Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 27, 1915, Page 1

3 tle. excitement. THE BEM IDJ I VOLUME 13, No. 258. Arthur Arnston, 12, Of Quiring, County Schools Champion Potato Grower Son of J. M. Arntson, Who A nds|Winner of Potato Contest Writes Ar- School in Dist. 93 is Awardea . ’fto %, ticle on How I Grew My Potatoes; Prize in Five Potato Contest. Had 56 Pieces of Potato. %,e % COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF |TOTa "RHT OF POTATOES 132 SCHOOLS ANNOUNCES WINNERS| POUN. JARE MARKETABLE Dorothy Carlson of Foy is Awarded Second Prize and Mauritz Berg- quist is Given Third Prize. Cultivated “Farm” Carefully; Pours Luke-Warm Water on Roots to Keep Them Moist. Arthur Arntson of Quiring is the county champlon potato Brower. He has been awarded first prize in the Five Potato contest, according to an announcement made today by W. B. Stewart, county superintendent of schools. Arthur is 12 years of age and is the son of J. M. Arntson. He at- tends school in Dist. No. 93. Begun Last Spring. The contest was begun last spring and the rules were the same as those governing the State Eighth-Acre Po- tato contest. Every school child in Beltrami county was eligible and each applicant was given five potatoes of the Carmen No. 1 variety. The points considered were: For the largest number of pounds of potatoes grown—70. For the largest number of pounds of marketable potatoes—20. How I grew my crop of five pota- toes—10. Raised 132 Pounds. Arthur raised 132 pounds of pota- toes of which 122 pounds were mer- chantable potatoes. He is awarded the first prize of $15. Miss Dorothy Carlson, daughter of John A. Carlson, was awarded the second prize of ten dollars. She raised 127 pounds, of which 113 were merchantable. The first and second prizes were donated by the Northern National bank of this city. The other prize winners were as follows: Third—Mauritz Bergquist, Nebish, 117 pounds raised; 100 pounds mer- chantable; prize, $7.560, Fourth—Reuben Carlson, Foy, 108 pounds ¥afsed: 9 pourids imerchant- able; prize $6:00. Fifth—Gustav Burr, Bemidji, 106 pounds raised; 100 pounds merchant- able; prize $4.00. Sixth—Willie Olson, Wilton, 100 pounds raised; 89 pounds merchant- able; prize $3.00. Seventh—Lauritz Koppang, Aure, 99 1-2 pounds raised; 85 1-2 pounds merchantable; prize $2.60. Bighth—Walter Hall, Wilton, By Arthur Arntson. (Winner of First Prize in Beltrami County Potato Contest.) In early May I fertilized a piece of ground with well decayed manure, and then plowed it under, and after that I had it well harrowed. I then raked it with a hand rake and picked up all the sod which had been plow- ed up. I cut my potatoes carefully with a sharp knife and got one eye to each piece of potato, and I got fifty-six (56) pieces of potato. I planted my potatoes the 20th of May. It took me about half an hour to plant them after the ground had been prepared. I took two marking sticks and marked the ground, the rows being three and one-half feet (31%) apart and the hills two feet (2) apart. After I had marked it I took a hoe and made a hole in each corner about four inches deep and then laid a piece of potato with the eye on the upper side, so it would grow easier and then covered them up, putting the ground lightly over them. After the potatoes came up I be- gan to pick out the weeds and to cultivate them. I cultivated around them with, a hand cultivator and also hoed around and loosened up the soil around them. I also hilled them with a hoe, and picked off the bugs that began to eat up the leaves. ‘When it was very warm I poured some luke-warm water on them and the roots to keep them moist. ‘When I had dug and weighed them I found out that I had one hundred and thirty-six pounds. Thé piete-of gTund was 56x4 square feet. schools’ TRANSIENT GIVEN TEN DAYS ON LARCENY CHARGE Martin Kelley, a transient, was given a sentence of ten days in the county jail this morning in municipal court on a