Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 16, 1912, Page 1

| | i | + | THE BEMIDJI LT ILY PIONE Histortal Soctetd ; SOCIETY. " VOLUME 9. NUMBER 27. *BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. SQUAW FOUND DEAD; MAY MEAN MURDER Chief Lon-ga-ge-shij Have Killed His Wife During Drunken Quarrel Wednesday. BODY DISCOVERED YESTERDAY Question as to What County Alleged Murder Was Committed Probably in Beltrami. in— STORY CHIEF TELLS * HIS Says His Wife Must Have Frozen To Death After Falling FromSleigh —Torrance Investigates. That murder has been committed in the opinion of G. M. Torrance, County Attorney of Beltrami county, who left this morning for Cass Lake accompanied by Deputy J. A. Cahill, and Coroner M. E. Ibertson. to in-| vestigate as to what manner the squaw of Chiel Lon-ga-ge-shij, of the Cass Lake Indian Band, who was found dead on Cass Lake, near Cass River yesterday, met her' death. | The body of the squaw was dis-| covered by some Indians going to| Cass Lake vesterday morning. and| when they arrived in that city they| immediately reported the case to the authorities, saying that in their/ oplnions that she had been kicked to death. { The dead squaw is more fifty years old and is survived one daughter, 10 years old. It is understood that the chiet and his squaw had been drinking while in Cass Lake Wednesday and that| when they left there toward evening | they were quarreling, which to a| certain extent may have some bear-| ing on the finding of the dead body, The chief claims she was frozen to, death. Coroner Miskella of Cass county | and Deputy Sheriff Brouilete to-| gether with Dr. Z. E. House, the} Indian agent left for the scene of the suposed murder late yesterday afternoon returning to Cass Lake with the dead body last evening. An examination shaws that the head of the squaw was fractured and that her face was otherwise hattered up. There was for a time some ques- tion as to whether the alleged crime took place in Cass or Beltrami counties, but Mr. Torrance stated this morning before leaving that the body must have been found at least ' five miles from the Cass county line. On his trip to bring in the body of the dead squaw the Cass county coroner found groceries which had} been purchased \Wednesday scattered for over half a mile, and also clothes of the squaw. Later they found blood spots in the snow ajong the track. The body of the squaw had apparently been dragged In the snow some distance. ‘The rough box of the sleigh had heen broken and scatter-| ed along the track also.. The chief was questioned by County Attorney Funck of Cass county and gave the following story of the affair: o “We left Cass Lake at about five- thirty o'clock yesterday afternoon from the shack of James Dunn who had a hearing In Judge Ives' court this afternoon on a charge of furn- {shing liquor to another Indian. “When we went to Dunn's shack than, by | my squaw had no whisky but when | we left she had a pint of it which I/ believe she secured from Dunn. We drank of the whisky and I felt the eftects of it although-the squaw had more, When we passed Star Island, gomething happened, My squaw tried to get out of the slelgh and fell out on her face and thus received the marke. sleigh but as she was such a large woman [ gould not 1ift her in. The hoyse was unruly and | dragged her forward to the sieigh. Several times raised her up but she fell each time. The gleigh broke while 1 was standing on it trying to lift her in: Finally 1 decideq that she was get- tipg #o cold angd shivering so much that something -would have to Le dope sa I cried out for help, but none came ®0 1 spread out the blankets and what other clothes I had aund povered her with my overcoat and blankets and lay down beside her on the ige for some time. “Finally 1 got so cold that I could not stand it any longer so 1 went on with the horse down Cass river and reported to my wife’s relatives that ghe was ip bad shape on the lake and then went on home arriving at about Believed to] I tried to get her back in thej |O’DONNELL DENIES REPORT {Makes Assertion That His Remarks | At Saloon Keepers’ Meeting Were Mis-construed. | TAKES OATH TO THIS EFFECT In an interview today with M. J. Donnell, he makes a firm denial to {baving said that he told any one that George Kreatz would withdraw should the saloon keepers endorse L. F. Johnson for mayor at the coming telection. | 'To this effect Mr. O'Donnell has imade afidavit, which is as follows: | State of Minnesota, County of Bel- trami, ss. i M. J. O'Donnell being duly sworn jon oath deposes and says that he has |read the affidavit of John Graham { published in the Bemidji Pioneer un- :,z]vr date of February 15th A, D, {1912, | And affiant says that he dia not tell jany one at any time that said John {Graham told this affiant that if L. F. ! Johnson should be indorsed by thel 'iSnlmm Keepers that George Kreatz| fwould wirhdraw as a Candidate for| May M. J. 0'DONNELL. i Subseribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of February, A. D., 1912, ! Charles W. Scrutchin, ! Notary Public. i Beltrami County, Minnesota. My Commisison Expires Sept. 25th,| 1913, i midnight. 