Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 22, 1919, Page 1

YOU CAN'T GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF YESTERDAY'S PAPERS BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE ciety VOLUME XVIL "NO. 18 ‘ BEMIDJI, MINN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 22, 1919 NO RALLROAD | BUSINESS MEN 70 BAUDETTE, ENDORSE CITY SAYS NOONAN: COUNCILS NEW NOT FAVORED| WATER PLANS| Beltrami Editor Meets Opposi- T. R. Arnold, Minneapolis En- tion in Asking Questions; rach] gineer, Will Do the Work; Survey Will Be Made ‘: . STATE HIGHWAY CAN'T ‘ DIVERT FROM PLANS Road Promised From Kelliher to Baudette in Two Years; Noifd 1Is Working Hard Qo am\‘“‘ DAVID L1 0YD.GEORGE ABOUT $35,000 ESTIMATED: COST OF IMPROVEMENT At the head of Great Britain’s peace R 3 delegates is David Lloyd George, the Million Gallons Per Day F British premier. Wells If Necessary; New Pumps Ordered \ 25 nes erate Bemidji is going to have.: i J (Written for Bemidji Pioneer.) water and plenty of it for all:pur+ St. Paul, Jan. 21.—It pains us be- poses. No more will the slogan or “Don't Use Next to the president in the Ameri- can peace delegation comes Secretary | of State Robert Lansing. / By ,Wifiiam T. Noonan. yond ‘measure to have to spill ashes ] 3 * on the slide of- our old friend, J. J. Bofl ithe Walep Opsalil, but truth compels us to as- Water for Lawns” stare consumers: in the face, for the new water plant Baudette is deader than two -barrels - of salt herring.. The writer has tak- e as can be. And tne.cost will be com- paratively small. ( sert ‘that-his' plan to have the leg- will have a capacitysof one million ‘ en- the pains to interview many leg- Use wond Key At the adjourned meeting of the islature donate him the authority to gallons every twenty-four hours, jslators-on the subject, and without (By United Press.) ' council Tuesday night it_waB voted crochet a railroad from Kelliher to pumped from deep wells and as. pure exception they state that they .can ‘find cheaper: ways of accumulating trouble than. by going into 'ls!l]xa rail- road 'construction game. ey are = 3 € iblo.f ye: prisoners-in-;the Ragk 'pumpa”tor the:wells, and T.-Rudolph lcommerce committee that pending % ..READ THE PIONEER - R FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH = s —IKELAND BECOMES PAPER REPUBLIC; - NAMES DELEGATES; BRITAIN IS SILENT (By United Press.) Dublin, Jan. 22.—Ireland stood before the world today as a republic—on paper. Its duly elected representatives had exercised self-determination to the fullest extent and named three delegates to the peace conference. However, the action is a flagrant violation of British law and what the outcome might be aroused considerable interést today. The British government is silent. Packer warns RUSSIANS MAY BE ADMITTED TO CONFERENCE, . Paris, Jan. 22.—It seems certain that a limited number of representatives of the Russian government will attend the peace conference. It is learned that an agreement was practically reached this morning by the supreme wag council, and the official announcement is expected by night. 1 f |“t erfere“ce FORMER PORTUGAL KING OFF LISBON COAST. Ma:drid, Spain, Jan. 22.—Manuel, former king of Portugal, RPN g LI has arrllzed offr;:lhe port of Lisbon aboard an unknown ship, it Was , Jan. 22.—1. is reported. archi 4 is sti Chicago, Jan. 22. — Seventeen of | to purchase- three. Lahn & Bowler kornour told the house interstate statepof et ha: l?;gg ;22}3;3“1‘}&?:;;101& Slgl;ltg;g{lmg. A A . Arnold,” Minneapolis engineer, was 5 Jail, who escaped last v z 'legislation to regulate the meat el Sieming d ith given the contract to do tne work night . after unlockin ooTS W alof bringing up the water system 'to{pa ind: b tionary”’ liks a waste of time to go ahead|yoy whittled from wo%d, were still at|the progeri.fl‘{us, eThe awa!s"d of the packing ustey’ was 1da0 Y. t. We hope this won’t and part of it probably uncoustitu- with the project. We haop large this forenoon. Many of them |contracts was the result of a joint a * discourage the versatile J. J., and|ere desperate criminals. - | tional and warned congress