Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 4, 1916, Page 1

Historicg) Society BEMIDJT ATLY PIONEER: Fic e Y, VOLUME XIV, NO. 84. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1916. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH CITY COUNCIL RECONSIDERS PHYSICIAN APPOINTMENT; NAMES DR. SHANNON Estimates Submitted For Beltrami Avenue Paving * Finance Committee to Meet to Decide on Improvements to Be Made. PROPERTY OWNERS PROTEST AGAINST MINNESOTA PAVING Contracts Let for Sweeping and Sprinkling Streets; Bids Are Low. At a meeting of the city council last evening City Engineer Tom Swin- son submitted estimates of the cost of proposed paving on Beltrami and Minnesota avenues and. the construc- tion of a sanitary sewer. The finance committee of the council was auth- orized to investigate the project and to decide on what improvements are to be made during the coming year. It was estimated that the cost of the constructing of a sanitary sewer from Sixth street to Fifteenth street on America avenue, from Ninth to Thirteenth streets on Minnesota av- enue, from Twelfth to Fourteenth streets on Beltrami avenue and from America to Beltrami avenue on Thir- teenth street would be $8,410.40. Paving Cost $10,672. It was estimated that the paving of Beltrami avenue from Tenth to Fourteenth street and the construet- ing of a storm sewer would cost $10,- 672.90. It was estimated that the cost of constructing pavement and a storm sewer on Minnesota avenue from Fifth to Seventh street would cost $5,797.60. ) A petition was filed, signed by property owners on Minnesota avenue protesting against the paving of Min- nesota avenue from Fifth to Seventh street. Hahn Gets Contract. Joe Hahn, city scavenger, was awarded the contract for the cleaning of the septic tank. He submitted a bid of $188 for the work. William Peckles submitted a bid of $200. It cost the city $250 to have the tank cleaned last fall. Sweeping, cleaning and springling the streets contract for this season was awarded at a decrease of about $64 over last year. Last year it cost the city about $273 a month to have the streets, cleaned, swept and sprinkled. Contract for this work was awarded to Tom Schadrow last evening for $209. Bids submitted were as follows: Elmer Marin, $264, Joe McTaggart $262.50, Wes Wright $247.98, James Miller $266 and William Peckles $247. Alderman Ervin urged the council to consider the buying of a motor sprinkler for Bemidji. He stated that upon investigation that he found that the sprinkling and cleaning of streets could be secured at a much lower cost than the city is now pay- ing. Miller Lowest Bidder. Frank Miller was awarded the con- tract for the building of a private office in the city hall for the use of the chief of police. His bid was $81. A petition signed by property own- ers urging the vacation of the end of Fourth street for a site for the naval militia armory was filed. C. G. Johnson was granted a jitney license. The jitney license in Be- midji is $50. The council was split in their opin- ions in regard to the enforcement of the ordinance which provides for an indemnity bond of $3,000 for jitmey operators. Alderman Ervin protest- ed against the enforcement of this ordinance, stating that he did not be- lieve in making a hardship for the jitney operators. He stated that the jitney service was a good thing for the city as a whole and that he did not believe that the council should take into consideration whether or not it was injuring other private en- terprises in Bemidji. Bond Cost $160. It was pointed out that a bond would cost each jitney owner about $160. City Attorney Russell stated that the city is absolutely under no risk and that a bond is only to protect the passenger if the driver of a jit- ney was unreliable. He stated that Duluth had at one time considered the same matter and that the matter was dropped there. Alderman Bailey stated that in his belief that the jitneys were a God- send to Bemidji and that they should be encouraged. Alderman Smart urged the enfore- ing of the ordinance. Insurance Men Benefit. President Lycan pointed out that the city would get no benefit while the insurance companies would. He suggested that the raising of the li- Kk ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok w kK the matter. Chief Ripple yesterday notified all jit- given. required to have chauffeur’s licenses. route be dropped on account