Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 17, 1913, Page 1

e VOLUME 11. NO. 198. BEMIDJI MINNESOTA WEDNEBDAY EVENING macmm 17 ‘1013, A g @ FOETY CENTS PEB“:EON'!I TWO VETERANS NOW IN CONGRESS One Is General Isaac Sherwood of Ohio—Is Veteran of Forty-Five Battles of the Civil War. 78 YEARS OF AGE BUT ACTIVE Admirer of Fast Horses and Com- panions Are Never Willing To Ac- cept Second Invitation To Ride. From Congressman C. H. Tavenner. ‘Washington, December 17—One of the most interesting figures in the House of Representatives today is General Isaac R. Sherwood, of Ohio. He is a veteran of 45 battles of the Civil War and is the only Union of- ficer left in the House. In fact, there is only one other Grand Army man in the House. In spite of his 78 years the hoary- headed general is still as straight apd slim as a sapling, and his only infirmity is a bothersome deafness. General Sherwood has always been a sportsman in the best sense of that word, and he still retains his love of outdoor life. For many years he was editor of a journal devoted to news about highbred horses. This fall the general was laid up for a while by a slight illness. The doctor told him he was sound as a nut and only needed a little more outdoor exercise to keep him fit. It was then General Sherwood realized that in the past year he has allowed his congressional duties to confine him too closely. As a consequence, he has brought back with him to Washington this winter a team of high-stepping racing horses that have no match in the national capital. The figure of the general flylng over the spe'edway behind these spirited animals is becoming a familiar sight in Washington. The general is filled with as much good-natured mischievousness as any active boy. He knows that it is ra- ther terrifying to anyone unaccus- tomed to horses to ride in a light gig behind a pair that are stepping off miles about every two minutes and 30 seconds. Yet he has taken to in- viting his colleagues one by one out for rides each afternoon. It is sel- dom that the recipient of one of these will accept another one. Recently the veteran congressman had as his guest a city member who had never ridden behind a fast horse before. The nags had been gradaul- 1y increasing their speed, and the nervous member noticed that the general had stopped talking and was devoting al his attention tp the horses, speaking to them in a sooth- ing way. “They’'re runming away, aren't they, general?” cried the frightened passenger. The General grinned. “No,” he called back. “They’re not running away, but I can’t stop them.” The guest clung to the seat for the two miles which it took General Sherwood to get the animals under control. Then, although they were far from the street car, the guest alighted and footed it home. General Sherwood is chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and as such was recently in the con- gressional limelight when he introluc- ed first omnibus pension bill of the 63¢d Congress. During the debate on that bill many members of both par- ties took accasion to compliment Gen- eral Sherwood and his committee for the judgment and care used in granting special pensions. One or two members declared that special pension bills are introduced and pass- ed merely to buy votes for Congress- ment. This charge was hotly re- futed by some of the leading men of the House, and, in replying to the same charge, Congressman Frank Willis, who is mentioned as the pro- bable next Republican candidatc for governor of Ohio, paid high tribure to his Democratic colleague, General Sherwood. The general himself in his speech told of the policy of his committee. He said: “Now, this committee propose, and I think I have the full sympathy of every member of this committee—to pension every deserv- ing case. As these old soldiers are passing away at the Tate of 36,000 a year, and soon they will all be gone we propose, so far as possible, to ren- der.their last days on earth comfor- table and pleasant.” Lake Not All Frozen Lake Bemidji is not entirely cov- ered with a coat of ice as the north end of the lake is open and shows but | little signs of freezing up. HERBERT S. HADLEY. Prominent Figure at Meeting of Republican Committeemen. Photo by American Press Assoclation. DISCUSS G. 0. P. FUTURE National Committeemen Assemble at Washington—Form Plans for Re- organization of the Party SOME WOULD HAVE CONVENTION washington, Dec. 1/.—1'Wo Dropos- als for reorganization of the Republic- an party and to find a basis upon which discordant elements can unite confronted the Republican national committee. Foremost was a proposal far a special national convention to read- just the system of delegate represen- tation. The other was that no convention be called, but that the national -com- mittee fix a plan of reapportionment 'for ratification by the Republican|: : 1 ‘| Beltrami County Company Sells In- state conventions. A resolution for a special conven- tion was prepared by a special com- mittee, which also framed another res- olution in accordance with a compro- mise suggestion by C. B. Warren of Michigan, chairman of the law commit- tee, proposing that after the national committee fixes a basis of reappor- tionment the plan be ratified by two- thirds of the states which cast Re- publican pluralities for president in 1908. . Members of Committee. On the special committee drafting the resolution were Committeemen ‘Warren of Michigan, Borah of Idaho, Hadley of Missouri, who also holds a proxy from Louisiana; Smoot