Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 17, 1909, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI D. VOLUME 7. NUMBER 25. WALKER DEFEATED---8 to 2; FOSSTON HIGH WON---8 to 6 Baumgardner Pitched Fine Game for Bemidji, Sunday; Should Have Had Shut-Out.—Took Eleven Innings to Decide High School Game. The Bemidji city baseball team The following was the score by won the opening game of the season, | iunings: Bemidji.......0 1 50110 0 *— Walker ..000100100—2 M. F. Willson (better known as “Bill”) acted as umpire and was It had been expected that Sum-|generally fair and impartial, there mers of Duluth would arrive to catch [being a few unintentional “kicks” for the locals, but the fast “Zenith |registered against “Bill” who really City” player failed to put in an ap- umpired 2 nice game. Yesterday’s game indicates that pearance. Eckel, catcher for the Bemidji has a fair team, but that the Company K team, caught, and he players are woefully in need of put up a fine game behind the bat, | practice. Baumgardner did finely, besides hitting the ball hard and |in the box, and with a few excep- running bases nicely. tions his support was good. Baumgardner pitched for Bemidj, . and he twirled in mid-season form. He had lots of speed and good con- trol, and was steady at all stages of yesterday, afternoon from Walker, by a score of 8 to 2, the contest being a fair one, for soearly in the season. In an 1l-inning game of baseball on the down-town local park Satur- iday afternoon, the Fosston High | the contest. ‘‘Baum” struck Ou[iScho.oln ba'll tossers defeated the thirteen of the opposing batsmeu’BemldJ1 _hx_ghs by a score of 8 to 6. and allowed but one hit. He would |, The visitors .started out byv m.ak-! have had a shutout to his credit but | "2 three runs in the first inning| " { for an unfortunate wild throw which ‘and added two r!mre 18 t_he fourth and got another in the ninth, Be-| midji being unable to score until the | |last half of the ninth inning. Then |the locals found Rue, who went up |in the air, and before the visitors Iput their third baseman, Terry| | Alm, in the box, four scores had {been chalked up for Bemidji. | Two scores were secured off Alm| | before the half was over, thus tie-| |ing with Fosston. In the tenth inning Rue resumed [hls position in the box for Fosston {and neither side was able to get a run, butin the eleventh the visitors secured two scores and the locais were unable to duplicate, ending the game 8 to 6 in favor of Fosston. Gill pitched a good game for Be- ;midji with the exception of the first land fourth innings and received One of Bemidji's Infielders Had a Bad | Pretty good support from the re- Case of “Charley Horse.” | mainder of the team ina manner | which showed improvement over the he made to first base, after the bat-{game with Brainerd a week ago. ter had reached the “bag” on an in- | Kruse’s tHrowing to first base was field error, which allowed the runner "especially pretty. The Bemidji boys to score. Again, in the seventh in-|have not had the experi_ence that ning, a hit was followed by three in-|the visitors have had, this being field errors in succession, giving the | the first year the local school has visitors their second run. Eanempted to put out a ba seball The balance of the locals played | team. as tollows: The Fosston lads played asnappy Riddell 1b, Mitchell 2b, Stafford |game throughout and showed good ss, Barker 3b, Carlton and LeGore [team work. Kronschnabel, Foss- tf, Otto cf, Collins If. ton’s catcher, was quick in snapping Collins and Baumgardner were|the ball to second. Lohn caught the only locals who did not get a|two flies after long runs in right HOW IT HAPPENED. hit, Stafford and LeGore getting | two each, and the rest a single hit each. The work in the field, for the most part, was very fair, for an opening game. The visiting team had a “pony battery, Oliver, on the mound, and | Hager with the “big mit.” port, the game would have been much closer. In the third inning, | Oliver’s support went to pieces and ! baseball games, field, and Basemen Alm, Stadsvold and Whaley showed fine form. Per- sonally, the Fosston lads are one of the finest sets of boys who ever ;played in this city. The Fosstonites made six errors and secured five hits while the lo- They|cals got four hits and made only did fairly well, and with good sup-|two errors. Gill struck out seven men and Rue six for Fosston. The local fans, who watch the should not allow Bemidji piled up five runs on a}their enthusiasm ta cause them to little hitting, coupled with wild heaves and muffs of the visitors. Out- side that inning, the contest wasa close one. Edward Rogers, the veteran who still enjoys a strenuous ‘‘session” on the diamond, was with the visit- | ors and played short until the seventh inning, when he went into pitch, doing nice work and holding Bemidji down. Sundby, the old Walker catcher, went “behind” for Rogers and received well. Sundby recently underwent an operation and will be unable to play a full game for some time to come. Bell of Akeley played with the visitors and did very well. Mr. Rogers stated that Walker would strenghten their team and | would be able to give Bemidji a much tougher