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VOLUME 13, NO. 303. COUNTY AUDITOR [BRIEFS FILED IN MAuififfs—sEs ~ COMPLETES LISTS | OPTION TEST CASE| 10 ROBBING TL o OFTHE R | THD YENS AR f ‘ AGIWST Pl.llTTERS -ANGONA IHfllBEflT Tiee Aot coargn it | 10 BE SENT TODAY tempting Hnlh}‘e' Expeditions Against Friendly Country. Secretary I.nm‘.n( Prepares flm " T0 WED MRS GALT n ;fiism mman; °*/ Right to Have Saloons in Border e Total Taxes of All Kinds Au. " 0;, to| City—Case to Supreme Court. | |John Harrington, Consoience-stricken, : Message Which Will Be Cabled AN $631,301.34; Maney and Creo. e, o ftrss. Belf I.Ip . Tanl New, York, Dec..18.—Charged with o mmefir:]l" A Amount to $2,289.06. . (By Special Correspondent.) - Police. it g S ~}»l mgm expedmon 5 — inerd, Minn., Dec. 18.—The —— i — H s 4 2 0 : |agaidst a country’ triendly to the MAY BE IN FORM ] GRAND TOTAL VALUATIONS tes e of the Minnesota cuu:zty or-|TOOK $30 FROM LIVERY m @0 ON TW { AMOUNTS TO $8,798,770 |tion law has.begun. Today at the BARN AT GLENWO0D, MINN. WEEKS' HONEYMOON United States, Paul Koenig and R. . OF AN ULTIMATUX ) Lyondecker were arraigned here this i {morning before United States Com- district court before Judge W. S. Me- e 7 Chief Executive at Offioe all lorning' missioner Houghion. Washington = Officials ' Charaoterize Clenahan, attorneys in the Interna- tional Falls injunction case submitted Average Taxable Value Per Acre in Says Drink is Cause of Downfall; Has | Sheriff N. 0. Nehon"dt Grafton Ar- b County is About Five Dollars; |briets. No Home; Is Well rives to Take rrxu-sr Back Wrestling With National Affairs; : m;lr‘l:isbi; ?fii fl;:;;‘;zzgtofflt::ek::f: Situation as “Very Grave;” May Northern Has High Average. The Kooehiching oonnty case will Educated. to Answer - omgg Notioesble-Btirat-White Homse. [t o e o o Gorman Mean Break in Relations. test the right of home rule chartered cities to grant liquor licenses. The total amount of taxes on all| The charater of International Falls kinds of property in Beltrami county |[gives the city council the exclusive in 1915 was $631,391.34; the total [T18ht to grant liquor licenses. Last August, Koochiching county was vo- ted dry under the county option law. plots. ey ‘Washington, Dec. 18.—President| Fedgral authorities believe that BULLETIN. Wilson will be married to Mrs. Nor: |the men had completed plans to blow | washington, - Dec. 18.—Secretary u:.: ;:au :t ;hte home of the bride ;1; et:;; \;Vt:ltl::: g::::tr 1:::: :i:f’“::' Lansing late this afternoom made af o'clock tonight. " , T, ’ The wedding day was marred by a |rested. . public’ the text-of Austris's feplie |downpour of rain, ‘although the[ It is charged that the men planned |to the United States on the Ancona of forgery. weather man promised clear skies by [military operations against Canada |situation. It is identical in effect Ford was employed at Grafton, N.|the time of the ceremonies. by. destroying the canal. with the forecasts made, being al- D., where he raised a check of four| The approaching ceremonies failed| - Schleindl is a’ German clerk em- most a complete refusal to meet the dollars to $64. He passed the check | to move President Wilson out of his |ployed by the National City Bank of U.s demal:is It asks wh: on a bank in that city. regular work. 'He=was about the ex- New ank, one of the largest bank-| - ™" 3 A Detectives of the Burns -agency |ecutive office early ‘elearing up offi:|ing institutions in the country. He |[refuses to exchange. correspondence traced Ford to this city and later to |cial business preparatory to leaving [was arrested- charged with partici-|which it conducted. with -another a camp near Kelliher, They wired |for about two weeks. pating in the conspiracy which, it is{country in other cases. The most N. 0. Nelson. sheriff .nt Grafton, N. D., was in the city today to take in- to custody Steve -Fordiwho was ar- rested yesterday near Kelljhor by Constable John Brady on a charge “My name is John Harrington. I robbed a livery stable at Glenwood, Minn., a year ago last Fourth of July of $30. I give myself up. I am ready to pay the penalty.” A tall, fair looking man, dressed in laborer’s clothes walked into the police station this morning and made the above statement.” He was imme- diately arrested and the police auth- orities