Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 13, 1915, Page 1

S ow VOLUME 13, NO. 246. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDRESDA Y EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1915, HARDING - WHALEY COMBINE THEATRES; BUY BRINKMAN Manager of Gnm 5'/ ager of Rex Tk Company. ~ and Man- f% v 0 e e, % ROSS RUNNELS T0 OPERATE HOTEL; OPENING TOMORROW Mr. and Mrs, Brinkman Retire From Business After 17 Years; In Bemidji Before Railroad. Oliver Whaley, manager of the Rex theater, and G. S. Harding, manager of the Grand theater, today combined the two theaters, formed the firm of Harding-Whaley & Co., purchased the Brinkman theater and leased the Brinkman building. Grand to Brinkman Location. The Grand theater will be moved to the Brinkman theater location to- morrow. The Brinkman theater will be open tonight for the last time under the management of ‘F. E. and M. E. Brinkman. G. 8. Harding will manage the new Grand theater. He plans to make several improvements at the theater, including a stage setting. The Paramount Pictures, Metro, Klein-Edison attrdctions and the Daily Pioneer Northwest Weekly will be shown on his regular pro- grams. Ed Curry will continue as machine operator. Improvements at Rex. The Rex theater will continue un- der the management of Oliver Whaley. Mr. Whaley announced to- day that he would improve his thea- ter by improving the seats and the ventilation. On the program at his theater will be the Mutual Master pictures, the B. S. L. & E. features, all of the General Film Co. Mrs. ‘Whaley will assist Mr. Whaley at the theater and Andrew A. Lee will con- tinue as the machine operator. Have High Class Pictures. Mr. Whaley and Mr. Harding op- ened their theaters early this spring and announced today that they would continue to give the same high class features that they have been giving to the public in the past. Bemidji has been very fortunate with its moving ‘pictures as theater- goers here can see as large and as fine pictures as ‘are being exhibited in the Twin Cities and at practically the same time that they are exhibited there. Appreciate Patronage. “I appreciate the patronage that the Grand theater has received in the past,” said Mr. Harding today, “‘and the theater is being moved to the Brinkman theater location in order TWO0. “FORTIES” SOLD AT STATE LAND SALE Oscar Arneson, in charge of the sale of state lands in the office of the state auditor, conducted a land sale here this morning and sold two “forties.” Mr. Arneson announced that any- one desiring certain pieces of land to | be placed on sale should write to the state duditor and the land will be aced on sale. Y‘;flsers are now in the field and 4and will be able to be offered at che spring sale. Another sale will be held here in November. GIRLS MUST WEAR HIGH COLLARS AND LONG SLEEVES Watertown, S. D., Oct. 13.—High school girls must wear sailor snits or middies of a solid color, made of Wwool or cotton, and the necks must be high, with sleeves below the el- bows, according to a ruling of the board of education, today. Girls are forbidden to wear personal orna- ments of any sort. Boys must not wear sweaters or jerseys to school. LUTHERAN LEAGUE TO0 MEET THURSDAY The Swedish Luatheran League will meet at the home of Rev. J. H. Randahl, 623 Mississippi avenue, Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. JUDGE STANTON TO GRAND RAPIDS FOR COURT Judge C. W. Stanton left this morn- ing for Grand Rapids where he will remain until he has completed the fall term of district court there. It is expected that about a month will be required to complete the calendar which conists of 50 jury cases and 25 court cases. ' EXTENSION WORK AT BUENA VISTA The Bemidji school extension course teachers will go to Buena Vista Lo Miss Condon’s school, Thurs- day evening, for extension work. Other meetings which have -been scheduled” for extension work are: Oct. 21, Solway school; Oct. 28 Hckles school, teacher, Miss Frances Bowers; Nov. 4, Lammers school; Nov. 11, Swenson Lake school, teach- er, Mrs. Johnson. A farmers’ institute will be held at the high school, Nov. 20. Among the speakers will be A. J. Mchre and F. R. Crane. BLOWS ARE STRUCK AT SGHOOL MEETING to better and more comfortably ac- commodate the Bemidji theater goers.” “When I came to Bemidji,” said Mr. Whaley today, “I realized that it was necessary to give high class productions. I have secured some of the biggest features produced in the past and will continue to secure large attractions in the future.” Hotel is Leased. Ross Runnels has leased the hotel Zrom Mr. Harding and Mr. Whaley and will conduct a hotel there, op- ening tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Brinkman have been conducting the hotel for the past seventeen years. They came to Be- midji in 1897 from Brainerd by stage coach and have built up a large hotel and theater business. The Brink- man theater was opened eight years ago and has enjoyed a very liberal patronage. To Go to Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Brinkman will con- White Earth, Minn,, Oct. 13.