Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 1

. thrown into St. VOLUME 13, NO. 22. ,. , TANUARY 25, 1915. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH. GERMANS AND ALI."J AVIATORS FIGHT WORLD’S FIRST GEn '+, SKY BATTLES London, Jan. 25.—For the first time in the history of the world, gen- eral sky battles have been fought along the French-Belgian seacoast, the admiralty announces, 24 airships fighting 4,000 feet above Dunkirk. A fleet composed of from 12 to 13 Ger- man aeroplanes, the largest number of raiders ever assembled, attacked the French coast town of Dunkirk from the sky in yesterday's engage- ment. Several British and French aviators ascended and, at a dizzy height, the first great aerial battle in the history of the world was fought along the sea coast. Britons Drop Bombs on Submarines. Twenty hours earlier a fleet of British aeroplanes bombarded the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, held by the Germans. The English aviators.| dropped 27 bombs aimed at two Ger- man submarines lying in the harbor and at guns mounted on Mole Island. One submarine is believed to have been damaged seriously and severe loss of life occurred among the Ger- man gun crews. WORK ON . A San Francisco, Jan. 25.—Work on NGS <+ COMPLETED ’|the Panama-Pacific exposition’s ex- hibit buildings is now completed. The last building to be finished was the steel-framed fireproof Palace of Fine Arts. This building is in the form of an arc, 1,100 feet in length. It is situated on a large lagoon, imme- diately west of the main group of palaces, and it is regarded as the handsomest building on the grounds. It cost about $500,000. OIL PLANT TO BE LARGE| St. Cloud Company Plans Establish- ment of Modernly Equipped Branch for Bemid, WILL BE DISTRIBUTING POINT U. S. Consulate Damaged. The United States consulate in DunKirk was partially wrecked by a German shell hurled from the sky. The bomb exploded just outside the consulate and every window in the building was shattered. Part of the furniture was destroyed and attaches suffered slight injuries from flying splinters. Like Flock of Gigantic Gulls. The German air attack upon Dun- kirk, it is believed, was inspired by reports that headquarters of the Brit- ish field army, General French com- manding, was located in the French seacoast town. Flying at a height of nearly 4,000 feet the German bird- craft, evading French and British air- scouts, along the battle line near Nieuport, suddenly appeared over Dunkirk like a flock of gigantic sea gulls, FOG HALTS BATTLE AT ALSACE AND VOGES Paris, Jan. 25.—According to an official statement given out by the war department late this afternoon, French shells blew German pontoons to pieces across the Meuse river at St. Mihiel. German gunners on the west bank of the Meuse unsuccess- fully tried to silence the French ar- tillery. Additional French guns were placed into position, and shells Mihiel, inflicting losses among the German defenders. Excepting this progress and slight gains at St. George, the fighting dur- ing the past twenty-four hours has made unimportant gains. A Bavar- ian detachment was surprised by the French at Lorraine and several pris- oners taken. German infantry at- tacks at Berraubac and Argonnes were successfully repulsed. In the Champagne region French shells de- molished a section of earthworks and German shellers. A thick fog over- hung Voges and lower Alsace which is halting the fighting in those reg- ions, with intermittent cannonading from Lys to Oise. RETURNS T0O MINNEAPOLIS Ben Schneider Tells of St. Paul Arcade Addition. Before returning to his home in Minneapolis Saturday night, Ben Schneider, who has business interests here, told of extensive improvements which the Schneider Reality company is to make on the St. Paul Arcade. Mr. Schneider is manager of the Reality company and states that about the first of March a six-story addition will be built to the Arcade, at the corner of Seventh and Robert streets, thereby providing about 250 office rooms. Mr. Schneider is also to build a three-story office building on Nicollet, between Tenth and Elev- enth streets in Minneapolis. This building will provide for four stores on the main floor and will have a ter- ra-cotta front. The motion picture business has also