Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 12, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 141. 2 NEW CHARGES END GRAND JURY'S WORK R R R R R R R R R R R Y © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © “PUSSYF“OT GETS 7 POOPPOPPPIOOOOOO “MARKETDAY”FUUJ ’ 3,300 CONVICTIONS EVENTS OF INTEREST The Weather: variable winds. At Minneapolis Mabel Bowers, 11, and Keith Bowers, 14, are dead from Believed to Be Identified With Du-|eating poison mushrooms. Fair Friday; light, Chicago Paper also Says Johnson White Cow Starts Auction at 10:30 mas Case, But Indictments Be- Snow piling in huge drifts is caus- Was In Danger of Losing His And From Then On Activity Mark- ing Kept Secret. ;‘fn::f ::’;fife ]t:eslcr'l‘;tz::'?t:: Job in Minnesota. ed the Day’s Program. S0 severe that street car traffic was suspended. Returns on the woman's suffrage| GETS INVITATION TO0 REST constitutional amendment in Califor- nia show that the margin by which . . |it has been defeated is close. The 2 2 > McDonald Also Off for Minneapolis| majority against the amendment now|New Mexican- Indian Profuse in But Will Return to Prosecute |is 4,103. Praise of Him for Saving Man Ole Ferguson. | Quebec is in holiday dress in an- Accused of Murder. | ticipation of the coming of His Royal | Highness the Duke of Connaught, the {new Governor-General of Canada,| CURFEW ORDINANCE REQUESTED | who will arrive here tomorrow morn-| NOW TO WRITE AN “EXPOSE” ing on the steamship Empress of Ire- land. PROSECUTORS LEAVE FOR HOME 75 WAGON LOADS OF PRODUCE Tons of Potatoes, Cabbages, Carrots, Onions, Butter, Wheat, and Other Farm Preducts Sold. | i | 'IEUBUC WEDDING SUCCESSFUL The blue and the gray joined in|Lilewise to Maintain exercises this afternoon attending the | | {unveiling of a monument-erected by i | Final Recommendation of Jurors Pro- vide for Ridding Streets of Chil- dren at Night. Detective Bureau to Catch Eiquor Offend- ers Says Calderwood. {Groom Kisses Bride and This Starts Hearty Cheer From Hundreds of Spectators. the Federal Covernment in Pitville National Cemetery, in Germantown, | ]near Philadelphia, in memory of the {220 Confederate soldlers buried! Two mysteriols indictments are in | fjora the hands of Clerk of the Court Fred Rhoda—the last work of the preseml At the prevailing high prices for| ! who °_‘°59d: grand jury which was dismissed yes—'the two great American staples, anMmany saloons in Northern Minne-| terday afternoon after a final days,zbundance of wealth and happiness,sct,a and who was about to close all| ind in which Assistant Attorney MY be expected to result from the of them in Bemidji when stopped | o V| wedding at Marshallt I General Janes took part. | wedding at Marshalltown, Towa, to- by injunction proceedings, s That during “Pussyfoot” his term of Johnson, siics] With crowds packing the open ! {space at Bemidji avenue and Fourth |Street, and nearly a hundred teams | arrested rhere is no way of knowing against whom the indictments are di- rected or what charges are contained | in them until the persons named are arraigned. and no one will say when that will be. It is generally presumed that, in- asmuch as the assistant attorney-gen- eral handled the indictments, that they are connected directly or indi- rectly with the Dumas case, and that the charges involve arson. Flock of Prosecutors Leave. Mr. Janes and Alfred W. Mueller, also of the attorney general’s office who has been here during the Dumas trial. returned last evening to St. Paul. Fire Marshal C. E. Keller re- turned the night before. Assistant Fire Marshal Sam. Fullerton, identi- fied with the case from the time it first began public, has gone to Buhl, on the iron range, to wage new pros- ecutions. Attorney E. E. McDonald, special counsel with Thayer Bailey to assist in the prosecution, has gone to Min- neapolis but will return in time to prosecute the perjury charge against Ole Ferguson of Deer River, which, the attorneys for the state say will come up for trial at the present term of court. The grand jury, which first met on September 12, was congratulated by Judge W. S. McClenahan, who was unusually profuse in his remarks. Final recommendations of the grand jury follow: Grand Jury’s Recommendations. To the Honorable the District Court of Beltrami County. We, the grand jury of Beltra- mi county, have examined the condition of the county jail and of the court house, and beg leave to report as