Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 10, 1911, Page 1

T SOCIETY. SWINDLE, INVOLVING DEATH, NEW CHARGE "™ 5= 5 i o “Pussyfoot” Johnson Found Band of Land Criminals at Cass Lake Says Bemidji Man. GIVES DETAILS OF DARING PLAN Contracts Signed Over in Favor of “Party of First Part,” if Second i One Quits. | i | i | SOME MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING !STEENERSON SEES HARD TIMES | Congressman Says Tariff Will Be Cut, i “If President Taft is a real pro-| | tectionist he will find himself facing |a peculiar situation before he is through with the reciprocity pact| and the other free list bills that will follow it,” said Congressman Halvor Steenerson who has arrived in! Crookston from Washington with| Mrs. Steenerson for a few weeks/ stay. | ~To paraphrase something Lincoln | once said about no country being able to be half free and half slave, it might be well to say that we cannot; remain half free trade and half high protection. “So, just as soon as the democrats and a few republicans in the senate complete the enactment of the reci- procity bill, the representatives of the agricultural states in both ! branches of congress will insist on| {having practically free trade on man- STANTON FOR BIG SCHOOLS Bemidji Judge Declares in Favor of | Consolidated Districts and Tells How They May Be Had. LIST OF THOSE AT MEETING At the gathering here of 125 per-| sons to attend the school conference called for last Friday by County Sup- erintendent Stewart, Judge C. W Stanton of this city was one of the principal speakers and he dwelt at| length upon how the school prob-| lems may properly be solved. | Judge Stanton said in part. Stanton Cites Unusual Canditionsé We can learn a great deal and! find much to emulate by study of| No Intimation That Dr. Dumas is| Directly Connected With These | Alleged Operations. Now comes a man of good stand- ing but unamed who asserts that a| certain gang in this territory have|jeagures and 1 know the Senate will | to a sparsely settled region, we have carried on a systematic swindle. and {ufactured goods as well as on farm!the laws enforced and the methods products. They will rush through| the revised wool schedule, the re-| vised cotton schedule and the other bills that contemplate taking the! duty off manufactured goods. H “I do not like to be a prophet of, [ill, but, protectionist that I am. [|ment and ingenuity. i fear hard times will come as the re-' to find the best plan to pursue, under | sult. However, 1 will vote for ali| concur in House action on all of| that \Washington officials first learned of the nefarious business through| reports furnished by “Pussyfoot” Johnson. whose men ran into the| scheme at Cass Lake. [ “What these special officers did find | at C Lake was unmistakable| proofs that there existed a well or-| #anized scheme to defraud the gov-| ernment out of many valuable home- | steads,” says the man. ~While thel officers were looking for liquor, they | found printed forms of contracts be-| tween certain Cass Lake persons and | men who acted for them in settling on homesteads and taking up timber claims, and the contract - was so| worded that, in case of death of the man filing on the homestead or tak- ing up the timber claim, the Cass! Lake promoters would come into pos-| session of all the rights of the party of the first part; thus putting a| premium on murder. } Some Mysteriously Missing. ~1 am told that a number of men who filed on claims in the country tributary to Littlefork, in Koochich- ing county. signed these contracts, and some of the men afterwards, backed out of their agreement, when they had carefully read what they had signed and realized the signifi- cance of the contract. “Some men who filed on home-| steads have disappeared and there is no trace of them. It is surmised that they were either Kkilled or| frightened into voluntarily abandon- ing their claims; and in some in- stances the claims have reverted to the ‘party of the first part.” ~It is strongiy hinted that murder|on in earnest. is not shirked by the men who have | pirants for the toga are ex-Governor | been in the employ of the ‘higher up’ parties who are said to be im- plicated in the arson cases: and as at least two of the robbers who are| wanted have committed murder and| served time for their acts, the claim { Charles H. Burke may decide to en- as to the efforts to defraud the gov- ernment by no less a crime than tak- ing life, appear to be well founded. Pussyfoot Has No Jurisdiction. “I understand that this matter | them.” i Mr. Steenerson will investigate | reservation affairs both in Beltrami of their co-workers in any part of and at White Earth. Mr. Steenerson said: “During my stay here it is my purpose to visit the White Earth Indian reservation | to inquire into conditions