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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
coNFEssEs TO THEFT
BorroWs Knife From Pal And Then
Clips His Leather Watch Chain
Hides It Under Platform
TRIED BY COMMISSIONER FISK

George Lane chief of police and
officer Zacharias arrested William
Olson last evening upon a complaint
by James Dwyer on a charge of steal
ing a watch. According to the story
told by DWyer, Olson had borrowed
his knife and then cut his leather
chain, to which the watch was at
tached. Dryer felt the jerk at his
watch pocket but thought nothing Of
it until he discovered that his watch
was gone. He Immediately accused
Olson who declared he did not have
the time piece but that he had seen
fellow take it and would escort
him to the place where he thought
the theft would be. The two walked
to the Northern Grocery shipping
platform where Olson suddenly dived
under but soon came out but did not
give any excuse for his actions.
Working upon this clue Chief
Lane traced the incidents of the rob-
berry from the time the two men got
up from the supper table at the
Lakeshore hotel until the robbery
was reported. The evidence seemed
to point toward Olson, and his arrest
followed.
The chief pictured to Olson the
long Imprisonment in the County
Jail before action by the
grand jury if he was convicted at
the preliminary hearing and then
left him alone for several hours to
"think it over" This morning Coun-
ty Attorney Torrance accompanied
the chief to the cell where he was
questioned closely and finally admit
ted that he had taken the watch. He
was ordered brought before Court
Commissioner Fisk at two o'clock
this afternoon for preliminary hear
ing.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
LOWER COURT Is OVEnRUlED
Minnesota Law Regulating Cream
Shipments Upheld.

st. Paul, Jan. 3.-An injunction
granted by Judge Catlin of the Ram.
sey district court restraining the rail.
roads from enforcing the sixry-iive,
mile cream law was dissolved by the
supreme court with the comment that
the action was not the proper one to
bring.
The law, passed by the last legis.
lature, prohibited railroads carrying
cream more than siXty-five miles I'M
less it had been pasteurized or car
ried in refrigerator car. The Mil
ton Dairy company led the fight in
the district court.
The supreme court decision, given
on appeal by the state, means that
the law now is in force.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
ORGANIZE TEAM SOON
Young Men Of City To Try New
Sport For Bemidji

Several members of the Bemidji
Athletic Club have. started move
ment to organize an indoor base
ball team to contest for the city's
championship. This will be the first
time this sport has ever been con-
sidered in Bemidji and it is probable
that it will prove popular.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
Find Daughter in Gypsy Camp.

Omaha, Jan. 3.-After a search
that continued seventeen months
and which took pursuers and pur.
sued through fourteen states, the
parents of Lynka Thomas, thirteen
years old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Thomas, wealthy farmers of tho
Sacramento (Cal) valley, succeeded
in recovering their daughter in a
gypsy camp at Florence, Neb.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
First Baptist Church

Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning
worship and sermon on "The Value
of Faith to Human Life" at II
a. m. Jr. and Sr. Young peoples
meeting at 3 p. m. and z. p. m. Cos
pei service at s. Thursday evening
prayer service in charge of the
teachers and officers of the Sun
day school. The public cordially in
vited to all the social and devotional
gatherings of the church. Chas. G.
Chandler, pastor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
WILL GIVE DANCE FRIDAY
To Entertain Superior Quint After
Basketball Game

Arrangements have been complet-
ed and invitations will be issued the
first of the week for a dance which
will be given by the Bemidji basket
ball team in honor of the Superior
Y. M. e. A. five which will play
three games in this city next week.
Refreshments will be served during
the ewing and good music will be ar
ranged for.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
Practice Tonight

Candidates for the Bemidji Athle-.
tic Club basketball team will not be
allowed rest because OF the fact
that they DEBATED Grand Forks but
have been ordered to report for prac-
tice every night until the Superior
games which promise to be even clo-
ser than the Grand Forks contest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
NAMED BY MAYOR mitchell
Woman Becomes New York's Commits
sjoner of Corrections.

woman Becomes New York'S Commits
sioner Of Corrections.
New York, Jan. 3.-Among the ap-
pointees Of Mayor John Purroy Nit
'chell was Miss Katherine E. Bement
Davis, the first woman to become the
head of a New York city department.
DR.. Davis after her induction into
the office of commissioner of correc-
tons was the guest at luncheon Of
the Woman's Suffrage party where
she showed that woman public Off
cial can refrain from talking about
her plans. However, she let it be
known that she proposed to tolerate
nothing inhuman in the treatment Of
prisoners and that she should help
any proper inquiry into the conduct
Of city prisons.
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PRESENT DANCES lMMoDEs1
Cardinal Farley Declares War on the
Tango.