charge of petit larceny. Kelley secured a job of cutting wood for A. B. Palmer and yesterday after- noon stole a screw driver and a set 92 |screw. He was arrested early last pounds raised; 81 pounds merchant- | evening. able; prize $2.60. Ninth—Audin Olson, Blackduck, |INDIANS ARE PAID 86 pounds raised; 82 pounds chantable; prize $2.50. Tenth—Willie Blakeley, Farley, 86 pounds raised; 78 pounds merchant- able; prize $2.50. Eleventh—Roy Speck, Bemidji, 80 pounds raised; 71 pounds merchant- able; prize $2.50. Arthur Anderson of Dist. No. 81 -and Signe Youngman of Dist. No. 93 have been awarded honorable men- tion. They were tied with 78 pounds each. mer- $18.50 AS ANNUITY Chippewa Indians of the White Earth Indian agency were this morn- ing given their regular Federal an- nuity at the city hall at a payment conducted by officials of the White Earth agency. The payment was made here as there are a number of the Indians at the Red Lake reser- vation and at Cass Lake. Over 250 Indians received $18.50 each, the al- loted annuity. The payment was conducted by B. P. Six, chief clerk; John Howard, superintendent; Wil- liam Dailey, interpreter, and L. G. Perry, school inspector. I E RS RS R SRR R RS E R * BOILED NEWS. * HRHH KK KKK KK KK KK Pittsburgh, Pa.—It became known here today that the Pressed Steel Car company having completed an order for 7,600 steel freight cars for the SOLDIERS’ HOME COMMANDER IS HERE ON VISIT Russian government, yesterday Captain A. J. Harris, commander closed a contract for an additional |of the Soldiers’ Home in - Minnea- 8,600. polis is in the city, the guest of F. Chicago—Professor J. Henry Kap- pes, an authority on music, died at the home of a son in Evanston, last night at the age of 91 yeara. ‘Washington—Miss Lydia B. (on- ley of Kansas City, Mo., is the first woman of Indian descent to be ad- mitted to practice law before the su- preme court. Paris—The question of a successor to Theophile Delcassee, who recently resigned as foreign minister, will be definitely decided at todny’s meeting of the cabinet. ‘Washington—Early recognition by many of the European powers of the Carranza government in Mexico, it was belleved here today, is now as- sured as.the result of optimistic re- ports concerning the situation in the southern republic. cumbsrhnd, England—Blast fur- nace -workers’ wages have increased 69 per cent since the beginning of the war. They play an important part in the manufacture of muni- tions. ‘Washington—As the formulation of the season’s social program hangs on the date of the wedding of Presi- dent Wilson and Mrs. Galt, the rumor current -today that the ceremony would take place at Mrs. Galt’s home on Twentieth street during the first ten days of December created no.lit- M. Pendergast and P. J. Russell. They left on a several days’ hunting trip this afternoon. GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE ON DRUNK CHARGE Charles Lake. a transient, was given a five-dollar, five-day suspended sentence this morning in the muni- cipal court on a charge of drunken- ness. Take advantage of a want ad. CAMP-IF T TAKE THis MINTH OF TRAINING THENWHEN © WAR IS DECLARED WHY I GETA J0B As AN OFF{CER INTH 2 THE CUB REPORTER liiitilli*iiiiiflfi x * TWO BLOCKS OF VIRGINIA Virginia, Minn,, Oct. 27.— Local - county officials and others interested in the In- dian treaty law, which will cause Hibbing and Chisholm to go dry Nov. 1, claim that it the provision in the . treaty regarding points within a Report of County :Auditor Shows $7,833,007- Valuation; De- crease of $386,565. day’s walking ~distance of Z points affected by the treaty, COUNTY AND STATE RATE : is enforced, only two blocks DECREASED TO 197 MILLS on the main thoronghtare S ‘would be made dry. £ t According to legal auth- +|Town of Northern Has Largest Valua- orities a day’s walking dis- tion; Town of Pioncer Has tance is 12 miles. Eveleth 5 would not be affected by the Lowest. provision of the