Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 14, 1899, Page 1

| Vou VIII.—No. 11. Grand Rapids Herald- Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay, Octoser 14, 899. \ evicw: MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Two Dotuars A YEAR gebsessesecerrsseesessesees D Acskcdedcd debs dedccdccbsadecberiodcshedbeekcdeded is clasiadhadhasladhsleslesleguals A lic dds dh dhokesds ok ck dhe ceadeeh ee ee (. # The Goods are Pace | ; # Come and See The # The Latest Pattrens in Dress Goods, = & Ze , Golf Capes—the rage. ge i Sk Shirt Waist Patterns, $f Children’s Coats and Fackets, Ladies’ Children’s and Misses Fall Hats, Tam OShanters, Fine Wool Shawls, Blankets and Quilts, Fleece Lined Undeawear tn all sizes for Children. - Lssheskoshesbs tasks toskcde dehok. 44.4.2. ceed a bdekcd SAREE HE: ee ; bh dede dektotidad bethethadhathailislesiestestesteatasteateatastesteatatastsats tsicct ae she a ae ae ee ae ae ae a ae Me EEE ale ate aes ae ae eat a ‘HERE SST BAe eR a ae ee ae Ye ae a ae ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ne ate RE Eat Neos # Our Fine Furniture 1s now tn and you will find an elegant line of Couches, Chaimber Sets, Book Shelves, Writing Desks, Etc. | — Lhe dhiheshe dedededed SE AE a ee a a Lh ddebdddd dea SER AE TR A EA a RE RICHI GR te nen a tal tet totatete a te Medea tet atte tee teat TE REA AE ENE Se AE ae ae ae ea aE RE | E ITASCA MERCANTILE CO. SSeonenescugs EAE Ee eae ae a He ae ae ae ae ae eae ae a ate ah ate ate ate ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ae at ae eee: I A AE EA RE AE aE A AE ee a ae Ee EE He Ea ee a a ge he Ee aE he HE AE ER RR wee aE Beat And that is not all; our stock of hardwa sporting goods, ete., able. Our stock is not they have down in the Tv ities, but it’s AS GOOD. From the basement to the roof our store is filed with GOOD things. That means Letter things than other dealers in the sume lines cary. While We Talk a Good Deal { More about HIGH QUALITY than about LOW PRIOES, yet we want, you to know that our prices are lower than you can get the same grade of goods for anywhere else. taken as a whole, mw machinery slutely unbeat- lurge as some It will be to YOUR udvantage as well as ours, to examine our stock and buy what you want frem us, W.J.&H. D. Powers. Prompts us to remark that if you want the VERY BEST you will have to go to thestore of J.D. Powers for it. Others may insist that their.stock is larger— and perhaps it is—but it is not as yood, and they know it. In staple groceries he can meet all requirements, while his |_| Teas, Coffees, Butter, Cheese, Pickles, Canned Goods and spices are absolutely the best that can be procurred in town. Powers’ coffees are particularly famous, he having a larger trade in this com- modity than ay other grocer 1n the village. His stock of cigars, tobaccos and smokers’ articies is an excellent one and he invites you to try them. A Full. Line of Gent’s Furnishing Goods. J. D. POWERS. Opposite Hotel Pokegama, eee ‘ileus SUPPLIES HERE The Bulk of the Loggers in This See- tion Still Tote From Grand Rapids. BONDS WILL NOT BE SOLD The Village Council Has Decided Not to Issue the Floating Indebtedness Bonds’ Recently Yoted---New Tax Levy Made. » Not long ago Grand Rapids was the last stopping plaee where supplies could be procured on the upper Mis: issippi. All logging operations in this vicinity north, south, east and west, were largely supplied from this point. But as civilization and the railroads made advances into the woods, new towns have sprung up as if by magic and more convenient points have been established as dis tributing points. And yet Grand Rapids is still far in the lead as head- quarters for lumbermen. gnd more toting will be done from here dur- ing the coming winter than fora number of years past. It is estimat- ed that not less than twenty-tive hundred men will be employed in the camps hereabouts during the coming winter. The following loggers will secure their supplies from here, em- ploying abcut the following number of men: The Backus-Brooks Co., 600 men; Price Bres., 700 men; Hurd & McAvity, 150 men; J. H. Dunning & Co., 180 men; Dewey & Doran 40 men; Buckman & Nichols, 150 men: S. D. Hamilton, 75 men; Shevlin- Carpenter Co., 150 men; M. McCarthy, 60 men: Miliken & McGuire, 150 men; James Sherry, 80 men; Stitt & Howe, 200 men. The amount of goods required to supply this num- ber of men, together. with the teams and necessary apparatus will reach anenormous sum, It. 1s very prob- able that Graud Rapids will witness this season more activity among tote- teamsters on her streets than evgr again. Tne heavy timber is mapa disappearing and while lumbering and logging will still be in evidence here fifty years hence, the big rush will be but a memory. However, our merchants can have no complaint to offer on the busir that will cen- ter here during the season of ’99-1900. NO VILLAGE BUND SALE. The Council Has Decided Not To Issue the Bonds Recently Sold. Ata special meeting of the village council held oa Monday evening last it was decided by a unanimous vote to withdraw the offer of sixteen thousand dollars of village bonds for sale. As stated herein last week Re- corder King telegraphed Dennison, Frior & Co., of