Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 8, 1902, Page 5

Brand Rapids Breraae'Review Published Every Saturday. By E.C. KILEY & SON. TWO DOLLARS A YBAR IN ADVANCE ‘tered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids a? Minnesota, as Second-Clase Matter Official Paper of Itasca County, Villag Grand Rapids and Deer River aud Town of Grand?Rapids. HE proposed five-cent tonnage tax op iron ore was favered hy Senator McCarthy. The senator was evidently not in sympathy with a vast majority of his constituency, judging from the petitions that were sent to him from this district during the past week. a Ir Brotruer Noyes of the Barnum Gazette, is as able a representative in the state lagislature at. St. Paul as he is eiditor in Carlton county, he certainly must keep things hot and howling in and about the capitol. His colleague, Mr Ryan of Case, 1s also said to be a warm member. But we have no sympathy for the people in this instance, who had an oppor- hunity to @ several hundred per cent better and passed it up. la BS OUR own state senator, C. C. Me- farthy, was one of the five members of the upper house who voted against the; resolution recently introdaced in the senate, asking President Roosevelt to stop the shipment of mules to South Africa, If the senat- or would carefully look over the branches of his genealogical tree we venture to predict that he would find where many of his ancestors were driven from the Emerald Isle by the cruel and Christless power of British tyranny. Perhaps he would like to get even by seeing others suffer as his forefathers and mothers suffered. Strange act, fora McCarthy. RANTANKEROUS ROOSEVELT, The following might hardly have been expected from the Minneapolis Tribune, but we clipped it from its editorial columns, novertheless: ‘* When Senator Tillman retorted up- on the president for withdrawal of his invitaion with the intimation that Roosevelt would have done just what he did in his place, 1t was sup- posed that he »was only reflecting on the president’s general reputation for bumptiousness. But it turns out that he was making'specific reference to a deliberate comment of the presi- dent upon certain performances of Senator Benton, which closely re- sembles Tillman’s own behavior. Benton, it will be remembered, made a physicnl assault upon Senator Foote during debate. In his Life of Ren- ton, apologizing for his ‘‘ruffianism, * Theodore Roosevelt declared this ‘more ant attitude of the New England states, and added: “A class of pro- fessional non-combatants is as hurt- ful to the real, healthy growth ofa nation ar is a class of fire eaters; for a weakness or folly is naturally as bad as a vice, or worse; and, in the long run, a Quaker may be quite as undesirable a citizen as a-duelist.” This makes Senator Tillman’s inter- view a pretty affective retort, though it might have been expressed with more courteous and graceful diction.” OUR COOLIE MECHANICS. Over $750,000 in contracts for twen- ty-one steamers for use as coast pa- trol boats and revenue cutters ‘in Philippine waters have been placed through the civil commission at Ma- nila with English firms in Japan and China. Coolie labor will be employ- ed in the construction of the vessels and great indigation is expressed at the ship building plaats and navy yards of the coast at the action of the government in placing the con- traets with foreign firms. Even the Cavite navy yard near Manila, could have built the craft, but the com- mission had seen to get the work done in China, Japan and India, be- cause if can be done cheaper there. The matter of building these steam- ers by coolie labor in Asiatic ports has apparently been kept to the back- ground for fear of arousing opposi- tion in this country. ‘The navy de- partment are now making arrang- ments and are asking congress to appropriate twenty-two million dol- lars for a pavy yard at Subig Bay, P. T. so that the ships of the American nayy are to be built by the Chinese coolie, at Hongkong and the ships of the navy repaired at Subig Bay by Chinese coolie mechanics, Thescale pf wages paid out there for all classes uf mechanical labor is about 50 cents per day in gold and the same class of work pays from $3.50 to $4 per day in America. TAXATION OF MINES. The Marquette, (Mich.) Mining Journal, one of the ablest and: most reliable paperson mining matters publisbed, has the following timely pavise to offer anent the tax tonage’ _|case in this state, the farmers of healthy” than the nonresist- |" bill now before the Minnesota legis- lature in St. Paul. . “There