Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 11, 1900, Page 1

ae Vou IX.—No, 2. Grand Rapids Granp Rapips, ITasca County, MINN., Saturpay, AucusT 11, tgoo. 4 EIN Ae Se a SSI ae aes ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae te apt ae ae CSTE SSIS SR ORO ee a eae eae a ae a + aa ade scariest cnt eo scesescsie st ‘ SECESESTE ERED PASSE ed HH Be +4 ee ae oe 5 ae Re Re Shed ae Re Seal a ’ Shed ae ee Re a ae Be ee Be eet 3 PH RE Shed Rte ee se That keeps your enterest centered on this store—that ete ee brings rewd buyers here. August is nou exception, ee sed and if there is any difference, is realy one of the most ze ae profitable buying months for our patrons. Close-mar- ie ad gin prices prevail in every line, and we exert every Mee ed effort to make it interesting—to pass along superior = oe values—to make it the store that the public endorse. 4 %: ae a baka 2 ae r any JE zs: A LOW SWING TO PRICES ?: Re ny * #% BUT GOODS ARE RIGHT # = Be 33 . we 2s ee Be eR Be And that adds zest to their purchase. Many new ideas ae ce —advance hints of early autumn styles, but every item He Be a value, and the kind of prices that sustain our reputa- ae ae tion as the right store for the August buying. Be Be 4 ae so Be ee =e ee. ee Sed 33 ” Se we ae Re Re RH # gs 3 $33.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3% ee ae ee ine oe wee ae ee Be ae id | 32 They Speak for Themselves = et = Re He Sane é ERS z ae x STYLE QUALITY COMFORT =e a3 Re ae Be kd ee ad ee Be RE 4 T T tie se | ASCA WERCAN ILE 60 = eee a ee ee ee H ° ae ee eae ae y 4 % p 3 eons ERROR II RE ROR ia a RIO BE SEO aa Sat TT a ee RE HE a ARE SR eR RE A Hae a EE He Ea EE oe aE HE RE: PRBS RT AE A a BS Bi eM Ek Hw HE THE BOGIE MAN The “Bogie Man" of this country just new is politics. He's not hother- ing people much this year, though. Times are too good for that. The peo- ple have meney to spend, and those whospend much for hardware spend it here. Why? Because the BEST is none too good for a man with movey, and that’s the kind of goods we sell. Remember that, and buy your hardware, ete., from us. Wid & He BD. POWERS Se ee igs 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. DRA Be RR 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 every particular. Come in and see our stock. a J. D. POWERS SWE RES RC Be ae m8 - THAT CIRCUS FRAGU Our People Object to Certain State- ments Appearing in City Papers. PRISONER DID NOT ESCAPE Because We Had No Prisoner We Wanted to Hold---A Short Story of Eyents Leading Up to the Manager’s Arrest Here. Itasca county has a kick coming on the way it has been used in the re- ports sent out from various points along the line in connection with the arrest of certain parties belonging to the Great Syndicate show aggrega- tion. In the press reports it has been made to appear that the parties in question were wanted here, but that our officials were unable to hold them. This is wrong, and a rank in- justice to the county’s officers. We did not want the men because they committed no depredations here. Had we wanted them we should have kept them. The actions of the offi- cials of other counties, however, are somewhat open to suspicion, especial- ly those of the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Hubbard county. It will look strange to some people that these ofticiais should follow the circns from Park Rapids to Akeley witha warrant Charging certain men with ay felony, and upon apprehension of the: desired parties usurp the powéF] vested alone in a court of justice and ailer to settle the matter for a cot sideration. Further than this, the action of the sheriff and his subordi- nate in following the circus to Cass Lake looksstrange. Theaggregation played at two places in Hubbard county, consequently the men wanted must have been within the jurisdic- tion of these officers for at least two days and two nights. Why did they not arrest their querries there? | Did they come to Cass Like to arrest them? Apparently nob. As we un- derstand it no attempt to serve the warrant was made at that town -url+ til it was time for the special train of | own, Even |‘jome team to pull itself together the circus people to pull out. then the Hubbard officers did not want any particular individual or in- dividuals, but they did want the train held. If another settlement was what the limbsof the law were after, this was a sure way of obtain- ing it, as they knew that the circus | could not afford to have the train held at Cass Lake and lose their date here. ‘The officers may have had other objectsin view, but to an im- partial newspaper man about fifty miles away it looks very like an at- tempted caseof blackmail. It this was n0t the intention why were not