Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 3, 1914, Page 1

o VOLUME 12, No. 187. FARMINGRANKS HiGH| AMONG PROFESSIONS Clifford Willis, At Brainerd Conven- tion, Says Without Soil Tillers Other Business Would Cease. MEETING IS GREAT SUCCESS Representative Delegations Attend- tending and Enthusiasm Shown Assures Many Good Results. Interest in Brainerd centers to- day in the Northern sota Development association, which held its first formal session, the meet- ing being called to order by Pres- ident C. A. Albright, of Brainerd, who gave a brief outline of the asso- ciation’s purpose, its accomplish- ments and explained his pride in be- ing one of its presidents. These the Winners. In the contest held by the Brain- erd Chamber of Commerce, in which there were over forty entries, first prize went to Margaret Marie Rau, daughter of C. G. Rau; second prize to Wilfred Thomas Aspholm, son of A. H. Aspholm; third prize to Harry Elton Lasher, son of Harry Lasher. Miss Annie E. Shelland, of Inter- national Falls, president of the Wo- men’s Auxiliary, spoke on ‘*‘Good Roads and the Third Amendment,” E. B. Smith, Washington, D. C., pub- lic roads department, depart of agri- culture, is to speak on “The Econ- omic Value of Improved Roads to Minnesota,” and E. S. Fowler, Min- neapolis, will speak on ‘‘Permanent and Sanitary Farm Improvement.” J. C. McDowell, Washington, D. C., agriculturist, department of agricul- ture, will deliver an address. The Women’s Auxiliary held its business session this morning at the Iron Ex- change building, meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Held Joint Session. At the joint session of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion and Women’s Auxiliary, Miss Mabel Carney, St. Paul, inspector of normal training departments, state board of education, will speak on “‘Consolidated schools.” D. E. Wil- lard, development agent of the North- ern Pacific railway, will speak on. ‘““Needs of Northern Minnesota.” H. M. Bracken, M. D., St. Paul, secre- tary State Board of Health, will speak on “County Sanatorium.” Mrs. Peter Olesen, Cloquet, will speak on ‘“The Country Visitor.” M. J. Thompson, Duluth, superintendent of the N. E. Experiment farm, will speak on “Crop Improvement, an Op- portunity in Northern Minnesota.” E. J. Delwich, Madison, Wis., Wis- consin Agricultural college, will speak on ‘“Breeding Plants for Northern Counties.” Hartley to Speak. Thursday evening, G. G. Hartley, of Duluth, will speak. Judge F. T. ‘Wilson, of Stillwater, will speak on “Minnesota Model Farm at the Pa- nama-Pacific Exposition.” The Min- nesota Crop Improvement association had its election of officers, com- mittee reports, resolutions, address by President Glotfelter and concluded its program. Glotfelter was re-elect- ed president; A. D. VanSickle, first vice-president; F. B. Logan, second vice-president; C. P. Bull, secretary; Otto Bergh, member of executive committee. Interest in the meeting of the Min- nesota Crop Improvement association is growing and the attendance yes- terday was much larger. The dele- gation of Northern Pacific railway officials, headed by A. M. Cleland, of St. Paul, general passenger agent, expressed their pleasure at seeing such a comprehensive display of corn, oats, wheat, barley and pota- toes. In potatoes, especially, Cle- land was greatly interested, for his road has featured the great, big po- tato of the Northwest. Also a Baby Contest. A baby contest furnished intense excitement, forty fond mothers bringing babies under a year in age, to the Chamber of Commerce club rooms where three physicians, Drs. Beise, Reimstadt and Bennett, and a nurse, Miss Irene English, superin- tendent of the Northern Pacific rail- way hospital, examined the infants and the prize winners were an- nounced today. Baby buggies filled the corridors of the Chamber of Commerce and the sidewalk. And babies of this sec- tion of the state are sturdy young- sters and show that the baby crop; ranks just as high in quality as any | prize winning blue ribbon vegetables displayed on the floors above. Committees announced include: Credentials—John S. Pardee, Duluth, C. R. Middleton, Baudette; A. M. Pet- erson, Coleraine; Ed Hines, Hub- bard; George Mumford, Two Har- bors. Auditing—J. O. Lenning, Du- luth; F. A. Farrar, Brainerd, R. H. Schumaker, Bemidji. The resolu- tion committee will have representa- tives from the various districts. ‘Wednesday afternoon the Brainerd Minne- HENRY WHITE. _ Tells * President Europe "4y, Not Ready for Peace. Copyrisht by Clinedinst, KK K& XK KR KK KR * LODGES NAME OFFICERS * RO R KKK K KKK KKK Bemidji Lodge A. F. and A. M. W. Z. Robinson, W. M.; Montre- ville J. Brown, S. W.; William Chi- chester, J. W., re-elected; W. B. Stewart, treasurer, re-elected; George Walker, secretary, re-elected. Ap- pintments will be made later. Bemidji Lodge, 119, I. 0. 