Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 24, 1906, Page 1

{ Vor. XIII.—No, 39 Prices Always Lower than Elsewhere for the Same Quality of Goods. Itasca Mercantile Co. é Getting Found Out ¥ w ing for 1906 eclipses anything People have found that the Itasca lowest prices, that have ever been shown, spection of our goods and prices. only mention a few of what we consider the best values. New Wash Goods. Attractive both in style and price. The pop- ularity of this department is based upon giving greatest possible values for the least mouey. are distinctive. New Voiles, 28 in. wide. per vd.. 8¢. and box bac New Oreandie Checks. pe lic. New Chiffon Crepes, per 5 25e. New silk Organdie, per si. 456. New > sbette, per yard, 28e. New > impria.es, per yd., 35 The Itasca Mercantile The Store of Quality. we have ever had on exhibition before, eee is the store that has the largest assortment of new and up-to-date Merchandise at the The materials are beyond question the best We earnestly invite your in- We know tkat our show- We can New Spring Coat Styles Just a line to say we are ready. You'll lose your heart over the coat styles. The new long and Eton Jackets—half fitted s—either are pretty—both are fas ionable—you’ve missed something if you haven’t seen our new cats at— $8, $9 and up to $15. Company GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. Japan Ware Suits the housemaid—if its the kind that’s wanted. How nice it is for the kitchen or butler’s pantry to have Japanned Bread and Cake Boxes. Mice may not like them— but who cares so long as they can’t get in them. It will pay to see our fine line of Japanned ware just opened and to buy what you want. Our prices are very reasonable Wd & HD POWERS % A De th Ui su HIS SWEWSVSSSWSLISVSSISISISVSVIES ES: Pioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats | t ee 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. THOS. FINNEGAN ""55,4%2%°; ortce 3 The Palace Restaurant DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor, When you can’t get what you want to eat at Dave Chambers’ “Palace Res- taurant” it’s because the Markets don’t keep it. The Sunday Dinner SEED Is always prepared with Ube idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Feastdays........ aya DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. LANDS. Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Itasca, Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, Lake, St, Louis. Cook and all northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota. with full list of lands and descriptions of northern Minnesota. Prices—$6 to.&15 per acre. Easy terms. 6 percent. Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands Send in full descriptios f erty. Wil pay canh’ for Pine and. Ham mber lands. fant good retai agents in all parts of the northwest. i W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis, Minn, Grand Vapids Herald-Neview. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn,, SatuRDAY, MARCH 24, 1906. Two Do.tiars a YEAR. GARDNER CASE CALLED A Jury Now Being Empanelled for the brated Cause, | Second Trial of This Cele- DIFFICULT TO SECURE JURY Joseph H. Gardner Again On Trial On Charge of Killing Wm. Garrison July 18th, 1904. The retrial of Joseph H. Gardner, charged with the killing of Wm. Gar- rison, was called in Judge McClena- hau’s court on Tuesday of this week. Five jurors were accepted up to the hour of going to press, viz: Leonard Blanchard, ‘Thomas Codd, Wm. Noble, Join Braham and William McKinnon, Gardner’s attorneys are Judge W. M. Steele of Superior, former State Senator ©. C. McCarthy and Frank F. ePrice of Grand Rapids. Rarely does a man of the backwoods find that he has so many friends as have appeared ian Gardner's behalf, jas have stood-by him, giving him financial and moral aid. Gardner Was convicted of murder in the sece oud degree here a year ago last month, and was sentenced for life to the state penitentiary. His friends from all parts of the northeast corner of the State, who had put up money for that ‘trial, again flocked to his aid and worked tirelessly for a new trial, be- ieving tirmly that Gardner was com- felled to shoot Garrison in self de- tense. They moved fora uew trial, which Judge Svovoner, of Bemidji, de- nied. The matter was appealed to the state supreme court, and that tribunal in last November ordered a new trial, practically ruling also that Gardner had shot iu self defense, and placing tbe case in a most hopeful light. * Judge Spooner, in his charge to the jury in tbe first trial, ruled that Gardner should have endeavored to retr when he thought Garrison had intended to take his life. The supreme court ruled that when Gard- her was convinced that his own life was in danger he hada full right to shoot, and shoot to kill, thus over- ruling Judge Spooner’s charge, which has been the charge of Minnesota courts for many years, It is admitted that Judge Spooner’s ruling was not only in keeping with the supreme court of Minnesota in such cases, but in keeping with the rulings of thé judiciary of the entire country from time immemorial. The reversal in the Gardner case was an innovation. The