Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 27, 1904, Page 1

ea Vou XITIL—No, 2 s a Granp Raprips, Irasca County, Minn., Sarurpay, Aueusr Es ais 1904. Two Do.tiars a Y Where you get what you want at the best prices. { use of expiatir 5 —— the minute you see our offerings. ‘ buy, and buy now. stand back of every item we sell. glose of the selling season. are included this time. for them. Pleasant Corsets Where Do You Come ‘at once, and you will congratulate yourself on so doing. reap the benefit af such low prices as these does not come every days Scan the articles we mention, see the goods, note what you can save by deciding the place to And bear in mind that our goods are the highest character, we Buy That’s it exactly, and we aim to have that place, , All classes of good will pay tribute to our sales here. What's the r on the usual apportunities of this sale with all the superlative adjec- tives in thejdictionary, for certainly the facts and prices will speak louder than words. We had some new arrivals in ladies’ wearables a few days ago and they are prettier, daintier and finer than you have seen thi: season at almost double the price. _ This may seem like an over-drawn statement, but we think not, and you'll agree with us A chance to Manufacturers of all kinds found themselves with big stocks on their hands at the 4, Cold and backward weather now redounds to your ad- vantage. Dress goods, silks, wash goods, linens. muslins, prints, underwear, notions, corsets, laces, wrappers, hosiery, waists, skirts, rugs, carpets, furniture, etc, all these It would be just as sensible to walk over good hard money without picking it up, as to overlook these values, providing of course, you have use We mean corsets that make you look well and feel well, too. Cool summer that are light, airy a Our best‘one, and there is none to beat hold their shape, and are guaranteed to give youa being comfortable. We sell | cor (P { perfect figure and tne best of satisfaction. Nothing like. ‘ the kind that costs little money and which will give you satisfaction equal to that of ‘ any made and vastly exceeding most makes. +} it at any price or of any make, we offer y fifty cents. Others to suit your taste and purse. is how to keep cool. 28 See them and the prices anyhow. ‘ Who has gotten hold of so many of the around “here—The Trust Man. But he didn’t get us. nobody's slaves. dealers We're We make our own prices, instead ef quoting what somebody -else ae tan sell you a first class Wagon or Bugyy the kind that will give the best’satisfaction from the day you get it. and quote you a price that the trust would like to see wiped off the slate. i Zubibisn't. Lt’s here; and for Y OUL henefit. aoe Our line of vehicles has been very caretully selected this § - son, and as a result, we bave some especially tine Buggies to offer, Well made. m shaves and running gear to the fold-back top. Wagons for heavy work, also well made. Let us tell you more obout them. ty W.J.& H. D. Powers, Grand Rapids Minnesota. OILS IIASA, i for the small price of one dollar and I} ‘Shirt Waists There are many interesting subjects these days, but just now the most: interesting Our solution is DRESS COMFORTABLY. waists at Mate summer prices argue that you purchase here and purchase now. iViat’s the use of sitting down.and sewing and having all the bother of fitting and ing on shirt waists at the dress maker’s when you can purchase these shirt waists at a big saving and then know that they’ll be comfortable and good locking as well. Itasca Mercantile Co. Says Dams are Damaging the Conutry. | bune, g cept in one unimportant detail. | (ERE a AE ae ae age ge ae ene ae ea see ea Ee a ae ee ae ae ee aa Hg Grand Rapids G5 way Village Lots BaD per m per month We have choice residence lots all over town and we are sell- ing them on such easy terme that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. A house and three lots for sale cheap. We also have somé choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. SAR RAR eH RA ee REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY, REE EA GEE HR RE AE HE a ee ae a ew aE EREKHSHHHSES SS RRS ARE a Hh a a a A A SE one af a ae ae ae a a ae ae aE aE Stylish shirt G.°G. Hartley, asked foran inter- view on the purpose and probable effect. of the visit of the Rivers and Harbors committee to the north country, at this time, referred to the editorial in yesterd News Tri- under the heading ‘Useless Mississippi Dams,” and said. “Phat editorial was all right, ex-| The article said the Pokegama dam is still of wood and earth. ‘The fact is, it has recently been rebuilt of con- crete, ab considerable expense to the government.’’ Mr. Hartley then gave out the following statement for the News ‘Lribune: ) “1 remember when the first appro-| priation was secured to start this reservoir system, by sowe,lumbermen | who owned a large amount of timber on Pine creek, which empties into the Mississippi between Brainerd and Aitkin. The first dam to facilitate log driving was built on that creek and is still maintained by the govetn- ment. Later, when logging com- menced on Sand creek, which flows into the Mississippi above Aitkin, another dam was built there. I don’t suppose many of your readers kuow of Sand creek. ‘The Northern Pacific crosses it between here and Brainerd within about thirty miles of ite junctlon with the Mississippi. Where the Northern Pacifle crosses it, it is never more than two rods } wide or six feet deep, and at this |time of year 1 do nob suppuse it is | wore than two feet deep. I don’t think any government engineer or other person at all familiar with these two creeks has even imagined for a moment that these dams have had any preceptible effect on te tow of water in the Mississippiviver, ab any navigable point: T > have been of some fittle beneuv tothe lumbermen, but the fact is that they have been very disappointing 1p that respect, as each new congressman is | passenger railroad. driver between these ithe Mississippi below St. Paul. I | Practically every acre of this devast- ‘forestry bureau, another igineer in St. Paul receatly, who has ‘| for his locality, and when logging | commenced on the Indian reservation ‘under the “dead and down” plan, larger appropriations were secured far dams at Leech Lake, Winnibi+ goshish and Pokegama Falls. These lave been built and rebuilt, but have proven of no value to the’ lumber- men. In fact they are a damage. With these dats out, logs could be driven from Cass Lake to Grand Rap- i for twenty cents per thousand, q but they bave made su much trouble for the lumbermen, that Iowa con- cerns, are pulling logs out at Cass Lake and shipping them to Grand Rapids at a cost of $2 per thousand a hundreds of millions of feet. This, of course, makes earnings tor the raitroad companies, but carrying logs is a poor traffic at best, on a The Mississippi dams and St. Paul is so long and and small and crooked that the result of the closing fand opening of these dams has uo béuificial effect whatever on the flow of water below St. Paul; and there is nO steambuat navigation above here ot any account, excepting one small boat playing between “Aitkin and Grand Rapids and that boat would be much better off with the regular flow of water. The only possible {benefit arising from the appropria- tions fur these dams,-is the mouey Spent in their coustruction. aud Maintenance, and that is question- able. It -brings a lot of men to- ether at Pokegama falls, for in- ance, for a year or two, at wages above the ruling rates, and stimu- tes lucal business, and when they’ are gone the place is worse off. “It is desirable, of course, for the people of this locality that Mississip- pi river navigation be improved, as it facilitates the carrying ef our pro- ducts south, but if congress would go about this in good faith, the money that is being worse than wasted on these dams should, be spend on im- ‘proving the channels and dykes ou hope the wembers of the Rivers and Harbors committee, who have taken the pains to go into.that country, Will go a little beyond the Winnnibi- shise dam, and see the utter des- |GARDNER’S PLEA SELF DEFENSE Prisoner Ciaims Garrison Would Haye Killed Him Had He Been Quicker. ate Frank Clemens bas returned from Grand Rapids, Miun., where he has spenb a couple of Gays ou business. While at Graud Rapids be called at the county jail, aud had a conference witb Josepa Gardner, who is con- tiued there on Narge of murdering a Man tamed Garrison, v _ Witte Gardner voes uot deny slay- ing Garrison, be clits that be com- Muilved Lue Geed In sel! Gefense—thab bis Height would surely bave shot him hau he nov beeu quicker with the rifle. Puuue senvimert continues in fayor ot tue prisover, and it is ee Hieved tual ue wilt secure an ac- quitual. One of Maust cidents of the ain Menk of Garauel ty ot Wifes Altbouga she ives ~many iiivs from civiligation, aud continue Ues Lu lake cate of che little home- Stead, she Unus dine lo work fur the Uverallon oi ver Wustaud, trequeutly going Lo Giraud ikapids Lo lovk after ls Interests, ose week she came Wu Superior to cCunier with friends of her husbaud. Altoruey McCarthy, a prominent Hibbing sawyer, ais Oven recained to detend Gardues.— Wuiuth Lribune, the iuleresting in- and imprisou- s1oyalty of bis Chonuard is Crushed. The news that be must die on Aug. 30, payiug Lue penalty tur the killing of bis Wite al Cass ba e last winter, Was brokeu tu Witham Cnouuard at Ube Cass -couury Jat ou Sa urday hight oy Sher George 5. Hardy. Mr. ahards received tue official noullicalion of cue action OL the govervor lu (he case On Saturday, aud uu Saturday eveaiuy alter tue meul Went Lo Counerds cell to break une news. Jt was nob altosevuer a pleas- aub task, and Mr, ilardy said today hub be Was about us much moved, us thoughi Cavudard mimself, Chounard raiuer expected what Was coullg aud aciguk of strange anxiety came over tis face as Lue elticer of ube law read ie documents which set the day of execution. He Caupllb tbe st of the-communica- tiou avd then burica ais face in bis hauds and wept bitbert ile was very Nuch OVercomme aud Ibisbuought he will be a complete wreck belore tue day of the banging.