Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 15, 1909, Page 5

Brand Rapids Werala-'Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second- Class Matter. THE HERALD-REVIEWISTHE Official Paper of Irasca County. RRAND Ssriee, Official Paper of Village of Homan. al Paper of U.S. District Court in Bankruptey Proceedings. Offic NORTHWEST MAY SELL TO INDIANS C. B. Miller Assured Attempt Will Be Made to Change Methods of Buying Supplies. Ballinger of the interior | and Indian Commissioner | iven Congressman of Duluth assurance that they w i every effort in their power » laws regarding the pur- supplies altered so t. Paul and Minneapolis an opportunity | large contracts have alers will have of the in the past been going 1s ly to the large concerns of id New York. oO of the most important reforms Commissioner Valentine an- will cooperate with Rep- the purchase of sup- the nearest local markets The inaugura- a plan would work great- of jobbers in Du- Twin Cities. tion thus far has dis- fact that nedless expense through shipping in Chicago, New :0, where whole »rdvisi for possible. advantage en incurred rehouse: San Fran inspectors have been em- at salaries of $10 per day. It ow proposed to abolish the ware- system entirely and ship from the wholesale houses direct to’ the cretary Pallinger has some , Mr. Miller will prepare a é the reccommenda- secretary and of Com- regards a field of competition for Indiar change of out Valentine as contracts and a distribution Purchased Barber Shop. consummated Thursday Dodson of Nashwauk, the barbershop conducted in its pres- the five years « O'Day Mr who is favorably known by Grand will not move here but will still continue and has plac- the| on of I s beer 1 for past Dodson, esidents, | present, at Nashwauk, kham in charge of is needless to’ say that the | 1 will be promptly attend- | Peckham. Mr. O'Day ontinue to be resident and will devote his his services yd to Mr Rapids chestra work, juently called upon. * Stumpage Sale Was a Succcss state Iver- te auditor, was the most successful held thi About 75 per cent of the list advertised was the iand in some instances sell- ing for more than the appraised price A number of luumbermen were in the village to bid on the various parcels and Mr. Iverson states it was one of the most successful sales conduct- ed by him. On account of the cold weather the sale was held at the Pok hotel instead of on the court house steps, as advertised. The sale of stumpage on conducted by G. S. one of lands son, year. sold, Millinery Parlors Closed. We wish to announce to our pat- rons that we will close our millinery parlors for the season on Saturday, Dekember 18, and after that day those desiring anything in the line of millinery can have their wants at- tended by calling ‘phone 101. The parlors will be opered again at the ginning of the spring season. EHLE, DORAN & JOYCE. De eae ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee e EYES @& : B 4 $ Dr. Larson, the eye special- % ist, will make his next regular visit to Grand Rapids on usual dates, the 15th and 16th of every month. All those having de- fective eyes, or in need of the proper service for the fitting of glasses, are cordially invited to call at Hotel Pokegama the 15th amd 16th of every month. LARSON & LARSON. Peete NEFECTIVE PAGE TIM’S BROTHER ON STAND. VICTIMS DAUGHTER'S TESTIFY Give Rather Important Testimony Bearing on Mysterious Murder. Mankato.—The jury to try Frank Smith, charged with murdering H. J. Ledbeter, May 4, last, completed as follows: William H. Macbeth, Man- kato, retired merchant and miller; Henry Hodapp, Decorah, farmer; Ed- ward Bender, Lake Crystal, stock buy- er; Thomas Rooney, Ceresco, farmer; John C. Bixby, Garden City, hotel keeper; F. E. Eaton, Garden City, farmer; R. E. Stanley, Shelby, farm- er; Charles Moses, Lake Crystal, farm- | er; Thomas C. Norman, Garden City, | farmer; P. H. Jordan, Mankato, game | and fish warden; Eric Shaw, Butter- | out Valley, foreman. Seventy-two names were drawn in la resident of this county for almost getting the jury, and the prosecution | used its 17 peremptory challenges and the defense seven. Smith and the states attorneys, both are