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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
BARS MUSICAL AUTO HORNS
French Judge Says Law Requires
Single Note, Grave, Even Sinister

Paris, April 15.-The musical au-
tomobile horns which threatened to
fill the main streets of Paris with
snatches of popular or classical airs
instead of the usual "shonk, honk'
have come to quick finish in France.
A test case was brought against
two motorists of Douai, who enliven-
ed the night trumpeting the leitmo-
tiv of ode Walkure,"' and it has been
decided that these instruments are
illegal here. The decision brought
out a judicial definition Of. the word
"horn," which had hitherto been
rather widely interpreted.
"The latter" said the judge, unjust
be for the purpose of sounding an
alarm and be used to warn the public
not to amuse it. 1t must give forth
single note which should be grave
even sinister, in order to call atten-
ton to the impending danger.
The new fanfare horns" added
the judge, "lack seriousness, and are
therefore outside the meaning of the
act - 49, as%
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
CARL HAGENBACK DEAD

Hamburg, April 15.-Carl Hagen
back, the animal collector and senior
partner of the Handles menagerie
and Tier park at stellingen, near
Hamburg, died last night.
Carl Hagenbeck was born in 1914.
His father, who had commenced the
animal business in 184S, with a few
seals and polar bears brought to
Hamburg by a whaler, transferred
the business to him when he was
twenty-one years of age. In 1875 he
began collection of the representa-
tive animals of many countries
throughout Europe. Several sover-
eigns have bestowed decorations on
him. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
IL HEAD FOR M'NABB'S
No Money to Come Over the Bar on
Saturday, ANDY" Says. :.

Andrew McNabb's saloon will be
the most popular one in Bemidji Sat-
urday. "No money will come over
my bar that day." said McNabb last
night before leaving for Minneapolis.
Mr.. McNabb married Miss Beatrice
Niles in Minneapolis this morning
and they will return to Bemidji from
their wedding trip Saturday morn
ing. Mrs. McNabb formerly resided
in Bemidji and was employed in the
Markham hotel. She has been in
Minot, N. D., but joined Mr.. McNabb
in Minneapolis this morning.
Mr.. McNabb says the house will be
open Saturday. # 81
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
Mayor and Police Active in Kidding
the City of Disorderly Houses
and Notorious Women.
MUNICIPAL COURT KEPT BUSY

Since Mayor McCuaig assumed Of
fee, between fifteen and twenty wo-
men said to have furnished reputa-
lions; have been ordered to leave the
city and have done so. The last to
be ordered to leave were Betsey Lo-
berg, who is to leave by six O'Clock
tonight and Minnie Vaughn, who left
at noon. The two have been living
on Fourth street and the police found
indications of a disorderly house.
Mrs. King, alias Minnie Robau-
deau, alias Mrs Bordeau and Elias
Anderson, of the town of Eckles, were
arrested in hotel last, night. on a
charge of disorderly conduct. After
registering as man and wife they
were given room but were taken
out by the police before they had re-
tired. Anderson pleaded guilty this
morning, was fined $40 and costs and
went to the county jail in lieu of the
fine. Mrs. King paid a fine Of SO
and costs. She has a Jail record in
Bemidji and was we'll known to the
court officers. #
Because he jumped a board bill
with Joe Blonde, J. B. O'Dea was ar
rested and brought into municipal
court. Judge Crowell advised him to
pay the bill and ordered his release.
Andy Murray, a cripple, was given
I've days in the county jail for being
drunk and causing disturbance on
the street. Edward Nerland was
found lying in the gutter at Second
and Beltrami yesterday morning and
was fined 81 and costs. He paid his
fine and was released
Mayor McCuaig is watching other
houses in the residence districts
which have been reported as housing
disreputable women and says that it
will be but few days until they will
be sent out of town also. !
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
SPECIAL TERM OF COURT

Judge B. F. Wright came to Bemid-
Iii from Park Rapids last night and
held special term of court for.
Koochiching county in the Markham
hotel. Deputy Sheriff B. w. Bacon
brought a man down from Interna-
tional Falls who pleaded guilty to
grand larceny In the second degree
and was taken to ST. Cloud this morn
ing. The man confessed to having
taken two $40 gold pieces from an
other in a hotel. Judge Wright re-
turned to Park Rapids this morning
while the International Falls Officers;
went home on the early train,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
MAY BREAK THE RECORD
Legislature Has Passed 27l Bills
With Many More in Final Stages
Busy Week Planned.
SESSION WILL CLOSE APRIL %

