Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 20, 1913, Page 1

e LARGE FLEET ON MEXICAN COASTS Many Nations of World Represented By Ships of War—German Cruis- ers and French Vessel There. HUERTA’S MESSAGE NOW READY Completes Document For Submission to New Congress—Covers Rela- tions With United States, Nov. ~—When the Suffolk, l.ancaster and Berwick of the squadron arrive at Vera Ci a very powerful fleet of warships will be assembled in the Mexican gulf. The American battleships Louis lania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Vir- ginia, New Jersey, Nebraska and New Hampshire, the cruiser Tacoma, the gunboat Wheeling and the scout cruiser Chester alone compose a formidable squadren. To these have been added the German cruisers Bre- ‘Washington, British cruisers men and Hertha and the French armored cruiser Conde. On the Pacilic coast of Mexico are the American armored cruisers Call- fornia, Maryland and Pittsburg and the gunboat Annapolis and the Ger- man cruiser Nuernbe while the Japanese cruiser Izumo is on the way there. HUERTA’S MESSAGE IS READY Document Reviews !mportant Acts of His Administration. Mexico City, Nov. 20.—General Hu- erta plans to submit to the .members of his cabinet the message which he proposes to deliver to his newly con- vened congr The document is short and it is said reviews ter: the most important acts of the Huerta administration, dealing frankly with the dissolution of congress and calling attention to the strained relations with the United States. Tt is expected that congress will re- ceive the message without protest, thereby giving Huerta a virtual ratifi- cation of his ts. Tt is said that the message will open a way to an imme- diate discussion by congress of the late presidential election and it is a foregone conclusion that congress will declare the. election null. It is re- garded as possible that congress may mame some one tlse for provisional president for a period ensuing until the election and inauguration of a permanent chiel executive, but it would undoubtedly be a surprise to most Mexicans as well as foreign, if Gen- eral Huerta should not be instructed to continue at the Liecad of affairs. REBELS \;VANT RECOGNITION Carranza’s Attitude May Put an End to Conferences. Nogales, Ariz, Nov. 20.—William Bayard Hale refused to comment on the statement made by Foreign Minis- ter Escudero of the Mexican rebel government that the Constitutionalists would not confer further with Hale until he had presented his credentials. Hale was astonished when so ad- vised of this attitude, inasmuch as it involved official American recogni- tion of General Carranza. He declined to discuss it, but sent a long dispatch to Washington. The general belief here is that the Constitutionalist attitude means the end of negotiations between the Unit- ed States zovernment and the rebels. Unclaimed. Letters List of advertised letters ‘UN- CLAIMED” for the week ending No- vember 17th 1913. Ardies, Mr. Treaver; Boroosky, Mr. I; Chandler, Mr. Harry; Chand- ler, Wallace, Cavanaugh, Chas; Duell, Glenn; Gillis, Geo., Holbrooi, Mr, Martin; Koenig, Mr. 8. E.; Lind- say, Dr. A; Mark, Mr. Guy; Hally, Mr. Fred; Olson, Mr. Ole; Poole, Mr. Joe; Pederson, Mr. Christ; Rudge, Mr. John; Rivard, Mr. Joe; Slank- ard, Mr. Alonze; Swenson, Wr. Wal- lace; Tempson, Mr. Amel; Whelan, Mr. W. H; Washburn, Mr. W. R, Women—Clark, Mrs. eGorge; Daigle, Miss. Philomene; Hansel, Mrs. An- na; Johnson, Mrs. Emma; Perras, Miss Nellie; Svenson, Miss Gina. Henderson Funeral Tomorrow. The funeral of Mrs. Frank Hend- erson, who died Monday, will be held in the Baptist church tomorrow af- ternoon. ~ Mrs. Henderson before her marriage was Lila Pearl Sankey. :She was wedded to Mr. Henderson in 1909, and for many months had been ‘a sufferer from tubercujosis, She is survived by her husband and a three year old son. She was 25 years old. 3 Winnebrenner Gets Deer James ~ Winebrenner returned Tuesday from his homestead mnear Puposky where he has spent the past week in search of big game. Deer are reported plentyful in this gection and Mr. Winebrenner suc- ceeded. in landing his share. _ Deputy Examiner Here. Charles Boostrom, deputy public examiner, of St. Paul, was in Be- midji yesterday on business. He ‘spent Iast week in Walker. "-J, 0GDEN ARMOUR. Chicago Packer Denied In- ° terview With the President. DECLINES TO SEE ARMOUR President Wilson Refuses Packer Au- dience and He Leaves After Failing in His Mission LAWYER TO INTERVIEW BRYAN Washington, Nov. 20.