proposition, in the near future, when another game will | get out on the diamond and attempt to participate in the game as they |did during the latter part of the | game Saturday afternoon. The two teams lined up as fol- 1lows: Bemidji—Gill, p; Hilliard, ¢; Ryan, 1b; Kreatz, 2b; Kruse, ss; ’Harris, 3b; Gould, 1f; Larsonm, cf; Neumann, rf; subs—Boyer, Brenne- man and Engels. | Fosston—Rue, p; Kronschnabel, c; Whaley, 1b: Stadsvold, 2b: Alm, 3b and p; Movold, ss; Olson, If; !]esness, cf; and Lohn, rf. The fast Brainerd High School baseball team, which defeated Bemidji a week ago, took the scalp of Royalton Saturday afternoon at Royalton to the tune of 7 to 4. Alderman and Parker, Brainerd’s crack school battery, did the toss- be played. ing and receiving stunt for that city. The Da.ily Pione_er 40c per Month BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1909. SHOULD APPROPRIATE MUCH LARGER SUM FOR STATE ROAD “The late Jegislature should have appropriated close to $50,000 for the construction of the state road created by that body to enable the people of the state to have more easy ingress and egress to the Itasca State Park, which road will extend {from Park Rapids to the park and on through northward to Bagley. The legislature appropriated the very inadequate sum of $10,000, which is to be divided equally each side of the park, that is, from Park Rapids to the park and from Bagley State Senators Swenson Q_f;‘ “Minnea- polis and Hanson of Ada, ‘ Repre- sentative Opsahl of Bemidji, Repre- sentative Hinds of Hubbard; Charles Spencer, surveyor of Hubbard county; Mr. Uglund, surveyor of Clearwater county; Professor Green of the State University; T. J. Nary of Park Rapids; A. Kaiser of Bagley, repre- senting the Bagley Commercial club; Harry Sinker, owner of the large mercantile establishment of Mallard; besides representatives of the boards of county commissioners of both T. P. 0’Connor, Vice Chairman State Board Highway Cem- missioners, Personally Inspected Bagley-Park Rapids Road---Held Meeting at Douglas Ledge. In speaking of the meeting and the actions of the commission, Mr. O’Connor said: “The commission has no power to change the proposed route, of this Itasca State road. = The appropriation which was secured from the legislature was made on the representations made before that body relative to the road as laid out, and we have no power 1o change the route. It is up to the boards of county commissioners. However, the board desires to be DOUGLAS LODGE, Famous Log House at Itasca State Park, Where Meeting Was Held Friday Night. to the park. The sum is entirely inadequate and might about as well have been left out altogether; it will take a lot more money to complete the road and put it into condition for traversing by automobiles, as was the intention of the promoters of the road.” The foregoing is the opinion of T. O’Connor of Renville, vice chair- man of the State Board of Highway Comnmissioners, who spent yesterday in Bemidji, having made the trip from Park Rapids to Douglas Lodge at the Itasca State Park and on Hubbard and Clearwater counties, | and others, numbering in all forty- three persons. There was some difference of opin- ion as to whether the road as originally laid out was the best and all were heard who cared to speak on the subject. According to Mr. O’Connor the meeting wasa harmonious one, and was productive of much good. George Cooley, the state engineer, spoke at some length concerning state roads and gave out much valu- able information. fair, at all times, and Mr. Cooley obliged the few who desired him | to look over the other route and he went back to the park that way. “The state should, 1n justice to itself, greatly increase the appropria- tion for that road. The State Park is one of the few possessions of the state that is a valuable asset. It is a teautiful place, and will always be filled with human interest that will make it an attraction, and any- thing that can be done to make the place more easy of access should be advocated by every resident of BEAUTIES OF STATE PPAK. Point Near Douglas Lodge, Overlooking Lake Itasca. through over the proposed state road to Bagley, coming to Bemidji by first train, in order to go on to Bertha and Wadena on an official trip for the commission. A meeting of the commissioners had been called for last Friday night, at Douglas Lodge, which was attended also by parties interested directly in the construction and im- provement of the park state road. L. W. Hill, president of the commis- sion, as well as Mr. Galernaugh of Aitkin, a member of the commission, were unable to be present. Mr. O’Connor acted as chairman of the meeting. e In addition to George Cooley, state engineer and secretary of the commission, there were present Senator Hanson of Ada and Harry Sinker of Mallard, spoke, as did | several others; and the meeting was filled with interest, all through. The majority of those who expressed }‘ themselves on the subject was in favor of the road as it has been laid out. At the conclusion of the meet- ing, it was decided that the party should drive over the route of the |road northward from the park to Bagley, - The trip was made, and at its conclusion Mr. O’Connor