Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 8, 1914, Page 1

MODEL CITY FOR 2 AUSTRALIA CAPITAL it Already Clearing Ground for Can- s berra—Wonderful Plans Have ‘:: Begn Completed, ONE OF SIX BIG EXPLOSIONS Eruption of Katmai Heard 750 Miles Away—TIts Fury at Short Range Observed by Scientist. - By Congressman C, H. Tavenner. Washington, August 8.—Out in the heart of the Australian bush the government of Australia is clearing ! X ground which in a few years will be i 5. the site of a model city, perhaps that of the most beautiful city on earth. i Tne city, which will be known as Canberra, will be the capital of Aus- tralia, and that government is now sending out architects to scour the earth for ideas which will be ineor- .- porated in the eity plan of Canberra. Some of thes architects have recent- ly been in Washington, studying the L American capital, and they told of ) the wonderful plans of Australia for its new federal city. ] Canberra is to be shaped like a dumb-bell, and the city, including 2 the narrow spindle of parks and boulevard which will connect the two main portions will be 50 miles long. The Australians expect it io surpass in beauty any capital of the earth, including Washington and Paris. There will scarcely be a straight ] line in the new city, except the lines of long avenues which will radiate from the great parliament house and ond in parked circles. The streets between these avenues will follow the lines of concentric circles, so that the sitreet plan of the city will resem- ble a theater—the straight aisles re- presenting the avenues, and the curv- ed rows of seats the streets. The government will own every foot of land to keep it out of the hands of real estate speulators. It has profit- ed from the example of Washington in this respect, for real éstate specu- Jation in Washington caused the city to grow in an entirely different manner than was planned by the fathers who laid out the American i capital. Tn Canberra sites for houses " can be leased from tne government for long terms, but the title remains Lalwaysi with the government. e The first building to be erected will be the parliment house, which will ©€ost$8,000,000. The architects of the world have been invited to sub- mif plans for this building. The Fury of Katmai, Scientists who have been studying the eruption of the voleanic Mt. Katmai, on the Alaskan peninsula, last year, are reporting taat it was «wne of the six mosit terrific eruptions in the history of the world. The :sound of the explosion when the top of the mountain blew off was heard at Juneau, 750 miles away. The dnst carried 900 miles. The sul- phurous fumes were plainly smelt at Puget Sound, 1,500 miles away. The fury of the eruption as observ- ed at close range is described by a seientist sent out by the National Gicographic Society. In his report to the Society this scientist -quotes ¥ John E. Thwaites, a passenger on the steamer Dora, which was 55 miles away from the volecano duning the eruption. Thwaites said: “And now began the real rain of » -ashes; it fell in torrents; it swirled and eddied. Gravity seemed to have nothing to do with the fall. The under side of the decks seemed to wcateh as the sides of the deck under «wour foot. Bright clusters of electric light could be seen but a few feet away, and we had to feel our way about the deck. It wag with the greatest difficulty that the man at the wheel could see the compass through the thick dust that filed the room. -Lurid flashes df lightening glared continuously, while a con- stant Dboom of thunder, sometimes < coinciding with the flash, increased the horror of the inferno around us. As far as seeing or hearing anything .pertaining to earth. And still we knew the sun was two hours above the horizon. Birds floundered, cry- i ing wildly, threugh space and fell helpless to the. deck.” Notice to Water Consumers, While making connections at -pumping station with our new pipe line, we will have to shut off our consumers to use as little water as possible and especially to use no lawn sprinklers after 6 p. m. today. GEORGE KIRK. > ‘The canneries of the United States ; employ near 90,000 women, Read the Want Ads; large well and would ask all water. ROOSEVELT AND DECKER. | Ar Aid Rushing to Europe to Stranded Americans. Photos by American Press Assoclation. With more than $6,000,000 in gold in her hold the armored cruiser Ten- nessee, one of Uncle Sam's