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

YOU CAN'T of alcohol. . about three miles form the city and " bagk to Bemidji. -~ BOOZE: CAPTURE - WASSPECTACULAR © Accused Ret;uses to Halt and Road- Way js. Blocked When Car is \ Opened Up. WAIVES® EXAMINATION; HELD TO GRAND JURY IN $2,000 Indian Agent Chief Also Captures Blackduck Booze Patriot With N :’}fi;ge Stock-of Whisky. 1t took - P.°Brandt; head of the dian agents, and Indian Agent W. . - Johnson to capture red handed Louis Strawbridge, for a long time recognized in booze cirgles of Be- midji as the “king bee,” and when the federal officers pounced upon him Saturday afternoon they captured a powerful six-cylinder Buick' car, four quarts of whisky and four gallons Strawbridge went to the county jail and the car and dooze confiscated. _ Hé waived examination in a hear- ing before Judge Simons and was held in $2,000 bonds to appear be- fore the Federal grand jury. Spectacular Arrest. - The arrest of Strawbridge was spectacular. -- Brandt and Johnson had been keeping a lookout to “bag’’ him and on Satl\rday went out on the road leading to where = Straw- briage sides, a few miles west of Bemidji. Brandt took his station Johnson proceeded further om. It had been arranged so that when Strawbridge came up in his big car from Bemidji, Brandt was to order him to halt and upon failure to do so, Brandt was;to fire his revolver and Johnson was to throw. a heavy log across the road in the ‘path of the oncoming car., .-~ b et i Brandt’s Reckoniing’ : True to the reckoning of Brandt, Strawbridge hove in sight and Brandt stepped out and ordéred him to stop. The expected happened, for Strawbridge threw the car wide open and it jumped into a 60-mile speed, passing Brandt like a pay car going past a tramp. - Brandt pulled the trigger of his gun, there was a sharp bark, the heavy log landed across the road further away, smash went the big car into the log and off the road and Federal Agent Johnson had Strawbridge just where he wanted ‘him. Brandt was quickly on the scene and the whole works was brought When the Stockholm gambling and booze joint on Second street in Bemidji was recently pulled three times, Brandt got it twice in a week and when he made arrests each time. he asserts, he was informed that Strawbridge was the power behind the throne in maintaining the Stock- holm. Woe in- Blackduck. There was woe in Blackduck Sat- urday and Sunday, also, for Ernie La- Barge failed -to arrive.on schedule laden with booze for the bunch of parched pitriots in that ‘neck o’ the woods.” - The reason for the fail- ure on the part of LaBarge was Chief Brandt of the Indian agents when he boarded a train here from the Twin Cities at an early hour and captured Mr. LaBarge, like- wise 11% pints of Blue Ribbon whisky. . 4 - The Blackduck citizen had a per- sonally conducted tour on the part of Brandt to the jail and was later arraigned and held in bonds, which he furnished. Frank Cook Held. It would seem that Brandt is dis- turbing the serenity of the wholesale booze game in this vicinity, for it was only a few days ago that he \ Doors of 166 Saloons In-St. ~LouisCounty CloseMarch 15 Duluth, March 11.—Doors of 166 saloons in St. Louis county will close on March 15, not to reopen as the result of the county op{ion elec- tion on September 10, 1917. Shipments of liquor into the coun- ty also must cease March 15, because of the Public Safety commission’s order forbidding shipmentss of liguor into dry territory. This order, the commission has ruled, applies to any territory becoming dry after the date of the order, as well as those which were dry when the order was made This will make St. Louis county “bone dry.” Towns that will come under the “hone dry’’ ban and the number of saloons in each ar Virginia, 45: Buhl, 9; Iron Mocun 3; Eveleth, 30; Gilbert, 12; Biwabik, 12; Au- - .chant, in Bemidji with a quart of ‘him and he is held in $1,000 bonds U.S. Notified GET TODAY'S NEWS “bagged” Frank Cook, a Nebish mer- booze in his possession. Cook was at the Red Lake depot waiting for a train for home, when Brandt took. to the Federal gran Falls. d jury at Fergus Trotsky Has (By United Press) , Washington, March 11.—The: state department toglay received from Stockholm a cablegram announcing that Leon Trotsky had resigned from the Bolsheviki cabinet. Trotsky was foreign minister, who, with Premier Lenine, was chief lead- er of the Bolsheviki. ’ MWDONALD IS CHOSEN COUNSEL BY INDIANS Deer River, Minn., March 11.