Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 19, 1911, Page 1

BEMIDJ VOLUME 9. NUMBER 122. RAIN TEST PROVES STATE FAIR CLASS Despite Downpours and Threats at Snow More Than 253,700 See Min- nesota’s Big Show. HELD RECORD FOR ALL STATES Farm, Dairy and Livestock Displays Believed Greatest Ever Offered for Inspection. NEWSPAPERS GIVEN “JOLLY” Credited With Aiding Success Which Marked First Show Under Simp- | tions kept the attendance down, so son's Control. i OFFICIAL STATE FAIR F‘l(}'('\RES.i Monday . Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday . .. Saturday . Total . Minnesota state fair officials have sent the following communication to the Daily Pioneer: ~Handicapped by the most unfavor- able weather conditions ever known to prevail during a Minnesota State Fair week the 1911 state fair and ex- position nevertheless scored ome of the greatest successes in the history of this or any other similar institu- tion. “When the lights of the fair went | out at midnight on Sept. 9, there was a better feeling existing not only among the hundreds of exhibitors who make the state fair, but there was a feeling that a decided advance had been made. Brave Rain and Threatened Snow. “The attendance figures of the fair| just closed are eloquent of the draw- ing power of this state institution. During five days of rain and one fair- | Iy pleasant day the records show that 53,702 persons visited the fair grounds. It was stated several times during the latter part of the week, and there seems to be little chance of successful contradiction, that un- der similar weather conditions no state fair in the country would have| turned out one-quarter of this attend- ance. ~During the first five days of the week it not only rained, but when it was not raining the clouds hung low and a part of the time snow seemed imminent. By actual computation | there was 123 minutes of sunshine during the first five d In spite of this rain and mud and cold, people came from all over the Northwest to the Minnesota State Fair grounds and | enjoyed the hundreds of attractive features. Only Three Night Performances. “The weather prevented the carry- | ing out of the outdoor program.| There was only one day of horse rac-| ing and that was not up to the stand- ard on account of the heavy track. The night grandstand shows were in- terfered with and only three out of the six scheduled were given. The whole elaborate plan of entertain- ment was disarranged and the larg- est part of it was not carried out. “This year's fair had to depend for its drawing power and for its enter- tainment largely upon the exhibits and educational features. Luckily the present management had done ev- | erything in its power to emphasize | this part of the fair and the general verdict that the fair was a success is a verdict in favor of the further edu- cational development of the state fair and the continued emphasis of the features which instruct as well as| entertain. Farm Displays Elaborate. “There has never been in the Unit- ed States or probably in the world 2! greater sectional display of agricul- tural resources than that seen at the state fair just closed. The 1911 fair has rightly been called an agricul- tural fair. If having exhibits of the soil products from 34 counties of the state and showing what can be best produced in every section constitutes an agricultural fair then certainly | the one just closed was one. | “The livestock entries were more numerous than ever before and the showing of pure bred cattle, horses, sheep and swine was not only more | they passed the following resolution: [October 1, when the season for these | before, but ranked with that ever made at any state fair. “In the machinery department the 1911 state fair surpassed any dis- play of machinery ever seen with the World’s Fair in Chicago. Dairy Exhibit Praised. “The Dairy department exhibit was declared by experts to be the best] ever seen at any state fair. In the woman’s, the horticultural, floricul- tural and other departments the num- ber of entries was larger than ever before and the thought and work| | expended brought results which were appreciated by all classes of visitors. “The verdict of the majority of| visitors was that the management un- der the direction of Secretary J. C. ‘Elmpson had emphatically ‘made | good,” that they had placed the Min- [ nesota State Fair on a higher plane, | | that they had given to it its rightful | | functions of entertaining and |structing its visitors and advertising to the world the greatness of this state. “The unfavorable weather condi- that there