Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 23, 1915, Page 1

| THE BEMI VOLUME 13, NO. 71. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUBSPAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1915, ITALY'S ENTRANCE INTO WAR WITHIN SIXWEEKS NOW PRACTICALLY CERTAIN Entire Nation Prepares for Call to Arms and Citizens Anxiously Await Declaration of War, Says Simms. - COUNTRY NOW ON BREAD RATION No Internat 'Ilsza‘*velopmentl Can 2, Prevent Carry. Govern- ment’s Prognm—(h- 'el‘y p In the following article, written by William Phillip Simms, manager of the Paris bu- reau of the United Press, who has just returned to the French capitol after a visit to the va- rious cities of Italy, a vivid and accurate picture of the situation in the Roman Empire is given. The story was written in Paris and cabled from there, where there is no Italian censorship. By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS. Copyright, 1915, by United Press. Copyrighted in Great Britian and France. Paris, March 23.—Italy’s entrance into the war within six weeks is now practically a certainty. No international developments can interfere witn tne carryin%oul of the government’s program, which is evi- dently fixed and of which the en- tire nation is fully cognizant. I have just returned from Italy. I visited Naples, Rome and Genoa and a dozen other Italian cities. I have talked with government officials, military and naval officers, diplomats and men in all walks of life. Crisis Has Come. They assure me that the crisis has come and that Italy is about to plunge into the war on the side of the allies. All of the Italian ports are crowded with incoming men of military age. Genoa and Naples are bee-hives of youths from the United States and South' America, recalled to the army. Everywh'ere troops are drilling. The whole country re- minds one of a great moving picture show with great armies drilling across the screen and an operator back in his box speeding the film. I spent an afternoon at the drill grounds-at -Ventinmighia,. the Italian rortress town, 18 miles north of Nice, watching a regiment of Bersergliari young men, husky and smiling. They were being drilled in squads, compa- nies, battalions and regiments always at about 120 steps to the minute, which practically amounted to dou- ble-quick time. “Your men seem to be fit and well trained,” I remarked to a captain. “They've been drilling like that for three weeks,” he replied, and then significantly, “they’ll be ready tfor the fight in two weeks.” Ready for Battle. He drilled the men in the same strenuous fashion that a trainer pre- pares a prizefighter for a champion- ship bout. He sent them through their paces at a fast and furious clip, allowing only 10 minutes for rest periods. Some of the men’s headgear was covered with the same grayish cotton material as their uni- forms. They were ready to the last detail for spring and summer cam- paigning. The emphatic impression one gains through a trip through Italy, meet- ing influential men, is that Italy will be forced shortly to do one of two things—either to abandon all idea of war and release the men she is now holding subject to mobilization or else declare war, giving these some- thing to do. Since last August tens of thousands of Italians have been recalled from foreign countries. Most of them are now idle. They are swarming over the country clamor- ing for Italy to take a decisive stand. 1f Italy does not intend to fight then they demand that they be released so they can earn their Italy intends war then they want war immediately so they can fill their empty stomachs. Prepare for War. Teachers have been notified to close their school on April 1, so that the buildings will be available for military purposes. The country was to go on a ration of ‘“war bread” to- day. Under this order the bread is to be standardized to conserve the nation’s grain supply and the baking of fancy pastry is to be prohibited. Every unit of the Italian army, it is understood, is now thoroughly drill- ed and ready to absorb its full com- plement of reserves upon the issu- ance of general mobilization orders. Even the Italian Boy Scouts are undergoing special instructions un- der officers detailed for that purpose from the regular army. Italy can only be described as on COSTLY CITIES ON RANGE State Legislature Hears