Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 12, 1903, Page 1

Dene en red a A ARISES ES Lae >- Vor. XIL—No. 18. Hello! Books, Dolls.. Don forget that this is t All the will please you, than ever. When you need anything for t ids, just come around our way, w Dollis sleds, books, t pictures, cutlery, rugs, carving se oy dishes, chinaware, albums, Our usual outlay of books is on ha include all grades a: the colored pages at 5, 10 and 15 cents. 10 to 25 cents, and for the selling books.ofthe day. If you want to see a copy of the last book of your favorite writer, jus we call special attention to our ass But we are not selling them at twenty- bound and of standard ask 18 cents a copy or nd for all ages. Santa! Books. rowpv. people, he boys and girls of Grand Rap- e have just what you want. ames, fancy tables, taboretts, 8, skates, fancy stationery, fan- lamps, rugs. etc. nd for this season, and these For the little folks we have For those older, from all the latest and best + call and let us show you. ortment of 25 cent books. five cents. authors, every one a gem, two books for 25 cents. he week for Dolls. c best grades made and price are less xamine and be convinced. Full cloth and we only Our noll display hy Itasca Mercantile Co. FOLLOWING A CUE. And how you will have to rush. out your little hatchet of Common Sere # : Now don’t forget—at Powers’ store there is the This is the tip. finest line of We give you the cue—you get id follow along. Silver-Plated Knives, Forks, Spoons, etc., that you ever laid youreveson. They will dazzle you with their brightness and th ever. sir brightness wiil last, tro. We are ready for business—Come on. Prices? The best W. J. & H. D. POWERS. On Split Hand - Brook. Price: i eae Upton’s Famous Eighty $1,200 I hate to sell mv eighty, but lam too badly crippled to farm it. _Klerbert &, Upton. inauire Reishus-Remer Land Co. Commereial Printing Done Right at Right Prices Right at the . Herald-Review Offiee. CASS LAKE PINE SALE. Advices from Cass Lake indicate the Chippewa pine sale is progressing’ ina very satisfactorily manner. AY large number of Jutnberman from all portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin are in attendance and eagerly watech-. ing the Opening of the bids. The sealed bid method is a success from a government standpoint, but it is understood that the timber men are are not pleased with its rigid rules j and restrictions which prevent them from combining to keep the price down. The first bid opened was that of tbe Grand Cross Logging company and totaled $738,000. Some twenty other bids were. opened, and.the en- tire bunch will be forwarded to Washington with recommendations of selling to the highest bidder? Editor Beaulieu of the White Earth Tomahawk opposed the sale of the pine under the new arrangement, and applied for an injunction from the supreme court restraining the sale. At the next sale on the 28th, he may cause trouble. The petition for the injuction will be argued short- ly in Washington, and if granted will stop the next sale as well as nullify- ing the bids in the present one, as none of them will be accepted until the court acts. Beaulieu objects to the provisions of the sale which re- quire lumbermen to dispose of all outtings after their logging opera— tions on the grounds -that the extra expense attached will curtail the amount of money received by the Indians. MINNESOTA GETS SWAMP LANDS. Secretary of Interior Makes Ruling Hand- ing Over Portions of Reservations. The secretary of the interior hag decided that the lands within certain of the former Chippewa Indian reser- vations in Minnesota, swamp and overflowed, and untit thereby for cul- tivation, not reserved or granted by the United States March 12, 1860, passed to the state by its grant of that date. This decision does not affeet those parts of the former Leech Lake, or Winnibigoshish reservations or the Sass Lake reservation, which were reserved by the treaty of February 12,.1855. The decision holds that sections 16 and 36 in such reservations did not pass to the state under its swamp grant and the secretary has refused to »pprove swamp lists for lands in such sections of the former White Earth reservation. All bids received at Cass Lake on Dec. 5th will be forwarded to the commissioner of the general land office and apy lands which may be found to be swamp and subject to selection under this decision will be eliminated from the bids before ac- ceptance by the department,—News Tribune, ' NN., SATURDAY, DECEMBER I et ae a 3F 1903. Barch and Robertson Are Not Ready to Prosecute Their Suit Against the Village At This Term of Court. lage Affairs Next Spring, Then