Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 12, 1906, Page 4

LAYS BLAME ON PARENTS County Attorney McDonald Says He Will Prosecute Them. g FEROn — HOLDS BAD BOYS NOT ALONE TO BLAME. Mrs. Gilman Is Charged With Having Received Stolen .7 Property. [ R R T L S — #In nine cases out of ten when the boys go wrong, 1t is the par- ents who are to blame, In every case where it is possible T am go- ing to prosecute the parents] themselves, and [ believe this will have a whelesome effect in stamping out petit larceny and disorderly conduct among tlhe youngsters of this city.” This declaration is made by County Atterney E.E. McDon- ald and is an outgrowth of the discovery that the robbery of the M. G. Slocum store was com- mitted by a gang of small boys. Fresh interest was added to the case today by the bringing into Judge Skinvik’s justice court of Lawrence (iilman, the apparent leader of the crowd, and of Mrs. Amanda Gilman, mother of the boy, in whose house the stolen property, a typewriter, three flutes, etc., was found. Mrs. Gilman is charged with receiving stolen property and admitted having the musical in- struments in her house, although she denied any criminal intent. Her case was continueds: for further hearing to Wednesdhy. Young Gilman admitted having helped to steal and hide the prop- erty and his case was continued to Tuesday. “The trouble with so many of our boys,” said Mr. McDonald, continuing his discussion, “is that they have not the proper guardianship, Many of them are not bad boys at heart. But they are allowed to run the stroots and associatc with other boys who are bad, and instead of exercising a restraining influence over their children, as parents should, the fathers and mothers are negligent, or actually connive at wrong doing. “When an example is made of some of these negligent parents, I believe the others will awaken to their duties.” | The Churches I BAPTIST—There will be no services tomorrow on account of the union services at the city hall. Sunday school will be held at the usual hour, 12 m. SALVATION ARMY—Sunday meetings at the Salvation Army hall on Fourth street as follows: 11 a. m. holiness meeting, 3 p. m. praise meet- ing, 8 p. m, salvation meeting. All are cordially invited. Meet- SEEKS LARCENY EVIDENCE HERE Polk County Sheriff Is Work- ing on the Dempsey - Case. Sheriff Gonyea of Crookston isin Bemidji today looking up the evidence that he may be able te find here, connected with -the Dempsey case, according to the Crookston papers. It is thought that there will be some material developments during his stay. Louis Gonyea, Jr., of the sher- iff’s department also has gone to Thief River Falls where he will look up evidence that it is thought will materialize at that place. The preliminary hearing at East Grand Forks of Joe Demp- sey, accused of stealing a dia- moud ring and $29 from Julia St. Germaine has been continued to today at 10 a. m. The statement was made" here yesterday by a man who claimed that he came down from Bemidji on the same train with the St. Germaine woman, that enroute to Crookston she discovered that she was shy of her diamond ring, and after searching through her pocketbook declared that she must have lost it somewhere. If the statement is true it will operate very much in favor of Dempsey. The same party claims that the plaintiff in the case was in Crook- ston last Friday night in cow- pany with a woman by the name of Smallwood, who, he says, also hails from Bemidji e CEECEFEEEEREERECEEEREL, ¥ CORRESPONDENCE 2 §3935333§§3!§9§ié 333 Silii;# PUPOSKY. By Chicf Puposky. The hoisting of logs on lake Julia and Mud lake will com- mence soon. Pete Hoeffner, brother of Matt Hoeftner is down from Langor, Minn , visiting for a few days. Carl Borsvald, proprietor of { Peerless saloon, made a business trip to Bemidji the first of the week. D. J. Neeley, who left for Wis- consin abouta month ago, is back to Puposky shaking hands with old friends. Hans Thorkelson and his force of men are putting the finishing touches cn the heists at Mud lake and lake Julia. M. W. Knox of Nebish was a Puposky caller this week. Mr. Knox will finish his cedar con- tract on Neeley’s sidiug in about ten days. A couple of men from Towa have been here for a few days looking over the country with a view of establishing some kind of manufacturing plant. Nels Narum, the Buena Vista merchant, was a business caller here one day last week. Mr, Narum is closing out his