Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 16, 1911, Page 1

"THE BEM ONEER. 'mintsrm/kl : HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 9. NUMBER 144. DEANWOODS ADMITS SURPRISE OVER SOIL DOOOOROCOOPOOCL OO CPOOPPOOOLOOOS After spending two days in San Francisco, President Taft left last night for Los Angeles. L. B. Hanna has announced him- Declares Beltrami Can Do as Much |self a candidate for the republican as the Experimental Farm at St. Paul. TELLS SPOONER WHAT TO DO, Suggests Cows, Sheep and Hogs, and Says Prosperity is Sure to Come. | D M. NEILL ALSO ENTHUSES| Both Come to Bemidji With Com- mercial Club Committee—Off For Duluth. Dean Woods of the college of agri- cultural of the University of Minne- sota and D. M. Neill of Red Wing, president of the Minnesota Federa- tion of Commercial clubs, who came to Bemidji Saturday and yesterday were guests at the country home of Roger Spooner in Wilton, expressed | astonishment at the agricultural ad- vantages which they discovered here. Remarkably Surprised. Dean Wood said: “I am remarkably surprised and pleased at the productiveness of the soil in Beltrami county. This part of the country is bound to grow and improve rapidly. You can do with soil such as is found here as much or more as we do at the Experimental Farm at St. Paul. “Crop rotation by all means is the most essential requirement in suc- cessful farming. To illustrate, I will tell you what we have proven at the farm. The average yield of wheat planted constantly on the same piece of grounds for 10 years is 18.6 bush- els per acre, hay 1.73 tons, corn 26.4. If these crops were rotated on the same soil as follows, the first year wheat, the second year timothy and clover, the third year pasture, the fourth year oats and the fifth | year corn the average yield for Wheat per acre would be 26.6 bushels, of hay 3.9 tons and of corn 60.8 bush-| els. I Came to Inspect Farm. “The chief reason for my coming was to inspect the Spooner farm and to make suggestions as to the profit- able management of it. I recom- mended that 20 good mileh cows, 100 sheep and 100 hogs be put on the | place and a good competent tennant be placed in charge. I believe lhat‘ if this was done and the crops and soil given the attention as above out- lined the place would become a most profitable business enterprise.” | The R. C. Spooner farm comprises | 430 acres in the northern part of Liberty Township. The soil is a| black loam top soil with a clay Sub»i soil. 55 acres are grubbed and brok- en, the buildings comprise a fine bun- galo dwelling, 42 by 60 feet, a iull‘ basement, an electric light plant, hot | * and cold running water, and situated | at the edge of a fine lake. There is; also a large tenant house and barn | on the place. Both Express Confidence. | Both the dean and Mr. Neill were positive in their opinion of the greal{ promise of this region as a dairy re- gion. With a clay-sub-seil and a rich loam above it, clovers and grass-i es grow like weeds. The land is also excellently adapted to root crops, es- pecially turnips and potatoes, say both gentlemen. “Excellent crops of corn of the early-maturing varieties, like Northwestern dent and Minne- sota 23 have been produced,” says the dean. “Poultry, bacon hogs and mutton can also be produced at a good profit, under such conditions.” “The future of the cities of north- | ern Minnesota must rest upon agri»‘} cultural development,” said the ex-| perts from outside. “We are empha- tic in our opinion as to the great fu- ture of this section along agricultur- al lines, if all pull together and work unselfishly to this end.” With Burke and Wedge. T. J. Burke, president of the Com-| mercial club, and A. G. Wedge, Jr., vice-president of the First National bank and a prominent member of the Commercial club, went out to Mr. Spooner’s place Sunday afternoon and enjoyed the hospitality of the Deer- (Continued on last page) nomination for governor of North Dakota. A postal savings bank was opened at Racine, Wis., from 9 o’clock Sat- urday morning until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and $251 was received for deposit. John R. Walsh, the convicted Chi- cago banker, paroled a few days ago, has returned to his home in Chicago to resume active business. He is 73 years old. . Seven persons killed and 22 in- | jured is the result of a collision on the Missouri Pacific at Fort Crook, Neb., Sunday. A passenger train crashed into a frejght. The body of Dr. John Jackola, a Duluth physician, missing since June 21, was found in the woods a short distance east of Duluth. It is thought he took poison. Unable to fly again yesterday be- cause of unfavorable weather condi- tions Aviator Q. Robinson was again postpone his start from Minneapolis to Orleans until thos morning. Joseph H. Choate, the former am- bassador to Great Britain, and Mrs. Choate today celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Naumkeag, their country place in the Berkshires. After nearly five months spent in a jail cell, Mrs. Laura Stannard, member of a wealthy and prominent .