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

THE BE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 126. DUMAS CASE QUIET; |: FERGUSON EXPLAINS PPIPOPPCOOOOO®O® OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ POPPOPOPL YOOGS Socialists of Cass county will start a newspaper at Pillager. A Winona snake hunter killed 36 J‘rattlerl in five and a half days. Deer River Man Held for Perjury Charge Says Moose Figured in Dynamite. The Zenith mine at Ely has ship- ped 1,700 cars of iron ore thus far iduring the present month. Two butcher clerks had a duel at Ely, using their long knives as weap- jons. One sustained an ugly wound in 5th9 face as the result. HEAD OFFERED AS SECURITY | The fifty-sixth annual convention of the General Congregational asso- | ciation of Minnesota will be held in " Alexandria on Sept. 26, 27 and 28. Explosives Used in Clearing Land Declares the Former Cass Lake The Astor-Force wedding and the | Saloonkeeper. 2 I whole vital subject of divorce is to be discussed at the Christian Citizen- ship conference which began a two| MIKE DAVIS PRESENCE DENIED | 4278’ session in Columbus, 0., today. | ‘ In an effort to determine the scope (of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion’s authority over pipe lines, a “He Was There,” Reiterates Young: hearing was begun today at Houston, | an Who Brought News of Ap- | Texas. by Commissioner Franklin K.| | Lane, pearance of Bandit. w | Mrs. Minnie E. LaMoure, wife of! e Senator Jud LaMoure, of Pembina, N. [ 1., died Friday at Nisswa, their sum- THE CAPTURE OF MIKE DAVIS. |mer home. north of Brainerd. The! | body was taken to North Dakota for | Mike Davis was a yeggman, A mighty vegz was he: He blew the safes of Uncle Sam, | And howled in ghoulish glee. And long he did the law defy, Until our “uncle’ SAM And Fielding. Helmer and the rest Gave him an awful slam. { burial. Thousands of visitors are in Mitch- | ell, S. D., today for the opening of | the thirteenth annual Corn Belt Ex- | position. The Corn Palace which is| |the prominent feature of the exposi- | tion is the only one of its kind in| the world. They captured bold Mike Davis Upon a summer’s day. They captured him in open fight, And still he got away. Thrice has he since been captured By papers firm and bold, We know he's been so captured, Becaunse we've been so told. | | The autumn race meeting at Chur- |cnill Downs, Louisville, Ky., opened |this afternoon and will continue for | leighteen days. The feature of| |the meeting will be the four-mile | Kentucky Endurance stakes, which !'is set down for October 7 and will be | the first long-distance race in Ken- [tucky in twenty years. The event i will be worth more than $8,000 to| Then pray. why not produce him? | the winner. This bandit grim and bold? Because each time it's “pretty near,” | At le#st so we've been told. | —Anonymous. Hutehinson, Kansas, is dressed in | holiday attire in anticipation of the| | visit of President Taft tomorrow.| |During their stay the members of chl' presidential party will be qaor- |tered at the Bsonte Hotel. A mili-| tivity which last week centered the | 4Ty and industrial parade will 9?‘1 eves of the state on Bemidji to watch | COTt the president to the state fair the progress of the trial of Dr. Du- | 8rounds, where he is to deliver an a§- mas, accused of attempted arson. | dress as a feature of the Kansas semi- | 4 ) Today Coroner Ibertson is in the |centennial celebration. northern end of the county subpoen-| The new direct primary law in aing 20 men to report for jury duty Massachusetts is to have its first test at 9 a. m. Wednesday at which time|tomorrow, when candidates will be the trial will be resumed, five men |nominated for governor and other being needed to complete the jury|State officials to be voted for this before the taking of testimony can |fall. Interest centers chiefly in the contest for the Republican guberna- : | torial nomination. The contestants Evidence Not to Be Long. |are Louis A. Frothingham, the pres- Attorneys for the state say it will|ent lieutenant governor; Joseph not take long for the state to present | Walker, speaker of the general as- its evidence and that rapid progress sembly, and Norman H. White, also may be expected as soon as the jury a member of the general assembly. is completed. |On the Democratic side Governor From Deer River comes the follow- | Foss is unopposed for the Democratic | ing explanation from Ole Ferguson,|Progressive nomination. For the who following his appearance here |Democratic nomination he has Thom- before the grand jury, was arrested |as L. Hisgen of Springfield for his) and arraigned before Court Commis-|opponent. sioner