Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 31, 1916, Page 1

< | BEMIDJI D oy ILY PIONEE VOLUME XIV, NO. 133. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY: EVENING, MAY 31, 1916. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH SIMPLICITY 1S FEATURE OF THE - BURIAL OF HIL GARRANZA ASKS THAT TROOPS WITHDRAW Washington, May 31.—Carranza’s latest communication has been deliv- ered. Carranza asks for the with- drawal of the U. 8. troops as “evi- Remains of “Empire Builder” Placed |dence of good faith of the United at Rest at North Oaks Farm, ALL TRAINS STOP FOR FIVE MINUTES Favorite Coachman is g Pallbeayer; friendly invasion. Hill Was Active Until His Death. St. Paul, Minn,, his funeral today. Democracy of the deceased magnate is shown in his selection ot Charles Maitland, for 30 years Hill’s favorite coachman, as one of his pall- bearers. Maitland, whose financial success has made him a close friend and associate of the Hill family, acted with R. Brown, for many years Hill’s private secretary; Ralph Budd, as- sistant to the president of the Great Northern; J. M. Gruber, operating vice president of the Great Northern; ‘W. P. Kenney; traffic vice president; John J. Toemey, Hill's confidential business agent; P. L. Rowe, Minne- apolis; Charles W. Gordon, George A. MacPherson and Theodore Schultz, St. Paul, merchants and persona! friends. Trains Are Stopped. All trains of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington lines which Hill controlled, stopped still from 2 to 2:05 this afternoon. Fu- neral services were held at the house at 2 p. m. this afternoon. Right Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons, vicar gen- eral, diocese of St. Paul, Roman Cath- olic, officiated. Services were strict- ly private. Great Northern veteran employes, some of whom Hill rode with in engine cabs, were the only persons outside Hill's immediate fam- ily circle, allowed to view the re- mains. Burial was at Hill's farm, North Oaks. Stock to Son. Evidence of the energetic activity of Hill continued to be found today. Just a few days before his death it became known Hill passed the stock of the First National bank, St. Paul, to his son, Louis W. This bank has $54,000,000 deposits and is consider- ed the second largest bank west of the Mississippi. Soon after the news of Hill’s death was flashed over the country tele- grams from every quarter of the na- tion began pouring in upon the Hill family. These continued today. While telegraph companies put on ex- tra operators, the Hill family today assigned three secretaries to receive and file these messages. Two Recreations. James J. Hill had only two recrea- tions. These were fishing on the shores of the St. Lawrence river and solitaire. Although not a sports- man, Hill was of athletic, wiry build. One peculiarity was that he never used the elevator in his office build- ing. Hill preferred that he be called in for consultation in big things af- fecting his roads. At one time an operating chief changed a time card of the Great Northern and gave it great advertising. Hill read the ad- vertising like the public, and wrote this note: “New time table revoked. Trains will run on usual time until other- wise ordered.” The time changed. Aids in Development. One of the last, if not the very last, services performed by James J. Hill was a public service, and showed Mr. Hill’s profound and abiding in- terest in the development ' of the Northwest. This service was to dic- tate on May 17, just the day before he was taken ill, an interview on the necessity of making a complete suc- cess of the first annual meeting of the All-Minnesota Development associa- tion at the state capitol, St. Paul June 14 and 15, and of establishing the work of the association upon a sound basis. Hill’'s interview was given at the request of one of the committee of the All-Minnesota Development asso- ciation. This committee felt that Hill, perhaps better than any other man in the Northwest, could draw attention, as always, to any appeal that looked toward the prosperity of the . Northwest. The interview he gives is full of wise counsel. It calls for the improvement of the farms as the main object which the asso- ciation should set before itself, a plea for conservation in legislation and a check upon public expenditures. table remained un- Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Keih! and daughters, Chloe, Agnesand Grudrud, returned from their motor trip Tues- day afternoon. They visited with relatives at Verndale and Wadena. May 31.