Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 6, 1911, Page 1

- iciTs A ST S iROegUS ! [ F AL MIDJI DAILY PIONEE [ MINNESOTA " i t SOGIETY. R. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 58. . BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK BEMIDJI WINS BIG RACES AT ADA MEET By Capturing Hose Contest, Local}: Fire Department Gets Permanent Possession of Banner. FIRST IN HUB AND HUB DASH | S | | Also Triumph in the Flag Event and Gets Second Place in the Ladder || Climb. | i TREASURER JOHNSTONE RESIGNS | To Be Succeeded By Simmonson, All Other Officers Holding Over— Closes Today. Bemidji firemen have won notable| victories at the Ada tournament which comes to a close in that city | this afternoon, taking first place in| the big event of the gathering, the| championship hose cart race which | gives Bemidji permanent possession of the banner and first place also in the flag race and the hub and hub race the latter contest being run this morning. Bemidji won the hub and hub race in 18 seconds flat although they got| a poor start. Ada came second in seconds, Warren third in| 18 4-5 seconds. Crookston last in 19! seconds. Bemidji Loses This One. Combination hook. ladder and hose race, run this forenoon, Schmidt, Crookston's champion ladder climber, did the coupling and ladder climbing | in 25 seconds, Warren secoud and Bemidji third. Bemidji again made a fast run but Gould again slipped twice on the ladder. At the business session last night/| all the 0ld officers were elected with | the exception of Thomas R. John- stone, treasurer, resigned on account of leaving this territory. Carl Sim- monson of Ada was elected 10 succeed Johnstone. Wednesday was Bemidji day at the tournament, the running team carry- ing off the majority of the first| prizes, including the championship association hose race bauner, which banner has for the past sixteen years represented the real championship race of the association. Bemidji won second place in the ladder con- test. first and second in the coupling contest, first in the flag race and first in the championship hose race. No representative from Bemidji entered | the firemen’s championship foot race. | In the coupling contest, there were seven entries. Deunis of Bemidji, for six years champion of the associ- ation, won first place, equaling the association record of four seconds. Hanson of Bemidji was second, time 4 Larson of Warren third, five seconds. We Win Flag Race. The flag race was won by Bemidji, by three seconds, time 69 1-5. Crookston second, 72 1-5. Warren third, 72 The championship hose race was hotly contested. With Champion Dennis coupling, Bemidji made the race in 25 3-5 seconds. Warren came second, 26 1-5, Crookston third, 26 2-5. This makes the third cham- pionship banner that the Bemidji de- partment has won twice in succession a record probably mnever equaled by any other firemen's running team in the United States. At the conclusion of the Wednes- day races, the Ada and Herdrum baseball teams played and Ada was the winner, by a score of 4 to 2. Summers pitched a remarkable game | for Ada, the visiting players being unable to get a safe hit off his de- livery. Ruckles of Fargo pitched for Hendrum and did fairly well. BELTRAMI FIRE LOSS $785,000 Coming directly on the heels of about 25 damage suits to be tried in Crookston against the Canadian Northern for fire losses last fall in Roseau county, and several which have been tried and won in the dis- trict court at Warren, a special in- surance agent, representing all the companies which suffered heavy losses at Baudette and Spooner dur- ing the great fire there last fall, has compiled the losses caused by the fire, both fire risks and life insurance risks, which aggregate in the two places and vicinity, about $785,000 already, and may reach the million mark, and will commence a combined action in the near future in the Fed- eral court at Fergus Falls, to recover the amount of the losses from the Canadian Northern. i I H isured, and the | that it supports MAINE MYSTERY CLEARED Washington, July 6.