Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 5, 1898, Page 1

| : | “| } 4 4 ebicly, Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN,, SATURDAY FEBUARRY 5, 1898. Two Dotiars A YEAR . ae aE ee a ae ae ae ee ae ae ee ‘Steak aR ee ae Me eae te ae ae ae ae: IRE Ae HA Ae ae he a ae ae he ae ae ae ae: * & & = % & * = J * % % largest concern outside the large cities, and it is the placeto do your trading for we carry everything handled by general dealers. Ve have just what you want. get the doctor’s prescription filled. We also carry a-complete line of Patent Medicines, Druggist’s Sundries, Toilet Articles, Soaps, Lotions, Sponges, etc. {See age ae eae ae ae ate ate ate ae eae ane eae ae ee a ae ae ae ae eae a ae sa Rea RE ee sate MERCANTILE ae a ee ee ee ea a I a a a Are You Sick? le at once to our Drug Department and st eae Se sg te ae ae at ate ae ae ate eae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae ae a a ae ea a ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae a ae a RE EA Don’t You Know? hat the Itasca Mercantile Company is the ° EE ee Se ee a ae a ae a ae ae ae ae a ae a ea ae ae: ITASCA Gttoecenseorenereroseneoeees Grand Rapids, ARE aE AR ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ea eae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae: COMPANY, - Minn. He St ee eee a ee ee a ae eae ae a a ae ae a ae Sid Are YouH E carry, in our Gr E complete line of Canned Goods, Dried Fruits, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Vegetables, Pick- els—in fact everything one would expect to find in‘a first-class Grocery House. b adathclthchatadhcieduibeeheh chdeediadbdedied bh kit kad edie acd EE ESE a ee ee a ee ee ae eee ae ae ee eae a aE Are You Cold? OST visit our Dry Goods and Clothing De- partment where you will find all kinds of Dress Goods and Wraps for the ladies, and all kinds of Clothing and Furnishings for the gen- tlemen., Also boots and shoes. ae aes ee a a Re eee eee eee ae eee ae ee a ae ae eae ae eae a ae ae eae ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae a: ungry? ite ttt reert TT soennengeseeeoene * Led ocery Department, a pe ae Ae A ae ate ee ae ate eae ae ae ate ate MH + & te Ea eae ae ae ee age ea eae ae se ae ae ae ate ae ae Me Sam nS) ee, actme?, alae oe | , r on | KNOWLEDGE Examine, serutinize, investigate, test, compare anythins sell 4 in order to satis yu want to with the hardware we y yourself as to its quality, as compared with any other stock any where. WE STAND ON HONCR” ——“"" Our ¢ thing i to bes goods, of course. but we tell you the ex article particuls ceive your sold strictly on merit. nour hone fora less price than we atistied with less quality. We b Foods a you are buying, and tell vou plainly rwe areas to price. self at our store, If you want any- ou will have ll grades of quality of that the more We won't even let you de- the W.J. & H. D. POWERS. — RRR, | \ o Reduce our tock of ©verecats We offer our line of Twelve Dollar Frieze Coats for BARGAIN Also a number of Good Warm Heavy Coats $9 from $4.00 to $8.00. In all lines of winter goods. * | gave it space. NOT WILD-CAT FIGHTERS, The Herald-Review Rises in Defense of Itasca County Sehool Ma-ams. A newspaper string: fiend who dates his imaginings from Grand Rapids sent ina wildcat school-ma-am tale the other day to the Pioneer Press, and although it contained all the ear- | marks of a cheap novelette, that paper Our esteemed contem- |porary, the Magnet, seized it as a jchoice morsel and republished it in this week’s issue. Now, in truth there 1s nothing in the little romance of an objectionable nature beyond the out- side impression that it is likely to create concerning the educational at- tainments of our very refined and com- petent lady teachers, and the branches i which they were graduated. The tale relates of a “Muss Martha Culver, | daughter of Wilham Culver, a railroad | {section foreman.. * * * She jteaches a district school out in the woods and lives with her parents near Grand Rapids.” This Miss Culver is possessed of the conventional rosy cheeks and eighteen summers. She lis represented as being brave as a hon and handles wild-cats and timber wolves in the forest as a terrier would handle a rat. She has encountered ail sorts of wild and savage beasts in hand-to hand contests, and never yet has she lost a fight. She just dehber- ately goes out into the woods and hunts up trouble with wild-cats and wolves for the pleasure of seeing them driven to desperation before seccumb- ing to the deadly aim of her trusty nifle or the steel of her dagger. ‘This young heroine would rather conquer a wild-cat, according to the narrator, in a hand-to-hand encounter than to teach the a b c’s. as The truth is there is no Miss Wild- cat Culver or any other Culver resi~ dentof this county. ‘This fact, how- ever, might be overlooked, but the} story told of one is unconsciously ac- cepted as a criterion of our whole corps of teachers, and the general ef- fect might lead to many embarress- ments to the charming and