Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 20, 1897, Page 1

t Grand Rapids Vow VI.—No, 12. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn,, SaturpAy, NovemBer 20, 1897, = SLSLSISPSLSLSOSLSLSLSISHSISLSISVSLSS Annual— Clothing Sale.... These Goods ele’ ae Ee eee eee ee a ee ee ee ee ee eae me eS ee ee eae eee ee ee ee me Come in and See Us, Another Consignment No Trouble to Show Goods. , Of Gents’ Overcoats Ulsters, Suits, ee Odd Trousers, Boys’ Overcoats. } Courteous Treatment. | ee S%e2 (REE RE aE ae Se Re SSR Rae ee aE ae ae a ae ata ate ae ae te Our Stock is Now Complete. This is the Time to buy. Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, - are up to Date and are Selling at a Bargain. If you are in need of an Overcoat we. have got just what you want and at Right Prices. Minn. +-- Prices Right. AR Re ae a ae a a a ae a a a ae a a a a a a a a ae a ae a ae a a ae a a a ae a a a ae ae a ae ae Potala You will be It You use anything But the Gennine Be CKWITH ROUND OAK See the name on the leg. We Sell Them. W. J.&H. D. POWERS, Our Winter’s Stock Suits, Overcoats. Trousers and Furnishings, Marr’s Clothing & Dry Goods Store Is daily arriving, and will this season be larger than ever. It comprises all the latest styles and patterns in purchased on our recent trip East, and personally inspect- ed before shipment. Every garment guaranteed and our prices are always right. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. Titi ttt iit titi ti iitt Tt Ty PRICES RIGHT. SHANA TAO N OTHE SOSHES SSN TEER ESO RO NSLES Ee Es dollar one on Cashier White and OUR NEW LINE OF Cleaks JUST OPENED. €. 4H. MARR. AE ERE AE eRe A AR. ae AE ee ae eH a ee Se ee ae ae ae a a a ae ae a a eae as ae a | STIRRED THEM UP. The Herald-Review’s Agitation of the Res- | ervoir Question Brings Good Results. | | | It 1s very evident that those inter- ested in the perpetuation of the system of government reservoirs on the upper | Mississippi are much alarmed over | the probable outcome of the opposit- | ion to the dams as presented recently | through the columns of this paper. ; The flour manufacturers of Min- neapolis beleve that the dams area | great benefit in the running of their nulls and will leave nothing undone | to secure the regular annual appropri- | ation for reservoir sustenance from |congress. ‘Those in charge of the | work have realized from the start that, | any agitation of the subject would be ;almost certain to result in the final jabandonment of the system by the} general government. ‘They have ig- nored so far as possible any public discussion of the question, and when sought for interviews by Metropolitan press these men have succeeded in suppressing the report from publi- cation. This paper, however, has succeeded in keeping the facts before the public, and before the individual members of the senate and house committees who will report upon the matter to congress. It is surprising *|to hear from many members and sen- ators who express themselves as having long suspected that the system of reservoirs under government control is a public fraud. ‘There is no doubt but that a very formidable opposition to futher appropriations will appear in the next congress. One good result ot the agitation that has been made by the Herald-Review is already apparent. The department is at last bestirring itself. to make settlement with the owners cf lands that have been destroyed by overflow They Raised the Checks. ; Last Tuesday, a couple of hobos who had been hunting up in the -vic- inity of Price Bro’s camp attempted to victimize the First bank by the use of a couple of raised time checks. It seems they had traded a part of their hunting outfit to some of Price’s men taking in payment a couple of old, worn time checks. One of them was for seven dollars and one other for five fifty eight. By the use of a l.ttle skill aud a Grop of ink they made the former read seventy dollars and the latter three hundred and five dollars. Tom Managan first tried the seventy succeeded in getting his money. Geo. Stevens, his companion, soon after sauntered in an attempted to get the three hundred and five dollars but the amount of the order raised a sus- Picion in Mr. White’s mind that some- thing was crooked and he told Stevens he would have to ke identified and suggested that he bring m Managan