Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 25, 1913, Page 1

VOLUME 11. NUMBER 77. Historlal Soclety TREE & X SHERIFF CALLS FOR THE MILITIA Serious Disorders in Michigan Copper District—More mines Are Closed. ATTACKS DEPUTIES TAKE STARS Strikers Prevent Workers From En- tering Shafts And Properties Are [ad Forced To Close Down Calumet, Mich., July 25.—Strike vio- lence occasioned by the walkout of copper miners in this district grew beyond the control of Sheriff (‘rune and he wired to Governor Ferriss ask- ing that state troops be dispatched to maintain order. « The local militia companies were ordeféd to hold themselves in readi- ness for service pending word from the governor, who it is understood was on his way to Alpena from Lan- sing. The chief attack of strikers was directed against the Calumet and Hecla properties. Three hundred men armed with steel drills, clubs and stones, and with a few of them displaying and firing revolvers, di- vested of their stars all the deputies stationed at No. 2 Conglomerate shaft of the company. The strikers then moved over to the Hecla branch mine and repeated their tactics. Several Men Badly Beaten. Several men were seriously beaten and were sent to hospitals in the fights that developed. The strikers also visited all sur- face plants of the companies affected and closed them. Stamp mills as well as mines are shut down. The tieup was complete, with the exception of smelters, some of which have enough mineral on hand to operate for a week or more. The Calumet and Hecla Conglom- erate shaft at the Calumet branch. which was worked Wednesday, closed when the strikers prevented men from soing to work. Franklin and Hancock mines also suspended. A large body of the strikers went from one shaft to another at the Calumet and Hecla and Tamarack and several loyal employes were attacked with stones and painfully hurt. At No. 2 cage house of the Calumet and Hecla strikers were prevented from taking possession by a mining captain, who drew a pistol and threat- ened to shont ELLIOTT SEEMS TOBESLATED Expected He WIlI Become Head of New Haven Road. St. Paul, July 25.—Advices from New York practically. confirmed the report that President Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific, who took the 10ad soon after it was out of a re- ceivership and added 1,000 miles of main track and an equal amount of double track, besides increasing the net earnings, may be chosen to the presidency of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. EXPLODES BLANK CARTRIDGE Socialist Club Member Starties House of Commons. London, July 25.—There was anoth- er brief scare in the house of com- mons when a blank cartridge was ex- pioded. The Right Honorable Reginald Mec- Kenna, home secretary, was replying to James Kler Hardie's question about the rearrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pank- hurst when a shot was fired from the strangers’ gallery. The culprit, a man named Washing- ton and a member of a Socialist club at Leeds, was immediately seized and ejected from the building. §Scoo REPORTER Corporation, New York. The Cause. T e e PR e T e e R R R R e 2 * MALE SUFFRAGIST TO EMULATE MARTYR'S EXAMPLE. = kifiv«fif«{iiif{f;«iii«i«ifiifiiiiik Copyright by International News Serv ice; supplied by New Process Electro He Succeeded In Getting Tmmpleg On, But As Yet Has Not Died For MAY END MEXICAN STRIFE Wiison Contemplates Peaceful Inter- vention—New Election Suggested TO BE FAIR AND UNTRAMNELED Chicago, July 25.—A dispatch from Washington to the Tribune says: President Wilson will intervene vose of inducing President Huerta and and order to that distracted country. Information just obta'ned is to the effect that the president soon will appoint commissioners to proceed to the neighboring republic for the pur- pose of inducing President Huerta and General Carranza, the leader of the revolutionists, special election. This election is to be absolutely fair and untrammeled. The result is to be accepted by all faciions, which are to agree in advance that they will stand by the man chosen by che pec- pele. Before the president takes this extraordinary step he proposes to have the backing of the Democratic majority in both houses of congress. To this end he has conferred with Senator Bacon and Congressman Flaod, chairmen of the foreign re- lations committees of the two houses, and with the leaders in both cham- ple. Congress May Formally Approve. It is not improbable that formal ac- tion will be taken approving the plan (Continuea on last page). Paving Nearing Completion Goodman and Loitved, contractores who are now laying the Bemidji street paying have completed the block between Beltrami and Bemidji avenues and one third of the two blocks on Beltrami avenue. When these two blocks have been finished the appearance of this avenue will be improved wonderfully and pass- engers on the trains passing through this city can only see paved streets when viewing the city from the de- pots as the North part of the city is on a slope and the unpaved streets THE CUB: are not visible from this point. to agree to hold a| H . 0. 