Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 21, 1913, Page 1

b ;'flhleu. Service can be discon- VOLUME 10, NUMBER 302. GAS OFFER T0 BE MADE T0 COUNCIL E. E. Collins Says He Will Submit Same Franchise as Was Granted Him By Little Falls. FEW MINOR EXCEPTIONS HERE Difference of 2,000;000 feet in Change From Two to Three Per Cent Tax on the Gross Earnings. HIGH LICENSE VOTE TONIGHT Ordinance Comes up For Third and Last Reading—To Let Contracts For Street Cleaning. ‘When the council meets tonight, it will be called upon to consider three important propositions. It will take a final vote on the ordinange fixing the liquor license fee for the city at $1,000, will hear E. E. Collins, repre- sentative of eastern gas interests who wish to build a gas plant in Bemidji, and will let a street cleaning con- tract. . Mr. Collins stated Saturday that the proposition which will be sub-|! mitted to the council tonight is the same as was accepted at Little Falls through a franchise, with the excep- tion of changing the names. Mr..Col- lins submitted a copy of the little Falls franchise to the Pioneer Sat- urday. The following synopsis of the franchise explains its principal fea- tures: Synopsis of Franchise. Site of works must be approved by |- council before building is started. Map and plat showing all pipes, ete., must be submitted to and ap- proved by city gngineer and council before construction is started. They must be filed with the city within ninety days after franchise cepted. Streets, sidewalks, etc., removed by the company when laying mains shall be relaid at the expense of the com- pany to the satisfaction of the city engineer and council. is ac- In case the work is not satisfactory, the council can order it done and charge it to the company. The cost and damages then become a lien on the company. The council can order the removal of pipes at any time. The company must relay at its own expense pipes which have to be changed to conform to new street grades. If pipes be- come unfit for use, the council can condemn them and order them re- paired. The company must furnish a bond with a surety company before any work is started. In addition to the general taxes, the company shall pay two per cent on its gross earnings until the out- put reaches 10,000,000 feet ,(Mr. Col- lins says the figure for Bemidji will be 12,000,000 feet) and then the tax beomes three per cent. The books of the company are to be open to the city at all times. Change Rate in Five Years, Once in every five years, the coun- cil shall have the right to set the maximum price for the gas during the next five year period. In no case, however, is the price to be more than the maximum fixed in the franchise. In case the company is dissatisfied with the rate set by the council, it can appeal to a board of arbitration. The board is composed of one man selected by the city, one by the com- pany and the third by the two. The gas shall be frée from all im- purities, shall test eighteen candle power for light and 600 British ther- BEACON LiGHT COMMEMORATING THE TITANIC DEAD Photograph by Underwood & Underwood mal units for heat. =~ The pressure shall be such as will balance a col- umn of water not less. than two.in- ches nor more than six inches high at the level of the gasholder. 2 An adequate supply of gas is to be furnished at $1.50 per thousand with a ten per cent discount for bills paid before the tenth of the month. Re- ductions can be made to large users but the same rate must apply to all. A meter charge of fifty cents is made’ where the gas consumed will not cost that amount. . The service can be disgontinued for thirty days upon no- tifying the gas company. The com- pany cannot make any rule requiring the use of a certain klnd of stove or it bills are. not Wd bt vn- Many Women in Black Were at the Simple Service Down in South Street in New York City, on the Anniver-| sary of the Sinking of the Titanic, to Witness the Dedication of the Light- house on the New Twelve Story Sea- man’s Institute. An Oval Tablet of Bronze Which is to be at the Base of the Tower Bears This Inscription: This Lighthouse Tower is a Memorial to the Passengers, Officers and Crew of the Steamship Titanic ‘ Who died as Heroes When tnat Vessel Sank After Coiusion with an Iceberg Latitude 41 deg. 46 min. North, Longitude 50 deg. 14 min. West, April 15, 1912, Erected by Puhhc Subscrlpllon paid bills do not become a lien on the property and later tenants cannot be denied gas because predecessors did not pay bills. Cost of Street Lights. If requested to by the <city, the company shall light the streets at the following rates: 40 candle power light. 60 candle power light. 90 candle power light 120 candle power light. 