Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 13, 1909, Page 2

GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1909. nS HT The A.M. Johnson Stock On Second Street, Grand Rapids, Minnesota TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS’ WORTH of Fall and Winter Clothing and Men’s Furnishings Still Remain to be Disposed of at Actual Cost. The Closing Out Sale of Last Spring demonstrated that I did exactly as my announcements stated. Goods were sold at cost. There were some lines that would not sell at that season, however, and I closed the store until the proper time came. This is the season when Fall and Winter Goods are selling and I have opened the store and offer everything remaining at JUST WHAT IT COST THIS IS NO Prices quoted will prove by taking advantage of FAKE SALE that money is to be saved the greatest opportunity offered in Grand Rapids. 2,000 Dollars’ Worth of goods will not last long at the prices. Get what you want while the opportunity lasts. The stock consists of Men’s Clothing and Furnishings, Shoes and Rubber Goods, Hats and Caps, Gloves and Mittens, Macki- naws, Fur Lined Coats, Heavy Underwear---some special sizes for large men. 525000 MEMORIAL FOR GOV. JOHNSON | COMMISSION SETS THIS SUM [8 | THE MARK TO BE | REACHED. CONTRIBUTIONS LIMITED TO $1 , | Albert Johnson Memorial Commission | acknowledges and tenders thanks to | the newspapers of of Minnesota for | chet valuable aid; TAFT IN SAN FRANCSICO. | Chief Executive Has Busy Afternoon There After Seeing Oakland. San Francisco, Oct. 6.—With justi- fiable pride San Francisco showed President Taft how wonderfully she | has recovered from the awful earth: | quake and conflagration of three and a half years ago. The chief executive | marveled at the sight and warmly praised the pluck and energy of the people of San Francisco. Mr. Taft and his party reached Oak- | land soon after seven o’clock in the | morning, and were welcomed by a re- Monument to be Truly Peoples’ Trib- ° ute to Memory of Dead Gov- ernor—Names of Contrib- utors Are Recorded. St. Paul, Oct. 6—With approximate- ly $8,000 already raised, an effort is to be made to close. The Governor John Albert Johnson Memorial fund | with a total of at least $25,000 by Nov. 1. A resolution to this effect was passed at the meeting of the commis- sion at the Minnesota club. The commission organized by elect- Ing the following: President, C. D. O’Brien, St. Paul; vice president, A. C. Weiss, Duluth; secretary, C. W. Ames, St. Paul; treasurer, B. F. Nel- son, Minneapolis. These, with D. M. Neill, of Red Wing, will comprise the executive board of the commission, which decided that hereafter the or- ganization shall be known as “The Governor John Albert Johnson Memor- fal Commission.” According to the constitution adopted, each member of the commis- sion, in his respective locality, may receive contributions, which, togéffief with the names of the donors, shall immediately be transferred to the treasurer. $1.00 The Limit. As has been generally understood, contributions shall be limited to $1 and no benefit performance receipts will be accepted, although any exist ing organization may contribute as it sees fit. The design, location and character of the memorial were not taken up, but these will be disposed of within the near futuro. A resolution was passed by the eommission urging the people to send in contributions as soon as possible. The resolution follows: ception committee and a big crowd of citizens. The vistors were taken all over Oakland and Berkeley in auto-, mobiles, and then came to San Fran- | worked on many of the twin city pa- | cisco by ferry, arriving at 12:30. A committee of distinguished citizens, an escort of troops from the Presidio and an immense throng of people met Mr. Taft, and escorted him through the gayly decorated streets. was shown the burned district and the rebuilding that has been done there, Luncheon at the Union League club followed. Call Indian Scare Fake. Washington, Oct. 6.—Indian bureau officials decline to treat seriously re- ports of an uprising among the In- dians on the Cheyenne river reserva- tion, South Dakota, and advices just received from the Indian agent in that section deny that any trouble exists among the tribesmen. This is looked upon by the Indian bureau as an annual rumor and is said by them to be started by local stockmen who want to stop settlers from coming into their country, and thus take up their grazing lands. Now Comes An Automatic Shine. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 6.—That the small boy and his shoeshining out- fit have seen their best days will be- come apparent when Minneapolis’ first automatic shoe-shiner begins work. It dusts the shoes off, sprinkles them with blacking, rubs them over three | times from heel to toe and then fin- ishes them up with a buffer, all in two minutes. a nickel and asks no tips. Thirty of the machines are to be! scattered around Minneapolis within a few weeks. RALPH W. WHEELOCK Then he | The machine charges only | should Mr. Mitchell refuse. After a talk with Robert C. Dunn, of Prince- ton, whose political manager Mr. Mit- | chell was in the Dunn-Johnson guber- |natorial campaign, Mr. Mitchell decid- |ed that he would not accept the place. In this decision he followed Mr. Dunn’s advice, and his own private wish not to reenter politics. Mr. Mitchell made Mr. Wheelock’s ap- , pointment a certainty. Wheelock Best Man. ! In announcing the appointment of | Mr. Wheelock, Governor Eberhart ‘said: “I have chosen Mr. Wheelock because I believe him to be the best man for the place. He is not en- has been allied with no political inter- est or interests.” Mr. Wheelock is now engaged in the advertising business in Minneapo- lis, but as a neWSpaper man he has |pers, and before he came to Minne- | apolis conducted a newspaper in South |Dakota. He was private secretary to paeyer David P. Jones, of Minneapo- | lis. St. Paul—Harvey Grimmer has de- clined to be Governor Eberhart’s exe- cutive clerk. In a signed statement, Mr. Grimmer, who, although he is a Republican, has been a staunch supporter of the late Governor Johnson, says that Governor Eberhart asked him to remain as his executive clerk, but because of the light he had been placed in by certain ing been made that his acceptance of favors by the new governor would be construed as a surrender of loyalty to the memory of one to whom he was so close, he thinks it is his duty to retire. TAX LEVY DROPS HALF MILL. State Funding Tax Levy Has Come to an End. county auditors by State Auditor S. tax levy for state purposes for the coming year 2.8 mills. Last year it ‘was 3.33 mills. The decrease is due | partly to the wiping out of the $600,- 000 road and bridge bill, partly to the ; increased valuation of personal prop- ‘erty and partly to the increased reve- ;mues from special taxes. The tax levy of 2.8 mills on a total valuation of $1,100,000,000 will bring approxi- | mately $3,000,000 into the state treas- jury to be divided among the various “The Governor John Albert John-' Appointed by Governor Eberhart as ; funds. son Memorial commission, having been fully organized, requests that all contributions to the memorial fund be at once remitted to B. F. Nelson, treasurer, at 728 Security bank build- ing, Minneapolis.” Another resolution passed by the board was: Thanks The Press. “Whereas, a movement has been inaugurated to erect a statue in his’ honor by popular subscription of amounts not exceeding $1, so that it may stand through the ages to come as a people’s tribute in recognition of the services to the state of John Al- bert Johnson; and “Whereas, the newspapers of the state can and are furthering and sup- porting the movement; therefore, be it “Resolved, that The Governor John Day’s Successor. Minneapolis.—Ralph W. Wheelock, of Minneapolis, has been named as private secretary to Governor Adolph | O. Eberhart. He will succeed Frank A. Day, who will retire Nov. 1. The choice of Mr. Wheelock was made at a conference in the office of A. A. Eberhart, Governor Eberhart’s brother. Present at the conference were Governor Eberhart, Lieutenant Governor E. EB. Smith, and other re- publican leaders. Mr. Wheelock has been prominent in the fight for the private secretary- ship from the start. After a confer- ence in St. Paul last week, the place was offered first to Charles S. Mitchell, , of Duluth, with the understanding that Mr. Wheelock was to have the place ee as The rate in mills for last year and this year for each fund is as fol- | lows: | 1909 1908 Revenue ....... oe 100 1.50 Soldiers’ relief .. 