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

THE BE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 142. $3,000 G0ODS HERE Tons of Vegetables and Great Loads of Grain Purchased From Hap- py Owners. ONE MAN COMES 36 MILES Puposky Couple Gets Heavyweight Prize By Tipping Scales at 480 Pounds. BIG FAMILY WINS THREE GIFTS Myhre Grabs Most Valuable Load Plum With Consignment of Wheat “and Butter. More than $3,000 worth of farm produce and other goods were sold by nearly 200 farmers who swarmed here yesterday to attend “Markef| Day.” Tons of cabbages, potatoes and other vegetables were disposed of at the highest market price, in most instances for cash. Except in a few isolated instances where farmers demanded unreason- able prices, every pound of stuff of- fered for sale was purchased. One farmer was disgruntled because he could not sell his wheat at 95 cents a bushel when the market price is 87. Another imagined he should get more than $40 a ton for his cabbage, which was the prevailing price paid. All the prizes have been awarded and the visitors were enthusiastic ov- er their treatment while in Bemid: Many accepted the Commercial club’s invitation to visit that organization's new home. Piano Auction Feature. One of the features of the public auction was the placing on sale by James A. Terry of a Wesley Piano which sold regularly for $350 and brought $205 under the auctioneer’s hammer, by Mrs. J. S. Mackey, Far- ris. The piano was used for the public marriage wedding march; and was sold immediately following the mar- riage. Mr. Terry, who is a newcomer to this city, has located his piano par- lors at Fourth street and Ervine av- enue and took this means of intro- ducing himself and his pianos. The Prize Awards. The award committee for the mar- ket day prizes announec their win- ners as follows: The cross cut saw given by C. E. Battles was awarded to E. W. Hall of Eckles for bringing in the larg- est number of persons in one load, nine were on the wagon, seven chil- dren and their father and mother. The sack of Pillsbury flour given by W. G. Schroeder for the largest family coming from a distance of more than five miles was also award- ed to Mr. Hall. The free savings accounts of $1 each to the farmers bringing in the most valuable loads of cabbage was awarded to Ole Moen, of Frohn; on- ions to August Jarchow, of Bemidji; potatoes to Gust Berg, of Frohn; but- ter to L. 0. Myhre, of Wilton. The Crookston Lumber Company had offered $5 in gold for the largest load of hay, and there weme other inducements. Wheat and Butter Win Myhre Clothes The $15 suit of clothes given by Schneider Brothers for the load that brought the most money at the auc- tion sale was awarded to L. O. Myhre, his load bringing $106.30, and was made up of wheat and butter. The sack of White Jacket flour of- fered by Roe & Markusen to the farmer bringing in the most children under 12 years of age was awarded to E. W. Hall, he having brought in six eligible for this prize. This makes three prizes won by the Hall family. The safety razor given by the City Drug store for the largest load of wheat was awarded to Michael Foley, of Bemidji township. The $5 offered by A. A. D. Rahn, and the $2.50 offered by the First National Bank to the farmer coming the fartherest distance was awarded to George Creighton who drive more than 36 miles from Aure, Roosevelt township, to the Market Day celebra- tion. The new fall hat given by the Hen- rionnett- Millinery Parlors was awarded to Miss Hollander of Frohn, for bringing in the largest number of eggs. The $5 in gold offered to the larg- 200 FARMERS SELL | s s i SRR g oo PR : Pioneer Dumas Case Reports, : The Bemidji. Pioneer has : : shown great newspaper enter- : : prise in its report of the Dumas : trial, which has just concluded : : in that city. The Pioneer gave : : complete reports of the case and ; : yesterday got out an edition of : 16 pages, giving the pleas of the : lawyers in full.