cultured young ladies who are moulding the ininds and instilling knowledge into the present growing generation of Itascans while visiting elsewhere. At au evening’s entertainment, for in- stance, they would be subject to in- vitauons for recitals of their adven- tures in the northern pinenes killing wild-cats,panthers,wolves and the hike. And again, the impression is created that Itascacounty is inhabited by a half civilized people who live among the beasts of the forest. Couple this sentiment with our general reputation for misgovernment, and the county will do well—“we don’t think.” But the Herald-Review mses to retute these base prevaricators, and protests and proclaims from the housetops that such reports are contrary to the cus- tom and fact. Only Three Trains on Earth Worthy of comparison with the Burlington’s “Minneapolis and St. Paul-Chicago Limited.’’ One in Eu- rope; two east of Chicago—none west. So beautiful, so luxurious, so costly Court Continues, The grand jury took a layoff for a few days, having adjourned Tuesday, to reconvene again on the 1oth, next Thursday. Atthat time Judge Hol- land will again sitto hear the cases against the county commissioners and other matters considered by the jury. It is expected that considerable time will be consumed in the presentation and consideration of these cases. i! Village Election. Although the ume is not far distant when the good people of Grand Rapids will Le called upon again to select a set of village officers for the ensuing year, as yet the subject hrs been but little discussed about town. The present council has given general satisfaction, and if every member thereof is not re-elected it will be be- cause of positive declination to serve. It will be necessary to select a new treasurer, as Mr. Hughes has left the village. ‘The balance of the present officers cannot be improved upon, and the people should insist upon their re-election. Under the present man agement of public affairs the village willsoon be in good standmg and the indebtedness wiped out, It would be poor policy to change horses while crossing the stream. A number of papers of this sena- torial. district bave been ‘saying sume very pleasant things about Attorney McCarthy of Grand Rapids and his candidacy for the state senate. We understand Mr. McCar- thy is a fine gentieman, but he comes from the wrong county te make good senatorial timber. He might be a good man for the. house. The gall of some of the Carlton county people is simply amazing. They seem to think they have a quit- claim deed to the seat in the state senate from the other counties in this legislative district. They may get fooled. ~ The above excerpts from the Aitkin Age are significant. Why don’t the ;Age come out plainly and say that Aitkin *edunty desires to“ hame the republican nominee for state senator next fall? While ’tis no funeral of ours, the Herald Review does admire the mnumental cheek of those Aitkinites. Gall—why they have it and to spare. Ye oldest mhabitant’s memory fails him in the effort to recall the time when Aitkin did not bring forth a candidate for legislative honors~and they have captured a goodly share of the plums too. While Potter’s ard DeLaittre’s senatoral apirations were nipped in the bud while yet aborning, Aitkin republicans have furnished the state two lawmakers—Knox and Markham—and added still a third to their list when they gav: Foley, a democrat, their solid vote. To aman up a tree, it looks as though those Aitkinites had better take a back seat and give the other counties a chance. But'as a Democrat we have no interest in the matter further than that which one feels in a ‘“foeman worthy of his steel,” and inasmiich as ithe democrats are lming up for a splendid victory in this legislative dis- trict next fall, it matters little whether a train has uever before been at the it be an Aitkinite or another who is to disposal of the traveling public of the|be offered up as a sacrifice by our Northwest. republican friends, Good Logging Weather. While not the best for hauling logs, the present winter is a model one tor cutting and skidding. Deep snow in- teriers with this work, and the light fall of this winter in northern pineries enables loggers to get their logs on the} skids under very favorable conditions, but haulingis another matter, and so farbut few sections report sufficient ‘snow for favorable operations. In many districts, too, the weather has been too warm for making ice roads except at a great expense, which prac- tically prohibits the small jobper from doing any hauling. During the past week in some sections there was a considerable fall of snow, which wili undoubtedly help matters. Up to date the small jobbers have been get- ting decidedly the worst of it, and un- less conditions are more favorable dur- ing the remainder of the season, the aggregate output of small operators will be greatly curtailed. They will not get any way near the amount they | started in for. ‘This will tend to equal ize the large input of the big