Simons on a charge of perjury, | John Young, the alleged robber dc- the hearing going over until after|. c.q of being one of the men who! the trial of Dr. Dumas, Ferguson he-‘hpm up the Northern Pacific train ing given his liberty on a bail bond |, ..r Bufralo, N. Y. July 19, was| oLy52{000; [taken to St. Paul last night from | Neenah, Wis., by Sheriff Boyle and | Chief Special Agent McFetridge of “You see,” said Mr. Ferguson, “l|yn, Northern Pacific railway. It is was formerly in the saloon business:g,is that while there he made a full at Deer River, and had a particularly ‘ confession of his crime. He impli- fine moose head hanging up in the| si.c two hoboes whose names he building which Dr. Dumas admired | g es not know and whom he says he very much. He attempted to buy it. ' piopeq up at Browns Valley. He di- but I did not wish to sell, so I inally | [iqeq with them, it is said, equally told him he could keep it for me, 8s| . gpoils of the holdup. These men I was going out of business and had o oy left him immediately after 1o place to store it. A short time af-| po ho1dup and he has not seen them ter this, he again attempted 10 DUY | g0 As proof of the fact that he it, but I again told him it was not |y, 4 party to the crime he produced for sale but that I needed some dyna-i, popyy which he says ke stole from mite to blast some stumps on MY |, ¢.ho0] teacher who Wwas riding on claim and would leave the head With | " train Sherift Boyle and Agent him as security until I pfllfl him, }f Callahan left last night for Fargo he would get me the dynaml‘tp. This | with their prisoner. he did. That's all there is to the case against me.” s | | Insist Mike Was There. Despite reports from East Grand |Ritchie to Present Report; New Offi- Forks that Mike Davis has not been | oers to be Chosen. there since last June, the Bemidji| officers who sought to capture the! A, P. Ritchie, secretary of the Bel- escaped yeggman, declare there is no | trami Agricultural association today doubt but that Davis and several oth- | announced that there would be a er desperate characters were in East Grand Forks last week. on Wednesday evening at the Com- “I could not have been mistaken in { mercial club rooms. At that time Mr. the identity of Mike Davis,” said Al-ERitchie will present a tentative re- fred W. Mueller of the attorney gen-|port regarding the 1911 fair. At An empty bench and vacant courf room has replaced the scenes of ac- hegin. Ole Ferguson Explains. FAIR DIRECTORS TO MEET meeting of the directors at 8 p. m.| eral's office, here today. “He was there, and someone must have warn- ed him of impending capture. That is all there is to it.” .. What the Herald Said. The Grand Forks Herald had the following in its East Grand Forks department of the Sunday issue: “After a thorough investigation of the alleged location of Mike Davis in East Grand Forks, it can plainly be this meeting the directors also will | choose the association’s officers for the ensuing year. “Will you be avail- |able as secretary to succeed your- self,” Mr, Ritchie was asked today. “I am not a candidate for anything, and never have been in my life,™ | came the reply It is easier to climb down a tree than to slimb up, which explains why the top is never crowded and why (Copyright, 1911.) SPRINKLER SQUABBLE ON Scoffs at Idea City Made Bargain +With Austin Co. When is a bargain in sprinklers not a bargain? ‘That i§ a question the Bemidjil council will have to answer. At last week’s meeting a street sprinkler and sweeper was ordered purchased from Austin Manufactur- ing company of Chicago. These are the vehicles which were | on display at the Minnesota state fair | and which the city figured were| being bought at a great bargain. L. J. Hadley, representing the Stu- | debaker company, drifted into Be-| midji today and ever since has been saying things, and he says he will say them over again when he gets before the council. “What Bemidji needs is 2 machine that will flush the streets and you don’t want a 9 foot sprinkler. Bar- gain! Bah!