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GRANT VALLEY MAN
i FIRST PLAGUE VICTIM
George Knapp of Grant Vally died
in the Bemidji hospital Saturday
from Spanish influenza and pneu
monia. He is the first victim to have
died from this disease in Bemidji.
DR. LARSON FIGHTS TO
v.
Mrs. Thayer C. Bailey nas accepted
a position with the First National
bank in this city and commenced
her duties this morning. Her hus
band, Lieut. Bailey, is in military
service and is on his way to France.
fie a BoQster for the Fourth Liberty
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PRESIDEN HAILED
BERLIN'SREPLV
I0MPBY H0IS
The German government's answer to President Wilson's
'^hote of inquiry as to the scope and authority for the latest
peace move and specifying the only conditions under which
/'the Allies would agree to an armistice, as announced in London
JSIand received in the United States last night foljows:
-**f "In reply to the questions of the President of the United
Ir .States of America the German government hereby declares:.
"The German government has accepted the terms laid
"down by President Wilson in his address of January 8th and
.^/"in his subsequent addresses on the-foundation of a permanent
7 f4jpeace of justice.
i L', "Consequently, its object in entering into discussions
$$, would be only to agree upon'practical details of the application
*of these terms. fiiff^if^^M^x
"The German government believes that the governments
of the powers associated with the government of the United
^States also .Jake the position taken by President Wilson in his
^-'address. "v-~
I~ \T."The German government, in accordance with the Austro-
fe Hungarian government, for the purpose of bringing about an
^"armistice, declares itself ready to comply with ,th6 propositions
#of-the President in regard to evacuation.
p\ "The German government: suggests that the President ihay
^/.occasion the meeting of a mixed commission for, making the
^necessary arrangements concerning the evacuation.
$ "The present German government, which has undertaken
f/the responsibility for this step towards peace, h^as been formed
I'iby conferences and in a great deal with the great majority of
J* the reichstag. fy
"Thes supportede inaml of thi majority speaks in th of thes Germa govern.
r,t ment and of the German people. y-'
"Berlin, October 12, 1918
\r -t* "SOLFF,
'State Secretary of Forign Office."
WILSON RECEIVES GERMAN NOTE.
(By United Press.)
.Washington, Oct 14.The German note wa delivered
by the Swiss minister today. President Wilson is expected to
reply at any time.
LUXEMBURG APPEALS O PRESIDENT FOR PROTECTION
Amsterdam, Oct. 14.The government of Luxemburg as
appealed to President Wilson to protect the rights and de-
mands of Germans driven from its territory.
AV E 300 0 CQRI) S W00
Dr. Larson is at a point between
"Wilton and Solway where he has
about 3,00,0 cords of wood in danger
of destruction. He has help and is
fighting to save his property from
destruction by the forest fire.
TAKES BANK POSITION.
SEVEN DRIVEN INTO LAKE
BY FOREST FIRE ALL PERISH
Buluth, Oct. 14.Charles A. Marshall, owner of the
Lyceum theatre, his wife and child, Mrs. Jas. Walsh and two
Children, East Superior street, and Frances Fregeau, 9-year-old
son of Mr. and'Mrs. Frank Fregeau, were drowned at Pike
Lake, when they were driven to the water by the forest fire.
The tragic death of the party occurred shortly before 8 o'clock.
Attempting to get through the Pike Lake road by auto, the
party were surrounded by flames and were forced to race to
the lake for their Uvea. '-i-.l_* '___ __._.
al of hi actions by the
FROHN ASKS BEMIDJI
TO HELP SAVE HALL
This afternoon Frohn township
sent in a call to Bemidji for help
to save the town hall.
The Fourth Minnesota answered
the call and so did members of the
home guard, going in cars of the
motor corps. Flames a*re threatening
to spread to the town hall and hun
dreds are on the ground fighting the
flames.
AAMODT ATTENDS CONFERENCE.
County Agent Aamodt has gone to
attend a- conference of county agri
cultural agents and heads of various
departments regarding a county
agents' program for a meeting in
Bemidji.
