Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 22, 1916, Page 1

- THE BEMIDJI DAILY PION T Hlstoricnl saciety % VOLUME XIV, NO. 125. BEHIDJI, MINNESOTA, xom! nvme, MAY 22, 1916. TRAINS BRINGING MANY T0 GITY TO SEE BIG PICTURE “The Birth of a Nation” Opens Five- Day Engagement at Grand Theater. AUDIENCE OVERWHELMED BY IMMENSITY OF DRAMA Details of Play Noticeably Complete When Pioture is Seen Second Time, Every train into Bemidji today brought crowds of people from var- ious points in this district to this city to attend “The Birth of a Na- tion” and to take advantage of the many bargains offered by the Bemidji merchants. “The Birth of a Nation” opened at the Grand theater yesterday for a five-day engagement. There was good attendances at the performances yesterday. Good Business. Merchants reported excellent out- of-town business. After witnessing the performance of “The Birth of a Nation” one real- izes more than ever that war is what Sherman said it was. In this world’s masterpiece is painted the grim trag- edy of war—war in all its cruelties. One sees not only the tragedy on the field of battle, but in the home where wait the aged parents and little brother and sister, or daughter or son, for the message that too often comes, telling the dear one has died for the flag. Swirl of Emotions, For three hours the spectator is swept along in a swirl of emotions and in those three hours history of fifteen years is seen. No part of the picture lagged as the film was cut down to a fine point. When one sees the play for the first time he is over- whelmed by the immensity of it. It is an epic of a proud people beaten CarlJohnson, 16,0fNymore isDrownedi nLakeBemidji Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gust Johnson Succumbs at St. Anthony’s Hospital Saturday Night; Pulmotor Fails to Restore Life; Boy Was a Good Swimmer. Carl Johnson, the sixteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gust Johnson of Nymore, while playing on logs near the Crookston Lumber company mill Saturday afternoon at four o’clock, fell into Lake Bemidji and was drowned. Dick Patton, an employe of the Crookston mill, dove after the boy and in about six minutes brought him to the surface. Taken to Hospital. Johnson was rushed to St. An- thony’s hospital where efforts were made to revive him. The pulmotor was used without success and the boy died at eight o’clock Saturday NO SUNRISE S0D0GS ARE GIVEN EXTRA' DAY TO BE TAGGEB Chief Ripple Saturday ordered ten dogs held in the city pound for fail- ure to be tagged to be shot this morn- ing at sunrise. The sun failed to put in an appearance this morning so the dogs were given until morning at sunrise. Owners are urgently requested to see that their dogs are tagged. If there are dogs missing they should in- quire of the chief of police as one of the dogs in the pound may be theirs. 20,000 GLUB WOMEN MOBOLIZE FOR GONVENTION New York, May 22.—An army of 20,000 women, mobilized from the tomorrow into the dust and refusing to stay there. The realism of the work is amazing. Play on Passions. The music of the 30-piece sym- phony orchestra accentuates the pie- tures. The passions of love hate and anger are played upon by the music and the spectacle combined. Three hours slip by quickly and when the play is over one is convinced that it is the most glorious accomplishment in any art that he or she has ever seen. Many Bemidji people who witness- ed the performance yesterday are planning to witness the production for the second time. The point that stands out strongly on a second visit is the detail of the play. In detail “The Birth of a Nation” is astonish- ingly complete and there is some- thing profitable in it for the enthu- siasts who see the picture five or six times. Can Read Words. The acting in every scene is so good that it is possible to read from the lips of the actors practically every word spoken. In such a scene as that in which the surrender of Lee to Grant is portrayed, it is al- most a certainty that the signature, “Robert E. Lee,” was actually writ- ten upon the paper by the actor im- personating the great southern gen- eral. The words of the song sung by Elsie Stoneman in the northern hospital where the “Little Colonel” lies wounded could probably be cop- jed verbatim. There. is no doubt but. that the soldier shown in a “close- up” playing the assembly call upon a bugle actually played the familiar notes when the picture was taken. Acting is