—The loss : of the battleship Maine was : : caused by the explosion of her : : three magazines. No such effect : : as that produced upon the vessel : could have been caused by an éx- plosion from without. Such is : : the opinion of General William : : H. Bixby, chief of engineers of : : the U. 8. A,, who has returned : : from a personal inspection of : the work of raising the Maine. General Bixby said last night that a personof the deck over the : magazines was blown upwafd : : and laid backward and that there : were numerous conditions of the : hulk as it lies in Havana harbor : : which proves this. No explosion : : from the outside, he said could : have caused the same results. : “What the primary cause of : : the explosion was,” General Bix- : : by said, “never will be learned.” : General Bixby does not believe : : that the bodies of those who lost : their lives will be found on the : Maine. He says they are buried : probably two hundred feet or : | more from the in the mud. : ‘, INTERNATIONAL NOW HASDAILY — i First Issues of Journal, by C. B. Mont- | gomery, Received in Bemidji. | 1 International Falls now has a daily newspaper. It is known as the Journal and is published by C. B. Montgomery, who has been editor and publisher of the weekly Inter- national Falls Echo. The paper is to be six columns, four pages in size. The first issue contains this an- nouncement: “Commencing today International Falls can number among its metropolitan advantages one that is commonly accredited as| very important—a daily newspaper. | Deeming the future of our city as- present the thresh- hold of the entrance to that pros- perity which is assured us in such generous quantities. the manage- ment has deemed the time opportune for the starting of an evening daily newspaper and herewith presents to the public, for its approval, the first number of the International Falls Daily Journal. While this move has been under consideration for several months, we determined the starting time definitely only a week ago, therefore have been somewhat re- stricted in our efforts to make our initial number a creditable one. We believe that each citizen who is in- terested in the future of our city will welcome The Daily Journal as an- other factor in the broadening out and developing of the town and sur- rounding country, and will aid by his patronage in the sustaining of The Daily Journal. Its life and the extent of its usefulness is largely de- pendent upon the public, and we quit | with the parting suggestion that no feature of our city will prove more convincingly to the world at large that International Falls as a “City of Destiny™ is rapidly working out its destiny, than will the knowledge a live, wideawake, up-tn-date daily newspaper.” INDIAN ACCUSESBLACKDUCK MAN Held at Walker, .Drunken Red Says He got Whiskey in This County. Some unnamed person in Black: duck, but whose identity is known, faces the charge of having supplied Leech Lake Indians at Walker with whiskey. The attempt to deliver liquor was discovered by Chief of Police Morical of Walker. Two In- dians arrived there from the north in a bad state of intoxication and their condition attracted attention, owing to the scarcity of drunken In- dians since the enforcement of the Indian 1id. They were arrested. Two large jugs of whiskey were in their possession, which they claimed to have purchased at Blackduck. They said that it was their intention to sell the liquor to Indians on the res- ervation. The arrested men have given the authorities the name of the party at Blackduck who furnish- ed them with the jugs. The police there have been notified to the fact, and an arrest is expected to follow, but had not been made up to noon today. STIMSON SAILS - FOR - PANAMA| Secretary of War Will Also Inspect Wreck of Battleship Maine. New York, July 6.—Secretary of War Stimson sailed today for Panama to make his first inspection of the progréss of the canal work and the details of its fortification. Incident- ally, the secretary will stop at Ha- vana to view the ruins of the battle- ship Maine and will also visit Porto Rico to inquire into questions of sanitation and the present method of choosing municipal judges: FAIL TO GET JURY IN CARLTON CASE After Eight Men Have Been Accepted Efforts to Complete List Are Unsuccessful. SPECIAL VENIRE EXHAUSTED Six Out of Ten Go Down in Less Than Hour This Afternoon Without One Acceptance. SHERIFF PICKS BEST CITIZENS Declares He Took Pains to Present High Class of Residents for Use In Trial. Park Rapids, Minn,, July 6, 3 p. m. —(By Long Distance Telephone.)