Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 16, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 9. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. KEOKUK SHOWS ROE HOW CITY CAN SAVE During One Year, Jowa Town Gains $25,000 Under Commission Plan, Writes Mayor. FEES FROM DOGS ALONE $1,000 Business Principles, Free From Poli- tics, Have Been Applied, Says | City's Executive. NEW ] | i INTEREST IN BEMIDJI| Effort Being Made to Arouse Citizens So Change May Be Made Here if | it Appears Proper. | With the recent appointment of a| commission of 15 to revise the char- ter of Bemidji, interest has been re- newed in the commission. form of government for cities of this size, Alderman Knute Roe taking an ac-| ve part in the agitation for an in-| vestigation of the plan which ap- pears to have worked such wonders for other towns throughout the coun- try. Mr. Roe is in touch with many of the mayors of commission form | cities and only yesterday received the following from Joshua F. Elder, may- | or of Keokuk, lowa, which town claims the distinction of having been the first city in the country having| | i | i i a population of less than 000 to| adopt the plan: | Keokuk Saves $25,000. Mr. K. K. Roe, Bemidji, Minn. | Dear Sir: | 1 am in receipt of your favor | of August 2nd. The Plan has bean working here about fifteen months with great success. We have saved for | the last calendar year about | 25,0005 we have been able to | establish Dbusiness principles; | have been free from politics, and 1 thoroughly believe in the bene- fits from this form of Govern- ment. Will be glad to furnish you any details you may desire. Yours very truly, J. F. Elder, Mayor. Makes $1,000 Pickup on Dogs. By way of illustration as to what cconomies may be accomplished un- der the commission plan, the Keokuk annual report, a copy which was sent to Mr. Roe, contains the following: The payment of the various 1 censes due the city for special priv- ileges, especially dog license, had, at the beginning of 1910, been neg-| lected to a large extent. The pres-| ent administration has tried to es-| tablish a custom of paying for all| such licenses in advance, and has practically succeeded. “The dog license is given merely as an example of this success. The amount collected “in 1909 was $126.95, while the amount collected in 1910 was $1,323.35.” In his report on the commisison plan for his first year in office, Mayor Elder say: Begins in Debt; Now Clear. | We have divided the city's | money into funds, as required by the State law, and this Report shows the Receipts and Expendi- tures of the city’s funds in each account. We started our term of office | convention. |are being handsomely entertained by} UNCLE SAM AFTER DUMAS Will Wait Until After Trial Here and if Warranted Proceed Against the Doctor- CASE WOULD GO TO FERGUS Fergus Falls, The attitude of Minn,, Aug. 15.— the federal govern- ment regarding the case of Mayor Dumas and his associates who are awaiting trial on burglary charges in the state courts is stated here to be |a warring attitude, the action to be taken depending on the outcome of | the trials. The Puposky burglary, in which Dumas’ alleged associates were trap- péd, was a postoffice as well as the burglary of a store, and consequent- ly they are liable under the federal laws as well as under the state laws. No action is to be taken by the | United States officials until after the trials in the state courts. | Tn case these trials should result in acquittals resulting from a lack of evidence the case will be dropped. Should they result in convictions and | proper sentences, the federal govern- ment will be satisfied and will let matters rest. On the other hand, if strong evi- dence is presented and a verdict of | acquittal is secured as a result of lo- cal influences, the accused will be re-| arrested under the federal statutes| and will then be brought to this city and tried in the United States court here. DULUTH BOOMERS ARE COMING Will Be Here Next Week On Tour of New Soo Towns. For the purpose of extending and renewing their acquaintance with the retail merchants, an excursioi has been arranged by the jobbers and manufacturers over the Soo Line for Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, Aungust nd, 23rd and 24th, The first day's will _be made at Moose Lak urg, Aitkin, Cuy- una, Crosby, Shovel Lake, Portage Lake, Schley, Bemidji and other points. The excursionists will re-| main over night at Bemidji. The second day’s stops will be made at Clearbrook, Trail, Thief River Falls, Brooks, Mahomen, Calloway, Detroit, | Ottertail, Ruchville, Parkers Prairie and Alexandria, remaining all night at Alexandria. The third day’s stops will be made at Brooten, Glenwood, Greenville, Culloway, Holdingford, Bowlus, Omania, Solway and other places. Every effort will be made to make this a very successful excur- sion. It is expected that seventy- five to one hundred representative | business men of the city will accom- | pany it—Duluth Trade News. | HOTEL MEN AFTER DEAD BEATS Plans for Protection Discussed aty Notable Gathering in Grand Forks. Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 16.— Plans for the elimination of the ho- tel deadbeat and the hotel crook are up for discussion at the annual con- vention of the Northwestern Hotel Men’s Association, which met in Grand Forks today for a session of two days. The convention is one of the best attended in the history of hotels of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Oma- ha, Sioux City, Duluth and other cit-} ies of the Northwest being represent- ed. R. W. Johnston, of Waterloo, | Towa, is the president of the associa- tion and the presiding officer of the The visiting bonifaces the hotel men of Grand Forks. ignorant of the circumstances | under which we would work. | But, aided by your patriotic spir- | it, we were enabled to carry | through as much public improve- ment as former years, and the City of Keokuk, for the first year in its history, did not borrow money to defray its current ex- penses. Indebtedness Wiped Out. As shown by the summary, on April 12 the city had a floating indebted- ness of over $22,500. On April Ist, 1911, at the end of the fis- cal year, it had to its credit over $4,000. The receipts of the city have been practically the same as in former years, and this gain was made by eliminating useless expenditures. “What Keokuk has done, Bemidji can do,” commented Mr. Roe, “and it seems to me that this city would do well to thoroughly investigate the plan with a view to ultimately adopting it, which could be dome at any time, as an amendment to the charter.” e financial h, 1910, | SECRETARY WILSON 76 TODAY Has Distinction of Being in Cabinet for the Longest Period. Washington, D. C., Aug. 16-—Sec- retary of Agriculture Wilson, who is jaway on his summer vacation—the most of which is spent in attending agricultural meetings and preaching scientifie agriculture to the farmers —reached his seventy-sixth birthday anniversary today. Secretary Wilson | was appointed to office by President McKinley in 1897 and has managed to weatl.er the storms through four administravions and incidentally has attaincd the distinetion of holding te his portfoiio longer than any other cabiret oflicer in the history of the Federal government. - Senate Passed Wool Bill. Washington, Aug. 16.—The sen- ate by a vote of 38 to 28 last night adopted the conference report on the wool tariff revision bill, already adopted by the house. The bill will now go to the White House for the expected veto of Taft. - train will leave at 8 a. m. and the|j the association, many of the leading| | Shine,” now in jail heére as the re- ‘TRAMP SHINE’ NEAR LYNCHING IN BAGLEY Only Pleas of Husband of Negro’s vietim and Citizens Prevented Crowd from Action. SHERIFF GETS NEW EVIDENCE Links Found Connecting Man in Jail Here With Brutal Assanlt of Mrs. | Gilbert Olson. TRACED TO GILBERTSON FARM Requested Something to Eat and Asked As to Best Way to Hit Railroad Tracks. Tt is now admitted by persons in Bagley that a crowd was organized there, rope purchased and the spot selected for the lynching of “Tramp sult of identification by Mrs. Gilbert Olson as the megro who assaulted her a week ago in the woods near Bagley. Furthermore, it is just as freely admitted in Bagley that if the fur- ther conclusive evidence of the man’s guilt, obtained by Sheriff Anderson during the past few days, had been known, nothing could have saved the prisoner from ornamenting a tele- phone pole. Husband 'Pleads for Negro- The lynching party was organized Friday evening and was ready to grab the negro and string him up between the hours of 12:30 and 1 a. m. This idea was abandoned atre- quest of the husband of the negro’s victim to permit the law to take its icoures and by the pleading of a few citizens of. Bagley who strongly ad- vised against any act of violence. Finally the crowd dispersed and the prisoner was brought to Bemidji by Sheriff Anderson and safely land- ed in the Beltrami county jail. Sheriff Gets New Evidence. Since that time Sheriff Anderson ‘has been collecting evidence and has returned to Bagley from Mallard with all the missing links of evidence, he believes, to directly fasten the das- tardly and brutal assault of Mrs. Ol- son on August 7 on “Tramp