Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 12, 1899, Page 1

|’ Vo. VIII.—No, 2. GRAND Rapips, Itasca County, Minn., Saturpay, Aucust 12, t899. : Two Doxiars a YEAR - A ee ee mee eae ea ea ee ee a eae ae ea ae a ea a ae a 1 ee eet a ea EA EE ee A ee ee ee eae a aaa ITASCA - MERCANTILE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Minn. . The Hart, Schaffner & Marx” Clothing Clothin “is what we sell, and sell lots of them— : why, because the Quality, Siyle and Price is right—you want a fit and we can fit you, we carry noth- ing but “Goods” that are “Guaranteed” to us, and the same ‘‘Certif- icate of Guarantee” goes with every suit. We have a fine line of Blacks, Browns, Blue, Grays and Mixtures—and would be pleased to show you our line. (No TROUBLE 'TO SHOW Goops.) Hat Full line of Black and Brown Derbies; Black and 7 Brown Fedoras, Extra Wide Rim Hats, Crush and Pocket Hats, Light-colored Fedoras. Boys’ Hats and Caps; also a few nice Tam’s; Mens’ and Boys’ Straw Hats. (Goop ASsORTMENT TO PICK FROM.) We have a full line of Druggist Sundries— Dru Ss Toilet Articles, Toilet Soaps (and of the finest.) Writing Material, Stationary, ete. we sell in open stock (at right prices) Crockery when in the Store do not neglect to see them; also a new assortmentof Fancy ‘Toilet Articles cheap. Pin trays, Powder Boxes and Jewel Boxes. A large stock of Fancy Glasses and Glassware, Lamps, etc., ete. MAMMA DD bael LAPRAIRIE DELIVERY, TUESDAY AND FRipay. New Design in a Dinner Set, which, Amply supplied with all the delica- cies of the table. Full assortment of , e Groceries Heinz’s bottle pickles—“‘no better.” Our “Hiawatha” brand of Canned Fruits and Vegetables cannot be surpassed, as this Brand has demonstrated itself as being A 1 in every particular. Always in Stock: Fresh Creamery Butter, Fresh Dairy Butter, Fresh Country Eggs, Fancy Dried Fruits, Fancy Bottled Pickles, Queen Olives, Mixed and Sweet Pickles qin bulk.) Hardware __.—__ Ice Cream Freezers, Toy Wagons, Screen Doors, Carpet Sweepers, Oil Stoves, Fishing Tackle, Refrigerators. Amumuouition. Hammocks (all sizes.) BORD Bd BO Bt Garden Tools, Shelf Hardware, Building Paper, Carpet Lining, Jereals, S. ked Wheat, All sorts of useful Articles on our 5, 10, 15 and 20c Counters, dhhdeiibiiinittibhi htt Litt tt tithe tet ti tt tT ttt TT Tt) Akt) YT) tt ttt) SEE Ee A EE eae ae a Fe ae eee ee ee A AE a ea a ae Perri yy Dry Goods Cheviot and Mixture of Wool Skirts; also a new lot of Petticoats in assorted colors. Our “Dress Trimmings” and Laces are of For- vign and Eastern Styles, and can depend upon being” up-to-date. Ladies’ Shirt waists are teatly designed and of fine material, we have all colors, and Ties to match, which are conceded by many to be not only exquisit in Quality and Style, but right in price. Our Hosiery. Department we cannot numerate, but we have a large and well assorted Stock, ranging from 10¢ up. Do not for- get that we are headquarters for Hosiery. Our Boys’ and Girls SPECIAL SALES DAY Every THURSDA Mens’ Ladies’ Misses and Childrens’ Shoes in oes Blacks and ‘Tans in all styles. " Our Mens’ Tans are conceded to be very much up-to-date and are winners, try a pair and take pleasure in. wearing a good shoe. In Ladies’ Shoes we have several different styles; aiso in Oxfords. —‘‘Honest Good We are abundantly supplied in | this department—having recently received a fine assortment of Silk, School” Shoes are. as they always have been nd worth the price. Mens’ work and Cruising Shoes, we have a full line, and good ones. Don’t forget that we are Strictly in it on BBE Bl AG BO Be : Jolyon ottied Preserves. est Muindwich S HOE Both Quality, Style 2 =| Fresh Fruit gous ae Flour, Feed, Hay and Salt Meaés. 9 and Price. Bas So ae ce wera om ea oe asa a ete ee ea ee a a a I a a RO ae 3 : ; i E 3 i : i : New Advertisements. And when yeu consider that, our pric youll probably be interested in Se Cloth to head off mosquitoes, [ee such thirgs. Hold on ' There! You may sunewhere ¢ wating our line. I avy good to be so sorry just the same with . ee ee Hardware, Too. at cowfortable prices. SVVVVVVSVTVTASTA es are the lowest; ens for doors and windows ream Freezers, Refrigerato We have a complete stock of summer comfort ma Better stop and look over our stock of farm implements be- re parting with your money. if you buy se before investi won't do then, now is the time to look us up. WwW, J. & H. D. POWERS. | | It’s Our stock is positively the best-in the whole Northwest—bar none. Just_now V ; % SSS%S LSPS LS VS Ses SLSTSISLSLSLOLSS MARKET AT DEER RIVER. % City Meat Market t { & J. F. Metzger, Proprietor. EE Ee Grand Rapids, Minn. Se Wholesele.and Retail Dealer in Camp Beef, Pork and All Kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Etc. ete2e BROEKER & WHITEAKER ‘Merchant Tailors, - Grand Rapids, Minn, ALSLBOSLSLSLSLSSO VELA GPHAGSSLSLSSSLSISLSS SSNS LSS jvhat the North Star State consisted | been lust.—Wadena Pioneer Jourval. i oF > .