The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-02
Man Said to Have Done Shooting,
Also Hurt, Goes to Town
And Sleeps.
Q WITNESSES FAIL TO REPORT
Coroner to Hold Inquest Tomorrow
Squirt Whisky and Feud Blames
For Tragedy.

One man is dead, another mortally
wounded and a third shot through
the arm as result of a midnight
fight at Kelliher. All participants
were woodsmen
From midnight Saturday until
latter daylight Sunday Jack Oski, the
dead man, and his half brother.
Joseph Ketzer, lay in the chill
autumn air, the latter suffering
intensely from a bullet wound which
pierced his stomach.
Wounded Man Goes to Bed.
Stanley Kodak, who was shot
through the bicep of his left arm,
and who, witnesses say, started the
shooting, walked into Kelliher after
the battle, said nothing about having
been shot and went to bed without
seeking medical attention.:
The fight took place about one
half mile northeast of Kelliher. John
Brose and Joseph Pochinksy, held as
witnesses, completed the party,
which, it is said, had been drinking
freely of ':squirl' whisky at Kel1iher.
All have been employed at the Crook
ston Lumber camp, four miles out of
Kelliher.
Witness Says Nothing of Shooting.
After the shooting Brose continued
on to camp and went to bed without
reporting that anything unusual had
occurred. Pochinsky accompanied
Kodak to Kelliher and he likewise
remained silent on his exciting ex-
perience.
News of the tragedy came shortly
after sunrise Sunday when Ketzer,
who was shot through the stomach,
crawled through the woods towards
Kelliher, to pile of ties where his
feeble cries for help were heard by
Engineer Hoffman Of a switching
crew working in the yards. William
Burce, manager of the Crookston
company at Kelliher was passing in a
team, and he fastened to the aid OF
,Ketzer, who was rushed into Kelli
her and DR.. B. F. Osborne of Black
duck called.
Ketzer's Directs to Dead Brother
Ketzer, said his brother was deat
in the woods, also having been sho
through the stomach, and that the
fight was the result of i'll feeling O.
long standing. He expressed regre
and refused to blame Stanley KODAK
It: is understood that there has beer
a feud between the brothers AM
Kodak Of long standing.
Kodak is reticient but declares
"they had been picking on me ions
time and Saturday night they jumped
on me and l pulled my 80 re7olve
and shot in self defense. ! don'
know whether they shot me III IN
arm or whether did it myself. Any
how. it doesn't matter. 1t Is 10
bad it all happened"
Kodak Under Arrest.
Kodak was placed under arrest D
Constable Wilson at Kelliher an
this morning Ketzer was brought
the Remidii hospital where he wa
onorated on. 1t is feared he cannc
survive the day.
The two men who saw the battl
saw that the shooting began Whe
someone knocked Stanley's hat OF
lust what happened after thai n
one appears to know.
The body of Oski was taken !
Kelliher where it is being held unit
after the inquest which will be col
Quoted by Coroner M. E. 1lbertson t
morrow. the coroner leaving Rtmld
for. Kelliher on this evenings tral1
He will be accompanied by Coun'
Attorney G. M. Torrance.
oski apparently dropped dead:
his tracks. Only one bullet Woun
was found on him. f: =. ss
Kodak will be held at Kellihor VI
til after the inquest when it is e:
pected he will be brought to Bomidl