—At a school meeting held in district No. 112, Becker county, established last spring, which includes the village of White Earth, the proposition to bond the district to recure funds for the erection of adequate school buildings was voted down. The government closed the day schools heretofore maintained in the village of White Earth last spring and through the efforts of the resi- dents of the districts, including many white settlers, a new school district was created, and, pending the erec- tion of adequate school buildings, the government tendered the new school board the use of the former day school buildings. A recent census of the district shows that there are 170 children eligible to attend school, and as the present building can accommodate only about 60 pupils, it was proposed to bond the district for the purpose of providing necessary funds for the tinue to make their home in Bemidji but are planning a trip to Europe in the very near future. RAFFLES DAKOTA LAND BUT KEEPS THE GOAL ‘Washington, Oct. 13.—The govern- ment today opened for settlement 110,000 acres in the former Ft. Bert- hold Indian reservation, North Da- kota. The applicants, with the ex- ception of war veterans, must reg- ister in person’at either Minot, Bis- marck or Plaza, N. D. The lands north and east of the Missouri river in Mountrail and Mc- Lean counties have been appraised at $2.50 to $8.00 per acre. They contain coal which will be reserved for the Fort Berthold Indians. The drawing commences Nov. 4, 1915, and the entries, not exceeding 160-acre tracts, will be allowed com- mencing May 1, 1916. Rome, Oct. 13.—Newspapers today assert that the Sultan in answering the pope's plea, promised to cease Ar- menian massacres. erection of adequate school buildings to meet state requirements. The meeting ended in a row, and during the turmoil blows were struck and the ballot box, poll books and papers were forcibly taken from the school board clerk by members of the opposing factions. It is probable that warrants will be issued against the ring leaders and the matter will when that body has its next session. SCOOP rerorrer REPORTER TR KKK KKK KKK KKK *x ACRE. . OF LAND IN SOUTH DAKOTA SINKS 7 FEET Plankinton, 8. D., Oct. 13. —Hundreds of people are vis- iting a spot near the county line between Plankinton and ‘Wessington Springs to inspect a curious freak of mnature. Nearly an acre of land has dropped a distance of seven feet below its former level. No reason for the prenomen- on is known unless the drop- ping of the land was caused by an underground body of water. Kk khkkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkkhkhhkh * * * * R 3 x * * * * * * * * * x x x x HH KKK KKK KKK LAND GLEARING DISCUSSED AT MEET 0. 1. Bergh, Former Bemidji Profes- sor, Gives Address at Big Lake Club Meeting. Many farmers attended the Big Lake Farm club meeting at the Peter Edd farm today. A special program had been pre- pared, including an address by O. I Bergh, of the North Central Experi- mental Station at Grand Rapids. Formerly of Bemidji. Mr. Bergh took up a discussion of “Land Clearing.” He was formerly at the head of the agriculture de- partment of the Bemidji schools and is a brother of E. C. Bergh who has 4 farm near Lake Plantaganet. “At the experimental farm,” said Mr. Bergh in his address, “we cut the merchantable timber and sell it for cordwood and lumber. Then we pile the tops, cut the brush and pull the logs together for burning. Clear With Team. “We then go into the clearing with a team and pull out the stumps that are possible to pull out with a team, not by using a stump puller. The larger stumps are left. The ground is then cut by a disc and loosened and after using a spring tooth harrow, grass seeds are planted. Money can be made on land even though-it ibe not cleared.” - Make Money While. Clearing. Mr. Bergh described at length the best methods that are being used for| clearing lands and told the members of the club how to make money on the land while clearing it. He gave the following figures of an experiment at the experimental farm: Production of 55 head of dairy cows on stump land pasture for four months and 17 days during the past year at the North Central Experi- ment Station at Grand Rapids. Pasture acreage, 79 acres of stump land, brushed and seeded. Pasture acreage, 19 acres of tim- WILSONTORECOMMEND |* DOUBLINGNAVY'SSIZE Program is Being . Contemplated; Must Be Increased in Five Washington, Oct: 13.