Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 8, 1912, Page 1

t \ Vor, XXII. —No 45 FACTS IN CHARNLE CASE PRESENTED Detailed Report of Talk With Mrs. Charnley Refutes The Examiner’s Statement. | CHARNLEY WANTS “SETTLEMENT” Writes Note To Teacher Asking That She “Settle With Him”— Affidavit Follows When De- mand Is Ignored. An affidavit appeared in last! week’s Examiner, purporting to be by Mrs. Nels Charnley, denying cer- tain statements which Mrs. Charnley had made when telling her story to the principal of the Forest Lake school and a reporter for the Her- ald-Review. An article had appeared in the Examiner, charging Miss Trogan,| one of the teachers in the Forest | Lake school, with prutally asgault-! ing Mabel Charnley, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Charnley, and the interview was sought with a desire to get at the truth in the case. When Mrs. ‘Charnley was question- ed as to whether Mabel had said anything about the affair on return- ing home at noon, she said: “No, she did not say anything about it. | did not know that any, | thing had taken place until a neigh-| bor came and told me.” Mabel was playing about the yard at the time, and showed no traces of any mistreatment that could be blamed to the school authorities. She seemed an ill-nurtured child and clothing when she school?” was asked. “No, I did not notice them then.” “Did you have a talk with Mr LeFevre when he came to your housa to inquire about the matter?” | “IT did not talk hagf a dozen words. In fact, I did not know who the man was that was here until it came out in his paper. He asked to see ‘the child's clothes and I showed them to him, that was all.” “Had Mabel cud nose bleed be- fore?” “Yes several of the children have; it now and then.” “Who told you, that Mabel school?” “1! would rather not tell you, | do not want to make trouble for any; one.” “Do you think that the of the Forest Lake school this, Mrs. Charnley?” “No, I have nothing against any of them except this once, and I think | Miss Trogan was wrong and punished her too hard.” “Has anyone ever told you be- ford this that Miss Trogan was too hard on Mabel?” “Yes, the first of the year Mro. LeFevre told me in Mrs. Burke’s house that Miss Trogan wasn’t good to Mabel.” “Then all your information seems to have come from one woman?” “Yes, it came from Mrs, LeFevre.” returned from | Mrs. Charniey, had been abused in, teachers deserve i AFFIDAVIT STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUN’. 4 OF ITASCA, ss. Margaret Aiton and May Stanley, being first duly sworn, depose and | say that the foregoing conversation is distinctly recalled by them; that! it is the gist of the imterview that took place between them and Mrs. Nels Charnley at the home of Mrs. Charnley, Saturday, April 27. MARGARET AITON, | MAY STANLEY. Subscribed and sworn to before} me this 8th day of May, 1912. E. A. KREMER, Notary Public, Itasca County, Min-y While no shorthand report of the’ imterview with Mrs. Charnley was taken, the conversation was such as |first—two days before the affidavit |by Charnley, was insufficiently clad. ed with “Did you see blood stains on her ; Granp Rapips,; Irasca County, MINN., Wepnzspay, May 8, 1912 news that her child was being ill- treated in school. Charnley said he thought the Ex- aminer was “about right” in what it has said. Asked if he thought i was fair to have the teachers so mis- represented he said he “didn’t know.” The character of the man him- self is well shown in the following note sent by him to Miss Aiton May Gy supposed to be by Mrs. appeared in the Examiner: * “Grand Rapids, Mini. May 1, 1912. Miss Aiton There is a chance for Miss Trogan to settle with me and if she says not | want an ans, at once. Yiours, Nels Charnley.”” This note was given to Anma Root, while on her way to school, who asked her to give it to Miss Aiton. The despic- able character of the man is too plainly shown in this letter to need comment. He wants some one to “settle with” him about the affair; which he knows to be a false attack | on a woman who has been unfailing- ly kind to his children. Truly, no more fitting specimen than Nels Charnley could be found to uphold and applaud the utterances “of the editor of the Examiner. Charnley School Board Adopts Resoluticn { To the Womeu Teachers of Grand Rapids Schools. the and to the Woman's Club and Mothers’ io of Grand Rapids, Minne- my public protest addressed to the Superintendent, Board of Directors and Citizens of Grand Rapids has been received by ‘the Board and has peen given careful consideration. In reply we wish in the first place to thank you for your earn- est protest against the unwarrant- ed and unjustifiable attack on your fellow-teacher and towns woman, Miss Carrie Trogan, al- though no complaint has been fil- either the Superinten- dent or the Board of Directors by the parents of the child whose correction was used ag the basis jor a malicious attack upon the integrity of the teacher, yet sinca attention has been called to this matter through the public press, the board has made an investiga- thon and they are convinced as a result of this: ist. That the teacher was neither brutal nor even intention- ally severe in her punishment of | the child; that the child’s nose bleeding was probably caused through an accident. 