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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-15
Property Of the Metropolitan Club is
Now Owned by Members Of Com.
mercial Club.
PURCHASING PRICE $1201
Board Of Directors For Ensuing Year
Elected at Meeting Held Last
Evening.

Last evenings meeting of the Be-
midi Commercial Club was so
largely attended that the session
could not be held in the club rooms
in the O'Leary-Bowser building, SO it
was held in the Metropolitan Club
rooms.
Owing to the fact that both the
president and vice-president of the
Commercial Club were not present at
the meeting F. S. Lycan was appoint
ed to preside.
The Metropolitan Club members
who wished to become members of
the Commercial Club were granted
membership with the understanding
that they are to pay a SO initiation
fee.
It was decided that a general meet
ing should be held a week from this
evening for the purpose of amending
the present articles of incorporation
and the bylaws.
With last evenings meeting the
terms OF. the members of the board
of directors ran out and the follow
ing were elected to the board; F.. s..
Lycan, T. J. Burke, J. L. George,
A. G. Wedge, R. H. Schumacher, E, A.
Schneider, a. P. White, w. L. BROOKS
and F. S. Arnold
AS soon as A. G. Wedge, returns to
the city call will be issued to the
board of directors and the election
of club officers for the ensuing year
will be held.
The Commercial Club membership
has been enlarged to 100.
The money which is to be used in
the purchasing of the fixtures of the
Metropolitan Club was turned over
to the secretary of that club today,
and from today the members of the
Commercial Club who were not men,
bers of the Metropolitan Club may
have the use of the Metropolitan
Club rooms, which, in the future will
be known as the Commercial Club
rooms.
The total cost of the fixtures
amounted to $1201.29.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-15
THE GLADIATOR TOMORROW
Sanford Dodge to Appear Here in
That Play At the Armory.

Seats are now on sale at the City
Drug store for the "Gladiator" which
is to be played here tomorrow eve
ming in the Armory, with Sanford
Dodge in the leading role. -
In speaking of the play the Law
ton Daily Star said:
s'Mr. Dodge, as Nero the Gladiator,
was superb. He has that rare quail
ity, magnetism, to a high degree,
and this with splendid voice and
vigorous physique, build the char
acter to masterful proportions.
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sL|PP VISITS BEM|Dj|
Was Formerly Assistant in Postofice
Here-Is Interested in Baudette.

Frank Slipp, for several years as
sistant in the Bemidji postoffice, is
in the city today.
Mr.. Slipp is now interested at Bau-
dette in the mercantile business. He
reports that everything is progress
ing in the burned district and that
his business is in a fiourishing con-
dition.
Together with his wife, Mr.. Slipp
is here today to attend to the ship
ping of his furniture to Baudette
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-15
BAND CONCERT TONIGHT
Bemidji Muical Organization Will
Play This Evening.

This evening in the city hall the
Bemidji band will give its March in
door band concert.
No Bemidji music lover should fail
to attend the concert this evening.
Director Masten has arranged a
special program for this evening and
it is expected that the concert will
excel all previous ones.
This evenings program will be as
follows:
l. March "HOStraiSer'S'
by w. Paris Chambers
2. Overture aBob Whites Musical
Melodies by Harry L. Afford
3. Gavotte Caprice-s1n Stately
PRIDE Chas. J. Rockwell
4. March = Battle Royal
by Fred Jewell
5. aTannhauser March, r. Wagner
6. SOlo-"A Son of the Desert Am T.
= Andrew Rood
7. "Schubert's Serenade." Arranged
by George D. Barnard.
8. Trombone Characteristic est.
~Vitus Dance by G. E. Holmes
9. Medley Overture-"Bits of Re-
mick's Hits" J. B. Lampe
10. National March-"Daught of
= America" by J. P. Lampe
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-15
NELSON HAS RIBS BROKEN
Kelliher Lumberjack Brought to Be.
midi Hospital this Morning.

This mornings Minnesota & In
ternational passenger, from Kelliher.
brought Martin Nelson to Bemidji,
and he was placed in the hospital.
It appears that Nelson, while
working in the woods near Kelliher,
was struck by tree in such man
rer that several of his ribs were
broken.
He will recover.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-15
COOK SETTLES IN BEM|Dj|
Duluth Civil Engineer Comes Here to
Make Future Home.