fastest warships, left the New York navy yard andis speeding eastward to the relief of the thousands of war strand- ed Americans in Europe. She is com- manded by Captain Benton C. Decker (below). Franklin D. Roosevelt, as- sistant secretary of the navy, is aboard and will render all posslble aid to Americans. WIND HAMPERS SHOOTERS Trap Enthusiasts Have Difficulty in Running up Good Scores at Shoot Held Friday Afternoon. GEORGE KREATZ AGAIN HIGH George Kreatz, the Bemidji con- tractor, who hagi been high man at many of the regular weekly trap shoots of the l?emidji Gun Club dur- ing the present season, again took high score Friday afternoon, eighteen pigeons his aim. Several scores of sixteen and seventeen birds were secured, but many of the shooters were hampered by the wind, which blew directly in their faces and also interferred with the travel of the pigeons. - Another sheot will be held next Friday afternoon: falling to = Shot at Broke George Kreatz 25 18 Hessey 25 17 R. B. Lycan 25 16 H. Mayer 25 16 Halgren 25 16 Frank Lycan 25 14 L. W. Griffith 25 13 Tow Symons 25 13 M. Hazen 25 13 Erickson 25 10 J, M. Herbert 25 10 R. L. Given 25 10 A. B. Paimer 25 9 CURTIS LEADS BY OVER 3,600 Kansas Senatorial Contest Practically| Decideo, Topeka, Kan:, Aug. 3.—Zighty coun- ties out of 105 in the state gave Chzvics (urt's of TOD“ka a net Joad 01 5,433 votes over L for the Repuhli United St George A. Hugh P [summer months. Tee LaBaw, Willis Wyman and Gwrge Moody Use Dictaphone Plan for . Transcribing Teltunnny. - GOVERS QUARTER OF STATE Lee LaBdw, court renortal'» fyor Judge C. W. Stanton of Bemidjf, Wil- |- lis Wyman, reporter for Judge B. F Wright of Park Rapids, and George Moody, reporter for Judge W. S. Mc- Clenahan of Brainerd, who comprise the court reporting staff of the fifth-- eenth judicial district, are generally given credit as being among the most efficient members of - their profes- sion, and the fact that they were the first of the country reporters to in- stall the dictaphone system of tran- scribing testimony, is an indication that they are of the progressive type. Formerly one had to wait months for transcripts, but under the plan which has been tried out here with great siuccess, the work is turned out readily. Bach reporter reads -his court notes into the dictaphone, all /|records being made on cylinders, and they are shipped by express to Brain- erd where Mrs. Clara Hough, former- ly of this city, does the transeription work. This method is a great aid both to the reporter and attorneys having business with them. This judicial district in point of area covers more than one-quarter of the entire state of Minnesota, which with its timber and mineral litigation keep the re- vorters busy. * * * KK KKK KKK x SU * % X SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES * HHEKKK KKK KKK KK KR First Scandinavian Lutheran. There will be no services tomorrow. " xS % Salvation Army. Sunday school at 2:30, in the evening at 8. Services | Congrégational (Nymore.) Sunday school at 11 a. m. Preach- ing at_7:30. G. M. Peacock, pastor. Catholi —Tow mass at 7 a; m. High mass at 9 a.m. Vespers at 8 p. m. These hours will be maintained during the Father Philippe. Swedish Lutheran. There will be no preaching servi- ces.. Sunday school at 12. The la- REPORTERS HAVE SYSTEN| Hubbard officials Division a.; from Latona Beltrami forty-five miles in. length, the bid This trami-county line ¢ The Bemidji por road would have |ago’ by the comin dents of Grant Vai ‘the route and‘ aft proceedings had bee was rejected. ‘A new! ned and at the nei commissioners a date for final hear- ing will be set. - The'state road lead- ing to the county llnq‘(rom this city will be the same:asithat now trav- eled. of the new 7let sometime ners but resi- objected to '1 preliminary oampleted it z‘ute was plan- ‘meeting of the Completed - in Dctober The Hubbard fortytfive mile con- tract was let to ithe Great Northern Bridge company of Minneapolis, and covers a distance of 43 miles, begin- ning at the Parky Rapids limits and extending h Itasca Park to the north boundang.of the county. The contractors have ntil October 1, 1915, to,complete. tiffs contract, but plan’ on putting ning crews of men at work, giving each .five miles of road to build and fto ‘have the work finished this fall. ~ Work will be com-| menced by August 10. Residents of the. central part of Tlubbard county are tdlking of peti- tioning