Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 4, 1911, Page 1

£ & TRAINED HEN GETS PIPEFOR HEROWNER - Leghorn Biddy, Made Famous By Carrying Nails, Adds New Trick to the List. MOVING PICTURE SHOWS DEATH Film of Leap to Death of Swimmer- Actor Now Being Shown in the East: FOUR NEW YORK BRIDGES FREE Discontinuance of Toll Means Loss of Approximately Quarter of Mil- ¢ lion Year. New York, Aug. 4.—By order of Mayor Gaynor the tolls on the fo\u'l bridges spanning the Bast River| have been abolished. To the city this will mean a loss in tolls of about $250,000 a year, but as there will be a saving in salaries of about $50,000, the actual loss will not be more than $200.000 a year. The Board of Al- dermen passed the ordinance abol- ishing the tolls upon the request of the mayor without much opposition. Vice Chairman Francis P. Bent was practically the only member whp op- posed the measure. He said he strongly favored free bath houses and similar institutions that would benefit the poor, but he did not be- lieve in abolishing tolls which, for the most part, were paid by the wealthy owners of vehicles drawn b horses and of automobiles, who did not care whether they had to pay toll or not. His protest, however, did | not prevent the aldermen from pass- ing the ordinance. s - Tha Laghnrn hefi made faimous by her publicity agent, the Tarrytown correspondent of a New York daily newspaper, has bobbed into print again. The last heard of her, she was helping her master to build a chicken coop, by holding the nails so that her disabled master could drive them into the boards. Now she seems to have learned another, equal- 1y clever stunt. Every evening the hen's owner enjoys a quiet smoke upon the veranda of his suburban home. His sitting down in the rock- ing chair standing ready for him on the porch, is the signal for the hen! to “get busy.” She runs into the house, brings out her master's pire and tobacco pouch and a mateh The master takes pouch and pipe, fills the latter with tobacco and then the nen strikes the match on the floor nf th: veranda and holds the burning mateh, while her master lights his pipe. What next? . ox Even the old Romans appreciated the advantage of having “a friend in court.” The large busin interests and particularly the “bad this country, recognizing this ad- vantage, have always aimed at hav- ing their friends elected to the state legislatures and to Congress and the plan worked admirably—for them. The people may be grateful, however, that there are a few isolated cases in which “a friend in court” does not avail the evil-doer. The other day a certain New York Congressman went out in a revenue cutter to meet one of the incoming German liners, He went aboard the liner and when the ship arrived at Hoboken, he tried his best to help a young woman, the buyer of a department store in Phi- ladelphia, through the ordeal of the customs examination. The inspec- tors came to the conclusion that some laces had been undervalued in the woman’s declaration and refused to| pass her trunks. Then the congress- man introduced himself to the in- spectors, hoping that his prestige would help straightening matters in a way satisfactory to the young wom- an. But the inspectors did not seem to have much respect for the exalted position of the woman’s champion and had her trunks sent to the Pub- lic Storehouse for examination. La- ter it was found that the same wom- an had been caught three years ago in an attempt to cheat the govern- ment out of duties amounting to $165. xs That necessity is the mother of in- vention is neatly illustrated by the clever manner in which an elderly man, who rides every evening during the rush time on the subway from Brooklyn Bridge to 125th Street, has solved the problem of finding com- fort in a crowded subway train. Af- ter boarding the train he makes his Way to the front end of the car and trusts in; there, mded by straphangers.of | m “age and description, he’ plac- Sets up a portable stool and sits fl!.l. reading his paper. Up to the mnt time he has found no imita- <~ 3 ** % Process servers in New York do not enjoy a sinecure. In most cases they a deep-rooted aversion to being served with legal papers. The in- genuity and patience of the process servers is often taxed to the limit and to chronicle the experiences of any average process server would make anm interesting and amusing book. One of these process servers had to serve papers on'a certain phy- sician whe had for a long time suc- cessfully evaded all attempts to serve papers upon him. The official in queéstion, pretending to be sick, ob- tained admission to the physician’s private office and even submitted to an examination. After the doctor had finished his examination and had prescribed for the process server, the latter presented the papers he car- ried upon the physician. Of course, the doctor was caught, but so was the process server, for the doctor would not permit him to leave until he had paid a fee of $2. When the doctor appeared in court, the process server tried to get his $2 back, but the court decided against him. . Little decency is wasted in this country where dollars and cents are concerned. A short time ago several actors were engaged at Brady’s Pond, Staten Island, to enact for a moving picture concern, a melodrama, in which the hero plunges from a cliff into the water to rescue the heroine battling with the villain in a boat. The actor, who played the part of the hero, was a good swimmer and made the dive beautifully, but was caught in the quicksand at the bot- tom of the pond and was drowned. All the time the film of the camera was reeled off and the scenes of the only too realistic drama were thus perpetuated on the strip. Now, the concern in whose service the actor lost his life, is widely advertising the film which depicts the death leap of the victim of sensationalism. “DARE DEVIE: DAN™ SHOT, Two St. Paul Men See Lake Loafer Chewing Seaweed and Open Fire. FUSILADE NEARLY SINKS BOAT Walker, Minn., Aug. 4.—Two prominent St. Paul men figured in the near-capture of “Dare Devil Dan,” the muscalonge boss of Leech Lake, who was sighted off Glengarry Point for the third time this season. It was early in the summer that Dan appeared and rubbed a fin along- side the boat occupied by Albert Pfaender of New Ulm, and nearly scared the political ambitions out of the man. Ever since Glengarry guests have been walking the banks on a lookout for the monster. Consequently, when Landlord P. H. McGarry broke through the screened porch the news that Dare Devil Dan could be seen chewing sea- weed a short distance from the shore, there was a general rush for the lake. County Attorney O’Brien of Ram- sey county and Dr. Comstock of St. Paul were the first to launch a boat, armed with a lumbermen’s peavy and an automatic revolver. “Don’t get behind him, he might kick!” McGarry yelled from behind a tree, as the doctor fired eleven shots linto the air. “Guess he’s asleep,” Mr. O’Brien said as they rowed up alongside the big fellow. Then “ping” went the peavy through the air, striking poor old Dan square on the nose. “Aw, it’s a log,” shouted the Ram- sey county prosecutor, as he pulled | his home-made harpoon out of the end of a water-soaked jack pine. “Sure you hit the log!"” yelled Mc- Garry, “but the musky is hidden un- der it. Get after him.” “Haven’t got time,” said O’Brien, “the doctor shot-two holes through the boat, and I have important busi- | ness in St. Paul to attend to.” “Too bad that log was in the way,”! said the Glengarry host, as the boat reached shore. | The Policeman—That banana skin don’t look much like a wrestler, does | it? The Bystander—No. The Policeman—And yet, in the last half hour it’s thrown three men. “Comback Jim” is the title of a| new song written in honor of Jimmy | Callahan of the Chicago White Sox. ‘With Tenney, Kling, Bridwell and Steinfeldt the Boston Rustlers have quite a bunch of “grand old men of. | baseball."” are dealing with persons who have| |miral departed for Washin=ton in FAVORED WHIPPING FAR BACK AS 1903] Discovery Made That Board of Con- trol Long Has Authorized Use of Lash at Bed Wing. THREE BOYS TELL OF TORTURE Continne Story of Alleged Brutality Said to Exist at the Train- ing School. WHITTIER CAN'T BE FORCED ON Ringdahl, However, Says His Tesl'i- mony Will Be Obtained at the Right Time. St. Paul, Minn., August 4.—(Daily i Pioneer Special:Wire Service)—That the State Board of Control author- ized an established form of corporal punishment in the Red Wing Train- ing School &s far—back as 1903, is included in the report made today by a committee of the state board of vis- itors which has just concluded a vis- it to the Red Wing Institution. _' While this report was not made to i the State Board of Controt and does not constitute a part of the testimony in the Whittier hearing, which was resumed at the state capitol today, | it doubtless will have an important | bearing on the case. Three Boys Tell of Torture. Aside from the testimony of three boys, who told of having suffered se- vere punishment, the most important development of the hearing was that Superjntendent Whittier can not be fe by the complainant to testify. mmn Ringdah!’s ruling | 0]\ this Dofat Tollows: | “Conformable to the attorney gen- eral’s opinion this is not a civil ac- tion proceeding in a sense in which these words are used in that provis- ion of the statute which permits the calling of an adverse party for cross examination. No Right to Call Whittier. “The board holds that the com- plainant has not the right to eall re- spondent for cross examination. But it reserves to itself the right, how- ever, to call and will call the respon- dent to testify in the regular and us- ual manner after the complainant’s witnesses have all been heard.” Mr. Whittier said that he was wil- ling to go on the stand at any time and would raise no technical objec- tions. Visitors Make Discovery. While they were at the training school, the board of visitors found a small book of regulations which provided that every case of corporal punishment should be reported to the board of control. The next rule is, “No corporal punishment shall be ad- ministered except by the superinten- dent or assistant superintendent ory under their direction.” The committee calls special atten- tion to the fact that this regulation book, issued in 1903, does not re- quire that corporal punishment must be administered in the presence of the head of the school or his assistant. TOGO LANDS; THOUSANDS CHEER Hero of Battle of Japan Pleased With | Noisy American Reception. New York, August 4.