Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 12, 1910, Page 5

nd HILL CITY WILL INCORPORATE Also Talking of Dividing Aitkin County and Becoming Coun- ty Seat, G. E. Anderson, proprietor of the hotel Quadna at Hill City, was a busi- ness visitor at Grand Rapids Monday and while here stated that Hill City will soon become a duly organized village. He states that the prospects officials, representing the Armour company were in the village Satur- day inspecting the proposed site of the tub and box factory. A movement is on foot to divide Aitkin county, the residents of the northern portion having become con- vinced with the coming of the Soo and the completion of the Hill City railroad, prosperity and new settlers will be in evidence to such an extent | tert companies on the road. that | are now touring their eleventh season) in that section of the county | toire they will prefer to manage their own affairs. The Soo which passes within! 12 miles of Hill City, is talking of | building into that place and if a! division of the county is made Hill City will undoubtedly be chosen as/ the county seat, that being the most} railroad | “THE MUSICAL . ECKHARTS” At Village Hall Wednesday Evening January 19, Under Auspices Fire Department. The people of Grand Rapids will ha an opportunity to enjoy some high class musical entertainment numbers Wednesday evening, January 19, when The Musical Eckharts, the pre- mier Swiss hand:bell' ringers of Amer ca, assisted by Miss Beverly Thorn-} ton, concert vocalist amd entertain- er, will appear at Village hall under | the auspices of the Grand Rapids Volunteer Fire department. This clever company has a reper-| including ocarina, trombone, trumpets and French horns and vocal male quartette work and comedy duos} and is considered one of the best con-| They | and the best proof of their popularity | is tha* return dates are invariably asked for. The firemen will soon| circulate through the village and all | will be given an opportunity tc pur-| chase tickets. Give them a boost. ace ible, on account of facilities. Action has been deferred until after the taking of the census, the law requiring that no new county shall | contain less than 400 square sear nor less than 2,000 inhabitants. is proposed to divide the county on the ‘lines between townships 47 ana} 48, the new county to include the} territory lying north of such line. The north half would comprise 30 town- ships, 20 of which are organized, and includes) the villages of Hill City, Mc- Gregor, Tamarack and Palisade. FIGHT IS BEING | MADEON BRACKEN Doctor Must Choose Between Health Boar: Membership and Secretaryship. H. M. Bracken of the state board of health, chief working officer of that institution, must chose between his board membership and the sec- taryship. He now has both, This ultimatum, jit is reported, has been practically served on Governor Eberhart by other members of the board and relates to three appoint- ments on the board which he is now preparing to make. The terms of Dr. | Henry Hutchinson and Dr. H. M. | Bracken, present secretary, exprie| January 1, but they will hold over! till their successors are named. iHow extensive amd vigorous the; fight on Dr. Bracken has become) was made public by a statement by | one close ko the administration that if Dr. Bracken was reappointed to membership on the board he would Jose the position of secretary. One of the maine sources of fric- tion is said to be the university end of the department. The state labor- atory is maintained there, and Dr. Bracken, from all accounts, is not on the best of terms with some of its heads. They make the charge of despotism against him and have carried their grievances to members of ‘the state board, several of whom, it seems, resent Dr. Bracken’s al-| leged excess of authority. Governor Bberhart admitted that) a fight has been made on Dr. Brac- ken but refused to discuss the out- come. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS STANTON In Writ of Habeas Corpus Pro-| ceedings, Dahlgren is Or- | dered Released. | At the time Charles Dahlgren was | arrested on a charge of illegal vot- ing in the Sand Lake precinct, the} grand jury failed to return an in- dictment and he was rearrested on the same charge. Habeas corpus proceedings were brought and Judge} Stanton granted the writ applied for | The proceedings were brought to! secure Dahlgren’s release. The case | was taken to the supreme court andj that court sustained Judge Stanton’s| ruling. In the case of Charles Stark, L. M. Hooker and John Schulz, they | were charged with’ perjury in giving testimony before the grand jury, it being claimed they gave testimony directly contrary to that given by them in the Riley-Riddell contest. They applied for writs of habeas corpus, which were denied by Judge Stanton. This dicision was also up- held by the supreme court. These cases were both in connection with the P ey-Riddell contest for sheriff. LUMBER ( OUTPUT: | Most of this is covered by insurance. | | STATE FURNISHED ONE-THIRD OF | COUNTRY’S WHITE PINE DURING 1909. }2d here that W. R. McKinnon, the for- | ONE OF’ ‘BIG FIVE FIVE” STATES |: | Wisconsin Is Second, With About 15| from’ here: Per Cent.