Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 11, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEE INNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. — VOLUME 9. NUMBER 115. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. BEAUTY, TRAGEDY ON BIG LAKES TRIP Sail of Nearly 1,600 Miles From Du-r luth, Filled With String of In- teresting Events. ! 7 PERSONS DROWN NEAR TOLEDO | | | Giant Steel Freighter Crashed Onto| Launch Crushing It In Two as if | It Were Eggshell. BOAT HAS A REAL BELL BOY| ustles Passengers to Dine Every. !has the only marine postoffice on the | land on to the Maume river where is| Morning at 5:45--What it | is Like. | RY F. WILSON. ! 1t is miles from Duluth to] Buffalo on the water, and it seems | farther than that if the lake happens| to be rough. To Toledo, Ohio, from | Bemidji it is approximately 900 miles. The trip is made on a hard shelled boat longer thana presi-| dent's message—but more substanti- | al. The James E. Davidson. a mem-\ ber of the Tomlinson fleet, i lhe vessel in mind. It is 545 feel long in its stocking feet, carries 10,000 tons burden without missing a step, is coated with a slab of steel and is| garnished with a passenger deck, | which means sun parlors. state rooms | with brass beds, steam heat. electric‘ lights, hot and cold water, two port| holes and a nervous disposition. | Ore down and coal back is me‘ principle excuse for these boats, al- though passengers and other junk| are now and then found on board. No passages are sold, persons sailing the freighters being -the guests of | the hoat owners. The boats skip| along at about the spced of a small | boy leaving the schoolhouse after his| arduo day’s duties—that is to say | from 12 to 15 miles an hour. ll‘ takes from 8 to 10 days, 600 or so| tons of fuel for the engines and a| couple of tons of food for the pass-| engers and deck hands to make the | round trip. x o | Infant of Mrs. Theodore Hall of Wil- | Usually you leave Duluth about] naon in disgust and a cold wind. The; section bo Captain Stevenson. in| this particular case, points the for-| ward part of the boat-the bow. or! whatever its nose is nautically | termed toward the center of the aerial bridge channel and the engi-| neer yanks the throttle open a couple | of yards and the first the passengers | |teet of steel, | Superior from not butting in where {opened. ‘go\ernment their resolve not to miss a crum and 3 i amanevcent nasavty tne oo | RICHIE HOME; TELLS —were happy and gay when Sault Ste. Marie and her famous locks came OF PLANS Fok FAIR along.” From Superior the boats go down stairs something like 30 or 40 (eet to the St. Mary’s river which |stream, although a bit narrow chest- ed, lands you into Lake Huron. It|Judges for Stock and Farm Exhibits may seem like quite a stunt for 545| Nu;eq Mre Arnold Appointed wood and a mountain 3 5 of coal or ore to climb down stairs, | Women's Superintendent. or go upstairs, but it isn’t. The pre- cess is simple. Going down the bost slips into an artifieially couslructellPROGMM BEGINS ON THUBSDAY channel, resting its iron nose on a! gate which holds the water back - from the next lock, several feet be- low. A gate behind is closed to keed 'Eytries Close at Noon Wednesday, Many Stock Displays Already Hav- ing Been Assured. she isn’t wanted, and the gate ahead Down tettles the boat until | the river level is reached, the gate ! is opened and away you go, by lhei — . (800, and down the river made navig- | able at a tremendous cost by theIMAYOR MAY DECLARE HOLIDAY * % l It doesn’t take long, about 36 hours | {0 cross Huron, float down the fan:- |Propesed That Friday Be Made Be- ous St. Clair with her fascinating| midji Day And Effort to Break | summer homes, slip by Detroit, which | Records ver to Erie | —_—— i lak s, down the Detroit With the arrival of Secfetary A. P. the old Essex, a Perry relic of the war; | Ritchie from uf 1812, declare the Toledo people, | nllhongh none of the sailors now on |scenes of activity began at the fair board will admit having participated | grounds for the annual Beltrami in that little mixup with the Brit-{oo,,0y exposition which is to e held | {ish. The boat is now used as a "a‘m‘here on Wednesday, Thursday and training boat. | Friday of this week. Mr. Ritchie was not down cast ov- At the entrance of the Maume, 2| oy gnowing made by Beltrami few hours before the Davidson | {County at the state fair, believing Iploughed her way in, seven officials | jiat when the most northerly coun. lof the city of Toledo on their Way 10| " of the state could come within |spend Labor day fishing at Put i ypirey points of first place that the Bay, ran their launch directly in effort was well worth while. | front of a coal laden freighter on the way up. The launch was crushed in Thousands Despite Rain. two, five men mangled to death, a! “Although our position was fourth sixth drowned and the seventh es-|in the northern section,” said Mr. |caped after he had gone down inside | Ritchie, “all the leading north state the cabin by breaking a window and |counties were closely bunched. The climbing out. The Phillip Minch, rain continued almost incessantly which crushed the launch, stopped |during most of the week but never- | and picked up the sole survivor. To_llheless there were thousands of visi- ledo papers printed nothing else for | tOrs- three days. Five of the bodies were| “All the perishable exhibits, such recovered. .