Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 14, 1911, Page 1

- ter in the hands of Fire Marshal Kel- VOLUME 9. NUMBER 143. BEHAN TO GET JOB; SAYSHE'SREFORMED “We Will Bank on Him,” Declares Fire Marshal Keller in St. Paul Office. IMMUNITY PROMISE PRINTED Puposky Captive Tells Story at Capi- tol and Arouses Sympathy of Prominent Men. CHARGES HANG OVER HEAD Out on Bonds as Result of Charges Made By Civil and Government Authorities. The following from St. Paul will be read with interest, not only be- cause it concerns Martin Behan who has figured so sensationally here, but because it is the first time it ever has publicly been said that Behan was granted immunity for giving ev-| idence against Dr. Dumas. As a mat- ter of fact, however, Behan is at lib- erty on bonds, charges made by the! civil and federal authorities still hanging over his head. During his recent stay here he was re-arrested by federal authorities. St.. Paul, Oct. 13.—Dressed in a well worn suit of clothing, his face tanned from exposure to the weather, Martin Behan, captured with the yeggmen, who blew the safe at Pu- posky, sat in the office of Fire Mar- shal Keller this morning and told how he got in with the gang that drew him into trouble. Behan is a farmer, 33 years old, who drifted away from his home in Wisconsin some years ago, and like many who follow the path of least resistance, ended in a saloon as a bartender. There he formed asso- ciates, who turned out to be crooks, who talked to him of their escapades and told of their loot. He Fell for Davis’ “Stuff.” When a time came that Martin was out of a job, with no money, no place to go, a wife depending on him, and when Mike Davis came to him and told him how the gang was prepared to blow the postoffice safe at Pu- posky, he fell. Deputy marshals and Pinkerton detectives got him. Officials Will Help Him to Job. By turning state’s evidence, the Wisconsin farmer got immunity. He has acted so “square” with the offi- cers and appears so sincere in his de- sire to get back to earning an honest | living that state officers are prepar-| ing to help him. “You can just say for me,” said Fire Marshal Keller, this morning, “that I believe in Martin Behan and I'm going to do what I can to get him a job. We'll bank on him.” Behan is reticent when reference is made to East Grand Forks and his old life there. Says Davis Planned Job. “I was just down and out, no job, no money, nothing to do,” he said. “I didn’t want to go in on the deal, but T was up against it so hard I aid.” “Who told you or came to you when the Puposky affair was plan- ned?” he was asked. “Davis,” he replied. leader of the work.” Just what work he can get Behan does not know. He has left the mat- “He was the ler and his assistant, Sam Fullerton. But he will never take a bartender’s, job again, he says. The Texas State fair, opened at Dallas today for two weeks. Special days will be observed throughout the two-week period of the fair and numerous organizations will take advantage of the reduced rates to hold their State conventions here. Reform of the criminal laws, a uni- form parole law, the extension of the probation system, and several other important reforms in the methods of managing prisons and treating prisoners will be discussed at the an- The Weather: Unsettled and with southierly winds Sunday. arm After two court days, no juror has yet been accepted in the McNamara case at Los Angeles. Hugh Robinson, who planned to start on his trip from Minneapolis to New Orleans yesterday, was de- layed again by bad weather today, but hopes to get away Sunday morn- ing. The musical world is interested this afternoon in the farewell con- cert at London, of Madame Albani, the distinguished Canadian-born singer who for 40 years has enter- tained the public in Europe and America. Headquarters were opened today at Colorado Springs for the Sixth International Dry Farming Congress, which will meet Monday and con- tinue in session five days. Dr. J. H. Worst, president of the North Dakota Agricultural College, will preside. Captain John W. Bowyer, former | superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, was placed on the re- tired list of the navy today upon recommendation of a medical board. He was retired with the rank of rear admiral. He was the youngest com- mander in the famous cruise of the Atlantic fleet around the world. The State penitentiary at Colum- bus, Ohio, will be 96 years old to- morrow. It was on October 15, 1805, that the big gates shut behind John Evans of Pickaway county, who was the first prisoner received at the institution. Since then a total of nearly 41,000 convicts have been confined within