treaty relat- ST ing to points within a day's walking distance of dry ter- ritory. Beltrami county. taxes will prob- ably show a decrease .of-eight-tenths of a mill this year as compared to f1914. e The taxable vnlui(ion of property in the county, announced af. the of- fice of the county auditor today for the year 1915 amounts to $7,833,- 007, divided as . follows: Land values, $6,687,486; personal prop- erty, $1,145,621. Increase is Large. The taxable valuation for 1914 \amounted to $7,646,442, divided as follows: Land values, $6,3565,689; ‘| personal property, $1,190,753.:- New York, Oct. 27.—The coat he{ rThe inerease-in:viluation Zor the wore when shot, his finger ring; rifle,{year 1915 over 1914 is 3zsw inkstand, watch key and other inti- 1914 Rate is 20:5 Mi mate personal relics owned and used| - Frém thése valustions ;hefinmy by Abraham Lincoln, will be sold|auditér determines: the rate afftaxa- “under the hammer” at the Ander- _“:‘: f':" ‘ha‘t}:"L 1;‘;4‘”"‘@ ;‘;‘: state .tax: Tates was 20.5 | son: galleries tfzday. Minge: gales mills and this year the Tate has been already have beeht made. decreased to 19.7 mills, Rifle Will Be Sold. The county rate is divided” among Among these objects are the Lin-}the following funds: Revenue, 5.8; coln-Brooner rifle, bought in com- road and bridge, 3.4; sinking fund, mon by Lincoln and Henry Brooner sanatorium, 9; state rural high- for $15 and used by them in their ‘way sinking fund, 2.25. shooting trips until 1830; a lock of Money Not Included. Lincoln’s hair, and a cane and um- These figures do not- include the brella handles owned by the Great|Money and credits for the county, Emancipator. which are at a rate of three mills. These things are a part of the col-] The money and cre@lu in the county lection of Lincolniana formed by | fOr this year are $762,995 with a tax John E. Burton, of Milwaukee, who of $2,289.01. In 1914 the money has been assembling them for fifty |nd credits were “63?"“9’ or. & de:: year: Among the books and manu- | crease from thlryenrs valuation of; scrffl‘!’s to be sold are nearly all t $28,126. biographs of Lincolu, ineluding Tax Rlie' m eral in foreign languages, many por-| The rate of tax in the unorgnnuefl traits, the only known copy of the |districts of the county, including the pamphlet entitled “Reasons Against |unorganized school districts is GO the Renomination of Abraham Lin-|mills, which is divided as follows: coln,” the only cover ever offered at|State and county, 19.7; the county auction of “The Bloody Junto,” Lin-|commissioners have - provided - for coln’s last order for a pardon, - two|roads and bridges in each of the un- leaves from Lincoln’s sum book of | organized towns, the money to be about 1824, with his autograph, and|used on these roads and the money a series of seven documents signed fto be raised by a levy in each town by Lincoln which reveal four profes-|or a rate of 16 mills; and the school sional associations ‘“about whichjlevy of 15.3 mills. nothing has been generally known.” City Values $1,635,360. ST ‘rhe total valuation of property fu the towns of the county is $4,632,- 385 for lands and $345,663 for per- sonal property. In the villages and the city ofiBemidji valuation for lands is $1,668,939 and personal|; valuatiens $780,268. The valustions in the &ty of Bemidji are $1,635,360." In the*unorgsnized territories: the land valuation:is $386,162 amd the personsl prepeity valuation 18- $19,- 610. ' The rates of taxation in the school districts, towns and villages have not been definitely fixed. Northern Values $234,252. The.town of Northern is the larg- est taxable town in the county, hav-| ing valuations' amounting to. $234,- 252; Shooks has a valuation of $228,966; Nebish, $166,874; Frohn, $146,649, and Turtle Lake, $138,- 227. The town with the lowest valuation morning reported that a big cow |18 Pioneer, with a valuation of $9,- moose was seen on her farm recently.’f311. Mr. Anderson, father