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tf MEMBER UNITED PRESS The Pioneer is 8 member of the .United Press. Today's world's news today. 57* VOLUME XII. NO. 230 Uj GUILTY DRAW JAILSENTENCE AND FINES FOR LAWVIOLATION Heavy Penalties Imposed Upon Gamblers and Illegal Booze Sellers by Stanton UNLESS FINES PAID LONGER TERMS ADDED Convictions Secured Against Lawless Element, Permitted to Run Wide Open The following is a brief summary of the district court criminal convic tions and pleas of "guilty" under prosecution of County Attorney Tprv ranee, and what they "drew" from District Court Judge Stanton. The fines and costs in the entire list of convictions amounted to $4,- 546.51. While the grand! jury was in Ses sion and before indictment Mr and Mrs. Joseph Miller pleaded "guitty" to the charge of selling liquor fcnd each was fined 1100 and 30 dayd in jail, and if fine not paid 60 days' more. Charles Gentile, found guilty of assault in the second degree of stab bing a man on July Fourth. Sen-, tence, from one to five years in the penitentiary. Frank Dewey, found guilty of keeping a place whSre liquor was fcept for sale. Sentence, 90 days in county jail, |100 fine and costs of $57.60. John Slow, found guilty of keeping a gambling outfit and under another harg of selling intoxicating liquor at the Park hotel building. For the first offense he drew 6 months in jail, $200 fine, costs of $116 and in de fault of paying the cash, an extra 60 days. For the second offense he drew 0 days, $ 100 fine, costs of ?50 90, and in default 30 additional days. The latter sentence to begin after the 6 months period expires James Kelly got all that his friend John Slow received, with the excep tion of the cost item, which was $1 12 cents more. William Young of Baudette, who was found guilty of keeping a "wet" place in the Baudtette hotel, got his. "medicine" of 60 days in jail, a fine of $100, costs of $204.10 andi in de lault 30 additional days. Joseph Thiebault of Baudette, found guilty of running opposition to William Young in keeping a 'wet" joint, drew the same concoction in the same size dose as did Young. Elmer E Moorhead also of Bau dfctte was found guilty of running in competition to Young and Thiebault a "soft wet" place, when in reality the jury found that the place wasn't so "soft He was given the same prescription to take as his townsman. "Snide" Not Optimistic. Frank Gagnon, better known as "Spider," a man quite familiar to most everybody, stated through his attorney that he was waiting for the Fergus Falls term of court to open, when he expected a "package" from that august body. Judge Stanton thought he'd investigate the request for stay of sentence and asked "Spide" to come up and listen to him Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock Mr. -Gagnon was found guilty of keeping a place where liquor was kept for sale Thomas Bowe, who pleaded guilty to keeping a gambling device, was asked by the court to, be ready for his sentence Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock Mrs Charles Sears and her hus band pleaded guilty of running the "Old Stockholm" in a decidedly "wet" manner Charley got 30 days and $100, and his wife will "get here" next Wedmesday Frank North was given a 30-day ticket to the county jail, and fine of $50, and costs of 55 80 In case of default an additional 30 days Clarence LaValley was given board and room at the sheriff's quarters and ordered to pay a $100 fine, and costs of $101 In default of coming across with the cash he gets 30 days morejn the county jail John Dewey, whose home is in Crookston, and who plead guilty to selling booze in his son's "Joint," was invited to remain in Bemidji for 60 days, pay a fine of $100 and costs (Continued on Page Eight) V" GRAHAM M. TORRANCE. County attorney of Beltrami coun ty who, alone, prosecuted and secured convictions of a long grist of "booze" sellers and gamblers. PRESIDENT PASSES RESTLESS NIGHT. -REPOR TS PHYSICIAN Not Able to Attend Any Ses- sions of Conference Set for October 6 By Hugh Bailee. (United Press Correspondent.) Washington, Sept. 29"President Wilson had a restless night, but is sleeping this morning," Dr. Grayson, the president's personal physician, said today Only members of the president's family are permitted to see him and all engagements have been cancelled. In all proDability he will not be able to attend any of the sessions of the round table conference set for Oc tober 6. LARGE NUMBER OF DELEGATES PROMISED A great deal of interest is manifest in the meeting of delegates of frater nal organizations and local unions tomorrow night at the Moose head quarters in the rooms of the Bemidji association and indications are there will be a large turnout Judge Stanton is scheduled to make the address of the evening and there will be several other talks by those interested in forming a central unit of all delegates from the various organizations in the city, to better conditions in every manner possible COUNCIL SEES BUSY TIME THIS EVENING The regular meeting of the city council will be held this evening and some matters of much interest are scheduled to come before the session. It is broadly hinted that some res ignations of high officials may be asked for on the part of the council members. FRENCH FARM SOLD FOR SIXTEEN THOUSAND E. Willits, city real estate deal, er, reports the sale of the "Jim" French farm in the western section of the city for $16,000. The sale was made last week to Barnie Willits, a brother of the real estate dealer. CONVICTED BOOTLEGGERS VENT SPLEEN ON JURORS According to some of the jurymen, who sat on the juries of the boot leggers and gamblers, are "getting theirs" handed to them by some of the aggrieved convicted offenders The jurors who rendered their ver dicts of guilt are to be strongly com mended by the decent people of the city of Bemidji and Be r-mi county GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT OF TODAY'S PAPER (By United Press Omaha, Neb., Sept. 29 Martial law was declared today in Omaha after a night of rioting Sixteen hun dred soldiers patrolled the streets, mac hi me guns were mounted in the vicinity of the court house andi in the negro districts. Mobs have dispersed and the situation appears under con trol of the soldiers. All summed up, the results of eighteen hours under not rule in Omaha, following the identification of William Brown, negro, by Agnes Loebeck, age 19 years, as the man who assaulted her and was lynchedi and his body burned Francis Clancey was shot through and killed when the police fired on the mob attacking the county build ing. Fifty-six others were wounded. Mayor Edward P. Smith Is in a serious condition at the hospital suf fering from injuries afflicted by the mob when it attempted to hang him for refusing to deliver the negro. Douglas county's court house, new ly built at a cost of $1,500,000, is in ruins from fire. Mayor Smith nar rowly escaped the wrath of the mob when he defended the negro while thousands were clamoring for the ac cused at the county building doors. BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER y* BEMIDJI, MINN., MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29, 1919 "LIQUO VIOLATION S DEPfcSa/BLF COUNTY ATTORNEY AND DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Judge Stanton Flays City Authorities JUDGE C. W. STANTON Who forcibly expressed his opinion of wide-open lawlessness in Bemidji and county, from district court bench. Omah a Mayor Strung By Enraged Mob Mayor smith appeared with a re- volver and urged the crowd to dis- continued on Page Eight) PUNCH BOARDS ARE ORDERED OUT! MERCY Punch boards and slot machines were all ordered out of business today around stores of the business dis trict, according to some of the pro prietors of stores and business places, and compliance was willingly met When the notice was served there "("e several quiet smiles -o BETHLEHEM WORKERS REFUSE TO ANSWER SUMMONS TO STRIKE Thousands Remain at Plants, More ReturnThousand Disobey Order (By United Press South Bethelhem, Pa Sept. 29 Less than 20 per cent of workers in the Bethlehem steel mills here were striking today, police stated HUNDREDS GO BACK TO WORK. Steelton, Pa., Sept 29 Hundreds of Steel strikers reported for work in the Bethlehem plant here, despite strike orders, reported the police to day. BETHLEHEM REFUSES STRIKE. Baltimore, Md., Sept 29 Over 6,- 000 steel workers at the Bethlehem Sparrows Point plant refused to strike today. POINTS 'OTHER WOMAN' THEN DROPS LIFELESS (By United Press Milwaukee, Sept 29 An unident ified well dressed woman dropped dead of heart failure here last night, just after she pointed out to a police man that her husband was walking with another woman ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS WILL MEET TOMORROW R. Li Given, president of the Be midji Association, has called a meet ing of the board of directors of the organization for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Assciation rooms. There are several matters of im Dortance to be brought before the bo-ird for corc,"'p I'lon and it is "ed that be present WeatherHotel Markham: Storm brewiDg in direction of winds. *ftI "PIONEER'S" CIRCULATION La&est circulatioiiof any paper in NorftTCentral Min^esiJttR^.^^^^ SAYSTHEYP CONDONE WIDE OPEN BOOZE SELLING AND WINK ATLAW VIOLATIONS In sentencing the large grist of convicted liquor and gambling violators in the district court Saturday afternoon, Judge C. W. Stanton took the op- portunity to flay the police force and the executive authorities of the city of Bemidji. He asserted that in all the cases no hand of the police was seen in any manner whatsoever, and that city executives condoned the practices for which the accused were convicted. In detail, Judge Stanton thus rendered his views: JUDGE STANTON EXPRESSES SELF. "The Court it vary grateful to counsel for such information as ha* been communicated to the Court. The time of the Court hat been occupied for more than a week in the trial of these cases and close attention has been given to the testimony. From that testimony I have formed very definite deas, in some respect, with reference to the duty of the Court now in imposing sentence. "I believe that the time has arrived in Beltrami county when every resident of the county should be made to understand that prosecutions for violations of the liquor law are not mere farces and that a man who wil- fully violates the liquor laws, as well as any other criminal law in this state, should, when convicted, expect to stand adequate punishment. Many re- quests have been made by counsel for leniency which I do not feel inclined to consider favorably. Some of them I am impressed with and will endeavor to give proper consideration when