Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 21, 1912, Page 1

THE BE —~ LY PIONEER. SNGIETY. - VOLUME 10. NUMBER 125. BEMIDJI MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENI‘NG.' SEPTEMBER 21, 1912.° A. 0. EBERHART IS STILL IN THE LEAD Returns Coming in Slowly at St. Paul Indicate He Will Have Good Por- tion of Vote. MANAHAN IS FAR AHEAD Eddy Second But Apparently Unable To Overcome Handicap of 8,000 Votes. ROSENWALD PUSHING ELMQUIST Returns From North Country May Lose Present Incumbent His Seat: St. Paul, Sept. 21.—Returns from Minnesota counties are coming very slowly to the state capitol. Figures on governor continue to show A. O. Eberhart with about thirty-eight per With Henne- pin and Ramsey complete, and 1, 494 cent of the tctal vote. outside precincts out of about 2,500 heard from, the total first choice vote today is: Eberhart 45,610, Falk 4,605, Gor- 8,736, Lee 26,384, Spooner 9,- 891, Young 23,825; total 119,051, Knute plurality James A. Peterson for the United States senate probably will be close to 20,000, His lead in the country districts, with less than half of them don Nelson’s over reported at noon today, was about 9,000, and the complete Hennepin and Ramsey vote puts him about 2.- 000 farther ahead. The totals to date are: Nelson 51,369; Peterson, 40,379. There is no change today in the standing of the candidates for con- With 1,370 coun- try precincts added to Hennepin and the totals today gressman at large. Ramsey counties, are: Dehnel 8,055, Eddy 22,596, Bustis 20.094, Manahan 30,995, Thorpe 18,- 267, Two races on the state ticket con- tinue to be fairly close, but the re- sults seem assured today. With the cities and nearly half the outside pre- cinets figured in, J. A. Burnquist has 40,201 votes for lieutenant governor to 36,923 for D. M. Neill. The two are about even in the twin cities, but Burnquist leads outside and com- Dlete returns are expected to increase his majority. J. F. Rosenwald gave C. E. Elm- quist of the railroad commission something of a scare yesterday, but he failed to maintain his ratio of gain on the returns that came in today, and Elmquist is still ahead with 38,- 180 votes to 35,665 for Rosenwald. For the four-year term, Judge Ira B. Mills has a stronger lead, with 40,- 505 votes to 32,447 for E. H. Can- field. Totals on secretary of state today are: Bge 10.953, Mattson 22,158, Schmahl 38,365. For attorney gen- eral L. A. Smith has 43,624 and Thomas Fraser 26,627. CATHOLIC CHARITIES. Washington, D. C.. Sept. 21.—Pro- tection for young girls who go to large cities is to be one of the impor- tant subjects of discussion at the bi- ennial meeting of the National Con- ference of Catholic Charities to be held in this city next week. Many noted prelates, priests and laymen of the Catholic church arrived today to take part in the conference. The op- ening solemn high mass will be cele- brated at the Catholic University to- morrow morning. The sermon will be preached by Bishop Canovin of Pittsburg. The regular sessions will begin Monday and continue three days. Emancipation Semi- Centenial, Washington, D. C., Sept. 21.— The negroes of the national capital have completed elaborate ments for the celebration of the fifti- eth anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation by President Linclon, September 22, 1862, The celebration will begin to- morrow and will continue four days. in connection with the celebration there will be held an interdenomina- tional religious conference of national arrange-[" FRANK B. KELLOGG. Newly Elected Presi American lent of Bar Association. i DISTRICT TEN IS BEST. Won First Place at County Fair of All Rural School Exhibits, School district 10, which is located in Grant Valley near Charley Schroe- der's farm, won the banner for the best rural school exhibit at the coun- ty fair. The banner says “Best Ru- ral School Exhibit, B. C. F.” The school also won $15.75 in prize mon- ey. Other districts which exhibited and won prizes are as follows: District 40—in Maple Ridge, $1.00. District 81—in Battle, $1.75. District 41—near Hines in Black- duck town, $1.75. District 99—in Port Hope, $11.75. District 66—near Turtle River, $4.00. District 126—in Port Hope, $2.85. District 106—in Alaska, $6,25. District 101—in Benville, $2.20. District 90—in Frohn, $1.50. Distriect 13—in Eckles, $9.75. District 48—in Northern, $5.25. District 74—in Wabanaca, $1.00. District 46—in Port Hope near Tenstrike, $0.50. Distriet 98—in Birch, $1.10. District 58—in the town of Sum- mit, $18.60. Total amount of prize money, $$88.35. CAMPAIGN OPENS IN OHIO Columbus, O., Sept. 21.