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

NOT YESTERDAY’S T THEB VOLUME XV, NO. 171. HIGHEST PRICE QUOTED SINCE Commission Men Say Rain Prevents SUGAR FOLL()WS Digging; Sugar is Now 10 and 11 Cents Per Pound. CIVIL WAR RAISES 13 POINTS' Market Today $6.M Per Hundred y highest since the Civil war. Pounds; Jump is That Over Yesterday’s Price. (By United Press) Chicago, July 26.—Potatoes jump- ed today to $4.25 and $4.50 per ‘bushel. They were $2.75. The com- mission men explain it by saying rain prevents digging of potatoes. Chicago, Jsuly 26.—Refined sugar jumped 13 points today over yester- day’s price, the quotation today of $6.64 per hundred pounds being the The re- tail price is between 10 and 11 cents per pound. " SENATE WILL VOTE <« ~Washington;-July 26.—The senate: ON PROHIBITION NEXT WEEK - WEDNESDAY (By United ' Press) vote on national prohibition will be taken at 4 o’clock next Wednesday, according to private agreement be- tween thé wet and dry leaders. HING VNTTS FRONT AND ?mmx ES FRENCH CHASSEURS Paris, July 26.—General Pershing, accompanied by General Joffre, yes- terday visited the French front and reviewed incidentally one of the most famous battalions of French chas- seurs which figured in the 14th of July review in Paris. General Per- shine expressed high admiration of | the dash and smartness of the men. FIRST MAN EXAMINED FOR DRAFT MARRIED; | FATHER OF BABE.; (By United Press) ‘Washington, July 26.—Thomas W. Jesse was the first man called todav for examination -by the draft board. ‘He is an electrotyper and has a wife and baby. POLICE ARREST TWO; ORDERED FROM CITY The police today arrested two strangers and ordered them to leave the city at once. Every stranger caught in the city and having no busines= will hereafter be ordered from the city. Deported . W.W. Scatter Photo by American Press Assoclation. Many dirigibles are heing built for our navy. in the. «as envelope. . Ana tested to detaet fay BEMIIJI. MINNESOTA. THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 26, 1917. llENS CLEAN CITY Of 3 Here {8 one being inflated State Officers ‘Pleased Over demidji's Act Mr. Vandersluis, Mayor of Bemidji, Minn. Minneapolis, July 26.—Accept our congratulations om your clean up. Talked with the gov- erncr and attorney general and they are with you. Don’t hesi- tate tc call on us for assistance in the event of any further trouble with men coming in. Thenks again. A. A, D. RAHN. ENROUTE TO HINES J. Youngdahl and Charles Car- ter of Hines were in Bemidji today enroute home from a business trip. NO LIQUOR SALES T0 DRY COUNTIES, ORDER St. Paul, July 26.—Secretary Thomas H. Girling of the Minnesota Brekers bureau has notified all mem- bers not to sell their product in any wav direct or .indirect in Beltrami or Koochiching, dry counties, or for shipment to those counties. Mr. Gir- ling said that it is the intention of the bureau to wafch for cases of law violation in these counties and in- form the Minnesota Public Safety commjssion immediately if any were Ifuund. On Trip Out Of City, Report Received By Chief Ripple| Messages to Chief of Police Ripple today stated that Jess Dunning, sec- retary of the Bemidji branch of the| L W. W., who was one of ithose de-| ported yesterday to Ebro, had left| for Duluth in company with another, of his fraternity. ‘It was also stated twelve of the| Wreckers went to Crookston, twp | left the train at Lengby, some got off |for Duluth and asserted she would | at Bagley while others <ca.tered inj various directions,. - Sunday. when ihe policeiarrested | four offhe Tadustrial Wréekers at headquarters in. Bemidji, three were released and one. Secretafy Dunning, was released in bonds of $1.000, held to the grand jury. On one I. W. W. arrested last night| Chief Ripple found the following scribbled on a piece of paper, being e Y | presumably a copy of a telegram. It was addressed to Duluth and read: “Watson, McDonald, Sinclair ar- rested. Send help.” The message was signed Warrmg. whose wife conducted the I W. W. (restaurant next to headquarters She | was arrested in yesterday's cleanup and ordered out of the city. She left