Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 21, 1914, Page 1

| VOLUME 12, NO. 151, 'EVENING, 0CTOBER 21, 1014, LITILE KNOWN OF STATE GOVERNMENT Efficiency Commission Finds Reports Concerning Affairs of Depart- ment Are Necessary. SIMPLE QUERIES NOT ANSWERED Number of Branches in State Govern- ment Not Known and New Plans Provide Simple Remedy. (By J. S. Pardee.) St. Paul, Oct. 21.—(Special to the Pioneer.)—The state of Minnesota knows what a good report ought to be. It tells the railroads what sort of report they must make, it tells the banks what sort of report they must make, it tells the insurance companies what sort of report they must make. And anyone reading one of those reports to the state will know what the average man who i interested needs to know about the bank or insurance company or rail- road. But the state does not make any such report of its own affairs and no man can find out without a great deal of labor the things the average man who is interested ought to know about his own state. What for Education? Take something simple. What does the state spend for education? What is the total cost of the public|- schools and how much of that is paid by the state and how much by the local taxes? How much does the university cost and how much of that is for maintenance and how much for permanent improvement? How much in all did the spend last year for buildings? How much does the state figure on spending this year on buildings? Has No Statement. How many people are on the state payroll? What is the total payroll and how does it compare with the preceeding year? These are some of the things an intelligently managed corporation would be apt to inquire. The state has no general statement showing it Probably some friend of the board of control will rise in his place to remark that the accounts of the in- stitutions show all this. If the work is meant to show that the board of control signed to it, it is quite true, but not absolutely neces y It ought to be ible to speak of the state's de- ciencies without each time explain-| ing that nobody is aiming a blow at state is doing well the work as- that hard-working branch of the government. Not Total Costs. jut it the gentleman who rises is trying to say that the information | given by the board of control is com- plete and suffeient, he will please not | interrupt. The board of control, great and good as it is, is not the whole government. Its reports do not show the total costs of govern- ment. They do not show how much of the total expenses for buildings overhead and how much for con- struction. They do not show how people are employed by the state and they do not show a great many other things that do not hap- pen to be any of the board’'s busi- ness, multifarious and diverse as that is. is for many A Simple Question. One very simple question—how many branches of the state govern- ment are there? That is something nobody knows. The efliciency commission which has studied it for a year can give six guesses, one as good as another. If thé efficiency commission’s plans are adopted there will be one annual report which will tell all the aver- age man wants to know about his government—for details see the re- ports of individual officers—and ev- ery school boy will know that there is one government of the state di- vided, as the number may be fixed by the legislature, into five or six prin- cipal departments. BARGE SINKS; EIGHT DROWN Heavily Laden Vessel Goes Down at Beverly, O. Marietta, O., Oct. 21.—Eight men were drowned in the Muskingum river at Beverly, opposite here, when a heavily lsden.barge on which they were crossing the stream sank. anfo ey SECRETAW, x <ScHool Heapp /7 1004. - 1010 Ciry Avyorney 1910-1911 Gunty ATYoRNEY . 193- 1934 BEMIDJI MEN OF AFFAIRS ) GRAHAM M. a &Y UNMVER 317y OF MiNNESOTA SIEROGRAPHER m Law Orrice, 1894 = 1899, TORRANCE -~ CHANGE SPUD SACK RULE Department of Interior in Letter to Manager of Onion Growers’ As- sociation States Position. AIM IS TO PREVENT FRAUD John Lunn, manager ofjithe Be- midji Onion Growers’ has received a copy of an order is- ture at Washington, making it un- necessary to mark potato bags to comply with the net weight amend- ment to the Food and Drugs act, as announced in the columns of the Pioneer some time ago. The order is important to Beltrami | potato growers and in part says: “The department, after further consideration, is of the opinion that the question whether raw potatoes in sacks, used merely as shipping containers, constitute food in pack- age form, within the meaning of the Net Weight Amendment is not en- tirely free from doubt. You are ac- cordingly advised that, for the pres- ent, the department will recommend no proceedings under the Federal Food and Drugs Act solely upon the ground that raw potatoes in such sacks, shipped in interstate com- merce or otherwise brought within the jurisdiction of the Food and Drugs Act, bear no statement of the quantity of the contents. “Notwithstanding the doubt mow entertained as to the proper inter- -|pretation of the statute, if it be found hereafter that the omission of marks stating the quantity of the contents on such sacks is being used | by shippers as a ‘means of perpetra- ting fraud or deception, it will be the obvious duty of the department to seek decisions of the courts that the principal purposes of the Food and Drugs Act, namely, the preven- tion of fraud and deception.” South African Rebels Taken. London, Oct. 21.