Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 18, 1902, Page 8

City - GRAND RAPIDS POSTOFFICE HOURS: ce open week days from 8 o'clock a.m, wp. m. Sundays. open 11:00 ) to Du. m. east arrive b. m. yse 20 minuets before arrival trains. O. H. Stitsex, P.M. and Vicinity. K. of P. lance Friday,.Jan. 24, at Village Hall, Miss Daisy Sims, and Jezn Rosser were in the village yesterday. Fred McGill has accepted a posi- tion with the Itasca Mercantile Co, W. H. Chur was down from the Big Fork ths week. J. A. Quigg, of Deer River, was in the village tins week. Mr:. Schwartz of St. Paul is visiting with her brother, E. N. Remer. J. A. Brown returned from a trip into the woods north of Virginia. Mrs. Johnson of St. Paul, 1s visiting with Mr. and Mrs, Z. Curry, \. H. Bossard made a business trip to Duluth this week. Attorney R. Donohue, 1s in St. Poul this week. D. M. Gunn made a business trip to Duluth the first of the week. C. C. McCarthy made a_ business trip to the ‘I'win Cities this week. J. E. Sullivan was down from Deer River this week. W. E. Neal made a business trip to the ‘I'win Cities the first.of the week. Remember the K. P. dance un Friday next. R.R. Bell, Jeft. Wednesday for Chicago to be absent a week or two. Robert Little of Duluth, was trans- acting business here the first of the w K will 10. _ The ladies of the Maccabees give their Annual dance. Feb, Remember the date. J. S. Kurtzman left yesterday for Sims’? camps to dehvered a load of ariving shoes, Instalation of officers, of the United Order ot Foresters was held ‘Tuesday evening atthe K. P. Hail, Miss Mae Shook returned to Du- juth, where she has been attending school, to begin the new térm. W. C. Gilbert left ‘Tuesday for Lite Rock Ark., Mrs. Gilbert and children will join him next week. A meeting of the Agricultural Society will be called some time dur- ing the present month for the election ot officers ‘Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A Lord, the Rathbone Sisters gave a Immble Bee in honor of Mrs, W. C. Gilbert. _ Missess Edith Aitkin and Bernice King left Wednesday for Owatonna where they will attend school this sea- son. Mrs. O. L.. Mather, entertained a few friends at her home last evening in honor of the Missess Sims and Ros- ser. The Modern Samaritans will give a play and dance in the near future. Watch these columns next week for further notice. Monday evening last at the joint instalation ot M. W, of A.jand Royal aps S, a very enjoyable time was had. ‘ihis afternoon a_ five ‘o’clock tea was given vt the home of Mrs. J. A, O’Connell. in honor of Mrs. W. C. Gilbert. ‘The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church will meet ‘Thursday aiternoon next at the bome of Mrs, W. K. Neal. _Hereafter during the balance of the winter Episcopal services will be held regularly eyery other Suuday at the court house. ro anes ral ‘Review The Firemen were called out Thurs- day afternocn but the fire did not amount to anything being only in a chimney in the house o: Mrs. A. Woods. Commissioner T. H. Hennessy left yesterday for Deer River where he with Commissioner Brooks will look over the new road being built from Deer River to Great Falis. The Schoe social, given by the la- divs Aid society of the Piesbyerian chorch, at the village hall last evening was very well attended, ‘hey cleared about $53. Hugh Fox who has been confined to his reom from the effects of an old injury of his leg, left yesterday for Minneapolis, where be will have specialists attend to the deceased limb. The K. of P. will give their Annual Ball on Friday next. This organiza- tion are one of the noted dance givers and a very enjoyable time is always had, so don’t missit. -Maeshall McClusky, Alex Gib- son and Wm. Moran were in town tus week from their claims on the Big Fork, Chas Forest, the dray man is pretty hardy when the fire bell rings he is always on hand with his team and the team 1s’nt a bit slow about getting around and we are sure the firerflen | ‘will never kick on Mr, Forest hawling the cart. Affidavits have been filed to the county commissioners charging County Attorney Pratt with malfeas- ance in office, and the board has tak en the necessary steps to lay the mat- ter before the Governor. ‘These affi- davits, we understand deal with mat- ters which transpired during the last term of court. The matter will be placed in the Governot’s hands soon, The members of the Umform Rank K. of P., will give their annual ball on the evening of January 24, at Vil- lage hall. ‘The committee appointed to look after the arrangements of the afiair, Messrs. M. J. Baker, George Booth and August Johnson, willspare no expense or pains to make this the social event of the season. Ata meeting of Uniform Rank, K. of P.. held last week. the following officers were elected: Captain, E, A. Kremer; First Lieutenant, C. H. Marr; Second Lieutenant, August Johnson, Recorder, Chas. Kearney; freasurer, H.. E, Graffam; Guard, Cc. C. McCarthy; Sentinel, ‘Thos. Trainor, There is a general kick coming from the loggers of