Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 24, 1911, Page 1

T, —— k] » ] THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE Historlal Soclety = x ] MINNESOTA HIBTORICAL : SOCIETY, VOLUME 9. NUMBER 178. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1911. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. ST. CLOUD GHOST | HAUNTS EBERHART St. Paul Report Says He Labors With Mackenzie to Stop Any Reappor- tionment Move, MAY TRY TO BLOCK RESOLUTION Said to Have Arranged With Friends to Early Gain Control of Deve- lopment Gathering. HIT BY EDITORIAL IN JOURNAL Minneapolis Newspaper Urges Move Against Breweries, Indicating Support of Gordon. St. Paul, Minn.,, Nov. 24— (Special to Daily Pioneer)—There will be no resolution asking for an extra session of the legislature, at the St. Cloud convention of the Northern Minnesota Development association if Governor Eberhart « can help it. It is understood that the governor has held conferences with Secretary Mackenzie and has told him that he will appreciate anything that the officers of the association may do for him. 1 1t also is said that Mr. Mackenzie frankly told the governmor that the! association would appreciate any- thing he might do for it. Mackenzie Remembers Pledge. However, it generally is admitted | that the governor’s pleas are having more or less effect. So far as Secre- tary Mackenzie is concerned, he is maintaining a neutral ground, although he frankly says that there| can be no doubt as to the governor’s implied promise for.an extra session, providing a reapportionment bill was not passed by the legislature last winter. Secretary Mackenzie has seen the| governor and has been requested to| consult him frequently but the in- vitation has not been accepted with much cordiality. Mr. Mackenziei‘ spends most of his time in Minne- apolis where he is to open the Im-| migration Commission display room | the first of the year. Fear St. Cloud Stampede. Realizing that there will be a dis- | cussion of the reapportionment issue at St. Cloud. those opposed tof an extra sesion have offered to use| their influence with the men of | power who are to be at St. Cloud in | an effort to stop any stampede to-| ward the reapportionment demand.i It is said that a definite program of | defense has been arranged and that a statgetic move will be made ear1y4i in the convention to block any possible attempt to take any action & { { which might embarrass the chief executive. . i Would Consider It. The governor has indicated that in case a resolution calling upon him! to convene the lawmakers does pass the St. Cloud convention he will give the matter “serious consideration,” " but that he hopes the convention will not think it wise to put it up to him that way. Another incident which continues to cause the governor much worry is an editorial in the Minneapolis Jour- « nal a few days ago in which that paper spoke plainly of Eberhart and indicated its preference for a man ©of the Sam Y. Gordon type for gov»{ ernor next year. Journal on Breweries. The editorial in question “A con- test for Principle,” says: “The people of Minnesota are fac- ing a battle. Shall the breweries control the politics of this state? “Sooner or later the fight must be made, and why not next year? “The Eberhart alliances have not been satisfactory. The office of gov- ernor has been belittled in Minne- sota. The standard should be raised, > | tion and affiliated unions to give one !ford Willis, of Minneapolis, | football irangements for a show to be held| ! woman who makes the best apple pie | linvited to open the show. POPOPPPPPROOOOOQ © QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ¢ CRCRORCRORCRCECE R R R AR 22 The weather: fair and warmer Saturday; southwest winds. Okmulgee, Okla. adopted the com- mission form of government by a large majority. Susie E. Pressler, a pension agent, was arrested at Toledo, Ohio, for al- leged frauds in connection with the land drawing in Aberdeen, S. D., in 1910. Patrick Collins, a convict in the Eddyville, Ky., state prison, with less than eight months to serve to com- plete his term, stabbed and killed James Jones, a fellow prisoner. In asking for an appropriation for an agricultural department for How- ard University President Thirkield declared that the Indian is favored more highly by the United States than the. negro. Twenty men are under arrest in Chicago charged with smuggling Chinamen into this country by way of Canada by the hundreds. The price