1 did not return to the place where I left my wife until the officer came after me.” He explained that he had changed clothes since yesterday. He could not account for the fractured skull as he stated she had fallen forward out| of the sleigh. The bunches of hair which the coroner and his party| found along the way which were ap-| parently torn from her head he ex- plained might have been pvlled out by him when he was trying to get) her back into the sleigh. He stated that no one had seen” him - except Manitou the Great Spirit who had seen all his actions and would pro- teet him. When he was told that the skull could not have been fractured by falling backward into the snow but must have been crushed by some sharp blow with something in the hands of another he stated that the Great Spirit knew all his actions and the could vecall everything he had done but no such action as striking| her lay in his recollection of the oc- currences of the evening. . He stated that it was his belief | that his squaw had died from freez- ing to death. His reason for not coming back to the scene of the trag- edy was given as the extreme cold he had suffered and that he was unable to do so. A number of witnesses are being held here who left town with the chief driving ahead of him. They state that the chief and his squaw were quarreling and that the chief apparently intentionally drove very slowly in order to allow them to get out of the way. The woman was the chief’s second wife; he married her from the Red Lake tribe about four years ago, she being a widow with one daughter at the time. Other Indians state-that they were quarrelsome and several years ago some of them urged the Indian |agent here that they should be sep- | arated or there would some day be a tragedy. DESERT OCEAN IN AFRIGA 8ahara to Be Covered With Ships and Surrounded by Fertile Flelds and Foresta, The project of converting. the des- ert of Sahara into a vast inland sea, one-half the size of the Mediterran. ean, is again being agitated, chiefly by Prof. Gotchegoven, a distinguished scientist. He belleves he has worked out a satisfactory plan for the engl: neering work necessary, and is mow yrging that France add this to its oth: or Northern Africa enterprises. About pne-fourth of the great desert | 1s below the sea level, and by his plan of cutting a canal some 50 miles long to the north coast of Africa, the whole region would be covered with a sea from 10 to 60 fathoms deep and navi- gable by steamers, thus producing a flourishing trafic between French ‘West Africa, It 18 also argued that all the arid section surrounding the desert would be rendered as fertile ag_Europe, and that millions of people, now leading & precarious existence, eguld support themselves in comfort, Two objections are raised by other scientists, One {8 the possible dam- age which might be done to Eurape by an alteration of climatic conditiong on g large scale, and another the imagined possibility that the equill- brium of the earth would be affeoted by the displacement of so many bil lons of tons of water. Most savants, however, consider that such qhjee tions are exaggerated. 4 PPPOOOOOOOOOOOP P © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ Surrounded by numerous relatives and friends, Mr. and Mrs. William Stimus, residents of Bloomfield, N. 1J., for nearly a half century, today celebrated their sixty-third wedding ! anniversary. . Cbarter Day was celebrated at the University of Montana today with an interesting program of exercises. Walter S. Hartman of Bozeman, & meber of the state board of educa- tion, delivered the principal address of the day. * . In all the public schools in Ala- bama today was observed as “Temp- erance Day,” special exercises being held with a view to impressing upon the minds of the pupils the evils of intemperance. The observance of jthe day is required by law, an act to that effect having been passed by the legislature two years ago. « A good entry