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THE BEMIDJI MINNESOTA SOCIETY. VOLUME 10. NUMBER 7. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. PUT FISH IN POCKET: NOW GOES T0 JAIL - Theodore Bilodeau's Clever Attempt to Evade Law By Hiding Small Fry, Fails. MANY BIG CATCHES BEING MADE | Game Warden Bailey Says Some of { Largest Pike Ever Hooked Have Been Taken. NONRESIDENTS GIVEN WARNING Must Secure License at Cost of $1 Be- fore Putting Hook Into the | | Water. | I | | Because he stuffed his pockets ful]‘\? 1 of pike less than fourteen inches in length, Theodore Bilodeau will spend ! the next thirty days in the Beltramii county jail The state law makes it illegal to ain fish of this size but Bilodeau was so glad to get a long string of | iy size that he failed to throw Lhe; little ones back into the lake, al-| though he has repeatedly been \\'arn~! ed that he should do so. He hit upon the clever idea that conceal the small fish by putting them in his pocket, but this| he could attempt at deception did not prove suecessful for he was arrested by | viame Warden S. C. Bailey. { Bilodeau was arraigned before Judge Pendergast this afternoon, | { | | sleaded guilty and was sentenced [0} pay a fine of 318 or go to jail for | vhirty days. He chose the jail. | “The open season for catching fish! with a hook and line has had an au- | =picious beginning in Bemidji andz the country tributary thereto,’” said | \ir. Bailey. “While the season has been some- | what backward because of rather cold weather at the start, conditions are improving in that respect and the waters have yielded up some very zood catches. “Some of the largest pike yet (akon' irom the lakes in this section have| hooked The pike heen ! appear to be as plentiful as ever. ! this week. “There will be much fishing here by non-residents, there is no doubt, as many letters of inquiry have been received from people living in other | states, more especially in North Da- kota, asking information as to the law adopted by the late legislature requiring non-resident fishermen to secure a $1 license before being per- mitted to take fish from the waters of Minnesota. Many residents of | North Dakota have summer cottages on the banks of Lake Bemidji, and as they will be required to secure the non-resident license, the fees trom that source will amount to quite a little. “Reports which I have from manyi points throughout Beltrami county are to the effect that the fish are ‘biting,” and fishing is the best for ony season during the past severai vears.” GRAND RAPIDS BEATS BEMIDJI Visitors in Good Trim Pound Out| Twenty Safe Hits. By a score of 20 to 9, the Grand Rapids high school baseball team de- Teated the Bemidji high school at the rair grounds diamond yesterday af-: ternoon. Grand Rapids had played several t 'managed to slip 14 runs across the| i Scorers: |at Bagley { young Preble was Just Gorfey, nine !search ending with the 'nrganized. and is made up of a bunch | tion for the contest. games this year, while the Bemidji boys were in their first game. Errors were numerous on both ! sides, and the pitchers were hit free- | i touched up for 20 safe bingles, nine i of them for extra bases, while Wha- ling, for Grand Rapids allowed but‘ six hits. The game was won in the first! three innings when Grand Rapids plate. H | for | caught Grand Rapids, by his clever catching! Tom Erskine, who again proved that he is one of the§ best high school back stops in the northern part of the state. For Bemidji. Larson at second and Neuman at first were the { fielding stars of the contest. while Ripple. led [ the hitters with two safe bingles. ‘ Batteries: Grand Rapids, Wha- ling and Erskine. Bemidji: Bailey | and Grindell. Umpire: Woodward. i 1 i Finnigan and McDonald. BOY HELD AS HORSE THIEF { i i | Charters Pogue Team Valued at More | Than $400: Arrested in Bagley. Today. ! j I | CHASE MADE IN AUTOMOBILE[ Acting upon a telegraphic request! from former Mayor Pogue, Edward, Preble. 18 years old, was arrested this afternoon on the| charge of being a horse thief. With | years, whose home is at Preble will be brought to Bemidji. | He at first claimed the team was the | pro[ieny of his father. Leonard. On Thursday evening Preble se-| cured a valuable driving team from , the Pogue livery stable. He said he wished to drive to the Adams farm at 1 tlie head of Lake Bemidji. It was soon discovered that he had | not gone to the Adams farm, but had I instead. started towards Park Rapids. | Nothing was heard of the young | man until a late hour last e\'ening{ when a farmer living Itasca | park told of having seen a team tied 10 a tree near the park. near With this information as their on- | 1y clue, Sheriff Hazen and Mr. Pogue ihe owner of the team, left for the | state park in an automobile, the arrest of | Preble at Bagley. The team and buggy is valued at more than $400. i i BASEBALL GAME HERE SUNDAY£ Tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. Bemmjil will play the Solw gy team. { The Bemidji team was recently of clever amateur players. Solway claims to have an ex(-ep-_‘[ tionally fast team. | The game will be played at the fair grounds, and as the diamond has just been repaired and thoroughly weeded, will be in the best of condi- ACCEPTS BEMIDJI AUTO CI.UB} State Association Wires Favorabe Reply to Application Request. “Bemidji Automobile club affiilia- tion with state