not return until the I. W. W. had| taken Bemidji. She wore two I. W. W. buttons. Chief Ripple has appointed f)mcer[ Jack Essler as night captdin and| Essler will be.head. of. the depart- L ment at night. WAIL FROM CROOKSTON - ON I W. W. SHIPMENT o S Says' “Mie Crookston Times of yes- terday: “I am informed by the mayor JJof Bemidji that it is the intention of the city authorities to round up a'l number of I. W. W. agitators in this city and ship them out on west bound passenger train No. 36. He has re- quested that you authorize train crew to carry men free as they will not have tickets. D The above is the substance of a telegram received this afternoon by Thos. B. Degnan, superintendent of this division of the Great Northern railway, from the Great Northern agent at Bemidji. Mr. Degnan promptly wired the agent that the Great Northern rail- way would not carry I. W. W.'s or anyone else on its passenger trains without tickets and suggested that the mayor of Bemidji should bhe no- of its own labor. troubies and not drive these lawless characters out into the smaller towns where there was inadequate police protection as they contemplated doing. Tn commenting upon the incident today, Supt. Degnan said that if these men were forced upon the Great Northern trains without the neces- sary transportation, he would in- struct his train crews to refuse to move the trains until they were ejected. SUCCESSFUL TERM OF SUMMER SCHOOL WILL CLOSE FRIDAY One of the most successful terms of summer school ever held in this city will close tomorrow. Although the attendance has not been as large as usual, owing to war conditions, the term has been one of unusual in- terest and benefit. Ninety-eight stu- dents enrolled this year. The school has been in session since June 18, and- has been conducted in the high school building. Nine counties were represented as follows: Hubbard, Cass, Itasca; Koochiching, Clearwa- ter,” Red “Lake, Pennington, Roseau and Beltrami. Bemidji was especially fortunate this year in securing one of the most prominent educators of the state as ¢onductor; R. E. Denfeld of Duluth. He has been.supported by an able and strong mculty. as follows: A. M.: Bank, Park Rapids; W. P. Dyer, Bemidji; Mrs. K. M. Jones, Litch- field; Miss Emma K. Hoglund, St.| Croix- Falls, Wi Cordelia Essling, | St.” Peter; Ida N. Chambers, Mil- ledgeville, Minn., and Anna J. Pet- Wis. B | erson, Berlin, OFFICIAL MAKES VISIT J. R. Michaels, supermtendem of | ' tified that Bemidji should take care! Tv DETERMINED. BUSINESS ME 'RAID HEADQUARTERS, MARCH WRECKERS TO TRAIN; ISSUE ~ WARNING TO SYMPATHIZERS STATEMENT OF MAYOR “You can say that Bemidj is clean of the I. W. W. and % long as I am mayor of this city, Bemidji will have no more L W. W. headquarters and no more I. W. W.’s will be allowed in the city if I know it. Be- ’ midji has reached its limit and ' al;l it is going to stand from e I. W. W. and I want every gitizen of Bemidji to be with me in this. You can make it just as strong as you want to and that’s all I have to say.”— Interview with Mayoy Charles W. Vandersluis this morning anent the I. W. W, situation todav in Bemidji. - (Editor’s Note) Tired of waiting, patience ex: haustéd to the limit, their-home eit¥y. ¥ ettt torthe “Tawlesd “Rordes of Industrial Workers of the World, aliens and others who know no law, who refuse to work, whose only mis- the industrial activities of a beau- tiful enterprising city, boastful cf | their power to ruin everything and everybody, flaunting their vaunted strength in the face of every decent citizen, aided and abetted by many of superior attainments who stooped to wallow with the scum from Eur- ope who laid no claim to citizen- ship, eriminals who have “done their stretch’ in jails and penitentiaries, | a crowd of fully 200 of the leading enmasse yvesterday afternoon and led by swayor Charies W. Vandersluis cleaned the city of that-lawless ele- ment, styling the Industrial Work- ers of the World, and this morning a summer day beamed over a city of rest and quietness, interrupted only by the sound of industry, but in its beauty marred by the majestic burner