Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 4, 1911, Page 1

LS VOLUME 9. NUMBER 5. MACKENZIE TRIES IN VAIN TO GET HOME Now Tied Up in Duluth, Completing | Arrangements for Development Meeting in June. | SENDS OUT 2,000 CIRCULARS Also Forwards Personal Invitation to Every Member of Legislature to Be Present. KNEELAND ADDED TO PROGRAM Minneapolis Attorney’s Topic Will be | “Public Domain”—New Slogan Sounded. W. R. Mackenzie, who has been trying in vain since the adjournment | of the legislature two weeks ago to get to Bemidji is now detained in Du- luth where he is “up to his neck” in| work connected with the Northern Minnesota Development association of which he is secretary. The assoc-| iation convention is to held in Du- luth on June 1 and 2. Over the telephone this afternoon Mr. Mackenzie said he would be in | Saturday for | Bemidji tomorrow or a brief stay. Atter having given instructions| in St. Paul regarding the work to be done by the reclamation board, of which he is chairman, Mr. Mackenzie yesterday hustled to Dulut¥ and at 7 a. m. was at the Commercial club where he now has established head- quarters until after the convention. Flashes Out, “Boost” Message. | From his citadel he has flashed out the message, “Boost for .\nnne-} sota."” The idea is that the association is not seeking to push the North at the detriment of the south, or east or west, but that it is working for the good of the entire state. “It will be a great meeting,” de- clares Mr. Mackenzie. “There are matters, vital not only to northern Minnesota, but to the entire state, to be discussed and the interest in! those matters is general. every county holding a membership I believe | of the long controversy. FALL ENDS IN DEATH Accident to Wade McCann, Who Came From South, Ends Fatally in Minneapolis. PARENTS LOSE RACE WITH DEAT Abscess on the hip, following a fall in the Crookston mill here, has caused the death of Wade McCann, 18 years old, who died Monday in a hospital in Minneapolis. Young McCann came to Bemidji from Nashville, Tenn., less than two months ago to learn the lumber busi- | ness. He was a well educated, clean cut young man. He got along well with his work until, about ten days ago, while in a good matured scuffle with another young man, he fell at the mill, striking his hip against a wooden horse. ] It was not regarded as a serious injury, but in a few days McCann | was compelled to go to the Bemildji |- hospital where his condition became complicated and he “was taken to Minneapolis. His parents were notified but death beat them in the race for their son, McCann dying an hour before his mother arrived. His father away from Nashville at the time, did not get to Minneapolis until several hours after his boy had died. | The body was taken south for burial. DEITZ ADMITS HE IS AFRAID| e | Declares An Effort is On to Railroad | Him to Prison. i Hayward. Wis,, May 4—John Deitz, Mrs. Deftz and Leslie Deitz all shot questions at the state’s witnesses in TEN MEN UNITE IN NEW BOOSTING PLAN Real Estate Dealers to Pool Commis- sions to Raise Money for Adver- tising, Campaign. J.H. GRANT ELECTED PRESIDENT Use of Publications of National Cir- culation May Be Used for Be- midji and Vicinity. TO, ISSUE MONTHLY BULLETIN All Property to Be Listed With Ex- | change Which Will Get 30 Per Cent of Commissions. INTE A4 Ten men have banded together to inugurate an unique campaign of ad- yertising for Bemidji, Beltrami coun- ty and the North in general, the ex- pense to be borne by commissions from land sold. ’ The new organization is known as the Bemidji Real Estate Exchange. At a formal meeting held at the Com- | mercial club last night these officers were elected: President—J. H. Grant. Secretary-—Harry Reynolds. Treasurer—F. M. Malzahn, Board of Directors—John Zeigler, J. P. Omich, M. Phibbs and V. L. Ellis. Other members, all of whom are! cross-examinations. They .flammqnal*'festate dealers, are J. J. Opsahl, ticular ~attention to Mike Madden. sheriff at'the time of the assault on the cabin, and raked him over the| coals for failing to serve his warrants before he surrounded the cabin with deputies. At the close of the morning session Deitz was asked how he sized up the Jury. “I have been told that I am to be railroaded to state’s prison whatever the evidence is, on general principles,” he said. . The state confined itselt solely to the killing of Deputy Oscar Harp, Oct. 8 last, and showed no intention at this time of going into the other aspects Although only five witnesses were examined such rapid progress was made in cov- ering the killing that additional weight was given to an opinion ex- pressed by District Attorney Sam J. ‘Williams before court opened. “1 look to see the case in the hands of the jury inside of three days,” he sald. in the association will be represented and we will have scores of visitors| from other associations and organ-! izations interested.” | i 2,000 Circulars Sent Qut. “ Mr. Mackenzie has sent ont 2,000 circulars enclosed in yellow enve- lopes, on which is printed “Boost for; Minnesota” and the date of the meet»} ing at Duluth. In addition, Mr.