Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1911, Page 1

=9 o " the responsibilities THE BE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 175. 40 YOUNG MEN EAT AND PLAN NEW CLUB|: Suggestion Made That Gymnasium Be Established as Auxiliary to Com- mercial Organization. BOOSTED BY BURKE AND OTHERS Committees to Formulate Definite Plans and Launch Scheme Soon as Possible. DINE AT FIVE COURSE DINNER Several Persons Called Upon to Make Three Minute Talks—Musical Program Pleases. Forty Bemidji young men ate and made merry at an informal dinner at the Markham hotel last evening and as a result of the event it is likely that an auxiliary club to the Com- mercial club will be formed by the younger men of the city. It was proposed that such an or- ganization be effected and this sug- gestion met with apparently unani- moug approval. May Establish Gymnasium. Tentative plans provide for the leasing of a large room at the rear of the present Commercial club head- quarters in the new Nangle block and that this room be fitted up as a gym-| nasium, athletic equipment and show- er baths being installed. i At the gathering ldst night it was understood that a committee of young men be named in the near future to act with a committee from the Com- mercial clug the young men feeling that in this work they would be en- titled to the aid of the older and stronger organization. Encouragement Offered. In this belief they were encouraged by T. J. Burke, president of the Com- mercial club as well as former presi- dent A. G. Wedge, Jr., and the other older speakers which included Mayor Parker, Frank S. Lycan, W. L. Brooks and A. P. White. H. C. Baer, newly elected secretary of the Commercial club, pledged his support to the project in a three min- ute talk and Professor Otto Bergh and Ralph Lycan sanctioned the move- ment. City Attorney Talks. City Attorney P. Russell and Mr. Burke made the only set talks of the evening. The young men of the city were encouraged to interest them- selves in municipal and business af- fairs and were warned that the day was to come when they must assume now arried by their elders. McCann Toastmaster. Tom McCann acted as toastmaster and kept the gathering in a merry mood throughout the evening. A five course dinner was served. Masten’s orchestra added material- ly to the enjoyment of the evening with a pleasing musical program. Those present were: These Were There. Geo. Kinney, Bert Barker, T. A. McCann, W. F. Marcum, Joe Her- mann, Geo. Buxton Albert Rhoda, J. C. McCullough, Wm. McDonald, Doug- las Donald, L. E. Morier, Greg Ma- lone, Marc Adams, A. G. Wedge, Jr., Olie Nielson, T. J. Burke, Tom Er- vin, Harry oKors, Geo. Noll, J. C. Parker, Wm. Russell, Byron Russell, R. E. Fisher, Dr. J. Peterson, Atchin- son, Alfred Newman, Professor Otto Bergh, Tom Hughes, A. P. White, Hugo Scharf, Wm. Finnigan, Oscar Rudd, Wilbur Lycan, R. H. Schumak- er, P. J. Russell, Harry Reynolds, H. C. Baer, Jack Williams of Minneapo- lis, Edgar Irvine and Ralph Lycan. Office of the Lungs. “What is the office of the lungs?” a teacher asked a small pupil in a class in physiology. “The chest,” she promptly replied. “And,” said the teacher, telling the story, “I guess she was somewhat near right, for the lungs certainly do busi- ness in the chest.” Helping Him. Intrepld Widow—Speaking of conun- drums, Mr. Slocum, here’s a good one, ‘Why is the letter “d” like a wedding ting? Procrastinating Bachelor—Oh, I'm no good at conundrums. Intrepid Widow—You give it up? Why, be- cause ‘“we” can't be “wed” without it. The Possibility. He—Nothing could ever come be- tween us, could it, dear? She—I can’t : Says We Are Big Daily : Published in Small Town * For a live good daily, a news- : : paper that publishes the news, : when it is news, politically and : otherwise, and which reaches : Clearbrook with later news than : all the other dailles combined, : : because it arrives the same even- : ing it is printed, enter your name : : for the Bemidji Daily Pioneer : : and be a booster. The Pioneer is : : a big daily published in small : : town.—Clearbrook Journal. : DUMAS TALKS OF CASE Expects Acquittal at Brainerd in De- cember on Arson Charges in Blackduck Affair. JAY HENRY LONG AIDS DEFENSE Last night’s said: “Dr. Delbert F. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake, was in Brainerd Saturday afternoon on his way home from Fer- gus Falls, where he appeared before the federal court. 4 “‘ am more than pleased to have my next trial in Brainerd,’ said the doctor. ‘T am sure I shall get a fair and square deal. “‘I shall have Jay Henry Long, of Brainerd, assist in my defense. Judge Spooner, formerly of Bemidji and now of the firm of Spooner, Laybourn & Lucas, of Minneapolis ,will defend me at this Brainerd trial and all re- ports that he has left the case are without foundation. “‘I am confident of acquittal of the charge of having aided and abetted in setting fire to the Bacon & Brown building in Blackduck. I was never in Blackduck in all my life. “‘The Puposky case has been cer- tified to the supreme court for a de- cision on a point never passed on be- fore. T plead not guilty at Fergus Falls and my old bonds stand. _“‘I shall be ready for trial on the Blackduck charge in December and I understand the case will be called here promptly on December 6th by Judge McClenahan. Some time will be taken in selecting a jury and this part of the proceeding may take more time than the actual trial of the case.’ “In company with his attorney Jay Henry Long, he walked about town and made the acquaintance of many people. Dr. Dumas left on the night train for his home at Cass Lake. “On the whole, he made a favorable impression on the people who met him and who supposed they would see a rough, uncultured, low browed man with the word criminal written all over his countenance. They saw in- stead a man of culture and prepos- sessing appearance and charming manner.” Brainerd Dispatch He Lagged Superfliuous. Pittsfleld, in the Berkshire hills, had in the old days, like many another New England town, a number of men and women who were called “charac- fers.” One of these was Bill Brown, a man unfortunately addicted to drink and frequently intoxicated for days at a time. On one occasion he went into the shop of the local hatter, Mr. Smith, and asked for the best beaver in the store. Mr. Smith produced the desired article, saying as he took the money, | “That beaver will last a man a life- time.” Bill went proudly down the main . | street with his fine beaver on his head and immediately celebrated the event with a protracted debauch. When he recovered he returned to the shop with a most disreputable hat. “Look here, 1 thought you said this here beaver would last me a lifetime.” “So it would,” growled Mr. Smith, “if you had died when you ought to.” —Youth’s Companion. __Penalty of the Peach. | The Egyptians appear to have been _|acquainted with what is commonly called prussic acid,” the most deadly of polsons. It is held that they dis- tilled it from certain plants and trees, notably the peach. In the Louvre there is an ancient Egyptian papyrus from which the following has been de- ciphered: “Pronounce not the name of I. A. O. under the penalty of the peach.” This has been supposed to be a death warning to those who might be tempted to reveal mysteries In con- nection with the religious rites of the priests. The Romans probably learned of prussic acid from the Egyptians. His- a Roman knight accused of treason drank poison and immediately fell dead at the feet of the senators, a sig- nificant circumstance, inasmuch as no other poison has the almost instan- taneous effect of prussic acid. Not Digestible. . Tramp—Please, ma’am, will you give me a bite to eat? Lady—I haven’t any- think of a single thing unless I should bappen to become engaged to, some other man before we get marrfed. v thing cooked, but I can gi¥e you a pair of old shoes. Tramp— Excuse me, ma’am, but I'm no goat. tory has it that in the reign of Tibertus | R R R R R R R R R R RN R © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ 0000000000000 000 The weather: fair Wednesday with rising temperature. George Westman, a tailor living in Belle Plaine, Iowa, dropped dead last night in his shop while playing checkers. As a result of renewed activity of Mexican revolutionists, Governor Col- quitt has ordered Texas militiamen to guard the border. James Dygart who pleaded guilty to havirg murdered Mrs. Frank Bol- ton and her cousin, Frank Rhodes, at Anoka, was sent to prison for life. A snowball started Joseph Kopolo in a series of accidents at Chicago that may prove fatal. Running for the snowball thrower, he slipped and was struck by a streetcar. Harold Gray, ,while speeding through the woods north of Fort Plain, N. Y., in his auto after dark, ran down and killed a giant buck, fascinated by the headlight of his car. - Chinese official at Pekin confirmed the report of a massacre of foreigners as well as manchus which oceurred at Sian Fu. The legations believe the reports of the killing of mission- aries to be true. Newsboys carrying editions of a Sunday paper, in Chicago, sought to boom sales by shouting, “All about President Taft’s death.” TUntil they ‘were stopped by the police the ven- dors continued to spread excitement. Superintendent Wood of the state penitentiary has announced that re- porters will not be admitted to the death chamber at Richmond, Va., Fri- day when Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., is electrocuted for the murder of his wife. Instead of going to Farmington, Va., her proper destination, Mrs. Toth Mihalky came to Farmington, Minn., when she landed in New York from Hungary. Her trip to Minnesota car- ried her 1,500 miles father than she wished to go. A ticket to Virginia was given her by Minnesota officials. Frank Temple, 30 years old, was killed yesterday when hunting near Fond du Lac, Wis., by the discharge of his gun,~which hé-had laid-down to throw some brush-out of the way to permit his team to pass a bad place in the country road. Hunting fatalities