will be a small deficit. Arrangements have been made to take care of this and the work of making the Minnesota State Fair greater will be continued without fin- ancial hindrance. Boquet for the Neswpapers. | “The managers appreciate the backing that they have received from individuals and interests throughout the state and especially from the newspapers. At a recent meeting ‘Whereas, the Minnesota State Fair has never before been given such enthusiastic support by the newspapers of the state and their able and generous co-op- eration has greatly helped to ov- ercome the disastrous results wrought by the weather and has materially assisted the managers in their efforts to give the best possible fair and exposition. Therefore it is hereby voted that the managers of this society extend to each of the newspa- pers of the state a vote of appre- ciation and thanks for their loy- al assistance. “Plans for a greater exposition next year and ome that will, with a little weather luck, make up more than this year’s loss, are already be- ing formulated.” - NEW GAME LAW STRINGENT. Fine of $50 if You Shoot More Than 15 Chickens in One Day. Several inycrtant changes in the game laws of Minnesota were made by.the last legislature and it will be a wise thing for hunters to become thoroughly scquainted with the new laws before stuiting out, for the pen- alty is now severe, the fine minimum being $50 fo- aLy violation. For moose ard deer the open sea- son It remaiis the same, Nov. 10 to Dec. 1; lui whereas heretofore each hunter was allowed one moose and two deer he is now restricted to one moose anc¢ cne deer only. Prairie chichens may now be shot from Sept. 7 to Nov. 7. Last year the season opcned Sept. 1 and closed Nov. 1. Fift:en birds is the limit for one day’s bag. Quail, poertridge, ruffled grouse and pheasaits should be safe until birds now opens, closing November 10. The lim't is the same as for prairie chickers. The season for wild duck, goose and other aguatic fowl opens Sep- tember 7 n»7 and closes November 30. No one allowed to have over 50 in his pocsession at any one time, and non-residents are permitted to ship 25 to plece of residence. Hunting licenses under the present law cannot le taken earlier than three days vior of the time for which the suie are to be used. Here- tofore licenses could be secured at any time. Oue must be 18 years old to obtain a liceuse. Residents of the county are ot required to have li- cense for hurting small game. The license for big game is $1. Non-residents are to be taxed $25 for the privilege of hunting big game, and $iv for birds only. To show the progress of American railroad building and operation for the past thirty years the Santa Fe road today started out a demonmstra- tion cf fourteen cars which will be operated over all the lines of the company between Topeka and Albe- quergue. Heading the train is one of the monster Mallet locomotives re- cently constructed in the shops of the company in Topeka. Following close behind is an old style wood burning locomotive operated by the Santa Fe 30 ycars ago. The train aiso includes the old style and the latest improved types of flat cars,.box cars, coal cars, passenger coaches and creditable than that ever made nere possible exception of that at thel| in- | MERCHANTS ASKED TO JOIN IN |is to have a market day and if plans BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1911. BEMIDJI TO OFFER PRIZES FORVISITORS Commercial Club Launches Unique Scheme to Bring Crowds Here on Thursday, October 12. PUBLIC MARRIAGE IS PLANNED Five Dollars in Gold to Heaviest Per- son and Other Gifts to Be i . Arranged. A —————— Agricultural Committee of Which Ritchie is Chairman Soon to Com- plete Arrangements. On Thursday, October 12, Bemidji discussed at a meeting of the Lom- mercial club directors yesterday af- ternoon are carried out, it will be al- most as big an event as the one whith first made October 12 famous—the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. While Chris discovered a new world, Bemidji proposes to discover all her friends—and they do say that the woods are full of them. The market day scheme is in the hands of the agricultural committee of the Commereial club, A. P. Ritchie| being chairman. - ‘What is Wanted. Quickly explained, the idea simply is: Make such inducements as to in- sure a record breaking crowd in Be- midji and not omly for commercial reasons, but to send the visitors home in a merry frame of mind with a “want to come again” feeling. | To do this such stunts as prizes for the heaviest couple; for the tallest man, the prettiest