Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 24, 1919, Page 1

_BE VOLUME XVIL NO. 46 NORTH STATE | Arrives Today; : (By. -United Press.) Boston. Feb. 24.—With thousands cheering and flags flying. President Wilson ‘arrived home this morning. st Fires Shows Stock - " Forest Fires. | He left the Georze Washington. Aids Most boarding the cutter Ossinvee at 11:05 L o’clock and arrived at Commonwealth vier at 11:53 o’clock. As the vresident set foot on native soil he was greeted by a reception cor-mittee of army and naval officers and the troovs saluted. Hundreds of volice and soldiers, with loaded rifles; guarded the way to the hotel. ; Twentv-two suffragettes were ar- rested at the capitol where they plan- ned ‘to face the uvresident with banners. & - “AVERAGE OF CLEARING "LANDS '$34 AN ACRE Few Sheep Raised; Crop Re- turns Gain Slowly; Markets « -Also Badly Needed - 8t. Paul, “F‘gb. 24.—The average | ./<"total annual.réceipts per farm from "i‘)ll’latms seattered through North- ern ‘Minnesota s $9 the way from $30 verage, 24 per: ALLEGED ASSASSIN PLOT. Philadelphia. Feb. 24.—Several al- lezed leaders of a vlot against the life of President Wilson were arrested in gne house here today.at an early hour. The accused were 'either Cu- bans or Spaniards.. .. - the farm. ~ ° A B nRGS This partial answer is based on & survey made' by F. W, Peck of the division of agrotiomy and farm max- agement at_the. station, -in Aitkin, _ Beltrami, -Roseau, Carlton, . Cass, M hubbard, Itasca, Kooghiching, Lake .and St. Louis: counties. : The figures ed by S 2 ‘BIG BEMIDG’ MEETS TWO HARBORS TONIGHT: HOT GAME PREDICTED It will seem like old timés again at the.armory tonight, when the disclos s ti:: ;:r— yey as summarized by Mr. Peci ve ‘neg\my comprehensive view of what the intelligent, industrious settler is able to-do under the conditions whien - exist in the eut-over and brush.wood as made country. . As; the suryey W and the figuyes tompiled before the|«Big Bemidg” basket ball team will recent forestifires; they are regarded |p, oo jn action for the first time as having special yalue in forming a disinterested opinion of conditions this year in Bemidji, the team’ to be played being the strong Two -Har- Bors” quintet;-one-of-thetastest teams injthé northern part of the state. This is the.team that .defeated Cass Lake three games Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday of: last -week, the team making a tour of several cities. The game Saturday was won by Two Harbors 11 to 0, the aggregation con- sisting of Charles Wilkinson, man- ager: L. R. Strand, William Stein, Frank Scott,-Iver Strand, Willlam Knutson, - Carl’ Lower and Edward John€on, On the Cass Lake team was Berrigan and Peck, former “Big Bemidg" stars. # The locals have been putting in someé ‘hard practice and are whipped into good shape. Included in the squad are ‘‘Fuzz”’ Johnson, former crack player of high school and city team, now home from military serv- ice; Captain Warfield, former. cap- tain of the Great Lakes basket ball team; Harry Olin, agricultural in- structor of the high school, former Michigan Agricultural college star; J. W. Smith, principal of the high school, ' another premier college player, and Erwin at one time a member of the crack University of Illinois team under Coach Jones; George Graham, who is also back _ i’ Northern';Minnesota. " Farm Setflef Twelve Yeurs, .. On ‘the average; in 1916 these {arms had been settled about twelve .“years, - Fifty-four per cent of them . ‘were homesteaded, and the rest were phrehased at an average cost of $9.50 an acre. The average size per farm ‘was 160 acyes. . Thirty-nine of tne 141 mrmérif:mm 1o cash capital with . which to work after getting on their 1ot Theé remaining 102 had about $400 each. . Very.few of the farms pssed cieared land when setued, and it appears.from the survey that only. an- ayerage of 3.8 acres werc cleared annually on each farm, which . the:author of ‘the bulletin takes to feate that.clearing is.a slow pro- Cost.of GleaningPer-Acre. . The cost .per sare {0y, clearing and <. making ready forzthe :;plow- averages $34, ranging -from’$16 4n: Hubbard ty to $60 in Lakesand 8t. Louis counties, The widgiminge: in’' the cost of cleating, as pohreed out;is