Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 22, 1915, Page 1

/ THE BEMIDJ VOLUME 13, NO. 174. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, 'mummi EVENING, JULY 22, 1915. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH. MINNESOTA CIVIC BODIESOPPOSEU.S. MERCHANT MARINE State Organizations Favor Subsidies to Standardize Cost of Operating Ships Under Various Flags. VIEWS ON BOARD ARE SPLIT Stillwater Only City to Cast Ballot for Ownership—Want Regular Mail and Freight Lines. Washington, July 22.—Minnesota commercial organizations are on rec- ord as being opposed to government ownership and operation of merchant vessels. They are also opposed to government ownership of merchant vessels, with operation by private parties. They are unanimously in favor of subsidies sufficient to offset the dif- ference in cost between operation of merchant vessels under the American flag and operation in the same deep sea trades under foreign flags. They are also unanimously in favor of sub- ventions establish regular mail and freight lines under the American flag to American dependencies and to countries in which Lhe commereial interests are important. Vote on Marine Problem. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has just made public the details of the vote on “The Up- building of the Merchant Marine.” The bulletin shows that the commer- cial organizations of Minnesota are in accord with a majority of the members of that body. The majori- ties on the four questions were on the side of the Minnesota vote. In the voting the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce cast three bal- lots, and the Civic and Commerce as- sociation 10. The St. Paul Board of Trade cast five votes, Moorhead one, Stillwater one, the Duluth Board of Trade one and the Duluth Commer- cial club six. Stillwater for U. S. Ownership. On the question of government ownership and operation, Stillwater cast the only favorable vote. Still- water also voted for government own- ership, with operation by private parties. " Stillwater was with the other Minnesota cities on government subsidies and subventions for mail and freight lines. The three votes of the Minneapolis (Continued on last page.) SUMMER SCHOOL TO CLOSE Successful Five Weeks Session Will End Tomorrow—Tests to Start. Bemidji’s teachers’ summer school will close tomorrow, following one of the most successful sessions ever held here. The term has been in session for five weeks and 92 pupils have enrolled, making it the largest county summer school in the state, the courses of the normal schools and state university alone being larger. On Monday the state examinations will start, continuing Tuesday and ‘Wednesday. The same examinations. will be held at Baudette in order that persons in that part of the county who desire to take them may do so. The exceptional strength of the faculty here is .one of the chict reasons for the large attendance and every student has taken unusual in- terest in the work of the course the progress made being most gratifying to the faculty members and W. B. Stewart, superintendent of schools, under whose directions it was con- ducted. EXEMPT FROM STATE TAX Insurance Ruling by Supreme Court Saves Much for Farmers. Decisions, meaning thousands of dollars to the farmers of Minnesota, have been filed by the state supreme court, holding the farmers’ mutual hail and cyclone insurance companies of the state exempt from the two per cent tax levied by the state on insurance premiums. The court held that these companies are not operated for profit and that they are exempt, the same as the township mutual fire insurance companies. All of these concerns are sustained by as- sessments made once a year to meet losses and actual expenses. The de- cision also sweeps aside the classifi- cation made in an act exempting from the tax only such companies as pay salaries of less than $1,000 2 year. CANADIAN RAILROADS GROW Montreal, July 22.—This is the anniversary of the opening to traffic of Canada’s first railroad 78 years ago. The original line ran from La Prairie to St. Johns. Today, with 26,000 miles of railroad, Canada has more per capita mileage than any other country in the world. ‘ed manager. SELL CRACKER-JACK TOMORROW Popular Methodist Confection to Be Sold During Concert Friday Night. Methodist cracker-jack, that del- icious confection which has had such big sales during the past two years, will again be placed on sale tomor row evening, and ten members of the Sunday school class will sell it at the band concert. The money se- cured from the sale will be placed in the $100 fund which the Sunday school has pledged to the church. The cracker-jack is prepared under the personal direction of Mesdames J. W. Naugle, E. H. Denu, C. W. Gil- man and Henry Funkley. If the cracker-jack is not entirely sold out be disposed of Saturday. PREUS FAVORS SETTLERS Oscar Arneson, New Head of Land Department, Outlines Policy of State Auditor—Strong for No. 1 SHOULD REGARD MONEY AS LOAN When the next sale of state swamp and school land is Beltrami county is held