Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 15, 1901, Page 1

4 Be EE a ee a ee Vou. IX.—No 46. Granpv Rapips, Irasca CounTY, MINN., SATURDAY, JUNE I5, Igor. aunende 7 t | | i Grand Rapids Herald-Review (= Two Dotiars a YEAR. be cichahalaaaalacachaceclchciechchhancholushelchhediedededhshthehdinishiadadaiadaaeaanenemeendaadel 15 - JUNE - 15 Our Semi Annual Clearance Sale ! Bargains in All Departments. ; atch for Date. e will Save You Money. ised Mercantile Co A AE AE AE ae ae ae a at ae a a a a ae ae ee ae ae a a ae a ae ee ae ee ae ae ee ae ee ae as ae eae a A AE ARE ESE STR AE a RE ae AE ae Ee A Ee ae ea ae ea ae ae ae a eae a a a EE EE EA A EE a ee = = , Se o o er Lis 2] * §Q BWSLSASLSS: cle experience is one of the things under the sun Not in fatls and cost of Arnica, but in buying a wheel. A cheap wheel never gave satisfaction yet. Don'texperiment. Get one you know will give you satisfae- tion, One that has a reputation é to sustain. Here is our line: t COLUMBIA, ¢50.00. HARTFORD, $35.00. ; VEDETTE, $25.00. - - CRESCENT, $35 00. f y JAY BIRD, $15.00. There is no experiment about these. They've all been tried and are guaranteed to give entire satisfaction. Expert repairing and a full ine of Sundries. {We dj. SA. Be Powers: § RE RE ae ae ae ate ae ae ate ate ae a aE Ae ae he ae ae ae ae ae ae ae Re ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae a ae ae ae ee ae ae ae ae a ae ae ee aE: A Favorite Resort for refreshments and were may be seen and heard one of the largest phonographs in the world is at JOHN O’REILLY’S Sample Room “The Northern.” Here you will find the finest whiskeys ever distilled. including all the most famous brands. Agent for the celebrated V4 Re Ee EE ee ae ee a ae ae ate Nonpareil Rye Whiskey. NORTHERN CAFE In connection—open day and night, All delicacies of the season served at all hours. Dave Chambers, the famous chef, has charge of restaurant. : JOHN O’REILLY, Proprietor. BE ah te Me ee ea ae Ree ae a ae ae ae ae a ae ae a ee a ee a ae ae ae eae ae ee ee a a ae ae a JESU I RE IHIESEIg RiE RE aR Se Rene ne Rea a te ane ae ate te tea ee ae ate Re a a i ae EEE ee eae ae eae ae eae ae ae ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae lains’s Cough Remedy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to myself and customers,” says Drug- gist J. Goldsmith, Van Etten, N. Y. Notice to Members M. W. of A. All members of Itasca camp No. 6444 are requested to report at Odd Fellow’s hall at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow, Sunday, June 16, for the purpose of participating in the annual memorial services in honor of our dead. ‘The camp will proceed to the cemetery where the graves of our departed will be appropartely decorated — with fiowers. Georce.A. Vient, Clerk. A Good Cough Medicine. It speaks well for Chamberlain's Cough Rewedy when druggists us it their own families in preference to any other. “I have sold Chamber “I have always used it in my own family both for ordinary coughs and colds and for the cough following la la grippe, and find it very efficacious.” For sale by the Itasca Mercantile Co. To Members of Hale Lake Camp, R. N. At 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, Sun- day, June 16, all_ members of Hale Lake camp No.2201, Royal Neighbors are requested to meet at Odd Fellows hall. The annual custom of the order to decorate the graves of our departed will be appropriately observed. M. Louise Lorurop, R, S. GRAND JURY STILL AT IT Witnesses in The Randolph Case Arriv- ed From Koochiching Thursday. A DEER RIVER INVESTIGATION The Jury Appears To Be Probing In- to The Oficial Acts of Village and School District—Rumors That May Be Dealt With. Judge McClenahan adjourned court Wednesday forenoon and went to Park Rapids to convene the June term for that couuty. ‘There were twenty- five cases disposed of either by settle- ment, judgment or continued over. The judge left the grand jury still grinding out indictments and if we may place reliability in current rumors there will be several prizes drawn. Up to today little progress had been made by the jury, owing to their inability to secure witnesses. The Koochiching contingent to give testimony in the Randolph case reached Grand Rapids at noon Thursday. Bert Lang, Harry Gale, Fred Adams and Ward Frey are the witnesses summoned by the state. Editor Jamieson, of the Border Bud- get, came in yesterday but he is not a witness. Randolph is still at large and it 1s not known whether he will be found and brought here or not in the event an indictment is found against hira for murder in the first or second degree, although so far he has shown no disposition to evade the possible consequences of his act. It is also re- ported on the street that the acts of the village officials of Deer River and the officials of school district No. 3 are being investgated. Just what uregulariues are alleged to exist in the public affairs of our neighbors up the road the Herald-Review is not | 9@80! prepared to say, but according to the talk of certain factions from the junc- tion town, something awful heavy will be dropped when the full report of the jury 1s finally turned in. Some of the wise ones intimate that one or two of the county officials have done some things contrary to the statutes in such cases made and provided, and that the facts are being divulged to the grand jury. An indictment for assault in the second degree was returned against 2x-Marshal Bailey, of Deer River. It is said that Bailey assaulted Myrray ‘Tailor, editor of the Deer River News. The assault in itself would not have been so bad, but Bailey had the small- pox at the time and inoculated the editor with virus of the disease under the nght eye in so forceable a manner that the News