Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 1

~ . among the VOLUME 13, NO. 29. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY ’fi , FEBRUARY 2, 1015, GERMANAVIATORS DO MORE DAM.. %, WATCH THE SUN; IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY Washington, Feb., 2.—Did you watch. the actions today of Mr. Arc- e, “vs Monax? Everybody was doin’ ACTloN DE M AN Dh 650’ ~ctomys Monax being the scien- v Paris, Feb. 2.—Official war reports today tell of raids which have been made by German aviators who have hurled bombs, with deadly effect, in the region of east Verdan. One non- combatant has been killed and a little boy in a school yard at Nancy was frightfully injured. News of the raid reached Paris on the heels of the announcement that the German aviators had bombarded Dunkirk, raining sixty shells upon the city. Bitter indignation is felt here and the popular feeling is that the aviators of the Allied forces should take action at once. CAREFUL DIET TO GUARD BELGIAN BABIES’ HEALTH New York, Feb. 2.—Armies march on their stomachs, and babies crawl thereon and coo or cry as their stom- achs’ contents dictate. Thousands of Belgian babies will graduate from the crying class into the happiness that comes early from the judicious ad- ministration of a proper diet, if the tiers of boxes which are piling up at the Bush Terminal today speak for anything. For while some tenement babies are whetting their infantile appetites on sausages and beer, the children of unfortunate war victims will breakfast, sup and dine on sweet- ened condensed milk, patent barley flour and other delicacies counted on to develop the muscles and disposi- tions of babyhood. This comes about through the efforts of the Woman's Section of the Commission for Re- lief in Belgium. Well-wishing Amer- icans have been sending food and supplies for relief of the Belgian babies to New York for many months. But some of the food was not fit for juvenile tummies. The commission began to figure. They engaged a food expert and some few days ago, launched a national campaign for the sending of feod boxes to babies, and incidentally to adults in Belgium. Every wholesale and retail grocer in the country is expected to co-oper- ate in the movement. Each of the boxes contained a carefully prescrib- ed variety of food, as follows: 20 1-1b, tins sweetened condensed milk, 2 1-1b, tins patent harley flour, 2-1-]b. cotton sacks of Tice, 1°3-1b. sack yel- low .corn meal, 1 3-Ib, sack rolled oats, 1 }5-1b. sack salt, 1 can opener. The boxes are piling up at the wharves here, where they have been sent from various distributing agen- cies throughout the country. Each box costs $3.25 wholesale and weighs about 35 pounds. Its contents will support one baby for four weeks. Grocers have posted placards show- ing details of the plan and to those who do not desire to pack and ship a box themselves, an opportunity is afforded to send the cash to the Bel- gian Relief commission, at 71 Broad- way. ENGLAND SAYS AMERICAN _ SHIPMENTS WILL BE SEIZED ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—State depart- ment officials were advised today that England will seize the Wilhelmina cargo, destined for Bremen, and all other American shipmnents to Ger- mans as a result of Germany’s as- sumption of control over food distri- bution. FORESTRY BOARD ASKS LESS THAN TWO YEARS AGO In laying its budget for 1916 and 1917 before the house committee on forestry, of which Representative Fred Bessette of Orr, is chairman, the state forestry board points out that the appropriations requested for the biennial period are about $136,- 000 less than those available for 1914 and 1915. This is the first budget yet laid before any legislative committee that proposes a reduction in appropria- tions. The board says: “It is felt that this economy can be made without loss in effectiveness of work; but to effect this economy it is necessary to ap- portion the funds with strict regard to the relative needs of the different projects.” For the general work of the forest service, $150,000 a year is requested, divided as follows: Office supplies, equipment and salaries, $14,460; field force and equipment, $97,440; field supervision and investigations, $12,- 075; improvements, $3,850; educa- tion, $5,150; contingent, $14,825. The board asks $12,500 annually for the care of Itasca State park and .$2,500 for the maintenance of Burnt- side State forest. India has moved into first place manganese producing countries of the world. Scrubbing with strong salt water will prevent straw matting becoming yellow. : Indiana has over 30,000 employed in its industries, women €. \.for ground hog, today was “Gr. >g” day, - the weathe. °, for the weeks. V. .er Mr. G.gHog saw his shadow .0day and ‘gogdinto hi- bernation for six weeks mére of nasty winter weather was the question— except at the Unitéd States Weather Bureau. “Stuff and nonsense” ' was how a weather bureau ‘official today indignantly discussed the effect upon the weather if old Arctomys Monax saw his shadow. “We don’'t take any stock in that this year,” the gov- ernment weather forecaster declared. Admission that there really is such an animal as a ground hog, or wood- chuck, was as far as the scientific chaps would go. ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY INTER-NATIONAL BRIDGE Vanesboro, Maine, Feb. 2.—Rep- resenting himself to be a German offi- cer, a man giving his name as Horne, is being held by the officers here fol- lowing the attempt to wreck the In- ter-National bridge over the St. Croix river. The explosion, caused by dynamite, caused but little damage to the hridge, several girders being twisted and displaced, trains being delayed for a short time. ’ No action has been taken by the Canadian officers because they claim- ed the dynamiting took place on the other side of the bridge. t Horne was taken in custody by a deputy sheriff, admitted he was guil- ty and insisted that he was within his rights in doing so, being an officer of the German army. A German flag and a chart of this section were found in his pockets. He said that he came from New York Saturday. WILKINSON WARNS AGAINSTECONOMY BILL St. Paul, Feb. 2.—Col. A. R. Wil- kinson today made the assertion that if the Efficiency and Economy bill should pass the legislature that the' state. of -Minnesota would be as de-! poucz\llv governed as is Russia. popular next six CALIFORNIA COUNTY BUILDS ROADS CHEAPLY Santa Ana, Feb. 2.--Orange county, California, challenges the nation to surpass a. good-roads comstruction economy record which it has estab- lished. To keep pace with the won- derful highway work being done by California counties, Orange, two years ago issued bonds for $1,270,- 000 to be used for the construction of county boulevards. The county’s highway engineers, themselves, were astounded when they completed the work outlined, with $240,000 of the amount realized by the bond sale still in the county treasury. The money will be spent for further highway paving. ‘RESERVE BANKS PAY $3,300,000 TODAY New York, Feb. 2.—Members of the Federal Reserve bank today paid their second installment on their sub- seriptions to the bank’s stock. The installment calls for $3,300,000, or one per cent of the paid up capital and surplus of the institution, or the same as the initial payment. GOLFERS AT PINEHURST. Pinehurst, N. C., Feb. 2.—The St Valentine’s golf tournament, held an- nually here, opened today. Meeting Was Postponed. Out of respect for Alderman J. M. Phillippi, whose wife was buried yes- terday afternoon, the city council postponed the regular meeting which was to be held last evening, until February 15. The meeting on that date will be the last held before elec- tion day. i Mixed marriages are forbidden in ‘Washington. TWO MORE TOWNS CLOSED| Saloons at Luce and Vex:gll to Be Erased as Result of 1855 Treaty —More to Go. LARSON LEAVES FOR DENVER Saloons in two more towns of the treaty territory have been ordered closed and the lid will go into effect February 10 at Luce, on the North- ern Pacific, and at Vergas, on the Soo Line. With the closing of . these - two towns the saloons in only two places on the Northern Pacific between Moorhead and Wadena remain open, being at Perham and New York Mills. There are two lidless towns on the Soo Line, between Plummer and Hen- ning, being Dent and Richville. Or- ders to close these two places may be received by the agents at any time. Special Officer L. W. Carson re- turned from the Detroit district this morning, Special Officer J. P. Brandt still being in that territory. Henry A. Larson, chief special agent, left yesterday for his home in Denver and it is understood that he will go from there to Oklahoma where he will testify in several cases. KICKED-AROUND RAILROAD WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 2.—Twelve thousand stockholders of the Wheel- ing & Lake Erie railroad, Ohio’s big- gest financial nut uncracked, are waiting patiently . for April when some kind person with $36,500,000 will be asked to come along and set- tle their difficulties by purchasing the most kicked-around little railroad in the¢ United States. Hope that the state of Ohio would purchase the 460 miles of track, 9,700 freight cars, 84 passenger coaches, 210 locomotives and various other equipment, was to- day definitely abandoned and the “outfit” will be put up on the auc- tion block in April. Eighteen ‘thou- sand five hundred dollars is the re- quired cash to cover underlying in- debtedness and $18,000,000 that may be assumed by the purchaser is de- seribed as just “plain indebtedness.” Most of the stockholders-are Eastern- ers. Eleven of the 34 years of the | Wheeling & Erie’s history have seen it in the hands of a receiver. Twige it emerged, only to fall again in 1908 The: road’ was born in 1879 by Cana- dian capitalists who foresow the pos- sibility of tapping the southeastern Ohio coal fields with an outlet to Lake Erie. The Canadian pioneers sold ‘jout to the New York capitalists in 1885. Colonel Myron T. Herrick, who of late retired as ambassador to France, was appointed receiver and organized a new company which sold out to Gould interests in 1902. In 1908 the Wheeling & Lake Erie again went into the hands of the courts and has there rested ever since. The lit- tle town of Brewster, Ohio, was founded when the W. & L. E. car shops were opened there. If the road quits business, Brewster will quit, too. The road now operates ten passenger trains and is a valuable a.rtery to Canton, Zanesville, Toledo and a score of other Ohio towns and cities. An attempt to sell the road at auction here several months ago failed. MARRIED ON.LOVE. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. great. It is a fine thing to start housekeeping with. But it won’t keep a family from starving. These are the conclusions today of Irving Mattefuel, 19, who married a girl of 18, and then came into the court asserting that he has no means of sup- porting her. - Irrespective of his pleadings, Judge Boerner ordered him to pay $3 a week toward the girl wife’s support. Just how he will get 2.—Love is !|the three dollars seemed the puzzle ‘|for him to solve today. St. Paul, .Minn.,, Feb. 2.—L. W. Bates of New York, in charge of the Belgian relief work, has written Walle Merritt of Minneapolis, that he will assign the St. Cecelia to carry the materials gathered in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesm.a to the Belgians. | A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Nelson at noon today. THE CUB SCOO REPORTER | GEORGE DYER 1 DEAD. il Son'of Brof, mdimw P. Dyer Dies Following ihoxt mne < Superintendent and ‘Mrs. W. P. Dyer, died at an early hour this' morning following an iliness of but two" days. of {illness Sun- day and an examination' proved an operation for appendicitis necessary. The operation took ‘place at 11 o’clock Sunday ‘evening, death coming "at 1:30 this morning, 0 brain being the cs born September 12, < son, Minnesota. It/ Was ‘announced this afternoon’ that the funeral ser- vices will be held from the Methodist church tomorrow rnoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. Charl .Gllman, having charge of .the . services. Interment will be made in Greenwood eemetery. There will be no seihlm_a of the pub- lic schools tomorrow afternoon. OSWEGO QUINT IS STRONG New York Basketball. Team Which Will Play Series'With “Big Be- midg”—Claim World’s Title. MUCH INTEREST IS JAROUSED Bem#lji fans will the most sensational basketball offering on Thursday, F‘l‘id&’y and Saturday evenings, ever given' here when the Oswego, N. Y., quinf, holders of the world’s championship- title, stack up against the “Big Bemidg” five, which witness is admitted to be-one.of the north-| wost's greatest aggregations. For three successive years, 1910, 1911 and 1912, the Oswego team won the championship of the Mohawk Valley league. On Jan 21, 22 and 23, 1914, the Oswego five defeated the Buffalo Germans'in a contest that was announced for the.championship cf the world. G Starting in 1905, the Oswego team won 19 and lost 5 ghmes. The next 22, games were won. and no games lost. In 1907-08, 30 games were won with no losses.: In 1908-09, 44 gamen were won nnd four lost. The following season 40 games were won and six lost. -Tm 1930-11, 57 games were won' and threg lost. The fol- lowing year 66 games were won to lass of six...In. gam “won and seven 1ost. season 61 game$ measured the win- ning record of the corn starch play- ers and nine games were the extent of the losses. The Bemidji team is’ playing its most consistent basketball of the sea- son now and the players are in per- fect trim for the Oswego encounters. Practice’ has been held every night of late and several new plays are to be used during the coming series. Peck will play at center during the series as Al Von, the Minneapolis crack, will not be able to come. Grim- stad, who will oppose Peck, is one of the greatest basketball players in the world today, but the - Bemidji boy is a hard worker and and a bril- liant basketball performer and will make the New York star know that he has been in a real battle. Other Bemidji players who will take part in the games will be Captain Howe, Jacobson, Brandon, Miller, Bestul and Bell. Tickets for the series are now on sale. CLEVELAND TO FLOAT BIG BOND ISSUE Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 2.—Cleveland will float a million-dollar bond issue for a new municipal market, if City Market Master Charles Kamp suc-: ceeds with a project just outlined. The old municipal market, establish-| ed a little over a year ago with a ca- pacity of less than 40,000 people on busy days, is inadequate, Kamp told the city -eouncil. WOULD REMEDY DEFECT. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 2.—That one man could, if he desired, and had the money, gain all the available state lands in the state of Minnesota and RIGHT TO DESTROY VESSELS UPHELD) Germany Violated No International Iaw in Using Submarines in At- tack on English Mémhqntmen. CREWS WERE AMPLY PROTECTED Fact That Cn-go of Tokomaru Was for Belgian Refugees Fails to Alter Case—No Freedom of Seas, 7 (By J. W. T. Mason) ~New York Feb. 2.