—Editor. Alva : Eastman in St. Cloud Daily Jour- : : nal-Press. : POOOOOOOOOOOO®6 S © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, © POPO0O0000O00OOO® The Weather: Probably fair Sat- urday; moderate variable winds. Fire in the center of the business district of Coledonia, Minn., badly damaged one block and for a time threatened to destroy the entire town. - Resolutions to have the Ohio State Federation of Labor go on - record against the presidential ambitions of Governor Harmon were defeated af- ter a warm debate. Three persons were killed by il- luminating gas in Minneapolis yes- terday. Albertinus Opgrand, a fatm- er living near Halstad, Minn., was found dead in a room at the Ban- croft hotel. ‘Opgrand came to Min- neapolis to consult a physician about heart trouble. Coroner Gilbert Sea- shore thinks Opgrand blew out the gas. Mr. and Mrs. John Pearson were asphyxiated in rooms at 190 East Island avenue. In a full confession to Sheriff John Casey, James Dygart yesterday told of the manner in which he murdered Mrs. Amelia Bolton and Frank Ed- ward Rhodes on the Bolton farm near Wyoming, in Anoka county, on Sep- tember 12, according to the Anoka county officer. He told the officials, they say, that he did not want his parents to go to the expense of fight- ing the case for him, and then told in detail of the crime of which he is accused. Shortly before noon today Presi- dent Taft arrived in Sagramento, the first important stop on his Califor- nia itinerary. Governor Johnson and other eminent representatives of the State were on hand to give him greeting. After an informal ‘recep- tion at the station the distinguished visitor was escorted to the Capitol, where he delivered a brief address to the large crowd assembled there. At 1 o’clock the journey to Oakland and San Francisco was resumed. Dr. George Edgar Vincent, will be formally installed as president of the University of Minnesota, the after- noon of Oct. 18, at the university armory. John Lind, president of the board of regents and former governor of the state, will preside at the inau- gural ceremonies proper. President emeritus Cyrus Northrop will make the presentation address. Bishop John Hoyl Vincent, D. D., father of the president-elect, will pronounce the benediction. Late returns show that woman suf- frage has triumphed in California, returns wiping out the majority pre- viously recorded against the amend- ment and since this turn, the mar- gin in favor of the amendment has increased steadily. The totals now show the result as follows: For suf- frage amendment, 119,086, against 117,408, Majority for amendment 1,678. These figures represent the| returns from 2,717 precints out of a total of 3,121 in the state. So over- whelming was the vote in favor of the other amendment, the initiative and referendum and recall, including the judiciary that the tabulation of returns was supended, with nearly a third of the precints remaining un- reported. The final count taken showed the following results: For initiative and referendum 138,181, against 44,850, For the recall, 148,- 572; against, 46,299. The revolution, which has been hanging over China for months, and of which the rising in the province of Szechuen, was only a small part, has begun in earnest and is a con- certed movement to take the empire and declare a republic. The noted exiled revolutionist, Dr. Sun Yart Sen, leader of the anti-Manchu party, if plans do not miscarry, is to be elected president. He was the dele- gate of the revolutionary party to the United States in 1910, and is be- lieved during that tour to have made arrangements for financing the move- ment. Sun Yu, a brother of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who is now in Hankow, has been elected president of the provin- cial assembly and Tang Hua Lung, retiring president of the assembly and a noted scholar, has been elected governor of Hu Peh. The whole as- sembly has seceded from the im- perial government. The rebels, who are well organized, have confiscated the local treasuries. and banks and are issuing their own paper money, redeeming government notes with Man Convicted of Charges as BIB.e- sult of Testimony from Small Girl to Be Sentenced. JOURDAN CASE IS STILL ON[ Jury, However, Likely to Get Rob- bery Charges Late This Afternoon. MURDER CASE UP WEDNESDAY Woodsman Arrested at Kelliher For Having Shot and Killed Two Men - “To Go On Trial. J. Weaver, who was tried in dis- trict court here on a charge of hav- ing assaulted Peter Nelson with a rifle, after Nelson had accused him of -insulting his wife, was found not guilty, after the jury had deliberated on the case from 11 a. m. until 4 p. m. yesterday. At 3 p. m. yesterday the jury asked for instructions and retired, and after an hour’s discussion verdict which meant immediate release for the defendant. additional brought in a Carlton Receive Sentence. It was announced at the court house this afternoon that at 9 a. m. tomorrow, John Carlton, convicted on a charge involving a girl not yet 10 years old, would be arraigned for sen- tence. It had been expected that Carlton