Make Robertson A $2,400 Gift. rand Rapids, in which the plainti light system in our village. terests in every measure. of courtin June, presenting an affi- davit extremely lepgthly and con- taining in Substance the allegation that the plaintiff did not know where ey were at, that the answer filed to tel complaint took the feet from minder them, tuus making it impossi- ble for the plaintiff to be ready for “trial. Attorney Price for the village asked the court to deny the motion, citing among other facts that ib was unfair to the village to continue the case beyond the official life of the members of the council whose term expires in March next. The court CONTINUED TILL JUNE TERM They Hope To Regain Control of Vil- One of the most important cases on the civil calendar at the present term of district court, was that of J. Robertson against the Village of alleges in his complaint that there bee him $2,400, balance on his butract in installing the electric 1t was ‘pected that the plaintiff would be feady for.trial when the case was led, leastwhile the village council d Village Attorney Price did stren- us labor in preparing their case, nd were ready to protect the village Thus When the case was called it was some- :. of a surprise to the unitiated en Attorney McCarthy asked on behalf of the plaintiff for a continu- ance of the case until the next term taking cognizance of this fact stated that while it might not be for the hest interests of the village to have a continuance yet it was reasonable unfair to force the plaintiff to trial in view of the showing made, aud the case went over. This places the village interest’s indirectly in the pepole’s own hands, as they will have to elect ‘uhe successors to the present village Uuard in March next, four months be- fore the next term of the district poourt, and it rests with the voters to say just what disposrtion will be made of the case, andit may be and undoubtedly isa fact that the plain- tiffs had ‘‘method in their madpess” when the continuance was asked, hoping that the people would oust the present council and put the handling of village matters back into the hands of $1700 Burch and his hypnotized admireas here, at whose hands the plaintiff would presum- ably fare as he fared in the pastand the case go by default and judgment allowed against the village for the $2400 asked. The Herald-Review wants our peo- ple to keep the matter in mind. Ina nutshell the case is as follows: The people voted to spend $25,000 to put in anelectrical lighting plant. The last village council expended $38,000 in an inferior system. Robertson on July 8, 1992 contracted to putin the machinery, lines, etc. for the install- ing of our felectric jigbt plant for the sum of $24,500, the plant to be ready by Jan. 1 1903. If not completed at that 3 date $24.50 a day was to Le taxed. $1700 Consulting Engineer Burch was hired by the village to superintend the installing of the plant, and he superintended the work here by remaining in St. Paul which cost us $1700. February 10, 1903, the first lights were turned on just 41 days after they should have been, giving the village a credit of in his complaint. Now the plant as everybody knows council contend it was complete, un- til March 14, 1903, when $1700 Burch recommended to the old council—who had ceased to be public officials—to accept the plant, which they resol- ved to do. This resolution did not stitutes one of the answers to the plaintiff’s complaint in the present suit. It will be remembered that several heated sessions of the coun- cil were held at which{Burch and Rebertson were present, and at the plant was not up to contract stipulations, and it is a well known fact that no effort has been made by Robertscn to make the necessary changes which he has acknowledged were necessary to be made in order to complete the plant according to the specifications, ‘ $1004,50, the which credit, by the|§ way, this man Robertson overlooks | § was not complete at that time, nor]? did $1700 Burch or. the last village |} bind the village, and the fact con-|§ which Robertson aeknowledged that In its answer the village denies that itis indebted to Robertson in any amount, and sets up a counter-claim for $12,217 damages sustained by rea- son of Robertson and Burch palming off inferior machinery and work upon the village, and for damages sustain- ed generally by reason of the plant not being completed within tne time specified in and in accordance with the contract. In March next.a new set of village officers will be elected, aud it behooves our taxpayers to see that the Burch admirers are not allowed to regain control of village affairs to open the village