Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 13, 1909, Page 1

S R | THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 7. NUMBER 151. BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OC‘TOB'ER 13, 1909. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH. PITTSBURG WINS, "EARY Pittsburg, Oct. 13.—The baseball game here today between Detroit and Pittsburg resulted as follows: THE SCORE. Pittsburg.............. NenErEeT Detroit.........c..ooovveviinpenns The positions and batting order was as follows: Detroit—D. Jones If, Bush ss, Cotb rf, Crawford cf, Delehanty 2b, Morarity 3b, T. Jones 1b, Stanage and Schmidt ¢, Summers and Willets p. Pittsburg—Byrne 3b, Leach cf, Clarke If, Wagner ss, Miller 2b, Abstein 1b, Wilson rf, Gibson c, Adams p. Umpires—O’Laughlin and Johnstone. A. A. KREMER LOOTED THE ITASCA COUNTY TREASURY Deputy Public Examiner Kane Examined Books of Itasca Treasurer.—Kremer Confessed to Stealing Some $20,000.—Makes Restitution of $6,000. Later—It has since been learned that Kremer's shortage will amount to $20,000, instead of $8,000. The St. Paul Pioneer Piess says of the downfall of A. A. Kremer, county treasurer of Itasca county, who is well known to several of the older residents of Bemidji and to many of the people living northeast of Bemidji, in northwestern Itasca county: “A. A. Kremer, county treasurer of Itasca county, was ordered sus- pended late yesterday by Gov. A. O. Eberhart. He confessed to the embezzlement of county funds. He made a confession to M. F. Kain, deputy from the public examiner’s department, who has taken charge of the office and caused the arrest of the treasurer. “Information had reached Attor- ney General Simpson of shortages in the treasury of Itasca county, and last Saturday he took up the matter with Anton Schafer, public examiner, who sent Mr. Kain to Grand Rapids to make an examination. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Simpson received the following telegram: “we Information as represented. Confessed $8,000. Restitution $6,- 000. Warrant issued. Tooek charge office. —'M. F. Kain.’ “This telegram, together with a formal recommendation by Mr. Schafer that Ktemer be suspended, was tur ned over to the governor late in the afternoon and the executive at once ordered the suspension. Under the law no official can be removed by the governor without a hearing, but the county auditor was at once sent a ‘copy of the order and the county board will electa man to serve as county treasurer until Kremer is removed.. Criminal proceedings in the courts probably will follow. “Kremer’s method of retaining money, it is alleged, was to mark wrong totals on the duplicate tax receipts. When several items on a tax receipt totaled $324 he would mark the total $224 on the duplicate he gave the county auditor and keep the remainder, itis charged. At first he started with $100 at a time, it is charged, then $500, then $2,000 or even $2,500. This had been going on some months when the discrepancies were discovered.” YANKEE DOODLE STOGK G0. HERE NEXT .MONDAY Will Begin Three Nights’ Engagement. —Company Comes Well Recom- mended.—Has Fine Plays. The Yankee Doodle Stock com- pany open a3 days engagement next Monday night at the City This is the best Repertoire playing the middle west and gives a continous performance vaudeville and music between every act for the opening night. The company will produce, Mark E. Swan’s great comedy drama “The Princess of Patches,” one of the cleverest repertoire bills ever written, besides being a study in types and characterization that is almost in a class by itself. The story deals with the fortunes of Selma Silverthorn, a child stolen in infancy from a lite of luxury on her father’s plantation and subjected to cruelties and hardships by a half breed ex-slave, Judas, in revenge for a fancied wrong. At the opening of the piece the little 12-year-old Selma, seemingly clothed only in a barrel and afraid to return to her brutal kidnappers because someone had stolen all her clothes at the swimming hole, comes to her uncle, the trustee of the fortune that was left in his charge for her in case she should ever be found, and begs for protec- tion from Judas, and with the old school southern chivalry toward femininity in distress he adopts her without knowing who she is and raises her as his own daughter. Opera House. in view of the fact that everyone of her relatives is interested in the search for the kidnapped heiress makes the plot of the Princess of Patches alive with interest and thrilling at every turn: The great house boat scene in the third act in which her cousin tried to gain her fortune by attempting to kill the little Princess, being an almost con- tinous session of breath suspending