St. Paul, April 15.With 27l bills
now signed bysGoYernor A. o. Eber-
. hart and already hacome laws, the
prospect is that the output Of the
present legislature will be the heav-
lest in the history of the state. Hun
dreds of senate bills are awaiting
action in the house, and hundreds of
house, bills will be voted on in the
senate before midnight April %,
when the time limit for passage Of
bills will be reached. Fully 900
chapters will make up the session
laws of 1913. Most Of the measures
of first Importance have been disposed
of. or else are in the final stages.
Important measures that are about
to be disposed of are as follows:
Workmen's compensation bill,
passed both houses, difference to: be
settled by conference committee this
week. # .e.-. t..s.s
Recall, passed both houses, senate
to concur in house amendment this
week and repass bill. .:s.z:
Non-partisan primary bill, passed
both houses, conference report ac-
cepted, senate has repassed bill, house
will consider it's repassage as spec
ial order on Wednesday.
Minette bill for state regulation of
telephones, passed house and a spec
ial order for Tuesday in senate.
Local option for fourth-class cities,
passed both houses, conference report
pending in both houses. {
Many other bills of general interest
have progressed to a point where they
are sure to be voted either UP or
down before the adjournment. The
list includes the following:
Congressional reapportionment,
passed senate, in house committee. E.
Minimum wage commission, passed
house, on senate calendar.
O'Neill s:roadhouse" bill, passed
| house, on senate calendar.
"Seven senator" bill, passed senate,
in house committee.
efficiency committee plan for re-
organizing state departments, passed
house, in senate committee.
County aid for insane, pending in
calendar in both houses.
Gunderson-Lee bill prohibiting
dancing in public schools, on house
calendar and senate general orders.
Sundberg bill prohibiting public
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
Two new cottages at Sank Center

Two new cottages at Sank Center
home school for girls, $4,000.
Introduction of the bills, which
have been prepared in detail, was
halted for consultation with Cover
nor A. o. Eberhart, whose veto power
includes the right to cut out any
item from an appropriation bill. He
was asked to read the bills in detail
and give his views before they are in
troduced at his request.
Several battles are looked for on
the floor when the bills come up for
vote. One is promised on the board
of visitors and one on the reduction
in the salary of X. S. Chase, state
bank examiner, from $4,000 to 49,
500.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
BICYCLE HOURS NAMED.

Chief Lane stated this morning that
the bicycle hours for this year would
remain the same as last year and any
persons caught riding on the sidewalk
outside of hours would be arrested.
The hours set for the use of the side
walk by bicycle riders are between 5
and 8 a. M, Il a. m. and p. m. and
5 p. m. and p. m. This does not
permit the use Of the sidewalk on
Sunday or where the streets are
paved. S.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15

Harold Downing was a classmate of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Dane and Miss
Marjorie Knappen, of this city, and of
Miss Clara Shepley and w. E. Peik of
Blackjack. His home was in Mime
apolis. Arthur Barke graduated in
1910 and came from Fergus Falls.
Ralph Clawson was a Minneapolis
resident and graduated in 1912.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
Woman Taken Violently III After
Hypodermic and Drinking Cup
Of Cocoa.
PRISON LIFE WAS MADE EASY
Pictures, Draperies, Rugs and Books
Turned Cell Into Private Den
@ Spent Time in Study.
~ United Press,

