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

VOLUME 12, NO. 202. WARSAW’S DEFENSE IS STRENGTHENFD (American Press) London, Dec. 21.—The Russian army defending Warsaw has been strengthened along the entire line, and only a battle of enormous propor- tion will permit the Germans to break through the battle line which extends from the Vistula river to the Pilaca river. Athens, Dec. 21.—French and British warships succeeded in bom- barding the interior forts of Darda- nelles Saturday, declare reports which have been received here. Paris, Dec. 21.—Two new lines of German trenches have been taken by French troops, two miles south of La- Baggee. -With the allied warships aiding in fighting along the coast by a heavy bombardment of the German lines, battle in Flanders and northern France is steadily increasing in ferocity. NOEMPTY STOCKINGS HERE Good Fellows, Associated Charities and Elks Have This as Their Christmas Slogan. HAVE LIST OF NEEDY FAMILIES “No empty stockings in Bemidji on Christmas morning.” This is the slogan of the poor com- mittee of the Associated Charities, which has been doing such wonder- ful work tn the relieving of suffering here, the Christmas committee of the Elks lodge and a few Good Fellows. And what is more the slogan will be carried out, if these people have their way about it, and every at- tempt will be made to see that not one stocking is hung in vain. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the work of the Good Fellows, let us repeat. No money is solicited for the Good Fellow move- ment. The poor comuities of Llie Associated Charities, phone 60 or 54, has a list of families in need of food, clothing, other necessities and toys. These names have been checked over. The list gives the name of the family, gives the names and ages of the chil- dren, and in a general way their needs. The Good Fellow is given necessary information, calls on the family, ascertains their needs, and as far as possible, fills them. There is no publicity attached to it, and serv- ice is the keynote rather than mere giving. The Good Fellow tries at least to see that the family has what warm clothing is needed, a Christmas dinner, and a few inexpensive toys for the children. The families vary in size from one child to ten or twelve, and the Good Fellow may spend from $1 to $100 or more if he cares to. Nobody will know how much he spends but himself. That, in brief, is the Good Fellow plan, and up-to-date this year many families have been cared for. There is still a list of available names, and the committee earnestly hopes they will be assigned before Christmas. To Attract Crowd. Plans are being made by the sup- porters of 'the basketball team to ap- pear on the streets tonight in an effort to attract a large crowd to the contest between Little Falls and the local five. Headed by the Dutch band, the rooters will march through the streets and will play in public places. Smith Visits Bemidji. W. A. Smith, of St. Paul, traveling freight agent of the Great Northern railroad, spent today in Bemidji on official business. SCOO WHO-YOL? SAY-DONT START ANY THING WITH 4, o, THE CUB REPORTER - CASS LAKE “BO0ZE” DUMPED - Deputies Brandt and Carson Invade Cass Lake Hotel. Thirty dollars worth of rum, whis- %4y : 1_brandy was destroyed at the "c,' atel, Cass Lake, this after- noo. ¥ -ecial Indian Agents Brandt n. The Tedford sa- loon was 0. & e closed Decem- ber 1, the san. <y as the nineqaen Bemidji retail liquor houses. :The agents left Bemidji at noon today, re- turning this afternoon. Special Agent LeMarr left Satur- day night for Iowa. He will not re- turn to Bemidji until after the holi- days. Large Number of Girls Make Big Gains During Week in Race For Huffman & 0’Leary Piano. LEADERS ARE CLOSELY BUNCHED Interest in the Huffman & O’Leary free piano contest has been at a high pitch during the past week and as a consequence a large number of the contestants have made suprisingly (Continued on last page.) DANCE WAS BIG SUCCESS. U. C. T. Women Add $43 to Relief Work of Associated Charities. Even more successful than had been hoped, was the dance given by wives of the Bemidji United Com- mercial Travelers council members, Saturday evening, $43.13 being clear- ed, the total to be turned over to the Associated Charities for the purpose of assisting in making Christmas joyful for the city’s poor. The women are degerving of much praise for the success and spirit of the affair. It proved to be one of the most enjoy- able dances given here in some time and all who attended were much de- lighted. Forty-five couples attend- ed. The city council donated the use uf the hail, Long Brothers’ chestra, the musie, and K thers company, the frappe. A mem-. ber of the committee in charge said| this morning: “We wish to thank those