for a state road from Park Rapids to Lake George and on to Be- midji, but so far it has been simply a guegtion ;of talk: afidmoming de- finite hasl been done. Nine-Mile Contract. Another contract was let by the for the construc- tion of State Rural Highway No. 9, to Park Rapids, a distance of nine miles, the dies’ aid will meet at the home of Mrs. G. C. Berglund, 1009 Bemidji avenue, Thursday afternoon. J. H. Randahl, pastor. German Lutheran. There will be German Lutheran services in the Swedish Lutheran church, corner of Sixth street and America avenue, tomorrow morning at 10. Rev. Kurz of Brainerd will preach, Presbyterian. Bible class and Sunday school at 10. Mdrning worship and sermon at 11. Junior C. E. at 3. Young people’s service at 7. Evening gos- pel service at 8. Mid-week service for prayer and bible study on Thurs- day evening at 8. The public is cor- dially invited to all these services. S, E. P, Wihite, pastor. *| preach Sunday evening. The 16th of Methodist. Serviced in the morning at 10:45. Sunday school at 12. Junior league at 3:30. Epworth league at 7. Ser- vices in the evening at 8. At the morning service Miss Elizabeth Ev- ans will sing a solo, “Gloria.” - Spe- cial music by the young pe ple’s chorus in the evening. Prayer meet- ing Thursday evening at 8. All are cordially invited. Charles W. Gil- man, pastor. Free Lutheran (Nymore.) Servicey Sunday evening in the English language. Prayer meeting every Thursday eveming. Sunday school. every Sunday at 10 a. m. The jLadies’ aid will meet Thursday, at 2 p. m. The president of the Lutheran Free church, Rev. J. Mattson, will contract price being $4,113.45. This road is to be completed by October 31. August the choir will sing. All are welcdme. George Larspn, pastor. Baptist. Services at the usual hours next Sunday. A cordial invitation is ex- tended to each service. Subject of the evening sermon, “The Secarlet Thread.” Special music at “the morning and evening services. At morning and evening services. Mrs. I.° D. Alyord, director; Mrs. H. Miller, pianist. At the morning ser- vice Mrs. G. C. Berglund will sing a solo, “The Shepherds Psalm.” A very pleasant evening was spent at the home of Miss Georgia Smith last Tuesday by, the Seniof B. Y. P. U. at which time the monthly business of the society was transacted. Games were indulged in and refreshments were served. One new member uni- ted with the society and three names were proposed for membership. A new phone was’ installed in the par- sonage this week. Number 480, call W. Rev. ira D. Alvord, pastor. BANKS OPEN THIS EVENING. In order that all employes of the Crookston Lumber company will have no difficulty in cashing their checks tonight, today being pay day, the officers of the First National bank and the Northern National bank, have arranged to have-the institu- tiond open from 6 to 7 this evening. Only checks of the Crookston Lum- ber, company will be cashed and no other business will be transacted. | Hotel Markham, Elks Building Committee Will Offer Recommendations Monday. Every member of the Bemidjl lodge of Elks, 1052, is urged to be in attendance at a special meeting which has been called for next Mon- day evening by James L. George, ex- alted ruler, and Oliver Neilson, sec- retary. The purpose of the meeting is the hearing of a final report of the building committee and other nratters connedted with the new Elkd Club. building. The building com- mittee will meet at the Markham hotel Monday afternoon at 3 o’lock and will frame their recommendat- tions concerning the new home which will be submitted to the members at the special meeting. Work on the club building will be started as sbon as possible and because of the many delays in preliminary arrangements, its construction will be rushed, NEW ANNEX T0 OPEN SOON Splendid Addition to Markham Hotel Will be. Ready for Occupancy z\a\xgust 20—Entirely Modern. BUILT AT COST .OF $40,000 Frank §. Lycan, proprietor of the this morning that the new annex, costing announced $40,000, will be ready for occupancy Thursday, August 20. The annex will give the Markham 120 rooms, the addition supplying forty, twenty of which are equipped with private bath, and six with connecting bath. Hot and cold running water will oe ‘iprovided in every room, supplied by the latest circulating method. A complete telephone system has \been installed in the hotel, and each part, the main structure and the an- nex, will