Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 28, 1909, Page 2

PINE 1 THE BEMIDJI DALLY PIONEER PUBLISHND NVERY APTERNOON, BEMIDIJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. @, B. CARSON. Wntered in the postofice at Bemidil, Minm,, second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM I POLITICS IS AN EXPENSIVE GAME. A St. Paul politician is credited with the following in speaking of the game of politics and those who make a business of following it: ““My profession well followed gen- erally ends like that of a gambler, in poverty at the last. Today in St. Paul an ex-lieutenant governor of this state and one of the best it ever had, is working for $60 per month as crier in a court; and by the way he has to have that $60 to keep the wolf from the door. Many Minne- sota people know the man. Thirty years ago he was known as the most brilliant man a Southern Minnesota city possessed. He was a man of imposing presence and fine address, but the political game beat him. Not far away is another public man whose toes, politically speaking, are turned up to the dai- sies, who owes the banks of a cer- tain city $20,000 for money bor- rowed to line the pockets of the grafters who sung his praises.”— Becker County Journal, The above case is but one of many of which the writer is cogniz- ant. Another case wherein politics has placed a splendid man “on his last legs,” and relegated him to pri- vate life and almost obscurity is that of a certain ex-state treasurer. A few years ago, this gentleman lis- tened to some of his ardent “friends” (?) and became a candidate for governor. The candidacy proved a very expensive and ruinous affair; and now the ex-state official is writ- ing insurance and getting along as best he can. And there be but few of his “bosom friends” of the guber- natorial candidacy days who ever pass his way and extend a kindly hand. . Yea, verily, “man’s inhumanity to man,” from the standpoint of the ways of the average politician of today, is a sort of “golden rule” for the “‘profesh” of that ilk. The Minneapolis Tribune prints the following bit of interesting political gossip concerning Elmer Kling, the Little Falls member of the legislature: “Elmer Kling of Little Falls will endeavor to return to the house of representatives, and will be a candi- date for the speakership. Mr. Kling bases his possible ambition on the possibility that A. J. Rockne, who is expected to be either a candi- date for congress or for the judge- ship recently made vacant by the death of Judge Williston, will not be a candidate for re-election and that R. J. Wells of Breckenridge will either be a candidate for the senate, or will devote his politicial interests to securing the office of state auditor.” ASKS GENERAL PROBE OF PACKING PLANTS Former Inspector Writes Ope. Letter fo Secretary Wilson, Fremont, O., June 28.—James Harms of Fremont, former government meat inspector, whose letter of resignatio: to Secretary of Agriculture Wilsor brought about the recent Investiga tion of the Natlonal stock yards at East St. Louis, has made public an open letter to Secretary Wilson urg: ing a general investigation of the in- spection departments of the various packing plants of the country. Harms, in bis letter, says that he has letters from meat inspectors lo cated from Philadelphia to San Fran cisco asking to be given the oppor tunity to tell what they know of con- ditfons at other stations. He says he has been repeatedly informed that the inspection at the National stock yards at Bast St. Louis was superior to that of any other station. CENSUS BILL PASSES SENATE Measure Under Consideration Less Than Five Minutes. ‘Washington, June 28.—Within five minutes the census appropriation bill ‘was passed by the senate in the form in which the bill was on Thursday passed by the house. The bill appro priates $10,000,000 for taking the thir: teenth census. The bill authorizes the’ director of the census to daesignate three commissioners to represent the United States in the internatlonal commission for the revision of the classification of diseases and causet of death. The commission meets at Paris in July, 1909. Oklahoma Negro Lynched. ‘Wilburton, Okla., June 28.