lumber | companies, and will probably result in| only an ordinary amount of logs being | put in during the winter of 1897-98. —Lumberman. The Reservation Logging. One caw hardly pick up a daily newspaper these days without en-} countering an article, under sensation- al head lines, announcing that loggers on the Indian reservations are cutting green timber contrary to the congtes- sional act governing the matter, It is reported that the Leech lake Indians recently held a council and discussed the number of instances of pine steal- ing which have occurred this winter, aud that charges against the alleged guilty parties were formally made out and forwarded to the secretary of the interior. The Indians, it 1s said, charge that green and growing pine was cut by parties who had secured the official approval of contracts with} the Indians to cut dead and down} timber. It is claimed that the Indians | are dissatisfied with the present system | of disposing of their timber, and that they want ‘a change in the present system. They are opposed to the pine land estimating corps, the main- tenance of which they claim 1s a great expense to them, and that in the end it results in their being defrauded. As far as we have been advised but one firm of contractors on the Indian re- servations in northern Minnesota have been forced to quit work by the government superintendent, and their contract rescinded because of their cutting green timber. It is very hkely that some of the Indians and squaw men may purposely burn over their timber in order to create “dead and} down timber” so that they can put it! on'the market next season. ‘The ine terior department intends to head off BRINGS A GOOD PRICE. Facts Anent Sales of Minnesota Reservation Reported. A Washington, D. C,, dispatch un- | der date of February 1, contains the | following: Commissioner Hermann, | of the general land office, has submit- ted to the secretary of the interior a report on the charges _ preferred against Rev. J. A, Gilfillan that a con- spiracy exists with the object in view of obtaining all the timber on the Chippewa reservation in Minnesota at 50 cents per 1,000 feet, just as the large lumber companies are now get- ting the dead timber. ‘Lhe commissioner says that no con- tracts have been entered into between the Indians and outsiders wherein less than $4.25 per 1,000 feet is offered for the dead umber, Thirty contracts en- tered into for logging have been ap- proved by the officer, the price obtain- ed for the timber ranging trom $4.25 to $5.75 per 1,000 feet. Mr. Rosa, the superintendent of logging, will be alled on for a report in, regard to the statement alleged to have been made that certain lumber companies were to get all the Leech Lake pine at 50 cents per 1,000 feet. The superin- tendent has heretofore reported that in camps under the jurisdiction of Assisstant Superintendent Henderson on the ceded portion of the White Earth reservation he found the log- gers complying with the requirements of their contracts, except that there are not enough Indians employed. Has Enough. It is conceded by the Magnet that the Magnet editors and proprie- tors are able journalists, expert finan- ciers, real gentlemen and persons of most eminent respectibility. We hope that in future this paper will be so conducted as to justity these modest claims to virtue. And the Magnet also concedes and pronounces—al- though somewhat ambiguously—that the editor and proprietor of the Herald- Review 1s a person of “low moral character and_ brutal - vindictiveness.” Our contemporary then washes out its mouth and sanctimoniously declares that it has had enough. We thought so. Well, the Herald-Review didn’t start this unseemly war of words, but it didn’t take long to stop 1t after be- ing forced to take a hand. This paper never invited a controversy of the kind during its existence, and it never will, but when its editor is personally attacked it will personally respond in plain, unvarnished English. The ciuzens of Duluth evidenced good, sound business judgment in re- electing Mavor Truelson. He _ has has given the Zenith city a clean. economic, liberal yet conservative ad- ministration, his honesty and ability as an executive manifesting itself in the waterworks system fight which he this avenue of fraud by not pernutting | brought to a consumation which saved the cutting ofany dead and down tim- ber next season that has been burnt over within a year previous- ‘There 1s no doubt but what the, Indians are getting a gocd thing out of tue sale of their umber, and it is hkely that what- ever dissatisfactian there is has been stirred by those who expect to gain something by so doing.—Lumberman. “the city by the unsalted sea” « good many thousands of dollars. From a political standpoint his re-election is especially gratifying to democrats, Mr. Truelson being a staunch sup- porter of the Chicago platform. By the by, this is one of the straws which forshadow the defeat of Cangressman Morris next fall. ¥ # pons mathe Panett me We