Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 4, 1911, Page 1

"THE VOLUME 9. NUMBER 185. CONGRESS MEETS; WHAT TAFT WANTS President Definite in Decision to De- mand Anti- Trust Legislation at_ This Session. TARIFF FIGHT IS CERTAIN Two Special Messages to Be Pre- sented All But Commission Bills Face Veto. PEACE TREATIES IN DANGER Appeal to Have Agreements Reduc- ing Danger of War May Be Un- successful. BY WINFIELD JONES Washington Dec. 4:— (Special)— | President Taft’s legislative program | for the session which opened today, will contain three im-| portant features. Of course there will | be other matters which he would | like to have the House and Senate| consider and act favorably upon, but he is preparing to concentrate his influence and energies upon three principal ideas. They are: Amendments to the Sherman anti- trust law, making that act more specific in its application. Tariff revision based upon the re- ports of the Tariff Board as now be- ing drafted. Arbitration between the United States and Great Britain, and the United States and France upon the basis of the treaties now negotiated. Anti-trust Law Wanted. Since the President returned to Washington from his long tour of the western states he has reached definite ! conclusions upon the matter of more | anti-trust legislation. He is satisfied that the Sherman law needs amend- ing. He agrees with the most learned lawyers in the country that the Sherman law does not define the things a corporation may or may not do. He will couple with his anti-trust amendment his plan for the federal incorporation of all concerns en- gaged in interstate commerce. -From the time he Decame the executive head of the nation Mr. Taft has urged federal incorporation as a remedy for many of the abuses now charged to monopolies. Such a plant he believes, will throw open to in- spection by the government all books of corporations, and will thereby make investigation easy. One other matter of legislation re- lated to the anti-trust program, but not exactly involved in the amend- ments supported by the administra- tion, is the federal regulation of stock and bond issues of transportation companies. of Congress Two Special Messages. The president now expects to sub- mit two special messages upon the tariff. One of them will discuss the results of the tariff board’s investiga- tion into the wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, and the other the inquiry into the cotton schedule. If the board is able to make any further reports during the present session of Congress, they will be the subject of tariff reform rec- ommendations. Emphatic statements have been made by Mr. Taft to the effect that he will veto any tariff revision bills that are not based upon investiga- tions by the tariff board. Speaker Clark and other leading Democrats have announced that the tariff will furnish the basis for the whole fight in this session. They have not so far, however, said wheth- er or not they mean to bait Mr. Taft Dby ignoring the tariff board, and by putting up to him again the meas- ures which encountered the presiden- tial veto during the extra session. To War Over Peace Treaties. Another struggle with the Senate over the ratification of the arbitra- tion treaties is promised. The presi- dent has made his threatened appeal to the country in behalf of these con- ventions. 2 There will be other legislative pro- Jjects proposed and urged by the ad- ministration. The government and regulation of tolls for the Panama Canal will be laid before Congress; the reorganization of the army and navy are to be considered; economics in all branches of the government will be recommended, and the con- struction of two battleships of the dreadnaught type will be insisted up- on. COOOPOROOOOOOCOS © QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. VOOOPOOOOC®OE D@ The weather: continued fair; moderate temperature Tuesday; light variable winds. * ' While skating on Lake Michigan in Chicago yesterday three small boys broke through the ice and drowned. » Four young murderers of a truck farmer near Chicago have been sen- tenced by Judge Pettit to hang on Deneml')er 22, * The case of J. J. Bren, former act- ing treasurer of the University of Minnesota, who is accused of the em- bezzlement of university funds, was| called for trial today in_the Henne- pin county district court at Minne- apolis. * Delegates from every section of the United States, together with repre- sentatives of a number of foreign countries, arrived in Chicago today to participate in the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Irrigation Congress. * B The Milwaukee branch of the Na- tional Progressive league has com- pleted arrangements for its first