|as vegetables and fruits, were given Hamline yesterday e P After all is said and done, Diamond | Will 0t ‘be shown here and intend- Point, the outlet, Grand Forks bay ing exhibitors should bear this in and Bemidji make a pleasing little | mind. 5 package that is hard to beat. | Exhibits Arrive Tomorrow. ———y | “The remaining exhibits have been | packed and will arrive in Bemidji to- DIES IN DR DUMAS’ ARMS‘morrow morning in charge of Chas. Schroeder. Mr. Jarchow, who assist- xed with the exhibits, returned with {me yesterday.” Mr. Ritchie was busy today with \ms assistants here, getting the fair ton Dies on Train Just Out of grounds into shape. He appointed Cass Lake. | Mrs. F. . Arnold as superintendent of the woman's building. A new floor is being laid. Other improvements are being made on the ground. W. MOTHER WAS TRAVELING ALONEEC. 'Klein has been appointed super- iintendent of the buildings and Chas. Schroeder superintendent of the stock. While on her way with her three| {to the Orphan’s Home so that theyjand one _hunter,_who was unable to 1 w.srw’ A PEAR WOULD COME ALONG Copyright. 181L) THE HUNTING SEASON OPENS ® ® R R R RCRORRORCY UTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © POOOOOPROOOOOO GRAB GREEDY SPORTSMEN| ®® o0 @ The Oregon State Fair opened at Game Warden Bailey Causes Arrest| Salem today. of Net Users and Hunter Who | The first free Catholic high school | Shoots Partridges. in the Brooklyn diocese was opeuem ) o students today. “Fudge,” a St. Lonis Boston ter- rier20 inches long, swzllowed a ten inch hat pin and survived the veter- inarin removed it. ALL GUILTY AND PAY FINES Archbishop Ireland reached his 72 birthday anniversary today and was the recipient at St. Paul of mesflxes of congratulation from friends and admirers Th many parts of the world. | Fishermen who had formed a habit of catchihg fish illegally with a net run aoross chidkens or ducks -and killed some partridges were gathered | in by S. C. Bailey, of this city, Bel- The new Bushwick Theater, largest trami county’s game warden, at the |in the country, devoted exclusively to beginning of the open season for vandeville, opened in Brooklyn to- hunting some varieties of small|day. The new playhouse cost $250,- game. 000 and has a seating capacity of Andrew Williams of Nymore was| 2,500. arrested by Mr. Bailey and charged with netting fish in the Mississippi river, east of the outlet of Lake Be-| midji. Such‘strong showing was | 4 o made to Williams that when he was |~ C/ lister, tried for :cond degrec taken before Municipal Judge Pen-| ''C":Y¥: Won his acquital from the dergast in this city he pleaded guilty [1"TY- and paid a fine of $12 and costs, which was assessed against him by | the judge. John Martin, who lives at Fowlds, this county, paid $12 and costs for killing partridges, contrary to the law, the open season for partridges In New York because he insisted on faking cath to tell ti¢ truth on a :ittl» pocket bible he ra:ried, George The biggest event of the year in | Western turf circles took place today, | | when the new $75,000 plant of the Coeur d’'Alene, Tdaho, Fair and Rac- ing Association was opened for a 36- days’ meeting. know Lake Superior 1s slipping along small children from Hibbing, where under you with Duluth and Chester |she had been visiting, to her home| A. Congdon’s .million-dollar-right-in- |at Wilton, Mrs. Theodore Hall be-| the-city-farm fading awa | came hysterical when she found that tance. This causes you to admire her youngest child, less than a yearJ the captain, the engineer and the ! old, was dying. | i | Loat owners. | Dr. D. F. Dumas, >f Cass Lake, was | | on the train and offered his services. If your stomach is strong and the He took up the child, but it was past vou dine at 5:30 medical aid and died in a few min-| p. m. AU S or 9 p. m. you curl up'utes in the arms of th~ doctor. and sleep as sound as a dog on the| The mother continued on her way| front door mat until 5-45 a. m. when | to Wilton where she will meet her| you are awakened by a large, boister- | husband. ous. business like bell in the hands of| The child had been ill all day and| a small sailor who as a ringer of bells its condition became so serious by the | has grandpa and his declaration of | time the Great Northern train on independence toy sounding like the | which the mother was riding reached tiny tinkling of a brass bell on Cass Lake she began to cry and dollie’s wrist. 