who aided us in making the| dance the success that it was, and we surely appreciate their efforts.” HIGH SCHOOL TO PLAY. Will Take Part in Double-Header at | Armory This Evening. Togged out in their nifty new suits, the high school basketball five, | the best that the institution has ever turned out, will play the All-Stars as la preliniinary to the Big-Bemidg-| Little Falls game this evening. The| Brothers and are of white with hluew lettering. The stockings are oi; white with blue stripes. A large B is on the front of the jersey while! back. The All-Stars will have an exceptionally fast team in the game and the contest is certain to be close. | This game will start at 8 o’clock. | TO RETURN FOR CHRISTMAS Governor-elect W. S. Hammond has deferred his departure from Washing- ton for a week and will not take up his residence in St. Paul until one week before he assumes office, Jan- uary 4. He announced when leaving recently for Washington that he ex- pected to return about December 15, but said in Washington Saturday that {A. P. White, Mrs. BEMIDJT, MINNESOTA, MONDAY Em DEGEMBER 21, 1914. WILL BE CLOSELY FOUGHT|CHILD LAW SHOULD |5 ™ ***=* < === **3]cj “Big Bemidg” Basketball Five to Have Real Strength Tested in Little Falls Contest Tonight. VARSITY STARS WITH VISITORS|- For the first time this year, the “Big Bemidg” basketball team will have an opportunity to show its real strength when the fast Little Falls organization plays here this evening. The local team, which is placed, without dispute, as one of the na- tion’s best basketball quints, has had things all its own way in games yed thus far this year, but with evening ‘“Big Bemidg” will be forced to ‘““deliver the goods,” in order to win. Little Falls, with its lineup of for- mer and present Varsity stars, comes to Bemidji with a spirit of confi- dence and is certain that both games will be won. BE MADE BETTER: State Board of Control Goes On Re-|x “cord as Favoring Revision and - Codification of Statutes. QUOTE FROM BEI!I‘DJ’I ADDRESS Reformatory for Woman is Also Ad- vised in Récommendation in Bien- /nial Report to Governor. The Minnesota board of control has to Governor Eberhart, as in uympnthy with the efforts of socio- STORES OPEN EVENDHGS * Merchants of :Bemidji have announced that all stores, be- i' ginning tonight, will be open every evening between now % and Christmas, Do your shop- ping now. * C‘Iii&&*l&&*** * ok ok ok ok kek ok ok ed which will make the institution one of the most complete of its kind in the country. Attention of the leg- islative body is called to the fact that additional land at some of the insti- tutions is needed.. The board wants $26,000 a year for this purpose. FORTY CENTS PER NONTH: : IPPEWAS T0 GO Conference Held Here by Members of Executive Committee Results in Naming of Delegates. MAJOR M’LAUGHLIN WAS HERE Oldest Man, in Point of Service, of Nation’s Indian Department Hon- ‘ors Bemidji With Another Visit. n keeping with the plan of the INTEREST AT “lfi“ p"'c" tllle games of tonight' and tomorrow|{gone on:record, in its biennial report B AKoTAN AnMITS GUILT Mlnnesota Indian Chippewa council, a delegation of its members will leave January = eighth for Washington logical workers to obtain an intel- | Conscience Stricken, Charles Gunn|gpere they will appear before mem- ligent revision and codification of laws relating to children. In this regard the board quotes from the addrss of Judge E. F. Waite, deliv- Asks Sheriff Johnson to Arrest Him and Aweits Arrival of Official. At forwards for Little Falls wili|eTed in Bemidji during the session of |HAD STOLEN LOAD OF WHEAT be found Swanson,and Longley, the former at one time being a Hamline captain and the latter at one time played with Minnesota University basketball and baseball teams; at center, Brannon, a Liftle Falls high school star, will be stationed; the Charities and Correction. Waite is of the Hennepin juvenlle court. . Some of Waite’s Suggestions. Jydge county udge Waite suggested laws re-|Charles Gunn, who lives eleven miles |Ten, of Bena; Ben to marriage, making provision bers of congress for the purpose of advocating the passage of legislation which they deem proper for the bene- fit of redskins of this state. This was decided at a meeting of the council’s executive committee “lheld here Saturday night and at- Conscience stricken, and deslr(ng to return to his wife and little child, from Willow City, North Dakota, at|for! Hllegitimate children, and regu-|wandered into the office of Sheriff guards will be Diedrich and Pynn.