Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 9, 1904, Page 4

' FATAL SHOOTING AT BATTLE Squatter and Homesteader Become Involved in Dispute Which Ends in Killing. o 3 KILLS PETER WEILANDER:- = \ Tragedy Enacted in Town of * Battle, Twenty Miles From Blackduck, Yesterday. F. J. Artz, a homesteader and a recent ‘arrival from Chicago, fatally shot Peter Weilander, a squatterin -the town of Battle River while ‘the' two were en- gaged in a dispute over the right of Artz to build a shack on a sec- tion -of state land on which a cousin of Weilander’s had squat- ted. A bullet from a_88.56 caliber rifle tired by Artz struck Wei- lander in the groin, fractured the spine and caused his death sev- ‘eral hours after the shooting while he was being taken to the hospital at Blackduck. Artz is still at large, and Dep- uty Sheriff John Bailey lefl Blackduck for Battle this morn- ing to accomplish his arrest. Deputy Coroner Marcum went to Blackduck last night, took charge of the body of the dead man and it was brought to Bemidji this morning, and is now at the under- taking rooms of J. P. Lahr. A coroner’s inquest will be held Monday evening dt the court will set up the claim that it was done in self defense, and Deputy Sheriff Bailey is expected-to.ac- complish his arrest today. He will be brought to this city Mon- day morning. The place where the shooting occurred is in the town 152-31, the land in dispute was a guarter of section thirty-six near. the Red Lake reservation and the scene of the tragedy is twenty- two miles distance from Black- duck. The trouble which led up to the shooting has been brewing for several days and ding to the story of two eye witnesses Princess Grocery Company M. E. CARSON, Manager. Saturday Only Choice Head Rice, per 1b... .. Extra Fine Rice, per lb.. ..... Fine Cooking Figs, per 1b..... Weilander was the aggressor in the original quarrel. Artz, the man who did the shooting came to Blackduck one week ago yesterday from Chi- cago. where he has lived for a number of years and where' his grown son and daughter resides on Adams street. He was ac- companied by F. A. Gabriel, also of Chicago.. Artz filed on a claim in Battle River country Nov. 10, when theland was thrown open to settlement at the Cass Lake land office and had come up to build a shack and make-it—his home. His filing to the land was contested by Carl Berglund, a cousin of Weilander’s who claimed squatter’s rights and the contest was to have been next Tuesday. Weilander and Berglund came to this section from Tsanti county about a year ago and both squatted on quarter sections. Upon his arrival last week from Chicago Artz engaged a crew of men to build a shack on his claim. Wednesday while he was absent from the” premises at Kelliher buying some building supplies, Weilander with several other squatters and home- steaders visited the place where the men were working on the building and ordered them to leave off work. This they re fused to do and he attempted to persuade them by stating that Artz was irresponsible and that they would not get their ‘money for the work they were doing. Finally the entire parties lett be- fore Artz’return. Weilanderagain returned Thursday and talked with the workmen about flfteen minutes. Most of the conversa- tion was about the coming con- test at the land oftice and Artz and Weilander did not meet as the former was out hunting duy- ing Weilander’s second visit. Artz had been wrought u somewhat by the reports of Wei rander’s - yisits had made to the:men working on the building, Yesterday morn- ing the men went to work about 70’clock and about ) W ander came over again. Other workmen were busy about the clearing and Artz and Ole Olson, the carpenter who had charge of the work were the only ones near the cabin which is built j across the quarter section line from the-section on which Weil- ander had squatted, The story of Ole Olson, who saw the shooting is that when Artz saw Weilander coming he warned him to keep off the prem- ises and told hiin that he had no business there. He had the rifle in his hand and the two bandied words for a mement when At P 1 warned Weilander off the plai and discharged the rifle in the alr. B This act seemed to incense Weilander and he drew a revolver from his pocket, took deliberate aim at Artz and discharged ® the weapon, The bullet went-wide of the mark and Artz returned the fire with the rifle. * This shot took effect.” Weilander dropped the revolver from his. hand and staggered and fell to the ground. He was picked up and carried | into the shack and later