Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 18, 1908, Page 1

A Belt Sale values, this sale thisisale for/. «04. sspassaee enough to satisfy us $42.00 coats will be sacrificed for Belts at 48c, genuine all leather belts, narrow tailor stitched 75c and $1.00 values,t his sale for...... 48c Belts at 25c, silk elastic belts, many styles to choose from, regular Bo Cc Belts at 15c,leather and silk belts, all sizes, from our regular 35c ne Women’s Coats Coats selling before for $26.00 will go at.... $35.00 coats will go at this sale for only ....$17.50 $45.00 coats at this sale will be sold at...... $22.50 THEBIG DEPARTMENT |! STORE MIN i isawee +++++- $21.90 TASCA MERCANTILE GRAND RAPIDS MPA THE STORE OF QUALITY N. O| URS was the only Real BargainjSale, is what our customers said, and from ——! the number of big red packages that we sent out during the week was proof We are, wide awake and keep our eye on other stores enough ‘to know that there is no one giving any greater values than we are. learning to wait for our sales; they know that we do as we advertise; they always find more and greater bargains here than elsewhere. LAST DAYS—MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY ; Swell Furs at Half Price From our immense stock of carefully selected furs we have only about 50 left. Every fur is from new stock and on sale now at just half price. $10.00 furs now on sale at......... $5.00 | $1.00 furs will be sold for only........ 50c $15.00 furs will be sold for only... $7.50 | $2.50 iurs will be sold for zo $20,00 furs on sale now for......- $10.00 | 4.00 fure at this sale for.......... $2.00 SALE DAYS No, 619, Latice LeGreque is one of the most poptlar shades made for medium and slender figures, light weight and most durable, sizes 18 to 30, $4.50 values * 8 ORR eS ari eRe Corset Sale $75 People are $2.80 coats will be offered at this $3.50 coats at this sale will go for $5.00 coats will be offered for the $15.00 coats will be offered at this Children’s Coats $2.00 coats will be sold for the small price of....98¢ $8.50 coats at this sale we will offer you for $4.25 $10.00 coats will he sold for the small sum of $5.00 $12.50 coats can be had at this sale for only....6.25 sale for ....$1.25 P 3 . onlys. e252. $1.75 | %.50 skirts,clearance price ..... .. $1.75 | $10.00 skirts,clearance price ...... $5.00 low price of $2.50 | 85-00 skirts,clearance price . ....$2.50 | $16.50 skirts,clearance price ...... $8.25 $7.50 skirts,clearance price........ $3.75 | $20.00 skirts,clearance price. ....§10.00 ‘ quick clearance. Walking Skirts at Half Price We have placed our entire stock of fine walking skirts, about 200 in number, for We carry by far the largest stock of walking skirts in the city. Note the following low prices on new skirts and new styles. sale for....$7.50 If you have been wanting a rain low price, they come in gray and our regular $10 value 1 ol x at this sale at a pair 25c value, a pair........... Children’s heavy fleece lined sto sold at this sale for $10.00 Cravenetts, $4.98 Women’s heavy fleeced hose, regular 15 coat get one at this “$4.98 REM and 18c values Women’s extra heavy fleece lined hose, double heel and toes, 18c¢ kings, 15c values, will be January Clearance NANTS OF WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSIERY SALE 1000 Pairs of Woolen and Fleece'Lined Hosiery to be Sold Before We Invoice Children’s all wool heavy ribbed stockings, 25c values at this sale per pair Women’s woolen hose, medium weight, ribbed tops, 25c values, a pair af this sale Women’s extra fine woolen hose, elastic tops, regular 35c values, a pair at this sale for..... Special Clearance Sale of the Newest Dress Goods & Silks Sale of all Remnants at One Half - Regular Price DRESS GOODS, WASH GOODS, GINGHAMS, PRINTS, and OUTING FLANNELS BOOST FOR THE ~ PANAMA CANAL John C. Greenway Says Splendid Progress is Being Made There Predicted That The Big Ditch Will Surely be Finished by 1915. The Panama canal will surely be ompleted in 1915, and most likely y 1914, according to the opinion of John C, Greenway, wanager of the Coleraine branch of the Oliver Min- ing company, who has just returned from an inspection of the work being done on the canal. Mr. Greenway’ nov only believes that the big ditch will be completed | in seven years, but he further be- lieves that under the government engineers the work is proceeding with the greatest progress it has yet shown. During the month of No- vember 1,800,000 cubic yards of dirt was excavated, which is the greatest Grading the work done by the; government under three heads, in regard to the importance in which it) appeared to him, Mr. Greenway places the cleansing of the fever) ridden cities of Panama and Colon} and the interyening canal strip as the most stupendous work accomplished by the government. | Col. Gorgas ha& charge of tais work and Mr. Greenway says he has thoroughly ridden both the cities and the forty-nine miles of canal strip of the yellow fever that threatened to stop the inhabitation of the canal zone by Americans or white labor. He says that the canal zone and the cities of Panama and Colon are to- day as healthful as any Americano city. ‘Fhe swamps have beep drained, the nests of the poisonous mosquitos filled with oil, and every precaution adopted for the complete extermina- tion of the yellow fever germ. To render such a place as_ Panama was when the Americans first took possession of it, a habitable place, ‘sate for American labor, and to pro- vide perfect sanitation in the homes of all the laborers,is what Mr. Green- way considers the greatest thing accomplished