Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 21, 1916, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE MINNESO VOLUME XIV, NO. 99. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY E VENING, APRIL 21, 1916. FORTY CENTS PER MONTEK REPORTED GOVERNMENT BEGINS NATION WIDEINQUIRY IVt~ )MB. PLOTS 00 lgc” Activity of German Agen. “eing Watched by United State. Officials. EIGHTH DEMAND MADE FOR VON IGEL PAPERS Department of Justice Still Holding Von Igel on a Conspiracy Charge. BULLETIN Washington, April 21.—It is believed that Ambassador Bern- storff has been trapped. The German embassy faces the neces- sity of admitting improper ac- tivities or having the fact proved. Papers from the office of Von Igel are accredited to the embassy. Von der Glotz's con- fession is another important de- velopment, Washington, April 21.—A nation- wide investigation of the activity of German agents in this country was begun today. The German embassy made the eighth demand for the return of pa- pers seized from Von Igel in New York. Notwithstanding the demand for the release of Wolfe von Igel and the return of papers seized at the time of his arrest in the former office here of Captain Franz von Papen, re- called German military attachey| United States Attorney Marshall re- iterated today his determination to retain not only Von Igel, but the documents. Has Evidence. Although Mr. Marshall refused to reveal the basis for his firm stand, it was learned from other federal of- ficers that he was prepared to furnish the state department with evidence to prove that the lease for the Von Pa- pen offices, the point upon which the entire controversy hinges, was drawn in the name of Von Igel. Not An Official. Von Igel, the United States attor- ney contends, was not a member »f Von Bernstorff’s official family until December, 1915, and he doubts whether he can be classed as a mem- THAT GERMANY WAS CONNECTED WITH VILLA RAID AT COLUMBUS LR RS R R R R APRIL HAS BEEN THE MONTH OF WARS FOR THE UNITED STATES April has been the “month of wars for the United States. First hostilities of the Revolutionary war occurred April 19, 1775. The Black Hawk Indian war started April 21, 1831. First fighting on the Mex- ican border in the war of 1845 was reported April 24 that year. On April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired upon, stir- ring the nation to civil war. First bloodshed of the Civil war came April 19, 1861, when Massachusetts regi- ments, marching to Wash- ington, were fired on in Balti- more streets. Congress dated its decalara- tion of war on Spain in 1898 as of April 21. United States marines land- ed at Vera Cruz April 21, * * x * x * * * * * * *x * * x x * * * * * * * * 3 *x * * x x * 1914, x * FE hkhkkhkhkkkk Ak ko kA Ak kA kA k kA ok k ko ko kkokk KKK KK KKK KKK KK GOMMERGIAL GLUB TO DISGUSS GASOLINE At the next meeting of the Com- mercial club the house resolution 175 by Mr. Randall directing the secretary of interior to investigate and report on the advisability of util- izing the oil reserves of the United States through the Rittman process in the production of gasoline by the bureau of mines for commercial pur- poses, will be discussed. It is be- lieved that the course suggested by the resolution offers the most prac- tical means of breaking the strangle hold of the oil monopoly on Amer- ican industries, and that government suits and decrees of the courts under the Sherman act have failed to ac- complish their objects. Commercial clubs in several parts of the state are passing resolutions favoring the in- vestigation. STEENERSON SECURES RED LAKE SURVEY BILL ‘Word has been received from Wash- ington indicating that Congressman Halvor Steenerson has been success- ful in having a bill incorporated in the river and harbor bill, “providing for a preliminary survey and exam- ination of the Red Lake, Minnesota and Red Lake river from its outlet at Red Lake to its junction with the Red River of the®North at Grand Forks, N. D., with a view of devising ber even after that period. The lease for the offices, federal officers state, was made out to Von Igel during the time that he had no official connec- tion with the German embassy. Mr. Marshall said he had turned the inquiry on this point over to Capt. ‘Wmnm. B. Offley of the department of justice, who conducted the investiga- tion which resulted in the returning of the indictment of Captain von Pa- pen, Von Igel and three others, on the charge of conspiring to blow up the Welland canal. MAY SUE IVERSON IN LUMBER CASE St. Paul, Minn., April 21.