0. F. ANNUAL PICNIC. — To Rainy Lake City. At a meeting of the Bemidji and order I. 0. O. F. held June 23, at International Falls, it was decided that the rst annual picinc he held ot RasiyLake -City; in tire- victnity of International Falls on tfie first Thursday in August. (Au- sust 7) and that all Oddfellows, their families and friends are cordially in- vited to this picnie. Upon‘the a'rrival of the excursion train at! the depot of the M. & I railway ang the boat from Loman, a boat will|leave the dock at Internaional Falls|for Rainy Lake City where thetr piefijlc will be held and the sports oi ilie ‘day pull- ed off. All Oddfellows are urged to at- tend. SAIL BOAT OVERTURNS Boys Narrowly Escape Drowning Lavinia While sailing on Lake Bemidji in a frail craft yesterday James Carter |and Harry Barnes of Lavinia nar- rowly escaped drowning, when the boat capsized out in deep water near the middle of Lake Bemidji. The young men were thrown into the wa- ter, but succeeded in clinging to their over turned craft until James Harklers reached them in a launch. The boat was towed to Bemldjl where things were righted. The boys suf- fered_no severe con§eqi;'ances from their experience other than a severe ducking. No' Games Here Sunday Bemidji Base ball faps will be forced to spend their Sugday on the lake or at some other pgstime other than at-a baseball game, Ho game has been ‘scheduled by any Icoal team to be played in this city aqfl so far no attraction has been dat?d for the coming Sunday. x To Be Held August 7, 1913 Excursion | \ FREE THE SAILOR Wotking - To Secure Bill- Through Congml To. Ghs.uge Iaw Of 3 Century Ago P F‘RU-}SETH WOULD XCAI{NOT GO ON STRIKE D‘wn Iake A Common Lawless e Cx-imm_l S : By Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner. Washington, July 25—Eighteen yeai in a struggle to emancipate sailo}-s held in a legalized peonage devised when serfdom’ still existed in | Eurgpe, and no succer yet In sight. That| is the story of Andre 7 Furu- seth,| (egislation' agent of the Inter- national Seamen’s. Union of Ameri- ca, ope of the great tragic figures in ]abo s struggle upward. ’I‘!ip sailor, under existing laws and treatles, cannot be regerdad as a fre\ laborer. He must sign’ with a vessel for term. If he strikes against oppresgive treatment he is a mutineer and can be severely punished. His wages are withheld until the end of his service, and the laws are such that he can be virtual- ly sold into further servitude by his creditors. If he deserts in port, even though he may be a British or Ger- {man subject, the officers of benifi- cent American liberty hunt' him down as a criminal and return him to slavery. He is entirely outside the 13{h amendment of the constitution. These laws were adopted over a century ago when there were serf- dom in Europe. In that day they acthally:improved -the-etonomte consy’ dition of the seafarer, for thelaw provided that any serf signed as a sailor must be given his freedom. But in' succeeding years the ship owners |avrT soum‘ GROWS 6 INCHSTALK 0f Soil and Crops To City ,K.OTA T0 COME Gilbert A. Benson of Malcolm, Min- nesota, came to the city this morn- ‘lf He Desel‘"l h Port He Is Hunt d""mg over the ‘Soo road _fl'om Thief River Falls, to which place he drove his automobile, a- distance of fifty- six miles from his homstead. . Mr. Benson brought with him sam- ples of clover-and rye. Also a sample of the soil on which it was grown. The bundle of rye contained several stems over seventy-two inches long and one seventy-six and one half] inches longs. As far as is known this is the longest stem of rye ever exhib- ited in the northwest. Mr. Benson has a-homestead of one hundred and sixty acfes north of Red Lake in Beltrami county, of which thirty acres is now under cultivation. He came here from South Dakota a little more than one year ago, and is at the present proving to the far- mers in that vicinity that this rich peat soil will produce abundantly. “The crops look fine. Couldn’t be better. There is lots of hay and the grains, clover, alfalfa, corn and pota- toes will all produce record crops. I believe that my rye field will run left South Dakota to come here .to this country and I am not sorry that I came either.” Such was the enthusiasm displayed by Mr. Benson while in the city this morning. Samples of the soil, clover and rye, are now on display in the Pioneer office. r U. €. T. TEAM TO BRAINERD have shifted what responsibility rested upon them under the old law, leaving only the shackles and chains which enslave the most wretched oc- cupation on earth. Furuseth almost won in the Con- gress. A Dbill which ended involun- tary servitude at sea passed the House. But the Senate amendments eviscerated it, and, though some of these evil amendments were killed before the bill passed, President Taft successfully suppressed the law on the last day of his term by “pocket vetoing” it. And now Furuseth is again at the doors of the Democratic administration asking humbly for the legislation. But the white sailors of the earth are not so patient. They stayed be- hind Furuseth for many years. But last year the guests of a strange, new cult went among them coun- seling hatred and violence and des- truction the Industrial Workers of the World—the I. W. W. In one short year the I. W. W. has recruited