Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 7, 1906, Page 1

— Vor. XIIL—No, 41. “GRAND Rapips, Irasca CounT Your presence is most earnestly desired at this par- ticular time, We will entertain you during the evening with music rendered by The most interesting part that will delight all will be the display and showing of Spring and Summer Goods. Every department is filled with bright, new merchandise, fresh and fashionable. Don’t fail to attend the opening The New assortment of new Spring Wash Goods imaginable, and the strong point 1s how little they cost, considering the fine quality of the goods. Printed Swisess and Batistes—beautiful colorings and designs—at, ayd....... Organdies—An inymense assortment of all the newest colorings and weaves, ring- ing in pricea yard from.....-....0+ New Ginghams-- per yard Wash Cloths— each Best Prints— f yard... AS ASRS ALANS DASA 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 hne of Japanned ware just opened and to buy what you want, Our prices are very reasonable WJIS&HDP Prices Always Lower than Elsewhere for the Same Quality of Goods. Our Openin og Announcement Saturday, April 7th, 1906. the Grand Rapids orchestra, The New Dress Goods A a brilliant showing in all the bright- ness of 1906 novelties, bought so we can excel all other store records in low prices. Wash Goods We are displaying about the prettiest Beautiful new Grays, all the rage; a variety to pick from at, per yard.............-- 2.556 Many héw weaves in Black ing. values in light weight fabrics for summer wear; ranging in price, « yard, & Corset Department. To possess a well-fitting costume a correct ‘fitting Corset is very necessary, La Grecque Corset—lang, deep hips, two pair cf hose supporters attached, double aluminoid boning, trimmed in laceand ~ ribbon, sizes 18 to 28. Price............. $1.50 Itasca Mercantile Co. The Store of Quality. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. he SLS2SSSlSS >> ee 7e* SA SWSS SES SISS SWSIVSVISSSS HES THOS. FI s -50c to $1.25 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 Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Weadtdays. 55 DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. Pioneer Meat Market | LANDS. THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats 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. Farm, Timber and Meadow Lai Ttascu, Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, ne St. Louis. Cook and all northern coun! Send for free map of Minnesot: ith full list. of lands and descriptic of northern Minnesota. : Prices—%6 to 815 peracre. Easy terms. 6 per cent, Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed _Farms and Lands Send in full deseripti of erty. Will pay cash for Pine tna Hart. wood timber lands. Want retail agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Mrnn., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1906. Two Dotiars a YEAR. |RIGID RULE FOR HOMESTEADERS Secretary Hitchcock has put all jomesteadérs on the public lands on ‘otice that. if théy intend to com- ute their entries, they must remain pon the land continuously eight onths out of the fourteen. ‘Three decisions have been handed lown by the secretary in the past jonth, One case came from South akota, another from Nebraska, and he third from Oklahoma. In all three cases the entrymen had offered roof with their applications to com- ute, which was deemed insufficient as residence by the commissioner of e general land office, whose opinion was sustained by the secretary. Under the practice of the interior department a homesteader may take six months to establish a constructive residence on the land covered by bis application—that is, he may take that length of time to go upon the land and build his house and start cultivation, The commutation period is fourteen months from the date of eptry, when the entryman, upon pay- ing $1.25 an acre for his holdings and submitting satisfactory: proof of resi- dence during that period, may re- ceive a patent for the land covered by his entry. The secretary is very positive in holding that the last eight months of the commutation period shall be those of actual residence. On_ this paint he says that “in commutation cases the law not onjy requires that it shall clearly and satisfactorily ap- pear from the proof that the bona fide residence was established within the six months from the date of the eutry, but also that the actual resi- dence upou the land has been con- tinuous from the time it was estub- lished until the date of the making of final proof.” the cases recently decided tie proof is rejected without préjudice, which means that the entrymen are privileged to go back upon the land and establish residence and otherwise comply with the law at any time within the five-year life of the entry. SHOOTING AFFRAY AT CASS LAKE To be shot twice while standing behiid the bar ready to wait upon a man Whom he thought a customer was the experience of Moses Beaure- gard, aged about 65 years and bar- tender