10 =«.10 Fuading tax fund.. - 0.00 .20 State road and bridge fund .05 .05 University campus fund.. 17 15 Prison building fund..... .25 0.00 State school and university 1.23 1.23 Total .... +++ 2.80 3.33 The funding vy, which has .been made for a long term of years, has come.to an end. This fund was used to pay the old railroad bonds issued by the state in 1858. There is still $140,000 of these bonds outstand- ing, but there is enough money in sight for this fung to pay this amount. |~ The decision of | tangled with any political faction, and | members of the press, inference hay- | St. Paul.—Notices were sent tothe ; G. Iverson directing them to make the | Tne prison puliding fund is tne new item added to the list of funds for which a levy is made. CITY TO BUY WATER PLANT. Condemnation Proceedings and a Bond | Issue Authorized. Brainerd.—The Brainerd city coun- | ‘ceil authorized the sale of $57,500 in| waterworks bonds for the purchase of \the plant of the Minnesota Water | | Works Company under condemnation | proceedings now pending. The bonds | will be of the denomination of $1,000 | |each, and will bear 5 per cent inter- ' | est. Al bids must be accompanied by a | certified check on a local bank for 5 | per cent of the amount of the bid and , the bidder must take the bonds within thirty days of the date of sale. The city wishes to take over the plant prior to Jan. 1, 1910, so as to get the rentals for the quarter com- mencing on that date. PROCTOR SCHOOLS CLOSED. | | Forty Cases of Infantile Paralysis in ' the Town. | Duluth.—Infantile paralysis is an epidemic in Proctor, yard and shop headquarters of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern road. More than forty cases have been reported and the schools) are closed. The disease first made its appearance several months ago, and there were two deaths from it, but it is only recently that the malady be- came an epidemic. South Dakota Politics Aired by Letter of Resignation. | Washington, Oct. 6.—In his letter resigning the office of auditor for the interior department, which was sent to | the president the latter part of the | week, Robert S. Person, of Howard, | 8. D., asserts that Senators Gamble | and Crawford ‘have associated them- ! selves in an organized effort to drive from public life every citizen of the state holding a position of public trust, federal or state, who refuses willing obedience to their dictation.’ SHOOTS TO SETTLE BILL. Quarrel Over Board Ends in Murder ous Attack and Suicide. ' Duluth, Minn, Oct. 6—A double tragedy occurred at Tower, Minn. William Coija shot Jacob Leinonen ; and then committeed suicide. Leino nen is not expected to live. The two men quarreled about a bill which Coija owed for board at Lei- nonen’s boarding house. They were on their way to the sawmill where both worked when the dispute began. Ten Balloons Sail. St. Louis, Oct. 6—With atmospheric conditions ideal ten balloons sailed from St. Louis toward the southeast. The passage above the city from the grounds of the aero club was made at a height of 500 feet. Sixty thou- sand persons, many centennial week visitors, were on the aero club grounds. | Two of the balloons, the Peoria and Missouri, had bags of 40,000 cubic feet and were mn a special race. \ ‘The others wefe 38,000 cubic footers and raced for ree A ast nig ar chen A SE , ne was interested in a road contract entered into betwen the county of NOLLED BY COURT OFFICIAL ABSOLVED BY ATTOR- NEY GENERAL, EXCEPT ONE | COUNTY COMMISSIONER. , COULD NOTSECURE CONVICTIONS | Was the Opinion of Attorney General | Simpson—Commissioner Wright | Arraigned on Road Con- tract Case. Bemidji—On the motion of Attor- ney General Simpson, which was con- Surred in by County Attorney Chester McKusick, just before adjournment, Judge Wright nolled the indictments which had been returned by a grand Jury last June against County Auditor John Wilmann and Commissioners | Wes Wright, F. O. Sibley and A. W. | Danaher. | The indictments returned against County Auditor Wilmann were for not reporting certain fees received by him and for failing to follow the lawful directions of the public examiner. County Commissioners Wright, Sibley and Danaher were indicted for allow- ing a bill, which had not been fully itemized. The bill showed that work aad been done by a team, indicating | the number of days’ work; but be- | cause it failed to state the kind of work done the grand jury saw fit to 1 return true bills. | “If