Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 24, 1906, Page 4

! i WITNESSES PUT |WIDOW IS GIVEN UNDER ARREST Unexpected Developments at Close of Trial of C. H. Miles for Gambling. DEFENDANT PAYS FINE, SWEARS OUT WARRANTS Their Cases Were Up for Trial in Justice Court This Afternoon. Latest developments in the movement to stamp out gambling in Bemidji are the arrest, con- viction and fining of C. H. Miles for running a roulette wheel in his saloon, and the arrest of Matt Mayer and Frank Silver- sack, two of the witnesses against him, for gambling on the wheel. The arrest of the two witnesses followed close after the trial, and Mr. Miles swore out the complaints. The two men were given a hearing this morning be- fore Judge Pendergast and pleaded not guilty, their cases being set for this afternoon. In the absence of City Attorney Russell, County Attorney Mec- Donald represented the city. The trial of Mr. Miles yesier- day afternoon came up before Judge Pendergast at 5 o’clock. Contrary to expectations, he pleaded not guilty and the city placed on the stand as witnesses Frank Silversack, Matt Mayer and .J, P, Duncalf. All three meu testified that they were in the basement of the saloon early Tuesday morning and the first two admitted gambl- ing on the wheel. Their testi- mony was brief and to the point, City Attorney Russell merely brought out the point that the men were in the room and saw gambling going on, but H. J. Loud on the cross-examination forced them to confess that they themselves had placed money on the cloth. Judge Pendergast found the defendant guilty and imposed a fine of $25, which was promptly paid, As soon as court adjourned Miles asked for warrants for Mayer and Silversack and Judge Pendergast mwade them out shortly afterward. RECEPTION FOR THE TEACHERS Epworth League Entertains at Home of Rev. Peart.—Inter- esting Program. The Epworth League of the Methodist church gave a recep- tion to the teachers of the public schools last evening at the home of Rev. I. Peart. About thirty. five enjoyed the evening. The first number on the pro- gram was a solo by Miss Mabel McTaggart accompanied by Miss Clements. It was highly appre- ciated. The next number was a well-executed recitation by Miss Mary Simmons. The last num- ber was a piano solo by Miss Hya Getchell, which called forth con- siderable applause. At the close of the exercises Mrs. Peart thanked those who took part in an appropriate little speech. Refreshments were served throughout the evening by Mrs. A. M. Bagley and Mrs, A. Larson, assisted by Eva Get chell and 1vez Woodworth. New Haven, Conn., and Return $26.00. Account the Convention of the “Knights of Columbus,” the Du- luth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry., will have tickets on sale June 1s to 4th to New Haven, Conn., and return at rate of $26.00. Tickets can be extended for re- turn passage until June 30th, 1906. Several very desirable routes offered. For full particulars and sleep- ing car accommodation, apply to, A, J. Perrin, General Agent, 430 W. Superior St., Duluth Minn, When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.—Pope. LARGE VERDICT Brainerd Woman Gets $2,061 — Husband Dies From an Assault. One of the important cases tried at the recent term of court at Brainerd was the case of Mrs. Merrill vs. the John Coates Liquor company, which was tried Monday and went to the jury the same afternoon. The case arises from an assault made by a bartender in the em- ploy of the defendant, and at the defendant’s place of business at Brainerd on Noyember 15, last year, upon the person of Truman D. Merrill and which resulted in the death of Mr, Merrill. Mrs. Merrill brought suit for damages and Monday evening the jury returned a verdict of $2,061.60 in her favor. A stay of proceedings for thirty days was granted to give the defendant time to prepare the necessary papers to make application for a new trial. AUNTS IN FIGHT OVER A CHILD Mrs. Smith of Kelliher Victor Over Mrs. Begiman of Houpt —Mother Dead Finkley Bugle: Funkley had quite an excitement Friday. Charles Begiman of Houpt tried to gain possession of a little two- year-old girl which was with Mrs. George Smith. Mrs, Begiman and Mrs. Smith are the child’s aunts. Thechild’s mother died when the little girl was only a few weeks old. Mrs. Begiman has been taking care of it ever since until two months ago, when Mrs., Smith took it home with her to Kelliher for a visit, but she did not bring it back home. Begiman’s have become so attached to it they will not give it up and Friday Mr. Begiman tried to take the child away from Mrs. Smith by force, but Mrs. Smith carried it away in triumph to Kelliher. Begiman says he will go to law and have Mrs. Smith arrested for kidnapping the child, American Academy of Medicine June 2-4, 1906. National Association of U. S. Pension Examining Surgeons June 4-5, 1906. American Medical Association June 5-8, 1906. First Church of Christ Scien- tist June 10-17, 1906. Boston, Mass. Account the above meetings at Boston, Mass., - the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry., will have tickets on sale, May 30 to June 9 to Boston and return at rate of $26.00. Tickets can be extended for return passage until July 15, 1906. Combination rail and lake routes available with these ex- cursions, For full particulars and sleep- ing car accommodation, apply to, A.J. Perrin, General Agent, 430 Spaulding Hotel Block, Du- luth, Minn. Mrs. William Machinsky, who has ‘been visiting in this city with Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Munhall, left this