|a new start and encourage the much- | wisely. DEER RIVER YS. THE COUNTY. Inconsisteney of the Itasca News as Illus- trated in Its Own Bright Columns. Two weeks ago the Herald-Review made a brief comment upon the atti- tude of a certain class of citizens in the average county toward the com- missioners. The situation as set forth 1s the rule rather than exception. The Itasca News agrees with us, but again it doesn’t agree. That little sheet holds that the only draw-back to the possibility of receiving ample appro priations for road building in its neigh- borhood is the hogishness of Grand Rapids people in general and the natural perversity of the IHerald-Re view. But the little sheet is wrong, ag usual. If the Deer River editor will take a look at the highways lead- ing to Grand Rapids he will find them in just as bad shape as the Deer River road, and yet the county seat swine are not expending money in thousand-dollar lots to repair them, and they don’t intend to. ‘The com- missioners are operating along the same lines of economy as the Deer River town board, according to the News. After commenting on the action taken by that body of local lawmaker ins the expenditure of pub- lic money, the News says: ‘This will leave the town in good shape for abused town fathers who have never done anything in the way of road im- provements because they had nothing to do with and to run the town fur- ther in debt they would not. ... If the same sort of officers can be elected inthe future as have so taithfully served in the past the townspeople will enjoy highly satisfactory results” Now, you inconsistant scamp,.why not apply that same pminciple to the county board and give them credit, ‘for the same honest motives that you so. cheerfully accord to your own “pigs?” “But there’s a distinction without a difierence. Editor Taylor hus always been a member of the town board, and of course they act One other consideration, of a personal nature, may enter into the controversy. Mr. Taylor does. not love Commissioner Everton very hard, for several reasons. The object of the editor 1s, evidently, to make the people thereaway believe that it 1s only. necessary for the member from that district to “ask and Ke shall re ceive” thousands. He knows better but he hopes to, thus injure Mr. Everton in the eyes of his constituen- cy when it finally developes that road expenditures will be kept down until such time as the county will be able to do business on a cash basis. It might be just as well for Murray not to crowd Mr, Everton too severe- ly or he may hear a dull thud one of the:e days. The National Park Plan. By the way some of the Chicago promoters of the scheme for a Nation- al Park in Miunesota talk, and the smoothness with which they and the Times-Herald reel off aditions of of nothing but “out doors.”” The or- iginal idea, of the reservation of 7,000 000, was absurd enough, but now. the boomers coolly double 1t and.. then talk about policing and preserving 2,- 000 square miles as if it was Lincoln Park they had in mind. Ii will be well, before the committees meet for conference in Chicago, for the Illinois promoters to remember that. without Minnesota’s co-operation their plans will die a-bornin’, and that this state will never consent to the alienation of a territory so vast that many of our commonwealths would be lost in it. The Times heartily favors forest preservation and the plan of a Nation- al Park—but in. reason, gentlemen. In reason. The present reserve, known as Itasca Park, and originally intended to preserve the forestat and about the headwaters of the M $s- ippi, contains, if memory serves aright, 36 square miles or about 23,000 acres. This, of course, is not large euough and material additions to the Itasca reserve, both on the north and st, are not only feasible but desira- ble. How great the additions shall be is a matter for decision after care- ful inquiry and intelligent observa- ton.on the spot. To multiply the acreage by 500. or by 250. would be neither possible nor permitted if it could be made possible.— Minneapolis Times. Opposition to Judge Holland. W.S. McClenahan, who has been local attorney for the Northern Pa- cific in this city fur some time, ten- dered his resignation the first of the month. His.successor has not yet been appointed.—Brainerd Dispatch. The above would indicate that Mr. McClenahan is getting ready to com- wmence his campaign for the judge- ship of the Fifteenth district. Fora long time it has been known that he would be a candidate against Judge Holland, and as the latter will surely be a candidate to succeed himself, the liveliest kind of a time may be looked for in that district. Mr. Mc- Clenahan is a leading member of the bar, and is a man iminently well qualified for the position. But Judge Holland will have a_ host. of friends who will back him, and the fight be- tween the two men will bea close one. The fact. that it was known last winter that both of these gentlemen would be candidates fur judge made itall the more inexcusable on the part of a number of. our leading citi- zens for favoring the detachment of Wadena county from that district and annexing it to the Eighth district. This was done, and as stated at the time, the Pioneer Journal believes that a serious mistake was made. Neither Messer. McClenaban nor Holland are Republican, end Wadenr county could have trotted outa very FRED BONNESS DISGUSTED. “If Charley Towne Runs Against Him Page Morris Won't, Know He is In It.” Everybody, aimost, in Nothern Ninnesota knows Fred Bonuess. He has had some experience with Page Morris’ influence. This is what he has to cfferin an interview with a St. Cloud Times reporter: ‘“F. W. Bonness, of Minneapolis, ©. Graves and H. R. King, Iumbermen, were