have phone connections in all rooms. An exchange will be had in the lobby and guests may be con- nected with any part of the hotel or the Bemidji exchange. An operator will be in “charge of the hotel ex- cchange: The rooms on '.hg second-and- third. floors of the annex are the same, both in size and furrdishings. The rooms and bath rooms are finished in ma- hogany and white enamel, all doors, both in rooms and halls being finish- ed in this expensive wood which with the white woodwork form a very at- tractive combination. The bathroom fixtures are the best obtainable and made to order for the Annex. In the front part of the first floor will be the Lycan residence, while .| the rear part will contain a number of large, well lighted sample rooms for commercial travelers. The basement of the new building provides for ‘a boiler room, from which both buildings will be heated, a modern laundry, fuel room, auto- mobile garage and a large storage. Hoaglund Brothers of Minneapolis have had charge of the construction work, Fred Carlson, a member of the firm, being the foreman. The plumb- ing is being done by Earle Roberts, of the firm of John R. Roberts & Son, and an efficient force, while A. J. Naylor, of the Warfield Elecertic company, is doing the wiring, and it dis considered as being one.of the best and most complete jobd in the state. E. H. Jerrard has supervised the construction work. The hall carpets and rugs for the entire .building are furnished by the Bemidji furniture firm of Huffman & O’Leary. Markham Hotel accommodations ‘have always been considered as equal to any in the northwest, and with the Annex, the management will be able to increase the efficiency of the service and to provide Bemidji with a hotel modern in every respect and one of the best equipped in the coun- try. A French scientist, who has been experimenting for 18 years to as- tures on fish and animals has found Checks will not be cashed at distri- ,buting points as customary. i |that common snails can withstand the greatest amount of cold. TO MAKE FINAL REPORT. ° | TROOPS OF KAISER ACKNOWLEDGE LOSS OF 25,000 SOLDIERS; HAS ADVANCED WELL INTO BELGIUM FRENCH ARMY 'PRINCE FUSHIMI. To Command. Flying Squad- ron of .;gpanese Warships. . (AMERICAN ‘PRESS.) LONDON, AUG. 8—A DISPATCH TO THE POST FROM BRUSSELS SAYS THE BELGIANS HAVE GRANTED AN ARMSTICE FOR TWENTY-FOUR = HOURS, RE- QUESTED BY THE GERMANS, AND THE LATTER ARE NOW COLLECT. ING THEIR WOUNDED AND BURYING THEIR DEAD. THE GER- MANS HAVE WITHDRAWN TO A LESS EXPOSED POSITION WHERE THEY CAN RECUPERATE, AC- CORDING TO A RUMOR AT MAE- STRICHT. THE GERMAN cRowN PRINCE IS AT THE HEAD OF RE- INFORCEMENTS WHICH ARE AD- certain the effects of low tempera-| Tokio, Aug. 8.—The reserve army, officers have been instructed to hold themselves in readiness for possible mobilization. A. flying squadron of seven cruisers has been organized at Yokosuka, with - Prince Fushimi in command. The battleship squadren has -been increased to cizht vessels and- is ready fni. service. Admiral Kato is in e P LAST RITES IN EAST ROOM s. Woodrow Wilson Will be Buried M vate Services Monday. PRESIDENT BEARS UP BRAVELY Services for Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, who died following a long illness, last Thursday, will he held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the White Houge in the historic East Reoom, where but a rew months ago she “witnessed the marriage of her @aughter, Jessie, to Francis B. Sayre. Interment will he made Tuesday af- ternoon at Rome, Ga.; where she spent most of ‘her girlhood days and where the mother and father are buried. Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome will be the final resting place of the president’s wite. Yesterday Mrd. Wilson’s body was left in the southwest room in which she died.. The president visited the room several times and his grief is heartrending, although he bears up bravely. - Only members of the fam- lily and most intimate friends were admitted to the room. Flowers-and messages of sympathy from all parts of the country and abroad have arrived, gent by persons in all walks of life, from the rulers of foreign nations to the humble admir- ers of Mrs. Wilson. Many telegrams were received at the White House from girlhood friends of Mrs. Willson, - The White House services will be private and attended by members of the cabinet, a few relatives, intimate friends and committees from the sen- ate and house. Rev. Sylvester Beach, of Princeton, who married Mrs. Sayre and Mrs. McAdoo in the White House, L will probably officiate. No formal selection wasi made today of the hon- orary pallbearers, but it is practically decided to include cabinet members. I As a body, the cabinet will prob- ably go to Rome, but most of the Individual members are expected to THE CUB FEPORTER SCO0 UPNTHAR-TMBILLEDTOFLY o/, WHO KNOWS-UP THERE'S WHERE T MAY DIE Y MY SHIP MAY WRECK UPIN THSKY | WITH SUST PLAIN AR AN waTERN AN’DRIPME LIKE A HUMANPIE. 