Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 7, 1916, Page 1

e e— } | i HE BEMIDJI DATILY PIONEE VOLUME XIV, NO. 87. %, - = = - BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY' EVENING, APRIL 7, 1916, FEDERAL BUILDING PLANS MUST WAIT WRITES LINDBERGH Postoftice De}mrtmént Will Not Change Rules for Bemidji Postoffice. LETTER RECEIVED IN BEMIDJI BY J. J. OPSAHL Construction of Building May Be Held Up Indefinitely by Action. The postoffice department at Wash- ington will not change its rules so that Bemidji can secure plans for a Federal building immediately, accord- ing to a letter received today from Congressman C. A. Lindbergh by J. J. Opsahl. The letter is as follows: Mr. J. J. Opsahl, Bemidji, Minnesota. My Dear Mr. Opsahl: With regard to the Bemidji post- office, they will not change any rules in the department for an indi- vidual postoffice, except where there are such extraordinary circumstances that the public would be damaged in an unusual way unless the change were made. That means something peculiar. Of course there is nothing peculiar about the Bemidji situation so far as I know. If there were some reason why the present facilities were impracticable, something might be done, but otherwise these matters are governed by rule. They prepare for all public buildings at the same time. They make their plams under certain rules. There is talk of changing the plan situation but I don’t suppose it will take effect soon enough to be of benefit to your city. That part is with the administrative department and not with congress. The committee on public buildings and grounds is getting up another bill under which authority will be granted for sites and buildings in new places, one in each district, pro- vided there is a town in the district that comes within the rules. This bill merely grants authority and does not include appropriations.* No ap- propriation will probably be made un- til the next session or some future congress. The public does not seem to be informed on the rules that gov- ern Federal buildings. Sincerely, C. A. LINDBERGH. GOVERNOR PROMISES PROBE OF TIMBER IRREGULARITIES St. Paul, Minn., April 7.—Gover- nor Burnquist said today that the state timber board, which has been called to meet at 10 a. m. next Thursday, undoubtedly will go into the criminal features of the Koochich- ing county case, in which John Cash- in, a scaler, was dismissed because of irregularities in failing to scale the whole amount of timber cut under contract between the state and the Rat Root River Timber company. Assistant Attorney General Mark- ham, who has been assigned to handle the case by Attorney General Smith, said he had been busy with the set- tlement of the financial end of the affair, but that he expects to investi- gate its criminal aspects. —— & VOLUNTEERS ARE RETAINED IN BILL Senate by a Vote of 36 to 34 Rejects Senator Lee’s Amendment to Army Bill, ‘Washington, April 7.—The senate retained the federal volunteer pro- vision in the army bill late yesterday by a vote of 36 to 34, rejecting Sena- tor Lee’s amendment to strike out the section from the bill. The vote ended a four-day debate on the sec- tion. Advocates of the national guard as the first line of defense behind the regular army supported the adminis- tration vigorously and the struggle was one of the hardest fought in the senate at this session of congress. It began after the defeat of the mili- tary committee last week when a proposal to create a national guard section of the army general staff was written into the bill. PRESIDENT WILSON TO VISIT CHICAGO Washington, April 7. President ‘Wilson tentatively accepted today an invitation to go to Chicago Septem- ber 4, to attend the National En- campment of the United States war veterans and review a preparedness parade. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Schroeder left last night for Minneapolis where they will visit.for several days. ent of schools, is inspecting schools north of Bemidji. (& W KREKEKKRKKKKKRF . "’.y% THE CITY HALL x * "%, AND COURT HOUSE * s, KK D KKK KKK KKK Frann 7, who was found guil- ty of rum. " unlicensed drink- ing place an. .enced to serve 50 days in the couaty jail by Judge A. M. Crowell, changed his mind about appealing the case and began the serving of his sentence last evening. He was arrested in a raid by Chief of Police Ripple and other police offi- cers last Saturday. The fire department was called to the home of Clarence Grover, 1020 Minnesota avenue, last evening on ac- count of a chimney fire. The fire did no damage. City Engineer Swinson today placed a crew of men at work clean- ing the road to'the city dump ground. Several people have had garbage dumped along the road to the grounds instead of at the dump. Among the road work planned in the city this year is the repairing of the swamp road and the constructing of a connecting road with the state road past the normal school site. Officfals”in the county treasurer’s office are today paying school dis- tricts and townships their portion of the March settlement. County Treasurer Earl Geil has re- ceived a check of $50,097.13 from the John Nuveen Co. of Chicago for ditch bonds for judicial- ditches 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28. Three wolf bounties were issued at the court house yesterday. R. A. Bailey received two wolf bounties and C. E. Brown one. Both are resi- dents of 157-34. Final hearing was held today in the district court by Judge C. W. Stanton for the establishment of Ju- dicial Ditch No. 25. W. B. Stewart, county superintend- rural Plans are being made to begin the operating of dredging machines on several ditches within the next two weeks. FIRE MARSHALL ORDERS STAR BUILDING DOWN Notice is Served, Giving Occupants 30 Days to Move; Inspector Investigates. BUILDING OWNED BY FITGER BREWING CO. Orders Filed on Naish McKinnon, Former Owner of Building, on Minnesota Avenue. The state fire marshal has ordered the Star restaurant building on Min- nesota avenue vacated. Orders giving 30 days to vacate the building were served on Naish Mc- Kinnon, former owner of the build- today. The Fitger Brewing company is the present owner of the building and it is believed that notice will be served on them immediately. Inspectors from the state fire mar- shal’s office were in the city several weeks ago and inspected a number of buildings. The Star restaurant was declared to be a fire trap and on account of adjacent buildings it was ordered va- cated within 30 days. Clarence La Valley is the propri- etor of the Star restaurant and hotel which is located in the building. ing, FUNERAL OF HARRY GOODNO IS HELD The funeral of Harry Goodno, who died at his home on America avenue, was held this afternoon from the Presbyterian church. Rev. 1. D. Al- vord officiated. Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery. THE CUB SCOOP reporrer WELL- \TS DONE! KKK KKK R KKK K KKK CITIZENS URGED ® * ¥ TWEEDLE DUM * T0 ATTEND BIG TAX |~ rreeuese 2 * St. Paul, Minn,, April 7.— % MEETING TflN'GHT * Whether a liability insurance + ot * company is liable for damage * % to a machine driven in sub- % 3 . . |¥* stitution for the machine up- * Meeting to Be Held at Commercial % on which it contracts insur- % Club to Confer With Assessor ¥ ance, was before the Minne- % Lioyd. % sota supreme court for hear- % oyd. ¥ ing today. The Crescent * = * Creamery company boiight a * PERSONAL AND REAL ¥ truck, with the provision +* ESTATE TAXES UP|* that in case it broke down, % % the truck company would sub- % * stitute another truck. * Civic Organizations to Name Com-|& » KRR KKK KKK KKK KD mittee to Assist Assessor in Work. THIRTEEN FILE ON GOVERNMENT LANDS IN_ BEMIDJ! Nineteen Thousand Acres to Be Used for Agricultural Purposes Soon. Every citizen of Bemidji is urged to attend the meeting at the Com- mercial club rooms tonight to dis- cuss the real estate and personal property taxes of Bemidji. City Assessor T. J. Lloyd will be present and he will outline his work. Citizens who have eriticisms or suggestions are urged to bring them up at the meeting for discussion. The meeting has been called by the Commercial club because of the criticism against the personal and real estate taxes not being equal. Assessor Lloyd has asked the club to co-operate with him and a com- mittee will be named to assist him. The meeting tonight will begin at xight o’clock. MILL NUMBER TWO IS OPENED Begins 1916 Season; About 250 Men Are Employed; Prospects Good. OPENING DATE IS APRIL 26, 1916 William J. Hutchins of Turtle River is First to File at Court House, William J. Hutchins of Turtle River was the first -man to appear this morning before County Clerk of Court Rhoda to file on vacant gov- ernment lands to be opened soon. He filed on Lot 5, W, NE4-25-147- 32. Joseph Hawk of Bemidji was sec- ond, filing on the Wi NE%, SEY% NE¥%, 36-147-32. Thirteen filings had been made up to noon today. Others who filed are W. J. Walkon and A. C. Steele of Turtle River, Peter J. Edd of Bemidji, Harry M. Baldwin of Nymore, Wil- liam H. Blackburn of Bemidji, Thos. M. Wilson of Turtle River, Edmund C. Bergh of Bemidji, Elmer C. Alton of Nymore, Charles Bloomquist of Bemidji, John -8.