Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 23, 1906, Page 1

The Bemidji {: A \ A \ VOLUME 4. NUMBER S1. UNDER STATE CONTROL|SETTLE CASE WITHOUT TRIAL| W OM SECRETARY WILSON URGES CRu.| FRIENDS OF STANFORD WHITE SADE AGAINST PACKERS DO- ING LOCAL BUSINESS. BEMIDJ1, MINNESO' AN POSES AS REMIDJI WIDOW AND COLLECTS $2,000 IN LIFE INSURANCE Mail of Mrs. Jennie Anderson, Widow of Andrew E: Anderson, Falls Into Hands of Wrong Mrs: Ander- son, Who Gets Money—Sheriff on 'l'rall—flrst Fraud of Kind In History of Minnesota A. 0. U. W.—$1,400 Draft Is Recovered By the Merest Chance. ASSISTING MOTHER OF HARRY THAW. New York, July 23.—Following the report that Harry K. Thaw had been reported insane by alienists employed i to make preliminary examinations hy NEW FEDERAL LAW APPLIES To W- M. K. Olcott it is asserted that, { although without direct co-operation, | friends of Stanford White are on the side of the mother of the prisoner in an effort to settle the case without the necessity of a trial. Still far apart are the divergent in- g Thaw, his wife and Mr. Hartridge, his personal coun- sel, are ail for a trial where eithei i Justification on the plea of the “un- misapprehension regarding its scope. | written law” or “emotional insanity” It does not, he said, apply to any but | is to be the defense. The district at- torney belleves the ends of justice best be served by a trial. Mrs. William Thaw and the firm of & Bonynge, she still retains, although their engagement is not recognized by her son, are against a trial. has set to herself the task of bringing and wholesome they should ! her son to her way of thinking in the enter upon a crusade for a general | matter of retaining the Olcott firm and I am powerless, myself, | accepting the advice regarding the Quite recently 1 went through ; blea of insanity. some of these houses not embraced within the federal law and found them FOUND SOME IN FILTHY BGNDITION| One of the boldest insurance swindles ever worked inthe state was perpetrated in this . city re- cently, when a woman going by the name of Mrs. Jennie Ander- son, by passing herself off as| Mrs. Jennie Anderson, wife of Andrew E. Anderson, deceased, gained possession of $2,000 in- surance money due the widow from the Ancient Order of United CONCERNS ENGAGED IN IN- TERSTATE COMMERCE. terests in the @ 23.—Discussing | spection law Secretary Wil- | wn said that there was considerable slaughtering and meat pa doing an interstate busing “If the people of this country,” said the secretary, “want that the meat Through the merest chance, a fortunate mistake that will hap- pven once in many years, a part of this sum, a draft for $1,400, to be assured goes into their homes from those establishments do- ing a purely state and local business | woman and $600 in cash is still in parts unknown. for her arrest, charging grand been 1ssued by County Attorney McDonald, and the sheriff is now hot on her trail. W. B. Anderson of Miunnea- polis, attorney for theorder, has been in Bemidji for two days searching out evidence, and he declares himself pressed with the features of the case twenty-eight years that the A. O, U. W. has been doing business in! Minnesota, says Mr. Anderson, this is the first case on record where a fraud of this character has been successfully carried [ through. Mr, Anderson left the city this morning fully convinced ! A warrant Should other re- sources fail it is said that the mother would apply to the courts for an ap- ntment as her son’s legal guardian ion the ground that he was mentally unable to take care of himself. not reach them, but 1 earn-; Would thus become a committee of his ‘person and estate and have the right to take any steps she might deem to his advimtage. larceny, has ng diseased animals. It is my one regret that the federal estly hope the state and city officials will look after them as rigorously as we propose to laok Mrs, Justiooking » said Dr. Johnson to a friend, remarkable band embroidered w (who has waited on her before)—I'm very sorry to dlsappoint you, madam, but we have.—Chicago News. remarried, though his wedded life had been unhappy, “it is triumph of kope | over experience.” Bargains in Pants In order to close out the against loss, although he expect- ed a law suit with the bank cash- balance of our stock of ing the draft. Men’s pants we will make 3. a great reduction in our Look at our win- ScLCh o city May 2. =53 dows and you will be con- Daily Pioneer TA, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1906, o _MINNESOTA HISTORICAL | SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK and June 12.a warrant for the|paper, also, and mailed it in as full amount of the insurance was requested. Inashort time the draft was sent to Mr. Scrutchin, as Mrs. Anderson’s attorney. sent to L. W. Vasaly, recorder of the