for that pnrpose, to which proposition Stevens readily agreed. Taking an- other look at the seventy dollar check Mr. White became convinced that it had been raised so when the men | Managan returned it and the check raisers disappeared, but were soon found in a saloon by Deputy Sheriff Johnson who had been notified. The seventy dollar check was found in Managan’s stocking, but Stevens had destroyed the evidence of his guilt At their preliminary hearing Wednes- day, Stevens tried to protect his pal by swearing he alone knew of the checks being raised, but they were both held to the Grand Jnry in the sum of $500 each. LOGGING NOTES. What/the Lumbermen’are Doing in Itasca County and Vicinity. During the past week the loggers have been particularly active. They are anxious to take advantage of the good weather that now prevails. Price Bros. are fully four weeks ahead |} with their work over any previous year since they commenced opera- tions in Itasca county. The Itasca Logging company have their camps in full operation both at Deer River and Swan River. Joe Dunning has been at work tor more than six weeks. The Powers-Simpson company are well advanced with their big Hibbing contract. There are at least a dozen concerns now operating on the Winnibigoshish reservation. Chas. E. Seelye of the firm of Seelye Bros. & Lawrence ar- rived from Minneapolis Tuesday eve- ning with two car loads of horses and provisions. Gilbreth & Dempsey are working with a full crew and al- ready have a good start on the -seas- ons input. George Lydick came home last evening to attend a meeting of the county commussioners to. be held today. He says that everything on the reservation is in satisfactory condition and those who have con- tracts should make some money. During the week there has arrived several hundred men who are now in the woods. Backus & Co., received two car loads of horses; Price Bros. two car loads; Nelson & Craig receiv- ed one car and Woodcock & Oats one car. The Hibbing News reports the fol- lowing features of operations in the vicinity of town: Clark Clay has entered upon his winer’s cut in the tumber belt in 5720,six miles from here. He has 75 men employed and will putin a cut of 7,000,000.......The Itasca. Lumber Company, about 10 miles from Hibbing onthe Wright & ' Davis road, will put in two camps and | will work abont 85 men during the cold season, putting in a cut of about 7,000,000 feet.......F. D. Farr, representing the Akley Lumber com- pany, of Minneapolis, was here Wed- nesday eyening. His company will put in three camps near Powers’ sta- tion on the Wright & Davis and will employ 150 men, Something like 10,000,000 feet will be cut by this isa chshethechadchadhaashedhashscachasadtiasiadistathadeshed came in again he demanded the re- turn of the seventy dollars be iad paid out and after a little argument eee svnonati AL in mrt ftnomicry firm.,.....A Missabe road coach, at- ) tached to the regular morning passen- ‘gers, arrived here Thursday. occupied | | j \by 95 men for the lumber camps in } this vicinity. Powers & . Simpson laid claim to about 75 of thetn and H. Leighton marched the ‘rest’ to his camp three miles south of here. 50 more arrived here from Minneapolis today.......Lumberman Leighton’was in from his camps Wednesday evenin3. He states that he is practically ready to enter upon the winter’s cut. and has two camps with equipped outfits. The mile and a half of track that was run from the old Leighton road ta@ his new field of labor, “is _ finisied. ife willemploy about 85 men and put in a cut of 8,000,000, His camps are in south of Hibbing, the first one being a distance of three miles on the road running in that direction. ante A_H. Powers returned from the Twin Cities, Tuesday evening, with a big crew of men for the woods in this vicinity. He states that he could find places for a good number of men yet. Powers & Simpson’s camps are all in readiness now for the commenceient of the winter’s cut, in fact one camp, that of Grant & McCormick, loacated a mile and a half northeast of Hib- bing, has already started their season’s cut and thg other four will start soon. 25.000,000 feet will be the above firm’s record for the ’97-98 season between their camps in this vicinity and at the Swan. Most of the cut is taken to Minneapolis for sawing. D Draining Swamp Lands