Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 5, 1910, Page 1

| al Vo. XVIL—No, 29. ITASCACOUNTY'S TAX FORYEAR 1909 County Has Immense Resources, Contains 13,830,554 Acres ’ - Taxable Land. university tax, $27,406.41 ‘and principal on state loans, due fron certain school districts, $4,152.59. The tax levied for. county purposes is distributed as follows: Revenue $98,253.64;*road and bridges $44,437.- 49; poor $14,961.33; bonds and inter- est-other than state bonds, $29,922.- distributed to various townships, vil- _|lages and school districts. Itasca county is the forth in tax- able dize in the state, Hennipen be- ing first, Ramsey second and St. [Louis third. Some idea of the r¢- lative value of real and personal pro- perty can be gained from the fact that ‘the total valuation for Rock founty, one of the most thickly set- tled in the southern portion of the state, is only $6,256,750, that of Itas- ca county being nearly four times CROOKSTON MAN TALKS TOO MUG TOTAL VALUATION 1 $23,031,598 While Amount of Levy Is $733, 702.02, Average Rate of 32.3 Mills—Fourth in Taxable Size in State. Some idea of Itasca county’s size and importance can be gained from the fact that it has 113,830,554 acres of taxable land, not in cluding vil- lages oy towns lots, which is valued at $20,611,320. The value of city and village property is placed at $1,144,- 605, making the total valuation of all real estatie and personal property $23,031,598. To meet the various ex-|)r, Kjelland Is Arrested on penses incurred by the state, county, B . Dee: villages, townships and school dis- Charge of mg x tricts, the people of Itasca -county at Goodland. will be required to pay taxes amount- ing in total to $733,702.02. To raise the amount of taxes stat- ed, required an average rate of 32.3 mills,a little higher than the rate fer 1908. Of the rate in the various districts in the county from which this average is derived, the highest is in the village of Deer River, where the rate is 61.6 mills, and the lowest is in the township of Nashwauk, where the rate is 20.1 mills The rate for Grand Rapids is the second high- est being 51.4 mills. The total value of the real and personal pror perty in each township and village HEARING CONTINUED TO JAN. 14 Deer of Norman Fairbanks, Contrary to Law on No- vember 25. Ais the result of telling his friends that ihe purchased a deer, Dr. J. Cc. Kjelland, of Crookston, was arrested at that place Friday morning by interest 78. “The balance of the tax levy is|Henry Hughes Heading Movement Alleg ed in Complaint He Purchased subscribed for in short order. and in follows: Deputy Sheriff Doran and brought SESE E IT, to Grand Rapids, where was given a Arbo ..$ 238,038! hearing before Judge Huson and ne- Alvwood 55,454] leased on a bond of $100, the hear- Ardenhurst 79,888 |ing being continued to January 14, Balsam 240,221| The facts, as set forth in the com- Bass Brook 254,944} plaint, are that Dr. Kjelland pur- Cohasset village 127,609 | chased a deer of Norman Fairbanks, Bass Lake ’.. 65,479 | of Goodland, on November 25, 1909. Bearville 221,815|The doctor was hunting in the vi- Bigfork . 107,167 | cinity of Goodland and was unable to Bigfork village 31,319|make a killing, consequently, he Ck $2,959] made the alleged purchase, It is. re- Carpenter 2.06.0. useage 51,303| ported that on his return to Crook- Deer River 93,215|ston Dr. Kjelland gave the snap Deer River 129,956} away, telling numerous friends of y 91,289 | the manner in which he obtained the 53,068|deer. The story reached the ears 154,317} of the Crookston game warden and Good Hope . 4,973) im turn notified Game Warden Jesse Greenway 587,312 | Harry of the fact. Marble village 4,614,808 Mr.’ Harry immediately imter- Ca'-met village 67,041| viewed Fairbanks, who is alleged to Grand Rapids .. .. 446,172|have made the sale to Kjelland, and Grand Rapids village .... 701,235|when he understood that the evidence LaPrairie .. 8,743| which he gave could not be used Iron Range .. 93,100} against him, readily signed an affi- Bovey village 206,304|davit stating the facts and cir- Holman village .. sa 31,121] cumstances under which the deer was Coleraine village . -8,498,665, sold. A warrant was immediately Taconite village .. ..1,566,644| issued for the Crookston man’s arrest Harris .. 