—Sim- plicity that marked the life of James J. Hill was the dominant feature of rail States government.” The Mexican chief further asked for an explanation why the United States forces in Mexico remain idle. He stated that if the forces remain and an explanation is not forthcom- ing, the Mexican government must look upon the expedition as an un- Columbus, May 31.—After recruit- ing for a fortnight with promises, it is reported that 300 Villistas have started north under General Acosta. BEMIDJI SCHOOL EXHIBITS - SOURGE OF ‘MUGH PRIDE Shows in Downtown Store Windows Draw Parents and Pupils in Common Offer of Praise. LOCAL SCHOLARS REVEAL DEXTERITY Manual and Domestic Arts as Taught to Boys and Girls Reveal Latent Talents. Parents and other elders in Be- more proud than public school pupils of the latter’s exhibits in downtown dis- midji today were said to be play windows. The manual training exhibit is shown in the windows of the Battles Hardware company and the domestic science exhibit is shown in the windows of the F. G. Tropp- man store. Viewed by Many. Many admiring adults have viewed the exhibits. It was said to be rather awkward for a brainy artisan to see the skilled handiwork of his son in the manual training department. And it was said to be good for the soul to see the mothers beaming over thinga- majigs made by their dextrous daugh- ters in the domestic science branch. Many Things Shown. At the manual training exhibit may be seen Morris chairs, library tables, cabinets, screens and other ar- ticles of furniture wrought with un- usual skill and finished artistically. This department was supervised by Instructor A. D. Bailey. Many things, too numerous to mention, may be seen at the domestic science exhibit. Miss Inez Foster is the instructor in sewing in the domes- tic science department. Both exhibits will continue for several days. . LAST DAY FOR TAXES WITHOUT A PENALTY BEMIDJI NINE WINS OPENER FROM FOSSTON New Baseball Park - is Officially Opened by a Victory; Score is Seven to One. SIX HUNDRED FANS SEE FIRST CONTEST Rally in Ninth Gives Visitors One One Run; Local Boys Show Up Good. Six hundred baseball Vfans yester- day afternoon saw the new Bemidji athletic park opened with a victory for the Bemidji baseball team over the Fosston nine. The final score was 7 to 1. The visiting team was completely outclassed. In Good Form. The Bemidji boys showed up in ex- cellent form, giving Kannerberg ex- cellent support. Up to the ninth in- ning not a single Fosston player had reached third base. In the ninth inning after two men were out Fosston secured its lone tally on three hits and an error. Frank Wins Prize. Frank for Bemidji won the two- dollar prize offered by a Bemidji pro- fessional man for the first two-bagger of the season. He succeeding in slamming the ball to the right field fence in the first inning and fell short about six inches of clearing the tence. The home run and three-baz- ger prizes were not taken. Judge M. A. Spooner is the professional man who offered the prizes in order to en- courage the local players. Kannerberg pitched a good game for Bemidji. He allowed only six hits, three of these coming in the ninth inning. The work of Frank as catcher was one of the features of the game. His throwing to bases was deadly and he caught the only two Fosston players who tried to steal second. Tagland of no-hit fame, who pitch- ed for Fosston, played a good game, but lacked support. The Fosston team made nine errors. The score: Bemidji— A.B. Whalihg 3b. Diedrifch ss Frank c .. Trafton cf Berrigan 1h