Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 20, 1908, Page 1

| Vor, XV.—No, 48. : a and i apids ———— era (-Meview, =~ Granp Rarips, Irasca County, MINN., Wrpnespay, May 20, 1908. FUGITIVE FALLUCO HELD AT GIBRALTAR Ex-Convict and Thief was Arrested by English Authorities. REQUISITION PAPERS ARE ISSUED Italian Who Stole $700 at Coleraine may Cause an International Controversy Between U.S. and Italy. Luigi Falluco, who is wanted by the Itasca County authorities for the theft of $700 from Mrs. Assune Marra, at Coleraine, bas stirred up an inter- national controversy involving the state of Minnesota, the king of Italy and King Edward of England. Falluco is under arrest{at Gibraltar, and Governor Johnson has issued a requisition on King Edward, and the rest of the British government, for the return of the fugitive to Cole- raiue for trial. Details of the offense has been published heretofore in the Herald-Review. Luigi claims, however, that he is a citizen of Italy, and the king of Italy has sent word to the king of England that Luigi dues pot care to return to Coleraine, and also that Luigi has been rudely interrupted by the arrest ip bis journey to his beloved father- land. / The king of Italy bas laid the matter before the secretary of state at Washington. Unless the Italian M. JOHNSON,| Proprietor. | Goods wa ans (RONG Bodo MH DON’T make a mistake and buy elsewhere before call- i nme. k am making that cannot fail to attract attention and trade, and the class of goods Iam offering cannot be excelled elsewhere. Gerte Furnishings Lanpher Mats Fine Srees Work Shoes Straw Mats Cveralis Suspenders Underwear Ber Suprlies Tebaccces Pipes Matches Writing Tablets Pers, Ink, Ete. Fish Lines Reds, Etc. Fresh GARDEN SEEDS Jus ive me a look over d the goods and prices will convince you that every article in the house is a real bargain. THE CASH STORE SECOND STREET SOUTH. A. M. JOHNSON - Proprietor. sovereign wins out in bis diplomatic intervention, the sheriff of Itasca county will/get a pleasant little globe- trotting trip to Gibraltar to bring back the reluctant Luigi and what- ever remains of the $700. Luigi boarded at Coleraine with Mrs. Assune Marra. He was working in the mines near Coleraine. Mrs. Marra bad trouble with her husband which came to the ears of her board- ers. She had $700 in the bank at Coleraine. When Luigi heard of this, it is said, he developed high finance instincts. He went to Mrs. Marra and with it. Fallucio had served a term in the Stillwater penitentiary for assault, which terminated on the 20th of last month. ijMrs. Marra burried to the bank, drew out the money, and the result was that instead of her husband running off with it, Luigi up and did it. At least that is what the charges agaiost him allege. Looking Over His Holdings. Clark Clay is in town this week from Minneapolis, the first visit he has made to Grand Rapids in nearly ten years. Mr. Clay had been in poor health during the past five or six years, but of late he has greatly im- proved and today looks very much as he did in years gone by when he was one of the prominent loggers of north- ern Minnesota. He has been looking over lands in this section which came into his possessiun a number of years ago, when he was buying for timber value only. Some of these tracts are located dangerously close to the iron line and Mr. Clay is apprehensive lest the mining men may want to puncture his property with drills and thereafter tear it up in the operation of mines. In order to guard against this pos- sibility he is looking up tax matters, titles, etc, so that his farms may be preserved. During the week Mr. Clay has been driving through the country in different directions and says he notes a wonderful agricultural de- velopment about Grand Rapids. Steamer Irene Sunk. A telephone message from Sandy Lake by way of McGregor to Capt. Viebhan of the transportation com- pany ofAitkin stated that the steamer Irene went to the bottom of the Mississippi river Sunday near Verdon, She went up to Sandy Lake Friday to haul some lumber for the govern- ment dam work, and it is not kuown how the accident happened. The boat was expected to arrive at Aitkin Saturday vight or Sunday. Capt. Viebhan has gone from Aitkin by team to see about raising the sunken craft. WHAT PUPILS ARE DOING Manual Traming, Art and Domestic Science Exhibit at High School Building. Ono Friday evening of this week will occur the first annual exhibit of the mauual training, domestic science aod art departments of the high school and grades. This exhibit will be the most interesting exhibit ever