Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 13, 1913, Page 1

/] m IS el - = & 1ouuwinz “Beltrami BIG LINER BURNS I§ MD OCEAN Loss of Life is Reported Heavy When Steamship Volurno is Destroyed by Fire- WIRLESS CALLS FOR ASSISTANCE Ten Steamships Respond to Appeals|® For Help And ‘Succeed in.Sev-i ing 500 Persons. Liverpool, Oct. 13.—The British steamship Volturno. Rotterdam for New York with 757 passengers and crew on board, burfied in mid-Atlantic and 236 persons are missing, accord- ing to a wireless dispatch from the| Cunarder Carmania, The meager report said that the Vol turno, afire from stem to stern, was abandoned in latitude 48.25, longitude 84.33, and burned to the water’s edge. Only 521 of her passengers and crew were saved so far as the Carmania knew. The Carmania’s wireless . said the fire broke out aboard the Volturno at 9:60 Friday morning. Ten steam- ships responded to the Volturno's wireless distress signals, but by the time they reached the doomed liner and stood by she had burned to the water's edge and her 521 survivors were in lifeboats and rafts. The 236 unaccounted for were supposed to have burned to death and not drowned. The Volturno was owned by the Ca- nadian Northern Steamship company, known as the Royal Mail line, She was under charter by tne Uranium company of Rotterdam. ' She was a twin screw steamship of 3,602 gross tonnage, built in 1906. The vessels that went to the Vol- turno’s assistance and the survlvors they have aboard are: Carmania, "11; La Touraine, 40: Minneapolis, 30; ‘Rappahannock, 18; Czar, 102; Narragansett, 29; Devonia, 69; Kroonland, 90; .Grosser Furst, 105 and Seidlitz, 36. The Volturno’s passengers were mostly emigrants. She sailed from Rotterdam on Oct. 2 with twenty-four cabin passengers, 540 steerage and a crew of 183, 2 Wireless Summons Ald, When 'the stirriig 8. 0. 8. of fhe sinking Volturno cracked-out over the Atlantic the ensuing ' circumstances were notably different from those of the sinking of the Titanic a year and & half ago. Ten liners picked up the Volturno's distress signals and hur- rfed in her direction. The Carmania, La Touraine, Minneapolis, Rappahan- nock, Czar, Narragansett, Grosser Furst, Davonia, Kroonland and Seld- Mtz rushed full speed to the spot where the vessel went down and picked 'up the survivors, who were in lifeboats and rafts. Wireless reports from other vessels of the rescue fleet, transmitted by Captain Barr of the Carmania, agreed that 521 were rescued, but differed on the number of those lost, stating the number variously from 132 to 236 and 823. The world got first word of the Vol. turno disaster in a wireless message sent out by the Cunarder Carmania and picked up by the wireless station here. The Carmania’s first message was: “The steamer Volturno, bound from Rotterdam for Halifax and New York, ‘with 600 emigrants on board, on fire and abandoned Friday night in lati- tude 48.25 north, longitude 34.33 west —-236 passengers missing.” A fouled propeller is said to have caused the fire aboard the Volturno. Quickly the liner was ablaze from stem to stern. So rapidly did the fire spread that many of the steerage pas: sengers were burned in their quarters. Captains of the rescue ships said some of them got to the Volturno before she went down. STONES CAUSE FREEZING Unable To Shut Hydrants Off During Cold Winter Months Late Saturday afternoon the hy- drant at the corner of Twelfth street and Bixby avenue was run into by an automobile driven by a young lady. The radiator of the machine was badly smashed, but at first it was thought no-injury was done’ to: the hydrant. Soon water began mak- ing an apperance on the ground. Superintendent of the water works George Kirk, was called and it was found that the flange, six feet be- low the surface of the ground was broken from the main pipe. When the cut off was removed several stones and some gravel was found:in'| it. The finding of the - pebbles ex- plains to a large extent the freezing of the hydrants during the cold win- ter months, as the hydrants cannot be shut off. 1+ Visit Development Rooms “county Derpons were visitors it the North- ern: Minnesota -display ‘rooms- in’ Minneapolis during the - past-week, High School Eleven Runs Away With Visitors Piling Up Score of 71 . To 0—Every Player A Star