Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 27, 1919, Page 1

b y ) ] ] ) "VOLUME XII. . NO. 254 Press. Today’s world’s news today. MEMBER UNITED PRESS... '‘The Pioneer is a member of the United s .g"_',_ : “TRAGEDY SEEN BY HIS 'Hawy Clothing and Shells < tnore shells to use in shooting ducks : drowned before the full view of his - | MACHINE GUN | - ‘SOLDIER MEETS | DEATH IN LAKE Fr;d Davis of Tenstrike in Boat . Which Veered in Reach for Shells FATHER UPON THE SHORE ‘Make Deadly Weight; Fun- - """ eral Sets Record " (Special to Pioneer.) Tenstr(ilie, Oct. 27.—Reaching for on Erickeon lake, near this village last Thursday, Fred Davis, who re- turned from overseas last month, -oyerturned in a frail- boat and was father, A. B. Davis, hotel keeper here. e Father and son were out ducl hunting at the time of the tragedy. The boy was: alone in the boat and he father was on shore. The young an was heavily clothed and weight- STATE MILITARY OFFICERS " BEMIDJI ASSN. LUNCH Federal Inspector Will Also Be Here; Come to Inspect ¢ Guard Question GET TODAY’S NE . These leaders of organlzedalnbor in Sweden have come to the United conditions here. Left to right they are: H. von Keock, Hjatmar vou.Sydow, Charles O. Johanssen. Guunap Huss, Miss Kerstin Hasselgren, Sigfrid Edstrom and Ilerman Linqguist, the speaker of the S\ymh'sh Second. congrass. BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1918 . WINNERS OF EXTRA CASH PRIZES IN THE PIONEER’S CIRCULATION CAMPAIGN The offer of $100 divided into six prizes closed Saturday, October 25, and the following are the winners: District No. 1. District No. 2. WS OUT OF TODAY'S PAPER ‘States to study. labor and econemic R. C. HOME SERVICE " OFFERS FREE - ADVICE ON SOLDIER INSURANCE wy at- Any Time to Assist . Returned 'Men in ) |+ Filling Forms Weather: and warmer, thilowed by Markham Hotel: OFFICE COAL STRI next Saturday. from Washington, declared th appeal of President Wilgon to. ¢ “I'thank God we are in a ¢ he said. “The reply to, Wilson’s. apolis Wednesday.” : " (By United Pxess.) Springtield, Ill.,, Oct. 27.—‘“Noth- ing but government pressure to force coal mine operators to grant the de- manpds of the strikers miners ‘‘just consideration’™ can avert the strike November 1,* ’sald Acting. President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Warkers in his home yesterday. He declpred he was astounded at Presi- demt Wilson's gtatement of Saturday. “PIONEER’S” Largest circula North Central Ming e F 'FORNEXT SATURDA " Springfield, Ill, Oct. 27.—Officials of the United Mine Workers of America today stood pat on the strike call for Lewis laid the blame for the ‘| the opérators. : MINERS UP John L. Lewis, acting; president of the union, arviving here e situation unchanged by the ancel the strike ordexs. ountry where men may strike,” appeal will probably be framed at the meeting of the executive board of the union at Indian- strike upon the shonlder‘sfof AAMODT HELPED SAVE "HEAVY POTATO . LOSSES 'FOR BELTRAMI GROWERS Agents Attending Meem _ When Montana Snow Was » h ched : Bemidji Civie and. Commerce ) g “I'hope.- that the people of this com- L ~#d: with shells and whentt e ::; e Thr . wgll heve a distinguished Rev. Father Florian Locni $25.00 | [munity will Join in the efforts of the P GIGANTIC BUREAU. Reported on Its Way o ; 40w @ reload the frail craft v asoe’s d federal military|| , kar, Red Lake........... 00 e Croms 1 bringing the matter of| Clvamne G AIGiC BUREAU, vort | ', one gide and its occupant feu intolparty of gtate and fe Mrs. Clara B. Praught, . in-hring tens s 95, Oct, 27, ! Y e ; ol ateht £ ter, and the heavy| qofficers its guest at the weekly Blackduck 15.00 || government insurance to the atten-|is to be made to link the internation- —— . r-gight feet of water, ; : Juncheon, wednesday, and AC CIRC q tion ‘of ‘peturned service men,” said|al unions and agricultural organiza-} .St. Paul, Oct. 27.—How a ljttle ight of his attire held him be: néath the water, only his cap appear- ig is hoped that every member of the oftanflgtl'qn will bé present, as their Miss Marie Ri partment-of the Red. Cross. Di:8. Mitehell of the Home Service de, tions of the country into a gigantic bureau to beat down the high cost of band of county agents outwitted Jack Frost and saved thousands of Figon the aurtace, iR idji ' “ ivilian lite, serv-|Iiving gt the forthcaming uational|bushels of potatoes from-loss by o 3 = ttempt: -will mean much to Bemidji. = In returning to civilian life, se: fving a he forthooming b y -y The f.n::;‘:tn:?