Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 11, 1910, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DATILY mstoficnlr Society. PION EERI MINNESOTA V()LUME 8. NUMBER 4 7. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING JUNE- 11, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. DOINGS IN THE VARIOUS GHURCHES OF THE GITY Hours of Worship and Subjects of Ser- mons to Be Delivered in the City Sunday. Episcopal —Sunday school meets at 10:30 in Odd Fellows hall. Note change in time. Presbyterian—Children‘’s Day ex- ercises in the morning and no ser- vices in the evening. Methodist Episcopal—Rev. Geo. Parrish, of Cass Lake, will occupy the M. E. pulpit, at the Masonic hall, both morning and evening on Sunday next, June 12th. Every- body cordially invited to these ser- vices. Swedish Lutheran—Services be held for the first time tomorrow in the basement of the church, cor- ner Minnesota and Sixth. Services will be conducted by Rev. J. H. Randall at 10:30 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. All are cordially invited. Baptist—>Men’s Bible class 10:00 a. m. Morning service 11:00, Subject— ““The Test of Decipleship.” Sunday school session 12:15. Afternoon service, Maltby hall, 3:30. B.Y. P. U. 7:00. Leader H. E. Rice. Fvening Gospel Service 8 Sub- ject—"Six Reasons for Rejoicing.” We invite you to our services. We have good singing and plain straight preaching. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom of some is.” Heb. 10:25. SPORTING NOTES | American Association Won Lost Pet St. Paul 35 17 673 Minneapol . 34 18 .654 Toledo. .. .31 21 .596 Columbus 22 28 .440 Kansas City 20 26 .435 Indianapolis ..22 30 .423 Milwaukee . 20 28 .417 Louisville. . 346 Won Lost Pect Chicago. ... 28 15 .651 New York 28 17 .622 Cincinnati 22 19 .537 Pittsburg .21 19 .525 St. Louis. .21 24 .467 Brookly~ .20 25 444 Philadelphia 24 .400 Boston ... 29 .356 American League Won Lost Pect New York.. .27 11 .71 Philadelpl 26 13 .667 Detroit 29 17 .630 Boston 22 21 .512 Washington .20 25 444 17 20 .432 15 25 .375 St. Louis. 8 32 .200 will{ National League. Chicago 6—New York 5. 1 St. Louis—Brooklyn (Cold.) Cincinnati—Boston (Rain.) Pittsburg—Philadelphsa (Rain.) American League Cleveland 3—Boston 1. New York 3—Detroit 3. ('l innings.) Philadelphia—St. Louis (Rain.) Washington 1—Chicago 0. American Association Toledo 1—Minneapolis3. St. Paul 6—Indianapolis 0. Kansas City —Louisville (Rain.) | Milwaukee—Columbus (Rain.) |JURY HOLDS NYBERG FOR DEATH OF OLANDER | Finds That He Died From a Dislocation of His Neck by a Fall in Drunken Brawl. | 7 Coroner Ibertson continued the death of Olander this morning and the jury {found that he had met death at the ihands of Fred Nyberg in a drunken brawl. The inquest was finished at inquest on the Louis | noon. Olander’s body is being held by Cornor Ibertson until some word is received from the dead man’s rela- twes. Fred Nyberg, is locked up in the city jail and will probably be bound over to the grand jury on a manslaughter charge. The finding of the jury reads: “We find that said Louis Olander met his death in a druken brawl in the saloon of Ole Anderson, Third street near Bemidji avenue, by being violently thrown to the floor by one Fred Nyberg, thereby dislocating his neck, causing his death. I. B. Olson, C. H. Woodward, W. G. Schroeder, Ollver Neilson, S. T. Stewart, Karl Geil.” Resolutions. Whereas, God in his infinite wis- dom has seen fit to remove from our midst, toa home where pain and sorrow are unknown, Elfa I. Hor- locker, therefore; Be it Resolved, That the death of Sister Horlocker, Roosevelt Lodge No. 1523, Modern Brotherhood of America, fully realize that they have lost a faithful and devout member and one whose work was for the building up of the order Resolved, that that our sincere sympathies be extended the family, that the charter be draped 1n mourn- REPORT SHOWS LIBRARY IN HEALTHY CONDITION 141 New Volumes Added and 873 Books Circulated During Month Of May. Miss Beatrice Mills, librarian of the Public Library, has submitted her report for the month of May. The report shows that 837 books were loaned during the month and that 141 new books were placed on the shelves. The hours of the librarian have been arranged o that everyone can take out books some time during the day. The reading room is open until 9 p. m. Following is the report: Books circulated Children Non-Fiction.......uuuuuuiiiniinensnnnas 12 Fiction Total.. Non Fiction.......ccoceeeinninnns Fiction 449 Total.. 473 ORI .. cos swassin sevemvi 19 Adult.. 5 50 Total.. 