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

“ Foas i VOLUME 10. NUMBER 133. NORTHERN LAND IS PRAISED HIGHLY Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Qualley, of Spring Grove, Recommend It to Neigh- bors on Return Home. LOOKED OVER FARMS AT SOLWAY Were Surprised at Ease with Which Country is Cleared and the Crops Later Grown. “BEMIDJI AN ORDERLY TOWN” Letter Says Writer While Here Saw Some Fine Gasoline Launches— Says “Go Up North.” The following letter was sent to the editor by Mr.-and Mrs. A. P. Qualley of Spring Grove, Minn. Spring Grove is in the southeastern part of the state, close to the Iowa line. The letter i§ interesting as it shows how southern Minnesota and Tlinois and Towa people change their minds about Northern Minnesota af- ter they have once seen the land and what it can raise. . Spring Grove, Minn. Dear Sir: “I would kindly ask you for a space in your paper as I want to write a little about our trip. Will say that my wife is troubled with what is called hay fever so I sent her ahead to Rice Lake, Wis., where I joined her about two weeks later. We sepnt a few days there visiting friends and relatives. When I was at Rice Lake some twelve years ago T could have bought most any quar- ter section of land for $10 to $12 per acre. Now it is worth from $60 to $100. i “We went from there to Duluth and in going there we passed through some very rough country. We stop- ped ome day in Duluth and while|WVe Visited Christ Thompson. Alias “Lefty Louie” Charged With Killing Herman Rosenthal. about twenty acres more which he seeded to flax, potatoes and rutabagas and I am positive his flax will go twenty bushels to the acre. He has a nice comfortable house and a nice barn that was just finished. “Mrs. Fredrickson, ‘Nels the land man’ (that is what everybody calls him here) and my wife and I went about twelve miles north to visit some more Spring Grove people. The first one we came to was Anton Gil- bertson. He came here four years ago. He has a nice home and is do- ing fine. From there we went to Carl Bye, the land man’s brother. He is batching, but you will go a long ways to find a neater, cleaner place even if he is a bachelor. We had dinner with him and had some nice roast chicken. He has forty acres under cultivation, a nice set of build- ings. had his grain stacked and most of his field plowed. He is farming right. From there we went to Hol- ger Nelson’s who came up from Spring Grove last spring. He bought forty acres from Nels Bye and he had a fine place. He had a nice field off corn and some potatoes and lots of hay. We had lunch with them. His wife and he were well contented and glad they came here. The next day He has there we took in part of the town hllt‘a fine quarter section one mile from a man has no idea what to see until vou commence to look around. I have a friend there and 1 wanted to call on him so I stepped up to a po- liceman and gave him the name and told him he lived on the Boulevard and he told me he would be hard to find unless T had the house number as this Boulevard is twenty-two miles long: So I did not look any further. To see the ore docks and the coal docks is something interesting. The iron ore trains from the Minnesota Iron Range have fifty-five to sixty cars to a train with fifty tons to a car and one of these trains comes in every ten minutes. There is a new steel plant being built that is to smelt this ore which will cost about fourteen million dollars when fin- ished. The shipping on the lake is something wonderful when in the wheat season several million bushels a week are shipped. 1 have been around some but I have never seen anything like it. “We took the night train from Du- luth to Solway. We arrived there at 4 o'clock in the morning and went and routed out Nels Bye, “the land man.” He is located upstairs over a big two story store and has three cosy, nicely fixed up rooms. We talk- ed about this and that till it was time to go to breakfast, then Mr. Bye hitched up and took us out to our old friend Anton Fredrickson, who is lo- cated half a mile from Solway. “To see what that man has done in two years without any means sur- prised me. He has about fifteen acres under cultivation, wheat, oats and potatoes, one and a half story frame house with full basement 16x26, a mice summer kitchen, a barn and tool shed, several head of stock and over one hundred chick- ens and I know he has plenty to eat as T stayed with him for several days. He had 2 1-2 acres of potatoes last vear and got 850 bushels which he sold for seventy cents per bushel. Enough to pay for 40 acres of land. Where can you beat that? To make an estimate of how long he has been there when you first see his place you would say at least five years. He has eighty acres and has half of it paid for. He paid $1,000 for it. I offered him $3,000 for his place but he told me it was not for sale. Ileft my