Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 1, 1910, Page 1

- On To Crookston THL BEM ILY wstorteat S99° On To Crookston PION EE VOLUME 8. NUMBER 38. WILL GO AHEAD WITH PLANS FOR TOURNAMENT Bemidji Fire Boys Receive Assurances | of Many Teams at Meet Here July 4-5-6-7. The annual firemen’s tournament, which is to be held in Bemidji July| 4-5-6-7, will be pushed as rapidly as|ing his six years’ service as game possible from now on according to|warden for this decision of Bemidji fire boys who met in the city hall last evening. No effort will be spared to make this tournament a complete success. Letters have been received from ‘Thomas R. Jchnstone, of the Crooks- ton fire department, and from chiefs of the departments at Warren, Red Lake and Thief River Falls and Hallock, assuring the presence of their teams and reporting that through dilligent practice they are getting into excellent shape for the tournament. The Bemidji fire fighters and a committee from the commercial club will visit thc Bemidji business men during the next few days and an| active campaign to secure funds necessaay for holding of the tourna- ment will be instituted at once. The local residents should respond to this effort of the boys as much as possible, for the next meet will! attract large crowds to Bemidji, bringing in considerable business and will advertise our city, and it is absolutely necessary to raise money to hold a tournament of this kind in any city. Chief Earl Geil and his assistant, J. J. Doran, were elected official delegates last night to represent the local fire department and relief association at the annual meeting of the state firemen’s association, which will be held at Alexandria, June 14-15. You can appreciate the dollar you save. If deposited in the Northern National Bank it will grow con- POSSIBLE GANDIDATE. Aundrew )ohnson, who has served as deputy sheriff of Beltrami county for several years and who was so badly wounded last fall in the encounter with robbers west of this city while discharging his official duties, has tendered his resignation to Sheriff Hazen, and the acceptance took effect today. A. G, Rutledge, who gained considerable experience in this class of work dur- (14 ern Minnesota. district, was ap- pointed to succeed Mr. Johnson this morning. While “Andy” has made no an- nouncement yet, a strong backing of friends is urging him to become a candidate for the republican nomina- tion for sheriff at the primaries next | September, his friends contending that his long, faithful service as deputy sheriff and his bravery in fighting robbers who wounded him last fall entitle him to a term in this office. There are rumors in Bemidji that should Mr. Johnson decide to enter the race for the sheriff s office, he will have little opposition. state. GROOKSTON READY. Crookston, June 1.—Crookston gaily decorated and everything look- ing clean and neat! As early as 8 o'clock last evening over fifty “boosters” had arrived which is 24 hours ahead ot the time I hereby give notice that I am |%€t for:the ope.nlng. . prepared to pay school order num- At 6:30 this mo.rmng Huhbard ber 40, district 84, town of Jones county delegation with the Akeley and intarase band arrived. date. This train also brought a big bunch of boosters. Politicians, so far are scarce but a number of them are expected to appear on the scene today. Crookston was never so gaily decorated, neither has it ever been so enthusiastic. It is without doubt the biggest thing ever pulled off in Crookston. Notice. will cease from this Respectfully yours, W. A. Spicer, Treasurer, School District 84, Town of Jones. Solway, Minn. MUSIC Mastens Orchestra AT Hanson’s Drug Store Delegates from Brainerd will occupy a special train over the M. & I. and G. N. roads by way of Be- midji this evening. Politics at Crookston. It has been reported from one or two sources that the Crookston con- vention of the Northern Minnesota Development association will be used stantly day and night and Sunday. TONIGHT to further the political fortunes. of Comm Eighth grade commencement will be held Thursday evening in the city hall at 8:30, ! All children attending the exercises must be accompanied by their parents. An excel- lent program, as follows, has been arranged: CAST OF CHARACTERS encement Exercises. PROGRAM upper portion of the state. It is all for the good of your state. State, mind you, and nothing else. Southern Minnesota is well develpoed and now it is going to help develope the It means just as much to them as it does to, North- It is true that northern Minnesota wxll be directly and immediately bene- fited, but the southern counties are not of a selfish disposition and are far sighted enough to see that what helps northem Minnesota helps the entire Reapportionment is as good as settled, and that is just the beginning. This portion of the state is still in its infancy and the possibilities must be developed. To make northern Minnesota what it should and can be, in the way of agriculturing and dairying is a step that must not be overlooked. certain candidates for state office. Not the slightest credence should be given to this sort of talk. The meetings of the Northern Minnesota Development association are for business. Politics, except as political action is necessary to gain the'ends for which the association was formed, are absplutely. barred. Every member of the association realizes that it would.