Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 23, 1899, Page 1

| Vow VIIIl.—No 21 ‘ p Rapips, ee County, ae iN. Sarurpay, Dicenas 23, t89y. me j = soe Sav sss = ie = ee — = | - SEaEaE a aT aree ew pe ew Seca orn Te RE ea . ' ) GREBTING! i. HOLIDAY NRO te Fi Whi e of Fiz 1M sling at | tquality.. Tf ¥en went a stylish i Dry Goods MBM 10, S4aR Th bloc. red ; fos tn fhe, BEEat toe eomctn bet Clothing - ie ee, AND GLASBWARE m Colc M axe ih pe . We have made a successful effort to buy nd offer () We are confining our best effpris to make this] very | » shoes ure rrect dre sers will find the tit Schaffner, & on sale new and an exquisite assortment of a rtment, comparatively speaking, up tothe city a Tel heat X High Art Clothin within. the Vases, Co nd Saucers. Japanese ware. Af- () and close tuapestian oF Gur eioee wilt cane sa big stock of solid and i ud h Strivthysall wool business | temoon. Te Pin Trays. Fancy Plates. « Ou thitt we have been successful,” Every fancy colors. i Meme he ae Salad Dishes, Celery jira ete runce—we hive the goods. Silk <q espace i | ‘etd, soln ght i e carry no poe y Se et f BANCY LA cee Anew Une of all woabbtaide ln wine. Broww: | suea ge eigre AER Fail line of Boys of which moulvcunie af due Phristyias present. red. blue and green ee goes nh every suit. Full line of Boys’ ae red, bine and grag shuts, sults, Fong pants, in eras brown, and mitts Come in and see them: no trouple to show goods. ful sortment of sl sonuaane urboy isin neéd of a suit come in. You c and dark browns. gray, RES Tener: mae Rey DOLBY cainotastord to pass them up; quality right. Furniture blues, . a MPSON’S GLOVE! 3000 ortment of Boys’ Short Pants, two eae ; Corsets: We handle “PHOMPSON’S GLOV Re eso ao 3 th for walking and rainy- | piece suit Fine line of Couches, a. Reverst crobommade t L js : et Meus’ Fine Overcoats in smooth and rough effects, ; a ‘colors—Alst FITTING CORSET” | _ | elegantly made snd perfect fitting. Mens’ UF Fancy Chairs, Leather . Venatinw Cloths iwueterd Site Seca sters in’splendid qu Irish Freeze, Chin- Trimmid boo kece. i 5) Inches wide ne. red and green ef nace rel Has along. gy, " i 5 & Mohair Crépons, staygard qcality ‘anidifor’ateletand : $10 to $2: Fancy Rockers, Side- jsome deskgns. an yi Boys’ Reefers, blue and black Chincillas, 9 . 3 . 4 feta silk. plain satin, Sieneehav eee. SUP ceaiiee oe me bitchy cs Wap coeteonets nt shades. Splendid Ci = s_of all grade Hall Trees, Row a patterns. [4 yds. fect fitting and ¢an- Sram. $2 to $5 # a Sia ' euch] a 81.254 Tatliey wiligh eanage be ae g and ca ants ~importéd Golden Oak Dining Ke pioln pga i Avie dress soods, such as Hot be) “eurpaberd sand cee? | ae: Tables-3 and 8 feet. i Chéviots. Clay Sorcea Warde: Sanesat Ask for ‘Tliomson’s | Blank GENTS’ ‘FURNISHING GOODS Center Tubles, Tron t f; 1 S Fitting Cor- o| We handle va gad * ties and Beds—all prices. Bed- Ui Lange ment of Tabie Cloths, e § | taney bx m4 hemselves 5 f Nupicins, bla Sets, beavy‘quality. fextiacics as to style ty. Good ass't. of bow, room Suits in Oak, Curly ‘Towels, extra fine quality (n exelus' imniagi ‘olors. tre = se a Linen Towels; Just the thing fora holiday and Cotton hose fa. black Birch, Children’s Rock i) gift. \ suspenders. Mocha gl. ers, Buiffets, Matresses, ‘§ Turkish Towels We have all s oves, ies I i prices. Wool Fuscinators; all sl dull wool. ajtine, .. Springs, cots, ete. Wool scinator: extra he; Perris tear oo M Shavlg ging from2. Hardware A, Curtains. — good This department is full of siapio and .useful ar- -_ » a of urtistic patterns... ticles. especially our L endy Counter. — Good a Chinelle and ‘Tapestry Curtain line of Heaters.” Cook Pocket’ Knives, s colors nd mixtures. Tapestry Ti Silver Ware. Hand Sleds, Bobs, Shelf Hardware, 4 sb Se oP t Guns. Rifles Amunition, nickel . plated ‘Coffec ‘ Ss and Ten Pots, Blue and Gray Enameled Ware, i x Underwear eating alee aud ovarything. pertaining toa comclces Mae | ar § Ho Wo con's all wool Combination Suits. in ” hat. alsoStett- iad ela dala esos ga i ct : 0) Women’s Ribbed Combination Suits, ‘ ¥; i ka kg { tot suey = Electric iibicd, wool, fleoced oo 69e “110 1.1.50 fal CF) eup pera ase rere OE van TAME Rg i i i i you buy. — Nee We 0 ARO RR RAW AEE RE et BE + Sneaking of pom Prompts us to remark that if you want have to go for it. Others nay insist that their stock is darger— and perhaps it is—but itis not as good, staple grocer! all requirements, while his the VERY BEST you will to thestore of J.D. Powe and they know it. In he can meet Teas, Coffees, Butter, Cheese, Pickles, Canned Goods and spices are absolutely can be procurred in towp. Powers’ coffees are particularly famous, he having a larger trade in this com- modity than any other grocer in the His stock of cigars, tobaccos and smokers’ articies is ap excellent one and be invites you to try them. the best that village. A Full Line of Gent’s Furnishing Goods. J. D. POWERS. Opposite Hotel Pokegama, An Up-toedate Caainibal i tank on fuel brits. nomical avd the Come in and look over Stock of fe DaiGee W. J. & H. D. POWERS. | i Tfheshould come to Grand f i What doyet stppose le awoaid ¢ | Ve finagine bed “shake abat by BULTO, first. aed about 4 he'd Go we fo Luy a heateraf Us. & 3 ROUND OAK i H 4 is possibly Uhe only heater that would ; keep him warn without breaking t 2 It is the most cco- yest heater made. ee our obbe ans wee aE = | Ke Mes re 2 GRAND RA Ds. a = 580 5.00 wilh not 466 5.00 Our line of if Sk ADE sty # from the n xd to be stylish ¢ uy on us. ein Trom 25¢ mire me . 20 er Games of block BE cota ple wid bbe, 1a) 0u the fi Bane Will puiup Groceries au dhs e Hee ie The largest stock of toys ee specialties ever of- fered to the pubiic. we are amply supplicd with an ass ortment con- sisti g of Chin: bisque dolls, best make Kest transparent slat rei Toys After a careful selection «olls, rubber dolls, er doll: blocks, building toy guns, drums, cribs, etc. horse and wagon. hook and drays. dump earts, banks, tomatic animals. kid dolls, Kinds—A. kh. C. licacies of the es, London Lager neappie. Fane ip. dines. Meas nas, Sweet Cider. ge assortment 3. bottled pickles. olives Our crackers ure direct from we know they are fresh. Faney nib. exrtoous for holiday trade. mixed ‘dainties - Fresh Cream- "Prompt delivery. iu Nea all the di Ms Handkere odors mizers. Toilet and Fancy Goods » Opal Noveltic glove boxes. Perfumes—A est craze—its superb—try it. See See ee Ta ey ST on op We we ESHER eS LE BT Se Cee on aaa! a a a | eT f boxes, glove bofes, necktie boxes, eabe ses, brush ang comb causes, trav- Rose bowls, pin trays, ash trays, andard “Theima,” the lat- Perfume ato- and assortment df all si atest novelties. on This Important Subject. Fully recognizing the impossibility ol surpressiny the string fiends, for ¢ purpose of getting their stor nto print and a few dollars in their authorities lifted | pockets on matters they’are least q: pretend to pose a wall, > discuss, the Lumberman 00r- i theless, endeavor to correct an 3 ntly tive story that rv jer a Mins lis date lie in the/s New York ‘Simes. and whicli afforded the New York Sun an i sympathize with Mirnesota to print a touching obituary on the lum-} northwest. idusiry of the ‘The bare statement 7,000,000,- heamount > aceredited to M short of the acuml 000 feet of standing pine— the | | nes¢ lue Jamount, would be of no g g without the support of teonacd authority. No more would simple denials of the other statements. | For this reason the kn8wletlge of a num- ber. of best.. lumbermen the northwest has been drawn on, and on they are quoted. men the in with their perini By “best lumbermen” than whom no one is more thoroughly They we mean conversant with the facts are | men who not oaly are large holders of | umber themselves, but who live been engaged in lumbering in Minnesota jand the northwest for a nunber of | years and who in the course of their { business have traveled of the timber area o: the state. have made it their business to get the| most accurate obtaina sle information on the amount of standing pine. ‘Phe statements that follow may be. taken as containing informauon as near the lacts as can be secured: Frederick Weyerhaeuser: ‘The “idea that the pinef supply of Minnesota will be exhausted in five years is fool- ish, and the statement that oniy. 7,000,000,000 feet of standing pine remain is wide. of the truth. Our mills, ‘The Pine ‘Vree Lumber Co, at Little Falls and the Northern and Cloquet Lumber companies at Clo_ quit have timber enough to stock them for fifteen to twenty years, and we are buying more ail the ume. Our: new millat Lake Nebaganion , will be sawing for fourteen years. t would be willing to accept an estimate of twenty-five billion fect in» Minnesor and pay a good price for it. the total amount is nearer fo:ty billion over the most Vhey .t Prominent Lambermen Have to Say to} never- | appeired un- | feet. ; | Ex-Gov. J: S. Pillsbury: - I believe alle Minneapolis mils will be sawing iamber in quantity little less than now r the next. filteen.or_tyenty years, Fist-now the demand for white pine 1s‘unusually large. and the qut is ac ~ Trade will not keep An ebrdingly lar, up at the present rate. oi forty. billion fegt of the stxte 1s.nane too H. C. Akeley: ‘fhe avera the Minneap: mills fifteen years will be as large as it has }been during the past fitteen years. |Pac tou! amount of standing pine in state of Minnesota 1s several times actin ng pin ze cut of the next ior en bilhon teet. ‘Lhe man who sent nat article to the New York Times did not know, wh he was talking ‘TP. H. Shevlin: = Minneapolis wiil be manulacturing lumber in a large w.y tor ten years tiereafter, It is a maiter of experience that estimates of star gtimber have ,always proven jmuch too small, bui I believe a very | couservative estimaté would place the amount in. Minnesota at fifty billion} feet. Owing to our shipping facilities and for other reasons Minneapolis will be a large manufacturer of jumber as long as there is any timber ia ‘the State. B. F. Nelson: Minneapolis is now the largest manufacturer ot* lumbet in the world and will continue to be for !many years. After five or six years the volume of the cut will begin to decrease slowly, ‘The decrease will ve so slow aud the men who ate no longer needed will be employed by other incre: ising industries so that the jailing off in the manufscwure of Jum- ber will not- be nouced. .-This_ city and: the stateowiil saw pine lum i) ‘large amounts tora good many years The young timber that has been ict@1s rowing up. .(en years ago, we ‘cut vail the timber large enough to manu- cure, off a tract of dand. . Last | ivinter We give A man a contract to lcuritagan.,” He cut a unilion feet from it last winter and can cut two million feet more: this, winter if we ili fet him. © C. A. Sanith: Ihave \probably spent more money than any lumber- man iu this city in getting information as to the amount ol standing pine in lithe state‘and should say that there is n this state today, thirty-five bilion feet of standing pal . Minneapolis will saw more tumbe next. year than | his. gieeroaec cut for the next ‘| fittee ears 1 believe” bes er | than for the past fifteen vears, No Lm ull move north from here. ‘eut will be considerable twenty-five fe mills will be cuttu ea Minnesota een he history of ~ States farther east. _ {itoin now li neapolis will be among the last points to manufacture in a large way be- cause lumber can never come south as cheaply as logs can. 8 cents to bring a thousand feet of jlogs from Pokegama dam to the | Brainard dam a distance of 250 miles. j It will cost jrobably $2 to bring a | thousand feet of lumber the same dis- | tance. River driving charges will | probably grow less as the years go by. E_ W. Bickus: at it I should s ‘To make a guess | y that there was prob- tably tinrty-five billion feet of stand- jing pine in. the state. | future of the lumber industry, [ don’t | expect to live to sce the end of the tumber manu/acture inva large way in | ths: state. (Mr. Backus is not far from 40 yeus of age.) Munneapoiis will come pretty near sawing the last pine board made in this state. Why? Because Muinneapolis 1s the best ship- ping point in the state, and_ therefore the best market in which to buy. ‘The greit mill plants ar: here and freight oa logs to Minneapolis is cheaper than the freight on Jumber further ‘\north, A great system of logging} roads tributary to. the waters of the upper Mississippi has grown up that As to the} It costs but} BAD MAN AT DEER RIVER. — Frani Vondell Takes a Shot at M. MeGuire’g If Frank Vondell long continues to deport himself as he has been doing in the past he 1s apt to acquire a bad reputation. On Thursday he delib- erately discharged a revolver at Jus- tice McGuire of Deer River, with the evident intention of killing him, That he failed to accomplish his purp seis doubtless due to the fact tha would be murderer wa, © usid-nooly under she influence of Lagu r, ant therefore his aim was not a> gvod as bis intentions. Vondell bad been in the employ ot McGuire as driver of a beer delivery wagon. It is said he collected and spent considerable money without authority. A dispute arose between the two, with the above result. ‘The shooting took place in the |C. W. Robinson’s place of business. Sheritt Tyndall was notified and went after the offender yesterday, but Von- dell had made his escape trom Deer River and is still at large. A short time ago Vondell completed a term will bring fogs from the farthest part! of the state at reasonable rates to the} Jiver. ‘The water flows down hill all} ‘the way from their dump to the Min- | neapolis mills. Then Minneapohs | will always be the best log market. All| oivners of tracts of timber too small to warrant building mills in the woods will market their loys in -Minneapohs. the timber owned by Aiinper ne oianufacturers is cut away. C. A. Bovey: | + would not venture Chis will keep mills going here after | | Asitaienl of two years im the penitentiary at ulwater. He was commnitted from this county by Judge Holland for be- ing implicated in a robbery at Swan River, Bear for Dewey. ‘The town of Bemidji, county seat | of Beltrami county, 1s going to send Dewey. a Chnistmas_ pres- ent, The present is a black bear, lately captured in the pnmeval wil- dermess that surrounds that very ’ a guess on the amount of. timber, but lL know “the principal mills here are stocked for from ten to. sixteen years. Ne except the custom mills. after five years manufactuye of lumber will begin to wane here, but it will continte on a large scale. for many years. I believe our output for the next fifteen years will he as large as for the past fifteen years. Then when it does gradually drop out its place will be so well and~ gradually filled with other industryes that this city will never miss it. . The evidence giv by ie promi-. nent lumbermen quoted above ough to be convincing. Three cr four of ¢hem control more timber than the article in the Times gave to the wholé men who know, for it is their business in ine.—Missi _ Vall parks. ote rly all-are. stocked tor five OFSiX'|46 he reedived b Probably | Phere is ‘nothing too good for him to g|state. Lutle if anything can be added petsonal liberty John Murphy and fe to their testimony. ‘They are the Peter Millinger. the first of the week ‘om now and pine lumber will |to know. The largest of their esti-| were suspected of stealing goods from Eee ‘ates the log in this city| mates can be considered conservative, | the stores of C. H, Marr A hundred years | for experience has proven that the| Beckfelt, In | prophets ot the past have all fatlen far {snort in their attempis ‘to ‘estimata_ attractive and enterprismg town “Billie” is the name of the bear and bruin 1s about to go ona long journey y thé great admiral. eat im the meantime. “Billie” winds up each meal with wild honey when it is to be had.and when it is wanting store honey goes. According to the Bemidji Pioneer the citizens of the place are willing the admiral shall deed the bear to whomever ne pleases. ‘The sum of $20-has been raised to- ward the necessary expenses of get- ting the bear into the presence of Ad- ‘al Dewey,—Duluth News-Tnbune. _ Rounded Up for Robbery. * > Sheriff Tyndall interfered with the and landed the pair in jail. They and John E Justice Barnard’s court” they were found Bachar a2