received for each Chinaman | smuggled in was $300. The Rolph administration in San Franeisco which will assume its dut- ies Jan. 8, will inaugurate a plan of city government almost identical with the commission form of govern- ment. City and county affairs will be in the hands of eighteen commis-| sioners. H The case of James Evars, cashier of the defunct First State Bank of Philomath, Ore., will be taken up by the grand jury which met today at Corvallis, Ore. Evars is charged with receiving and accepting depo- sits after he had knowledge that the bank was insolvent. i By a vote of 106 to 7, the conven- tion of the American Federation of | Labor at Atlanta yesterday, request- ed all salaried officers of the federa- week’s pay to the McNamara defense | fund. President Gompers estimates about $60,000 thus will be added to the fund, now reported to be $240,- 000. This was “Farm Home Day” on the program of the National Country Life Congress in session in Spokane. Joseph E. Wing of Mechanicsburg, 0.; Prof. P. G. Holden head of the agricultural extension department of Iowa State College; Mrs. Clara H. Waldo, of Portland, Ore., and CIlif- were | speakers. The annual cross-country cham-! pionship of the Western Intercolle- giate association will be run at Io- wa City, Iowa, tomorrow as a pre- liminary to the Northwestern Iowa game. The run this year| will bring together teams from Pur- due, Ames, Northwestern and the universities of Wisconsin, Minneso-} ‘ta, Towa, Nebraska, Illinois and Chi- cago. The last lap will be made on the Iowa university track with the finisn in front of the grandstand. To demonstrate the growth of the| apple industry in the East, an asso- | ciation of apple growers of Virginia and Maryland has completed ar- in Washington, D. C., next week, first ever held in the national capital. A | prize of $50 will be given to the to be displayed at the exhibition.i This pie the management will pre- sent to President Taft, who has been Dr. Har- vey W. Wile)" the pure food expert, and Professor Van Alstyne of New York will deliver addresses at the ex- hibition. An adventurous boy of ten years had a rather exciting experience at Glen Ridge, N. J. The boy came to the long abandomed Moffat Rolling: Mills on the outskirts of the town and climbed up on the old mill wheel which years ago was used to start | the machinery in the mill and was turned by water from a pond. The weight of the boy caused the wheel slowly to turn. In order to save himself from being thrown down to the former bed of the pond, the lad! was compelled to keep stepping up on each blade of the wheel as it turned, as if he were in a treadmill. Fortunately his cries attracted the attention of a man working in the neighborhood and he succeeded in stopping the wheel with a few planks. and with that the issue should be joined on anti-brewery lines in the matter of saloon ownership. The . (Continted on Page 5) It is said the nut trees of the world could furnish nourishment for all the people of the globe. l FUTURE PROBLEMS (Copyright, 1811) KOLL TELLS OF SETTLERS’ Writes Great Northern That More Than 150 Homeseekers Have Recently Arrived. CREDITS MUCH ‘TO EXHIBIT CAR That more than 150 settlers havej: been induced to make their homes in|: this viecinity as a result of a Ml.nne-}: sota Exhibit car which traveldd in|: the eastern states last winter is in-|: dicated by a letter from M, N. Koll|: of Cass Lake to H. A. Noble, general | : passenger agent of the Great North- ern railroad company. Mr. Koll’s letter follows: E. C. Leedy, G. I. A,, G. N. Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. Dear Sir: I have to advise you that Mr. Michael Kellner formerly of St. Paul has purchased a thirty- four acre tract of land near Far- ris for $500. This is one of the men who came here through the efforts of your office. Quite a number of people are coming in from outside and since the State Fair about eleven families have purchased in this vicinity; two from Nebraska and one from South Dakota and several from 1llinois among the number. I do not doubt but what your ad- vertising has had very much to do with their coming here. Peo- ple in this section are all feeling fine over the influx of settlers. The vacant homestead lands in this immediate vicinity of Cass Lake are all gone now, ex- cept a few isolated tracts and I do not doubt but your office was responsible for anywhere from 100 to 150 of these that located here on and after August 22. This last opening seems