taken to the shanty of a neighboring homesteader named Johnson. His wound did not at first appear to be serious; the flow of blood was staunched and Ole Olson hitehed up his team andestarted to Blackduck with him. Berg- lund and F. A. Gabriel followed the team. The injured man did| not complain of any pain, and talked but little. He said nothing about the shooting. He . died Choice Raisins, per Ib.... Fine Ifriqurujpe’s, per 1b Granulated/Sugar, 164 bs . Hams, Swift's, por‘?b,. wift’s Smoke;l,[;A‘\' ll){fi Bacon, Codfish, Bricks, per Ib........ 1dc Cheese,-Full Cream, per 1b. .15 Cheese, Brick, per 1b Bloaters, Cromarty; 4 for . Cheese, Primest, per brick ....25¢ Oranges, Navel, per doz.......25¢ Oranges, Sweet Navel, per doz30¢ Oranges, Extra Navel, per doz40¢ Oranges, Extra Large Na per doz.. Bananas; Large,-per-doz Lemons, Large, per doz, Apples, Baldwin, per peck rabouteleven mileson the road, | and made no statement regard- ing the shooting before his death. Weilander came to this country from Sweden three- years ago. He has no relativesin this section rand-was-practically without-mon- ey. - He is'a man about thirty- five yearsiof age. The body was taken to the Pio- neer hotel where the Deputy Coroner viewed the remains last night. A hasty examination of the . wound was made and -an autopsy will probably be-conduct ed tomorrow. But little is known of Ar this section. He-is a plasterer by trade and during the greater part of the present winter has been working on the construc- tion of the exposition buildings at St. Louis. He is a man about forty vears of age. The Daily Pioneer want col- umns are good vesult getters. Try them. welcome. 0Old pictures made new and enlarged to any size. of the second floor of the new Street block, next to the postoffice. _reception, display and dressing rooms are always open and you arc R. W. REED, Prop. Reed’s Studio Fot Waby Bhotograghs and Wedding Stoups IN ANY STYLE, FINISH OR PRICE. ALL KINDS OF Photos, Views of the City, Lake and Lumber Camps Studio occupies all My heard at the Cass Laksland office | DEVELOPMENT OF FOUR YEARS Business of Bemidji Postof- fice Has Gone Forward by Leaps and Bounds. POSTMASTER CARSON TAKES ...... -CHARGE-TODAY. How the Office Has Grown in Past Four Years and What Is Ex- pected in Future. The change of postmasters at the Bemidji postoffice was ef- fective today, when Earl Car- son, the new postmaster, took harge, and Mrs. Edward Kaiser, who has presided for the past four’years, severed her, connec- tion with the office. Postmaster Carson intends to devote all his time to the duties of the office. Robert Clark will be his assistant and Harry Rey- nolds will succeed Miss Maude Wright-as gencral delivery clerk: 1. H. Slipp, who has been at the office for the past year will con- tinue under the new management as will S. L. Cutter. The past four years have wit- nessed a remarkable development in the growth of the local post- office and its business ‘at the present time is more than ‘eight times as large as when Mrs, Kaiser took charge four years Besides tle business of office inthiscity it has two heavy star routes in the stage lines to Maltby and Red Lake and all of the'mail for the north ling towns that comes over the Great Northern is handled at the localoffice. Thestampsales for the past year were about $8,700, and the money order business equals that of the Crookston postoffice which has about 3,000 more post- office patrons than Bemidji. . The stamp sales during the first year of Mrs. Kaiser’s ad- ministration were about $1;100 and the money. order business was an insignificant trifle. At the present time the working forceat the postoffice nunibers six and there are few monents during the day when all hands are not engaged. The general delivery business at the office is very large and mail for over 2,000 addresses * is_ received, in_this department. Bemidji has one of the largest transient elements of any town in the north country- and this accounts for the big business in this line, Four years ago the postottice was a fourth class office and the salary was regulated by the stamp cancellation and the num- ber-of packages handled on the star routes. It averaged about nine hundred dollars and three hundred dollars a year was al- lowed for clerk hire. At the be- ginning of Mrs. Kaiser’s term the office was placed in the third e made a second class oftice. _The salary of the postmaster is $2,000 or year and the salary of the assistant is fixed at $1,000. Be- 1des this ninety doll: per year is allowed for clerk hire. Theend-of - Postmaster Car- son’s term is hardly expected to witn growth equal to that of the past-four years, but it is very. able that the receipts of the 1 increa nough-to-se- cure free delivery to the city. The stamp sales last year were within 0 of ‘the nccessary amount and it confidently ex- pected that the - present year’ S sal ill reach -the required figure. . To Extend The Hello Line. M. D. Stoner is making ar- rangements to extend his tele- phone line from Blackduck to Northome.