79,388 | and he was ibrought before Judge Hu- sqn, with the result (stated above. Total - - - - - $23,031,598 The{ law clearly } states that no game animal, or any part thereof, | The total amount of taxes levied |Shall be bartered, purchased or sold in each township and village is as|and provides a penalty of not less follows: y | than $50 or more than $100 fine, or Arbo . $10,551 40 | not less than 30 or more than Alvwood 2,004 19|90 days in the county jail for the vio- Ardenihurst 3,343 72|iation thereof. We understand Dr. Balsam 12,784 09 | Kiellana will fight the case. Bass Brook . - 10,468 48 Cohasset village 7,597 96 SERS A Ne ater 36 MISSING YOUNG Bearville .. 9,029 22 LADY IS FOUND Bigfork .. .. see ee 5,085 59 —_— Bigfork village .. .. 1,227 69 4 : ie = ae 7 | Nora Culver, Who Disappeared Last Carpenter 2.478 30| Week, Employed as Domes- Deer River an 5,050 82 tic at Coleraine. Deer River village .. 8,005 30 Feeley .. 4,070 71 Grattam .. .. .. 2,000 41 Considerable excitement was creat- Goodland .. .. 6,808 90 ed last week when it became known Good Hope .. «.. 1,215 61|*bat Nora Culver, the 14 year old Greenway -- .. .. .. 18,522 97 daughter of W. H. Culver, had dis- Marble village .. (126,907 22|@Ppeared. Mir.-and Mrs. Culver re- Calumet village .. 2,642 91 Side on the south side of the river Grand Rapids .. .. mt S, and on Tuesday Miss Nora was sent 14,061 48 on an errand. She failed to return pe ye as > “~— - during the day, but the parents did Iron Range .. -- \. 2,336 s2|not grow alanmed until late in the Bovey village .. - _ 11,952 71| evening, they thinking their daugh- Holman village .. .- 781 1g|ter ad dedided to spend the day Coleraine village .. \. --117,906.01; Wh friends. On Wednesday morn- Taconite village - . 52,325 g9|ing a diligent search was instituted, ‘Harris .. .. «+ <\ .. 2,905 65|but no trace of the girl could be —_____|found. The disappearance of the girl Total -.- =| := \:9788,702.02 | Tomaitied a mystery until Friday when a letter was received by her distracted parents stating she was ployed as a domestic at Coleraine. e gave no explanation concerning her sudden determination to leave home, Of the aggregate amount of taxes to be -raised—$733,702.02—the taxes, are levied in the following amounts and for the following purposes: State revenue, $35,058.64; school and POTATO STORAGE. (6M FOR GRAND RAPIOSIMA Stand Second on List With 21 For Much Needed Assistance | Seizures to His Credit to Farmers. . During Year. — AWN BECKFELT ALSO IN LNE|MIETEEN CASES PROSEGUTED Other Leading Men Will Doubtless| Total of $215 in Fines Collected Take Stock and the Building and 265 Days in Jail Served by Seems Assured for Offenders Who Disregarded Next Season. Game _ Laws. Progressive business men of Grand} In his report for the year ending Rapide realize the necessity of giv-|Decemberl, 1909, te the state Game ing all aid possible to farmers forjand Fish commission, Executive the general good of the town and it Carlos Avery has prepared county and consequently they will les, showing number of prosecu- joim the movement imaugurated by |tigns made, fines collected, seizures Henry Hughes, of Henry Hughes & de and number of days in jail serv- Co., general merchants, for a potato yy. violators of the game and fish storage at the county seat. Mr. v : f 3 Hughes has placed himself on record] Mr. Avery says concerning the ef- with the Grand Rapids Herald-Re-|ficient seryice rendered by the war- view as being willing to take as{dems; “I cannot speak too highly much stock in a company ‘o build a|of the efficient service rendered by potato storage as any other one man.