Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 1

i L ~ VOLUME 5. NUMBER 196. o MINKESCTA HISTORICAL “SGOIETY. FORTY CENTS PER MOMTII HOLD-UP ARTISTS GIVEN THRASHING AND JAILED R. C. Bryant, Knocked Through a Window, Recovers and Pummels His Assailants Claims He Was Touched for $50. But for his extensive knowledge | of the “manly art of self defense” and his ability to care for himself under all conditions, R. C. Bryant, who came to this city last evening for a visit with relatives, would have received serious, if not fatal, injuries at the hands of two hold-up artists, on whom he turned the tables and gave a sound thrashing. Mr. Bryant, who recently returned from Alaska, had just come to the city last evening from a visit with his parents at Jenkins, near Brain- erd. He Lakeshore hotel, where he intended to spend the night, with the inten- tion of today visiting with rel::ti\resi in this city. Bryant retired to his room at about 10:45 last evening and after disrobing and extinguishing the lamp, retired for the night. He had with him in the pockets of his pants a sum of money estimated to have| been between$75 and $80. He lock-| ed the door of his room and placed | his pants under his pillow for safe| keeping, and was soon lost in the | deep sleep that comes to a healthy man, who has a clear consciencc.‘ secured a room at the Bayant stated that he slept| soundly until about 1 o’clock, | when he was awakened by someone | turning a key in the door of his| bedroom. He got up from the bed to investigate, and as he did so, a man hastily entered the room and struck him. The force of the blow sent Bryant against the window, his body striking the sash with such force that he went through the pane of glass and fell to tothe pavement some 10 feet below. The fall tunned Right Merrily.---Bryant about five minutes. Being clad only in his underclothes, with bare feet, the cold air soon revived him and he arose to his feet. He glanced at the office door of the hotel and then looked at the window where he saw | the reflection of 2 man standing on the inside, near the door. Bryant cautiously opened the door and ducked his head as he en- tered, which action probably saved him from a more serious injury, for as he entered, the party inside the room struck a powerful blow at him, Bryant let out his good right arm with tremendous force and caught the assailant squarely on the jaw, flooring him and putting him clear out of business. Another party, who was in the room at the time, took a haund in the fray and struck Bryant, and he was also given a “wallop” and started for the stairway, followed by a well- aimed heave of a spittoon from the hands of Bryant. This fellow made his escape. Bryant took a look at the man on the floor and found that he was Thomas Peterson, who has been attending bar in the Lake- shore hotel for Ole Anderson for some time past. The man who made his escape was Mike Shea, a hanger- on at the hotel. When Shea left the building he went to the police headquarters and | told the police that there wasa crazy man at the Lakeshore hotel. George Deneley, night police, went down to investigate. Deneley went to Bryant’s room, and found that someone had ransacked the room and taken the money from Bryant’s went him, and he laid on the sidewalk for | pants. They down stairs, CARTER @ TAIT For Rent—7-room house, good location, $15 per month. For Rent—2-room comfortable house, $4.00 per month. We have several partly city for sale at low prices and improved farms near this easy terms We write fire aand plate glass insurance CARTER Minnesota Avenue. Money to loan on farm lands @ TAIT BEMIDJI, MINN. MASKET BALI.' —GAME— .lon ight.. PARK RAPIDS “BIG BEMIDG” Owing to the inability of the Park Rapids Team to Reach Bemidji last evening, on account of a wreck which de- layed the train, it was necessary to postpone the game until this evening, and there mission to tonight’s game. will be NO CHARGE for ad- Top row (from left to right)—Biddinger (coach), Earl Geil, Matkham, E. Gould. Mlddle row (from left to-right)—Erton Giel, Phifer, G. Peterson, F. Peterson, Stewart. First row (from left to right)—Heffron (manager), Brown (captain), H. Geil. where they were joined by Chief of { Police Knox. Peterson, the man who struck Bryant, was found locked up in the diningroom and was taken into custody by Chief of Police Knox and lodged in the city jail. Shea was subsequently arrested and also committed. Young Bryant, who is a nephew of Harry, Ira and Henry Botting of this city, is being heartily congratu- lated on his ability to clean up hold- up artiats, and it is hoped that the men who nearly killed him will be punished to the full extent of the law for their crime. Peterson and Shea were brought before Judge Slocum this afternoon, and their hearing was adjourned until Monday morning at 9 o’clock. In default of $2,000 bail, both men were committed to jail. Pension Increased. The Pioneer received a letter last evening from Congressman Steener- son at Washington, in which the latter states that the pension of Jacob Rebarick of Bemidji, formerly of Company B, Ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, has been in- creased to $12 a month from April 25th, 1907, KING OSGAR IS VERY ILL; SINKING RAPIDLY Swedish Monafch Partially Unconscious With Lucid Intervals.