Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 20, 1911, Page 1

f VOLUME 9. NUMBER 45. SOCIETY. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK COUNCIL IN JANGLE OVER NEW WET ZONE Plea of Alderman Brown in Behalf of Brewing Company Causes Mayor To Talk. OBJECTS TO DISCRIMINATION Believes if One Saloon is Permitted in Fourth Ward Others Should Be Allowed. ORDINANCES PASSES, 5§ TO 3 President Johnson Urces Restriction And His Views Are Sustained By Test Vote. - There was heated discussion at last evening's meeting of the eity council when the third and last reading of the ordinance, prohibiting the issuing of liquor licenses outside oft he fourth ward, came up for con- sideration. “It seems to me,” said Alderman Brown, “that this ordinance should be killed. The Duluth Brewing com- pany who owns the building located just across the street, have rented it for saloon purposes every since Be- midj was a little village, and I can truthfully say that it has always been operated in’ a satisfactory man- ner. I don’t believe that any alder- man would vote to allow a saloon in any other part of the town outside of the fourth ward, outside of this one building but 1 do not favor this ordinance.” Mayor Expresses Views. Alderman Brown's talk brought Mayor Parker to his feet in a hurry, and he said: - “If this council would allow a saloon to go in the building across the street and would not allow an- other man to put in a saloon in any other section of the city it would be discriminating, and that is a thing that this council can not be accused of ever doing. There is no question but what there should be a saloon limit in this city. When this ordin- ance first came up every one of the alderman were in favor of it, and gentlemen it looks to me as though the Duluth Brewing company had been getting somebody. Lets put this thing to a vote and see what ones are against it.” R The vote resulted as follows: No—Brown, Klein and Smart. Yes—Crippen, Roe, Moberg, Bis- iar and Johnson. Pool to Continue Sunday. A motion was made by Alderman Brown, which was seconded, to the effect that the ordinance be consid- ered at the next meeting, and this will be done. The pool and billiard hall closing ordinance was read for the second time. It was amended to read as follows: “That all pool and billiard halls, with the exception of those operated by a private club or association, be closed at 11 p. m. every day in the week.” This means that they are to be open Sundays. The amendment was favored upon the recommendation of City Attorney Russell, who said that he found after an investigation that to close the billiard hall Sundays would be a hardship for the mill boys who work nights and have no other means of recreation. The resolution favoring the turn- ing over of the cemetery to the Cemetery Association recently or- ganized was passed. LETTUCE DIET CURES A JURY Denver Judge Obtains Verdict After Trying Starvation Treatment. Denver, June 17.—Reduced to a diet of lettuce sandwiches and water until such a time as they could agree on a verdict the jury in the case of D. F. LeMaster head of the LeMaster Broakerage company, found the de- fendant guilty of larceny and embez- zelment of the sum of $3,700. ‘When the jury yesterday after- noon, after being out all day, report- ed that it was unable to agree, Judge Shattuck prescribed the starvation treatment and sent the members back. After delivering their verdict the jurors almost cleaned out a nearby restaurant. The killed and injured by acci- dents in London streets number nearly 10,000 a year. Of these 200 are killed on the spot. 0000000000060 00 4 coxomnonmrnm.f THURSDAY, JUNE 22. @ 4 a. m.—General vehicular & traffic suspended in the coro- @ nation area. @ 7:15 a. m.—Troops line the & streets, after which hour access ¢ to the line of the route, even afoot, cannot be insured. 8 a. m.—Latest hour at which seat holders’ carriages may en- ter line of route on police passes. 8:30 a. m.—Route closed to carriage traffic. 9:15 a. m.—The king’s pro- cession forms up in the Mall. 10:30 a. m.—The king and queen start from Buckingham Palace. 11 a. m.—The king and queen reach Westminster Abbey. 1:40 p. m.—The king and queen crowned and robed, leave Westminster Abbey in the “coronation procession’ to Buck- ingham Palace. 2:30 p. m.—Arrival at the palace, and pedestrains will be allowed to circulate in the streets again. 