—Fifteen to 20 fighting ships of the dreadnaught and battle cruiser type with a ‘pro- portionate number of, m-golng sub- marines, coast submrlnes, scout cruigers, destroyers and auxiliaries —enough to make & ’n,ei;v ‘American fleet—is contemplated, by Secretary | Daniels for a recommendation as a five-year building program - for the United States navy. President Wilson and Secretary Daniels have discussed’ informally the needs of the-navy, and are agreed that in order to be adequately pre- pared for - defense, ~the present strength of the fleet must almost be doubled in the next five ‘years, with the addition of many -of the latest type of fast and powerful fighting craft. Details Are Incomplete. Details as to numbers have not yet been finally worked out,’but the idea of fixing a' ratio for a continuous program over a period of five years is the basic principle upon which the general board of the navy and Sec- retary Daniels now are planning their recommendation. Amother confer- ence between the president and sec- retary will be held Friday at which the total number pmhnhly will be fixed. - Hundred Submarines, The five-year naval program, when completed, would add in'addition to dreadnaughts and battle cruisers, nearly a hundred submarines, about 70 destroyers and several coast crui- sers and a proportionate number of fuel and hospital ships. An important part of the program, too, will be a proposal for a large in- crease in personnel. Appropriation for at least 8,000 additional men will . be asked for the first year to make up present deficiencies, and an .adequate number will be sought to man the mew ships built in the five-year period. % Administration Measure. The cotal eost nt the_proposed Pro- rfani” for “the. first #'year; . ac- cording to present plans, is estimated at nearly $248,000,000 or .about $100,000,000 increase over last-year. Just what construction should be pro- vided for the first ‘year, has not been determined. , As to the approximate number of ships the fleet " should have at the end of five years, how- ever, officers of the general board and Secretary Daniels are understood to be in thorough accord. It is understood that after study- ing the naval program carefully, President Wilson intends to discuss it in his annual message and make it ber land. Pasture acreage, 15 acres of mus- keg land. Average number of head pastured, 55.4 cows. Average number of head milking, 49.8 cows. Received 134,650 Pounds Milk, Production from May 16 to Oct. 3, four months and 17 days, was as follows: which there was 21,509 pounds of cream and a remainder of 113,141 pounds of skim milk. The cream had -6,597.6 pounds of butter fat. The 6,597.5 pounds butter fat at 28 cents, $1,847.30. The 113,141 pounds skim milk at 50 cents per hundredweight (worth that much feeding to calves) $565.70, making a total of $2,413 received from the cows. Cost of feed at $30 per ton, $509. 50; labor at 156 cents per hour, $477.85, making the total expense of the cows $1,087.35. The net profit was $1,325.65. ) Gross production per cow for four months and 17 days, $43.55; net pro- duction per cow for same period, $23.93; net profit per acre, stump land pasture, $16.57; net profit per acre, whole pasture, $11.73. Paris, Oct. 13.—Bulgaria declared also be placed before the grand jury war against Serbia Tuesday, says a Bucharest dispatch today. TRIS oSy KX B %, &> 134,650 pounds of milk, of | an administration measure. RESIGNS FROM FORD CO. AGGOUNT OF WAR TALK Detroit, Mich., Oct. 13.—Announce- ment’ was made that James Couzens has resigned as vice-president, treas- urer and general manager of the Ford Automobile company. “1"could not agree with Mr. Ford’s public utterances with reference to war unpreparedness and other sub- jects of world interests,” Mr. Couzens said today. He has been associated with Mr. Ford for 13 years. He will retain his interest in the firm and will remain a member of its board of directors, Mr. Ford said today. MOTHERS’ MEETING FRIDAY AFTERNOON A mothers’ meeting will be held at the first and second grade room in the Central building, Friday. Oct. 22, from two. to four o’clock so that the mothers of the children in these grades can see the work that is being done. - Refreshments will be served at four o’clock. Miss Harding and Miss Budelman ’are the teachers of the: classes. The World Is Cheated Out Of A Bright Remark -GEE \T WAS SUMPIN' YouD KKK KKK KKK KK KK KK [ +|GARRINGTON POLIGE POLICE CHIEF "DEFEATS MAYOR What . care we world’s series. Chiet of Police Frank Rip- ple defeated Mayor McCuaig in the first game at the new Gould bowling alleys last evening. The score was 98 to 94. No records were broken and no excuses were made. Many people attended the opening of the alleys. Barney Popp bowled ‘the higest score of the evening, rolling 209. for.. the TRF KA AKA A A KA KKK A KK kK Tk ko okk ok kk ok ok ok ok ok ok kok kK TR H KKK KKK KKK BOSTON WINS WORLD'S BASEBALL PENNANT Takes Fourth Straight Game From Philadelphia By a Score of % 5to 4. Philadelphia, Oct. 13.