Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 14, 1909, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE flistonca\ Societd: W VOLUME 7. NUMBER 152. BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1909. DETROIT WINS; SERIES NOW TIE Detroit, Oct. 14—(Special to Pioneer.)—The Detroit baseball team, champions of the American League, today won its third game from Pittsburg, which makes the series a tie and necessitates a game to be played here tomorrow to decide the championship of the world. THE SCORE. Detroit................ B sresnsssERs s PIHSDUrE . ..oicovvomsssvammmssavssmavsmsavssvmss cowens The positions and batting order was as follows: Detroit—D. Jones If, Bush ss, Cotb rf, Crawford cf, Delehanty 20, Morarity 3b, T. Jones 1b, Stanage and Schmidt ¢, Mullins, p. Pittsburg—Byrne 3b, Leach cf, Clarke If, Wagner ss, Miller 2b, Abstein 1b, Wilson rf, Gibson, ¢, Willis, Camnitz, and Phillippi, p. Umpires—Evans and Klem ' The deciding game will be played at Detroit on Saturday. hoan Detroit, Oct. 14.—(Special to Pioneer.)—The scene of champion- ship baseball struggle was again shifted from Pittsburg to Detroit, and with Pittsburg having won three games and Detroit two, there was intense interest in today’s game. Should Pittsburg win, the ‘“Smoky City” Na- tional league team would be the champions of the world; and should Detroit win, a seventh game would have to be played to decide the championship. The players of both teams were on their mettle, and a great game was expected. Bennet park was crowded to its utmost capacity, and it was with difficulty that the cordon of police maintained order. DISTRICT COURT MOTION BORDERS ON SENSATIONAL In Moving for Order from Judge Wright to Set Aside Indictments Returned Against M. G. Slocum, John F. Gibbons Makes Grave Charges. Before Judge Wright, yesterday| “(a) In making their deliber- afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, John|ations concerning said indictment Gibbons, as attorney for M. G.|public before said indictment was Slocum, moved the court for an|found. order setting aside the three indict-]| ‘“(b) In making and parading in ments returned against M. G. Slo-| public the fact that said indictment cum of this city, the first indict-| was found before the defendant was ment being for impersonating an|arraigned. officer; the second for falsely pre-| “(c) Maliciously conspiring with senting a claim, and the third for|each other and with other persons to larceny. indict defendant before anv evidence In taking up the matter Mr.|was adduced before said grand Gibbons stated that he would ask»jury against the defendant. the court to consider but one iu-g “(d) In totally ignoring and dis- dictment as the grounds upon|regarding the-charge of this court which he would move the court for | and the law relative to the conduct an order setting aside one indict-|of grand juries. ment would be practically the same| “(¢) Permitting a person to be in each indictment, and were: present at the session of the grand “FIRST. Gross misconduct on|jury while the charge embraced in the part of the grand jury. the indictment was under considera- First and Last s se - WE, RECOMMERD the tins cviet e et 0T 18 Will stand to be good and he held fast d]scusswn to it. Imitations came by the hundreds and hundreds. Competition was fierce and relentless, but the good idea withstood thems all. One by one the imitations fell out of line until today the genuine ROUND OAK is the only one left with a great sale and reputation. Thirty-eight years old, suc- cessful every year; it is now better and handsomer than ever. A good idea—see? Found thirty-eight years ago —and Beckwith held fast to it. Does it pay to speculate’ or take any chances when here in our store at a reason- able price, you can get the peer of all heating stoves? See the name ROUND OAK on the leg. W. M. ROSS Hardware, Furniture, Coal, Furnaces and Tinsmithing DEFECTIVE PAGE it was in as good condition as it txon “(f) Admitting a person other than a witness into the grand jury room while said grand jury was in session, and divulging to him their deliberations with reference to find- ing indictments against this defend- ant, “(g) In permitting and allowing a person not a member of the grand jury or the county attorney or the atrorney general to be present dur- ing the examination of witnesses upon whose testimony this indict- ment was found.” Mr. Gibbons' submitted an af- fidavit to the effect that he was absent from Bemidji while the grand jury was in session and that at the time of the arraignment of Mr. Slocum