wife at Fredrickson’s and Mr. Bye and I went around to look at land. He took me from settler to settler and I saw some of the finest crops I have ever seen. Coming home we stopped at Martin Sand’s. He came here last April and the place he traded for it " was about twenty acres, that had been broke and he seeded that to oats |’ and wheat and received a bumper crop. Then -he cleared and broke Solway. He cleared and broke about fifteen acres this summer besides put- ting up a nice barn. He showed me some good, matched and planed lum- ber that he had used that cost him $12 per thousand feet, so you can see it doesn’t cost much to build here. Talked with him and his wife and ithey are both well satisfied with the country. He told me that he sold for twice as much from his five cows here. “To tell the truth 1 was surprised to find as large and level a tract of land with the very best of soil as is located around Solway. I was out in every direction from one to sixteen miles and it was all the same, nice and level and slopes gently to the southeast towards the Mississippi. “Solway has two large general stores, a fine two story school house, a good hotel, livery barn and black- smith shop. I also met their minis- ter, Rev. Kolste. My wife took in the ‘kvindeforening’ while there at 0. A. Sime’s, one of the merchants. So do not think Solway is a back number. - “Before leaving we were invited to Tosten J. Lommen’s, another Spring Grove man. He lives in town as his land goes right up to the switch. He ‘was the busiest man of them all. He has about twenty acres of oats, corn and potatoes and he has started to clear fifty acres more, but as he is a carpenter he has to work at his trade part of the time. 1 saw a field of clover on his farm that surprised me. He had cut and cleared off the brush and sowed the clover and never even dragged it. He cut a nice crop of hay from it this summer and the sec- ond crop was two feet high and as thick as it could stand. “I found crops of all kinds as good as I have ever seen. They have us all skinned on potatoes, both as to qual- (Continued on last page.) SCOOP rerorrer REPORTER [rennis My Botis & EADES CUT OFF BY CAR (By United Press). St. Paul, Oct. 1.—John Granell, of Faribault, Minnesota, was hit and in- stantly killed by a street car this morning. The car knocked him to the pave- ment and then ran over his body sev- ering the head at the neck. Motor- man R. D. Moer was at once arrest- ed and charged with manslaughter. RENEWED RIOTING AT MILL 3 (By United Press). Boston, Mass., Oct. 1.—Tales of the clubbing of strikers about the mill gates are being told here by witness- es to the renewed rioting at Law- rence. A. H. Waldron, a Boston newspa- per man, whose camera was kicked to pieces by a policeman as he was about to “snap” a picture of a squad of police who were knocking down strikers, said: 5 “I was in Lawrence during last winter’s strike and I never saw any- thing to equal the brutality of. the police yesterday. I was with the other newspaper men while the po- lice were downing men right and left. As I was about to take a picture of the police leaning over a man they had knocked to the street, one of them turned on me with a curse, and yelled: “‘You will try to get us in bad, you ! You will nev- er get that scene on your plates.’ “With that the police turned on us. One kicked my camera from my hands and jumped 6n it.” Denver, Colo., O¢t. 1.—“One of the most unlawful and uncivilized acts ever committed by the ‘ruling class, ”’ is the way Denver Socialists charac- terize the imprisonment of Ettor and Giovannitti in Lawrence, Mass. A resolution protesting to Gover- nor Foss of Massachusetts against the imprisonment of these two labor- ing men and demanding the imme- diate imprisonment of W. M. Wood and other wealthy mill owners im- plicated in a charge of planting dy- namite to cast suspicion upon the strikers was adopted by an unani- BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY E¥ INING, OCTOBER 1, 1912. i Cupesngsddd POLITICS! POLITICS! S| ARE YOUL GOING TO VOTE FOR,’ FOR PRESIDENT AOH PA! WHO 7 mous vote of the 200 Socialists at- tending a mass meeting. DEAD BODY FOUND (By United Press). Janesville, Wis., Oct. 1.—With the skull crushed and the body badly bruised and battered, the remains of Mathilda Bresterman were found to- ddy in the kitchen of her father’s home. It was apparent that she had been murdered with a heavy blunt instrument. The father, Fred Bres- terman, is held by the police in con- nection with the murder. To Protect Women and Child Workers Albany, N. Y., Oct. 1.