most of Furuseth’s organi- zation on the Atlantic coast, and now the revolutionary organization has set up headquarters on the San Francisco water front. Furuseth’s organization is running from under his feet like sand in a ‘strong cur- rent of water. But still he remains in Washington seeking relief by peaceful means. Furuseth realizes that general strike, such as the I. W. W. propos- es, will not only fail but will result in driving white sailors off ‘the seas, substituting the yellow, brown and black races with their inferor stand- (Continuea on last m-). And Meanwhile They Are Galloping Around The Circuit Clash With Nine From That' City Today. Cimmencing at six o’clock this evening the Bemidji Knights of the Grip will clash with the Brainerd Council in that city in a base ball game, which promises to be the hard- est fought of any games either team has played this year. The game has been widely advertised for the past month and many traveling men from all parts of the state have expressed intentions.of being present. The. Be- midji U. C. T. team left for Barinerd this morning and were prepared for a battle royal. Manager Manaugh has selected the following to oppose the Brainerd nine, Boscoe Roscowick, Ed Ebert, Ed Tabor, L. E. Rood, J. Hillaby, Gus Elleson, Frank Xoors, Gilbert A. Benson Brings Samples close to fifty bushels to the acre. 1| TEN ficéfl‘rs PER WEEK BEMIDSL WATER STRICTLY PURE Minnesota - State ' Board 0f ‘Health Send Analysiy To Supt. . .+ George xirk L s i g ALL WELLS . ARE . SANITAB.X | — Thirty Five Foot Emergency Well Tests High"?orf_wwer From Such Source 3k The State Board Of Health again examined the water from our city supply wells and found it absolutely pure. Says the report, “The water supply of Bemidji in a report issued by this ‘division under date of July 25th, 19i2 was found to be unusual- "|ly pureand on the date of the present visit a carefui inspection of the wa- ter supply and fleld conditions were found to conform with those reported at ‘the time of the previous investi- gation.” The water turned into our pipes from':the shollow well at the time of the Rex Hotel fire was also analy- ized and the bacterial count was found relatively high for water from ° such source and the results indicate the absence of dangerous contamina~ tion. The following is the report as filed with superintendent Kirk. ¢ Analytical Data See analytical sheets, samples 13004 to 13007, inclusive Interpretation of Results. Sample 13004 representing water collected from the old drilled well adjacent to the pumping station, shows a bacterial count of 145 per c.c,, and B, coli was not found present in 100 c.c./amounts. This relatively high bacterial count for water from such a source but the examination shows the-absence of dangerous con= tamination. Sample No. 13005 representing water from the new drilled well 365 feet from the pumping station, be- tween the G. N. and the Soo Ry. tracks, shows a bacterial count of 40 per c:c., and B. coli was not found present in 100 c. c. amounts. These results show the water to be of good sanitary quality. Sample No. 13006 representing water from the driven wells located under the street near the pumping station, shows a bactorial count of 575 per c. c. , and B. coil was not found present in 100 c. c. amounts. The bacterial count is relatively high for water from such a source, and the results indicate the absence of dan- gerous contamination. Sample No. 13007 representing was Harry Koors, Bill Day, Miller and Oscar Manaugh. Band Concert Tonight Program 1. March—Progressive Musician, Atkinson. | 2. Overture—L’Emotion, Ripley 3. Town-Talk, Dalbey. 4. Waltz—Reign of Youth, Barn- ard. 5. Medley March—Snookey Oo- kums, Berlin. 6. Serenade—Enchanted Pomeroy. . 7. —The Whit Wash Rag, Sch- wartz. 8. Idyll—The Mill in the Forest, Lute, 'Eilenberg. 9. Overture—The Fall of Jericho, Maillochand. .10. March—“Bombasto”, Farrar. A. Remfrey, director. By “HOP” ter collected on the distribution sys- tem, shows a bacterial count of 60 per c. ¢, and B. coli was not found present in 100 c. c. amounts. This result indicates the water to be of good sanitary quality. The results of this investigation show the absence of contaminatiom in the water from each source. Conclusions and Recommendations. 1. The results of this investiga- tion show the public water supply to be fit for public consumption. 2. The analytical results would indicate that the driven wells might be used in case of emergency. It should be stated however, that these wells are shallow, not especially well located, and their continuous use is not recommended. Approved, R. H. Millen, Director, Laboratory Division, June 30, 1913. { H. A. WHITTAKER Assistant Director COUNTY ' BOARD ADJOURNS August 11th, Date Set For Next Meeting after meeting, the Board of Equalization were unable to trans- act any business of importance, but were kept busy checking up the books and endeavoring to equilize the per=- sonal property tax of the county. The Board adjourned yesterday until the 11th of August when they will meet and commence working on raising the valuation of the county to the valua= tion of last year. This year showed a decrease of 3218,000 under that o! last-year, - i