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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
WILSON CHANGES
-TgT|G - o
PLANS ACCOUNT j.. ;:
OF EUROPEAN WAR Ar
Returns From Cruise on the May.
flower; May Be New
Development.
OFFICIALS WAITING FOR
GERMAN REPLY ON SUSSEX
Three British Vessels Sunk; Four
French Positions Are
Captured.

Washington, April S.-President
Wilson cruising on the Mayfower this
afternoon changed his plans and will
return at 4:3O o'clock. A rumor has
it that there has been a sudden de-
|velopment in the German-American
|situation.
Berlin, April St is uncondi-
tionally stated that if a German sub
marine torpedoed the Sussex, the
commander had violated his instruc-
tiOns. The Sussex was a passenger
carrying channel boat. This comes
within the protection Germany was
assured by President Wilson follow
ing the Arabic.
Awaitign Report.
Washington, April S.-Oficals are
awaiting Germany's preliminary re-
port regarding the attacks on channel
steamers.
Berlin, April S.-(OficiaD 1.-The
Germans have captured four French
positions within the mile ridge of
Termitten Hill, south of Haucourt
London, April S-Three British
vessels, including the liner Chantala,
have been sunk or blown up within
the past "a hours. In each instance
the crew was saved
The Hague, April 8.-The govern
ment has introduced bill in parlia-
ment authorizing the calling of the
class 1917 recruits if the military
situation demands.
Begins Big Attack.
London, April S-The Crown
Prince has thrown large force
across the Forges Brook in deter
mined effort to squeeze the French
out of Bethincourt. The lombard
ment is in preparation of another at
tempt to take Bethincourt and all
positions including the loop formed
by the French lines.
Paris, April S.-A French submar-
inc has sunk an Austrian transport
in the Adriatic.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
DRAWS $50 fine
ON LIQUOR CHARGE
Ole Lee, New Proprietor of Lake
Shore Hotel, Arrested in
Raid.

Ole Lee, who became proprietor Of
the Lake Shore hotel four days ago,
was arrested last evening at 1880
o'clock in raid, on charge of SELL
ing liquor without a license
Chief of Police Ripple and Officer
Essler made the raid and secured a
pint of alcohol.
In the municipal court this morn
ing before Judge A. M. Crowell, Lee
entered plea of guilty and was fined
$50 or so days in the county jail.
He paid the fine.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
PETITIONS FILED
FOR SMITH PARDON
State Board to Meet Monday to Con
slider Pardons for Former
State Officers.

St. Paul, Minn., April S.-The
pardon board will hear applications
for the pardon of Walter j. Smith,
former state treasurer, and R. G. Pick
lit, former clerk of state investment
board, who were sentenced to the
state prison at Saltwater on larceny
charges, Monday.
Mrs. Smith called on Secretary An
drist this morning and was told that
if an application for pardon was
filed it would be considered: She
went to the attorney general to frame
the petition.
Secretary Andrist notified Pickitt's
friends in Fergus Falls to file a sim
; liar petition.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
ST. LOUIS POLICE
SHOT BY BANDITS

St. Louis, Mo-, April S.-One po-
1iceman was shot to death late yester-
dav and another kidnapped or slain
by four automobile bandits.
Motorcycle Policeman John NC
Kenna was killed after he had ar
rested the bandits. Patrolman VIM
A. Dillon followed an automobile in
which the bandits were riding into
an alley. He has not been seen since
McKenna died before he could tell
whv he had sought to make the ar
rest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
CASS LAKE. GETS
READY FOR SUMMER
Commercial Club Spending Several
Thousand Dollars on Lake IT,
improvements.