New York, Jan. 3.-Cardinal Farley
started an active fight on the tango
when he announced through his Sec
rotary that he deplored the trend of
the present vogue as immodest and
had determined to do all in his pow.
er to prevent it. Invitations already
out for dance to be given by the
Junior Auxiliary of the Catholic In
stitute for the Blind at Delmonico's
Tuesday night were Immediately re-
called and the affair abandoned.
A monsignor close to the cardinal
also stated that no priest will permit
the societies connected with his par.
ish to hold dances while the present
vogue of dancing exists, nor will par.
lsh charities, schools or other paro.
chial institutions accept funds raised
in such way. II 81,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03

Fatal Automobile Accident Occurs
Near Wells, Mimi.

Wells, Mimi, Jan. 3.-Dr. Ralph E.
McBroom, aged thirty-five years, was
killed, Earl Babcock perhaps fatally
wounded and Charles Boetcher had
several ribs broken when their auto.
mobile left the road and crashed into
a barbed wire fence near here.
The men were returning from a
trip to Walters. All are residents
of Wells,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
CAUSES BlGCHANGE
Morgan And Company Quits Big
Corporations-Action Is fastened
BY Many Recent Rumors
WAS IN NO WAY FORCED
Move Follows Reports That Govern
ment Would Go After Interlocking
Directorates-step Voluntary

New York, Jan. 81. P. Morgan
& Co. has announced that it has sew
cred it's connections with some of
the greatest corporations in the coun:
try with which it has long been con-
nected
This step, the firm announced, was
taken voluntarily in response to IAN
apparent change in public sentiment
on account of "some of the problems
and criticisms having to do with so
called interlocking directorates."
Among the companies from which
the firm retired are the New York
Central and New Haven railroads.
J. p. Morgan, Jr., remains director
OF the Northern Pacific, as do Charles
Steele and William Henry Porter,
members of the firm. Thomas La
mont Of the same firm also remains
a Northern Pacific director.
'"Ihc necessity of attending many
board maetin"s has been so serious
burden upOn Our time that we have
long wished to withdraw IRON the d.
rectCratcS Of many corporations"
says a statement issued by J. P.
Morgan.
Task Reluctantly Accepted.
Most of these directorships we
have accepted with reluctance and
only because we felt constrained to
keep in touch with properties which
we had reorganiZed CT whose securi-
ties we had recommended to the pub
lie both here and abroad.
IAN apparent change in public sen,
timent in regard to the directorships
seems now to warrant us in seeking
to resign from some Of these connec-
tons.
Indeed it may be, in view of the
change in sentiment upon the sub
ject, that we shall be in a better posi-
ton to serve such properties and
their security holders if we are not
directors.
1--WE have already resigned from
the companies mentioned. and we eX-
pect from time to time to withdraw
from other boards upon which we
feel, there Is no special obligation to
remain"
BY withdrawing from. these corpo-
rations j. p. Morgan &c Co. have cut
the strings that have held together
many Of the countrys most impor-
tant corporations in a community OF
interests which has been assailed
within and without congress-
Action Was Not Forced.
has kept within the law in all of it's
complex operations and that no legal
necessity or threatened complications
with the authorities at Washington
had made it necessary to adopt the
sweeping change in policy announced.
The chief consideration, it was
said, which has prevented the firm
from taking some such action before
this time was the possible complca-
tons which might follow such action
Investors throughout the world have
purchased securities marketed by the
house of Morgan and it was felt that
the firm had assumed a responsibility
in this connection which could not be
lightly laid aside.
The recent trend of political events,
such as the money trust" investiga-
ton by the Pujo committee, and re-
ports from Washington that the ad-
ministration is considering legisla
ton against interlocking directorates.
has created a situation which made
It possible to enter upon this change
In,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
MARCH TO G0VERCR's HOME
Frisco's Unemployed Fail to See Cali.
fornia Executive

