Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1907, Page 1

7 THE VOLUME 5. NUMBER 210. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1907. : MINKESOTA HISTORICAL SOGIETY, FORTY CENTS PER MOMNTIL JOHAN JOHANSON USED A REVOLVER; SHOT PARTNER Men Had Been Drinking, and Were in a Resort West of the City.---Johanson Arrested on Charge of Assault.--- Hearing Continued to Jan. 3. While giving a strenuous demon- stration of the reckless use of fire-‘ arms last night, in a resort in the| west end of the city, Johan Johan-| son, common laborer, shot his part-{ ner, Charles Hill, in the back| between the shoulders with a bullet| fired from a 38-callibre revolver, and that Hill was not instantly killed | was probably due to the fact that| the weapon from which the bullet| was fired was of a poor make, and also that Hill was wearing a heavy| coat and three thick shirts. Johanson and Hill, who had been| : ; | working in the camps of John| Moberg near Laporte, came in last evening from the camps. They drank together considerably during the evening, and at a late hour went| to a resort in the swamps in the west | end of the city. Hill, the who was shot,| states that about 1 a.m., while he| was dancing in the house, Johan-| pulled a revolver from his, pocket and began firing promis-.| ciously around the room, one of the bullets struck him‘ (Hill) between the shoulders, near| the right side. | Hill did not realize that he was‘; man son very seriously hurt, but immediatelyi *skiddoed” from the premises and came over town, stopping near the city hall, where he lustily for help. began to ye]l“ G. W. Walker, who | is custodian of the city hall at| night, heard Hill yelling and went; He found Hill standing on the sidewalk and took him into the city hall, where he laid down on the floor. Hill told the-story of the shooting to Mr. Walker, and the latter tele- phoned to Chief of Police Knox, who told Mr. Walker to send the night police to the resort to arrest Johanson. Patrolmen Denley and Love went out to investigate. | over to the resort, where they found Johanson, who offered no resistance, beyond displaying his revolver, the chambers of which had been emptied. Johanson was brought to the city | and placed in the lock-up, awaiting lodging of the charge against him. This forenoon a complaint was made against Johanson, charging him with assatlt in the first degree (shooting Hill with a loaded firearm with intent to kill) and this after- noon he was taken before M. G. Slocum, justice of the peace, and his case was contin'ped until January 3rd, he being committed to the county jail awaiting preliminary hearing on that date. Hill, the man who was shot, does not appear to have been very seri- ously injured, although the bullet from the revolver entered the right shoulder and lodged near the | shoulder blade. to suffer much pain, but until the bullet is abstracted he is probably in considerable danger of serious con- sequences. Annual Meeting of Fireman. | The members of the Bemidji Fire Department held their annual meet- ing last evening for the purpose of electing officers and transacting other business of importance to the department. Tee following were the officers elected for the ensuing year: Earl Geil, chief; John Doran, assistant chief; Albert Halvorsen, secretary; John Goodman, treasurer. For the Relief Association, - following officers were elected: Herb | Doran, president, E. H. Cornwall, vice-president; Harry Geil,secretary; | John Goodman, treasurer; Robert Russell, M. F. Cunningham and Charles Daley, trustees. James Miller and John Hillaby were appointed to act as -special police at fires, with instructions to officiate as regular officers during the fires. There was much discussion of matters of interest to the department and the meeting was one of the most instructive ever held. the | It was decided that the depart- which will hereafter be worn by each member ment provide badges, of the department. The Bemidji Fire Department is departments in the entire state of | Minnesota. The members include some of the best business men and | most progressive private citizens in Bemidji. many honors at firemen’s tourna- | ments and also several championship | banners for superior excellence in | races and contests. | The department is composed of a very able corps of fire hghters, and Bemidji is justly proud of her volun- teer firemen, No Paper Christmas. There will be no Daily Pioneer on Wednesday | (Christmas day), as. the printer, like all other mortals, wishes to enjoy to the full the joyousnes of the occassion by refraining from labor. one of the very best volunteer fire, 5 | the barn to see if he was still there. The department has won |been closed. The dining issue of tke; midji’s H. W. Bailey this morning received a letter from his son, O. E. Bailey, who is at Spokane, in which the {latter enclosed a clipping from the Spokane Review, telling of the suicide of Ted Smith, an old resident of Bemidji, who moved to Spokane from Bemidji some three years ago. | The Spokane paper says of Smith’s rash act: “Leaving a note to his wife that he was going to join relatives who ‘passed over’ two or three years ago, Ted Smith, a spiritualist living on| Moran prairie, shot and killed him- self yesterday morning at 5:30 o’clock. His wife, Mrs. Cora Kin- cannon Smith, is well known in spiritualistic circles in this city, and was formerly a lecturer on the