Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 11, 1907, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI VOLUME 5. NUMBER €8 FOUL PLAY 'AGED WOMAN IS MISSING; IS SUSPECTED Mrs. Emily Chase, Known as “Grandma’ Chase, Dis- appeared From Her Home at Yola June 27---Dili- gent Search Fails to Find Her. Yola, July 11.—(Special to Pio- neer.)—The entire neighborhood of Yola and the north half of Hubbard county is greatly exercised over the mysterious disappearance of “‘Grand- mother” Chase, an aged resident of this community, 82 years old, whose absence was discovered Monday, and whom it is said has been miss- ing since June 27th. Mrs. Emily Chase, the missing woman has been living by herself on an eighty-acre homestead four miles west of Yola. Her nearest neighbor was half a mile distant, and two others lived three-quarters of a mile and one and one-half miles away, respectively. Thursday, June 27th, Mrs. Chase walked to the home of J. W. Spauld- ing, a neighbor living one and one- half miles from her home. The old lady started from her home in the afternoon, and the last person who saw her alive was Mr. J. W. Church, who lives three-quarters of a mile from Mrs.Chase’s home. Mr.Church saw Mrs. Chase pass his home and go up the road toward her home, about two hours before sunset. On Tuesday, July 2nd, E. M. Chase, a son of Mrs. Chase, and Mr. Chase’s wife went to Mrs. Chase’s claim, ‘taking with them water and food. When they arrived at the house they found no one at home, and there were no signs anywhere to indicate the pres- ence of the elder Mrs. Chase. Itis stated here that Chase and his wife returned to their home with- out making any prolonged search for the elder Mrs. Chase; also that the next morning after visiting the home of his mother, Mr. Chase went to another place and moved a driv- ing camp, and from that place went to Bemidji, which was the last point at which anything'is known of his whereabouts. Last Saturday evening, Mr. Church, not having seen Mrs.Chase since the previous Thursday evening, became anxious about her, and walked to her house to investigate. Mr. Church made a diligent search about the premises but found no trace of the old lady. A skunk had gotten into the house and was its sole occupant. The food brought there on Tuesday night was un- touched, and there was no indica- tion that Mrs. Chase had been in the house ‘or some time past. A little pail which the old lady used to get water from the swamp near by, was the only article missing from the house. Mr. Church went to the home of a neighbor named Clapp, who lives a half mile east of Mrs. Chase’s house. It was too late that night to inform any one else of Mrs. Chase’s absence and the two men went to their homes. Early Sunday morning Mr. Church and Mr. Clapp went to the home of E. M. Chase, son of the missing woman. They asked Mr. Chase’s wife as to the whereabouts of “Grandma Chase,” and were told that she knew nothing as to where the old lady was. Mrs. Chase told of being at the home of the elder Mrs. Chase the previous Tuesday night and finding no one there, but supposed the old lady was at the home of Mrs. Clapp. After the visit to the home of E. M. Chase, Mr. Clapp organized a searching party of thirty men who began looking for the missing woman, Mrs. Chase’s claim is covered mostly with poplar undergrowth which is very heavy and thick all over the place, making it difficult to travel over the premises; however, a thorough search of the house and the grounds surrounding the house was made all day Sunday, but no trace was found of the missing woman, and subsequent search for her has been unsuccessful. The old lady’s claim is in a lonely and unsettled part of the country, so thick and dense is the underbrush which covers the land that it is a very difficult matter for any one to pass through the timber, and it would seem almost impossible for a feeble woman of eighty-five years to have gone far through such a country. Mrs. Chase was becoming very feeble and it is believed that she could not have wandered far from her house. As a consequence of these facts, there are some sus- picions entertained by residents here that there has been foul play in con- nection with the disappearance of Mrs. Chase. There are also™ rumors that the missing old lady has received harsh treatment at the hands of ber relatives. The search for ‘Mrs. Chase will continue until every foot of her pro- perty has been thoroughly tra versed, and if no trace of her body is found the