—Action may be brought against S. G. Iver- son, former state auditor, to recover part of the alleged loss sustained by the state from a rule said to have ben adopted by him in relation to measuring timber cut on state lands. Attorney General L. A. Smith, at a meeting of the state timebr board yesterday, said if it were true that a rule had been adopted by the former auditor by which the state did not get the full benefit of all the timber cut, he believed action could be brought to recover the difference against the bondsmen of the auditor. SCHMAHL ISSUES 100,000 AUTO LICENSES St. Paul, Minn.,, April 21.— Minnesota now has 100,000 autos and other motor vehicles. Licenses issued by J. A. Schmahl, secretary of state, today reached the 100,000 mark. Mr. Schmahl expects 125,000 before the end of 1916. “FIRST LADY OF LAND” SENDS GIFT TO GUILD Moorhead, Minn., April 21.—The women of the Rector’s guild of this city: have received a package from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to be sold at an annual Easter supper and sale. The contents of the parcel are not known. 1t will be sold to the highest bidder. St. Paul, Minn., April 21.—Adju- tant General Wood today received no- tice that on account of the shortage of*army officers the Northwest mili- qry camp would be abandoned. plans for regulation works whereby the level of said lake and flow of the stream may be controlled in the interest of navigation and in making such examination and survey any proposition by local interests for par- ticipation in the expense of said project shall be taken into consid- eration.” The bill is the direct outgrowth of the drainage convention held at Thief River Falls last fall. TORNADO KILLS 20; SCORES ARE INJURED Kansas City, Mo., April 21.—It is feared that the death toll of tornadoes which swept through the central portions of eastern Kansas and west- ern Missouri Wednesday will be 20. Many people were injured. The prop- erty damages will be over $1,000,- 000. T. S. Ervin will leave tonight for West Baden, Ind.,, where he will spend several weeks. George Cochran, Sr., went to Min- neapolis last night on business. SCOO THE CUB REPORTER EASTER SUNDAY WEATHER T0 BE FAIR 1S REPORT Government Weather Forecaster Dopes Out Weather Problem. IF NORMAL TEMPERATURE THERMOMETER WILL BE 49 Only Three Times in 25 Years Have Mean Temperatures Been Above 29. It looks like Easter, 1916, is going to be added to the list of 18 out of 25 Easter Sundays that have been passably fair as to weather, accord- ing to a government weather fore- cast issued at St. Paul this after- noon. It is probable that the fore- caster’s dope on the situation will hold good this year. The forecaster’s dope is as lows: fol- High Mark in 1905. If it’s normal temperature Sunday, the thermometer will stand at 49, which equals the high mark for nor- mal, set in 1905. Only three times in 25 ‘years have mean temperatures been actually higher than 29. These times were in 1895, at 50; 1905, at 52, and 1909, at 58. Only five times in 25 years have there been any precipitations. This was in 1891, a trace; 1902, a trace; 1903, .08 in; 1909, .04 in; in 1913, .32 in; 1915, trace. Once Below Zero. Only once has the temperature on Easter Sunday fallen below zero. That was in 1894, when the minimum was 2 below. % The weather that brought the bun- nies for 25 years and the date upon which Easter fell, follows: March 29, 1891—Cloudy. April 17, 1892—Cloudy to partly cloudy. April 2, 1893—Cloudy to partly cloudy. March 25, 1894—Clear to partly cloudy. April 14, cloudy. . April 5, 1896—Clear. 1895—Clear to partly CARRANZA BARS U. 3. AVIATORS FROM FLYING OVER CITIES Scores of Shots Fired at American Aviators Over Chihuahua Wednesday. BODY SUPPOSEDLY VILLA’S IS PROVED NOT TO BE HIS Carranza Order Bars Use of Mexican Telegraph or Telephone Chihuahua, April 21.