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DEMAND$25,000 FOR
STATE SOIL SURVEY
Commercial Club Resolutions Also
Seek to Have Department Agri
culture Established.
STATISTICS REQUEST IS MADE
And Would Have Immigration Com
mission Furnish Names of Home
seekers to Dealers.
AUTHIER SENDS HIS REGRETS
Unable to Come to Bemidji But Wires
Suggestions Regarding Work
of Development.
An Immediate soil suivey appro
priation ot $25,000, systematic state
boards, a state department of agri
culture and accessible facts lelative
to the resour\es ot "Minnesota are
things favored in a set of resolutions
adopted at the district meeting of
Commercial clubs in Bemidji Thurs
day evening
The lesolutions complete follow
The Resolutions Complete.
To the distnct meeting of the Feder
ation of Commercial clubs in ses
sion at Bemidji on
xhe 25th day of
February, A 1912
Your committee on lesolutions do
hereby submit the following report
Whereas, it appears from the re
pot ts and discussions of the delegates
in this meeting, that a compiehen
sive soil survey is almost an absolute
necessity for intelligent presentation
to prospective settlers, of the differ
ent classes and kinds of soil that we
have at our disposal all ovei the
state, therefore be it
Resolved, That the delegates to
this meeting do hereby call the at
tention of the parent organization to
this fact to the end that proper ac
tion be taken looking to recommend
ing to the next legislature that an
appropriation of $25,000 be made by
that body for carrying on and mak
ing such a soil survey at the earliest
possible time
Wants Board Reorganized.
Whereas, At the present time the
state of Minnesota has no systematic
and unifoim organization of and cor
relation of various state boards and
commissions, the duties of which re
late to agricultural welfare and de
\elopment, and whereas, in other
states such as New York, it has been
found that such work of state boards
and commissions can be most effi
ciently and economically conducted
by grouping them under a State De
partment of Agriculture, therefore
be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this meeting that such a State De
partment of Agriculture would be
most beneficial and idvisable, and
that all possible effort be exerted by
this organization toward the proper
presentment of this matter before
the public and the forthcoming leg
islature
To Obtain Statistics.
Whereas, It appears that it is dif
ficult to get reliable statistics of the
various products and resources of
Minnesota under the present system
of obtaining them, therefore be it
Resolved, That the parent organi
zation -be requested to take action
looking to the recommendation to the
next legislature of legislation which
will remedy this defeat And be it
further
Resolved, That the reported inten
tion of the Immigration Commission
of the state to furaish legitimate
Minnesota real estate dealers infor
mation regarding persons who desire
Minnesota information, receive our
hearty endorsement and approval.
Respectfully submitted,
M. N Roll,
F. S. Arnold,
Chas S Carter,
Committee of Resolutions
George Authier,.political writer of
the Minneapolis Tribune, who was
to have spoken at the Bemidji meet
ing sent the following telegram*
Authier Wires Advice.
'Personally and necessary reasons
have conspired to keep me away from
the Bemidji meeting*. These circum
stances are a source of great regret
to me. I would have enjoyed the op
portunity of taking some slight part
in the excellent movement which the
Commercial clubs are taking in the
direction of the state development.
"We have such a wonderful state
one with such numerous possibilities
THE BEMIBJJ
for accomplishments and develop
ments that the man who does not
experience a thrill of pride in the
mention ot its name must be callous
and lacking in the warm blood of
appreciation of the things that make
up his home.
Club Can Do Much.
"Your Commercial club can do
much in the way of assisting in
bringing about development of the
state possibilities and in enabling its
people to achieve the things that are
given them to accomplish. It means
well directed effort, well .directed
publicity, and well directed push and
energy. The spirit of the present
time realizes the necessity of getting
the most out "of each unit of energy.
"We have various forces at work
along the line of devolopment. We
have our state fair, the state agri
cultural college with various branch
es, we have agricultural education
our high schools, we have the county
fairs' associations, we have the state
investment board and our immigra
tion commissioner with various oth
er agencies. At present they are
working separately Tn unity there
is strength
What He Would Have Said.
"It 1 could have accepted the invi
tation to speak at your meeting it
would have been largely for the pui
pose of urging unity of effort, of con
centration of power of bringing those
separate forces so they would work
to the best possible advantage with
out waste of energy.
"A department of agriculture
headed by a man competent to
handle this important work seems
to be the answer to the problem, hut
of course, that is merely an opinion
and it might be brought about in
some other way.