—President Wilson declined i receive J. Ogden Armour, the Chicago packer, who made a flying visit to Washington for the special purpose of conferring with the executive. After ng in his missicn Mr. Armour returned to Chi- cag The packer also was scheduled for a conference with Attorney General Me- Reynolds, but Mr. Armour did not ap- pear at the department of justice. When Mr. Armour departed for Chi- cago he left on the scene Attorney Ralph Crews, who will seek an inter- view with Secretary of State Bryan. Whether the ary will follow the example of the president-in declining s” remains to be seen. i Armour was credited with a de- sire to deny personally to the presi- dent the authenticity of a recent inter- view in which the packer was quoted as saying that the government “could £0 to Dlazes” in connection with a certain investigation now under way. The state department as well as the department of justice is taking a hand in the investigation of the charge that the packers have . contracted for the control of all the refrigeration space in the South American steamers car- rying Argentine meat exportations. WURLITZER IS INSTALLED Brinkman Theatre Now Equipped With Wonderful Musical In- strument—Now In Use PLAYS ALL KINDS OF MUSIC One of the best theatre musical in- struments obtainable has been in- stalled in the Brinkman theatre and was used for the first time Tuesday evening. The instrument is a Wur- litzer Orchestra, and renders the most complicated music in symph- ony style. The instrument was purchased by Mrs. Brinkman while she Chicago recently, and plays classical overtures, heavy opera, light opera and even the latest Rag Time hits. A representative of the Wurlitzer factory accompanied the machine to Bemidji and will remain- here for two weeks during which time he will devote to the tuning of it. Mrs. Brinkman refused to ‘tell what amount was paid for the in- strument, other than to say that it is one of the best and that there is was in [CREDIT SYSTEN Government Loans to Farmers Meeting With Approval MADE DEEP STUDY OF SUBJECT New Plan Will In No Way Decrease Value of Land—Will Lend Up To 60 Per Cent of Value By Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner.’ Washington November 20—“Lend- ing money at lower cost and better terms is the core of the farm credit question,” said Congressman E. R. ‘Bathrick, of Ohio, whose rural credit bill is attracting great atten- tion from all parts of the country. Mr. Bathrick has been making a deep study of the rural credits ques- tion. His office at the Capitol looks like a section of the congressional Library, so crowded is it with goy- | ernment reports on farm credits in many countries of the earth. During the present quasirecess of the House, the. Ohio congressman is being kept busy jumping from one farmers’ con- vention -to another explaining the terms of his bill. But I caught him the other day and he told me some- thing about his work. Mr. Bathrick is strongly of the opinion that government aid is the surest way of guaranteeing a farm credit system for this country. There are two general systems for giving cheap money to farmers—one is the Bathrick plan and the other is the plan for having the farmers band to- gether in a cooperative society and borrow the money for themselves. Both systems were studied by the American Commission in Europe. The cooperative plan has many adherents. Mr. Bathrick fears that such a system would run the danger of falling into the hands of the Wall street Financiers. He believes the government itself should accept the farm mortgages, and on this security issue bonds, the proceeds from the sale of which could be furnished to the mortgage givers at a maximum interest rate of four and a half per cent. The government would derive profits from such transactions, and the Bathrick bill would apply. these profits ot the building of good country roads. “Let the government be the lend- er on the farm mortgage,” said Bathrick. “That is the only sure way. to lower the interest rate. ‘Not a cent of tax papers’ money need be used. The government can borrow and lend. It can be a trustee for the lender and borrower. Take no risk and make profit for the . whole people. “There is no need for spying in- spection nor rigid restriction of what is done with borrowed money. The farmer is not a gambler. He will not bet the money on a horse race. Not one in 10,000 farmers will mort- gage his farm for other than farm- ing business. “The laborer in the city will not complain. The money lender will complain in the name of labor, but actually for himself. Labor- knows that government loans to farmers will help farm production and take the farm boy’s competition out of the eity.” ; Mr. Bathrick