ex-. pldined by difference in?eofiditions— size, kind “and ‘number of"stumps; kind of scili niethod of -clearing; prite of msteriylgund labor used, and other factors’” ® 7 [ :* Opop Returns Gain Slowly. |again and one of the best players As only:3. ‘acres. are cléared an-|ever turned out in Bemidji. nually on the verage, the year’s in- Dr. Diedrich will referee and game oreasg of cro) fas from these farms will be called at 8:15 o’clock. These had Been slow: Only 20 per cent of | teams will play a schedule of two games, the first tonight and the sec- ond tomorrow night, and they should be red hot scrambles. LUNDEEN ASKS VOTE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS (By United Press.) Washington, Feb. 24.—A bili pro- viding for a nation wide: réferendum on & league of nationsiWas introduced in the house today by Representative Landeen of Minnesota. the average farm area has ' been cleared for érop production up to the time of the survey. This means an average of 30 crop acres on. the 141 farms with a range of from 15 to 86 acres per farm. ' The average cash crop ‘receipts per farm were $235, the range being: from $60 in Lake county-to $700- in Hubbard ‘ county. Potatoes were an important actor on practically all of the tarms. Imvortance, of Live Stock. The survey made by Mr. Peck show that there was an average of 3 horses 5 cows, 8.4 head of other cattle, 8.4 .hogs and 44*,chlckens on each farm. Only 14 farms reported sheep and on only 11 was the number sufficient to make this class of stock important. Only 71 of the farms reported hogs, while 119 out of the total of 141 roafntained cows, the range being|. from 3.5 cows. per farm in Koochich- . ing and Lake oounties to 6 in Carl- ton; Hubbard and St. Louis counties. “7The daify cash receipts were by far the most important live stock-in- come, and the cows furnished the principal live stock product for home consumption. Average Receints $375., : The average cash receipts per farm from livestock were $373, 65 per cent, gredter than the receipts from crops. The averagée range according to counties was from $227 to $973. “The great problem before these gettlers in building up the cash in- come is that. of getting their pro- ducts to market. Mr. Peck says, “hauling eream, potatoes, grain and vegetables becomes a heavy burden in a country relatively gparsely inhabit- ed over poor erossroads and Wwith meager shipping facilities. The ayerage distance from the 141 farms “Aea market® for grain, pofatoes or, ‘orest products,’Was 9.6 mjles, “Dairy: )i products in , Waky. - Instafees - wéte, speculations; hauled from Tand, .9 . eries © established where cows are maintained.” Settlers’ Other Earmings. On ‘the farms studied the cash re- ceipts from forest products amount- ed to $217 per farm annually, or al- most &5 much as the crop receipts. The average cash returns ‘per farnv from outside labor amounted to $103, or 11 per cent of the total receipts. As a result of the expenditure of labor and money on these farms, and of the increase in the value of the land per acre on 136 farms from 1914 to 1817 was $34 as against the aver- age price paid per acre by those who purchased their land at $9.50. Want Better Roads. The settlers, among other things told Mr. Peck while he was gather- ing his material, what they regarded as the principal problems _to be over- come in Northern Minnésota.. The problems ~emphasized were: Poor roads by 66 settlers; need of mar- kets by 54; difficulty in clearing Llnnd. 29; high rate of interest, 41: sufficient nogr. stock,: L7:,heed: of - state aid to clear Jand, 12; high taxes, 14; land of - wild £ -] .price 4'to 6 miles to_vrennr i S K A st B S I TR LA G S, IR #4850 O A BBt ol ol i i K ol ! 