woman, the sweet- est baby, the biggest family, etc. Sweethearts, Here’s Your Chance. Then, too, it is expected that a public marriage, the ceremony to be ! performed free, ‘will be an attraction, the fortunate young couple, whoever it may be, probably being the recip-! ients of prizes by Bemidji merchants. “Haven't got the details hardly started,” said Thomas Burke, presi- dent of the Commercial Club, “but I'm down for a $5 prize for the heav- iest couple.” The-Men in Charge. Associated with Mr. Ritchie, who heads the committee having the plan in charge are, W. G. Schroeéler, J. J. Opsahl, E. H. Smith, G. W. Camp- bell, E. A. Barker, W. P. Dyer, A. H. Jester and J. H. French. Efforts will be made to have all business men make some sort of a special inducement to bring visitors here on the above mentione¢l date. The committee will hold a meet- ing in the near future to perfect plans. n DYER AND SERGH TO ONFER Leave Thuwdav for Mianeapolis to Learn of Agricultural Instruction. Thursday evening Superinte;udent ‘W. P. Dyer of the Bemidji sck ools, and Professo: (ito 1. Bergh, ins truc- tor of Agriculturs, will leave for Minneapolis where they will atitend the State Agricultural confere uce. This is an annua! meeting of the su- perintendent:. and instruetors of :\hat subject in ail hagh schools in M’in- nesota whers agricultural depart- ments have teen instituzed. T he work will b2 ¢iscussed and plans for the coming jwar will be hai"monized. .Work in the agricultural -depart- ment of the Itemidji high scthool it well under way. Three classe's have been orgamized. A beginners’ : class, ‘which s all of the edvghth %as begun work. v-will cover mearly = thef same ground « the high school s #ud— ents, the wo.™ will be neither® so} thorough mnor so.far advanced. The} new normal departmetn of the 1. igh} school are also taking up this wc ¥k | Ordinarily the high school cou 'se| in this subject will be offered only to Al-{ from that city to Bemidji and re-en- =D e —(Covyright. 1LY TEN CENTS PER WEEK. — BODY SEARCH CONTINUES Chief Harrington Resents Assertion That Efforts to-Recover Slatten Have Not Been Made. RELATIVES OF DEAD MAN ASSIST -“It is a slur and injustice on all|: who have made every effort to recov- er Gilbert Slatten to say that his body is being permitted to float in Lake Bemidji with no ome trying to get it,” said Chief of Police Joseph Har- rington today replying to criticism of a Bemidji eitizen in last night’s Pioneer. ‘People should remember that the city has but two policemen on duty at :a time and that during the past wedk wwe have had a county fair and a term of court on hand. “Nevertheless, we have made re- peated attempts to get Slatten’s body, and in this work M. E. Smith, Floyd Brown, Mayne Stanton and others have aided. We have dragged and re- dragged that part of the lake where the young man disappeared, and we have searched the waters With a tel- escope, and we shall continue, al- though in my opinion the body is in the main channel where the Water is from 40 to 80 feet deep.” Every day since the suicide, the young man’s brother-in-law, L:- P. Christensen and his wife, the dead man’s sister, have come to Bemidji from their farm near Rosby in hopes of finding the body. The dead man’s rarents have been notified at Artdale in Ac¢ams county, Wisconsin, but ow- ing to their extreme age neither will come to Bemidji. = A. J. Haugen of Erskine, a cousin of the dead man, arrived in Bemidji today. EUGENE BERMAN QUITS CITY Resigns from Model Clothing Store to Travel Out of Portland, Oregon. Eugene Berman, who for some time has been manager of the Model Cloth- ing store here, left Bemidji today for Duluth and from there he proceeds to Minneapolis and from that city he goes to Portland, Oregon, to accept a position as traveling salesman for a women’s furnishing house. Portland will be his headquarters. He came ters the employ of the firm for which fe was working when he came to Xorthern Minnesota. "he so-called “grandfather clause” emzes were calied for hearing today Tefzre Judge Cotteral in the Federal Jjuniors and and seniors, for the stuc ¥ of physics and chemistry will enabl 3] the pupil to get a great deal more !, out of it, than if he did not take those | subjects. This year, however, sopho- mores have been permitted to enrnil in the class. f In all the regular high school ckass cabuoses. has 24 members. | grees the right to vote for congress- eomrt at Enid, Okla. The defend- amts are Jack Feall and Jack Guinn of Kimg,isher county, who are under Flederai .indictment for refusing ne- mmem -at the last election by enforc- fmg tthe zi-amd-father clause provis- ipected can stop the suits begun by T X e x| Maine Wet By 20 Votes. Augusta, Me., Sept. 19.