is a growing belief among the people of Minnesota that the iron] _ mines of that state ought to be made to comtribute more revenue to the commonwealth. As was long the Four Tought Looking Characters Attempt to Wreck An E.M. Passenger Train. A very boid attempt was made to wreck the east bound passenger train on the Great Northern near Nayonab station, about six miles this side of Cloquet on Wednesday afternoon about 4:30. At that point there are several curvers and cuts—an ideal place for a hold-up. The track wasob- structed with tie plates, angle bars, ties and other things calculated to derail the train. Fortunately the engineer discovered the obstructions in time to ayert any damage. Four tough looking fellows showed up at Swan River about 12 ocluck Wednes- day night, having come in on a west- bound freight. They claimed to come from Grand Rapids, which was not true, as they climed into a box car at Cloquet in which there was a young fellow from Minneapolis beating his way toGrand Rapids. There were four in the party, one a gentleman of color. The quartette stopped at Swan River. They were soon located by the railroad people and on Friday Roadmaster Lepper came to Grand Rapids and swore out a warrant for their arrest. Sheriff Tyndall and Deputy Harry went after them. The Sheriff brought one of the gang back with him. The man under arrest gave his name as Paddy Burke. This. morning the sheriff received word that the other three had been captured and the deputies would arrive with the prisoners on the noon train. The offense was committed in St. Louis county and they will be teken there for a hearing. Deputy Harry, Dectecive J. S. Gordon of the Eastern Minnesota railway, the three suspects and two witnesses arrived here at noon. Minnesota are eager to have the min- ing interests made to bear a heavy share of the state expense by provid- ing for them a system of special tax- ation, and the proposition most strenuously urged is that which has been discarded in Michigan’ i. e., taxing them on the tonnage of ore produced. We notice that many of the Minnesota papers favor that plan, and the arguments they advance in its support are similar to those with which we became familiar in Mich- igan before the present method of taxing mining properties went into operation. The state constution of Minnesota stands in the way of hav- ing this system of taxing the mines adopted, and it is proposed to amend itso as to relieve it of the prohibi- tory clause which now protects these properties. Urging that this be done the Minneapolis Tribune argues as follows: % Three quarters of the iron ore owned by the billion dollar steel trust are said to be in Minnesota, and the trusts say it has ore enongh to last forsixty years. Fancy the wealth that will go out of the state in that sixty years without paying any revenue. Here is an industury too, it is suggested, that will not be driven out of the state by taxa- tion. The state of Michigan had a long struggte witb the problem of taxing mines, and finally settled down to the tonnage tax as the most certain and and equitable method. No one method of taxation recom- mended by the commissioners promises as much relief to other property as the tonnage taxon mines. This tonnage tax would bea clean tax, easily collected, not unjust to the industry affected, because it would be an addition to the price of that which the nat- ural recorces of the state offer to holders of its land at far less cost for taking from the soil and moving to markets than must be paid by any competing industury It is entirely. proper that this industry, whose exploiters are making millions by removing precious natural wealth from the state, should pay a steady revenue to the state. In many coun- tries mines are state monopolies. _We make them free to the people. These mines have become a natural monopoly, It would be worth all the trouble of amending the con- stitution to get the power to tax them pro- perly. “If the people of Minnesota should proceed on the theory that the iron mines in their state should be made to pay a heavy tax because the ore they produce goes to furnaces in other states to be smelted they may compel the operators of such mines to cut down production considerably for the time being. That would count in favor of the Michigan ranges while the Miunesotians were coming to their senses, so we have uo cause to feel badly over the move- ment set on foot in that. state which has in view subjecting mining properties to excessive taxation.” We Are Exposed. That dosettle it yet already; we are undone