Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 19, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 147. SCHOOL INCREASEIS 54 IN FIRST MONTH Attendance for September Shown-By Official Reports to Be 1,036, 528 Being Girls. HIGH SCHOOL BIGGER BY 29 Four Courses wWow Being Given and Classes Have More Pupils Than Ever Before. - FIGURES OF EACH GRADE GIVEN| Also Names of Teachers in Charge of Bemidji’s Four Buildings Now In Use. During the first month of the pres- ent school year there were 1,035 pu- | pils enrolled, an increase over the same month for last year of 54. These figures have been compiled | from reports of instructors to Pro- fessor W. P. Dyer, city superintend- ent of schools, and have been sub- mitted to the board of education. Now Close to 1,100. These figures included the attend- ance up to October 1. Since that date the attendance has increased so that at the present time nearly 1,100 boys and girls daily answer the call of the school bells in Bemidji. Out of the 1,035 attending in Sep- tember 507 were boys, the girls be- ing more numerous by 21. These same figures show that the| total attendance at the High School is 147, while in September of last vear it was but 118 a gain of 29. Enrollment By Grades. The enrollment of the grades is as POOOOOOOOOOOOHE S © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © R R R R R R R R R R R RN The Weather: Generally fair Fri- day; moderate west winds. At noon today Aviator Rodgers, !who is flying from the Atlantic to the Pacific, left the state fair grounds at Dallu, Texas, on )us way toward the west. resident of St. Paul and one of the men who discovered Yellowstone Park; died at his home in St. Paul yesterday. It became known in Washington today that James Wilson, secretary of the agriculture, had tendered his resignation as member of the cabi- net to President Taft to take effect | Nov. 15, or as soon thereafter as con- | | venient to the president. { With governors and other visitors | in attendance from States on both sides of the international boundary 2 big celebration was. begun at El Paso, Texas, today in honor of the admission of Arizona and New Mexi- o to the Union. The festivities will continue three days. | i The Rev. R. J. Campbell, thE noted pioneer of the new theology move- ment, sailed from Lisbon today for| New York to begin an extensive Am- | erican tour. After appearing in | many of the leading cities of the east- iern states and Canada he will visit the middle West and the Pacific coast. | Repudiation of the alleged con- | fession of the murderers at Stacy, | Minn., said to have been made by {James P. Dygart will be made when | !"Jim" is brought to tridl. Tuesday the aged father and mother of “Jim” visited him in his cell. He now says| he made no confession to the authori- | ties and that he was innocent. Robert J. Shields, of Superior, Wis., and Duluth, Minn., testifying yesterday before the committee of the United States senate investigating the Lorimer case in Chicago, denied ! the charge that he had been active as a legislative lobbyist in the Wis- consin legislature or any other leg-| islature. Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton today received the keys and charter of Wel- lesley College, and by her acceptance follows: i of those symbols beeame the president Grade Teacher Pupils of that well known institution. Miss Kindergarten Karna Anderson 43| Pendleton, who succeeds Miss Caro- First grade Nora O’Neil 46 | line Hazard as president of Wellesley, First grade Lulu McCrum 53 is 47 years old and a native of Rhode First and second Mamie Jones 33 Second grade Charlotte Wunsch 36 Second grade Lois Obert 39 Second and third Jennie Myrhe 36 Third grade Amy Flore 39 Third grade Elsie Schmitt 38 Third and fourth Lulu Fuller 32 Fourth grade Madeline Johnson 39 Fourth grade Dorothy Clark 38 Fourth and fifth Inez Patterson 39 Fifth grade Julia Kleve 42 TFifth grade Nellie Erb 45 ixth grade Fannie Mosford 40 Sixth grade Mabel Wheeler 44 Seventh and eighth 161 Ethelyn Hall, Prin. Model School ~ Nancy Dunavan 24 East Bemidji School 21 Nancy Dunavan Eliza Loe, Prin. 147 High School Dyer Has Four Buildings This year Superintendent W. P. Dyer has four buildings under his charge, beside a class of 24 known as the model school which is supervised by Miss Hill of the Normal Depart- ment of the high school. There is the East Bemidji school, under Miss Nancy Dunavan, situated in Hender-| son's Addition; the North School, with Misses Mamie Jones and Lulu Fuller as teachers, in which the first four grades are taught; the Central School in which the kindergarten and the first six grades