came to Bemidji. At the request of some Bagley parties, Engineer Cooley made a trip to the park, over another pro- posed route in order to gather full data as to that proposition. the state. “Neither Clearwater or Hubbard counties derive one cent of money for their county tréasury, from exempt from taxation — yet the tection, etc., the same as for any other property within their borders. It is but just and proper that a large appropriation should be made to further the buildin® of the road the north and from the south, and legislature atleast trebling the sum appropriated last winter.” Mr. O’Connor spoke in glowing terms of the hospitable manner in which the party who visited Douglas Ttasca State Park. That park is||| counties must furnish police pro- | to and from the park, both from Iam certainly in favor of the next|j FORTY CENTS PER MONTH THE KOCH CASE WILL SOON BE IN HANDS OF THE JURY Attorneys for Plaintiff and Defendant Occupy Almost Entire Day in Their Pleas to the Jury, Both Making Able Addresses. 4 p. m.—At this writing, indica- tions are that the Koch case will be in the hands of the jury sometime this evening, When court convened Saturday afternoon Mr. McDonald cited more examples in reference to his motion, on which he had argued all morn- ing, for the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. Senator Peterson, for the plaintiff, declared that he did not intend to 2o into the details of Mr. McDon- ald’s arguments at any great length and contended that the complaint had been properly made out. The counsel for the plaintiff spoke about an hour in which he ndiculed the defendant’s contention that a medical expert must testify, in al- most any case involving death, in re- gard to the cause of death, ending with a warm arraignment of Dr. Koch. The senator wished the; privilege of looking more deeply into Mr. McDonald’s examples in case the court bad any doubt as to the proper decision on the motion. The court took the motion under consideration and at 9 o'clock this morning rendered his decision on taking the case away from the jury at considerablh length. When court opened this morning Judge Stanton denied the motion of Attorney McDonald to instruct a verdict in faver of the defend- ant. Mr. McDonald made his address to the jury, occupying the entire morning. He declared that the jury had two propositions to settle. First, whether the doctor’s treatment of the case was improper, and secondly, whether improper treatment was the cause of Oscar’s death, Mr. McDonald went over the acquaintance of the Johnson and Koch families in Fergus Falls and Lodge were treated by M. Heinzel- man, custodian of the park, and his wife. Mr. O’Connor was on his initial trip as a member of the commission, he having been but recenty ap- pointed to a position on the| commission, as a successor to in Blackduck. - He told of the reading of the article in the Black- duck American, and the determin- ation of the johnson’s to secure compensation for Oscar’s death, Mr. McDonald went carefully over the evidence given by the witnesses for the defense and then took up that secured from the plaintiff’s witnesses. 3 Continuing, Mr. McDonald went through the evidence given by Dr. Osborn, declaring that both Osborn and Koch are competative physicians in that village. Dr. Osborn had gone to the Johnson home in consul- tation Sunday evening. Delia ex- amined Oscar’s throat Saturday afternoon and she would have re- cognized a bit of membrane, if any membrane had been there. It was not there. Sunday Dr. Koch saw it; Dr. Osborn was called in consul- tation that evening, and Mr. Mc- Donald thought that Dr. Osborn had given the jury asbad a pic- ture of that throat as he possibly could. He had examined that throat and from that moment on'the same responsibility was his that was Dr. Koch’s. He declared that Dr. Osborn knew it was serious and that it required every bit of his skill and care. “What does Dr. Osborn say?” said Mr. McDonald. “He knew the patient had been given strych- nine and he had added digitalin and nitroglycerine. Digitalin acts quicker and nitroglycerine acts longer, but strychnine given in smaller doses has the same results. ‘Crack in some more antitoxin.’” Does he say he suggested 10,000 units? Does he tell you that he said 3,000 were in- sufficient? No. He advised Dr. Koch to ‘crack it to him’ and to continue the treatment already being given. “There are only two other meth- [Continued on Last Page.] Senator Halvorson, who was ap- pointed a member of the board of control in the place of the late L. A. Rosing. The Renville man is taking hold of his new duties with characteristic vim, and from present indications will make a very valuable member [ Comparative First National Bank April 24, 1901. 4,000.00 120,43.08 8 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock.... Surplus and Profit. Circulation. Deposits - Ca $ 25.000.00 8 330.78 U 6,500.00 - 8205,774.42 dred and fifty per cent that The First National Central Minnesota. our statement-and superior facilities for transacting Close of Business April 28, 1909. Bonds, securities, etc Blnkmfl house, fu Do fror Nafionsl Banis RESOURCES. 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