Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 3, 1911, Page 1

., ing his announcewnent yesterday af- WINNESOTA | HISTORICAL | SOCIETY., TEN CENTS PER WEEK. END GEARLDS CASE T0 BRING NEW ONE| State Dismisses Both Indictments But Brings Re-arrest to Win Delay Point, FERGUSON CASE GOES OVER Perjury Accusation Against Him and Dumas Misdemeanor Comes Up in February. At the request of Assistant Attor- ney General Janes and E. E. McDon- ald, Edward Gearlds, arrested at Portland, several days ago, and his twin brother, Edwin, held on arson charges as the result of an 2lleged attempt to burn a building at Black- duck last spring, were dismissed from custody this afternoon, but will be rearrested, say attorneys for the state, on the same charge. fort to block Attorney George Spear of Grand Rapids, attorney for the Grand Rapids, attorney for the Gearlds, in his persistent efforts to have the Gearlds given an immedi- ate trial.’ Spear Fights Delay. By dismissing the indictments re- turced by the September grand jury against the Gearlds and causing their rearrests it will mean preliminary examination and, if the evidence| warrants, the binding over of the prisoners to await the action of the February grand jury. Attorney Spear has insisted that The weather: fair Saturd‘ay, ris- ing temperature, southerly winds. Fire is raging this afternoon at London, Ontario, which threatens the entire city. Five days of celebration began at the University of Washington at Se- attle today in honor of the comple- existence. In accordance with a law passed by the Nebraska legislature, “fire pre- vention day” was obsgerved with in- structive exercises in the public schools throughout that state today. Shanghai surrendered today to the Chinese rebels without fighting. Wu Sunn, ten miles above, will fall to- night and Nanking and Chung Kien tomorrow. Troops at Tse Nai mut- ineed to join rebellion. The Duke of Sutherland, who has spent the past few months in Alberta looking after the details of his scheme of tenant farms in that Pro- vince, sailed for home today. The Duke expects to induce a large num- ber of desirable English.and Scot- tish emigrants to take up homes in Western Canada next spring. The 59th birthday anniversary of the Emperor Mutsuhito was celebrat- ed today in Tokio and elsewhere throughout Japan. Messages of greeting were received from Presi- dent Taft King George and the heads of other nations. This morning the Emperor and his suite attended the customary military review on the Aoyama palace grounds. Though the sensational divorce case of John Bancroft, Jr., from his wife; Madeleine Bancroft, of the not- able du Pont family, and the coun- his clients be given an opportunity at o, gyit of the wife for divorce, are once to present their defense and says he shall now demand an immediate hearing and that his clients will not waive examination. Ferguson Case Goes Over. The charge of perjury against Ole Ferguson of Deer River, upon re- quest of the state and unobjected to by Attorney A. A. Andrews for the defendant, was put over until the February term of court. The charge of misdemeanor against Dr. D. F. Dumas, growing out the Puposky affair, and on which the Cass Lake mayor is held in bonds of $1,000, also went over until Febru- ary. Up Before Stanton. These matters came up before Judge Stanton this morning, follow- scheduled _for trial at Wilmington, Del., at the term of court beginning next Monday, it is probable that both: cases will be postponed until the Jan- uary term, owing to the delay in se- icuring testimony from witnesses now abroad. |THREE KILLED BY COAL GAS Relatives of Bemidji Woman Killed in Hastings Home. Mrs. Geo. Ostrander received a let- ! ter this morning telling of the death {of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. | Abb Hottinger, and their grandson, IChas. McDermind, at Hastings, Minn. | The letter merely told of their death i‘which was caused by suffocation by coal gas, none of the details having (Continued on last pags) {been given. Mr. Ostrander will be |unable to attend the funeral. MONA LISA, PRICELESS PAINTTING WHICH WAS STOLEN. 1t is is said by detectives on the trail of this famous missing painting, said to be the most perfect portrait work ever executed, that the can-|® tion of the first half-century of its! (Copyright, 1810) MAD, HE BREAKS THINGS Charles McKinnon Smashes Chande- lier at Browne’s Cafe and Kicks in $40 Window of Saloon. FIGHES HARD WHEN ARRESTED Charles McKinnon, a worker in the woods, tucked a few drinks un- der his belt yesterday afternoon and set out to win fame as a bad man. He succeeded. First he went to Brown’s restau- rant on Minnesota avenue and de- manded a package which, he found later he had left at Nash McKinnon’s saloon. Unable to obtain the package that wasn’t there, Charles declared war and opened hostilities by grabbing up a stool and smashing a chandelier and some dishes. ‘When he was more sternly than gently