Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 20, 1917, Page 1

® ot Judge C. 4 for the draft has begun, all ‘those; VOLUME XV, NO. 166. {ARRY BOWERS OF ECKLES, N FIRST MAN DRAFTED IN BELTRAMI 11 BELT (Bulletin) (By United Press) St. Paul, July 20.—In re elec- tion Beltrami county, Opsahl vs. . Johnson, reversed. The above bulletin flashed to the United Press meafis. that .the--Su- preme court of the state of Minne- sota has turned down the decision ‘W. Stanton of Beltrami county in his decision that Beltrami county was saloon territory and al- so means that the foes of liquor won the local option election held in Bel- trami county August 14, 1916, de- spite herculean efforts of advocates of booze to “‘put it over” on the de- cent and law-abiding citizenry of Beltrami county. Indian Vote Illegal. The election returns showed a wet victory and a heavy vote of In- dians and on this the dry forces con- /osted on the grounds of illegality. “ The case was taken before Judge! Stanton and he emtered an opinion that the Indians could vote and that Beltrami county was wet. The Su- preme court holds the Indian vote not legal. The decision as to the meant that the county was wet ex- cept where the government had abol- ished liquor from Indian lands un- der treaty, and Judge Stanton’s de- cision brought joy to the hearts of certain booze histers in various spots not under government ban. The places best affected by the decision were Spooner and Baudette and vicinity and they went the limit. Judge “Btanton’s . decision was handed down Jlmury 4 last. An appeAfl was taken from his de- cision to the Supreme court of Min- nesota and was reversed. Beltrami county is a dry county, so far as an honest ballot is concerned, and the devotees and worshippers at the shine of Bacchus will now have the -. opportunity ' to change that smirk -\;nd smile they donned when it was decided Beltramj county was ‘‘wet’” and distilleries and breweries start- ed a night force to keep up with the demand in Beltrami county, not only for licensed joints but for a myriad of hootlegging camps and ‘‘clubs.” The case was that of J. J. Opsahl against Frank Johnson, interventor and contestee. On theam:s of the drys as legal counsel were City Attorney M. J. Brown, H. J. Loud and John L. Brown. On the side of the wets were T. C. Bailey and E. E. McDonald. On the argument of the aovpeal be- fore the Supreme court a few days ago M. J. Brown represented the ap- »a&gnl of the dry contestants and E. McDonald appeared for the de- tendants. The complete decision of the Su- prere court will appear in the Pio- neer in a later issue. ENLISTING OFFICERS LOOKING FOR MEN; OPENINGS ARE MANY| . ‘Although the drawing of numbers/ not included in the first call may en- list in the forestry and certain other (Continued vu Page 4) Pioneer_early this morning by. thej: county | ¥ RAMI DRY,SAYS SUPREME - COURT . DRAWNZFROM BEMIDJI LEAVE FOR TRAINING < TLieut. Wiener and Sergeant How- ar’d Huston arrived from Duluth at 3:17 o’clock yesterday afternoon and immediately began to examine recruits for the forestry regiment. All of the thirteen-men examined passed and pledged themselves to do duty for U. S. A. The men were ordered to leave as soon as possible and left at 8:15 o’clock this morning for Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., where they will be outfitted. From St. Louis they will go di- rectly to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., or to Washington Barracks, D. C, where they will train for a few weeks. Lieut. Wiener stated that the boys are expected to start for France about August 15. Those who left this morning are John Gainey, Ray (Fuzz) Johnson, Fred Fraser, Jule Achenbach, Wil- liam Walker, Ralph Case, William Berrigan, William Lappen, Frank Lamge, Hiram Grow, Richard Lee, Roy Conat and Clarence Worth. SOCIALISTS ARE NOT SATISFIED AT SPEECH ~ OF NEW CHANCELLOR (By United Press) Amsterdam, July 20.—Socialists; express dissatisfaction with Chan- cellor Michaels’ speech in the Reich-| stag yesterday. KRENSKY LEADS HIS FORCES TO VICTORY (By United Press) Petrograd. July 20.—Minister of ‘War Kerensky personally led troops capturing the fortress of St. Peter and Paul. ROY LIEBSLIE, THE LAST OF ARCHITECTS FIRM, HEARS CALL The address of the architectural firm of Geib & Leibsle will soon be France. George Geib, senior mem- ber of the firm, is now a first lieu- tenant in the United States engi- neers and Mr. Liebsle received a tele- gram this morning from his father in Des Moines, Ia., reading: “You were among the |drafted.” Mr. Liebsle had not been a resident |of Minnesota long enough to have ‘gamed a residence here when the registry was called and he sent his |papers home. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, having the largest cadet regiment in the United States and is “away up” things military. first NOT YESTERDAY'S NEWS, BUT TODAY’S NEWS TODAY--BY THE GREAT UNITED PRESS THE BEMIDJI DAILY Pl BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 20, 1917. —— Photos by U S Marine Corps Publicity bureau United States marines, famed as “the tirst to fight,” were among the first American troops to arrive in Fraunce. they departed from a port “gomev. here in America.” These pictures were takep just before Abave they n~re seen ar- riving at the port and loading a fransport. Greatest Feat of ‘Pioneer’ Is Giving CountyDraftList; No Expense Being Spared One of the greatest undertakings in the history of the Bemidji Daily Pioneer is that of today in giving to the people of Beltrami county the names of those being drafted for the first call to the colors from Beltrami county. This service is given to the people in the course of the claim of the Pioneer to being a NEWSPAPER. It is 'at a time like this when a newspaper demonstrates its class and 1'.he Pioneer again asserts itc claim to being a NEWSPAPER. A o ‘Washington, July 20.—Because of errors in hoards, particularly in New Jersey, HOW DRAFT IS BEING MADE its readers that makes the worth.- while to its readers. The Pioneer claims it does give the ser- vice that makes the Pioneer a valu- able adjunct to the city and county. The expense of securing the num- bers as they are being drawn in Washington and sifting them out in the draft registry of Beltrami county is no small matter, but the Pioneer| is pleased to do so for its many friends, believing its patrons are en- ititled to fair treatment. D e local Provost procedure of discovered late last night, Marshal General Crowder abandoned the entire elaborate plan for the war army drawing today as previously announced. A full drawing of numbers from 1 to between 10,000 stead. More than ten hours will be and 11,000 will be made today in- required to complete the task. Did Not Shuffle Cards. The error discovered was the failure of the local boards involved to shuffle the registration cards from various registration precincts before they began placing on them the serial numbers required by the regula- tions. The result in these sections plan, to take the entire quota of one tration preelnct tatement by Crowder. Provost Manhsl General Crowder issued this statement: “Advices received by long dis- tance telephone last night indicate that in certain areas the boards, in numbering registration cards, have kept the cards segregated by elec- tion districts and that serial num- bers have been assigned to the whole group for a board while the cards were thus segregated. If the draw- ing were conducted as originally planned, in groups of 1,000, the re- sult would be that considerable pro- portions of certain election districts would be brought up for examina- tion together. e e TO WATER CONSUMERS might have been, under the original of these districts from a single regis- “This would result in drafting per- sons from one locality within the jur- isdiction of a board before any per- son is drawn from another locality within the same jurisdiction. “For this reason it has been de- cided to abandon the drawing by thousands and to draw 10,500 num- bers, which {8 in excess of the high- est number of cards under the jur- isdiction of any board. “The only change in the plan will be that there will be one drawing instead of two. The advantage will be greater simplicity. The disad- lvantaga will be that the drawlng will require ten hours to complete.” LADIES BAND ENTERTAINS ERS UNION ORCHESTRA MEMB. The Ladies Band entertained the The twentieth of this month is the|ppjon orchestra at a banquet and jlast day to pay vour water bill warning issued today. dance in the Moose hall last night. in | Don't forget to pay vyour bill, is the|The evening was much enjoyed by| - It is the service a paper gives to| paper |River. all those present. —_— Nos. 110 10, 000 Drawn Toda Yy OFFQ FANC' MAIES 0!