Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 25, 1908, Page 1

Smoke Tom Godfrey-High Grade, VOLUME 6. NUMBER 136. Ifgs THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1908. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH COUNT Y FAIR Second Day of Fair Brought Out Much Larger Crowd Than Yesterday.—Program is Working More Smoothly,— Good Program Tomorrow. { BOYS, STAY ON THE FAR —Secretary Mackenzie’s Greeting Over the Main Entrance. FAIR PR OGRAM. EVERYBODY’S DAY. Saturday, Se . m.—Band concert. m.—The Flying Riggses. . m.—Pony race. . m.—Band concert. Geo. French, successful Band concert. Band concert. . m.—The Flying Riggses. Band concert. ptember 26. m.—Prof. Paul balloon ascension and parachute leap, assisted by candidate for county treasurer. . m.—Football game—Fosston High vs. Bemidji High. . m.—Horse races, farmer teams only. m.—Sulkey races for farmers horses. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME ON FOR TOMORROW Fosston and Bemidji Teams to Battle | for Supremacy on Fair Grounds Tomorrow. A sporting feature of tomorrow’s program at the fair will be a cham- pionship football game which will be played at the fair grounds between the Bemidji and Fosston high school elevens at 2 p. m. The Bemidji high school team will | play as follows: Claude Brenneman, c¢; Kreatz, rg; Carver, rt; Kruse, re; Boyer, Ig: Charles Gould, It; Humdrom, le; Huffman, gb; Stanton, lh; Gill, rh; Lycan, fb. Subs—Danie Gould, Fay Brenneman, McDonald, Ryan, Ingalls and Russell. A letter from C. S. Yeager, super- intendent of the Fosston high school gives the names of the Fosston foot- ball players as follows: Harry Ruud, Leon Lohn, Eilef Rue, Dwight Lohn, Roy Swanson, Elmer Movold, Elmer Helland, Homer Larson, Jul Furuseth, Anton Alm, Francis Stadevold, Siguard Hillstad and Herbert Whaley. Just what positions these players will occupy is not known at present. Dr J. H. Orr of this city will referee the game. The doctor has had much experience in football, having been a member of the foot- ball team in Still College, Iowa, for several years. Heis saidto be a splendid referee and the manager of the game is pleased at having secured his services. Matt Bright, who has been coach- ing the Bemidji high school team, says that his boys are in pretty fair condition considering the amount of practice they have had. The boys have several new plays and, while they may be somewhat ragged in the work, it is expected that they will make an excellent showing tomorrow. The members of the Fosston high school team have among their num- ber the players who formed the championship basketball team last winter. They are a husky lot and will undoubtedly give the localsa strong game. Yesterday Afternoon. The attendance at the fair yesterday afternoon was disap- pointingly small and fell far short of the number the management had expected. There was considerable delay in starting things and consideratle of the program as originally planned was not carried out. It seemed to be a difficult mat- ter to hll the races with sufficient entries of the kind that the management wanted — farmer’s horses. However, after considers were secured to make something of a showing and the trot or pace for single horses, two out of three was called, Four entries. were made in the first heat, one horse each being entered by Master. ! son, Huson, Ohrberg and Petrie. It was a ‘‘grand struggle,” from start to finish, with heart-breaking gait on back stretch by Ohrberg and his old livery horse who easily won on thestretch. Master- son was second, Petrie third and Huson fourth. In the second heat there was a new entry, Charles Krahn dropping in on the track with one of his work- ing horses attached to a good solid “bike.” The second heat was a “race for your life,” all of the horses starting out on a dead run, except Ohrberg’s pacer and Huson’s single-footer. Krahn was out - to “skin the bunch” and he came down the stretch on a gallop, coming in first by several lengths. The judges decided to call this heat off as it more resembled a running race than a trot or pace. In the third heat Ohrberg was first, Masterson second, Petrie third and Huson fourth, while Krahn was away in the rear, it happening to be necessary for the horses to stick to a trot or pace. Ohrberg’s horse won | first money, Masterson second and| Petrie third. A free-for-all 100-yard foot race was put on the program for which there were six entries. Scott Stewart was first, Earl Geil and Clyde Petrie tied for second place, and it was necessary to run off the tie, Geil winning the tie and getting second money. A ladies race was called but Mrs. P. Sand was the only one of the fair sex who had the nerve to get on the starting line. No other would run against her so there was no ladies race. A fat man’s foot race created a whole lot of excitment and was con- siderable of a contest. Professor Ritchie won first money; George Denley came in second, being handi- capped by the interference of a vicious canine, which took part in the proceedings. Fred Brinkman started well, but was not shod just right and quit when half way down the course. In the team race, trot or pace, Masterson was first and Petrie second. There was a special half- mile race between Peter Reed, owned by W. T. Blakeley, and Heart, owned by 1. P. Young. This was a splendid race. Peter Reed went well all the way until into the stretch, when Heart passed him and won easily. a A “bang-tail” ridden by Jim Pogue and a “jumper” ridden by John Kittleson indulged in a half mile contest to a finish, which Kittlesun won. The Flying Riggses gave a very fine performance on the trapeze. The meeting of the Old Settlers able skirmishing, enough horses did not materialize, there appar- ently being no proper arrangement of the program for the meeting. This is to be regretted, as President Wetzel and Mrs. Knappen were here ready to hold the meeting. The balloon ascension was omit- ted from the program, although every effort was made to have the ascen- sion and parachute leap come off as advertised. The balloon was torn while being shipped to Bemidjiand was ajeo wet. The croud was somewhat disap- pointed, but balloon ascensions are something like an old maid’s temper —rather “unsartin.” ‘The crowd left the fair grounds about 5 p. m,, after having spent a fairly enjovable afternoon. At The Fair. A much larger crowd was in at- tendance the second day of the fair and had it not been for the fact that the heavens were overcast with clouds threatening rain no doubt the grounds would have been taxed to their capacity. The program for this forenoon was not carried out in its entirety owing to the strong wind that pre- vailed and owing to the fact that there were but a few spectators at the grounds. The Riggses did not put on their act this forenoon, the management not thinking it worth the while to put on the at- tractions to so small a crowd. The balloon man was tinkering with the balloon all forenoon and declared that he would make the ascension “just as soon as he could getready,” and the crowd was ex- pectantly watching for the monster piece of canvas to soar heavenward. Visitors at the fair grounds this forenoon were particularly interested in the judging of the livestock, . A. J. McGuire, superintendent of the Experimental Station at Grand Rapids, was in charge of judging the livestook and” he did his work very thoroughly. He explained the different points of the animal in a very intelligent manner, and his work was very interesting, he being followed all over the grounds by the farmers and others who desired to listen to his-talk. The judging of the fancy work, canned fruit, quilts and rugs and school work was also carried on this forenoon and was nearly com- pleted at the noon hour. « There were -no horse races this afternoon but the excellent program of speakers, which has been pre- pared by Secretary Mackenzie, was the means of drawing considerable of a crowd to the fair grounds. There were foot races, etc., which helped to interest the crowd, togeth- er with the balloon ascension and the Flying Riggses. The exhibit building contained the finest lot of vegetables and farm products that was ever shown in northern Minnesota, Everything that can be raised on a farm in Minnesota was shown and the varie- ties were of such an excellent character that everyone was sur- prised and greatly pleased with the showing that was made. One of the exhibits which espec- ially demonstrates the value of the soil of of Beltrami county is that of John Gilstad, who resides in section ! 31, Town of Summit. Mr. Gilstad had five varieties of grasses, which included timothy, alfalfa, Italian rye grass, red top and alsyke clover. jup to seven feet. These grasses especially demonstrate the value of northern Minnesota for agricultural purposes. The program for tomorrow as given at the beginning of this article, indicates that it will be an excellent day at the fair. It is more than likely that a free- for-all pole team race will be run which will be very interesting. J. P. Pogue Will Show Historical Buggy. Mayor J, P. Pogue states that he will show an historical buggy at the fair tomorrow when he will hitch up his famous French coach stallion, *“Dudmore,” to a buggy_which was patented between forty-five and forty-nine years ago by Mrs. Pogue’s grandfather. The buggy is now owned by Mr. Pogue and is in service every day. People who like things of this kind should not fail to see the splen- did horse “Dudmore,” 4and the famous buggy. Fairlets. “Now, I understand why those school kids don’t try to run away once in a while,” said a spectator yesterday after seeing Professor Ritchie win the fat men’s race, “Old ‘Prof’ would catch them if they did.” E. M. Britten, the Movul Lake farmer, has a carpet loom in oper- ation at the fair, where he is making a demonstration showing how carpets are woven. The loom is a light shuttle loom with a 45-inch reed and weaves a carpet any width Mr. Britten states that he can make over two hundred (Continued on last page.) JUSTIN STODDARD GIVEN TWENTY-YEARS SENTENCE Brute Who Attempted Assult on 9-Year-0ld Girl “Gets His.”—Court Adiour\ned This Forenoon.