Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 31, 1910, Page 1

THE BE ILY PIONE |STORICAL SCIETY, VOLUME 8. NUMBER 115. 3,000 RUSH WORK AT STATE FAIR GROUNDS Workman Unloading Trainloads of Exhibits for Exhibition to be made Notable by Taft & Roosevelt BELTRAMI BOOTH BEING BUILT Displays From Northern Minnesota Will Attract Unusual Attention—Ma- chinery Exhibit Grows. (By Staff Correspondent.) Minnesota State Fair Grounds, Aug. 31.—Three thousand persons are on the gronnds Hamlin Minn,, working like trojans to unload air- ships, areoplanes, farm machinery, stock, displays, horses, paraphernalia agricultural race amusement and the settings for the “Pageant of Nations,” in fpreparation for the state fair, the gates of which will swing open to the public Monday morning. The great features of the 1910 fair will be the attendance of Presi- dent Taft, who speaks at 4 P. M. Monday and former President Roose- velt, who is to make and address on the grounds Tuesday. Next to the appearance of these notables, in- terest centers in the aeroplane flights machines of the Wright and Curtiss types entering the competition. The unusually large number of elaborate exhibits from northern attack attention, Beltrami and Clearwater are both arranging for creditable displays. Work on these hocths are under way. Beltrami has the best lo- cated booth building. counties will in the agricultural Sign painters have their shops on the grounds, and are making flaming banners for the decoration of exhibits of all discriptions, Teams by the dozen toil along the oiled highways of the fair, taking exhibits to the various buildings. * The amount of machinery, which exhibit is always a bewildering thing to the layman, has increased greatly this year. One concern making farm machin- ery this year has twenty-four instead of the usual six carloads of machines. REDUGE FEE TO SEE TAFT State Fair Management Decides to Make Grandstand Free. St. Paul, Aug. 31—A compromise, arranged with some difficulty by Governor Eberhart and the manage- mext of the state fair, will obviate the necessity of paying two admis- sions to the state fair grounds to listen to the president of the United States when he speaks there during the conservation congress. The state fair management, look- ing upon the president as a star at- traction, had been inclined to charge all the traffic would bear and had planned to have the president speak in front of the grandstand, where payment of double admission one to the fair grounds and another to the grandstand would be necessary for those who desired to hear him. The state fair management, insist- ing that it is necessary to make a charge for general admissions, has arranged to make admissions to the grandstand free. The president is to appear at 4 p.m. and after that time no charge will be made to the grandstand. The announcement that the Pin- chot-Ballinger investigating commit- tee might not meet in Minneapolis at the time of the congress, contained in an announcement from Alexandria was regarded as significant. Senator Nelson aunounces that he has not heard from the various members of the committee and is not sure they will be on hand. THOMAS A. EDISON. Requested to Exerminate Mosquitoes in New Jersey. EDISON FAILS TO ANSWER New Jersey Residents Ask for Plan to Kill Mosquitoes. Orange, N. J., Aug. 3l.—Several resi- dents of Northern New Jersey have sent Thomas A. Edison a petition urg- ing him to turn his inventive genius against the Jersey mosquito, whose ravages this year, they say, have been the most serious in many years. “I am never bothered by the mos- quitoes,” Mr. Edison told some of his neighbors when the subject was brought up. “You see, I am just deaf enough so that I can’t hear them com- ing. I think their hum must he worse than their bite, for everybody growls whenever a mosquito hums.” Mr. Edison has made no formal re- ply to the petitioners. EDISON'S PICTURES TALK Latest Invention of ‘““Wizard” Shown for First Time in Public. New York, Aug. 31—"I take great pleasure, gentlemen, in asking you to watch positively the last appear- ance of the stage door Johnny. He simply cannot fall in love, you know, with a girl one hundredth thousandth of an inch thick.” With these remarks Thomas A. Edison began the first demonstration that has been given to anyone ex- cept his own experts - of his kine- tophone, otherwise his talking pic- tures. The picture that was thrown on the screen explained itself liter- ally. The figure of a man stepped forward, bowed and then began to talk, The lips moving in perfect, unmistakable unison with the words that could have come from any place, it seemed. The man dropped a croquet ball, itsinpact sounded instantly from the floor. He pounded the table with a little hammer and there was not the fraction of second be- tween the sight and the second of the blow. He dropped a plate and as the pieces flew the crack |INDIAN HUNTERS CAUGHT resounded. Finally an automobile horn was sounded and the demonstration was at an end. “I am going to put metropolitan grand opera into the hamlets of the country in a couple of years,” said Mr. Edision afterward. HELD UP BY THEIR BONDSMAN Divine Healers, Released on Bail, Sur- render at Point of Gun. St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 31.