Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 26, 1917, Page 1

\ rington and Thomas Bailey, VOLUME XV. NO. 76. Fines aggregatlng $650 and costs approximately $50 were imposed by Judge Gibbons in the municipal court this morning-on a husband and wife and nine women taken in a raid on'a maison de joie by Sheriff Johnson’s office in Spooner between 12 and 1 o’clock Saturday morning. The proprietors of the “joint” are Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Anderson and the inmates gave the names. of Grace Dean, Vivian Brown, Vesta Black, Margaret Peterson, Pearl Kane, Ray Moore, Myrtle Johnson, Pansy Lane and Hazel Wood. The raid was made by Joseph Har- depu- tized by Sheriff Johnson for the job, and they pulled the entire works and brought ’em to Bemidji, arriving at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, and landing the bunch in the county jail. Crew Secures Counsel. The whoie crew was arraigned this morning before Judge Gibbons, the Andersons being charged with main- taining a place where liquor is sold and the feminine aggregation being charged with being vagrants. State’s Attorney Torrance represented the prosecution. The Andersons secured Judge Spooner to represent the lay- out and with the call of the cases Judge Spooner entered a plea of —guilty for. his motly, array of clients, and asked that as it was the first time they had been arrested the court be lenient with them. Gibbons in Action. Hazel Wood was the first asked to stand and Judge Gibbons fined her $50 and the costs of the hearing or stand committed to the county jail for a period of 60 days. The roll of the other inmates of the Ander- son ‘“crib” was then called and as each stood up Judge Gibbons fined each $50 and the costs of the hear- ing or 60 days in the county jail. " Andersons “Get Theirs.” ‘When it came to the turn of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson to receive their “medicine” Judge Spooner called at- tention to the fact that Mr. Anderson lived in Minneapolis and was not a resident of Spooner nor the county, and spoke of “mitigating circum- stances.” Judge Gibbons asked Anderson to stand up and as he did so, Judge Gibbons expressed himself thusly: “Your counsel has stated that you are a resident of Minneapolis and not of Spooner and calls attention to mitigating circumstances in your be- half. I fail to see any mitigating circumstances where a man will as- sociate with an outfit like that. Your fine will be $100 and costs or stand committed to the county jail for 90 days.” Mrs. Anderson was the last and when she stood she received a sen- tence similar to that imposed upon her husband. Cold Cash Produced. Arrangements were at once enter- ed into by the proprietors of the “‘joint” to pay the fines and the cash, $650, and costs were dug up and handed over, the money fines going to the county and the costs to the city of Bemidji. Then there was a general exodus of the “‘girls” to the county jail to secure their grips and other belong- ings they brought with them from ‘Spooner. Bunch of Remnants. The aggregation presented a mot- ley array in the court room. There wasn’t a “good looker” in the out- fit. They resembled a bunch of rem- nants on a bargain counter at the close of the season. Much sympathy was expressed for Hazel Wood. She is a voung girl and looked decidedly out of place amongst the rest of the “junk.” She appeared to be abhout 17 or 18 years old, ruddy cheeked and unsophisticated in the ways of the world to any extent. She was the first to be fined and as she sat she turned her head and tears filled her eves. Near her sat a couple of ‘“vet- erans” and they would at times turn| toward her and with meaning looks shake their heads. One of the bunch wore a pair of tortoise shell glasses. They all wore | a nondescript layout of hanzoserw winter attire. Not one of ’em could even flag a biscuit wagon in a swamp. It is said the “girls” are new re-| cruits in Spooner, a sort of ‘“prepar-| edness” for the spring opening or! exodus from the woods, but if any of that aggregation could ‘‘shake down"” even a “jack” for anything more than a beer chip he would have to be ““froze to the cushion.” ~ RAIDED BY SHERIFF; ELEVEN “PINCHED” COUNTY GETS $650 ISHERIFF AGAIN NABS NABS PAIR ON ANOTHER CHARGE; TRIAL TOMIGHT| Immediately after the Andersons had paid their $200 in fines and the costs incurred, the unfeeling Sheriff Johnson stepped up and read a war- rant to them charging them with conducting a disorderly house, or whatever one wants to call it, and declared them under arrest. They will be arraigned this evening before Judge Fisk to answer to the charge. ’ NOTES OF TRIAL Judge Spooner, who was employed by the Andersons, has just returned from Washington where he argued an important case in the United States Supreme court and it was a novelty to him to be asked to appear for the defense in an action like the one this morning. But the judge was loyal-to his-namesake town of Spoon- er and -went up against a ‘proposi- tion that he hadn’t a chance to make good on. Sheriff “Andy” Johmnson didn’t mean to cast any aspersions