Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 22, 1898, Page 1

nd Rap is erxald Review, * Voi VI.—No. 21. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1898. Two Do.iars a YEAR a Seer ete eneecen ea een sete yearenrnereenn tenner tne * * = : : ? 3 ?Are You H y? 3 ?Don’t You Know‘ : ?Are You Hungry‘ ; = * * ee = - * = > : hat the Itasca Mercantile Company is the = 2 E carry,\in our Grocery Department, a : A * cae 2 * + x * ay ; Hy largest concern outside the large cities, # : complete line of Canned Goods, Dried : : 4 a : and it is the place to do your trading for we “4 IT SC 3 Fruits, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Vegetables, Pick : . 3 * : ei ait : : * | H carry everything handled by general dealers. # = els—in fact everything one would expect to # : We have just what you want. “4 2 find in a first-class Grocery House. : $ * 3695566586 ESSE SEER SE REEN TESS SEER HHT Oe OSES REET M ER ANTIL E Tete ee a ne gt ee A ae A a te ea EE A Ra Py (0.6 8 a 8 a i I a COMPAN Y 5 Sadie ldadadiaitciaieaednaii aaah s * 2 ; 4 3 i : ?Are You Cold? ; # * ?Are You Sick? : zAre YOU UoOldy: : : : : ; : 2 4 2 3 = % x * = # Grand Rapids, - Minn. # : * = wtat i - ~ * : END at once to our Drug Department and 3 = UST visit our Dry Goods and Clothing De- 2 = rs * % hse i % * na Stings 2 # 2 partment where you will find all kinds of # rescription filled. We 2 : : ne ay ; = Dress Goods and Wraps for the ladies, and all s also carry a complete line of Patent Medicines, 2 3 ress Goods and raps for the ladies, and a : . str H = kinds of Clothing and Furnishings for the gen- ¥ : Druggist’s Sundries, Toilet Articles, Soaps, = 3 ‘ g shing g : * H 5 = = tlemen, Also boots and shoes. * s Lotions, Sponges, etc. 3 = : see gS aA ee ae ae ea a ae 1 ee 9 0 0 8 a a a ae a ae a ea aaa eb Ea es sae aN Aas SAT ASS aA {ation and winked approval of the Capital Jottings. to the importance of having the work j 22teee— oe weeeee MISTAKEN IDE tremendous fraud, and even lent their} Tt 4s said that Secretary Wolcott of |@one thoroughly, intelligently and $ : ) a I best efforts to accomplish it, are today | Colorado has in preparation a speech honestly. Unless it is done in this The Old Tool Che st clamoring the loudest ‘to- make a] which he will shortly deliver in the} Way it might as well not be done at. A +. ae eee ee The Grand Jury Returns Some Remark- mountain of a mole hill. These same} senate upon the subject of the recent |#. Diseredit was cast upon the last i . ie Grand Jury See a é sanctimonious sinners would lock the) visit of the commission in the inter-|C€™SuS because there was widespread a Think of it ablednaicteeaty Tener: stable after the horse 1s stolen and) ect of international bimetailism, | belief hat politics figured largely in \ , | : ee pene ag who anformed Rumor says that the speech is to con-| ae appointments for gathering the. | them of the loss for not submitting! tain some unpleasant references to| ta as well as in the returns them- | a moment, CRY OF GATCH THEIF!!| the evidence nm due form of law.) cooretary Gage and his financial plan. | Selves in some particulars. The Out in thekitchen, or j down there in the 5 grancry, perhaps, it stands, a relic of the old days when you was a young man. | Perhaps your father had it when you were a little boy. But no matter about its history. That is not the idea at all. The thing that concerns us "Ty H E TOO LS That are in it. The chances are that the tools are as old as the chest, and while you know that they are not of much account. you put up with barber cause you think that new ones would cost too much. But you are ice en. We are selling the finest line of up-to-date tools you ever saw at the. smallest Don't waste your time with old traps. It’s cheaper ERS. BCVA prices you ever heard of. to have good ones. W. J. & H. D. POW aE. T To Reduce our Sverecats thi We offer our line of Twelve Dollar Frieze Coats for Also a number of Good Warm Heavy Coats trom $4.00 to $8.00. | | | | | | In all lines of winter goods. Real Offenders Now Demand That In- nocent Parties Be Made To Suf- fer the Penalties of all That Has Passed. The inevitable has come to pass in Itasca county. Years of conspiracy, coupled with criminal negligence of public duty, has finally exhausted the patience of the people, and as County Attorney McCarthy pronounced in an address to the court on Tuesday last, “thepopulace is crying for vengeance.” Agrard jury has been empanelled and a demand made by an outraged people that something be done to correct a condition that has become intolerable, inexcusable and yet, ap- parently, inexplicable. Every citizen realizes and appreciates that Itasca county is not only great in size but even greater in natural wealth, and every citizen is also aware that a burdensome public debt is being carried by the taxpayers. Without honest investigation and in the ab- sence of a spirit of justice—the source of all existing evils is rested on the shoulders of the County Com- missioners. Somebody must be made to suffer, and as the commissioners ate the legal custodions of the county’s affairs, it is but natural that they are looked to for an axplanation of “the wrongs that need resistance.” ‘The grand jury now 1 session is made up of a representative class of men whose honest purposes cannot be§questioned, and yet they have been matle’ to cul-} minate a conspiracy as infamous as was ever conceived and put in mo- tion by a human fiend. The county attorney, too, has but per- formed his duty, and the unpleasant task that he is called upon to perform was not brought about through his choice, but as a public servant he will perform his full duty as the public and the laws demand— nor will he shirk disagreeable re- sponsibilities, however grave the con- sequences may be. The Herald-Re- view has no word of condemnation of the jury nor of its findings. Follow- ing the general complaint and acting upon the evidence as presented, true bills have been returned against two of the county commissioners, but the {indictments so far returned are all {upon technical grounds and are not regarded as of a