court took into con- sideration the difference in firearms and their use since the establishment of the theory that an assaulted man should retreat before resorting to ex- treme measures. Judge Spooner’s tuling was in keeping with all prece- dent, but the new ruling will stand for many decades throughout the couutry. A new trial was ordered fur Gard- ver and he was brouglt back to Grand Rapids to await a second trial. ‘Then his friends started out to have him released on bonds until the second trial should take place. County Ate torney Spear fought this, but Judge Spvoner consented to the release of Gardner on $15,000 bonds, H. L. Shepherd, of Duluth, who had been most active in Gardner's be- half, started out to get the bonds, and found it much easier than he had ever dreamed it would be. He se- cured eighteen bondsmen, who quali- tiea for $315,000, and could have, it is said, as safely qualified fur $15,000,- 000. He could just as well havegpre- sented a bond to the court with sign- ers qualifying for $20,000,000. as to bave presented a bond for the amount given. Gardner was released the day be- fore Christmas and ate his Christmas dinner with his wife and two chil- dren in Hibbing. Since that time, after he had recovered from his prison languor, Gardoer busied himself at his usual occupation of cruising, until a few days ago, when he came to Grand Rapids to stand his trial. The shooting of William Garrison took place in 63-23, Itasca county, The men were neighbors, as neigh- bors ge in this county, being about three miles apart. Garrison was 2 self-styled ‘“‘bad man,” and because Gardner had intertered with some lawlessness attempted by Garrison the latter ‘had it in for Joe,” and it is claimed told several people that he would “gev’’ Gardner some time, The toes. While Gardner was away from lome Garrison went to Gardner’s and took the potatoes, claiming to thuse there that Gardner owed him. He also told Gardner’s son to teli his father to come over and settle for “that hay he cut on my land.” Gardner, on his return, went to Gar- rison’s in response to the invitation. He took his Winchester with him, the custom being up in that country for a man going anywhere through the woods to take his gun and his pipe. When he got to Garrison’s Gardner asked the otber what he wanted about hay. As Gardner, who is deaf, understood it, Garrison said, “Vil show you,” and started for bis gun which was leaning against the cabin «a few feet away. Gardner shouted to Garrison to stop, but the latter did nut heed and Gardner, be- lieying himself in danger, fired, and as that shot did not take effect and Garrison seemed to be still going toward the gun, Gardner fired again, this time hitting his man. Garrison dropped and crawled through a fence and Gardner went over tu see if he was playing possum or not. Satisfled that he had wounded and not know- lpg how badly, in a sort of a panic he started away. went to his own house and sent one of bis men over to Gar- rison’s to take care of the wounded’ man. Gardner walked fifty miles to Hib- ving and wired the Itasca county au- thorities of the shooting and at their wired order walked back and met them at his own house and took them to the scene of the shooting. Garri- son had died during the night follow- ing the shooting. From the time uhe officere arrived until he was re- leased last December Gardner was a prisoners, A NAME FOR OUR NEW COUNTY The suggestion has been made to Governor Johnson by Secretary War- ren Upham, of the Minnesota His- torical society, that in Foe event that ltasca county is divified one of its parts should place /on permanent record the name of the*Sieur de la Verendrye, the tirst white explorer, in all probability, to. penetrate that part of the state, says the Duluth Herald. All of the petitions for division so far presented carry proposed names for the new counties, and all of them are good, so it may be that the pevu- ple of Itasca county will not take kindly to a suggestion of this nature, yet 1t would bea very graceful thing indeed to add the name of the in- trepid Verenarye to the rojl of Min- nesota’s counties. Many Minnesota counties are now bearing names that are historically significant. For instance, the fullow- ing: Nicollet, named for Jean Nicol- let, a French explorer who came in 1635; Hennepin, for Father Louis Hennepin, who visited Su. Anthony’s Falls in 1680; LeSueur, for the builder of a trading post on the Mis- sissippi in 1695; Cass, for the gove ernor of Michigan who made a treaty of peace between the Sioux and the Chippewas; Beltrami, for the Italian who explored the sources of the Mis- sissippi in 1823; Sibley, for Gen. H. H. Sibley, an early settler, a leading warrior, and the first governor of the state, The source of the name of Itasca county, though often told, is inter- esting. When Schoolcraft, in 1832, first located Elk lake as the source of the Mississippi river, he sought a new name for it. The suggestion made that the Latin words ‘‘veritas caput,” meaning ‘‘true head,’ be combined, so the last two syllables of the first word and the first syllable of the second were combined to form the charming name “‘Itasca,” which