Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 2, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 184. CONGRESS TO START BUSY GRIND MONDAY Members Pouring into Washington for Session to Be Made Notable By Tariff Talk. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TUESDAY | This to Be Followed By Flood of Bills Aimed at Federal Control of All Trusts. RAILROADS ALSO A TARGET Great Appropriation Bills to Be Fiercely Fought Over—Little Legislation Likely. " Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.— (Spec- ial).—With the opening of the first| regular session of the Sixty-second | congress but two days away senators| and representatives ‘who had re- mained at their homes over Thanks- giving day poured into the capital on | every train today. As all the committee appointments and other details of organization al- ready have been completed, there will be no work of organization called tor on Monday. A little routine business may be transacted in both houses and then an adjournment will be tak- en as “a further mark of respect” to the members who have died during the recess of congress. | Ia President’s Message Tuesday. Tuesday is likely to be devote to reading of President Taft's annual message. After that the lawmakers should be able to get down to busi- ness immediately and for the next five or six months, barring the time of recess over the holidays, the coun- try can watch them thrust and par Ty and fntermiftenBy legislate. ' That the session is likely to'be an unusually busy and important one is generally admitted. The approach of the national elections and the bitter rivalries of political parties will en- hance the interest. ,The galleries will have to listen to oods of strident political oratory delivered purely for home consumption. 'No member with an eye to re-election will overlook an opportunity to “make good” with his constituents. Volley to Be Aimed at Trusts. A flood of Dills hitting at the trusts will be introduced. Senator Pomer- ene of Ohio will push his resolution | to. put trust offenders in jail, and Representative Henry of Texas will | introduce a similar measure in the house, providing some other member does not “beat him to it.” While the lawmakers in wnearly all of the States concluded some time ago that anti-railroad legislation was no longer profitable or advisable with a view to the general interest, many of the members of congress appear still inclined to hold the roads re- sponsible for many of the ills with which the country is supposed to suffer. In their opinion the time has not yet come to let up on the railroads. i For Railroad Supervisiolm Federal supervision of railroads to a greater extent than is now in force will be proposed in many ways. More power to the elbow of the In- terstate Commerce Court is a favor- ite slogan with the lawmakers. If tthe Commerce Court shows a dis- position to give the railroads a square deal, abolish it. But the session will not be all| buncombe. There is no dearth of -important measures awaiting con- sideration— great national concern. appropriation The great ! [ the wool bill at | stream until, free admission of bituminous acrass the Canadian border, etc., will figure in the tariff discussions. thing is to be done in the. way of revision, and revision downward, of some of the important schedules of |the tariff act. Even the President make the work of congress effective by signing a bill. Tafts Tariff - Position. President Taft's position is‘under- stood to be that he is in favor of reduction of the tariff wherever it can be done and still give a living measure of protection of those in- dustries that need it,” but that the “tariff should not be changed and business disturbed except upon in- .| formation which shall enable us to disturb business least.” He has al- ready declared that the failure -of the extra session “should not be regarded as taking away the only chance for reduction by this congress. HARRIS BACK FROM SAD MISSION Finds Trace of Brother Who Met Death in Turbulent Waters. Register of Deed, J. O. Harris has returned from Portland and- Canada where he went in an effort to find some trace of his brother who disap- peared with a companion while on a trip on the Clearwater river in Cana- da. Mr. Harris went to Kamloops but was unable to proceed to the ipoint where his brother met his fate as the snow, which is four feet deep, blocks the way. The company for: which Mr. Harris' brother was work- |ing instituted a thorough search be- fore-winter set in and it was found that the young man and