CONTEST RESULT ENCOURAGING Prepared to meet a team reported to give them a hard fight the Bem- 1dji high school football eleven ran away with the team. from = Thief River Falls Saturday-atternoon. Four minutes after the game was called Saturday afternoon, Harold Hayner, fullback on the Bemidji eleven, crossed the line for the first touch- down. Claude Bailey failed to. kick goal. . Two touchdowns were the only HobipH made in the first quarter. * From the moment, Referge Earle Bafley blew his whistle, which start- ed the game, the Bemidji team stead- ily gained ground and despite the fact that the Thief River boys fought stubbornly they were unable to hold the strong line or-to break up Bemidji's interference. In. the second’ quarter, Earle Riley, quarterback, ~crossed Thief River’s line. Before the quarter was over Hayner, Tanner and Fred Gra- ham were recorded with touch- downs. Bailey succeeded in kicking one goal. The score at the end of the first half was 32 to 0 in Bemidji favor. In the third quarter George Gra- ham, after a long run, succeeded in 'placing the pigskin behind Thief Riyer's goal posts. ' Graham, :Elletson, Riley and Hay- ner then made touchdowns. Bailey kicked two goals making thé final score 71 to 0 in Bemidji’s favor. Hayner, Fred Graham and Claude Bailey proved themselves a tower of strength in the backfield and suc-| ceeded in carrying the ball for long distances.. Earle Riley at quarter was a star and his tackling and blocking were one of the features ot the game. Graham and Elletson, at end-more than held their own . To pick a star from the team would-bs ditficult, “We are now prepared. to play. any team in the:Northtwest," ~sal Bestul; “No- trick . plays” were™ made in Saturday’s game as our opponents were weak and our simple play ap- peared to be too difficult for them.” The line up: Thief River Falls Bemidji George Sawyer Q. Earle Riley Ralph Werner F. B. Hayner Oscar Paulson L. H .Fred Graham Francis Burns - C. James Sullivan John Brummond L. G. A. Klien Ben Jothun R. G. Slater Ralph Folke L. T. H. Warfield Hary Deidrick R. T. Krogseng Hugh Battleson L. E. G. Graham Lawrence Hermanson R. E. Hlletson . Earle Bailey and C. M. Jacobson, Referee and Umpire George Morri- son, Headlinesman. INVITATIONS ISSUED Opening Ball To Be Feature Enter- tainment Of Season Invitations are now being issued for the Bemidji Athletic Club In- augural dance which will be given in the Athletic home. The hall w:ll be decorated in the club colors and every possible arrangement will he made to make this event the most successful ball ever.held in this city. Ralph Brandon, A. E. Fier . and James Malone have charge of the de- corations. FOOTBALL PRACTICE TONIGHT Big Bemidg Team Will Start Pre- paration For Grand Rapids Captain Ralph Lycan of the Big Bemidg foot ball eleven this morn- ing announced that every = evening this week practice will be held in preparation for the Grand Rapids game next Sunday. Bemidji has never been able to defeat the city team of Grand Rapids ire determin- ed to turn this trick this time. The two teams fought to a tie at Grand Rapids two weeks ago. A. Matheny, Willlam Russell, Rd- ward Tnber nnd John Mnbal: B BK Athletic Club_Eleven Piles Up Score of 39 to 0 Using Forward Pass and Off Tackle Plays VISITORS GAME TO THE FINISH With Their Star-Hurt During First of Contest “Do or Die” Spirit With Them Until Last Game to the last whistle, but playing against a team which out- classed them in every departmem the Brainerd city team went down 'to defeat before the football machine turned out by Coach Jacobson and which. represents the Bemidji Ath- letic association, by a score 39 to 0 at the. Fair grounds yesterday af- ternoon. Never before as a Bemidji team entered a contest with as strong a lineup as that which represented. the Athletic: club yesterday. man was in the game for all he was worth. The game was hard. fought, the visitors fighting™ to-keep- the score as low as possible and the lo- cals anxious to prove that Bemidji now. has a football eleven which can play the game, and in this they were successful. Willey, - Brandon, Hendrickson carried the ball' in a manner which | completely out guessed the Brainerd players, and time_ after time these men would tear through the line and around the ends for gains