Please accept congratulations for
the earnest work which the Federa
tion is doing under tha presidency
of M. Neill of Minnesota, in in
creasing the efficiency ot the citizen
ship of the state. The Tribune is
anxious to co-operate in this good
work
MUST ANSWER FOR DEATH WIFE
Allison MacFarland Said to JJave
Used Deadliest of All Poisons"!
The trial of Allison MacFar
land, the Newark, N advertising
man, accused of the murder of his
wife, Evelyn, who was found dead
October 18 last from cyanide poison
ing, is to begin Monday before Chief
Justice Gummers, of the New Jersey
Supreme Court This will reopen the
case, which bears suf^i a strong re
semblance to the famous Crippen
murder in London On the evening
of October 17, MacFarland and his
six-year-old son went to a theater
in New York, spending the night in
New York Next morning upon his
return home MacFarland found his
wife's body lying across the bed and
their two-year-old daughter playing
around it MacFarland declared that
he had put cyanide in a bottle which
had formerly contained bromidea
drug which his wife took frequently
to relieve headache. It was his in
tention, he said, to clean jewelry
with the cyanide. It is the tehory
of Prosecuting Attorney Wilbur Mott
that the motive for the murder is to
be found in MacFarland's alleged
anxiety to marry Miss Florence
Biomley of Philadelphia.
EXPERT SKIERS MEET AT CARY
Contests on Special Slide to Continue
for Two Days.
Skiers several hundred strong in
vaded Cary, 111, today for the annual
championships of the National Ski
association. The contests, will con
tinue two days. Norway has sent
two of her most famous stars, Svein
Welhaven and Ragnar Omtoedt. The
new artificial course specially con
structed for the meet is the longest
in the country. Situated on the crest
of a natural hill, it affords a slide
of from 500 to 600 feet in length,
with an incline of about 45 degrees.
The hill has a 370-foot natural ele
vation and in addition a steel struc
ture ninety feet in height.
NEW LIGHT ATTRACTS CROWD
Mercury Arc Rectifier at Majestic
Halts Many Evening Pedestrians.
A soft, soothing light, yet of un
usual brilliance, attracted many per
sons to the Majestic theater building
on Third street last evening. The
illumination'was cau^ad by a mer
cury arc rectifier installed by Man
ager C. J. Woodmansee and turned on
last night for the first time. It is
the only machine operated in connec
tion with a moving picture show this
side of St. Paul. This light is said
to much Improve the pictures.
There are still from 30 to 40
"square riggers'* afloat under the
Stars and Stripes^
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OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is 62
years old today.
Representatives ot the Socialist
party in Indiana gathered in Indian
apolis today for a two days' conven
tion to complete plans for an active
campaign this year. Nominations
for a State ticket will be made by
the convention and submitted to a
referendum vote,
Kansans in Washington are to cel
ebrate Monday the anniversary of
the admission of their State into the
Union. Plans for the observance of
the day by the Kansas Association of
Washington include a banquet and
appropriate exercises, with address
es by members of the Kansas delega
tion in Congress.
Governor Woodrow Wilson,"who is
coming to Providence tomorrow for
the purpose of conferring with the
Democratic leaders ot the State upon
the coming presidential campaign
and the general situation in Rhode
Island. During his stay here the
New Jersey executive will be the
guest of former Governor James
Higgins
Emperor William celebrated his
53rd birthday anniversary at Berlin
today The usual court festivities
were attended by royal and princely
persons from all parts of the empire.
Berlin observed the day as a general
holiday, the festivities being in the
nature of a continuation of the Fred
erick the Great bicentenary celebra
tion which has occupied the greater
part of the week.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific and the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroads have arranged to
resume through sleeping car service
tomorrow to Los Angeles and San
Francisco in connection with the
Denver and Rio Grande and South
ern Pacific and Western Pacific lines
This service was discontinued last
September, owing to a controversy
between the lines east and west of
Ogden
Boston gatholies, with, the co-op
eration of members of the denomi
nation throughout New England, to
day completed the elaborate prepara
tions for the welcome of Cardinal
O'Connell upon his return home from
Rome. The new Cardinal and his
suite are passengers on the White
Star liner Canopic, which is due to
arrive at Boston Monday. The cere
monies of welcome will be continued
an entire week.
Boston's annual motor boat show,
the place where the boat builders,
the engine makers, and the manufac
turers of nautical ttings for power
craft disclose to the public their lat
est product for the coming season,
opens in Mechanics' Building tonight
and will continue for one week. Ev
ery available foot of space in the big
exhibition hall is filled with exhib
its. 300 manufacturers having been
assigned places.
