SPECIAL TERM OF COURT " Judge B. F. Wright came to Bemid- ‘tional Falls who pleaded gllflty to YOUNG DOCTOR ON Taking Life of First Wife in ° March 1912 |PotsoniNG BELIEVED ‘MEANS Hypodermic and Drinking Cup . of Cocoa. PRISON LIFE WAS MADE EASY Pictures, an'erie-, Rugs and Books Turned Cell Into Private Den —Spent Time in Study. BY United Press. ; Springfield, Ohio, April 16.—Back- formerly a nurse, who he wedded six months after the death of his first Wife, Dr. Arthur B, Smith faces trial here today for the alleged murder of his first wife, Mrs. Florence Cavileer Smith, in March, 1912, State and de- fense have made elaborate prepara- tlons for the trial, the accused doctor himself having spent the months of his confinement in the county jail in studying poisons, in the attempt to prove that cyanide of potassium did not cause the death of Mrs. Smith, - Mrs. Smith died suddenly on the morning of March 18, 1912, after a slight indisposition ' of a few days. She complained of iliness on that morning and it is alleged that her husband broyght her.a cap.of cocoa. She lmmedlm’.ely became violently 111 and Dr. Smith summoned Dr. R..C. Rind. - According. to™ He; state’s harges, Dr. Rind adviséd s hypoder- mic injection and the husband said he had already!prepared oné; which was used. The indictment ¢harges that the alleged poisoning was accomplish- ed through the cocoa and the injec- tion, Six months later—on October 1— Dr. Smith and Miss Mabel Merchant, nurse at a local hospital, were mar- ried. The second Mrs. Smith is a na- tive of Cambridge, Mass., where her relatives live. Shortly after this marriage the county authorities, at the instigation of the dead woman’s family, set in motion an investiga- tion of her death. The body was dis- interred and analysis of the viscera was made by chemists, who are al- leged to have reported the finding of cyanide to the special grand jury. Dr. Smith was arrested Nov. 22, 1912, and committed to jail without bond. Expensive rugs were brought to cover the hard cement floor of his cell; pictures and draperies hid as much as possible the gloomy iron bars; an easy chair, a reading table and a chiffonier completed the cell furnishings. His meals were brought in from a restaurant and he ordered a telephone installed in his cell. The court, however, balked on the tele- phone and instructed the sheriff not to allow it. Shortly after Dr. Smith’s - arrest, the exclusive Springfield Country club of which he had been a moving spirit, quietly dropped his name from its roll. Other organizations with which he had been identified followed this example. But in the new Mrs. Smith he had a staunch supporter. She vig- orously proclaimed her belief in his innocence at the time of his arreat and is still unshaken. She has spent several hours daily with him during the months of his confinement. Dr. Smith has taken the accusation philosophically. He has spent the greater part of the time in prison in reading books on poisons and their effects on human beings. These books have been carried to him by the suitcase full. It is through his stud- fes of these books that Dr. Smith says he expects to prove 'his inno- cence and escape the electric chair. ji from Park Repids last night and held a special term of court for Koochiching county in the Markham hotel. Deputy Sheriff B, W. Bacon brought a man down from Interna- grand larceny ‘in the’ second degree and was taken to St. Cloud this morn- ing. = The man confessed to having taken two $20° gold pleces from other in a hotel.~ Judge WH:M ro- Ra thi ‘TRIAL FOR MURDER Springfield Physician Charged With Womn Taken Violently I After ed by the loyalty of his young wife, 2