—A mob ot fifty masked men took Sylvester Stennien, a negro known as “Alabama Reéd,” from the jall here and Iynched him. The negro on Thursday shot and killed Albert Turner, a deputy con: stable who had attempted to arrest him. WOMAN'S GEMS B FOUND IN PAWN Robbery Possible Motive for Murder of Mrs. Woodill. LETTER TELLS OF TRAGEDY Missive Written to His Wife by “Lame Bob” Eastmafi, the Suspected Slayer and Suicide, Declares the Crime Wae Committed in His Bungalow by a Drunken Woman in a Fit of Jeal- ous Rage. Bt.” Michaels, Md., June 28.—With the making public of the full text of “Lawme Bob” Eastman’s version of the death of Edith May Woodill, as re- lated in the letter he sought to mail to Vinnie Bradcombe, his wife, has added a new interpretation to the tragedy of the lonely bungalow on the shores of one of the maze of tidal streams that put in here from the Chesapeake bay. But robbery as a possible motive for the crime now has been advanced. Word comes from Baltimore that a man answering the description ot Eastman In every detail pawned in that city on Tuesday last two diamond rings and a diamond brooch valued at about $500. Diamond rings, a dia- mond brooch and a diamond set brace- let worn by Mrs. Woodill when she last was seen alive with Eastman never have been accounted for. It is likely that the jewelry will be sent here for identification. If it proves to be that of Mrs. Woodill, as now is believed, an entirely new light will be shed on the strange tragedy. Eastman went to Baltimore on Tues- day and mailed from there a letter written by Mrs. Woodill several days previously to her sister at McDaniel. Eastman’s story of the crime, which he declared was committed by a drunken woman in a fit of jealous rage, is so circumstantial and seems in a way so much like the sincere dec- larations of a man about to take his own._life, however, that Foreman Rad- cliffe of the coroner’s jury, which is inquiring into the death of Mrs. Wood- 111, 1s convinced of its truth and is endeavoring to induce the authorities to obtain the service of expert detec- tives to work upon the case. HIS IDENTITY ESTABLISHED Man Who Killed Mrs. Woodill Was “Lame Bob” Eastman. 8t. Michaels, Md., June 28.—With- out ceremony and in the quietest and most unostentatious manner possible the body of Robert E. Eastman— “Lame Bob”—the New York stock broker and the man who murdered pretty May Edith Thompson Woodill and then committed suicide, was bur- ied at the expense of Talbot county. That the dead man, whose sensa- tional taking of his own life, was really “Lame Bob” Eastman, the fugi- tive New York broker, is now estab- lished beyond all question of a doubt, for the body was positively identified by Louls B. Pedler, a member of the art department of one of the Wash- ington newspapers, who came down here to develop the story. Pedler is a cousin of Vinnle Bradcombe, the New York actress, who; it turns out, is the wife of Eastman and to whom he addressed the letter in which he charged that a woman had killed Mrs. Woodill. Pedler had known Eastman well in New York and there was no hesitancy in his identification. The authorities are working on the case and there is promise of some new developments. Eastman’s Story of the Murder. The full text of the letter found on Fastman and addressed to Vinnie Bradcombe, his wife, giving his cir- cumstantial version of the killing of Mrs. Woodill by another woman, has been made public. Eastman claims the murder was committed in the bungalow instead of in a launch. The part of the letter referring to the tragedy follows: “Little girl, I had no hand in the tragedy. Was there and removed the ‘evidence after the other two couples fled. I did this for self-preservation and am haunted. The victim was my particular friend and we were well mated. Have only known her three weeks. We all, that is, two men and two other women from Annapolis, went to the bungalow for a time. Every one got full excepting Edith and myself. Edith trled to win one of the girls’ fellows while lying on the bed with him and was hit three times on the side of the head with a full bottle of champagne and the fel- low hit once. She fell over on the floor and died. The man did not come to for an hour. 1 was left with the corpse and cannot take a chance for a trial. Life to me is very bitter and I will pull down the shades and say goodbye.” EARLY LIFE OF MRS. WOODILL Was Adopted In Minneapolis Nineteer Years Ago. Minneapolis, June 28.