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BEMIDJI, MINN., TUESDAY EVENING, FEB 4, 1919 : VOLUME XVIL. NO. 29 T OF LEACIES 1| ABOUTREADY, | BATTLEFRONT ‘ SAYS REPORT ul, Feb. 4.—President Wil- son Was asked today to remove Post-|: Ei‘iifiefif‘?::‘a‘n?ti‘;‘&’:g;&“;&?é Member of Heavy - Artillery :;au:n, in ?resolutianti‘é :lot;ced én ' 'Which Fired Barrage to : egental a; ; | Representative F. B.- Miner, m:’ine’: Protect Light’ lnfunh'y am],tli;:&?:m'lve Tiegen and Repre- : sentative Jackson nv‘: notice otpds- MARKSMAN.SHIP 2 OF 3 1 . SPARTACANS PLANNING: .bate @nd the measure went over until YANKEES AMAZING! | 3 3 3 ANOTHER Up’msluc omorrow, Special Committee, Headed by President, Meets Tonight = at 8 o’Clock mflnc NOT COGNIZANT _ OF SECRET TREATIES IKNUTSON ASKS 2-YEAR = |Cites Incidents of Gruesome- Government Doubles Guards M » Uflhflwfl to U. 5. el alvis &, ‘. White Haired OVUI” Ni‘ht viki Take Kicv : 3 Pi h ¢ i Washlngtton. Feb. h"_n-T;md’:I‘n N l % o heseriice SFk ) S < K mo- nchot. = ° instead of four as the limit during er having been in eservice cf. X 3 | Washington, Feb. 4—The United|which time immlgration will be|Uncle Sam since October, 1917, Clark U -':g Pfi“& M‘“’“&» § ‘States is officially, if unwittingly, on [ barred from the United States is ad-| Gaines of the 57th’heavy artillery g : | nl ess Correspondent. recard dn gupport of the allied secret | vocated in a minority report from the| has arrived back in Bemidji from the Paris, Feb. 4, (Conyright by treaties which would destroy all DO {'committee or immigration:that will | battle front of France, atter. parti : X United Pross, 1919.)~—"Sucoess sibility of a j\m and.-lasting. peace, | be submitted to the house of repre-|cipating in the real fighting as & : or failure of the league of 'na- " * ‘sentatives by Representatives Knut-|member of a gun crew operatin : ; Rt tions devends nlmost wholly ; ‘|'son of Minpesota and c:leb Powers| French 75. Ong ..dpuents; . AUl ,,'l' 0 - Segretary bansins made a state of Kentucky. Leaning easily back in bis cha ; : -uvon the United St““ This . _ in August, 1917, in response to the The advocates of the two-year | Gaines modestly narrated some oa 3 s frank statement'was made to the public clamor for an oftiefal clarifica- '1imitation plan hope to reach a com- | experiences under questioning, and ; e B < E ; United Press todav bv Major . tion of America’s war aims. In this promise and prevent the adoption of | he paid strong tribute to the rguka- ¢ g 3 i * (eneral - Frederick” Mauri 4 statement he sald there was-no-need | the Your-year restriction. They say|manship of the ‘American: gun i iy TR declaration’ of - war’ alms, it. would .be unwise to fix the limit|stating that German soldiers whg ! : : British exvert on military “d ; % ed | at four years in view of the uncer-|serted in droves to the American : : : international aflain. 2 . we. el -Ftainties of thHe economic situation. lines marvelled as they watched ‘the This is the end of the.German undersea merchantmap, the Deutschiand, the war. Wé are substd) It is probable, .they argue, that|big guns hit their mark : for miles | After the entry of the Unlted States Into the war, the merchantman was con-! GREECE'S CLAIMS REFERRED. cord with Great Britain and Fra {these will be imigration from this|distant and at 'unseen -targets, the| vertedinto a sen raider., She mounted two 5.9 guns;and changed her name to Paris, Feb. 4.—Greece's territorial and ‘nothing has °ccm'ed to country on the anen who will | gunners having gauged the distance| tHe *U-165." The plotograph shows her at anchor, flylng the white ensign, in| and political claims will be referred to a special comimttee representing Great Britain, America, France and our attitude.’ - be enticed to ‘zel fo European |accuratly as directed by the observer i K3 iy o 2 gt countries to aid in rebuilding the de- | in balloons, the Thames river in the shadow of the Tower bridge. Ltul). it was ol‘l'lclally nnnounced to~ ay 4 —~—— RAILROAD HEAD NOT |PERSONAL TAX SHOULD e vastated regions. 