mass meeting to be held in the Au- ditorium tomorrow night. Professor Charles L. Merriam of Chicago and George L. Record of New Jersey will be the speakers. * Two teams of Alaskan dogs have arrived in St. Paul in the care of several Alaska trappers, who will suow them during the Land Products Show. There are four varieties of the dogs and they will be .driven about the Twin City when not on ex- hibition at the St. Paul Auditorium. * The case of Louis Coffman, at Shor- man, Texas, which was brought here on change of venue from McKinney, was called for trial today before Judge Jones of the Fifteenth Dis- trict Court. Coffman is charged with killing his wife at their home near Melissa about two years ago. His first trial was held at McKinney and resulted in a verdict of guilty and a sentence to death. Later the Court of Appeals reversed the cas * Rudolph Blankenburg, “the war horse of reform,” was installed as mayor of Philadelphia today. The ceremony took place in the Common Council chamber and was witnessed by a throng as large as the chamber would hold. Coincidently the other city officials elected last month as- sumed their duties. Curtailment of the city’s expenses by saving in sal- aries and abolition of certain bureaus is expected to be ome of the first moves by Mayor Blankenburg. ' It is declared by experts that nearly $1,- 000,000 a year can be saved. = Miss Lucy Beech Johns of Union- town, Pa., who is said to be the only woman deputy sheriff in the United States, resigned her position today in anticipation of her early marriage to John C. Grier, a Pittsburgh trav- eling salesman. Miss Johns has been deputy sheriff of Fayette county since the beginning of the present year. At the time she took the oath of of- fice she received a handsome gold- mounted police revolver and 2 badge studded with jewels. Since that time she has assisted in the capture of several men, including a murderer, who had escaped from the. county jail. * Amid a blaze of oratorical pyro- technics and political rallies, the bit- terest municipal campaign in the history of Los Angeles came to an end today. Tomorrow the voters of the city, among them 75,000 women to whom the right of suffrage has been given by the recent amendment of the State constitution, will elect a mayor, members of the city coun- cil and other city officials. Public in- terest centers chiefly in the contest for the mayoralty between George Alexander, the present mayor and the choice of the good government forces for re-election, and Job Harriman, the candidate of the socialists and the labor unions. * The appeal of Albert W. Wolter from his conviction of murder in the first degree of Ruth Wheeler in New York came up for argument before the Court of Appeals at Albany, N. Y., today. Wolter has been an in- mate of the death house at Sing Sing prison the past 18 months. His crime. was committed on March 23, 1910. He lured his victim, a girl of 15 years, to his room on the pretext that he wanted to hire her as a stenographer. After making a crim- inal attack on the young girl he is al- leged to have strangled her to death and -then dismembered and partly burned her body, which was later discovered in the fireplace. EIGHT HUNTERS CONVICTED Deer Meat and Rifle Confiscated and Men Pay Fines—Game Law Nets $1,000. INSANE MAN SLASHES CARCASS With the close of the open season for hunting big game, Game Warden " S. C. Bailey of this city estimates _' that fully 300 deer were Kkilled dur- ing the 20 days allowed by law in which to hunt deer and moose; and that comparatively few hunters have violated the game laws. Mr. Bailey estimates that the li- cense money derived up to date from the sale of licenses in Beltrami coun- ty to hunt big and small game, for netting whitefish, using fish houses, { and from non-resident fishermen, will be fully $1,000. . “Of this amount,” says the war- den, “$539 was obtained from the sale of big game licenses; $144 from small game licenses; and the re- mainder of the licenses from netting whitefish, maintaining fish houses and from non-resident fishermen for angling with a hook and line, will easily reach the $1,000 mark.” During the month of November, Mr. Bailey succeeded in convicting six violators of the game laws, and two paid fines on October 24th, mak- ing eight convictions since October 23, as follows: October 24, W. L. Kling, maintain- ing a set gun; sentenced to serve 45 days in the county jail, in lieu of paying a fine of $50 and costs; Oct. 24, T. W. Davis, having white- fish in his possession, paid fine of $10 and costs; Nov. 2, John F. Goff, paid fine of $10 and costs, for having whitefish in his possession; Nov. 21, Harry Abércrombie, hunting without 2 license. Paid fine of $10 and