0. F. D. D. Miller, N. G.; E. L. Guen- ther, V. G.; George Rhea, recording secretary; A. V. Garlock, financial secretary; C. F. Schroeder, treas- urer; A. H. Huntosh, trustee. Mcdern Woodmen of America. George Markham, V. C.; George Sterling, W. A.; H. N. McKee, clerk; P. M. Peterson hanker Musical club entertained for the vis- iting ladies at the Elks’ hall and an interesting program was given. The welcoming address was given by Mrs. B. J. Broady, president @f the club, Other speakers were Mis§"Lano and’ Mrs. Baker. AL At the banquet given at the Gard- ner auditorium Wednesday evening, the speaker of the evening was Clif- ford Willis, editor of the Orange Judd Northwest-Farmstead, of Min- neapolis. In the absence of Alvah Eastman, of St. Cloud, Rev. G. P. Sheridan, president of the Chamber of Commerce, presided. “Wants Real Men.” ““What does Minnesota want?” asked Mr. Willis. ‘‘She wants men, real men. No knockers, plunderers, but men who will think, who have faith in themselves and their fellow- men, who stand up for home and thei men, who stand up for home and their town. Manly men and woman- ly women are welcome every day in the year.” The speaker urged co-operation. If the farmers of the state work to- gether, they can get anything they want. He deprecated the retired farmer who moves to town to an- other sphere, buys a lot at the end of the street where the sidewalk quits and kicks about taxes, and sends his money to the catalogue house. The proper way to retire (Continued on last page). Unclaimed Letters., Advertised letters “UNCLAIMED” for week ending Nov.. 30, 1914, at Bemidji postoffice: Men—Brusde, Mr. Thomas, Burrows, Stacy D., Du- backer, W., Hensin, Mr. Eivind, Ho- vik, Kris, Johnson, Mr. Laurence, Johnson, Mr. Perry, Klawitter, Mr. H. S., Lang, W. M., Martinson, John, Merril, Mr. H. H.,, McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. A. A, Nelson, Mr. Thos., Nelson, Mr. Algot, Panell, Mr. Chas., Paper, Mr. Fred, Rice, Mr. True, Started Loa Suite, Mr., Vye, Mr. Wm. Women—Evans, Miss Nettie, Howe, Mrs. Hellen, Giltsman, Miss, John- son, Mrs. Mary, Kiemetson, Miss Inga, Kusba, Mrs. May, Kzsley, Mrs. Sadie, Loomis, Mrs. Libbie, Martin, Mrs. James, Penny, Mrs. Josephine, Solberg, Miss Lillian. SCOOP zsrorter ,'—___ London, Dec. (KING GEORGE VISITS BRITISH FIRING LINE (American Press) 3—King George, who has been visiting the British line in Flanders, went out to the fir- ing line today, according to a Calais correspondent to the Evening News. Paris, Dec. 3.—Heavy cannonad- ing by the Germans with a vigorous reply by the allied guns, marked the fighting in the region between Ypres and Arras today. The allies con- tinued to press their offensive south of Laon, but only slight progress was reported. London, Dec. 3.—Official reports concerning the campaign in Russian Poland still fail to make clear the confused situation in the east, where for several days a great Russian vic- tory has been claimed in unofficial advices from Petrograd. It is said, however, that the power- ful Teutonic armies, driven on to des- perate efforts by the peril of their position, have cut their way through solid lines of enveloping Russians. What it has cost has not yet been told, but it is indicated that the Ger- mans, in extricating themselves, haye inflicted enormous losses on the eme- my and have in turn paid a terrible price. The Berlin official statement says that “in Northern: Poland battles are taking their nermal course.” This is believed to indicate the German lines have been reformed and that they are giving battle to the Russians on more equal terms than when they were partly enveloped. Germans Resume Offensive. The Russian statement admitted the Germans have resumed the offensive on at least two points of the battle tront in Northern Poland, but the Russian statement lays some stress on the capture of (ierman ammunition barges on the Vistula river, near Plock, as indicating the cutting off of a convenient means of communica- tion with the German armies in Po- land. The latest German statement says the report circulated in the foreign press that the 23,000 prisoners taken by the Germans at Kutno are includ- ed in the 40090 Russian prisoners previously taken by the Germans. is untrue. XK KK KA KKK KEKKK KN * HAVE DOUBLE WEDDING * AR KKK ERD ... . Halvorson-Maynard Johnson-Maynard Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, at the Methodist parsonage, a double wedding was solemnized, Rev. Charles W. Gilman, pastor of the Methodist church officiating. Laura Maynard was married to John 