the high gray walls. Leaders in the science of geography have assembled in Rome from many parts of the world to parucipate in the tenth Internation- al Geographic Congress. The pro- ceedings of the congress will ocecupy an entire week and will be held un- der the patronage of the King of Italy, whose interest in geography Robert B. Marshall, chief geographer of the United States geological sur- vey, is chairman of the Unlted States delegation, which includes repre- sentatives of Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and other leading universi- ties. Baltimore is overflowing with ecclesiastics of all degrees and Catholic lay pilgrims from through- out the United States, Canada and Mexico, who have arrived to take part in the ceremony at the cathed- ral tomorrow to usher in the cele- bration -of the golden jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons as a priest, and his silver jubilee as a cardinal. The venerable Cardinal will officiate at the pontifical mass in the Cathedral tomorrow morning. The jubilee sermon will be preached by Arch- bishop Glennon of St. Louis. Arch- bishop Falconio, the apostolic dele- gate at Washington, will be present in the sanctuary, together with archbishops and bishops from all parts of America. After the ser- vices dinner will be served at St. Mary’s Seminary, at which the Gov- ernor of Maryland, the Mayor of Baltimore and other distinguished laymen will be among the guests. In the evening at vespers, the sermon will be preached by Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans. The entire week to come will be filled with im- portant events in connection with the jubilee. At noon today President Taft, his silk hat laid aside and his sleeves rolled up, smilingly turned a spade- ful of earth in the greensward of Golden Gate Park, at San Francisco, and amid the tumultous shouts of thousands, the music ‘of bands and the waving of flags the ground was broken for the Panama-Pacific ex- position with which the State of California and the City of San Fran- cisco expect to entertain the world in 1913. It was after ten o’clock when the great Military parade com- pleted its formation in Market street and moved toward Golden Gate Park. The ceremonies at the grounds were of a simple but im- pressive character. The Governor of California and his staff were there, together with the mayors of many of the leading cities of the State. Other guests of honor includ- ed representatives of all of the Pacific coast States, and California representatives in Congress and the officials and directors of the Panama- Pacific exposition company. After ual congress of the American Prison|an invocation by the Bishop of Cali- Association which opens in Omaha tonight. Lessons of Grief, There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that there, at least, we shall find reality, strange peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how.shal- fornia there were brief addresses by President Taft, Governor. Johnson, Mayor McCarthy and President C. C: Moore of the exposition company. The program was interspersed with selections of music and the whole was ‘concluded with the firing of an artillery salute. = ’.'He_ asked- her an uncivil question and-she gave him a pointed reply.” low it is.—Emerson. “With a- hatpin?”’ and exploration is well established.! MIDNIGHT VERDICT RELEASES JOURDAN Indian Accused of Using Hammer for -Tomahawk to Rob Derret Held Not Guilty. CARLTON SENTENCE GIVEN Must Be Confined at Stillwater at Hard Labor for Not Longer Than Five Years. COURT ADJOURNS TO TUESDAY At That Time Stanton Succeeds Me- Clenahan—Murder Case to Be Tried Soon. At midnight, last night, after it had been out four hours, the jury holding the fate of Alex Jourdan, a Chippewa Indian accused of using a hammer for-a tomahawk on the head of Peter Derret while he lay asleep, taking $55 in cash, returned a ver- dict of not guilty. The specific charge was robbery in the first degree. Jour- dan was defended by Thayer Bailey. The Indian was-arrested in August. The alleged crime was committed in Maple Ridge township. Trial Was Unique, The trial was unique in that much of the important testimony was giv- en by Indians using the Chippewa language, an interpreter, Joseph Mor- rison, translating the testimony in open court. When the jury retired, the judge said that he would receive the ver- dict up to midnight. The time passed by and there was no indication that the jury would agree. Deputy Clerk of the Court Beehler had remained on duty and at 10 minutes to mid- night was ready to give up, when word came that a verdict had been| agreed upon. Carlton is Sentenced. John