are taught; and the High School building in which are located the first, seventh and cighth grades and the high school. Six High School Departments. There are now six departments in the high school, as follows: Regular (History, Literature and Mathematies), Commercial, Domestic Science, Manual Training, Agricul- tural and Normal. Two of these, the Agricultural and Normal departments have been instituted this year under state aid. In all there are 147 pu- pils in the High School, who are di- vided into classes as follows: Fresh- men, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, Normal students. KNIFED MAN IS RECOVERING Stewart’s Assailant in Meantime Be- ing Held at County Jail. B. W. Stewart, bartender at the Christ Olson Third street saloon, who was seriously cut in the neck last Friday afternoon and who since that time has been in the hospital is rap- idly recovering. John Peterson, ar- rested by Chief of Police Joseph Har- rington, immediately after the at- tack, when arraigned in poliee court before Judge Simons, had little to say. His case was continued 10 days and he now is being held at the county jail. Island. She graduated from Welles- ley with a bachelor of arts degree in 1886. In response to the invitation of Commissioner Pearsor of the State Department of Agriculture, a confer- ence of authorities on forest culture met at Albany, N. Y. today to dis- cuss thechestnut tree disease. Im- mediate steps are urged to combat the disease which is reported to have cleaned out all the chestnnut trees in the southeastern part of New York state. The 130th anniversary of the sur- render of Lord Cornwallis and the British army to the American troops, | under General Washington, was cele- | brated today in Yorktown, Va., at {the scene of that memorable event which brought the Revolutionary war | to a close. The chief feature of the celebration was a parade in which | and sailors from Fort Monroe and the Norfolk navy yard took part. The Colorado supreme court today heard arguments on the application for a writ of supersedeas in the case of Frank H. Henwood, the convicted slayer of George Copeland. If the writ is denied Henwood will be tak- en at once from the Denver jail to the Canon City penitentiary to begin serving his life sentence. The Kkil- ling of Copeland occurred on May 24 last in the barroom of the Brown Palace Hotel. In a quarrel over the wife of a Denver banker Henwood shot and killed Tony Von Puhl a well known aeronaut, and also killed Copeland, who was an innocent by- stander. Sessions began today at Louisville of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association. Heading the list of speakers is the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Philadelphia, the president of the national organization and the most prominent advocate of equal rights since the days of Eliza- beth Cady Stanton and Susan B. An- thony. Others who will be heard at the several sessions include Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, Miss Mary John- son, the Virginia mnovelist; Mrs. T. P. O’Connor, wife of the noted Irish journalist and member of parlia- Tment; Mrs. Desha Breckenridge, the Kentucky suffrage leader; Miss M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college; Mrs. Emmeline-Pank- hurst, the English suffrage leader, ranq Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane of Michigan. Dr. Harvey M. Wiley, the pure food expert will be among the speakers, also Mayor Brand Whit- | lock of Toledo and Omer Garwood of the Colorado Equal Rights Aid Asso- ciation. Senator La Follette of Wis- consin is also expected. - 1 Nathaniel Pitt Langford, a pioneer |- HURDER CASE NOW IN HANDS OF JURY At 3:15 This Afternoon Judge Stan- ton Turns Over Charges Agsdinst Kelliher Woodsman. ; FOUR VERDICTS ARE POSSIBLE slaughter in First Degree or Not Guilty. DEFENDANT GOES ON STAND Swears Opponents Choked Him and That He Shot to Save His Own Life in Fight. . It is now up to the jury to say whethér Stanley Przydliski must spend the remainder of his life at the |state’s prison at Stillwater, as a re- sult of having shot and killed two of his fellow workers in the Crookston ilumber camp near Kelliher, on the night of September 30. At 3:15 this afternoon Judge Stan- !ton turned the case over into- the hands of the jury. Stanton said that four verdicts would be possible: murder in the first de- gree, second degree, manslaughter in Lthe first degree, or not guilty. Closing Pleas Made. . ‘When court opened at 1:30 this af- ternoon, County Attorney Torrance summed up for the state. He did not talk more than 20 minutes, and con- tended that the proof was