Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 16, 1898, Page 1

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Secure Your Wasiis Early. ikl he he ae Sa ate ae ee ae a stk Re ak ka a ae ae ae ate ate te re We ARE RE Ee ae ee age ee ee ae ae a a a a ME ta is ae she age ate a a ate ate atk ae ate ae ate af ate a ae eae ae SMEAR ae a Ee UR aie ESTE aS ae ay a a SE RE S08 SE IE SE Stee ae a aE ae eA a ERE a Be EN a a ITASCA, 1116 F tp ics, ina. : Dry Goods We extend a general invitation to the public to call and examine our steck of Dry Goods. Dress Goods A Full Assortment of Ladies’ Waists Ladies’ Wrappers Brocaded Silk Skirts A New Lot of Laces and Trimmings. * We expect in a few days a Full Line of the Latest Styled Ladies’ Capes and Spring Coats—Call and see them, Clothing and Gents’ Furnishings We are Strictly “In It” on Clothing. MEN’S SUITS FROM $4.50 FULL ASSOTMENT OF BOYS’ SUITS. Boys’ Overalis —dust tho thing for play. Spriny, Overcoats at a Bargain, the Clothing line it will pay you not to forget us. Groceries . TO S15. If you are in need of anything in Creseent Creamery Butter, Good Dairy Butter. Full Cream Choese, Edam Cheese. A Full Ling of Black, dapan and E. . Teas, Moche and dava Coffee (Something Fine.) DRIE?) FRUITS—Peaches, Prune! lls, Apricots, SilyerPrunes, Pears. CERF ALS—Oatmeal, Quaker Oats, Crushed Wheat, Postem Cereals. BOTTLED GOODS—Catsup, Chili Sauce, Pickles, Sour and Sweet Olives, Worchester Sauce. Califcrnia Canned Fruits, Hiawatha Fresh Assortment of Kennedy and Lulibridge Maple Syrup (1 and 2 qt, cans.) Crackers, Ramen eS Ae A ate A Ee ate ae af ae ot ate Se abe a ae eae a ae ae ae ae af ae ate ae ae ae ae ate ae se ate ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae a ae as ote ae ate ae ae eae ae ae oe ae a ae ae ata ae ae ae ate ae a ae ah ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ade ae ae ae ae ate ae ate ate ae ate ae ae ae ae ate ae ae a a ate ae bchoces SESE AE a eee ae ae ME HE a a ae a a ae a ae SESEEESLLSE SSE SERGENGHRTTSESRE SS ES eES SLES ERS REST oe SES MERCANTILE 60., . Bed Room Furniture Book Cases, Couches, Suits, Lounges, Rockers, FS Willow Rockers, 33 Dining Chairs,’ zs chen Chairs, Spring Carpets, P+ 4 Matting, Matresses, Etc. Pad oe ae ae Hardware Department # ee IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR A REFRIGERATOR 3 Ree Gee a Wehave them—Prices Right. ze ee ice Cream Freezers. Coal Oil (Qts. and 2-Qfs.) Cook Stoves at a Bargain, If you want a First-class Cook Stove giver us a call—we cannot fail to interest you. Crockery This Department ts Complete. all descriptions—all When in want don't Forget ns. We Will Treat You Right. kinds. a ae Se age ae HN Re ate ate ate ate ate ats ae ae eae ae at ate ae ate ate he ate ate ade she te ae ae ate abe ae ote ate aie ate ate he ae ale te ate ae ae ae ate ae ae ae he ae ea aie ah ae a ae Suess eee ssecece eseeee see eee tiaapene ik HIE AN EAE aR as EAE ik AEE ae ae ae a HE AE aE ae eae ae ae ae a a ae aR aE aE ea ee ae MEAD AEA ee ae se ae ae a ea a Se DEE a ARR Ee eae ES a ae eH a a Ea a ae a EE A munition. Reesessaeeenes C hiokcobedciok a ame RE He Glasses of ‘Hard to Beat Tn fact, it ‘in Northern h way. We mcen of Hardware Gs li over our st¢ cost you anything andshould you buy . where without seeing what we offer, and then tind that you could have saved mon- ey by buying from us, youll be disappointed. Cetumbia and Hart rying to educate the pablic i isn’ta rider in the United States today re now as much about the Columbia and Hartford as we do. They’ve been the standard by which others have guaged the quality of their goods for years. The Pope Manufacturing Co,, are the oldest bicycle makers in the United States, and set the pace every season. Come in and see them before you buy, and don’t forget that we repair wheels. WISH DPOWERS COYOCe A SURPRISE IN STORE for tH? LADIES OF GRAND RAPIDS Here ’Tis. WHAT 'TIS? Tailor-Made Suits, To the Ladies of Grand Rapids: You and each of you are hereby most cordially invited to call at my store and examine a magnificent linesof Ladies’ Tailor-Made Suits and Skirts which have just been received. .This