Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 11, 1911, Page 1

— VOLUME 9. NUMBER 1 67. 50 DEER DEAD IN FIRST DAY'S HUNT Rush for Needed Licenses Continues, Auditor Now Having Issued More Than 350. 56 PERSON SHOT BUT NONE HERE Bemidji Men Bag Two Animals Near Nebish, First Killed by Local Hunters. WHITE FISH SEASON IS ON Game Warden Bailey Tells of Big Game Successes and Warns the Hunters, 1t is estimated that more than 50 deer have been slaughtered in the woods of Beltrami since the opening of the big game season yesterday. In addition to the 300 licenses tak- en out before County Auditor George’s supply gave out yesterday, 50 more were issued today from a new supply of 200 licenses. As the licenses sell at $1 each, the auditor has taken in $350 as a result of the deer slaying fever. Father and Son First Here. E. A. and J. C. Titus have, so far as is known, the honor of bagging the first two deer of the season, so far as Bemidji hunters are concerned. The animals were shot yesterday in the vicinity of Nebish. E. A. Titus is a jeweler at the George T. Baker establishment and J. C. is his father. Several other animals were brought to Bemidji today, but most of them were for St. Paul, Minneapolis and other outside points. : 56 Killed, Say Reports. Although the timber resounds with the crack of rifles in all the favorite retreats of the deer, no accident has so far been reported from any point in Beltrami, although reports from outside show that the toll of human lives will be as great or greater than in past years. Records compiled from all deer hunting states show that 56 persons have been killed. Shot For a Moose. John Redmark of Deer River, Minn., was instantly killed and his companion, Charles Lindahl, danger- ously wounded while hunting at Bow String lake, twelve miles from Deer River. The men had killed a moose, and were dressing it when fired upon by a party of unidentified hunters, who mistook them for big game. Otto Henning, age 25, a'resident of Sherry, Wis., was accidentally shot in the right knee, while hunting near there and amputation was found nec- essary. Albert Sorensen of Spooner was accidentally shot while hunting rabbits with his brother. It is feared he will lose his right arm. Bailey Talks of Conditions. In speaking of conditions here Game Warden S. C. Bailey today said: “Reports from the woods north and northeast of Bemidji indicate that the hunters who went out from here to get big game have been successful. “The fall of snow Friday morning, followed by the continued fall will make conditions ideal for hunting deer and moose, and word comes to me that already many deer and sev- eral moose have been killed. The snow makes tracking easy; and as .deer are more plentiful than for many he one license. White Fish Season is on. ter season opened Friday. - all of the lakes the winter. in fact caught in any other way.” Big Herd of Caribou Near Here. While it is illegal to kill caribou, the American variety of the reindeer, several of these animals have been tseen this fall. It is said that the largest herd of these animals in the country roam the Rapid River coun- try near the Red Lake, “over into Koochiching county. FOUR SCHOOLS CONSOLIDATE Beltrami Prominent in Taking Ad- -vantage of Holmberg Law. Since the passage of the Holmberg act, providing for the consolidation advantage of the opportunity offered, laccording to a statement issued by |C. G. Schulz, state superintendent of {public instruction. The- greater number are in the northern part of the state. The law provides a minimum ter- ritory of twelve sections for a conso- lidated school district. The average territory for these thirty schools is well up toward the area of a town- ship classified as follows: Schools previously consolidated and qualifying under the law. Schools having requisite territory and qualifying under the law. Schools in unorganized districts in the sparsely settled north. Schools formed by consolidation of two or more districts since the pass- age of the Holmberg act. Grouped in these classes, the thirty schools are located as follows: Lynd, Lyon county; Comstock, Clay county; Warman, Kanabec count; Lewiston, Winona county, and Bar- num, Carlton county. Floodwood, St. Louis county; Meadowlands, St. Louis county; Hill City, Aitkin county; Deer River, Itasca county; Kerkhoven, Swift county; Swift, Roseau county; Houg, Roseau county, and Firman, Beltra- mi county. Loman, Koochiching county; Birchdale, Koochiching county; Big Falls, Koochiching county, and Northome, Koochiching county. Tenstrike, Beltrami county; Hines, Beltrami county; Saum, Beltrami county; Brook Park, Pine county; Nomadji, Pine county; St. Francis, Anoka county; Medford, Steele coun- ty; Wanda, Redwood county; Sedan, Pope county; Grovelape, Pope coun- ty; Doran, Wilkin county; Tintah, Traverse county, and Alberta, Stev- ens county. Nine From Two Hnrbors‘Selected to Attend St. Cloud Convention. Two Harbors, Minn., Nov. 11.