Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 21, 1907, Page 1

VoL. XV.—No, 26. Grand Uapids Herald-Ueview Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MInN., SaturDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1907. —_—— MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Cd Two Dollars a Year. ee L Shop in the morning and avoid the rush year we have prepared to this a busy shopping center of Gift Goods. Gifts for Men. Suit Cases Hat Brushes* Shaving Sets Ash Trays Umbrellas Linen Handkerchiefs Neckwear Collars and Cuffs Suspenders Shaving Mirrors Tobacco Sets Pipes e Hose it Robes Lined Bu Gloves tkerchiefs Shoes Razors Every year the scramble for Holiday Goods toward the end results in many disappointments for the‘ very late buyers, but this the last call. We don’t figure on closing out every item of Xmas goods for we carry in stock the year around a reasonable supply ast Call for Holida TASCA MERCANTILE POMPA make up to A PARTIAL LIST OF WHAT Gifts for Women.. Silk Petticoats Fur Neckpieces Fancy Baskets Pincushions ‘ Ladies’ Gloves Evening Fans Dress Patterns Jewelry Novelties Lace Collars Work _ Bags Handkerchiets Neckwear Umbrellas Waist Patterns Manicure Sets Glove Boxes Music Rolls Card Cases Kimonas Belts Back Combs Hand Bags Leather Pillows China Ware Hosiery Face Veils FROM OVER THE SEA| ienpselieee ! We take the following extract from a letter received from Miss Marion Sutton, who was for a long} time a teacher in our public school: We reached Hongkong Friday evening but were not allowed to Jand until Satur morning and then such a time. ‘he Min nesota”’ (Great Northern) has no lauach here and we were about a mile from the pier and were told we would have to land and _ transpert our bag- gage the best way we could. Every one who had not faith enough to walk was so disgusted and indignant with the whole performance. One man, in trying to make use of a sam- pan (small boat) lost one of his largest trunks overboard. the other one be- ing smaller floated and was rescued. I hope he will sue the company for damages. Of course a private launch met the Taft party. The reception at the pier was quite imposing. A company of soldiers in uniform, a band and the government officials met them and conducted them to the Hongkong Hotel. We did not getour baggage together ready to leave the boat until nearly ten and would not have, then bad it not: been fora manager who was anxious to secure all the guests possible,-so by registering at his hotel—paying $4 a day—#2 in our money, he took us bag and baggage ashore. You can’t imagine how thankful |dow upon ‘in all of the parts, As I sit here and look out the win- the mountains, studded with electric lights to their very summits and the moon hanging just above péepiny uow and then through | the white, tleecy clouds which ar floating by, I ean scarcely realize that Lam not looking upon some wonder- ful picture. Everything is so entirely different than anything I ever seen except the English sparrows, and yes, really.the babies cry in English. Our board is very good, I can find no fault with it except nothing is saltea and we have to eat pudding with a tablespoon. We havea great many bananas also the persimmon, which is much like our tomatoes though it has a sickish sweet taste, the pomelo which isa little like our orange and white in color and the the carambola. which 1 cannot take time to describe, but which tastes a little like our watermelon except that it is more tasteless, I do not like it at all, it is as large as a good size apple, yellowish green in color. * * * Ihave scarcely seen a lemon or orange since leaving Seattle. All candy, cookies, crackers ete are done up in tin boxes. Hongkong is a terribly wicked. city. there being so many soldiers and sailors here all the time without homes or friends. We do not dare to leave the hotel after six o’clock in the evening unattended Strange as it may seem one need not fear the natives in the least but the foreigners. We have had to change ‘money we were to leave that old boat. We have already secured our passage on the P. and O., an English steamer which leaves for Singapore next Sat- urday. * * * three times since leaving Seattle and will have to change again when we reach Singapore. Our money is worth nearly twice as much as any of prpartwent |'WORAND RAPIDS Fy rope oF STORE MINN. QUALITY early know a Gifts for Bogs. Watches Pocket Knives Neckties Suspenders Games Steam Engines Handkerchiefs Dress Shoes Dress Shirts Golf Sweaters Skates Handsleds Books Bibles man Nodak Cuff Buttons A pair of Skiis H inte tch Fol Book Pocket Gombe Pocket Books | this foreigr money. Lhada five dol- ‘tar gold piece changed today and re- cieved = $9.75. Exchange changes every day. onuay we had to pay 8 cents on a dollar exchange. Silks are alino at least expensive here as at home, foreigner cannot get it very much less. Have seen thé most beautiful carved ivory, band painted china, cloisonne and satsuma ware and drawn work, also laces. I think I have longed fur money wore than I ever have in my life. Hongkong is a horsesnoe in shape, walled-in by the mountainsand open ing on the bay. ’ Really England bas done wonders here, not ouly for her- self and China but