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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
ASKED THOUSANDS;
SETTLED FOR $500
Evidence Allowed To Enter Records
Of Mcdonald Macmillan Trial
Telling Of 1901 Incident
TELLS OF FIRST MEETING
First Met Plaintiff In 1908 Where He
Proposed Marriage Divorced Wife
On Stand for Brief Period

II first met Mr.. Mcdonald while
horseback riding at Hot Springs,
Ark, in March, 1908" related Mrs
Amber MILAN. defendant in the Nc
Donald against Mrs. Macmillan case,
when testifying yesterday afternoon.
Continuing she said in substance,
He at once became very attentive
to me and on the second day of our
acquaintance told me that he was
divorced and asked me to marry him.
He assured me that he was worth
$2,000,00O and that as soon as we
married he would give me 100000.
Was Very Devoted .Ee.
I'm few days we went to New Or
leans and after about two weeks
there, during which time he lavished
attention upon me, we went by
steamer to New York City. He re-
mained there about week and was
very devoted to me and gave me a
gold hand bag, valued at $40, and
directed me to select an engagement
ring at Black and Frosts jewelry
store, where he had arranged for
ring to not exceed $4,000. I did not
get the ring as l did not then feel
sure that l wanted to marry him.
After a few days I again met him at
Mount Clemens, Mich, and on May
10 we were married at Mindser Can
ada
/ Concluded Direct Case
The plaintiff concluded his direct
case yesterday afternoon and when
court adjourned Mrs. Macmillan had
just begun to relate her side of the
story. 1t is probable that her ex-
PLANTATION to the many matters relied
upon by the plaintiff to show her to
have been an adventurist and black
LIiolicl Will NC pIOlOllScu anu luteT-
esting.
~ The first witness called by the de-
tense was Mrs. Katherine Mcdonald
former wife of the plaintiff, who Sc
sured divorce in March, 1912. She
now resides at Oberlin, Ohio, where
her daughters are students. Mr.. Nc
Donald's counsel refused to consent
to testimony by her as to matters oc-
curing before the divorce, thus caus-
ing her evidence to be very brief.
Sued For $4,000
Over the objection of defendants
counsel the plaintiff was permitted
to show that in 1901 the defendant
brought suit against an elderly and
wealthy married man for $4,000
damages for breach of promise, and
that the action was settled for $500.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29

A search is to be made of the rec.
0rds of every bank in New York state
by District Attorney Whitman in his ef-
fort to prove the existence of graft
plot to loot the state treasury of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. In the
picture are shown three men whose
bank accounts are to be probed. They
are: (Top) Arthur H. Mclean, for
sixteen years chairman of the state
Democratic committee, who pleaded
guilty on Jan. 13 TO accepting cam
paign contribution from a corpora
ton; (center) Duncan w. Peck, state
commissioner of public works, and
(below) Everett Fowler of Kingston,
under indictment for extorting $3.50
from Seneca P. Hull, contractor Of
Cortland, and for soliciting cam
paign contribution from corporation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
Cahill Back On Job.

James Cahill, deputy sheriff, and
turnkey at the county jail, is back
on the job after a ten days illness.
Mr.. Cahill has not entirely recovered
from the physical breakdown which
resulted in his confinement but at
tends to many of the light duties
connected with his position.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29

A program, Basket sociable and
candy sale will be given in the East
school house, district 4S, town of
Northern next Friday evening, Jan.
30th. Beginning at 1880 O'Clock. The
proceeds to go on the payment of the
school organ, Miss Mildred Hayes,
teacher.-Adv.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
STATE MAY SUE FOR TAX
Home For Inebriates Suffers Because
Several Cities Fail To Pay on
License Revenues
BEM1DH IS NOT INCLUDED