the men wanted arrested and the rest allowed to proceed? When the Park Rapids officials followed the circus here they gave the warrant to Sheriff Tyndall of Itasca county for service. He accompanied the men to the circus tent and asked them to point out who they wanted. They did so and Sheriff Tyndall placed him under arrest and took him to the county jail. He and County Attor- ney Donohue then went to the Hub- bard county men and told them that their man was in custody and asked them to take him away, offering to | see that they were not molested on their way to the train, or to accom- pany them to Cass Lake if necessary to prevent any attempt at a rescue by the circus people. This, however, did not seem to be part of the pro- gram, as our Officers were informed that there was no intention of tak- ing the prisoner away. This indi- vidual, Mr. Richards by name, had inthe mean time secured the ser- vices of an attorney, who at once commenced habeas corpus proceed- ings. Mr. Richards was tried and acquitted by the court commissoner of Itasca county. When the {outside officials saw this, thev were evidently afraid that their prey was going to es- cape them, for they now attempted to do what they should have done three days sooner, namely, place Mr. Rich- ards under arrest. They Were pre- vented from doing this by the arrival of the circus men in a body and the escape of Mr. Richards through the window. That the show people came to the court house ina mob is true enough, but they did not take the prisoner away from the officials be- cause he had just been declared a free man by the court commissioner. The fact that Mr. Richards escaped through the window has no more bearing on the case than if he had free and it would haye been no ones business had he seen fit to go through the roof. The fact is that Itasca county ur the village of Grand Rap- ids had no grievance against Mr. Richards and made no attempt to hold him. Had we wanted him, we should have kept him in spite of any mob he could have called to his as- sistance. This is more than can be said of the people up the line. Ei- ther cowardice or some other reason prevented Richards’ arrest before reaching here. If the officers were notafraid, why did they wait until they arrived here to arrest their man? Or, if they did not wish to arrest him, what were they foilowing him for? These are questions that they may answertothe people of their own communities—we care nothing par- ticular about the matter. We wish it distinctly understood, however, that our officers did not have a pri- soner taken from them. They had no prisoner they were trying to hold. If they had, the chances are decidedly that they would have held him. THE GREAT BALL GAME. The Local Boys Go Down Before the Boston Bloomers In a Poor Game. The ball game between the Boston Bloomer Ladies’ Base Ball Club and the local team came off on Tuesday afternoon, quite a crowd being in at- tendance. The bloomer girls were successful, the score being 12 to 4 in their favor. There are, of course, reasons for this state of affairs, and they may be summed up as follows: The girls played better ball than the boys. In fact, it is doubtful if our home team ever put up a poorer game than they did on Tuesday. Error succeeded error and every one let ina run gr two. ‘The bloomers did nut play an errorless game by any means, but their splendid inflelding made it hard for the boys to make the round trip. Two men played with the girls’ nine, and the work of these was the feature of the game. Our boys could probably nut have beaten the visiting aggregation under any cir- cumstances, but the score would cer- tainly have been kept down were it hot for the fact that when a good play was- tely necessary and *asily possible, someone would fall It may be possible for the and do some playing, but we are afraid that they will find that most of the people in Grand Rapids are from Missouri—they will have to be “shown” before they believe it. New Democratic Daily. Since the Globe has bolted Democ- racy an effort has been put forth in the Twin Cities to establish a good, loyal Democratic daily, and undoubt- edly before long the enterprise will be started. Geo. F, Porter. W. H. Williams and H. I. Chaffee are back of the enterprise and plenty of finan- cial backing is assured. The paper will be called the Minneapolis American. The editorial staff will be made up from the ablest writers in the ranks of the Reform forces in the state and country. It is under- stood that the telegraphic news ser- vice will be received from Heart’s Chicago American. Subscribers to the new paper are wanted and itis certainly the duty cf every loyal Democrat to stop the Globe and sub- scribe for the