Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 1, 1912, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI1 VOLUME NUMBER 234. KNIFE THRUST ENDS IN PRISON SENTENCE John Peterson, Who Laid Bare Stew- | arts’ Wind Pipe, in Olson Saloon, Pleads Guilty. BROUGHT BEFORE STANTON County Attorney Presents Evidence Show Assault in Second Degree Had |OVer tomorrow. Been Committed. PRISONER ALLEGES ABUSE | | | Says He Haq Been Thrown and Pock- | ets Searched for Money to Pay | Tor Drinks, { John Peterson. arrested here on| October 14 last, after he had inflict- | Governor {minus in western Canada was reach-| PPPPPPOPRPOOOOGSG @ QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ PIOPOHCOOOOOCO S D 1t is practically certain that the British steamer Genoa of the Wilson {line foundered during the recent i storm, losing its erew f twenty-four. | » George Wilson, accused of having manufactured counterfeit $5 gold | pieces, served a sentence of one day !in the Alameda county jail at San Francisco, and paid a fine of $250. | . The second Wisconsin country lite conference under the auspices of the college of agriculture of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin began its sessions at Madison today and will continue * Woodrow Wilson and Senator LaFollette will be guests at the dinner of the Periodical Publish- ers’ association which will be given at the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadel- phia tomorrow night. ) The farthest northern railway ter- ed when a train of the Canadian| Northern Railway pulled into Atha-| basea Landing, ninety miles north of | Edmonton. Alta., Monda . | Fire destroyed the Holy Cross Col- ed a deep and dangerous cut on the| neck of B. . Stewart, a bartender in | the Chris Olson saloon, nleaded guil- 1y before Judge C. W. Stanton in| chambers here and was given an in-! determinate sentence in the state penitentiary at Stillwater. H The maximum penalty for Peter-. son’s offense is five years’ imprison- ment Has Been Locked Up. i Following the arrest of Peterson last fall, the court appointed Attor-| ney John L. Brown to defend him. | Peterson was bound over to await! the action of the grand jury and be- ing unable to furnish bail, has been conlined in the county jail. The c¢harge pending against him was as- sault in the second degree. Torrance Presents Evidence. Peterson decided to take advantage | of the law which permits a prisoner to enter a plea of guilty and receive immediate sentence. Before Judge | Stanton, Graham M. Torrance pre- sented the facts as obtained by the state and sentence was passed, Pet- erson today being tak:wn to Stillwa- ter Says He Was Searched. Peterson’s side of (he trouble isi that he had been in the Olson saloon| and that while there he was set upon, thrown to the floor and his pockets! searched for money on the pretext that he had not paid for drinks which e had consumed. After this, Peterson says, he left the saloon, Nearly Carries Out Threat. Evidence shows that he returned later in the afternoon and after mak-| ing the threat that he would “cut the neck off” Stewart started in to make good and came so close to keep- ing his worq that for ten days Stew- art was a patient at St. Anthony’s hospital. Close to Jugular Vein. The knife wound from Peterson had all but severad the jugular vein, a gaping wound revealing the in- jured man’s windpipe. | The cut soon healed and Stewart was able to attend the preliminary examination in municipal court at which time Peterson was bound over. MAN BITES OFF CHILD'S HAND? Took Place on Bemidji Train, Says Report at International Falls. The following appears in last night’s issue of the International Falls Daily Journal: “Word was brought to the city by passengers on the Minnesota and International that a rumor was current down the line that a drunken man had bitten off the hand of a baby and that the child had died. The brutal act is supposed to have taken place at a point between here and Bemidji. We are unable to confirm the rumor but if it should prove true the brute should receive the maximum of pun- ishment the law allows and then some." i CHURCH FROLIC NETS $100 Event at City Hall Success for Young | Attorney E. E. McDonald on behalf Members of Catholic Church. The card party given in the City Hall last evening by the young wom- en of the St. Philip’s Catholic church proved an unusual sucesss about $100 having been netted for the church. The party was managed entirely by the younger set. During the evening cinch was played after which a short program was given. Lunch was serv- ed at 10 o’clock after which the floor was cleared and dancing began. Dur- ing the entire evening a grab bag | Sacred College, was ushered in today | {with a solemn mass of thanksgiving! {became the bride of James Paul Don-; | surance |amount of an insuranc lege near Farnham, Quebec. Ouc{{ hundred and fifty pupils in the col-| lege at the time got ont safely. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Five students were arrested on charge of | incendiarism. . A tuneral procession on ice to Kel- ley's Tsland, a distance of thirteen ! miles, took place at Sandusky, Ohio, | the casket containing the body of Mrs. Julia Moross being placed on a bobsled and the mourners followed on another bobsled. . A week of celebration in honor of the home-coming of Cardinal- O’Con- nell, the first New England prelate ever elevated to membership in the| in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross at Boston. * Miss Jessie May Woolworth, daugh- | ter of Frank W. Woolworth, who has} made millions out of his five and ten | cent stores and is adding to his fame by erecting in New York the tallest| building in the world, this afternoon | ahue, son of Patrick Donahue of New% York. | . Secretary of Commerce and Labor | Charles Nagel is to be the chief speaker tomorrow night at the an-! nual dinner of the Boston Chamber | of Commerce. Mr. Nagel’s address is anticipated with considerable inter- est as it is expected he will set forth ! the views of the administration in regards to the proposal of leading business men to make cxisting gov-| ernment agencies more useful to com- merce by creating possibly a semi- official body analogous to the British Board of Trade, which would repre- sent in concrete form government co- operation in the activities of com- merce and industry. . . Attorneys for both sides are busy at work preparing for the trial of the famous Kimmel case, which is set to begin in the United States court on next Tuesday, in St. Louis before Judge Amidon of North Dakota. The trial is expected to attract wide attention on account of the many strange features that the case presents. The case to be tried is the suit brought by the receiver of the Farmers’ State Bank of Arkansas City, Kas., against a New York in- company to recover the policy held by George A. Kimmel, who was cash- ier of the bank institution. The whole case hinges on the question of whether Kimmel is living or dead. The insurance company claims a man known as Andrew J. White is in real- ity the missing Kimmel Mrs. Julia E. Kimmel, the mother, and Mrs. Ed- na K. Bonslett, the sister, after studying the ex-convict carefully, de- nounced the man as an imposter. |HAYNER CASE GOES TO COURT ;Stnntou Overruies Demurrers Filed By Bondsmen Lahr and Phibbs. Separate demurrers interposed by of J. P. Lahr and Matt Phibbs as bondsmen for R. C. Hayner while i county auditor, as well as a demurrer |In behalf of Mr. Hayner himself, have been overruled by Judge C. W. Stan-| ton, who holds that the complaint of County Attorney Graham M. Tor- rance, alleging that Mr. Hayner ex- pended about $600 mora than he was entitled to by law for clerk hire in the county auditor’s office. The de- fendant has ten daysTin which to an- swer and unless action is taken the attempt of the county to collect from USES OILTO START FIRE; BLOWN 25 FEET Ed. Johnson, Eckstrum Plumbing Shop Employe, Uses Gasoline and Wrecks Windows. ESCAPES WITHOUT INJURY Clothing Ignited But Companion Rushes to Aid Before Serious “Harm is Done. SMART'S OFFICE IS JARRED Glass Frame Forced Out and Big Clock is Hurled Several Feet Across the Room. Ed. Johnson, an employe at the Eckstrum plumbing shop on Beltra- mia avenue, was blown 25 feet through a closed door and window ! glass and window frames blown out. | when Edward attempted to start a quick fire in a woodstove in the workroom in the rear of the shop proper by pouring about a quart of | gasoline into the stove | He Succeeds. The young man succeeded in start- ing a fire quick, the flames filling the interior of the building and envel- oping the clothing of the fire build- er who would have been severely burned but for the prompt assistance given by Henry Grant, a plumber, at work in the shop. Tells How it Happened. Explaining the accident, Mr. John- son said: 1 _guess there was ‘about a quart of gasoline in the can. There was a fire in the stove at _“the time bt T wantsd fo coax it along. I began pouring and the next I knew I was out in the front