Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 28, 1919, Page 1

VOLUME XVH. NO. 74, BEMIDJI, MINN,, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1919 U. S. MOTORLAUNCH PATROLLING THE RHINE EVERY SECOND. BELTRAMIMAN OF DRAFT AGE | | WAS SOLDIER terg'stiné Figures' Quoted by| - County Board—Citizens are Congratulated. ~ 1,000 INDUCTED INTO ] * | SERVICE, RECORD SHOWS. S— yd‘ihgistratiom Totaled 2,500;| Loyalty and Cooperation | Responsible for Results. “One out of every two Beltrami county young men of ‘draft age en- _ tered the military service of his : % S Qountry during the world war. This | o 62 “is . one of the enteresting facts| JEEMMESEEL: “prought out in a splendid letter < 'ihnned‘ to people of Beltrami county Yy members of the draft board, “which has jusi completed its work, The draft board, the work of ‘which has been commended by offi- clals on repeated occasions, com- prises Andrew Johnson, ‘sheriff, who has been chairman, Judge Hiram A. Simons, chief’ clerk, Dr. D. L. Stanton, and Dr. B. W. Johnson, all Bemidji and Charles Hayden of . Blackduck. In its letter 'to the citi- ,An American wmotorlaunch manned by awerican soldiers dolng patrol duty on the Rhine. BEAVER DAM BIG NEW HAX 10 TvSH INDIAN COMMITTEES DRAINAGE DlTCH; New impetu:to t:eA pfi:ftsi::cft h HQLDING IMPORTANT - ARE BEING TRAPPED |1 it oo s, .1 MEETING IN BEMIDJI i dltl'gn of Henry 'W. Vaughan tl}' the A staff of the Minnesota college of ag- ‘e . o State Will Attempt to Prevent riculture and experiment station. Affairs of Chippewa Council Further Damage; Bailey |This is the feeling in the depart-| Being Discussed—Plan for > zens of the county, which was issued . 5 d b om the office of Chief Clerk Simons|: . Has Clx:rgg}of Work. ;‘f;"of"gflzi'ei::&:"%?f v":: l};’::':;s Summer Session .Here, ‘{&e board says: . just been elected by the gb'a’i-d of — “The local board of Beltrami| PBeaver, not less than 50 of them,|regents to the professorship of ani-| ‘An fmportant meeting of the leg- Uy " county, having completed its labors in helping to raise the greatest army in the world, to make the world safe for humanity, desires at this time to congratulate you upon the splen- did showing made by you in response to the call of your country. “OQut of the registration of June, are creating trouble galore for jmal husbandry. He' comes from| .41y anq executive committees of Towa State college at Ames, where settlprs in the vicinity of Big Falls, f} "y, "piqe g agplendid reputation, | the Minnesota Chippewa Indian gen- in Koochiching county, where they|ijjs hook, ‘*Types and Market |eral council is be's g held in Bemidji have copstructed nine dams across|Classes,” is regarded by agricultural| today.. Important matters pertain- judiefal- ditches causing much land |colleges as an authority on the sub- ing to Minnesota Chippewas are be- to be flooded and endangering tracks fect. ‘|ing discussed and plans are being 1917 end June and August 1918,{0f: the Minnegota & International v formed for the securing of legisla- numbering 2,600° men, 1,000 were | railroad. Lt aestrustics ‘bia STATE DRA” Boms | tion most desired. inducted .into service; 130 enlisted | ' Sudh pro “reque: in the various branches of the army, [ been mfi‘ltle”b the aver that ,Car,lios. o HAVE CQMPLHEB WORK conMg"j\':sys ;;q:lh':t?ng:;‘: afr::;:h ltal:;(t} 67 enlisted in f.'he_ nayy and 17 Avery, stite gamé and flsh gomm o legislative committee, ;vere granted joined the emergenéy fleet, making|sioner, has. instructed S. C. Bailey,| gt paul, March 28.—All records | ihe moasure kagwn o the In- in all 1,224 out of 2,500 young men | Bémidji game Warden, to trap the | o¢ Minnesota draft boards are practi-| s+ 1 ‘faildd to pass, and this fact of ‘this county within the draft age|Deaver, have their skins prepared| ;) complete and ready for trans- was ohe of the principal reasons for who were more tfan wiiling to give|and shipped. to St. Paul where they | migsion to the war department at |y *itio e o today's gesslon their lives, that those lett behind|Will be solj by the state game and|washington it, was announced to- Among gcnuuc“ nembeEs 16 at might live in peace and _security.