Stockholders of the Virginia Rail
way, at their annual meeting in Nor
folk today, voted to increase the cap
ital stock from $36,000,000 to $65,-
000,000. The added capital, it is un
derstood, ig to be employed in exten
sive improvements, with a possible
extension to the Great Lakes through
new lines or purchase of existing
lines. The road was built by the
late H. H. Rogers and is still con
trolled by his estate.
The revenue cutters Miami and
Unalga, the first Government vessels
turned out by a private ship yard, un
der the eighty-hour law, were suc
cessfully launched today at the yards
of the Newport News Shipbuilding
company. The two vessels, with a
displacement of 1100 tons each, will
cost $250,000 apiece. The Unalga is
specially fitted to do police duty in
the North Pacific, while the Miami
is designed for service on the Florida
coast.
Albert W. Wolter, whose murder of
15-year-old Ruth Wheeler horrified
New York two years ago, is to pay
the peanlty of his crime in the death
chair in Sing Sing prison early in
the coming week. Thougb convicted
on circumstantial evidence, the ver
dict was affirmed by the Court of
Appeals and the murdered must die
in the electric chair. Ruth Wheeler,
who had just finished a course in
stenography in a business college,
left her home on March 17, 1910, to
answer an advertisement offering em
ployment. She failed to return and
the next day her family reported her!
disappearance to the police!* A week!
later, Albert Wolter AVas arrested,!
charged with abducting her. He was
about to-be released because of the
weakness of the evidence against
hiin, when the Wheeler girl's body]
was found, burned and wrapped in-4
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VOLUME 9. NUMBER 230. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA* SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK,
(Copyright, 1912)
COX-MAPS FIR E PLANS
To Have 15 Rangers and 150 Patrol
men When Dangerous Season Op
ens in Spring.
ASKS RAIL MEN TO BRAINERD
To arrange tor^ co-operation be
twee a the railroads and tne state for
estry service during the dangerous
fFre^ason of 19T^~WTT Cdx, state
forester has called a meeting of rail
road officials and forest rangers to
be held at Brainerd, Feb. 10, to out
line a plan for fire prevention and
fire protection. Although two months
or more probably will elapse befoje
the season for forest fires begins, Mr.
Cox proposes to have arrangements
completed for protecting northern
Minnesota when that time arrives.
Thirty invitations have been sent
out from the forester's office ad
dressed to railroad presidents, gener
al managers and superintendents,
asking them to be present. Officials
of all roads which operate in North
ern and Central Minnesota are in
cluded.
The problems of patrolling right
of-ways, clearing them of combustible
material, building fire-lines at the
sides, equipping: engines with spark
arresters, organization with the state
forestry service, "will be taken up.
Effort will be made to take up
matters of greatest interest to the
roads, and Mr. Cox believes they will
respond to the call. Railroads are
responsible to property owners along
their lines for damage from fires
which are started by trains or section
men, and it costs them thousands of
dollars each year to settle claims
which arise from such conflagrations.
The railroads have not shown an
antagonistic attitude toward the for
estry service on the fire problem, Mr.
Cox said. They realize the import
ance of its assistance.
During the dangerous season there
will be fifteen rangers and about 175
patrolmen all doing more or less to
prevent damage to property resulting
from train operation. Last year many
of the lines put "speeders" on their
tracks to follow each train by the
men operating them.
The last season of the legislature,
in amending the fire protection laws,
passed an act which authorizes towns
and villages in the fire zone to levy
a 5-mill tax to^ raise money with
which to pay fire patrolmen. These
patrolmen will be added to the usual
force this year and Mr. Cox expects
to have the best organized fire-fight
ing brigade the state has e.Ver had.
FOUND DEAD IN FUNKIEY SHACK
Tom Wallace Believed to Have Been
Victim of Heart Disease.
^Tom Wallace, 50 vears old, was
found dead Thursday in his shack
near Funkley. He' had been living
With a man by the name of Joe Shine.
Wallace is believed to have* a brother
ih the fire department at Detroit^
Mich., and efforts are^being made^td
communicate "with him.
^.Jrkht
V,fSI '-*MF i&fti" ,?4 ^W^^s#^-*lM/,W
Ms**7'
In^ the
meantime the body has been taken
in charge by J. M. Reed, the Black
duck undertaker and 1* no relatives
are heard from, interment will,be
i* 4
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Sunday Services in Bemidji.1
EPISCOPAL. 1
Sunday school will be held ax 10
o'clock, evening services at 8 o'clock.
