Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 24, 1913, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI D. VOLUME 10. NUMBER 305. (913 SESSION OF LEGISLATURE OVER Adjournment Taken at Midnight Wednesday But Journals Were Approved This Morning. IMPORTANT LAWS WERE MADE Reapportionment, Distance Tariff, Recall, Workmen’s Compensation and Local Option are Passed SESSION WAS FOR THE PEOPLE : Radical Action Taken on Many Ques- tion Which Have Been Subject of Long Time Agitation. Some New Laws. Fifth normal school. Cigarette bill. State reapportionment Distance tariff, Initiative and referendum. Recall, including judges. Workmen's compensation. Minimum wage commission. Mothers’ pension. Tax classification. County tuberculosis sanatoria. Woodman emancipation act. Road house bill. Four year terms for county officers. New two-cent fare law. Seven-senators amendment. Nonpartisan primary. Local option for cities of the fourth class. Bills That Failed County option. Woman suffrage. Tonnage tax. County assessor. Restoration of capital punishment. Court of recall for judges. Fixing working hours for women and children. Semi-monthly pay-day bill. Reorganization of state depart- ments. “Full crew’’ for railroad trains. Public utilities. Date in Effect. Workmen’s compensation, October 1, 1913, Minimum wage, at once, commis- sion to be named within sixty days. Distance tariff bill, January 1, 1914. Tax classification bill, January 1, 1914, Bendixen two-cent fare bill, Janu- ary 1, 1914, Bill for abatement of houses, May 31, 1913. Nonpartisan primary, at election. immoral next St. Paul, April 24.—After one of the most strenuous sessions in the history of legislation in Minnesota, the legislature adjourned at midnight last night. It met again this morning to approve the journal and by noon most of the members were on their way home. The 1913 legislature has establish- ed a record for radical legislation which will probably not be equaled tor some time to come. Although sev-| eral of the most radical were Kkilled, «nough were passed to mark the ses- sion as a people’s session. Perhaps among the important ac- complishments of the session is the reapportionment of the legislative districts of the state. It is the first real reapportionment since the con- stitution was adopted. The last re- apportionment was made twenty years ago, but not in the full sense of the term. Other Important Bills. Other important bills passed come mainly under three heads, bills for extending the rights of the people, bills for the regulation of corpora- tions and bills for public welfare. Under the first head the three princi- pal measures are the initiative and referendum, the recall and the non- partisan primary.. In each of these three Minnesota. has taken a step far in advance of any other state. The LATE BILLS PASSED House and Senate Rushed Through Important Measures During Last Hours. BY United Pres St. Paul, April 24.—The house ad- journed at 12:25 this morning and the senate at 12:45. The following important bills were passed during the last session. Congressional reapporticnment. Bill licensing cigarette dealers. Popular election of United States senators. Hotel inspection. State aid for county tuberculosis sanitoria. Authorizing $700,000 worth of new buildings for the university and normal schools. Regulating the working hours of women. Sundberg bill halls. Bill creating a commission to re- vise the educational system of the state. regulating dance Seventy Bodies Taken Out By Eleven 0’clock Last Night and More are Believed to Have Perished. By United Press. Pittsburgh, April 24.—An explos- ion in the Cincinnati mine of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke company, seventy- seven miles from here, snuffed out the lives of at least seventy men yes- terday afternoon. That number of bodies had been recovered up to 11 p. m. last night. It is believed that 120 men were trapped. About sev- enty-five men, most of them badly burned, escaped. The rescue work is hampered by after damp but it is said that the fire has been completely subdued. COMMENCEMENT MAY 29 Judge Stanton Will Give Address and Reverend White Preach Bac- calaureate Sermon. May 29 has been chosen as the date for the commencement exercises of the Bemidji High school. Judge C. W. Stanton has consented to give the commencement address and Rev. S. E. P. White will preach the bacca- laureate sermon Sunday May 25. Six- teen members of the senior class are ‘candidates for graduation this year. Thirteen graduated last year. The class is working on music and other numbers for the exercises. initiative and referendum bill, to be |submitted to the voters at the next "election, differs from the plan of any "other state in that all bills initiated by the people must be referred to the legislature for debate and amend- ment. The recall differs in that it includes both elective and appointive officers and provides for an election only on the recall of the official. The nonpartisan primary bill is a step farther than any other state has gone, and much farther than any ,member dreamed