Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 4, 1900, Page 1

Vout IX.—No, 1. Z Bee 7 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay, AuGusT 4, tgoo. _ MINBESOT A “HISTORICAL SOGIETY,. Two Dotvuars A YEAR } LALLA AELALARALELALLLLALLLALL LAA Eke ees aah dati picid Sar) Signin asco) t Sheneceesnnersssee ‘ eed ae ee ee { te ae { we ee i ee A ee iy at ee ae ae tate i/ ed RE " } rH ° 2 ye we ee # OTIS ON? & & A & -4 4 ae iy g 4 ae } ee ae ij ee ae | ee Be ae : Re | a In the way of special “events’* requires always some +4 rad special preparation. We’ve anticipated the require- at ad ments, and you'll find Lere what best plenses you—the ee ee desirable ide: but with an especially reasonable =. ne swing to pr a particularly pleasing feature. It’s se ; Sete the same way in any need—it’s safest to come here, HH ! | — for lowest prices are always certain, and then the r+ | ) oe soods you secure are always most reliable. wee Be | eat - ae } RR ae . ae 3% ; 32 ° A ae 8 Tempting ugust Values # ' ee Es ae ' at aM . Pi For there’s the right ring to prices and the right as | # Bt quality to the goods. and its this combination that ee } we clinches the desirability of a purchase—that makes 4 Pe you buy the goods freely. These will give an energetic Be we swing to early August selling, and good evidence that Pe } be we propose a busy month. ae } see Sd Boe te we ae f Re Seca ve 22 Dimities Organdies Silk Madresses ie ; Be % #2 Summer Wash Goods Lawns a8 4 ml Mulls Percales Piques =e : : % ae Foreign and Domestic Swisses #8 t ae ed # = He & Trimmings Laces ee i Applique in Colors. Allover Lace—several nes rd Jet in Assortment. designs to pick from. #% $3 bee % # # 1% Ae Meee dad ae ‘ + Po eae omnes aomok Sate oar OIRO EAE MCE eS oe ae ah ae eaten ne EE He Se ee He a BE Ee ae a He ae aD a AR ee EA ae Be ae A NC RI AE MEA EAE EH a EEE ITASCA MERCANTILE CO. Kitchen Ware Pots, Pans. Kettles, Stew Pans, Oat Meal Cookers, Wash Basins, Coffee and Tea Pots, and all such things made of the famous Reed’s Anti-Rust Tinware. When it comes to being knocked about and lasting a long time, yothing can dompare with these goods. They’re a whole lot cheaper than common tin, because they will last six times as lonf without making repair bills. Everything for the kitchen at right prices. W. J. & H. D. POWERS y Bae ai Ror, Groceries 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. 3 : a hea ie ae 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 haye also a fine line of Cruiser’s Boots and Shoes which’ we guarantee in every particular. Come in and see our stock. { Hartley, Mayor Wall and Editor || Bernard, who had accompanied the ubbard county men from Cass Lake. | Just where, when or how these worthies were invited into the game the submitted record of the case does not show, but it is likely that the military title of Hartley, the civil title of Wall and the Chesterfieldian lilacs of Bernard were expected to have |some sort of weight with our courts. About all the good it did these people | to interpose, however, was to make Frank Pnice take a few oratorical run- ning jumps at the whole outfit. While this wordy skirmish was in progress, the door of the sheriff's office was _ | closed, and the Hubbard county offi- _ }cials were outside. Suddeniy ‘there “|was a commotion in the lobby {of the court house, followed by The Great Syndicate Shows do not} @ blow with the but of a revolver on amount to a whole lot as a cireus,|the door, which shattered the glass. but theirhaving been here will fur- | A mob that some to those present say nssh laughing material for a shott|2Umbered five hundred men, but time at least. It was neither the probably consisted of fifteen or side show, the concert, the menagerie twenty, was seen through the aperture nor the big tent that had anything made in the door. ‘That they were |DIDN’T GET THIER MA Cireus Manager Richards Has Qui a Time With Officers of the Law. WANTED IN HUBBARD oountl At Least That’s What Its Sherif Claimed---Foilowed the Show to— Akeley, Cass Lake ane Finally to Grand Rapids. particularly amusing to display, but the wind up of the day proved to be decidedly out of the ordinary. The story is as follows: On Wednesday night, as the troup was showing ab Akeley, the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Hubbard county arrived on the scene with warrants for thearrest of ;two men connected with the aggre gation, it being claimed that several parties had been robbed by them in one way or another. The officers of thelaw were not obdurate, however, and offered to settle