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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
! GIRLS AOJUDGED INSANE
Teckla and Mary Nordin Committed to
Fergus Falls Asylum by Judge M.
A. Clark Entirely Helpless.
REFUSE TO TALK; FoRcEDro EAT

One of the most pathetic cases ever
heard in the probate court of Beltra-
mi county was concluded yesterday
when NJ. A. Clark, judge, adjudged
Teckla Nordin, ~ years old, and
Mary Nordin, % years old, to be in
sane and ordered them to be commit
ted to the, insane asylum at Fergus
Falls. ....- .-
The girls have resided with their
parents in the town of Stevenson
and so serious has been their condi.
tion that neighbors brought the mat
ter to the attention of the authori-
ties. Teckla has been insane for six
years, the evidence showing her
trouble to have begun just following
an accident when she was badly
frightened, while Mary lost her mind
because of worry over the belief that
she was to lose her homestead. They
are helpless. " r.
+ Both girls refuse to eat except
when forced, will not talk and ap.
pear unconcerned as to their sur
roundings. The girls were brought
to ,Bemidji by Deputy Sheriffs Den
ley and iBertheaume, the same Off
Gals taking the unfortunate girls to
Fergus Falls this morning. Mr.. and
Mrs. E. P. Nordin, the father and
mother, accompanied the deputies as
guards
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
IRVING PLAN TO Be
DISCUSSED TONIGHT
Commercial Club Members Will De-
eide Whether to Have Chicago Man
Conduct Membership Campaign.
LARGE ATTENDANCE IS URGED
Proposition Will be Thoroughly Re
viewed and Officers Request Every
One Interested to Attend.
LARGE ATTENDANCE IS URGED

Every member of the Bemidji
Commercial club and all others in
terested are urged to be present at
the regular monthly meeting of the
organization which is to be held this
evening in the club rooms at which
the Irving membership campaign
proposition will be entirely reviewed
and action either rejecting or accept
ing the offer taken. .. ~. e
At citizens meeting held last
week Mr.. Irving was present and out
lined his methods and the conditions
under which he would accept to man
age campaign, in an. endeavor to
secure five hundred new members for
the club.
Would Cancel Initiation Fee.
Since the organization of the club
an initiation fee of ten dollars has
been charged, while dues are twelve
dollars year. Mr.. Irving requests
that this initiation fee be entirely
done away with. Should this be
done the constitution will have to be
changed. For this reason the Off
GERS of the club urge every member
to be present in order that the va
rious views On the matter may be ex-
planned and the entire plan discussed
before final action is taken, not wish
ing to bind the entire club by the
action of few members. =
Would Come Next Week.
w. B. Lakin. president, and H. H.
Mayer, secretary of the Commercial
club, have received announcement
from Mr.. Irving that he would like
to serve Bemidji next week.
In other cities where Mr.. Irwin g
has conducted similar campaigns the
results have been successful.
If you are interested in Bemidji's
future, you will be present at the
this evening, for the Irving
plan is one in which every citizen
should assist -~~,-..~ j. ~r-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
STUDENT INCREASE SHOWN
Report Of Supt. Dyer to w. B. Stew
art Shows !, 40 Entitled to Appor-
tionment for School Use.
1885 ENROLLED DURING YEAR

That siXty-one more pupils at
tended the BemiGji public schools
during the term just closed, than a
year ago, is shown in a report sub
mitted to w. B. Stewart, county SUI
perintendent, by w. P. Dyer, city
school superintendent, giving figures
as to the number of students entitled
to apportionment. This apportion-
ment amounts to six dollars year for
each student and the report shows
that LAO are entitled to it, an in
crease of 40 over last year. The
money comes from the permanent
school fund.
According to the report 1926 stu
dents have enrolled in the Bemidji
schools during the past year, an in
crease of 81 over the term of 1912
49, Of this number 1877 were not
entitled to the apportionment because
of not having attended school forty
days.
there are $50 days in the school
year and the average number of days
attended by each student is IA, to
al a year ago.
Two hundred and sixty-two pupils
attend the Bemidji schools who are
between the ages of and years;
S26 between the ages of and Is;
161 between the ages of 16 and
p and two more than FL years old.
Last year these figures were 1852 be-
and Is; 1853 between 16 and 81
and one over FL:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
''BREWsTER's MILLIONS" COMING
Tells Story of Young Man Spending
Huge Sum in Year.

