Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 24, 1908, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI D e VOLUME 6. NUMBER 57. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESbAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1908. sivtorical Noclety, LY PIONEER. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH BEMIDJI MAY BE MEMBER NEW TOURNAMENT ASS’N. Possible that New Firemen’s Association Will Be Organ- ized at Park Rapids Tomorrow.—Tournament Con- tinues Tomorrow and Friday. A meeting of the members of the city fire department will be held this evening, at which it will be decided whether a delegation wili be sent to the present meeting of the Northern Minnesota Firemen’s Tournament Association being held at Park Rapids. A prominent fireman stated this morning that while Bemidji would not send a running team to the tournament, she would probably send a delegation to compete in the in- dividual contests. Among others of the delegation, there will be Ray Dennis who holds the association’s best record for running fifty feet and coupling the hose. Ray made the record 41-5 seconds although in practice he has made it in 4 seconds fiat. The range towns of Northern Min- nesota have withdrawn from the N. M. F. T. association and formed a league of their own. It is the inten- tion of the Bemidji boys to try to secure the formation of a new league for this part of the country while attending the Park Rapids meeting. Such an association would probably include the towns of International Falls, Blackduck, Grand Rapids, Deer River, Bemidji, Park Rapids, Cass Lake, Akeley, Wadena and possiblo two or three others. The new association would be called the North-Central Minnesota Firemen’s Tournament Association. The fourteenth annual tournament of the Northern Minnesota Firemen’s Tournament association opened at Park Rapids this morning and will continue tomorrow ard Friday. The weather was the best, and there has been a large crowd in attendance all day. The following was the program for today: Wednesday—9:30 a. m., meet firemen at depot. 10:30 a. m., grand parade. Largest number of men in line, first, $25, second $15; best appearing company, first $15, second $10. 1:30 p. m., Association horse race. First prize, $50 and championship banner; second, $35; third, $25. 7 p. m,, ladder climbing contest. First $20, 2nd $15, 3rd $10. The following is the program for| Thursday and Friday: Thursday—9 a. m., hub-and-hub race. First, $35, 2nd $25, 3rd, $15. 10:30 a. m., Association hook and ladder service test. First $35, 2nd $25, 3rd $15. 1 p. m., novelty hose race. First $50, 2nd $35, 3rd $25. 2:30 p. m., baseball game, Cass Lake vs. Grand Rapids, horse races at fair grounds. 7:00 p. m. coupling contest. First $15, 2nd $10, 3rd $5. 8:30 p. m. grand ball. Friday—9:00 a. m., combination hook and ladder and hose race. First $35, 2nd $25, 3rd $15. 11 a. m., foot race. First $1I5, 2nd $10, 3rd $5. 1:00'p. m., wet test. First $35, 2nd $25, 3rd $15. b MARKET DAY WILL BE HELD SATURDAY NEXT, THE 27TH Farmers and Others Invited to Bring in Livesteck and Articles for Sale at Auction.—Come to Bemidjj and Join in the Next Market Day. A market day will be held in Be midji on Saturday next, when it is the intention to handle all kinds of produce, livestock and any kind of article which farmers and others wish to have sold, by an auctioneer provided as a medium of exchange between the residents of the city and the farmers of the vicinity. A. T. Wheelock of this city has been secured as auctioneer and can be relied upon to get all there is in it for the owners of everything put up for sale. The auction sale will be held on the vacant lot opposite Mayor Pogue’s stable, on the corner of Third street and Irvine avenue. All articles will be listed in the forenoon and should be brought to the place of sale as early as possible so that the auction may be started in ample time to finish. The farmers in the vicinity of Bemidji are especially urged to bring any livestock which they may want to sell, or in fact any article which they wish to dispose of. The boxes which were placed in the three drug stores in order to receive contributions prior to market day held on June 13 are still there and as there will be considerable expense connected with this market day everyone is invited to contribute as much as they may see fit for the success of the undertaking. Mayor Pogue has been instru- mental in promoting these market days and he should receive the co-operation and encouragement of