Cass Lake, Minn., April 8.-TO
lake care of the increasing summer
business on Cass lake, the CONNER
;ial club is spending in the neigh
oorhood of $4,000 for improvements
on the dock A row boat pavilion
las been built, new ice house has
been erected, and five launch houses
are now under construction, and from
present indications these will be
leased before the season opens. The
club house will be raised so as to
guard against recurrence of the
hood conditions of last summer The
club also expects to spend several
hundred dollars on the roadway and
grounds.
A number of fine launches have
been purchased by Cass Lake resi-
dents, among which is thirty-five-
foot launch elaborately fitted up for
use of the Gee-Sah-Con club, owned
and managed by H. H. Martin.
The state game and fish commits
sion has made arrangements for a
spawn station at Turtle river. The
apparatus for the station has been
moved and operations will begin as
soon as the lake opens. When the
spawn have been collected it will be
removed to the hatchery at the War;
field dam, eight miles up the Missis-
sippi river.
The Cass Lake Rod and Gun club
has made arrangements to stock sew
eral lakes and streams in the neigh
borhood. Trout fry has been ordered
for upper Nectie and Hansen's creek,
black bass for Helen, Thirteen and
Lost lakes and pike fry for Cass,
Winnibigoshish and Big Lakes. There
is movement on foot toward max
| ing Star Island a g3me refuge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
WHAT CANDIDATE
WOULD SAY, "D0N'T
VOTE FOR ME?"

St. Paul, Mfnn., April g.
John Hundertmark, "a, and
c.. H. Berthiaume, 50, always
feel qualms about voting for
anybody for anything. Humid
- ertmark's first vote was cast
for Lincoln and Bethiaume's
first vote went for Garfield.
Both men they favored were
assassinated. They always
tell this story to politicians
seeking their vote. =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
ORDERS DITCH
ESTABLISHED
Judge Stanton Files Order on Rapid
River Project, Ditch
No. 25.

Judge G. w. Stanton Of the district
court has filed an order establishing
Judicial Ditch No. 25. A hearing
was held on the petitions Friday.
Ditch No. rs is located in the Rapid
River drainage area and will extend
|25O miles. The estimated cost Of the
project is $483,00O.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
OFFICERS SEIZE
kELL|HER MILL
Timber Cutters File Affidavits in St.
Paul; Mill to Be Brought
Here.

81, *Aul, Minn:, April 8.-Oficial
reports and aftidavits were received to-
day from timber cutters, stating that
the Miller Brothers. mill at Kelliher
had been seized, following an alleged
illegal timber cutting. The mill is
portable and will be taken to Be-
midi.
State Timber Inspector Lang of
International Falls reported that the
Burgeson company had shipped tim
ber without legally required bark
markings.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
FIGHT BEGUN FOR ARMY
OCCUPATION SCHOOLS

Washington, April 2.-With Sec
retary Baker backing, the fight has
been begun in the house to make the
army a giant school for trades and
occupations. If the fight is success
full, the house will recede from it's
stand against vocational education
and give enlisted men IS hours voca-
tional training weekly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
YOUMANS LOSES
MINOT BANK CASE

Minot, N. D., April 8.-A directed
verdict in favor of Governor L. B.
Hanna and the other defendants was
returned yesterday by order Of Judge
w. J. Kneeshaw in the damage suit
for $225,O00 instituted by Grant
Youmans of Minot as the result of
the closing of his bank by the state
banking board nearly three years ago.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
LORD HARDINGE SLATED
TO SUCCEED SIR EDWARD.
GREY IT IS SAID

London, April g. That
Sir Edward Grey is to retire
as English foreign minister
when Lord Hardinge gives up
the vice royalty of India;
and that Hardinge will be-
come foreign minister is re-
ported in diplomatic circles.
1t had previously been sup
posed Lord Hardinge would
succeed Lord BERTHE as am
bassador to Paris. AS Sir
Charles Hardinge before his
elevation to a peerage, the re-
firing viceroy had a long dip
lomatic career and before he
went to India was for some
time under secretary at the
foreign office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

The Daily Pioneer today
published the financial state
ment for the city of Bemidji.
We urge every citizen to study
city finances and city well
fare. The studying of city.
finances and city welfare :
will result, we feel sure, in
civic prosperity.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
American Troopers Reported Rushing
South After Mexican =:
Bandit. I:
r-.&&@ .--:.E
DENIED THAT u, S. HAS
RIGHT TO USE RAILROAD
Mission in Mexico Not Completed
Until Carranzistas Are Ready
to Relieve.
BULLETIN