|fish department. day. The .department ordered that|yonanno s 4 gocsion today were This means that every other young|, .WOrk of trapping, all of which i8].){" tecords of the 121 loeal boards John Morrison, of Red Lake, who is man of this county between the ages | to be dome by the state, has been |in the state be completed by March|prociiont of the councll; Edward of 21 and 31 years.was in the serv- |Started. Much of the damage has|3; " Records of draft deserters are Rogers of Walker, the council's first i¢e of his country, an average great-|been donelto ditches neat the Starr | 1o he sent to Washington and they | preiident and a member of the leg- e{athan that of any county :n this farm, f.“’“t hwest 0(;‘3‘5 alls. will be treated the same as deserters | ;i tive committee! . Paul Bemlleafi state it ynot in the United” States, of the army. A list of the deserters gooreary of the cotfneil; John Arten and when to that number you add ¥ will be sent out from Washington . Ron I all the young*boys under the drafts GoLF CLUB MEMBERS To to all adjutant generals and depart-'%;laft‘{fc”m' Ben Fairbapks of White age who enlisted in the army and % ment of police throughout the coun- avy, the fathers and mothers of MEET SATURDAY MGHT try. ’ me‘:lt';:** J?fm!g!emfi:n:‘:li ol J#bis county deserve the congratula- which %fl to be held inpfjeundjl next ~~“tions of all men. And we salute| An important meeting of Bemidji PFUND VISITS BEMIDJL. | July, were discussed and it is be- you. Golf club members and the board of . 7 lieved. that the session will be one governors of the organization will| Henry Pfund .Kelliher village rec-i o' en tmportance d be held in the Commercial club or:ler' and supervisor fi)t Rjellt‘:an;i ol i W " rooms at 8 o’clock tomorrow evening | county 2ssessors, was a Bemild usi- . sounty—i¥e have been, more than | LU L G O e erary, re s vior todsy - e wil recurs| PROVE PATRIOTISM loyalty, patriotism and enthusiasm, |-40€sts that there be a good attend-|to Kelliher this evening. shown in more ways than one, an;:{e‘ A R To BEC{)ME clTIZENS especially at the entrainment of omer C. Baer, president of the SON AT COCHRAN HOME., your sons. To your sons with whom |¢lub, has several matters of import-|' Borr—To Mr. and Mre. Georga, W. N We came into personal contact dur-|2RCe to bring before the members.|Cochran, Jr., a son, at St. Anthony’s Residents of Bej'rami county who ing the performance of our labors, Plans for the new season will be dis- | hospital this morning. The new ar-|are petitioning for citizenship in the Lovalty Encouraging. " “To you, the people of Beltrami we are indebted by their unvarying |cussed. . rival is a robust little fellow. : United States who have not demon- courtesy to us, expressed in many = strated their patriotism to this coun- ways, particularly by their willing- 5 FRa SR S P YT R e L e try during the war crisis will in all ness and anxiety to be chosen and . probability meet with disappoint- Font to.the Tron. SOME NEW AND NOVEL TOUCHES ments when they appear for final ex: “We are indczpted to those ladies amination in district court mnext and gentlemen of this city, who gave 4 ® Septem_ber, i i S S S IN LATE STYLES; CAPES POPULAR || ™"k “Doe, united state naturali- labor for days, when the work - zation examiner, has asked Fred W. seemed more than we could do and By Mar, ¢ thin Slobely: pwailied ‘from. ‘her Rhoda, clefk of court, to notity all we take this opportunity of :giving v (v y gare; fhoe) 5 mofi‘t to A:rypoimed iue in the en- applicants ~for eltizenship papora them our most heartfelt thamks. | N6V York, March 28.—The spring ol i lda ot b that they must present their draft i maid is all wrapped up in capes as | YoioPing folds of a mavy blue Serge|cjaggification cards when they ap- Thank Bsudette Board. cape, reveuls -her true inmer self : lumi 1y h ed pear for examination. Whether ap «Po the auxilliary board at Bau-|'oluminously as her predecessor,|when she throws back the cape and|pjronnts have subscribed to the dette, composed of Frank E. John-|Madame Winter. No matter how unfurls the joy of the Mandarin red liberty loans, have purchased war < son, George E..Erickson, Dr. D.-F.