Tanner rf Howe 2b . E. Bailey Kannerberg p Totals Fosston— A, Movold 2b Nelson 1b Pederson 3 Tagland p C. Fogelberg ¢ Smith 1f .. Hestness_cf Stadsvold rf ... B. Fogelberg 5§ . il o R | isemmoniia | 95 ~| coccconco®al muosoornal ErnompS - ; | vocomaornPE| vonccones? | scos! ol wmrrvnoorBi | consonccal ol conronnonic] onowormpnil e Totals .. Score by Bemidji L : 8] cocomommmmmn N " 21020200 x—7 Fosston 00000000 1—1 Summary—Two-base hits, Frank, Tan- ner, Whaling, Diedrich; stolen bases, E. Bailey, Tanner; sacrifice hit, Diedrich; base on balls, off Tagland 2, off Konner- berg 0; left on bases, Bemidji 6, Fosston 4; hit by pitched ball, E. Bailey; struck out by Kannerberg 5, by Tagland 8; um- pire, A. E. Feir; attendance 600. FIREMEN TO SEND BIG Today is the last day to pay taxes without having to pay a ten per cent additional penalty. The penalty will be added tomorrow. Large crowds were at the court house today paying taxes. The receipts at the court house Monday were $7,768.99. Yesterday afternoon $2,305.82 was taken in at the county treasurer’s office. TAYLOR WOMAN IS ADJUDGED INSANE Mrs. Khristine Paspechel, a resi- dent of the town of Taylor, was ad- judged insane in the probate court Monday and was taken to the Fer- gus Falls hospital. She is 43 years of age. She came to Bemidji from her home Monday and was taken into custody by the Bemidji police. Mr. and Mrs. George Revere and children of Walker are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McManus. DELEGATION TO MEET At a meeting of the Bemidji Fire- men’s association last evening plans were made for the sending of a dele- gation of from 15 to 20 to the state meeting which will be held at Chis- holm next month. Bemidji will in- vite the state association to hold its 1918 meeting in this eity. F. S. Lycan, president of the city council, in a talk to the firemen urged the necessity of a large delegation in order to insure the state meeting. Several cities will make strong bids for the 1918 meeting. Bemidji business' men will also be urged to go to the Chisholm meeting. FUNERAL OF MARTIN FLINT TOMORROW The funeral of Martin Flint, pio- neer resident, who died Monday eve- ning will be held tomorrow after- noon at three o’clock from the Pres- byterian church. Rev. L. P. War- ford will officiate.Interment will be made in Greenwood cemetery.” ROOSEVELT T0 DEFINE. HYPHEN St. Louis, May 81.—Theodore Roosevelt came to this city today, having the second largest German- American population in the country, to define hyphenation. - - Kansas City, May '31.—Theodore Roosevelt carried his warning that there was a- war perik to pacifism to all classes of people here yesterday. A group of children who greeted him on their arrival were told to “pre- pare.” The little band of Civil war veterans in the crowded Convention hall to- whom his remarks in his main address were prinsipally - di- rected, heard the same warning. Coming to the question of an in- vasion of our shores; by a foreign force, he declared that if an army half the size of that which attacked the Dardanelles should invade this country, America would be at its merey. e JEWETT IN BEMIDI-. MADE AUTO TAKES PRIZES ATBIGRAGE May Be Chalked Up for Two Win: ners; Drove a Bemidji Ford Special. [ 700K FOURTH PLACE; IN 50-MILE EVENT ‘Winner of Race May Be an Out- law; Drivers Protest; Hanson is Mechanician. St. Paul, Minn., May 31.—It looks today like C. W. Jewett in a “Ford Special” from Bemidji will be chalk- ed up as winning two races in yes- terday’s event on the Twin City Aufo- mobile speedway. § Made Good Time. Jewett won the ten-mile race for the non-stock cars of 161 to 230 cubic inches displacement, smashing over ten miles in nine minutes and 33 sec- onds. Fred Hanson of Bemidji was Jew- ett’s mechanician. The first prize money in this race was $150. In‘the ‘ten-mile~fre€for-all handi- cap Jewett was second, time 8:35 2-5. Jewett finished less than a yard be- hind G. I. Gilbert of Minneapolis, who was driving a Mercer. This was a very exciting race. Says He Will Protest. Today, H. C. Feightinger of Min- neapolis, one of the entrants, said he would protest with the American Au- tomobile association against Gilbert, whom he claims is an outlaw driver. If it is proven that Gilbert' was an outlaw, Jewett will be awarded first place in this race. Jewett took fourth: place in the 50- mile free-for-all race. The time for the winner, M. Soremsen in a Dues- enberg, was 40:65. Jewett’s money in this race amounted to $1560. AN FOREIGNER THROWS BRICKS THROUGH VANDERBILT WINDOW New York, May 31.