—There can be no possible objection in Internation- al law to the German submarine at- tacks upon the merchanimen of the allies, so long as the crews of -the trafllné ships are saved. The man- ner of rescuing is unimportant. The device of sending of the crews off in small boats is adequate, when near the coast, but its justification when far at sea cannot be determined in advance. Some Confusion. The destruction of the ships in the Irish channel was carried out under strictly lawful conditions of war- fare, but the French government sug- gestéd no time allowance for the saving of life was permitted when 'the Tokomaru was 'sunk off Havre. As the Tokomaru's crew was rescued by a trawler, there must be some confusion in Paris in regard to the facts of the case. Would Not Permit It. The fact that the Tokomaru’s cargo was intended for the relief of Bel- gian refugees, it is not a ground for protest against the action of the Ger- man submarines. Certainly the al- lies would not permit the German merchantmen to have the freedom of the seas, because their cargo was intended to relieve distresses in Bel- gium, GERMAN LOSSES HFAVY 'IN WARSAW ATTACK Petrograd, Feb. 2.—Many import- ant developments have been regis- tered at-Poland and:@arpathians dur- ing the past few days. The Germans are officially reported as having lost 6,000 killed and many wounded and taken prisoners in the attacks on Warsaw. In three days fighting through the Carpathians the Russians took 4,160 prisoners. ROBBERS RANSACK ROOMS IN ERICKSON HOTEL Yesterday afternoon between the hours of 1 and 5 o’clock, thieves broke into the Erickson hotel and made away with nearly $100 worth of valuables and clothing belonging to the guests. Entrance was gained by breaking the lock on the rear up- stairs door and as the rooming sec- tion of the house was deserted at the time, little trouble was experienced in making a clean get-away. Among the most valuable articles taken were, one suit of clothes valued at $45, one pair of trousers, two raz- ors, one solid gold stud and a kodak. Drost brothers, piano repairers, who room at the Erickson, were the heaviest losers, as their apartments were completely ransacked and every- thing of value was taken. The loss was not discovered until six o’clock and the police were im- mediately notified. So far no clues have been found of the guilty par- ties, but steps have been taken to prevent the disposal of the goods in this vicinity. NOW ON RECORD. St. Paul, Minn., Feb.—The Min- nesota legislature has gone on record as not favoring an embargo on_the shipment of food stuffs to the bellig- erent countries. It is reported here that there is a sentiment throughout lik*iii#k*ii*i#&* *wummwmmxnm L5 £ a««;yi«««v«««v THOMAS BROOKS FLETCHER. ' FLETCHER HERE TONIGHT Famous Redpath Lecturer, Known as “The Little Giant of the Lyceum,” to Appear at Church Auditorium. HAS EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY Thomas Brooks Fletcher, famous for "his~ thrilling "lectures and’ re- garded as one of the leading orators df the Redpath Lyceum bureau, will appear in the auditorium of the Me- thodist church this evening, being brought to. Bemidji by the series of entertainments provided by the Wo- man’s Study club, which is proving such a great success. Fletcher was trained for the stage, and his well-set jaw, his serious eyes and his jet black hair all figure prominently in the natural equip- ment that makes him an unusual character onthe .paltform. He plunges into_his lecture mean- ing business. - 'He never lets up until the last word is said. ‘There is a vast array of fact and a generous supply of fancy, there are serious passages and occasional flashes of hu- mor, ‘but through it all you are con- scious that you are listening to a man with extraordinary ability. It is the mof many great writers to.Be able. to speak in ljv words as well as they can write. quently the great writer is a failure on- the platform. The - gods are stingy with their gifts to mortals. Rarely is the man Who can write well giveg the gift of public speech. But Fletcher, before going on the plat- form, was engaged in newspaper work in the large daily field, and is now the owner of a good newspaper property at Marion, Ohio. He writes several columns of editarials for his paper each’day’ when on his lecture tours.and keeps in touch with his office by mail and wire. Keen, cultured, aggressive, impet- uous and earnest, this man is a prince of orators. He is in Jove with his work and makes friends everywhere he goes. His lectures are not stale| and prosy, but full of ginger and en- thusiasm. If you miss hearing Fletcher you will miss one of the choice lyceum attfactions. He is a thriller. FIREMEN ARE REWARDED Gill Brothers, whose store build- ing was saved from fire destruction by the splendid work of the Bemidji fire department Saturday night, have presented the local fire department with a $25.00 cash donation for its heroic work. “I can hardly realize how our huild- ing was saved,” said David Gill, in discussing the fire this