-Beatty.-sf Bemidji and George Geror of Bemidji. Over 56,174 Acres. Over 56,174 acres of ceded Chip- pewa lands in the former Red Lake, ‘White Earth, Leech Lake, Chippewa of Mississippi, Winnibigoshish, Deer Creek, Bois Fort and Pidgeon River reservations will be open for settle- ment. i The ceded lands to be opened com- prises 19,000 to 20,000 acres of good land in this district, which includes what is classed as many valuable tracts of timber near Mud Lake. Some Timber Lands. There are 3,815 acres of pine tim- ber on the new lands to be opened for settlement. All the land has been divided off into 40 and 80-acre tracts and it is expected that the entire acreage will be filed on by homesteaders. MIDDLETON 13 NAMED DELEGATE President of Northern Minnesota De- velopment Association to Con- servation Congress. At seven o’clock Thursday morning the wheels of mill Number Two of the Crookston Lumber company were turned over and mill operations for 1916 season commenced. The plant will employ about two iundred and fifty men. This force will"include both the day and night shifts which will be run the entire season. This is the first time in sev- >ral years that a night shift has been run in mill number two. New equipment has been added to the mill and prospects are for one of the longest seasons for several years. This is the earliest that the mill has ever been opened. Mill number one started operations last Monday. FORMER OFFICERS MAY BE PARDONED Smith and Pickitt May Never Serve Terms; Friends Active to Secure Releases. St. Paul, Minn., April 7.—Walter J. Smith, former state treasurer, and R. C. Pickitt, former clerk of the state investment board, both sen- tenced to the state prison at Still- water on larceny charges, may never serve their terms. Rev. Wright of Fergus Falls, Pick- itt’s cousin, interviewed Governor Burnquist today asking that the same consideration be shown Pickit as is shown Smith. The governor admitted that Smith’s friends are active. Formal petitions have not been filed. There is suffi- cient time yet to file the petitions and if they are filed they will be con- sidered. C. R. Middleton of Baudette, presi- dent of the Northern Minnesota De- velopment association, was named by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist today as a delegate to the National Conserva- tion Congress at Washington May 2, 3 and 4. ! ROBBERS LOOT BANK AND ESCAPE WITH $15,000 REDUCTION IN WINTER WHEAT CROP SAYS REPORT ‘Washington, April 7.—The depart- ment of agriculture in a report today indicates that there is a reduction of 24 per cent in the winter wheat crop on April 1 this year as com- pared to April 1,-1915. This year $15,000 and escaped in an automo-|the average is 78.3 per cent. The bile, but no trace of them has been | price this year is 98.6 cents while found. ' yf\w”t year it was $1.31 7-10. Cannonsburg, Pa., April 7.—More than a score of detectives searched the hills in the vicinity of Houston, one mile west of here, today for trace of two men who yesterday robbed the First National bank of Houston of [UNITED STATES TO GIVE: GERMANY GHANCE TO REPLY Submarine Situation is Very Grave; Cabinet Has Seoret Meeting. PEACE NOT NEARER BY CHANCELLOR’S TALK Feared Many Lives Lost When British Transport is Sunk; Teutons Make Gains. ‘Washington, April 7.