Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 17, 1900, Page 1

a ——, —<. | Iapertods Page Grand Uapids / <a Vou 1X.—No, 16. Granp Rapips, ITasca Counts, eta « lope ree, Page 1a) Society 1d-Hevi “tea NN., SatuRDAY, NoveMBER 17, tgoo. Two Dotiars A YEAR BARGAINS! Winter Coats, Jackets, Capes. WALKING SK UP TO DATE IN STYLES EXCELLENT FABRICS, POPULAR PRICES. IRTS, A COMPLETE LINE OF Ladies’ Wool Waists TASCA MERCANTILE CO. The Com Kwon ing Woman Will not tolerarte old, rusty tin- ware when for a few cents more they can equip their kitchen with REED’S ANTI-RUST TINWATE —the kind that will NEVER rust. It’ what you should have Run inandsecit. And while you're here, just look Gver our stock of heating stoves, too, they’re fine, and very reasouable in price. W J & H D POWERS. I wish to announce that on ¢ harness shop in the building recetitly occupied by George Booth, will be open and ready for business. I will carry a complete line of Harnesses, Blankets, Collars, Saddles, Whips, etc. Will do all kinds of repairin able prices. Monday niorning my g on short notice, at reason- Belore Luying elsewhere, call and get prices, R. W. HEIDEMAN. Native. STATE OF MINNESOTA, kas County OF IrAsca. e Court— - ene matter of the gnardianship of J.D. 's, an Insane Person, PO eASE TAKE Novice, That the undersign- ed.as guardian of the above-named J, D. Powers. willon Saturday. the 20th day of October. 1900, ut ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day. receive sealed bids forthe stock of merchandise, fixtures and furniture now Contained in the store formerly occupied by said J. D) Powers, and also for ‘the book ac- counts not collected on said day, and wagon of said J, D, Powers, You are also notified that full inforrmaticn with reference to the manner of the sale and the inventory of said stock, fixtures, etc., will be i in ished by the undersigned upon appli- Cation sta must be accompanied by a_certi- fied check for at least ten per cent of the eee satd guardian reserves the right to re- ject any and all bids. yeah Kina Guardian, Dated October 9, 199°. Summons. ‘ STATE OF MINNESOTA, ss. County OF ITAsca. f District Court—Fitteenth Judicial District Wells-Stone Mercantile Company, Plaintiff, Versus Harvey L. Morrison and William Giles, de- fendants. ; The State of Minnesota, To the above nam- ed defendants: is Ycu are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entiticd action. which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District,in and for the County of Itasca and State of Minnesota. and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers, ai their office in Exchange Building, in the City of Duluth in St. Louis County, Minnesota, within twenty days after the service of this sum- mons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; und if you ful to answer the suid complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated September 13th, 1900. fs CRASSWELLER & CRASSWELLER, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Exchange Building. Duluth, Minvesota, HIGH PRICES FOR PINE. Eighty Million Feet of Pine Sold at Auctior at St. Paul. Eighty million feet of standing ti ber was sold at public auction State Auditor R. C. Dunn in the hou! of representatives chamber at t state capital. More than $400,000 wi realized, of which $100,000 was im- mediately paid into the state treasu: under a ruling that 25 per cent of the purchase price must accompany suc cessful bids, The keenest competi- tion marked the progress of the auc- tion. It began at 9o’clock in the morning and continued until 5 in the afternoon. At its close, with the ex- ception ofa few tracts of doubtful value, every description put up for sale had been sold. No timber sale ever held by the state brought in so much money. ‘The prices paid were phenomenal, averaging about $5.50a thousand feet, which is more than twice as muchas the average price received at the last stumpage sale two years ago. On choice tracts competi- tive bids ran the price to a figure nearly again as much as the highest bidder ever before paid. Those in attendance represeated every lumber firm in’ Minnesota, more than 200 lumbermen being on hand during the greater part of the day. The highest “| price received was fora tract of one section 16-145 33, containing 5,500,000 feet. It was knocked down to the C. A. Smith Lumber company of Min- neapolis, at $9 per thousand feet. ‘Two years ago the finest tract offered, a section on the shores of Milie Lacs Lake, covered with a magnificent growth of the finest white pine, brought only $5.25 per thousand. The largest individual purchase was that of C. H. Akely. representing a com- pany which has mills at Akeley, Minn. Several tracts were bid in to him, on h he paid a 25 per cent check drawn for $2 WORD FROM CHINA. F. E. Bowden, Fourteenth Infantry Writes to Relatives in Grand Rapids. John Bowden this week received word from his son, Frank E., who is a member of the Fourteenth Infantry, now in service in China. Mr. Bow- den says that since leaving the Philip- pines he has gone through hardships such as he hopes never to have to ex- perience again. He givesa_ very in- teresting description of the march from Tien Tsin to Pekin. The allied forces started on the fourth of August and were on the march until the 14th. The temperture was 90 to 104 in the shade and the roads so dusty that it was impossible to see anything a rod in advance. Mr. Bowden complains of therations furnished the men— one can of corned beef between eight men and three hardtack to each man perday. In his deserfption of the battle at the walls of Pekin the writ- er gives the Japanese great credit, and claims that they are as fine a lot of soldiers as ever shouldered a, gun, but he does not think as_ much of the other nationalities represented. He says nothing of being anxious to come back home, but his language