morning. *The firemen certainly deserye lots of credit for the good work done and we appreciate it more than Any one else. “We have carried all- our stock back to the store from the room across the street and are mow await- ing the arrival of the fire insurance adjusters and are anxious to get our thus create a land corner, was thethe northwest against such an em-|stock baek into shape.” statement today of J. A. O. Preus, state auditor. He urges the legis- bargo, because, it is said, it = might lower grain prices and therefore shut The Baptist Ladies’ Aid will meet lature to pass a law remedying this|off the tremendous amount of money at the heme ‘of Mrs. G. R. Martin, defect. now pouring into the northwest. Now They re Snowed In For The Rest Of The Wmter Bixby avenue, tomorrow at 2:30. /SPOONER SCORES STATE I)EPARTMEN’I'S Chairman of Efficiency and imnmfiv Committee Caustically Criticifes Work of Various Bureaus. - HEARING ON MEASURE HELD House Refuses to Adjourn A]ml 7— Farmer Member’s Plea to Get E«M and Attend Crops - Denied. In 1911 Representative L. C. Spooner, now chairman of the house Efficiency and Economy committee, made a proposal that a comimission be appointed to investigate needed changes in the state’s govaflmmn, and in opening the house efficiency and economy committee’s hearing on the present measure late yeatorday, said that he would revive the pro- posal if it should now fail. Mr. Spooner mentioned several state departments which "he sald might be managed with greater econ- omy. “The bureau of immigration, if . | proberly administered, should be selt- supporting,” he said. ““The oil inspection department,.in- stead of being a bill of expense and an opportunity of- political gratting, ought to be put on a business basis. “The grain inspection department, reorganized so as to be in the inter- est of the grain growers and con- sumers, might easily be made self- supporting, in lieu of being a burden on the taxpayers and a robbery. of the grain growers of the state. “There is room for improvement in the game and fish and the drainage ‘jcommissions.” Craig is Speaker. Charles C. Craig of Duluth, chair- man of the efficiency and economy commission, made a talk on behalf of the commission and its bill before the committee. Many other members of the commission, including F. 8. Ly- can, of Bemidji, were present. Pre- vious to the hearing they had had a conference at the Saint Paul hotgl. Speakers who talked for the effi- ciency and economy commission at the opening hearing of the bill be fore the legislative committees in- cluded C. P. Craig of Duluth, Shalf- man of the commission; Judge J. P. of Minneapolis; C. A. Congdon of Duluth; Secretary John §. ..Pardee and E. Dana Durand of the Univer- sity of Minnesota. House Refuses to Act. A joint resolution providing ad- journment of the Minnesota legisla- ture on April 7, was indefinitely post- poned by a large majority by the house in committee of the whole to- day. Debate on the resolution, which provided adjournment 14 days be- fore the constitutional limit, held up other business for nearly hajf an hour. “‘Complete our work and return home April 7,” pleaded Representa- tive Robert Carmichael of Farming- ton, “and our constituents will say 'well done, good and faithful ser- vants, ye shall be returned to your seats next session.’ " Bjornson in Opposition. Representative G. B. Bjornson of Minneota took a .firm stand against the resolution. ‘““We have been sent here to accomplish a certain amoygt of legislative work,” he said, “apd we cannot shirk those dyties to satjs- fy the desire of a few who are under the impression that as much can be accomplished in a short session as a long one.” Representative T. R. Kneeland de- clared there should be no limitation on the length of the legislative ses- sion. Representative Carmichael re- plied that not since April 9, 1865, when the soldiers were permitted to return home to till their fields, had there been such great need of work on Minnesota farms as this year, with the European war creating great de- mand for American grain. The house did not heed his plea and killed the resolution. A roll call on the bill was demanded when the house rose and ‘it was re- jected, 76 to 33. Speaker H. H. Flowers, who had been a champion of early adjournment, both before his election and in his address in taking . |the chair, did not vote. WAR VETERANS TO MEET. ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—Civil . war veterans—hundreds here in the fed- eral departments and in other occu- pations—will meet tonight at the an- nual encampment of the G. A. R. of the District .of Columbia. Plans will be made_for the national G. A. R. reunion which will be held here next September or October. - Move Machine Shop. 3 Garvin' & Blanchard, who haye operated an auto repairing establish- ment and machine shop in the North- ern Auto company buflding on Bel- trami avenue, have moved their plant to Pogue’s garage on Third street and Irvine avenue, whare they wm ‘con- tinue the: blulneu ~-and- Professor_Johu H:-Gray-. .~