given by the schools and should re- ceive the attention of every citizen of the community. At this time the work of these three departments for the entire schoo] year will be dis- played. Not only the work of the pupils will be shown, but the pupils will be there at work in the shop and kitchen. Thus an opportunity will be given you of seeing what is being done and how it is done in these departments of the school. This year has been the best year in the history of the industrial and art work of the schools and the patrons and friends of the school will bave reason to be surprised at the handicraft turned out by the pupils of the grades aod high school. With the art exhibit will be shown some of the best art work done by the pupils of the grades during the past year. It is not possi- ble at this time to have every pupil in the schoo] represented in the art exhibit, but representative work of all the grades will be attractively displayed. of the work. there will bea program given by §pupils of the grades and others which will be unusually at- tractive and interesting. The public is cordially invited to be present at this exhibit and program. The shop and domestic science department will be in active operation between 7:45 and 8:45, after which the program as planned will be rendered. For Judicial Honor. A. L. Thwing of Grand Rapids, county attorney of Itasca county, spent a day in Aitkin last week in- terviewing some of the people re- garding his candidacy for district judge. He isa bright, active young man of pleasing manner and made a good impression.—Aitkin Age Looking Over Roads. County Commissioners O’Brien and Mullins drove out this morning to told her that her husband was about to draw out the money and depart look over some county road work south east of Grand Rapids. Following the Pi tect i A QUESTION OF LEGALITY BASED | Officials Trying to Find Out Whether Certain Roads May be Built IN CONNECTION WITH THE DITCH Auditor Spang and County Attorney Thwing Will Submit the Matter to County Commissioners Next Saturday \ W. A. Ralph of St. Paul, was in town Sunday looking up the matter of judicial ditch No. 1, with Auditor Spang and County Attorney Thwing. It seems that when the viewers as- sessed the benefits and damages for the ditch, which our readers will Fe- member is to be constructed down io the vicinty of Wawena, they assessed the counties, St. Louis and Aitkin, they being interested as well as Itasca county, three hundred dollars per week for the roads that would be constructed along the line of the ditch. When the notices were served on the various property holders for the tinal hearing on the application for the ditch, personal services on behalf of the county was not made on Au- ditor Spang. but the notice was pub- lished in the Independent. The ques- tion now arises whether under tbe new judicial ditch law, assessments for roads can be made against tbe county when roads have not already been laid out or been petitioned for. The advertisements are out calling for bids ou the construction of the ditch, said bids to be received by June 6th. If the order of the court as issued, will not staod as regards the assessment against the county it may cause some delay in the letting of the contract, as the chances are if the county does not want the roads the work can be Jet at a lower figure. The spicifications could then be modified. Under the present call for bids the dirt threwn out from the ditches is to be leveled off for a road bed and steel culverts placed at eacb intersection of the main ditch and laterals, while the assessment calis for $300.00 per mile the actual ameunt that the county would be called upon to pay would be about $150.00, as tbe viewers made their assessments toex- ceed the supposed cost of the work by about 100 per cent. The assess- ments for this work are spread over’ a period of ten years and tbe county would have to pay about $175.00 per year. The amountis not large’and the county would be a winner if we could secure good roads for five or six times that amount per mile, but the question with Auditor Spang and Attorney Thwing is whether the county can be made to pay this or any other amount for roads that haye not been properly laid out. Attorney Thwing has written the attorneys of the other two coufties interested and the chances are that there will be an informal hearing had before Judge McClevehan at an early date to talk this phase of the matter over. Asthe county commissioners meet on the 23rd iost. the matter may be Jeftopen until that time when it will be left to them to decide whether they