\:eoa.:::fic . ™ cfl#;e ~visitors will be - Brigadier ice ‘men ligve many things:to think|farm and labor conference in Wash- | freezing durin the cold spell begin: : at.resgue, & the following day neighbors o the lake and after consider- k I FIE SewPhe. URCTRL-Was Beld, Sypday () George Backhurst of Bemidji officiat- ing. Hundreds o. friends attended, General Rhinow, head of_‘uianesota's . miiltary; mgjm“- W. C. Garis, " Major ‘here early in:thé morning on an in- . {rip of the proposed Nation- al gum% “tomipany for Bemidji. They .are_on tour of the state for other company locations and their itiner- JohnstEqual 2 15 more important than &11 ofhe while you were in service, ‘to be of assistahce to you, about; They may have allotments, on, § difficnlties or arrears of pay Or 8grand.chief of the Brotherhoed of ington, according to Warren 8. Stane, New York, Oct. 27.—8cores were together—goveranient insurance. The | njureq, in a riot which followed the Red Cross, which has stood by yoy ) i now wants | {| hizers and several hundred long- ning the eevning of October 8, i8 re- lated by 8. B. Cleland, district agent tertail and Todd counties were hqld~ &fiz‘ufie succeeded in ‘locating the|H. L. Gndy.an: C:ifimml'ti:;r Bi-o?fi; nuq‘x‘ or _gf ?@951 things .to worty | Locomative Englneers, .. m’r‘x::fi?ot:x"; ;‘%%Eezfitfiw“m i~ hody. s . ng‘,:},g;\,fli@.';m’nt, who ‘Will-b# STHEP is one ra iyowevarxgthnt SCORES FURT IN RIOT. ' Cass, Béltrami, Becker, Morrison, Ot- s J 5 ‘put ing a conference at Wadena when the - imsi between 2,000 stike sympa-|i0cal farm bureau officé received jword at 3 p. m. that n hard snow shoremen returning to work today.|storm was raging in- Montana an:' B} Police reserves finally restored order. | that a severe drop in temperatur Ten arrests were made. would follow that night all over Min- -about 26 returned soldiers appearing “40f full uniform and lending a mili- tary aspect to the solomn rites. A ary includes this city, where a com- pany is practically assured. The ofticers will explain to the “~“You may hear conBicting argu- - ments, you may receive bad advice from the man who does not know. Vote Revision nesota. A { i / & § row'morning at 9 o’clock, when can- _-gioir’ comprising J. J. Johnston and .8om, Martin, Mrs. Robideau, Mrs. “Hérman and Mrs. Cline sang, while -sMiss Johnson, one of the teachers, “wag the accompaniest on the piano. Several selections appropriate to the - @ccasion were also sung at the grave gide, including a solo by Mrs. Robi- - deau, Among those who attended the _ services were the mother, sister and brother-in-law from Minneapolis. The funeral was the largest attended -in the annals of Tenstrike. Was Machine Gunn-- Fred Davis was a gunner in the Eighth machine gun battery, com- pan C, and had rendered heroic serv- ice to his organization and his home nation, in the battle lines of France. He .was honorably discharged in Au- ‘gust. s Mrs, Davis and family are endeav- “gring to extend their sincere appre- <lation to the peopie of Tenstrike, amd to Rev. Backhurst for their kindness and sympathy in their be- Teavement. CENSUS ENUMERATORS’ TESTS HELD TOMORROW Thomas Swinson of Bemidji, dis- triet census supervisor, will hold an sexamination in the court room of the Beltrami county court house tomor- -didates for census enumerators will ‘be given their test fér qualitication as-such. r On Tuesday evening, Mr. Swinson will leave for Walker, Brainerd, St. Cloud and Wadena to conduct other examinations in his district. AMERICAN CONSUL ' " FREED: RANSOM PAID (By United Press.) Washington, Oct. 27.—William O. Jenkins, American consular agent, robbed and kidnapped by Mexican bandits near Pueblo, has been re- leased on payment of $150,000 ran- som, according to a message from the America embassy in Mexico, re- ceived by the state department to- day. STATE SOLDIER BONUS 3 BIDS SCHEDULED TODAY (By United Press.) St. Paul, Oct. 27.—The state sol- dier bonus board was to open bids on $5,000,000 worth of certificates of indebtedness today. The board has $20,600,00 in cer- tificates to dispose of before it can complete paying off applications of soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses who served in the-world war. Bemidji association at the noon luncheon,the plans for the organiza- tion of the company and a large at- tendance should be present to learn the details of the proposition. In the evening. H. Z. Mitchell will be host to the officers and returned service officers of Bemidji at dinner at the Markham hotel, where plaps for the company will again be out- lined. REDUCED RATES TQ LEGION CONVENTION FOR ALL MEMBERS Immediate Families Are -Also Included in Fare and One- Third Round Trip Minneapolis, Oct. 27.