Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 30, 1911, Page 1

THL VOLUME 9. NUMBER .131. “BOTTLED ME UP” SAYS “PUSSYFOOT” In Writing Explanation of Resigna- tion, Johnson Blames “Politics and Blunder.” ACCUSES RING OF INTERFERING Reached Stage Where All He Could | Do Was “to Mark Time and Draw Pay.” < NEW MEXICO DEAL LAST STRAW Declares System of Robbery in Indian Territory There Has Boss Tweed Beat. “Polities and plunder” are the reasons given by “Pussyfoot” John-, son for having resigned from the In- dian Bureau, the former chief special | agent admitting, in letters to friends in Northern Minnesota, that his! nolicy of prohibition had been ta- booed by higher officials who couldn't | chloroform him, but who finally got | him “bottled up.” Mr. Johnson in a lengthy personal explanation as to why he resigned, included the following: “Pussyfoot” Explains. “After five years of service, 1 am laying down my commission as Chief Special Officer in the United States Indian Service. “A political ring has been formed in the Interior Department which re- sents anything like aggressive effort in suppressing the liquor traffic among Indians. Says Abbott is Ringleader. “This cabal is led by Assistant In- dian Commissioner F. H. Abbott, a professional politician from Nebras-; ka, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Samuel Adams, a corporation lawyer from Chicago. During the past few months, those two men have done everything in their power to hamper, undermine and prevent the our efforts in catching hootlegegrs. success of reservation Refused to Be Chloroformed. “1 refused to be chloroformed, but these men finally got me so bottled up that [ could do but little except mark time and draw my salary. 1 gaw no other way to maintain my self respect except to resign. “The immediate cause of my resig- nation was the New Mexican com- plications. During the past ten years, the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico have been systematical- Iy plundered of their pasturage, and robbed of their lands, in a way that would put Boss Tweed to shame. Says Robbery is Sanctioned. “This system of robbery is now be- ing carried on with the knowledge and under the protection of the In- dian administration in New Mexico. The Indian office is fully informed of the rascality, but the dead hand of politics palsies any move to protect | the Indians.” H ST. PAUL MAN TO FARM KERE Claude H. Siens Buys Fred 0. Sibley Property at Island Lake. Another indication of the devel- opment of Beltrami county by ual settlers was shown by the purchase by Claude H. Siens of the contract- ing firm of Siens & Carey of St. Paul, who has just purchased the Fred O. Sibley house and barns and 60 acres of land at Island Lake in the town of Alaska near the Red Lake reserva- tion. Mr. Siens already owns two sec- tions in that vicinity and he proposes to at once establish modern farming operations. He has 80 acres pur- chased from Walter Gould which gives him desirable lake front. Mr. Seins has employed W. F. Ehlerding to take charge of the farm work and Mr. Ehlerding has begun plans for the clearing of the land. Mr. Ehlerd- ing will be joined by his family in the near future. Many a good man is in such haste to let the world know wher ko stands on the tariff, reciprocity, <ad the direct election of Senators, that his patient wife can not find out where he stands on the important domestic questions of water in the honse and a new carpet for the parlor. Save the country, brethern; that's right; but don’t forget to save the wife, for after all what is the country to you when you have lost a good help- meet? | was sentenced to el | Constitution : Italian Naval Attack is On. Rome, Sept. 30.—(Daily Pio- neer Special Wire Service)—The first blow in the Turko-Italian war has been struck by Italy within 24 hours of the declara- : tion of hostilities. : The Italian warship under the : command of Duke d’Abruzzi has : bombarded the Turkish seaport of Preveza destroying the gov- ernment houses there and dis- : abling a Turkish torpedo boat. : There have been no hostilities up to 5 o’clock this afternoon. x O R RO ORORCRORORORCRCY ® OQutside News Condensed. ¢ ORI R ORORCICIORORORORORORORO The Weather: Unsettled weather with showers tonight or Sunday; warmer tonight. A shaft 150 feet deep in the Shake- speare placer gold mine on Dome ‘reek near Fairbanks, Aliska, caved in, imprisoning fourtecen miners, mostly Russians. The fight to free Charles