Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 2, 1904, Page 4

Grand Rapids Review Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. LWI DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter Ex-Senaror C. C. MCCARTHY has. _ Stated to the Bemidji News that he is nota candidate for the office of at- torney general, and that he will not be a candidate for the district judg- ship, and expresses himself favorable to the election of Judge Spooner. ——.—— STATISTICIANS tell us that twenty gallons of liquor per capita was con- sumed in the United States last year. Just think of it! And it bas been so long since we've had a drink that we don’t know what the stuff tastes like. —+0+—_— J. ADAM BEDE does not propose to give up the fight: against .the state’s claim toswamp Jands until be has to. This undertaking is no joke with our congressman and the Her- ald-Review hopes to see him win out. ——_-e- ALEX Dowlg, he of Zion City no- toriety, has beenhunched out of Aus- tralia where he appears to be very unpopular with the ruling classes. Dowie bas expressed the opinion tbat King Edward of England has no religion to spare. —- Tue Duluth Evening Herald has found out: “Now we know what really isthe matter with the townsite of Richards. The Grand Rapids Her- ald-Review’s old friend, Bernard was one of the promoters.” soo ae “News and Comment” in the Du- juth News Tribune must have had Itasca county in mind when the fol- lowing philosophy fell from her bril- liant pen: “The silent man is some- times considered wise, because he is wise enough to keep his foolishness unexpressed.” aot Eg ae JupGz JAGGARD is too much a man and too little of a politician tohope to succeed in his aspirations for the su- preme bench. Oily Stock Lewis, who loaned his judicial title to one of the worst swindles ever put afloat, isa man who quite naturally stands in high favor with the schemers who make the slate.—Martin County Sen- tinel. —_._—_ Tue Jap-Russian dispute still con- tinues, but it now begins to appear much like one of our modern heavy- weight prize fights—all talkinski and vlowwhiskerinski. This is the latest from the fareast. In the meantime we have convicted Senator Burton of Kansas of accepting illegal compen- sation. pene remnen OFFICIAL notice has been served on all undesirable characters that they will not be permitted to reside in Hibbing. The new chief of police of that village has issued the order and he states it will be rigidly enforced. Under the Power administration Hibbing evidently proposes to clean up and put on some airs. PLES NERS Se Tne impeachment proceedings in- stituted against United States Dis- trict Judge Swayne of Florida reveals the accused jurist to be a most diaboli- calicharacter, if the charges preferred agaiost him are ultimately proven to be true. He should not only be im- peached but imprisoned for the re- maining years of his miserable life. “Am I my brother’s Keeper?” will probably be Thomas H. Shevlin’s ree ply to the proceedings instituted by his brother Edwin C. Shevlin. The latter sues the former for the recov- ery of $350,000 which is alleged to be due the plaintiff on stock owned by him in the St. Hilaire and Crookston Lumber companies. According to the published story Edwin got *the double cross from ‘l'homas while he was under the influence of liquor. Portas Se SRE ah STRANGE, too, the Magnet had nothing further to say in connection with its warning of a week ago where- in Republican legislative aspirants from this county were summarily sidetracked in the interests of Mr. Gunn's candidacy for the office of railroad and warehouse commission- er. The Herald-Review’s deductions of the case remain uncontradicted. Does King, Seaman and Greeley take kindly to the arrangement? pede Se P INASMUCH as the Magnet refuses to disclose the names uf the alleged traitors who gained official admis- sion to the late Republican county convention and turned down our ponderous townsman, D. M. Gunn, we will have to consider the incident closed for the present, and conclude that there were no traitors outside the Magnet’s imagination. While it’s ereally uone of our political business—aside from the news feat- ure of that interesting. deal—the tight of resurrection is hereby re- Served for future fun. Panes ‘THE Herald-Review feels very grate- ful to Brother Stuart of the Magnet for his flattering reference to our, eminent qualifications for a place on the state Democratic ticket, but owing to the fact that this is a presi- dential year and business in Wall street is liable to be unsteady at times, tugether with our important interests at home, we are forced to" respectfully decline. The tempta- tion is great, but the very possibility of defeat is an awful thing fora timid Democrat to contemplate. Can you not give us sume assurances of election as an inducement to seek a nomination, Brother Stuart? SE White nominations for the legis- lature are in order the Herald-Re- view desires to place the nameof A. D. Brooks before the Democrats of this district for consideration. Mr. Brooks has been a resident of Itasca county for a dozen years or more, re- siding at Deer River the greater portion of the time where he was successfully engaged in the general mercantile trade until about a year agu. He isa member of the present board of county commissioners. His many years’ residence in northern Minnesota has given him extensive acquaiutance throughout the district. He is a genuine Democrat and one who has been right with his party at all times and under all circum- stances. A.D. Brooks would make an able member of the legislature. SIRE Ce Henry R. Cops of the Park Rap- ids Enterprise, formerly editor of of the Grand Rapids Magnet, has been