| Mackenzie has sent personal in\'ilml tions to every member of the Minne- | sota legislature. | Correspondence has been had with | several prominent speakers, but the program of the meeting has not yet' been worked out. | Among the speakers will be E. B. Cox, the assistant United States for-! down my husband when Thorbahn and ester, who has accepted the position | Bis deputies pulled their guns on us He will talk on forest fire prevention. of Minnesota state forester. of Minneapolis will speak on the sub- Ject, “Public Domain."” Program Soon Ready. The complete program is expected to be out within the next two weeks. Among the subjects to be discussed are state development, the develop- ment of state lands, the conservation of soil fertility, the land show at St. Paul next December, the commission plan of state government, the notion- al corn show in Minneapolis in 1912 and the pei'lectlon of a plan for car-} rying on a campaign of education to| place before prospective settlers the! advantages of Minnesota and to fur-| ther advertise mnorthern resourses and requirements among the people of the state. | take away a person’s life I call it Representative Thomas Kneeland | Deitz and Wife Address Jury. John Deitz’ address to the jury was brief and consisted of general denial and charges against the lumber trust. He said: “When justice falls so low that the| state introduces false testimony to barbarism. The testimony the state says it will introduce is nearly all false. I never told Thorbahn I fired two shots at him. The whole trouble is over a piece of coveted property at Cameron dam—property coveted by| the lumber trust which has tied up hundreds of acres in Sawyer county on which we all should be allowed to have homesteads. That is all I wish to say at this time.” Mrs. Deitz, in addressing the jury, said in a voice quivering with feeling: “T wish to say I mever told Thor- bahn that Mr. Deltz did any shooting. All T did was to beg him not to shoot on our porch after the surrender.” Leslie made no address. Prosecutor States Case. Mr. Williams, in his opening address to the jury, said the state would at- tempt to prove that Deitz was seen to go into the barn during the battle at the cabin Oct. 8; that three shots were fired from the roof of-the barn, accompanied by the glint of light on what seemed to be a rifle barrel; that afterward the body of Oscar Harp was found back of the lumber pile in a position in which none of the deputies could have fired the fatal shot; that blood from Deitz’ wounded hand was found in the loft of the barn; and that Mrs. Deitz tolo Fred Thorbahn no member of the fam- ily had done any shooting except John Deitz. { Mr. Willilams said the state would present the evidence with the impar- tiality of a court. He has decided to limit the trial to the Harp case. The witnesses called at the day's session were Sherifft Madden and & yumber of the deputies who assisted | change. him in the attack on the cabin on Qct. 8. i A. H. Klevin and' W. C. Klein. All real estate handled by the members is to be listed with the ex- When a sale is made 20 per cent of the commission will go to the person listing the property, 50 per cent to the man making the sale while the remaining 30 per cent will go into the treasury of the ex- change and this is the money which will be used for advertising purposes. “By establishing a fund of this kind,” said Mr. Reynolds today, “we will be equipped, if the plan is as suecessful as we anticipate, with snf- ficient money to spread intelligent publicity. It is probable that ad- vertisements will be inserted in lead- ing periodicals of national reputa- tion.” The new exchange expects the co- operation of “the Commercial <club and business men in the new under- taking. % A monthly bulletin will be isswell and in this all property for sale will be listed. The Exchange explains its mission in the following language: * “To advocate and promote com- mercial, mercantile, manufacturing and agricultural interests of the city, county and vicinity and to encourage &id in the development of resources and to advertise the benefits and ad- vantages to be derived therefrom; to acquire and disseminate useful busi- ness information; to acquire equit- able principles of trade, establish, maintain and enforce uniformity and friendly co-operation and friendly usages and trade relations of the community."” ON CHARGE OF SMUGGLING Wealthy Chinese Physician Is Under Arres = Hackensack, N. May 4.—Dr. Jin Fuey Moy, a Chinese physician who Lives on a large country estate at Woodcliff lake, Is under arrest charged with being in-a conspiracy to smuggle 100 Chinamen into the Unit- ed States from the island of Jamaica. The arrest was made by a United States marshal on an indictment se- cured in the United States court in Massachusetts. The indietment charges that Dr. Moy, with Goodman Phillips, Harvey C. Daly and George A. Gardiner of Boston, entered into a conspiracy, beginning on Nov. 1, 1910, to charter a vessel and bring the 100 Chinamen into the United States. It is said that they were to receive from $450 to $000 for each passenger. ‘When arraigned Dr. Moy offered a bag containing $6,000 worth of jewel- Ty as bail, but this was declined. RO “JOSHER” FREE “Have a Little Pity” Prisoner El-’ capes Prison on Promise to be Good. JUDGE ILL, CONTINUES COURT| | John Wells, the colored man held'| on a charge of having sold liquor tu{ an Indian, and who inquired of Judge Stanton if he ever’had heard the| song, “Have a Little Pity,” has found that the law sometimes does have a little pity for although found gullty‘ in the district court at Walker he will not go to prison. _ + He was .glven a senfeuce of six| months at Stillwater but on -promise | to keep out of trouble in the future, the sentence was suspended. “I centainly never will do nothing like that ever again,” was his re-| peated assertion to the court. He also contended that he did not realize that he was doing wrong when he gave intoxicants to penmnsl of Indian blood. He was arrested after having been in company with three redskins who were drinking| beer. Judge Stanton despite a severe cold continues to conduct court and | expects to close the Walker term tomorrow. GRONNA FOR FREE SUGAR North Dakota Senator Would Extend Free List. - Waeshington, May 4.—An amend- ament to the Democratic free iist bill placing sugar on the free list will be Introduced in the senate by Senator Gronna of North Dakota. “Sugar {s one of the necessarles of 1e,” saild Mr. Gronna. “I see no rea- son why the product should not be ad- mitted free. The Canadian bill pro- poges to admit wheat free. Why not apply the same rule to sugar?”’ % - SHOOTING FOLLOWS QUARREL Chicago Man Mortally Wounds Wife and Kills Himself. Chicago, May 4.—Fleeing down the atreet in an effort to escape him, Mrs. John Bartowski, thirty-seven years old, was shot by her husband' and mortally wounded. The slayer ran into a basement, where, cornered by neighbors, he shot and killed himself. The shooting fol lowed a quarrel. FUNDS FOR LORIMER PROBE Senate Committee Approves Resolu- | tlon by Unanimous Vote. [ ‘Washington, May 4.—Renewal of | the Lorimer investigation was pro- | vided for by the senate committee on contingent expenses, which approved a resolution covering the expenses of such an fnquiry. ; The report was unanimous, but there was a specific understanding that it should not be construed as an indica- | tion of the committee’s views' on the | merits of the case. ol E O A \ o Oregon Plan Is Rejectad; | * Springfield, 11, May 4—The Ore- | gon system of electing United Staies' senators was consigned to the scrap | plle by a caucus of the Republican | members of the senate, held just’ be-; fore the senate session opened. By | a vote of 23 to 7 the Republican mem- bers decided to kill the Baily and Jones bills, which provided for the Oregon system of electing United States senators, BASEBALL FRIDAY AT 4 P. M. Bemidji High School Team Will Meet Grand Rapids on Home Grounds. Tomorrow afterncon at 4 o’clock, on the Fair grounds diamond, the Be- midji high school baseball team will meet the high school team from Grand Rapids. The following is the lineup for the Bemidji team: Larson, second base. A. Neuman, first base. Spencer, -short stop. McDonald, third base. Grindell, catcher. Bailey, pitcher. E. Neuman, right fleld. E. Ripple, center fleld. D. Elletson, left fleld. Achenbach, Melver Peck, subs. 5 Sl A Harvey Woodward ‘will act as um- pire. The game will be called at 4 p. m. Busses will make frequent trips from down town. An admis- sion fee of 25 cents will be charged to the grounds. Smiley nn‘ NORWEGIANS TO CELEBRATE McIntosh Minister and M. J. Brown to Speak May 17—Music, too. In commemoration of Norway’s na- tional holiday, Norwegians of Be- midji, for the first time in many years, will this year hold an elabor- ate celebration on May 17. _ At the city hall addresses will be made by Rev. I. B, A. Dale of Mc Intosh who will speak in the Nor- wegian language and Attorney M. J. Brown of this city in English. The program will be given in the city hall beginning at 8:30 p. m. There will be musical numbers con- sisting of violin solos, vocal solos, quartets and Masten's orchestra. The great Skandinavian composers will be used. May 17 is Norway’s great holiday, commemorating the adoption of her constitution in 1814, From five to seven o’clock: supper ! will be served in the I. 0. O. F. hall by the Norwegian ladies. SETTLE FOR ENORMOUS SUM Art Dealers Accused of Customs Frauds Pay $1,180,000. Washington, May 4.—The govern ment has accepted $1,180.000 in com- promise of the suits against. Duveen | Bros,, the New York art firm accused of customs frauds. The books and papers of the firm will be retained for evidence in a criminal action. Two of the Duveen Bros. now under -indictment are not in the United States and is is the announced intention of the treasury departmer:t to prosecute them if they ever come within the jurisdiction of the courts.of this country. The settlement in the Duveen case involves the largest sum collected in any of the customs cases with the ex ception of the sugar frauds. Two-Die in Blast Due to Feud. Gary, Ind., May 4—Two men were killed and a leg was blown off a third when dynamite was exploded in two cars of & work train in the: Kirk switch yards here. It was believed at first there might be some connection between the explosion and the Ham- mond railroad strike, ‘but the police now believe it