that “if ~ that he will blossom forth with other | ™ °7® (esPerate crimina’. decision of a committee of leading}, monkeywrench was thrown into " gchemiés that hé may, have¥inside his citizens, representing the Commerclal l'the gears of this business” its effects skull for -the develbpment of nor- JUDGES ARE NAMED club, and a special committee of the| i} be felt in many other lines of thern Minnesota and its one particu- council, the latter including Mayor |industry. lar garden- gpot—good old Beltrami FOR ClTY ELECT]ON' Vandersluis and President Olark cf| «] interpret this bill as an effort ol £ T2 - . to decentralize the meat packing in- Gant Divet Highway LITTLE INTEREST TAKEN P Angther ‘excdedingly tough assign- ; agreed that the right move in the|to bhe constructed in the belief that ment for our trio of, legislators is to 2 right direction had béen made and}a great number of small units en- £ ramission in-| There is mighty.little stirring in|that ‘the much mooted problem wis| guged in the purveyins of food is o th: elliher-Baudette route in tl;e “campaign” for the coming mu-|about to be solved in a manner satis-| preferable to a few which are organ- what is now well known as the Bab- | nicipal sel‘;ctig{l to be herd on Feb- | factory to the general public. { / _|ruary 18, for the election of a mayor, : ;‘or'il;k?;‘nmr: h:;;imsl‘:rtingc_e dthr:ta d[gt president of the city council, five Arnold Given Contract. > aldermen, city clerk, assessor and Throughout the day the joint com. mittee discussed the proposition and can’t b did.” =~ Messrs. Hako, Mc- treasurer, and apparently little in- in and Nord have been work- terest is being manifested. completed its labors late in the after- ! h in -gtlrgo'rt;x'tt’; ‘;32%1: (chfissiggrln— In the First ward, the term of |noon. W. C. Buck, a . Minneapolis . clude the route, but with no success. Alderman Bagley expires. In the|engineer, addressed the. committee, " The system 18 to connect county seats Second, G. D, Backus will finish his|presenting a proposition, and the and is not to be built from one point first term. In the Third, Alderman |proposition of L. P. Wolfe, also a in a county to another, says the com- Phillippi is the retiring representa- Minneapolis engineer, was read, after * mission, and they say ‘that we might | tive. He has gone west for the bene- | which it was voted to accept the offer “ just as well put our aspirations on fit of his health. Pearl Barnell has|of Mr. Arnold and engage him to do rs with a flatiron.. However, filled thé unexpired term of Alder- | the worvk. the:road, from - International Falls Eanflizen{trom thetFl't"tlh w{l_rd,t Mr. Threé. Pumps. Purchase? throush Baudette is to be included. p;ziil:eng‘e,n%i goln: tge Fe”?hrei saxy— The three pumps bought of Mr. Road in Two Years. Smith's term expires. » %+ Yl Bowler, who r%presented his com- .. But doft't get the idea under your President Clark of the council ev‘;fly'c:{es o‘f Ot()oe t;l{}:)mfi‘u;pe and hat that ‘the Kelliher-Baudette road | will have finished his term this aciit mint E a tlr:;t wfil “D c::sa:;—y ign't going,to be pulled out of the|spring, and so will City Treasurer p‘tll‘l‘nga and (t‘he ork ot lncst:llatio‘: . débris. The commission gives out | George Rhea and City Clerk Stein.jg "ovo) "h myers 1, a and 3, the - "WALKER STATE BANK H. C. Baer, cashier of the Security State bank of this city, was elected president of the Farmers' State bank of Walker yesterday. L. H. Ickler of Mr. Baer also attended a meeting paired, it will affect thé live stock | L. H. Ickler of St. Paul, Harold Thor- corn prices.. Wheat will then be|duck and Ben Baer of St. Paul. drawn in and so will be bread and so will labor and so will everything that has for its basis the wealth pro- duced by agriculture. Not -Progressive. “The theories on which pending legislation is based are not construc- tive; they are not progressive. They are reactionary! "They 'would disrnpt the great manufacturing and market- ing machines which half a century of enterprise has evolved and the re- sults would be-detrimental not alone to the leading industry of this na- tion, but even more so to that por- (By United Press.) St. Paul, Jan. 22.