360 passengers BEMIDJI, MINN.,'MONDA‘Y ‘EVENING, FEB. 24, 1919 LYCAN NAHED ON DIRECTORY OF 000 LAKES ORGANIZATION| Annual Meeting Just Closed’ in St. Paul; Was One of its Organizers NEW NORMAL WILL STAMP STATE AS ‘AMERICA’S PLAYGROUND' State Legislature Asked for $100,000; Senator McGarry Chosen President Bemidji played a prominent part in the second annual meeting of tne Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota as- sociation, which came to 2 close Sat- urday in St. Paul. R Frank S. Lycan, proprietor of the Markham hotel, Bemidii, was elected one of the hoard of directors. .He was one of the founders ofjthe-asso-| - clation about a year ago, and was at the meeting beld last week. The direct purpose of the associa- tion this summer will be to stamp Minnesota as ‘“‘America’s Play- ground,” impressing its endless ad- vantages, attractions and opportuni- ties in the way of summer resorts, vacationing =~ paradises, beantiful lakes, fishing streams, automobile or canoe trips and business prospects. City Mo., P 3 £s Reople of Bemidji, Beltrami coun. ty #nd Northern Minnesota, meet Mr. ‘M. “W. Deputy, the first president of the new Sixth state normal school, Bemidji. Mr. Deputy was born on a farm in Jennings county, near Ver- non, Ind. His early education was in the rural schools where he had his | first teaching experience. For four years he was principal of .t‘baf,%wyhl high schools of Hayden and Pans, Ind,, and served: six years as county superintendent of Jennings county, Indiana, during which time the county system of high schools was organized under his leadership. An- other, feature of his. work as county superintendent was the consolidation of small rural schools, which move- ment, at that time, was just begin- ning in Indiana. . During four years he was super- intendent of «city schools at Columbia City, Ind. From this position he was calied to the Eastern State Normal school at Charleston, Ill., to become the head of Model school as successor to Dean Coffman now at Minnesota university. Taught at Mankato. From 1911 till 1916 he was teacher of pedagogy and the director of the elementary school in the state normal school at Mankato, Minn. While there he organized the junior high school department in the normal school, took an active part in a closer unification Leeislation Asked. - As the first sté})o‘?o accomplish this end an attempt, is being made to get through the state legislature a bill appropriating ' $100,000 for the pur- pose’ of advertising Minnesota as & summer playground, attracting at- tention throughout the.land. * The measure was introduced in.the sen- ate by Senmator ‘P, H.: Mc@arry of Walker, who {s president.of the Ten Thousand T-akes “assoéiation, and in the house by “Representative T. J. McPartlin of International Falls. - Senator ‘McGarry presided at the St. Paul meeting. There was much enthusiasm over prospects for the summer. STATE EDITORS ARE ALS0 COMING TO BEMIDJI When H. Z. Mitchell arrived home from St. Paul Sunday, from attend- ing the annual meeting of the Min- nesota Editorial association held in the Saint Paul hotel, he was optimis- tic over the meeting and also elated over the meeting of the Northern Minnesota Editorial association to be held in Bemidji in June. Mr. Mitchell went ‘“‘armed” with a quantity of Comniercial club litera- ture setting fortn the advantages of Bemidji and plentifully illustrated, which was scaned -closely when: dis- MINNES®TA ¢ HISBORN 1 SOCIER YOU CAN'T GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF VESTERDAY'S PAPERS-READ THE PIONEER Y PIONEER : M. W. DEPUTY Director of Teachers’ Training and Extension Work, Kansas ublic Schools of kindergarten and primary educa- tion. He was much interested, also, in the welfare of the rural schoo! and in the development of a rural school department in the normal school. He is now serving his third year as director of teachers’ training and extension work in the public schools of Kansas City, Mo. In this position he has urgan{zed a standayd ‘two-<1 year- normal -school “course:for :the training: of younfi‘ teachers desiring to enter service, has also hnéd sum- mer schools for teachers of the city system and has conducted Spturday classes for teachers in service. In these summer schools and Spturday classes more than 1,300 teachers have been enrolled during the past two years. Professional Preparation. Graduate from the two-year course, Southern Indiana. Normal school, Mitchell, Ind. Four years a student in Indiana State university, receiving the A. B. n degree in philosophy and psychelo in 1904, and the A. M. degree education in 1906. Has since done graduate work in Teachers’ College, Columbia university, New York City. Nineteen- years an active member oif the National Educational associa- tion. The new