here, on Wednesday August 11, it will not be conducted by Theo- dore Nelson, who for several years has been in charge of this depart- ment of the state auditor’s work, but by Oscar Arneson, the newly appoint- Mr. Nelson, who has so efficiently handled the work, has been transferred to the position of chief clerk of the Auditor’s office. Discussing the proposed revolving fund amendment to be No. 1, on the ballot, the passage of which means so much to Bemidji and this section of the state, Mr. Arneson, who per- haps in the best known for his long service as chief clerk of the Minne- sota house of representatives, said: ‘“State Auditor Preus, during his short term of office, has set out to pursue a more liberal land policy and is endeavoring to have the remaining available state land come into the possession of actual settlers, and as a result Mr. Preus is intensely interest- ed in the adoption of the amendment permitting the loaiing of $250,000 from the state school fund to actual settlers to assist them in clearing and improving their land, and it is the firm belief of those most familiar with the proposed amendment that if the people of southern Minnesota un- derstood that this money is not a direct appropriation but is merely loaned from the state’s university school fund and will return to the fund with interest added, that the people of the southern part of the state would vote for it. ‘“The failure of the people to adopt this amendment last November was largely caused by misunderstanding as Lo these facts. We have heard it quite often expressed while traveling in the couthern and western portions of the state that it was a direct ap- propriation. I trust that the news- papers of the northern portion of the state will take this subject up and let it be thoroughly understood be- fore the next election. ‘“‘Actual settlers are what we want on the state lands and State Auditor Preus feels that by lending all pos- sible encouragement to the men who come up here and prepare a home should be given all possible financial encouragement, and that the state is rich enough to give them at least a first lift.” TWO CHARGED WITH VIOLATION OF STATE AUTOMOBILE LAW Charged with violations of the state automobile law, Lloyd Tanner and Attorney Henry Funkley appear- ed in municipal court yesterday. Tanner was found guilty of speeding and was fined $5.00, his sentence be- ing suspended. Funkley, charged with the same offense, asked that his case be continued until Saturday, his request being granted. The case of Dr. J. Warninger against Dr. W. K. Denison was tried before Judge Crowell this morning, the former be- ing represented by Attorney P. J. Russell and the latter by Attorney Thayer C. Bailey. Mrs. Rose Koors, who has spent some time in the west, returned to Bemidji last evening. SCOOP erorter REPORTER at the concert that remaining will ' ALLIES OBJECT T0 PLAN CATTLEOFC()UNTY Yo F— - F.utoAgreeWuhlnumml'luw Establish Military Board—Slavs Are Dissatisfied. DOUBLED DURING | LAST FIVE YEARS ATIONS: ROT IN “HARMONY. Summary of Personal Property Assess- By J. W. T. MASON. New York, July 22.—The inability of England and France to develop a strong offensive on the western bat- tle front is causing much untavorable comment in Russia. The Slavs de- clare they are being sacrificed to the continued | unpreppredness of their allies and a suggestion is finding fa- vor at Petrograd that a single board of military control be appointed with supréeme command over all of the allied armies. Neither France nor England is will- ing to agree to this proposal, which in reality is a strong criticism of the reluctance of the western nations to co-ordinate their strategy. Lack of co-ordination, in fact, has worked immense damage to the allies during the past year. There continues, how- ever, in London and Paris, though more particularly in London, an in- sistent demand for freedom of action. Neither nation is willing to subor- dinate its own desires for the good of the whole, since that might re- sult in a disproportionate gain for one ally alone. Germany is taking advantage to the full of the individualism which dominates the allies’ plans. The Germans in this respect have played in great luck. The fact that Eng- land and France must be content to sit idly by and watch Russia now be- ing overrun will unquestionably form one of the greatest criticisms that history will pass on the present cam- paign. When Russia is crippled the Anglo-French armies may be in a position to develop a combined offen- sive of their own, but by that time they, in turn, can expect no help from the Slavs. The Germans are especially capable of taking advantage of their enemy’s lack of military unity, because a similar condition permitted Frederick the Great to win Prussia’s seven-year war against France, Austria and Russia. The triple powers allied against Frederick could no more at- tack in concert than England, France and Russia are able to do now. Frederick thus was given oppor- tunity to throw his armies against them in turn; while at critical mo- ments for