Carlton will spend the next few years of his life in the peni- tentiary as the result of a boat ride here last summer with a small girl, under 10 years of age. He was found guilty, after short deliberation, by a jury on Tuesday. This morning he was arraigned before Judge W. S. McClenahan for sentence and he was ordered to Stillwater at hard labor at an indeterminate term, as’are all prisoners sentenced under the new law which leaves it to the jurisdic- tion of the state board of parole to say how long a prisoner must serve. Five-Year Limit, The judge explained, however, that in this instance the statutes would not permit a longer imprisonment than five years. When Carlton was brought before Judge McClenahan his attorney, Charles Serutchin, was on hand, but neither he nor Carlton made any re- quest to the court. Twice Before Arrested. In answer to questions from the court, Carlton said that he was born at Osakis, July 30, 1889; that he is the son of George B. and Ellen Carl- ton, and that he has four brothers and two sisters. Carlton has worked at the Minne- sota & International depot here and for H. N. Bosworth. He has lived in Bemidji 13 years. Twice before Carlton has been ar- rested; once when a boy as a truant and last year when he was acquitted on a charge of robbery. He said that his health was good and that for the most part he has lived at home. Goes to Prison Monday. County Attorney Graham M. Tor- rance moved that sentence be im- posed and the judge briefly explained the new law consigned Carlton to Stillwater at hard labor. It is now expected that Carlton will be taken to Stillwater on Mon- day night. Court Stops Until Tuesday. Court adjourned today until next Tuesday in order that witnesses might -be secured for pending cases one of which is the case against Stan- ley Kubik who is charged with mur- der in the first degree as the result of a midnight revolver fight at Kel- liher on the night of September 30 at which time two woodsmen were killed. Stanton to Preside. On Tuesday Judge Stanton will re- place Judge McClenahan on the bench. The case against Mrs. Ella Potts, "|charged with maintaining a disor- derly house in the northern part of the: county has gone over, ‘but ‘may | court. : come up later at the present term of N (Copyright. 1511) ANTICIPATION B BEALIZATION ' TEN CENTS PER WEEK. OPSAHL SELLS BIG TRACT r Turns Over Nebish Tract to Willmar Company and Farm Colohy Will Be Put In. DIRECTOR IN THE NEW CONCERN At Nebish, north of here, declared recently by soil experts to be “the surprise ‘spot of Minnesota,” a colony of farmers will be started and a thriving village ewblished as the re- sult of a big land deal closed today by J. J. Opsahl, former member of the legislature, from Bemidji, who closed out to a newly organized com- pany to be known as the Nebish Will- mar Colonization company, the en- tire townsite of Nebish and a land tract of 6,330 acres.. The officers of the new company are: President—Russell Spicer, banker and real estate, Vice-president—G. A. Erickson, |real estate dealer. Treasurer—A. A. Anderson, real estate. Secretary—V. Stonford, and real estate. . Directors—W. O. Johnson and J. J. Opsahl. All are business men or farmers living in or near Willmar, with. the exception of Mr. Opsahl who lives in Bemidji. “It is our intention,” says Mr. Op- sahl, “to vigorously push from now on the settlement of:these lands and we shall aim to'make it a model farm colony, and Nebish a good trading point.”. These lands recently were put on the market by the Crookston Lumber company, all the timber now being cut. . The land is said to excel in all kinds of farm products. attorney WO00DS AND NEIL IN BEMIDJI Entertained at Luncheon and at the Commercial Club. Dean Woods, of the College: of Ag- riculture of the University of Min- nesota, and D. M. Neil, president of the Minnesota Federation of Com- mercial clubs, arrived in Bemidji at noon and were met by a committee from the Commercial club who took the visitors to the Markham hotel for luncheon where they dined with Thomas J. Burke, president of the Commercial club; A. G. Wedge, R. C. Spooner, E. A. Barker, A. C. White and E. H. Denu. From the hetel the visitors were taken in the Barker automobile to the school farm tract; then back to the Commercial club rooms where an informal reception was held. At 3:30 Dean Woods and Mr. Neil left for the Wilton country home ‘of Roger Spooner, where they will spend Sunday. A’ Commercial club committee composed of Mr. Bur- ke and Mr. Wedge will go to the Spooner home tomorrow morning to attend a noon banquet and will bring the two. visitors to. Bemidji- where they will leave Sunday night for Duluth, 1 { e v Doctors’ Privileges. In the year 1512 the city of Lon- don ¢ontained. only and doetors all told. - empt from serving bearin; in 4 Beltrami Can Help On This. Indianapolis, Oct. 14.