Good. One of the greatest pieces of act- ing in the drama is that of Robert Harron in the part of Tod Stoneman in the scene portraying the death of the two chums, one from the north and the other from the south. In this scene Tod Stoneman, in the act of plunging his bayonet into his fall- en opponent, recognizes him as Duke Cameron, his best friend. As he pauses, there is a flash of smoke be- hind him, and it requires the firmest hold on oneself to realize that it is all acting, and that Harron himself has not been drilled through a vital spot by a bullet. There is no more touching picture in all literature than that of the two boys dying in each other’s arms. The work of Henry Wathall as Colonel Ben Cameron cannot be ex- aggerated. Rich in Sympathy. The part of Flora, the pet sister, is rich in sympathy, and offering in many respects still greater - oppor- tunities. In this character Mae Marsh surpasses every piece of fem- inine acting ever seen on the screen. She riges to her highest art, not in the death scene, which is touchingly pathetic, but in the scene depicting her sudden transition from the stun- (Continued on Page ¢) ranks of 2,000,000 club women in every state and possession of the United States, began the inv'a.liox‘ of Manhattan Isle today for the open- ing of the 13th biennial convention of the Federated Women’s Clubs of America in the Seventh Regiment ar- mory here tomorrow. The women will give the warld their official opinion on government and goulash, food and fighting, mar- riage and millionaires, babies a.nd banting, health and hairdressing, short skirts and short ballots, big wives and little husbands, prize- fights and teafights and many, ma.ny other matters of general interest. MRS. SARAH FORD DIES AT A 6. WEDGE HOME Mrs. Sarah Ford died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. G. Wedge, on Lake Boulevard, Sunday morning. She had been in poor health for the past two years. Saturday she suf- evening. Attending physicians say that death was due to heart exhaus- tion. Fishing With Companion. Carl, with several playmates, was fishing from the logs when the acei- dent happened. He was a good swim- mer but it is believed that he faint- de when he fell into the water. His playmates made attempts to get him out of the water but were un- successful. Gust Johnson, father of the boy, is employed as car foreman of the Min- nesota & International railway. The funeral of the boy will held Wednesday afternoon. be KK KK KKKEK KK KK KX _SHEVLIN'S CLASS AT YALE TO BUILD . MEMORIAL FOR HIM New Haven, Conn., May 22. The class of 1906 at Yale, of which Thomas H. Shevlin, one of the university’s great- est athletes, was a member, i to build a memorial to him, either a dormitory or a track house at the field, according to an announcement here. The proposition will be presented to the class at its decennial * * * * * * * * x * * * * * * * * ¥ reunion next month. x® L3 kkkhkhkhkkhkhkkhkkhkkhkhk kv FH R KR KK KKK H K KKK FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF NAVAL MILITIA 6O ON SHORT GRUISE (By a “Tar.”) Fifteen members of the Bemidji division of the Minnesota Naval Mili- tia took advantage of the first short ‘week-end cruise given this season on Lake Superior, Saturday and Sunday. In spite of the fact that a large per- centage of those taking the trip were experienced in military tactics on board ship, several members furnish- ed mirth for the entire crew. Leaving the harbor at Duluth at “eight bells” (twelve o’clock) the good ship Gopher with its crew of rookies, steamed to Bark Bay where they spent Sunday. Signal men re- ceived drilling along practical lines, while the boat crews held their daily ‘manouvers. Other practices and drills were held. Life on the ship, with its various duties, proved too strong for the health of some of the Bemidji-boys and several gave themselves up as sick in order to escape the strenuous duties of real seamen. “Hammock Ladders,” ““Green Oil,” “Mainmast Keys” and “Birds in Wa- ter” sounded too real to several of the Bemid}i boys who were sent for fered a stroke of appoplexy and Siin- day morning she passed out of this life in a quiet sleep. Mrs. Ford was 74 years of age. She had made her home with her daugh- ter in this city for several years and had endeard herself to all who knew her. Surviving Mrs. Ford, besides her daughter here, are the daughters, Mrs. Edwin Drinkwine of Mentor and Miss Mable Ford of Stewart, and /the son, Charles Ford, of Karlstad. The funeral will be held at Crook- ston tomorrow afternoon. Mr. a&nd Mrs. Wedge left with the body this afternoon for Crookston. FORMER TAFT SUPPORTERS NOW BOOMING ROOSEVELT New York, May 22.