Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 28, 1914, Page 1

| CO-OPERATE SAY SECRETARY HOUSTON Argicultural Head Tells “Farmers How To Get More Money For Their Crops—TUrges Staple Products BILL FOR STEEL MAIL CARS Pending Appropriation Measure Calls For $200,000 To Be Used For Ex- periments—Life Habit 0f Eels Tavenner. 28 —For how to get more money for your crops: Cooperate, standardize, advertise. That, of Secretary From Congressman C. H. Washington, January farmers: in a nut shell, is the advise of Agriculture Hous- ton, and is the result of ten months of study on the part of the newly organized Bureau of Markets. ‘The government investigators have received many valuable point- ers from the cooperative marketing efforts of the fruit growers of south- ern California and elsewhere, and the experts now believe that what California has done with oranges, and whet Washingten and Oregon have done with apples, other sections of the country can do with potatoes, hams, and in, fact all standard farm products. ery community has one product which reaches perfection in that locality. By intelligent co- operation among all the farmers of the community that product can be- come a source of profit to all in the opinion of Secretary Houston, = “The farmers must be induced in particular communities to develop staple products,” said Mr. Houston, “to standardize, them, to prepare them properly for market, to study what market to reach at a given time, and th® best and most econo- mic method of shipping. Nothing s than con ed action will suf- . The individual farmer cannot solve the problem.® fe cannot suf- ntly control the problem of pro- duction, or the machinery for mar- keting, or the transportation facil- ities.” Steel Mail Cars. iovernment owned steel railway mail cars are in the way of becoming an actuality. The pending post of- fice appropriation bill contains an item of $200,000 for building steel mail cars for an experiment. This sum will build about 15 cars. As it is now the government pays so much rent to the railroads for the use of cars often built of wood that as a business proposition it could well af- ford to build for itself all the steel cars needed for the service. Life Habits of Eels United States Fish Commissioner fugo M. Smith has been making a study of the life habits of the com- mon eel, and in an article prepared for the National Geographic Society he shows that the eel is one of the strangest of all fishes, Although eels are found in inland streams some- times thousands of miles from salt water, yet they were all spawned in the oceans, probably in the dark and coundless dopths of midocean, and in reaching the fresh water sources they have travelled thousands of miles. It is probably according to Mr. young larval eel is 1 than 1-25 of spawn in water less than a mile deep. The eggs at once rise to the surface of the ocean where they hatch. The young larval eels is less than 1-25 of an inch iong when hatched. It floats about the surface for a year, in which time it becomes a ribbon-like fish three inches long, yet in that time it eats nothing whatever. How it lives and grows is a mystery. In this larval period the young eels drift 1,000 miles or so, eventually reaching the coasts and fresh water. They make their way upstream over dams and other obstacles, and on reaching headwaters remain until full grown, when they begin their journey to the sea agaln. ) SEEKS SEAT Secretary of W. C. T. U. Would Rep- resent Kansas District. Goodland, Kan., Jan. 28.—Mrs. Eka Muthy of Goodland, recording secre- tary of the W. C. T. U, is out as a Progressive candidate for congress from the Sixth district. She pledged herself to work for a prohibition amendment to the constitution and support all progressive legislation, re- gardless of what party introduces it She explains that her children are grown and her husband willing that she should be a candidate. Kansas women were enfranchised at the last election. EXPLOSION ON MAURETANIA Four Persons Dead and Eight Seri- ¥ ously Injured. Liverpool, Jan. 28.—Another man has succumbed to injuries, making four dead and eight seriously injured By an explosion of gas aboard the Cunarder Mauretania. The danger to the - liner was not serious and the Mauretania will sail as scheduled on Teb. 2. IN GI]NGF.ESS Speaker’s Daughter Heads Or- i ganization to Aid Charities. 1912, by American Press Association. Washington, Jan. 28.