The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-07-29

hOmesteaders in the vicinity of
During are in a state of mind
bordering on terror as result
of the recent developments.
They talk of the case guardedly
and are all evidently of the i'm
preston that besides the arrests
that have already been made the
sweep will not be clean until
several more of the homesteaders
in that country are arrested and
made to tell what they know of
the crime. The impression also
seems to be quite general that
the girl is still living and that
James Wesley, for whom the
authorities have been looking for
some time has not left the coun-
try but is in hiding and has
taken Miss Dahl to a cabin in the
heart of an almost inaccessible
swamp in the Battle river coun-
try. This theory is not supported
by any very tangible evidence,
however. A resident of the
During country makes the state
ment that Wesley is somewhere
in that vicinity. He claims to
have this informationfrom others.
who are working on the case
with view to obtaining the re-
ward and are not telling what
they know until they believe the
time is ripe to give out the infor-
nation. Wednesday afternoon,
two men left During to go to the
Battle river country to look for
the cabin where Wesley and the
girl are supposed to be living.
One of the men is a detective
named Patterson and claims to
have been employed on the case
by Congressman Stevenson.
Still another detective is sup
posed to have left Northome on a
similar errand Tuesday night.
The latter is a Pinkerton and has
been working on the case with
two homesteaders for the past
three weeks. Both gentlemen
appear to have been far too talka-
tive to have been sleuths of Conan
Doyle stripe. People represents
ing themselves to be detectives
haye visited Curing in numbers
for over month past and have
besieged the residents in that
vicinity for every scrap of inform
alton available. Men in posses
and in twos and threes are scour.
ing the country for miles around.
Yesterday a party of Blackjack
people put in the forenoon at the
cabin of Miss Dahl's with team
overturning stumps in an effort
to locate the body.
The only scrap of evidence d.
rectly available to lend color to
the theory that the girl was taken
away from her home aliYe is
found in the fact that piece of
rope was found cut from the
clothes line. It is claimed
that the same piece of rope was
found on the road to the Battle
river country. It is also claimed
that a double bitled axe has been
found with blood stains on the
blade and a homesteader is
claimed to have this and the
piece of rope in his possession.
Everybody seems anxious to Sc
cure the reward and to this end
everyone who can is putting in
every minute of his available time
on the case. AS result it is
highly probable that the whole
matter will be cleared up in a few
days.
Since the discovery Of the body
of Dahl the cabin near which his
body was found and where he
lived before he went to make his
home with his daughter has be-
come a Mecca for everybody who
is in the woods. While the re-
mains we're being taken out of
the hole under the balsam stump
Wednesday afternoon over twenty
people were present The stencil
was terrible and they we're I'M
able to witness the sight and
turned away in horror from the
awful details incident to taking
out the body and placing it in the
rude rough box, where it was
left alone over night until a neigh
boring homesteader, assisted by
the man of all work at the Carter
place at Curing loaded it on the
wagon yesterday morning to take
it out to Tenstrike.
The cabin door is securely
locked but from a small window
on the south side it is possible to
look in. It's contents are a num-
Der of books and newspapers, a
few pieces of rough furniture
and rudely fashioned bunk
nailed up to the wall. About the
premises everything is neatness
itself. Wood carefully cut and
split is in the woodshed, and the
thrifty disposition Of the owner
is evidenced by every little atten-
ton to comfortable detail in,con-
struction and care. The stump
where the body was found is To-