—Right royal was the welcome to Admiral Togo when he landed in New York today to begin his brief visit to the United States and Canada on his way home from the coronation in London. The Battery walls and the docks were crowded as the Lusitania, which ar- rived late last night and on which Admiral Togo was 3 passenger, steamed up the bay, and thousands of people were in the vicinity of the pier to cordially welcome the victor of the great battle of the Sea of Jap- an. As the liner passed through the Narrows the forts on either side: roared a salute and pascing into the | harbor the ship was greeted with a| blast of whistles from all the craft| in the vicinity. Representatives of | the civie, naval and military anther- ities were on hand to greet the visi-! tor. As soon as the customary for- malities had been concluded the Ad- company with Assistant Secretary of State Hale and the naval officers who have been detailed to act as his aides. CASES 60 OVER TO én WEEK | apolis Tribune 3 3 One more victim, & young man from Grand Forks, wll gathered in by the police today for having violat- ed the erdinance which forbids the use of sidewalks for hiqydes. “This brings the ml number of persons who have beqj) thus detained upfioslx,andmorelrmtsmw follow, declares Chw Harringten. ‘Two of those gubh%,by the police have paid fines in poufi«wurt. The other four have been There has been ;. ance on the part of_ ers who appear to by, willing that the “off the sidewalk” ; 2 & should be en- forced, although q, e labor under y will be per- mitted to ride at ce: uihi hours of the . bicycle rid- | day. = 1t is known fl;g4 flty Azmey Russell looks upon,; e “three-hour-a- day” rule as in dir--t vhhtion of the ordinance. In view of thm ack ot interest shown on the part : flle bicycle rid- ers it is possible tk; i Fy -stringent en- forcement of the g ing wheels to be hvfit at all hours of the Efforts to hold ¢ the riders have bern. _abandoned be- cause of lack of in:mst. ouT For PICNIY; FIND PEARIS = - Merry Party, including Minneapolis Folks, Make $50 Haul: What primarily had Been intended to be merely a Gay’'s onting on the river and in the woods turned out to be_a profitable. excupsion. for F@_ug 12nd Charies thmr all of Hector, and Mrs. B. Brechet and children Louis and Tone and Mrs. Schuman, all of Minneapolis. Pearls worth $50 were found by the happy crowd about two and one-half miles below the dam. One pearl, found by Mrs. Brechet was of almost perfect formation and beautifully tinted, and although not of great size is valued at not less than $30." Louis Brechet found a handsome pearl of more than ordinary value. The party had a picnic ulnch and took a tramp through the woods, a novel experi- ence for the visitors from Minneapo- lis. The remainder of the day was spent in the river searching for clams which were found in abundance. STRIKING DRUG STORE CARTOON Barker Store Progressive in Prescrip- tion Department. A cartoon drawn by C. E. Zimmer- man of Chicago and reproduced in this issue of the paper in the adver- tisement of Barker’s Drug and Jew- elry store, is a good demonstration of the relation of the doctor to the pre- seription department of a drug store. One will not work well without the other. Mr. Barker wishes to call the ai- tention of the readers of this paper to the fact that his prescription de- partment is always given the closest and best supervision of any in the state. He makes a specialty to go after the prescription business of this sec- tion of the country and has been very | . successful. His drugs are all of the very highest quality and doctors of this city and the surrounding towns never hesitate to. recommend this store as most reliable. NEW FIRM BEGINS. BUSINESS Huffman, Reynolds and Harris Take Over Insurance T. J. Miller Co. Fourteen fire insurance agencies which up to the present time have been handled in Bemidji by the T. J. Miller Co., have been sold by that concern to a new firm made up. of Charles A. Huffman, James O. Harris and Harry Reynolds, and this firm will_conduet the business from now on. "The insurance included policies on plate glass, liability, burglary, mo- { tor beat, plate glass, autpmobile and other lines. The new firm also will ]fnrmslr bonds, make’ loans and con- duet a general real estate business. Mr. Huffman probably will ME -care | of the inside work, which is to be eontinued at the Miller office, whflel Mr. Reynolds will lead in the out- side work. 