attracted the atten- tion of Mr. Schneider and he now owns what is known as the Regent theater at Tenth and Hennepin, Min- neapolis. SAYS SITUATION ENCOURAGING Attorney P. J. Russell returned to Bemidji Saturday from St. Paul where he spent several days on business. Mr. Russell attended several sessions of the legislature wlile in the city and says that the possibility of the passage of the Normal®school appro- priation bill is encouraging. The bill calling for an appropriation of $150,000 has been introduced in the house by Representative Pendergast and in the senate by Senator Nord. Judge' Marshall A. Spooner re- turned to Bemidji yesterday morning With plans completed for tRhe es- tablishment of a modern and fully equipped Bemidji branch, the St. Cloud Oi'l company will start work erecting a building as soon as the A lease has been secured from the Great Northern rail- road company for a site along .the tracks, 50 by 160 feet, and the build- ing will be 80 feet long and 40 feet weather permits. wide, with full basement. V. A. Coombs, of St. Cloud, secre- tary of the company, was in Bemidji vesterday and discussed plans for the beginning of operations with E. H. Jerrard, who will be manager of the new concern. Mr. Coombs is pleased with the Bemidji outlook and expects that the branch will be a big suec- cess. The building will be two stories high and will be equipped with an elevator which will operate between the basement and second floor. . Six filling tanks will be placed on the second floor, these to be filled from yard storage tanks by use of an elee- tric pump. The oil which will be used here comes from Oklahoma and Kansas. Just as soon as business is begun a tank wagon will be placed in service, Bemidji will be the point of the St.” Cloud company for this territory and it is expected that tanks, with agents in charge, will be placed at Cass Lake, Bagley, Park Rapids, Blackduck and possibly In- ternational Falls. ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING Miss Brown Recital to Be Held in Presbyterian Church. Miss Ida Virginia Brown, assisted by local talent, will give an enter- tainment for the benefit of the Pres- byterian church this evening, in the auditorium of the church. Several readings will be given by Miss Brown and she will also sing. A quartette comprising Raymond Hannah, Robert Shaw, Charles Warfield and Nat Given will sing a medley; Master Lewis Brown will play a violin solo, Gavotte, by Goffee; Mrs. Alden Rem- frey and Edith Erwin will sing a duet; Miss Dorothy Torrance will sing, “What Is Life,” by Maxwell, and an “Indian Love Lyric,” from the “Garden Kana;” Alden Remfrey will play a violin solo, “Arr Varie Norma,” By Charles Dancea and Miss Vera Backus will give a reading, “A Scene in a Railway Station.” BRITISH DESTROY 500 COMPLETED KRUPP AUTOS Amsterdam, Jan. 25.—Special dis- patches this afternoon tell of the de- stroying of the whole Krupp automo- bile works and five hundred complet- ed machines when the British bomb- ed Essen. Brooks to Be Speaker. At tomorrow’s meeting of the Be- midji Merchants associatiod, a talk on ‘“Bookkeeping’ will be given by disttibuting| Full-Blood Chippewa Indians Méét qt Pensford and Frame Protest for Submission to Washington. OBJECT TO ACTION TAKEN HERE ‘With over one hundred full-blood Chippewa Indians in attendance, a council was held at Pensford last week, delegates being present from ‘White Earth, Leech Lake, Pine Point and Red Lake. C. C. Daniels, of the legal department of the Indian bu- reau, also attended. Among the well there were Chief Nay-tow-wah-be- tung, Leech Lake; Mah-zho-we-say, Red Lake; Ah-baw-e-ge-shig, White Earth, and Kay-dug-e-gwon-ah-ausk, of Pine Point. The object of the council was two- fold. A petition will be presented and a delegation of full-bloods sent to Washington to protest against the action of the mixed bloods at their Bemidji convention last fall wherein: an effort was made for the restoration’ of the eighty-six mixed bloods to the ‘White Earth rolls. . . The full-bloods are opposéd to re- storing them to the rolls and will go to Washington for the purpose of op- posing such action. The second object of the council is the re-establishment of the boarding school for ‘the Indians at Pensford, Minn. Several thousand dollars