Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 6, 1914, Page 1

CANDIDATES FAVOR COMMISSION PLAN Recognize That it Embodies Study|.. That Nobody Else Has Opportunity to Make—Adoption Probable. WILL FAVOR LARGE PORTION i All Branches of Government Must be | = Brought Into Some Connection | With a Central Authority. Candidates for the legislature seem | to be taking very kindly to the plans| of the efficiency commission, as the‘ responses to a number of newspaper inquires indicate, says Secretary Purdu of the commission. They rec- ognize that it embodies a study that | nobody else has had cpportunity to make and that while it may not be the last word on the subject it is the best ward that has been spoken so; tar. Tt s generally assumed that In[ large p t the plan will be adopted. | Strangly enough, that is the onel thing that cannot happen. It cannoti be adopted in part. It can be ammended, but it not at all. The design of a watch may be cLanged but if it has not a| main spring. an escapement and an adjusting device, it is not a watch. This is a plan to organize the state government. To attach part of the leave others parts can be transferred, wieels and running | loose would not make a time piece ut‘] it. It must have an escapement. To govern the rate at which some of the wheels must turn and let others take their own gait would’ not make | CONTINENTAL TRAVEL EMBARGO ;States who are now traveling or vis- jcounty. jalthough nothing has been T rchased their tickets, says that it! ithe White Star line ships and had iColumbia, Anchor line, July 11. K KKK KKK XK KK WILD CAT WORRIES *x * x * * * * * x « * An animal, believed to be a & * wild cat, has been causing * e much fear among the resi- * * dentsi of Grand Forks Bay * during the past week. The ¥ ¥ cat has been seen on several X ¥ occasions, but as yet no dam- ¥ * age has ‘been caused. * *x * HKKKEK KKK KKKKKKK BENIDJI PERSONS ABROAD! Dr. Rowland Gilmore and Others From This City in Countries Now Engaged in War. 5 i ! i | | | Among citizens of the United iting in the war zone are several! persons from Bemidji and Beltrami‘ Dr. Rowland Gilmore and his wife are believed to be in London, heard from them recently. John Loistad and" Ole Lunc left| New York on July 25 and the Nor- wegian-American line for Norway. R. E. Fisher, through whom ' they is not known when they intend tn‘ return. ‘Ben ilolst left April 7 on one of; bought transportation for his return | on the Cunard line, which has can-; celled its samngs until further no-; tice. Olat Jonanson left June 11 for l a'*ea.r's visit, traveling on the| American line. Rev, G. M. Peacock of Casiz Lake, Congregational minister, left on the He for accuracy. It must have adjust- ment. To introduce the civil ser-, vice system \_\_uthom_ haymg the | wheels engage Wwith the pmmn:w would be a sorry benefit. It is very natural to think name‘ features may be grafted on the pres- ent government, and the one trouble' of which the state complains is due ! to lack of organization, Unless the, the government is organized therp‘ is no intelligent control of finances. \ Unless the government is controled there is no proper stimulus to Lhe‘ civil service. Unless someone is re- sponsible for performance, it is fool- ! ish to expect the best results. i The man who talks about adopting | parts of it, is simply saying that he has not made a complete study of the| plan. At this stage of the game, there is no sin. Later it may be the! business of every man to have thorough-going ment. At all events, to organize the state! government, every branch of it must be brought into some connection wi the central authority. The means! of connection may be varied, It is! open to anyone to show how the ! plan now offered can be improvedfl CLUB HOUSE AT JESTER FA! ‘retornr Beptemlber 6. INorway ticket last night. ideas of the move- \ = iBut to talk about organizing the gov-| +is visiting at his old home at New Castle ‘on Tyne, and was Scheduled to John* Larso.x of Spooner, is in Nonway, having left ‘on the liner Letitia of the Donaldson system on July 11. He expected ‘to istay three or four months. Mr. Fisher, Union station