normal head is married and has.a daughter, now a graduate student in the Indiana university. tributed. He also extended an in- vitation to the members of the state agsocfation and the chairman of the meeting remarked that those who had been to Bemidji should make the .motion, while those who had never been in Bemidji should second it. In an instant there was a roar of motions and the same of seconds and from the indications fully 300 newspaper editors and members of the craft will be in Bemidji next June, many accompanied by their wives and families for the summer outing of Northern assoclation. It- is the intention of the local committee to secure some noted speaker for the feature meeting dur- ing the sessions here. H. Mayne Stanton also attended the St, Paul session in company with Mr. Mitchell. OLDEST RESIDENT OF ST. PAUL DIES TODAY (By United Press.) 8t. Paul, Feb, 24.—August B. Car- penter, age 95 years, the oldest resi- dent of St. Paul, died here this morn- INCOME TAX MUST BE PAID: COLLECTOR Say, you fellows, who are so for- tunate as to have-an income of $2,- 000 or over per annum, if you are in any doubt about what your duties are under the income tax law pro- mulgated by the government, you should call at the basement of the tederal building March 5 to 7 and ask questions. An internal revenue collector will be there on those .days for the purpose of enlightening all anxious about what they must do to meet requirements of the govern- ment. The collector will be at the office in the basement from 8 o’clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in .the evening. when the person affected mean a penalty incurred. should ing. Lo was vorn tn Bartmore and|FIKS CAMPAIGN FOR twenty, and with Willlam Hartshorn decided to establish a trading post at the head of navigation of the Mis- sissippi river. They arrived on the boat Otter in 1843 and were greeted by 300 Indians. Unly twelve other white persons were here at that time. CLUB ROOMS GROWS When it comes right down to do- ing things the members of the Elks of Bemidji are certainly “there,” for the campalgn to subscribe for a fund to finish and properly equip the Elk temple club rooms has nearly swept the committee consisting of Marcum, Parmelee and Erickson off their bal- ance. It was decided at a meeting of the progressives of the Elks Friday night to take immediate action and .he committee was named fnstanter. It was the aim to raise $2,500 by Mon- day, and by Saturday noon they had pledged $1,650. Saturday night saw the pledges greatly increased and over $1,000 has been added since. There will be a meeting of the Elks tonight at 9. o’clock and all should he present as a report is (o be made and action to start the new [ wérk to bé done CROWELL RETURNS. Oliver Crowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Crowell of this city arrived here' Saturday evening, having re- cently returned from . eighteen months’ military service in France, being a member of tihe Tenth ‘en- gineers. He recelved his honorable discharge at Camp Dodge. LINER DOCKS WITH TROOPS. (By United Press.) New . York,, N. Y., Feb. 24.—The White Star liner, Olympic, will -dock this evening with.5:800 soldiers and Failure to make returnsi. |RARE MUSICAL TREA NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT: COMING HERE SOON| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Bemidji music lovers are looking forward to Wednesday night when John Jacob Beck of the McPhail school of music, St. Paul, appears at the Presbyterian church in piano re- cital under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor society, in.a pro- sram replete with good things. Ptrot- Beck appeared in Bemidji a year ago under the auspices of the Bemidji band and at that time was warmly greeted by a large audience. The program which will be given Wednesday night is as.follows: Sonata, Op. 26, Beethoven—Adante con Variazioni, Scherzo, Marcia Fun- ebre, Rondo; by John Beck. Violin solo—(6) Alr Varie De Beriat; by Grace Currie—Papillons, Op. 2, Schumann; by John Jacob ‘Beck. Intermission. Preludes, Op. 28 No. 1 and 2; Valse, Op. 18; Nocturne, Op. 37 No. 2, Chopin; Ballade, Op. 23; by John Jaeob Beck. g Selection by male quartet. Witches Dance, MacDowell; Brotik, Grieg; Petrarca