sub- ject in Pacific hall. Both she and her husband were thorough believers in the power of the dead to return and communicate with those on this earth, and in the message left by Smith he promises to'come and see his wife as soon as possible. “Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Smith and her mother believed themselves to be receiving messages from the dead man assuring them of his Hill does not seem | Presence with them. At times Mrs. Smith would become hysterical and would have to be calmed by force. “‘Smith arose about 5 o’clock yes- terday and built a fire in the kitchen stove and then went back to bed. An hour later he dressed and wrote the note to his wife, which he left in the kitchen. After 8 o’clock his wife and her mother, who be- lieved he had taken the car and gone downtown, noticed his hat and coat in the house and went cut to “TED SMITH, Former Resident of Bemidji, Who Suicided in Spokane. His wife foand the body lying be- side a pile of wood in a shed near the barn. “It was known that he had been unable to raise sufficient money to complete the payment on the bar fixtures in the Spokoma bar, which he owned, and for several other small debts, but as he had refused only a week ago $8500 for his property on Moran prairie, he was considered well to do. He came to Spokane about two years ago from Minnesota, where, it is reported, he was mayor of a small town"in' the Northern part of thestate far two terms. “The message that he left to his wife was as follows: “‘Darling Cora—Forgive me for this act. I long to be in the other would. Iknow that Mal and Ed will help me. I will make conditions to TED SMITH DEAD; DIED BY HIS OWN HAND IN SPOKANE Mr. Smith Was Well Known in Bemidii.---Was One of Be- Early Pioneers, and Was First the Presndent of the Village Council. come and' see you as soon as possible, my only love. Teddy. “‘Love to all. Have George Dan Sourwine will help you.’ “‘Mal’ and ‘Ed’ refers, are a sister of his wife and her husband, who died in Minpesota two or three years ago. They were both spiritualists and were believed by Smith and his wife to have com- municated with them many times since their death. Armstrong, of whom he speaks, is a spiritualist in this city, and Sourwine was one of his business associates. “Mr. Smith was 47 years old and a native of England, where he is said to have a sister, who is wealthy. The body was taken to the under- taking rooms of Smith & Co., where it is held until funeral arrangements | can be made.” — Ted Smith was one of the first white men to locate in the vicinity of Bemidji. He came to this city prior to the advent of the railroad, and was prominently identified with the growth and development of the city, until three years ago. Mr. first village council, mayor.” this city. Together with his wife, he moved to Spokane, Wash., three years ago and has made his home in that city ever since. His act of self-destruction can only be accounted for here through over-indulgence in liquors. Brinkman Hotel Not Closed. The Hotel Brinkman has not room and kitchen have been cut out, but the sixty rooms which are in the hotel will be conducted as here- tofore on the European plan, with or without hot or cold-water baths| and attendants, on request. An article in last evening’s Pio- neer was misleading, in that one would bave supposed that the rooms had been discontinued, but such is not the case. The room will be con- ducted, as formerly; and the Brink- man Family Theater will be opened | to the public next Monday. Additional local matter will be found on fourth page. f - « ,,e-i-:s:eee:e THE MART THE HOUSE OF BARGAINS Q Tuesday We Offer Extra Christmas Bargains---They’re Irresistible---Look Them Over As a Compliment to Our Patrons $2.00 FRAMED PICTURES FOR 49 CENTS To customers purchasing $2 worth of goods .A Chance of a Lifetime to Decorate .Your Hoine. THE MART THE HOUSE OF BARGAINS =saaaaaaw)-)-naaaaaaaaaa«)«)-)aaa-)aaasaaa Christmas Exercises. Christmas will be celebrated by appropriate exercises in several of the churches of the city tonight, in which the children and the ‘‘grown- up folks” will participate. The Baptist church and Sunday school will have a.Christmas tree and appropriate exercises for the occasion. at 8 o’clock to last an hour. Every- one is cordially invited to attend. There will be a Christmas tree for the poor in the Salvation Army barracks this evening- Merchants of the city have donated to the affair and it will be liberally patron- ized. Extensive preparations have been made for Christmas services in the Methodist church this evening. There will be two Christmas trees and a splendid program by the scholars of the Sabbath school, of which Dr. Smith is superintendent. At the Presbyterian church this evening there will be a tree and ex- ercises participated in by the mem- bers of the primary and the inter- mediate departments of the Sunday school. Mrs. M. C. Wilson has charge of the primary department, and Miss Gladys McKenzie has charge of the intermediate depart- ment. The program is as follows: Hymn—By the Oongregation. Invocation. Serlpture roading, prayor and remarls fby the Pasto: Song, “J esus In s Mangsr Lay"—Primary Daap:rmene citation—Margaret Kline. *’Christmas Eve'—Pearl Rrownlee. *"Bout & Million"—Mazee Payne. Recnublon—vloll Otto. YA C "—Elll Robinson. anche McDonald. \nh Tenstrom “The hristm o Slark. A 8mall Boy's Plan’” —Fllnkle Hnris