Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 2, 1917, Page 1

N BEMIDJI; LAW STEPS IN; ROMANCE FADES of MNike Henz Under Alleged False Represen- --- tations; Arrest of Husband Follows - DESERTED, SHE SCRUBS FLOORS ofie’ymoon Picture Becomes Illusion In Mind of i 14=year-old School Girl; Is Taken Home, While L% Husband Goes to Cass County Jail - O Visions of being a bride, with all its traditional allurements, with the future of a roseate hue, calculated to make a rainbow look like a gray streak, such flitted through the mind of pretty Eva Benjamin, 14 years old, school girl, of Leech Lake, near Cass Lake, Cass county, when she listened to Mike Henz breathe into childish ear, “Wilt thou?” And Eva “wilted.” From the pictured romance of the immediate future, with all the trim- minds and a mind painting, “just like {JUDGE ASSUMES r " NEW DUTIES the book said,” to the duties of a; scrub girl in a hotel, while the hon- eymoon was yet in its infancy was the fate of this young miss, talented in ability to learm and as to music, indulged by a father such as any child might well be pround and a home to be envied. Left Penniless, Left penniless in a strange city and among strangers, the fancied arm of unsentimental law stepped in to claim its own and spread its man- tle of protection around the child wife from her 22-year-old husband, who had left her to the tender mercy of fate after a few short days of fleeting happiness. Stripped of its romance, Mike Henz, alias “Joe Pigeon,” is in the Cass county jail on a charge of fraudulent abduction and other| charges are pending. His child wife is again with her parents at her home. Start of Romance. Eva was a high school girl and nearby worked her mow husband. Like many another instance they formed a Mutual Admiration. So- ciety-aund. the result Was a we in Bemidji, upon alleged fraudulent jassertions on the part of Henz, late last month. The husband deserted his young bride in Bemidji and went | to Neeley’s Siding to work, leaving her practically penniless in Bemidji. Become: b Girl. The abund%‘n:dscgri?'l gought work and obtained it in a local hotel as fOBOGGAN SLIDE TO BE READY TOMORROW |scrus, siri ic was there cniet !y RS S located here when Cass county offi- -'! Tomorrow night the new Carnival | cers set upon the trail. Saturday morning Deputy Sheriff ; association toboggan slide at the foot 0. M. Skinvik of Beltrami county of Tenth street and the lake will be | went after the fugitive husband and open. The slide will be completed r tomorrow but in the evening the for- | brought him to Bemidji where he was turned over to the Cass county auth- mat dedication of the toboggan will orities. take place. There will be no set program nor| The father of the youthful and! any semblance of one. Everybody |romantic bride came to Bemidji and accompanied his daughter home. urally seat themselves on one of the TENSTRIKE STORE IS BURNED TO GROUND '' fat-bootom coasters and — whizz! Walk, back, climb up and do it all Jver again. Rowland Fellows’ general store at Tenstrike burned to the ground yes- terday. Mr. Fellows and his family There are four slides on the tobog- tan and the incline is steep, giving lived in the rear of the building and his four-year-old son who had been )ne plenty of exhiliration and a good playing with matches set fire to the ide out on the ice of the lake. building. Mr. Fellows has been in All who have Carnival association ostumes are requested to wear them. the store business at Tenstrike for a couple of years. NEUMONIA CLAIMS RESIDENT OF PUPOSKY George A. Spores of Puposky died i ey ctam eom oy | PIONEER” 1S HAVING D7 # trupossy Sunday siterngon st 3 BIRTHDAYS, ALS0 The birth of the new year finds the Bemidji Daily Pioneer and the Weekly Pioneer also enjoying birth- ’eclock, Rev. M. A. Soper of this city friciating. Mr. Spores was one of the pioneer ettlers in this part of the country, aving lived here for the past 20! days and for the information of the many friends of the Pioneer it can be said that the Daily Pioneer on De- cember 27, Thursday of last week, became fifteen years old and the ears. He was 54 years of age and yaves a wife and seven children. His tife was unable to attend the fu- eral, being ill at the home of a riend in this city. Weekly Pioneger on January 4, this —_— week, will end Volume XXII. Miss Sally Witting left this morn- And the Daily and Weekly Pioneer 1g