Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 22, 1913, Page 1

| \ o VOLUME 10. NUMBER 303. SALOON LICENSE FEE WAS FIXED AT $,000 FOR BEMIDJI LAST NIGHT Council Unanimously Passed the Ord- inance Raising Its Cost From = Present $500. NYMORE WALK ORDERED BUILT Will Be of Cement, Five Feet Wide, and Will Lie Ten Feet South of the Pavement. GAS FRANCHISE TO COMMITTEE Murphy, Bailey and Miller Named to Confer With Collins—Lake _ Shore to Be Cleaned Up. Fewer Bemidji saloons is the case today as the council last night unani- mously passed the ordinance raising the liquor license fee from $500 to $1,000. When the ordinance was first introduced, saloon men were notified that the thirty-four saloons would be cut to seventeen as soon as it was passed. The council is ready today to stand by that notice. President Murphy saidllast night that the saloons would be cut as fast as they came up for renewals of li-| cense. He said this did not mean| that the first seventeen renewals| would be refused but that during the | year, seventeen will be dropped. The| first to go, he said, will be Duncan | McDougal who operates the saloon in | the Lake Shore hotel. McDougal was! granted a license in May, 1911, after| Louis Anderson had been convicted of | a law violation and his license re-| voked. As originally cense called for a fee of $1,500 but| two weeks ago it was.amended to| read $1,000. - Alderman John Moberg | of the First ward, was the only mem- ber of the council absent last night and as he had expressed himself in favor of $1,000 license many times, | the action of the council is considered | unanimous. ‘ Tilt With Warfield. C. W. Warfield and E. E. Collins| had a lively tilt while Collins was addressing the council on the gas| question. Mr. Collins had stated that | his company would furnish gas for| heating, cooking and lighting at an average cost per home of about $3 per month. He further stated that the gas would test eighteen candle power. Mr. Warfield interrupted to ask what | a candle power is. “You ‘ought to know that,” return- ed Mr. Collins. Eighteen candle power is the power of eighteen can- dles burning at once.” Mr. Collins asked the city clerk to read the franchise he offered the city | but upon motion it was decided to leave the matter to a committee of three, composed of Aldermen Murphy. ! Miller and Bailey, who are to inves- tigate and report at the meeting two weeks hence. Those who had read the franchise were favorably impress- ed with it but wanted to know more | ot Mr. Collins and his connections. Build Nymore Sidewalk. Construction of a cement walkj around the Nymore road to the city limits is to be started at once. The walk will be placed ten feet south of| the pavement and will be five feet| wide. The city owns a strip four feet ! wide south of the walk so that the walk can be widened to nine feetj at any future time. The improve- ment will cost about $1,700. Ordinance 67, which calls for aj dead :line for buildings sixteen feet from ‘the property line and twelve\‘ feet on lots less than 100 feet deep,i was passed with Alderman Bailey the only one voting “No.” Alderman | Murphy refused to vote and Moberg was absent. The ordinance was pass-| ed so that stores and other buimingsi cannot be built close to the walk in the district north and west of Sixth and Lake Boulevard. Clean Up Lake Shore. Street Commissioner Carter was in- introduced, the Hl-| structed to clean up the lake shore| at the foot of Third street and given authority to order out any buildings there at present. He has served a written notice on Captain MacLach- lan to move his floating dock and ‘other barges... The:shooting gallery iwill also be moved and work started ‘on the city fire dock at once. The little park will be cleaned up and sowed to grass. The city engineer was ordered to estimate the cost of grading Missis- sippi avenue from T--i% +n Nintu street and the city clerk to ask for pids on the same. - Mississippi avenue |the overdraft. has been in bad shape for some time but the council decided to have it graded and the walk line fixed at once. A report from the street commit- tee recommending the paving of Sec~ ond street from' Minnesota to Amer- ica, Fourth street from Beltrami to Bemidji, Bemidji from Third to Fourth, and Beltrami from Fifth to Eighth was accepted and filed. ~The work will not be ordered unti the council decides how much of the per- manent improvement fund, which is overdrawn $10,000, is to be spent this -year and, how much returned to pay The city must alsod pave a strip to the Great Northern depot and from the foot of Third street to the city dock so that the fire engine can get to the new plat- form. The bridge at the outlet was reported in bad shape. Bids