-—Mayor : Shank is preparing to continue : : his war on the alleged “potato : : trust,” if he has to send 500 : : miles to get his supply for the : : local market. The mayor an- : nounced yesterday he had been : advised he could obtain all the : : potatoes he desired in Minnesota : : at prices that would permit him to continue retailing them here : : at 75 cents a bushel. : : . Mayor Shank has been get- : : ‘ting his supplies from Michigan, : : but the price there has gone up : : because weather conditions have : not permitted potato digging for .:. 1 two weeks. g Recently he received a letter : : from the superintendent of the : : state agricultural high school at : McIntosh, Minn. The school chief : wrote he was in position to sell : : the mayor several carloads of po- : : tatoes at from 40 to 50 cents a : : bushel, to which would have to : : be added the cost of sacking and : : freight. : A Brainerd, Minn., man also : : wrote that plenty of potatoes : : were to be had in that locality at : : 45 cents a bushel. : The mayor expects to receive : : two additional carloads today : : that he bought at 68 cents a : TO GIVE $1,950 IN PRIZES ‘City Drug Store Launches Contes to Find Most Popular Woman. - The City Drug Store of Bemidji has launched a popularity contest in which prizes to the amount of $1,- 950 will be given away to the young women of Bemidji and viein- ity who are being entered as contest- ants for the most votes secured by them during the life of this contest. Today the first list of contestants in the Popularity ‘contest is being published. - published. As this contest is now fairly started every available vote is- sued by this store will be sought by the contestants who are anxious to win one of the prizes offered. The prizes offered are one $400 Elliott Piano, one $300 certificate, one $275 certificate, one $250 certi- ficate, one $225 certificate, one $200 certificate, one $175 certificate and one $150 certificate. These certifi- cates will be accepted toward ome Elliott piano, only one certificate good toward the purchase of a piano. Any young woman of good charac- ter residing in this city or the vi- cinity thereof (employes of this store and relatives excepted), may enter this contest. The present list of con- testants already nominated are, Dor- othy Nangle, Mabel Wheeler, Mary Bowe, Vera Cameron, Maud Holden, Ida DeRushia, Lucille Clark, Lizzie Fullerton, Bertha Larson, Jennie Kettleson, Lillian Anderson and Ir- ma Hazen. The votes are issued by the City Drug Store with every purchase made, every cent representing a vote. Votes will be given with every pur- chase of five cents or more and be given out in numerals of five. To illustrate: anyone making a purchase of 25 cents gets 25 votes, 26 or 27 cents only 25 votes, but if the pur- chase amounts to 28, 29 or 30 cents 30 votes will be issued. The pur- chaser may give his yotes to anyone of the contestants he chooses, or he ‘may nominate someone else and cast s -for ‘his favorite candidate. " THESE GO TO ST. CLOUD .| Northern-Minnesota Development as- Delegates Named to Attend Develop- ment Association’s Gathering De- cember 8 and 9. MACKENZIE LEAVES FOR CITY At a meeting of the Beltrami De- velopment association here last night the following delegates and alter- nates- were named to attend the sociation convention to be held in St. Cloud December 8 and 9: F. 8. Lycan, T. S. Ervin, A. P. ‘White, F. A. Wilson, G. H. French, A. G. Wedge, Jr., Albert Kleven, J. J. Opsahl, J. 0. Harris, G. W. Camp- bell and E. H. Denu, all of Bemidji; Charles Witting and Charles Hayden, Blackduck; J. U. Williams and C. H. "Middleton, Baudette; Viggo Peter- son, Puposky; G. E. Ericson, Spoon- er; Andrew Larson, Solway; Lon Pagker, Blackduck; William Lennon, Kelliher; W. T. Blakely, Farley. The appointment of this list of delegates is considered of unusual im- portance as it is understood that the St. Cloud convention will have before it questions of supreme importance to this part of the state. The St. Cloud convention will be held on Friday and Saturday before the Northwestern States Land Show in St. Paul, so that persons attending the development meeting can go, on to St. Paul. 5 W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the! Development association, leaves to- night for St. Paul and he will be gone a week, during which time he will perfect arrangements for the de- velopment gathering in St. Cloud: P. H, McGARRY NOW LAND MAN Here Today Tells of New Work