Shine.” His own evidence, in which he asserted that he was in Mallard on ‘Wednesday morning, having walked from a point on the Soo south of Erskine to Mallard on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, on investi- gation, shows that he simply re- versed things and that instead of coming from the Soo, south of Ers- Xkine, he came from Bagley. Stops at Gilbertson Home. Early _ Wednesday morning he stopped at the residence of Bert Gil- bertson, 14 miles south of Bagley, on the main Bagley-Mallard road, and asked for something to eat and the nearest point at which he could strike the Great Northern railroad. Mr. Gilbertson directed him to Bagley, but Tramp Shine did not want to come to Bagley he told Mr. Gilbertson, that he wanted some oth- er point. Mr. Gilbertson then told him that the next nearest point was Shevlin, which could be reached either by his retracing his steps to Bagley or go- ing by way of Mallard, that the Mal- lard road was rougher and 8 miles further. Had Piece of Steel. During his conversation with Mr. Gilbertson he had the identical flat piece of steel with a ring on the end of it, sticking out of one of his coat pockets, that Mrs. Olson testi- fied he struck her with that left the deep gash over her forehead. “Tramp Shine” was afterwards seen in the vicinity of Mallard by two different people, who not only no- ticed the piece of steel in his pocket, but also the missing finger on Wed- nesday afternoon. Bennington Anniversary Observed. Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 16.—The| 134th anniversary of the battle of Bennington, in which the New Hamp-| shire militia under General Stark! defeated the British and which his-| torians regard as the turning point in the Revolutionary war, was ob- served as a legal holiday throughout Vermont today as usazl. 1 Beware of Staleness. Because you have done it for forty years is probably the best excuse: for changing your method. (Copyright, 1911.) “NO SIR,” SAYS SIMPSON Will Not Permit Return of Papers Requested By Viggo Peterson of Governor Eberhart. ALARMED OVER CRY OF POLITICS St. Paul, Minu, Aug. 16.—The|: most recent request made by Gover-| nor Eberhart of Attorney General Simpson, that he return to Viggo| Petérson, chairm&n of The Beltrami county commissioners, the charges preferred against Sheriff Hazen, will be ignored. Neither will copies of the affidavits sent the chief executive by the com- missioner be made. The incident is closed, so Mr. Simpson says, for the time-at least. “I don’t care to discuss the situa- tion,” Mr. Simpson said. “The mat- ter has been referred to this depart- ment and if there are polities or an effort to move dismissal of an officer on behalf of Mayor Dumas of Cass Lake, I propose knowing it. I shall keep the papers for the present.” More unpleasantness has developed in the State Capitol over these charg- es than over any other small in- cident of recent date. The inference has been drawn from some source; ¢ ~ided at that meeting to make the that removal of Sheriff Hazen was being attempted in order to name a successor more friendly to Mayor Du- mas of Cass Lake, charged with in- cendiarism. The sheriff will select the panel of jurymen who will of necessity handle the Dumas charges. Friction between the attorney gen- eral’'s department and that of the secretary of state was also noted yes- terday when arguments on the “sev- en-senator” bill were taken up in the Hennepin county district court. Mr. Simpson did not go near the Hen- nepin court house, but sent Alex Janes, one of his assistants, to handle the case. STATEHOOD BILL MAY PASS Following President’s Veto New Ef_.ored men who have made a:success fort is Decided Upon. ‘Washington, Aug. 16.—Final at- tempt to secure statehood for New Mexico and Arizona, began in both houses of congress yesterday follow- ing the receipt of Taft's emphatic veto of the statehood resolution as it had been sent to him. His veto message, denouncing the judiciary re- call feature of Arizona constitution, was received in the houge with long applause from the republicans. It was referred to the territoriesmeeting will continue its sessions un- committee of that body with the ve- toed resolution, Chairman Flood promising prompt action. With the announcement of the president’s veto and following a con- | ference with Taft, Senator Smith of Michigan, chairman of the senate ter- riteries committee introduced a new statehocd resolution, meeting the president’s views and providing for the admission of both states on the condition that Arizona shall strike the recall of judges provisions from its new constitution. The territories committees of both houses will meet tomorrow to consider the respective resolutions. ~ The house committee will decide when an attempt shall be made to pass the vetoed resolution | : covers the distange Between Chi Atwood on to New York Elkhart, Ind., Aug. 16.