Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 28, 1906, Page 1

Sa Vor. XIIL—No, 44. GRAN p Rapips, Irasca County, Uapids Herald-Neview. HISTORICALS SOCIETY. Minn., Saturpay, AprIL 28, 1906. Two Do.tuars A YEAR." N New Drugs. Toilet Articles. New Perfumes. Kid Glove Dep’t. ‘The well-known house of Francis T. Simmons & Co. importers of fine Kid Gloves are the people who supply this department. We can fill your wants in any of the popular shades and white and black; per pair— $1.25, $1.50 $1.75. Prices Always Lower than Elsewhere for the Same Quality of Goods. Freshest Groceries. Fresh Garden Seeds. Silk and Lisle Gloves. Just received—an_ assort- ment of Silk, Lisle and Cotton Gloves that will surprise you; grays, tans, browns, white and black. 25c, 35c, 65c, $1.25. *” Heep Your Eye on Our Windows. ¥ Women’s and Misses’ Hosiery. Our Hosiery assortment is surprising. Many new weaves in blacks and fancy stripes, lace open work, also plain and drop stitch lisles and cottons. The best values ever bought—ranging in price per pair, from ioc ¥ $1 eA Plain Black {Qo 4c value, per pair..... Black Ribbed Hose, 10c Women’s Black Lace Hose, pair..85¢ Women’s Out Size Black Hose, with white sole.,extra value, pair...35¢ Women's White Lace Hose, puir..28¢ Men’s Furnishings. Men’s Hosiery, fancy or plain black, an assortment worthy of your inspection —per pair, | 10c, 15¢, 25c, 35c and 50c. Men’s and Boys’ Negligee Shirts. Light, dark and medium colors; Wilson Bros. make a perfect fit, - 50c, $1, $1.50. Just received — Another plain, pleated and strapped New Dress Ginghams shipment of new Dress Ginghams in fancy stripes and plaids— 12ic per yard. . aasone SKirt Styles New Wash Skirts in white and linen colors; —our usual low prices make them superior val- ues to any show else- where. tasca Mercantile Co. The Store of Quality. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. aSswn~ 3 DISTRIBUTIN “PITTSBURGH PERFECT” FENCES, ALL GALVANIZE FOR FIELD, FARM AND HOG FENCING. THE ONLY ELECTRICALLY WELDED FENCE, EVERY ROD GUARANTEED PERFECT. The DURABLE Fence, None so STRONG. All large wires. Highest EFFICIENCY. LOWEST COST. No Wraps.- to hold < Moisture and cause Rust. “PITTSBURGH PERF! CALL AN G DEPOT FOR D STEEL WIRES. ” FENCING. (Standard Style.) Absolutely STOCK PROOF. We can SAVE YOU MONEY on Fencing. DSEE iT. Wd& HD POWER PioneerM We Carry Only the best offered eat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats Best that Catt be Had. Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the to thé public. 4 Poultry. Game, Etc. Butter. Eggs. Cheese. Letand Avenue, * Opposite Postoffice. Hi W. D. Washburn; Jr. 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 Feastdays........ ae" DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. LANDS. Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Itasca, Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, Lakes St, Louis, Cook and all northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota, with fall list of lands aud 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 descriptions of your pro: erty. Will pay cash for Pine and Harl- wood timber lands. Want good retai agents in all parts of the northwest. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis, Minn. AGRICULTURAL —- ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of the Itasca unty Agricultural association was eld at Village hall last Saturday fternoon, their being the largest umber of farmers present that has ver turned out on a similar occasion. u fact those interested in the up- uilding of sthe association felt much €ncouraged by the interest displayed. he meeting was called to order by President Sissler and the regular annual reports of the secretary and’ treasurer were read by Secretary Graffam. The reports showed a bal- ance of $144.51 after all indebtedness Was paid. ' The selection of officers for the en- ng year ther took place. A. M. er was unanimously re-elected to the office of president. H. E. Graf- fam declining to act as secretary another year, J.$8. Gole was elected fo that position. C. E. Aiken was Te-elected as treasurer. The following were made vice Presidents: W.¥. Fulton, M. Hagen, Roy Wheaton, Neil McKinley and Jobn Becker. For trustees: A.J. McGuire, T. S. Powers, Neil Mullins, S. Washburn and C. K. Munday were selected. The matter of the time for holding the fair will be left to the trustees. After the close of the business of the agsociation A. J. McGuire spoke to those present along the lines of co- Operation. The matter of forming « dhiry association was also dsscussed, bat as under ordinary conditions it is deemed nevssary to have the wilk of cows to run a dairy suécessfully, and as it is a quesiion whether there are that number within a radius of eight miles of Grand Rapids, it was thought best to pass that for another year, but the needs of a dairy are felt keenly and preliminary work looking toa dairy organization will be taken up during this season. After discussing the co-operative ca for some time it was decided to form such a society and to set the ball rolling. A. M. Sissler was elected president~ard” A. J. McGuire secre- tary, and they will begin an active canvass among the farmers tu. see what can be done. A meeting to pers fect the organization will be called later. It is