well pleased with the character of the jury select- ed. It was a terriblearraignment that P, A. Ledbeter, telling his story in his direct and retiring manner, made of the defendant, without seeming to know it, and Mrs. Ledbeter, wife of the murdered farmer, was brought | into the case repeatedly in the witness’ testimony. The witness told of coming to Man- | kato une 18 to search for his brother, H. J. Ledbeter, of whose disappearance | May 5 he had been informed. Search- ers from ths city and Medo and lima townships armed with iron spears, augers and shovels, spent two days in going over the farm, seeking where the body was buried, as he had suspi- cions of foul play. Search was reward- ed the second day by finding the body under a potato patch. Witness told of conversations with Smith, who had put him off with dif- ferent stories to account for his broth- er’s disappearance, once telling of see- Ing him alive on the farm two weeks after the disappearance, once saying he had prevented him from shooting himself just as he was about to pull the trigger of a shotgun with a string, and onge saying that he and Mrs. Led- beter had planned to slay Ledbetter | by throwing the ladder out from under | him while he was making repairs to the top of the barn. The reason this did-not succeed was because Ledbetter only went part way up and then came | down, remarking he was too old and <ervous to climb as he used to. Smith had laid at least one of these stories to Mrs. Ledbeter’s ingenuity to shield | him. The second day’s developments in | the trial of Frank Smith, with murdering Holtey J.» Ledbeter, were more favorable to Mrs. Ledbeter and distinctly to Smith’s disadvantage. Mrs. Ledbeter’s two daughters, Hazel | and Mabel, were put on the stand with | her consent and gave straightforward | testimony. They and their two young- |er brothers had gone to bed the even- | |ing of May 4 soon after 9 o'clock, fol- iuwing shortly after Smith, snd heard no noise or disturbance of any kind during the night. Hazel went into her parent's room | there | downstairs and looked the same as usual. off searching for their father. evening before a neighbor’s children everything Smith was had been there playing with them and | their father had watched them play. A small dog had bitten him on the finger and Mabel said she saw her mother tie the finger up. Neither saw their father kick the dog or their mother slap their father. claims the murder was committed be- fore midnight and the girls’ testimony about hearing their father call Smith the next morning is new and import- ant. E. F. Searing, city editor of the Daily Free Press, told of a conversa- tion be had with the defendant at the | jail the night of his arrest, and of what was said later that night by Smith and Mrs. Ledbeter when brought face to face. The testimony | was confined to Smith’s statement of alleged illicit relations with Mrs. Led- beter before the murder, of Mrs. Led- beter’s reply when accused by Smith of trying to buy poison of a Redwood Falls doctor when she said it was | chicroform to take medicine stains from her dress, and of Smith’s hay- ing prefaced the question with, “Now, Mrs. Iedbeter, when you helped me kill Mr. Le@beter didn’t you” do so and so, which he had finally corrected to “bury Ledbeter.” The defense tried to get in the en- tire conversation, but the state ob- jected, and the jury was sent out while this point was fought out. The court finally decided that only such parts of conversations as bore on mat- ters brought out by the state were admissabie. INNOCENT MAN IN PRISON. Son Clears Teare of Old Incendiary Charge. Stillwater. — After having served two years in the state penitentiary on conviction of burning his home to get the insurance, James T. Teare, a log- ger, has been proved innocent. Teare’s son, who is in prison in Colo- rado, has sent an affidavit, duly sign- ed and sworn to, in which the young man swears he set fire to the house and testified fasely against his father as revenge. LEDBETER TRIAL ON SMITH TRIAL OPENS WITH VIC | charged | | The | The defense | Minnesota Events of the Week in Condensed Form. Bemidji—The state farmers’ insti- tute had a very successful meeting at Bemidji. Maple Lake.