Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 27, 1911, Page 1

<Y THE BE mmmm VOLUME 9. NUMBER 180. CAR SHOOTER'S PAL NOW IN JAIL HERE Kolza Who Was With Man Who Ter- rorized Canadian Pacific Passen- | gers, Locked Up. GRAPHIC STORY OF TROUBLE Refused Free Ride Bleaake Pulls Gun and Fires, Bullet Striking Timberman. DESPERAD0 SHOT IN ANKLE Had Taken to Woods and When Lo- cated By Pursuers Attempted to Pull Revolver. Special Deputy Sheriff Fred Burs- ley returned yesterday from Spooner in charge of Emil Kloza, partner of John Bleaake, who, because he and ) were denied a free; began | his companion, ride on a Canadian Pacific, shooting at the conductor, wounding Joseph Meloney, a passenger and la- | ter being shot himself after having been wounded by men in pursuit. Kloza was sent up for 40 days on a charge of drunkenness, the heavy sentence being imposed by the Spoon-. er justice that he might be on hand as a witness in the shooting case. Deputy Sheriff Bursley landed him in jail here yesterday. Worked in Parker’s Camps. Both Kloza and Bleaake were em- ployes at Mayor Parker’s camps in the Graceton region. The Baudette Region gives a graphic account of how the trouble happened and what the results were. The Baudette Region says: Angus Macdonald, conductor of the | train, gives a graphic account of the occurrence. He characterizes Bleaake and his companion as the most cow- ardly men he has ever met. Conductor Tell His Story. “My attention wés directed to the man,” said Macdonald, “by hearing an altercation bétween Bleaake and the train auditor. I saw Bleaake at- tempt to shoot the auditor but his gun missed fire. I then approached the man and asked him to put the plaything away, but instead of com- plying he faced me with his revolver cocked in his left hand and with his right hand struck me a blow on the mouth, knocking out an eye tooth and inflicting this deep flesh wound on the lip. I ignored the assault and kept my attention fixed on the man’s finger on the triggeér, and as soon as 1 saw that move I ducked to one side, clutching the emergency communi- cation as I fell. The bullet flew up- ward and was embedded in the wood- word of the car. Again Shoots on Train. “The train, which had then ar- rived at Graceton, stopped and the lumberjack alighted before he could be prevented, but when the train again started he got on board and again started to make trouble. Though defenceless I remained calm, whicu seemed to aggravate the fel- low and he fired at me again. Ob- serving the trigger as before, I dodged, but in doing so I uninten- tionally exposed Meloney, who was standing immediately behind me, and he received the bullet. Owing to his being the only one armed the lum- berjack kept us all at bay until Pitt was reached when he hurriedly alighted and fled into the cover of trees.” “Lying on the ground with a shat- tered ankle, Bleaake surrendered to a man-hunting party composed of residents of Pitt within an hour af- ter the shooting. After leaving the train he ran through the streets of Pitt and he disappeared in a strip of woods. The residents of the village armed with rifles and headed by Con- stable Robert Ferrier and Jack Grig- non, were soon in hot pursuit. They caught up with him within a quarter of an hour on the station platform, he having circled the woods and come back. A demand was made on him to throw up his hands. He raised one hand but reached for his revolver with the other. Grignon’s rifle spoke first however, and Bleaake fell to the ground with a billet through his ankle. The injury took all the fight out of him, and he sur- rendered without further resistance. If he had shown fight he would un- doubtedly have been killed, and mem- bers of the party who were hunting him might have also met a similar fate. The first shot was fired low in the hope of capturing him alive, but no further chances would have been taken, as the members of the posse realized that Bleaake was a danger- ous man. Only Cash Worries Him. After the surrender a sleigh was secured and the captive was brought to Baudette, but his injuries were of such a nature that he was removed to the Spooner hospital. - He appears to be a man of little intelligence and when being searched after his surrender he expressed more alarm over his $oney: being taken from him than over the ‘condi- tion of his victim or the punishment that his crime may bring him, Companion Locked Up. Bleaake's companion, who is said to have encouraged him in his dev- iltry, and who made the remark that he would have shot the conductor- if he had a gun was taken off the train at Baudette and locked up. Bleaake will probable be