Prussia, Frederick’s op- ponents would suddenly halt their offensives just as France and Eng- land are doing now. History is re- peating itself, in fact, for Germany's immense and perhaps decisive bene- fit. Discord may be an inevitable weakness even of coalitions fighting for their lives, and the present allies may never be able to work in unison though this war, too, lasts seven years. TWO VALUABLE DOGS ARE. KILLED BY LARGE BEAR Somewhere in Bemidji today there is a big black bear. For several weeks he has been annoying people of the communities he has .visited but in some miraculous manner he has been able to escape searching parties whiqh have endeavored to capture him. His latest episodes have been no less semsational than those of two weeks ago when he frightened three women who were walking in the woods near Grand Forks Bay and when he entered the tent of a camper at Diamond Point. Two valuable dogs have fallen prey to his attacks during the last sev- eral days, the canine of Robert Sei- bert being killed last evening. and that of George Pellow several nights ago. Last night the bear was seen by several. Pellow’s dog was killed in the yards of the Crookston Lum- ber company following a long battle with Mr. Bruin. The night watch- man at the mill claims that he saw the bear. Workmen at the mill have found a nest between two lum- ber piles in which the bear lived but careful watch for the animal has failed. Mrs. Margaret McGinnis has beem actively engaged in newspaper work in Boston for the past 45 years. ments Indicates Rapid Dovolopment of Beltrami Farming Districts. 4,485 COWS ON TAX LISTS Sheep Number 2,400 and 2,326 Hogs Are Registered—Forty-two Au- tomobiles in Rural Communities. During the last five years Beltrami county, located in a district which during the near future is certain to be made one of the nation’s best dairying centers, has made wonder- ful strides in development. Proof of this advancement ig’ found by com- paring the personal ‘property assess- ments of 1910 and those of this year, | as found in the office of James L. George, county auditor. Of the three classes of personal property taxed in Beltrami county that which speaks most strongly and is of most interest to those concerned in the future of Bemidji and the dis- trict, is the third, The law provides that this class, which embraces the live stock of the farming communi- ties, shall be assessed at 33 1-3 per cent of its true and full value. 10,944 Cattisdin County. The returns of the 79 assessors of the county place the number of cat- tle at 10,944, showing an increase of 5,259 in five years; the 1910 records showing 5,685. This shows the num- ber of cattle in the county has prac- tically doubled during the period mentioned. The assessed valuation of the 10,944 is placed at $92,056. There are 4,485 cows, with an as- sessed valuation of $57,47C in the county. The town of Benville boasts of the largest number of cows, hav- ing 309. Buzzel comes next with 190 and Grant Valley has 183; Roose- velt has 177, town of Bemidji 153, Frohn 160, Lee 172, Durand 110, Spruce Grove 123, Hamre 113, Lam- mers 111, Liberty 175 and Northern ! 100. 3,351 Cows in 1910. The records show. that there were 3,351 cows in the, county 'in 1910, their assessed valuation being $43,- 363. At that time Benville had 278 cows, town of Be- midji 160, Buzzle 170, Durand 37, Frohn 114, Grant Valley 155, Hamre 123, Lammers 88, Lee 169, Liberty 147, Northern 80, Roosevelt 135 and Spruce Grove 105. It is interesting to note that com- munities in which creameries are located are found the largest number of cows. At Grygla there is a pros- perous creamery and this draws from Benville, Hamre, Lee and Spruce Grove. Sheep Show Big Increase. There are 2,490 sheep in Beltrami county now. They are distributed as follows: In Port Hope 102, Mec- Dougald 114, Liberty 132, Grant Val- ley 245, Jones 294, Langor 209, Roosevelt 145 and Turtle Lake 159. ‘There were 1,477 sheep in . the county in 1910,-Grant Valley regis- tering 107, town of Bemidji 158, Liberty 119, McDougald 7, Roose- velt 38, Turtle Lake 89, Port Hope 78, Jones 92 and Langor 53. And Then We Have Hogs. Hogs total 3,326, the towns hav- ing the largest number being Grant Valley with 101, Bemidji 113 Lib- erty 153, McDougald 102 and Roose- velt 97. In 1910 there were 1,265 (Continued on last page). FRANK OUT OF DANGER (Unitéd Press) Milledgeville, Ga., July 22.—Leo M. Frank, who is serving a life term at the state prison farm here, and who was seriously injured late Sat- urday night when he was. attacked by a fellow prisoner, is expected to live, His condition today jis good and the crisis has passed. Women are employed in all "the branches of the United States postal service—even as letter carriers—ex- cept as railway mail clerks and post- office inspectors. [ CONTINUAN OE Oé FRIENDLY RELATION RESTS WITH KAISER — (Unitea Press) ‘Washington, July 22.