the Northwe:t be- cause of the lack of sufficient snow in the woods to facihtate logging opera- tions. For several.days past the log- gers have been hoping earnestly tor more snow, but from present indica- tions it is not at all likely that their hopes will be realized in the 1mm di- ate future, Ofcourse there are some localities in which the ice roads are being worked to advantage, 1m spite of the lack of snow, but even on some ot these the cornersare wearing down and in some of the camps the work has been seriously handicapped and wil be until there 1s a fall of enough snow to make a good bottom for the roads, ‘those Minnesota farmers who are so fortune as. to be present at the meeting of the State Agricultural society this week are being well re- paid for their sojourn in St. Paul. ‘he papers read are of exceptionally high order of excellence and the breeding of livestock has a large share of the program, as it should in view of the fact. that Minnesota’ has won a position in the very front rank of stock raising states. Farms on Cut-Over fine Lands. Continued From Page One. These are facts of graet significance to the future development of our state. lt is the fashion to deplore the rapid forest dennudation that is going on, and not without reason. But there is compensation for the loss of the timber in the fact that uhe cut-over lands are rapidly being converted into fertile farms. Usual- ly the man who purcheses these lauds tluds enough stumps and small tim- ber left for fuel and for getting our railroad ties. This furnishes bim with a source of income until his crops mature. And it is reasonable to suppose that the thrifty settler who takes up these lands will replace the native forest growths, in part, by planting groves of trees to shelter his house and barns, and along the road- ways bordering or passing through his farm. The cutting off of the pine timber does nut mean that the land is to become barren waste.— Minneapolis Tribune. NOTICE, Owners of Cattle running at large are hereby noufied to keep your cattle off the streets or same will be taken up and charges will have to be settled by owners. Gro, MULHERN, Barn Boss, Hotel Gladstone. A Remarkuble Tark. In the village of Bodra a Turk tamed Ismall, aged 120 years, is in such good health that he frequently walks to Bartin, six miles distant, to’ sell eggs, for he is a poultry dealer. He has had thrity-four wives, the last of whom he married recently. The bride is 60 years his junior, and the mar riage was celebrated with much sol- emnity, to the sound of drums and fifes and volleys of fireams. The whole village was en fete. The wedding pro- cessica included all the male progeny of the patriarch bridegroom, consisting of 140 sons, grandsons and great- grandsons. Effertive Bird Laws. From many parts of New England this summer comes the news that the song birds seem to be more in evi- dence than they have been for many years. An old Rangely guide said re- cently that it was hardly within his recollection of the past twenty years that the birds had been so aboundant or of so many species as they may be seen this year. In the want of any other reason to account for the ‘wel« come change it seems fair to assume that the New England laws for the protection of insectivorous birds asp beginning to haye some effect, | BY ROBERT B. GRANT, “Click! Click!” went the hammer on the drill, through the.stillness of the afternoon, ringing musically over the lonely sun browned hills. In the little gopher-hole of a tunnel, up in the dark Ab Sing bent to his work, his brown k er face, with the black pig-tail coiled above it, as motion- jess as the rock he was boring. Only the eyes showed life, gleaming like the earth- demon’s he resembled. Near the mouth of the tunnel lay a shovel and pick, and sev- eral cans. In one of these was powder and in another a coil of fuse. Ab Sing was stripped almost naked, for it was a warm summer’s day, and the white man’s work was warm work. Ab Sing knew the white man’s trade almost’as well as the best of them. He was tired of cooking and had gone prospecting on his own account. Figuring that an old hole was just as good as a rew one, and a near prospect as good as one distant, he had plumped himself down on an old claim that had been Sawhorse Jule’s, and was hammering away with the industry of his race. A few rods down the sloping hill stood the little shack which was his new home. “Click! click!” The hole was nearly deep enough. A few more strokes, an ex- amination, and then the drill was with- drawn, and the hole cleaned out. Without wasting time in stretching and heaving sighs of relief, Ah proceeded to put in the charge and attach the fuse. Soon he had all plugged up securely and the slow end of the fuse burning, and then he withdrew to the outer air to await results. Somewhere in that hill, maybe, there was gold, glittering yellow gold, which would furnish wings to far-off China, and luxury there for life. Perhaps it was destined for him, had been kept from the greedy eyes of the