Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 6, 1904, Page 1

<0 PERRI R reNc ~ 2 len atemtrmae naaaepe * Vou XII.—No, 26 east Valentines! Valentines! All afire with fervent lines! Love is won by such as these; Each is well designed to pleasc. ‘Now you have the chance so fine, To charm Her with a valentine! If you love Him, maiden dear, Everything is here to please SRSA We2—-jAZvC Da Itasca 3 : | SPAS ARLES ALAS RAGA Now Don't Forget Next time you're around our way to drop in an‘ see our stock of Enameled Ware. There's no ware like Enameled Ware—for wear or looks : Buy one pieceand be convinced. After you buy one piece you TL wonder why you never thought of using this superior and econemi- cal wear before. See our stuck and prices. ‘They are both purse c<peniag and mind easing. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. sli you must eat, & —— best goods in the market at the lowest prices. You should buy Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Game etc., at the Market of Thos. Finne- an. They always have on haud the very best — at lowest prices. 2 Thos. Finnegan, SLSVSVSLESSSS ASL SS EY Thos. Finnegan, Proprietor. erect FU SLSLSLCSL SOS LSCSLS SK SSISISTTISIAISVSWE’ WM. C. TYNDALL, Agent For A. FITGER & CO’S., Fine Bottled Beer and Malt Extraet. Highly Recommended by Leading Physicians as Tr It y it. “Best Nerve Tonic.” ‘Telephone No.—— and Have a Case Delivered to Your Home. BISLSLVSS Fees: SLSLSLS® BLSLSLSl SISS STSLSLVOS VALENTINES Now’s the time—it’s sweet Leap Year. Sweethearts, be they “thes” or “shes”. Mercantile Co. j year. wr ~s HZ-AZ0CD< OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE. The Election of Township Supervisors Comes Under New Law. A law vassed by the last legislature makes an important change in the election of township supervisors. Fol- lowiag is the amended section of the law: Section 928.—There shall be elected in the year 1904, at the annual menting of each town three supervisors, one of whom shall be elect- ed for three years, one for two years. and one for one year,so that one shall go out each The number of years for which each is elected shall be indicated on the ballot, and one shall be designated and known as chair- man, Ateach annual town meeting thereaf- ter one supervisor shall be elected for three years to fill the place of one whose term ex- pires at that time. There shall also be ¢lected at the annual towu meeting in each town ove town clerk. one treasurer, one assessor, two justices of the peace, two constables, and one overseer of the highways for each road district in said town, but justices of the peace shall be elected only once in two years, except to fill vacancies. It will be seen by the foregoing that it isimportant to elect good men to direct the affairs of Grand Rapids township at the fo-thcoming election in March. We have had some very good and some very poor township boards.in the past, and it is in fact te be regretted that so little public in- terest is taken in the annual town- ship elections. The peuple shouid give the same consideration to the selection of township officers that is accorded to village matters. Hereto- fore this has not been the custom in the townsbip of Grand Rapids. —_— Said a Hungry Man. “Speaking about goof things to eat, reminds me of Pete Meil, who now conducts the Northern Cafe in the rear of John Boyle O’Reilley’s Sil- ver sample room,” said an old time woodsman the other day in reply to the suggestion of a friend that it was about time to get-a good, square meal. “T worked two. winters in a camp where Pete was cook and I never saw a better satisfied lot of men with the ‘chuck’ that was furnished. I don’t know that the ‘push’ furnished better than others, but Pete knows how to cook and whatever he sets up a man can eat and relish.” It is this general opinion that has madé the Northern Cafe the most popular eating house in Grand Rapids since Mr. Meil took charge of it about five weeks ago. His opportunities to serve the public at the Northernare so much more favor- able than they could possibly be ina camp that one has no idea of the ex- cellence of the meals served until he has tried them. Sunday dinrers at the Northern are especially fine. Prices are reasonable and the patron is always sure of courtepus treatment. i Cows for Sale. Some fine Jersey cows for sale at a bargain. Apply at farm of W. D. Leeman. i Proposition to Bond ‘the County Will Be Submitted at March Election. The state law governing tax levy for road and bridge funds must have been passed by men who’are not in favor of building and improying public highways, or they were elected frg@m districts that were already amply supplied with good roads. One mill is the limit that can be leyied for this purpose and the amount raised anouallv in Itasca county therefrom is -about 96,000, if the taxes are all paid. ‘The law is certainly at fault and does the north- ern part of thestate a great injustice. Mére money is needed for road build- ing in these northern counties than for any other purpose. If we do not have roads we cannot have desirable settlers. It is that class of men who come with their families to remain to make homes that is desired, and if they cannot be provided with passable roads to their farmsteads they wil loGute elsewhere. The man who takes a claim for what timber it contains, expecting to abandon it éntirely after proving up, cannot be regarded as of any considerable bene- fii to the community. It is the man who-will clear his laud, raise crops and stock bis farm that will add to the permanent wealth of the county. You cannot induce such men into a section where there