business and will leave for Canada in the near future. The construction work on the streets of Puposky is now in full blast. Alfred Truman the section foreman of M., R. L. & M. Ry. ings every night during the weelk at 8 p. m. has charge of the work and Pu- posky will have a fine gravelled street in a short ti Flour! Good dairy butter, strictly fi jars or pound and We handle a nice line of receive daily shipments. Strictly fresh Eggs a specialty at our store. Remember for good goods tr: 314 Minnesota Avenue. Lf you want good flour letus send you a sack of our “Pilsbury’s Best” “ADA” or “OSAKIS” best. Butter! SCHROEDER & SCHWANDT, Flour! rst-class, in five or ten pound half pound prints. fruits, always fresh, as we ade at the old Reliable Store. CHANCE TO AID CITY LIBRARY E. H. Winter & Co. Gives Percentage on Cash Sales May 19. Bemidji has one of the best public libraries in the state and the association has recently added a number of the best and latest books published, making it as up to date as any library in any Minnesota city the size of Bemidji. Miss Baldwin, secretary of the state circulating library associa- tion, recently inspected the library here and was much pleased with the progress made by the association, expressing her approval of the methods em- ployed by the local association— and all this done without a cent of taxation. The library is maintained by local subscription and entertain- ments. 1t is open to the public every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon and for this the association pays its librarian $10 a month and its janitor $2.50. All these expenses, as well as the cost of new books, must be paid. To help meet this the large de- partment store of E. H. Winter & Co. on Saturday next is going to allow the asscciation a per- centage on all the cash sales for that day. If you want to help the association give the library a 1lift remember to buy at this store next Saturday, May. 19. QUICKSAND IN WATER SUPPLY The Thief River Falls City Well Is Causing Trouble. Thief River [alls, May 12.— Ior the past week the work of pumping water from the city well, the flow being discovered by the discharge of some twenty pounds of dynamite about 400 feet down, has been continued and it proves beyond a doubt that there is a sufficient supply of water to more than supply the city, The water is, however, very dirty, the flow being discovered in a bed of quicksand, and there is considerable doubt as to whether or not it can be ever made clean. Work of pumping will be con- ‘tinued for some time longer, in the hopes that the water will be. come clear, bui, as this work is costing the city $1.50 per hour, it is nov known how long the aldermen will be willing to con- tinue the worlk, Union Church Rally Tomorrow. There will be union services in the city hall tomorrow as follows: Preaching in the morning at 10:30 by Evangelist Hamilton, subject, “Home and its Happiness.” A large chorus choir will be led by the Rev. A. L. Hall-Quest, both morning and eévening. Evening service at 8 o’clock in city hall. Service will open with a thirty minute praise service followed by anaddress by Rev. Mr. Hamilton, subject, “Heaven and the Way There.” These will be popular services and the entire public is cordially invited to be present. Sunday school in respective churches at 12 m. Services Well Attended. The services held in the Metho- dist church in the afternoons, and in the Presbyterian church in the evenings have been well attended. _There has been an increasing earnestness and interest in all the servicss, last night’s meeting being the best in attendance and interest of this week. Mr. Hamilton is preaching the plain gespel, in a plain manner. He is a forcible speaker and a very pleasing one to listen to. The Rev. Mr. Hall-Quest has given an impetus to the services in the able way that he has con- ducted the chorus choir the past week. The music is a special feature of these services, and will be in the Sabbath services. Mr. Hall Quest is an able pipe organ artist, and each evening of next week will render a selection on tbe organ during the evening sarvice. i Services next weekas follows: Tuesdays, Wednesdays = and Thursday afternoons at Metho- dist church at 3 p. m. Each eve- ning in the Presbyterian -church Phone 65 Bemidji, Minn. at 8. - The choir is requested to meet at the church at 7:15. E. N. French Meets With Accident _While Running Launch on River. ‘While navigating up the