Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 3, 1918, Page 1

~ "-l"nformntm of Filter Systems Elsewhere. CITY TAKES JUDGMENT 'AGAINST BOND COMPANY ‘“‘Hog Ordihmcé" is' Drawn; Also Orinance Governing Assault Upon Persons. 1t was_ a long drawn out discus- :sion, the ¢ity council meeting last evening, it being an adjourned ses- ssion to.confer on. the water works _problem at-which F. L. Anders, su- perintendent of the Fargo system, -was present. The windup. was the flppointment of a committee’ consisting of Mayor “Vandersluis, Alderman Garlock and «City BEngineer-Swinson to visit va- -rious cities and inspect the plants in service at those points. Nearly wverybody present had something to »say and at times there were some sharp discussions. * - Lawsuit Looms, . An-echo of-the Kirk shorfage was “heard:in a report by City Attorney Fisk ‘in proceedings by the city to -recover from Kirk’s bond companies rthe amount. of the defalcation. The Title Guaranty & Surety com- #-"-pany was sued for the sum of $1,- "1205.58. " Notice was sent of the in- -gtitution -of the suit but no reply -was received. Judgment was enter- -ed, followed ‘later by a letter from the company. in an. offer to compro- -mise for $950. ~The company was ‘notified that judgment “had’ been ‘taken, the amount totaling $1,150.60. The other' claim is on’ the Massa-) 394‘3 8- 396 90, . total 51,044 78. -principal the com,pnny oflgrefl to com -promise for $750: Lawyets: representing - -panies 'wera in -Bemidji in an en- /deavor to effect a:€ompromise, basing ,.claims on the éity’s:carelessness and .other points, “City Attorney Fisk r: ~marked to the council that if the " .companies owed 'the city'a cent they owed the entire sum claimed. 'Thej attorneys mentioned the possible cost of “litigation should the, city -sue for the amounts claimed, but Judge Fisk politely informed. them that they couldn’t scare-anybody with that line f ~‘bringing suit nding - companies was iscussion. -and -action. .. Bemidji is to soon follow the cus- tom in many other cities in the mat- ter of colleéting 'its water rental, the bills to be made out to the owner of the property served and who will ‘be -held responsible for the payment of the service. As is now in vogue, the renter of property is the one to & pay the bills and frequently he will move without paying a cent and the city lose the revenue. It is the in-| tent of the city ‘to hereafter get what is coming to it . and a resolu- - tion was read. New Hog Ordinance. Another interesting feature of the meeting was the reading of an or- dinance for_the first time, which is for the regulation of swine keep- ing within the corporate limits of the city. The ordinance allows keeping of hogs by private individuals in sections sparsely settled, but forbids the keeping of hogs on the shores of the lake: ~~There has always been an ordi- < mance that has been afforded protec- tion to those guilty -of assault in @ither first. or second degree, the penalty being only a fine of $25 and not to exceed 30 days in jail. = It doesn’t jibe with the state statute and the council heard the-first read- ing of a new ordinance, corrected to conform with the statutes and which provides a penalty of not more than three months in jail nor to exceed a fine of $100. —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— AUSTRIA- HUNGARIAN CRISIS IS GROWING SERIOUS DAILY (By United Press) Zurich, May 3.—Dispatches today state that the Austria-Hungarian situation is growing more serious daily. Workers are being organized against Baron Burian and Count Tisza. . —MAKE W.S.5. PLEDGES— GERMANY AGAIN FEELS PINCH : RATIONS FACING REDUCTION (By_United Press) - --Copenhagen, May 3.—It is report- ed-that Food Controller Waldo told the German reichstag food committee that rations of meat; potatoes and | ‘bread would soon be reduced. | —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCFS—- § [ ‘SHAH OF PERSIA TO B $100.000_OF T. S BONDS ‘Washington, May 3.—The Shah of Persia has applied for $100,000 of Liberty bonds. The reguest reached the state department from Minister Caldwell at Teheran. 5 »torce thefr: provisions;; were was taken in the Purc de leme, St. bluu LIBERTY LOAN CLIMBS: ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT (By United Press) ‘Washington, May 3.—With ' two days remaining of the Liberty Loan campaign, the quota is short omly $162,000,000° of the $3,000,000,000. HAKEWSS PLEDGES— . ENGLAND PROCEED WITH IRISH HOME RULE (By United Press) London, May . 3.