— Delegates from Lake county to the St. Cloud convention of the Northern Minnesota Development association to be held December 8 and 9 have been named as follows: John Dwan, G. W. Small, George Munford, Thomas Owen, E. A. Daniels, B. F. Fowler, Dr. J. D. Budd, H. 0. Hanson and Hans Atterlee, ‘all of Two Harbors. Off for Fergus Falls to Face Charges Made in Federal Court. Dr. D. F. Dumas, years past, hunters are pleased with | L@ke, accompanied by his attorney A. their experiences. One Deer Law Shortens Season. night for Fergus Falls where the fed- eral grand jury meets on Monday. Dr. “The action of the legislature last|Dumas has been under arrest by fed- -winter in limiting the number of eral authorities and now goes to re- .deer to one for each hunter will un-|spond to any charges which may be (doubtedly shorten the season by near-|returned by the federal grand jury. censes to hunt both big and small game, which was formerly covered by | QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ «hhere has been an unusual de-|temperature on Sunday; brisk north mand for both hunting licenses and licenses to net whitefish, which lat- Lake Be-|the Dr. Hyde murder trial now on in midji, Lake Plantagenet, and in fnet, in this vicinity abound in whitefish. The fishermen net large numbers of the fish and either freeze or smoke them for pres- ervation for their own use during It is unlawful to sell any whitefish caught in this manner, or|ing to attempt to use them in round‘ of rural schools, thirty have takenj LAKE NAMES ITS DELEGATES|ing his way through the smoke he ANDREWS AND DUMAS LEAVE|to Archbishop O’Connell, mayor of Cass|month, at which he and a number of A. Andrews of this city, left last|made cardinals. ly one-half for the majority of the S Charles Waldron is Viola Allen’s now exist will result in many of them |jeading man in “The Lady of Cov- hunters, as the ideal conditions that 'securing their one deer very early in the season; and as moose only inhab- it the almost inaccessible places, not more than half of those who go to the woods brave the hardships and;| ‘stick’ until they get a moose,. but return to the cities early. All Must Have License. “I find that there is much misun- derstanding of the law relative to the requirement for hunters to obtain licenses to hunt big game. At one time the law was such that a person was not required to secure a license to hunt big game in his own county., entry.” vived. cast of “Over Night.” and Lulu May, cording to a report. The lumber and moose in any locality, whether dn his own county or not. Among the reports -of the season is The opera house will accommodate one that “Evangeline” may be re- Two sisters of Edna May are in the They are Jane The California district leads in oil production in the United States, ac- interest in the far|Southwestern Missouri. Northwest has shown a growth of 144 per cent in 10 years. A burning gas well in the Cadda|may lead to a general strike or lock= “This is changed now; and every per- | field, Louisiana, has just been extin-|out in this industry. son must have a licenseito hunt deer{guished after five'years® effort. Florida and California oranges| Bill Posters will hold its next annu- It is also|were exported last year to the extent|al convention in St. Louis during the mecessary to have two separate 1i-|of 962,229 boxes, worth $2,445,5659. LR CRCRCR OB R R R RRCRCR X 2 POOOOOO00OOOOCLOE The weather: clear with loWer winds. W Two more jurymen were added at Kansas City. =~ . Canada’s first land show opens in Calgary tonight, to continue through the coming week. ; Ranchmen near Galveston, Texas, have invested in aeroplanes, intend- ing up cattle. ] In a 30 foot fall at Wichita, Kan- sas, yesterday, Hugh Robinson, who began a flight from Minneapolis to New-Orleans, broke his shoulder. More than 1,000 persons have been massacred in Nanking, China, by the Manchus. Men, women and children were slain by the anti-revolutionists. Rev. Daniel Woodward, new war- den of the state prison at Waupon, Wis., has. discontinued the custom of close cropping the heads of prisoners. At Seattle the steampship Vietoria, the last passenger liner to leave the Bering Sea this year, has arrived with $1,000,000 in gold and 370 pas- sengers. William Russell, under life sen- tence for murder, escaped from the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. He is the eighteenth to escape under the present warden. At Pembina, N. D., yesterday Er- nest A. Stewart, accused of the mur- der of Phillip Worall in November of 1909, was dismissed from custody because of lack of evidence. At Winnipeg diamonds worth $10,- 000 were found embedded in a mass of melted