Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 13, 1911, Page 1

— VOLUME 9. NUMBER 168. 16,000 HUNTERS IN WO0ODS AFTER DEER Executive Agent Rider Expects Pres- ent Slaughter to Break All Records for Minnesota. NO ACCIDENTS REPORTED HERE Nearby Places, However, Scenes of Death and Injuries By Careless- ness of Men. GRAND RAPIDS MAN IN TOILS Jonas Olson Admits Having Fired at Bemidji Man’s idea of protecting 1 himself from the bullets of tender-| foot hunters suffering from an attack of “Buck” fever. human voices emanating from the di- rection of his aim told him of his awful mistake. “The real object of Olsons’ vision Moose Slayers, Mistaking Thém |was the above named three men and for Wild Beast. Not in years have conditions for hunting big game been so propitious as now. { And this, together with the fact| that no less than 15,000 hunters are | tramping the woods of Northern Min- nesota, causes the H. A. Rider, execu- tive agent of the game and fish com- | | | mission to prophesy that more deer | and moose—despite the one to a man limit—will be shot this year than ev- er before in the history of the state. | More Than 15,000 Licenses. i Within the next 30 days Mr. Rid- er expects to have accurate data cov- ering what eh is sure will be a rec- ord breaking slaughter. The season continues until December 1. A month ago Mr. Rider sent to the various counties of the state 14,000 big game license blanks and, has had calls from eBltrami, St. Louis, Aitkin, and Lake counties for additional sup- plies, St. Louis county alone asked for 1,000 more. Beltrami got 200 more, making 500 in all. This extra demand, Mr. Rider says, leads him to believe that 15,000 hun-| ters are in the northern part of the state and that big game will suffer. Will Have Accurate Data. This is the first year that the fish and game commission has been able to secure accurate data as to those en- gaged in the hunt for big game. In| former years a license given to a res- ident hunter entitled him to kill any- thing not prohibited by law. The law in effect this year provides for two classes of license, one for small and one for large game. Accidents Being Reported. So far as is known no hunting ac- cidénts have resulted in Beltrami county, but reports from surrounding places go to show that the usual big game perils are present. _ The first accident to happen to a deer hunter in Morrison county oc- curred in Plat town. Joseph and M. Martinean and Ovid Plant killed a deer and Joseph Martineau was dress- ing the animal when his knife slipped and entered his leg. His compan- ions partly stopped the flow of blood and brought him to this city where the wound was dressed. Mr. Marti- neau was fortunate to be with his companions when the accident oc- curred as he lost a great deal of blood and would not have been able to have reached help alone. Admits Killing Man For Moose. | At Grand Rapids, Jonas Olson is in! trouble as the result of having shot two men, one fatally, mistaking them | for a deer. The Grand Rapids Itasca County Independent tells of this trag- edy as follows: “Though this section of the big hunting field got along last year without a man being shot in mistake for an antlered animals, its record this vear is starting in bad, and that even before the season is legally open. There are hundreds of hunt- ers in the timber in remarkably small stretches of territory and it is sur- prising that the fatal error does not oceur every day. “On Thursday morning, the day before the season opened, John Rut- mark, his brother-in-law, Jonas Olson, Jonas Lindahl and Albin Hallin, *&:hg gpcbdePpTmolCl---6b9—jiS settlers and neighbors, with two or three others of their neighborhood near the southwest corner of Bow- string lake, went out for a hunt. They had been out but a short time when Jonas Olson ‘picked up’ tracks of a moose crossing his door yard. Fires Fatal Shot. “He followed the tracks about half a mile into the big timber and brush when in line with the tracks ahead | down a decline he saw through the brush a dark object move which he | took to be a moose, 5o the story goes, and he shot at the object. Cries of the moose in which they were en- gaged in skinning. All three men were almost lined up in range with Olson’s aim; so near that his bullet cut Lindahl's temple from side to side and one of his eyes may be destroyed. Hallin was the second man and the bullet grazed his eye bfows. The ithird man was John Rutmark, and {the bullet hit him in the side of the head, killing him instantly. Tells of the Shooting. “Olson and a companion at once ter. sad occurrence. Thé remains were brought in yesterday and this morn- H. Herreid and a jury was begun and is not yet finished. “Hallin had hung his coat over a low stump while dressing the moose, and this Olston took to