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

§ VOLUME 12, NO. 33. LARGE ATTENDANCE ATLEAGUE MEETING Boosters of Entire Northern Part of State Gather at Thief River Falls | —Bemidji Well Represented. SESSION CLOSES TOMORROW| 1 Coleraine and Hibbing After 1915/ Summer Meeting--Interesting Talks Given by Dyer and Miss Shelland Boosters from every section of| northern Minnesota are in attend-i ance at the meeting of the Northern | Minnesota Development association, | F‘alls“ yesterday morning, among the dele- representation from this city, several going on the which 'began at Thief River gates being a large special this morning in addition to those who went yesterday morning. | All delegates were given a welcome. Misunderstanding as to what time | the special would leave Bemidji caus- ed several to miss the train this morning. The train did not leave| until 8:15 yesterday morning in or- der that north-line persons might go to Thief River, but this morning the schedule as first announced was used and the leaving time tomorrow morn- ing will be the same, 7 o’clock. Thief River Decorated. Thief River Falls is handsomely decorated for the meeting with a welcome arch over Third street near the Soo depot, and streamers of bunt- ing fly from the ornamental lamp- posts which are numerous there. The big modern Auditorium at Main street and Second street is covered with the national colors and inside with many beautiful exhibits of corn, alfalfa and other crops of the rich Thief River valley. Allbright Opens Meeting. cm‘di‘fl Auatortum, wnre the.convention | REMODEL BAPTIST CHURCH was called to order by C. A. All- bright, president of the association, | after a prayer by Rev. and an address of welcome by H. Harper, president of the Thief River Falls Commercial club, . the first business meeting was called-to order by A. J. McGuire of Rapids, chairman of the committee on agriculture. Interesting reports on county agent work were made by | A. D. Wilson of the agricultural ex-|extensive improvements are tension division, University of Min-|made at the Baptist church and par- nesota; A. B. Hostetter of Duluth, and D. B. Jewell of International Falls. Dyer One of Speakers. At the afternoon session interest ing reports of agricultural work in|members and for several nights most Peter [of them have been working. Blesen of Cloquet and W. P. Dyer of {completed the basement will be used high schools were made by Bemidji. Reports on rural consoli- dated schools were made by E. M. Phillips of St. Paul, rural chool com- [ modeled and when completed will be missioner, and Annie M. Shelland of [one of the most modern and conven- The day's ses-|ient residences in the city. The build- International Falls. sion closed with a stirring address upon “A Better Minnesota” by Clif- ford Willis, editor of the Northwest- [rectly beside the church. ern Farmstead of Minneapolis. Last|ment and cistern are also being pro- evenin gthe delegates were enter- tained by local talent with music and vaudeville. Among the delegates who left this | morning for Thief River Falls were ings. A. G. Wedge, G. E. Carson, Eugene Berman and Oscar Manaugh. The Closing Day Program. 9 a. m.—President C. A. Allbright pre- | CLAIMED” for week ending June 1, siding. Report of credentials committee. Address—“State Eifficiency Commi sion,” Charles P. Craig, Duluth, chai man, state efficiency commission. ddress—J. W. “Wheeler, St. Paul, president Capital Trust company. Address—"The Newspaper and Coun- try Life \Iovement P. Kirkwood, Minneapolis, _“Count: Life" editor, Minneapolis Journal. “What the Good Roads Committee Is Doing," C. M. King, Deer River, chair man good roads committee. C. G. Schulz, St. Paul, superintendent state department of education. 0 p. m.—J. J. Hill, St. Paul. G. Hartley, Duluth. McDowell, Washington, D. tment of farm management, U States department of agricuiture. Address—J. D. Deets, secretary Southern Minnesota Better Develop- ment league. m.