—Charming Genevieve Champ Clark, daughter of the speaker of the house, has turned her attention to charitable work. She has just been elected president of the Junior Auxiliary of Washington Debu- tants and Belles, an organization which proposes to devote much of its time and thought this year to assist- ing the activities of Neighborhood House. WIDE CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED Efforts to Be Made to Organize Gov- ernment Employes. Washington, Jan. 28.—A general campaign is to be conducted by the organizers of the American Federa- tion of Labor throughout the country in an effort to unionize the 300,000 government employes, Secretary Mor- rison of the federation announced. ‘This step is in accordance with the resolution adopted by the e conneil of the federation here last week. O’BRIEN OUTLINES CASE County Attorney Makes Attorneys Zane And Larrabee Have Tilt In Discussion As To Compet- ency Of Evidence WRITING EXPERT TESTIFIES Says That Signature Not That Of McDonali—London Depositions Mede Part Of Court Record Efforts of the plaintiff in the Me- Donald against MacMillan case, now on trial before Judge C. W. Stanton |in district count here, seem to be di- rected to the purpose of showing that the defendant was a much-mar- ried woman before her alleged mar- riage to Mr. McDonald in 1908, and that she was not at that time free to contract'new marital relation. A Much-Married Woman ; The London depositions read yes- terday have much to say along this 'line and are such as to leave consid- erable confusion, at least in the mind of a layman, as to this important question. The defendant was call- ed for cross-examination and in or- der to indentify several letters that appear to have been written to Lieut. ~ | James T.. George Wifl Ask That Time __Ancther disappofntment to rooters and athletes of this clty was an- nounced this morning -when a letter from the manager. of the Virginia Mohami club basketball team calling off the games to:be phyed in- this city on Friady md Saturday. ‘This is the second un(s_bhls season that Range teams haveibacked out shortly before the date gf the contest and as a result a game at a later date will be refused. . Efforts are now being made to schedule’'s game with other fquints and it is probable that a con- d for Friday night. MEET DATE Set For Assessors Instructions Be . Continued Several Weeks TAX 'LIST WILL THEN BE READY Because the tax lists may not be ready for the county assessors by March 31, the date set for the meet- ing of the assessors and a represen- tative of the state tax commission, James L. George, county auditor will recommend that a later day be nam- James Greenwood by a woman named ed. Amper, who married him. She tes- tified that many of these letters were written by her, and in the same name that she bore, but that she wrote for another woman. This wo- man, she testified, is her cousin, and that she is now an inmate of some thospital or asylum, but she does not know where. Attorneys In Tilt Arguments between Atorneys Zane and Larrabee have been frequent, usually as to the competency of evi- dence, and much of that offered by the plaintiff was excluded by the court. Much of the testimiony of Chancey Sumner, a willing witness for the plaintiff from Geneva, Kansas was thus suppressed. Expert Testifies Dr. Marshall Ewell, of Evanston, Illinois, who calls himself a micros- copic and handwriting expert, de- clared 1t to be his opinion that the Opening Statementt in St Paul Police Graft Trial—Alleges Conspiracy WITNESSES WILL TELL OF PLAN St. Paul, Jan, 28.—County Attorney O’Brien, in his opening statement .to the jury in the trial of Martin Flana- and Fred charged said gan, former chief of police, Turner, former city detect with bribery in the third deg the state will show that Turner, Willie Wolll and May Burke, a form sortkeeper, entered into a conspiracy to collect “graft money” in the spring of 1913 and that under the terms of the alleged agreement Willle Wolff was to get one-half of the total collection and turn over to Flanagan, then acting chiei of police, one-half of his share. May Burke, according to O’Brien, was to receive one-half of the total proceeds and turn over to Detective Turner one-half of her share. In the case at trial the county at- torne; 1id the state would prove that Dorothy Hazzard, a former resort- keeper, on March 20, paid to William Wolff in the reception room at the Ryan hotel the sum of $1,000 to per- mit her to reopen a resort, and that Wolff sent $250 of this amount to May Burke, $250 to Fred Turner, $250 to Martin J. FPlanagan and kept $250 for himself, and that on the night of March 20 Dorothy Hazzard was per- mitted to reopen t. rt. PUTS BAN ON DEMURRAGE Order Affects Corporations Owning “Stub” Line Railroads. Washington, Jan. 28.