white pig for that purpose. Ah Bing watched and waited—waited until his little strong friend, the powder, should do its work for him. ‘ i A minute passed, and then came a muffled explosion, shaking the arth under Ab Sing’s feet. He waited and’ the smoke came eurling slowly out. Several minutes later Ah Sing knelt in ‘the back end of the tunnel, among the shat- tered fragments of rock. The air was heavy with the smell of powder, and still clouded with smoke. But Ah Sing minded not these. He was gazing through the smoke, his whole soul gleaming out through his bulg- ing eyes, and a trembling fascination upon him that held him motionless. Before him, in the shattered rock, lay the yellow gold, torn from its hiding place, where it had rested for ages unseen by the many who had tramped above and around it; by old Jule, who had dug and swore and left the place in disgust—now to be found by him, son of the sacred realm. There were hundreds—thousands of dollars— wealth untold, in that wall of rock ahead of him. No wonder Ah Sing was dazed. He put forth his hand tremblingly, scarcely daring to breathe, as some one who fears to make a sound. The very walls seemed to have eyes and ears, and the stillness seemed peopled swith restless spirits in hiding. Lifting a lump of the gold-laden quartz, Ab Sing looked fearfully around. Therg are eyes which can glow with the evil of the fiend, and there are moments when humans forget that they are humans. In the mouth of the tunnel was the eye and the moment was at hand. Never was the lust for gold more fully personified than in the face of the man who'stood looking into the tunnel at the gold in fvont of Ah Sing. He was a tall, grizzled prospector, with @ pack on his back, one of the straggling fail- ures of the mountaihs.* Mixed with the greed gleaming in his eye:was a, ghoulish gleam of triumph. At last he had made his find. Even as the eyes of the two met, they seemed to understand each other, and Ab Sing instinctively ¢lutched the drill that lay beside him. The move opened the con- flict. Setting down his pack, the miner drew a revolver and a knife, and advanced slowly upon his prey. His prey was easy; the Chinaman was only of medium height and slender. He would kill him with the knife if he could, and no noise would be made. If he could not, he had the sevolver. Several seconds of stealthy approach, and the shaking Chinaman waited, a fly at the his lipssapart in terror. The spider crept up; there was a pause and the uplifted drill shook in the Chinaman’s unnerved hands. Then came the lunge, swift and sudden, and the Chisamar stroke. As the drill shot outiin the latter’s hands, a brawny arm knocked it aside, and another brawny arm buried the knife deep | } in the Chinaman’s breast. A shriek echoed through and out of the little tunnel—a shriek wild and terrible, seeming as the soul departing from the quivering form that lay stretched on the ground. But vengenace was at hand. Even as the shriek ended came | | the report of the revolver, exploded by the hammer catching on a rock, and the assassin fell forward on the body of his victim, dead. The bullet had passed through hisheart. The Chinaman still struggled, pulling at the knife, and partly wrenched it out. The -blood spurted forth and im a few minutes death came, stilling the shaking form and glazing the eyes. 24 R sun sank slowly to rest, throwing long sha ows and bars of light over hills and valley: The birds flitted hither and thither, twit- tering and scolding as they hunted places for the night.” Down by the brook the |i tle log house waited lonely and still. Then came the moon, casting its pele light into the hole in the. hill, over the boot of the stilled form nearest the mouth, and thea going on its way. : The sun came again, and poured its heat into the hole; again the moon peered with wide-eyed wondering at the boot, and on. As the sun rose on the third aes a man came walking down the hill ve the hole. The man was old and carried a pick. The dog nosed the ground. At the hole the dog stopped and: looked within. Then he growled, sniffing the air. ‘The man stopped. “What ig it, Jack?” he said. The dog looked at him, then looked inte the hole and growled again, taking a step farther in. The man came and looked. “Jack,” said the man, as he came out of the hole a few minutes later, “I think this place is to let. I think we'll move in.” Jack said nothing, but sniffed solemnly at the ais egain. Then the man “took precau- | } tions,” and marched down to the little town. He went to the recording office first; then, in the leisure hours following, the coroner was notified that there were a couple of “corps” up on the old Sawhorse claim, and they ought to be moved. Men heard it with open mouths, and poured questions upon the old man. But he knew nothing and cared less; he was deep in business. So the erowds came to the tunnel tesee. And they saw, and they said this and they said thai, but only the birds knew, and they had goa ‘cat | f wiped and fergotten. And the old “by the gold—Overland Mon mercy of the spider, his eyes dilating and | } counter | | Out beyond the mouth of the tunnel the : “FINDERS, KEEPERS.” KENTUCKY ROMULUS.