Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 9, 1899, Page 5

— LOUNTY AND VILLAGE OFFICERS COUNTY, . Tyndall Donohue . B. Clair . D, Rassmussen Register of De Clerk of Court Judge of Probate. I. Brady Surveyor. wd. A. Brown Coroner 1. M. Storch Supt. of |. H. Stilson District No. District Ni District N District District . Leeman S. Berney F. O’Connell John Hepfel AP O, DAnjow eck: A. King ©, B. Aiken orge Vient F. McCormick President... TRON 55 5 555d: ces CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— Rev. D. A. Mackenzie, pastor. ATHOLIC CHURCH—Rev. ©. V. eUStOr. ROMAN Gamache CHURCH—Rev. J. C. Hartley. pastor. ©. W: Hastings. President. P.3. Serene Vice President. Lumbermen’s Bank Of Grand Rapids, Minn c. Asst. Cashier Itasca County Abstract Office KREMER « KING, Proprietors. ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. Conveyances Drawn. Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN. VAUSTED, Re “A LODGE A..F. s the first and third th at K. of P. ee E. 8. Bernie, Secy. & A... rd F A. Ww. AU BANA LODGE K. of P. No. 131: meets ) 'y Thursday evening in their hall. E. A. Kremer, ©. C. Ff, Kremer, K. R. 8. A DIVISION No. 10, U. R. K. P.: s first Monday of éach month in K. of P. hall E. A. KReMER, Capt. Cuas. Kearney. Recorder A TENT NO. 33, K.0.T.M: meets d Thursday of each every month at K. A. E. Witper, R. K. A. 0. U, W. night, . J, FARRELL, Com, No. 826—Meets every Monday J. J. Decker, W. M. F. A. McVicar, Recorder, meets f each 1A CAMP No. 6444, W. second and fourth Saturday month at k. of P. hall. Harry WituiAMs, V. C. R. R. Bein, Clerk. B. F. the! of. A.: . R. No. 140: meets 2 month in Post hall. LIX MALLETTE, Com. H. 8. Huson, Adjt ARBU S REBEKAH LODGE N s the second and fourth Tuesd: each month i pf P. hal M HIVE L..O. T. N nd fourth Frid meets every of each month ai K. of th th. and in the evening of eveh subsequent Monday. y WH. Marr, M. ELC. Mas. CC. MeCa M. ik. ana C. ITASCA CIRCLE T s the first ¥ IARY LiusoN, iVp BUS! TORY ND RAPIDS PROLESS? FRASS F. PRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Itasca Mercantile Meat Market. GRAND RA PIDs. C C. McCARTHY, ATTORNEY AT LAW ca Mercantile Meat Market. Office over Ita GRAND RAPIDS. C L. PRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Marr's Clothing Store, GRAND RAPIDS. R. DONOHUE, ATTORNEY AT LAW County Attorney of Itasca County. GRAND RAPIDS. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEORXS, D* GEO. C. GILBERT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Cable’s Meat Market, GRAND RAPIDS. D® CHAS. M. STORCH, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence, Cor. Kindred and. 3rd. GRAND RAPIDS. © D® THOMAS RUSSELL, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and’ Residence, South Side, GRAND RAPIDS. DENTISTS. R # Catety, RESIDENT DENTIST Office over Itasca Mercantile Meat Market. GRAND RAPIDS. W. E. MARTIN, MANAGER Trasca Lanp Co. . PINE AND FARMING LANDS Bought and Sold. SETTLERS LOCATED. Choice Farming Lands for Sale on Long ‘Time and Easy Terms. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN. W.C. GILBERT, Pine a) 2 Fans ad [Loans Minn. Grand Rapids, 3 : W.. . NEAL, | Dealer in Pine and Farming Lands The tinest List of Agricultural and Grazing Lands iu the County. The Most Excellent Sites for Manu- facturing Enterprises. Prospective Settlers Located. Correspondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, - - Minn. A. B. CLAIR, e Register uf Deeds of Itasca County. Pine ana Farming Lands Pine Stumpage Bought. GRAND RAPIDS. The “Senate” Hotel and Restaurant. KELLY & O’REILLY, Proprietors. The Finest _ Wines, Liquors and Cigars Board by the Day or Week. Short Orders a Specialty. Good Rooms for Rent. Leland Avenue, - - Grand Rapuls. : THE KIPU. A Etnch of Strings Used by the Ancients to Keep Accounts. Dr. Max Uhle, a d:stinuished Ger- man scientist, has been for many years engaged in archaeological ex- plorations in Peru. He now returns to that country urder the auspices of the American Exploration society, for the purpose of clearing some of the unsolved problems cf the ancient civ- ilization of the Incas and to complete a collection for the museurh of the University of California, He had made a sifmilar collection for the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Dr, Uhle proposes to remain two years in Peru to complete his work. Among other important discoveries of Dr. Uhle is the kipu,a collection of knotted strings of different colors, whith were used by the pecple of the ancient civiliza- tions of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for the purpose of keeping 2ccounts. They had no w 3 2 no sys- netic con- 8 knotted strings. es of the the descerdants of the Incas depend upon the kipu for keeping ac- counts, 2nd Dr. Ukle was so fortunate iscover them in the hands of Indian herdsmen, who used them so skillfully that they are able to make a record of every anivaal, every bushel of feed and article of property that