there, and | I will also confer with the Red Lakel Indians about their reservation mat- | ters.” 1 POPOPICPRPPORPOOOGS® » POLITICS AND POLITICIANS POOLDOOIIIDPDODOOR® Republicans of Massachusetts will name their candidate for Governor on October 4 Congressman John W. Boehne is mentioned for the Democratic nomi- nation for governor of Indiana in| 1912, K ] Like Governor Osborn of Michigan Governor Marshall of Indiana be- lieves in sticking to his boat. The | Indiana executive has been out of the state but three times since his| election. With a state campaign in Ken- tucky and senatorial contests on in Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia Louisiana. the| south is furnishing the most of the hot-weather politics this year. | Newton D. Baker, city solicitor of Cleveland, has formally announced | his candidacy for mayor on the demo- cratic ticket. Mr. Baker was chosen by the late Tom L. Johnson as his political successor. Mississippi’'s senatorial contest is| The three rival as- James K. Vardaman. C. H. Alexander and Leroy Percy. who is the present| holder of the seat in the senate. Among politicians in South Dakota it is rumor ed that Congressman‘\ ter the race for the United States senate to succeed Senator Gamble, | whose term will expire March 4,| i 1913. Three municipal elections have ! been held in Seattle since the begin- |trict court, to investigate existing/ iclude if I could, what decision on my an investigation of rural schools and | !'a study of their history and advance- | vantage of my opportunity, in sever- was of such a nature, having to do followed in other states and older communities, but the conditions in' Beltrami county and in Northern Minnesota generally are so distinct- ' ive and exceptional, that much must ! depend upon our own good judg-! In an effort | the various disadvantages incident the co-operation and valued assist-| ance of a corps of state educational | workers, who, I believe, are the peers the Uuion and so I am confident| that the youth of Beltami County will be speedily provided with a]l‘ possible educational advantages. I am not entirely free from em- barrassement in undertaking to dis-| cuss educational questions with you| today because I am clearly cogni-| zant of my own lack of general in- formation along these lines; but I am at least interested, and have also had occasion, from time to time in my capacity as judge of the dis-| conditions and to determine the feas-| ible course to take when confronted| with questions involving school man- | agement. Quarrel Proves Source of Knowledge My attention was first directed to what is generally termed the consclidated ryral school project, a few months ago, when in one| of our adjacent counties, a neighbor-| hood quarrel gave- rise to a petition to the board of county commission-| ers to divide a school district and an appeal brought the matter before me for final determination. No le- gal questions were involved, as I re- member it, but I was impressed with the importance of determining the practical, sensible thing to do under the conditions presented,—to con- part would be best for the children of the community. This led me to ment, with the result that T became‘ an ardent believer in larger, more| comprehensive, more complete, more | | finished rural schools. It is doubt-| less needless to add that I denied the| petition to divide that district, and, | as a matter of fact, I felt some re-! gret that I did not possess the power to extend the boundaries of the orig- inal district. I have since taken ad-| al other instances, to add territory to existing districts, and I am as- sured, in each of these cases, that all concerned are now pleased with | that tuberculosis as HOW LKE Te ANTICIPATION (Copyright, 191L) N Buzz WAW TEN CENTS PER WEEK HAZEN BILL AGAIN - TO COMMISSIONERS DO oV My élhy Be Called Upon to Pass Upon New Bills Although Old Ones Are Held Up. MYHRE PRESIDES AT ' SESSION | i | | ] | After Short Session, Adjournment Taken Until Afternoon, Peterson Being Presnet. NEW ROADS BEING CONSIDERED [ WINNESOTA HiSTORICAL 3Many Petitions to Be Presented for | Consideration at the Session To- mOrrow. With the meeting here today in | regular session of the Beltrami board (of county commissioners, interest is revived in the Hazen case, t he ques- |tion of his present status being one REAL“%AT“@N iof the things which may come before the board for its consideration. PHTHISIS ~ KILLS 2,247 CULP ARRAIGNED oN Prmyvmy | | Alleged to Have Given Untrue Tes-| timony During Land Hearing. ’1 Again Causes More Deaths Than Any| Loxley Culp was arraigned before | Other Disease, Although Pnen- | Court Commissioner H. A. Simons, | . : | having been arrested on the charge of monia is Close Second. | perjury, which is alleged to have| | been committed on January 