when he sent Thomas Bailey up to Spooner to make the “pinch” of the fair dam- sels, because they were for the most part new ones on the sheriff. Mr. Bailey is about 60 years old, as most everyone knows, and it wasn’t that the sheriff had any hesitation to send a younger man, but Mr. Bailey was at one time sheriff of Beltrami coun- ty and knows his business, that’s why he was sent. When the raid was made on the Anderson, joint in Spooner it was past midnight when Deputies Harrington and Bailey called so un- expectedly. One man, who was in the place, hurriedly came down stairs with his vest hanging on by one armhole and his ‘“harness” not altogether in proper place. “Get your clothes on,” ordered Deputy Bailey. The man meekly adjusted his (Continued on Page Four) Germans Given Safe Conduct Through U. S. (By United Press) Washington, March 26. — The United States has granted safe con- duct for German officials in China to pass through the United States. INTERNED GERMANS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE; TWO SAILORS KILLED (By United Press) Philadelphia, March 26.—Two of the crews of the German interned ships here attempted to escape last night and were shot by United States sentries on guard. OPEN BIDS WEDNESDAY FOR “SUB” CHASERS (By United Press) Washington, March 26.—The navy will open bids for more submarine chasers Wednesday. The navy de- partmept is forced to renew efforts to obtain more favorable terms with the stee] companies. |they will be seen in several of the! THL BEMIDJI DAILY P BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA. MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 26, 1917. Photo by American Press Assoclation. Bids bave been made on United States army uniforms, with speed the chief requirement. A woman worker is seen just completing a uniform. Two Harbors Wins Third of® Series by Score of 20 to 23; Long Basket Shots Count The secret is out. That man Wood- ward who has a mean habit of throw- | Johnson ing a large leather sphere from clear across the hall into an iron circle|cameron . . commonly known as a basket in a|Peck basketball game, is a switchman and is so used to throwing switches for TWO HARBORS Woodward BEMIDJI owe ... .L. Strand Berrigan . . Johnson . Harris Substitutes—Tanner for Howe. Summary: Field baskets, Bemidji —Tanner 1, Berrigan 2, Cameron 1, a train a long way off that the mere | peck 2; Two Harbors—Woodward 4, throwing of a leather covered basket- | L. Strand 3, Johnson 2, Harris 3, L. ball several feet is nothing. had one hand tied behind his back |1l difference Bailey. it wouldn’t make much and that’s just what was the matter Saturday night when the Two Har- bors basketball team defeated the Big Bemidg quint in the third and last of a three-game series, by the score of 29 to 23 in which Two Harbors took the first, Bemidji the second and Two Harbors the third. It was a hard fought game and a clean one. Two Harbors wanted that game .and wanted it badly. Two Hrbors heretofore hadn’t fared well in basketball in Bemidji and this time drew on Duluth for Harris, a Syracuse university star, and Woud- ward, another crack, who had peared previously in two series, nnd got away with it. It was a swift, clean team that represented Harbors and they won. If he|Strand 1. Fouls thrown—Johnson Harris 3. Referee, Stanton; nmekeeper Juvrud; scorer, Claude Navy Calling For Recruits: Order Signed re- The following dispatch was TWO | ceived at the Pioneer office early this morning, being sent broadcast to the In the second half, Harris of the newspapers of. the country by Jo- visitors got a little rough and slam-|sephus Daniels, secretary of Johnson a hard one in|pavy, Washington. med ‘“‘Fuzz” the nose. “Fuzz” the It is an appeal was at first in-|for enlistment in the navy to pro- clined to retaliate but kept his head, | tect the United States against the and made up for it by the best exhi-|attacks of Germany and her allies: bition of shooting fouls ever seen in Editor Pioneer, s Bemidji. Berrigan was also in the limelight, tearing off a couple of sensational shots and got a big “hand” from the | pregident crowd. Peck of the locals was the occasion of several fouls, not per- sonal, but over anxious as the tide of the scramble turned to the visit- ors. And then he shot some field goals that would tie a snake in a knot. It wasn’'t Big Bemidg's game, that’s all there was to it. The score: BEMIDJI WILL ROLL IN DULUTH TOURNEY Today the Northern Bowling as-| sociation opens its week’s tourney at Duluth and Bemidji will be repre- sented, competing against the best at the game. A. N..Gould has got together some of the best bowlers of Bemidji and| events, rolling on Friday and Sat-| urday. On Friday evening a team will roll. On Saturday, Bemidji will roll in the singles, B. R. Erickson, E. N. five-man Ebert, A. N. Gould and B. J. Popp. In the two-man events on the same day Erickson and Popp will roll to- gether and Gould and Ebert. Bemidji, Minn. Washi n, March 26. — The t night signed an execu- tive order directing that the author- ized enlisted strength of the navy be increased to 87,000 men. He was authorized by congress in case of em- ergency to direct such increase in enlistment. New ships and ships in reserve are being fully commissioned as répidly as possible and the need is impera- tive for a larger enlistment to man them. There has been a net increase of over 6,500 in enlistment since con- | gress recently authorized an increase but many more are needed 2nd need- ed now. JOSEPHUS DANIELS. BURNQUIST SIGNS PATRIOTISM BILL St. Paul, Minn., March 26.