are not fairly good highways. ‘The demand for road improyements in [tasca county seems to be unanimous with all classes of citizens and it is in re- spond to this general demand that the countycommissioners have dec:ded to submit a proposition tt issue bonds oo a vote of the people at_the March township electionsthroughout 4 county. Calling the election at that time will save the heavy expense that a special election would incur. A, thirty-five thousand dollar bond issué is “thie “amount talked™ ore: the commissioners, but a great many seem to think that it should be fifty thousand. The proposition to be submitted to the people, however, is the question as to wheather bonds shall be issued or not. The commis- sioners shall decide upon the amount. There should be no question as to the result. ‘The opportunity to raise a few thousand dollars with which to build roads should carry unanimous- ly. The matter of road building is of vast importance to every business man as well as every farmer in the county. Our business men should see Lo it that the proposition is discussed and understood by the voters between now and March 8 so that there may be no misapprehension as to the purpose and need of the bond issue. APPEALS FOR OUTSIDE HELP. The Cass Lake Voice Man Asks Brother Cobb to Root for Richards. Readers of Duluth daily papers hereabouts have no doubt roticed from time to time dispatches from Cass Lake touching upon the townsite controversy, between Bena and Rich- ards. ‘These dispatches assure the world at large that Bena has been wiped off the mapand that Richards is growing to cityhood as if by magic. As was truthfully recorded in these columns last week, Richards is noth- ing more and nothing less than a rab- bit burrough, located on the con- gealed water of an immense swamp. During the summer season it would make an excellent duck reserve. At present it is inhabited by thousands of rabbits that live in luxuriant ease on the luscious underbrush and wild yrasses, undistbrbed by the invasion of civilized map. Bena is one of the liveliest and likeliest little towns in this part of the state and it has been such for a number of years. But what we started out to say was to call at- tention to the following letter, writ- ten by A. G. Bernard, publisher of the Cass Lake Voice, to Editor Cobb, late of the Grand Rapids Magnet. This letter will make clear the source from which the Duluth papers get their information relating to Bena and ‘Richards. The letter fully explains itself: Cass Laxe, Minn,, } February Ist. 1904. ¢ H.R. Cobb, Grand Rapids, Minn.—My Dear Cobb:—I don’t know whether you will be able -to control a line in the Magnet after this. If you will. kirfdly print something like this: We know very.liitle of the merits of the trove between the two townsites, Rich- vards and Bena. We know the occupants of Two DoLiars A YEAR, the former presented proof. and it was ac- cepted, and recently we saw a letter from the commissioner of the general land office in which he refused to recognize the rights of the squatters of Bena. All this being yrue we do not see what claim the squatters of Bena have for further consideration. Would not ask this had it not been for the arricle in last issue of Herald Review yclept “Richards Rooters.” Am not feeling any better. With kindest regards, Fraternally yours. A. G. BERNARD, This is one way to boom a phantom townsite, but when the tactics of the Cass Lake gang ure properly placed before the Washington authorities their claim to recognition will hold good—nit—in a hurry. In the mean- time the jack rabbits haven’t heard a word about the threatened invasion of their jungle winter home. AS TO CHEAP METERS. Supt. Finnis Has Some Peculiar Ex- periences With Burch’s Meters. - In kecping with the whole electric plant as instituted by Contractor Rob- ertson, under the direction of that monumental fraud, E. P. Burch, al- leged electrical engineer, the meters which he put in are no good. They are what is known as the Fort Wayne meter. They have proven here to be a very notional piece of mechanism, In some instances Superintendent Fin- nis finds a registration of 500 to 600 kilowatts for a month’s consumption where only eight or ten 16-candle power lights are used. In others the meter retuses to work at all, and again 1t will back up, so that the consumer, according to the registration, would have a bill against the village at the end of the month. These instruments cost only $9.00, while the Westing- house, the most reliable meter made, costs about $35. In the end, how- ever, it would pay to put in meters that would register the consushption of electricity correctly. No doubt Mr. Burch would have conformed with the plans and specifications and putin first-class material throughout, if he hadn’t broke the old council too early in the game. As it was he only managed and manipulated to raise a $24,500 contract to a little over $38,000, and he couldn’t be expected to live up to the specifications as to the quality of material used. But that doesn’t change the fact that no cus- tomer using a meter has any means of whether he 1s paying. too lit-. tle or too much. Eventually they will all have to be thrown out as neither the people or the corporation can afford to stand for their unreliable an- tics. The Fort Wayne meters are con- demned by the insurance inspectors as being unsafe. ‘They are so flimsily constructed as to be in. constant dan- ger of causing flre. A CHAYGE OF PROPRIETORS ; H. R. Cobb Disposes of the Graud Rapids Magnet to James A. Stuart. After successfully conducting the Grand Rapids Magnet for several months, Henry BR. Cobb sold the