was the result of some private.feud. . - AUTO CLUB FIXING ROAD Authorizes John Moberg to -Employ Competent Crew at Total Ex- pense of $150. WANT TOWN CLERKS TO AID Men working under the personal direction of John Moberg are improv- ing roads in the vicinity of Bemidji under the authority of the Bemidji | Automobile club which has already appropriated $150 for the carrying on of this work. ke Automgbile club.hopes to se- “cure - the “co-operation of:the" town clerks of townships on main roads out of Bemidji and these officials are requested to communicate at once with Dr. E. H. Marcum, secretary of the club. been The following roads have suggested as the ones to be im- proved: Wilfill by north road and return i by south. Turtle River road north on Irvine avenue, past the head of Lake Be- midji and east to the M. & I. track. | | 'To Nymore and south through the village and then east to the township of Frohn. To Al Jester’s place, going out by the brick yard and back on the Lake George road. The Lake George road. To Buena Vista and the road to Be- cida. The committee to attend to the clearing of these roads was E. A. Barker, F. S. Lycan and John Mo- berg. This committee will report pro- gress at a meeting of the club to- night. . Several applications for member- | ship to the club will also be consid- | ered. % Mr. Moberg was authorized to em- | ploy such men as he deemed neces- sary and he has been given the right to call on any member of the club to use his automobile in transporting raen and tools. {COMES TO TEST DAIRY HERDS State Veterinarian iuly at Schroe- der and Ritchie Farms Today. Dr. McDonald, state veterinarian from St. Paul is in Bemidji today for the purpose of testing some of the cattle about Bemidji. W. G. Schroeder &nd A. P. Ritchie have recently added new stock to | their herd and.tuberculosis tests will be made of these cattle today and-to- m&rrow. The newly acquired stock has been kept seperate from' the. regular herd at these two dairy farms and when the. tests have been completed there will be no question as-to the quality and purity of milk and cream pro- duced by these tested cattle, - TEN CENTS PER WEEK BANKROBBERS FROM DULUTH:NERVEGOOD Work in Shevlin With Lights on Full Blast and All Curtains Up at Windows. LEFT HEAVY TOOLS BEHIND Frequently Conferred on Street Dur- ing Time Seven Explosions Were Set Off, CASH CHEST BADLY WARPED | Expert Called to Get it Open, But In- stitution is Doing Business as Usual. - All efforts to capture the men who robbed the bank at Shevlin Tuesday night have falled. It at first was thought that they came to Bemidji, {but no trace of them has been found here. | That the robbers were immune from fear is shown by the fact that they took no precautions to hide any of their movements during the time they operated. They kept all the gas lights in the bank burning, left the window shades up and occasionally stepped out into the street to consult among themselves, during the time between the explosions, of which there were seven, . The entire proceedings was wit- nessed by Mr. Rauk, the Shevlin hardware man and his family, as well as by several other Shevlin res- idents. - The robbers left ,gngha%hogW tools, such as liammers, crow bar, chigels, etc., behind, not caring to load themselves down. From wrap- pers used on dynamite caps and soap it is evident that the yeggmen bought their supplies at Duluth. That it was only money they were jafter is evident from the fact that { they did not touch any of the.papers, or securities in the outer safe. The chest containing the funds of the bank was badly warped and an ex- pert is today working to get it open. The bank opened at the usual hour yesterday morning and is running as usual. The men are believed to have been the same who attempted to rob a bank at Anoka several days ago. They met with the same result there as at Shevlin, blowing open the outer plates but failing to get to the cash. PREACHERS TO VISIT CASSL LAKE Congregationalists Will Listen to Il- lustrated Talk By Bemidji Man, Cass Lake, Minn, May 4.—On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week the annual meeting of the Northern Pacific association: of Congregational churches will be held in the Congregational church of Cass Lake. The territory included in the association comprises towns on the south lines to Wadena, Brainerd and Moorhead, north to International Falls and west to Crookston, twenty- five churches in all. Each church is entitled to repre- sentation by the pastor, two dele- gates and the Supnday school super- intendent, and it is expected that Cass Lake will entertain nearly a hundred visiting delegates during the session. Rev. Thos. W. Barbour of Bemidji, superintendent of northern Minne- sota Sunday schools, will deliver an illustrated lecture Wednesday eve- ning on “Our Work in Northern Min- nesota.” Rev. Barbour is a devotee of the photographic art and in his travels nearly always carries his camera, Yeggmen Fail to Get Cash. Shevlin, Minn., May 4—The safe ot the First State bank of Shevilin was attacked by burglars. The safe ‘was completely wrecked and the fnner burglar proof ches: door was split, but the burglars did not get access to the money.