Cleveland, for a definite reply as to whetber they in- tended to take the bonds at the figure named by them in their bid. Anevasive answer was received and (he members present decided that they would not stand any further “monkey business,” and the council proceeded to recind a former resolu- tion passed providing for the levy of taxes for the payment of interest on village bonds. Another resolution was passed levying an increased tax ou village property for the purpose of paying judgments against the village The total levy will be a few hundred dollars Jess than that of last years. The 1898 levy was about $6,000; this year it will be $5,155. Te liquor licenses alone are more than sufficient to pay the running expenses of the municipality. In two years the village will be practically out of debt, except the water bonds. Recorder King submitted a detailed statement of the present floating indebtedness, which is only a little over $15,000. ‘Three years ago it was $30,000, This is pretty good evidence that the last three councils have been transacting the public business .in a most com- mendable manner. It is estimated that the village will expend about $6,000 in the matter of the Mississippi dam before the deal is wholly settled and property owners have been paid for condemned lands. PROSPECTING FOR IRON Several Parties Looking Over the West Messaba Range These Days, During the past few weeks there have been several experienced iron men looking over certain tracts of land in this vicinity and as a result many bags of tineral have been sent to the assayer’s office for investi- gation. Captain Harry Roberts of Virginia has been doing some quiet work for Duluth parties and it is said that his preliminary work was suffi- ciently Satisfactory to justify more extensive explorations. There | is atnple reason to believe that this end of the range will soon attract as much attention as has the East Mesa- ba during the past few years. Just at the time when ore was first dis- covered in Iron Range township the hard times came on and such a drop in the price of ore followed that even well developed properties and good shippers were allowed to lie idle Demand is now strong and mining men are again turning their atten- tion in this direction. Chicago and Cleveland capitalists are convinced that the Diamond is a valuable prop- erty and have put their money Into it. In a few days the work of re- moving the water will have bee» com- pleted and Captain Griffin will begin to demonstrate jnst what the old Diamond contains. MUST PAY THE TAXES. A Law Enacted Last Winter That Will Interest Minnesota Loggers. If chapter 235 of the laws of 1899, is enforced there will be fewer ap- plications for abatement of taxes on real estate in this county in the future; and far less delinquencies. State Auditor Dunn and ex-Attorney General Childs drew the bill in ques- tion and secured its passage last winter after a hard fight in the senate. In years gone by it has oc- cassionally happened that assessors so far overstepped the demands of lumbermen as to place a reasonable valuati6n on pine stumpage. In such cases the timber has been removed as rapidly as possible and the cut-over lands allowed to revert to the state. Abatements have been made in hun- dreds of cases ou showing to the authorities that the value had been removed in the cutting of timber aud unless the accrued taxes’ sbould be reduced to figures suitable to the owners, no taxes at all would he paid. The county commissioners are very apt to reason on the theory that half a loaf is better than no bread and grant the demands thus asked. Chapter 235. an act relating to the taxation of timber end mineral lands, ilculated to stop the abuses that have been carried on in this manner. The authorities of Itasca county will no doubt see to it, with the assistance of State Auditor Dunn, that the law will be enforced. It reads as follows: ction 1, That all timber now standing and growing on any tract of land in this state and all minerals not yet mined from any of the lands in this state are hereby declared to be real estate, for the purposes of taxation. Sec.2. That all taxes hereafter Assessed against any tract of land referred to in sec- tion one of this act shall be and remaina lien thereon, as now provided by law, and upon any and all timber hereafter cut therefrom: and upon any and all minerals hereafter mined there- from until such taxes shall be paid and discharged. And no timber or minerals shall be removed from any tract of land until all the taxes assessed against such tract and due and payable shall have been fully paid and discharged. That where any taxes hereafter assessed against any tract of land referred to in section one of this act become due and payable, and the state auditor has reason to believe that timber or minerals will be re- moved therefrom: before the taxes which have been assessed against such tract and are due and payable shall have been paid. he shall direct the county attorney of the county in which such tract is situated to enjoin any and all persons from removing any timber or minerals therefrom, as the case may be, until such taxes shall be paid. No bond or undertaking shall be required of the state or