"Brewster's Millions,' we'll known
as one of the tremendous hits of five
years ago, and to the present day in
book form, one of the best sellers,
is now a motion picture comedy
drama, product of the Jesse L. Lasky
Feature Play company, and comes 70
''Brewster's Millions'' in brief tells
of Monte Brewster who is bequeathed
a million dollars by an uncle. An
other uncle in the west, who dislikes
the first uncle, wills young Brewster
seven million dollars upon condition
that he spend the first uncle's mil
lions within a year. He is not to
squander the money, is to show re-
ceipts at the end of the year for the
entire million, yet he must possess
nothing of value at the end of the
year. - Young Brewster accepts the
conditions and the troubles and
tribulations attended upon his en-
deavor to spend the million dollars
makes one of the most Fascinating
stories ever concocted The motion
picture of this famous stage play is
in five parts and composed Of over
two hundred scenes, and was produce
ed at an expense exceeding fifty
thousand dollars.
The ladies Of the M n church will
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
JUMPS FROM TRAIN; DIES
Injuries Received by Frank Coblisch
When He Jumped From North
Bound Passenger Prove Fatal.
TAKE BODY TO REDWOOD FALLS

Frank Coblisch, ~, died last even
ing five minutes after he arrived at
the hospital, from injuries received
when he jumped from the north
bound Minnesota & International
passenger near East Bemidji
Coblisch boarded the 6 O'Clock
train for the purpose of going to the
home of sister, Mrs Martineau, who
resides near East Bemidji, but when
the train pulled out at the round.
house he decided to ride as far as
possible. A companion jumped from
the train without injury but when
Coblisch did so the speed had in.
creased and he was thrown to the
ground, badly crushing his right
shoulder.
Aid soon reached him and the yart
men provided an engine and coach
in which he was rushed to the Union
depot. Doctors were called and Cob
lisch taken to the hospital, where
he died of a hemorrhage of the lungs
The body was removed to the NC.
Iver-O'Leary undertaking parlors ani
will be shipped to North Redwood
this evening, where his father re-
sides. The funeral will be held or
Thursday e.: r: 4
Coblisch is well known in Bemidj
| having worked around here for three
years He had intended to go tt
work today, driving team at thu
Crookston lumber yards.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
Joseph CaiIiaux Is Injured,

Paris, June 2.-Joseph Caillaux, the
ex-premier, was injured in an auto
mobile collision here. He, had pass
ed the afternoon with his wife, who is
in prison for the killing of CASTOR
Calmette, editor of the Figaro, and
was returning home when the car
was struck by another machine The
ex-premier was cut by glass.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
BOARD PROPOSES
STANDARD BUREAU
Efficiency Commission Would Have
One Man in Charge of Food, Oil and
Weights and Measures Inspection
MEANS GREATER ECONOMY
Scale Inspectors are an Aggravation
and a Nuisance is Conclusion of
Dealers-ShOuld Abolish Fees.

st. Paul, June 2-(Special to The
Pioneer-.-In the department of la.
Dor and commerce, as proposed by the
efficiency commission, there will be
a bureau of standards. The head OF
that bureau will look after a. lot o.
inspection work such as food and
drink and spices, such as the grocers
scales and the berry box, and the
milkman's pint cup. Which in
cludes the food inspection, now carr
ried on by the food and dairy depart
ment, and oil inspection, and the
weights and measures department,
and a few other things.
Economy can be accomplished in
various ways by bringing these in
spections together While some Of
the duties require experts, and it
would not be profitable to have all
the inspection done by the same set
OF men, there is a great deal of room
for team play and for interchange
Of duties.
Putting them together in one de-
partment is distinctly in the inter-
ests Of efficiency and economy. The
food inspection has been very we'll
handled by the food and dairy de-
partment; it is exactly twelve years
since there has been any complaint
there. The weights and measures
department has been admirably con-
Quoted under the railroad and ware
house commission. The members of
the commission admit that in C. G..
Neale they have the best weights
and measures man in the United
States and that the department is
organized as we'll as it can be. That
is all granted. But it is not a SUI
ficient reason for separating allied
branches of the service, or for placing
executive duties under judicial arm
OF the SoveInment-and when you
come down to it the railroad and
warehouse commission is distinctly
a judicial body. Better results and
closer team play can unquestionably
be obtained in the proposed depart
ment. Whether the state gets bet
ter service depends, of course, on the
Nf ho
ment. No plan yet proposed guar
antees infallibility
Incidentally everybody finds that
the fees charged by the scale inspect
ors are an aggravation and a nuis-
ance. Grocers object to paying one
dollar fee for having somebody tell
them that a seventy-five cent balance
is correct. Although the inspectors
neither fix the fees nor profit by the EN-
they are continually accused Of
working the trade. The accusation
is irritating to the inspectors. Fees
orc extremely irritating to the pub
lie. The railroad and warehouse
commission says they ought to be
abolished. The retail trade won't
be hard to convince that they
should be abolished And if the eff
liciency commission makes any ra.
Communications as to fees, it will re-
commend that this fee shall be abol
ishel The service costs about two
cents per capita for the state. It is
for the benefit Of the public and not
specially for the advantage of the
tr"ue. 1t would be only faic that the
i.ub;ic should pay for it.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
Catches Big Fish.