be the moose’s antlers. He feels very bad about kil- ling his brother-in-law, and declares if he is freed he will work hard and support the dead man’s family and his own. Rutmark leaves a wife and four young children.” O RCRCRCRCROROIIR N SRR © News Notes of the Northwest. @ o AR R R R R R R R R ORY @ That Northfield, Minn., will have a permanent fair grounds is now an assumed fact. The potato business is getting a big boom this year. The Aneta, N. D., tow mill is now purchasing straw and running full time. Wahpeton, N. D., is in a fair way to obtain additional power which Grand Forks, N. D., will have a new publishing concern with a capi- tal stoc kof $50,000. Brookings, S. D., is after a Build- terests of those engaged in building. Hudson, Wis., has a new and up- to-date fire-proof garage. It has over 5,000 feet of cement floor. The program for the South Dakota Educational association, which meets at Peirre, Nov. 27, 28, 29, has been completed. A campaign to develop the agricul- tural resources of the territory tribu- tary to Minot, N. D., has been decided upon by the Minot Commercial club. Six of the biggest and best theatri- cal attractions now on tour have been booked for the Marinette, Wis., thea- | ter for the current month. Prospects for an electric railway from Missoula, Mont., to Flathead Lake are more encouraging than at any previous time. The preliminary survey is nearly complete. Parker college at Winnebago City, | Minn., plans to erect a girls’ dormi- tory in the spring. The dormitory will be three stories with a basement and modern in every particular. The manufacturers of Fergus Falls, Minn.7 have organized. They want just freight rates, low rates for pow- ter, better express and telegraph ser- vice and more manufacturers. The Swedish Baptists of Alexan- dria, Minn.,, have a handsome new church edifice. The new building, in- cluding heating plant, pews, ete., cost | $4,000. Blue Earth City, Minn., is advertis- | ing for bids for the construction of a steel tank and tower. -The capacity cf the tank is to be 100,000 gallons and the tower 100 feet high. The cabbage growing industry in the vicinity of Glenwood City, Wis., is assuming gigantic proportions. In! addition to the hundreds of tons de- livered to the sauerkraut factory, many carloads have been shlpped to the Chicago markets. al inducements for any wood work- ing industry. According to the Times; there exists with the variety of tim- ber tributary an unsurpassed loca- tion' for a mill to manufacture box lumber, a stave and heading factory and a match factory. HE HOPES TO COME BACK ALIVE. came to town and reported the mat- Dr. Fairall and Deputy Coroner Herreid went out to the scene of the {horsemen. |he was justified. 0000000000000 009 © QUTSIDE NEWS CONDEN! 3 6006660000060 0009 Fred A. Briggs was convicted of robbery in the first degree in connec- tion with the operations in Minneapo- lis of Jerry McCarty, the dead con- viet. Abraham Waller, 80 years old, started yesterday to walk from Los Angeles to the Mississippi Valley, go: ing over the same route he traveled 65 years ago. “I am just as good as Weston,” he said, discussing his plan. Council Bluffs, Jowa will hold a special election tomorrow to decide on the commission plan of municipal government. Advocates of the com- mission plan have waged a vigorous campaign and express confidence to- day that it will be adopted by a sub- stantial majority of votes. N Delegates representing a member- ship of 125,000 assembled in New of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs. The sessions are to be held at the Hotel Astor and will continue through the greater part of the week. Oue thousand delegates are in Kansas City to attend the annual meeting of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, which will be- gin its sessions in Convention Hall there tomorrow. Among the partici- pants will be the governors of several states, mayors of cities, prominent railroad officials and others. With President Samuel Gompers in | the chair, the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor be- gan in Atlanta today with an attend-| ance of prominent labor leaders from every section of the United States, to- gether with fraternal delegates from the labor bodies of Canada and Great Britain. The sessions will last about | {two weeks and will be followed by ing an inquest before Deputy Coroner | he annual convention of the Build- ing Trades Section of the Federation. The case of Thomas F. Dolan, charged with the murder of Patrick Mooney, was called for trial at Lex- ington, Ky., Mooney occurred last spring and is|Dumas Case and Investigations All alleged to have resulted from a quar- rel between the two men. today. The killing of Dolan - is an employe of E. B. Bradley, the turfman, and is well known