Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 11, 1915, Page 1

e e THE BEMIDJI D BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENmG, NOVEMBER 11, 1915. VOLUME 13, NO. 271. FRANK KOZZ IS ARRESTED, GHARGED %, SHOOTING () 2, Bohemian, Who /‘% Reen at St. An- C, theny Hospital, 1. 199‘ n Into Cus- tody, Accused of Si. * “Pal.” ROW OCCURRED AT + DICKENSON HOTEL, NOV. 5 Joe Novak, Victim of Affair, Will Be Held as Witness; Condition of Both Men Satisfactory. Frank Kozz, Bohemian, aged 35 years, was this afternoon arrested by Chief of Police Frank Ripple, charged with having shot Joe Novak, a Bo- hemian, aged 20 years. Kozz and Novak have been held at St. An- thony’s hospital since the shooting, which occurred Nov. 5. The two men had returned from the harvest fields in North Dakota several days before the shooting and were staying at the Dickenson hotel. The shooting occurred early in the morning after a short scuffle between the two men. Novak claimed that Kozz would not allow him to sleep and that upon pro- testing Kozz drew a revolver. In a scuffle that followed both men were shot, Kozz being shot three times and Novak twice. None of the wounds proved serious. Both men had been drinking. Kozz denies the shooting, claiming that Novag attempted to rob him at the point of a gun. The police re- fuse to believe his story. Novak will be held as a witness. THANKSGIVING PROGRAM T0 BE GIVEN AT SGHOOL The junior and senior high school Thanksgiving program which will be given at the school Wednesday, Nov. 24, has been completed. The pro- gram will include a Miles Standish play of which some of the cast will be Herbert Raco, George Gra- ham, Hovey Lord, Milford Stafford, Frank Phibbs and John Cahill. The seventh and eighth grades, as- sisted by other grades, will also give a program. SIX WOLF BOUNTIES PAID TO FIVE HUNTERS Six wolf bounties were paid at the court house Wednesday. The fol- lowing received the bounties: Wil- liam Ellies, Zipple (two); Harlow Nelson, Wabanica; L. L. O'Dell, Hamre; Anton Paradee, Eugene, and Martin Tronnes, Buzzle. TELEPHONE CO. BUILDS SUBURBAN LINES M. B. Soles, district construction foreman of the Northwestern Tele- phone company, has a crew of men busy today constructing suburban telephone lines. ‘WOMAN GETS GOLD MEDAL FROM KAISER Berlin, Nov. 11.—Kaiser Wilhelm Wdecorated Mrs. James W. Gerard, the American ambassador’s wife, with a first class gold red cross medal. ‘She is the first woman not of royal blood to be decorated by the kaiser. John E. Gustafson of St. Paul has filed on 160 acres of land in town- i 750 BIG GAME LIGENSES INCOUNTY Several Hunters Get Limit in First Day’s Hunt; Light Snow North of Tenstrike. Over 750 big game licenses have been issued in Beltrami county, ac- cording to an announcement made this afternoon at the office of the county auditor. Reports are that deer are especial- ly numerous in this section. Al- though yesterday was a bad day for hunting, several hunters got their game and others report that they had good shots but missed. It is believed that wolves, which have been unable to find their cus- tomary rabbit diet, have driven the deer closer to civilization. A light snow fell in the vicinity of Tenstrike this morning which will enable the hunters to track their game. It is believed that at the first time of real cold weather or snow that there will be a general exodus of hunters to the woods. No accidents were reported during the first day’s hunt. TWO INJURED IN DRUNKEN BRAWL Hans Anderson and Stranger Quarrel and Fall Down Stairs; Wounds Not Serious. Hans Anderson and another man whose name is not known were In- jured in a brawl at the Hotel Nicollet late yesterday afternoon. The men had been drinking. Several ‘men were playing cards in an upstairs room when Anderson entered and asked to be allowed to “get into the game.” A dispute arose and a young man about 22 years of age began a quarrel with Ander- son. In a scuffle that followed both men fell down stairs. Anderson was severely cut around the head and body and the other man disappeared. Anderson ran up and down the street and Frank Ripple, chief of po- lice, was called. Chief Ripple took Anderson in charge, had the wounds dressed and kept him in jail over night. He was released this morn- ing. The younger man has not been lo- cated. TWENTY-THREE KILLED IN SUBMARINE ATTACK London, Nov. 11.