Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 1, 1917, Page 1

6’1‘ YESTERDAY’S NEWS, BUT TODAY'S NEWS TODAY---BY ‘THE GREAT UNl'l‘ED PRI SS BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA. SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 1.‘191'7- NAVAL CLUB ESTABLISHED FOR OUR SEA FIGHTERS ABROAP VOLUME XV. NO. 279. LYCAN HoST T0 RECRUITS. UPON EVE OF LEAVING FORTHE CAMPS Reoruiting .Committee and Officer Foucault Guests; Stanton Will Talk Briefly. GEORGE RHEA WILL PRESIDE; ONGE "»'. PRIMED = 10 ASK QUESTIONS - OF OFFICIALS WHO !’BOGRAM AT SCHOOL LATER finlfilute Talks By Prominent| ~Citizens; Dance for Everybody at the Armory. Another feature to the farewell program given in honor of the: de-, parting volunteers, who leave next Wodnesday, is a banquet to be given| 8. Lycan, propriefor of the Markham hotel, at6:30 o’clock Tues- day evening. Mr. Lycan has arranged for a mu- sical program during the. of courses and Judge C. W. Stanton will give a short talk to the ‘boys at the conclusion of the dinner. recruiting committee, including Of- ficer Clarence wlth the quartet that will furnish ical numwers,-and the speak- George-W. Rhea, r-of the committee, will pre- . The banquet will be about 7:46 o’clock, when ‘the volun- iLeers will be escorted to the high chool for a short program, includ- ng solos by Kern Olson, one of the recruits, and- Burt O’Connor, direc- tor of the Harmony Trio. will also be ten-minute talks by M. J. Brown, A. P. Ritchie, G. M. Tor- rance and Judge Gibbons. adjournment to the Armory, the vol- unteers will be permitted to meet with those of the audience for short informal reception. At the Armory, a dance will be given in honor of the departing boys, for which no admisgion charge will During intermission, there will be a. short program benefit of those who were unable to attend the high school gathering. MILL NO. 2 (CLOSES SEASON; NEW RECORD SGHOOL DOY ARRESTED FOR BBING KAISER'S PALACE Here 'the mén get up their own acts, or if they miss the strenuous exercise of the warship there are horses, punt hing bags, rowing machines and other Interior and e\lenor views of a United States Naval Men's club located abroad. apparatus to keep :them in trim till their leaves are up. Sumehudy Is L etter From Russia, To - Sheriff Johnson Written By Brother, Of Interest One of the most interesting let-{and one was broken down. :ters from the ‘“front” is that just re- eelved by ‘Sheriff Andrew Johnson ~Nalse: (By Unlted ;Press) Chicago, Dec.. now, according to all reports, they dealers .are contronted wlth unload- are doing pretty well. ing 25,000, 000 It is a long way from Samara around by Kief and Moscow and then back to Samara again, especially when the side trips are counted in, some of the side trips taking several days. I have slept in almost every con- ceivable place and all kinds of beds from the open air to the finest kind On depot floors, in box cars, in the corridor of passen- ger coaches, on sofas and once in a great while in a sleeping car berth. All first and second class coaches are compartment cars, ment having two or four berths. When I first came to this country oue could get place cards, entitling the holder to a berth. revolution place cards are not sold and it is first come first served and the devil take the hindmost. is lucky enough to get his baggage in the top berth it means a chance to stretch out and sleep . lower it means sit up and When the compartments are one in the upper and three or four in the lower it means the corridor with the vestibule for the last com- When the corridor ‘was not too crowded I used to fix up a pretty good place to sleep with my suit case, grip and blanket, times there was only room to stand Around Kief the soldiers used to fill the cars so full there was hardly room for passengers and sev- eral times I had to use the window in place of the door to get out or in. 1 had it pretty comfortable from I had a place to 1 was four days -birother, o-Johnson; inome teip: written at Archangel, Russia, dated|ing the rounds. in a month to avoid prosecution for Mr, Johnson is the Lower prices are prob- September 16. representative of a large. manufacturing tractors. is the more interesting as it is a departure from the usual letters re- ceived from the European countries, being from Russia. It is as follows: After the longest run in the his- tory of Mill No. 2, Crookston Lum- ber