—Entertainment at Auditorium by Ninneapolis - trade extension tour, motion pictures and music by First Regimental band. Report of committee on resolutions. ST. PAUL CAPITALIST DEAD Theodore L. Schurmeier Expires in the South. St. Paul, June 4.—Theodore L. Schurmeier, St. Paul capitalist and formerly president of C. Gotzian & Co., shoe manufacturers, is dead at Richmond, Va., after an illness of several months, according to word received here. Mr. Schurmeier was taken ill with pneumonia in January while in New York and at that time there was fear for his recovery. Mr. Schurmeier started home & week ago from Augns Ga., and be ! come {ll while on th, y. T W. M. R FRENCH IS DEAD Aged Art Authority of Chicago Insti- tute Expires. Chicago, June 4—William M. French, aged seventy-one, a mnatiol authority on art, and for thirty years divector of the Art Institute ot Chicago, died here of cancer. Mr. French was one of the first to recognize the value of art institutions, & | [ | K. B. Smith ‘Extensive Repairs Being Made—Sun- and | CLASS ASSISTS IN THE WORK sonage. Young Men’s Sunday school class is MRS. JULIA S. SEARS. “New Thought” Leader Seeks | Divorce From Hep Husband. MRS. SEARS SEEKS DIVORCE Names “Brettiest Gu'l in Church” in Her Complaint. New York, June 4.— love affairs of th ord in the ! last from’four to six months, and the tev. Frank W.ipay will be $2 and $2.50 per day and 1. 5. T0 ASSIST IN Bl Doflu Bill * SECURING LABOR}: v : ol % O'Leary-Bo &Mhh\g store ¥ ¥ was anxious to some chick- & Government Departmentn Have No-[¥ en for Sunday tices Posted in 10,000 Cities and |* cided that “Bil inner and de- ¥ reould produce * * the best. Towns Telling of Harvest Needs. |4 s c. Dantelsjot the People’s X s = * Meat Market, when he saw who & % wanted the chicken, sent for a ¥ % fine fresh ome from the coop. % & Barney reports that it was ¥ | Confident That It Would be a Sucoess : "”‘;‘:: ;’:;"':'Wmi e % 3 ot e ] ved the idea in Keeping Nation Informed as t0 |4 4nat “Bil1” ought'to have a Ger- & Places Most in Need of Workmen |% man home for 4 few days -at 2 * least, 50 took him over to Otto * Schwandt's store| ¥ . “Ve Gates Withelm,” says Washington, June 4.—Two gov-|¥ Otto, when he spied the popu- ernment departments—the Depart-|* lar “Bill.” Mi Daniels was {ment of Labor.and the Post Oftice— [* given mushre Which re re- FAVOR EMPLOYMENT AGENCY By Congressman C. H. Tavenne.r % ports were the finest in the d ok k ok ok ok ok ok ok |ing harvest hands for the Wheat and | & land. 5 “Deutsch mustidu Spraechen,” # incidentally provide work for unem- |¥ said Otto to “Bill” when he * ployed men in the cities. * placed him -in the till. The % Responding to the appeal of the i chances are tl “Bill” will be % state labor commissioner of Okla- | able to talk Gi homa, Secretary Wilson, of the De-~ {pantment of Labor, has devised an|¥ store. it 3 i 'employlnent method which, with the | % ! {co-operation of Postmaster General [+ ¥ % % % & % ¥ K ¥ k% & K X % Burleson is to be put in force at once. Accordingly it has been arranged to post motices in 10,000 city, town PLAY CASS LAK[: SUNDAY and village postoffices of the Unitad States to the effect that harvest hands are needed in Oklahoma. The Bexmdm Athletics ’Now Putting Up tat ds 1 12,000 to 15,000 e 2 Strong Game, Megt 01d Opponents {harvest hands. Employment will 2 Here—Shevlin; Week Later. 2 5 Sea i his wile, Mrs. Juliv:\ Sea- | upwards. ThOSe wmmg to take this ':i[;l)s‘ \\1[‘)‘! Mi: I’1I|!|l;a 5 Langdon, ! [rm"oad exl)enses to Oklahomfi' The 3 “prettiest. girl in the new thousht|Work of distributing laborers with- Charles Daly, minager of the Be- church” were set forth in Mrs. Sears’ suit for divorce, i Statements that Sears and RKiiss Tangdon “courted” on the streets; that they often visited New York by themselves; that thev took a trip to | Iinrope together were to be explained by Miss Langdon when she took the | stand in Sears’ dcien: day School and Social Rooms Being Provided—Parsonage Rebuilt. With Rev. I. D. Alvord in charge, being The basement of the church has never been finished and the now lathing and preparing it for the plastering. The