—The Maple Lake Mes- senger office, with presses and type, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The paper will again print this week with a new outfit. The attraction at the Bijou, Mjnne- apolis, all of Christmas week, start- mg Sunday, December 19th, will be ihe dramatization of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson’s famous novel, “St. @lmo.” St. Paul—tThe first meeting of the fohnson memorial commission will be teld some time next week. e meet- ng will be held for the purpose of leciding upon the nature of the me- norial, where it will be purchased and | when and where erected. Winona—Luther' A. West, one of the oldest pioneers of Winona county, ninety-two years old, died at his home here. He was the first county superin- | tendent of schools here, and was well | known all over the state. He has been jae a century. St. Paul—The records of building | operations for the forty-five business | centers. .of the United States, as com- piled for the month of November by | the American Contractor, shows that | St. Paul is one of the thirteen cities | which show a gain of 50 per cent or more over the same month a year ago. | Omaha, Nebraska. Minnesota won the sweepstakes prize on oats, \the prize for which was to be a solid | silver cup offered by Colorado, thru Professor Olin of that state. Gover- | gor Shaffroth of Colorado came here to make the award and presentation |speech, but when he arrived found lthat there was no cup. East Grand Forks—A committee was appointed at a meeting of the Commercial club to confer with the 3reat Northern and Northern Pacific Express company officials for the es- tablishment of offices here. A first- slass hotel was also discussed. Five | Jelegates will be sent to the Minnesota Federation of Commercial Clubs con- vention this winter. Duluth—Stanley W. Higgins, post sommander of Millis Gorman post of Duluth, died as a result of a paralytic stroke, He was an old resident of Duluth and served in the Civil War in the Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry. Mr. |Aiggins was an assistant state weigh |master. He had been elected com- | mander of his post only last Tuesday. | Mr. Higgins was a drummer boy of his |regiment in the war and served | throughout the conflict. | Thief River Falls. — About fifteen | miles of the western end of the Thief eave Falls-Duluth branch of the Soo |coad is graded and ready for the rails. | This portion lies within the bounda- cies of Red Lake county, all of which s level and thicklysettled. At least twenty miles more of this end of the |coad will be of same nature, and until | the graders reach the hilly gravel and sand region in the pines, no trouble will be met in the task of grading. A double track will be laid from | Plummer, the station just south of this city, where the line reaches the main line of the Soo, to this city, to ‘acilitate the movement of trains which will run from Winnipeg straight through Duluth to Chicago. This line will really be the main line of the coad in the northwest, and will be sonstructed so as to admit of fast time being made. Foley Bros. already nave two large steam shovels at work in the Trough country in Beltrami |sounty, and they will reduce all hills |and fill up swamps, so that the grade | will be one of the best and most level (n the country. Duluth—The board of education is engaged in an investigation of fra- ternities existing contrary to law |among the students of the Central jaigh school. The legislature took the | charters away from all such organiza- tions a year ago, and it is contrary :0 law for such bodies to initiate new | members. Yet it is claimed that there are no less than six fraternities which | are secretly supported by the students. The board is making a vigorous in- vestigation with a view of rooting all |of the fraternities out. | Washington, D. C.