Little Falls lodge. Had Mr. Vasaly sent the war- rant to the recorder of the Be- midji lodge for delivery to the widow, as is customary, all the trouble would have been averted. But he preterred to deal directly excharged for money. Anderson signed vhe draft with her mark and C. W. Scrutchin and R. H, Schumaker, cashier of with the beneficiary Limself. May 28 Mrs. ‘Anderson, the rightfal widow, wrote Mr, Vasaly sayingthat she wasin im- | the bank, signed as witnesses to poverished circnmstances nnd]the mark. jif possible, and the recorder answered that shecould have the warrant when she had produced the certificate, which had been {issued to her husband when he { took out the insurance. It was this letter that was de- Anderson. Scrutchin consented toact as her explaining that she had lost her certificate. : knowledgment. sworn to. at the First National bank of this city and the attorney and the fraudulent Mrs. Anderson went to the institution to get the draft ;urging that he hurry the money | cash and the balance, $1,400, in the shape of a draft. Anderson immediately left town and no more was heard of her. until she presented the draft to a bank in Escanaba, Michigan, for payment. livered to the wrong Mrs. Jennie|covered that in writing the draft Presumably seeing|the numerals had been made to a chance to make an easy $2,000.|read $1,400 and the written she took the letter toanattorney, | figures fourteen dollars. As the C. W. Scrutchin of this city, and | written figures always govern on told him that she had the m-ney |a check or draft, the Escanaba coming but that she had lost her | bank sent the raper to the First icertificate. Having no reason to| National of this city for rectifi- doubt the woman’s honesty, Mr.!cation lattorney, and wrote a letter Tor|ceived yesterday and the bank is her to the Little Falls recorder,|holding onto in. 5 which shall stand the $600 “loss, The answer came back that the | the bank or the order. The or- that he could protect the order!woman must make an affidavit to|der claims that the bank did not that effect, and Mr, Scrutchin, |exercise due diligenceidentifying as a notary public, took her ac-|Mrs. Anderson as the rightful The _affidavit | beneficiary. Andrew E. Anderson of Be-|did not satisfy the head officers widji was a member of Little Falls lodge No. 104, and was in- sured for $2,000.- Hedied in this Proofs of death of the-order and a printed afii-|terday, said his order was willing davit was sent to be filled in -and | to stand the expense of & suit. to v “| Gnd just how law on such cases Mr. Serutchin-acted as notary | would be._ interpretad by the were executed and filed May 10, | public in making out this second | courts. TERMS OF TREATY OF PEAGE' TOPROTECT AMERICANS PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT BE- TWEEN GUATEMALA, SALVA- DOR AND HONDURAS, UNITED ' STATES MAY BE COM- PELLED TO SEND TROOPS INTO MEXICO, ‘Washington, July 23.—American Ministers Merry and Combs have ad- vised the state depdrtment that Hon- duras, Guatemala and Salvador had signed the following articles of peace: Article 1—Peace established; with- drawal of armies within three days; disarmament in eight days. Article 2—Exchange of prisoners; the release of political prisoners; gen- eral amnesty recommended. Article 3—Vigilance of emigrados in order to prevent abuse of asylum. Article 4—To negotiate treaty ot friendship, commerce and navigation within two months. Article 5—Any difficulties over treaty and all future concrete com- plaints between the three countries shall be submitted. to arbitration by the president of the United States and the president of Mexico. Article 6—This treaty made with the moral sanction of the mediating na- tions and others assisting at the con- ference, namely, Costa Rica and Nic- aragua. REFUBEES ARRIVE AT NEW ORLEANS DECLARE ANTI-FOREIGN MOVE- MENT IS ASSUMING BIG PROPORTIONS. The draft was made payable i New Orleans, July 23.—“It will prob- ably. be necessary for the United States to throw an army acrose the Mexican border in order to protect American citizens. The anti-foreign sentiment has grown to such an ex- _tent that I do not believe the Mexican government can cope with it success- tully.” The above statement was made by £. J. Mathes, one of a party of fifty- two men, women and children who left: Mexico because of anti-foreign threats and passed through New Orleans en route to Cincinnati. Mr. Mathes added: Guatemalan Troops Said to Have| “One of the most alarming features 3 Killed All Prigoners. of the situation is the fact that the San Salvador, July 23.—The Salva.| Mexican seryants have joined -In the dorean newspapers indignantly accuse| 80tiforeign movement and the wives the Guatemalan troops of having| Of the foreigners.are in mortal terror killed the Salvadorean prisoners ag|©f their families being poisoned. soon as they were captured. They T was reluctant to leave the coun- say that General Cristales, when the| !f¥> but I simply could not resist the armistice was signed, returned to the | Pleadings of the members of my fam- Guatemalan army all the imprisoned| Iy: I am now taking them to our officers and soldiers of Guatemala, but | former home in Ohlo. the papers assert the Guatemalans| , “The antiforelgn movement is were unable to take a corresponding | Stronsest in the northern and central step because all the prisoners they| Portions of Mexico, where the natives had captured had been shot, have been wrought up to high pitch The:newspapers of this republic call | °f excitement by agitators and agents the ‘attention of the civilized world to [ Of revolutionary socleties. The edu- this action on the part of Guatemala, | ¢ated class of Mexicans is not in sym- claiming that The Hague convention | Pthy With the antiforelgn movement, of 1839, referring to war on land, es:| Put is in a hopeless minority. The tablished that prisoners remain in the| 8'MY 15 recruited from the lower hands of the government of the en-| ¢lasses and cannot be relied upon. emy and not in the hands of individ- uals or of the troops capturing them TO. AID_STRIKING PRINTERE. and that they should always be treat- “ed humanely. / Guatemala and Salvador adhered to The Hague convention and to the reg- ulations of the Pan-American congress of 1902. Mrs. The bank then paid over $600 in Mrs, ACCUSED OF INHUMANITY. Then it was dis- This draft for' $1,400 was re- There is a lively dispute as to. Allied Trides of Chicago May Go Out in Sympathy. Chicago, July 23.—A complete tieup of the printing establishments of mem- Mr. Anderson while kere yes- bers of the Chicago Typothetae may the -Allied-Printing Trades couneik to #ssist the printers in their fight for an eight-hour day. The plans are be- ing kept secret, but a committee of one from each of the five interma- tional unions affiliated with the coun- .RENOUNCE WEDBED" " LIFE: Bolorado Pastor and Wife to Live as Brother and Sister. Colorado Springs, Colo., July 23.— Believing they have been violating the vinced that we mean what MILLER AGAIN SUSPENDED. Furnishings 15¢ collars. office on the recommendation of Act- 25¢ suspenders. ., ... .18¢ Men’s 50c ties Dry Goods Look at our 10¢ Embroid- ery counter. some nunheard of values. - At the time of his former suspension wnd dismissal Miller was called upon | Welshons, and Clifford Hooe, the ne- |gro coachman, will be called before | Alderman King Wednesday afternoon If the divorce case s still on ' vy the Bookbinders’ union to face cer- ain charges, the. outcome of which was his expulsion from the union. Shortly afterwards he - appealed to | at that time an adjournment may be] President Roosevelt with the result asked for. that on July 13, 1903, the president issued the order referred to and at the ! same time reinstated Miller. ILLEGAL FENCING. ‘Muslin Underwear Ladies’ Muslin ‘Underwear at cost Ladies’ Collars Some Good Values in Ladies’ Collars at 15¢ and 35¢ Montana Legislator Must Spend One Helena, Mont., July 23.—State Sen- Charles McDonnell of Sweet Grass county has been sentenced by Judge Wolverton in the United States court to spend twenty-four hours in the Lewis and Clark county jail here and to pay a fine of $250 for illegally fencing public lands in Sweet Grass county in connection with his sheep His partner, Edward Vea- zey, received a similar sentence and fine. Both were indicted by the recent grand jury and hoth pleaded guilty. New Belts and ‘Purses A Shipment of Ladies’ Belts. Them Over. The Deer’s Tracks. A deer if walking always places its feet firmly closed upon the ground, and consequently the track is sharply |less telegraphy ‘to Hammerfest, Nor- drawn—that s, the hoof Is not sprend | way, July 23.—Wireless communica- Excep- |tion has been opened from within 600 tions are sometimes the track of deer |miles of the pole, via Hammerfest. that are heavy with fawns, during | Everything is progressing favorably at spring and early summer, and those of Camp Wellman. old bucks during the rutting season. But even then the heels of thelr tracks. are conslderably closer than In tracks. made by a hog of a sheep. The hoofs | tion, hopes to start on his aerial yoy- of the latter two animals are always age toward the pole by the middle of rounder at.the tee than those of deer, making the tracks they leave easily dis: tingujshable, and if the difference s not discernible In frozen snow the’ 1 fact that the trail made by hogs or |of the St. EImo hotel were driven into | : sheep does not register should settle all | the street early in the day by a fire A deer if not | which for a time threatened to destroy wounded will always step with its |the hotel: ' Several of the guests were hind foot in the track made by the.|lovercome by smoke and slightly. front foot.—Keld and Stream. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Cheerfully Refunded. E. H. WINTER & (0. PHONE NO. 30 BEMIDJI, to any appreciable extent. RS | doubts for the tracker. MINN. ADJOURNMENT PROBABLE. Cause of “Open Shop"” Order Once | Early Decision in Hartje Divorce Case More il Trouble. ‘Washington, July 23.—Public Print- Not Likely. _Pittsburg, July 23.—A decision in'! er Stillings has suspended from office | the Hartje divorce case will probably Assistant Foreman W. A. Miller of the | not be handed down before autumn. ; bindery of the government printing | It is learned that when the plaintiff | closes his rebuttal, which is expected ' ing Foreman Ashion, the charges be- | to be Thursday next, some of the at-' ing insubordination and insolence. Mr. Stillings will make an investigition | adjournment before taking final action. Miller was the immediate cause of |-will be heard. the issuance by President Roosevelt of the order declaring the government printing office and all places where workmen are employed by the govern- ment to be “open shops.” ed from Miller's suspension from duty. | fused to verify it. by the then public printer in May, ¢ 1903, and his removal a few days aft- torneys in the case will ask for an until the September term of court, when the arguments A report is current that two new conspiracy charges in connection with recent developments in the case are to be entered at once, but Assistant District Attorney John S. Robb re- All he would say was that nothing would be done until The conspiracy charge against Au- i the close of the divorce trial. |gustus Hartje, his friend, John L. next. H, MURDERED FROM A sassinated. Moody, city attorney, was shot from He was a son of the late United States i Senator Moody of South Dakota, A homeseeker named Anderson was | also killed while endeavoring to appre- hend the slayers of Moody. Several thing” games, are suspected and an armed posse is in pursuit. Should the murderers be overtaken a lynching is likaly BY THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST. Walter . Wellman Hopes to Start on Aerial Trip to Pole. Danes [sland, SpitzbeTgen, by wire- The' balloon house is under construction, ‘Walter Wellman, leadeér of the Well- man Chicago Record-Herald expedl- August. . Guests Driven Into_Street. Chicago, July 23.—Thirty-two guests “hurned. The property loss was smal !CZAR WILL NOT MEET KAISER, ! Question of Dissolution of Parliament City Attorney »f Shoshone, Wyo., As- Shoshone, Wyo., July 23.—Warner ambush and killed about midnight. gamblers, recéntly forced to. leave here for operating “sure .Perial ukase ordering new elections. ' the reputed founder of the Russian | monarchy,® has been stripped of all ! TRUSTED VALET SUSPECTED. sensation was created here over ‘the cil has been appointed with full power to act. It is sald the stereotypers, photo engravers and bookbinders al- ready have received the sametion of their respective national officers; to. go on strike in aid of the printers on terms proposed by the latter. The printers have offered to pay the strike benefits of all workmen called out in' sympathy with them.. STEAMER COLLIDES WITH LOCK. teachings of the Holy Bible for the past five years the Rev. J. D. Christle, pastor of the New Mission church of this city, and his wife, both of whom were divorced before being married, publicly announced at a revival serv- ice attended by several hundred peo- ple that henceforth they would not Mve as man and wife. However, they will continue to live ander the same roof as brother and sister. The announcement was made after Rev. Charles W. Savage; pastor of the People’s church of Omaha, had delivered a sermon against the remar. riage of divorced persons, Former Cannot Leave Russian Capital at Present. Berlin, July 23.—The Associated Press has been semi-officially informed that Emperor Nicholas has sent a message to Emperor William inform- ing the latter that the internal situa- tion in Russia is such that he has de- termined to forego his intention to meet the German emperor beyond the frontier of Russia as previously agreed. The German government is almost anxiously watching the progress of events in Russia. Decisions were taken before Emperor William went on his Northern cruise to cover all eventualities, the most important of thiese being to follow a policy of non- interference in Russian affairs. No matter what may happen. the attitude of Germany will not give the slightest indication of approval or disapproval with the course of events. Navigation in the Welland Canal Serl- ously Delayed. Port Colborne;: July: 23.—Navigation in the Wellafid canal will be stopped for several days on account of the steamer Nipigon running amuck in the locks. The Nipigon was bound up the canal when it collided with the gates of lock 16. Two gates of lock 156 were dlso carried away in the melee. Re- pairs will take several days at the least. The Nipigon is owned by the Marine Transportation company of Og- densburg and was bound up the lakes from that port. = The Welland canal has been par‘ic- ularly fortunate this season and this 18 the first time navigation has been seriously delayed by accident in the locks, .MUST SERVE HIS TIME. Had Agreed to Die Together. Barnard, Mo, July 23.—Edward Walker, a young farmer, cut the throat of his nineteen-year-old wife and then slashed his own throat. He is dead and she cannot recover. A mnote found indicates that the couple had agreed to die together. ————— " MAJdR DREYFUS DECORATED. Receives Cross of Chevaller of the Legion of Honor. Paris, July 23.—In the presence of a distinguished military assemblage Ma- Jjor Alfred Dreyfus, wearing the full uniform of his rank, received the cross of chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The ceremony, which occurred in the courtyard of the military school, was rendered ‘doubly impressive by being held on the very spot where the but- tons and gold lace were stripped oft his uniform and his sword broken twelve years. ago. The courtyard, from which the public was rigorously excluded, as the ceremony was purely official, was encircled by two batteries of the Thirteenth artillery, command- Russian Prince Degraded. ed by Colonel Targe, who made the St. Potérsburg, July 23.—Prince Rut.| recent discoveries at the war office skollubitski, chamberlain of the court 'l:;:::;f It;e;!;fi;rfi;nm:gn:;u:a:lc“e and one of thc descendants of Rusik, General’ Gillain, .accompanled by & number of arm§ officials, entered the circle with trumpets and drums sound- Ing. The general attached the decora- tion to Major Dreyfus’ breast and felicitated him on his well earncd honor. The major replied briefly, ex- pressing his acknowledgments. The ceremony was over in five minutes, the general, Major Dreyfus and the army officials retiring amid the dip ping of flags and a roll of drums. STILL UNDER DISCUSSION. Being Pressed. St. Petersburg, July 23.—It fis learned by the Associated Press from a particularly well informed source that the faction favoring a dissolution of parliament is still exercising pres- sure on the emperor and that confer- ences are progréssing which within forty-eight hours will definitely decide the question. The informant of the Assoclated Press believes the chances are In favor of this momentous step, which will be accompanied by an im- Minnesota Banker Denied New Trial on Appeal. Le Sueur, Minn., July 23.—Sherift Traxler arrested ex-Banker Livingston Quackenbush here and took him to Le Sueur Center, thence to Stillwater, where he is to serve a four-year term for fraudulent banking, application for a new trial having been denied by the supreme court. Quackenbush’s pri- vate bank failed here in March, 1904, for over $100,000 and will pay not to exceed 15 cents on the dollar. He was twice tried for the crime, having es- caped the first time on a technicality. He was convicted last September and sentenced by Judge Morrison to a four-year term in the penitentiar-. SUFFERING FROM MALARIA. court honors on account of his revo- lutionary connections. Large Number of Marines Brought Home From Isthmus. ¢ Boston, July 23.—The cruiser Colum- bia has arrived from Panama by way & Porto Rico, bringing 300 marines, of whom 165 are suffering from ‘ma- laria. Nineteen of this number ‘are very serfously fll and not one of ‘the 166 is fit for duty. The indls) marines were taken to the naval hoa- pital in Chelsea. - S fce Trust. Lawyers Dismissed, Toledo, O, July 23.—The -circult court has reversed Judge Kinkade in the contempt proceedings against At- torneys Tracy, Brown and Smith, ‘Were' sentenced to jail by the com- Home of Wealthy Pittsburger Thon oughly Ransacked. it Pittsburg, July 23-—Something of report of a robbery' at the home of Alexander \R. Peacock, formerly a prominent - official of the Carnegle Bteel company. .The house, it is said, was com- pletely ransacked and Jjewelry and other valuables . aggregating many thousands of dollars stolen. Frederick Bennett, a trusted valet of Mr. Peaccel’s, it I8 alleged, has dis- appeared and an information charging him with larceny has been sworn out. Bennett came to. Pittgburg from New NOVEL 'METHOD OF SUICIDE, Paragould, Ark., July 23.—Word has been received here of the death ot Mrs, Azalia Thompkins, seventy years old;, near Lorado, twenty miles dis- tant from here, having herself driven two tenpenny nalls into her head with suicidal intent. She was blind and partially deaf and had once before at- tempted suicide by cutting her throat. o follow. action which has ygen takemby = 5