The agents and officials will also
discuss the potato situation and the
storage problem in cities, warehouse
receipts for storage of potatoes and
locating* buyers.
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Orders to Parents.
Mayor Vandersluis today made a
request of Captain Stewart of tho
home guard to assist in notifying the
parents of Bemidji to keep their
children at home, and the captain
detailed ten men to canvass the city
this afternoon. The guard detail
will be clothed with authority to
enforce the orders to be issued.
Several additional cases were re
ported today and possible
method of combatf' he epidemic
is being made.
There will be no drill of the home
guard tomorrow night, as a precau
tionary measure against the plague.
There will be no more weekly
luncheons and meetings of the Com*
mercial club until the plague ban is
lifted.
'FLU'MASKS MADE BY
RED CROSS LADIES
The Red Cross ladies have turned
over to Dr. Garlock 85 gas masks
for* prevention of. contagion from
Spanish influenza and are continuing
to make more.
The masks are of gauze and may
be fastened over half of the face.
Several of the clerks and other em
ployes of business interests are wear
ing them.
Any one wanting one of these
masks may secure them from Dr.
Oarlock.
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VOLUME XVI. NO. .237 ^illSll^SllSf^ 3 ^^V BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, OCT. 14, 1918 FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH
SPANISH INFLUENZA
(Abstracted by Minnesota Public Health Association, from
Bulletin No. 37. Division of Sanitation, Department of the Navyr
quoted by Public Health Reports, U..S..P. H. S., Sept. 13, 1918.)
Spanish Influenza is the influenza of 1889-92 it is due to
Pfeiffer's bacillus. It is not the same as what has been termed
"grip" during the last few years.
Symptoms: Sudden onset, dizziness, weakness, pains in various
parts of body temperature rises suddenly to 103 degrees head-
ache, pain in back, light hurts eyes sore throat, sometimes laryn-
gitis, bronchitis, etc. Fever falls in three or four days, and patient"
recovers rapidly or irregular fever persists, with bronchitis death
sometimes from acute bronchitis, with cyriaosis and failure of right
heart pneumonia, sometimes occurs. Prostration marked.
Incubation: From the moment of infection to the beginning
of the symptoms an interval of one to four days (incubation period)
intervenes, during which the prospective patient is not sick.
Infectiousness: The disease is "caught" from previous suf-
ferers, just as is measles, or any severe cold, by the discharges from
the patient's nose and mouth reaching the mouth of the prospec-
tive patient by kissing, using the same handkerchief or towel, etc.
by inhaling air containing droplets from the patients' nose or mouth
expelled in couching, sneezing or even talking by smears on fingers
from touching patient's hands, bed cloths (especially pillows, etc.,)
handkerchiefs, etc.and then putting these infected fingers in the
mouth.
Isolation: Patient should be isolated at once, with disinfec-
tion of discharges of nose and mouth, boiling of handkerchiefs,
towels, etc. attendants should wear "masks" (or surgical respira-
tors) to exclude droplets from note and mouth, and glasses (spec-
tacles preferablyplain glass will do).to protect eyes from same.
Attendant's hands must be washed ever ytime after "touching patient
or anything on which are patient's discharges.
Treatment: Patient in bed as long as fever exists. Keep
patient warm, supply fresh air, plenty of food and water, Dover's
powders for pain. Great care during convalescence. Quinine and
aspirin (the latter especially only under physician's orders) seem
useful. ':r''', "I
Isolation: So far as possible, every should have
separate room. If wards must be used, h*rgpatienr
partitions should be placed between beds. This is because the other
germs, associated with the Pfeiffer bacillus, vary in' different cases.
The patients all have influenza, but some have other things, too
and, threrfore, one influenza patient may infect another influenza
patient' with complications and so make the attack worse than' it
need have been.
Disinfection: During the attack, all discharges,' especially of
nose and mouth, all infected towels', handkerchiefs, bed cloths, eat-
ing utensils, etc., should be boiled or dipped.in 2 per cent carbolic
acid, or 2 per cent lysol, in water. The**-should be a single attend-
ant, who should wear a respirator (or mask,) spectacles (plain glass
will do) and wash hands always after touching patient or dip
hands (instead,of washing) in a' disinfectant solution. Fumigation
after attack is unnecessary.