I were county attorney,” said | Mr. Simpson, “I would move to annul | these indictments. Now, as attorney | general, I do move that they be an- | aulled. As to the county commission: | ers being indicted for failing to item- | ize the bill, I am free to say that if | these hold good the members of every town board and city or village council of the state would be subject to indict- ments.” Mr. Simpson said that as a matter of public economy, owing to the con- lition of the county, these indictments should be annulled. Furthermore, he velieved it was impossible to secure 2onvictions. Mr. Simpson stated that there was another indictment which had been re- turned at the same time to which he wished to call the attention of the court. If the allegations in that indict- ment were true, he said, they might constitute a crime. Mr. Simpson then called for the ar- caignment of Wes Wright, who ap- peared and asked that the matter be laid over a day. The indictment against Mr. Wright sharges that as county commissioner Beltrami and John W. Olson. The indictments which are annulled and the one on which Mr. Wright was arraigned are the same which were given publicity in the twin cities thru information advanced by M. F. Kain, deputy public examiner, who testified before the grand jury. MINNEAPOLIS MAN 8UES. W. H. McGrath Asks Damages for Alleged Fake Contests. Council Bluffs.—Two more civil suits were filed in the federal court to re- 'Grath, a lumberman, cover $: 980 alleged to have been lost as a result of fake wrestling and prize ae promoted by J. C. Maybray, now indictment for allegel illegal use of the mails. Twelve of these suits have been filed, involving $140,- 000. The first case is that of W. H. Mc- of Minneapolis, who sjies for $10,000. The suits ts di- ' rected against the First National bank, Ernest E. Park, a national Republican jcommitteeman for Ohio, Benjamin Marks, a local capitalist whose name also figures in the Maybray indict- ments, Maybray himself and P. C. Connors, formerly cashier of the First National bank and now connected with the City National bank, of this city. The other suit is brought against Benjamin Marks and Maybray, by P. E. George, of San Antonio, Texas. He charges that he lost his money in New Orleans, where, after losing $7,580 on a fake wrestling match he was in- duced to return home and _ secure $8,000 more which he also lost in a similar manner. LITTLE BOY HANGS HIMSELF. Noose About Neck Causes Strangula- tion When He Falls. Duluth.—While he was playing on the veranda in rear of his home, Fer- ris Buchner, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Buchner, of Proctor, accidentally hanged himself. The child was playing with a noose made of heavy cord. He attached the ! cord to a nail on the post of the ve- randa and tied the noose about ihs neck. He was running about the ve- randa playing horse; when he slipped and fell off the edge. The noose instantly tightened about his neck and he was strangled before he could make an outcry. His mother went out on the veranda a few minutes later and found her boy’s dead body dangling to the rope. CAR INSPECTOR KILLED. Louis Sempson Thrown From a Car In the Crookston Yards. Crookston. — Louis Sempson, aged 34, died at St. Vincent’s hospital aa the resfilt of a fall from the top of a refrigerator car in the local yards, his legs and arms being crushed by the wheels. He was a car inspector and a switch engine bumped into the car, knocking him off. He leaves a wife and four small children. His parents reside at Viroqua, Wis. Pipestone. —The annual farmers’ day and rural school contest was held here, A program was carried out on the street, including a basketball game between the Pipestone high school and government Indian school girls’ team. The exhibits of the students of the rural schools were judged by Superin. tendent L. P. Harrington, of the Crookston Agricultural school, and Mrs. Margaret Baker, of St. Paul. Su- perintendent A. D. Wilson, of the state Farmers’ institute, spoke to the stu dents and others in attendance. Red Wing.—Judge Albert Johnson sentenced William C. Hoffman, whe pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the second degree, to six months at hard labor in the state prison at Stilwater. This was the first sentence which Judge Johnson pronounced since he received his appointment.