indi- cates that it would not break his he»rt were he to be mustered out. NEW GENERAL STORE. Henry Hughes & Co. Now Open and Ready for Business. As will be seen by the announce- ment in another column of this issue, Henry Ilughes & Co., have opeued a new general store in the Powers building. This trm bas purchased the J. D. Powers stock for about fifty cents on the dollar, and of this bar- gain they propose to- give their cus- tomers the benefit. The goods con- sist of staple and fancy groceries, clothing, gent’s furnishings, hats, caps, boots, shoes, notions and fancy articles. The stock is new, and be- sides this the firm bas purchased a large amount of other goods, making their stock the most complete iu the yillage. ‘The members of the firm are well known here, having for years been engaged in the mercantile busi- ness at this place. They are able business men, and the prices at which they propose to sell will give them a large trade from the very start. This will be increased as time goes on, and we expect to very shortly see Henry Hughes & Co., become one of the best known and most substantial business houses in this section. The work of repainting the exterior and recalsomining the interior of the Hotel Pokegama was completed this -week andthe popular hostlery looks resplendent in its new coat. .- The work was done by E. C. Schmidt of Crookston, - . NO MORE BOUNTIES.— Pay for Wolves Stopped—John Lofberg Gets Prairie Bridge Contract. At the last meeting of the board of county commissioners ib was decided to abolish wolf bounties in the coun- ty. The reason for this is that the state appropriation is insufficient to allow it to pay its share of such boun- ties, which has resulted in making the county the commonwealth’s cred- itor to the extent of seven or eight hundred dollars. The county board felt that Itasca county could not longer afford to pay the entire sum when the state is supposed to stand part of it, and consequently abrogat- ed the bounty. Johu S. Lofberg was given the con- tract of building the bridge across the Prairie river where that stream intersects the Diamond Mine road. ‘The contract price is $597, and the bridge will be one hundred feet in length—sixty foot span with twenty foot appruaches. This bridge was Washed out during the late rains and has since been impassible. “METHODS EMPLOYED.” W. H. Quinn Malignes Certain Democratic Candidates for Office In last week’s Magnet, one W. H. Quinn allows himself to become re- sponsible for a communication in which certain Democratic vandidates for office at the late election are maligned, slandered andabused. Mr, Quinn, or whvuever wrote the screed, suys that ‘Messrs. Miller, Rellis, Vient, Donohue and Clair arrived at his camp léaded with bad whiskey aud cigars and proceeded to get the men intuxicated before delivering to them a series of prepared speeches.” On the ’sion 1n question the first four gentlemen named were coming down from a camp above the one of which Mr. Quinn speaks and neither of them had either whiskey or cigars. They wet Mr. Clair, who was bound for Quinn’s camp, and he had with hima box of Booth’s Gems,” which cost $70 per thousand, and a bottle or two of “Old ‘Thompson’? whiskey. This wasallthe “bad whiskey and cigars’ handed out at the camp and the amount is not calculated to geta very large Crew ‘‘intoxicated.” The communication next alleges that the visitors ‘run down the members of the opposition party most sbhame- fully.” When he makes such a state- ment Mr. Quinn knows that he de- liberately lies. In an interview with the Herald-Review, Mr. Miller, one, of the men slandered. said: “I never mentioned wy opponent all during the campaign, and as for the other gentlemen mentioned by Quinn, Ihave been with them all through the campaign and have uever heard them refer to their opponents in a ‘shameful’ manner or anything near approaching it.” | Mr. Miller's state- ment was seconded by all of the other men, and aguinst their testimony that of Mr. Quinn will bave very little weight. The statement that Messrs. Lang and Clair acted unlawfully on election day, is also false. The trouble with Quinn is that he had promised to deliver the vote of the camp to certain Republi- can candidates and when the men workiug paid no attention to him it naturally angered him. In order to secure some sort of satisfaction he abuses Messrs. Lang and Clair, who were simply there in their own inter- ests and in the interests of their party. 5 A New Department. The Itasca Mercantile company wishes to announce that on Monday morning, the 18th, they will put a bakery department intc their store. Everything usually kept in a. first class bakery will be there and will be of the freshest, and best. Bread, cookies, cakes, etc. will at all times be kept on hand. Some time during the week a confecticuery department will be added which will coutain the very best candies procurable any place. Both vew departments will be in charge of acompetent and ex- perienced person and satisfactory yoods are guaranteed. Donohue Files Contest. County Attotney J. R. Donohue, who on the face of the returns was defeated for re-election by C. L, Pratt by a majority of six votes, has filed a contest and a recount of the vote of the county will probably be necessary. While irreyularities may exist. their ‘correction may not aid one candidate more than the other. Mr. Donohue, however, believes that a recount would favor him and will probably yo ahead, in which case the outcome cannot be foreseen. x } inspection. of the Furnishings. » ers the benefit. We wish to announce to the people of Grand Rapids and vicinitv to the fact that we have opened a store in the Powers’ building with a full and complete line of General Merchandise to which we inyite your The goods consist J. D. Powers stock of Groceries, Clothing and These goods were purchased by us