ParentsMust
Kaep Children
Close toHome
Bemidji passed the first day of its
close up on account of the epidemic
..of Spanish influenza quietly and
Sunday being utterly devoid of any
attractions for its inhabitant*.
Churches, motion picture theatres
and everything that would afford a
diversion from routine wero shut
tight. The "lid" went on Saturday
evening and there was nothing open
to afford the usual Saturday night
entertainment.
The closing of the schools carried
with it the implied order for par
ents to keep their children at home
and not allow them to roam the
streets, but the Central school yard
on Sunday resembled a large picnic
as the playground wfes thronged
with children, allowed to play in
public on a Sabbath day.
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MOTOR CORPS IS BEADY.
Orders received from state military
quarters by Captain Denu of the Be
midji motor corps instructed him to
hold himself and corps in readiness
for any calcall that might be issued.
GENEROUS OFFER.
Mayor C. W. Vandersluis received
a message early this morning from
Minneapolis authorities, asking
where to send groceries and clothing
for the relief of Bemidji people. They
had received the report that Bemidji
had been burned.
HINCKLEY FIRE TAME.
George W. Cochran, Sr., who re
turned this morning from Duluth,
states that, the Hinckley fire was not
in It with the fire Saturday evening,
which swept Moose Lake, Bain and
Cloquet off the map.
He came through Cloquet and says
that only three cottages remain in
the entire city, and that Duluth is
filled with refugees and dead from
the surrounding territory.
PEOPLE MAKING DUMP
GROUNDS OF HIGHWAYS
Long and loud are complaints oc
casioned by some unknowns making
a dump ground of the main road
running north from Bemidji and
also otljer roads in the same direc
tion.
Just north of the city loads of
cans, rubbish and decaying refuse
have been dumped by unscrupulous
persons, a menace to health and de
cidedly unsightly. Bemidji has a
dump grounds maintained by the
city and this practice of dumping
rubbish, such as has been done on
the highways, should be dealt with
severely.
AID LUNCHEON DEFERRED.
Tomorrow was the all-day session
of the Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
church with luncheon to be served
at noon. On account of the closing
order throughout the city tb# meet
ing will deterred.
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Bond Sale Help Wear Country Win
screens or temporara
GUARDS EP FROHN
COMBATFOREST FIRE
FROHN FIBE CHECKED.
Captain Scott "Stewart and ten of
liis men of the home guard and men
from the Fourth infantry were rushed
to the town of Frohn Saturday even
ing to help combat forest fires, which
was being fought by the farmers
from that surrounding vicinity.
The lire was burning on a front of
about five miles and was checked by
ploughing and back firing.
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PIONEi'-\i\
their efforts to find refuge.
(Bv United Press.)
TOWNS ARE SWEPT.
Fully 15,000 square miles of for
ests and country dotted with villages
and towns, farmers and settlers, have
been swept by-the most deadly and
destructive forest lire in the history
of the state of Minnesota, the flames
starting with the high wind storm
that swept this part of the state,
commencing Saturday evening.
Cloquet is swept bare, while Moose
Lake is left in ruins with scarcely
a thing to show a town was there.
Brookston was practically destroyed.
Settlers were driven from the vicfnUy
of Cass Lake and for miles in sur
rounding country.
Over 9,000 refugees are estimated
in Duluth.
WOMAN FAINTS: FALLS
UPON STOVE FACE BURNED
While working over her cook
stove Saturday morning about 11
o'clock, Mrs. Walter Helmer fainted
and fell on the hot* stove, burning
the side of her face badly.
GEN. SCHEUCH APPOINTED.
Amsterdam, Oct. 14.Lieutenant
General Scheuch, who recently was
spoken of as the successor of General
Von Stein, head of tho German war
ministry, today was appointed to that
post, according to a disp'atch received
here from Berlin.
THIS DAY IN THE WAR
Oct. 14, 1917Kerensky asks
Russian sailors on Baltic fleet to
fight,
Oct, 1.4, 1916Rumanians make
a stand on their own frontier.
