Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 1

», VOLUME 9. NUMBER 194. FlVE DEMOCRATS R A R R R R R R R A ] @ OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED, ¢ PPOOOT VOO0 ® ;,Woodrow Wilson and Judson Har- » mon Now Appear Leaders in Nomination Contest. - FORMER STRONG IN THE WEST Former Has Eastern States Behind Including Powerful Backing of New York. +FOLK AND CLARK IN CLASH > Both Have Staunch Friends, Bryan Siding in With Governor of Reform Fame. BY WINFIELD JONES. ‘Washington, Dec. 14.(Special)— Probably not in the history of the Democratic party has it been as pro- lific in presidential timber as at this time. Five leaders are now in the forefront, and that many more are just behind them, ready to spring forward with any change of senti- ment. All this has developed seven months before the national conven- tion meets. What the next four or five-months will bring forth must of course, be simply guessed at. Who- ever is eliminated or whoever enters the race later it can be seen already that there will be a plentitude of can- didates. Five Loom as Candidates. At this time Governor: Woodrow ‘Wilson of New Jersey, Governor Jud- son Harmon of Ohio, Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri, Congressman Os- car Underwood of Alabama, and for- mer Governor Folk of Missouri are clearly before the people as the most available possibilities. This last might be narrowed down by placing Governor Wilson, Gover- nor Harmon and Speaker Clark up as the “leading” lights of the party, in- sofar as the coming convention is concerned. ¢ Wilson Strong West and South. There is no means of determining which of the three leading candidates is strongest before the people. Some idea of the strength of each may be gained when the Democratic Nation- b Y al committee meets in Washington in ~ January. There will be some sharp divisions in the committee, and these will be indicative of the feeling throughout the country. Governor Wilson has great strength in the South and West. He is immensely popular in both sec- tions. In the first place he is a na- tive southerner, and the people of the South take pride in that face. In the second place Governor Wilson’s ideas are the ideas of the West, and he has found a response to his doc- trines out there. Harmon Also Strongly Backed. From the talk one hears in Wash- ington, Governor Harmon is certain to control the delegations from New England and New York, in addition to those from Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is predicated of course upon the assumption that none of these states put out a “favorite son.” The group of states now leaning to Harmon give him a place in the convention not surpassed in strength by any of his opponents. If Champ Clark remains in the presidential race until the first bal- vlot is cast his serength will come from all sections of the country. He kas warm friends in the South and in the Middle West. He is supported by some states in the far West, and by one or two state organizations in the East. Bryan Back Folk. Governor Folk has the delegation of a great and enthusiastic state practically pledged to him. He can start out with something tangible, and his friendship for Bryan, or rather Bryan’s friendship for him is one of the strongest assets he has. The ambitions of the former Missouri Governor and Speaker Clark have clashed. Both of them aspire to the same high office, and a peculiar situa- tion has thereby arisen in Missouri. will speak in Milwaukee Jan. 15, ac- cording to announcement made by A, A. Allen, Governor Harmon’s repre- sentative in Wisconsin. * Stephen M. Egan, county collector of Hudson county, was placed on trial today at Jersey City, N. J., under an indictment charging him with the embezzlement of public funds. * Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science has authorized the payment of $500 for the best poem on the Battle of Brooklyn offered to the in- stitute before Oct. 1, 1912. » James Howe, a bank robber, es- caped from the jail at Nortonville, Ka. Howe weighs 290 pounds. By| removing his clothing and soaping his body he was able to wriggle through a hole only 12 inches square. * The third annual exhibition of the Mid-West Poultry and Pet Stock as- sociation opened in the Coliseum at Chicago today and will continue un- til next Tuesday. Cash prizes amount- ing to more than $5,000 will be dis- tributed. * Chauncey R. Simmons was shot and killed at Spokane in the house of his brother, A. H. Simmons, by a burglar who had just attempted an attack on Miss Libby Simmons, the 16-year-old daughter of A. H. Sim- mons. * The board of truscees of the Car- negie endowment for international peace held its annual meeting in Waghingfon today. The annual re- port of the executive committee was received and plans discussed for the future work of the organization. . In accordance with an anm tom. a delegation from .