W. Morse, the New York financier serving fifteen-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta will sumed in this city on Oct. 9. be re-; Miss Louise Watson, who says she| went to New York from Chicago [0 learn to be a professional viclinist, n months and imprisonment for | twenty-nine days’ shoplifting. There is nothing in the Minnesota which prevents cities and towns throughout the state from adopting the commission form of government, according to an inform- al opinion rendered by Attoraey Gen- eral Simpson. | The annual report of Troasurer | Day of Yale University for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, shows total bequests and gifts for principal and income for the year of 31,134~ 385, as compared with 98,201 | the year previous. - The case of Rodney J. Diegie, con- victed former sergeant-at-arms of the Ohio state senate, who.was re- cently sentenced to three years in | the penitentiary for aiding and abett- | ing in legislative bribery, has reached the Circuit Court. An immense crowd turned out to greet President Taft, who speut sev- eral hours here today as thec guest of the city of Sedalia and Lhe Missouri State Fair. The president delivered an address at the fair, where he was introduced by Governor Hadley Following the example set by Mas- sachusetts, New Jersey and several other States, New York city will to- morrow put into force a law to pro- hibit the use of “common drinking cups” in any place of public resort or employment, such as parks, theaters, schools, railroad stations, factories and workshops. Earl Roberts, Britain's mns' popu- lar military hero, received a flood of congratulations today at his London home upon the beginning oi his eightieth year. The vencrah'v war- rior, who has had a conspicuous part in every British campaign d=uring the last half century, is reported to be in excellent health for a man of his years. At sunrise Monday morning the en- i tire male population of Grady Ccunty, Oklahoma, will turn cut en masse and with the aid of several nundred teams will start work on the construction of an improved highway along the route of the Chisholm trail, a distance of nearly 100 miles. It is proposed to complete the building of the entire road in one day. Leaving behind him a record that has few parallels in the annals of the postoffice department, Thomas Rich- ardson, a negro, today voluntarily re- tired from the office of postmaster of Port Gibson Miss. Richardson has served continuously as postmaster of Port Gibson since 1870, with the ex- ception of the eight-year period of President Cleveland's administration, when he was supplanted by a white Democrat. President Taft will arrive in Oma- ha at 6 o’clock tomorrow m-ining and will remain in the city until Monday merning as the guest ot the Omaha Club. From th2 station he will be taken to the club for break- fast and then will attend church. 1In the afternoon he will deliver an ad- dress at the Auditorium under the auspices of the-Y. M. C. A. With a gathering of members of their family and a few intimate friends, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bry- an will celebrate their twenty-sev- enth wedding anniversary tumorrow at Fairview. The marriage of Mr. Bryan and Miss Mary E. Bairl took place Oct. 1, 1884, at the home of the bride’s parents in Perry, lli., one year after Mr. Bryan had been ad- mitted to the bar. - - TENDER FALLS INTO LAKE; MEN ESCAPE| While Backing Down on Crookston Lumber Company Dock, Myster- ious Accident Occurs. ENGINE TOTTERS; KEEPS RAILS Train Crew Remain on Lccomotive and Come Out Without Being Injured. WRECKER PULLS OUT RUINS Dragged From Water and is Today Again Placed in Service in Yards. While switching in the lumber yards, a Minnesota & International |15comotive tender jumped the track the | and plunged into Lake Bemidj, {engine tottering on the bank but failing to fall in the water. J. McLaughlin, the engineer, C. Ramsey, fireman and Mike Dowas, | switchman, all on the engine atthe time of the accident, stuck tu the locomotive and escaped without in- jury. Cause of Accident Unknown. What caused the accident is un- known. The rails did not spread and there was no apparent damage to the tracks. The engine which partly run off the track at the dock in the Crook- ston Lumber company’s yard was pulled back and put in service yes- terday. Tender Leaves Track. As the engine was backing down the track on the dock something caused the coal tender to leave the