Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 13, 1911, Page 1

THE " MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOLUME 9. NUMBER 117. FAIR OPENS TODAY; BIG DAY TOMORROW Numerous Exhibits in Place, Vege- tahlé and Grain and Stock Be- 3 ing Features. MAYOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION Declares Friday Half Holiday and Ef- fort Will Be Made to Break At- tendance Record. BAND TO FURNISH THE MUSIC Several Mcx-(ghnxxts Arrange Booths! and Grounds in General are Scenes of Activity. | Beltrami county's annual agricult- ural and stock exhibition opened in this city today with a long list of en- tries in almost every department. Unusually elaborate displays of vegetables and stock exhibits appear so far to feature the fair which will extend over Friday. Today is Entry Day. Today was merely entry day, and no visitors were on the grounds. Tomorrow the crowds will swarm in and view what Secretary A. P. Ritchie assures the public is the big- gest and best fair the county ever has had. Two Big Days. Both tomorrow and Friday will be big days. Friday has been designated “Bemidji day"” and Mayor Parker has issued a prociamation declaring a half holiday. The schools will be closed and busi- ness houses will close at noon for the afternoqn program. No Pioneer Friday. 3 The Daily will print at noon. Automobile races will feature to- morrow afternoon’s program. These races will start at 3 p. m. Thete will be a woman's race be- tween Miss Harriet Cochrane and Miss Olive Curtiss, a distance of three miles: Pioneer One 5 Mile Dash. One matched five mile race, piston displacement under 300, between | John Moberg and Chad Jewett. This race is to be best two out of three. The private owners race is to be the feature of the program. This race will be free for all, cars to be fully equipped, meaning that all the equip- ments, top and everything will be left on, with the privilege of taking off the muffler if the owner wishes, This race is to be an Australian pur- suit race, all cars to start from a| standing start and will be placed at equal distances apart around the track, Passed Cars to Drop Out. As soon as a car is passed it will drop out of the track, Chad Jewett will attempt to lower the track rec-! ord for half mile and one mile which | he now holds. . There will be a more complete pro- gram come out in this paper tomor- row afternoon as all of the races have not been fully decided upon, Merchants Arrange Exhibits. Among the Bemidji merchants who are arranging display booths at the fair grounds arc A. B, Palmer, Given Hardware Company and N. L. Hak- kerup. The Palmer display is neatly ar- *x Mayor’s Proclamation. Recognizing the favors of a : : generous Providence that has : : touched with magic results our : : soil, producing abundant yields : : of grain, of fruit and of vege- : : tables, on fertile fields within the : : shadow of our forests, and ap- : : preciating the importance of dis- : : playing these triumphs of nature : : from garden, field and orchard, : : and believing that unknown good : 1 must result from such enterpris- : |5oes 1 do, therefore, call upon all : citizens to set aside Friday, Sep- : : tember 15, as a half holiday, and : : urge that on the afternoon of : : that day business be suspended : : that there may be a large attend- : : ance at the Beltrami county ag- : in this city. ——John C. Parker, Mayor of Bemidji. : Round Qak stoves, the base burner, range and a combination heater. All | three arve polished up in fine style and a demonstrator will be at the hooth to show and prove the stove's | advantages over other makes. Also Show Separator. This same firm will also have on |display a Sharples Tubular Separa- tor. Mr. B. Burngrover, representa- | tive of the Sharples firm and who had in charge the exhibit at the state fair will be in charge of that de- partment at the fair grounds this week. The Given Hardware company will display the Universal line of stoves and the well known De Laval cream separator. They are also showing a Root and Van Dervort gasoline en- gine which is a two cylinder, two horse power machine and is used by farmers to pump water, saw wood, etc. A Big 3 washing machine is al- so among their display which is at- tracting the attention of the busy housewives as they. pass by the booth. Hakkerup Has Photograph Exhibit.| N. L. Hakkerup occupies a booth and has on display some of the finest photographs of the country about this city and county ever exhibited. He is showing some late views of the W. G. Schroeder and L. P. Anderson farms. A view of the Anderson plum trees just before picking time is a prize photograph. The exhibits in the women’s build- ing are sure to attract special atten- tion.” The building is in charge of Mrs. F. S. Arnold, who will be assist- ed by Mrs. A, P. White and Miss Ella Parker. . The school exhibits also are being arranged and the showing of the country schools as well as the city work are interesting. The premium list committee is composed of Secretary Ritchie, C. F. Schroeder and F. S. Arnold. All ex- hibits were entered by noon today. The Bemidji band will furnish the music tomorrow and Friday. A par- ade of the down town streets will be followed by concerts on the fair grounds, Busses will make frequent trips