which were’ bewildering to their opponents. Score Early Brainerd kicked off ‘to Bemidji right from the start the locals went’ cess he has met. Talk about your celebrations, why when flashed over the wires- that’ Leste CLOSES FILM CONTRACT Famoulml’layen Film Company To Shown At Majestic Theatre C. J.. Woodmansee, manager of the Majectic and Grand theatres has re- cently closed a contract with the Fa- mous Players flim company where- by he will show their entire output for the year. This is the same com- pany. which produced Queen Eliza- beth, shown at the Majectic some time ago. These pictures show-to the. public such famous players as Ma- dame Fiske, James O’Neil and Lillian Langtree. The pictures - will -be shown at the Grand once every two weeks, and for two nights, RAISING FLAT CARS FROM LAKE Crookston Lumber Company Men Hoisting Cars at End of Dock Many Crookston Lumber Company employes together with the crew of men employed on the steamship “Aligator” are now engaged in rais- ing the flat cars from the bottom of the lake at the end of the log pier near the Crookston Mill. Thae cars broke broke through the bumper last spring and have been at the bottom of the lake all summer, A large hoisting machine is being used to raise the cars. Factory Changes Name Beginning today the the Bemidji Manufacturing company, ‘and the amended articles of the com- pany were published today. Two Licenses Issued Erick Bystrom obtained a marri- age license Saturday to wed Miss Sophia Naslund. A license was also issued to Fred Hverson Wwho will wed Miss Bessie Tarlson. FROM BRI“NERD Tory Desides hi flmm m.nmfi for the opening of the contest, and.| boy and is deserving of all ‘the suc-} the news |. And Gim !im‘w Grvzx‘onmn t@ MID NIGHT After hl'illl’ thirteen’ hw noon yesterday: of theidary which' week has liftened eg 3 Parker-Engier’ o in the vérdict givi $4,683.32, ‘the quested. “John ©, Pnrker, tractor, the Engler Lumbe) ing that Lpproxl, due him for unpafd:’ With B, B. McD¢ Erickson as ‘atto; tift, and George Spe dleton for the defe to trail before Jud, ago last Thurldlti‘:c days Dbefore compl nul.,mnre than yérdict “tie past trail of the action ugailist ompany claim- address to time | judge con_zpietn‘d» Jury retired to t] mid night. Their day afternoon. dict, the second under-the recent that if after be a jury cannot: decide @ case In 1 actions. The amount verdict is ail asked for after he. festin s case hnd been/. Hear - i has won, Brainerd” darn near ‘went| . i wild. Wlth me at the head a gang of L 'Mnm snowu AT FAIRS Minnesota is attracting' thousands of homeseekers this year. The: butk of these come from the ' states of Towa, Illinois. and Indiana. “Ths Minnesota exhibit at the state fairs of Illinois and Indiana were praticu- larly attractive to the farmers of these states and daily people are vis- iting Minnesota in:search of moder- ate priced lands, who received their first inspiration to seek a home 1w the North Star State, by visiting the Minnesota exhibits during’their state fairs.- At Illinois last’ week thousands of names of prospective - Minnesota homeseekers were ‘registered by the men in charge of the Springfield ex- hibit and literature Betting forth Minnesota’s great advantages as a place in which to acquire a home at moderate. cost, will be mailed to them from the State:Béard of Immi- gration ‘office at St. Paul. The people living in the territory of high priced $175 and $225 an acre land in the states above mentioned, are looking for an opportunity to se- cure a home where it does not. re- quire so much cash to make-a start, and within a short time there will be a large increase in the movement: towards Minnesota and the moderate priced lands. In Illinois last week at the State Fair, hundreds of farm renters and factory mren visited the Minnesota exhibit booth and stated freely that they were golng to make a trip to Minesota in the near futura, with a view of taking advantage of the.great opportunities offered here for homebuilding. All of them have some means but not enough to start a home with in the states of high priced lands. Com- missioner Fred D. Sherman: of the State Board of Immigration says; that the interest shown in favor of Minnesota at the Illifiois State Fair far exceeded ‘any:and all expecta- Speaking of Front, Why