he did not know all the facts which had been set forth in the affidavits presented, otherwise he would have at that time made the motion that was now before the court. Mr. Slocum also submitted an affidavit to the effect that the matter which he was submitting in the affidavit were uuknown to him at the time of the arraignment, but that if they had been he would have ‘in- formed Mr. Gibbons and made the motion at that time to have the in- dictments set aside. Mr. Gibbons then submitted an affidavit of Mr. Slocum, whereunto was attached a clipping from the Bemidji Sentinel. This clipping was an item wherein the editor of the Sentinel reported the action of the grand jury as follows: “Grand jury completes work. “The grand jury, which has been in session several weeks, completed its work Saturday and was dis- charged by Judge Wright. Before the jury was discharged it reported an indictment for larceny against a party who has not yet been arrested. Another indictment was for imper- sonating an officer, and one for presenting a claim falsely to a public officer. “Before the jury adjourned it also inspected the county jail, which is one of its duties, and reported that possibly could be under the existing circumstances.” In this affidavit Mr. Slocum says that he made the affidavit containing the clipping from the Sentinel “‘for the purpose of showing that the deliberations of the grand jury rela” tive to finding an indictment against FORTY CENTS PER MONTH. YANKEE DOODLE STOCK 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 Opera House. 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 life of luxury on BARRY. (GNNERS, With Yankee Doodl; Stock Co., at City Opera House Next Week. her father’s plantat\‘on 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 $elma, seemingly clothed only ina :barrel and afraid to_return to her brutal kidnappers because someone| had stolen “allf: her clothes at the swimming hole, | him was a matter of pubiic knowl- edg 1 an foll “ o ou the the by on befi sult members ot said grand jury toward this defendant, as well as the result of gross misconduct on the part of said grand jury in introducing into the grand jury room during the deliberations of said grand jury, one certain H. J. Loud, an attorney at law residing in said City of Bemidji, who was not brought before said grand jury as a witness against this defendant but for the purpose of prejudicing said grand jury against this defendant; that in order to re- turn said indictment without the aid of competent testimony, “said grand jury purposely excluded the county attorney of said county from said grand jury room and requested this court to appoint another at- torney in his place; that said request was denied by this court, which in- structed said grand jury that the county attorney of said county was the proper person to attend them up- on the investigation of all matters requiring their attention, and that said court was without power to dis- place said county attorney. *““That, notwithstanding the denial of said request by said court, and in total disregard of the instructions of the court, and in total disregard of the law forbidding the presence of any person in said grand jury room during the deliberations -of said grand jury, and while said grand jury was examining witnesses, said : | Martin Larson, a resident of Section Doings in Court Commissioner's Court. Charles and Fred Yonker, who were arrested on the complaint of 10, Town of Turtle Lake, have been bound over to the grand jury on the charge of larceny. Mr. Larson hired the Vonker brothers to cut cord wood and sup- plied them. with axes and other camp supplies, and after being com- fortably settled, the two gathered up all supplies and peddled them throughout the neighborhood, ob- taining money - with which they expected to make their escape. Bail was fixed at $500 and in de- fault thereof the defendants were committed to jail. Carl Borsvold was also bound over to await the action of the grand jury on the crime of grand larceny in the first ‘degree, being charged with taking $60 from the pockets of Carl Penska. Bail was fixed at $1,000. Band Boys Attention. The band rehearsal will be held in the City Opera House tonight, owing to the Armory heating plant being out of commission for the present. All members are requested to be present for a thorough .rehearsal before the concert. V. L. Ellis, Manager Band. Boom Case to Jruy This Noon. The case of the International Boom Co. et al vs. the Rainy Lake | River Boom Co. went to the jury this noon after the entire forenoon | had been consumed in arguments of motions, etc. A special venire for twelve jury- men was issued for trial of another of the boom cases. GONTRIBUTIONS TO THE JOHNSON MEMORIAL FUND Some Bemidjians Are Responding to the ‘Appeal for Funds to Erect Monument. JOHN ALBERT JOHNSON MEMORIAL FUND John Albert Johnson Memorial Fund, Care of The Pioneer, Be- midjiz i Enclosed herewith pleasa find . .