3 t 15 practically B, s Gruesome Incidents. could not haye memmm of the Gruesome incidents of the térrible oy ja this TEN Tflousm um scenes were plentiful, one where ne, I Dmmflm SETTLED. » togsther with otbers of Mneen | «ADVOCATE OF FEDERAL BE PAID THIS MONTH| ruris, wes, ‘d.rue contict be-: . 2 Hun machine gunner just behind the 1 RAIL I.INE OWNERSH[P T4 il 24 - over disputed mrrjtory. has . been.: Members ‘of the Ten Thousand|Ccrown of a low hill. Into the ranksi | County Treasurer: Gell ds notifylng | |y reely temporarily “sattled by the Lakes- assoclation” will feet at The|Of the Americans the Hun poured a| the general -public éarly tnat their | peqge delegnt ;infler the pringiples Saint Paul, St. Paul; February 21, to ga:;z:r;e%r:uggtswz:d“kgl‘l,lteg 22: . Washington, F‘e’!t) 4~ereecmr {’,‘,’{:",;'.‘3’,..?,"{3";&.{, 15";.3;3?; :'1’:: g:".d incorporated {n the. league of ' neral Hines, oré the e { roview- thewark of {lis apst year and the advance . continued; . Gaines ,:,;m, m:::mt?sémy lnxml;ewmma_‘ alty 2oL ‘tew per, Souts-"Dhe.: fyi “':i';"‘ pas LQ.D Omfi,» ANRQUACONORL ng . bilk u:-ég tnellaoul{ (:!em :ném;;rxunn:r tee for the first time &ln¢e hi gregs;)lm sayst}m!!‘(s hu “Bhort’ mom,g fore the- lature to appropriate | 2nd he sal emed a8 every | pointment as railrogd head, declared | 4nd he urges those who are assesse By Unlted Prees. ; ‘ $100,000-for sdvertising the taie ang | American had stuck his bayonet 1nio 1o ‘dia hot belleve In government | lo take cognizince of the notificn-| *paris, b, 4-—Conatipution. of wae; ., It the United Stutes s {tourist attractions 'of Minnesota for | the corpse. He alto told of seefnz |ownership, but in organization of a |tlon thus erly. | .. league of nations 18 éxpected to be had been familiar with t}:”‘ g lti the mext two years, and it is hoped | the body of a Hun fastened to the|rey pig rallway companies subject to | In many instances,” those’ Who de- | yirtually - completed tonight when secret compacts and Had thew, w that this wilt be favorably acted on. | trunk of an oak tree with anAmeri-|cjose government supervision, [1ay in meeting. their “tax payment|gpecial committee, headed by - Presi: full knowledge, put its. sealof ap-|rs .t otner measurers will be taken | 4D bayonet through himi, where.the| « do not believe there is any thing | feel that they have not been properly | qent Wilson, meets at 8:30 o'clock. ‘proval on.them through thKé head of to.finance the work. soldier had pinned him and then un-|gypstantial in the argument that a |notifled, when they should have the state department; it would hBV‘Z The advertising . campaign last | fastened his rifle and lett his victim | gye-year extensfon of government op-| given . more attention to the time BPABTA 8 l’l'.AN ATTA amounted to assuring the al{l 8 éhat year wa¢’ fingpced by communities crucified. eration would necessarily mean gov- | taxés are due. However, Treasurer Zurieh, m 4.—Spartacans will - the ‘American; ‘armies . woul ght | ¥ roughout the “state including Be- One Terrible Night, ernment ownership,” Mr..Hines said. | Geil is giving them ample notice| .\ another attempt’ 1o’ ”“ the until the _guarantee .in _the :secret mifllfl % . “I do not personally believe in gov. | Which should be considered. German gager i IWOV ‘ * treaties Were accomplished.” And the Ours were the big guns that fired | ernment ownership, I believe there TIPS Pt the Vorwaepts: ELeuders be e fact that. President Wilson is the barrages and protected the light loan be a form of radically -recon- in Paris strenuous]y opposing artillery and infantry,” he explained, | gtructed private ownership A e EORP. GGODSPEED Dlm i:e‘;_\;lll::?lml‘ Y, d BNWV (n!mlment of mahy of these“commit. [ ; @ 1M “and were hauled by powerful|slose government supervisfon, includ- h ments’ appears’to be positive” proof irucks. We were special objects of |ing government representation on lN FORT R“‘EY CAMP mz‘pfangfl mctl:u:?lnt‘w + 4 that Lahsing’s statement ; attack from tne German gunners and | the board of directors, as will give 3 around all public butldin .h! llfl dicted upon non-possgssio continually fired shells into us. The|the public and labor all the’ benefits g%, 8 most’ thrilling time we had was one|of government ownership and-at wue Corporal Bert Goodspeed’ of ‘Com- bwu?