—Boston to- day won the world’s baseball cham- pionship by defeating Philadelphia four straight games. The score to- day was 5 to 4. The score up to the eighth inning was 4 to 2 in favor of the Phillies. In the eighth inning, in Boston’s half,” with Gainer on a base, Lewis drove a home run into the center field bleachers scoring Gainer ahead of him and tieing the score, 4 to 4. In the ninth inning Hooper knock- ed a home run for Boston. It was Heoper’s second home run of the series. Boston’s totals were five runs, ten hits, one error; Philadelphia, four runs, nine hits, one error. The batteries were Foster Thomas for the Boston team Mayer, Rixie and Burns for ' the Philadelphia nine. Mayer was knocked from the mound in the first of the third inning. Today was an ideal day for a ball game and over 22,000 people went Lo the park for the game. The special train carrying the players scheduled to arrive at seven o’clock did not ar- rive until eleven and there were many rumors afloat that the game would elther be lnte or postponed BHAIIGH BANKS FI]H SOUTH AMERICA ‘Washington, Oct. 13.—The federal reserve board has announced that for the present it would not favor the establishment of joint agencies of federal reserve banks in South and Central American countries, with the possibility that the reserve bank money would be locked up in long time loans subject to the wide fluc- tuations of foreign exchange. Pioneer work in the Latin Ameri- can countries, the board decided, should be done by member-banks of the federal reserve system, and with this in view it promises its support to an amendment which would en- able members to co-operate in own- ing and operating foreign banks. The bank also called attention to the fact that England, Germany and France has established independent banks or branch banks of deposit banks in Latin-American countries to do pioneer work, and that the United States should pursue the same course. BAUDETTE MAN IS WAR VICTIM Baudette, Minn., Oct. 13.—Word has been received here today of the death of Archie McMellan, formerly an operator at the C. N. R. station of this place, in some European bat- tlefield. As soon as the Canadian soldiers were mobilized he resigned his posi- tion and left for Winnipeg, where he enlisted and remained in training until some time in the winter. He was killed some place in_France. Not two weeks ago Agent Muncey received a long letter from him. and and GHIEF IS WORSE| Carrington, N. D., Oct. 13.—Chiet of Police Carl Nelson, who was shot through the stomach in a room at the Gilby rooming house early Sunday morning during a battle with four bandits, one of whom was killed and another captured, is reported to be in a critical condition at a St. Paul hos- pital today. His condition is said to be growing worse and it is feared he will not re- cover from the effects of the wound. The bullet evidently pierced his in- testines. The chief is only 25 years old. He is'married and has one child. That he is well liked in this community was plainly evidenced when the people of Carrington chartered a spagial train to rush him to a St. Paul hospital fol- lowing the shooting affray. The t#o bandits who got away dur- ing the gun fight with the posse are still at large, but the authorities of North Dakota have joined in a state- wide search to bring them to justice. STANTON HEARS AITKIN COUNTY DITCH CASE Judge C. W. Stanton in the dis- trict court Tuesday heard the Aitkin county judicial ditch case which in- volved an alleged over-expenditure in the construction. The case in- volved several thousand dollars and was tried by Minneapolis and Du- luth attorneys. GERMANY FOR PEAGE IF ALLIES MAKE OVERTURES —_— By Carl Ackerman. (Unitea Press Staff Correspondent) (Copyright, 1915, by United Press.) (Copyright in Great Britain. ) Berlin, Oct. 13.—The storm of in- dignation against Germany for in- vading Belgium is scant, declared Foreign Minister von Jagow today in an interview with the United Press, regarding the Allies landing troops in Greece. I agked if the. final decision of the Balkgns brought anomer psychologic- al DPepee move. He said: - "You must ask Ger- willing to consider pe‘we if the Allies will make oyertures. MAYOR ACQUITED IN' ELECTION FRAUD.CASE Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 13.—Mayor Joseph Bell was today acquitted of conspiracy election charges. The cuse has octupied five weeks. ENGLISH ANSWER ¥ VON JAGOW'S GHARGES By Ed L. Keen. (United Press. Staf Correspondent) (Copyright, 1915, by United Press.) (Copyright in Great Britain.) London, Oct. 13.—Answering the United Press interview with Von Jagow in which the foreign' minister denounced the Allies’ = landing on Greek soil, a statement from British official sources given me today, as- serted that at no time have the Al- lied troops take action on the Greek soil when they were not welcome on Greek .s0il. ‘ BEMIDJI FARMERS’ CLUB HOLDS MEETING The Bemidji Farmers’ club held a meeting Saturday at the Carr Lake school house.” About 45 farmers were present. Feed buying on a co- operative plan, rural routes and tele- phones were among the subjects dis- cussed. All meetings in the future will be held at the Carr Lake school house. TO HELP GIRLS EARN A LIVING Philadelphia, Oct. 13.—A confer- ence directed by the Russell Sage Foundation began: here to consider vocational education for girls. Noted educators and philantrophists at- By “HOP" TEUTONS ADVANGE IN SERBIA; ALLIED SITUATION SERIOUS French, English and Russians Bush - Troops; Czar to Attack Bulgaria, s JAPAN MAY AID IN BALKANS, I!EEPDIT Kaiser Wilhelm Reported to Be At Austro-German Headquarters in Serbia. London, Oct. 13.—Serbia is now be: ing attacked from the north and the east. - The Austro-Germans, after their capture of Belgrade und Sem- endria, are advancing southward, While the Bulgarians have sent ‘forces to endeavor to interrupt communica- tions north and south of Nish, the war-time capital of Serbia, and at- tack the Serbs on the flank if they are driven back by the German Field Marshal Von Mackensen. Situation Serious. The situation is admitted to be a. very serious one, not onty for Serbia, but for the whole allied cause. It is asserted that the Serbians are in- flicting very heavy losses, both on the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians, but with their army of about a quarter of a million men, they are believed to have little chance of making any prolonged resistance against three or four thousand Austro-Germans and probably 200,00 Bulgars. They are already arranging for the transfer of the capital to Monastir, in the ex- treme southwestern corner of thg kingdom. 3 French at Salonici. % An Anglo-French force is known to be landing in Salonici, but there is considerable speculation as to where Russia will enter the Balkan conflict. It is reported that Grand Duke Nicholas is to command the Russian Balkan army which, it is be- lieved in military circles here, would make the Russian people less willing to fight against Russia, there being a deep veneration among thy. Bulgarian peasants. for the empsrqr nt Raussia and his family. Itnly to Stay Out It is understood that Italy has de- cided not to co-operate with the Al- lies in the Balkans, the Italian gov- ernment being of the opinion: that troops cannot be spared for any cam- paign other than in Trentino and Triest. Emperor in Serbia. Emperor William has arrived at the Austro-German headquarters in Serbia, according to a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Morning Post, which gives as authority a Berlin telegram. JAPAN PLANS FUTURE COURSE Tokio, Oct. 13.—Bulgaria’s parucl- pation in the svar and advices re- ceived here from London that British opinion in some quarters at least favors the dispatch ‘of Japanese troops to the Balkans, have suddenly reopened the question in Tokio of what Japan’s future course will be. There is a strong impression here that the return from Paris today of Baron Kikujire Ishai, the recently appointed minister of foreign affairs and previously ambassador to France, is likely to be followed by a full re- consideration of the international situation with special reference to Japan’s policy for the preservation of her own permanent interests. OFFICIALS DENY JAPS TO AID Paris, Oct. 13.—Officials here to- day denied the report of the contem- plated use of Japanese troops in the Balkans. Paris, Oct. 13.—Newspapers today say that Russia is preparing to land a great force of men ‘on the Bulgarian Petrograd, Oct. 13.—The Russians are vigorously resuming the offen- sive against the Austrians. Import- ant gains have been made in Ga- lied drive in the Artois and Cham- pagne regions is expected.” The' Al- lies plan to keep the kaiser too buny in the west to push the Btlhn‘ pnixn Rame, Oct. 13.—The war ofluv‘ this ‘afternoon made the official an- nouncement that all Austrians'found. Amsterdam, Oct. 13.-—A fresh Al-.::