Because of the fact that his bust
ness interests in this locality are
such that he would have to spend q
large portion of his time in Bemidji,
R. M. Cook, one of Duluth's most
prominent civil engineers, has de-
cided to make Bemidji his place of
residence in the future. 50
Mr.. Cook will have Offices with
Harry Reynolds, in the O'Leary-Bow-
ser building. .. ..-.. r..
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was only administered as last re-

was only administered as last re-
sort, ..:
WAS there much of it," Senator
Sullivan asked. ~
ssNo, she replied, II should say the
number of boys were very small. In
only rare cases did they get it. The
boys don't want it the second time"
''You knew of the whipping ma
chine or device?" =.
''It was never covered up"
"In your own mind, did you ap-
prove of it?''
81 certainly did. I have lived
there so long that when I take into
consideration the class of boys we
have to deal with I do not object
now
"Do you mean that you have be-
come -hardened?" Senator Sulli-
van asked quickly.
mo, I do not. l think too much
of my boys
"Do you think that laying a boy
over a barrel and strapping him will
have a tendency to reform him."
well, that boy is one who can't
be allowed to go on without some
thing being DONE
why not lock him up?"
''That is very injurious. 1t is
worse than whipping. A boy said to
me just the other day he had rather
be spanked three times week than
be locked up three days"
do you mean to say that whip
ping makes them more bright and
cheerful?"
st leaves them better off than
when locked in a cell or ROOM
XXX
Representative Hopkins bill for
the non-partisan nomination of SUI
preme and district court judges has
been recommended to pass by the
house elections committee. This bill
is a duplicate of Senator Putnam's
bill pending in the senate.
Senator Sullivan's bill allowing
persons to vote away from home ON.
men and measures that are voted on
all over the state was also recon-
mended to pass -
An amendment to the existing law
t for child desertion was introduced by
Senator Olson yesterday, classifying
family desertion as felony and pre-
scribing a maximum penalty of
year in the states prison. The mea-
sure applies to parent or husband
and is aimed particularly at wife
deserters.
A 10 o'clock lid for the entire state
! is proposed in a bill introduced by
Representative J. F. Lee of Alexan-
dria. Recently he introduced a bill
for a 10 o'clock lid for the whole
state except cities of the first class,
but his present bill takes them in al
Only twenty-five bill thus far this
session have been passed by the Leg
islature and approved by the govern
or. This is the lowest record for
several sessions. Two years ago at
this date there were seventy-two bills
that had been passed and signed by
the governor That was about an
average record or a little better.
cllDD WcI1e Q60l0
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NYMoRE ELECTS OLSON
A. L. synnes, Socialist Candidate, De.
4. feated By 0ae Vote. - <=z.z

In what was perhaps the most in
teresting village election ever held in
Nymore John Olson defeated A. L.
Synnes, the public Ownership can
didate, for president of the council
by one vote, the votes being cast as
follows:
President
John Olson, So
A. L. Synnes, 50
Trustees
E. c. Alton, 50 49,
Alex Dundy, 40
1. B. Raymond, II
L. F. Larson, IS
G. H. Evenson, 10
Fred Brockway, "a
ID. Bardon, "a
Recorder
Willis Nye, 81
Treasurer
Ole Gunderson, so
F. /. Bispham, IS
S. A. Johnson, 10
Assessor
w. S. Ridgway, 80
T. J. Martin, 10
Justice of the Peace
l. T. Smith, "a
T. J. Martin, 81
Constable
William Kaiser, 20 49,.
William Christensen, 20
r. McManus, "a
Raymond, Alton and Larson were
the winners in the fight for trustees
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One Third of Methodist Ministers Get
Less Than 5000 90 Per An
mum. II
IMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE MONEY
Efforts Being Made By Joseph Rob
inson to Raise Superannuation
Fund of 100000.

