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erald Rebicww, Closing Out Sale Ladies’ Wool Hose. Ladies’ Wool Hose Ladies’ Wool Hose - 85 o ie Children’s Woot Children’s Wool Hose. * co sf ” Wool Hose Ladies’ Wool Ve A . Ladies’ Wool! Vests Be CSS Ladies’ Wool V. é ’s Wool Ves 5 ft Children’s Crib Blankets...... cc Rovys Childre We submit for your consideration a list of goods that we are “long” on, at prices that cannot help but interest all those who know a bargain when they see it. The goods were all bought this season and are therefor fresh and new and cannot help but please you. In this closing out sale we are not considering the first cost of the goods of which the following figures will con Ho 4 : ds “ ests 43 former price, 30c “ aoe vince you. Black Brilliantine... Black Serge..... Black Henriette... Dress Gingham. . Gingham. Outing Flannel Outing Flannel. Florentine Dress Suiting.. Black Figured Dress Suiting... Black Henriette Dress Suiting former price, 40c “ Be Outing Flannel. Damask Damask, colore Table Felt, 54 inches.. Belding’s Wash twist, 3 skeins for 10c. +. 80c 2 skeins for 5 Two Do.iars a YEAR 6c former price, 8¢ pinks « 806 60c “ c, former price, Comet Knitting Silk, 10c per spool, former price, 12c per spool. Peerless Knitting Silk, 20e per spool, former price, 35¢ per spool. Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, Minn. A Good Carpenter--- Ts known by the tools he uses. It's just the same, too, with all otner Uhings—a good mechanic in any trade will not use inferior toolr, He's just as particular about the tools he uses as he is about the 1 of food he eats. They lec aw part, almost, of himself. A Cheap Tool He knows, is bound to be made of soft iron, and though it) may shine like steel. he remembers that “all is not gold that glitter: and all is not steel that lool costs more to start with if is worth a dozen chean things to we We sell ti and lasts four times as long. cheap enough for anyone who wan Aud though a good stee wood kind —not too chertp, bit ts the best. [SLANDERING A COUNTY |The Minneapolis Journal Sells Itself | to Lumberman T. B. Walker. TO EVADE JUST TAXATION Walker Employs a Big Lobby at St. Paul and Buys Newspaper Space to Preyent the Organization of New Counties. | If Itasca county had one or two {more blackleg lobbyists at St. Paul and Minneapolis furnishing alleged _ sta- tistics to T. B. Walker and the Min- neapolis papers that Walker appears | to control, aiding him in his efforts to defeat the organization of Cass and W. J 2 & H Eo D. POW E R S. Beitram counties that he may evade VVVVVVVOTVATVA SVTBTOTESIABISVWVTVS «= © P; i HARD TIMES Are not the best times in which to sell A Specialty Made of all Kinds of Repairing. y jewelry store. ing a purchase © usefull or ornany ry, but then you do not know how selling Gur large stock of ; Diamonds, ¢ u ele kept in a first If you eomtemplite ma hing in our line— ’t fail to call thing and get our prices. Engraving Done Free on all Goods Bought of Me. WILL NISBETT, Expert Watchmaker and Engraver. a tclinanciabonnil Cable If You Must Eat and we suppose you must, you should aiways try to get the best goods in the market at the lowest possible price. do this, you should buy your Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Game, Etc. at the well-known meat market of on hand the very best things the season affords, at the very lowest prices. Fresh Buiter and Egos Received Daily From the Country, CABLE & LIBBY, GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. To & Libby. This firm has always just taxation on his large pine land noldings in Northern Minnesota, the | possibility of settling up this region {with farmers would not be materially ‘advanced. Without any regard to jtruth and with acriminal abandon of |the material interests of Northern | Minnesota, the Minneapolis Journal jof last Saturday published an article |at the dictation of T. B. Walker rela- tive to Itasca county that our people should resent and long remember— and remember, too, the men who have entered into so damnable a con- spiracy to slander and destroy the jstanding of our county and prevent the settlement of our lands. The Journal devotes three or four columns of space toshow that the people of this county, outside the large pine land owners, are an organized band ot outlaws, whose aim it is and ever has been, to rob the lumbermen through exhorbitant taxation and wanton extravigance