4:30 to 6:30 p. m.—A certain amount of “necessary” vehicular traffic may be allowed if condi- tions permit. 9 p. m.—Illuminations. 12:30 a. m.—Lights out. FRIDAY, JUNE 23. 1:30 a. m.—General vehicu- lar traffic resumed. 6 a. m.—Vehicular traffic again suspended on outward route of royal progress. 7 a. m.—Traffic suspended on homeward route. 8:30 a. m.—Last seat-hold- ers’ carriages to leave outward route. 9 a. m.—Last carriages to leave homeward route. Pedestrains will be allowed access to the line of route so long as the conditions warrant, and general traffic will resume > after their majesties return to © the palace. LR R R R R RO R R ORCRORRY GOPRPVOVOVIPIVPPIOOIPPVOOPOOOOOOO®O OO O POPOPPOOPPOPROPOPOYD D@ POPPOORPPVPPVPOVPVVRPVPVOOOVVOVPVVOVOOPPOPVIVOPPOO®O®O® 400 BANKERS HERE 5 A. M. TOMORROW Specials to Be First Train to Ever Land Passengers at New Soo International Depot. LAUNCH 'AND AUTO TRIP NEXT Owners of Power Boats Requested to Be at Dock for Short Voyage At 8 A M. TAWNEY AND YOUNG ON WAY Winona’s Distinguished Son to Speak At Morning Session; Iowa Editor In Evening- From every corner of the state bankers are coming to Bemidji. The Minnesota Bankersassociation will hold its annual meeting here tomorrow. From St. Paul and Minneapolis two special trains are ready to bring 400 delegates, leaving St. Paul at 8 o’clock tonight. On this special train there will be James A. Tawney, former member of congress, a close friend of President Taft’s and altogether Winona’s most distinguished son. The coming of Mr. Tawney is significant as he will speak to the bankers tomorrow morning on “Pro- posed Reforms of the So-Called Pro- gressives.” From DesMoines comes Iowa'smost picturesque newspaper publisher and editor, “Lafe” Young, owner of the Daily Capital and the successor of STATE BLOCKS PAVING Inaction on Part of Attorney General Endangers Completion of Proposed Work This Year. DELAY OF UNKNOWN LENGTH Failure on the part of Attorney General Simpson to approve the $20,- 000 worth of bonds, authorized at a special election here on May 31, may make it impossible for Bemidji to complete the paving of the proposed eleven blocks this summer. As soon as the result'of the elec- tion was known, City Attorney Rus- sell at once communicated with State Auditor Iverson to arrange to get the money from the state. State Auditor Busy. The state auditor took the matter up at once, but has now notified Mr. Russell that the money is not avail- able as the attorney general’s o. k. is not forthcoming. This must be obtained before the funds can be furnished. In the meantime the attorney general is not in St. Paul, and his failure to take action before leav- ing for an extended trip in the West has so delayed the matter that work which might have been under way by this time, must necessarily be postponed. Waits on Attorney General Nothing more can be done until the attorney general feels disposed to pass upon the negotiations, which, although merely a matter of form, tied up further proceedings. As bids must be advertised for and & decision arrived at by the council relative to the kind of paving to be used, it will be some time after the blockade is removed from the at- torney general’s office before the actual work of laying the payment may begin. BOYS AT PLAY START FIRE Pile of Gunny Sacks Ablaze This Afternoon on Sixth Street. Several gunny sacks, which had been set on fire by boys while play- ing, were burned at 3 o’clock this afternoon, in an alley between Bel- trami and Minnesota avenues on Sixth street. The damage wasnominal the small blaze betug extinguished with the aid of a clemical. Spain is planning a circuit high- 000. Towa to spend the hunters’ license fund for road improgement. i way 1,674 miles long, to cost $1,400,- . There is 8 movement on foot in|' Sengtor Dolliver in the United States sepfite. Mr. Young speaks tomorrow uight.. o Specials Here at 5 A, M. The special train will have the distinction of being the first to un- loa passengers at the new Soo depot. The train will arrive in Bemidji at 5a.m. At 7 a. m. a reception com- mittee composed of Mayor John Parker, Thomas Burke, president of the Commercial club and the follow- ing bankers, H. C. Baer, A. G. Wedge, W. L. Brooks and R. H. Schumaker will greet the visitors. After breakfast on the trains, the bankers will