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

i | [ K f THE BEMIDJI VOLUME 13, NO. 281. SERBS b|.°" o HAT MONASTIR HA.. i | TAKEN BY BULGn..* Teutonic Forces Are Repulsed; City Stronged Reinforced; Believed Will Hold Out. PRILEP IS REPORTED TO BE BURNING Bulgarians Lose Over 10,000 Men in Battle Against Serbian City. London, Nov. 23.—Ten thousand Bulgarians been killed or wounded fighting about Bulgar forces attacked the town Sat- urday. Salonika advices say that it was learned for the first time today that the assault was repulsed. Repeated earlier advices said that the town had fallen. The Serbs fought desperately and by reckless courage turned the tide of battle in their favor, forcing the Bulgarians to retreat. The city is now strongly reinforced and it is be- lieved will hold out. A big battle is expected. Prilep is reported burning. Greece is Silent. No definite news has been received here of Greece’s reply to the entente allies’ demands for guarantee for the safety of the Anglo-French forces landed at Saloniki or for that of the Serbians who might be forced over the Greek frontier. One dispatch from Athens, however, says the have Monastir. WOMEN TO WIRE PHESII]ENTF()RPEAGE BE GELEBRATED IN - | COMMISSIONERS'MEET) BE REPLAGED BY | White House to Be Deluged With Telegrams Asking Steps for End of War. New York, Nov. 23.—Every woman in the United States who has any Greek cabinet is disposed to accept the conditions laid down by the en- tente powers except that condition requiring Greece to participate in the war and that a solution of the whole difficulty may be expected immedi- ately. The British and French forces daily are being strengthened by men and guns landed at Saloniki and part of the reinforcement is being sent to Monastir, where the Serbians also are reported to be concentrating and threatening the Bulgarians at Prilep. Violent Fighting. To the recent presence of Field Marshal Kitchener on the Gallipoli peninsula probably will be attributed the resumption of activity in the Dar- danelles operations. From German and Turkish sources come reports of violent fighting on the strip of the peninsula in the neighborhood of Seddul Bahr. The Cologne Gazette characterizes the new operations in- itiated by the entente allies as ‘‘a great offensive movement.”. NEARLY 1,100 GAME LIGENSES IN GOUNT Nearly 1,100 big game licenses have been issued to hunters in Bel- trami county. Deer are reported to be not as plentiful as at first sup- posed. Several good hunters, who have in past years returned with their share of the game, this year are returning without even seeing a deer. 9,500 MORE SERBS CAPTURED BY TEUTONS Berlin, Nov. 23.—The capture by the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians of 9,500 more Serbs was announced by the war office this afternoon in a statement. TURKS REGEIVE LARGE SHIPMENTS FROM GERMAN Bucharest, Nov. 23.—Huge quanti- ties of military supplies from Ger- many are now pouring through Bul- garia for the Turks. Thus far 1,400 carloads of ammunition,” artillery, and hospital necessaries are being landed at the Bulgarian and Danube ports. One shipment included two 42-centimeter guns-for the Ottoman defense on the Gallipoli peninsula. D. M. Connors, Soo . roadmaster, re- turned yesterday from a deer hunt. Deer are very scarce, according to Mr. Connors, who is' a good hunter. Mrs. A. Altman and daughter, An-; tionetta, left this morning for Reyn- olds, Tll., where they will yisit rela- tives and friends, BEEI R E. H. Dea left last evening for Minneapolis on a business trip. feeling for mothers in warring coun- tries of Europe will be invited by the Women’s Peace party to wire President Wilson urging him to call a conference of neutral nations to end the war, Preparations are being made for the greatest bombardment of tele- grams ever directed at the White House. Mrs. Henry Ford has donated $10,000 for sending the telegrams to the officers of all women’s clubs in the country. Each telegram will be signed by Jane Addams. That the women in Bemidji will co-operate with the Peace party and wire the president is almost a cer- tainty, according to the statement of several of the officers of local wom- en’s organizations. Action will be taken as soon as telegrams are re- ceived. BRITISH FORCE IS DEFEATED BY TURKS 170,000 Men Are Thrown Back in Battle Near Bagdad. Berlin, Nov. 23.