Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 12, 1911, Page 1

THE ; MINNESOT. %"”'_' %-u% QR{CAs NEER. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 90. WILD YOUTH CLOSE T0 FIGHT FOR LIFE Henry Beattie, Girl “Masher,” Aec- cused of Shooting Wife, to Face Court Next Week. HOLDS DEAD WOMAN IN AUTO Says She Was Shot By “Man With Long Black Beard,” But Gun is Traced to Him, END OF “WILD OATS” CAREER Pretty Maiden of 14 Mother of Pris- oner’s Child, Figures Prominent- ly in the Tragedy. Richmond, Va., August 12.—Tn- tense interest Is manifested in the opening next Monday, of the session of the grand jury for Chesterfield county, across the river from here. The grand jury will be called upon to investigate the Beattie murder| case, one of the most sensational and puzzling crimes ever committed in that county. | It is the general impression that there will be enough evidence sub- mitted by the State to justify the grand jury to find an indictment for murder against Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., now a prisoner in the Henrico county jail. Prisoner Led Gay Life. The history of the crime with which Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., has been charged by the coroner's jury, contains many features of unusual in-| terest. The accused, who is notv 2 years old, is the son of Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., a well-to-do business| man of this city. Young Beattie received.a fair edu- cation and, at < early age, began to indulge in a fast and reckless life. He had numerous affairs with girls, but only one had serious conse- quences. Intimate With School Girl. About four years ago he became intimate with Beulah Binford, a handsome but morally corrupt girl who, at that time, was not quite 14. The intimacy continued and two years ago a child was born to the girl. The young mother named the child Heury Clay Binford, but soon abandoned it to the care of some rel- atives. Later the child was adopted by | Mrs. Mary Trout of Richmond, but it proved sickly and died in July of last year. To hush up matters young Beattie induced Beulah Binford to Raleigh, N. C., where she promised to remain, so as not to interfere with Beattie’s marriage plans. Weds to Please Father. More to please his father, upon whom he depended for a living, young Beattie, about two years ago married Miss Louise Owen, the pret- ty daughter of a resident of Dover, Del. The marriage was not happy. Young Beattie did not abandon his fast life after marriage and even the birth of a child, about six months ago, did not improve the relations between the young married people. A few months ago Beattie met the Binford girl by accident at a base- ball game at Norfolk and she was easily induced to return to Richmond where Beattie promised to provide a house for her. Meets 0ld Sweetheart Secretly. Beattie and the girl met frequent- ly at different hotels in this city and, although they kept their relations secret, Beattie’s father learned of the affair and is said to have threatened his son with the withdrawal of his support, should the young man not stop his dealings with the Binford girl. In the second week of July last young Mrs. Beattie, with her baby, went to visit her uncle, Thomas E. Owen, within a mile of South Rich- mond. She was to return home on July 19. On the evening of July 18, young Beattie came to Mr. Owen'’s house in his automobile, to take his wife out for a ride. They left, driv- ing along the Midlothian Pike. About 11 o’clock that night Beattie returned to Mr .Owen's house in his auto, steering with one hand, while he was holding his wife's lifeless body with the other. Smokes and Strums Guitar. Beatt: sy said that his wife had been shot and killed with a shotgun by a tall man with a long beard, who had held them up, while they were driv- ing along Midlothian Pike. The case (Continued on iast puge: DECIDE ON NEW ROADWAY Second Meeting at Blackduck Names Rail Route as Best for Tam- arack Highway, PETITION IS SENT TO ST. PAUL At another Good Road meeting of the Blackduck Commercial club yes- terday afternoon the definite route of a link in the International Falls-to- the-Twin Cities highway was decided upon and a petition for the roadway forwarded to the state Highway {Commission at St. Paul. The road chosen from three pro- posed routes is to parallel the Min- nesota & International railroad from Farley to Tenstrike, then east around Erickson lake and