agent, said today that the Canadian Pacific {lines have just issued an embargo on | | Continental passengers, though book- ings to the British Isles are yet being made. Apnlication. was made for a Daughter at Gile’s. Bumper crop reports and the ar-| rival of a baby dzughter at his home, | explains tiie broadened smile of B.! M. Gile, high school agriculturist, to—l day. The baby was born last even- ing. ernment and leave s lot of ends loose, ,to connect up part of it and to leave' 1 jother parts dislocated, is not to talk good sense. Or it won't be when the plan is better digested. i Read the Want Ads. ‘A;L NEUNAN'S DEATH {lower bar were itbrough the body will {dent, {the.pulmotor was applied at the hos- | ipital, SADDENS BEMIDJI Entire Community Feels Loss of Young Man Killed While in Per- formance of ‘His Duties. TO HOLD FUNERAL TOMORROW Was Lecturing Officer of Knights of Columbus and Burial Will Take Place Under Lodge Auspices. Never has Bemidji been saddened to the extent caused by the death of Alfred Neumann, the twenty-one year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Neumann, who was killed yesterday afternoon when hisi body came in| contact with a primary wire of a distributing circuit, carrying 2,300 volts, while he was oiling a’ trans-| former on a pole’of the Warfield Elec- tric company at Fifth street and Bel- trami avenue. A Favorite Son. Alfred Neumann was one of the young men of whom every resident of Bemidji felt proud. high morals, unusual ability, pressive and energetic, and as an! electrician in the employ of the War- he was des- itined to become one of the leaders of field Eleetric company, that profesision, Pulmotor Useless. It was while in the performance lof his duties that Neumann met aeath. formers of the city- eircuit. Two crews were sent out, one of which comprised Neumann and Ralph Gra- cie, who worked the transformers down Third sireet:and up ‘Beltrami avenue. : Yesterday afternoon \vil;dy and’ as’ Neumann filled”~ tranaformer with oil much of it was'| blown on him. To avoid this he drew himself above the instrument and between the two wires of the primary, held by the bar of the two-bar pole. These wires were carrying a load of 2,300 volts, the standard, while the wires of the! dead. Had Neu- mann’s body been protected by a coat, the accident probably would not have occurred, but when his shirt,: wet with persperation, touched the iwire, a circuit was caused in some : way, ‘burning his back at the left shoulder. -Just what voltage passed never ~ be known, but it is believed that hef ‘lived several minutes after the acci- | although he was dead when justt twenty minutes later. Gracie Keeps Nerve. fellow werkman, i Gracie, he realizing &t d rnshed across the street to the “rocksiol reading room and phoned {to the eleciric light plant that the Al H. Jester, president of the Semidji Onion Grower:# 1.’51)(:1:\(1011, and owner of the Jester Farm, lo- cated on the shores of Lake Plantaganet, one of the most popular of the northern Minnesota summer outing resorts, has just completed a large Club house. and is beautifully located near the lake and directly on the bank of the Mississippi. in the club house. teen roomsi for guests, and a large dining room: open this year through the entire hunting season. ridge and big game sections in this part of the state. The Club house is 24 by 40, with a monster 10 by 40 porch, There are four rooms Mr. Jester has four two-room cottages at the farm awd the main building . contains four- Mr. Jester announces that he has decided to keep the lodge The Jester farm is located in one of the best duck, part- He was of pro- Every two years the electric| company must oil many of its trans- |Forks: who has been in Bemidji dur- Was Neumann’s call for aid and | once what had happen-! Wlfl m NO FOUNDATION. A rumor has been-in eireu- : t QS.