rumors of foul play will be traced to their origin and there may be some startling re- sults. Itis said that reliable wit- nesses will swear that threats have been made against the old lady’s life, and these will also be taken cognizance of. Telephone messages have been sent to the police at Bemidji to far his whereabouts are unknown. _—_— UPPER MISSISSIPPI LOGS ARE NEARLY ALL DRIVEN Schoolcraft Drive Down---Remainder Will Be in Lake Irving in Fif- teen Days. The driving of logs that were cut from lands along the upper Missis- sippi river is nearing an end, and the drivers state that the last of the logs will be out of the river within the next fifteen or twenty days. A. 'T. Hatcher, who has charge of two drives, states that he has brought down the last of the School- craft drive, which contained six million feet of logs, and that the up- per Mississippi drive, which has ten million feet, will be clear of the river at Lake Irving within fifteen days. The rear of the latter drive is now below what is known as the “Rapids Dam.” The logs in the drive are owned by the Crookston and Grand Forks companies. Additional local matter will be found Visiting Cards. A neat line of up-to-date visiting cards can always be found at this office. New and up-to-date type from which to select style of print- ing. HOISTING TEN MILLION LOGS FROM LAKE IRVING Grand Forks Lumber Company Taking Its Timber to Mill at the Forks. —— The Grand Forks Lumber com- pany has commenced to hoist its logs from Lake Irving on to- cars, at the southwest shore of the lake, and is transporting the logs to East Grand Forks to be sawed in the company’s mill at that place. G. E. Crocker, the north-country manager for the Grand Forks com- pany, states that the company has about ten million feet of logs that will be taken from Lake, Irving, These logs were cut from the timber which the company owns in the up- per Mississippi river country and were logged last winter, being driven down the M:sslssippx to Lake locate the son, E. M. Chase, but so |} ATILY PION BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TPUURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1907 The Pioneer is now at liberty to substantiate the announcement made in the daily issue of Tuesday evening, when the mere statement printed that Bemidji. would have another sawmill, and that the plans for the plant were already matured and put into execution. The new mill will be erected on property which has been fiurchaszd from Dr. Henderson, being fifty acres located along the south-eastern shore of Lake Bemidji, in Sections 10 and 15-146-33, across the lake, exactly opposite Second street of this city. The site” is in close proximinity to the Crookston Lum- ber company’s property, there being a piece of land owned by Dr. Ward which lies between the two sites. was The promoters of the new enter- prise are W. A. Gould and J. M. Richards, together with. D. M. Winton of Thief River Fallsand several others. It is announced that. the plant will have a capacity for sawing from 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 feet of Begin Right Away. timber a year, and will give employ- ment to from 200 to 300 men. Negotiations have been way for some time for the purchase of the machine}y for the plant,which it is announced will be of the very latest pattern and the best that can be bought. It is expected that the deal for the machinery will be closed before the end of week, under the present The property which has been pur- chased gives the new concern a saw- mill site which borders on Lake Bemidji, where most excellent boom=1 age facilities can be had. The M. & L railway tracks intersect the prop- erty for a short distance at the ex- treme northwestern end. On the east side of the track, there are almost fifty. acres that will be occupied by an- up-to-date planing mill and large, commodious yards. The fact that the M. & I. yards, with a large number of tracks adjoins the property, assures unequaled ship- ping facilities. ‘Wi A Gould, who has been Superinténdent of the logging depart- ment for “the Crookston Lumber FACTS ABOUT THE NEW SAWMILL W. A; Gofild and J. M. Richards of This City, D. M. Winton of Thief River Falls and Several Others Interested in the Enterprise---Work on Plant te . company, and J. M. Richards, who has been general manager for the same company, have tendered their resignations to the Crookston com- pany, and the same have been accepted. Both gentlemen are first- class lumbermen and