2nd. It was particularly no- ted that the spirit of confidence im the presence of their teacher was manifest everywhere by the chilfien in the room and that all seem to have a loving in- terest in their teacher and their work. 3rd. That the entire teach- ing force of Forest Lake school is thoroughly devoted to the work of their schools and that they are in very close sympathy with both the children and the mothers of the community. fhe Board of Directors and Superintendent take this means UNIVERSITY WILL tion for 18 Towns of Minnesota WILL ASSEMBLE HERE JUNE 17 Third Week in June Not Popular Owing to Development Associa- tion Meeting and Date May Be Changed One hundred thousand people of Minnesota are to get a condensed and popularized course in higher education when the.‘university week” during next June will be held at eighteen towns. The final itinerary has peen announced by Prof. Samuel Quigley. Lecturers, scientists, en- tertainers and practical demonstra- | tors, composing a staff of seventy- five persons, will interpret this | ‘Chautauqua idea of university exten- sion, instituted by President George E. Vincent. The first week will be spent in Southwestern Minnesota, from June 3 to 8, inclusive. Commercial clubs and farmers’ organizations are mak- ing preparations for the reception of the portable university. In the south- West portion St. James, Windom, Worthington, Luverne, Jackson and Fairmont will be visited. It is esti- mated that the attendance will be approximately 5,000 for each place, The southeast ‘section of the state will be visited from June 10 to 15, inclusive, and Waseca, Owatonna, Rochester, Plainview, Red Wing and Grand Meadow are the towns on the schedule. The last week, from June 17 to 22, inclusive, will be spent in the northern part of the state. The ‘towns to be Visited are Brainerd, Crookston, Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Coleraine and Cloquet. A permanent staff will be located at each place throughout the univer- sity week while itinerant groups, numbering fifty in all, will spend one day in each city. The chief popu- lar lectures will be given by Presi- dent Vincent and Dr. Richard Bur- ton, head of the English department. As one of the features of entertain- will give a demonstration on liquid air. In connection with this lecture Prof. B. L. Newkirk of the engineer- ing college will give an exhibition with his gyroscope and mono-rail car. Other features of entertainment will be a concert by the Glee club, aided by 4 local chorus in each case and the presentation of a Shakes- pearean comedy by the University ‘Dramatic club. Prof. A. W. Ranklin cates Her People,” and Maurice Flagg, of the State Art society, will speak on “Art in Common Things.” Other lecturers will be Professor Em- of expressing their confidence in Miss Trogan and join with you in hoping to see the time when the public conscience of Grand Rap- ids will be so aroused that the making of such attacks on the teachers of the public schools sall receive the condemnation that is deserved. Signed: ’ C. E. BURGESS, Chairmen. C. H. DICKINSON, J. D. DORAN, E. A. FREEMAN, 3 Governors Call Development Meet. Seven governers of Northwestern states issued a joint proclama- tion todpy, calling a North- west development congress to be held Whe congress is to plan a campaign eritus Maria Sanford, Dr. Hardin ‘Craig of the English department, ‘Dean A. F, Woods of the agricultural college, Dr. H. M. Bracken and Dr. HH. W. Hill of the state board of Health, C. G. Schultz, state superin- tendent of public instruction, Martha ‘Wilson and Clara Baldwin of the state library association and members of the university and the agricultur- al college extension division. ‘/DIRECTORS TAKE UP DISTRICT BONDS At the meeting of the school direc- tors of the district held April 29, five $1,000 bonds of district No. 1, due in 1917, were taken up and paid as follows: Principal} $5,000; premium $235.00; in Seattle June 3 to 8.\accrucd interest $57.63; total $5,292.63." Bonds of district No. One are con- and suggest legislation to assist the| sidered such a good investment that | Northwestern states in a more rapid/the directors have experienced diffi- development and to stem the tide of! culty in finding bonds to take up, emigration to Canada. \. The proclamation was signed by M. to be readily and distinctly recalled. Mrs. Charnley seemed ill at ease in the presence of her husband and ity was not until he was out of hearing that she admitted that it was from |jH. Hawley, Idaho, and Oswald West,| calling in bonds as the finances of | state highway commission for Pa ‘ ul ‘reeman. “Mrs. LeFevre she had received the E. Hay, governor of Washington; A. O. Eberhart, Minnesota; John Burke, ‘North Dakota; R- S. Vessey, South’ pPakota; Edwin Norris, Montana; J. Pregon. The practice of taking up the bonds that are available means a large say- | ing in accrued imterest to the tax- payers, the directors acting in ac ‘eord with the instructions of the ‘annual school Meeting in regard