list has been receiv- ed for the senior: A. A. U. cross- country championship run, which is to be held in Philadelphia tomorrow Championship medals will be given the flrst ten to finish also five medals to the members of the winning teams, and ‘three team prizes, one of them being for a novice club. Today witnessed the centennial anniversary of the birth of Henry Wilson, the “Natick cobbler,” who was Vice President of the United States during the first two years of the second administration of Presi- dent Grant. Wilson Was a native of New Hampshire, but resided in Mass- achusetts during the greater part of his life. He was of gypsy or Indian blood and his original name was Je- remiah Jones Colbaith, which he had changed to Henry Wilson by legisla- tive enactment. Though not a man of intellectual grandeur, Wilson was an able writer and an eloquent speaker and lent valuable assistance to the anti-slavery cause. * Delegates from forty advertising clubs scattered over eleven southern states filled the assembly hall of the Pledmont hotel at Atlanta, Ga., this morning when President T. E. Bash- a mof Louisville called to order the’ annual convention of tlié southeast- ern division of the Associated Adver- tising Clubs of America. The ex- change of greetings and the trans- action of routine business occupied the initlal session. This afternoon the delegates visited the Atlanta au- tomobile show. ' The principal busi- ness session will be held tomorrow morning, with an automobile ride for the delegates in the afternoon. A banquet Saturday night will com- plete the program. ® Recent experiments are said to have indicated that seed corn in Neb- raska is in the worst condition in its history, and that unless something is done at once to remedy existing con- ditions the crop this year is likely to fall short by about 50 per cent. In an effort to save this probable loss of from $25,000,000 to $40,00,000 a whirlwind educational campaign is being planned by the business inter- ests. During the coming week half a dozen seedt-esting trains will be started over the state to get the farmers to test their seed corn before it is planted. Each train will be in charge of experts of the Nebraska State Experimental Station. Stops will be made at every town and vil- lage to give the lecturers an oppor- tunity to explain the situation to the farmers and instruct them in the methods of testing seed corn. Western, Bowling Tournament Los Angeles, Cal., Feb, 16.—Many of the best bowlers of the Pacific coast are in Los Angeles to compete in the annual. tournament of the Western Bowling Congress, which opens here tonight and will contins ue for a week or ten days. Cities as far distant as Portland, Seattle and Denver are pepresented and the high class of the entries gives promise of the most sucecssful tournament in the history of the organization. At the annual business meeting to be held in conjunction with' the tournament a proposition to affiliate with the Am- erican Bowling Congress will he con- sidered and acted upon. An electric crane is a Scotch ship- yard has handled loads of 187 tons to a height of 143 feet. Starch should be mixed with soap water, for thus the linenr will.have a more glossy appearance. be less like- ly to stick to the iron. One hundred and seyenteen per- banished for life from Perak last year. Of these 99 were Chinese, 12 of whom had been convicted of parti- cipating in unlawful societies. It was discovered that the number of pris- on offenses varled in indirect ratio with the price of tin. When tin is high the industry accordingly prosp- erous inmates of jails were few and vice versa, | LR ey sons chiefly habitual eriminals, were! T 000000000000 00 Ll (Copyright, ANTICIPATION IFE'S ONCE DISAPPOINTMENTS T AAD THE SAME THING WAPPEN TO e REALIZATION State Game and Fish Commissioner Will Begin Work as Soon as The Ice Goes Out. DISTRIBUTE MANY , TROUT FRY The state game and fish commis- sion is making arrangements to start, | just as soon as®the fce is out of | streams, collecting p‘fii‘e spawn for the fish hatcherjeg preparatory to the spring distribution. .Last year approximately 88,000,000 pike fry! Were placed in lakes throughout the state, and efforts will be made this | year to increase’ that number by sev- eral millions. The spawn will be gathered from streams tributary to Lake Vermillion, White Fish lake in Crow Wing county and from Rainy river. Trout fry are being hatched in the St. Paul and Glenwood hatcheries, and when spring opens aproximate- 1y 5,000,000 will be ready for distri- bution. In the