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PLANT OCCUR S
EARLYSUNDAY
Fire of Unknown Origin Starts
In Stock Room Below
Bake Ovens
BOOKS AND RECORDS
CARRIED TO SAFETY
Creamery and Butter Depart-
ment Intact Temporary
Quarters for Business
The big plant of Koojs Bros, com
pany, located near the tracks on
!&>ut Minnesota avenue, was practi
gutted by 6re Sunday morning,
entailing a low estimated by Presi
dent Prattk -Koors at $25,000.
J'The, origin 6f the blaze is a mys
tery, starting- aft it did in the stock
thorn below the oVens. It was first no
ticed by the bikers who were on duty
early and it was about 8 o'clotfk when
the early copiers, to the big whole
sale hous^ smelled the smoke and
gave the alarm.
At the outset it j/viasVthought pos
sible that the Mai* Wipuld do dam
age not oVer: J0 but the flames
spread to inside the partitions and
sweeping to the gravel roof rendered
the work of the Are department a
tough proposition to reach the creep
ing flames with much effect, and the
flames swept the ihterior into a
charred mass, a mute spector of its
former scene, of,' activity and pro
gress.
All Records Saved.
The records, and books of|$he busi
ness department wer$ savel and so
was much of the candy stock, some
fixtures anfl Other equipment. The
baking department was badly crlp-
,v jjpfrifcafe th tt^mer ajad bntterdev
partjaaent, being Joctrted in a nearby
Miidinei were untouched. A tem
p^jrary Ijakery and ice dream depart
ment will be immediately started and
will be in operation In about a week,
and the jobbing department will be
also in effect at the same time.
Flans For Enlargement.
For some time, plans had been un
Her contemplation for an enlargement
of departments, owing to large in
crease of business, and with the re
construction of the interior it will be
the intention to greatly increase
facilities in the manufacturing end of
the plant. The waJLlft, are. standing,
practically untouch#l,o*ndi when the
insurance is adjust^jtbejiwork on re
storing the building. iwiU be com
menced.
Officials of the company did heroic
work in getting out,effects from the
building and a large amount of the
candy stock was saved. Several of
.Ijhe spectators made the most of the
'f'tket by "helping themselves," and
flroors? Bros, confectionary depart
ntjffeceived a lot,of good adver-
ringVjis a result.
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The* company^s business, since .itsj
formation and erection? oj its Splen
did plant, has-grown cotiamal!y and'
its business covered a wide territory,
even extending to shipment of but
ter in caMoad lots to New York. With
its recovery from the blow Sunday it
will emerge a much better concern
with iiiWieased facilities, for the care
of its growing business.
FEDERAL FARM LOAN
ASSOCIATION ELECTS
The directors of the Federal Farm
Loan association held at meeting at
the Security State bank, Saturday af
ternoon, and elected the following of
ficers: Secretary-treasurer, W. Z.
Robinson, to succeed H. C. Baer, re
signed. Hans Nelson was appointed
on the appraising committee. The di
rectors are H. A. Fladhammer, -Harry
Arnold, Mr. Worth, Hans Nelson,
Gust Berg and Mrs. Marie K. Schroe
der.
WHITE FEATHEB ALSO
WORKING ON WOMEN
(By United Press.)
.MsMCtxestert-England. (By* Mail.)
\LiDemobiOiBe'd ^soldiers are getting
even with'yoiinlg women who in the
early "Says of the "war would write
them anonymous letters containing
wfeite feathers.
Numerous young women employed
oA tram-cars, in factories and shop
pftig stores are receiving white
feathers for taking over men's jobs
and-refusing to give theft* .P? te%
oC tne women have taken tbVbrifft
and given UP" their JobvV
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VOLtfMEXVII. NO. 200 BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1919
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PRIVATE SLETTEN HOME
FROM BLOODY FIELDS
WHICH DECIDED WAR
Fought In the Last Desperate
Battles of Defeat for
the Enemy
Sever Sletten, member of Co. K.
58th infantry, Fourth division,
known as the Ivy divisional, who
served twenty-three months in the
military service, fifteen of which
were spent in France, has arrived in
Bemidji, havingbeen mustered out at
Camp Dodge. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Sletten of Nymore.
