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J-4 J-X. -jc*- f*^ ?V1 i J1' "v~.' VOLUME XVJ. NO. 300 VIOLATORS OF LIQUOR LAWS SENTENCED TO COUNTY JAIL .Heavy Fines Afco Imposed and Must Be Paid or Term Extended ONE PRISONER SENTENCED TO TERM SEVEN YEARS Strawfrridge Scheduled Come Next Grist of Court Thus Far results5* to In the present term of the district coir*t, -Judge Stanton, presiding. Counts* Attorney Torrance is batting in thPl00 "class, judginin from th he obtained prosecue tions '*tbt tfie state in liquor law violation. The1 cause o- the state agains^ Jade Conley, a railroad employe, who is charged with peddling booze, one of.hose to whom he sold liquor .be- ing discovered intoxicated, and who "tipped off" the one who sold hin*tfc% -s^lff,continuede *\:.WQB is in- th ^ihtar^^ndcfeis.case The case against Ray Schuster, ar rested for violation of the "Hd"'law, was taken ofLeall. The cases against Louis Straw bridge are due on call this afternoon. In all others there were either pleas of guilty or convictions where trial was held.' The punishment in cluded fines and jail sentences. \_ One, Exception. The exception to the list of liquor lav offenders was that of Stephen CPPonnell, whd at one time, not BO long ago, had a?respectable fellow ar rested on a charge of having been too & fanrtW with 0i'Q9SBgilJS.step daugh ter. The affair had decidedly un savory aspect "aiid ah investigation was started! It transpired that the step father was himself guilty of pro moting the delinquency ,of the girl, and serious accusations were made against him. His arrest followed, he was indicted* aha at the trial proved guilty 6y a number of witnesses. Following is the grist run through the lefal mill of this term thus far: '1 What They Drew. State vs Ingval SandThree in dictments, convicted by Jury, given 90 days in jail and fined $100 and cosfs." Case in second indictment called this afternoon*. State vs Mike AndersonTwo in dictments, plea of guilty, fined ?100 and 90 days in jail. State vs. William PickeringTwo indictments, pleaVof guilty 30 days jail sentence and fine of ?50 and costs, sentence suspended pending good behavior. State vs William Young dictments, plea pf guilty, 30 days jail sentence and fine of $100 and coats 30 days added to sentence if fine not paid. State vs Parrick McTavishTwo indictments, plea of guilty on trial 30 days jail sentence and fine of $100 and costs, or 30 days added if fine not paid. During the trial, defendant chang ed his mind,and pleaded guilty. State vs William NocholsonTwo indictments, plea of guilty on trial 30 days in county jail and $100 fine and costs 30 days added in case of fine not paid. State vs Richard RunnihgTwo Indictments, plea of guilty on trial 30 days in county jail and fine of $100 and costs: 30 days added in case fine not paid. State vs W. F. HackettThree in dictments, continued to Febuary term, bond increased from $500 to $1,000. State vs Jack ConleyOne indict- Postmasterteneral Burleson has announced a scale of greatly reduced rtes for short over-night messages, as distinguished from the longer night letters. .T*enew rates go into effect on January 1 and should prove to be of great value I conjunction with short communications which should not suffer tiie delays inherent in ohysical transportation by the railway mail service, but which are not of sufficient urgency or impor tance to warrant the payment of the "-minimum charges heretofore in effect for telegraphic transmission. Under the new schedule, short over-night messages may be sent a considerable distance for as low as 20 cents, while the maximum is only SO ceati against a dollar maximum which has prevailed. fB United Press.) Copenhagen, Dec. 10Desperate, but unsuccessful attempt was made bv the former emneror of Germany to commit suicide, is declared, by-the teiosieer Tftgreblatt. The newspaper said it received its information from a German staff of ficer wounded in frustrating- the for mer kaiser. The officer said the ex ruler was much depressed of late. PREMIER WOULD KILL SELF. Amsterdam, Dec. 10-Count Karo lvi. Hungarian premier, attempted to jcomit-suicide Sunday, acording to a Budapest dispatch. He is said to have been despondent over the politi cal situation in Hungary. NOEL WIRES MOTHER 'COMING HOME SOON' Arthur Noel, of the aviation