charged with attempting to murder the. con- ductor and the auditor, but- it will be some time before he will be able to: appear at a hearing. : At the Spooner hospital it was sai that the injured man was getting considerable danger of his losing his foot. Wounded Man Brave. Bleaake is a Finn by birth, and is about 25 years of ages He does not appear to realize his position. Conductor Macdonald is being giv- en great praise for the cool manner in which he acted under very trying | circumstances. Mr. Meloney’s ‘injury did not ap- pear to bother him and it lookéd as it he was not aware that he was shot until he saw the blood trickling from his clothes. The wound is healing nicely, and Mr. Meloney is attending to business as usual. POPE FRESH AT SACRED SERVICE Health Apparent at First Consxstory Elevating Americans as Cardinals. Rome, Italy, Nov. 27.—(Special) —This morning, in the Hall of Con- sistory, at Rome, Italy, near the fam- ous Sistine Chapel, there was held the first or private consistory for’the Creativiiof the seventeen new Cardi- nals recently chosen by the Pope. The public consistory, which is the grand ceremonial attending the in- stallation of new members of the Sa- cred College, is set for next Thurs- day and will take place either in the Sistine Chapel or in St. Peter’s. The Cardinals designate, including the three Americans who have been hon- ored with the red hat—Archbishop Farley of New York, Archbishop O’Connell of Boston and Mgr. Falco- nio, the apostolic delegate at Wash- ington—assembled in the Hall of Consistory to receive the congratula- tions of the older members of the Sa- cred College and to await the com- {ing of the Pontiff, who was to' form- ally proclaim them princes of the church. To all who saw him today Pope Pius appeared to have made good recovery from his recent serious illness. Nevertheless it is regarded as a fact of much significance that he is setting his house in order. The creation of seventeen Cardinals at this consistory brings the Sacred Col- lege to within six of its full comple- ment. This condition is rare and not in years has the College of Cardinals been so full. | “DAVID” TURKEY FEED ASSURED Twenty Members Meet and Plan a Thanksgiving Banguet. Last Saturday evening the Brother- hood of David met in the basement of the Methodist church. About 20 of the boys were present. The first business taken up was the complet- ing of plans for the Thanksgiving banquet. The report of the commit- tee on the banquet was accepted, the chairman stating that enough money had been subscribed to pay the ex- penses of the banquet. Three new members, Basil Hannah, Christ New- man, James Nesbit, were taken into the club. A club reading room was talked of, but no definite plans were undertaken uneil after the banquet. South Dakota Teachers Meet. The teachers of South Dakota met in Pierre today in annual convention. Governor Vesseey and Mayor Steph- ens delivered addresses of welcome at the opening session this afternoon. Superintendent Layman of Yankton responded for the visitors and Presi- dent C. E. Swanson delivered his an- nual address. The association will elect officers tomorrow. The preacher can tie a knotas well as a sailor.—From December Farm Journal. Politics is often the most bother- some kind of ticks.—From December Farm Journal! Man proposes, but very often it is papa who disposes.—From December Farm Journal, along fairly well, but that there-was|: DOOVPOOOVPOOOOO S © QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. POOO0O0090000609 Fred Cook and William Cummings were frozen to death on -the divide between Shoup and ‘Columbia Gla* cier in Alaska. Edwin H. Hancock, driver of an automobile which killed two persons last April, ‘at Tauton, Mass;, *wais found guilty of manslaughter by a jury. E. L. Barbour, president of-:the |- Bank of Wausseou, which failed last summer, pleaded- guilty ‘at” Wauseau, to receiving money under false pre: | tenses. Heads of all railroads operating in -Missouri have agreed to abolish common drinking .cups on trains if the state board of health makes the request. . ‘An_express - package containing| $10,000 was stolen from the office of the Canadian Northern Express Com- pany-at Regina'during the absence of the elerk. ~.