—A Pretoria dis- patch to the Reuter Telegram com- pany says three officers and seventy men of Colonel Maritz' rebel force in South Africa have been captured and voluntarily surrendered. Tead tho Pioneer want ads. 'FAMOUS QUARTET CONING acPhail String Orchestra to Appear in Bemidji Monday Night Under Auspices of Athletic Club. EVERY MEMBER IS AN ARTIST Bemidji will be given an opportunity association, | next Monday evening of listening to one of the northwest’s foremost sued by the department of agricul-|orchestras when the MacPhail String Quartet will appear at the city hall under the auspices of the Athletic club. This is one of the entertain- ments which is to be given in Be- midji by devision. The plnyjng of the MacPhail String Quartet combines beautiful tone quality, rich and sonorous, with ex- cellent ensemble. Undeér the direc- tion of William MacPhail it has reached a point of perfection rarely attained by similar bodies. Every member an artist of the highest order and especially fitted for his respective part, the contribu- tion of each to the artistic results of the whole is invariably reflected in the perfect blending of tone and compelling charm of interpretation which characterizes the playing of this quartet. The string quartet is especially adapted to lyceum courses, and con- certs given by schools, colleges, musical and library clubs, where entertainment of a high order as well as a program of real musical in- terest is desired. o The repertoire of the MacPhail Quartet comprises nearly the entire chamber music literature, including works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schu- mann, Schubert, Grieg, Dvorak, etc., besides many arrangements of well the University Extension will enable it to accomplish one of known compositions by American, German, Scandinavian and well known composers. Programs include string quartets, violin solos, ’cello solos, trios for violin, violo and ’cello and duets for two violins. other Rice-VanKirk. Mildred VanKirk and Elmer James that four officers and forty men have }Rice, both of this city, were married at the Methodist parsonage yesterday afternoon at 2:30, Rev. C. W. Gilman i officiating. jthe people of this cify. neapolis. Nov. 14—Wistonsin = at Minneapolis. i Nov. 21—Chitago at Chi- cago. Editor Rood Predicts Eléction of Be- midji Candidate for House of Rep- “WILSON LOYAL TO SELF, ONLY” Andrew Rood, editor of the Inde- pendent, one of the’ Bemidji papers which is opposed to the election of F. A. Wilson as stale senator, in his last issue, makes e following com- ment concerning.-the qualifications of the Bemidji candidates for “the senate and house: . “Under date of September 29, F. A. Wilson tells the people of Bau- dette that he is in favor of himself for state senator and Mr. Williams of Baudette for representative. This is the most brazen piece pf effrontery the worst manifestatiod | of political ““gall” that has everjbeen pulled off by a political eandidate. ‘“Here, in the city of Bemidji, is Judge Pendergast, a nominee for house representative, A man who stands intellectually {and otherwise, compared with Wilson, like a moun- tain to a mole-hill. The primary vote shows the comparative stand- ing of Pendergast and Wilson with Now, our great embryonic statesman, in the name of the city and ‘county loyalty, asks the people of Bemidji to betray our old, tried, trusted, true, ‘able and efficient citizen; Judge Pendergast, in order that he, Mr.. Wilson, may, by such betrayal, gain votes in Bau- dette through such, we may justly say, infamous political trickery and conduct. v “Ye Gods; is it possible that our people will fall for such polities? Is it possible that this diqtrict will send to the state senate a man who, while talking loyalty to himself, preaches and practices disloyalty for his fel- low townsman? 5 “That he would ask us to place ‘him, the lesger man.“ln' a highposi- tion, and leave Judge Pendergast, the greater man, the greater citizen, the greater public servant, at home. No ‘wonder some wise man once said that It certainly brings out the egotism, the gall, the impudence, and the smallness of the politician whom God Almighty never intended should reach an official station. ‘“After this election is over and Wilson meets his political Waterloo and Judge Pendergast is a house member, Mr. Wilson may wake up to the fact that the people of this city and county are able to take the meas- ure of himself or any other self- seeking politician who would betray his fellow townsman for a few votes in Baudette.” “THE EAGLE’S MATE” Mary Pickford, Motion Picture Fa- vorite, at Grand Tomorrow. Tomorrow is Mary Pickford day af, the Grand theatre. She will ap- pear in “The Eagle’s Mate,” which will be produced at both a matinee and evening performance. Miss Pickford is a favorite with Bemidji theatre goers and each picture in which she appears is always witness- ed by crowded houses. - “The Eagle’s Mate,” is one of the most successful subjects of the Famous Players com- pany. ! i Sherrill-Severens. ! Miss Neva Severens of this city wiis united in marriage to Harvey Stierrill of Virginia, Illinois, at the heme of Mr. and Mrs .I. A. Gandee of this city, by Rev. S. E. P. White, Sat- ut'day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Gan- dee were witnesses. ' Russia’s annual production of salt, which a government monopoly con- exceeds 2,100,000 tons. ‘politics make strange bed-fellows.’ | RED LAKE SELECTED)| FOR SANATORIUM Government Following Investigation Decides Beltrami Reservation Pro- per Place for $25,000 Structure. WILL START WORK NEXT SPRING Built for Care of Chippewa Indians in This Section of State—Will Be Modern Establishment. Red Lake has been selected by the government as being the proper place to establish the ~$25,0000 Indian sanatorium, according to information which was received at the reserva- tion today by Superintendent Walter F. Dickens, from the Department of Indian -affairs at Washington. Just one month ago Dr. F. Shoe- maker, traveling . physician, repre- senting the commissioner of Indian- affairs, visited the Red Lake and Leech Lake reservations, tire pur- pose of his trip being to investigate and decide which agency would be the proper place to establish the hos- pital as provided for in an appro- priation bill which had passed some time before. Favorable to Red Lake. Dr. Shoemaker was one of the speakers at the Red Lake Indian fair and took much interest in the work being done among the Indians at the agency, and appeared to be favorably impressed with conditions as he found them. He then visited the Leech Lake reservation, but did not announce his recommendation. Following his visit he sent a re- port of his findings to Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs, and the anunouncement received today from Washington is a result of the investigation. Has One Sanatorium. The -fact that there is already a state sanatorium at Walker, to which all Indians who are citizens of the United States are admitted, is one of the chief reasons for the Red Lake selection. There are a large num- ber of redskins at the Walker agency who are naturalized. Start Work in Spring. Work on the hospital at Red Lake will begin early in the spring and when completed it will be modern and. complete in -every detail. = The appropriation of $25,000 is for the construction and equipment of the sanatorium. CATHOLIC GIRLS ORGANIZE Form Club Which Will Provide So- cials During Winter Months. With a membership of about fifty, the young women of St. Philip’s Ca- tholic church last night organized a club, the purpose of which will be to arrange entertainments and socials to be given during the winter months. Officers were elected and Vvarious committees named for the purpose of making plans. Miss Lucy LaFon- tisee was named president; Miss Mary Lydon, treasurer, and Miss Ella Parker, secretary. Nearly every girl of the club is a member of at least one committee. The first affair to be given under the auspices of the organization will be a social in the basement of the church on the even- ing of October 29, complete announce- ment to be given later. The enter- tainments will all be given in bene- fit of the church. ANDERSON GIVEN LAND Secretary of the Interior Susiains Commissioner’s Decision. A. F. Anderson today received notice from his attorney at Washing- ton D. C. notifying him that the secretary of the interior has sustain- ed the ruling of the land commission- er in giving him three forties of a homestead at Shooks and the remain- ing forty to C. G. Johnson. The land was claimed both by Mr. Anderson {and Mr. Johnson and was carried through the land office at Cass Lake, the land commissioner of the gov- ernment land department at Wash- ington and then to the department of the interior. Urges Federal céntrol of _New York Stock Exchange.” Before the New York Stock Ex- change is reopened it should be reor- ganized and placed under the super- vision of either the state or federal government, according to the belief expressed by George W. Perkins. “The stock exchange should cease to be a private or even a national concern,” said Perkins. “It is inter- national, the great market of the world: The attacks made upon it in recent years have shaken public con- fidence and seriously injured busi- ness. The only way to restore that confidence is to place the exchange under gove:nment control.” BOLD SWINDLER CAUGHT Clearwater County Sheriff Arrests Smocth Crock Who Had Falsely Obtained Money at Lengby. TRIED SCHEME AT BAGLEY After having obtained $25 from the bank cashier at Lengby, through the sale of a false opal ring, a clever swindler was arrested by the sheriff of Clearwater county at Bagley yes- ferday, -whilg injan effort.to dispose of another Afficle at the First Na- tional bank. The Lengby banker, realizing that he had been made the victim of a clever swindler, at once telephoned Cashier Kolb, of the Clearwater County State bank, cautioning him to be on the lookout for a crook who passed himself off as a traveling salesman in need of ready cash. No sooner had Kolb returned the receiver to its hook when a stranger walked in the front door and told a story of hard luck and the need of $50, offering to #éll a ring or watch if accommodated. He was told to return later as the cashier was out. The First National bank was = in- formed of the affair and the sheriff notified: The swindler, as had been expect- ed, on leaving the state bank, went to the National bank, where he was detained until the arrival of the of- ficials. The Lengby banker was notified of the arrest and immediately went to Bagley in his automobile. He was successful in obtaining the money which he had given for the