gold, silver and platinum in the ruins of a fire in the segregated district, in which two women lost their Hves. King Vietor Emmanuel of Italy is 42 years old today and popular enthusaism over the war caused the anniversary to be marked by nation- al rejoicings upon an unusually ex- tensive scale. Trolla Mew, the oldest cgt-in the world, is dying at the Mome of its misiress, Miss Frances Robinson in Lowell, Mass. The cat has been in Miss Robinson’s family for 29 years and is 32 years of age. Herman Christenson of Wollford, N. D., whjle on his way to Warren, Minn., to be married was enticed into an East Grand Forks saloon, where he lost all his money. He held four queens, the other fellow four kings. Piqued because his father wished him to return to college after having secured low marks in Latin, Clarence, the 16 year old son of Deputy Sher- iff James K. Bingham, yesterday shot and instantly killed himself in his father’s home at Fargo. Sacred geese saved Rome in ancient days, but yesterday Henry Retzloff’s common Wisconsin geese near Nee- nah, saved his family when the house caught fire. Retzloff was awakened by the squawking of the birds. Grop- carried his wife and children to safe- ty. The Canadian Club of New York is to hold its annual banquet at the Ho- tel Astor next Monday night and as it will be the first dinner of this repre- sentative Canadian organization since the defeat of reciprocity, much inter- est is being shown as to the prospec- tive utterances of the distinguished Canadians and Americans who will address the club. Representative Catholics of New England assembled at the Cunard line dock in Boston today to bid adieu who was among the passengers sailing for Eu- rope on the Canopic. The archbishop is going to Rome to attend the spec- ial consistory the latter part of this other eminent churchmen will be Monday night next, with the open- ing of his new London Opera House, the irrepressible Oscar Hammerstein will enter upon his career as a man- ager of grand opera in London. ‘Whatever the artistic or financial suc- cess of the undertaking may be, it is certain that Mr. Hammerstein has given to London one of the finest and best equipped theaters in the world. | 2,700 persons. It contains 43 boxes, including a handsome suite for the use of the King. Florence Reed-is to suppm:t Julius| Steger in “The Master of the House.” | Renewed interest in the Farmers’ Union movement is being taken in There is considerable unrest in the engineering trade of Hungary which The International Association of ke R (Copyright, 1811.) WOMAN OFFICIAL COMES Mrs. Perry Smkweaiher to Suggest Proposed Reforms Here in Four Public Talks. MISS PETERSON 4EN'DS WORK Mrs. Perry Starkweather, at the head of the women’s and childrens’ department of the stalie bureau of la- bor, will come:to Béthidjf one week from today and will remain until Monday, during which time she will make at least four public talks. She comes at the request of Miss Peter- son, also of the labor bureau, who has been investigating conditions here for several days. Mrs. Starkweather’s first address will be at the Commercial ‘club rooms next Saturday at 3 p. m. when she will talk to women only. On Sunday evening she will speak from the pul- pit of the Presbyterian church on the subject of “Schools as Social Centers” and other proposed reforms. Monday morning she will speak to the stu- dents at the high school and in the evening to the business men at the Commercial club. It is understood that at the Com- mercial club talk to men, Mrs. Stark- weather will propose the plan of forming a boys club, the purpose of which will be to provide a play of proper recreation, along the lines of the Y. M. C. A. plan—a gymnasium being a prominent feature. Munici- pal bath houses for boys and girls is another suggestion that likely will be made. During her stay in Bemidji Miss Peterson has investigated several cases of children out of school and 15 truants have been compelled to take up their studies. In other cases de- inquent children have been turned over to the care of the state. Miss Peterson’s work here is prac- tically completed, and she now is vis- iting Blackduck, International Falls and other towns north but will re- turn to Bemidji in time to greet Mrs. Starkweather next Saturday. ELECTED KING DAVID; RESIGNS Hirman Simons. Spurns ‘Royal Office —Winter’s Plans Taken Up. Last evening in the basement of the Methodist Church, the Brother- hood of David, a semi-religious social organization,-was re-organized. Mrs. Cunningham and Rev. Chas. H. Flesher had charge of the meeting and about a ~dozen members were present. The first business was the election of officers for the next year. On the fifth ballot, H. A. Simons, Jr., was elected King David; later he re- sigued but his resignation was laid on the table. ‘The other