Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 18, 1916, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PION VOLUME XIV, NO. 96. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1916. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH WORK GOMME, e ON ATHLETIC Pa.'s., | ON FOURTH STREE: Beltrami and Bemidji Avenues to Be Paved; To Advgrtise For Bids KEKEKEKKK KK KK KKK KKK ’lhe history of the railway in Bemidji and submitted several propositions in repairing the present crossing and the construction of a street to Third street along the lake shore. All his orders were contingent, however, upon the permanent closing of Sec- ond street. Money is Available. Alderman Erwin pointed out that Commfttee is Named To Plan For Hotel Opening AMERIGAN TROOPSTO BEWITHDRAWN FROM MEXICO IN MONTH Crews Begin Leveling Grounds;|City Council Orders Permanent Im- * WHAT THE COUNCIL DID * |the $3,700 county money is available Action Will Probably Be Taken Fence to Be Constructed provements for this [3 — # [this year and must be used. He = Without Getting Mexican / Immediately. Year. * Ordered the advertising for & |urged that the council take some ac-| # Bandit. 4 ¥ bids for paving on Beltrami and * [tion and urged the construction of X £ : 2y * Bemidji avenues and for the % |the Second street project. Other BLEACHERS AND GRAND SANITARY SEWER ORDERED * construction of a sanitary *[members also favored the mew pro- HEAD OF SUPPOSED VILLA STAND TO BE CONSTRUCTED FOR AMERICA AVENUE % sewer. * |ject. TAKEN TO CHIHUAHUA CITY o *x Ordered the extending of & After lengthy arguments the mat- v i l Basdball Hexson: o/ Opéi as Sogi 4 [PINNSso: Cortoios Reyorks dis Fuods : bw:itl:x;n’;alns to the new Koors : :Z;:;file:ffe"efl back to the street Proposed dining hall, kitchen a 1d sleeping quarters for hired help |yjjq Hunt Secondary Matter; Pro- 4 = Park is Completed; Schedule Available for the X Recommended that the chart- & . planned for B}rchmont Beach hotel.. lNew struf:ture will cost. about tection of U, S. Troops Arvanged. Year 1916, * er commission amend charter for % | $5,000 and will be constructed east of the hotel if plans are carried out. Pri * “white way” project. x scHnul GARnENS At a meeting of the stockholders|would be unable to open the hotel ¥ | * Grants pool hall license. * of the Birchmont Beach hotel held [unless arrangements were made. He \Vm.'k was begun today on the new |M. & I. AGAINST NEW ¥ Refers the Mississippi river last evening at the Commercial club |stated that he preferred to turn the| Washington, April 18.—American 5 athletic park west of the plant of the LAKE SHORE STREET PROJECT * bridge matter back to street % Tu BE STAKED uuT rooms a committee was appointed to|management over to the note hold- troops will probably be withdrawn : Minnesota Electric Light & Power * committee. o meet with the noteholders of the ers or sell the hotel outright. from Mexico within a month without company on Fourtl street, —_— " KRR KKK KKK KKK A-I- GHU“L FAHM hotel and submit plans for the com-| Plans for taking care of the note |getting Villa, Crews of men are leveling the Ll Ui be paved ing season. The committee will as-|holders of the hotel must be made| Steps will not be taken, however, grounds and the construction of a|from Tenth street to Thirtenth |Ments from the permanent fund will certain whether or not the note hold- [before the hotel will open. ; . fence will be begun immediately. Bleachers and grand stands will be constructed as soon as the fence is completed. The improvements will cost about $2,000 and the park when completed will be one of the best in this section of the state. To Open in May. The Bemidji Athletic association which is constructing the park ex- pects to open the baseball season in Bemidji the latter part of May or as soon as the grounds are completed. A complete baseball schedule is being nged with the fastest teams in this district. The officers of the association are Attorney M. J. Brown, president; H. N. Clark, vice president; Frank §. Lycan, secretary and treasurer: The board of directors is Charles Nangle, T. J. Burke, Frank S. Lycan, Thomas Ervin, Attorney A. A. Andrews, A. B. Palmer, R. H. Schumaker, W. L. Brooks, Attorney M. J. Brown and Judge M. A. Spooner. Many Subscribe. Perle Davis is in charge of the construction of the park. Many Bemidji people and firms are taking stock in the new association which is incorporated for $10,000. The Crookston Lumber company has sent the association a check for $200. It is planned to use the park for football, curling and hockey, as well as baseball. street; Bemidji