in this here community, and there ain’t no use tryin’ to pull through no longer. We have been tryin. to fool the folks hereabouts'intc the belief that we are a gentleman and a scholar, but Murry Taylor, that brilliant and brutal oracle of the Deer River News has given the whole snap away. As Murray would write it, “everybody knows now that Kiley aint nogentleman and besides he’s got vile bile on his belly. Messrs. Kelly and Rellis are gentlemen, but Kiley ain’t no gentleman nohow any- way. And that vile bile that’s bad.” During the many years of our news- paper career we have been up against some pretty strong fellows with the pen—fellows who could retort, with scathing sarcasm and masterful in- vective, but nothing like Murray ever before stepped into the journalistic arena and knocked us sity with one polar slexus. It was only at the last moment before going to press that we sufficiently recqvered from his terrible arraignment to pen the fure- going apology for being so rash as to speak of himin other than the most complimentary terms.’ Of course the people of Deer River don’t appreciate Murray, and frequently take occasion tocuff him up and otherwise make conspicuous their contempt for him. But that’s not Murray’s fault; it would be otherwise if the people of that village didn’t know avy better than to allow him to run at large without an occasional correction for his bad manners and intolerable impudence. As the.councleman from Deer River wrote the Herald-Review last week, he will be looked after more closely in the future, and will be guarded in a log hovel to prevent the possibility of any further “comely” remarks eminating from his constipated brain. FULLERTON ON WARPATH. State Game Warden After Illegal Fishers— Will Head an Armed Force. A telgram from St. Paul says: Ex- ecutive Agent Samuel F. Fullerton, of the state game and fish commis- sion, is going to march against the men doing illegal fishing on Lake Pepin, with some twenty-five armed deputy wardens at his back. Mr. Fullerton received an opinion from Attorney General Hicks, of Madison, Wis., to the effect that Minnesota wardens have jurisdiction on Lake Pepin clear to the Wisconson shore. This opinion corroborated that of At- torney General Duyglas, of this state, so Mr Fullerton is clothed with full legal authority to proceed, and in- tends to burn all the shanties on the ice, pull up all the nets in use and burn them, and arrest all men who interfere with his operations. Mr. Fullerton has received a letter from a deputy sheriff residing on the Wis- consin shore of the lake, to the effect that Mr. Fullerton and his men will be arrested at sight if they interfere with Wisconsin residents fishing on the Wisconsin side of the lake. He Seryed His Time. Capt. Mann, an old soldier of Du- luth, who runs an excursion boat on Lake Superior during the open sea- son, came up to Pokegama lake some time.ago to get some of our choice fish. He built a little house on the ice and prepared to land a few, but Deputy Game Warden McCormick interfered and arrested the captain about two months ago. He had a hearing before the late Justice Bar- nard. In default of the fine imposed, fifty dollars and costs, he was com- mitted to the county jail for sixty days. On Thursday of this week the old gentleman was released, having served the full time. Deputy Mc- Cormick had another warrant for his rearrest on the charge of shipping fish but did not serve it. Mr. Mann returned to his home in Duluth yes- verday. Myrtle Is Coming. The manager of the Myrtle Vinton company writes to Village Recorder King that the people of Grand Rap- ids will be entertained all of next week at Village hall by that well known and popular aggregation of actors and actresses. The company will open here on Monday, the 10th, and continue for six nights. Myrtle Vinton and ber able supporters have always been favorites in Grand Rap- ids since their first appearance here, and if we may judge from the flat- tering press notices given the com- pany of late wherever they have ap- peared they come this time with an up-to-date and new reportoire of plays and_ specialties. 