The young soldier served on six
different battle fronts, and went over
the top five times, his division en
gaging the enemy for S3 days, losing
13,000 men and taking a large num
ber of the enemy. He fought in the
fierce battles of the Marne sector, in
which the river was crossed in the
face of barbed wire stretched in the
river and in the face of a heavy ar
tillery fire. The soldiers waded
breast deep, owing to the bridges
having been demolished. Later,
bridgls were built under the eyes of
the enemy and the Americans dug
their way along the Rheims-Soissons
road a mile beyond the Vesle river.
After twentyy-seyen days of march
ing and fighting^ the Fourth was re
lieved and re^perated, then ordered
to head towatfl&henfamous St. Mihiel
salient. On Se^ten\ber 26 they formed
one of the nine'American divisions
ordered to push the enemy out of
France from Flanders to Lorraine in
some of the bloodiest battles in
which American soldiers ever took
part. The Ivy division took up its
position in the vicinity of Hill 304
against the flower of the Hindenburg
line and after three hours of artillery
shelling went into action in a hurri
cane of suells, and with a yell on
their lips. Cuisy was captured and
a road built in the swamp under Are.
The Septsarges Wood was a hid
eous inferno, for the Americans en
countered a cyclone of shell fire and
wavered slightly, but an officer
quickly went to the outposts and the
Yanks stuck it out.
After this bloody battle the second
phase opened when the Forty-seventh
tafaritry stormed the Boche strong
hold in the Bois de Fays, two miles
north of Nantillois, -and it was a
tough proposition to storm and hold
the ground gained in the face of tan
gled under brush rockwqoded foot
ing, into which was pouring mustarr
in*.
On October 19 the divisibn had
beep in the line for twenty-four days,
helped gain the first objective and
lost 6,000 nien, penetrated eight
miles of supposedly impregnible de
fenses and captured 2,731 from eight
crack German divisions, including
the kaiser's favorites.
After the divisions withdrawal
from the Meuse-Argonne front it
marched from the Rhine province
from the Meusecmf cmf mff fwy wy
and was comfortable after the armis
tice was signed.
In all this gruelling experience,
Private Sletten was escaped un
scathed.
NOBTH DAKOTA LAWS HIT.
Washington, Aug. 25.Constitu-
tionality of seven acts recently
placed into effect in North Dakota
following a statewide referendum,
including the state banking and
bond, mill and elevator association
and home building laws, is to be de
termined by the. Supreme court de
crees sustaining their validity were
filed.
The proceedings were instituted
by John W. Scott William H. Howe
and about 35 others.
SCHR0EDER PLEASED
WITH FAIR EXHIBIT
Charles F. Schroeder is highly
pleased with the incoming produce
from Beltrami county, that will go
to make up the state fajlr. exhibit
from Beltrami's farm producers,) and
he is busily engaged in putting- to-
gether specimens of farm" .crops for
the exhibit. Mr. Schroeder "is presi
dent of the Beltrami County Fair
association and the exhibits are be
ing I rough to 205 Beltrami avenue,
opposi 2 the Markham hotel.
"Corn, vegetables and fruits are
good this year and all the crop ex
hibits brought in are good stuff,"
said Mr. Schroeder this morning.
"iForage is specially good. I look for
a splendid display for the state fair
and hope entries will be plentiful."
INFANTS FUNERAL.
Funeral services will be conducted
over the infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Burns at Nymore tomorrow
afternoon at the house at 3 o'clock.
Captain Orchard of the Salvation
Army will conduct the service.
HT. VESUVIUS BEGINS
ANOTHER ERUPTION
Rome, Aug. 25.After a loud un
derground rumbling, Mt. Vesuvius
began an eruption today. Two
streams,of ljya,. are ..flowing toward
thfrym^y^0o farj'-tire eruption has
nDJt,,been so heavy as to threaten vil
lages on th* base o* the mountain.