of public money. it undertakes to show that the as- sessed valuation of this county should be but one million dollars instead of two and a_ half millions as it now is, and it concludes that farmers will not settle in a community so over-bur- dened with taxation, and argues that Cass and Beltrami counties should be left as they now are—entirely in the control of the men who own the mil- lions ot dollors worth of pine lands within their territory—exempt from taxation. ‘The Herald-Review has on former occassions given ample reasons for the present indebtedness of Itasca county, and if the Minneapolis pa- pers were inclined to be just, a little investigation would’ have revealed to them what T. B. Walker already knows—that he and all other pine {land owners have escaped taxation {during the years which they have en- | joyed the vast wealth acquired through wholesale traud from the national and state governments. A little intelligent linquiry would have made it apparent to them that Itasca is one of the rich- est counties in the state in natural j wealth; that she is a vast empire in area—including' one hundred and seventy-eight townships—that more actual wealth has been floated out of the county in pine logs every year joneoe the past quarter of a century than has ever been levied upon and. taxed. They would have found. that the assessed valuation of this county should be raised from two and a half millions to ten millions, and then the rate of interest and burden of taxa- tion would be far less than that of Hennepin county today. They would have found that if Itasca county property had been assessed proportionally as other property throughout the state is valued by as- sessors we would today have an over- flowing treasury without one dollar of indebtedness. It is a convenient matter to take figures furnished by the county auditor and make it appear to the outside world that the local business men, farmers and county officials are wholly incompetent, ex- travigant, criminal and utterly incap- able of self-government, when preju- diced parties are permitted to make their own comparisons. But the facts will show a far different con- dition than that which T. B. Walker and his satelites are aiming to make appear. It is only necessary to show from the records that hundreds of forties have been assessed at a figure which drew a revenue to the county ot from 40 to 7o cents per annum. It is true that the present rate of taxa- tion is high and that the county:is in debt, but it could not well be other- wise so long as assessed values re- mained at about one-quarter what they should be. If our assessed valu- ation were placed on a par with that of St. Louis county pine lands, the present bonded and floating indeb- tedness would entirely disappear in four years. Innumerable tracts of pine stumpage in this county which the owners would not sell for $10,000, have been assessed at from five hun- dred to a thousand dollars. T. B, Walker has escaped taxation more than any other owner in the county, and the Herald- Review knows why he is now protesting so_ strenuously against giving our two neighbors self- government. The people of this county now understand where they made a grave eiror in not realizing upon the pine properties from the start, and the people of Cass and Beltrami counties will profit by Itasca’s experience. Mr, Walker is well aware of this fact and he dreads the coming of the day when he will be compelled to contribute his just share toward the support and upbuilding of the county and state from which he has accumu- lated a great fortune. Instead, how- ever, he would - now» assassinate the —_ industrious people who have come after him to this territory to live upon the crumbs which he and non-residents of his lk have left be- hind. The favors that have been shown him, representing thousands of dollars, are thus returned. Farming lands which Walker holds today in this county at $8 per acre are assessed at $2, and other holders of cut-over lands are similarly assessed, If the citizens of Cass and Beltrami counties are made aware of the true inwardness of the opposition to organization they will be able to present facts to the members of the iegislature that will entirely wipe out the arguments of the Waiker lobby ond gain _self-gov- ernment without opposition, The Village Election Held Last Tues- day Results in a Good Council. A VERY LIGHT VOTE CAST Powers, Knox, Decker