avenue will be paved from Fourth street to Seventh street and a sanitary sewer will be con- structed from Sixth to Thirteenth streets on America avenue, to Bel- trami avenue on Thirteenth street, on Beltrami avenue from Twelfth (o Fourteenth streets and on Minnesota avenue from Ninth to Thirteenth streets, as a result of action taken by the city council at a regular ses- sion held last evening. City Clerk Stein was authorized to advertise for bids, the same to be opened at the next meeting of the council, which will be held in two weeks. Work on the proposed im- provements will probably be begun immediately. The council also de- cided to extend the water mains on America avenue to the corner of the St. Hilaire Lumber company prop- erty and to the Koors Bros. company new building. - Funds Overdrawn. The extending of the water mains on Irvine avenue to the Greenwood cemetery was deferred on account of shortage of funds in the water de- partment. The finance committee, composed of Aldermen Lycan, Ervin and Lahr, reported the funds available for this year for permanent The report is as follows: improvements. “The committee of finance, begs to report that the approximate amount amount to $8,650 leaving an over- draft of the same amount in that fund.” All Members Present. All members of the council were present at the meeting last evening. Many citizens interested in the new improvements and other matters also attended the meet. A joint committee of the city council and the commercial club on the “white way” project submitted a report on the feasibility of the con- struction of a “white way.” They asked that the charter be amended so that the cost of installing the sys- tem could be assessed against the ad- joining property owners as a local improvement. Under the charter at ipresent, the project would be assessed against the entire city. The council referred the report to the charter commission and urged the commis- sion that such an amendment be sub- mitted to the voters. Bond Approved. The bond of Dr. E. A. Shannon as city physician was accepted and placed on file. The Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement company in a communica- tion to the city council objected ‘o the location of the armory on the site proposed at the end of Fourth street. The sommunication was filed. Vacation proceedings have been begun for the vacating of the site for April 26th is Last Day for Making Entry for a “Home- stead.” MANY STUDENTS SIGN UP FOR SUMMER WORK Schools to Furnish Seeds and Plants; Chance to Make “Pin Money.” Wednesday, April 26, is the last day the Bemidji schools to make entry on a “Garden- for students in er’s Homestead.” After that date the school gardens at the school farm will be staked out. A fee of fifty cents is charged each gardener to help pay for seeds. Bach gardner may bring his own hoe and rake or he may deposit fifty cents and the school will furnish the tools. This deposit will be returned at the close of the season when the hoe and rake are returned. Gile in Charge. B. M. Gile, agriculturist of the Be- midji schools, is in charge of the gardens. All seeds and plants are furnished by the school and each gardener gets ers desire to donate their holdings to the project, whether they desire a personal note or whether they will nsist on payments complete. George Presides. J. L. George, trustee, opened the meeting last evening by outlining the present situation. He pointed out that some of the stockholders had al- ready donated their subscriptions to| he project. 1‘ It was brought out at the meeting that the hotel proposition was not a private affair and that it was a public institution for the good of Bemidji. | George Cochran, Sr., slated that he HOLG MEET TONIGHT The Bemidji Commercial club will meet tonight at the Commercial club rooms. Plans for a new home for the elub will be discussed. The ar- mory committee will report on the amount of funds collected for the armory. Applications for new mem-| bers will be considered. A meeting of the board of directors will be held after the regular meet- ing. COMMERCIAL CLUB 70 |SUNDAY SGHOOL TO Plans New Building. Mr., Cochran will present plans (o the committee which is composed of E. H. Winter, F. W. Rhoda and E. H. Denu, who will take up the matter with each subscriber before Monday. There are a number of improve- ments that are intended to be made this season at the hotel including the comstruction of a dining hall, kitchen and sleeping quarters for hired help, enlarging the lobby room ‘at the hotel, cement tennis courts, ete., providing the mortgage can