of Mrs.” Rust- vold, was cutting brush on a hay | SHORES CASE IS meadow, near the house, when the|. CONTINUED ONE W'EEK moose came up to him, looked at him for a time and then turned and walk- The case of Charles Shores, ac- cused of assault, was continued to- ed slowly into the woods. ————— day until Nov. 3 at ten o’clock, as WOLF BOUNTIES PAID. '! Mrs. A. J. Higgens, a witness, was -+ Junable to appear in court. Wolf bounties have been paid to Shores was arrested last Thursday Carl Wallen of Quiring, Peter Ra-|evening upon a complaint of A. J. dell of Spooner and George Acre of | Higgens of Nymore that 'he. had Pitt. / brutally kicked and bruised his wife. * * « * * * * x * * x * * x * * x * x x * * * * x * KKK KKK KKK KKK LINOLN RELICS ARE AUCTIONED Coat, Rifle, Cane, etc., of Martyred President Are Sold Under Hammer Today. SPOONER WOMAN CULTIVATES POPPY SEED Spooner, Minn., Oct. 27.—The Har- rison law will lose its hold ‘on ‘the’ folks in this section if all follow the example of Mrs. Pames Otto of Pitt, who raised over twenty-five pounds of poppy seed this season. “She was a visitor in town this week ‘amd brought in some nine pounds of seed, which was easily disposed of as there is considerable demand for it, for use in the baking of certain sweat breads of which many people are es- pecially fond. The seed brought in was of the very highest grade and speaks well for the soil and climate of this section. LARGE MOOSE SEEN _ON NEBISH FARM Mrs. P. K. Rustvold of Nebish thla’ A KRIAKAAA A AKX AR AN AR ARAA AR KRN A KK tion ships. 000 bail, ONE HUNDRED KILLED bacco. GOT HIS START IN GAME OF POKER Northome, Mini., Oct. 27. —J: Horton, owner of "the townsite of Margi, near here, but living in Western Wash- ington was in.Northome Mon- day evening renewing ac- quaintances with old friends. Mr. Horton was one of the early settlers in this section and is an interesting gentle- man to meet. He related com- ing to Northome with -just $1 and expecting to borrow $50 from the bank to buy a state forty that was to be sold. The bank refused the loan, but he says that night and won $117. He bought the forty and afterwards sold the timber thereon for $1,000 and got a good price for the land besides. Was to Get Copper Cargoes for Germany. ‘New York, Oct. 27.—Indicative of how vast their resources were, Rob- ert Fay, arrested on a charge, today said that they were prepared to pay $500,000 to persons inducing captains of Russian vessels to lose their -way in mid-ocean soi that their cargoes of copper would fall into German hands. are in need of copper to make muni- tions. Gives Detailed Confession, Fay, who is one of the five men charged with conspiracy to delay or prevent the sailing of war munitions ships ‘from this country, gave a de- tailed confession to Wm. J. Flynn, chief of the secret service: cording to the federal authorities, he repeated his former confession made to the police at Weehawken, N. J., but stated in addition that his mis- sion -besides placing bombs-on the nrunellors or rudders of ships was to endeavor te-bribe tha»mmmndeu of Russian vessels. = vi% Released on $25,000 Bail, Max Breitung, cousin of E. N. Breitung, Michigan capitalist, peared at the preliminary arraign- ment hearing this morning charge of participating in the al- leged conspiracy to blow up muni- He was released on $25,- on IN TYPHOON THAT HITS MANILA CITY Manila, Oct. 27.—A typhoon has partly wiped out the town of To- One hundred persons were killed and the railroad washed away. The governor general is sending a relief expedition to the stricken dis- trict. line TEACHERS TO ATTEND MINN. EDUCATIONAL MEET Several Bemidji teachers will leave this evening for Minneapolis where they will attend the annual meeting of the Mhmesota Educational asso- ciation. Among those who will attend the meeting are Miss Vermilyea, Shannon, Miss Phillips Michener. W. B. Stewart, county superintend- ent of schools, will also attend the meeting. CALIFORNIA REJECTS NON-PARTISAN PLAN San Francisco, Oct. 27.