Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 3, 1911, Page 1

N S el e S “umu_F.’Aso_Ts;s - Ll g , ' ' L HISTORICAL | " THE BEMIDJI $0C! VOLUME 9. NUMBER 4. INFANT FOUND IN | RAIN AT MIDNIGHT Wails Cause Mrs. Frank Gagnon to Investigate and Discovers Baby | on Doorstep. PATHETIC NOTE FROM MOTHER Says She Is Forced to Give Up Off- | SENATOR STEPHENSON. Denies He Was Legislator Before Being Naturalized. ROBBERS WATCHED IN SHEVLIN BANK Two Spectators See Three Men Blow Their Way to Within Inch of Cash Box. THWARTED BANDITS RUN AWAY Efforts of Bagley Sheriff to Capture BEMIDJI, MINNESOT. plosion, In-the caaé of amatuers the windows -and h\_l‘l‘dlng usually is shattered by improperly placing the nitro. il Bank Protected by Insurance. The Shevlin bankyds - thoroughly protected by burglar insurance. It i3 one of the chain of’banks in which former Senator Sievqils of Crookston | is interested. Othér banks of the| chain are located at. Fosston and Bagley. A. Kaiser of Bagley is pres- ident; S. S. Stadsvold, vice president |and T. E. Rider cashier, | The robbers. werf.at work in v.hel kank building for an hour and a half. | They are thought o have come to| A, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1911, SOIL TEST PLANNED - FOR TEN COUNTIES Experiment in Beltrami to Be Made By New Reclamation Board Near Blackduck. MACKENZIE STARTS THE WORK | Land to Be Drained, or Stumps Pull- 'tracts requiring drainage while oth- development of Northern Minnesota as these demonstrations. The- places selected have been chosen so as to give as wide a -vari- ance of soil as possible, some of the ers must be cleared. The board having the work in charge serve without pay. An of- fice was today es{ablished in the cap- itol building at St. Paul and will be in charge of Mr. Mackenzie. PLAN TO STOP FAKES LIFE TERMS SHOCK SLAYERS OF McCABE Laura Schmidt, Who Had Expected Sentence of Year All But Loses Nerve. \ STILL WORRIES ABOUT NEW COAT Tells Sheriff She Cannot Go to Still- spring Because She Cannot Care Them Have So Far Been Without | Shevlin on the night ‘train. ed, Land Being Put In Shape |Commercial Club Appoints Committee | water “Wearing This 0ld for It. i ‘ Results. Chief of Police Harrington . was! for Cultivation. to Secure Aid of Other Towns to Thing.” . . | notified and will at,’p,-mpt to capture| P ¢ F Fire Stori the men should they tome to Be- revent Forest Fire Stories. . 1djt; LEFT IN BATHTUB WITH BOTTLE | KAISER PRESIDENT OF CONCERN m‘ i 3 i OFFICE IS OPENED AT CAPITOL SAYS SHE WILL BECOME MOTHER ! i e | Then Warmly Wrapped In Blanket; and Goes Through Adventure Without Harm, “Won't you please take my little | baby and give it a good home. . [ am not able to take care of it. I know that you will be a mother to him. Ile was born on March 31 and you can name him what you please.” This plaintive note penned in ir- regular lines by a frantic mother was found pinned on the coarse, cheap garments of the infant whose cries at midnight on the doorstep of the | Frank Gagnon home, 420 Minnesota during rainstorm of Friday night lead to its discovery. ‘The child had been placed in a small bathtub used by the Gagnons to catch rain water and in this the human mite had been set close up to the door uhdei the porch, partially sheltered from the rain. It wnsl wrapped in a cieap blanket and a’ bottle of milk had been tucked in for food. hergelf and has decided to keep it. avenue, the Mrs. Gagnon found the child | Tells Story of Discovery. At the Gagnon home today, Mrs. | Gagnon told of her discovery. | “The child could not have been on | the door step long for Mr. Gagnon came home from his place of business shortly after 11 o'clock, and it was| not there then,” said Mrs. Gagnon. “Soon after we had retired I heard | a noise at the front of the house, but paid little attention to it. I heard it again, sounded so queer and so much like a wail that T got up to investigate and there at the door, crying lustily, 1 found the baby. “1 have no idea as to the identity however, and it of the young woman who deserted her child but I think she must have come from the direction of Interna- | | Was received from R. F. Pray of Ake-| i the effect that the date for holding SENATOR - RIDICULES STORY | Laughs at Report That He Delayud} Being Naturalized. | ‘Washington, May 3.