at the Dennis St. Louis saloon. Mr. Beauregard received one bullet in the lower right side and one in the left hand. His condition is reported as not being dangerous. According to Mr. Beauregard’s own story he was in the saloon alone about 3 v’clock Sunday merning. He was sitting on a chair at the rear end of the bar when a mao entered the place from the front door and walked up to the bar. Mr. Beauregard arose and went up te the man, thinking him a prospective customer. When opposite the man the latter drewa gun and without a word shot twice, both bvllets taking effect. Mr. Beauregard retained his presence of mind in spite of his wounds and se- cured a revolyer from the back bar. By this time, however, his assailant had reached the door, and although Mr. Beauregard fired three vhots at him it is not believed that either of them took effect. Mr. Beauregara declares that he never saw the man before and knows of no possible reason for the shooting, which appears to have been the act of an insane person. The Same Old Policy. Major George McC. Jerby, who has achieved prominence the last year or two by his management of the Mis- sissippi reservoir system, has been interviewed by the Pioneer Press and he is alleged to be well satisfied witi the dam situation, says the Aitkin Republican. The reservoirs, accord- ing to the major, are all pretty well filled and a good stage of water is as- sured to St. Paul all summer, even though the rest of the country should all burn up. As has been said, the engineers made a careful investiga- tion pf the flood situation from the windows of the hotels of Aitkin and Grand Rapids and straightway en- dorsed the management of the dams. Now Major Derby gives it out that, there will be no change in the policy of management, which means that they wil) be kept full all the time, and if we have excessive rains, the same as we had last year, the people bere may look for another flood. We don’t appear to have much of a pull with congress or with the engineers, c! F { | DULUTH GETS THE CONVENTION The republican state convention will be held in Duluth Wednesday, June 13. The meeting of the state central committee was called to order in the Merchants’ hotel, St. Paul, with thirty-one of the members repre- sented, and the first business taken up was the selection of a place for holding the convention. Duluth put in a bid through its Commercial club and St. Paul and Minneapolis fol- lowed in order. On the ballot taken, which was to be decided on a basis of the members and proxies present, St. Paul had 12 votes, Duluth 13, and Minneapolis 6, With itself decidedly in the minority and no hope at any time held out that it would get the gatbering, it was expected that Min- neapolis would transfer 1ts strength to St. Paul. W. H. Grimshaw, bow- ever, did the reverse by changing bis own vote aod that of a proxy held by him to Duluth, James Peterson and M. H. Boutell followed in order ard Duluth was announced as the winner. ITASCA COUNTY’S STATE LAND SALE The sale of state lands in Itasca county will be held at- the court house on the 17th of this month. On that date 40,00) acres of land suitable for agricultural purposes will be of- fered at auction at a minimum price of $5.00 per acre. Inquiries have been coming from all over the country for the past few months asking for information in re- gard to the Itasca county land sale, and thousands of maps and descrip- tive circulars have been sent out by the Commercial club and citizens generally. People on the lookout for bargains in land have been here looking over the advertised lands, and it is ex- pected that on the day of the sale Graud Rapids will be fd?! of bidders. With the low prices for land, the many advantages to settlers, and the prospects of a great development in farming, irop producing and railroad construction in this county in, the immediate future, Itasca wili most assuredly realize that dégree uf pros- perity which “Is its due by redson of its many natural resources. t GOOD GAME OF BASKET BALL A game of basket ball was played last evening at High school audi- torium between a team from the Cass Lake high school and that of the Grand Rapids High school. The game was au interesting one throughout, much good. playing being indulged in on both sides. The Grand Rapids team, however, outclassed its oppon- ents, winning by a score of 10 to 8. To Safeguard the Young. , That the framers of the new code had the interests of the young and inexperienced in mind will be seen from section 4937, which reads as fol- lows: ‘All persons under the age of twenty-one years are prohibited from playing pool or bi!liards or cards in any saloon or room connected there- with, or in any restaurant or public place of amusement in which to- bacco, confectionary or drinks of any kine, except water, are in any manner disposed of; and every keeper or/per- son in charge of such place who shall permit or suffer any person under the age of twenty-one years to play pool, billiards or cards therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisons ment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. A Pioneer Passes Away. Mr. E. Tully, a pioneer resident of this village, died at his home near Ice lake early Monday morning. Mr. Tully was injured some time ago by a tree faliiug on him while at work. The deceased leaves a wife and two children—Filla and Norman—to bear the loss of a kind and Yndulgent hus- band and father. ‘I'he funeral was held Tuesday morning from the Presbyterian church, a large con- course of, friends fullowing the re- mains to their.last resting place. Superintendent of Schools E. A. Freeman attended a meeting of High school superintendents of the stat: last week. Me ‘The Catholic ladies will have a spe- cial meeting in th: sacristy Thursday | EXPERIMENT FARM BULLETINS Balletin No. 59. THE SYSTEM OF FARMING FOR NORTH- EASTERN MINNESOTA. Whatever may be said for or against the agricultural possibilities of this section of the state our present sys- tem of farming tends rapidly toward failure. Our harvests have been largely from the’ woods, and not from the soil, and have descended from the white pine and Norway to the cedar and tamarack, and now among popple and jack pine we can see the begin- ning of the end. There is nov one farmer in a hun- dred who has depended upon logs and poles and cordwood who has bad more than +a scant living. With the tim- ber gone it will not be encouraging to look over a farm of stumps and brush, with only a garden patch and a team of worn out logging horses. 1 have naught to say against lum- bering. This timber is a blessing when properly utijized. {It should be the aim of every farmer having tim- ber to get out a certain amount every winter, but the end of the logging road in the spring should lead to the fleld—a well tilled field—and not to the drive or Dakota, or worse still, tu a summer of idleness. Get some land cleared up. When your timber is gone you should have at least fifty acres under cultivation, add that ip a high state of fertility. You can’t have, it ina high state of fertility unless you keep live stock— dairy cows, hogs, sheep and poultry. We don’t get into things in a day or ayear. Tbe man who clears up his farm in a bunch and buys a lot of stock and machinery don’t always succeed; but by clearing a few acres each year. by getting into live stock by raising it and learning to care for it, success is certain. = One thing be sure of: We can’t~ succeed in farming in this section of the state without live stock. It mat-’ ters not whether your soil is sand or clay, it needs manure. It needs clover. Raise clover, fodder corn and roots. Feed them and sell the pro- ducts of your tarm in the form of butter, meat and eggs. You are then selling a finished product—the most profitable—and that is notall. The by-product in the way of manure is worth $2 a ton when turned back on the soil. It doubles the production ef the soil. You say you have tried cows and hogs and poultry and they don’t pay here. If that is the case it is because you don’t grow feed for them, or don’t know how to care for them, or both. Grow feed. Study the subject of caring for farm ani- mals. The care is half. The cows, hogs and poultry kept at the Experi- ment farm are paying a splendid profit and they are fed only such feed and are’kept under such conditions as are possible for any farmer. Farmivg may be made as profitable in northeastern Minnesota as any~ where in the state when our systenr of farming is right. ‘The coming season promises to be a favorable one. Get down to the soil and do something worthy of a far- mer. Get that manure pile trans- ferred to the field—there’s money in it. Cultivate thoroughly. Grow feed. ‘That $20 you pay for a ton of bran if put into a crop of roots (maogles or stock carrots) will pro- duce from 25 to 35 tons of feed, worth more than $120 worth of bran or any other grain feed. Pick and clean up around your place. Make your héme_ beautiful. Don’t say that you could do this or- could do that if you had the money. The wen who use the most money in farming as a rule get the least out of it. A good pair of strong hands and alittle brains and push are the only things that ever have or ever will make a profitable farm. A. J. McGuire. DRAWS ANOTHER FORESTRY BILL Representatiye Tawney has intro- duced another forestry bill, coming from Chief Pinchot. In addition to providing for a legal establishment by meets and bounds of a federal forest reserve in Minnesota, the bill provides for paying the Indians for the lands taken for use as forest re- serve and also for appraising the value of lands by three commissioners, one to be appointed by the secretary of agriculture, one by the secretary of the interior, ard one by the Indians. ‘The 5 per cent of standing timber is to be appraised and for the land where timber is left for reforestra- tion $1.25 per acre is to be paid to the Indians. In payment for the ten sections of pine left standiog, provides that 0 LS the | e the forest re«