1 MY FEVERED BROW IN DIRTL LIE QMONG TH' OCEAN SHARKS T0 DI THE ALTITUDE. MA BE T00 HiGH - AN'CROAC ME AS T CLIMB TH'SKY - ‘The Time Approaches- For Scoop's Departure AND THEN AGAIN-OH ME-OH MY THEN S \TANY WONDER WHY o AN'IK55 A EARTHAFOND GO0 B 6ef§ctivc Page —~ O(rRAN !M\ o MA LOOWEH TH' By "HOP" ~ elgn office said the proposal had not i been received in Germany. »: VANCING FROM AIX-LA-CHAP- PELE, o+ * +* o o+ o +- > L * o bl o - +* * +* London, Aug. 8—An Ex- change Telegraph company’s dispatch from Brussels says the German trcops at Liege acknowledge the loss of 25,000 men. ~The cgency says this statement is offcial. Another dispateh to the Exchange Tele- graph company from Brussels says the French army has en- tered Belgium and has ad- vanced well into the country. ol R R R R oo oo oo oo ol oo o ofelode o ot ofe b ol LR R R R L X X Tondon, Aug. 8 —A dispatch from Paris says -official reports received there state the German troops have entered the Belgian city of Liege, but have not been able to take the forts surrounding portions of the city. Fighting of the most violent charac: ter is said to have taken place in tae streets. The Belgian troops are re- ported as having captured twenty- seven German cannon. A dispatch received here from Brus- sels by the Exchange Telegraph com- pany says the German troops attack- ing Liege have asked for an armigtice of twenty-four hours. . St A Rotterdam-report -says the city of Liege is burning, German shells having fired the Cathedral of St. Paul, the Palais de Justice, Church of St. Jacques and the- Theater Royal. A Brussels dispatch says a German aero- plane ‘dropped three bombs into the Square D'Arvoy, killing thirty per- sons. Reports from Brussels that the at- tack on the forts at Liege by the Germans had been abandoned datter a three days’ encounter, and that the Germans had retired to the left of the Ricer Meuse, giving the French armies an opportunity to concentrate near the Belgian frontier, were in- cluded among the important advices coming from the seat of the confiict along the Belgian frontier. Denies British Reports. Assertion by Winston Spencer Churechill, first lord of the British ad- miralty, in the house of commons that there has been no fighting or losses by the British army and navy other than those announced official- ly, followed by a refusal to give in- formation following reports of a naval battle between German and British ships, is regarded as one of the sig: nificant features of the events which are making history in Europe. A report from South Shields says the British fleet engaged the German high seas fleet in heavy battle off the South Dogger banks and after a gen- eral engagement the German fleet was beaten back and moved in .the direction of the Holland coast. The surgeon in charge of the South "Shields hospital received a wireless message asking what accommodations he had for the wounded. He replied he could care for 1,000 persons. A Whitby (Eng.) report says nine- teen German ships were sunk or cap- tured in the North sea battle and that several British and French ves- sels were sunk. go with the president as friends. The special train will leave Washington at 4:30 o’clock Monday. afternoon and arrive at Rome at about 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. The final rites will be lield soon afterwards and then the party will return to Wash- ington. PRESIDENT'S OFFER IS ACKNOWELDGED ‘Washington, Aug. 8.—Receipt of Pres‘dent Wilson’s offer of good of- fices has been acknowledged by some of the warring nations in Furope, but none of the responses constitute any- thing in the nature of a reply. Of- ficials do not know whether it hu The response from the Russian for- ! been brought to the attention of Em- eror Nicholas, because he wag mov- ing about the country directing prep- ‘What others had acknewl: arations. . edged wu not dilclolsd.