One of the biggest fish ever caught
in Lake Bemidji was hooked by Mrs.
H. A. Scharf near the boom of the
ICrookston Lumber company early
this morning. The fish. a pickerel,
weighed more than fourteen pounds
and measured forty-one inches from
tip to- tip.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
Rehearsal This Evening.

All members of the 'sIn the Court
of King Cole" cast are requested to
be. at the rehearsal this evening
which will be held in the basement
of the Episcopal church at 1880
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
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GAYNoR LOST MONEY AS
NEW YORK MAYOR.

. New York, June That
! the late William J. Gaynor lost
; money while mayor Of New
! York city his friends declared
) is shown in reports that execu-
) tors of his will have. arranged
) to pay a state Inheritance tax
J on only about $750,OOO, when
! 1t was generally thought the
( estate would total a million
; dollars or more. Mayor Gay
) nor was liberal entertainer
J and while acting as the city's
) chief executive gave costly
) functions in honor Of guests to
; the city.
II =. =. y. =. =. !. q. 4. =. =. =. =. y =.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02

Miss Olive Miller, formerly of Be-
midi, but now of Duluth, who has
been guest at the home of her
brother, D. D. Miller, during the past
week, left this noon for the Zenith
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
Letters Come in By Hundreds.

Letters by the hundreds have been
arriving at the Office of Earl Cell,
county treasurer, during the past few
days containing the late tax pay
ments.. About 1000 have been re-
ceived. Last week the paid taxes
amounted to between $4,000 and
$4,000 each day and the total was
more than 100000 one day when
several of the large company taxes
were paid.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
To Give Dance.

Several young men of the city have
arranged for a dance which will be
given this evening in the city hall.
Although no Invitations have been
issued the dance will he private.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
Sheriff Candidate Here.

Denton Patten of Akeley, for sew
eral years policeman at that place,
and who is a candidate for sheriff in
Hubbard county. was in BemidH to-
day and, left this afternoon for Be
cida which is in the northern part
of his district. He is making strong
campaign and is confident of cleo
ton
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
SPECIAL TOSTARTMONDAY
Minnesota and International North
ern Pacific Dairy, Poultry and Po-
tato Car Plans Complete.
WILL REACH BEM1DJ1 JUNE il