throughout the country this season now number 71. Mrs. eHtty Green, the wealthiest and most successful business woman in the United States, today completed the 76th year of her life in perfect health. Mrs. Green did not in any ostentatious manner observe the an- niversary of her birth. She went to her business office in New York city which she shares with her son, Col. Edward H. R. Green, as usual today. An inquiry into the mental condi- tion of Anthony R. Faust, a wealthy restauranteur known as “Tony” Faust, was begun today before Judge Holtcamp in the Probate Court at St. Louis. The inquiry is the result of charges made by Mrs. Faust, who al- leges that her husband is insane and leges that her husband is insane and incapable of looking after his busi- ness affairs. In the opinion of the medical experts, it is said, Mr. Faust has been afflicted with acute paresis for several months. Edward J. McDonald is on trial be- fore Judge Anderson in the district criminal court at Washington, D. C., on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, Gertrude McDonald. McDonald and his wife had been separated, and, ac- cording to the prosecution, he invited her last May to meet him at a law- yer’s office in one of the large down- town office buildings to sign certain papers. When the couple met they quarreled, it is claimed, and McDon- ald shot the woman. A large gathering from the exclus- ive social circles of Philadelphia and other large eastern cities filled St. Peter’s Episcopal church in Philadel- phia at noon today, when Miss Gladys Eleanor Powell, daughter of Wilfred Powell, British Consul at this port and grand-daughter of Gemeral Sir Robert S. Baden-Powell, the famous hero of the Boer War, was married to the Rev. Percy James Brown, sen- ior curate of St. Peter’s and recently appointed dean of the Episcopal Cathedral at Manila, P. I. The cere- mony was performed by Bishop Coad- jutor Dr. Philip M. Rhinelander. To further the ends of justice the United States battleship Nebraska left her place with the North Atlan- tic squadron and is now berthed at the Charlestown navy yard awaiting inspection by the jury in the case of James Beeks, who was placed on trial in the United States circuit court at Boston today for the alleged murder: of Alexander Allen. Beeks and Allen, both negroes, Were messmates on the Nebraska. The killing of Allen oc- currd on the battleship while she was at the Charlestown navy- yard last May. Tt is expected the jury will be asked to view the scene of the trag- edy. 3 (Copyright. 1911 NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 21.—The presidential address of F. 0. Watts of Nashville and an address by former Senator Neldon W. Aldrich, president of the National Monetary Commission, on “The Proposed Mone- tary Plan,” were the chief features of the first of the general sessions of the American Bankers’ Association annual convention here today. Three thousand well known bankers and financiers, representing every part of the country filled the Athenaeum when the convention was formally opened this morning with an invoeca- tion by Archbishop Blenk. The bankers were welcomed by Governor Sanders, Mayor Behrmann, and Presi- dent Walmsley of the New Orleans Clearing House Association. .The response for the visitors was incorporat- ed in the annual address of President Watts, which was followed by the annual reports of other officers and the various standing committees. DISCLOSES HOLIDAYPLANS Barker, Store to Conduct & Series of Special sfl;é on Sat- THE FIRST IN HISTORY OF STORE ‘We have been told that if there ev- er was a class of business that re- quired care, judgment and good taste it was the jewelry business. In or- der to advertise this class of business properly it requires truth telling pub- Ticity. 5 An announcement such as the Bar- ker Drug and Jewelry store are about to make should gather to it during the coming holiday rush practically every person in Beltrami county. In disclosing his plans for the holi- day campaign Mr. Barker had the fol- lowing to say. “It takes more skilled salesmanship and attractive advertising to sell lux- uries than necessities. As jewelry is a luxury I realize more fully what I am up against in putting on the first Jjewelry sales we have ever held in Be- midji. “Beginning Saturday, November 25 and each Saturday up to and includ- ing Saturday, December 23, I will place on sale a certain line in my jew- elry stock at 15 per cent to 25 per cent off. These will be Saturday spec- ials for this one day only. I will not disclose the lines to be put on sale until the Thursday or Friday before. Next Thursday’s Pioneer will contain my first announcement. No discount will be made on those respective lines before the sale commences nor after it closes. “I am going to conduct these sales solely and purely for one purpoee, and that is to give the people a chance to secure the most for their money. These specials are all ex- clusive lines to be found in our store only. I want to get all the people of Bemidji and the