—Twenty-three men were killed and 20 wounded :in an attack from gun fire from a sub- marine on the British transport{ Mer- cian in the Mediterranean. The Mer- cian escaped and reached port. FIRE AT STEEL PLANT ; CAUSES BIG DAMAGE South Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 11.— Fire yesterday caused damage esti- mated at from $1,000,000 to $4,- 000,000 to the Bethlehem Steel com- pany here. The company has not issued a statement. OUTSTANDING WARRANTS ARE BEING TAKEN UP Outstanding warrants for ditches 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28 are being taken up at the office of the county treasurer, $100,000 having been re- ceived on the ditch bonds. London, Nov. 11.—Reuter’s Petro- grad correspondent reported the res- ignation of S. V. Rukhloff, Russian minister of communication. KOORS BOWLING QUINT UNABLE T0 OVERGOME LEAD Quint Defeated by Pioneer Although Two Out of Three Games Are Won. GAME CLOSEST PLAYED IN BEMIDJI LEAGUE Barney Bopp Team to Meet Schneider Bros. Five at the Gould Alleys Tonight. Standing of the Teams. Won Lost Pet. Quality Groecers...... 1 0 1.000 Crookston Lbr. Co. 1 0 1.000 Pioneer 5 ol 0 1.000 B. Popp 0 0 1.000 Schneider ... 0 0 1.000 Barker’s .... 0 0 1.000 Barbers 0 0 1.000 Sentinel 0 1 .000 Beltrami County..... 0 1 .000 Koors Bros.. .. .0 1 .000 Despite the faet that thc Koors Bros. bowling team woa twe out of three games they were unable to overcome the lead secured by the Pic- neer five in the second game and were defeated last evening at the Gould alleys by 91 pins. Game is Close. The game was the closest that has been played in the league. The Koors Bros. team took the lead in the first game and defeated the Pio- neer team by 36 pins. In the sec- ong game the Pioneer came back strong and defeated the Koors team by 143 pins and the third game re- sulted in a victory for the Koors team by 16 pins. Denu High Man. E. H. Denu of the Pioneer team rolled the high score of the evening, getting 184 pins. The averages for the evening were as follows: Koors Bros.—Hill 127 1-3, Lebeck 122 2-3, Bell 136 2-3, Fier, 123 2-3 and Koors 122; Pioneer—Denu 153 2-3, Marcuim 125, Hedeen 119 2-3, Ripple 137 1-3 and Neumeier 127. The following are the scores: Koors Bros.— i AMERICANS LOSE LIVES WHEN LINER ANGONA IS SUNK Tension at Washington Lessens, How- ever, as Reports Indicate Steamer Attempted to Escape. TWENTY-SEVEN MAY HAVE PERISHED; REPORTS MEAGRE Dispatches State That 347 Passengers Out of 496 May Have Been Saved. Washington, Nov. 11.—Tension in official quarters over the sinking of the Italian steamer Ancona, on which several Americans were passengers, were lessened today by reports that the liner attempted to escape. 27 Americans Lost. About 27 Americans are believed to have been lost when the liner was torpedoed by an Austrian submarine, according to a report made by Am- bassador Page at Rome. Dispatches to the state department report that 347 paséengers of the liner were saved, out of 496. The Ancona was torpedoed Tuesday morning and a Tunis dispatch to the Giornale d’'Italia gives a . dramatic though brief account of the attack. Attempt to Escape. “A submarine approached the An- <cona towards noon,” says this aec- count, “and as soon as the steamer saw it an attempt was made to es- cape at full speed. The Ancona was overtaken and stopped. Then the submarine fired on the Ancona, strik- ing her, and amid the desperate cries of the passengers. “The life boats were next attack- ed, the submarine likewise firing on them. A woman, a man and two children were killed; their bodies are at Bizerta.” ChLL FOR BASKET ~ BALL TO BE MADE SOON With the authorization of the school board to secure the armory 325 1 | R A e 102 134 146 | for basket ball, interest in the game 135 96 137 |at the high school took a big leap 143 124 143 | this morning. 