--Small Hope of Reeovery. Stockholm, Dec. 7.—(Special to Pioneer.)—King Oscar is gradually sinking. He has been unconscious almost all day. His rallies are becoming more and more brief, and the action of his heart is very feeble, The Associated Press is informed by the chamberlain of the king that KING OSCAR II. OF SWEDEN. the royal patient has lost ground ever since the issue of the morning bulletin. At this hour he is very low. The chief ecclesiastics of the Swedish church in Stockholm have \Republican National Committee Chose GHICAGO SELEGTED AS GONVENTION CITY Windy City at Meeting Held in Washington Today. CONVENTION WILL BE HELD JUNE 16.—NEW IS CHAIRMAN t 5 Meeting Is Attended by Fully Nine- tenths of the Members of the Com- mittee and Those Not Present Were Represented by Proxies: Washington, Dec. 7.—(Special to Pioneer.)—The Republican national committee today-decided on Chicago as the place and June 16th as the date for holding the convention for nomination of the presidential ticket. Chicago 32, Kan- sas City 17, Denver 4. . The vote was: ‘Washington, Dec. 7.—Harry S. New of Indianapolis has been elected chair- man of the Republican national com- mittee to succeed George B. Cortelyou, resigned. After the committee had beegcalled to order all spectators were requested to retire and when the door had closed upon the last one of them the photographer who was present was permitted to photograph the commit- tee. The first real business of the meeting was the calling of the roll, which developed the fact that about nine-tenths of the membership of the committee was present and that all of the absent members were repre- sented by proxies. After the roll call had been completed the selection of a chairman to fill out the unexpired HARRY 8. NEW. term of Secretary Cortelyou was an- nounced to be in order and Mr. New, Who had presided up to this time, re- tired. When he left the hall Senator Crane of Massachusetts took the floor and placed Mr. New in nomination, simply saying that Mr. New’s serv- fces had been so satisfactory and his treatment of all members of the com- mittee so courteous that the commit- tee owed it to itself to elect him. Mr. Lyon of Texas seconded the nomination. There being no other names before the committee Mr. New ‘was unanimously chosen to fill out the term, which will make it neces- sary for him to prepare for the hold- ing of the natlonal convention and to call it to order. Mr. New was then escorted tp the meeting room by a committes and briefly thanked the members for the THE GAME WILL BE CALLED AT 9:30 newme = ™ "% honor conferred onghim. Through to Brainerd. A party of residents of Fort Fran- cis passed through the city this morning enroute to Brainerd from their homes, having come over the boundary line last night and taken the new through * train to Interna- tional Falls. The party was “chaper- oned” by C. W. Stanton of Inter- national Falls, county attorney of Koochiching county, and consisted of the following: Judge Hollansd, L. Christie, A: Stether, M. Gibson, J. A. Osborn, J. P. Wright and H. J. F. Sissons, all of Fort Francis, and M. E. Trumer, a former resident of Fort Francis,but who is now located in Minneapolis. The gentlemen are among the most prominent residerts of lower Canada, several of them occupying prominent offices of the Canadian government. J. P. Wright is Indian agent for Fort Francis; H. J. F. Sissons is the registrar and J. A. Osborn is owner of the Fort Francis Times. The party will attend an im- portant Masonic meeting to be held in Brainerd this evening, Markham Sunday Dinner. Remember that you can take your family to the Markham hotel and partake of a fine Sunday dinner which will be served at 6 o’clock to- morrow. . Don’t bother with home cooking, when you can be served so nicely, “THE RMERS” AT GITY OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT High-Class Attraction Secured for Be- midji Theatergoers.