—Valuation of the Out- put Falls Behind That of Last Year. Washington, D. C. — Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and | Wisconsin, in the order named, consti- | | tute the “big five” in producing the| | country’s lumber supply, whose valua- | | tion for last year runs far above that | old, whose home is on a timber claim | of the billion dollar mark. Texas, Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota | and Pennsylvania rank after the first | five states and others follow in de-| creasing amounts down to Utah, the lowest on the list, with Nevada and North Dakota, having little timbered area, not rated at all. “WhiletHe’total valuation of tlie pro- duction of lumber, lath and shingle production reached $541,545,640, this is @ decrease of 23 per cent under the pre- vious year’s output. The mills re- porting manufactured 33,224,369,000 | board feet of lumber, valued at $510,- 575,822, and 2,986,684,000 lath, valued at $6,791,32: Shingle makers turned out 12,106,483,000 shingles, valued at $24,178,490. Yellow Pine From South, | The average value of lumber at the | point of manufacture was $15.37 a/ thousand , feet, $2.27 a thousand for lath and $2 a thousand for shingles. Yellow pine of the south, which has been far in the lead in the lumber production for more than a decade, more than maintained its supremacy last year, contributing slightly more than 33 per cent of the total cut from all kinds. Douglas fir of the northwest ranked second and white pine third. Oak and hemlock maintained their relative ranks, but showed decreases of 26 per cent each, and spruce drop- ped 18 per cent. Louisiana was the heaviest producer | of yellow pine lumber; Texas, Missis- | | sippi, Arkansas and Alabama followed, The state of Washington supplied more. than. three-fifths of the Douglas fir cut, while the bulk of the remain- der came from Oregon. Minnesota produced about a third ot the white pine, followed by Wisconsin with about 15 per cent and New Hampshire third with 10 per cent. Oak lumber now centers in Ken. tuckv. BIG FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS. Wholesale District Has Fifty Thou- sand Dollar Loss. Minneapolis.—It took the firemen | fully 16 hours to extinguish’ the fire | which started in the five-story brick | building occupied by McKusick-Towle & Co., wholesale confectioners. It has not yet been determined how the fire originated It spread so rap- idly that the building, including a sim- flar structure at right angles to it and facing Third Street, owned by the Stoddard-Dayton company, ef Dayton, Ohio, was a mass of flames before the firemen were able to get down to work. No accurate estimate of the total loss has yet been made, but it is be- lieved that it will not exceed $50,900. | FIRE AT FUNERAL STARTS PANIC Boy Perishes in Flames; Another Per- haps Seriously Burned. Eli—A candle set fire to the funeral hangings in the home of Joseph Pre- fontaine, where the body of his moth- er was laid out. A large number of guests escaped, panic-stricken, and a T-year-old boy, who was asleep up- stairs, was burned to death. George Prefontaine was seriously and _per- haps fatally burned while ying to ave the body. _ | sion. | found in his room at the hotel. | An empty whisky bottle is supposed ‘to establish the theory that he was Father James O’Rielley, for many years pastor of the St. Anthony of | Padua parish, Minneapolis, whom Pope Pius has elevated to the Bishopric of Fargo. ‘Minnesota Briefs | Pal lsat eS. 5 ee easier en appointed a members of the pe! sion board of examining surgeons at Mankato, Minn. St. Paul.—Contributions for the John Albert Johnson memorial fund |are continually being received by B. F. Nelson, treasurer of the commis- Cass Lake.—Word has been receiv- ss | estry man who lost his eye-sight re- cently, and who is now confined to his bed in a hospital in Denver, is dying. Gilbert. —An unknown man was tout dead near Sawyer, five miles He had been struck by His head was badly bruised The body was la train and his arm was cut. frozen when found. Gilbert—John Sullivan, watchman at ihe dry house of the Gilbert mine, near here, was burned with the build- ing. It is not known whether he died trying to save the property or was dozing at the time of the fire. He was sixty years old Cloquet.