officers are: Prince Jonathan, Fred -Cutter; Je- hosaphat,: Jesse Head; Tzmaveth, Maurice~ Witting; Serish, Arnold Hurd; Shallum, Raymond Lord; Be- niah, Edwin Simons; Joab, Elmer An- derson. It was decided to” have a program and banquet Fhanksgiving eve, and a committes was appointed to take charge of the evening. . Dues > and it was de- of every ‘month tfip“even— ings for- th rexular meet B8 $7 AVERAGE FOR STATE LAND Highest Price Paid is $20—Those Who Made Purchases Here. More than 12,000 acres of state land was sold by State Auditor Iver- son this week, 2,000 acres being sold at Wadena; 4,000 at Park Rapids and 6,000 in Bemidji with the Walker figures of yesterday yet to be an- nounced. The land brought an aver- age price of $7, the highest price paid being $20 for a small tract near Park Rapids. On Monday a sale will be conducted at International Falls. nesday were: Chas. Carter, Hines; Jacob~Nelson; ‘Blackdutk; Henry W. Alsop, Bemidji; Peter O. Lysthi, Dal- las, Wis.; Thos. B. McCulloch, St. Cloud; Forest Cary, Little Falls; Frank L. Randall, St. Clond; W. Leigh Cary, Little Falls; John Cam, Blackduck; Celia Cam, Blackduck; Andrew R. “Walker” Floodwood; L. Latteral, Henry Pfund, William Len- non, Kelliher; Benjamin J. Carter, Tenstrike; John H. Mastin, Hines; Henry E. Sturdevant, Tenstrike; Ju- lius Scott, Hines; Stanley Thompson, Tenstrike; Martin W. Castner, White Bear Lake; Chas. Trondson, Black- duck; John A. Gustafson, Blackduck; Edward N. Ebert, Bemidji; Wm. Vail, Blackduck; Chas. H. Johnson, Hines; A. A. Uoness, Alexandria; W. P. Dyer, Bemidji; Geo. W. Hill, Adolph E. Witting, Alice D. Witting, Blackduck; Wm. Bruce, KeHliher; El- mer Dekgaard, Saum; John P. Matt- son, Warren, Minn.; Minerva J. Ray- mond, Nymore; Walter Rice, Ten- strike; Geo. A. Tuller, Tom Mohler, Bert Getchell, Wes Wright, Nancy B. Rice, Jas. Cahill, Bemidji; Chas. W. Emmons, Rock Falls, Il.; W. P. Stewart, Ruby Stewart, Bemidji; Philip J. Gippard, Crookston; Oscar A. Webster, Grand Forks; Robt. R. Gilbert, Luverne, Minn.; Addie Me- Donald, Bemidji; John G. Wallace, Andrew Larson, Jno. A. Thoren, Sol- way; Chas. A. Kaye, Hines; Henry A. Brown, Crookston; Arthur D. Glid- den, Henry K. Smith, Bemidji. GOLD FOUND NEAR HERE Minneapolis Hunters Discovery $10,- 000 to Ton Deposit in Koochiching. Seven Minneapolis hunters say they have found gold in Koochiching county, though they doubt whether the deposit can be reduced commer- cially at a profit. The discoverers are not buying any land or starting any rush for the new Klondike. The gold is said to be in township 66, range 22, Koochiching county, just mnorth of Nett lake. The party consisting of 0. Brown, John Rentz, A. Moot, Charles Kronick, E. P. Moorhead, G. Dorne and W. P. Cooper, spent ten days in the woods hunting ducks and partridges. They report finding the gold in a bank of sand disinte- grated from the solid granitg por- phyry rock along the bed of an old lake. The hunters took 30 pounds to Minneapolis. - Mr. Rentz, who is a manufacturing jeweler, made borax fluid ‘with an ounce of the sand and had the produét assayed. It ran close to '$10,000 to the ton. The great question is whether there is any prac- tical way of getting the gold out of the sand. It is no place for placer mining on a cheap scale, they admit. Pittsburgh, Pa., Will be”the first eastern city to have a bakery conduct- week beginning December 4. o ery. and confectionery ‘Work ar‘ Those who purchased land here Wed-| ~ td by the International Union of Bak- | STILL SEEK MIKE DAVIS Superior Paper Tells of Alleged Ef- fors on There to Trace Puposky Bandit. GOSSIP INVOLVES POLICE ARREST The Superior Telegram says: “SAsnumbepsof Superior citizens and several prominent police officials have been interested for the.pASt Week or 50 in a more or less sensational rumor which has been going the rounds. The gossips repeated the reports until dur- ing the past couple of days it has as- sumed the proportions with some peo- ple of a real fact. “The rumor started with the state- ment that the Minnesota fire mar- shal’s office which is prominent in the prosecunon of the Dumas case, had decided/a investigate the report that Mike Da‘vm, Eddie Le Claire and oth- ers conhected with the Bemidji af- fair had been in Superior since the arrest of the Cass Lake mayor. Some- M. | body told somebody else until finally Dame Rumor had it that the police department of Superior was instru- mental in affording protection to the alleged fugitives. “That wasn’t by any means the end of it. Yesterday and today it was current on the street that warrants had been issued by the federal au- thorities in the Northern Minnesota case for the arrest of a couple of Su- perior - police officials who were charged with' harboring criminals or some such creépy crime. A few even believed that the