|the wardens as a whole. The degree John Beckfelt the pioneer merchant,|of physical and moral courage, good has ‘done the same. With such a]judgment and discretion demanded start there should be no difficulty|of a game warden is greater than in getting all the necessary stock |in any other branch of public service. A n who performs the varied and e .g duties of this position suc- surplus stocks |cegsfully and at the same time creats fayorable sentiment towards the work of game and fish protection is a valu- able officer and he who will under- completing the building in time to receive the farmers’ og potatoes next Fall. Senator D. M. Gunn was probably the! first man to advocate/ a potato storage here, which he did several] go the hardship and endure the abuse years ago. He was unable to secure | often, heaped upon him in the perfor- the necessary co-operation then. The| m: of his duties for the paltry Senator is non-committal at this tim | sallatfes we @re able to pay, is a but there is little doubt that as the| genuine patriot, and should always formation of the company takes| -In looking over the report we find shape he will be found in line along | have the support of all good citizens. with the other leading men as he has ‘ Game Warden Jesse Harry, of never been known to lag in anything for the betterment. of Itasca count farmers and the good of Grand Rap- ids. The Commercial club may be depended upon to lend its influence / vigorous officers on the pay, of the Game and Fish commission. He has a total of 19 prosecutions to his credit, $215 in fines has been to} the plan. collected from these prosecutions and A potato storage would assure to|offendefs thave served terms, a&- the farmers of the surrounding|gregating 265 days, in the county jail country a ready cash market at rul- ing prices for all the potatoes they can raise and the opening of the Grand Rapids branch of the Great Northern railroad which puts © this town im easy communication with all the cities and towns on the Mesaba Range will aid in giving easy access tq nearby markets. It has been demonstrated that as a potato growing section this county is the equar of any part of the countr Great crops are raised which usual- ly command higher prices than in any other part of the state. Neil Mullins, chairman of the board of county commissioners, for instance raised 3,500 bushels of potatoes this year on 14 acres and other success- ful farmers did equally well. Mr. Mullins has received 40 to 45 cents per bushel for the potatoes he has sold so far, although in other parts of Minnesota the price was as ‘low as 25 cents. So important is this matter of a potato storage that it should be taken up at the next meeting of the Com- mercial club, put into tangible shape and after it has been ascertained what size building will be required, its cost, and the amount of work-|than ever before. Wardens report ing capital required, subscription|that no deer were killed within the books can be opened and there is/limits of the park proper and no hunt little room for doubt that the stock|ing was attempted therein. Several will be snapped up Besides being | prosecu*’ wns were imstituted for hunt- for the public good a potato, storage | ing on the half mile limit outside the will pay fair profits and the stock! boundary of the park proper. Three will be good investment. All other|of them have resulted in conviction similar sections of the country have|and four are still pending. Three potato storages, particularly Wiscon-! deer killed on half ‘mile limit were The total number of game wafdens in the field is 44 and the total num- ber of arrests made during the year was 508, an average of 11 for each man, and it can! readily be seen that Mr. Harry has exceeded the average. * During the year 283 seizures and confiseations were made. These in- cluded nets, deer and moose carcas- ses, hides, furs, guns and boats. In the ‘ist of seizures Mr. Harry stands second on the list with 21 to his credit, while the largest number was made by: Game Warden Hennessy, of St. Paul. In reality, however, Mr. Harry is entitled to head the list, as a majority of the seizures by Mr. Hennessy were made at the depots on advice from country districts. Minnesota has five. game reserves, Lake national forest, the Burntside state forest, the Pillsbury state for- est and the Itasca state| park. This park contains 31,120 acres and an area one-half mile wide surrounding the park is also protected. Mr. Avery’s report says in connec- tion with this park: “The Itasca state park has been more effectual- ly protected during the past season sin. Baraboo, in that state, has a/| seized.” grdat potatio storage ‘which is said | to be a model plant. A company here! X A MI s can readily profit by the potato stor- E afterall ages at other points to erect a FOR WEST