—Former Taft supporters are now booming Roose- velt. They opened headquarters here today, terming themselves the Republican committee. It is planned to smoke out Hughes. SCOO THE CUB REPORTER SCOOP-OU DRIVE A CAR -1 THINK 0L ARE QUAL\FIED Y0 GETT ME. UP A SERIES OF HINTS TOIMOTORISTS ABOUT A COLNUM them by the regulars and their su- perior officers, which furnished amusement for the. entire ships’ crew. Those from Bemidji who took the cruise were Lieutenant R. B. Lycan, William Laliberte, A. Naugle, E. Lar- son, John Hedges, Earl Thurber, Rus- sell Brooks, Howard Palmer, Eddie Ripple, Joseph Lagennesy, Merle Spencer, Hovey Lord, Max Bell, Ed- win Simons and George Morrison. Other men from the Duluth and Crosby divisions completed the crew. JURY IN BRAGDON CASE IS STILL OUT Minneapolis, Minn., May 22.—The jury in the case of Joseph Bragdon, prominent business man, on a vice charge, was still out at three o’clock this afternoon. The jury went out Saturday night. R. L. Given was taken to St. An- thony’s hospital Saturday afternoon where he underwent a slight opera- | tion. His condition is impraving. ***********t*tt*********' iiliiiiiliii#llii “BOOZE” SMUGGLERS OPENLY DEFY INDIAN AGENTS AT HIBBING Hibbing, Minn., May 22.— An exhibition of daring was given Baturday night when a high powered automobile truck, piled high with cases and kegs of beer, shot into town along Third avenue sev- eral blocks and into a side street in the rear of a near- beer saloon, where it empued its cargo. This is the first time since the Indian *“1id”’ was clamped on that liquor has been brought into Hibbing with such open disregard for law enforcement. The streets were filled with evening crowds and many gazed open-mouth- ed at the spectacle. t***********'**********i***i KKK KEK KKK KKK KKK WOMEN'S STUDY GLUB T0 ELEGT OFFIGERS ATMEET TOMORROW The Woman’s Study club will hold its semi-annual business meeting in the rest room of the library tomor- row afternoon, instead of today. The business meeting wiil cover ‘the re- ports of secretaries, review of year's work and the election of officers. The retiring officers are Mrs. E. H. Denu, president; Mrs. C. E. Bat- tles, vice president; Mrs. E. F. Net- zr, recording secretary; Mrs. C. G. Johnson, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. G. M. Palmer, treasurer. STANTON TO GRAND RAPIDS FOR GOURT Judge C. W. Stanton of the district court returned from Brainerd Satur- day night where he conducted court. He will go to Grand Rapids tonight where he will relieve Judge B. F. Wright. WOMAN FILES ON FORTY IN TOWN OF ROOSEVELT Miss Mary Smith filed on forty acres in the town of Roosevelt Satur- day. James C. Hand filed on 160 acres in the town of Shotley today. INSANE MAN ESCAPES FROMTHE ST, PETER STATE INSTITUTION St. Peter, Minn., May 22.—Patrick Gibbons, criminally insane, escaped last night from the St. Peter insane hospital. Five years ago Gibbons shot his wife and Father Welch, a priest in South St. Paul, claiming that the priest and his wife were too familiar. Then insanity was blamed to alco- holism. Gibbons was a trusted inmate at the state institution. He went through a tunnel to a sewer last night and it is believed was met by friends in an automobile and rushed from this vicinity. FREKK KRR KRR KKKKS HE MAY DISAPPOINT THEM EVEN NOW BY SHAVING HIMSELF St. Clairsville, 0., May 22. —Barbers here are happy be- cause Robert Newlin had his whiskers shaved off. They had not been cut in 33 years. Friends figure that, including interest, he is more than $1,- 000 better off than if he’d been shaved twice each week. ok ok ok ok khk ok ok ok ok ok kK KA KK KKK KKK hhkkkkkhkhkkkkkkhd ITALIANS MAKING ATTEMPTS TO STEM AUSTRIAN INVASION Several Italian Positions and 3,000 Prisoners Are Taken. AUSTRIANS LOSE 20,000 IN THREE DAYS’ BATTLE Violent Cannonading is Heard Off Swedish Coast of Port 4 Kalmar. Vienna, May 22.—Massing in heavy force on the southern Tyrol -| front, the Italians are making des- perate but unsuccessful attempts to stem the Austrian invasion of Italy. The Italians are hurling Alpine forces in counter attacks. Each on- slaught has been repulsed. 