at Glenwood were notified. The authorities of Glenwood ad- vised local authorities . that e amount of money and credits of in- dividuals listed with such property in | ynernational Falls liquor men, how- the county was $2,289.06, according |eyer, claim that the law has no ef- to a report made at the office of the fect upon that city. At a meeting county auditor this morning. of the city council last Monday eve- The taxes on property is divided s ping Jjcenses were to be issued. by follows: State revenue fund, $22,-|ipe council, but a restraining order 487.75; state school fund, $9,637.96; | wag filed by the attorney general teachers’ pension fund, $391.76; in-|which opened the fight on the law. terest and principal on loans " from [ppe hearing here today is on the re- : g theY | the. Dakota suthorties who immedi-| There was a noticsable stir about [alleged, was. directed against the Al- [significant feature is the insistance om o s;?,::;, sf:cif:i:g‘ i;z:rec:tun‘: dl;:; s":th;:nfx o:;:i St e eticaa would send a man after Harrington [4¢e)y requested Constable Brady to|the White House. Wedding an-|lies. He is charged with having fur-|a discussion of the prineiples involv- ll liens, road and bridge levies in unor-|yan win ;he an ea:ly :ecgi:ionc me::; immediately. take Ford in charge. . He was ar-|nouncements were being prepared tor nished the ka_iser’s secret _service ed. It criticizes the American de- ganized territory, $232,646.34; for |cace and that it will go to the su- Worked at Livery Barn. rested yesterday and lrm\lght to this [the mail. ' |agents information rega}-ding finan- m?nd on the ground that Austris | city and village purposes, $76,060.42; preme court docket January 17. “I was working at the livery barn |city. 1 Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, = seven |cial . transactions: which passed |might expect the United States to r. for township purposes, $81,522.86; The case is being watched closely when I took the money,” said Har- Ford will be. taken. Sherift Nel- | months old, had the honor of being |through..the National City banl‘{_ specify actual circumstances sur- ‘ for school distriet purposes, $179,- by all home ru‘le chartered cities”in rington. this morning: to{g: Ploneer{son’ to- Dakotd Iute o shristededioi:her grandfatier's w, Schléindly was sogn often in Koenig's r:und:lngutlil; ag .i: ¥ :‘; :lo i cu? X ' 290.65. the state. East Grand Forks liquor representative. . “I had been drink- ding day. She was named after the |company, which resulted in an inves- | that the United States failed to desig- o ing during the day and went to the till and took all there was in it, about $26 or $30, I helieve. This was July 4, 1914. I lay it all to booze as I never stole before. “I left immediately and went to work in North Dakota. I came to Bemidji several days ago from Mar- gie where I have been working. People Looked at Him. 'tig&tiorg at the bank. nate the persons whose mmmsny’ has | The money and eredits fund is di-|men are. interested in the case with been relied upon. ! vided ~as follows: One-third to|the International Falls men. If the school districts; one-third to towns|gecision is in chefr favor it will mean { and villages; one-sixth to the county | that a number of home rule chartered. and one-sixth to the state. cities in the state can have saloons & The exact taxable valuations in|gespite the fact that all the saloons the county are as follows: Acreage | in the county have been voted out un- property, $5,220,441; platted Drop-|der the county option law. “Dry” erty, $1,469,833, and taxable person- forces are preparing for a big legal al property, $1,145,617, making the|pattle, > total taxable valuation $7,835,791. “Bverywhere I would go people The total money and credits valuation | & 4 % 4 & % & % ¥ & % X ¥ ¥ % & |would look at me as if I owed them in the county is $762,979. The total |y CITY BOWLING LEAGUE - |something. I could not stand it any of valuations is $8,798,770, which | x * K KK KK KK¥KKK)xk|more. Yesterday two men in Be- is an increase over 1914 of $617,- i midji came up to me and said, Hello, 639. S g of the Teams. Mr., they called me by some name. president’s- -first wite. ~President ‘Wilson acted as-godfather. H (AGENTS ARREST MAN | womson o to—roo ame. | ican note replying to Austria’s