of the expense. be taken immedately and that orized to investigate the two routes and to prepare estimates of the cost of each project. special judge of the municipal court was allowed, the same to be deducted from the salary of Judge A. M. Crow- ell who has been sick for several months. quested to submit estimates at the next meeting of the council of the cost of extending a four-inch water main on Irvine avenue to 21st street. KKK EKK KK KK KKK K KKK * THE VILLA HUNT TODAY ¥ KKK KKR KK KKK KKK KKK proaching Durango, south of Chihua- hua, on Villa’s trail. al American soldiers were sent across the border at Columbus Sunday. juries pursuing Villa. soldiers have been killed in battle. KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK x FORD FAVORITE SON IN MICHIGAN VOTE Detroit, Mich., April 4.— Early reports indicate that Henry Ford is the favorite son of the Michigan republi- can presidential primaries, He is leading Senator Allen by a thousand votes. Twenty- six saloons were voted out in two counties. ok ok ok k ok kW ok ko * KKK KKK KK KK KK KKKF cense fee would be a better way to limit the number of jitney operators. No Action Taken. No action was taken in regard to Mayor Vandersluis and ney operators that a bond would be required and two weeks’ notice was All jitney operators will be Ed Anderson was granted a license as a junk and second hand goods dealer. The bond of George Rhea as city treasurer for $20,000 was accepted. L. Burchard, leader of the Bemidji band, was given permission to oc- cupy the cottage owned by the city on Diamond Point if he would do police duty on the point during the sum- mer months. Bridge Matter Up. Alderman Ervin suggested that the council take some action in regard‘i to the building of a bridge over the Mississippi river that he believed that the would install gates and alarm sys-,T. Tuomy, is the winner of the slo- tem in the present location ratheri than extend the street along the lake | shore and open up Second street. inlet. He stated; railroad ; It was suggested that the lake shore i Alderman Miller urged that action the ake shore project be not dropped. The street committee was auth- The salary of Judge D. H. Fisk as City Engineer Swinson was re- El Paso—American troops are ap- ‘Washington— (Official) —Addition- El Paso—Four American soldiers have died of illness of accidental in- No American FOUR COUPLES ARE LICENSED T0 WED Four wedding licenses have been granted at the office of the county clerk. They are E. J. Voigt of Anoka to Miss Beatrice Backus; Herman Lambert of International Falls to Miss Sadie Peterson of Cavalier, N. D.; Roscoe Scott Ritchie to Edna Ma- bel Brown, both of Roseau; Albert Berger to Miss Annie Gravom, both of Spooner. Judge C. W. Stanton of the dis- triet court returned this morning from Aitkin where he has been hold- ing a term of court. A regular meeting of the O. E. S. will be held tonight in the Masonic NARY RESIDENTS THANK MERGHANTS Bemidji Men Contribute to Fund to Finish Church at Nary. Residents of Nary today sent to the Pioneer a card of thanks to the Bemidji merchants for contributions made toward a fund for the comple- tion of a church at Nary. The con- tributions have been kept secret up to this time. The card of thanks is as follows: To the Merchants Association: It has just been learned by the people of this community that some of the merchants in Bemidji have given aid in the finishing up of the church at Nary, some by contributing cash and others in various ways. It has been kept a secret from the people how the means were obtained to do this work until just recently. Now we, as a community, wish to ex- press our hearty thanks to all of the merchants who so kindly contributed to this work. —The Community of Nary. 'MRS. TUOMY WINS SLOGAN CONTEST Bemidji Woman Submits “The City of Enterprise;” Selected by Judges. Mrs. J. T. Tuomy, wife of Dr. J. gan contest conducted by the Bemidji Merchants association and has been awarded the five dollar prize by the judges. She submitted the slogan, “The City of Enterprise,” which, it is be- lieved by the judges, to be the best of the slogans for Bemidji submitted in, the contest. The decision of the judges was unapimous. The judges were T.