69 Reading room attendance..... Cash Accounts. Balance on hand May 1,1910 Receipts. Fines on over due books 3.19 City Treasurer 4.50 SisER Wi $29.14 Expenditures Rebinding Books Supplies Freight and drayage . Magazines Books add;d By purchase... Totalusessisssismvmvvansiss 141 vol. file in reading room: Harpers, Colliers Weekly, Motor Boat, Field and Stream, Youth’s Companion, Literary Digest, Scribners, McClures, Success, Popular Mechanics, Qur Dumb Animals, Scientific American, Lady’s Home Journal, Woman’s * Home Companion, Everybod’s, Outlook, Interior; Daily Papers, Minneapolis Journal, Dututh News Tribune, Chicago Record Herald, Bemidji Pioneer. Magazines on Beatrice Mills, Librarian. ing for thirty daysand that a copy of these resolutions be published in the Bemidji Daily Pioneer. Vera M. Cameron, Elizabeth McManus, Clyde J. Pryor, Committee. The future of Bemidji -and Beltrami county will rest up- on developed land. farming As a progressive local banking institution we offer to assist any resident farmer who de- - sires funds to improve or stock his farm.. We all such men a their efforts towards success. wish to meet nd to encourage The First National Bank 0f Bemidji, Minnesota Y “AUTOMOBILE PARTY” E. N. French, has the following to say, regarding an auto trip, from Blackduck to Bemudji, “Gene Smith, C: W, Jewett and myself, came from. Blackduck te Bemidji, in a BUICK. yesterday, in 2% hours. ““Wehad an excellentchance tosee the much talked of State Road, and when the contractors have finished we can have’ a road- that we can be proud of. But for the present let me say there is simply no road for one third the distance, and the heavy rains let us cut through to the corduroy. ¢*No man could have told me that a machine would do what I saw this BUICK do. It worked its way out of these swamps, simply pushing the dirt before it, and I don’t think the gearing of the ma- chine could be broken. One bad hole that we got into was a fair sample. The POWER of the machine was put on, pieces of cor- duroy were torn ont and the tire chains torn off the wheels. These were replaced and out we came, but no broken gear. “This side of Tenstrike, two miles, we struck the. good roads and from Farley in the road 15 a regular Boulevard and a dehightful ride. Not one thing was done to the Buick: not even any water put in the radiator and last evening two cups of water filled it to over- running. A trp of this sort will convince any man of the practa- bility of the autamabile _E.N. French. SLOCUM HANDS IN RESIGNATION Court Commissioner Decides to Accept Alternate of Crimminal FINED PRISONER WITHOUT TRIAL OR PROCESS OF LAW Arrested E. E. Good Without a Warrant —Made Him Pay $6.50 or Go to Jail. Court Commissioner, M. G. Slocum has sent in his resignation to the district court. is a direct outcome of the illegal prosecution and fining last Saturday of E. E. Good, a razor man who has been in Bemidji a few days. Mr. Slocum was told that he could resign or be prosecuted criminally, so he handed his resignation _to County Attorney McKusick who at once forwarded it. Slocum has been-in trouble before. Last fall he was indicted by the grand jury, but he was .not prose- cuted. A complaint was then made The resignation -| to the attorney general and Slocum’s removal was asked. © The matter finally wect to the governor but was dismissed. It has been hinted many times that things were not as they should be in Slocum’s court, but the charges bave not. been substantiated. In the case of Good, however, the Pioneer has been able to ger his affidavit to a statement of the way in which he was taken in by Slocum and fined without mni‘ or due - pro- cess of law. 1 -sJudge Slocum-isngEaline -in_the work and it is not ‘improbable that there will be startling. developments in the case next week. Following is . | the affidavit given by:Mr. Good: “Saturday June 4, Judee Slocum had applied to me a few days before to have some razors sharpened. I went to his officeé 'between 4 and 5 Saturday, but he was over at the Markham. I found him in the bar room. I asked him if he had those razors that he wished to have fixed up. He said that he did not but he would get them the first part of this week. “Then he asked the bar tender if he had any dull razors that he wanted fixed up. The bar tender said that he had no razor to be fixed, but that would like to get a good oue,-and asked me what kind of razors I handled. I said that I him Ihandled the Clauss razor, made in Fremont, Ohio. He said toS bring some of them over, that he would like to have a look at them. I then went over the store, where I have my headquarters, but when I got there the clerk gave me a razor that had been left to be fixed. “I first honed the razor and then took a few of the Clauss razors over to the bartender. He purchased one and paid me $1.50. Mr. Slocum wanted to treat and put 50 cents on the bar and said. ‘If this is not enough here is some more,’ and put down another quarter. I told him that it was my treat and paid the bartender 35 cents for the drinks. “Mr. Slocum then said ‘Come over to my office; I want to see you there.’ On the way over he said, ‘You are a peddler.’ I said that I ‘was not because I had a business place and headquarters at A. B. Palmer's with a place for manufac- turing razor straps and sharpening tools of all descriotions.” "When we got to the office, he sat down and took a piece of paper and said, ‘Give me one of your busi- ness cards.” He copied my name from the: card onto a piece of paper, and said, ‘Five dollars will settle ‘lhu." I said that I did not have the money in - my pocket at present but if he would give me a ch:nce I wnuld Ro and get it. “Mr. Slocum left the cbair and went to the phone and called up depuly sheriff, Brose, and told him to come down. He bung up the receiver and: said - “That will- be TEVELETH CONTRACTOR SHOT AND THEN ROBBED Relcived of $600 Cash While Un. conscious. On Way Home from Virginia Minn, Eveleth, Minn., June 11.—Adolph Larstead, a contractor, was shot in the right arm, slugged into uncon. ssiousness and robbed of $600 in cash while on his way home from the Virginia mine yesterday. Two hun- dred dollars in bank notes, which he had in his vest pocket, were over- looked by. the robber. Larstead managed to make his way to his home, and a doctor dressed the bullet wound. Owing to the darkness he could give no description of the robber. told me to .start out and get the money. I started for the store to get money from A. B. Palmer, but he had not come back from supper yet. “Mr. Slocum called me up and told me to come over to the office. I went over to the office and he introduced me to Mr. Brose, as deputy sheriff. Mr. Brose asked me what the trouble was. I stated the case to him and and Mr. Slocum picked up the paper which had my name on it with $6.50 after it. Mr. Brose said that I must pay thisor go to jail. Mr. Brose said he didn’t want to take me to jail as he had eleven -prisioners up there now. Would rather give me a chance to pay up. Then he said, ‘Let us go over' to Mr. Palmer’s and see if we can get that money.’ “When Brose and I got to Palmer’s he had not come. back-from supper yet and we fetirned to Mr. Slocum’s office. Mr. Brose told Mr. Slocum that Mr. Palmer had not come back yet and Slocum called up Palmer on the phone. I talked to Palmer and asked him if he would advance me $6.50. He wanted to know why, and I said that I would come over and tell him. I hung up the receiver and started for the store with Mr. Brose. “I stated the case to Mr. Palmer and he gave me the money and I returned to Slocum’s office. I paid him $6.50 in a five dollar bill, one paper dollarand a - fifty-cent piece. We three left the office and I went over to the store. Slocum and Brose went into the Markham hotel. That was the last I saw of them. E. E. Good. Subscribed and sworn to before me this eleventh day of June, 1910. “Seal” A. E. Schusser, Notary Public, Beltrami County, Minn. My commission expires Apr. 6th 1915, Witnessed by G. Harold J. Dane. THEATRICAL COMMENT, “Maloney’s Wedding Day” played in the Armory last ni'ght to a good audience. Like the leopard, the show' was good in spots, but be- tween the spots it was not so good. The plot itself was almost nothing and totally forgotten when there was anything else to do.' Jokes were old and smutty. The speclalties were good. The songs were up to date, and while the girls had rusty voices, they .were well trained: Masten’s orchestra helped out the show and touched it up in spots which would have been bare otherwise. The violin playing of Mrs. Hilgen, wife of E. Carson, the manager, was excellent and of a class not often heard in a touring company. She also proved as pleas- ing. in her other parts. Manager Carson has written the booking agent not to send any more shows of this class. Candidate for Sheriff. I hereby announce myself as candidate for the republican nomina- tion for sheriff of Beltrami county at the primaries September 20th, I uspecl'fully solicit the support’ of the voteu of this county. TELEGRAPHIG . SPEGIALS. Seattle, Washington, June 11— (Special to the Pioneer.)