Fifty-two cities and villages of
Minnesota and two counties were
threatened by the state board of con-
troll today with suits to collect the 2
per cent tax on liquor license reven-
ues, imposed by the state in 1909 as
a maintenance fund for the state in
ebrite farm at Wilmar. Some cities
have paid no tax. Notices will be
served on each one to pay what is
due, and If there is not prompt re-
sponse suits will follow.
The board of control was surprised
to find the funds OF the Wilmar in
stitution exhausted when there
should be balance of $4,000 or
more, and Investigated. State Audi
tor S. G. Iverson said he had sent
repeated notices for payment of the
tax, but many have disregarded
them.
Winona and Carver counties are
delinquent. International Falls and
South st. Paul have paid no tax in
the five years since the law became
effective. Duluth is delinquent for
1913, and other places on the list
are Owatonna, Jordan, LIE Sueur Cen
ter, Melrose, Cass Lake, Thief River
Falls, North st. Paul, Cloquet, Co
lumbia Heights and Golden Valley.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29

Mrs. D. L. Stanton will leave this
evening for the twin cities where she
will be the guest of her sister, Mr..
George E. Pennock, and her daugh-
ter, Miss Gladys Stanton, who is at
tending school there.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
GETCHELL ENTERS
ALDERMAN RACE
Announces Desire To Represent
People Of First Ward On Council
Opposes J. P. Lahr and Zeigler
ONLY FEW PETITIONS FILED
No New Candidates Have Announced
Intention Of Entering Race for Any
City Office to Be Voted On

That Ted Getchell will be can
didate for alderman in the first ward,
in opposition to J. P. Lahr and John
Zeigler, the latter a Socialist, was an
this afternoon and his petition is
now being circulated. AS there are
only few Socialist voters in this
ward, it is believed that the fight for
the seat will be between Lahr and
Getchell at the polls on February II.
Both have strong followings.
No New Candidates
While there has been much talk
during the past few days, no new
candidates have been announced for
any of the city offices to be voted on
next month, Mr.. Getchell's an
nouncement of to day being except
ed No one has yet been announced
as a Socialist candidate in opposi-
tion to Alderman Smart in the Sec
ond ward, to take the place of Tho
mas Bell, who has stated that he will
not run. .t. --z-sst>
Liquor Question, Chief Issue
AS election day draws near it be-
comes more and more evident that
the saloon question will be the chief
issue of the campaign. Those in ia
vor of voting "No License" are con-
fident that the count of the votes af-
ter the close of the polls on election
day will usher forth many surprises,
and that either the saloons will have
been voted out or nearly so.
Many who are in favor of cutting
the saloons down to much smaller
number argue that If they are now
voted out, that year from now they
can be voted in again with the result
that only eleven saloons could be
granted licenses, according to, the
populatior law. Those wao are
against "No License" feel that to
vote the saloons out this year would
necessarily mean a permanent dry
town. H - 4&
Much Transient Trade
That very large percentage Of the
saloon business done in Bemidji Is
by transient trade is the opinion of
local liquor dealers. Last but not
least, twenty-nine thousand dollars
of the city's revenue each year is
from the saloon, and should they be
voted out, for time at least, twenty
nine business houses of the city will
be closed. Should "No License"
carry several thousand dollars will
have to be returned to license hold
ers
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
WORKED Ar ELECTION TIME
Wolff Tells Why st. Paul Police
Granted Him Favors.


st. Paul, Jan. 29.-Willie Wolff, the
states star witness in the police
Rraft cases, on his cross-examination
told how he worked at the city cleo
ton in 1912, checking up "repeaters"
at the voting booths, with the under
standing that If the election went
right he should have whatever favors
10 wanted from the police depart
mont.
He rave this information in answer
60 questions by w. r. Duxbury, attor-
ney for Flanagan and Turner, former
police officers now on trial. as to what
BUSINESS he had with this election
He also testified that he received
~ favogS after the election.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
ASTOR AND FIANCEE TO
CRUISE UP NILE.

