Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 20, 1909, Page 1

” THE BEMIDJI D VOLUME 6. NUMBER 285. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCIT 20, 1909. Y PIONEER. NELSON’S FATE WILL SOON BE IN HANDS OF THE JURY Case Against Nelson for Murder in First Degree About Ended.—Nelson Told Connected Story Which Was But Little Shaken. At 3:30 this afternoon a recess was taken in the Nelson trial. Arguments had just been closed by the state and the defense, on the offer of the defense, to give evidence showing the violent character of the deceased, which was refused and an taken by Mr. Funkley. At 5 o'clock this evening, both the state and the defense rested and by mutual agreement, it was decided that the arguments be postponed until Monday morning at 9 o’clock and that the jury be allowed to disperse to their homes without custody of an officer. exception There was another large crowd in the court room this morning when the Nelson trial was resumed, many of those present being ladies, despite the fact that some of yes- terday’s testimony was of an exceedingly ‘‘racy” nature. There wis a tendency to crowd the aisles lsading to the outer door and Judge Stanton ordered an officer placed at the door with instructions to keep the aisles cleared. Nelson again took the stand. He was as composed as ever, and talked in a matter-of-fact voice, being inclined to answer all ques- tions at some length. On direct examination by Attorney Funkley, Nelson told of knowing W. E. Hyatt for the past eleven years, and asserted that he had at one time given Hyatt a check for $130, while talking of a possible deal for a team which Hyatt owned, and that Hyatt had cashed the check and used the money, although, Nelson said, no deal had been closed for the team. Nelson asserted Hyatt never re- turned the $130 with the exception of some $15, and that Hyatt had threatened he might never return the money, and had not done so up to the present time. Cross-examined by McKusick, Nelson’s testimony was not shaken to any extent. The county attorney questioned Nelson at length concern- ing his testimony wherein he stated that his gun had heen stolen. Nelson stuck to the statement that the gun had been taken by someone whe had broken into the house and that he had seen someone at the house or thought he did, but did not see in which direction the party had gone. He admitted that his house was on high ground and that one could see practically in every direction from the house. Nelson dwelt on the fact that he had a row with a man at Fowlds, some two years ago and that he placed the stick in his holster as a bluff in case he should meet the man at Fowlds. Inexplanation of this Nelson said the “row had occurred some two years ago, and while he was not aware that the man had been in the country since that time, he didn’t know but that he might be and he would meet him at Fowlds that night, The county attorney dwelt par- ticularly on the event explained by Nelson 1n which he told of the stealing of the gun and attempted to tangle the defendant as to time of certain incidents and the possi. bility of having seen the man whom he supposed entered the house and stole the gun. Nelson held his own fairly well in this ‘“sparring.” Recess. After recess County Attorney Mc- Kusick continued his cross-exami- nation of Nelson, with special re- ference to the testimony given by the defendant when he claimed his big pistol had been stolen. Nelson said thaf he carried the gun the day before the murder in order to protect himself from wolves on his trip to Puposky and back; that he did not- think he would meet the man that he had had a row with, two years before. LContinued on Last Page| 314 Minnesota Agenue Plain Piano Pointers The Northwestern Music Co. The House of Piano Quality Phone 143 Progressive People Patronize Prominent Piano Producers, Preferring glaHOSI roperly Produced. Prices Please Patrons BEMIDJI, MINN, N\ chase, you'll realize that a full Phone 97 M. E. Smith Retail TINETO SPRING THE. Are you going to build this season? Do you want the best stock—and *‘just right”’ prices? If that is the combination you are looking for, the best thing you can do is to hot foot it for our yard. When you’ve made your pur- handed you in both quality and price—nothing less. ‘When it comes to lumber and building material of any kind, we've got the goods—the real goods—and the real good goods. % Step in—look around—ask questions. - We're here to serve you. We Also Handle Coal and Wood QUESTION AGAIN measure of satisfaction has been Lumber Co., Bemidii The domineering attitude of the “interests” in the acts of the present legislature has become so noticeable, more especially in the campaigh for the location of the sixth state normal school, that even the staid old St. Paul Pioneer Press, whichis “slow to - wrath.,” is -moved to say: “The Pioneer Press has had re- peated occasion to voice an emphatic protest against the subordination by the legislature of broad general interest to the purpose of boosting the popularity or political prospects bf some indivdual member or group of members. The log-rolling mem- ber is almost invariably a recreant member. He votes for any measure of any kind, by whomsoever pre- sented, if he can thereby place some other member or members under obligation to vote for some pet local project of his own. He