everyone in Bemidji for his com- mendable undertaking. NOBLE BROTHERS’ BIG SHOW HERE NEXT WEEK Popular Repertoire Company Will Open Monday Night in High-Class Plays, Under Canvas. Exchanges from neighboring cities where Noble Bros.,, Company have been playing, speak in highest terms of their performances. Noble Bros., will play an engage- ment here Monday June 29th, open- ing with “A Buffalo Mystery,” a melodrama filled with exciting situa- Their water proof pavilion theater will be located at the corner of 4th Street and Bemidjiavenne. Snap in Farm Land, if Taken at Once. Eighty acres of good farm land— 40 acres under cultivation, balance timber land—only half a mile from Red Lake railroad. Must be sold at once. Best reasons for selling; must have the money. Also 40 acres hay stumpage for sale.' Address or call on in person, N. T. Forthun, Remore Hotel, Bemidji. Additional local matter will be found tions, comedy and heart interest. ——— i e e on fourth page. MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, CHAIRMEN OF COMMIT- TEES, ELKS" REUNION, THIS EVENING. A meeting of all chairmen of sub-committees will meet with the members of the executive committee at the Markham hotel this evening at 8:30 o’clock. All knowing themselves as chairmen or members of committees are urged to be present as the affairs of the celebration will be concluded this evening. = F.S.LYCAN, President. Tenstrike, June 24,—(Special to Pioneer.)—Charged ~ with having criminally assulted Hazal Kruger, a 9-year-old girl of this village and leav- ing her unconcious and in a terrible condition, Justin Stoddard is con- fined in the village jail here, with an angry populace threatening to lynch him, It appears that Stoddard accosted the young girl as she was returning to her home near Gull Lake, from a trip to the postoffice, about 8 o’clock last evening picked her up and carried her to the woods, attempt- BRUTAL ASSAULT NEAR TENSTRIKE ing to criminally assault the child. Carl Holuptzok, who was passing the place where the girl lay at about 9 o’clock, heard a faint cry and found the girt in an unconscious condition, with her face terribly bruised and ber clothes badly torn. Holuptzok brought the girl to her home and came to the village and told of the assault on the girl. A crowd of men was organized and all suspicious parties were arrested. Bétween 9:30 and 10" o’clock last night, Justin Stoddard, who poses asa detective, was chased to his home at Spur 106 and arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred Wilson and Ed Leonard. He was brought to the village and lodged in the iail where he is held to wait indentification by the girl who was unconscious ever since the attack until 3 o’clock this She has not yet suffi~ recovered to pronounce judgment on Stoddard. It issaid that Stoddard was seen running from the place where the girl was fpuud last night, and that afternoon. cienty when he arrived home he changed his clothes. Princeton, N. J., June 24, 1:30 p. m.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Grover Cleveland, former president of the United States died suddenly at his home here at 8:40 this morning. Death was due to heart failure, diseases. Cleveland was not immediately announced but complicated with other The passing away of Mr. GROVER CLEVELAND DEAD. wa; delayed until an official state- ment had been prepared by the physicians who had been attending him in various periods -of his illness. The statement was as follows: “Mr. Cleveland for many years had suffered from repeated attacks intestinal origin. of gastritis' of Also, he had a longstanding organic disease of the heart and kidneys. Heart failure, pulmonary thrombosis and ocdema, caused his death.” While Mr. Cleveland had been seriously ill from time to time, the announcement of his death came like a thunderbolt to those who had been watching his illness. complicated with We'll Cash Your Mill Check. now down A SUIT of fit o suit. Workingme Clothing See us for you alls and Jackets. Goods, worth up to 35 offered at, ayard. 