Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 30, 1905, Page 1

\ } > 4 Vor XIIL—No, 27 * You do yourself an injustice if you fail to attend gur January Clearance Sales Every, piece of goods bought for the winter’s business has been cut in price to make it easier to dispose of Just think what this means to you—three months yet of cold weather to use these goods, and every article being sold at a money- saving reduction to you. We have to clean out for spring goods soon coming in— and give you the benefit to induce a liberal purchase. You know, of course, that the best values go first. Some of the lines are now very heavy and a good desir- able selection is thus assured, Winter Underwear, Furs and Woolens, Men’s Furnishings, Winter Dress Goods, Ladies’ Novelties, Staple Merchandise of All Kinds. Cloaks and Skirts, You can buy the material for a dress or skirt now at from two to five dol- The same is true of many other articles lars less than the usual price for the goods, —as you can easily s:e if you Watch our Show . Window. , ITASCA MERCANTILE CoO. Come Early ——= —As there are a lot of things you'll be sure to want Xmas ume and everybody is buying them, In the hardware line we never were so well fixed tor Xmas as now. We have DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor. When you can’t get what you want to eat at Dave Chambers’ ‘Palace Res- taurant” it’s because the Roasting Pans markets don’t keep it. and other Tin -Ware for cooking with, carpet sweepers to make rooms as neat as wax, and dozens of other things you want and can’t do Get them now and have them ready, Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Feastdays..... without. Wid& HD POWERS y Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. SWSVSLSISWSSSLSSSISSSVWSVSSI HSS: Pioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. | | Fresh and Salt Meats | : SVSVWSSIEVSS LANDS. Send for free map of Mii northern Minnesota. 6 per cent. We Carry Only the Best that Can be Had. Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the best offered to the public. Poultry. Game, Etc. Butter. Eggs. Cheese. THOS. FINNEGAN !*%,4%2%9).erce Farms and Lands Send in-full descriptions of your erty. Will pay cash for Pine and wood timber lands. agents in all parts of the northwest. Granp Rapips, ITasca CounrTy, DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. |P#4 of late, Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Ttasca, Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Lak St, Louis, Cook and all northern counties. innesota, with fall list of lands and descriptions of Prices—$6 to 815-per acre. Easy terms. Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Hard Want good retail W. D. Washburn, Jr, 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis, Minn, INN., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 39, tgos. BOARD'S LAST MEETING COUNTY. COMMISSIONERS, TRANS- ACT LAST OF YEAR’S BUSINESS ADJOURNED TO JANUARY 2ND Not Many Matters of Importance Left on the Official Table at the Close of Thursday’s Segsion—Will Reorganize Tuesday Next. The board of county commissioners of Itasca county held their final meet- ing for tbe year 1905, on Thursday of this week. All the members were: present: Chairman Passard, Commis- sioners O’Brien, Mullins, Lang and Tone. The business transacted was of a routine nature and nothing un- usual transpired t) mar the custom- ary tranyuil relations that has pre- vailed among the members of the board during the past. Quite a batch of bills were audited and acted upon. Mr. McHugh, who has a contract with the county for the performance of certain work on the Hill City road, appeared before the board with an ap- plication for the allowance of a por- tion of the contract price. A com- mittee of the commissioners had in- vestigated the work already done and reported that it was not satisfactory. ‘The matter was discussed at some length and finally the request was de- nied. The matter of detaching cer- tain portions of school district No. 1 band add the territory to school dis- -trict No. 10, was taken up for recon- ideration. A petition for such ac- ion had previously been presented by Tesidents of No. 10 district and had received favorable action. Latera Epprotest was laid before the commis- fsioners by the board of school district o. 1 in which it was cited that the Jaw requires a petition signed by a najority of the legal residents of both districts to be effected. It was upon is representation that the commis- ners opened.the matter fcr further consideration. _ The county board of audit, consist- ing of County Auditor Spang, Olerk of Court Rassmussen and Chairman Passard, ef the county. board, went | over the county treasurer’s books and submitted a report. The amount of money on hand as shown by the buoks does not correspond with the actual available cash en deposit. The books show an aggregate sum of $61,439.44, against $58,354.00. ‘This difference is traceable to prior