—Members of the American Legion who attend the national convention in Minneapolis in November will be give reduced rates om all railroads, Horace G. Whitmore, - state secretary, an- nounced in a bulletin sent to all posts in the state. Delegates, alternates and also! other members of the legion and the} immediate members of their families, ! will receive the reduced rates. The identification "certificates plan will be used in buying the tickets. The round trip will cost the delegate a fare and one-third. - Identification certificates will be distributed, and the tickets will be on sale in all local offices from Novem- ber 4 to 10, with a return limit of November 20. Membership in the American Le- gion has reached a total of 30,000 with the application of new posts. The number of posts in the state charters coming in from Currie, El- mount to 322, new applications for bow Lake, St. Louis Park, Fulla, Em- mons, Afton, Tenstrike. Winthrop, Swanville and Stacy. Included in the new posts also was one formed by nurses in Minneapolis. More than a hundred additional calls for bonus application blanks have been received from state posts in the past four days. Delay in the printing of the blanks prevented the calls being filled until now, when workers at state headquarters began the distribution of a new supply of blanks sufficient for 11,000 men. | State headquarters are located on the second floor of the Old Capitol. HEAD OF HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE ~ CALLS MEMBERS TO BOYCOTT New York, Ovt. 27.—Julia Heath, president of the National Housewives | league, today called upon members tu{w boycott butter, eggs and coffee in an effort to reduce prices, ° y (By United Press.) 5 ‘ Washington, Oct. 27.—By a vote of 40 to 38, the senate today defeat- ed Senator Hiram Johnson’s amend- ment.{o the.peace treaty to equalize the voting strength within the league of nations, in relation to England. The vote came unexpectedly at the request of Senator Lodge. After Senator Hitchcock, adminis- tration leader, announced he would ask for a vote on the amendment at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, Senator Lodge moved that a vote be taken at once, which was done. The republicans voting against the amendment were Colt, Edge, Kellogg, Keyes, McCumber, McNary, Nelson, and Sterling. Gore was the only domocrat who voted for it. The amendment of Senator Moses, which would bar any colonies of Great Britain voting when the dis- pute in which England was involved was before the league, is next up. KING AND HIS RETINUE LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON (By United -Press.) New York, Oct. 27.—King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium are s0 delighted with their experiences in America that they .are coming back for another visit. LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON. Washignton, Oct, 27.—King .Al- bert, his queen and retinue left for Washington at 11 o’clock today. The party is expected to stop in Philadel- phia, reaching Washington tonight. The king made a flight of several hours in a seaplane over New York City this morning. BANDITS CUT WIRES: ROB BANK OF $50.000 (By United Press.) Cincinnati, O., Oct. 4i.—Safe blowers, with loot estimated at $50,- 000- from the Bank of Alexandria, Ky., escaped early today. The rob- bers cut all telephone communica- tion. AUCTION POSTPONED. The community auction sale scheduled at the Dr. E. H. Smith farm for Wednesday, October 29, has been postponed. The date of the sale will be on November 3. ‘Those interested are requeésted to watch the Pioneer for announce- ment. —_—_e— The Red Cross_has made a special study of life insi¥ance in general and government insurance in particular, just for the purpose of giving you the straight dope. - “The Home Service sectfon of the local Red Cross is ready and willing to assist all returned service men in the conversion of War Risk insur- ance to any of the six forms of gov- ernment insurance. They will assist in filling out the proper forms and see that they are forwarded to their proper destination.” (AL JESTER WILL LEAVE BEMIDJI: RESORT STOCK OFFERED AT AUCTION Beautiful Lake Plantaganet Farm Recreation Center Also Offered for Sale A. H. Jester, proprietor of the Jes- ter Farm resort on Lake Plantagan- et, is making plans to leave Bemidji and has offered his beautiful sum- mer resort for sale. He has success- fully conducted a hotel and cottage proposition on Lake Plantaganet for a number of years, being practically the first in this locality to launch such a project. On November first he will offer his entire belongings at public auction. This will include farm machinery, household goods, hoats, tools, stock, canned goods and home preserves. The auction starts at 10 o’clock and will continue practically every min- ute of the day, until all goods are sold. A dinner will be served to those at- tending at noon. Indications are that a large number will attend from the city, and the country attendance is expected to be a large one. The auction was first planned for the 24th of this month, but the weather was so inclement, that no- body, to speak of, was in attendance. COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT SHOULD BE INTERESTING The city council will meet in reg- ular session tonight and in all prob- ability there will be some things of interest to everybody in the city, come ‘up for discussion, that were started at the executive session' of the council last week. WILSON GETS “PRO” LAW.