conclusive that the defendant had deliberately and maliciously committed a cold blooded murder. < John L. Brown, appointed by the court to defend the prisoner, made a strenuous plea to.secure the free- dom of his client. He contended that the evidence had shown that it was | a free-for-all fight and that Stanley’s opponents had started it and that they had him down and were choking him to death when Stanley pulled his gun and began shooting in self de- fense. Only Two Witnesses for Defense. The state rested its case yesterday afternoon, and the defense had but two witnesses, R. W. Hardy, a justice of the peace, and editor of the Kel- liher Journal, and the defendant him- self. Hardy told of having seen marks of violence on the defendant the morn- ing following the midnight fight, and that there were indications that there had been a battle royal. Defendant Goes on Stand. The defendant went on the stand and by means of an interpreter, gave his side of the story, which was to the effect that he had been pounced up- on in the road, a short distance out patriotic organizations and soldiers|0f Kelliher, and that he shot in helf defense. He explained that he had a revolver because he was going through the woods and thought he might need it to shoot wild animals. Says He Was Hit First, “We had started for the camp and had gotten quite a ways out of Kelli- her at about 11 o’clock at night,” said the defendant, “and me and Jack Kleanas had waited for the oth- er fellows to catch up, and when they did Jack knocked my hat off and hit me on the head. Then Joe he catch me by the throat, then they knock me down.and both hit me, and they tried to take the revolver away from me. 1 struggled and tried to get up, but they kept on fighting me, and I hol- lered for help but nobody came. They choke me hard, and to save myself T began shooting. 1 don’t know how many times I shot but they say some of the bullets hit Jack and Joe. Then I go to town and my brother take away the revolver and cartridges.” Sherman as Indian Aid. ing at the annual Lake Mohonk Con- ference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, which met at Lake Mohonk, N. Y., today for a |two days’ session. The conference, as its name implies, is interested in promoting the welfare of the Ameri- can Indians, Porto Ricans, Filipinos and other peoples over whom the United ‘States Government has been placed in the position ot guardian- ship. | ! 5 Even So. “You can’t dodge bad luck.” “No, but just Ary-it on-good luck and see how buun(ully yon sue- ceed.” i ‘First or Second Degree, or Man- | Vice-president Sherman is presid- | i | Wing Man’s Favor, Putting Own Jobs in Peril, the state training school for boys at Red Wing, will not be removed by the Board of Control. - & the Democratic memhers, will render a report, exonerating the Democratic superintendent, while C. J. Swendsen, the lone Republican member, will dis- sent. This makes the vote 2 to 1 to retain Whittier. The conference between the Gov- ernor and Mr. Swendsen Monday is believed to have been only prelimi- nary to getting affairs of the board in such shape that the governor may take immediate steps, as soon as the report is rendered, to discharge both the Democratic members. It also became known, that in disposing of the case against John Kinsella, “county attorney of Lake county, whom the governor removed from office for nonfeasance last week, the state supreme court will say whether it has authority to review his action, in such cases, and whether the court will construe the statutes conferring on the governor authority for removal, as valid. The statyte giving him authority over Board of Control members, is wider even, than the one which gives him authority to remove county attorneys. - tI says: “The Governor may remove any member for malfeasance or nonteas— ance in office, or for any cause, which renders him incapable or unfit-to dis- charge his official duties.” The statute relating to the Temov- al of county-attorneys says: . - “The Governor may remove from trict court, judge of probate court, court commissioners, sheriff, coroner, register-of deeds, county attorney, * * * whenever it appears to him formance of his official duties.”’ them soon will be given, Control cases. Plnmgnfliul‘lyhr!eltum concert. given by jceived. Director. uut.m was ich v Wi amigs i aosis s d.0m 0 Sisaisamae ¥ [w""""ER Cki S NEAR : Bobmsun Bemmes His thht : In his charge to the jury Judge| d : | Board of Contral to Report in Red | GOVERNOR HAS POWER TO ACT Superintendent F. A. Whittier of P. M. ngdn! and Charles Vassa]yv ! office any clerk of the supreme or dis-|fed to the home of Slav, county superintendent of - schools | With that either has been guilty of mal-|t0 have sworn terrible vengeance on feasance or non(emfioe in the per-|these responsxble for hxs imprison- As the Kinsella charges are now before the supreme court, a ruling on and. the | D8 case, said today: opinion probably will set.a precedent which will govern in the m ‘ot | the neighborhood until he completes CROWD mxs BAKD OONG!ET who were responsible for his convic- Solos by Andrew Rood and Violm Every seat in the City Han Wasoc-|prs. William Showman is_said to cupied last evening at the first indeor | pave Been “Bemidji brass band under ‘the direction’ of Harry|gerved in the Philippine war and af- Masten. Miss Iauinq‘aylur. brought! ¢y {to Bemidji from Minpeapolis to ap- ed from the army. Dpear at the concert, pleased the audi- ence with her violin: mmen, While| gtealing. her expression attgzee ked Lhat tentiary he was a constant fugitive. ces! ° ,paniment ‘were anech.l]y 'efl Te- Dubuque, lnwa, Oct. 19.— :| (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Ser- : vice) —Leaving Winona at 8:19 : this morning, Aviator Hugh Rob- : inson, on his way from Minne- : apolis to New Orleans reached : this city at 2 p. m. He made two : stops on the way—one at La- : Crosse and another at Prairie du : Chien. His actual flying time was at the rate. of more than a : : mile a minute. He declared his : machine in perfect order and : : that he will continue on to Rock Island where he will spend the : night, ¢ FOURTEEN KILLED WITH AXE Believed to Be Victims of Man They Sent to Penitentiary. Ellsworth, Kan., Oct. 19.—That Charles Marzyeks, ex-convict, sought by the county authorities in connec- tion with the murder of five members of the William Showman family here Sunday night, had been in Colorado Springs, where six members of the Wayne and Burnham families were slain and was acquainted in Mon- mouth, Ill., where three persons were murdered recently, was the startling statement made to the authorities by Mrs. Minnie Vopat, Marzyeks’ divore- ed wife. All these fourteen victims were killed with an axe. Sam Showman, brother of William Showman, head of the murdered fam- ily, today started at the head of a posse on a search of the county. Marzyeks is believed to be hidden in the .neighborhood. If found a battle is expected. Marzyeks, not long ago, served a term for stealing grain from James Vopat. Last night Vopat, who is a husband of Marzyeks’ former wife, saw_the ex-convict in the field near his house. Vopat and his family, ter- ror-stricken, locked their house and a fellow countryman, five miles distant. All members of the Slav communi- ty, who had any remote connection the conviction of Marzyeks, went armed today, for he is reported ment. “Ira Lloyd, the attorney who de- fended Marzyeks in the wheat steal- . “T believe Marzyeks will remain in his vengeance. After his sen(ienoe he ‘told me that when he was released he would come back and kill the people tion and also their children. “I will put,them all in hell,” he 'said. The evidence furnished by Mr. and largely responsible for Marzyeks' conviction. ~ Marzyeks ter his return to this country desert- He had been in trouble since for forging a check and Until-he went to the peni- Reached by Telephone “Tumber. “ A man in the island of Capri did lm:hge to this address and it wu 4 pdy delivered. | HERALD HAS EDITORIAL LEADER BIG PAPERS JOIN IN St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth Publications Note Importance for Extra Session. Some idea of the significance of the Pioneer s call upon the North to demand that Governor t semble the legislature in extraordi- nary convention to redeem his pledge to secure the passage of a reappor- tionment bill, is shown by the fact that nearly every one of the larger Minnesota newspapers have displayed the Pioneer’s announcement under prominent headlines. The Minneapolis Journal, St. Poul | Dispatch, other Twin City newspa- pers and St. Cloud dailies as well as several others have given liberal space to the proposition, while the| Duluth Evening Herald ran the fol- lowing fn its last evening’s issue as its leading editorial: Under the caption “Another Reason for an Extra Session,” the Herald says: 5 “The Bemidji Pioneer demands that Governor Emerhart redeem his prob- ise, made last December to the North- ern Minnesota Development Associa- tion at Brainerd, that if the legis- ture failed to provide reapportion- ment he would call an extra session. “Governor Eberhart DID make that promise. Governor Eberhart should redeem it. He made it voluntarily, without any request from Northern; Minnesota. . He should redeem