to the grounds, which are located a mile out on Beltrami avenue. How to Get In. The rules regulating admittance to the grounds follow: Tickets admitting heads of fami- lies, children under during the whole fair (not including grand stand), $2. Children under 10 years with par- ents, free. Single admission, 25 cents. Single admission, child under 14 years, 10 cents. Horse or team once, 15 cents, Horse or team during fair, 30 cents, All children who shall have attend- ed school in Beltrami county at least twelve weeks during the school years of 1910 and 1911, will be admitted to the fair on Friday, September 15, free, if accompanied by parents, ranged showing three of the famous teacher, school officer of guardian. : ricultural association exhibition :| :| Most of the towns yet to be heard! 18, and teams DRYS IN MAINE NOW LEAD Sarprise in Late Returns Changes the Vote in Favor of the Prohibition Voters. THE VICTORY APPEARS CERTAIN Portland, Me., Sept. 13.—Revised returns on the question of the repen_l of constitutional prohibition at 1 o’clock this morning, reduced the ma- jority against repeal to 295. The total vote stood: For tepeal GO 126, against repeal 60,511, with small majorities, favoring the retention of the prohibitory amend- change in the vote of these places is likely to help prohibitionists. In addition to this majority shown by the clerks returns, there are fifty more “dry” votes known to exist in Portland, which are rot included in the city clerks report because of an admitted error. If necessary the an- ti-repealers wnl petition for a re- count. The change from apparent victory for the “wet” side by 700 votes to 50 votes in favor of the “dry” side, |came as a big surprise. The prohibitionists had practically |'conceded defeat, while a representa- tive of those who suggested the re- peal of the constitutional amendment | had sent out numerous statements on the strength of their apparent safej majority. Of the other referendum questions before the people, that favoring the direct primaries act carried by a safe | majority according to returns at hand tonight. TWO NEW PRINT SHOPS PLAN E. F. Stevens and Andrew Rood Plan Commercial- Establishments. E. F. Stevens, formerly in "the newspaper business at Warren and who for two years has been em- I ployed at the Pioneer printing office | of this city has rented the old bowl- ing alley quarters on Minnesota av- enue, next to the city hall, and will open a job office there in the near fu- ture. Mr. Stevens will leave for the twin cities during the next few days and will purchase his printing out- fit. He expects also to carry several small sidelines in “connection with the regular job printing business, Andrew Rood, formerly publisher of the Sentinel, also contemplates estab- lishing a printing office here. WRITES FROM SOUTH AMERICA Andrew Johnson’s Brother Tells of His Experiences. | — Andrew Johnson, former deputy sheriff, who has been engaged in sur- veying work near Foy, has received the following letter from his brother Nelse, who last March was sent to South America by the Minneapolis Gas Engine Traction company to demonstrate machinery. “San Jose, Argentina, August 3, 1911. “Dear Brother Andy: “Well, here I am about 300 miles farther south, right in the midst of a farming district and I expect to do nothing until the next shipment of machines arrive. The sample engine we brought down has been sold to the secretary of the interior and I am at present on his place. So far I have done nothing as we are waiting the arrival of the man. Nor do I intend to do much except to teach his man how to handle thé machine. I find that the less a man does in this coun- try the more he is thought of. I am from have been unofficially reported | ment “in the constitution and any/ (Copyright.” 181L) ANTIGT [PAW@M REALIZATION 7 7 DEER NEAR FOY STORE Seen Short Distance From Postoffice, Says Axel Peterson in Bemid, Today. FOUR RUN IN FRONT OF TEAM “Seven deer at one time were seen near the Foy postoffice less than a month ‘ago,” “said Axet Peterson, one of the older settlers in-the Foy dis- trict and who owns a farm in' the town of Battles. Mr. Peterson came to Bemidji on business today. “Wild game mnever seemed more plentiful,” continued Mr. Peterson. “It was-only the other day that four fine looking, fat deer crossed the road in front of my team not more than a block away. The deer gazed at us and made off leisurely into the for- est. “The animals are much tamer at this time of the year than a little la- ter on when they know that they are in danger of encountering a bullet. “Hunting this year, however, prob- ably will be easier than ordinarily because of the possibility of nearer approach to the animals as the re- sult of the many ditches which have been dug by the state. “The new ditches and roads im- prove the chances of the hunter and lessens the chances of the deer to get away, because they are more easily traced and because they can not get across the ditches easily and when they do cross are to be seen for a long distance.” RABB AWARDED $157 VERDICT Other Cases Up in District Court— Mayo Prosecution Goes Over. In district court today the petit jury list was called. Five men were ‘excused, leaving 19 who are eligible for duty. The first jury case to be taken