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

VOLUME 5. NUMBER 173. FOOTBALLISTS DEFEATED; RAN AGAINST SURE THING Pick-up Bemidji Team Gets ‘the Small End of 217 to 0 Score.---The Referee Was Intensely Loyal to His Home Town. A football eleven composed of | ized, they held their heavier and players picked up at a late hour|more vicious opponents to a score of Saturday night at many of the best pigskin artists of\ a time when| 10 to O for the first half. The Grand Rapids players slugged | and roughed it from the blow of the this city could not be found, went }whistle to the end of the half, with to Grand Rapids ‘ after a | bunch of players whose principaland quit. forte, apparently, consisted of slug- yesterday and|the result that Shook, the crack strenuous contest with a|Bemidji quarter, was knocked out F. Getchell had a black eye, and several of the members of ging and kicking, were defeated, |the local team suffered minor casual- with the by a score of 17 to 0. Some time ago arrangements were | made for the Bemidji “Chiefs” to play the Independent Grand Rapids‘ eleven yesterday, but it was thought | the game had fallen through, and several of the best “Chiefs” players had made arrangements so thal they could not leave the city. Word was received from Grand Rapids that the game would be played yesterday and an eleven was scraped together to be taken to the “Rapids," with the usual result obtained by a team which has never practiced together. The Bemidji line-up was as follows; Kruse and Hondron, ends; T. Getchell and Roberts, tackles; Hill- aby and Lycan, guards; Brenamen, center; J. Getchell and Carter, half- | backs; Peterson, quarter. Opposed to the Bemidji eleven was a team composed of the best vetran players of Grand Rapids and vicinity. Desnite the fact that the Remidii team was anything but well organ- fullback; Shooks, assistance of a referee, ! ties. In the second half the “Rapids” players went at the visitors with a vengence, and not satisfied with the rough-house method of the players, the referee, James Doran, a brother | of the Grand Rapids fullback, pen- alized the Bemidji team many times, entirely overlooking the pugnacious method of his home players. Grand Rapids, under the protec- tion of the referee, aided by their knock-down and carry- out method | of playing, ran up a score of seven- | teen points. One of the touchdowns fwas the result of a quarterback run, ‘[zm illegal method of scoring. One | of the other touchdowns was secured | through a foul tackle, with a blind referee. | The game resulted in a score of |17 to 0, in favor of the Grand Rap- |ids eleven and the referee. Barring the pugilistic portion of | the game and the self-denying ex- lample of brotherly love shown by | the referee for the member of his 1vfamily and the ten other gentle- { men included in the team, the con | test was a fairly equal one. MUNN AND MATHIESON | Munn has a number of friends at | Warroad, who, according to the will attempt to have his sentence DISPLAYING GHEAT NERVE Warroad Plain Dealer of last week, Preparing for the Possibility of Their | Execution With a Composure That Is Remarkable.' The sheriff has not yet been officialiy notified of the date of the| execution of Martin S. Munn and| Peter Mathieson, which has been ! set by the governorfor Friday, Feb-g‘ ruary 7. It is expected that the warrant fixing the date will reach the sheriff’s office some time this week, and will be read to the condemned men, who were convicted of murder in the first degree at the recent session of dis- trict court, and sentenced to be hanged by Judge McClenahan. Both Munn and Mathieson, are occupying the same cell in the county iail under the constant vigil- ance of Julius Dahl and Andrew Johnson, the death watch, which was set immediately after the| sentence was pronounced. They have been acquainted with the date on which they must expiate their crimes on the gallows. Neither showed any more emotion when imformed than though ac- quainted with the fact that it wasa nice day. The men have nerved themselves up to meet their fate bravely, and are possessed and resigned. ! Mathieson has been receiving religious consolation from Rey. Stromme, the local Norwegian Lutheran minister, and spends most of his time reading the bible and copy of the New Testament in the Danish language. The minister has impressed upon him the necessity of confessing his crime before God and man in order to save his soul, but Mathieson remains firm in his state- ment, that he has told all—that the killing of his friend and companion was an accident. Munn has also been the object of the solicitations