here vn-business Saturday at the Land. Otlice. They are interested in the sale of Cass Lake lands, which occurs on the 15th, In conversation with a Times reporter this morning, Mr. Bonness, who has had considerable dealings with the government on the dead and down timber on the Indian lands, complained bitterly over the treatment he had received at the hands of the government agents. “Why,” be says, ‘‘they have a better government over in Manila. Here the government is not responsible for itsagents. Ihave to be responsible for the act of my agents, but the government here dosen’t seem to_ be. One of its lobster agents beat me out of $14,000 the past year. You see I had purchased dead and down timber from the Indian reservation, and after [had paid the Indians a good price for it, Mr. Agent come along and forced me to pay $2.50 a thousand to the government. It was a real steal. Neither Senator “Davis nor Senator Nelson wanted me to pay it, butif I hado’t, it ment a long lit- igation with the government, lasting for years and possibly my grandchild- ren might have seen the end of it, but I doubt it. Inada similar deal during a Democratic administration and I got out all right, because ‘they were men of some sense, but these fellows are lobsters. “That ian Page Morris has con- cerned himself in these matters, and all the lumbermen are sure over his actions. We have contribute heavily to the campaign funds, but we won't do it again, and 1 don’t hesitate to say that Morris will get beat if he runs for Congress again. If they run Charlie Towne against him, Morris won’t know he was runuing, when the votes are counted. The way the government is run now is rotten.” To Clean Light-Colored Silks, Gasoline and naphtha are the best agents for cleaning silk where there is any fear that the colors may be _alter- ed by soap and water. Do the work in a room where there is neither a light nor a fire. Have the windows open that the vapor may pass out. Use two large bowls, and half filleach one of them with naphtha or gasoline. Wash the articles in one bowl, as_ if you were using water, and mince in! the second, Pull into shape and hang popular judicial candidates, and stood un exicellent chance of winning, es pecially with two canidates from the- other end of the district. But now millions of acres, one would suppose all chances in this direction have in open air todry; The naphtha may be returned to the can, and after a few days, when all the dirt has settled, the hquid may be poured into a clean COMMISSIONERS IN DISPUTE, i Charges Pro. and Con. Is Now the Order With an Investigation in Sight. The confusion that followed the startling announcement of Commts- sioner Fuller that Commissioner Lee- man had solicited a bribe from the firm of Fuller & Decker of $100, has kept the community alive, with discussion of the matter during the past few days. It was at the meeting held jast.'hursday. that’ the-offense 1s alleged to have been committed. A . resolution was about to be introduced. appropriating $2,000 of county funds to be used, according to the ‘resolu- tion, ‘to advertise the resources of Itasca county and to aid in the estab- lishment of manufacturing institutions therein.” It had been alleged that this proposed appropriation of $2,000 was really to be used as a bonus to Fuller & Decker, for the estzblish- ment at Grand Rapids of a hub and spoke factory. Mr. Leeman had not been directly advised that this was the purpose of the resolution py any- one in authority to know, he says, and he determined to learn the facts if possible before voting on the propo- sitign. Accordingly he called Com- missioner Fuller aside and put the question to him directly, receiving an evasive answer. Thereupon he asked Mr. Fuller if it would not be worth something to Fuller & Decker if the resoiution passed without opposition. This is Mr, Leeman’s story. Mr, Fuller says that Leeman asked :him directly for $100 in return for a fav- orable vote. In the meantime Com- missioner Everton was called into the vault where the conversation was be- ing held. Mr. Everton has not been seen by the Herald-Review and what his story will be is not yet known. Prosecuting Attorney Donohue had been made acquainted with the re- ported attempt at bribery, and he Started an investigation. If sworn statements. can be. ascertained, the matter will be placed before Governor Lind with an application for a com- mission whose duty it will be to take testimony of both parties, and - the re- sult again submitted to the governor. in the event that the executive finds Mr, Leeman guilty as charged, his re- moval will follow, and possibly pros- ecution, Mr, Leeman _ insists upon an immediate and complete investiga- tion and says that he will never vol- untarily resign his office. Mr. Fuller appears to be equally emphatic in his determination to,prosecute the case. In the meantime we awajt further developments. Surveyor Brown returned this week from a tnp up north. He reports some heavy dews and threatened rain. One of our state laws read: “ It. ig the duty of the road oyerseers an street commissioners to cause weeds and grass growing on allstreets and roads to be destroyed and the expense of same assessed against the adjoining property.” This is a wise law and should be rigidly enforced by can.—August Ladies’ Home Journal | those in authority, .