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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
TO BRING BUSINESS HERE
Bemidji orgaaisa tioa, Anxious to
Make Thi, City Inlet for 1ta.ea
State Park Road to Be Improved
PARK RAPIDS ROUTE NOW USED

Resulting from . suggestion made
by J. J. Opsahl at the Tuesday meet.
ing of the Bemid1i Merchants asso.
citation, a movement has been inaug.
urated which If successful will make
this city the most convenient inlet
to Douglas Lodge at Lake Itasca on
the states forest reserve. -
The attention Of the merchants
was called to the fact that much Lake
1tasca business lis now being lost to
Bemidji which might be brought
here if properly applied for, namely,
through proper publicity. road i'm
provement between Bemidji and the
park and organized effort. ILL.,
E. At present almost all Lake Itasca
travel is made from Park Rapids,
which is practically the same dis
lance as from Bem1dji, the only DIFF
ference being that the roads are bet
ter and convenient service offered.
Both these objections to Bemidji
are to be overcome and this morning
Chad Jewett, E. q: Barker, G. NJ.
Bacon and. James Black left on a
trip of inspection, It being their pur-
pose to ascertain just what road to
the park would be Of most service and
to investigate the extent of improve
ments necessary. / Money will be
solicited to make the required repairs
and arrangements have been complet-
ed whereby the auto livery garages
will make trips at the right price,"
1t is expected that in this way per-
sons enroute to the park will come
to Bemidji, driving to their destina-
ton from here. Better railroad &C.
commodations will be offered and all
possible will be. done to make the
time spent in Bemidji enjoyable for
visitors. r.; -> - --
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
TO HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL
Agricultural Students to Be Bene:
flied Must Have Garden.

Bueford M. Gle, agriculturist in
the Bemidji schools, announced this
morning that a summer agricultural
school will be held in Bemidji this
summer, for the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades, commencing June IA.
Only pupils having school gardens
will be allowed in the classes. The
pupils will meet at the school farm
Mondays and Fridays and at the
high school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
PREPARE FOR ASSESSMENT
Tax Commission Sends Instructions to
Assessors of State Giving Sugges.
tions for This Years Work.
SECURED $1.69 FOR EACH DOLLAR

Under the laws of Minnesota all
personal property, including money
and credits, and such real estate as
may become taxable since the last
assessment was made, and all new
buildings and structures erected since
May. first of last year, whether COM
pleted or in process of construction,
are required to be listed and assessed
this year, says the state tax commits
sion in letter which has Just been
received by Thomas Lloyd, Bemidji's
assessor. The assessment is made on
the basis of the value of the property
on May first
Last year member of the commits
sion visited every county of the state
explaining changes in the tax laws,
but letters are being sent out in
stead this spring. =. 800 - >-:
The assessment this year will be
the second one under the classified
assessment law. While the assess
ment of last year was noticeably more
complete and equitable than previous
ones, it is confidently expected that
the assessment Of the present year,
so far as personal property is con-
cerned, will be the most thorough
and complete in the history Of the
state. This expectation is based on
the fact that there is now more
comprehensive knowledge of the clas-
sified assessment law among both as
SCISSORS and taxpayers, as well as a
better understanding of the method
Of listing and assessing property un-
der it, than obtained year ago.
1T should be borne in mind" says
the commission, that, with the ex-
ception of the state levy, all taxes
are local and under the control of
the county and it's subdivisions, in
Guiding school districts. If they are
unreasonably high the remedy is III
the hands of the people themselves.
1.-The total amount of taxes levied
in Beltrami payable last year for
all purposes was $495,092.01. OF
each 500 of this amount 1891 went
to the state revenue fund for expenses
of state government and state insti-
| tutions; $3.50 went to the county;
$1486 to cities and villages; $5.73
to townships and $31.24 to education
and educational institutions and for
roads and bridges In other words,
of each dollar you paid in direct
taxes last year, approximately four
cents went to the state revenue fund,
the other SO cents being used by the
county and it's subdivisions, including
schools.
1.-The total levy in your county last
year for state purposes, exclusive OF
the levy for interest and principal
on money borrowed from the state
was 34,566.5S, while you received
from the state $5S,514.24 in aid OF
schools, roads and other public pur-
poses. Expressed in dollars, for each
dollar your county paid into the state
treasury last year in direct taxes you
received $1.69 in return
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
GERMANY MUST NOT
. RESIGN TERRITORY
GAINED, SAYSPASSACHA
(Undted ProsS)