be taken for launch rides on Lake Bemidji andautomobile trips into the country as far as the Schroeder farm, where buttermilk will be served, then back to Bemidji, through Nymore, East Bemidji and along the lake shore to the famous “Ruggles” forest. Launch Owners Attention. All launch owners are requested to have their launches at the lake shore dock as close to 8 a. m. as possible. Chairman Baer of the reception com- mittee is urgent in this request and hopes that none of the owners will become impatient if there should be any unavoidable delay. The lake and auto trips must bé made on BEMIDJI TO CELEBRATE Committees on Arrangements and to Provide Funds Alpzm'nted at Public Meeting. YET TO DECIDE FIOIER PLAN Bemidji is to celebrate the Fourth of July. This was decided dt 'a public meet- ing at the city hall last night, called by Thomas J. Burke,president of the Commercial club. 3 - Frank S. Lycan was named a mem- ber of the committep on arrange- ments and other me)jflyers are Mayor John Parker and Thomas McCann. Edwin Geralds and:Fred Brinkman ‘were designated as the committee which is to solicit the business men of the town for the mecessary funds for “carrying out the celebration. A meeting of thesecommittees will be held at the Commeércial club with- in the next few days to decide upon specific plans for thq’ day. It. has been mg‘ested that Be- midjl follow-along the lines adopted in St. Paul and Mlnfie&polls where a day of harmless sports is arranged for the children who are given a safe and sane but at the same time happy day, rather than the old firecracker, dynamite exploding, fingershattering, lockjaw producing days. There was but one opinion express- ed at the gathering last evening and that was that Bemidji must cele- brate. The only topic for argument was the best manneriin which to ob- serve the day. ) —_—_— schedule time as the convention as- sembles shortly after 9 a. m. All banks will close tomorrow at 1 o’clock. Tomorrow evening there will be a special band concert in honor of the bankers. E Public Requested to Aid. The receptioncommittee hopesthat the public at large will assist in the entertainment of the visitors in every way possible. The conventign will-be held in the Armory and will be called to order by President L. A. Huntoon of Moor- head; The meeting opens with a prayer by Rev. S. E. P. White, and this will be followed by reports of: Treasurer A. G. Wedge, Jr., Secre- tary Charles R. Frost. Mr. Tawney’'s address then comes and he will be followed by Kelsey S. Chase, super- intendent of banks. After a recess until 4:30 during which time a fish dinner will be served at the lake shore park, there will be an address by Joseph Chapman, Jr., by Pro- fessor Frank A. Weld, president of the Moorhead state Normal; then comes the reports of the committee on resolutions and the delegates to the Los Angeles convention. This will be followed by the election of officers and the election of mempers tot he executive council. The bankers go from here to In- ternational Falls tomorrow night, spending Friday in that city. Philadelphia plumbers have struck for $4 a day, an increase of 50 cents, and double pay for overtime. In Columbus, O., householders must dampen ashes before the cans are set {out. THIRD BANDIT IS NEAR ARREST THIRD MAN FOUND AS PUPOSKY ROBBER From Bemidji and is Known to Have Grounded Telephone Wires * With Rope. CHASE FOR DAVIS CONTINUES Every Railroad Guarded and Even Deserted Cabins in Woods Are Being Investigated. Search by Deputy Sheriff Helmer and Pinkerton detectives last night and early this morning of points where it was thought Mike Davis, the expert safe cracker, wounded in the fight at Puposky Saturday morn- ing, might be in hiding and protect- ed by friends, was unsuccessful and no trace of the bandit was found. The officers have every railroad in this vicinity watched closely so that Davis could not possibly get from un- der cover of any cabin in the woods to railroad and finally get out of the country. Davis Believed Far Ffom Free. Information from other sources is that Davis is believed to have gotten to St. Paul and is now being protect- ed by friends who have been in with the gang of which Davis i8 a mem-~ ber for several years. Officers here assert that they haye nothing new relative to Davis, but smile in a confident manner when it is hinted that he has