Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 23, 1899, Page 4

SECT IAA Famous Fashions For This Season In men’s wearing apparel are to be seen in the tailoring store of Poepke & Franz, on Third street, over Booth’s cigar shop. Our wholesale houses have responded this fall with the most attractive line of patterns that we have looked at for many a year— and good goods are cheap, too. ‘The Phil- lipine war has not effected our prices in the least. Some classes of goods have ' been raised in price, others lowered. We iv ur customers the full benefit and b o more for tirst-class) workman- ship than formerly. Come in and see the goods and get our prices—we'll risk get- ting an ofder if you really want clothes. Watch this space all fall and winter for special announcements. POEPKE&FRANZ “The Pioneer Tailors.” SE ae Be ae ae ae ae ae a aE HHEHROEROERSESEERSESE RSS ERER OS SRE CESS Nisbett Jewelry Co. © (Successors to Will Nisbett.) Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Fine We ~7h and Compass Repairing a Speciality. id Complete Line of » the only expertencedjwatchmakers In Grand Rapids. re the only experienced compass makers in Grand Rapids » the only expert engravers in Grand Rapids. e the only Jewelers who can make any part of any watch. Best of Workmanship and‘Prices Reasonable. All Work Warranted. WILL: NISBETT, Mg’r: 1 AE gh te a a ae ae a ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a a ae ae ae ae ae ea ae ae ae a ae ae ae a aE ER REA RE RE AE A ea a Re ae. eae ae ae sea ae ae ea ete Maa tee RR aa A AE Se ae ae eae a ae ae ae ea eae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a a RE WILDER & HICKEY, Props. FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Sample Room and Livery in, Connection. TOT Special Attention Given to Transrent Trade. Headquarters for Lumbermen. DaCBSc! Bac! ay GRAND RAPIDS. and Beer Fall, Corner THIRD ST. and HOFFMAN AVE., | The Best Lineof . .. | CAN BE HAD, i Riso Have on Tap and in Bottle i the Celebrated i DULUTH BREWS 6 0 $ MOOSE BRA. BEERS. FREE LUNCH ALWAYS SERVED. | | Sample Room | | PIANOS. When we went to the manufacturers. i And told them we wanted to makefa’- REAL BARGIN SALE Hl at the Head of the Lakes, they smiled. When we said. we would pay cash for the Pianos we selected, they stopped. They accepted our offer. This was just after the Holiday trade was over, and before invoicing and closing up their books for the year. That is the time to buy Pianos low. We now have the Pianos in our large WHOLESALE and RETAIL STORE and propose to give you the benefit of the big discount. When we show you that we can take off one-third from the {l prices that other dealers ask you for the same grade of Pianos you will see what a bonanza we struck and we propose to:share it with you. A greater stock to select from than ever offered be- fore at the head of the lakes. » Duluth Musi To | : E. G. CHAPMAN, Mgr Cor. Lake Ave. and Superior St. SSeS SeSe SSeS seamerses Breratae'Review Published Every Saturday. ej T. J. AUSTED, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Pubiishers. fa TWO. DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE, Six Months........$1 00| Three Months.......600 Entered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Secoud-Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County and the Village of Grand Repids. _ Enranp and the United States are just now the big dogs with the brass collars. Johnnie Bully is preparing to christianize the Boers while Em- peror Bul is shooting civilization and sich into the Phillipinos. Cuartes A. Pitspurv, of Minne- apolis, the formost miller of the world, a broad-minded, progressive business man anda_ good citizen of the state, died on the 17th inst. Mr. Pillsbury was heavily interested in pine lands in Itasca county. os Hibbing “has a_ lively mix-up amongst its’ village “officials. It is alleged that one” justice of the peace solicited the presence in his court ofa violator of a village ordinance and the village president cleared out the said justice, GOVERNOR LinpD, according to the press dispatches from San Francisco, stands A-z with the soldiers of the Thirteenth regiment. He has been active and successful in straightening out much of the trouble that existed among the officers and men of the regiment, ase Bf WE ARE possitively assured that McKinley will be in Minneopolis to fraternize with the boys of the 13th on October 12. *It is also stated that he may visit North and South Dakota. He will take a swing on the political merry-go-round, as it were. Baill would hke to be it again. Reach “ae 2 _ Cor. Cooper of Chicago, the pro- moter of the big forest reserve and national park scheme, has arrived in northern Minnesota with a party of co-conspirators to do a