to the district warrant. ment Dean George B. Frankforter | will speak on “How Minnesota Edu- | } | | | | | 1 [tence takes effect at once. COURT deoolON ViatT MANY TOWNS ENDED SATURDAY: Popular Course In Higher Educa-_ Lightest Criminal Calender In Years Mark Last Session Of Dis- trict Court. MANY CIVIL CASES ARE HEARD Itasca County Superintendent of . Schools Secures Divorce— Rhody and Caldwell Get Stillwater Sentence. One of the lightest criminal calen-} dars in some years marked the ses- Sion of district court which closed last Saturday, the two most im-| portant cases being those of James/ Rhody and Frank Caldwell. Both! men received indeterminate sen-| tences of from one to seven years, ! Rhody was given 30 days in which} to prepare notice of motion for new trial, and pending failure +t 1» bond in five days the pri: on sen- Cald+ well received a similar sentence, and both men will be taken to the state prison at Stillwater Thursday to be- gin their prison terms. Among other criminal ca:es heard was that of John Welsh of Deer River, who was fined $200 for main- taining a house of ill repute and $50 for selling liquor illegally. Ben McGhion of Bigfork was released on suspended sentence, charged with -unning a gambling house. Among the divorce cases of inter- ft was that of Estella Whipple, ‘ounty superintendent of schodls, who was granted a decree severing the matrimonial bonds between her and John Whipple. Maud Newman also received a divorce from Her- bert Newman at this term, and John Rusch was given a decree from Su- san Rusch. A large number of civil cases were heard, among them being that of Mike Stanich against the Pearson Mining company, a personal injury esse in which the jury found for the defendant in the sum of $4,637. The case of Emil Johnson ys. P. L. Ramquist was one of the lengthy| trials of the session, verdict being for the plaintiff in the sum of! $568.70- The hearing in the case of John Landy against Edward Baldwin, a} suit for wages resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, $113.21 being awarded him. Egihty-six civil cases were on the calendar most of which were disposed of. Twenty-nine court cases remain for hearing and these will come be-, fore Judge Wright, beginning May 14! The next session of district court will convene October 29, FAMOUS ELWELL SUIT IS ARGUED, State Road Law Heard On Monday Before Minneseta Supreme Court At St. Paul. The test suit against the Elwell road law, passed at the last session of the state legislature. was argued! vide | before the state supreme court Mon-! | @ay on an appeal for an order by Judge Lewis of the Ramsey county district court, made March 27, 1912,! sustaining the demurrers of the de- fendamts. The action, which is a_ friendly one, is prought by Fred H. Murray, mayor of White Bear, against State Treasurer Smith, State Auditor Iver- son, C. M. Babcock, Clarence I. Mc- Nair and F. S. Bell of the state high- way commission, and G. W. Cooliey, | secretary of the commission and sta ¥ April, engineer. The arguments for the state were presented by Assistant Attorney General Stevens, with At- torney Thomas McDermott for the} applicant. Attempt is made in the suit to si ¥ payment on a road running east from Thief River Falls, Pennington coun-/ ty, costing $17,014.01. There are about sixteen applications before the’ ‘to be built under this law, | raised by general taxation, or.whether ; the difference being in degree only. jhundreds of miles of needed high- | | will probably be rendered Friday. ‘CHANGE SCHEDULE icents, all the money they had it was | ‘property benefitted thereby without which the commission as yet has | taken no action pending the out- come of the litigation. The appellant claims that the El- well law, fathered by Senator I. T. Elwell, is unconstitutional and void in that it is in violation of section 1, article 9, of the Constitution of Min- mesota, which provides that “taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects, provided that the legis- | lature may authorize municipal cor- Poration to levy and collect assess-/ ments ‘for local improvements on! regard to cash valuation.” The main dispute is whether a rural road shall be built on money adjoining property should be assess- ed for road work, payable in ten an- | nual installments, the state to pay one-palf the cost, the county one- fourth and the benefitted property the other fourth. The supporters of the law claim that a rural road is | just as much a local improvement as a city street or a drainage ditch, The decision will effect northern | Minnesota most vitally, as good | roads are the most imperative need | |of the morth country, and under the | | Elwell law it is hoped to construct way. The supreme court’s decision OF NIGHT TRAINS Great Northern Make Change In Time On Both East and Westbound Train. A change in time on trains Nos. 35 and 36 of the Great Northern became effective Sunday morning, | May 5. No. 35, westbound, will ar- rive here at 1:04, a. m., instead of 1:08 as formerly. No. 36 going east, which formerly arrived here at 3:30 a. m., reaches here at 4:30 now. | Hereafter No. 36 will cut out a} number of local stations, making