Berlin, April 22.-"The pen of q
diplomat must not spoil the work Of
sword so we'll achieved" declared
Councillor Passacha, Liberal leader
in discussing the terms of peace sug.
gested. It had been suggested pre-
viously that possibly Germany would
call the war a draw and return the
land it has captured. But Passacha
said that never would this territory
be returned, acquired through the
loss of so much German blood. He
said the war must continue and that
Germany must capture all British pc.
sitions on the English channel.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
ENGLAND CASE TO JURY

Following the arguments of coun-
sci and the charge of Judge Wright
the jury in the case of State of Min
nesota against Call England, began
it's .deliberation late this morning.
England is charged with grand lar
ceny in the second degree, it being
claimed that he appropriated for his
Town use money collected for insur-
ance premiums. The trial of the
Marguerite Johnsrud false imprison-
ment case is now in progress. This
is the last jury case for trial at this
term. ..,....r .,~~.::
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
Charles Rattinger Here.

Charles Rattinger, at one time
manager of the Markham hotel here,
but who now holds a similar posi-
ton at the Majestic hotel, Minnea-
polls, reached Bemidji this morning.
Mr.. Rattinger will remain here for
two weeks during which time he will
assist in the management of the
Markham, relieving Oliver Nelson,
who will spend his vacation near
Blackduck. Mr.. Rattinger was
given cordial welcome by his many
Bemidii friends. {.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
Chief Clerk Here.

F. A. Downs, chief clerk of the
Northwestern Telephone company, OF
Fargo, North Dakota, is in the city
today making an official visit at the
local exchange, and also visiting his
cousin, Miss Winnifred McDermott
who is a teacher in the Bemidj1
schools. :.;
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
STOP NYM0RE SERVICE.

Laurence and Roy Carter, proprie-
tors of the Nymore- Bemidji Trnaspor-
tation company, have discontinued
their iitney service between the two
places. The boys were the first to
observe that bus line between Be-
midi and Nymore would be q good
proposition and spent considerable
money that machines necessary in
order to give convenient service
might be secured. OF late several
others have placed jitney buses in
operation and the plan resulted in
failure The boys have offered their
three cars, q Locomobile jitney, 4
1915 Maxwell and q Ford, for sale.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
Us DESIRE is
TO REDEEM lsTRIA
Would Take Place at Expense Of Aus.
tria-Serbia Crown Prince May
Have Blundered in Statement.
MENTIONS TWO POSSIBILITIES
Thought Likely to Create Suspicion in
Rome and May Cause Italians to
/, Keep Out of War-Action Secret
By J. w. T. MASON.

New York, April 22.-At this mo-
ment, when Italy is reaching final
decision as to peace or war, the
crown prince of Serbia declares one
of .Serbia's ambitions is to see Istria
made into a Slav state at the end of
the war. Either the crown, prince
has made serious Lblunder in thus
Suggesting difficulties between Rus
STA and Italy, or the Allies no longer
count on Italy's entrance into the
war.
It is impossible to determine which
Of these possibilities is correct. The
Serbian crown prince is only 81
years old, at which age diplomatic
indiscretion easily might be commit
ted. At the same time, the crown
prince was recently made regent of
Serbia owing to the illness of King
Peter. His words, therefore,, are
much more responsible than they
otherwise would be. Unquestionably,
the young mans assertion of Slav
claims to Istria will create suspicion
in Rome. In fact, it may be the de-
Gliding factor that will keep Italy out
of the war.
Much Rivalry Noted.
The rural population of Istria is
Slavonic and the civic population is
Italian. There is much rivalry be-
tween the two races. Recently the
slavs began moving into the cities,
where they are entering into rivalry
with the Italian element, although
Istria is Austrian territory. The
possible determination of Italian, Gull
ture in the former province of the
old Venetian republic cannot be ac-
complished by Austria herself Only
the Slavs in Istria can overwhelm
the Italians and, in fact, the struggle
for cultural mastery of Isrtia is q
Slav-1talian affair. j.
49,. To- Redeem Istria.. ....=:...:.ss
If Italy enters the war on the side
Of the Allies, it will be largely for
the purpose of redeeming 1stria. Ter
ritorially, the redemption must take
place at the expense of Austria. but
racially at the expense of the Slavs
Such being the situation, Italian
statesmen must now inquire whether
the declaration of the crown prince
of Serbia means the peace congress
will cheat Italy out of Istria If the
Allies win the war.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the crown prince, a Rome
dispatch says the Russian ambassa-
dor to Italy, now in Petrograd, is de-
laying his departure for final in
structions concerning the Russian
and Italian interests. But Italy may
suspect that, whatever these in
structions may be, they are not final,
and the final word has been spoken
by Russia's royal protege, Prince
Alexander of Serbia. The incident
suggests the dangers which con-
front Italy in her effort to obtain
all the loot possible out of the war
at minimum risk to herself It is
one more piece of evidence that if
Austria has agreed to surrender the
Trentino in exchange for Italian
neutrality Italy will suffer grave risk
by rejecting the offer and going to
war for Adriatic territory. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
Frarey New Moderator.