San Francisco, Jan. 3.-In front of
the residence here of Governor Hiram
w. Johnson more than 1000 unem.
ployed men gathered after march
from the downtown section, for the
purpose of asking the chief executive
what he intended doing for those
without work
The governor was not at home, it
was said. The men waited more than
three hours and then left a note re-
questing him to come before them at
another time to answer their ques.
lions about work.
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North End LAWYERS Here

G. r. Middleton, mayor of Baudette,
and George Ericsson, editor OF the
Northern News, both attorneys,
were Bemidji visitors today. having
been brought here on legal matters.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Gill, and IN
FAINT child, returned to Bemid1i this
morning from st. Paul. Mrs. Gill has
been in the cities for some time, and
was met there by Mr.. Gill Christmas.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
ONE KILLING EVERY DAY
IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, Jan. Records of
the police department show
there were thirty-one homi-
cides, or an average of one
day in Chicago in December.
This is the largest toll of
murders and killings for a
similar period in the history
of the city. Two of the MUIR
ders are listed in police records
as "Blackhand cases." One
case was a patricide.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03

Judge G. w. Stanton has returned
from International Falls and Walker,
where he had attended to judicial
matters The judge will leave Mon
day morning for Park Rapids where
he will hear the second trial of the
Rima VS. Rima case.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
DIG UP REMAINS
OF MASTODON.

Blueridge Springs, Va, Jan.
3.-This little village has been
thrown into a fever of excite
ment as the result of the un-
earthing Of what is declared
to be the skeleton of huge
mastodon. The skeleton
measured thirty feet in length,
with a jaw four feet in width,
ribs six inches wide, teeth
five inches in width, and
tusks five feet long.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
First Met]1odist

Morning worship and communion
10:45. Sunday school 1900. Ep-
worth league $50. Mrs. Gilman
leader. Evening service 1880. Sub
ject Song In The Night Official
board Tuesday night at 500. p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening at
500 p. m. c. w Gilman, pastor.
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Presbyterian

Bible class and Sunday school at
10. At II, there will be the regular
quarterly communion service. Junior
C, E. at 3. Young peoples meeting at
Z. Evening gospel service at 8.
Mi1-week service for prayer and
bible study on Thursday eve. at 8.
The public is cordially welcomed to
all our services.S. E. P White, pas
tor .
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Swedish Luthern

Rev. George Larson, of Nymore,
will preach at the Swedish Lutheran
church Sunday at $3.50. All are well
come.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03

Julius Bestul member Of the
high school faculty will return to Be
midi tomorrow.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03
German Lutheran

There will be German Lutheran
church, at the Swedish Lutheran
church tomorrow.
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Episcopal
Sunday school II

Sunday school 1t $50 a. m.
Evening prayer and sermon at 1870
p. M" Archeacon Farshall, pastor.
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< SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES. !
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Swedish Lutheran.

Sunday school at ~ o'clock. Even
ing service at 8. J. II. Randall, pas
tor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-03

c. A. Peterson Of International
Falls, was Bemidji business visitor
yesterday.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-01
MANY PASTORS ABROAD.
Church Peace Conference May Not
Meet In GERMANY