for al) the world in opening this port to foreigners. The svilis red as’ on the mountain range in uorthern Minnesota aud great military roads, which are never used except in cases of emergency wind rovnd and round the mountains to their very summits. The foliage is beautiful just as itis pictured in our old yellow geography. The ferns palms, hydrangeas, etc., that. we care for so tenderly grow in wild profusion along stone walls. on the mountain side, along streets, around cathedrals arsenals, etc. The streets are paved and in walking a few blocks you may meet people from all over the world, Chivese, Japanese, Jews, Egyptians. Arahs, Portugese, French, English, German, Malays, Americans, Sheiks, etc,, all in their native costume. The Sheiks are from northern India, great large men who constitute the police force of every foreign city. We were with a party of friends, Rev. Mr. Lyons, wife and three children, Rev. Mr. Koebler and wife and Miss Dudley until last Tuesday new and complete on many items, yet as soon as this adis out we and inevitable certain items will run out early. Ce MN a EE NS TTS Goods Only two more | shopping days | Monday and Tuesday Already we have sold more goods than we figured on and had to send in re-orders on a number of articles. This will be a bene- fit to all those that could not buy as you will find our stock the final rush will be on TO BUY Gifts for Girls. Dress Patterns New Coat Fur Sets Books Gloves Hat Pins Hair Ribbons Handkerchiefs Cup and Saucers Umbrellas Box Stationery "Sid Dolls Manicure Sets Toilet Sets Kid Mitten Work Bask x Box Hdkf. Boxes Dre Gold Pens Doll Car Lace Collars Postcard Albums when they left for Manila. Tuesday jmorning Miss Dudley and I visited the Botanica! gardens but neglected | to take umbrellas so could not walk j around very much as the sun’s rays jhere are flerce. Miss D wanted to take my picture in a Sedan chair but, the coolies as well as the Chinese and Japanese in general are so suspicious of a kodak you can’t get near them, so just as she was about. to snap my likeness they suddenly sat me down in the streets and got out of the way, lookingas ugly as possible. Monday i | jured in July ‘and | warm weather fy | he INJURIOUS ADVERTISING Development of Northeastern Min- nesota Has’ Been Retarded By Lack of Proper * Publicity. State Mine Inspector Points: Out Some Facts That Should Be Heeded By Home- seekers. The Mesaba Ore has the following article written by F. A. Wildes, Jr., State Mine inspector, and which is worthy of being passed along: For many years the public has been told by those who knew little of the subject that the north-eastern Minnesota was of no value for agri- culture, or for anything else, save as a temporary abiding place for the festive tumberjack and the irun miner. People in other states have reached the conclusion that the soil is non-productive from a careful reading of geological repofts, whose chief purpose was the study of the rock formation. The geologist has studied a limited area and that for a limited spaceiof time. From data thus gained, they who read his re ports, come to the general conclusion that where granite does not outcrop, the “formation is a ferruginous chart more or less amphibolitic, cal- cerous, sideritic and gray, red, yel- | low, brown or green, with bands and shots of iron ores.” Feeling some- what alarmed they consult an agri- cultural report that has this reassur- ing statement that the soil contains “potash, soda, lime, iron, magnesia, sulpburic acid, phosphoric acid and salica In varying proportions, under- laid by a subsoil mde up of bydrated sillicate of alumina intermixed with erystals and quartz sand, od by subaerial disintegration of sting rock areas, which being translated into means a good s¢ our vith a clay subsoil own tongue ut little im that indeed a By this time b needed to convince ern more is North- en Minneasota is fully made the climate, od authority requently August by : he is told by the fun- er that experienced His mind is , after jokes hears it rep that the reac ready made on our sleig the funny mar) was one summer in St and assures him that blizzard will clear ever Louis cou the off in 10 or 11 | months beyond a doubt. Heretore the nan in the east seek- ing a new bome has been confined to practically these sour of informa tion regarding the Northern Minnesota. has been held in the main by jumber companies who either did not wish to | colouize or knew the value of landand | were in no hurry to sell, and the second large owner was the state. With a large area owned by these two | inactive fee owners progress was | necessarily slow. The railroads | owned large tracts of land in the west which they wished to have im- morning we al! took the peak tram- way to the top of the highest moun- tain over looking the bay. The rail- way is so steep we just about lay on our backs. The whole of itis not shown on the card. After leaving the car we walked about a mile in this way, the view at the top fully paid us for the effort made, we visited the signal station and saw the forts along the coast upon which were stationed rows and rows of canon, Hongkong has a fine land locked har- bur. Oct. 18,I have not mailed my letter as I knew it would not go until the return of the Minnesuta which leaves port at noon to day. We leave for our boat the Oceana in about ten minutes which also leaves port at noon. Our hotel bill was $50 each or $15 in one money. A man who recently ticked off 117 years attributes his long life to the fact that be didn’t marry when young. Still, some credit is undoubt- ¢dly due to the fact tnat he never fenton railroad tracks, wisely re- rained from rocking a buat and ai- ways kept the muzzle of unloaded guns pointed away from him.