(not to exceed $I), as a contrlbutlon to the fund to be comes to ‘her uncle, the trustee of makes the plot of the Princess of Patches alive with interest and thrilling at every turn: The great house boat scene in the third act in which her cousin tried to gain her fortune by attempting to kill the little Princess, being an almost con- tinous session of breath suspending situations. Jury Found for Nole. A jury in municipal cout, yester- day evening, brought in averdict of “not guilty” inthe case ofthe State vs. William Noble, charge! with un- lawfully having in his posession a fawn hide. Noble, who lives in he Third River country east of Fackduck, was arrested some tim¢ ago by Game Warden Bailey an/ charged with having illegally in |is posses- sion a fawn hide. The/case was finally * brought to trial jyesterday with County ' Attorney McKusick prosecuting, assisted b} John F. Gibbons, and Charles Pcmlchm defending. A jury of ten was seleFed to try the case. | In defense of having aawn hide, Mr. Noble claimed that te hide was tanned and it was not il‘ al to have it in his possession. | After wrestling with {e case for three hours, the jury retjned a ver- dict of “not guilty.” [Continued on Last Page.} " Subscribe for The Piorsr. used for the erection at the state 5l of a monument to John tJohnson, late governor of 2sota. i Cahill. .$ 1.00 Larson 1.00 Bailey: . 100 Rutledge. . Loo 1.00 C. M. Bacon. 1.00 pemidji Pioneer Publishing Co 1.00 Jos. Harrington 1.00 Thos. S. Ervin 1.00 Thos. Hughes. 1.00 Ed. Auderson, Brainerd 1.00 A. J. Olson, Duluth 1.00 O. J. Johnson, Turtle vaer 1.00 Total .$13.00 Bemidji people who have at- tended the Bemidji Bible Confer- ences during the past two years, and subscribers of the Pioneer who have read the voluminous accounts of the conferences which were published in the Pioneer will be shocked to learn that Rev. George Soltau, famous as a Bible student and teacher, died recently and was buried at Santa Monica, Cal, last week. A special telegram from Santa REV. GEORGE SOLTAU HAS “GONE TO LAST REWARD” Famous Bible Student, Who Has Attended Bemidji Bible Conference, Victim of Heart Failure, in California. —Was Very Popular Here. ago at Plymouth, England. He entered the Baptist ministry and was pastor of a large church in New Zealand, also doing missionary work in India and Tasmania. About 14 years ago he returned to London, where he remained three years. Then he came to the United States, *“In evangelistic work and Bible exposition, to which he devoted him- self with special ability, he had be. come known throughout the West. “For about two months he had been failing, heart trouble being REV. GEORGE SOLTAU. Monica to the Buffalo, N. Y., Ex- press says of the funeral and death of Rev, Soltau: “‘Santa Monica, Cal., Oct. 5.— Funeral services will be held late this afternoon for Rev. George Soltau, for more than 30 years a Baptist clergyman and evangelist and a noted Bible teacher, who died last night at his temporary home, 1243% Sixth street, to which he had come about two weeks ago in the hopes of improv- ing his health, “The services will be held there, and Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, pastor of the First Baptist church of Los Angeles, will conduct them. do so well. “Mr. Soltau was - born 62 years Wholesale and Come in ,and ing Machines. greatest labor Why do this work yourself when a machme can Given Hardware Co, Our O. K. Washer is a won- der and sells for $7.50. . Our Quicker Yet Washer at $12 00 is indeed the quickest yet. given as the cause. He leavesa widow and five children—Dr. Alfred B. Soltau of Plymouth, England; David L. Soltau, Stanley Soltau, civil enginers in the state of Washington; Cecil Soltau of Los Angeles, and two daughters, Mable and Elinore Soltau, in London, England. *Burial will be made in Woodlawn cemetery, Santa Monica.” Rev. Soltau was present during the last two sessions of the Bemidji Bible, Conference and his learned teaching of the Bible were of great help to the Bible students at the conference. The learned gentleman had many since_re friends in this vicinity, who will all sincerely regret his demise. 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