—Beaten by the Turks, a British force of 170,000 men was thrown back from Bagdad to- day. The British troops made a suc- cessful march from Egypt where they were within ten miles of Bag- dad and threatened the important railway terminal. - The Turks were not caught napping, however, and succeeded after several-engagements in driving the British back thirty miles from the city. THANKSGIVING TO. |ROUTINE mmns AT - CITY BY (}HHR[}HES Rond Poins Ao Gresid; In- |peot Rnn.l Exghwlyl Near Services ~ Are Plnmxed; Business Blackduck. Houses to Close; Turkey for Everybody. Petitions for the estdblishment of roads, the allowing of bills and rou- NO ONE TO GO tine matters took up thegreater part HUNGRY IN BEMIDJ] |°f Yesterday’s session of the board of county commissioners‘at the court house. . Commissioners ‘A. E. Rako, J. F.-Hayes and J. C. Thompson were present. Petitions for -the m;hllshing of roads in 147-31, 148-31, 164-30 and 146-34-35 were granted. A petition to make | a separate school district from District 83 at Shotley was rejected. R.'K. Bliler was appointed to make several land surveys. The commissioners are at Black- duck and vicinity today inspecting. rural highways. They: will ~meet again at the court house tomorrow morning. EAST GRAND FORKS SALOONS GLOSE TONIGHT Schools to Give Entertainments To- morrow Afternoon in Celebra- tion of Day. Bemidji will generally observe Thanksgiving. Business houses will be closed for the day and services will be held at the churches. There will be turkeys and plum pudding galore and the various char- itable organizations and orders are planning to make it a point to see that none in the city go hungry on that day. Program at Schools. At the high school tomorrow after- noon a Thanksgiving program will be given. Programs will also be given at other, grades, n- the. ~Bemid)] East Grand Forks, Minn., Nov. 23. schools. —At 11 o’clock tonight the last li- quor ever to be sold legally over bars in this city will be passed out to cus- tomers and ‘the saloon men will lock their doors to the public or else re- main open as soft drink parlors. As the time ‘draws near to ‘the closing those who indulge in intoxicating | beverages have been making their last formal calls and the local saloons were crowded to the doors last night. Not only-local men avail them- selves of the opportunity to get in on the “last chance,” but large delega- tions from Grand Forks and sur- rounding villages were present. The celebration this evening - will un- doubtedly ‘exceed expectations and $the -proprietors--of -the=ssioons - will The program at the high school to- morrow is as follows: ““The First Thanksgiving,” by War- ren Edwards; “What We As-a Nation Are Thankful For,” Daniel Gainey; recitation, “From a Far Country,” Muriel McGee; recitation, Alex Cam- eron; farce—*“The First Thanksgiv- ing Dinner,” Elder Brewster, Kern Olson; Miles Standish, George Gra- ham; John Alden, Hovey Lord; Governor Bradford, Herbert Raco; Herbert Winslow, Milford Stafford; Daine Brewster, Carrie Brown; Pris- cilla, Mabel Aubolee; Betty Brew- ster, Jane Hayner; Massasoit, Frank Phibbs; “Giles Horner, Arthur O’- Leary; Patience Horner, Ruby Case, “K::;:r Lsuollll:")y',,‘! o(’}’lsrls' G(;elze 3::’ u:floubtedly be given a royal send- “Mighty Lak a Rose,” Boys' Glee | club; “Swing Along,” Boys' Glee club. U. S. MUST HELP MEXICANS, IS BELIEF Uncle Sam May Become Financial Angel; Hundreds of Counterfeits Are Afloat. ‘Washington, D. C., Nov. 23.