5 Township Board Meets, On Tuesday forenovn the township board held a meeting at the town hal) and practically closed up the busi- {ness of the year. The treasurer’s re- port. was submitted and audited. It was found to be correct and was accepted by the board. The other business tranacted was of a routine nature. Ten days after election the old board will meet again to audit and pass mpon any bills they may have contracted during their term of office and to transact such other business as may legally be brought before them for consige-gtion, — Two Reliable Land Men Tim Mahon and Matt Spang hav. been doing considerable timber cruis- ing and land looking in the Big Fork country during the past winter and as a result they have located a great many settlers in that section. They are both reliable estimators and their representations as to the amount and value of stumpage or farming lands may be depended upon. ‘Their business is constantly increasing and they anticipate operating on a much larger scale in the near future. ATTEMP? AT TRAIN WRECKING. | A aaitional Local . J. J. McDonald was an arrival from Swan River yesterday. Andy Morrisey was a visitor from Deer River Wednesday. W. A, Everton of Deer River was doing business here today, W. S. Dedon, state land cruiser, has been in town during the week. R_H. Bailey was down from his Prairie River stopping place on Wed- nesday. G. G. Hartley of Duluth, and E. J. Longyear, Minneapolis, are registered at the Pokegama, John Hamilton and Miss Mary Gathercole were mamed ut Deer River yesterday by Justice Gurard. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Mar- tin, on Friday, March 7, 1902, a girl. Dr. Gilbert reports the mothef and child doing nicely. Miss Blanche Newcomb, of the Lumbermen’s bank, went to Duluth Fnday to visit with friends over Sun- day. J. E. Johnston of Cass Lake passed through Grand Rapids today on his way hore from a_ visit to Cleveland, Ohio, and other places. ‘ Quite a number from Grand Rapids attended a dance given last evening at Deer River in -honor of Mr. and Mrs, Jos:ph Girard, who were,mariied in Duluth Wednesday. C. H. Guine, one of the old-time cooks in this department of Minne- sota,and one of the best that ever dished up for a crew of woodsmen, was in town this week. There will be a meeting of the Grand Rapids band held at the court house this evening. All those who can play a band instrument are earnestly requested to be present this evening, The spelling contest between pupils of the high schools of Bemidji, Foss- ton, Park Rapids, and Grand Rapids, of which mention was made last week, will take place at Bemidji on Apmil 17. On March 17—St. Patrick’s day— the ladies of the Episcopal gud will serve supper at Village hall from 5 to 8 o'clock. At the same time and place they will-eonduct an apron sale. A. E. Kribs and L. H. Hickler, who are lagely interested in Itasca real estate, and who are at present Prospecting quite extensively for iron ore on this end of the range. were arrivals from St, Paul yesterday. ‘This morning they drove out to Splithand. During the month of February County Treasurer. Miller received $10,428 34 in taxes, the greater por- tion of which sum was on personal property, For the same month he paid out $5, 764,33, $1,680 of which was interest on bonds. John Murphy came down from 60- 24 yesterday where he had been tak- ing charge for the backus-Brooks company during the past winter Mr. Murphy reports having had a very good season’s logging, notwith- standing the unfavorable weath.r that has prevailed of late.” é A caucus is called for this evening at Village hall for the purpose of plac- ing in nomination candidatés for the several offices to be filled by vote of the electors on Tuesday. At the same time and place a township ticket will be nominated. No excitement up to this hour—1 o’clock p. m. The book reception, hekt Wednes- day evening at Village hall under the auspices of the library board, was quite well attended and the time was spent enjoyably and ___ profitably. About thirty books were given and ten dollars in cash. - Refreshments were served after the exhibition of stereoptican views and discourse by Miss Baldwin. secretary of the state library asseciation. ‘The attendence was not as large asit should hawe been and>it is to be hoped that an in- creased interest will develope in this worthy work. Anyone who may have books to contribute to the library and failed to do so Wednesday evening, may leave the same at the Herald- Review office. The audience highly appreciated the music furnished by Miss Cora Kremer and Messrs, Aikin and Johnson, for which the board w'shes to express their sincere thanks. Died Mrs. Annie Miller, aged 77 years, died at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Betz, in this village yesterday, March 7. The deceased tad. been confined to her bed for the past seven years with inflamatory rheumatism. She had been a_ great sufferer during that time. 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