Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 4, 1914, Page 1

STATE MAY BUILD VOLUME 11. NO. 238. MODEL VILLAGE Minnesota League of Municipalities Plans for Novel Experiment— ‘Would be Under Ideal Conditions JANESVILLE I8 PLACE.CHOSEN Other Cities May Follow—All De- partments of Village Would Be Operated by Late Methods A perfect village, to be a model for Minnesota, {8 to be built if the Dlans of the planning committee of the Minnesota League of Municipal- itles adopted at a meeting held in Minneapolis yesterday materialize. Janesville, Minn., has been tenta- tively selected as the place for the expeniment. © The plans contemplat- ed an up to date sewer and water system, an efficient fire department, better sanitary conditions, a system of parks and everything that would make a village an ideal place for a home. J, E. Jenks of St. Cloud, president of the State League of Municipalities; Mayor Nye, man of the committee on planning the extension bureau of the state university, and university officials attended the conference. University to Aid in Plan - Janesville is being considered as the place for the experiment, be- cause it is contemplating the con- struction of a sewer system and is planning general improvements, Fa- culty members of the state univer- sity would be called upon to plan the village of Janesville. The en- gineering department would draw the plans for the sewer and water system, the health division would lay down the rules and regulations for the improvement of sanitary con- ditlons, and the extension bureau would plan a system of parks and boulevards. Citizen representing Janesville had stated that the village would be willing to follow the plans for a model village to a reasonable extent In case the plans go through the state league will be able to point to Janesville as a model village and in that way, it is believed, other communities will be induced to im- prove their own conditions, Plan Obviates Difficulties chair- The Pioneer stated in its last anmouncement that the 25,000 votes for every dollar collected on subscription would be its best offer and that un- der no conditions would so liberal aneffer be again repeated. We meant just what we said and we'll Cyclone Week From February 7 to Febrnarz 14 Closing Date {|Other Cities Giver Urge ‘Quick Actidn—Measure Is Now Before Senate And House — That other citles' of the United States which were. igtven appropria- tions for Federal Imucunp at the same timo Bemidjl ‘Was designated, are anxious to have Congrees increase the working staff of the government architects office at. Washington was l|the information given those who at- tended the Commereial club meeting last night, by Secrétary H. C. Baeor. Mr. Baer read.a communication from a western city asking that Be- l| | midii do all in its power to cause fa- vorable action during this‘session of Congress and the desh-od legislation _Even this week, the last week of the contest, we cannot and will not even duplicate this offer. Here's what we have decided to do— Issue 20,000 Votes for every dollar collected and turned in up to Saturday evening, February 14, at 6 o'clock on old or new subscriptions for the Daily or Weekly Pioneer—It's up to you. Four Yunfkel\ind. It has been known here for some time that the architect was three or four years behind Sn his work and that it would be sgme time . before plans for the Bemidji postoffice could be drawn. The same conditions exist in connection vwh each of the other cities whieh are looking for- ward for the bufldh’is'. . Writes Steenerson. Secretary Baer recommended that a committee be appointed to look af- ter the matter and doall in its power to further quick acfion on the sub- ject, but when he said that he had written Congressman Steenerson ask- STATE BANKS SHOW GAIN ANOTHERGAMECANCFLLED Minnesota’s Prosperity Reflected In Grand Rapids Superintendent Re- Excellent Condition of Banking | fuses To Let Basketball Team Play Institutions—Record Broken As Punishment for Action FIGURES COMPILED BY CHASE|NO GAME HERE THIS WEEK The greatest record ever known, There will be no basketball game showing Minnesota’s prosperity, is|in Bemidji this. week, W. P. Dyer, |ing what the possibilities of the shown in deposits of $142,655,968.68 su:er:ntehr;de‘nt nf‘ the Bemidji | passing of t:e menmlu'e now before - schools ving received a request|Congress, which wotild ~increase the in 823 state banks, $18,668,830.71 oy gyperintendent Freeman - of |working staff of thé architect, were more than 11 months ago. the Grand Rapids high school that|it was decided to let the matter rest Savings deposits stand at $9,898,- | Bemldji not play the game. until an answer had been received. 