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VOLUME XV. NO. 153.
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On Sunday and Monday, June 17
and 18, two splendid looking "lum
berjacks" visited the "club" district
of this county and were so royally
welcomed at one of the clubs that
recommendations were issued to all
the other clubs.
The boys had plenty of coin to
spend and, naturally, the hospitality
extended them was the most cordial.
They made friends at each of the
clubs and it is needless to say they
"thirsted not" while in that sec
tion.
Who "Jacks" Were.
When these fellows arrived in Be
midji the following day it developed
that they were not lumberjacks at
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DUHKlSlioMi^UARDS
EXPLAINED QUESTIONS
ANSWEREDBY TOWNE
In order that Bemidji people may
understand more about the Minne
sota Home Guards enlistments for
which are now being taken to com
plete the organization of Com
pany Tenth Battalion, E.
P. Towne of Duluth, who is in
charge of enrollments of candidates
th'ere has issued a list of questions
*and answers, explaining the features
of this new war branch.
Mr. Towne's list of questions and
answers follows:
"Q. Who are eligible to enlist
ment?
"A. All able-bodied citizens from
18 to 52 years of age and also those
of draft ages, who, by reason ot de
pendents or otherwise, are exempt
from the draft in the opinion of the
enlisting officer.
"Q. What is the term of enlist
ment?
"A. For the period of the war.
-&Q. Is the Home Guard subject to
Federal call.
"A! NO. The oath of enlistment
oall 'or service in Minnesota only.
It calls for obedience to the gover
nor's order and not those of the
president. The guard is enlisted
without physical examination and the
age linlits under federal aid impos-
"Q. Can a guard member later
enlM in the Fpderal service?
"Q. Yes. The order establishing
the guard provides for honorable
What is Bemidji going to do on
the Fourth of July? This question
is being asked daily. Hundreds of
towns in Northern Minnesota are
making preparations in the nature of
u. ".\ar" celebration. They are mak
ing it an enrollment day for the men
who volunteer their services for the
war with Germany.
Announcement to this effect has
been made by the members of the
recruiting committees of the various
organizations conducting the "7
men" campaign throughout Northern
Minnesota and programs are being
prepared in 300 towns and villaees
that will make the offers and accept
ances of service for the war the big
outstanding feature of the nation's
birthdav
A corps of officers of the Sieur du
L'Hut battalions and a number of
regular army recruiting agents are
preparing to make a canvass of all
of the 300 towns in the Duluth re
cruiting district for the purpose of
advising local committees as to the
enrolment and enlistment of re
emits
Tentative programs for the Fourth
of Jaly celebrations in each of the
villages and towns have been pre-
'LUMBER JACKS'PAY
VISIT TO JOINTS
WERE DETECTIVES
ANDGOODSPENDERS
Northern Minnesota Towns
ToCelebrate July Fourth as
Volunteer Enrollment Day
all, but detectives from "somewhere."
They came back with a splendid re
port.
"We got 'in right' at the very jump
when we visited Waskish club," was
their report and then proceeded to
give the details to the county attor
ney of their fine trip.
The result was that eighteen war
rants were issued, nine of which were
used by the sheriff and his deputies
and the other nine may or may not
be used, just as the county attorney
sees fit.
The present campaign is just a
starter, according to Mr. Torrance,
and should demonstrate the fact that
the authorities and citizens will no
longer tolerate the conduct of booze
joints in this county.
discharge in case of such enlistment
"Q What will be the duties of
the guard?
"A. Following is the resolution
adopted by the Minnesota safety
commission, defining the duties: 'It
is the sense of the commission, that
members of the Home Guard are lia
ble td general duties and obligations
of members of the National Guard.
It is not the purpose, however, to
call on the Home Guard for any duty
that can as well be performed by
civilian officers or private watch-
men.'
"Q. Where can further questions
be answered and enlistments made?
"A On apDlication to E. P.
Tfowne, 500 Tbrrey building, Du-
luth."
TWO DRUNKS ARRESTED
William Brown and Nels Rogors.
both transients, WPT*P brought before
Municipal Judge OMhbons this morn
ing, charged with drunkenness.
Rrnwn was fitied $5 and Rogers $10
Both paid their fines.
SPLENDID RED CROSS
SHOWING BY MISS DEAN
Of the hustling committee of the
First ward in securing memberships
for the Red Cross chapter, Miss Vel
ma Dean makes a record showing
Out of the 221 members secured
in that ward up to Thursday evening
she secured 102. Other members of
the committee are doing splendid
work and conducting the campaign
in a businesslike manner, is the re
port of Chairman W E Dean
pared, although the officers in charge
state that they would prefer to have
the local committee provide its own
program always.
Public Enrollment.
The plan is to make the public
enrollment of the men who enlist for
the Sieur L'Hut battalions the big
feature of the day's exercises with a
parade of all the civic organizations
and military bodies in each city. The
G. A. and Spanish war veterans
have been formally designated a
guard of honor for the recruits for
the various branches of the military
service.