is the first consignment of these suits brought to our village, and in every particular it is a most magnificent line. 1 cordially invite an in- spection of these goods. Miss Atherto». will be pleased to show these suits and Skirts. Figured Armure Skirts Bayadere Grilliantine Skirts Fancy Figuret ‘acquard Skirts. Sold at Roc tom Prices! Durable! Beautiful! Blackau : 4 Broad cloth Sergés Brilliant uncs Faucy Piaids, Plain P laids,—alsoLinenC,rash Suits. ‘ s Suits-- ‘Tailor-Made! «ies? and Gent’s Furnishings is Superb. C. H. MARR, THE cLo 11E Elegant! Cheap! { WHAT SHOULD WE The Magnet Feresces Dire Disaster in the Doings of Our Dads. }HAS «IT COME TO THIS? [ue People of Grand Rapids Deliber- ately.and Malieiously Elected a Council that Dares to Dicker with a Great Raiiroad Ranacaboo. Think of it, O citiz_ns of Grand of Rapids! Read it over agam—and then rise in your royale wrath—call a meeting of the Mighty Munchers Jand impeach the “crazy council,” Why? Go to, you tunklehead! It was printed in the Magnet! You didn’t read it? Yours is ndeed a hopelessly benighted case. All the world should know, and in future it should be told council of the capital city of ltasca county did, in the year 1898, so far forget its venality and supine servil- ity toa great man and a mammoth monopoly as to perform the duties for which it was elected contrary to the wishes and wants of said great man and the requirements of his re- sourteful railroad. Shriek it from the housetops in tones that will'thunder through the ages and let the story of “our crazy council,” be written in red upon the pages of infamy. Men of such matchless audacity are deserving of no more consideration than a Span- iard. ‘They should be regarded as public enemies to private snaps; and it has come to passin the closing days of the nineteenth century that this fs the crowning crime. Under the complimentary caption, “Our Crazy Council,” and as a sort of preliminary to the terrible ar- raignment hurled at the collective craniums of our demented locai legis- lators, the Magnet modestly remarks: We said before the election lastspring that und Rapids-were not fit men to pat ina itiou of trust and their actions since e clearly born Us oat. ‘That should have settled it at the time; but somehow the people of this village and county always did have a disagreeable way of discrediting the Magnet’s opiions, and until such time as they learn to accept iis words of. wisdom and elect to office reliably unreasonable Republicans who will giye that paper all the printing at profitable prices, they must expect to “be damned if they do and be damned if they don’t.” ‘Phe two particuiar charges against the couneil specifically set forth and elaborated upon by our contemporary may be brietly summed up as follows: ‘The village has provided an arc light at the depot during the past two years or more at an expense of 50 cents a day, or $182.50 per annum. ‘The council requested the company to pay half the expense thereof and were ad- | vised by Superintendent Philbin that! might stick in his beak and inform the! In the éYent that the D. ) | the light was of no value to the road to’ generations yet unbern, that the} the present board of trustees of the village | | i f G and he did not feel justified in assum- ing any part of the monthly bill in- curred thereby. After duly consider- jing the matter im their feeble way, and | bemg prompted with a desire to economize, it was decided by the council to discontinue the use of the arc for a tme = at least. Incidentally, the correspondence on this subject took place pnor to the transfer of the D,S. & W., to the Great Northern company. The other offense 1s contained in an offer from the council to the management of the Great Northern railway to sup- ply the engines of the road at this point with water from the village sys- tem at a flat rate of $200 per year. ‘The company, according to our most esteemed—.and we accept it as a fact, fin the absence of more rehable evi- |dence—ofiered the village $180 a year for this service. Commenting on the far-reaching | and feariul disaster that will surely fol- low this audacious