sec tion, son of Mrs. Jennie Noel of rural route No. lf Bemidji, is another solr jdiiBr-whA -will s0n be-ijome^rom ftempstead L. X," troni which point he wires his mother. He leaves the latter part of this week for Camp Dodge and expects to be mustered out soon. In his wire, like many another red-blooded soldier son, he naively concludes, "am broke, but feeling .O.K." And mother knows what that means. C. M. & ST. P. OrTIOALS SILENT ON ELECTRIFYING (By United Press.) St. Paul, Dec. 10.Officials of the Chicago, -Milwaukee and St. Paul railway were silent today on the pos sibility of extending electrification of its line eastward from the mountain region. Announcement that the Anaconda Copper company has received an or der for six "million pounds of copper wire to be used in connection with its electrification system save rise to the belief that the road might be (permitted to greatly extend is elec trification. .There was a report sim ultaneously that the St, Paul ter minals, operated bKiJthe. St.. Paul: Union depot company might be elec trified. The latter corporation is now building a new depot in St. Paul and at a recent meeting enlarged the financial outlay considerably. This, also, was pointed out in support of the rumor that electrification of tbe terminals might be carried out. This Two in- {"{vould be subject to federal approval. The Anaconda order is taken to indicate that the St. Paul road will be permitted to indulge extensively in improvements. ment selling liquor-to a minor, con tinued to February term, enli3ted in army. State vs Stephen O'DonnellOne indictment, guilty on trial of statua tory charge sentenced to seven years in the penetentiary at Stillwater. State vs Mrs. Fred ReyoirOne indictment, violation of liquor law, plea of guilty, 30 days in county jail and firieof $60. State vs Elmer MooreheadOne indictment storing liquor near Bau dette, six barrels of whiskey guilty, fine $50 and costs and 30 days in jail, sentence suspended to September. The attorneys defending these of fenderes were P. J. Russell, Col. Henry Funkley, and George Ericson of Spoon er. REDUCED NIGHT LETTER RATE EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, SAYS KEKOE o- Manager R. E. Kehoe pf the Be midji Western Union office advises that this new night message service does not interfere in any way with the popular night letter service, but fs intended to supplement it in con junction with shorter communica tions which nave been going by mail but which should desirably go by telegraph. Now that the telegraphs are operated as an integral part of the postoffice service, it is understood to be the policy of Postmaster Gen eral Burleson to give the public an opportunity to make the wide3t use of the telegraph service in the elim ination of delays to communications due to separation by distance, at the lowest rates which tbe actual cost of performing the service on a standard ised basis, will permit. By courtesy of Fitzpatrick. LIEUT. FOUCAET IS HOME FROM SERVICE: WILL RAILROAD AGAIN The "boys" are commencing to1 come home from military service for Uncle Sam during the war and among them is Lieut. Clarence Foucault from Camp Green, CharlottejfrN. C, who has received his release from ser vice. His coming is due to the fact that his company of colored "pion eer" troops has been demoblized. Foucault's part in 4he big fuss has been unique. He has served an en listed term in the United States coast artillery and was with the M. & I. railroad when the war broke. He left his work and again entered the serv ice, being assigned to the recruiting office of Bemidji when Major John D. Yost, U. S. A., war ordered from California to take charge of the Min nesota recruiting, 15,000 men having been enlisted in Minnesota within a year after Yost took charge. Bemidji set a record for recruiting and at tracted the attention of the entire state. When the recruiting offices were closed, the then Sergeant Foucault was ordered to report at headquar ters, sent to Camp Dodge, promoted to lieutenant and assigned to com mand a company at Camp Green, scheduled to go "oVer seas," but the armistice caused a change in the en tire military program of the nation. He will again enter the employ of the M. & I. railroad. REYNOLDS COMING BACK ORDER HOLDS UP HEN Mrs. H. E. Reynolds received a message