Rev. J. H. Frarey, of Blackjack,
we'll known in Bemidji, was elected
moderator, succeeding R. s. Side
botham of Stephen, at the Presbytery
of Adams which opened in Crookston
yesterday. The clerkship went to
Rev. J. T. L. Coates of Kelliher. Rev.
Frarey gave an address last evening.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
ELK RIVER VISITED
BY DISASTROUS FIRE
(unltsd Prsss)

+ (003eO6 FEoS0)
Elk River, April 22.-Fire this
morning totally destroyed the bust
ness district of Elk River, causing a
loss of $4,000. The fire is now un-
der control.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-04-22
CHAUT AUQUA PLANS
PROMISE SPLENDID
BEMlDJI PROGRAM
Enthusiastic Meeting Held ct Com.
'mercial Club Rooms Last Evening
Success Of Proposition Assured.
HEDGES TELLS OF FEATURES


Bemidji's first summer. chautauqua
is certain to be success. =.
This was assured Wednesday eve
ming at an enthusiastic meeting
held in the Commercial club rooms.
The session was attended by large
number of Commercial club and
Merchants association members, and
several others who are interested.
and the plan of the chautauqua out
lined. H. A. Hedges, field superin-
tendent of the Vawter-Redpath sys-
TEN, was in attendance at the meet
ing and in most complete manner
he told of what may be expected of
the entertainments. According to
present plans the dates of the Chau-
tauqua will be August 5, g. z, s,
and 9.
Organization is Formed.
An organization was perfected
which will work in the interest of
the chautauqua, E. A. Barker being
named as president; H. B. Brookins,
secretary, and w. L. Brooks, treas
urer.. An executive committee of five
members was elected, comprising the
three officers, E. H. Denu and DR.. G.
M. Palmer.
Boosters tn Assist.
In addition there is to be booster
committee, comprising Frank S. Ly-
can, chairman, G. M. Bacon, B. w.
Lakin and Harry E. Reynolds. This
committee will devote considerable
attention to advertising the chautau-
qua in neighboring towns, automo-
bile tours being planned for this pur-
pose. ,:--. IT. .,r
Praises Bemidji.
Mr.. Hedges was enthusiastic over
the interest being shown by Bemidji
in the coming chautauqua and he
predicted that It would be even more
successful than its most urgent sup-
porters hope for. He displayed
photographs showing likenesses Of
numerous persons who are to appear
on the program and declares that one
Of the best courses ever arranged by
the Vawter-Redpath system is to be
brought here.
|. While here Mr.. Hedges was taken
in an automobile to the site of the
new Normal school and also to the
head of the lake where he viewed the
beautiful location of the $4,000
summer hotel He was 80 impressed
with Bemidji that he plans to spend
three months of the summer here.
Mr.. Hedges says that more interest
was shown at the meeting here than
in any other city to which his work
has taken him.
To Be Music Galore.
There will be five musical numbers
on the program, one for each day.
Mr. Hedges says these have all been
selected with special reference to
their fitness for the places they are
to fill. The companies are: The
Lawson Trio; The J. Walter Wilson
Co.; The Mendellsohn sextette; The
Avon Sketch Club and The Boucher
Opera company.
The speakers on the program in
clude Congressman Lenroot, of Wis
consin; c. A. Payne; Alva M. Reit-
eel; Preston Brady: c. H. Platten-
burg and Hazel Kepford.
Six Young Women.
The Mendellsohn Sextette is made
up of six talented and charming
young ladies who sing and play. and
do skits and stunts galore. The
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H. Isaacson. Of the engineering de-
partment Of the Northwestern Tele-
phone company Of Minneapolis. is In
the city today on ofieial business.
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-22