—Senator Steph- enson of Wisconsin read the account of his serving two terms in the legis- lature of his state before he was naturalized. “I won't talk about it,” he ejactula- ed. “The idea of a paper printing such a story about me. “There ain't a word of truth in all that stuff, My father was nazumllzedi back in Maine when I was in my| ’teens. That naturalized me. “But, anyway, I was naturalized my- self—took out my first papers in Mil- waukee in 1851 and my second papers| in Milwaukee later—well, I forgot the exact date. “I served two terms in the legisla- ture in ’66 and '68, but that was all right and lawful. Perhaps T hadn’t got my second papers wheg,l was the legislature, but it wasn't agafnst|Puilding directly across the law, 1 know that.” ; H CASS LAKE FIREMEN ARE BUSY Name Delegates to State Meeting and Discuss Conflicting Dates. | e | Cass Lake, May 3-—The rcgular‘i monthly meeting of the Cass Lake fire department was held last night and three delegates were elected to attend the state firemen’s meeting which will be held at Owatonna on June 20 and 21. Those chosen were, Pat Cain, chief of fire department; Dan Lilly, and A. F. Ittner, president of the relief association. | As the dates set for holding th: stat meeting and that of the Nor- thern Minnesota Firemen's Tourna- ment association, conflict, a lettay ley, secretary of the association to One of Stephens’ Fosston-Bagley Chain, and Was Protected By Insurance. At midnight last night daring and expert burglars forced their way into the First State Bank of Shevlin, six- teen miles west of Bemidji on the Great Northern, and exploded nitro- glycerine in the vault, blowing off the outer door and cracking open three of the inside plates. A fourth plate prevented them from getting the $5,000 which was less than an inch from their grasp. Unsuccessful in their attempt, the robbers, fearing capture, fled toward the raflroad track. Sheriff Ander- son of Bagley was notified but so far no arrests have been made. Robbers Watched at Work. \PAVING VOTE MAY - 31| | | City Attorney Says.Special Election | | to Decide Pmpu’bd Bond Issue Will Be on i'hat Day. TOTAL COST GIVEN AT $39,533 { Wednesday, May 81 is the date de-( cided upon by Clty'"i‘Attorney P. J. {-Russell upon which ‘the special elec- tion authorized by the city council, i to vote on the propofied issue of $20,- ! 000 worth of bonds to be used in pav- iing the down town streets, is to be | held. i Acting Mayor Jolkinson today sign- jed the resolution fi_passed Monday | night by the city council calling for | | with-the-goil” Governor ‘and Auditor Believe 000 Appropriation Means Pros- perity for the North. Beltrami county, at a point near Blackduck, will be the scene of one of the interesting “what-can-be-done- experiments author- ized by the legislature which appro- priated $8,000 for a proper carrying. on of the work which is to be con- ducted by a.-reclamation board of three members of which W. R. Mac kenzie of Bemidji is chairman.. W, J. Brown of Warren and A. J. Mc Guire of Grand Rapids the board. complete The board is'to prepare ten acres from 40 °acre state tracts for culti- The robbers were watched in their| 21 election. It must be published |vation. Chairman Mackenzle has work by two men in Shevlin. These! mep were in the second story of a from the bank-and- the actlons of the robbers were easily The spectators first were ‘inclined to sound the alarm at once but decided that wis- dom was the better part of valor and, therefore, did not venture out until the men had left the bank. The alarm was then sounded but the bandits had a good start and no trace of them could be found. A fairly good description was obtained and their capture may result. The bank was protected by a regu- lation bank vault and proved strong enough to withstand the clever ef- forts of the trio. That the men were experts was shown by the systematic manner in which they went about their work and by the further fact that the explosive was used so that no concussion resulted from the ex- seen, [ | glven, ; City Engincer Everett calls the at- | after which notice of election will be | tention of 4lie Pldl?:’*.‘.avpulillnhodl error in the estimated cost of the paving. It had been printed that the cost for cement paving would be $39,633, - The city engineer says-it! is just $10,000 too much; that the | | cost would be $29,533. [ The proposed bonds would fall due at the rate of $1,000 a year, begin- | ning July 1, 1916 and continuing | until 1935. | Division of Militia Planned. | ‘Washington, May 3.