“Three persons were killed and two serjously. injured at San Bernardirno, “hen an inbound train from Riverside .wrecked an automobile at grade. crossing. Pogtmaster General ‘Hitchcock de- nied” that:he contemplates asking for legislation denying second class rates to newspapers corrying- more than 50 per cent s.dvertxsing matter Hearing on - the motion '.o make permanent the. injunctions of the Commerce Court in the trans-conti nental rate cases will be heard in Washington, Tuesday,-Dec.: 5 New canals have: appeared” on: Mars, the Sabaeus, Sinus and Marei- carum, according to* an '‘announce- ment from Lowell Observatory. They were seen and photographed Nov. 21. Charges of collecting vice tribute and permitting gambling and prize fights have been filed against Mayor A. R. Turnbull of Canton, Ohio, who won his place by lot from Harry Schilling, Socialist. The Republican State Editorial as- sociation met for a two days’ session at Springfield, 111, today. The pur- pose of the meeting is to consider the palitical ~outlook. The :association favor the Te-efection of Governor 'De~ neen and Senator Cullom to their’ respective offices. Savannah, Ga., today welcomed the thousands of visitors gathered for what promises to be the.greatest au- tomobile race meet ever pulled off in America. Four big events are on the program, beginning this afternoon with the seventh annual renewal of the Vanderbilt Cup contest and end- ing Thanksgiving Day with the Grand Prize races. Pursuant to the call of Governor Johnson the California’ legislature assembled today at Sacramento for a special session. Nine subjects of legislation are to be taken up and acted on—investigation of the State printer’s office; weights and meas- ures! woman suffrage; the initiative, referendum and recall; the railway commission; soldiers and sailors’ ex- emption, and the issuance of irriga- tion bonds. In connection with the subject of woman suffrage and legis- lature may enact a presidential pri- mary law. If several other murder cases now on the docket can be disposed of, the district attorney expects before the |end of this week to begin the trial at White Plains, N. Y. of the five young Italians who are alleged to have murdered Mrs. Mary Hall. The murder of Mrs. Hall, a bride of but a few weeks, occurred on November 9 at the woman’s home on the out- skirts of Croten Lake. Robbery was the -motive. Within eight hours af- ter the crime had been committed a rossc of sheriffs, farmers and labor- ers employed on the New York aque- duct had rounded up the five Italians suspected of the murder. KKK KKK K KKK KKK KK * Want Ad Sells a House a Week. Now, that’s not a bad record for just a little Pioneer want ad. Here’s one that did business. FOR SALE—3 room house, one block from post of- fice, good renting prop- erty, lot is worth $200 more than we are asking for house and lot. Only $800, easy terms. Huff- man, Harris & Reynolds. ok ok ok ok ok ok ok Ak ok ok ok ok Kok ok ok ok ok ok k H. E. Reynolds of the above * firm will be pleased to furnish ¥ other lntormntioq regarding the * results produced by Pioneer % waht ads. They’s one-half cent' % ¥ a word. * KA KKK KX KKK KK Ak hkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhhkkkkk*k Photo copyright, 1911, by American Press Assoclation. . The trigl of John J. McNamara and his brother, James. B. McNamara, charged with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times bufiding, in which twenty-one lives were lost, may continue for six mouths. being tried first, and the outlook is that an entire month will be necessary to get a satisfactory jury. James B. McNamara is BEATTIE. BURIED SUNDAY Electrocuted ‘)Im'derer Secretly In- terred Shortly After Sunrise By Sormwmg Father. GRAVE ADJOINS THAT OF WIFE Richmond, Va., Nov. 27.—By the grave of the wife whom he mur- dered July 18, the body of Henry Beattie Clay Jr., was buried in Mau- ry cemetery shortly after sunrise on Sunday. There was a brief service at the residence, attended omly by members of the family and eight friends who served as pall bearers and then the procession moved through the silent’ streets of South Richmond. Rev. John J. Fix, who prayed with Beattie just before he was led into the death chamber at the peniten- tiary Friday morning, read the ser- vice of the Presbyterian church. The exact hour of the funeral was kept secret until midnight and con- sequently there were no crowds around the Beattie home or the cem- etery. The police were on duty but the nearse and seven carriages had reached the grave before the city was astir. ‘When the burial was concluded, H. C. Beattie, Sr., left with Doug- las, his son and Hazel, his daughter, and two aunts of the murderer. The aged father’s grief is intense. Pallbearers, boyhood friends. of Beattie, were asked by him to serve. After it became known today that the funeral had already been held, a tremendous erowd visited the ceme- tery. Double ropes were stretched around the Beattie section and two mounted officers afoot kept the crowd back. There was no disorder, how- ever,'and