Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 22, 1908, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY VOLUME 5. NUMBER 234. amo'd“‘ sodety. TR " BEMIDJT, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1908. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ON FOR NEXT “Big Bemidg” and Duluth Y. M. C. A. Basketball Teams Will Contest for Supremacy at Bemidji Rink..--- Very Fast Game Looked for. The management of Bemidg” basketball team has closed | will be|Promises to be the fastest and most a deal whereby a game playedin this city on Friday even- ing of this week with the strong Y M. C. A. basketball team of Duluth. | ting team is said to be thel championship basketball organiza-| tion of the | championship of northeastern Min- | nesota; and as the “Big Bemidg” | has yet to be defeated bya basket-‘ ball team in the middle or western| portion of the north half of the | state, the game to be played next‘ week will be for the basket cham-| pionship of northern Minnesota as‘ a whole. ‘ The Duluth team has been de-| feated but once this season, and the | defeat was administered by a Wis- | consin organization (from Superior). “Big Bemidg” lost one game this| winter, and that defeat was at the; hands of the Grand Forks team last | week. ‘The status of the Duluth and the| Bemidji teams is about a ‘‘stand-off,” I'he v Duluth, and claims the “Big|and the game that will be played | this part of the state. FRIDAY NIGHT here on Friday evening of next week hotly-contested game ever seen in Inaletter to Mr. Heffron, Earnest G. Morse, manager of the Duluth team, says: \ “We shall be on hand next Friday night, sure. The line-up of our team as near as we can now tell, will be as/| follows: “Ballou and McLean, forwards; Dinham, center; Skelton and Smith, guards. i “We have won the following vic- tories this winter: Y. M. C. A., 76, Company C, 3; Y. M.C. A, 109, Lincoln Park, 8; Y. M. C. A., 66, Nelson-Dewey, 20; Y. M. C. A., 44, All-Stars, 13.” The above scores would indicate that the Duluth Y. M. C. A. team is a very fast bunch. The Bemidji team will line up as follows: H. Geil and J. Markham, forwards; Brown, center; Peterson and Collins or Biddinger, guards. McGuire Won't Leave. Grand Rapids Independent: A.| J. McGuire, superintendent of the | state farm here, is at present teach- ing at the state agricultural school in some special subjects, where he has been for some time. | In 2 letter to the Iudependent,' Mr. McGuire states among other | things that he has been offered a| position in Washington, D. C., to take charge of a new department in| dairy farm management at a very| tempting salary, but feeling that he had not finished his work in this| section, he declined it. This deci-! | the sacrifice of a prometion, | north half of Minnesota, where his ienergetic labors in behalf of this sion on the part of Mr. McGuire will be gladly welcomed by the people‘ of this section, tor his presence here! means more to the country than that of any other man the state board of control could put at the state farm here. We are glad to see Mr. McGuire staty with us at this time, even at for “Mac” is not the kind of a man who will be kept down by letting one opportunity pass by, M. McGuire expects to be back some time next week. Mr. McGuire is well known in the section are known and appreciated. He has a host of friends here, all of whom would sincerely regret any move that would contemplate Mr. McGuire’s removal from the state. CLEANING HOUSE Owing to #he backward season we are left with Overchoes and Rubbers which we will close out regardless of cost. Remember you will be the loser if you buy befor quote you prices. DO NOT Shoes is our specialty, therefore we are able to give the BEST FIT, the BEST QU LOWEST PRICE Bemidji Cash Shoe Store a large stock of e allowing us to FORGET ALITY and the Silk 67 Cts. $1.00 and $1.25 qualities in Fancy Silk at until Saturday Night (0’Leary & Bowser. [ Sale a Yard St Paul, Jan. 22.—(Special to Pioneer.)—At a late hour last even- ing the state board of pardons grant- ed the appeal of Peter Mathieson (as presented by his a’ttorneys and prominent Danish-Americans) to change the sentence of death im- posed upon Mathieson to life im- the reached after an exhaustive hearing before the board which occupied a large portion of the session of the board yesterday afternoon. Mathieson is confined in the Bel- trami county jail at Bemidji, await- ing the carrying out of the death penalty, having been determined guilty of murdering Johan Johanson, at Tenstrike, last March. Recently, Mathieson wrote a letter prisonment, decision being Omaha, requesting aid in Having his sentence commuted to life imprisom ment. The paper took up 1his case with an appeal to all Danes and Danish-Americans, . with the result that many letters and cont_.ributions were received to carry on the case before the board. When the board met yesterday afternoon, John Lind, ex-governor of Minnesota; Dr. John C. Nei§9n, the Danish counsul; C. C. Rasmussen, the Danish publisher; and Harry' S. Swensen, a prominent Danish-Ameri- can attorney of St. Paul, spoke in behalf of Mathieson. After due deliberation, the pardon board, consisting of Gov. Johnson, Chief Justice Start and Attorney General Young, ordered thesentence of Mathieson commuted to_life jm- to a Danish paper published in prisonment. MINNESGTA STORICAL SOCIFTY. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH MATHIESON WILL NOT HANG; MUNN'S APPEAL IS DENIED St. Paul, Jan. 22.—(Special to Pioneer.)