—Establishment | as a separate department of the army | of the United States of a “division of organizations of the states, is the pur- | pose of a bill introduced by Represen- tative Pepper of Iowa. The bill pro- vides for a regular staff of officers and for fifty inspectors of militia. The ‘work to begin at once. president would appoint the officers completed arrangements for the op- eration of stump pullers and for ot’hrr ~ I zduition t- BIACKGuCeK, Oher places for the experiments have been selected as follows: Lake county, near Two Harbors. St. Louis county, near Floodwood. Itasca, near Grand Rapids. Koochiching, near Northome Little Fork. Cass, near Pine River. Hubbard, near Akeley. Roseau, near Warroad. Marshall, near Holt or River. These lands are to be appraised by the state auditor and sold for not less or Mjddle militia,” to be made up of the militia | than $5 an acre plus the cost of improvement. Governor Eberhart and State Aud- itor Iverson have said that in their opinion nothing has ever been done that means so much for the rapid DISARMAGEDDON. i | with Minneapolis men. | Voice. BIG BOX FACTORY MAY COME At a meeting of the Commercial club last night E. H. Denu, Andrew Rood and D. D. Miller were appolnted 2 committee to prepare resolutions condemning the practice of sending | untrue news items of “forest fires” to the city papers and calling upon the Commercial clubs of others cities to Join the crusade to appeal to the Dublishers of the big dailies for fair play. "This committee will prepare a re- poft and submit 1t to the club at its next meeting, June 6. A communi- cation from Thief River Falls Com- mercial club was received dealing With the same subject and the co-op- eration of that organization seems assured. Brainerd, Crookston, Fer- gus Falls and the other of the larger towns of Northern Mi’nfleaotu as well as the smaller places are expected to d strength to the movement. "She eli#s"fust night learned that! box factory at present located in a Wisconsin city, provided certain as- Burances are given. The club signi- fled its willingness to expend $5,000 in inducing the firm to locate here. Negotiations for a machine shop and foundry were also authorized BROWNATFATHER'S HIGH COURT Makes First Argument Before Su- preme Bench, But Sire is Absent. Yesterday morning M. J. Brown, Bemidji's young attorney appeared before the state supreme court for the purpose of arguing the libel case of Charles Argall vs. Sam Sutor, pub- Aisher of the now defunct Cass Lake Argall is seriously ill from tuber- culosis. .Both Prisoners Have Experienced Groundless Alarm That Food Would Be Poisoned. At 1:30 this afternoon Charles Henry Schmidt and his wife Laura ‘were sentenced to the Stillwater state prison for life by Judge C. W. Stant- on in the district ‘court at Walker. The crime for which the man and ‘woman sacrifice the remainder of their lives was the murder of Deputy Sheriff Harry McCabe on January 27 lagt, Attorney. Charles Scrutchin of Be- midji who defended the couple was in the court room but convicted made no further effort on behalf of his clients. Both Schmidt and his wife were brought before Judge Stanton at the same time and after answering the and ‘occupation were sentenced life imprisonment. been convicted of second degree mur- der and the man first degree, but as hanging is no longer legal the pun- ishment in each instance was the same. to As the court sternly pronounced the words which consigned the pris- oners to Stillwater, the woman’s iron nerve seemed broken and she real- ized for the first time the real ser- iousness of her situation. She had expected a sentence of not longer than a year. Schmidt took the sen-~ tence without concern. t Despite her dejection, Mrs. Sch- midt assumed an air of bravado and to Sheriff DeLury said: “Say, Bob, I'll have to have a new coat to make that trip to Stillwater in. This old one doesn't look very | well.” An unusual feature of the case Y 8 oty 1t 15 now ‘posstble 10" secure a large| “°US auestions-duTto-age; nativity | The woman had . el N . ] 1578 2 tional Falls on the night trafn. 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Ny An appeal was taken by Mr. Su-|yory in the penitentiary and virtual- LT S | holding the tournament. 