by the government. Next he places the feeding of the vastarmy of laborers in the list of importance. The ‘government has ‘established vast cold storage plants at Panama that are supplied by cold storage boats from London, New York and New Orleans,, The Ameri- can laborer pays no mure for fresh record achieved in any month since the United States government started work on the canal. \ meat and fresh baked bread in | Pana:na than does the laborer in the city of New York, Every morning the bread cars start out on the railroad line running along the length of the canal strip supply- ing freshly baked bread from the immense bake ovens of the govern- ment bakery. The laborer in the Panama gets his fresh bread daily, just as his brother laborer in Ameri- can cities does. He has his single house. if he is married, or lives in the group cottage if he is single. In fact, he fares but little different, so far as the comforts of life are con- cerned, from the man workisgon a similar project. in the . United States, Next Mr. Greenway places the im- portance of the work itself. He places the securing of ~ conditions that make this work possible before the importance of the work itself. He thoroughly believes in the lock canal, which is the plan of the pre- sent work. He say$ that the tide tise on the Atlantic side is 18. inches, while on the Pacitie side it is some- ing like 18 inches. This fact would make a sea level canal a physical im- possibility, he says. He says that the plans, which the engineers are working under at the present time, are simple, practical and feasible. Mr. Greenway was afforded unusual opportunity for inspecting the work in all its phases and angles and is emphatic in his commendation of the work’ as being carried on under the army engineers. * Much chaos and experimenting was necessary at the start, he says, but now that the big work has been brought under way in a systematized manner progress will steady go on un- til the most stupendous, task of the twentieth century bas ‘been com- pleted. Mr. Greenway says the laborers are satistied. Their quarters, their food and their treatment have brought about this result, and the progress being registered is proof of thjs. ‘The policing of the canal zone won the admiration of Mr, Greenway. This work is being carried on under Col. Chanton, who served under Col. Brody of the Rough Riders. He has about 130 meo under him. many of them second enlistment regulars. He has the guarding of the forty- uine miles of canal strip, and Mr. Greenway says he has succeeded in preventing gambling, shutting out vice, and preventing lawlessness and crime. ee The working agreement between Uhe cities of Panama and Colon and the officials of the canal zone is most harmonious. Prisoners escaping to either city are given up, if they haye committed any crime in the canal zone. The work done hy the Ameri- can government in ridding these fever infested cities of yellow fever werms, and cleaning and paving their streets, has not been forgotten, for they have rendered every aid to the administration of justice in the in- tervening canal strip. Altogether Mr. Greenway brings a most pleasing report of the progress being achieved by the government.—| that Kovchiching county has been Duluth Herald. Christian Scientiests’ meeting and services every Sunday at 2:30 p. m.| the public cannot be over estimated. at the Scandinavian Lutheran church, | Two of the index books contain land Two Dollars a Year. — PRELIMINARY HEARING HELD Matt Beondich of Nashwauk is bee fore Justice Bailey on-a charge of arson. The hearing began yesterday and is still occupymg the attention of the court as the Herald-Review goes to press. ‘he evidence thus for adduced is very damaging to the defendant, und unless the defense has some strong rebuttal to offer it looks as though Beondich will be held to the grand jury. The crime was committed September Ist last when an attempt was made to burn a log boarding house on the LaRue mining property at Nashwauk, which was occupied by non-union men. Twelve men were asleep in the building at the time, but fortunately the fire was: discovered by Deputy Sheriff . H. Hennessy of Grand Rapids, who was then on special duty in connection with the Western Federation strike. The fire was ex- tinguished before much damage was \done. The hearing has been post- poned from time to time on the plea of the defendant's attorney, G. H. Spear. The evidence offered by Prosecuting Attorney Thwinog through seyeral witnesses associates the defendant with the crime ina very direct way. It. is alleged by some that he admitted having set the fire and that he advised others of his countrymen to burn property be- longing to the ,mining companies The testimony 1s nearly all being taken through an interpreter. Beon- dich is an Austrian and a member of the Western Federation of Labor. CALLED TO HER FINAL REWARD Mrs. Sarepta Ann Brooks, wife of D. M. Brooks of Deer River, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Marr, in this village’ at 1:30 o'clock Monday morning, January 13, aged 66 years and 8 months. The deceased had been in poor health for more than a year past, and the final sum- mons was not entirely unlooked for by members of the family. The bursting of a blood vessel in the head was the immediate cause of death. Funeral services were held at the Marr residence Wednesday at 10 o’clock, interment -being made in Itasca cemetery, Mrs. Brooks was one of the oldest residents of this section of the state, and had resided in Itasca county for. many years, comisg bere with her family from Aitkin. Besides her