0. Halvorson and Mary Maynard to George H. Johnson. They are from Kelliher and the brides are sisters. VALUAR From of Hunting Permits—1,200 Deer Fell in Beltrami County hunting licenses, Tlicenses, the privilege of spearing fish; opening December 15 and season of March 1. One and twenty-five netting have been granted. town and tlers, also city, Avoided in co‘h‘y Vicinities. - —— EXPERIENCED MEN IN CHARGE Will Mean Properly Supplied School throughout the winter. his trips through the country dis- tricts and estimates that at least £1,000 and perhaps 1,200 deer fell te the aim of big game hunters dur- ing the twenty day open season. He says that there were 1,700 nim- rods in the woods during the sea- son, 600 coming from other counties of the state and twenty-five being non-residents. Houses, jenf and Realible Teachers and Economy. Neighborhpod glnhhles are the bane of many smafl school districts, is the coneclusiom arrived at by the Education commigsion. Sometimes it is the locationi o[ the school house —the most influenfltj family wants it where it will bé convenient for their children, never mind the rest of the district. . Sometimes it is the selection of a teacher—there is a niece or a sister-in-law who wants a school. % It is common experience that in larger districts those troubles do not appear. Personal considerations cut less figure in a larger territory. In the common school district, propesed by the education commission, cover- ing each county outside of the inde- pendent districts, there . be room for ‘pemn-l‘ huknrm The distriet will nutsmq it. ¥ loi**‘-:,4~ ‘Where there is now complatnt that one or two families rum a district, there is also complaint that the others can get mno redress. In the larger district there is a place for public sentiment to make itself felt. If there should be one obstinate member of a common school board, there would quite certainly be a ma- Jjority of fair minded and unbiased men and women. They will make their homes at Kel- liher. RENEW OPERATIONS. Bemidji Manufacturing Mill Making Lath After Ten Weeks’ Idleness. After ten weeks of idleness, the mill of the Bemidji Manufacturing company has resumed operations, a crew of fifteen men being at work making lath. Eight-hour shifts are being worked and it is expected that the factory will continue to turn out lath during the entire winter. Arm Was Broken. ‘While riding to Bemidji yesterday with W. G. Schroeder, in his auto truck, Mrs. S. W. Scott was thrown from the machine at is struck a rut, near Park avenue and Fourth street, her arm being broken just below the shoulder. Mr. Schroeder immediate- 1y took her to the hospital where the injury was given attention. Hold Food Sale. There will be a food sale at Net- zer's drug store Saturday afternoon for the benefit of St. Philip’s Ca- tholic church. Miss Ruth Lambe of Grand Forks . |is spending the week end in the city, visiting friends. Miss Lambe, who 'I\as been in poor health since she Ilen Bemidji this fall, is not attend- ing the university this year, but ex- pects to resume her studies next fall. The Lambes’ spent the summer at Grand Forks bay. HERE ~O0U- COMMEER.~ AN’ PANT MY HORSE. YO MATCH TH LANDS CAPE No common school distriet will ever waste its energies in quarreling over the selection of a school site for the Coon Hollow folks or the choice of a teacher for school No. 7. Of Little Value. Another thing — the common school board will develop a valuable experience in schipol management. The common school district will be always building, always buying sup- plies, always learning how to do things to the best advantage. The little district builds once in a gen- eration, buys a set of charts once— usually the wrong set—buys furni- ture once. The local board has no experience to go by and the experi- ence it acquires is of little value be- cause it mever has to do the same thing again. In the common school district the members of the board will acquire just that sort of ex- perience. Means Economy. Besides they will have a trained man to help them, just as the city district has its trained superintend- ent. That means economy in pur- chases, economy in building, in heating, in every phase of the phys- ical management of the schools. In the unorganized district in St. Louis county, which is very much like what one of these common school districts will be, the management is so successful that a number of local districts are being dissolved volun- tarily to get the better management which the big district is able to offer. Ploneer want ads bring results. This Horse Looks Just Like The Honzon Now " Defective Page E The fact that no provision is made in the state game laws whereby boys of less than twenty-one years