be released so that the work can bhe done. GIVE EASTER PROGRAM The Sunday School of the Method- ist church will give an Easter pro- gram at the church Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The program will include songs by the Harnwell Quar- tette; solo by Miss Sadie Williams; reading by Miss Carrie Brown; song by Miss Ruth Heibe and ten girls; reading by Golden Soper; duet by Irene Powell and Vera Cutter; reci- tation by Sylvanus Cobb; remarks by Rev. B. D. Hanscom. Different classes of the Sunday school will take until the Villa bands Thave been broken up and Carranza is able to handle the situation. The government feels that it has already accomplished an enormous task and is ready to withdraw. Head is Taken. El Paso, April 18.—Carranza Con- sul Garcia today stated that prob- ably only the head of the supposed body of Villa will be taken to Chi- huahua City on accout of the de- composed condition of the body. San Antonio, April 18.—It is be- lieved here that the stories of Villa's death have heen manufactured. A new hunt for Villa has begun. El Paso, April 18.—The Villa hunt has now become a secondary matter. The protection of U. 8. soldiers in Mexico is now primary. It is under- stood that Gen. Pershing reported this to Gen. Funston today. Threaten Attack. Pershing’s Headquarters in Mexico, by wireless to Columbus, New Mexico, April 18.—Army officers here stated today that Major Tompkins had re- ceived a written request from General Lozano, commander of the Carranza garrison at Parral, that the American troops would be attacked if they ad- vanced to the city. According to the same officers, the fight at Parral was the result of treachery, native con- fidence men being ambushed by sold- iers of the Parral garrison. PAUL BROSVIK T0 of tunds available for the year 1916 Everything that. s falsed on Lis plot, part in the program. | N the proposed armory on Fourth |y f the b a girl % \ Wi »e $5:400 wai Ti64h tn ma| T ieruble pin money besides supsy- MOVE TAILOR SHOP srnewr sermvicrove smouw; (JUDGE STANTON GONSIDERS i VfiN PAPEN S SEGRETARY revolving "fund. The avallatile To Increase Licenses. ng the home with fresh vegetables. BOND HOLDS UP CONTliACT amiourit in/the w;ater fusid will prac- John Matlung was granted a Small prizes will be given for the - [P = ARRESTED ON PLOT GHARGE New York, April 18.—Wolf Vou Igle, Von Papen’s secretary, was ar- rested today after resisting five jus- tice department agents who over- powered him in his office. He was indicted Monday with Von Paper and others charged with plotting te dynamite the Welland canal. The government charges that Igle had charge of the plots of the forruer Austrian embassy attache. STUDENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL IN CHICK HATCHING BUSINESS Students of the agricultural classes of the Bemidji high school are in the chicken hatching business. Three in- cubators were placed in operation several weeks ago and it is expected that the chicks will be hatched soon. Some of the chickens will be the prop- Some of the chickens wil be the prop- erty of the students and the balance will be sent to the school farm. FINAL EXAMINATIONS IN - THE BEMIDJI SCHOOLS The last of a series of six weeks’ examinations is being held in the Be- midji schools this week. The ex- aminations began Monday morning and will continue until Thursday af- ternoon. These examinations are the last to be given before the final ex- aminations at the close of the school year. Any student in the high school who attains an average for the year of 90 per cent is exempt from the final examinations. HEARINGS ARE HELD IN PROBATE COURT A hearing was held on claims in the Frederick A. Braun estate in the probate court this morning. A hear- ing was also held on the petition for administrator in the Minnie D. Reed estate. KR K KKK KK KKK KKK KKK i TELEGRAPH BRIEFS & KRKKRRRK K F KKK KEK KK Washington—The income of the principal railways for February was $287 per mile compared to $171 Feb. 1915. Oyster Bay—Roosevelt has not re- served rooms in Chicago for the Re- publican National convention. St. Paul, Minn.—Attorney General Smith has filed for re-election. St. Paul, Minn.