Can a minister live on $4OO, sup
port a family and have money for
his old age?"
Joseph Robinson, formerly pastor
OF the Grace Methodist Episcopal
church of Duluth, but now identified
with the northern Minnesota confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
churches as corresponding secretary
for the superannuate fund, is in Du-
luth trying to raise a part of the
100000 that is sought for perma-
nent fund for retired ministers and
their families, and he asks that ques-
ton in making his appeal for funds.
This fund will take care of minis
tiers who are no longer able to work.
The conference includes Duluth, Min
neapolis, and all the towns and viii
lagos in northeastern Minnesota.
There are in all 1S1 ministers in the
conference.
Some of these religious workers
are getting as low as $4O0 a year.
Forty of them are getting les than
$500, and fifty are getting less than
$500. The highest salary paid in
the district is $4,000. Several get
as much as $5,0OO,>and a few get
$4,000.
These figures show that on the av-
erage the ministers are very poorly
paid Many of them have families,
and it takes all the salary to barely
exist. It is impossible for them to
save money, and many times, after
death, or when the time comes when
they are no longer able to work, the
family suffers.
1t is to give relief in such cases
that the fund was started some time
ago. At the present time there is
$50, 900 in the fund Of this amount
$4,000 is condition on raising $780,
00O..
There are three sources of income.
The local conferences share of the
profits from the book publishing
house in Chicago, is about $500
annually. The collections from con-
gregations and the interest from the
permanent fund are the other sources
Under the plan the retiring pastor
or the family gets So year for every
year of service. If he has been TWEEN
ty years in service, the amount is
$3.50 annually. Each dependent
child under the age of 16 gets one
fifth of this sum, and the widow, in
case of death, gets one half.
There are now forty-three families
drawing money monthly from the
fund. One family gets as high as
! $424 year. The lowest amount
paid is $36.
There was $6,708 paid out in 1910
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Majestic Repeats Performance.

Owing to the very inclement wea-
Their last evening, the management
of the Majestic will comply with the
many special requests and repeat
last nights entire performance.
Francesca De Rimini is a most
beautiful film and should be seen by
every person in Bemidji.
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F. G. Kenny, Former Assistant Sup
erintendent at Red Wing Tells
of Punishment.
SAYS IT BROUGHT THE TRUTH
Matron of Institution Declares
Spanking" More Humane Than
Locking Up.

Coming all the way from Seabrook,
Tex, to testify in the Red Wing boys
training school investigation, F. c.
Kenney, at one time assistant super
intendent of the school and the of
fetal whlpper" from 1908 until a
little more than a year ago, told the
joint legislative committee Monday
night how he had helped bare backs
of boys, place wet towel upon them
and lash them with leather strap.
Il punished some over the end of a
bed, some over a barrel and one or
two-perhaps moreover a box" he
said.
Did you strip them?" Senator Sui
Ivan asked.
"Partly' We took down their
pants
What kind of an instrument did
you use.
"A leather strap, about three and
one-half inches wide, weighing about
pound and half"
How many blows did you give?'
Average around thirty
Eyes, some higher and some low
er."
What was the highest?'
Fifty
"Was whipping generally used?"
"Spanking was" ~ --.-~s,.
What do you call spanking?
When you lay boy over box, bare
his back and whip with a strap
what do you call that"
"Spanking.'
"Then what do you call whip
ping?"
"When they're punished with a
whip"
Mr.. Kenney testified that it was
the custom to keep on whipping I'M
til the boy confessed, but the number
of blows never exceeded fifty. He
said that it usually brought the facts
from them.
Did you practice the inculcation
of truth in that way?" Senator Sulli-
van inquired, ironically.
Yes, when we knew positively the
boy was guilty"
Mr. Kenney explained how Jake
Hollenbeck, one of the boys, came to
be found in chains by visitor. He
said the boy had attempted to escape,
had jumped into the Mississippi river,
but came out soon and raced down
Main street in Red Wing without a
stitch of clothes upon his back, and
finally took refuge in a barn. There
he was captured and returned to the
training school and a chain placed
upon his ankles more for redicule
than anything else He told also OF
Handwriting Loren Van Buskirk to a
steam pipe overnight because he had
run away The weapons of warfare
of the boys the school had amassed
the night they planned a general
outbreak were exhibited and Mr.
Kenney identified them. The weap
ons consisted of pieces of iron, lead
a short iron bar and similar slugs
He denied having a billie in hi:
hands when the insurrection wa!
uuelled and declared he only strucl
one boy during the trouble and tina
time he used his fist.
The testimony of Miss Jennie Plat
matron of the school, attracted close
attention from the committee an(
the spectators in the senate chamber
She said she had been matron fo]
fifteen years. During all that time
according to her testimony, she ha(
never seen a boy punished and hat
never heard one scream while re
ceiving punishment.
"Once in a while, though" sh'
said II have seen them come to tn.
table, look at me and smile and 81
down carefully
Miss Plat said she had never re
-. commended a boy to be whipped, am
declared that corporal punishment
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BLAckDuck TOWN RETURNS
Twenty-Five Votes Cast at Hines
Election.

d Word from Hines this morning is
to the effect that the result of the
township election held yesterday
was as follows:
Supervisor
S. o. Berg, rs
Clerk
Martin Dawson, Is
Treasurer
William Hines, rs
John Jorgenson, %
T. C.lNewcomb, 3
Justice of the Peace
F. "A. Jenkins, rs
Constable
VIM Vail.
The total number of votes cast
was Is.
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Tenstrike Goes Dry.