of- fice, 25 feet away. I had been blown that far, and when 18 feet away on this rapid journey 1 landed against the locked door between the workroom and the shop, but. I didn’t hesitate for that but crashed on through the door landing seven feet the other. side. Gets Up Unhurt. My hair was singed some and my clothes were on fire, but Grant came to my rescue so that 1 got out of it all right. Some idea of the force of the ex- plosion is shown by the fact that the front plate glass window went out with a crash, although it is about 40 feet from the stove which was in a room separated from the front by a partition. ) Tom Smart’s Office Feels It. In the Tom Smart dray office, next door in the same building, the force of the gasoline was sufficient to tear out a window and hurl a clock sev- eral feet. Danger from a serious fire from the blazing fluid was only averted by prompt action of those in the build- ing at the time. No estimate has been made as to the total damage. EARTHQUAKE SHAKES ALASKA Following Warm Weather Disturb- ance Causes Much Excitement. Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 1.—Violent earthquake shock was felt here at 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning, continuing fifty seconds. The move- ment was from the northeast to the southwest with an oscilliation of six degrees, the earthquak: was the se- verest ever experienced here. Nine minor tremors of brief duration fol- lowed the first shock. Valdez has only two story wooden buildings and no damage was done here. . | Owing to the warm winter and strong northwest current, ascribed in Alaska to a change in the course of the Japan current, but accounted for by scientists as due to continued southeast gales, the earthquake has caused great excitement here and there is much speculation as to pos- sible changes in the ocean floor. Seattle, Feb. 1.—The earthquake felt at Valdez Alaska yesterday was recorded by the seismograph at the University of Washington, the record showing that the oscillations began at 11:46 a. m., Pacific time and con- tinuing for an hour and a half. For- ty-five minutes after the first vibra- tion: there were two severe shocks and two fortune tellers furnished amusement for thoge present. Mr. Hayner will come up at the next session of the district court, ‘through ] M&Am%%fiw ‘thence into Cana i mipeg. the | : { will follow ‘the river-north to the E LAST COOK WE HAD SERVED US NOTHING BUT ggos'rep CAKES, ICES AWND. A LOT OF ZERO PUPDIN’. | TRUST YOU WILL GIVE US A LITTLE Work to Start in Spring on Railroad From Fargo, Grand I';Srki to Win- nipeg, Canada.’ - $5,000,000 - COMPANY ¥ " FORMED Crookston is to have a new rail- road to be constructefl. from Fargo through an _ ‘unanndunced route In announcing the “project Crookston. Daily Times says: “The biggest piece of news that has developed in the Northwest for a year past reached at last the par- tial publicity stage this afternoon when at St. Paul articles of incorpo- ration were filed for the Chicago, Minneapolis, Red Rivei -Valley & Winnipeg Railroad ~ company, with Secretary of State Schmahl. The capital is $5,000,000, and the filing fee amours to a little less than $3,000. The incorporators are prom- inent men with ample backing, in- cluding one prominent Crookston gentleman, but for certain reasons the names of the incorporators will not be divulged today. “There are — material other. facts| which are not ready for publication today, but this much can be stated, the new company' which: will con- struct the road is incorporated as the Chicago, Minneapolis, Red River Val- ley & Winnipeg Railroad company, and it can be definitely announced that the line will run from Fargo to Crookston, thence to Grand Forks, and on to Winnipeg. “From Fargo to Crookston the ex- act route cannot be stated at this time, It will depend somewhat on which right of way is most easily se- cured from Fargo here. The Dako- tans are offering free right of way through several townships in order 1o get the line to run as far north on the Dakota side of the river as pos- sible before heading for Crookston, but it is very probable that the peo- ple on the Minnesota side of the river will also come t¢ the front when the immense importance of this new railroad is outlined more fully, and its untold value to the develop- ment of the country emphasized and appreciated by the people, who will grasp at it quickly. “The details regarding the route through Crookston and from here to Grand Forks have not been made public, but the plans are to back trains into Grand Forks from East Grand Forks, which simplifies the | difficulties in that city. Heading out of East Grand Forks, the road boundary line through 7s rich a farm- ing country as lies out of doors. COMMISSION' PLAN IS DEFEATED Grand Rapids, Ws.,i by 165 Majority, Rejects New Form of Government. . Grand Rapids, Wis, Feb. 1.