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

Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay, Ocroser 2, 1897. In Our Dry ae eRe ae ae He He: Speaking of Neckwear to see them. They a —THE FINE T. ‘ME ARE SE SEAS Bt IIA ae a a a a ae ae ae ae: Great Attractions Goods-- Department. A argain in Gentlemen’s Light-Weight Overcoats—A Snap. FESSERSEE SSSR SSERASEREE SES ONS ORNS SESS RS SH RSHERKERORANRANRENOEAS SHEE No Trouble to Show Goods. Come in and See Us. A Large Portion Of Our Fall Goods In, Two Douiars A YEAR And More to Follow. Courteous Treatment. Special Reductions on All Summer Goods. Our Hat Sale Still Continues—Get One ef ore it is too Late. Well, to appreciate them, you will have re without a doubt And the man who en- joys hunting can have double the sport and secure double the game if he goes armed with one of our NEW PATTERN WINGHESTER SHOT GUN. eit x | ] { e A Magnificent Fowling Piece. This is the most beautiful and occurate thot gun made at any price, and if it’s game you are after all well as well as sport, you will be mighty glad of your small in- vestment when you return from your trip if yeu provide yourself with one of these guns. All kinds of Ammunition, Guns, Rifles and Sporting Goods. W. J. & H.D. POWERS. | Clothing, Dry Goods, AND Furnishings. ‘These are the lines to which we are giving special attention during this season. Prices are down so low that all can reach them. Quality }! high grade; prices low grade. We’)l get your trade if prices count. Marr's Clothing & Dry Goods Store GRAND RA PIDS, MINN. SE EE eS ae eae a ae ae se eae a eee a eae ae ae ea ae ee ate eae eae eae a ae ae ate ae ae ae ae Re ae ae he ae - * 3 ic D = ; .s¢ #$Do You See This? : % ol | é 4 ; = Of course you do. So does 4 ' s everybody else. 2 , : : = 2 ~, : Suppose YOUR ad was here! 3 ‘ = = rt rrr rrr rrr Ts | Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, Minn. te Se ate ae eS es aes ae ae ate a ae a ae af ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ale ae ae ae ae a ae a ae ae ae a ate af ae a ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ae a ea ae se ae a ae a ae see ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae se ae eae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ate ape ae a ae a ae a ae ae eae ae ae ate ae ate ROI ae ae ae ae ae ate ae te ae ate ae ae ate teat ate ae ae ate ae ate ea teak - - - Prices Right. {Re ee eR ae Re a a RA a a ei al ah ae a a a a a al ee a ee ae ae ae ae ae ae REMEMBER THE FAIR Next Thursday and Friday, October Seventh and Eighth. VILLAGE HALL, GRAND RAPIDS, Secretary Gamache Says the Attend- ance Will be Large and the Ex- hibits Promise to Excell All Former Years. The committee has reconsidered their former decision and have con- cluded to hold the fair in Village hall. The desire expressed. by certain mem- bers of the association to hold the fair on the grounds on the South side met with general favor until it was found that the expense of putting the pavilion in shape for use would be about one hundred dollars. The management concluded that it would be unwise to expend this amount of money temporarily on a building that would perhaps never be used again by the association. While it may be somewhat inconvenient for exibitors to convey ther produce to Village hall, it was considered good econ- omy to rather expend the money for prizes then to spend it for the im- provement of property of a private individual, The management will have a man at Village hail during the first day of the fair to assist in placing and caring for exhibits. On Friday evening the G. A. R. will givea grand military ball, for which much _pre- paration has been made. The Altar society of the Catholic church will serve meals in the council room of the hall on Thursday noon and in the evening and also Fnday noon. The premium list as published in another column will be found to contain very liberal prizes in the several depart- ments. .The men who have devoted a great deal of time and work to the upbuilding of the local organigation are ambitious to accumulate sufficient funds to erect suitable buildings for fair purposes, and it is the aim to have asurplus in the treasury after the payment of this -fall’s premimus on which to begin operations next year The general interest that the farmers. are taking in the event causes Sec- retary Gamache to believe that the fair #% | next week will be a decided success. Those who intend to make exhibits should read over the rules and reg- ulations published on page five of this number. Let every farmer and gard- ener in the county, who can do so, make an entry at the fair and thus help advance our mutual material interests. The D.S. & W. Ry. has. generously granted free transportation for ali exhibits sent to the fair over that line. They have also made a one fare rate to Grand Rapids from Deer River and Swan River from October 6th to gth. This will give our neighboring village friends an opportunity to attend the fair, THAT CURFEW ORDINANCE. The Council Should Take Action and En- force Observance. The Herald-Review is not favor- able to any policy eminating either from municipal, state or general gov- jernment that 1s calculated to un- necessarily curtail human. liberties It believes that the freest conditions possible are conducive of the best ulumiate results: be impossed upon the actions of men, women or children unless the general wellfare demands such regulations under authority of law. When they are demanded, however,[they should be impossed and rigorously enforced, Ordinarily it would seem that a curfew ordinance in a village the size of Grand Rapids would be uncalled for and unnecessary. The pit falls for semi-incorngible youths are not so numerous or difficult of discovery that the average parents cannot keep a close rein on their offspring between daylight and dark—if they are justly mindtul of their children’s welfare. It would appear that proper home in- fluences would be the only governing power necessary in Grand Rapids to | keep the boys within reasonably good behavior in public and cause them to report for evening prayer at season- able hours, without the intervention of municipal authorities. But in truth there seems to be some vital mis- understanding between a.large num- ber of the youth of this village and their worthy parents. The evening’s exercises are commenced, with a regu- larity that has never yet failed, by as- sembling on the depot platform as the seven o’clock train arrives and mak- ing themselves an. abominable nuisance to the inconvenience and cunfusion of passengers, both arriving and departing; usurping the space upon the plattorm where the trainmmen should be allowed to do their work, and not infrequently