conduct on behali of the council, the Magnet says: * * * Now, of all times, when the tion a 100 : cu the best, var coun: ing itare atiempts to prove that we are unfriondiy vil deliverately ru the Yui * * *Juse Ws munagenent. of i ‘Lue village of Graud Rapids, incorpurated under the Laws of tite stave of Minnesow, jowing with Jumes J. Hill and D. ol. Philoin over twenty doliars a yeur. * *'* “Just by uttering one word Mr. Hill could turn into Grand Rapids ten, twe.ty, ubicty tavusand dollars; give us sidetracks and found-Houses, depots and repair stops, | | and yet our asinine council tries vo discour- age him trom doing it by aenyiug him a few imexpeusive privileges. In exteriuation of the benightedness | of “the gentlemen who are’ suppos:d to represent the welfare of Grand | Rapids,” with reference to the electric crime, it might be suggested by some | anarchic individual that former crazy | councils have on many different oc- casions ventured’ to approach the management of the road with the same proposition and argue that in all fairness the company should bear a part of the expense of the depot hght. it might also ve offered in evidence | by sume prattling Populist that a tax jof 8 3-4 per Cent on the assessed valu. | {ation of Grand Rapids is rather bur- densome and that it would be well to curtail expenditures in every way pos- sible; a demented Democrat might rise to remark that no trains atrive or leave the village during the summer {months after the sun has gone down or beiore it is up and dressed for the day in the morning, and that the rail- way company doesn’t care a conti- nental just now whether the famons arc be located at the depot or on the | site of Knox old* warehouse; most any old person might indignantly retort | that the writer of the Magnet article is at least'a damphool when he strikes the subject of railroading, because Jim. Hill and his co-capitalists didn't ; buy the Duluth, Superior & Wi 2 on account of Grand Rapids’ frée electricity or for the reason that they expected to be supplied with aqua pura in Grand Rapids at $180 per year instead of $200, and he might also ask for a hearing on the theory that railroad divisions are not located for a consideration of $20 a year; a |honest purpose to serve the best in- jcorder King has a letter from Mr. more broad-ininded member of the community—one somewhat acqyaint- ed with Messrs. Hill and “Pbilbin— fellow who writes for the Magnet that these gentlemen are not small, dried- up, spiteful creatures who build and operate railroads for the satisfaction of making manifest their power to build or to destroy communities at will. Mr. Philbin holds a responsible posi- tion and ably represents the interests of his company. - Certainly it will not be gainsaid that James J. Hill 1s a great business man whose eye. is fixed singly upon the advancement of his railroad interests. He 1s not a destroying Nemesis. The councll is entrusted with the material welfare of Grand Rapids; in that capacity they have acquitted themselves wisely, economically and yet with a liberality of public spirit that should commend them to the favor of every enterpris- ing citizen in the community 2 But in truth the roar made by our neighbor was not prompted by an terests of the village nor was it calcu- lated to create a sentiment favorable to the, establishment here of round- houses, shops, and the like, Our neighbor would have learned by a little intelligent inquiry that the nego- tations between the council and Mr. Philbin were entirely amicable and terminated to the entire saitsfaction of both parties to the transaction. Re- Philbin in which the superintendent very cordially expresses his appreci- ation and thanks to the council for the liberal proposition made to him vision should. happen to be established ata point west of here the Republi- cans would ‘claim that the Democrat- - Populist council was responsible for the loss to Grand Rapids. It would appear from these conclusions—de- ducted by plain logical inference— that the Republican League of Itasca county is not idle, and the further fact 1s apparent that they have a most willing and pliant