would be sentenced today, but it was deferred and Carlton will not go to the penitentiary until to- morrow night. Jourdan Case Still On. The case against Alex Jourdan, the Red Lake Indian, accused of having pounded Peter Dertt over the head with a hammer on August 2 last, and taking $55 from him, is occupying the attention of the court today. The jury in this case was secured late yesterday afternoon, and at 3 p. m. today the state had completed its case. ° Witness For the State. The following were called as wit- nesses for the state by County Attor- ney Graham A. Torrance: " Peter Dertt, M. W. Knox, Antoine Gurnean, Arthur Billet, Farnam Wat- son, A. H. Watson and Mrs. M. W. Knox. Thayer Bailey, attorney for the de- fendant, has summoned the following as witnesses for the defendant: Alex Jourdan, Patrice Jourdan, Mrs. Patrice Jourdan and Mrs. Alex Jourdan. Interpreter on the Job. Progress of the case has been slow owing to the fact that rwch of the ‘testimony is given by Indians who are unable to speak the English lan- guage, Joe. Morrison, of Red Lake, has been employed as an interpreter. It is expected that the case will get into the hands of the jury late this afternoon. The charge of murder in the first degree against the Finlander who is held for having shot and killed two men at Kelliher two weeks ago, will be brought up on Wednesday of next week. John L. Brown Plans Defense. John L. Brown, who was appointed an attorney to defend the accused man, is busy preparing the defense, which, it is understood, will be self- defense. The accused man faces two indictments, each charging murder in the first degree. He asserts that he did not begin the shooting until his opponent, who long has bourne ani- mosity towards him, began to fight. Two Indictments Still Secret. It is still unknown against whom the two last indictments, returned by tae grand jury, were aimed. by Assistant Fire Marshal Fullerton, and presented to the grand jury by Assistant Attorney-General Janes. It that also is generally understood they involved one person residing in Bemidji. = Fred Springman formerly princi- pal owner of cne of the largest ex- press transfer companies in Washing- ton, was.found murdered in a barn near his home in Prince George coun- Harry W. Silbrook, a ty, Maryland. this,- as foreign banks are refusing (Continued on last pag2 government mnotes. with the murder. farmhand, was arrested, It is presumed that they are an outgrowth of the arson charges brought about charged BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1911. WEAVER NOT GUILTY; CARLTONUPATIAM. BOY AND DOG KILL WOLF Stanley Thompson: Hero of Escapade With Desperate Wild Animal at Tenstrike Yesterday. BRINGS IN HIDE; GETS BOUNTY Stanley Thompson, the_young son of S. E. Thompson, the Tenstrike merchant, succeeded yesterday after- noon, with the assistance of the Thompson bull dog, in Killing a big and vicious timber wolf that had at- tacked the dog in an effort to gain possession of a dead rabbit. The fight between the boy and dog on one side and the wolf on the other took place on the edge of the swamp at Tenstrike. The lad heard his dog grappling with some sort of an adversary and ran with his gun. He found the dog and wolf disputing the ownership of ‘{the rabbit, and although the wolf was large and desperate the boy ran to within range and sent a bullet in- to the wolf’s carcass, wounding the animal, but not mortally. The wolf dropped the rabbit and made for the woods, with the bulldog after him. The dog finally made a lunge, set his teeth in the wolf’s hide and throttled him to death. “Stanley skinned the dead wolf and today brought the hide to Bemidji receiving from County Auditor George the regulation state bounty for wolves. f 0DD FELLOWS MEET TONIGHT Second Degree Work to Be Given By Entire Team, The Independent Order of Odd Fel- Tows will meet tonight in regular session. ~ Noble Grand R. L. Given has announced a special program and desires that all members and visiting brothers attend. Work in the Sec- ond Degree will be conferred upon several candidates -and the session will open promptly at eight o’clock. The officers-are making every effort to have the entire degree team pres- ent at tonight’s meeting. WOMEN FLOCK TO CLUB ROOMS Respond to Commercial Organiza- tion’s Invitation to Inspect. More than 100 women accepted the Bemidji’s COmme{l{-cla.l‘”vClub invita- tion to attend the reception last night given in honor of the opening of the club’s new home. It was the first op- portunity they had to