should be discountenanced by conscientious men wnenever he shows up witha “deal.” “A gross instance of the subordina- tion by the senate of general to indi- vidual interests, and of yeildingto an oleaginous log-roller, was afforded on yesterday when it passed the Gunn bill for the location of the sixth state normal school at Cass Lake. “INTERESTS” “Now there may be no more objection to Cass Lake as a site for the school than to Thief River Falls, Bemidji, Warren, Park Rapids or any other place mentioned in con- nection with the project. But the joint investigating committee appoin- ted by the senate and house had after a careful investigation of the various sites offered recommended that the legislature leave the selec- tion to the normal school board at whatever place might, in its judg- ment, best serve the population for whose benefit the school isto be built. “The senate seems to have deter- mined that the question of utility must be thrust aside and the Gunn bill passed just to reward its author and a very rich and Jiberal minded investor who stands behind him for numerous personal acts of good fellowship, such as the log-roller delighteth in. “The Hinds bill, now on general orders in the house, leaving the choice of locations to the normal board, is a just and fair measure with no “influences” behind it but that which always rallies to the support of a “square deal” A re- spectful treatment of all competing localities calls for its passage by the legislature. But fair play seems not to be the fashion at tbe capitol just now. At any rate the legislature appears to be bent upon alienating the effections of the voters of north" ern Minnesota.” An interésting rumor in connec- tion with the action of the senate in the normal school matter is to the effect that G. G. Hartley of Duluth, THOSE WHO SUPPORTED GUNN "AND HIS INTERESTS. S. F. Alderman, Brainerd J. F. Calhoun, Mihneapolis A. 8. Campbelt, Austin Julius A. Collér, Shakopee W. W. Dunn, St. Paul Edmund §. Durment, St. Paul F. E. DuToit, Chaska Ray G. Farrington, Orfonville Frank T. Glotzbjch, Faribault D. M. Gunn, Grand Rapids D. 8. Hall, Buffalo Lake John C. Hardy, St Paul W. A Hinton, Truman C. A. Johnson, St:-Peter Vietor L. Johnsos, Center City George R. Laybourn, Duluth Henry McColl, St..Paul J. T. McGowan, Minneapolis John Moonan, Waseca John W. Pauly, Minneapolis A. A. Poehler, Henderson T. M. Pugh, Duluth F. E.-Putnam, Blae Earth John E. C. Robinson, St. Cloud Virgil B. Seward, Marshall Edward E. Smith; Minneapolis George E. Sullivan, Stillwater C. W. Swenson, Fridley P. R. Vail, Virginia H. F. Weis, LeSeur ARE PROBABLY BACKING CASS LAKE BILL Every Indication Points to: Utter Disregard in the Senate of the Fitness or Unfitness éf the Reservation Town,--- “Political Pull” Predominates. Nelson, and that the Duluth man’s candidacy has already been quietly launched and is being thoroughly discussed in “interested” circles. That the action of the senate in passing the so-called “Gunn bill” had | to do with the future political acts of Mr. Hartley would not be im- probable. That Gunn is .an emis- sary of Hartley is very evident, as every act in the normal moves made in behalf of Cass Lake has been carefully planned by the Duluth man, who is past-master in the art of “smooth legislation,” aided and abetted by his brother Heber L. Hartley of Cass Lake, the general manager of the Cass Lake Land company, an old Duluth boy. That certain powerful influences have been at work in the senate to defeat the Hinds “generai” bill for location of the normal school has been evident ever since the legisla- ture convened. Hinton of Truman, chairman of the senate committee on normal schools, while in Bemidji with the committee whom he him- self had appointed (at the time assur- | ing the writer that the committee would be “fair and impartial”) was so impressed with the unjustness George P. Wilson, Minneapolis|of the determination which he had H. H. Witherstine, Rochester THOSE WHO WEREANTI:CASS LAKE. .- John J. Ahmann, Torah . - B. N. Anderson, Albert Lea S. B. Bedford; Rushmore J. Q. Briggs, Houston Ole 0. Canestorp, Eibow Lake E. H. Canfield, Luverne- Thomas E. Cashman, Owatonna Frank Clague, Lamberton L. 0. Cooke, Kellog 0. G. Dale, Madison C. R. Donaldson, Stewart James T. Elwell, Minneapolis - Manley L. Fosseen, Minneapolis George D. French, St. Charles C. J. Gunderson, Alexandria A. L. Hanson, Ada H. E. Hanson, Windom James Johnston, Bertha Ole K. Naeseth, Zumbrota S. A. Nelson, Lanesboro F. H. Peterson, Moorhead Ole 0. Sageng, Dalton L- 0. Thorpe, Willmar D. E. White, Claremont S. D. Works, Mankato THESE FOUND IT CONVENIENT NOT TO YOTE. A. D. Stephens, Crookston Bengt. E. Sundberg, Kennedy George C. Carpenter, Buffalo J. W. Wright, Litchfield Albert Schaller, Hastings Joseph' M. Hackney, St. Paul owner of the Cass Lake townsite, and prominent among the iron men of Duluth, is an'‘avowed candidate for U. S. sendtor to succeed Senator Cass Lake Man Released from State Prison. Cass Lake, March 20.