again paralleling the railroad through Hines to within a short distance of Blackduck, thence due north to Blackduck lake, circling the lake on the south and west sides | to Blackduck, then north on the! range line to a point west of Kelliher RAHIER'S BROTHER JARS DUEL THEORY Declares Itasca County Tragedy Was Murder and Names Erway as Guilty Man. DENIES ANY JEALOUSY EXISTED Discredits Published Intimation That Trappers’ Fued Ever Existed in That Territory. ' MADE PERSONAL INVESTIGATION As Result Offers Facts to Pioneer to Show That Shooting Was De- liberately Planned. jand there to connect with the al-| ready established road and on through Kelliher north 12 miles to {the Tamarack river. | The committee appointed at the previous meeting to report yesterday | {is mayde up of W. T. Blakely,| Farley; Charles Carter of Hines; | George Pretts, Norden, Koochiching: county; H. W. Alsop, deputy county ! auditor of Beltrami and a resident| of Birch township; J. C. Thompson! and Charles Trondson of Blackduck. | All members with the exception of | Alsop, Prettz and Carter were pres- ent. i { Others attending the meeting were: County Commissioner William | Fellows, A. L. Morris, S. C. Thomp- | son, Charles Gustafson, L. L. Rey-‘ nolds, Peter and Sid Maule and Ed., L onard all of Tenstrike; William ! Arthur Page, O. E.Hines; William | Lennon and A. A. McGill of Kelli-| her and many from Blackduck. | The proposed -new road will open up here to developed parts of the| Tamarack country, and providing al highway. for.settlement in- that. dis- | trict. to KeHiher, Rlackduck and Be-| midji. | |IS UNABLE TO FREE HERSLF | Symptoms Incidental to a Habit of | Worry. “Why do I worry? Because I cannot help it. You would worry if | you were in my place.” How many times has this little conversation| been repeated, one friend chiding| another for the puckered brow and frowning look, the mood of depres- sion and the anxious, wearied, care- worn slump of mind and body to- { gether, incidental to a habit of| worry. True, it is easy to say to one who is overborne by the burdens she is bearing, that worry will make iher load no lighter. She knows this, yet while she concedes that worry is doing no good, she goes on as if she were climbing a hill and slip- ping back at every step or grouping through a thick fog, unable to free herself from the smouldering clutch of* the fiend. Three-fourths of the woman patients in a certain insane asylum are said to have reached their morbid state and the loss of mental balance through the influ- ence of worry. Worry is really waste. It wastes nervous tissue, is the enemy of happiness, and a pro- lific cause of aggravation of ill health.—Christian Herald. Pitcher Cecil Ferguson, who was sold toc Memphis some time ago is still in Boston, working out in the Rustlers’ yard. POPOOOOOOOOGOOOOG O anALTH HINT FOR TODAY. @ Sugar the Cheapest Source of Muscular Energy. Sugar is the cheapest food for one doing heavy physical work, because it furnishes en- ergy directly with little waste. Its best source is prunes, figs, dates, ripe bananas. What the physical worker needs most is, just like the en- gine, ready fuel and water. Its cheapest source is sugar and fat rather than starch and meat, though rye is easily converted into glucose or cereal sugar. A tablespoonful or more of peanut oil may be taken with prunes, or separately. Fat interferes with the digestion of proteids in the stomach but not with sugar. A warm drink of weak cocoa or substitute coffee may follow a fruit meal, facilitating the pass- age to the intestine where such food is digested. The more lig- uid the sooner the stomach emp- ties. POPPPCPOQRPOPOOOO 0000000000000 000006006000060 0 POPPPPPOIDDVOVPOVOOPPOOOOPOPOPH OO That George Rahier was murdered in cold blood and that he had no chance to defend himself and that Edwin Erway was the guilty man is the opinion expressed in a communi~ cation to The Pioneer from H. A. Ra- hier of International Falls, a brother of the dead man. Mr. Rahier’s communication to The Pioneer follows in full: The Brother’s Explanation. “International Falls, Aug. 10, 1911. “Editor Bemidji Pioneer, “Bemidji, Minn. “Dear Sir: “Seeing an account in your Aug- ust 9th issue of the Pioneer of the murder of Geo. Rahier of Big Fork, and being a brother of the murdered man, I wish to correct a few state- ments which T think are misleading. Must Have Been One-sided. “I think I understand the condi- tiong in the case