— No jury has been secured in the Carlton murder case. After eight men had been sworn in yesterday, the regular panel be- came exhausted and Judge McClene- han issued a special venire of ten. Sheriff Petrie hustled out in the country .and when court convened at 2 o’clock this afternoon, the hour to which court was adjourned yes- terday, all the talesman were on hand. Six Out of Ten Down. 1n less than an hour six out of this special venire had been examined and dismissed as undesirable, either by County Attorney Woolley who has charge of the case for the state or Attorney E. E. McDonald, who is fighting every inch of the ground for his clients, the Carlton couple who are charged with having murdered old man Peter Neste on the Neste farm on the last day of last March. New Venire Ordered. Judge McClenehan ordered the second special venire and these men | are to report in court tomorrow. The men examined as jurors to- day were all farmers and representa- tive citizens of the better class. Sheriff Picks Good Men. “1 took special pains,” said Sherift Petrie, “to pick as representative a list of residents as I could find and every one who reported for jury ser- vice today was a good, clean, fair minded, clear headed, bright man.” The stumbling block in selecting the jurors appears to be the wide publicity given the case, causing many persons to form a conclusion as to the guilt or innocence of the ac- cused. John Brokaw Last Juror. The last juror to be secured at the yeterday's session of court was John Brokaw, a farmer. His selection left four men to be accepted before the jury is completed and the taking of evidence made possible. It is not now thought that a jury can be secured before tomorrow af- ternoon, as the earlier hopes for a quick jury have been shattered. CLAPP TO ACT AS SPELLBINDER One of List Including Taft to Talk in State of Washington. Spokane, Wash., July 6.—If the voters of the Pacific slope country are not thoroughly familiar with all the political and other issues of the coming presidential contest, follow- ing the harvesting of the crops this season, it will not be the fault of the spellbinders. The number of prom- inent men planning the trip next fall might lead some to think the way to the White House is through the Nor- western and Pacific states. Presi- dent Taft is due some time in Sep- tember, and may pass a day or more in Spokane, others coming earlier or later are: Governor Judson Har- mon of Ohio, Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives; United States Senators Gore of Okla- homa, United States Senator Wil- liams of Mississippi; Congressman William Sulzer of New York; United States Senator LaFollette of Wiscon- sin; United States Senator Clapp of Minnesota; United States Senator Borne of Oregon; United States Sen- ator of Idaho; United States Senator Pointdexter of Washington and sev- eral others from middlewesterp, eastern and southern states. Manager McGraw says that the $200 fine for Raymond goes as it lays, and if “Bugs” does not keep in condition, a fine of a few hundred more will be slapped on him. | | 1 (Copyright. 1911.) §50 FOR STEALING HAM {Street Commissioner of Funkley, Found Guilty by Jury of Bemidji Business Men. {TRAIN CREW GIVES EVIDENCE Thomas Kennedy, street commis- sioner of Funkley, but who resides on 2 farm in-the towaship of Hornet | was found guilty before Judge C. W. Stanton yesterday afternoon on a charge of the larcency of ham from a box on the depot platform of the Minnesota & International at Funk- ley. A fine of $50 was imposed. The case was heard by a jury of six, made up of the following: F.S. Lycan, L. G. Crothers, W. R. Mac- kenzie, T. J. Crane, R. H. Schumaker and David Gill. Four members of a freight crew went on the stand and swore to have seen Kennedy take five or six hams from a box weighing 135 pounds. The defendant testified that he could not have taker the ham #s he was not at the depot during the time the meat was stolen. After a few minutes deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Attorney M. J. Brown while the case was presented by County Attorney Graham H. Torrance. This was the first criminal case Mr. Torrance has had since being appointed county attorney. OLE0 LAW NOW IN EFFECT Prevents Sale of All But Uncolored and Must Be Branded. The new state oleomargarine law went into effect July 1. The law not only prohibits the sale of colored oleomargarine in any form or man- ner, but permits the sale of uncol- ored oleomargarine only when the customer has full knowledge of what he is getting. The bill prohibits the sale of any substitute for butter which is colored in tint of yellow. It does not help if the manufacturer uses half or two- thirds cream—it is against the law to sell it if looks like butter. ‘When uncolored oleomargarine is the word “oleomargarine” in a prom- inent place in big type. The retailer in turn must deliver the product to his customer in wrappers having stamped in plain type the word “ole- omargarine” and also the name of the retailer and the manufacturer. The use of any descriptive matter in- tended to mislead the customer is specifically prohibited. Another section prohibits the pro- prietor of any hotel, dining room, dining car, drinking place, cafe, ba- kery, boat, lumber camp, railroad camp, boarding house, hospital or -other place where guests board or pa- tients are served with food for pay from serving any substitute for but- | ter unless the words “oleomargarine used in place of butter” are on the i bill of fare or posted on the walls of the room. The penalty for violation of the law is a fine of from $50 to $100 or a jail sentence of 30 days, with high- er penalties for a second offense. 