-be fatal to let designing politicians use for selfish purposes the machinery assembled for the common good of all sections of Northern Minnesota. Every member of the association would hotly resent any such attempt. The politicians will be at Crooks- ton, and if they behave themselves they will be welcome. at Bemidji, too, as thick as flies about a clot of molasses. They tried, there, to make use of the meeting to advance their own political fortunes. Without exception, they failed, most ' conspicuously. Their principle centet‘of: attack was the resolutions committee,- - and right bravely did tk&“members of that committee repel their insidious advances. Every resolution pro- posed was examined up one side and down the other, around the outside and through the middle, to see if it contained any political They were [+his personal advantage will regret it bombs; and the merest suspicion of political purpose was enough to con- demn it, The politicians will be at Crooks ton, more numerous and more avid than they were at Bemidji, because the political season is further ad- vanced and there are more of them in the field. But there will be added safety in this increase in numbers, Not only will the disinterested mem- bers of the convention watch them, but they will watch each other. While the politicans will be wel- comed and their professions of friendliness to Northern Minnesota will be heard with interest, any poli- tician who has the effrontery to attempt to turn the convention to as long as he lives. The business before that conven- tion is too broadly important and too deeply vital, and the interests of the delegates will be too keen and earnest to make it possible for sither sectional or. personal considerations to interfere. ~“There will be no p hotel lobbies—but that form of poli- tics which is public business, and which has closer association with broad statesmanship than it has with personal greed for office.— Duluth Herald, WKUSICK EXPLAINS MISLEADING ARTIGLE Says Supreme Court granted New Trial Owing to Belief that Fair Trial Was Not Had. PO e S SRR S B S m e Fred Cutter JOMTY . oo eeeeee s George Graham Orchestra.... Major Davenport . . Claud Wells LA Donald Davenport . _ Carter Cutter Song—"Path by the River”_ ‘Grammar Grades Dudley Walworth - Wilbur Lycan Class History - ..:Marie Cahill Dick Goff Fames, Malone Class Propheey . __._.....____......_....._ Ruth Miner Song—Lullaby—Brahms.....__......Seventh Grade Girs Marion Davenport .~ Grace Stanley .. CLASS HONORS Marie Cahill, 97.25 Fred Cutter, 94.25 Ruth Miner, 94 Anna Werner, 91.25 Fern Smith, 91 -.Dorothy Hazen ---Olive Smith PART II ‘THE MONTEBANKS Act 1—The Outcast. Act II-The Montebanks" Home, Act II—-The Missing Link. Act IV—The Mansion of Mystery and Denouncement. PART Il Presentation of Diplomas. I will prove to you, if you what I can do with it. If this preparation doe: this preparation. preparation. paration. 118 Third Street - WHO IS GOING TO BE THE BUSIEST MAN IN CROOKSTON E.E. GOOD, of course Conquor All Razor Strop Dressing in the best possible condition, I will refund your money. $50.00 to any man or woman who will prove to me that there is emery in this Testimonials from Barbers, 10 to 35 years in the business recommenel this pre- I WITH THE NEW PATENT you bring me the dullest razor in Crookston and show All I want is to have the chance to conyvince you. s not give you perfect satisfaction, and keep your razor I guarantee no emery in Bemidji ‘Minn E. E. GOOD Bemidji, Minn., June lst, 1910 To the Pioneer: I desire to correct several mis- gepresentations regarding the Four- nier case contained in an article ap- pearing in the Sentinel in its issue of May 27th. T care nothing about the allusion made to me, but I do not want the residents of the county to be ‘misled or misinformed regard- ing a matter of such vital import- ance to them. The article states that if I, as: county attorney, had taken advant- age of the rules governing appeals, |. Paul Fournier would not have been granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, In reference to this I desire to say, first, that the appeal in that case was perfected before my term of office began.’ I had nothing whatever to do with the. appeal. It was handled in the Supreme Court by the Attorney General’s office and very ably presented to that court by Mr. Weeks of the Attorney General’s office. Second, it was mnot in the 'power of either my predecessor in office or myself -to prevent Paul Fournier from taking an appeal. Every person convicted of a crime is entitled to have his case reviewed by the highest court in_ the state if he so desires and no power on' earth can prevent this being done. Third, person convicted of a crime from appealing his case, and eupacmlly a person sentenced to the penhenmry for life, I should refuse to do so. I believe that a person accused - of crime should be accorded every pro- tection the law gives him, and it is as much my duty to protect him in I desire to bave it understood ‘that it | if it were in my power to prevent a prosecute him, and 1 do not believe that thé people of Beltrami would approve of denying county to any man convicted of a crime, his right of appeal to the court of last resort. So much for this statement. The article also states that Paul Fournier was granted a new trial by the Supreme court “‘through some legal quibble or technicality.” is absolutely untrue. The Supreme Court of our stateis far more-reluc- tant to grant:new. trials in criminal cases than the court of almost any other state in.the Union. The rule upon this subject is laid down in State vs. Nelson, 91 Minn. 143, in which this language is used: “New trials in criminal cases should be granted only when the substantial rights of the accused have been so violated as to make it reasonably clear that a fair trial was not had.” This rule has been strictly ad- hered to by our supreme court, but in the Fonrnler appeal the following langunze is used: “The evidence (except as to an alleged confession or admission by Paul Pournier, which was testified to by his brother) was entirely cir- cumstantial. Without this admis. sion, the remaining evidence . would have been totally inadequate to sustain a conviction. The defendant denies having made the ~ admission, and the