husband, the deceased leaves two children, Percy R. Brooks of Deer Riyer, and Mrs. C. Hi. Marrof Grand Rapids. Ste has three brothers living: George W. Ingrham of Jamestown, N. D., who was present atthe funeral; A. G,j Ingrham of. Chicago. and Worden Ingrham of .New Brunswick. Mrs. W. B. Marroft Aitkin was among} those from out of town who attended the funeral. ABSTRACTS FOR | KOOCHICHING CO} E. A, Kremer, of the abstract firm} of Kremer & King, Grand Rapids, | and the firm of Burdick, Kremer & King, International Falls, left on} Wednesday of this week for the} lattter place. He took with him the fully completed abstract of rcords from the register of deeds office in this county that are now officially recorded in the new county of Koo- chiching. Twenty-four abstract record books and three large index books made the final aud completed set of records that will be used in the International Falls office. This laborious task has been in hand for nearly a year, much of the time four persons being engaged upon it. Every precaution was taken to compile a faultless sent of records. That Burdick, Kremer & King have succeeded in their undertaking no person competent to judge will doubt after looking over the books as they have been prepared. Mr. Burdick, who has personal management of the International Falls office, is a gentle- man of many years experience in the abstract business and bears the re- putation of being oneof the most painstaking and Competent men in his business that is to be found in Minnesota. The _ well-established reputation of Messrs Kremer & King, the pioneer abstracters of Itasca county, makes assvrance doubly sure provided with a most complete and in every way up-to-date set of ab- stract hooks, the value of which to descriptions of acreage property and ~ the other that of cities and villages. In making up the records a double check was kept on every description, the transcripts prepared by Miss Krouse for the register of deeds of Koo chiching county and the original records of the register of deeds office of this county. Any defects in the execution of instruments have been carefully noted ov the books. Mr. Burdick went to International Falle the first of June last and his reports to the Grand Rapids office show that he has been doing a good business from the start. Owners of real estate in Koochiching county are to be congratulated upon having so complete a set of abstracts of title and also that they are in the hands of so reliable a firm. “The office in the new county will be known as the International Falls Abstract office, Mr. Kremer is expected tu return the first of next week. MANY DRILLS ARE AT WORK Mining companies have continued drilling operations west and svuth- west of town since they first invaded that territory over a year ago. 1t has been given out on good authority that the poor farm property is show- ing a good quality of iron ore and in gratifying quantities. The develope ment of a paying mine at this point would be of inestimable value to Grand Rapids. On the west arm of Pokegama lake, in township 55-26, sections 34 and 27, there are eight drills at work. The Tioga Iron Min- ing company put one more drill to work on the C, H. Marr lands located in that locality during the week. The Fayal Iron company are operat- ing on the Jerdon lands. Dr. Rus- sell and Sheriff Hoolihan also owna tract of land in that vicinity that is being drilled and which is showing up well. A drill is also testing the J. F. McCormick farm. D. M.. Gunn, W. C, Gilbert and Geo. W. Fay hold’some state leases that have been punctured with many dril! holes and the gentie- men interested seem to be well pleased with the showing made thus far. The opinion prevails among wen who are in a position to know the situation that the iron deposits lying close to the village limits ou the north, northeast. west and southwest are sufficient to insure a great future for Grand Rapids. THE SOCIALISTS NAME A TICKET Under the name of “Public Owner- ship party” the socialists of the state of Minnesota met in convention at Minneapolis on Wednesday of this week and nominated a full state tick- et. Joltn Lefevre of Grand Rapids was pamed as the candidate for sec- retary of state. “He has twice been the Socialist candidate for the office of state senator from this district. Mr. Lefevre is an able young Mana student of political economy, and a firm believer in the socialistic due- trine. He will probably not makea very strenuvus campaign, but he will deserve the full support of the perty and will get it. The full ticket nomi- nated is: Governor, Bercher Moore, Minnee apolis; lieutenant governor, J. EL Nash,Robbinsdale: secretary of state, Joho Lefevre, Grand Rapids; treas- urer, Jobn Kolu, Hibbing; attorney general, A. W. Uhl, St. Paul. Charles Milaney and T. J. Peach Were the delegates from Itases coun: ty. They returned from Minneapolis Thursday noon. 4 Four Couples Wed. Clerk of Court Rassmussen issued marriage licenses to four couples thig week. Emil Karavenan and Fannie Sari, both of Bovey, procured a license on the 15th. . Eli Petricia and Borga Petricia, of Bovey, on the 14th. William R. Alderman aud be ssie Walter, of Cohassett, on the 13th. George M. Lerch and-Mary V ander. work, of Deer River, on the 13th. EY Dr. Larson, the eve specitl- ist, will be at Gray Rapids, the 15th and 16th of earn mouth. Defect of the eye properls treated, — glasses correctly fitted for the eye. The 15th and 16th of each iwenth. (2B Dr-Spofford is at Hel Pokeg: ama, Grand Rapids, ihe 17th day of each month, Latest scienufie methods in examining eyes and fitting glasses.