—Com- : : plete official returns from the : : special election of last Monday, : : when Maine voted on the ques- : : tion of the repeal of the consti- : : tutional prohibition amendment, : : as canvassed by the governor and : : council last night, showed a'ma- : : jority of twenty votes in favor of : : repeal. : : Some doubt still remains as to : : the correctness of the returns : and Governor Plaisted announced : . that the city and town clerks : would be given twenty days to : check the results. POOOOOPOOOOOOOO® © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The Weather: Fair Wednesday; moderate west winds. Edmond H. Madison, representa- tive from the Seventh Kansas district in Congress, died suddenly yesterday. The Russian premier, M. Stolypin, died at Kiev of wounds received when he was shot by Dmitry Bogroff at the Municipal theater Jlast ‘Thursday night. Michael Soboleski, murdered, was caught in Delaware, Ohio, after es- caping from the Ohio penitentiary Sunday afternoon, clad in the gar- ments of the warden's wife. The office building recently com- pleted at Waco, Texas, by the Amic- able Life Insurance Company was formally dedicated and opened today. The structure is twenty-two stories high. John T. Trowbridge, whose fam- ous cld poem on “Darius Green and His Flying Machine” has just been republished, quietly observed his 84th birthday anniversary today at his home in Arlington, near Boston. For the first time in eight years J. J. McNamaia, the international gocretary, was not on hand when the Jniernational Bridge and Structural Tronworkers’ Union met in annual convention in Milwaukee yesterday. The convention will adopt strong res- olutions in the case of McNamara, who is in jail in Los Angeles on dyna- miting charges, and will take steps also to aid in the defense of the ac- cused man’ and his associates who are to be placed on trial next month. The suit for divorce brought by John Bancroft, Jr., against his wife, Madeleine Du Pont Bancraft, and the countar suit brought by the wife are set for trial at the term of the su- perior court which opened today at Wilmington Del., and the case prom- jses to be the most sensational in the history of the Commonwealth of “peaches and troubled politics.” As matters now. stand, only the unex- husband and wife. The latter is the eldest daughter of Alfred I. Du Pont, the millionaire vice-president of the Du Pont Powder Company. Mr. Ban- croft brought his suit on statutory grounds, ‘dénying the paternity of his wife’s infant son. “In the papers filed in the case, Mr Bancroft called the child Max Heidler, Jr., and made it a co-defendant. Mrs. Bancroft, in her counter suit, charges her husband with unfaithfulness and extreme cru- Son @f the,.State Constitution against > e elty. She also pleads not guilty to “PUSSYFOOT QUITS JOB Man Who Attempted to Put Lid on Northern Minnesota Resigns from Government Service. VISITED BEMIDJI FEW DAYS AGO Telegrams from Washington an- nounce the resignation of “Pussy- e e * [foot™ W. E. Johnson-from the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the department of the interior. * The reason given for his retirement is that his ideas of enforcing the lig- uor law do not meet with the ap- proval of his superiors. Acting Secretary of the Interior Adams said yesterday that no fault had been found with Mr. Johnson’s integrity or his character. Both the department of the interior and Mr. Johnson himself, said Secretary Ad- ams, thought it would be better if he quit the service because certain views he held regarding the adminis- tration of his office did not coincide with those held by the department. It was through Johnson’s activity that the famous prohibition clause of the old Indian treaties was enforced in northern Minnesota last year, causing a storm of futile protest from citizens. “Pussyfoot” was in Bemidji not long ago in a tour of the north coun- try and it was understood that he was about to make another attempt to interfere with the sale of liquor in “Indian” territory, and it is presumed that his report om this proposition was unfavorably received at Wash- ington, CITY BUYS STREET CLEANERS Council at Brief Session Also Learns of 30 Arrests in Angust. At a session of the Bemidji coun- cil last nignt, featured by its brief- ness, it was decided to accept the | Austin Manufacturing company’s bargain priced street sprinkler at $340 and fibre street sweeper at $250. Both machines are in Bemidji and will be given