of Utah and Howell of Nebraska. They went into session to report later to the en- tire committee. Former Governor Hadley of Mis- souri, a member of the special com- mittee appointed last year by .the Chicago conference of Progressive Republicans to make overtures for party reorganization, was not averse to the compromise plan. Mr. Hadley said he favored a na- tional convention, but failing to get that he would vote for submission of the party problems to a referendum of the states. Senator Borah declared that he in- tended to fight for final disposition of the reapportionment plan by the national committee without reference to the state conventions. The law committee decided recently that the national committee could not do that solely on its own authority. Addressed by Warren. “ Before the special committee was ready to report the national commit- tee began its session and was ad- dressed by Mr. Warren, who deciared there had been no division in the Re- publican party on questions of politi- cal or economic policy, “but because of - differences of opinion as to the methods employed in expressing party sentiment.” ‘“The problem,” he said, “is to pre- vent the continued division of the members of the party. Let us admin- ister our own corrective; let us not vermit the Democratic party to use a position gained solely by division in our ranks to destroy the good our party has done the nation.” Ormsby McHarg, who represented the Roosevelt forces in the contests preceding the Chicago convention last vear, addressed the committee in op- position to a special convention. “If the committee has power to call a convention, it has power to c]mnge representation. If this committee has decided that abuses should be correct- ed.it should manfully so announce.” Robert Butler, publisher of the ‘| Bagley Independent, is in Bemidji to- day on business, and for the purpose of being present at the Masonic ban- quet and meeting this evening. MAY GETI, 6000ACRESFREE NEW SYSTEMTO BE Title Defect In Land ‘Sought For Itasca State Park Addition Valued At $70,000. IS MINNESOTA BEAUTY SPOT The state forestry board expects to have absolute control within a few weeks over the entire park as negotitations have been com- pleted for the transfer of all but 320 acres. About 1,600 acres of the land for which terms have been made, are defective as to title, but the defects are such as will be greatly to the advantage of the state for unless the claimants can clear their title the state will get the lands for nothing. Otherwise they will cost about $70,- 000. When the park first was designated as a public forest the state had but a few scattered tracts in its posses- session, the larger areas being owned by the Weyerhaeuser, Backus, Shev- lin, Walker and other lumbering in- terests. The work of acquisition was slow as the legislature was not dis- posed to be generous, but in 1913 everything that forestry board asked was granted. The board is authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness up to The land acquired since Noth- $250,000. last June will cost $125,000. ing more will be required for land in the present limits of the park unless it is found that the state must pay for the lands the title to which is in dispute. ‘When all is done the people will have a vast natural park of 24,000 acres of forest and lake scenery about the source and the headwaters of the Mississippi river. Much of the nat- ural forest has been preserved and as ITtasca is one of the most pictur- esque bodies of water in the state the park will be an attractive resort. ABSTRACT FIRM CHANGES terests To New Corporation Which Has Taken Charge. F. 8. ARNOLD TO BE MANAGER Having taken charge yesterday, a newly organized corporation, which will be known as the Bemidij Ab- stract . Company, will in the future conduct the business which since the time Bemidji was a hamlet has been operated by the Beltrami Abstract company. A deal has been completed whereby C. A, Huffman and J. 0. Harris, own- ers of the Beltrami Abstract company have sold their interests to A. P. ‘White, C. M. Bacon and F. S. Arnold. Mr. Huffman, who is considered one of the best posted abstract men of the state, and who has had charge of the office for the last five years, has retired from the business and F. S. Arnold, the new manager has al- ready taken charge. A. P. White, president of the Northern Nationa'l Bank is president of the new cor- peration,, while C. M. Bacon, a prom- inent Bemidji business men is vice- president. Miss Emma Noesen will be retained as assistant in the office. Pool-Hall and Barber Shop Opens J. Davis and F. J. Galbraith have opened a pool hall and barber shop in the old Anderson saloon building on Beltrami avenue. The building is located the first door north of the Union depot. TO OPERATE ON EYE Mrs. A. P. White will leave tomor- row morning for Milwaukee, where she will spend three weeks. Her son Harold will have his eye operated upon, during the holiday vacation, for a cataract, which was cause by a shot falling into his eye last summer while he was looking into the sky a,t—\ ter discharging a gun. He has been totally blind in that eye and the doctors hope to restore his~ sight when the cataract is removed. Miss ‘Mariah will not return to Bemidji during the holidays but will be with her mother and brother. Al Kaliser, cashier of the First National Bank of Bagley, is a Be- midji-business visitor today. He will attend the Masonic banquet this evening. * Judge M. A. Spooner left 1 Tuesda.y for