—California electors rejac'ted yesterday the propo- sition to make all state offices non- partisan, according to from larger voting places in all por- tions of the state. cinets the vote on the main non-par- tisan amendment was 14,672 for and | number of her friends at a six o’clock 19,866 against. What Good Are An Officer’s Brains If He Bats Shut In The Head? he got into a game of poker . KR KKK KK KK KKK CONSPIRATORS WERE T0 BRIBE RUSSIANS Fay Confesses Part of His Mission conspiracy The Allies In it, ac- ap- was, Miss and Miss indications From 647 pre- ish Have 13,000 = Troops In Salonika; ’ Greece Still Neutral Illill*liiilifili’ * - DAILY WAR, ANALYSIS Lord hnldnwnmnnmh Bnnnnl : (By J. W. T. Mason) «y Lords Explains the Balkan United Press Staff. *f paign * Correspondent. * O : AR R R R R R TR R & The Austro-German offensive in Serbia ‘has mow"been in‘ progress three weeks and the Teutons are a little more than one-fifth of the way by rail to Nish and about one-sev- enth of the way by rail to Bulgaria. During the three weeks’ opera- tions, Marshal von Mackensen has moved his main advance at the ap- proximate rate of one and a quarter miles per day. Last May, when Von Mackensen made his reputation by directing the movement through Ga- licia from the Dunajec to Przemysl in a fortnight, his speed was -six miles per day. The difference between his rapid progress then and his slow progress now is due not only to the greater ferocity of the Serbians, who are fighting for freedom, but also to the more difficult: nature of the country and to the better equipment of the Serbs. Serbia is one of the roughest fight- ing terrains in Europe. For nearly a year, too, the Serbian army has been inactive, accumulating muni- tions from the ‘Allies. There ought to be no reason why large stores of reserve munitions are not now avail- able in Serbia, since the Allies had at their disposal the Greek gateway into Serbia for months previous to the present operations. With a population of 4,500,000, it is prob- able Serbia now has under arms a force of ‘600,000 men. The appeal, - therefore, of the Al- lies. to Serbia to hold out for only five days longer seems certain to be heeded. Indeed, there 1is greater probability that the Serbians can hold out much longer than five days, ‘than there is that the Allies will be able to send a major force to Nish within that time. The movements, however, of the Allies in the Balkans are being cov- ered with much gecrecy. It seems|Americans whose adventurous spirits prphahle that the Pritish, whose in- | tempted them’to enlist in Euro 4 belligerent armies must remain 3 ¥ | dfers until ‘they are kil BELIEVES THAT GREECE WILL NOT ENTER WAR Austrian Troops Ocoupy Kladvo; Berlin in Communication With Ljubicevac. Paris, Oct. 27.—On account of Lord Lansdown’s admission in the British House of Lords that there were only 13,000 troops in Salonika it is be- lieved definite now that Greece will not participate in the Balkan cam- paign. Lord Lansdown explained that the British force landed at Salonici which numbered about 13,000 men, was sent at the request of Serbia, and at the instance of Venizelos (then premier) for the purpose of enabling Greece to fulfill her treaty obligations to Ser- bia. A much larger force had been placed under orders at the same time the Salonici troops were dispateited, but its ultimate destination would depend on the situation and the re- port of General Munro, the new Brit- ish commander-in-chief, who already has reached the Gallipoli peninsula. Austrian troops have occupied Kladvo, in the northeastern part of Serbia. The city has been pragtic- ally blown away by bombardments, Austro-Germans, according to Vien- reports, have progressed 40 miles south of Serbia’s northern frontier. Berlin announces that it-is in di- « rect communication with the Bulgar- ians at Ljubicevac. Kbk hkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkkkkhkhkkkhhhhkkhk o e e AMERICANS IN TREN( MUST FIGHT UNTIL RELIEVED BY DEATH By Wilbur S. Forrest. (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Oct. 6.