1t was de- | s e ) g b et S 3 y a prisoner r Mother Knew Mrs. Gagnon. |cided that Cass Lake would prefer ARG e 3 ) It is apparent that the mother June 13, 14, 15, 16. | ¥ i deputy sheriff, is cook at the Walker clothed in a cheap flannel dress. It Washington, D. C., on business. Brown, Is a member of the state su-|joil The fears of the prisoners appéars healthy aud not tohave suf-| - preme court, but he did 1ot set at|aiong this line were entirely without | fered nu,\'-lll cflt*c{slijoxll lthe n«*lmh‘ BITTER FIGHT IS PROBABLE the hearlng- of the case yesterday, | goungation as even those who have E liar experiences of its short Dbat et nor was he in the court room. G ons g nioat ‘trom, the trasedy Bhye | eventful existance. Strike of Shopmen on Pennsylvania | 3 been willing to let the law. take-its Mr. Gagnon, formerly a saloon- Road Spreading. : e T keeper here is now proprietor of a| Pittsburg, May 3.—What promises TWO WEEKS OF HEARINGS G pe: prop . 3 | to be one of the bitterest and most | Az LR | soft drink place at Second street and| pLovcted struggles of nnton labor | Bennie Comientee oG B | Minnesota avenue. 1‘ for recognition on the great Pennsyl- | of Reciprocity Every Chance. Women Get Presents From Woodmen. | T |t -‘;1'-“ ::::;e:‘r &T ioorlhdpg‘ne:‘::amt:?:s i Washington May 3—The senate| Last evening after a regular meet- | With betwsen 7,000 and 10000 sben | sommitice on fiuance decided to de- | ing of the Woodmen Lodge was held, | PRINTS OF FINGERS TAKEN | men in the ranks of the strikers i ::;‘:y'h;::“;: 't’:‘;:::n’::won'“t‘:ess:j the Woodmen and Royal Neighbors 1 Sy That aside from the minor causes! el entertained in honor of Mrs. Stafford | Efforts to Prove That J. B. McNamara | that precipitated the walkout the | mhr:cép:oc::yhbm. It:im::;:ttellzy both ‘of | Is J. B. Bryce. strike 1z mainly a battle for the rec | ‘smewlllabvs :ee rudet?:gs senate. e et N 2 5. i it N | Los Angeles, Cal, May 3.—Samuel | 0gnition of organized labor in (he: While m“w:- B! lntentlo: :o por. whom are to leave town. A musical [ L. Browne, chief detective of the dis-| crafts affected was admitted by labor | mit the hearings to involve the.free | Program was given and then dancing | trict attorney’s office, took prints from | officials and it Is this plea which the | hlist bill g0 as to delay consideration |was begun. Refreshments were % | James B. McNamara's thumbs. The| strikers claim will secure for then: | ‘ot reciprocity witnesses will be per- Stafford who left this 4 prints, it is said, will be sent to San | the staunch support of the service or mitted to make incidental arguments | *C"Ved: Mre. Stafford who le % : Francisco in an effort further to iden-| ganization of the road bearing upon that bill. afternoon for Detroit, Mich., was tify the alleged dynamiter as J. B.| o will meet daily and sit throughout 9 o E- Prints of all of McNamara’s fingers| Sydney, Australia, May 3.—The Jap- each day, but during the remalm‘l‘et of hoileaves Jnl, Tom NTodk }Nauh = o also were taken, and these will be|anese have abandoned their effort to | -| the present Week-the meetings will be ington, received a ‘purse. & compared with the finger=prints dis-|reach the South pole. Their ship, Ka- ! (e > i was the result. Matt Cross has disposed of his factory to Chas. E. LaGesso | Both Schmidt and his wife have Mr. Brown has practiced tWo years|jjyeq in fear, so they say, that friends {In Bemidji, and was until recently|of tne murdered man would Kill & member of the law firm of Spoomer | them by placing poison in their food. & Brown. | Mrs. McCabe, widow of the murdered knew Mrs. dence in her as she addressed her|cigar who will operate it in the future. Dr. Thos. F. Rodwell returned to- day from a visit of several weeks at Gagnon and had_confi-| familiarly as “Mrs. Gagnon” in her appeal to give the child-a home. baby " When picked up the was | Bryce covered by detectives on the launch Pastime, which is said to have been used by the alleged dynamiters in trangporting the explosive purchased by them to San Francisco. | Japanese Explorers Fail. J inan Maru, has arrived here, and the commander reports he was unable to penetrate the ice pack along the coast of Victoria - Land. Nearly all' their dogs dled. Mr. Brown's father, Calvin L. After next Monday the committee Gesultory. : Senators Nelson of Minnesota and McCumber- of North ' Dakota - both asked time for representatives of the sgricultural interests' to oppose recl- given a parasol, and Mrs. McCauley, Mrs. Stafford and three ¢hildren left this afternoon for Detroit, Mich.,, Where they will make their home,