—After throw- ing three bricks through windows of the William Vanderbilt, Fifth avenue, home, thinking that he was thus en- dangering John Rockefeller, Haerbes Rsowsrddes; 40, a foreigner, was overpowered and arrested here fhis morning. KK KR KKK KKK KKK XXX MRS, BAILEY ON VACATION; MISS KENNEY EDITOR Mrs. Thayer C. Bailey, so- ciety editor of the Pioneer, left this afternoon for a month’s visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N P. Stone, at Crookston. Dur- ing her absence Miss Francis Kenney, music instructor im the public schools, will have charge of the society colummns of the Pioneer. Miss Kenney will take up her duties next week. Arkkkkhkhkkhkhkhkkhkkxkdkk X KK Ak hkkhkkkhkhkkhkkhkhkhkkk* IS SRS SRR R 8 5 &) SCOO THE CUB REPORTER SCO0P-TWiSHNoU LWOLLDNT BE S0 RUDE- PUT NOUR PAPER DowN— PUTNOURFOOT INIT=- WHUTLL Defective Page ‘Weld, president of Moorhead normal ‘ mrin‘muc_fi(fis [FRENGH-TROUPS ARE- - T0 GIVE ADDRESSES ATTEACHERS' SCHOOL Training School for North Section of State to Open Here on June 12. SCHOOL ORGANIZED ON NORMAL SCHOOL PLAN lh.ny‘ Registrations Have Been Made; W. P. Dyer Will Be Conductor. The teachers’ training school for the porth central section of the state will be held at Bemidji for six weeks, beginning June 12. “This school -is organized by the state superintendent on the plan of the_schools held at the normal and agricultural schools. Teachers who pursue courses in the school will re- ceive credits which may be applied on teachers’ certificates. Some of the special courses offered are agriculture, - manual training, music, drawing, folk games, primary methods and rural school = manage- ment. All first and second grade subjects will be taught, one period a day being given to review the sub- jeets and one to methods of teaching the subjects. Dyer Conductor. State Superintendent Schulz has se- lected the following faculty: W. P. Dyer, superintendent of schools at Be- midji, condictor; G. A. Franklin, su- perintendent of schools at s Deer River; W. C. Cobb, superintendent of schools at Brainerd; F. E. Lurton, su- perintendent of schools at East Grand Forks; Anna Plapp, normal rtaining director at Eveleth; Elizabeth Under- wood and Olive Grobel of thé Minne- apolis public schools; Margaret New- ton, supervisor of music and drawing at Moorhead; Emma Hoglund, nor- mal training director at Madison; B. M. Gile, agriculturist of Bemidji schools, and A. D. Bailey, manual training instructor of the Bemidji schools. Educators Here. Many prominent educators will ad- dress the school, the following being a partial §ist: R. E. Denfeld, su- perintendent of the Duluth-schools; Elizabeth ‘Hall, assistant superintend- ent of Minneapolis schools; Charles Seymour of Madisom, Wis; F. A. school; Joseph Kennedy, dean of school -of edueation, Grand Forks, N. D.; D. R. Bradford, superintendent of Hubbard county sehools; D. B. Jew- ell, superintendent of Koochiching eounty schools; B. F. Ross, superin- tendent of Cass eaunty schools; J. H. Semmervold, superimtendent of Clear- water county sehools; P. P. Colgrove, superintendent of schools, Virginia; E. A. Freeman, superintendent of schools, Grand Rapids; T. A. Erick- son, leader in boys’ and girls’ club work, and W. B. Stewart, superin- tendent of Beltrami county schools. Teachers will fiad the surround- ings of Bemidji exeedingly attrae- zive. The woods and lakes of the vicinity afford splendid opportunities for recreation. Many teachers have registered al- ready, finding it desirable to secure boarding and rooming places