—The London Cehronicle gays the government is dpgerminqfl to proceed with Irish home rule. ay ‘violating orders of ‘the ~ Minnesota Public Safety commission,-which will make it pogsible for the courts to. en- dopted it ‘a'special order passed by the com- missfon. Herétofore there Has been no way of, enforcing. the commis- sion’s‘orders except through local or- dinances, The-new. order, No. 33, reads: “Any person violating or refusing or failing to obey any order of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, heretofore or hereafter made, in’ wh.ch. no other punishment is specifically provided, shall be- guilty of -a misdemeanor and shall be pun- ished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or by a fine of not more than $100.” AKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— HUGE TROOP ‘MOVEMENT ‘Washington, May 3.—It was offi- cially announced today that the May movements of troops to fill gaps abroad will exceed the April move- ments by a large number of figures. It means that the, American force in Europe, before the end of the year, should be about 2,000,000. —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES-— ANYBODY OVERLOOKED? If the committee in charge has missed any one when calling for articles for the Red Cross auction sale to be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and they will kindly call W." E. Dean, phone 654, the ar- ticles will be called for tomorrow morning, —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— WRIGHT IS CHOICE OF LIBERTY TWP. FARMERS Wes Wright, a well known farmer of Liberty township, is the choice of the Liberty Township Farmers’ club for commissioner from the Third dis- trict and the farmers of that town- ship are alreddy bestirring them- selyes in his behalf, and will work hard to secure his election. The farmers of the Third district are heartily sick of being represented by men who will vote against resolu- tions pledging the board to support the government in its work and they are determined to be represented by loyalty at the sessions. The Liberty farmers had a splen- did meeting Wednesday at the home of Werner Augustine and G. W. Harnwell of Bemidji made a patriotic address. One of the prominent farm- ers of that township said to the Pioneer, “We have had other speak- ers, but Mr. Harnwell gave us the best talk of any and it was just what was needed.” A feature of the meet- ing was patriotic songs by Rev. Pal- mer and daughter of Puposky. A Sunday school has been organ- ized to be held at the Campbell Lake school and will be held twice each month at 10:30 o’clock the mornings of the days selected. On the night of May 12, there will be an ice cream social held in the school at 8 o’clock and Rev. Palmer will be present. PATRIOTIC HOLSTEIN ~ COMING TO AUCTION: - "DONATED BY BOOBAR This ls a bull story. one usually hears. Not at-all. —a ‘bull story, stein: It has’ to /do wlth the Red Cross| one ;of ‘the promlnent farmers in that ‘section, . The breed.of'the bull m m 03.088 EOIBTEIN domuln. But he is, like his owner, -10Q per. cent Americin. - His an- cestors reigned in blue blooded bo- -vine circlea {mr-the land: of the: Hun and - it 48, raqorded that his great, great, great grandfather once kick- 'ed up~his heels.and shook his head at Emperor William. But the des- cendant of this royal family is go- ing to help the Red Cross in the gov- ernment’s war against the arch en- | emy of-ectvilization. ‘When Red Cross ‘“wood day'” was !observed in Bemidji, Mr. Boobar was J unable .to ‘bring in a load of wood, and it worried him. A letter came to the Pjoneer from Mr. Boobar nsr- rating his inability to get in on the date, but he didn’t intend to pass by the opportunny to ‘“‘do his bit” for the Red Cross. He had a young bull calf of purple lineage that he would give to the Red Cross to dispose of as was geen deemed proper and asked the Pioneer to make arrangements. The matter rested a few days when the auction sale tomorrow was first broached, Ah! ha! The bull calf —the auction. This calf is a Holstein of the best breeding hlood lines and has his pa- pers of breeding. He is a blocky youngster and has the making of an excellent animal to head a herd. Mr. Boobar will give the calf to the Red Cross and it will be put up at the auction tomorrow, Here is a splen- did chance for some farmer to secure a fine addition to his stock and at the nyiee he wishes to pay. 8.8, PLEDGES— WIEL: 801 m#fi'hmonc YouNG FOOD DIRECTOR H. E. Reynolds is swamped with work in conpection with his duties as food commissioner for Beltrami county under the government’s su- pervision and is struggling heroic- ally to»cirry on the responsibilities that have been shunted to his shoul- ders, and he’s got to have some help. Mr.: Reynolds would appreciate the services of’ two stenographers who have ‘time safter hours to help him out for a few days until he can get strajghtened out. The service would be gratis.as Mr. Reynolds receives ab- solutely nothing for his governnient work - —MAKE W.5.5. PLEDGES— OUARTER OF ABILLION RAILROAD WAGE RAISE (By United Press) Washington, -May 3.