}g::;:?h::r?fi? 'h';“l‘l::r{n':"gx‘z ducted at the night courses at the|njght when one could read a mews-|same time wiil preserve the benefits [ Pany C. 20th U.-8. Int. died”at Fort In tact: the writer: w?;, fitormea | Public_school is going to be a suc-|paper by the awful sare of the bat-|of private dnd lfointerested initia | Riley, .Kansas Sunday of -scarlet |8semoly meeting. % . ‘““b ?:uf the bureau of public | S55: The first"instruction last night | teries. The enemy was advancing|ive and will avoid the political diffi-| fever. He had been in service one yfal:xeaz "th i & nreesid mp him. | Py, Harry Olin, agricultural director | and our boys were coming in. They|culties which eprhaps are ingeparable | year, but never had the opportunity BOLSHEVIKS TAKE KIEV. inforniation l‘ de 1("'M g bility | Of the. publis schols, had a,member-|had almost’ reached our gun Mne|from government ownership. of going acrogs-the pond. His regj- | Warsaw, Feb, 4.—Kiev has been comp! “Wth" 5( tlgatlesy ship of five and two more are coming | when they turned and the slaughter| +] belleve that all the objects| ment had been equippéd:to go, wher | taken by the Bolsheviki, Gen. Pet. | a:copy;of the secref in Wednesday night, while next week | was fearful, the Americans literally | which I think mu‘i ho achieved in | the armistice was signed. lura's troops partly going over to the iorder to obtain a pom:nent solution| Bert. was just twenty years of age gnemy The - Ukraine =government can be accomplished through the|at the time of his death. His body | has beén moved from Kiev to Win- 12 ‘wh: ¥ four more will join. ' cutting the enemy to pieces. All the stm W] i without firat famil This clags of instruction will prove | while were shooting big shells and it have 30“‘*] °“f"“";"h °““ ‘;; amil- | 6¢ much. benefit and value to all{was a terrible night. Next morning|creation of a comparatively few rail- | will ‘arrive ini Bemidsi for burfal in | Ritza. - Rallway communication withi iarizing m*l Aok th a Turopetn |owners of poultry, for Mr. Olin is an | many soldfers had white 'hair and|road companies which will have capi- | the Catholic cometery oltner Tues. Kloy is cut off at Kovel, where Ger- . @ 1"5;"’}}" i ms“a" expert in this line and his experience | eyebrows and lashes were white: I|talization equal only to the real value | day or Wednesday of this week, man troops are attempting to Keep the other and, it would seem equally|,nq jearning is given free to all- who | never expected to. get through that|of the property and which will have| Fred . Goodspeed, his ' younger order, ‘tredties The new poultry class to be con- L B S TS hard to understana wny -the allied{ gqesire to obtain it. night. moderate guaranteed return. with| brother, was a member of the 16th The Czecho-Slovaks are bitterly '3“,"““';'.".““ allowed. the, UniBted e “In firing, about every fifth shell :he right tog‘;)art(cipate moderately | infantry and ‘Went across with. the |denounced’ here because of recent: :: States o remdin in fgnorance. = But|pppRESENTATIVE RAKO WILL was a white one. That is, it could{fn any additional profits.” first troops to go over: He has been |events in the duchy of Teschen. 2[R the sixteerith article of the treaty of SPEND WEEK-END AT HOME|be seen when it left the gun and NESAT e O R missing in action sincé October 3, |Lfeut. Reginald Foster of the Ameri- ~ ' 1915 largély I8ins this peculiar made a white trail so its range PARLIAMENT CONVENES Fred was just eighteen years of age, | 6an army, representing the' -peace - action on the-part of the allles. t| g ., oo)iative A, E. Rako will be | could be guaged. We had some new : ; John Goodspeed, his older brother, | commission, {s reported to have asked shows the fourslgnatory powers Were |y no - grom St Paul Friday evening|gas shells when the armistice was (By United Press.) i6 & meriiber of the fth engineers.and | OT T s}g"mnl;vk‘hevrmlfil::nhg &‘,‘;‘:f"d I't"?;'fi::“ ::mtr:g:y w!::ger to attend the meeting of the Bemidji | signed and were ready to clean up - *Tnis treatys mimt be kept seoret.” | TOVAship