| family of this section, was arraigned in the Ontonagon, Mich., court today to stand trial for the alleged murder of her husband. Miss Mary Elizabeth Graham, 70 years old, who, although well-to-do, lived alone at Kenton, Del, was found yesterday caught in a folding bed in her home. She had-been .a prisoner four days and nights. Her recovery is unlikely. The Omaha Land Show, for which preparations have been making for nearly a year, opened today with many exhibits. The exhibition will continue for three weeks and the management expects it will attract fully 200,000 visitors. James D. Hallen, alias Don Jose de Parrara, alias Charles E. Thomp- son, alias C. E. Lord, disbarred law- ver, ex-preacher, ex-convict, revolu- tionist and soldier of fortune, was held at New York in $1,000 bail on a charge of passing a worthless check of $69.85 on a clothing store. With delegates present from near- 1y all of the States of the Union and from several of the Provinces of Can- ada, the sixth International Dry Farming Congress opened at Colorado Springs, Colo., today. The sessions will continue until Friday. Salt Lake City and Lethbridge, Alberta, are applicants for the congress to be held next year. The progressive Republican confer- ence in Chicago promises to be the big event of the week in the world of politics. Already a number of the progressive leaders have arrived in town and by tomorrow morning it is expected fthat there will be a great showing of Republicans from all sec- tions ready to joint in the movement to defeat President Taft for renomi- nation. = The will of Cornelius N. Bliss, for- |merly treasurer of the Republican national committee and one-time Secretary of the Interior, was filed for probate. It is understood that the property is worth a little more than §$2,000,000. The filing of the will discloses the fact that Mr. Bliss for several years had been the credi- tor of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., of Boston and Chicago, to the extent of §1,- 000,000 The second trial of Dr. B. Clark Hyde for the alleged murder of Col. Thomas H. Swope will begin at Kan- sas City this week. Colonel Swope, the alleged victim of the murder plot, was omne 'of the foremost citizens of Kansas City and was widely known as a millionaire and philanthropist. Dr. Hyde, the alleged murdered, was a physician in good standing. Hints that other members of the Swope family had met with mysterious deaths deepened the public interest in the case. The first trial of Dr. Hyde ended May 16, 1910, and re- sulted in a verdict of guilty and a sentence of life imprisonment. Dr. Hyde’s inability properly to explain the purchase of capsules of potassium cyanide was chiefly responsible for his conviction. On April 11 last the Missouri Supreme Court granted Dr. Hyde a new trial. Since that time the convicted physician has been at liberty on bail. © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. @ BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY | NEW WOE FOR SALOONS Papers Arrive Which Means Action in Willard Decision, Jeopardizing Liquor Business Here. . DEPUTY LARSON IN BEMIDJI After a year of comparative peace, it appears that the liquor dealers of | Bemidji and other Northern Minne- sota towns are in for another period of anxiety. On Thursday of last week papers were received in Minneapolis from the department of justice in Wash- ington which means the taking of the Willard decision under the pro- tection of which saloons here are do- ing business, will be taken to the United States, circuit court of ap- peals. Should the higher court reverse the decision the sale of liquor in “Indian territory” would again become haz- ardous, and until that decision is known the liquor business in this district can not be carried on on a solid basis. Additional anxiety is caused by the reappearance here of H. A. Larson, deputy Indian agent, one of the first which visited Bemidji when the ef- fort began to force the saloons out of business. Mr. Larson