—The Re- publican campaign in Ohio was form- ally opened here today under auspi- cious conditions. Good sized delega- tions were on hand from cities throughout the state and much en- thusiasm was manifested on every hand. The chief orators of the day were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and former Vice-presi- dent Charles W. Fairbanks of Indi- ana. To Discuss City Affairs. Dusseldorf, Sept. 21.—Delegates from many countries are arriving in Dusseldorf for the international con- gress on municipal affairs, which will meet here Monday for a week’s ses- sion. A large attendance and an at- tractive program combine to give promise of an interesting and profit- able conference. The princeipal sub- jects to be discussed will be munici- pal construction. municipal traffic and the fostering of arts, sciences and public safety in cities. Jem Driscoll Goming. London, Sept. 21.—Jem Driscoll, the British featherweight champion. sailed for New York today to begin another fistic campaign in America. He hopes to secure a match with Champion Johnny Kilbane, but is somewhat doubtful = whether the Cleveland boy will reduce in weight to 126 pounds. In the meantime Driscoll will take on “Knockout” Brown, Young Jack O'Brien and sev- eral others with whom agreements have already been signed. | having for weeks been on the case in BODIES FOUND (By United Press.) St. Paul, Minn., Sept 21.—A great tragedy has occurred in the Canadian Rocky mountains, involving an ap- palling loss of life, and surrounded by an element of mystery that has defied the best newspaper talent of Canada, many experienced reporters an effort to secure names of the miss- ing and further particulars concern- ing a number of recovered bodies, with but meagre success. Six weeks-ago a body of men from Minnesota, engaged in surveying and construction work on the northern- most railroad now stretching its way across the American continent—ithe Grand Trunk Pacific—were reported to have been drowned when an im- ‘provised trestle over the Framer riv- er gave way, dropping a score of men into the surging mountain stream, in an isolated and almost inaccessi- ble region 100 miles below Fort George, B. C. A month later a news item filtered through by way of Fort George, stat- ing that twenty bodies had been washed up along the shore and re- covered, but no names were given and it was intimated that the construec- tion companies declined to assist in | . the identification of the victims, re- fusing even to give out a list of their missing employes. Then the machinery of the United Press was set in motion. Its corres- pondents throughout Western Canada were notified to exert every effort to identify the recovered bodies and to confirn the meagre reports of a heavy loss of life among those engaged in the hazardous undertaking of laying the roadbed of a railroad along the perpendicular wall of deep canyons and towering mountain peaks. The first correspondent to report has just wired the following story to the Northwest Bureau of the United Press at St. Paul: For the past two months the Fra- ser river has been in flood. Its wa- ters have been higher than ever known before. Ten days ago the swollen river began to recede. As the waters subsided between twenty and thirty bodies were left high and dry upon the shore. Some of them at least are believed to have been mem- bers of a Minnesota party engaged in the enginering and construction work for the Grand Trunk Pacific which is blasting its way through the mountains to Prince Rupert, its terminal on the Pacific ocean, 500 miles north of Vancouver. G. J. George was assistant engineer of the Minnesota party. John Henry of Crookston, Minn., and Leo Sulli- van, of Grand Forks, N. D., are known also to have been members of the party. As none of these men have ever been heard from since the re- ported accident, it is entirely probable that they were among the casualties. The Fraser river tragedies, so far as the other victims are concerned, will in all probability never be iden- tified. The construction companies were unwilling or too busy at the time to assist in the work of identi- fying the recovered bodies. And now it is too late. It is impossible to learn what disposition was made of the bodies after they were found along the shore, whether they were returned to their watery grave or vuried on land. This fact may be disclosed some day, but unless one of the officials should make it public it will not be until the crews now at work have completed their task and return to civilization. & REPORTER SCOOP-TWANT OU SCOOP zerorrer scope and a two days’ session of the National Congress of Colored Educa- tors. (Cobyright.» —_— BIG HARVEST ASSURED Professor Bull Says Frost Damage to Corn Is Past and That Crop Is Safe. FRUIT YIELD IS A SURPRISE. St. Paul, Sept. 21.