surrounding country into my store between next Saturday and Christmas time. It’s going to cost something to do this, but I think it can be done and I am going to take a chance at it. s Watch the Pioneer next Thursday for my first sale announcement. I could tell you today what i's going to be, but I can’t afford to. ¥ The Light Was There. A well known New Yerk clubman was found by a police officer very late one night in n pitiable state of intoxi- cation. The wretched fellow stood be neath a lamppost. which he was kick ing with might and wain. Slightly amused. the policeman watched him a mement. Then he said- “Here, sir. whal aré you doing there?" Xo reply. Only—bang, bang. bang —the tipsy -one dealt the lamppost three more kicks. ‘What are you doing?’ the policeman. H The man delivered another quick volley of very furious kicks, and then, looking up, he said: i “Oh, 1 know she’s in all right, ‘cause there'sh—bic—a light upstairs.” repeated | NEW GRIEF AWAITS MAN KILLER Jonas Olson, Yet to Learn Death Death Bullet Made Second Man Blind Jonas Olson, the young married man who on November 9 shot and killed John Rotmark, mistaking him for a moose, has not yet been told -/ that ‘the-bullet he'fired also plerced the optic nerve of Jonas Lindahl pro- ducing blindness in both eyes.- Fol- lowing the verdict of the coromer’s verdict exonerating Olson, he has ‘wept much of the time and declares he will support, in addition to his own family, that of Rotmark’s. A R R RO OR R R RN ) @ “Stop that Ad, I sold My Horse.” ¢ These are the words that came ¢ over the telephone to this office & yesterday from John Zeigler, the © well known Bemidji real estate ® man and fur dealer. Mr. Zeig- & ler had an ad inserted in the © Pioneer as follows: FOR SALE OR TRADE— Driving horse, harness and buggy. John G. Zeigler, 0dd Fellow Bldg. QOO0 @ The cash rate for this ad per & day is seven cents. The ad runs & several times and did the busi- ¢ ness. Mr. Zeigler is located in © the Odd Fellows Bldg. @ R R R R R R RO CRCROR R Y POPPPPOPPOOOOO®® OGS i Turned It to His Advantage. An instance of the usefulness to other people of illegible handwriting is included in the vast collection of anecdote and fable that deals with the writing of Horace Greeley. One compositor could never get used to his appalling scrawl, and. in rage at the continual “typographical errors,” . Greeley sent a note to the foreman or- dering him to discharge the man at once, as he was too inefficient a work- man to be\any longer employed on the Tribune. The foreman did it. but the -compositor got hold of the note and took it to another office, where the foreman, after much puzzling, finally read it “good and efficient workman and long employed on the Tribune” and promptly took him on.—London Chronicle. A Poor Press Agent. Max O'Rell was exceedingly popular as a lecturer, and the way in which his mother viewed the suggestion that her son should take to the platform fy worth repetition. “She wrote to him from the native village which she had never left for more than a day to say that she did not think appearing before audiences to be reputable business, and when he replied that he had decided to do it and bad signed a contract to that effect the dear old lady wrote back that she was “still” his loving mother and that she would tell no one in the vil- Inge about it. Animals Under Water. ‘The ability of a beaver to remain under water for a long time is mot really so tough a problem as it looks. When the lake or pond is frozen over a_beaver will come to the under sur- face of the i¢e and expel his breath 80 that it will form a wide, flat bub- ble. " The air, coming in contact with 1be fce and water, is purified, and the beaver breaihes it again. This opera- tion he can repeat several times. The otter and muskrat do the umfthln( DENIES $3,000 PLEDGE L: B. Arnold Writes Pioneer Relative to Funds for Immigration Com- 3 mission Work. RED RIVER VALLEY TO PROFIT L. B. Arnold of Duluth land com- missioner of the Duluth & Iron Range railroad company and chairman of the auditing committee of the Immi- gration commission of the Northern Minnesota Development association has addressed the following commun- ication to this papér: “I'wish to correét one statement in your issue of November 16th, under the head of “Boost Money Flows In.” In that article you state that the Min- neapolis Commercial club has pledged $4,000 and the Duluth Commercial club $3,000. In connection with this I wish to say that the Duluth Com- mercial club has not pledge any sum in connection with this and has not been asked to do so. “As Northeastern Minnesota mem- ber of the Commission I am endeavor- ing to raise $2,500 or $3,000 and al- ready have close to $1,500 subscribed and some additional promised.. Our Daluth lumber men and land owners are coming forward very liberally and the fact that the greater ownership of Northern Minnesota land lies in the Twin Cities, will place the bur- den of raising the greater portion of the money upon those who have that territory. “It