as I was present at the coroner’s jury and post mortém examination on my brother’s body, and saw the doctors trace the course of the bullets in his body and would say that if there were a rifle duel as your paper states it was decidedly one-sided. No bullet passed through his arm, but two bullets entered his hody, one grazing the underside of his left arm for three inches before entering his body, passed through his chest and lodged in his right shoul- der, showing that the shot was.fired from his left side. The other bullet grazed the right side of his nose, en- Lered his right eye and lodged in the right side of the top of his head draw- ing the impression that the shot was fired after he had fallen. If my broth- er fired a shot in a battle as was thought because of an empty shell m his gun, I think it would have proven effective as he was unusually accurate at shooting. Was Killed July 19- “Instead of his being killed on the 17th of July as stated it was the 19th, and his body was not found un- til five days after, about two and a half miles from his home. The post mortem examination was held July 27th instead of August 4th. “I do not think that the statement that there was a hard battle fought was shown by my brother’s condition is correct as his hands were not bruised or even scratched. The doc- tors at the post mortem said nothing about his jaw being dislocated; his face while quite badly decomposed did not show signs of battery but cne eye seemed to be gone which was the only evidence of a struggle. No Feud Existed. “There is positively nothing to the ctory about there being a jealous feud between my brother and Edwin Erway as my brother had no trouble with any of his neighbors in that vicinity, and if he had any with this party previous to his murder it must bave been slight, but judging from some of the press statements one would think that a controvarsy equalling a Kentucky feud existed “I do think that Edwin Erway is the guilty party as his every action since the crime has proven him guil- ty in the opinion of all his neigh- bors. ) “I hope your informant in tk.s case will not feel offended because of my contradicting misleading sta.: ments, as 1 think he was misinformad as he evidently was not on the scene until after my brother’s burial. “Yours truly, “H. A. Rahier.” The wool growers of the northern Rocky Mountain regions have adopt- BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1911. NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH Bemidji Edifice Costing Between $3,- 000 and $4,000 t0 Be Ready By Novembeit 1 ARCHDEACON TELLS OF PLANS Bemidji is to have a new Episcopal church to cost between $3,000 and $4,000 completed afid ready for oc- cupancy by November 1 next, accord- ing to plans annou con H. F. Parshall, while in Bemidji yesterday. 3 Plans for the new edifice have been completed and the contractor will begin work in ‘the near future. The structure is to. be built on Bel- trami avenue at Tenth street, where the foundation has been in for sev- eral. months. > “I earnestly beligye that we will have our new Bemidji church nearly completed by the fir§t of November,” said the archdeacon. “Experts have examined the. found&tion which was laid some time ago; and announce that it is in fine condition.” During the past three weeks Rev. Parshall has opened two churches, one having been erected in Baudette at a cost of $1,500.and the other at Park Rapids at a cbst of $1,800, the former having been'opened last Sun- day and the latter on July 30. poctiaai ) it KOOCHICHING PLANS EXHIBITS Appropriation for State Fair; Want Gemmel to Furnish Car. At the meeting of the board of County Commissioners held at the court house last Tuesday an appro- priation of $500 was made for a county exhibit at the State fair to be held at Hamline on 'Sept. 4 to 9. The following committee was ap- Donald, and Wm. Durrin, John Berg pointed, Commissioner R. S. Me- and Geo."P. Watson; who are doing their- best to make this exhibit sec- ond to none in the state. Many of the farmers and homesteaders have already Drotilsed. todonate Sofiie of the Best of ‘their prodicts Both from the farm and the kitchen. The power company has expressed its willingness to work with the committee toward making a good ex- hibit of the industries of the county as represented by their paper, pulp, sulphite and saw mills, Miss Shel- land is already at work preparing a school exhibit and also a pamphlet describing and illustrating the de- velopments along school lines in the county. The Northern Minnesota Iron Com- pany have promised to furnish the committee with a creditable exhibit of the iron ores of the county obtain- ed from their own valuable proper- ties. General Manager Gemmel has been asked to furnish a car for the trans- portation of the exhibit, free of .