Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 5, 1907, Page 1

i e e e e Y THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE MINNES®TA SOCIETY. VOLUME 4. NUMBER 217 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1907. TEN CENTS PER WEEE GRANT VALLEY FARMER ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Joseph L. Nelson, Charged With Assaulting His Son and Daughter---Surmised Th at Girl Has Been Spirited Away and Absented from Trial of Father. Joseph L. Nelson, a farmer living in the town of Grant Val- ley, about five miles west of Be- midji, has been arrested on the charge of having assaulted his son and daughter, aged 14 and 16 years, respectively. Nelson, whose wife does not! live with him but is located some- | where in St Paul or Wisconsin, has lived on his farm alone with his children. On Christmas eve, the boy and girl came to Bemidji and called the attention of the authorities by the statement that they would not longer live with their father, whothey claimed was continually whipping and abusing them, and acting in a manner that no parent should toward his child- ren. Cemplaint was made by County Attorney McDonald, and Justice Skinvik issued a warrant for the arrest of Nelson, charg-i ing him with having committed | assault on his son Nick, Nelsoa was arrested by a deputy sheriff | and brought before Justice Skio- vik on December 28, the case be- | ing continued to January 4, Nel- son furnishing bail for his ap- pearance in the sum of $200. January 8 another charge was filed against Nelson, that of! lassault on his daughter. Both cases came up before Justice Skinvik yesterday. Nelson plead not guilty and demanded a jury trial. The case of assault on the boy was continued until January 10, and that of assault on the girl until the 11¢h. It appears that both the girl and the boy stopped for several days at the Remore hotel and that the girl was sent to the poor |farm to remain until her case |should be called. On Thursday theboy was found and brought mte court, but when the author- ities went for the girl it was found that she had left the poor farm anc departed from the city by train, no one knowing where she had gone. It is surmised that certain in- tarested parties induced the girl to leave and furnished her | with funds, with the intention |of preventing her giving testi- i mony against her father in the cases pending against him. The |authorities state that, should it be found that anyone has at- tempted to thwart the meting out of justice in this case, vig- *|orous prosecution will follow. i Read the Daily Pioneer. irash act was QUARRELED WITH FATHER; TOOK DOSE OF -POISON Corrosive Sublimate Almost Causes the Death of a Would-be Sui- cide at Blackduck. Blackduck Americar: A dose of corrosive sublimate came near ending the earthly career of Miss Emma Messerschmidt a few days ago. Fortunately the poison was not given sufficient time to dissolve and most of it was leftin the bottom of the glass. Enough was swallowed however to have ended her life had not the services of a doctor been 1mmediately obtained. Doctors Monahan and Osburn were called and with the aid of antidotes and a pump succeeded in saving her life. It developed that the poison was taken with suicidal intent, However as she poured the deadly stuff down her throat she came to realize her awful act and at once told the Swaim family with whom she was staying and they at once telephoned for the doctors. Her impelled by a guarrel with her father. M. B. A. Public Installation. The new officers of the Mod- ern Brotherhood lodge will be installed at a public installation which will be held this evening, in the I. O. O. F. hall. It is the intention of those in charge of the affair to give a basket social in connection with the installation. and the public generally is invited to attend. Blank Books 2 Beginning the New Year nearly every business will need new sets of books. The Pioneer carries a full line of books and an in- spection of the stock will show that we carry all sizes, styles and bindings of books. We have the two, three, four and five column day books and journals. A good line of cash books; a well selected stock of ledgers, single or double entry, one hundred to eight hun- dred pages. BEMIDJI SECURES A SOLID ENTERPRISE “‘The Donald Land and Lumber Com- pany” Recently Incorporated Under Laws of Minnesota. HAS AMPLE CAPITAL AND WILL DEAL EXTENSIVELY IN TIMBER Roger C. Spooner, a Cousin of Judge Spooner, and J. C. Parker are Among Incorporators. We call attention t»an addition to our business interests in the organization of “The Donald Land and Lumber Company,” with offices in the Winter block. The purpose of this company is to be active in ‘the purchase and sale of logs, ties, poles and eyverything conunected with the lumber industry. Roger Spooner, the president of the company, and who will give his entire attention to office matters, is a brother of U. S. Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, and a cousin of Judge M. A. Spooner of this place. He has been superintendent of the Indian warehouse at Chicago, by appointment made by ex.Presi- dent McKinley in June of the first year of his administration, which position he resigned to locate here. J. C. Parker, the vice president of the corporation, has been a resident of Bemidji for some years past and needs no intro duction, Mr. Mackenzie, the secretary, treasurer and general managecr, has spent the better part of his life in the lumber business and|. in which vocation he has acheived success and earned high stand- ing. He and Vice-President Parker and Assistant Secretary John G. Spooner, who have had business experience in Chicago, will be active in the field and will sus- the good name the individual members of the company now have and also live up to the com- pany’s aim to achieve success and to-make no promise of any nature except to keep it. The different members with their families propose to make Bemidji theu' home. BOMBTHROWER TORN TO PIEGES IN PHILADELPHIA Throws Bomb at President of Bank and Kills Cashier.—Had De- manded Money. OPERATION PERFORMED FOR FRAGTURED SKULL Peter Jacobson, lnjurefi in Woods at Kelliher, Improving.— Blood Poison a Possibility. An operation has been per- formed, at St. Anthony’s hospi- tal, on Peter Jacobson, whose skull was fractured while he was working in the woods. Ja- cobson recovered from the ef- fect of the operation and is rest- g easily at the hospital. How- ever, there is a possibility that blood poison may set in on his damaged nose, which was broken at the time his skull was frac- tured. While Jacobson was working in a lumber camp near Kelliher he was hit by a large limb from a falling tree, which fractured his skull, broke his nose. injured his eyes aud rendered him un- conscious, He was brought. to Bemidji and placed in the local hospital. Unless something uaforseen occurs he will recover. Logging Capt. Wilsey’s Timber. Dale & Larkin of Turtle River are doing some logging this win- ter getting out a quantity of cedar and tamarack. They are cutting the timber from the homestead of Captain Wilsey, on Three Island lake, about four miles west of the village of Turtle River. There is a good ‘“bunch” ot the cedar and tamarack, and they expect to spend the balance of the winter months in cutting and banking the logs. The logs will be dumped on Three Island lake and driven down Turtle river in the spring when the ice goes out, Mr. Dale, who was in the city yesterday looking for men, stated that he has put in one camp and the word of cutting is going on nicely. Much Travel on M. & I. Road. There is much travel on the M. & I. north-bound passenger train these days; in fact, during the last four months the number of passengers that have traveled northward over this line” has been the cause of much com- ment. Last evening’s train was crowded, all the seats and the aisles on the cars being filled so that it was almost impossible to pass through one coach toan- other. As an indication of the travel, the local ticket agent of the M. & I. sold 1,000 tickets to Blackduck alone during the month of December last, and 1,200 of the pasteboards were sold to the same station in No- vember. Cut Ten Millions at Tenstrike. Philadelphia, Jan. 5 %(Specialr Davis & Ferguson of Milaca to the Pioneer.)—Shortly before noon today an unknown man hurled a bomb in a national bank at Fourth and Liberty streets. The explosion which resulted tore the bomb thrower to pieces and killed W. Z. McLear, the cashier. ' Several other employes of the bank and pations were in- jured, two of whom may die. The bomb-thrower had demaud- ed money from Richard H, Rush- ton, presidentof the bank. When his demand was refused, he threw the bomb at Rushton. A slight fire followed the explosion and tenants in the building in which the bankis located fled from the offices. The police quickly placed the vaults and se- curities of the bank under a heavy guard. “Samaritan Entertainment. The local lodge of Samaritans has made arrangements to give an entertainment in the Presby- terian church next Tuesday evening. Lottie Tillotson, of Hawaii, will give an elocutionary entertaiement and lecture, at the conclusien of which a pro- gram of vocal and instrumental music will be given by Ilocal J | talent. are logging on an extensive scale this winter, near Tenstrike, where they have a contract with the J. Neils Lumber company of Cass Lake. They will cut ten million feet of pine and get the logs in shape for' driving to the Qass Lake mill next spring, and have established two camps. B. L. Ferguson is in active charge of the logging at the camps and his partner, E. I, Davis attends to the clerical end of the contracts. Mr. Davis was in the city yesterday looking after some affairs in connection with the work. Sheriff of Koochiching Here. Patrick Walsb, sheriff of the new county of Koochiching, came down from his home at Big Falle this morning and will re- main here for several days looking after George Harriugton convicted of forgery at Big Falls and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. and who will be held in the county jail here awaiting the return of the com- mitment papers from Interns- tional Falls. Mr. Walsh is well known in Bemidji and is being congratulated on his recent.ap- pointment as sheriff. MOORE TO RE TRIED HERE ON SEVERAL CHARGES Habeas Corpus Proceedings Instituted at Minneapolis By Moore Heard This Morning---Moore on Way Here, in Charge of Sheriff Bailey, Minneapolis, Jan. 5,2 p. m.