company, the plant shut down at 3 o'clock this afternoon. the sawing of logs ceased for the and dcfense rested today in the De- Saulles trial. The case will go to the jury before night. State alien- ists were the last witnosses and con- tradicted the defense’s testimony Sept. 16, 1917. of a spring bed. Andrew Johnson, sheriff, Bemidji, Minn. Dear Brother: you several times but have received that does not surprise me any in these times, as mails are not only slow but very un- certain, and while you may written me several times your let- have been lost, may be where the deep sea fish only could reach them, thanks to the Ger- May they all sink. As you see by the heading, I am now pretty well up in the north about the same latitude as when I was up in Alaska but not quite so Still it is rather disagreeable, raining as it does every day. I was sent up here to load some tractors and plows, but I find they have not arrived nor does anybody know when they are coming. they come soon as this is about the most disagreeable place I have struck I was two days finding Now I have a dark back room with hot water for the night and morning . board and furnish my own bed linen For all this discom- fort I pay five rubles per day. I am also the proud possessor of a food card which allows me to pur- chase at exorbitant prices one and one-half Russian pounds of bread per day, one pound of sugar and one- eighth pound of tea per month, be- sides meat, rice, butter, etc. sian pound is 9-10 of an American school boy has been arrested in con- nection with the robbery on Monday of the imperial residence, Wilhelm- shoehe at Cassel. jects of art which were stolen have been recovered. SECRET TREATY MADE PUBLIC BY RUSSIANS Some of the men will go to the Most of the ob- camps, others will be occupied in va- . rious ways around the plant and others will be engaged in various lines for the coming during the win- sible when she shot her husband. But since the The plant has been running night and day since it opened. has exceeded by far any seaosn in When Plant No. 1 burned, its com- man U-boats. panpion mill was speeded up and car- ried the burden of heavy season. London, Dec 1.—A secret treaty between Great Britain, France, Rus- sia and Italy has been given out by the Bolsheviki government, Immense quantities of lumber have been sent to Duluth and cargoed eastward. ders, caused by the war, have been filled and the season has set a new will be held by the Bemidji Elks to- morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Elko theater. Wherever there is a lodge of Elks, there will be similar observance in memory of ‘absent brothers.” ing to a Petrograd dispatch to the It comprises the terms on which It.aly entered Great Britain, France and Russia agree to Italy annexing the Tren- tino, the Southern Tyrol, Isrtia, Dal- matia, certain islands in the Gre- cian archipelago and the territory in Asia Minor and Africa. The machinery for plant, No. 1, is being set as rapldly ‘as possible and will be ready for the opening of the sawing season next cellent program has been arranged The presiding officer will be F. 8. Lycan, past exalted ruler, Exalted Ruler E. A. Barker being in service on the battleship The memorial address will be made by James A. Quigley of St. Cloud and the general public is cordially in- vited. XV of the treaty is reported to read a room here. “France, Great Britain and Russia take .upen themselves Italy in her:disallowing representa- tives of the Holy See to take any diplomatic steps for the conclusion of peace or regarding matters per- taining to the present war.” NEW_YORK PAPER REPORTS KERENSKY ARRES A bed like a Samara up here. sleep every night. and four nights on the road. Stop- ped over two days in Petrograd. brought my trunk along and check- ed it as far as Petrograd. got ready to leave for Archangel I went down to the station to have it Thought I could do the same as back home, just go info the baggage office and turn in my check and receive another. to take it out, hire a porter await my turn. and covering. Russia Are Near Revolt (By United Press) New York, Dec. 1.