Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 25, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 101. DANPATCH, 13, GIVES FINAL BOW AT FAIR After Farewell Recepfion at Hamline, $60,000 Beauty Goes Home to Die in Comfort. HOLDS SEVEN WORLD'S RECORDS Three Fastest Miles Raced in 1:56 1-4 1:56 and 1:55, Later Dash Paced in Minnesota. HAS 50 SONS AND DAUGHTERS Several of These Children ‘Will At- tempt to Outdo Their Daddy at State Program. There is a glamor that surrounds the name of Dan Patch, the world’s champion harness horse. This is es- pecially true in Minnesota, his home and the place where he paced his fastest mile and the fastest mile, by several seconds, ever paced by any harness horse. It is fitting that the champion, who has traveled his last record breaking mile, should make his farewll ap- pearance at the Minnesota State Fair, the scene of his greatest efforts. The harness king, more beautiful than ever and apparently in the prime of life, will hold public receptions in a large tent on the state fair grounds beginning Monday, Sept. 4. They All Love Dan. Dan Patch is the horse that knows. He is the horse that everybody loves. He has not only paced more miles under two minutes than all the trot- | ters and pacers in the world com- hined, but he is the horse that, by his beauty, his gameness and his un- usual intelligence, has won the love of men, women and children all over the world. Beside being a great attraction himself this year Dan Patch will in- troduce for the first time at the Min- nesota State Fair the four other champions of M. W. Savage's great racing stable. He will watch Minor Heir, Lady Maud C., Hedgewood Boy and Gecrge Gano struggle for a race mpionship on Monday afternoon. se who know the great horse best ve that he knows what these oth- er great pacers are striving for and is interested in the results. Has 50 Sons and Daughters. Additional interest will be attract- ed to the champion by the perform- ances on the Hamline track of a large number of his sons and daughters. Beside being the horse that was nev- er Leaten in a race and the champion speed merchant of the horse world, Dan Patch now has the honor of being the greatest sire of extreme speed in the world for his age. Royally bred himself Dan is ac- knowledged to have the rare ability of handing down his great qualities to his progeny. Already over fifty of his get are in the standard list. He eleven sons and daughters that have paced in 2:10, or better. Some of the Daughters to Race. Defore the present racing season is over a number of Dan Patch colts will undoubtedly enter the 2:10 list dur- ing the Minnesota State Fair. Mr. Savage has entered an unusu- ally large number of these horses in us events of the state fair racing program. Some of the Dan Patch colts that are entered are Mary E. Patch, Rena Patch, Queen Patch, Princess Patch, Flossie Patch, Pearl Patch, Marion Patch and Madge Patch. Goes Back to Die in Luxury. After the Minnesota State Fair is over Dan will be taken back to his beautiful home of the International Stock Farm at Savage, Minn., where he will probably spend the rest of his days in the greatest possible luxury. The great horse is now fifteen years old. During his unegqualled career he has broken world’s records fourteen times and has paced one mile in 1:55; one mile in 1:55 1-4; two miles in 1:56; three miles in 1:56 1-4; fourteen miles averaging 1:56 1-2; thirty miles averaging 1:57 1-2; forty-five miles averaging 1:58 1-2; seventy-three miles aver- aging 1:59 1-2. Dan has paced 120 miles at an average of 2:02 3-4. Holds These World's Records. Dan holds the following world’s records: 1 mile, 1:55; 1 mile to wagon, 1:57 1-4; 1 mile (high wheel sulky), 2:04 3-4; one-half mile, 0:56; 2 miles, 4:17; 1 mile (one- half mile track), 2:01; 1 mile (one- half mile track), wagon, 2:05. The champion cost Mr. Savage /860,000, but has earned that amount for him many times over. He is first 1 the affection of his owner and no money would tempt Mr. Savage to part with him. TELLSWHY HE ADVERTISES iBuker Gives Quotation From Expert | to Explain How it is That Pub- | licity Pays. | |HAS FOUND IT SUCCESS HERE A comparison in advertising is il- lustrated clearly in the following: “A man who trains a horse to per- | form a certain trick gives him a lump of sugar after he has dome it, then the horse will do the trick again as |long as he gets his compensation, the |reward being greater in his mind