St. Paul hatchery also are about 10,000 Chinook sal- mon, which will go out when the ice is gone. ; The bass spawn will not be gath- ered until fall. In response to a Yrotest which reached the game and fish commis- sion from Tower, that if pike spawn were. taken from streams tributary to Lake Vermillion in the future as in the past the big lake eventually would become short of that variety of fish, arrangements have been made -with the Commercial club of that city whereby 100 jars of fry will, be sent there for replenishing the supply. BUSICK PLEADS ~ GUILTY Admits Having Stolen a Pair of Trousers from & Room in In- ternational Hotel. GIVEN INDETERMINATE TERM After having been under arrest for only a few days Fred Busick yester- day pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny in the second degree. He was accused of having taken a| pair of trousers from a room in the| International Hotel. ‘ Zudge Wright, who heard his con-! tession, ordered that he be given an| indeterminate sentence in the re- foimatory at St. Cloud, but told the sheriff to hold him here until thel Society of the Friendless of Minnea- polis was heard from in connection vwiih the case. | Eecause of the young age of Bu- Isick the judge will in all probability allow the society to take charge of| {1he boy, and that his;reformatory sen- tenee will be suspended for a.certain perioa. L LR Aviation has taken hold of the Chinese and a sch belng opened at AFTER MORE PIKE SPA-WN|SMYTH SENT O PRISON/ DUNN HEADS ASSOCIATION Man Who Stole Suit Case From Be- : Minnesota Editors Are Unanimous midji Restaurant Must Serve Indeterminate Sentence SENTENCED BY JUDGE . WRIGHT That Steve Smyth must spend an indeterminate sentence in the state prison at Stillwater was ‘the decig fon of Judge B. F..Wright, yesterday afternoon, when that person was ar- raigned before -and pleaded quilty to a charge of grand larceny in the sec- ond degree. Smyth stole a suit case from the McDermott restaurant -on = Third street, February 10. BOAT NEARLY COMPLETED hemidji's New Passenger Mail Boat “City of Bemidji” Will Be Ready When Ice Leaves Lake ' MODERN. IN EVERY RESPECT During the coming boating season Bemidji will have upon its lake one of the best equipped and - modern passenger- and mail boats on any of the lakes of Minnesota, as the “City of Bemidji,” now under construction by Captain W. B. MecLachlan, is nearing completion and will be ready for the water as soon as the ice is out of the lake. The “City of Bemidji,” will be a boat 53 feet, 6 inches long and will have a beam of 11 feet, giving it a seating capacity of 534 square feet. The upper deck alone will hold fifty passengers. The boat will be equipped with all modern conveniences, ~ including a tollet, place glass cabin, smoking ca- bin, a pit with wicker chairs and pilot house from which the engines of the boat may be controlled. Two twenty-eight horse power en- gines will furnish the power. I It is the objeqt of Captain Mc- Latchlan to give Bemidji a passenger boat of which it may well feel proud, and which will give summer tour- ists to Bemidji the best possible ser- | i vice. The boat when completed will be worth about $5,000. It will be pos- sible for it to run either up or down the Mississippi. 50 Men Wanted for Loman Exte: Employment Agent this city, this morning received: no- tice that 50 men were wanted at once to work on the Loman 25-mile extension of the road which now op- erates between International Falls, and Loman, running along the Rainy River. s Kerosene will soften - boots shoes that have been h: e ‘water, ‘and makes them ‘as pliab] g i i Anderson of f’“ " ‘The president ofn the America ¥ ‘In Favor of Honoring Veteran Newspaper Man SUMMER EXCURSION TO DULUTH | | | | | | Robert C. Dunn of Princeton will be the next president of the Minneso- ta Editorial association, which con- vened today for” its annual ‘meeting: The name of_the veteran editor, leg- {islator and former state auditor was ! proposed today by some of his friends and met with instant approval. G. B. Bjorson of Minnesota, whose name had been suggested for the honor, !will make the speech nominating Dunn for the office at the closing of the session tomorrow. The attend- ance at the convention is unpreced-| ented. The editors agreed to take a| summer excursion to Duluth and the \Iron ‘Range. This was decided after a strong dddress had been made by C. S. Mit- chell of Duluth, who extended the in- vitation in behalf of the Duluth Com- mercial club. Among those who delieverd ad- Wresses today were S. Y. Gordon of Brown’s Valley, president of the as- sociation, and candidate for the re- publican nomination for governor; H. V. Jones ' of Minneapolis, who spoke on “Second Class Postage;" Theo. Christianson of Dawson. Former Congressman James A. Tawney of Winona, who was sched- uled to speak today on “World’s In- ternational Peace,” was unable to be present. The members of the association at- tended a banquet and theatre party {last evening. 