INT model building which can be operat- ed to the best advantage. This newspaper pledges itself to help this project by every means in ‘its power. Now is ithe time to get together and build the potato stor- At Duluth February 3 to 5—-Boys From 16 to 18 Years of Age Eligible. oats Congressman Miller has decided to select a candidate for the Annapolis Charged With Illegal Voting. | Naval Academy by a competitive ex- | amination. This examination will be brought before Court Commissioner |held February 3, 4 and 5, 1910, at Pratt Monday on a charge of illegal|the Normal schoo] building, Duluth, voting under the name of Ole Logan- Minn. One principal and three al- son in the Sand Lake precinct during|ternates are'to be named and they the 1908 election. Mr. Logan waiyed|wil be selected according to rank examination and was ‘held to the Ym this examination. : district court, his bond being fixed| The subjects will be punctuation, at $500, which was promptly furnish-, spelling, arithmetic, geography, Eng- Henry Logan was arrested and and Rapids, has been one of the} the Superior game preserve, the Cass | of 16 years and who will not be more than 20 years of age on June 23, 1910! Only those im first class physical condition should compete as the later physical examination at the Academy will be very rigid. It is suggested that boys desiring to compete, should be examined by their local physicians and’ if found defective, much trouble will be saved. The examining board will consist Pres: E. W. Bohannon, Duluth stat Normal school, chairman; Prof. La- fayette Bliss. of the Virgmia schools and Prof. George Buck of the Duluth High school. Any information. respecting this mat- ter cam be secured from a member of this board or from Congressman Miller. ‘ IMPROVEMENTS QURING PAST YEAR Many New and Modern Structures Have Been Erected at Grand Rapids. VALUE ESTIMATED AT $40,000 Planing Mill Erected, Third Street Paved and Com- pletely Lighted With Tungston Lamps. The coming year will see greater activity than ever before in building cireles at Grand Rapids. This is the result of the overcrowded condition im the business section of the village. Suitable locations are at a premium and last summer Lieberman Bros aid $600 a front foot on Third street between Leland and Kindred avenues However, this is one of the best lo- cations in the village. With the com- ing of new business enterprises, it has become imperative that Grand Rapids have more and better busi- ness buildings. There has also been a great cry for office rooms. All the} desirable locations are occupied and it is practically impossible for cel | latest to announce that he will build the coming spring is C. H. Marr. He will erect a modern two-story brick son’s barber shop and Roecker’s tail- or shop. The building will be 75 feet long with a 50 foot frontage on Third street. The ground floor will be devided into two model store rooms and the second floor will be devoted to office rooms, something Grand Rapids has| been sadly lacking. The entire structure will ‘be absol- utely fireproof. Mr. Mazr’s office, which is now attached to the rear of his building at the corner of Kin- dred avenue and Third) street, will be moved to the vacant lots fronting on Kindred avenue. The building spoken of above will be moved to the site tiow, occupied by the office in order to make room for the new structure. {M. McAlpine is yet undecided in regard to rebuilding at the corner of Leland avenue and Third street. He will have a portion of the roof re- paired and will occupy the front of the tructure until spring. It is prob- able, however, that; he will erect a modern business s‘ructure. There is also considerable talk of professional man, wishing to locate} here, to find rooms. | However, Grand Rapids business} men are awakening to the fact that | more buildings are meeded and the} Building at the site on which now | stands the. building occupied by Dod-| Henry Hughes erecting a large and modern store building on the site formerly occupied by the Gladstone hotel, but Mr. Hughes is noncommitt- al on the subject and states he is undecided as tto what he will do. Plans haye already been prepared | tox the three story brick hotel build- ing which will be put up the coming