Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 4, 1912, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 136. IDENTITY CASE IS PUZZLING THE EAST PROTESTS Daniel Blake Russell, Known as CHARG “Dakota Dan” Trying to Recover His Half of Large Fortune. FATHER LEFT OVER $500,000 (By United Press.) St. Paul, Oct. 4.—Replying to the charge that he would protest the plan of putting Progressives on the btate ticket in November, Julius Schmahl, secretary of state, said this Was to Have Been Divided Between |porping: Two Sons But William Russell Refuses to Give Up Half, OLD SWEETHEART ON STAND Hattie M. Keith Testifies of Long Ac- quaintance with Claimant—Case Has Run Fifty Days. Boston, Mass.,, Oct. 4.—The trial of the Daniel Blake Russell identity case in East has now passed its fiftieth day of actual pro- ceedings, and the end is not yet in sight. This is the second trial of the famous case and is being conduct- ed before a master appointed by the East Cambridge superior court. The first trial took place last winter in the Middlesex probate court and was one of the longest and most sensa- tional of the kind in the history of American legal jurisprudence. Like the first trial, the present proceed- ings have been up to date enlivened with romantic features, surprises and sensations which would find difficulty of belief if appearing in a work of fiction. The Russell case is probably the most notable identity case ever tried in an American court. It rivals in interest and resembles in many re- spects the famous Tichborne case, which ran for 170 days before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in England some thirty years ago. In the first trial Judge Lawton de- cided against “Dakota Dan,” who claims to Daniel Blake Russell of Melrose, and who also claims his share of the $500,000 estate now held by William C. Russell, another son of Daniel Russell. Apparently not in the least discouraged over this decision, the Dakota claimant went to work to have the case re- opened and, though without funds or the help of counsel, he succeeded in securing another trial of his case. Persons in daily attendance at the present hearing in the East Cam- bridge court, have been much im- pressed by the story told by “Dakota Dan” and the evidence of the wit- nesses who have testified in his be- half. In his fight for recognition the claimant has told on the stand, in a simple way and with remarkable memory, of the events which took place in the home which he says he left in Melrose a quarter of a cen- tury ago. For a time he lived the life of a tramp. getting from one part of the couniry to another as best he might. He has worked with circuses and as a deck hand, shod horses in black- smith shops, and spent winters as a Cambridge hand in lumber camps and mills, ac- | cording to his story. The tale of his wanderings and the vicissitueds of his life since 1885 has taken him in retrospect from the docks of Liver- pool, where he paid his passage in the steerage, to the woods of North- ern Michigan, and finally to the Bad Lands of North Dakota. There he settled dow n to some ex- tent and for some time had been employed as a ranch manager. Fin- ally a desire to return to his old home seize him and he arrived in Melrose something more than a year ago to find that the man whom he claims as his father had died and left an estate of $500,000 and a will in which was the provision that, the long mising son should share half the fortune in the event of his return. But the elder son, William C. Russell, in whose possession the es- tate was held, not only refused to surrender any portion of it but posi- tively denied the claims of relation- ship set up by the man from Dakota. To support his claim as Daniel (Continued on Page 4) | “There is absolutely no truth whatever in the story that I plan to keep Progressives off the ticket on a technically. grossly unfair to me. I never whis- pered such a thing to any man. “I have never heard any intima- tion from any source that Progres- sive petitions were in any way wrong or failed to meet the requirements of the law. On the contrary, I believe that every precaution was taken to live up to the-law. 1 “I cannot say emphatically enough that I have never by word or deed given any person reason to surmise that I intended to protest the peti- tions.” ROOSEVELT COMING (By United Press.) New York, Oct. 4.—Plans for the of Colonel Roosevelt’s campaign were mapped out today. The Colonel will be in Illinois Oct. 8 and 9; in Wisconsin Oct. 11; in Minnesota Oct. 12 to 14; in Michi- gan Oct. 16 to 18; in Ohio Oct. 19 to 22; in Pennsylvania Oct. 28 and New Jersey Oct. 24. remainder Such a statement is{ HADLEY FOR TAFT Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 4.—Gov- ernor Herbert Hadley at a Republi- can rally Thursday night said he was satisfied that President Taft would support reforms he had outlined and that he would support him for re- election. SHIP SUNK OFF OF DOVER Minneapolis, Oct. 4.—Special by wire to the Pioneer.