made a clean get-away or that it was not Davis who was at Puposky, but a Pinker- ton detective who played the part of Davis, who is supposed to have been put on the job by LeClare who could not be held: - S Vi Detectives May Have Grabbed Letter. ‘Whether LeClare himself ever got the letter which Dumas is said to have written him from Cass Lake is a question unanswered by the detec- tives, the intimation being that it was intercepted by detectives, Fur- ther information along this line is unobtainable from those in charge, butit isbelievedthatthe whereabouts of the missing yegg will he given out before the day closes. The identity of the third man who is said to have driven Davis and Bean to Puposky is said to have been es- tablished, being a Bemidji man, but the officers refuse to give out his name. A Third Man Near Arrest. It is intimated that this man will be placed under arrest within twenty- four hours. Inside information as to the work this third robber did the night of the fight at Puposky is that the robbers and Mr. Dumas had figured the job would be so easy that they put the third man on taking care of the wires and seeing that they were rendered useless out of Puposky instead of acting as a look- out and safeguarding the work of BACK TO. THE SOIL _REH R-i lr““ REARA ®° - | Mr. LaQua. 9000000000000 0 9 © “MIKE” DAVIS WAS SEEN.© ® ® © St. Paul, Minn.,, June 20.— & 4 (Daily Pioneer Special Wire & @ Service.) — Superintendent & @ Ringdal, Detective . Fielding, ¢ @ State Fire Marshal Keller and & © Deputy Fire Marshal Sam Ful- & @ lerton, went to Stillwater this & © afterncon to -interview Fred & Hunter, the convict sent up ¢ from Grand Rapids, Minn., @ It is expected that he will & divulge evidence which will not © only further implicate Dr. ¢ Dumas but will involve nearly ¢ a dozen business men in the Be- & midji distriet. ® Almost positive identification © of the man who begged for food at Bald Eagle Lake, Satur- day evening as “Mike” Davis, was injured during thebattle at Puposky, was made by the fam- ily of Willlam A. Miller, vice president of the First National Bank, at whose summer home the man ‘called late Saturday evening. He was recognized from pictures in the news- papers. Detectives are now out in the country for further trace of the man. AR R R R R CRRR RN ph e Nl B AR AR AN B R R R R O R R R R R RN PPOIPVPOOOOOOS the men who were doing the work inside with the dynamite and matches. Grounds Wires With Ropes. This man grounded the wires by throwing a rope over them and drag- ging them to the ground. When there was shooting and robbers were known to have been hurt, this third man releasedthe wires andattempted to get into touch with Bemidji and other points to warn Dumas and con- federates, say the detggtives, but the officers had charge of the wires and nothing could get through. Firemen at Cass Lake have told detectives that when the Dumas residence was burned at Cass Lake |} there was but little furniture of real ‘value in thgiplace; that some win- ter- overcvats and ' ofher —weartng apparel- had been removed and was in the doctor’s office. A Cass Lake man who called up Dr. Dumas im- mediately ater the fire found the doctor responding suspiciously prompt at the other end as if he had been waiting news of the incendiary fire which the detectives claim he was “in on”’. Bean in Bad Shape. Dr. 'j{[arcum, who is in charge of Bean, says that Bean will not be in shape physically to attend a.hearing for a week or ten days. Some of the shot were removed from his legs, affording relief, but no more will be taken out at present. Bean’s statement to the officers is not given out, and there is some doubt that he has yet made a “clean breast” of what he knows. How- ever, detectives assert Bean will furnish them valuable and undisput- able evidence corroborating in every detail the evidence furnished by the parties to the plot who were sup- posed to be yeggmen but who were really officers. DUMAS NO ENEMY OF LAQUA First Report of Puposky Robbery Contained ErroneousImpression. First reports of the robbery at Puposky were an error so far as they said that Dr. Dumas had planned the affair as the result of a personal grude against the owner of the store, It is said on good au- thority that Mr. LaQua did not know Dr. Dumas and that he never had lived in Winnipeg as the earlier re- ports said. CHIP IN TO