making use of obscene and profane language in the presence of ladies. From the depot they immediately repair to the post- | office and there pre empt about all the available space in the rotundz, en- gaging in loud and boistrous con- versation and scuffling, to the great annoyance of those charged with the important duty of distributing the mails, Arnving early and having re- mained until about the last patron has been served at the postoftice, these young hoodlums feel that justice has been done to this portion of the even- ing’s program and they again report to the street corner to employ the time as opportunity presents itself until thers is nothing more to annoy or | destroy in sight. This daily program iis only changed when there is some attraction at Village hall. ‘De gang” generally manages to get possession of the back seats and from that vant- age point add the horrors of contin- al interruption to the performance on the stage. These youngsters are thus being schooled for disgraceful manhood. The village council should pass the ordinance referred to with- out delay, and then the marshal should be emphatically instructed to ! see that its provisions are enforced. No restraints should } PERMISSION GRANTED! The Department Finally Acts in the Matter of Reservation Timber. WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE People Generally of Grand Rapids and Itasca County, as Well as In- dians, Plaesed With the Plans Adopted. The long discussed project to secure permission from the general govern- ment for the Indians to cut and mar- ket the dead and down timber on the Chippewa and other reservations in Minnesota, has finally been brought to a successful issue. The interior department took prompt action fol- lowing the report of Special Agent Bender, who made a personal in- vestigation of the situation about a month ago. A special dispatch from Washington to the Pioneer Press under date of September 29, con- tained the following: “The report of Special Agent Bender, of the land office, in regard to the plan for cut- tng and marketing the dead and down timber on the Chippewa reser- vation in Minnesota, was discussed today by Secretary Bliss of the inter- ior department, and Commissioner Heimann of the land office, and the suggestions oftered by the agent were for the most part adopted. The offi- cials agree that the report is the most exhaustive and excellent that has ever been made to the department upon so important a work, and the plans pro- posed-for permitting the Indians to do the work on the reservations and for securing the recurds of the sales of the timber after it 1s banked are believed by Commissioner Hermann to be cer- tain to give tht Indians the best pos- sible results from their labor and from the disposition of their timber. There are from forty to fifty million feet of dead and down timber which will be rrady for operations, and fully as much more which can be reached within a reasonable time. The plans! adopted today for prosecuting the work began with th2 appointment of Col. R. H, Rose, one of the corps of inspectors, who has had _practicai ex- perience in logging and lumbering on the Pacific slope, to be superintendent ot all the operations on White Earth, Winnibigoshish, Red Lake and Leech Lake reservations, and he will have under him four assistants, one for each reservation, and the appointment of these positions include four members of the corps of estimators, Henderson, McClure and McCoy and one other whose name has not yet been agreed upon, The logging operations are to be conducted by the government, making the best sales possible of the timber to cantractors, Indians pre- feared; for cutting and banking logs, a certain percentage of the proceeds to be guaranteed to the Indians and the secretary for supplies furnished them being also cared for by the govern- ment officials: the proceeds to come out of the sales of tinber on the bank. The timber cutting will not be let to the lowest bidder, but will be reserved to Indian contractors where it is pos- sible to:do so.” The “cuttmg of timber on this re- ‘servation is regarded by local busi- ness men as a most emphatic indica- tion of returning prosperity to this section. It gives “employment to In- dians and local log jobbers who spend their earnings in the county. Past experience has demonstrated this fact, and consequently our tradesmen al- ready begin to feel the improvement in business. With an increased cut of logs throughout the county, and higher wages, there isample reason to believe that Grand Rapids is about to experience a_ return of the good times that were known in former years. he rules and regulations adopted are sufficiently liberal, and at the same time sufficiently guarded, to ob- viate the unpleasant experiences that attended former operations on the re- servation. Prolonged and expensive legal complications has demonstrated to the federal authorities that it is un- wise to place unreasonable restrictions upon the contractors. There is very little likelihood that the present ar- rangement will not continue in satis- factory operation for a number of years, Primarily the credit for having brought about permission to carry on this work, is due to County Commis- sioner George Lydick. Last Decem- ber when he suggested the advisabili- ty of our citizens getting together and urging Representative Towne to in- troduce a: bill in congress granting au- thority to the secretary of the interior to permit the cutting and marketing of dead and down timber on the re- servation, there were very few who be- lieved it possible to succeed, in view of trouble then pending before the de- partment for alleged former trespass- ing. But with a determination that recognized no “can’t,” he persisted in the undertaking, and after making a trip to Washington he succeeded in having a bill introduced by Mr, Towne, which passed the house and senate, but the mighty Grover gave it a pocket veto together with the whole Indian appropriation bill. Later, when Page Morris took his seat Mr. Lydick secured his interest m the measure. Hon. D. M, Gunn and County Attorney C. C. McCarthy also visited Washington during the extra session of congress and ient very valu- able assistance to the advancement of the bill and adoption of desirable rules and regulations. It was very largely through’ the suggestions of Mr. Mc- Carthy that the present plan was adopted and he 1s entitled to a great deal of credit for the able efforts which he put forth for the success of the measure. It is ta be hoped that those who may be granted permission to log this timber will have due regard for the rules as they are issued and will avoid any future trouble such as has been experienced in the past. = +