—The Minnesota for the constitutional amendment to the state law giving woman the rignt to vote. The house stood 96 ‘‘for"” and 30 ‘‘against.” The house also passed a resolution usging the United States senate to the glad tidings that a good road will |J. P. Lahr is the assessor. tion of the public which produces, |, .o the Susan B. Anthony federal § * A 4 i pumps being of the latest type, sim-|and to the entire public which con- . decorate the scenery between Kel At the meeting of the city council flar to those doing the pumping for | pumes f00d." P woman suffrage amendment. liher and Baudette within two years, | Tuesday night, the polling places which is every minute as soon as a|were set and the judges named for tsl:etlargest corporations in the United road - could be admitted under the|the election. They are as follows: aLes. S Babcock plan. There will be plenty First ward—Judges, F. S. Arnold, At the council meeting, Mr. Arnold of federal, state and county money |J. J. Conger, W. Klein. Miller’s|stated that he would immediately handy for the construction of the|store. proceed with the survey of the water road, say members of the commission, Second—B. R. Erickson, J. A. Par.|system and plant, ascertaining its and they assert positively that it will | malee, R. J. Fenton. City hall. needs in detail, and make a report to be biilt, Third—P. M. Decaire, G. A.|the council as to its cost. Then the " MoPurlin in Limelight, | Walker, 0. b stepnens. Low mowe |ty M0 a6 36 256 g, ozt | VOTERS WILL DECIDE Representative F. J. McPartlin of o figures will not be known untjl after HER TY SHAL ma WHETHER CI L Klein, William Dugas. Mallory’s. Koocll:licihinghco%nty maltlle m&maldden Fifth—D. D. Kidder, K. Paulson, | the lnvesflg:;tlon but is not expected speech in the house the other day, to be over $35,000 to bring up the HAVE MANAGER FORM One of the features of the coming Elmquist. Fire hall. and it was what is commonly known plant as it should be, and for sev- municipal election, February 18, will as a “hum-dinger.” A member who CITY TREASURER RHEA eral years to come. be the vote whether the people desire «, » p oy is “alive” but who comes from a 30- Concrete 'Re: oirs, to change their form of city govern- cialist ward of Minneapolis, started : ) theu:torm by deliveringg. grandstand WILL AGA]N MAKE RACE Two reservoirs of reinforced con- speech under the dissuise of patriot- crete will also be built, each of 200,- ment from the mayor and aldermanic City Team Contest. elective plan or have the city man-| There should be a great scramble ism. “Mac” didn’t lose a second in 000 gallons capacity. Both of these ager form. at Cass Lake when the Bemidji team Possibility of government owner- matters” such as underground mail chutes. night at the Bemidji armory, and the City All-Stars going to Cass Lake ises to be another fast one as the Rapids “players are a marked im- provement over former teams. Coach Smith of the locals is expecting a warm contest but naturally expects The first informal announcement by a candidate in the municipal election was made today by George Rhea, as- ~ getting to his feet, to pay his re- will be in service and ready at an ~ spencts to the socialist party, and instant’s notice to furnish a direct those who didn’t know him had little ] pressure supply in case of fire, or for jdéa of the earfull that was coming |sistant cashier of the Northern Na- other emergent necessity. One or| This plan is for tepresentatives|meets the Cass Lakers, for on to them. He spoke for about ten tional bank, for re-election to the|both can be used by the simple turn|from each ward elected by the ward | Jatter flve are Glenn Peck, former minutes and when he sat down mem- | Position of city tretsurer. of a hand valve. voters, they to hire a city manager. ber§ jumped to their feet and de- For the pas. seven years, Mr. Rhea The domestic supply will be|This question was formulated by a|former Hamline college stars. But stroyed the silence for a full minute. has been elected by the voters of the|pumped into the tank by an