expected that Secretary McGuire will outline bis ideas fully and communicate the same to the public, through the press, at an early date. MORE POPULAR NOW THAN EVER There are unmistakable signs that William Jennings Bryan is coming into his own, says the Goodhue County News. It would be hard to name a more maligned and misrepresented public man than Bryan, having refer- ence, of course, to the political his- tory of the past few years. He has been pictured as too radical to be safe, yet he never was so radical as his enemies have represented. News- papers aud politicians that were hired to lie about Bryan, and that feel under no present obligations to ‘stay bought,” are doing him some belated justice. He looks more and more like the next president uf the United States as the days pass and the country reflects on the dirty politics that undermined him in former cone tests. The revelation that hundreds of thousands of doliars had been hastily contributed by the corrupt in- surance officers to Mark Hanna’s slush fund to defeat Bryan came as something of ashock to the people, notwithstanding it had been com- mented upon unofficially in many quarters before. But now it is known. {t is known that every corporation rascal and thief; every “legal” de- spoiler uf the producers; every grafter having a good thing through force of law, was against Bryan and willing to spend a liberal part of his ill-got- ten money to defeat the Nebraskan. We do not wish to say that all who opposed him were corrupt. Far from it. Many were honest, but a larger proportion of these than is agreeable to knowledge took up the opposition cry merely because it was fashionable and they wanted to stand with the “big gups.’’ Now those same, ‘big guns” are disgraced in the eyes of the country; some are in the shadow of the penitentiary; some are afraid to appear in public. But Bryan stands ey without a blemish o» his char- acter or record. He is an honest man. He is at once conservative enough and radical enough to suit the coun- | try, and we are willing to venture the lopision that it would take Roosevelt jhimself to defeat him in the next (presidential race, RESERVATIONS TO BE SURVEYED An Associated Press dispatch from Washington says: An important amendment to the Indian appropria- tion bill relating to the drainage of ceded Indian lands in Minnesota has been adopted. The senate extends the examination and survey so as to cover in additiom to the ceded Chip- pewa lands thirteen townships of the Red Lake reservation. Unde the provisions of the amendment the secretary of the interior is authorized to makea survey of all lands on the two reservations mentioned which re- main unsold and are wet or over- flowed cr swampy in character, with a view to determining what portions of them may be profitably and eco- nomically reclaimed by drainage, the number, location, cost and extent of the drainage canals or improved natu- ral water courses required to afford drainage outlets, and the sum of $15,000 is appropriated. The senate also has adopted this amendment to the bill, that all re- strictions as to sale, incumbrance or taxation for allotments within the White Earth reservation in the state ef Minnesota, now or hereafter held by adult mixed blood [ndians are thereby removed, and as to full bloods said restrictions shall be re- moved when the secretary of the in- terior is satisfied that the said adult full blood Indians are competent to handle their owa business affairs. Senator Nelson’s proposition to grant Cooper island in Cass lake to the state of Minnesota fur a state reservation is adopted, A LETTER FROM THE FAR WEST Mare Island, Cal., April 12, 1906. Mr. G. ©. Smith received the fol- lowing letter last week from J. R. Haridson, one of the young men who enlisted from this city in the service of “Uncle Sam” a short time Friend Guoner:—I shail now take time to write you a few lines to let you know that all of as boys are’well and that we are progressing nicely in our drili work. We have all signed out for the Philippine islaads but do not know bow soon we will get away from here. There is a detach:ent going next Monday and another the first of May, and we are to go with one or the other. This isa most delightful country, although rather ‘warm for us north- ern boys, it being as hot here now as it is in Minnesota in July. I goon guard duty tonight for the first time —Andy Haridson, Roy Buck and my- self for guard duty at the barracks and military prison. . There are now over 309 marines stationed here and new men are com- ing in daily. There is a town a quar ter of amile from the island and another about a mile from here. We are thirty-two miles from San Francisco, .but it only costs about 50 cents for the round trip. Weare to be assigned to Co. A tomorrow at 10 o’clock. Now, Gunner, as I have to gu to drill I shall bring my note to aclose. With my best regards to all, lam as ever, yours truly, i Private J. R. HARIDsoNn, United States Marine’ Corps, Mare Island, California. Government Distribution of Seeds. In regard to the free distribution by the government of garden seeds, Seerctary of Agriculture Wilson says in one of his reports: ‘With regard to the securing and distributing of miscellaneous garden and _ flower seeds, the fact remains that this work does not accomplish the ends