12, dur-| |ing the hearing of a contest case lat the United States land office in| CHECK SEEN IN TUBERCULOSIS| 0., '\ove The case fn which the alleged crime took place was Albert Prieuers vs. Ellen Scott, involving a According to an official communi-| homestead in section 21-28-141-25 in cation to The Pioneer from H. M| !!a5¢a county. The defendant plead. q 5 ed not guilty, and after he had Bracken, éxecuuve officer of the State waived examination, a bond for_his Board of Health, during “the Year|appearance in Duluth at the Federal 1910 statistics for Minnesota shows|term of court which convenes there usual caused | tomorrow, was fixed by Judge Sim- more deaths than any other disease— | °7S 2t $1,000. The bond was paid - " " and Culp was given his liberty. 2247 as against pnenmonia 1914; diarrheal diseases of children under five years of age 1793, and caucer‘CARLTONS’ flOME, HAPPY 1385. | “It is gratifying,” says Dr. Brack- | en, “to report that while the other diseases show an increase in 1910 over 1909, there were 58 less deaths! from tuberculosis in 1910 than in| 1909. But these figures do not tell| the whole truth. The Board has| done an enormous amount of work| where correspondence was not effec-| NEVERALARMED OVER OUTCOME | tive. | “Inspectors from the State Board | of Health have gone out and collected | the delinquent returns at the expense| L10¥d Carlton and wife, Gena, ar-| of the community. The bearing of | rived in Bemidji Saturday evening the above on the statistics for tuber-| from Park Rapids where they were culosis is this: in a number of ""lc]eared of the charge of murder, the stances reports have been sent in giv- 2 i " | - ing as the cause of death, perhaps| ¢3S 88ainst Mrs. Carlton being dis- | peritontis or meningitis; on further |Missed and a jury returning a ver- inquiry some of these have been|dict of not guilty in the case of her found to be due to tuberculosis. This|husband. | of course increases the number of deaths chargeable to tuberculosis. “Tuberculosis not only causes most Young Couple, Freed of Charge of Having Murdered Peter Neste to Live in Bemidji. Both were overjoyed to be back in “ Bemidji and were given a cordial | expected that much of the | Attn t time th bill CREAMERY SOON TO OPEN smmouncins to more than 5200 being held up against the sheriff. | May Present New Bills. Slight Delay in Original Plans But| It is presumed the sheriff will pre- all Arrangements Completed to 'sent new bills and the action of the B jcounty commissioners is awaited Begin on Wednesday. with interest. | The commissioners met this morn- ing with L. O. Myhre presiding, |owing to the absence of Chairman DULUTH PRICES TO BE PAID|yigeq pecerson, who did mot arrive in Bemidji until noon. The meeting | adjourned until 2 o’clock, after the At a meeting here Saturday after-| Minutes of the previous meeting had > been read and accepted by the three noon of the directors of the newly| ceic 2 Y| commissioners present, Myhre, Rako, formed Farmers. ¢o-0 erative assoc-|ang Fellows. iation it was decided to open the Be-| midji ereamery for business on Wed-| _ Crcmentson Not Yet Here, nesday of this week. | Commissioner Clementson, who re- It had originally been planned to! sides in the extreme northern end of open the creamery today but the but-| the county did not arrive in Bemidji termaker, C. H. Cleveland, who|iD time for the meetings of the board comes form Crookston, was delayed| {043y, but will be in attendance to- in coming to Bemidji and a later day | MOFTOW- . for opening had to be named. This afternoon’s session kas taken It was decided by the directors|UP discussing several proposed new that the Duluth cash prices should |F02ds, and tomorrow a number of be paid for cream and that cream will | F02d petitions will be heard, and be received every day, the latest hour | the Dboard will also select the jury for receiving cream being placed a(wlxsf. for the September term of dis- 1la.m. trict court. The directors wished it made plain | there is to be no limit as to the ter-| gprn ON WARR. YEAR ritory to be served by the Bemidji Lk LD creamery, and entered an emphatic denial of the rumor that there was to be a ten mile limit. Arrangements have been made| Another of the “Pussyfoot” John- with all the roads coming into Be-|gon warrants was served when John idji t it is| i midji to handle the cream and it 3| M. Jones of Deer River, was ar- : : ) _the supply|raigned before Court Commissioner will be shipped in. It is likely that| simons, for having sold liquor with- as soon as there are enough farmers out a license. The date of the al- in any one place who wish to ship | jeged crime is supposed to have been cream here, the railroads will estab-| committed on July 5, 1910, at Deer lish cream stations. River. Jones pleaded not guilty and The creamery