The prohibitionists will view with
alarm the fact that Pleasant Holt,
of Jacksonville, has been elected to
fill the vacancy on the State Demo-
cratic committee caused BY the death
of the late Frank Chase. Among the
anti-saloon people Mr.. Holt stands
as the embodiment of the Demon
Rum in Florida because he is al.
ways selected by the Jacksonville
liquor dealers to manage their inter-
ests in prohibition campaigns and
plays the game SO shrewdly that he
is generally successful. But for all
that he is a perfectly respectable
citizen of the best social standing in
his community and is recognized as
an uncommonly able man and stall
wart Democrat The pros will howl
against his appointment, but as the
Democratic party is not committed
to the policy of prohibition Mr..
Hollis fitness for the place can't be
impeached because he votes wet in
stead of dry.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-22
A DECISION OF VAST IMPORTANCE

! The grandfather clause as a de-
vice for restricting negro suffrage in
| the South has reached the limit of
its utility and gone out of commits
sion as per the decision of the SUI
preme court of the United States in
the Oklahoma case. That method of
limiting suffrage is unconstitutional
says that court, and the decision will
nave far-reaching influence in every
southern state. 1t is worthy of note
that Chief Justice White, a Southern
Democrat, rendered the decision of
the court and fully concurred in it.
This means that the recent act u
the Florida Legislature disfranchis-
ing negroes in this State amounts to
nothing and it seems to open the
door for negro ,oters generally in
the South. The only way out would
seem to be the enactment Of law IN
which there was no class legislation
against the negroes and that fixes
an educational and property qualifi-
cation that would disfranchise the
undesirable irrespective of the race
The grandfather clause was adopt-
ed in the South as remedy of
doubtful legality. to meet desperate
emergency and it was morally iusti-
hable for that purpose, for without
1t negro majorities would have ruled
and ruined in large parts of our sec
ton. That some other effective
method will be found is certain. for
under no circumstances will the
Southern people permit their State
or county governments or their rep.
resentation in Congress to be con-
trolled byAthe negro vote.
A vital fundamental mistake i'm
parts it's weakness and error and
folly to the whole superstructure
built upon it, and in this case the
mistake was the Fiji
teenth Amendment. It will prob
ably never be repealed and as "a con.
sequence we must struggle along for
generations with patchwork reme-
dies and expedients until the en-
lightenment of future ages shall |
cure the evil.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-22

Mr.. Bryan is again in his proper
element and is preaching from the
platform with none of the restraints
of great Office to shackle his tongue.
And he goes at it with gusto of an
eager boy released from the discipline
of the school room and so evidently
enjoying his new freedom that il is
impossible not to sympathize with
him and wish him a good time as he
revels in the delights of his peac.
propaganda and aeain "gets a hand"
from the audience so long denied
him. The man is positively happy.
now that he can talk to his hearts
content and as he pleases, and. while
he is not likely to do any good as an
apostle of peace in warning world,
is is comforting to know that he
can't do any harm, as might have
been the case had he remained in
office for which he was so obviously
ll-fitted
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-22
WHO'S WHO IN THE WAR?