1 Mr. Kennedy was represented by | sold, the tub or package must have | Wfl\\fl\mm\m‘“\u MUNHALL IN COURT SATURDAY Bartender Held in Connection With Puposky Robbery to Have Hearing. ‘William Munhall, arrested in con- nection -with the alleged attempt to rob and burn t he postoffice building at Puposky, will be arraigned before Court Commissioner H. A. Simons Saturday morning for a preliminary hearing. Munhall is at present out on $1,000 bonds. He will be repre- sented by Attorney Charles Serut- chin. Martin Behan, the wounded robber, released last week on bonds, has been taken by relatives to Wis- consin, in the. vicinity of Bayfield, -where it_is expected the fresh air will aid in curing his lung trouble. There are no developments in the Dumas sensation. Dr. Dumas is in Cass Lake attending to his regular duties. Assistant Fire Marshal Sam Fullerton is expected in Bemidji to- i morrow. 60BECOMEADVENTIST CONVERTS Camp Meeting Comes to Successful Close in Bemidji Today. After a week of meetings in this city, during which time 60 persons announced their intentions of pro- fessing Christianity, the Seventh Day Adventists broke camp today, three cars of tents going to Fosston, Park Rapids and Minneapolis. The camp was pitched at Eighth and Irvine and more than 200 visitors came to Be- midji during the week. The tents sent to Fosston and Park Rapids will be used in a series of “summer effort” meetings. S. A. Ruskjer, state Sab- bath school missionary and Ole Grundset, who had charge of the Be- midji arrangements have charge of the camp breaking, the former going to Minneapolis Friday evening and the latter to Fosston. There is an organization of about sixteen Advent- ists who hold regular meeting in Be- midji and Bemidji persons numbered among the recent converts will join this band in their devotions. ROADS CUT RATE HALF CENT In Case of 2,000 Mile Books 0ld Twec Cent Fare Applies. A two and one-half cent passenger rate between all points in Minnesota will be put in effect by railroads which are members of the Western Passenger association, on August 1, if travelers buy mileage books con- taining 1,000 miles. Futhermore, a -cent rate will be continued in ef- fect where 2,00 mile books are pur- chased. The 1,00-mile books will cost $25, and the 2,000-mile books $40. These will constitute the only diviations from the flat 3-cent rate put in effect July 1. The mileage in these books are in- terchangeable—good on a majority of the railroads in the state. To persons who travel a great deal, the restoration of the 3-cent rate will have no effect, while those who travel 11,000 miles a year, the inerease from | the 0ld rate will be half a cent a mile. “We have served notice that these rates will go into effect August 1,” said G. H. MacRae, general passen- ger agent of the Omaha, in St. Paul. “The report that the Western Pass- enger association has issued instruc- tions to tear mileage from books bought at 2 cents a mile, at the rate of three cents a mile, is untrue. No such instructions have been issued.” ‘The 2,000-mile books for $40 are on sale now. & | | GOVERNOR GUILTY CONTEMPT, SAYS WHITTIER LAWYER Attorney or Red Wing Man, Whose Hearing Opened Today, Severely Criticizes Eberhart. FIRST WITNESS TELLS OF ABUSE Harry Goldsmith Tells Board of Con- { trol He Was Whipped First Night in School. |BACK BARED; LASH APPLIED Testifies That Fellow Inmate Was Flogged Every Day and Some Times Oftener. St. Paul, Minn,, July 6.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service.)— Charges by inference that Governor Eberhart showed contempt of the state law in meddling in the Whit- « | tier investigati t this ti ked 1,000 P. 0. SAVINGS BANKS |ine apening ehis morning betore the Bemidji First in Minnesota, Shows Rapid Increase in Deposits Over First Three Months. GOLDFIELD LEADS WITH $21,000 Postmaster General Hitchcock has announced that 1,000-postal savings depositories have . been ~designated during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, Because of the great foreign pop- ulation, more depositories were es- tablished in Pennsylvania than in any other state, the total number be- ing 58. California has 55 and Illin- ois comes third with 50. Michigan has 41, Wisconsin 39, Ohio 37, In- diana 36, lowa 35, Missouri 