—The White Oak and ‘Winnibigoshish bands of the Chippewa Indians held a big council at Ball Club lake, which closed Maren 2, at which they or- ganized a separate council from other bands for the purpose of seeking legislation for the betterment of themselves. They appointed as their legal ad- visors C. M. King of Deer River and E. E. McDonald of Bemidji. Both atturnéys were present at the coun- cil meetings. James A. Watkonabo, an educated Indifin, was elected sec- retary of the council. AMERICANS AND FRENCH RAID WIDELY SEPARATED FRONTS (By United Press) With the American army in France March 11.—American and Frencl soldiers, operating together, conduct- ed successfully a raid on a widely separated front, demolishing German trenches at three points on a width of a hundred meters and to a depth of 300 meters. American artillery aided and completely demolished one section of trenches. Seven prisoners were taken. rora, 12; Towner, 6; Ely, 30; Win- ton, 4; Brookston, 3. It is estimated that about 20 sa- lrons went® out of business within the last six months, the remainder closing March 15, whether their li- censes have expired or not. Viola- tions of the order to close saloons and cease the sale of liquor will be prosecuted without mercy,” said Warren Greene, county attorney. The order must be observed strict- ly. That is the attitude of the coun- ty attorney’s office on the matter. “Violators will find no clemency in our department. We will ask the court to give jail or work farm sen- tences rather than finés to violators of the law. We mean business in connection with the closing and keeping closed of saloons throughout St. Louis county.” The French mitrailleyse has proved very effective 1n .driving back the Gerian troop: an advancing line., This photograph shows French soldiers in a captured trench- firings \Baker Arrives PROHIBITION' REDUCES COUNTY JAIL INMATES NEARLY 75 PER CENT . . —_ Sioux Falls, 8 D., March-11.— State-wide prohibition “has made a wonderful difference in the number of inmates of the Law- rence. county jail at. Deadwood. Under, old conditions, when' sa- loons were doing business, it was nothing -uncommon . for 25 or 30 men to be in the county jail at one time. At the present time there are only eightT inmates, five of them federal prisoners. At one. period since state-wide prohibi- tion went into effect the number was_reduced to two, and for a considerable period the number was kept at three and four. SOCELIST AND N.P. LEADER CHOSEN-HEAD NEW NATIONAL PARTY Chicago, March 11=—David C. Coates, formerly lieutenant governor of Coierado, an active figure in the Socialist party and one of the found- ers of the Nonpartisan league, was made chairman of the National party at the fital session of its first con- vention here. as that. of all other officers, was without dissension and the ticket as finally adopted carried a representa- tion of all of the several parties am- algamated with the new organiza- tion. Definite action came after an all-day grind of discussion with only a small number of the delegates re- maining. During the day a consti- tution was adopted and means of bringing about an influx of new members was taken up. J. A. H. Hopkins, formerly New Jersey state chairman of. the Pro- gressive party, ‘was elected chairman of the“executive committee and first vice chairman of the party. Other officers: elected were: Second vice chairman, Miss Marie C. Brehm, Long Beach, Cal.; secre- tary, Clarenee.E. Pitts, Chicago, and Wwilliam F. Cochran, Baltimore, treasurer. Two additional vice chair- men will be elected by the executive committee: . Ira Landrith of Ten- nessee was named chairman of the advisory committee. An equal representation of men and women was made by the con- vention in puisuance of its policy to make equal suffrage one of the main planks .of its platform. More than fifty women attended the convention. THREE MORE ENLIST; LEAVE FOR TRAINING Corporal Clarence Foucault, local recruiting officer, reports the fol- lowing have . enlisted and left this noon for Duluth, enroute to Jeffer- son barracks: Conrad Grinde, Be- midji; Edward Mon and James R. Evereitt, both of Akeley. Mr. Grinde joined the Twentieth engineers and the two latter the coast artillery. LOGGING AT RED LAKE PROGRESSING RAPIDLY John Moberg, who has the con- tract for the logging on the Red Lake reservation for the Backus- Brooks people, was in Bemidji today and stated that operations were go- ing along in great shape. There are about 400 men employed on the work, which is the timber re- cently sold by the government at public sale, and Mr. Moberg says the work will continue through this summer and also next winter. The logs are being shipped to the mills at International Falls for sawing. His ‘election, as well | ~ GERMANS AND JAPS (By Joseph'Shaplen) © Unjted Pregs.Correspondent . Petrograd, March 12.