Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 28, 1899, Page 1

ee eee » “a Vo. VII.--No, 26 Tae 5 Ye Erand Rapids Heral Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn,, SatuRDAY, JANUARY 28,:1899,° °° ebiie ky, Two Dotiars a YEAR sosesecsesessaee® (SE eee ee ae Re ae ae eae a aa aaa EET ESS OSEE ESTAR E CCEA HEEE REESE RATERS SC ooeK eee eRe ea i a. Ve da ONE: ae Lapratrie Delivery: Tuesdays and Fridays. % a tt) ttt) ttt) Seaseaae sees seetssseses FS eee eae eee eee ete ee ae eae ae ea ea eae Re ee ea ae ge ae a a ae ee ae a HAASHOMERASAN SH EERSESORORROERERCEN ERA SECRNSERORENREEEHORNSRREREERSRESEEEES We Have Just Completed Our Annual “Stock Taking” NOW WE ARE OFFERING BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT PROMPT DELIVERY. - Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, Minn. Lda hashachathashailadhaiteshieh ststashashaddasdeshshadsdusdaddeddedaduddadessledidsudududududeds anc, codcack coskansaakadeidecadesbesdasa ite * ie. meme aoeee New Advertisements. Our Stock is so Large and our assortment of goods so complete that you We Want Your Trade And will do all we can to merit it. Long experience has taught us the require- ents of the trade of this section. and we are fully prepared to cater to the most exacting customer in the country. wiil have no difficulty in fiuding whatever you may want right here. W.d.& oH. Bb. POWEBRS MARKET AT DEER RIVER City Meat Market J. F. Metzger, Proprietor. EEE ae ae ae eae ae ae ee a i Grand Rapids, Mim. SEE Sa eae ae ae Me ae ae a ea Wholesele and Retail Dealer in Camp Beef, Pork i and All Kinds ot Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Etc. a = cure the consent of the war depart- SISISSSVWSLISLITSISISVSE BROEKER & WHITEAKER, Merchant Tailors, - “Grand Rapids, Minn, Le DEVELOPE POWER, eal Company Ineorporates and Asks! Congress For Dam Charter. | BILL INTRODUCED BY MORRIS ‘The Grand Rapids Power and Bogm | Company Getting In Shape to Use the Mississippi Falls | at This Point. | {A brief news item from Washington ; |announces that Congressman Morris has introduced a bill” authorizing the ; | Grand Rapids Power and Boom com- pany to construct a dam and bridge across the Mississippi river at.a pomt within the village hmits of Grand Rapids. It *wili be earnestly desired by every citizen of Grand Rap- ids and every resident of this portion of the county that Judge Morns will bé successful in securing the passage of his measure. In ali matters relat- ing to the bridging or daming of nav igable streams it is..necessary to/pro- ment, but it is not thought that the jcongressman will experience much} difficulty in securing the desired en-| dorsement, inasmuch as the rivet is al-| jready blocked to navigation by the |reservoir dam at Pokegama _ Falls. | Contending and selfish interests that | have existed heretofore were responsi- ble for witholding from Grand Rapids | the utilization of this great natura) ad- vantage of which she is possessed in an unsurpassed water power. Ever) since the advent of the old Duluth & Winnipeg railway eight years ago, there has not been a session of con- gress that the member trom this dis-| -|tnct has not been beseiged with sever- al applications by opposing parties for the right to build a dam at this point. Long-headed business men foresaw that Grand Rapids was destined to become a prosperous manufacturing town and they coveted the rich reward that a monopoly of the water power was sure to bring. = | Conflicting claims of preference in the premises by these enterprising aspir- y | ants for control of the common herit- «ge, and in the absence. of. any con- sensus of opinion from the people in- terested as a community, the congr-ss- ional representatives have hesitated to take any action.. During his term, of- fice at Washington ex-Congressman ‘Towne secured the endorsement of} the war department for a simular bill but he was unable to determine from the many conflicting opinions received just what the people did desire, and so the project was allowed to rest. The incorporators to whom the charter is asked to be granted are John Becktelt, D. W. Doran, D. M. Guan, L. F. Knox, H. D. Powers, John Cos- tello and Geo. F. Meyers. The vil- lage of Grand Rapids paid the ex- + pense of incorporation and in réturn will be granted a majority © of { _|solution of the problem. | cipal corporation could only use the stock to be issued, and thus the municipality will be vested with per- petual control of the power. Itis held by lawyers that if the act dele- gated the authority directly to the village that the municipality could not in turn grant privileges to private con- | cerns. Just where the Wifference is} between a majority of stock that will control and being the whole thing we are unable to constitutionally deter- mine. However, the matter has been thoroughly investigated by the coun- cil and others interested in the well- fare of Grand Rapids and this con- clusion has been reached as the wisest It would be preferable, of course, to have the franchise granted directly to the village but if is a _ fact, and so it appears, that the muni- power for its own use, the benefits | hoped to be gained would be entirely lost. As it is, the gentlemen whose Names appear as the incorporators are patriotic and loyal to the interests of Grand Rapids and may be depend- ed upon to do all in their power for the public good and to faithfully carry out every obligation of their «gree- ment with the village. The tuture of Grand Rapids ‘is bright-and promising. There would be today more than one mapufactur ing plant within our limits had pro- vision been made to employ the force of the great falls. There are now pending several manuilacturing pro- jects that wil! rapidly materialize when it is known that the power can be fur- nished. A new era of increased pros- perity ‘is just ahead. Want Four Years The county auditors of the state held a meeting in the county com- miissiosers rooms in Minneapolis last week and held two sessions relative to business matters. The most im- portant