Reports of Alleged Extravagance of St. Louis County Iron Towns. WITHOUT PARALLEL IN COUNTRY That which has long been expected *‘n happened. An expose of munic- al conditions alleged to be with- out parallel in the history of the United States was made before a com- mittee of the state legislature last evening, which declared that ten small villages on the Mesaba iron range, in St. Louis county, Virginia, Hibbing, Ely, Eveleth, Aurora, Bi- wabik, Buhl, Chisholm, Gilbert, Mountain Iron, were on a great de- bauch spending other people’s money. It is stated that Hibbing, with a population of less than ten thousand, has more street lights than Cincinna- ti; that Chisholm, with a population less than Hibbing, this winter grew tomatoes, ripening at a cost of $300 each, in a conservatory of a new $268,000 high school which will graduate a dozen members this year. Virtually, all the stredts and alleys are paved in all towns. The annual levies of each of these cities run up into figures of half and three-quarter millions. Each city has a police department large enough for any place of double its size, Hib- bing having a force of twenty offi- cers. They also have automobile fire apparatus of all descriptions and a large paid fire department. STORK BEATS GRIM REAPER There were 729 births in Beltrami county during the year 1914, accord- ing to the report which was received today by Fred Rhoda, clerk of court, from the secretary of the State Board of Health. During the same length of time there were 351 deaths record- ed. One hundred and sixty-four visits were made by the stork to Be- midji during the year, and there were an even hundred deatfis. ~In Nymors{ BEGIN WORK ON NEW CHICAGO STATION Chicago, Mar. 23.—Thousands of unemployed men were put to work today on Chicago’s mammoth new Union station, a $65,000,000 project, which will be completed December 18, 1918, according to plans. The new plant will house the Pennsyl- vania lines, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, The Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy, and the Chicago and Alton. It does not mean a con- solidation of any of the railroad ter- minals, simply the replacing the structure at Adams Canal streets with a great plant. The erection of the station em- braces several difficult engineering feats, chief among which is the slraghtenlng of the Chicago river living. T} for several blocks. The new station is going up to the south of the pres- ent one, occupying the blocks be- tween Adams and Jackson streets and Clinton and Canal streets, a space two blocks east and west and one block north and south. Besides three freight terminals the plans call for 26 tracks in the passenger terminal, 20 more than the present station has. The Northwestern station here, re- garded as one of the most modern in the world, has only 16, the Pennsyl- vania in New York only 17. The Union station in Washington has 33, only 15 of which, however, are in use. The main building will be ten stor- ies and have three sub- basements. It will be an imposing looking structure with great massive columns and will cost $6,000,000, ex- clusive of land, sheds, power plant and interlocking costs. I Hunt-Hoppe. Mathilda Hoppe of Bemidji and Beherrell Hunt:of Guthrie county, Towa, were united in marriage at the Methodist parsonage this afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. C. W. Gilman offi- ciating. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt will make their home in this city. SCOOP gerorter REPORTER tiptoe, feverishly expectant, and ready for a war she is eertain is near at hand. Battle Man Proves Up. Gustav J. Wermter this morning proved up on his 160-acre homestead in the town of Battle before Fred Rhoda, clerk of court. VILLA APOLOGIZES FOR - (United Press) serving for the United -States ing his home from YVilla’s. soldiers. They also assured the minister that the McManus family would be given protection and the murderers pun- ished. It has not been stated wheth- er the culprits have been arrested. MUTINY IS SECRET OF PRZEMYSL SURRENDER (United Press) Petfograd, March 23.