—A contin- uance of friendly relations between the United States and Germany de- pends upon the kaiser. If the Lusi- tania tragedy is repeated with the sacrifice of more American lives, a diplomatic break may ensue. This plain and emphatic warning was given the Berlin foreign office in the second note which was sent last eve- ning. On account of the note having to be relayed its transmission has been slowed. The note contains twelve hundred words The seriousness and speed with which the note was sent does not minimize it any. Pres- ident Wilson arrived in Washington Monday from his summer home in Vermont and the note was sent Wednesday with but one cabinet con- ference. CARNIVAL COMES MONDAY Patterson Shows, Reported Better Than Ever, to Appear in Bemidji During All of Next Week. ENDORSED AT GRAND FORKS It will be carnival week -in Be- midji from Monday, July 26, till urday, July 81. The Great Patterson Shows, larger and better than ever, is to play here and the long special train carrying the equipment will arrive in Bemidji Sunday night from Grand = Forks where it is appearing during state fair week. The Grand Forks Herald in com- menting on the carnival, says: “The Patterson company offers some exceptionally good attractions. The animal show, which is staged in the main tent, is a veritable cir- cus and much larger than the or- dinary performance of a carnival company. Features of the show are trained elephants and high school horse act, the groups of trained bears and lions andthe performing dogs. “The Annex, which is located near the main tent, is attracting large crowds. The tent contains a variety of attractions, which range from the ‘fat man’ and the ‘fattest mother in the world’ to the glassblowers and the man ‘who scratches his back with his shoulder blades.” It is a monster ‘side show’ and one that is worth while. “‘Joyland,’ one of the mechanical attractions, is more than its name in- dicates. It is one of the best shows of its kind ever seen in the city. ‘The Road to Tipperary’ also amused hun- dreds of people yesterday.” The Herald also speaks in compli- mentary terms of the ‘Laughing Gallery,” the Motordrome, ‘Jungle- land” and “Robertson’s Lady Min- strels.” SLAVSTOBURN WARSAW BEEORE MAKING RETREAT (United Press) Berlin, July 22.—It is definitely rumored that the Russians will burn Warsaw before leaving. ‘Slavs, re- treating in the vicinity of Warsaw, have already started devastation. Bridges are being dynamited, cattle seized and thé crops either being seized or confiscated. The Gerwans were within thirteen miles of War- saw this morning. Sat- DRINK IN RELATION TO VICE TOPIC OF PURITY CONGRESS San Francisco, July 22.—Alcohol and the part it plays in the vice and crime question in big cities was the principal topic at today’s addresses at the Ninth International Purity congress, now in session here. Miss. Edith M. Wills, an editor of the Scientific Temperance Journal, Boston, Mass., spoke on: “Alcohol and the Child’s Birthright,” while Dr. Guy W. Wadsworth of Los Angeles, talked on the state-wide campaign now being waged to make California dry. Eleven other: speakers made addresses along similar lines. The convention ends Saturday: Read the Ploneer want ads. [FIRM. STAND TAKEN BY UNITED STATES IN NOTE SENT TO GERMANY TODAY GRAND OPENING TONIGHT Elaborate Banguet and Dancing Party to Formally Open Birchmont Beach Summer Hotel to Public. LARGE ATTENDANCE IS ASSURED Bemidji’s magnificent $20,000 summer hotel at Birchmont Beach ‘will be formally opened this evening ‘when a banquet and dancing party | will be provided. It is expected that at least 200 persons will be seated at the banquet tables and that as many more will attend the ball. The band orchestra, under the leadership ‘of Louis Burchard, will provide music during the dinner and for dancing. The following music- ians will play: Louis Burchard, violin; Mrs. Van Praag, piano; Fletcher Grimoldby, trombone; Axel Kittleson, cornet; H. B. Anderson, clarinet and Herbert Wood, traps. Following is the banquet menu: Spring vegetable soup, olives, celery, salted almonds, fillets of lake trout, maitre d’hotel, potatoes au gratin, fresh lobster a la Newburg en caisses, Bartlett pears, English cream sauce, roast prime ribs of beef au jus, stuft- _|ed turkey, giblet gravy, mashed pota- toes, new potatoes in cream, garden peas, head lettuce, Thousand Island dressing, apple pie a la mode, rasp- berry short cake, whipped cream, American, Edam and Roquefort cheese, salted wafers, tea, coffee and iced tea. ” Tickets for the banquet and dance sell for $2.50 per plate but those who desire to attend the dance only may purchase tickets at the door for one dollar. 2,000TO STRIKE IF WAGE INCREASE IS REFUSED July 22— Twelve hundred employes of the Remington plant are out on strike Bridgeport, Conn., and friction with labor leaders is preventing 30,000 more from walking out. New York, July 22.—Twb thousand employes of the Bliss torpedo plant at Brooklyn demand an. eight-hour day and an increase in wages. They are treatening to strike within a week. Springfield, Mass., July 22.