very serious nature, but they will serve a purpose. They will divert public attention from the real facts, and blind the public eye to the real criminals, while conditions that have existed in the past will con- tinue in the future. Business men of Itasca county who have stood mutely by and sanctioned the absolute’ ex-' emption of millions of dollars worth These same business men urge the proper authorities to construct them and yet they sanction and endorse} the very conspintor who plans and | schemes “by ways that are dark and tricks that are vain,” to cut off thd revenue necessary to defray these legi- timete expenditures. | The present board of commissioners have been at work during the past year to justly assess the pine lands of the county and raise the valuation to a figure ap- proaching equity. Their _ efforts} promise to fully realize the desired re- sults, and the “attorney im fact” of the pine land owners was called upon to stop the deal. His office enabled him to work wonders with the grand} jury, and it has been done. To di-j vert attention from the main_ issue! would very likely terminate in defeat- ing the only effectual remedy that is possible to appiy in the case of the county’s finances. It was a desperate | proposition that confronted the erstwhile exempt pine land owners, because many thousands of dollars} were involved. As this paper has re- peatedly stated the real trouble with | Itasca county has been an enure failure | on behalf of the proper officials to assess | the property within the county. As-| sessed at two and one-half million} dollars, a low valuation would be} eight millions. This, good gentleien, | is the sequel of ourtreuble. Abandon | private and political considerations | and look the facts fairly in the face, and there will be httle left of the pres- | ent storm. High crimes have been| overlooked and technicalities con-| sidered. It is now time for the people ; of Itasca county to call a halt on such} the commissioners be permitted to} carry out the reforms that are now so; well under way. We have long con-| tributed to the enrichment of Mipn-| neapolis and Hennepin county. Let us make a foundation of basic prin-| ciples; adopt business methods, and | abandon the scare-crow policy of! performing a surgical operation on a} pimple ‘when the desease is cancerous. | | Wednesday afternoon, at Duluth, | Mr. Matt Lalla and Miss Lizzie Lewis were joined in the holy bonds of wed- lock. Mr. and Mrs. Lalla arrived here last night. They will make their home on Mr. Laulla’s farm about a mile from town. . “There will be a hot time in the old town tonight,” as there will be a reception given them by their many friends out to their farm this evening. Subscribe for the Herald-Review. ° of property year after year from tax- Highways are a necessity, it is agreed. | ' farcial proceedings and demand that} # ine Palace a Sample Room —AND—. Scandinavian Restaurant. LOGAN & DOYLE, Proprietors, Wolcott is a figter of the fearless and hard-hitting kind. He has been with the administration heretofore, but as he represents a constituency which is overwhelmly for silver he is supposed to stand squarely bimetallism when the issues are d. If he is convinced that the administration is not sincere in its pretense of out the St. Louis platform he may be- come a lively thorn in the flesh for McKinley and all concerned. There is no little interest manifested at the capital in anticipation of develop- ments to come with this speech. * * for While the civil service law is get- ting a little well deserved punish- ment at the hands of its former friends it is not out of order to re- mark that there is one department of the government, at least, in which politics should have no place. The census bureau cannot probably. be made a political machine. A census bised upon partisanship and utilized for spoils is absolutely untrustworthy, Congress'seems disposed to recognize this fact in making preparations for the ceusus of 1900, though there is! little doubt that the administration has counted upon the census machine for a good lift in renewing its lease of | power. The saving of money that would be effected by bringing the sus force into the classified service is a matter of smal! concern compared | * : Tr f 50: y one of our 50c meals for......... 25c. = * * os * * * country does not want another such performance. * * Senator Money of Mississippi is in the senate all right, but he had some- thing of a time, as the boys say, get- ting there. At the time of his ap- pointment Governor McLaurin was, in. quarantine and hampered. He wrote to his clerk in Jackson for a blank form. The clerk did not know much, and he openel a box of blank commissions intended to be used in clothing a constable with authority. It would be impolite to say that Gov- ernor McLaurin did not know much, either, but- he never noticed, and he filled out the form and forwarded the credentials, so that when Senaior Money, who seems to have known as much a3 any of them, presented him- sels on the fluor of the senate he was there as a constable and not as a sen- ator. The committee on privileges an elections knew enough to discover the mistake, but they were not much better off than the other people when it came to knowing-what to do about, it. Itwas a sort of know-nothing party all around. ‘They had never had a case just like that before, and there was no precedent, and any kind of an official body hesitates terribly when there is no precedent. Sena- tors Chandler and Hoar had some things to say about it, but the senate fiuatly concluded tolet himin. The incident was considered quite funny by the senator's colleagues. * ‘MihihtititLitthecti teeta | A This po. opened Room. arranged. and pular place has recently been re- a First-class Restaurant : in convection with our Sample rrvyrt rr iii yr er = * as a age First-class Lodging House. Open. Day: and Night. Two dollars per year. Our Bill of Fare-contains all the delicactes of tite season. z *% & = * * % * * = * & * = s = ® H * ad = ca = 2 & : & * * * & * * * & & a Pritt reir trey Seer rr TTT TTrr Tri rer Ter rrr rit rl