class comprises ten When as a Sunday school and social room. The parsonage is being entirely re- ing is being moved 24 feet eastthereby giving more light, it having been di- A base- vided. b Both the church and parsonage will be repainted and will soon give the appearance of entirely new build- Advertised Letters. List of advertised letters “UN- 1914, at Bemidji postoffice. Men— Boem, Mr. Even, Calsnes, Mr. Carl, Dukleth, Mr. Osckar, O., Fijelstad, Mr. John P., Husby Dankert; Houck, Mr. C. A., Hinshaw, Mr. Ervin, Olan- der, Mr. A., Swenson, H. J.,-Smith, Jr. John, Shantall, Mr. Wm., Schiv- ane, Mr. Rocce, Whichar, Mr. Hearht, Waren, Fred, Wahl, Mr. Chas. Women-—Barritt, Mrs. Pearl, Dubey, Mrs. Mary, Fredrica, Miss Marie, Fitzjerald, Mrs. E. A., Grindst, Miss | Signe M., Grilstrom, Mrs. Viola, Reighly, Mrs. Athalia, Smith, ‘Miss Cora. Believing it her duty to remain at her post as a missionary in the Industrial school in Mexico City, Miss Laura Temple has refused to leave the Mexican_city, where riot and revolution is likely to occur at any ithat the plan will be successful that |missioners of other states to send in the state is being organized, and full” instructions of how to get one of ‘the jobs are printed on the no- |this morning anngunced that ar- tices .in the post offices. rangements had been completed for So certain are the cabinet heads|the Cass Lake game which is to be ‘played here next fiundfly afternoon. Cass Lake has ‘gn him an estimate of their -needs in |fast team this year, and so far-has farm labor this year. Thus the De- |2 clean slate, Grand Rapids being partment of Labor will undertake to |One of the nines easily defeated. A be a huge employment agency for |Week later the Shevlin aggregation farm labor. will play here. A similar purpose is carried in| Smiley, Paul and -Gallinger, Be- midji Athletic club baseball team, Secretary Wilson is asking labor com- exceptionally ‘| Representative Victor Murdock’s bill |midii’s pitching staff, are now twirl- to establish a bureau of employment |ing mid-season ball and the fans feel in the Department of Labor. The |confident that the remaining games planis to set up a permanent bureau |01 the schedule will be played with- which is to be given power to operate [out defeat. free labor exchanges at important| Claude Bailey, the high school boy, commercial and industrial centers. | Who is playing tireleft field position, This bureau will keep general tab on [as been starring in the games labor conditions throughout the Uni- |Pl2yed thus far, his work last Sun- ted States, their bulletins showing |42y being particularly bright, his where labor is scarce and where the |Catch in the seventh inning with the labor market is overfull. The bu-|DPases full and his two long hits hav- reau will co-operate with state, |Ing much to do with the Bemid}i vic- municipal and private employment [tory. The other players are also) agencies. playing well. The house committee on labor has| ~ There should be a large crowd at begun consideration of the Murdock |the same next Sunday. The boys de- bill. serve better support and will be un- " s able to bring visiting teams here un- Labor Pleased with Trust Bills. less provided with-it, Organized labor has announced that it is satisfied with the manner Yflmfl SENT To RED WING in which the trust bills have been Archie Wintersteen, 14 Year 0l1d Boy, amended in the house. President Samuel Gompers has evidently won Who Has Caused Much Annoyance Confesses to Judge Clark. his fight for exemption of labor unions from prosecutions as trusts. Specific amendments have been ad- ded to the effect that nothing in the bills shall be construed as prevent- ing the organization and operation of labor unions on the ground that | MARIN SENTENCE SUSPENDED they exist in violation of the Sher- man Law. The battle will now be transferred to the senate. Complete confessions of a series of crimes that would make Jessie James ARREST STORSTAD SAILORS |10ok like an amateur, were made to Judge Clark in probate court -this Robbing Survivor. morning by Archie ‘Wintersteen, 14, Montreal, June 4—Two sailors of |14 Nell Marin, 13, who were ar- the Storstad are under arrest on a |Fested recently, charged with break- charge of the theft of checks to the [ing into the Warfield boat house.’ amount of $1,000, the property of| Several other boys were implicated Lionel Kent of Montreal, one of the |in the robberies, such as stealing survivors of the wreck of the Em-|from refrigerators in the residential Baie wnd Garmaer Hpevetts ok | okt RS ke st oty foe are s brsbtaee s and also the Brinkman hotel theft, 4 Garmio when $30 was taken. The confes- Only Six Americans Saved. sions of the lake were nothing less Quebec, June 4—The names of [than startling and ‘the boys who twenty-one American passengers who |have escaped arrest thus far should were on the Empress of Ireland are |take the consequences as a lesson, for contained in an official report sent |no:mercy will be’ shown in dealing by Gebhard Willrich, American con- |with them in the future, said Judge sul here, to the state department in|q,, 4 ‘Washington. Of these only six were Wintorsteon iwas | tha: Faansd’ saved. T e e leader, for he‘had the nerve. Nearly The majority of women workers in |every minor robbery which has been Two Members al Crew Charged With minute. SCOO REPORTER WE. NEED (5 & TEST OF QUR. THE CUB" week. confessed by him, his companions as: SUMPIN WATH THIS MEXICAN LA??LRER ACROSS TH' STREET ® P\ECE R s n BEAN SOLP-~Ya#s ‘ AUT() CLUB MEMBERS Great Britian earn less than $3 per|reported to the police of late WasI Armistice! Snoop Has Sounded The “Retreat” (G0 BET [T TAKES COURAGE T HOLD ™ COME ON SNOOP- WELL START DOWN & PRESS J0B (N MEXICO-WHAT “SLONG SCO0P- L GOTTABE IN TRACTOR SCRAP Scheme as Proposed at Last Meeting Being Strenuously Opposed and Fireworks Expected at Meeting. o WILL ELECT NEW OFFICERS *|Road Improvements Necessary Says Dr. E. H. Marcum—Criticises Lack of Interest Being Shown. Fireworks are expected to be ex- ‘ploded at the meeting of the ' Be- midji Automobile club which is to be held tomorrow afternoon When the gasoline tractor proposition suggest- ed at the last meeting will be re- viewed. Several who have been aroused by the action of the club at its last meet- ing have planned to be in- attend- ance Friday. “These fellows who are running this club can’t ‘slip’ any- thing over on me,” said & rather new *|member. “I am not in favor of using the funds of the club to buy a Rumley tractor, or of grading the swamp road north of the ¢ity,” he continued. “We have lots more im- portant work to be done than this and 1 am not the only one who is go- ing to be present and raise a kick @at the mext meeting. We won't stand for ealling .a meeting on the quiet, as T have heard some rumor.” Opposition To Officers. The opposition to the present offi- cers had not taken on any serious phase until it was learned that they favored the proposition made by J. K. Given, which was to buy a gaso- line tractor for use in road building and grading. The fact that new officers are to be elected at the next meeting is also creating considerable interest and some are determined to chang the minds of the present officers ‘or elect new ones. = In speaking of the present situa- tion Dr. E. H. Marcum, secretary of ‘the club, said: “Thats’ the way it generally goes. A few of us in the past have tried to conduct the busi- ness of the club.as best we could. Now when we have expressed our views on certain = possible invest- ments of the club’s funds we are se- verely criticised. The club has been a ‘dead’ one for about a year and I believe it should start something in improving roads-about the city and country. Goodness knows vhey are poor enough. “The proposition of 'bnylng a trac- tor appealed to me at first and I can see no good reason why this is not @' good -investment for the club to make. I am, however, willing to be persuaded into a better disposition of the funds, if they can be found.” Jewett Still Firm, «President Jewett and J. K. Given are still firm in the belief that the north