—First Time Play Produced Here. An eminent ‘American physician in a recent interview said: “I pre- scribe the theatre as a means of recreation to overworked, nervous and debilitated patients in a similar manner to what I would an- outing or any other change of ‘environment. Stand at the door of the’ theatre when the throng seeks admission, watch the faces that enter and you will see lines of care and lassitude. Within a few hours these same -indi- viduals issue forth refreshed and invigorated.” to the entertainment furnished by “The Ramblers,” which will be seen at the City Opera House Saturday, December 7.. Farce comedy being traditionally the spice of life, it is always a pleasure to recognize and to welcome indications of a change in the regular sources of recreation. This is a musical farce comedy, full of climaxes fittingly arranged. The comedy element stands out strong and the dialogue is crisp aad lively. The musical numbers include much clever scoring, girls young and laughing, display an extravagance of elegant costumes beautifully har- monized in color, well designed and rich in material, while singing capti- vating airs with their refrain and movement, From previous reports, this company is accredited with being unsurpassable and should without a doubt give everybody their money’s worth, . Additional local on second page. —— He evidently referred: HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM WON LAST NIGHT The Second Team of the City Squad Was Defeated by a Score of 12 to 10.---The “‘Kids’’ Played a Fast, Aggressive Game, The game of basketball which was to have been played Friday evening at the Grand Opera House Skating Rink between the “Big Be- midg” five and the. Park Rapids team was declared off, because of the inability of the “Rapids” play- ers to reach this city. A large crowd' assembled at the rink, prepared to root for the home team, but the spectators were con- siderably disappointed when it was finally.ahnounced that the visiting players were unable to fill their date. The train on which the Park Rap- ids team was coming' to Bemidji was held up at Walker until after 12 o’clock last night, by reason of the wreck of a freight train, a mile north of Walker, at the junction of the M. & I. and Great Northern railways. The G. N. company stated at first that the train would arrive here at; 10 o’clock, and it was hoped that the basketball' game could be played after that hour, but when 10 o’clock arrived the railway people admitted that they did not know when the train would arrive, so that it was necessary to declare the game off. In order to not utterly disappoint the spectators, a game was arranged to be played between the second city team and the high school five: This game was highly exciting, and was won by the high school boys, after a hard stmggle, by a score of 12 to 11. The two teams lined up as fol- lows. Bemidji Second Team—Phifer and Stewart, forwards; E. Geil, center; A. Gould and E. Gould, guards. High School Team — Lycan, Shannon and Dwyer, forwards; Hon- drom, center; C. Gould and Kruse, guards. 5 Professor Blddmger acted as referee and Floyd Brown as um- pire. From the time the referee blew his whistle starting the game until time was called in the last half. the game was 2 very fast one, in fact the plays followed ezch other so rapidly that fumbling and fouls were very frcquent and the two officials were given plenty to do in watching for mfractlons of the rules. About three minutes after play was commenced, Shannon of the high school team committed a foul, and the second team was givena free throw, Phifer making an easy basket. Score—Second Team 1, High School 0. A moment later a foul was made by the second team and C. Gould, for the High School, failed to throw a basket from the free throw. The High School was fouled a second time, and Gould again missed the basket. The High School foule i and Phlfer threw a basket. Score—Second Team 2, High School 0. The High School again fouled, Phifer missing the basket, which was followed by another foul on the part of the High School, Phifer scoring; making the score 3 to. 0, in favor of the Second team. " Gould missed a foul throw for a basket, but followed a2 moment later with a basket. Score 3 to 1. Continued on Last Page THE NEW STORE Every day is bargain day at our store. We have ar especially large line of canned fruits and vegetables. THE NEW STORE MENU Sweet Wrinkle Peas Strmgless, Golden Wax and Lima Beans Tomatoes Baby Corn Succotash . Fresh Ruby Beets Apricots Peaches Pears Cherries Greengages Plums Raspbernea and Strawberries ROE & MARKUSEN Phone 207 " get his supply of presents Santa Claus Hezidquartrs at LUKEN’S 317 Qeltrami Avenue This Busy Old Gentleman has been working overtime to Everything will be ready Saturday and all are invited to come and see our great display of Dolls, Doll Houses, Doll Cabs Doll Furniture, Magic Lanterns, Steam Toys Mechanical Toys, Sleds, Skis, Printing Presses - and thousands of “articles suitable for presents for the Young and old. Come one, come all to ready for the yi)‘ung folks. Iron Toys Horses