—At an election Grand Rapids rejected the commission plan of city/ government by & majority of 165 cut of.1,256 votes cast. o Portage, Wis., Downey yesterday received a petition lasting two minutes each rated by an interval of réquesting a special election on Feb. 2 & vate on th j (® e NEW LINE FOR CROOKSTON : ission form |t February Has 5 Big Days. There are to be five distinctive : days in February, which is an : : extraordinary month this year, : ¢ anyhow, because it Lias 29 days, when ordinarily it has but 28. { The extra day is due to the fact : : that this.is “leap year.”” Tomor- : :.row is “ground hog, or Candle :.mas” day, when we usually have i six weeks more of winter wheth- : i er or not the ground hog sees : his shadow. Next comes Lin : coln’s birth anniversary on Feb- t.ruary 12, a legal holiday in : Minnesota. Then St.Valentine's February 21, the beginning of : : Lent and the next day is Wash- : : ington’s birthday. DUMAS WITNESS CAUGHT Henry Wise, Bartender Said to Have Served Drinks at Time of Pu- posky Plot, is Held. FAILED TO OBEY SUBPOENA Henry Wise, the bartender who is presumed to have served drinks in the John C. Larson saloon here at the time Dr. D. F. Dumas, Mike Dav- is, Martin Behan and Bert’'Smyth held their famous “Puposky robbery’ meeting here last June, has been tak- en in charge by Sheriff Hazen on a bench warrant. Wise was wanted as a witness by the state at the time of the Dumas trial here last October and a subpoena was served on him but Wise forgot the subpoena, or decided to ignore it, for when the case came on Wise could not be found. Yesterday Wise again made his appearance in Bemidji and _was promptly grabbed by the sheriff. He has not been locked up and is at lib- erty on his own recognizance. Wise is now wanted as a witness in the pending charge against Dr. Dumas in the civil court and prob- ably will be subpoenasd by the gov- ernment when the fcderal charge against Dr. Dumag comes up at Fer- gus Falls. d J. ALSTAD DeCOSTER DEAD Employe of Crookston Lumber Com- pany Victim of Typhoid Fever. J. Alstad DeCoster, 49 years of age, died here on Sunday :norning of ty- phoid fever, having been ill but a month. Mr. DeCoster came to Be- midji seven years ago from Brain- erd where he was an old resident. He was employed here by the Crook- ston Lumber company. He is sur- vived by his wife and cight children, Carl of Hill City, John, May, Earl, Flora and William, -all of whom | make their home_in this city, andj Manfred and Gladys who live at Owa-| tonna. He is also survived by a: mother and step-father at Kimball, Minn,; who were unable fo reach here in time for the frneral; ai y three brothers, M. and ¥ . Brow | Smart taking the initiative, the city Appeal From Municipal Court to District Bench, COSTS ADDED TO THE PENALTY ° According to a decision handed down by Judge C. W. Stanton the Be- midjl ordinance compelling draymen Amy‘_n—i.ea.x:l% license of. $25 is.v: Several months ago, Alderman Tom | id. council instructed Graham M. Tor- rance, who was city attorney at the| time, to take steps to collect dray li- censes from all men engaged in this line of business: Joseph McTaggarf, John Marin and Henry Seado contended that the ordinance was'invalid and refused to pay. They were brought into muni- cipal court and following trial there were found guilty by Judge Pender- gast who imposed a fine of $50 or| 60 days in the county jail. Attorney E. E. McDonald for the \defendants at once took an appeal to the district court. Judge Stanton | now upholds the lower court’s rul-| ing. E In handing down his decision, Judge Stanton reduces the sentence from 60 days in the county jail, if the $50 fines aren ot paid, to 30 days, but adds the district court costs to the defendants. B:URNS MAD LORIMER WITNESS Tells Committee if Insults “Don’t Stop Ill Stop Them.” 3 Washington, Feb. 1.