—Skim- : : ming over the southwest corner : : of Lake Michigan and then over : : the sand hills of northern Indi- : ana, Harry N. Atwood of Boston, : in his aeroplane yesterday after- : : noon flew 101 miles from Chicago : : in two hours and 16 minutes : : without a stop, thus completing : 387 miles of his 1,460-mile cross- : country flight from St. Louis to : New York and Boston. H Atwood made 101 miles from : : Chicago in only 21 minutes more : time than the fastest train ser- : vice in the United States, whicl : cago and Elkhart in ome hour : : and 55 minutes. His highest al- : titude was 2,000 feet. FARES CUT BELOW 2-CENT RATE| Railroads Announce Reductions for the Minnesota State Fair. A passenger rate of one fare for the round trip on all roads excepting the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo Line during state fair week has been agreed upon by the Western Passenger association, according to A. B. Cutts, general passenger agent of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road, who has returned to Minneapolis from a meeting in Chicago. It was rate good from all points in Minne- sota and in other states within 150 miles of the Twin Cities. This will make the rate lower than under the 2-cent fare law. Passenger agents of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo Line have not announced what rates they will grant. Accord- ing to Mr. Cutts, indications are that travel to Minneapolis during fair week will be large. SUCCESSFUL NEGROES At Little Rock and Tomorrow Will Hear of All Colored Town of Boley. MEET 16.—Be- delegates, of col- Little Rock, Ark., Aug. tween 700 and 800 among whom are scores in commercial enterprises and others who represent prosperous towns con- trolled entirely by negroes, are at- tending the twelfth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League, which was opened in this city today. Booker T. Washington is the president of the league, the object of which is to inform the world of thé progress the negro is making in business and to stimulate |local business enterprises among the members of the race. The present til Saturday. The progress being made by the negroes of Oklahoma has jinduced the officers of the league to set aside tomorrow morning as Ok- lahoma Day, when delegates from | that state will tell of the growth and prosperity of the town of Boley, which is inhabitated and controlled entirely by negroes. One of the evi- dences of the town’s prosperity is found in the fact that it has just in- stalled a $35,000 light and power plant. The organization committee of the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly has recently succeeded in in affiliation with the National over the president’s objection. Boof-and Shoe Workers’ Union. organizing a shoe repairers’ union|- DAKOTA WIND KILLS TWO Tornado Sweeps Nbonan, Jamestown and Valley City District, Doing Much Damage. MANY HAVE NARROW ESCAPES Noonan, N. D, Aug. 16.—Two men were killed, several injured and about $25,000 worth of property de- stroyed “in- a cyclone which struck "Noonan, Crosby, Larson and Kerufiil, ] N. D., yesterday. John Caquin, a Frenchman, and farm hand at the farm of the Truax brothers north of Noonan, was killed, and another farm hand with the same farm was so badly injured that it is thought he will mot recover. H.\ Cleve, a farm hand working nine miles south of Noonan, was also Kkilled. At Crosby a big barn belonging to 0. A. Holmes was destroyed. The barn and several head of stock be- longing to R. H. Burrough were de- stroyed and the four-year-old son of Mr. Christopherson had his arm broken. The Christophersons were in a cook car, which was demolished. A cément block factory was blown down at Crosby and at Larson and Kermit several small buildings were demolished. Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 16.—Al- though of only a few moment’s dura- tion, a storm that proved the most disastrous of the season so far, swept across the town yesterday. Many farm buildings to the west of the city and to the south of the main line of the Northern Pacific were twisted or demolished by the wind and the jheavy rain with hail in places did considerable damage to cut and un- cut crops. Valley City, N. D, Aug. 16.