a try-out as soon as the company’s expert arrives. A representative of the company was present and guaranteed both ma- chines and every part in them. City Attorney P. J. Russell was skeptical regarding ‘the ability of the sweeper to gather up sand and said he should not be satisied until he had seen an actual test The police report for August was presented to the coun- cil and it showed that 30 arrests were recorded by Chief of Police Har- rington; that $233 was collected in fines and that $36 additional was col- lected for costs. An effort to have the council pass the appropriation for the county fair failed because it re- quires a three-fourths vote of all members of ‘the council and that number was not present. The Kansas State Fair was formal- 1y opened yesterday at Hutchinson. In conjunction with the fair there is to be a celebration of the semi-cen- ‘tennial of Kansas. The big day of the fair will be Tuesday of next week, DR. DUMAS T0 FACE JUDGE TOMORROW Mayor, Accused of Arson, to Appear In Court in Fight for His Freedom. AIR OF MYSTERY PREVAILS State Believes Case Camplete—Freé- man P. Lane Joins in Defense— New }Move Expected. DEFENDANT'S FATHER ANGERED { Asserts That His Mail and Telegrams Have Been Tampered With— - Threatens Suit. On the eve of the calling for trial of the state's case against Dr. D. F. Dumas. mayor of Cass Lake, charged with an attempt at arson, there is an air of mystery as to what will happen when the prisoner appears at the bar of justice before Judge W. S. McClenahan in district court at 9 a. m. here tomorrow morning. That both the state and the defense have been busy—how busy the pub- lic can not know and only time will tell what the course of proce- dure is to be. State Feels Safe. Beginning at the moment of-the dramatic arrest at Puposky on the night of June 16 last, of Martin Be- han, wounded in the fight between Pinkerton detectives and county offi- cers and Behan and Mike Davis, who | escaped, and subsequent arrest of Dr. Dumas at Hibbing on the day follow- ing, the forces representing the state have maintained that they would es- tablish in open court the fact that Cass Lake's mayor is a dangerous law breaker, and now, with the opening of court but a few hours away, this assertion is reiterated. What Will Be the Defense? What the defense of Dr. Dumas will be, never has been made public. Dr. Dumas never has made a com- plete statement, although frequently he has declared his innocence and in private talks has attempted to ex- plain the incriminating attacks made by the state. That some move out of the ordi- nary is contemplated by the defense is indicated by the attitude of the at- torneys for the defense that men to act as jurymen will not be needed when court convenes in the morning. Minneapolis Attorney Here. Freeman P. Lane, the well known Minneapolis attorney, is in Bemidji to assist Judge Marshall A. Spooner with the defense. A. A. Andrews of this city completes the legal array for the defendant. The prosecution is to be waged by Assistant Attorney General Alexan- der L. Janes, and E. E. McDonald and Thayer Bailey both of this city, the latter having been connected With the case since the beginning and the for- mer being appointed at the request of Attorney-General Simpson to take’ the place of County Attorney Graham H. Torrance, who was unable to aid in the prosecution because, while Henry Funkley still was county at- torney, he was employed by Martin Behan. Dumas’ Father Indignant. Minneapolis, Sept. 19.—That mail for his son, Dr. Dumas, the indicted mayor of Cass Lake, has been inter- cepted by wholesale and that at least one telegram has been diverted, was flatly charged Monday by Frederick Dumas. The first steps have already been taken by Dumas, Sr., toward bringing a suit for damages against the North American Telegraph com- pany, because of the failure to de- liver the telegram in question. The message was accepted by the com- pany at its Minneapolis office and Du- mas says the records show it was sent out on the wire, but it never reached its destination. As a result of the parties to a consultation to be held here, had to be detained several days at an- expense, which Dumas will seek to collect from the telegraph company by legal action. As to the -|1etters, Dumas says that Mayor Du- mas has more than a score of missives which show indisputable evidence that they had been tampered with before delivery. Freeman P. Lane, a Minneapolis attorney, has gone to Cass Lake for the defense in the trial ‘which will begin tomorrow. his charges against her. when President Taft will attend.