Farmers' club and will|the enemy. Again, " in the secret telegram from spend the week-end witl his family| Gaines says the best bed he had noft, the €zar'’s forelgn minster and greeting friedds. on the batle front was when he slept suom the Russtan hmbassador in Paris, Mr. Rako has been named to mme in a German dugout capable of hold- dated Feb, 24 1916, is revealed | Of the most important committees of [ ing 4,000 men and about 70 feet further reisoii tor‘éec;’-ecy This tele- the house ahd ‘hagsbecome recognized deep. He said thc :ides were all = % as a revresentative to be considered. | slate like a slate roof, clectrig lights, gram . 8ays: e ventillating fans and fixed up with Politics Interlerred. HOME FROM 'ROM FRANCE. all comforts. "Politlgai afieem;nui entetll'led into o ST % : Sample Of Marksmanshin. among. the es during the war oe T n receipt of a mes- - thoula temiin . unalterable and are |sage stating that his brother, Corpor-| Another interesting incldent was|psssed” and were stopped ‘and the Miss Luclle Goodspeed, slster; Mag the Ruthenians, not subjeet to revision. This refers|al F. D, Shirk, has arrived from over-| When the artillery was in action, the|y,me question asked. Onme of the|ters-David and Edward, brothers; Al- to our agreement with France and |seas, ~after six months service in Huns were crossing a big bridge in a | party struck a match to Iight his|vin Goodspecd, father, Kinney, and GROUND Hoc umE England. abont Constantinople and |France.. He is a Bemidji boy. city eighteen miles away, carrying|pipe and a German helmet was re-|Alvin, Jr., brother, also of Kinney. - " the. Strafts, Syria and Asia Minor, supplies and affording means for)yealed in the glare. The alarm was|Friends are Corp. George B. Demoff, i and also the London agreement with # fresh troops to eross. General Persh- sounded for they believed they were Hibbing; Robert McNair, John Mec- OFF ON scmm Ttaly. All propositions as to future ing learned of it and ordered the|amdng the enemy, but discovered | Grath and Hugh McCoy, all of Kin- bou:?arles a8 tg”Centml Europe are :rxgg& dcagorlgl:hzr:. ufie Fl:f:tf::l;ylflg::; Gertxlx:an: deuirting ;:lnder night cover | ney; Mrs. E: . Stickney of 8t. Cloud. | whether that ground hog was ré- m can side, —— samo s 1t: ko, be. remembered and he stated that the bridge had | ‘® ™' ‘It Bvimsy oummad ik o TSN that we are ‘réady: to grant to France required years to build and didn’t zard um;'g &':-f»"e ldwl l; ufil‘;i 4 and: England -.complete freedom in By Gdlels Proes.) want to destroy It, to which Persh-| Oncea German aviator was winged MANUFACTURE “NEAR BEEB d a cold snowy da; Saing the liitations of the western | . Paris, Feb. 4-—President Wilson [ing is said to have replied in sub-|by an anti-afreraft gun of the battery Sunday was a cold snowy day with Gt Bouidery s ovenging that |1ate today coriferred with the ‘dele-|stance “We can destroy it sooner|and was brought down in the lines.| Minresota : brewerios announce | & bitingtwind, the mercury hovering the allfes 1nathef yi will grant ns | Sation of American congressmen vho than that” and the order was given| When the plane landed an Ameri-|that with the federal order to cease | around zéro.. Monday the mercury i oo i Sarin e bonnas® jon | Teported conditions in occupled Por-|to get the bridge. The range was|can lieutenant was near and the avi-| making beer they will turni their | Was down to about 20 degrees below o armany Anstrian CmAaries | tions of occupled: Germany. ‘given and in about eight minutes|ator drew a revolver and shattered |plants into “near beer” industries | and a biting north wind made pedes- w Ge"mz;lf “BB"‘:' ‘the bridge was a wreck. the American’s le,tlt-arm‘ T(lile t\’anfi and expect to'do an extensive busi- 'v”fl‘.