providing the amount claimed to be stolen was 1 turned anda little something added to keep the two limbs of the law in good humor. Manager Richards the circus said he was willing to ré- turn the amount alleged to have been taken,—$85 in all—but objected to donating $25 apiece to the sheriffs, The matter was finaly compromised, however, and the manager paid over $125, which left $20 apiece for the of- ficers. These accepted the money, and gave Mr. Richards a receipt for it. Lhe show people finished their engagement at Akeley without any further trouble and on Thursday morning arrived at Cass Lake where they were to perform that night Here they were again surprised by the same ‘sheriff and deputy, who'hed. evidently thought the matter over and come to the conclusion that they had let their game off too cheap. Here again the warrant issued at Patk Rapids for the arrest of the two men was served, but this time the show people refused to make any kind of a settlement, saying that they had already paid all that was asked, and had the receipt to show for it. After the show was over and the special train was about to pull out, Deputy Sheriff Alexander of Hibbard county came onto the depot, platform and proceeded to place the parties wanted under arrest. But the circus men séemed to have acquired a large amount of contempt for both the deputy and his warrant. They seemed to know enough about law, howeyer, to realize that the matter would have to be paid some attention to. This would have been all right had they devoted their at- tention to the legal document in- stead of the official. They made him kneel on the platform and acknow- asked at Akeley, then they made him hold up his hands, then put them down again. He danced waltzes and polkas and cakewalks, ran. walked and leaped in turn as the mood hap- hened to strike his tormentors. When intermissions were allowed him the men put in the time by playfully batting him, over the head with a coupling pin or other handy instrument. Tiring ef the sport, they at last pulled out with this town as their destination, After they had gone another warsant was issued tor the arrest of one of the deputy’s as- sailants and also for Manager Rich- ards. The latter bad taken no part in the fracus, but all circus men evidently look alike to some officials. ‘The two Hubbard officers and the warrant arrived on yesterday after- noon’s train, and the document was given into the hands of Sheriff Tyn- dall for service. The Itasca official arrested Mr. Richards all mght but he could not find the other mau. The manager, or cgurse, objected to being held for the assault, and employed Attorney Frank F. Price io defend him. ‘The latter gentleman imme- diately started in to have his client released on habeas corpus proceedings, and about 11 o’clock last evening Court Commissioner Arnold discharged the prisoner, As the latter went to leave the court room a Park Rapids officials again interterted, and armed this trme with guns instead of a | so. harmless warrant, informed © Mr. Richards that he was still their prison- er, This view was also*taken by Col, ledge that they had paid him all he | rough citizens was easily to be seen, and their mission being somewhat in doubt, the men in the office made a rapid move for the vault, where they stayed nntil the trouble was over, One of the visitors made a lunge at George Arscott with a clubbed re- volver and had the weapon wrenched out of his hands for his pains; Jim Quigg thought the Chinese Boxers had landed, and yelled to Sheriff Tyndali to hand him a gun; Mr. Richards thought that it was the Hubbard county sheriffs pose after him and made an undignified exit through a window; the Cass Lakers thought it was the circus men'come to liberate their manager, and crouched closer in the corners of the vault. They proved to be correct. The show men had come enmasse, armed with pistols, bricks, coupling pins, crowbars and were there on purpose. When they saw their manager disappear through the window, they turned square about and followed him to where their train was in waiting, and boarding it, they left town, no doubt thiaking that they had the laugh on certain folks. That’s the story, What the merits are we do not know. The show men treated everybody all right while here, and we understand that the people of Cass Lake had no kick coming. Attorney Pnce handled some people a little ighly in defending his man, but that he did a bnilliant job all through, everyone will admit. HAUL LOGS BY RAIL. The Eastern Minnesota Wili Take Them From Cass Lake and Dump Them Here. William