up was that of R. O. Rabb vs. Oscar Bandell, the plaintiff making claim for money alleged to be due on a labor contract. C. Scrutchins of this city represented the plaintiff and Bunn T. Wilson of Blackduck the de- fendant. This afternoon the jury brought in a verdict of $157.75 for the plaintiff. The civil calendar is unusually light,”but there will be-a heavy criminal calendar. Several in- dictments are expected. The old ‘riminal calendar was taken up today and practically all cases were either dismissed or passed. The case against Frank A. Mayo, facing criminal pros- ecution as the result of the sale of a poison by a clerk when Mr. Mayo condacted the Owl drug store here. at the head of the criminal calendar, was temperarily passed over. |- e “Yarhs” We Have Known. AVhat-hax hecome-of the elderly lady who ‘in the seventies and eavlier al- wags reférred to. an - “herb” a8 a “yarb® The word has gone out nf use About.the mennest | bitter weed mamed “thorenghwo - Then there was.cammermile. dockrood and dundelion, Intheir miserable part- nership. tobehin and entnip. These things were “steeped.” aund yon took them or had them thrust wpon sou your bload.”—Minneapolis Jonr- POOROOOOORPOOOO®O® ©QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © R R R RN S The weather: Thursday unset- tled; light to variable winds. The entire sessions of this, the sec- ond day of the annual conference of Governors, at Spring Lake, N. J., were devoted to the discussion of em- ployers’ liability and workingmen’s compensation. The opening address this motning was delivered by Gov- ernor Eugene N. Foss of Massachu- setts. Between 200 and 300 internal rev- -enue offiee?s of the United States will ‘meet in Detroit next week to discuss plans for the betterment of the ser- vice. The conference will be the first of its kind ever held, with the ex- ception of a préliminary meeting held in Washington last year for or- ganization purposes. Refusal to call a physician for his six-year-old son, who, being burned from his waist to his head, was al- lowed. to writhe in agony for 24 hours without medical attention, was the charge upon which Thomas J. Dooley was held to answer to the Oakland, Cal., court today. If con- victed the alleged inhuman father may be sent to prison for two years under the California law. Representatives of eight jewelers’ societies of the’ United States .and Canada met in New York today to devise plans for the better protection of those engaged in selling jewelry and precious stones. The jewelers have been aroused to action by the unprecedented number of assaults and robberies reported- by the trade during the past year. It is expected a large reward will be offered for the capture of the murderers of Adolph Stern, the clerk who was killed in the daylight raid on a Sixth Avenue jewelry store some months ago. “Bob” Fowler, en route from San Francisco to New York, met with the first mishap of his pioneer cross- country aerial trip at Alta, Cal, when in trying to make a landing, necessitated by a refractive engine and steering gear, his biplane collid- ed with two trees, hurling it to the ground and slightly injuring him. Both planes of the craft and its two propellers were broken and Fowler wil] be delayed here for at least two days, before he can resume his jour- ney. Before leaving Auburn Fowler had his first trouble with his engine when ghe wire of the magneto circuit pulled out. The wire was repaired but it is believed that it was this de- fect which caused the later trouble. Feavy smoke lies now over the crest of Mount Etna at Calania, Si- cily, and the bombardment, which is continuous along a line nearly two miles in extent is like the firing of heavy artillery. A torrent of bura- ing lava estimated at 2,000 feet wide and four feet deep is pouring down the slope. Everything in its way has been carried before it. -‘Groves of trees have been up-rooted and set on “re and the lava stream is sweeping throungh the fields, sending out for miles around hot resinous waves of smoke. Peasants have left their nomes carrying with them the aged, isick and children and whatever be- ‘xoneinws they were able to get. Whole: | lava for the pnst eruptlons have been torn open by frequent earth shocks. Many of the shoaks -have been of great violence and ‘the ‘peasants fear la mpemum of the Messina disaste; rezions, are covered. with hardened| VIDEAN BODY RECOVERED Body of Man Drowned Near Ten- strike September 3 Disproves Shooting Theory. SCHOOLS VOTE TO CONSOLIDATE Tenstrike, Sept. 13.