to have furnished us a better bunch of settlers than any in my previ- ous experience as they all seem to be here with the intention of staying on their lands and build- ing up the country. The Farris potato warehouse is ready for business, and it will be an added inducement for set- tlers to locate along this line. ‘We are also preparing to build one here at Cass Lake. I want to assure you that we appreciate the efforts of your of- fice in inducing settlers to come to Northern Minnesota. Yours very traly, M. N. Koll. The Great Northern plans on send- ing the car out again this winter and it will start with a complete assort- ment of Minnesota products follow- ing the land show in St. Paul next month. To Prison for Tarring Girl. x : ——(Daily Pioneer Special Wire {: Service)--One year in the peni- : tentiary is the punishment met- 1 fessed : featheped Miss Mary Chamber- : to having tarred T': iain, a school teacher. ’fhey are, : i T i: Sherill Clark A. N. Simms, and :“ {: John Smith. The jury returned a : : verdict of guilty against them : : this morning and the judge : quickly passed sentemce. There : are twelve other men implicated : but their fate is not yet known. : Miss Chamberlain was taken from a buggy on a country road : last August and smeared with : tar and feathers as a result of : rumors regarding her character. ROBINSON HURT IN EXPLOSION| Instructor’s Wrist Cut When Hydro- gen Lets Go at High School. Yesterday afternoon, while con- ducting an experiment in the chem- istry laboratory in the high school, Professor Robinson was injured on his left wrist, by an explosion of hy- drogen. The professor was conduct- ing an experiment before the class in burning hydrogen. As hydrogen is| an explosive all the air must be out of the generator before it is lighted. Mr. Robinson accidentally touched the match too soon. The explosion was {heard all over the building. The ap- paratus that was being used was shattered, throwing bits of glass about the laboratory. Several of these glass particles lodged in the profes- sor’s wrist but they were extracted with the assistance of Professor Otto I. Bergh, and the wound bound up. Although the injury is painful, it is lnot dangerous. Professor Robinson| refused to visit a physician until he had completed the experiment. I Lincoln Center. Kan., Nov. 24 :/ :|A. C. Cutts Admits Present Plan i : ed out to the three men who con- : and :| iager for the WHAT A LAND SHOW IS LIKE| Exhibits More Complete Than State| Fair, Minnesota Having Big Space. ‘ Those who could not visit the Min- nesota State Fair and see the great display of Minnesota’s products, will have another opportunity to see ev- erything which could be seen at the; state fair, except the livestock and horse races. More than that, the ex- hibits of the state’s resources will be more complete as a summer and fall have been consumed in’collecting the i best exhibits ever gathered for dis- iplay. The state of Minnesota occu- pies 1,500 square feet of floor space at the “Land Show” to be held in St. Paul, Dec. 12 to 23. In addition| to this the railroads in the northern part of the state have 500 square! feet, giving Minnesota the largest display in the show. Everything will be shown from garden truck and TRUNK LINE FOR BEMIDJI Provides Building New Railroad Through This City. TO BE AIR ROUTE TO WINNIPEG Reports that Bemidji is to have a new trunk line railroad as soon as surveys can be completed so that the work of construction may be started, have been confirmed according to the following from last night’s issue of the Crookston Daily Times: “A B. Cutts, assistant traffic man- Minneapolis and St. Louis and Illinois Central, which have agreed to combine, a few details only remaining before the consolidation takes place, and H. V. Peterson, traveling passenger agent for the same roads, spent tne night in the city, coming down from Winni- peg last evening and leaving for Grand Forks and Fargo this morning on the late train. “Mr. Cutts stated that his trip to Winnipeg was on regular business and had nothing to do with the pro- posed extension to the roads to Win- nipeg, though he confirmed the re- actual iport that such extensions would be made. He states that work will be- gin next vear, and that only a few details regarding routes, etc., remain to be decided definitely. “The tentative plan is to extend to Bemidji and on to Warroad and thence to Winnipeg with one line, while a second extension into Canada will be made from Watertown, S. D. “Asked as to Crookston, and he stated that without doubt if the Be- midji extension came near Crookston, a feeder would connect this city. “It has been suggested by several prominent local men that it is time for Crookston to get busy and do bus- iness with the two roads which have practically consolidated. Thus far practically nothing has been done to get Crookston on the railroad map of this great system, and it is quite gen- erally believed that something should be done.” PASSENGER TRAIN KILLS MAN Minnesota & International Hits Stranger on Track Near Big Falls. Big Falls, Minn., Nov. 24.