—Mrs. Gust Olson, 28 years on the Indian reservation, committed suicide by taking poison. She was despondent over an illness, and was too far from town for medical aid to reach her before she died. Minneapolis——The attraction at the Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, the week of January 2nd, will be the orig- inal New York production of “The | House of a Thousand Candles,” the | play founded upon the novel of Mere- dith Nicholson, by George Middleton. | ' Faribault—William Fulton’ was ar- rested charged with robbing the Chi- | cago Great Western depot about six | weeks ago. Besides the money se- cured the robber took Agent Voss’ gun, which is alleged to have been Fergus Falls—The body of Frank | Dobberstine, who started for his home, fifteen miles west of here, in a severe storm nine days ago, was found partly buried in snow about a mile from Foxhome. He lost his way on the prairie and froze to death. He leaves two sons, both employed in Minneapolis. Duluth—John Wilson, a self-con- | fessed burglar, was sentenced by Judge Cant to five years in Stillwater prison, the extreme penalty. He is 54 years of. age and ‘was arrested for burglarizing houses on Third street. it has been learned that Wilson had | previously served three years in the Auburn, N. Y., state prison for at- tempted burglary. Duluth—W. B. Silvey, president of the Interstate Hotel company, has giv- | en an option to E. O. Perry,. of Chi- cago, for the sale of the lease of the Spalding hotel, furniture, supplies, etc. The option is for thirty days. The lease has ten years yet to run.. Mr. Silvey has had control of the Spald- ing for the past ten years, and it is now valuable ‘hotel property. Mr. Nelson states that it is -now certain that the $25,000 desired by the members of the memorial com- mission will be secured. He also said | that Duluth has several hundred dol- lars which will be turned over to) him in a few days. St. Peter is also reported to have considerable money ; on hand for the fund, which, when added to the total, will bring the amount up to the desired figure. Virginia.—The body of George Bieas, a laborer, was found frozen stiff beside’ a railroad track near here. intoxicated, and lay down and froze to death. Another man, supposed to have been his companion, was found wandering in the woods, and so near- ly exhausted and mentally bewildered that he cannot give an account of himself. St. Paul, Dec. 25—Dr. Thomas Jon- nesco will not demonstrate the use of stovaine before the Twin City physi- cians. The doctor, who is in Roches- ter, and who was to perform opera- tions in the staté hospital for the in- sane on Monday next, receved a cable- gram informing him that his father is dying in Roumania. Dr. Jonnesco left Rochester at once for the east. Minneapolis physicians who had planned to go to Rochester Sunday night to see.the Roumanian surgeon demonstrate the use of stovaine wil) abandon their trip. /FLURRY IN STOCK MARKET | ROCK ISLAND HAS METEORIC AD | to 50. Now Ciearance Sale The Pioneer Store in Full Swing ANNUAL OF Ladies’ and 7 —Chikdrens )) Suits, Coats, YY Waists, Furs Inducements are Proving Irresistable You are invited to call and look them over Grand Rapids VANCE. apeececedetetngedobeteeeeeteteted Cemmon’s Upward Leap of 31 Points Is Met By Rush Te Sell. New York, Dec. 28.—A startling mar ket movement that had all the ear. | marks of a “corner” came when the common stock of the Rock Island com: | pany, within five minutes of the open. ing, rose from 505g to 81, when it set. tled back again, after heavy trading, : All this startling pyrotechnic ad- vance of 31 points and equally sur- prising precipitation to the opening sale price caused a shiver of fear on, the Stock Exchange, which spread it- self across the continent on the brok- ers’ wires, that a “corner” had been effected in the stock of the Rock Is land company. A block of 1,800 shares was sold at 81, the top price. Rock Island common closed at 4914 last Fri- day. Fears of a “corner” caused heavy selling throughout the securities list, and there were numerous declines of one to three points. The opening sale of Rock Island was 600 shares at 505g, and then the stock advanced an eighth, a quarter, three-quarters and then by leaps and bounds to a high price of 81. On the advance, blocks of stock from 100 te 7,000 shares changed hands. At the top figure enormous supplies of stock came out and a violent re- lapse ensued. The decline, however, was much stéeadier-than the advance, the recessions running generally by fractions and from 1 to 2 points. Within fifteen minutes the price had fallen back to 50. Traders generally believed that a “corner” had been engineered in the stock, and there was a general rush to unload securities throughout the speculative list. The market became gfickly unsettled through fears of consequences of a bear panic in Rock {sland. Southern Pacific, after open- ing up one point, ran off 4 points be- low Friday. Amalgamated Copper dropped back 3% under Friday's clos- tng, and there was a general unload- ng of securities, causing acute weak- ness. The loss in Pennsylvania reach- ed 2% in the first half hour, Read. 2%, United Steel 1, Union Pacific 1% and American Smelting 2 points. 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