track. The weight of the tender was too much for the links and the tender loaded with coal went into the lake. The trucks were torn from the body and the entire outfit turned turtle. Engine All But Goes In. The engine proper came SO near being dragged into the lake that the large drive wheels catching the rail and resting on the edge of the ties was the only thing that saved it. For the past two days the wreck- ing crew has been busy lifting the engine back on to the tracks and rais- ing the tender out of the lake No one was hurt in the accident but several had narrow escap POPPPPPOPOORPOOOO® ® Sunday Service in Bemidji. @ POOOPOOOOPOOOOO G FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Services will be held in the Ma- sonic Temple with preaching at 10:45 and 8. The male quartette will sing in the morning and the young ladies, lead by Miss Ruth Wightman, will sing in the evening. Sunday school will be held at 12 o’clock, Epworth League at 7 with S. E. Herlocker as leader. This is the closing Sunday of the conference year. A short report will be made at the morning service. Prayer meeting will be held on Thursday evening at the home of Dr. Shannon, corner of 10th street and Dewey ave- nue. Everybody welcome. : Chas H. Flesher, pastor. EPISCOPAL. Sunday School will be held at 12 o’clock, evening services at 8 o'clock. PRESBYTERIAN. Tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock we will observe our quarterly com- munion service. ~We hope to see all members present. Bible class and Sunday School will be held- at 12:15, Young People’s service at 7 and evening service-at 8. The public is invited. -S. E. P. White, pastor. GERMAN LUTHERAN. All Germans of Bemidji are invit- ed to attend services of the German Lutherans next Sunday afternon at 3 o’clock. of their own, the Lutherans will meet in the Baptist church on Bel- trami avenue. Rev. Panl Roehes of Cass Lake will preach. Joe Gresbeck was in Bemidji over Sunday, and on Monday tock a trip to Akeley by auto to see the country, returning to Walker on the passenger |train. In other words, Jos has been going some during the past week.— Walker Pilot. Not possessing a church | Robert E. Smyth, Who went on the stand in- the Dumaé case yesterday afternoon, following Attorney E. E. McDonald’s outline for the stat: and who told in open court his story of how Dr. Dumas h"g offered to get men to burn the stare at Puposky of which Smyth was®:manager, was turned over to the dttorneys fur the defense at the morning session of {court and since that time has been |given a merciless grilling at the hands of Freeman ‘P. Lane, who is aided in his examination.by Judge Spooner and A. A. Andrews. Mr. Smyth said he was 27 years old; that since last May he has been a deputy fire marshall; that hc was manager of the Puposky store which was owned by A. E. Smith. Mr. Smyth, at this afternoon’s session, admitted that he was interested in a saloon at Nebish and that he had told Mike Davis that he wished the books at the Puposky store destroyed at the time of the fire. About the Books. “And after the Puposky affair those books were shipped out of the country, into Canada—to Winnipeg, were they not?” asked Attorney Lane. “They may -have been,” said Mr. Smyth. The defense tried to get Mr. Smyth to admit that on the day of the fa- mous meeting in the John Larson sa- loon here, Dr. Dumas had asked him to come to Bemidji to settle his doctor bill. Mr. Smyth insisted that he had paid for all medical services on every visit made. In telling of the saloon meeting Mr. Smyth testified|thpt Mike Davis had told Drs Dumis he wanted to get a watch he hafl planted at the rear of the Endion hotel. Asked About the Watch. “And yet youysays'' jgxclaim.d At- torney Lane, “that at this same meet- ing Mike Davis said he would go to Cass Lake and get from Dr. Dumas the nitroglycerine to be used in blow- ing the Puposky safe. Now you face that jury and tell them why Mike Davis wanted Dumas to get the to Cass Lake that very night.”” “Well, the watch was discussed before the dynamite,” replied the witness. Mr. Lane made frequent sarcastic comment on Mr. Smyth’s work as a detective. Thought it His Duty. “You knew that when the detec- tives and the sheriff and the other men went to Puposky they were heavily armed and that they haa gun holes in the buildings and that either Mike Davis or Behan or both might be murdered, didn’t you,” asked the attorney. “I did.” “And yet for $100 a month you was willing