new paper. Three months for $1. It might be a good idea for the members of the Demo- cratic campaign club about to be formed to take the matter up and do a little booming for the new daily. Ladies’ Week at the Fair. The Women’s Club of Grand Rap- ids has received the program of the state federation of clubs for fair week at Hamline. The club mem- bers request thas all ladies visiting the fair make it a point to visit the federation pavillion, as matters of in- terest to every woman will there be discussed and exemplified. Follow- ing are the subjects for the different fair days: Monday, Labor day; Tues- day, art; Wednesday, patriotic day; Thursday, education; Friday, town, village and country improvement work; Saturday, public libraries, traveling libraries, books, etc. Every lady, no matter whether she is a club member or not, is cordially in- vited. Dr. Spratley Wins. At the grounds of the Central Gun Club, Duluth, Dr. H. W° Spratley, the well known dentist, woo the diamond badge from its previous hold er, J. W. Nelson of Duluth, by a score of 50 to 43—Dr. Spratley breaking the full number shot at. In four successive events the doctor broke gone out through the door—he was every bird he went after. ‘the utmost vigilance, RIGHT AROUND HOME Interesting Notes of the Week in the County and Village. A VERY GOOD SUGGESTION Dr. Bracken Advocates the Appointing of a School Health Inspector. The School Meeting---Itasca County Real Real Estate. The school authorities are in re- ceipt of a communication from Dr. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the state board of health, in which he suggests Uhat school boards employ a medical inspector whose duty it shall be to examine into any suspicious case of illness appearing among either pu- pils or teachers. This, Dr. Bracken believes, would in a great measure prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases, and would be the means of saving both life and property. Part of the duties of such health inspector will be to receive from teachers and superintendents the names of pupils absent on ac- count of sickness, and to inquire into such cases with a view to preventing the patient from returning to school until all danger of transmitting dis- ease to others is passed. As a warn- ing to make schoo] authorities exert Dr. Bracken states the fact that small pox exists in 32 different localities in 16 dlffer- ent counties. We believe that it would-he wise for our schocl board to give this matter the earliest possible consideration. REGULAR SCHOOL MEETING. Considerable Business Transacted at One Held on Monday Afternoon. The school board held a regular meeting on Monday afternoon at their offices in Central school, <A number of bills were allowed, after which much interesting business was transacted... Duan & Marcia -of Co- hasset, who were given tne cyntract of furnishing the planking for the sidewalk around the school. premises failed to fulfill their contract in the in the time specified, and the order was recinded and given to W. V. Fuller & Co. The matter of a fence was then taken up. Two bids were submitted for a three-rail iron fence, 36 inches high, one by W. J. & H. D. Powers at 57 cents per foot, and the other by A. McIntosh at 563 cents per foot. ‘The latter received the con- tract, being the lowest bidder. Miss Hattie Gibson, who for a number of years has been the teacher of Room 1, tendered her resignation, which was accepted. It is understood that Miss Gibson will enter the race for county superintendent of schools on the Re- publican ticket. Two new teachers were appointed for Central school, namely: Miss Kittie De Arment and Miss Ella Reith. The latter, how- ever, had already accepted a position at Lake City, so another will have to be selected in her place. The school terms were fixed as follows: Fall, Septem- ber 4 to December 21: winter, Janu- ary 7 to March 29; spring, April 8 to May 31. John Maness and Frank Cushman were appointed as janitors. ISASCA COUNTY REAL ESTATE, The Possibilities Offered in This Section Are Beginning to Create Comment. “The Head of the Lakes,” a trade journal of wide circulation, published at Duluth, has evidently been paying some attention to the development of this section. In its last issue we tind the following under its “Real Estate” head: ‘Itasca county is hav- ing a boom in its lands. Ata recent sale of state lands some of them went as high as $275 an acre and $8, $10, $15 and $25 an acre were usual prices. 