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Joseph Marlow, who was sentenced to three years at Stillwater for an assault committed here, has just been pardoned. Mar- low. has returned to Cass Lake and will again make his home here. The crime for which Marlow was sent over the road for occured here about two and a half years ago when in a fit of rage he “seized a huge piece of gas pipe and dealt Supt. Armstrong, of the J. Neils sawmill, a terriffic blow over the head. Marlow was working at the mill and’ when Armstrong told him to do a certain piece of work he “flew off the handle” and committed the assault. - For a long time it looked as if Armstrong would “not live but he finally pulled through. Marlow was arrested immediately afver his rash act and: sentenced to three years at Stillwater. Several of the - lovers -of athletics in the village are strongly figuring on organizing am athletic associa- tion and from: the present outlook it is believed such will be a reality. The boys want to erect a building suited to their: desires and which will contain most of the parapher- nalia found in the up-to-date Y. M. C. A, Puzzle Social.Was Success.- The members of the Presbyterian church held a very pleasant puzzle party last evening in the church. A large crowd filled the church..and many people were dressed in unique formed before ever coming north of St. Paul to vote for Cass Lake first, last and all the time, that his cons seience $iote him and he was con- strained to exclaim that “you cer- tainly have got them all beaten, it’s too-bad Gunn isn’t your senator’’— and this from the chairman of the senate pormal school committee; who had appointed himself a mem- ber of a committee that was to be “fair and impartial.” > What influenced Hinton so strongly in favor of Cass Lake, when he admitted that Bemidji was by far the better town? Was it Senator Gunn’s great beauty of person, or was that Hartley boom for the U. S. senate just making a ‘“‘noise” in the vicinity of Hinton? And not a few members of the legislature were not slow to em- phasize the fact that an anti-"booze”’ member of the state law-making body would have about as much chance in getting through a bill of vital per- sonal interest as a snowball “in the next world” would have of becoming a glacier. The inference in this direction is also strong, and under- stood thoroughly. However, there is a good time coming; and votes will be wanted by some of the same people- who are ‘mow ruthlessly disregarding the wishes of the majority in the loca- tion of the normal school, and the reckoning will be finely-drawn, with a meting out of a full measure of “reciprocity” that will fully repay the turn.down this winter. And some people will certainly regret their high-handed actions in this matter. e et e e —— John Bonnalie Dies at Cass Lake. Cass Lake, March 20.—(Special to Pioneer.)—John Bonnalie died here this. morning from dropsy, after an illness of several weeks. The funeral will be held Monday morning, at 10 o’clock, and will be conducted under the auspices of the Arie of Eagles of Cass Lake. Bonnalie was one of the pioneer residents of “Cass Lake, having was opened on Section 15. He was well liked and his demise is gen- erally regretted. He has a brother living in Montana, Why Pay Rent? We loan money on city property which you can repay in monthly payments. The T. TJ. Miller Com- costumes. Guessing contésts and games sped the evening.and an ex: cellent lunch was served. pany. Loocal News on Last Page. came here. at the time the townsite | [l DUNCAN B. COOPER. Nashville, March 20,—(Special to Pioneer.)—Guilty of murder in the second degree, with twenty yeavrs’ imprisonment as a penal- ity, the -verdict the jury returned this morning in tne cases was against Colonel Ducan B, Cooper and his Robin Cooper, charged with the murder of former United States Senator E.: W. Carmack. The attorneys for the defense moved to set aside the verdict dis- agreement returned yesteiday, and_ son, because of the verdict of pending argument, on the motion the Coopers. were released on bail of $25,000 each. Earlier Account. Nashville, Tenn.,, March 20.—John D. Sharp has been acquitted of the charge of ‘murdering former United States Senator E. W. Carmack, but the two principal actors in the now famous tragedy, Robin and Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, are still in jail, FORTY CENTS PER MONTH COOPERS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN SECOND DEGRE Jury at Nashville Reached Verdict this Forenoon.— Attorneys for Coopers Move to Set Aside Verdict Because of Disagreement yesterday. JOHN D. SHARP. while the jury, which reported that they were unable to agree upon a ver- dict for father and son, are again in the juryroom, whither they were sent by Judge Hart for further considera- tion of the case. The receiving of the verdict as to Mr. Sharp came after a morning of nervousness and suppressed excite- ment in the courtroom. The court had announced soon after court opened that there would be a verdict in the Cooper. case during the day, but it was 11:45 before his honor turned his attention to the case and sent the sheriff to bring " the jury into the courtroom. The jury, instead of ac- companying the court officer on his return trip, sent word that they were unable to agree and saw no necessity for_their_appearing in_court. _Judge Hart, however, Summoned themi aniy- -Way and soon.the result of the delib- erations of the twelve men was known. As soon as the court had heard what the jury had done he ordered the dis- missal of Mr. Sharp and ordered the jury to return to their room for' fur- ther deliberation. 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