Lyon, representing the Burlington Lumber company of Bur- lington, Iowa, was here this week. His concern have about 17,000,000 feet of logs in Cass lake, and Mr. Lycn’s trip here was, for the purpose of making the preliminary arrange- meuts to have this timber hauled by rail to the Mississippi. The Eastern Minnesota will do the hauling, tak- ing the logs out of Cass Lake and dumping them in the Mississippi be- tween here and Laprairie. For\this purpost a spur about a mile long will be built from the main line to the river bank.. The logs were cut last winter on the Turtle river and have been hung up all spring and summer through lack of sufficient water.for driving. About five million feet of the total amount is to be handled this summer, but it is likely that the entire lct will be moved in the same manner later on. The owners of the logs must have them at their mill before winter sets in, and this could not possibly be accomplished if they were tc utilize the all-water driving route. From here down the river is open and no trouble is experienced in making drives quitkly and satisfac- torily. Surveyors are now here look- ing up the line for the proposed spur. Dates Not Set. : We stole something last week, and now we are sorry. Not that our con- science bothers us greatly, but what we purloined proved to be of no ac- count. The Magnet of last week stated that the Itasca county fair would be held on August 23 and 24. We supposed -that the Magnet knew what it was talking about and so cor- roborated its statement. This week the officersof the agricultural society dropped into this office and came near taking the top of our head off. We asked them why they did not ‘go for” the Magnet and they answered that they had never heard of such a paper. They also informed us that the dates for the fair had not yet been set, but that it would be held sometime in September. We will publish the exact time in a week er There will bea meeting of the agricultural society on Aug. 10, at which the matter will be definitely settled, PROCEEDINGS| —OF THE— Gounty Gommissioners of Itasca County, Minn. Auditor's Office, [tasca County, Minn. July 9, 1900. Pursuant to law, the board of county com- sca county met in the auditor’s office this 9th day of July at two o'clock p. m. Roll call—full board present. Messrs. Hay and Fitzpatrick belng present and desiring to return on the east-going train the regular order of business was sus- pended to give them a hearing. Mr. Hay, in behalf of W. D. Washburn, pre- sented an application for the abatement of 1899 tax upon lot 9, section 13, town 55, range 26, which application asked that the valua- tion be reduced from $25,000 to $1,500 and the taxes correspondingly abated. Upon motion duly made and carried, the application was allowed and recommended to the state auditor for approval. Mr. Fitzpatrick, on bihalf of Jennie E. Peterson, presented a petition for the abate- ment of the 1899 tax on lot 3, section 13, town 55, range 26, in which he asked that the valu- ation of the said lot be reduced from $30,000 to #1500 and the taxes correspondingly abated. Upon motion duly made und cur- ried, the petition was approved and reccom- mended to the state auditor for his approval. The regular order of business was then taken up and the minutes of the last meet- ing were read and approved. A communication from Edwin L. Buek was read in which he referred to the udvantages the county would derive from the appropria- tion of a small amount of money to be ex- pended on the road: commencing on the south end of Pokegamu lake running south to the north end of Hill lake or the county line. The communication was received and laid on the table. A petition signed by a number of tax pay- ers was read setting forth the conditions of of the Prairie river road and petitioning the bourd of county commissioners to repair said road, commencing at Wilder’s ranch, thence running north to town 60, range 24. The petition was received and laid on the table for further consideration. A petition signed by 82 citizens and tax payers was read petitioning the board of county commissioners to establish and build a county road beginning at Prairie river in the southwest quarter of the northeast quar- ter, section 26, township 55, range 25, therice running parallel to the Eastern Minnesota railway to section 13 in township 54, range 24. The petitiotewus received and laid upon the table. A communication from G. P. VanDusen was read in which he called the attention of the commissioners to the nevessity of repair- ing the road and bridges