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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
Is Under Two Indictments and Is
Up First for Selling Liquor
on Sunday.
CYR IS TO BE EXAMINED
Will Be Taken Before Crowell Tues.
day for Preliminary Hearing
For Murder.

Judge Stanton this afternoon de-
livered his charge to the jury in the
Cook case and a verdict is expected
before evening. County Attorney
Torrance started his argument at 9
a. m. and Mr.. Funkley addressed the
jury for the defense from 1920 un-
til noon.
The case for the state appeared to
rest principally on the testimony of
Alice Wilcox, the girl said to have
been ravished, and Messrs. Stoke
and Windness who testified that they
saw the attempt The defense en-
deayored to impeach the states wit
nesses and to show that some mo-
tive other than justice led to the ar
rest and indictment of Cook.
Following the Cook case, Louis An
.derson was called, being under in
-lictment for selling liquor on Sunday
and for selling liquor to prostitute.
He will be tried on the Sunday sell
ling Indictment first The afternoon
was spent in selecting a jury and
getting the case under way. The
trial on the other indictment will
be taken up at the close of the pres
ent one.
Following the Anderson trial, the
state will probably call Edwin
Gearlds, who is under indictment on
similar charges, and then John Flate-
ly. The case of George Cyr, who
killed Paul Fourier two weeks ago,
will come before Court Commissioner
Crowell tomorrow. This will be the
preliminary hearing, and he will
probably be freed or bound over to
the grand jury.
Louis Anderson has also been
called before the mayor to show cause
as to why his license should not be
revoked. The case was set for p.
m. this afternoon, but because of the
District court trial was set over.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
Figures Prepared By Erickson Show
That Mark Was Barely
I. Reached.
MASTERS SALARY NOW $4,000
Is Based on Income for Each Fiscal
Year and Was Raised in
1911.

|. Congressman Stevenson has intro
duced a bill in the House which if
passed will give Bemidji Federal
building for the housing of the post
office. The bill was introduced be-
cause the postal receipts of this city
have exceeded $4,000 a year for the
past two fiscal years.
March 80 is the end of the fiscal
year for the Bemidji post Office and
Postmaster Erickson at once had the
figures for the year computed to see
If the Office had reached the $4,000
mark. 1t was found that the total
receipts were $2O,0os.22. Revenue
sources were approximately $500
from box rent; news papers, $3.50;
and postage $19,5O8.
By reaching the $4,000 mark two
successive years, Bemidji is assured
OF postofice. Postmaster Erickson
says that it is compulsory on the gov
eminent to supply a Federal build
ing when the postal receipts reach
this mark. This being the case, It is
highly probable that Congressman
Steenerson's bill will pass and this
city will have Federal building in
q short time. The matter has not
yet reached the stage of selecting
site. r
The post Office here has been sec
ond class since it reached the. SIC, 900
mark. Salaries for postmasters are
based on postal receipts as follows:
$4,000 year receipts, salary 3d.
600; $4,000 per year, salary $2,500;
$4,000 per year, salary $4,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

Bemidji's two large lumber mills
are ready to commence the seasons
saving. The Bemidji mill will start
operations Wednesday and the Crook
ston mill on Monday of next week,
Both mills intend to run day and
night shifts. The Bemidji mill ex-
poets to employ ESQ men and the
Crookston mill about 500 men.
At the Bemidji mill, steam has
been turned on the ice for the past
ten days and it is pretty we'll thawed
so that little cutting will be neces-
sary. w. A. Gould mas stated that
when the mill was first ready to run,
it was planned to operate only dur
ing the days, but that the company
is putting in 100000 feet at Bena
and this will necessitate running day
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

the lake. said B. W: Lakin satur-
day. "We will cut q channel about
100 feet wide and 400 feet long
along the dock. The#legs that are
now coming in will be dumped in
that channel, Another channel, fifty
feet wide and 100 feet long, will
float the logs to the mill. The logs
that are now on the ice are frozen
in and will not be sawed until the
ice goes out.
The machinery il the mill has
been completely overhauled this win
ter and the plant isSready for bust
ness. The machine shop has been en-
larged and among the equipment ad-
ded are an electrical air drill and
hammers, new automatic steel saw,
known as the "scuff", and a 800
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
DOGS MUST BE TAGGED.
Catcher Starts Work Tomorrow
Morning on Unclaimed CANNES.