no attempt was made to take away the flowers. LAW POINT MAY FREE MURDERE Clash of State and Federal Courts * Likely Liberate “Kid” Kelley. The criminal court of appeals which convened at Oklahoma City, Okla., today for its- November term is expected to make some final dispo- sition of the case of “Kid” Kelley, which has bothered the Oklahoma authorities for several years. Kelley, a negro, was convicted of the mur- der of another negro near:Tishomin- g0 eight years ago and ever since he has been waiting to find out whether he $hould be hanged by the United States or the State. His case was pending in the ‘Indian Territory | courts when Oklahoma was admitted to Statehood. An effort was made to get the case into the United States circuit court of appeals, but -that court refused to take jurisdiction. So did the criminal court of appeals of Oklahoma. Recently the attorney- general decided the State had no jur- isdiction and the negro was released from custady. = But as the case is still on the eriminal courtd ocket it will be taken 1p and disponed of at the present term. : LR R R R R R R A R O] ® Pert Paragraphs. @ G OOOOOOOOOOOO® There is nothing that gives a man such safe anchorage in life as a good wife. File the crosscut saw yourself; you will, thus soon save enoug buy a new saw. & “'Draw up about the flre a little closer. Nice in here, even when the drifts are high outside. ’ Blessed be work! It gives us the chance of making strong, capable men and women of ourselves. The salt may be coarse without be- ing the least bit objectionable.— From December Farm Journal. Those who eat corn on the cob run a risk of having corn in the ear. —From December Farm Journal. Fussy folks strain at little things, and so, too, does the careful dairy-| man.—December Farm Journal. The new broom sweeps clean only when there is a willing hand at the other end of it.—From December Farm Journal. The man who cheapens himself is pretty sure to be marked down by his neighbors.—From December Farm Journal. When you see a hen eating tacks you are rash to assume that she is going to lay a carpet.—From Decem- ber Farm Journal, It is not worth while now to ad- vise folks to keep cool; the weather man will see to that.—From Decem- ber Farm Journal. " Let your Christmas presents be something useful. Thousands of dol- lars are worse than wasted on use- less things every year. The elevator man is a genuine hu- manitarian. He spends his days in elevating men and women.—From December Farm Journal. ) Take the frost out of your grind- stonee before you grind the ax, but do it gradually, and not by using too hot water. That would injure the quality of the stone. A manufacturer advertises a device to save steps but unfortunately he does not tell us where to put them when we have saved them.—From December Farm Journal. ~ Don’t put off till spring any out- side work that can be done now. Clean up the garden, haul out man- ure, and when possible push the plowing before snow flfes. Keep wide paths shoveled to every outbuilding. Help to open the roads when heavy snows drift them wheth- er you are called out by the path- master or not. See that the stock is sheltered from the cold every day and every night. € While waiting impatiently for the state to repair that mud-hole, wash- out or other bad place in'the high- ‘way, wouldn’t it be a good;idea to take a few hours off and fix it your- self? It every farmer spent a few hours, occasionally, working on the road, our highways would: n' show a deeided improvement. “Let us not only talk good roads—l us work: K. OF C. T0 HAVE BIG DAY Class of 52 to Be Initiated Here on Thanksgiving Day; Brainerd De- gree Team to Come. ATTENDANCE 200 ANTICIPATED On Thursday, Thanksgiving day, about 200 members of the Knights of Columbus, will witness the Exem- plification of the first, second, second and third, degrees by- Bemidji Coun- cil, No. 1644. A class of 52 can- didates will be initiated. The ceremonies will startin the morning by all the members and can- didates attending mass in a body at St. Phillip’s church at 8:30 sharp, after which they will all march to the Auditorium, Fourth street and Bemidji avenue, and the work of the first degree will begin at 10 a. m. After the work of the day is over a luncheon will be served, and smok- er enjoyed either in the Auditorium, or the council’s new quarters in the old Commercial club rooms, which have been enlarged and when refur- nished, will be the finest in this part of the state. On November 29 at midnight the Brainerd degree team of the Knights of Columbus and numerous members of the local lodge of knights will leave in two sleepers