|lating midwives and lying-in hospi- [ Johnson Sunday morning and asked These last two named players need|tals: lawe safe-guarding the health|that he might be placed in jail, ad-|lishment of the Council was to unite no introduction to Bemidji residents|of children; penal laws regulating|mitting that he stole a wagonload of |the Minnesota Chippéwas, who are followers-of University ath-| letics. last year’s- baseball team, shortstop, and starred as a member of the 1914 football eleven, playing: quarterback. Pynn is captain of the “U” quint this year. Ritter, will substitute, is a member of the child labor and punishing those who: intoxicants, or obscene literature. The great gap in. the Minnesota system of correcting delinquents is This is the conclusion reached by the wheat -at ‘Willow City, December 2, Diedrich was th captain of |desert their families or. those furnish- later selling it ‘at Bantry. playing)ing children with firearms, tobacco,| "On being admitted to the sheriff’s office, Gunn said: “1 wish you would arrest me.” “What for?”’ was the startled reply whothe lack of a woman’s reformatory.{of Johnson. “I am the man who is wanted in U. of M. basketball squad this year.{board and submitted in the report to|North Dakota for the stealing of a Bemidji will be without, the serv-}Governor Eberhart, advance sheets of 'load of wheat,” answered Gunn, his ices of Bestul, the star guard. Theé game is certain to be a “hum- mer” and one of the largest crowds since the Fond du Lac series of last winter is expected to be in attend- ance. The preliminary game will start at 8 o’clock. High school versus All- Stars. CHARITY SALE ‘A SUCCESS| Woman Clerks Make Hit at Barker’s| and Poor Fund Receives Sub- stantial Bocst As Result. “MAY HAVE POSITION ANY TIME” That the citizens of Bemidji are outdoing themselves this year in wiv-l ing charity a splendid boost, is evi- i dencefl by the support they gave they s'\le at Barker’s last Saturday. | The women, Mrs. E. H. Smith, Mrs. | T. C. Bailey anl‘ Miss Rubie Henrionnet, who were in]| proved themselves excellent sales- women, and as Mr. Barker stated ‘“can have a job in my store any time they ask for it.” To these women | ot success of the sale. The cigar department proved to be a big drawing card for the men, and Miss Henrionnet was on the job ev- lery minute, proving herself capable of meeting every emergency. In the jewelry department Mrs. T. C. Bailey ‘““delivered the goods” in a manner entirely satisfactory to both the management of the store and its patrons. Sales here showed a de- cided increase, much being due to her efforts. Mrs. A. P. White, in the phono- graph department, and Mrs. E. H. he will not start back until Decem- ber 23 and he will go direct to St. James, remaining there until Decem- ber 28, when he will go to St. Paul and occupy his permanent bachelor headquarters. Smith, in the kodak and sundry de- partments, proved themselves proper persons to handle these difficult lines of merchandise. The result of the day’s-proceeds netted the local Chari- ties organization $50. The Two Strongest Fighters In The Army Come Together NOU DONT KNow which were made public Saturday. Public Guardian Needed. The board also points out the need of a public guardian and attorney for those d!scharged from state in- stitutions, and the need for revising laws relating to children. “Probation systems cannot solve the problem,” said the report. “The woman offender needs a physical and piit .environment ‘suiféd’ to her. Unéer the preésenf system the woman habitual offender goes to the work- house or jail again, and may finally reach the prison, if her offense is great enough. There is a growing number of women offenders in Minne- sota. Vice and Crime Spread. “Nothing is being done for them in the way of reformation, with the result that misery, vice and crime are spreading. It would seem time to aid the female offender, neglect of whom can only mean a heavier burd- en in the increase of the delinquent, defective and dependent classes.” Furnish Legal Advice. “The need of a public guardian be- new suits have been donated by Gill |charge of the various departments, | COMWeS more urgent each year, said the report. It would be the duty of such an official to investigate all legal matters relating to the personal af- fairs of such state charges as by rea- Gill Brothers is printed across the|pelongs much of the credit for the|S°™ of poverty, indifference of rela- tives, cannot obtain legal advice. During the biennial period 350 in- vestigations have been made in de- portation cases and 220 deportations, effecting a saving to the state of $220,000 on the estimated basis of the cost of maintaining state wards during their average life. The total appropriations asked for by the board are $6,340,933. This sum is $283,467 less than that asked for two years ago. The board calls attention to the fact that the state should continue the policy of fire- proofing all buildings, as the state no longer carries outside ingurance on them. New Buildings Needed. To better the service at the state sanatorium ‘at-Walker the report said certain additional buildings are need- I DONT LIKETO eyes filling with tears. Gunn cried like a child while re- peating his story to the sheriff and said that he wanted to return home and tell the whole story. He told of how he and Lewis Anderson, who is still at large, stole the wheat, sell- ing it: for $43.20, dividing the “*spoils.’” ¢ Sheriff Johnson saw that the man ‘was given breakfast and.at.once teles phoned. to- Sheriff- 8.