are in- vested in buildings at Pensford for the education of Indian children. Last November the boarding school .was disbanded and the children taken to the school at White Earth. This council is indignant at the action of the authorities and are making a re- quest of the Indian Commissioner that their school be re-opened at Pensford. DULUTH SECURES OUTING Duluth was unanimously chosen for the summer outing of the North- ern Minnesota Editors’ association at Saturday’s Thief River Falls business session, following the reading of a letter from George D. McCarthy, sec- retary of the Duluth - Commercial club. Sauk Center was unanimously chosen for the eighth annual business meeting in January, next year. Officers elected were:.Asa.M. Wal- lace, president; P.-J. Vasaly-of-Little Falls, vice president; A. G. Rutledge of Minneapolis, secretary and treas- urer; executive committee, H. P. Philips of Mahnomen, chairman; Geodrge Erickson of Spooner, and M. C. Cutter of Thief River Falls. The legislative committee to work in conjunction with a similar commit- tee of the state association in the mat- ters legislative for newspaper men, is composed of A. G. Rutledge, M. C. Cutter and Asa M. Wallace. J. C. Morrison of Morris was indorsed for the presidency of the state associa- tion. known chiefs ORDERS STOPPED DELIVERY There was not enough oranges to go around at Stewarf’s orange sale of last Saturday and the orders came so fast that even the delivery service was delayed. The sale was adver- tised one day in advance, a small ad in the Pioneer bringing the results. Mr. Stewart today said: ‘““The suc- cess of the sale was a surprise to me and I was of course pleased. It is my plan to hold a feature sale of some kind each week and if our customers will co-operate with us and present their orders earlier in the day than some of them have been doing, it will permit us to make our service as effi- cient as we aim to have it.” THAW WINS POINT. New York, Jan. 25.—Harry K. Thaw this afternoon won a court de- cision when his request that he be permitted to stay at the Tombs in- stead of being taken to the Matte- wan insane asylum to await the time of next trial; was granted. Will Meet Tomorrow. Officers of the Bemidji Automobile club announce that a meeting of that W. L. Brooks, cashier of the North- ern National bank. The meeting will be held in the Commercial club rooms at 4 o’clock. SCOO 571 MUST SNEAK OUT TO THE TRENCH AND READ 5(00P THIS LETTER FROM OUR PAPER " from the twin cities and Duluth where he had spent several days on business. i Defec THE CUB REPORTER organization will be held at the Com- mercial club rooms at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. A delegate to the state Iassuciauon meeting will be ramed. tive Page - = * ERROR IN G BILL BACK FOR ASSAGE Governor W. S.;Hammond used to teach school and he is a very careful student of good English, so he was pained and grieved when the' first. bill passed by the 1915 legisla- ture came before him for sig- nature. It was a bill by Repre- sentative Thomas' Jefferson Green of St. Paul, authoriz- ing the Ramsey county com- missioners to issug; $150,000 in bonds for a juvenile deten- & tion home. Reading the meas- ure Gov. Hammond: found more than one miftake _in grammar, also errors in punc- tuation, and the wdrd “par spelled “per.” The ,‘governbr marked the bill way down be- low the passing grfida and sent it back to Oacpr‘Arneson, chief clerk of the house, with the errors marked. ‘The bill will have to be corrécted and repassed by both the house + and senate. : Kok ok ok ok kok ok ok ok ok ok * Kk k ok Kk *'t**t******t*t****t*fi*i*fi*t*ifi IS ONE OF SEVfiN LEFT Warden Bailey Notified That He Will Retain Position With State Game And Fish Commillion. LOW FUNDS BRINGS DISMISSALS Sherm Bailey, of this city, for many years the game warden here, was to- day notified that he is'one of seven game wardens in the-state who are to retain their positions with the state game and fish commission. With the-| exception of the seven, many well known wardens, including Munch of Crookston, are ousted from office, the cause being lack of fupds with which to carry on the work of game protec- tion." Bailey is the only warden in this section of the state’who is re- tained. Twenty-seven v\ardens