association accepted.” This message has been received in Bemidji by C. W. Jewett, president of the local club. The telegram was signed A. L. Harrington, secretary of the state association at St. Paul. Dr. McDonald, state veternarian, who came to Bemidji to apply tuber- culosis tests to cows has examined all the cattle on the Schroeder and Ritchie farms and has found all the cows free from the disease. { from the east. | to be occupied early next fall. i g 2 *Rabbit’’ Bailey for Bemidji being : Puposky Edifice in Course of Q“n'l struction Completely Destroyed —Barn and Poles Burn. BEMIDJI AID SAVES VILLAGE Fire at Pusposky yesterday after- { church, a new edifice with the frame work nearly completed. A barn owned by O. J. LaQuay was also burned and other property would have been destroyed but for the fact that the Red Lake road rushed a witch engine from Bemidji, pick- ing up section crews on the way who succeeded -in holding the fire in check. The church was ignited by a fire from the woods which bore down All efforts to save it were useless. It was to have been a modern and artistic building and was The loss is nearly $1,000, nothing but the foundation remaining. Hiram Flanders, a young man re- siding on a farm two miles south of Puposky, came to Bemidji today. He told of a fire near his home which threatened his buildings, and whicn destroyed 1,200 cedar posts and a guantity of cordwood. Mr. Hodgdon, chairman of the ‘Town Board of Durand, had charge of the engine crew which went up from Bemidji and had men at work all night. It is believed there is no further danger from the fires. At Blackduck last night careless persons ignited a heap of slashings and because of the high wind it was teared that the fire might get beyond control and many persons were out setting back fires. CASS LAKE LANDS OPENED More Than 25,000 Acres Thrown Open for Settlement. Twenty-five thousand acres of land on the Leech Lake and Winni- bigoshish reservations, is now open for settlement, according to a dis- vatch received by the Cass Lake land office, from Washington, D. C., and filings will take place in June. All ceded lands from which timber has been cut and removed in towns 141, 142 and 143, Range 28, town- ship 142, range 29, known as the Boy River country, also the lands from which the timber has been cut from towns 146, 147 and 148, range 2, township 148, range 27 gnd 28, ! known as the Bow String reéion, are i included in the order. As soon as the reports are recerv- ed from the assistant superintendent tie¢ lands from which the timber has. teen removed in and around JCass Lake and Kipihi will be reported for settlement. Merry Farewell for Barbour Girls. The members of the Presbyterian Christian Endeavor entertained last evening at the A. E. Smith home in honor of the Misses Ethel and Ruth Barbour, who are soon to make their home in St. Paul. Red and white, the Christian Endeavor colors, was the color scheme. Progressive flinch was played and refreshments were served. The guests of honor were presented with a large boquet of red and white carnations. The Misses Barbour came down from Cass Lake vesterday afternoon, accompanied by Miss Roxie Utely, and returned on the late train. NEW cnun'cn_mv OF FIREPLAN TO FREE DEITZ | | BLOCKEDBY SHERIFE Appearance of Stranger From Mil- waukee Causes Investigation to " Be Made. STATE ENDS ITS TESTIMONY i noon destroyed St. Patrick’s Catholic Last Witness Now on Stand, Accord- ing to Announcement of Prose- cuting Attorney. ; DEFENDANTS WILL NOT TESTIFY { “We Fleaded Not Guily and That's Enough,” Says Defender of Cam- eron Dam. Hayward, Wis, May Pioneer Special Wire Service)—That 5.—(Daily plans are under way to effect the re- lease of John Deitz on trial here for murder of Duputy Sheriff Harp, is the assertion made public here today. Detectives last night informed the sheriff that an attack on the jail might be expected. It was at first reported that a stranger in town trom Milwaukee start something. intended to The report gained such headway that a deputy sheriff took the matter up with- Sheriff Black and at a late hour last night, the sheriff began a secret investigation. Tii‘flz does not know that-the in- vestigation is being made. as the of- ficials do not wish him to know that any disclosures have been made. The state will finish its presenta- according to the prosecuting attor- ney. The last witness for the state now is on the stand. John Deitz says that none of the defendants will go on the stand. “When we pleaded not guilty, that was what we meant and there is no use wasting time saying it all over again.” TWO COLONIES TO SETTLE HERE Chicago Man Purchases Tract and St. Paul Families to Locate Here. Two colonies have been assured Beltrami county as the result of per- sons coming here this week to in- vestigate the soil and other condi- tions. Henry Loeken, a well to do Ger- man from Chicago, was not entirely pleased when he first arrived. Then he was taken out to see the model Schroeder farm and now he is enthus- iastiec. His original intention was to buy 40 acres. He changed his mind after seeing what-could be done and bought 86 acres from Mr. Sch- roeder in the Town of Frohn, locat- ed on the bank of the Mississippi. Mr. Loeken has begun work clear- ing his property and has written his friends in the east with the result that he expects several German fami- lies to come to Beltrami county. The second deal was made by R. C. Hayner who closed a deal whereby ten families from the city of St. Paul will come to take up farming. Mr. Hayner sold them nearly 1,000 acres in Maple Ridge township. The set- ilers from the city will be here, says Mr. Hayner, within 90 days. John Goodman Mountain, N. D. yesterday morning where he had been called by the death of his brother. returned from | tion of evidence late this afternoon, MOSES E. CLAPP. Progressives Favor Him for President Pro Tem. of Senate. | . | ]CLAPP MAY AID SHERMAN Minnesotan Urged by Progressives to Succeed Frye in Chair. i Washington. May 6.