Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 1, 1911, Page 1

[ 4 ¥ rgy’ VOLUME 9. NUMBER 55. 2 HOMES ENTERED; WOMEN GOTO SLEEP Wife of Attorney Andrews and Her | Sister Tell of Being Overcome By Strange Odor. FUNKLEY HOUSE BROKEN OPEN Entrance to Both Buildings Made on Same Night, Dumas Case Be- ing Possible Motive. NOTHING APPEARS TO BE STOLEN Doors in Both Instances Bear Marks of Having Been Pried Ajar By a “Jimmy.” | Two women, overcome by the fumes of some powerful drug pre- sumed to have been administered by persons who broke into the Attorney | A. A. Andrews home on Minnesota avenue in the dead of night and a ! scarcely less mysterious entrance of | the Henry Funkley house, is the | strange coincidence that has so far | passed without explanation. | The entrance to thees two houses was made several night ago, but on- ly today became public. Attorney | Andrews, one 1is associated with | Judge Marshall A. Spooner in the de- | fense of Dr. Dumas, was in Minne- apolis at the time; his wife and hel" sister, Miss Nellie Cross, 19 years| old being in the house alone at the | time. Dumas Case Involved? i It is thought by some that in some | indirect way the Dumas affair has a | bearing on the mysterious episode. | Mrs. Andrews gives a straight-for- | ward, well connected account of her | terrifying experience and her asser- tion that someone entered the An-! ' drews home is borne out by marks | of a "jimmy" on the front door which although locked the night before, | was found wide open the next morn- | ing when the women awakened from their drug produced slumber. The account of the incident is giv- | en by Mrs. Andrews and sister sub- | stantially as follows: Along about midnight Mrs. An- drews was awakened with a start when she heard someone at the front door. Her sister also awakened and while they were waiting in breath- less silence they heard the door open. | Miss Cross screamed loudly and both women were badly frightened. Then came the most unusual part of the thrilling experience. Overcome By Odor. Both women became aware of a | sickening odor, not of chloroform or ether, with drugs Mrs. Andrews is familiar but more as the odor of aj decaying animal. The fumes became | stronger and despite their fear and effort to remain awake, both fell to sleep and did not awaken until after daylight. An investigation the next morning failed to reveal the loss of any ar- ticle. The Andrews were house cleaning and are unable to say just how much the.house may have been ransacked. When Henry Funkley, who recent- ly resigned as county attorney, learned of the Andrews entrance he was much surprised as the door on | his house was broken open the same night. Mr. Funkley, with Chief of Police Harrington, made a careful search, but could find no clue. As at the Andrews house, so far as| known, nothing was taken. Mrs. Jas. F. Hayes, 41 years old, | of the town of Liberty, died June 29 of epidemic spinal paralysis, bet- ter known as infantile paralysis. Mrs. Hayes had been ill for only ten days. peared to be an attack of LaGrippe, but gradually became paralyzed. Mrs. Hayes leaves a husband and five children. The funeral, which took place today at Liverty, was con- ducted by Rev. Chas. E. Flesher, of the Bemidji Methodist church. FAIR PREMIUM LIST OUT TODAY The Beltrami County Fair Premi- um list, an illustrated pamphlet of twenty-eight pages, has been com- pleted and is ready for distribution and is being sent out by A. P. Ritch- ie, Secretary of the Agricultural As- sociation. There are more and big- ger prizes up for this years’ fair than ever before. The state aid will be increased from $450 to more than $700. It is expected that it will be { hoped to do before this. She was taken with what ap-| SUNDAY TRAIN UNLIKELY General Manager Gemmell Says Sum- mer Traffic is Disappointing, Blames Hard Times. WANTS DEPOT CALLED “UNION” The Daily Pioneer has received the following from W. H. Gemmell, gen- eral manager of the Minnesota & In- i ternational: “1 appreciate the efforts of your paper to educate the good people of your community in the direction of attributing one-half the ownership of the Union Depot to the Minnesota & | International. I think if it is called ‘Union Depot’ by all concerned it will answer the purpose very well. “Our passenger business has been very