—Dr. James Alexander Dowie and Rev. Bishop Schrader, divine healers, were cap: tured at the point of a revolver by their bondsman, Dr. H. L. Walker, at Wathena, Kan., five miles west of St. Joseph, and put in jail. The men are charged with a swin- dle in connection with a supposed $20,- 000,000 gold treasure, buried on an island in the Gulf of Mexico. They were released on $1,000. bond each, with Walker as bondsman. They walked to Wathena and their bondsman, fearing they intended to escape, cap ured {hem six minutes be- fore a wes'hound train was to leave Wathena. Auto Ride Kills War Veteran. Plainfield, N. J., Aug. 31.—His first automobile ride proved fatal to Henry Vroom, an octogenarian resident of Plainfield, who is dead at his home of heart failure. The excitement of a two-hour ride, part of which was at the big car’s top speed—close to six- ty miles an hour—proved too much for his weakened hearl. Vroom was a Civil war veteran and the possessor of six medals awarded {or conspicuous conduct on the battlefield. .| consider all bids at Walter Smith Convicted of Illegal Shooting; Fine Day Under Arrest. S. C. Bailey ot Bemidji, warden for the State Game and Fish commis- sion, is “rounding up” Cass Lake and Leech Lake Indians who have been gathering in the lake country east of Guthrie, and southeast of Be- midji, The warden yesterday secured the conviction of one Indian for killing acquatic fowl out of sea- son and he has evidence which he expects will convict one or more of the band within the next two days. Mr. Bailey was informed that a band of Indians with their squaws and children are camwped on the shores of Heart lake, east of Guthrie, and he went down to investigate. He found many Indians who had apparently been Kkilling- ducks and trapping and shooting muskrats, all of which is contrary to 'the statutes made and provided. The warden arrested Walter Smith and took him before Justice C. L. Anderson at Guthrie, where the Indian plead guilty and was fined $10 and costs, which he paid Mr. Bailey and also swore out a warrant for the arrest of another Indian named Fine Day, charging him with killing ducks and having muskrat skins in his possession during the closed season, HOT AFTER DUCK HUNTERS) Sherm Bailey Seeks Capture of Illegal Hunters. “Marsh Siding, Aug. 31—Acting upon quiet tips which have been’ given him within the last few days Game Warden Sherm Bailey made a trip around the Big Meadow in an effort to catch duck hunters. His coming apparently had reached the ears of the illegal hunters for none could be found, although traces of their law break- ing were discovered and arrests may soon take place. ‘““‘Somebody is going to be eating some expensive ducks,” said Mr. Bailey. Marsh Siding Locals. Andrew Johnson, Republican candidate for the nomination of sheriff, visited here Saturday. C. F. Tramp has sold his farm to C. J. Pryor of Bemidji for $1,500. Mr. Pryor resold the place to Mr. Moore of Bemidji, who will move on to it as soon as Mr. Tramp moves to Canada, which will be within a month. M. Rygg went to Bemidji yes- terday with farm products for the county exhibit at the state fair, Miss Annie Bowers has returned from a week'’s visit wiib Mrs, John Wilcox ot Fowles, Miss Arvilla Patterson has be- gun an eight months term in the Hall School, Candidate for County ;Commissioner Third District. I hereby announce myself as re- publican candidate for the nomina- tion for the office of County Com- missioner in the third district of Beltrami county. J. G. Morrison, Jr. Notice to Contractors. Sealed proposals will be received by the City Clerk of the City o Bemidji, Minn., on or before Sept? 12th 1910, for the furnishing and laying of approximately 2,050 feet of 4 inch water main and accessories. The City Council ‘shall open and their regular meeting held on the evening of said date. 2 Ten per cent of the amount of the bid in form of a certified check on a Bemidji bank shall accompany each bid. Specifications may be seen at City Clerk or City Engineer’s office. Thos. Maloy, City Clerk. M. D. Stoner, City Engineer, T0 VIEW DITGHES IN AUTO Committee Will Make First Trip of Three Day's Trip With Machine. Ah automobile is to be used in the inspection of the proposed drainage ditches of Beltramicounty. The in- spection is to be made by the com- mittee appointedat a mass meeting of business men here lagt week, when fears we_re' expressed , that if all the ditches, ‘as