412.79, and show a remarkable gain All arrangements for the game| Should Congress vote to increase in 11 months of $2,360,675.17. Com- [had been made, and not until Mr. |the force, outside architects will be mwercial deposits that reflect business | Freeman’s request was made known |secured to assist in the work until activity in country towns-have also |to Coach Bestul was he aware that |it is caught up. reached new high figures at $42,- |there would be no contest. The po- Other business of importance was “The beautitylng of the villages of the state is one of the purposes of the state league,” said the mayor to- day. “Villages are handicapped in improving themselves because of the lack of authority and lack of funds. The model village suggested itself when a representative from Janes- ville at the last league meeting ask- ed how that village could hire an expert to plan its sewer system. Some one told him to hire one. It then developed that a village had no au- thority to hire an engineer.” The plans for the model village will sult not only Janesville, but will be so drawn that, with a few changes they can be adapted to any com- munity in the state. TO RESIST REBEL ATTACK Federals Rush Troops to Relief of Torreon. Mexico City, Feb. 4.—Federal troops are being rushed from Saltillo and Sea Luis Potosi to Torreon to assist in ita defense. General Jose Refugio Velesco's command there is said to number 5,000. ‘Gemeral Blanquet, the war minister, is authority for the statement that the federal forces sent southwest has checked the advance of the rebels from Durango. The force under General Orozco, whkich has been seat north, is expect- *d to hold back Villa's men. The rebel movement in the state of Oaxaca is becoming more active and the Fifth regiment was dispatched from here to that section of the coun- try. Congressman Bremner Weaker. Baltimore, Feb. 4.—Although he passed a fairly comfortable night Rob- .ort G. Bremner, the -New Jersey con- gressman, suffering from a malig- nant cancer at a sanatorium here, is reported to be weaker. The radium applications have been discontinued, as hope for the patient’s recovery has beén abandoned. Woman Historian Dead. New York, Feb. 4—Mrs. Marie Rob- inson Wright, author and historian, who traveled 2,000 miles on mule back in Mexico and Bolivia, and three times across the South American con- tinent, making the record trip across the Andes, is dead at Liberty, N. Y. Lodging House Is Burned. 678,352.51 for deposits subject to |8ition taken by the Grand Rapids|discussed at the meeting. The sum- check, an increase of $5,987,895.22. superintendent is caused by the at-|mer hotel committeq awill be asked to ers of money that they do not ex- |Year, and it is intended to act as a pect to use for a time—show the most | Punishment, of $9,895,283.22, boys to play, should the Grand Rap- |y, rtant Meeting Will Be Held The figures have been compiled |ids team be brought here, for the ol E g Tomorrow Evening For Purpose Of that city. This means that there will be no But time certificates—interest draw- |titude which the boys-of that city|{make a report at tie-mext ‘meeting. remarkable gain, the total of $89,-| Superintendent Dyer says that he by Kelsey S. Chase, state superin-|Visitors would not be playing as rep- Discussing Plans For Building MANY AT"‘END MEE’"NG basketball game {in Bamidji this|COMMITTEE WILL MAKE REPORT ing drawing deposits chiefly by farm- | kave shown concerning athletics this 535,260.20, representing an increase | Will not allow any of the high school tendent of banking. resentatives of the high school of —_— week, i R of Batee 2l f Every member ‘of the Bemidji early of re mberlhlp [{i 99 [lodge of Elks is earnestly urged to be Gathered at Athletic Club Hall “‘L AT TIME 0F DEAL present at & meeting which is to be e held tomorrow evening in the Elks Last Evening Defendant Attempts To Prove Alibi halk % Harry Mayer, secretary of the pro- h¢ 3 Po] BOXING ™ BE TAUGHT n thnm:t .P;‘:)ln s:::d Graft posed new Elk home committee, has announced that the committee, com- S " |prising F. 8. Lycan, A. P. White, Al H. Jester, Charles Cominsky and Ex- alted Ruler Thayer Bailey, will have a preliminary report ready to sub- mit, and urges that as many mem- bers of the lodge be present as pos- Enthusiasm and club spirit was fanned into a flame last evening by NOT ON DUTY AT TIME OF CRIME the officers of the club who called 3 the meeting of all members of the| gt Paul Feb, 4.