costs. The warden seized the carcass of the deer killed by Abercrombie and sold the same for $20, remitting to the game and fish commission; Nov. 25, Archie Logan, hunting deer out of season; Nov. 30, Harry Summerville, hunting, without license. = Paid fine oF $T58nd costs. W seized 42 pounds of deer meat and two hides; Nov. 30, Therm Frantum, hunting deer without license. Paid fine of $25 and costs, Winchester rifle seized. A peculiar case has arisen from the seizing of the Abercrombie deer carcass, wherein a ‘man who appears to be insane has mutilated parts of the carcass, While the carcass was in the local express office a man en- tered, uct off the ears, and slashed the eyes. The same thing occurred to a carcass that was being shipped from Kelliher to Crookston. A war- rant has been issued for the man who is believed to be insane. BUTTON FESTIVAL BEGINS Hundreds of Exciting People Flock to the Store to Match Buttons. EXTRA FORCE WAITS ON TRADE A button campaign that is causing much criticism and comment among the people of Bemidji, is being con- ducted by the Barker Drug and Jew- elry store. This special feature be- gan in earnest today. Mr. Barker said in answer to a query regarding the new feature, “Qur store has been crowded all day today and I believe that I have found one of the best ways to get people into my store that I have ever heard of. The plan is this; we have had distributed all over the city some of these little red numbered buttons. “The people are only supposed to have one button to start with and for 4 additional buttons they are en- titled to one of the souvenirs. These buttons must be secured through the medium of the store and not secured promiscuously. _With each purchase of $1.00 they are entitled to an ad- ditional button. “Throughout the entire store there are many articles numbered, the number corresponding with some of those distributed freely or given out with $1 purchases. These numbers will be changed from day to day so that if a customer does not find his number of an article today he may find it there tomorrow -or the next day or next week.” Mrs. W. A. Carter of Mill Park, appeared at the store shortly after noon today with a duplicate number, 739, and was given a $5.00 hand- painted bon-bon dish. ‘ There has been no attempt up to the present on the part-of the Turk-: ish' government to consider any fac- Tomorrow—The Senate Program. tory or labor laws. In the last two years the machin: great majority of th ‘Warden - Batiey| RS E | | | | “PUSSYFOOT”" CRITICISED Insubordination, Inattention to Duty and Improper Handling of Money Charges Made. SAID TO HAVE FACED EXPOSURE “That W. E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, former Indian -agent: who has been filling the: press with eomplaints of ,’.‘.i."' t;am;en by, g’g}é}gun office the-department of the Interior,” his paper, the Minneapolis Journal, by wire from Washington, D. C., nation, inattention to duty, attempts to mislead the department, and reck- less use of government money, and preferred to fesign from the service rather than meet these charges, is the statement made by First Assist- ant Secretary Samuel Adams today in a letter to Mr. Johnson. . “Mr. Adams recites in the letter how Johnson was summoned to ‘Washington and confronted with the charges, and, instead of meeting them or attempting to deny them, he submitted his resignation. The charges all related to acts committed by Johnson in the southwest, and had no connection with his work in Minnesota. “Several of the charges are cited in the letter. Ome is that Johnson insisted on the appointment of two deputies for work among the Pueblo Indians, whom he had been directed to dismiss, and when the appoint- ments were held up he dropped the prosecution of - several important cases of selling liquor to Indians. Since Johnson resigned, these cases have. been successfully presented to grand juries by other government agents. “Johnson is accused also of misus- ing government funds, and especial- ly in paying Juan Cruz as posseman for Feb. 3 and 4, the latter being the day he shot Garcia. Johnson is ac- cused of informing the officials at Washington, Feb. 7, that Garcia was not connected with the government. at the time of the shooting while la- ter he assisted in putting up the de- fense that Garcia was acting in pur- suit of his duty as a posseman. At the hearing before Mr. Adams, he asserts, Johnson declared that the de- fense was that Cruz did not shoot Garcia at all, while in signed state- nents to others he declared that Cruz shot in self-defense. ° “Mr. Adams says, in concluding his letter, that Johnson’s conduct had fully warranted immediate dismissal, but in view of his past services in aiding suppression of the liquor traf- fic among Indians, he was allowed to resign.” - TO PIAY FOR RIES LECTURE Masten's 15 piece orchestra has been employed to furnish music for the public address to be delivered in says W. W. Jermane in a special to|: “was orally charged with insubordi-|: R e i, e h A o : Rats Chew Up $2,585, Savings : of Jack Simpson, Aitkinclhaen._fi : Washington, Dec..4.