—Will Uncle Sam become Mexico’s financial angel? This question is the absorb- ing problem involved in establishing the Carranza government. That financial help must be given by the United States to Mexico is ad- mitted by officials. The form such aid should take is the principal hitch. High state department offi- cials intimate that the government cannot appear as a principal in se- curing credit for Carranza. Its moral support, however, is assured. Must Get Money Here. The modus operandi will be as fol- lows: After Carranza’s agents in New York have made guarded over- tures to financiers for a loan, quiet inquiries will be made of the state department if such a loan has the approval of the government. Inquiry will be made as to whether the U. S. would back up the loan in case Car- ranza’s government should fall and collection from a new administra- tion be made necessary. If agents of financiers receive such assurances, the loan will be made, with bonds of the new Mexican government as se- curity. Announcement of the church ser- vices for Thanksgiving day will be made in the Pioneer tomorrow. POSTAL DEPOSITS ARE OVER $2,000,000| Minneapolis, Minn,. Nov. 23.— Northwestern lumber business is ‘Washington, Nov. 23.—Postal sav- L i int6 1t Tor the ing deposits during October increased | 25210 coming into its own. For $2,150,000 over the preceding month, | first time in three years lumbermen giving, according to postal officials, |of Minneapolis are beginning to feel ‘““a clear reflettion of the great tide of optimistic, First signs that, after prosperity and commercial activity|the long depression, prosperity is looming over the horizon were seen that is sweeping over the country.” Savings on deposits on October 31| yesterday. in the statement of a Min- aggregated $71,500,000 and the indi- | ngapolis man, prominent in the trade, vidual depositors numbered 562,000.|to the effect that with demand in- creasing for the first time in some New York city, -excluding Brooklyn, years on the Pacific coast, things has $14,822,020 of this total. should begin to reach the old-time CANADIAN POWDER i AR PLANT IS DESTROYED man said, “in addition to the fact that Pacific coast lumbermen are finding better demands as the indus- Parry Sound, Ont., Nov. 23.—An try revives. The railroads and big domestic users are buying from them explosion which is generally attri- buted by officials to alien enemies, |TCT¢ freely. There is also an ex- occurred last night in the plant of nm;t trade from the Pacific coast that the Canadian Explosive company, is increasing. The southern lumber- which occupied nearly three square miles at Nobel, seven miles north of here. Five one-story buildings used men have been selling, and still are for the storage of cordite, which the selling, quantities of lumber to the warring European nations. Conse- company has been manufacturing in large quantities, were destroyed. quently, when a buyer in the central Fifteen hundred men are employe'll west wants a little stuff, a salesman for a northern or central western mill has got a better chance to sell in the plant but so far as known there him. , The Paciicicoast.and gouthern was no loss of life, the employes hav- ing quit work before the explosion. The magazines were situated a mile mills are no longer so aggressive.” Small Operators Busy. and a half from the manufacturing plant and with the exception of the that there will be a liberal cut of logs in the northern woods this win- That Carranza must secure his loan in this country is regarded as cer- tain. Europe’s money marts are not open to him. It is possible he might (Continued on Fige 4) SCOOP THE CUB REPORTER State Forester W. T. Cox believes night watchman, who it is thought [ter. Big operators are planning to -furide: themr ou -the* niext ~le ARG LIGHTS T0 B, POPP AND JOAN THOMPSON GROGERS WIN' aND E. NELSON bers Forfeit Game in Bowl.mg New Light Will Give More Satisfac- League. Shi; ; i ipment - Made From - Puposky; tion Than 0ld Style; No Charge: Covered Wagon and Malss Are : for Installation. Standing of the Teams. ! Used. — ‘Won Lost Pet. Crookston Lbr. Co. ... 2 0 1.000 —_— SIX MEMBERS ARE Schnelder . .2 0 1000 AFTER PRESENT AT COUNCIL MEET o pers . .. o 1 iage] T DAL Anfm' “HIGHER UP” — Quality Grocers...... 2 1 666 2 B. Popp . 2§ 1 .500 2 City Agrees to Refund Fire Company |, 0\ (" 1 1 .500|Liquor Found in Five Ten-galla for Installation of Alarm Koors Bros.......... 1 1 .600 Casks and Two Barrels of System. Barker’s ... .0 2 .000 > : Beltrami County..... 