Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 28, 1911, Page 1

TH VOLUME 9. NUMBER 103. TUBER MEN T0 SELL | 30,000 BUSHELS HERE This Amount of Potatoes at 75 Cents Assured as Result of Strong New Organization. PRESIDENT TO VISIT RAISERS| To Raise Fund to Guarantee Success- ful Operation for Association; Div- dend to Be Paid. MANAGER IS TO BE CHOSEN|: Takes Charge of Work, Obtaining Buyers and Ascertaining Who Wish to Sell. As a result of the meeting here Saturday of Beltrami county potato growers, who perfected an organiza- tion and elected officers, more than 30,000 bushels of potatoes, at not less than 75 cents a bushel, will be marketed in Bemidji this fall under the supervision of a paid manager of the organization. | The complete list of officers for the Potato Growers Association follows: President—Mort Pendergast, Be- midji. Vice-presidents—William Morris, Bemidji, and Cash Thompson, Black- duck. Secretary—Otto Bergh, Bemidji. Directors—J.* J. Opsahl, Bemidji; William Donlicker, Eckles; William Morris, Eckles; E. E. Schulke, Haga- li, and Otto Bergh, Bemidji. To Employ Manager. It was decided that an acting man—1 ager should be employed at once and that the president should proceed to ascertain just what growers wish to ~inscribe to_a working fund and that a complete list of the growers who have potatoes for sale be obtained and that arrangements be completed with some responsible buyer to pur- chase all the potatoes offered for sale here. As a result of the meeting here, it now remains for farmers who wish to sell potatoes to notify either Pres- ident Pendergast or Secretary Bergh. The following resolutions were adopted: “That the president be instructed and empowered to at once make a canvass for a guarantee fund to be subscribed by potato shippers and producers, in each of the villages in this vicinity, for which services he is to receive $4 a day and necessary traveling expenses, and “That said sums being the amount of $100, which sum each subscriber guarantees to pay his pro rata share to the directors of this association, if any losses should occur in carrying on the business, so that an assess- ment would be necessarry, and fur- ther, To Hold Back 10 Per Cent. “That the association holds back on all sales a commission of 10 per cent to cover all expenses of gath- ering statistics and selling the crop and the salary of the acting manager on these conditions. “That on the balancing the books of the association on December 1, 1911, that it is found that a balance remain above the expenses that such balance shall be paid out pro rata as dividends to the parties from whom the commissions were collected. “That the president and secretary be empowered to employ an acting manager to begin work not later than September 1 and to continue not longer than to November 1, at a sal- ary to be named later; to act under direct supervision of the president, subject to the order of the board of directors; further that the acting manager shall at once endeavor to es- tablish representatives at each local station and to gather such statistics relative to the crop to be marketed at each of those stations that can be had; to compile same and cause them to be spread before public and to further endeavor to bring buyers to Bemidji prepared to take care of all potatoes here and stations in this vicinity. To Meet Again Saturday. “Further that a stenographer be employed when necessary.” 1t was also agreed that no treas- urer should be named at this time but that the president and secretary designate one of the Bemidji banks to handle funds. Secretary Bergh said today: that the selectiofi of an acting manager would be made within the next few days. The board of directors will hold another meeting here next Sat- urday. | Rude x Grows Tobuea Xn! 3 Fcet Long, 18 Inches Wide Here. : On his farm 20 miles south of : Bemidji, H. J..Smith has an acre : of tobacco ready to pick. A sam- : : ple plant was brought to the Pio- : neer office today, and is on dis- : : play here, which measures 4 feet : : in height. s : One of the many leaves meas- : : ures 3 feet in length by 18 inch- : es in width. : i Cigarmakers tell Mr. Smith : : that the plants are worth from : 15 cents to $2.50 a pound. : This is the second year that : : Mr. Smith has raised tobacco and : : he is enthusiastic over its cul- : : ture as a profitable crop in : : Northern Minnesota. 