Italy having Joined her fortunes
with those of the allies in the great
European war the st. Louis Post
Dispatch says it is of interest to re-
call who are in the war and what
their relations are one to another.
There are on one side England,
France, Russia, Italy, Japan, Bel
GUM, Serbia and Montenegro, and on
the other Germany, Austria, and
Turkey, making a total of eleven.
The PostDispatch sizes up the situa-
tion as follows:
The Germans hate the English.
The English fear the Germans.
The Germans fear the Russians.
The Russians hate the Germans.
The Austrians hate the Italians. =
The Italians hate the Austrians.
The French have it in for the Ger
mans.
The Germans feel that they have
to keep the French down.
Inc Belglans sympathize with the
French.
The Servians hate the Austrians.
The Japanese have no feeling in
the matter.
The Germans would like to punish
the Italians.
Nobody hates the French
Everybody but Germany sympa-
thizes with the Belgians.
Nobody trusts the Japanese.
Everybody is a little afraid of the
Russians.
Nobody likes the Turks.
And to think the war must go on
until all those matters are straight
ened out,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-22
THE GOOD HAND
OVER LITTLE ONES

The following poem by Rev. J. E
Wray. D. D., pastor of the First
Methodist church appeared severa
years ago in the New York Observer
and was widely copied throug hout
the country:
Mid Scotia's hills a storm is wild,
And the Burns old howell went
| down at morn,
Over the mother and clinging child
God help the baby newly born.
Were angels fair in the tempest
there?
The gables crash wee "Bobbie'
stuns,
But on his head harms never a hair
The Good Hand over little ones.
A hut of manse afire. With din
And frenzied rush how the people
came,
A five-year-old slept sound within;
Alas, no ladder! The stairs af1ame!
All Epworth screams-it breaks his
dreams,
Little John to the fiery window
runs;
He's swung beneath by skin of his
teeth
The Good Hand over little ones.
In Stratford Town the black plague
dire,
And wight and wench turn up
their toes,
For sucking "Will," an anguished
sire
And a good wife know but beads
and woes
Spared tGod be praisedD was the
curly head.
For Hamlet's queries, Falstaff's
See you with half of the country
dead
The Good Hand over the little
ones.
Flee, o, thou Babe of Bethlehem,
The crimson lightning of the
sword!
Preserve thine enskied diadem,
High in accord with the Holy
Word.
Leave thou behind thee Rama
moan,
For perilous moons and desperate
suns;
The Lamb, though shorn, will safe
be borne,
The Good Hand over little ones.
The greatest barque that ever sailed
Was not Columbus caravel,
Nor that of him so sorely whaled,
Nor the "Ethiop starred" in her
"bed of HE'LL
o, bullrush barque, why brave the
dark,
When a ripple almost overruns?
Why whelming wave not Moses
grave
The Good Hand over little ones,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-22
EDuratiOn of the War

Last fall, more than six month
ago, when Lord Kitchener said tn,
war might last three years. tn,
world thought he must be besid,
himself
Back in 1861, when Gen. w. T,
Sherman made a similar prediction
In regard to our civil war politicians
and people pronounced him crazy
lie had been living in Louisiana and
knew the temper and character OF
the southern people.
So tremdous was the expense and
frightful the slaughter in the nres.
ent war that it seemed impossible
ior the conflict to be prolonged be-
!ond the opening of spring. Lord
Kitchener. when asked when the war
would end, said he did not know.
but he did know that it would begin
in May
Already the midsummer is here
and the end is apparently farther
away than ever. OF course it must
end some time, but the fighting now
is as fierce as it has ever been. and
more countries seem likely to enter
the contest.
Entrenched millions bid each
other defiance-Italy is moving her
fresh armies into Austrian territory
-Germany is pushing Russia back
into Poland and retaking fortresses
and cities that the Russians captur-
ed months ago-on the western
front, in France and Belgium, armies
struggle back and forth over a few
hundred yards of territory-recover-
ing and losing as the tide of battle
GIBBS and flows.
That the warning nations have no
nope of an early termination of the
struggle. and that they are prepar
ing to carry on the war indefinitely,
Is indicated by their endeavors to
OBTAIN equipment that cannot be |
utilized for several months. They
seem to know their own temper and |
he temper of their antagonists.
In Canada training camps are now
being established for 100000 re-
fruits that cannot be drilled and
made ready for service much before
another winter.
The struggle is on a gigantic scale
an international prize fght-to
ZEE which nations shall be at the top
n the industrial and commercial
world and not be despoiled of any
erritory. Whether winners or los
rs-4or the wager of battle be final
drawn game-no one can tell
When the war will end-Jackson
Mich.), Patriot.