(he lodge of Fredericksburg, Va., visited Mount Vernon, Va., today and placed a wreath of flowers on the tomb of Washington, in commemoration of the anniversary of the death of the first president. - The silver jubilee of Bishop Mul- doon’s ordination to the priesthood was celebrated at Rockford, Ill., to- day by visiting bishops and priests and the people of Rockford and vi- cinity. Bishop Muldoon vetoed the plans for a large public celebration,I but the clergy were not content to allow the anniversary to pass entire- 1y unobserved. * The Ohjo State pardon board at its meeting at Columbus tomorrow is expected to consider and act upon an application for the parole of Charles |L, Warriner, who was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary follow- ing his confession to having misap- propriated $643,000 of the funds of the Big Four railroad. . Warriner was for many years local treasurer of the Big Four at Cincinnati. His arrest and trial, in which evidence was in- troduced to show that Warriner had | given alleged “hush money” amounts to Mrs. eannette Stewart Ford, attracted country-wide atten- tion. With the usual allowance of time off for good behavior Warriner would complete his sentence in three! years nine months and 18 days. He has now been two years. During the whole of that time he has occupied one of the best clerical positions in the main office of the prison. * No federal grand jury that ever met in Indianapolis attracted the amount of public attention that is displayed in the body that began its session today. The McNamara con- spiracy is to be probed to the bottom by the grand jury. Specifically the federal inquiry is as to whether or not the statute governing interstate transportation of dynamite has been violated, but it is the general belief that United States District Attorney Miller will introduce evidence tend- ing to show the connection of many persons in the dynamiting operations of the McNamaras. Rumors are freely calculated today that this evidence, gathered under the direction of De- tective William J. Burns, is of & most startling character. No attempt is being;made by the authorities to con- ceal their purpose to bring the men “highes wup” than the McNamara brothers to justice by revealing the existence of a syndicate of dynamit- ers nation-wide ni scope. in large; in the peni&eutiary\ (Copyright, 1911) DROPS 19 STORIES TO DIE|: ) in Chicago Masonic Temple, Puffs Cigaret, Then Leaps. | MANICURE 61RL DESCRIBES FALL): T mitted suicide Tuesday in a spectac- ular manner at Chicago, a dispatch from that city telling of the event as follows: “Poising nude on a beam across the Masonic Temple “well,”” James F. Greek leaped nineteen stories to his death at noon Tuesday. “His body was crushed into an al- most shapeless mass at the impact with the floor of the rotunda, Before it struck it had carried to the floor Harry Evans of 6408 Vernon avenue, whose death is expected to result from his injuries. “Greek entered the lavatory on {the nineteenth floor without being observed. When he was seen to em- erge he had removed all of his cloth- ing and was smoking a cigaret. “Slowly walking to the staircase railing he pased a moment, then climbed out on the beam. There he stood an instant continuing to puff at his cigaret. Dropping it, he watched it fall to the floor nineteen stories below. No sooner had the cigaret struck the floor than Greek, poising as to dive, plunged head first. “The body fell headlong for ten stories, then began somersaulting. | “At the second floor it struck a projecting canopy. As this odcurred {his right arm was torn from its sock- et in some manner and flew to one side, striking the floor twelve feet from the body. “Evans was at the cigar stand when he was struck. He was knocked to the floor suffering a4 compound fracture of the left leg and internal injuries. “Miss Mildred Alexander, a mani- curist employed in the barbershop on the nineteenth flooor, told a graphic story of the suicide. “‘Some one came in the shop and said. ‘I went to the door and saw a nude figure climb across the north railing and step on the beam. He was smoking a cigaret, and, putting his hands above his head, dived. “‘Just as the body left the beam my voice returned and I screamed. It was awful. I was unable to keep my eyes from the falling body and saw it crash first into the canopy and then strike the cigar case.’ “Greek had letters in his pocket showing that he recently came to Chicago from Northern Minnesota, mail being directed to him at Bemid- ji, International Falls and Brainerd.” Man Recently in Bemidji, Poses Nude| . A man recently in Bemidji com-|: said a crazy man was in the hall,’ she| 5,000 More Red Cross Stamps; : Where Seals Can Be Bought..: Mrs. C. R. Sanborn, president : of thefWoman’s Study Club, yes- : terday received a second ship- : ment of the Red Cross stamps, : making a total of 10,000 seals : |: receivéd in Bemidji. The first : : shipment oi 5,000 has been sold. : i arg now on sale at : + the’ following - places: ~ Netzer’s : ;. Pharmacy; City Drug Store, Ber- : :'man Emporium, T. J. Crane & : Co., O’Leary-Bowser Co., Bazaar : : Store, McCuaig’s, Troppman’s, : : Baker’s Jewelry Store, Gould’s, : : Abercrombie’s, Markham Hotel, : 0.C. Rood & Co., and the Bemid- : : ji Pioneer. Many of the large : business concerns have placed or- : ders fol; stamps to be used on all : : their mail until Christmas. If : : $100 worth of stamps are sold : : the money all goes to work of : : combating tubercujosis in Bemid- : : ji. The stamps sell at one cent : : each. ) . % STATE SELLS TIMBER TODAY Wood on 1,440 Acres Brings in Total of $3,100. At a public sale of timber on state lands in Beltrami county, conducted by S. C. Atkin and C. S. Brown, of the state auditor’s office, held at the Court House here today timber on 1,440 acres of land was sold for the amount of $3,100. T. Sullivan of the St. Croix Pine and Cedar company of Stillwater, bought four 40’s near the town of Funkley, Section 25-150-30, the total amount paid being $800. The tim-~ ber sold was spruce and cedar. A. E. Witting of the firm of Tron- son & Witting of Blackduck, pur- chased eight 40’s, Sections 13 and 24, 151-30, paying $700, the timber be- ing cedar, spruce, tamarack and pipe. This timber is near Shook’s Spur sta- tion. Charles Tronson of the firm of Tronson & Witting of Blackduck bought timber on twelve 40’s in Sec- tions 2, 3, 11, and 12, near the town of Hornet. John Cann of the same firm bought twelve 40’s near the town of Cor- mant. EGGS ARE 50 CENTS A DOZEN New High Mark in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Dec. 14.—“Strictly fresh” eggs are selling at 50 cents a dozen, which is_said to be the highest price ever reached -in Minneapolis. “Storage fresh” eggs are retailing at 45 cents. Miss Mary Chamberlain, the vie- tim of the Shady Bend “tar party,” will, it is said, receive not less than $25,000 as “smart money” for the oturage committed on her. Her at- torneys are said to have agreed to a compromise. :|ence there in the closing days of a |ecrime trust had regular branches in “Strickly Fresh” Product Touches| ~wox . MINNESOTA "HISTORICAL SOOCIETY, TEN CENTS PER WEEK. e Rememperep LATER ON DO YOU BELIEVE | IN SANTA CLAUS? Daily Pioneer Reporter Discovers Merry Old Man Has Many Friends in Bemidji. 'BURNS SLEUTH ON JOB| | i Tells Brainerd Reporter Wholesale Arson Plot Soon to Be Revealed in Northern Minnesota. GEARLDS HEARING = TOMORROW Bemidji, Minn., Dec. 14.—One of the significant things at the late Du- | mas trial in Brainerd was the pres- plain clothes man a detective from | the Burns agency of Cleveland, Ohio, who has done important work in con- nection with the recent McNamara | case in Los Angeles, Cal. | It appears that one of the state’s witnesses, A. H. Brandt, paroled from the state penitentiary to testify at Brainerd, had been given a ticket to Brainerd and was to appear in Brain- erd to testify in the Dumas case. Mr. Brandt, alias Fisher, did not show up and Sheriff Hazen, of Beltrami county, searched for the missing Brandt at St. Paul and other places, | but could not locate him and re- turned to Brainerd and so reported to the prosecution. . The Burns detective visited the saloons and second hand stores in the | city of Brainerd in a vain search for | Brandt. The detective said the