than the energy required to earn it. Many concerns in their efforts to in- crease business hold out a lump of sugar for trade instead of appealing to the reason, judgment and think- ing power of the people they wish to influence. “Constant dripping of water weark a stone and the right kind of an.ad |every week is. sure to have a tre- mendous inffuence-on the mdss of people it reaches. The man who trades at your store or does business | with your bank ‘for a reason’ is your best customer. He is one that you can depend upon and the institution which secures customers in this way has a firm enduring patronage that is |a bigger asset than the goods they carry in stock.” C. E. Zimmerman of Chicago who is the originator and designer of the illustrations used in Barker's adver- tising (one of which appears in this issue), and the editor of the above quotation makes advertising a life study. The Barker store reports that busi- ness in this city, especially in their store, meets with success by the con- stant use of judicious advertising space. RECORD SHIPMENT OF ANIMALS The Game Was Collected By a Hunt- ing Party in East Africa. A special train recently left Nai- robi containing a record shipment of wild animals, intended for a men- agerie at Hamburg. The game was collected by a hunting party in British and German East Africa. It embraced eight giraffes, eleven hip- popotami, two rhinoceroses, twelve waterbuck, seven wildebeeste, three hartebeeste, nineteen bushbuck, nineteen reedbuck and about fifty antelopes and gazelles.—Daily Con- sular and Trade "Reports. “01d Nick” Busy. to hold forth to an open-air meeting. He sat down on a bank in which there was an ant’s nest; the insects soon found their way into his “Oh, no, we never mention ’em’s,” and he said: “Brethern, though I hope 1 have the word of God in my mouth, I think the deel has got into my breeks.”—Exchange. A reverend Scotchman was goingl R R R SR RCR R R R RS © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © 2000000000000 000 LAPORTE,. IND.—Carl Wayne Yazel, child of 2 years, was drowned yesterday in Marshall County when he fell into a tub of water and was ‘unable to save himself. SANTA FE, N. M.—A granite mon- ument to mark the end of the his- toric Santa Fe trail was dedicated in the plaza here today with interest- ing exercises under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution. BOSTON, MASS.—Two-score mem- bers of the Boston typographical un- ion left today for St. Louis to attend the coming baseball tournament of the Union Printers’ National baseball association, which includes teams in ten of the largest cities. BEVERLY, MASS—President Taft has arranged for a trip to Hamilton tomorrow to attend the outing of the Essex Club, at which the three can- didates for the Republican nomina- tion for governor of Massachusetts will speak, together with several oth- er prominent party leaders. LOUISVILLE, KY.—The commit<] tee in charge of the program for the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to be held here in October announces that |among the notable Speakers at the gathering will be the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Philadelphia, Mrs. Carolyne Bartlett Crane of Michigan, Mrs. Donald R. Hocker of Baltimore, Miss Mary Johnston, the novelist, and Miss M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The giant battleship Utah will be turned over to the Government at the League Island Navy Yard tomorrow by her builders, the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden. The Utah and her sister ship, the Florida, now nearing completion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, are the latest and might- iest fighting units in the United States Navy and one or the other will supersede the Connecticut as the flag- ship of the Atlantic fleet. The Utah ‘was built and equipped in record time and when turned over to the Govern- ment; tomorrow will have taken only a little over eighteen months to be made ready for active service. "It is expected a-speed of 22 knots will be made by the vessel, propelled by the enormous turbine engines of the Par- sons type. She is the first of the large battleships to use these tur- bines. When completely manned the Utah will carry 1,000 officers and men. NEW YORK.