Sonpet, No. 104; Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 11, Lisat; Marche Religieuse (organ,) Gufl- mant; by John Jacob Beck. BEMIDJI IRON WORKS FINISHES CONTRACT FOR CAST TRON WORK The Bemidji Iron Works is just finishing the third run of an order tor the Tollfeson Manufalturing com- pany of Bagley, manufacturers of Po- tato grading machines, the orders be- ing gearing and other cast parts of the machines. "'he Bemidji plant is looking for- ward to an active season on orders from big lumber congerns. ANOTHER BACK HOME. Frank Lang returned Saturday from eighteen months service in France, as a member of the Tenth ‘enginéers. ORTY.FIVE CENTS PER MONTH ‘| communisti (IVLL STRIFE THREATENSIN BAVARIA; TWO GROUPS FORM Compromise: Is:Necessary to Prevent Bloodshed After Premier’s Death SPARTACANS BOMB CITY BEFORE MAKING ENTRY Premier Clemenceau Reported Out of Danger, After At- tack of Assassin . By .Frank J. Taylor. (United Press correspondent.) Weimar, - Feb. 24.—Clvil war is threatened in Bavar{# unless a com- promise i effeoted between' the two rival elements, which: have set .up separate ‘governments; following the assassination of Premier Elgner here. Combined soldiers, ~peasants and workmen Soviets:seized the govern- ment machinery and ‘proclaimed’ a- ¢ republic. & £ - -Prevare for Action. Additional ‘troops have arrived at Glabbeck near Bottrop and are pre- paring for. decigive action against the Spartacans. Details of the disorders at Bottrop on Wednesday say that goveral thousand _Spartacans bom- barded the town with Ttannon and 1s | then entered it; occupying govern- ment offices and public builldings. Seventeen persops were killed and more than thirty ‘wounded in the fighting. Forty persons” wgre forced to march from Bottrop. to Sterkade with their handg abgye:their heads and were clubbedf with rifia butta by the bpartacans’if-they faltereéd; CLEMENCEAU IMEROVES. | Paris, Feb. 24:—Premfer Clem ceau, who was woundéd by a would- be assassin is believed out of danger, it was announced today. DIXIE DOUGHBOYS ARE GOING BACK TO. FARM Columbia, Té to the farm ‘is n :ment among the F,, if letters r nessee boys now oversess are to be taken as accurate indications. Scores of these soldiers have writ- ten to relatives and friends asking that provisions be made for them to farm this year. - One-offiter who wag not a farmer before going to war hap asked his father to have a farm ready tor -him when he returns. Others who shunned.farm work be- fore going to France.seem to have caught the fever and:are asking for land to rent or buy.- Practically every man from this section' who farmed prior to entering the service has gone back to tilling the soil upon being discharged. It is thought that the intensive methods of the Europeans will be adopted. by the soldiers when they return, “thereby .increasing the pro- duction of Tennessee farms. BEMIDJI CO-EDS LOSE CLOSE GAME TO AKELEY Bemidji high school girls' basket ball team met the Akeley high school co-eds on the latters’ floor Saturday afternoon and lost the contest by the close scaore of 11 to 8, in a hall repre- genting a cheese box with no out-of- bounds lnes, The game was rough in spots on the part of Akeléy’s center, who was ruled out for foul work in the last’ part of the game, otherwise she played a good game, making all the baskets for the winners until put out of play. The first half resulted in an even score, five all. The local team was made up of Elsie Shannon, Madge Trafton, Lor- ;:Ine»Kreatz, Fdla Rudy and Elste uss. \ 4 BELTRAMI'S FIRE LOSS. LAST YEAR GRATIFYING Beltrami county’s fire loss during the last year was $106,670 from 49 fires. This is a gratifying decrease as compared with the loss and num- her of fires in Beltrami county the year hefore says George H. Nettleton, assistant chief state fire marshal. The citizens of Beltfami county are to be congratulated on this splendid showing. In many counties {n Min- nesota there has been some decrease in fire losses but there still {8 room for more reductions in this matter. However, if other sections of the state do as well as Beltrami county, both the state and federal govern- ments will feel satisfied that évery- thing is béing ‘dond to help prévent the useless fire waste.