—Term Not - as Long as Expected Justin Stoddard, would-be detec- tive, engineer and jack-of-all-trades, who was convicted at this term of court of having attempted to car- nally know a female child under the age of 16 years, will serve a term of twenty years at hard labor in the state’s prison at Stillwater, Judge McClenahan having imposed the sentence upon Stoddard yesterday afternoon, when Stoddard was arraigned for sentence. When Stoddard was asked by Judge McClenahan if there were any reason why this sentence should not be passed upon him, Stoddard answered no and asked for the clemency of the court. Judge McClenahan then stated that since Stoddard had been con- victed of a felony under the laws of Minnesota and had also been convicted of a crime in North Da- kota, which, if committed in Min- nesota, would also have coustituted a felony, he would, and did, sen- tence Justin Stoddard to twenty year at hard labor in the state prison at Stillwater. Stoddard never flinched when he heard his sentence. On his way to the jail he laughed and told the deputy that the judge could as WE WILL SAVE CLOAK OR SUIT BUY. Don’t Fail to Visit Visit the Fair. Our Carpet & Rug DEPARTMENT MONEY ON EVERY pets, We have fitted Wilton, Velvet, You YOU Our We carry everything in Car= Rugs and Linoleums. tion of our basement in which we carry a large line. We have a number of 8-3 by 10-6 and 9x19 Rugs on hand in Body Brussels -- some very pretty patterns. glad-to show them to you. A greater portion of our Fall Dress Goods have arrived. up alarge por- Axminster and We will be Store When You WE CARRY THE LARGEST LINE OF MEN'S AND BOYS' GLOTHING IN Of course you must buy from us if WE'RE to save you money. The statement does not mean that we’re cutting prices. It simply means that at our ex- tremely low prices we're giving you the very best garment on the market. These garments are all PALMER GARMENTS. These makes are of such high quality that they wear better and continue to fit better than the or- dinary garment. So we are sav- ing you money by giving you the very best values' ever shown in garments. " Note these specimens—then come to our store and see many, many others. And among them you will find all the new shades and fancy weaves, in which you will have no t-ouble in select- ing your Dress Goods. We make it a point to select the newest-and best goods we can purchase to please our trade. T Call and See Our New Fall Lines THE CITY, You must see the new fall SUITS and OVERCOATS in the game; the smart, fresh ideas in fabrics, in models, in odd kinks, in pockets and all that sert of thing. They're our own selec- tions of imported and domestic weaves, made up exclusively for us by - THE DAVID ADLER & SON Style confined to us. We want to show them to you. They’ll satisfy you. O’LEARY & BOWSER BEMIDJI MINNESNTA easily have sentenced him to life imprisonment. Last evening he was laughing and talking with the other prisoners and had his time figured out at fourteen years, nine months and one day on good be- havior, The sentence imposed on Stoddard meets with the general approval of the public, as the evidence given at the trial had convinced those attend- ing court that Stoddard was guilty and that no counsel could possibly save him from being convicted, the prisoner himself being of no assist- ance in trying to secure an acquittal. The little girl upon whom Stoddard attempted his brutal crime positively identified him -as her assailant, and the prisoner himself, while on the stand appeared used to court notoriety and was not one whit abashed by the fact that he was charged with one of the most brutal crimes on the criminal calendar. the state vs. Mrs. How was sub- mitted to the jury, which later re- turned a verdict of guilty. Judge McClenahan sentenced the woman to pay a fine of $125 or in default thereof to serve a term of 100 days in the county jail. It is understood that Mrs. How will be able to pay the fine, and thus escape the jail sentence. Judge McClenahan is to be con- gratulated upon meting out the full measure of punishment to Stoddard. Attorney George A. Spear of Grand Rapids appeared before {Judge McClenahan in chambers yes- terday afternoon and commenned the case of Henry Hughes vs. F. E. Reusswig of Grand Rapids. C. C. McCarthy, also of Grand Rapids, appeared for the defendent and the case was continued until October 6th when the district court meets at Grand Rapids. It seems that F. E. Reusswig was elected president of the school board at Grand Rapids, which district comprises almost all of Itasca county, at a general election of the people and later Henry Hughes was elected at a special election. When Mr. Hughes went to Mr. Reusswig for the books, the latter refused to give them up, claiming that the election of Mr. Hughes was illegal. Itis alleged that, underneath, this is a fight between the saloon men and their opponents. Only one case was taken up thismorning in court and i that was of little importance. Judge Stanton then adjourned this term of the district court ac- cording to the agreement reached yesterday between himself and Judge McClenahan to the effect that the jurors would not be compelled to serve as long as the county warrants are not marketable. Sheriff Thomas Bailey and Deputy Sheriff George Tanner of this city left this morning for Stillwater in charge of Justin Stoddard who was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor in the state prison for attempt- ing to carnally know a female child under the age of sixteen years. Stoddard will enter at once upon the serving of his long, but well- deserved sentence. To Continue Week-end Special. The officials of the N. P. and M. & 1. railway companies have de- cided to continue the week-end and International Falls special during the month of October. Apparently the train has been a paying inve;tment and the officials believe that thereis a popular de- mand for the continuance of the special. The- train is certainly a great accomodation to the_people living in the vicinity of Bemidji and it is hoped that the company will see fit to make the train a permanent affair. b < SR e e Yesterday afternoon, the case of