to plan a crime that might end in murder, were you?" Attorney McDonald objected to the question as improper but Judge Mc Clenahan permitted it to be answer- ed and Mr. Smith said he did it be- cause he thought it was his duty. Denies He Wanted Fire. “Now, honestly, Mr. Smyth, didn’t you want that building burned for the $3,500 insurance?”” demanded the attorney, who got a quick, “no, sir” in reply. “Well, with the flames bearing down on the building, didn't you send the only team away and did you do one solitary thing to save your store,” persisted Mr. Lane. “I sent the team to the Hodgdon home to get the women and kids who were crying, and I carried several pails of water to put out the fire out.” “What did you carry water for when you though the building was doomed?” was the next thrust, “Why wasn’t you trying to save the stock?” “It’s pretty hard to save a retail stock. I did take out my typewriter and the books.” The attorney for the defense es- tablished the fact that when a com- mittee of citizens called upon him to contribute toward the ‘expense of clearing the brush away from his store that he failed to contribute. What He Had Said. All this line of testimony was defense to discredit the testimony | had told how Dr. Dumas had pointed out two men leaving his office as a {«“couple of the cleverest men in the business;” that the doctor had then shown Lim two guns and a bottle of nitroglycerine left by ‘these mea for the doctor to keep in the safe; bow the doctor had expressed surprise on learning that his place of business taken as an effort on the part of the. {of Smyth who on direct examination' watch when Davis himself was going | was at Puposky because “they have that place marked;” how he had lcad the doctor on into a plan for burning “| the building; how Dumas was to get two men to do the job for which he was to receive $300; how h: met Dumas in Bemidji, had gone to a saloon where he had met Mike Davis and Martin Behan and had there agreed to the Puposky ararng:nients which lead to Behan’s capture ou the night of June 16; how he had paid Dumas with a $200 check and $10 in bills and how Dumas had SBN that he would furnish a gun to Davis and the nitroglycerine. On Cross Examination. On cross examination the defense established the fact that Smyth told of his plotting with Dr. Dumas'to Sherman C., Bailey, a Bemidji game warden and that Bailey’s. brother married Smyth's siste “You want the jury to understand, Mr. Smyth, that it was on January 9, 1911, when you telephoned from Puposky to Dr. Dumas to send you some more medicine, when he asked you in April where you were engaged in Dbusiness and expressed su.prise when you said Puposky?” asked Mr. Lane. The witness gave an evasive reply. Another question from Mr. Lane was: “Do you mean to have the jury un- destand that in Cass Lake in t he middle of April, without any sugges- tion on your part, Dr. Dumas sug- gested that he could get someone to burn the property for you?” “Yes, sir,” responded Mr. When Court Began Today. When ccurt opened this morning Attorney McDonald asked for a modi- fication of the order excluding the sheriff and Lee LaBaw from the court room. No objection from the defense resulted in a modification. Robert. Smyth was recalled to the witness stand. In reply to questions from Attor- ney McDonald that at the time he had talk in Andy Larson’s saloon, there was in his Puposky building a stock of merchandise and a safe. “What was said in Larson’s saloon relative to the safe?” Smyth was asked. The objection by Attorney Lane was overruled. Continuing, Smyth said: Talked Ovér the Telephone, “I got some old blankets and a pail of water for use of the sheriff and his party in the back room; did some work around the building and came to eBmidji, afterward buying a ticket to Duluth. While in Larson’s saloon it was agreed I should be in Duluth while the building was Davis said I needn’t buy an auto there. But I said I would. Dr. Dumas said I should go and for one. I went to Duluth and reg- istered at the McKay hotel. That evening I went to Superior to look up Phil Gannon. In Larson’s saloon Mike Davis told me to go to Gan- non’s saloon and tell him what Davis wag doing. I didn’t find Gannon and went back to Duluth. “I got a telegram from S. C. Bailey at Bemidji and talked with home over the phone. I talked to Dr. Dumas over the phone twice that day. The doctor said he did not know what was done at Puposky but would find out; said men wouldn’e