FIRST SCANDINAVIAN LUTHERAN
There will be services in the morn
ing at 10:30. Sunday School will
be held at 12 o'clock, evening ser
vices at 8 o'clock. A
i
SALVATION ARMY. -I-
Salvation Army meetings Sunday
11 a. m. holiness meeting 2 p. m.
Sunday school 8 p. m. Young Peo
ples' annual. There will be^jbeak
ing, singing, recitations of tlipiun?'
day school. Pr&es will her givetL for
faithful attendance. Adjt. Anderson.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The usual services will be held at
the Presbyterian church tomorrow.
Preaching service will be held,at 11
o'clock, Sunday school and bible
class will be held at 12:15. Young
People's meeting will be held at 7
o'clock and preaching both morning
and evening. Rev. S E. White,
pastor, is conducting special meet
ing in Kelliher.
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Preaching services will be held at
10:45 and 7:30. The subject of the
morning sermon will be "The Gospel
a Necessity to a Man't Faith." The
evening sermon will be on "Changed
to His Likeness." The male quar
tette will sing at the morning ser
vice In the evening Mrs. Dunning
will sing "Face to Face" by Herbert
Johnson. Sunday School will be held
at 12 o'clock. There will be no Ep
worth League meeting on account of
the union meeting: with the "Christ
ian Endeavor of the Presbyterian
church. Prayer meeting will be
held Thursday evening A cordial
invitation is extended to the public
Chas. H. Flesher, pastor.
.it'
LOUIS ANDERSON BUYS LAND
To Clear 800 Acres at Nebish and
Start Dairy and Stock Farm.[
l H1
"Louis Anderson, proprietor of 2the
Lake Shore hotel here, yesterday
closed a deal for 800 acres of land
near Nebish He will begin at dnce
to clear the land and will put about
2,000 cords of wood on the market
next spring. After clearing the land
he will at once establish a dairy and
stock farm to supply tb northern
part of the county with butter, milk
and beef. i
HUNTER DEVOURED BT WOLVES
Remains of Unidentified Man and His
Dogs Found in Michigan
Eagle River, Mich., Jan. 27.^T he
partially devoured remains of an un
identified hunter and two dogs,[evi-
dently killed by wolv?s, were found
yesterday near Birch river, The in
dications are that the man .Succumb
ed only after a fierce battle, them be
ing four dead wolves, also partially
devoured, near.by
bei
A wolf hu
organized by farmers^
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Miss McManus to Become Bi
Announcement has hfeenjma
the "coming marriage of |fii
McManus of this city to Georgi ?Mc
Donald Winnipeg. Th*^ maiMage
will^akef pfacV on Tuesday molding
at St. Philip's, Catholic churchj Rev,
3*
'REAU2A5niQra
CAN BUILD CAR LINES
Supreme Court Upholds Judge Stan
ton's Decision Permitting Rails in
International Falls Streets.
OPINION IS GIVEN BY BUNN
A supreme court decision handed
down yesterday by Justice Bunn up
holds the opinion of District Judge
SJ&nton in tbe action brought by In
ternational Falls in an unsuccessful
effort to stop the laying of street car
tracks in that city.
The supreme court decision fol
lows: City of International Falls, appellant,
vs. Minnesota, Dakota and West
ern Railway company, respondent.
Syllabus: FirstThe legislature
has power to grant authority to a
railroad company to cross public
highways and street, and authority
to construe^ a railroad between des
ignated points implies authority to
crossiftftghways and streets which the
railroad intersects. The legislature
may require that a franchise be ob
tained from a city or village before
a railroad company is permitted to
cross streets in such city or village,
but in the absence of such require
ment, a franchise from the city or its
consent is not necessary.
SecondR. L. 1905, section 2641,
construed, and held, following Min
neapolis & St. Paul Suburban Rail
way companyvvs. Manitou Forest Syn
dicate, 101 Minn., 132, not to require
a franchise to be obtained from a city
or village before a railroad company
constructs its tracks across streets in
such village or city.
ThirdR. L. 1095, section 2916,
construed, and held, lot to require
such a franchise, or that there be an
agreement between the city or vil
lage and the railway company as to
the manner, terms and conditions up
on which a street may be crossed by
the railroad.