the following stops only between Cass Lake and Superior: Deer River, Co- hasset, Grand Rapids, Swan River, | Cloquet and Carlton. The local ser- vice will be served by the day trains.! -Also effective on the same date a new daily train, No. 23, was put on between Duluth and St. Paul leav- | ing Duluth at 7:25 a. m., and = ar-j| riving in St. Paul at 1:00 p.m. Re! turning train No. 24, leaves St. Paul | at 2:00 p. m. arriving in Duluth at 6:55 p. m. COURT ACQUITED = CALUMET MARSHALL Larceny Case Against Marshall Gra- ham Dismissed by Judge Car- | ney Last Saturday The larceny case brought by Her- man Rose and Charley Anderson a- gainst Marshal Joe Graham of Calu- met was dismissed\ Saturday, after a hearing in Judge Carney’s court. The complaining parties charged Graham with holding them up and relieving them of their money, claim- ing that he took $7 from one and 60 cents from the other. The defense claimed that the men making the complaint were drunk a § were arrested by the marshal on! that charge. They gave him 30 alleged, to keep for them. A further investigation in the case mdy be made, as the evidence sub- mitted was not very satisfactory to the county authorities. | Librarian Makes Report. According to the report just com- piled by Mrs. Huntley of the public | library 1-654 volumes of fiction have been borrowed from the public libra- | ry during the months of March and while 402 volumes of non-, fiction were taken during the same | period. The average daily circulation during that time was given as 40. Recent new books placed on the shelves are: | “Lonesome Land,” B. H. Bower. “Mountain Girl,” Payne Erskine. “Mother,” Kahtleen Norris. “The Fighting Doctor,’ H. R. Mar- tin. | constructing new Trout Lake. | 30, at the Gem theatre. Two Dollars a Year ‘COMMISSIONERS PLAN HIGHWAYS _ New Roads In Alvwood And Good- land Township Approved At Board Meeting. IMPROVEMENTS FOR MANY ROADS Bids For New Ferry For Pokegama Lake Rejected—Board and At- to Men Inspect County Roadways. Five miles of roadway in each of | the towns of Alvwood and Goodland were recommended by Commissioners Nelson and King at the meeting of the county poard of commissioners Tuesday, April 30. This will mean an approximate expenditure of $10,- 000 in these districts, as the cost of roadways in un- improved territory average $1,000 ia mile! Bids for the construction and im- provement of roads in different see- tions of the county that will aggre- gate an expenditure of $15,000 were called for by the board. The roads under consideration are the Lydick road in town 55 ranges 26 and 27; a road in town 148, range 26; county road No. 93 in township 143; county road No. 89; county road No. 47; and roads in township 55, range 27 and township 148, range 28. A petition for the survey of see- tion lines in the Swan River, Co hasset and Ardenhurst districts was laid over until the next board meet- ing: The town of Bass Lake was grant- ed an appropriation of $100 to aid in the upkeep of the county road. A committee from the Itasca Coun- ty Automobile association waited on the board with regard to the ex- amination of highways in the towns of Grand Rapids, Iron Range, Green- way, Nashwauk, Arbo, Balsam and It was arranged that the automobile association take the comissioners over the roads in ques- tion May 7, so that an adequate idea of the proposed improvements might be gained. Five hundred dollars was appropri- ated for the repair of the Nashwauk | road in commissioner district No. 5. Anton Payment of Cohasset was re- commended as section man on the highway between Cohasset and Grand Rapids. The state highway commis- sion pays the salary for the section man on this road, leaving the choice of the employee to the county board. Dave Montcalm was appoint- ed section man on the Bovey road | between Grand Rapids and the Prai- rie river bridge. The bid of Angus Gleisford to con- struct a ferry boat for the Pokegama in the sum of $688.50 came up for consideration, but was rejected on a vote. A large territory lying across the lake is practically isolated through inadequate service and the residenfs of the district petitioned the board recently for the construction of a ferry boat that would give them access to a market without having to take a long drive around the lake shore. It is expected that ultimately there will be a bridge built across the arm of the lake, but in the mean time settlers in the district are at a disadvantage as regards getting their produce to market. The bids for the construction of @ bridge across the Bigfork river were opened, but the matter was continu- ed until the next board meeting. The application of J. F. O’Connell |for a liquor license at Swan River was rejected. The next meeting of the county | board will be held Wednesday, May 22. Decoration Day Specialties. Manager Comer is arranging & special three-feature bill for Dec- oration © day, Thursday, May “The Seven- th Son” a Lincoln picture will top the bill; ‘Washington Crossing the Deleware,” will be the second pat- Tiotic series shown and “A Gay Time At Jacksonville, Florida,” will “Butterfly House,” Mary Wilkins furnish the comedy for this special bill.