disappointing this summer and lup to the present time we have not seen any evidences of improved trav- el that would warrant the putting on of the Sunday train, which I had If there is any change in this matter I will, of course, promptly advise you of it. “In talking with people interested I find that the proprietors of summer resorts notice that less people are coming to them this year than usual, all of which indicates that the hard times through which we passed last year have effected most everybody and that the traveling public have less money to spend on outing trips this summer than usual T0 CROWD MINNEAPOLIS Estimated that Visitors to Great Show, Already on Way Well Established New Record. FLAGS AND LIGHTS DECK CITY: Minneapolis, Minn., July 1.—Busi- ness in Minneapolis will be practical- ly at a standstill the coming week while the citizens give themselves over to a celebration of the growth and prosperity of the city. The affair promises to be one of the most notable of its kind ever held in this country. Many visitors are already putting in an appearance and it is expected that when the celebra- tion gets fully under way at the be- ginning of the week the crowd will be the largest ever entertained in Minneapolis. There are to be separate events for each of the seven days, beginning to- morrow with band concerts and a military review. Pageants and spectacles reflecting the manufacturing and commercial progress of this section of the coun- try will be a leading feature of the week. i Of an educational nature will be the great outdoor pageants and par- ades symbolizing the history of the Northwest, beginning with the dis- covery of the upper Mississippi, the Indian warfare that followed with its settlement, the events of early Statehood, the sending of the first troops to the front in the civil war, the coming of the railroads, the de- velopment of commerce, the harvest- ing of the crops and the remarkable era of general prosperity. The decorative features are especi- ally attractive and elaborate, street after street in the downtown section being literally a sea of flags and bunting and at night ablaze with hundreds of thousands of multi-col- ored lights. | WARM TODAY; SAME TOMORROW No Relief in Sight, According to Guess of Weather Forecaster. Bemidji and all Northern Minne- sota is experiencing one of the warm- est spells of the season, the thermo- meters here registering 97 degrees at 3 p. m. today. The heat is all the more pronounced because of the cool- ness the early part of the week, when overcoats were as desirable then as fans are today. Farmers are jubi- lant over the weather condition | which they say is ideal to bring to| full frutition the present heavy| stand, the warm weather being es- pecially favorable for corn. The' warm wave will continue over Sun-| day, according to the telegraphed weather forecast of the government, which says, “fair Sunday, little change in temperature with south- east to south winds.” Mrs. W. H. Brown arrived from Crookston yesterday and will camp here during the summer. She was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Macumber and Mrs. Macumber's son possible to hold the fair at the same old fair ground this year. of Washington. While here they will HAZEN IN DANGER OF CRIMINAL ACTION Peterson Says Unless Governor Takes Definite Action Within 10 Days, He Will Act. ALSO HOLDS UP THE LAST BILL Declares He Finds it Irregular and Does Not Fear Report of Man- damus Effort. EXPLAINS THE PRESENT MOVE Believes He Would Not Be Doing His Duty Were He to Permit Charges to Drop. Unless Governor Eberhart com- pels Attorney General Simpson to give a written opinion on the peti- tion alleging malfeasance and non- feasance in office by Sheriff Hazen, or takes some other definite action within ten days, Viggo Peterson, chairman of the board of county commissioners who filed the charges at St. Paul, will, he says, begin crim- inal action against the sheriff. On top of this comes the announce- ment from Mr. Peterson that the bill recently allowed Sheriff Hazen by the county would not be paid; that he had found irregularities in it and that he refused to sign the voucher, which ean not be cashed without his signature. “I shall give Governor Eberhart all the time that is at all within rea- son,” declares Mr. Peterson, “If