4 e Two Do.tuars A YEAR / {ic was just at this point that the land brought such high prices. It is regarded as certain that there will be a town located here as it is the center of a rich country and there is extraordinary water power. LOGGERS MAKE RULES. Decide All Labor Must be By Month---Free Meals to be Discontinued. The fact has just leaked out that at the recent meeting of the Northwest- ern Loggers association held in Du- { luth, says the News Tr.bune, it was resolved that all labor shall be hired by the month, the price of board to | be included, that the board shall be charged at the rate of $15 a month or 50 cents aday per man. It was also- decided that 20 per cent shall be de- ducted from the wages of each man who fails to work for the contract period. It was decided that the that the practice of paying or ad- vancing railroad fares should be dis- continued. lt was agreed that the free meals system at camps shall be discontinued and the price for meals shall be 25 cents. Men will be ex- pected to have hospital tickets or pay 75 cents a month to the employer who will furnish hospital privliiges inreturn. It was decided that only one check shall be given in any one calendar month. Nearly All Passed. The reports of the state examining board on the papers submitted by pupils of Central school, have been received and are highly satisfactory: The papers examined covered a wide range of study, including arithmetic, geography, Enghsh grammar. physi- ology, civics, elementary algebra, higher algebra, plane geometry, rhe- toric, Latin grammar, Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, mediaeval history, senior arithmetic and senior grammar. Out of 71 papers sent in, 69 were passed—a_ very high percentage. Those passing were: Bortha Fuller Bessie Beery Ella Brooks Cora Kremer John Crawford James Partridge Louisa Gilbert Willie Hennessy Alfred Kiley Blanche Kiley Mabel King Josie Kearney Fay Knox Eddie Kremer Mabel McAlpine Leona Neveux Beth Polley Carrie Seamans Ida Doran Haine Pomc Grace: _ Harry Alexander Veint Della Yancey Jean Beery Vincent Beery Grace Barnard Lizzie Brooks Dessama Cable They Oyerlooked a Bet. ‘The Aitkin Age of lastweek was in- clined-to scold the merchants of its town for not taking the initiative in the Hill lake road matter. It sees that Grand Rapids is going to reap all the trade from that section, and that will be considerable. The Age says, among other things: ‘Every week lands in the Hill lake district are being sold to actual settlers, and by another year, or two years at best, there will be a settlement in that section whose trade will be worth looking after. But we notice by the last issue of the Grand Rapids Her- ald-Review that our sister town has not been suv slow to act, as the busi- ness men of that place and land owners of the Hill lake country have subscribed $600 with which to im- prove the roads from the Rapids to thenorth line of Aitkin county, and that the county board will appropri- ate $200 more at its next meeting for the same purpose. This sum will put the road in first-class shape if judicioasly expended. and the result will be that Grand Rapids merchants will reap the benefits, and encroach still further upon territory rigutfully tributary to Aitkin- With a first- class road to the north Grand Rapids will command a trade as farsouth as Moose river, but with equal travel- ing facilities in this direction, we doubt if they would get much if any- thing south of the county line.” Driving Resumed. On “Tuesday forenoon C. B. Buck- man, who has charge of the driving on Swan river, picked up a crew of men and left for the headwaters to commence operations. This drive has been hung up since spring on ac- count of a lack of water, but it is Kremer & King, the well known ab- stract and real estate firm of that | thought that there is now a suffi- county, say that they believe their | ciency to make a quick, sure job of it. county will have the greatest devel- | On Thursday Bert Munson started opment in the next five years it has for the south fork of the Prairie had in any five vears of its bistory..| river with twenty-one men and he Some very choice lands have now | will soon bave his delayed timber been placed on the market and at|coming out. The late rains have such prices that actual settlers may | helped drivingconditions out greatly, acquire them. The Minnesota Land Oe LS Ag SITET and Colonization company of St. Paul Will Be Held Here. has bought all the Northern Pacific} The Republican legislative con- lands in [tasca county and will make | vention for the Fifty-second dis- an earnest effort to sell them. What | trict will be held at Grand Rapids is known as the Morrison lands have! on eSeptember 12, at 4:30 p. m. also been recently placed on the mar- | This decision was arrived at during ket. A new railroad is to cross the Big Fork river near the big falls and | tee at Carlton, ae \ F the recent meeting of the commit-_ | ve