Detroit, St. -Paul and Duluth, Itasca state ENTIRELY MODERN| Equipmen't Being Installed By North. | western Telephone Co., Will Ac- commodate Population of 18,000 CALL CENTRAL AUTOMATICALLY Lights Will Notify Operator of All Calls—Interior of New Building Attractive—Ready in ;March A | — : Bemidji’s new telephone system will-soon ‘he a 'reality’ for workman of the Northwestern Telephone com- pany are pushing the work to com- pletion as fast as possible. By the time the new switchboard is install- ed the underground cables wil have been drawn into the condults, and the entire plant will be ready to connect up, putting the new service in op- eratlon about the first of March. It is expected that the material for the main frame will arrive here about the first of January and work will begin immediately in installing low and the work in putting it In place will be pushed as fast &as possible. The new switchboard will be of the most modern type and has a capacity for, accomodating ' 2,000 subscribers, which means that the new system will be able to take care of the telephone wants of Bemidji until it is a city of 18,000 people. At the present time only 1,000 subscrib- ers can be taken care of. The instal- being placed in Bemidji .requires much work and it will be some time before the new exchange will be cut over. 3 Automatic Service Another change which will be giv- en an enthusiastic welcome in Be- midji will be that of 'doing away with the magneto type of telephone to the common battery order.. This; will do away with the crank in calling ‘eent.ral In, the future all the speak- T will have to do 1s to-take the r cefver from the hook; Which will-stél nal central automatically by the lighting of @ lamp on the - switch- board in front of the operator. When a person is through talking and hangs up the. receiver the operator will be again potified by the lights and will disconnect. This will do away with the necessity of the cen- tral opening the key and inquiring if the talker is through. Building Is Complete ' _ The telephone company’s new ibuilding is now complete and is ar- ranged so that the business can be carried on in a proper manner, it being the idea of the officials to give the patrons as good service as pos- sible. The enterior fis att\'actlve, and is finished in natural =~ birch, with hardwood maple floors. It is ex- ceedingly well lighted. The base- ment will be occupied by the plan de- partment, where the machinery, and apparatus for charging.the storage battery is located. ¢ The second floor will be used for Manager Giles office, the operating room and a retiring room for the op- erators. The retiring room will be es- pecially attractive to the young wo- men operators, of which there are fourteen, and will be provided with easy chairs, couch. and other furni- ture to make it as pleasant as possible When in operation Bemidji will have one of the best telephone ex- changes in the state, and the com- pany has given expense but little thought in the erection of the new system. BUYS EICKSTAD FARM. J. H. Krueger of Sherwood, North Dakota, has purchased the Fred Eick- stad farm near this city and has brought his family here from North Dakota and taken possession of the land. Mr. Krueger is an active young man and believes that Northern Minnesota soil is the best obtainable for agricultural purposes. The land purchased. includes 160 acres of par- tially cleared land, and is located in the town of Frohn. Bell Again Injured Remson Bell, one of the most re- liable players of the Athletic club basketball toam, and who just recov- ered from an injury received in the first contest of the seasom, played with Brainerd several weeks 280, tripped and fell during practice last evening and his right knee was badly cut. The injury is quite painful and it. The switchboard will then: fol- lation of a switchboard of the kind| SEAL SALES INOREASE Nee.nng of ‘Christmas Brmgs Ma.ny Buyers ot' Red Cross Stamps. The Red Cross seal sales are in- creasing in’ volume each ' day asg Christmas draws nearer and the vol- ume of holiday business increases. Hundreds of seals are being sold daily at the various stations through- out the city at which the seals have been Dplaced on ‘sale. The various theaters of the city are advertising them on their motion pictures screens which does much to swell the vol- ume of the sales. 3 Those, in charge are confident that the record of last year will be broken. LLOYD JURY COMPLETE Murder Trial At Walker Beging and State Now' Putting In Evidence— Nethaway Assists in Prosecution HARD FOUGHT CASE IS LIKELY ‘With Judge Nethaway of the at- torney general’s office assisting County Attorney Edward Rogers in the prosecution, the Lloyd murder trial is now under way at Walker, {the jury having been completed at four o’clock yesterday afternoon. Some difficulty was encountered in securing the jury, and it took a lpnger period to complete it than was the case in the first trial Every in- dication is that the case will be hard fought and it was because of this reason that County Attorney Rogers ‘called for assistance from the attor- ney general. It is understood that only one of the former jurymen was in favor-of. conviction, eleven being for acquit- \{tal. - Daniel DeLury, one of the leading members of the Cass county bar, is defending Lloyd, accused of the mur- der of Dan Lilly in Cass Lake last December. Every -indication seems to show ‘several days more tham did the Hpet one, which established a record for This district. taking only. a lit- tle .over two days. LEAVES FOR CANADA W. B. Brown Lands Special Agent Position with Canadian Northern W."B. (Bunk)’ Brown of this city has left for Winnepeg where he will | enter the employee of the Canadian Northern Railway as Special Agent. Mr. Brown has worked for the Great Northern Railway and other com- panies where he-has made an excel- lent record, and considers his. posi- tion with the Canadian firm a pro- motion. ‘While in Bemidji recently he assisted Mr. Watson, special agent of the State Railroad and Ware House Commission who caused ‘the arrest of several merchants and dealers in this -city for ignoring the laws relative to weights and mea- sures. 