The daily pioneer. [volume], December 19, 1903, Image 3

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HE MUST ANSWER
UGLY CHARGES
Commission to Set on Case
of Clearwater Sheriff
December 23.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AT SHEV-
LIN AND BAGLEY.
Torkelson Still Acts as Sheriff
in Spite of Petition to
Governor.
Yesterday Jam es H. Maybury,
of Crookston, received notice
from Governor Van Sant that he
had been appointed"one of two
commissioners to take the evi
dence in the impeachment pro
ceedings against Swan Torkel
son, sheriff of Clearwater county.
The appointment came as a com
plete surprise to Mr. Maybury
who had no intimation from any
source that he was to be a com
missioner. Th other commis
sioners is William A. McGlennon,
ofBagley, assistant county at
torney of Clearwater county.
They are instructed by Governor
Van Sant to proceed to Bagley
on December 23, where at ten
o'clock in the morning in the
rooms of the county attorney the
taking of evidence will begin.
The commissioners will bit from
day to day until January 5, when
their report must bo in the
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hands of the governor unless he
grants an extension of time.
A copy of the charges pre
ferred against Sheriff Torkelson,
together with a petition for his
suspension from office pending
impeachment proceedings, was
contained in the communication
to Mr, Maybury. This petition
was denied. Th document is
signed by Benjamin P. Brown,
United States land commissioner
of.Bagley. and A. L. Gordon, a
well known Shevlin merchant.
The complaint alleges that Torkel
son is lawless, intemperate)
violent and immoral in character,
and practices and is wholly unfit
by reason of such character to
fill the office of sheriff of Clear
water county. I is alleged that
he often arrests citizens without
cause and lias again and again
shamefully maltreated and in
sulted prisoners and for such
malpractices they pray his
removal.
The specific offenses enumer
ated in detail occurred on the
night of November 21st last. I
is alleged that Sheriff Torkelson
and his brother J. W. Torkelson,
who is deputy sheriff and justice
of the peace, picked a quarrel on
that date with Ellis Holt, James
Barnes and a brother of Ellis
Holt whose name is unknown, in
Wagoner's saloon at Bagloy. Th
three young men were assaulted
and beaten but not placed under
arrest. Later the Torkelsons
returned to the saloon and placed
the three men under arrest. I
the arrest the men were brutally
assaulted, and after they had
been handcuffed and manacled,
*0***e a a#-
Those necessary business monitors are especially appropriate
style eases in plain gold and silver, and richly chased,
the worksare particulary accurate. IN CHAINS we
SEALS au CHARMS we have a great variety of the
SCARF-PINS, FOUNTAIN PENS andsimilar men's
Jewels. ^YQ also ha ve a fine astortment of DIAMONDS-
SILVERWARE. Whether you buy or not don't miss
Watches shown outside the Twin Cities. N trouble
DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH by making small
ft & a
i'fuLriJtU*' ivViiiiM
they were used a shameful
manner. They were repeatedly
struck and were seized by the
heads and their faces pounded
together and they were other
wise abused and insulted. They
were taken to the lock-up which
had been partially destroyed by
fire, and were left there in a
somi-freezing condition for sev
eral hours.
When citizens sought the
sheriff in behalf of the prisoners,
he swore at .them violently and
fired a revolver at the party and
narrowly missed hitting one ofsyndicate
trie in in Iters. Th men were
eventually removed from the
lock-lip where their lives were
endangered from cold. The next
morning, while Dr. C. G. Forrest
was dressing the wounds of the
prisoners, of which they received
several, Sheriff Torkelson seized
one of the prisoners by the nose
all being yet handcuffed and
manacled, and gave it a painful
twist, swearing violently in the
meantime. I is for these and
other tendencies toward play
fulness with his prisoners that
Terkelson's removal is asked.
From an Ohio Minster.
Ri-v. G. YV. Hajrants, of Clyde Ohio
says: "I have used Dr. Warner's
White Wine of Tar Syrup for sore
throat, weak lungs, cough, cold, and
any diseases of the kiiv.l it surpasses
all other remedies. Many thanks to
the doctor for his valuable remedy.'
Valuable Claims.
We can locate some first class
cedar and spruce claims in St.
Louis and Lake counties. Miiine
I sota Locating Go., 525 Manhattan
i Building, Duluth, Minn.
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WATCHES! ATCHES!
WATCHES!
The puzzling question of what to give a man or
lady for Christmas is quickly answered here:
a a :t
T-F-J3TJ--.