—Two Ha rbors Trade Journal. proved, hence the generous advertis- ing of lands in North Dakota, Mou- tana, etc. Capaca caught the spirit and a wild rush was made from the states to take lands many hundreds of miles froma market and across a tariff barrier as well, crossing en route some of the most promisingly located aud fertile lands that ever lay, out of doors. The Canadian land boom had hardly began to subside when a campuign was started exploit- ing lands on the arid plains of Texas. In the meantime many thoughtful people in Minnesota had begun to realize that the remaining part of the public domain available for agricultural was very limited anda concertel demafd has been made for the properly advertising of Minnesota's resources. The’ state has even installed a bureau of immi- gration for the purpose of diverting the tide of emigrants crossing our borders to inférior lands beyond to our own brcad acres. Another com- He | ine | the | vast empire in | The land here | co-operate with these movements by | boosting the merits of our land. Ouly a small area of Northera Minnesota land is stony. The soil is wonderfully productive. Tocon- vince even the most skeptical all one has to do is to note the timothy, red- | top, clover and even alfalfa that ! grows so luxuriantly even along the tote roads on the Mesaba range. te } Say nothing of the crops of potatoes, turnips and carrots that are pro- duced among the rocks of the range. The fame of this country could rest safely oo the German rose, wrapt in its green surtout,” alone and its | merits should be brought to the at- tention of all lovers of sauerkraut. The writer well remembers the time when the people of southern Minne- sota were skeptical about their abili- ty to raise apples and other fruits They admitted that corn could be matured in good years and that on exceptionally good land clover could be produced profitably. Today Minnesota is securing gold medals at the expositions for her excellent qualities of apples, and has entered the markets to the east as a competi< tor. The apple belt has moved as far north as Aitkin, Itasca and St. Louis counties. Fruits as well as plants adapt themselves to climatic conditions. No finer dairy countr than this could well be found and we have noted that all who have under- taken it near the iron range have succeeded very well indeed. Theimprotance of developing the latent resources of this partof the state is of vital interest to us all, whether we are employed in the mines orelsewhere, for we are now put to the necessity of importing all our vegetables, etc., and paying in- creased prices for stale products as well. The great advantage this part of the state has over other localities is its close proximity to market. Duluth has a great future abead of it and will always bea good market The iron ranges will never produce the smallest fraction of what they consume, besides the market here will always be a cash writer has recently returr trip- through people trying to w if the from extended market. rocky | an ir Minnesota wh oduced sre their er them ar paradise | ar | Minnesot the bh | tion occurred at } and about wi poeieuse 1 the case state by Attorney G ath | Attorney Alfre aL: Taw 2 the part of the defense by Fr Price and C. C. McCarthy. following gentlemen ¢ mprise? th j Jury: Wm. Norberg, R. Brown | Osear Harlan, John Bendry, Peter | Peterson, Iver Kingen, Carl Magnu- | son, John Richards, Wm. Nelson iGeo. Slayter, J. Rutter and Ben Dixon. So far as the testimony of the complaining witness was con cerned, it was apparent that it was a case of too much booze and a desire to find a bunch of trouble. This was corroborated by others on the stand The primary cause of the difficulty being a refusal on the part of Me- Donald to give Martin any more liquor. The case was ably, fairly and impartially tried by the attorneys on both _ sides. The charge of Judge Spooner to the jury at nine o’clock Friday night, is too lengthy for us to give in full, but was a clear, fair and inbiased state- ment of the facts as deduced from the testimony. The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty on Saturday morning. Card of Thanks. Mrs. Holman and daughter desire to extend to the good people of Grand Rapids their heartfelt thanks for the Many evidence of sympathv extended mendable move being made under | during the last illness of the husband authority of the state. which means mach to Northern Minnesota, is the and father. Especial thanks are ex- tended to the Liadie’s Aid of the work of draining swamp lands and | Presbyterian church, the Odd Fellows the construction of roads. Northerp Miannesota should heartily DEFECTIVE PAGE We of | and Redmen. Mrs. J. N. Hoiman.