mentioned as a desirable candi- date for the legislature from his dis- trict. Mr. Cobb isan able man, and the many years that he has published a paper at Park Rapids eminently equips him with a personal know- ledge of nis district’s needs. Asa public speaker he is of that class that commands the respectful ‘attention of those who hear him, and his influ- ence would be felt in St. Paul during the legsilative session. As a state legislator Mr. Cobb would always feel a conscientious responsibility in the discharge of his duties, because his is a high standard of patriotism, and his vote and voice could not be bought and jbartered as is too fre- quently the case in these days of ultra commercialism. This being so there is little chance of his elect- ion in a Republican district, but the Herald-Review is sincere in the hope that he will receive the nomination of his party. THE LEAGUE’S WORK. AT THE recent state convention of the Minnesota Municipal and Commercial league, of which Hon L. A. Rousing is president, a resolution was adopted requesting the senators and representatives in congress to endeavor tu secure such legislation as will give jurisdiction vo the Inter- state Commerce commisson, after a hearing and investigation, to fix what is a reasonable rate for interstate shipments. and what division of joint rates the jcint carries participating shall receive; and make the order of such commission prima facie evi~ dence that the rate fixed by it is reas- onable, which rate so fixed shall be and remain in force pending all liti- gations and all appeals and until the final judgment following the de- termination of the court of last re- sort wherein said rate may be modi- fied; and to secure amendment to the long and short haul clause of the act to regulate commerce, so that the carrier shall not have the right in the first instance to determine whether the circumstances and con- ditions are such as will warrant itin charging more for the short than the long haul, but that such charge shall not be allowed except by order of the Interstate Commerce coinmission. a GiVE HIM REASONABLE DUE. Credit should be given Dunn for his good deeds and in the record com- piled by his friends are several per- formances when he did his duty like a Democrat. More than once he worked side by side with Governor Lind and more than once he opposed his Republican colleagues. That is why so many Democrates have often spoken in his praise. But it is pos- sible to overdo the laudations. We find some Democratic contemporar- ies, for instance, giving him credit for collecting $775,000 taxes from the mining companies and raising their assessed valuation from $1,500,000 to $30,000,000. On the face of it, that is a good showing. It was actually doneduring Dunn’s term, to some ex- tent morerover by Dunn’s efforts in the face of opposition of his col- leagues. But don’t get red in the face. Where the mines are valued for tax- ation at thirty millions, they are ac- tually worth above five hundred mil- lions. Schwab’s statement, as presi- dent of the steel trust, is on record to prove it in a New Jersey case. And when it was proposed to raise them to one hundred millions Dunn resisted it. He opposed a valuation ae ere a valuation of about six. per cent was enough. ‘ Farmers pay taxes ‘three or four times as high in comparison as the steel trust. Businessmen pay taxes— or are supposed to—on a valuation relatively ten times as high. For raising the iron mines to that extent, Dunn is entitled to be count- ed a hero among Republieans. We agree to that. But fur doing sucha small fraction of his duty he has} hardly earned the encomiuns of the Democrats. We can’t think of aman worthy of the Democratic nomin. ation for auditor who would not have done al! that and more.—Goudhue County News. —— WHAT THE RAILROADS WANT. There is much truth in the follow. ing, said by the Aitkin age: The railway companies care very little who is governor but they do want to control the rail- road and warehouse commission and to defeat the proposed in- crease in the gross earnings tax. That’s where their bread and bnt- ter comes in and these are mat- ters about which some of the pa- pers, which devote column after column to howling about the mer- ger, say not one word.. They would blind the people to the real railroad issues in this c»m- paign. They would have the vot- | ers furget all about the railroad and warehouse commission, which has power to practically control the railways of this state, and all about the gross earnings tax— both issues in which every rail- road doing business in the state of Minnesota is interested—and rant and rave about the merger, a dead issue. But that is nuts for the railway companies Itisof greater importance to the people of the state of Minnesota to elect honest and competent men as railroad and warehouse commission- ers, than it is to fill the executive chair with an equally well equip- ped man. In the great political bat- les which take place for the guberna- torial nominations the real interests ofthe people are lost sight of, and there is just where the railroad and other special interests get in their work and appropriate to themselves the officials that will best serve them. In Minnesota the nomination of rail- road and warehouse commissioners is allowed to go by default on behalf ofthe people. Itis true, as stated by the Age, that the railroads care very little whether the Republican convention will nominate Dunn, Col- lins or Eddy. What they want is the railroad commissioners, the attorney general anda purchaseable legislature. All other considerations are lost sight of in the confusion created eby the different factions in howling for their gubernatorial