Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 23, 1912, Page 1

R ——— o Historial Soclety, TEEEE X THE BEMIDJI D ILY PION VOLUME 10. NUMBER 152. END OF BECKER “TRIAL IS TONIGHT Fate of New York Police Lieutenant Will Probably Go to the Jury After Supper. DEFENSE RESTED TUESDAY But Justice Goff Ruled That Sullivan, . King of Newsboys, Should 2 Again Take Stand. DEFENDANT NOT EXAMINED John McIntyre, Chief Counsel, Re- fused to Let Him Speak for . Himself. (By United Press.) New York, Oct. 23.—The fate of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, on trial here for several weeks past, charged with the murder of Herman Rosenthal. gambler, will in all prob- ability be in the hands of the jury by tonight. Commencing at 10 o’'clock this morning the summing up addresses of the attorneys in the winding up of the famous case were begun, each side getting four hours. Alowing an hour recess for noon luncheon, -the case will probably go to the jury about 7 o’clock tonight, after being charged by Justice Goff. The entire hearing has been replete with sensations, especially the clos- ing session. As soon as the state end- ed its rebuttal with the calling of a single witness the defense demanded the dismissal of the indictment on the ground that the case against Berker hung on the unsupported ward of conspirators. The motion was promptly denied by: Justice Goff, who made it plain? thet he would deal with the corrob- Dfl:)liob of accomplices in his chargel to:the jury, before it retires to agree on a verdict. The court then announced the trial must end today. ‘Sensations followed each other in rapid succession as the final session drew to a close. John F. Mclntyre, chief counsel for the defense, worn with strain of the long trial, after sparring vainly for time, suddenly electrified the court by rising in his place and declaring: “The defense rests.” that ty Justice Goff seemed amazed as did the district attorney, the latter, how- ever, seeming disappointed because be had expected Becker to take the stand in his own behalf, and had made the most elaborate preparations for his cross-examinations. Becker, the district attorney was determined, sould show to the jury where his| hage fortune had come from. Justice Gpft. however, was plainly more con- cerned about another phase of the cdse. He fumbled with papers on his desk, read over a typewritten sheet he had in front of him, and then syddenly addressed the senior coun- | sel for the defense: 2 “Mr. Mclntyre,” he said, “in justice 1o your client, 1 desire that this case 8o far as the defense is concerned, be | re-opened. 1 desire that you recall Jpek Sulilvan to give evidence furth- er along the lines of the conspiracy which he alleged on the stand, exists in this case. here at once.” ~ Mclntyre, who had tried hard to get into the record the letter he al-| leged was written by Assistant Dis-|Nathan are expected home the last of | trict Attorney Moss to Sullivan warning him that he would be pros-| ecuted as a principal if he did not take the stand for the state, sat back in his seat astounded, while the sheriff hurried to the West Side Sta- tion to get the “king of the newsboys™ who had caused a sensation by his‘of land in Nebish township pugnacious attitude last week. * Meclntyre and his assistants had differed widely over the advisability of calling Becker. The other attor- neys and Becker himself, believed the accused officer should take the stand. But McIntyre, realizing the; plaborate preparation the state had made to cross-examine his client, fin- plly decided that the risk was too great. TALEKED ON PARCELS POST. Harold J. Dane, editor of the Pio- neer, addressed the students of the high school during the assembly per- iod this morning. Mr. Dane told of the new parcels post law which will go into effect January 1 and illus- trated his talk with a series of charts yet. 1 will have him brought | turned from Dakota last | They FRANKLIN WORCESTER. Republican Candidate For New Hampshire Governorship. ARE ROOFING THE DEPOT. Great | Northern depot are putting on the Contractors building the first cross boards of the roof. The building should be.under cover with- | in a week. e Last night the water tank was moved from its old location toa point several hundred feet east, where it will be permanently located. | i NYMORE ROAD IS COMPLETED. Contractors Goodman and Loitved | have completed the paving of the Ny- more road and the road is at present| open to traffic as far as the Crooks- ton mill barn, the rest being too soft The road runs to the base of the hill just inside of the city limits but will be completed in the spring as at this time the council could not decide whether to make it turn to the | right or to the left. GIRL PLAYS SOLITAIRE | This afternoon