man contracted small- pox and he will carry an ugly scar on his cheek for hfe. It is also alleged that the jury is looking up certain facts relative to violations of the game laws. Judge McClenahan will retura here Sunday and on Monday will receive the report to be made and discharge the grand jury. CASS AND BELTRAMI. Late Decision of the Supreme Court Will Compel Pine Land Owners to Pay Taxes- The Mississippi Valley Lumberman is never at loss for an argument in defence of the lumber dealers or pine land owners. No matter what the facts may be or what the general in- terest of the public may demand, the Lumberman is blind to every consid- eration except the avariciousness of the class of businessmep who sustain ; tars. than any other class of taxpayers in [the state of Minnesota, and no one knows this fact better than the Miss- issippi Lumberman. Since the organ- ization of Itasca county the pine with- in its borders, owned by corporations 4nd individuals, has not been assessed and taxed ata rate that will aggre- |gate ten cents on the dollar of its ac- tual value. The same is true of other northern counties. The pine owners Are not tu be blamed for this. The fault may justly be placed upon the narrow shoulders of county officials Who would sacrifice the interests of bonafide residents in order to curry favor with those who re- present timber holdings that are esti- ‘nated in valuation at millions of dol- Shrewd businessmen as these timber owners are, they very natural- ly take advantage of the pliancy of torruptible public servants, and in the meantime the present taxable Wealth of the northern counties is tapidly being floated to the Minnea- lis and other outside mills. ‘The threat that taxation of pine lands ill cause the owners tu remove their mber instanter is all bosh to the ople hereaway. ‘They’ll do nothing the kind, Mr Lumberman, and u need not be in the least alarmed dver the possible denuding of this rich section of the state. The pine timber dwners willcut and dispose of their logs just as fast as the market de- Mands, and no faster, taxation or no taxation, and that bugaboo no longer frightens the enlightened people who e now paving the way to make this richest and most productiye sec- jon of our rich state. In the mean- time we’ve heard enough of the fool Proposition that unless pine lands are virtually exempt from taxation the timber will be immediately re- moved to the mills. If it is true that the owners feel that way they are at liberty to begin operations at once. The Lumberman displays unpardon- able ignorance of the grain producing qualities of the soil of northern Min- ta when it says that the land ‘4s not adaptable to agriculture. * * _ Grain will not flourish.‘ Our Minneapolis contemporary should send a representative up this way on a tour of inspection. He would tind here awimmense territory producing large cl6ps of vegetables and all kinds-of cereals; he wonld find a prosperous community of farmers; he would find enterprising and progressive business men who don’t care a_ conti- nental how soon the lumber men yank their logs out of the country. The court decision that is so distasteful to the Lumberman may briefly be summed up as follows: When Cass and Beltrami counties were organized the legislature placed a limit of $12,000 as the amount that might be raised by taxation in one one year. It was impossible to perpet- uate the organization of the counties with the limited amount of funds, and very properly the commissioners pro- ceeded to leyy taxes to the amount necessary to carry on the public bus- ness. ‘I’. B. Walker, Shevlin et al, re- fused to pay the additional levy. The counties then udertook to collect by a procesS-of law. Judge McClenahan of this district held that the law limit- ing the amountof taxes was constitu- tional and that the additional amount levied was void. County Attorney Street of Beltrami took the case to the highest judicial tribunal of the State were he secured a reversal of the lower court. This decision declares the law of 1897, making the limit of taxation $12,000 yearly, to be uncon- stitutional. Now let the timber own- ers contribute liberally while the the publication with their support. The Lumberman is ably edited, is al- ways interesting throughout its pages and it is a pity that it cannot see be- yond a lumber pile or a white pine tree. Last week it took up editorially the recent decision of the state su- preme court in the Beltrami county case. Cass county was equally inter- ested and the decision applies to the two counties. The Lumbermaa says: Whether or not the next few years will witness the cutting down of the last tree on the private lands in the counties of Beltrami and Cass in northern Minnesota, depends on the disposition of the county commissioners of those two counties, with the chances in favor of the entire removal of the timber. All thé efforts of the advocates of forest pre- servation go for nanght; all the disposition of the Immbermen to go slowly in removing their timber and to allow the smaller trees to reach a stuge of growth where they will be more valuable, is discouraged by the shortsighted action of county commissienors who have no power of prevision and and no ideas beyond getting as much out of the pre- sent as possible, with no thought of the future. That sort of talk has become ‘flat, stale and unprofitable” in this part of Minnesota. Asa matter of fact the lumbermen of the northern part of the state have paid less taxes—and are still paying less taxes—in propor- tion to the value of their property, stumpage lasts. If they continue to bluff about denuding their lands of “the last merchanable pine tree,” let the county officials raise the levy to the full extent. This is the only