—The New York Times fodav printed a report of the arrest of Kerensby at Vladmir. SCANDINAVIA WILL OBSERVE NEUTRALITY (By United Press) 1. — Norway, Sweden and Denmark have entered into an agreement to observe the ut- This is the result of the conference between Scandi- navian kings and statesmen, agreed upon Scandinavian neutrality and mutual confidence and exchange of merchandise during the war. AUSTRIA READY FOR Jacobson Tobacco is scarcer grass in the desert of Sahara. finally found a man that for accom- modation sold me two pounds at 15 rubles per pound. the merchants and their clerks think they are doing you a very great fa- vor when they sell and instead of them waiting on you, you have to wait until they ready to serve you. lution nearly all stores are opened for trade from 8 a. m. until noon and then from 3 until 5 or some places Talent” (Davis), Miss Vera Backus. Owing to the fact that the Germans had taken Riga the station was full of refugees and the line was a long one. that if I was to get out that night something would have to be done. So I began looking around for the A ten ruble note did the work and I got my trunk checked in Israel,” Miss Dorothy Torrance. (By United Press) In this country Stockholm, Dec. 1.—Russian prov- inces are on the brink of a Russian Bolsheviki ministers are re- signing, apprehensive of their own safety. Trotsky and Lenine are des- perately striving by merciless perse- Quigley, St. Cloud. you anything, Since the revo- cutions to reach a separate peace with Germany before the deluge. A this certainly is great country as far as nature The richest kind of a separate peace would mean the be- ginning of a Russia-wide civil war. This story was brought here today by a Minimilist courier from Pet- rograd. He says the Russian people are rising up to stamp out the Bol- Several ministers have re- signed in protest of Bolsheviki ex- emissaries beat most neutrality. . m. At Archangel, here one must have bread tickets to get any bread with meals in the restaurants. pound ticket on a day’'s rations is good for two meals. have dared to eat so far. a meal at the Kaiserhoff or Schie‘g's back in Minneapolis. everyth_ing in abundance. methods and a few American lead- ers to teach these people things, viz: how to work when it is time to work and smoke and argue when it is the proper time. That is all I; two Minlmalist leaders on a public 3 o PR R TR A © .. (By ‘United Press) AN ENEMY ALIEN ‘Washington, Dec. 1.—Congress, o, which opens next week, is all primed Washington, Dec. 1.—What to ask’ the officials running the war is an enemy alien? g - || numerous questions regarding the Here is the definition given war policies -of the United States, by the department of justice: war laws and future war measures. S—— “All natives, citizens, deni- Congressmen arriving this morn- zens or subjects of the hostile ing state: their constituents have N government being males of the been asking those questions and oth- age.of 14. years and upward er questions. and not actually naturalized in Congressmen will attempt to as- the United States.’ (At pres- certain what steps have been taken ent the .only hostile: govern- toward repayment of money loaned ment is the imperial German Russia. government). ‘Why pneumonia and other ail- — “German born children ‘of ments are prevalent among the men naturalized Germans are not in cantonments. enemy aliens, provided natur- What about the secret agreement alization of parents was com- between Secretary of State Lansing pleted Dbefore the children and Viscount Ishii with regard to reached maturity. Otherwise China without consulting China. they are enemy aliens, unless "~ Thesé and old issues of the suff- naturalized .themselves. i rage question, conservation, the cen- “American born children of sorship, prohlbitlbn of a free press — German citizens residing in the |[and war expenditures foreshadow a United States are not enemy long congressional session. aliens, unless before maturity “Wealth conscription is lining up they became naturalized in against bond advocates in the ex- Germany. pected drive against wealth. “Naturalization of enemy al- The administration forces favor iens cannot be completed dur- additional bonds. A clash over the ing the period of the war. conscription of ' excess profits is ex- “German born children pf pected. e American citizens temporarily A measure (o prevent barring pub- residing in Germany are mnot lications from the mails before a full enemy aliens. If, however, hearing in a regular court is plan- residence is perman- ned. This is an echo of the admin- istration giving Postmaster General Burleson the power of a czar over parents’ ent in Germany the offspring must have established by suit- able action citizenship in the the newspapers of the country, to do United States. ' with as he personally pleases. “Native, citizen, denizen or subject of the German empire is an cnemy alien even though he has taken out first papers in the United States or has been « naturalized in apy-other coun- try.” Yo “PIONEER”. WELCOME, ~SAYS-GLEN HARDING y A post card written by Glen Hard- STATE CAANS% DEFENSE RESTS: ing to the Pioneer asks that the ad- T0 JURY TONIGHT dress of his paper be cImngch to (By United Press) read: Mineola, L. I, Dec. 1.