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Springfield, Ohio, April 15.-Back-
ed by the loyalty of his young wife,
formerly a nurse, who he welded six
months after the death of his first
wife, DR.. Arthur B. Smith faces trial
here today for the alleged murder of
his first wife, Mrs. Florence Cavileer
Smith, In March, 1912. State and de-
tense have made elaborate prepare
lions for the trial, the accused doctor
himself having spent the months of
his confinement in the county Jail in
studying potsons, in the attempt to
prove that cyanide of potassium did
not cause the death of Mrs. Smith.
:. Mrs. Smith died suddenly on the
morning of March Is, 1912, after
slight indisposition Of a few days.
She complained Of illness on that
morning and it is alleged that her
husband brought her. a cup Of cocoa.
She Immediately became violently i'll
and DR.. Smith summoned DR.. R.. G.
Rind. According to TIE states
charges. Dr.. Rind advised hypoder-
mic injection and the husband said he
had already prepared one, which was
used. The indictment charges that
the alleged poisoning was accomplish
or oh ho
ton. So ~
Six months later-on October l.
DR.. Smith and Miss Mabel Merchant,
nurse at local hospital, were mar
ried. The second Mrs. Smith is ma
tive of Cambridge, Mass, where her
relatives live. Shortly after this
marriage the county authorities, at
the instigation of the dead .woman's
family, set in motion an, investiga-
ton of her death. The body was dis
inferred and analysis of the yiscera
was made by chemists, who are al
legged to have reported the finding of
cyanide to the special grand jury.
DR.. Smith was arrested Nov. %,
1912, and committed to Jail without
bond. Expensive rugs were brought
to cover the hard cement floor of his
cell; pictures and draperies hid as
much as possible the gloomy iron
bars; an easy chair, reading table
and chiffonier completed the cell
furnishings. His meals were brought
in from a restaurant and he ordered
a telephone installed in his cell. The
court, however, baked on the tele-
phone and instructed the sheriff not
to allow it.
Shortly after DIR. Smiths arrest,
the exclusive Springfield Country club
of which he had been moving spirit,
quietly dropped his name from its
roll. Other organizations with which
he had been identified followed this
example. But in the new Mrs. Smith
he had staunch supporter. She Wig
orously proclaimed her belief in his
innocence at the time of his arrest
and is still mistaken. She has spent
several hours daily with him during
the months of his confinement.
DR.. Smith has taken the accusation
philosophically. He has spent the
greater part of the time in prison in
reading books on poisons and their
effects on human beings. These
books have been carried to him by the
suitcase full. It is through his stud
les of these books that Or. Smith
says he expects to prove his inno-
cence and escape the electric chair.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
MINNESOTA BOYS HELD
Three Graduates of the University
Kept as Prisoners of War by
Mexican Federal Troops. =
BY United Press.

BY United 3rsss. -..
Minneapolis, April .15.---Arthur
Barke, Harold Downing and Ralph
Clawson are held prisoners in Mex
lean fortress by federal officers ac-
cording tt, a letter received here to-
day by Norman B. Roberts. The let
ter was written by Downing and was
struggled through the lines; .by4a Mex
lean boy who was bribed.>:- x 49,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
WORKING ON NEW VAULT

Carpenters and contractors have
commenced work on the new fire
proof vault in the city hall George
Kreatz was let the contract last Mon
day by the city council.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
FIRE PREVENTION
Wisconsin to Have State Wide Clean
up on May 2-Purtell Issues
General Order. ..

BY United Press. ...
Madison, Wis, April 15.-State
Fire Marshall Purtell has designated
May 2 as fire prevention day
throughout Wisconsin. It will be the
big day for the spring cleanup.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
POPE IS Is Better ] : ] /;
Latest Report Says That He Continues
to Mend With a Lowering
~ Temperature.

By United 3rosD. 49, s.sts@ Il
Rome, April 15.-The pope contin-
ued to mend this afternoon with a
lowering. temperature and decreasing
bronchial trouble, says bulletin put
forth by his physicians. At the
vatican preparations for the death Of
the pontiff are going steadily on.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
One University Building.

One new building for the Univer-
sity of Minnesota is provided in the
educational bill, which grants $145,-
900 for new building for the school
of mines, to replace the one burned,
and $4,000 to remodel the present
school of mines for the use: of the
college of education.
Other University buildings are pro-
vided for in the committee bill al
ready introduced, financing buildings
to cost 100000 by certificates Of in
debtedness for the university school
of agriculture and the Winonas and
Moorhead normal schools. This bill
provides $500, 900 for a biology build
ing at the university. Other build
ings provided for in the omnibus bills
made up today are as follows:
Addition to Duluth normal school
$4,000.
New building for criminal insane
at st. Peter, $4,000.
New heating plant for Rochester
insane hospital, $150,000.
Two new cottages at Anoka asy-
lum, $4,000.
Two new cottages at Hastings
asylum. $4,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15
STATE TAXES ARE
TO BE INCREASED
Report of Both Appropriations Com
mittees Show That New Levy
Will Be Higher.
MORE THAN DOUBLE 1911
1913 Revenue Fund Calls For 2.3
Mills As Against 8 Of Mill Two
Years Ago.
SCHOOL EXPENSES ARE HEAVIER
More Aid Provided and Money Must
Be Observation-Disclosures are Hard
Hit Also.
GROWTH OF STATE TAX LEvIEs