unsat- uu lluunfl G“AHBE isfactory answer regarding the An- cona’ case will be sent to Vienna to- night. John Kivisaari of Deer River has| Secretary Lansing is preparing a life. She was formerly Miss Edith |been arrested- by - Federal Indian|Vigorous message. It will be 0. K.'d Bollong, daughter of the late William [agents on a charge of introducing|Py President Wilson and cabled to- H. Bolling of Wythville, Va. She|liquor into Indian territory. He was |Dight, according to plans announced o was one of thirteen children, nine of |arrested at Grand Rapids and charged this afternoon. W whom are still living. ‘| with introducing one gallon of alco- :hefll;“e isi"’ be bfl:‘ and ‘:‘“P hol and two gallons and one quart of 2nd will permit no further quibling: " Married in 1806. l:vhisky. & s The situation between this govern- BEMIDI STORES “T0.PEN NIGHTS Bemidji stores will tamnin open every’ evening until Ch a8, begin- ning Monday,- for holi lhnlmers This is- heing done for th who'are unable to shop during ‘the ~day. Among the stores that will remain open are clothing, dry :goods, hard- ware, grocery and rlelnnment stores. Washington, D. C., Pec. 18.—The new mistress of the White House is quite the Wilson type, plus the Vir- ginia manner and a southern love of TWO GET WOLF IO e o 0Y-ED AND PAPEN BOUNTIES N GOUNTY |0 sa. xexr wemx Dec. 18.—Captains that made me steal.” ‘|ing the pew her husband had possess- : SCHOONER BLOWS UP; : It is expected that Glenwood auth- ed ever since the church was built. orities will be in the city Monday to TE" ‘flE Mlssl"s Just after the announcepent of her take Harrington back to that city. d engagement to the president, how- The Crookston Lumber company i sc"uul TEAGHER quint last evening at the Gould alleys defeated the B. Popp bowling team In 1896, Edith Bolling, a beauti- g 3 Won it Pet, g ? ) 5 ment and ‘Austria i The general average of taxable| . = c 6 Lo: 1 :ob Itold them that they were mistaken, FUHFEITS 35 BA'[ "|tul girl, met Norman Galt. A short| He was arraigned before Judge H. oifi:ial eircl‘el:t:: “sv::;r;:::i:ed i value per acre in the county is about| =~ "ttt 2 but all day long I kept worrying e time later they were married, This A. Simons, United States court com- & J s five dollars. The town of Northern :r;:okis‘;on Lbr. Co. .. 5 g 1.000 about it. So I decided to give my. n" unu“ NmBE happened while she was visiting heri |Missioner here, yesterday and entered It cotild not be learned whether a A ichneider . .666 9 4 n H ti limit will A 4 has the highest taxable value per B. Po 8 self up to the police. I am ready to 3 ; sister, Mrs. Alexander Hunter Galt:|® plea of not guilty. He was bound nlnl;:salm e :’:flgx; ustris. for i acre, being $12.59; Grant Valley has 1i ppc. ; 5 be punished. g : He_ was vestryman in St. Thomnss over to the Janugry term of the Fed- Xara 1o ne Inciiey ‘an average of‘$9% Frohni h¥E"au av- g;:wg TOROIR ¢ § 3 ‘. I haven’t. any.home.. It.is ¥ . Randell, 9 pols 7 B % i .grand jury_which convenes at time limit would make-the- { erage of $9.46; town of Bemidji has Barker’s. le ? = 14 years ago since I left the-east and é A 7 ‘and” Dulttir-Jos. dt-—Hoawes rolonsed-un< result into an immedinte sever= i an average of $6.78; town of Shooks Beltrami County % came to this section of the country. |lars bail in the munlcimfl court this|activities in the church until: his|der $500 bonds. Henry Funkley ap- AR A e i i has an average of $8.22; Nebish an 3 Have bven in different places ever |morning on a charge of drunkenness. | death eight years ago. After his|Peared as his attorney at the hearing P OMALIC-T s £ §7 d Turtle Lak: Koors Bros. ... 5 yesterday. The official text of the mote from:- average of $7, an 'urtle Lake an Sentinel . ..... 5 since. I have had a fair education death Mrs. Galt continued an active i3 Austria may be made public-late this ‘ average of $7.53. and am 33 years old. It is just drink member of the same church, occupy- afterrioon: i i ] y by 71 pins. The summary: it 72 3 PH“VES UP- GLAIM Crookston Lumber Co.— i Dek A ;"";fl““:' G;:’ ;‘“‘""";?d ;";’“"“; Reasian - Boy-Ed and Von Papen have notified- { ashington, C. .—The gaso- |bership to St. Margaret’s- Episcopal v 5 » Gillette . ... 174 178 1569 s sk A ¢ i ani]chuseti ‘Wolt bounties have been issued to|th® Geérman embassy that they will Fuller . 