c. operating with the Northern
Pacific and Minnesota & Interna-
tional railroads, the state agricultu-
raj college will conduct two weeks
campaign looking toward the devel-
opment of better agriculture, better
neighborly cooperation, better qua
lily Of products and better market
ing in the territory served by the NJ.
& l., beginning next Monday and CON
Guiding Saturday, June 20
A series of meetings: has been
planned to he held in farming com
munities along the line, at which
prominent speakers will discuss the
important SUBJECTS Of the care and
feeding of live stock, dairying, poul-
try and potato raising, the care of
cream, the building5of silos, the plan
ming and construction of farm build
ings and other practical problems.
Meetings will be held in the af-
ternoon of@e each day, beginning i'm
mediately after lunch. Opportunity
will be given for discussion of prac-
tical farm questions in which any
one is interested, while the forenoon
will be devoted to visiting the farms
in the localities where the meetings
are to be held.
Farmers are urged to bring dairy
COWS or other live stock to the place
of meeting for judging and demon
stration PURPOSES /.
The Roster of Speakers.
Professor w. A. McKerrow, State
Agricultural College. Live Stock
and Dairying. Professor F. w. Mer-
rill, Educational Expert, De Laval
Cream separator company Hand
ling of Dairy Products; Construction
and Use of Silos. Professor Charles
E. Brown, State Agricultural College.
Potato Growing and Potato Diseases;
Farm Crops. Professor C. e. Brown
Northwestern Experiment Station,
Crookston. Raising and Marketing
of Poultry and Poultry Products.
Professor A. D. Wilson, Superintend-
ent Extension Division, State Agri-
cultural College. Farm Manage
ment. Professor II. R. Smith, State
Agricultural College. Profitable Farm
Cattle Feeding. Professor A. J. Nc
Guire, Superintendent Northeast Ex-
pertinent Station, Grand Rapids.
from Dairying or Snail Farms. A.
b. Hostetter, Supervisor County Ag-
riculturists, Duluth. Local Farm
Problems. D. B. Jewell, County Ag-
riculturist,, Koochiching County. To-
cal Farm Problems. D. E. Willard
Development Agent, Northern Pa.
cific Railway, st. Paul. Marketing
Farm Products.
Meetings will be held mostly at
country points away from the rail.
road stations. Announcement of 10.
cal meeting places will be made
later. :. .-:-~
Following is the schedule of rail.
road stations at which the party
will stop:
Monday, June SPequot, Jenkins
Tuesday, June 9-Pine River.
Wednesday,, June 1O-LaPorte
Guthrie.
Thursday, June 11-Nary, Be.
midi, Turtle River.
I Friday, June II -Kelliher.
Saturday, June 13-Blackduck.
Monday, June 15-Tenstrike
Hines
Tuesday, June 16-No meetings
will be held.
Wednesday, June Northome
Thursday, June IS Mizpah, Gem
nell.
Friday, June Margie, Big
Falls
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
.BEMlDJI TO have
BIG CELEbRAT ton.
Eugene Berman and Canvassing Com
mittee Report Nearly 5000 Sub
scribed- Will Total $1,000.
BUSINESS MEN TO HAVE CHARGE
Large Number Attend Meeting at
Nebish Today-Clerks' Petition
for Shorter Hours is Returned.

Al the Merchants meeting Mon
day afternoon the petition presented
them by the clerks for early closing
was returned and each merchant was
left to close at o'clock during the
could be made with his competitors.
Twenty-Five merchants signed the
petition to close their places of BUSH
ness at o'clock during the summer
months with the exception of Satur-
days. Every line of business agreed
with the exception Of the grocers,
some Of whom preferred to keep open
evenings until eight O'Clock.
The committee on the Fourth of
July celebration reported nearly 5000
subscribed, which with the $137 now
in the treasury of the old commit
tee, reaches far over the $500 mark
The subscription list was circulated
among those present, about 16 mem
bers, and an additional 500 was
|added. 1t will now be circulated
among the rest of the members and
when it has completed it's circuit, Mr..
Berman, chairman of the committee,
believes it will reach the $1,000
mark -..-- ""- .s~-.. .... IT
Need $1,000.
:We need $1,000 in order to- give
a first class celebration said Mr..
Berman, "and I believe. that with the
Support of the merchants we can
reach this amount" The saloons,
breweries, restaurants, hotels, banks
and moving picture houses were the
only ones solicited by the committee.
The other members of the commit
tee were George T. Baker and Frank
Koors, who were assisted by Peter
Nelson. -.s- -s..- .- .-
The Merchants association will
ask the city council to turn the en-
tire affair over to them, which priv
|ilege it is believed will be granted.
Anderson and Gle Join.
Joe Anderson of Mill Park was
elected into membership and Bue-
ford E. Gile, high school agricultur-
list, was elected honorary member.
This makes the membership with the
honorary members number over
sixty. -.
The invitation extended the asso-
citation by the Nebish Farmers club
to attend the blowout at the M. w.
Knox farm was heartily accepted and
several automobiles left this morning
for Nebish -.-G
These to Nebish. II
Those who made the trip include
Robert Given, J. J. .Opsahl, J. P. Rid
dell, Phil Gill, E. H. Denu, E. A..
Barker, William McCuaig, Eugene
Berman, B. M. Gile, A. D. Bailey, w.
P. Dyer, G.. D. Backus, J. U. Will
liams, Charles Cominsky, M. G. Slo-
cum, DR.. A. b. Henderson, H. C. Baer
and w. z. Robinson.
President E. A. Barker, who will
act as head of the Fourth of July
committee, has appointed the fol-
flowing committee to assist him in
making all arrangements for the big
Fourth of July celebration and the
carrying out of a successful program,
Peter Nelson, J. K. Given, b. H.
Denu, Charles Cominsky and Eugene
Berman. ~ ..-~...@. Il.
| Subcommittee will be appointed
to assist these men in the details
of the work, and indications are that
Bemidji will have a celebration that
will go down in history as one of its
best and biggest advertising events.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Archie FentOn and
baby left on the afternoon train for
Crookston where they will spend ten
as days the guests of relatives.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02
ROBBERS TRAVEL BY WAGON