were drop- ped. The only money 4vailable for the commission’s use hetween mnow and next August, when the next ap- propriation is available is $5,000. The legislature will not be asked for a special approprianunA _The commission feays th sult of the withdrawa of-game war- dens there will be a general slaughter of game. At a previous meeting of the commission several wardens were removed from the payrolls and reports since have come in to the commission of much illegal taking of fish and game. For enforcement of the game laws the commission now must depend largely upon Minnesota sportsmen. The commission postponed action on the proposed modification of rules governing the new game preserve established in a Minnetonka Lake District, by which rabbits and other such animals may be killed. The matter will be taken up at a meet- ing February 3. 1,186,000 COWS IN STAT St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 25.—Tha there were 1,186,000 milch cows in the state of Minnesota an Jan. 1, with an average value of $55.50 per bovine, was made public today through the report of the department of agriculture. This is an increase of 100,000 in five years. HAPPY MURDERER TO DIE THIS WEEK Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 25.—Unless granted a reprieve, Joseph Ferri, the murderer with nerves of steel, will die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison some morning this week. He killed his brother-in-law, Florentino d’Giovani, last August, in a dispute over $40. After .the jury had pro- nounced him guilty Ferri shook hands with the district attorney who prose- cuted him, waved his hand in friend- 1y greeting to his friends and shouted, “Good bye, everybody,” when led from the court room. i August Person of Island Lake transacted business in Bemidji to- day. { £ MASON TELLS 0 asscs 3| WEEK'S WAR MOVES Cessation of Russia’s Advance On Buda Pest and Renewed Austrian Advance Important Developments RAID CONSPICUOUS OCCURRENCE i g g £ E ard of Fortune Awaits Non-Com- batants as Those On Battle Field (By J. W. T. Mason) New York, Jan, 25.—The cessa- *|tion of Russia’s advance on Buda % | Pest and a renewed Austrian offensive *|in Bukowina combines to form the *|most important war news of *|week. The capture of ¥|Pass, leading from Southern Buko- ¥l wina to Transylvania, and presenting *|the course of two routes to Buda 3 *|Pass, presumably was accomplished ¥ *|at the cost of leaving other passes in- the Kirlibaba sufficiently defended. The *Austrians have taken advan- tage of this condition and now are back in the crown land, from which they were driven a fortnight ago. The success of Austria has undoubtedly exerted considerable influence on Roumania. During the week spe- cial Austro-German emmissinaries ar- rived at Bucharest a few days ago to persuade the Roumanian statesmen that it is against their material in- terests .to enter the war. Russian troops, however, on Transylvanian soil, were demonstrating the possi- bility that unless Roumania joined the conflict quickly, she would be too late to conquer Transylavania with its Roumanian population, for her- self. . Nearly Joined Allies. Probably at no time during the war has Roumania been so near join- ing the allies as she was this week. The renewed vigor of the Austrians, however, and their return to Buko- wina has probably caused the Rou- manians again to hesitate until they can be more assured of Russia’s ul- timate success. While matters were developing so precariously in Tran- sylvania and Bukowina, the Russians began during the week a new offen- sive toward Thorn. Instead of con- centrating on one objective, Petro- [T lgrad decided upon.a divided forward. The Tesult’ presents”a” very-psculiar’ strategetic position in Poland. Along Parallel Lines. ‘With the Vistula between them, Russians and Germans are moving along parallel lines in opposite direc- tions, separated by only half a mile width of river, which neither is able to cross. Toward the west on the north bank of the river; the Rus- sian advance guard is 35 miles from the German fortress of Thorn, while on the Vistula’s south bank to the east, the.Germans are 35 miles from ‘Warsaw. The German air raid on England was the most conspicuous occurrence of the week in the western war zone. No military