—Prof. C. P. Bull, agronomist at the Minnesota State College of Agriculture, who has a nation-wide reputation as a crop expert, and who has especially inter- ested himself in the bumper crop of this year, today gave 'fiié following exclusive statement to a representa- tive of the United Press: BY PROF. C. P. BULL. “This is an unusual crop year. Ac- tual returns for data on crop pro- duction in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North and South Dakota, are not as yet available, but it does not require the need of measured bushels and tons to point to the fact that the crop of 1912 will surpass all expec- tation. Nothing less than a bum- per crop can possibly result from the favorable harvest experienced this year. - “The reported yields thus far bid fair toward a new record for cereals and corn. The only adverse mention was of a little too much rain early in the season in restricted localities, and neéd for some good ‘corn’ weath- er. We have now had the corn weather and every one in a position to know predicts an exceptionally good year in all business enterpris- es. “Grain is moving rapldly and the markets report good grades. The receipts are in excess of normal years and everything points to even larger figures than have been given in gov- ernment crop reports. “Such a statement would be un- wise if the comparisons were not so striking. “The beginning of the season of 1912 was not thought favorable to the best of results. A dry hot per- iod the latter part of June was prone to reduce crops to the minimum, but the weather man came to the rescue with timely showers and cooler weather throughout the Northwest, —just the thing for the filling of the grain, S Corn Out Of Danger. “Too cool weather, on the other hand, was holding a record-breaking corn crop in a dangerous balance. But again the weather man stepped in and everybody knows that we had corn weather during the first two (Continued on last page.) PPIVPOO9O99000 90 © SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES ¢ POOPPPPPOPO®OLPOPOPO First Methodist Episcopal. Preaching 10:45 and 8. Morning subject, “The Lord Giveth Us Light.” Evening subject, “The Prince of Peace.” Sunday school at 12. Ep- worth League at 7. Topic, “The Ac- cumulative Power of Selfishness.” Prayer meeting Thursday evening. The annual conference convenes at Morris, Oct. 2. The public is wel- come to all our services. Chas. H. Flesher, pastor. s Baptist. . . 7 Morning services at 11 a. m. Sab- bath school at 12:15. B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8. Rev. S. W. Scott, pastor. 4 . v First Scandinavian Lutherans \ There will be no services im. the morning. Sunday school at 12. Ev- ening service at 8 o’clock. The ser- vice will be in the English language. Swedish Lutheran. ' b Sunday school at 10:30. Evening service at 8 o’clock. J. H. Randahl, pastor. | " Episcopal. ) | Morning prayer and service at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Confirmation class at the same hour. Evening services at 7:30 p. m. Rev. C. de L. Harris, pastor. l Presbyterian. = g tM e Tomorrow at 10 o’clock will be rally day in the Sunday school. We wish to have present every scholar young and old. Bring some mnew friend with you. Morning sermon at 11. Junior C. E. at 4. Young peo- ples’ meeting at 7. In the evening at 8 Rev. F.J. McLeod, former pas- tor of this church, but who now is on his way to Erie, Pa.; to take up his new work there, will preach. Mr. McLeod’s friends will be giad for this opportunity of again hearing him. The public is invited to all these ser- vices. S. E. P."White, pastaer- _ \ L 0. 0. F. T0O MINNEAPOLIS. Minneapolis, Sept. 21.—The sov- ereign grand lodgs of Odd Fellows will hold its 1913 session iw Minne- apolis. Wallace G. Nye and F. H. Castner, of Minneapolis, who wient to Winnipeg to attend the sessians of the order this week extended the in- vitation to the organization toi hold its next meeting here. Minneapolis was the only city which extended the invitation. The Minneapolis meating will take place the third week in Sep- tember, -1913. i == = TEN CENTS PER WEEK. HARD TO SELECT SWANLAND JURY Six In The Box at Noon After Regu- lar and Special Venire Had Been Exhausted. KENYON TRIAL T0 BE NEXT Was Indicted for Robbery and Grand Larceny Which Took Place In Rap- id River Country. CAPTURED IN GERMANTOWN Found in Barn by Posse But Was Ta- ken Single Handed By Ex-Sheriff 2 MISS EDDY-TO LECTURE Instructor in Domestic Science at the High School to Tell Mothers of Cheese in the Diet. FIRST TALK OF A SERIES Miss Beatrice Eddy. instructor in domestic science at the high school, will give a demonstration talk of “Cheese and its place in the diet” to the women of Bemidji next Thyrsday afternoon at 3:30. The talk will be given in the cooking room at the high school and Miss Eddy will prepare several cheese dishes during the