| > BY J. NOEL JOHNSON, iad Based heah, Eller—don’t look too skeerd ’caise I call yer Eller—you hain’t’no Miss Eller to me, my gal, ’cause ye been off ter the Salyersville cemitery, an’ come home toatin’ er passel of Bluegrass airs. Yas, Eller, I jist rode over heah this mornin’ ter fin’ out ef you want ter smash up that leetle contrack we writ in our pera you went off, and sealed with ry is \ The girl at first widened her pretty brown eyes, as if shocked at his uncouth but she met frank, honest, exacting eyes that nothing could conceal except darkness itself. She colored, and, with a confused “Ah-he-em,” turned her face. Silehce contitfued for about 8 minute, when the young man continued in firm tones, a note of pathos running through “Somehow .or other, when I hearn you was goin’ off, I felt like you'd never come back to me no more—not as little Eller. ‘The nateral nater of you—clear, sweet, an’ bright as our mountin cricks—would return bemuddled to simple eyes like mine. I’m not layin’ in no blame to you. I allers thought you, ecompar’d to me, a little git- ter beside a gourd fiddle. But I couldn’t help lovin’ you—my heart jist run toward | just like a dry chip th a suckhole. Ij Eeoosd, though, when you got ’way off | among town fo! you’d look at them ar fine hair’d doods, an’ them across their shoulders to the memory of rude Fred Cap- field, an’ it would make you curl yer lip an’ laugh. I know thar ain’t nothin’ about me to catch an’ hold a gal like you, an’ J Tove you too well, an’ I think I’ve got a | leetie bit too much spunk about me, to go droggin’ atter you like a briar, when you want ter free yerself. I’ve seed the day it i would be like a shot in my heart to be turned off, but I’ve been bracin’ myself for the lick ever since you went away. I’ve got all my ‘rangements made, an’ in a month from now I’ll leave for Kansas, where I’ve got an uncle who offers me a place-in his store. So, Eller, ef you say | the word, I’ll take my medicine the best I. kin, an’ never bother you no more.” | When he had concluded Ella looked up at | him with a smile—a frank, bantering, kiss- able smile. Affectation was gone from her | yanner and “Fred,” she said, with the genuine frank- ness of mountain natures, “I still think | more of you than I ever did of any other man. I deplore your deficiencies in the way of edgeation; but you are worth a thousand ‘doods,’ as you call the town boys. Still, Fred, I’m sorry to say, you are not my ideal, and unless I so consid- ered you, 1 don’t think I could live happily with you. I don’t think I shall ever marry. T’m too romantic in my nature—too exact- ing in the demand for qualities in my hus- times. My reading has spoiled me, I know, I live in times long gone. My lover is your- self, but taken back a thousand or two thou- sand years. The modern man, of all de | iar Me} too commonplace for my taste. fun ds of times I have dreamed of you as my lover, but in every instance you were egher a Roman oat or a knight of the middle ages, with armor on, going forth to do deeds for your lady love which the modern man could not even dream of do- ing. Of course, such a man, outside of books, I shald never find, and unless my ne- ture changes as the yeare go by, I shall never marry. Now, Fred, I’ve told you truly the state of my mind,. end you will be pleased some ‘day that you missed getting such a girl as I am for a wife. Such love as.I have, i however, belongs to you, but you know your- self it isn’t the kind to keep house on. Oh, if we could only go back to the grand old Roman days, or to the days when knight hood was in flower!” Fred arose at the conclusion of this nove, h, and, dipping his yellow curls, said: “Good-by, Eller. ” | Office in the Lonsdale Buildin: band that don’t exist in these prosaic ve Barkrupt’s Petition for Discharge. In the District Court of the United Stats< for the District of Minnesota--Fifth J ivisio 1. In the matter of James A. Qui Bankrupt—-ln Bankruptey. PLC To the Honorable William Lochren, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District uf Minnesota: James A. Quigg, of the Villuge of Deer Rivers in the County of Itasca and State of Minnesota, in said district, respect- fully represents that on the 7th day of Nov- ember. last past. he was duly adjudged bank- rupt under the acts of Congress relating to bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered all his property and rights of property, und has fully complied with all the requi-éments of said acts and of the orders of the court touch- — bankruptey, Wherefore he prays that he may be decreed by the conrt to Nave a full discharge from all debts provable axainst his estate under said bunkrupt acts, except such debts as are ex- cepted by Inw from such di auree, ated this 13th day of January, A. D, 1902. JAMES A, QUIGG, Bankrupt. Order of Notice Thereon, United States District Court, District of