New York, Jan. 29.-The party
which will accompany Vincent
Astor on his prenuptial cruise
to the Mediterranean will in
clude Miss Helen Dinsmore
Huntington, his bride-to-be;
her mother, Mrs. Robert P.
Huntington, and his mother,
Mrs. Ava Willing Astor. 1t is
understood the cruise is to be
of two months duration.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
BANQUET TOBE BOY
CONGRESS FEATURE.
Will Be Given At Markham Hotel On
First Day Of Two Day Meeting
Boys To Have Full Charge
TO ELECT PRESIDING OFFICER
John Alexander, Boys Friend viii
Address Sunday Mass Meetings
''An Opportunity, J" Says Warfeld

One of the chief features of the
two day Boys Congress which is to be
held in Bemidji Saturday and Sum
day, February 21 and %, will be a
banquet which will be served at the
Markham hotel, Frank S. Lycan, pro-
-prietor, having announced that he
will be able to accommodate the lads.
E 1t is expected that many of the
boys will reach Bemidji Friday night
and Saturday morning. They will be
met at the trains by the committee
members and will then register and
be directed to rooms.
Boys To Have Charge
Saturday morning the first pro.
gram of the Congress will be held.
This conference will be presided over
by the boys, and officers elected. AL
of the officers will be boys and every
member of the congress will be qua
lifted for office.
There will be another conference
during the afternoon, following
which there will be a meeting of the
Sunday school teachers having pupils
of the "teen" age. During this per-
iod the boys will have recreation.
Then The Banquet
At o'clock the banquet will be
served. This will be the only ex-
pense Bemidji will be to, and the
cost will be met by business men
of the city. Then will follow an ad-
dress by John Alexander, the "Boys
Friend" Mr.. Alexander is boy
among the boys, knows their likes
and dislikes and what they most en-
JOY. He will give them information
on out door life, how to> light a
fir without match and other rules
of entertainment and useful enter
prises for the lad of between IA and
20 years. ,~-~
The Sunday morning program will
be arranged so as to best suit the
ministers of the city. Providing they
agree, a mass meeting will be held at
which every one will be invited and
at which Mr.. Alexander will talk.
Sunday Afternoon
Sunday afternoon there will be an
other conference of the boys, and al
so two meetings, one for the men and
another for the women. The closing
of the Congress will come Sunday
evening with another mass meeting
at which Mr.. Alexander will talk. =
At the open meetings at which Mr..
Alexander will talk, it is expected
the Athletic club hall, provided it
can be secured, will be filled. Mr..
Alexander is perhaps the best known
boys talker in the United States, ant
his services are in constant demand
in all parts of the nation. He is con-
nected with every organization
which deals in the welfare Of the
young man. - #
s An Opportunity
Charles Warfield, chairman of tn,
general committee, which has charge
of the Congress, from the Bemidj
angle, at a meeting yesterday after.
noon said, There is every reasol
why We should work with a desire t,
make this Congress a success. Be
midi is a city which is wide known
because of it's ability to do things
and we should take ADVANTAGE O
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
DEMAND GROWING
FOR FEDERALLI
Movement For Government Owned
Phone And Telegraph Lines Grow
ing Constantly Says Tavenner
LAST IN COUNTRY RANKING
While In Carrying of Letters U. S.
Stands Second, Japan Only, Being
Cheaper-Employes Rank High
From Congressman C. H. Tavenner

From Congressman G. H. Tavenner
Washington, January 29.-In spite
of the evident attempt of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Co. to
stave off government ownership by
its alleged willingness to submit to
any government demand, the more
ment for government phones and
telegraph is gaining constantly in
strength. ...
Here are some new and striking
facts showing the position of the
United States as compared to all 9TH
er civilized countries in the efficiency
Of mail, telegraph and telephone SER
vices. The ranking of the United
States is as follows:
Ranks Second
In the cheapness of carrying let
ters by mail-SECOND, being ex-
ceeded only by Japan, where the let
ter rate is one cent and a half;
In the average ,charge for tele-
grams-LAST, telegraph service be-
ing cheaper in Luxembourg, France,
Japan, Norway, Belgium, Neither
lands, Sweden, New Zealand, Great
Britian, Switzerland, Germany, Italy,
Denmark, Austria-Hungary, and Rus
sia, in the order named. Most of
those countries have government tele-
graphs. The average message charge
in Luxembourg is nine cents. In the
United States it is "A cents.
In point of average charge per To-
cal telephone -FOURTEENTH,
being exceeded only by Luxembourg
and France. The cheapest tele-
phone service is that of Norway
where it costs the people an average
Of four mills per call. In the United
States the average cost is 81 cents,
or slightly more than sending a let
ter.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29
Last In Distance Calls