from Grand Rupids to Split Hand, as at the present time it was dangerous to drive a team over the road. Mr. J. G. Peters being present, corroborated the communication of Mr. VanDusen and ex- plained to the board the necessities of said road. The commun jon was received and laid on the table. A petition signed by 27 settlers was read, which petition requested the board of county commissioners to organize under one town- ship organization the following towns and fractions of towns: Townships 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159 and 169 of ranges 25 and 26 The petition was referred to the county attorney. A petition signed by settlers in township 69, range 22, was roud, petitioning the board of county commissioners to attaeh said town- ship to the town of Ray for township pur- poses. The petition was referred to the county attorney. The board of audit made the following re- port: To the Honorable Board of County Com- missioners of Itasca County, Minn. Gentle- men: Wefthe undersigned, members of the board of audit, do most respectfuliy report to your honorable body that we met in the auditor's office on the 13th day of June. 1909, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the county treasury and the treasurer's accounts. That we found (owing to the large amount of work in the treasurer's of- fice owing to the recent forfeited tax sale) it to be impossible to report the exact con- dition of the treasury on that date. We found that there was in the treasure ap- proximately $140,000, and that the same was deposited sn the legally appointed depository of the county, the Lumbermen’s bank of Grand Rapids. The amount so deposited, in said bank, in our opinion, was greatly in excess of what should be so deposited “on the amount of security given by said bank to itasca county. We further report that the board of audit waited upon the president of the First National bank of Duluth, Minn., and re- ceived from him an application to have the First National bank of Duluth, Minn., desig- nated as one of the depositories for the county of Itasca; the Said bank agreeing to pay interest on daily balance at the rate of two per cent per annum and to furnish a satisfuctory bond for the repayment of all moneys deposited, with interest thereon. Upon the receipt of said application made by said bank, we, the board of audit, did desig- nate said bank as a depository for the funds of Itasca county, and under the direction of the said board of audit, the treasurer of said county has deposited the sum of $75,000 in the First National bunk of Duluth, and we herewith submit for your approval an in- demnity bond in the sum of $75,000, furnished Itageu county by said bunk. All of which is respectfully submitted. E. J. FARRELL, Joun RELLIs, I. D. Rassmussen, 4 Board of Audit. The bond furnished by said bank being re- ported by the county attorney as duly exe- cuted, was upon motion duly made and car- ried, approved. A communication from the public exam- iner was read referring to the cnunges to be made in the disbursing of the county funds and requesting the commissioners to notify the-county depositories of the changes so made. Upon motion duly made and carried the auditor was instructed to notify such depositories pursuant to the communication the public examiner. The official report of the grand jury for the June term was read and ordered filed. It being the time and place set for the hearing of the #pplications of Joseph St. Peter and L. Kirt of the town of Bass Brook, J.J. McDonald of Swan River, and D. T. Mc- Phee of Koochiching, for license to sell in- toxicating liquors, the same were taken under consideration. There being no objec- tions offered to the granting of any of said licenses and all of said parties having paid -into the county treasury the amounts re- quired by law, each of said licenses were ordered issued. Commissioner Powers reported that the building on the county poor farm which he was instructed to have built by the board at their last meeting had been built by Mr. Mc- Hugh. Commissioner Powers farther re- ported that the committee to whom had been referred the matter of securing plans and estimaes of the cost of the putting in of a water reservoir and proper sewerage in the same, Mr, J, L. Snappe appeared before the board with an application for an abatement of the 1899 taxes upon lands owned by the Great Northern Railway company, and requested that the board take immediate action on the same. The .board, ‘after considering the same, decided that they could act more. in- telligently on