—Word has just been received here that a British sub-marine boat was sunk this morn- ing in a collision with the Hamburg- American line steamship “America.” The accdent occured off Dover. Four- teen men were killed. FOURTEEN TO AKELEY. Fourteen members of the high school football team will leave Be- midji at 6:30 tomorrow morning for Akeley. The squad will play the Akeley high school in the afternuon{ and return to Bemidji in the even-| ing. All of the men appear in good! shape and the practices this week| have been going with a snap. The | team expects a close game but hopes t6 win. Those who will make the trip with Coach Carson are Captain Bailey, Lycan, Hayner, Ryan, Gra- ham, Olson, Sullivan, Titus, Achen- bach, Ellison, Wright, Tanner and Riley. Three teachers, the Misses Loe, Wager and Hill, will go to Akeley with the team tomorrow to chaper- one the large number of boys and girls that are going down to see the game. STEENERSON MAKES PROMISES. Congressman Steenerson while re- cently in the city said that the money for the Bemidji post office would be appropriated by congress some time before March 4 when the old congress goes out and a new one comes in. He says that the agreement calls for an appropriation of $60,000. The building will probably be located on Beltrami avenue opposite the court house. Mr. Steenerson went from Bemidji to the Red Lake reservation where he conferred with the Indians Iabout some timber sales. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1912, “PROUD OF YOU, MY SON” (Copyright.) INDIANS HAVE A FAR Two Thousand Have Assembled On Fort Peck Reservation for Last Conclave of Sioux Nation. SOLD LAND IS TO BE Poplar, Mont., Oct. 4.—Twe thous- and Sioux Indians have assembled on Fort Peck reservation at the first county fair ever held by any tribe of red men. Seventy-two varieties of land pro- ducts are being exhibited, with the greatest assortment of vegetables, grasses and grains ever displayed by American Indians. And this is to be the last great camp gathering of the Sioux Nation. Next year the Fort Peck reservation, comprising 1.800,000 acres of rich soil, will be wrested from the red skins and handed over to the white man. Agricultural experts estimate the cultivation of this land by modern scientific methods will add 2,000,- 000,000 bushels of grain to the pro- duction of the country. It will mean ultimately, they claim, the changing of the center of the world’s bread basket to the cen- tral Northwest. Louis W. Hill, of St. Paul, has of- fered cups for the prize products grown by the Indians. A football game is on the program for tomorrow when the Glacier Park Indians will play the Sioux Indians. Pony races, war dances and other picturesque Indian features are bill- ed. “Pudge” Heffelfinger of Minne- apolis, famous as Yale football play- er, is coaching the Glacier Park eleven, and the reds from the roof of the continent confidently expect to win. GOOD QNE ON “TEDDY.” Minneapolis, Oct. 4,—Minneapolis has a real bull moose. The bull moose has been imported from In- ternational Falls, Northern Minne- sota boundary, and he is holding a perpetual public reception for Min- neapoils citizens of every political belief, bar none, at Longfellow Zoo, Minnehaha Falls. The bull moose is eight months old and is as big as a horse. He was captured by an In- dian, according to R. F. Jones, pro- prietor of the Zoo, and he arrived in Minneapolis yesterday. He has been allotted a grazing place of his own and has been named “Minnesota.” Mr. Jones declared that the Minne- apolis bull moose is docile and quiet. He said he would not change the name of the Zoo to Armageddon, though the man whose duty it is to feed the moose ahd been dubbed “Perky” by his fellow workers. ;O‘WNS OWN PAVING PLANT i St. Paul Invests in Asphalt Outfit and Expects to Be Independent of the Paving Trust. SAVE $7,000 TO $10,000 A YEAR. St. Paul, Oct. 4.—Special to the Pioneer.—In addition to saving 15 per cent of its street paving, St. Paul has succeeded in bucking the paving and asphalt trust. The experiment was begun last spring when it was discovered that a certain pool of con- tractors had organized to fleece the city on its paving contracts. The city is maintaining its own paving plant and before snow flies several blocks of pavement will have been laid of better and cheaper pave- ment. It is estimated that more than $75,000 worth of pavement will be laid before the plant ceases opera- tions. The saving will be between $7,500 and $10,000 which is more than enough to pay the mayor’s sal- ary and his office expenses. Saint Paul is maintaining an as- phalt manufacturing plant and is preparing its asphalt pavements. The work is being done better and quicker than under the contract sys- tem. When the city began its work there was cnly one company equipped to do asphalt paving. The city has to meet the terms of this company or select some other form of pavement. Conditions became so bad, that the city found it impossible to secure open competition on street paving contracts. Under the direction of its city en- gineer, St. Paul made an extensivé study into the paving situation and unearthed conditions which prompt- ed the establishment of a municipal paving plant. Through a combina- tion of the dealers in pavement ma- terials efforts to secure pavements at a reasonable figure were successfully ‘blocked. When the city showed that it meant business by establishing a physical plant, dealers in supplies be- came eager to deal’ with the city. For the first time creosoted blocks are being tried out as a paving ma- terial. Experiments are being conducted Wwith other lines of paving substance. It is only a quetsion of time when the city plant will be doing practically all of the paving. W. A, GOULD IMPROVING. W. A. Gould, who has been con- fined to his home for several weeks, is recovering steadily and is now able to sit up for a small portion of each day. He will, however, be con- fined to the house for some time. WISH HOUSE T0 BE CLOSED Farmers Who Live Across Lake