—A law en- acted by the New York legislature last winter prohibiting the employ- ment of women and minors in fac- tories more than fifty-four hours in any week went into effect today. Annual Church Conference Started This Morning With Many Min- isters in Attendance, WILL ASSIGN PASTORS,FOR 1913- i Eyes of Methodigts ~of Northern Minnesota are turned to Morris where the eighteenth annual session of the forthrern -M{mxesomln_ge,ulemce of the Methodist Episcopal church open- ed this morning. The will be in session for one week and will be-attended by ministers and laymen from - Minneapolis to the Northern border. Reverend Flesher; pastor of the First Methodist chuch of Bemidji, left for the conference this afternoon. Conference examinations will be held at 9 a. m. tomorrow morning and business of the conference will occupy the attention of the delegates during the day. At 7:30 tomorrow night there will be a song service led by Charles F. Davis, of Brainerd, and at 8 p. m. a platform meeting with addresses of welcome by Morirs business men. On Wednesday there will be a busi- ness session and morning worship at 9 a. m- The conference sermon on “The Preacher and His Church,” will be preached by Thomas McClary, of Minneapolis. On Wednesday morn- ing Bishop Quayle will conduct the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. In the afternoon, there will be lectures, The evening meeting will be turned over to the Woman’s Home Mission- ary society. The business of the conference will include the asigning of pastors for the coming year. The Methodist church in this city does not expect any change. R..F. D. MEN TO WORK (By United Press). ‘Washington, Oct. 1.—Rural letter carriers who were recently given an ‘increase from $1,000 to $1,100 per annum, affective yesterday, bid fair to earn their increase, according to the expectations of the postoffice de- partment officials. With the opera- tion of the parcels post system which is to be inaugurated January 1, the 30,000 men are expecting much ex- tra work. conference Even at Home. COURT HOUSE NEWS Judge Stanton this morning de- clared T. H. Fogarty to be the Re- publican nominee for county treas- urer of Koochiching county. When the count of first choice ballots was made after the primary, it was found that George A. Schneider, the present treasurer, led Fogarty by twelve votes. There was a third man in the race who received a few votes, but when his second choice votes were counted, it was found that Fogarty had sixteen more than Schneider. Schneider appealed to the court and Judge Stanton appointed inspectors of ballots and based his décision on their report. At noon today it was expected that the case of Faltin Bertram against the Bemidji Brewing company for damages due to the loss of an eye would reach the jury before even- ing. The cases of E. E. McDonald against Beltrami county will follow that of *Bertram against the brew- ery. Mr. McDonald is suing the county for money which he claimed was to have been paid him as special counsel in the Dumas cases. The board of commissioners allowed his bills but on a different-per diem bas- is than that which he asked. Sheriff Takes Fixtures. Sheriff Hazen and deputies on Sat- urday removed the fixtures of the Boston lunch from.the lunch room. The fixtures were covered by a chat- tel mortgage which the holder fore- closed. Gust Saur had been using them in the operation of a lunch room opposite the Markham hotel. The fixtures will be sold at auction Friday, October 11. ENGLER MILL BURNS. Baudette, Minn., Oct. 1.—Fire de- stroyed the A. E. Engler Lumber company’s plant, one mile north of here early Sunday. Loss $60,000. Partially covered by insurance. As- sisted the Rainy River and Spooner fire departments, the Baudette de- partment succeeded in saving the en- gine room and planing department. Florida Lawmakers in Extra Session. Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 1.—Pursu- ant to the call of Governor Gilchrist the members of the Florida legisla- ture assembled for a special session today to consider and act upon a pro- posal to amend the charter of the city of. Jacksonville so as to enable that city to own and operate municipal docks and terminals. TEDDY ROASTS WOODROW | Says Democratic Nominee is Incon- sistent. in Interfering in New York and not in Indiana. STUDENTS CHEER FOR “T. R.” (By United Presg)- Chattanooga, Tenn. Oct. 1.—An- other #lap af Governor Wilson for “inconsistency” was -the - theme-of=a bristling speech with which Colonel Roosevelt inaugurated his campaign in the Republican section of Tennes- see late yesterday afternoon. i “I see by the papers that Governor Wilson is quoted as.saying that he wants Tammany Hall of New York to put up a good man for the gover- norship; one who could be indepen- dent,” the colonel asserted. “I want to ask':why, if Mr. Wilson thinks it necessary to interfere in the gover- norship in New York, that he didn’t interferé also as to the Vite-presi- dency. His colleague on the ticket is one of Tom Taggart’s men in the In- diana machine and that is not ome whit better than the Hammany ma- chine in New York. It is an absur- dity to assume a position of morality in the New