Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1910, Page 1

BERR R Beodyop VOLUME 8. NUMBER 247. THE ‘BEMIDJT BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1910. SERD, MATLUYS, WAY AND QUINN DROPPED Indian Bureau Agents Well Known in Bemidiji, Reported to Have Been Suspended From Service. CAUSE IS NOT MADE PUBLIC Prohibitionists, in Open Letter, Defend | Brainerd Man Who Was Also Let Out As Game Warden. ! 1 is unofficially reported that Agents N. G. Sero, A. J. Matulys, N. | A. Way and Quinn of Brainerd have been dismised from further service by officials in the department of the Interior, whose authority exceeds that of W. E. “Pussyfoot” Johnson. All of these agents are well known in Bemidji, this town having been the headquarters for Agents Sero, Matulys and Way at various times during the past year. No cause is given ,for the whole- ' sale discharge of government em- ployees. In the case of N. A. Way it can be authoritively said that his tendency to “talk too much” result- ed in department officials suspending him from the service. | Mr. Way’s most recent offense was the publication of a column long in- terview in the St. Paul Pioner Press in which he dealt freely with the pro-| posed legal action now being waged in the keepers. It is known that his interview in- censed Special Agent Thomas E. Brents, who has had charge-.of the Bemidji sub-agency and it is believed that he wired officials in 'Washington advising the suspension of Way. Mr. Way is in anything but.a pleas ant frame of mind.as a result of his dismissal by Commissioner Valentine. Before leaving Bemidji for his home at Devils Lake, N. D., Mr. Way said that he had assisted in closing 279 saloons in the Indian country; and . helped to spill 4,000 gallons-of liquor besides having superintended the shipping of 37 car loads of liquors + and beers destined to Wwholesale houses and breweries. He said that the work had been most disagreeable to him, but that the $7 a day caused hym to do his duty. The dismissal of N. J. Sero from service comes as a surprise in Be- midji. wur. Sero attained consider- able notoriety as a result of charges brought against him by A. A. Oliver, i editor of the Cass County Pioneer, whom Agents Sero and Davis held up and searched for liquor last Septem- interest of Bemidji saloon ber. The suspension of Mr. Matulys also Mr. Malulys has been stationed at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., for the past few weeks. When “Pussyfoot” Johnson was in Bemidji, not long ago, he said that Mr. Matulys was “One of the best men in our department and has a good record.’ This is taken to indicate that Mr. Johnson is not to blame for the sus- pension of the agents. | A sidelight on the matter is shown in a communication being sent out 4» ! Dby Charles R. Jones, Chairman of the National Prohibition Committee from Chicago relative to Deputy Agent Quinn, who was also a game warden. This leter is headed “Discharged for { Giving Aid to Uncle Sam.” It is typewriten under a Brainerd date line and reads as follows: i “A surprising reward for patriotic | service and the rendering of a litile \ timely aid to the United States Government officials has just been meted out to a well known citizen of this town who has also achieved an enviable record as an Executive officer of the law in the official em- ploy of the state. “The man who for his concrete ex- . pression of applied patriotism has been summarily dealt with by his su- periors is J. M. Quinn, deputy game warden under the direction of the causes surprise here. b ! ) state board of Game and Fish Com- missioners. No man in the employ |of this suate board has a cleaner re- cord ro more unqualified commend- ations of his work from every quar- ter than Mr. Quinn. “His own feelings and the astonish- ment of his friends and associates may be imagined when he received tuis week, without the slightest pre- liminary notice, the 1ollowing curt letter of dismissal from the Executive Agent of the Board, -: only reason given therefor being that he had Lendered service to United States officials who were engaged in the conscientious discharge of their duties under the direction of the In- dian Bureau of the Federal Depart- ment of the Interior. “As a matter of fact, the assistance which Deputy Quinn rendered the Federal authorities during the last few weks consisted in his helping to run down and capture a large number of boot-leggers and illegal booze sellers in this section, who have been defying both state and national regulations prohibiting the sale of liquor to Indians. In this work, the Federal officers are being and have been constantly and en- thusiastically assisted by citizens of all classes irrespective of politics or position, and the law enforcement campaign of Special Officer Johnson, refered to in the letter, has not only been emphatically approved and en- dorsed by the Federal authorities at ‘Washington but has evoked the heart iest praise and commendation from all good citizens in this section of the country. People here generally are wondering in ,what way Deputy Quinn’s patriotic services could have interfered with his efficient work as Game