—Great manu- facturing corporations having so call- ed industrial railroads connecting their plants with trunk lines, may no longer receive demurrage or per diem charges and various “allowances,” ac- cording to a decision of the interstate commerce commission. It was held that such practices are nothing less than unlawful rebates, which accrue to the benefit of the in- dustries themselves and give them “McDonald” signature on the mar- riage record was not written by Mc- Donald, the plaintiff, HAITI REVOLUTION SPREADS Whele Populace Arises at Port de Paix and Gonaives. Cape Haitien, Haiti, Jan. 28.—The revolution in Haiti is spreading all over the north. At Port de Paix and Gonaives the entire population has risen. Two prominent exiles, General Car- los Zamor and General Beaufosse La- roche, both former ministers of war, have returned to Cape Haitien, which is in the hands of the rebels. House to Push Alaskan-Bill, Washington, Jan. 28.—House lgad- ers figured it would be about five weeks before the house would pass the Alaskan railroad bill and send it to the president. The bill is pending only on Wednesday. General debate will be concluded on Feb. 4. Read- ing of the measure for amendment will then be begun Oklahoma Negro Lynched. Oklahoma City, Okla., Jan. 28— Ben Dickerson, negro, accused of hav- ing robbed and murdered W. A. Chaffin, traveling salesman, was lynched near Noble. twenty-five miles south. Roller Skating Tonight. Owing to the announcement that roller skating will soon be over for this season, a large crowd is expect- ed at the rink tonight and the em- ployes have repaired all the skates and are in readiness for one of the largest crowds of the season. Just how long the rink will remain open cannot be ascertained at present, but a definite date will be annonnoed in the near future. McQuot Visit Bemidji County Attorney McQuot of Itasca county was in Bemidji this morning for the purpose of appearing before Judge Stanton on legal matters. Mr. McQuot returned to his home in “undue, unreasonable and unlawful” advantages over competitors. Grand Rapids on the noon train. Meeflngs will be held in every county of the state this year for the purpose of instructing assessors in regard to their duties, which have been made more difficult this year owing ‘to the classified assessment law enacted by the last legislature. The state tax commission has deter- mined that every assessor shall have a thorough understanding of the law before he begins his work, and that the tax laws of the state shall be car- ried out just as they are written. The new law divides property for purposes, of taxation into four class- es. The first class covers iron ore whether mined or in the ground, which is to be assessed at 50 per cent of full value. The second class in- cludes household goods, wearing ap- parel and the like, to be assessed at 25 per cent of full value, The third class covers live stock, agricultural products, stocks’ of merchandist, manufacturers’ ‘material and ‘mana- factured produets, tools, implements and machinery whether fixtures or otherwise, and all unplatted real ee- tate, and is to be assessed at 33 1-3 per cent of full vaule. The fourth class covers all property not In- cluded in the first three classes, and is to be assessed at 40 per cent of ful value. BANDCONCERTTOMORROW Several Features On Pragram Whioh Will Include Quartette And Clari- net Sole By H. E. Anderson DANCE WILL FOLLOW MUSICIAL Alden Remfrey, director of the Be- midji band, announces that the pro- grom for the second Indoor concert of the season, which will be given tomorrow night is now complete and | all is in readiness for the affair. Several features for the concert have been arranged, one of which will be a clarinet solo by H. E. An- derson, one of Bemidji’s leading mu- sicians. A quarette, entirely com- prised of boys who play in the band will sing. This quarette is made up of Elmer Kittleson, Axel Kittleson, Dick Fenton and Alden Remfrey. Many new pieces will be played to- morow night, and as the band is ‘better than ever a packed house is expected. A dance will be given mllowing the concert. There will be no charge for the concert, but a small admis- sion fee will be collected at the dance. The affair will be given in the city hall. Graduates To Meet. There will be a meeting of the Teachers’ Training School gradu~ ates at the home of Mrs. M. Phibbs tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock . Sheriff Johnson, Clerk of Court Rhoda- And - Justice Pendergast Name Grand and Petit Jury Lists tions Will Be Practically Same As Usual—Term Begins 10th Andrew Johnson, sheriff, Fred Rhoda, clerk of court and Justice Pendergast of Grant Valley, have se- the February term of court which will begin here on the tenth. 