among Mooney, the victim of the tragedy, was one of the proprietors of the Leland Hotel and a member of the board of aldermen. second trial of the case, the first trial having resulted in.a jury disagree- ment. The handsome granite monument erected to the memory of the Massa- chusetts soldiers who fought and fell on the historic Crater battlefield, at Petersburg, Va., was dedicated today with impressive ceremonies in the presence of a large number of promi- nent men from the Bay State. Vet- may mean a good deal to the city., | ST2RS of the Blue and the Gray had an equal share in the ceremonies. Governor Mann of Virginia welcomed the visitors and Governor Foss of Massachusetts delivered the address ers Exchange to promote the best in- | °F 2¢ceptance. Alfred S. Roe was the |less money was advanced the active orator of the day and the unveiling ceremony was performed by Miss Ote- lia Mahone McGill, a grand-daughter of the late General William Mahone The ceremonies closed with a bene- diction by Father O’Farrell, chaplain f A. P. Hill Camp of the United Confederate Veterans. The people of Nelson County, Vir- ginia, are looking forward with much interest to the trial of Ben Hubbard, who is to be arraigned at Lovingston, tomorrow, on the charge of having murdered Dr. James C. Pettit. Hub- bard belongs to an old and promi- nent family of that section, while his victim was one of the most promi- nent physicians of the county and a member of Governor Mann’s staff. The murder of Dr. Pettit occurred on the afternoon of September 25, last in front of the Virginia Hotel, in full view of hundreds of country folk, it being court day. Dr. Pettit was set- tling an account with a client, when Hubbard approached from behind and shot him in the head. Hubbard then walked up to his victim and fired five more shots from an automatic gun. Five of the six shots took effect in the head. Any one of them would have produced death. there appeared to be danger of mob violence, and Hubbard was rushed to the jail. Later he was taken L to | Lynchburg for safekeeping. Hubbard {has declined to make any statement concerning the tragedy beyond ad- mitting the killing and declaring that the shooting, about all that has been definitely learned is that Dr. Pettit was called in last spring to attend condition. Hubbard had arranged for a negress to attend his wife and {did not want a-physician. Hubbard’s father had learned of the woman's| e ontions conalty a t for Dr }wa.s unusual in his experience, and in ks acition and sent for DI-| jow of the fact that six months ago| Pettit, who did not want to attend Littlefork, Minn., offers exception- |the patient because of her husband’s | objection, but was finally persuaded to do so and it developed later that the woman probably would have died but for his attention. After the oc- currence Dr. Hubbard stated to friends that Hubbard had threatened { his life, mmhedidnot!wm York today for the annual convention'| This is the| For a timej As to the motive for Hubbard’s wife who was in a delicate | «Copynght, 1$iL) vacancies. Washington, Nov. 13.—The White House is occupled again. President Taft swung down from his private car in the union station Sunday morning at 6:45, exactly on time, at the end of his 15,000 mile tnp and 15 minutes later the doors of the executive mansion opened for lmn, the president’s first call there since Aug. 22, excepting only a stop between trains two weeks ago. Two matters are before Mr. Taft which he regards most important. The third annual message the president intends to give much consideration to the appointment | of a successor to late Supreme Court Justice Harlan and to the naming of men to fill other important judicial ARSON FIGIIT C()STLY But Bankrupt State Fire Mar- shal’'s Till. ~ Joms INSURANCE MEN PUT UP COIN St. Panl, Nov. 13.—Trial of Dr. D. F. Dumas of Cass Lake and the running down of alleged incendiaries in the northern part of the state, have all but bankrupted the state fire marshal’s department and the pecu- liar situation of the state of Minne- [sota appealing to insurance compa- nies for financial assistance now ob- tains. Attorney General Simpson and Fire Marshal Keller spent a day last week in Chicago in conference with heads | of the insurance companies operating in Minnesota and told them that un-| work of the fire marshal must cease. | The insurance men immediately agreed to provide the funds needed and for the time being the state de- partment will be operated with funds they put up. : Under the law the money used by | the fire marshal’s department is raised from a tax imposed upon the insurance companies. The funds they will advance now will not be legally due until next year. Mr. Simpson and Mr. Keller issued a statement in which they suggested | that it might be well for the legisla- ture hereafter to provide an emerg- ency fund which might be available under circumstances similar to those which now prevail. INDIANS WANT WHITES MOVED Red Lake Tribe Tells Agent its De-| sires—No Kick Against Bishop. Red Lake, Minn., Nov. 13.