—The Car- ranza order dated April 15 prohibited United States aviators to fly over Mexican cities and bars the United States forces from using telegraph or telephone lines. These facts were disclosed here today when reports were received that scores of shots were fired at American aviators fly- ing over Chihuahua Wednesday. Body Not Villa’s, The body which was supposed to be Villa’s today proved not to be his. General Luis Gutierrez, military com- mander here, positively stamped as false the report that the body re- cently exhumed was Villa’s. This was disclosed with the American of- ficial reports that Villa was in Du- rango state, unwounded. Washington Worried. Washington, April 21.—The big outstanding question in the Mexican situation today is what the Carran- zistas moving south from Chihuahua intend doing. The news is disquiet- ing officially. To Resist Americans. Chihuahua, April -21. —General Guiterrez today state officially that the Carranzista troops at Parral have been ordered to resist further at- tempts. of Americans to go south of Parral. Fall Back From Parral. San Antonio, April 21.—Reports to General Funstor show that Gen- eral Pershing withdrew his advance detachments from Parral to save them from massacre. NATIONAL GUARD AND April 18, 1897—Clear to cloudy. April 10, 1898—Partly cloudy. April 2, 1899—Clear. April 15, 1900—Clear. April 1, 1901—Clear cloudy. March 30, 1902—Cloudy snow flur- ries. April 12, 1903—Cloudy, rain. April 3, 1904—Clear. April 23, 1906—Clear and fine. April 15, 1906—Clear and fine. March 31, 1907—Clear and fine, cool. April 10, 1908—Clear partly, to cloudy. April 11, 1909—Cloudy to partly cloudy, showers in evening. March 27, 1910—Clear and fine. April 16, 1911—Clear and fine. April 7, 1912—Clear to 4 p. m,, then partly cloudy. March 23, 1913—Cloudy, cold rain, freezing on walks in afternoon. April 12, 1914—Clear and fine. April 4, 1915—Partly cloudy and sprinkles of rain. partly to partly FUNERAL OF MRS. C. HARZTLER IS HELD The funeral services of Mrs. C. Harztler, who died Wednesday eve- ning as a result of an intercapsilar fracture, was held this afternoon from the residence of her son, M. P. Ber- son, 904 Mississippi avenue. Rev. B. D. Hanscom officiated. Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery. Misses Evelyn Kirk and Anzonetta Kenfield left this morning to spend a few days at Cass Lake as the guests of Miss Ruby Wheaton. MILITIA PREPARED st. Paul, Minn, April 21.—The Minnesota national guard, consist- ing of 3,375 enlisted men and offi- cers, and the Minnesota naval militia, with 309 officers and men, can be mo- bilized within forty-eight hours. Ad- jutant General Fred B. Wood, who is giving constant personal attention to many details of the service, has per- fected all arrangements for concen- -|tration of the Minnesota forces at Fort Snelling within the shprtest possible time should such a move be necessary. The Minnesota guard consists of one regiment of fleld artillery and three regiments of infantry. The war strength of the guard would more than double the existing roster of troops. The fleld artillery regiment, which now numbers 636 of- ficers and men, would total 1,600, while infantry regiments would total 1,856 officers and men instead of the average of approximately 900 that now obtains. FUNERAL OF H DOUGAS IS HELD The funeral of Kenneth Dougas, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Dougas, who died yesterday, was held this afternoon from the Catholic church. Interment was made in Holy Cross cemetery. Miss Anzonetta Kenfield enter- tained a few of her friends yesterday afternoon at her home on Lake Boule- vard in celebration of her twelfth birthday anniversary. GALE AT RED LAKE CONTINUES; BOATS ARE DEMOLISHED Ice Piles Up on Shore Twenty-five Feet High; Mill is in Danger. FLOODS CAUSE $20,000 LO0SS IN KOOCHICHING Bridges Are Destroyed; Minnesota & International Bridge in Danger. The gale at the Red Lake Indian reservation continued today and ice from Red lake has been washed up on shores into piles 25 feet high. The boat “Mud Hen,” which was confiscated by the government last fall for introduction of liquor, has been demolished. The boat is en- tirely covered by a pile of ice. The boat Nomemah owned by Wil- liam Cook has also been destroyed. Chippewa Damaged. The government boat Chippewa has been badly