Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 11, 1918, Page 1

FROMMAJOR YOST mi smm—;_e—o:;d to Duluth| | in the December Report of | Recruiting Distriot. - . | BEATS. CITIES MUCH LARGER | BY WIDE MARGIN OF MEN (BULLETIN) i (By United Press) . . Petrograd, Jan. 11.—It is of- ficially announced today that Minister Trotsky asked suspen- sion of the Brest Litovsk peace negotiations until, the Russians and Ukranians formulated re- ,plies to the Teutons. Grand Total of Recruits f During the Month of Decem [Notifieatfoit was received today. b 4 Clarence F ucault, recruiting officel hfi e!_xarzha do.‘tO the l;engl«é‘j, tation, 3 iy . 4 | -DUTEaY | y that -he had been raised : . By Uni Dress . 31& 8 lergely attended ey “4r. | Of corporel, and the man 4 4 Ry '(d y ;"m"!' reb"l’] . 1" the ‘court house. ' The gkl 0 '} Corporal N“ca&” hbellevq it isi‘:to & Y "?)1‘ nup:;:a é::l:{rerleh_eg o ;::gl s 18 ““’f‘l‘!’ southerd portion’ oo, ey matead: of eturning home. to &:D:f-:l{t p?:umfi o s aotined by . Litovsk “have ended. The Germans : 7 S 4, flatly refused to transfer the nego- othér ‘bureau % £ 4 % ¢ i tthern | f8ce -certain death' or imprisonment| Major JI..D. ¥ost, Minneapolis, d 3 1o ROTISID| 1y at once enlisted In the French army. | chargo lof, fecruiting. it yr:iolgfl - {6018 of an explolt of Bergt.| iations fo neutral soll. - Minister ral weeks a rep- He 15 now attached to the corps of in-| Minnesots: and Northern Wisconsin. iof .the Itallan’ Bersagllerl. | |/ "o German delegates said] terpreters and has beea lecturing in| Bemidii’s: Wine Showing.. - patrol he stopped & German | ¢ ey considered all negotiations f Nngiand. e > There also arrived at tiie Bemidji| 5 yrying General von Berrer. | o g);neral peace off anfi wb:.mld cozl: station a report of recruiting. in this J and two chauffeurs.. He | sider only a separate peace with Rus- et il district for ‘the month of December.|'killed e general with the first shot|sia, on account of the failure of the fs N (o onaiva todaral The district includes Duluth, and Be- e soldler-chaulfeurs to fiight: | entente allies to respond within ten or the s midji stands second to that .large tant, a German captain, he|days as the Germans demanded. city in- the number of recruits sent after a struggl d t e od General Hoffman, German dele- to Unele Sam, and the first of the §'e, and. turn/ gate, ‘bitterly protested against the stations outside of Duluth. to the nearest Itallan com-| .\ gsiang sending messages to the Duluth enlisted 218 gt the re- ind then jolned his cycle patrol | German people urging revolution,” cruiting office, and the five men sta-| r rear-guard action. He was| tioned there secured 38 for thef déd later and sent to a hospital month, making a total of 258. in'Milsx; His most extraordinary and District Statio-s. daring feat took place &t the gates of In this district, the sub-stations| Udine during the Italian retreat to the s are Virgnia, Superior, Hibbing, Ely,| Plave. peition carrying the it of a fedéral farm bureau agent _to assist the farmers in the county p o solying their el . B J on follows: Russia Will Fieht. Petrograd, Jan. 11.—‘“Russia will not agree to the peace devised by the t, Frohn. s Ashland, International Falls, Brain- W. Ellis, I“ |c - ' ' erd, Bast Grand Forks and Bemidji. 1 .vgg-;rgs—;willhm Len- i i e SRl T 19, 'é: BUSINESS MEN TO 2 o 3 ‘e.“o- “MM?::;&B::““” the board of directors, together with -, 5§ -~ ATTEND: ADVERTISING |- CONVENTION, ST.PAUL|- £ the Federated < 3 - Fariers: %&}gfi‘ - Milter;=Bets |« Chicago,- Jan,11:==Thewinter! *s-recruits: arersent to"the ‘D= trami County Fair. assoclation; Dr.|sreatest storm prevails today in the| luth station, whence they.are sent @M. Palmer, - president-ot the-Bel- middle west. There 18 intense suf-|.to Jefferson barracks.. i trami County Public Safety commis- fering reported, also heavy damage. The grand total of recruits for E. H. Winter, Bemidji Commer- | The snow is adding millions to win-| the district accepted during Decem- cial’‘club, and A. E. Rako, of the ter wheat and oats, however. ber is 662. board of county commissioners. The storm center is in Oklahoma F. B. Lamson, secretary of the and there are six inches of snow in Commeercial club, presided at the Northgrn Texas and Oklahoma and session. snow in Galveston, Texas. ORAVIA ASK REPUBLIC tion which will be held in the Saint|recorded by Swift & company, pack- F % P The temperature is 22 at Corpus . (By United Press Paul hotel at St. Paul, January 22|rs, for the flscal year ending with The BeltrA;mi Ctoll‘::tymlie‘ca?l: asso- Onristi, Tex., gnd the Bold.est s‘l’(o" Amsterdam, - Jar 11.,L1t was|and 23. The convention urges rep- September, 1917. The .profits given clation also held its annual meet-|y t[l;e Ul;llted mt.ates 1z Devils Laie. learned today that:Czech leaders otlresentatives from advertising clubs, ) 8¢ equivalent to. 44,60 per cent on ing, . doing’ 80 for. the reason therefionino’ 3\; g‘; W ezell:nercury 18 regis-| gjlesia and Moravia met at Prague commercial clubs, churches, newspa 1lekc0mpflnys $100,000,000 capital jas a large representation of farm- SHNE: < 90 and demanded’a Czech republic. TheleB. merchants, bankers, manufac-,Stock. R St gorerument, 16 exhibitine alarm and| {7 o0 e wao have signiied 1 t. o1 - President—Nels Willet. : SRR , E. H. u, W. N. Bowser, R. First vice pres. : llEhme}g‘k:}s x FOUR ALLEGED Boolfi FUEL mER ISSUED i[;s](?)lvre‘\lfi.c'z.wfi Jl)e’::;:l" lg:\:l{l c&’fi"l: “AY AND STRAW HERE Sécond vice pres—A b ‘Washington, Jan. 11.—The first|G. D. Backus, O. J. La the 'board of cCounty commissioners . D. , 0. J. qua, F. G. and the presidents of the units of the SELLERS FROM KEL”“ER Federation of Farmers' clubs. Secretary—Bueford M. Gile. ARE 35 PER CENT FOR i S > A large numlber io( Bemidji busi- Chicago, Jan. 11.—Net profits far ness men ar lannin tendi 3 . — 8 LEADERIVS( OF SILESIA AND I Hy g1 on attending surpassing all previous records were the Minnesota Advertising conven- BASKET SOCIAL AT PONY : LAKE SCHOOL TOMORROW A basket social will be held in the Pony Lake school house tomor- -ow for the benefit of the Red Cross. #enry Funkley will be the speaker day and the school children vlil give a program. On Decem- iber: 22, $6 was given to the Red Cross by the Liberty Farmers’ club and on January 2 at the farmers’ meeting, a coat and hammer were sold which netted $12.50, which was also given to the Red Cross. (By United Press) Washington, Jan. 11.—It is be- lieved .that Germany will agree to only four or five of the fourteen points of the president’s peace terms. This is-based upon preliminary Teu- tonic pres comment. £ Washington, Jan. 11.—Woman | suffrage by federal constitutional N given by the high school se- niors, stated that ‘‘cards’” were played when it should have been ‘“games.” And then, in order to do a real good job while we were about it, we in- formed our readers that the total resources of the consoli- dated First and Peoples State bank would be $90,000 when it should have been three quar- ters of a million. As Noonan says: ‘It is these things that make editing a newspaper about ag safe as giv- ing three cheers for the kaiser at a loyalty meeting.” order for curtailment of the con-|Troppman, Alex Shavitch and Abe| Seven carloads of. hay and straw sumption of fuel in industry Wwas|Grossman. . arrived in Bemidji today and will be = tor Garfield, directing .all manufac-|gtarts eac i . ’ . . Treasurer—A. P._Ritchie. When Deputy Sheriff 0. M. Skin-| turers of paper board to suspend ab- t;nd 8 Mh morni r;{; at .9.3li‘oclock der the Pdireictlon'of the Be:traml Executive committee—Nels Wil-| ; lutely the i ¢ tuel in thef nd continues until 5 o'clock in the|County Public Safety commission. vik landed in Bemidji this forenoon|solutely the Wse of fuel 1in eir| arternoon, allowing but twenty min-| The feed will be sold to consumers A. P. Ritchie. illegal booze sellers in tow and all| morning and the same hour Monday h P ¢ e t speakers in the nation Finance committee—A. P. White,{ yero held to the grand jury in bonds| morning. i grom non i : i k ; ave been secured. In addition to B T R. H. Schumaker, H. C. Baer, Leto¥|of $500 each, the charge being sell- e e saon: 2 NEVY yo{fifl%‘.d mls:?w'r Two of the accused are from Kel- INE ¢ for each- of the seven departmental|viki have suspended the payment of liher. They are John B. Anderson PRES“)I: TS TERMS sessions, which provide for a study|private company dividends and pro- and N. J. Nielsen. of retail advertising, direct mail ad-|hibited stock transactions, pending man Morrow, who presided over what is known as the Midway club, about vertising, financial advertisi six or seven miles north of Kelliher. TEUTONIC COMMENT v‘lgflami' work. stz and proprietor, manager, bartender and -l 3 e THIEF RIVER_EDITOR general dispenser of booze,l 4 SEATTLE'S MAYOR BARRED CONFESSES EXPERIENCES Henry Powell was another who B H FROM STATE LAW FRACTICE (Thief River Falls Times) charge, about }1 miles north of Kel- liher. His place of business was not Gill, mayor of Seattle, has been ahout as pleasant as the ex- distinguished by any nom de plume, harred by the state board of bar ex- periences of the following aminers from practicing law in the editor will prove. Last week had a parched throat when in that : vicinity. The decision was reached following|| in a cellar where he hadn't e | COAL, FAMINE DANGER a hearing of charges that the mayor been near and had never work- PAST. SAYS PREDU"TION| allowed the law firm of Gill, Hoyt|| ed around. ing police court business. of the Spooner News found it S Similar sentences were imposed convenient to keep off the government operation sufl’il;flen!l}; to| upon Herbert R. Hoyt and Herman streets of his hustling city sim- o ° bt l s t guarantee that there will be no fur- 27 4-13 6’ Dou n ena e ther coal famine in any part of the|ners, who were charged with solicit- wrong man in the court trial. country this winter, Director Gen-|ing legal business in violation of a About the same time “Bill" S state law. Noonan of the Baudette Re- gress convened, and Representative Sith, assistant in charge of trans- Simms of Tennessee, just out of a portation on eastern lines. N marry the girl in the case off sick bed and hardly able to walk to Local shortages will ve inevitable to the best man. ) NiEh 3 ctl the required mal, Last week The Times, in re- nuerw}&ha:;;at};ve votes. settled the issue. i\]“‘t Smlt.h sultq, :n;t ’;n(itha;ionislla;c hat no important industries w e While members in their seats and) g, -hotsxggafizrdnl‘;'ubhtggl'adjourned forced to shut down because of lack N0w FOUR CGRNERED Today the race for city assessor be- MEAT ?%OBE T0 NPEN came a four-cornered affair, for Wil- given last night by Fuel Administra-| ~The two-day progra arranged | distributed from the City Livery un-) let, A. E. Rako, Bueford M. Gile and|¢rom Kelliher he had four alleged| plants betweén 7 o'clock Saturday|ytes for lunch. Some of the moet|at cost. Elwell and Charles Schroeder. ing liquor without a license. detailed program has been arranged| Petrograd, Jan, 11.—The Bolshe- Another of the quartet was Nor- \J g vertising, community advertising,|the 1t 1 ) g, nationalization of business. ho’l‘ AL[‘ FAVORABLE’ newspaper advertising, church ad-| Morrow is said to be the whole club, did business, according to the Seattle, Wash., Jan. 11.—Hiram C. Editing a newspaper is just but it is asserted no one need have state of Washington for one year. the editor had a man injured 2 fi and Frye to use his name in solicit- About a week ago the editor House Votes Su rage By l Washington, Jan. 11.—The rail- e € i road situation has improved under S. Frye, the mayor’s former part- ply because he convicted the eral McAdoo was informed by A. H. gion proceeded gleefully to amendment won in the house last ! by his seat, brought the votes which |unde rexisting abnormal conditions, RACE FOR ASSESSER porting a certain little party throngs in the galleries waited with before the suffrage champions be-|of fuel, and householders will be ST. PAUL ON MONDAY | liam Chichester on Thursday start- eager interest the -nouse had adopt- ] ied r bly well. t o3 by vote of 274 to 136 a resolu- gan their fight for favorable action |supplied reasonal v wel 7 A on the senate side of the capitol. Re- e tion providing for admission to the ~| cent polls there have indicated that states of the so-called Susan B. An dment for national en- the necessary two-thirds vote could thonymumen tm & women. not be mustered,’ but encouraged by franchisement o ' the house victory and counting up- Spneaker Saves the Dayv. on the influence of President Wil- which ends February 19. But for the promise of the speaker|son, who came to their support, the|J. Heney, special counsel, have gone| The entry of Mr. Chichester to cast his vote from the chair for|suffragists hope to bring the senate|to St. Paul where hearings will be-|should make the scramble interest- therresolution if it was needed, the|into line so as to have tHe amend- | gin Monday, in the Federal Trade|ing. He is a well known young man motseing]e vote to the oppo-| ment before the state legislatures|commission’s investigation into the|and manager of Birchmont Beach gjon “would have meant defeat, Re-|during the coming year. They feel| meat packing industry. Other mid-) summer hotel. Pelilican Leader Mann, who came|sure of at least forcing a vote in.the| dle western towns probably will be The other starters in the race for s Balttmore hospital, where he|senate before the present session|visited when the §t Paul hearings| assessor are H. E. Palmer, J. P, Lahr Deen, under treatment since con-'ends, are concluded, and M. F. Cunningham. ed his petition to place his name in Washington, Jan. 11.—Commis- nomination for the officlal race sioner Joseph E. Davies and Francis - ANS REFUSE TODISCUSSTERMS ON NEUTRAL SOIL; RUSSIANSAROUSED German ‘imperialists. She will 'fight to the 'bitter end and'will rely up- on the plain people of the Central powers to rise up and aid in inter- national peace.” So ‘declared Minister Trotsky at Brest ;Litovsk ;and fervid war prep- arations at Petrograd is the result, Trotsky insisted upon transterring -lurther, pepce negotiations to Stock- holm. The war office is displaying siiddén energy here. It is admitted the Bolsheviki “are nttempting 4o re- defense guns are being, shipped to Petrograd from the northern front. All officers have been ordered to re- the revolution. Disnatches Confusing, Amsterdam, Jan. lL—%ter the Brests Litovsk dispatches were re- peace negotiations there had been definitely suspended. Another late message this afternoon reports ne- ‘gotiations as resumed, the Ukranians presenting their demands. Whether this means general nego- tiations have been resumed or mere- ly that the Ukranians, now recog- nized as independent, are making. their demands alone is unknown. Noted Berlin Gorrespondent . Lifts The Curtain On What " The United States Is_Facing SWIET COMPAX™ NET PROFITS nT Hditor's note—Frederic William Hale is a former Berlin correspond- ent for the London Daily Mail and considered the best informed jour- London he writes.) ~ (By United Press) By Frederic Willlam Hale Laondon, Jan. 11.—“We stifl thrink from facing the facts in ref- erence to Germany; we prefer com- forting theories to disagreeable ac- tualities. many. General Ludendorf is the ac- tual generalismo under General von tense. hands of the military despot so much by Divine right, but by the grace of the great god Hindenburg. “The reichstag is merely a debat- ing society without powers, except- situation is not critical to the breaking point in Germany."” AMERICAN LABOR INTERESTS SANE AS (By United Press) London, Jan. 11.—“The interests of the working men of America are as England -bound up in defeating . the German army, which cannot be done except hy willing co-operation of men in the workshops and men in the fleld.” ¢ S ) This message was today sent .by Right Honorable Barnes, member of the British war cabinet, to the Am- erican workmen throughout the United States. He was connected with the Social- ist Labor movement for 30 years. DIRECTOR OF THE RED CROSS MAKES EXPENWTURES REPORT (By United Press) g Paris, Jan. 11.—Homer Folks, di- rector of the American Red Cross, to- day issued a report of expenditures to November 1, which showed $2,- 500,000 expended. The budget for the next six months is $8,000,000. It was also stated 60 additional physiclans are needed, slao 320 ad- ditional nurses. orgapize transports for supplies,.and . . turn to ‘the posts they held before - ceived via Berlin, they stated that - nalist on the German inside. 'In ““We still hear the cry of fake Ger- man crisis. General von Hinden- burg is the supreme dictator of Ger- - Hindenburg. Their popularity is in- “The kaiser was never in the - 'as now. He is emperor no -longer ing voting war credits. The food . ENGLAND'S, MESSAGE