is two blocks west| wajved examination, his bond being of the Great Northern depot. | fixed at $200 which was given in —— {cash. The warrant was issued on 1 John Jones Arraigned Before Simons on “Pussyfoot” Complaint. deaths but with the exception of with government lands, that the special officers working with “Pus: foot' Johnson had no and the copies of the ‘contract’ were turned over to the general land of- fice at Washington; and what that department has done in the matter, no noe will say. “It is a significant fact that Cass | has been called for next September, Jjurisdiction, | ning of the present year and a fourth when the issuance of more than $2,-| |000,000 of municipal bonds will be submitted to the electors. The senatorial contest is warming| up in Virginia, where William A.! Jones and Carter Glass, both members | of the lower branch of congress, are endeavoring to secure the seats of! the results. greeting by relatives and friends. The Carltons expect to remain in | | July 11, 1910, at the instigation of ;100 WARMEST DAY OF my‘indian agent Sero, who was at the | Beltrami county there is absolutely Lake parties have possession of many valuable claims and that their rela- tives almost to the proverbial ‘third and fourth generation,’ have been pressed into service whenever land in a new place in northern Minnesota has been opened to settlement at the Cass Lake land office. “Dr. Dumas possibly knows noth- ing whatever of these land deals; and connecting his name with the matter undoubtedly arose from the doctor's trip to Washington last year, when he got considerably in the lime light by defying the Indian authori- ties at the national capital and at his home town because of tehir at- tempt to close Cass Lake saloons.” None but the brave deserves the fair.—Dryden. All the beauty in the world, ‘tis but skin deep.—Ralph Venning. The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.—Shake- speare. Socialist city officials from Cali- fornia, Montana, Montana and other | Senator Martin. the minority leader in the senate, and Senator Swanson, who is filling the unexpired term oi‘ the late Senator Daniel. Kentucky is the first state to| settle a 1913 senatorial contest. The | withdrawl of Senator Paynter ~has‘ |left Representative Ollie James a| clear field, and unless the legislature | |of the s tate becomes republican on | joint ballot next winter Mr. James will succeed Mr. Paynter in the | United States senate. The present | legislature is Democratic on jeint, | ballot by 59. | A remarkable and unique petition | is that which will be soon presented | to Maine voters by the National Tem- | | perance Society of America, urging| | them not to repeal the state prohibi- tion amendment. This petition originated in Europe, among mem- bers of the International Anti-alco-! holic Bureau, and bears the names of hundreds of the most prominent | European physicians, scientists, pro-| fessors, socialists and men of affairs| of every creed. Work on the petition | began about six months ago, and will | continue until a few weeks before One Teacher Schools Here 1 know that in some portions of | no chance to maintain a school with more than one teacher at the present time, because of the few settlers and the poor condition of the roads. In these communities the best that can be done will be to continue with one typhoid fever it takes those who are R s | most useful. The deaths by age|Bemidji this summer. Carlton has| periods in 1910 were as follows: been employed at the Pierce meat | market and he applied there for work “Under 10 years of age. 205 “10 to 20 years of age. .......265 | t0day but there was on vacancy, al-| During the first week in July the “20 to 30 years of age. 645 | though he was assured if there had highest temperature recorded in this 30 to 40 years of age. 457 | been one he could have the position, | part of Northern Minnesota was 100 10 to 50 years of age 321]|as his past services had been SatiS“which was recorded at the Lake | 0 to 60 years of age.......195 | factory. E Itasca Forest School by John A.| Over 60 years of age........ 159| Attorney E. E. McDonald, who |sillwell, government observer. Other Weather Data for First Seven Days Furnished by Stillwell. time one of Johnson’s aids. The warrants which were sworn up at the time of the Indian liquor trouble of a year ago and the period in which nearly all of the saloons were closed, are being gradually picked up. “The board is preparing an esti- | effort, in every locality where it can| : | te:cdher f;rt p;irha‘ps ds“‘ or dezfl:t | mate, as near as may be, of the money grades. But the tendency and the |, . ¢, tpo state from these unneces- | sary deaths and what might be spent | possibly be done, should be towardsias a good investment to prevent| consolidation of the schools so that