|she tries she can’t seem to get out lining, that hectic new shade which savings stamf)s and have supported ‘;,\Lfisburn and W. F. Zauche, we ase|from under the graceful folds. The is a brighter, lighter, younger sisten| yo Red Cross and other patriotic iy greatly indebted for theit unselfish only difference between the winterto henna red and a first cousin to organizations will also be taken into and unremunerated services, in do-|and Spring models is that those folds burnt orange. consideration before the rights of ing the work at the north end of the have dwindled from the heavy rich- Sort of a summer evolution of the| s, arican citizenship will be al. county. Without their aid it would|ness of fur velour and duvetyn tofcape are the new old mid-Victorian | weq. have been impossible to attain the|the Spring, clingy lightness of serge. |scarfs Which are to cling to fair| ™" y," iyor words, if a man of for- degree of efficiency which has been | satin, wool jersey or tricotine. shoulders again with all the elusive eign birth has not amply demont reached. 1f we follow old Omar’s admoni- [grace and piquant charm of the|ciaiaq his loyalty to the United ““We cannot end. our labors with-|tion: and fling our Winter garment |clinging vine pre-suffragette era. States he cannot expect to benefit out conveying te the fathers and of repentence in the fires of Spring Quaint crepe de chine ones with by: belng made one of its citizens. mothers of those bright young lads|it gflll only be to don another ex-|woven figuredlborders lon either end | ™ SRR AL SO, who made the supreme sacrifice on |actly similar in cut and style. come in pastel tones, lovely, cloudy = their way to the camps, our sym-| Of course the spring capes have|chiffon ones with printed borders of |- WRITES FROM BREST. pathy and ‘sorrow.’ st their bereay-|some new andmoyel touches to bring | roses -and . garlands, exquisite. lace|. ment. Their boys are entitled to|them up to date, such as embroidery |ones of filmy black Chantilly or the Alvin Olson has written his par- fnst as much honor and glory as|Ornamentation, scarf collars ending|creamy silky meshes of the Spanish [ents, Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Olson, from those who died on the field of battle, | in swishing tassels, patch pockets|Roman silk, and saucy little taffeta|Brest France, dated March 15, and - Greater love than this, hath no man, and button excresences jutting outfones in black, gray, lined with a con-{says in part: “Well, we arrived that he lay down his life that mhersi‘“ nobby designs. trasting light color and self fringed |safe and sound in Brest after an un- might live. All Honor and Glory to| A perfect jewel of a model is of |all around. They are all irresistible, | eventful trip from the states. We them. ‘pearl gray jersey with a deep soft|and you'll find you're much more|didn't have one rough day .on the “We, as a board and as individuals | cape collar edged in a. wide bapd of faseinating if you shrug your|trip over. We are going into the have felt honored at being chosen | black silk braid. The wide braid shoulders -in them rather than at|navy yard after this trip. Have for this work, and we trust that|@aiso finishes the slashes for the arms|them. been offered a fine job in New York what we have dome has met with|and a vivid lining of orange and| " There is-as mueh art and coquetry |after I get out of the service. 1It's the approval of our superiors and |black checker board satin shows free|in gracefflly’ managing a scarf as|playing a French horn in the orches- A e, yourselves.” and uncheckered when the wind|there is in manipulating a fan. They {tra in the Rialto theatre, which, by R blows. g : - canl!t_ l{feze an ups—lgwdate 1919 fe:}the way is lheflflnefil theatre in the A smart draped cape of black taf-|male, however. e can step as|world. Was offered $60 per week, ‘ELECTRICITY NOW BEING feta has one of the deep soft collars|arily from her warworkers uniform |with a substantial raise ever so PROVIDED BY POWER DAM|also, which is edged with a wide|into the butterfly fluff of a ruffled |often. Don’t think I'll accept any ) fringe of long narrow taffesta ribbun |organdie and the film of a chiffon {way, as I have been away from home So plentiful is-the water supply|loops, as is 0 ‘the bottom of the[scarf as if she had never been'out|long enough now. 