1t is reported, although not Of
icially, that Tenstrike voted that no
more saloon licenses should be grant
ed in that village.
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Doings In Municipal Court.

Doings In Municipal Court.
This morning in municipal court
William Noon and Frank Little were
arraigned before Judge Pendergast
on charges of drunkenness
Noon paid his fine of IS and costs.
and Little was ordered to leave town
as soon as possible.
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ows:
Supervisor .-
Norman Williams i
Clerk
William Carlson
Treasurer
William Tisdell
Justice of the Peace
J. w. Wilcox
Constable
Frank Ford
Road Overseer district 2
Frank Ford
Road Overseer district Il
John Olson
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BAelEY VOTES TO 60 DRY
Entire Citizens Ticket Elected Into
Office. .--.

Yesterday election results in the
Village of Bagley were as follows:
President :
J. J. Sundet, IS
- o. Barnes, sc
Trustees
H. c. Peterson, IS .,-
S. NJ. Bugge, 95
E. R. Sletten, 159
P. c.. Bjorneby, SO
Dan ROLAND, 60
Recorder ..F-
T. T. Safer, SO ..:~
Axel Ringborg. sc
Treasurer
Jens Nelson, 1877
Assessor
T. L. Tweite, SO
LII. Omdahl, sc
Justice of the Peace
o. o. Blegen, 1928 r.. I'll.
R. J. Rudser, SO
Constables- -.
G. Holly, 159
George Daniels, 90
A. L. Ref, 81
Tue entire citizens ticket, or dry
ticket. was elected while the vote
as to whether the village should go
dry or not resulted in favor of going
dry by a vote of 80 to 20.
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Peoples Ticket Wins.

Peoples Ticket Wins. !
Yesterdays Port Hope election re-
suited as follows:
Supervisor 4
A. J. Trusty
Clerk .-.. 81
VIM. Girlinger
Treasurer
Gaily Souder
Justice of the Peace
Prosper Able
Constable
j. c. Souder
Slime Wins in Lamers.
Yesterdays election in Lamers re-
suited in the following manner:
Clerk
o. c. Slime
Trustee
Peter Ollie
Joseph Lindell
Treasurer
Mike Void.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-15
CAUCUS TICKET ELECTED
cass Lake Vets Win In Municipal
Fight.

Cass Lake. March 15.-The an
.nual election was held here yesterday
and it was battle between the eau
Gus ticket, the peoples ticket and
the vets and drys. The caucus tick
ct was elected from top to bottom
The town wet wet by vote of 1877
to 81.
The council ballot was in most all
cases very much one sided. the cou-
Gus ticket winning out by a large ma
jority. The vote for candidates was
as follows:
President
Dumas, 175. e.
Johnson, "a.
Trustees
Carter .-...
Jones No opposition.
Harding } ...
Recorder 4
Ittner, 129
Oman, 113
Treasurer 49,
Hole, no opposition
F. L. Gorenfio, no opposition
Justice of the Peace-
Koehn, .179
Cummings, 80
Constable, one year 49,.
Dan Lilly, $50
Peter Peterson, 81
Constable, two years
Patrick Cain, 173
Ed. Brouilette, SO.
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Maple Ridge Election.

The result of the election held
yesterday in Maple Ridge was as fol-
lows: - -
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-25
IOWA MUST PAY hill
Strike In The Button Factories
Will Be Charged Up to State
CITY WILL PAY PART OF IT
Muscatine Pays Expenses Incurred
by Local and Fairfield Com
panies and State Takes
Care of the Rest.

Des Moines, May 22-The taxpay-
ers OF the state of Iowa must bear
the brunt of the expense incident to
the calling out of the national guard
last month to suppress the disorders
at Muscatine, which occurred during
The trouble between the button man
ufacturers at that place and their
employees. OF the five companies or
dered out by the governor while the
trouble was in progress the state
must foot the bills for three and
Muscatine county the other two, &C.
cording to an opinion which has been
rendered in the office of the attorney
general.
Claims filed thus far with Adj. Gen.
Guy E. Logan for expenses incident
to the sojourn of the soldiers indi-
cate that the state treasurer will be
called upon to pay in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000. 1t was generally
understood at the time the troops
were ordered out that Muscatine
county would be held for the entire
expense, and 1t was for that reason
that many of the citizens there OBJ
jected so strongly to their being re-
tanned. Later it was discovered,
however, that the county could only
be called upon for such expense as
was entailed by the local company,
which was called out by the sheriff.
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n GAR Mklv0RL4L nv cER[INOHy

nessee, while the other panel depicts General
Logan in the act of taking the oath of office
as United States senator, the oath being adj
ministered by Vice-President Arthur. Included
In this group are the figures of Cullom, Ev-
arts, Conkling, Morton, Miller voorhees, and
Thurman On narrow panels on the north and
south faces of the pedestal are allegorical ng-
ures represent G of war and peace.
The Grand ~ of the Republic, through
the fundamentally of which General Logan
secured his most enduring memorial-Memo-
rial Day itself-had its origin in the year 1866.
when there was conceived the idea OF a ma
tional society composed Of honorably DIS
charged Union soldiers and sailors whose mot
TO should be Fraternity. Charity and Loyalty
Post No l. located in the city OF Decatur, IN
General Logan's own state Of Illinois, was Tor
mally mustered in in April Of that year ana
the first national encampment was held IN
INDIANAPOLIS in the November following Gen
eral Logan was one Of the early commanders
in-chief of the new countrywide organization
and IL was in less than two years AFTER tne
new movement had been started that ne maoe
use of the infant organization to Introduce the
idea of a fixed and permanent Memorial Day.
General Logan is indeed the best known OF
all the commanders-in-chief OF the great or
panjzation of veterans that numbered at one
time nearly 100000 men and his popularity
with his comrades in arms was eloquently at
tested by the fact that he served three terms
I'm the highest Office in the gift or the mem
bers of the G. A. X.
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SOk lLZ1PS H0/zE ~ 2H/yE,ZLE.X III

ton would have been long deferred had not
advancing years compelled AIRS. Logan to cur
tail her domestic responsibilities.
General Logan's widow has been for years
the recipient Of a pension of several thousand
dollars a year-oAe of the largest ancuities
paid by Uncle Sam to any woman except the
widows of presidents-and this income, com
bined with the revenue from her extensive
literary work, enabled her to maintain for
years a handsome residence on the heights
overlooking Washington and the United States
capitol building, where her late husband had
a notable career as United States senator fol-
lowing his service in the army. When, how
ever, the care Of this residence became too
much for Mrs. Logan some disposition had to
be made Of the great relic collection which
had overfowed the entire house and had &C.
cupied In particular one immense room, which
was In effect a memorial museum included
In the collection, 1t may be explained are not
only the books formerly owned by General
Logan and many volumes bearing upon him,
as well countless pictures of the swarthy
warrior. but his swords, battle flags, the gifts
and decorations bestowed by individual admir-
ers and the United States and foreign govern.
ments, and even the mounted figure OF the
famous war eagle that so conspicuously
identified with Logan's command during the
most trying periods OF the war.
Easily the most imposing existing memorial
to General Logan is the handsome equestrian
statue in bronze which occupies Iowa circle
or Logan circle, as II is sometimes called, one
Of the miniature parks or plazas at the seat
of government. This statue which cost $685.
900 was authorized by the congress OF the
United States In the year 1889. The national
legislature appropriated $4,000 and the Grand
Army Of the Republican the head of which
General Logan had been when he originated
Memorial Day-donated $4,000
The Logan statue. which II is believed will
be the forerunner Of others that will ultimate
ly be erected in other parts Of the country,
was unveiled in the spring OF 1901 in the pres
ence OF most distinguished company and 1t
was on this occasion that the late President
Mckinley in delivering the principal address
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of the day remarked: 1T is a good token
when patriots are honored and patriotism ex-
slted Monuments which express the nations
gratitude for great deeds inspire great deeds"
The figure of General Logan as represented
in this statue, 141s feet in height, is character
lied by vigor and animation. The general is
represented as riding along the line of battle,
his sword drawn and carried low in his right
hand. He faces toward the south and the
horse is represented in the attitude of NOV
ing at slow trot. The pedestal Of the statue
Is 20 feet in height and is adorned with two
impressive bronze groups in the form Of PAN
els. One group shows General Logan sur
rounded by officers OF the Army of the Ten