—That mu- tiny among the defenders of Przemysl was the cause of the downfall of that city, is contained in a Russian war dispatch this afterncon. Sunhday af- ternoon the Austrian commander or- dered 20,000 troops to attack the Russian lines south of and cut a gap, and thus permit a portion of the army to escape. The men refused to move. Officers dashed back and forth at- tempting to force a movement. Others joined the mutiners and threatened to leave the garrison and go out and lay down their arms unless fed. After -|a conference it was decided to sur- render. FORM PHONE COMPANIES. Officers for Two Lines. Farmers north of Solway have or-; ganized a telephone company to be known as the “Rex,” and which will run in a northwesterly direction to the Charles Lindgren place. Those signiug the constitution and by-laws | were B. E. Tweeten, Nels Bye, Ole Habberstead, A. Dille, Anton Fred- erickson, T. J. Lomen, Charles Sme- ers, J. A. Hallan; Louis Klinger and Chris Thompson. The following offi- cers were elected: D. P. Powers, pres- ident; Charles Lindgren, vice-pres- |ident; Nels Bye, secretary; T. J. Lo- men, treasurer. M. A. Mille, A. Fred- erickson and L. Klinger were elected trustees. The farmers south of Sol- way organized a telephone company there were 49 births and 12. deaths. i+he game, day, which-will'be known - as “The Spring Lake Telephone Com:- pany.” This line will run in a southwesterly direction to the George Becker home. The officers elected were: P. J. Rock, president; George Becker, secretary, and Peter Nesting, treasurer. Work on these lines will | commence as soon as possible. TO WIN TITLE IN 1916. Bemidji High School Boys Plan for Next Year’s Quint. With the state championship as their goal the boys of the Bemidji high school are already planning for next year’s basketball team and from the preliminary ‘“‘dope” it looks as though they have a splendid oppor- tunity to win the title. Captain Johnson and Tanner, two of the most brilliant basketball performers in the state, the latter having been selected for the All-Star five, have announced that they will probably remain in school here, giving assurance that the forward positions will be well taken care of. But one man will be iost to the team, this being Fred Gra- ham, guard, who has made a splendid record in both basketball and foot- ball and who is slated for gradua- tion. Claude Bailey, the other guard, features of the Carleton tournament, will again play, as will Cameron, ‘Wwho has played a fine game at center. Then , there . will be Warfield and George Graham, boys who have more than made good when given a place in the lineup, and several second team men, Two Licenses Issued. Two licenses to marry have been issued by Fred Rhoda, clerk of court, since yesterday, one being secured by George Baker, who will wed Effie Eldora Rawdon and the other to Beherrell Hunt and Mathilda Hoppe. Do not look backward unless you intend to travel that way. DEATH OF JOHN M’MANUS Wuhluzton, March 23.—Officials of General Villa this atternoon officially apologized to the Brazilian minister, in Mexico City, for the murder of John McManus, an American, who was killed some weelka ago while defend- rud, Charles Lindgren, D. P. Pow-! whose defensive work was one of the] ‘LID’ ON TIGHT AT PERHAM Government Oflm Find Former Sa- loon Men are Plumg Fruit Stands—Sereens Removed. AGENTS RETURN TO BEMIDN Although its saloons have been closed but a short time, the Indian treaty of 1855 being the cause, Per- ham has already gained the distinc- tion of being the only place in the “dry” ten‘itori\'where the “lid” is truly in force.”. Thinking thet liquor might be on sale illegally a8 in many other towns which have been closed by the gov- ernment, severpl officers visited- Per- ham yesterday: and inspected every former saloon and questionable place. Not a smell of “booze” was to be found and the proprietors of ‘the sa- loons were busy removing screens, many of them converting their build- ings_into conféctionery stores and placing large stocks of candies, fruits and cigars. “Perham is ab&ol\ltely elean lrom liquor,” said E. W. Carson, special returned to idji last evening. ordér.as a matter of course and al- ready such a change has been made that residents have dlmost forgotten that saloons ever.operated there.” Three arrests have been made at Detroit on charges of introducing 1i-; quor into lndlan territory recently. John Fosberg was bound over to the | Federal grand jury, and being unable i Fergus Falls jail. George Tischauser, la well known butcher of Detroit, se- cured bail of $300 and H. T. Clark | iof Calloway, also secured bail. +The latter man was arrested- by De- puty Special Officer Charles Benson. Three officers have been in Bc~ {midji during the past several days, | Special Officers’J.’ P. Brandt and L. | W. Carson and. Deputy Special Officer , | Benson. Bensén and Brandt have |left the ecity but ‘are expected to re- turn some time today. FALL OF PRZEMYSL |NSPthES RUSSIANS! ting bulletin wab issued by _the -Rus- sian war ‘department this afternoon: " Inspired by the fall of Przemysl, halt 12 million Russians are pressing for- ward in a gigantic movément along the Carpathians,-and the Slavs are driving southward in a mighty sweep. General Seliwanoff’s besieging army began to enter Przemysl this morn- ing. Red Cross nurses found terri- ble existing conditions. Men injured in the last desperate sorties had been shoved into houses with practically no attendance. The men had been killing all animals for food during the last few days and would have starved to death in forty-eight hours if‘the white flad had not been raised. Part of the inner fortifications had been ruined by the Austriams, but they lacked sufficient explosives to completely demolish them, and will be raised again with a few-weeks’ re- pair. The Russians will. probably 000 as prisoners in the city. Private buildings and homes were found un- damdged, and showed that th® Rus- sian fire was well directed. ERSTWHILE “RUBES” BECOMING EDUCATED Chicago, March 23.—Newspaper publicity has forced the professional “con” man from _ criminal life throughout the United States. This is according to Captain of Detectives O’Brien. Chicago, once the crime cen- ter of the west, is now freed of con- fidence gangsters, O'Brien said. “Once the farmer would become the imme- diate victim of the man who could sell-him either the Masonic Temple, the Lincoln monument, Jackson Park or the Gary steel works,” he said. “But newspaper stories, breezily written, have been widely read and the ‘erstwhile ‘rube’ has become -a ‘Willle Wise.” A. P. White, president of officer of the Indian department, who | “The people there take the closing : - lher country for .German gold. OV was ORIy 016 HStIRGe SOt the +hors leave the surrendered garrison of 50,- | CLEVER SPYFIRES ON ENEMY FROM FRENCHTRENCHES Rader Tells How GermmVWorked Way Into Foreign Legion and for Days Betrayed Trench-Mates. DOG TAUGHT TO CARRY NOTES Blinking of ‘Tiny Light in Shot-rid- dled Cottage Reveals Woman Who Sold Country for German Gold Following is one of the eye- witness stories by Phil'Rader, an American newspaper man, who { fought with the famous French foreign legion in the trenches for four months. | By PHIL RADER. | Copyrignt, 1915, by United Press. | London, March 1.—There was a little old woman of French nation- ality, whose shot-riddled little cot- tage was about a mile behind our trenches. She had a huge supply of jcider, and when one of us got monoy ,and a chance we would sneak through {the trenches back to her little house, knock on the shattered window until ishe opened it and handed out a big cup full of apple juice. “My good old husband,” as she described him, was killed in the cot- Farmers of Solway Vicinity Elect to provide bail was committed to the tage by a German bullet. We buried the body for her and asked her why she did not move. “No,_no,” she exclaimed, “this is my ‘hofe and if I die anywhere I jdie here.” Signal to Germans. | one night we saw three little flickers of light come from a chink of the shuttered window. On a hill far away in the German lines we {saw a tiny -light blink- three times. {For three nights we watched the isparking chink in the widow’s win- {dow blind. We didn’t want to be- +lieve she was a spy, because if she | was taken.away we would miss our jcider. JBut at last we had to act. We caught hér one night in the deed land our officers sent her away, I |dont know where. She had sold Her’s oughness of the German system. | ~ One day we found a telephone wire running through the beet fields from the German trenches to a point far behind our lines. It ended at a pop- lar.tree, where a German spy, hidden in the branches had been phoning the enemy all the details of our movements. But Demeille was the spy of all spies. He lived with us {in our trenches, he shot at the Ger- |mans and cursed them as we did. But all the time he was sending