Washington, April 8.-The or
iginal orders of the war depart-
ment given Gen. Funston, made
known today, revealed that the
United States will regard its mis-
sion in Mexico as completed
when Carranzistas are able to re-
ieve them Of the task they
started.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

San Antonio, April 8.-With Villa
apparently located between Satevo
and Parral, the American TROOPERS
in two advanced columns are reported
rushing south. Villa, according to
a dispatch received late last night, is
located at La Bouqui1la, SIS miles
southeast OF Satevo and about an
equal distance north of Parral.
The dispatch said that the bandit
had been at Santa Rosalia a couple
Of days ago and from there had
turned west to La Bouquilla. Santa
Rosalia is on the Mexican Central
railroad IS miles southeast of Chi
huahua City. 1t formerly was one
of the most important mining towns
in central Chihuahua.
No Permission Given.
Queretaro, Mex, April 8.-The
Mexican government has not given
the American government permission
to use Mexican railways for any pur-
pose whatever, said General Candido
Aguilar, Mexican minister of foreign
relations, after a meeting of the Car
rama cabinet yesterday.
General Aguilar denied vigorously
stories published in the American
press to the effect that the Carranza
government had given permission to
the United States army forces to use
Mexican railways for transportation
of food stuffs and supplies.
'Please rectify these false state
ments," said General Aguilar to the
Mexican press. 1.-The Mexican gov
ernment has not given the American
government permission to use Mex
ican railways for any purpose what
ever"
Troops Entrenched.
Columbus, N. M, April St was
States troops are entrenched in Mex
leo. Trenches have been established
at Bocho Grandes and supply base
has been installed at Chas Grandes.
officers feel the apprehension Of the
mobilizing of bands of Mexicans in
the hills beyond the communication
lines. Enmity has not been display
ed. (The censor permitted this dis
patch to pass.)
Four Americans Wounded.
Washington, April s. General
Funston today reported that the four
Americans soldiers wounded March 29
in an engagement were practically
healed.
To Reorganize School.
Washington, April 8.-Secretary
of War Baker today told the military
affairs committee of the house that
he will reorganize the army aviation
school and change the personnel by
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

F. J. Marco and brother OF NAL
colin visited in Bemidji yesterday.
They are starting stock farm at
Malcolm. ...- ~ 81. .....,.sss.-.. 49, ...s.s
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
CAPTAIN JOHN BEATTY
OF MANKATO IS DEAD

Mankato, Minn., April 8.-Captain
John Beatty, Civil War veteran, died
here today.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
SCHOOLS TO REOPEN
MONDAY MORNING.

The Bemidji schools will reopen
Monday morning after week s
spring vacation. A number of the
teachers and students who have been
visiting out of the city during the
vacation are returning to the city
tOdaV
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

A. F. Anderson of Shocks, formerly
! in the employment business here, is
| visitor in Bemidji today.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

Judge H. A. Simons, United States
commissioner, returned this morning
from Minneapolis where he spent sew
eral days on business.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

Mrs. James French, who has been
confined to her home since Tuesday
on account of illness, is reported i'm
proved today
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
MAYOR CLAMPS
ON SUNDAY LID
New Ordinance Goes Into Effect in
Thief River Falls
Tomorrow.
Thief River Falls, Minn., April

Thief River Falls, Minn., April 8.
The ordinance for the regulation
Of amusement places in unis city
marking the completion of the fight
initiated by Mayor Campbell when he
first took office to close the amuse-
ment parlors on Sunday, is now in
effect and the first day for it's en-
forcement will be tomorrow when it
is expected that some fight will be
made by the proprietors of the places
affected. 1t is anticipated that the
owners of the pool halls, skating
rinks, bowling alleys that come un-
der regulation have trump card up
their sleeves to play at the opportune
moment.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
Places Limited.