Santanelli put Miss Burke in Murphy’s window and the| young lady amused herself for four | hours by playing solitaire. Yester-| day he had a man fishing and the crowd which stood in front of Lhe!l window blocked the sidewalk until| 7 o'clock. Santanelli is drawing good crowds at the Grand theatre and no audience yvet appears to have been able to solve his slight of hand tricks. Miss Burke will be awakened after the first film tonight and .will also ap- pear later in a shodowgraph special- Santanelli is getting out his seas- on’s stock of letter heads and litho- graphs in the Pioneer plant. He says it is unusual to find a plant so well equipped as the Pioneer in a city of less than 10,000. | PUPOSKY. A flagpole has been erected on school ground in district 56. Love for our flag should be taught in every school and a flagpole, with the stars and stripes on, is an addition even to a country school. Attendance at school is better, now that the roads are dry gnd po- tatoes are out. Nellie Zeh gave a very good talk last Friday in the schoolhouse. She had a large appreciative audience. Miss Dilly visited Miss Rauchen- buchler Saturday evening. John Ryan and John Workman re- Tuesday. drove out in company W‘ithl Robert and Nathan Workman but came home by train and Robert and BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENI}iG OCTOBER 23, 1912. HEDMAN Emil Hedman, the young man who was run over by a M. & L train at Guthrie Saturday night, died in the hospital early this morning as a re- sult of the accident. Hedman was 80 badly crushed under the train that is was necessary to remove a leg Sun- day morning. He had lost so much| blood that his system was unable to stand the shock. YOUNGGREN MADE CASHIER. J. A. Younggren who has been as- sistant cashier of the Crookston Lum- ber company for several years has been appointed cashier vice F. A. Lambert who resigned recently to ac- cept osition in CaMofrnia. flv : : . MALCOLM NEWS Andy Erickson departed with his family via Thorhult and Red Lake on his way to Nebish where they will spend the winter. Theo. Riner arrived from Parker, 8. D., and is getting ready'to move on to his claim east of Malcolm. His family will arrive the latter part of the month and will move into Frank Hendrickson’s house until Theo. gets a house built on the homestead. Frank Hendrickson made a trip to Thief River last week. Miss Annie and Helen Swersvold called on Mrs. G. A. Benson Sunday afternoon. Hope that Congressman Steener- son will be succesful in getting a government harbor “bullt at Redby alson on the north side of the lake so farmers will get so relief as it now we have to drive as high as 75 miles to get our supplies and market our grain causing undue hardship. When that Redby harbor is com- pleted it should be a paying propo- sition to build a store and a grain elevator on the north side of the lake. Bud Howe paid a visit to his claim | Thursday. TURTLE RIVER. On October 9, at Berchinal, Ia., oc- curred the marriage of Earl M. East- man of Turtle River to Miss Anna Spilman.. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman at Poplar, Minn. They will make their home on the George Foote farm Mr. Eastman drives school route No. 2 to Turtle River. Mrs. A. O. Johnson left Tuesday for Belfield, N. D., to join her husband, who is conducting a grocery store there. Mrs. Johnson will spend the winter in Belfield. Mrs. E. Roberts, has returned from an extended visit with relatives at Rochester, Minn. Charles Soule, of Clear Lake, Minn., has purchased the Martin farm in section 17. He is moving his house- hold goods this week. Mrs. Soule, who is at present visiting her sister, Mrs. Harris Gish in Brainerd, will ar- rive Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Styner have returned from Grand Forks, N. D.. where they have spent the past sev- eral weeks. John Egelund who has been ill at Hochester for some time, died last weck. Interment was made at that place. Mr. Egelund, who was 73 vears of age, has lived for many years in Turtle River. He made his home fo rthe past year with Mr. and Mrs. Otterstad. Miss Tinnie Pendergast arrived in Turtle River Saturday and was the guest of Mrs. A. 0. Johnson for sev- eral days. Miss Beth Horton, a teacher in our public school, spent the week-end with Bemidji friends. Miss Ruth Guthrie spent Sunday with her parents. William Varner spent Saturday in Bemidji. Tim Sherrier has been ill the past the week with the team. ! John Mackiman returned from| Dakota last week. ! The new grovel and cinder walk, | which runs from depot to store, has| been nished. | Wilhelm Wagner sold forty acres| o .a; SCOO and maps which indicated how the pew law will work out. week. Mrs. W. H. Gish spent Tuesday in Bemidji. Mesdames S. A. and George Paquin entertained Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Crav- er, Miss Esther Craver and Mr. and Mrs. HH. Paquin at Sunday dinner. Mrs. J. S. Wheeler returned on Tuesday from Waubun, where she has iyoung man from Minneapolis. | visited relatives for a fortnight. THE CUB REPORTER IS DEAD| spent two weeks Visiting Hid siSters] TWO POSSESS ONE-THIRD' Committee Finds Morgan and Rocke- i feller Own Thirty- six Per Cent | . of U .S. Wealth. l‘ | NO RIVAL BIG INTERESTS | New York, Oct. 23.