Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 2, 1897, Page 1

} ie | ‘ ' £ | \ #; a } =) | f 4 rand Rapi . Vo. V.—No, 19. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MInN., SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897. -. Most Important Sale of the Season ‘ge Se ae ae te ae ae ae fe ae ate ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ate ee a ea We are also making sweeping reductions in the Reduction. =f young or old, who winter garment should Take advantage of this Gret Sale. ee see he St aes ae af se af ae ale ae ale se ae ae eae ae ae ae ate ae he ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ae she ae ae ae at ae he ae ake ae he ah ea ae ae prices of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing. ‘ We are selling Men’s Clothing at One-Half of our original price, Boys’ Suits at Fifty per cent Men’s and Boys’ \Vinter Caps at 25 cents. (20) cS RARE ESE SS AIOE Think of'it, a complete suit for $2. RE Re ae eae ae Be ae he she ae ae he eae oe ae ae a ae ae ae ae Ha ae site Hees ed ch el cc tne a e Beginning Dec. 14, . and continuing for two weeks, every lady, \ uw has no yzet boight her SHES ate eH EH EAR ae ae ae ate ae ae eae ae OF" > Pod Gloves and | Mittens at less than manufacturers price. ME AND SEE THEM. and May be Too Late. se Se ae a ae ea ae ate a ae ae ae ae ae ae ak eae The Very Best of the’ season at LESS Than the Original Wholesale Cost. Do not miss this oppor- Call Today—Tomorrow Itasca Mercantile Company. te SE RE Ak he Se ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ea ae a he ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae eae ae ate ae) sito ica lel ‘Me We A ke ee a ea ea ae He ae ae a Saws That Saw . . lik These Saws Saw Areall right. They are absolutely reliable, and you can depend on them for the best results € y time. We carry a full line of E. ©. ATKIN CO.'S saws, which have the reput: tion of bving “the finest in the market. We Have in Stock from the keyhold to the j Tl are” not 9 cheap for are the be! { sortment of edge and other tools to din this neck 0’ the woo In tact, we are headquarters for hardware... iron, steel, stoves, tinware, lumbermen’s supplies, doors dows, paints, oils, glass, farming tools, guns, cutlery, ing tackle, and other goods of this character. trade and will do any- thing to merit it. If yon make a pure id for any reason the article does not suit, you can get your money ba W. J. & H. D. POWERS. RY SOTVVCVDHEVWTVVSCTVTOTBVA®B WILL NISBETT, Expert Watchmaker and Engraver. Has already received many } = beautiful and substantial addi- |° a | re | y tions to bis stock foc the hoii- i O I a Goods ;: day trade, and much more is ' | quarters in Grand Rapids for ) a a! @ yet to come. He is head- EuZraving Done Frec on all Goods Bought of Me. WILL NISBETT. VWRVWSCOSBOVVVUTT SHCESSSSSSESERTRREREEA OES FO REE ETE ONTO OTT ae 2 It is not #* But itis Profitable = = ee = 4 Necessary red Both to the meat mer- # ® to Advertise ee chant and to the custom- # - es er to make apnounce- = og ments concerning the : to tell people they are tn best place to buy meats = * at th ee and provisions, and then # my hungry, Or HAL Mey bea furnish the evidence to % * should eat. os every patron. 2 Seco aeaeaeeeaese a sacs gies gait aea sea ara ge ae Rae 3 That's What We do, and We Find That tt Pays. q = racer = K iC CABLE & LIBBY, DEALERS IN an dSALT CANNED GOODS, FISH, OYSTERS, ETC. SLGT SVS GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. SLSSSS "Ss. | vailed. DUTY ON BOARDS. Lumbermen Think Two Dollars a Thousand About Right. The committee of twenty-five ap- | pointed by the lumbermen’s national onvention to appear before the ways nd means committee to ask for'a lagh duty on lumber have agreed: to, ask |for a bill placing a duty of $2 per thousand on all rough sawed lumber j imported into. the country. A sliding | scale upward from $2 per thousand is to be asked on all lumber which has | been partially or wholly dressed. They j will claim that the McKinley law gave only $1 per thousand, while before j the McKinley tariff bill a $2 rate pre- They will also argue: that |under the McKinley law the average {ad valorem duty on all imports was nearly 50 per cent, while on lumber }it was but 10 percent. Under the | Wilson law it will be claimed that the javerage duty on all imports is 25 per {cent, while lumber is one of the manu- | facturing industries which has no pro ‘tection whatever. | For the. protection of lumbermen jowning standing timber in Canada and desiring to saw it in this country | |retaliatory power is to be asked to | be placed in the hands of the secretary jof the treasury. Under this, if the |Canadians place an export duty on jlogs, double the amount of that e | port duty will be added to our _ tarrif |rate. For 1 e, f the Canadians nd.on logs, the American tariff rate would be made $10 per thousand, shutting Canadian | |thus completly \lumber out of American markets. Under the $2 duty lumbermen claim