for which the law was originally framed. Where are collected, put up and distributed now, on congres- sional orders, nearly 40,000,000 pack- ets of miscellaneous vegetable and flower seeds each year. ‘These seeds are the best that can be obtained iu Uhe market, but from the fact that large numbers of packets are wanted the seed obtained can be of standard surts only, such as are to be fouod everywhere for sale in the open mar- ket. As there is no practical object to be gained in distributing this kind of seed, it seems very desirable that some change be made. To this end in would seegn wise to Jimit our work entirely to the securing and dis- tributing of seeds, plants, etc., of new and raresorts. This is the line of work that would result in very much more value to individual dis- tricts throughout the country than the distribution of a large quantity of common varieties of garden seeds whica bave no particular merit so far , a hewness or promise are con-. cerned,” |STATE DITCHES TO DRAIN LANDS A St. Paul dispatch dated April 26 says: Over $26,000 will be expended in the construction of state ditches in the northera counties of the state according to plans formulated by the state drainage board at its meeting Wednesday in Governor Johnson’s office. This will mean the drainage of over 50,000 acres of state lands, making the land salable for settle- ment. Itasea county will secure 86,000 of the amount to be expended. A petition was presented to the board by J.S. Gole of Grand Rapids, who told the board just what the needs of his county were. His requests were granted almost in toto. He showed how certain lands in the county must be drained or else they never would be suitable for ayricultural purposes. One district which will be drained is twelve iniles south of Grand Rapids in the Split Hand lake region. Here over 6,000 acres of state land increased: from $4 to $6 an acre. Another dis- trict in which a ditch will be con- structed is the Bowstring country, where 8,500 acres of state land will be drained and 1,500 acres of private- land, with the same resulting inere- ment to the value of the land per acre. St. Louis county-is fortunate in se- curing $5,000 for the construction of a ditch somewhere between Floodwood and Hibbing, the exact location of which has not yet been determined. Between 6,000 and 8,000 acres will be reclaimed. A letter was received from G. G. Hartley, of Duluth, urg- ing the construction of a ditch in that section where there is a large area of swamp lands which would make ex- cellent agricultural land if only~ drained. His letter, together with a petition from Itasca county citizens was filed with the board. Aitkin county will receive $7,000 ex- penditure for a ditch to partially arain the swamp lands in that sec- tion of the state. Over 19,000 acres will be drained. this year, but the- exact location of the ditch has. not as-- yet been decided ‘upon. Clearwater- gets an expenditure of $2,000, and Kittson county $6,600, making a total of $26,600. The last legislature only appropriated $30,000 for drainage pur- poses, and the $3,400 is saved out for incidentais. * ‘There were many pathetic appeals from all over the northern part of the state for ditcbes, and as these peti- tions involved an expenditure uf over $150,000, most of them had to be turned down. The board has at its command only one-fifth of what it ought to have. The members were impressed by the urgency of the ap- peals from all over the northern part of the state, but with the limited funds at their disposal, were helpless to aid them. Some of the petitions stated that farmers were deserting their farms because, in the districts where a large amount of undrained state lands existed, it was impossible to support school houses. The dis- tricts were too sparsely settled to make conditions prosperous, and they were forced to go where their chil- dren could be placed at school and the district had some chance of ex- panding. A Strenuous campaign will be made from now on to win oyer the south- ern part of the state to the cause of drainage. The little work planned by the board ‘yesterday means an in- crease by three ur four times in capi- tal to the state of the money ex- pended. Those present at the meet~ ing to urge drainage for the northero part of the state were: J. B. Galar- neault and P. D. McMillin, Aitkin; Cc. E. Strandquist, Strandquist. Roseau county was also represented, and J. S. Gole, »f Grand Rapids, ap- peared for Itasca county. Engineer Ralph was instructed to make sur- veys for proposed ditches in Marshall, Becker and Todd counties. Speaker Cannon’s Birthday. On the 7th of May, according toa Washington correspondent, the 70th anniversary of the birth of Speaker Cannon will be celebrated. A sup- per in his honor will be given and also bis presidential! boom launched. The probabilities are that all this talk is hogwash to the eminent speaker—going largely to prove that the Washington correspondents by force of habit are pretty liable to jump at conclusions. Wonder bow many times more Speaker Cannon will have to tell the American people that he is not a candidate for presi- dent. 1f yuu want tv get simon-pure, silly twaddle you must round up a gang of Washington correspondents and you have it without looking any further. SJob Printing—The Herald-Review.