It is reported from Aitkin by the Age that “Thos. K. Marston, manag- er of the Minneapolis Co-operative Co., and James R. Thorp2, of Thorpe Bros. & Co., real estate dealers of Minneapolis, have a scheme whereby they expectto make some money, and if they put it through they prob- ably will. ‘Ther scheme is to pur- chase some 10,000 or 15,000 acres of swamp land between Kimberly, Fiem- ing lake and the Mississippi river, re- claim it by draining, and turn it into one vast hay meadow—aud there you have it. The gentlemen above men- tioned arrived in Aitkin last Tuesday morning, bringing with them Prof. W. M. Hays, of the state agricultural ex- periment station, who will make an analysis of the soils in that section, and F, H. Nutter, a practical civil en- gineer, to take levels and render an opinion as to the possibility of drain- ing, and to lay out the ditches.” A North And Svuth Railroad The arrival here ou Tuesday even- ing from Grand Rapids of W. W. Rich, chief engineer of the Soo rail- road, with headquarters in Min- neapolis, and Dr. D. C. Dunham, of Anoka. escorted by Hon. D. M. Gunn, of Grand Rapids, who held the rib- bons over a spanking team in a drive from our enterprising neighboring village to this placeand the continu- ation of their overland journey of the distinguished party southward via Mille Lacs lake, has revived the gossip and rumors which have been current here’for two years or more, that men of means in the ‘Twin Citiesand Anoka have in contem- plation the cousruction of a railroad from St. Paul or Minneapolisngrth- wart to the mining distric¢t.—Aitkin Age. PESSIMISTIC MR. QUINN. He Foretells of Bad Results of Timber Cutting on the Reservations. Morris Quinn of Saginaw. Mich., was in Grand Rapids last week. Mr. Quinn is ore of the successful pine land operators of the Saginaw Valley and 1s also interested somewhat 1n this section. When in Duluth on his re- turn from these piniries he delivered himself of a doleful objection to the cutting of dead and down timber on the reservations. He seemed to try his hand at philanthrophy and pre. dicted that an effort mht be made to increase the amount of available tim- ber suitable for cutting under the act, He suggested that an inducement was held out under the provisions of the law for the setting of forest fires on the reservation. Mr. Quinnis one of the very ’ien who knows that nothing of tl?) kind will be done. His experienc. as a lumberman has long since taight him that such measures are unnecessary, and when he made tne prediction he knew that it was not. founded upon practical methods. There 1s more dead and down timber now upon the reserva- tions than will be applied for this sea- son, and consequently there will be no need to infringe upon the law. Our Saginaw friend is a buyer of pine tim- ber and he would much prefer to see it auctioned off as the Red Lake for- ests were disposed of a year ago. Mr. Quinn may be able to fool the Duluth newspapers but he did not venture to advance any such ideas ta the reporters hereaway. MARRIED AT SUPERIOR. James Dempsey of Grand Rapids and Miss Theresa Crimmins Made Qne. Our friend J. M. Dempsey, who was a resident here for a number of years, but more recently of Sandstone, arrived in Grand Rapids Tuesday eve- ning, and in reply to the rumor that had gained circulation here regarding his matrimonial adventure at West Superior a few days ago, he protested that it was a mustake and entirely without foundation. The Herald-Re- view reproduces the following from last week’s Hibbing News and sub- mits the same in evidence: ‘Miss Thresa, Crimmins, a cousin of Miss Corkery, the milhner, who spent the past two months here, left for her home at West Superior, Monday, where on Wednesday ,mornijng at o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic church, she was joined in the bonds of wed- lock to,Mr. Dempsey, of Grand Rap- ids. Muss Corkery went down Tues day to attend the event. Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey went to Minneapolis on ther “money-hoon.” ‘They have our best wishes.” The congratula- tions of the Herald-Review accom- pany those of Mr. Dempsey’s many Grand Rapids tnends upon ; event, and we wish for him and his bride all the gladness anc prosperity that the tutyre years can bring. stnasrtatsnnafgee eee Damasnianteit rr ernie tripe ie