—Gov- ernor Burnquist today signed a bill authorizing the teaching of patriot- ism in the public schools one day each week. 45 CENTS PER MONTX TREATIES “SCRAPS OF PAPER "HOLDSU.S. S0 REGARDS THEM: TERRIBLE DEATHS OF HEALDTON CREW Militia Called ToGuardU. S. Against Spies (By United Press) ‘Washington, March 26.—The gov- ernment is taking every precaution against German spying or ruthless- ness within the nation. That is the reason for calling out fourteen mili- tia regiments in nine states. Call to Minnesota. Minneapolis, March 26.—Secretary Baker has ordered the First Minne- sota infantry mobilized at once. The men are to report to Fort .Snelling not later than tomorrow to guard public property. West Mobilizing. San Francisco, March 26.—The militia of California, Oregon, Wash- ington, - Idaho and Montana are. to- day either actually mobilizing or pre- paring to mobilize, i More Ordered to Report. Washington, March 26.—Addi- tional militia in the far west was ordered out today, the war depart- ment announces. INTERNED GERMAN SAILORS ARE TAKEN TO DETENTION CAMP (By united Press) Philadelphia, March 26.—Guarded by 500 extra police and 200 marines, the interned German sailors on Ger- man ships in port here were today taken to internment camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, Georgia. FARMER SLAYS HIS ENTIRE FAMILY AND THEN HANGS HIMSELF (By United Press) Redwood Falls, Minn., March 26. —August Kleeman, age 30 years, a farmer residing near here, killed his wife and four children today in a fit of insanity. He slew them with an axe and then hung himself. FISHER ON VACATION R. E. Fisher, ticket agent at the Union station, will leave this eve- ning for Minneapolis for a month’s need vacation. Mr. Fisher has had no vacation for the past six years, and will have thirty days' leave of absence. CHINESE MINISTER HAS ASKED FOR PASSPORTS (By United Press) Amsterdam, March 26.—The Chi- nese minister to Germany has re- quested his passports, according to Berlin reports today. AMERICAN SPY IS SENTENCED TO YEAR United Press) (By New York, March 26.—George Vaux Bacon, American newspaper- man, arrested in England as a spy. has been sentenced to a year in a Federal prison. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy set on foot on American soil, a military enterprise against a friendly nation. (By United Press) Washington, March 26.—Practic- ally accusing Gemrany of regarding treaties as ‘““scraps of paper,” the United States, not regarding the re- construction treaty of 1799, has in- formed Germany that further “en- gagements” would be useless, The note added that the American gov- ernment is seriously considering whether Germany’s flagrant viola- tions had not already abrogated the treaties of 1796, 1799 and 1828. Cause for Protest? Washington, March 28. — Men aboard the American tanker Heald- ton, sunk unwérned by a German submarine in a “safety zone,” so pro- claimed by Germany, were smothered, frozen or drowned when the vessel was torpedoed, according to Consul g]?h in Rotterdam, it was given out y. May Move Peace. Amsterdam, March 26.—Intima- tion is given here that Cancellor von Hollweg of Germany will make an- other peace suggestion at a meeting of the Reichstag Thursday. .Such is contained in newspaper dispatches, quoting the Berlin Socialist Vor- waerts. L . WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERISH FROM BRUTAL GERMAN TREATMENT (By United Press) With the French armies, March 26.—Over 300 women and children are known to have succumbed to the hardships, exposure, brutality and starvation which the Germans have impored on the French civilians dur- ing the retreat. GERMAN MOVE IS HELD FIRST STEP TOWARD PETROGRAD (By United Press) Petrograd, March 26.—Russia is convinced that von Hindenburg’'s retreat on the western front is the first move for a drive on Petrograd. Socialists here want peace at once and leaders of the government are holding that the move is to again place Russia under the rule of Ger- many through czardom. FIRST ARMED LINER HAS REACHED LONDON (By United Press) Washington, March 26.—The Am- erican liner St. Louis, the first armed merchant ship of the United States, has reached London, it was an- nounced today 100,000 TIE CONTRACT BEGINS TOMORROW The new tie manufacturing plant of the Clark Pole & Tie company, located on Lake Irving, will start up business tomorrow when the electric- ity is turned on. The plant will be operated wholly by ‘electrical power. The company already has contracts for a total 6f 100,000 ties and many more large contracts in sight. It is an entirely new business and bids fair to grow into a large industry for Bemidji. gl