of Mill No. 1 of thé Crook- ston Lumber company on the east- ern shore of Lake Bemidji, rising like a spector from a charred and blackened mass, a monument to the nest of snakes Bemidji has harbored, helpless under laws that afforded no protection. It is a simple story, free from pyro- tenics, the story of what Bemidji did. Her citizens did their work in a masterful manner and rave servedmo- tice to all whom it may concern that she stands ready to defend herself, her industries, her business, her public institutions and their homes at any cost, and if it be the primitive law of self-preservation she is ready to enforce it to the very end. It was not a spontaneous upriging on the part of the citizenry of Be- midji. They had been patient to a remarkable degree. No charge can be made against them that they act- ed hastily. It is truly remarkable that they waited as they did. They watched their home city become a center of lawless activity, the center of north Minnesota lawlesness om the part of the I. W. W. where plots of destructiveness were hatched, the haven of hordes of the foes of the state and the laws of the land. Be- midji was the spot of refuge for the enemies of all that is holy and right. Bemidji has lived over a volcano for {the past 18 months, and the past six months ready to burst forth at any moment. The people of Bemidji did not realize their predicament. It was all being quietly combatted with every ounce of watchful waiting among those “in the know.” It would require several columns to tell what ‘Bemidji has gone through, yet | keeping her place untarnished in the sun. { Whether or no, the gutteral- |throated whistle of the Crookston. |Lumber company’'s mill No. 1 sound- | nd late Saturday night and sent a| ’lhnll of horror throughout the city. It sounded a note of which no one| |knew. That the sturdv night shift| |of that thriving industry escaped to Armed guards are patrolling the|the Duluth-Superior division of the a man with their lives is.a cause for manufacturiag district and have been|Soo Line, was in the city last eve- general thanksgiving to God. One/| instructed not to take any chances|ning on business matters. From here |of the biggest saw mills in the coun- with apy one. he went to Grand Forks. [trv 2 hated place of industry, had sion is to destroy property and wreck | citizens of the city of Bemidji rose | MAN WHO LED THE CITIZENS WHO CLEANED BEMIDJI OF THE LW.V. Mayor V:mderllnil been destroyed, another added to the list. And there whas joy In the hearts of the Industrial Wreckers of the World and their sordid sympa- thizers as they watched the torrents of flame leap to their deadly work of destruction. It was like a hard blow in the face of every business man in the city; it was a hard blow to the good men who, stripped to the last notch on that hot night, performed their du- ties faithfully and loyally to their employers. It was a hard blow to their wives, children, mothers, sis- ters, their all and what they had hoped for. Stunned, on Tut-qdn) afternoon the business men of Bemidji wended their way to the Commercial club rooms. The quarters were packed. Every branch of commercial life was rep- resented. The time had come to act, and when it comes to the defense ¢f their homes no city boasts a more red blooded class of citizenship. Hasty action? AND IT CAME TO PASS (By Daniel R. Gainey, reporter.) At about 2:40 o’clock yesterday afternoon a small knot of Bemidji's most respected and level headed citi- zens gathered in the street a block ahove the I. W. W. headquarters with a definite purpose in view. Headed by Mayor Vandersluis the group marched to the headquarters of the International Workers of the World and there commenced doing things. The now enraged ‘‘committee’” surrounded the building and almost before the I. W. W. knew that they had “company” each one was in the custody of an able-bodied citizen who carried ominous looking riot sticks. Twenty-one of the worst I. W. W. that Bemidji has had to contend with, one of them a woman who a short time ago secured a divorce from her husband, were marched up to the city hall and behind them