Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 18, 1912, Page 1

V]_" VOLUME 10. NUMBER 174, WOMEN & CHILDREN HUSTLING NEW SUBS Active Campaigning For Handsome Christmas @ift. Begins SUNDAY SCHOOLS FALL IN LINE HARRY POLLOK. Rosenthal ~ Witness Preparing to L. Arrested e For Europe. Men Not to be Barred From Enter- ing Field of Active ‘Workers. DON'T HOLD BACK SUBSCRIBERS Send in All Names As Soon As They are Received By You. The ladies of the various churches who are interested in the Christmas Gift Subscription campaign conduct- ed by the Pioneer will be pleased to learn that daily subscripers are com- ing to this office and making advance payments and new ones are having their names entered as regular sub- scribers. What will interest them more is the fact that many are ask- ing that certain societies be given the one dollar cash gift. All subscriptions should be sent in as fast as they are secured. Some have taken subscriptions and are planning to hold them until they have secured a number. If you have any names to turn in do so at once. It you cannot conveniently come to the Pioneer office, telephone us the name and the paper will be started to their address immediately. Just state that you will be in later to make the required payment and se- cure the proper credit. A strict. record is kept by the campaign department and all credits will be carefully made. Any sub- scriber coming direct to this office stating that he wishes a certain church society to receive credit, it will be so recorded. Rember that each society will re- ceive a dollar for every new name turned in and when any society has turned in one hundred yearly pay- ments, old or new, (not arrearages) it will receive an additional gift of $25.00, making a total of $125 for the hundred. 1f any society wishes to send in new workers whose names do not appear in the display announcement, they may do so at any time up to the close of the campaign. New names will help materially in the s2curing of additional subscriptions. Fach pearson has her friends and is able to secure subscriptions where others may not. No, men are not barred from enter- icg this field. They are elligable as well as women. Get all you can to help your club. If it is possible to secure your entire church congrega- tion, do so. If you can secure out- siders to enter the field it is to your advantage. Nobody is barred. The more workers you get for your church, the more hansome will be your Christmas gift. In some of the churches the Sunday school is taking an active hand. These are the real live hustlers. Organize your classes and urge them to get busy. If the Sunday schools of the various churches wish to enter the field for their church it may do so as a seper- ate organization. If the Young Peo- ples Societies wish to enter they are cordially invited to begin at any time. Every church in Bemidji should be able to earn a Christmas gift of from $125 to $500. Yes, even the business men of this city are interested in the work. It is their desire that every home in Bemidji secure the Pioneer. It is to their advantage. BEach week the Pioneers contains news from the var- ious stores and the are anxious that you read what they have to say. Their news not only will be of inter- est as news, but will be of interest to your pocket book. They continu- ally offer merchandise at a great sav- ing, and if each home in Bemidji would follow closely the special of- fers made by the Bemidji merchants, and take advantage of them, it would materially reduce the cost of living. Read about the special premiums given to every subscriber, old or new. They are gifts well worth while. The silverware is strictly guaranteed by the Barker Drug and Jewelry store of this city, where it is purchased. Anyone wishing de- tailed information on any of the premiums may receive it either at Photo by American Press Assoclation. _— this office or at the Barker store where it is on display. MOON TO DEMAND RE-COUNT Will Make Application to Court Within Time Limit. Charles Moon, unsuccessful candi- date for relection for Register of Deeds of Beltrami county, stated to- day that it was his intention to make application for a recount. He has ten days in which to file notice. He is of the opinion that in as much as the Board of Canvassers have found errors in his favor, that a re- count may possibly result in his elec- tion. The cost of a recount, accord- ing to Mr. Moon, falls on the should- ers of the man who applies for it, unless the result is changed. INSURGENTS LOOK FOR VICTORY Hastings, Neb., Nov. 18.