conducted the case for the defend- ants, also came to Bemidji Saturday evening. He had nothing to say to- day relative to the outcome. The defense tried to show that the children in the country will have educational advantages equal to| those in the villages and cities. We make boasts of equal privileg-| es to all. But the pupil at the small, | inferior country school, is not afford- ed the privileges equal to the pupil of the graded school a few miles away. Farm life is the best for the children. sible to remain upon the farm and| still enjoy the advantages of goo schools. The only practical solution of the problem is the consctidated rural school. It must come, and it will; even in the wooded regions of Northern Minnesota. Larger Schools; Better Teachers. Larger schools mean better teach- ‘ers, better sanitary conditicns and consequent better health of the chil- dren, more months of school every year, better equipment, better gen- eral supervision, better attendance, Neste was a man of violent temper, {and that the alleged crime was com- | mitted in self-defense during one of Men are but children of a larger|ithose violent spells. growth.—Dryden. | them.” ‘dence going to show that the old man | was 72; that his hands were crippled | with rheumatism; that for two] | months before his death he lived Rather check your appetite than|principally upon milk on account of | A great man is made up of qualities| that meet or make great occasions.— | Lowell. patient.—Chinese. A very feeble condition. s There in “.Othing 80 gasy but lha,l; To do two things at once is to do! it become dificult when you do it| ! A meither.—Publius Syrus. with reluctance.—Terence. i ) ) ) | Sin every day takes out a patent | There is an ancient saying, famous fox: mome mew dnvention—E. PB.1 among men, that thou shouldst not|y . .- i judge fully of a man's life before he | dieth, whether it should be called| blest or wretched.—Sophocles. | | 20 ten hours a day, and the majority | About eight thousand mechanics| o o oot S U on the Southern railway have been granted a wage increase that will The mass of French Canadians! Other observations taken by Mr. Stillwell for the first seven days of i the present month were: July 2, highest 99; lowest 63. July 3, high- lest 89; lowest 51. 92; lowest 57. lowest 47. est 43; rainfall 0.0 est 8G; lowest 47. July 5, highest 85; July 7, high- of the month were clear. Russia’s 2nd Dreadnanght Launched. St, Petersburg, July 10.—The Pol- dreadnought type, to be Russia, was successfully today. Honest labor bears a lovely face.— Dekker. All the stationary firemen at Los In the metal industries in Belginm ' Angeles, Cal., are now at work under | mearly half the men work from ninejunion conditions as to hours and wages. The International Association of | reached an Machinists recently July 4, highest July 6, highest 85; low-| | | states where the Socialists have elec- | the fall election in Maine, by which ted men to office are to hold an im-|time it is expected to secure signa- Milwaukee | tures representing countries. portant conference ‘in different next month. forty likely be extended to the Seaboard Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, the N. & W. and the C. & O., affecting increased culture and therefore bet-| ter citizenship. Besides,—and im- have been workers on the farm and|agreement with the Michigan Cen- in the forests and almost entirely out |tral Railroad Company for an in- of touch with industrial life in shops, | crease in wages, the rate now being (Continued on Page 4) nine thousand men. mills or factories. 34 1-2 cents an hour flat rate. { To Build 45 Miles of Road in a Day. Ottawa, Kan., July 10.—If the plans and expectations of leading cit- ens of Coffey, Osage and Franklin Counties are fulfilled there will be constructed in this section tomorrow, between sunrise and sunset, an im- proved highway 45 miles in length. Practically every able bodied man in With the excep- | 5 5 the three counties has volunteered to The state submitted rebuttal evi-|tion of July 7 all the previous days! aid in the work. King Holds Levee in Dublin. Dublin, July 10.—The third day But we must make it DOS- oo i gebt, and though penniless be| Stomach troubles and that he Was in | tava, the second battleship of the|Cf the royal visit to Ireland began built by launched | the King at Dublin Castle. this morning with a levee held by This afternoon their Majesies paid a visit to the Leopardstown race course. The Factory Workers’ Union in Germany increased its membership from 141,024 to 167,097 in the year 1910. The members of the Boston Bar- bers’ Union are willing to eliminate tipping, but under the condition that they receive an increase in wages. A meeting to that end will be held, asking for such an increase, to go in- to effect on August 1.