his compan- ion had made a raft and started down the river and they were traced to a point where the river falls about ten feet below which are dangerous rap= ids. It is believed the two men, unaware of the danger confronting them, floated their raft down the when it was too late, they found themselves caught by the sudden SHRDLRDLU RDLU LUUU swift current toward the falls over which they dashed to be caught be- low by the angry waters which meant death even though they might {had ‘made. the waterfall ~tn safety. In the spring another effort will be made to recover the bodies. Mr. Har- ris went to Duluth Wednesday to give the details of his investigation to a brother living in that city. OLE0O NOW WHITE AS SNOW New Law So Commands; Boarders to Be Given Warning. Boarding: house butter, which, for s0 many years has not been board- ing house butter at all, but oleomar- garine, is to be made to stand with- out disguise before the boarding]| house vietim. Enforcement of the law passed by the last legislature will cause oleo- margarine to be served in all its vir- gin whiteness. ‘ The measure prescribes that it shall be unlawful to serve oleo in any place where guests, boarders or pa- tients are served unless there be printed on the bill of fare the words “Oleomargarine Used in Place of-But- ter.” Or if no bill of fare or menu or list of things to eat be used, there shall be posted, on the wall with let- ters large enough to be distinctly seen and read from all parts of the room, placards whichs ay “Oleomar- garine Used in Place of Butter.” Dairy and Food Commissioner Winkjer has issued a bulletin warn- ing oleo users that hereafter the law is to be enforced rigidly. FLORIDA? NIX! BEMIDJI FOR HIM Former Resident Travels Far Only to Return and Purchase Home Here. G. W. Frost, who left Bemidji four years ago, and who at one time was proprietor of a story at Rosby, and who during the past few years has | traveled extensively, has arrived di- rect from Tampa, Florida, and, de- bills will be fiercely fought over. In|clares that Bemidji locks the best of the house there will be a’ mightylall to him and that he proposes to contest over federal incorporation of interstate commerce industrial corp- orations. The senate will- “Wrestle with the arbitration treaties, and the ‘lines will be sharply drawn between the jingoists and the peacemakers. Then there will be the subject of conservation, also the important question of the tolls to be exacted!a] fight with the insects. of vessels passing through the Pan- ama canal, Tariff Revision Big Subject: T&rift revision, however, will be the big subject. of the ‘entire ses-| sion. The' Tariff 'Board’s much-dis- cussed report on the woolen -industry is to be transmitted to congress soon after the opening, and the board’s report on cotton will follow ' pro-| bably within _a few weeks. Besides the wool and cotton schedules, a host of other provisions of the tariff law, including proposals to reduce the duties - on steel -and iron, "cotton machinery, chemicals, . reciprocal PRERE purchase a home here and to engage in business, either here or at some other point in this vieinity. “I found nothing like mnorthern Minnesota,” said Mr. Frost today. - “Florida is out of it entirely. The soil is white sand To raise anything you must gener- ously fertilize. - Then it is a continu- I saw a itract of ten acres of strawberries last week that had been laid bare by a small fly that swarms on the plants west sometimes do.” Immortality. “Speaking of immortality. what'sthe mflnm' with the hen? ‘ “Her son Times. never sets.”—New York Consolation. " Knicker—My wife is always praising the men she rejected for me. Bocker— Never mind; she will [raise you to her: second husbapd.—New York Sun.’ - coal All hands are agreed ‘that some-| will be expected to fall into line to | jmuch like the grasshoppers in the| Photo copyright, 1911, by American Press Auochmm consulting with one of their attorneys, Joseph Scott. ‘The ahove picture shows one of the latest photognphs of the McNamara brothers, TJames B., the one to the right being the man who confessed to having dynamited the Times building, This yhotograph was taken af- ter the Los Angeles trial began and while they we: Los Angeles,- Cal, Liewellyn Iron Works on Christmas 21 persons. “years_for his brother. beyond resurrection or-argument. sion. day the word that would end the t for TicManigal.” Fredericks Hield up his right han may have to take a light sentence, b Fredericks will ask for life \mpnson ment for day, 1910. rial. das he answered. . “I