—Governor Burn-| quist has notified his staff to attend blocks on Beltrami Tenth street, omitting the intersect- ing at 13th street will be $5,500 of which $1,500 will be paid out of the permanent §4,000 out of the revolving fund. tically equal the amount of the over- draft at this time which is $2,300. For America Project. The extension of the water mains on America avenue to the corner of the St. property and then to the Koors Bros. Co., new building wil cost $1,300 and the extension on Irvin avenue to 21st street will cost $3,800. mittee would suggest the extension on America avenue only. Hilaire Lumber company The com- “The estimated cost of the sanitary sewer as outlined by the ecity en- gineer (this is the sewer on America, Minnesota and Beltrami avenues as described above) will be $8,000 of which $2,000 will be paid out of the permanent $6,000 out of the revolving fund. improvement fund and Paving Cost $5,500. “The estimated cost of paving three avenue from improvement fund and “The paving of three blocks on Be- midji avnue from Fourth street to Seventh street will cost $7,025 of which $3,450 will be paid out of the permanent improvement fund and $3,575 will be paid out of the re- volving fund. To Connect Roads. ‘““Grading Doud avenue from Tenth street to the city limits connecting with the State Rural Highway now constructed will take at least $1,000 from the permanent improvement fund and completing the swamp road and turnpiking to.the city limits will require about $600 from the same fund. ‘With the improvements as enumer- ated, the disbursements from the re- volving fund will amount to $13,575 leaving a balance of $1,870 at the be- ginning of next year, the disburse- license to operate a pool hall on Min- nesota avenue at the former location of the Dewey pool hall. Mayor Van- derslius requested the council to take some action in regard to increas- ing the cost of a license for the oper- ating of pool tables. At present the license is five dollars a table. He requested that the license be in- creased to ten dollars a table. The matter was referred to the license committee. 7 A motion by Alderman Foucault to have the city attorney prepare on ordinance for the licensing of room- ing anhd lodging houses was defeated. Alderman Smart requested that the arch lights on Minnesota and Beltrami avenues be turned on. The matter was discussed and no action taken. At the request of A. P. Ritchie, the council ordered the installation of a street light at the corner of Fourteenth and Minnesota avenue. Loads of Language. Oodles of oratory and loads of language in regard to the proposed bridge over the inlet of the Mississ- ippi and the proposed street up the lake shore to Second street resulted in the matter being referred back to the street committee, city engineer and city attorney, requesting them to confer with Minnesota .& Interna- tional railway officials and to report at the next meeting. The project, it is estimated, will cost $17,000. W. H. Gemmel, manager of the Minnesota & International railway appeared before the council and pro- tested against the new project, stat- ing that if the street was connected with Second street it would cut their yards in two and would necessitate the moving of them. He stated that the railway company would take the matter into courts and that if the council decided to go ahead with the proposed project they would be en- couraging a law suit. He reviewed est gardens in the fourth and fifth grades. Any pupil in the sixth grade or above is given one-half years credit for eighth grade agriculture if a grade of eighty per cent is obtained on his or her garden. This is an ex- cellent oportunity for the sixth and seventh grade students to get credit for some school work in the summer time. Many Sign Up. ) The following have already signed up for “Gardeners’ Homesteads.” Fordice Wallace, Clifford Phibbs, John Koors, Gordon Smnth, Ella Rudy, John Henry, Loyd Lalone, Percy Goldberg, Earl Black, Clair Vincent, Doris Flatley, Leea Paul Mable Croon, Mable Robideau, Roy Webster, Martin Hammond, Alvira Denean, Francis Rhea, Paul Soper, Dorris Black, Bertha Krause, June Vincent, Earl Roe, Clifford Smart, Bessie May George, Ruth Marion Lamson, John Smith, Fred Bourcier, Hilma Lind, Charles Vanderslius, Lawrence Johnson, Ole Rudy, Eugene Johnson, Francis Hanson, Jaunita Brown. 5 KILLED, 30 INJURED IN NEW HAVEN WRECK Bradford, R. I, April 18.