1k 'WALKER PLAYS BEMIDJI High School Basketball Fives of Two Places Will Clash on City Hall Floor Tonight. |WILL BE HARD FOUGHT GAME Bemidji residents who are inter- ested in basketball will be given an opportunity this evening of witness- ing a contest which gives promise in be a thrilling exhibition from the start, when the high school teams of Bemidji and Walker meet on the City Hall floor. Walker will enter' into the con- test this evening with a determipa- tion to land a victory, for by so do- ing they will remain in the race for ithe championship of this section of the state. The fact that Walker re- cently defeated Akeley, the five de- feated by Bemidji last Friday is in itself proof that the game will be hard fought. The Bemidji lineup will remain, the same as in the previous contest. Telephone _and Telegraph company { The organizations UNIVERSITY TO BE TAKEN TO TOWNS Weeks of Educational Campaign Planned in June in Twenty-four Places 12 ORGANIZATIONS TO AID PLAN Program Will Include Courses of Lectures on a Wide Rrange of Subjects and Concerts BEMIDJI WILL BE ONE OF TOWNS | Says Dr. Vincent in Letter to Pioneer In Which He Suggests That a Water Fete Be Held Twelve organizations, including the Federation of Women's Clubs, the i State Art society, the state board of thealth and branches of the state’s educational system, will be asked to co-operate in the series of “universi- ty weeks,” which during next June will be carried out in twenty-four towns by the extension department of the state university, as roughly se- lected by President George E. Vin- cent. that will be asked to co-operate in the under- taking are: The State board of health, the state art society, agricul- tural extension division of the uni- versity, extension ° division of economics and political science, the extension division of the college of education; state dairy and food de- partment; department of public education; the state normal schools. the state library commission, the federated women’s clubs, the uni- versity dramatic club and the glee club. P A six-day program will be given in six towns.at.a time and will in- clude courses of lecturers on a wide range of subjects,-classes, confer- ences, popular entertainments, dramatic performances, —concerts, exhibits of art and industrial work, and health exhibits, the aim being to make the program varied enough to appeal to all the different inter- ests and groups of the community, to children and youths as well as to adults. The educational features of each program, given during the day, will be free. In the evening a series of entertainments, lectures, ~concerts and dramatic performances will be given to which a small admission fee will be charged. In each town an effort will be made to organize a free kindergarten, a vacation school, clubs for boys and girls, a parents’ symposium, and a chorus which will give a concert the last evening. It is the plan to leave behind in each community some permanent organ- jzation that will continue the work introduced by the week’s course. According to a letter received from Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the State University, this morning he says that Bemidji will likely be included in the plan along with Crookston, Detroit and three other Northern Minesota towns, .arriving here about the third week in June. Dr. Vincent suggests that a Satur- day night water fete be held here with prizes offered by the Commer- cial Club for the most original and beautiful decoration of motor and row boats. CHARITY BALL A SUCCESS More Than One Hundred Couples Attended Elks’ Annual Dance Last Evening. ESTIMATE $150 WAS CLEARED More than one hundred couple at- tended the annual Elks Charity Ball which was given in the City Hall last evening, and it is estimated that more than $150 was cleared, which will be used in aiding the poor of Bemidji. The hall was decorated in purple and white, the Elks colors, there be- ing streamers across the hall it’s en- tire length, forming a booth near. the centre, where punch was served throughout the evening. Masten’s orchestra furnished the music. itten [ HINNESOTA™ ISTORIGAL