shall secure licenses to hunt big game, has -permitted armies of youthful hunters to search the woods for the treasured prize, a large number be- ing successful. The game warden says that in mearly every farmer’s home is found the carcasses of two deer, one for the father and one for the son. The slaughter, however, has not left the county without a large number of deer and it is the opinion of hunters that they will again be numerous next year. There have been arrests and con- victions for violations of the game laws in Belrami county, some being for hunting without a license and some for having venison illegally in their possession. There are two cases pending. Five seizures were made. FORM NEW COMPANY J. W. Garvin and C. D. Blanchard Buy Automobile Machine Shop. Bemidji automobilists are much interested in a change which has been made by the Northern Automo- bile company, whereby J. W. Garvin and C. D. Blanchard become the own- ers of the machine and repair shop. Both are expert machinists and it is their plan to equip and operate a thoroughly modern and satisfaction- producing establishment. Garvin, who has been foreman of the shop for two years, hails from Ohio, where he spent some time in doing repair work, knowing the business from A to Z, while Blanchard is a skilful tire repairer. The plant will be en- larged and needed machinery added. RAWSON TO ATTEND MEETING Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler to Be Present at Elks Session Tonight. Two important events are sched- uled for the Bemidji lodge of Elks, B. P. 0. E, 1052, for the next few days. One is the lodge of sorrow session which will take place in the Brinkman theatre, Sunday after- noon, and the other is the visit of Harry P. Rawson, of Minneapolis, deputy grand exalted ruler, to the city this evening, when he will be present at the regular meeting of the local order. Mr. Rawson’s visit is of an official nature, and a large at- tendance of the membership is ex- pected. To Mill City By Auto Ta Minneapolis from Bemidji by automobile in December is the record being established by Andrew John- son, sheriff of Beltrami county, who with Philip Hawkins, of Benyille, started the trip yesterday. They ex- pect to reach the mill city today. : xm Than ;1,500 Secured By Issue BUT FEW ARRESTS CAUSED More than $1,500 was secured by the state from Beltrami county this fall by the sale of big and small game those anxious to bring down a deer or moose calling for the issuance of no less than 1,073 permits. Auditor George also sold more than one hundred small game while 250 have applied. for the closing hundred licenses. It is surprising the number of set- village residents, who are netting white fish and trelipies for home use, many salting and freezing them to be kept Sherm Bailey, chief of game war- dens, had just returned from one of 1e Likely t Head President Wilson’s Strike Commission. Photo by American Press Assoclution. KELLIKER FARMERS UNITE Organize for Purpose of Marketing Dairying Products — Bemidji Merchants Interested. BANQUET TO BE ROUSING AFFAIR At the last regular meeting of the Bemidji Merchants’ association, J. J. Opsahl reported that the farmers in the vicinity of Kelllher are organ- izing and will pe in a position to ship milk and cream by spring. The plan outlined is to gather the cream daily from the various dairy farms and haul it to Kelliher, from where it will be shipped to a cream- ery. He suggested that the local n%gmery be ng!ed to arrange for the of the surplus stock nthe Led-in-that-vietnity. As a result of this report, Pres- ident E. A. Barker appointed a com- mittee of three to investigate condi- tions and report to the association as to the possible co-operation of - e these farmers with the Bemidji creamery. The committee consists of J. J. Opsahl, chairman, R. H. Schumaker and W. L. Brooks. The bapquet committee reported that indications for a rousing social gatheging are exceedingly bright for the Mg’ spread to be held at the Markham hotel on the evening of December 9. More than 100 will be served. BERGH VISITS BEMIDJI Former High School Agriculturist Enjoys Short Stay Here. Otto Bergh, former agriculturist in the Bemidji high school, but now superintendent of the Minnesota Ex- periment farm at Grand Rapids, was in Bemidji last evening while enroute to Brainerd where he will give an ad- dress on “The Proper Crops for Northern Minnesota,” at the meet- ing of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association. Mr. Bergh, who is considered as one of the state’s most efficient agriculturists and who since his connection with the state department has become one of its most valuable men, said he always enjoys return trips to Bemidji and is proud of