10,000 Captured. Several more Italian positions and 3,000 prisoners were taken yester- day. Ten thousand Italians, includ- ing many officers, have been cap- tured since the offensive began. Rome, May 22.—Dispatches from Berne state that the Austrians have lost 20,000 killed, wounded and miss- ing during the first three days of the offensive in the Tyrolese Alps. The losses of the last four days are con- sidered equally large. Cannonading Heard. . Copenhagen, May 22.—Violent cannonading was heard today in the Baltic off the Swedish port of Kala- mar. It is believed that Russian and German fleets are engaged. Peace Through Victory. Paris, May 22.—Peace will only come through a decisive victory, Pre- mier Briand told a Russian delegation today. Alfonso for Peace. London, May 22.—Dispatches from Madrid state that King Alfonso will soon initiate peace negotiations. The Spanish ruler plans to first sound out the peace sentiment of each belliger- ent country. Is Named Ministe Paris, May 22.-- (Ofiicial)—Colonel | Desaint Aulaire, adjutant to General Morrocco, has been named the French minister to Rumania. Irish Rebellion. London, May 22.—Viscount Mid- dleton, former secretary of war, to- day accused Augustin Birrell, former chief secretary for Ireland, of lax dealings with the Irish rebels. OKLAHOMA TOWN IS WIPED OUT IN STORM Muskogee, Okla., May 3.—Kemp, Okla., a town of 300 inhabitants, was entirely wiped out by a tornado Sat- urday night, with a list of dead of between fifteen and twenty persons. Every one in the town who was not killed was injured. The houses and buildings of the little city are all in ruins. The .tornado covered a wide terri- tory, it was learned, and apparently swept along the Red river valley. Re- ports from other sections of the state tell of heavy damage also. WAITE GASE JURY IS COMPLETED N 3 HOURS New York, May 22.—With the op- ening of the trial of young Dr. Ar- thur Warren Waite here today on the charge of poisoning his millionaire parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., there begins to pour into the dry records of the New York supreme court one of the most sensational and astound- ing stories of fortune-hunting, illicit love, murder, intrigue and deception that has ever been disclosed, as the zlleged record of one man. The jury was completed in record time, taking only 2 hours and 54 minutes. ) How To Avoid The Fatal Second Kick [/R#4-M- (F TUWRITE! WHAT T, kMOW ABOLT CADS TLL REGASTER. zaamwr \F TWRATE. WHAT L DIONT 'iNOW - MAY - GET BY- ANYWAY HERES HINT 15 ON TH BOM~AND oU MUST RESORT T YOUR- UTTLE OLD CRANK — THEN- NUMBER (1) -(F THE STRRTER - —TURN HER OvER UNTlLW ARE ALMOST DEAD-SHE WILL - THEN (10K AND FINISH THE 308 — PRIMARY LAW IS BIG THING UP TO STATELEGISLATURE JAMES A. PETERSON. James A. Peterson of Minneapolis, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is a visitor in Bemidji to- day. The primary law is one of the big- gest things before the state legisla- ture next year, according to Mr. Pet- erson. “I look to see the state pri- mary law and the presidential pri- mary laws amended at the next ses- sion,” said Mr. Peterson today to a Pioneer representative. “I believe that Amendment No. 1, providing for the revolving fund for the reclaiming of state lands, will pass. When one goes through Northern Minnesota he sees that something must be done for the re- claiming of the lands.” « Mr. Peterson is among the prom- inent political reformers of the state. He served in the house of representatives and was county at- torney for Hennepin county for sev- eral years. In 1913 he aggressively pushed the movement for a state- wide primary. He was also one of the champions of the gross earnings bill which has proven of such.a vast 'heneflt«m ’Hmfifine. ~Mr. - Peterson “wis & candidate tor governor but withdrew to support Governor J. A.'A. Burnquist. RED LAKE IS AT HIGHEST POINT -The Red Lake is at the highest point in years and lands around the Red Lake river are being flooded, ac- cording to J. J. Opsahl who returned from that district yesterday. Mr. Opsahl has been making a tour of the country near Red Lake in the in- terest of the new Red Lake Northern railway. Ditches are filled with water and considerable damage is being done to the lands by the floods, according to Mr. Opsahl. MILITIA MEN REFUSE TOBE SWORN IN FOR MEXICAN BORDER DUTY ‘Washington, May 22.