Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 10, 1909, Page 1

- erald-Meview. MINNESOTA SOCIETY. Vor, XVIL—No, 21. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnzspay, NovEMBER 10, 1909. Two Dollars a Year. MAKES REPORT ON JAIL BUILDINGS Grand Jury Completed Labors Thursday and Make Their Final Report. APPROVE AUDITOR SPANG'S PLAM Recommend Enlargement of County Jail—Think Present Quarters Are Inadequate—Praise For Superintendent Dinwiddie. The grand jury completed their la- bors Thursday after a busy ten day’s session. A. A, Kremer, formerly treasurer of Itasca county was indict- ed on five counts. In three of the counts he is alleged to have taken Portions of payments of taxes made by the Great Western Mining com- pany. One payment amounted to $16,242.55, of which it is charged Kremer approopriated $2,500 te jhis own use. Another payment amo jfited to$28,045.17 and he is charged with taking $2,000. In another instance an entire payment of $3,583.10 was held out. Kremer is charged with using person- al property taxes collected by the sheriff, it being claimed he did not enter them on his books. He was arraigned, but did not enter a plea and his bond was fixed at $25,000, which was furnished. Arthur Donnelly; W. M. McDonald and James O’Rourke was indicted on a charge of grand larceny in the first degree. These three men were member of the extra gang at Nashwauk and are charged with having broken into box cars and stealing merchandise. Dan Oka, Sposie Grubich and Eli Predervich were indicted for grand larceny in the first degree. They are charged with having broken into the Star clothing store at Marble. Mike Oreskovich, also of Marble was indicited on a charge of stealing clothing from a boarding house at that place. Mary Peterson, of Holman, was in- dicted for assault in the second de- gree on a charge of hitting Ed.Cassen with a beer bottle. F. W. Hill and Geo. W. Johnson were indicted on a charge of offer- img to accept a bribe of $1,289.50. Johnson was also indicted on a second charge of compunding a crime by éx- cepting a bribe of $100, the agree ment being that he was to receive an additional $300, providing he did mot appear at district court when the Bovey saloon cases were being tried. On the/ first count it is said that for the consideration named Hill and Johnson agreed to stop all proceeding against the Bovey saloon keepers. John F. and William H. Newman were imdicted for larceny in the first degree, it being claimed they stole logs and timber from B. P. Munson and sawed them up at their saw- mill on the Prairie river. Arvid Risseanen, John Ojanen and Nels Ojala, three’ Finlanders, were in- dicted for attempting to rob and kill Julius Hill, of Bovey, They attacked him with knives and slashed him up pretty bad, but! he is now able to be around again. They made the following report on the court house, county jail and poor farm: Report on Court House. The Grand Jury inspected court house and considered the contemp- provide room for at least forty more prisioners. We further recommend that there be a hot water plant in- stalled, which would amply provide all hot water necessary at all times. The walls of{ jail are in an unsafe condition and should be repaired. | We further recommend that at least a few cells of new addition be reserv- ed for the retention of less serious offenders and witnesses, and that such cells be equipped and maintain- ed in such a manner that they may be clean, comfortable and wholesome. We recommend that the old jail build ing be thoroughly over-hauled, such repairs made as are necessary with a special reference to sidewalks a- round jail, which are at present, in very bad condition. Report on Poor Farm. The Grand Jury visited the Poor Farm in a body, and wish to report that they found that institution in ex- cellent condition, and feel that great credit is due the present superintend- ent, Mr. Dinwiddie, for his efficient Management and the general whole- some condition in which they found things. It is recomended, however, DONT BEA FOOL ‘SECOND STREETVS WHILE HUNTING Wait Until You are Sare that Your Object is a Deer and Not a Fel- low Hunter—Then Shoot. KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER Don’t Get the Buck Fever and Fire Into the Bushes Before You are Absolutely Certain of Your Target. ‘We wish too say it because it is seasonable, there now being many mem im the woods shooting SECOND AVENUE Battle of Business Is Behind the Bovey Controversy Over the Postoffice Site. OPINION ABOUT EQUALLY DIVIDED Many Favor Second Avenue and Second Street as the Proper Location—Many Business Men’s Views. By George |. Reid. After being in Bovey for a week I @m better posted than I was concern that there be a number of new mat- ht deer and other things. Do not ing the controversy as to whether the tresses purchased, as the old ones fire at shadows, noises, lanterns oF Post office ought to be at or near are practically worn out. We further! | 31. sometimes there is a con-|S€cond avenue and Second street or recommend, that the county take step fusion of sounds and shades. Let in Second street near Third avenue to clear up more acreage that it MaY| 1. substance of these things be-|! do not now believe that nine-tenths be put under cultivation and become a sourse of revenue to the institution GIVEN VERDICT $550 DAMAGES Civil Cases—-Anna Fontak Gets Damages. There are an unusually large numb er of civil cases to dispose of at this term of court and it is anticipated this term will be a-iengthy one. The case of the Sattler Liquor com- pany vs. Annie Fontack came on for trial last Tuesday afternoon and went to the jury Wednesday evening. In this case the plaintiff had repievied certain property belonging to the de- fendant, consisting of a cash register and various household articles and sold same at sheriff’s sale, applying the proceeds to the payment of a note executed and delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff, and secur- ed by a chattel martgage. The defendant contended that the note had been paid in full and they have been released, and further that the greater portion of the goods sc replevied and sold were not subject} to the chattel mortgage, same hav- ing been purchased by the defendant after the giving of the mortgage, and asked that she be given a verdict for the return of the goods or the value? of thea same. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant for the sum of $550.- 00, the testimony on the part of the defendant having been that the goods were worth about that amount. The trial of the case of Lewis and Andrew Melhus, co-parteners as Mel- hus Brothers vs. Frank F. Seaman of Deer River involving an accounting petween the parties of cedar trans- actions covering a period of five or six years, was begun Tuesday morn- ing and is still on trial, the plain- tiffs not having yet rested their side of the case. The plaintiffs are suing for the sum of $4,023.84, with interest on $2,819.81 from August Ist, 1904, on $943.03 from August 1st, 1908, and on $261.00 from August Ist, 1908, and for the costs and disbursments of the action, said ameunts being for material alleged to have been de- livered to and labor performed for the defendant. The defendant alleges that he furnished supplies and advanced mon- lated change of’ same, and beg to re- ey to the plaintiffs during the period come so pronounced that they may be distinguished. Don’t pull the trigger of your gun before you clearly see the thing you shoot at. Don’t go out headlighting deer. It is an extremely dangerous business, On the other two counts| Judge Stanton Busy Disposing of | and it is unlawful. Don’t fire imto the brush that has been set moving by something or someone. It may prove that it is agitated by someone. Don’t fire at an object that looks like a deer. , Just! fire at a deer, and de sure it is the deer. . The deer is not a rare animal as! yet, and ‘any intelligent hunter can of the people desire the removal of the postoffiec to the Star site. Many People signed the pitition for the re- Moval of the postoffice because they do not believe it should be located in Johnson’s store nor in any other store, and are just as favorably in- clined to the Second avenue and Sec- ond street site as they are to the |Star building. In order to be fair I must say that sentiment here as to the proper site for the postoffice is about equally divided between the two locations. Second avenue wants the postoffice and so does Second Btreet . Second avenue is willing to hare the site with Second street and te the postoffice in the vacant distinguish what it is. Just give it building at the northwest corner of a chance to walk so you can see all|the two streets, but Second street of it, and you will readily recognize wants to remove the postoffice to a t. Pooint more than a) block east of Sec- Between a man and a deer there is not the least resemblance. It is no crime not to kill a deer. It is a crime, punishable by im- prisonment, to accidently kill a man while you are deer hunting. Think- img him a deer is excuse to have you hung. A man who will wantonly shoot an- other mistaking him for a deer shoulc be} hung. Remember that you are out after deer, moose, lynx, bear, bob cats, and not your fellow man. A man doesn’t flook a little bit like either of these There are no gorrillas nor apes in th forests of this climate that might give you an excuse, if you shoot a man, that you supposed were either of them. A moose is distinguishable from a horse and deer from a Jersey heif- er, and fasten the item of knowledge in your mind that there are many settlers up in these woods who are endeavoring to live, and some of them have horses and cows that roam the woods—and neither does a big black hog exactly resemble a bear— wait until you hear him grunt before you shoot. So be careful in the pulling of your trigger that you are not sighting at a human being. You had bette eat salt pork than fill your system with sorrow because of fool-killing some- one mistaking him for a venison. Suicide at Northome. To be married and left a widow in| only three days is the sad story that has just come to light at Northome by the finding of the lifeless body of Nels Olson im the woods about seven miles west of here by a searching party that had been scouring the port that the plans, as submitted by|covered| by the transactions, that a| woods for him since October the 28th Auditor Spang, be approved in their}portion of the material sued for byY| A putiet hole through bis head apd a entirety. commend that suitable office room be provided for sheriff and deputies on west, before transferring him to the building. Report on County Jail. ty jail, and found that institution in as clean and neat a condition as was possible, under the present circum- stances, and every credit is'due the sheriff and his deputies for the good work they are doing. jail with forty prisoners, when cell capacity allows room for but twenty- They would, however, re-|the plaintiffs was never received by 88 caliber revolver still clutched in him, and that he has not only paid/tne dead man’s right hand plainly Ito thie