Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 10, 1897, Page 1

Grand Rapids Lebiely, Vout V.—No. 31. - Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., SaruRDAy, APRIL 10, 1897. that we are amply supplied to the most fastedious. Special Notice ---- Our Dry Goods representative, Mr. C.J. Flatt, has just returned from his purchasing tour and feels confident RRR song which is please He Ae Me Me ae ae ah ae ae a she HERE Ne ae ae a aE He: EAR eH HE ee ae Se Me A ae a ae Hea etc., etc. Bb aE ate Se he se he ae ae ae te se ae at ae ae tea ae ate t id He % She hese de obeobe bored oheoheohedede od Shosestasecenees AE RERE RE HE HE SE ee es EE b+ ahridach dachchaca a hcinls Sod etadladatach tha aac ccd Welcome Spring. As spring cometh forth and passeth away; as the birds shed their win- ter coat and sing forth sweet melody of heard near should remind us that a new year of adornment is at hand and more _particu- larly that we are prepared to furnish the public with the most unique and latest designs in dress goods, silks, trimmings S deahl enn ee Sebel BSR see ER Cha eee 5 kabel eee BRE RES Ree 28H 4a See Shed REE RR ae DS hued S beaded te ene winter and far, tascaccco Mercantile Co. Grand Rapids - 2-2 Mitmnesota. BPs (ERE Re EE ee ee ae ae ae ee aa ae ae ae ae a ae ae ae EE Two Dotiars a YEAR It has Been Said - - 1 That in America there are there are two kinds of bicycles “Columbia” and “Others.” Right up in tne front rank of the “Others” stands the Hartford, which is equal to and superior to most other bicycles. Columbia’s, Standard of the Worid: 1897. pattern, - - - 1896: pattalte.,. 1-2 syisvie Ar $100.00 80.00 Hartfords, Equal to all others: $75.00, $60 00, $50.00, $45.00. W. J. & H. D. | horticultural divison of the Agricultur- jal Experiment station, made a trip | through the northern part of the state WEYERHAUSER’S PLAN. He Would Remedy all Evils by Curtailing Taxes on Pine Lands. It will be remembered that Prof. | Samuel B. Green, representing the last summer with a view to studying the possibilities. of a future growth of a second crop of pine logs. He has recently published the result of his work in which is embodied the opinions of prominent lumbermen4 relative to the subject. Among those who contributed a word we find the following from Fred Weyerhaeuser, the lumber baron philanthrophist: “In my opinion the only way to preserve the young pine timber in Minnesota is to make such laws as | VLTASVVEVSVTSVTSVVS TUTESVS VUVTTG © HARD TIMES ; Are not the best times in which to sell jewelry, but then you do not know cheap we are selling our large sto Watches, Clocks, Diamonds, and in fe everything ele kept in a first’ clas: jewelry store. If youcomtemplate mak- ing a purchase of anything in our Jine— usefull or ornamental—don’t fail to call and get our prices. ; A Speciaity. Made of alt Kinds of Repairing. @ Engraving Done Free on all Goods Bought of Me, WILL NISBETT, Expert Watchmaker aud Engraver. . s acienucitmieiitbenae s If You Must Eat and weisuppose you must, you should aiways try ta geL 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 sa:sen affords, at the very lowest prices. Fresh Butter and Eggs Received Datly From the Country, CABLE & LIBBY, GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. * | growing timbers,then reduce the taxes ‘land quit will be reasonably:sure to keep all |fires from destroying the young and jon all cut-over lands. What would be safer still would be to have all cut- | over lands deeded back to the state jat a small consideration. No one :¢an hold cut-over lands and pay the present taxes. Holders arecompelled | to. sell as best they can toescape the | heavy taxes, which are largely levied | ‘at the request of settlers and hardly jever used to best advantage of the county. in. which such lands are located.” Mr. Weyerhaeuser doesn’t make any pretentions along the lines of scientific horticulture, but he 1s ex- ceedingly practical. He understands what taxes are and realizes that if public sentiment can be created and laws enacted to keep down taxation on all lands owned by lumbermen it will be a mighty good thing for the Weyerhaeuser interests, and that’s all he cares about. ‘There are just now coming together in northern Min- nesota two conflicting interests. The | owners of cut-over lands as well as pne stumpage are concentrating their energies to overcome the demands of allother classes for reaonable and just taxation. If assessed valuations can} be kept down to the present point the holders of these vast tracts have no desire to sell. They can better af- ford to await the natural and ievi- table increase i selling price that time alone will bring. On the other hand, if a just tax were placed upon! these lands, such men as I. B. Walk- | erand the Weyerhaeusers would at once create immigration