1aqt irv ?. churches in Manhattan.
BROOKLYN, The Bronx and some parts OF
New jersey yesterday disclosed the fact
that fully one hundred clerFymcn OF this
city are In Germany and several IN Aus
tria. Word from them ia anxiously
awaited by official boards
The Church Peace Union and the Fed %
eral Council OF Churches had cables from
delegates 10 the Church Peace Conference
called 10 meet in Constance. Germany. to
morrow, asking for additional literature
and saying nothing about possible calling
on OF tho conference or It's sitting else
where. II was said at the Council office,
however, that it seemed probable that the
conference would not be able TO meet in
any German city and that II might gather
IN London. The Rev. DR.. Charles 5. Mac
farland. the Rev. Or. Frederick Lynch
and Atty other American clergymen were
on their way to attend tho conference
when the present trouble arose.
Bishop Wilson. Prof. Brown OF Union
Seminary, the Rev. Ernest III. Abbott of
the Outlook the Rev. David Baines-
Griffith OF the Tribune. the Rev Nehe-
miah Boynton OF Brooklyn, the Rev DR.
Rev DR.. Walter Laidley of the Fedora
tior of Churches former Canon Douglas
OF the Cathedral, the Rev. Dr. Frank
Oliver Hall OF the Valversalist Church,
the Rev. DR. w. y. Merrill OF the Brick
Church. President Triple OF brow Semi
nary and others We're among the fifty from
this city and country known to he either
In Constance or on their way thither.
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cover the indebtedness abroad oocasioned
by the sale OF the travellers checks, and
accordingly we decided to discontinue
their sale"
At the offices of the Adams Express
Company II was said that all the checks
issued would be met by ample balances
now in various banks IN Europe
At the Offices Of the Wells Fargo EN-
press Company the same statement was
made. 1t was said that all advices from
Europe were 10 the effect that tho trav-
ellers checks were being honored
The Bankers Trust Company Is tr,is-
tee for the members OF the American
Bankers Association who sell travellers
checks and issue letters OF credit. There
are about $4,000 banks in the associa-
ton, but not all OF them do this foreign
business At the offices OF the trust com
psuy ,ilc following statement was issued !.
Enquiry at the Office OF the Bankers
Trust Company to-day confirmed the in
formation that the sale OF the travellers
checks Of the American Bankers Associ-
alton was being discontinued. II was
stated that arrangements for the re-
demption OF such checks abroad had be-
come ~ difficult except by exporting gold
that 1t was thought wiscst for the pres
ent to discontinue their sale"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-01
MANY FROM Y. S. ABROAD.
List of New Workers Now In Europe
Is Long.

Now that the fashionable season OF Lon
don and Paris is over many of tho prom
inent Americans who went over to attend
some Of the famous entertainments are
now in the leading watering places of Ger
many, Austria or France. Many others
who are IN the habit OF coming home early,
are DOW in Scotland. where the grouse
shooting will begin soon. and still others
who went over IN the spring are on the
point Of sailing for the remainder Of the
season in Newport or other fashionable
resorts here. Among those no are now
in Europe expecting soon TO re turn TO this
country are
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Mr.
and Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew. Mr.. and Mrs
James Speyer. Mr.. and Mrs. william X.
Vanderbilt. Miss Barbara Rutherturd. Mrs
Samuel Stevens Sands. Mrs Otto II Kahn,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick W Vanderbilt
Mr.. and Mrs, Ernest lsein. Mr.. and Mrs
T. j. Oakley Rhinelander Mr. and Mrs.
4. Oliver Iselin. Clarence II Mackay and
his three children. the Misses katherine.
Elm and John W Maokay. Mrs John
Aston. Prince and Princess Aymon de
Faucigny-Lucinge.
MIR and Mrs, Edward Livingston Burrill,
W. lanier Washington. Howard Gould,
Or and Mrs Frank Northrup, Mr. aud Mrs.
Storrs Wells. Mr., and Mrs. Alfred G. Van
derhit, Mrs, Burke Rochc, Francis aud
Maurice Roche, Miss Anne Morgan, Miss
Eliza beth Marhurr. Miss Elsie DE Wolfe.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont. Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Duryca MIR and Mrs Poultncy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-01
CAN'T SHIP GOODS.
Exporters Are Told Vessels VIII
Not Take More Freight.