Warden and the question has even been bluntly put by many ia this vicinity as to whether the powerful Twin City millionaire brewers are able to dictate to Of- ficial Dgpartments of the Minnesota State Government in their selection or discharge of able conscientious employees for no other reason than that given in this singular epistle. The letter to Mr. Quinn is as follows: December 9, 1910. J. M. QUINN, Esq., Deputy Game Warden, Brainerd, Minn. Dear Sir:— At the meeting of the Game and Fish Commission held Wednes- day, the fact developed that you had been assisting W. E. Johnson of the Indian Bureau, and this fact caused great dissatisfaction among the mem- bers and they -decided to drop you from the pay roll from and after December 15th, Please make out your expense account and voucher for your salary to that day and for- ward here and you will receive State Treasurer’s check. 1 wish that you would return your commission and star together with all blanks you have in your possession. Yours truly, H. A. RIDER, Executive Agent “In the estimation of thegwriter and of many with whom he has talked the men who- are responsible for this outrage should be prompt- ly compelled to detail their real reagsons for -this action and they should not long be left in doubt as to what the people of the North Star state think of such high-handed pro- ceedings.” G. A R. HONORS H.W. BAILEY Passes Resolutions of Congratulation on Recovery of Il Commander. At the regular meeting of R. H. Carr Post, Grand Army of the Re- public, the following resolutions in honor of Commander H. W. Bailey ‘were unanimously adopted: “On behalf of R. H. Car Post we assume the very pleasant duty of ex- pressing to you our sincere pleasure in your restoration to health' after the very serious sickness which you passed through. “We assure you that all of the comrades are anxious to see you once more in the chair which you have filled so long and ably and to which you have been again elected by the unanimous vote of your comrades and we hope to seé you with us at our next installation services, physically able to preside at our meetings. —Signed: T. H.Pendergast, J. M. Phillippi, K. W. Titus.” Mr. Bailey has been Commander of the Bemidji post since it was or- ganized. gistorical Society ‘ WIRNESBTA HISTORICAL ; SQCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. LEGAL TO SHIP DEER HEADS 1100 NEW FARMS; CASH [STEENERSON FAVORS ID'? [EBERHART SEES TAFT Also Hides Says Order to Warden Bailey— Fish House Season On. S. C. Bailey, the Bemidji deputy game warden, has received the fol- lowing letter from H. A. Rider, ex- ecutive agent of the state Game and Fish Commission: “In reply to yours question about shipping deer heads and hides since the closing of the season, will say we issue permits covering such ship- ments upon application stating that the deer was legally killed, giving the number of the license and the county in which it was issued. The application should also give the name and address of the taxidermist or the tannery where the. heads and hides are to be sent.” The fish house season has legally opened and the fish commission has issued many licenses. The State of Minnesota fish laws allow the spearing of fish during the winter months, but it is not lawful to use a hook and line. Only the rough grade of fish may be caught through the use of a fish house, su pickerel and. suckers. It is unla to~spear pike. ‘Warden ey says that after a license has been secured, white fish may be caught, by the use of a net, until January 10, 1911. The county auditor isued 407 hunt- -ing licenses during the past season. All fish licenses must be obtained from the state game And fish com- mision. WOMAN IS (0f YEARS OLD Grandmother of . Kelliher Resident Still Spry in Erskine ‘Home. An Erskine, Minn., dispatch. has 'this to say of the 101-year-old grand- mother of Mrs. Magill of Kelliher: “Kari Estensdotter, who was born in Tynstad, Norway, Aug. 10, 1809, and came to this country in 188?, her husband, Per Berge, having died in the meantime, with her son-in-law, Svan Neslund, and is still living:with the Neslund family in the town of Kuntz, Polk county. She first:lived with the Naslund family in Cannon Falls, Minn., then moved here, where they live on their homestead. “‘Grandma’ Berge as everyone effectionately calls her, has a photo- graph showing herself, her daughtet,’ Mrs. Naslund; her granddaughter, Mrs. Magill of Kelliher, Minn., and her great grandson, Alonso Fergu- son, also of Kelliher. “Mrs. Berge; despite her great age, 101, is still in fair heaAth and able to be about the house most of the time. Some times her memory is a trifile defective, but on the whole she is a remarkably well preserved woman and promises to live several years. WILL “SANTA" FIND HER? Spooner Child Writes Pathetic Appeal to Duluth Paper. The following letter written by a small girl at Spooner has been re- ceived by the Duluth Herald: “Spooner, Minn., Dec.