—A suit brought by the Nebraska “insur- gents” of the Modern Woodmen of Americd, “Who seek “to “prevent -the head officers of the fraternity from putting into effect the increased rates agreed upon at the Chicago meeting last spring, came up for hearing before Judge Dungan here today. The members who are back of the suit have found much encour- agement in the recent decision of Judge Bradshaw at Des Moines, in which he denied the proposed in- crease in the rates of the fraternal insurance society. The Nebraska suit is to be conducted by the same attorneys and on the same lines of evidence as the Iowa case. FINISH COUNTING BALLOTS The Board of Canvassers have fin- hed their work of making an offi- cial report of the election held No- vember 5. Tne fnal count gives the winners as previously announced in the Pionéer. The close race between Harris and Moon gives Harris a lead of five votes. MRS. STELLA WHITNEY CALLED Mrs. Stella Whitney died Sunday evening, after a long illness, at the age of thirty-two. The funeral ser- vices will be held at the house this afternoon at 3:30. Rev. Charles Flesher officiating. The remains will be taken to Clearwater on the night train, for burial. Mys. Whitney leaves a husband and two children, a boy, Summer, age ten and a girl, Altha, age four, to mourn her loss. —_— HORNET. Miss Nellie Shaw visited at her home Saturday and Sunday and re- turned to Blackduck Monday morn- ing. Mrs. Herman Thoms and children, and Mrs. Frank Cossentine have re- turned from- visiting relatives at Eagle Bend and St. Hilaire. Roy Cossentine went to Bemidji on Friday. Miss Anna Anvid visited friends in Blackduck on Saturday. REPORTER [T uaces avosraGreTaMP WHEN BUT ACHILD AND SINCE) [THEN TVE LICKED'MY WEIGHT WOMAN HELD FOR MURDER Mrs. Lean Musse'is the Seventh Wo- man Held for Murder in the " Past 12 Months, SAYS SHOT IN SELF DEFENSE Chicago, Ill., Nov. 18.—For the seventh time within twelve months a woman is to be arraigned in Chi- cago courts tomororw to stand- trial on a charge of first degree murder, The woman is Mrs. Lena Musse and the indictment charges her with the murder of her husband. She has been in jail the past six months and at no time has she apepared in the least apprehensive concerning her possible fate. Not unlikely her con- fidence in the future is based on the fact that of the six women tried on murder charges in Chicago recently four were given their freedom and the other two sentenced to prison terms. Peter Musse was shot and killed in his home on the second floor of a Larrabee street tenement house on the night of April 28 last. A fire followed the shooting and the body was burned. The police investiga- tion led to the arrest of the slain man’s wife, a blue eyed, fair skinned little woman of twenty-four, who known in the neighborhood as the “Blonde Queen of Little Italy.” Mrs. Musse admitted having fired the shot that ended her husband’s life. Fear of her ouw life, she said, impeleld the act. She insisted she loved the man whose life she took, and she blamed his frenzied jealousy. for her own unhappiress and the final tragedy. The woman'’s story, as given out by the police, was as follows: “When my husband came home on the night of the tragedy he at once began to quarrel with me. He said I did not love him, and he was very angry with me. We quarreled un- til about 9 o’clock. He said he was going to kill me. But at 9 o’clock he ‘beécame quieter, and T ‘thought the trouble was over. My little girl went to bed in the room next to that in which I was with my husband. At two o'clock in the morning my husband awakened me by getting out of bed. He took a razeor out of a drawer and took it to bed with him, holding it in his hand. “He told me to get out of bed, as he was going to cut my throat. Then he opened the razor and started to get out of bed. I saw the revolver lying on a dresser in the room, and I ran and picked it up. I held it close to my husband and fired three shots at him. Then I ran outside, but returned to get my little girl. I did not set fire to the bed. The pistol must have done that.” MEN FACED FRAUD CHARGE New York, Nov. 18.—Julian Haw- taorne, the well known author and journalist, Josiah Quincy, former mayor of Boston, and several others associated with them in the so-called Hawthorne mining interests in Can- ada, were brought into United States District court today for trial. The indictment on which they are to be tried charges them with making fraudulent use of the mails in dis- posing of mining stock. Investors from many parts of the country have been summoned to testify at the trial. THIRD TRIAL OF BARTON MILLER Washington, D. C., Nov. 18.