—The Red” Lake Indians want the white ‘men, and certain White Earth Indians removed from the Red Lake reserva- tion. This was the action taken at a council of their tribe, held here. by Special Indian Agent Wadsworth. The_Indians assert that obnoxious persons are continually stirring up trouble, influencing the Indians| against the authorities, and gobbling up their tribal lands. Another ob- jeet of Mr. Wadsworth's visit was to. settle a long outstanding claim of | some of their members, for ga.rden,s formerly taken for school use. ’This matter was satisfactorily a and the claimants are in @ fair way o get pay for their lands. In the two days council, not a word of com-| plaint was heard against Superinten- dent Bishop.. The inspector said this the Indians were after the superin- tendent’s secalp, Is considered still mere extraordinary. - There wouid hxve. been a hay uxghfl. | president of the National mminmmwdmmm' year had i mm!orcunuks : Appeal Denied; Beattie mut Die. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 13—(Daily : Pioneer Special Wire Service).— : In a decision handed down to- : day, the supreme court of Vir- : ginia denies the application of : Henry Clay eattie, Jr., convicted : : of having killed his wife on June 18 last, for a new trial. He is : under sentence to die in the elec- : tric chair on November 24 Only : the pardon of the governor can : save him and it is not believed : that the chief executive will in- : : terfere with the mandates of the court. TEN MEAT MEN ON TRIAL Prison Sentences Possible for Swift, Chicago, Nov: 13.—After more than nine years_of investigation by the government the first criminal pro- secution of individual meat packers under the Sherman anti-trust act be- gan here today before Judge G. A. Carpenter in the United States dis- trict court. Ten Chicago packers, heads of the packing industry, were placed on trial charged with monopo- lizing and restraining interstate trade in fresh meats. The penalty| which may be inflicted, if they be {found guilty, is a fine of $5,000 or sentence of one year in the county jail or both. The defendants are: Louis F. Swift, president of the Swif: & Co., and director in the National Packing company; C. H. Swift, direc- jtor in Swift & Co.; Edward Tilden, Packing company; J. Ogden Armour, presi- dent of Armour & Co.; Arthur Meek- er, general manager of Armour & Co.; Edward Morris, president of Morris & Co.; Francis A. Fowler, director in Swift & Co.; T. J. Connors, superin- tendent Armour & Co.; Louis H. Hey- man, manager of Morris & Co. ! 30 YOUNG MEN TO HAVE CLUB To Give Monthly Banquets and Have Musical Programs. A number of the young men of Be- midji are making plans to form a club which will give a banguet once a month - during the winter months. The banquets will be served at the Markham Hotel and programs and music will add to the evening’s en- joyment. Plans are being made by | Ralph Lycan and Ed. Irvine and 30 invitations will be out in a day or two. At the first banquet, which will be held on November 20, the organi- zation will be formed, officer will be ®|elected and arrangements made for! the programs. PROGRESSIVE PROGRAM FAILS Fergus Falls, Minn., Nov. 13.—At number of Ninth Congressional dis- triet progressives, gathered here to hear the addresses of Senator Moses {E. Clapp and Congressman Halvor Steenerson the indorsement of the candidacy of Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin was refused, for a time at least. It is probable another meeting will be called shortly to further con- sider the question. Armour and Others. | a meeting Saturday afternoon of a| GEARLDS CASE DELAYED State Promises to Present Evidence or Dismiss Charges, Not Later 5 Than Nov. 27. IMPORTANT WITNESS MISSING ‘With a definite understanding be- tween the state and the defendant that on a date not later than Novem- ber 27, the case either would be dis- missed or proof of the alleged offense offered, the preliminary hearing of Edward Gearlds which was to have been held before Judge H. A. Simons in municipal court here today, was postponed this morning until-Novem- ber 20. Both Attorney E. E. McDonald and Assistant Attorney General Alexander | L. Janes, who appeared before Judge Stanton several days ago when the indictment against Edward and Ed- win Gearlds were dismissed, are in the woods hunting big game and the state today was represented by Attor- ney Thayer C. Bailey. George H. Spear of Grand Rapids appeared for Edward Gearlds, who was in eourt ready for trial. He was accompanied by