—Members of the, organization to make future plans. |family of Martin J. Flanagan, former The record of every member of the | acting chief of police, were placed on |sible. club was looked up and those who |the stand to aid the defense in its at- Many matters pertaining to the do not pay their dues will be dropped. | tempt to e~tablish an alibi for the de- [construction of the new building will After once being dropped for delin- | fendant, Fianagan, on March 20, 1913, [be discussed. A-method will be di- quency a second application will not | the date Willie Wolf testified he gave | vigeq for the securing of subscrip- be accepted Flanagan L's “bit” out of the Dorothy ¥ Hazzard “deal.” It was the conten- A. E. Fandrie (Kid Flanders) at-|yo; of the various witnesses called tended ‘the meeting last evening and | that Flanagan was ill in bed at his expressed his intention of starting a |home on March 20. class in boxing. Reasonable rates Despite the strong efforts by the will be made and lessons will be : defense to establish this alibi the given privately or with a clase. state forces hold that the testimony W. B. MacLachlan, who now has of the defense to date has failed to hake the case of the state. Count: charge of the roller rink of the club |t K 2 has refused to sign a lease for the Attorney O'Brien, in cross-examina- hall at ten dollars a night and as a tion of the various witnesses, sought to show tbe plan to establish an alibi result some other arrangement must be made to raise funds to cover the the new home. Several sites are be- ing considered for the club house. SWITCHEOARDS ARRIVE Telephone Company Will Soon Be Located In New Quarters Switchboards and other necessary was arrived at by the defense as late [apparatus to be used in the new as last Sunday, several of the wit- | Northwestern Telephone ‘building ar- - | nesses admitting their memory had d th ¢ expenses, of maintaining the organ- R rafreilicd 4. to the thetAsnia ot rived this morning and a crew of ization. Flanagan’s illness last Sunday. men immediately commenced the in- Other plans were suggested and it The state’s attorney intimates it |Stallation work. A definite date has supported may be carried out. More | will produce witnesses to shake the [not been set for the completion of gymnasium paraphernalia will be or- [alibi which the defense is attempting |the wiring and placing the fixtures dered and everything possible will be | to establish :fl& will :‘howdmr:' n:hn- but according to the local manager done to make the club hall attractive |38an was at the station during the |he Company will not take possession time witnesses for the defense bave S _ to t\hg men of the city. AT B Ra ot it of the }mfl'ding for several weeks. St. John, N. B, Feb, 4.—Several men overcome by smoke were carried un- conscious from the burning Salvation Army lodging house at Prince William and Water streets. There was no Jlosa of life. The seven-story building wes destroyed. The committee in charge of the Blka Charity ball has begun decorat- ing for the occasion. Confestants, Attention! [ | . 1 .:‘u., Metroponan 0 'NIXON GETS SIX MONIIIS ‘| months’ term. ‘where he met the farmers of that club. des have joined to date and there will tions which will be used in financing |- Nobody Loves A Fat Man---Not Even Scoop SIX MEN MEET DEATH IN EARLY M@RNING gosai'u cAssibv, 4 from am attack of indlzem # <+ the performance :of ‘Tosci 4. was held up forty-one minut Flames Start From ann'e Imm' And Sweep Through Newly Con- structed Building At R&fidw Party “Boss” Convioted of ‘Belling: Judicial Nomination. . +-al+‘++++++++.