believes that cheap money for farmers will do much to reduce the number of fafm tenants and. increase the number of farm owners. He said. “The government can safely and profitably lend up to 60 per cent of the value of security on first mort- gages. If it lends to all-tenants who can produce 40 per cent of the pur- chase price of a farm, it will' do much to decrease tenancy. A low rate of interest and long term mortagages will encourage tenants in buying. Those who have less than the 40 per cent wil be encouraged to- get into the 40 per cent class. “Only the more thrifty of the farm CREATING INTEREST Congressman Bathrick’s Bill Causing 'Kllnocl Features' Ad 7 man-Junior Seyveral musical %} been prepared for i brogram which is'h the Freshman-Juni ety of the Bemidji: h featuré of the progtam will be pub- lishing a newspaper: Which is an or- original production now heing pre- pared by the itudgn,h ~Walter J. Simons will act, as:mpraging editor and Fred Graham as'aditor. Charles Hayecraft as taphluxi»fd.l_mr and.sev- eral other students: Holding similar positions, promise o make the pro- gram one of the bestifarcical come- dies to be presented this year. Miss Margaret Newton has. E € musical portion of the program and is now training the boy’s and girl's glee clubs for the o(;ogqinn.. “FRECKLES” TOMORROW Tickets For Athletic Club Eflte!jain- ment Fast Being Disposed Of And Crowded House &nnred S S CHANGE BALCONY . SEAT PLAN ! school. The - 3 - 2 g Only a few cholee seats for “Freckles,” the play!which> will be staged' at the Athlefic club theatre tomorow evening, remain unsold and in order that as mapny: people as pos- sible may -be accommodated, Ralph Lycan, president of the Club this morning announced . that Cchairs would be provided for- the first ten rows in the balcony and that these seats would be placed.on sale at one dollar each. In commenting on the Regina Leader says: “Many people who had read Gene Stratton Porter’s noyel “Freckles’ wondered how it could be dramatized book. Any doubts they may have had were dispelled when they saw the play at the Regina Theatre last night. “Freckles” was the “Freckles’ of the story, the warm-hearted Irish boy with all the story poetry, affec- tion, and wit that makes him lovable; “Angel”. was “Angel”— why describe her? SHe fulfilled the ideal of the character and establish- ed herself firmly i the hearts.ot the audience as she’did in that of play the “Freckles.” “Black Jack,” the vil- lain, who ‘showed marks of having seen bétter days, Duncan, the old Scotch head teamster of the lumber gang, Mrs. Duncan, who gives “Freckles” mother love and a home, Wessner, camp cook and thief—they were all convincing and natural and fitted in with the preconceived ideas of the characters. 7 -““The story of the play is the story of the book, and told smoothly and connectedly enought 8o that it is quite complete in itself, and a pre- vious reading of the novel is un- necessary to a full enjoyment of it.” ORGANIZE GLEE CLUBS. High School Students i’repuing Songs for School Programs. - Last evening the boy’s and girl’s glee ‘club which was recently or- ganized in the Bemidji high school, met for the first time this season for practice. Many of the students| are showing an interest in this club which promises to become a big drawing -card for any of the enter- tainments in which they will take, part during the school year. Miss Margaret Newton has charge of the clubs’ and plans on holding regular practices every week. ant farms on the market for sale and tend to counteract any increase in farm values which cheap money might cause.” T K HK KKK K KKK KK ol .NOTICE < ¥ . Candidates for the Bemidji %’ Athletic’ Club Basket ball team *-are requested- to report for’ ¥ practice this evening in the tenants will buy farms. Take this|¥ club hall. Tennis or basket ball none better in the state. There wil be an entire change of program at the Brinkman this even- class away from the tenants seeking|+ shoes must be worn by all of to rent farms, and the landlords may |4 the players. « want to sell farms after a-trial of the | & thriftless tenants. This will put ten- MANAGER. * * * * x * x * x KK KKK KKK KKK KKK KX ing. THE CUB SCOOP EB.EE [T™1 GONNA QUIT RAVID) [STAGCE FRIGHT aN! . (EdDITORIAL. WALK RIGHT IN &N’ | Rooms - It's Front That Counts Protest Made By King and " Mackenszie- Was Mistake. il Says That Season Has Been Satis factory and That Total of 87,949 ‘Acres Have Been Disposed of, That the swamp land protest made by President King and Secretary Mackenzie: of the Northern Minne- sota Development association, was a mistake; in the opinion of