160 candle power light $60.00 All fixtures for street lighting to be provided by the company. Meters shall be furnished by com- pany and repaired when off more than 13 %. Bills shall be rendered in cubic feet. Meters must be tested at least once in three years. They shall be tested at the request of a consumer at least once in six months. City shall have free access to all me- ters at all times for purposes of in- spection and may require steps taken for the correct measurement of gas. The company shall install in the city hall and not more than four oth- er places gas jets by which city can test lights. The company shall make tests at the plant and the record shall be open to the public at all hours. The city, through a properly auth- orized person, shall have right to vis- t and inspect plant at all times. The company shall lay new mains and have service ready within- six months after being so directed by the council. No petition for mains shall be considered by the council unless there is a dwelling at least every 200 feet. No extensions to be made dur- ing December, January, February, March and April. ...$30.00 .$32.50 City Car* Buy Plant. City can buy plant at any time dur- ing life of -the franchise. City ap- points one appraiser, company ohe and the two a third. After appraisal amount fixed shall be filed with the city clerk and the city shall take over the gas plant upon payment of that sum. In case the company re- fuses to appoint an appraiser, the dis- trict court may appoint one after twenty days. In case two,k cannot agree on third, he may be appointed by the court in same manner. City can refuse to purchase after appraise- ment is made. If plant is not bought within six months, appraisement will not stand. Each pays one-half the expense of the appraisal. The company shall never combine with any other furnishing any kind of light or power and shall not con- solidate or pool its stock with any company in {his territory. " Franchise is for twenty-five years and at end all rights cease ipso facto. Company shall pay for thecost of publication of . the franchise in a daily paper. (Mr. Collins says this expense will not be included in the Bemidji -offer.) Ordinance must be accepted with- in’thirty days and plant be working in nine months. two miles of mains the'first year. Franchise will become void upon violation of any of'its provisions. The council tonight will also open lw the eorilmg- year. Per yenr’l- Company must lay.: tecting heérself. And it is Europe. land were all slipping into Coast. , common interest, centered thrive. THRIVE. Chicago and New York. country of its capital. every year, - money and thé goods.” mediate gains and to. discover the dull dres&; It was becduse of this far-seeing. wisdom of that the great common people of America 4 ‘Now, Franklin’s Wisdom had got everything to do with “money that stays at, You people of this community. who are, Mbmf g “penny wise and pound tool ish” (and this is another of Franklin’s wiseiold saws) ought to think of tlus remark ¢ every night before you go to hed—“money ¢ hat stays at- home.” : Don’t think that your temptation t a hundred years ago. Don’t think that it takes' any lasp. courage to fight it off. named of the tempter has been chauged, but th In the early days of this-republic, Gerr made wares. It took a lot of courage and a lg half for American goods when England woul But if we had not had that courage and thatfar-sighted wisdom we would still have been a little huddled group of despondent Ll Today every city and village in the B’nl € tation that confronted the whole of Amerigajin Franklin’s time. “The only difference is that,now the enemy is in' our midst and he sometimes comes to us in the guise of a friend. For remember this: We are no longeg me little- unit of people, with one little of the Eastern coast. We are now ten thousand units of peopl w.th ten thousand interests, each inter- est centered in every little village and commumty n the United States: And remember one thing more: “Penny wise and-pound foolish’: cause that is what is the matter with the wwits of America: This community goes on remaining the same, year after year, or it mcreases at a snail’s pace because we get, the goods and they get the ‘money. ‘Well, sometunes we save a few cents in cost and we rub our lean sidés and grin at our wxsdom I Meanwhile they go on gathering in the capital by which we can make 'aurselves 1 rich, and while we are wondering what's the mater with us, they are declaring hun- ‘ | because we have: America with th together on a8 You ask what’s the mater with America? ® That’s what’s the matter w1th America. The Home must be strong before the Village can be strong; the Village must be strong before the Country can be strong; the : strength of the Country makes the strength of the State, and the power of the State is the Nation’s power. ‘We have been selling out to foreign madé goods, to foreign interests. And those interests are just as forelgn to our interest, whether they are centered in the sweat- shops of Manchester, in the cheap. labor of &bnitz, or St. Gall, or in the Great Mail Order houses that go on drammg our pocket books from the metropohtan centers of that- ig what is -the- dreds of thousands of dollars in dividends. Like some great river with a million little tmbutary streams they are draining our ‘We are pouring untold millions of dollars into their coffers And then we wonder why