for cleaning and sprinkling the streets were opened and it was found that August Peterson was the lowest bidder. He was awarded the contract at $130 for sprinkling and $159.75 for cleaning, a total of $289.75 per month. This is less than it cost the city last year and about teri dollars a month under the bids of Wes Wright and W. E. Hyatt. Other action taken by the couneil was: Complied with the request of the G. A. R. and appointed a_committee of three to attend to the Decoration| day exercises. Ordered 1,500 feet of new hose tested by the fire chief before order- ing paymnt. Ordered in a thirty-two candle| power light at Mississippi and Fifth. Ordered street commissioner to clean out the storm sewers. | Ordered street commissioner to es-| tablish sidewalk grade in front of P. J. Russell’s residence so he can build a cement walk. Granted Herbert Doran a plumber’s licensg for one year. Ordered rubber shoes for the fire team. The street committee was instruet- ed to look over the walks of the city and report on new ones needed.- BREAK MUSIC TRUST By United Press. Milan, Italy, April 22.—With the filing of a suit today against Italy’s famous musical trust, the Ricordi| music house o this city, Italy is to have its first experience at “trust busting.” The suit has been brought by Giuseppe and Guotano Donizetti, heirs of the famous opera composer, and they ask a refund of all revenues on thirty-two of Donizetti’s operas for a period of twenty-eight years, dating from 1885. Should they win, it is estimated that the music trust will pay more than $1,000,000. For at least two generations. the house has been able to crush all op- position in Italy. It is practically im- | possible for an opera to be published and produced in Italy that is not handled through the Ricordi house. It is almost equally impossible for a sigger to sing the most ordinary songs |in public without paying a royalty to the house. The Metropolitan at New York, and Covent Garden at London have been obliged at times to accept whatever terms the firm might die- tate for the production of the mnew| Italian operas. The Denizetti heirs, in their suit today, make a test case on “La Favor- ita.” Should they win their suit the decision will apply as well to thirty- two operas including such well known | ones as “The Daughter of the Regi-| ment,” “Lucretia Borgia,” and others. SETTLE WAGES DISPUTE TODAY New York, April 22.—Representa- tives of .fifty-two eastern railroads and heads of the Order of Railroad Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen met here today to settle the wage demands presented by on roads of similar grades, and a fif- teen per cent wage increase. SCOOP zirorter "REPORTER TR T (Copy~ight) LAKE IS NEARLY OPEN Wind Sunday Blew Field of Ice North of Diamond Point and Lower End . Is Clear. ; LAUNCH BIG BOAT TODAY Ice in Lake Bemidji was badly cracked when it was pushed on the north shore by the south wind Sun- day. The rain Sunday night also helped in breaking it up and with a stiff wind from the north, the ice will disappear in small pieces. Although it piled on Diamond Point Sunday, the height of the mass was not as much as in former years because it was honeycombed and crumbled easily. The “City of. Bemidji” will take to the water sometime today and Cap- tain MacLachlan will start his trips across the lake in a day or .two. He has already advertised a trip to the dam for Sunday. Captain MacLach- lan will move his barge from the city ‘dock in a short time and will make other arrangements for caring for passengers and freight. The “Yankee Doodle” is to be fitted up for a trailer. Ice has left most of the boat house stalls and owners are busy ' with paint. The first canoe trip of the season was made Saturday by the Misses Beatrice Eddy and Frances Mosford who went across Lake Irving and up the Mississippi. Bert Lakin was the first one to have his launch in the water. The ice has left the city dock in bad repair and the city will be at some expense putting it in first class shape. ) UNDER AN ANCIENT STATUTE London, April 22.—Under the an- cient statute dating from the reign of Edward III Miss Annie Kenney, tem- porary head of England’s militant suffragettes, today was arraigned in Bow street oplice court charged with being a disturber of the peace and an inciter of others to commit crimes, and also as being likely to perservere in such unlawful conduct “which is likely to lead divers other women to commit further disturbances of the peace.” Many fashionably dressed suffragettes crowded the court room when Miss Kenney’s name was called. Miss Kenney was arrested on April 8. 