and 0’Connell Will Look After Village Affairs During the Year Eichten Ninety-Seven. The new village council elected last | Tuesday could not be well improved from any material that Grand Rapids has to offer. Others might serve equally as well, and render the vil- lage services no less credible, but for sound business judgment, intergrity and loyalty to the best interests of Grand Rapids, a splendid council has been selected. The nominees of the several caucuses were all representa- tive. men, and on election day there was no bitter feeling, although con-| siderable hard work was done by the different factions. Following is the council as it will be constituted during the ensuing yeer: President—H. D. Powers. Trustees—L. F. Knox, J. J. Decker and J. F. O’Connell. Recorder—F. A. King. ‘Treasurer—Henry Hughes. Constable—Charles Lyons. The new council will take their seats about the first of April, thus allowing the retiring board to conclude their year’s business in a_ satisfactory manner. The township election was regarded with a great deal of interest, and the} contest for the chairmanship between John Beckfelt and Joe Laisur was closely looked after by the friends of each candidate, and Mr. Beckfelt won out by a majority of ten. The town- ship board of svpervisors and other officers elected are as follows: Chairman—John Beckfelt. Supervisors—V. H. Blood, Fred McVicar and C. E. Leeman. ! Clerk—Felix Maliette. | Treasurer—L. F. Knox. Juctice of the Peace — Charles Kearney, Assessor—O. B. Seamans. | Following is the full vote: | For President— POWERS IS PRESIDENT 55| collections and general Josep GMB a oa. v5. icn gan se kee ssw al ‘or Supervisors— VY. H. Blood 108 Fred MeVic: 103, ma E, ceewes. 9 loses tol a Clerk * ‘elix Malette.... Luman ©. Warrit is For Treasurer— . F, Knox us E. J. Farrell 8 For Pi — has. _Kearne, C. A. Buell.. i oS For Assessor— O. B. Seamans.... 170 James Joleaud ES) “‘STRONG-ARM” MEN. Sixty-Five Dollars Induces Three Toughs at Swan River to Committ Robbery. Yesterday and today Judge Stilson’s court has been in session giving a preliminary hearing to Jim Albro, Jim Keenan and Wm. Vondell, charged with highway robbery com- mitted last Wednesday night at Swan River. Albro and Vondell were held to the grand jury by Justice Stilson and in default of $500 bail they will board with Sheriff Toole until June next when the district court convenes. Keenan will have a hearing on Mon- day, as he claimed to be too sick to appear in court this morning. A Frenchman named Zeb Forchette was the unfortunate victim of the hold- up. . His testimony was that he re- ceived acheck from the foreman of one of the Swan River Logging com- pany’s camps. This he had cashed by J. J. McDonald at Swan River. He drank some beer and whiskey and about 10 o’clock at night, in company with Keenan, Albro and Vondell, he started down the railroad«track to visit a house of ill repute. The quar- tette had not gone far when Zeb’s three companions gave him the “strong arm” and relieved him of all he had left, about $65 dollars. He returned to town and informed those at the hotel of his bad luck. Upon Jearning the facts Train Dispatcber Bean sent up a special train after the officers. Deputy Sheriff Johnston de- putised Joe Gardner and the two went down, and after a little search Jocated the culprits and brought t'em here where they are now safely be- hind the bars, with a good chance of remaining in the state’s keeping for some time. Wm. Vandell, admitted in his testimony today that he had served two terms in the Marquette, (Mich.) penitentiary. He said that. ho had been twice convicted and served time for assault. Suing For Ties Cat. The Duluth Herald reports that the United States of America has _be- gun.an action against Tuller Bros. of this place, to recover $200. It is claimed that Sidney McDonald went upon government lands ia sections 20 and 21-56-26, and cut tamarac ties and disposed of them to the defend- ants. The value of the ties is alleged to have been $200, the amount sued for. ‘ Can This be Possibe? From the very fountainhead of 96 | “General Prosperity” comes the fol- lowing dispatch. It is dated Canton, Ohio, March 9g, and reads; “C. C. Snyder, one ot the oldest business men of the city, engaged in hardware trade, assigned this morning. Slow depression are the causes assigned. ‘The assets TOWNSHIP. For Chairman— are estimated at $60,000; liabilities not estimated.”