133 153 203 ne ooner Manomet 'W up and|church. X sail Dec.. 22 and 28, respectively. Miss Sylvia Havre, a school teach- |0 oo 176 131 146 sank twelve miles off Cape Ann, Fond of Music. Charlés: 8. Barclay of Grant Valley % ’ 3 = 1 Z: zc:‘laiNevmg. today gave flnal proof Gould . ... .. 120 150 MADE BY sA" HEY Mass., yesterday. Four of the crew: The president’s bride is not known ;ndbtohxd (hatm Gray oIt ’l;;‘i;tele:Lntk;e GERMAN TROOPS TO | m on a homestead in 19-150- | yroq . 130 170 have landed and ten are missing. as a college girl, *though she con- | ¢ 85 one wo 2 CROSS GREEK BORDER - 35, near Round Lake. - cluded her education at Powell’s col- | C0Urt house yesterday. ‘Athens, Dec. 18.—German troops ; o _— Totals ..... .. 732 782 The San Rey cigar factory yester- = R lege in Richmond, Va., after attend- will cros,s the Greek border before o MINNIE RESIDENT Total pins—2,340. day placed a new brand of a oigar on | JASKET BALL SEASON: Ing Martha Washington college at MANY DROWNED WHEN the end of next week and remew the: [ B. Popp— the market. It is known as the Abington, Va., for gome time. attack against the Anglo-Freach . 156 164 131|“Ralph Emerson” and sells for ten Tn 0?“ “P m“‘ 192 149|cents. A little cigar is also being L. 116 116 made to sell for five cents ‘and. is 157 [named “Hunch.” The cigars-are be- | Basket ball season in Bemidji opens: 143 139 |ing distributed to all stores. ~ Monday :when the fast Red Wing, Minn., high school quint will meet the Bemidji high school team in a: series of three games. The second and third games will be played Tues- day and Wednesday, respectively. The games were originally scheduled : She is fond of music, flowers, economics and light literature. Like fall good Virginians, she is a good orsewoman and:splendid ‘driver: She 1likes golf, and since her engagement to the president he has attempted to teach her soiie of the fine points of ADJUDGED INSANE | zricts " Ripple .. Miller Sam Johnson of Minnie was yes-|greatz .. terday adjudged insame in the pro-|neponald £ bate court. He was ordered com- {' mitted to the asylum at Fergus Falls.| motalg ....... 779 766 735 BLAGKD“GK Gu“PlE { t GAR GOES IN RIVER|zz;:™ *ocomine o ropomemnemees Spokane, Wash., Dec. 18.—From 10 wflmm to 20 persons are reported to have Amster de Ififlm‘j” Gen- been drowned here today When &|o.; giucknausen has been killed in the game. street car plunged through a north action, according to advices i Ber- Is Baseball Fan. division street bridge into a river lin. On baseball and horses she is a here. A" second car followed the fan, as much as the president him- first one and hung suspended at the A Johnson was formerly an inmate of Total pins—2,269. the Fergus Falls institution. i . LIGE"SED Tu WEn The Pioneer team took a game from ‘ BIG FEATURE TO BE Sentinel quint by 99 pins. The sum- to begin Tuesdsy but the Red WINE |gelr, She does mot play tennis but (Prink of the open draw. Passensers|BE) TRAM BOUNTY i SHOWN AT REX TONIGHT | mary: H. N. Hanson and Miss Hannah |team had secured games with Little[i; » great walker, enjoying long |éscabed from the second car. Pioneer— Pearson, both of Blackduck, were|Falls which conflicted with the local | ¢ramps, sometimes for two or three The Serbians succeeded in making [m“PlE "‘nm. 3 thousands of prisoners during their retreat before the Austro-German- ST 3 Bulgarian drive, and 40,000 men who| L0dy Mackaman of Puposky was were captured by them, together |2arried to Miss Flora Long of Island with 750 Bulgarian, German and Lake, this morning at the court house by Judge M. A. Clark of the probate \ “In the Days of the Thundering|peny i Herd,” a five-reel play of the Selig Brandt production, of love and adventure|nrareum on the western prairies, will be shown Ripple . . at the Rex theater tonight. The|gedeen i -play is a drama of the days of ’49 and is written by Gilson Willets. The Totals schedule so the games here were moved up one day. Coach Bestul's team is in excellent condition. The: Red Wing team won the state high school championship last season. hours about town or along a country road. She is not strenuous, how- ever, and could not be called ath- letic, is-rather one who enjoys good health ‘and living, reasonable hours and prefers healthful fun to laté sup- Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Fuller of Crook- | perg, Austro-Hungarian officers taken 167 141 |late yesterday afternoon granted a 169 179 [license to wed. 114 112 —_— 187 181| Mrs. A. L. Barker and little son 168 156 | will return to their home in Bemidji —— —— ——|tomorrow morning from Minneapolis ........ 