™ As a matter of fact Mr. Hadley in- timates that Bemidji has been stung. The representative of the Austin concern is not expected to stand for the intimation and a battie royal over the street equipment is anticipated. Bids for these machines were ad- vertised for but only one bid was received. “They didn't give anyone else a chance to bid,” comments Mr. Had- ley, who declares he has learned that the two machines now in Bemidji were purchased under a wrong im- pression. It is not likely that anything will be done at the council meéting to- night, as it is expected that that body will adjourn immediately after con- vening out of respect to the memory | of Judge Bailey. | BEMIDJI MAN TO BUILD CHURCH Edwerd Jackson Gets Contract for Catholic Structures at Cloguet. Edward Jackson, the Bemidji con- tractor, has just been awarded the contract for the building of the Cath- olic church and parochial school at| Tloquet, Minnesota, at a cost of more than $50,000. The building will be of brick and stone construction covering a space! of 71 by 132 feet. The church will be one of the most modern and up to date in the state. The apartment for the school will consist of a large au- ditorium and eight class rooms. Mr. Jackson will also build the pastorial residence which will be made of brick. The old Catholic church in that city burned several years ago and| the members have been holding ser- | vices in various different places since that time. The contractor will be- gin breaking ground Thursday and every effort will be made to have the January. Mr. Jackson said that he expected to complete the work by June, 1912, Work on the building of the new ibig Catholic church in Crookston which has progressed rapidly will be abandoned until next March. Mr. Jackson is also building this struc- ture. (Continued on last pag2 there is always room there. Studebaker Man Now in Bemidji, | : : this DECLARES HE WAS SHUT OUT‘j 400 Killed in Explosion. : : Toulon, France, September 25. : —as the result of an explosion which wrecked the first class : : French battleship “Liberta” in : the harbor here today, 400 men : are dead. The explosion occurred morning from unknown : | : causes. The battleship carries : 719 men. All but about 300 of: : these were on shore leave, but : : 100 men from other ships were : on board at the time of the ex- : : plosion. I * “PUSSYFOOT” WRITES BOOK Said to Be Startling Exposure of Gov- ernment’s Liquor Policy. A special dispatch to the News Tri- bune from Washington says: “W. E. Johnson, who as chief spec- ial agent of the Indian bureau to pro- hibit the sale of liquor to Indians be- came better known in Minnesota as “Pussyfoot,” has engaged in the field of literature. Coincident with his resignation from the government service he an- nounces that he will soon issue a vol- ume entitled ‘The Federal Govern- ment and the Liquor Traffic.’ “It is intimated that Mr. Johnson has completed the work, and the book is about to be issued. It is further stated in Washington that some of the officials connected with the in- terior department did not take kind-| ly to the proposition of having one of its employes write a book going into details on the relation of the government with the liquor business. ! “Several of them have done so. But Mr. Johnson deemed it best to| hand over his resignation and it was accepted. “The book deals with the lighor question from the first administration of George Washington to the present time. He devotes a chapter to the Whiskey insurrection in Pennsylva- nia and ‘Shay’s Rebellion’ during the | early days. “No publication of a like character has ever been printed and there are some rather startling facts and fig- ures given in conmection with cus- toms and internal revenué; the army and navy and the liquor traffic and| the Indian question. “An interesting story is told about putting on “the lid in the Minnesota Indian country.” FIRST CIGARET ARRESTS MADE Three Minneapolis Clerks First to Feel Hand of 1909 Law. First arrests in Minnesota under the anti-cigaret law, passed in 1909, were made Saturday in Minneapolis.} Three men,.all clerks in United Ci-| gar stores, were arrested. The men are: Chester Samuelson, clerk in the store at Third street and Nicollet avenue; F. A. Richard, at Sixth street and Nicollet avenue, and George Du- mas at Seventh street and Henne- pin avenue. They wereearrested by Detective Clemens Jacobs on “John Doe” warrants, sworn out in muni- cipa) court. At the time it was ru- | sellers had been issued. | Michael Mealey, Minneapolis chief of police, said that the arrests were not necessarily the forerunners of a crusade against the sale of cigarets. He said that they would be test cases and their disposal would determine what action would be taken in the fu- ture. MORE MARKET DAY PLANS Lycan, Brooks, French and Barker to Distribute Posters; Given Chair- man Awards Committee. PLATFORM FOR THE WEDDING The arrangement committee select- ed by Chairmap E. A. Barker for the Market Day to be held Thursday, October 12, are: A. G. Wedge, A. P. White, T. J. Burke, and E. A. Barker. The work of distributing the post- ers will be done by F. S. Lycan, W. L. Brooks, G. H. French and E. A. Barker. The district assigned Mr. Lycan is the Turtle River Road and north around by way of Buena