‘ “Bemidjl ‘tpday that ‘engineers and firemen. of {iroads leading into the y-would strike this even- x *fi.g is _ absolutely ~without X foundation. I * ‘mounced at 'th ijmon station x this ~afternoon ‘that work will u n,tinue the same as usual. kKt K ek ke Wk * ok ok kKK KK WS, woobnow WILSON. Wife . of . President Said to Be in Serious Condition. x x * ‘k***ii{**ii& CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT | H. B. Brookins Succeeds J. M, as Head of Bemidji’s Telephone Ex-' " ‘change—Has Taken Charge. N'E‘IWE ‘SCHEDULE IN OPERATION H.. B. Brookins, formerly of Ex- | celsior, Lake Minnetonka,- has - as- sum'sd ‘the management of ‘the Be-' nigji exchange of the Northwestern Telephone company, succeeding J. M. Kuhn, who has already gone to Dev- ils Lake where he will engage in the au};nmobile business. Mr. Brookins is one of the most ex- | perienced and capable men in- the seryice of the phone company and his trapsfer to this district gives assur- ance, that Bemidji’s telephone service, wlth, ts new and entirely modern ex- change, will continue to improve. G. Stokesberry, district commer- cial manager of the telephone com- pany, having hendquarters at-Grand [c] by Marceau. AT POINT OF DE " (American Press,) Washin‘gifln’, August 0 Wood Wllson, wlfe of the, pres- *Tho establighment at m.newwex ldent of the United States, i at the ch kgm necessitates, th ‘we. tevide|point: of- death, and phystelans have 7n'ue rate echedule,” sai iberry. “Fifty cents a month addi- _recovery. ‘Four months of almost tional will. be charged for private unbroken :illness, the complication of 'Nl ing tie past few days-arranging for the change, ‘sald-today - that: the re- vlsed schedule’ for ‘telephone rates ig now lleady and:that the telephone mFices| 3 will ‘be governed by it in the top cross-|{phones, in both the residence a.nd.nervous ailments and Bright's dis- business districts, ‘while those”who' ease; have sapped the vitamy of the wish to retain the old price will be first lady of the land. 'The end is placed on a two-phone party line.” jregarded as-a matter of hours. Her Mr, Stokesberry is much pleased‘thtee daughters are at the bedside with the manner in which the mew .and relatives have been summoned. iexchange is working and anticipates that the days of bad service criticisms in Bemidji are entirely a thing of BELTRAMI ASKS JUDGMENT ithe ppast. Mr. and Mrs. Brookins arrived ln Bemldjl yesterday_ by automobile. County Attomey Torrance Files"Com- plaint Against Engler Company for Bridges Destroyed in 1912 power should be switched. This was . done immediately, .and Gracie, who} / ‘had been: filling - the oil cans at thel foot of the pole, rushed up the pole itocwhere Neumann was held by hig 'VALUED AT 3750 IN COMPLAINT I=ai’cty belt and began swinging the] {nrms of the apparently lifeless body, iin an effort ‘to revive him, but the tight safety belt prevented breath'ing. [T4e transigrmer; was:dead; ;company ‘is made defendant to a suit Lowers Body. ‘for $750 damages caused by its log- { Having only the sash cord rope, ging operations on the Winter Road | with which the oil cans had’ been'Rijver in 1912. lifted, Gracie feared to attempt to| The complaint states that bridges lower the body, but realizing that im-; over the Winter-road river at Wal- mediate aid must be secured he tied halla and Wabanica were destroyed the small rope around the body and with ‘assictance of others it was low- ered to the, ground. Dr. Ward and Charles Warfield were across the | 1In a complaint which has just i been filed'by Graham M. Torrance, they were replaced at the expensie of the county. In making its log drives Istraet at the Northen Auto company‘;ed both brides, causing, the county garage when the accident occurred!commissioners believe, a loss of not and they took, the body. to the hos-!jess than $750. pital where the pulmotor 'was. p!aced in use. For two hours was the in- strument operated, but never once “Mr, Torrance being of the opinion Lhaf;' the county should receive dam- ages- from the Ilumber company, placed the matter before the commis- sioners at ‘their recent meeting and [regelved authority to-start suit: for (Continued. TABER-NELSON. SRR " Iney has now done. Well Known Bemidji Young. People %he matter will come ‘up. for-trial Married Last Evening. iat the next term of_court, which be- T A X gins September 8. ' i L. E. Taber of this city and Miss Sophia Nelson of ' Little Falls. were MEETING MUCH ENJOYED.. . Taber is.a son of F..M. Taberand is connected with the, Schneider-Bro- thers clothing company, and is onel Farmers’ Club Session. - 6.