Exporters OF American merchandise and
other products faced situation here YES
terday for which there was no precedent
In other years the securities markets have
been closed, hut never before since ships
have been sailing TO this harbor had II
been found impossible to insure "A cargo OF
merchandise bound for Europe, II was
snid
Late in the day the steamship lines with
ships scheduled for early saillngs and un =
cancelled announced that they would not
accent any more freight This meant that
great quantities OF goods ready TO be sent
abroad either must be- stored mere or re-
turned 20 the manufacturers or other ship
pers. Contracts will be broken. Of course.
Strange 20 say, marine insurance rates
on gold did not increase during the day,
the nnal quotation being NJ per cent, or
$4,000 ON the 81 900 600. But general
cargo rates Jumped TO practically prohibi-
tive figures. the brokers and companies
willing 10 do any business at all quoting
rate Of from To per cent, with all
German. Russian and Austrian steamers
barred AS a matter Of course
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TOURISTS MAKE
FRANTICEFFORT.
TO GET HOME
War Peril Catches Thousands
of Americans in Europe
on Vacation.
CLAMOR FOR PASSAGE
Cancellation of Tmperator's
Service Causes Rush to
Other Lines.
MANY NAV BE STRANDED
state Department Orders Con-
suIs Abroad to Extend All
Aid Possible.
MANY NAY BE STRANDED
specla, cable pe.pntch,. 70 In. SCI

foNpoS. July 3i-To-dav. for the first
t'mc Americans in London seemed to
really recognize the condition OF Europe
40 FAR as the ordinary pleasure hunting
tourist ia concerned As soon as the
offices Of tho Cunard company were
opened tho Americans who had booked
passage on the Hamburg american liner
1nperat'r stampcded and tried TO
obtain accommodations on the Maure-
ianii, which viii take tomorrow a ma
forty of tho 800 saloon passengers who
had obtained accommodations on the I'm
perator from Southampton.
The White star liner Cedric will take
few who could not got accommoda lions
on the Mauritania
Among the passenger who will sail
on tho Mauritania are II. W. Anderson,
Mr.. and Mrs. A n Chatheld, Vice-Ad-
mral and Mrs. Corhrane. Bishop Court
ncy Of Plymouth. England Mr. and Mrs.
T. i. Dickinson. Ben puveen. Mr. and
Mrs. r. ". b. Elliott Mr.. and Mrs S.
@. Flagg. Mrs. Samuel insult. +. u.
Lund, Mrs. a. +. Macarthur. W. II. Page.
W. l. Pierce. Mr.. and Mrs. George Whit
ney and =. y Wiborg.
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Although the scheduled sailing ~ thu
fmperator has been cancelled the agents
~ .he Hamburg American company deny
the suggestion that she will be required
ny the German Government to transport
troops. They say she would be useless
for this objec: because OF hNr great size.
which makes hcr visible for a distance
~ twelve miles Count Wengersky, the
manager even added that there is a poss
bil'ty of this big ship sailing on SUNDAY,
but no one credited this report.
There was report in circulation that
he Mauritania herself might he com
Wandered by the British Government at
the last momen. The agents OF the Gu
nard company deny that this Is probable,
III. ono American who was very anxious
n get home booked AZ a third class pas
-enger. He had already provided for &C
commodatious on the Imperator as ga
Don passenger before he transferred 10
the Mauro'an!a. II will be an expensive
rip for this man, as there are three IN
lis party. and the agents OF the Impsra
or have refused 70 refund the money he
paid for 40 accommodations on tho I'm
perstor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-01
LONDON BANS AMERICAN DRAFTS
banker Says Exchange Rate Would
ne RuiDOus.
Special Catic DcspatcA 10 Tia, SIX

LONDON. July 3l.-"Wc have completely
ceased buying bills. American included T"
one Of Morgan. Grenfell g. Co.'S managers
told The SIN correspondent to-day. we
have had numerous Offers of sight drafts
on New YORK and other American cities. but
nave been compelled TO refuse them. The
rate OF exchange If we took them would he
runous. In fact we do not know of INV
rates. There are none. Even absolutelv
iirst class American checks and other gilt
edged paper we cannot take
Il ne system which in normal times works
50 smoothly has broken down completnIv
Money brokers In the course of ordinary
TRANSACTIONS always run small degree oil
rlsh his ordinarily IL practically negll-
gible. but now everything l. paralvled
NO one takes any risks. No one knows nm v
rates. They have simply disappeared Wa
here" '''''