3 : “If the farmers in this district : : but knew that $1,000 worth of : : tobacco could be grown on one : acre they would consider the : : problem seriously,” said Mr. : : Smith, who has made the tobac- : : co raising a study. “The plants : : T have on my farm can not be ex- : : celled anywhere in the United : : States outside of the far south.” : Revised List of Dead Prepared of Panic Stricken Spectators at Cannonsburg. BOY HEARS CLICK, YELLS “FIRE” Canonsburg, Pa., Aug. 28.—A re- vised list of the dead shows a total of 26 victims in the panic in the lit- tle Canonsburg opera house here Sat- urday night. Twenty-five others are in a serious condition and 30 more suffering minor hurts. All fatalities resulted from suffocation. The panic was inexcusable. During the performance the mov- ing pictore machine developed a slight defect. There was =g shar, clicking sound heard in the operaf ing room over-the rear of the audi- torium, a small boy shouted “Fire!” a brawny miner, Bolue Dubrowski, a foreigner, fled in terror down an aisle and in a few moments scores of people, most of them women and lit- tle children, were piled in a writhing, screaming, fighting mass in the stair- way leading from the street. Women and children were crushed and jammed as they struggled fran- tically to escape from the supposed conflagration. At the head of the stairs the big miner tripped and rolled down the steps, sweeping the others from their feet, who were standing in line, wait- ing for the second show. In a few seconds there was an in- describable jumble of human forms, those fleeing in terror and those who were struggling to enter the little play house. ESSENCE OF FINE BREEDING Manner Renders Its Owner Always Liable to Affront. In families well ordered there is always one firm and sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The essence of all fine breeding is in the gift of oscillation. A man who possesses every other title to our respect besides that of court- esy, is in danger of forfeiting them all. A rude manner renders its own- er always liable to affront. He is never without dignity who avoids wounding the dignity of others. CRAZE DOES AWAY WITH POSING Berlin Smart Set Having Portraits Sketched While in Slumbers. Tre latest crazy among the Berlin smart set is having one’'s portrait sketched or painted while asleep. The craze was started by an Austrian aristocrat, Countess Czivick, who, ac- cording to a current story, fell asleep while waiting in the atelier of a well- known painter. The painter found the countess so charming as she slumbered that he drew her in that condition. The portrait was a great success. WHEN BEECHER “HOLLERED” Daughter Protested She Had Seldom Heard Him When More Energetic. - Coming home from the morning service one Sunday Dr. Beecher threw himself on a lounge and said, in a tone of deep dejection: “I be- lieve that was the worst sermon I ever preached.” One of his daugh- ters protested that she had seldom heard him when he was more ener- getic. “Oh, yes,” was the impatient reply, “When I haven’t anything to say 1 always holler.—The Outlook. 26 DIE AT PICTURE SHOW! NDIANSHOOTS SELF; MOTHER AT HIS SIDE White Earth Brave Pulls Out Revol- ver and Sends Bullet Into Brain— Relatives Present. WEARY OF “WHITE” MAN’S LIFE Health Appeared to Be Good and On- | ly Excuse Said to Be Restraint of Civilization. INQUEST APPEARS UNNECESSARY Death was Instantaneous and Suicide So Apparent That Investigation is Unlikely. Wearied by the strife and turmoil of the white man's civilization, Herb Hutchinson, a full blooded Chippe- wa Indian, suddenly whipped out a revolver Sunday morning in the presence of his mother and sister, sent a bullet through his head and fell dead. The shooting took place in the Robinson house on the White Earth reservation. First Indian Suicide. This is the first case of an Indian committing suicide ever recorded on the White Earth reservation. The Indian who was 49 years old, had apparently been in good health and is not believed to have had any mental disorder. Hutchinson arose yesterday morn- ing as usual and ate breakfast, and appeared to be in his usual spirits, He remained indoors. His mother and sister came into the room :in le’ he was sitting, when _he sprang to his feet aid with a yell,| pulled the trigger of a 22 caliber re- volver. But One Bullet Fired. There was but one bullet fired and that was sufficient to cause instant death, as it was embedded in the red man’s brain... He fell in his tracks and was beyond the frantic efforts of his mother and sister to safe his life. Reservation officials were notified as was also the coroner of Clearwater county, as the Robinson home is not far from that