results of any conse- quence were produced by the raid. A number of civilians were killed and injured and the lives of non-com- batants at home were again demon- t |strated to again be at the same haz- ard of fortunes, under the modern usages of war, as the soldiers on the field. Made to Give Ground. A sharp- offensive in French Lor- raine developed hope in Paris early in the week that the Germans would be compelled to abandon their posi- tions on the Meuse at St. Mihiel and that French artillery might advance within range of the Metz fortifica- tions. The Germans were compelled to give ground before a series of as- saults, but the French soon exhausted themselves and were driven back to their old positions as the week ended. GERMANY OFFERS OBJECTIONS Washington, Jan. 25.—Germany this afternoon entered a protest to the state department to the manufac- ture in the United States of hydro- aeroplanes for use by England and Russia. The complaint stated that the works at Hammondsport, New York, has sold England the Hydro- plane America, and five others of the same type. Comparatively Speamg, Scoop Is For The Muddy Trenches DEAR BO5S AND SCOOP-YOUVE. BEEN OVER THERE LONG ENOUGH - (OME.. HOME SOMEWAY EVEN \F YOU HAVE TO GET WOUNDED AND SENT HOME - = "~ [wovies wYeNomze DECLARES PREACHER Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 25.—*“Mental thrills caused by sensatfonal motion pictures deteriorate the mind. Fifty per cent of moving picture films to- day hypnotize, demoralize and: are emotionally dangerous. They incite and pervert emotions. Nothing .in the films is normal; everything is ac- centuated.” These are the views of the Rev. Hugh Birney, Clevédland’s ‘“‘probing pastor,” who investigated motion picture houses here. He would tone down the movies and has put his views before Mayor Newton D, Baker to be made the basis of either state or municipal legislation. GERMAN CRUISER BLEUCHER SUNK Berlin, Jan. 25.—It has been offi- cially claimed by war headquarters here that a British cruiser has been destroyed in a North Sea battle. It is also admitted that the German cruiser, Bleucher, has been destroyed, while another cruiser returned from the battle undamaged. Besides the Bleucher, the Dereflinger, Seydlitz and Moltke and four: other small cruisers and two torpedo-boats were engaged. London, Jan. 25.—It is reported here that four cruisers of the Ger- mans in a badly damaged condition have been sighted off the Holland coast this morning, and it is believed that the German losses are much greater than had been indicated in the statement that only the Bleucher had been sunk. In a British newspaper comment, it says: “We have humiliated the Baby Killers who attacked the unpro- tected British seacoast towns, and now our duty is to finish the work.” It is claimed that the Bleucher ‘was one of the vessels which engaged in the shelling of Hartlepool. STUDENTS SHOW éLASS High School Baskeball Five Plays Clever Game and Defeats Grand Forks by Score of 31 to 6. SHOW. SPEED AND TEAMWORK After having been completely out- classed by the “Big Bemidg” basket- ball five, meeting defeat in the games of Thursday and Friday, the Grand Forks Independents suffered further humiliation Saturday night when they were made victims of Bemidji's wonderful high school quint, losing by a score of 31 to 6. During the entire contest the visi- tors were able to score but one field basket, while Bemidji counted four- teen times. The teamwork of the Bemidji boys ‘was the contest’s real feature and on several occasions the students scored after cleverly executed plays. Bailey and Graham, the Bemidji guards starred, and play after play was brok- en up by them. The basket throwing of Tanner was brilliant and Johnson’s floor work was sensational. Cameron outjumped his opponent repeadly and his playing was responsible to a large extent for the large score. The line up for Bemidji was as fol- lows: Tanner and Johnson, forwards, Graham and Bailey, guards, Cameron, center, G. Graham and Warfield, subs. McGarthy, referee; Malone, um- pire; Brandon, scorer. CZAR'S HOLD THREATENED Rome, Jan. 25.