wish to order the roads along the line of the proposed ditch or not and in case they do that will end the matter and the court’s order as now filed will stand. JESSE HARRY mame oem n WESOTA Two Dollars a Year, TATE LAND SALE AT GRAND RAPIDS Thirty-Five Thousand Acres Itasca County Fertile Land to be Offered JULY 8TH 1S DATE FIXED FOR SALE Brief Description of Itasca County By State Auditor Iverson— Splendid Opportunity Of- fered to Settlers State Auditor Iverson has issued a pamphlet descriptive of the counties in which he will offer for sale a total of 300,000 acres of lands during the months of June and July. Of Itasca county the auditor says: Itasca county is one of the impor- tant counties of northern Minnesota and bids fair to soon come into great- er prominence, by recent discoveries of iron mines in the east central por- tion, and present indications are that alarge partof Itasca county is one vast storehouse of hidden wealth. This county has become famous for its healthful climate, in fact it is getting to be a well known health re- sort, and thousands of*people go there every summer where ;they find rest and heajth, strolling tbrowgh the great pine forests, camping along the shores of the beautiful lakes. The area of Itasca county is 2,844 square miles making 1,819,676 acres of land and of this amount 128,788 acres are water. The population of the county is 11,529, which may be spoken of as a mixed class, so far as nation- | ality is concerned. The surface of the county is in some places rolling and rough, while in other parts we find large level tracts stretching for miles. Where | the timber has been cut off, dense !popple thickets have made their ap- pearance, which speaks for the fer- tility of the soil, which is a clay loam in some parts and a black loam in others, but all kinds of farm produce ; is grown here with great sticcess. Several lines of railroad traverse the county inall directions and Grand Rapids, an enterprising city, is the j county seat, while a number of thriv- ing villages are found in different parts of the county. There is an abundance of timber on almost every section of land in the county and the new settler findsin it a valuable asset, as he can easily erect warm houses, stables and sheds for his stock. A large paper mill is operated at Grand Rapids, furnishing a steady market for pulp wood and no one need be idle winter or summer. Farm pro- duce finds a ready market as the mills and mines operated in this county employ thousands of men. Itasca county has a bright future and only awaits the arrival of thrifty settlers to develop the agricultural resources and make it one of the best and richest counties in the state. If you want to be the owner of a farm in Itasca county attend the state sales at Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, July 8th, when 35,000 acres of this fertile land will be offered for sale at public auction. The sale will begin promptly at 9o’clock a, m. and will be held at the Court House. Drills on Passard Farm. Moe Brothers began the work of drilling on the James Passard farm this week on the tract adjoining the Itasca Gun club shooting grounds, which is described as the east + of lot 17, 55-25. The opinion has long prevailed that there is iron on Mr. Passard’s land, and itis the purpose of Moe Bros to make a through test. TAX COMMISRICN NOT SATISEED Proposed Abatements on Range Mining Properties Turned Down. COUNTY BOARDS FIGURES DON'T 60 Reduction of Assessed Valuations on Minnesota Mines to the Extent of $45,000,000 Denied by State Tax Commission. The county commissioners of the three range counties were not handled with gloyes by the state tax commis- sion in dealing with the proposed abatement un the assessments of the mining properties on the range. Their recommendation that the allow- ance be made received a most uncere- monious turn down at the hands of the commissioners, says the Duluth News Tribune. ; The mine officials whose properties were concerned in the matter are also smarting under the sting of the cold rebuke administered to their desires by the commissioners. It was a case of the judgment of the whole north country against the three tax judges. The abatement asked for or the assessments aggregated about $45,- 000,000. The applications were sub- mitted to the tax commissioners only after they had been approved by the county commissioners in the counties in which the properties are located. The applications were based on grounds that practically attacked the Continued On Page Five. 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