Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 6, 1897, Page 1

Vo. VI.—No, 10, J Grand © Rapids Heral Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay, NoveMBER 9, 1897. Great Attractions In Our tn our Dy Goods ieee # a LanneAT SE SEE RE SR AE AE SRR SER NE ae 2k ae ae a aE a a a aE ae ae ae ae te T SLSLSLCS: A Bargain in Gentlemen’s Light-Weight Overcoats—A Snap. Speaking of Neckwear Well, to appreciate them, to see them. y _—THE FINEST. hey » secrcceseessesccce’s Special Reductions on All Summer Goods. Our Hat Sale Still Continues—Get One Two Dotiars a YEAR = A a a ee ee ae eae eee ae ae a a a tee te eee eee ee ee Re a a eat a ae ae ee ee ae AC ae ae ee ae AE Ee ee a ate eae eae ae ae ae te eae Come in and See Us. S%S2 No Trouble to Show Goods. A Large Portion Of Our Fall Goods In, Be REE He Rea And More to Follow. pees Courteous Treatment. Before you will have are without a doubt Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, - it is too Late. 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POWERS, | | 4 b 4 t beautiful and occurate thot gun made =| @ All kinds of Ammunition, Guns, Rifles and Sporting Goods. Our Winter’s Stock Is daily arriving, and will this season be larger than ever. It comprises all the latest styles and patterns in Suits, Overcoats. Trousers and Furnishings, Marr’sClothing & Dry Goods Store purchased on our recent trip ‘East, and personally inspect- ed before shipment. Every garment guaranteed and our prices are always right. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. j TOURNAMENT ECHOES lan the Boys Made Happy By Their General Average Prizes. FEW VISITORS WERE HERE | But All Pronounce the Eveut a Great | Suecess and the Club Will Try it Again Next Year---John Beck- felt’ Reeeiyes the Booby. | i Last Saturday evening, when the jboys had participated in the first annual tournament of the Itasca Gun club met in Powers’ hardware store to divide the prizes that had been hung upgfor the event, they were a_ fired but very jolly ‘crowd. With the ex- ception of one of the shooters, who was too tired to put in an appearance, the crowd was all there promptly at the appointed hour. H. D. lowers acted as master of ceremonies and conducted the affair in his usual prompt and_ business-like manner. =}The score board showed m_ what order the selections were to be made and at the end of an hour and a_ half the boys struck out for home, loaded down with prizes they had won. - * he had no serious fall-downs during the two days’ shoot, and easily main- tained the lead he acquired early in the race. The doctor became some- kicking now and then all on his own hook, but the members of the club bore with his slight ebulitions of tem- per with great equanimity, for they ‘all realized he had done more than all the rest of the members of the club towards making the tournament aj success. He had the extreme satis- |faction of presenting his ‘fine double-barrell shot gun, the best prize offered, while he retained a box of Booth’s cigars, one hundred loaded the plunder. wom H. D. Powers ran up against a streak ef bad luck, and in many of the events of the two days’ shoot he KHKSKSSGCSSSHHS RHE SOs ee Eee PRICES RIGHT, Cloaks JUST OPENED. é. BH. MARR. : I SAE ae aah eRe ee eS ee ae a ae a as ah a ase a ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae a ae a ae eae a ae a ae aa aE ‘evenly matehed A ER ee eae a ae ae ae a ae tee ate ae he ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ate eae ea gages odviadcachitac OUR NEW LINE OF nas — ss made a much poorer score than he jhas made dumng the entre season’s practice shoots. Bert is a gentleman at the traps and it is a comfort to all concerned when he is working on his | score. He was very substantially re- | | warded for the record he made during | the tourney by receiving a Stevens’ | rifle, a pair of moose hide moccasins, | one dozen bottles gun oil, a necktie} land a year’s subscription to Western} Field and Stream, i | One of the res exciling contests | uring the whole event was the tie ‘that existed between A. A. Kremer! land R. J. Hofiman. Atnoon of the | first day the score showed they we te] RR SSS SR a ea a ae a a ae ae ae ae ae iF Very fortunate for Dr. W. P. Brown | what excited at times and did a little! wife with aj} shells and two neckties as his part of} | final event—ten walk-aways—was it decided. After Arthur had shot at | eight of them, Hoffman led him one | bird. “One to tle and two to beat,” | was what Arthur heard when he start- led to walk down the line. Away} | went the birds, almest in unison, and} rack! crack !—he had won, for both | }were broken. A case of Spanish wine, one case Pabst beer, one year’s i subscriptio to Outing, Magnet, and {Western Field and Stream fell to his Lot. R. J. Hoffman of Minneapolis, is| ;not only a gentleman, but a good) | marksman, and if he could have had Jhis usual success at‘the traps, would | have taken the first prize home with ‘him. He and a companion came up to try the deer shooting down at Split Hand and incidently take in the tournament. A 220-pound buck that |the club presented him for the score he made, pleased him greatly, and when he exhibits it to envious friends in Minneapolis as one that he shot up in the northern woods, he will be put down as a mighty Nimrod, * If left-handed Charley Marr had had on the same pair of* pants the first day that he wore on the second, he would have had the laugh on all the boys, | Charley is a Cracker-Jack when be gets warmed up to the work and can give them all pointers in sweep stake events. He carried home jwith him a steel fishing rod, a case of assorted photo supplies, an order for a case of Pabst beer and a year’s subscription to the Herald- Review. | ER It never phazed H. R. King when the boys called him “Hank,” in fact, he rather seemed to like it. He has not been able to attend but a very few of the shoots this season, but the fact that he stood sixth on the list of winners, shows he is a natural marks- man. A Rex camera, a fine pocket knife,a good, big ham and a recoil | pad were the rewards of merit he re- cewed, aie: It is most exasperating when one can do a thing well, to “fall down” and not be able to do it at all when desiring to do it better than ever be- fore. E.A. Kremer has make a fine record as a good and regular shooter during the