in ad- vanee: i e & ARGHIE HAYES SPENS " LAND OFFIE HERE Archie Hayes,’ Who moved to this eity with his'wite from St. Paul sev- eral weeks ago, will open a laad, losn and insurance office in the Beeurity Bank building, June first. Mr. Hayes has been in the lamd business in St. Paul and for the mast five years '.he;.u been interested in lands in Beltram, Koochiching and jRoseau counties. He is widely known throughout the state. He was formerly mayor of Hastings, Minn., a member of - the state legislature in’ 1905, clerk " to Senator Nelson for the committee of public lands, executive clerk to Gov~ ernor Eberhart for the past four years and clerk of the state pardon board for four years. URGE LOWERING OF RED LAKE AND WINFNINROF RIVER GLEARED FROM GUMIERES Berlin,” May 31.— (Official) —| French troops were cleared from th forests south of Cumieres today. Th Historical Soclety x Germans took 91 prisoners. = London, May 81.—The German|Committee Makes Trip From Red chancellor’s last speech did not give any hopes of early peace, Premier As- quith told the House of Commons in replying to a query whether the Al- lies are willing to consider peace overtures. k Paris, May 31.—The world's great- est battle at Verdun today found the Crown Prince rushing .into action with fresh legions. Vienna, May 31.—(Official)—Dur- ing sharp encounters the Austrians occupied Puntagorda, an Italian posi- Lake Reservation to Thief River Falls. BELIEVED ONLY WAY TO STOP BIG-FLOODS 0. L. Dent, Ditch Referee, Inspects Ground With Thief River Falls Representatives, tion on the Russian front, yester- 3 day. Thief River Falls, Minn., May 31. % i —That the lowering of the Red Lakes, the erection of a retaining T works at the outlet and the deepen- ing and widening of the Red Lake river for a distance of at least 30 miles from its mouth, is the only solution of the flood problem in the territory along the Red Lake and Clearwater rivers in the opinion of the special committee made up of Senator D. P. O'Neill, Gay Halvorson and M. C. Cutter of this city, who with Indian Agent W. F. Dickens of the Red Lake agency and O. L. Dent, civil engineer and ditch referee of Bemidji, who have just returned from a tour of investigation along the river and alkes. They found the great basin of the Red Lake’s bank full and even run- ning over at the outlet and the rivers, unable to carry the surplus waters, backing up and flooding a fertile and cultivated farming country for miles. Settlers are becoming discouraged and that definite steps must be taken soon to insure their lands from flood was made apparent to the committee. Travel 100 Miles. ° The party left the Indian agency at Red Lake in a power boat, crossed the lake and traversed the Red Lake river for a distance of 100 miles, in- terviewing settlers and making care- ful and exhaustive notations of con- ditions which will be used in connec- > tion with the work of the govern- Patriotic Crowd. ment engineers who are to make the There may have been larger and |survey made possible by Steenerson's more enthusiastic crowds within the|bill, passed at this session of congress. city hall, but never one more patriotic | The trip was made at the invitation or thrilling than which assembled |of Agent Dickens, who is strongly in yesterday afternoon to listen to mar-|favor of the project as outlined in tial music and speeches extolling the | Mr. Steenerson’s bill. 52 ‘patriotic dead. Project s Targe. In a masterly and impressive man-| pp, magnitude of the proposed ner, Dr. M. D. Fuller, orator of _th_e project is indicated by a rough esti- day; told of the resultsjof the wal mate of the cost, made by experts on war in which so many gave up their the trip. They put it at a million liyes that this nation might not be dollars and cite the benefits to accrue divided. Hestated that uot only did to settlers and municipalities along HALL IS GROWDED AT MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES HERE All of Bemidji Pays High Tribute to the 0ld Scldiers; Good Pro- gram is Given. CEREMONIES ARE VERY