Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 5, 1896, Page 1

GranpD Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., SaturDAy, DEcEMBER 5, 1896, = Two Do.vuars a YEAR Ios aves aes a2 That our ‘prices are the lowest, our Kindly remember us when in need of P ? goods the best. In our Ladies’ Misses’ and Children’s : oem : : pasando 3 13 Departments, Winter Wraps, 2 ¥ : é = s 3 each complete in itself, you can buy anything all kinds of Flannels, Gloves and Mittens. = ‘7 = 3 H When 2 from a paper of needles toa ton of coal. Men's and Boys’ Clothing, Caps, Etc. = : = # ; : 1 : 3 Itasca Mercantile, Co. Itasca Mercantile Co. | Hi ah. : | * : ry | : || Remember: : | & s | Vy H : $ We buy in large lots which We do not say it boastingly, but we do | * ° 2 e. = 3 Shoppi My ; enable oe4p assert that we have the £ * = * * $ é Sell Cheaper Largest and Best F & anbebetainteroenl dubetyienuer shin tig than the ordinary store keeper. We always assorted stock in the county at prices that have a host of bargains for’ you. are within the reach of everybody. Itesca Mercantile Co. Itasca Mercantile Co. I} tT es nasi Roes ales a ie aoes s ATs | if RO Meer 500,000,000 feet,) It will be ap-|ing been out about tour weeks, and one reported on ways and means, and Show his to our i17ée \ ate 0" parent that the decrease will be very|were headed for Grand Rapids. | he showed up a deficit of $86.00. A. E. emphatic. The following table shows} Hendry formerly resided at Iron} Wilder invested $43.75 in the cam- That is, of course, if you area man and | something of what will be done, and if} River, Wis., where he was in the ae Sieg So commissioner, and ibe ered id Bape D etre : we ‘ ba | * |the increase over this is the same per-| saloon business. He was not accus- for tonne Phe ape ee ys 2 ‘eaant tgtaek fe 2 rae aan Decrease From the Cut of Last! centage as was the increase over the|tomed to. the hardships of a woods up to profit and loss. : t think it is a shame tc conipelled to | Year by One Third. estimate of last year, the total will be|hfe,and the long tramp through the stand over that old cookstove out ip the about the estimated per cent of +last| deep snow completely exhausted him. SURVEYED 0 DEAR RIVER. eens yinen you Knew ou can’t A a year’s cut. Friday afternoon he complained of a SS ASTOR a a SO BOT Aes Itasca Lumber Co. S .000| stomach ‘trouble, and he gradually Just come and Jook over Decors ty tia 7,000; 7 Great Northern Engineers Complete Their BUR AERO RDG OR: e jubt th a weake WAGES LOWER THAN EVER aires eee ieooog | Grew weaker, and finally gave up the Wook sna Aanicpotnes todas: est little cook stoves you ever sew, and pest pice, Loe get Losahes 6 fe effort to reach some vacant buildings ieee they are, oh, so cheap! and then, of H. afer Lumber Co 009 | Where the two intended to put up for z course, we have larger gnes which cost 2 Scanlon-Gipson Lumbe: the night, Cameron pitched the|//¥F--L. Churchill was down from little more, but they are all The Lumber and Logging Situation diet fires ent and built up a_ fire, administering (Veer this. week, and reported to the f Awtul Cheap None Too Encouraging for ile” Totak: in every. way possible to. the comfort Herald-Review that the Great North- s dee La eae aol wants Present and Not Brisht for ~~ ~4~ "The Powers-Simpson company 1s}%! his Companion, until death relieved /@* engineers, who hae Dest engaged ) nt all price: and we know the Future. logging on the Swan nver and will|im of his suffering. The remains nga peso aieppnpr otal hf \ $ 4 just what you want at the smallest price you ever heard of. ~ AND FOR THE REN FOLKS, ftscivice son sicen! Sait Hardware, Iron, Steel. Nails, Stoves, Tinware,-Lumbermen’s Supplies, Doors, Windows, Paints, Oils, Cutlery and Fishing 'ackle, W. J. & H. D. POWERS. SVSETT VETTES SBOSEB 608838 T2T0T3 | 2 Nisbett & Warriner, i & The Jewelers. Have already received many beautiful and substantial addi- tions to their stock for the holi- | day trade, and much more is yet to come. They are head- quarters in Grand Rapids for } Holiday $ Goods ;: } t NISBETT & WARRINER. | —_— ae | ~ QPSARESENE SA THTEEROR EAE ES OTC RN ERT CREE SEE eee ee 2 It is not #2 But itis Profitable 2 = dd % 3.Necessary pd Both to the meat mer- $ 3 to Advertise ae chant and to the custom- %& } $ ed er to make announce- - Ree ments concerning the : to tell people they are + Dest place to buy auras : ee 2 7 at th ee and provisions, and then 4% 4 BUSTY, OF: what they Pid furnish the evidence to # = should eat. = every patron. & Sessvecsoscssacunnsansnte cesenneneauaeeoeeentans Fe Thats What We do, and We Find That it Pays. CABLE & LIBBY, DEALERS IN “ FRESH M ee and SALT | Ly \ | S Fr CANNED.,GOODS, FISH, OYSTERS, ETC. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. STSLSVSLSLSLSSSL SISOS: Notwithstanding the hopes of log: gers and lumbermen throughout the northwest that there would be a decided revival of. business in_ their lines in. the event of McKinley’s | election, there has as yet been nd ap- preciable retun of the promised prosperity. ‘The trade still lags most distressingly and log-buyers are by no means rushing into the pineries to contract for this season’s cut at ad- vanced prices. ‘he situation for the poor lumber jack is very well set forth in the following. which is taken from the Brainerd Journal: ‘Lumbermen’s wages throughout the Northwest are very, uniform this winter, running from $8 to $10 per month and board, and thousands of men are out of work and would be glad to get any kind’ of employment by which they could earn their board and clothes. Yet they can enjoy with hearty satistac- tion the knowledge that “confidence has been restored.” Of course, boys, you cannot send much money home for the wife and babies, but they can have restored confidence for breakfast, national honor for dinner, and hon@st money doctrine for supper. They can also have some “sound finance on moral grounds” for desert. luxuries, together witha quart. of soup from the alms house every day, ought to convince them that prosperity hag, come.” Ao conversation with Mr. J. P. Sims of the Itasca,.Lumber company, that gentleman state’ t erald-Review man the other figythat his company was not payinbel 3 per month, and from that to $2 There area few men, however, Working for ten dollars a month,” said Mr. “Sims. ‘There is no doubt but that the elec- tion made it possible for many log- gers to secure temporary relief trom the embarrassing financial condition which existed prior to election, and are enabled to proceed with work that | otherwise would have been abandoned. ‘The early estimates of theacut on put too low, and 1t is very hkel the estimated total of 117, feet for this season will reach years the Hérald-Review has p reports of the cut which proved very accurate. ‘Phe figures here have not been verified, but will jurn- ish a general j These get out about 17,000,000 feet. About seven or ¢ight million feet of this is for themselves, and the. remainder is for 0h sen peeping Co. of Minneapolis and the Pine Tree Lum- ber Co., of Little Falls. rice Bros> ifie river, and last year got out more than 40,000, ooo feet. [heir cut this year will prob- ably not be. more. than half - that amounty/ an River Logging Co. is the largest of those that are not mentioned in the abpve table. Last year this company'started out with the inten- tion of putting in about 50,000,000 feet, but their cut this year will be materially less than that. ‘his com- pany and others that are not men- tioned, may bring the -total up to 150,000‘000 feet, but it is doubtful if it will reach that amount, and not at all likely that it will exceed that amount, For Shipment to Liverpool. Accompany of Michigan lumber- men, represented by a Mr. Higgins, have bought up 15,000,000. feet of pine tributary, to the Sims~ logging ‘road, and will ship it as_boad: timber direct to. Liverpool. he shipment of board timber, ys“ it is designated, ij industry in Mich- ber of years, but this is the first instance of European ship- ments from northern - Minnesota of this grade of timber, The logs are hewn and squared in the woods. The shipment will be made by . water to Quebec and, there transferred to ocean vessels for. transportation to Liverpool.) The company — engaged in this entefprise will buy all the tim- ber available for hauling over the logging road. It will require the services of a large force of experi- enced men, who will be employed from Michigan and Canada. A Sudden Death. About thirty-five miles north of Deer . River, in the solitude of the woods, William Hendry and his com- panion cruiser, James Cameron, were on their way to town, when the former was taken sick last Friday evening, and after suffering through . | the long night he died at daylight the the next morning by the, roadside in their tent. The remains were brought to town Thursday and are now at the undertaking rooms of H. E, Richard- son, being prepared for shipment to ithe former» home of the deceased at Brookfield, Nova Scotia. Cameron and Hendry had been up to Beltrami county looking for timber claims, hav- will be sent east Monday morning. A FEW DELINQUENTS. Defeated Candidates of Itasca County Fail to,Report “ Loosin’s.” The fool law which provides in this state that all candidates