| charge, to the state fair grounds. In fact it seems as though the whole county is taking hold of this proposition to give to Koochiching county the best showing it has ever had to the end that our extensive va- cant lands may be settled and this apparent wilderness made to “bud and blossom as the rose.”—Interna- tional Falls Press. Kentucky Democrats Oppose “Drys.” Louisville, Ky., Aug. 12.—County conventions were held in Kentucky today to elect delegates to the Demo- cratic State convention here next Tuesday for the adoption of a plat- form and nomination of state officers. The Democrats appreciate the fact that they must fight hard to win a victory in the coming election. The platform will indorse the policy of the Democratic party in Congress. The convention probably will declare against State-wide prohibition and unequivoeally in favor of a uniform local option law, with the county as the unit. Admiral Togo at West Point. West Point, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Ad- miral Togo and his party visited the United States .Military Academy to- day. The visitors came up from New York on the naval yacht Mayflower. After luncheon with General Barry, the superintendent, Admiral Togo witnessed a review of the cadet corps. Wisdom’s Real Object. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life—in a firm- ness of mind and mastery of appetite. 1t teaches us to do, as well &g to'talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.—Seneca. ed the method of selling -at whole: sale direct to the consumer. have established large warehouses at Chicago and Omaha, to which the wool is consigned. They | Rumor has it that Des Moines will bé dropped from the - Western League and be given a berth in the Three-I League: BRINGS NEGRO TO PREVENT LYNCHING Sheriff Hustles Man Identified By Bagley Woman to Bemidji on Night Train, PRISONER CLEVER IN COURT Proves Surprise as Amateur Lawyer But Fails in Bold Attempt to Establish Alibi. ADMITS THAT HE IS A HOBO Says His Name is “Tramp Shine” and That He Has Gone From Coast to Coast. To prevent any possibility of the enraged and indignant citizens of Bagley from doing violence to the negro identified by Mrs. Gilbert Olson of that city as the man who attacked her in the woods Tuesday, Sheriff An- derson of Clearwater county brought his prisoner to Bemidji on the mid- night train last night and locked him in the Beltrami county jail. As a result of the hearing at Bag- ley yesterday before Justice O. O. Blegan, the case against the negro, who is a particularly vicious type of the professonial hobo class, is strong. Missing Finger Strong Point. Aside from Mrs. Olson, other wit- nesses identified him as a person seen in the neighborhood of the at- tack. All, including Mrs. Olson, swore that the person seen had a part of one finger missing. The ne- gro under arrest is thus crippled. Despite this evidence the negro re- gained his courage and insists thai he is innocent. 2 ¢ “I was miles away when that hap- pened,” he said in jail here today t| a Pioneer reporter, “and I don’t know ' nothing about it, believe me. “I ain’t got no name except ‘Tramp Shine,’ and I sure enough am a tramp. I have been a-traveling ever since the first I can remember. I go from coast to coast, but aside from that I am no bad man.” "Proves Clever at Law. The prisoner’s appearance and gen- eral behavior does not bear him out in this assertion. He is a burly, coarse, revolting character. At his hearing in Bagley yesterday he proved himself to be an adept at court procedure and a trial lawyer of no mean ability. The way he handled his side in the case showed that he knew all the tricks of criminal law and was a wit- ness above the average. Falls Down on Alibi." Had he not tried to prove an alibi, he would have strengthened his case, but his assertion that he was at Mallard at the time the assault was committed, with three competent witnesses to prove that he was seen within a half mile of where the crime was committed, besides the testi- mony of the victim, weakened his evidence and strengthened the side of