--Uncertainty, solemnity and anticipation mingled when the cabinet and President Wil- son' met this morning for the fourth time to consider the compiled evi- dence of the German submarine ac- tivities and the German-American re- lations. There is the greatest of secrecy at all meetings. It is generally conceded that the United States is confronted by a sit- uation more grave than any which has arisen since the outbreak of the war. It has been said that no defi- nite steps will be taken by the Amer- ican government until Germany has replied to the formal inquiries sub- mitted by Ambassador Gerard in the cases of the Sussex, Englishman, Manchester Engineer and Eagle Point. To Give Germany Chance. It is declared that work from Ber- lin is being waited not so much be- cause of the information as to what is wanted, but to give Germany an opportunity to present her version and to say what will be done about it. In view of the evidence collected it is confidently believed in many quarters that Germany will admit the attack on the Sussex and unoffi- cial dispatches from Berlin have in- timated that such admissions will be accompanied by disavowal and offer of reparation. Acceptance of such a response by the United States would depend upon the measure of punishment meted out to the submarine commander respon- sible for the offense. Peace No Nearer. London, April 7.—Peace is no nearer on account of the German chancellor’s Reichstag speech. Brit- ish officials scoff at the idea of the Allies to end the war upon the terms that Germany stated. There is lit- tle prospect of ending the war by autumn. The.Germans have modi- fied the peace demands for two rea- sons, first, the Crown Prince’s failure to take Verdun; second, the increas- ing seriousness of food problems. The withdrawal of Germany’s indem- nity demands are the most significant. Fear Many Lives Lost. London, April 7.—A heavy loss of life is feared with the sinking of the Peninsular and Orient liner Simla, in the government service as a trans- port in the Mediterranean. The Simla is believed to have been sunk off the west coast of Greece. It was owned by the same company that KKK KKRKKKKKKS AUTO TO EVERY 80 PERSONS, U. 8. RATE New York, April 6.— Shipments of automobiles dur- ing March totaled 28,600 car- loads, a gain of 11,400 over the March record of last year and 5,000 carloads more than the best previously monthly record in the history of the industry, according to a state- ment made at the meeting here of the National Automo- bile Chamber of Commerce. January and February, it is said, also made new rec- ords. At the present rate of in- crease it is estimated that the total sale of cars in 1916 will reach 1,250,000, which would be a distribution of some- thing like one car to every eighty persons in the United States. XAk Kk Ak kA hkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkkXkokkkw kA kA A AKX T Ak A A A XAk Ak Ak Ak ke hkhka KKK KKK KK KKK KKK REPORTED THAT 00 WILL ADD T0 TRAIN SERVIGE Two Trains Between Duluth and Winnipeg May Be Added, is Report. DINING, OBSERVATION AND PULLMAN CARS ALSO Road Bed May Be Graveled Between Duluth and Winnipeg. Reports received by a Bemidji mer- chant today are that the Soo railroad will better its train service in Be- midji by adding two additional trains, dining, observation and sleep- ing cars. A day train, it is reported, will run between Duluth apd Winnipeg and will*prebably be 1. extension of the present Winnipeg flyer. A night ‘train, with a Pullman, will run from this train to Thief River Fall§ and connect with a train for the Twin Cities. The change will be made, it is re- ported, to permit travelers from Red Lake and points east and west on the Great Northern to make train connections with points along the Soo Line without a long stop in Be- midji. No reports were available as to when the change would be made, but it is believed that it will be within a few months. The Soo Line, it is said, is plan- ning to gravel the entire road bed from Duluth to Winnipeg. Railway officials in Bemidji re- fused to deny or affirm the reports today. SHERMAN BOOSTS owned the Persia. Germans Close Cafe: Amsterdam, April 7.—German au- thorities have closed the cafe named after Woodrow Wilson by the Bel- gians. Russians Advance. Petrograd, April 7.--Russian troops are advancing on the Turkish Black Sea port of Trebizond. The Turks have been driven from the fortified positions near Trebizond. Galician Village Taken. Petrograd, April 7.—(Official)— The Galician village of Svetkavtze has been captured. French Imperiled. London, April 7.—The French posi- tions at Bethincourt have been im- periled by the surrender of Harcourt. The positions are under terrific bom- bardment. Germans Gain. Paris, April 7.