683 795 769 |and St. Paul where they have been a court. The bride and groom were play is directed by Colin Campbell| mota) ping—2,247. visiting during the past three weeks. |ston. are expected the latter part of | yjdication of her love of the open | Prisoners have reached Marseilles on attended by Mr. and M: Axel Rl { and featured Tom Mix and Beesle By- | gentinel— v . next week to spend the liolidays With |ig tound in the frequent jaunts Mrs. [thelr Way to a concentration camp, |® ™ 5 2 " ton. Young ..... vie. 178 179 160 Miss Agnes Mortenson, a student |their daughter, Mrs. E. F. Netzer. |Gait and the president took into-the |® dispatch from the French seaport 1 e Newton ........ 161 159 131 |in the Bemidji high school, returned country after the announcement of |States. v | R i S NORTH DAKOTAN BUYS .. Representative Buchanan has fail- LAND NEAR BAUDI!TI ed to appear before the judiciary committee to |substantiate his im- B}audette. Minn,, Dec. 18.—The peachment charges against United | Rulien Land company sold the George States Attorney Marshall, Wilder farm near Williams to Charles 5 L. Bradley of Wyndmere, N. D., who 28 Senator Weeks has introluced a bill [ Will move on it this winter. They for the regulation of insurance com- {2150 sold the Pat Woods farm near - Williams to Gotfred Hofer of 8t. Croix Falls,, Wis. Charles A, Judy H 2 bought eighty acres of a Volstead re- SCOOP sgerorter Only Soven More Days Til Christmas - By "HOP" |inuuismont on e sentue ver. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Manaugh left this noon -for Duluth; where they will spend their Christmas vacation. TO MOVE TEN Webster ........ 123 165 111 |to her home at Swanson Lake this HOUSES TO BAUDETTE | Marcot . Heffron their engagement. On several occa- sions hampers of picnic lunch were loaded into the president’s big limou- 24 r|sine, to be investigated during the D. B. Fuller, state bank examiner, | .o rige over the rolling highways of Minneapolis, Minn., is a visitor in of Virginia and Maryland. Bemidji today. s Not a Suffragist. Mrs. Galt is not a suffragist. Itlis (Continued on last page). . 137 123 110 | morning to spend the holidays with . 138 144 129 | her parents. | Baudette, Minn., Dec. 18.—A. L. AR e Anderson of Duluth, a house-mover,| motals ........ 737 770 641 is here closing up a contract to move Total pins—2,148. ten houses from Rainy Rivef to this . place this winter across the ice on the Rainy river. Miss Lenora Ryan left this evening for her home at Guthrie where she will spend the holidays.. She is.a student of the Bemidji. high school. Miss Selma Hedman left this morn- ing for her home at Guthrie to spend the Christmas vacation. In order to insure dellvery/ni your, packages by Christmas mail now. Read the Pioneer want ads. Harold Miller, Eben Bowser, Ken- neth Kenfield and Earl Cochran left on the noon train for Bena where they will visit until Tnesday with S friends. AERES Misses Ruth and Nellie Boobar, s g 8115 sani who have been attending high school in this ecity, left 'Friday night for their home at-‘Nary where they will visit during the Christmas vacation. William Johnson of Onamia, Minn., located .on a homestead through the same company. There are many farmers from the southern part of the state and Towa who are here look- ing over prospects, and with the com- pletion of thé Elwell road, prices in land will increase.. A snowstorm of three days’ duration has made the 2 settlers pleased, as they will be able to market their _timber. Business has never been better for the mer- chants, e Miss Gladys Whitney will return to her home in Guthrie this evening to visit at home during the holidays. She has been attending the local high school. The Works bill for the development of water ‘holes .in California deserts - and the Sterling bill" for o-am stock raising homesteads were re- ported favorably, A. J. Naylor went to Cass Lake to- \ day to repair the motor of the Cass \_Lake box factory. He will return |-