is intrusied to their care. The colors of the different strings represent differ- ent articles, such as barley, corn, sheep, rams, ewes, lambs, horses. etc., while the knots, by their size and dis- tance from each other, express hun- dreds, tens and units, in such a man- ner as to accurately include the deci- mals. For example, one of the kipus obtained by Dr. Uhle from a shepherd near Lake Titacaca showed that he had delivered 387 sheep. rams, 121 lambs 1 year old, and 99 still younger; the number of bushels of barley that had been used, the number of sheep killed and furnished to the kitchen of the owner of the flock, and the num- ber eaten by the shepherds. the num- ber that died of disease, the number killed by wild animals and by acci- dent, as cempletely and as accurately as if it had all been set: down by double-entry bookkerping. “the TO STOP BLEEDING. Electricity Now Declared to Be the Rest Relief. The arresting of bleedinz in surgical operations has always been one of the difficulties in certain cases, and the electric current has been used before this with a view to bringing abont that condition of heat which is necessary in order to cause the blood to clot and so act as a block to the mouth ef biceding veseels, arresting hemorrhage. Th indeed, has resulted in the utilization of the electric chutery, as it is called in certain operations, the platinum wire at a red or almost white heat even sup- planting the knife, because it burns through the tissues and at the same time prevents the wound bleeding to any great extent. This effect of heat was, indeed, known to our ancestors, who used red hot irons or boiling pitch, to sear the surface of the flesh after their operations, thus causing an im- mense amount of suffering to the pa- tient, befare the days of chioroform. A new adaptation of ‘this uee of elec- tricity, for the purpose of stopping bleeding has keen devised by inclosing a platinum wire in a pair of forceps or othér instrument, the wire being insu- lated in a bed of burnt pipe clay, and as soon as the bleeding vessel is ceiz- ed by the forceps and’ compressed in the ordinary way, an electric current is turned on, whose effect is so great that the tissues and the walls of the ood vessels are all agglutinated, so that the blood is no longer able to pass. Capital Punishment in Japan. Japan is considering the adoption of a new meihod of capital punishment by the process of extracting air from the death cell, creating a vacuum and thus causing death. The “death” or “vacuum” chamber, as it is to be known, is to-be an air-tight cell built in or adjoining the prison. It is to be eight feet in height, ten feet wide and ten feet long. The four sides are to have each an air-tight window of three-quarters inch plate glass, so that the operators, prison and other ofli- cials may have an opportunity to wit- ness the execution. The cell will be connected with an air pump, which will have a power of causing the ex- pulsion of the air in the cell in one minute and forty seconds, thus acting so quickly as not to allow the victim to become suffocated or distressed in even the slightest degree, but, instead, causing almost instant death. In fact, it was shown when the experiment was tried upon a large St. Bernard dog that the animal was dead in a minute and a half after the vacuum was com- pleted, PAE SUSE SUSE vcs Bad for Scotch Salmon Fisheries. This has beem a bad year for the salmon fisheries of Scotland. In fact, for several years they have just been going from bad to worse. In 1895 they were fairly remunerative. That year 25,364 boxes were sent to Billingsgate (London),but ever since then the quan- tity has gradually declined. The fol- lowing year, 1896, only 22,435 boxes were sent, in 1897 still less, 16,284 boxes, and last year, 1898, the total consignment was only 14,174 boxes. As the average for the eighieen years from 1879 was 23,161 boxes, the de- crease of last year is close on 9,000. But it is to be remembered that the whole harvest of Scottish salmon does not now, as formerly, go to London. A considerable portion of it is now sent to other places. The returns of rail- way and shipping companies are prob- ably the most complete, but even these only show 1,717 tons forwarded last year, against 2.194 tons in 1897. | che rain. OLD IMPERIAL BODYGUARD, Jastitution That Died with the Secorad Freach Empire. The Cent Guards founded with the eons empire in 1870. The corps dated from the time of the Crimean war, When a visit from Queen Victoria was expected. The i2ticst and finest look- ing men and officers were selected from the cavalry. There were 137 of the former and eleven of the latter, but the number of men was increased to 208. Their function was purely decorative, and they chiefly served within the palace.. What swells the officers were j in their sky-blue uniform bedight with golden lace! The corps had regula- tions of their own. They were on no account, when on duty, to stir unless to