Miss- issipp river yesterday, E. N. French met with an accident which put one of his eyes out of commission temporarily. A mysterious explosion is the cause. Mr. French cannot figure out from where the explosion came. He does not think it can have been the engine, because it kept right on working until it was shut down, and is now in work- ing order. —e A Man Who Didn’t Know How to Spell His Own Name [Original.] My grandfather was a private in {he Mexican war, and from him direct: I.was with that army which, under Scott, landed at Vera Cruz and march- ed to the City of Mexico, fighting one battle after another by the way. In the —th artillery was a sergeant named Kelly, who was one of the Dest disciplinarians among nouncommission- ed officers I ever knew. Any man un- der his command must “toe the mark™ or take the consequences. Kelly was an Irishman and had served in the British army. He was a natural sol- dier and, like most such, was not fitted for anything else. At Vera Cruz a man who said that his parents were or had been Ameri- cans, though he had been born and had always lived in Mexico, wanted to en- list in the United States army. Ie spoke English with a broken Spanish accent, but any one under the circum- stances would have done that. He was accepted, put in the battery with Kel- ly and fell under the sergeant’s orvders. The recruit gave his name as Galla- ger, which denoted Irish extraction, and Kelly looked for him to have at least heard something about the Em- erald Isle, but he was woefully igno- rant of it. For this reason, possibly, the sergeant wuas not prepossessed. in his favor and put on the screws of dis- cipline in his case to the fullest extent. Gallagher Dbore the sergeant’s severe rebukes at his errors at first with pa- (tience, but he looked as much like a Spaniard as an Irishinan, and he could not miss pugnacious blood in either race. At any rate the sergeant worried him into a state of frenzy. We cnlist- ed men thought we saw dislike for the recruit in Kelly and condemned him for taking advantage of his position to gratify his spite. Thére was one act that came under my-observation which was unfair, He had noticed that Gal- lagher was especially indisposed to do “police duty”—that is, he winced at going about picking up old papers, cigar stumps and such like, and the sergeant detailed him for this duty oftener than he should have done. Once when Gallagker had been de- tailed for the same ignoble work three days in succession he refused to serve. Hot words between him.and Kelly re- sulted, and the affair ended by the re- cruit knocking the sergeant down. I saw this quarrel, and I made up my mind that Gallagher had drawn Irish fight with his mother's milk and Span- ish fight with the atmosphere he had breathed from the day he was born. Bronzed as he was by the sun of trop- ics, he looked under the spirit of re- bellion more like a descendant of the Aztecs than the Irish and more like a Spanlard than either. Instead of giving vent to rage, as he was bound to do by the traditions of his race, Kelly picked limself up and quietly called for a corporal of the guard to take the mutinous recruit to the guardhouse. It occurred to me that he had been trying to prod the man in- to mutiny in order to have the pleasure of penning him up. As Gallagher was marched away I noticed a peculiar ex- pression on his face, an expression that denoted self condemnation. He was evidently much dissatisfied with him- self for letting the sergeant get the better of him, ‘We marched next day, and Gallagher walked, with other prisoners, under guard. We soon came upon the Mexi- cans, and our little army deployed for a fight. The ordinary routine of army life vanishes with the sound of firing, and Gallagher was in It with the rest of us. I remember seeing one of the Junior lieutenants telling him to “go In” and he would help him by testify- ing to the fact on.his trial for mutiny. But that was the last I saw of the mu- tineer during the fight, and after it WAas over. no one saw him. He was among the missing. When I suggested that he had died the death of a soldier, Kelly’s wrath exploded. “Killed, the spalpeen! D'ye be think- in’ there was a bullet fired by the Mexicans that would 'a’ touched the dirty spy?” “What do you mean, sergeant?” “Oh, go 'long wid yez. D’ye think Of wouldn’t know any o’ the Gallaghers? The miserable Spaniard didn’'t even know how to spell his own Irish name.” We laughed at the