Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 12, 1912, Page 1

o MURDERER OF DAHL NOW SEEKS PARDON Shorty Wesley, Convicted With Paul Fornier, to Ask for Liberty on January 29. VICTIMS LIVED IN QUIRING Killed in Winter of 1904 and Prison- er Was Sentenced Here in April, 1907. 30 PERSONS HOPE FOR FREEDOM List Includes Several Criminals Sent to Stillwater from North End of State. In the list of eight murderers who will seek to be set free from the Min- nesota penitentiary. when the state board of pardons meet on January 29 | is James (Shorty) Wesley sentenced from Bemidji in April, 1907, by: Judge M. A. Spooner to life impris-| onment for the murder of N. O. Dahl| and his daughter, Agot, on their| homestead in Quiring township in the winter of 1904. Dahl's body was found in the winter of 1904 by Eu- gene Caldwell: He had been shot. His daughter's body was found the following spring with her skull] crushed. Wesley was arrested with Paul For- nier. Both men were convicted, but Fornier’s case was taken to the su- preme court by Fornier’s attorney, Charles W. Scrutchin of this city, and at the second trial held in Brainerd Fornier was acquitted. Wesley, however, went to prison where he has been for nearly five years. 4 Others-Seek Merey.- Others convicted of murder. who will ask for pardons are: Clyde King, who killed hig broth- er-in-law near Osseo following a New Year’s carousal, and Andrew Wold, who has been in the penitentiary more than 22 years. Eliza Goebel, 78 years old, for more than 30 years a practicing phy- sician in Moorhead, is again an ap- plicant for clemency. She was com- mitted in November, 1910, for five years for a criminal operation. Thirty-three in List. Thirty-three persons will apply to the board for pardons. Some of them are: Walter Livingston, sentenced from Stearns county Dec. 23, 1903, to the state prison for six years. Grand lar- ceny in the second degree. Bishop Dorsey, sentenced from Polk county, Jan. 9, 1900, to the state prison for twenty-one years. Murder. Eliza Goebel, sentenced from Clay county, Nov. 18, 1910, to the state prison for five years. Andrew Wold, sentenced from Wil- kin county, Dec. 14, 1889, to the state prison for life. Murder in the first degree. William E. Anderson, sentenced from Otter Tail county, July 27, 1908, to the state prison, indetermi- nate sentence. Judge recommends pardon. Robert N. Chord, sentenced from Wright county, Dec. 24, 1908, to the state prison for five years. Arson in the third degree. Hugo Gauer, sentenced from Trav- erse county, Dec. 1, 1906, to the state prison for fifteen years. Walter Webb, sentenced from Hen- nepin county, Feb. 24, 19086, to the state prison for eighteen years. Manslaughter in the first degree. Sylvester F .Brenic, sentenced from These From St. Louis. St. Louis county, Dec. 12, 1910, to the state prison for two years. Grand larceny in the second degree. George A..Hebert, sentenced from $t. Louis county, Oct. 17, 1910, to the state reformatory—indeterminate gentence, Forgery in the second de- gree. Joseph Derosier, sentenced from St. Louis county, Dec. 5, 1911, to the state prison for one year. Non-sup- port. William E. Matthews, sentenced from Hennepin county, Jan. 17, 1908, to the state prison for life. Murder in the second degree. Prosecuting attorney recommends clemency. Barney Sullivan, sentenced from Aitkin county, May 24, 1910, to the state prison for life. - Prosecuting at- torney opposes clemency. Fritz Becker, sentenced from Jack- son county, Jan. 21, 1908, to the state prison for nine years and four VOLUME 9. NUMBER 217. | his candidacy a few days ago. ALL BUT ONE WANT OFFICE \ Lieutenant Governor Only Official at Capitol Not Avowed Candidate to Seek Re-election. SMITH FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL St. Paul, Jan. 12.—All but one of Minnesota’s state officials holding olective offices, will be candidates for return engagements this year. With the exception of State Au- ditor Iverson and Clerk of the Su- preme Court Caswell whose present terms do not expire until 1914, each, save Lieutenant Governor Gordon, will appeal to “his constituency” for endorsement for the job he holds, ac- cording to statements made by them today. The candidacy of Governor Eber- hart, of course, is known. Secretary of State Schmahl will seek a fourth term. Walter J. Smith will ask for re-election as state treasurer. Charles Elmquist and Ira B. Mills each wants another term as rallroad and ware- house commissioner. Assoclate Jus- tice Holt and Bunn of the Supreme Court, the former a Republican and the latter Democrat, will be up. Both were appointed by Governor Eber-; hart. Chief Justice Start announced Lyndon A. Smith, who became at- torney general on the retirement of George T. Simpson the first of this year, will seek election to the office to which he was appointed. Mr. Smith was elected lieutenant gover- nor of the state in 1898. There appears to be little dissatis- faction in any of the