of ministers of dif- ferent denominations, and while he spends some time reading the bible, he says nothing that would indicate that the word has made any im- pression on him, commuted. They dwelled in a lengthy article that he had not premeditated the murder of Franklin, and spoke of him as having been a mild-mannered, sober and indus- trions citizen while making his home there. The attorneys for Mathieson will also make application to the state board of pardons to have his sen- tence commuted. The executions, if carried out, will be the first double hanging in Minnesota for fifteen years, and much interest is taken throughout this section regarding what action will be taken when the cases are taken up before the board of par- dons for review. Band Concert Nov. 15. Professor Thomas Symington, leader of the Bemidji band, an- nounces that the first of a series of winter band concerts will be given in the city hall about Friday evening, November 15th, when a specially- arranged program of high-class i music will be rendered. Don’t forget ‘“The Merry Milk- maids” at the City Opera House, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 18th and 19th. ® Opinion of Champ Clark. ‘Washington, Nov. 11.—“The one gal- lus Republicans at the cross roads are for Roosevelt; the one gallus Demo- crats are for Bryan and the politicians of either party are against both.” This was the epitome of the political situa- tion given by Representative Champ Clark of Missouri, who paid his re- Copper Miners Issue Ultimatum. Calumet, Mich., Nov. 11.—The cop- per miners of the Calumet and Hecla matum to the management that they will strike unless the management rescinds the wage reduction of 121 per cent, which it was recentlyan- nounced would take effect Deo. 1. ‘About 8,000 men are involved. Enforcing Prohibition Law, Dover, Del., Nov. 11.—Governor Lea has signed the proclamation enacting the prohibition law for the countles Wwhich voted against license last Tues- day. The saloons and distilleries are accordingly closing and shipping their poods out of the state. Mining company have Issued an ulti- |8 P. A. WALSH HAS “UP AND GONE AND DONE IT" Takes Unto Himselfa Wife, Unbeknown to His Many Friends in This City. When our genial sheriff, P. A. Walsh, boarded the M. & I. train Monday evening for Big Falls the bystanders were led to believe by the knowing smile which luminated his countenance that he was ‘“‘wise” to some clew as to who the parties were who robbed the postoffice in that village and that this clew would also lead him to their whereabouts. It may be that he had such a clew, but another of much higher and more glorious import caused him to wear that knowing smile. A tele- phone message from Big Falls in- forms us that Patrick A. Walsh and Maude Merrill, formerly of Cass Lake, were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock in that village Tuesday evening by Justice Erick A. Linden. A host of friends will join the Press in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Walsh a happy wedded life.—International Falls Press. And this is the manner in which we are used by our old friend “Pat,” who when he left for Big Falls the evening referred to in the above, put his finger in his right eye and said: “Sh-h-h. Wait a day or two. Don’t tell a soul. I’ll write you all about it. You know her; known here several years. Sh-h-h-h. Sh.” Both Mr. Walsh and his wife (Mrs. Merrill) have many friends in this city and at Cass Lake, at which latter place both resided for several years. Mr. Walsh is one of the biggest-hearted good souls that ever inhabited this north coun- try; and Mrs. Walsh is just as good- natured and loyal as her husband. Congratulations to both. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1907. Swore in Marine Recruits. First Lieutenant H. D. South of St. Paul, of the U. S. Marines, who| is in charge of this recruiting dis- trict for the marines, arrived in the city this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from Duluth. Lieutenant South is here for the purpose of administering the oath to Robert Denny, Lynn Henry Ramsey, John Riley Casey and Robert Elmer Wigner, recruits who have been secured by Sergeant Allan Ward, who is in charge of the local recruit- ing office. These recruits will be sent to Brooklyn, New York, for service. ELEVATORS PAID CASH N CLEARWATER COUNTY A. Kaiser Tells of Excellent Conditions Which Prevailed at Bagley and Shevlin Recently. — “The recent stringency in the money market was not felt to any appreciable extent in Clearwater county,” says A. Kaiser, the Bagley banker, who has large inter- ests in Clearwater county, and who was in Bemidji today. i “As an illustration that Clear- water county business interests are founded on a solid foundation,” says Mr. Kaiser. “the three elevators of the county, two of which are at] Bagley and one at Shevlin,” have paid cash at all times during the past two months, as well as at all times during the last year, for all grain bought of the farmers. I be- lieve this is one of the very few instances where cash was paid at elevators throughout the northwest for grain which was bought during the so-called ‘panic.’ “We of Clearwater county 'are indeed fortunate in having estab- lished an excellent line of credit with the twin city banks and jobbing H. S. GHASE, JR., LOCAL BUSINESS MAN, IS DEAD Expired at Minneapolis Last Saturday. ~ Had Been Ailing for Some Time Past. H. S. Chase, proprietor of the Bemidji Cash Shoe Store, died Sat- urday morning in a Minneapolis hospital, where he went about six weeks ago for medical treatment. Mr. Chase had been sick for the past two years, and while death was not wholly unexpected, yet the news came as a surprise to the people of this city. Mr. Chase moved here last spring, and opened a shoe store. Prior to coming here he had made his home at Grand Forks for the past fifteen years out of which he traveled for a wholesale shoe house with which he was connected up to the time of his death. His move .here was principally for the benefit of his health, and he spent the summer at Grand Forks Bay with his family, and found the climate much beneficial. Mr. Chase was a sufferer from a complication of diseases, though the primary cause of death was pulmon- ary trouble. He was a member of the U. C. T, Masonic and A. O. U. W. lodges. He is survived by a wife and one daughter, aged 16 years, who were with him when the end came. The funeral will be held Tuesday in Minneapolis. Wm. Schrader’s Pension Raised. Word comes -from Congressman Steenerson to the effect that the pension authorities at Washington have notified him that the claim of William Schrader of this city for in- crease of pension has been allowed, at $12 per month. -Mr. Schrader was formerly a member of Co. C, First houses.” Wisconsin H. A. ~ crombie, DEEECTIVE DACE Uniform Tablets | The public schools have adopted a uniform tablet which the teachers have re- quested all pupils to use. These tablets were put up at the Pioneer office and are on sale at the following stores: o Pioneer Stationery Store, M. E. Ibertson, Mrs. Aber- Scott Stewart, ‘Floyd Brown, Wm. Mageau Frank H. West @ Co. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH Have Wandered Into Swa ing Party Made Persons coming to Bemidji this morning from the vicinity of Mar- gie state that considerable excite- ment has been occassioned there by the disappearance early last night of John Hicks, who is be- lieved to have been lost in the almost impassable swam’i)s east of Margie. Hicks is a member of the crew working on the section at Margie, and yesterday he took the foreman’s gun and went into the woods to get some partridges. He did not return before dark. At about 8 o’clock last evening guests_at the home of Mr. Horton, who conducts the hotel at Margie, heard shots being fired in rapid succession, and shouts followed the shots, all of which, apparrently, came from a direction about a mile east of the track, and between one and two miles from the station at Mar- gie. These shots were answered by a guest at the hotel, who also yelled help, emanating apparently from the swamp. The shots from the swamp were continued at brief intervals,but grew fainter and less frequent, indicating that the party firing the shots was evidently wandering farther into the dense woods. Senator A. V. Rieke of Fairfax, MAN IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED IN THE SWAMP John Hicks, Employed on Section at Margie, Believed to mp and Is Lest.---Search- Fruitless Trip. who was stopping at the hotel, organized a posse of three besides himself, and taking a lantern went up the railroad track for a consid- erable distance, firing shots as they went in hope of locating the party who was in the swamp. Senator Rieke and his party went as far as the section house, where they ascertained that Hicks was undoubtedly the man lost in the swamp. The party searched for some time but were unable to get trace of the man in the woods, and the night being intensely dark, the search was abandoned. Hicks was the companion of a man who disappeared recently from Big Falls, a portion of whose cloth- ing was found about a month ago, and dispite efforts to locate the owner of the clothes, he was never found, and it is believed he perished in the woods near Pine Island, and that his body wlll never be recovered. | The terrible fate of his compan- ion caused Hicks to brood and be lustily in response to the halloos for|downcast. He worried continually over the unfortunate occurrence, and itis said drank considerable. He had stated on several occasions that he would find his companion. It is believed that Hicks has | again been brooding over the dis- appearance of his friend, and that he has made away with himself, after being lost in the woods. Notiee of Sealed Bids. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Board of County Commissioners of Bel- trami county, Minnesota, up until ten o’clock a. m., on Tuesday the third day of December, A. D. 1907, for the construction of a county road described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of section 36, township 152, range 31, and running thence due west for a distance of two miles. Said road to be constructed and completed according to the plat and specifications now on file in the office of M. D. Stoner, superintendent of highways, Bemidji, Minn, A certified.check in the amount of ten per cent of the amount of the bid must accompany each and every bid as a guarantee of the good faith of the bidder. Successful bidders will be required to enter into contract and will be | required to furnish-.a good and suffi- cient bond in an amount double the amount of the contract price for the faithful performance of said contract. The Board of County Commission- ers hereby reserve the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of County Commissioners of Beltrami County, Minnesota. Dated at Bemidji, Minnesota, this | 15th day of November, 1907. (Signed) WES WRIGHT, Chairman of County Board. Attest: JOHN WILMANN, County Auditor. Half Century on the Bench. La Crosse, Wis,, Nov. 11.—Judge G. C. Prentiss, a ploneer Wisconsin law- yer and jurist, who has just,finished a full half century's service on the bench, is- dead, aged eighty-three. Judge Prentiss came to Wisconsin in 1848 and had been a judge since 1857, during which time he tried many cases of more than statewide impor- tance, S T Due to Scarcity of Currency. Milwaukee, Nov. 11.—Milwaukee banks, members of the local Clearing House association, have decided to issue clearing house certificates in de- nominatious of $1, $6 and $10. The step was taken because of the scarcity of currency and will continue until the financial situation assumes a normal condition. . i No Children on the Stage. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 11.—Labor Com- missioner Ryder has announced that children under sixteen years of age must not appear behind the footlights NERVOUS FROM DRINKING; TAKEN TO POOR FARM B. Murphy Witnessed Some Horrible Sights While Affected With Deler- ium Tremers Last Night. Clad in nothing but a pair of pants and a light flannel shirt, with no shoes on his feet and his head un- covered, a wild-eyed individual startled a number of men who were working on the road in Nymore, at about 3 o’clock this morning, by asserting that he had seen a boy killed by a number of men and put through a hole in the ice on Lake Bemidji; and that there were a num- ber of men after him, bent on taking his life. The unkempt appearance of the man, together with his wild state- ments, caused some fear among his hearers, and Marshal Glidden took him in charge. The bare-footed pedestrian —was questioned more closely and it was ping at the Lakeshore hotel, in this city. Inquiry was made at the hotel, with the result that it was learned that the man’s name was B. Murphy; that he lnad been drinking quite heavily of late, and that he was in the midst of an acute attack of nervousaess,bordering on delirium tremors, and was in fact “seeing things.” Murphy was taken in charge by the authorities, who sent him to the county poor farm, where he will - be given an opportunity to rid himself of the effects of too ardent an appetite for ‘‘strong stufi.” Should this not bring his mind back to an even balancing, it is possible that the probate court may take his case in hand. When he first appeared in his scanty raiment, Muiphy’s statements were made with such _candor and apparent seriousness that they caused considerable of a sensation. Fortunately he was taken in charge before being badly frozen. As it was, he was “nipped” somewhat by the frosts.” 3 in Nebraska. The state child labor board held a meeting and decided that the law must be rigldly. enfo in | Don't forget the “Merry Milk maids,” at the City Opera House, Monda; ascertained that he had been stop- & —