promise you T'll ut I will do the best L can.” MNAMARAS, GUILTY; KNOW FATE TUESDAY Dec. 2,—James B. McNamara Dieaded guilty to murder in the first degree in Judge Walter Bordwell's court late yesterday: His brother, John J. McNamara, secretary treasurer of the Interna- tional association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, entered a plea of guilty to having dynamited the James B. McNamara’s confession clears up absolutely the tragedy of the explosion and fire, which at 1:07 o’clock on the morning of Oct. 1, 1910, wrecked the plant of the Los Angeles Times, and caused the death of The date of the sentence for both men is set for Dec.5, when it is expeeted District Atturney Johni D, mes‘}i McNamara, con fessed murderer, and’ probably 14 The men’s lives are considered saved The contention that the Los Angeles Times was not dynamited is The two brothers sit together in the county jail refusing to see anx one or make any statement. Brotherly affection bordering on worship, it became known, brought about James B. McNamara’s confes- The desire to save his brother from the necessity of confessing anything at all held back day after Ortie McManigal, the confessed dynamiter, whose admissions are sald to have been such a big factor in the McNamaras pleading guilty, will go virtually free, if the pln.ns of the stat e ifi his behalf do not go wrong. After court had adjourned this afternoon Malcom McLaren, the Burn’s detective who has been a daily visitor to Mc- Manigal’s cell, since the dynamiter’ was brought here last spring, and has always spoken in a friendly way of the prisoner, came upon District Attorney Fredericks in the latter’s offi ce. ¥ “There’s just one thing I want to ask you,” said McLaren to Frederick s, “and that is that you do all. you can do all in my power for him. He WOMAN LOSES 5 FAT PIGS Mrs. H. M. Meniman Finds Two Porkers Dead; Others Dying; Was* to Sell Them Thanksgiving. BLAMES WOLVES OR VICIOUS DOG Five pigs which Mrs. E. H. Merri- man had been fattening with the ex- pectation of selling them on Thanks- giving day, having made arrange- ments for the sale, were attacked in ‘the Merriman barn at Eighteenth street and Irving avenue, by wolves or dogs. Two of the hogs were dead when the barn was opened in the morn- ing, and the other three had been so badly bitten that they had to be killed. Mrs., Merriman is under the im- pression that wolves are guilty of the death of her animals but when the tidea that these animals would not come so close to the city was suggest- ed, she admitted that it might have been a dog which created such havoc. Each pig had heen attacked in the same manner. Its back had been gashed and bitten until it was a strip of blood and torn flesh. Tracks to the pig pen indicated that some four footed animal had crept up during the night and made the attack. The (fact that squeals of the pigs did not| ‘arouse anyone 'in the Merriman household. is explained by the fact that the barn is some distance from | the house. liver the pigs in a fattened condition lmg the animals freely on corn. Mrs. Merriman is janitoress:at the( | postoffice and does other work by the| day, and she feels"the loss keenly. Fresh Methodist Cracker Jack will | Mrs. Merriman had agreed to de-| {to a Bemidji man and had been feed- | POOOVOCOIO00POOO @ © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ POPOOOOECOGOO66 6 Special service of Thanksgiving ‘were held throughout Austria today ‘| in celebration of the 63rd anniver- sary of the accession of Francis Joseph. Emperor The National Monetary Commission today entered upor its final series of meetings in Washington to get the opinions of men versed in financial matters on the proposed reform of the banking and currency laws of the country. Former President and Mrs. Theo- dore.Roosevelt today quietly celebrat- ed-their silver wedding anniversary, in New York City, with relatives and a few intimate friends as the guests. Mrs. Roosevelt - formerly was Miss Edith Carew of this city. They were married Dec. 2, 1886, in St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, in London. A preliminary to the finish fight between the Government and the United States Steel Corporation will be staged in the United States Circuit Court at Trenton, N. J., on.Monday, when the Rockefellers and other de- fendants willenter their appearances in the sunit brought to dissolve the steel trust. : The offer of $100,000 in premiums has attracted a record breaking dis-| play of. champion animals from the United States, Canada and Mexico to the annual international livestock exposition, which opened in the Dex- ter pavilion at the stockyards in Chi- cago today and will continue for one week. ‘A competitiive - test” among | shepherd ‘dogs is one of the entirely new features. Another feature is the display of .a- dozen yearling sheep, bred and owned by the United States Department of Agrieulture. 