Minnesota, Fifth Division, ss: On this 13th day of January, A. D, 1902, on reading the forezoing pe tis— Ordered ourt. t be had upon the same on the eight day of February, A. D. 1902. bef id court. at Minneapolis, in suid Districtyat_ two o'clock in the after- noon; and that notice thereof be published in the Grand Rapids Herald- Review, a. news: paper printed 1 1 district, and’ that all nown creditors ther persons in interast may appear at the said time and place, and show caso ifany they have. why the prayer of the said petitio&er should not. be ranted. And it is further ordered by the court. that the clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them at their places of residence as stated, Witness the Honorable William Lochren. | jndge of the said court, and the seal thereof, ut Duluth, in day of January. id dist riet, on the thirteenth A. D, 1902, JHARLES L. SPENCER, Clerk. By Tuos. H. Pressneun, Deputy Clerk. § Seal of 1 { the Court § Summons. State of Minnesota, County of Itgsea. Dis- trict Court. Fifteenth Jud District. plaintiff. vs Walter vans. Frederict A, 's. defendants. The state of Minnesota to the above named defendants; You and cach of and required to ans’ laintiff in the abo is filed in the office of trict. Court of Fifteen h Judicial Distriet in and for county of Itasca and state of Minn- easota, and to serve a copy of you the said complaint on the wribers wz inthe city Duluth in the county of St. Louis in state, with-in twenty days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; “nd i yu fail to auswor the snid complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in* the com- plaint, Daved Duluth, Minnesota, November 27th, are hereby summoned hecomplaint of the ed action. which e clerk of the dis- BILLSON, CONGDON, & DICKINSON, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 511 Lonsdale Building, Duluth, Minn. Young America’s Golu ::n A SONG OF WINTER. Sing a song of rapture. Gayly everywhere! Fonr and twenty thousand Snow-fiakes in the air. Sing a song of sieigh-b Ringing loud and ¢ a While the roguish urchins Follow in the rear. ii Sing «song of sledding— Now the sports begun! Four and twenty snow-birds Looking at the fun! Sing a song of sunshine, THE HERALD-REVIEW, $2.00 Per Year. ! For the storm is o'er; Gay old earth is langh At the marble fioor. en ncn Some one told us this since last week, Who can guess it? Take away my ist letter, take away my 2nd let- ter, take away all my letters, I am sull the same. Square Word. t t t t t t t t My 1st is a young animal; My 2nd 1s water in sold form, My 3rd is the abbreviation for one of the states The week of prayer will be observed beginning Sunday next. Union ser- vices Monday, T'vesday and Wednes- day evenings at the Presbyterion™ church, Thursday, Fnday and Satur- day evenings at the Methodist Epi§- copal church. A new year 1s coming it 1s almost here. We propose, for a time at least, to give our readers a column more ot less, for young Americans. We hope Americans not so young in years, may have hearts young enough to enjoy our serious sayings, as well as our say- ings in the humerous vein. We make no great promises. but hope to enter- tain and maybe instruct you some- what, Now as we put in a new leat, we suggest that you all turn over a né® leaf on this conmng new year, and see how clean a page you can write. The preacher says; There is room !for improvement 1n all of us” and the editor inchnes it agree with him. What do you say? Puzzles. lam composed of eleven letter, yet jit takes oaly four letters to spell me. Whocan catch me, [ am running through the woods not far from Grand Rapids. | r Word, 3 feted ot kote te Pes PA eta | 2b Sh My first 1s an opening or a frame ot hoards My second isa boys name. |, Mv third is the same as My forth is a covering Send in you: ans vers to Qu Her ald- Review office. NOTICE: | Seal Bids will be received by hoard of County Commissioners Itasca county up to January 7; 190 for 300 cords of green body wood to be delivered prior to July 1, 1902. By order of County Commissioners. A. D. Brooks, Chirman. the | Attest E. J. FARRELL, County Auditor, buy here for little money. Many other Bargains. Lowest Prices. REMNENTS! nent counter ac about half price. Will find us more eager than ever to furnsh you with the most Dependable Merchandise at the i We want yonr trade and will Treat you in a way that will convince ycu. This is Just the Right Place to Make Your Purcehses. \ Our entire stock of Jackets and Capes are on Sale at 25 per cent or one fourth off our regular low prices. ‘These garments are all of this season’s manufacture and styles. If you or your child need a coat come in and see what a good coat you cam Heavy selling in Fleeced Lined Shoes worth $2.50, sale price $1.75. A warm wintet shoe. Our guarantee with every isfied money cheerfully refunded. \ hundreds of short lengths. enough for a dress, Be sure to see these bargains. piece goods has left us with Many pieces with ‘These are all on our rem- sale, and if you are not sat a ] 1 i