HIRE DIVER Bemidji Persons Signing Subscrip- tion to Reward Expert to Search For Masten’s Launch. FOUR PLACES HAVE LISTS. More than a score of persons have signed a subscription list for amounts varying from 50 cents to $5 for a fund to be used to employ an expert driver to search for Harry Masten’s lost launch, “Keemar.” There are four lists which may be signed by anyone wishing to aid in the move- ment and they are distributed as follows: T. J. Miller Co., The Northern National Bank, W. E. Gray bakery and the V. L. Ellis agency over Netzer’s drug store, Fourth and Beltrami. Efforts on the part of the Crookston Lumber compan’s scow - to locate the launch failedi:glthough a 1argé part of the lake was dragged. 600DS OF CROOKS TRACED T0 DUNAS List of Robbers Supplies Noted on Receipt Found on Mayor When Arrested. MYSTERIOUS SAFE SHIPPED Said to Have Been Sent Out of Cass Lake Day Following Puposky Raid. ‘When Dr. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake was arrested at Hibbing Satur- day, he carried a receipt for a bill of goods itemized: $2 for “M.” $3 for “M.” $4.50 for “B.” $7.50 “gun and cartridges;” $3.60 “dino string, brads and plugs” and $20 for “M.”- making & total of $40.60. These goods are supposed to have been purchased at the T. Dugas store in Cass Lake and “M.” is taken to in- dicate, “dynamite.” This information was brought to Bemidji today by Sheriff Hazen who returned from Mibbing. Word comes from East Grand Forks that the wife of Billy Bean, the- wounded robber in jail here, is on her way to Bemidji. She says her husband never was in & robbery before and that he came here in response to a call telling him that a “good job” was ready. Detectives in Cass Lake are busy tracing a safe to contain nitro gly- cerine and a full kit of burglar tools. This safe was shipped the same day Dr. Dumas was placed nder arrest. It was placed in a Great Northern box car but de- tectives refuse tination. et - Davis Escapes in Buggy- On top of this comes the inform- ation that there were three men who took active part in the Puposky rob- bery and that the third robber sue- ceeded in getting the wounded and notorious “Mike” Davis into a bug- gy near Puposky, driving twelve miles to Turtle River, a small village on the Minnesota & International railroad and that from here the two robbers made their escape. Dumas Heard to Telephone. Still another startling develop- ment is information from the Pink- erton men of a telephone conver- sation which Dr. Dumas is supposed to have had with at’least two of his Puposky confederates at Superior, Wisconsin. Dr. Dumas is said to have talked from Bemidji and he told the man at the other end of the line on Thursday that the “transaction” had been postponed until Friday night. The Puposky deal was referred to over the tele- phone as the “land deal” and this is * significant as the $200 check found on Dr. Dumas when he was arrested at Hibbing in one corner was marked “land deal”. In this conversation, the doctor is also said to have referred to “satisfactory as- sistance” on the part of his “agents.” Threats of Death Made- Detectives also tell of threats made against them by members of the robber’s crowd, These threats are to the effect that certain death awaits the traitor who revealed their Puposky plans and that others will suffer unless the present activity against Dr. Dumas ceases. The de- tectives say this means that they bhave more work to perform before quitting Bemidji and northern Min- nesota. It 18 understood that the de- tectives intercepted a long distance telephone message of Dr. Dumas and some one in Superior at about the same hour Saturday morning that the battle at Puposky was raging, which was to the effect that “she went through as scheduled.” The Smyth Check Episode, Dr. Dumas refuses to comment re- garding the check found on him by Chief of Police Wring at Hibbing when arrested last Saturday. This check was signed by R. E. Smyth who owns the building which was to have been robbed and burned at Puposky. Smyth, who is the son of David C. Smyth, clerk of the Bemidji muni- cipal court, is in Bemidji and says it is true that he drew such a check on the First National Bank of Be- midji in favor of Dr. Dumas but says he does not care to say anything further regarding the transaction at (Continued on last page.) HiSTORICAL | to name its des- ] 5