auto-|commission appointed by the distriet | on the locals are such players as "It was the biggest ovation given a|city to this office, and at no time|matic pump, which will need a visit|judges and is known as the commis- | [rwin, former Illinois star; Fred member this session and ‘“Mac” was [ had any seridus opposition, it being|only one in awhile and will eliminate | sioner-manager plan. Phibbs, old high school star; War- showered with congratulations. He |generally conceded he was the right|the expense of a high salaried attend- field, captain of the Great Lakes was immediately dubbed “the fight- |man in the right place. Mr. Rhea|ant. The wells will have a capacity quintet; Smith, principal of the high % of from two hundred and four hun- NORTHERN SENATORS ing Irishman from Koochiching :ifl t?iu well ltl‘;OWn to nee;\ al'lxl intxro- 3 1 ; Jun school, and Olin, director of agricul- county” and it looks as if the de-|duction to e voters of the city.}dred gallons each per minute and the ture of the high school, both former pumps will be delivered within thirty INTRODUCED GOOD BILLS days from the time ordered. A test DA of ten days will be maae when ; Bills introduced into the state sen- Lr;rsitcx:lel:gy toR fempnsteatels Ehaln ate include some of much importance ) and they are by representatives of Contracts Ordered Drawn. Beltram{ county, and friends of Bel- The city attorney was instructed |trami. to draw contracts for the work which | Senator Nord of International will be submitted to the council tor|Falls, who represents Beltrami as d confirmation. This will be done this | county of his district, has introduced evening at another adjourned meet-|32 bill fixing the salaries of county in commissioners in counties having an assessed valuation of not less than $7,000,000 and not more than $10,- 000,000. to be expert mechanics and skilled —— Senator McGarry gf Wall:er. an-| workmen. other good friend of Beltrami, is the s BEMIDJI SOLDIER LANDS. father of a measure providing a good roads program and bond issue as an Mr. and Mrs. George Kreatz have| amendment. received a wire from their son Ray-| Another measure introduced is by mond to the effect that he has landed | Senator Brooks toes tablish the Eng- in New York. Mr. Kreatz, wito has|lish language in the schools of the been in service since December, 1917, | state and promote work for Ameri- has been in the construction branch | canization of the foreign blood people of the service. of the state. scription will stick to him. His re-election is a foregone conclu- college players, 3 sion, as his record in the service of Raise County Treasurer. the city is well known. His petition A bill to raise the starvation sal- | will soon appear. aries paid the treasurers of Beltrami and Koochiching counties has been introduced by the members of the two counties, and it will pass with- out difficulty. Another bill that is likely to have little trouble in passing provides for a monument to those who lost their lives in the Baudette-Spooner fire of 1910. ON SIXTH STREET. BEMIDJI clusion that it would pass, and even members with beaks resembling a sunset on the Pacific coast voted for it. Evidently they wanted to see how it felt to vote *“‘dry” for once in their lives, and they appeared to get a lot of fun out of it. Nord Busybody. Leonard Nord is busier than the The woman's suffrage bill is due| well known paper hanger with the to disturb the peace of the house on | hives, with his bill to people the idle Thursday, and already fair “suffs’”|land of the norti with settiers, and are fluttering around the capitol like | he has bright hopes of winning. The butterflies with turpentine on their | legislators are much more friendly wings. We don’t claim to be a}to the north part of the state than prophet, but our guess it that it will | previous legislative bodies of Minne- get by this time. sota, and by the time they point their The vote on the dry ratification | ears towards home any laws of real bore a spontaneous resemblance fo benefit to the north are likely to find a circus. It was a foregome con- places on the statute books. midji from