view the place and there were many exclamations of surprise at the up-to-date arrange- ment of the club rooms. Punch was served and Masten’s_orchestra fur- nished a pleasing program. Turl_ceir"Could Put 1,000,000 More Men Than , Italy In the Field In,..Eyent of War Over Tripoli. In the event of war between Italy and Turkey over the Tripoll affair the Turkish government could put into the fleld probably 1,000,000 more men than Italy, but any advantage that might accrue to the former nation as a result of this numerical supremacy on land would be more than offset by the tremendous advantage that Italy would have on the sea. Italy has a fine navy, against which the Turks could send only a few obsolete battleships and semiarm ored cruisers. none of which is to be compared to the big [talian battleships. STABS BARTENDER; 'NOCAUSE APPARENT While stooping to wait on a cus- tomer at 4 o’clock this afternoon, B. E. Stewart,-a bartender in the Chris Olson Third street saloon, was seri- ously cut in the neck near the jugu- lar vein by John Peterson, a Fin- lander. Peterson ran ont of the saloon with Chris Olson and others in pursuit, and was captured by Policeman Smith, and is locked up in the city jail. He refuses to talk regarding the assault. 5 Stewart was rushed to St. An- thony’s hospital where he is being given medical attention in the operat- ing room. “I can’t understand what the fel- low meant,” said Stewart. “I was stooping over at the time and Peter- son came running into the saloon and slashed me with a big knife. 1 don’t know that I had ever seen the fellow before.” At the hospital it was said that the knife wound had just missed the jugular vein and that while the cut was a bad one that Stewart would recover. MISS TAILOR, VIOLINIST, COMES Secured as Feature of First Indoor Concert of Bemidji Band. Harry Masten, director of the Be- midji band, announces that he has secured Miss Louise Taylor of the Twin City Lyceum bureau to play at the first inoor conecert.this season which will be given at the city hall next Wednesday evening, October 18. Miss Taylor was one of the soloists at the world’s fair, having received a gold medal for her playing, and is considered one of the finest women violinists in the Twin Cities. WRITES BIBLE IN PHONETICS Minnesota Octogenarian Works 20 Years on Translation. Mankato, Minn, Oct. 13.—Com- plete translation of the Bible in pho- netic spelling is being made by Jud- son Jones, the author of “The Al- phabet of Orthoepy and Its Applica- tion to Monosyllables.” Mr. Jones is 80 years old, and be- gan the work twenty years ago. It required fifteen years of incessant la- bor to write the book out and another two years to-correct the mistakes and proofs. 2 P “Christ’s Sermon on the Mount” has been printed, - The title, as print- ed on the cover, is: “Krist’s Sermon on the Mount.” Spelled as spok’n— Bi Judson Jonz. There are no silent letters or syllables. i Love letters will be on a much higher plane when the mails are car- ‘| ried by airships.—Washington-Post.. BIG PLANS UNDER WAY ‘Notice "Ou for Meeting Development Association Directors; ~Re-appor- tionment Talk Likely. MAY DISCUSS EXTRA SESSION Demands for an extra session of the Minnesota legislature to consid- er a‘just reapportionment bill with the backing of the Northern Minne- sota Development association may re- sult from a proposed meeting in Be- midji of the executive committee of the association. Secretary W. R. Mackenzie has is- sued a call for a meeting of the com- mittee. It is possible that President Maxfield will arrive here tonight from Wadena and if so an important conference will result, plans for the next convention which is to be held in St. Cloud in December being taken up. Just what may be done in the way of calling upon Governor Eberhart to redeem his promise made in Brain- erd at the December convention last year to the effect that he would, if necessary assemble the legislature to pass a reapportionment bill, is not made known. Nevertheless, it is admitted that some steps looking for such action are being taken. It is believed that should there be a demand from the development association for a session for the express purpose of passing a redistricting bill, that the governor would yield to the demand. The executive committee consists of H. J. Maxfield, Wadena, president; M. H. Koll, Cass Lake; W. J. Brown, Warren; W. E. Richardson, Duluth; W. R. Mackenzie Bemidji, secretary. ALL INVITED TO ATTEND TALKS President Burke Extends Special Re- quest to Women to Hear Visitors. Thomas J. Burke has requested the Pioneer to announce that he extend Bemidji and the high school pupils to a special invitdtion to the women of ‘attend the public meeting at the Commercial club. rooms tomorrow at 1:30 p. m., at which -time Dean Woods of the college of agriculture and D. M. Neil, president of the Minnesota Federation of Commercial clubs, will speak. The speaking will begin promptly at the above hour, as the visitors leave the city shortly af- terward. Eeta s s John Young williserve 15 years in ‘the North Dakota penitentiary for having been implicated in the hold- “up of the North Coast Limited, a few miles out of Fargo the night of July 19. He was Bentenced yesterday at|Goodpaster and her husband were - Fargo and taken to the Bismarck|fined $5 and costs. Neither could i , |pay and both went to jail. Denitentiary today. |village whi¢h has 49 saloons, met 3 TEN CENTS PER WEEK. TELLS HOW HE MIXED WITH “MIKE” DAVIS Alfred Mueller, Here for Dumas Trial Explains to Dispatch Reporter How He Found Yeggman. “OH, YOU JOKER,” SAYS HERALD Grand Forks Newspaper Discredits Assertion Robber Was Seen by Men From Bemidji. LAWYER, HOWEVER, IS POSITIVE Declares He Drank Squirrel Whisky, Danced and Slept With Notorious Band of Outlaws. 5 How Alfred Mueller, a member of the Attorney General Simpson’s staff, who was among those present from St. Paul during the Dumas trial, slept, danced and chummed with Mike Davis at East Grand Forks, is told by a St. Paul Dispatch reporter in the following language: - Alfred’s Unusual Experience. = “After having hobnobbed with one of the most notorious gangs of yegg- men in the Northwest, drank ‘squir- rel whisky’ with them ‘rushed the can,” danced and listened to talk of ‘swags’ looted from safes, Alfred Mueller, an assistant to Attorney General Simpson, returned from Be- midji this morning, minus several pounds “of flesh and as sunburned as a plainsman. “Mr. Mueller talked with Mike Da- vis, alias Manchester Mike, the yegg- <! man who escaped from Puposky after the blowing of the postoffice safe which eventually resulted in the ar- rest of Mayor Dumas of Cass Lake. P He saw him in East Grand Forks, the b other members of the band and saw them all disappear when they got the tip®that Pinkertons and deputy sher- iffs were coming for them: Mr. Muel- ler was dressed as a lumberjack, His “Pal” Slept With Them, “The hang-out of the gang was at - ‘Little Harry's Place,’ a saloon,” Mr, Mueller said. ‘Upstairs was a ‘bull pen’ where members of the gang slept. While I was with them down- stairs, my ‘pal’ was upstairs and slept with them one .night. I got along all right till they got me in a place where I had to stand up at the bar and take a drink of about as fierce squ‘rrel -whisky as a man ever put down his throat. Then I went out back of the saloon with them and rushed the can and danced. It was a tough mob.” He Does Not Drink. “As Mr. Mueller customarily does not drink, the sympathy of friends was extended him. He carried in his pocket a small pistol of the “bull- dog” variety. J. C. Fielding, Pinker- ton detective, told him that if he ever shoved that toy into Mike Dav- is’ face, the ‘yegg’ would laugh at him. “Alexander Janes, assistant attor- ney general, who prosecuted the case against Dumas, is confident the Cass Lake mayor will be sent to prison by the higher courts. \Z “Joke'’ Says Grand Forks Paper. Now it came to pass that the Grand Forks Herald got the above over its wires, and this is the comment which the Herald, under the caption, “Oh, you joker!” has to say: “This special to The Herald, re- ceived from St. Paul last night, is about the limit in jokes. Alfred Mueller, the talkative assistant at- torney general, was the man who was in East Grand Forks a short time ago with Sheriff Hazen of Bemidji, and, while here, made foolish state- ments, but was unable to make them stick, He accused Patrolman Keller of tipping the intended ‘raid’ off, but this statement was refuted by Mr. Keller himself and by a number of affidavits made out, just after the affair came up. Everything indicates tha: the men were here on a wild goose chase, and it was too mueh for them to stand. With such a large reward out for the arrest of Davis, it is a wonder that Mueller did not try to land the yegg and reward while they talked together.” Because Mrs. John Goodpaster, with a®hatpin thrust, aroused her husband from a nap during a ser- mon at the Holiness church, at Law- renceburg, Ind., he struck her, the & service was disrupted and both Mrs,