-0. Sampson of Towner, McHenry county, of the con- fession. The sheriff wired to hold Gunn. He arrived here early this morning, returning on the next train with his prisoner. Gunn had walked forty miles Sat- urday in reaching Bemidji, being without a cent when he arrived here. Willow City is 350 miles from Be- midji. THAW MUST RETURN (American Press) Washington, Dec. 21.—Harry K. | Thaw must go back to New York state for trial on a charge of conspiracy as a result of a decision rendered by by the United States supreme court 1 decision of the United States court in New Hampshire, which granted Thaw a writ of lmbeag corpus. Slated for Marshal. Harvey Grimmer, of St. Cloud, who is slated to be Minnesota’s next Unit- ed States marshal, was in Bemidji today. Mr. Grimmer, it is under- stood, has been offered the position of secretary to Governor-elect Ham- mond, but refused to accept th2 honor. He served in this capacity during the administration of Gover- nor Johnson. A. B. Herrell, of International Falis, one of the Koochiching county ditch engineers, ‘'was in Bemidji to- day enroute home from Kelliher, near ‘which place he has been en n woek‘ inspection trip. By jHoP" today. The higher court reversed the! tended by Nat Head, of Red Lake; Ed Rogers of Walker; Henry War- Fairbanks of White Earth, and several others. The Council’s Purpose. The chief purpose for the estab- thereby bringing into one force the demands that certain conditions now: existing in their control by the government be changed; that they be given bet- ter opportunities; that they be given a chance for a broader self-govern- ment, and that tribal funds be handled with a different method than is now the case. Two conferences of the Indians have been held, both be-: ing very successful. Go To Wllhmgton This legiélative committee, which will' go to Washington next month, will comprise Ed Rogers, county at- torney of Cass county and former chief' of the Chippewas; Nat Head, the prominént Red Lake Indian, and the council’s first secretary; Ben Falrbanks, of White Earth; Henry cided upon. - They will lay certain matters before congress and ask that they be righted, and will also ask wider legislation on several propo- sitions, which the Indians feel is rightfully theirs. Major McLaughlin Here. In attendance at the meeting cf Saturday was Major James McLaugh- lin, of Washington. The major was here in connection with the approv- ing of certain bills which are to be oresented for payment of expenses in the scaling of the Mille Lacs reserva- tion timber, over which there is some dispute as to the amount due the In- dians. Major McLaughlin, who has made previous trips to Bemidji, is a man 78 years old and has been in the service of the United States Indian department for a longer period than any other employe, forty-four years. When it is considered that this de- partment has more than 6,000 em- ployes the record is all the more re- markable. He has been in the serv- ice thirteen years longer than any other. officer of the department and is still attentive to all matters which come under his jurisdiction, one of the most valuable men of the large staff. Agent at Fort Yates. It was the police of Major Mec- ~|Laughlin, during the time that he was agent at Fort Yates in 1879, who killed Sitting Bull, the great Indian warrior of that time. Me- Laughlin had ordered his men to cap- ture the chief, either dead or alive. Several of the police were killed in an encounter with braves of Sitting Bull, but the famous warrior was shot ‘in a battle which soon follow- ed, a detachment of cavalry taking a ¢ |prominent part. “The major takes much delight in telling of his early experiences aqd‘ says that the period was the most en- joyable of his entire life. He is the ;author of “My Friend, the Indian.” Council Meets Tonight. JFor the last session of 1914, the ‘!Bemidji council will meet in its chambers at the City hall at 8 o’clock 'this evening. According to George Stein, city clerk, the meeting will be short, as there is but little business to be disposed of- Mr. and Mrs. J. Thatcher of Spo- kane, Washington, will be the guests of ‘Mrs. Thatcher’s sister, Mrs. E. E. Kenfield of Lake ‘Boulevard, during Ithe holidays. BEFORE CONGRESS ‘Warren; “of Bena, ‘and one not de- being