—It is officially re- ported here today that the Austrian eastern army, reinforced by the Ger- mans, have not only broken the Rus- sian offensive aimed at Hungaria, but has also threatened the Czar’s hold upon Bukowina. The Austrians have captured several of the Russian tren- ches at Carpathians. Reports that the German and Aus- trian general staffs have been swap- ping armies is given credence here. Germans are rushing into Eastern Hungaria in an effort to block the Russian invasion. By “HOP’ STICK OVER HERE. INTH TREN(HES SOCIALISTS PLACE TICKET IN FIELD Party Selects Candidates for City Po- sitions and Will Wage Active Campaign for Their Election. LOST EVERY PLACE LAST YEAR Alderman Moberg to Ask Re-elec- . tion—Heffron to Run in Fourth. With plans made for the carrying on of an active campaign for the elec- tion of their referendum favorites, the Bemidji socialists have named their candidates for the various positions which will be contested for at the city election of Tuesday, February 16. As last year, the socialists will have a complete ticket in the field, and as last year their opponents will endeavor to defeat them in every in- stance. Not a single socialist was * [successful in his campaign of 1914, and prospects for victory this year are far from encouraging. Kaplan for Mayor. For mayor the socialists have picked Morris Kaplan, Minnesota ave. merchant, and for alderman-at-large they have selected E. W. Hannah, who will be opposed by Frank Lycan. Hannah was a candidate for mayor a year ago. Fred Malzahn, for one term mayor of Bemidji, will be the socialistic candidate for city treas- urer, running against George Rhea. The other candidates of the socialists will be: The Socialist Candidates. For City Clerk—1J. Peterson, Jr. For City Assessor—J. E. Harris. For Alderman first ward—C. J. Larson. For Alderman second ward—Hans Shay. For Alderman third ward—J. P. Omich. For Alderman fourth ward—Abe Grossman. Five Petitions Completed. Petitions_for five candidates have been completed by D. D. Miller and are now ready for filing, being thoge of William McCuaig, candidate for mayor; Frank Lycan, for aldermali- at-large; George Rhea, for treasurer; George Stein, for clerk, and 'l‘homu Liloyd for assessor. * Two Out for Aldermen. Miller is now circulating petitions of Alderman Moberg, who asks re- election, and Attorney Carl Heffron, who would represent the fourth ward on the council. All petitions must be filed with the city clerk not later than February 6. Registration day is February 9. DARNELL AND RUTH SOPER MARRIED IS NOW CLAIM Owatonna, Minn., Jan. 25.—That Rev. James Morrison Darnell and Ruth Soper Darnell, of this city, were actually married in the twin cities, repeating their marriage in Ham- mond, Ind., in 1913, was the state- ment that friends of the girl wife insisted upon here today. They in- timate that the marriage was per- formed in the twin cities on Satur- day, although they claim they have not been told by the principals just where it took place. These friends insist that the mar- riage was performed in Minnesota, despite the laws not allowing di- vorced persons to marry within six months of the decree. The peculiar conditions surrounding the case would permit the marriage to be per- |formed. that the minister and the mother of his child had been given a letter from C. M. Andrist, private secretary to Gov. W. S. Hammond, suggesting that the clerk of court of Hennepin county, in which Minneapolis is lo- cated, suggesting that the license be issued. Clerk Neilson says he issued no such license. During their sojourn in St. Paul, the minister and his girl wife were the subjects of much attention from the newspaper men, much to their disgust. They ate at the New Eng- land coffee house, with a group of newspaper men munching sandwiches at the table next to the divine. The minister became irritated at the at- tention of the newspaper men during the day and twice fold them that things about which they asked was ‘“‘none of their damned business.” At Minneapolis he told a group of them “|that he would “not talk to a damned one of you.” EXTRAVAGANCE IS CHARGED St. Paul, Jan. 26.—Representative Spooner, of Morris, this afternoon charged that the legislature of 1913 was guilty of the most inexcusable extravagance, and offered a resolution bearing upon the submission of the economy report which will be pre- sented February 10, ; These friends, however, point out - Several Petitions Now Completed— °