—The interstate | commerce commission has dismissed the complaint of the Minneapolis | Threshing Machine company against the Omaha and Northwestern rail- roads. The company complained over the fact that joint rates which had been effective between the Great Northern and the two roads named, whereby Hopkins received the same rates as Minneapolis, had been can- celled at the beginning of the present year. The cancellation of these joint rates was alleged to make unreason- able rates on threshing machinery-} from Hopkins to local points along the two railroads. It was claimed that distributing houses in Minneapolis re- ceived better rates than were given the Hopkins concern. Faithful Dog Watched Body. Duluth, Minn.—The dead body of Axel Hedberg of Floodwood was found in the woods near that village. He was in poor health and wandered away in an aimless manner, and his body might not have been discovered for an indefinite period but for his faithful dog, a Boston terrier. The animal followed Hedberg and re- mained with him during the first five days that the man was missing before the animal left him. Hedberg was a camp cook, and has relatives in st, Paul and Minneapolis. Use FOR LADIES Scissor Sets $1.00 to.... $ fascinatiors, and dress goods. GooD The Pioneer Store HAS A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Ladies, Gents and Children A Few Suggestions: Surso and hand bags, shawls and complete line shoes A COMPLETE LINE OF Groceries, Cut Glass, Plain and Fancy China John Beckfelt ful Gifts FOR GENTLEMEN Gloves and Mittens, Mocha’ or BOYS AND GIRLS Silk Scarfs $1.50to. ..... $ COATS TOQUES Kid, silk or fur lined, $1 to $5.00 : Sopra $5.00 to... GLOVES MITTENS Suspenders, silk and fancy webs, : aiters 50c to...... 50c to $2.50 LE gig Fur and Cloth Coats . - GGINGS MUFFLERS Neckwear --the largest assort- Gloves and Mittens 25e to $ 1.50 HANDKERCHIEFS ment in the city, exclusive de- Handkerchiefs $1.00 to..$ 2.00 TIES SHOES signs, in fancy boxes, 50c to $1.25 Brush-Comb sets 2.50 to$ 6.00 Auto scarfs and mufflers, sweat- Fancy Slippers, $1.00 to$ 2.00 ers, handkerchiefs, silk and linen, FOR LITTLE FOLKS TOY DISHES CHILD'S SETS “KNIFE, FORK AND SPOON” plain and itial, complete | line of fancy vests, smoking jackets, ,noby shirts, umbrellas, traveling bags, suit cases, hats, caps, etc. GOODS AT RIGHT PRICES Grand Rapids boule SPECIAL OFFER On Friday and Saturday DEC. 17 and 18 I will give with each order of $4. worth of other goods 22 Ibs granulated sugar for $1.00 Oranges per doz 30c, 40c....50¢ Bananas per doz 20c and....25¢ Lemons large per doz....... 30c Apples-50 barrels, fancy Ben Davis, Baldwins, Russets, Greenings, Kings, Jona- thons per barrel $4.25 to 6. 00 peck 35c, 40c, 50c and.60¢ . Y. Cataba Grapes basket.25¢ ean Grapes per pound....20¢ Grape fruit 10c, 3 for. ... ...25¢ New Figs and Dates Cranberries, 10c qt. 3 for....25¢ Sweet potatoes, 4c Ib. 7 for..25¢ Fresh LETTUCE TOMATOES CELERY RADISHES CUCUMBERS A Large stock of fresh Can Coods Toilet Soaps Laundry Soaps Washing Powder Milk and Cream Butter and Eggs Nuts and Candies Don’t forget in your order Royal Cup Coffee Teas, Spices Baking Powder Extracts Phone Your Orders No. 59 ENRY ILLING HERALD-REVIEW COMMERCIAL Book and Job Printing EST KIND OF WOR isp orsroo KG Let us figure with you INTENTIONAL DIIPLICATE EXPOSURE a ee a ee ee ee kee ed i M. E. Church Services. HOME BAKERY CONFECTIONERY Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and7 Sunday Schoo! Epworth League . Prayer Meeting...Thursday, 7:00 p. m { Choir Rehearsal.. Thursday, 8:30 p. m |@ Ladies Aid Society meets every Wed- t nesday afternoou A cordial invitation extended to all. :30 p.m je poseurennnesnseses Seeteeteteteee EVERYTHING UP TO DATE | WILL PAY cai $5. co Each For See the Big Horseshoe next NO. ONE door to ie Bowling Alley. ee | NK ane TIMBER WOLVES é Orders Delivered. *Phone 245 S. C- BENZING WM. WEITZEL Grand Rapids, Minn. esdoateetontoatoeteeenteateetontostoeteatostosteetentoety: SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW) = ALL KINDS OF HARD AND SOFT WOOD FOR SALE JOHN O'BRIEN *Phone 114 THIS WILL APPEAR BUT ONCE Tam buying Furs for a firm in London, England. and will pay as high a price as any house in the United States or Canada . $7.50 to $32.00 4.00 to 9.00 Muskrats, fall . . .30 to 40 And other Furs in proportion. It will cost you nothing to call before you sell. If not satisfied with my offer, no harm. WM. WETZEL Lynx Mink . . Grand Rapids Minnesota. r q | at