county in any such injunction suit. It shall be the duty of the attorney general, when requested by the state auditor, to assist the county attorney in in prosecuting such suit in any court in which the same shall be pending. Sec.4. That any timber hereafter cut or any minerals hereafter mined from any tract of lund in this state and removed therefrom, subject to the lien hereinbefore provided, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be seized by the state auditor, or by any of his agents. or by the sheriff of any county, when appointed and authorized by the state auditor in writing, and sold in the manner provided for the sale of personal property in satisfaction of per- sonal taxes. All moneys received from any such sale in excess of the amount necessary to satisfy the taxes delinquent and the costs and expenses incurred in making such seizure and sale shall be returned to the owner of the timber or minerals so seized and sold, if known, and, if unknown, the sume shall be deposited in the county treasury subject to the right of the owner thereof. * Sec,5. Any person who shall remove or attempt to remove any timber or mineral from any tract of land subject to a lien for taxes, as in this act provided, before such taxes have been fully discharged, shall be guilty of the crime of unlawful removal of timber, or the unlawful removal of miner- als, as the case may be.’and, upon convic- tion thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by im- prisonment of not more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment. Mel Johnson, of Cass Lake, wes in town last Sunday. THEIR FINAL APPEAL Fergusson’s Attorneys Plead for Clem- ency Before Board of Pardons. TYNDALL CRITICISES WINDOM The Sheriff Claims That the Attorney Deliberately Lied When He Claim- ed That an Outsider Would be Hired to Do the Hanging. The final appeal in behalf of George J. Fergusson for a commutation of his sentence from hanging to life im- prisonment was made before Chief Justice Start of the supreme court, Governor Lind and: Attorney General Douglass on Monday afternoon last. ‘These gentlemen constitute the state board of pardons. Fergusson was represented by Attorneys C. L. Pratt of Grand Rapids and W. L. Windom of Duluth, County Attorney Dono- hue was present in behalf of the state. For the first time since the arrest ofy Fergusson last spring the plea of insanity was made. Under the circumstances the board did not take kindly to the tactics of the de- fendant attorneys. Mr. Windom ap- peared in a new role entirely foreign to anything that was _ recorded in the evidence. During the trial no word was said as to the prisoner’s sanity, and while Windom made that plea he did not come fortified with any evidence to substantiate his as- sertions. Mr. Pratt still clung to his original defense that Fergusson was only accessory to the crime and that others were the real criminals. It was the evident desire of the board to give Fergusson the full benefit of anything that might be in his favor, and without announcing their pur- pose they immediately dispatched ; Dr. Tomlinson of the St. Peter hos- pital for the insane, to Grand Rap- ids to investigate as to the prisoner’s sanity. He arrived here unannounced on Tuesday. What his report was will not be known until the decision of the board is finally given out. 1t may be three or four days before the final verdict will reach Sheriff Tyn- dall. SHERIFF SAYS WINDOM LIED, The Statement That Mr. Tyndall Would Not Perform His Duty Was False. W. L. Windom, the Dututh at- torney who appeared before the prison pardoning board last Monday in behalf of Fergusson, the con- demned murderer, made some re- markable statements. The board of pardons consists of the chief justice of the supreme court of the state, the governor and the attorney gener- al. Mr. Windom began his appeal to these eminent gentlemen with the following outburst of eloquence: “If every man in this room had justice meted out to him according to his deserts we would all have been in hell ten years ago.”’ Just what the members of the Loard of pardons thought of this unlooked for and un- reasonable statement is not known outside the precincts of their own minds, but. it is safe to conclude that they did not wholly agree with it. Continuing along the same lines Mr. Windom worked himself into a des- perate condition and forgot not only his surroundings but his conscience as well. . He stated many alleged facts that were falsehoods—and falsehoods that he must have known would be flatly contradicted. He had talked with Sheriff Tyndall and knew when he uttered the following that it was wholly untrue: “Iam told that the sheriff will resign his office rather than bang this young boy. But, instead, he goes down to Minneapolis and gets a murderer to do the job for him for $1,000 or $1,200.” Sheriff Tyndall, like all humane men, does not rejoice over the duty that confronts him in his official capacity. As with the jury that brought ina verdict of murder in the first degree, the judge who pronounced the death sentence, and the governor who signed the death warrant, so with the sheriff—they all shrank from the awful duty that must be done. But their solemn oaths were not to be violated—the law of the state must not be disre- garded. Those who know Mr. Tyn- dall best know that he will not fail in his duty however disagreeable it may be. The following communica- tions from the sheriff and Charles Kearney are a sufficient refutation of Windom’s falsehood: Editor Herald-Review.