—Three detectives distinguished themselves by a clever piece of work. A physician, return- ing from a confinement case at night, was run down by a speeding auto and killed. The auto, which carried five men at the time, sped on and was quickly lost in the darkness. With practically no clue for a working basis the three detectives began their investigation and search for the ma- chine and before 24 hours had passed they had not only found the machine but arrested every one of the five men who had been in the machine. What made the achievement of the detec- tives even more noteworthy was the fact that they found the machine and arrested the men in spite of the as- sistance given to them by the eyewit- nesses, friends of the doctor who was killed. Two of them said positively that they saw the license tag of the machine and could swear that the licéense number contained the figures 3 and 7, although they were not sure which relative positions the figures occupied. As a matter of fact the li- cense number of the machine was 16,545, containing neither a 3 nor af. .Hud Fisk Breaks Arm on Engine.. ‘While cranking a launch engine yesterday afternoon, Hud Fisk had his arm broken. The crank flew back catching him on the forearm. The fracture was set by Dr. Gilmore, Poetical Age of Women. A Philadelphia paper affirms that the poetical age of women is thirty, when they begin to love conscien- tiously. TWO POTATO MEETINGS Development Association’ and Farm- ers Co-operative Concern Call MAY UNITE IN HREFT EFFORT Bemidji is to have two meetings to- morrow in an effort to establish this place as a market for potatoes. Several days ago W. R, Mackenzie, secretary of the Beltram{ County De- velopment association, issued a call for a meeting to be held-at 10 a. m. tomorrow in.the city -hall. It had been planned to organize the grow- ers at that time into an association. President Rako has called a meet- ing of the Co-operative assotiation, which organization now is operating the creamery here, for practically the same purpose as the other meeting, that i to lay plans for profitable dis- position of potatoes, the gathering to be held at the creamery gt 2 p. m. It_is. now expected that probably the morning meeting:y Dbe ad- journed so that theee- im attendance can confer with the srocflmlders and other -persons inte in the co- operative association with’a view to harmonizing the forces ina combined effort to establish -8 market here. BAND FESTIVAL ON TONIGHT Refreshments to Be Served During Concert in Library} Park. In the library park tomight, the Bemidji band with Harry Masten as director will- give its second concert during which refreshments will be served. The proceeds will gointo the fund used in defraying the expense of getting the new uniforms last year. Efforts have been made ito provide an exceptionally enjoyable evening for the public. The foHowing pro- gram is announced by Director Mas- ten: * 1. March—Blaze of Glory—Abe Holgmann. - 2. Selection . fro—A Stubborn Cinderella—-Jos. E. Howsgd. = 3. March—The Honolulu Rag— Van Alstyne. 4. Overture—Light Cavalry—F. V. Suppe. 5. Schottische—Ain’t You Com- ing Out Tonight—Black & Belder. 6. Duet for cornet and trombone —Devotion—Ellis Brooks. 7. Selection—Bright Eyes—Karl Haschmer. 8. March—Idaho—C. Le Barn- house. REV. LOE TO HOLD SERVICES Minneapolis Minister to Speak in Norwegian in Nymore and Bemidji. Rev. Ingv. John Loe from Minne- apolis, Minn., is at present in Bemid- J1 and will hold the following ser- vices in the Norwegian language: Friday at 8 p. m.—Norwegian Lutheran Free Church, Nymore. Saturday at 8 p. m.—Also at Ny- more. i Sunday at 3 p. m.—At the Masonic Hall, Bemidji. Sunday at 8 p. m.—Norwegian Lutheran Free Church, Nymore. There will be extra songs and mu- sic with all services. “TABBY” NEVER IN DANGER Antoinette Perkins Fires Three Shots From Revolver at Intruder. Her love for robins nearly gof Mrs. Antoinette Perkins of Hacken- sack, N. J.,, into grave trouble the other day, for the three bullets she fired from a revolver at a cat tnat was killing a robin on her lawn came near killing three persons. One bul- let went through a wall of a neigh- boring house and passed close to the head of a person sitting at the din- ing room table. The two other bul- lets whistled past the head of two boys who were passing the Perkins home.. The offending cat escaped un- hurt. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY E’VENING- "AUGUST 25, 1911. POINT OF LAW MAY BLOCK GOOD ROADS At Moment New Plans Are Being Made at Brainerd, Elwell Bill is Being Attacked. KING PRAISES THURSDAY WORK Court Rulings Indicate Measure ‘Which Promised Highways, Can’t Stand the Test. KING PRAISES THURSDAY’S WOR Two Routes Decided Upon, One From North to St. Panl Being Approved. ‘While the permanent good roads committee of the Northern Minneso- ta Development association was meet- ing at Brainerd yesterday, planning through highways from ‘end to end and across the state, the consti- tutionality of the Elwell, under the provisions of which the good roads campaign is being waged was being attacked. Should the Elwell law be found il- legal, the present plans for all the roads, not only the trunk lines, but all others, such as the proposed boul- evard around Lake Bemidji would be seriously interfered with. Brainerd Meeting Enthusiastic. C. M. King, of Deer River, who at- tended the good roads meeting at Brainerd yesterday, was in Bemidji this morning and was enthusiastic over the gathering. It was decided to push the road across the state from International Falls, via Itasca Park and Brainerd to St. Paul and the St. Vincent to Duluth road. these plans: “Standing squarely in the face of the constitutionality of the Elwell law under which the Northern Min- nesota Development league proposes to expend $10,000,000 during the next few years for good roads, it was pointed out yesterday, is the legal principle always handed down by the supreme court that all highways con- structed outside of incorporated dis- tricts, that is cities or villages, are general and not local improvements, and consequently abutting property owners cannot be taxed any amount for their construction, on the special benefit principle. The question of the constitution- ality of the measure, always scouted by lawyers of the state, as well as the limit of the expenditures which the state highway commission may make under it, are now being investigated by the attorney genmeral’s office. It probably will be several weeks before an opinion on the law is rendered, as many questions are said to be in- volved. Chief Objection to Law. “The legal principle of the state su- preme court, however, is considered by lawyers to be the chief objection raised against the constitutionality of the law, and on account of it the as- sertion was frequently made yester- day that Attorney General Simpson will hold the law unconstitutional. In every similar case that has been brought before it, the supreme court, it was pointed out, had ruled that a highway which is of general benefit cannot be taxed by a special assess- ment as authorized in the Elwell law. In handing down this principle, it is pointed out, the supreme court has always held that any highway con- structed .outside of an incorporated district is of general and not special benefit, and hence the expense of its construction should be borne by the general public, either through the (Continued on last page) x o 45 B . : Lemon Raised Here 14 Inches : Around and Weighs One Pound. B o : Now it is a lemon tree bearing : fruit 12 inches around and 14 : inches measured lengthwise : which Bemidji offers as proof : that Beltrami is in the Garden of : Eden. This lemon has been raised by Alva E. Webster, the greenhouse man, on Doud avenue, the tree at : present having not less than six perfectly formed Ilemons of : extraordinary size. The species is known as the : “Wonder lemon” and while it differs from the commercial lem- : on, it is of fine flavor. The prize big lemon weighs a pound. Naturally, it is of the hot house variety. The plant so far this year has : steadily been on the job, having blossomed three times, each time : having about 500 flowers. It : now is budded to blossom again. Mr. Webster may decide to ex- : hibit "the plant at the coming : Beltrami county fair, September 13, 14 and 15. BURN NEGRO AT STAKE Colored Man Held for Crime Similar to One Committed in Bagley, Put to Death in Oklahoma. CROWD CHEERS FLAMES WORK Purcell, Okla., Aug. 25.