Seyenty-two dog licenses had been
issued by the city clerk at noon to-
Eday. Chief Cell. states that a man
will be looking for all untagged dogs
tomorrow morning and that the
streets will be cleaned up of all
.strays. Tags may be had of the city
clerk for ten cents after the licenses
are paid. $50
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
Law Is Discussed.

Law Is Discussed.
Mr.. Pray: 81 do not think we are
called on to discuss what law we
should have or should not have. The
law in operation under the old law,
under General Andrews regime was
so rigid that it was not complied with
and it was rather farce but l think,
that some of the bad features of that
law have been corrected. In the
present one, one of the principal
things is in leaving it with the
state forester. If I understand the
law correctly, it reads, Whenever in
the judgment of the state forester it
is necessary to burn
"Now, he has, so far as have been
abe to learn, very competent rang
ers. Most of them have worked for
lumber companies operating in the
vicinity in which they are now in
spectors. It is these men that the
law is left with. To indicate any
certain day when this burning should
be done would be ridiculous. The old
law was so rigid that if you set a fire
you were arrested and if you did not,
you were arrested. Mr.. Cary has re-
ferred to the cost of burning brush
as, | think, at sixteen to twenty
cents. Now, don't think, there are
lands with over five thousand feet to
the acre and I doubt if we could
burn it for five times the amount he
mas placed on it. He has been over
that territory and I think he will
agree with me. If our land should
run five thousand feet to the acre, it
would cost $3.50 thousand, That
would be more than the cost of the
land. The lumberman is interested
in getting his timber off and if it
were to cost him all of 81 an acre to
burn the brush or take care of the
debris, it would be more than the
price of the land. I don't think that
would be the intention of the law.
The enforcement Of the law is left
to the forester and his rangers
Many Varieties. III
Mr.. Marshall, supervisor of the ma
tlonal forest at Cass Lake.: "Mr.
Chairman: The conditions of brush
burning are good deal like Heinz
pickles. There are five hundred and
h1ty varieties. AS to how brush
should be burned. You can 20 at it
IN two ways. Brush is burned for
two reasons, to clear the land for re-
forestry and for fire protection. Our
rules are rigid and the cost would be
from fifty to seventy-five cents and
up to one dollar, on such rigid rules.
We are simply burning for fire pro-
lection and don't consider that the
cost is going to run SO high.
Continued Tuesday,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

eighth inch chains and the end booms
are fastened to the piers by inch and
one-eighth chains. The company is
taking every precaution to keep the
logs from scattering into the lake
and has already spent So, 900 in boom
work.
''The unloading dock has been ex-
tended 500 feet. at a cost of $4,000,
making the total length at present
$4,000 feet. A new dock is being
built in Lake Irvine, in conjunction
with the Bemidji Lumber company
which will cost $1,000 and run out
about 500 feet. 1t leaves the main
track of the Red Lake railroad east
Of the depot and extends toward the
Mississippi river.
I'm the early fall, the company will
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
Herman in Hospital

Joe Herman was taken to ST. An.
lthony hospital Saturday night and
was operated on last night for an
pendicitis: He Is reported g doing
nicely VIII Finnigan was able TO
take short walk this afternoon.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

We always knew that our good
friend Halvor Stevenson was an In
dian, but we didn't know that he had
taken claim on the reservation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

open camp near Kelliher to COM
plete the seasons cutting. AT pres
ent there are about 100000 logs in
the lake and it is planned to haul in
as many more this summer, making
about 100000 pieces to be handled.
They will come in on the M. and F.
from up the line as far as Margie and
on the Red Lake road from Puposky
and White Fish lakes.
+ 1.-TWO shifts will run the mill. Day
shift work from a. N. to 6 p. m.
and the night shift from Z p. m. to
6 a. m. 80
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

and night shifts. The pay roll will
be about $4,000 per month.
At the Crookston mill, the planning
mill has been running all winter
with the exception of two weeks at
Christmas and is operating on full
time at present. The monthly pay
roll after the saw mill starts will be
about $4,000 or $1,000 per day,
which. will be paid every two weeks.
Will Cut Ice Channel,
people are wondering how the
mill will run before the ice is out of
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

Miss Nellie Reynolds. Of Backus.
win spend the summer with Mrs.
William Sexton. ~
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9 o o o o o 8 o o o o q o . o
o CURRENT EVENTS.
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Bitter Saloon Contest in Illinois.