ejected, he continued to show his peevishness by placing his No. 10 lumberjack boot through a plate glass window in the Edward Mun- hall saloon’ with the result that $40 worth of property fell about him in small pieces. By that time Policeman Smith and Municipal Court Officer Fred Bursely arrived and extended an invitation to the cantankerous Mr. McKinnon to calm himself in the city bastile. McKinnon intimated that the po- lice could take their lockup and go to Jericho with it and began a series of maneuvers to plant large and heavy fists violently on the anatomy of the officers, but without success. In court before Judge Simons this morning McKinhon was as docile as a pet lamb and pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorder- 1y for which activity he was given a sentence of 20 days and on top" of this he drew 45 days for having de- stroyed property in the Brown res- taurant. ‘What will happen to him for hav- ing heaved in the saloon window is yet to be known. This charge is ma- licious destruction of property and the maximum penalty is a year in jail. He will be arraigned on this charge later. POOOPVPPPPOOROOOO ® Football Bulletins, & ® Bulletins of every play made & @ during the Minnesota-Chicago & @ football game tomorrow after- @ © noon at Minneapolis will be re- ® @ ceived by the Markham hotel. ® ® By special arrangement of the & @ Markham management the Pio- & © neer will print the game in full & < tomorrow evening. Sporting @ news will be found in this issue ¢ vass was smuggled from Vienna to New York and thence across the con-|® on Page 3. @ tinent through Minnesota and into Canada. AR AR AR RCRORCR RN R Shows Few Such Concerns Run in At the City Hall at 10 a. m. to- morrow there will be a meeting of farmers in this vicinity to disquss plans for continuing the work of the Bemidji creamery. In a communica~ thisi’f\;ity‘ has a. good word——for the farmers who have made the creamery a success and expresses the belief that a bright future is in store for the institution. Mr. Op- "sahl says: “I noticed in last night’s issue you commented on the shortage of cream at the local creamery and that the city might loose a good plant on ac- count of lack of patronage through the cold weather or after cows had to be stall fed. “I believe the editor and some of the management look upon this in the wrong light. A co-operative creamery must be run on business lines the same as a private institu- tion. It must pay its patrons or own- ers. “In 1885 or 26 years ago farming conditions forced the neighborhood creamery business against their wish- es (a ground hog case of root hog or die), and after 26 years of trial the dairy business has made the com- munity rich. But even now after 26 years they do not attempt to op- erate the creameries full blast 12 months in the year. They close the creameries just as soon as the milk supply falls short in the winter and open up again in the spring as soon as pastures become good. And in some localities where the buttermak- er could be hired at partial pay, the creameries would be run 1 or 2 days each week during winter weather. “The Bemidji creamery has done well, and all men interested should expect and prepare to close it for years during the winter months and operate it in the summer while pas- tures are ‘good. “Get busy and bring in more cows, and build more silos, and when the local milk supply exceeds the home the buttermaker to run the ereamery full or part of the time between Oc- tober and May. “A farmer’s time is money. Do not expect him to travel every day or every other day a long distance to the creamery in the winter, provided hisI supply of cream does not warrant it, because in cold weather he can make dairy butter ‘and market it at good prices once or twice a month. | Close the local plant now and ar- range to re-open May 15th or June 1st each year. More than 90 per cent of all farmers’ creameries are closed during the winter.” A woman has succeeded to the own- ership of a baseball franchise. She will have to learn at last, without asking somebody in the grand stand, why the runner cannot advance until Winter—Meeting Tomorrow. | tion to the Pioneer, J. J. Opsahl of | where I lived in Wisconsin into the| after the'fly is caught. S T R OPSAHL DEFENDS CREAMERY | NEW ROAD FOR BEMIDJI? Apparently Authentic Report Has it That Minneapolis & St. Louis is to Come. ROSEAU SWAMP NO DRAWBACK There is a well-defined report that the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway, if it constructs a line northward from the twin cities to connect with the Canadian Northern, will build through the Cuyuna iron range, east of Brainerd, in a general northwest- erly direction to Bemidji, thence northwest and directly north to War- road. Such a line would tap new ag- ricultural and grazing land in the Red Lake basin, as well as the new- est iron or range. One of the so-called drawbacks of such a road is the Roseau swamp. But this swamp is being