Which Takes Him to New Orleans. P. H, McGarry, of Walker, former member of the legislature and now talked of as a candidate next year as congressman-at-large from’ Minne- sota, and who during the summer months conducts a summer resort on the shore of Leech Lake, announced his intention today of forgetting, temporarily at least, politics for the more remnuerative occupation of act-|" ing as salesmanager in Northern Minnesota for a tract of sugar cane land near the city of New Orleans. Mr. McGarry was in Bemidji today with J. Lahroy Slusher, president of the Louisiana Delta Land company, and said that he would leave on Tues- day of next week for New Orleans, and that he would be in the south much of the time during the coming winter. MARKHAM GETS BALL SCORES Arrangements Made for Special Ser- vice During World’s Series. Arrangements have béen made by the Markham hotel to receive the score by innings of the World’s base- ball championship series now being played in New York and Philadel- phia. There will be no game tomor- row owing to the stringent laws in the east which forbid Sunday base- ball. The second game will be play- ed in Philadelphia. e gameg start JOHN HARLAN, HIGH COURT HEAD,ISDEAD Chief Justice of Supreme Bench Pass- es Away in Washington After Ill- ness of One Week. RECEIVED OFFICE FROM HAYES First Served as Attorney General of Kentucky and Was Defeated as Candidate for Governor. ACTED COLONEL IN CIVIL WAR Turned Tide in National Convention Against James G. Blaine and Le- gal Appointment Came. Washington, D. C., October 14.— »(Dafly Pioneer Special Wire Service) —John Marshall Harlan, chief jus- tice of the United States supreme court, died at his home in this city this morning. Chief Justice Harlan was ill for a week, suffering from acute bronchi- tis. His condition had not been re- garded as serious. His wife was at his bedside when he died. 75 Years Old. Justice Harlan was 75 years old. Was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, June 1, 1833. His ancestors on his father’s side were English Quakers who came to the United States about 1650, and settled in Chester county, Pa. Educated in Kentucky. Justice Harlan received his educa- tion at Center College, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1850, at the age of seventeen. Then he began to study law with his father and la- ter at the law school of Transylvania university, in Lexington, Ky. He be- gan to practice in Frankfort before he was of age and so rapid was his progress that in 1858, at the age of twenty-five, he occupied the position of county judge. Soon Entered Politics. Mr. Harlan was soon drawn into politics in an active way and was nominated for Congress by the Whigs in the strongly Democratic Ashland district. He was elected but count- ed out by the Democrats. When the civil war broke out, Mr. Harlan decided to join the Union ar- my. He raised the 10th Kentucky regiment of Infantry and became its colonel. With his regiment he was mustered into the service in Novem- ber, 1861. Fifteen months later, while his name was before the senate for confirmation as’a brigadier gen- eral of volunteers, Mr. Harlan sent his resignation to Gen. Garfield, chief = of staff to Gen. Rosecrans, because his father suddenly had died. Serves as Attorney General. In August, 1863, Mr. Harlan was elected attorney general of Kentucky on the Union ticket and he held that office four years. At the close of his term he returned to Louisville and resumed his practice. In 1871 and again in 1875 the Republicans of Kentucky placed him in nomination for governor but he was defeated. In the Republican national conven- tion of 1876, when Blaine and Bris- tow were the principal candidates for the presidency before the convention, it was Mr. Harlan’s influence which (Continued on last pag2 40,000 SEE GIANTS WIN FIRST GAME New York, Qct. 14.—(Daily Pio- neer Special Wire Service)—With the temperature hovering around 50 degrees but under clear skies and be-~ fore the largest crowd that ever wit- nessed a ball game, the New York National League Giants defeated the Philadelphia American League team by a score of 2 to 1. Mathewson and Meyers formed the New York battery and Bender and Thomas for Phila- delphia. The score by innings: RHE New York ......000100100—2-5-0 Philadelphia . ...010000000—1-6-2 Mathewson struck out five men while Bender struck out 11. The scores for New York were made by Snodgrass and Meyers. Bak- er made the only run for Phjjadel- phia. ; 7 The Polo grounds were jammed as never before, more than 40,000 per- at 2 p. m., eastern time, which means 1 p. m. in Bemidji. X : sons attending. Many could not gain admittance. 8