—(Spec- ial to Daily Pioneer)—The south- bound Minnesota & International passenger train last night ran into and killed an unknown man ten miles north of here. The body was brought here this morning by Coroner Jensen. The dead man was badly mangled. One foot was cut off and he was oth- erwise mutilated. Nothing was found Fifty seven unmarriade personsismall fruit to minerals; from farm'that in any way indicates his iden- kill themselves to 43 married. crops to furs and live fish. | 1 11 tity. 'BEATTIE DIES GAME CONFESSES CRIME Youthful Murderer of His Wife Goes Bravely to Electric Chair After Admitting the Crime. IN DEATH DEVICE ONE MINUTE First Shock with 2,200 Volts, Which is Slowly Diminished Until Phy- sicians See End. AGED FATHER CLAIMS BODY Prepares for Son's Funeral in Presby- terian Church—Final Farewell With Relatives Pathetic. Richmond, Va., Nov. 24.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service)—At 7:08 this morning, Henry Clay Beat- tie, Jr., died in the electric chair in the prison here, for the murder of his wife last July, for which crime ke left a written confession. Just before leaving the death chamber young Beattie handed his spiritual advisors a sealed document. His Written Confession. When opened the envelope was found to contain a signed statement, in which Beattie said: I, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., de- sire to stand right before God and man. before my soul goes in- to eternity, and while much that iy been published has not been true, the awful fact remains that I committed the crime charged, without the harrowing details. Beattie Dies Game. The electrocution of Beattie took place in the presence of twelve wit- nesses. The condemned man early last night took a pathetic farewell with his aged father and other im- mediate relatives. He received a last cheering religious message from the Presbyterian ministers who had been close to him for the past few days. At the hour set for the execution, Beattie was taken from his cell and with big guards on each side and one behind, marched with as steady a step as if he had been going to break- fast, into the little room from which a few minutes later he was to be car- ried awa ya corpse. Death Chair a Blaze of Light. ‘When Beattie entered the death chamber all he could see was the death chair which was a blaze of light so arranged that the remainder of the room where the witnesses stood was dark. The chair and its com- nections had been tested and all that remained was for Beattie to take his position and permit the adjustment of straps. Beattie needed no assistance in seating himself in the chair, main- taining a stiff posture and assisted by properly arranging his arms and legs to receive the electroid straps which were to send the death dealing fluid through his body. The work of these adjustments required less than a minute’s time and with a wave of his hand the warden’s chief deputy signaled that all was ready. The Current Is Turned On. “Let her go!" came the stern com- mand in a low voice to the electri- cian in charge of the switch. There was a short flash of green fire as the contact was made which sent 2,200 volts into the body of the young wife murderer. The body of the condemned man surged and strained against the straps as the 2,200 volts continued for 5 seconds. The charge was slow- ly reduced for 12 seconds and then was placed back to the highest volt- age again and then reduced. It was so apparent that the young man was dead by the first shock that the electricity was turned off at the end of one minute and upon examina- tion of the physicians it was found that death had been instantaneous. The body was lifted out of the chair and was carried away where it was prepared for burial, and later was claimed by the elder Beattie, who has completed arrangements for the fun- eral to be held in the Presbyterian church.