follows: County jail—we find the con- dition of the county jail to be good; that the building is safe and sanitary, and that it is kept by the sheriff in a cleanly and proper condition. Court House — We find the court house building to be in good condition throughout, and that good care is being taken of the same. We recommend to the court, and to the county board, that one suitable room be permanent- 1y set apart for the use of the grand jury. and that another suitable room be permanently set apart for the use of the petit jury, as the present occu- pancy of the room in the court house now leaves but one room available for both the grand and petit jury during terms of -court. Recommendation—we recom- mend and earnestly urge the city council of the city of Bemidji to pass and rigidly enforce a proper curfew ordinance, to the end that the young boys and girls of this city be kept off the streets in the night time, un- less accompanied by their par- ents or guardian. We make this recommendation because we be- lieve that the lack of such local pravision is highly detrimental to the moral interests of this eity. ) A, L, Morris, Foreman. Bemidji- at presest has 3 curfew ordinance. At this time of the year all children are presumed to be off the streets not later than 8 p. m. Wheelock Wires Congratulations. As soon as news of the verdict had reached the capif~, Ralph W. Whee- loek sent a lette, of congratulation to State Fire Marshal Keller who at that time was in Bemidji. day of Miss Alta Cotton, daughter ur‘ a prominent farmer, and Mr. George Wheat. James Dygart, the “Jim” wanted lin connection with the murder of Mrs. Amelia Bolton and her cousin, Frank E. Rhoades, a. the Bolton farm in Anoka county, was lodged in jail at Minneapolis last night, after he had admitted his identity. He de- nies his guilt. The American Indian Association, a national organization of progress- ive Indians and friends of Indian pro- i gress, met at Columbus today for a four days’ conference as the guest of Ohio State University. Plans for the general advancement of the race are to be discussed by numerous Indians who hiave won success in the professions and public life. Exceeding the world’s record for a cross country aeroplane flight by 133 miles, and speeding through the air at times at the rate of seventy miles an hour, C. P. Rodgers landed safely at Marshall, Mo., on his voyage from New York to San Francisco. The former world’s record, 1,265 miles, ‘was made by Harry Atwood in a re- cent flight from St. Louis to New York. Rodgers has flown 1,398 miles, according to railroad mileage. He continued toward the coast. One of the most notable gatherings ever assembled in the history of the | United States in the interest of wa- { terway development was called to or- ‘der in the Chicago Auditorium today i when the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Wa- | tervay Association met for its sixth annual convention. The association is endeavoring to secure Federal aid for the construction of a deep water- | way from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, by way of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Secretary of the Interior Fisher, Congressman Under- wood of Alabama, Governor Harmon of Ohio, Senator Cullon of Ilinois, former Governor Francis of Missouri, Congressman Cannon of Ilinois, Gov- ernor Hadley of Missouri and a num- ber of other men of national promi- | nence will address the convention. A procession of archbishops, bish- ops, monsignori and priests of the Roman Catholic church, formed an| impressive prelude to the ceremonies this afternoon at the laying of the cornerstone in Washington for the Gibbons Memorial Hall at the Cath- olic University. The procession across | the campus and through the buildings | of the university was led by Cardinal Gibbons, who was attended by a large | delegation of priests from the Balti- more diocese. Upon arriving at the |new memorial hall, one wing of which is already completed, the cor- nerstone was_laid in the tower sec- tion, or central portion of the build- ing. Exercises of a simple but im- pressive nature attended the laying| of the stone. In addition to Cardinal| Gibbons the speakers included the |Rt. Rev. Mgr. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the university; the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aiken, dean of the theological department, and the Rev. Dr. D. W, Shea, dean of the school of science of the university. The Gib- hons Memoria] Hall is to be added to the already imposing group of| buildings belonging to the Catholic; University as a permanent and en- during memorial to the famous Bal- timore prelate. The memorial hall, massively constructed of stone, is de- signed for use as a hall of residence by students of the university. It will have a total length of 265 feet, and will afford accommodations for about 150 students. -In a niche over the main entrance will be placed a large statue of Cardinal Gibbons. dsiness ¥~ —Saved Life of Deputy. | the conviction of 3,300 is the asser- {tion of the American Advance, pub- lished in Chicago. Continuing, the Advance says: “Johnson has destroyed more than half a million bottles of liqguor. In Minnesota alone, he closed up more than 400 saloons, covering the great- er part of the northern half of the state. He operated under an old Indian treaty. He came near losing his official head at the hands of en- raged liquor politicians for this work. “Take your old job. I don’t want it anyhow,” Johnson would say, and then shut up another batch of saloons,. grinning all the time. “In a remarkable degree ~Johnson has secured the complete devotion of his deputies. He is always ready to fly to their rescue when they are in trouble and will fight for them to the last ditch, regardless of its rec sults upon himself. It was the furi- ous fight that Pussyfoot made to save the life of Juan Cruz, one of his Pueblo Indian deputies, who was accused of murder, and whom the Indian Office politicians wanted hanged, that led to Johnson’s official downfall. “This devotion of frontiersmen and Indians to the unique, athletic Yankee is well evidenced by the fol- lowing letter, which was sent to him by the Indian Council at Santa Clara, N. M., as soon as they heard of the Chief’s resignation: Offers to Entertain Him. Espanola, N. M., Sept. 19, 1911. Mr. W. E. Johnson, Chief Special Officer, U. S. I S, Denver, Colo. Dear Sir:—The Puebio of Santa Clara, mindful of its re- generation through your efforts, most cordially invites you to be its guest for as long a time as you will enjoy it. Horses, sad- dles, guns, guides and tents with the best rations at our command, will be provided you as long as you can make any use of them. ‘We hope you will come to us-and go to the mountains for a much- needed rest. All we have is yours, now and always. This is but small pay for the manhood you have restored to this village by stopping the liquor traffic here. We know you helped us at the price of your position. No other man in the Indian Ser- vice would have risked his head by staying with us and saving the life of Juan Cruz. You may 2o down in apparent defeat be- fore the whisky ring in Wash- ington, but in the hearts of a quarter of a million American Indians you are a hero. There is probably not one of this great number but what has come un- der the influence of your work. Come and be a good Indian with us. Very sincerely, The Council of Santa Clara, By Victoriano Sisneros, acting governor:”" 'y Write for Magazines. That Johnson will go from the gov- ernment service back into his spec- ialty as a prohibition writer, onthe- government Indian bureau in maga-i zine articles, is' the prediction made by W. G. Calderwood, chairman of the Minnesota prohibition commitee. Calderwood is an old friend of John-; son and has been in correspondence with dim for _years. He received a (cnnumudqnn—n | more than 6,000 persons and caused | [MARY GAMBLE NOT BRIDE * 1;... 5uiaoes avarege T | : | (Copyright. mil) Gets Marriage License and Was Ready to Wed for Fourth Time, But Plahs Go Awry. Mary Gamble, 66 years old, but gay parade, and now and then become a bride, went @Lfi‘e‘:&urt h a few license. Mary knew how to go about it, for ary has been there before. But Mary isn’t going to hop up the mar- riage altar just now after all. It’s like this: Mary found a chap out Wilton way —a bachelor and old soldier who has been pattering around for some 65 years—and he looked good to Mary. John Powers is the gentleman’s name. Three Times Wedded. Thrice has Mary listened to the sweet strains of the wedding march. The last event didn’t turn out as had been hoped, for after a few weeks of married bliss, or whatever it was, much married Mary sought solace in the form of a divorce decree. : The decree was granted, but the stern court warned Mary