—The-Blackduck -ex- change is giving excellent ser- vice and as soon as arrangements can be.made the line will be ex- tended to Northome and other points on the north line. An ef- fort is being made to secure per- mission from the M. & I. to put the poles up on the right of way and as soon as this concession can be secured the line will be extended. WRITE US IN REGARD %0 Free Scholarships CONWAY'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Box 744, 108 Sixth Street, between Bemidfi and Beltraml Avenues. classand about.a year ago it was.| - PUT HIM OUT Woodsman Goes to the Ropes in Unusually Interesting Rough and Tumble at Hansen’s. A stalwart woodsman was put down and outin one of the fastest rough and tumble events which has recently occurred at Jens _|Hansen’s saloon,carly this morn- ing. Henry Hopis, the bar- tender, did the job, and an iron cuspidor was the medium. The bartender and the woodsman be- came involved in a dispute over the payment of drinks. The woodsman-stepped up.-to.the bar and laid his money .down for a long chance; when the wall flowers promptly lined up and the bar boy . served - all hands around. The woodsman did not feel it his duty to settle the bill and a dispute followed in which both were quite aggres- sive. The woodsman started to take the bartender into camp and thelatterstruck himavicious blow over the head with a cuspidore. He was unconscious for some; time and the blow was at first be; lieved to be fatal. Dr. Morrison was promptly summoned and by prompt work succeeded in stop- ping the flow of blood from the! wound. He will 'suffer no seri- ous effects aside from an ugly scar and is resting easily at pres- ent. Hopis paid his doctor bill and was in police court on a charge of assault, where he paid his fine of $25 and costs. Han- son’s place is the Pioneer saloon next to-the Lumbermen’s bank and it has been notorious for some time. The council is ex- pected to take steps to revoke his license at once as complaints against the place have been oo frequent of late to warrant a fur- ther show of leniency. Martin, a Dogand a Cow. Editor C. R. Martin, of the Beltrami County News, a wild eyed, bellowing mooley cow re- cently entranged from her off- spring and a brindle dog of the cowardly lion persuasion did a stunt at the corner of Third street and Minnesota avenue this morning that for ‘an all around good thing has anything recently pulled off in this city skinned forty ways from the proverabial jack. Mr. Martin was standing on the corner holding a conversa- tion with a friend when the cow and the dog appeared on the street from opposite directions. Mr. Martin is twenty-seven years old, chews Climax, never 'talks politics and hasnever been known to run from man or beast but when the dog barked at the cow and the cow charged and the dog took refuge behind Mr. Martin he concluded it was time to get busy and promptly shinned up a convenient telephone pole till the storm was passed. His agility was the marvel of all who saw the feat and if the fire depart: ‘ment-doesn’t put him on the run- ning team it will be overlooking a bet. To Leave Kelliher. The removal of the O’Kélliher Mercantile company’s store from Blackduck to Kelliher will dis- place A. H. Harris, formerly of Bemidji, as manager of the busi- ness at that point, and G.H. Pitkin, who has had charge at Blackduck, will succeed him. good. & The Right Price. It’s the secret of a successful OUR AXIOMS: If it is purchased at this store it is ~ Prices mean nothing; it is uality that counts. Rather than ad- : vertise to sell, we Sell to Advertise The Cheapest is Never Best; but the Best is Ever Cheapest Tt is a satisfaction to us to sell goods that are satisfactory to you. It means that we will sell you again. and that's what we are working for—to have our goods and methods of dving business so satisfactory to you that you will always be a regular patron. Call at the business. BAZAAR DEPARTMENT STORE Corner Third Street and Minnesota Avenue Ayure)daq e uonaejsneg Mr. Harris is an able business man and has many friends throughout ,this section whose best