Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 23, 1897, Page 1

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& Vo. V.—No, 22. Granp Rapips, Jrasca County, MInN.; SATURDAY, Money. to Throw at the Birds. We Carry the Finest Line of House Furnishing Goods If you are fixed that way. anywhere else. Shelf and Heavy Hardware, tn the Upper Country. s We Charge Nothing for Showing Our Goods. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. it don’t mate much difference e you trade, put if you.are of. ving and | thrifty disp jon youshad better come and see us before buying, be- cause, while our stoc’ is the tinest, your money will go father here than We have only one} price, and the lowest. Anything in . from a teapot to a cook stove; also Iron, Steel. Tinware, Lumbermen’s Paints, Supplies, Doors, Windows, Oils, Glass. Farming ‘Tovls, Guns, Cutlery, etc. POCCCTCTVVSSS SEVSESSESEVSEVSEVSUVVGS HARD TIMES =~ 4 i € es 4 | } A Specialty Made of ali | Kinds of Repairing. ' | | » Peer Pa 4 Eugraving Done Free on all Goods Bought of Me. WILL NISBETT, Are not the best times in which to sell jewelry, but then you do not know how cheap we are selling cur large stock of Watches, Clocks, Diamonds, and in fact everything el‘e kept in a first class jewelry store. If youecomtemplate mak- ing -a purchase of anything in our line— usefull or ornamental—don’t fail to call and get our prices. Expert Watchmaker and Engraver. es and we suppose you. must, rou should aiways try to get the best goods in the market, at the lowest possible price. To do this, you should buy your Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Game, Etc., at the well-known meat market of Cable & Libby. This firm has always on hand the very best things the season affords, at the very lowest prices. Fresh Butter and Eggs Received Daily From the Country, CABLE & LIBBY, GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. % Se S8e%e SoS S22 This space belongs to the Itasca Mercantile Company. WHAT IS HILL UP T0? Great Northern Survey is Being Ran Direct to Eastern Minnesota. CROSSES THE D. S. & W. TWICE The Route is Being Located Clear Through as if No Wheeling Ar- ‘rangements Were Intended With the D S. & W. Line. It has been learned that the Great Northern extension of the Fosston branch is surveyed to cross the IJuluth, Superior & Western road just one mile west of the station at Deer River, says the News Tribune. It had been generally supposed the survey came direct to Deer River but the crossing is actually one mile ie yond that place. Whether Mr, Hill contemplates an independent hne from the junction of his proposed ex- tension with the Duluth, Superior & Western or whether he. will make a deal with the latter line to run his trains over its ine from Deer River will not be known until he sees fit io announce his determination, but his surveyors are busy making the survey for an independent line. However, a thousand dollars or two goes a long ways in making surveys, and Mr. Hill has many engineers that draw pay whether they are running Ines or sitting in the offices at St. Paul. The fact that the independent line is being run, therefore, 1s not What a railroad man wouid consider strong evidence that the independent-route has been decided upon by Mr. Hill. The independent Ine survey be- tween Duluth and’ Deer River has been begun south of the St. Louis river and extends northerly across that stream and the Duluth, Superior & Western road. at a point called Summit situate® Duluthward from Carlton several miles. The engineers are working from that neighborhood toward the Deer River intersection of the Fosston extension with the Du- luth, Superior & Western, If the present indepehdent line is followed the Great Northern extension will cross the Duluth, Superior & Western road twice in getting to Duluth. There will be two crossings of the St. | Louis river also. Duluth also indicates that the exten- sion will connect. with the Kastern Minnesota at some point in Wisconsin jand thus enter Duluth over its already established terminals. It 1s the im- pression that the Duluth, Superior & Western road would be glad to make arrangements with Mr. Hill to have his trains run into Duluth over its line from Deer River. ‘There is also av such a deal ifit can be made upon The direction of the survey near! January 23, 1897. ‘such terms as are entirely satisfactory to him and not otherwise. It is not believed that there is as yet anything definite regarding the Great North- ern’s plans, east of eer River at least. If negotiations are progressing as to the road connecting with the Huluth, Superior & Western in the matter of a wheelage arrangement Mr.{Hill is also keeping his engineers busy on the sur- vey for an indepeudent line. MAJ, BALDWIN UPHELD. Pine Land Sales Since November Declared Void by Secretary Francis. Secretary Erancis, after long con- sideration of Inspector Wright’s re- port on tue Chippewa pine eitimates has at last taken action. He on Wed- nesday directed Commissioner La- mereux to issue notice to the entry- men on these Jands who have made purchases since November that such sales would not be approved. It is understood that Inspector Wnght’s report shows gross inaccuracies in the first estimates of a large number of tracts, the total value of which is in the neighborhood ot $100,000. ‘The charges made by Major Bald- win of the inexperience ana incap- ability of the estimators have aparent- ly been fully proven by Inspector Wright's report and as a consequence they will not be reemployed. When they were laid off last October, Chief Estimator Douglas was directed to turn the books and papers over to the local officers at Crookston where they are now. While Inspector Wright says these men were inexperienced, he exoner- ates them fully from any dishonesty in underestimating the pine,, and his view 4s accepted by the interior de- partment officials. It is expected that“ the order issued will have effect of bringing those who purchased lands since the date mentioned or their representatives to Washington to | urge the revocation of the order. Secretary Franeis says that every- body will be given a tull hearing but no sale will be approved unless ample proof is furnished that Inspector Wnight’s information as tu the under- estimation is wrong. As to the peti- tions now pending before the depart- ment tor setting aside the sale made during the summer it is understood that a counter proposition has or will be made to set aside all sales. If this proposition is accepted, it will have the effect