- J. Burke, H. M. Clark, C. L. Isted, Dr. G. M. Palmer and A. P. Ritchie. All citizens are urged to use the siogan, “The City of Enterprise,” as much as possible. The judges have not decided the winner of the designs submitted in the contest. FRANK DEWEY - FOUND GUILTY Charged With Running Unlicensed Drinking Place; Takes Appeal. Frank Dewey, proprietor of a pool hall on Minnesota avenue, was found guilty in the municipal court before Judge D. H. Fisk, this morning on a charge of running an unlicensed drinking place. He was sentenced to 50 days in the county jail. Attorney Funkley for Dewey ap- pealed the case. i Chief of Police Ripple and Officers Zacharias, Essler and Cross raided the pool hall Saturday and allege that they found liquor. A large crowd was in court this morning when the case was called. Notice was served on George Ster- ling this afternoon, the holder of the Dewey pool hall license, that a hear- ing would be held tomorrow morn- ing at ten o’clock on the question of revoking the license. W. N. Bowser, of the Bowser company, left the latter part of last week for Duluth and Superior where he will visit a short time. From there he will leave for Chicago and Grand Rapids, Mich., where he will visit with relatives for some hall at eight o’clock. A large at- tendance is urged. time, returning to Bemidji in two weeks. THE CUB REPORTER SCOOP O’Leary- BEMIDJI_ GETS REDUGED FIRE INSURANGE RATES Northern Hummh is Placed on on the Seme Basis as Southern. REDUCTION IN PREMIUMS HERE TO BE $5,503.80 Insurance Companies Agree to De- mands of State Insurance Commissioner. g $St. Paul, Minn.,, April . 4.—All Northern Minnesota is to have the basis fire insurance rate enjoyed by Southern Minnesota. This is the an- nouncement made by the state in- surance commissioner. Until last fall Somthern Minne- sota, including the Twin Cities, en- joyed the lowest basig-rate. Central and Northwestern Minnesota were paying a higher rate, and the sixteen northeasterly countigs of the state a rate even higher than that paid in the central and northwestern por- tions. ' = Nov. 24 last, Comtnissioner orks of the state department, ordersd the General Inspection company toiuse a uniform basis rate :throughost ‘the state and further demanded that this uniform basis rate bé no higher than that prevalent in Southern Minne- sota. Mr. Works declared at the time that he would permit towns having an extra fire hazard to have a higher rate, but he insisted that such towns must be considered indi- vidually. All Towns to Be Rerated. The General Inspection company, after some negotiations, agreed to lower the rate in Central and North- western Minnesota to agree with the Southern Minnesota rate, but insist- ed that there was. justification for the higher basis rate.in. the sixteen heavily timbered northieast counties. Mr. Works and Mr. Fisher have spent several weeks in these morth- east counties inspecting some 400 towns and villages. The result is the agreement on the part of the General Inspection company granting credit reductions on existing rates. These reductions will apply until the various towns have been reinspected and rerated under the uniform basis rate agreement. The following figures show the dif- ference betwen the old and new basis rates in the several towns men- tioned: One-story brick buildings reduced from 55 to 43. Two-story reduced from 68 to 45. One-story frame reduced from 1.08 to 90. J Two-story frame reduced from 1.13 to 965. i Towns in the same class as Vir- ginia are: Chisholm, Hveleth, Hib- bing, Bemidji. Little Falls, One-story brick building, reduced from 47 to 39. Two-story reduced from 49 to 41. One-story frame reduced from 99 to 82. Two-story reduced from 1.04 to 86. Towns in the same class as Little Falls are: Crookston, Moorhead, Thief River Falls, Long Prairie, East Grand Forks and others. ‘Walker. One-story brick building reduced ifrom 52 to 47. Two-story reduced from 54 to 49. One-story frame reduced from 1.14 to 95. | Two-story reduced from 1.10 ' to 1.00. | Towns in this class are: Brain- erd, Bagley, Roseau, Greenbush, Men- ahga and others. + ‘Warren. | One-story brick building reduced (Continued on Page ¢) THREE PLEAD GUILTY ON FEDERAL LIQUOR CHARGES IN BEMIDJI Tom Olson, Fred Beilow and Henry Hutte Ordered Committed at Duluth. TO AWAIT ACTION OF FEDERAL COURT Six Cases Transferred to Minneapolis 80 That Pleas of Guilty May Be Made. Hearings on two liquor introdue- tion cases were held before Judge H. A. Simons, United States commis- sioner, this morning and applications for the transferring of six cases to the Minneapolis term were received by the Indian commission in Be- midji. Tom Olson, who was arrested April first by J. P. Brandt, Federal officer, charged with introducting into Deer River seven quarts and one-half pint of whisky, was arraigned yesterday before Judge Simions. 