Fargo. They are well repairing in the line of furniture, 2. The plumbing bonds of Doran and also the Eckstrum shops were ap- proved. “Suff” Bill Thursday. Rijndom, which has received orders France. — et industry, and it in turn will affect|son of St. Paul, I. J. Hauge of Black- Heeter house of representatives today voted .ml‘dj funds o v sontroversice over wrivial| GRAND RAPIDS FRIDAY |» Bemidji basket ball teams will be | our attorney, busy this wee, the high school |glection, as the city council may de- quintet meeting Grand Rapids Friday | termine, for the above purposes.” The details then follow. to take the long end of the score.|to work for the | ¢lal club. case before the i wood for fuel. & the manufacturing rates an the NEW REPAIR FIRM LOCATES joint rate in service as follows: Haulage 20 to 40 miles, two cents per 100 pounds; 40 to 80 miles, 2.5 per hundred poungs; 80 to 90 miles, Stahl & Jacobs is the firm name|three cents ;90 to 125 miles, 3.5 of a new general repair shop at 311]cents; Sixth street, both coming to Be-|150 to 175 miles, 4.5 cents; 175 to 200 miles, 6 cents; 250 to 300 miles, equipped to do all kinds of general|6.5 cents per 100 pounds. Valentine's day, Hollis Coe. son of Mr. and Mrs.| masque affafr. W. A. Coe of this city, has been|city hall and the entire band will transfered to the U. 8. 8. transport|furnish the music. . . Details will be worked out later to sail and is mow on its way to|and it is certain to be a largely at- tended and enjoyable event. BAER ELECTED HEAD BOND ELECTION NOT SPECIALLY NECESSARY IN WATER IMPROVEMENT It is asgerted that the city has the right to secure the necessary fundg who attended the council meeting|gustry,”” Mr. Armour said. “It seems|St. Paul was elected vice president, ;urclt)};:'X?tegmw::k:hl‘::pr:vv ¥ nt_‘ln and C. Bateman of Walker assistant | bonds, and in this cnnnectlofl. g{ caghier. Heeter. of..the. investment.- bankinsg flrlm of Kalman-Mattheson & W%od ized on a national scale. of the Blackduck State bank Tues.|Minneapolis and St. Paul, was in-Be- “It the ability of the packing in-|day night and was elected one of the :’l‘\'edj{m:“‘,i““'(')“y t:lemcl':n :ttr:lr mr:\airl: dustry to function properly is im-|directors. The other directors are the money to cover th); eXpenses The proposition was adopted, Mr. having made himself clear during the day .at the joint eonfer- ence. : The bonds would be $1,000 each SUFFRAGE B“‘L PASSB and run for twenty-five years paid at MINNESOTA HOUSE | 352 .o 155%" tne varence sum in 1944, In its offer, the investment com- pany says in part: “Knowing ‘that 'thé CTity ‘ofl Be- 18 “contemplitihg" ‘doimg’ con- slderable work during the ensulng year in city Improvements including the re-building and extension of tho city water works system, and that sald ¢ity will from time to time need to finance this projett, we hereby propose to finance your city during said time on the following aont H e e basis: ship of stock yards and other ad- “First-—We agree to furnish the juncts to the packing industry drew H]GH SCHOOL MEETS gervices of our bond attorney in pre- paring and passing on the necessafy in connection with "the {s- suance and sale of all bonds that you might legally issue, in the opinfon of with or without an Th’;!ll;imllgci;ll“g::'h school game prom- LOWER FRH_GHT R__ATE SECURED FOR FUEL “Why don’t you appoint some one lower rates on fuel wood?” queried Charles 8. Carter of Hines some time ago to H. E. Rey- nolds, then secretary of the Commer- What is needed is some one to push the work.” : ; . right, I'll appoint you. Go Bemidji star, Carl Graham and three to It Mr. Carter.” And Carter did. y Enlisting the efforts of others Mr. Carter went to 8t. Paul and laid nis proper authorities and sat on the lid until he was ready to leave with what he went after. Pole wood for industrial uses carried at a cheaper freight rate than did It is now as low as 125 to 150 miles, 4.5 cents; e verstnis. Thov are i | BEMIDJI BAND WILL GIVE ST. VALENTINE BALL ¥ o The band will hold its first annual BEMIDJI BOY TRANSFERED. ball February 14, the night of St. and it will be a It will be held in tha