bureaus and begin the work of colimzaiion and rapid settlement. The people of northern Minnesota might just as well recognize this fact first as last. It is the only means that can possibly be employed to bring about the de- sired’ results. “The little that com- munities like Grand Rapids can do to | settle up the country will be put asa drop in the ocean so long as these lands are left untaxed and are held at | prices ranging trom $5 to $10 per acre. We might just as well tace the facts advertising falsehoods. Lands in this county today so located that the thrifty farmer will buy can- not be bought at the prices named in the advertising that 1s sent abroad. Lands that can be bought at from $1 to $2.50 an acre are located so far from the local market that no bonafide settler would think of purchasing’ them, The desirably lo- cated tracts are held at much_ higher figures, and the ownes, except in rare cases, are not at all anxious to sell, for the reason that it virtually costs them nothing to: retain their titles. Slap the taxes on cut-over tracts at about the same figures that the settlers is now paying and we will soon see a well directed and powerful effort made to dispose of Itasca county land, and the result will be magical in immediate settlement. ‘The Walkers and Weyerhaeusers may be expected to roar and rant, but their wrath and millions will count as naught com- pared with the power of public scnti- ment when it is once awakened to its own interests and demands justice. Another Assignment Will Nisbett, Who has conducted a jewelry business in Grand Rapids dur- ing the past five years, made an as- signment this week in favor -of his creditors. Mr. Nisbett has veen struggling under a heavy load for some time, and considering the dull times and general depression of busi- ness he saw no way whereby he could realize on goods sufficiently to satisfy his creditors and therefore made a voluntary assignment. Cashier F. P. Sheldon of the Lumbermen’s bank has b-en appointed assignee. Mr, Nisbett will continue to work at the bench for some time, but expects to find a new location when his business affairs have been settled up Advertising Itasca. The Herald-Review received a large folder this week from L. B. Arnold, land commissioner of the Wisconsin, Minnesota und Paclfic railroad company. On one side isa map of Itasca, Aitkin and part of Cass counties, showing the lands for sale | by the company. The other side is devoted to descriptive articles on Itasca and Aitk.n counties, together with several fine illustrations of farm scenes and public buildings taken from Itasca county. ‘The tolder is well calculated to advertise this section of Minnesota, and if the issue 1s. suf- ficently large and the distribution systematically looked after, much good may result. Itasca county has been unfortunat@ in her efforts to ad- vertise in the past. Several publi- cations have been gotten out largely at public expense, but they have been used more as a means to advertise the “enterprise” of the promoter than to bring in settlement. This pubh- cation, however, is in different hands and no doubt will be circulated to tlie’ very best advantage, and settlers will be brought in through its influence. Our Forest Area. Prof. Samuel B, Green says in his recent horticultural report that the most reliable estimates of the forest in Minvesota, and of the timber up- on this area are probably those col- lected by tbe state forest flre-warden. ‘These place the total area of patural forest, open swamps, at 11,890,000 acrea. excluding brush Jand and | 858, und was introduced by Repres- A WILL ’O0 THE WISP. A Strange Light in The Sky Seen at Grand Rapids by Many Citizens. Last night about 10:30 o’clock a pecular light was seen by many_ per- sons in Grand Rapids moving rapidly northward over the western portion of the village. Those who saw the strange apparition believe it to have been the same described by the Min- | neapoli’s ‘Times of yesterday, as hav- ing been seen by persons along the line of the B. C. & N. railway through Towa and Minneaota. According to numerious reports a great many peo- ple are inclined to the opinion that it} may be the famous flying machine, launched at Oakland, Cal.. three months ago and which has careered all over Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska ever since. As seen from Grand Rapids, the discription agrees exactly with that given in the Times of Fri- day. Influential and Zealous. The following complimentary and well deserved notice ot our legislative representative is irom the Barnum Gazette: “If there is a representative in the legislature that his constituents should feel proud of, that man is Daniel M. Gunn frem this district. He is the most zealous worker in the house and his influence is felt by every member. He 1s always at work