Samuel Bemidji this week, en route to Grand Rapids where he went to conduct a land sale. It was the opinion of the auditor the protest is nothing more than food for the people in Wash- ington who will only be too willing to hold up the allotmert upon the slightest protest. Mr. Iverson was scheduled to hold‘the land sale here last week, but Theodore Nelson con- ducted it. . Mr. Nelson also accom- panied Mr. Iverson to Grand Rap- ids. The state has exepended in the neighborhood of $100,000 a year during the past twelve years in re- <laiming these lands, says Mr. Iver- son, and future legislatures would, in his opinion, continue to make sat- isfactory appropriations for a con- tinuance of the work. The nature of the undertaking made the sub- ject one of enormous cost on ac- count of the scattered nature of the lands in question, and no central system of ditch construction could be employed but would have to be taken care of as the needs for it de- veloped. It is the opinion of the auditor that Northern Minnesota offers at the present time the greatest induce- ments of any part of - the United States for men of ambition to make a home and secure a competence from the land: He called attention to the fact that the greater portion of those who had settled in the state during -the past year came from the Dakotas, Towa and INinois. He also believes that Minnesota is bound to gain by the rebound of the Canadian ‘boom, as the state has everything to offer that Canada had, and besides this has wood, water, schools and markets lacking in that country. Auditor Iverson said that the sales of state lands during the sea- son’ just closed had been very satis- factory; a total of 87,949 acres hav- State Auditor Believes Swamp Land ' CONDUCTS LAND SALE IN ITASCA Iverson,: state auditor, who was m’ BEACHY ECLIPSES PEGOUD Airman Performs Remarkable Stunts In Aeroplane at Los Angeles— - Loop-The-Loop 2 “JUST EXPERIMENT,” HE SAYS Los Angeles; Nov. 20.—l.incoln Beachy ovtdid Pegoud’s achievemeut of flving upside down by looping-the- loop from a height of 3,500 feet on the North Island government fying grounds near San Diego. ing been djsposed of up to Nov. 1, and that sales still to be held would bring the total up to about 115,000 acres. MAY HAVE QUINT. Brotherhood of David Installs Basket Ball Equipment. ‘Baskets and other . parahernalia necessary for the practicing of bas- ket ball has been installed in the basement of the Methodist church | where the young men belonging to the Brotherhood of David have the use of the floor. Mesdames, C. R. Sanborn, J. J. Opshal George Baker, H. Muncy, Sarah Roberts, E. E. Mc- Donald, Bert Laken, Clyde Bacon, F. S. Arnold, Harry Titius and M. A. Spooner presented the club ‘with a new. basketball. Match games — will undoubtedly be arranged for with the junior teams of the Bemidji' Athletic Club and.the High school teams, Vo Bush Returns Home Leslie “Bullet Joe”” Bush returned to his home at Brainerd this morn- ing after spending the' past two weeks as a guest at the home of hig brother Charles. Mr. Bush pro- mised to return to Bemidji before leaving for. the spring training in the south. ‘Haley-Larson Miss Signa Larson and Michael Haley, both of Kelliher, were united Father Philippe. officiating. Mar- garet Haley and Thomas Haley acted as bridesmaid and bestman. in marriage yesterday morning, Rev. _Beachy made a perpendicular drop of 2,500 feet, then quickly raised his planes and wmade the machine de- scribe a scircle. = Half over, he flew along, machine upside down, for 1,000 feet, then completed the loop. He then dashed 3,000 feet in the air in just one minute, turned: his machine twice over on its own axis, and then LLOYD JURY STILL Cass Lake Murder Case Jury .~ Fail to Arrive At a Verdict [SLAYER CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE Brothers of Murdered Man Attend Portion of Trial I Juror Canses Delay in Closing Arguments After being out . for more _than twenty-four hours the jury in the murder trial of John Lloyd who is accused of having killed Daniel Lil- ly, a Cass Lake bartender, following la-quarrell in a.saloon in that place last ‘September, is'still unable to ar- | {rive at ‘a-verdict, . The jury retired to the jury room - shortly after noon yesterday, Judge Stanton at that time finishing his charge. It had been expected to' place the-case in the hands of ‘the jury late Tuesday evening, but just as County Attorney Edward Rogers was well into his argument a juror was taken ill and the case had to be ad- Jjourned. When the trial was resumed yes- terday morning = Attorney Rogers completed his argument and was. fol< lowed