Chicago, ILL.,, April IA bitter
contest between the liquor interests
and the anti-saloon forces will reach
its climax in the elections about to
be held in more than 100 cities and
towns in Illinois. The town elections
will be held tomorrow and the city
elections one week later. Reports
from all over the state indicate in
tense interest in the struggle.
Among the larger places which will
vote on the 'wet" and "dry" ques-
ton are Monmouth, Freeport, Rock
ford, Waukegan, Mattoon, Belvidere,'
Champaign, Centralia and Dixon.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
Interest in Wisconsin Primaries.

Milwaukee, Wis.,, April Lead
ers of national politics are looking
ahead with acute interest to the press
idential preference primaries in Wis
consin tomorrow, the first to be held
under the new state law. Delegates
at-large and district delegates to the
national conventions of both parties
are to be selected.
Wisconsin is the home of Senator
La Toilette and is generally supposed
to have strong progressive leanings.
Impartial judges of the situation pre-
dict that La Toilette will carry the
majority Of the Republican delegar
ton, with delegates reported in some
cases to favor Roosevelt for second
choice. The Taft men, including
many of the older leaders of the par
ty, have waged an active campaign,
but their hope is not to get major
ity of the delegation, but to prevent
La Toilette from having a unanimous
vote from the state. On the Demo-
cratic side, confident claims are be-
ing made in behalf of Clark, Wilson
and Harmon, and it is impossible to
predict with any degree of certainty
which of the three candidates will
secure the largest number of dele
gates from Wisconsin to the Balti-
more convention.
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AT THE FORESTRY MEETING o

. Notice-The articles on the <
. forestry meeting will be- re. <
. printed in the Weekly Pioneer
. of April 4. If interested, order <
. a copy now.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01

pound steam trip hammer. For fire
protection, $50 gallon per minute
pump has been installed in the saw
mill and 400. gallon per minute
pump in the planning mill. Water
mains and MIGRANTS have been placed
all through the yards. A fire whistle
that can be heard for fourteen. miles
will sound alarms. ~ssSss +
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-01
Boon1s Are Ready.

s.. Work on the booms out in the
lake; was completed on Saturday.
Boom logs are connected by seven
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-02

NEW yoRk. Feb. 7.--0raee
Green Roosevelt Is one member Of
the family who il not In the public
eye. The former presidents grand.
daughter ~ net even permitted 20
BE- interviewed or photographed.
CHICAGO. Feb. 7.--Reisaxed
from Jail on small pond 50 he
eoaid keep hls engagement 20 be
married. Albert Johnson. q. re.
ported to Judge Walker with his
bride. after the ceremony He viii
b. tried for embesslemsnt.
HAMMOND. Ind. Feb. 2--psAth
failed 10 halt dance In celebration
of a wedding here. Vincent Soy.
manxki. one Of the dancers. vas
killed BY \ live wire. The dance
sent on as bis body was removed.
LACROSSE. Via. Feb. zs--ace.
erf pAIncanxou Nas taken back 10
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-02

took walk. lie ran across a little
country church and decided 10 80
inaidc and listen 20 the singing.
When Wilson entered the church
an usher caught him by the sleeve
and hurried him to tho pulpit.
whore he was introduced "a
"Iirother Pope" The truth was
that the deacon had taken the
circus clown for the Rev. cademnn
Pope. an itlnerant minister. who
was expected 10 MI the pulpit that
afternoon.
Rather than dlnanpoint the
country people. Wilson launched
forth on sermon. The clown
was very much humiiiated when
near the close OF His sermon Rev
fope made his appearance.
Afterwards when Wilson was
on the road with the circus he be.
gan 10 attend church whenever he
could and finally he became con.
vinecd that he had boon called to
preach.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-02