It has been learned there is con
siderable misunderstanding of the re
lation of the volunteer to the war and
the officers who are going out into
the country are primarily charged
with clearing this up The Sieur du
L'Hut battalions and the regular
army are to be filled with volunteers
onlj No drafted men are to be
taken into either of these organiza
tions That is why stress has hen
laid on "7 men' feature of the cam
paign and these svmbols have been
used There are "seven men" need
ed cut of each 1,000 of the popula
tion as volunteers
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THE BEMIDJI DAILY PI
FIVE MORE BOOZE JOINTS AR
The Pioneer herewith gives
publicity to an account of the
pulling of five more booze
joints that have been running
wide open. Nine arrests were
made and a large quantity of
liquor has been taken and
brought to Bemidji.
For some time these places
have been under surveillance
and a mass of evidence col
lected
Those arrested have been
rought to the county seat. The
"pinch" was made at 7 o'clock
this morning by Sheriff John
son, Deputy Sheriff Denley and
a special posse of prominent
citizens of Bemidji.
And this notice is served in
advance that no apologies need
be demanded of the Pioneer by
some ardent booze game lover
for writing up an account of
the "pulling" of these law vio
lating booze free-for-alls.
NO YESTERDAY S NEWS BU TODAY S NEW S TODAY-B THE^ggffr UNITE PRESS
BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA. FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE 22. 1917.
Sheriff Johnson and Posso Swoop Lino
ADVANCE NOTICE
Cooked Meal
For Visitors
ThenArrested
When Albert Klevin and W.
Brandborg dropped in on the "Mid
way Club" early this morning they
did not state the purpose of their
visit to Gus Olson, so Gus invited
them to stay for breakfast.
After Gus served the breakfast,
which he cooked himself, Mr. Klevin
Informed Mr Olson what they were
there for and then proceeded to take
general charge of the premises. Gus
smiled and was even kind to the un
grateful visitors.
CLEARWATERCOUNTY TO
BE TAKEN OVER BY THE
BELTRAMI RED CROSS
Tomorrow has been designated as
Children's Day during Red Cross
iT-peV A hox will be installed at
the Red Cross headquarters in the
etnian Insurance office, where chil
dren may deposit their "bit," from
a r"nn up
Many towns in the county are be
coming interested in Red Cross work
Tenstrike has sent in its first papers,
making application to become a
branch of the local Red Cross chap
ter Blackduck is also organizing
Word has been received from Wash
ington, C, requesting the Bel
trami county chapter to take over
Clearwater county also, as there is
no Red Cros organization there
It is expected that the amount col
lected bv the different wards here
will amount to $2,500 by this eve
ning
BERGH TO MUCH FOR
MERCHANT'SBALLTEAM
The Bemidji merchants may be
baseball playersbut be that as it
maythey are more than willing
to admit that the farmers are a few
too many for them, which admission
was plainly shown by the outcome of
yesterday's game. The farmers trim
med the merchants to the tune of 9
to 2.
The trouble with the merchants
was that they just couldn't hit that
man Bergh. The only close call to
a good hit was Nat Given's two
bagger.
The lineup:
MerchantsPogue, pitcher Her
bert, catcher Erickson, first base:
Halgren, second base Petrie, third
base Barker, shortstop Given, cen
ter field Kittleson, left field Leibs
le, right field.
FarmersBergh, pitcher Pete
Edd, catcher Trafton, first base:
Tellman, second base King, third
base Grover, shortstop Englebret
zen, center field Gardner, left field
Sheets, right field.
ALLEGED THIEF ARRESTED
Scott C. Tarus, who was arrested
by the Bemidji police yesterday on
a warrant issued bv the Internation
al Falls police for the theft of clown
ing and money in that city, was 'an-
en back this morning bv Chief of
Police Kirkpatrick of International]
Falls.
On nine warrants issued
through County Attorney Gra
ham M. Torrance a grand "Klu
Klux Klan'' raid, led by Sher
iff Andrew Johnson and Dep
uty George Denley was success
fully executed at 7 o'clock this
morning on five "clubs" or
"drinking parlors," located
north and west of and in the
vicinity of Kelliher.
The warrants were issued
charging some with running an
unlicensed drinking place, some
with selling liquor without a li
cense and some with doing both.
The evidence secured by Coun
ty Attorney Torrance before
the raid was made, together
witJ) the loads of booze and
beer captured by the sheriff and
his able deputies this morning,
would lead the average layman
to believe that a trial would be
unnecessary in order to secure
a conviction.
Sheriff's Deputies,
Never before in the history
of Beltrami county did so many
prominent business and pro
fessional men, who represent
the best citizenry of Bemidji,
act in such an official capacity
JIS did the deputies who assisted
the sheriff in this haul of bot
tles, barrels, kegs and cases of
"delicious" beverages. Here are
the men who did the business
and answered the call to duty:
Dr. G. M. Palmer.
Thomas W. Swinson.