the application after a review of the assessment for 1900. The application presented was laid upon the table for fur- ther consideration. At this time an adjournment was taken to 10a. m. Wednesday, July 11th. July 11th, 1900. Pursuant to adjournment the board of county commissioners met, Roll call—full board present. President Riddell of the village of Grana Rupids appeared before the board and pre- sented a list of the expenses incurred in the late diphtheria epidemie in the village of Grand Rapids, and stated that alarge share of such expense was incurred for the care of the patients who were not residents of the village of Grand Rapids, but who can the village from camps in the unorg: portion of the county, and made a request that tie county pay a portion of the expe: iucurred. Upon motion duly made and ¢: ried, the matter w s referred to the county attorney and county physician. Mr. L. B. Arnold appeared before the board and requested a requction ef taxes for the year 1399, upon a list of lands owned by the Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific railroad company. Upon motion duly made and ¢: red, all applications for the correction of assessment and abatement of taxes were laid upon the table to be acted upou Later. Jommissiovers Brooks and Buell, the com- mittee who had inspected the work done by Messrs. Peters and Vipond upon the Split Hand road, reported that they found work had been done by the parties mentioned upon said Yoad to the value of $100. and rec- commended that the board audit and ‘allow bills to that amount for such work. Upon motion duly made and carried the report of the committee was adopted Commissioner Rellis reported that he and Commissioner Lang had inspected the roads in the Trout Lake district, and reported that the roads in that district were in very bad condition and would reccommend that the county appropriate a small sum of money to assist in the repairing of the roads in that district. Upon motion duly made and carried, tho report was received. The board than took up tho auditing of claims and accounts. Atdp. m. an adjournment was taken to July 12th, 1900, at 10 o'ciock a. m. July 12th, 1900. Pursuant to adjournment the board met, Roll call—full board present, Sheriff Tyndall notified the boaed that the roof of the county jail and the sheriff's resi- deuce needed repairs as same in several places was leaking badly: also calling the attention of the board to the condition of the interior of the sheriff's residence, and the necessity of anew ra The board investigated the conditions, and upon motion duly made and carried, instructed the auditor to advertise for sealed bids for the painting of the cupoia and dome of the court house and the roof of the county jail and the calcimining of threo front rooms of the sheriff's residence, Said bids to be sub- mitted on or before the 23rd day of July. 1909. Commissioner Powers was instructed to have have the necessary repairs made to the range in the sheriff's residence. Connty Attorney Donohue reported to the Board that the petition praying for the or- ganization of seyeral townships into one township organization, as referred to him, could not legally be graated. Upon motion duly made and seconded the petition was, denied. Thefcounty attorney reported to the board tbat the petition to attach township 69, range 22, to the town of Ray, could if the board saw fit, be granted. Commissioner Lang offered the following resolution ; Whereas. the board of county commission ers have been duly petitioned by a majority of thetlegal voters of township 69. range 22, to be annexed to the town of Ray, and be- lieving that the interest of such town will be subserved thereby; therefore be it Resolved, that township 69. range 22, beand the same is hereby annexed to the town of Ray for all purposes. The resolution was duly seconded and npon roll call was unanimously adopted. The board again took up the auditing of claims and accounts and the following bills were allowed, Charles Secley, team hire for asses- ze. Wa.. Weitzel, 3 days court officer, June term. 9.00 c. C. Miller, clerk hire. 276.30 Eli Signel, 9 cords jack pine wood. 18.00 Hi, 8, Huson, 4 days court officer. 12.00 George Riddle, repairs to jail.. 2.00 T. A. McHugh, building shed at coun- ty hospital. . 20,00 John Beckfelt, sundry supplies. 5.70 T. A. McHugh, board of paupers. 99.00 George F. Kremer, 1 barrell plaster. 1.50 W. J. & HD. wane... Powers, sundry hard- Continued on Page Four, imei paint aasauae” county hospital had done nothing regarding ® te teasing ! conser a Fp |