+‘++ | = Eloape By Stairs Infiflls And - Lodgers Foresd To Jmp From Second Km{ Third mwn Blind Pigger Decides To Plead qmey i and Is Given Long Term in County Jail—Has Long Jail Reoord APPEARS TO LIKE TREATMENT Six persons are knawn to.be dead and ten seriously injured. as a result of the burning of the Kellther hotel early_this morning. The hotel was built- in 1911 at a cost. of $18,000 and . comprised 50 rooms. It was a frame building. The Known Dead : — Expressing the desire that he would like to get the “deal” over with as soon as possible, in a talk with Graham M. Torrance, county : : g E. Pratt. dttorney, the wish of John Nixon, 0. P. l[emhelaan, clerk. accused of blind pigging at Cedar B. ‘Shubert. Spur, was granted and he was con- M. McQuinn, hflflfllflfl' sequently arraigned before Judge i ‘E {)fl;:l? > Stanton yesterday afternoon. He en- tered a plea of guilty and was soon back in his cell beginning a six- There are several others who can- not bé accounted for, and two men are believed to have perished in the flanies who had not registered. Many traveling men were guests _ of the hotel, and were forced to jump from the - second story windows. Among the most serious injured were Nixon is one of Sheriff Johnson's chief boarders, and what is more he appears to like the treatment given him at the county bastile, During the past few years he has Photo by American Preas Assoctation. —_— been in trouble several times and on < = The Injured each octasion for the same crime, the [ “BOSSES” AWAIT SENTENCES| George Gunderson, hotel owner, illegal sale of liquor. Just a month S badly cut. ago he completed a 30-day sentence Cassidy and Walter'Convicted of Sell-| prrg Gunderson, thrown from win- and several weeks previous to that ing Nomination. dow. 2 county, and Louis T. Walter, Jr., his Harley GQunderson,i’ 16, % inmped.< lieutenant, who were found - guilty | from third floor window. ¥ of conspiracy in selling a nomination | Gunderson child, 5, thrown from to the state supreme court bench to [window, % William Willet, a former congress- Millie' Aberham, cook, back brok- . mad, are locked up in Raymond |en geath expected at any moment. street jail awaiting sentence. The Joe Barfklecht, porter, badly maximum penalty is two years In é ? Drison and a fine of $3,000. burned, R (HARRY SMITH RELEASED broke. 3 i Jake Kohler, leg badly cut. BRYANT NAMED . PRESIDENT o W. J. Twohy, foot badly cut. Ben Hershfield, back injured. % Bueford M. Gile, the local agricul- / turist, went to Tenstrike recently FARMERS FORM CLUB Tenstrike Tillers Organize With Membership 0f Thirty Families —4@Gile In Attendance Kohler is a dredging contractor and the last two mentioned are trav- eling men. All of the above men-’ tloned injured were brought to Be- midji. . Started Froni Furnace e s “ The firé is belleved to have been - R started in the furnace of the hotel, Harry Smith of this city who was|and spread throughout the building . arrested January 6th on a charge of | with such rapidity that shouts were gelling intoxicating liquor to an In- the only warning that could be given dian was allowed his freedom yes- the slesping Inmates, All means of escape by way of the terday by Court Commissioner H. A.|g4airg wag completely cut off soon Simons. Upon investigation it was|after the fire started and those who found that the Indian who had been [reached safety did so by Jjumping supplied with liquor by Mr. Smith |from the eecond and third floors. was an allottee from White Barth| The bullding was insured for $8,- 000 while its contests were insured reservation and was entitled to buy for $3,000. The fire department was liquor the same as any American powerless in fighting the flames and born citizen. devoted its time to recuing lodgers. James Mathews, a porter at the B. 8. Dutcher, of Appleton, Wis,, Lakeshort hotel was bound over to |2 traveling man was slightly cut on el Gresd Fury on Ahe sam s eharke, his arm. Other traveling men who 7 o E° | make their headquarters in Bemidji Smith ‘and Mathews were arrested |ang were stoping at the hotel at the upon a warrant made out by, 8UP-|yime of the fire were Archie Camp- erintendent Walter F. Dickens of the he)] and Fred LaRoux. Both were Red Lake reservation and were first | forced to jump from the burning ‘brought before Court Commissioner building. D. H. Fisk. Mr. Figsk bound the s " i prisoners over to the grand jury. Clad in NIEM Clothes Government assistance was obtained lumlm‘nt Man Accused of Selling " Liguor To Indian Allowed Freedom By Judge Simons vicinity and helped them complete the organizations of their Farmers’ Tiie following officers were elected: Geo. B. Bryant, pres.; E. E. Schulke, vice-pres.; 8. 