1f the lad becomes as |scream for aid. lake wind is weak | been notified that at least four herds; Stock Exhibit Assured. The stock exhibit promises to be Jarger than ever before. A car load of animals will be shipped in from Pinewoed and Secretary Ritchie has being October 1. caught catching pike with a net and he meekly paid out $12 and costs for his indiscretion. Mr. Bailey says that the hunters of cattle will be entered for the $50 | who have taken to the fields and silver cup now on exhibition in the Barker window. All entries for the fair will close iat 2 Pp. m. on Wednesday. The first day will be given entirely over to en- tries and arranging the exhibits. Judges Are Announced. Judges for the stock and farm ex- hibits have been announced as fol-| GUN FAILS; STEPS ON CHICKEN lows: —f= A. J. McGuire, superintendent |After Unsuccessful Hunt, Conrad La- Northeast Experimert Station, Grand Jambe Finally Doe: Get Bird. of the small game law with commend- able strictness. Those who are returning from their first hunting trips are bringing in nice bags of ducks and chickens. William Martin of Nymore was | streams are observing the provisions | proficient in other things as he is in ripging that bell, he will be captain of a battleship before Bryan is elect- ed president. | . e s i You get a gilmpse of Isle Royale, | the rock bound refuge of summer| tourists and many other kinds of fish. | Then comes the scrub spruce lined| shores of Michigan, as bleak, forlorn and desolate as a Minnesota senator who last winter voted for reappor-| tionment. But, like a hero in rags, | appearances are deceptive for here is| to be found vast copper mines. the wealth of any one of which exceeds that of a barrel of sugar at its pres- ent cost. Then comes Kewanaw | Point, which is a good place to keep away from. A few weeks ago the( captain of the good ship ‘vloorland\ failed to do this, and now the Moor- land and her precious cargo of iron ore are still there. The boat went on the rocks, never to come Off. They have cut her in two, carrying | away the aft part with the valuable mackinery. The remainder of the vessel, nearly 600 feet long, is, upon admission of her ownes, a member of the lake grave yard. s x Superior is the roughest of all the great lakes and White Fish Point is | the roughest point of all, but White Fish and his churn failed to baffle the passengers of the Davidson in | mas happened along. (mas this afternoon, |able and unassuming $ean is form- linto ill-repute. It was at this point (hat Dr. Du- I took the child up, ' said Dr. Du- “but I saw at once that death was about to claim | it.-The child was suffering from bow- | el trouble.” Cheese is now being made from the soja bean. The hitherto respect~| ing associations that may bring it Columbus, Ohio.—Mrs. Haver, 50 | today celebrated the wedding of her daughter, Anna, 24, by also getting| married. She married Matthew Wil- lis, while her daughter was wedded to George Scheid at the Haver home. St. Louis—After many months! spent in England in study, the Rev. James W. Lee has r:wrned with ‘Washington was a dire t descendant‘ of William the Conquer. | New York—Attacked by Jerseyr mosquitoes J.P. Morgan, anchored in | New York harbor in hLis yacht Cor-| sair for the night, ordered the cap-| tain to steam up the Hudson. | Boston—Having mnde $500,000 from selling Bostonians chop suey, and other dishes Kang Po sailed for Canton , China to sperd the rest of what he says is proof that George| ¥ Rapids; Professor Otto Bergh, agri- cultural instructor of the Bemidji High School and Professors Brown Thomas Cooper of the St. Anthony's Agricultural College. Thursday will be known as “Farm- er’'s day” angd a line of special attarc- tions, including automobile races, pony and foot races will be held. An effort is being made to have Friday the biggest day in the history of the fair association. Mayor Parker will be asked to issue a proclamation de- claring a holiday and the schools will be closed. Children will be admitted free. " Music will be furnished on Thurs- day and Friday by the Bemidji Band. COMMERCIAL CLUB TO MEET President Burke Urges Full Attend- ance Tomorrow Evening. 