frankly admits that his visit here has to do with the liquor problem and that reports have been received in his department that the Indians are beginning again to ob- tain liquor. Mr. Larson arrived in Bemidji last week and is carrying on a gum shoe trip of inspection. MISS BERMAN INSURANCE HEAD Opens Office as Agent for Newly Formed Company Here. As a result of recent negotiations, Miss Leah H. Berman becomes the active head of a new insurance com- pany here and probably is the only young woman in Minnesota who is engaged in the general insurance business. Miss Berman is identified with the Bemidji Insurance Agency, Inc., just incorporated. This com- pany has purchased the fire insurance business of the Northern National bank and to this has been added “bonding, accident and health and all other branches of insurance.” Miss Berman probably has written more insurance than any other person in Bemidji. “We hope to receive our; share of the business,” she says, “and | there is this much about it, When| anyone writes a policy here it will| be watched; they will be warned| before expiration so that they will not at any time be without protec- tion.” | Man’s Period of Foolishness. Of all literary compositions the; love letters of men contain the max- imum of twaddle and the minimum of semse. The only explanation isj that: every man in love tries to be- come a poet. WOMAN WANTS TO BE MAYOR Twenty-five Year 0ld Wife of Ore- gon Mail Carrier Candidate. Mrs. Clara A. Wright, 25 years old, wife of H. C. Wright, a rural mail carrier at Davenport, Wash., has entered the mayoralty race in that city. The primaries will take place on November 7 and the elec- tion on December 5. George E. Craig, county” superintendent_ of schools, is the other candidate for mayor. His name will appear on the independent ticket in the primaries. There is no contest on either ticket. Mrs. Wright | was the first woman to file for office in Lincoln county since the state law for equal sucrage became egective. She is a native of Oregon, born at Eugene in 1882. She is the mother of three children. The oldest is five years of age, the youngest being a babe in arms. Mrs. Wright is a stanch advocate of woman’s suffrage and is not dismayed in the least by the troublesome experiences of the woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kan., saying: “I am a candidate on the citizens’ ticket and if elected I shall give the city of Davenport a clean administration so far as it is pos- sible for its mayor to direct.” STILL STIR DUMAS CASE Attorneys for State Hold Secret Con- ference in St. Paul and Say Ar- rests Will Follow. INDICTMENTS BEING HELD UP At St. Paul there was a conference at the state capitol between Assistant Attorney General Janes, E. E. Me- Donald of this city-and-State Fire Marshal Keller. The following dispatch from St. Paul explains the cause of the meet- ing: “The state officials and attorneys interested in the prosecution of the alleged arson conspiracy in morthern Minnesota, had a secret conference in St. Paul to plan the handling of cases against other defendants than Mayor Dumas of Cass Lake in the Bemidji and Cass Lake district. In the conference were A. L. Janes, as- sistant attorney general; E. E. Mc- Donald of Bemidji, and C. E. Keller, state fire marshal. Plans for hand- ling the Dumas case in the supreme court were discussed, but the con- ference was mainly devoted to cer- tain secret indictments not reported by the grand jury. Detectives for the state have been busy collecting evi- dence against the prospective defend- ants.” ‘It is known that there are indict- ments in the hands of Clerk of Court Fred Rhoda returned by the recent grand jury but there .is no way of knowing against whom they were re- turned until the accused persons are arraigned in court: That there will be. developments along this line wit:h,in the next few days is not denied’ by anyone con- necj'ted_ with the ease.. WOULD . IMITATE ADAM Bemidji Young Man Who Insisted on Being Nude Sent to Fergus Falls Hospital. BREAKDOWN TRACED TO FEVER Because he insisted upon wander- ing about nude, Morse Aabugan, 30 years old, unmarried and a graduate of a Minnesota Normal school, was examined by Judge of Probate M. A. Clark as to his sanity and was Satur- day sent to the hospital for the in- sane at Fergus Falls. The wrecking of the young man’s mind dates back to five years ago when he suffered from a“severe at- tack of brain fever. Since that time ‘he has had “spells” but until the last one, came out of them to continue