situations. Griffiths Gets Déserved Promotion. Word comes from St. Paul to the effect that M. L. Griffiths, has been appointed well known here, state agent for the Germania-Life Insurance company, together with another party who is prominently identified with the company, to succeed the former state agent, who recently died. Mr. Griffiths has been a resident of Crookston for several years, at one time being connected with the New York Life Insurance company and later accepting the general agency for the Germania Lite com- pany in this section. The promotion of Mr. Griffiths to the state agency for the Germania company is indeed gratifying to his Bemidji friends (and he has a whole lot of them here), and they hope his removing from Crookston to St. Paul to live will not prevent his visiting us occasionally. “Griff.” is one of the very best life insurance agents in the entire country, and his aavancement is deserved. No Drill Tonight. Owing to the removal of paraph- ernalia from the city. hall to the armory there will be no drill of Com- The originality of this situation pany K tonight. —Captain A. E. Otto.* GIVES EVIDENCE AGAINST COOK'S CLAIMS Peary Claims Cook Did Not Reach North Pole.--Witnesses Quoted Are Cook’s Eskimo Boys.---The Natives ‘Laugh at Cook’s Claims. [Through special arrangement with the American Free Press Association, the Pioneer has abtzinefl Commander Robert E. Peary’s statement attacking the claims made by Dr. Cook that he (Cook) reached the The statement was not released for publication until this morning, and is given the Pioneer readers north pole. “first-hand.”—Editor Pioneer.] The accompanying map is reproduced exactly from the original submitted by Commander Peary with his official statement by which he hopes to prove that Dr. Frederick A. Cook never reached the north pole. The wap pur- ports to have been traced out in the presence of the two Eskimos who were with Dr. Cook and, according to Peary, is based upon their actual statements as to Cook’s entire journey. The dotted lines in the small map in the upper left hand corner is the route which Dr. Cook says he took on his journey to and from the poie after leaving Cape Thomas Hubbard. The irregular ling extending northeast from Isachsen Land is the edge of the iand ice, beyond which, Peary declares, Dr."Cook did not venture. . New York, October 12.—The follow- ing statement of Commander Rober% B. Peary, which he submitted, to- gether with the accompanying map, to the Peary Arctic Club in support of his contention that Dr. Cook did not reach the North Pole, is now made public for the first time. .The state- ment and map have been copyrighted by the Peary Arctic Club. (Entered according to Act of congress, | in the year 1909, by the Peary Arctic Club, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.) INTRODUCTION BY PEARY. Some of my reasons for saying that Dr. Cook did not go to the North Pole ROBERT E. PEARY. will be understood by those who read the following statements of the two Eskimo boys-who went with him, and who told me and others of my party where he did go. Several Eskimos who started with Dr. Cook 1rom An- oratok in February, 1908, were at Etah when I arrived there in August, 1908. They told me that Dr. Cook had with him, after they left, two Eskimo boys ' or young men, two sledges and some twenty dogs. The boys were I-took-a- shoo and Ah-pellah. I had known them from their childhood. One was about eighteen and the other about nineteen years of age. On my return from Cape Sheridan and at the very first settlement I touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon) in August, 1909, and nine days before reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me, in a general way, where Dr. Cook had been; that he had wintered in Jones Sound and that he had told the white men at Etah that he had been a long way north, but that the boys who were with him, I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, said that this was not so. The Eski- mos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On reaching Etah, I talked with the Eski- mos there and with the two boys and asked them to describe Dr. Cook’s jour- ney to members of my party and my- self. This they did in the manner stated below. (Signed) R. E. PrARY. SIGNED STATEMENT OF PEARY, BARTLETT, McMILLAN, BORUP AND HENSON, IN REGARD TO TESTIMONY OF COOK’S TWO ESKIMO BOYS, The two Eskimo boys, I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, who 'accompanied Dr. Cook while he was away from Anora- tok in 1908 and 1909, were questioned separately = and independently, and were corroborated by Panikpah, the father of one of them (I-took-a-shoo), who was personally familiar with the first third and the last third of their journey, and