York fight and at the same time to have as a running mate on the ticket a representative of the Taggart machine.” Roosevelt did not mention Gover- nor Marshall of Indiana by name but his allusion was understood and voc- iferously applauded by the 5,000 people in the Auditorium. It was a typically Rooseveltian address, punc- tuated by epigrams and hot shot and interrupted by college yells for T. R. from a bunch of students. Jail Prisoner Escapes. George Anderson, who was lodged in the city jail yesterday following a complaint that he had been stealing, broke jail last night in an unusual manner. Jack Essler, who is replac- ing George Denly this week on the police force had trouble in arresting Tommy Wilson who was drunk and called on several men to help him. At the jail they placed Wilson in the cell and one of the men asked Essler “Are you through with me now?” BEssler replied that he was. Anderson, who was unknown to Ess- ler, at once asked “Are you through with me?” and when told that he could go left at once. At noon to- day he had not been apprehended. By “HOP”" VAMITE TRIALS RE OPENED TODAY ‘|Are:Said to Have Carried Dynamite * on’ Passenger Trains to Destroy ORTIE McMANIGAL IS PRESERT Brought in By Government to Give Testimony Concerning Wrecking -5% - of Los Angeles Times. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 1.—The opening today of the trial against the fitty-one present or former officials of labor unions, on the charge of com- plicity in the so-called “dynamiting conspiracy,” attracted a large crowd of spectators to the courtroom of Judge Albert B. Anderson of the Unit- ed-States diserict court. Long before the opening of the court every avail- able seat in the court room was occu- pied and the corridor of the federal building was filled with people who could not find space in the court room. During the preliminaries to the opening of the session general inter- est centered in Uhited States Senator John W. Kern, chief counsel for the defendants and District Attorney Charles W. Miller and his assistant, Clarence Nichols, who represented the government in this trial. They were on hand promptly, apparently prepared for the fray. The fifty-one men. facing trial occupied the places assi| them. They did not seem X ied and, belore the count was formally opened, carried on am animated chat among themselves. The defendants are indicted under a federal statute forbidding the transportation of explosives on pas- senger trains and are charged with having been concerned in a nation- wide plot to destroy the property of contractors employing non-union ir- onworkers, culminating in the ex- plosion in the Los Angeles Times building, which cost twenty-one lives. In its report of February 6 last the grand jury indicted fifty-four men, but of this number John J. and James B. McNamara are in San Quentin prison, Oalifornia, and J. J. McCray, a former member of the executive board of the International Associa- tion of Bridge and Structural Iron- workers, has not been found by the federal authorities. Most of the de- fendants are or have been connected with the Ironworkers’ association, which, since 1905, has been engaged in a struggle with the National Erec- tors’ association, an organization of structural steel and iron contractors employing non-union workmen. Mem- bers of this employers’ association suffered loss from more than one hundred explosions from 1905 to 1911. Following the arrest of John J. McNamara, secretary treasurer of the Ironworkers’ association, at its head- quarters in this city, and the arrest of James B. McNamara and Ortie B. McManigal in Detroit, in connection with the Los Angeles Times explos- jon, presentments were ‘made to the federal grand jury of this distriet that officials of the Ironworkers’ as- sociation and other labor unions had Dbeen concerned in a conspiracy to in- timidate employers of unorganized labor by a systematic destruction of their property. Ortie McManigal's confession,- in which he related that he had been employed by the McNamgra brothers and Herbert S. Hookin, acting secre- tary treasurer of the Ironworkers’ as- sociation, to dynamite bridges and buildings in course of construction by non-union contractors, was the basis of the government’s inquiry. Me- Manigal has been brought here and is to be the principal witness for the government in this trial- A mass of letters and other records, seized in a raid on the offices of the Ironwork- ers’ association, also will be offered as evidence of a general comspiracy secretly to convey dynamite and ni- troglycerine from coast to coast in a campaign against employers of unor- ganized ironworkers. Most prominent among the defen- dants are Frank M. Ryan, president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers; Herbert S. Hookin, acting secretary treasurer and the alleged head of the “dynamiting crew,” John T. Butler,