favorites. And who are the fellows that create this confusion? Why, the politicians who are seeking Terunerative appointive positions that are to be given out to the chaps who manage to be the biggest toads in the political puddle. They make the most noise and when the flight for the head of the ticket is over their howling suddenly ceases. Then it isthat the special interests get what they are looking for. The Republican party has plenty of able, conscientious and patriotic men, who would serve the people, but such men have no possible chance to secure nominations. LITTLE FORKS’ FIRE Fire That Wiped Out frincipal Por- tion of a Thriving Village. Little Fork, one of Minnesota's most progressive border towns, was visited by a fire ocassioning a loss of $15.000 with only $1,000,. insurance and Jestroying the better part of the village. The fire started in the attic of P. G. Gordon’s department store and its progress was so rapid that even the cash drawer, containing abunt $700 in ehecks and currency, could not be sayed. Two hotels, one on each side of the store, were entirely consumed by the flames and five dwellings were also destoryed. Iwo other buildings were badly damaged. The flames spread so rapidly that contents of the the buildings adjoining the Gordon store could not be saved. One of the hotels was owned by Com- missioner Noble and the other by Aaron Shalgren and both were large and well equipped. Several had narrow escapes from death in the fire and many were bad- ly scorched in leaving the burning buildings. The Gordon store con- tained a large tock of general mer- chandise and was a frame building 26 by 16 feet in size. Little Fork is a new town on the borthern boarder of Itasca county and within a year sprang up from one log cabin to an up-to-date village of 250 inhabitants. A school house has been built and the erection of church buildings begun. While the loss isa severe blow to to the border town its residents intend to build better and more subtantial structures to replace the onks destroyed. of twenty per cent and insisted that| Get your Job Work at Herald-Review DR. C, J, LARSON, THE EYE SPECIALIST With his wonderful skill and methods and wonder- ful instruments can meas- ure errors of vision with- There are a the Furniture F. Kremer. being put in order. out the aid of the patience ability of examining. Symptoms of Failing Eye- sight. Do you see double at times? Do you at times see floating spots betore your eyes, Do your eyesache, pain, blur, water, smart or itch? Do you fail to see clear at a distance? Do your eyes become fatigued from short exer- cises so you have to close and rub them? Do you find difficulty in reading small print at 14 inches from your eyes especially by artificial light? Do you aches? have head- These and hundreds of others are not only dis- comforts but signs of fail- ing eyesight and if neg- lected are not only danger- ous but may lead to total blindness. Dr. Larson carries the best of recommendations by kigh standing physi- cians and medical men and can upon your request hand you the names of hundreds of people that he has helped and cured. Do not wear glasses that are not fitted to your eyes. Dr. Larson makes regular trips to Grand Rapids once a month. Consult him while op- portunity offers. At HOTEL POKEGAMA, Saturday and Sunday, April 23--24 know what-real val Our new store proper place. of the state. ’ Opposite Itasca SAY, PA, WHY f DON’T YOU WEAR ¢ THE MENOMINEE SEAMLESS? Sensibie boy, that. He made a bull’s eye when he spoke. We make shoes which put the corn- cure dealers on theranxious seat. We cure corns by fitting the feet scientifically. The best way to cure corns is to prevent their growth in the first place. The Menominee Seamless Union Made Shoe is easy-to- wear, easy-to-buy, easy-to-sell, For Sale Ry J. §. KURTZMAN, The Shoe Man- Grand Rapids - Minnesota. WHILE WE MOVE SPIO gains that may be secured from Soros We willl not have much time ‘o show goods but we will endeavor to wait on all customers who call while our new store is Sn There are mark-down prices on some very handsome articles of furniture that we will be pleased to show. the prices that are offered on these goods. They are genuine reductions. SI Ewill¥give much{better opportunities to display goods than did our old quarters and we invite the people of Grand Rapids and vicinity te call and make us a visit when everything is in SI With largly increased room our stock will be equally increased,:and it will be our aim to carry as complete a stock of furniture as may be found in this section SLOSS GEORGE F. KREMER GRAND RAPIDS, - few special bar- stock of George Those who ues are will appreciate Mercintile Store MINN. PISLSTSLOSCSLSL SISVSASSE SLSLSLSVWES t GUARANTEED TO” OUT-WEAR ANY SHOE ON THE MARKET. Discovered Their Error. The Ore extends congratulations to Editor Kiley, of the Grand Rap- ids Herald-Reyiew. Upon alleged misrepresentations the: Indepénd- ent of that town was made the offic- ial newspaper of Itasca county by the board of county commissioners last January. ‘The commissioners discovered their error and repaired the damages by honoring Mr. Kiley’s splendid newspaper. — Mesaba Ore, Hibbing. pt See us for Job Work. Notiee to Public. Ihave appointed Hugh McEwan my deputy, and he is authorized to transact all business in my official name and stead, Fhlers of chattel niortgages, applicants for wolf bounties and those desirous of registering births, marriages and deaths and transacting other business before the town clerk of the town of Grand Rapids can have their wants attended to at his office with the village recorder, J. S. Gole. JosepH McMauon, ‘Town Clerk. 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