'He entered a plea of guilty and was committed to the St. Louis county jail to await the action of the federal grand jury. Beilow Guilty. . Fred Beilow, charged with having on April 2 introduced three gallons of alcohol into Cass Lake, entered a plea of guilty before Judge Simons today and in default of bonds was committed to the St. Louis county jail to await action at the July term of Federal court. Upon arraignment this morning before Judge H. A. Simons, Henry Hutte, on a charge of introducing li- quor into Indian country at Flood- wood on April 1, entered a plea of guilty and was ordered committed to the St. Louis, county jail to awalt the action of the Federal court. Elbert Nelson, Exie Buchanon, Lanti Alta, Fred Beilow, Tom Olson and Henry Hutte, all charged with introducing liquor into Indian terri- tory and bound over to the July term of the grand jury, presented appli- cations to have their cases trans- ferred from the July term of court to the present term now in session at Minneapolis. This action was taken by the de- fendants that they may plead guilty and commence serving their terms immediately. The applications were granted. Judge H. A. Simons, United States commissioner, will leave tonight for Minneapolis in connection with the cases transferred. ASKS INJUNGTION AGAINST COUNTY To Restrain Clearwater County Com- missioners From Building Court House. Attorney M. J: Brown today served notice of injunction asking that the county commissionérs of Clearwater county be restrained from issuing bonds and ordering the construction of a new court house at Bagley. A hearing wiH be held on the mat- ter inside of 20 days. Residents of Clearbrook are re- questing the injunction through At- torney Brown. A crow bar was lost from the Be- midji fire department truck Sunday morning. The finder of the bar is urged to return it to the fire depart- ment. Mrs. J. A. Eby is visiting as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Reynolds. She is enroute from Winnipeg, Can- ada, to her home in Chicago. Is The Season Open Or Are We Dreaming? E BINGO - T SURH Fclub rooms tonight after the meeting -|man frontier and is massing troops KKK KK KKK KKK E KK KD . +{ATTORNEY RULES * ST. PAUL FEDERAL * : DAM MAY BREAK * S 3 THAT OSTEOPATH * St. Paul, Minn., April 4— X ¥ It is feared that the big Fed- * ¥ eral dam on the Mississippi * 's NuT Ellfilsl[ * river between St. Paul and % ¥ Minneapolis will break to- x —— * day. Hundreds of families * Shannon is Hired Salary X below the dam will be endan- X| 0 2 s o ¥ gered if the 80-foot wall of & $600 Per Year; Physician % water comes tumbling down. Last Year. ¥ Many families have been for- * % cibly removed by the police. * i x # |ACTION AT FORMER i**iiifi#ii*il*iil MEETING RECONSIDERED-~ City Heads Unanimous in Astiows State Osteopaths May Test Action, SMITH ENTERS PLEA OF GUILTY Pleads to Second Degree Larceny; Was Indicted of First Degree Larceny. As a result of the opinion of City Attorney Russell requested by the city council on the appointment of Dr. F. J. Darragh, an osteopath, as city physician, the council last eve- ning reconsidered the appointment of Dr. Darragh and Dr. E. A. Shannon, city physician last year, was hired at $600 for city physician and health officer for the ensuing year. The action of the council was un- animous. St. Paul, Minn., April 4.—Walter J. Smith, former state treasurer, to- day entered a plea of guilty to sec- ond degree larceny. He was indicted of first degree lar- ceny and was permitted to change his plea. The irregularities were discovered in February. They amounted to $28,962, and covered three forged district school warrants for $18,000, $4,600 and $6,000. The entire amount of the irregulari- ties has been made good. AUTOMOBILE GLUB T0 MEET TONIGHT Meeting to Be Held at Commercial Club Rooms After Club Session. May Be Tested. Their action may result in a test case. This was the first time that an osteopath was appointed to the office of physician in the state and state osteopaths may bring a test case to prove that they are eligible to the office. The opinion of City Attorney Rus- sell is as follows: Section 36 of Chapter 4, Charter of the City of Bemidji, provides that: ‘The health department shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be a physician, duly licensed to prac- tice medicine within the State oI Minnesota, of good standing in his profession, and who shall have been in practice for at least three years,” who shall be called ‘health officer.’ Not in Charter. “It will be seen from the fore- going that this officer is entitled to a salary as well as any of the elec- tive -or -appointive offices to which a salary is attached, and the method of allowing it to go to the lowest bidder, is to say the least, an inno- vation, not sanctioned by the char- ter, and ‘puts the care of the sick poor and dependents as well as the preservation of the public health on a very low plane. “I fully understand why this was done—simply to take the burden of making a selection off the shoulders of the council, from a number of ap- plicants. “The call for ‘bids’ in response to which Dr. Darragh’s tender was re- ceived, informed all physicians that the duties would be the regular du- ties of a health officer and as city physician to take care of the worthy poor of the city, its paupers and other duties required by ordinance, said physician to furnish the neces- sary medicines, bandages, convey- ances, ete.’ “While the wording of the call for bids is somewhat ambiguous, in that it says ‘taking care of the worthy poor of the city, etc.’ and ‘furnish- ing necessary medicines, bandages, etc.,” which might be done by any layman, the words, ‘City Physician,’ has a well understood meaning—the medical attendance on and treatment of the city poor. “In the proposal of Dr. Darragh he agrees to ‘furnish such bandages and supplies as the other health officers have done.” Duties Twofold. “The duties of our ‘Health Officer’ are twofold. He must, as health of- ficer, attend to the sanitary condi- tions of the city, the prevention of epidemics, the quarantining of com- municable diseases, etc., and as city physician he must prescribe for and treat the poor and dependent of the city. “So far as the first part of his du- ties are concerned I have no hestita- tion in saying that Dr. Darragh is eligible. «“As to the second proposition, Dr. Darragh belongs to the school known as osteophatic and the title of ‘phys- ician’ has been extended to practi- tioners of this school. A ‘phys- ician’ is variously defined to be ‘one skilled in physic,’ ‘a doctor of med- icine,’ a ‘person who has received the degree of doctor of medicine from an incorporated institution,’ ‘ome law- tully engaged in the practice of med- icine.” “The ‘Horton Law,’ Sec. 4994, Statutes of Minn. 1913, says ‘the practice of osteopathy is hereby de- clared distinct from that of medicine or surgery within the meaning of the law, but with respect to the control of communicable diseases, osteophatic physicians shall be subject of all lo- cal and state laws and regulations that govern other physicians, and (Continued ¢ The Bemidji Automobilé club will hold a meeting at. the =Commercial of the Commercial club. President A.-M. Bagley urges that all members.of the organization be present. All automobile owners are invited to attend the meeting. Good roads, road improvements and other matters will be taken up. Many important matters will be taken up by the Commercial club to- night. The equalizing of the assess- ing of property in the city will be discussed and a committee may be ap- pointed to co-operate with City As- sessor T. J. Lloyd. KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK * EUROPEAN WAR TODAY ¥ KKK KKK KKK KKK KY Berlin—Dutch government re- fused to comply with the Allies’ re- quest to close the frontier to Ger- many. London—A dispatch from Rome says that Holland has closed the Ger- along the German border. This re- port is unconfirmed. ‘Washington—England has refused to release Germans taken off the Am- erican liner China recently. They were enroute from China to San Francisco. Berlin—French attacks repulsed in Douamont region. London—Three hundred killed or njured in’ powder factory fire in Kent. FEDERAL OFFICER TO MOVE TO THIS CITY J. P. Brandt, Federal officer, has purchased two lots on Beltrami av- enue between Eleventh and Twelfth streets and will construct a. $4,000 modern bungalow on them. He in- tends to move his family to this city a8 soon as the home is completed. 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