spring by L. R. Root and it is thought Lieberman Bros. will also build on their new site on Third street, al- though Mr. Lieberman states their plans have not fully matured. A larg number are also talking of building modern residences the coming spring. and before the year is closed many changes will take place im Grand | Rapids. | Save money by buying at the half | price sale now on at Henry Hughes (ish grammer, United States history | & Co.’ store- See advertisement. ~ DEFECTIVE THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS MADE Grand Rapids _Herald-Review Again Chosen as_ the Official Newspaper of the County. — Salaries Fixed for 1910." - Much business was transacted by the board of county commissioners at its first meeting of 1910 yesterday two sessions being held, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The law calls for a meeting of the county board on the first Tuesday . after the first Monday in January and for another meeting on the second Monday of July. These are the only meetings that are mandatory. x mee*ng may last for six days, or the commissioners may meet and adjourn the same day, thus stretching the meetings throughout the year to mak twelve days in all. Yesterday’s meet- ing was adjourned to February 5. Special meetings can be called upon written notice of three commissioners filed with the county auditor. First the board proceeded to elect a chairman for 1910, choosing Com- missioner Archie McWilliams, ef Nashwauk, with Commissioner Cyrus M. King, of Deer River, as vice-chair- man. Then came the appointment of various county officials. Dr. Thos. Russell was reappointed chief county physician; Dr. George J. Hanley physician of the Deer River district; - Dr. George C. Gilbert, physician of the Bovey and Coleraine district and Dr. John H. Sheliman physician for ‘the ‘Nashwauk district. ~ wr. Sules Gendron was reappointed physician to the board of health and S. M. Din- widdie was reappointed overseer of the poor. Assessors for the unor- ganized portions of the county were appointed as follows: No. i. Tim™ ‘fahon; No. 2, James Murchie; No. 3, John Lefevre; No. 4, Levi Cox and No. 5, A. J. Morrisette. Charles Huss was reappginted janitor of the court (house and jail. The salary of the chief county phy- sician was fixed at $50 per month end of the other county physicians at $25 per month. The salary of the physician to the board of health was fixed at $50 per month. Compensation of the over- seer of the poor was fixed the same as last year, $40 per month and 50 cents per day for each inmate board- ed at the poor house. Assessors are to be paid $4 per day for the time necessarily employed. They must be- gin their work May 1 and complete it by the first Monday in July. The Janitor’s pay was fixed at $75 per month. The matter of compensation for county elective officers was then taken up. The salary of Mrs. Hattie F. Booth, superintendent of schools, was placed at $1,200 and that of F. F. Price, county attorney, at $2,000. The salary of the county treasurer, Glen Strader, is computed upon the assessed valuation, and upon this basis the commissioners awarded the treasurer $2,500. Clerk hire was fix- ed at $50 per month. Two hundred dollars was appropriated for the county attorney’s contingent fund and $350 for the incidentals usec by the county auditor. The county surveyor was instructed to survey two roads in township 55, range 27. Commissioners Trebilcock and King were chosen to act with Dr. Gendron and constitute the board of health. Thirty dollars per month for January, February, March and April was” al- lowed for the support of Mrs. Andrew Hrickson and family of Grand Rapids. The county auditor was instructed to advertise for bids for an addition to the county jail, which has been des- cribed im these columns. The Grand Rapids Herald-Review was again chosen as the official news paper of the county. Publication of * the financial statement was awarded to The Itasca Iron News, of Bovey, and of the tax list to the Itasea News, of Deer River. Bonds in the sum of $2,000 were required from each of the newspapers for the p per performance of their contracts. A bunch of bills were approved ai the chairman appointed the ling committees of the board for the PAGE t |