wishes will go with him in anything he decides to under- take. Stunt By Local Talent. *The Heart of a Hero” was pre- sented by local talent to a big business at the Teepeetonka opera house at Blackduck last night for the benefit of the Black- duck fire department. The pro- duction was very cleverly given and thoroughly delighted the attendance. The performance was followed by a dance which was also largely attended and continued until four o’clock this morning. Killed a Fisher. Henry George, a homesteader from the Buena Vista country, is in the city today and is exhibit- ing the mnost handsome spécimen of fisher ever seenin thke city. The animal was trapped by Mr. George near Mud lake..' Good specimens of fisher are very rare even in this section and Mr. George sold the animal for a neat sum_to a local saloon man who will have it mounted: . Start Battle River Drive. The Crookston Lumber com pany Wednesday started - its Battle river drive, The drive is the first one to be started in this section. The river has been open for some time, there isa ood head of water and the work is progressing very nicely. A Whole Family. Rev. L. A. Dunlop, ot Mount Ver- non, Mo., says: ‘‘My children were aftlicted with a cough resulting from measles, my wife with a cough that had prevented her sleeping’ more or less for-five years, and. your White V:’linye of Tar Syrup has cured them all.?? Will Be Amicably Settled. In all probability the Baudette land contest case between the townsite settlers and the home- steader Cathcart will be settled amicably between the parties concerned for mutual protection against the railroad company. The attorneys of both sides .of the:controversy after the comple- | tion of the case in thé' U. S. land office at Crookston Thursday con- ferred for several hours and ways and means of protecting the in- terests of both factions against the claims of the Canadian rail- road company were discussed formulated and a practical basis of settlement’ almost concluded. The Cathcarts will yield a portion of their claims and the ‘townsite people will also yield considerable and in the end it is very probable that both forces will unite in the case against the railroad which claims forty acres of the disputed land urder an’old land grant from the govern- ment for structural and depot purposes. Work Progressing Nicely. A. C. Mclean is down from the tie camps of McLean & Mackey’today. -s Mr. McLean re- ports that three of his tie ‘camps were broken up the first of the week and 150 men paid off. Two camps are still inand the con- tract will be finished handily. The biggest day’s hauling of the winter was done Tuesday and the boys were hauling at 4 o’clock this morning when Mr. McLean left camp and were not complain- ing of the snow storm although if it goes off rapidly it- will de- stroy the last vestige of the roads. Shooting Was Accidental. Dr. Henderson returned last night from Baudette where he went in his capacity as county coroner toinvestigate the shoot- ing of Manly Thomas, an eleven year old boy who was killed while hunting. two weeks ago today. The doctor’s visit to Baudette was for the purpose of holding an inquest which was demanded by the father of the boy. <A coroner’s jury was empaneled and all the evidence in the case was gone over. The jury’s verdict was that the boy had come to his death through the accidental dis- charge of a rifle in his own hands. The lad’s father is not satisfied with the result of the inquest and bases his claim to foul play on the ground that the forehead where the bullet took effect was not powder marked. *Dad” To Have Charge. *Dad”’ Palmer, who for some time past has been employed on the News, leaves tonight for Kel- the Kelliher Journal for Martin & Christenson. “Dad” isa well known character throughout the north country, has.grown gray in the business, is one of the ablest all around newspaper men paper at Kelliher that will be a credit to the town. ' DRAY and BAGGAGE SAFE and PIANO MOVING A SPECIALTY BEMIDJI, MINN. i TOP COAT All'clothes made” by the Stein- Bloch people are signed with this | label : €22°67. liher to take permanent charge of « in this section and will publish a Now is = The Time to be Stylish YOU WANT A One of those catchy Coverts that bristle with- style and get-up as far as they can be seen—The Stein-Bloch Smart Kind. . We should be glad to have you drop in on your way home today and try one on, just to see how it feels to be fitted in a minute and sent home. stylish all over. Ghe Clothiers fppais ks WioleoaleJlaitlny % | REISTERED 1803 [ AN .