127 127 117 It is expected that a call for men 162 102 102|will be issued next week or soon —— ———|thereafter. Among those who it is 669 583 645 |expected will try out for the team Total—1,897. are Tanner, Johnson, Bailey, Graham, Pioneer— Cameron, Warfield, Plummer, Gainey Denu .......... 142 184 135|and Brooks, all last year’s first and Marcum . .. 91 153 131 |second team men. Hedeen 139 118 102| No action has been taken by the Ripple 143 147 122|city basket ball team. Neumeier ... 138 124 119 - . T ——|ROOT BELIEVES TAFT IS 653 726 609 MAN FOR PRESIDENCY Total—1,988. The B. Popp team will meet| Chicago, Ill, Nov. 11.—Elihu Schneider Bros. team tonight at the| alleys. THREE GOUPLES ARE LIGENSED TO WED Three couples this morning were licensed to wed. They were Olaf Kragness of Halstad to Miss Rena Bukke of Carmel, Emanuel Novak to Miss Permilie McCartney, both of Ny- more and Sam Nelson to Miss Amanda Kloster, both of Bemidji. The lat- ter two couples were married by Judge M. A. Clark of the probate court. Frank Koors has gone to Chicago and Milwaukee on a business trip. Root, without qualification in opin- ion, believes that Ex-president Taft is the one man for the presidency. In a speech last evening at a meeting of the National Security league he told the members that he believed that the administration plan of a board of inventors is all wrong. BRITISH STEAMSHIP GARIA SUNK BY SUBMARINE London, Nov. 11.—The British steamship Garia has been sunk by a German submarine. ST. PAUL MAN FILES ON 160 ACRES John E. Kerrigan of St. Paul this morning filed on ‘16¢ acres of lanc in township 153, range 30. ILY PIONEER T RISTOR, FORTY CENTS PER MORTK.‘ (] GREECE MAY-290%TY. \ AID SERBIA Delayed Message Says That Qutlook Has Changed on Account of the Landing of Troops. London, Nov. 11.—Greece may go to the aid of Serbia, according to a delayed message received here. The arrival at Salonika of many British troops is given as the reason for the change of outlook. Greece is convinced the Allies’ de- termination to fight the Austro-Ger- mans-Bulgarians. Greece’s backwardness about en- tering the Balkan campaign is caused by the fear that the Allies’ efforts will prove a farce and leave the bur- den of the whole campaign fall on Greece. BRITISH DEMAND - AGTION BY WARSHIPS London, Nov.' 11.—Vigorous ac- tion by the British warships in the mediterranean to end the Teutonic submarine activities has been ordered by the admiralty. Naval authorities are aroused by the threat against the transport service which began by the attack on the troop ship Mercian. BAND TOGIVE - FREE CONCERT First of Series of Entertainments to Be Given Tomorrow Evening; Dance After Concert. ey el The Bemidji band will give thé first of a series of free concerts to- morrow evening at the city hall. A special program has- been “arranged. Miss Ida Virginia Brown will be the soloist at the ¢oncert. It is planned to give a free con- cert at intervals during the winter months. After the concert tomorrow eve- ning, which will commence at eight- thirty o’clock, there will be given 'a dance. SCHOOL BOARD MEE'TS IN REGULAR SESSION The Bemidji school board held a regular meeting last evening and. dis- posed of routine matters. M. J. Brown and W. P. Dyer were appoint- ed as a committee to secure the ar- mory building for the use of the high school, boys for basketball during the winter months. Miss Ethel Lyons was appointed a teacher. She will instruct a class at the Central school. The board authorized the advertis- ing of bids for 600 cords of wood for the schools. a GERMANS TAKE OVER 4,000 SERBIAN PRISONERS Betlin, Nov. 11.