Other features of the new ordinance
are that the places of amusement are
limited to one for each 1000 popula-
ton, thus with five places, two bill
lard halls, two bowling alleys, and
the skating rink in operation here, no
more can enter Each one of the pro-
prietors has to obtain a license and
have capable sponsors. Each place has
to close at 10 p. M, and remain closed
until 5 a. M. each week day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
Kicking on taxes is a habit,

Kicking on taxes is a habit.
This was pointed out last evening
at an open meeting of the CONNER
cial club, called for the purpose of
discussing taxes, appointing a COM
mittee to assist the city assessor and
to discuss the city taxes.
About so men attended the meet
ing.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
Villa Located Near Staveo
and Parral Says Dispatch
= x < x < x x X x x X x X X x X
x AT THE CITY HALL Il.
x AND COURT H0IISE

| AMI CUUh1 dOUSE =
< x X X Xxx X X X kk<kt y
Two men were licensed as peddlers
at the city hall today. A peddler's
license costs $40 and the city auth
critics are demanding that peddlers
take out licenses.
| Chief" of Police Ripple today or
dered that all automobiles be licensed
by May first.
City Engineer Swinson today or
dered- that garbage wagons must
dump at the city dump yards and not
along the road A man has been sta
toned at the dump.
Six men arrested under the Fed
eral act of introducing liquor into
indian territory were transferred
from the Beltrami county iail to
Minneapolis today where the Federal
court is now in session.
Six wolf bounties were issued at
the office of the county auditor to-
day. Those receiving bounties were
Peter Thoe of Kelliher, G.. G.. Ash
more Of Grygla, Peter Oseth of Pitt,
J. E. Palmer Of Williams, John Dan
ielson Of Anderson and Henry A.
Kohloclxme of Roosevelt.
Charles " Minnick of Spooner is
visiting in the city with his daugh-
ter, Miss Hazel Minnick, clerk in
the office of the probate court.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
Would Close Everything.

Mayor Campbell when he first took
office wanted to close all the amuse-
ment places on Sundays, but found
this was practically impossible &C
cOrding to the ordinances then in eff
feet, and was forced to modify his
demands. The owners of the amuse-
ment places on the other hand have
held that they should be allowed to
do business on the Sabbath just as on
|any other day. Neither side has won.
The places will be allowed to open
Sunday afternoon for five hours,
from 1 to o'clock, as a compro-
mise
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08
To Reorganize School.

Washington, April 8.-Secretary
of War Baker today told the military
affairs committee of the house that
he will reorganize the army aviation
school and change the personnel by
addition, if not by subtraction.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-08

Chief" of Police Ripple today Or
dered that all automobiles be licensed
by May first.
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Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-15
FACE THE FACTS!
Weeks Talks About Our Navy
 and National Defense.
Insists on Military, Commercial, Fin ancial and Industrial Preparedness Let Us Be Ready for Peace as We'll as War.
By JAMES 8. MORROW, in the Philadelphia Record.

HONE of the Weekses, save John IN Wingate, the senator and the Massachusetts candidate for president-toiling as they all did among the granite humps of New Hampshire-wase ever noted for his ac- emulation of cash or property.
 They were farmers mostly, begin ming with Leonard Weeks. who. emil grating from England in 1856. became the head and source of the family. Agriculture sternly practiced among the embedded rocks and irremovable powders taught them to be resource full and to keep at least one eye open to opportunity.
 So William D., the father of the sen ator, was a probate judge, and once essayed to be a manufacturer. With the cooperation of neighbors. likewise alert and adventurous. he started a factory at Lancaster for making starch from potatoes.
 q will never forget the look on my fathers face" Captain Weeks told me, when, on a Sunday morning. just as we were leaving church, we saw men and boys running down the street and heard them crying: The starch fac tory is burning
Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-15
AMI. WILSON HOLD
 CONFERENCE
Baker Calls at White House at Midnight. Official Declares Nothing of Exceptional lm- portance Developed.
BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON. April 14-Secre- tary Baker and President Wilson con- ferred on the Mexican situation at midnight Later the secretary said he still was without official informa- tion regarding the clash at Parral, and that no significance could be attached to his late visit to the White House, as he merely had awaited the Presi- dents return from the theatre.
 The Secretary said that the army aviators had flown over sections of Sonora where large bodies of Mexican soldiers were said to have crossed from Chihuahua and had reported that no troops were to be seen.
 During the half hour he remained at the White House, MT. Baker laid before the President all dispatches concerning the Mexican situation re- ceived at the War Department after today's cabinet meeting. There were several long messages from General Funston. The Secretary said there was nothing about the clash at Par ral in any of them but declined to say whetherthey contained any informa- tion on steps General Funston may have taken to carry out his orders to provide fo rthe safety of the soldiers in Mexico.
 Major General ScOott, chief of staff, was at the department until after mid night with the Secretary
Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-15
BRITISH PRESS SEES PROSPECT
 OF PEACE
''The Nation" and 'The Econ omist' See, in Premier's Speech Possibility of Peace in Europe.
(sy Review Leased Wire. ]