—The International Association of Machin- ists say that the Westinghouse firm arms plant will receive demands or a similar strike will be called which is Insists That American Lives Be Pro- tected and Warning is @iven as to Future Conduct of Germsns. LUSITANIA MATTER NOT TOUCHE Message, Telling That Further Trans- gressions Will Be Regarded as Un- friendly Acts, Reaches Berlin. (United Press) ‘Washington, July 22.—Govern- ment officials have announced that the German note was sent at nine o’'clock last night and it is believed here that the note reached Berlin at ten this morning. It was not announced when the text of the note will be published. Tt is known, however, that Ger- many was told in the severest terms that the United States will - view with the gravest concern, ; further loss of American lives. The financial reparation of the Lusitania’s victims was not touched. These unques- tioned demands will be made later, but the administration is not willing to inject monetary matters into such serious discussions. The attempt of German submar- ines last week to torpedo the spas- senger boat Orduna with American subjects on board, was not touched upon in the note on account of noth- ing official having been received by government officials. One New Point. Among the points of the new note is the assumption by the United States that Germany, by declaring her submarine warfare to be a re- taliatory measure against unlawful acts of her enemies, admits the de- struction of unresisting = merchant- men without warning is illegal. The statement that future trans- gressions will be regarded ‘as “un- friendly” is taken in diplomatic usage to a pressage break of friendly rela- tions unless reparation and disavowal of the Lusitania disaster is forth- coming. The note points out that the United States cannot allow relations between belligerents to operate in any way as an abbreviation of the rights of neutrals, therefore any violation of principles for which ‘the ‘American government contends will viewed as unfriendly. 3 The note 'to the German govern- ment on submarine warfare contains the plain warning to Germany that she must not take another American life nor destrop any more American shipping. That statement, it is be- lieved, will constitute the essence of the note approved by the cabinet yesterday and now in form. Demanded Assurances. prevailing in six other New England towns. y New Haven, Conn., July 22.—The Winchester plant has put into effect a pension system affecting 12,000 employes, and there is no prospect of a strike in this plant. Washington, July 22.—Upon re- quest for mediation of the Bayonne strike, the department of labor im- mediately appointed a committee which will go to Bayonne tomorrow. The mediation was asked for by Sheriff Kinkead. Bayonne, N. J.,, July 22.—Two more strikers were killed this after- noon when the striking mob attempt- ed to storms the walls of the Stand- ard Oil company plant. STRIKERS START FIRE IN OIL COMPANY OFFICE (United Press) Bayonne, N. J., July 22.—The fire department was called to extinguish a blaze in the telegraph office of the Standard Oil company. The police insist that strikers started the fire. Two strikers have been shot, and are probably fatally wounded. Several companies of state militia are in readiness for a call from the sheriff when he says he can’t handle the Standard Oil strike. The strik- -| ers are in possession of all land gates to the oil plants and rioting and in- cendiary fires continue. ~ Ho! Garcon' Cancel That Fish Order The note will indicate that" the American government addressed it- self to the German government on the safety of Americans citizens trav- eling on the high seas under the pro- tection of the law of nations; that we demanded assurances that these rights be respected; that ships be taken and desetroyed only after visit and search and after non-combatants had opportunity to escape. The German replies have been an- alyzed and the unsatisfactory nature of the German concessions are point- ed out, accompanied by the straight statement that the conditions impos- ed by Germany under which Amer- icans could travel the ocean, are an unwarranted_abbreviation of neiitral rights, so much so as to be utterly unacceptable to the United Stftea. ANNUAL COTTON CARNIVAL =~ - GALVESTON HAS AMBITION Galveston, Tex., July 22.—The seventh annual cotton * carnival swung its doors open to’the public today. The city was gay with bunt- ing in a celebration which will con- tinue to August 1. As a part of it, a big conference will be held here, ‘starting the 26th, at which mayors and other city and town officials from all parts of the state will be asked to co-operate in making Texas cities better:from a civic standpoint. Galveston, the city which Baye to the world the commission form- of government, feels that it 48 especially :| fitted that here. should start: s .new | movement, looking- to the uplift of all Texas cities—and others: through- out the nation if they idesire: to fol- low the Lone Star lead. ALBANY'S BIRTHDAY Albany, N. Y., July 22.—Today is the anniversary of the founding of the city, which was incorporated July 22, 1868. _ mbers of lhehlgh ;school base- ball, basketball, and, football_teams, olf: last.