# THE WA.Y “PIONEER” GlVlNG RESULTS OF DRAFT ASNUMBERS EFFECT CITY AND COUNTY o— The following is a list of num- ’ bers drawn which will affect coun- ties whose regiscration list does not [ ] exceed 2,500. The total registra- ’ tion in Beltrami county was-2,/816, F. t c II d so numbers higher than this will not affect men in this or nelghlwripg counties. 268—Harry Bowers, Eckles, Route 1, Bemidji. 468—Hans Martin Opseth; Solway. 1436-—Alex Latin, Caribou. 854—Eslie J. Sorrels, Graceton. 1804—Pete Falcide, Nymore. 1465—chuleu T. Gould, Bemidji. 783—Merlin ' ‘Reynolds, ' Turtle River. 1813—Thos. S. Mullin, Nymore. 1858—Gust Leman, Nymore. ,1762—Pete Swanson, Bemidji. 1117—Perrin H. Minty, Bemidji. 1572—William G. Winterstein, Be- midji. 1748§—George Voltz, Bemidji. 2195—Earl F .Smith, Kelliher. 837—Geo. L. Dodge, Tenstrike. 2036—John Burke, Baudette. 337—Arthur C. Gjelhaug, Bau- dette. 676—Arne Pederson, Shilling. 275—Edwin F. Schwartz. 509Frank McKee, Wilton. 1185—Ernest V. Carlson, Waskish 564—George Lilla, Graceton. 2166—Willlam A. Hall, Kelliher. 945—Charles J. Olund, Pitt. 1913—Oscar J. Larson, Baudette. 6596—John M. Rustad, Williams. 1267—Harry 0. Engebraaten, Zipple. 2148—Ben H. Palmer, Blackduck. 536—Charles H. Peavoy, Clear Harry Bowers. A seething mass of capsules, each containing a slip of paper, swirled early this morning in a globe in the senate building at Washington and out dropped one of the tiny capsules. An eager hand stretched forth, seized the tiny globule, opened it, unfolded the slip and read thereon *“258,” the holders of that mysticalnumber in the counties of every state through- out the United States had been call- ed first for the first body of troo| 766—George Wosdowick, Nebish.|t, pe assembled for the defense ?): 107—Henry M. Haugen, Skime. 1564—Elmer J. Revolr, Bemidil. | oo “"959% in Beltrami county ;ggg:fi{;g: gh':(leybn?e“i‘m"' found Harry Bowers at work in & o Abert RO?I o flfBo- Y field near Eckles. The Pioneer —Newell R. Johnson, Bemlidji|cqljeq the family and notified the 616—James Linford—Willlams. |p\oper of the future soldler, and she 373—Lewis E. Stover, Esplee. notified her son. i 1676—Axel Westby, Bemidji. In an instant he had dropped his 1878—Fred G. Swafford, Nymore. 1095—Frank Bougeous, Baudette. Eis:ea::dnggf:d&d l;gmt:gll}l business 2022—Robert Thomas, Baudette. The first to answer the call from 1266—Harry Laffin, Zipple. Beltrami is 21 years of a, 0 ge and as ;;gl—}‘r:ikob K::l‘::fgogy‘;“e‘:;?afl stalwart and splendid a specimen of 486—Arne Arneson. Carmel ‘|young manhood as omne could find. 692—Ole Lone, Louis i A couple of years ago he won a 600-—Bernhard' Grohlidahl state essay contest and at that time Hams i the Pioneer secured a cut of him. 4 It is herewith shown. 810—Sam Darling, Carp. Asked as to what | 3 p he thought about 1539—Walter W. Edwards, Be it he replied, “It’s all right. What- 1495—Roy A. Wheelock, Bemidji. . 648—Henry Carl Nelson, Grace- on. 126—Milton Hestad, Grygla. 1679—Harry R. Henderson, Be- midji. 333—Donald P. Shannon, Bemidji. 1237—Carl Strom, Hackett. 784—Henry M. Hope, Aspelin. 1732—Roscoe C. Hughes, Bemidji. wil- midji. = ever they want me to do I'll do it mi:?f_Em" W. Hollander, Be- |y ready right now. If it's a case of fighting for America I certainly will.” And the father of his strapping son gazed approvingly. A o o . midji. 1685—Wm. E. Abell, Bemidji. 1148—Richard Hall, Kelliher. 1183—John Olson, Waskish. 1395—John Matland, Bemidji. 606—Vita Isabellis, Williams. 182—K. N. Roen, Aure. 1171—Carl A. Ramsey, Nymore. 513—F. J. Anderson, Wilton. 46—Hugh G. Gray, Bemidji. 1020—Clarence G. Van Pelt, Thor- hult. 1651—Howard Beaulieu, Nymore. 1099—John S. Erwin, Hines. 1682—John Cousin, Nymore. 507—Peter Lind, Wilton. 437—S8evern Jenswald, Jelle. 1324—George Kusba, Bemidji. 604—John Genner, Williams. 43—John Sukert, Jr., Bemidji. 2181—Oscar Ahlberg, Kelliher. 1763—Harry J. Breen, Bemidji. 1584—Thomas B. Newton, Be- midji. 1264—Ruben W. Servius, Zipple. Elihu S. Miner, Carp. 924—John O. Gelan, Aure. 420George J. Field, Kelliher. 1014—Ben Theichel, Thorhult. 1178—Robert E. Prottsman, Was- kish. 514—Clarence E. Miner, Wilton. 433—Joseph Norho, Waskish. 10—Edward Lemay, Warroad. £r_ on. 3 . 223—J. D. Paul, Puposky. minge ) Dantel F. McCanm Be-| 5p56—Martin Mathison, Waskish. 1441—Fred Werner, Bemidji. 117—Sivert E. Hoveland, Grygla. 390—Robert C. Shaw, Funkley. S — (Continued on Page Four) 1031—Henry S. Van Pelt, Thor- 1705—Edwin M. Johnson, Nymore hult. 1331—Hallan L. Huffman, Be-