in- definitely in a rational frame of mind. Several days ago Aabugan again suffered from mental derangement and was taken to the hospital where. everything possible was done for his relief but it was apparent that his case was hopeless. At the hospital hé caused the at- tendants embarrassment by his ac- tions. At one time he made an ef- fort to parade about with less cloth- ing on than a Salome dancer. In fact the wearing of clothing ap- peared the one thing which troubled him most. He desired to run wild, like Adam in the garden of Eden. Another one of his imaginary trou- bles was that unseen persons ton- tinually talked to him and he ex- plained to the judge that he did not mind anyone talking to him but that he wished to see who it was. Aabugan has been working in Be- midji as a carpenter. He has a brother and sister at Gonvick, the new Soo Line town. He is a native of Norway, coming to this country when he was six years old. In charge of Charles Hoyt and J. J. Conger, Aubugan was taken to Fergus Falls Saturday and turned over to the officials of that institu- tian, Mr. Conger and Mr. Hoyt re- turning to Bemidji. BEMIDJI LUMBER GOES ABROAD Three Carloads of Perfect White Pine Sent to England. Three carloads of white pine tim- ber sawed at the Crookston mill in this city has been consigned to a dealer at Manchester, England. The | wood goes to New York and from there is transferred to a fast ocean liner. The shipment consists entire- ly of white pine, two inches thick and of an average width of 15 inches, and every piece was selected with care and is perfect. Part of the tim- ber will be taken on to Belfast, Ire- land. Felt It. “Your wealthy uncle has been picked To fill a senote seat, I see.” “Well, yes,” the man replied, “but You needn’t throw it up to me.” : The Governor’s Promise. : +At the convention of the : Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association held in Brain- erd on. December 1 of last year, : Governor Eberhart said: H “I am not here for the north or the south; I am here as a Minnesotan. If anyone has stud- ied the latest census figures and thinks we do not need reappor- tionment, he had better study : elsewhere. “It is only justice. Tt must : : come, and come at the next leg: islature. 1t has failed at other : sessions but it must not fail in : this. The Republican party must : stand by its platform and no : representative can afford - to : break the sacred pledge he has : : made to the people of the state. : : It would be a reflection upon the : : integrity of the party and the : members to even prolong the re- : apportionment bill TO AN EX- : : TRA SESSION. H : “I can see no argument against : : reapportionment; only this, and : : that amounts to nothing: that : : it would legislate some out of : : office. : : “1f such a thing is possible : : that" reapportionment did not : : pass jn the next session, I WILL : : CALL AN EXTRA SESSION. We : : must keep our population; we : : must do something to encourage : : farming.” - 3 x SPREE ENDS IN MAN'S DEATH Stranger Who Went From Bemidji to Deer River Tumbles Off Wagon. Efforts are being made to locate relatives of a man who, while intoxi- cated fell from a heavily loaded wag- on near Deer River and was picked up in a dying condition, death re- sulting a few' minutes later. In his pocket was found a life insurance policy made out to Riley Wilson. He is believed to have come to Bemidji from Wisconsin and that from here he went to Deer River where he was employed for a few weeks as a shin- gle weaver. On the day of his death he was ejected from a passen- ger train at County Road, four miles north of Deer River. He was later seen a short distance from the sta- tion, lying asleep by the side of the wagon road. Then se went to a farm nearby and démanded something to eat. From thére he wandered away finally ‘going back after a cork for his half empty whisky bottle. After this he drifted into another farmer’s place and went to sleep on the porch. Being aroused he staggered off in the direction of the railroad when Frank Samuelson came -along with a wagon and took the man on his loaded wag- on for a ride into town.” Samuelson’s horses became frightened, the intoxi- cated man fell off and one of the wheels passed over his body. GIRL FACES MURDER CHARGE Arraigned Today in Nebraska Court As Result of Lynching Bee. At Valentine, Neb., today the Sel- lers “lynching” case was called for trial. There are five defendants to stand trial for first degree murder, but public interest centers almost wholly in the