5 ‘While the grand jury will report on the opening day of court, the petit jury will not be required to be present until Thursday. It is prob- able that Judge Stanton will preside during the term. The juries will be as follows: Petit Jurors. Isaac Therault—Blackduck. John Weeks—Spooner. C. R. Chester—Blackduck. G. F. Eickstadt—Bemidji. Erick Sundberg—Orheim. James Ramsey—iBaudette. ‘W. E. Hazen—Bemidji. John Collins—Baudette. Hans Sorenson-—Blackduck. Christ Berg—Carmel. Fred Sunby—Jelle. George Bogart—Blackduck. Willis Nye—Nymore. William Zipple, Jr.—Hackett. Soren Knudson—Malcolm. Alonzo Wheeler—Hackett. William Setser—Aure. Fred Fretig—Grygla. 3 Howard Price—Blackduck. B. Getchell-——Bemidji. A. A. Carter—Bemidji. George Kirk—Bemidji. K. K. Meland—Aure. Ben Jenkins—Blackduck. Grand Jurors, Knute Strand—Tenstrike. W. A. Wildman—Kelliher. H. C. Daniels—Bemidji. Frank Slipp—Baudette. Fred Ryberg—Spooner, John Guthrie—Turtle River, Jens Wolden—Saum. John Kyler—Spooner. Charley Johnson—iBlackduck. J. M. Reed—Blackduck. John Noel—Bemidji. Albert Brauer—Bemidji. Matt Hendrickson—Spooner., Carl Peterson—Aure, . L. A. Hanson—Wilton, Ed Arnold—Baudette. John Reed—Waskish, Olaf Larson—Bemidji. Gil Peterson—Puposky. ~ - Peter Larson—Bemidji. James Clark—Williams, Charley Olson—Blackduck. W. A. Reamer—Kelliher, The criminal calendar this year will be much lighter than usual, but it is expected, though only a few cases have-as yet been filed, that the civil actions will be as plentiful as during previous terms. Several im- portant cases will he brought up for trial. TO REHEARSE PLAY TONIGHT. Members of Cast to Produce “College Widow,” To Meet at Library. Much progress is being made with the preparations. for the home, talent production, “The College & Widow,” which will be given under the auspi- ces of the Bemidji Athletic Club on February 23rd. Another -rehearsal will be held this evening at 7:30 in the library building, and the entire «cast is urged to be present. Special Meeting Tonight There will be a special meeting of the F. and A. Masons this evening in the Masonic hall. Work in the first degree. R. H. SCHUMAKER, W.M. Ewell An Authority Marshall Ewell of Evanstonm, il- linois, who is in Bemidji as a wit- ness in the McDonald against Mrs. MacMillan case, is the author of sev- eral law books. He is considered a handwriting expert and an authority on many phases of law. FEW CASES YET ON CALENDAR Few Criminal Cases While;Civil Ac- lected the grand and petit juries for | SENATOR SHAFROTH. i:oh:)radu Solon Urges Jan‘h- ary Date for Inauguration. _— THIRD MONDAY IN JANUARY Senator Shafroth Wants Inauguration Day Changed. Washington, Jan. 28.—Senator Shaf. roth of Colorado is pressing the sen- ate judiciary committee for favorable action on his resolution to amend the constitution so as to make the date of the convening of congress the first Monday in January following the elec- tion, instead of March 4, and to have the term of the president begin the -third Monday in January instead of| March 4. In a statement presented to the committee the senator asserted that the proposed change in the date of the opening of conmgress would pre- vent such a situation as arose in the Hayes-Tilden controversy in 1876 by making it impossible that a house composed in part of members who had not been re-elected *should decide the election of a president. Under his plan the newly elected representa- tives would settle such an issue. DEATH DUE TO LIQUOR Andrew Johnson, Who Attempted To End Life By Cutting Throat With L} Broken Glass, Is Dead. VICTIM OF DELIRIUM TERMENS Andrew Johnson, 42, the man who attempted to end his life while con- fined in the city jail Sunday night, is dead, death having been caused by delirfum tremens, according to a report of Dr, L. A, Ward, health officer. Johnson was found in a critical conditions by Sergeant Bursley, when the officer went to the jail Monday. He was bleeding from several places, the cuts having been caused by the man in an attempt to end his life, following a prolonged drunkenness. He had obtained an empty whisky bottle from a fellow prisoner, and; broke it, using the jagged ends in his attempt at suicide, Dr. Ward was called immiediately and rushed the suffering man to the Samaritan hospital. At first it was thought that he would recover, his wounds not being sufficient to cause death. Later an attack of delirium tremens came on him., He was strapped to his bed and a guard Pplaced in charge. He lived for two days in. this condition, dying last night. He will be buried at the expense of the county, Assessor Salary Goes Up? Last evening’s Pioneer stated that the assessor’s salary for 1914 would be $500 instead of $300 a month, the change being necessary because of assessments on both real estate and personal property taxes. We admit that this would be a “fat” sal- ary, but for the benefit of the many ‘Who are considering entering the race for the position we will give no- tice that the $500 is for the entire year’s work. THE CUB REPORTER Scoop Didn't Know That Housekeeping Included Babies By *HOP”’ ASSOCIATION WORK OUTLINED FOR YEAR !