In cost of long distance service:
for telephoning 100 miles-LAsT;
tor tefsnhening 800. nises--I.AsT;
for telephoning 500 miles-LAsT;
for telephoning 700 miles-LAST;
for telephoning 1000 miles-LAST.
It costs an average of go cents to
telephone 100 miles in thds country
For the same service the Swedish
charge is eight cents; that in France
10 cents; in New Zealand, "a cents.
In Hungary, where charges are next
highest to those of this country the
average 100 mile telephone rate is
only 80 cents. Similar contrasts are
shown in the 300-mile long distance
radius, In which the average Ameri-
can charge is $1.S0 In the Neither
lands it costs only 12 cents to tele-
phone 800 miles.
Ranks Sixteenth
The United States ranks sixteenth
in cost of telephoning 100 miles or
300 miles. The ranking is 18th in
the 500-mile radius; seventh in the
7O0-mile radius; and sixth in the
1,O00-mile radius; but LAST Cor
most expensive) in each case, since
only six countries on earth offer
phone service for distance of 1000
miles.
Take the subject of efficiency of
employees-the number of telephone
calls handled per employee during
the year. Ranking of the United
States in this respect among 13 coun-
tries-NINTH. Only in Norway,
Switzerland, Netherlands and France
are operators less efficient than in
this country. This is not due to va
riances in skill, but because of the
light charges Of government tele-
phones abroad bring great business
and keep operators and plant work
ing up to capacity.
Employees Good
But, in efficiency of postal employ.
ees, the United States, among Il
countries ranks SECOND, being sx-
ceed only by Belgium. In other
words, whatever service in transmit
ting communications is rendered by
the United States is rendered with ar
efficiency exceeding that of aim ost
all other nations. But our privately
owned telegraphs and telephones fal
far below the standard Of efficiency
and cheapness set by the European
government service.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-01-29

Stewart Mills, of Brainerd, is Be-
midi business visitor today.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
UPHELD BY MAGISTRATE.

IL so happened. however. that the long
est time spent by any one woman in a
cell was exactly one minute, FOR the wom-
en- watchers were permitted TO spend the
hours at the jail until court convened con-
verting the clerks and assistant district
attorneys to the suffrage cause. When
arraigned before Magistrate Kernochan
the validity of the right of the women
to watch was upheld and the women
watchers lost no time in hurryng back
TO their respective polling pla"
Election Day. 1910, when over nifty
women watched, was extremely dull in
comparison with the Democratic primary.
Two important discoveries were made
that day Contrary 10 prevailing public
opinion the tendency to minimize ones
age IS not confined to the female sex.
The women watchers reported that ac-
cordng to the reference cards nine out Of
every ten men gave their age as any
where from one to five years less than
they had given the year before.
The second revelation was the careless
ness Of the count of the constitutional
amendment ballots These ballots were
left living around loose while the regular
ballots were counted, and then the count
was frequently assigned to some outside
person Two instances were reported in
which the man counting the constitution
al ballots inquired from the woman
watcher whether he should count the
blank ballots as for or against II is no
wonder that women wish TO watch in 1915.
The Democrats were very pleasant that
Election Day, but they were only biding
their time. The election Of 1910 brought
them into power in both houses OF the
State Legislature, and in the session OF
1911 by the passage OF the Levy election
law women again lost the right 10 watch.
They did not loose 1t without fight.
however At the instigaton Of the Wom-
ems Political Union amendments were
proposed by Senator Bayne which would
have made the right Of women TO watch
statewide. even as the Levy bill made the
signature law apply to the whole state,
But II was all to no purpose.
And now during the Legislature of 1914
the Democrats and the Republicans Joined
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
CONDITIONS WORSE IN EAST.