that severe penalties faced her if she wed again. Mary took the decree and started on her way, but stopped at the court house door long enough to inquire of the court, “Say, judge, just what are those penalties?”” Cupid Gets Busy. That was several months ago, so when Mr. Powers crossed her path and: Mary’s heart began to flutter as in days of yore and cupid’s dart went kerplunk, Mary coyly said “yes” to John’s entreaties, and offered to get the license. But that was before Mary knew that William Morrison, also living near Wilton, not far from where the gallant Mr. Powers resides, desired her services. Mr. Morrison has had troubles of his own. His wife has been sent to the hospital for the in- sane. He needed good help badly. Mary heard of the predicament with the result that Mr. Powers will have to wait for his bride or get another one. Mrs. Gamble wanted the Pioneer to say that she would be employed by Mr. Morrison this winter and the Pioneer always tries to oblige. TIN CANS, CONCERT STUNT One of Features at Salvation Army’s Musical “Blizzard”’ Tonight. Tin cans, from the alleys in Be- " midjt, are to be utilized at the con- cert in the eity opera house tonight, | {given by €aptain and Mrs. J. C.| | Minnes, Salvation Army workers, of Minneapolis. Other. interesting mu- sie. will be given on. improvised in- {struments. Captain’and Mrs. Minnes ihave given their coneert with sue- ;ces- in: Kansag, Missouri, Illinois,| states. Mrs. Minnes has an estab- | lished reputati nweinguum ACCEPTS A POSITION INSTEAD | enough to lead the Fourth of July| North and South Dakota and otherj days ago and pm’&fisfli a marriage/ . - | distance out of Bemidji by Chief of 624 Bushels to the Acre : duck who startled the public, or : : that part of it which doesn’t un- : : derstand Beltrami county soil, : with an announcement that his : : potatoes averaged 524 bushels to : : the acre. % This was followed by the as- : : sertion of a Bemidji man who : : was ready to make oath that his : : tubers yielded at the rate of 600 : : bushels to the acre, and asked : : the Commercial club to confirm : : his figures. = 1~ New-comes A: E- Rako; a mem- ber of the Beltrami board .of. ‘tounty commissioners, with the : : following: “From seven square rods across : : a two acre tract, slightly less : than one-twentieth of an acre, I : have gathered 27 bushels of per- : fect Maggie Murphy potatoes. “This yield is at the rate of : : 624 bushels to the acre. If any- : : one else in Beltrami county can : : beat that, I should like to know : . : H Mr. Rako’s farm is 2 1-4 miles : : south of Bemidji. FINDS STOLEN LOOT IN BOOT Chief Harrington Traps Man Wanted Near Remer on Larceny Charge. Efforts to hide articles he is pre; sumed to have stolen from a barber shop at Leon, not far from Remer, the new Soo line town, failed when Charles Sepski was captured a short Police Harrington. Officers at Re- mer called up the Bemidji chief and warned him that the fellow might be on his way here. Mr. Harrington | went out on the Soo tracks and boarded an incoming freight train and on it he found his man, Charles Sepski. The prisoner denied his guilt but the chief insisted on a search and in Sepski’s boots were four raz- ors, a hone and a comb and shears. He also had a book of two cent stamps and $9.30 in cash. He was turned over to Sheriff Anderson of Clearwater county, who took him to Bagley and locked him up. Eight prisomers broke out of the Bottineau, N. D. jail Tuesday and stil are ot liberty. It is thought they had outside help. Three were ac- cused of highway robbery, three of larceny and two of blind pigging. Beer making in all its phases from the raw grain and hops to the fin- ished product is to be seen at the ex- hibition which opened in Coliseum in Chicago today as a feature of the second International Brewers’ Con- gress. A working model of a mod- ern brewery is one of the principal features of the exhibition. Minia- ture reproductions of the old William Penn brewery in Pennsylvania and! the brewery of Samuel Adams, in Massachusetts also are shown. The brewers’ congress, of which Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, is the honorary president, will continue its sessions for ten days. Among those in attendance are leading brewers, brewmasters and ‘chemists from Eng- land, Prussia; F‘rmce Bavaria, Bo- hemia, South Afriea and other of the prineipal: beer-making couuntries of the world. X 'WEAVER JURY