—Brainerd Dispaicn. ifuction of the forest around that once beautiful lake, and.then bear in 4 he dams are creating that o€ Overt large portion of J that country, and that they are con- demning lands four feet higher than the top of the highest damis thus cut- sing off communications by county roads and shutting out civilization. ation occurs within a tract. of land which has been appropriated by the brapeh of government, ab an expense of con- siderably over $1,000,000, Lhat is, pro- viding the government is honest with the Indians and pays them for it, as the forestry officials have assured me it will do. ‘« “Phere are ten thousand India in this state, aud a large portion of their allotments are overflowed and practica:ly destroyed by \these dams, and pools of water are backed into low places and atlowed to lie stag- nant to breed diseas This alove is a greater damage to civilization than all possible good that can ever arise from the expenditure of government money ‘in building and operating these dams. “] talked with a government en- aS some hand in this work. He did not claim to me that these dams im- proved navigation on the Mississippi, but he suid they protected lands along the river in Aitkin county, from being flooded. ‘This, of course, is the yeriest nonsense, Aynone familiar with the topography of that locality knows that the buttons along the Mississippi anywhere from Pokegama Falls to St. Paul do not average ten rods wide excepting for a few miles extending from Pokegama alls to Deer River, and ail these lands have been cgndenined and des- troyed by the government, And the narrow bottom, lands in Aitkin county referred th by this engineer are damaged more than improved by the so-called reservoir system. “Intelligent white people have be- gun to settle in the upper Mississip- pi country, and they are beginning to fee] the scourge of these Cams. I want to predict now that it will not men representing those districts, to- {getber with the whole congressional delegation of this state, will be ask- ing congress for an appropriation to dig out these dams, and relieve that country of their pernicious effect. Get prices on job work abt the elected from the northern parp of this state, I suppose he feels a cer- tain pride in getting anappropriation Herald-Review office. be many years before the congress- | A Man and His Watch. Tt is the steady-yguing sort of worker ete Iuost dyue ib Lue end. “Tt is With wen as it is withowatches —the most reliable and serviceable are the ones tbat are steadily at work. There is a Pennsylvania engineer who was retired ou a positiou after 48 years of service. Ll bave carried ove watch for more thau 26 years, he suys, aud it always kept Lbe rigbeu time. Needless to say be has been a sober, orderly man.’ sor 40 years be bas uot toucbed a drop ofdiquor. He never even smoked ur chewed. His health has always been good. * The fact tbat this man bas been able to carry one watch so wany years is uot surprising. although:its “dire? has been much longer than that of the average time piece. All watchmakers say Ubat a watch jars of the traits of the one who arries it. If its owuer is steady, evenstempered and reliable and never flies off the handle, his watch behaves itself in tbe most proper manner. If the owuer is a genius, with an erratic, excitable, uncertain temperament, the watch cuts up all sorts. of pranks and is Loo fast or tuo stow or else will bot runatall Watch repairers louk with consider- able suspicion on mea whese watches need regulating. be man p is always right, ‘just to ? is sure to be oue whu ke regular hours, does not eat or drink to excess, couducts everything in a wethodical manuer aud consequently enjoys good health, Men who partake of wine suppers, eal Welsh ratbits and stand off their lalicrs ae always complaiping that Lueir Watches uo bol keep good time. ‘Phe vacant house decays seonest. The watch, or tbe man, tbat is kept reuuing regularly SUS the longest and is of best service while it las The stingy old miser who stops | clock every night so it wou’t be wi Ing out while he is asleep xuins nothing for his trouble. This old engineer’s watch bas kept good time fur 26 years for the reason that the man himself has kept his habits correct all the vime. Had he }ever gone out, just once, ona high old time and wound up by pawning his watch next mourving we neyer should have heard of his wonderful timepiece, for nu watch was ever