INSPIRING Dr. M. D. Fuller in Address of Day Tells What Old Soldiers Have Given Country. All of Bemidji observed Memorial Day yesterday. Business houses, public offices and Flags everywhere, floating over entrances the schools were closed. were and from windows, betokening spirit of the day. The day was beautiful, in fact one of the best had by Bemidji for sev- eral weeks. i S e e e e R T A the soldiers of '61 give preservation of the union, but they retained other states from seceding. Had the cause of the Union failed, probably one- third of the union states would have gone over to the Confederacy side, said Dr. Fuller. The Civil war has made the country known the world over. It brought this country to no- tice. Dr. Fuller emphasized the in- crease of immigration since the war, the development of resources, and the fact that the United States has al- ways been respected by other nations. In asking the question, “What did the war cast?’’ Dr. Fuller urged the audi- ence to ask the old soldiers whn were severed from their families, or the women and children who remained at home. § One of the Best. His address was one of the pest that has been delivered in Bemidji at a Memorial Day program. Mis ad- dress was loudly applavded. W. B. Stewart, county. superintend- ent of schools, presised at tLe pro- gram. He read the proclamation is- sued by Governor Burngquist and ex- plained why there was 2 Aemorial Day. g Hon. L. G. Pendergast in an ad- dress explained what constituted patriotism. Leroy Mattson, a high school student, delivered Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Mrs. H W Bailey read a paper on the history of ke great conflict. ~The high school glee club and quar- tottesang several songs. A splendid gut drill was given by boys of the Bemidji grade school classes. Ny- more school ghildren gave excellently [} executed drills. \ Nels Sneer of Duinth was a busi- ness caller here Tuesday afternoon. e T 4065 100KNG- FOR. $A BARGAN SALE OF BESTOS BONNETS | the river as many times that amount. The conseryation of the waters of the lake is most important, as there are important water powers at Crookston, Red Lake Falls and other towns along the river south, and again, these cities which derive their water for domes- tic purpose will be deeply interested as it will insure a steady flow the year round, where under present con- ditions, flood conditions exist in the spring, making the handling of the water a big problem and later, in the dry season, the supply is often insuf- ficient, or obtained at extra expense to the municipalities, Very Important. The work of the Commercial club and Congressman Steenerson in tak- ing an active interest in the problem, was freely commented by settlers, who at last feel that they see a solu- tion and hope ahéad. While the flood conditions of the past two springs may. not occur again in years, it is pointed out that when they do oc- cur, the damage is of such magnitude as to make it imperative that steps toward a permanent remedy are Vi- tally important. With the river wid- ened, straightened and deepened and the retaining works at the lakes erested, not only will settlers and wa- ter power interests along the river profit, but Indian lands, now in dan- ger of being flooded by the overflow of the lake itself, be made more valu- able. The proposed project is consid- ered by engineers to be one of the most important in the history of the reclamation of Northern Minnesota lands. NINE MAKE FILINGS UNDER VOLSTEAD AGT Nine persons have made filings un- AJer the Volstead act at the court ‘house today. They are John Heim of St. Paul, William A. Nebeling of Crookston, Samuel R. Browne of St. Paul, George F. Nebeling of St. Paul, Hilda Nolan of Minneapolis, Ernest . Stevenson of Minneapolis, Charles -] Maurer of Minneapolis, Maude Ek- man of Minneapolis and Herman C. Huss of Minneapolis. R T e e i S WEDDING LICENSE IS ISSUED AT COURT HOUSE A wedding license was issued at the office of the clerk of court to John Jasperson of Akeley and Miss ‘Tilda Tollefson of Bemidji.