credibility of the witness was a vital question. This being true, and the issue being of life or ‘death, the defendant was entitled to be tried according to the established rules of evidence, and not to have the jury ‘prejudiced by testimony relating to other alleged’ crimes and misdoings on his part.” It will thegefore be seen that a new trial was not granted Fournier upon a mere "duibble" or “technical- y,”” but for the reason that the supreme court was convinced that he did not have a fair- trial,” and. any one desiring to convince himself upon this point may do . so by con- sulting the case of State s, Fournier, 108 Minn. 402. The Sentinel article not only ex- poses the tics™ at Crookstodn—except in the| ‘This|would have it norance of its writer | is a person of meagre education and one who has very vague ideas of ‘civilized government and of right and wrong. " Beltrami county has nothing to be ashamed of in this matter. The highest court in the state has said that aside from Owen Fournier's testimony, the evidence against Paul Fournier was’ totally inadequate to sustain a conviction. nier is dead, but his testimony given upon the first tiial was read to the jury at the Brainerd trial and cor- roborated by Mary Fournier, his widow. All the other facts proven by the State on the first trial were presented to the jury at the Brainerd trial, and that jury, composed of men of more than ordinary intelli- gence, refused to convict. At the trial in Aitkin, the testimony of Owen Fournier could not be used, because the trial was not upon the same indictment, but Mary Four- nier gave the same testimony, and every other circumstance was shown precisely as it had been on the two previous trials. At the Aitkin trial, the attorneys for the defence attempted to give the jury a wrong impression of the supreme court’s decision, but they were promptly rebuked by the learned judge who tried the case, and the jury correctly informed in reference to that decis- ion, and I desire to say at this time that a clearer, abler and better charge I have never heard delivered to a jury, than the charge delivered by Judge Stanton on the trial of the Aagot Dahl indictment. All the evidence which was possi- bly procurable was presented upon this trial, and for a second time, a jury, composed of exceptionally good men, said “not guilty.” It seems to me that the comment made by the highest court in the state upon the evidence against Paul Fournier coupled with the further fact that that not only once but twice a jury found it insufficient to warrant a conviction, ‘should pursuade every fair minded man that the evidence in possession of the state against Paul Fournier is not of sufficient strength to convince a jury com- posed of men who are unpredjudiced and free from every extraneous in- fluence, of Paul Fournier's guilt beyond‘s reasonable doubt. In this day:and generation a per- son cannot be “deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” Paul Fournier could not have been kept in prison by “taking advantage of rules gov- erning appeals,” as the Sentinel readers believe. Neither did he gain his freedom through any “technicality” or “quib- ble” in the law. The law did not release its grasp upon him until not only one but two impartial juries had declared by their verdicts that the "evidence against him did not convince them beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt. Respectfully, Chester McKusick, County Attorney. Owen Four- ~ ntelligent, conscientious|® ¥ TEN CENTS PER WEEK. WORKING HIS WAY UP THE LADDER St. Paul Paper Gives a Few Chapters from Popular Candidate’s Life. Al. Kaiser has been in St. Paul for the past few days and the St. Paul Dispatch man evidently caught him in a reminiscent mood, judging from the following, taken from the political columns of that paper: «Forty-six yearsago, in Winona Co., A. Kaiser, now of Bagley, opened his eyes-and began to take notice of the passing procession. Whether the future candidate for the Republican nominationas state treasurer was precocious, the record fails to reveal, Certain it is, how- ever, that at a very early period in lite, Baby Kaiser began counting upon his fingers and toes his life’s chances, and never howled over the result, “After thirteen years of reckless freedom, Mr. Kaiser bumped up against ‘reality’s hard facts. Recovering his equilibrium, he went to work in a print shop. There his first duty was to chop down and saw up the office towel. ‘Maving thus proved his talent for the business, he was set to work sticking type and kicking a job press. Intime, with the laurel wreath of proficiency on his bcow, Kaiser was accepted and honered by the exclusive and unregenerate fraternity of type setters. “While in retropection. scouring through the filds of long ago, Mr. Kaiser yesterday mads re- ference to James A. Tawney. ‘Just before I started -chasing the illusive type around the cases ced in a cooper shop, and black eyed man named Jim -Tawney was running the engine.’ Thus it will be seen how events throw their shadows before them, for Jim is still ‘‘run- ning the engine. «It didn’t take Kaiser long to grow weary of watching the athvi: fellow rake in the profit. That was a feature of the business that strongly appealed to him, so he packed up his tooth brush and a box of paper collars and started north. At Fosstom, Polk county, he founded the ¢«“Thirteen Towns,"” a puplication, the nameof which was enough to give it distinction and vitality. That both of these qualities came and nested in the editor’s desk is proved by the fact that “Thirteen Towns” is still being published, to the delight and profitof A, W. Foss the pres- ent owner, “In time, Kaiser desided that to be a printer was one thing, and to be a banker was another. So [Continued on Page 4.] Now _AND GET THE market. 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