little mission- ary work among the natives. He was at Walker last week and a meeting was had to discuss the sub- ject. According to the Pilot the few people at that town favor the scheme. Hamitton, he of the Aitkin Re- publican, has “writ” himself most to a standstill since McKinley’s election in praise of little kage Morris. He had his eye on. the postoffice at Aitkin. {low cruel the Age isto announce that another will secure the plum. ‘The Republican editor may now be- gin to size Page up at his real dimen- sions. peetaliecian 2 Sane aE Bryan’s popularity ,among the masses has suffered none by his dis- cussion of trusts with Bourke Cock- ran at Chicago last week, The Chicago Times Herald, the official representative of Mark Hanna and McKinley, admitted in a leading editorial that Bryan was master of the debate throughout both in his logical reasoning oratory. and convincing —— -e ‘Tue Herald-Review has concluded to dislike T, Waldo Murphy, presi- dent of the village of Hibbing. He is a most obnoxious person, according to the unanimous verdict of the papers thereaway and is entirely unfit for the position which he holds. Last week he was guilty of an offense that should result in his impeachment from the presidency. Yhe papers of Hibbing deal with the arrogant fellow entirely too liniently, . Dreyrus is coming to the United States. His parting words to France were the following: ‘The govern- ment of the republic has given me my liberty. Butiliberty is nothing to me without honor. From today I shall continue to seek reparation for the frightful judicial error of which I re- main the victim. I wish France to know by a definit judgment that I am innocent. My heart will only be at rest when there remains not a single Frenchman who imputes to me the abominable crime perpetrated by another” SEES We Got a Good Pal. é Virginian: T. J. Austed, formerly ofthe Grand Rapids Magnet. has associated him- self with Editor Kiley of the Herald-Review. Mr, Kiley has found a good newspaper man in Mr, Austed. ae \ The McCarthy Log Lean Law to Be Tested in the Courts of Minnesota, In the last legislature Senator C. C. McCarthy, of this district, introduced a stringent bill relating to’ the collec- uon of wages earned by men working in the woods. ‘The bill was bitterly fought in both house and senate by the lumbermen of the state. ‘lhey employed the ablest attorneys whose services could be secured to present their plea for mercy. But it finally passed with all the objectionable fea- tures. In this law’s provisions ume checks are prohibited from issuing in payment of wages due. It also pro- case of suit for wages when the _plain- ti is successful beiore the court. One as witness fees for the plaintiff while in jcourt, and in case of travel he 1s allowed 6 cents per mile each way. Many of the lumber concerns seriously object to all of these features of the law, and it is to be tested in the courts. The firm of Stitt & Howe have a case that will ahortly be taken up and pushed to the last legal resort, Senator McCarthy, author and cham- pion of the measure, was seen by a Herald-Review representative today and questioned regarding the case. He had not been advised as to the ac- tion of Stitt & Howe, but said that he understood the law was to be tested on the grounds that it was class. legis- lation. First, it 1s claimed that the provision of $20 attorney fees will not hold, because in all other cases of a similar nature only $10 1s allowed; and, again, the allowance of $1.50 per day as witness tees to the plaintiff is,50 cents more than is provided in other civil actions. The miieage, too, is an additional advan- hugants. ‘These features of the law were fully discussed while the bill was before the senate and house. The friends of anti-ume checks, etc.. won in the end. Senator McCarthy says he has no fear that the supreme court will find the law as it now stands un- constitutional as it cannot be con- sidered class legislation any mere than can the law relating to mechanics’ hens, or many other laws of a similar character. He argues that if the law related only to a certain class of log- gers or to a certain variety of umber uw would be class legislation, but his measure covers the entire logging in dustry of the state. BIG MERCANTILE DEAL, The Firm of Beckfelt & Mather Dissolves, the Later Member Selling Out. Last Saturday morning a deal was consummated. whereby John Beck- felt became the sole proprietor of the wholesale and retail mercantile busi- ness of the late firm of Beckfelt & Mather. Negotiations had been pen fing for some time prior to mak- ing the change, but nothing was an- nounced authoritively until after the transfer had been fully and legally made. It is said that the amount paid for Mr. Mather’s interest was over