salute the emperor or empress, and only then when specially ordered. The worst breach of discipline would have been to forget they were to be motion- less as caryatid One day Marshal Castellane, a va old, poppery per- sonage, had ceeasicn to sce the em- beror soon after the cretion of the Cent Guards. Twocft kept guard beside the door opening from the ante- room on the presence chamber. They remained in the regulations attitude— that is to say, with the right arm hori- zontally stretched out and holding a musket by the bay t. The butt end rested on the grou: The marshal Was in uniform. Furious at not being saluted, he asked the one nearest to him what it meant. The Cent Guard Seemed neither to see nor hear. Cas. tellane lost self-restraint and abused him. Still the soldier remained im- passive. The irate marshal sent for Col. Verley to compiain. The colonel failed to make him understand that approval and not chastisement was due. Thus the matter was brought be- fore the emperor, who gave the com- plainant a sharp rap on the knuckles by expressing his pleasure at the Spartan aititude of a household guard who was bound to ignore~every rank but the imperial.—London Truth. SHE CHOKED A LYNX TO DEATH Arizona. Gir’$ Brave Battle with a Brate That Attacked Her. George J. Manassa cf this city, who has been spending the past two months at Kingman, Ariz., tells an interest- ing story of a case of heroism in a that came under his obser- says the Kansas City Journal. He said that one dey while there a ranchman, J. A. Carrow, brought into the town for medical treatment his son Murray, 6 years cld, and his daughter, 17 years old, who were frightfully la- cerated by the teeth and claws of some animal, and the cough usage showed upon the boy in ~ounds upon the arms, hauds and the breast and shoul- ders. Upon inquiry be learned that Mr. Carrow was a_ wealthy ranch- owner living about twenty-five miles north of the place and that the two children had been lacerated by a lynx that had attacked the boy and had been strangled to death by the girl. “The boy,” Mr. Manassa said, “was playing in a swing in an almond or- chard near the nouse, when a fero- cious lynx sprang upon him and pulled him to the ground. A life and death struggle then took place between the little fellow and the animal. ‘Taking the lynx by the ear and one leg he succeeded in throwing it to the ground and holding it there, screaming for help. The lynx was biting his hand in a horrible manner, but with Spartan courage he held on until his sister came. The animal had got the bet- ter of the boy when the girl, with only her naked hands as weapons,gave battle. She struggled with the in- furiated brute and, although he clawed and bit her, she never released her hold until she had it pinioned to the ground by her knee and a death grip on its throat, Costly Fare for Ostriches, There was a happering at the Ari- zona ostrich farm recently which dis- proves the theory that the ostrich is satisfied with eating nails, barbed wire and the like. A man who had visited the farm the day before discovered that his gold watch was missing. ‘Thinking that he might have lost it at the farm, he returned to look for it. When he arrived he enlisted the ser- vices of a youth and started in quest, without entertaining much hope of finding the watch. About the first thing noticed by the youth was.an os- trich tossing something in the air. It was the wateh, and would have been- swallowed if it had been a giass-faced watch. It happened that both sides were opened and lodged in the: beak. The next day the valuation of one of the birds was enhanced $50. It swal- lowed a diamond from the setting of a woman visitor, who inadvertently sought to console the bird by caress- ing its forehead. The Skau Gull the Eagle's Foe. The natives of Foula,one of the Shet- land islands, make a business of rear- ing sxau guils in order to rid the island of the eagles that commit so many depredations. The magnificent red sandstone ¢.iffs that skirt the north- western coast became a favorite haunt of the eagles, and in this inaccessible spot they increased so- rapidly that they becam> a terror to the farmers and fishermcn who dwell on this .iso- |, The skau gulls are also | lated spot. strong and fierce, and the inveterate foe of the eagle. novel plan of feeding and caring for skau gulls, which, though formidable to their feathered enemies, are very peaceful and docile when brought in contact with man. Man is utterly devoid of sentiment, He will scoop the bottom out of an egg with never a thought that the mother of that egg may be'100 miles away in In battle the gulls | are nearly always victorious, and so | the inhabitants of Foula hit upon the | ¢ GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW Official Paper of Itasca County and Village of Grand Rapids. The Herald-Review aims to represent all the the varied» Interests of all Itasca County. 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