was attached to tbe lake and later to the courty in which it is located. ‘Lhe selection of a name for the new county or counties, in the event of a division of Itasca county, will properly be left with the people in- terested, and upon them depends the question of whether Verendrye is to be remembered. His deserts are un- questioned. From. 1731 ouward, un- der commission of the Freuch gov- ernors in Canada, he made the earliest explorations of all the northern boundary from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods, and in 1742-3 his sons were the first white men to cross the great plains beyond tue Missouri river and to discover a part of the Rocky mountains. The entertainment given by the} Catholic ladies at Village hall Satur- day evening last was largely attended and a pronounced success, the re- ceipts for the evening amounting to final trouble came over some pota- over $130. was | | EXPERIMENT FARM BULLETINS Bulletin No. 57. DAIRYING AND STOCK RAISING. There is one fact that should be known to every farmer and prospec- tive settler in this section of the state, and that 1s that ia oréer to makea success of farming in this section of the state, live stock must be kept on the farm and the sales off the farm largely in the form of butter, meat and eggs. Through the use of live stock the profit from every acre under cultiva- tion may be doubled over what it would be otherwise. This is not a theory. It has been proven to be the case the world over. Wherever you find live stock, and that intelligently cared for, you find prosperous farm- ers; and wherever you find but little live stock and but little attention given to its care, you find impover- ished farms and poor farmers iu every sense of the word. It is for this reason that the Ex- periment station has taken up the work of dairying and live stock; and, furthermore, for the reason that the natural conditions of northern Minne- sota are most favorable, especiaily for dairying. The work is being con- ducted from the most practical stand- point, believing that it is not only im= portant to work out the best system for this section of the state. but also to demonstrate at the same time the actual profit there is in the work, so that any farmer may do likewise. We commenced the work with what stock there was at hand, making no expensive outlay, but aiming to make some improvement each year. At the beginning of 1905 the farm animals, aside from the horses, con sisted of eleven cows, fifteen head of young stock, two brood sows, twenty- five sheep and fifty chickens. The system is to grow all the rough feed on the farm—fodder corn, hay and roots—but to buy what bran and shorts are used. The cows are bred to begin their milking period in the fall, in October, and are milked up to the next July, when they are givena two months’ rest. The steer calves are vealed, the heifers raised for the dairy. ‘The young pigs and lambs are had to come in April. The pigs, after weaning, are kept on clover pasture and skim milk, with a little shorts. In their seventh month they are fattened on barley, peas and boiled rutabagas, and sold as bacon pork. From the two brood sows (with their first litter) fifteen pigs were raised, attaining a weight of 200 pounds at seven mouths. Ina later publication a detailed re- port will be given of the profits from the different classes of live stock, and the system under which they are fed and cared fer. In this report it 1s desired to call attention especially to the profits of dairying. In 1904 we were making the change from summer to winter dairying, which necessitated carrying the cows over a ycar witbout freshen- ing: yet, even at this, a fair profit was made, us was published in a fore mer bulletip. The record of only'a few months is not to be considered a real measure of either productior or profit, but it will give an idea of what may be done. During the months of November and December the dairy herd, consisting of thirteen cows, produced 740 pounds of butter, or an average of 6.2 pounds a week for each cow. Five of the thirteen cows are heifers, four in milk since May, The other cows were fresh in October. The value of the butter on the local market, at 27 cents a pound, was $199.80. The cost of the feed for the two months was $100.60, leaving a net profit of $99,2u, or an average net profit of $7.63 per cow for the two months. The feed consisted of corn ensilage, mixed clover and timothy hay, and bran. The cows were fed on an aver- age of 38 pounds of ensilage, 8 pounds of bran and 5 pounds of hay daily. ‘The profit on the butter alone is not all by any means. The value of the manure in keeping up the fertility of the soil and of the skim milk in the growing of calves and pigs 1s fully equal to half that of the butter. | While we are using ensilage this | winter, which is a very cheap feed, | fodder corn and roots were used last wioter with nearly as good results, and this kind of feed every farmer may have. The silo is not recom- mended unless a farmer is keeping from 10 to 20 cows and making a spe- cialty of dairying. A. J. McGuire.” Job Printing. | The Acme of Perfection—Herald- Review Job Printing.