Vista back to the city. Mr. Brooks will take the Becida road and return by way of Wilton. Mr. French will take the Islaf? Lake, Foulds and Puposky road and back to Bemidji and Mr. Barker will cover the territory south going through the town of Frohn and over to Swenson’s lake and back to Bemidji. To Receive the Farmers. The work of the arrangements committee will consist of looking af- ter the securing of the grounds, make preparations for teams, erect an auc- tioneer’s stand and tent for display- ing produce and wait upon the farm- ers as they arrive on the grounds and give the desired information. The Committee on awards has as vet not been selected. R. L. Given will be chairman of this committee and the judges will not be selected until a few days before Market day. Nearly every merchant in the city has agreed to make special plans and offer special prizes to the farmers on this day. Some are offering prizes for the farmer coming the farthest distance, some for the biggest load of hay, oats, wheat, potatoes onions, some for the biggest couple, some for the load that will bring the most money, while many are offering gifts for the bride and groom. Wedding on Platform. A platform will be erected for the public marriage, and a registration booth will be erected, so that every farmer may have the opportunity to register. The members of the various com- mittees will be furnished badges so that strangers will more easily find those who can furnish the informa- tion required. T 5 Secretary Denu has completed the Market Day poster and it will be ready for distribution notl ater than Thursday. Be sure to keep a pair of old scis- sors in the kitchen for the purpose of cutting raisins, lettuce, celery, ete. - Skim the fat off the chicken broth and use it to shorten birscuits. These are much more delicious than when yeu use lard. A bank lately received the follow- roof on the building by the first of | mored that 68 warrants for cigaret {ing note from a lady. “Please stop payment on the check I wrote out today, as I accidentally burned it up.” * Save all your coffee grounds. rinse them and use them to stuff pincush- ions. They will hold shape indefi- nitely and the pins push in easily. The fast ‘man is pretty certain to fall behind. JUDGE BAILEY IS DEAD After Tong Tlness, During Last 10 Days of Which He Had No Food, Prominent Man’s Career Ends. CITY TO MOURN HIS DEATH Harrison W. Bailey. Harrison W. Bailey, 74 years old, {judge of the Bemidji municipal court, commander of Robert H. Carr post, tinguished member of the Second Io- wa regiment which went with Sher- man to the sea, and for 12 years a resident here, died at his home on Minnesota avenue in this city Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Judge Bailey was stricken with ap- poplexy on March 20, 1910, and since that time has been in a serious condition, although he made a hard fight to recover his health. During the past ten days he took no nourish- ment, other than a few sips of wa- ter. He was unconscious for several hours and the end came peacefully. Mayor Suggests Honors. Out of respect to his memory mun- icipal court was adjourned this morning, Mayor Parker issued a pub- lic¢ request calling upon all business houses to close between 2 p. m. and 3 p. m. tomorrow so that all might attend the funeral which is to be held at the residence at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, and asking that all city of- ficials and employes meet at the city hall to attend the funeral in a body. The funeral service at the house will be brief. E. E. McDonald will speak briefly and a male quartet made up of Andrew Rood, A. E. Bar- ker, Sherman Berge and Lambert will sing, “Nearer My God to Thee.” At the grave the same quartet will sing, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The services at the grave will be in charge of the Grand Army of the Re- public, which will attend the funeral in a body. Survived by Seven Children. Judge Bailey is survived by a wid- ow, four sons and three daughters: W. F., of Tacoma; S. C, O. E. and Thayer, all of Bemidji, and Mrs. G. H. Hansell, Bagley; Ida H:, Bemidji, and Mrs. F. E. Rathman, Jamestown, N. D. All are in Bemidji with the exception of W. F. Bailey, who will be unable to come from Tacoma. Judge Bailey was born in Colum- biana county, Ohio, in 1837. He came west in 1851, settling in Cedar county, lowa, where he remained un- til 1886, thence he went to Faulk county, South Dakota, where he was clerk of the circuit court-for a per- iod of eight years; from there he came to Bemidji. He was village recorder of the Bemidji for three years. He has ‘been a potent factor in the up- building of