Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 23, 1914, Page 1

, VOLUME 12, NO. 153. GERMAN CRUSIER SINKS L, TISH MERCHATY o 2N ’» (American Press.) London, 0_cv.. 23.—A dispatch from eriffe, Canary Islands, reports that the German cruiser Karlsruhe, has sunk thirteen Britich merchant- men in the Atlantic. These ships were mostly engaged in South Amer- ican trade. Paris, Oct. 23.—Germans are re- ported today to have withdrawn their advance guard from Mariauerke and Middle kerke fecause of fire from the British monitors. The Germans are heavily entrenched on mainshighway cornecting Ostend and Nieuport. FAVORED BY GOVERNOR| Eberhart Issues Proclamation Urging Pagsage of Amendment Number 3 at November Third Election. CALLS FOR REVOLVING FUND | Governor Eberhart today issued a proclamation calling the attention of the voters of the state to Consti- tutional Amendment No. 3, to be voted on at the November election, and commending its adoption. It reads as follows: ‘A revolving fund of not more than $250,000 may be set apart from the funds derived from the sale of chool and swamp land to be used in ructing roads, ditches and fire- ¢aks in, through and around un: sold school and swamp land, sucly funds to be replenished as long as needed from the enhanced value re- alized from the sale of such lands so benefited."” Governor Eberhart says that this amendment, while ‘concerning north- ora Minnesota, is a benefit to the state at large as it will make it pos- sible to develop the northern sec- tion more rapidly without a separate burden of expense. CONCERT THIS - EVENING Ellen Millar, Duluth Violinist, to Ap- pear Here for Benefit of Swedish Lutheran Church. ASSISTED BY LOCAL TALENT Miss Ellen Millar, of Duluth, one of the most talented violinists in the northwest, will appear here this evening under the auspices of the Swedish Lutheran church. An exceptionally strong program has been arranged for the concert, ich will be given in the City hall, and Miss Mil will be assisted by several of Bemidji's best known solo- ists. Mise Dorothy Torrance andj| Miss Mar aret Newton, Miss Hazel thworth, Miss Elizabeth Erick- son and s. G. C. Berglund will sing, Mi Rubie Henrionnet, elo- cutionist, will also take part. KMiss Millar is an accomplished has studied 11 in Dulath where she was a pupil ol M1, Flaaten, and other instrustors ! lof the long jump to Omaha where | oif prominence. Ellen Grady, of Chicago, who has been in the employ of the Pennsyl- vania railroad for 50 years, has just been pensioned and put on the com- “roll of honor.” “eylon produces 16 varieties of ms from which sugar may be ob- abroad | | here tomorrow night, and will not | KX KKK KK KKK KKK KKK % MISS ELLEN MILLAR x KKK K KKK KK KK Duluth Musician Who Will Appear in Bemidji This Evening for Benefit of Swedish Lutheran Church. Postmaster Erickson Recalls Recent Order “of Department Regarding ./ ‘Sending of Packages by Mail. iEMPI.OYES MUST STAND COSTS Users of the parcel post system will have to wrap their packages more carefully in the future or be irequested to rewrap them before ac- ceptance at the sending office. Ani| order from the postal department has been received at the local postoffice h\a;r\mtiug the postal employes that the * eclerks receiving improperly wrapped¢ packages will be compelled to stand the cost of whatever dam- ages may ensue if the parcel or par- cels are received improperly and in- securely wrapped. “The order.is in line with the added rigors being employed by the posta¥*department,” said Postmaster Erickson today. “There has but little loss in the last few months. Barly in the life of the system dam- age losses were not mfrequent but they are increasing. “Formerly the government paid the damage claims promptly and the matter was dropped. Now they run the complaints down. Clerks must report goods out of the cffice in good repair. Then it is up to the wagon man to see that the parcels are turned over to the railway mail cleck with a clean bill. He must report that they were turned over at the end of his run in good condition, and so on. All this is gone through now in running down a damage claim. If any of the employes, such employe o employes must stand the damag AMICH COMPANY TO LEAVE gagement at Brinkman Theatre Jack Amich and his company which has been appearing at the Brinkman theatre during the past two weeks, in tabloid musical come- dies, will close their engagements appear Sunday as advertised because they will play for some time. The company has heen attracting larg: probable that a return engagement will be arranged. Jarvis, the come- dian of the company, is by far the best black-face artist to visit Be- midji, and his work has been much enjoyed. The play for Friday and Saturday will be ‘“A Dutch Justice.” PARCELS WELL WRAPPED: Hearld-Review Says Bem:d]l-Gmnd 7 Rapids Rivalry Will Be Emglm- sized in Tomorrow’s Game. Similar Period in 1912 and But - |BOTH ELEVENS OUT T0 WIN| Little Behind Last Year. v -Coach, Bestul and his squad of high school football warriors will leave GAIADA TO smn mmfls tomorrow noon for Grand Rapids] where the high school of that city will be'played. The game is the most important on the Bemidji schedule and. the local boys are going -into the contest with a determination to: win. N In announcing the game the Grand Rapids. Herald-Review says: -From This: Country — Orders From Nations at War. .Is prosperity here? Well. The grand total of exports ‘for the “Foot Ball! Grand Rapids vs.|Year to date exceeds '$670,000,000, Bemidji. Saturday, Oct. 24. Admis-|Whieh is more than $20,000,000 sion 25¢. At South Side Park. The|ahead of the “corresponding period in game to be called at 3 o'clock. To|1912 and only a little behind the rec- an outsider this announcemeént would |0rd of last year. convey the idea merely that a foot That the southern cotton planter’s {ball_game between two_teams was period of gloom is passing is evi- to be played; there would be no |denced by the fact that, while in Sep- thrills, no anxious feeling. tember cotton exports were only 11 “To those familiar with the his-|Der cent/of the 1913 total for Sep- tory of athletics between Grand |tember, last week they reached 45 Rapids-High and the Bemidji High |Per cent of the total for the corres- t means much more. It means a{Ponding week of a year ago . struggle between intense rivals; ev-| Just'see how the figures are com- jery inch of ground will be contested |ing in: to the limit of physical endurance;| Cotton exports now exceed the pre- it means a thousand thrills and’ many | Vious 'weekly maximum by over 30 an anxious moment. Both teams are Per cent. The total foreign ship- ready for the game of their lives|ments:for the last reported week ex- and neither team has been scored on |Ceeds.the preceeding by.over $2,- this year. Both teams are determ-|000,000. -The rains in the west have ined to win. Excitement among the|Mmade certain a bumper winter wheat students is at fever heat. crop, rivaling the erop which has ‘“Arrangements for the game are just been harvested with such profit perfected in every detail. A fence[to the farmer. Exceptional orders has been erected about the field to|from abroad, certain to simulate new: keep the crowd back.® Officials from |trade, continues to pour into Amer- out of the city have been selected.|ican factories. We believe we are about to witness Order Bayonets. the hardest fought, the most thrill-} . From Pittsburg, for example, ing, best managed foptball game ever | comes news that the French govern- played in this city.” ment has ordered 5,000 tons of steel for bayonets frem the Crucible Steel company. |Grand Total of Exports Far Exceed Will' Buy Goods' of Variofi- Kinds|- Ruller “of ' Little, Nation Now - Scene of Much - Fighting. Photo by American Press Association. ‘What will happen to the little coun- try of Luxemburg after the war? is right in the center, of the battle- ground, and soldiers of both sides are camping on its borders. It may be seized by the victor in the war or continue to exist as a free state. ldisease could be spread. that FORTY CENTS PER MONTN | WOULD INCINERATE Matter Now Before Bemidji Council = Discussed at Mlmkato Meeting of Lengue of Hummpa.hhes _|MAYOR McCUAIG ON COMMITTEE City Planning Also Given'Considera- tion and Board Named to Conduct Campaign for -Rexenrch:. At the Mankato meeting of the League, of ‘Minnesota Municipalities yesterday, a matter which the Be- midji . council has been' considering for several months, was brought up for discussion, that of “Refuse Dis- posal.””’ _E. N. Stacy, .a Minneapolis engineer, read a paper on the sub- jéct and ‘interesting discussions fol- ‘lowedlater. Mayor Win Powers of St. Paul, ‘took part, Stacy strongly advocated the use of incinerators by all cities, and said 'the practice of feeding garbage to hogs near cities was dangerous, as way. Mayor Powers made a plea.for rend- It ering plants, where garbage could be made to serve a usefil purpose by converting it into commercial fer- tilizers. McCuaig on Committee. William McCuaig, mayor, with Ray F. Murphy, president of the who CALDERWOOD TO coME Bemidji council, is in attendance at Man Who Has Been Instrumental in 1855 Treaty Fight Will Talk In Bemidji Next Week. |18 CANDIDATE FOR eovmmon the meeting as delegates from this city, was yesterday.named a member 'of the committee on resolutions. The league has taken action look- ing' fo warrl toward more power for city- e unflln in the city planning, either by themselves or through com- missions f experts and lay citizens, To Appoint Committee. After Mstening to two papers on CASS CANDIDATES HERE. McGarry and Dare Pass'Through Be- The gouth will 'soon be : equally in prosperity of the mnulflc- tuping porth, and’of the ngrlcultural shlflng W,_A Stromme, of Minneapolis, | the subject and dllc\ulinu partici- #dvance man for the Minnesota State|pated in by & large number of dele- Prohibition committee, was in the ‘gates, a motion offered by City At- city today and completed arranges|torney Edwin D. Buffington, Still- been [ then it is found that the demage ro-| sulted from negligent handling frem | | Goes to Omaha After Two Weeks’ En- | audiences at the Brinkman and it is| midji Enroutc to Their Homes: ¥ we-t where ‘prosperous: farmers will 2 e 40,000,680 acres sown with Pat” ‘\/IcGarry and Farley Dare,|{winter wheat alone, ucotdjn; to the Cass county candidates for the state|Price Current Grain Reporter. senate and house of representatives, 2 respectively, were in Bemidji last evening enroute to their homes in New York, Oct. 15.—Canada is to Walker after a campaign trip. Both!gpend almost $50,000,000 annually |gentlemen are confident that theylat the shops, looms and factories of will be successful at the polls on|the United States as a result of the general election day. McGarry has|war in Europe. served in the legislature as a mem- “Clothes, food, vehicles will be iber of the house through several|tyrned into the rapidly de}reloping terms and is considered one of the {northwest from the manufacturing leading members of the state law-|centers of America, counteracting making body. The district which helthe losses sustained by American wishes to represent includes Cass Bfld;manufacturers as producers by the {Itasca counties and indications are|war, bringing a steady stream of that he will be successful in his re-lwealth into the safes of the Amer- Quest to the voters for promotion to jcan banks ‘and offering at least a the upper house. Dare is one of the|partial solution to the regular winter | state’s leading editers and should h""“nemplowd problem,” ” seems to be To Spend $50,000,000. ibe elected northern Minnesota will!the message sent by prominent Cana- be given another able and energetic|d13n merchants to the people of the legislature member. 1United States! Uaoa B B a { | Two big orders for machinery to be R. C. BUCKLEY HERE iused by the belligerent nations of {Europe in the manufacture of muni- Elks Building Architect Visits Be_;tions of war have been received by i 5 {Madison concerns and the wheels of midji—Let Foundation Contract. i E { industry soon will start at the work. l R. C. Buckley, of St. Cloud, the MANY HEAR SPEECHES |architect who drew the plans for the! . 840,000 Elks building which is now| The City hall was well filled last nder construction, the excavating!evening by citizens of Bemidji and work being practically completed, 15:vicinity who wished to hear the in Bemidji today. Bids for the speeches of Dr. J. A. DuBois, demo- foundation will be opened this even-cratic candidate for the house of rep- {ing and the contract let, work to resentatives, and Frank M. Eddy, a !begin as soon as possible. When{lormer congressman. Eddy, a re- asked if he approved of the building | publican, served in congress two ‘of the foundation this fall the archi- |years and in his talk last evening he tect said: “Yes it is the proper thing |discussed at length and criticised the to do. By next spring it will haverecord of Congressman Lindbergh, set and the building may be erected.|who. seeks re-election. Dr. DuBois as soon as possible in the spring. [told of the needs of this district and Cold weather will not at all interfere |made known certain measures which | with the strength of the cement.” he would favor, should he be elected. ments. for: . meeting at-which 'W. G. .Calderwood, Prohibition candidate for .governor, will speak. The' meeting will be held in the city hall Weédnesday .evening, Octo- ber 28, and will be free to the public. “Perhaps no other, man in ‘the state has been so active in the en- forcement of the treaty of 1855 as has Mr. Calderwood,” sajd Mr. Stromme. He appeared before the United States attorney general and Cato Sells, Indian commissioner, at Washington, in behalf of the Law Enforcement league. In his talk next Wednesday night, Mr. Stromme intimates, he will have some fresh news from the “front” to give out. WILL PLAY BLACKDUCK. Bemidji High School Second Team to Open Season Here Tomorrow. While the Bemidji high school football team is battling for the' northern championship with (}randI Rapids tomorrow afternoon in that city, the local second team will line: up with the first team of Blackduck on the Bemidji gridiron. Although they will be completely outweighed | by their opponents, the Bemidji boys are confident of victory and promise to make the contest one of the best! to be seen in Bemidji this season. Games have also been scheduled with ' Thief River Falls and Akeley. The | lineup for tomorrow’s game will be as follows: Dan Gainey, r. g., E. Grytbak, r. t., H. Lord, 1. g., Phibbs and Stechman, c., H. Palmer, 1 t., N. Kittleson, r. e., R. Brooks, 1. e., Warfield, q., G. Madson, f. b., ‘Witting, 1. h., Conger, r. h. Substi- tutes, Achenback and Wolfe. Re- feree, J. Sullivan. Game starts at 1ed. THE CUB SCOQP geporer \T SANS HERE. THAT THEN CAN \LOCATE. BULLETS N YOUR BODY WiTH A RADIOGRAPH - Scoop Got T M-t sinb —Sar he Soft Spot In His Head Radiographed X CAME UP-DOC- C WHERE. ) /” WHERE 2 GEE WHATS WHIT 0 HAVE NUN LOOK WERENA | T CAME UPTD FIND OUT! SWTZA T BEEN IN THIS WaR. 50 LONG T MUST BE JUST/ By "HOP’ water, . was: passed. autfiorizing the presldemt of the leagqe to lppofln committee to study thé %sub!eet u! (Continued on Igst page:) INTEREST IN AUTO TRAIL. Wonderland Highway Plans to Be Completed at Havre Meeting—Be- midji Important City On Route. MEANS IMPROVING OF ROADS certain to be one of the benefits of the Wonderland Auto trail, from Du- luth to Seattle, passing . through northern Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington, iplans for which are now being com- ‘pleted at a meeting at Havre, Mon- tana. The project is planned by an or- ganization known as the Wonder- land Trail association, and is passes through Cass Lake, Bemidji, Foss- iton,. McIntosh, Erskine, Mentor, Crookston, on to Grand Forks and iwest. The plan is to organize a lo- :cal association in each county which will co-operate with the state divi- sion in placing signs, putting . the ;road through "their counties in the best possible conditions. Their Tu- iral traffic will justify and maintain :lhe road in good condition. The construction .of good well marked between here and Du- luth if of great importance. It would - {mean that thousands of automobile owners at the head of the Ilakes would make the trip and thus come {into closer contact and hence realize more fully the splendid character of the country and general attractive ifeatures, diversified produets, etc., of ~ | this section. Deputy Marshal Here. Frank Tufts, deputy United States ‘marshal, was in Bemidji tcday en- |route to Kelliher where he will at- tend to official matters.’ Tufts is jone of the most popular and effi- icient officers of the governmeent service in Minnesota. H Gonvick Editor Here. W. T. Jones, editor of the Gonvick vBanner was in Bemjdij today on business. - | The government of British Hon- ;duras is erecting a’powertul ‘wireless station at Belize. s roads ALL CITY GARBAGE Bettering ‘of road - conditions {8 -