of going when the session opened. With nonpartisan nomination of judges and county sup- erintendents provided at the special session, members planned to make all county officers nonpartisan. The leg- islation enacted makes the legisla- jture nonpartisan. | Under the head of public welfare measures, the county sanatoria bill |and the workmen’s compensation act vie for first place. The latter had \the hardest fight, but both are im- | portant steps in advance Both have been fought for in previous sessions, ,but nothing was accomplished. The minimum wage for women and child- ren and the mothers’ pemsion bills were new ideas, and their passage surprised even the friends of . the measure. Usually plans of this sort (Continued on last page). A MINE EXPLOSION BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDA ‘I 7 Tt GATE BUSTED AGAIN P 21721 THATS FUNNY WEDNEs DAY _WIGHTS (Copyright.) WORKING ON ROAD PLANS Automobile Cilub Making Arrange- ments for Minstrel Show and for Races at Fair Grounds, INVITE THE NEIGHBORS IN Committees of the Bemidji Auto club which have charge of the raising of moneyAto be used in the completion of the road around the head of the lake are getting plans into shape for a minstrel show and for a big auto racing program at the fair grounds. Jack Herbert, one of the Crookston mill staff, has taken charge of the minstrel show and has obtained the assistance of Miss Marjorie Knappen, of the High school faculty, in coach- ing. As Miss Knappen will leave the city about June 1, the minstrel show will probably be given within the next thirty days. Clyde Bacon has donated the use of the armory for the show and the Warfield Electric com- pany has agreed to furnish the neces- sary light. C. W. Jewett, president of the club, has charge of the auto racing pro- gram and is planning to make the occasion a gala day for Bemidji. The Taces will be held some Saturday aft- ernoon the first of June and will be widely advertised. Invitations will be sent to the auto clubs of Black- duck, Bagley, Fosston, Crookston, Park Rapids and others within driv- ing distance of the city to attend the meet and to enter racers if they wish. Special invitations will be sent to Thief River Falls and other Soo line towns. The auto races will not be held be- fore the roads into the city are in first class shape so that the visitors will have no trouble in driving in. R.'L. Given drove to within seven miles of the Itasca State Park Sunday and re- ports the road in good shape. The Cass Lake road has been open for some time and it is believed the Blackduck road will be dry as soon as the rain ceases. Some money is coming in through the Riders club and members of the Auto club state the money will be raised for the road without a doubt. ENTERTAIN SCHOOL BOARD The cooking class of the }figh school will entertain the members of the board of education -‘and - their wives at a six o’clock dinner this eve- ning. This is the first time in the three years the sclicol has taught cooking that the class has prepared and served a.dinner for the . board members. Those to be deated tonight will. be Messrs, and Mesdames E. H. Smith, E. H. Marcum, J. P. Lahr, M. J. Brown, K. K. Roe, Edward Jack-| son and W. P. Dyer. Fourth of July to Be Observed in Be- midji With Old Time Races and Sports—Money Being Raised COMMITTEE TO MAVE 'CHARGE Bemidji will have an old time Fourth of July celebration if plans formulated by several of the business men of the city do not miscarry. The |celebration will include races and sports of all kinds, on water as well land, speeches and unusual features which cannot be announced at this time. In order that Bemidji will-be the first in the field, a committee is al- ready at work raising funds to fin- ance the project and have about $300 pledged to date. . Withing a short time, invitations will be issued to the towns within reach asking them to join Bemidji in 2 monster celebra- tion. Enough money will be raised for prizes to make it certain that out of town talent will be on hand to com- pete with home talent. Last year several of the towns near Bemidji-had celebrations. of their own and it is believed that by combining them all, a record breaker can be had here. The committee in charge of the celebration last year financed it so ably and not only was every bill con- tracted paid, but it was not necessary ito call in the: full' amount - of the money pledged. as on KKK KKK KKK KK KK PLAN BIG CELEBRATION| COMMANDERS COMING Present and Past Head of Yepnttment _of Minnesota G. A. R. to be Here May 30. e ek MUSiC BY SOHOOT ~CHILDREN E. B. Wood, of Cass Lake, past commander ot‘ the department of Minnesota, G. A. R., and Wm. P. Roberts, present commander, will be the guests of honor of the R. A. Carr Post, G. A. R., of Bemidji, at. the Memorial day exercises May .30. Mr. Wood will give the principal address of the day at the cemetary exercises. As the veterans will not be able to take charge of the services many years more they have asked the city to assist them this year and to take full charge next year with the veter- ans as their