—An unusual story of tragedy in child life is brought to light in the circumstances sur- rounding the early days of Edith May Thompson Woodill. Mrs. Woodill was the daughter of Zatella Witz, who, about nineteen years ago, was a resident of Minne- apolis. The daughter, who was first named Anna Pearl Witz, was born in Couz Creek, Wash;, her father being Matthew Witz, a miner. A few weeks after her birth her father was mur- dered as the result of a quarrel in the eamp. Mrs. Witz came to Minneap- olis, where she met Albert Kight, a farmer living near Elk River, Minn., and was married to him. The Kights ‘Wwere unable to properly care for the ¢hild. Accordingly Pearl was adopt: #d by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Thomp- Bon. 4 ) NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST La Follette Discusses Taft's Mossage to Congress. Madison, Wis,, June 28—“Taft's Service to Aldrich” is the title of the leading editorlal in the last issue of La Follette’s ‘Weekly. The editorial gays, in par “The president’s recent message to congress was inopportune and not in the public interest. *It would have been a great help to the band of progressives making a fight in behalf of the public interest and for the maintenance of party pledges had Mr. Taft seen fit to send a special message stating whether the party pledges were, in his judgment, being fulfilled by increasing the tariff rates or hy reenacting the existing rates, Because, be it -remembered, the president is the one who has the final word. His approval or his veto : decides whether the work of con: gress shall stand. “One fact stands out high and plain above all else in the situation. This message came to congress at a most opportune time to serve the fixed du termination of Senator Aldrich to de feat the income tax and to ald him in passing the tariff bill with its exces- sively high duties just as he wanted it.” Acquitted of Bribery Charge. Columbus, O., June 3/.—The jury in the trial of R. Stanley Rhoads, Colum- bus agent of the American Sewer Pipe company, charged with bribing C. W. Burr, formerly of the Columbus boa#d’ .of public service, returned a verdict of not guilty. AEROPLANE CONTEST ON AT MORRIS PARK Flying Machines of Various Kinds After Prizes. New York, June 2t —All gorts of queer looking and strangé contriv- ances for sailing through the air are included in the flying machines en- tered in the public tests of the Aero- nautic soclety to be held at Morris park today. The soclety has been lib- eral in its definitions of practicability. Among the aeroplanes which will fly or try to fly today are some that have proved their ability to remain in the alr for longer or shorter periods of time and some that will have no chance of raising their inventors’ hopes either literally or figuratively. The committee of the Aeronautic soclety in charge of the prize fund will award a $2,000 prize to the ma- chine which has never made a public flight that makes a successful circuit of the Morris park course, about one and three-fourths miles, or that re- mains in the air ten minutes. For a machine going less than this distance, but 5,000 feet or more, $1,000 will be awarded, or the same amount for re- maining seven and a half minutes in the air. Lesser amounts are to be awarded for lesser distances, but the provision was made that all members of the soclety who succeed in flying 500 feet will receive prizes of $250. NORRIS WRITES TO ALDRICH Points Out “Grave Errors of Facts” In Senator’s Statement. ‘Washington, June 2!,—John Norris of New York, representing newspaper publishers in their effort to secure lower duties on pulp and paper, has sent a letter to Chairman Aldrich of the senate finance committee in which he points out what he regards as “grave errors of facts” in Mr. Al drich’s statement to.the senate. Mr. Norris enumerated sixteen items. He contradicts Mr. Aldrich’s statement that there has been no advance in pa- per prices and refers to the house committec report to show that the actual advance in paper prices aggre- gated $5,000,000 per annum to May, 1908. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, June 26.—Wheat— July, $1.27%; Sept., $1.12%@1.12%; Dec., $1.09%@1.09%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.305%@1.31%; No. 1 North- ern, $1.29% @1.30%; No. 2 Northern, $1.975% @1.28%; No. 3 Northern, $1. 