23 and Minnesota 12. Goldfield, Nev., Leads the List. Of the 1,000 offices that have been designated, 400 are in actual opera- tion, and the entire number will re- ceive deposits within a few weeks. The interest in tinues to grow, the receipts at many of the offices recently opened being heavy, particularly so in the far west. At Goldfield, Nevada, a town of 5,000 inhabitants, in the first three weeks of operation deposits of over $21,000 were received. Bemidji Deposits Increase. In Bemidji, where the first postal savings bank in the state was estab- lished on January 1 of this year, the deposits, which up to April 1 had reached a total of but little more than §$1,000 have increased rapidly since that time and when the post- office report of the bank here is made public up to July 1 it will show more than double the amount for the first few months. Much Comes From Hidden Funds. “People are just beginning to un- derstand the bank,” said Samuel A. Cutter, in charge of the postal saving department of the Bemidji postoffice today, “and as a result the deposits are showing a substantial growth, but as these funds come from persons who have been hiding their money it has interfered but little with other banks. Circulars Explain System. “We have received ccriulars print- ed in the different foreign languages and the distribution of these have a tendency to stimulate the deposits. We are not permitied to give out figures concerning the deposits but the postmaster general will announce our figures up to the first of the month as soon as possible.” BOYS ASKED TO MEET TONIGHT Professor Bergh Calls Meeting of Im- portance; 7:30 at High School. At 7:30 this evening at the High School building there will be a meet- ing at which all boys are requested by Professor Otto Bergh, in charge of the agricultural department of the High School, to be present at which time Mr. Bergh will unfold certain plans which he believes will meet with the hearty approval of those| who attend. It is understood that Mr. Bergh will propose some sort of 2 cross-country expedition. the system con-| Minnesota Board of Control on the | hearing of the charges filed by Ralph Wheelock, secretary to Governor Eberbart, against F. A. Whittier, superintendent of the Red Wing school for boys. Bitter Against Eberhart. Accusations against the Governor were bitterly made by counsel for ‘Whittier, Judge F. M. Wilson. He took the stand that Governor Eberhart’s recent letter to the board requesting on investigation was high- 1y improper, while a specific investi- gation against an individual connect- ed with the institution was pending. Gives Vent to Indignation. “I know of no jurisdiction in law of morals,” he said, “for any person writing a letter of this kind. |not whether he be high or low. I want to say for my client that if this case was being conducted before a court of homor, he should be cited | for contempt. It amounts to telling | this board what it is to do.” Harry Goldsmith of St. Paul, former inmate of the school was the first witness this morning. Victim Counts 100 Strokes. He said he was whipped the first night he was in school; that one boy, Pat Larkin, was whipped every day and occasionally several times a day; that he saw an engineer hit a small boy over the head with a shovel; that the whipping machine was used on him, his clothes being removed, a wet towel placed over his back and a leather strap used, he being placed over a hooplike thing. He counted one hundred strokes and then lost count. I care EARL GEIL LEAVES BEMIDJI Becomes Landlord of Large Family Hotel in Minneapolis. Earl Geil, city treasurer and chief of the fire department, and one of the oldest and most prominent eiti- zens of Bemidji, has disposed of the Ramore Hotel which he has conduct- ed here and has leased the Holmes hotel, a modern eight story “stone structure in Minneapolis. Mr. Geil has assumed charge of the hotel and his family is in Minneapolis. Mr. Geil will make Bemidji his head- quarters for a few months, and as yet has not resigned his public posi- tion. The Holmes hotel, which is located on Eighth street between Nicollet and Hennepin avenues, is one of the leading family hotels of Minneapolis. Mr. Geil is a Socialist and it was on the Socialist ticket that he was elected city tremsurer this spring. Last fall he was a So- cialist for state senator, receiving a large vote. Honus Wagner is playing good ball at first base for the Pittsburg Pirates. All infield positions look alike to Honus. It is said that Frank Chance will Tetire at the close of the present sea- son, and that Joe Tinker will be the next manager of the Cubs. STORICAL | L e——