a dozen thousand dollars. Beckfelt started in business at Grand Rapids seventeen years ago fast May. He didu’t have all the money that had been coined at that time—in fact, he had a very small part of it. But he applied himself strictly to the task that resulted in the upbuilding of one of the most solid. mercantile establishments in Northeastern Min- nesota. He conducted the business alone for nine years, Mather purchased a half interest in the store. From the beginning the business has steadily increas-d and at all times Mr. Beckfelt and Beck- able patronage. Today the stock is complete in the several departments, which include dry goods, clothing, groceries, gents’ furnishings and boots and shoes. The large, store rooms very conveniently accommo- date an immense stock of goods. Mr. Beckfelt has always been a Joyal and patriotic friend of Grand Rapids He has ever been among the first and most generous to contribute in all ways possible to the upbuilding of his. home village. No citizen has donated dollars more liberally to any enterprise that was calculated to ad- vance the material and social well- fare of this community. John Beck- felt deserves the splendid success that bas attended his business career since coming up the Mississippi to the Rapids nearly. twenty years ago. The retiring member of the firm, Mr. O. L. Mather, has been a con- servative and. successful business man, His standing in the business world is a fair illustration of the op- portunities offered in Northern Min- nesota for industrious and ambitious young men. He has not fully decided yet as to his future operations, but it is quite probable that he will engage in the logging business in this sec- tion and continue to reside at Grand Rapids. Morning. services at the M. E. church tomorrow will commence at 10:30 in order that Rev. Hartley may catch the noon train to Deer River where he will condy:t evening ser- vices. ; , Whizzed bhrough CONSTITUTIONALITY QUESTIONED | ‘Millinery ~ that she has just received an elegant line of the very Jatest styles in fall mil- vides for an attorney’s fee of $20 in|' dollar and fifty cents per diem is fixed | : tage not granted to other plaintiff John | when O. L.| felt & Mather have enjoyed a profit- | linery. trimmings of el! k etc. All see her line as it Walking hats, Di be perfectly «satisfactory. ¢ the ladies of Grand Rapids to Come in finest ever seen here. MRS. M. BROOKS, school hats, inds, feathers, rib- work guaranteed to She. invites is undoubtedly the Everything new, Crandall’s Old Staud. SISLSTSLSLSLSISVSVWSVSIGE in for some time for youe_ inspet samples s We do not think Sele? They will remai lowest. THE FALL STYLES In gestlemen’s clothing have been ever before and comprises the pro- ducts of many more manufactories. prices need any extended mention. workmanship the best, prices the ; BROEKER & WHITEAKER. and are now ready ion. Our: line of ason larger than that our. work or n as heretofore— REPORT FROM IOWA. are Well Repaid For the Trip. The editor of the’ Waverly, (Ia.) Democrat, accompanied by three ot his neighbors, who enjoy an annual outing with gun and rod, concluded to come to Northern Min- nesota this year and they did so. Upon returnmg home the editor typed his impressions of the section in a three column article, of which the following is a part: Last summer, from.a fruitless fishing expedition on the Shell Rock, a quartette of Waver- ly anglers entered into.a formal com- pact, the effect of which was that if they were spared to live another year, they would toalodge in some lene wilderness, mid lakes of sylvan beauty where the arts of the dsnamiter are as known and themselves in ail their native guile- lessness and plenitude, and there en- joy a week’s fishing read about but rarely have the good fortune to enjoy. Following this resolve came nearly ayearof pleasant anticipation, aud though it is oft asserted that there is more pleasure in anticipation than realization, the exception proved the rule in this ¢ mistic hopes of any.of the party were commonplace compared | Deer Lake, one of the many beauti- ful bodies of water within easy reach of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, for that city, after much inquiry and study of railroad guides, was finally deter- ! mined upon as our base of vuperations. Our party—consisting of C.. A. Eifert, A. F. Bodeker, W. W. Brooks !and the writer—mobilzed in St. Paul was spentin attending to odds and ends in the way of preparation, which had already occupied the greater part of several days before Jeaving home. Equipped with tent and two trunks filled to the bursting point with camping paraphernalia, not to mention fishing tackle sufti- cient to equip a regiment. the next morning found us on our way to Du- luth, via. the