3 85 TO JOIN MOOSE. Second Initiation of Charter Members Held This Evening. About thirty-five applicants, ac- cording to Scott Stewart, secretary, will be initiated into the Moose lodge this evening. This will bring the to- tal membership above the 100 mark, the others having gone in when the lodge ‘was installed here two weeks ago. - BUTTER FAT PRICE RAISED Creamery Now Paying 35 1-2 Cents Per Pound—Need More Cream E. C. Stiles, butter maker at the Bemidji creamery, thas announced that the price of butter fat has in- creased to 35 1-2 cents per pound. This is the highest amount paid by the creamery for butter fat since last spring, since that time it having gone as low as 25 cents. Farmers ‘are urged to bring as much cream to creamery ag possible, Much more then is received can be used and the establishment is not making expen- ses, Jack McDonald, a memi'ter of the cruising staff of the Shevlin inter- ests, has returned from Montana jwhere he has spent the last two 1 where he will spend several days on |is llkely to keep the star forward months assisting in securing an esti- business. from the lineup for some time. . . "mate on some timber. CONDIT[0N NOW ;BECOMING SERIOUS Lack of’ »Sm)w Means Loss of Thou~ sands of Dollars to Many Northern Minnesota Lumbermen MAN! m OUT OF WORK Employment Agencies Report Orders Few and Dust Causes Disgust From Housewives Who also Want Snow Northern - Minnesota ideal that the trial of the case will take| mer” weather is every day causing loses of thousands of dollars to lum~ bermen who are unable to carry out- there operations as planned. As a consequence' of the 1lack of snow, work in the woods is now almost at a standstill and never in the time since logging flrst began in this pdrt of the country has the work dragged to such an extent. While work is being carried on, only that which can possible be dona without real cold weather and snow is in progress. Cutting is handicap- ped to large degree, for without frost in the trees, fast sawing is hind- erd. Hauling 1is out of the question. Hundreds of men. are idle, and waiting for the first snow fall, which will mean a rush call to the employ- ment agencies for labor. Employment agents in Bemidji are easily filling what orders they are receiving now, but they are few and require only a small number of men to meet the requests.- . While- the residents of this section of the state are enthusiastic over the ideal weather congitions they are generally comprehending the seri- ousness of the situation and nearly everyone is now hoping for a large fall of snow in the near future. Not only are the loggers and others who are badly in need of snow prey- ing for its arrival, for the house wife finds that she is now caused to dust the furniture and do as much sweep- ing as flurlng the hottest months of summer. Days like yestyrday when the wind blows. x.hs 1} streets in drifts, brings sorrow‘ to the house keeper. WARNS POSTAL SENDERS Postmaster Erickson -.Says Regula- tions Bar Cards Bearing Particles of Metal or Glass. PLACE STAMPS ON OUTSIDE ‘Postmaster Erickson desires to call the attention of the public to the fact that at this season of the year a large number of post cards are mailed which, owing to the fact that said cards are mailed in violation of the postal laws and regulations, nev- er are dispatched from the postoffice but are destroyed after being held two weeks for reclamation, unless the address of the sender is known, in that event they are returned to the sender. Section 403, postal laws and regu= lations, article 4, reads as followss: Cards bearing particles of glass, met= al, mica, sand, tinsel, or other similar material for maliling, except when enclosed in envelopes tightly; sealed to prevent the escape of such! particles, or when treated in such/ manner as will prevent the objee- tional substances form being rubbed off or injuring persons handling the mails, Note Cards mailed under cover of sealed envelopes (transparent or oth- .|erwise) shall be charged with post- age at the first-class rate, and if in unsealed envelopes, according to the.. character of the message.’ The postage stamp should be af-. . fixed to the envelope covering the. . cards. Stamps affixed to matter in-. cloged in envelopes ean not be recog- on. Schroeder Serves Refreshments Visitors to the Schroeder store to-.. day are invited to partake of: re~ freshments, which consists of a cup of Empress coffee and samples of the 101 varities of cookies and othep ar- ticles being shown by J. E. Petesson: and T. Tree, representatives of- the Loose-Wiles Biscuit company and the Stone-Ordean-Wells company, pes~ pectively. Mr. Schroeder this morning said, “I am sure that vesi- dents of the city appreciate the line I am carrying, and I want them all to sample these goods at my expense. “sum- nized in payment of postage there-.. i | | { |