'Mr. Harris will not tm an active part in the new firm at this Admiral Togo was in the best of health and spirits and appeared in the hmrt-zflppms evidence -gunn the Red Wing 'WAS told the other day when I desired to bring_ forward facts to sub- [ stantiate the testimony of one of the girl witnesses in the Red Wing case—that there would be no corroboration of the corrobative permit- ted—I would then like to set down the following facts under the head of cumulative evidence: In the years 1904-5-6-7 I was chairman of the Mothers’ Club Cflmllll!- tee in the Minnesota State Federation of Woman’s Clubs. In the early part of February, 1906, a young woman came to my home, saying she had been directed to me as the club woman who Ind charge of the affairs of children. She gave me her name, Susan Benton. She had been appointed as as- sistant matron at Girls Training School in November, 1905, and be- gan her duties December 16 of the same year. ‘When engaged by Mr. Whittier he had asked for complete secrecy as he did not wish thg news of another change to-get into the papers. She stated that she was the tenth or eleventh officer to have been dis- " | eharged in the preceding five years. % After six weeks of service she had been discharged without one word of ~ | warning or complaint. Smarting under this sudden change she had applied to Mr. Whittier. “There is no fault to find in your work, you have broken no rules, but complete harmony cannet exist if you remain,” was his explanation. ~ 1 was’much impressed with the gvident sincerity of Miss Benton and I spent the entire afternoon listening to her recital of incidents which oc- curred during her stay at the school—I will briefly menuon three—which have, direct bearing upon the present situation. The day of her arrival at the school she was-kept waiting half an hour for. Miss Kassing wiio then came in, flushed and-panting. “Pve been having a tussle with a girl,” she explained. “I had her locked up down stairs in the basement and when I opened the door she sprang upon me. I had to call in the men to subdue her. We’ve got her handcuffed now.” “If the girls are dangerous like that I won’t dare stay,” said Miss Ben- ~| ton, laughingly. “They are all criminals, but they are not all so bad as M—— L——” - | replied the matron. e Miss Benton went on to tell about one delicate girl in whom she had become greatly interested. She h2d told the child that possibly her fath- er and mother would take her after she was released from the school. One day a sentence uncomplimentary to Miss Kassing appeared upon the wall of the third floor hall. It was 1aid to this little girl—who stoutly denied it. She was then taken to the matron’s room and whipped until she finally confessed to having written it. That evening Miss Benson said, “Ida, my folks will never want you, if yoiz do such naughty things and lie about it.” “Oh, Miss Benton—I didn’t write it—I didn’t:” “But you owned up to it.” .. The_chil into_an agony nhlguzm sohm out, “She’ said she ceknn—and-i Enew burst ves | wouid-put me down in the I I'm so afraid of the rats. I said I wrote it, bat oh, I didn’t.” (The writer of this article has talked with six different girls concern- ing this instance and they all agreed to the same facts). For this crime Ida also lost all her record—12 badges—which she had “earned straight”—as the children there say. A year’s work. Miss Benton had been a trained nurse and was greatly distressed that at that time there was no physician for the girls, save the doctor for both séhools_ who only came when they hung out a flag. “He only came once in this six weeks and then I flagged him,” she said. “T called him for Maggie, a little B Family girl, who was the last child out in line. She walked painfully at the very end‘and was so white and awful looking that I remarked to a teacher ‘I always turn my head when that child passes. I can’t bear to look at her—she looks like a dead child.’ “‘I have the same feeling,’ she replied—'some of the officers cuff her and kick her into line, but I couldn’t.” ”- Miss Benton continued, “I was one day called to this child—I found her crying bitterly and in evident distress. “I reported it to Miss Kassing. “‘Oh, the miserable little thing; she is just putting on—keep her out of bed,” was her reply. “A few days later it occurred again, and I again went to Miss Kassing. “She seemed very angry and said : ‘Oh, all that ails her is something that happened to her before she came here when she was eight years old —%keep her out of bed; she is all right.’ “At the end of a week I was again called. “Maggie was lying on the floor in such distress that I determined to take the matter in my own hands—I flagged the doctor. “Upon seeing her he was irritated into saying: ‘It is the worst condi- tion I ever saw in my life.’ “Immediately after this I received my discharge,” continued Miss Benton. “I can’t get those poor children off my mind—I want to do something for them—can you club women help me?” As immediate relief seemed imperative it was decided upon conference to take this matter directly to the governor. He granted us an audience and gave Miss Benton's story the closest -attention. ‘When she came to the story of Maggie the great heart of Governor Johnson was touched. His sad face grew sadder and he rose nud pnced the floor. “Poor child! Poor child!” he kept repeating and I noticed that his eyes ‘were moist. Can there be greater tribute to this noble man than the fact that he | suffered over the wrongs of an unknown child! In conclusion he asked that Miss Benton send him a certified statement so he could lay the matter before the Board of Control, and he asked that my name be added to the document as additional guarantee. March 31 I received the following letter: STATE OF MINNESOTA Executive -Department St. Paul March 31, 1906. Dear Mrs. Pearson: . 1 do not recall at this time whether I made acknowledgment of your letter of March 9, but do so now. It is unnecessary to say that contents of same interested me greatly and you may rest assured that so far as your suggestions are concerned I will be very glad to follow them as'far as pos- sible. 5 I have the honor to inform you at this time that the State Board of Control has provided a female physician for regular attendance upon the Girls’ Traming School at Red Wing: This is certainly one step in the right direction, and is one of the fruits of your interest and labor in this matter. This certainly does not conclude some of the reforms we hope to bring about there, but I thought you _Would be interested in knowing of this, at least. * 5 -Yours very truly, N 56 $1 JOHN A. JOHNSON, Governor. ThiNettzr did nnt re[fl' to pun!nhmenu and the fact that children were still undergoing such unjust cutrages so breyed upon my-mind that I arose in the middle of the mtmflwmmnmngmlnpeflm &enmdnt Control as the hour and my mood could frame. - 1 referred them to t.he case of Ids, as damfib:d in Miss Benton’s afllfll— vit,’and I said | CHARGESNOW MADE mmm% BY POSTAL SLEUTHS Federal Secret Service Men Who Have Been at Work on Puposky Affair Ready to Act. T. S. MARSHAL HAS WARRANT New Arrest Had Been Planned to Be Made on Last Saturday, but St. Paul Men Cause Delay. WHAT JUDGE, QUESTION RAISED Cases Against Mayor Comes up at Regular Term Next Month, Stan- ton May Preside Dr. D. T. Dumas of Cass Lake, who since the sensational charges made against him by Pinkerton detectives in June, has attempted to keep out of the public eye by attending to his business in a guiet manner at Cass Lake, is continually being forced in- to the limelight by officers who ac- cuse him of wrong doing, and today he faces re-arrest as the result-of work done by men in the United States secret service of the post of- fice department. Warrant is Out. It is not denied by federal officers that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Dr. Dumas as the result of the attempted robbery of the post- office at Puposky and that the war- rant will be served within the next few days, possibly tomorrow. As a matter of fact it had been planned to serve the paper on the doctor last t for s reason . the United States “marshal and . United,, State district attorney’s office in St. - Paul caused the move to be delayed. It long has been known that the postal authorities were working on the case against Dr. Dumas and much valuable assistance has been given by Bemidji officers who, although they have had little newspaper pub- licity, have had more to do with the collecting evidence than anyone else. Will Find Dumas Waiting- It is not possible to say who will serve the warrant on Dr. Dumas, ex- cept that it will be a deputy United States marshal. In fact the publica- tion of the fact that a warrant has been issued for Dr. Dumas was-not originally intended for the newspa- pers, although they have known of the federal move against Dr. Dumas, and have purposely kept quiet in or- der that undue publicity would not interfere with the plans of the offi~ cers. Dr. Dumas, who is under $10,000 bond will not, it is said, be difficult to find when the government man lands in Cass Lake with the new war- rant. The mayor probably will be brought to Bemidji and arraigned before Court Commission H. A. Sim-- mons. The case against Dr. Dumas brought by the state fire marshal’s office with the assistance of Pinker- ton detectives will come before the grand jury which meets here the tenth of next month and his trial, if indicted, will follow at the term of court at that time. Who Will Be the Judge? Who will preside at the Dumas trial here is an open question. If for any reason Judge Stanton, whose home is in Bemidji, should be un- able to preside, or make the request that he be relieved, which is not likely, Judge McClenehan of Brain- erd or Judge B. F. Wright of Park Rapids, would be the presiding judge. Sam Fullerton, assistant state fire marshal, who has been prominent in the Dumas case, left Crookston last evening for Eveleth where he is to prosecute four persons charged with having burned a theater in that city recently. No Need to Ask. “Does your wife ask you for - things she knows you ecannot af- ford?” “She hasn’t asked me for a thing since we were marri “Great! How do you manage it?” “When she wants a thing she does not ask me; she tells me.” Ty Cobb’s coatract is out this year and the Detroit club will most like- - 1y have to pay the Georgia "Pelr.h