—The case of J. Barton Miller, former sec- retary-treasurer of the defunct First ) Co-operative Building Association of Georgetown, was called for trial for the third time today in the criminal court of the District of Columbia. Miller is under indictment charging the embezzlement of funds of the as- sociation and the destruction of the books and records of the association. The alleged offenses are said to have occurred in 1908. Two previous trials haye resulted in convictions, but on appeal the decisions have been reversed. WISCONSIN WINS FROM MINNESOTA —_— G. A. R. MONUMENT HERE e Is Being Erected ‘yx'h Greenwood Cemetery Near Irvine Avenue Today. IS OF ST. CLOUD WHITE GRANITE The Old Soldiers’ monument for which moneys have-bgen raised in various ways for the past year ar- rived in Bemidfl ove?*the Soo. line; last Thursday and contractors came this morning from Thief River Falls to place it in the Greenwood ceme- tery. The monument was purchased from the Thief River Falls company through their local agent J. M. Ful- ler and is built from St. Cloud white granite with a red granite base. It is being erected today and final work will be completed Tuesday. The stone costs about $1300 and is 24 feet high. The appropriations were made by the members of the G. A. R. and other citizens of Beltrami county. It will be placed in the southwest corner of the grounds near Irvine avenue. The monument bears the inscrip- tion, “In memory of the Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865.” The corner stone will be placed tomorrow and the local G. A. R. are making plans to have placed underneath the tory of Bemidji, the names of the givers toward the monument fund and other matter pertaining to the civil war veterans. NORTHWEST LAND-STOCK SHOW Portland, Ore., Nov. 18.—The Pa- cific Northwest Land Products Show, for which preparations have been going forward for nearly a year was opened her today and will be con- tinued through the week. A won- derful assortment of farm and or- chard products of the entire North- west is on displpay. Coincident with the land show the Pacific Interna- tional Dairy and Stock Show is held at the new stock yards in North Portland, with exhibits of dairy cattle and dairy products from Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washing- ton, Oregon and British Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. John Graham and two children, Mable and Robert, re- turned to Bemidji this morning af- ter spending the last three days as the guest of J. Detling, of Blackduck duck. stone a deposit -containing the his-: ([ Need a little cash to finance that proposition? A want ad may find the fellow who has idle cash which he would be glad to invest. ( It’s worth trying. Caste of Twenty Local Actors Are Holding Rehearsals Every Evening. WILL SHOW TWO NIGHTS ONLY The home talent play which is to be staged at the Brinkman Family theatre Friday and Saturday nights of this week, has created consider- able interest among Bemidji citizens, and some predict that two nights “For Old Eli” will not give all an opportunity to see the play. The theatre will seat somewhat over 400 people and there will doubtless be from 1400 to 1500 who wish to see this performance. The cast is being drilled under the direction of Miss Marjory Knappen, instructor of elocution at the high school, and promises to far eclipse anything of a home talent nature ever staged in Bemidji. Miss Knap- pen is considered a most capable in- structor, and the talent with which she has to work is far above the average. The play is being staged for the purpose of wiping out the debt con- tracted in the issuing of the high school annual, the “Chippewa”. There will be twenty people in the cast and a drilled organization with such capable material as Newman, Nelson, Carson, Simons, Riley and others, say nothing about the femin- ine side should more than make good. Bemidji theatre goers have in the -past shown that they prefer to attend a home talent show in pre- ference to a traveling professional organization. The K. P. lodge will meet Tuesday night, November 19, at the EIk’s hall. The Female Of The Species Is More Deadly Than The Male BOY FINDS DEAD MAN Body That of A. P. Russell, Who Was an Inmate of the City Poor Farm. CORONER- PREPARES BODY A man named A. P. Russell, who has been at the city poor house for the past three days, belng treated for “0ME TALENT - 'PLAYJpenen’:onrla and tremons was found. dead in the woods a short distance back of the Bemidji mill Sunday morning. According to repoorts, Mr. Rus- sell left the poor house Friday eve- ning in his underwear during one of bis spells and from his appearance came in contact with a barb wire fence brush, sticks and stones. His clothing was practically all torn off, body and face were considerably marked and isratched and it is pre- sumed that he was in the act of