state offices at the present time, and the friction which arose between many depart- ments last summer, has almost entire- ly disappeared. The retirement of Atterney General Simpson relieved a strained situation between his de- partment, the governor, the secretary of state and the state auditor. NO PLACE TO PLAY BASKETBALL ngh "School Champion Team Quits; Class Games Because they are unable to obtain a suitable place in which to play, Be- midji High School athletes have canceled theif long schedule of basketball games for this winter and will play no outside teams. Inter- class games will be played in the high school gymnasium, but farther than that High School basketball will be a dead issue this winter. A few days before the Christmas vaca- tion Maurice Ryan and several other high school students tried to obtain the Armory for a game with Walker, but they were unable to do so on ac- count of lack of heat. A delegation of students appealed to the city council for the City Hall, but that building had been rented. There is Lo other snitable building in towu, so the students were forced to give up hopes of winning the basketball championship. However, the dif- ferent classes will organize teams. 1t is likely that the Eighth grade team if it is organized will win the city championship, there being several experienced players in that class. The Senior boys met in the Mathematics room at the High School and organized a team. Alec Ripple was elected captain and manager. The Senior team will pro- bably line up as follows:—Center, Walter Jones; Forwards, Alec Rip- ple and Hiram Simons, Guards. Melvin Galchutt and John Gainey; Substitute, Charles Gerlinger. They will begin to practice together in the near future. sree—c- Chicago drinks a pint of milk per capita daily. The Japanese have learned to brew beer and are now introducing beer into China. There are several species of liz- ards which, when frightened, will amputate their own tails by a quick jerk. The horn of the rhinoceros is not jointed to the bone of the head, but grows on the skin like a wart or corn, It is told of a clock in Brussels that it has never been wound by hu- man hands. It is kept going by the wind. England has twelve million cattle. Records show that monkeys were kept as pets as eerly as the year of 1230 B. C. Seaweeds are not nourished from the soil like other weeds, but feed upon material that abounds in all sea water. i today has the mercury there crept TWIN CITIES SHAKE IN 30 BELOW SNAP Other Places Throughout Northwest Report Temperatures Ranging 3 From 40 to 49. MERCURY HERE DOWN TO 35 Vegetables Freeze and Farmers Un- able to Bring in Fresh Sup- plies of Eggs. BOY STICKS TONGUE ON FENCE Held to Chilled Iron Until Thawed Loose By Blowpot and Hot Water. In the Twin Cities last night the; thermometers went down to 30 de- grees below zero. A long distance telephone message at 3 p. m. today said that at no time about 20 below. = Cold in Many Places. From all over the Northwest re- ports of extremely low temperatures for last night were reported, North- ern Wisconsin and Michigan points sending in temperatures of from 40 to 49 below. At LaCrosse, Wis., it was 36 belvw zero. 35 Below Here. In Bemidji government thermome- ters registered 35. Today, however, a brisk wind from the south d@id its best toward send-|. ing:0ld Man scampéring back to thej: North -pole, but the best it could & Wag to bobst-the mereury-< wm,eliht B below. May Be Wumer. The forecast for Minnesota given out in St. Paul says: “Fair and slowly rising tempera- ture for Saturday.” Bemidji plumbers have been re- quired to employ extra help and one firm has had an average of 20 hurry up calls every day for the past ten days. Effects of Cold. Several persons have discovered that their winter supply of vegetables in their cellars have frozen. Few fresh eggs are to be had as they freeze in the farmers’ sleighs while being brought to market. This also is true of vegetables. At Coleraine, east of Bemidji on the iron range, Charles Smith, 11 years old, son of George Smith, at- tempted to eat the frost off a gas pipe fence around the Oliver company office. building. Tongue Held to Iron. The lad’s tongue immediately be- came glued to the frost penetrated steel and held him so fast that he could not call for help. Pedestrians saw the boy’s predica- ment but no one knew how to release him. Finally hot water was secured and a man ran to the tinner’s and ob- tained a blowpot and after several more minutes the frost was taken out of the pipe and the boy was able to put his tongue back in his mouth. At the Coleraine hospital it was said that no serious results were an- ticipated. Coldest 10 Days at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis.,, Jan. 12.