—An attempt to impeach the testimony of Charles McGowan, a Hines-Lorimer witness, who testified he did not hear C. F. Wiehe make a statement about a $100,000 Lorimer'fund yesterday re- sulted in'a stormy session of- the sen- ate committee investigating the elec- tion of Senator Lorimer of Illinois. Detective William J. Burns was on the ‘stand. Tt had been planned for him to lay the ground work for his detectives to present “proof” of Mc- Gowans having “perjured” himself. After a sharp clash, Detective A. C. Bailey produced a letter alleged to have been written by McGowan ‘to Bailey and which Burns said was part of the evidence which had con- vinced him that McG)jwan had not (told the truth when bafore the com- mittee. In other parts were “admis- sions” McGowan was aileged to have madé in Toronto. to deicctives which were taken down by a dictagraph. | Burns made a trip 10 Canada and “got McGowan to comc to Washing- ton to perjure himseli.” McGowan’s father asked Burns if he wag the “great detective” and later Attorney Hancey spoke of “Burns, the great detective.”” . The witness flew into a rage. = 2o : “If the committee does not stop his sults, T will,”” declared Burns. Sel tor Lee agreed that Hancey was in Iting the witness. Senator Fletch-| added to the tense situation by as- & Hancey was verfectly justi- ed‘.. 2 2 5 Chairman: Dillingham put TEN. CENTS PER WEEK. /GREAT NORTHERN FLYER WRECKED; - NO ONE IS KILLED Every Coach of Speeding Southbound Passenger Leaps Rails North of Crookston, ITHREE PERSONS HURT IN CRASH |8ix Months 01d Child Has Finger So | Badly Crushed Has ‘> Be Ampu- tated; Mother Cut. CONDUCTOR'’S HEAD INJURED Wrecker Now .Busy Clearing Deb- ris From Tracks. i i ; = | Relief Train Rushed to Sceme aud | | 1 | | Crookston, Minn., Feb. 1.—In a iwreck of thie Great Northern's south- J3-bm.n;|d Winnipeg Flyer, No. 8, at 9 |o’clock last night, one mile north of | Donaldson, 70 miles' north of here, jeveryone of the seven coaches were thrown from the track and although Conductor Lakie and a woman and her infant child were seriously in- | McTaggart, Seado and Marin Lose in| jured, no one was killed, Mrs. Morris Hirshman of York was the woman hLurt. New Her six months old baby was thrown from her :arms and its scalp was cut and one finger so badly crushed that it had be amputated. Mrs. Hirshman is from New York. She was cut about the head and braast. Both she and her infant are in the hospital here. . Two other children with her were uninjured. _ 400 Feet Track Torn U up by the grinding wheels and today a wrecking crew from Grand Forks is busy clearin'g the track which can not be opened for traffic until late this evening. The engine did not leave the rails and the crash is at- tributed either from a bar falling from the locomotive or a broken rail. From 9 o’clock, the time the acci- dent occurred, until after midnight, the passengers suffered from the cold. The wreck took place in a lev- el stretch and a blinding blizzard was sweeping the prairies, with the tem- perature at a low point. One of the men passengers froze his hand. Crookston Sends Relief. ‘Worg of the wreck was sent to this city and a relief train bearing three physicians and.others was rushed to Donaldson. The physicians found that there was little need of their services, although Conductor Lakie had severe scalp wounds which, with those of Mrs. Hirshman and her chilq were treated. The conductor was the most severely wounded of the triot but he was able to continue on the special train to his home at Barnes- ville. - The relief train left Crookston at passengers to points south, arriving in the Twin Cities this evening. Crash Near High Culvert. Although the spot at which the train left the track was level it was not more than 50 feet to a culvert 16 feet high and had the cars jumped from here the .death list probably ‘would have been long. The cars fell on either side of the track and at least one landed cross- wise. The coaches were not badly damaged and there wag little danger from fire. ~All the coaches were well filled. [The mail and baggage cars toppled to one side but did not fall over on their sides." ? Going at Full Speed. The train was running practically * coming just before the eéngineer was about to whistle for ihe Donaldson station. & An examination of the track show- ed that some of the rails were in bad condition but this may had been caused by a foreward coach leaping the rails when a bar from the engine was struck; thus causing the wheels of the rear coaches to grind the rails badly. A Traing on the St. Vincent branch dre'being re-routed. 1 c no . way hampered traffic on the Grand Forks-Crookston-Bemidji line. Band to Give Dancs Friday. There will be a dance i st TFor 100 feet the Track was forn - 7 a. m. today conveying the belated ° at full speed at the time, the crash -