for Minneapolis where she will| are both enjoying the best of heaith, esume her study in music. thank you. The start of the new year today in he affairs of Beltrami county finds ine change in its official family, Jo- eph E. Harris succeeding M. A. Clark s judge of probate, Mr. Clark hav- ‘ng served fourteen years, Judge Harris took the oath of his iffize a week ago and ratification of he necessary details incident to his ssuming the duties of judge of pro- awese -taken this affernoon. by he bonrd of county commissioners, ‘udge Harris thus being legally qua- ified to assume the reins of his of- Ice. ¥ ©w Believe Woman Instigated Brutal Slaying of Model \ (By United Press) Philadelphia, Jan. 2.—Police are' oday working on the theory that a|car cards all over the country. “oman instigated the brutal murder The police have no definite clew to “f Mazie Colbert Roberts, pretty cor-|the identity of the slayer, who, with et and stocking model, who was'a flatiron, hit the woman in the ound dead in her apartments yes-|head. crushing her skull and then erday. fin Dressed in blue silk pajamas, the|wit jody of Grace Colbert Roberts, 22| rears old, art model and “perfect’ woman had posed for a silk stocking ad which has been displayed in street h her own stockings. A dozen photographs of men, sev eral of them prominent in business and social life in Philadelphia, were She had | found in the woman’s boudoir. The photographs were confiscated by de- tectives. voman,” was discovered in her \partments here just before church ! ells rang in the new year. ‘een murdered. In her role as a model, the slain 1 i e her | Honolulu sunset faded ané the strong | ed the job by strangling her | 700 OUT AT GEMMELL | i Photo by American Press Association. | I session. commissioners, but paramount | county printing, the setting oi ,the county attorney's and sheriffs 'sal- aries. All members of the board were present at the opening this morning. The board shows two mnew faces ) (By United Press) ' El Paso, Tex., Jan. 2.—Pre- parations are reported under way today by the war depart- ment for the withdrawal of Pershing’s expedition from Mex- ico. All property has been or- dered to Columbus, N. M. Villa Prepares Attack. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 2.—A Vil- lista army, estimated at 5,000, is within striking distance of Chihuahua City, United States authorities heard today. Fight- ing is reported south of Chi- huahua City. TWO LUMBERJACKS SEEK SHELTER: ESCAPE STRIKE Two homeless individuals started the New Year in the Bemidji city jail, they having sought shelter for the night. Both were lumberjacks who had come to this city from Blackduck to escape strike results. They were given shelter in the jail for the night. Last night another also slept in the jail. ILL IN HOSPITAL. Mrs. J. T. Kutchera and son, Clyde, left Saturday ngon for Chippewa Falls, Wis., having been called there by the serious illness of Mrs. Kut- chera’s father, Fred Heidtke, Sr., who is confined in a hospital in that city. FARMERS' FEDERATION T0 DISCUSS PICNIC At the meeting of the Beltrami County Federation of Farmers’ Clubs, day, April 6, the principal topics will be the discussion of the farmers’ an- nual picnic, the state appropriation for county fairs, state mineral rights and whether the county commission- ers shall be asked to offer a bounty on wolves, pocket gophers and crows. meeting of the county federation held Friday in the court house at which time the federation went on record as being opposed to the pres- ent mineral laws of the state, and secretary H. L. Arnold was instructed to take the matter before the state federation with the view of having it laid before the state legislature. . Mrs. F. Sheohy Skeflington. whose husband was executed during the Dublin riots, came hers with her son. Owen, te lecture on her husband’s death. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET The board of Beltrami county com-) Imsdahl of the Second district missioners met this morning in the[h‘i court house in their regular Januars|{ .yec the personnel of the board A. There is little of special in-| B. Rako, First district; Hans B. Ims- terest to claim the attention of the|dahl, Second; James F. Hayes, Third; are | William Lennon, Fourth; Samuel El- the awarding of the contracts for the| lis, Fifth. around the table, those of Hans B. PERSHING ORDERED {510,000 STOREL0SS " T0 LEAVE MEXICO, \WHEN BLAZE RAZES IS REPORT TODAY| CLEMENTSON BLOCK to be held in the court house Fri-| These matters were decided at a| IS REPORT AT * V. W." HEADQUARTEKS; QUlET Ten Dollars Per- Month-Iore Wages Is One Of: the . Demands; Cleaner Bedding and Cleaner Food Are Also lncluded In List “PIONEER”GRANTEDINTERVIEW Courteously Received; Six Backus & Brooks Company Camps Are Affected (By United Press) Duluth, Jan. 2.—Fifteen hun- dred lumberjacks are onan L. W. W. strike in Northern Minne- sota. The camps of 600 at Gem- mell, the camps of the Interna- tional Lumber company, armed with guns and axes drove 150 who wouldn’t join the I. W. W. out of camp. WORKERS’ DEMANDS A general increase of $10 per month straight for all workers. A nine-hour day, going to and from work on the .com- pany’s time. A twice a month pay-day. Clean bedding and sanitary food. ‘ Bunk house to be cleaned out twice a week. : . No discrimination ngunst union men (I. W. W.) Tc the Employers. If the above demands are . granted satisfactory work will be done. If the above demands are not granted we will use all our means and efforts to en- force same. St. Paul, Jan. 2--E. W. Backus is expected to confer here today with Governor Burnquist ask- | ing for an armed guard for the lumber camps of the Interna- | tional Lumber company and | others in Northern Minnesota, to protect property and workmen | against strikers. and muel Ellis of the Fifth district. The presence of the new members Refusal of the above demanas on the part of the Backus & Brooks company has caused a strike in the company’s camps at Gemmell and all six camps in that vicinity are “struck” by the Industrial Workers of the World. It is stated by I. W. W. officials that fully 700 men are out and that on Saturday 165 new members joined the One Big Union” at the camps. Add~d to the demands is the in- struction to the lumberjacks to en-' force the demands wherever po: sible. 7~The “demands” are siEned Nils Madison, of Bemidji, branch secretary of the Lumber Workers Or- ganization, headquarters at 205 Bel- trami avenue. Newspaperman Calls. A representative of the Pioneer visited the I. W, W. headquarters in Bemidji Saturday evening and was courteously received by Mr. Madison and those who happened to be pres- ent. Questions were readily answer- ed and the newspaper representative was made to feel at home. Asked if the strike would be or- dered spread to edforce the demands, Secretaray Madison replied that mat- . ter would be considered later. Hnw»[ The demands originally contained ever, it is not thought the trouble a wage scale of $45 per month will extend to the Crookston Lumber ! straight as the minimum, but was company as that concern provides changed to an increase of $10 just steel equipment in its housing, | before the demands were presented. ————e—————————————————— STARS TAKE FINAL KING ALFONSO MAY GAME OF THE SERIES BE WAR REFEREE Stirred over being ‘‘called” for (By United Press) committing fouls, the Carleton All Washington, Jan. 2.—King Al- Star basketball team Saturday night |fonso of Spain is considered the most swept over the local Big Bemidg |likely ultimate peace maker of the quintet and chalked up a victory by | European conflict, since his utter re- the score of 43 to 7. fusal to join in President Wilson's ."good clean bédding and ome food for its employes. Don't Expect Tro “Do you anticipate any %ernuble"' was a query put by the newspaper caller. “Not on our part there will be none,” replied Secretary Madison. “We will not start anything and if there is any it will not be of our do- ing.” “What do you mean by clean bed- ding?” was another question. Wiy the blankets and bedding is not kept clean,” spoke up one of the men present. *“I know for I'm from there. The blankets are not washed and every man who sleeps in that bunk has to use the blanket everyone else has been using.” ains of Food. “Isn't %lolem}ood all right?” again asked the interviewer. “Not when you find pieces of salt fish in the coffe,” interjected another of the aggregation. “What are your hours now?"” per- sisted the newspaperman. “The men work eleven hours a day,” was the reply. spring whole The officials of the board are Mr. Rako, chairman; Mr. Ellis, vice chairman. The session this morning was de- voted to the discussion of the county printing contracts, action being de- ferred until tomorrow. (Special to Pioneer) Clementson, Minn., Jan. 2.—Fire, caused by what is believed to have been a defective flue, totally de- stroyed the general store of Ole Clem- entson of this place, which also con- tained the postoffice. The loss of Mr. Clementson is es- timated at about $10,000, insured for $3,000. The loss of government property is not determined, await- ing the arrival of a postoffice in- spector. Above the store were the living quarters of the Clementson family and it was while the family was up- stairs that the fire started and gained such headway that the occupants of the building barely had time to make their escape, taeir household effects going the way of the building and other contents. It was noticed that near a stove pipe the flames had gathered in vol- ume and it is the supposition that this was the origin of the destructive blaze. COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING TONIGHT IS ONE OF IMPORTANCE There will be an important meet- ing of the Commercial club this eve- ning and every member in good standing should be present. Only such members as are entitled to sit in the councils of the organization, according to the by-laws, may take active part in the business to come before the body for disposition. Two matters of vital import will be that of whether the club shall in- crease its membership dues and whether the present quarters of the organization shall be retained. The club has about $3,000 or $4,- 000 worth of property holdings and the continuance of the club as it is at present is one of the chief topics to be discussed this evening. Those members who have not con- formed to the constitution and by- laws of the organization are consid- ered as having declared themselves no longer members and it is up to those who are members to take such action as they may so elect. NEW ENGINEERING SCHOOL. At the outset of the game the lo- | peace proposals to the belligerents. cals shot two baskets and then the|Spain is the world’'s leading neutral, big husky visitors set to work to|it is claimed. careless in their play. Referee Stanton was on the job and the Stars did not get away with their rough stuff, being called on every foul which didn’t set well. It was then TO TflE NEw YEAR tells the story. . — " The Carleton represqn’t‘i\tlves were 'ttihplwt'oseeswot‘el;rl!s reTheb dyitl:s’ to a man star players, playing :pro-|Butteral verbera tessionally, and what they did 'to:the tfikoahout -Bemidji. Bemidg five :was fia .surprise, B8 tho| - Aittle; 1917 pursed its lips and they have played-togétifer snd ha Witlr.the strgke of 12, bells rang defeated some of the best 'fives in‘|out’a:glalisole welome to the new the state, while the locals are only |Year, @id shots. ppncfured the night recently organized and the games|&ir, all in glad acclaim to little 1917. were the first played together. And There was little demonstration in in the entire state and one of the|eve falling on Sunday, but the advent best in the northwest. of the new year was hailed just the The Big Bemidg team should not|same by those who kept vigil at the feel one bit discouraged and neither | Passing of the old year and the birth should the fans of Bemidji. of the new | ing the proceedings and records of St. Paul, Jan. 2.—The larmeruha members. members of the House of the state| A fight over the appointment of legislature will name the state grain |sessions employes marked the open- even the score and they were a bit the visitors “went to it”” and the score visitors have- npt-Josgt.a -uf alld lisped, “Happy New Year!” the team they met was about the best | the welcome in Bemidji, New Year's . . State Legislature Begins; warehouse commission as a compro-|ing of the legislature today at noon. (By United Press) A new steam engineering school is to start in Bemidji January 5 and will be in charge of A. E. Miller, deputy state boiler inspector, 813 Minnesota avenue. Ipstruction will be given in operating and the care of steam engines, boilers, pumps, etec. mise in the speakership fight wherein | Senator F. E. Putnam led the fight R. J. Parker was chosen. It is al-| for making appointments as a whole leged the Chamber of Commerce ““"senate against Speaker O. A. Lende didate, Magnus Johnson, Who With-| .4 on out. R. J. Parker was elect- drew and the St. Paul Non-Partisan | league and othe:s will keep strict tab|ed speaker of the House, receiving on the Minnesota legislature, watch-i 126 votes.