—Mil- waukee has just experienced the coldest 10 days in its history. In the dim past there may- have been stretches of colder weather, but if so there are no official records to prove the duration of the cold spells. The weather bureau was founded in 1871 and the present cold snap eclipses anything in its history. Since the first of the year there has been an average temperature of six degrees below zero, according to the government records. Snow in Colorado. Denver, Colo., Jan. 11.—Snow he- gan falling generally-throughout the state, accompahied by an average Frigid Weather Also: in Cost of Potatges and Eat- BUT DRIED FRUITS TUMBLE There will be no mlifi of fresh lettuce, eelery. or oglopl in the Be- ‘mid}i markets while the extreme cold posible. Irlsh potatoes are higher in price 5 ecents a bushel. The reason for this advance is the difficulty in ship- ping the potatoes to the Chicago mar- kets, which set the price for the western products to a large extent. Other winter vegetables are unchang- ed. In dried fruits, apples have gone down 5 cents a pound. Apples were in such abundance this:year that many| farmers were forced to evaporate their supplies in order to sell them, Tesulting in an over abundance on the market. The cold weather has also caused the price of choice eating apples to go upward 50 cents a barrel on what they were a week ago, and approxi- mately 26 cents on the bushel. This is due to the cost to the wholesalers of storing them, and the large num- ber in storage spoiling from the cold. Other fruits remain firm. Plentiful supplies of lemons, or- anges and bananas are on hand at | unchanged prices. Harmon Opens = Campaign East St. Louis, I, Jan, 12:— Governor Jydson ‘Harmon of Ohio arrived here tody to-deliver the first speech in hizs ‘campaign for the Democratic - presidential nomina- tion in Nlinois. The address is to be delivered at a mass meeting arrang- ed by ‘the St. Clair County Demo- cratic Club, Jack London, author of “The Call of the Wild” and other popular romances; {8 36 years old today. Imitation tortoise shell is some- times made from the horns of cows. The wild horses of Arabia will not suffer . a tame horse-among them. But, it~ is said, the wild horses of South - America = will decoy tame horses, ‘seeming = eager to. welcome them. Condors have been seen to circle to and fro in the sky for half a day at'a time rising and descending without once flapping wing. There| is a mystery about-their method of motion that has never heon ox- plained. A rats “teeth hlve a vety ‘hard an-| : terior ed, e, while the hinder part. drop of 30 degrees in the tempera- ture, with the mercury hovering near zero. The :thaw of the last: two lnyl The colors ‘of a- chlmeleon do not change insuntly, a8 is 'popularly months, Prosecuting attorney rec- ommends clemency. en{ storms means serloug Toss should develop lnw a bliza supposed, but requlraa conlldenble 3 -|length of tim h saved ‘thousands of cattle on the east- | 7 || COMPROMISE LATE FMR DATE But Northern Minnesota Insists In- vestigation Be Made, The special . committee of the Northern Minnesota Development as- sociation decided not to push its de- mand for & change in the date of the next state fair, st the state fair meet- ing in St. Paul yesterday, but com- promised with the understanding that the soclety and board of fair managers investigate the feasibility of changing the date of the 1913 fair 80 ‘that Northern Minnesota prod- ucts can he entered at an even break Northern Mlnnmtlna are just as militant as ever to contending that their section of the state does not get a square deal, but in the interests of harmony, and realizing that ar- rangements for the next fair have gone too far to admit of any change at this time, they consented to the compromise. The resolution renrd— ing the question in controvem fol- lows: “Whereas, a later dlte for holding the state fair would insure a better maturity of many agricultural prod- ucts of this state, dnd for that rea- son it might be advisable to select a later date for holding the state fair. “Be it resolved, That the president appoint a ~ committee of three, of which the chairman of the date com- mittee of the Northern Minnesota Development association be one, -to fully investigate the question and render & full report of the findings to the next meeting of this society, and that the expenses of such inves- tigation be paid from the funds’ of this association.” NEW RAILROAD IS PLANNED Backus-Brooks May Build From In- ternatoinal-Falls to Thief River. Duluth, Mlnn.. Jan. 12.—Building of a new railroad from International Falls to Thief River Falls, a distance of 160 miles, iz announced as under contemplation by the Backus-Brooks company. It is intimated that cnnoeml rail- Toad interests are being bonded for /| $3,000,000 with this project in view, and that preliminary surveys have been already made, with the object «a*pum‘ot‘l il! l‘" 1| a 2o lll ||| POSTOFFICE GETS $18,500 This Amount Taken in at Bemidji _Institution During 1911 Says Official Report. BRANDT, ARSON WITNESS, CAUGHT In Act of Passing Worthless Check for $400 When His Arrest is Made. HAD WORKED $1,000 STEAL Succeeded in Passing Paper for This By Impersonating Cloquet Li- quor Dealer. INOW @GOES 'TO STILLWATER | Must Serve Ten Year Sentence Hang- ing Over Him When Picked Up By State. St. Paul, Minn,, Jan. 12.