Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 9, 1917, Page 2

company. VOLUME XV. NO. 156. GERMANY’ BIG DICKERSON SHOWS ARRIVE; BOOZE IS BARRED; BEER, ALSO WINE HERE FOR WEEK | ARE LEFT; SENATE UNDER THE ELKS| GOES ON RECORD Advertising Matter Sent Last Week | Upper House of Congress is for a Fails to Arrive in Time; ' Work is Rushed. “Bone Dry” Nation During the Period of - War. CANVASSES BEING EBECTED ‘WOULD CONDEMN ALL BOOZE FOR ATTRACTIONS ‘TONIGHT Amusement and Enterhmment for All Features Galore; Chief Attractions, “The management of ‘the Dickerson shows, which are to be here through- out the week under the auspices of) the Bemidji lodge ol Elks, certainly deserves a med ecoration of some. kind, for just aboflt ‘the tough- est luck one could imagine was in advance of the carnival aggregation when it reached Bemidji this morn- ing and still the manager could smile. ‘When the Elks decided to bring the Dickerson shows here for a week there was little time to secure the shows before their presentation and the advertising matter was shipped, the advance man coming here to make arrangements. The advance agent arrived in Bemidji Saturday only to find that the advertising matter had gone astray in shipment and not a sign of the coming of the shows anywhere. Hastily provided advertising matter was gotten out and today when the shows arrived along came the wildly sought for lithographs and bills sent last week ‘to Bemidji. “Work was -~ immediately com- ‘menced on- the. erection of the can- i wasses on the:large vacant property at the intersection of Lake boule- vard and Fourth street and by to- night the attractions will be well under way for visitors and continue throughout .the week(hl ttractions ore. The Dlekensotxlleshows carry a wide variety of attractions, a feature be- ing the Hawaiian village, with na- tive people presenting native songs and dances. Another feature is the cabaret, a new carnival attractions with Bonnie Benedict, the lady with the dcuble voice, and Joe Tenebaum and com- pany, a feature of eight people in the Death Stalks Webb. The thriller of the week will be Capt. George Webb in his death-de- 2ying dive from the top of an 84-foot tower into a small net scarcely dis- «cernable from the top of the tower. “Frontier Days’” depicts the early days:in" the northwest, the partici- pants being attired in the old time regalia. The big circus ‘side show carries freaks of human nature and curiosi- ‘ties from all parts of the world. Here. You Grannlers. An attraction of the arera George Carpenter. a celehrated mid- dleweight wrestler, who has met the best of his weight and he is copen to anyone in Bemidji. In all. 100 pennle are carried with the Dickerson shows. Then there will be the concessions and lights and music galore. and a riot of enjoyment is scheduled for the entire week. je Capt. George Webb, the death- defying high diver with the Dicker- son shows in Bemidji this week, has nothing of a generally accepted ap- pearance of a captain, but his title was long ago bestowed upon hmi by -a press agent and he still carries it. The “captain” is a modest young man, 26 years old, married and the| father of an attractive little daugh- ter. His parents were both circus people and he was born in a circus dressing room in Cincinnati, Ohio. ‘When fifteen years he commenced his dare devil stunts and his fearless- ness soon placed him the front Tanks of his line of work, he travel-| ing with the big circuses and bein~ booked at large summer parks and| hippodromes. Wehb strelled into the Pioneer of-| fice this morning and considerable questioning to obtain a| story concerning him, something un-, usual in a performer of any de:crlp- tion. t Big Feats. “I comm%xrged by being one of the old time balloon performers, ':_he said in response to questioning, making it required | NOW HELD IN WAREHOUSES Estimated Enough Will Be Left on " Hand to Last Consumers at Least a Year. ‘Washington, July 9.—The senate 'has goneé on record in favor of ‘“bone dry” national prohibition during the war 8o far as whisky and other dis- tilled beverages are concerned. Liquor legislation which would strike at consumption of distilled; intoxicants by commandeering stocks in bond in addition to absolutely prohibiting their manufacture or im- portation, was: written into the food control bill in one of the senate’s bitterest contests. The beer and ‘'wine industries would be left undis- turbed. In lieu of the se%?lg;‘\m " The house bill. to prohibit the manufacture of foodstuffs into beverages of any de- scription, the senate substituted a provision prohibiting manufacture and importation of distilled bever- ages during the war, and added a further clause directing the presi- dent to take over all distilled spirits in_government bonded warehiouses and pay for it on the basis of cost plus 10 per cent. While the final prohibition legis- iation” will-be evolved in conference between the two houses, it is gener- ally regarded as possible that the house will accept the senate’s change after a fight in behalf of the orig- inal section. Buv Liouo The senate p}lo:lslgnngnoldxld limit consumption to stocks in retailers hands. or withdrawn before the law goes into effect. Stocks of distilled beverages in bond were estimated today at between 200,000,000 and 300.000,000 gzallons and the»annual normal consumption at 120,000,000 gallons. To purchase this enormous auantity of linuor or what is left of it after withdrawals in anticipation of legislation, it is ~ctimated that the government would have to spend from $300,000,000 to $1,000,000,« 000. The probable loss in federal rev- enues is placed at from $200,000,000 to $400,000,000, although this, as well as the eost of purchase would depend entirely on how much liquor was withdrawn tax-paid before the commandeering. New Revenne Sourcer The senate’s action promises in- definite delay in enacting the war tax bill, further delay on the food control bill and indefinite postpone- ment on adjournment of congress. bill was withdrawn immediately fol- lowin= the final vote upon the liquor question to seek new sources of rev- enue in case taxation of distilled liquors is eliminated. Immediate and probably enormous withdrawals of distilled liquors from | bonded warehouses before the senate The revised $1.670.000.000 war tax| BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, MONDAY E VENING. JULY 9. 1917. Mbyhuflun?u-m' Emma Goldman and Aleundn ‘Berkman, the two most cotorious anarchists in Amm. are seen here after Full Draft Is Forecast By (By United Press) Washington, July 9.—The department announced today, just enough to flll the regular army and national guard. In the lottery of draft, every one of the 9,500,000 men will be drawn, .is_the general belief, for service all time. POSTMASTER SENDS MILITARY SERVICE a Postmnfl'{er Ritchie has also been aiding your’ Uncle Samuel in the gentle art of recruiting, having within the past few days enlisted six. Heretofore, he has been send- ing them to the recrufting office. but the government also had notified postmasters to secure all they could. Mr. Ritchie was asked what the matter was in Bemidii and he im- mediate]y ot hnusy and rounded up the six and sent them off for train- ing. He is sunposed to receive $5 for each recruit but he waived any claim to compensation. The names are: Army—Rudolph Beavers and Jacoh Eide of Cass Lake; Clyde Rus- sel! Smith of Kelliher and Roy Davis of Bemidji. Navy—B. J. Hammond of Bemidii ard Harvey Pigeon of Kelliher. A fine lcoking chap named Johnston of Hines was sent away today. ——————— provision could hecome effective was generally predicted today. It was estimated that manufacturers and dealers probhably could raise funds enough to withdraw at least half of the existing supply, or enough to meet consumption demands for a vear or more. £ T0: Daredevil High Diver Has Had Thrilling i Captain Webb |a<cm=10ns and parachute drops. | When that sort of went out of be- Experiencg; Dives Info Tank; Breaks Jaw ing an attraction I took to doing high dives, finally into a small iron tank and got up to 100 feet in mak- ing the dive but—"" “That’s about where you got that busted jaw,” butted in the Pioneer representative. A hand was quickly raised to a twisted jaw and with a smile the young dare-devil replied, *“That’s just what I did, and caved in some ribs, in my chest.” That stopped the perilous feat and the small net was substituted, he using what is claimed the smallest: net in any similar act. Serious Side of Life. Digressing from circus life, the young man grew rather serious, an- other rareity for one of the profes- sion. AL 1 the clost of last season went to work again and have been! an inspector in a plant on war con- tracts. But I don’t know, somehow in the spring when one of us fellows hear a band we get restiess. Hard| to keep away from it and so here I| Will go back to the plant again | am. at the close of this season. Got to look nut for that baby of mine, you Iknow Government| first draft will be for 687,000, the war “This “will- determine tho™Tiabilkty their arrest. Because they couldn'gm $25,000 each to cover their bail they went to jail in New York. 9 BARRELS OF BEER FRUIT OF RAID ON PUPOSKY “JOINT” The county officials and Indian agents united to add another name to their already long list of booze arrests Saturday night. Indian Agent .nomas Wold and Deputy Sheriff George Denley raided Severt- Matson place near Puposky late Sat- urday afternoon and found nine bar- rels of beer and some whisky. The officers brought Matson to Bemidji ;vl;lere he was confined to the county a About midnight Saturday night, Sheriff Andrew Johnson and Chief Indian Agent Brandt went to Pu- pouky nnd Teturned with the beer. Court Commissioner D. H. Fisk this morning at 10:30 o’'clock and charged with running an unlicensed drinking house. The defendant waived examination and was bound over to the next term of district court. The bail of $200 was fur- nished. BAKING CONTEST T0 BE JUDGED JULY 18 Girls from all parts of the county, who are to participate in the class “B" bread making contest will ga- ther in Bemidji Wednesday, July 18, to have their loaves judgedi hy Mrs Margaret Baker of the University Extension department. She will de- cide the winners and will also tell how the bread is judged. She will give a talk on bread making to the girls, School officers from various parts of the county will m22t here at the same time and talks hy the most prominent educators of the state will be made. A splendid program has been arranged for RAILROADS T0 FILE RATE INCREASE (By United Press) Washington, July 9.—A horizon- tal increase of 13 cents a ton in coal freight rates may be filed by the western railways with the Inter- state Commerce commission. HUGE PLOT NIPPED (By United Press) ¢ El Paso, July 9.—Government agents have arrested 14 I. W. W. prowling in the vicinity of the smelters near here. One is said to have confessed that the I. W. W. planned to organize a strike of 3,- 000 Mexicans in the smelters. TO WATER USERS A nice shower fell in Bemidji Saturday night but despite this users of city water turned loose a flood of water throughout the city on their yards and again the water tank was empty this morning. For the past several days there have been several show- ers but water users have been letting the water flow and run in every possible manner and the water in the tank became | low. | Superintendent Kirk of the water works today asks every consumer to use judgment in the matter of using water as the water works system is not | tully capable of taking care ‘ of the city without judgment. "~ prisoner - was- taken before{- STORICAL Wheat GropTo Surpass Last Year's, Report (By United Press) ‘Washington, July 9.—The total wheat crop for this year. will be 678,000,000 bushels against 640,- 000,000 in 1916, the bureau of crop estimates announces today. TTACK "CALLED Bt. Louis, July 9.—Colonel Don- nelly, commanding the First regi- ment, Missouri national guard, has received a call to send troops from Alton, Ill., to Hartford, Ill., tect the whites there threatened negro attack. According to the reports received here, the whites at Hartford and at Wiood River, Ill.,, have barricaded themselves in their homes and are prepared to resist attack. 80 OF 100 MEN IN CHORAL SOCIETY ENLIST IN ARMY Chicago, July 9.—Eighty of 100 male members. of the Swedish Choral society of Chicago have enlisted in the United States army, it was an- nounced today. MRS. WITTING NAMED HEAD OF BELTRAMI COUNTY’S AUXILIARY Mrs. A. E. Witting will:leave to- night for Minneapolis where she will attending a meeting of the Wo- man’s Auxiliary of the State Pub- lic Safety commission, she being the chairman of Beltrami County Wo- man’s Auxiliary. Women’s Auxiliaries are being or- ganized throughout the country with against a a central committee in each state as an executive body. The central committee will divide its work among certain committees, namely: Conservation of thrift; protection of women workers; conservation of child life; education in patriotism; training of women in industries; ac- tivities of surrounding camps, etc. The plan is further to find out just what organizations of women there are in every town and village and what then can do best to help, and get them in line so that all will work together. IS DOING HER “BIT” Anna Felkey has knit three pairs of wristlets and sent them to the soldier boys. W. B. Bushman of the Mesaba Transportation company, and owder of the new Bemidji-Fifth ward bus, has spent the past two days in Be- Imidji and this -morning announced | that he finds it necessary for him to | purchase a new bus, as the one large | bus the company now has in opera- | tion is not adequate to give the pub- lic the service it deserves. The new bus will be a large 16-passenger White and will be put on the reg- ular run between Bemidji and the to pro- Fifth ward. The bus now on the regular run NOT"'YESTERDAY’S NEWS, BUT TODAY’S NEWS TODAY--BY THE GREAT UNITED PRESS THE BEMIDJI DAILY P1 45 CENTS PER MONTH CHINESE MONARCHY FAILS HEAVY BAIL HOLDS ANTI-DRAFT ANARCHISTS| EMPEROR OF CHINA HASQUIT, REPORTED (By United Press) Amsterdam, Juty v.—Hollweg’s enemies have apparently forced him into a position where he must make a complete answer to the query whether Germany favors no annexa- tions and no indemnities. Tokio, July 9.—Germany’'s Chi- nese ‘plot has apparently failed. It is believed that General Chang Msun’' | was started in his attempted at the institution of the onmarchy in China by German money and German arms left by the kaiser’s agents. The new government is reported today in dire straits. The youthful emperor re- cently restored to the throme is re- ported to have stepped down. The collapse of the monarchial regime is seen. rmanv All Agog, ,Julyn 9.—Slgn!soz multiply that show the political liberalization of Germany is impending. Hollweg is expected to make & formal state- ment Tuesday. Intense interest as to the attitude he may show on political reforms is here demonstrat- ed. The opinion is that from the central wing of the Socialists, all the Reichstag is united on the point that .the electorial reform muyst be applied to Prussia if Prussia fails to adopt such a plan of its accord. All the parties indicate a disposition to demand Prussian reform this fall. e Berlln.G Penple (v arge. Amsterdflml.’l.lul;" 9.‘1’!‘hat the neople of Germany are about to force from the German autocratic ring a more satisfactory statement of Ger- manv's peace aims as well as a prom- ise of sweening electorial reforms, is the indication of Berlin dispatches . today. AMERICA’S EMBARGO FEARED BY NEUTRALS (By United Press) Washington, July 9.—The Holland minister here today declared grave conditions for Holland and neutral nations in America’'s food embargo. CALLS TITTTR DATIGHTER: KILLS HER WITH HATCHET Le Mars, Ta., July 9.—Calling her 6-vear-old daughter Bessie from the street where she was playing, Mrs. H. F. Buchanan, wife of an insur- ance man, undressed the child and prepared to give her a bath. Then she took a hatchet and killed the child. Mrs. Buchanan is thought to be insane. She was taken in charge by the sheriff. AMERICAN VESSEL IS SUB VICTIM (By United Press) London, July 9.—The report of the sinking of the American steam- er Massapequa by a German submar- ine is officially announced today. HERE ON BUSINESS L. R. Fishback of Fosston was in the city today to attend the hear- ing of claims in probate court on the estate of his mother, Mrs. Betsy Dowd. Another Motor Passenger .Bus Added By Company will still be used between Bemidji and Fifth ward to help the new car in busy times and the rest of the time it will be used for special trips to Birchmont and the State Park. Mr. Bushman and William Foley will leave tonight for Minneapolis to secure the new bus which will arrive some time this week. When the Bushman company came to Bemidji it cut the price to five cents between Bemidji and Fifth ward and now it is going to issue ticket booklets whereby those who use the bus frequently will pay only four and one-half cents per trip.