the Canadians can saw lumber and /sell it here in the rough ata hving | profit, A memorial of what will be asked will be printed and filed with {the ways and means commuttee and in addition, speeches will be made by ~~ | a Staff of six orators. | Bank Officials Eleekd. On Thursday of this week .the- di- irectors of the Lumbermen’s j bank held their annual meceting and elected officers for the ensuing year. | There was no changes made in the | personnel of the board of directors or | officials, except that Charlies E, Aitken | was elected assistant cashier. C. W. Hastings was re-elected president; P. J. Sheldon, vice president, and Frank P. Sheldon remains. as cashier, The |board of directors consists of C. W. Hastings, A. M. Sheldon, P. J.Shel- don, L. F. Knox, John Beckfelt and | F. P. Sheldon. | this iasutution has always beep suffi- iciently conservative to insure absolute ‘security to depositors at all: times. | President Hastings -said last evening to a-Herald-Review man: _sTere | never has been a day | since the estab- jlishment of the Lumbermen’s bank pe we couldn't meet every demand {that our depositors might make, and iso long as I am coniected with it, there never will be. There may be wealthier financial houses in the state than our bank heré in Grand Rapids but jAnd the record which it has made lace an export duty of $4 per thou-| State | ‘The management of! there are none more secure.” | bears out the assertion. Grand Rap- idY has two bag’ts which have'with- |stood the -panicy ‘past and present | conditions, and today they are abso- lutely sound and withthe continuance | of the present able management they jare, secure’ for the future no matcer how devilish the Republican adminis- tration may act during the coming |four- years. The First State bank directors will meet to. elect officers on the roth of January. READY TO RECEIVE. The County Poor Farm Buildings Completed and Will be Opened Monday. The work of furnishing the new poor farm residence building has been completed and it will be occupied next week. At the regular January meet- ing of the county commissioners to be held on Tuesday, a superintendent will be appointed who will take im mediate possession, and the county poor who are now cared fr at the Ehle & Russell hospital, will be trans- | ferred to their new home. The build- ing will accomodate sixteen people and has been erected in a very sub stantial and convenient manner. The work was under the personal super- vision of Commissioner Lydick who employed all home labor and bought ‘material of home dealers so far as pos- sible. | Are You a Citizen ? District. court will conevne tor) | Itasca’county on Tuesday next, and | jit would be well for those who have not taken out ther second papers to remember that unless they do so they j will hereafter be distranchised from voting. And they should also re- memer that the preseut law requires i considerable knowl.dge oi the United | States and our institutions before the {court can issue second papers. The; district courts ot St. Louis county have been crowded of late with i persons who desired to become full- fledged American citizens but only! }about one-third of the number of ap- plicants were granted that coveted | privilege. It is a cruious fact—but! ja fact nevertheless—that a marjoity jaf those who voted in Minnesota at ithe late general election absolutely disqualified themselves from further participation in politics. As the law now isa person must be a resident five yearsin the Uuited States, and must be able to convince the court that he possesses a general knowledge of the state and federal costitution and: unerstands our institutions in an intelligent manner, before he will be jadmitted to citizenship. It is safe to jsay that at least one-third of the ‘population of Itasca county, and per- | j haps a‘much larger percentage—can- | not now vote at any election—muni- cipal, county or state. There i but | | one way to remedy this defect, and : that is in Open court. i School opens again on Monday af- iter -a two week’s vacation, and the ‘children have had sucha jolly good tune that they will no doult buckle ' down to hard, earnest study under the guidance of their well liked and com- ; Fork into Rainy river and then THE RED LAKE, REPORT. Result of the Inquiry Has ‘Reached Secre- tary Francis. Secretary of the Intenor Francis now has the report of Inspector Wnight, who was sen’ out to investi- gate the charges of Maj. Baldwin against the Chippewa pine land esti- nuators, says a Washington special to the St. Paul Dispatch. It is under- stood that the secretary will order the final discharge of several of the men but there will be some exceptions. Maj. Baldwin has scored a partial vic- tory, and is endeavoring to follow it up by having. the sale made last July at Croockston of several large tracts of the pine lands annulled. Secretary Francis 1s not yet prepared to say just what he will do in the matter until after he has reviewed the