|Secretary Mackenzie Starts™ Fund Campaign With Which To Carry On Development Schedule BOARDS URGED T0 BE LIBERAL Plans For Thief River Meeting Al- - ready Being Made—Also Preparing For Winter Convention —_— With the opening of _the year which promises to be the most im- {portant in the history of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion, W. R. Mackenzie, the secretary, is preparing to collect the munitions of war, namely money, with which to attack the problem with which the association is confronted, which is the securing of state aid to reclaim and make available for settlement state swamp lands in the northern part of Minnesota. The men who form this association have started out with all the deter- mination of men in earnest over the development of Northern Minnesota; and it is generally accepted as a foregone conclusion that they will accomplish what they have started out to do. They started out in the same way after reapportionment, and despite predictions that they would fail, they won. Board Aid Asked The funds for the work are obtain- ed through appropriations by coun- ty boards, a legislative act permit- ting such donations on a per capital basis. 1t is being urged that county ds make their appropriations in matter as liberal as possible, as the work of development of the nor- thern part of the state helps each subordinate part of it. Meeting Plans Mr. Mackenzie is already arrang- ing for the June meeting of the as- sociation to be held at Thief River Falls and is also preparing in a pre- liminary and advertising way for the ‘Brainerd meeting in December. It -|1s generally believed that this year's meetings of the N. M. D. A, will he of much greater interest than us- ual. The Thief River Falls meeting will be a Lhree days’ sesgion, dur- ing which agricultural, rural con- solidated schools, general high schools, general county agitation and other matters of interest to the nor- thern part of the state will be dis- cussed. It is expected that some of the leading authorities on these mat- ters in the state will be present, Women To Help An added feature to the June meeting is being arranged. The women will form a tentative organi- zation to act as an auxiliary to the N. M. D. A, the principal object of which will be the upbuilding and im- provement of farm life from a wo- man’s point of view. It is expected that” this organization will ask the N. M. D." A, at the June meeting to formally accept it as a permanent auxiliary, The Brainerd meeting will be in the nature of a harvest festival and in some respects it Is expected to be the most important meeting the asso- ciation has ever held. Meet Next Month. Another meéting in connection with state development which will be of more than ordinary Interest will be that of representatives of the three sectional development assocla~ tions to be held in St. Paul next month. These three organizations are the N. M. D. A, the West Cen- tral Minnesota Development associ- ation and the Southern ‘Minnesota Better Development league. Repre- sentatives of the three will meet in 8t. Paul, the object being the im- provement of co-operative plans, it being recognized that while section- al development of the state does the state as a whole, good united work of development will do much more. STAPLES CASE CONTINUED Women Charged With Murder Will Be Given Hearing Next Saturday Mrs. Nellie Satples, formerly a Be- midji girl, was taken from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre, yesterday where she will answer to the charge of mur- der. She is accused of haying killed her day old babe, The attorney and county officers were all present at the trial and the Benton officers ask- ed that the trial be postponed until next Saturday, to allow the sheriff extra time to serve subpoemas on witnesses. The petition for adjourn- ment was allowed and the hearing will come up next Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. lunch was served and a dance give ‘Woodman Install Members of the Modern Woodman and the Royal Neighbors held a joint - {installation last evening in the Odd Fellows Hall. Business of import- ance was transacted after which