damaged and may be tot- ally destroyed if the gale continues. The sawmill is within several rods of the ice and there is much danger that it may be destroyed by the ice. The ice on the lake has not all commenced to move and it is feared that if it does move in the present gale there will be much damage. The present loss will exceed $25,000. May Mean Flood. If the ice dams the inlet of the Red river floods will result and much dam- age will be caused at Thief River Falls, Crookston and other points. It was 18 years ago Wednesday that there was a large ice pact at Diamond Point. Ice was blown up on the Diamond Point shore in piles 15 and 20 feet high. Trees were up- rooted but the damage was not ser- ious. . Although the ice on Lake Bemidji is breaking up no damage has been caused up to this time. Bridges Destroyed. Floods, ice pacts and log jams have caused $20,000 damage in Koochich- ing county. This amount represents ‘lonly the carrying away of bridges and does not include the large num- ber of logs which have been lost from boems, the cessation of opera- tions at various mills, the flooding of-houses and damage to other prop- erty. The flood is the worst in his- tory. ‘While the Rainy and Big Fork rivers are still frozen, “the great amount of snow along the banks be- gan to thaw rapidly and almost in a day the rivers were overflowed from hillside freshets. Flood Causes Freak. The bridge at Scarlet which lies between the Little Fork and Rainy rivers was the first to go. It was a $9,000 steel bridge of great weight but the rushing logs and ice picked it up, carried it clean off its foun- dations, whirled it around end for end and sat it down some distance down the stream, each end neatly on the opposite bank to where it had been. Here a jam was formed and logs and ice were backed up against the M. & I. railway bridge at the town of Little Fork, further up stream. At this point the water raised 40 feet, flooding houses and business places. Logs Let Loose. The steel bridge of the M. D. & W. railway at this point, worth about $3,500, was destroyed. A great damage will probably be the loss of logs from the booms. The booms in the Rainy river where the logs for all companies are assembled for sorting purposes, gave away dur- ing the week and some of the logs have drifted far down the river and into the Lake of the Woods. Ploneer want ads bring results. Like Bird Shot-Bouncing On A Battle Ship GOOD NIGHT-ILL GET JAIL FORLIFE FOR KILLING TH KKK KKK KKK KKK KN FIFTEEN AMERICAN AMBULANCES SHIPPED ° TO RUSSIAN FRONT New York, April 21.—Fif- teen huge motor ambulances, one of them the gift of Wil- liam K. Vanderbilt, Sr., left this port today for service on the battlefields of Russia, after having been consecrated by dignitaries of the Greek Catholic church in this city. The other fourteen cars were bought with cash contributed to the American Hospital & Ambulance Service in Russia. LR B 8 B 0 RS E S EEEEEEEN] TRk Ak hkkhkhkhkhkhkhkkkhkhkhkhw HRKEK KKK KK KKK GHAUTAUQUA AGENT TO BE HERE NEXT WEEK H. A. Hedges, superintendent of the Vawter Chautauqua system, will be in Bemidji Monday or Tuesday to discuss the summer chautauqua for Bemidji. A special meeting of the Commercial club will be held to take up the chautauqua matter either Monday or Tuesday afternoon. JITNEY- DRIVERS TO OPEN WAITING ROOM Ward Brothers and several other jitney bus drivers have rented the Street building, 218 Beltrami avenue, and will use it for a waiting room. The room will be opened soon. BEMIDJI OBSERVES 600D FRIDAY TODAY “Good Friday” was observed in Be- midji today by the closing of the schools, postoffice and public offices and by services in the different churches. The postoffice was closed except for an hour this morning. Rural carriers made their trips as usual. City carriers made one delivery.. All the banks and schools = were closed. County officials kept their offices open. HIGH GOST OF PRODUGTS PRESIDENT'S NOTE 1S PUBLISHED IN BERLIN; NO COMMENT On Account of “Good Friday” No Official Expressions Are Obtainable, NEWSPAPERS STATE THAT GERMANY WILL NEVER YIELD Powerful Attacks Launched Against French Near Verdun Last Night. " BULLETIN Washington, April 21.