'We expect to this spring. announces A. J. Naylor,|cape. The lining of this distinctivejof ’em. The hand that drove a motor |start back from here about Thurs- manager of the Minnesota Electric|model is a vivid apple green silk|lorry in France can flip a fan as|day or Friday, arriving in the states Light and Power company, that the|crepe, fruitfully sprinkled with|effectively, and the shoulders thatjabout Aqril 5.” Alvin is anxious tq _ -selectricity now used in Bemidji is|cherry polka dots and plumb-bu«d]were put to the wheels of war.can|get out of the service in order to at- “ provided entirely by the power plant|dashes. shrug in a scarf as seductively as|tend the state. university during ar the dam eight miles down the| Almost all of the cape lingipgsithe 100 per cent prunes and prisms|April and May, as he missed those Mississippi. The Bemidji plant, |strike such a gay, joyous and riat-|female that mever got out of her|two months in 1917, baving enlisted which is operated by steain, will not | ous. color note that they seem to in-|shell or her scarf. So don‘t scare|in April that year. This would give be used again uatil the water supply | dicate the real inner nature of their{at the scarf. Just dare it and wear|him a proper foundation to start the fails. . i ;,rair “Wearers. A demure younglit, fail semester in September. g Ly Lstoriest 9 CENTS PER MONTH THREE IMPORTANT ! AMENDMENTS TO “LEAGUECOVENANT * STILL DISPUTED (By United Press) Paris, March 28.—The ri_avised’covenant of the League of Nations will be presented to the league commission with three important amendments still an abeyance, it developed today. These amendments, it isiclaimed, cover the Monroe doc- trine, Japan’s claim for racial equality and the recommenda- tions of France for greater guarantees of military security. CONTINUE FRIENDLY RELATIONS. Budapest, March 26.—“We are ready to continue peaceful and. frieridly relations with the Allies if possible, but we will fight to defend our just interests,” the foreign minister of the Hungarian soveit government deqlared in a statement today. WOULD SEND ARMY AGAINST VIENNA Bermlin, March 27.—Premier Lenine has sent a wireless to the Hungarian soviet govefniment in which he urges that it send a Bolsheviki army against Vienna, according to & dispatch received from Budapest today. He is said to have financed a Hungarian expedition against Austria of $20,000,000. N reuzmaL covemment - I{IRGE SOLDIERS TO 'fhe bureau of mr‘n'f"‘vmanagément KEEP UP lNSURANCE of the United States.department of - agriculture has drafted F. W. Peck, Mrs, B, H. Smith, as cnalrman ol of the division of farm management |the. icilfdn 'Rellef committec and of the Minnesota colloge of agricul~1home service settion of the Beltrami ture, to head the government’s Work | county chapter of the American Red in the study of costs of production;Cross, s anxious that all returned and farm organization. Mr. Peck|goldiers, sailors and marines secure has been granted leave by the uni-|ful] fnformation concerning the con- versity until January 1, 1920, verting of government insurance be- Pl tore' they deside to drop what they JAPS VALUE GooD are now carrying, and she urges all fighters who have not takem action FEELlNG 0F YANKS in the matter to call at once at the . home service oftice, room 17, North- ernTI!‘Jn‘tiom\l bt:,nk building. N ’ T “The returned soldiers and sail- Ja;uoll\‘;:é P;e\:).mZe(.), lfelil{zuyng.)dual?fi ors,” said Mrs. Smith this morning, consider the more friendly fecling “should, if possible, km}p his govern- which has grown up between their [ment insurance in effect. If they country and America as one of the [&re unable or for other reasons con- most important and most welcome templated dropping this insurance, of all the by-products of the war, |OF have already done so, they should Accordingly, each. bit of evidence of |uke it a point to visit our office better feeling and understanding on |and secure [ull information. the part of citizens of the United States Is regarded with no lttle sat- chKENs DEING wm isfaction, The following, from x'm editorial in, the Asahi, one of the most influential newspapers of the AT WHITE EARTH AGENCY Japanese capital, is a sample: R “According to a report recently recelyed from Honolulu, a judicial authority in Hawail openly declared in the course of his explanation re- garding the new American natural- ization Jaw, that the Japanese sub- jects enlisted in the American army should be legally granted the right to naturalize and become American citizens. The fact is an indication of a great change in