—(Official)—The Germans have penetrated the French trenches at Bethincourt on the Chat- tincourt road. Ploneer. want ads are read. It Looked Well On Both Of Them AMENDMENT NO. | Claims State Officials and Candidates. for Legislature Backing Movement. St. Paul, Minn., April 7.—Fred D. Sherman, state immigration commis- sioner, is boosting Amendment No. 1, providing for a revolving fund from the state school fund for the reclaim- ing of state lands. In a statement issued today Sher- man says that all the state officials and candidates for the next legisla- ture are endorsing the amendment. FLOOD CONDITIONS SERIOUS AT LA CROSSE La Crosse, Wis., April 7.—With the Mississippi river higher than during TEN VILLISTAS ARE KILLED IN MEXICAN CLASH Carranza Troops Fight Villa’s Men at Cienequilla; Two Are Captured. TENTH CAVALRY LIVES ON BEEF AND CORN Americans Reported in Battle With Troops; Villa Has Large Force. ‘Washington, April 7.—(Official)— Villistas and Carranzistas clashed last Tuesday at Cienequilla. Ten Villistas were killed and two were captured. Colonel and the Tenth cavalry has been living for two weeks on beef and corn. A mining company has made food available. Confirmed reports are that the Car- ranzistas and Americans fought Vil- listas at Aguacelientes last Saturday. The reports are not in detail. The rumor persists that Villa has been wounded. Villa Has Big Force. El Paso, April 7.—Villa has gath- ered 2,000 men at Parral for a stand against the Americans. This report was received this morning by Fort Bliss authorities. General Dodd is reported nearing the Parral district. Officials here are surprised at the size of Villa’s force. In a previous report it was estimated that he only had a few hundred men. Wants Troops Withdrawn. Consul Garcia, chief Carranza offi- cial along the border, yesterday de- clared himself in favor of the United States troops withdrawing from Mexico. There is no doubt here that Garcia’s views reflect those of the Carranza government. “The American expedition has achieved its purpose of breaking Villa’s strength and scattering his followers,” said Garcia. “It is not necessary to capture Villa to make the expedition a success, It would be useless to have thousands of men pursue him-as it may take an inde- finite time. to capture him.” Follow Cold Trail. Intimations in Washington that the Carranza government might soon indicate to the American government that the troops pursuing the bandit Villa were following a “cold trail” and that the de facto government would welcome the return of the United States troops to their own country, occasioned no surprise today in El Paso. The situation today is as follows: Apache scouts have joined in the pursuit of Villa. Only unofficial reports have been received of the whereabouts of Villa. Mexican commanders are emphatic in asserting that Villa has not been wounded. Pressing Southward. San Antonio, April 7.—Pressing southward, defying danger, the Am- erican advance detachments are be- lieved near Statevo, 40 miles south of Chihuahua City on the trail of Villa. Three Citizens Killed. Tucson, Ariz., April 7.—Three United States citizens and one Span- iard were killed yesterday by Mex- ican bandits nine miles south of Ro- sario, Cinaloa, Mexico, according to advices received here today from Mazatlan at the offices of the South- ern Pacific Railway company. Will Not Withdraw. Washington, April 7.—Emphatic denial by Secretary Lansing today was the official answer to persistent reports that American troops might be withdrawn from Mexico shortly, regardless of the development in the hunt for Villa. Both Mr. Lansing and Secretary Baker of the war depart- ment indicated that there was mno present intention of changing the original orders given General Fun- the record flood of 1903 and still ris- |stoR- ing, flood conditions here are becom- ing serious. While no loss of life has been reported, property damage be- SENATUH HAR“'“G comes greater each day with the in- crease of water. By "HOP’ A NAMED CHAIRMAN Ohio Senator Chosen as Temporary Chairman of G. 0. P. Convention. Chicago, Ill, April 7.—Senator ‘Warren Harding of Ohio was chosen today as temporary chairman of the Republication national convention. He was the unanimous choice ot the arrangements committee. EVERYONE INVITED TO STEWART'S PARTY Everyone .is invited to Scott Stew- art’s party at the Stewart Grocery to- day and tomorrow. biscuits and coffee. Scott is serving - ] 3