—The- body<of Geo. Videan who was dfown®*in San~ @y Lake about tenmiles west of T strike was found on Sunday by-a party of people living in the vicinity of the lake. At first it was supposed that he had been shot by the rifle which he had carried with him in the boat, but on the discovery of the body there was no such evidence. The accident occurred Sept. 3, and sincé that time many persons have dragged the lake and used heayy charges of dynamne, but wllhouF suceess, Geo. Videan came here in June from Mankato and was employed by W. H. Rice. He was twenty-eight years old, and leaves a wife and little daughter. At a special school meeting held in the school house on Sept. 11 for the purpose of voting for the-consoli- dation of districts 46, 70, 24 and 51 the vote was in favor of consolidation 63 for and 5 against. This puts the Tenstrike school on the graded list. STATE'S LAWYERS SCATTERED. Several Widely Separated Cases En- gage Simpson’s Assistants, Scattered nearly all over the state yesterday were the members of the attorney general’s department, with the exception of George T. Simpson himself and Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Stevenson. Un in Bemidji, arraying for today’s encounter, was Alexander L. Janes, counsel for the state in the case against Dr. D. T. Dumas, -alleged to be involved in Northern Minnesota arson cases. Near by, in Cass Lake, where the physician holds forth as mayor, worked Clifford L. Hilton, engaged in the swamp land suits. Down a little farther in'the state was Lyndon A. Smith, attorney-general-to-be, ap- pearing in Little Falls against the officials who, says Kelséy Chase, state superintendent of banks, received de- posits in the Royalton State bank when they knew it was insolvent. Over in Minneapolis was another, C. Louis Weeks, counselor of the State Board of Control, who got back from an Eastern trip investigating estates in which Minnesota has claims under the inheritance tax {law, just m time to attend another hearing in ‘the Mill City.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Two aged survivors of the Mexican war, Francis Benton 2and Thomas H. ‘Wood, will dishand the Western As- sociation .of Mexican War' eVterans at its last camp fire and reunion in- Chicago tomorrow. At the same meeting the Western Association of California Pioneers will be disbanded: In the last six years: each ut the ‘six_teams in the Virginia lelgue has won .a gennlnt ‘| Had Expected That His Case Would €] 5 3 en out., vl s ‘posed to have purchased a-supply of ;| would. be here for a few days, ‘pos-- DUMAS CASE STILL _UP T0 GRAND JURY Conclusion of Testimony Delayed and Possible. Indictment Not Expected Before Tomorrow. BEHAN APPEARS BEFORE BODY - Detective, Sheriff, Two Women, and Other Persons From Cass Lake Appear as Witnesses. ACCUSED MAN IS IN BEMIDJI Be Completed and Wanted to Be On Hand. Many witnesses have been exam- ined by the grand jury in the Dumas case since it began its deliberations here yesterday and more testimony is yet to be heard. ] It is not believed that the presen- tation of evidence can be completed # today and that it will be.tomorrow noon before an indictment is re- turned. Dr. Dumas came to Bemidji from Cass Lake this morning and was at the court house for a few minutes. He had understood that the case would be disposed of by 11 o’clock, % but at that time several witnesses re- mained to be heard. This afternoon Martin Behan, the wounded Puposky pal of Mike Davis was before the grand jury. He had been preceded by Sheriff Hazen, De- tective Fielding, R. E. Smythe, pro- prietor of the store at Puposky at the time of the robbery and two wom- witnesses whose names are not Woman inm Case; e For the first time a woman in the case was talked about today. It is understood that she is to be a witness but who will produce her and what her testimony will be—except that it will create a sensation—is mot known. The first witness this morning be- fore the grand jury was Charles Johnson, a bell boy at the Rex hotel, who is presumed to have seen the transfer of a check of an incriminat- ing nature bearing on the Puposky affair and now in the hands of the state. Henry Mullen of Cass Lake, one of the signers of Dr. Dumas bond, was - the second witness. What he told the grand jury is a secret. Munhall Also Testifies. William Munhall, 4 bartender, was next to enter the chamber of mys- tery. He was employed at the Bank saloon here at the time of the Pu- posky robbery. Following the rob- bery he was arrested on the pre- sumption that he had been a go-be- tween, but later was released. Anse Label of Cass Lake, the char- acter of whose testimony- can not be learned and Doc Adams, who drove Mike Davis and Martin Behan to Pu- posky the day before the robbery. It is understood that evidence has also been introduced which involves the burning of a building at Black- duck, dragging more persons into the case. _Yesterday’s Session. Yesterday afternoon the grand Jjury.-first listened to the attorneys ex- plaining to the grand jury the stat- i utes of the case against Dr. Dumas, and the following witnesses: John Larson, proprietor of the saloon on Third street, in which it is alleged that Dumas, Smyth, Behan and Davis A laid the plans for business, the Pu- posky postoffice robbery; Homer Det- gas, manager of a hardware store at Cass Lake, wheré Dr. Dumas is sup- dynamite about the time of the Pu- posky affair; Ole Ferguson of Cass, Wwho rumor has connected with sever- - 4l angles of the Dumas-Puposky case, and some others which are to be in- vestigated by the state fire marshal’s officé; Mack Kennedy; policeman at Cass Lake, who searched Dr. Dumas’ office the morning after the.Puposky ‘'gun fight, and in whose custody was left the safe found in the doctor’s of- fice, ‘which when opened was found to.contain seven sticks of dynamite; ¥ Peter Ring, chief of police of Hib- . bing, who arrested the mayor of Cass . - Lake at Hibbing early on .the mory- ; ing of June 17 Nobody Cares to, Talk, * State Fire Mnrshal Keller said he