now planped, .are con- structed, it will burden -the county with heavy taxes, as land along some of the routes might be not quickly settled. The committee has repeatedly been delayed in getting away but President Wedge of the Commer- cial club late this afternoon com- pleted arrangements by telephone with County Attorney Brown of Warren to take the Bemidji com- mittee out in an automobile, The committee will leave "here tomor- row afternoon for Warren and will start from that place Friday morn- ing for the ditches just over the line in Marshall county, working back into Beltrami county ona three days’ trip. W. G. Schroeder is chairman of the committee.and P. J. Burke and L. F. Johnson are members. Mr. Burke will be unable tomake the trip. GLAPP'S ELEGTION GERTAIN Frank A. Day Admits Defeat of Pre- sent Senator is Impossible. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 31.— Moses E. Clapp’s seat in the U. S. senate from Minnesota is not in the slightest danger from the coming legislative elections. Frank A. Day, chairman of the democratic state committee, admitted today that there is not the least. possibility for the democrats to control the legis- lature next winter and elect senators. *Even if we elect all our candidates we would not have a majority of the legislature,” said Mr. Day. “While [ have not full information and there is still one more day for filing, I am quite sure that is the case. We bave more candidates in the field this year than we had last time and bave en- tered several districts where we bhave not made a fight for several elections, but I do not believe we have candidates enough in the field to control the legislature even if we elect them all, which we hardly hope to do.” M Friends of Senator Clapp: have been alarmed over the possibilities of the county option controversies, in case it is carried om without much regard for party lines.. Most of the county option candidates are republicans; bowever. £ CHARGES OF FRAUDIN INDIAN LAND DEALS Federal and State Officers Be- gin Suits in Minnesofa St. Paul, Aug. 31.—About 100 bills in equity were filed in the federal cir- cuit court at Fergus Falls on behalf of the United States government by M. C. Burch, assistant attorney gen- eral; Judge E. H. Long, special assist- ant_in the attorney gemeral’s office, and J. M. Dickey, first assistant dis- trict attorney for Minnesota, asking that transfers and mortgages of vast tracts of valuable timber land on the ‘White Earth Indian reservation in Northern Minnesota be declared null and void, on the ground that the allot- tees, being full blooded Indians, had no right either to sell .or mortgage their allotments. Attorney General Wickersham about a year ago began an investigation of alleged swindling of full blooded In- dians of their lands and timber. The Indian affairs department brought the matter to the attention of the attor- ney general, alleging that numerous in- terests were getting full bloods to de- clare themselves mixed bloods, to sell and mortgage their holdings at far less than their real value. Under the law, a full blood cannot sell or mort- gage his land and timber, but a mixed blood can. HANSON- LATE IN FILING Senator, With Several Others, Recorded at St. Paul. St. Paul Aug. 32—On the last day for filing for the primary election several men asked to have their names placed on the primary bal- lot. These men are all aspirants for places in the legislature, Others will be added before the day is over. Hugh T. Halbert, is expected to file for the Republican nomination to Congress in opposition to Fred Stevens. A L. for some time been working for re- nomination to the senate from the Republicans of the Sixty-first dis- trict, filed. The Democrats filed for nomina- tion to the house from the Fifty-third district. J. D. Ressler of Park Rap- ids is onme, and Frank F. Lotta of Wadena is the other. J. T. Mider of Pine City, Thirty- second district, wants the Demo- crats to nominate him to the house. Charles . G. - Forrest of Bagley asks the Prohibitionists of the Sixty first district to nominate him to the house, and S. J. Fros- haug of Benson asks the drys to make him a candidate to the senate from the Fifty-sixth 'd;!s(rict. Hanson of Ada, who bas TEN CENTS PER WEEK. a iy ; a 4 . T Lo, the poor Indian, whqse untutored mind Sees grafters on both sides, before, behind. HOT FIGHT IN POLK COUNTY Senator Stephens and Former Chaplain Face Opposition, County Optionists. Crookston, Aug. 31—Senator A. D. Stephens, one of the most prom- inent Republican politicians in the state, today filed as a candidate for renomination and one of the hottest legislative fights Polk county has ever l;nnv{g is.on betwgen the Pro gressive candidates, Senator Stephens for the senate and Olaf N. Lindh and Knute S. Aker for the house on one side, and Representative John Saugstad for the