place, in Clearwater county. No Inquest Likely. The suicide was so apparent that it is not believed that an inquest will be held. It is believed that the Indian simp- ly grew tired of trying to live like 2 white man while the call of the wild was appealing to his Indian na- ture. WALKER SANATORIUM COSTLY Board of ‘Control Admits Institution is Not All That Could be Desired. The State Board of Control ad- mits that the conditions at the Walker sanatorium are not as per- fect as it wishes and that it has written the superintendent ordering him to change his system of manage- ment in certain respects. “The institution always has been a difficult thing to handle, as the pa- tients treated, as a class, are very hard to suit,” said P. M. Ringdal, chairman,” “and it is located in a country where it is very hard to get fresh fruit. “It cost us last year $203.40 per capita for the food alone at the Walk- er institution, while the next highest per capita cost, that of the Red Wing reformatory, is only $61.27.” “We realize that in some respects the institution may not be as per- fect as it should be and we have tak- en steps to improve it,” said C. E. Vasaly. “The bad potatoes referred to by Dr. H. L. Taylor were not re- turned as he stated, but they were sorted and more than 263 bushels were thrown away.” -Night ‘School at Bemidji Business College now open for both ladies and gentlemen. Individual instruction, any branch you want. Special rates this week. Call or phone. An Early Award. “Do you think there is anything creditable in that man Skinnum’s past?” “Well,” replied the, discreet man, “I understand that somewhere among his effects he has a mug with the sentence ‘For a Good Boy, printed on in gilt letters. But, of course, I have no way of knowing how he came by 1t.” (Copyright, 1911.) “LEANS” WIN, T 4 Angular” llgfllen of U. C. T. Have Fat Brothers Near Heart Failure in Wild Game. LA RUE KNOCKS BALL 4 MILES In a six inning gamé, featured by perspiration and error, iooge-joint- ed lantern-jawed. “Leap” members of "the Bemidji Cémmere fTavelers-or~ ganization defeated the fat prune peddlers by a score of 12 to 4. From an exhibition standpoint, it ‘was a great game. Lycan and Koors, battery for the “Fats,” made a great showing, even after a mile a minute ball had wounded Koors in his po- sition behind the bat. LaRue start- ed in to pitch but fell asleep in the fourth inning, the Leans improving the opportunity to hop around the diamond like a merry-go-round at 9 o’clock on Saturday night. Hotel- keeper Lycan celebrated his entrance into the box by feeding them a goose egg the first inning he pitched. Friendship forbids that anything be sald about what happened in ths next inning. Fields and Busding -acted as the battery for the Leans and except for the balls hit and balls not caught, showed up well. The longest hit was made by La- Rue. He caught the ball square on the nose and it went sky.rocketing over the pine trees for a distance of 4-miles, 16 rods and 20 feet. As LaRue made second safely, it at first was suspected that the bill went far- ther, but it didn’t. Irvine, who played left field for the Leans made a great muff when, much to his surprise a high one, came his way. He stuck up his mitts in “a baby-wants-to-come attitude. The ball bounced out of his hands and Irvine kicked to the umpire be- cause it hurt his thumb. Denu, whom the spectators at first took for a cedar pole near third base, lammed out a two bagger, running the two bases in four steps. Monte and Conger, who acted as umpires, escaped because everybody forgot, to bring any brickbats. Wilbur Lycan, official score keep- er, accused of shading the figures in favor of his Marty-O'Toole dad, offers the following post mortem statement: can, p; Koors ¢; Browning 1b; Ly- can 2b; Ellison 3b; Vandersleus ss; - | Pope rf; Hewitt cf; Young If; Leans —TFields p; Burding c¢; Ebert 1b; ‘Hagen 2b; Denu 3b; Noll ss; Os- borne rf; Tabor cf; Irvine 1f. Score by innings: R. H. E. Fats . ....121000 4 6 6 Leans ..1,03503 1212 3 As the “Fats” and “Leans” each imagine they have won'a game, the rabber will be pulled on Saturday of this week. Sign of Superiority. “Some of ‘the primitive - instincts linger in the -highest civilation,” said the statesman. “Yes,” - replied the ethnologist; “many of our com- idea savages all have that a man who manages: to get possession’ of & high silk hat'is thereby ‘qualified-to be a The line-up. Fats—LaRue and Ly-| munity cannot get away from the|> POPPPPVPPOOOOOOO ¢ Outside News Condensed. ¢ POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WINNIPEG.