—Sir: The St. Paul and Minneapolis papers quote Mr. W. L, Windom, of Duluth, as saying before the board of pardons at St. Paul last Monday, in his argument for Fergusson, that I said I would resign before I would. execute the sentence of the court in the case of Fergus- son; that I was negotiating with a-Minne- apvlis hangman to perform the act which ne sheriff in Minnesota has the hardihood to do himself. I desire to say through the colums of your paper that when Mr. Windom said that before the board of pardons he told an untruth. To speak in plain language, he lied. He not only lied, but he knew he was lying and slandering a man who had not done him any wrong. I was not present at the hearing before the board of pardons, and did not know what was said until afterward. As soon as Iheard it I went to Mr. Windom at the hotel, and in the presence of C. L. Pratt, Esq.. of this place, 1.asked Mr. Win- dom if he suid that, and he said he did.- I told him that he knew'I never said so, and he said, “I know you did not say so, butI would say anything there to clear my man.” I want to say to the people of Itasca county that when I took my oath of office to per- form my duty I intended to do it, and have never departed from that resolution. Mr. Windom manufactured that lie against me out of whole cloth—every word of it, as I never told him nor anyone else what he said. Yours respectfully, W. ©. TYNDALL, Sheriff of Itasea Co. Grand Rapids, Minn.. Oct. 12, 1899. [hereby certify that I was present during all of the conversation between Mr. Windom. and Sheriff Tyndall, and I know that Mr. Tyndall never said what Mr. Windom says he said. Mr. Windom came into the sheriff's office ut Grand Rapids and commenced to talk about the murder aud the punishment. He said thatit would cost the sheriff from $1000 to 31200, and that there was no law whereby. the sheriff could get it back; he said it would ruin our village; he said the Lord was against capital punishment, and he quoted scripture at great length. I thought at one time that he was preaching us a ser- mon. I know that at that conversation Mr. Tyndall did not use the language Mr. Win- dom accuses him of. CHARLES KEARNEY, Grand Rapids, Oct. 12, 1899. REY. HARTLEY LEAVES The Popular Pastor of the M. E. Chureh Is Transferred to the Iron Range, Rey. J. C. Hartley, who for the past two years has been pastor of the M. E. churches here and at Deer River, leaves on Monday. for» Biwabik, to which place he was assigned by the last Methodist conference. His pas- torate will ulso>include Mountain lron. During his stay here he has made a host of friends among all ay and denominations aud his departure will be greatly regretted. He is a public spirited, liberal minded man, who with his wife has done much, not only for their own church but have aided in every un dertakiog calculated to benefit the community in any way. May their lines fall in pleasant places. The charge left open by the trans- ferring of Rev. Hartley will be taken up by Rev. R. J. McGee, who is at present stationed at Oneota, a sub- urb of Duluth. Rev. McGee is re- puted to be a young man of talent and ability who will undoubtedlybe well received by our people. He will preach his opening sermon on Sunday morning. EXTENSION TO KOOCHICHING Claim That Great Northern is Surveying a Route From Deer River North. The Rainy Lake Herald of Oct. 6 says: “The surveyors who are at work locating the main line of the Great Northern railway from Deer River to Koochiching will have the route completed tv Koochiching in about ten days. The road will cross the Little Fork some twenty miles southwest of Koochiching and is ex- pected to terminate near the mills. The country through which the new road will pass is very easy to build through and as there are some 800,+ 000,000 feet of pine in the district it will open a good field for lumbering and with Koochiehing and its great. water power as a terminus, it means the establishment .of sawmills, pulp mills and other industries. Inad- dition to this we have thousands of acres of the best farming land in the west, only awaiting a means of com- munication to be opened up. This in connection with the through line ofthe Ontario & Rainy River rail- road to the east and west at Fort Franéés will open a great market and field fur Duluth, Superior, St. Paul, Minneapolis and other cities to the south of us. From what can be learned it is believed that the new road will be into Kvochiching a the Fourth of July next.” Looking for a Decision. Many citizens of Itasca county are anxiously awaiting returns from Governor Lind on the county com- missioner removal case. The matter came up for hearing on Monday last. The evidence was presented and arguments made, Attorneys Dono- hue and Pratt appeared for the state and Frank F. Price presented Com- missioner Leeman’s side of the case, The governor’s findings will be re- turned the first of the week. | j i i ] t ; ;