pro- ceedings taken under the direction of the general land office. There is likely to be a slight dis- agreement between Judge Lamoreux, the commissioner, and the secretary. The latter 1s inclined to order a new sale, but will allow the perchasers of of the lands at the sale of July 1s, 1895, to come in ana bid according to the new estimates on the tracts which have been under investigation by Mr. Wright and the detectives who have been on the reservation unknown to the estimators for several weeks. Lamoreux has already stated that that there is nothing im the charges of | Baldwin that will warrant setting | aside the sale. Maj. Baldwin makes some pretty bold ‘statements in his charges. He says in reply to one of the counter- charges brought by the: estimators, one purchaser named Robert Nevins bought pine on the stump at a rate of less than 65 cents per thousand. He says that some of the large lumbering firms bought large quantities at less than. 50 cents per thousand. This would indicate a terrible error in esti- | mating the pine on the land, for the minimum price to be paid was $3 per thousand on the estumate tur- nished. But the records that have} thus far been examined do not show any such discrepancy. It is possible that Maj. Baldwin may be summoned to Washington with one or two of the enumerators to be present at a review of the cases before Secretary Francis. For the Big Fork. W.. A. Louis and John Stillar, H. 8. Leo and Sol Pearson arrived Thurs- day from Beaver Mills, on Rainy river, to take William Long’s logging outfit up to his timber ou the Big Fork. ‘They started yesterday. Mr. ‘Long tas heen here ‘several days and -took the train for Deer River ‘Thurs- day evening. His crew will number about thirty men who will cut 1,500,- 000 feet and he is to receive from contractors about 1,000,000 feet. The logs will be run north down the Big ww Beaver Milis where Mr. Long’s saw- milil is locrted. He markeis consider- able of his lumber in Manitoba via the Canadian Pacitic railway. -If one of your New Year’s resolu- petent teachers. —don’t break it. COUNTY AUDITORS THROUGH. So Many Changes in Laws are Needed That a Commission Is Asked For. The County Auditors’ association, which has been in session at St. Paul, adjourned Wednesday afternoon. The day was given up almost completely to the consideration of the tax and assessment laws. Every auditor appeared to have some grievance against these laws and almost all of them had remedies to propose in whole or in part. Many resolutions were offered touching different sec- tions of existing laws and a more or less general discussion followed. The conclusion was finally reached that favorable action on any of the rosolu- tions would only result m further patching the present laws, and all pro- posals were turned over to the secre- tary and the following resolution was adopted: “Whereas, it is discovered that nearly every county auditor has some grievance against the tax and assess- ment laws, and “Whereas, it is a well known fact to the county auditors that such laws are in a deplorable condition and that some decisive measures are necessary, therefore be it “Resolved, by the county auditors associatien that the legislature be re- quested to provide for the appoint-~ ment of acommission to codify and frame new tax and assessment laws; a majority of such commission to be composed of county auditors; that | the state auditor be chairman of said commission, and that also a good, competent tax lawyer be appointed a member of said commission, together with such other membzrsas the legis- lature may deem proper; and that said commission shall meet not later than Jan. 20, and wake its report at this session of the legislature not later thau Feb. 10.” The suggestions that were made to- day will be turned over to the com- mission prévided for, if the legisla- ture takes the desired action. The auditors present were unanimously in favor of the resolution and in favor of the general idea, There other resolu- tions were adopted relating to matters other than taxation and assessment. The first of these three refers to the financial statement and the amend- ment would make the financial state- ment come at the same time the tax list is levied. The financial statement now cominz in January includes half ot the two tax years. while the change proposed would make the statement coincide with the tax year. Likely tobe Dropped. - It appears that the clerk of court contest against I. D, Rassmussen will be dropped by the contestants, Mr. Varley who instituted the pro- ceedings, could not get the office in any event, and Mr. Blaker, the present incumbent, says that he was defeated and is satisfied to let it go at that, so itis safe to venture the prediction that Mr. Rassmussen will take . his position on Tuesday next and con- tinue to adminster the duties of clerk ot court for Itasca county during the tion was to pay up your subscription/next four years—‘barring accidents and death.” f oe