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BEDROO MS
AREPROCURED
FOR STUDENTS
OFTHENORMAL
Woman's Community Organi-
zation Meets Success In
Its Undertaking
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
MUST BE CARED FOR
Students in Rooms Must All
Observe Regulation Dor
mitory Rules
Success has crowned the efforts of
the Woman's Community and Civic
club to provide a list of rooms, avail
able for students who are to attend
the fall session of the Bemidji Nor
mal school, beginning in September,
accommodations for 130 girls having
been promised. Housewives, realizing
the necessity of providing rooms until
the new dormitory is ready for ""oc-
cupancy, have cooperated in- a most
encouraging manner with the com
mittee.
Teachers Need Booms.
While the number of rooms avail
able are probably sufficient to care
for the students, another problem is
presented by the need of accommoda
tions for teachers of the public
schools. This necessitates the com
piling of an additional list or rooms
and owners of rooms for rent should
so notify one of the following: Mrs.
Marshall A. Spooner, Mrs. R. A. Schu
maker, Mrs. A. P. Ritchie or Miss
Ella Parker.
Must Observe Boles.
The list of rooms has been turned
over to President M. W. Deputy of
the normal school, and assignments
to quarters will be made by Miss
Mable Bonsall, dean of women of the
new educational institution. It is
planned that even though the girls
will be housed in various parts of the
city during?" their first term qf the
normal school they will be required
to observe" dormitory rules, violations
of which will be reported.
FEDERAL AGENTS GET
NEARLY 200.000 LBS.
OF FISH IN DULUTH
Second Big Coup In Efforts to
Lower the High Cost
of Living
Duluth, Aug. 25.'Federal igents
staged their second big coup in con
nection with efforts to lower living
costs here Saturday when they seized
189,440 pounds of frozen flsh held
in local cold storage warehouses.
The seizure was made by Deputy
United States Marshal J. Scott Cash
and Frank O. Pelto, department of
justice agent, under authority of a
monition issued by District Attorney
Alfred Jaques.
Stored March 1918.
Most of the fish, it is believed,
have been in cold storage since
March, 1918, although a portion
were stored in August, x18. The fol
lowing quantities were taken from
three firms:
C. C. Robins, Chicago, 50,065
pounds.
Johns Fish company, 66,218
pounds.
Northern Fish company, 73,157
pounds.
The fish taken from the Robins
company were mostly cod, uaiibut
and whiteflsh those from the Johns
company were Alaskan herring, and
those from the Northern Fish com
pany, herring, pickerel, ciscos and
miscellan JUS. They were in storage
at the Northern Cold Storage com
pany buildings.
Hearings in September.
Final disposition of the fish, as
well as of the poultry seized on
Thursday, will probably be deter
mined at hearings to be held early
next month, when the owners will
be given an opportunity to present
their side of the case.
JUVENILE BEHEABSALS AWAIT
BAND QUABTEBS COMPLETION
Owing to there being no suitable
room that is available, the juvenile
band rehearsals will be. discontinued
until theJbinjfooin in^po &ty. hall
is completed. Over 100 boys are
members of this organization.
The band has a wonderful instru
mentation, which includes more
than twenty clarinets and over a
dozen saxaphones.
Bandmaster Riggs hopes to start
the voung men.,playing together on
Selections and more difficult exer
cises seen after rehearsals are re
rsuinetf
MINNESOTA STATE FAIR
PROMISES TO SURPASS
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS
Daring Aero Feats Opening
Day Auto Fashion
Parade
(By United Press.)
St. Paul, Aug. 26.The Minnesota
state fair, which opens Saturday
morning, August 30, promises to
eclipse all previous records for at
tendance. The previous attendance
record Was made last year when 450,-
000 persons passed the turnstiles,
but an, attendance well in excess of
500,00 is anticipated.
Improvements costing over $100,-
000 have been made on the fair
grounds this year. The grandstand
has been rewalled, a freight terminal
costingJj#6,000 has been constructed
to take care of growing exhibits.
Moat of the buildings have been re
paflrted and
everythingopening.spick
NEWEST AMERICAN GUN MOUNT A SUCCESS
The newest gun mount cf the United States military forces was com-
pleted just after the armistice was signed and has just passed its official test
with flying colors. It is a railroad mount, designed by the navy department
for the navy's 14-inch gun, which was used so effectively on land mounts in
France. The new mount permits the gun to be fired In any direction from any
good railroad track, whereas the guns used in the war had to be mouDtec?