‘;gam ‘i:m":dly"““gg‘l%‘o;‘ibm i iother Reason. “In shooting, say twenty miles, we |Jerked his steel hat off and struck ness. . y it was s » but muc Another Teason for past conceal-|States, or any power mot a party to|ecould tale ani hui,ldlng fha cltyzr the German across the face nearly| ‘Some wise knave at one time re-|more pleasant, with clear skies and ment of the.seéeret treaties and the |the secret treaties, to have knowledge “busting” his head in two. Nearby|marked after he had imbibed a glass | sunshine. isting desire for’ t i t{of them, and thus be in a position to toyn aml afior_we ee guan-iie soldiers soon fixed the aviator. He|of beer” that it co d - existing desire for secret sessions atjo , range by the observer could pick out g of “near beer” that it was, compare R IEE? Y T e L also saw 114 airplanes battle over|to the real thing, just like a man |STATE MOTOR CORPS GIVEN LIFE LEASE TEN DAYS LONGER Versailles lies in the embarassment|debate what the allies had aiready|the building and if the first shell that would result from disclosure of | decided upon as unalterable, would | didn’t get it the second always did |the lines, Americans getting seven |kissing his own wife—no kick in it. without losing one, He algo saw uan What was to have been the last offfticial day of the service of the the 15th article of the London pact,|be exceedingly embarrassing. :tlanq then we had It.” which proyides as follows: would seem, therefore, that so long Shell Kills Ten. g;letrlcun get three, in a spectacular OVER 3 500 SOLDIER_S ' “The shells sent into us did ter- = Minnesota motor corps was scheduled for today, but the corps still remains “France, England and Russia ob- ?‘tth?e “um:‘lte::ble asreemd‘en "lex- ligate themselves to support Italy ‘n|ist, they make the peace discussions 3 rible work,” safd Gaines. ‘“I've seen soldiers with their head fifteen fect ARRIVE ON TRANSPoRT }n tt;]xmv,nlume ov{)h;s tt;‘n tezl days urther leeway being given to per:: her desire fof non-admittance of the|at Paris merely a hollow form. Holy See -to any hind of diplomatic |Liberal leadérs aruge that they away, an arm the same distance and the other arm also several feet off.|. .. - (By United Preu) mit action by the state legislature. - Just what the fater of the corps steps for the purpose of the conclu- s:lculd h‘e clea{:d dawaay dat tgeflin; stance of popular demand an al O o et Ao T Dl ) It was bad business I tell you. Yes, New York, Feb. 4.—The White London, Feb, 4.—The construction | I8 ‘now stationed at - Manouville, France. He saw_action for'forty|Siven permission for the Czechs to purlia\ment convened today. aw action y Sttagk the Doles, Dr. Massryk s said to have replied in the negative, One night, he related, he and an-|ceased, was. formerly. o ‘farmer in |but is reported fo have added that other gun truck man got off the road | Grant Valley” and fs. well known in |the territory is necessary. for the de- . and were unabie to tell where they | Bemidj{i. Besides;sthose mentioned, velopment of Czecho-Slovakia. were. A group passed and one of tlic | four brothers and three sisters sur- It is reported that the Czecho-Slo- men asked the group where the road vive. | vaks aim to get control of Polish ofl’ led to. No answer and a choice vol-| Relatives and n.fe “here to at- |1ands in Central Galicia and it is al. ley of epithets was hurled from o|tend the funeral are: Mr. and Mrs, :,eged that they have already made & Yankee gunner. Another group was|H. L. Goodepeed, brother, Kinney; | argain with this object in view with ‘| days before the armistice was signed. Al. Goodspeed, father-of the- de- g Regular Hun Trick. MINNESOTA BREWERIES TO Gaines also told of a narrow es- cape he had when the big guns were resting. He noticed several dough- boys at work nearby and started to go over to where they were. As he i ; i Fesert| {he delegates should be at Itberty fo|neared the bunch a shell dropped gv‘:?gm')s arisln‘g froni “the preseért Pttt a ple’s treaty, based|into them and ten were killed. A|I'm glad to get'back. -Wasn’t sick a|Star liner, Cedrig, arrived today with wm be 18 a ‘matter of conjecture, also In view- of s&tfrai® thdérstandinz, | 0pon. present necessities rather than |shell also dropped back of his gun|day but was sickelght days toming 3,507 officers and men. from Fiance, |the status of thé home _guard of the i it ‘Is obvious ‘that for ‘the United past secret diplomatic sessions. truck and tore a big hole In it. back” moet of them regular army units. state,