this prosperous city, and he is to be credited with having per- formed much valuable work in the city’s advancement. Judge Bailey was a member of the Long at Head of G. A. R. famous Second Iowa infantry, and was with General Sherman during his notable march to the sea; he partiei- pated in all the bloody engagements in which that fighting regiment was involved, and in recognition of his services as a soldier he has for nine years been unanimously elected as commander of R. H. Carr post, No. 174. Judge Bailey was appointed to the municipal bench by Governor John- son, although Mr. Bailey was repub- lican, while the governor was a dem- ocrat. All members of the G. A. R. and Ladies of the G. A. R. are requested to meet at the hall tomorrow after- noon at 1 o’clock. Members of the Bemidji bar are re- quested to meet in the municipal court room in the city hall at 1 p. m. tomorrow in order to attend the funeral of Judge Bailey. At the altar: “I, thee, with all my worldly goods endow.” TWo vears later: “More money? Where's the dollar I gave you last week?” |minute Chicago and Northwestern Grand Army of the Republic, a dis-| TEN CENTS PER WEK (6 KILLED WHEN{ FAST TRAIN HIT{ HAYRACK PAR| Returning from Wedding, Drives in Front of Northwesterr; at Neenah, Wis. 12 INSTANTLY DIE IN THE Six Battered Bodies Plastered to Loc- omotive Pilot; One Hurled Into Shanty. |ARMS AND LEGS STREW ROAD ~ Driver Comes Through Withont In- jury and Says Sign Board Was to Blame. Neenah, Wis., Sept. 25.—Sixteen deaths will be the result of a mile a passenger train at Neenah, crashing into a party of 31 young people load- ed upon a hayrack Sunday. A big bill board along the railway tracks obscured the view from the locomotive as well as the wagon. Dust | and fog did the rest. Twelve Killed Instantly. Twelve persons on the hayrack were killed instantly, one has died since, and three out of the eight oth- ers injured were fatally hurt. Nine of the 31 persons on the wagon es- caped without a scratch and so did both horses. Nobody on the train ‘suffered ex- cept from the jar. The collision occurred at 3:40 o’clock Sunday morning at the Com- mercial street érossing here Train number 121, north’ bound, Whirled through the wagon load of people at a 45 degree angle. This peculiarity was owing to the fact that the high- way crossing is diagonal. i Victims Were Wedding Guests. The victims were returning from | the Peter Hanson farm where they had gone to attend the celebration of a wedding anniversary. AH but two,. | who were from Chicago, were resi- | dents of Menasha. { Armless, legless and headless bod- ies covered the right of way &s the train of nine coaches wassbrought to a stop, 800 feet from the scene of the accident. Identification was pos- sible only by the fragments of cloth- ing. Six Bodies Stick on Pilot. Six bodies of the victims were dis- | covered on the engine pilot where they lay until removed by the train crew and passengers. Two others of the persons killed were hurled through a flagman’s shanty with such force as to overturn the little shanty. Another of the victims killed was thrown high over a barn 50 feet from the right of way. Some Miraculous Escapes. Among the occupants of the hay- | rack who escaped were Mr. and Mrs. | Joseph Briziski and child of two years. They were seated in the front half of the rack, the mother holding, the child in bher lap. About half | way back in the wagon sat Mary Schwartzbauer. The latter was hurl- - ed about 50 feet and rendered un- conscious. When found by rescuers, the Briszinski child was in her arms having escaped unscratched. The parents of the child were injured on- 1y slightly. Driver Holds to Reins. Peter Hanson, driver and owner of the horses attached to the ill-fated rig, managed to hang to the reins and was the only person on the rack who was not temporarily stunned by the collision. He declares he made every effort to look in both directions along the track but did not observe the on- - rushing train until his team had got: on the track. He whipped up the’ horses but managed to get the wagon, only half way across. Train Was Late. : The train was one hour behind the: schedule. The fact that the enginc stopped on the second corner fron: the intersection where the collisio: occurred, a distance of more than 80 feet, is the evidence that the spee: was great. It is said, however, tha; the rails were slippery from the rair and made the stopping of the tra difficult. Practically every person on the: wagon was an employe of the Men: asha Woodenware company and -all % were invited to the Hanson farm to attend the wedding anniversary of one of their former employes. e e L SR OOy i W S