—The state “Private Glen 8. Harding, com- 4 Y pany A, care of Company C, Tenth engineers (forestry) American expe- ditionary forceg, Postmaster, New York, N. Y.” The card wag wrlthten at a Y. M. 5 8 A. headquarters, the card bearing that-Mrs. DeSaulles was not respon the printed notatfon+On-Active Ser-w. vice, With the American Expedi- tionary Force.”” It was dated “Somewhere in France” on Novem- “LonfiE 0F SORROWH hm‘l‘Afifn ‘t‘:ger‘;)&é the Pioneer as reg- BY ELKS SUNDAY; :;lvl:l::l(ymtz!mt(fnl:a:; l?:slzgztte?u;s“e(llli’i’ts Then follows the instructions UIGLEY IS ORA‘I‘OR about the change of address. The letter is started *‘Greetings to All” and asks the Pioneer to give the writer's regurds to all. EARLY GERMAN DEFEAT T IN EAST £ AFRICA SEEN London, Dec. L—-The end of the East African campaign before Christ- mas is predicted by the Reuter cor- respondent at Ndara. He declares that by that time the German com- mander-in-chief will either be a prisoner or in exile. SO The program is as follows: Selection—Harmony Trio. Song—America. ot Opening ceremony—Elks. Invocation—Rev. L. P. Warford. The annual ‘“lodge of sorrow’ For the services tomorrow an ex- Massachusetts. Quartet—Raymond Hannah, Kern Olson, Dr. D. F. McCann and C. M. Reading—"“The Man With One ue aver Vocal selection—‘‘Fear Not O Ye _— (By United Press) E— Washington, Dec. 1.—The national fuel administration is investigating a plan to close all the public schools 1in the northern and central states during January and February, to conserve fuel. ANOTHER FOR UNCLE SAM Ernest Fortier, assistant cashier of the First State Bank of Blackduck, has enlisted in the quartermaster’'s department and left Friday noon for Duluth. Memorjal address — James A. Selection—Harmony Trio. Selection—Quartet. Closing ceremony—Elks. Doxology. i Benediction. Song—Star Spangled Banner. GERMANY GIVES UP REGAINING GROUND (By United Press) “ONLY VlCTORY,”TEUTON — London, Dec. 1.—Germany has ap- wresting back the positions General Byng recently won from them. Gen- eral Haig’s reports this morning do I have done considerable traveling since I landed in this country. Some- thing like 20,000 versts. not say that there is much pleasure in traveling in this country j I made a big trip of inspec- tion or rather a trip around to see how our tractors were getting along.|the Spaniards. not say that the average Russian is very industrious. sooner drink tea and smoke cigar- And everything is done in such a slow, old fashioned Actually the Russian people the times than He says, “Free Russia vul,l never consent to a separate peace. A counter revolution with violent wivil war is imminent. He would much PEACE, SAYS PREMIER (By United Press) 1.—A Central News ettes than work. America’s Greatest Aid. 1.—America’s greatest aid to Russia now would be a re- London, Dec. are farther behind dispatch todav says Premier Seidler parently abandoned allv ho?e ‘nf VIEW OF THE ENTENTE not mention renewed attempts last (By United Press) night. Berlin, Dec. 1.—“It is absurd to F e imagine Germany will enter a peace REVENUE STAMPS ARRIVE conference with large aims,”” War Postmaster A. P. Ritchie today re-|Minister Keuhleman told the Reich- ceived a supply of revenue stamps,|stag. ‘If the entente want to know the first to arrive in Bemidji. There|our conditions the way out is sim- have been many requests for the|ple, but the entente wants only vic- stamps. tory.” The most of them were shape as the mechanics could not start them until I arrived. two I found working in good shape, statement of all allied war aims, in simple, unmistakable language, said Russian Conferee Maklakoff to the inter-allied conference today. told the Austrian parliament that Austria is ready to negotiate a gen- eral peace without territorial economic violations. But if ever these people get set- (Continued on last page) va PAasa