back out —would go through with deal. In the last talk with Dr. Dumas a bell boy was in the booth. “I saw Dr. Dumas on the platform at-Cass Lake when Smyth was going to Duluth. The doctor said then that Mike Davis and Martin Behan was on the edge of town at Bemidji; had some trouble in getting dyna- mite. Smyth hung around Duluth until Saturday night, returning to Bemidji Sunday morning. “When an -attempt was made to reach William Munhall on the phone, Dr. Dumas showed Smyth a jetter. The letter was from Custer, Mont., and ran as follows: “Dear friend Doc: I am out here on big job. Be here some time. Send me the clothes I have there and prepay the charges. Give my regards to the Johnson's.” An objection by Attorney Lane at this point was overruled - by the court. “In the wine room at Larson’s, Mike Davis told Dr. Dumas he had planted a watch in the r-ear of the Endion hotel and for him (the doc- tor) to get it. " Attorney Lane offered another ob- jection which caused the court to tell the jury not to take into account attempts to cast aspersion on zounsel for the state. 5 “Mike Davis said they had better Smyth. get the watch in the store before they burned the building. Lane Begins Cross Examination. Cross examination by Mr. Lane of Robert Smyth shows: Mr. Smyth said: “I first met Dr. Dumas last fall. Don’t remember substantially the day or month. It was sometime after court in Bemidji had adjourned. 1 couldn’t say what month; it was last year. I think it was in Novem- ber; believe it was shortly after the first snow probably about the tenth. 1 just happerned to stumbleontohim— visited him in his professional ca- pacity. T paid the doctor $5 for the first visit. The doctor treated me. The doctor passed sounds on me that day because he said he wanted to enlarge the opening of the bladder.” At this point the women lett the court room while the witness was ex- amined relative to the nature of the disease for which he was treated by Dr. Dumas. Smyth said he received treatment in Cass Lake every two or three weeks from Dr. Dumas—didn’t receive over a dozen of fifteen. The treatment continued until about the last of May. Smyth began treatment about November 10, 1910. It may have been later than November 10 but -he did not remember. The doc- tor, said witness, never rendered a bill for his services When Smyth first visited the doctor there was no conversation as to what business Smyth was engaged in. “The Witness denied that he had told Dr. Dumas that the doctor in Bemidji had given him no relief. It was sometime during the wint- er when Dr. Dumas discussed the business in which Smyth was en- gaged; he could fiot say what month. The doctor, said Smyth, etaoinshrdlu He didn’t remepber receiving any medigine on_January 8th, 1911, or of telephoping. to_the .doctor from Puposky ol January 9th, 19113 An evasive answer was given. “Didn’t you when you first visited Dr. Dumas, tear off a bill head, con- taining the name of the Puposky Mercantile company, and give it to the doctor?” “l did not.” Mr. Lane questioned Mr. Smyth as to question of charges for medical services being considered of small im- port;: also. as to: Smyth’s conection with “the Puposky Mercantile com- pany, $Smyth statmg" that he had a small interest in the store fixtures and never had an interest in the stock of merchandise, his only in- terest being that of an employe. (At this point the women returned to the room.) Smyth stated that he never had any stock in the business nor in the building. Explains the Insurance. Responding to the examination Smyth said A. E. Smyth was owner of the Puposky Mercantile = business. Insurance was carried through Wm. C. Klein, First National Bank and A. E. Smith of Bemidji. “Do you want us to understand that A. E. Smith wrote insurance on his own property?” ‘His name was on the policy as agent.” " Mr. Lane questioned Smyth close- 1y as to the insurance carried on the building. * Witness answered that he did not.