for elect- ive offices shall file a statement of the amount of money expended to ad- vance their interests in behait of the public good, has been quite generally disregarded in Itasca county. All persons who are candidates before caucuses, conventions, or who are voted for atthe polls, whether success- ful or otherwise, are required by the provisions of this act to file such. state- ment with the county auditor within thirty days from the time of the elec- tion. Ouly four of the defeated oncs have thus far complied, Viz: D..W. Doran, Wade Biaker, P..H. Varley and F. F. Price. The successful boys have all reported, and, strange as it may appear, there was not a cent ex- pended in this county contrary to law. No cigats or whisky was bought, sold or given away with the idea of making votes, and ‘there was no. corruption funds used in any_manner—so ‘ state the affidavits submitted to Audi King. ee ‘The largest sum exj individual candidate Doran, Democratic | bearer. It cost him $209.50 to be de-, feated. D. M. Gunn, his successful opponent, got 4 majority of 1256 tor $197.45. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. ‘Stilson made the cheapest campaigus for the offices of court commissioner and superintendent of schools, respective- ly, of any Candidates in the county. ‘heir expenses only consisted of the $10 necessary to place their names on the official ‘ballot. Judge Stilson, however, made up his share by paying out $57.50 overdraft on the Repuplican campaign fund, as chairman of the Republican county committee. Audi- tor King’s candidacy cost him $123.25. A. A. Kremer paid out $85.65 for his from Foston to connect with the Dn- luth, Superior & Western at that point, have completed their work and are now awaiting further ‘9 headquarters. this that arran, nts may have been entered into wHereby the Great North- branch will run to Duluth from Deer River over the D. S. & W, tracks. It is evident, in any event, that some railroad building from Deer River west may be looked 'for early mn spring. Some Early History. The Herald-Review 1s in receipt of a neatly. printed, tour-column, four page little paper, issued by the Epis- copal Guild of St. Margaret, at Brain- erd. It is an annual Thanksgiving publication gotten out by the society, * and contains some very interesting early history of Brainerd, Crow Wing county and Northern Minnesota, written by men and wémen who braved the hardships of pioneer life and cut and cultivated civilization out of the wilderness. Among the old- ing columns. is Judge’ G. W. Holland, who hung out his shingle in’ Brainerd his ‘rem; ses, és the fol owing bit of ancient. his- tory: p “On my ar.ival‘Crow. Wing county ) consisted of “its present territory on /t.e@ a.tside of the Mississippi river, cous.. ting of about fourteen congres- si wal townships. Hubbard county was théu a part of Cass county. ‘To Crow Wiug county was then attached fur record and judicial purposes the counties of Cass, Wadena, Itasca and Aitkin. Some time thereafter the county of Hubbard was carved out of Cass county. In the six counties above mentionéd, ip 1871 there were but three farms.’ * ** ‘I'wo years ago about sifty-four hundred votes were castin that territory... When I came here I was the only attorney in the territory above’ mentioned and was then elected county attorney of Crow Wing county. ~ ‘Today there are re-election as county treasurer. Sheriff. Toole’s bill footed up $99.50. A. B. Clare slipped into Charles Kear- ney’s shoes as register of deeds for tbe modest sum of $26.50. C. C. Me- Carthy pnt up $38 against Frank Price’s $67 for. the office of county at- torney and the former won out by a safe ‘margin. Dr.jEhle was out $30, even money, and was chosen coroner, Wade Biaker is $125.50 worse off than if he hadn’t been nominated for clerk of court, while I. D. Rassmussen got a plurality of votes for that office tor $71.40. As the Democratic nominee for clerk of court, P.H. Varley,expend- ed $103.50. Of the four candidates for judge of probate, Kiley was the 6 2 twenty-three or more attormeys in the same territory and-five county attorneys. ‘he six counties: above mentioned, for which I acted by being county attorney of Crow Wing county, now constitute the Fifteenth judicial district of ‘the state of Minnesota.” The'people of Itasca county are proposing to hold a meeting shortly in regard to the necessity of a legislative appointment at the coming session of the legislature, ‘This is a good move. A Sixth district convention is also proposed, and Duluth ‘should-be well timers who contributed to its interest- » as eafly as 1872. In the course of _ } h _