mes- sages to them. And when he was caught in the act, he kept silent like ia man. ' Our officers took charge of him and he disappeared—executed, we heard. In those early days of the war, when foreigners in Paris were forming a foreign legion, Demeille, a splendid looking big man, with a beard that gave him a distinguished appearance and a manner that was the essence of courtesy, got his name into the list and was accepted. He had money in unlimited - quantities and before we departed from Paris anda left to little groups of comrades. Collie Dog Responsible. His profession was that of an engi- neer of a sugar making company and he knew every inch of the sugar beet !country in which our regiment was finally stationed. It was a collie dog that proved the undoing of Demeille, a fine, long haired animal, which of all the stray dogs which made their (Continued on last page). RUSSIANS FORCED BACK 12 MILES (United Press) Berlin,” March 23.—The war de- partment gives out the information that the .Germans have recaptured Memel and forced the Russians back twelve miles across the Russian bor- der and captured the town of Krot- tingen, in Russia. At this place the {THOUSANDS. STAND IN RAIN to the front, he gave parties right|. - AND AWAIT ZEPPELIN VISIT (United Press) Paris, March 23.—In a drizzling rain thousands of Parisians stood un- til dawn this morning ‘awaiting the arrival of another Zeppelin. The raider had not arrived at five o’clock this morning and searchlights flashed the signal “all's well” and the French people went home to their beds., The Germans bombed Villers Cotterets, forty-five miles from Paris and then apparently flew across the Aisne river. 4 I PENDERGAST IS CONFIDENT s Bemidji Répresentative Believes $50,- 000 Appropriation for Normal School Will Pass in Omnibus Bill TO ABANDON ORIGINAL BILL (United Press) St. Paul, Minn, March 23.—That the referring of 31 bills back to their respective committees, an ac- tion of the house late yesterday, will have a wholesome effect upon the final passage of an appropriation for the Bemidji normal school, was the statement of L. G. Pendergast, Bel- trami county representative, in the house today. The original bill, on which are the names of Pendergast, Hiner, Miner, Wilkins and Dare, asks for $150,000 for the school. Pendergast was of the opinion today that it was certain that about $50,000 could be secured for the school. His opinion is that the bill will be absorbed by the omnibus bill, carry- ing the general appropriations of the, house, at the same time that the 31 bills, referred back yesterday, are welded into the omnibus bill. Pend- ergast intimated that the Bemidji normal scheol bill will never come; out on the floor of the house. NEW-BILL WOULD GIVE WOMEN VOTING POWER; HAMMOND SIGNS REPEAL (United Press) St. Paul, March 23.—Senator Jones this, afternaon -introddeed: apill il the senate which if passed will give women the right to vote for all offi- cers of the state from school super- intendent to governor. A bill giving women a right to vote for presiden- tial electors will probahly be present- ed this afternoon. Governor Hammond has signed the bill repealing the Elwell road law. He gave as his reasons the over- whelming vote in the legislature against the measure and the supreme coutt: ruling in which it was stated that the law was a crude piece of legislation. Constitutional road pro- jects started under the Elwell law may be completed. The Denegree bill, forcing all law students who take the state bar ex- amination for admission to practice, was favorably recommended. “WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?” Will Be Sermon of Evangelist Chap- man’s Sermon This Evening. (By Rev. 1. D. Alvord.) Evangelist Chapman continues the evangelistic meetings this week. He will speak each afternoon at 3 o’clock and invites everyone to at- tend this service. The evening ser- vices commence at 8 o’clock. To- night Mr. Chapman’s subject will be, “Who Is Responsible?” Sunday was a great day. Many sought Christ at the altar and many profes- sing Christians consecrated their lives to a closer walk with God. Sev- eral were baptized in the afternoon at the baptismal service. The church was filled again in the evening to hear Mr. Chapman who spoke from the text, “Is the Young Man Safe?” Many turned to God as the evangel- ist gave the