G. D. Backus.
G. E. Carson.
E. L. Benner.
James Black.
Albert Klevin.
C. W. Brandborg.
Under the direction of Sher
iff Johnson and Deputy George
Denley every "joint" was
"pinched" at the same hour, 7
o'clock this morning. These
STATE FAIR RESOURCES
TO AID GOVERNMENT
(By United Press)
St. Paul, June 22.The resources
and machinery of all state fairs are
to be placed at the disposal of Her
bert Hoover in the food control cam
paign. The matter will be placed
before the authorities at Washing
ton tomorrow.
ELABORATE PLANS FOR
BIRCHMONT OPENING
Very elaborate plans are being
made for commencinb the 1917 sea
son at Birchmont Tuesday, June 26
Festivities are to start with a big
banquet at 6:30 p. followed by
the Birchmont annual grand ball
This will be a program affair Fa
vors will be give nthe ladies
Do not neglect getting tickets
early CARLOADSOFBOOZEANDBEER,
FIXTURES AND BOOZE CLERKS
BROUGHT TO BEMIDJI AND
GUARDED AT RAIDED JOINTS
But Deputies
Were There
"Tip'TooLate
While Deputy Denley was at the
back door of the Provo club, G.
Backus held the fort in the front
room. All of a sudden the telephone
bell commenced to ring. Mr. Back
us quietly took up the receiver and
this is what he heard:
'The sheriff and deputies are
coming. Get rid of the stuff.
Notify the Midway club."
But the message came too late.
men were selected by the sher
iff ami county attorney because
they needed men who could be
absolutely relied upon. That
they made no mistake is self
evident.
Here's Ihe Crist.
Chris Rogers was nabbed at
the Shotley club by Thomas W.
Swinson and Dr. G. M. Palmer.
They found on the premises
15 barrels of beer and six cases
of booze.
The weight of the prize is 4,-
500 pounds, according to a re
port from the deputies.
At the Provo club on a war
rant issued for Joe Doe, G. D.
Backus and Deputy Denley
captured a Frenchman, whose
name at this writing could not
be learned, a quantity of
beer, one case of beer and two
of booze.
"Mhlimy Club" Taken.
(Jus Olson, who was found
in charge of the "Midway
Club" by C. W. Brandborg anil
Albert Klevin in company with
two barrels of leer and two gal
lons of whisky, was taken into
AMERICAN FLAG IS
FLYING AT THE FRONT
(By United Press)
With the British armies, June 22.
The American flag is flying over
the great base hospitals widely scat
tered over the battle zones of
France. American doctors and nur
ses are relieving the British work
ers. NEARLY TEN MILLION
REGISTRATION SHOWS
(By United Press)
Appeal In Wet and Dry
Case Is On Hearing Today
Washington, June 22 The com
plete registration roll shows 9,649,-
938 names, it was announced today, a short time iday.
P-^St 'Ai
the confidence of the deputies
and brought to Bemidji this
morning.
The sheriff and James Black
made the trip to Waskish and
there took into custody Frank
Lyon and another man suppos
edly Robert Putman, for whom
a warrant had been issued. They
found a thousand pounds of
beer and booze. Mr. Lyon, it
is understood, sold his place to
Mr. Putman last Sunday noon.
Both are charged with selling
booze on that same Sunday, one
in the morning and the other in
the afternoon.
Another "Club" liafjr/eii.
G. E. Carson and KL L. Ben
ner visited the Battle River
club, which i-s
located about six
and one-half miles west of Kel
liher. There they laid claim
to one Ed Springfield, appar
ently in charge of the club and
also took possession of seven
eases of booze, three barrels of
beer and two barrels of whisky.
The deputies and their pris
oners are scheduled to reach
IJemidji by auto some time this
afternoon. Albert Klevin, who
reached here this noon with his
man and carload of evidence,
reported that the others would
follow shortly.
d. D. Backus and Dr. Pal
mer arrived here with prison
ers shortly after 1 o'clock.
Tote Booze to Kelliher.
In most cases there was too
much "evidence" to carry by
auto, so the stuff was hauled by
drays and cars to Kelliher,
where it will be loaded aboard
train and routed to Bemidji in
charge of the sheriff. Thomas
Swinson and C. W. Brandborg
were deputized to watch tiie
precious stuff until it was load
ed. They are expected to re
turn this evening or early to
morrow morning.
(By United Press)
St. Paul, June 22.Beltrami
county may become dry if the su
preme court decides that Indians can
not vote at a county option election.
At the county option election held
last August the prohibition forces
lost by 15 votes. There were 52 In
dians in the Red Lake reservation
who voted at the election. Their
right to vote was contested in the
Beltrami county district court which
held that they were entitled to the
vote. An appeal was taken to the
supreme court and the case set for
argument Friday.
If the supreme court holds that
the Indians could not vote legally
the county will be declared dry.
ABLE TO BE OffT
Frank T. Beaver, editor of the
Pioneer, was able to be at the office
aftf***-.