 LONDON, April H. Two weekly newspapers, the Economist and the Nation, both of which have shown g tendency favorable to a compromise of the war, believe that the recent speech of Premier Asquith smooths q wa ytoward peace. The editor of the Economist is Francis Hirst, the finan cial expert, who has taken an extreme ly pessimistic view of the wars effect on European finance. The Economist says: f
 If all the reasonable hopes of new territory entertained by all the bellig erents could be realized, few persons would be bold enough to say that the realization of these hopes would com pensate for the agony and misery present and to come, of six months prolongation of the war. Nor must it be forgotten that every month that passes increases the risk of public insolvency on the continent, which would assuredly plunge thousands of firms into bankruptcy and indefinitely postpone commencement of economic recovery.
 '-IThe, danger of popular revolutions as h tSsult of the war was foreseen by Sir Edward. Grey. the foreign min ist4r. at is now the duty of statesmen ship to see whether settlement is posbiblt beforeia new masque of anar- chy, supervenes. Undoubtedly, MT, As quith' h'Sispeech has brought the possi- bility ef settlement near, if the Ger man people and the. Carmen govern ment are, as neutral observers declare, already in the mood to return to the oonitysof nations.y ....
 The, Nation, which. as the organ of the advanced Liberals, has opposed talk oE revenge and the permanent di visionEof Europe into two alliances,
 1Euppes has this week reverted to intkEpaheial usage known as dipio- marTi Cannon go on roaring, but stafsArnen. have begun to talk to. each otbep Herr von BefhmanuSSfollweg has challenged. Mir 2Asquith to explain himself. Premier Asquith has respond ed and, turn, the German chancellor must deal with the English rejoinder." I"
 The Nation says no trace of Germa- ny's prosperity and no plan of revenge for her cruelties will be in the words or the spirit of the treaty which she will be asked to sign. The paper con tinues:
 'Nor in spite of the wild talk and narrow vision of our reactionarys is Gormany's commercial future endan- gered by boycott after the war. But she has to commit one act of retro. cession and amendment she must withdraw from every rod of foreign land she now occupies both her arm les and the vast pretensions which sustain her policy of absorption and dominance. She has to acknowledge that European affairs are common affairs, that the liberties of states. great and small, are common liberties and that European armaments are things to be mutually destroyed and limited"
Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-15
SLAUGHTER DEFENSE OFFERS EVIDENCE IN
 BANK FAILURE CASE
Chicago Banker Testihes That Certain Draft Was Not Plac- ed to the Credit of Either Defendant or Son.
(Ry Rev.ew Leased wire)

DENVER, April 1.-The defense today placed witnesses on the stand in United States District court in an effort to refute the charges of mis application of funds, one of the charges in the indictment against w B. Slaughter of Dallas, Texas. former president of the closed Mercantile National Bank of Pueble. now on trial.
 D. R. Kendall. teller Of the Live stock National Bank of Chicago, testi fled that certain s25,OOO note had been placed to the credit of the Mer cantile National Bank and not to the credit of Slaughter and his son, Coney as the government had charged.
 The prosecution insisted the note in question had been placed by the Chicago bank to the credit of the two slaughters to take up the personal obligations of the defendant.
 Minutes of directors meetings to- day showed that Slaughter gained con. trol of the Pueblo bank on January 10. 1911, and that on January g, 1911 the elder Slaughter was elected presi dent and Coney Slaughter, his son. cashier.
 The defendants son who was blam ed yesterday by counsel for the de fense for the condition of the bank is being sought in connection with the closing of the bank about a year ago
 About sixty witnesses are on hand to testify in the case. which is being heard by Federal Judge R. F. Lewis