fol- lowed a dray load of their furniture, signs and germ-breeding literature. Big Sien Posted. The undesirables were ail assem- bled in front of the city hall and then ordered to march in a body to the. Great Northern depot where they were stored in the baggage room for about ten minutes to wait for the train, and a sign bearing the warning in red letters: “I. W. W. ATTENTION—THIS IS AN UNHEALTHY TOWN,"” was nailed to the depot wall. While waiting, the industrious | citizens rounded up four more “One Great Unionis and added them to the bunch. The mayor stepped the ticket office and purchased twenty-four tickets to Ebro, a flag station about the city. By the time the bigz steam locomo- to thirty miles west of | tive pulled into Bemidji nearly a thousand citizens had gathered around the depot to show their ap- proval of the action. March Under Flag. The crowd spread npnrr. and al- lowed a four-foot passageway from the door of the baggage room to the train steps and the ‘‘undesirables” were made to march under the out- spread Stars and Stripes and there, with hats removed by order of the populace, they stood amid the gaze of a thousand aroused Americans who held them and all that they stand for in contempt, and three lusty cheers were given for Old Glory. Parting Advice. The four and twenty were then marched into the train and started on their pleasant journey, the woman being kept behind to be sent out of town today. The last advice given to the I. W. W. secretary, Jess Dun- ning, and his men was, ‘“Remember, this is an unhealthy town for I. W. W.'s" The citizens had done much but they still had other duties to perform, and that was to notify leading I. W. W. and sympathizers that’' 'they’ shayld.do no moré sympathizing and they did their duty. Kavlan Told Thines, The crowd marched to the store of ‘Morris Kaplan and there the mayor notified Kaplan that if he wanted to stay in Bemidii the citi- zens demanded that he have noth- ing more to do with I. W. W, affairg. ““No more speeches, no more meet- ings and be white,” were the words of the mayor and he left Kaplan the choice of his course. A new American flag was then hoisted over the building. Others “Get Theirs.” The sanmw notice was next served on E. W. Hannah and Dave Robert- son in their second hand store, and the posse then went to the 0. K. res- taurant and told the proprietor if he didn’t cease 1. W. W aritation ond cease harboring I. W. W.’s he would follow the bunch just shipped out of the city, and the proprietor promised to be good. Mavor Wallons Weber. The posse next fn]lnwml the mayor to the law office of W. N. Weber and he. too, was told to cease his I Ww. W. activities if he wished to remain in the city. Some one suggested making Weber hang out an Amer- ican flag and the order was given and a flag brought in. Weber re- fused and started a small oration to tell his visitors all ahout them- 'snlves in rather a distasteful man- ner. The mayor objected to Weber's remarks. Weber shook his finger in the mayor's face and called him a vile name. Mayor Vandersluis® frame fairly quivered with rage and he struck Weber in the face. Weber retaliated but his blow did not land and he clinched the mayor. The mayor threw Weber to the floor of his office. Then he generously got up and the ‘“‘committee’” hung out a flag and then left the office. Weber is Arrested Weber followed down the stairs and began to orate in the street and was arrested and taken to the city jail. He was released shortly before 6 o’clock and allowed to return to his office. The posse then returned to the Hannah & Robertson second hand store and dragged the proprietors out into the street and made them hoist a flag in front of their build- ing. The posse then believed it done its work and dispersed. |SOCIALISTS TO APPLY FOR INJUNCTION TO STOP EXAMINATION (By United Press) St. Paul, July 26.—Socialists are to apply for an injunction restrain- ling Adjutant General Wood from conducting a physical examination in the draft. had | TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Mrs. taken J. M. Parmalee to St. has been Anthony’s hospital for treatment.