business of the meeting was the discussion of plans to bring about desirable legislation. The auditors want to have their terms lengthened from two years to ‘our years, placing their office on the same plan as that as thatoftheclerk of court. The bill is already prepared, and if it passes the legislature the present encum- bents will have two more yearsof service after their present terms have expired. The attendance at the mhéeting was quite large. County Auditor Farrell of Itasca was among tbose present. He says that the old- er members of the organization feel confident that the present legislature will passa number of much needed reforms relative to county auditors’ work, Bena The Proper Place Whenever an effort is made to do something for the benefit of the In- dians in this state, some people with personal interests that would be affected thereby raise an objection. The latest instance of this facttis the roar that bas arisen from certain peo- ple at Brainerd, Wa!ker and Minnea- ; Stores. polis over the very wise and sensible proposition of remo.ing the Leech Lake Indian agency from its present location. near Walker to a more cen- tral part of the reservation, prefer- ably Bena, which has peculiar ad- vantages over any other point men- tioned becaure it is on aline of rail- road crossing the reservation from east to west and is also on a fine wagon road ru¢ning north and south and is connected by telephone with Winnibegoshish dam, while it is but ashort distance from the waters of Leech lake. The opposition to the change of location comes froin people who are interested in the towns of Walker and Bemidji and the Brain- erd & Northern railroad and is pure- ly selfish opposition. ‘There are very few Indians living on the southern portion of the reservation where the agency is now located, and the result is that the Indian agent sees but few of the Indians, except when they come after the annuity payments. If located at Bena, he would be close tonearly all the tribes, and conld quickly reach any part of the reser- vation where his presence was need- ed. There can be no doubt that the effect of his presence at such a cen- tral location where the Indians could easily find him and preseut any fan- cied grievances would do much to prevent acts of violence and serious uprisings. It has been asserted by those opposed to it that the plan of removing the agency to Bena is pro- posed by persons interested in the townsite, but the fact is that Bena is located on the Indian reservetion and there is no townsite in which avy person can have a financial in- terest. The removal of the agency to Bena is advocated solely because it would be in the interest of the In- dians and of the government.—Duluth Herald. BOUGHT BY HILL. The Duluth, Mississippi River & Northern Ry- is Acquired By the Great Northern. The Great Northern Railroad com- pany has purchased the entire: hold- jugs of the Wright-Davis people in Minnesota, with the exception of their pine lands, says the Duluth Herald of this morning. It therefore now owns the Duluth, Mississippi River & Northern railroad, the Swan River Legging company and the Ma- honing, Longyear and Bennett iron mines near Hibbing. This deal was consummated yesterday and a check for 5,000,000, was given to the Wright-Davis people for their pro- perty. A Hennepin county senator has raised Mr. McCarthy a stack ot blues in the tme-check game. He intro- duced a bill providing for semi-month- ly payment of all emplcyes, and pro- hiviting time-checks and company Another bill introduced by the same senator provides that eight hours shall constitute a day’s work, Grand Rapids is on the threshold of prosperity’s place of business. She 1s about to enter. A Move Calculated to Drain Waste . Lands in These Northern Counties. APPROPRIATION IS ASKED The Senator From This District Will Vigorously Push the Claim For State Aid to Drain Swamp Lands. ‘There is a good prospect of securing a liberal appropriation from the legis- lature at the present session to be- gin the great work of draining the rich lands in this section of the state that are today valueless. Senator McCarthy writes that he is endeavor- ing to divert a portion of the amount to be expended for drainage pur- poses to make asurvey of Itasca, Aitkiu, Carlton and other counties in which there is a vast amount of state lands that could be easily reclaimed by a judicious system of drainage. It required a hard fight a few years ago to get a measure through the legis- lature ‘to aid the Red River valley territory. But the represeatatives from that district stuck to it witha persistency that finally won, and at last it was coaclusively demonstrat- ed that the money thus expended by the state was a most profitable in- vestment. The increased value of the realestate has more than put back _ i into the treasury every dollar given ——— out in aid of the work. A rich terri- tory of vast extent was rapidly open- ed to settlement, and hundreds of thousands of-acres that only a few years ago were absolutely worthless will sell today at prices ranging from $10 to$15 per acre. this feature of the subject Mr. Mee Carthy says: “If the state woald take hold of the matter it would re- ceive bick every dollar expended in! the enhanced value of state lands. Then it would induce sale and settle- ment of all lands and the state would FORNORTH MINNESOTA. ‘ pace In speaking on —_— | receive a large volume of taxes which” ~~ + | would resu:t in lowering tax rates generally throughout the whole com- mouwealth, and at the same time in- crease the revenue.” The senator is right, Those who have not investi- gated the subject have no adequate idea of the enormous territory, inex: haustible in its fertility, that isstil) owned by the state in Northerr Minnesota. The people of this dis trict are vitally interested in tbh project and they should see to it thar our representatives are furnishe: with all possible assistance in tbei endeavors to enlist the interest ap assistance of the state. The Rathbone their | next. Refreshments + ; } |