3 There will be a meeting of the Be- |midji Commercial Club in the new jclub rooms in the Nangle block to- morrow evening. Business of unusu- al importance will come up for trans- LaJambe went out aftar chickens yes- terday. They went south into Hub- bard county and all day long coveys flew at intervals frequent enough to make the sport interesting. Mr. La- Jambe had modestly admitted that if given a fair shot, he would make his investment in gunpowder pay divi- dends. As time wore on and the tinued to carry an empty game bag. It was puzzling but nevertheless true. Just as the sun was sinking and the cloak of darkness threatened to end the day’s sport, a bird was spied and LaJambe should have a try for its hide. Cautiously he crept upon his |bird and when He had reached the| spot where he was sure that bird had disappeared he searched the sur- rounding tract ‘in vain for the fowl.| Then the Given boys came. “What are you standing on?” queried one of them. LaJambe lcoked down at ihis feet, and there under one foot was a prairie chicken. James and Nat Given and Conrad | shells wore away, Mr. LaJambe con- | it was agreed that the unlucky Mr. | action at that time and President | Thomas Burke urges that all mem~4 Michigan City’ City, 'nd.—Warden bers be present to take part in the E. J. Fogarty of the state prison| deliberations. It is lhikely that sug-]here took three “lifers” for an auto gestions relative to the proposed cel- | ride to Laporte and when they saw ebration of the acquisition of the new {and electric car for fhe first time home of the club will come up fortwo eollapsed from mnervous excite-|aation of the proceeding is not ex- his days in luxury. consideration at that time. - {memt - - . ! Noted physicians, scientists, jur- ists.and various other representatives of the leading countries of the world ‘zathered at The Hague today at the | l opening of the Thirteenth Interna- | tional Congress Against Alcoholism, the sessions of which are to continue for one week. i tisee and M. L. Morse in the former’s | |launch, came along and took the par- i The Appalachian Exposition, de- voted to a display of the resources| and industries of the entire Appala-‘ chian region, was opened in Knox- | | ville, Tenn., today, to continue untll[ | the end of September. President Taft, | | Governor Harmon of Ohio, William | J. Bryan and Champ Clark are sched- uled to speak later in the month. | The superintendents of the various | national parks, with Secretary Fish- er, Assistant Secretary Thompson and other officials of the Department of | the Interior, have assembled in the Yellowstone National Park for a six days' conference that is expected to | result in important changes in the methods of administration of the na- | tional parks. If plans discussed at Cincinnati to- day at a meeting of the executive |committee of the United Brewery | Workers of America are carried out, the near future will see the estab- lishment of an accident fund and a pension system for the brewery work- ers of the entire country. It is pro- ‘pcsed to raise the fund through con- tributions of both employer and em- ploye. | What is regarded as one of the | most important freight rate investi- | | zations ever conducted by the Inter- | state Commerce Commission was in- \augurated at Oklahoma City today \wxlh the initial hearing for the tak-| ing of evidence in regard to the rates | on livestock, packing house products \ and-fresh meats. Following the tak- |ing of evidence in this city the com- mission will hold hearings in other cities, including Fort Worth, Kansas { City and Chicago. A final determi~ pected before next spring. |timate terms with a uustler. j | | | served. FOUR FALL INTO LAKE Two School Teachers With Escorts Bump Into Pile; One Turns Somer- sault; Hobble Skirts Handicap. SAVED BY SKIFF AND LAUNCH! While spinning along in Lake Ir- win near the outlet at 7 o’clock last eveningea- motor equ'r:ped canoe oc- cupied - by Miss- Minnie- Lyon: a Miss Dorothy Clark, and their es- corts, Carl Hanson and Joseph Ander- son, ran onto a slanting piling, upset and dumped its passergers into wa- ter that came up to their necks. The two young women are instruc- tors”in the Bemidji public schools. When the crash came Miss Lyons improved the opportunity to do the prettiest somersault ever seen outside a three ring circus. Nome of the drenched party was injured and all were soon rescued but not without a few more thrills, the narrow skirts worn by the young women handi- capping the efforts of the rescuers to pull the canoe victims out of the wa- ter. = At the time of the accident, John | Kline with his family was fishing from a row boat nearby. John im- proved the opportunity to get in line for a hero medal, by rowing over and offering what assistance he could. In a few more seconds Mr. LaFon- | ty on board, the men gallantly offer- | ing their coats to the fair young school teachers. A quick run was made to shore and |just to let the lake know that they bore it no ill will the wet, but still happy, quartet sang, “Bounding Un- |der the Bounding Waves, That’s the Life for Me.” Hard luck never gets on very in- Success has a