—The Rus- sian gpvernmeht is moving in war prepnrntiou_.‘J Tom_onjrow, the first step will be taken in organizing re- sistance on all fronts, says an offi- cial announcement today, The Bol- she_viki expect to fight both Germany and Japan. i The Bn{él{eviki congress has dis- carded the name “Social .Revolution- ists” and adapted the name Commu- nist Party,’on account 6f not wish- ing to have any ’aiml}lnr]ty with the German party by that name, which is leaded by Phijllip Scheidemann. An agreement has been signed with the Finnish Red Guards, offset- ting the German treaty with the Fin- nish White Guards. In Finland, German police and the military system have been invoked against the people. The newspapers have been suppressed and the work- men’s organization dispersed. Hun- dreds have been arrested and many have been arrested at Esthonia. Violent prosecutions are in vogue in Riga. ADD WAR BENEFITS; “EGG SHAMPOOS IN BEMIDJI DISAPPEAR “ There are - ‘horrors’ of war and are benefits of war, and [ Wiings have been changing in Bemidji “since father was a boy.” But not any more, rela- .tively speaking, that since the Am- Jarican eagle resented the attempts of Bill ‘Boche to clip its wings and hopped over into Bill's hunting ground to battle with the pride of his barnyard. Not the least outstanding in the disappearance of the egg shampoo, that former tonsorial delight or curse, depending upon the vintage of the shell-incrusted trickle. - The principal cause is the sky high price of the hen fruit. ‘Where formerly patrons of barber shops stood for the application of eggs to sustain the gloss and prolong the life of their silken tresses, con- servation movements, aided by the installation of efficiency, has decreed that the process of taking nourish- ment by having it forced through the .%ind hfis vnmwegl dm;v ‘mitrailleuse at tho f( In France To See Sammies ® (By United Press) Siberia Chanzes Base. Tokio, March 11.—After a con- ference of prominent Russians at has been made the temporary head- quarters of the provisional Siberian Paris, Mareh 11.—SBecretary of| o1 s antiquated and without re-|government. —Prince Lvoff is men- War Baker of the United States ar-| gyits. tioned for premier. v rived yesterday and will see Presi- Not only has the public rebelled ‘-—7——""‘ against the egg shampoos, but the gentlemen of white vests and pretty smelling applications have evidently -} decjded-that the former‘fad.is an un- '| pfofitable venture: . A canvass of Bemidji barber shops reveals an eggless era such as thes- pians of yesterday had:prayed would some day exlst. CONGRESS TO SPEED UP BEFORE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WAR (By -United Press) , Washington, March 11.—Congress wantg the first anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the war, April 6, to find all major war measures off the slate. Hence- forth, dallying will ‘be the exception rathey than the rule. Diligence will be applied. . : 4 ANNUAL MEETING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB . The ‘“‘Get. Together” luncheon of the Commercial club will be held at the I. 0. O. F. hall tomorrow eve- ning a6 otoek und pronices ¢ be| TW() AMERICAN FLIERS ARE KILLED IN ACTION members of the city council who are (By Uniwed Press) not members of the Commercial club, have been given a special in- vitation to be present. All business With the American armies afield, March 11.—W. J. Winters of Chi- cago, serving in the French aviation men and others interested in the activities of the club and who may corps, was killed in an air flight Fri- day night. He fell within the Ger- contemplate becoming members of man lines. the club will be welcome to attend. Editor Will Wilkie of Gray Thomas Hitchcock, Westburn, L. 1., a member of the LaFayette es- Eagle will be present to address the gathering immediately following the cadrille, disappeared while pursuing an enemy plane toward the German lupcheon hour. The club will ad- rear lines. dent Poincare of France and Premier Clemenceau, and then visit the Am- s at-the front. e 1. NO ALARM NECESSARY ON THE GAS SUPPLY There need be no alarm felt om the fuel situation in Bemidji, so far as the supply of gas for lighting, heating and cooking is concerned, for the Bemidji Gas company today re- ceived a shipment of 11,000 gallons of oil used in the manufacture of gas. It came over the Soo Line and was unloaded today. D. A. Frerichs, manager of the plant and systems. said today that the outlook for the coming season was roseate. He stated that already a large number orders for con- nections had beem: received, await- ‘ing the opening of-the- season, aud that many others were taking up the question of using gas in tlreir homes. REPORT BRITISH PREMIER TO RESIGN IS DENIED L.ondon, March 11.—Rumors to the effect that Premier Lloyd George was about to resign are denjed here. Baker Carrving Cheer. Washington, March 11.—8ecretary Baker is in France carrying word to the American fighters that the nation is basking them heartily and the war department doing its best to support them, according to war- de- partment explanations. Baker will talk personally to the officers. FORMER GERMAN AMBASBAD&R IS GRANTED SAFE (ANDUCT (By United Press) Buenos Ayres, March 11.—Eng- land has granted safe conduct to Holland for Count von Luxburg, for- mer German ambassador, but has re- fused to allow a German physician to accompany him. BEMIDJI DEFEATS CROSBY; SCORE 43-28 Saturday evening at Crosby, in one of the.best “gyms” in the state, the Bemidji high school five won from Crosby 43 to 28 in a fast, well- played game. The splendid teamwork and drib- bling of the- Bemidji players were again features of the game and their basket shooting was deadly. Deer- ing of Crosby was the referee and his officiating ,as well as the fine treat- ment accorded them by the Crosby players and spectators, is highly praised by the Bemidji boys who made the trip. Friday evening the Wadena quin- tet will be here for the last game on the locals’ schedule. This should prove a good game as Wadena is the only team that can boast of having won from Bemidji this season, the score at Wadena being 19 to 16 in favor of Wadena. However, the Be- midji players were handicapped by the very small floor and the low ceil- ing at Wadena and have no inten- tion of losing the game here Friday. Brainerd, having defea‘sd Little Falls at Brainerd Saturday evening by a score of 36 to 8, it is not cer- tain which of those teams Bemidji will have to play for the champion- ship of the district, but the local team is ready and willing to meet whichever team the district com- mittee decides upon. There will also be a girls’ game Friday evening as a curtain raiser and as the Bemidji band is going to be out to help do the honors for Wadena, “some time” is anticipated by local basketball enthusiasts. A subscription list is going to be circulated by the student manager during the week and the amounts subscribed are mot to be collected unless Bemidji wins the champion- ship of the Sixth district and makes the trip to the Carleton tournament. Carleton pays all expenses while at Northfield and also railway fare ;o sub- journ from the hall to the club rooms where¢the annual election of the club’s officers will take place. The annual report of the officers of the club will be presented. The menu for the luncheon is as follows: [Escalloped oysters, au gratin potatoes, dill pickles, loaf corn bread and butter, coffee and cream, ice cream, cigars. Two Naval Aviators Killed: Washington, March 11.—The navy department today announced that two American naval aviators were killed in an aerial conflict in France. e Millions Upon Millions Of Liberty LoanPostersReady stickers, 50,000,000 poster stamps, and 16,000,000 badges have been or- dered and will be ready for the open- ing day of the campaign. Some of the designers of the Lib- erty Loan posters are Howard Chandler Christy, Joseph Pennell, J. C. Leyendecker, Sydney Reisenberg, Herbert Paus, Henry Raleigh and Sydney S. Stern. All contributed their work without pay, and scores of other artists submitted designs which were reluctantly rejected. Popular appeal was considered carefully in the final choice. “We must reach all kinds and classes of persons,” Treasury officials reminded themselves continually. They hope to grip the heartstrings —_and equally the purse strings—of the young and old, the city and coun- Washington, March - 11.—Posters proclaiming the Third Liberty Loan in striking phrases and colorful de- 8igns—9,000,000 of them in more than a dozen styles—now are being distributed to every city and hamlet of~the United States. They are the silent sales agents of the bonds, and their preparation has taken months of planning and care- ful choosing. Hardly had the Second Liberty Loan campaign closed before the country's foremost artists and designers were invited to go to work on posters for the Third loan. The result_is a collection of strik- ing posters, considered artistically and psychologically better than any yet attempted in the two previous drives. Soon they will be familiar sights in store windows, on bill- boards and all public places. a certain distance and these o scriptions are to be used to pay the 5.000.000 Stickers. try bred, the native American and additional expense. In addition, 5,000,000 window the adopted alien. + T 4 — - +- —— | Pekin, it is reported that Harbin '