prop- erty last week to James A. Stuart of Duluth. Mr. Cobb found by experi- ence that he could not do justice to either himself or his constituency while conducting one paper at Park Rapids and another at Grand Rapids. Cobb & Haradon own one of the best country newspaper outfits in North- ern Minnesota, and their Hubbard County Enterprise is recognized as one of the ablest papers printed in this partof the state. It was because of the rapidly increasing business of the Enterprise that they found it advis- able to dispose uf their Grand Rapids interests that greater attention might be concentrated on their Park Rapids business. Mr. Cobb leaves Grand Rapids with the high regard of our citizens, and before leaying he freely expressed his regret at,severing busi- ness and social relations with the peo" ple of this community. As a business competitor the Herald-Review found Mr. Cobb to be honorable and reliable in all his dealings, and our relations with him were always pleasant. We regret his departure from this field. A Surprising Condition. The Herald-Review begs to assure our esteemed contemporary, the Magnet, that the statements made in these columns last week anent the action of a majority of the county commissioners in the matter of giving out public work was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If the Magnet will investigate | the matter it will find that and some other things to ‘‘reveal a most sur- prising copdition of affairs in the transaction of public business in this county.” If the new editor of the Magnet has a nose for news iu this direction he will be able to turn out an interesting paper, after he becomes acclimated. ’ THE TAXPAYERS TALK The Herald-Review’s Plain Comments on County Affairs Caus- es Some Thinking The statements made inthe Herald- Review last week concerning the let- ting of county printing has caused more comment than anything of a local nature that bas appeared in an Itasca county paper for some time. This is not beeause there is any par- tisan feeling #m the premises. but it is rather the facts that the article called to the attention of the taxpay- ing public. As the Herald-Review stated last week,a great many are charitable egaugh to believe that- Colgmissioners Fraser and Passardi were deceived by the brazen false- hoods of the brainless fellow Ander- son. But, it is argued, if they are sor easily led intoa trap by a half-baked imbecile, what might be expected oft them when it comes to the handling’ of thousands of dollars that are ex- pended from the county coffers year- ly? If their credulity is such that their official ag¢tsare controlled by the first liar who perehance may sing a plausable song. to them, are they safe men. it is asked,.to entrust with the immense public affairs of this county? There are always men of some real ability who are looking for public graft and when eommissioners canbe deceived on a three or four thousand dollar proposition by one whose only characteristic is a mania for falsify- ing, what guarantee have the people against similar transactions in other directions where thoasands ¢f dollars are to be expended? This is the ques- tion that naturally arises in the minds of the people, and this is the question that some of the commis- sioners will haye a hard time to answer to the satisfaction. of their constituency. It matters little to the taxpayer whether public funds are squandered through the raseality or stupidity of officials. al WILL DANCE WEDNESDAY NEGHT. Eagles. Will Entertain Their Friends at Village Hall in Royal Manner. Pokegama Aerie, Fraternadi Order of Eagles, will give their first annual ball at Village hall next Wedtiesday evening. ‘This fraternal order has enjoyed a phenominal growth since its organization in Grand Rapids. Pts membership has steadily increasgd until it is one of the strongest orders: in the village. The Eagles have the reputation of dving things on an elab-. orate scale and their entertainments everywhere are second tonone. Those in charge of the dance nexi Wednes- day evening will endeavor to keep up the reputation already established. Tickets are now being offered for sale by different members of Pokegama Aerie at the usual price of 1,00 each. Supper will be served by the ladies of the Catholic society. The Firemen Will Dance. The tire department of Grand Rap- ids bus chartered Village hall for the night of February 15, which will be on Monday. The firemen’s tourna- ment to be held here in June next will necessarily incur a considerable expense and it will require consider- able hustling to raise the necessary funds. The boys desire, as much as possible, to distribute the burden equally upon all classes of citizens. By the giving of dances, etc.,a neat sum might be rsised, and in this way would materially relieve the burden that would otherwise fall upon our business men when cuntributions are solicited. When the purpose of the dance is understood there should be no difficulty ia selling tickets, It is a well known fact that the firemen al- ways give dancing parties that are enjoyed by those who attend them, anda royal good time is assured for Monday evening, the 15th inst, Every- body should be prepared to buy a ticket. An Obnoxious Species. The Coeur d’Alene country has de- veloped a particularly obnoxious spe- cies of timber cruisers, observes the Mississippi Valley Lumberman. They have been plastering the timber claims of that section with cabins and the names of ficticious personages, and then selling the claims to innocent purchasers. Government agents are making investigations. and the prac- tice 1s likely to be brought to a sud. den stop. ~