Ir- vine Again Ask City Authorities to Take Action. WOMAN PAYS FOR PROTECTION Efforts are being made by farm- ers who live across Lake Irvine to have the city authorities close the house of ill fame which is again in operation in their -neighborhood. The house was closed up once last summer by Deputy Sheriff Helmer on orders from the governor after the city authorities refused to take ac- tion. It resumed operations about August 20. On September 1 and October 1, the woman in charge of the house volun- tarily came into police court and plead guilty to a charge which was made out in her presence. On Oc- tober 1, she paid a fine of $100 and costs, amounting in all to $103, with the understanding that the fine would protect her for another month. Mayor Malzahn was approached on the subject yesterday and asked to take action in the matter. The may- said that he would take it under ad- visement but that he did not wish to act in such a way that the situa- tion would be made worse. A. P. Ritchie and J. H. French are two of the men living in the vicin- ity of the house who wish it closed. Mr. Ritchie stated that if the mayor would not act by Monday night, the entire matter would be laid before the city ‘council and in case action was further delayed, the governor would be asked to abate the nuisance a second time. Since the closing of the swamp house at the same time as the Lake Irvine house was closed last sum- mer, a house has been opened half way between Bemidji and Wilton. It is in this county but outside the city limits. It is said to operated by “Billy” Short. Short is said to have started operation about ten days after the grand jury adjourned and has been quoted as saying that he would have started ten days ear- lier but that he wished to be on the safe side and so waited until the jury adjourned. SEVENTY-FIVE SIGN PETITION. Knute Roe says that seventy-five voters of Bemidji signed the Bull Moose petition circulated by Mr. Roe and F. S. Arnold. The petition asked that the names of Roosevelt electors be placed on the general election bal- lots in November and were sent down to St. Paul Wednesday night. Mr. Roe says that he had heard nothing further concerning a Bull Moose cam- paign speaker coming to Bemidji. r e et v MINVESOTA | S TORICAL | OCIETY, | TEN CENTS PER WEEK. POTATO PRICE IS DUE FOR A CLIMB W. R. Mackenzie Predicts They Will Bring Seventy-Five Cents at Car Side Before January 1. EAST HITS DOLLAR MARK Aroostock County, Maine, Known as “Pulse of the Market” Quotes $1.00 and $1.10 a Bushel, NORTHWEST CROPS VALUABLE Estimates of Harvest Indicate That Total Amount to Be Paid Far- mers Will Reach $721,000,000. “Potatoes will go at least seventy- five cents a bushel at the car side in Bemidji before January 1,” was the statement made by W. R. Mac- kenzie yesterday afternoon. Mr. Mackenzie was in Bemidji from his farm north of Wilton where he has been harvesting his potato crop for several days. “Why do I say that? Because in Aroostock county, Maine, Green Mountain potatoes are now selling for $1.00 a bushel and Cobbler pota- toes are selling for $1.10. Aroos- tock county, Maine, raises more po- tatoes than any other county in the United States and is the pulse of the potato market. “Recent figures from this market show that this year the county will export but 10,000,000 bushels as against 15,000,000 bushels last year. A law was passed at the last sessiom of congress which will prevent the importation of any potatoes this year, and with the short crop in the east and a medium crop in the west, the price is bound to go up. It is already up in Maine and will be re- flected in Minnesota.” Farmers near Bemidji who planted potatoes in the sandy soil of this section report that the wet weather did them little damage. Repors of travelers who have been in the heavy clay counties of the Red River andé Rainy River valleys report that they have seen many fields of potatoes which have been under water for at least two weeks and which will not dry sufficiently for digging for a third. They say that these pota- toes are rotting and that the yield will be cut down materially. Potatoes in Bemidji today are bringing $.26 a bushel at the car side in sacks. It is said that some Minne- apolis houses are offering more but no buyers have yet appeared in tne local market. A train load of pota- toes was recently shipped from Mine neapolis at twenty-five cents & bushel. ’ The 1912 crop of the Northwest is worth $721,000,000 according to the latest report of the crop experts. The Northwest Farmstead has made a detailed survey of the crop situa- tion an dplaces the value of the yield at these figures: Wheat is es- timated at 373,000,000 bushels, corn 158,000,000, oats 338,000,000, barley 165,000,000, flax 30,000,000, total for the five grains 1,054,000,~ 000. This is an increase of $150,- 000,000 over the 1911 crop. TEN RECEIVE PRIZES. Ten school gardeners were award- ed prizes at the farmers picnic last week. The winners were the tem highest on the average of the three judgings on their school gardens during the summer. The first three were given ribbons printed with gold ink on blue, red and brown cloth and donated by the Pioneer. The prizes awarded ‘and average score were as follows: 1. Donald Smith, $3 ....... 96.94 Marguerite Titus, $2 ...92.38 Florence Thatcher, $1 ..90.55 Alice Dyer, 75¢ ........90.39 George Teeters, 75¢ .....90.38 .89.05 Martha Grimm, 50c .. Lawrence Harvey, 50c Ella Norrie, 50c .... 2 3 4 5. 6. Harold Haines, 50c . 7 8. 9. 0. Charles Raco, 50c - 1