its advancement. Stewart Returns. W. B. Stewart, county superintend- ent of schools, returned to Bemidji this morning from Duluth, where he attended a meeting of the state su- perintendents, and Brainerd, where he spent yesterday at the Crop Im- provement association convention. He said that the meeting is a great success, the farmers especially tak- |lng much interest. Band dance this evening at the City hall. By "HOP” RECASEINVOLVING of M. W. McDonald in Suit Against Mrs. Amber Hamilton MacMillan SHOWS RIGHT TO HALF MILLION Vast Amount Involved and Highly Sensational Nature of Testimony Given, Attracted Wide Attention Findings of fact and conclusions of law favorable to the contentions :|of the plaintiffs have been filed by JJudge C. W. Stanton in the case of M. W. McDonald and the Chicago .|{Ore company against Amber Hamil- ton MacMillan, J. W. Molyneaux, as trustee, and other defendants. The trial of thise case took place in Grand Rapids and this city last February and attracted wide atten- tion because of the large amount in- volved-—variously estimated at from $200,000 to $500,000—and the high- ly sensational nature of much of the testimony. Amounts to $25,000. McDonald, then a resident of the city of Duluth, but later of Grand Rapids, brought the action to can- cel and have declared void a certain assignment of iron ore royalties in the “Bray” mine in Itasca county, which mine was at the time the as- signment was made in December, 1908, and is vet, a big producer. The assignment was for four cents per ton royalty—about one-third of the McDonald interest—and amounts to about $25,000 on the quantity of ore mined and shipped during the last five seasons. this amount was ever paid to the de- fendant, Amber Hamilton MacMillan, the remainder, about $24,000, being still in the hands of the Republic Iron & Steel company, pending this litigation. A Compromise Settlement. It appears that the assignment in Question was made to Mrs. MacMil- lan, then Amber Hamilton, in com- promise settlement of a suit brought | by her against McDonald in Decem- ber, 1908, for the sum of $250,000, alleged damages because of McDon- ald’s having by false representations induced her to marry him at Wind- sor, Canada, in May, 1908, and live with him as his wife several months thereafter, when, in fact, McDonald was a married man at the time. Subsequently the action was ‘|brought by McDonald to have the settlement and assignment declared null and void for the reason that it was fraudulently and illegally pro- cured, that he was mentally incom- petent at the time, and that the wo- man not only knew at the time of the pretended marriage that he was a married man, but that she was then herself a married woman. Depositions From England. Several weeks were devoted to the trial of this case and much oral tes- timony was submitted, besides many and voluminous depositions of wit- nesses in London and European cities and many places in the United States. Lengthy and laboriously prepared briefs were subsequently filed with the court. The court decision covers nineteen pages of typewritten manuscript, and finds, in effect, as conclusion of law, that plaintiffs are entitled to decgee determining the assignment to be null and void and barring the defendants from any interest in the iron ore royalties and directing that the money now accrued ‘and hereafter to accrue, should be paid to plaintiffs. Knew of Marriage. Among other things, the court finds as facts, that the alleged mar- riage did take place in May, 1908, and that Amber Hamilton MacMil- lan then knew that McDonald had a wife and two children living in Min- nesota; that she was married to Alex- ander Tournay in London, England, in 1904; that while the wife of Tour- nay, in 1905, she contracted a biga- mous marriage with Thomas Green- wood at Edinburgh, Scotland; and that thereafter, in 1907, she obtain- ed a fraudulent divorce from Tour- nay at Kansas City, Mo.; that she was a swindling adventuress and black-mailer and a woman of much capacity and cunning and of an at- tractive appearance; that, knowing the financial means and the en- feebled mental and physical condi- tion of McDonald, she schemed to en- tangle him and secure undue influ- ence over him and did extort large sums of money from him; that by _ threats of arrest and imprisonment and exposing him to shame and dis- grace, and by false representations, she also induced the settlement; that she continued to pursue and extort money from McDonald after the set- tlement. To Be Appealed. It is probable that the supreme _|court will be called upon to review. “fthe findings and conclusions of the trial court. 5 FORTUNE ISDECIDED Judge C. W. Stanton Finds in Favor Only $1,000 of’