2634 @1.27%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, June 26.—Wheat—On track —No. 1 hard, $1.31; No. 1 Northern, $1.29%: No. 2 Northern, $1.27%; July, $1.27%; Sept., $1.12%. Flax—To ar- rive and on track, $1.76; July, $1.75; Sept., $1.4614; Oct., $1.40%. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, June 26.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.50; fair to good, $4.50@5.50; good to cholce cows and heifers, $4.26@5.25; veals, $5.50@6.25. Hogs—$7.35@7.50. Sheep—Wethers, $4.50@5.00; yearlings, $5.75@6.25; lambs, $7.00@7.50; spring lambs, $7.50@8.26. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, June 26.—Wheat—July, $1.16; Sept.,, $1.11%; Dec., $1.09%; May, $1.12. Corn—July, 70%c; Sept., 68%c; Dec., 58% @58%c; May, 59%c. Oats—July, 50%c; Sept, 44c; Dec., 44%c; May, 46%c. Pork—July, $20. 12%; Sept., $20.35. Butter—Creamer- fes, 22@26c; dairies, 20@23%c. Eggs —18@21lc. Poultry—Turkeys, - 14c; chickens, 1214c; springs, 16@22¢c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, June 26.—Cattle—Beeves, $6.10@7.35; Texas steers, $4.75@6.25; Western steers, $4.75@86.25; , stockers and feeders, $3.60@5.50; cows and heifers, $2.50@6.50; calves, $5.50@ 7.50. Hogs—Light, $7.15@7.80; mixed, $7.35@8.00; heavy, $7.46@8.00; rough, $7.45@7.65; good to cholce heavy, $7.65@8.00; plgs, $6.16@7.00. Sheep —Native, $3.50@5.85; yearlings, $6.00 @7.00; lambs, = $5.00@8.00; spring 1ambs, §5.50@8.85. ENDS LIFETO AVOID ARREST Alleged Slayer—of"llrs. Woo'd-1 ill Commits Swicide. SURROUNDED BY A POSSE Suspect Is Located Near Scene of Crime and When Ordered to Throw Up His Hands Turns Revolver on Himself—Meteoric Career of Young Woman Who Was the Victim of 8ensational. Tragedy. St. Michaels, Md., June 2 .—Emmett B. Roberts, newspaper correspondent, magazine writer and author, charged with the murder of Mrs. Edith May. ‘Woodill, committed suicide, when cor- nered by a sheriff’s posse. Information had reached the au- thorities that Roberts was on the river in a small boat, presumably the one In which he escaped from his boarding house. He was followed up the river by a deputy sheriff and sev- eral men, who gradually drove him to the nelghborhood of the McDaniels wharf, not far from where the murder was committed. When Roberts was within 100 yards of shore the deputy ordered him to throw up his hands. The reply of the fugitive was a shot. At once a member of the posse fired and Roberts dropped back into his boat dead. Later it developed that the shot fired by Roberts was aimed at himself and that he had committed suicide rather than submit to arrest. The mystery of Mrs. Woodill’s ante- cedents, her brilliant prospects and accomplishments, her beauty and the prominence ot her foster parents and relatives and the brutal manner of her death had created an intense sen- sation, which was heightened by the death of the man in whose company she was last seen. Roberts, who was little known here, s believed now to have assumed that name. Robert E. Eastman is believed to have been his real name, according to papers discovered after his death. WOMAN'S METEORIC CAREER 8ome Details in the Life of Mrs. Wood- ill, Murder Victim. Baltimore, June 26.—The death of Emmett E. Roberts at St. Michaels marks the culmination of the most sensational tragedy ever occurring in Maryland, with ramifications that have become countrywide in their ex- tent. Some facts in the meteoric career of Mrs. Woodill, in whose brief life love and romance played such a great part, were related by an intimate friend of the slain woman, who said they were told by Mrs. Woodill her- self. Mrs. Woodill sald she was born in Minneapolis about twenty years ago. Her mother, who called herself Mrs, Ames, died when she was about three years of age, leaving her in utter ig- norance of her parentage or forbears. Mrs. Charles H. Thompson of Mec- Daniel, Md., then took her and brought her up, telling her that she (Mrs. Thompson) was her mother’s intimate friend, but never disclosing to her the name of her father. ‘When she was about twelve years of age they went to Washington, ‘where they lived for some time in the house of Lyman J. Gage, who took a ‘great Interest in her. When she was -about fifteen he sent her, with Mrs. Thompson, to Paris, where she stud- fed music, Mr. Gage paying all ex- Dpensee. On her return from Paris she ‘went to Boston