Oct. 14, 1915British launch
attact on 25-mile front.
Oct 14, 1914Allies occupy
Ypres.
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BEMIDJ I TEACHE
SAVES HE LIFE
rg$m HOUR S
I N MOOSE LAKE
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One of the most spectacular escapes from the terrible
holocaust which swept a large area west of Duluth, destroying
thousands of acres of timber, towns and villages with an esti-
mated loss of 1,000 lives, Saturday afternoon and evening was
that of Miss Margaret McGee of Bemidji, who has been teach-
ing in the Moose Lake schools, and which town was wiped
completely off the map, every shred of structure being effaced
with the exception of the brick school building which miracu-
lously escaped.
MOOSE LAKE SWEPT CLEAN.
The terrible fire was raging to the west of Moose Lake,
which was a town of between 800 and 900 inhabitants. Not a
man was in the town as they were fighting the onsweeping
flames from the west toward the doomed town. It was between
7:30 and 8 o'clock that the inhabitants of the town were seek-
ing every avenue of escape and were fleeing to the lake and
around it in hopes of .escaping. The panic was assuming a
frightful aspect with hu gh clouds of smoke being driven by
a high wind enveloping the terrified inhabitants. Suddenly the
wind veered around from the northeast without the slightest
warning and enveloped the struggling and crazed humans in
EstimatedBOO
DeadToll May
GoToThousand
Duluth. Oct. 14.It is estimated
that over 600 dead have been recov
ered from the devastated district
sweot bv forest fires since Saturday.#and
The death toll is crowina: and
maycifirelief
reach a thousand.
Fires are still burning in spots
over the district of 15.000 square
miles.
0 Safe in. Lake.
Witeh
four other companions, Miss
McGe fled to the lake and out onto
a short- pier. There they fought for
safety by keeping the wood wet.
They were forced to stand in the lake
and crouch in their desperate battle
for over four hours. Scores of auto
mobiles rushed hither and thither,
rescuing the helpless and homeless
people.
One car picked u$ Miss McGee and
her friends. A yotang man Jumped
on the running board of the car and
away they dashed through dense
smoke and flames. Another car
rammed the speeding car and broke
the young man's legs. On they sped
for Barnuni, through masses of
flames, flying embers and burning
brands, the scenes beggaring descrip
tion.
Barnum was reached between 1:30
2 o'clock in the morning where
a train on th Northern Pa
was boarded for Minneapolis,
the train carrying scores of burned
and Injured victims. About fifty
were taken In ambulances from the
train in St- Paul. Miss McGee board
ed a'train at St, Paul for Bemidji,
arriving without a bit of baggage
and with only what she had on in
the way of belongings.
Scenes Beyond Description.
The scenes at Moose Lake are be
yond description. Trucks were
pressed into service to haul away the
dead,,pilled high, Bodies were every
where. Families were cut off *y the
deadly flames. Men fighting the fire
were overcome and dug holes in the
ground, covering themselves with
earth while the hot flames passed
over them. One woman and her
family of twelve were burned where
they lived.. Autos were abandoned
and left to explode In the hot area.
Hundreds were run into the lake and
saved.
Miss McGee came through her ter
rible ordeal unperturbed, yet hardly
realizing now what she faced in that
dash through flying debris, fire, and
past dead and dying, her experience
in the Jake with flaming brands
sweeping overhead to start other con
flagrations around the lake.
Other Traeedies.,A
Report comes from Brockton of a
man and family madly dashing in
an effort to escape from the flames
through dense smoke. The car went
into a ditch and the wife WM
thrown through the windshield and
her neck broken.
Another man in a car with his
family, dashed into a big tree and
all we're killed.
TIME TO PAY TAXES.
PENALTY FOR DELAY.
This is the time to pay your last
half of your real estate taxes. Ten
per cent will be added if not paid
before November 1,
CARD SAYS "SAFE"
A card was received by Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Elletson to the effect that
their son, Delbert, has landed safely
in France. The soldier was employed
in the Bemidji post office before go
ing into the service,
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