—A Washing- ton dispatch to the World says: “The house committee on banking and currency has concluded a special ingairy: begun some ifoaths age, the | purpose of which was to find out to what extent the control of the com- mercial and financial interests of this country concentrated through the interlocking of the di-| rectorates of corporations. has been Many ex- perts have been employed in the in- vestigation and their general clusion, as reported to the committee in‘ a formal combined report is as| follows: “Two men control between them | over one-third—36 per cent—of the‘ active wealth and natural resources of the United States. These two men are J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. “Contrary to the popular assump- tion, there are no great rival camps among the ‘big interests,” the banking and currency committee investigators con- say, and they assert tleir cnnclusionsl are borne out by their study of the| directorates of all of the important corporations in every part of the land. “In four pamphlets the total assets of the Morgan-Rockefeller group are figured at $39,718,328,366, divided as follows: “Industrial and pubile utilities, $15,636,853,814. “Railroad properties, $17,270,000,- 000. “Banks and other financial institu- tions, $4.000,911,932. “Mining and oil 500, 949,932 “Miscellaneous, $1,322,613,000. “Total, $39,781,328,366. “The figures gathered by the ex- perts indicate that the Rockefeller- Morgan interests are dominant in all the groups,—they interlock with the same interests that dominate the Standard Oil company and the same properties, $1,- iand remained for a few months when WHO IS WHO | Being a series of brief biographies of candidates for state snd county offices at the generatl election, Nov- ember 5. LYNDON A. SMITH. Lyndon A. Smith was born in Bos- cawen, New Mampshire, July, 1854. His father died when he was eight| years old and he was from that fime] compelled to assist in his own sup- port. It was not until he was twen-| ty-lwo years old that he was able to| enter college. LYNDON A. SMITH. He was graduated at Dartmouth | College in 1880, and immediately thereafter was given a position in the United States Bureau of Education. He remained in connection with that| Bureau until October, 1885, and| studieq law in the College of Law of | Georgetown University, from which he received the degrees of LL. B. in 1882, and LL. M. in 1884. ! Mr. Smith came to St. Paul in 1885 he located in Montevideo, Minn., his| present residence, where he has re-| mained in the general practice of law | until he entered the attorney gener- al's office as assistant attorney gen- eral in January, 1909. During more than half this time he was either county attorney or the village or {by long distance between the TALK TO INTERNATIONAL T.'J. Burke of Bemidji, First Lo- cal Man to Use the Telephone Line Just Completed.” BUILT BY BACKUS INTERESTS T. J. Burke, of Bemidji, and E. W. Backus, of International Falls, this morning held the first conversation two cities. The talk was made possible by the fact that the new long distance line from International Falls to Blackduck has been connected with the Northwestern lines. The line gives the first direct com- munication between Minneapolis and Klnlel‘l’lalional “Falls as all telegraph matter must be sent in via Duluth or ‘Warroad. International Falls peo- ple tried to have the Northwestern interests extend their line north but when they would not decided that they would build south. Mr. Backus was thé prime mover of the campaign. The line from International to Blackduck is built of heavy copper wire and marks a distinct step in the advancement of the north country. It can also be used to reach Funkley, Northome, Gemmel, Mizpah, Big Falls and Littlefork. MUSIC IN SCHOOLS. A $200 Victrola from Barker's was used in the high school yesterday during the assembly period to give a concert of the world’'s best music. The same instrument was used in the eighth grade room today and when the pupils were dismissed at noon they marched out to the stains of a march by Prior’s band. Records were loaned by Mr. Barker and Mrs. San- born. An order has been placed by the high school for one of the instruments and it will be used by Miss Ethel Murray in connection with her work in