—By mail.)—Agduit “This, i the- situation.. ;contraniing - scores of Uncle Sam’s. citt ens who.: have had their fill of WAT Bt vyt to get aut. Uncle .Sam can’t help - them, though many have requested his mediation. The British war of- fice will not release the Americans it. has enlisted. Cannot Release Adults. The American embassy in London which has been successful in having. between fifty and -sixty American minors released from British mili- tary service, could not extend . this service to the adults. In answer to many appeals from- men who joined the Canadians and who have survived hard fighting, the embassy passed the question to the state department at Washington. The department’s answer quoted the following order of 1901, which is stiil in force: Peace May Muster Out. 2 “The department of state, in an instruction to the United States con- sul at Lourenco Marques, during the Boer war, held that an American citizen who wilfully takes up arms in the service of a foreign state must bear the consequences of his act, and cannot expect, while he serves under a foreign banner, to be protected by this government.” Previous to receipt of this instruc- tion, inquiry by the embassy at the British war office, elicited the state- ment that the British goverament ' was unwilling to release American adults who have taken the king's oath. So American fighters must keep on fighting until death or peace mus- ters them out. Fretich ‘certainly have been able to ‘| throw a small force ngalnat the in- vading Bulgars. But the operations 1n Serbian Macedonia are obscure because of reticence at Paris and London and because it is too early yet to test the reliance of Bulgarian official state- ments. There can be no doubt, nev- ertheless, of the danger to which the Bulgarians theoretically are sub- jected by projecting theip:line across southern Serbia. If t¥e' Anglo- French can strike at this line from Greece soon, a disaster may well ov- ertake Czar Ferdinand’s army. a SELL TAGS FOR BENEFIT OF ROADS International Falls, Minn., Oct. 27. —International Falls’ first tag day, held under the auspices of the Auto- mobile club, proved a decided suc- cess, the committee reporting the sum of $148.98 raised for the benefit of good roads. MINNESOTA TEACHERS VISIT FLOUR MILLS Minneapolis, Minn.,, Oct. 27.— visits to flour mills, factories, art gal- leries and other places of ‘interest will take up much of the time of the several hundred school teachers at- tending the Minnesota Educational association’s annual convention here today, Miss Elizabeth Hall, general chairman of the local arrangements committee announced. NO DAMAGE AT FIRE The fire department was called to the J. C. Williams residence, 918 Mississippi avenue, last evening. A fire had started in the chimney but no damage was done. INDIAN AGENTS CLOSE FOUR MORE TOWNS Hibbing, Mini., Oct. 27.—Taconite, Marble, Stevenson and Kelly Lake sa- loons were ordered closed on Monday . by the Indian department of the Unit- ed States under the 1856 treaty with the Chippewa Indians. The. ‘notices. were served through the mail. Calumet is the only town in the. Indian treaty country.which has not received -notification to close. Two saloons are affected at Marble, one at Stevenson, ope at Kelly Lake and one at Taconite. = -Marble. nloonkeeners, ln eamuny, with Chisholm’s and Hibbing’s, will . oppose the order in the eouru,v but ¢ on what grounds is not yet knowa. . Mrs. C. B. Powell entertained a dinner last evening: By nHOP ' DARUNGY; \Ta DARN HARD ° BEPATRIOTIC KJH EnGR Trenton, N. J. 1 5 attend classes in. summer without l: collar and in winter sit muffied up in a sweater if he so chooses. or has a teacher the_authority to Admm 2 the attire of the pllplla? Th'l,n is the.