Eastern R’y of Minne- sota. Scarce half an hour out of St. Paul and we ure in a pine country and thence on the sceve from the car window. is‘one of desolave mo- notony. To describe this territory now as a pine country is scarcely proper, however. It was a pine country, but most of the primeval forests have long since disappeared, the scene presented now being a tangle of brush and undergrowth, occasional charred trunks of former forest kings and a strange confusion of second growth sprace and pines and ghostly poplars nearly all dead and leafless as the result of forest fires. About noon we passed Hinkley the scene of the awful forest fire of five years ago in which many lost their lives. The village has been re- built and the unpainted buildings already look old. The general aspect ofwthe scenery there is: no differ- ent than for fifty miles either way along the road we traveled, for near- ly all of it appears to have been fire- swept at some time or othyr. fellow passenger who witnessed the Hinkley conflagration described it as electrical fire, differing from fn or- dinary fire as much ,as cyclone differs from an ordinary .wind stor a A little further, on and ur traio Tick, the station of the kind you with the! actual experiences of eight days at. on Friday, August 5th, where the day | where Waverly hunters alight each fall in quest of deer, aud in sain we A Party of Iowans Visit Grand Rapids and| ctrained our eyes for a sightofa fleeting buck. About 2p. m. along dark ridge bove insight. This we were informed was the city of Duluth, and so it proved to be. The “City of Manifest Destiny” as its people are pleased to call it, is built upon the side of a mountain of solid granite that rises abrubtly from the lake. A schodl boy has described the city as being 14 miles long. a mile wide and a mile high, and the description isnot far an That) such a strange .site should be selected for a whilst returning | city becomes quickly apparent, how- ever, when one mounts the top of this perpendicular metropolis aud luoks out upon the beautiful natural harbor teeming with ship- ping of every description, for then hie themselves off one realizes the magnitude of the vast.commercial interests for which itis the natural center. Dulath has yvebun- completely recoved from its collapse the finny tribes disport of a few years ago and ‘s again very -uuch a live town. Next morning we boarded the train for our final destination, arriving there in good season for dinner. We had hardly expected to find in the heart of an appareut wilderness such a beautiful little city as Grand Rap- ids proved to be. Lt has many pre- tentious private and public build- ings, 'wo live newspapers, a.Cathuli¢ , forthe most opti- school and hospjtal, numerous exten- sive mercancantile establishments, waterworks, electric lights, and a general air of thrift and prosperity. ,lts public school building, built of |pressed Milwaukee brick, is the , handsomest structure of the kind we jeversaw. The court house is alse an | immense and substantial structure, Grand Rapids being the county seat ‘of Itasca county. This county as ‘large as adozen average Iowa is coun- | ties, and its population is about 6000, Grand Rapids is indeed a lively town. We were told thatin the | Catholic hospital oftimes as many as a hundred lumbermen are present as /patients at ove time, from which figures one may form some idea of | how numerous they are in that vicin- ity during the wiuter mobths. Mr. D. M. Gunn, proprietor, being j himself an enthusiastic angler, was able to tell us where we bad best es- tablish ourselves.. The Pokegama House is one of the leading hotels of the town, and both as to its size, ap- ‘pointments and management, would do credit to any city of 10,000 inhabit- jants. After describing incidents of the | trip and territory traveled, the writer ' concludes with a write-up of the won- ‘derful fishing for black bass and ,muscalonge in Deer Lake. He pro- /Nounced most emphatically that no- ithing to beat it could ve found on ‘earth or in the waters. The party | has agreed to return again this. fa!l or ‘next spring. | | James W, Tibbetts and wife left on Tuesday evening for Oakland, Cali- ‘fornia, where they will spend the winter, Mr, Tibbetts has a brother in ‘that city, and besides escaping the cold winter, he and. his wife expect to have a very pleasant visit. A large ‘number of their friends gathered at the depot to wish them a safe journey, and Mrs. Lowell, president of the Woman’s Relief Corps, on behalf of that orgenization, many of its mem- bers being present, presented Mr. Tibbetts with a silver cup and Mrs. | Tibbetts with a gold 2 spocn, as a token of the esteem in ‘which hey are held—Autkin R a ee ee emblem of the W, R. C., and a er . ne Pet