Becltation—Krederick Free: S(ml'.l "?hrlstmu Bells ne Rlnxlnz“—fly Scl +The Christmas Tree"—Eunice Collard, ‘Be Merry Around the Christmas Tree"— Mildred Richardsos ~When the ohrmmu Bells are Ringing"— Edith Robin: scember -Rentrlce Amadon, 50me. “The Babe Divine"—By Dr. Marcum's Why the Bells at Ohristmas Ring"—Ruth ‘Winebrenuer. ““The Adoration of the Wise Men'—Georzia Oulemn “In Search of the Klnr"—nnys lnd Glrln of the Intermediate Sch Arrival of Santa Olaus. The exercises will begin| " Masquerade Skating Carnival. night (December 25). Armstrong say a few words for me. | to whom he| Smith was a member of the being elected president, and being known as “the He conducted ae saloon and was one of the most promi- nent residents of the early days in his mind having been affected by intoxicating A masquerade skating carnival will be given at the rink Christmas Those desir- ing masks should apply at the rink. F;orty Talented College Men The entertainment which musical, and the boys pride them. | selves jin the west. Glee and Mandolin Club has estab. most thoroughly developed of al in western universitiesand colleges, and many say its work is equal to almost any in the east. not a recital or even what i3 gen. erally termed a concert. music is presented enthusiasm. There is staid and solemn about it. }with irresistable jand the mirth is beyond the foot-lights; and zeal into one of the beautifu compositions which they worked over and studied ‘together {until they feel the impulse of every note; and again the stage is the scene of wild college enthusiasm, an emotion which is second only to patriotism and is felt much more strongly by those who are in ‘the midst of college interests and asso- Term of Court Postponed. The special term of district court |which was to have been held in this city béginninz on January 31, has been postponed until February 4th. This morning, County Attorney Henry Funkley received a letter from Judge McClenahan, who will preside at the term, that he (the| judge) would not be able to be in Bemidji on January 31st,as he would | the University of Minnesota Glee and Mandolin Club gives is of course upon having among their | number some of the best artists of the organizations cf its kind The program, though musical, is The in a scene bubbling over with college life and nothing One minute the boys are carried ,‘away mirth, contagious the next minute they throw the same heart have MINNESOTA ‘U" MANDOLIN AND GLEE CLUB IS COMING Will Give a Fine Entertain- ment at City Opera House Saturday Evening..-- Best Organization in the West. ciations, and those who have emerged from them after their college time is over, than patriotism ever stirs in the breasts of most | people. This-is a spirit which comes naturally to the youth who has As the Minnesota | reached the junction of boyhood and football team always places her in the front rank and often at ‘the head of western athletics, so her manhood or traveled a little beyond. He has the maturity to realize and accept the serious things, he sees | comical things, and he siezes both 1{with the life that only youth con- tributes. ,| Those students who are “mixed 1| up” in the many branches of student activities and do the most work for college organizations, are the ones - | who' receive in return the greatest amount of affection for their “Alma Mater.” The football men love their college, not only because it was there that they made some of their fastest friendships and formed some of their most lasting associations, but because they fought for her honor and fame. So it is with the i debators, the members of the ‘Dramatic Club, and those of the 1/Y. M-C. A. The men ot the Glee and Mandolin Club do not know how much they really love their college and the fellowship which they have found there until they all get off together for their annual trip and the time has come for them to show what they have been working at together for the first four months of the yeat. _— be unavoidably absent - from the dis- trict. The Pioneer has been requested to state that all witnesses who have been subpoenaed to appear at the term beginning on the 31st day are excused until February 4th. For an evening’s amusement. Come to the rink. A dollar’s worth jof fun for a quarter. Local news on last page Year. water mark. tonight. Phone 57 have been possible. HARDWARE To Our Friends and Customers GREETING:-- . As the year Nineteen Hundred and Seven draws to a close we wish to express our sincere - appreciation of the patronage with which you have favored us, and also to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New This year. the volume of our business has exceeded all past records Without the loyal sup- port of our friends and customers this would not We are proud of the fact, however, that our policy of handling the kind of merchand ise which most appeals to the purchasing public, and in always giving the best values, has aided in no small degree in attaining this high Our policy is to handle only the best grades of hardware--to sell at the lowest possible prices--to guarantee every article which leaVes our store and most of all to give fair, honest and courteous treatment to all. Our store will be closed all da.y Chnstmas in order to give our clexks and ourselves a charnce to enjoy the day. Store will be open until 10 o *clock Fleming Bros. - | irrresistably the ridiculous and - lished its stand’ng as one of the