—The life : : savings of Jack Simpson, of Ait- : kin, Minn., amounting to $2,585, securely hidden from burglars, : were reduced to shreds by rats : and mice, and in a letter received : by President Taft today he ap- : : pealed for the redemption of the : fragments by the federal treas- : ury. His wealth, accomulated : to buy a farm, Simpson explains, : was placed in a box and deposit- : : ed between the “upstairs floor : : and ceiling.” No human being : : ‘disturbed it, but when he took it : < from:-its hiding place he'found it : reduced to dust by the ravages of : : the rodents. The president has : : referred the matter to the treas- : : ury department for investiga- : : tion. MACKENZIE SUBJECT OF ARTIST Caricature and Tribute as Booster Appears in Minneapolis Newspaper. In the Saturday issue of the Min- caricature of W. R. Mackenzie of this neapolis Tribune there appears a city, secretary of the Northern Min- nesota Development association. Mr. Mackenzie is shown wheeling a go cart occupied by a sturdy boy marked “Northern Minnesota Devel- opment association.”” The Tribune article says: 2 :, “There are boosters and boosters— and then there is W. R. Mackenzie. Mr. Mackenzie didn’t invent boost- ing. But the man who did invent it has nothing on ‘Mack.’ The last term is not one of disrespect. Mr. Mackenzie hds his habitat in the vi- cinity of Bemidji. Sometimes, it seems, Bemidji is the capital of up- per Minnesota. “At any rate, around Bemidji, and for that matter, all over northern Minnesota, they call him ‘Mack.” It is a term of affection. “Mr. Mackenzie is the official boost- er of upper Minnesota. Everyone else is an unofficial booster with the exception of a few registers of deeds. They refuse to boost unless they are paid for it, but that is another story which should be accompanied by names. 3 “When the northern Minnesota De- velopment association was born, Mr. Mackenzie was present. He has been nursing this luty infant ever since. Just at present, he has headquarters in Minneapolis and boosts and boosts and boosts. He likes the exercise. He has developed an imagination and a power of expression that is in keep- ing with the immense empire whose development he is urging. Whenever there is a meeting of the northern Minnesota. Development- associafion, ‘Mack’ is on the job. When reap- portionment was being gently toyed with by the legislators, ‘Mack’ was still on the job. When the associa- ‘tion meets ‘at St. Cloud, there will ‘Mack’ be also boosting lustily, per- sistently and enthusiastically. the City Hall tomorrow evening by | W. F. Ries, who comes here under the auspices of the Bemidji Social- ists. Mr. Ries’ subject will = be “How we are Gouged.” Women will ists have had 152 strikes and the{for “He knows all about upper Min- nesota. Not only all there is to know but a great deal besides. ure e He is af TWO ROBBERS SENTENCED Men Who Admit Having Taken $30 From Intoxicated Comrade, Sent . to Stillwater. DESERVE NO MERCY SAYS JUDGE Sentenced to serve an indetermi- nate term in the state penitentiary was the punishment meted out to Jack Jerrad ‘and Pat Marion, by Judge-Stanton, iz 2t conrt v’ Bemidji Saturday - afternoon, when Jerrard and Marion pleaded guilty to the charge of having committed the crime of grand larceny in the second degree. The two prisoners were brought to Bemidji by Ernest Holler, deputy sheriff of Koochich- ing county, who took them to Still- water late Saturday night. In the information which they gave to Judge Stanton Jerrard and Marion, under: oath, said they had been stopping at Ray, in Koochich- ing county, this fall; that on No- vember 28 they entered a saloon in Ray, and joined Frank Millberger in drinking. Milberger paying for the drinks. Later, Millberger became in- toxicated and went to sleep, lying on the floor of the saloon. Jerrard and Marion took $30 from Millberger’s pockets, so (they told the judge, and spent all of it but $6 in drinking and visiting a sporting resort at Ray. The two men were arrested on Nov. 28 and taken to International Falls, where they were given a hear- ing and were held to the grand jury of Koochiching county. Owing to the fact that court will not be held in Koochiching county for several and were brought to Bemidji before Judge Stanton, who heard their cases Saturday afternoon. In pronouncing sentence on Jer- rard and