TO?
PLAN BIG CUT
WeyerhauserCo. to Put in Twenty
Million in the Vicinity
of Walker.
While no official announcement
I1
is yet been made from Wash-
Lington as to the suevessful hid
[ders at the recent sale of Chip
pewa pine, it is stated upon good
authority that the Wavcrhausor
irots all but the nine
teen sections upon which the .1.
[Neils Lumber company put in a
bid.
Mr. Millett. a representative
iof the syndicate, was in Walker
[this week and stated that ar
rraiigeuients are now being made
to begin logging operations With
out" delay with a view of getting
out 20^000,000 feet this winter.
',This work will be done north of
Walker, in the Steamboat Land
ing district, and the legs will be
rafted-doyn to.a point near here
I for shipment by rail.
Mr. Millett was making in
quiries in Walker as to the steam
boats that would be available
next summer for this work and
I intimated that there, would beI
busy times during the remaining
months of the winter and on the
I water as soon as the ice disap
pears in the spring.
Walker being the natual jjbase
of supplies for the operations
thus to be carried on will. (Jf
icourse, derive \cry material ben
[efitahd.an impetus will be^iwn
to business in the town. Noth
ing positive as to the establish
I mem of a mill here can yet bo
learned, but nothing has devel
oped to diminish the confidence
I heretofore entertained.
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deposit, 'oh I hem
HE MAY NEVER
RECOVER
Fred Worthington Taken to
Fergus Falls Hospital
For Insane.
HASXOTRECJAIXEDMEXTALBAL-
ANCE SINCE LOST IX WOODS.
Wife Returns to City Yesterday
and Walks Nine Miles to Her
Home at Northern.
Fred Wort hi nut on. the North-
ern township man who was
{licked up in the woods near Two
Harbors last Sunday night a
raving maniac as the result of ex-
posure sustained while lost bathe
'woods may never regain his men
tality. Wednesday morning he
was taken to the state hospital
gilts. You can rhoose one here from a great number
engraved and set with diamonds. The unseen vital-.pa-4*
Tum7v~aTTThTTeiw^Tatcst styles in LINKS. I'll FOBS and
newest designs. MATC BOXES, CUFF BUTTONS,
gifts are here in Gold and Silver Plate and studded with
CUT GLASS, FANCY CHINA, WEDGE WOO and
coming in and looking oyer I lie Largest Slock of
to show goods. Purchases will be laid a\v.a\ until
i a a $ e*aaat*a
i
he will never be the same man as|
before his terrible experience.
Worthington became separated!
from his party shortly after the
boat landed at Crystal Bay and!
wandered about in the woods and
along the lake shore in a blinding
snow storm for three days with
out anything to eat. The wonder
is that he was not frozen to death
as the weather was- the most
severe of the present season.
The Worthingtor.s Game to
Northern town some time ago
ami. took a homestead there.
Worthington is well and favorably
known in this city.
How's This?
We Hundr Dollars Ile
I ward lor a
I -.ui! be i
at Fergus b'alls and his condition
was even worse" than when heI
was first found.
Mrs. Worthington returned
home yesterday and walked to
I her home in Northern town, a
distance of nine miles from this
city. Wort bii'.gimi's wife, and
two small children arc the obStreet
jects of milch gen nine sym put by.
Physicians who a1 ruled him
say his case is one the most
violent and most pit iable in heir
experience an fl while he may in
time recover it will be years and sirable-location^ in the city
fc'atarrn mat
1 b\ Hftl UTII
Cure.
1*. .1. C1.I1 NT. A CO., Toledo,
Wo, the II:MI. ._",.:,!:. known 1".
.1. Cheney for the last In years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transaetious and financially
able to carry out any Blri-tg-atiinis
fnacle by hi rm
W.U.Ol.VKlNN. W & V, \K\IN.
Whole-ale Druggists Toledo, 6.
[tail's Catarrh Cure is taken iatiir
nally, acting directly upon the blood
I ami nuieou s'.ir.fuee of the system.
Testinuii) in Is sent free. Price 75 cents
per bottle. Sold all Druggists.
Take hall's l-'anniv bibs for eon
sumpt ton.
Several Want H.
There arc several applications
For the store room in the new
block. A Ci-ookston linn
[Is anxious to rent it for a dry
goods establishment and a linn
from Michigan, who are whole
sale dealers in hoots and shoes,
arc also anxious to gel the build
imr. 11 is one of the most do-
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