- (l-';y Unfted Press.) Wacshington, Oc4. 27.—The nation- Ial prohibition law was today laid ber fore President wilson and his deci- sion i¢ expected te &% later. WORKERS OFFICIALS POWERLESS Indignapolls, Oot. 27.—"Officials of the Unitéd Mine Workers of America are powéfless to rescind the strike order, calling all 60al miners on a strike November 1, Willlam Green, secretary-treasurer, said to- day. ‘““They cannot comply with Wil- 80n’s request because the strike was called by the convention in Cleve- land,” he added. UNIFORM STYLE OF DRESS FOR N. D. WORKING WOMEN (By United Press.) Fargo, N. D.,, Oct. 27.—The adop- tion of not a uniform but a style of dress for working women which shall be tailored in common sense and at the same time preserve the feminine touch, may be one of the aims of the North Dakota Business and Profes- sfonal Women'’s Federation when the society, as yet_in a formative stage, is _fully organized. MINNESOTA DEFEATED BY I0WA: SCORE 9 T0 6 Iowa University football team de- feated Minnesota Saturday by the seore of 9 to 6. Wisconsin beat Illinois 19 to 10, and Chicago walloped Northwestern 41 to 0, Hamline defeated St. Thomas col- lege 12 to 6 and the North Dakota “ags” 'and South 'Dakota college played to a 0 to 0 tie. of Bemidji was head linesman of the CROOKSTON BEATS FOSSTON. Crookston high school team defeat- ed the team of Fosston Saturday in the district conference game by the one-sided score o 38 to 0, and it seems as if Bemidji high would have to play Crookston for the district title. Dr. Diedrich : game. ; Potato digging was at its height. e thousands and thousands of bushels of tubers were lying in piles on the ground. Serious losses confronted the farmers unless they could be warned. In this emergency the county agents dropped all other husiness and, inside of forty-five minutes telephone messages went to central points in the seven counties and were .oing re- layed out over rural lines. Managers of telephone companies promptly co- operated by sending a general call to rural telephones. As nearly every farm home has a phone, most of the exposed potatoes in a large region had been well covered before night. STATE FARM BUREAU CAMPAIGN THIS WEEK (By United Press.) St. Paul, Oct. 27.—*“Fifty thousand members this week.” This was the slogan today of the Minnesota Federation of Farm Bureaus. A state-wide campaign for members was launched in every coun- ty. Members will be asked to affili- fate with their county farm bureau and thereby become associated with I the state organization. The farm bureaus are organized { with the aid of the University of | Minnesota extension division. PRESIDENT ASKS FOR PROHIBITION BILL Washington, Oct. 27.—*“The presi- dent’s progress continues as during the past few days, satisfactorily,” said a noon bulletin today. Dr. Grayson indicated that the prohibition act, along with Attorney Genesal Palmer’s decision as to its constitutionality would be brought before the president by Secretary Tumulty today. The president had ANNIVERSARY OF ROOSEVELT'S BIRTH 27.—The birthday anniversary of the late Theodore Roosevelt was observed in schools throughout the northwest today. In many cities daylight demon- strations were conducted and in others there will be mass meetings -tonight to memorialize the former president. During the week funds will be rafsed to erect memorials to Roose- velt. One probably will be the estab- lishment of the Rooséyelt home and grounds at Oyster Bay as a national '8t. Paul, Oct. buildingerected at Washington. B DO Epe 1 asked regarding it and arranged a conference with his personal secre- tary. CHILD LABOR TAX CASE BEFORE SUPREME COURT Washington, Oct. 27.—The su- preme court today granted the gov-- ernment permission to take part in the case now before the court, at- tacking the constutionality of the tax on child labor products. SMAT~ BLAZE DOUSED. An incipient fire started on a rear stairway of the Markham hotel late Saturday night and the hotel fire de- partment soon had. the ‘“conflagra- tion” doused, before The origin is unknown. i | T I , the department . announced [ park. The other will probably be a|appeared on the scene.