0 2 .000 Gill Bottles. ? Sentinel 0 2 .000 —_— The city council last evening at o] regular meeting at the city hall ac- Although thev were defeated by cepted the proposition of the electric [the B. Popp bowling team at the light company to replace all arc|Gould alleys last evening by 149 lights in the city by a gas filled globe | Pins, the Sentinel quint made a sur- light. The new light will give more [ Prising showing. Young, of the Sen- light than the old style of light and |tinel team bowled the high score of the electric company will not charge |the evening, securing 200 pins. the city for installation. Bemidji| The Sentinel took the first game now has 44 arc lights. of the series, score 675 to 639; the Routins Matters Up. B. Popp team took the other ‘two SIx members of the city GoURST games by scores of 768 to 675 a.nd v counclligys o 651, respectively. were present at the meeting last b night. They were Aldermen Lycan, B T:: s‘tlm”y Smart, Miller, Bailey, Lahr and Fou-|,” bt Over 100 gallons of whisky were seized shortly ‘after eight o’clock last evening by Indian agents and. John Thompson and E. Nelson -were ar- rested, charged with introduction of liquor in violation of the Indian treaty of 1855, Found in Barn. The whisky was taken from a cov- ered wagon at the Thompson barn, Sixth street and Irvine avenue. Federal agents yesterday afternoon received word of the shipment to be J. K. Given 127 120 164 |made to Bemidji last evening. cault. ] Brun . 124 148 137 |Thompson and E. Nelson were in Routine matters were disposed of [\ qon00 0 101 169 163 |charge of the shipment which was and bills were allowed. - Kreatz . .. .131 150 135 |made overland, the wagon being A. T. Wheelock was granted a li- B.Popp ........ 156 181 144 |drawn by a team of mules. The Fed- cense to operate an employment agen- ¢y in the city. Submitted to Attorney. The communication and statement trom J. L. George, county auditor, showing a balance due the county of $251.49, including interest on - ac- count of road benefits in Judicial Ditch No. 2 was referred to the city attorney. The council passed a resolution agreeing to refund the fire depart- ment at the next levy for the instal- lation of a fire alarm system. The fire company agreed to buy the 8ys- tem at this time if the city would T eral agents followed the wagen from Puposky. When the drivers arrived in the city they were immediately ar- rested. No resistance was made. The Federal officers making the ar- rests were Brandt and Benson. Chief of Police Frank Ripple assisted. Biggest Shipment. The shipment was composed of five ten-gallon kegs of whisky and the balance was in gill bottles stored in large sugar barrels. That this has been the method used by several lo- cal men who have been selling whisky, in receiving their . lguor iz believed certain by the officers. The big shipment wis made, it is believed, for use over Thanksgiving Totals ........ 639 Total—2,150 pins. Sentinel— Marcott ........ Wilson .... Garlock Webster . . 743 122 .118 150 113 ......... 1438 Totals ........ 675 Total pins—2,001. The Barbers failed to put in ap- pearance and forfeited a game to the Quality- Grocers. npx an exhibition game with a pIcke m last evening the Grocers b 73 pi 651 system will cost about $400 and will Lumbermen Are Optomistic; Indications of Big Boom be installed immediately. and is the largest ever seized here. Team Confiscated. The liquor, mules and wagon were ordered confiscated. Thompson was formerly a bartender in this.city. The Federal officers have secured evidence that the two men were em- ployd by local men and other arrests will follow. Before Judge Hiram A. Simons, U. S. commissioner, this afternoonm, Thompson and Nelson entered a plea of not guilty and demanded & hear- ing. A hearing was set for December 3 at ten o’clock in the morning. Both were ordered committed to the Bel- trami county jail in default of $1,000 bail each. List of advertised letters “Un- claimed” at Bemidji, Minn., post- office for week ending Nov. 22, 1915: Men—MTr. A. Arneson, Mr. O. H. Dyb- wig, Mr. Dearling Hanson, Newecel Johnson, Mr. Frank Malley, B. E. Moore, Peet Sztuka, Mr. F. C. Thorn- ton, Mr. Ziordji Woageloujoy, Mr. ‘eatby, Mr. James Williams. ‘Women—Mr#. Mabel Bates, Mrs. Del- la Johnson, Mrs. Phil Healiee, Mrs. ‘Homer Scobie (2), Clara Scott. FIRE DESTROYS BLOGK AT CANBY; $150,000 LOSS Canby, Minn., Nov. 23.