— (Special to the Pioneer.)—J. R. Moore is 1n the custody of Sheriff Thomas Bailey, who leaves for Bemidji with Moore this after- noon, E. E. MCDONALD, The bhabeas corpus proceed- ings instituted by J. R. Moore at Minneapolis, in conmection with his numerous stock dealings; were brought before Judge Simpson at Minneapolis this morning, after having been ad- journed twice, for various .rea- sons intended to delay the set- tling of the case as much as pos- sible as a result of the ingenuity Iof Moore’s counsel. The habeas lcorpus proceedings are against Chief Doyle, head of the Mirne- apolis police force, who cansed the arrest of Moore. The case was - first called be- fore Judge Brooks, at Minne- apolis, and was transferred to Judge Brown, occasioning a de- lay of a week. Judge Brown -in turn handed the matter over to Judge Simpson, whois sitting on the bench today hearing the arguments in the case. & Should the habeas corpus pro- ceedings result favorably to Moore and Judge Simpson order his release, he will be immediate- ly arrested by Sheriff Bailey of this city, who has five seperate warrants for Moore’s detention, and -who is = determined that Moore shall come to Bemidiji to answer for his ‘‘smooth” work in this vicinity. County Attorney E.E. McDonald has been ex- tremely alert in this matter and has, with the assistance of Sher- citizen, readily takes it, iff Bailey and officials at Minne- apolis, managed to keep Moore where he cannot get away. Moore has evidently been working his “oily’’ confidence game in nearly every town of importance in the north half of the state, including the iron range. Yesterday’s: Duluth Herald contains the following concern- ing Moore and his operations at Eveleth: ‘“Walter Smith, president of the Miners’ band of Eveleth, passed through the city today on his way to Minneapolis, to identify a man named Moore, who has | een arrested by the Minneapolis police on tke charge of working a smooth game ina number of towns on the range. Moore’s game is claimed to be as follows: Securing the name of some prominent citizen of the town, he finds some other men in the town by the same name, and in- sures his life, taking in payment a note, which is generally worth- less. This note he discounts, and the victim, believing that it is the name of the prominent Mr: Smith’s friends are claimed to ‘have been caughbt in this trick, and Mr. Smith is naturally anxious to catch the guilty man. The trick was easily worked in his case, because of the name he bears.” The above-but strengthens the 8 assertion made by a Minneapolis party, in aletter published in the Pioneer recently, that Moore - was one of the smoothest confi- dence men In the United States. His methods here were diffsrent. from those used at Hibbin, Snow Cleared from M. & 1. Road. W. H. Strachan, superinten- Rollins: With Us Again. D. W. Rollins drrived in the HISTORICAL} dent of the M. & I., came down |city yesterday fr&bulnth on, last night from Bxg Falls, his|his initial trip as ffivelmg Te- privaie car, ‘50, being attached | presentative for the Twohy-Ei- to a special engine, equipped|men wholesale grocery company with a snowplow. 'The plowlof Superier, for which he will made the trip from Brainerd to!hereafter take orders “in this Big Falls and cleaned all the'part of the state. Rollins i well snow from the right-of-way, known throughout the country leaving the cuts free for passage|west from Duluth to Bemidji, of trains, which insures a more|having traveled in this vicinity prompt time schedule on the{for five years for the Armour road. Packing company, resigning three years ago to take up other Bert Carver Won the Race.’ work. Rollins is one of the The race at the skating rink|most popular knights of the grip last evening was won by Bert|on the road today, and his friends Carver, with Wilby Brannon sec- | here welcome his return to this ond. The first prize was a sea-|territory. Among other good son ticket to the rink, the second | things to his credit, Rollins was skater being awarded a ticketifor several years chaplain of good for one month. the Ancient and Preferred The race was for one mile (ten|Order of P. F. & C. O. D, Lips of the rink) and was an ex- | which was instituted and pre- citing affair. sided over by M. J. Fiynn of A masquerade carnival is one | Duluth. of the events planned for the rink in the near future, Will Hold Election January 9. The members of the fire de. Towers Indicted at Brainerd. Brainerd, Minn., Jan, 4.— (Special to the Pioneer.)—The special grand jury indicted Henry Towers for the murder of Albert Hagadorn, shot on Christ- mas day. and the trial” will be election of officers from last Wed.- nesday night, the usual time for. helding the election, until Wed-- nesday, January 9, when a full; attendance of members is de—*« held next week. A, H. Hall of |sired. g Minneapolis will assist in the de- : T¥ fense. Lical news on last page. % -GOL cuRes SORE THROAT | 3 bl Owl Drug Store, Bemidii, an.v Good Seasoned Cord Wood For Sale Any qua,nnty frqm two cords to a euload apply at RED LAKE DEPOT