treasury for the fingers of $1,700 Burch and Contractor Robertson to despoil of $2,400. ff} Levevery taxpayer constitute him- self a watchdog of the village treas- ury. Let us keep the grafters out. More anon. SNOW AF FECTS LOGGING ROADS, Operators Assert That The Heavy Fall Came Too Soon. The very heavy blanket of snow on the ground in northern Minnescta is not admired by the logger to the ex- tent that people might suppose. It has cume before the ground and swamps were frozen sufficiently to insure a good foundation for roads for heavy hauling. There was enough ice on the lakes. too, to support the snow, and now the snow is so deep that it will be protested from the frost to a very large extent, and there is a prospect that good roads for log hauling will be scarce. A Grand Rapids lumberman com- menting on the situation said: “The prospects now are that the snow is going to interfere with log— ging to the extent that the output in northern Minnescta will be ma- terially curtailed. With 18 to 24 inches of snow all through the woods at this early date in winter, there is eyery reason to believe we shall have at least three or four feet before February 1. In addition to keeping the swamps and lakes from freezing hard enough to support good roads, there will be altogether too much snow for satisfactory logging. Occassionally we yet a very snowy winter in this country and we Seem to have one ahead of us right now.” The jumbermen probably willnot. be very sorry if the output of logs is less than contemplated, for it will have a favorable effect on lumber prices. F MINNESOTA Not In Louisana Purchase, It has been discovered that the Red River valley which has always been shown in the government maps as being located in the Louisiana purchase, never belonged to France and was a part of the old Northwest territory says the Princeton Union. In the ‘first isSue of the maps, the lines of bountary ran clear north to the Canadian border, taking in all of Minnesota except the area east of the Mississippi river. The new map. shows the line deflecting west from St. Cloud, leaving out the entire Red River valley. In searching the rec- ords recently the error was discover- ed and the correction has been made in the new maps which have just been issued by the government. Deer Galore Killed. Game Wame Sam Fullerton, esti- mates that during the hunting sea- son in this state—that is between the 10th and 30th of last month—no less thau 12,000 deer were killed by the 10,000 hunters who recentiy took out licenses tohunt. It might seem that this wholesale slaughter would approach extermination of our crop of deer, but Mr. Fullerton says that this is not the case and he esti- mates the total number of deer in Minnesota at more than 200,000.— Duluth Tribune. ers. That’s true. future. number of eggs. A certain m a good illustration and took a walnut into the holding it up he said: you see this walnut. hull here is like the faith of the Methodist denomination—soft and spongy, apd has no sttength to it.” 'Then disclosing the inner shell he like the Baptist, hard and dry, with no substance in it; but the kernel, my friends, is like th, full of fatness He ther proceeded to crush the walnut, and low and be- hold! he astonished his hearers by exclaiming, ‘‘By jinks, it’s rotten.” added. out good old fai and sweetness.” ister wi pulpit «with him. “This is James J. Hiil predicts hard times, but says they will not effect the farm- Aman ona quar- ter section of land and out of debt need not trouble himself about the His income may be slightly deminished during hard times when prices take a tumble, bat his soil will not produce less, his cows will not fail to give the same amount of milk and his chickens lay the same His family need not be robbed of a single comfort. The man on a farm isa prince among mgn.—A ppelton Tribune. ed to make On “My friends, Well, this outer td i Re EE RE eee ee a ee a a a ee ae The collar and lapels If so, We can please you. Ea AE ME a se ae a a a ERE OES Ce eee ES THE SIGN OF A TAILOR What is it? What is it that makes aman as tailor-made? He can be told a block away—his clothes fit him perfectly—there is the right cut to his coat and trousers. are firm and smooth. There isn’t too much loseness here— and too much tightness there. Evertything is neatly done. Allare firm and true. Is your tailor verfectly satisfactory? stick to him—if not, try us. Donahue & Fugina. ES ee a ae a ae a ae ae SA eee a eae a oH aa A A We a ae a a ee eae ea a a a ST: i Dealers in all kinds of me Goods Grand Rapids, GUA RAUTETAAONOOeTAD 2 King Lumber Co. (Successors to J, J. Decker.) Delivered. Building Material f ay es ‘ Minnesota,