What did that very polite man
say when you called him q mem.
Der Of the Ananlss club bid he
exciaim. You're anoshrrf'
No. indeed. lie smiled and said.
Welcome. fellow member -.
Washington Evening Star.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-02

BANcoR. VIA. Feb. 2.--Thss VII.
iags Of sss souls claims 4 national
record In the birth of twins. More
t~in births than single ones are on
record for tho past four years
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-02

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Feb. a.
Raleigh Wilson OF this city. a cir.
Gus clown. - 10 abandon his pro.
fession and become Methodist
preacher.
One sunday afternoon last sum.
mer while the voIlmar Brothers
circus. IN which he was appearing.
was playing In Minnesota. Wilson
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-02

prison for breaking his parole IN
leaving the state. lie elopcd with
an Oshkosh Elfl and was married
Ia Iowa. but returned the same day
FAIRFIELD. ~. Feb. 2~-Asrry
Clay King. 80. told the court he
had been customer of mall order
houses for 20 years and everything
had Siyen satisfaction except his
mail order wife. lie wants al.
voree.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-05
WILL WIN WITH WILSON,

Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey. NOM
mated for President, means that Wood
row Wilson will be the next President of
the United States. The selection made
by the Democratic convention at Balti-
more Yesterday will meet the approval of
a great majority of the voters of the coun-
try. The Governor of PENNSYLVANIA S
sister Commonwealth will proceed from
New Jersey, where he has done so much
to demonstrate the value of an honest,
able and Clear-headed man as State ex-
ecutive, to the larger field at Washington,
where as the head of a great nation he
will not fail TO give satisfactory account
of himself
The delegates at Baltimore have made
a splendid choice. They have offered
not only to the voters of their own party,
but to those of all parties who are sincere
in their professions OF a desire to be rep
resented in the Presidency by an honest
and able man, the needed opportunity to
end the rule and destructive policies of
the Republican party.
No party ever nominated a candidate
for President more free to enter the Pres
idenCy as the impartial representative of
the whole people. Woodrow Wilson
would have been nominated on the first
ballot at Baltimore had he been willing to
deal in the usual way for support, but he
has kept himself free to be the represent
alive of the whole people when he be-
comes their President
THE Record reioiceS in the outcome
of the Democratic convention Our DEM
oCratic brethren of the country can place
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-05
Totals. ..........
Harmon, IL.

The Democratic Convention resumed
its labors after the recess following the
Presidential nomination. The first bust
ness presented by Chairman James was
| the nomination OF running mate for
the Presidential candidate, Governor
| Woodrow Wilson. Hon. Thomas X.
Marshall, Governor OF Indiana, was
nominated by reclamation, amidst the
! greatest enthusiasm.
Following the nomination for the Vice.
! President the Chairman of the Com.
alttee on Resolutions read the platform.
which was adopted amid cheers. The
convention on Wednesday morning adj
journed sine die. at 2, SIS a. m.
Woodrow Wilson was born in 1876,
in Stanton, Virginia. He attended
school in Davidson College and Prince
ton College. He studied law at the
University of Virginia and practiced for
some time, but gave it up. In 1875 he
was married. After teaching at Prince
ton College for some time he was made
president OF the institution in 1902. In
November, 1911, he was elected Gov
crnor OF New Jersey on the Democratic
ticket, and by his aggressive policies
and clean cut and able methods he was
at once recognized as leader of ma
tlonal prominence and importance, and
the nomination comes as tribute to his
ability
One OF the most amazing incidents of
Woodrow Wilson's campaign for the
Democratic Presidential nomination was
his embroglio with Colonel George
Harvey, editor of HarberIS Weekly.
and Colonel Henry Watterson editor of
the Louisville Courier. Journal over the
support accorded Wilson's boom by
HatPer'S WeekLy.
For months the publication boosted
Wilson in every issue, and then came
the story in Charlotte, North Carolina,
newspaper that Governor Wilson had
broken with Colonel Harvey and had
requested him to discontinue his support
of Wilson. Hatper'S Weekly came out
with an explanation that it had dropped
Wilson at his own request.
Then Colonel Watterson got into the
game by telling of the meeting in New
York of Colonel Harvey, Governor Will
son and himself at which Wilson quar-
relied with Colonel Harvey and Colonel
Watterson because they had enlisted in
his behalf Thomas Fortune Ryan, the
millionaire traction and tobacco magnate
Colonel Watterson maintained that at
first Wilson took kindly to the Ryan
The thing ended with
Colonel Watterson's proposal that the
controversy be referred to an old-lash-
Toned court of honor. An incident of
the affair was the publication of letter
that Governor Wilson was said to have
written to Adrian H Joline, attacking
William Jennings Bryan and hoping that
he could be knocked into a cooked
hat"
Colonel Bryan did not resent'the letter,
for he showed himself all admrer of the
New Jersey Governor at the Jackson
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-05
School Attendance.