Marion, Judge Stanton said that few crimes were more offensive nesota than frequenting saloons and taking money from persons who be- came intoxicated to such an extent that they were unable to care for themselves; that there was not one mitigating circumstance in the case of the two prisoners. Attorney Palmer of International Falls appeared for P. J. McPartlin, county attorney of Koochiching coun- ty, who is ill; and Clerk of Court Drummond of International Falls ‘was present with the records in the cases. Small Fire at Bailey Home. Saturday evening the fire depart- ment was called to the home of Mrs. L. H. Bailey, 611 Minnesota avenue. The house is being remodeled and the plasterers lighted a fire in a small stove for the purpose of drying the walls. The stove became overheated. Little damage was done. Hospital Sisters Thank the Public. The sisters of the St. Anthony hos- pital have recelved many responses to their Thanksgiving letter and wish, through the columns of the Ploneer to thank all who so liberally gave. et G to good government in northern Min-|. | entirely lacking. | general feeling in favor of young RUNS 30 MILES T0 SAVE MAN HE SHOT Was Mistaken for Moose and Killed. FRESH TRACKS CAUSE TRAGEDY Youth Errs in Presuming Other Men Had Disappeared and Discharges Rifle at Close Range. BUILDS FIRE FOR DYING HUNTER ] S Then Begins Race on Foot for As- sistance But Loss of Blood Soon Brings End. Detailed information concerning the death of Alex Pequin, who was shot on Wednesday of last week in the woods near Pit, is given in the current issue of the Baudette Region, which says: “Mistaking Alex Pequin of Bau- dette for a moose, John Dahl of Wil- liams fired a shot in the woods south- west of Pitt Wednesday that resulted in Pequin’s death several hours la- ter, after Dahl had run 30 miles in frantic efforts to secure assistance. “Pequin and a companion named Eli Blanche, both of Baudette, were working for A. G. Grignon.of Pitt and as they kept bachelor quarters they decided to go to the woods and shoot a moose for their winter sup- ply of meat. . “On the day of the shooting Pe- quin and Blanche were together in the woods for a time but decided to separate. Dahl coming on their tracks and noticing they had back- tracked, thought they had returned to their camp. i Makes Tidal Mistake. “A few minutes after he saw & fresh moose trail and was soon in pursuit of the animal. He had gone some distance when he saw a black object about twelve rods ahead of him, and as there were no tracks of men to be seen he felt certain that the object was the moose. He raised his gun, a 32 Winchester, and fired: A moan followed and rushing up Dahl was horrified to find that ke had shot a man. It was Pequin, who had cut in on the trail, only to be mis- taken for the moose. Aids His Victim. “Dahl made a hurried examination of the wound and discovered that the shot had hit Pequin on the right side and had also passed through the arm, and that no vital spot had been touched. “There was a good chance to save 'the man’s life and Dahl did every- thing in his power to do it. He light- ed a fire and made Pequin as com- fortable as possible, and then set out for his own cabin to get blankets and ‘water. He covered the six miles there and back in remarkably quick time months, they decided to plead guilty{and on his return he wrapped the injured man in the blankets, got him water and cut more wood for the fire. Pequin appeared in good condi- tion and assured Dahl that he was feelying fine. As Dahl left to bring relief Pequin was sitting up smok- ng. Pequin Bleeds to Death. “The young fellow then hurried to Pequin’s camp four miles distant, to get Blanche, but he had not returned, so he hurried to the home of Mr. McCumber eight miles away and sent a man to Pitt to telephone for medi- cal assistance. “McCumber and his hired man hitched-a horse to a sleigh and with Dahl started out for the scene of the shooting. -They got within three- quarters of a mile of the spot when they ran into a spruce swamp and they were compelled to walk the re- mainder of the distance. It was sev- en in the evening when they reached the injured man. The firehad burned low and Pequin’s life was slowly eb- bing away. He had almost bled to death, and he died as he was being carried through the swamp a quar- ter of an hour later. Dahl Gives Himself Up. “Dahl arrived in Baudette today to give himself up to the authorities, but as yet no action has been taken other than to forward an account of the tragedy to the county attormey. He is 25 and bears a good reputa- tion. “Pequin’s costume resembled the color of a moose, and the red which usually distinguishes the hunter was John Dahl Tells How Alex Pequin - There i3 a very =