for Bemidji to attend the exemplification. It will be an event of great im- portance in Knights of Columbus cir- cles for among. the knights present will be delegations from St. Cloud, Moorhead, Duluth, Fargo, St. Paul, Minneapolis. and Brainerd, and Brainerd is proud of the fact of hav- ing been selected to confer the de- grees. The team has 22 or more members: and gll are proficient in their parts. COX TO MEET RANGERS HERE Forester Tells Ranger Johnson to Ar- range Gathering for Jan. 5. About 25 men in the forestry ser- vice of the state will meet State For- ester Cox in Bemidji on January 3. Assistant State Forester Tierney also is expected to attend the meeting which will be held to perfect plans for the winter work of the rangers. Ranger L. F. Johnson today was no- tifled to prepare for the meeting. Mr. Johnson will hold the meeting in the City Hall, if possible. - PATTY HERE FOR NOVEL SHOW Gives Talk Tonight Dealing With Radium, Wireless and Liquid Air. | Professor Patty arrived in Bemid- ji today and has his equipment in- stalled in the auditorium of the Be- midji high school for his lecture on radium, wireless telegraphy and liquid. The entertainment = begins promptly at 8 o’clock. Several good seats remain. The proceeds go to- wards a stereopticon for ‘school use. ROB “GOOD FELLOW” AT POINT OF GUNS Three Men, Two of Whom Had Been Fed By Victim, Hold Up McCoy on Third Street. GET NINETEEN DOLLARS IN CASH Then Tell Benefactor to “Beat It” While Hig'hwas_' Trio Escape in Early Darkness. TWO ARRESTED, BUT RELEASED Unable to Establish Identity, Police Turn Them Loose But Eearch is Still Being Made. Falling a victim to two men whom he had purchased food for, George McCoy of Corning, Ohio, was held up at the point of two revolvers on Third street west early.Saturday ev- ening and robbed of all the money he had, $19. The three men who committed the robbery disappeared in the darkness and haven’t been captured. Came in With Money. McCoy had been working in the woods, in the Cochran camp near here. He came to Bemidji Saturday, having received his pay check. About dark he met two men who said they were “down and out” and that they had had nothing to eat for a long time and were in danger of starving. Touched By Story. Touched by their story McCoy in- vited them to dine with him at his expense. Hé took his vgu'ests to the Joseph- Blonde eating house on Third street and there the three ate a hear- ty meal, McCoy paying the bill. Following the meal it was suggest- ed that the three visit the segregated house west of town and the trio started out on Third street. The men had not gone far, however, when McCoy was confronted by a man who stepped out of the darkness. “Throw Up Your Hands!” “Throw up your hands!” came a command, which was backed by the shining barrels of two revolvers % | thrust into McCoy’s face. § McCoy promptly obeyed the com- mand whereupon the men who had been his guests proceeded to take everything of value that they could find on his person. After having finished the robbery, MecCoy was told to face about and to keep his hands up and not to look around until told to do so. Hustles to Police Station. As soon as he was convinced that that the men had made their escape in the darkness, McCoy retraced his steps to the business section and went directly to the police station where he reported the robbery. Search for the robbers was at once instituted and Patrolman Denly ar- rested on suspicion Paul LaBounty and Charles Shores, but yesterday af- ternoon when these men were taken before McCoy he was unable to iden- tify them as the men who had held him up, and both were permitted to % go. Still Searching for Robbers. Chief of Police Harrington still has his men at work on the case and oth- er arrests may result, although the robbers appear to have covered their tracks cleverly. McCoy says the men who robbed him did not wear masks and he be- lieves that ,although it was dark at the stop where the holdup took place, that he would know the man who held the guns and that he is surd he would know the men he fed. McCoy’s Story of Holdup. “I thought they needed the grub,” said McCoy today, “so I bought it for ‘them and it was.while I was chummy with them-that they found out I had a roll. When the fellow met me in the road he palnted the guns in my face and there wasn’t & anything to do but hoist my hitts. . - Then one of the fellows I had fed g got behind me and went through my pockets and the other fellow geemged to be helping him. “After they had cleaned up.to;thegi.i ad1 last cent they backed .away, and told - 5 me to ‘beat it and as soon as I thmxght the coast ‘was clear 1 made