St. Paul police had drawn such a tight net works about St. Paul that Brandt coulg not slip through without their; notice. Brandt had the Brainerd ticket and $2 and on Tuesday morn- ing at two o’clock, December 5, Mr.! Brandt did the disappearing act. The detective said Brandt had never used the ticket to Brainerd| and that there was no record of this ticket having ever been used. i Brandt had a celebration and hol- iday. in St. Paul and raised some money, it is said, by forging a check. He never left the place, it is pre- sumed, and is probably in St. Paul at the present time. In an interview in the hotel cor- ridor of the Ransford, the Burns man said that a vast dynamiting, yegg an dincendiary gang was doing a wholesome crime business in northern Minnesota and that this all cities. He said arrests would be made. soon Gearlds Hearing Tomorrow. The preliminary hearing of Ed- ward Gearlds will be resumed here tomorrow in municiple ourt before Judge H, A. Simmons. At the re- quest of Attorney George Speer of Grand Rapids, appearing for Mr, Gearlds, the hearing was postponed until December 15.at 10 a. m. {ditionery friend. { that the teaching of Santa Claus will THINK IT MEANS MUCH JOY And That Happy Children Can Be Taught Real Christmas Spirit By Imaginary Idol. REV. FOLEY HAS OPPOSITE VIEW Believes it Improper to Continue the Teachings of Untruthful and Selfish Story. Do you believe in Santa Claus? The Daily Pioneer reporter asked several persons in Bemidji if they believed in the sly, old long-whis- kered gentleman. Most of them said they did but not all. Here are the answers: What Bemidji Men Think of Him. Judge C. M. Stanton—“I am a s*rong believer in Santa Claus. The chief value is that he brings happi- ness and cheer to the hearts of the children and this is the main thing of importance at Christmas time. The longer children believe in Claus,” the better.” Dr. E. H. Smith—*“Most assuredly. As long as the youngsters derive Dleasure and anticipation from this imaginary idol, it would be exceed- ingly wrong to abolish their old tra- I do not believe destroy their faith in the teachings ol the Bible, as so many do. I got much pleasure out of old Santa when I was a boy and I can see no harm in my own children enjoying him as wall.” Dr. Marcum Sees Selfish Danger. Dr. E. H. Marcum—*I should hard- 1y believe in the abolishment of San- ta Claus, for the belief is too old a one to abuse. But to me, the teach- ing to little children brings with it a spirit of the pleasure of receiving rather than one of giving to others. Nowadays, the spirit of Christmas seems to be one of extreme selfish- ness, mainly, what can we get out of it, rather than, what can we give to others in the way of happiness? I { believe that we plant this idea of sel- fishness in children largely through Santa Claus instead of teaching them scmething of the broader, deeper rreaning of the true Christmas spir- if. Father Phillippe Believes in Him. Father D. N. Phillippe—Santa Claus is one of our fairy tale heroes, he is a source of never ending joy and anticipation to the children, and is as large a factor in their young lives as are any other of their ima- ginary idols of folk-lore, and I can see no harm in the cheer and hap- piness he brings to so many young hearts at Christmas time. It s through the conception of Santa Claus that little children get the on- ly idea which they have of the hap- py, generous spirit of Christmas time. As long as Santa interests the little ones, that is the main thing of im- portance at Christmas time.” Here's a Blow for Santa. Rev. M. F. Foley—“The teaching of Santa Claus is all wrong. The child is taught an untruth as well as an idea of supreme selfishness, and the real meaning of Christmas is ov- erlooked, the unselfish, generous spir- it of this day, that of doing all we can to give to God on His birthday, instead of what we can get out of others. If Christmas could be made a time of giving to the church, the missionaries, who are the true ex- ponents of this unselfish spirit, and the poor, we should then have the ideal Christmas spirit of love, namely, President Taft has nominated Jud- son A. LaMoure, Jr., to bé collector of customs for the district of North and South Dakota. % —_— T ‘It is better to give than to re- ceive.” ”” Rev. S. E. P. White—“Santa Claus is all right in so far that in our en- (Continued on last pagw) Historlal Soclety vy X Santa. I