kuown to keep guod time after being subjected to such humiliation. The retired eugineer is old in -years but young in spirits. He has kept himself as he kept his watch. He ebjoys the admiration and gratitude of all the officials over him, for the reason that, whatever the run as- signed him, he made it on time and | bad no worries left over. The watch that works only by fits and starts is never to be trusted. Nor is the man who does his work Democracy Elects Delegates. The Democrats conyened in county convention last Monday afternoon and elected Itascacounty’s delegation to the state convention at Minne- apolis next Tuesday. The several precincts of the county were sparing- ly represented, but this fact did not in ary manner retard the enthusiasm of the delegates in their purposes and deliberations. Several spirited dis- cussiuns occurred over matters coming before up for action thereon by :he convertion, and while the republicans strive to have it appear that the. talks had resulted in discord in democracy’s ranks, the several propositions were disposed of with satisfacticn. To the uninitiated the convention may have seemed devoid of harmony, and some pseudo republi- “iu may baye imagined that he saw a disrupture of the democatic party of Itasca county mirrgred in the near future, but the convention asa whole clearly showed that democrats, indi- vidually or co'leetively, wearno man’s. collar and believe in equal rights to all and special privileges to none, The delegates elected to go to Mivneapovlis are: E. ©. Kiley, Frank F, Price, Dan Collins, J. S. Gole, Neil McLaughlin and T. H. Hennessy. The conyenticn paid Judge Spooner a compliment for his efliciency as a jurat, and the delegates one and ab) advocate the re-election of Commis- sioner Brooks in the second district and the election of Neil Mullens to the office of county commissionor for the fifth district. Chairman Wilder was authorized to appoint a committee of five, who, in conjunction with the chairman, were delegated with authority to appoint a county committee for the ensuing two years. To The Editor of the Hefald-Revie w- Some ill advised person is spread- ing the statement thatin the event. of Joseph MeMahon’s election to the office of Judge of Probate, I will be: benitited thereby. This is an error, and [ desire to publicly announce that I will be no more benefited by Mr. Joseph McMahous _ election than will be all good people of [tasca county when we have a good competent, efficient; and clean Pro- bate Judge. To thisend I espouse Mr, McMahon’s candidacy. No per- uniary benefits will. come to. me. He stands on his. own ability. and I have no hesitancy in commending him to every voter. : HUGH McEWAN. FARM PRODUCTS. Great Agricultural and Horticultural Displays Promised for the State Fair. Since the opening of the new Agri-- cultural Hall at the Minnesota State Fair grounds, a few years ago, the agricultural department has made rapid growth and now bids fair to crowd out the horticultural division within a short time. At this year's: fair the agricultural display, proper, will be better than ever, Special pains has been taken to adjust the premium offers so as to make a more satisfactory division of the prizes for county exhibits and also to encourage farmers to make individual exhibits. N.S. Go.don, of Crookston, is super- iutendenrt of the agricultural division and A. W. Latham, of Minneapolis is in charge of tbe horticultural depart- ment, which is housed in Agricul- tural Hall. The State Fair will open this year on August 29th, continuing: until September 3rd. Half-fare rates. are made on all railroads. South Shore & Atlantic Railway Bargains. Duluth, From Duluth to Boston and return, via direct. rail, $25.75. ‘Tickets on sale August llth, 12th, and 13th. Final return limit September 30th. ‘Through sleepers, August 11th. 3oston and return, via train and steamer, $26.65 via Detroit and Buffalo. Good leaving Duluth Aug- ust 12th, From Duluth to Albany, N. Y., and return Boston, Mass. New York,N, YY." * Montreal, Que. “ * Quebec, Que. is ba St.John,N.B. “ “ ~~ 50.00 Toronto. Ont., “ “ + 25,90, Tickets on sale daily until September, 30th. valid for return passage until Oct. 2tst. Pro- | portionate rates to intermediate points. | From Duluth to Sault Ste Marie and return St. Ignace “s “« 3 Mackinac Island * - 12.50, ‘Tickets on sale every Friday, good for re- turn passage until the following Wednesday. From Duluth.to | Detroit, Mich., and return.. | Toledo, Ohio, Nak Page! 5 Cleveland. Ohio,“ * - 18.00 Buffalo, N.Y.“ “* . + 20,00 ‘kets on sale evéry Friday until August id for return passage until Sept. 15, $38.20 45.90 41.90 33.00, 38.85 $12.50 -- $16.00 + 17.00 in the same way ever capable of the | highest achievemeut possible to his Our telephone number is 159 station, Marr Apson, Gen’l Agt., 430 Spalding Hotel Block, * Duiuth, Miaa, 4 i ft