his twin brother Edwin, who has not been rearrested since the indict- ment against him was dismissed. Indication on the part of the state that another delay would be asked brought a protest from the defend- ant’s attorney who, however, subsid- ed when Attorney Thayer Bailey promised that if the case went over that either the charges would be dis- missed or evidence presented to sus- tain them. Mr. Bailey explained that neither of the other state’s attorneys were in the city and that an import- ant witness was not at hand. It was decided to put the hearing over until November 20, with the agreement that on that date a still further postponement may be taken to a date not later than November 27. The defense agreed to such a pro- ceeding and Judge Simons put the hearing over. ISl'OB.ES POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Hitchcock Plans Extending System to Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster General, wants to extend the postal sayings bank system so that what he calls community and neighborhood stores in cities and rural districts. will be gualified to receive deposits. He said in telling of his new plans in Washington the other day: “There is no other way in which the postal savings bank system can be extended to its full scope of use- fulness so quiekly as through the merchants and storekeepers whose business ‘places form the neighbor- hood and community centers. “The postal savings system will be extended as rapidly as it can with safety until every office in the United States where there is 2 money order office is a postal depository.” PROPERTY LOSS s Eight Killed in Tornado at Janesville, Wis.; Two Freeze in Chicago; One Grand Forks. $1,000,000 INDIANA BLIZZARD Three or More Perish in Ilineis Towns; Another at Omaha— South Also Suffers. BELOW HERE THIS MORNING Lake Frozen Over But Forecast for Tomorrow is for Rising Tem- perature. Reports from the outside world show that the storm of snmow and wind which swept Bemidji and {Northern Minnesota on Saurday was but but one of a series of violent at- mospheric disturbances throughout the country the past 72 hours. With the clearing weather of Sun- day, it was possible to make up a summary of the results of the severe ‘weather, and it is given as follows: What the Storms Did. Janesville, Wis,, and vicinity. —Eight persons dead, two dy- ing, dozen injured and $1,000,- 000 damage by tornado. Chicago—Two men frozen to death, seven fishermen missing on Lake Michigan, many persons hurt on icy pavements, shipping damaged. ’ Central Illinois—Three or more persons dead and scores injured in storms.at Easton, Vir- ginia, Peoria and other places, $1,000,000 property loss. Towa—One man frozen at Ot- tumwa, much suffering from cold. North Dakota — One man frozen at Grand Forks. Omaha—One man dead in cold. Indiana—Whole state swept by blizzard, $1,000,000 damage by wind. Ohio—Much damage and suf- fering caused by cold wind and SDOW. Michigan—Storm damage at several places by cold wind and sleet. Kentucky—Widespread dam- age by wind, unusually cold. Alabama—One man killed by wind near Montgomery. Gulf Coast—Unusually severe ‘weather, much suffering. Missouri and Kansas—Gas supply for heating low; much suffering at Kansas City. Six Below in idji. In Bemidji the snowstorm of Sat- urday gave way to clearing skies Sat- urday night with a decided drop in the temperature, the mercury going down to around zero early Sunday morning while last night it reached the lowest point of the fall by regist- ering at daybreak today six degrees below. The weather prediction for tomor- row is continued fair with a rising temperature and this appears to be accurate as the thermometers have gradually been crawling up through- out the day. The low temperature of the past two nights has caused some suffering here by families without proper pro- tection or sufficient fuel. Lake is Frozen Over. Lake Bemidji is frozen over and skating is possible although the sur- face of the Ilake is not entirely smooth, owing to the snowfall. The snowfall Saturday was gener- al throughout Northern Minnesota and the Dakotas. The snow was light, +{however, and few trains were seri- ously delayed. In the Twin Cities a drizzling rain turned into sleet which in turn gave way to snow to be followed last night by zero weather. Valley City, N. D., is about to ac- quire a beet sugar factory. The contract for the erection of 2 new fire hall at Eveleth, Minn., has been let to T. L. Nauffts of Duluth. A concrete floor will be laid and the building will be thoroughly modern. 1t will cost $15,775. Lawrence college at Appleton, Wis,, is growing steadily 3gnd the yearly enrollment is being constant- 1y augmented. Appleton, by the ['way, is one of the largest paper mill centers in the country. ATLEASTS$2,000,000