In pit*.
is in
and span shapevfor
the
The big feature Of the opening pro
gram, Saturday will be the appear
ance of Lieut. Locklear, noted army
aviator, who performs daring stunts
atop a plane. He is scheduled to give
exhibitions the first three days of the
fair.
Bidding for the opening day attrac
tion honors will be an automobile
fashion parade before the grandstand,
in which women drivers will com
pete. The winner will be proclaimed
"The Champion Woman Auto driver
pf .the Northwest,"
Two days of auto racing, Wednes
day, September-8, and Saturday Sep
tember 6, will bring the world's
greatest drivers together in a strug
gle for prizes aggregating $10,000.
Horse racing will feature the La
bor Day, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri
day programs.
The livestock show has attracted
entries from all over the world. The
total value of the "display will ap
proximate $1,400,000.
A record-breaking farm crops show
is expected.
The machinery show will cover
over 80 acres, more than 100 tractors
having been entered in the tractor
section alone.
CHASE AFTER BANDITS
ENDS: TROOPS RETURN
(By United Press.)
El Paso, Texas, Aug. 25.The ban
dit chase in Mexico by American cav
alrymen and aviators is at an end
and United States forces are back a'
their camps on this side of the bor
der today. The withdrawal was ex
pected Sunday night when further
search for the bandits seemed futile.
BUMPEB PUMPKIN CBOP
FOB THANKSGIVING DAY
(By United Press.)
St. Cloud, Aug. 25.Here's a little
Thanksgiving cheera record "crop'
of pumpkin pies should be available
in the Northwest this fall. Reports
to the state department of agricul
ture indicate that a bumper crop of
pumpkins will be gathered in Min
nesota this season. Hubbard squashes
also are reported to be plentiful
throughout the Northwest.
MILITARY REASONS
FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL
(By United Press.)
Washington, Aug. 25.Not diplo
matic influence but military reasons
were the cause of the orders to the
recall of the army cavalry detach
ment that went into Mexico in
search of the bandits whtf captured
the two army aviators and released
them xipon payment ransom.
Weather: Hotel Markham: No
change next 48 hours.
Historical Society
INTERNED GERMAN
SAILORS ESCAPE BY
TUNNEL METHOD
Make Getaway During Severe
Electric Storm Are
Recaptured
(By United Press.)
Cliillicothe, O., Aug. 25.Eighteen
of the estimated twenty interned
German sailors, who escaped from
their barracks at Camp herman dur
ing a severe electric storm last night,
were recaptured, camp authorities
said today.
The sailors crawled through a tun
nel from the barracks cellar to a
company street, thirty feet away, of
ficials said. The discovery of the
wholesale escape followed "almost Im
mediately. All were found in nearby
towns. --r
LEGION WILL NAME
DELEGATES TO STATE
CONVENTION TONIGHT
Every Member Should Be Pres-
ent and Have Voice In
the Choice
Bemidji members of the American
Legion will name delegates to the
state convention at a meeting to be
held in the Elks temple this evening.
It is urged by officers of the Ralph
Gracie post that every member at
tend the meeting that he may have a
voice in selecting delegates.
One of the most important things
to come before the state convention
of the legion will be the determina
tion of its attitude with respect to
proposed legislation, state and na
tional. The convention provides a
proper and powerful means of ex
pressing a united sentiment on all
matters relating to bonuses, pensions,
soldier welfare, re-employment and
the like.
Every returned soldier, sailor or
marine in Bemidji, who has not
joined the Ralph Gracie post, is in
vited to do so. An honorable dis
charge is all that is necessary. Re
turned service men are requested to
be at the meeting tonight, even
though they have not applied for
membership in the legion. Applica*
tions will be accepted tonight ahd the
more enrolled the greater will be Be
midji's representation at the St. Paul
convention.
WILSON TURNS HIS
ATTENTION TO ROADS
By Ralph Couch
(United Press Correspondent.)