'When he cage was called next day the employees’ organizations in Jan-!she was remanded for trial today. uary when they asked standard rates | Extra precautions were taken by the for men performing the same service | police to prevent a disturbance which was confidently expected in the | case of Miss Kenney’s conviction. Scoop Has M BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, PR T s ‘/ 7 v HEEEEEEER KRR KK RK * T0_CROSS ATLANTIC Sis S * _IN A BALLON * KREEERKEIEEE IR KKK Trans-Atlantic Baloon Flight. Mr. Breucker, a former Chicago editor and commissioner to Germany from the St. Louis World’s Fair, will attempt the flight in the dirigible baloon “Suchard II” from the Canary Island to Barbades or Trinidad.~ 10 PLAY ycxmjcx Next Saturday afternoon the Be- midji High school baseball team will play its first game of the season when it clashes with the Blackduck High. Both teams have had - about weeks practice and the local boys ex- pect a close game. Only four High school games will be scheduled this year as there will only be four more Saturdays to play before the close of the school term. Grand Rapids has written for a game and one will prob- ably be played with them at Grand Rapids one week from Saturday. Those who may play in Saturday’s game are Ray Johnson, ‘Adolph Klein, Lester Achenbach, Earl Bailey, Claude Builey, Earle Riley, Lloyd Tanner, 'Claude MclIver, James Sullivan, Harry Wolf and Myron Plummer. three POINDEXTER IS FORTY-FIVE Washington, April 22.—Senator Miles Poindexter, of Washington, to- day celebrated his forty-fifth birth- day. He is a Tennessean _by- birth, and has the distinction of being the only senator designated on the rec- ords as a “Progressive.” W OTTO SCORES AGAIN Bemidji Man, Now Postoffice Inspec- tor, Secures Conviction of Newspa- per Publishers in Michigan. PRINTED OBSCENE CARTOONS A. E. Otto, formerly in the Bemidji postoffice but now an inspector, last week secured the conviction of two Michigan newspaper publishers for sending obscene matter through the mails. The men had printed a car- toon ad comment which Captain Otto had considered obscene and he order- ed them into court. The judge in the case ordered the publishing company to pay a fine of $1,000 and ordered -the editor and and business manager imprisoned for sixty days and to pay a fine of $100 each. It took but two hours to try the case as the evidence consisted of two Finnish newspapers which con- tained the cartoons in question. ‘Captain Otto’s headquarters are now in Chicago but he maintains a home in Bemidji and visits here fre- quently. COURT TERM CHANGED A bill changing the time for hold- ing general terms of district court in the fifteenth judicial distriet, intro- duced by Senator D. M.-Gunn wag passed by the senate under suspension of rules. Under the terms of the bill the following court dates in eight counties are fixed: Aitkin, - third Tuesday in March and fourth Tues- day in September; Beltrami, second Tuesday in March and September; Cass, second Tuesday in February and September; Clearwater, third Tues- day in October; Crow Wing, first Tuesday in May and December; Hub- bard, fourth Tuesday in May and first Tuesday in December; Itasca, third Tuesday in March and second Tues- day in September, and Koochiching, AMERICAR ASSOCIATION. S . : © © W. L. Pet [Senate Members Wrangling and Min: - Milwaukee .. LT > thd Jon Kangas City . el g nette and Nolan Measures Indianapolis . .6 4 Wait. Minneapolis . .6- 6 St. Paul ... .6 b Columbus .4 6 444 Louisville .5 6 .444| WEDNESDAY IS END OF SESSION Toledo ........ .2 1 220 ‘ Games Sunday. innings. - Toledo, 8; Minneapolis, 5. Games Monday. Kansas City, 3; Columbus, 1. . Toledo, 16; Minneapolis, 7. Louisville, 9; St. Paul, 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. Washington ........ 6 0 Philadelphia 5 1 Cleveland . 7 4 Detroit ... 5 5 Chicago .. -5 6 St. Louis . 4. 6 Boston . 2 6 New York .. e BN & 2 ~ Games Sunday. Cleveland, 2; Chicago, 1. nings). Games Monday. Washington, 8; New York, 4. Philadelphia, 6, Boston, 4. Detroit, 3; Chicago, 2. Cleveland, 8; St. Louis, 3. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Philadelphia .. . Pittsburgh .... Chicago St. Louis". .. Brooklyn ..... Boston ..... Cincinnati .. (SRS S ERC NN S OO Games Sunday. Pittsburgh, 5; St. Louis, .4. Chicago, 3; Cincinnati, 2. Games Monday. €hicago, 7; Gincinnati, 6. Philadelphia, 2; Brooklyn, 1. New York, 4; Boston, 3. second Tuesday in June and January. N. M. D.A. VISITORS Visitors at the immigration rooms of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association in Minneapolis last week were: . Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Patrick, Grand Rapids; Swan Sorenson, Lancaster; C. L. Peterson, Grand Rapids; E. H. Denu, Bemidji; George Kinney, Be- midji; O.