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service) —Trap- ped in the act of passing a forged check, A. H. Brandt, the state’s star witness at the preliminary examina- tion in Bemidji of. Edwin Gearlds, was today arrested by the police of St. Paul. - Despite the assertion of former At-. torney General Simpson that it ap- peared probable that Brandt, also known by the name of Duvall, had been “offered inducements to disap- pear” the police assert that Brandt has been in and out of St. Paul con- tinuously since a warrant was sworn $13,325 I§ -PAID OUT HERE According to ‘an official L&nfth T ihe Bemidjt* 507.46. ; From the sale of postge stamps, special delivery stamps, postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrap- pers, books of stamps, international reply cupons,” and postage ~ due stamps. $17,525.56 was taken in. Received in excess over Depart- ment - invoice value from sale of stamped envelopes, and newspapers singlyor in odd lots $12.05 From postage at one cent a pound collection in money on second class matter mailed by publishers and news agents $156.10. From box rents, $813.75. Total receipts for 1911, $18507.46. During the year money was paid out as follows: report Postmaster’s salary ......$2,5560.00 Special delivery messen- 2 BEIS o tiiiciveciaanee 64.24 Post office clerks . . . 5,762.42 Railway mail clerks ..... 1,281.6 Rental for cancelling ma- ; chine .. ............. 72,00 For city delivery service.. 2,373.32 For rent of postoffice quar- ters . ... .......0..1,080.00 For miscellaneous expenses 20.45 Deposits to credit-of P. O. department .. ........ 5,181.47 Total . .............$18,607.46 Figures concerning the postal sav- ings bank ‘business are not available at this tlme. KILLS SELF; BURNS HIS xoln: at Baudette Said to Have Followed Quarrel With Wife. out in Bemidji charging Brandt with perjury. How His Downfall Came. In fact Brandt not long ago went mltn. -A. R. Eriek. into a wholesale Mquor dealers es- receipts for 1911 “ tablishment ‘here and ordered a bill £ of were: ¢ie,- $1 o%f?%rm R & Elm at qluquet md Mr. ‘Olson of that.firm. For these goods he offered a"check, A few days later the check was re- turned marked, “forged.” B * Walked Into Trap. All liquor dealers were notified so that today when Brandt went into the wholesale liquor house of Sardell brothers and ordered a bill of goods costing about $400 and offered an- other Olson & Elm check, this time representing himself to be Elm, Mr. Sardell telephoned for the police. Refuses to Talk. Brandt quietly submitted to arrest but refuses to talk and will answer no questions relative to the Black- duck arson case in which he swore that he saw money paid for the job and at which time he declared he was in the employ of the state, work- ing under orders from the attorney general’s office. Will Go to Stillwater. Brandt will be taken to Stillwater at once to serve a ten year sentence. Brandt was convicted at Winona and was to have begun serving his sentence but he sprung his arson tes- timony story and at the request of the attorney general he was paroled. MACKENZIE BECOMES SERIOUS Wfll n‘ot lhny Report That He is Bcluuhll Scalp. That W. R. Mnckenxle of this city is seriously considering the advis- the Republican nomination as secre- of beginning work at as early a date| From Baudette comes the news of [tary of state, is shown by the follow- as possible. The line would be an extension of |across the Canadian line Wednesday |St: Paul Dispatch: a domestic tragedy enacted just ing offering of a reporter .for the “W. R. Macken- BY ST.PAULPOLICE totalling & 1ittle ) opte than -- ability of becoming a candidate for the Minnesota, Dakota & Western,|which ended in suicide and the de- |Zle, Bemidji, secretary of the North- which now ekirts the Rainy: river for |struction of the home of A. Minneaux, |ern Minnesota Development associa- subsidiary. 22 miles to Loman and is'operated a8|a Frenchman, the dead man, who tion, won’t deny that he is an active a logging road by the Inurnammn lived north of the Baudette interna- | candidate for secretary of state. Lumber: company, & Baskus-Brooks tional bridge. It is believed the sui-|is said that since M. Mackenzie fail- From Loman it would|cide and fire followed a-row by Min-|ed to land as immigration” commis- pass through Koochoching, Beltrami, | neaux with his wife when he is said|sioner, he is out after the scalp of It Marshall and Red Lake counties, to|to have driven her from their home,|Jullus A. Schmahl, who voted.for Mr. Thief River Falls, practically making|then applying the torch to the house | Maxfield; “former president of the a cross nuw-y for the northern por- nd_shooting himself, his burning Northern: usocmlon. !(r lhcken- 5 d° was enunly consumed, zomsomue-én bones: xmnmnnsmmu_x““ Dur! f Minneaux. Min- |Iegisi: