Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 28, 1900, Page 1

b Vox VIII.—No, 52. MINNESOTA — a STORICAL CIETY. oe Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay, JuLY 28, tgoo. Saas REE ARE Re ee ee ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae i RE dob ddbdekdddbekebdidek i iobdeed a Re SSeS ee AR a ee ae ee ae ae RE aE Siggueaseeseensoseneeteees ee ¥ 88 SU SY ag ae SAE GSI ae aE ae ae ae ae ae ae a HONE eee amas nea ana EEE PE RK RSI DIG aR SE an AN a a a ap A at aE aE EAE: Annual inventory Sale ig Bargains in Our Dry Goods, Clothing and Dry Goods Departments These goods must be sold to make room for our fall purchases, Some very pretty styles and patterns in LADIES FINE SHOES “NEW STOCK,” ITASCA MERCANTI E CO. AND JOHNNY CUT HIS FINGER Ought to know better than to let Johnny monkey with a knife or any other edge tool that came from Power's, because the tools bought trom us are the kind that “hold an edge” and are always sharp. We have the finest stock of tools and cutlery that you ever Jaid eyes on, and before buying we want you to come and look at our stock. Will you do it? W. J. & H. D. POWERS SURES ENE Ea State te ae ae a ete: SS SE A) SRS tee a at ae a ae ae ae eae ae eae a ae ea ah eI I eae ae ee te a ae ae te ae ae REE REA Ae EME ae DOORS ae ae a ae a ae ae ae a ae aE aE ae EEE AEE SeeRKeeREtenETasee i: Shad % = BK ‘REST I ESHA A a a He ae ate ae ate Ree a: ee ae ane se ae a Me ae TE ESE RAT ae ae a aE ate se ate ab ate se ae safe Re ae ae ate aA ae fe ate ate ate oh ae HE AEH He He HE a a ie ae ae a HE ea a aE RE Se aie age age ae a ae ate ake ate ae ae ane ate ae st ate ate ae SE Me ate ae ae a ea ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae 38 feck ee Ree ier Arriving Daily During the last two weeks not a day has passed but what we have received a large shipment of groceries of some kind. We guarantee our stock to be absolutely the freshest to be found in the village and our prices are as low as the lowest. Gent’s Fine Shoes This is something that we wish to call your especial attention. We have an elegant line of the latest styles in light weights for the summer season. You will. be surprised at the low prices we are asking for these. We have also a fine line of -Cruiser’s Boots and Shoes which we guarantee in ever y particular. Come in and see our stock. J. D. POWERS Groceries: 2 ea S ca Be & {has been here. BUCK DOING BUSINESS Edwin L. Buck-of Minneapolis, Hust- ling Settlers Into Itasca County. IOWA, ILLINOIS, MINNESOTA Contribute to the Population of the Quadinaw District Which is Rap- idly Being Settled by a Desir- able Class of Farmers. People who have. resided in these northern counties of Minnesota have long recognized the very important fact that the day would come when our valuable agricultural and stock farms would be eagerly sought for occupancy by*a thrifty and well to do class of citizens from the more thickly settled states south and west of us. One of the principle reasons why Itasca county is not more ad- vanced in agriculture than she is at present 1s due to the fact that railroad companies—the advance agents of progress—own but comparatively httle of our four million acres. Through the aggressive efforts of railroad agencies immigration has been attracted from Europe and the-Eastern states to sec- tions where large grants had been made ky the general government to aid in the construction of railroads. Itasca has been more isolated from this advantage than any other county in the state, The settlers that have come here to build homes have only learned of the great advantage to be had through the advertising that the local press has been able to give out and through such other efforts as have been made by our enterprising busi- ness men, But at last capitalists have learned that no better opportunities are offered for investment than is now to be found im Itasca county real astate. The theory long adhered to that a country where pine trees grow nothing else can be produced profitably, has been proven to bea grave mistake so far as northern Min- nesota 1s concerned. ‘lhe woflderful -| productiveness of this: county has sur?) prised all who have given the subject investigation.. We have never knowg a crop failure from drought or other causes, while the Dakotas, Southern Minnesota, lowa, Wisconsim and IIli- nois have suffered many seasons of almost total loss to the agriculturists, One of the enterprising and far-seeing men of means who has given full con- sideration to this important subject is Edwin L. Buck of Minneapolis, He was not interested in northern Min- nesota real estate until he had thor- oughly investigated the matter from every point of view. He had money to invest and wanted lands that he knew would sell. He found these landsin Itasca and Aitkin counties. Among other tracts he secured about eleven thousand acres in the Quadi- now and Hill Lake districts that is be- ing disposed of rapidly to actual set- tlers from Iowa and Illinois. This is a magnificent tract of hardwcod land, easily cleared for cultivauon, is rich in soil, having productive resources that will last without additional fer- ulizing for many years. It is all trib- utary to Grand Rapids, and the farm- ers now locating there will make this their trading point. Our progressive business men, always alive to their own interests, are aware that. good roads are one of the first necessities. During the past week Mr, F. D. Dib- ble, representing the E. L. Ruck lands, He presented the matter of road improvement to the business citizens ot Grand Rapids. The highway between here and the Aitkin county line for a distance of about twenty-five miles was looked over, and it is estimated that $800 to $1,000 will fut the road in first-class shape. This done Grand Rapids will secuse the entire trade from that section. Over five hundred: and fifty doliars has already been contributed by individual citizens. It is expected that the county board will appropri- ate an additional sum of $200 at their meeting next week, The first nine miles of the road leading out Of the village, is in excellent condition, while the balance will need corduroying in several places. Mr. J. E. Gill of Monson, Iowa, recently purchased 240 acres in the Hill lake section of whjch he will make a stock farm. Following is a list of the contribu- tions to the fun McAlpine & McDonal W. J. & H. D. Powers. John Beckfelt....... Gilbert Land Co. Kremer & King. SRRBRKRERE D. W. Doran «. August Johnson. Emil Litchke... Thomas McAlpine. William Dibbert.. W. V. Fuller & Co George F. Kremer. am SSaanannansanaagn P,P. Sheldon. Napoleon Russe! 0. H. Stilson..? Martin Duffic; W. C. Gilbert. J. F. O'Connell ©. C. Miller.. W. C. Tyndall. Thomas Kelly. John O'Reilly. J. F. Metzger. J.P. O'Donnell. . I. D. Rassmussen George F. Meyers... ‘ Mr. Dibble went to Duluth yester- day to meet a party of Iowa and Illi- nols farmers who are coming to make selections of land in the ‘Quadinaw district. me sar nnanananwa THE JUNE APPORTIONMENT: $116,920.22 Paid Into the Several County Funds---The Largest Ever Made. County Auditor Farrell has com- pleted the division of funds for the June apportionment, and the figures are highly gratifying to everybody. The apportionment was by far the largest ever made, there being a total of $116,920.22 divided among the sev- eral county funds, as against about $40,000 in former years. This in- crease is the result of the torfeited tax sale held last May, by which a large amount of money for back taxes was paidin. Of the amount distributed the school districts re- ceive a total of $20,388.79, of which $16,256.05 goes to district No. 1. The several county funds get $76,617.65; organized towns $3,379.65; villages, $4,130.64, of which Grand Rapids comes in for $4,024.03 and Laprairie $86.61. That going to state loan ac- counts aggregates $1,917.00; state revenue, $6,472.20, and state. school, $4,084.92. Following is on itemized table of the amounts credited to the several funds: County Revenue County poor fund.. 5,664.40 Road and bridge fun 2,808.73, Sinking fund.. 18,908.43 Interest fund 15,090.95, County judgments. 2,570.61 Town of Grand Rapids 2,445.20 © Tron Range.. 242.97 “Trout Lake 873 12 >i 93.48 2 69.51 bg 73.80 3 81.7 Villige of G 4,024.05 Laprairie. 86.61 State Loans—School District No.1... 1,264.32 vin -< No. 2.. 335.50 od ve, 86.81 . re 7A ce St 49.14 ‘i i 174.64 KILLING GAME UNLAWFULLY, - The Itasca News Claims That This is Being Done on the Big Fork. The Itasca News of last week calls attention to a matter that should be looked into at once. Itclaims that deer and moose are killed and left to rot in the valley of the Big Fork river. The News also claims that the settlers in the section are very angry over the matter and should the culprits be caught it might go hard with them. Thus far the News article is all right, and everyone will applaud it for calling attention to this state of affairs, In the rest of the article,however, Editor Tailor dis- plays his well-known willingness to make an ass, of himself. He lays the blame of this illegal slaughter of game at