ring, forced the prisoner to pay all costs and requested the matter be dropped. The swindler's suit case was found to be full of cheap rings and watches. District court convened at Bagley yesterday and had the Lengby cashier desired to enter a complaint, the grand jury would have taken’ the case up immediately. To Dance at Solway. Announcements of a grand ball which is to be given in Sime’s hall at Solway, Saturday evening, October 31, have been received in Bemidji. Good music has been provided for and supper will be served following the dance. Several Bemidji persons are planning on attending the affair. A paper drinking cup that is un- folded by the weight of water flowing into it has been invented. = SCOOP sfrorite FEPORTER TH B05S HAS ORDERS TO GAPTUR MEAN' TAKE ME PRISONER. BUT IVE JUST GOT T0 WAIT Now Under American Flag. ngton, Oct. 21.—Seventy-four foreign built vessels with an aggre-' gate of 266,373 gross tons have sought | protection of the Stars and Stripes by | taking American registry since the European war began. Great Britain has been tife heaviest loser, as sixty-| two of the vessels previously sailed! under its flag. Seven German and five Belgian vessels complete the list. For some time Honduras has been | known to contain petroleum denosits,l but only recently were steps taken to exploit them. = FOR HIM AND TELL HM E)/ OH B05S - KINGS X - TIME. OUT - FAN NO FUD&ING— - WHLE T TELLNOU A What That About Fools--Where Angels--? By "HOP e < BEMIDII SALOONS ‘PREPARED 10 CLOSE i.iqnor Dealers of City Operating With Only Small Amount of Stock on Hands, ; CATO SELLS NOW IN WEST Together With Other Officials Indian Commissioner Will Meet at Min- - neapolis and Complete Plans. - Owners of the twenty-five.saloons. now doing business in Bemidji are not to be caught with large stocks of liquor on their hands, should the department of the interior, through the department of Indian affairs, de- cide to close the thirst parlors of the territory included in the 1855 treaty, just held to be still in force, by the United States supreme court. Saloon men of Bemidji, as well as those of the other 100 retail liquor establishments of the “lid” country, have allowed their stocks to graddal- 1y decrease, and should the Indian department repeat the 1911 raid, at which time liquor of all kinds and in various kinds of retainers was confiscated, little “booze” would be destroyed. Includes Fifth of State. When the order is given the sa- loons to close, it will bring one-fifth of the state, with a population of 40,000, into the {'dry” class, and by the first of the year there will not be a salpon in operation in the sec- tion involved. Sells Now in West. J. H. Dickey, assistant United States district attorney of St. Paul, said that L. A. Larson, well known in Bemidji, special government of- ficer detailed to the suppression of the liguor traffic, would arrive in the twin cities in a few days and determ- ined action would follow shortly after. “Larson and Cato Sells, the In- dian agent, both are in the west now and are expected here shortly,” Mr. Dickey said at St. Paul yesterday. ““Our office will take no action until we hear from them. The official mandate of the case will not arrive for about 30 days. It will be filed in the district court in Minneapolls and-then the government agents:-will - get busy. - The first move will be made by the Indian department.” Congress Not to Act. Mr. Dickey and G. F. Wells, chair- man of the prohibition state central committee, hoth agreed that the only possible way to keep the saloons in northern Minnesota will be by spe- cial act of congress for the abro- gation of the old treaty. “That can’t be done,” declared Mr. Wells. “It might have been possible 20 years ago, but the liquor interests haven’t enough influence these days to attempt anything like that.” GERMAN EFFORT TO BREAK LINES FAILS (American Press.) London, Oct. 21.—A dispatch from Bordeaux says: ‘“On Tuesday the Germans made another great effort to burst the narrow circle of steel now hemming them in. They tried vainly at no fewer than six points to discover a weak spot on the allied front, the main effort being made at Labassee.” London, Oct. 21.—An engagement between German torpedo boats and hostile submarines in the Baltic Sea off the Prussian coast, has been re- ported from Stockholm. No_details of the fight or results were given. London, Oct. 21.—Germans con- tinue attempt to add Dunkirk to list of coast cities occupied by them, but allies have repulsed attacks at Dif- mued, Nieuport, and LaBassee, and reported fighting six miles south of Ostend. Lille, the commanding communication in the west- ern. wing is the main objective—of allies. Situation in remainder of the battle line in France has not ma- terially changed. German advance in Russian Poland causes anxfety in Petrograd as to Warsaw. German- Austrian forces still hold Przemysl, and Austrians claim victories in cen- tral Galicia, where desperate fighting is reported. TO CLOSE VIADUCT: Great Northern to Rebuild Bridge Over Railroad Tracks. ‘Work will begin tomorrow morn- ing on the rebuilding of the viaduct over the Great Northern railroad itracks on Irvine avenue which will 'mean that the street at this point !wm be closed for at least thirty days, announced Tom Swinson, city engineer, today. The Minnesota avenue and the electric light plant lt:hm!lngu *will be used cnurely; =