—The board of pardons has denied the motion of the attorneys for Murten S. Munn for a commuta- tion of sentence from death by hanging to life imprisonment, for the crime of murder in the first degree,Munn having been convicted at Bemidji of killing August Fr;mk-I lin at Baudette. Munn and Mathieson were both sentenced, on the same day, to be hanged at Bemidji February 7th, 1908. Munn’; relatives, through Attor- ney Clough of Crookston, have made every effort to secure a new trial for Munn or to have his sen- tence commuted. Munn’s case was given.a thor. ough hearing yesterday afternoon and the petition for commutation of sentence was denied. Robbers Loot St. Cloud Stores; Policeman Becker Mortally Shot Brainerd, Jan. 22—(Special to Pioneen)—l’assengers who arrived here at I o’clock this afternoon from St. Cloud, report that Harry Becker, night police officer at St. Cloud, was shot four times through the body last night by a gang of burglars, and that he is not expected to survive the balance of the day. It appears that robbers had en- tered several business houses at: St. Cloud and were getting away with a considerable amount of loot when Policeman Becker ran afoul of the bunch. The story told by the passengers is that Becker had arrested one of the robbers and was taking him to the police station, when he was ruthlessly shot down by other “mem- bers of the gang. Becker was found on the street about a block from the Grand i Central hotel and blood was flowing freely from the four wounds in his body. He was partially unconscious when found and has remained in a semi-unconscious condition ever since being removed from the street. Coat Thief Apprehended. A. L. Curtis, alias “Russell Leo”, was taken into custody this morning by the local police and lodged in the city jail, on instructions from Chief of Police Holt of Fosston on the charge of having stolen an over- coat at Fosston Monday night. This noon Gust Holt, chief of police at Fosston, came over from that place and identified Curtis as being the party wanted at Fosston. When Chief Holt visited the jail, “Leo” admitted that he had the coat and that it was in a room at the Hotel Burroughs, where he had registered. . 3 “Leo” also suggested that he would like to have the case settled without having to go to Fosston. { This proposition Chief Holt could not accept. He told the prisoner that he might possibly avoid prose- cution at Fosston by turning the coat over and paying the costs in the case. It appears that “Leo” claims to be a palmist and has visited various points in North Dakota and also in Minnesota. He stopped at the Commercial hotel at Fosston. Last Monday night he took French leave of the hotel and boarded the train for Bemidji, first taking a valuable over- coat belonging to $am Olson. The theft was traced to “Leo” and his arrest here followed complaint of " Word was at once sent out to the nearby towns and cities with the result that a man was taken into custody at Cable, a little station south of St. Cloud. The arrested had in his posse;sioh con- siderable of the goods that were stolen from the St. Cloud stores, man and it is believed that the police have at least one member of the desperate gang that shot down Becker. Every effort is being made to locate the robbers and descriptions of the stoleri goods are being tele- graphed broadcast. NIGHT TRAIN TO THE TWIN CITIES IS MUCH DESIRED “Would Be Great Convenience to North Central Minnesota Business Men, and Money-Maker for Railway Com- pany,” Says International Falls Citizen. “The Minnesota & International railway should, by all means, put on a night train between International Falls and the twin cities. Sucha move on the part of the M. & I. would, I believe, prove to be a money-maker for the company, and would certainly be a boon to the residents of the north central part of the state who desire to visit the twin cities.” The above statement was made by a prominent resident of International Falls, who passed through Bemidji last evening to International Falls from a business trip to St. Paul. Continuing, the International Falls party said: “As it is now, anyone desiring to go to St. Paul or Minneapolis from the country north of Bemidji must ride practjcally the entire day, losing valuable time that could be saved,! was there a night train to the cities. “The same is true of Bemidji and the towns in the vicinity of Bemidji. Bemidji people who goi to the twin cities can travel by either the M. & I. or the Great Northern, southbound, leaving -Be- midji in the morning and arriving at Minneapolis or St. Paul early in the evening. There is also another route open, via Duluth or Crookston. But, in order to take either of these latter routes, one caunot leave Bemidji for Duluth later than noon (via Duluth) reaching the cities the following morning; and via Crooks- ton, leaving Bemidii at 3:30 in the afternoon, and arriving the next morning. Fither route destroys the better part of one-half of a dayand an entire night, owing to the lay- over at either Crookston or Duluth. “It would be vastly different if a night train to the cities could be put on the M. & I. The train could leave at night and arrive at St Paul or Minneapolis the following morning. Sleepers could be put on the train, which could stop at only the principal cities, thereby making fast time. Everyone with whom I have talked is heartily in favor of the night train; and, as I have said before, I am certain that the night traig would be a paying invest- ment for the railway company and a great convenience for the busi- ness men of northern Minnesota.” —_— Band Concert Date Changed. Professor Thomas Symington this forenoon announced that it had been decided to change the date of the band concert and dance to be given by the orchestra from Friday even- ing, January 24th to Tuesday $15,000 - - Stock - the officers at Fosston. Curtis was taken to Fosston this oon. to give the public the benefit January 28th, for the reason that a basketball game has been scheduled to be played at the roller rink in this city on the 24th inst. The forthcoming concert promises to eclipse any yet given under the direction of Professor Symington. $15.000 Stock o .The Fire Loss has been adjusted and we are now ready We have decided to close out the entire stock, consisting of Staple and High Grade Clothing, at bargains unheard of before in the clothing business Remember with the eXceptions of a small part which was scorched by fire the stock:was only slightly damaged by smoke. You can new make $5 go further than $10 any other time. What is some one else’s loss is your gain. Come and Take Advantage of This Great . Money Saving Opportunity NOTICE. Selling price will be marked on every article in plain figures and the regular price will remain en every garment. 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