5 Turn About» “Pnna suys if 1 give up my singing lessons hm\vm mawe Mth a nn(r ELKS N SORROW SUNDAY Services in Honor of Dead Members to Be Held in Armory;- Senator Johnson Speaks, COMPLETE PROGRAM ANNOUNCE At 4 . m. tomorrow, the impres- sive services of the annual Lodge of Sorrow of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks will be held in Bemidji in the Armory. p Senator Charles ‘D. Johnson' of Brainerd will deliver the address of the occasion. - The program committee, composed of A. L. Barker, Ray Murphy and A. [G. Rutledge, announce the following program: Overture, “Evening Star,” from Tannhauser, R. Wagner— Masten’s Orchestra. Invocation—Reyv. H F. Parshall, St. Cloud Lodge, 516. Vocal Solo—“Morning and Even- ing”—Miss Marjorie Knappen. Opening Ceremonies by the Lodge. Elks’ Quartette—“Nearer, My God, to Thee”, Herbert Johnson—C. J. Woodmansee, Andrew Rood, A. L. Barker, F. Lambert. B Trombone ' Solo—“Calm as the Night,” Carl Bohm—Pauyl ‘Henning- er. son, Brainerd Lodge, 615. & Elks’ Quartette—*Abide With Me" Howard M. Dow, C. J. Woodmansee, Andrew Rood, A:. L. Barker, F. Lam- bert. Closing Ceremonies. by the Lodge Doxology. Mrs. Accompanist. The members of the lodge nd vis- iting Elks will meet: the pdge rooms, -in the former Metm oman “®/lClub ‘rooms, at:3:30 ‘Sufiday after-| noon and march to the: érmory"where the services will begin promptly at 4 o’cl It is expected that there Address—Senator Charles D. John- Harry. Mnsten,» Before Court Commissioner A. B. Crowell today, Edward Gearlds swore out a warrant charging A. H. Brandt with perjury. Brandt, also known as Flshex- and Duval, was a witness at the prelimi- nary hearing of Mr. Gearlds before Municipal Judge Simons this week, at which time he said he had been in the employ of the state since last September and that he had witnessed a payment of $50 by Gearlds to “Boston Blackie’ O’Neill here in March of this year for the attempted burning of a building at Blackduck in which Gearlds was financially inter- ested. _ Denies Brandt Was Here. In his charge made today, Gearlds asserts that Brandt could not have Wwitnesged such a transaction because Brandt was not in Bemidji. Brandt also testified that he twice had been convicted of crime. The perjury complaint alleges he has four times been convicted, the last time as late 88 last September. In this connettion, Attorney George Spear of Grand Rapids, de- |fending Gearlds, raises the query as to why Brandt is no noéw in prison ingtead of being in the em- ploy of the- state. Mr. Spear is in Bemidji today. He said: How Spear Looks at It. “We are anxious to assist the prop- er authorities in enforcing the law in every way possible. If the man Fisher alias Brandt, alias Duval can be gotten into a court evidence will be produced against him which will command attention. “On the preliminary examination early this week, Fisher testified in effect. that he had first come to Be- midii about Oct. 4 last and that since that' date his movements had been directed by the attorneys for the prosecution. Cites One “Remarkable” Fact. “With this in mind we hope the warrant will be given to Sheriff Haz- en for service. That efficient officer can easily locate the defendant with the aid of the prosecuting attorneys, ‘and will of course, do so at once. “There have been many remarkable only comment on one of them. Fish- er was convicted for the fourth time aes late as September 29 last in Wi- nona county. He was sentenced to Stillwater. He now testifies that he is in the employ of the state. He is not serving his sentence in Stillwa- ter. Why?” 3 The complaint on which Commis- sioner Crowell issued the warrant against Brandt, charging perjury, tollow8' What the Camphmt Alleges. “That the said G. W. Fisher, alias A. Brandt, alias A. Duval, whose true name is to this complainant un- known, was duly examined as a wit- ness on November 29, 1911, at the city of Bemidji, in the county of Bel- trami and state of Minnesota, in a certain preliminary examination, en- titled the State of Minnesofa, plain- tiff, against Edward E. Gearlds, de- fendant, which said preliminary ex- amination was then pending in the municipal court in and for the said city