our little city is always the same. manufacturers ever settle in our town. We wonder why no opportunities ever come to us, and worst of all we wonder why our own sons go away and never return. Oh, for the wisdom of a Franklin in this later day! Oh, for the courage of our Con- tinental Fathers—the wisdom to see through this thin veneer and the courage to reject this penny of gain for the pound of loss it entails. Say this over to yourselves again and again, say it when you look at your cah- logue, say it until it weaves itself into your dreams, “Money that stays-at home i3 the only money I can ever uge again. When I buy goods from a distant concern.I get the goods but they get the money. When I buy. goods from my neighbor WE TWO. get the led’ his teaching for a hundred years; ~nre wealthler than ‘the anstocracy of ing | '1!9 do with ‘the tariff, high or low» but it had 1 any less than that of your grandfather y nd ngland and France and Hol- and - offering .us their cheap amope of wisdom to pay a shilling and a sell 1is the identical thing for a shilling. 3 elmgmg to the old. New England States is confronted by the same temp The upit must. thrive before the nation can THE - UNIT HAS CEASED TO at America began pro- The -exactly the same. matter w:th Amerxca be- We wonder why few EXPENSE IS MUCH LESS Chairman Conley of House Commit- tee, Says Body Has Been Over $25,000 Less This Year SENATE FIGURES NOT COMPILED St. Paul, April 21.—Expenses of the house of representatives will be $25,710 less for the 1913 legislature than in 1911, according to Kerry Conley of Rochester, chairman of the legislative expense committee. In a report submitted - Saturday, Mr. Conley shows that the present house has spent only $5,011 for sup- plies against $20,490 in 1911, $737 for furniture at the present session compared with $2,180 two years ago and $572 for -committee ' visits " to state “institutions against $1,452 two years ago. The total cost is $169,247 against $194,958 in 1911. Mr. Conley summarized the ex- penses of the two sessions as follows: Articles 1913 Knives . Fountain pens Scissors .. ‘Writing pa Carbon paper Typewriter papel Blank books nnd Other suppiil Sundry items Furniture " Grain Com. »robe Pub. Accts. and Ex. probe . ame ~ and com. trip . bids‘for.street cleaning and sweeping suu‘gosn PRICE QUOTED ON SHEEP Men as to Market, J. J. Opsahl, chairman of the sheep committee of the Commercial club, has been advised by E. W. Denison, Chester, Mont., that sheep can be bought there at the following prices: One year old fambs. ..$3.25 Two year wethers . ..$3.26 C. B. Pope at Miles City writes that he can furnish two, thfee and four year old ewes bred to lamb in May at $5. - Yearling ewes with -wool' cost $6 and yearling ewes - without wool to be nhipped June 1 will cost $4. The uheep ‘market is said to be un- " |usually strong this year and prices may not go lower. TENSTRIKE m—mcxnuex 2 Special to The. Flouser. Tenstrike, ‘April. 21.—The Ten- strike ball team journeyed to Black- duck Sunda-and were victorious with a score of 12 to 2. ’l‘he Ilneupu were as follows} E Tenltflke Blackduck 8. Thompqgn JL1stb .. Wi Thommn Higins ... .......r. . 6 | Herman®. . . Fellows Radschweit. Rice. . “Richmire Kirkpatrick Opsahl Has Been Advised by Western |- | men. NEWS FROM_ NORTH END Five Hundred Men are Wanted in Baudette and Spmer'to ‘Work in - the Saw Mills, J. U. WILLIAMS OUT OF DANGER Baudette, April 21.—Five hundred men are wanted here and in Spooner to work in the saw miils. Good wages are promised and employment of- fices are doing their best to get in the The Engler mill started saw- ing today and the Spooner mill start- ed Saturday.. J. U. Williams, who has been’ ser- iougly ill 'with the.mumps, is report- ed completely out of danger. He was taken sick about two weeks ago” but caught cold and had a relapse. ' His recovery is considered ovnly 2 matter of time. 1t is claimed here on guod, author- ity that the Backus - interests will build from Loman Into Spooner: but not from Kelliher as that would give them ‘too much’ competltlon from Lbe south: A 3 Joseph Red Sky, l Chippway chfe! on the Rainy River, died last week at the pome of Ed le;uuugh. John Miller, who was arreste ! baseball team deteated . Ssturd(y afternoon | Photo of Vincent Astor @ by American Press. Assoclation. EXTRA STRIKE IS SETTLED | cnymisfia‘m tarned -to. Work “'This Morning After Settlement of Trouble Saturday. By 'United Press. Brainerd, April 21.