8. Carter, secretary; Freeman Allen, treasurer, and Jans,-Sturdevant, C. B, Jones and C. C. Copp, directors. The Tenstrike farmers are enthusiastic over their Farmers’ club. Thirty-three famil- be more. In the ‘evening another meet- ing was held at the Commercial club rooms, where ‘there was an attend- ance of eighty. Mr. Gile talked for an hour and a quarter on fofage crops, illustrating his theme with sterioptican slides. The following, together with their families, are the members that have joined the Ten- strike Farmers’ club to date: C. E. Jones, J. H. Carter, E, Caleette, C Winkler, Mr. C. Copp, G Krotch, E. Schulke, F. Allen, A. A. Sathre, J. Cook A, Ner- meyer, J. Smith, J. Sturdevant, G. Cronk, C. Pospschel, :G. Bryant, 8. 8. Carter, T. Donelson, G. F. Cash- nour, Walter Rice, W. H. Rice, Henry Crahn, Chas. -Jacobson, Jas. Smith, W. Coleson, W. N. Cyr, C. J. Wiid, Benny Caster, H. Studevant, Pume- roy Reeves, A. L. Morris, Al Green, H. Omit and John Master. 550 NEW MEMBERS ~ Five hundred and fifty new names had been added to the membership roll-of the Crookston Commercial club at noon today, in a campaign which is to last until this evening. It 18 expected that the list will reach’ one thousand before night. The fire whistle has, been blowing nearly all day as when ever ten names are se- cured as members the entire city is informed of the fact in this manner. Only a few of the lodgers had an and the men were again cited to ap-|OPPortunity to dress, most of them pear in court and v’verb taken be-|jumping clad only in their night fore Judge Simons, clothes and outer garments. 2 A. G. Wedge, vice-president of the First National Bank of this city, tells the following story of the fire: Talks of Fire. “I retired shortly after 10 o’clock Literary Program Friday Next Friday afternoon the Soph- more-Senior Literary Society of the Bemidji high school will entertain the students of that institution and |3nd near one this morning I heard the visiting teachers who will come |Yells of fire. { opened the door lead- here upon that date to attend the ing to the hall and found it to be convention. A special program has full of smoke. There was no light, been prepared and promises to rank|the electricity being turned off at among the best to be given by stu-|12. Realizing the seriousness of the - dents this years. situation and that I could not escape by way of the stairs, Iputon my trousers and overcoat, broke the . windows, both inside and storm, and threw my grip and shoes to the: ground. Brothers Die Few Days Apart. * 8t Paul, Feb. 4—Robert Mannhei- mer, son of one of the founders of Mannkeimer, Bros.’ retail dry goods firm and for ten years prominently| “Right below my:window was an identified with the interests of the|awning and this I grabbed, thereby E. Rako have been inspected and |firm, ‘:t“‘d lo:'lowdhus : li,nge;lng 1ll- | lowering myself to the ground. I be- found to be in perfect health. Other |Ress Of a years duration. He was|jieye that I was the first to reach’ herds in this vicinity are also Mn‘ :":mj“‘{l:" :‘fi& :-"l'm‘::i“;::‘“‘d'l: safety and at that time the bullding examined. oo ;:’lu:‘! £ - wag entirely in flames. I could see i g 4 and hear inmates of the building B 5 shouting for help and cry for lad- By "HOP Cattle Inspected 'l‘he cattle on the dairy farm of A. ders.” The building was a total loss. ‘Mr. Wedge lost his watch and many valuable papers. One of the victims, Ernest Pratt, proved up on his homestead in the town.of Eland (December first. The conditfon of Mrs. Gunderson, i8 serious. ‘Mrs. Gunderson has not been in good health for some time. Two Licenses Issued : Yesterday afternoon Edward T. Mead of Blackduck obtained a mar- riage license to wed Ruby Raphael Palmer, also of that vfllqe. This ‘morning John Challson of Ksm obtafned a license to wed Miss Hfld‘ Swanson. Mr. Challson resides on a. - ~ eldm near Kelliher,