st. Paul, April 15-The omnibus
appropriation bills for the state in
situations and state departments in
. troduced in the senate by the senate
finance committee and in the house
by the house appropriations COM
mittee carries total appropriations
for the biennial period beginning
August l, 1913, will aggregate
$21,00O,OOO. Two years ago the
total appropriations We're approxi-
mately $17,4O0,000. -.
The tax levy for state revenue pur-
poses will probably be-: 8, mills, said
Chairman Frank Clague of the SEN
ate finance committee. Two years
ago the tax levy was fixed at a maxi
mum of 10 mills. The increase
does not include the special 1-mill
road tax levy provided under the R.
c. Dunn good roads bill.
School Expenses Larger.
The largest contributing factor in
the increase is an increase of $780,
900 in the special state aid to schools,
the legislature in bills already passed
having made provision for larger
amounts to each class of schools and
larger appropriations to take care of
greater number of schools. State
high, graded, semi-graded, rural, con-
solidated and agricultural high
schools are benefited.
The 2.3 mills revenue fund tax
with the 1 mill of roads, the / mill
tax for the state levies will bring the
state tax levy next year to SOB mills.
For the present year it is 1886 mills
and last year it was 2.7O mills.
Estimated revenue from railroad
and other special taxes for the two
years is $14,000,000, including a big
increase in railroad taxes. All that
is appropriated in excess of $14,OOO,-
600 will have to be raised by direct
levy on the real estate and personal
property of the tax payers. AS the
l-mill of tax levy raises only about
$1,200,O00 in taxes, the levy will
have to show an increase over two
years ago when it was 10 mills.
No appropriation is included in
the bills for the Panama-Pacific ex-
position at San Francisco next year.
Bills are in the committees allowing
$4,000 for a Minnesota building, but
have been voted on adversely in both
houses and cannot be brought out ex-
cept by fight on the floor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-15

NContinned on last pagol..
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6ortiattes paa iiSits SiDe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-04
Keeping Up the Slauahtcr.

So last month the worst on record for the
slaughter of the streets In this city fewer than
GO persons were killed by vehicles 80 of them be-
ing victims Of automobiles In the rest Of the state
the figures were 80 and IT, respectively, and IN New
Jersey "a and 16 In addition, there were injured
in this city ISL and in the rest of the state 49,
These figures give food for thought and something
more
There is great outcry raised over every acct
dent at a grade crossing of a railroad, often with
cause. Yet such accidents in this city and state
accounted for only oneeighth as many deaths
those from vehicles highways. -Four persons
were killed by automobiles to every one by loco
motive. If fire or other catastrophe should once
every nine months kill nearly two hundred children
in this city we should have Indignation meetings
and universal cutlery. Yet 1913 children have been
killed by vehicles on the streets this year
1t cannot be maintained that these tragedies are
invariably the fault of the drivers. Sometimes
these are quite innocent and the carclessness or
mischief of the children is responsible But in the
ma jority of cases. believe, the fault lies with
those in charge Of the vehicles. In any case the
continuance of such slaughter Is reproach to our
civilization
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-04
The Earthquake Test at Gatun.

The earthquake Of Wednesday night at Panama
was timely, and its results, or lack of them, were
gratifying. The great locks of the canal and their
appurtenant works of masonry are now practically
completed and are ready for tests. A few days
ago they were tested with water and were found
satisfactory. Now they have been tested with an
earthquake shock and are found impregnabe.
That does not mean that no seismic CONFUSION
could damage or destroy the dams and locks. There
have been shocks in some places against which no
structure of human builders could surely stand.
But such shocks do not occur at Panama. Tremors
are frequent there, but they do little damage. The
famous fiat arch" Of a ruined church has stood in
Panama intact for nearly two centuries. If none
of the hundreds Of shocks have disturbed 1t there is
little fear that any will crack the concrete
tain at Gatun.
1t is not easy to determine exactly the compare
tive violence of earthquake shocks but that OF
Wednesday night was probably one Of the hardest
known in modern times on the isthmus The sue
cessful endurance OF its test gives added for
confidence in the stability and security of the
canal.