tor the interest of those who sent him there and 1s very successful in getting what he asks. This district was never more ably represented; in the lower house, and the people should keep Mr. Gunn there just as long as he will consent to stay there.” These be facts, Mr. Gazette, and not- withstanding Mr. Gunn’s politics. the Herald-Review is proud of the record he has made and Grand Rapids’ citi- zens, without regard.to partisan con- siderations, admire the sturdy qualities of their distinguished representative. A Brave Legislator. The Mississippi Valley Lumberman comments in the following sarcastic style upon a bill recently introduced by a law-maker zt St. Paul: “Some. brave legislator has intro- duced a bill in the Minnesota Jegisla- ture fixing the compensatio. of sur- veyors general and their deputies, the former at $2,500 per annum and the latter at $1,200. This is the m: st un- kind cut of all. Four years ago the lumbermen of Minneapolis had an idea that they desired a better system of leg scaling on the upper Mississippi and accordingly they had a bill intro- duced in the legislature providing for such a change, and incidentally putting the office of surveyor general on a salary of $5,000 per year. The tight that resu'ted was one of the hottest that ever occurred jin the Minnesota legislature,‘and- one, mem- ber of that body had to ahswer toa grand jury indictment on the charge of asking for a bribe toaffect “is vote on the measure. surveyor general in the second dis- urict, which covers the upper Mis- sissippi river region, is worth all the way from $20,000 to $25,000 a year and the legislator who introduced the bill to put the office on a salary basis of $2,500 a year, has an exceedidgly large amouat of what is commonly called nerve. The bill is known as H. F. entative Dallimore. The office of the. THE MISSISSIPPI MAN. Sheriff Toole Returns From His Southern Trip and Reports. Sheriff ‘Toole made a very delight- ful but fruitless trip to Mississippi last week, for the purpose of telling the authorities thereaway that the man confined in jailat New Albany, in that state. was uot the much- wanted Tom Lewis. Mr. Tvole reach- ed home Monday evening. A photo- graph of Lewis had been sent to the authorities at New Albany and word came back tbat there could be no mistake as to the identity, together with many material facts in connect- ion with the crime that made it ap- pear reasonably certain that the right man had been captured. Mr. Toole found, however, upon his ar- rival that the man in jail bore no re- semblance whatever to Lewis, and he was at once set at liberty. The New Albany (Miss,) Gazette, had -the fol- lowing to say of his arrest: “George Howard, a young man who has been in the employ of Messrs. Goolsby Bros., for two years or more, was arrested and placed in jail Fri- day last, charged with the serious crime of murder. There is much. doubt in the minds of the people as to his being the man wanted, and the outcome of the investigation is eagerly looksd for. The crime for which he is held was committed in Minnesvta in 1893.. ‘The description fits George exactly and tbe photograph looks very much. like him, but the wan wanted up there is 30 years of age avd George Claims to be only 23 and his appearances carry out his assertion. ‘Ibe arrest was made upon the representation of a detective who has been shadowing the suspect for some, time, and who positively be- lieves he has the right party. rge claims to have been in Tennessee all the year of 92 and has telegraphed for a person to verify the statement. A party has also been telegraphed for from Minnesota to identify the mur- derer. A reward of $1,600 hangs over the head of the guilty. party and much interest is manifested in the outcome. Some Mighty ‘Truths. Your home newspaper may charge you a few cents more for your job printing than the city offices charge and at the same time give you two- dollar local . advertisements free of change. ‘That’s one thing a news- paper likes to do—advertise its patrons. even though the editor knows he is giving away much more than he gets back, but somehow or other he can’t for the life of him get up the courage to give free puffs to concerns that send all of their job printing away, never advertise. in the home paper and sometimes do not-even subscribe. A mewspaper is one of those recipro- cal institutions which never fails to help those who help it. —Ex. The Knox Mill, Although the start will be a little late, 1t is likely thatthe Knox mill will run steadily all summer, commencing about the first of May. Mr. Knox has contracted to saw up quite a large number of logs for other parties in ad- dition to that which he will put in stock. The machinery 1s now being put in readiness and everything will be “|in shape to begin the summer’s work on schedule time. -