summer, and _ his friends confidently expected great things of him at the tourney. But poor Ed “couldn’t find ’em.” ile made some most magnificent misses and was “joshed” by the crowd, but through it all he kept his temper and let his friends guy him ali they wanted to. He can shoot much better than he i was able to do last Friday and Satur- day and all who have seen him at the | traps this summer know that it was | simply a streak of bad luck that pre- | vented his being either at the head or | well towards the top of the list. His prizes ran largely to case goods: as he} gota case each of Maccaroni and |cheese and beer. Surely such a lay- jont as that should compensate him | for the il luck which attended him. eed 5 af Prati started out at a great! made several bad strings. Occasion- ally he would make a_ remarkable showing and it would seem as though he could charm the clays into going to pieces, and ther again he couldn’t have hit a flock of barns. He bore his reverses good naturedly and gave tit for tat when the crowd made remarks about the way he was making holes in the air. A gold} plated cyclometer, a- fancy cigar box, a case of beer and a bottle of ‘whiskay were the prizes he won. * * With a gun that pounded his cheek until he looked as though he had a genuine case of mumps, I. D Rass- mussen was badly handicapped in the first day’s shoot, but with two guns to handle the following day: he did not have much better luck. He was al- right, however, when it came to divid- ing the prizes, as he secured a case of canned goods and one of pork and beans, fifty pounds of puppy food and a year’s subscription to Amateur Photographer, B® T.S. Powers made some fine shots, but was not able to make a vety high average for the whole tournament. A pair of hunting pants, a case of Armour’s soups, two shave tickets and a lot of Indian bead work compen- sated him for his share of the labor attending the event. If was distinctly undérstood from the commencement of the shoot that John Beckfelt was out after the booby prize, and much to the satisfaction of everyone he captured it without a struggle. It consisted of an Indian bow and arrows, and that, together with a huge bear trap that he won, make a hunting outfit that is truly formidable. He hasn’t started out yet to slaughter big game, but we ex- pect to be able to report some as- tonishing catches by him in the near future. A year’s subscription to Re- Creation and a quart of whiskey went to him with the other prizes, so he is fully equipped as a hunter and] trapper. eee Some of the shooters who did not enter 1n all of the events, consequ:nt- ly not participating mm the drawing of prizes at the close of the shoot, did not fare so badly. Prof. Danby en- tered in only one event, but he won a half case of beer. We nayn’t heard of him calling for his prize as_ yet. ree. Take it all around the tournament was a very pleasant affair and only lacked in numbers of participants ta make it a grand success. Some of the crack shots who had _contemplat- ed attending will feel. like kicking themselves when they hear what low averages were made and how weil the few who were present were rewarded. Another time when the Itasca Gun club gives a tourney’ and _ extends an invitation to the shooting gentry to be present, there will be a crowd that will fully compensate for the slim at- tendance last week. Byron Lewis of Minneapolis, was |a visitor here during the fore part of ithe week, looking after his lumber in- and hot unil the’ pace and was a hot favorite unul he’ terests in this vicin ty. |should be checked before it 1s TREACHEROUS INDIANS. They Seek Revenge for the Killing of Two Chippewas bia Game Warden. Mathew Barnes, who is a home- steader-on the shores of Cass lake in Cass county, and George Costello, {whose home is mm Michigan, were twavellers to Grand Rapids by the |same route last week, and rather an interesting experience related. to the. Herald-Review upon ther arrival here Tuesday. 1 started from Bermidgie a week ago last Monday and as they were pass- ing an Indian viallage beyond Winni- bigoshish dam about twenty miles, they were hailed by two Chippewas who stood on the iake shore. Barnes inguired what. was wanted and the Indians replied that they wanted to talk withthem. ‘The two men landed, and as Barnes can speak the Chippe- wa language he construed that the natives were holding a counsel and desired some information from him. The two Indians indicated that they desired to see Barnes ina certain tepee and without suspecting that ell was not right he started to accompany them. He had walked but a short disance when he heard Costello call. He started in the direction of the boat, but immediately found himself surrounded by about fifteen Chippe- was whose evident intention it was to hold him captive. He succeeded, however, in reaching Costello, and he two men made a rush for the boat. Arriving there they found to their dismay that their guns had been taken by the Indians. ‘This, together with the preceding incidents, con- vinced them that they were being de- tainel for no good purpose, and they accordingly hastened to push their boat into the stream and paddle as rapidly as possible aut of reach of danger, ‘hey arriyed at Deer River on ‘Tuessday, thankful to get away with the loss of their guns. ‘The spot where this took place is isolated and far from any frequented route and if a crime was committed it might be months befor the victims could be discovered. ‘Ihe two men say they beheye that it was the intention of the Indians to make away with them, but their prompt action in shoving the boat out of reach prevented this. Certain it is that the Chippewas are as |in a very surly mood over the killing of two oftheir number by a game warden about ten days ago. Reports from Cass lake state that the tribe threatens vengeance, and that settlers are not safe from molestation. ‘This too late and the authorities will do well to investigate it, as should any thing happen it would be almost impossible to bring thejguilty parties to justice. Firemen’s Annual Meeting. A meeting of the Grand Rapids Fire department will be held at the fire hall on Monday evening Nov. 7, tor the annual election of officers. ‘The members of both departments are requested to he present. By order of the chief C. V. Gamacug, Secy, met with a