—Mrs. Mr ‘Stokes- practiwlly given. up.all hope of her |- county attorney, the Engler Lumber | by fire in the fall of 1910 and that | +in 1912 the Engler company destroy- | judgment, whigh- the county attor-|’ " {Eighty =~ Persons Attended Eekles| There vrere .eighty persons in at-| (BY AMERICAN PRESS) * BRUSSELS, AUG. 6.—GERMAN ARMS SUSTAINED ANOTHER.DE- FEAT TODAY WHEN TWO REGI- | MENTS OF CAVALRY Aflm‘ NIGHT SURPRISE ON BELGIAN PO- SITION AT LIERS, BEI.GIAK AR- TILLERY INTRENCHED BEHIRD STRONG FORTIFICATIONS AT FORT LIERS, REPULSED INVA- SION WITH HEAVY LOSSES. LONDON, AUG.-6.—CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT AT HARWICH SAYS ACTION . CONTINUES IN NORTH SEA. WIRELESS MESSAGE RECEIVED BY BRITISH DESTROY- ER VIRAGO GIVES INSTRUCTIONS HERE TO PREPARE TO RECEIVE TWO HUNDRED PRISONERS OF | |WAR AND WOUNDED WHO ARE BEING BROUGHT IN. TWENTY- TWO GERMAN AND ENGLISH WOUNDED ALREADY BROUGHT T0 SHORE AND REMOVED TO NA- VAL ESTABLISHMENT AT SHOT- LEY. GERMANY IN PUSHING AD- |VANCE THROUGH = BELGIUM MEETING WITH STRONG OPPOSL- |TI0N AND BELGIAN FORCES ARE - |REPORTED TO HAVE REPULSED ew 8, LATTER LOSING SEV- EBAL THOUSAND KILLED AND NOUN'CED AT BRITISH | “CONSU: LATE TODAY THAT HE HAD RE- CEIVED YESTERDAY A WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM THE STEAMER LUSITANIA SAYING TWO GERMAN CRUISERS . WHICH HAD BEEN PURSUING LUISTANIA HAD BEEN CHASED AND SUNK BY TWO BRITISH WARSHIPS. London, Aug. 6.—With five of the great European powers—Austria, Eng- land, France, Germany and Russia—at war, millions of men on land and | sea waited, under arms, ready to | strike. Any moment may witness the opening of general warfare. Reports | from France, Belgium, Holland and IRuasim show that Germany’s armiex are steadily moving forward, East and West. Her advanced posts are in con- tact with the opposing Russian and French armies. The cutting of the German tele- graph and telephone connections and the severance of the German trans- atlantic cables virtually cut Germany from communication with other coun- tries. Volunteers were, requested for the British army and this is taken as an indication that an-expeditionary force is to be sent out, but no authentic in- formation on this point is obtainable. In England preparations were rapid- 1y completed for naval activities after the declaration of war, but. the au- tuotities would not permit any leakage of news’ as to military or‘naval:move- | ments. -1t- was announced;the: govern- i ment would acquire: forelgn ‘warships under congtruction ‘in :Great Britain. ‘German stearr!vrs aptured. Several ‘German steamships in Brit- ish ‘waters, including the Belgia, with seventy-three German Teservists 'and a quantity of foodstufis on board, . were ‘declared prizes of war, The Ma- ria Leohhardt, in' the !rhames, suffer- ed a similar. fate. The” British government -hng,- com- mandeered the Horses belonging to ex- press .companies. and ' big department stores, thus -‘causing almost: ‘a.suspen- sion of husiness. ) On' the coast “of ‘the \orth sea, where it had been erroneously report- of Bemidji’s most respécted -young men, while the, bride is well known in Bemld]i having spent most of the ipast year ‘here. Following theecere- mony a wedding supper was served at the home of Ed Taber, a brother of the bridegroom. Mr. ande Mrs. Taber will make their home at 1116 Beltrami avenue, tendance at the meeting of the Eckles| ed that a naval battie was. in prog- Farmers’ club held: at the home of ress, the British government has tak- J. C. McGhee Wednesday, and the|en over all schools: and other public session was one of the most enthus- ( buildings for conversion' into hospiials iastie ever held. The pr'lnc1pal ad-| in readiness to receive the wounded nien after the . expected important fresiotithe day wes given by John | naval encounter between the German Lq'nn of this city, manager of the| . s pritish fleets. Bemidji Onion Growers' association. D A bountiful lunch was served. Read the Pioneer want ads, | n e e e e e e i