The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-12-12
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Arizona held her first State cleo
ton today, voting for governor and
other state officials, judges of the SUI
preme and district courts and mem
bers of the legislature.
The Minnesota State Butter and
Cheese Makers association began its
eighteenth annual convention at Al
bert Lea today with large and rep
resentative attendance. The conyen-
ton will remain in session three
days ~ ..<
Following a campaign that has
been conducted with much spirit on
both sides, special election will be
held at Astoria, Ore, tomorrow to
decide whether Astoria shall adopt
the commission form of government
in place of the existing plan
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual reunion and banquet
of the Head of the Lakes Old Settlers
association, which is to be held to-
morrow in Duluth. Several hundred
men and women who have resided in
this section for nearly half century
will be in attendance.
The Cunard liner Mauretania left
Liverpool today with the expectation
OF establishing new record for the
round trip at Christmas time. She
will depart from New York within
80 hours after her arrival there and
will be due back at Fishguard as the
Christmas ship on December p.
AS a part Of the campaign launch
ed by the club women of Iowa to in
crease the physical welfare of the
people of that State, DR.. Margaret
Vaupel Clark, of Waterloo, Iowa,
sailed today from New York for
England and will spend the next u
months studying the methods of baby
rearing in the various countries of
Europe.
AS a result of action to be taken
by the Circuit Court which convened
at Findlay, Ohio, today the court
docket will be swept clean of all
Standard Oil litigation, a situation
that has not existed in Ohio for
many years. The various suits pend
ing against the corporation and its
subsidiaries will be dismissed for the
reason that all Of the points involved
in the suits were covered in the re-
cent Rdecisions of the United States
Supreme Court
S. Edward Stibbins, the young man
who is charged with first degree muir
der as the result of the mysterious
killing of his father, George W. Stib-
bins, went on trial today at Vincen-
mes, Ind. The elder Stibbins was
shot and killed while feeding cattle
on his farm near Petersburg on the
night of November II last. The son,
E. Edward Stibbins, was taken into
custody and later charged with MUIR
der upon evidence that he had been
on unfriendly terms with his father.
The accused man is thirty-two years
old and a graduate of the State Nor
NAL school,
After a lapse of more than thirty
years James B. McCreary, for the Sec
ond time in his long career of pub
lie service, was today inaugurated
governor of Kentucky. The inaugu-
ration crowd was the largest ever
seen at Frankfort. Parade of militia
companies, Democratic marching
clubs civic organizations and mill
tary cadets was the feature Of the
day. Another feature was the pres
ence of hundreds of Confederate vet
Grams, who were doubtless attracted
to the inauguration by the general
feeling that Governor McCreary prob
ably will be the last one Of their
number who will be chosen as chief
executive of the Blue Grass State