invitation. There will be.a special meeting of the A. F. & A. M. in the Masonic Germans freed 3,000 of their country- 'hall Wednesday evening, at which the men who had been dragged across work in the first degree will be done. Northern National ‘bank, -is-a Little the border, it is presumed, as host- A large attendance is urged. Falls business visitor today. , By All Means Let’s flave A Sign For The l)oor : ages. ‘W. Z. ROBINSON, W. M. By "HOP' \} - Ninth—The district BEMIDJI DIVIDED NTO SECTIONS FOR CAMPAIGN Nine Districts to Have Organizations at Work During Clean-up Week —Chairmen Name Committees. MERCHANTS TO GIVE ASSISTANCE Definite Plans for Movement Will Be Framed at Meeting to Be Held Thursday Afternoon. With its boulevards in perfect con- dition; its alleys and vacant lots cleared of all refuse; its lawns well cared for and the beauty of its parks and lnke shore improved, Hemidji promises o be a ““spotless town” be- fore many weeks are history, for the . spirit of “Clean-up Week” has been instilled in every resident - of the ‘““Magic City of the North.” The committee chairmen named at the meeting held a,week ago have selected their assistants and already the forces of the organization are practically complete. Definite plans and dates for the week will be de- cided upcn at a meeting of the Mer- chants’ association-Study club Clean- up Campaign committee which is t» be held in the Public Library build- ing Thursday afternoon. Divided Into Districts. Bemidji will be divided into nine separate districts for the campaign and each will have an organization of its own.. The districts will be as {follows: First—Lake Boulevard, everything west to Bemidji avenue. Second—Bemidji avenue, every- thing west to Beltrami avenue. Third—Beltrami avenue, every- thing west to Minnesota avenue. Fourth—Minnesota avenue, every- thing west to America avenue. Fifth—America avenue, thing west to Irvine avenue. Sixth—Irvine avenue, . everything west to Mississippi avenue. Seventh—Mississippi avenue, erything west to Park avenue. -Bighth—Park avenue, everything west to the city limits. ) every- ev- _across the These to Decorate. C. E. Battles, chairman of Mrs. the decoration committee, has not completed her appointments for the general committee, but the district heads will be as follows: First, Mrs. J. J. Conger; second, Mrs. L. A. Ward; third, Mrs. W. P. Dyer; fourth, Mrs. L. H. Bailey; fifth, Mrs. Collard; sixth, Mrs. D. Wilcox; seventh, Mrs. J. C. Parker; eighth, Mrs. Hatchcuck ninth, Mrs. McLauchlan. You Had Better Clean-up. For the clean-up committee Mrs. H. A. Scharf, chairman, has.secired for district superintendents: " First, C. M. Bacon; second, W. N. Bowser; third, A. Lord; fourth, G. W. Camp- bell; fifth, Fred Rhoda; sixth, Del Burgess; seventh, Frank Pogue; eighth, Charles Warfield; ninth, G. E. Carson. The general committee com- prises Mesdames E. E. Kenfield and G..M. Palmer and Messrs. C. E. Bat- tles, J. K. Given and Thayer (. Bailey. Sanitation and Garbage. These will be in charge of district campaigns concerning sanitation and garbage; First, Montreville J. Brown; second, Dr. E. H. Marcum; third, °T. J. Burke; fourth, Dr. G. M. Palmer; fifth, William Lloyd; sixth, H. . Whitney; seventh, K. K. Roe; eighth, J. S. Doutcher; ninth, Pete Nelson. Merchants to Assist. The merchants, realizing the hens- fit of a thorough cleaning up of the city have taken an interest in the campaign and they have announced that they will assist in the movement in an advertising way. Let’s all be ACTIVE members of the Clean-up society. 42,760 AUTO LICENSES. Secretary of State Issues Permits for 1,800 Motor Cycles. : Evidences of the near approach of real automobile weather has started thousands of car owners toward the office of the secretary of state: Since January 1 there have been 42,760 au- tomobile licenses and 1,800 motor cycle licenses issued. The mnew li- censes are for the next three-year period. A. 7. RUSH APPOINTED - STATE OIL INSPECTOR Andrew Jackson Rush of Menkato, ‘| proprietor of the legislative cigar stand, who was democratic candidate for state auditor in 1914, has been appointed state oil inspector 'hy Gov- ernor W.'S. Hammond. The post of Dnhc'ivc Page oil inspector pays $2,400 a year and there are 88 deputies. Mr: Rush ~|succeeds Guy A. Eeaton of Duluth, cnmmmier of the nnla naval milms,