case of but ome of them—Miss Eunice Murphy, a typi- cal young frontier woman, who is charged with inciting to murder, a capital offense in Nebraska. The four other defendants are eKnneth Murphy, the 18 year old brother of Eunice; George B. Weed and his brother, Alma Weed, two strapping cowboys, and Harry Heath, a cousin of Eunice Murphy and an expert “roper.” The four young men admit that one night early last spring they rode to the ranch house of “Hutch Jack,” with whom Charley Sellers kept bachelor’s hall, dragged Sellers from his bed at the point of revolvers and hanged him to a telephone pole nearby. Sellers had been an ardent wooer of Miss Murphy and the de- fendants claim that her failure to reciprocate his affection had mad- dened Sellers and he had threatened to wipe out the entire Murphy fam- ily and all their connections. The prosecution, on the other hand, pro- poses to prove that the facts in the case were entirely different. The prosecuting attorney alleges that he has evidence to show that Miss Mur- phy had encouraged Sellers in his attentions, had accepted numerous presents from him, and had delib- erately plotted with the four young men to bring about Seller’s death in the belief that he had an insurance policy of $7,000 and had made a will in her favor. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. MOVE ON T0 FORCE JUSTICE FOR NORTH Bemidji Urges St. Cloud Convention to Demand Governor to Redeem Brainerd Pledge. SPIRIT OF OPPRESSION PREVAILS Senator Here Representing 58,889; Others Only 14,297 Shows Cause . of Indignation. RELIEF NOW, OR NOT UNTIL 1917 Development Association to be Asked, If People Wish, to Put it up to Chief Executive. Beginning with this issue the Pioneer proposes to do everything within its power to convene the Minnesota legislature in extraordin- ary session for the purpose of pass- *ling a reapportionment bill, Alone this paper would be as weak as an infant; backed by the real might of Northern Minnesota it will be as easy to win as if the New York baseball team with Mathewson in the box was playing against the far- mer boys of Bena. But don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a trifling matter. It Is Your Fight. It means to you what the yoke of oppression meant to the sturdy patriots of ’'75 whose reply to a British tyrant’s demand for taxation without representation was musket bullet and cannon ball. 1t is to you a personal matter. It is a personal matter because your representative in the senate of the legislature of Minnesota can't properly look after your interests; can’t properly look after the inter- ests of Beltrami county and can't properly look after the interests of any other part of his district because under the present condition of af- fairs he represents Norman, Mahno- men, Clearwater, Red Lake, Penning- ton and Beltrami counties with a total population of 58,889. Look at Houston, Then Bemidji. But Houston county residents way down in the southeastern part of the state are situated differently; they have a senator all to themselves and the total population of Houston county is 14,297. Strikes home, doesn’t it, when your senator has to look after 44,592 more persons than the senator from Houston? Avd that is only one of many of tire injustices of the present system cf representation. Other Gross Injustices. Senator James Boyle of Eveleti bears the burdens for something likc 89,000 persons. Senator John Moonan, whose dis- trict is made up entirely of Waseca county, has a constituency of 13,666. Representation in the House is just as unequal. Is it any wonder that the south gets all the prizes? Is it any wonder that the legisla- tion which would mean so much for TContinued on last paga PHILADELPHIA WINS; GIANTS FIGHT HARD Philadelphia, Oct. 16.—(Daily Pio- neer Special Wire Service)—In the second game of the world’s baseball series, Philadelphia this afternoon defeated the New York Giants by a score of 3 to 1. Marquard and Mey- ers formed the New York battery, with Plank and Thomas for Phila- delphia. The score by innings: RHE Philadelphia . .100002000—3-4-0 New York ......010000000—1-5-3 Herzog made the only run for New York. Lord made the first run for Philadelphia, and Collins and Baker made the two scores in the sixth in- ning. The weather was perfect and while no estimate is made on the number of persons who attended the game, 2,000 who could not gain admittance, The gross revenue for the railroads in United States was $2,700,232,308. perched on houses and telephone poles outside the grounds.