Washington, Aug. 25.President
Wilson today cancelled all engage
ments except one, to give the rail
roads labor situation his entire at
tention, which he will take up at 2
o'clock this afternoon at a confer
ence with Director Hines and offi
cials of the railroad shopmen's
unions.
An answer to the demand of 500,-
000 shopmen for a wage increase ofi
25 per.cent is-jexpected will be made
at the,conference.
BIG TEACHEBS INSTITUTE.
(By United Press.)
Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 25.Six hun
dred teachers from ten counties of
this, section of the state are register
ing here today for the annual teach
ers institute at Dakota Wesleyan
univwBlty.
45c PER MONTH
T0WNS1TEMUST
PAY US TAXES
LIKETHOSEWHO
inEIR PART
Judge McClenahan Does Not
Allow Injunction to Pre*
vent Tax Sale
"FRAUD" CHARGE WASN'T
PROVEN AS ALLEGED
Delinquent Tax Property Can
Be Sold With Others for
Delinquent Taxes
Judge W. S. McClenahan today
filed his decision in the case brought
by the Bemidji Townsite & Improve
ment company against Beltrami
county ,in which the Townsite com
pany sought to obtain an injunction
against the sale of their proporty in
Bemidji for the taxes for the year
1912 and later years.
The contention of the Townsite
company was that in the year 1912
the board of equalization lowered
the personal property taxes of the
Crookston Lumber company ,abdut
ten per cent, and to make up the"de
ficiency in the total tax levy, tpat
a ten per cent increase was a'ddej$ to
all the real property in the city of
Bemidji. Also that their taxes were
excesJ.ve and unjust and that the
Townsite company only recently dis
covered the fraud that ha been per
petrated upon them in the reduction
of the Lumber company's taxes and
the increase in its taxes.
The Townsite company also ob
jected to the notice of the forfeited
tax sale, and raised i the objsction
that the list of propdr.tyJsJwHd
such sale had not beeii properly filed
with the state auditor.
Buline of
Courte
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The court Jield "that" th Townsite
company knew, when their taxes
were assessed, that they had a de
fense if they could, show that their
property was. assessed for more than
Its actual value, that they failed to
make application to the county board
for a reduction, filled to put in an
answer in the tax proceedings, and
that they could not now be permitted
to come into court, after such delay
and neglect, and have their assess
ments changed by the court,
I "Discovsxy" lot Shown.
The court afso haflrthafc*the Town
site company, while claiming that
they had only recently discovered
the alleged fraud, had not shown or
attempted to show, as an exouse for
their delay in discovering it, how
they made the discovery, and why
they had not discovered it sooner.
Orders Property Included.
The court dismissed and proceed
ings, refusing to make a re-assess
ment of the property involved, and
refused to restrain the auditor from
including this property in the for
feited tax sale.
Graham M. Torrance, county at
torney, represented Beltrami county
in the action, and the firm of Kerr
& Richardson, with Harris Richard
son, of counsel, represented the
Townsite company.
GREAT TRANSPORTS
ORDERED TO PACIFIC
New York, Aug. 25.With the
sailing of the army transport Great
Northern for San Francisco, an
nouncement was made that this big
ship and her sister craft, the North
ern Pacific, are to be used perman
ently in the transport service on the
Pacific. Their regular route will be
from San Francisco to Honolulu,
Manila, Vladivostok and thence to
Nagasaki, Guam, Honolulu and San
Francisco.
When the American forces are
brought out of Siberia they will
come on these craft. The Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
were purchased by the army from
the Great Northern Railroad com
pany at the outbreak of the war.
They were among the largest ships
on the Pacific and are oil burners.
CALIFORNIA FLIERS
/ARE STILL MISSING
(By United Press.)
*San Diego, Calif., Aug. 25.After
another forty-eight hours of fruit
less search for Lieut. Waterhouse
and Lieut. Connolly, army fliers,
missing since last Wednesday, the
search was renewed/jtoda/ .with a de-:
-tachment^of'^Wppeb^irqpiT F/prl Ro*
sencranB aftf ihg' the .airplane" scouts
which have been Woiiring the couh
Itry east of here.