the door of GovenorLind,and claims that the money appropriated to send out game wardins to see that such things do not occur is used for cam- paign porposes. ‘The claim is too silly for serious consideration. Since the begining, vf Govenor Linds admin- istration there has been much less of this kind of thing going on than at any previous time since the game laws were enacted, and Editor Tailor knows it. This is due to the wide awake policy pursued by the new game warden and if thingr are as the Deer River paper states, which we do not doubt, Mr. Ruetner will no doubt give the matter his attention.” There is one thing certain, should.the guilty parties be caught their punish- ment will follow. This, we regret to say, has not always been the case under previous game wardens. Be on hand Friday morning, Aug- ust 8 to witness the free exhibition ofthe Great Syndicate Epglish-American shows, EXCURSION WILL COME The People of Hibbing Will Visit Grand Rapids Enmasse Tomorrow. OVER THREE HUNDRED IN ALL Provision Has Been Made for Their Entertainment---A Ball Game Be- tween the Two Niues One of the Day’s Features. The people of Hibbing will be over here ina body tomorrow. To judge from reports recieved from:the iron town one would think that the entire population will be here and we hope this will prove to be the case. The excursion has been gotten up by the base ball nines of the two towns, the citizens generally have contributed to make the affair a success. There is only one thing to be regreted “and that is that Bemidji is also hav- ing an excursion tomorrow, the Red Men being the hosts. When this was discovered athe base ball club here tried tohave the Hibbingites post- pone their visit as some of. our people would like to go to Bemidji, but as the Hibbing people had already made arrangment fora special train and everything else, the matter will half to proceedasitis. This will have the effect of making our own people stay at home to receive the visitors, which we believe will be mere of a pleasure than going to Bemidji would prove A meeting of our citizens was held at Village hall last evening at which ways and means for the entertain- ment of the visitors were discussed. A committee was appointid to look after their comfort upon their arrival] and escort them to theCourt house where addresses of welcome will be made and the freedom of the city tendered them. After this there will be conveyances at hand to take the excufsionist to any of the points ‘of interest in this vicinity that tliey may choose to visit. We haveta great many things w show that Hib- bing, being in the heart of the -min- ing country cannot show, and we.do not think that the visitors will find: their stay dull. After the carrage drives will come dinner, after which the visitors will take in the sights about the village until the great ball game that is to be the feature of the day commences. Hibbingis said to havea strong team, but the local boys think they can beat them. At any rate the game will be interesting and will draw a large crowd. Fol- lowing will be the line “up of the teams: Hibbing Grand Rapids Hall... seen Shoal Dooley. aich—Romans Kleffman. ...-Hachey Skinner. Keene. Klass.... MeDonoug! - The special train carrying the ex- cursionists will leave Hibbing about 8;30 and arrive here about 10:00 oclock Returning it will probably not leave here until after 9:00 o’clock at the earlist. All our citizens should be on hand to help entertain the visitors. ~ THE SCHOOL ELECTION. Mrs. C. C. MeCarthy is Re-Elected---The Annual School Meeting Takes Place. The school election last Saturday evening was a very quiet affair, there being but one candidate in the fleld— Mrs. C. ©. McCarthy. That there was not another was not the fault of aocertain party, who would like nothing better than to see Mrs. Mc- Carthy defeated because she cannot see things exactly as the aforemen- tioned party would like to have her. That the interests of the school dis- trict Should be iu continual danger of falling into the hands of parties who would utilize them to their own gain is becoming insufferable, and we believe that another year will sce the threatening element removed. Mrs. McCarthy has made a splendid offi- cial, and it is enough to say that she will continue to no so. After the ‘ballots—52 in number— had been counted, the annual school meeting was called to order, and O, H. Stilson was elected moderator. The report of the treasurer was read, showing that the receipts had been $9,101.35, disbursements, $9,006.17, leaving a balance of $95.18. Director Brady made a motion that a commit- tee be appointed to examine the books of Treasurer Kremer, insinuat- ing that certain irregulrrities would be found to exist. The motion was Two Dotiars a YEAR seconded by Mr., Kremer himself, and carried. The moderator appointed Messrs W. C. Gilbert, H. R. King and O. L. Mather as such comniittee, and they will aeport ata special meeting tonight. No one takes any stock in the charges made by Brady, und his action is believed to be merely a piece of spitework. He is not in accord with the other two members .of the board, and em- ployes every means in his power to hamper them. Mr. Brady also made another motion that a committee of three be appointed to advise with the board concerning the purchase ot a-fence for the school grounds, and D. M. Gunn, A. E. Kribs and H. DB. Powers were appointed as such com- mittee. Ihe meeting adjourned un- til this evening. THE COUNTY FAIR. August 23 and 24 the Dates Set for Hold- ing the Annual Evhibition. The dates for holding -the eighth annual fair of the Itasca County Ag- rieultural association have. been set for August 23rd and 24th. This is fully a month earlier than it is usual to hold this exhibition, but the offi- cers of the association believe that all products will by that time be suf- ficiently matured to enable exhibitors to make as good a showing as they could were the the fair postponed until a later date. Holding the exhi- bition thus early will also enable Itasca county to have a display ab the state fair should it sodesire. This matter has as yet not been definitely settled and probably will not be until it is seen how the products at the county fair show up. Last year, ow- ing to the unpropitious’ season, the local exhibit was not up to - its usual standard, but reports from all direc- tions this season indicate that the coming fair will be the best held thus fay. The premium list has been revised and offers much greater in- ducements to exhibitors than hereto- foxe. We understand that one of the features of the fair will be the exhi- bits of the local business houses and manufacturers. Specimens of gold and iron ore to typety the mining in- dustry of the county will also be there and this wil. be anew department. ‘The officers. of the association are ‘now considering the advisibility of raising ‘the prizes for the horse race- ing and other sports, and should they conclude ot do this, it will very materially help out the attendance and interest. THE FORFEITED TAX LAW. A Mankato Jurist Declares it Invalid and it Will be Tested by Supreme Court. Judge Cray of Mankato, last week handed down a decision that is vf muclr importance to the citizens of this county. Suit was brought against a man purchasing a lot at the recent forfeited tax sale by the original owner, who claimed that he could not be divested of his title be- cause no notice of expiration of re- demption had been served on him. Judge Cray held that the party pur- chasing the land at the sale hada lien against it for the amount of the taxes, but nothing’ more, no matter how wuch he paid for it. Should this ruling be upheld by the supreme court, the purchaseapri¢e in excess of the taxes will undoubtedly have to be refunded by the state, as these lands were all bought‘ in good faith, Among attorneys there is a great dif- ference of opinion concerning the validity of the measure, some claim- ing that it cannot possibly stand, and others that there is no doubt of its stability. The latter base their op- inion to @ great extent on the fact that a. similar law passed in 1881, and another in 1897, have been repeatedly upheld by the supreme court. As both these acts deprived the original owner of his rights without a notice of experation.of redemptioa the same as the 1890 act, it is their opinion that the latter is no more invalid than were the formgr. Much interest centers in the supreme court’s deci- sion. Bemidji’s National Bank. | The following from the Beltrami County News will be of general inter- est to our readeas: “Last week the Bank of Bemidji was reorganized, and is now a national bank, hereafter to be known as the First National Bank of Bemidji. ‘he paid-up capital stock is $25,000, and the officers of the institution are as follows: President, C. W. Hastings; vice president, F. P. Sheldon; cashier, A. P. White; assist- ant.eashier, F. J. Kennedy. Finan- cially this is one-of the strongest banking organizations in the north- west. The bank operated at Cass Lake by these gentlemen was sol@ last week to Brainerd parties.” © . aS LST {t