ofsettling the entire contro- versy, and it is believed that such an ending will come. At the O R. I. O. entertainment to be given at Village hall on February 3, Miss Clara Palmer of Duluth, will ‘rendef several selections on the violin. Speaking ot Miss Palmer, the Duluth Evening Herald says in a recent issue: “Miss Clara Palmer played DeBeriot’s “Sonata” for her violin solo number, and was given a most cordial reception. Miss Palmer is abundantly gifted with the artistic in- ‘ stinct, and plays with fine expression, and her execution is finished and impression that Mr, Hill wiil make | too mafty female violinists lack, force and energy.” }man said: (effective. Above all, she has what. ‘THE REASON OF IT ALL. Why the Magnet Has Suddenly Joined the “Rephormers.” If it were not so disgusting, it would be amusing to read our First street neighbor on “retrenchment” and “ex- travigance.” The blatent blatherskite who ts forever prating about public expenditures, and pointing out, with a sanctimonious whine, where a dollar here and fifty cents there might be saved to the dear taxpayer, is the very vagabond who needs watching. Even in a cas. where a man is conscientious- ly penny wise and pound foolish, his errors might with charity be over- looked, but we have no patience with the scoundrel whose rascallity is stamped by nature upon his face and whose villainy in public and _ private life prompts ‘his every act and utter- ance. If the Magnet had secured the county printing, or a goodly por- tion thereof, not a peep would be heard from that peer of Uriah Heep— he oflean and hungry proportions, fashioned as the imagination of a Nast might picture a parody on the moose—not a word from him, we say, if he could but get his ponderous probocis into the puplic through. Extravigant as the board of county commussioners may be, however, they were entirely too considerate of the public interests to pernit the Magnet Moose to gorge himself at the county exchequer. And thereat he became a very much angry man, swearing vengeance against those who closed the door in his face as he was about to partake of the public turkey and cranberry sauce. His rage grew vio- lent and he would become a reformer. ‘The Herald-Review has a habit of telling plain and homely facts some- times, and a little inside newspaper story just how will reveal the cause of the Magnet’s sudden outburst against “salary extravigance.” it so happened, that a few days prior to the January meeting of the county hoard, the Magnet Moose dropped into the Herald-Review ot- fice and extended the glad hand of fraternal tellowship, which we grasped with a heartiness that could leave no doubt of sincere admiration and brotherly confidence. The door of the sanctum was closed; fresh Ha- vapas_ soon filled the room with their fragrant smoke—and a scheme was un- folded whereby Itasca county would} be compelled to pay the full limit! allowed by law for all legal printing required during the year 1897. Nor was this all. Our good friend of the Magnet took a lively interest in the future wellfare > of the new judge of probate. His salary should at least be $600 a year, but ‘it had been inti- mated to the Magnet that the. board would make an effort to cut down said salary. If the Herald-Review editor could in some. way induce either Logan or Lydick to vote in favor of the $600 proposition, the Magnet editor would guarantee that Le could handle CommissionerWilder. To quote him correctly. the Magnet “You know, Mr. Wilder and myself are very wagin friends, and he 1s very anxious to do some- thing for me in the matter of county Two Dotiars a YEAR hs 6% uy, ; 7s printing. I can depend upon Art at all times. Now, if I go to him and claim that my interests depend upon your salary, he’ll vote to make it a ‘thousand dollars instead of six hun- dred.” After considering the several propositions and after giving full weight to the tremendous influence of the Magnet over Mr, Wilder, and also after considering the statement of our Magnet friend that if he were not awarded his share of county printing Auditor King would cut the tax list and financial statement to the lowest possible space—after duly dehberat ing upon these adverse conditions— the Herald-Review concluded to take a chance single handed. ‘The affiant further states that he was present at a conversation between Bernard of the Magnet, and Commissioner Henry Logan, when the former urged upon the commissioner that a great mistake had been made in reducing the attor- ney’s salary from $1200 to $1000 per year. And this is the same man who is now publicly condemning what he then privately advocated. Inasmuch as the Magnet man was unable to work through a scheme whereby he could profit at the expense of the county, he now proposes to pose as a “rephormer,” But the people gener ally are pretty well acquainted with his character and past record, and anything that he might say or leave unsaid will have about as much weight as would the barking of a yel- low cur. ’ NEW COUNTIES. Beltrami and Cass Counties Cut Out for : Organization at Tnis Session. Representative Dan Gunn, of the Itasca district, has been detained from the session until today, but he arrived loaded for legislative bear, his pockets overstuffed with bills bearing on the interests of the upper part of the state, says the Penny Press, Among these isa bill for the orgamization of the only large remaming unorganized territory in Minnesota, being Cass and Beltrami counties. Mr, Gunn’s coun ty, Itasca, was the last of the new counties to be organized, and the legislation attending it was the chief thing of the session of 1890. ‘The new counties to which he proposes to give organic life are not as large as Itasca, but they involve powerful interests. ‘Those of Cass center in and around the new town of Walker,’ on Leach Lake, which aspires to be the county seat of the new county, and which will probably succeed. Beltrami, further north and west, has two or three prospective county seats, and the rivalry in this matter will bear on the proposed legislation. Mr. Gunn had not intended to to introduce his bill for some time -yet, but the introduction this week of a dangerous looking bill, which provides for attaching more unorganized ,trritory to organized counties will probably precipitate mattess, . The understanding is that the lum- her interests, which have heretofore been able to prevent organization of new counties, are willing to have both these counties organized, p at 2 a mii anit beacon

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