The Californian had travelled East.
studying conditions in suffrage and non
suffrage states, in the principal cities, and
declared it as her opinion that the fur
tier East you come the more disastrous
would equal suffrage be. If our expe-
rience OF the classes voting proves any
thing how infinitely worse it would be in
your Eastern states. with their over
wheming foreign population"
The following from Miss Jessie Acker-
mann, a prominent suftra sist. might ex-
cuse our feeling assured that the same
conditions hold everywhere:
1T would be unfair to other women "a
say that the labor women vote because
they are burdened with a sense of respon-
sibility they dare not shirk 1t is not true
II is due 10 the unrelenunr ever acting
agencies of organization. In many parts
of Australia leader among the working
women knows where to put her hand ON
her forces at any hour. Not only so but
she is able TO marshal them into line in
quick time They are i'm small companies
ready TO take UP marching orders at the
hrSt call TO action. Upon election DAYS
they swarm to party rescue from every
quarter The point is not how or why
they vote, but that they vote"
In spite OF this the suffragist is always
telling us of the millennium established in
Australia and New Zealand since the
granting Of the franchise TO women. and
assuring the thoughtful, patriotic women
II the anti ranks that they need the
vote
Is this. then. the patriotism OF the suf
iragist? To gain her own desires at the
expense Of throwing the ballot into mill
ions of ignorant hands. at the same time
assuring the vote that would be cast with
Patriotism and intelligence that it would
be negligible?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
newsstand HOW TO faint IT.

Next 10 Newport r. J., San Francisco has more
bachelors than any other city in the country-N Y
Tribune, March 20
To faint according 10 taste Of:
(a) Eastern anti suffraeist
To Newport the most beautiful women Of the East
come 10 enjoy hemseycsnot 10 talk politics The re-
uI, IT, might be expected, that more bachelors are
country.
(b) Western anti sunragist.
II is no surprise for those who have watched the de-
ructve effect of womans suffrage the home 70 learn
that only city in the country surpasses San Fran"
cisco In the number Of It's unmarried men,
(c) Eastern eufraQist,
It Is not surprising men begin to ask intellectual
conlpanionship from the they marry that New
,o,t-ths playground of the idle rch-should contain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
BALLOT A RESPONSIBILITY.

These classes evidently have not come
to the realization that, having had the re-
sponsibility of the ballot put upon them.
they must regard IL as a sacred duty 70
vote, not for man because he stands for
scme pet interest Of their own, but ,or
his fitness best 10 serve the state, munich
pal or federal government, as the case
may be.
Whether welcome or not. every thought
full. conscientious. patriotic woman must
thus regard the franchise if she lives in a
suffrage state.
This doctrine is declared by every well
informed. broad minded anti" and by
none more emphatically than the promi-
nent writers and speakers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
CALIFORNIAN DlSAGREeS.

There are two opinions on this point
evidently. as the following from one OF
the most ardent promoters OF woman
suffrage i'm California-not Miss Anna
Bock-demonstrates. In an interview last
December she regretfully and earnestly
said: ITO be quite candid. We are very
doubtful. now that We have il, whether II
will be for the best or not. We have not
been able as yet TO prove TO the refined
thoughtful women that it is their duty to
vote. whether they like having to or not.
"Of course" she continued, most OF
the clubwOmen voted. but the majority at
the polls did not belong to the intelligent
thinking classes at ALL"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
CONTEST UNEVEN.

From the point Of view Of alsu'le .,
tho contest is piuully uneven. me oO'"-
murity is becoming so familiar WIN '"'
sut ioct that a fairly bright and alert p'
son of sixteen or seventeen ca" a.,
answer the opposing arguments ~
,.,rtd ia becoming saturated with undeI
tending Of the underlying fact that pun
lie life no longer deals NANNY WI"
erosion and military matters anu 'i'''
the great domestic industries educa''o'
and moral training. are no longer con,
fined to tho private house but arc caIf''u
on outside. From that fact II io''o' D
with the simplicity Of am easy syHoS'Sl"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
SITUATION is CLEAR.

~ am somewhat Interested bon logic ana
tho logic for woman suffrage is over
whclming. am even more intcrcsted III
expcrence and in immediate human
needs. and there never was situation IL
history clearer than the situation Wnich
yyo lace to-day. when now organization
NJ societv needs modification. needs many
profound solutions and requires TOT ~
happy arrangement nothing 70 ., tIl- -
the persistent free and encoJrastd sppH-
cation OF women's thought