plaintiffs all that is due them|toia the trazedy that had been en- by an addition to county jail building| but that they are indebted to him acted in the lonely to witch be in the sum of $1,662.75 for amount he asks judgment. Eger had wondered. ©! thene to Mis Ssse Parker, who is a Olson was married case will probably occupy the . sister of Mrs. Troy, and at the time The Grand Jury inspected the coun-|tention of the court and Jury until) of hic disappearance the newly mar this (Wednesday) evening. Missionary Society to Meet. The missionary society of the Pres-| were to make their home. We found the! pyterian church will meet im the|!8 unable to advance any cause for church parlors of the church on Wed- Tied couple were making preparations to leave for Wright county, this state where Oleon is said to be theowner| of a valuable farm and where they Mrs Olson her husband’s rash act and is nearly heartbroken over the occurence. O1- four. We recommend that immediate nesday, Nov. 17th at 3 o'clock. All| sgn was about 30 years of age, aD- steps be taken to build a large ad- ladies are cordially invited to attend| parently in best of health and was dition to present institution that will and bring their sewing. well liked by all who knew him. ] ond avenue. Postmaster Lammon’s friends point out that his position is a delicate one and that it would not be proper for him to side either way and I agree with them. They also point out that more maj] is received for south and west of the postoffice than for the east, and it would not be proper for The Itasca News to advocate the re- moval of the postoffice to a point farther east; that anyhow, public sentiment is divided and that the newspaper could not please all of its readers no matter which side it mighi | take in the controversy, and that any expression of the paper might be taker as the postmaster’s opinion and thus placed him in a false position. They | are prdbably right as Editor Lammon {has never been found wanting in any movement for the good of Bovey. Since last week’s article appeared in the Grand Rapids Herald-Review, I have| heard so many protests that I am convinced that as many citizens want the postoffice just about where it is as wants it taken to the Star building, and I am frank to make acknowledgement of the fact, as I did not come to Bovey to fight the bat- tle of Second street against Second avenue and as my article of last week seems to have have placed the paper and me in that light, I have taken considerable time and trouble 'to ascertain the facts about this post- office matter and am! \setting them about right this time. In one thing, howwever, Second street and Second avenue agree, and that is that the postoffice ought not to be located in anybody’s store. Even Erik John- son ag.rees with them. As he said last week , he needs the room oc- cupied by the postoffice for his rapid- ly growing business and had he want- ed to keep the postoffice where it is he could have secured a ten year’s lease. Editor Lammon, by the way is entitled to much praise for the energ) and public spirit his paper is showing in raising $1,000 for the new steel slide for the National Ski Tourna- ment to be held in Coleraine in Feb- ruary the paper itself subscribing $25. Pe With his partner, Mr. Heath, he is printing a good newspaper, which is deserving of the hearty sup- port it is getting in Bovey and in Coleraine. Second street had the start. Second avenue has been getting ‘rather the best of it lately. That about sums up the postoffice controversy. stage owner, says: “The postoffice is all right where it is. So is the postmaster. The office is where it belongs, in the center oof the town where it will bést' serve a majority of the people. Some men want to use the postoffice to bolster up the upper end of Second street. I do not blame them, but the postoffice should remain in the center of the town,” Samuel Ross, the leading furniture dealer, said: “Second avenue and Second street, not necessarily in Johnson’s store, is the center of the mail distribution in Bovey. The Star building is technically in the center of the townsite, but that is about all that is to be said im its favor, except that the building is better adopted to kt postoffice than where it is now. I do not believe the postoffice will re move the postoffice to satisfy a part of the business men simply because they are willing to subscribe $1,000 for new fixtures. I wish everybody here could have the postoffice next door. but that) is impossible.” Charles Lieberman, manager of the Bovey store on Second street, ofLie- bermanBros. the largest clothiers in Itasca county, said ‘The postoffice as it is probably not in just the right place, but the office ought to be at_or near Second avenue and Second street, midway between the railroad (Continued on page five) NO INDICTMENT BY GRAND JURY Against Prof. Ferdinand Schumach- er—Was Charged With Setting Forest Fire. TRAINS RUNNING ON NEW LINE SOON Preparing Schedule For Nashwauk Line—Will Establish Passenger Service at Once. WILL HAVE SPLENDID ROAD BED Gen. Supt. Philburn and Party Go Over Track—Rumored Trains Will Run From Grand Rapids to Virginia. The work on the Nashwauk exten- sion is practically completed and the work of balasting the new road will, it is expected, be finished Saturday. The work of building the new ex- tension was commenced early in the spring and, although only twenty- four miles in length, it has been a stupendous piece of engineering work the typography of the country being such that it has been one continual fight with