| remember to nearly all of the ques- tions as to amount of insurance car- ried on the Puposky building. Witness did not remember date when last insurance was put on. About the Fire in May. “Rleven days after you put that last insurance there was a fire in back of your store that pretty nearly burned your store?” “It was a small fire and was put out.” “Didn’t you take the farm machin- ery to a place of safety?” “No, sir; someone probably did.” Smyth stated that he fought fire beside of Emil Gustafson several times. During that fire, Smyth said that most of the time he was directing the work of the men fighting fire. “Didn’t you say to Mr. Hodgdon and others there, “Don’t pay any at- tention to the swck. it is well in- sured?” “No.” “Did You Want it Burned?” “Now, honestly, you wanted the property burned, didn’t you, Smyth, so that you could get the $3,500 in- surance?” “No, sir.” “You sent the only team in town to Hodgdon’s house when there was im- minent danger of the store burning?” “No, sir; the women and kids were out.” to save the property which you had 8o heavily insured?” “Yes, sir; I caried water.” _ “What were you carrying. water for when you knew that the whole works was going and it was no use to. try and save the stock?” “It would be a hard thing to get the stock back in if the whole thing didn’t burn.” Smyth admitted that he did not contribute to a fund to have the brush cut near his property but said he helped pay the men who helped fight the fire. “Did you mean to have this jury understand that at Cass Lak2. the middle of April, without any sugges- tion on jour part, Dr. Dumas sug- gested that he or you would get some- one to destroy the property for you?’” “Yes.” Smyth said he told S. C. Bailey about it and said O. E. Bailey had married his sister. Why He Told Bailey. When questioned as to what he ex- pected to get out of telling “Sherm” Bailey, if he wanted to hold up the doctor, Smyth said he didn’t expect to get anything; that he knew Bailey was after men who were not exactly on the square. Up to this time the doctor had treated him well, and Smyth did not have it “in” for him. At the first conference had in Bailey’s office there were present Fullerton, 8. C. Bailey, Thayer C. Bailey and my father. Asked if this was not a “strietly family gathering,” Smyth said no. Smyth said Fullerton asked him to continue the work in the Dumas case. He was not induced by thnuqhti p( reward in first going to Sherm Bnl‘gy‘ This was the first time he saw Sam Fullerton. pay roll that day and has been do- g what-he was toldi to. do’ever since. mind to go-after the doctor.when he saw the guns and nitroglycerine in the safe. Smyth said he had talked to De- tective Fielding; gave him ail the information he had, which Mr. Lane characterized as a “tale of woe.” Also Mr. Johnson, a Piukerton de- tective. “Did you talk with Mr. Funkley about this matter?” “No, sir.” Dumas’ Father Arrives. Frederick Dumas, father of Dr. Dumas, arrived in Bemidji this morn- ing and will remain here unti! the trial is completed. “The arrest of the doctor the many newspaper publications that have been made relative to the trial and the general tone of the serious charges lodged against the doctor have greatly affected his mother, Mrs. Frederick Dumas,” says Attor- ney Lane, “and she ig almost a ner- vous wreck. can be induced to come to Bemidji and attend the trial.” On direct examination Smytl: told how last April he had gone to Cass Lake to obtain' medical treatment from Dr. Dumas and that he had seen two men in the office who, after they had gone out, the doctor told him were “two of the smootnest in the country;” that Dr. Dumas then show- ed his his safe which contained two revolvers and bottle of nitro g'ycer- ine.” Henry GRIDIRON SEASON OPENS TODAY Minnesota Meets Ames and Other Western Teams Clash, Chicago, Ill., Sept. marks the real opening of the foot- ball season in the middle West, though several of the college teams made their debut a week ago, wnile others will not begin their schedules until next week. The outlook for a successful season is regarded as prom- ising. Minnesota is reported to have fully as good a team as lastL year, when the Gophers disputed with Michigan the championship of the West. Illinois, which claimed the championship, is.back with as strong if not a stronger team than last season, and Illinois and Indiana like- wise bave put formidable elevens. in the field. The strong teams, however, are not confined to the “big eight” or to Michigan. Notre Dame and Mar- quette will be well up in the running and Nebraska is considered on par with some of the “big eight” elevens: Lake Forest, Beloit, Knox and Wabash, not to mention Michigan Agricultural College, which beat some of.the best last year, are ex- pected to be found near the lront when the season’ closes. hollering and we wanted to get them He was put on the state Smyth said he madd up his_ It is doubtful if she 30:—Today - “Did you ever do one solitary thing