—An en- tire block in business district of this city’ was wiped out by fire early this morning causing damage estimated at $150,000. 'There was a high wind and low temperature which made the fire fighting hard. Over 100 firemen fought the blaze. The origin is not known. combined operations will be portant. The Backus-Brooks interests and Shevlin-Carpenter-Clarke interests, which include the Crookston and Niles companies, probably will not cut heavily. The Virginia & Rainy River company is not likely to cut heavily. Nor is it likely that the mills of these companies at Bemidji, Virginia, International Falls and elsewhere will make any remarkable figures in the lumber cut next spring. Selling to Be Active. It is not in the producing end that the industry promises greatest ac- tivity, but in the selling and distrib- uting end. There is plenty of lumber cut, the big companies say. The difficulty has been to find people to buy it. The Northland Pine company of Minneapolis, which operates two mills here in which it cut logs into 65,000,000 feet of lumber in the sea- son just closed, could have greatly increased its production. But it did not operate to press matters. Instead, it now has in the river only a few miles north of the city limits, logs enough in storage pockets to operate through next season at about the same rate as last. May Start Early in Spring. It will not have to wait for a log drive down river, but will be able to start as early in the spring as it cares to let down its storage logs. That means that the two mills it op- erates here, the old Carpenter-Lamb mill and the old Backus-Brooks plant im- DENIES THAT GREEK BLOCKADE HAS BEGUN London, Nov.'23.—The foreign of- fice here officially denied today that any Greek ships had been seized or held at British ports or that a block- ade had been established on the Greek coast. SIX' DEAD; MANY INJURED IN WRECK Columbus, Ga., Nov. 23.—S8ix per- sons are known to have been killed, 18 others are missing and more than 30 were injured as the result of a head-on collision six miles west of here late yesterday between the Cen- tral of Georgia passenger train No. 2 and a special train of 28 cars carry- ing the Con T. Kennedy Carnival company. The bodies of some of the missing are thought to be under the over- turned cars of the show train. Twelve of the carnival company’s cars were reported destroyed by fire and others CONFER IN REGARD TO ANCONA CASE Rome, Nov. 23.—The Ancona case supposedly was the topic of the con- ference between Foreign Minister 'Soninne and American Ambassador Page today. The Italian government laid all information gathered regard- ing the sinking before the ambassa- dor. CYCLONES AND FLOODS REPORTED IN SICILY Rome, Nov. 23.—Cyclones and wide was uninjured, no one was in the|cut fewer logs. These two state- vieinity. ments do not necessarily conflict. Nu- The force of the explosion was felt | merous small operators already have here. men in the woods and at work. Their Scoop Has No Business Near A Dilmmy spread floods are reported from Sicily. Many are believed to have perished. (Continued on Page 4) were burning last night. : DANIELS DISAPPROVES AGQUITTAL OF LITTLE Washington, Nov. 23.—Secretary Daniels disapproved the findings of the general court martial which ac- Little, retired, on charges of negli- gence in connection with his duties as inspector during the construction of the submarine K-2. - No new trial, however, will be ordered. A statement issued by the depart- ment said that in view of the expense of further proceedings and the ad- of Admiral Little the findings mcnly d been diupmved withou! Te- - conwnms the court. quitted Rear Admiral William. N. . | mitted personal and official integrity -