—The railway| wage adjustment board today com-, pleted its report to Secretary McAdoo recommending millions of wage in- creases for railway workers. It will soon be made public. The recommendations increase means a total of a quarter of a bil- lion dollars, or $250,000,000 annual- 1y. If McAdoo accepts it will mean virtually every railway employe in the country will be affected. Not ' the kind - But [ nevertheless—HoL g q Knights of Liberty, it be@ame known sounds ‘something like Kaiser, Bill's| ready been sun cfin ariille yr!iéu. : T_h'é photograph’ ‘OF LIBERTY st‘g.' Cal,, May.3.—H. Stein- , an ‘Oakland taflor, was hang- e unm he became unponsclous. n orgnnization kn' as here. 7 ~—=MAKE Wi8.8, PLEM——- QE%LY SUBARMINE LAUNCHED GERMANY: STEAM DRIVEN (By United: Press) ITION - BILL P —uix: WSS s&pnccu— ~—Fear that the sedition bm., penalizing disloyal acts and utterances’and those ob- stricting the army, draft and Liberty loans, m:y be:used to. curb freedom of spéech and%the -press was reiter- ated when the“Senate resiimed dis- cussion of the conferees's report on the measure. Objection” was raised principally against the France amendment, which the conferees eliminated. —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— AMERICAN AVIATOR IN "SPECTACULAR AIR BATTLE (By United Press)’ With the Americans afield, May 3. —Jimmy Meissner of Brooklyn; N. Y., downed a German aeroplane in one of the most spectacular battles of the war, The young aviator spotted an Al- batross plane below him and dived at the enemy, firing 200 rounds. The Boche started home but Meissner dived to complete the work, struck the Albatross and cut the top wing to shreds, bringing the German ait battler to earth. —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— TWENTY-SIX PATRONS OF THEATERS “MATCH” PRESIDENT. $50 EACH Twenty-six patrons of the theaters last night ‘“matched” President Wil- son for $50, each extending their aid to boost the Liberty Loan to its minimum of $3,000,000,000. Ad- dresses were made in each of the theaters by speakers who explained what“t“meant, and the response was generous, practically all of the sec- ond” plirchasers having already -in- vested, in the Third Liberty Loan. ‘W. Z. Robinson spoke at the Elko and secured $500 additional for Be- midji's already ‘“over the top’’ quota. G. W. Harnwell addressed the audi- ence at the Grand and secured $250. Secretary F. B. Lamson of the Com- mercial club talked $550 worth of Liberty Loan bonds out of the audi- ence at the Rex theater, making a total of $1,300 secured by the speak- ers at the.theaters. Those who .arose and bought bonds when _ the calls for subscriptions were made are: A. W. Aamodt, H. W. Bolger, Fred E. Brinkman, Susan Jane Bolger, C. M. Bacon, Mrs. F. T. Beaver, H. H. Cominsky, J. N. Cushner, Mrs. J. E. Hayward, Wil- liam Johnson, Frank J. Koors, Mrs. A. A. Kruger, Miss Beatrice Mills, J.+E. Maloy, Joe Morris, K. Mclver, Clark Pole & Tie company, Julie E. Neilson, William Stakis, A. P. Rit- chie, C. R. Sanborn, Graham M. Tor- rance, Ephriam Wingren, A. P. White and Charles Warfield. . HANG. ABDUCT MAN' |SALVAGE DRIVE xms' IS EXPECTED ANY ENT ON WES GERMANS By PHILLIP SIMMS Correspondent United Press With the British in Flanders, May 3.—There is still great M [concentration of men and guns . BULLETIN . (By 'United Press) Washington, May 3.—America’s great army expansion hns started Provost General Crowder this after- noon handing out the largest single draft 'call of the war, He wants 260,000 men. Anotlier special call is for 12,000 skilled ‘mechanies and 6,000 skilled artesians, In the meantime, Secretary Baker ‘and others were again before the house military committee today ex- plaining the details of the vast army appropriations agked. The first con- gideration is pay for the men.. The first estimate was for $1,000,000,000 based upon 2,000,000 soldiers. The new figure is double this:amount, in- dicating the intention of having 4,- 000,000 Americans under arms by the end of the fiscal year, July 1 1919, 'UP CRIND: SOLDIERS “Yesterday's Red Cross junk. taken to salvage lwndqusrters. next to George Baker's jewelry on ‘Third-street, and the work of group- ing it continued with all vigor. The job has been an exceedingly hard one on the loyal women who are carrying out the program of the Red Cross to raise money by this method, but they are sticking with grim determination to finish what has been started. The collecting yesterday was done by a motor truck donated by Tom Smart and operated by Will Bixby. Assisting in the work were Andrew .