to complete her stud- fes and while in Boston she was mar- ried to a Mr. Caswell, who was an osteopath. Congcealed Her Marriage. | ‘When she was about seventeen she eame to Baltimore to continue her studies at the Peabody conservatory, leaving her husband. She was known here as Miss Edith Thompson, con: cealing her marriage from all but a few intimate friends. In a very short time thereafter she entered suit against Dr. Caswell for a divorce. Bhe left Baltimore over a year ago, being engaged at the time to Harry Adams ‘of Mount Vernon, N. Y. After & brief stay in New York she went to California, where in less than thirty days after her divorce from Dr. Cas- well she marrled Gilbert Woodill of Los Angeles. It has also been ru- mored that in her early youth Charles Thompson, the son of her foster mother and father, being a rejected suitor, committed suicide on her ac- count. During her residence in Baltimore Mr. Gage sent her checks continually, some of them amounting to $1,500, and when she was married to Mr. Woodill he gave her §5,000. At the time of her death Mr. Gage was also building her a house in Los Angeles, with the understanding that he was to come to lve with her and her husband. NEW GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA Joseph M. Brown Takes Oath of Office Today. . ; Atlanta, Ga., June 2 .—With quiet, simple ceremonies befitting the unos- tentatious nature of the man Joseph M. Brown was inducted into office to- day as governor of the state of Geor- gia. In carrying out his intention to have an inauguration of the simplest JOSEPH M. BROWN. kind consistent with the provisions of the state constitution Governor Brown walked to the state capitol dressed in a suit of Georgia made brown jeans. Governor Brown was chosen as the Democratic candidate at the primaries in June, 1908, defeating Hoke Smith, the outgoing governor, who sought the endorsement of another term. The acute enmity between Smith and Brown began when the latter was re- moved by the former from his office of rallroad commissioner. It was as- erted that Brown favored the rail roads unduly. Headaches. Headaches. Biliousness. Biliousness. Constipation. Constipation. Ayer’s Pills, Ayer’s Pills. If your doctor says this is all Say it Over and Over Again Headaches. Headaches. Biliousness. Biliousness. Constipation, Constipation. Ayer’s Pills. Ayer’s Pills. right, remember it! LoV ko * THIRTIETH IN SERIES Chicago Saloon Damaged fo Ex- OF BOM EXPLOSIONS tent of $25,000. Chicago, June 2(.—Another bomb, the thirtieth of a mysterious .series during the last two years, wrecked the saloon of Manning & Bowes, caus- ing a loss of $25,000. Windows in a department - store and = asrestaurant were shattered by the - explosion. Michael Yargarbarkin, who was asleep at his fruit stand in front of the place, ‘was burled under the debris, but was rescued and taken to a hospital. James West, who was passing the #aloon, suffered slight injuries. " Cor- poral Benjamin Bertwhistle, T, Mar- tin, William Fredericks and Henry Rutrough of the United States army recruiting service were thrown. from thelr beds in the recruiting office above the saloon, but were not hurt. ‘Whether the bomb was thrown in a 80 called gamblers’ war which has mystified the police for a long time, or was thrown as the result of some personal quarrel with the saloon pro- prietors, is not known. The police expressed a belief in the latter theory, Inspector Wheeler declaring that there had been no gambling at the Manning & Bowes establishment. NEGRO KILLS FOUR PERSONS Afflicted by “Brain Storm” He Shoots Three and Himself. Opelousas, La., June 2l.—Four are dead as the result of what doctors say must have been a “brain storm” that affected Gilbert Wilson, a hith- erto law abiding negro. First he kidnapped a fifteen-year-old girl and killed Henry Brown, who tried to protect her. Sophia Johnson and Emma Jackson led a posse into the woods where Wil- son was known to be ‘hiding and he shot and killed both women. He then committed suicide. Storm Destroys Many Buildings. ‘West Point, Neb., June 25 —St. Jos- eph’s Catholic church was destroyed and a dozen residences were serious- ly damaged by a tornado. It was fol- lowed by a cloudburst which flooded the streets, tearing up sidewalks and doing other damage. 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