loggers, and the new concern gets the -benefit of their experience. - Who will' succeed them with the Crookston company has not been announced. The work of clearing the’ site for the mill has already commenced and the -building of the sawmill and planing mill plants and other build- ings and the installing of the machinery will be rushed as rapidly as possible. Messrs. Gould and Richards have leased office rooms in the Markham hotel building for the present. The building of another sawmill means much to Bemidji. - There will be at least 200 more men em- ployed in the city, and as undoubted- ly most of them will have families, there will be a large increase in the business of the local merchants. It is announced that the new com- pany has been quietly purchasing timber-for some time past and has in sight enough logs to run the mill for the next fifteen or _twenty years. John D. Brady Here. John D. Brady, the corpulant representative for a wet goods es- tablishment in Duluth, and in every wrinkle of whose generous counte- nance there lurks a smile of good nature, was in the city today. Mr. Brady is awaiting the deci- sion from the state supreme court in his case against Sheriff Bates of Duluth, he having instituted quo warranto proceedings to have Bates on fourth page. Irving, ousted from office. The case has been submitted to the supreme court and argued be- fore that tribunal; and it is expected that the court will hand downa decision’in the case this week. Mr. Brady is confident that the decision will be against Bates. Burns ‘‘Working” Again. Many residents of Bemidji remem- Be Sure to Hear Him. . ber James Burns, who was for several years Great Northern conductor. on the Crookston-Grand Forks- passen- ger run, and will undoubtedly be pleased to learn that -Mr. Burns is again in the employ of the G. N. “Jim” was “‘canned”. about two years ago, along with several other old ticket-pgmchers. and it was thought that their lay-off was per- manent. However, Burns was rein- stated several days aga,-_..and is in charge of a train on the Greenbush- Crookston branch. “Heading the Procession” Is the Subject of 'l‘omorrow Evening Dr. E. C. Clemens’ Lecture To be glven at the Methodist Church This is one of his best lectures and is te bea : special address to the summer school teachers. ° . The Doctor is well and favorably known here, having lectured here before. His lectures are al- ways enteztammg and instructive. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL ~SOCIETY. . FORTY CENTS PER MONTH PAWNEE BILL’S WILD WEST 4BES’l‘ SHOW EVER IN CITY IR TIT T The Show Only Comes Here Owing to Major Lillie’s Fight With Cireus Trust---Has an Array of Talent Un- equaled By Any Other Tented Exhibition. ~ 2288 LLLA B OLL T Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West and Great Far East Show will spread its tents here on Saturday and give afternoon and evening per” formances, Its owner is the man who opened Oklahoma to public settlement, who is the only ‘White Chief’ of the Indians, and who is hjstorically famous as cowboy, guide, explorer, plainsman and soldier. He founded the city of Pawnee, Okla., and is president of the Arkan- sas National Bank of that place. The organization travels in fifty cars,and comes with a metropolitian demonstration of supremacy, full of honors of Europe and with “a record of more than a score of years of ever increasing popularity. - Its crowning feature, “The Great Train Robbery,” is the melodramatic spectacle which was the sensation of New York last summer, a locomotive, engine and train of cars are employed. Pawnee Bill has the exclusive traveling rights. Nothing like it was ever seén under canvas, it is said. The other =multifarious depart- ments of Pawnee Bill’s institution are an improvement in every way over anything that has gone before. The dreamy and imaginative Orient, mysterious Hinduland and savage Africa and Australia are mingled with the whooping west and its cow- boys and cowgirls, Indians, soldiers, Vacqurees and picturesque com- panions and their concomitants. Pawnee Bill's ex>plorers have ransacked many remote colmmes in .their search for amusement novelties and sensations and have returned with a heterageneous horde. India was the object of the especial industry. For months they sought the most adept men of magic the country yielded,-and the result is an exposition which was never be- fore granted and which has startled American eyes. Every trick which for centuries has puzzled western scientists