—Severe frost has damaged standing crops in northern Manitoba, around Regina and in nor- thern Saskatchewan. Ice formed there Saturday night. MANCHESTER, N..Y.—Two more passengers of the Lehigh Valley train number. 4, which was wrecked near here Friday noon, died yesterday, in creasing the toll of victims to 29. TORONTO, ONT.—An enormous crowd was in attendance today at the official opening of the Canadian Nationsl Exhibition by his Excel- lency- Warl Grey, Governor-General of Canada. The exhibition *will con- tinue until September 11. ST. JOHN, N. B.—Sir Wilfrid Lau: rier came to St. John today to begin a week’s campaign in the-Maritime Provinces. In addition to this ecity the Premier is scheduled for ad- dresses in Digby, Halifax and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Charlotte- town, P. E. I, and Moncton. N. B. ATLANTA, GA.—A number of noted prelates of the Roman Catholic church have arrived in Atlanta to attend the consecration of Rev. John E. Gunn as bishop of Natchez, Miss. Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans will officiate at the ceremony, which will take place tomorrow morning in Sacred Heart church. HOLLAND, MICH.—Walter Hop- per, coming to Holland in company with Grace Lyons of Chicago, on board the steamer Puritan, engaged in a quarrel with her, which grew to such an extent that he grabbed her and threw her overboard, just over the Illinois-Michigan water line. The boat was stopped immediately, but the body of the woman was not found. RED WING, MINN.—Official rep- resentatives of Wisconsin and Min- nesota are to meet here tomorrow to engage in a joint inspection of the disputed boundary line dividing the two states at Lake Pepin and in the Duluth-Superior harbor. It is the desire of both Commonwealths that the controversy may be settled without recourse to the Federal courts. ELGIN, ILL.—The 305 mile road race Saturday, won by Len Zenga, in a National with Harry Grant second and Hugh Hughes third, was not ac- complished without its toll of death and injuries. Dave Buck, a veteran Chicago automobile racer was with- in 11 laps of the finish and going at & rate of 64 miles an hour on the back stretch when the right forward wheel threw a tire, the machine turned a complete somersault and S. Jacobs, a machinist, was killed in- stantly, his neck being broken. May Be Overdone. Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, at a dinner, defended the laws against Sunday breaking, indecent literature, etc. “But these laws,” objected a sociologist, “undermine our freedom.” “Freedom,” said Bishop Mallalieu, “ig a good thing, but let us not make too much of it. In Pennsylvania, for instance, a man is free to marry his mother-in-] law, but no man -ever does.” New Ground for Enterprise. The vast. interior of the South American continent, ‘amounting to, some 5,000,000 square miles, is com- mercially undeveloped and in many leader.” parts. unexplored. - i 3 FIRE VICTIMS GET BUSY Baudette and Spooner Sufferers of Conflagration Pushing $800,000 Against Railways. 29 NEW SUITS ARE STARTED Developments have started in.the $800,000 suit which the insurance ‘egmpanies’ apecbringing against the Canadian: Northern, as g resylt of losses sustained in the fire that de- stroyed Baudette and Spooner. Mr. Buffington an attorney of Minneapo- lis, has arrived in Baudette to look after the interests of the companies. It is his intention to put men in the field and to have them thoroughly ex- amine the country adjoining the two villages and to collect &1l available information that would help out their case. The Rdiny River Region of Bau- dette says: “The railway people are not be- hind in this respect as they have had a gang of men along the line between here and Williams for the last two ‘weeks. These men are working under the name of surveyors but are in reality collecting information for the company to be used in the defense at the fire suits. “The outcome will be watched with interest as the result means a lot to the people whose homes were de- stroyed in the fire. If the insurance companie§ can win we all have a good chance to collect for our losses. “Twenty-nine new suits were started recently against the company. They were instituted by residents of the territory between Williams and Zippel. Lorring and Chilgren have charge of the cases.”” MANY .FIRMS FACE TROUBLE Bemidji Institutions Fail to File in Accordance With New Law. Those who are engaged in business under a partnership and who have not already filed with