the state. He made a strong plea for dismis- sal on grounds that plaintiffs had made no case and offered an alibi as his defense, admitting, however, that he had no witnesses to corro- borate his testimony, as the only two people who had been with him for the three preceding days and the day the crime was committed, were tramps, and that he did not know their names. STEALS 100 DOCTORS’ TOWELS Bold Culprit Gets Away With Bundle in Broad Daylight. Nearly 100 towels were stolen from the Miles Block yesterday be- tween 11 and 11:30 a. m., from the offices of Dr. C. M. Palmer and Dr. R. Gilmore. The doctors’ assistants gather the soiled towels each day, and, after tying them in a bundle, leave them outside their doors for the laundry boy. This they did yes- terday and while the boy went to Dr. Sanborn’s office some . thief stole the bundles and made away with them before they were noticed. No clue has been found, but efforts are being made to catch the culprit. i e Bishop Corbett to Preach Here. Bishop Timothy Corbett of Crook- ston, arrived in the city today and will, be here to preach tlie sermon at high mass tomorrow morning. WOMAN BADLY INJURED Young Dressmaker Choked And Hit in Mouth in Night Fight With Man on Bridge. PRISONER’S HEARING GOES OVER After having first said that she could not identify the man arrested at Cass Lake as the one who assault- ed her on the bridge across the Mis- sissippi between here and Nymore Thursday about midnight, the young dressmaker involved today admitted that possibly the prisoner was the man. The prisoner who gave his name as Henry Mattson, was arraigned this morning before Court Commissioner H. A. Simons. He protested his in- nocence but there is so much dam- aging evidence against him that his case was continued for ten days and he was locked up again. In the mean- time officers will investigate his rec- ord. i It developes that the young wom- an was badly hurt by her assailant, having had two teeth knocked out and a gold plate broken in he mouth. The man struck his victim several times in the mouth with his fist, and her neck shows marks of the man who attempted to choke her to stop her cries. The young woman is above the av- erage in size and succeeded in fight- ing off her assailant. SURVIVES FALL; DIES OF COLD W. Hillgrove, Recovering From Brok- en Bones, Victim of Pneumonia. After having advanced well on the road to recovery from injuries re- ceived from a fall on cedar poles July 31 at Turtle River when four ribs were broken and his collar bone frac- tured, William Hillgrove fell a vie- tim to pneumonia Thursday and died at 5 p. m. yesterday. At the time of gl With Bravis, . ool iy ik Blllgrove.wos sseat- ing the I. K. Deal Luumber company in loading cedar poles. He was a mason by trade and was doing work at Turtle River but yielded to a re- quest to aid in handling the poles, and while on top of a car which was being loaded was hit on the head with a pole, throwing him to the ground. While being brought to Be- midji he caught a severe cold which d veloped into pneumonia. Mr. Hill- grove appeared to be recovering rap- idly, and yesterday afternoon while talking to' his wife told her he soon expected to be taken home. An hour later he was dead, his heart having given out under the strain of the dis- ease, although double pneumonia is given as the real cause of his death. He is survived by his wife'and four step-children. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 8:30 from St. Phillip’s ‘Catholic Church. He was 52 years old. EBERHART TO VIEW DITCHES Comes on August 17 to View Mar- shall and Beltrami Drains. Arrangements have been perfected for a visit by Governor Eberhart and other state officials and a number of railway officers on August 17, 18 and 19, to the great drainage projects in Marshall and Beltrami counties. The visitors will be transported in autos some forty miles to Gryla and neigh- boring villages through a broad rich stretch of level drained country and over the famous boulevard roads con- structed from the excavated sub-soil clays. These highways are literally as smooth and level as the prover- bial floor and reach away in straight lines beyond the horizon. The Northwestern Drainage com- pany of Thief River Falls has all the drainage contracts in this section and their nine great ditching ma- chines, running day and night, are fast changing the former low lands into available farming land of the very best quality. The purpose of the visit of the state officers is to permit them to see drainage at first hand on a large scale; to note the quick and complete transformation of these low- lands—not swamp lands—into good farm land at once ready to receive the plow and supply good crops; and further, to permit them to see the close and practical connection be- tween ditching and highway build- ing. Socialists Meet to Make Plans. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 12.—Office holding members of the national So- cialist party from all sections of the country have assembled here for a three days’ conference to make plans for the next municipal, state and na- tional campaigns. Victor Berger, the only Socialist member of Congress, Bishop Corbett will he hére but one day. 3 is to preside over the sessions, TEN CENTS PER WEEK. ‘PUSSYFOOT COMES; MAY CLOSE SALOONS Following His Visit at Akeley, Close Friends Predict This District Will Be “Dry as Sahara.” DUMAS CASE IS ALSO INVOLVED Asserted that Special Agent is Here to Assist Government in Charg- es Against Mayor. VISITS WALKER; ALSO BAGLEY At Both Places He Held Secret Con- ferences With Men Co-operat- 3 ing With Him, ‘Beware! “Pussyfoot” midst.” Silently and secretly he came and no man knoweth why, unless it be a few saloonkeepers who are presumed to have been selling fire water to In- dians. ‘Walker, Akely and Bagley -during the past few days have all obtained a glimpse of the liquor annihilating agent of the Indian bureau who ap- plied a lid that only was raised when Judge Spooner of this city got on the job. It has been known for some time that “Pussyfoot” was laying plans to again invade this part of the state. It has been said that he was assist- ing the government in bringing charges against Mayor Dumas of Cass Lake. 4 May Try Again to Make Us Dry. Albo it has been hinted" that the Indian Bureau was again making an effort to wipe out the saloons in this part of the state u Wer of the old Indian treaties, ich were suc- cessfully attacked by Judge Spooner and E. E. McDonald in federal court at Minneapolis before Judge Willard. It is presumed that an appeal to the Willard decision is to be hastened and the saloons closed if possible. During his visit here this week, “Pussyfoot”” has kept under cover as much as possible. Johnson is “in our Slips into Bagley. This is what the Bagley Clearwa. ter Crystal had to say: “Quiet and unnoticed, entirely un- suspected, Wm. E. Johnson, Chief Indian Officer, spent several hours in town not long ago inspecting things and conferring with the local dep- uty.” The Walker Pilot offers this: “Chief Special Agent (Pussyfoot) Johnson dropped into Walker Satur- day after an absence of nearly a year; tossed his grip into the Chase hotel office and hopped in a rig head- ed for Akeley where he spent part of the day. He returned to Walker later in the day and wholly unlike many government agents, refused to give out anything of importance re- garding his mission here. He did say however, that Walker was en- titled to a chromo for its good be- havior. ! Actions are Mysterious. And this from Akeley: “W. E. Johnson, special head offi- cer for the Indian division of the United States interior department, was in Akeley about two hours last week, at which time Special Officer D. Patten was given instructions from his superior officer. The Her- ald-Tribune is unable to procure defi- nite information from Officer Patten as to the reason for the visit from the famous ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson at this time. He dropped in suddenly from Walker, spent two hours in the city and went right back again. It is known that he had a long heart-to- heart talk with Special Officer Pat- ten. The latter is as silent as a clam, and while he admits that “Mr. John- son came down to see me’ will give no further information. Many Drunken Indians. * “It is said that there has been much drunkenness among the Indians dur- ing the past few months. The sa- loonkeepers of Bemidji, Cass Lake, Walker and Park Rapids are said to have exercised great care in dispens- ing their goods in bottles and they are not held responsible, but Lo gets booze just the same. “Among, those who are closest to ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson and his work it is asserted that this entire territory will be as dry as Sahara desert at no distant date.” A man’s relations seldém bother him if he is poorer than they are.