—The Cuyuna range strikers réturned to work this morning, = The underground men had been out on a strike which was settled Saturday. < m FABMER.S ORGANIZE E]ect Tempon.ry Officers for Club— To_Meet Again May 17. Farmers who attended the meeting at Nebish Saturday decided to organ- ize a club and will meet again May 17 to form a permanent organization. The meeting Saturday was addressed by E. C. Stiles, butter maker at the (Creamery. The club elected the following tem- porary officers: S. J. Dietel, chair- man; J. L. Higgine, vice chairman; J. C. Vogler, secretary, and Peter Sunba, treasurer. Sixteen-men join- ed Saturday and it is expected that the number will be’doubled” A com- mittee of five was appointed.to draft a set of by-laws. . BAUER FUNERAL TUESDAY The funeral of A. E. Bauer, who ac- cidentally shot himself last Tuesday in Winnipeg, will be held from the Ibertson morgue Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. X His mother and sister, Mrs Henry Bauer and Rose Bauer, arrived in the city this morning with the remains. Rey. S. E. P. White will have charge of the services and the local lodge of 0dd Fellows will attend in_a body. Interment will be made at Greenwood cemetery. TEN CENTS PER WEEK} HOUSE OVERRIDES GOVERNOR'S VETO. —_— i limnette Bill Passed Easily Bnt Ko- “lan Measure Found it Hard to Get Necessary Votes. : ARE UP IN THE SENATE TODAY — ’ Former Would Go Through and Latter Would Not. DEMONSTRATION IN MILL CITY Minneapolis Wild Over Eberhart’s Action—Big Meeting Held Saturday. Special to The Plonesr. St. Paul, April 21.-—At 3 p. m. this afternoon, the legislature had taken no action .on either the Minnette or Nolan bills. The general opinion ap- pears ta be that the Minnette bill will muster sufficient votes to oyerride the veto but that the Nolan bill will not. St. Paul, April 21.—A scene unpre- cedented in the history of Minnesota was enacted in the house chamber late Saturday, when two bills were passed over the governor’s veto, one after the other. The Minnette tele- phone bill, first taken up, was put through easily with a vote of ‘95 to 13, but the house was held an hour and a half while votes were drummed up to pass the Nolan bill.: Five mem- bers were absent without excuse and on the ground that these men should be brought in and made to vote, the house was held under call, and friends and enemies: of the-bill labored des- pérately with members to get and hold their votes. The plea to help relieve Minneapolis from its helpless condition as to the Minneapolis Gen- eral Electric company won vote after vote, and though only 71 had voted aye at first, change after change came until 78 votes had been rolleq up. Two more votes were needed. . L. C. Spooner of Morris, proved to be the man of the hour. “Mr. Speaker,” he said, “I voted against this bill because I'believe in the principle of stite con- trol of public utilities. I still believe in that principle, but I am persuaded to believe that an emergency exists in_ Minneapolis that justifies us in_ passing this bill at this time, and I change my vote from nay to aye.” Applause which had greeted every change was . redoubled, and G. H. Moeller of St. Paul, who'had agreed to furnish the necessary last vote, made No. 80 by announcing a change of his vote to “aye.” Danger was not yet passed, for it ‘was rumored that three men who had voted “aye” were ready to change to “no” whenever the bill went over the line. The bill'quickly was placed be- yond possibility of -harm, however. C. T. Knapp, F. L. Klemer and A. C. Stoven joined the procession and changed to aye, making the bill safe. “| The call then was suspended and the vote announced. It was 83 to 27, and the Nolan bill will do a wedding march into the state senate today with the Minnette -bill. It will then be up to the senators whether the two measures are made laws. Governor A. O. Eberhart, some of whose appointees had been laboring all the past week to line up the house members to sustain the veto, was waiting news of the house action in his office. He professed not to be dis- appointed. MANY OUT FOR PRACTICE A large number of men were out to the fair grounds yesterday but no of- ficers were elected as the majority ‘of those present were not candidates. for the team. A game was played between two pick-up teams after which a cap- tain and manager were elected: Bran- don was elected captain and' M. S. Gillette manager. ' Nothing has been done to schedule a game at. present bat some téam will - probably be trought here in the course of (e next few weeks. HIGH SCHOOL DEPEATED The Crooklwn— Lumber company the : High 2 Bix inning game last a score~of 3 to 0 in favor of e Hllh. hool unul the fifth inning en- the lumhennen ‘brought in one school team in’ “I am not surprised at the vofe in the house,” he said. “I rather looked for it from the vote that was cast for both bills in the first instance, and from the fact.that the house organiza- tion was’ working to pass the bills over the veto.” The governor would not hazard a Dprediction as to the-senafe; but evi- gelmy is pinning hopes in a failure to ‘muster the necessary votes for the two bills in the upper house. They must receive ‘42 of the 63 senaté votes. ' Remonstrance Meefing. A remonstrance meeting “against “|the veto'of the Nolan bill to give mu- nicipalities power to regulate ratés charged by public utflity . corpora- tions,, nrranged Jointly by the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ associa- tion and Saturday Lunch club, -at- tracted nearly 1,000 citizens Saturday: night to - the assembly rooth In the city hall. The issue was declared the most important in the legislature in t At Press Time, Indications Were That