from New York City, stating that her husband, Lieut. H. E. Reyn olds, was on his*way home. It appears that lack of finances for .M. C. A. work at Che present time in Europe is responsible for an order to hold up all shipments of workers called in the interest of the "Y" in its war work. ARTICLES FOR CHURCH SALE ARE CALLED FOR Mrs. E. E. Kenfield, chairman of the work committee, requests that all ladies of the Presbyterian church, who have made articles for the fancy work sale to be held Saturday in the church basement, will kindly take same to tbe home of Mrs. A. Flatner before Friday evening, so that they can be marked for the sale. YOU CANT GET TODAYS NEWS OUT OF YESTERDAY'S PAPERS-READ THE -PIONEER MINNESOT A i HE HAS ANSWERED HIS ROLL CALL-WILL YOU 4VrO' WINNIPEG GROWING IN SPJUT AED BUSINESS (By United Press.) Winnipeg, Dec. 10. Statistics available at the building inspector's office show that there are now 130 church in Winnipeg. There are 30,- 000 residences, 650 warehouses, near ly 400 business blocks, and approxi mately 500 apartment blockB. POLMAN LEAVES DRAFT BOARD UPON ORDER With the government order, which commences the abandonment of the draft boards, in effect today, Victor Polman, sent to the Beltrami county board by the war department, will leave today for Camp Dodge upon order. Polman is a fine- young chap and was recommended for the local board by Major Snyder of Fort Snelling. He came when the war department co-operated with the big registry on September 12 and while in Bemidji made many good friends. BASKET BALL FANS DISCUSS CITY TEAM A few of the fans interested in basketball met at the Commercial club rooms last night and discussed the possibility of organizing an all city basket ball team, with a view of scheduling games with various teams of northern Minnesota. It was decided to name a committee to secure a playing hall and ascer tain other details. The committee named consists of W. L. Brooks, E. H. Denu, C. M. Jacobson, Dr. Diedrlch. FUNERAL HELD TODAY. The funeral of Nicholas Zender, age 50, was field this morning from the Catholic church at 9:30 o'clock, Rev. Father J. J. T. Philippe officiat ing, and H. N. McKee acting as funeral director. Interment was in the Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Zender died from meningitis, caused by a fall from a wagon here several days ago. He was a native of Germany but had lived in America for the past thirty years and in Be midji for the past three years. He was an employee of the Bemidji Manufacturing company. Mr. Zender was a valued employe of the Bemidji Manufacturing com pany and in his honor the plant closed for the funeral to allow the employe! to attend "r^ J'S'fWfj BEMIDJI, MINN., TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 10, 1918 FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH j...rt-fv**?'*- T^r Pio: -S^^l HUN BOLSHEVIK! IN PROCLAMATION HURLS DEFIANCE AT ENTENTE (By United Press.) Paris, Doc. 10."We refuse peace with the entente and intend to over throw the present government with in a.fortnight," declared Karl Lieb knecpt, leader of the German bolshe vik!, in a proclamation issued in Ber lin, acoruMng to a Zurich dispatch, to day. About 120 persons have been killed and a thousand wounded in the re cent skirmishes in the German capi tal between bolshevikj forces and government troops. STATE LEGISLATURE TO DISCUSS FOREST FIRES St. Paul, Dec. 10.The coining Minnesota legislative session will dis cuss fully the forest fire situation, according to members of both bodies here today. Reports of Governor Burmjuist and the state forestry body will be the basis of discussion, and it is prac tically certain that Increased pro tection will result. Senators and rep resentatives here for preliminary con ferences are determined there shall be no recurrence of the holocaust that struck northeastern Minnesota early this fall. The request of the forestry hoard for an appropriation of $300,000 to increase forest fire protection probably will be complied with. Many legislators are in favor of even more extensive protection. Much debate is expected on this subject in both houses. It is not im probable, representatives say, that the legislature will demand prose cution as a result of the 1918 forest fires, unless the state forestry di vision has taken