guests. Alderman Mur- phy, president of the council, will an- nounce. the council committee Sat- urday. Professor Dyer and Miss McDon- ald have charge of the music for the exercises at the cemetery and are drilling a children’s chorus for three numbers. The committees expect to have some seating arrangements pro- vided so that the people will not have to stand or sit on the grass during the exercises. At the present time, no arrange- ments have been made for afternoon services down town but this feature will be decided upon at the first meet- ing of the joint city and G. A. R. - WHAT THE GOVERNOR SAID * committes. \ « - * Called on the phone by the * * Pioneer this morning, Governor * Eberhart stated that the com- ¥ x| NEW SETTLER IN LAST NIGHT J. P. Reis and his family arrived X mittee to choose a site for the ¥|from St. Paul last night and are * Normal * pointed. The school for Northern *|moving on the Gilmore farm * Minnesota has not yet been ap- * miles west of Bemidji today. governor stated | Reis brings with him a herd of twen- four Mr. * that Speaker Rines and Lieuten- *|ty-four cows, four head of horses, and * ant Governor Burnquist are a *|about 200 chickens. He is outfitted * majority on the committee and *|with wagons, cans, etc.,, for a milk * that as they had not confered ¥route and expects to establish one in * with hi.m, he did not know *|Bemidji within a few days. The deal * when the committee would be *|for the farm was closed through Rey- * appointed. ! 4 : E ; g & g 7 8 2 F ] K hkhok ok kkk | : 1 g § *|nold and Winter last fall. TEAMS BREAKS HARNESS. One of W. G. ' Schroeder’s - teams teams took fright this morning while; hitched to a post in front of the store and tried.to run away. They were securely fastened but in kicking be- t|came badly tangled in the. harneas ‘peing *[and broke the pole of the wagon. Tie horses were caught before they broke 1oose. 7 |CLEAN-UP WEEK IS ORDERED FOR CITY Mayor McCuaig and Dr. L. A. Ward, of Eea;th Board, Issue Proclama- tion This Morning. FROM APRIL 24 TO MAY t All Rubbish Must Be Removed During Coming Seven Days—Railroad Yards in Good Shape. IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Permanent Organization t(; Be Form- ed of Property Owners on Min- nesota Avenue. PROCLAMATIONS. I hereby proclaim the week of lApril 24 to May 1 as the official “clean-up” week of Bemidji. The city has done its share by cleaning up the streets and. will clean up the parks and lake shore at once. The railroads have cleaned up their yards so that they look in first class shape. Can the citizens individually afford to do less than the city as a whole? Clegn up this week and have all rub- bish hauled away oy may 1. WILLIAM McCUAIG, Mayor. “Time to Clean Up.” Al refuse in - the city must be cleaned up hy May 1. Order of the Health Hgard,’ L. A, WARD, Chairman, - This is clean-up week for Bemidji. Now that the city has started the movement by putting the streets in first class shape and is following the streets up by improving the-appear- ance of the lake shore and parks, the’ mayor and health board have called upon the citizens to clean up back yards and vacant lots by the first of May. ! Many property owmers have al- ready started the work and have dis- posed of the winter’s accumulation of rubbish. There are, however, unnum- bered tin cans, ash piles, and saw dust heaps which have not yet been cared for. Manure piles which have. stood by barns all winter must be re- moved or covered in such a way that they will not be breeding places for flies. Members of the fire department urge that attention be given to fire hazards in order that the fire loss of the city may be materially reduced. Improvement Association. Along with the clean-up idea, the property owners on Minnesota ave- nue north of Seventh street have formed a temporary organizatiom, which will be made permanent next week to work for the improvement of Minnesota avenue. At a preliminary meeting last night, a committee of G. W. Campbell, G. D. Backus, and Dr. G. M. Palmer was appointed to draft a plan of organization and submit, it at the meeting next week. The property owners plan to take concerted steps toward making Min~ nesota avenue a boulevard from, Seventh street north. The tentative plans of those back of the organiza- tion call for the selection of one kind of tree to be planted along the street and the laying out of a tree line. It is hoped that residents on other streets will eventually form such ors ganizations and that they can them be federated. DOES NOT WANT LICENSE Duncan ‘McDougal, who has been running the Lake Shore hotel, wilt retire May 7 and the hotel will be taken over by Ole Anderson. Mr. Me- Dougal was not refused a license by the council as he decided not to apply for a renewal when the high license ordinance went through. Mr. Ander- son will apply for a transfer of license from his place on Beltrami avenue to the Lake Shore. Although he is the first saloon man to go out of businesa because of the higher: license, *Mr. McDougal is mot being ‘'forced out through failure to‘obtain a Hcense. L4 — ] { | P—m—