morning for Deer River, where she will visit her father. ‘Weddings In Wales. Many and curious were the old cus- toms in Wales relating to marriage. The following is an account of the bid- ding ceremony, an old custom which is 8ald to be celebrated even to this day in rural parts of Wales: The bldder goes from house to house with a long pole and ribbons flying at the end of it, and standing in the middle floor in each house he repeats a long lesson with great formality. He mentions the day of the wedding, the place, the prepara- tions made, ete. The following is a specimen: “The intention of the bidder 1s this: With kindness and amity, with decency and liberality for — and —, he invites you to come with your good will on the plate. Bring current mon- ey—a shilling or two or three or four or five—with cheese and butter. We Invite the husband and wife, children and menservants, from the greatest to the least. Come there early. You shall have victuals freely and drink cheap, stools to sit on and fish if we can catch them, but if not hold us ex- MINNESOTA BEST OF ALL, HE SAYS Traveler From West Says Wash- ington and Oregon Are Be- hind This State. J. A, McMillan and wife, who have been yisiting W. A. Mec- Donald for the past several days, left today for Duluth. Mr. Me- Millan is a lumberman and capit- alist and has spent the last five months traveling in Washington, Oregon and other western states. “Minnesota has them all beat,”” declares Mr. McMillan. *“I have heard ‘a great deal of tallk about the prospects and prosperity of the coast, but give me Minnesota.” Tent Burns. A mysterious fire occurred this morning on the Donnely place, Mississippi avenue, be- tween Fifth and Sixth streets. The tent outon the lawn in which Miss Georgia Donnely sleeps, caught fire in some unknown manner and burned with the bed, and other furnishings which it contained. Close at 7:30. The employers of the different barber shops have got together and decided to close their shops at 7:30 p. m. hereafter. 01d Time Acting. The old time actor bad pecullar and primitive views as to elocution and its uses. I remember a certain old friend of mine who, when he recited the open- ing speech in “Richard 11L” and arrived at the line, “In the deep bosom of the ocean buritd,” suggested the deep bos- om of the ocean by sending his volce into his Dboots. Yet these were fine actors, to whom certain young gentle- men who never saw them constantly refer. The methods of the stage have completely changed and with them the tastes of the péople. The probability is that some of the old actors of only a few years ago would excite much riment in their delineation of trag- . A very great fragedian of a pas generation was wont in the tent scene In “Richurd ITL” to hold a piece of soap in his mouth, so that, after the ap- pearance of the ghosts, the lather and froth might dribble down his chin, and he employed moreover a trick sword which rattled hideously, and, what with his foam flecked face, his rolling eyes, his inarticulate groans and his rattling blade, the small boy in the gallery was scared into a frenzy of vociferous delight!—Richard Mansfield in Atlantie, Proficient. When western Iowa was newly set- tled the farmers in an isolated section banded themselves together as a school district and proceeded to choose one of their number committeeman. A log schoolhouse was erected, and soon a young woman came that way seeking a chance to teach The committeeman was designated to ascertain her fitness. When the time for the ordeal arrived the public official was at his wit’s end He had been examined himself often enough, but that was when he was at- tending district school fifty years be- fore. The very thought of conducting an examination himself, and for a teacher at that, staggered him. He could not think of a question to ask. The young woman sat walting, and the old man teetered nervously on his tiptoes. “Well, now, Miss Burden,” he said cautiously at last, “kin you say the alphabet back’ards?” Miss Burden could, and did. “Fine!” cried the committeeman. “I'll Just indorse your -certificate” He wrote it thus: cusable, and they will attend on you when you call upon them in return. They set out from such a place and <uch a place.” “Fully profeeshunt.” A Great Stamp Forgery. The most colossal stamp forgery on record entailed the successful swin- dling of collectors -throughout Europe in 1889, Ome day the French papers announced that King Marie I. of Se- dang, an island in the vicinity of Chi- na, was coming to Par] As it hap- pened, this self created monarch was an ex-officer of the French navy, and his appearance in Putis created con- slderable sensation. As soon as his majesty had been duly “advertised” sets of seven different postage stamps marked “Sedang” and bearing three half moons appeared, and so great was. the deiand for them that in less than a month they realized 1,000 francs each. Not until the king and his min- isters had reaped fat fortunes In this manner was it discovered that the whole thing was a hoax and the stamps consequently worthless. Some Slips of the Tongue. Never use .the word “liable” when you mean “likely.” Do not say, for instance, that “he is liable to come in at any moment.” “Liable” implies inis- fortune and means “exposed to,” “sub- Ject to,” “in danger of.” Why do most of us speak of “un- raveling a mystery?’ Any good dic- tionary shows that “ravel” means “to unweave.” , You “ravel” a mystery, therefore, when you solve it. In “Ham- let” Shakespeare says: “Make you to ravel all this matter out.” If you and your friend Smith know a man called Jones, do not speak to Smith of “our mutual friend”—mean- ng Jones. Jones is your common friend. If you are friendly to Smith and Smith is friendly to you, you and Smith are “mutual friends,” but that is the only sense in which the term may be rightly used. Skin Deep. The first known, if not the original use of the phrase, “Beauty is only skin deep,” occurs in Ralph Venning’s “Or- thodoxe Parodoxes.” “All the beauty of the world is but skin deep; a sunne blast defaceth it.”. =2 ;s Timid Nancy : [Original.] ‘When I was appointed paymaster at the mills T was given a little shanty In the yard for an office. I wanted a safe, but they wouldn’t give me one. The money was handed me in en- velopes to pay out at once, I made a closet in the shanty with a lock and bolts so that if T must leave the money there for a short time I could lock it up. In lieu of a clerk I had a slip of a girl. Nancy O’Neil when she came | to me was only fifteen, but she was bright, and I soon worked her in to re- lleving me in my accounts. She was a delicate, pale faced little thing, and I never felt it safe to leave her alone in the office with any cash there. One day I went in to find Nancy on a chair looking frightened half out of her senses. It was the old story of ‘woman’s timidity, and there was a mouse in the room. “Nancy,” I said, “this won’t do. T am obliged, as you know, to ke small sums of money in my desk, and we've got men at work we don’t know much about. Suppose some rascal should come in here and help himself? I'm afraid I'll have to demand a man | assistant.” I was fully niinded to do what I sald, but Nancy begged so hard that I promised to do nothing in the matter for awhile longer, though I was de- termined to bring the matter up at the beginning of the year, when all such changes were usually made. One Saturday soon after this I re ceived the pay envelopes for the week and took them to the office. T was about starting out with them when 1 received an order to go at once to the president’s office. Meanwhile one of | the principal directors had come in to talk over some important matter with him, and when I arrived I was told to wait. I had left the pay envelopes in a big drawer in my desk. I would been checking them off with Naney, ! and they were scattered over the desk, | and, not daring to keep the president waiting, I opened the drawer, scraped them into it, locked it and told Nancy I would be back in a few minutes. ‘While I was waiting I thought about the money in the desk, but nothing had ever happened, and I didn’'t worry much. At last the president summoned me into his private office and told me that they had taken up the matter of ex- penses for theecoming year, and, as the profits were dissatisfying to the stock- bolders, he had decided to retrench. number of the less important employ- ees were to be dropped, and I must get along without Nancy., This let me out of the responsibility of sending her away, so I said nothing and hurried back to my ofiice, my mind occupied with how I should break the news to her. When I entored Naney was looking out of the window watching for me. I determined to get the unpleasant duty tell her that her services would be no longer needed. She tried to stop me, but I raised my voice above heérs and finished what I had to say. To my sur- prise she didn’t seem to pay any at- tention to the matter, waiting till I had told my story; then, coming near, she ‘whispered: “There's a man in the closet.” “A man!” “Yes. He must haye seen the cash- ler’s clerk come in with the envelopes, for no sooner had you gone than he came in and told me that if I didn’t give them to him he’d kill me. I had to make np my mind pretty quick what I would do, for, you see, I'm only a girl, and he looked so fierce and held a knife at-my throat’— “Well?” 1 interrupted impatiently. “I knew that i T didn’t do something right off”— “Cut it short!” I cried fiercely. *Is the money gone?”’ “I told him that if he’d look in the closet—I didn’t want to tell a real lie, and I didn't need to, for I'd only got that far when he ran into fhe closet, and I shut the door on him and locked and bolted it.” The first thing I did was to take a glance at the envelopes; the second was to pick Nancy up and give her such a hug that she cried out; then 1 dropped her and gave an alarm. Sev- president that the men’s week’s pay was- in jeopardy and to come at once. In two minutes he was there. Then, with a revolver in one hand, I opened the closet door with the other, and a man came slinking out. He was one we had taken on a few weeks before and had come on purpose to rob. “That little girl,” T said, pointing, “has saved the company $16,000.” “How-did you do it?” asked the pres- ident. Naney told her story, evidently quite surprised that she had done afiything remarkable. When she had finished the president turned away, saying: “Ieep him for the police. Come and see me tomorrow morning, Nancy.” When Naney called the president of- fered her a good salary, but I had fore- stalled him by giving her another if not a better job. She was to run my home have put them in the closet, but I had |,g my wife. However, not to be out- done, he turned to his desk and wrote her a check for $1,600 for a wedding present. I now have a fighting man with me : In the office. WILLIAM G. STEARNS. eral persons came running in, and I told one of them to go and tell the | KIDNEY TROUBLE Cured by Cooper’s New Discovery Which Restores These Important Organs of the Body to Their Normal Condition. 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