after ten days more the governor still re- mains silent on my petition, I shall feel- compelled to place the charges before the proper authorities. I have no intention “of peérmitting these charges to drop, for I feel that I would not be doing my duty if I did. “As to the sheriff’s bill, I can not see my way clear to indorse it.” Mr. Peterson said he had heard that an effort would be made on the part of the sheriff to mandamus him and County Auditor George in an ef- fort to compel them to allow the bill, but that no official notice of such ac- tion had been served on him. According to Assistant Fire Mar- shal Sam Fullerton, who says the governor has not acted on.the Hazen matter because of a request from the fire marshal’s office, is now in a po- sition to go ahead with the case, and that he has reason to think that the governor will do so. WHERE T0 SEE THE FUN Fourth of July Committee Designates Streets on Which Sport Events Will Be Held. DISTRIBUTED IN BUSINESS PART At a meeting of the Fourth of July amusement committee held this afternoon in the Commercial club rooms final arrangements were made for the celebration program for next Tuesday. Streets for the various at- tractions were named. The events of the day will be held at the following places: Pony race and greased pig race, on Second street between Bemidji and Minnesota avenues. 50 and 100 yard dashes and pota- toe races on Third street between Bemidji and Beltrami avenues. Tug of war between Second and Third streets on Minnesota avenue. Greased pole on Minnesota avenue between Third and Fourth streets. Three legged and sack races on Beltrami avenue between Second and Fourth streets. Boys’ race on Fourth street be- tween Minnesota and Beltrami av- enues. MALT LAW IN l‘?FFECT TODAY At midnight last night the law en-‘ acted at the recent legislature which forbids the sale of malt in any place! other than a licensed saloon went into effect in Minnesota. This is the law which was- introduced in the senate by A. L. Hanson of Ada, who asserted that its passage would do more toward ridding the state of “blind pigs” than any other one thing. Malt may be purchased at the drug stores for medicinal pur- be the guests of Whitney Brown, CARLTONS FACE CO¥RT JULY § And now Dr. Dl_l]llll;g_et! his name in the papers in connegflnn— with the alleged murder of Peter Neste, who according to a confetsion by Mrs. Lloyd Carlton, was k.i‘l)pd by a blow from an ax delivered by her husband on March 31, last. Dr. Dumas has not:been charged with -having anything {0 do with the. crime, but he was oneof those pres- ent when the burned torso of Neste was found by his son-jn-law several days ago. E At that time J. S. Mackey of Far- ris was present with a gdmera and he has a photograph shpWing Dr. Du- mas and Sheriff Petrie df Park Rap- ids holding up the mntilated Neste body with pitchforks. fore Judge McClenehan:at Park Rap- ids on Wednesday of n week:. At- torney E. E. McDonald: of this city will represent the Caritons, ‘who al- lege that the aged farmér was struck down following a quarrel and that the killing was done in gelf-defense. 200 ADVENTISTS IN TENTS Daily Meetings Held Fy Prominent Leaders, English and Norwegi- an Languages Be’i#g Used. MISS MERICKEL TEACHES TOTS ¥ About 200 Seventl Day Adyent- ists, the church sect ",éfgfi" observes Saturday- as the Sabbai{y¥are Caliper in a city of more thanm 30 tents at Eighth street and Irvine avenue, and daily meetings are held in two large tents, the services in one being in English and in the other Norwegian. Prominent church workers are here and there are delegations from all over the northern part of the state. The meetings will continue for a week. Professor M. L. Anderson, presi- dent of the Hutchinson, Minn., Sem- inary, recently of New York city; Professor H. J. Sheldon, prinéipal of the Maplewood academy; S. E. Jack- son of Minneapolis, president of the Minnesota conference, Ed. Chapman, vice-president and Miss Ella Merick- el, state Sabbath Superintendent of Mankato are among the prominent speakers. There are twelve minis- ters in all attending the camp meet- ing. This is the gathering which was held last year in Thief River Falls. The Bemidji arrangements have been made by S. A. Ruskjer, state mis- sionary secretary and Ole Grundset. Miss Merickel holds childrens’ meetings at 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. daily. Other meetings are. held at 10:30 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. The public in general is invited to attend any The Carltons will be:arraigned be- | 16 FAST FIREMEN T0 TRY FOR ADA PRIZES Leave. !iere Monday and Will Enter all Events, from Parade to Coupling Contest. “WE'LL WIN,” THINKS. ~HILLABY Gould and Hanson Depended Upon to Set New Record in Ladder Climbing Race. THREE DAYS’ PROGRAM IS OUT Beging With Pageant Tuesday and Closes With Hub and Hub Run Thursday Afternoon. Sixteen members of the Bemidji fire department, who comprise the running team which will leave Mon- day afternoon at 3:20 on the Great Northern for Arln,‘ where they will enter the annual tournament of the Northern Minnesota Firemen’s Tour- nament Association, which will be held in that city July 4, 5 and 6. The Bemidji team will the largest that has ever represented any one city since the assoclation was or- ganized, and the chances of winning are brighter than ever before. These Will Go. While Captain John Hillaby has not announced his men for the vari- ous races, they will be chosen from the following team: Scott Stewart, Arthur Gould, Dana Gould, Arthur Foucelt, Walter Clark, Ray Dennis, Roy Dennis, Paul Winklusky, Rube Ripple, Frank Ripple, Frances En- gleberg, Oscar Hanson, Nat Given :and..George Donaldson, . with _John | ‘HiHaby -as captain. . Dennis Will Try for New Record. Ray Dennis, who has held the coupling championship of the asso- ciation for the past few years, will again endeavor to break his record. In the ladder climbing, Bemidji will be represented by Dana Gould and Oscar Hanson, who are among the leaders of the association. “Bemidji,” says Captain Hillaby, “will carry off the championship ban- ner.” The Bemidji team won the cham- pionship hose race at the tourna- ment here last July, and success this year means permanent possession of the banner, making the third pen- nant which has been won twice in succession by Bemidji. Bemidji to be in Parade. The Bemidji department will be in the parade with the three banners which they have won since the as- sociation was first organized. This city will be represented in all of the races and contests scheduled with exception of the baseball games. Last evening each of the team was tested out on the hundred yard dash and the best time made was 11 1-2 (Copyright, 1911 - ANTICIPATION (Continued on Page 4) NAPS ON TRACK; LEGS OFF ‘'Wounded Man Unable to. Receive - Medical Attention Because of Train Wreck on Soo. BROUGHT TO BEMIDJI HOSPITAL Because a wreck yesterday after- noon on the Soo line between Remer and Boy River when seven cars of; gravel went into the ditch, a man who laid down on the track to take 2 nap and who had his legs so badly mangled by the locomotive of the west bound passenger, did not re- ceive medical attention until late this afternoon when eh was received at St. Anthony’s hospital here. The passenger struck the man about two miles east of Remer crush- ing both feet. The man whose name is supposed to be Grab Pillo, was lying near the track and the en- gineer thought it was a pi3 belong- .| ing to a nearby farmer. “x whisky bottle was found near him and it is supposed he was intoxicated. He was put on board the train and brought to Remer where the train had to be held for several hours on account of the gravel train wreck near Boy River. Although suffering terribly no medical assistance could be given the man. On the person of the man was found a note book with the name Pillo written therein. The address of Jos. Pillo, Herman, Minn., was al- so found and it is supposed (hat he is a brother of the injured man It was late last nigat before the wrecker from Superior had the wreckage of the gravel traiu cleared away. EREK KKK KKK KKK KKK 5.q NOTICE! # The public is warned that * there is but one way in which % to be sure of obtaining the * Dally Pioneer, and that is to % become a regular subscriber. * Demands_for copies by persons | X not _subscribers are . exceeding % the-supply. ¥ There will be no issue of the * Daily next Tuesday, July 4, but ¥ on next Monday evening this * paper will print a poem by * America’s greatest poet, James * Whitcomb Riley, “The Name of * Old Glory,” specially illustrated * in honor of the