—Five people were killed and 31 were in- {jured in a collision of trains on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad here last night. The dead {were in the rear end of a four-coach {local train bound from Boston to {New London and which had stopped at the local station ewhen it was run iidown by the Gilt Edge Express, ibound from oBston for New York. %This coach was telescoped, set afire tand burned. Take advantage of a want ad. Paul Brosvik will move his tailor shop from the present location over the Pfeifer bakery on Third street to the Duluth Brewing company build- ing at 119 Third street, next week. The new location is being remodelled and an office, display room and work shop is being constructed. HEARING ON ESTABLISHMENT OF JUDICIAL DITCH NO. 38 Judge C. W. Stanton of the dis- trict court wil hold a hearing on the establishing of Judicial Ditch No. 38 Thursday. The diteh is located in the town of Grant Valley. GCOMMITTEE: APPOINTED T0 SURVEY NEW ROAD Judge C. W. Stanton of the distriet court has appointed a committee of three to survey the proposed Kooch- iching-Beltrami county line road from Northome to Kelliher. The road is about two and one quarter miles in length. John Bursack and Martin Engelking of Koochiching county and William Lennon of Beltrami county. MAN HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE TO HOSPITAL Tom Olson, who was committed to the Beltrami county jail last week on a charge of introducing liquor into Indian treaty territory, suffered from an attack of acute appendicitis at the county bastile today. He will be taken to the St. Anthony hospital as soon as authority can be received from the government. Pioneer advertisements are o ¢ Jiable. The committee is| City Engineer Swinson today or- dered the sprinkling of the streets. The siteets will be cleaned as soon as Louis Schadiow who was awarded the contract for cleaning, sweeping and sprinkling the streets, can se- curc a bond. The city council has given him a week to secure the bond. PALMER ADDS AUTOMOBILE AGGESSORY DEPARTMENT Hector Brown, until recently con- nected with the Given Hardware com- pany, has taken charge of a bicycle and automobile accessory department, which has been added to the A. B. Palmer store. A complete line of automobile supplies will be handled. Bicycle repairing will be done. HIGH SCHOOL GLASSES ORGANIZE BALL TEAMS Three classes of the Bemidji high school have organized baseball teams to compete for a cup which will be donated by some Bemidji business house. The classes which have al- ready organized teams are the Fresh- man, Sophomore and Seventh and Eighth grade classes. It is expect- ed that the Junior class will organize a team in a few days. Pierre Gray is manager of the Sophomore team, Hovey Lord of the Freshman team and Clemen Chase of the Seventh and Eighth grades’ team. All ditch warrants with the excep- tion of those for No. 11, 12 and 38 are payable at the office of the coun- ty treasurer today. State rural highway warrants are also payable. iyl the funeral of Major E. A. Force who dled yesterday in Minneapolis. By “HOP" Y THE CUB A . SCOOP ieporier We All Like To Hear Abouf Our Good Points ® HOWDY-TD \{\455 SIREE - Agn— 53\—\—1 g—‘é’?t,:fi&‘; % - LIKE. T HAVE. 0V CERTAINLY AR i (& \T- SUCHAC SNouTAkE MY\ | BoIT L!KE'KLESS 28 J\yor/( Someriime-sa i | & ) SEE WHAT YOU THOUGH Th (MEASUREMEN A GREEN-TO OF MY FIGURE U R AN EASTER, MATCH \OUR. TATLOR sur- A= QOMPLEXION = -~ f Ry S = LIGENSEREFUND INJUNGTION At the hearing yesterday on the re- quest for an injunction against the returning of unused liquor license moneys by the city council to former Bemidji saloon keepers, Judge C. W. Stanton took the matter under con- sideration. He will probably file an order in a few weks. Attorney M. J. Brown appeared for E. C. McGregor who requests the in- unction and Judge M. A. Sponer and Attorney P. J. Russell appeared for the former saloon men. ARRESTED IN GOURT; FINED FIFTY DOLLARS When Clarence La Valley entered a plea of not guilty in the munieipal court this morning on a charge of selling liquor without a license at the Star restaurant, City Attorney Russell asked that the case be dis- missed. La Valley was then arrested by Chief Ripple on a charge of conduct- ing an unlicensed drinking place. He was found guilty and Judge Crowell jmposed a $50 fine. The fine was paid. DYER TO MINNEAPOLIS TO ATTEND SGHOOL MEET W. P. Dyer, superintendent of Be- midji schools will go to Minneapolis tonight, to attend the annual meet- ing of the city public school super- intendents of the state. The meet- ings wil continue until Saturday. Mr. Dyer will deliver an address Thurs- day on the “Term of Service of a Superintendent.” REMER MAN IS HELD UNDER FEDERAL GHARGE Wilho Salmi has been arrested by J. P. Brandt, special Federal officer, on a charge of introducing liquor in- to Indian treaty territory at Remer. At a hearing before Judge H. A. Simons, U. S. commissioner this morning, Salmi was ordered commit- ted to the St. Louis county jail to await action of the Federal grand jury at Duluth, which meets July 11. Delinquent personal property tax warrants were issued today by -the clerk of the distriet court.