—Dear -‘Santa Claus: I live in Spooner where the big fire was in the woods and in town and everybodys home burnt up and my home burnt to and they say that Santa burnt up to so now I want to ask you if you will give me a doll when you have given all the girls in Duluth a doll I know you can’t make any more now but if you have one left to give it to me and some- thing for my little sister so she won’t take my doll away when we are go- ing to play; she is only 2 years old. I got your picture on the wall that I cut out of the Duluth Herald; that'is all the picture that we got now; all we 'got burned up; now if you got anything to give me send it to Spoon- er, Minn. = % “My name is Alice Netland.” Holiday Excursion Fares. To points 10 Michigan and East- ern Canada via The South Shore. Please apply to agents for particu: lars. o land and buildings in 1910 is stated raise of $20, or 77 per cent. GAIN IS $589,988,000 Coe Ballinger to Nelson. Census Bureau Figures Public Today Show Minnesota Has Advanced as Agricultutal State. The following letter from Secr2- tary of the Interior Balinger to Sen- ator Nelson is self 2xplanatory. “Department - of the Interior, ‘Washington, D. C. -“Hon. Knute Nelson, “U. S. Senate. “My dear Senator:—I1 am in re- NEGRO SOIL TILLERS DECREASE 1 Valse of Buildings and Implemeats Show ceipt of your letter of December 13, i 5§ forwarding six telegrams from res- Substantial Increase—Less Fertil- {idents of Crookston, Minnesota, in regard to the enforcement of Indian treaties affecting the sale of liquor in the state of Minnesota. This matter is now in the hands of the President for consideration and it is the purpose of the President to give hearings to the interested: par- ties as to the advisability of revoking by proclamation the treaties in so far as authority exists in the Pres- ident, -reserving only such portions of .he territory as are absolutely necesary for the protection of the Indians. “Representative S.eenerson is ap- parently opposed to executive ac- tion on .ue treaties so far as they effect his district. These telegrams peing from his district, it would seem that ..e parties should appiy to him for an expression of opinion very truiy yours, December 14. (Signed.) irer was Purchased. Washington, Dec. 19.—Census Di- rector Durand issued today the first official” sta.ement from the census bureau relative to the agricultural sta.istics of wue state of Minnesota. The 'pi'incipal rates of increase are: In the total value of farm builaings alone, 120 per’ cent; in the total value of farm lands and; buildings, 88 per cent; in tue total value of farm land alone, 82 per cent; in the average value per acre of farm land and buildings, 77 per cent; in the average value per acre of farm land alone, 76 per cent; in the total value of farm implements and machinery, 74 per cent; in the total expenditures for labor, 33 per cent; in the number of farms oper- ated by the “all tenants” class, 22 per cent; ip the total average, 5 per cent. The .principal rates of decrease during the decade occurred in the total expenditures for fertilizers, 75 per cent; in the total number of farms, operated by colored farmers, 25 per cent; and in the total,number of farms operated by the “all own- ers’” class, 4 per cent. The number of farms reported in 1910 was 155,759, as compared with 154,649 ,in 1900, an increase-ofl,- | 100, or 0.7 per cent. The total value of farm lands and buildings were.given in 1910 as $1,- 259,610,000, as against $669,522,000 in. 1960, an increase of $589,988,- 000, or 88 per cent. * The total value of farm land alone ‘was reported in- 1910 as $1,016,889,- 000, .as compared with $559,302,000 in 1900, a gain of $457,587,000, or 82.per. cent. a The total value of farm buildings alone was given in 1910 as $242,- 621,000, as against $110,220,000 in 1900, an increase of $132,401,000, or 120 per cent. The reported value of farm im- plements and machinery was $52,- 243,000 in 1910, as against $30,099,- 000 in 1900, a gain of $22,144,000, of 74 per cent. The total acreage reported in 1910 was 27,623,000 acres, as compared with 26,248,000 in 1900, an in- crease of 1,375,000 acres, or 5 per cent. The improved acreage formed 71 per cent of the total acreage'in 1910, compared with 70 per cent in 1900. The/average acres per farm report- ed in 1910 was 177, as against 170 in 1900, a gain of 7 acres, or 4 per cent. The average value per acre of farm Secretary R. A. BALLINGER, MORE PEEKS AT WINDOWS Interesting - Holiday. Sights - Missed o Previous Journey. In the hurry of the shopping tour Friday, Pioneer readers were carried by ‘some of the most .interesting placés in town. One of these, the Model Bakery, 315 Minnesota Ave., is as busy as any bees ever were sell- ing home-made candies, which are daily turned out to gratify tte de- mands of the Christmas shoppers. “Then there is A; B. Palmer’s kard- ware store on Third street, where we see displayed Gillette’ss Safety Raz- ors, silver shaving mugs and silver mounted shaving brushes for the men and sad irons and other things for women and skates for everyone. McCuaig has displayed in his large window, apples, grapefruit, candies of all kinds and mixed nuts, suitable for the Christmas table. The Lakeside Bakery has a tempt- ing window display of candies, fruit and nuts and goodies of all kinds. Grotte’s Variety store on Minne- sota avenue -delights the harts