national holi- * day, and accompanied by a half- * tone photograph of Mr. Riley. * There also will be other Fourth * of July features. * In today’s issue will be found ¥ another of the “Daddy’s Bed- * time Story” series. KRR KKK KKK KK KKK Kk Ak Ak k kA kA Ak k Ak khk Xk kkkkk Wreck Delays M. & I. Day Train. Because the locomotive was de- railed this side of Elk River the northbound Minnesota & Interna- tional railroad passenger, due in Be- midji at 6 p. m., did not arrive in the city until midnight last night. Mrs. Louis Eckstrom Gets Divorce. Mrs. Louis J. Eckstrom was this afternoén granted a divorce by Judge C. W. Stanton on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. Mr. Eckstrom did not contest. Mrs. Eck- strom takes her maiden name, Ber- of these gatherings. tha Thoreson. TEN CENTS PER WEEK BEHAN RELEASED; 'PARDON ASSURED DECLARES EDITOR Him Arrangements Were Also Made to Free Hunter. WOUNDED .ROBRER GIVES BAIL Generally Understood That Liberty is-Mostly Reward- for Giving State’s Evidence. SPOONER HINTS ‘PERSECUTION’ Says Effort to Entangle Dumas With Federal Authorities is Blow * Planned by Enemies. Two dramatic events characterized the Dumas case during the past 24 hours; one, the release of Martin Be- han, the wounded and self-confessed Puposky robber and the other, an assertion by Gus. H. Beaulieu, editor of the White Earth “Tomahawk,” that Assistant Fire Marshal Sam Ful- lerton told him he had arranged with Governor Eberhart to pardon Behan and Harry Hunter, a Stillwater con- viet, who is reported by the detec- tives to have made a confession im- plicating Dr. Dumas and other per- sons: 3 State Fire Marshal Keller, Mr. Fullerton, and Detective Fielding went to St. Paul last night. Judge Spooner on the Job. “I presume they are going down to spring some new persecution against Dr. Dumas,” was Judge Spoorer’s comment, who went to St. Paul on the same train. “Guess I will go down and do some skirmish- ing myself. The attitude of Mayor Dumas’ enemies is shown in their trumpted up federal charges. Dr. Dumas is held under $10,000 bail— he is sure not to get away and still they insist on dragging in the fed- eral officials.” Behan at Liberty. Behan, captured in the battle at Puposky on the morning of June 17, was released from the county jail late yesterday afternoon on a bond of $5,000 signed by his wife and J. B. Meyer. The arraignment of Behan was arranged by Fire Marshal Charles Keller and Assistant Fuller- ton. The bail bonds were passed up- on by Thayer Bailey, who appeared for the state and accepted by Court Commissioner Simons, before whom the proceedings were held. Behan, who is in serious condition from his wounds and tuberculosis of the lungs, probably will be taken to Wisconsin by his sister and wife. State Purposely Easy. It was generally understood that his release at this time is in a meas- ure a reward for having turned state’s evidence which implicated Dr. Dumas at the preliminary hearing of the mayor of Cass Lake Thursday, ‘when he was bound over to await the action of the grand jury under bonds of $10,000. Persons representing the state do not deny this. “We do not want to be guilty of killing the man, and he would die, say the doctors, if cooped up in jail,” was Assistant Fire Marshall Fuller- ton’s comment following the appear- ance of Behan in cou™® late yester- day afternoon. Case Goes Over to Oct. 17, Behan asked that his case be con- tinued until his health was improved and Commissioner Simons put it over until October 17. R. E. Smyth, owner of the entered building at Puposky, whose signed statement was given to United States District Attorney Houpt in St. Paul by Postoffice Inspector Ormsby, is not in Bemidji, having left here this af- ternoon for Puposky. His father lives here and he is here much of the time himself. He has persistently refused to talk for publication. Beaulieu Springs Bomb. In a column write-up of the Dumas case, Editor Beaulieu includes this: “During a recent trip to Bemidji. we met Mr. Fullerton with whom we had no previous acquaintance, and he informed us of many of the circumstances of the case in which Doctor Dumas is implicated, and he expressed much sympathy with Wm. Behan, the yeggman who was shot and severely wounded at Puposky who he said could not live more than (Continued on Page 4) .