—While 3,000 men, women and children stood by, shouting their approval, Peter Carter, the negro, who had previous- ly been charged by three members of his own race, and identified as the man who attacked ‘Mrs. Minnie Spraggins, the wife of a farmer, was burned to death on a brush pile in the main street of Purcell at 5 o’clock last evening. Deputy Sheriff Hayes and‘Bnder Shepllf Farris, who at- ex‘lm\; | 1 d-to- rescue-the ‘negro from the: ciowd, were overpowered and locked in the courthouse. As soon as the sheriff and his as- sistants had been locked up, the ne- gro was led out and placed on an oil soaked brush heap built around a tel- ephone pole. He was tied to the pole and a torch applied. Cheers came from the crowd as the flames licked the victim's face, and men and women watched him die. As he was lashed to the pole, the ne- gro shreitked for mercy. After the flames died down the crowd slowly dispersed. The negro’s body was burned to a crisp. Mrs. Spraggins, who is not expect- ed to live, said Carter entered her home last night and struck her on the head with a gas pipe, beating her until she was unconscious. An old mattress was torn up and scattered oyer her body. After the negro had set fire to the mattress he fled. As the woman was crawling from the fire the negro reappeared and again struck her with the pipe break- ing her jaw and beating her badly. Her husband, who had gone out on the farm to do some work, noticed the flames from the burning struc- ture and ruskhing to the house rescued his wife, unconscious. MRS BOWERS SELLS MILLINERY Purchased By Aberdeen Woman Who Takes Possession at Once. Mrs. H. L. Bowers, who came to Bemidji two years ago from Monticel- lo, Minn., has sold her Beltrami av- enue millinery store to Miss Finders of Aberdeen, S. D., who will take pos- session tomorrow merning. The sale was consummated in St. Paul, Mrs. Bowers having just returned from that city. Miss Finders has been employed as one of the high salaried miiliners of the Robinson-Straus com- pany of St. Paul. Mrs. Bowers will go to the Twin Cities where she will remain indefinitely. TEN CENTS PER WEEK COUNTY SEEKS $472 OF FORMER AUDITOR This Amount Alleged to Have Been Illegally Spent By Haymer for Clerk Hire. “HAD TO BE DONE” HE SAYS Declares His Action Had Backing of Attorney General and Public Ex- aminer’s Office, BONDSMEN NAMED IN THE SUIT J. P. Lahr and Matt Phibbs Includ- ed in Proceedings Brought By County Attorney Torrance. _ Acting on instructions from the board of county commissioners, who first put the matter up to Henry Funkley, who resigned before action was taken, County Attorney Graham M. Torrance has instituted proceed- ings against former County Auaitor R. C. Hayner and his bondsmen, J. P. Lahr and Matt Phibbs to recover $472.68, alleged to have been paid illegally “for clerk hire during Mr. Hayner’s 1910 term of office. There is no suggestion that Mr. Hayner maliciously misappropriated funds, the allegation merely being to the effect that he used more money in carrying on the work of his office than he was entitled by law to have. Hayner Sought Advice, “I have nothing to say regarding the matter,” said Mr. Hayner today, “other than the work was there to be done and I employed the help up- on advice from the attorney general and public examiner. As a matter of fact a considerable part of this mon- ey was paid in county warrants, ap- proved of by the board of céunty commissioners and favorably passed upon by the attorney general.” Under the laws which were in ef- fect last year, the auditor for Bel- trami county was allowed 1-4 of a mill on the assessed valuation up to $6,000,000 and 1-6 of a mill on the valuation above this figure. How It Came About. The county attorney alleges that during the year 1910, Mr. Hayner expended $2,013.83 while the as- sessed valuation at that time entitled him to spend but $1,541.15, and it is the difference between these two sums, together with interest at the legal rate of six per cent that the county is seeking to recover. The case probably will come up on the civil calendar for trial at the Sep- tember term of court here. Mr. Hayner has employed a Be- midji attorney to protect his inter- ests. STOPS HORSE; SAVES CHILDREN ‘Woman Grabs Runaway on Irvine Av- enue Viaduct This Afternoon. Running out on the viaduct over the Great Northern and Soo Line tracks on Irvine avenue at 3 p. m. today, an unknown woman grabbed the unbridled head of a runaway horse and brought the animal to a stop. In the vehicle, badly fright- ened were the two small daughters of John Flattley. Mr. Flattley had driv- en the animal to the brewery and ‘while inside the horse became fright- ened at steam blowing off the brew- ery engien, and dashing north a block on Mississippi avenue, turning east a block on Oak and then again tear- ing north on Irvine to the viaduct where it was caught, just as it reach- ed the top of that structure. Length of Moving Picture. The average length of a moving picture fiym is 1,000 feet. @ o o - i “NEHENA™ i - : o = — il ” ra V. - A wa = NG e —