sergeant’s preju- dice against the poor fellow, who must have been buried by those of another corps who didn’t know him, and thought no more about the matter. Our work *had now commenced in earnest, and we had no time for any- thing but fighting till we had captured the City of Mexico. Our battery was a good deal cut up by the concentrated I got this story lire of several Mexican batteries on the heights. of Chapultepec. Kelly vowed that the Aztec, as he had called Gallagher, had come back from purga- tory and entered the bodv of the aficar T S S | i AFFAI RS IN BAD _SHAPE' CHARLES L. SPIER FOUND TO BE SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS AT LEAST $180,000. New York, May 12—Investigations which followed the mysterious death of Charles L. Spier, confidential agent of H. H. Rogers, who died from a bul- let wound at his Staten Island home several days ago, disclose the fact that his financial affairs were more in- volved than was at first believed. Ex- pert accountants who had been re- tained by Mr. Rogers to examine Spier’s hooks have discovered that Spier had been speculating in the stock market for many months and it was announced that securities owned by Mr. Rogers had been deposited by the confidential agent with certain bro- kers as collateral in connecticn with some of Spier’s deals, One lot of securities, valued at $180.000, which had been deposit2d with the brokerage firm of Keech, Loew & Co., figured most prominently in the day's dis- closures. These securities, a member of (he firm said, were retwrned to Spier upon his promise to replace them. The promise was not kept. It has been developed by the present in- vestigation that Spier had Dbeen pressed by Mr. Rogers for the securi- ties and that when he got them from the brokerage house and made return to Mr. Rogers the latter entrusted him with §840,000 worth of bonds in a new company. The investigation of Spier's zccounts has not been completed and it is not yet knewn whether his shortage will exceed the $180,000 alveady fennd. THE AMERICAN FEELING. Loyalty to the Principles of Self Government. Every American should realize that the principle of self government is a higher principle than that of- loyaity to the best sovereign, for it is fidelity to the highest good of all and to virtue, intelligence and God. Ie who shares In the government gains in moral dig- nity. His manbood is developed by re- sponsibility. He loves and will main- tain a government in which his own will and intelligent choice are involved. He will feel that upon his single arm, his single voice, his single life, Langs the preservation of the government and the national freedom. Alis ip the American feeling. 1t burus in avery true American breast, -2 England is the only truly free coun- try of the old workl, and the English- man is a free man: but our glory is that bumanity itself, one and indivisi- ble, may rise to a higher plane with us than in and. In England the son treads precisely in the footsteps: of his fathers, and it is bard for a2 man to rise above the dead level of the S8 of society in which be was born, Th is an oppressive weight resting on the spivit of the lower and as I as the absolute caste system to such an unnatural and ir oxtent the government will feel no sere desire to educate the peaple their present condition. Ie undeniable ground of superior us not east it ay by allowing the really vulgar idea of material luxury to overcome and overwhelm the er and nobler good,—James M. nin iy €010 Eneland” commanding the battery that had done us the most damage. When the fight was over Kelly went up the heights, and later we saw him coming back, with a body slung over his shoulder. When he reached the battery he threw a dead Mexican officer on the ground and exclaimed: “Olf knew Or'd git ’im some time. It's the spalpeen that was spyin’ on us under pretense o' bein’' a Gallagher. Ol knew he was a spy, but Oi couldn’t prove it.” There, true enough, was the body of the man who had called himself Gal- lagher in the uniform of a major of ar- tillery in the Mexican army. E. T. WARREN. TOMB OF A GREAT PERSIAN POET. The picture is from a recent photograph taken by a member of the British legation in Persia. It is the tomb of the famous astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam, whose writings have been made known to lish readers through the translations of Edward Fitzgerald. 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