drained by the ditches and dredging being done on the Roseau river. The road is a feasible one and data show that the unequaled grazing land along the Red Lake river east of the outlet to Red Lake and the agricultural devel- opment of the section of Beltrami county near the lake, where there is no railroad, are in such a stage as to be attractive to any transportation company. This proposed route would furnish the most direct line from the Cana- dian boundary through the Cayuna range and would run through a rich- er country than any now operated. Another rumor connects the Min- neapolis & St. Louis with a line to be built from Warroad to New Ulm; ex- tending directly south from. Warroad through Clearwater county to Bag- ley, and on to New Ulm, where con- nection would be made with the Io- wa Central, which lines are being merged with the Erb combinations, including the Minneapolis & St. Louis. A communication from Bagley a few days ago said that the general manager and the chief engineer of the Minneapolis & St. Louis had been at Bagley and went from that place to Clearbrook, to look over the coun- try. That the Minneapolis & St. Louis and the Great Northern are not the only systems laying plans to invade the country to the west and north of Red Lake is shown by railroad talk at Thief River Falls which again con- nects the Soo with having inten- tions of building a line from Thief River Falls to Loman, a point on tke Rainy river west of International Falls. The line would connect at Loman with an independent road used by the Minnesota-Ontario com- pany in hauling logs frnnl the Black river country to the mills at Inter- national Falls. EBERHART TO FACE ST. CTOUD MEETING Demand for Extra Session Causes Governor to Accept Invitation to Speak. MAY DENY BRAINERD PLEDGE At State Capitol, it is Said Executive Feels His Promise Has Been Distorted. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 3.—(Spec- ial)—Governor Eberhart has prom- ised to deliver an address at the St. Cloud convention of the Northern Minnesota Development association to be held December 8 and 9. At that time the governor will have something to say relative to his now famous “Brainerd pledge” on re- apportionment. " Mum Until Then. Until then the governor prefers not to discuss the proposed extra ses- sion of the legislature to pass a re- apportionment bill this winter. It is admitted at the capitol that the governor has been following the progress of the demand recently made by the Bemidji Pioneer for an extra session, and that he has given it serious consideration, so serious in fact that he accepted the invitation to address the St. Cloud meeting. May Allege Distortion. That the governor is preparing a speech of explanation relative to the Brainerd assertions is admitted by Ralph Wheelock, the governor’s pri- vate secretary. It is asserted at thél capital . that Governor Eberhart will maintain that his Brainerd remarks have not been correctly quoted and that he qualified his pledge. Many Heard Him Say It. There are many persons in Bemidji who were present when Governor Eb- erhart made his Brainerd talk and they say there could be no mistake as to what he said and that it was to the effect that unless the legisla- ture passed a reapportionment bill last winter he would call an extra session. That is the impression created in the minds of others is shown by the written declarations to the Pioneer from such prominent men as Repre- sentative Cleon T. Knapp of Chis- holm, Representative George H. Matt~ son of Roseau, Attorney Middleton of Baudette and others. Benson Names Delegates. Delegates to the St. Cloud conven- tion have been named as follows from Bentson county: A. H. Turritin, Sauk Rapids; G. E. Hanscom, Foley, and J. M. Thoen, Rice. “IMPORTANT,” SAYS BURKE Meeting of Commercial Club Tuesday to Consider Many things. President Thomas J. Burke today called attention to the fact that a meeting of the Commercial club is to be held on Tuesday evening of next week. “There should be a full at- tendance as there are several matters of unusual importance to be consid- ered,” said Mr. Burke “and among them will be the question of arrang- ing social functions and possibly turning the club rooms over to the wives of members certain days dur- ing the winter.” Several applica- tions for membership are to receive attention. Tonight President Bur- ke, A. G. Wedge, John M. Richards and Thomas McCann leave for :St. Paul where tomorrow they will ap- pear before the state Railroad and Warehouse commission as a commit- tee from the Bemidji Commercial club to argue against discrimination of log rates by the railroads, now said to be in force against Bemidji in favor of Walker. Celebrations in honor of the sixth anniversary of the independence of Panama were begun today and will continue over Sunday. Elaborate fes- tivities have been arranged, in which the American residents are partici- pating with as much enthusiasm as the natives.