the clerk of the district court a statement of the character of their business, the loca- tion and the names of those inter- ested in the company, had better do so at once for even now, under the law passed at the last legislature, they are guilty of a misdemeanor. The act was approved April 19, 1911. Not-only is the firm guilty of a misdemeanor but the fact that they have not complied with the law in carrying on their business may be used against them in court. The standing in court, in other words, is impaired through failure to comply with the law. A fee of 25 r:ents is wllected by the ¢lerk for the filing of the in- formation. The act was passed especially for the merchants and business men of the home town, it is understood. It is & certain means of protection for home business people against tran- sieats who come for: but a few days, advertise under a high sounding mname, 2nd whose .business methods are sometimes said to be shady. Of ‘all ‘such firms doing business in Bemidji, only about 12 have filed the requh'ad statements: - = . - BEHAN,INPROVED,T0 TELL MORE OFDUMAS Alleged Robber Wounded at Puposky in Wisconsin For Health, to Come and Testify, WOUNDS SAID TO HAVE HEALED Tuberculosis Which Physicians Say Will Kill Him, Appears to Have Somewhat Checked. JANES TO ST. PAUL TONIGHT Father of Accused Man Arrives and Probably Remain Several Days to Assist Son, It is not denied by persons repre- senting the state in the case against Dr. Dumas that Billy Behan, who ‘was wounded in the fight at Puposky on the night of June 16 and who gave testimony at the preliminary hearing here against the Cass Lake mayor, will be a witness before the grand jury which meets week after next, and that lhe will again go on the stand against Dr. Dumas, if an in- dictment is returned. Now Out on Bonds. Following Behan’s open court con- fession, he was released -on bonds and was taken at once by relatives - to Northern Wisconsin, where he has since remained. Physicians said at the time that Behan was suffering from tuberculosis and that he must have quiet and open air if he was to live for any length of time. Now it is learned that Behan hasg improved in health and that he is physically able to stand the coming ordeal, which; it is asserted, he will =~ gosthrough With and give even more . minute descriptions of his alléged connectiong with Dr. Dumas and Mike Davis, the escaped robber, than he has so far offered. Wounds Have Healed. Behan’s wounds received from the guns of Deputy Sheriff Norman Hel- mer and Detective Fielding have healed. Assistant Attorney General Janes, who has been in the city for several days working on the case as chief prosecutor, returns to St. Paul to- night. v Dr. Dumas’ father came north Sat- urday and probably will remain here until after the proceedings against his son are ended. The elder Dumas resides in Minneapolis. He is asso- ciated with the W. S. Nott company of that city and is a highly respected citizen. Dumas Keeps Quiet. Dr. Dumas spends much of his time in Bemidji, and while he adheres closely to instructions from his chief counsel, Judge Marshall A. Spooner, not to talk for publication, he man- ages to bring a word or two in as to his opinion, which isn’t exactly flat- tering of those who are acting against him and persistently reiterates. his declaration that. when the proper time comes he will establish his com- plete innocence beyond a question of doubt. LOST ON LAKE ALL NIGHT Walker Tailor’s: Cries for Help At- tract Nothing But Mosquitoes. “Benson, the tailor, had quite an experience in Leech river near Fed- eral Dam last week by getting lost with his eighteen foot launch the ‘Solitaire’ in the bog,” says the edi- tor of the Walker Pilot. “Not being familiar with the river channel he soon found himself hem- med in on all sides with-bog and un- able to find a way out as approach- ing darkness spoiled all surrounding scenery. 7 “His cries for help attracted noth- ing but mosquitoes who decided to hold a barbecue off Benson but he spoiled their plans by lighting a lan- tern and sticking it in the bow of the boat while he reposed in the stern. . “Remaining there all night he was rescued lafe the next morning by an Indian who had found a mosquitoe in the ‘woods with a needle and three spools of thread under its wing and he knew that there was a tailor some- where in the vicinity. “Since returning to Walker, Ben- son has been busy calking up the holes in the Solitaire made by skeet- er bills. + for wine mnking b’egan in Florida in ~ Culture of the grape 1n America