noticcable way of | courting the man who never says quit. The trusts are undisturbed when one of their crooked deals is un- earthed. They have discovered there| is more than wey of skinning the cat. A keyhole isn’t nearly as hard to find at 2 or 3 o’clock ia the morning as it will be to find in heaven some of those fellows who spend so much time hunting for keyicles at that unseasonable time. London—Because a!msboxes in the Westminister cathedra: were. often robbed at night, bull dogs have been placed on guard to wath them after dark. Berne—After twelve years the bedy of an electrician named Kum- mer has been found frozen in the Leetchen Glacier, perfectly pre- Be shy of the girl who never gives a thought to helping her mother with the work when you are ready to take her ‘somewheri. - She may be as thoughtless of you in days to come. * Chicago.—An old fashioned spell- ing bee on the biggest scale ever atempted will have the 14,600 pu- pils of the Kane county, Illinois, schools as contestants Will start WILD REPORTS ON EVE DUMAS CRISIS Range All the Way From Alleged Violence to Janes to Lffort to Pack the Jury . {GRAND JURY MEETS TOMORROW Expected to at Once Take Up Charg- es Again Mayor Dumas of Cass Lake. : FULLERTON SCOUTS THE RUMORS Pack Jury Will Make No Differ ence With Pians, iDeclares Report Effort Had Been to [ On the eve of the meeting of the | Beltrami County grand jury, which is to consider the case of Dr. D. F. Du- {mas, mayor of Cass Lake, accused by Pinkerton detectives and state fire . marshal officials of being a safe rob- ber and incendiary, all sorts of rum- ors of new sensations and develop- ments are afloat. These reports include everything from plans to assassinate assistant attorney general, Alexander L. Janes, who is here with Assistant Fire Mar- shal Sam Fullerton to aid in present- ing the case for the state to the re- port that Dr. Dmpas is 2bout to make {a confession, plead guilty and don his uniform of stripes. These Things are Known. About the only absolute faets ob- tainable are that tire grand jury will meet here tomorrow, that it will be instructed by Judge Stantonm, that it and lmay take up.the Duqas case, that an.— jindictment Ts practically assured and__ that Martin Behan, the wounded Pu- posky bandit who escaped while his pal, Mike Davis, safely took to the tall timbers, is on his way here to again repeat his story on the witness stand of his alleged conniving with Dr. Dumas for the burning of the post office building at Puposky. That detectives, how many no one knows, are employed on both sides also is an established fact and that strange things happen to letters ad- dressed to prominent figures in the Beltrami tragedy which is now reach- ing a crisis is likewise known to be - true. From those representing the state comes the same old familiar assertion that the end is not yet, that Dr. Du- mas is not the only one involved or that he is even the most deeply in- volved of the men whom the state ex- | pects to lead to the bar of justice. “If we do not get at least two oth- er men in Cass Lake we shall be {keenly disappointed,” was Mr. Ful- lerton’s comment. The assistant fire marshal expressed his belief that a fair trial by an impartial jury could be obtained in Bemidji. Scouts Crooked Work Rumor. “We have had reports,” he said, “that influences were at work to cor- rupt the sheriff in this case in an effort to produce a packed jury and while this information comes from an apparently reliable source, we placed little or no credence in it. We believe that Sheriff Hazen will do his duty and that a jurv of fair mind- ed men will be obtained who will consider the evidence for what it is worth. 1 hazard no guess as to the outcome, but if a crime has been com- mitted, society demands that the per- petrator pay the penalty for wrong doing. 1 can honestly say that it | would please me more to have Dr. Dumas establish his innocense than to see him convicted. The state, however, would be false to the peo- ple of the north if it did not attempt to wipe out the lawlessness which has been such a curse to your people.” Janes Takes a Rest. Assistant Attornsy Janes declares he has the evidence in good shape and is anxious to present it. By way of relaxation he went out for a little hunting trip yesterday, to bag prai- rie chickens and shot four ducks. Judge Spooner, chief counsel for Dr. Dumas, returned yesterday from a short hunting outing in Clearwa- ter County and spent a few hours in Cass Lake in consultation with Dr. Dumas, returning to Bemidji on the afternoon train. Ashtubula, Ohio.—“I Know a bar- gain when I see one, by heck,” de- clared James L. Smith who bought three coffins at the cetennial cele- bration. He said he wanted one-for himself and two for his father and mother. soon and end next spring.