STILL OUT First came a man from Black- : | | Retired at 11 A. M. snd After Delib- erating Asks if Minor Charge Could Be Considered. JOURDAN ROBBERY CASE ON At 11 a. m. today the jury in the case of J. Weaver, charged with as- sault by striking Peter Nelson, a far- mer restding near Kelliher, with a riffe, Tetired. and up_to late this.af- ternoon no verdict had been réturned. At 3:30 the jury came into the court room and asked Judge McClen- ahan if they could not return a ver- dict-of guilty of assault in the sec- ond degree and when informed that would be illegal they returned to a conclusion. M. J. Brown defended Weaver. Following' the Weaver case, the charges of robbery against Alex Jour- dan; the Red Lake Chippewa Indian, ‘was taken up. It is expected the jury will be completed this afternoon. Eight men had been secured at 3 p. m. Jourdan is charged with having struck Peter Derett on the head with a hammer August 2 last, while he lay asleep, and that he took from him $58. ter tonight or tomorrow night. Attorney Lane in Minneapolis Ex- plains Supreme Court Action. Minneapolis, Oct. 12.—Freeman P. Lane, one of the attorneys for Dr. Dumas, who was convicted Monday confident the supreme court will dis- miss the case. Mr. Lane declares there is no possibility for Dr. Dumas’ | conviction being sustained in the su- preme court. 4 “There seems to be a misunder- standing’ about the status of the case.” He said there has been no appeal. “The court is simply certifying the case to the supreme court. After the evidence for the state was submit- ted, we asked for a dismissal, basing our motion on the proposition that there was absolutely no testimony tending to show that Dr. Dumas, Mar- tin Behan, Mike Davis, or anybody else ever attempted to set fire to the store in Pupesky Dr. Dumas was charged with attempting to burn. “The judge declared he ought to grant the motion and that he was convinced the point was well taken, but tnat owing to expense involved and the unusual character of the case, he had decided to let the trial proceed and certify the case to the supreme court for a decision on a mo- tion for dismissal.” Our Business in This World. to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spin\‘.s.~Robert Louis Steven- son. The only time a woman likes to late is when her club Theresllatotmdhmtofua again deliberate in an effort to reach | day, John Carlton, yesterday convicted as the result of charges made by a small girl, will be taken to Stillwa- SEES FREEDOM FOR DR. DUMAS ‘have her husband stay downtown Mrs. Mabel Irish Utech, Bride of Be- ~—midji's Auction Day Wedding. banked the entire block along Fourth, Bemidji’s first prize Market Day, fav- ored with smiling skies, is a success beyond the dreams of the most en~ thusiastic. It was 10:30 this morning when Dr. McClure, official auctioneer of the offered for sale a Wwhite cow which loked so good to A. P. Ritchie that he beat all other bidders off the board, and claimed tne bossy at $26. Another cow was put up and John S. Mackay of Farris, exchanged $20 Paul Utech, Groom at Today's Public of an attempt to commit arson, is Wedding. > | for her and was satisfied that he had a bargain. Then A. P. Ritchie bought a Holstein for $30. A horse next occupied the atten- tion of the bidders, and it went to A. Blackwell for $52.50. Then came a wagon sold to E. Brown for $6. Then Mr. Brown turned around and bought a top buggy for $32. Then there was a lively sale of chickens, cabbages, potatoes, onions, rutabagas, carrots, beets, citron, but- ter, eggs, and wheat. At one time early this afternoon there were 75 wagons filled to capa- city, some of them being pulled in by hour-horse teams and others by yokes of oxen, lined up at the auec- tion ground. There were hundreds of bushels of also was a large offering of onions. Most of the onions were bought by Harry Koors, of the Fitzsimmons- Baldwin Commission House, while G. W. Schroeder and William CeCuaig purchased the majority of the pota- toes. The prevailing potato price was 40c a bushel Carl Opsata, who took the prize at Our business in this world is not|t0® State fair for his honey exhibit, brought in what was probably the most valuable load of the day—hon- ey in- comb and strained, the value of which is estimated at $150. , At 2 o'clock this afternoon 125 farmers had been registered by W. L. Brooks in the registry tent. It is — potatoes, and tons of cabbages. There .