road should be the first to receive attention at the hands of the Automobile club. They also favored the buying of a tractor, but have met with considerable opposition during the past week. RO TR S R S S T SRR DENIES $2,000 MONTHLY AL- LOWANCE FOR BABY. New York, June 4—A three- months-old girl does not need an allowance of $2,000 a month for her support, according to the decision handed down by Surrogate Fowler in denying an application of Lieutenant Commander Edward F. Spaf- ford, U. S. N,, in behalf of his daughter Lucille, whose moth- er, Mrs. Lucille Millan Stevens Spafford, died when the child was born. ~ oo ot ol oo oo oo oo oo oo oo b ol o ob Bl ok ok B R e i s et LR R R * % * B fi sisting in the planning. Both boys were sentenced to the training school at Red Wing. Win- tersteen will be taken there immedi- ately, ‘but Marin’s sentence was sus- pended under a promise of good be- havior. County- Attorney Graham M. Tor- rance represented the state in the cases, Miss Jane Delano is at the head of ,000 American Red Cross nurses. GONG— Commander of Vessel Which 8ank Empress of Irelatd. @ 1914, by American Press Association. MANY DELEGATES HERE Sl Beltrami County Sunday School Asso- ciation Convention Begins Here With Large Attendance. MRS. HOBART TALKS TONIGHT Indications are that the Beltrami County Sunday School convention which opened here this afternoon will be one of -the most successful ever held, and a large number of | delegates from over the entire county are in attendance. All of the meetings will be held in the Swedish Lutheran church, and this evening an address, “Open Doors,” will be given by Mrs. Jean E. Hobart, of St. Paul, most prominent state workers. The meeting this evening will begin at 7:30. Tomorrow beginning at 9 o’clock, the following program will be fol- lowed out: . Praise Service, Rev. Fraray, Black- duck; A Well Organized School, A T. Carlson, Bemidji; S. S. Equipment, Mr. Rice, Blackduck; Round Table Conference, Mrs. Cartin, Hines; Song Service, Thru-the-Week-Activities of the'S. 8., Mrs. Cunningham, Bemidji; What An Organized Class Can Do, Mrs. J. M. Freeburger, Blackduck; The S. §, Program, A. T. Powell, St. “Pauly Dutles of Local S. S. Officers, Mrs. | Bridgeman, Nymore; Benedic- tion. The afternoon program Friday will be: Praise Service, Rev. Alvord, Be- midji: "The Relation of the County Association to the Local School, Mrs. Richardson, Bemidji; Duties of Coun- ty Department Superintendents, Mrs. Sullivan, Blackduck; Special Music; Report of Schools; Report of Nomin- ating Committee and Election of fficers; Report of County Officers and Department Superintendents; Special Music; A World Vision, A. 1. Powell, St. Paul;Offering; Benedic- tion; -Secondary Division Conference. The musical program at the con- vention this evening will be as-fol- lows: Song by the choir of the Swedisn Lutheran church; Song by the Baptist chorus; Solo by Mrs. George C. Berglund; Song by the Methodist chorus. DISCUSS NEW HOME PLANS 8t. Cloud Architect to Show Drawings of Elks Building in That City— Take 'Action on Site. Plans for the Bemidji lodge of Elks, 1052, will be discussed at the regular meeting to be leld this ev- ening, and final action will be taken i the selection of a site for its lo- cation, R. C. Buckley, the prominent St. Cloud architect, who drew the plans of the Elks building in that city, is in Bemidji and will be at the meet- ing this evening, for the purpose of showing plans and drawings of a home which would be suitable to Be- midji. “This meeting is of vast import- ance to every member of the Bemidji lodge,“ said Ollie Neilson, secretary, this morning, “and we are anxious that a large attendance be on hand in order that definite action may he taken. The session will be called at 8 o’clock sharp.” NDafactive Paae JOHN SHITHNOT one of the! were actually a participant.” 