LH1cago band OF MIC Gags ok WOFK-
men and Secures S., 5000.
. Chicago, June mime robbers
drove in a wagon to the plant of the
st. Lawrence Ice Cream company and
bound and gagged six employees.
They then blew open the safe and
escaped with it's contents, said to be
nearly $4,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-02

The ladies of the M. E. church will
meet in the church basement tomor-
row afternoon Lunch will be served.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-10-02
CARE FOR GERMAN WOUNDED
Poincare Asked That They Be HUI.
manly Treated-Many Will Re-
cover from Wounds.

Decentralization Poincare's re-
cent admonition to the hospitals to
treat German wounded the same as
French is being carried out, accord
ing to a correspondent who today Wis
tied the Bordeaux High School, where
60 German wounded are being treated.
DR.. Melville Wastermann Of San
Francisco and a Bordeaux doctor, are
In charge of the hospital, assisted by
a ~well-known Dresden surgeon.
The Germans are being treated in
the lofty class rooms of the high
school. which look out over the sunny
garden. The men seem to suffer more
from inconsistencies than their wounds,
which they bear with patient resig-
nation.
AS a rule the Germans in the hos
pitfalls here are more badly hurt than
the French soldiers.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-10-02
BIG BATTLE Is IMMINENT
Germans Mass Troops for Clash with
Russians in East Prussia-latter.
Chase Position.

London.-A dispatch from P~etrograd
to the Daily Chronicle says:
"A new and decisive battle is immi-
nent on the borders Of East Prussia.
There is complete confidence in Gen.
keIenkampf, who has had his own
way, inasmuch as the fight. when 1t
comes, is to be on ground chosen by
him.
One army corps a day is the rate at
which Germany is reinforcing her
army in East Prussia. Along the whole
western line, from ear Memel in the
north to the frontier Of the govern
ment of Alisch, the armies are in
touch, cropping by means of reconnais-
sance and minor collisions at the facts
concerning each others strength and
position.
I'VE know that to the II army corps
already in East Prussia there must
now be added at least five more, OF
which three are reserves, and that,
further, there is a secondary army on
the Alisch frontier, whose function Is
to cover the German right. At least
500, 900 German troops Of all classes
are gathered to try and balance the
Austrian failures"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-10-02
BOMBS DROPPED on PARIS
Wounded-Crowds Put Into Panic.
Manage Warehouse.

Paris.-Four bombs were dropped
on Paris from a German aeroplane.
One missile exploded in Avenue du
Trocadero, and blew the head from
the shoulders Of a nan standing on a
corner with his daughter. The child
was wounded. The other bombs did
little damage.
Crowds, taking advantage Of a beau
tiful autumn day, were promenading
on the banks Of the Seine when the
aerial warrior appeared almost direct
ly over the Eiffel Tower. 1t is believed
the first bomb dropped was intended
for the wireless station on the tower or
possibly for nearby buildings contain
ing army stores. 1t landed in Avenue
du Trocadero, not far from the tower,
and the explosion was heard for many
blocks. Houses in the vicinity were
badly damaged.
The bomb STRUCK only a block from
the American embassy at No. s Rue de
Chaillot. where Ambassador Myron T.
Hedrick, who did not accompany the
government to Bordeaux, still makes
his home.
In the wake Of the bomb fluttered a
German flag. At the sound Of the ex.
plosion the promenaders first rushed
for shelter, and then, as the airship
moved on, hurried to the scene Of the
havoc.