years. The county’s money is all deposited in Itasca county banks except a few thousand in the American Exchange of Duluth. e Pa aC e A number of abatements of penal- ties and interest on taxes were up for consideration as usual. he board Restaurant|s” Eee seuldortug’ thoes sinis ments afd it appears to work with satisfaction. All petitions must be accompanied with a certitied check or draft for the full amount of the ori- ginal tax. Atthe Thursday meeting a number of these were in the hands of Auditor Spang, in each case ac- comppanied by payment in full for the amount on which interest and penalty was asked abated, Some back taxes that were long since out- $ lawed by father time have been col- The Sunday Dinner lected by the refusal of Auditor Spang to issue the necessary certifi- cate forthe recording of deeds with the register. The auditor persists in a strict observance of the law relating to the payment of all taxes due be- fore issning a certificate. Asa result of his public frugality serveral old time debts due the.county have been Liquor licenses were issued to | Peter Spina of section 24, town 57, ————— | range 22; to Jolin Ellefson of section 20 in Evergreen township; to Ball & McHugh io Section 20, Evergreen township. The board will meet on Tuesday next to organize for the year of 1906. Their Greatest Sin. Hamilton, corruption agent fcr the New York Life, has made his report and a careful reading proves it to be a practical admission that a consider- able proportion of the immense sums handled by him in his capacity of “legislative agent’? was paid over to individuals not iawyers, waose names he absulutely refuses to divulge, This means, of course, that it was paid over to a large extent to mem- bers of the New York legislature in H bribes for their votes. He confirms this inference, according to the Two Dotiars A YEAR. | Associated Press report of his state- ment, by putting on a bold front and claiming “honorable intentions” on his own part, and blaming the cor- ruption of which he was the author to “a corrupt public official con- science.” No wonder Hamilton does not want to come home while the legislative investigation committee is still in session. No wonder he clings to Paris and sends what he has to say over by messenger. What a position his would be if he were once pilloried under the merciless examination of Attorney Hughes, and forced to go into details about his nauseous office! Everybody knew that he could have used hundreds of thousands of dollars at the state capitol for but one pur- pose, but his own admission puts the endorsement of confession upon the obvious surmises that had been made. The life insurance officials were guilty of grossest treachery in play- ing a riotous game of “high finance” with the trust funds of widows and orphans, plundering them recklessly for their own personal profit, but xreater than this sin is the unspeak- able crime of which this man Hamil- ton is the exponent and example— the corruption of the public’s serv- ants, The enormity of the crime of pros- tituting the public service to suit the ends of private corruption dves not detract from the guilt of the pitiful wretches who accepted the foul money that Hamilton dealt out, nor can the willingness of the infamous legislators whose mouths watered for bribes excuse the policy of the life in- sarance officials. Both were culpable, both deserve punishment, and it will be a national disgrace if Hamilton is not furced to yield the names of his creatures, aod if both briber and bribed are not punished to the fullest extent of the law. . An Awful Dilemma. On the first of March next the new codification of Minnesota laws goes into effect, and it would take a Phila- delphia lawyer to tell what the code means. “Ignorance of the law ex- cuses no one” is one of the ancient maxims of the law, but an exception cought to be made in the case of the Minnesota law as bundled together in the incomplete new code, says the Duluth News-Tribune. The codification was placed in the hands of lawyers who made a botch of it by reason of delay and negligence, and at the last moment the legislat- ure undertook its completion. In this revision confusion was more con- founded, i€ possible, aud so after the first of March the people of Minnesota are expected to know and abide by a set of laws of which nobody but the editors and publishers, who have failed to complete the volume, has any definite knowledge. The final responsibility rests with the legislature. It is the law-making body and must, of necessity, be the law-revising body. It is a dilemma that confronts the people of Minne- sota, and how are they going to get outof it? The code is to go into ef- fect Mareh 1 by decree of the legise lature and the date cannot be set later without the expense of an extra ordinary session, and-it is doubtful if Governor Johnson, with an election coming next year, would take the responsibility of calling the legis- lature together, The Minneapolis Tribune will find many seconds in its declaration that this seems an ideal case for some such cutting of red tape as Rousevelt is famous for, “But where and how is the tangle to be cut?” asks that paper. ‘Thatis forthe governor to find out. He likes to be compared with Roosevelt. Here is the time and place to justify the comparison. When congress would not give the president power tu revise the canal commission, he boasted in a public Speech that he ‘did itanyway.’ We are sure that the governor would be applauded to the echo if he could find a way, iu this deadlock, to ‘do it any- way.’”? / Bemidji Pioneer Sold. In the issue of Wednesday last R. W. Hitchcock announces in the Be- midji Pioneer that the paper has been sold to Albert Kaiser for a considera- tion of $17,500. During the time the Pioneer has been under the editorial and business management of Mr. Hitchcock it has taken front rank amung the papers of northern Minne- sota. As a country daily published in a town the size of Bemidji it had no equal in the state. Bring your raw furs to Ben Levy— adjoining Hotel Pokegama. The highest cash price paid for raw furs. ‘IS COMING THIS WAY NOW LOOKS AS THOUGH S00 ROAD WILL STRIKE GRAND RAPIDS. SURVEY REACHES MISSISSIPPI Will Pass Through Grand Rapids on South Side of Mississippi River, Making Direct Line From Duluth, The people of this particular sec- tion of northern Minnesota have long cherished the hope that some day there would be a railway running from the head of the lakes through Grand Rapids and thence on over the line as now being surveyed through to Red Lake Falls. It appears that this hope may be realized. An interview given to a Duluth paper,this week by the president of the Soo road strongly indicates that Grand Rapids is one of the towns that will be on the new extention now being survey. That the road will be built is asettled fact, and itis almost as certain to strike this town as itisto be built. It is unaerstood that it is the desire of the projectors to have the line completed to the wheat belt country in time to move grain next season. Surveyors of the Soo reached the Mississippi river this week. The present survey crosses the river at the old Backus dam in 143-25, and comes down the river toGrand Rapids on the south side. W. G. Moore of Cohasset met a party running the lines in section 13 and 14, 143-25, this week. The great benefit to Grand Rapids that will be realized as a re= sult of having the Soo line cannot be over estimated. EXPANSION OF BUSINESS August Johnson, the Grand Rapids. merchant tailor, enjoys a reputation asa first-class maker of men’s clothes that extends far beyand the confines of Itasca county. He is frequently in receipt of orders from old-time patrons who have taken up residence in other states. . Having been giyen such excellent satisfaction while do- ing business with him here they are loth to try experiments. Hence it is rarely that he has not an order in hand from some distant town. When once he gets a customer he holds him The following letter from Chicago will serve as pretty good evidence that Mr. Johnson’s business is expand- ing: Chicago, [ll., Dec. 22, 1905. Mr. August Johnson, Grand Rapids, Minn. Dear Sir:—Received both suit and overcoat and am perfectly satisfied with them. ‘They fit perfectly in every way and could not be easily im- proved upon. ‘Thanking you for promptness, etc., and wishing you a merry Christmas, I am, Yours truly, EDWARD A. CIsaR. Mr. Cisar was furmerly an engine- er in the employ of the Itasca Logging company. He is now following the same work iu Chicago, but orders his clothes of August Johnson. BOTH GO TO WASHINGTON The Pioneer has it on good au- thority that President A. G. Bernard and Secretary H. G. Hays, of the State Drainage league, have left for Washington, D. C,, where they will lobby at the national capitol in the interest of drainage. It is not known whether or net the league has eyer taken any official action authorizing its president and secretary to constitute themselves a lobby, but it has been freely predicted that the earnest efforts of both gen- tlemen io soliciting money for the treasury of the league would ulti~ mately result in seeing at least one of them go to Washington to spend the winter mingling with the national legislators, Mr, Hays, who spent Christmas in Bemidji with bis family, left yester- day morning for the south, ostensibly for St. Paul, but information which has been obtained since his departure leads to the conviction that he will accompany the president of the league to Washington. Mr. Bernard, it is claimed, departed recently for the national capital. Both Mr. Bernard and Mr. Hays haye spent a large portion of their time since the formation of the league in soliciting funds for the organiza« | tion, and it is understood that the money collected will yo towards pay- ing their expenses while lobbying for legislation favorable to the drainagg cause.—Bemidji Pioneer, DEFECTIVE PAGE