—The progres- sives have decided to make it a three cordered fight for president pro tem. of the senate, the office jnust vacated by Senator Frye. They probably will put forward one of their own number, Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, for the office. Senator Gallinger is the general choice of the regular Republicans, but he is not satisfactory to the insur- gents, who declare they have ten votes, enough to prevent Gallinger’s election. The Democratic vote probably will | 80 10 Senator Bacon 4 WELLS AGAIN IN JAIL “Have a Little Pity” Darky Fails In Promise to Be Good and is Order- ed to Penitentiary. FLOURISHED RAZORINCASSLAKE | John Wells, the Cass Lake colored man, who was found guily oi’ having given intoxicating liquors to persons of Indian blood, on last Wednesday, and who was sentenced to six months in the state penitentiary by Judge Stanton, who later suspended the sen- tenced, because the man had been in jail for more than a month, was or- dered taken to Stillwater by the Judge last evening. Wells, custody at Walker left at once for after being released from Cass Lake, and no sooner had he ar- rived there than he began to cele- brate by drinking the stuff that first caused his arrest. After he caused considerable trouble in two saloons, he was asked to leave town, but in reply he said that he did not have to leave town; that he was an American citizen and could do as he pleased and to prove that he was in earnest pulled a razor. He further emphasized his arguments by bringing his fist violently down on the plate glass cigar case, smash- ing it. He was arrested in Cass Lake by Marshall Lilly and Judge Stanton was notified of his actions. The judge gave orders that the suspen- sion be withdrawn, and that Wells must serve the next six months in the state prison. Wells is the man who called to Judge Stanton, as the latter was pas- sing through the Cass county jail, asking him if he ever heard the song entitled, “Have a Little Pity,” to which the judge replied that he har inot and did not care to. 'BOARD OF CONTROL | HERE; WHITTIER'S DOOM SEEMSSEALED Chairman Ringdahl Admits Crisis is at Hand in Affairs of Red Wing Superintendent. “MUST GO,” MESSAGE FROM GOV. Following Hearing Before Attorney General on Monday, Final Dis- position to be Made. MEMBERS SEE WALKER FIRE Spent Yesterday Inspecting Sanitar- ium and Witness Successful Fight Against Flames. Dodging direct questions but prac- tically admitting that Governor Eber- hart would be backed in his determi- nation to force Frank A. Whittier to resign as superintenGent of the Red Wing training school, Chairman P. M. Ringdahl of the state board of control talked freely, but reservedly of the Red Wing scandal. All mem- bers of the board were in Bemidji llas\‘. evening, Chas. E. Vasaly of Little "Palls and C. J. Swendson of St. James completing the board. “Will Mr. Whittier be forced ta quit Red Wing?" Mr. Ringdahl was asked. # “That is a question now under con- siderationm. - The law specifically pro= vides that written charges must be made against a superintendent and the accused given a hearing before suspension can take place. Whether the legislative investigation could be considered ‘written charges’ is a point we have asked the attorney general to decide. “Mr. Whittier has requested the at- torney general to permit legal coun- sel to appear in his behalf. Attorney Frank Wilson of Red Wing will, therefore, argue before the attorney The at- torney will then inform us as to the proper legal proceedings and the case will be disposed of one way or general Monday morning. another without further delay. Refuses to Anticipate. “If the attorney general decides that the Board cannot proceed to re- move Mr. Whittier as a result of the legislative investigation records, will the board of control prepare written charges of was another question put up to Mr. Ringdahl. its own?" “I prefer not to anticipate,” was the answer. “There over the state that Mr. is a demand all ‘Whittier should give way to a more humane general superintendent, isn’t there?” “If you mean for me to answer that by personal observations 1 can not for I have not been around the state enough to know just what the people think.” “Has corporal punishment been abolished at the training school?”” “It has not.” Near Flames at Walker. Neither Mr. Vasaly nor Mr.Swend- son commented on the Red Wing tangle. The board came to Bemidji from Walker on the evening train. The members had inspected the state tuberculosis sanitarium near Walker and witnessed a fire which at one time yesterday afternoon threatened the sanitarium building. Twenty- five men were sent out from Walker and checked the flames, after con- (Continued on Page 4) HISTORICAL |

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