policy that will bring them toa real- ization of the important fact that they are subject to the same laws vhat regulate the affairs of ordinary mortals. A Close Call, One victim of Monday’s tire who will have to tread lightly for a while is Tom Smith, who at the time of the outbreak was asleep in room five, says'the Deer River News of Saturday last. He heard the cries of fire faint- ly and lots of bustling noise about the place, and when he awoke thoroughly there was no mistaking the cause. He bolted to his door but only got it open enough to get a flirt of flame which filled the hallway. He wanted no more of that and had to take the window for it. It was about fifteen feet to the ground and he had a sprained ankle at the time. He made it after some study, but he was helped up with both ankles out of joint. Heisin the hospital now at Grand Rapids. In the meantime remember the 4th, GREAT TIME ASSURED Grand Rapids Will Celebrate on July Fourth in The Old-Fashion Way. A FINE PROGRAM PREPARED Firemen Are Determined to Make The Nation’s Natal Day fur 1901 in The Rapids Long to be Remem- bered—Some Good Prizes. With a long program of interesting events and with tat prizes offered for all sporting contests, nothing can pre- vent the celebration of July Fourth, 1gor, in Grand Rapids, on an elabor- ate scale, except the weather bureau, The soliciting committee of the fire department have met with unusual success, the business men responding ina most liberal manner. There is more general interest taken in the celebration this year than ever before. There will be no private parties who will spend the day elsewhere or remain at home. Everybody will take an active part and in return will be active- ly entertained. The committee hav- ing charge of’the pfogram have al- ready prepared a long list of events and will add others as opportunity af- fords. Itshould be remembered by our neighboring villages that Grand Rapids’ observance of the nation’s birthday for this year will not be of the basket picnic order. have determined to provide such an entertainment es will attract the pres- ence of every patiotic inhabitant for many miles around. Horse racing, bicycle racing, foot racing, jumping, etc., will be intertesting features of the day, Itis expected that the horse racing events will include some pretty swift goers from outside towns. Among the other sports will be tug of war, sack racing, ladder climbing, put- ting the shot, log rolling, etc. A mag- nificent display* of fireworks will be given in the evening from a stand erected on the hill south of the town. In the afternoon and evening a dance will be given on the first floor.of Odd Fellows hall. IRON LAND OPTION. The St. Cloud Journal Press Reports Another Lease Near the Arcturus. The St Cloud Journal Press reports another option of mineral lands on the Western Mesaba having been giv- en by St. Cloud people. Itsays: “It has been learned here that the Hay- ward heirs, Mesdames Coates, Free- men, Holden and McClure, have just given another optivn and mining lease on valuable iron ore lands in Northern Minnesota. The lands on which the option and mining lease are effective are 56-24 and 56-23 in Itasca county and some 300 acres are included in the property. The lands upon which these developments are to be made are not far from the Arctu- Tus property which was leased some week’s ugo,and they are thought to be valuable in the extreme. The option runs for ten months and the lease is a 50-year royalty lease, the lessees pay- ing acertainamount pe: ton for all iron ore taken from the land. It is understood that the latest deal was engineered successfully by W. C. Ga- forth, the St. Paul attorney promi- nent inthe Arcturus deal of receut date. At the time the tirst option was sold it was intimated in some quarters that Mr. Goforth was repre- sentative of James J. Hill’s interests but it now develops that this was an error, for the Areturus property has passed to the control of Corrigan & Kinney, the big iron ore operators for whom George W. Wallace, of*Duluth, is general manager, and he it appears has charge of developing the Arctu- rus. The latest leases are understood to run to James G. Vivian, of Duluth, who is said to be a business partner of Mr. Wallace.” Hibbing on The Reform. It is reported by the News of that village that Hibbing saloons have been ordered closed at 11 o’clock p. m. and all day Sundays. It adds that the president of the council and vil- lage marshal are determined to en- foree the ‘laws: and purify the moral The firemen ;8tmosphere of that miaing metro- polis. The News also contains the following paragraph in the same article: “Itis alleged, however, that it was possible to get just enough to wet a whistle at most any place on Sunday, and it is also alleged that there was no noticeable decrease in the amount of Sunday drunkenness characteristic of Hibbing. Archie Phillips Resigns. The Virginia Enterprise announces that Archie Phillips and H. F. Smith have tendered their resignations as deputy game wardens. In comment- ing the Enterprise says: ‘‘Both gentle- men were capable and industrious officials, and Executive Agent Fuller- ton may find it difficult to secure their equal. This section abounds in game and fish, but it will not take long to denude our forests ani lakes, unless diligent ‘tab’ is keep on law bredkers.’ New Ice Cream Parlor. Mrs. Mary Daub has opened an ice cream parlor and confectionery store in the building situated on Leland avenue, north of the Michigan house. | The ice cream is received daily from Duluth. Ashare of the patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. As yet we have not Recovered from the Evolutions of Carpenterdom. We will be able to tell you more about it next week.