music. Miss Murray says that the world’s best music will be brought to the pupils and that they will be placed on familar terms with com- posers, singers and instrumentalists. | When the new instrument comes, a concert will be given in each depart- city attorney of Montevideo and oc- cupied many public positions. He| was for a time a trustee of Carleton college. Three and a half years ago| i that dominate the Steel Trust, and Jout the financial world.” (Continued on last naze They'll Put You In An Asylum Yet, Scoop he gave up his private law practice ment twice a month, MRS. BELDING LEAVES. Mrs. Nona Belding has resigned her position in the Bazaar store. She By "HOP" (INOW, GoLL Dinerva- P, IR | ECKLES FARMERS OUT IN FULL FORCE © Sixty-six in the Bauer School Tuesday Night to Hear Program of Be- midji Educators. SECOND MEETING OF SERIES : i First Was Held in Grant Valley and Forty-six Were Present, Mak- 1 ing Over 100 In One Week. = 5 STICK TO YOUR STRAIN” Nelson Advises Dairy Men Not to Change Breeds But Build Up By Selection. Sixty people were packed into the Bauer school house in the town of Eckles last night to hear the pro- gram offered by the Bemidji high school extension faculty. Their ages ranged all the way from habes in arms to men in their fifties and the young people appeared as enthusias- tic as the older ones. Last Thurs- day in the District 10 school there were forty-six present so that over 100. have been reached during the 7 past week. The extension work is new to the = high school and the trip last night was the second of the year. Profes- sor Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and Harold Dane were taken out by R. L. Given and W. L. Brooks followed with the Misses Eddy, Knappen and Murray. The school was reached about 8:30 and the program was not finished until after 10. _ Stanley Knott, teacher of the school, had ar- ranged with several of the ladies tg serve lunch and it was enjoyed by tbe home people as much as by the visitors. s Professor Dyer told of the pufpose™ = =~ of the high school in reaching out to the rural communities with the 2 extension work and made plain the - fact that the high school was not only a Bemidji institution but belonged - to the surrounding country as well because the state aided it to the ex- tent of some $5,000 a year. He urged the young men and girls to come to ~ Bemidji in January and take the " short course in agriculture, domes- tic science, manual training. book keeping and arithmetic which would be offered for two months. - A. E. Nelson took the “Dairy Cow’" 5 for his subject and pointed out ecer- tain characteristics which will al- ways be found in a good dairy ani-. mal. Mr. Nelson urged the farmers to istick to the breed they had but to {make their herd the best possible through proper selection. “There is nothing so bad as switch- - ing around and the successful dairy man is the one who has one strain and then makes it pay. Dairy cows are divided into three classes; the first is making vou money, the second is merely paying for herself but mak- ing you nothing, and the third is |losing you money. You don’t want and can't afford to have cows of the second and third classes. Who wants to get up seven mornings in the week, milk a cow and again at night, and work during the day to make feed for her and at the end of the year find out that he has paid from $7 to $15 for the privilege? Miss Knappen and Miss Murray sang “Love’s Old Sweet Song” and “Sweet and Low” and then Miss Knappen gave two reading which Dleased the younsters and also caused the older people much merriment. Her impersonation of the boy in a “Piece of Cake’ made the boys and girls shake their seat with laughter. Miss Eddy spoke particularly to the women taking “The Farm Kitchen™ i these are found side by side through- | and has devoted himself since to the gxpects to remain in Bemidji a few|for her subject. She pointed out that idays before leaving. the farm kitchen is the workshop of jthe woman and one of the most im- portant parts on the farm yet it is often neglected and more poorly ar- Tanged than the cow barn. “One of the most important things to the woman is to have the pump in ithe house”, she said, “In the sum- !mer time, every trip to the well eans that flies and misquitoes come n. During the winter it means wade i throurh snow. With the pump should : 20 a drain for water thrown out doors . soon saturates the surface, a breeding place for flies and other insects. _ " “A bright airy kitchen is the best. - Watch the cupboard corners for that is where the germs live. Many wom-. .. en find that by putting a small shelf over the kitchen table for salt, pepper. and other spices, they can save many _ steps. The Kkitchen is the bread box (Continued on iast pags). =a0