arrests had been made and that the officials whose names were connected with the rum- or were really behind the bars in their own jail. “It was reported, for instance, that a Duluth paper had published the story and that all copies of the issue sent to Superior had been bought up. Copies of the paper -in question may have been bought up or none may have been sent to Superior on that date but none of the Twin Ports pa- pers, or any others so far as could be learned, have published any reference to the rumor. “When the rumor was first heard the Telegram made an effort to veri- fy it. The Minnesota fire marshal’s office denied that there ‘was anything to it. Federal authorities were equal- ly emphatic in declaring that the ru- more was made out of whole cloth. So was everybody else in a position to know.” U.|DRAW CURTAINS, WARNS CHIEF Police to Enforce Law Relating to . Unobstructed View Nights. “Say for me, and make it strong,” said Chief of Police Harrington this morning, “that we are going to see to it that all saloon -windows are cleared of curtains or other obstrue- tions after 11 p. m. and all day om Sunday. Some of the places have been installing fixtures that make it impossible to get a clear view of the interior. It should be distinctly understood that we are not going to permit anything of this kind. We ‘do not propose to lay ourselves open to the suspocion that the lid can be tilted in Bemidji.” = Missouri’s cotton product in 1910 | totaled close to a million dollars. BEMIDJI FLOUNI)ERS IN WIND AND SNOW Six Inch Fall Driven By Brisk North- west Breeze Causing Inconveni: ence Today. LAKE BLACK WITH DUCKS Find Zone of Safety Beyond !hm of Ice, 150 Feet Wide, and Defy City Sportsmen. OTHER PLACES HIT BY STORM Zero Weather in Montana - and in Canada Threshing Operations Must Cease. 7 Beginning at an early hour this morning and continuing unabated throughout the day, the first real snowstorm of the season visited this part of the state today. A Dbrisk northwest wind piled the snow in drifts. About six inches of snow had fallen up to 3 p. m. The temperature was slightly below freez- ing. | Wires and Trains Working. ‘While other parts of the country have been suffering from similar dis- turbances the storm here does not appear to have been general in char- acter. All telegraph wires in every direction were working as usual and all trains were on time, or but slight- 1y delayed. Soo, Minnesota & International, Great Northern and Red Lake loco- motives carried snow plows but no special engines were put on to buck the snow. Bemidji Feels_jt Most. Bemidji appears to have suffered most from the whirling snow. Side walks were piled high, in places drifts made street traffic difficult and down town streets, usually crowded with Saturday shoppers, were all but deserted. Lake Black with Ducks. During this display of irritation on the part of the elements, hundreds of ducks have today blackened the waters of Lake Bemidji, just off the fringe of ice which circles the lake 150 feet from short. Safely out of reach by guns the fowls float about with a city filled with ambitious sportsmen so close that they see the look of disgust on the faces of their men enemies, who are unable to get at them. Snow and Gale at Fargo. Fargo, N. D., Nov. 10.—The snow- storm which is sweeping over the west hit Fargo last night. It is now 10 degrees above zero. Two inches of snow is on the ground and a strong wind is blowing. The snow is drifting. The Great Northern Orien- tal Limited last night was six hours late. Near Zero in Montana. Missoula, Mont., Nov. 11.—Follow- ing a storm which swept over this immediate section yesterday the tem- perature has steadily lowered until it is hovering near the zero mark. The wind attained a high veloeity. The snowstorm had its inception in the Blackfoot country at Blossburg. 70 miles east. Other stations in the Rocky mountain country report a de- cided decline of the mercury. Two Feet of Snow at Eureka, Mon. Eureka, Mont., Nov. 11.—The snowstorm which began early Wed- nesday covers the whole valley and it is still snowing. Snow has fallen® to the depth of more than two feet and trains are delayed. The fall is unprecedented, as snow rarely falls here until January and sometimes as late as February. Canadian Grain Snowed In. - ‘Winnipeg, Nov. 11.—A heavy fall of snow ‘is reported from all three prairie provinces. It was 12 degrees below zero at Melville, Sask., Wed- nesday night and the snow has re- tarded all threshing, making the out- look for farmers gloomy. It has snow- ed two days at many points and 50 to 60 per cent of the grain is yet unthreshed in Alberta and Sasketche- wan. Poker playing does not seem to be exactly in the line of the best church work. i They have abofit everything on the latest ocean liners but baseball - grounds. 5 : =