Senate and Repre- sentative John Holton and W. A. Marin for representatives on the County Option ticket, after defeat in the county convention held in June. Messrs Lindh and Aker opened their campaign at Lengby; Lindh’s home town Monday night, and from this time forward until the primaries are held every part of the county will be canvassed and re-canvassed. The county optionists have a big tent and will hold meetings in every township in the county. ‘The progressives are making no fight against county option but are making a campaign on development, reapportionment, and broadened agricultural education, Senator Stephens has started his campaign in earnest and from now until the primaries will be out among the farmers practically every day, and as he is a campaign- er of experience, and an aggress- ive fighter, his friends are not worried over the outcome. Mr. Lindh is making no pledges. He was a former chalpain of the Minnesota House, and with Mr, Aker, stands above reproach, Both are supporing Senator Stepi- ens, CRIPPEN SUFFERS COLLAPSE Physician Accused of Wife Murder Taken to Hospital. London, Aug. 31.—Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, jointly accused with Ethel Clare Leneve of the murder of his wife, has suffered a nervous collapse and was removed to the hospital ward of Brixton jail. Solicitor Newton says that his client has given him an explanation of the farewell message found among the prisoner’s effects by Inspector Dew, which will throw a different light on the matter when it is made public. ‘The message was read in court at the arraignment of Crippen and Miss Leneve and indicated that the writer contemplated suicide during his flight to Canada on the steamer Montrose. Small Tornado in Kansas. - Smith Center, Kan, Aug, 31L—A small tornado, accompanied by a ter- ific hail storm, laid waste an area a alle wide and about ten miles long ‘sorth of here. . Houses and barng were lifted from their foundations. Dutbuildings were wrecked. Trees were shorn of ‘heir foliage and up- rooted. So far 38 known none were THIRTYONE ASK OFFICE NODEMOCRAT IN LIST Twenty-four Republicans and Seven Public Ownership men Make Up Tickets. ONE WOMAN ASKS SUPPORT Time Limit For the Aspiring Candi- dates Expires at Midnight Tonight. Thirty-nine and one woman seek nomination to politi- cal offices in Beltrami county. There is not a democrat in the en- tire list, twenty-four being re- publicans and seven members of the public ownership party. Miss Clara Heffron is the woman, and she seeks to be elected county snperintendent of schosls, Filings were completed today as this is the last day permitted by law on which candidates can thus get on the tickes, men The filing fee for county offices is $10 thus Beltrami county is enriched $300 by the aspiring patriots. Late filings at the county auditor’s office include M. E. Ibertson, repub- lican candidate for the nomination for coroner. W. B. Stewart, republican for county superintendent of schools. Oscar Krantz, county auditor on the public ownership ticket. L. A. Hanson, public ownership for county commissioner from the third district. J. P. Omich, first district county commissioner on public ownership. A. L. Lyntied; “clerk of district court, public ownership. Dr. C. ], Larson, coroner, public ownership. J. Evan Carson, judge of probate, public ownership. Henry Funkley, county attorney, republcan. John Wilmann, auditor, republi- can, Wes Wright county commissioner first district, republican. M. G. Slocum, judge of probates republican. James L. George, county auditor, republican. Roy K. Bliler, county surveyor, republican, I. B. Olson,register of deeds, re- publican. Other filings are: H. W. Alsop, county auditor, re- publican. R. C. Hayner, auditor, republican, W. G. Schroeder, commissioner first district, republican. Lars O.Myhre, commissioner third district, republican. G. W. Campbell county attorney, republican. . F. W. Rhoda, clerk of court re- publican. Andrew Johnson, sheriff republi- can. Clyde J. Pryor, court commission- er, republican. J. O. Harris register of deed, re- publican, Chester McKusick, torney, republican; L. O. Opsota, county treasurer, republican; A. E. Rako, commissioner first distrsct, republican; G. F. French, treasurer, republi- can; < A. N. Benner, sheriff, republican. J. G. Morrison, commissoner third district, republican. Mr. Morrison was employed by the government as superintendent of the Cross Lake Boarding school at Penomah for eleven years. He has resided in Minnesota since 1893 and is a merchant at Red Lake. Band Dance on Labor Day. county at- The Bemidji band will give a = dance in the city hall Monday even- ing, in honor of Labor Day. Harry Masten, leader of the band, will furnish an orchestra of picked musi- cans. Thisis the second dance of the series being given to raise funds to pay for the band uniforms.