—Four thousand Serbian prisoners have been taken by the Germans south of the Morava river, the war office announced this afternoon. Serbians are retreating through this district in an effort to reach Montenegro. INSANITY HEARING BEING HELD THIS AFTERNOON An insanity hearing is being held this afternoon at the probate court in the case of John P. Lund of Spooner. ship 153, range 30. THE CUB SCOO REPORTER PRIVATE SCO0P-SCOLT F) 1 0UT TowARD TH ENEMIES, ) Pretty Tough-To Get Wounded Right In The Sham Battle (TS ALOT OF FUN CRAWLING— OUT OF A TRENCH AN EYPosrie NOURSELF T0 A HEAVY FIRE. - N A SHAM BATTLE ~NO WORRY QF BEJN( SHOT WITH = BlLANKS N— By “HOP" DAWGONNIT- OF F\CER - SOME. STUPD INTHIS MANY KILLED IN CYCLONE THATSWEPT THROUGH KANSAS Property Damage Will Be Over Mil. lion Dollars; Many Towns Are Hit by Big Storm. HUNDREDS ARE INJURED; AID HURRIED TO SECTIONS Fire Breaks Out in Several Towns; Fire Departments Helpless; Water Plants Wrecked. [ — Kansas City, Kas., Nov. 11.—Death and destruction is following a twenty mile path of a cyclone which swept South Bend, Hutchinson, Derby, Clay- ton, Hoisinton, Lanard and other villages in Central Kansas last eve- ning and early this morning. At Great Bend the latest estimate of cyclone casualties is four dead. Five fires broke out during the morn- ing and the fire department is help- less as a result of the wrecking of the water plant. Rain probably saved the city. It is believed that more. than 100 people have been injured. Vir- tually all telegraph and telephone lines have been put out of commis- sion. Many buildings at Hoisington, Kan., were swept into a heap of deb- . ris, according to a telegraph report. — Several thousand sheep were killed when the cyclone struck their feed- ing place. / Every available man is tearing through the debris in an effort to re- .lease persons who are imprisoned. Many of those injured were caught in_their homes, which were picked up from their foundations and twist- ed and crushed into a mass of debris. 'Great’ Bend, Kas, Nov. 11.— Twelve bodies have been recovered: from the derbis in the wake of the 7 cyclone which swept through the southeastern section of the city. The ! property loss.is estimated.at $500,000. Three flour mills, the Santa Fe depot and fifty residences were wrecked. Physicians are arriving from the neighboring towns to help the wound- ed. Searchers,worked all night tak- ing the injuded from beneath wrecked buildings. STORM STRIKES o Ay i SOUTH DAKOTA ] Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov: 11.—A tor- nado struck Hartford, S. D., last ' night, wrecked the electric light plant and injured four persons, none se- riously. .. The tornado passed over the town from southwest to northeast, changed its course and swept the ) town a second time,' and then with diminished force struck Sioux Falls. 3 Much minor damage was done at A Sioux Falls by the heavy rain which { followed the wind. PETITIONS TO BE The .seven boys who have been curing signers to petitions, giv;' the Federal government full auf ority to select a site for a new F' eral building in Beqidji without p) test from the citizens, report t! they have received over 1,000 sig ers. They are now securing outsi signers and it is expected that work will be completed this w and the petitions forwarded to Wash- ington for action. 2 SON-IN-LAW OF SECRETARY McADOO DIES Washington, Nov. 11.—Charles Taber Martin, Phoenix, Ariz.,, son- in-law of Secretary McAdoo, died ot pneumonia at the McAdoo home: this morning. President Wilson was at the bedside. FIRE DESTROYED ROPE | FACTORY; WORKS FOR ALLIES i Trenton, N. J. Nov. 11.—Fire de- stroyed the rope plant of John A. Roeblingson & Co., today, which has been manufacturing supplies for the Allies. It is the third fire of its kind within 24 hours. TO GIVE TURKEY SUPPER The men of the Presbyterian church will give their annual Turkey supper Wednesday, Nov. 17th. i § i { i i