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If there is such a thing as a borh public man, this Cincinnatian is one. It is pop- ular to call Mr. ‘Taft big. Phys- ically he is a heavyweight, ' a three hundred pounder,standing six feet two inch- €S tall. Mentally also he is a big man. The salient facts In his career prove this. Unlike most men of presidential as- pirations, Mr. Taft never knew what It was to be poor. He was not born rich, but he was born well to do. There Is no log cabin period in his life nor in the lives of his ancestors for genera- tions back. His paternal grandfather was a Vermont lawyer of distinction. WILLIAM H. TAFT, GLOBE TROTTER. His father was Judge Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, who served for brief ‘opyright by J. E. Purdy, Boston. periods as secretary of war and attor: ney general in the cabinet of President Grant and afterward was minister to | Austria and to Russia. William H. Taft was born in Cincin- nati Sept. 15, 1857. He grew up in his native city and was prepared for col- lege in the local schools. His mother was a highly educated woman, It is ! sald that the Taft family always made a specialty of education. The judge and his wife determined that all their children should receive the best scho- lastic training that was to be had. Wil- WILLIAM H. TAFT AT THREE YEARS. Ham was a diligent student who mas- tered his studies by dint of hard dig- ging. He entered Yale in 1874 and was graduated four years later with second honors in a class of 121 members. In manly . youth, always ready to take part in athletics, -but never neglecting WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT; FROM HIS LATEST PICTm | of that bedy. iIn the first place. 'his #tudies for sport. Classmates de- clare that Bill Taft was the most popular fellow lu the class of 1878. The young man returned to Cincin- pati with his diploma and passed through a law school. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar. While waiting for clients he worked as a court reporter on the Cincinnati Times and later on the Cincinnati Commercial. The prose- cuting attorney met the young lawyer reporter and took such a fancy to him that he appointed Taft his assistant. That was in 1881. Not long afterward ‘the young man was appointed collector of internal revenue for his district. During the administration of President Harrison the Cincinnati lawyer made his first official appearance in Wash- ington as solicitor general for the Unit- ed States. President Harrison appoint- ed him in 1892 a judge of the United States circuit court. Prior to this Mr. Taft had sat on the bench of the supe- rior court in ‘Ohio, first through ap- pointment by Governor Foraker, now United States senator, and later by election. Though in public office for about fif- teen years, up to the year 1900 Wil- liam H. Taft had won only a local reputation. To be sure, he was wide- ly and favorably known among law- yers as a judge possessing in an un- usual measure the judiclal mind, but he was in no sense a national figure. He had ambitions toward the supreme bench, and there were eminent men who predicted that Taft some day would sit in that tribunal. In 1898 the war with Spain threw into American possession the Philip- pine Islands. President McKinley and his ecabinet passed anxious hours in discussion of the problem “What shall we do with the Philippines?” When ° finally it was determined to create a commission to organize civil govern- ment in the islands, then in revolt and under military rule, the president look- ed about for a man big and broad and deep enough to hold the chairmanship “Big Bill” Taft of his own state was recommended as the . very .man for the place. Judge Taft was called to Washington. He frank- ly told the president that he had mot been in favor of acquiring the islands Notwithstanding this, Judge Taft was deemed the best availuble man to undertake the admin- Istration of the islands. He accepted appointment to the chairmanship of the Philippine commission as a mat- ter of public duty and proceeded to Manila with his family. Thus in 1000 Willlam H. Taft be- came an international flgum Speak- ing almost literally, the' eyes of the world were upon him. It devolved up- on him to-administer the affairs of a turbulent archipelago but lately re- leased from centuries of despotic mis- rule and still struggling violently ngainst the manifest destiny of Amer- lcan guardianship. No other American Statesman ever was called upon to undertake T like task. How: well Judge Taft fulfilled his mission s fn- dicated by the present situation In the islands. After bringing about a sem- blance of civic organization Taft was appointed civil governor of the Phil- . ippines. He remained four years in the islands. When finally he returnad to the United States to become secre- tary of war in the Roosevelt cabinet he had molded form out of chaos and | had given the Filipinos a running start toward ultimate gelf zovernment af St R RS & [Continued on Second Page]