—It was re- vealed today that Secretary Baker has been officially advised that 116 Texas militia men have refused to be sworn in for duty on the Mexican border. The war department is care- fully considering the case. Under the Dick law, these men will possibly be courtmartialed and fined. They will probably not be forced to serve. Sec- retary Baker was noncommittal to- day. LABOR GOMMISSIONER INSPEGTS CONDITIONS Hugo V. Koch, deputy labor com- missioner of the state, is a visitor Ih\ Bemidji today. He is inspecting several cases in this city. JEFFERSON HIGHWAY REPRESENTATIVE T0 INSPECT ROUTE HERE Minnesota Officials Advise Pioneer of Action Taken at the Meeting. GENERAL MANAGER TO BE IN BEMIDJI SOON J. D. Clarkson to Investigate Advan- tages of the Three Routes. J. D. Clarkson, general manager of the Jefferson Highway association, will personally inspect the three proposed routes for the Jefferson highway, from New Orleans to Win- nipeg. Two of the proposed routes pass through Bemidji and the other proposed route passes through De- troit, Minn. Word to this effect was received Saturday from J. H. Beek, vice president, and Henry H. Orme, director, for the highway in Minne- sota. Both men are residents of St. Paul. Their letter is as follows: Issue Statement. “In the routing of the Jefferson highway from St. Paul to Winnipeg, we are directed to issue the following statement: “J. D. Clarkson, general manager of the Jefferson Highway association, reached St. Paul Thursday, enroute to Winnipeg. Mr. Clarkson, during the past month, has visited the prin- cipal towns on the Jefferson High- way from New Orleans to St. Paul. The local directors of the Jefferson Highway association have been await- ing the arrival of Mr. Clarkson for a conference with him relative to the routing of this highway northwest- erly from St. Paul to the Canadian boundary. Routes Inspected. ‘At a conference held Thursday in the office of the highway commission, participated in by George E. Cooley, chief engineer, and J. H. Mullen, as- sistant engineer of the state highway commission, J. D. Clarkson, general manager of the Jefferson Highway associatfon, Henry H. Orme and 0. .H. Beek,. directors of the Jefferson Highway association, the following proposéd routes were considered: “1. A route embracing the fol- lowing towns, hereafter referred to as the western route: St. Paul, Min-. neapolis, Anokn, Elk River, St. Cloud, Melrose, Osnkis, Alexandria, Hen-~ ning, Perham, Detroit, Lake Park, Moorhead, Crookston, Warren, Stev- en, Hallock and boundary line. Through Bemidji. “2. Another route embracing the following towns, hereafter called the eastern route: St. Paul, Minne- apolis, Elk River, St. Cloud, Little Falls, Staples, Wadena, Park Rapids, Itasca Park, Bemidji, Bagley, Red Lake Falls, thence to the boundary line at St. Vincent. “3. A route embracing the follow- ing towns, hereafter to be called the eastern route: St. Paul, Minne- apolis, Anoka, Elk River, Princeton, Mille Lacs lake, skirting the west- erly shore of Mille Lacs lake to Gar- rison, thence westerly to Brainerd, Pine River, Walker, Cass Lake, Be- midji, thence the same as the central route northwesterly to the boundary line. Personal Inspection. “It was arranged for Mr. Clarkson to make a personal tour of inspection over each of the three proposed routes at some date in the near future, the date to be definitely announced with- in a few ‘days. “In order that each proposed route may know that it has had absolutely fair treatment, it is proposed that an official representative of each of the three routes accompany Mr. Clarkson on his inspection trip, the representatives of the contesting routes to be guests of the represen- tative of the particular route under inspection. In this way the repre- sentative of each route will see for . himself all that is shown Mr. Clark- son will hear all that is said in favor of the particular route under inspec- tion. Auto Man Along. “M. Clarkson will be accompanied on his-inspection trip by H. H. Orme, a director of the Jefferson Highway association and president of the State Automobile association and pos- sibly other directors will arrange to accompany him. “The order in which the three routes will be inspected is to be de- termined by lot cast by the three official representatives of the contest- ing routes. “The representatives of the three routes will be required to agree in writing that they will accept the de- cision, when rendered, as final and binding upon them and the routes they represent. “It is the earnest desire of the highway commission, as well as the directors of the Jefferson Highway,