dem- onstration. Girls, as well as their mothers, are urged to attend. The demonstration by Miss Eddy is the first of a series which she intends to give during the year. It was first planned to give the demonstration at a time when women from the country could attend but if they take an in- terest in the matter, it is probable that other talks will be arranged. Miss Eddy hopes to interest the la- dies of Bemidji in the high school do- mestic work and win their co-opera- tion. The lectures by Miss Eddy are a part of the extension work being con- ducted by members of the high school faculty. A. E. Nelson, instructor in agriculture, is planning extension work among the farmers mainly. He is also planning to build a series of chicken houses at the school farm and conduct experiments which will show which breeds are best suited for local conditions. Mr. Nelson intends to furnish farmers with eggs under the condition that they keep the stock pure. The farmers picnic which will be held at the school farm Sept. 28, also comes under the head of exten- sion’' work. Professor Dyer says that he has been' approached several times by young men of Bemidji who wish to have a night school manual training class at the high school. Several of them had the training when in school and wish' to continue it and have sug- gested a class one night each week. No action has yet been taken on this feature of the extension work but if enough interest is maifested the class will probably be organized. FIND CRACKED SKULL. Hines, Sept. 21.—While digging in a root cellar on his place near Hines, R. F. Walker found the skeleton of a man buried about two feet be- neath the surface. The skull was in- tact but was fractured in such a manner that residents here fear that it points to a murder. BY flHo " Joe Duchamp. At noon today six men had been selected for the jury which is to try Charles Swanland for the murder of David Wistrom. Those accepted are Henry Falls, John G. Wallace, James Wynne, F. E. Anderson, John Mayers and John Drury. A special venire was exhausted and the following men excused: L. F. Johnson, Ray Mur- phy, J. N. Wesley, Cash Thompson, Oliver Monette, A. W. Redel and D. E. Smith, A second venire will be re- turned this afternoon. The case of Arthur Kenyon has been set to follow the Swanland trial. Kenyon is charged with robbing a man in the Rapid River country April 19 and on the following day taking some guns and ammunition from other parties. One of the Wit~ nesses in the Kenyon case is Joseph Duchamp of Germantown. German- town is in Pennington county just over the line from Beltrami. Mr. Duchamp is the man who cap- tuerd Kenyon. He says “Kenyon came through our country and sever- al posses were looking for him, The boys finally located him in a barn but were afraid to tackle him as he was heavily armed. They phoned to me but I laughed and would not go. They insisted, so I hitched up and drove over. “I said to the boys, ‘Now you just keep out of this unless you hear me yell, if I don’t yell then I am all right.’ . So I went in the barn and started examining the horses. I had seen him crouched in a corner as I came in but I did not look up from the horses legs until opposite. Then I grabbed him before he could move. I had no gun but he did not get a chance to use his. Kenyon is a large man and had the younger boys bluffed.” Duchamp was at one time the sher- iff of his county and is at present a justice of the peace. He was the man who in 1904 had charge of mov- ing the Indians out of Pennington county to the Red Lake reservation in this county. Later in the same - year, he was a special detective for the government during the land sales in Thief River Falls. With him to attend the trial are Sheriff Jessie La~ Brie, of Pennington county, and Con- stable Charlie Cook, of Germantown. The three men were here about ten days ago to appear before the grand jury. Mr. Duchamp says that the chicken shooting is good in hjs coun- try. Mr. Duchamp says that when Ken- yon held up his man in the Rapid River country, he pointed @ gun at him and said “Throw up your hands.” The man did so and was then told to furn around. Kenyon is said to have taken his money. It was about 10 in the morning and he told his victim to stand with his hands in the air until 10 the next morning. The man did stay there until 4 in the af- ternoon- The Kenyon trial will probably be started next week. MORE FOR “ANDY” Returns from Spruce Grove, Hamre, Minnie and Lee were received this morning: Johnson carired Minnie 17 toO,LeeZtoO,Eam_reBtoO,md Spruce Grove 1 to 0. His total au- thentic vote at this time is 816. Ha- zen has 694, and Nolan 90- Johnson therefore has 21 more votes than a majority of first choice votes and & plurality of 122. His nomination is