| Jacobson and Albert Monett of the Fourth Minnesota infantry detach- ment, and this trio certainly worked hard to help the Red Cross ladies in the salvage drive, which is greatly appreciated. Mrs. E. A. Barker and Mrs. George Cochran, jr., were also aboard the truck. In making the rounds yesterday in collecting the salvage, Mrs. Cush- ner, wife of Mr. Cushner of the Third Street cafe firm of Cushner & Dunn, sent $2 to the ladies in charge of the truck. Tomorrow the St. Hilaire Lumber company's truck will be in service in the collecting. It will cover Ny- more and East Bemidji in the after- noon. —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— BACK TO0 DUTY Lieutenant Hallan L. Huffman, who has been the guest -of his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Huffman, since Monday night, will leave to- morrow evening for Gamp Jackson, Cqlumbia, N. C., where he has been transferred from Camp Grant. He will be stationed at the artillery re- placement camp. Lieutenant Huff- man and wife have passed the winter at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. Mrs. Huffman will remain in Bemidji. —MAKE W.8.5, PLEDGES— YOUNG PATRIOTS GIVEN CERTIFICATES OF MERIT The seventh and eighth grades of the high school building also have some young ladies who arc patriots and able to express themselves in a very able manner, judging from the contest just closed, for in the award of certificates of excellence five girls and four boys carried off the honors. It was a contest among the Eng- lish classes and each of the pupils was obliged to write a four-minute speech on a patriotic topic. The pa- pers were then judged and marked for credits and the following were the winners: Eighth grade—Lily Baker, Joe Cushner, Ira Bachelder; Victor Jahr. Seventh grade—Luella Backus, Rose Condon, Theo. Cushner, Viola Degerman and Alma Elmquist. It may be that some of the young loyalists will be heard in public at some of the patriotic affairs of the city. ve Page salvage drive ‘again saw a large ‘quantity of}" [ front, fighting resulted to our ad- before the French-British lines. A terrific new outburst is ex- pected at any moment. = Hin- denburg is playing ’possum until his armieés are refreshed and will be ready to strike again with all his power. Guns are muttering only spasmodically while the infan- try rests. The British destroy- ed a post in the Lyl area last night. The Clllldlllll uuled the Lens sector, capturing seven guns, three machine guns. Ger- man prisoners say conditions internally demand that the Germans divert the offensive m account of losses ppuiveiudubabed Important Cnnture Parls, ngy (Official)—An im- portant 11 und wood in the Am;ans ‘sector hps been capturéd. Between Hallles' and Castel, 'Americans are fighting on .the west bank of the Avre, on the edge of the edge of the Avre wood, we captured the ‘wood with 100 prisoners, including four icers. Haig Repoits Success. London, May 3.—Raids and local flghtlnx wherein the British had the advantage 18 reported today by Gen- eral Haig. In-the neighborhood of .Villers-Bretonneaux, on the Amiens vantage. South of Arras and east of St. Venant we took ‘ten prisoners.and five machine guns. TODAYS OASVALTY LisT (By United Press) Washington, May 8.—The casualty list arrived today, carrying the ad- dresses of the men killed and wound- ed and made prisoner. The list re- veals losses in the New England di- vision. The list contains the names of 18 killed in action, two missing, one dead of wounds, five dead of dis- ease, two dead from accident, two wounded severely and 58 wounded slightly. —MAKE W.8.8. PLEDGES— WAITER WALLOPS COOK S0 HARD BREAKS ANKLE OF HIS ADVERSARY When a fellow wallops another hard enough to break an ankle of the one stopping the doubled up fist it is natural to presume it must have been some wallop. Just whether that was the way it happened is un- certain, but certain it is that Harry Campbell, a cook, is in St. An- thony’s hospital, and George Dwyer, a waiter, is in the city )ail facing a charge of assault in the second degree. All this is the result of a regular knock down scrap on Third street yesterday afternoon. It seems that Campbell is a camp cook and came to Bemidji, stopping at a Minnesota avenue hotel, where Dwyer is employed. Failure not to call the visitor at the desired hour, it is said, was the cause of some dis- cussion on Third street and the fire- works started. When it was ended, Campbell looked like a Boche stop- ping the business end of a machine gun, and in addition had a broken ankle, while the pavement had been nicely cleaned up by the waiter with his friend the cook. AKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE FAIL AS SLACKER RUSE New York, May 3.—Judicial ree- ognition of the “slacker divorce” as a sequel to the ‘‘slacker marriage” was given by Justice Aspinwall in supreme court in Brooklyn. The evidence indicated that a young man of draft age, who sought to evade service, paid a woman to marry him and then gave her an additional sum to give him a divorce. “Such men are scoundrels,” he de- clared, “and I have asked Charles E. Hughes, chairman of the district draft board, to investigate cases which have come to my attention and to place these young men where they belong.”