fight- ing one of these tremendous battles of delerium tremons which are known to end in complete exhaus- tion or death. . His body was discovered by a small Nymore boy who was out hunting. The boy told his father what he saw and the coroner was immediately no- tified. Coroner Ibertson left for the scene and returned with the body to his morgue, where it is being pre- pared for burial. He has no rela- ‘tives or particular friends in this vieinity. A letter found on his person indi- cates that his home is in Empey Hill, Ontario. The letter was written to him by his daughter last May, and began, Dear Papa: signed Laura Rus- sell. Efforts are being made by Mr. Ibertson to locate his rélatives. If word is not received the body will propably be buried in Potters field. He was about forty years of age. CONVENTION OF MERCHANTS St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 18.—More than 1000 retail merchants, repre- senting widely separated sections of the country, have arrived in St. Louis to attend the first annual con- vention of the National Federation of Retail Merchants. The federation which was organized at Chicago a year ago, will meet at the Planters’ Hotel tomorrow and continue in ses- sion three days. Noted authorities will discuss a wide variety of ques- tions of interest and importance to the retail trade. By "HOP” Carry “Big 9” Banmer Back to "Madison for 1912, —_— IS ONLY UNDEFEATED TEAM. The Backfield Responsible for Vie- tory of Husky Badgers. GOPHERS MAKE A GOOD FIGHT Final Result was 14 to 0 in Favor Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 14 to 0, in the deciding game of the Big Nine conference season of 1912 at Northrop field Saturday after- noon. The defeat of the Gophers was decisive and came after one of the most flercely fought contests of the season in the west. The score Is In, one way something of an injustice to Minnesota in that it does not truly reflect the relative abilities of the teams. The margin is much cloger than the score would indicate. Wisconsin rose to its higheat power In the second period and scored two touchdowns. In the second half of the game the ground-gaining honors were with the Gophers, but Wiscon- sin’s spirited defense and the final whistle ended what looked to be march of the Minnesotans up the field for a certain touchdown. Wis- consin appeared to be about all in physically and seemed unable’ to withstand against this determined attack of Minnesota. The final whis- tle only ended Minnesota’s march from her own 20-yard line to Wis- consin’s 9-yard line, where the game ended with the ball in Minnesota’s possession and a touchdown impend- ing. Badgers a Fine Team. Coach "Juneau brought to Minne- sota the best team Wisconsin has had in several years. It was a splendidly balanced team. It's line was good. It’s backfleld played a spectacular plunging game. The Badgers had a wealth of material and warmed two full teams before the game started. The odds of fortune appeared to fa- vor Wisconsin to a bountiful degree this year and in addition to the ma- terial the men were well coached in their style of play. In the backfield Wisconsin had big " men who by comparison of size and weight dwarfed the Minnesota pony backfield. These fellows were not only big and powerful men, but were fast on their feet and moved with Dower and precision. Gillette, Tand- berg and Van Riper were the bright- est stars of the visiting backfield, al- though the Gophers were far more fortunate in smothering Gillette than they were in stopping the terrific plunges of Tandberg and Van Riper. These fellows are wonders at line bucking and going to the tackle and are the greatest opposing players seen upon Northrop field in recent years. The oadgers had two great ends and one spectacular pestiferous tackle in Butler. This fellow brought more woe to the Minnesota attack than any of the other Wisconsin for- wards. Bright was not called upon as often as Tandberg and Van Riper, but gave a good account of himself. To show the relative strength of the two teams, the following figures will be of interest: Wis. Minn Ground Gained by Rushing 252 223 First Downs ....... eeess 10 16 Ground gained on forward pass . e .12 23 Ground lost on forward Ground lost on penalties . 3 4 Fumbles ....... s 3 4 Number of punts ... 15 14 Average distance of punts 35 30 RETURN WITH TWO FINE BUCKS -|Kelsey and Weinberner Back From Deer Hunt with Prize Winners. J. W. Kelsey and James Weinber- ner, of this city, returned this morn- ing from a deer hunt on the Wein- berner farm, northeast of Puposky and -brought back with them two fine buck deer. These men are two of Bemidji’'s old time hunters and have gone out hunting together each