—It was learned on highest authority that an investigation is being made of the alleged German connec- tion with the Villa raid at Col- umbus, N. M. Captured bandits are expected to give valuable in- formation. BULLETIN (By Carl Ackerman) United Press Staff Correspondent. Copright 1916 by United Press. Copyright in Great Britain. Berlin, April 21.—Germany can go no further in submarine concessions to the United States, Admiral von Holtzendorff, chief of the German admiralty staff declared today in an interview. Berlin, April 21.—President Wil- son’s note was published here today. There was little comment on account of it being “Good Friday.” It is al- most impossible to obtain official ex- pressions. Will Never Yield. Amsterdam, April 21.—German newspaper comment today insists that Germany will never yield. It is be- lieved that Germany would prefer to face another enemy than an internal crisis in the Reichstag. Fear 'Attack. s ‘Washington, April 21.—While ‘the United States waits for Germany’s reply to the note demanding immedi~ ate abandonment of present methods of submarine warfare, one of the chief sources of concern here is the possibility of another attack on & peaceful ship carrying Americans be- fore the Berlin government has de- termined unon its course. In such an event it is admitted that an imme- pRSNESPeE HISTCRIC. SOCIET. diate rupture could be prevented only by proof that Germany had been un- able to communicate with her sub- marine commanders. Just how long the United States is willing to wait for the German reply has not been disclosed. All officials agree that a ‘“reasonable time” will be allowed. INCREASES DINNER GOST Owing to the extraordinary ad- vances in all food products, Sunday dinners at the Hotel Markham will be served at 75 cents a plate instead of 50 cents a plate, beginning next Sunday. WINNIPEG TO GAIN HOUR OF DAYLIGHT ‘Winnipeg, April 21.—Winnipeg folks will catch the 5:15 promptly at 6:15, beginning April 24. Winni- peg has been converted to the day- light conservation scheme and all i terests in the city, except the rail- roads, will turn the clock back an hour next Monday. People who work from 8 a. m. to § p. m. will punch the time clock at 7 a. m., dash out to their 12 o’clock luncheon at 11, and knock off work at 4 p. m. The new time will continue for six months, until October, and then the clocks will get another surprise when they are turned back on the regular grind for the winter. CORRUPT PRACTICE ACT RULING UP TO ATTORNEY St. Paul, Minn., April 21.—Attor- ney General Smith was today asked to give an opinion as to whether the state corrupt practice act or federal act governs a candidate for federal By "HOP’ |F JESS HAPPENSTO "TURN AROUND AND NOTICES T RAN INTD HIM-THAT LEFT OF His REACHES A BLo Holds Conference. Mexico City, April 21.—Herr Von Eckhardt, German minister to Mex~ ico, had two long conferences yes- terday with General Carranza, head of the de facto government, at the national palace. Neither at the palace or the Ger- man embassy could any information be obtained as to what transpired at the conferences. SGHOOL QUARTET GIVES GONGERT AT TENSTRIKE Before an audience which filled the Guild Hall of Tenstrike to its fullest capacity, the double quartet of the Bemidji high school gave & concert last night. The concert was given under the auspices of the Epis- copal Guild of Tenstrike. The following program was given: Piano solo, “Hungarian Rhapsody,” Jane Hayner; “Bridal Chorus,” dou- ble quartet; solo, “Rockin in de Win” Jane Hayner; “On the Way to Man- dalay,” double quartet; recitation, “Little Tillie Olson” and “Barbara Freitchie,” Kern Olson; piano solo, «Butterfly,” - Muriel McGee; recita- tion, “Unverstaendlich,” Alec Cam- eron; solo, “What’s in the Air To- day?” Miss Frances Kenney; “I Want to Go Down South Once Mo,” male quartet; “Kentucky Babe” and “Swing Along,” double quartet. The double quartet is composed of the following members: Misses Ed- na Anderson, Jane Hayner, Lucene McCuaig and Edna. Buckland and Alec Cameron, George Graham, Har- old Swischer and Kern Olson. Miss Frances Kenney is director and Miss Muriel McGee is pianist. ANDERSON FILES TO SUCCEED HIMSELF St. Paul, Minn., April 21.—Rep- resentative Sidney Anderson of Lanes- boro of the first district today filed to succeed himself,