of all the children who pass by with 1.8 Christmas tree laden with dolls and toys; its miniature wash: tubs, wring- ers, tables, ete. The Home Bakery comes in for its share of atention and we find here “Hot Cross” buns, parker house rolls, nice flakey bread, fruit cake neatly wrapped in fancy paper and °tied with a Christmas ribbon and cookies of all kinds. ' At Hanson’s Drug Store the win- dow has been completed and pre- sents a pretty sight with its green festooning and Christmas bells. and the handsome cases of toilet and man- icure sets placed therein. (3 KILLED; 50 HURT IN NEW YORK EXPLOSION New York, Dec. 19—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service)— Thirteen persons were killed, 50 injured and 1,000 badly shaken up by the explosion of gas and dy- namite in the New York Central’s new depot being erected on Forty- second street and Lexington ave- nue, . as $46, as against $26 in 1900, a The average value per acre of farm land alone in 1910 was reported as $37, while in 1900 it was $21, the amount of gain being $16, or 76 per cent. ' Of the whole number, 155,759, of farms reported in 1910 there was 155,479 operated by white farmers and 280 by colored farmers, as com- pared with a total of 154,659 in 1900, of which 154,287 were con- ducted by white farmers and 372 by colored. The expenditures for labor.in 1910 reached the sum of $22,186,000, as compared with $16,658,000 in 1900, an increase of ‘$5,528,000, or 33 'per cent. Christmas Tree Holder Displayed. Yankee ingenuity is shown in a Ghristmas tree holder being dis- played-at the Quality grocery store .of Roe & Markusen. The devise is a triangled strip iron affair in the shape of a pyramid. It is fastened to the floor and is guaranteed to hold 'up a fourteen foot tree, although the devise itself folds up into a small| space. : recovered from the debris, The structure which had just reached the street level was badly wrecked, Nine bodies have been The explosion took place this morning when the streets near the building was filled with Christmas shoppers. b Auade Expred i Lot F.om| FOR ‘LID’ GONFERENGE Steenerson Explains Why He Opposed Pending Proposition—President to - See Temperance Men LEGAL BATTLE BEGINS TOMORROW Judge Spooner and Attorney McDonald Leave Tonight. forSt. Paul to Present Case. Washington, Dec. 19—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service) —Gov- ernor Adolph O. Eberhart of Minne- sota is this afternoon in conference with President Taft, Secretary Bal- linger and other officials relative to the “lid” now on in northern Minne- sota. No announcement, however, te- inrdinz the president’s attitude is expected until after when he will receive a delegation of prominent temperance workers from various parts of the country who will urge a strict enforcement of the Indian treaty provisions, Governor Eberhart arrived in-. Washington this morning and went at once to the White House. noon he dined with President and Mrs. Taft. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Weduesday, This Qfiet this he called upon ‘He’was taken to the capitol by Representative James A, Tawney. At the capitol the governor conferred with Senator Nelson and other members of the Minnesota delegation: to congress,including Representative Steenerson, ‘Mr. Steenerson explained his position regarding the proposed action of the pcesident in restrict- ing the Indian treaty provisions, by saying that under the proposed plan there would still be - room for the charge that the government is practicing discrimination. plained that it was for this reason that the impression may have been created that he did not favor interfence from the president om the treaty provisions. He ex- Governor Eberhart will leave Washington tonight for St. Paul. Judge Marshall A. Spooner and Attorney E. E. McDonald will leave Bemidji tonight where before Judge Willard of the United States district court in Minneapolis tomorrow a bill in equity will be presented and a request made for a order. restraining This will be the beginning of the legal battle in the federal courts to decide the right of the saloons of Bemidji to do business. A complaint aggregating 10,000 words bhas been prepared and will be presented to Judge Willard tomorrow, It is expected that Judge Willard will issue a restraining order and that he will set a date in the near future for the hearing of arguments on the complaint. N. W. Jermane in Sunday’s Min- neapolis Journal, telegraphing from Washington,said: Representative Steenerson is the first member of the delegation to make a statement on the proposition to have the president modify the ex- isting treaties. He expressed him- sel{ in opposition to the proposed amendment as follows: “I am opposed to the pending proposition because it will result in discrimination against several cities, the largest of which are Detroit and Bemidji, and -will make it immpossible hereafter to do away with these restrictions if it were determined wise to do so. All of this territory should be dry orit should be wet, for under the new conditions as_proposed, the Indians - will be in ‘justas much danger of getting liquor as they were before.”” N ? I