FourthConceding that under sec
tion 2916 a railroad company may
and must acquire the right to cross
a street in a city or "illage by con
demnation proceedings, equity will
not enjoin such crossing before such
proceedings are^ begun, it appearing
conclusively that the necessity exists
and that such city or village has at
all times an absolute right to com
pel the railroad company to make the
crossing safe for public use. i
FifthA city or village has no pro
prietary rights in its streets. What
ever rights it has are held merely in
trust for he public uset^It is not
entitled to compensation when a rail
way company crosses its tracks, and
the constitutional provision that pri
vate property shall not be taken for
public use without, just compensation
first paid or secured, does, not apply.
Order affirmed. ^^Bunn, J.
#i Reuben S. Hurd Dies Today. &4
^Reuben S.'Hurd, 706 Thirteenth
street, an old resident of Bemidji,
died at 1 p. m. today at his home
here. Funeral announcement will be
made later.
JpAs rice production has about
reached its limit, and the fish sup
ply is diminishing Japan is looking
toward the potato as a future food
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HlSTBlC^t
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FORBIDSWRESTLING
BOUT IN CITY HALL
Following Protest, Acting Mayor
Johnson Stops Match Between Ter
rible Swede and Reo.
HELD QUESTION OF MORALITY
Sparring^ Exhibition of Spooner on
New Year's Has Bearing on Ac
tion Taken Here..
MEN ADMIT ACT IS RIGHT
No Written Lawto Present Contest
But Official Believes it Would
Be Improper.
The "Terrible Swede" will not go
up against Reo tonight.
At least this wrestling match will
not take place in the City Hall.
F. Johnson, president of the city
council and, during the absence of
Mayor John Parker, acting mayor,
has officially forbidden the bout.
These Were to Clash.
Frank Svanson, known as the
"Terrible Swede" was to have taken
on Young Reo, champion middle
weight of the Pacific. It was to be
a match
Handbills were distributed an
nouncing the impending battle and
giving the City Hall as the place and
Saturday evening as the time.
Citizens Remember Spooner Match.
Certain citizens began to ponder
over the idea of permitting such a
proceedings in the City Hall They
didn't think it quite the proper
thing Then they remembered that
at Spooner xm. 'New Year's night there
was a sparring .match in the City
HaH and that the next day one of
the contestants died.
Since then Spooner has been in the
limelight and Bemidji1
persons op-
posed to the match tonight figured
that perhaps this city would be sub
ject to criticism.
Johnson Takes Action.
"These objections sounded reason
able to me," said Acting Mayor John
son this afternoon, "and even the
wrestlers admitted the point raised
so I declared the match off. While
there is nothing in the written law
forbidding a wrestling match, the
moral law hardly would harmonize
with permitting an event of this kind
to be pulled off in property owned
by the city. Anyhow, the people re
quested that the bout be stopped and
I wished to request their wishes."
Had Leased the Hall.
The wrestlers had leased the hall
but in a round about way. The
council several weeks ago extended
power to the mayor to lease the hall
and when Mr. Parker is out of town
Mr. Johnson sanctioned the renting
of the hall, and when Mr. Johnson
is unable to attend to it, City Clerk
George Stein attends to the leasing.
When the wrestlers applied for the
hall, it so happened that neither
Mayor Parker, President Johnson nor
City Clerk Stein were here and in
their absence the lease was executed
by Special Officer Fred Bursley.
DITCH BONDS HELD VALID
Decision in Roseau Case Establishes
Legality of Proceedings.
County ditch bonds to the amount
of $2,700,000 held in the permanent
trust funds of the state of Minnesota,
were indirectly held valid obligations
of the counties issu'ng them and
the state authorities relieved of ap
prehension as to the security for
loans of that amo'unt by a decision of
the supreme court in a Roseau county
drainage ditch bonds case. A small
issue of bonds for a ditch in that
county caused a suit by W. E. Van
Pelt, as a taxpayer against County
Auditor S. C. G. Bertilrud and the
county commissioners, in which he
sought to restrain the sale on the
ground that he would have to pay
interest on obligations for which he
would receive no benefit as the pro
posed ditch was not in his part of the
county. Because of 'he threatened
peril to the state's $2 700,000 of se-^
curities, a brief on hehalf of the state"*"
was filed by C. Louis Weeks, attorney^
general. The court holds the pro-3
posed" bonds a direct general obliga-f"
tion of the state. Under the law the^
county issues' bonds and pays for a
ditch, with the ^proceeds, later 'ref||
couping^ itself by an assessment on
iienefited property