Living cost rises faster and faster thar
wages; many rich men are getting richer
and many poor men poorer; children are
forced into industrial pursuits, who
should remain in school and at home.
women are forced to labor in factories
whose talents ought to be devoted to
home making. These unhappy condi-
tons are recognized and deplored. They
do not tell the whole story, however.
nor half of it.
Here is Census Bureau belletn, for
instance, which compares the school at
tendance of 1900 with that of 1910. If
covers the entire country by States and
shows steadily increasing percentage
of youth attending the public schools.
The period of maximum school at
tendance is from 10 to Id. For those
ages the percentage OF attendance for
the country increased from 1913 to $50
being the largest in New England and
the smallest in the South Atlantic States
Generally speaking the age of com.
pulsory school attendance, is from s to
IA. For that period in the Continental
United States Sr.4 per cent. were in
school in 1910. The highest percentage
was found in Vermont and Massachu-
settr (92.9) and the lowest in Louisiana
(54.6).
From Ohio Se.S per cent. of the chill.
dreH between these ages were school
attendants, which was better than the
average either for the country as a whole
or for the particular group of States in
which Ohio is placed. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-05
Our Reserve Force,

The saving factor in this country is its
reserve force and recuperative power.
We are not handto mouth people We
are not upset by local reserves or tran
sient obstacles. Even under forces con-
tracing in their natural effect our indus
tries expand. A money stringency oc-
ours, yet capital continues conservatively
to seek new fields of investment and
business proce DIS with the minimum of
disturbance. Some even assert that we
are now panic-proof, meaning, of course,
complete paralysis of business. This is
no theory, but a condition, brought
about, not spontaneously, but under the
spur of persistent application of definite
principles.
The strength Of nations, as well as men.
lies not in their ability to escape or avoid
accident, but in the power to recover
from their effects. Materially and spirit
ually-in the broadcast sense-our re-
sources are such as to encourage belief
in our power to resist the most whitening
blight of adversely Our good fortune is
that we have developed this reserve force
from the need of it, and now that we
have it, nothing can take it from u.s.
Omaha Bee.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-05
AS to the Electors.

The question of wherher our archaic
and clumsy system of choosing our
President and President by means
OF electors is not going to defeat the peo-
pies will in some of the States this fall is
causing not little worriment in some
quarters A citizen of Minnesota writes
to New York newspaper to inquire if
there will be an opportunity to vote for
President Taft in the State of Mime
sofa, where the boilers and third termers
appear to own everything, from the del
esates to the press" In Kansas, the
real Republicans are not truStful of the
electors which their State Convention
named, and now that Taft is the nominee
of the party they want sure enough Taft
electors.
The situation looks complex and sus-
ceptible of manipulation in the interest
OF irregular candidates. But a few sim
pie things, which must be observed. will
insure order and direct voting. Every
Presidential party which puts ticket
in the field in any State must have its
own Presidential electors. 1t must have
its name at the head of the ticket,
although it need not name thereon its
candidates for President and Vice-Pres-
ident. The electors who receive the
majority of the votes cast in each State
will vote for the candidate of the party
under which their names appeared, and
tor no other-New Haven Register.