nature. Sinkholes were encountered, which at first seemed to have no bottom, but they were finally filled and today the Nash- wauk extension is one of the finest stretches of track to be found in the northern country. D. M. Philburn, general superin- Prof. Ferdinand Schumacher, of the Manual training department of the Grand Rapids High school was ex- onerated of the charge of setting a forest fire by the grand jury, no in- dictment was returned. Mr. Schumacher owns 110 acres of forest and meadow land south of the north arm of Bass Lake township and on July 5 walked to where the land is located, he having only seen it on two former occasions. Upon coming to the boundaries of his land he dis- covered some of the timber to be on fire. The fire only covered a space of about five rods square and he quickly put it out. He then walked to the northeast boundary wishing to make a thorough inspection of his purchase and upon returning he dis- covered the woods were again on fire. As he has some valuable timber he worked hard to put out the fire, but it had gained too much headway and he was unable to do so. The fire soon swept across his meadow land and he turned his attention to keep- ing the fire within bonds. After the fire had destroyed about twenty-five acres of valuable timber for Mr. Schumacher he managed to prevent further spread and turned his atten- tion to keep the flames from encroaching upon the land of his neighbor on the west, Claud Merritt. The timber,however, consisted mostly of slashings and he was unable to do anything, the fire distroying an area of about a square mile before burning itself out. Complaint was afterwards made that Mr. Schumacher had set the fire, certain parties alleging they had seen him set it, their point of obser- vation being an island one-quarter mile distant from his land. The grand jury easily satisfied themselves that Mr. Schumacher was innocent of all blame and returned no. indictment, It is now thought the fire was set by careless campers. ‘Too Good to Lose. The story ts told on a rather fresh young traveling man who put up at one of the hotels in this territory, recently. Glancing over the menu card and looking up at the pretty waitress he smilingly remarked “Nice day, little one.” “Yes it is,” she answered, “and so was yesterday and my name is May and I know I’m a little peach and I’ve been here quite a while, and I like the place, and I don’t think I’m too nice a girl to be working in a hotel; if I did I'd quit my job and my wages are satis- factory, amd I don’t know if there is a show or a dance im town tonight and if there is I shall not go with you, and I’m respectable and my bro- ther is a cook in this hotel and weighs Second street and Second avenue! 200 pounds and last week he wiped are battling for business supremacy.| out the dining room with a fresh fifty-dollarr-a-month traveling mai who tried to make a date with me. Now what'll you have?” He took a walk before her big broth- John Hurley, the liveryman eed ee arrived. *_ = =P oP aeweee eae -_es « ae tendent of the lakes district, accomp- anied by a party of friends and engineers, came in over the new line from Nashwauk Sunday and were guests at the Pokegama for dinner. The party consisted of the following: Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Philburn; Mrs. Gitz; R. M. Knox, general superin- tendent of construction work; E. F. Bailey and C. O. Bradshaw, train dispatchers at Kelly Lake; George Birmingham, Chas. Schumacher, Frank O’Conner, W. Weisenger, A. J. Green and Chas. Smith. The train consisted of two passenger coaches and was in charge of Conductor Kep- pel and Engineer Nelson. The trip was in the nature of an inspection tour and Mr. Philburn expressed him- self as highly pleased with the results attained. It has been rumored in _ railroad circles the Great Northern intends establishing passenger service be- tween Grand Rapids and Virginia, but when asked concerning the matter Mr. Philburn stated the matter had been left entirely with the passenger department, and that they are now working on a schedule, which would be made public as soon as completed. He, however, stated that a passenger service would probably be establish- ed during the coming week. The junction, two miles east of Grand Rapids, will be named Gunn, in honor of the state senator from this district, Hon. D. M. Gunn. Swit- ching tracks are being laid and as soon as ore shipments) are made over the: new line, the junction will be a busy place. The road bed is in perfect condition and a train last Saturday went from Nashwauk to Gunn in forty five min- utes, Where the Grand Rapids-- Bovey road crosses the extension, an overhead bridge has been put in and the approach to the bridge has been graded up. This was a particulari- ly bad crossing, as coming from either direction it was impossible to see the track from one direction. Tub Factory for Hill City. The great Armour Packing compan; is to locate one of their extensive plant in Aiken county at Hill City The plant will be a wood working branch where the pails and tubs for lard export will be made from pop- ple, basswood and white birch timber from the northern part of Aitkin county. W. W. Rabey, who is one of the representatives of the firm has been there and selected the site and they have sold the concern some It will not be their plan to in any quantity, however, as in thef market for timber such settlers are able to supply them with. The plant will take the place of their big factory at Ithica, Mich., where they have a pay rol! of $2,500 a week. HISTORICAL} | } |