—A small sized tornado swept through Valley City, dcing much damage. The wind blew from northwest to southeast, and swept through the down town district. It struck only a narrow strip of the city about five or six blocks wide. 3 The roof of the Van Auken build- ing in the down town district was blown off and carried across the street and smashed up against the building known as the Opera House block. It crashed against the front of the W. L. Whittier candy store and the A. M. Trosdale grocery in the opera block, wrecking them badly. ‘This roof was carried over the tops of the telephone posts on one side of the street, over the street car trolley wires and under the telephone wires on the other side and did not break a single wire. Several people stand- ing in the front of the store at the time were not injured. Two Girls Drown at Cloguet. Cloquet, . Minn., Aug. 16.—Pearl -and Florence, aged 14 and 13 respec- tively, daughters of John Dunphy, a merchant of Carleton, Minn., were drowned while bathing in Chub Lake today. It is supposed they were caught in quicksand. Pope Pius is Better- Rome, Aug. 16.—The general con- dition of Pope Pius is better. Badger, Wealthy Young Speed King, and St. Croix Johnstone, Dash to Their Death. LATTER IN LAKE UNDER ENGINE Wife Witnesses Fatal Plunge, is Told Husband Lives, and Prepares 3 Dry Garments. DEFECTS BLAMED FOR ACCIDENT Caused. By Imperfections of Flying Machines and Not From Drivers’ Carelessness, | Chicago, Aug. 16.—Two aviators, William R. Badger of Pittsburg and St. Croix Johnstone of Chicago, both young men, lost their lives at the in- ternational aviation meet here late yesterday. In dying, both revealed the frailty of the craft in which two score more aviators were curving and gliding about the air with scarcely a pause for the deaths of their con- temporaries. Death in both cases was due to un- explained accidents, probably results of unsuspected defects in the mechan- ism of the machines and was in no ‘way caused by carelessness nor lack of responsibility of the drivers. - Wealthy Youth Careens to Death. Barger, a wealthy youth, careened to his death in a pit in the aviation field. There had been a flaw in one of the wings of the propeller of the Baldwin machine he drove. Centri- fugal force broke the propeller, up« set the delicate equilibrium of the machine and Badger dashed 100 feet to the bottom of the pit, his neck {being broken. - Johnstone fell 500 feet under his engine and was drowned as a result of an equally unsuspected defect. Caught under the heavy engine in his Moisant monoplane, he was carried deep into Lake Michigan and his body was not brought to the surface until an hour later. Badger Lives 45 Minutes. Badger lived for three-quarters of an hour after he had, been extricated from the remains of his engine. He did not recover unconsciousness and died almost .at once after he had reached the hospital. Badger flew purely as an amateur. He formerly drove racing automo- biles. He was a stepson of Johm Goettman of Pittsburg, and was 25 years old. He possessed an indepen- dent fortune, and gratified a well de- veloped speed mania. Badger, up to the time he fell, was in the air 2 hours, 13 minutes and 19 seconds. Badger fell just in front of the cen- ter of the grandstand and thousands of spectators were within a few hun- dred yards of the accident. Hundreds leaped the fence, fought past the line of police and rushed into the pit where the wrecked biplane lay. There was a near panic in the field and numerous heads were cracked by po- lice clubs. Badger’s mother died re- cently, and so far as is known his step-father, Goettman, is his only sur- vivor. Wife Saw Johnstone Fall. Johnstone’s actual fall was wit- nessed by his young wife, although it was not until a half hour later that she was informed of his death. As the monoplane faltered in mid- air, then crashed downward to the surface of the lake, the young avia- tor’s wife, who had been following his flight closely, grasped the me- chanic's arm and exclaimed in fear: “Oh! Oh! He is falling. My boy will be killed.” Friends told her that Johnstone would suffer nothing worse than a ducking. “Possibly not,’ "exclaimed the fear- stricken wife, “but you-could see by the way the machine plunged that St. Croix had completed lost control of it.” Thought He Would Come. A mechanic rushed up to the group and assured Mrs. Johnstone that her husband had been plucked out of the lake unharmed. 5 Reassured by this information which had been deliberately invent- ed to calm the fears of the aviator's ‘wife, she went back to her hotel and hurriedly laid out dry apparel for her husband. For a half hour or more she waited, then a member of the Johnstone family took her word of the aviator’s death. The young wife is frantic from grief. D DIEIN AEROPLANE FALLS AT CHICAGO { ! f 153 |