imposing sentence. IMPRESSED DURING TRIALS. have been impressed during the trial of these- cases and the investigations which I have been able to make on my own account that there is in this countv, particularly in the village of Baudette and in this city, a disregard for the law with reference to liquor violations particularly, that is deplorable and I believe that it is the duty of one who is presiding as a judge of the district court when it becomes his disagreeable duty to impose sentence upon those violators, to impose sentence that will, perhaps, lead to reformation on the part of the offenders and will tend to deter others from like or similar offenses. POLICE FORCE NO HELP. "I have been unable to escape being impressed during these trials with the fact that none of these charges have been made bv the police authorities of the village or the city in which the offenses took place. Not one of these cases from Baudette and not one of them from the citv of Bemidji orig- inated with the police force, nor has their prosecution been aided in any way by those departments, so far as I know. "In this city there have been twenty-three indictments at this term for violations of the liquor law. There have been ten others, making thirty- three in the county. Those twenty-three indictments from this city wtora- against fifteen separate persons, some of them having drawn more tham one indictment. Three of these defendants stood trial and were convicted ten of them have entered pleas of guilty one of them, a woman, has plead**! guilty and sentence has been deferred until next Wednecday. "Anothr one, a woman, is at present, I am advised, in the hospital is this city and that case has been continued to the next general term of court. "Besides, these indictments, there have been four indictments returned for gambling in this city. Each of these four persons is confessedly guilty and has entered pleas accordingly. AUTHORITIES FAVORABLE. "From the testimony whichjfvh**e information which I have been able' to get through other sources, 1 nam convinced that this city, the city of, Bemidji, is at the present time infested) with a very large number of flagrant law violators, not all of whom have* boon indicted, and that they are being permitted by the authorities of this city to continue in the violations of the law to the great discredit of this city and community, and I think that it is time that vigorous steps shoals! be taken to stop such law violations and to impress those who are gaining* a livelihood by unlawful and vicious methods with the fact that Bemidji will not tolerate such law violations longer. NEED BETTER POLICE. "And I want to sav that it is mv opinion that if, in order to do this, in order to stop these flagrant law violations, a more adequate, or perhaps- more efficient, police force is required it should by all means be insisted) that such be provided. This city cannot afford to imperil its reputation by permitting existing conditions to contnue and I want to say now that I believe that those in authority in this city, either the mayor or members of the council or members of the police force, can get information which they should have, if they have not that information already from other sources, from a conference with court officials who know something of what has been revealed by the trials that have taken place here the last few- days, and I do not exempt myself from that list and I will be pleased to give any such officer all the information that I have, and I believe that it would be valuable information to them if it is their sincere desire to correct conditions in this city. Now, in imposing the sentences which I am required to impose at this time, I want to say that I hope that the sentences that I will impose will have good reformatory effect and I hope further that they will tend to deter others from now on from such violations of law as we are now/ dealing with. KELLEY FIRST CALLED. "James Kelley, will you please come up this way. Mr. Kelley, I have listened to the statements of your counsel and I have, of course, listened to the evidence in the trial of the case upon which you stood trial, that of violating the liquor laws of this city. 1 heard your testimony and that of others. I have sought information, as your counsel has. I asked your counsel to advise me of all information he could get with reference to you, which he has done, and has made the statement to me which you have heard in that regard. I have much other information. I must say, though, that I have not been able to get information through parties whom 1 have had interview the police department of this city with references to yon. I have not been able to get much from that source, but the fact that I have not been able to get it is not convincing to me that the other information I have is not true. CITY CAN'T AFFORD THEM. "I think that this city cannot afford to have such people as John Slow, your partner, and yourself engaged in the business in which you have been engaged here, that it cannot afford to tolerate you at all and in imposing the sentence that I shall impose, I am doing so, for one reason, with the idea that there will be quite a little period from now on when you will not have an opportunity to build another table and continue in your business." fcSOT/ 45c PER MONTH l*tne to day after day and W r-1 1 4