NRalarcrtivu / GWVE ME A BawTtH WITH A ROOM PLEGSE - ONE O0F “O0LR MOST'* L avish SWEETIESIEE— G()VERNOR’S JOB State Auditor Today Anm'uunoefl l!u Desire To Serve Hmnmu As Chief Exewfivg “Weteht at|BUN ON. REPUBLICAN TICKET Economy And Law Enforcement Par- amount Issues On Which He Will Wage His Fight of ‘the State of Minnesota today made known his candldacy for the office of governor of Minnesota, and has announced that he- will seek election to the office on the Republi- ‘|can ticket. Mr. Iverson has served the state for three terms as auditor and it was the general opinion that he would be returned to. the office next fall t Re so.desired. " For some time rumors have been afloat that ‘the auditor had ambi- tions to occupy the chair of state’s chief-executive and the an- nouncement of this -morning is not at: all surprising. Samuel @. Iverson Wha Would Be Governor A The announcement of = Mr. son places three candidtes field for the Republican nomination, Iver- fice. and it is generally ‘understood that Gov. Eberhart will ask for his reelection, " MAJOR GIVEN VERDICT Secures $694 As Administrator 0f 2 His Mothe'r'l Estate The jury in the Brunno Major case Saturday brought in a verdict for the plaintiff for the total amount asked, $694. The case was the out- growth of Charles Major's appoini- ment as administrator of the estate of his mother. Brunno Major, a brother, petitioned for the removal of Charle’s as administrator and the request was granted, and a final re- port asked for ,which resulted in a disallowment of $694. Briunno was then appointed- administrator and he began suit seeking to recover from the Charles Major - and the Illinois Surety company, with the result that the amount asked for was given. George -Campbell represented . the plaintiff ‘in the action, M. J. Brown the Surety company and A. A. An- drews and John Gibbons for Charles Major. SANITARIUM TO HAVE PAPER Patients At Walker To Edit Publica- tion Once Every Month St. Paul, Oct. 13 (Special to the Pioneer)—Samuel G. Iverson, auditor the .| the second and |part are, hnnmnl Fortune” a Thm Aot Farcicial Comedy to Be Attrac- tion At City Hall Tonigt EXPECTED® T0 MAKE BIG HIT - “Finnegan’s Fortune” a three act farcial comedy which will be given _|by a troupe of young people at the City ‘hall tonight promises to be one of the best ever presented. in the city Richard Fenton as “Finnegan” an old Irish brick mason who owns a large tract of land which is appar- ently useless but on.which oil -is] found, making him a -rich man, is the principle ‘character in the play. Fenton has ‘succeeded in mastering the Irish brogue and his actions throughout the entire play ~ will un- doubtedly bring a great deal of laughter and nm)lause from the au- dience. Al Neuman. as “Jake” .also car- ries a heayy.comedy role. “Jake” is the owner of a “high toned” saloon and an enémy of Larry Finnegan. Miss Grace Lewis of Crosby, Minne- sota, has had considerable. experi- ence on the stage and will appear in the home talen production this evening as ‘Katy,” daughter of “Dutch’ Jake.” Others who will take Alec Cameron as' Pat, Charles Paul as Count de Morney, James Malone as Rafferty, Miss Em- ima Noeson as Mrs. Finnegan and Myrtle Neuman as’ Lady Hannah { Lovejoy. : " Al. Nepman and Mrs. Alden Rem- frew. have prepared a short special- ty which will be produced between third -acts.. Mrs. George A.' Berglund and Louls Brown have also prepared a specialty entitl- ed “Angel’s Serenade,” which' will be given after the first act. NEW RATES READY SOON -lohedule: leq)ured By Guhmu in the |Mission’ expects to have the as Senator Elwell has already made|C38hman distance tariff law known his intention to seek the of-|PY Oct, 15. The new law- goes into SUBMITTED WHEN ~COMPLETH The railroad and warehouse com- new required by -the remly freight schedules effect Jan. 1 As soon as the schedules are ready they will be submiitted to the several 3 an grder to come forward #u88 why they should nov be made the laws of the state. Ex- perts have been at work for the past month on the new schedules and they: represent an immense ampunt of labor. “Few realize the diffculities that our board has encountered in the .preparation of the new Cashman djs- tance tariff schedules,” said C. E. Elmquist, of the railroad commiisgion, rectnely ““The whole thing calls for an almost complete upsetting of the old rate form. We have been compell- ed to take up the various commod- ities class by class and take each part of the state in compiling the asme S0 as not to work any injustice. The first schedule will naturally contain some errors, but they will be cor: rected be fore the new l-w 8oes into efect.” —_— Football Results Bemidji H. S. 71, Thiet River 0 Big Bemidg 39 Brainerd 0, Grand Forks 0 Duluth 7. Princeton 28, Bucknell 6. Wisconsin 13, Mnrquetteo Army 29, Rutegers 0. . Pennsylvania 20, Swarthmora 0. Yale 27, Lafayette 0. Harvard 23, ‘Williams 3. - Pennsylvania State 16, Gettys- Patients at the State Sanitarium |burg 0. at Walker, will in the future edit a monthly newspaper. The paper will be edited entirely by the patients of the institutio: by Editor of the Walker Pilot *and will be printed |’ Illinois' 24, ‘Mhuourl 7. Ohfo State 14, Western Reserve 8. Purdue 34, Northwestern 0. Carlisle 7, Cornell 0. Michigan 14, Mount Union 0. - ARE WORRYI Ole Moen Rehlm From' mum_\ Where. He: Found Conditions Drudm—!‘umm Broke —_— AID XUST BE GIVEN rm BUI)N Belizyel ’l.‘hnt Unless.- Government - Furnishehs Supplies Many ‘Wil Will Starve This Winter Ole ‘Mdén, a farmer residing 6 miles southeast of Bemlidji in* the town” of ¥rohn, left Bemidji gever- al “weeks 280 with the - purpose of visiting various Canadian districts where he intended to purchase a farm. Mr. Moon traveled right in- 'to Canada, turned around, ‘and tra- veled right back to Beltrami wumy again, “Well ..does. Canada look ' good to you, Mr, Moen.” He was asked. “Look good to me,” repled Mr. Moen,” don’t mention Ganada“to me, You could : not : give me a Canadians farm as a gift. 0O1a Beltrami county is good enough for me and I think that I will hereafter remain lhere and be perefectly satisfied that ‘the’ Al- mighty. has treated me as well as he has. I tried my best to see something 80od in-the country but. could not.” Rode 75 Miles At Calgary Mr. Moen hired a fad- dle horse:and rode 75 miles into the country.. He found. conditions there very poor, the soil belng of the chocolate varlety, bedded with gravel. He told of the bullding condi- tions at Calgary saying that there were hundreds of half bullt- houses and that money can hardly.be ob- tained. . 2 At Moose Jaw he found the cou- ditions to be .not much better. Mr. Moen ‘went south from Moose Jaw - to Wood Mountgin - and is of the jopinion that less than two tops of were- seén and the Frolin mun,. & person .could- almost see..through them they. were so thin trom lack of food. Land_in that territory is easy to obtain, -real estate men offering it for $18 an svre, one fifth down and ‘the balanc¢e in ‘twenty years at four per cent, Crops ‘Were Poor Mr. Moen found the crop condi- tions to be poor. Wheat was harvest- ed securing from 14 to 20 bushels to the acre while-oats grew from 40 t0.60 bushels. About one half of the grain. was froze. Number two wheat sold for 59 cents, while number one, of which there was none, was worth 65 cents. Wheat collectors gathered - up the grain as soon’ as threshed for pay- ment of machinery. Another draw back in purchasing homesteads in Canada s the fact that taxes are due from the day of filing. There is no personal property tax. Mr. Moen told of the sun flowers growing only a foot or so high, while here they obtain a height of seven and eight feet. In Starving Condition “I believe the farmers of that country will starve to death during the coming winter, unless govern- ment ald is given them, said Mr. Moen,” the conditions there are ter- rible and many families are entire- ly broke.” T0 BANQUET LESLIE BUSH Tom Woods, Pitchers Four Hundred Pound Pal, Tells Of Plans For WAS BEMIDJT VISITOR SUNDAY Great will be will be given Leslie Bush, the nine- teen year old boy who turned his speed ball on the Giants defeating {them 8 to 2, when he returns to his home in. Brainerd gome time during the next week. ‘The plans ‘for the reception and banquet which will be. given the young twirler rest almost entirely | In the hands of Tom Woods; the 425 ‘pound Brainerd boy, who. for many years has been Leslie’s close pal, and who for several years: :has Md a feeling that Bush would some day be ‘classed among the world : great- the reception which