128 RECORDS SHOW United States Attorney Says Govern ment Records Prove Indian to Be Only 85—Doubt as To: cluef PARCHMENT SKIN HEREDITY_ Land TInvestigation 'Brou'ght -Out Truth—Findings Showed Kah-be- nung-we-way Was 60 in 1889, ‘Kah-be-nung-we-way, otherwise John Smith, the Chippewa Indian, well knewn in Bemidji, who claims to tbe 128 years old, and a former In- dian chief, ‘who is in Minneapolis - |seeking a chance to go on the stage, is only 85 years old and has not even a strain of royal Indian blood in his veins, according to government rec- ords in the hands of Gordon Cain, special United States attorney for the department of justice, and R. J. Pow- ‘|ell, Minneapolis attorney, who is de- fending the cases of the Indians in the land cases now pending, says the Minneapolis Tribune. Government officials have long been troubled by old Kah-be-nung- we-way, they say. Two years ago, wken the land cases were being tried before Judge Page Morris in Fergus Talls, the defense wished to call the old Indian.- It was said (hat ne would show where a number of land allotments in.dispute were owned by mixed-blcod Indians, and old Kah-be- nung-we-way, because of his old age, could prove the blood of nearly every Indian. Mr. Cain then went to the office of the Indian agent at Onigum, Minn., where he looked up the rec- ords of the census of 1889 under the Nelson act,' which was made under the direction of the late United States Senator Rice to secure the re- linquishment of the allotments of land from the Indians. S'xty Years 0ld in 1889. Kah-be-nung-we-way, who is a Leech Lake Indian, was found-to have been 60 years old in 1889. The fol- lowing agreement was then made and signed by both Mr. Cain and Mr. Powell: “It is hereby stipulated and agreed by and for the respective par- ties that -the ages of certain. In- dians as shown by the records at the office of the Indian agent at Onigum, Minn.; are as follows: Kah-be-nung- we-way, 60 years old in 1889.” Not content with this evidence, Mr. Cain . went further and inter- viewed a number of Indians, whose ages were shown to be older than Kah-be-nung-we-way. lah-Baince, who is 84 years old, was questioned. He laughed and said: “I am older. Kah-be-nung-we-way and I played to- gether when boys. I was so much bigger than he that I used to take his bows and arrows away and he would cry,” according to Cain. May-huc-ke-ge-shaig, head chief of the band of Mississippis, testified that he was born the summer before the “stars fell,” which was in 1833, and that Kah-be-nung-we-way was iborn two summers before him. What One Squaw Says. Ay-dow-ah-comig-o-quay, who both Mr. Powell and Mr. Cain say is the oldest Indian in Minnesota, and that she is not yet 100, told that she was married and had children when Kah- be-nung-we-way was born. She re- fers to him as a mere child. Both Powell and Cain agree that Kah-be-nung-we-way appears to be as old as he says he is, but they say it was undoubtedly caused by here- dity.. The old Indian’s grandfather was Gum-we-way-nung, which means “loose skin.” Kah-be-nung-we-way means “young wrinkles.” “0Old Kaby” has been picking up easy money for the last few years by saying he is more than a century old a quarter old. “I have thor- oughly investigated every claim made by him and find that he is lying,” said Mr. Cain. " When questioned about the old Indian Mr. Powell laughed and said: |“I have been waiting for two years for somebody to get on to that old fellow.. He has fooled the newspa- pers long enough. He is only 85 years old and-has not the slightest chief blood in-him. I ¢an find only one trace in his ‘dodain,’ or Indian family, of royal blood. Mah-je-dah- bow, his cousin, was leading med- icine man. Kah-be-nung-we-way has worked in the lumber camps nearly all his life. Ome thing I can say for him is that he is a good aetor. He has heard of the historic events and can tell of them as well as if he CYLINDER HEAD BLOWS OUT Because of the 'blgwing out of a cylinder head at saw mill No. 2 of the Crookston Lumber company last night, the mill- will be shut .down until the repairs can be receiyed from Minneapolis. The mill had = been sawing but a few. days: No one was injured when ‘the.cylinder head blew out although it was thrown several