-C. Rood, Bemidji; W. L. Brooks, Bemidji, and Judge C. W. Stanton, Bemidji. [ Pittsburgh, 8; St. Louis, 5. SPECIAL PROGRAM READY Three weeks from Friday the High school public speaking class will give|amendment to Section 18, making the in the High |maximum for medical services $195, a final demonstration school assembly room to which public will be invited. the class have already work preparing their parts. program will be as follows: “Melody” ...... “Bear Story” .. “Modern Feudalism’ “The Death of Little Nell”....... +eesveoo..-. .Dorothy Torrance “Rollo Learning to Dress”....... “.ei..v.......Margaret Nesbit| was ready to report its agreement on “The-Decease of Robert”....... sesceeseite .. Marie Cahill Special music will probably be ob-|sight. tained for this entertainment includ- ing songs by the Boys and Girls Glee clubs. 5 Louisville, 13; St. Paul, 8. Eleven Columbus, 12; Kansas City, 9. Milwaukee, 9; Indianapolis, 2 Indianapolis, 6; Milwaukee, 0. Detroit, 2; St. Louis, 2 (eleven in- The program has been prepared and members of commenced - - Florence Freese | roopening of decision in certain cases, - - -Mona Flesher | which was stricken out by the house, “Ethics of Industrial Strife” ..... -Earle Riley Harold Hayner “The Play’s the Thing”. .Edith Ryan “The Minister”..... -Hilda ‘Galchutt | happening suddenly and violently “The Losing of Mr. Stubbins”.... .Alice Neely|ducing at the time injury to the phy- NO ACTION TAKEN ON VETOED BILLS Both Houses to Meet Thursday Morn- ing to Approve Journal and Will Adjourn at Noon. WORKMENS' ACT COMPROMISED $175—Two Cent Fare Still in Denger. Pet. 1.000 800 .636 .500 454 400 .250 143 BULLETIN. By United Press. St. Paul, April 22.—At 2 p. m. this afternoon mno action had been taken in the senate on re-passing over the governor’s vetoes the Minnette and Nolan bills. Sentiment in the senate has not crystalized and the members are wrangling. It appears to be a fight to the finish and may not be settled until Wednesday. The delay is looked upon as being favorable to the governor’s interests. St. Paul, April 22.—Wednesday at midnight the passing of bills by the legislature must cease, under the con- stitution. It is possible to keep on passing bills by stopping the clock or turning it back, as has been done in the past. But as most of the more in- teresting bills will be out of the way = before that time, it is not likely that work Wednesday night will be pro- .750 | longed much past the midnight hour. .714 Both: houses will--meet ' Thursday 677 {morning to approve thé journal - of .375 | the preceding day, and they will take .333 |advantage of the meeting to make the .167 fusual presentations and speeches of .143|farwell and mutual admiration. The session will adjourn sine die at noon Thursday, and by Saturday night there will not be a member of either body in the capital who does not live there. The workmen’s compensation act with amendments, as agreed upon by the conference committee of the sen- ate and house, was reported back in both chambers yesterday. The house recedes from its amend- ment to Section 17, providing that when an injury is prolonged for thirty days compensation shafl be paid from the first day of injury. As the bill now stands, compensation is paid only after the first two weeks. The house also recedes from its Pet. .800 and the senate recedes from its orig- inal draft of that section. The sec- tion as rewritten makes $100 the maximum, but provides that the court may require the employer, if neces- The|gity is hsown for it, to pay medical bills up to $200. "| The senate section, permitting the _ = the is reinserted in modified form. Another section in dispute was re- garding the definition of “accident.” In the agreement this is defined as: “An unexpected or unforeseen event, with or without human fault and pro- sical structure of the body.” ~ The status of other bills is as fol- lows: The recall conference committee the bill. The anti-roadhouse bill was in con- ference, with a probable agreement in A report was expected from the conference committee on the bill for state aid to county tuberculosis sani- toria, for which $500,000 is to be ap- propriated. 3 The “blue sky” bill, which ‘has passed the senate, was a special order in the house. 2 The congressional reapportionment bill which has passed the senate in a special order in the house. The “seven-senators” bill, which 'has passed the eenate, is a special L order in the house. Though no great interest has been shown by the house * Imembers in this' measure, it is. thought likely that it will pass and be submitted to the people again. ‘The house efficiency commission bill is on general ordersin- the senate. The house bills providing four-year terms for county officers after their order in the senate. SR 3