—Fire that broke out on the northern water front during the high wind last night, was carried by wind into the district eastward which is thickly covered by wooden buildings and in short time twenty acres were ablaze, caus- ing a loss of $10,000 and rendering 500 people homeless. The fire start- ing at Railroad avenue and Battery street, destroyed all buildings on six city blocks and picked out wooden houses here and there in surround- ing district not entirely swept. Two Harbors, June 11—(Special to the Pioneer) Forest fires are raging nearly all along line of Duluth and Iron Range railroad north of here and between here and Knife River. At Waldo, three miles north, many settlers barely saved their homes and a dozen men of the rail- road company aided them in keeping back the flames. Bad fires reported near Fairfax north of here and at Milesville. A big lumber mill near there was th(eitened yesterday. NINE INDIGTMENTS BY GROOKSTON BRAND JURY Adjourns After Three Day Session— Citizens Urged to Report All Crime. Craokston, June 11—The grand jury for the June term of court ad- journed late yesterday afternoon after a three days session. ' One batch of nine - indictments was returned as follows: John and Paul Gradon, ‘robbery in the first degree”at East Grand Forks; Theo- |'dore Rue, forgery in the third de. gree; Richard Ridley, criminally re- ceiving stolen property; - William Miller, Crookston hackman, indecent assault; William West, short chang- ing on passenger train: William Williams, forgery in" the second degree; Henry Christianson, carnal knowledge of a child; William Dale, grand larceny in- first degree; C. P. iimmerm@n. former city:clerk at East Grand Forks. - grand larceny in the first degree. In its report to Judge Watts, the grand jury. urged 'upon citizens a more active interest in reporting crime to -officials. Certain con- ditions which have been permitted to exist in one of the townships will be investigated later. Representatives of the Gas Machine Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnatti were in the city yester- day and annournced that under their franchise: recently granted, they will begin opera!lonl on the construction ofa gas plant here next week, the plant to"cost $85,000. It will be in operation by Oct. 1. LOCAL ELKS ENTERTAIN GRAND EXALTED RULER Stay of J. U. Sammis and Party Made Pleasant by Reception and Fishing Trips. J. U. Sammis, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,’is in Bemidji today on a fishing trip. Mr. Sammis and his party arrived on the Northern Pacific at 4:30 this morning, travel- ing in a special car. They will leave tomorrow. This evening, a big reception will be held in the Elk rooms, with cigars and stories afterwards. There will beno lodge meeting and the recep- tion is open to all. The morning was spent in a fishing trip on the lake and the afternoon was spent in fishing and an auto ride to Al Jester’s farm. With Mr. Sammis are Secretary C. C. Bradley, Alfred T. Holly, W. T. Fraser, Emil Ferrant, C. A. Finch, Harry Randall, A. B. Wright William Miller and F. T. Whitmarsh. Mr. Sammis’ home is in Le Mars, Iowa. It is seldom that a city the size of Bemidji has a chance to entertain the highest offiicial in Elkdom and all citizens are urged to help make the welcome hearty. J. O. Harris, register of deeds and exalted ruler of Bemidji lodge, has charge of the local ar- rangements. Many Elks from the small towns around Bemidji have come down for over Sunday to help make the visit of the Mr. Sammis a pleasant one. OBITUARY. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom McCann died last night. He was three days old and had been named Thomas, Jr. Burial. was in Greenwood cemetary this afternoon, Father O’Dwyer officiating. Mrs. R. A. Gearlds died at “her home in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Tuesday, June 7.. She was buried in Wildwood cemetary. Mrs. Gearlds was the mother of E. E. and Edwin Gearlds. They were at her bedside when she died. She visited in Bemidji two years ago and many friends here will be sorry to hear of her death. Company K Off Tomorrow Night Company K will leave for a ten day camp at Lake City tomorrow night at 10:30 on a . special train over the Great Northern to Sauk Center. There they will be switched oato the Winnipeg Flyer and taken to St. Paul. This afternoon, the men were taken out the Lake Mar- quette range and given a practice shoot. Forty-five men Will make the trip. THE another. WHY? ' that kind of goods. goods. And ‘est qua ity 8 Gity Paimer Line is a one price line,- You can not buy Palmers goods today at one price, and find that tomorrow you could buy them at Because Palmers’ goodsare not § The retailer | does not buy them at a price where he can afford to sell them -at anyother than the price the manufacturer places upon the ‘In buying Palmers you are paying for the hxghest quality. {ou are getting the lngh For Sale Exclnolvely at g Sture HISTORICAL __SOCIETY, %