must be appreciated, by all those concerned, that the Red River Valley is the locality in which the greatest benefit of this work, will first be felt and all timber land own- ers should realize that they will prof- it more by the work of this' Commis- sion than the men who have cut-over land, which are to be immediately placed on the market, as the result of this work will be felt more-a few years hence than it will in the first year. Everyone I have approached, in regard to this, has been quite en- thusiastic over it. “I notice, in your article, the men- tion of $40,000 being raised in Wis- consin for similar work and $60,000 per year, for the next three years, has been raised in North Dakota. I un- derstand this $60,000 has been raised largely in the Twin Cities and Duluth and from the three large roads hav- ing headquarters in the Twin Cities. If this be the case, Northern Minne- sota is certainly entitled to call up- on the business houses-of the Twin Cities and Duluth, which have the trade of Northern Minnesota, for 1ib- eral contributions.” The Portland, Ore., Club will erect a new grand stand and bleachers which are to have a seating capacity of 14,000 persons. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. HARRIS BEGINS NEW HUNT FOR BROTHER Bemidji Man, Delayed By Blizzard, Finds Mother in Portland is Heartbroken. SNOW HANDICAPS THE SEARCH But Beltrami Register of Deeds Pro- ceeds to Canada and Offers Reward. OREGON PAPER PRINTS DETAILS Says There Can Be No Doubt But That Young Manand Compan- ion Were Drowned. Fighting blizzards nearly the entire distance and at one time blocked for 12 hours in the Rocky Mountains, J. 0. Harris, register of deeds of Beltra- mi county, has finally arrived in Portland, Oregon, to find his aged mother and sister heartbroken as a result of the mysterious disappear- ance of his brother, Charles Harris. The following letter from Mr. Har- ris to C. A. Huffman shows that he and his family have given up all hope of finding his brother alive but that he proposes to locate the body if possible: Has Hard Trip. “Friend Huffman: Just a word to let you know that I am still in the land of the living, although I had a hard trip. I ran into an awful bliz- zard, we had a snow plow ahead of us all the way up through Montana and we were stuck for twelve hours in the mountains just after we went through the Cascade tunnel. " “T did not get to Portlanad until Friday night, and I found.a very sor- rowful household here. My poor old mother and sister are heart broken, so it doesnt make things very pleas- ant for me and from all the informa~ tion I can gather it looks as though Chalie was drowned. “I do not know just when I will get home. I am going to Kamloops and see what I can find out there. The snow is 8o deep up in British Co- lumbia now that we cannot get in to search for the bodies but I am go- and that is about all I can do.” Enclosed in Mr. Harris’ letter is a clipping from the Portland Journal which runs a picture of Charles Har- ris and Henry McCormick. This ar- ticle says in part: g Try to Find Bodies. “It is possible that another attempt will be made this month to find the bodies of Charles Harris and Harry McCormack, the Portland timber cruiser and compass man, who were lost or drowned in the Caribou dis- trict of British Columbia in Septem- ber. “James Harris, a brother of the missing cruiser, arrived fromy his home in Bemidji, Minn., yesterday and will confer with his relatives and with the firm of Brayton & Lawhaugh for whom the two men were working, as to the advisability of heading an- other searching party to locate Har- ris and McCormack’s bodies. “It is feared the snow is now too deep in the Caribou country to make it feasible to take up the search be- fore spring. Brayton & Lawbaugh have expressed willingness to send out another party at any time, but Parker Stennick, a brother-in?law of Harris, said yesterday he did mot be- lieve it would be possible to find the bodies this winter. Both Are Dead, “There is no doubt that both the men are dead and no hope is enter- tained of finding them alive. They set out from their camp on the head- waters of the Clearwater to make for the Big Thompson river in order to get supplies for their party. They had with- them supplies enough for four days. No trace was found of them unless a broken raft, discovered below the falls and rapids of the Big Thompson river by the searching party that tried to find them in Oc- tober is a token of what their fate may have been.” About a hundred trademarks are registered each week at the patent of- fice in Washington, D. C. For the first time in the history of New York State the Socialists have elected a member of the legislature. James B. McCreary, governor-elect of Kentucky, might be termed a po- litical “come-back,” as he resumed the governorship after a lapse of thir- ty-five years, § e Umpire Brennan, of the National ing to offer a reward for their bodies league, is giving a lecture With mov- ing pictures of tHe world's series, in vaudeville.