and laymen is performed at all of Pawnee Bill’s performances —the marvel of the mango tree, the basket; the snake, - the sword, the bird, the gun, the beast; they are apparent miracles, passing all under- standing and conception. A blooming, fruit-bearing bush grows before your eyes from a fresh- ly interred mango seed. A Hindu “is feet of earth and emerges directly from the midst of the audience. A girl is confined in a small wicker basket and apparantly butch- ered, an lo, the receptacle is empty. A lean dog is shut up ina box; it is opened and a litter of puppies are found. Balls are thrown in the air and they fade slowly away from sight. Deadly snakes bite grinning per- formers to no purpose; but insort their fangs in dumb animals and they die on the spot. Cannibals from the “Dark Con- tinent” show their flesh-eating pro- clivities. Austrailian Bushmen give demonstrations of their prowess with the boomerang. From the Panama of South America are the Gauchhus, whose skill with the bola is the marvel and despair of every nation. There are Hottentots, Dahomians, South Sea Islanders, Singales and bands of wild riding Cossacks, Russia’s cavalry depend- ence, howling and dancing der- vishres and their -tireless pious evo- lutions; and Arabs, with their su- perb native horses,- show the cus- toms and habits of the desert. Pawnee Bill is, of course, the cen- tral and conspicuous figure in the Wild West divisior of the show. He is a product of the days. of the trail and the range, and typifies them gallantly and picturesquely. The annals of the early west afford no mote lively and adventurous ca- reer than his, and he reproduces without -illusion, under canvas, the life and environment of the Amer- ican ‘history which he had a con- spicuous part in making. Of Indians there are several hun- dred, fresh from their wigwams, real children of nature, away from their reservation for the first time. Mex- ico contributes a quota of the cham- pions of the lasso, the vivid tourna- ment toy. A street parade w1ll inaugurate | the date. Notice. All parties having claims against the Commercial Club for expenses "incurred or. prizes-earned during the Fourth of July celebration are re- quested to present them to the undersigned at once.- Clyde J. Pryor, Secretary. J. . PARKER RESIDENGE DAMAGED $400 BY FIRE| Flames, of Unknown Origin, Extin- guished Barely in Time to Save the Building. Fire at the residence of J. C. Parker (Ninth and Mississipp#)- this morning damaged the kitchen and contents to the extent of $400, and but for the quick work of Mr. Parker and other residents of ‘the house it would have destroyed the building. A laboring man, who works for Mr. Parker, had arisen in the morn- ing before the other members of the and, after lighting the kitchen fire, left the house. About 7 o’clock the members of the family were awakened by a suffocating smoke, —which . entirely filled the house, Hastily dressing, Mr. Parker tushed to the kitchen, to find the whole interior wasin flames. An alarm of fite was' turned in, |and the firemen responded as quickly. as possible, but effective work was done with a small hose attached to a faucet in. the house, and the fire ‘was almost under control when' the BELTRAMI GOUNTY LANDS ARE UNRIVALED BY ANY. J. P. Carlton of St. Paul Realizes that the ‘““Half Has Ne'er Been Told.” J. P. Carlton of St. Paul,secretary and treasurer of the Surety Mort- gage and Load company, has re- turned to St. Paul after visiting in the city with the. family of W. R. Tait for several days. Mr. Carlton was accompanied by his wife. Mr. Carlton is with one of the largest loan companies in the North- west,and he was induced to look over parts of Beltrami and Clearwater counties while here, in order that he might form a correct idea of - thé true value of the lands of these counties for agricultural purposes and for investments. Before Mr. Carlton left for his home he expressed himself as greatly sutprised at what he had seen rela- tive to the farm values hereaboues, and said: “1f you had come intomy office and told me that Beltrami and Clear- water lands were good for agncul- tural purposes I would have been in- clined to. laugh—~wouldn’t have be- lieved it; fields of “the finest clover, wheat other cereals one must .sit up and -take notice: I am certain tht, when once - the twin cities investmen the true” status ‘prevail in this north country, ‘wxllbe more than willing buried “under six - when you see several - 3 companies become aequmnmd with' et