the public opinion of America, which was form- erly antagonistic regarding the naturalization of Japanese. ““Another sign of pro-Japanese sentiment in America is the reported proposition. to revise the anti-alien land law of California. According to a report from San Francisco, a bill is to ba presented shortly beforé the _Californin legislature re;:urr.llng the extension of the leases grante to the Japanese. This will be a|BROWN TO PROTECT great benefit to the Japanese farm- DEPOSITORS OF BANKS ers in the state, who, since the pro- _— , mulgation .of the present alien land Charles D. Brown, who ia well law In 1912, have been suffering|known in Bemidji and who for 13 trom great disadvantages due to the|years has been manager of the pro- extremely short tenure of their|tective department of the Minnesota lands, In fact, until recently, no|Bankers' aszociation, has resigned ong .could imagine that such a radi-|and opened up a protective organi- calehange of public sentiment could zation of his own, designed to serve posalbly take place in California;|depositors in banks rather than the which was popularly regarded as the banks themselves. The resignation hotbed of the anti.Japanese propa-|Will not be effective for a« month or ganda in the United States. 80, and in the meanwhile the bank- “Japan is now going to propose ers’ association is seeking his suec- Walter F. Dickens, formerly sup- erintendent of the Red Lake Indian reservation, but who is mnow in charge of the White Earth agency, is making splendid progress in .is new work, and reports from White Barth indicate that the success whichk crowned his efforts here-is following him in his new location. Dickens has been exceptionally successful in his work among Indians and during the years that he was in charge of affairs at Red Lake reser- va ‘tion made steady and important advance in eductional and agricul- turdl activities, He was succeeded at Red Lake by George W. Cross, a very able official, who {8 /meeting with splendid r~ #ults in his endeavors to promote th. Feservation’s welfare. ' | as one of her peace terms the recogr | cessor. nition of the equality of races, and “Brown's interstate protective as- we are exceptionally pleased that nqciu(lun,” as the new foe to crooks the proposal may possibly be accept- and crookery is called, is housed in ed by the allied leaders, especially|h22-526 Andrus building, Minne- by President Wilson and other|2polis. It purposes to contract with American delegates who are exerting | merchants and business men gen- themeelves for the establishmnt of |erally, especially in country towns, a league of nations based upon tha|to run down, arrest and prosecute spirit of righteousness and univer-|Ccriminals “operating agalnst their sal brotherhood. The growth of|Places of business. Robbers, forgers, friendly feeling toward the Japanese|bad check passers, swindlers and the in America fs welcome, as with this|}ike will be special objects of inter- at their back, the leaders of Japan!est and attention may be able to act faithfully and T SRR fearlessly in accordance with their| NEW SHIPMENT " F TROUT conviction and faith.” . - FRY READILY DISPOSED OF WIFE OF FORMER STATE PRy Worty-two cans of trout fry, pro- TREASURER GETS DIVORCE vided by the state game and fish de- 7 partment, will reach DBemidji to- Mrs. Lillian Smith was granted a mqh-ow evening on the Great North- divorce from Walter J. Smith, form-{@i. 8. C. Bailey, Bemidji game er state treasurer, at a hearing be<{Warden, says that most of the cans fore Judge Grier M. Orr in St. Paul{ltive been promised, but that a few district court yesterday. The de-|TeQuests can be accommodated. Those cree was granted after Mrs. Smith|making requests for the fry should and George Lafond, deputy state{Deé at the depot at 7:56 tomorrow trégsurer, had testified’ that Smuh,evenlng to secure their cans. has been convicted of a crime and e s:rved aM laxsneln%a in ?rlwn. Ahl- SEVENTY KILLED WHEN though Mr, 8mith was in court, .he} .’ did not coptest the case and his at<| OIL TANKER EXPLODES torney, W. 8. Dacey of Duluth, did Venice, March 28.—Seventy per- nét appear. The question of ali-{sons were killed and many injured imopy had been settled, it was an-{when an-oil tanker exploded in the j nounced, harbor fiere this morning. RS Y * ot st 2 e f