of Bemidji, and before the Hon. cipal court;* “That the clerk of said muni- cipal court was then and there duly authorized to administer oaths and that before testifying as such wit- ness the said C. W. Fisher, aliag A. Brandt, alias A. Duval, was then and there duly sworn by said clerk of |said municipal court to testify to the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth in said matter; What Brandt Swore To. “That the said C. W. Fisher, alias A. Brandt, alias A. Duval, did then and there wilfully, wrongfully and unlawfully, feloniously and knowing- 1y testity falsely in answer to ques- ‘tions pu him as such witness up- on said preliminary examination, and as follows; to-wit: . “State whether or not shortly af- ter the 19th of Warrant Swofn flut Mty by Edward Gearlds Allegul Brandt, State's Witness, Gave False Evidence Against Him at Preliminary Hearing Here ~ H. A. Simons, a judge of said muni-|- ASSERTS STORY MARCH VISIT TO BEMIDJI IS MYTH A. About the 21st or 23rd, I can’t say ‘which. “Q. Of March, 19117 A. sir. “Q. You have only been convict- ed of crime twice? A. Yes, sir. Convicted Four Times. “That in truth and in fact the said C. W. Fisher, alias A. Brandt, alias A. Duval, was not in said city of Be- ‘midji at said time above referred to and as testified to by him, nor at any time between March 19, 1911, and March 31, 1911, both dates inclusive; that in truth and in fact, the said C. W. Fisher, alias A. Brandt, alias A. Duval, has been duly convicted of crime at least four times, and as fol- lows, to-wit: Last Conviction September 29. “Convicted of the crime of larceny in the Superior Court of the county of Douglas and state of Wisconsin on or about February 10, 1905; convict- ed of the crime of forgery in said Superior Court on or about July 17, 1906; convicted of the crime of for- gery in the district court of the coun- 'ty of St. Louis, and state of Minne- sota, on or about October 10, 1908, and convicted of the crime of for- gery in the district court of the county of ‘Winona, and said state of Minnesota, on or abont September 29, 1911; “That all of the above mtun B0 testified to by said C. W. Fisher, alias A. Brandt; alias A. Duval, were material, and. that all said tegtimony 5o given by him as to_said material matters was wilfully, knowingly and corruptly false and contrary to the statute in such case made and pro- vided and against the peace and dig- nity of the state of Minnesota.” Sheriff Gets Warrant. It is understood that the warrant will be turned over to Sheriff Hazen to serve. Brandt returned to St. Paul following the adjournment of the Gearlds preliminary hearing on Wed- nesday evening until December 15, Brandt, on the stand, said he had been working with the state fire mar- shal’s office and the attorney general and that he made the state capitol his headquarters and it is presumed that he can be located there. Torrance to Prosecute. Although the state has offered Brandt as a witness in the arson charge, it will now be up to the Yes, facts accompanying these cases. Ifgtate to proceed ‘against him on the perjury charge. This prosecution will be in charge of County Attorney Graham M. Torrance. It is said that competent witnesses will be introduced to show that Brandt was not in Bemidji between the date of the Blackduck fire and the end of March and that his pres- ence throughout this period can defi- nitely be traced. McDonald Briefly Comments. E. E. McDonald, who, with Attor- ney Thayer Bailey, represented the state at the preliminary examination of Brandt, did not know that a charge of perjury had been filed against Brandt until informed by the Pioneer. Mr. McDonald did not wish to comment on the complication at this time other” than to say: “The state by no means wishes to convict any man on the perjured tes- timony of any witness, but before conclusions are drawn it will be well to understand all the facts in con- nection with the affair.” ENDEAVORERS MAKE MERRY Enjoy Sleigh Ride and Program at Freeze Home on Carr Lake. About 30 Christian Endeavorers met last night at the home of Miss Dorothy Torranceé, to participate in the annual sleigh ride party. They were carried from the Torrance resi- dence to the farm of F. G. Freeze on the shores of Carr Lake, where they spent the evening. The following program was given. Solo, Carty Armstrong. Recitation, Florence Freeze. Solo, Mae MacGregor. Dialogue, Dorothy -~ Torrance and Cathfyn MacGregor. 5 A Page of Joke, Ralph Gracle. Recitation, Vera Nelsom. - Recitation, Marian White. - After the program sl‘_" ieru 3