who said that the route for the remaining third, as shown by theln, was as described to him by his son after his return with Dr. Cook. Notes of their statements were taken by several of us, and no one of us has any doubt that they told the truth. . Their testimony was unshaken by cross-examination, was corroborated by other men in the tribe, and was ' elicited neither by threats nor prom- ises, the two boys and their father talking of their journey and their ex- periences in the same way that they would talk of any hunting trip. To go more into details: One of the boys was called in, and, with a chart on the table before him, was asked to show where he had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did, pointing out with his finger on the map, but not making any marks upon it. As he went out, the other boy came in and was asked to show where he had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did, also without making any marks, and DR. FREDERICK A. COOK.’ indicated the same roufe and the same details as did the first boy. ‘When he was through, Panikpah, the father of I-took-a-shoo, a very in- telligent man, who was in the party of Eskimos that came back from Dr. | Cook from the northern end of Nan- sen’s Strait, who is familiar as a hunt-’ [Continued on Page 4.), BEMIDJI SCHOLARS HAVE COMFORTABLE QUARTERS New High School Building Is Now Occupied, and Con- gested Conditions Are Relieved.—Removal and Changes Made Very Expeditiously. Bemidji’s three public school buildings (which include the magni- ficent new high school building,as well as the Central school building and the North Side building) are now occupied by scholars, and the con- gested conditions which have pre- vailed in the schools of this city for several years past has been relieved. «| There is plenty of room for the pres- building. In the Central school building Miss Bell’s First grade was changed from the kindergarten to Miss West- berg’s Second grade room;. Miss Westberg’s Second grade moved to Miss Fenderison’s Third grade room; Miss Fenderison’s Third grade was changed to Miss Hill’s Fourth grade room, Miss Elliot’s Third grade re- Bemidji's New High School. ent school population of Bemidji and will prove adequate for some time to come. The “changing around” of pupils from the Mayer building and the old Catholic church building, which have been used as school buildings for -the past two years, to the Cen- tral building and the new high school building, as well as the changes from the Central building to the new high school building, were made yesterday morning; and in the manner of making the changes Superintendent Ritchie and his able corps of teachers showed much ex ecutive ability. The changes were started at 9 o’clock, just after school had been called in tbe different buildings. When the signal was given to move, every scholar took books and per- sonal belongings and moved from; the old seats to the different rooms| assigned to each grade. { In exactly thirty minutes from the time the signal was given to move, every scholar attending the Bemidji schools who was supposed to move toa new building or new seat in the same building, was in his or her place; and the classes went on uninterruptedly as though there had been no “moving day.” There was a general exodus from the Mayer and the old Catholic church buildings to new quarters and there were changes all around in the Central building, which kas been literally “crowded to the roof” for several years. The High school and Seventh and Eighth grades were moved from their old location in the Central maining in the Third grade room and Miss Hill’s Fourth grade chang- ing to Miss Hanson’s and Miss Donaldson’s Fifth grade room; Miss Hanson’s and Miss Donaldson’s Fifth grade changed to Miss John- son’s Eighth grade room. Miss Koerne’s Third grade changed from the Mayer building to PROF. A. P. RITCHIE, Superintendent Bemidji City Schools. Miss Kennedy’s Fourth and Fifth grade room in'the Central building; Miss Kennedy’s Fourth and Fifth grades changed to Miss Leon’s Sixth grade room; Miss Cosgrove’s Fourth grade changed from the Mayer building to Miss Hayden’s Seventh grade room in the Central building;Miss Bergquist’s Fifth grade Bemidji's Central School. school buildihg to the new high school building; the First and Second grade scholars ofthe old Catholic church building were moved to the new high school building; the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth grades from the Mayer building to the Central to Mrs. Dwyer’s Sixth grade room, Mrs. Dwyer’s Sixth grade changing into the freshman room; Miss Rose’s Sixth' grade changed from Mayer building to the new high school building. [Continued on Last Page.] Lo S MINNESOTA ¢ HISTORICAL SOCIETY: s