some action by the time the legislative session gets un der way. WANING OF CRESCENT. (By United Press.) Minneapolis, Dec. 10."Waning of the Turkish Crescent will be outlined to the Minnesota commandery, mili tary order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, meeting here to night. Rev. George E. White, presi dent of Tnatolia college, Lassovan, Turkey, will be the speaker. The educator will appear at tbe annual banquet of the commandery in the West hotel here, ORIGAl f-V'SU. iv** PRESIDENT IN i PROCLAMATION URGES AU TO JOIN THE C. Christm as Roll Call Week to Be Dec. 16 to 23 Cam paign Nation* Wide LOCAL CHAPTER WILL TA KE PART IN DRIVE Membership Renewals and New Members Should Join Noble Organization Bemidji .will play her part in the American Red Cross Christmas roll call week, December 16 to 23, when he nation-wide campaign for re newal of memberships and securing new members will be on. A com mittee i already at work on prepara tions for the campaign by the south Beltrami county chapter, and to the nation President WilBon lias issued a proclamation urging every one to loin the Red Cross and thus send forth to the whole human family the Christmas greeting for which it waits uid for which it stands in greatest need. President's Fioclamation. Tlio proclamation, prepared before th president departed for Europe, follows: "To the American people: One year ago 2 2,000,000 Americans, by enrolling a.s members of the Red Cross at Christmas time, sent to the men who were fighting our.battles overseas a stimulating message pf cheer and good will. They madeJt clear that our people were of their own free choice united with their governmer/t In the" determination "not" only to wage war with the lustrum mentH of destruction, but also by every means of their power to repay the ravages of the invader and sus tain and renew the spirit of the army and of the homes which they repre sented. The frionds of the American Red Cross in Italy, France and Bel gium have told and will'tell again the ntory of how the Red Cross work era restored morale In the hospitals, is tho camps and at the cantonments^ and we ought to b# very proud that we have been permitted to be of serv ice to those whos# sufferings ahd whaie glory are tb heritage of hu manity. Messaee of Peace. "Now, by Qod's grace, the Red Cross Christmas message of 1918 Is to be a message of pence as well as a message of good will. But peace does not mean that we can fold our hands, It means further sacrifice. We must prove conclusively to an atten tive world that America is 'perma nently aroused to.the needs of the now era, our old indifference gone forever. "The exact nature of the future service of the Red Cross will depend upon the program of the associated ^ovnrnmentB, but there Is Immediate need today for every heartening word a'nd for every helpful service. We must uot forget that our soldiers apd our sailors are still under orders and still have duties to perform of the highest conseouence, and that the Red Cross Christmas membership means a great deal to them. The people of the saddened lands, more over, returning home today, where there are not homes, must have the assurance that the hearts of our peo ple are with them in the dark and doubtful days ahead. Let us, ao far as we can. help them back to faith in mercy and in future happiness. "As president of the Red Cross, conscious In this great hour of the value of such a message from the American people, I should be glad.If every American would join the Red Cross for 1919 and lb us send forth to the whole human family the Christmas greeting for which It awaits and for which it stands in greatest need. "WOODROW WILSON'." DRAFT BOARD SELECTIVE MUSTEREDJHJT TONIGHT (By United Press.) St. Paul, Dec. 10.All selective service men. employed on Minnesota draft boards, will have been mus tererd out of service by midnight to night. State draft officials say there have been 162 men employed in this service. War work of the Minnesota draft boards fs practically ended. The questionnaires of registrants be tween 19 and 36 are practically all in, officials say, and there will be ho further classification of these men. The draft boards are prepared to take up any further suggestions and gov ernment may make to them in recon struction work. 11,1,1 ,-:)'itta-.'- i &