tool ‘in the Grand Rapids Magnet. This is indeed a deplorable com- mentary on the integrity and judg- ment of any newspaper. The Herald- Review regrets the necessity of thus exposing to public view the traitorous characteristics of its contemporary to the community that sustains it. A de- sire for political preterment frequently leads to disastrous results. Here ap- pears to be acase in point. If the Magnet could but establish in the minds of the voters that— These Democratic didoes and Populistic pranks : Will yet result In placing Grand Rapids with the blanks, a sweeping Republicau victory would surely follow—in its mind. But us Democratic and Populistic fellows are onto tricks of this kind and so are the people generally, and we shall not per- mit them to work our annihilation. In the meantime the council will look to the best interests of Grand Rapids, irrespective of politics or party interests. for water supply. There was no “jewing ” or rag-chewing in the trans- action whatever. In conversation the other day Mr. Philbin said, in sub- stance, that he felt very kindly toward Grand Rapids and her people; that it was certainly one of the most prosper- ous and progressive villages in North- ern Minnesota and when. the matter of locating the first division should come up for decision he assured us that Grand Rapids would be fully con- sidered and her advantagesrwould not go unnoticed. While he is not ina position to give any assurances as to the outcome, yet it is evident that this point is regarded with much favor by Great Northern officials. Why, then, in the face of these in- disputable facts, should a local paper don Ks war paiatand prociuun the ex- Istence of hostilities wh peace and good wili and harnx prevails, and a united effort being made by all cur citizens for a single purpose? In be- half of the jourualisuc profession the Herald-Review dislikes to make the admission that its compeer\?) knows no better than to thus display us asin- inity when the public weal requires a grain of judgmeat. {t must be that there isa nidden purpose, and a shrewd poliucian might be able to read be- iWeen Ute ildes an attempt to cast re- flections upon the intelligence of our Populist tends. ‘That ald chestnut about “driving away Gapital” is the burden of the Magnet’s song and it was Calculated for poiitical purposes. ‘Lhe Denfocrats and Populists combin ed constitute a majority of nearly three to one in this village. ‘The present council, composed entirely of Demo- crats and Popuhsts, were overwhelm- ingly elkcted on party lines last spring. »S. & W. di- ENDORSED BY HERMAN. The Land Commissioner Speaks Favorably of Work on Winnibigoshish. A speciai wire from Washington to the Minneapolis Times, under date of July 12, says: Land commisstoner Herman directed a survey of the wun- surveyed portions of the Red Lake In- dian reservation inorder that an es- umate on timber on that section of the reservation may be begun as<ooa as possible. He said that estimators had been working very rapidly in estimat- ig onthe White Earth, Leech Lake, Winnibigoshish and other reservations and they will have to be furloughed until surveys of land in the Red Lake reservation are completed. The com- missioner said that the work of the estimating corps have been very sat- isfactory, and it is_beheved that the estimates, while apparently hurried, « are accurate, and that no question will be raised on this point. Speaking of cutting the dead and down timber and the employment, of Indians in this work, the : commis- sioner said: “Since the Indians were allowed to engage in logging opera- tions on their reservation they have. become more contented than for years past. ‘he cutting of dead and down timber ‘has had th ie effect of making them more prospt treasure to their credit. The sales of © timber have realized something like $400,000 above expenses and prices have been very good, in many cases nike Getemum ten 3 ior logs. experiment has pro} the value of keeping Indians employed and work atthe bad will be extended wherever possible.” t+ and self-reliant and at the same time has | put a large sum off money in the ——