at an enormous discount. and of this fact we will give our custom- this, we have purchased a large amount of other seasonable goods which makes our stock the most complete in this section. Henry Hughes & Co. Besides How It Happened. . Relative to the great politica) tidal wave which swept over this country on last Tuesday, which landed Wm. McKinley in the presidential chair for four years more, which will enable the republicans in the next, congress to not only control the senate, but to control the house by an increased ma- jority, and which completely engulf- ed the democratic hosts, much might be written, did time and space permit, and did necessity require it. The first remark that suggests it- self is that the result was as great a surprise to the republicans as to the democrats. It is doubtless true that the best-infurmed republican leaders rather expected that McKinley would manage to “pull through” by, a safe margin, but they bad not the remot est idea that there could be any such a republican landslide as that’ which we have just witnessed. On the other hand, leading democrats who are us- ually credited with being men of level heads and good judgment, had strong faith that victory would perch on their banner. The great puzzle is, therefore, how did ithappen? How is it that both sides were so greatly surprised? To this conundrum many answers can be yiven, and we presume that every one has his own solution, or bis own set of solutions. The answer given by the Chicago American is that it was the incubus of the silver ques- tion and the opposition of the demo- crats to the retention of, and to a war of conquest ip, the Philippines that did the business. The Chicago Chron- icle, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the St. Paul Globe and some other self-styled democratic papers which gaye a kind of a half-hearted support to the ticket, claim that the result was due to the silver question, pure and simple. The republicans, of course, claim that the result is due to the fact that on the issues of the campaign, they simply had the better side. This, however, we cannot believe, nor do we believe with the Chicago American, that the democrats should have joined with the republicans in demanding that the Philippine is- lands should be retained, and that this country should enter upon the colonial policy, after the manner of the monarchies of Europe. ‘There were only three primary issues in the recent campaign—the silver question, the question of imperialism, or of | establishing a colonial policy, and the question of the trusts—and. had it been admitted by the democrats that the republicans were right on the sil- ver question and substantially right on the Philippine question, there would only have been ouly the trust question legt upon which the demo- crats could take issue with the re- publicans and go forth to battle, and that is too abstruse an issue (to the average voter) upon which to under- take to wage a great national cam- paign. Had the democrats conceded that the republicans were righton all public questions saye one, the average voter would be apt to think that the chances were that the republicans had been right on that question also, and would vote accordingly. As itseems to us, the landslide is chiefly due to the following in- fluence: Frist, during the last four years,the administration has had control of fully nine out of ten of the great metropolitan dailies, and these dailies have been pounding away from day to day, from month to month and from year to year, telling the people how “prosperous” they were, what a full dinner pail they had and what a splendid administration McKinley was giving us, and how risky it would be tu make a change; and as a con- tinual dripping will wear awaya rock, so by the continual dinging of this stuff into the earsof the great army of the unthinking, they finally came to believe it. Sccond, thousands of people, especi- ally of the would-be office holding class, rememberipg the millions that were spent by Mark Hanna is 1896, and knowing that he would speud still more millions in 1900 if neces- sary, have for months regarded it asa foregone conclusion that McKinley would be elected, and as they like to be on the winning side, so they got abvard of what they conceived to be “the band wagon.” Third,so many of the American people have become converts to. the doctrine enunciated by McKinley ia one of his speeches, thab *‘Polities is business and business is politics,” that they are ready to favor any pelicy, without any regard for the golden rule, that they thiuk will be to their pecuniary advantage, or to the pecuniary advantage of this coun- ury, and this class fancy there would be a great national profit'in holding the Philippines and so back up the president in his war of conquest upon them. But whatever the causes of the landslide may be, the president can claim that his entire policy has been eudorsed. Notice of Application for Liquor License, STATE OF ot linea f County of Itasca. Village of Grand Rapids. Notice is hereby given that ‘spplice ston: has been made in writing to the village council of the suid villuge of Grand Rapids and filed in my office, praying for license to sell intox~ icating liquors for 4 term commencing ou wpe fifteenth day of October 1900, and termin- ting on the §fteenth day of October 1901, by the following person and at the following place, us stated in said application, to-wit: AE F. O’Connell.in the west front room ou the ground floor of the building, situated on Lot twenty two in Biock nineteen in the original townsite of Grand Rens: Minnesota, SE esd vil cz council at the council min said village cou: © C room in Lhe village hall in said village Saturday the 8th day of December 1900, at o'clock p. m. of tha day. _ ae = GEORGE Tagnse RED A. 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