it vol- untarily, without any request from Northern Minnesota. “One of the ablest lawyers in Min- nesota has stated that under the Con-| stitution there can be no reapportion- ment until 1917 unless it is made by the present legislature, which is the one following the census of 1910. There will not be another census un- til 1915, and the next legislature af- ter that will be the legislature of 1917. “Does.Northern Minnesota propose to wait that long for justice which should have been granted it long ago? “The Herald has been urging, and still urges, an extra session to grap- ple with the railroad problem. Rail- road property .in Minnesotd is gross- 1y under-taxed, while railréad rates are higher in Mjnnesota than in any nearby state. The rate question is before the courts; but the taxation question‘is up to the governor and the legislature, - There should be an ex- tra session to propose an increase in railroad taxes so that the people may vote_on it at the election of 1912; for if there is mot the people.cannot approve the increase until 1914, and it will be delayed two years, caus- ing a loss of millions of dollars in taxes. T “The. Herald welcomes the co-op- eration of the Bemidji Pioneer. It has made a good start in a good fight. More’ power to it. “There.are reasons enough and to spare for an extra session of the leg- islature. .” Goyérnor Eberhart should call it, and it should be held next January.” 2 | derstood that the SHERIFF ARRESTS EDWARD GEARLDS AT PORTLAND, ORE. Brought Back as Arson Worker With Dr. Dumas. : BLACKDUCK BUILDING INVOLVED Said to Have Been Over Insured. _ Generally Understood Recent Grand Jury Returned Indictment Against Man Now .in Custody. Special Wire Service)—Charged with Blackduck, Minn., with Dr. Dumas of Cass Lake in hav- ing it burned in order to collect the insurance, Eddy Gearlds, formerly a saloonkeeper of Bemidi, was arrested on the way back in charge of Sheriff Hazen. Located at Portland. The capture of Gearlds was accom- plished after a chase which led to Calgary, Alberta, Vancouver and end- ed at Portland according to Fire Mar- shal Keller. The fire for which Gearlds is said to be responsible destroyed a small vacant building on the night of April 17, 1911, at Blackduck. It was heav- ily insured. Connect it With Dnmas. - - Asst. Atty. Gen. Janes and the fire snarshal believe they have sufficient evidence to show that Gearlds ar- ranged with Dr. Dumas to have the place burned. Insurance has -not been collected pending an investiga- tion. \ What Simpson Says. Gearlds with his brother op- erated a saloon, Mr. Simpson said today, and soon after the fire he Jeft Bemidji. We located him recently at Calgary but when the sheriff arrived there Gearlds had gone to Vancouver. The sheriff followed only to learn that Gearlds had moved to Port- land. There we got him. More Arrests Pretty Soon. 1t is understood that more arrests will follow soon as a result of the investigation of incendiarism in the northern part of the state. According to Assistant Attorney General Janes the costs of all prose- cutions must be paid by Beltrami county. Not Unexpected in Bemidji. It has been known in Bemidji for seveial days that Sheriff Hazen was in the west to make an arrest, and it hed been currently rumored that he had gonme to Canada after Mr. Gearlds. . Friends in Bemidji of Gearlds do not believe that he has been guilty of a wilful violation of the law. It has generally been un~ Beltrami county grand jury returned an indictment against Mr. Gearlds. Arrangements 2re being completed at a conference ot attorneys and Dr. Dumas to ar- range a date for the trial of Ole Fer- guson of Deer River on a charge of rerjury, growing out of the Dumas case. RAIN AGAIN STOPS 'WORLD SERIES GAME Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 19.—Once again the waiting multitude was doomed to disappointment, the fourth game in the world’s baseball series being postponed for the zecond time on account of rain. The grounds v.ere flooded and the rain has fallen intermittently throughout the day. 1t is hoped to play here tomorrow. Col. Theodore Koosevelt is to speak under the auspices of the Civie For- um in New. York City. in Carnegie Hall tomorrow evening on “The Con- servatior of Womanhood and Child- " A man may willingly lend you five spot any time you may care to ask him, yet skin you alive in a horse. It is what a man wont tell that makes him dangerous. Former Bemidji Saloonkeeper Being Small Structure Destroyed Last April_ MOVE NOT SURPRISE HERE St. Paul, Oct. 19.—(Daily Pioneer having bought a store building at then co-operating at Portland, Oregon, yesterday and is