Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 10, 1907, Page 1

—i} - THE BEMIDJT DAILY PIONEE MINNESOTA HISTGRICAL VOLUME 5. NUMBER 42 BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1907 FORTY CENTS PER MONTH NORTHLAND PRODUCE C0.’S PLANT BOON TO FARMERS Creamery and Cold Storage Plant One of Finest in North- west---Will Furnish Cash Market for Farm Products ---Butter Made by Creamery Very Fine become one of the chief industries among the farmers of this county is assured by the location in Bemidji of the new big creamery and cold storage plant by the Northland Pro- duce company, which has just been completed and is in operation. During the past two years, and more especially the last twelve months, there has been much agitn-’ tion among the farmers and merch- ants and business men generally of' the county for the more general fol- | lowing of dairying among the farm-| ers. The Northland Produce com- pany, which was recently reorgan- ized and placed on a firm financial basis, has demonstrated its faith in the successful carrying on of dairy- ing in this north country and has completed a creamery and cold stor- age plant that will do much to en- courage dairying, and which will be operated sufficiently to handle much| of the products of the farmers who pursue dairying. The members of company are as follows; president; W. E. Neal, dent; J. D. Lunn, secretary treasurer. Board of directors, C. B. Gale, W. E. Neal, J. D. Lunn, C. T. Eckstrand, P. J. Russell. The new butter-making cold stor- age plant is a large brick building, which is equipped throughout with the most modern machinery and | will be operated on the most up- to-date methods. The creamery has a capacity of turning out 3,000 pounds of butter daily, and is under the personal That dairying will frém now onl | I C. B. Gale, vice presi- and the Northland | supervision of Emil Rude, a thor- oughly experienced butter-maker, who has until recently been in the employ of Bridgeman & Russell at Duluth. The cold storage part of the plant consists of a butter room, egg room, fruit and vegetable room, and a de- partment for freezing poultry, veal and other products, together with a large cellar for storing vegetables. This department is equipped with the copper system, which is very simple in operation, with gravity brine, giving very effective results. C. B. Gale, the president of the company, will have charge of the plant and will be assisted in his work by J. D. Lunn, the latter being familiar with the details of all branches of the business. Mr. Lunn will also superintend the buying of the farmers, products and the plac- ing of the same on the market. E. K. Ekstrand will have charge of the book-keeping and the general cleri- cal work, The creamery and cold storage plants are already doing business. The product of the creamery will be known as the “Northland Brand.” The farmers and others are already bringing and shipping in their pro- ducts and the company is sending the same out to its customers. There is every prospect that the Northland company will do a big business. Bemidji is the division point for several lines of railroads, making a very desirable shipping point, and this city is the natural distribution point for all north- country towns. THE STATE LAND SALES | ARE BOON TO THE NORTH, Migration Across the Border is Halted | and Development Northern Minne- sota Will Begin. St. Paul, Minn,, June 10.—S. G. Iverson, state auditor, believes the summer season will see more settle- ment of Minnesota state lands than has yet taken place during any one year. Mr. Iverson says there are several ! reasons for this belief: “In the first ! place, Minnesota state lands today | are better advertised than ever be- fore. Secondly, the wild rush for Canadian northwest lands is . over, and settlers are beginning to put on their thinking hats before going in search of new homes. And it does not require very much consideration to drive into their heads the know- ledge that Minnesota lands are much farther south than the wild acres of a whole nearer to Canada; are as railroads; are of rich soil and abund- antly supplied with both timber and running water.” Commencing next Tuesday, Mr. Iverson will hold a series of sales of state lands to be had by the highest bidders. This means an opportunity for settlers to purchase wood lands cheap; to establish good homesiwith- | ¢ in easy reach of market centers. Mail Carriers Taking Vacation. The mail carriers of the city are taking their two weeks’ vacation which is allowed them by the postal authorities at Washington. Dennis Considine, ‘carrier No. 3, returned Saturday nigh{ from a two weeks’ visit in the twin cities. This morn- ing Harry Geil, carrier No. 1, began‘ his lay-off. Mr. Geil will go toj Minneapolis and will be present at the commencement exercises of the U. of M., where he was formerly a student. The other two carriers will take their vacations following Mr. Geil’s return, one of the carriers be- ing a “sub.” Mrs. Wes Wright, was taken to the pest house last Saturday, it being found that the boy had a well- developed attack of smallpox. Dr. Blakeslee officiated in his case. Grand Ferks Bay. Captain and Mrs. Jenks panied by their daughter, Shapley with her family, arrived to- day and will occupy the Wolfe cottage at Grand Forks Day for the summer. accom- Mrs. WEST POINT SCANDAL Army Officer’s Wife Sues Acad- emy Officials for §100,000, BARRED FROM RESERVATION Husband Declares Her Exclusion Is Result of Years of Malice and Spite and His Friendship for General Wood Is One of the Reasons Alleged. West Point, N. Y., June 10.—Lieu- tenant Colonel Charles G. Ayre§ has come to the support of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ayres of Virginia, in her action for $100,000 damages against the commanding officers of the mili- tary academy. Lieutenant Colonel Ayres declared that the charge that the influence of women at West Point is detrimental to the cadets or acad- emy is dne to jealousy and that the sm of Mrs. Ayres is a tissue of faisehood by qfficers of the army anx- lous to hurt Mrs. Ayres. In the course of his’statement Lieu- tenant Colonel Ayres alluded to the action taken by the secretary of war as the result of the conflict between Mrs. Ayres and the officers of the academy, which action, he said, ex- cluded Mrs. Ayres from the academy. In making his statement Lieutenant Colonel Ayres said he deeply regret- ted the present situation, as he is greatly attached to the academy. As to the treatment of his son, Henry F. Ayres, a cadet at the acad- emy, by commanding officers he said that Mrs. Ayres was first told more than a year ago by officers and cadets that her son was being singled out for persecution. The son, he said, has never mentioned this subject to his parents, but has accepted his pun- ishment, but other cadets were not punished as he had been for the same ! offenses. The boy, he said, has al- ready been recommended three times to be given a medal for saving lives and one of his instructors had in- Melvin Wright to Pest House. Melvin Wright, son of Mr. and formed Lieutenant Colonel Ayres of his son’s gallantry and calmness. Pioneer Has New “Togs” k <4 This issue of The Pioneer contains a new “dress” of body type, which will un- doubtedly be appreciated by our readers. : We have purchased 500 pounds of ten point (long primer), and the amount is sufficient to allow us to have much more news matter in our weekly edition, be- sides giving us a new face, which-was much needed. The Pioneer intends to always be in the front rank of Northern Mir nesota Jour- nals, and this improvement is but one of many that we shall make in order to carry out our avowed determination to give Pionaer readers all the news of this part of the state. MATHIESON HERE; 'HAS CONFESSED Man Accused of Murder in the First Degree Brought from Portland by Deputy Sheriff John Bailey---Han Ad- : mitted Killing Johanson Peter Mathieson,the self-confessed , couver, and finally ran onto a place |and that he remained there for thir- slayer of his friend and co»laborer,! John Johnson, is now confined in a cell of the Beltrami county jail in, this city, and will in a few days be given a preliminary hearing on the charge of committing murder in the first degree, in having killed Johnson at Gull Lake, in the month of Feb- ruary. Deputy Sheriff J. N. Bailey ar- rived in the city Sunday morning at 1 o’clock, from Portland, having Mathieson in charge. ~ Both the of- ficer and his prisoner were about “all in” when they arrived here, having traveled continuously on the cars since Wednesday noon, and Mr. Railey having had no sleep. Mathieson was at once taken to the county jail and locked in a cell. He stood the trip fairly well, but came near collapsing several times during the journey from Portland. He was ill after arriving here, and no one but the officials at the jail were allowed to see him. Mathieson is an inoffensive-look- ing fellow, and would not be consid- ered as a dangerous man or one who would commit murder. He has a pleasant countenance, and wears a brown mustache. He speaks in broken English, with a Danish ac- cent, being a native of Denmark, 28 years old. The capture of Mathieson reflects great credit on Deputy Sheriff John Bailey. When he left here, three weeks ago, for Portland, he was armed with a letter addressed to the postmaster at Tenstrike and signed “John Johnson” (the name of the murdered man) and which it was believed had been written by Math- ieson, and he was also given a dis- cription of Mathieson that might fit any half dozen men a person would meet in traveling a block in a large city. 2 Mr. Bailey at once got igto touch with the police officials at Portland and began the task of try- ing to locate a man whom he hadj never seen, and of whom he pos- sessed but a poor description, at best. He searched all the employ- ment offices in Portland and Van- where Mathieson had stopped, and also ascertained that a man was working on a railroad east of Port- land, under the name of Chris John- son, which the officer had every reason to believe was Mathieson, who was using an assumed name. A close watch was kept on many boarding places, with the result that it was said that the man Johnson had come to Portland from the rail- way camp, and a decoy request for him to call for a registered letter for John Johnson was left in places where he had been in the habit of fre- PAUL BRIGGS, OF MORRIS, . FAILLS FROM MOVING TRAIN While Enroute from-Erskine to Bemidji He Falls from Train in Railroad Yards at Lengby---Is Taken to Bagley on a Special ’ Bagley, June 10.—(Special to the Pioneer.)—What might have been a fatal accident accurred at Lengby Friday night. ~ Paul Briggs, a young man from Morris, Minn., who recently gradua- ted from the schools at that place, was aboard the east-bound G. N. passenger train and in some unknown way fell from the cars and remained in an unconscious condition until found in the morning by one of the yard men at Lengby. A special train was at once placed in service and the young man was brought here for treatment. Briggs was placed under the care Lof Dr. Mayland and upon examina- tion it was found that his head was severely bruised, but that he did not suffer internal injuries as was at first supposed. It was learned from Briggs that he was on his way to International Falls to take up a homestead and he“carried with him a first grade certificate, stating}that he was in- tending to teach school in that vi cinity. Briggs stated he came up on the Soo line and that the last he could remember was that he ate supper at Erskine and later took the G. N. night train there-for Bemidji. Just how the accident occurred will never be known, but it is sup- posed that Briggs fell from the train while passing from one coach to another. Briggs’ friends at Morris were at once notified and two members of the Modern Woodmen lodge, of which he is a member, came at once to Bagley to look after him. As soon as he is able he will be re- moved to his home at Morris. ——ee e e A Petition for a Recelver. Springfield, O., June 10.—Application was made in common pleas court here for a receiver for the Farmers’ Co- ty-six hours, when he returned to the cabin where his companion and and friend lay, for the purpose of placing the body where no one would find it and destroy the traces of the crime. . He went down to the lake, and in the dark hours of the night, calmly chopped a hole in the ice, preparing a watery grave for the bloody form that was in the cabin. According to Mathieson, he tried to shove the body through -the hole in the ice, but found the opening was not large enough, so cut the quenting. Mathieson finally called at the postoffice, and Mr. Bailey at once suspected he was Mathieson. When Mathieson was requested to sign’ for the registered letter, he was arrested, and on the way to the station was given a strenuous tongue-lashing on the part of the officers in the hope of breaking him down and gaining an admission from him. Mathieson at first flatly denied that his name was any other than John Johnson, until after he had reached the jail and had been put in the sweatbox; then the deputy sheriff went after him, without mercy. He finally admitted that his name was Mathieson, and after being assured by the officer that the latter knew all about the murder and the manner in which it was committed, confessed that he killed Johanson. The self-confessed murderer said that he and Johanson had been working for Mr. Fellows in the woods and that they lived together in a cabin on Gull Lake; that there had been nothing but the best of feeling between them, and that he had no differences with Johanson. He said that he had shot Johanson in the morning (he could not remember the exact date, but it was some time the last of February) but the shooting was accidental; and that he (Math- ieson) went outside the cabin and]the cold-blooded manner remained outdoors for half an hour. ‘The prisoner was not asked for any of the minor details of his terri-| ble crime, but he said he went to Tenstrike, after Johanson was dead, clothes off and succeeded in getting the nude remains under the ice. He then hid the clothing in the old un” used log hut, first ransacking the pockets (so he says) and finding a check for $400, made out in favor of Johanson, which he appropriated, With a nerve that was remarkable, Mathieson went to Tenstrike, and after remaining there for ~ several hours, came to Bemidji, where- he proceeded to get the check cashed and spend the proceeds ip gambling and having a general “good time.” When the money was gone, Math- ieson borrowed $30 and went to Portland. - ‘He says that the reason he wrote the letter to the postmaster at Ten- strike, using Johanson’s name and requesting Johanson’s mail to be forwarded to Portland was that it was about the time that Johanson should receive $80 for the rent of his farm in Roseau county. ™ This letter was the means of furnishing a clue that was cleverly followed up and ended in Mathieson’s arrest and confession. Mathieson very evidently had no realization of the seriousness of the crime he has committed. The fact that Johnson’s skull was crushed, in addition to the head being filled with shot, proves conclusively that the shooting was not accidental, and in which the mutderer planned to get addi- tional money belonging to Johanson, stamps him as one of the most hard- ened lawbreakers in the annals of crime in Northern Minnesota. Calls It a Cowardly Attack. Lieutenant Colonel Ayres declared that his wife appealed to the authori- ties for protection and tried in the absence of her husband to defend her- gelf as any high spirited woman might. The result was, he said, a cowardly attack upon her and her hus- band, the result of years of malice and spite against a man and woman who never intentionally wronged a human being and against a man who never let an insult pass. The attack, he said, was first made upon Mrs. Ayres and was given to the newspa- pers by those in authority at West Point. The upshot. of Mrs. Ayres’ appeal to the authorities for protection, he add- ed, was the action of the secretary of war in excluding Mrs. Ayres from the academy. As to the reason for taking the mat- ter before the civil instead of a mili- tary court Lieutenant Colonel Ayres declared that a major general told him fifteen years ago never to appeal to any kind of a military tribunal, for he might as well be tried by croco- diles. that he has been warned repeatedly to be-careful, as an effort was to be made to force him out of the army ; and that General Leonard Wood was onc of those who had warned him.j He declared that this animosity arose | from his friendship with General ‘Wood, whose firing line he command- ed at Santlago. The lieutenant colo- nel said he was one of the few men who congratulated Wood when. he; was made a brigadier general. The officer asserted that he had been tried on many charges and if he had been guilty would have been forced out of the army long ago. England and Australia are the only islands which exceed Cuba in their natural resources. [ BRIEF EITS OF NEWS. Medical Director Robert A. Mar- Lieutenant Colonel Ayres said | mion, U. 8. N, retired, is dead at ‘Washington as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. A son has been born to the Princess Margaret Victoria. The princess is the wife of Prince Gustaf Adolf, duke of Scandia, eldest son of Prince Gus- taf, crown prince of Sweden. Emperor Francls Joseph, in celebra- | tion of thé fortleth anmiversary of his coronation as king of Hungary, has decreed farreaching amnesty, espe- clally for persons sentenced for lese majeste. ‘William Aaronson, an expert agri- culturist and manager of a farm at Florence, N. J., hanged himself after brooding over the failure of his early. crops as the result of the unseason- able weather. . Operative Harvesting Machine com- pany, located in this city. The com- pany is capitalized at $500,000 and was organized three years ago by William N. Whitely, the well known agricultural implement manufacturer. Immense Damage by Cyclone. Bombay, June 10.—It is estimated that damage to the amount of from $3,000,000 to $8,000,000 was caused by the cyclone which swept over Kur- rachi June 6. The lighting system of the city was compiately wrecked. Boy- Kiiled by Live Wire. Boone, I&, June —-Orville Briggs, fourteen years old, was killed and his father, David Briggs, was fatally In- jured here. The boy grasped a live wire and his father tried to rescie him. HAU ADMITS HIS GUILT Washington Attorney Confesses to Killing Mother-in-Law. WIFE SUICIDES BY DROWNING Prisoner Breaks Down Completely on Hearing the News and Finally Ac- knowledges a Crime Which Has At tracted International Attention. Karlsruhe, Germany, June 10.—Karl Hau, professor of Roman law at the George Washington university, Wash- ington, D. C., who is in prison here charged with the murder of his mother-in-law, Frau Moliter, was vis- ited by the governor of the prison dur- ing the day and asked to prepare him- self for some bad news. The pris- oner, who has been in poor health ever since his arrest, trembled’ and when the governor informed him that his wife was dead he appeared to be on the verge of collapse. - He was told that Mrs. Hau,drowned herself in a lake near Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. The news made Hau break down complete- ly and, taking advantage of the situa- tion, the gbvernor questioned him about the crime with which he was charged. Then, in broken tones, Hau admitted that he murdered his wife’s mother, which up to the present he had denied. The confession of the prisoner was then taken down in writ- ing and will be used against him at his approaching trial. Hau was in such a state of nervousness when taken back to his cell that the physi- cian was sent for to attend him. Some Believe Hau Insane. The crime of Karl Hau has attract- ed considerable attention owing to the high standing of the prisoner, his in- tellectual gifts and many peculiar as- pects of the case, which have up to the present only been explained by ! the fact that Hau was in desperate | financial difficulties. This, however, has not been satisfactory to many per- sons, who insist that he Is insane, al- though the official examination of the prisoner resulted in his being declared absolutely sane on May 18. Hau was born in Germany about. twenty-seven years ago, studied at the Univeryities of Freiburg and Berlin and went to Washington some. four years ago with his wife and four-year- old daughter. He married Lena Moli- ter when he was a student of nineteen against the wishes of her mother, Frau Moliter. Mrs. Hau, who was about six years older than her hus- band, is understood to have a dower of $50,000, which'she entrusted to her husband. Hau's father was wealthy and a former member of the'reichstag and his mother was a baroness. The father of his wife was court physician £} the Grand Duke of Baden. l | BIG: FALLS BALL TEAM WALLOPED BY NORTHOME “Reddy” Hazen of This City Pitched for Winners---Score - 20t 7. ——— o Big Falls, June 10.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Vesterday was a sort of gala day in Big Falls, and the ocs casion was made more interesting by a strenuous baseball game between the Big Falls and Northome teams- Nortiiome won the game, by the one- sided score of 20 to 7, the home team never being in the hunt at any stage of the proceedings. -Earl Hazen of Bemidji (known _as “Reddy”) pitched for Northome, and the local players could do noth~ ing with his benders, getting but four safe bigles off his delivery, and “Red” deserved a shut-out, but errors behind him were unavoidable on account of the poor condition of the grounds. Brown pitched for Big Falls, and toward the end of the game he became disgusted and threw up the sponge, quitting the firing line. The same teams will play at Northome on Wednesday, when ‘the new ball park at that place will be formally opened. Children’s Day at Preshyterian Church. At the Presbyterian church the morning service was given up to the Children’s Day exercises. The entire program was rendered in the most beautiful and entertain- ing manner, the little folks proving themselves apt speakers. Mr. White in his address illustrat- ed the power of the little wrong deeds which we do and how easily we could break away when \we only had committed one or two bad deeds. The lesson was well appreciated by both young and old. A large contribution was made for Sabbath School Missions. The Superintendent wishes to to thank all who took part and es- pecially to thank those who so ably and willingly assisted in training the little ones. \ Had Enjoyable Fishing Trip. Dr. Foster acted as ‘“‘chaperon” for Col. S. S. Stadsvold and Gen. L. W. Larson of Fosston, who Peturned in company with the doctor, Satur- day evening, from a bass fishing ex- pedition to Hackensack. ‘The party had a week’s outing at Hackensack and thoroughly enjoyed their stay at the bass grounds. According to Col. Stadsvold, the doctor was boss- in-chief of the camp, while Larson was “bull cook” and he (thecolonel) was chief, wood chopper and all- around heavy man of work. “Those ‘guys’ near worked me to death,” quoth the colonel. “I shall get even, however.”