by Daniel DeLury, who spoke in behalf of the accused man. Fred Lilly of Cass Lake and Wil- liam Lilly of Bemidji, brothers of the murdered man, were in atten- dance at the trial a portion of the time. While the charge against Lloyd was murder in the first degree his defense was that he had shot Lflly in self defense, claiming that three shots were fired, the first being fir- ed that he might scare Lilly, the sec- ond being fired by Lily himself while endeavoring to gain possession of the revolver and the third being aimed at Lilly as the latter was gradually choking him (Lloyd) to death. The case goes on record as being ‘one of the shorest murder trials ever trid -in the Fifteenth district. The jury was secured Tuesday morning seemingly lost his balance -and fell, |and all the evidence was in before but within 300 feet of the ground he brought his machine around, executed & letterZ"” und landed. “Just experimenting,” he said. I don’t know what to call the tricks. I pever tried them before.” = * CONCERT NOVEMBER 28 First of Series to Be Given This Month—Dance Following November 28 has been set as the date for the first indoor band con- cert of the season to be given by the ‘Bemidji hand. Alden Remfrey, di- rector has arranged a program which will be printed at a later date. Band concerts will be given in the city hall ‘throughout the winter at regu- lar intervals to which the general public will be invited. No admission | charge will be made to these con- certs but a small charge will be made for ‘those remaining to, the dance which will be held after the concert, = Ready To Organize Applicants for membership to the Moose lodge which will be organiz- ed in Bemidji during the next few days will soon receive cards inform- ing them of the date of the instal- lation. Although the charter which was ordered by Mr. Fowler has not arrived it is expected at any time.| The election of officers may how- ever be held before the arrival of the charter, which will not be signed by the members until December. Must Have Cards Members of the Bemidji Athletic Club" will now be forced to carry their membership cards to gain ad- mittance to the athletic club hall ag a competent. man has been placed in charge and will keep all those not ‘holding a card out of the hall, The janitor will have complete charge of the hall and will see to the clean- liness and the heating of the hall all winter. Initiation This Evening There will be a meeting of the Elks this evening, at which initia- tion will take place. i evening. Judge Stanton tried the case, The case was the last on the Cass county calendar and -as soon as the.jury-agrees or'is dismissed Judge Stanton will return to Bem- idji, Lee LaBaw, court reporter, havy- ing returned last evening. 4 COUNCIL UNRECOGNIZED Thief River Falls Clerk Finds, As At Crookston, That the State Laws Were Ignored OLD ALDERMAN HOLD OVER The Thief River Falls city clerk has refused to accept for filing the oath of office of the newly elected city aldermen, which was presented to him, for the reason, he contends, that at the recent city elections, at which the entire Socialist ticket was defeated, the candidates of both par- ties, the Independent and Socialist, failed to comply with the corrupt practices act in filing their election expenses. The clerk now maintains that, as the election was invalid, the old council holds over another term. + The city clerk at Crookston has taken a similar stand, supported by the opinion of the Attorney General and the city attorney, MANY LICENSES ISSUED Twenty-Four Young Men Join List " of Benedicts Since November. 1 November promises to rival June in the marriage license business of - Beltrami county as 24 licenses have been issued by Fred Rhoda, clerk of court, since -the first of the month Three licenses were issued Monday; Julius Jelle to wed Miss Olga Prestebak; Fred M. Park to wed Miss Harriet White and to H. A. Bridgeman to wed Miss. Cassie S. -Laurin. Julius Jelle and Miss Olga Prestebak are a young couple residing in the north part of the county in an unorganized dis- trict swho gave their relatives the “slip” and eloped .to Bemidji where they were married. The young couple will not return to their homes until the latter part of the momth. H. A. Bridgeman is a popular rail- road conductor on the Minnesota and International railway. = 800 Persons Fed. -About three hundred persons were taken careof at the Men’s an- nual ‘turkey supper served in the basement ‘of. ‘the Presbyterian church ‘last evening. The waiters, working under sthe direction Judge Marshall ‘A. Spooner, After Being Out Twenty-Four Hours -