Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 25, 1911, Page 6

———e PAGE SIX ‘ : CRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW weDNESDAY, TU ENUARY. 26, 1911. OLO SETTLERS ANNUAL DANGE Sixth Annual Ball Is Slated to Take Place At Village Hall Monday Evening, February 13 ALL MEMBERS EXPECTED 10 ATTEND Old Settlers’ Society Is Composed of People Who Lived in the Coun- ty Prior to 1895 and Dance Is Annual Affair. Preparations are being made for the old settlers’ sixth annual banquet and ball which will take place at Vil- fa, lage ll Monday evening, February 3 The Old Setilers’ society was formed sik years ago and is compr s- esidents who lived im Itasca 3 or to 1895. The society has about 80 members. Following are the officers of th ation: George Meyers, presi- H. E. Graftam, secretary anc dent: George F. Kremer, treasurer, A meet- ing was held recently and the folow- committees were appointed and rugted to do all im their power ke the affair a success in every w Committee on invitations: H. D. Powers and M. A, Spang; arrange- ments George Meyers, H. E, Graffam and rge F, Kremer; reception commil , M. McAlpine, Roy Wheai- on and T. R. Pravitz; floor committee, T. H. Shoaff, J. F. Metzger and H. ©. Neveux. The invitations are now being printed and wil] be issued in. atew davs. Any resident of the county who lived here prior to 1895 eligible to membership in the in ins 1 Ge annual bamquet and dance, is one of tthe principal social n of the season, is held for th ose of getting the old timers to- and those who receive in- are to be envied, judging from reports of past affairs ‘~~ *t is one round of gayety and pleasure from start to finish. DOMINICK DUMAS IN BANKRUPICY Total Liabilities Scheduled at $75,- 632,10; Assets Given at $49,902.- 75—$2.75 Cash on Hand. Domin‘ck Dumas, the well known iberman, and an extensive deaier imber lands, last Monday filled a yolunt petition in bankruptcy be- fore United States Commissioner Thomas H Pressnell, in Duluth. His total liabilities, as scheduled, were 32.10, while his asgcts were visted at. but $49,902.75, of which ut $4,500 was clajimed exempt. s list presents some unusual fig- ureis, as he places the value of his real esiate at $15,000; bills, notes and other sé , due him at $12,300, and the amounts due om open = ac- amount of money he has in the bank iw bul Hk claln liabilities he lists as: $1.050; unsecured claims, $5,- 4 ; notes and bills, which should have been paid by others, $1,600; ac- commodation, paper, $67,564.27. Mr. Dumas resides at Dumas in this county. He was adjudicated a bankrupt, and the case was re ed to Referee W. O. Pealer, who fe will call a meeting of the creditors and settle up the affaiins. An offi- cial of the first meeting of ered tors is published im this issue of the Herald-Review. Warner Pushing School Tax Bill Of jmtense interest to Northern Minnesota is the proposal of Repre- sentative Charles H. Warner of Ait- km by which he hopes to get state ad the maijjatenance of schools in sections where there are large areas tate land. Under the plan whi Mr. Warner has worked out with torney General Simrson it looks as it might be possible to avoid the snag of taxation of state lands, over which the movement for helping ith read buifding tripped. It is proposeds that the state pay nto the 1 fund an amount ini the f 5 cents per acre for each unsold public lands, the pre- fund to be d'stributed » school dijstricts that are s from the inability to tax property. Such details of % as ral of apportion- ble limitation of the I r of acres to be considered in eetting af the rat‘a for the establiish- Lent. olf tthe fund, are yet to be worked out, but the principal of ap- sa subst tute.for.that d’- ‘on: is said to sat'sfy the de- the state laws and Consti- ve Some such plan is greatly need- “d In the acti taken at the Northern Minnesota Development association meeting at Brainerd and again in the message of Governor Eberhart to the legislature the duty of the state towa'd ‘hose settlers who are working the land whose devel opment will add directly to ithe value of the state’s holdings was clearly po’nted out. If the state does not help these men to secure proper| edu- cat‘oral advantages for their chil- dren, it will have no reason to blame ‘he settlers if they refuse to bury themselves im the wilderness when their duties to their families demand that their children be given advan- tages equal to those enjoyed by other «tzens. If the plan for apportion- ment based on unsold public land wil! solve the problem raised by the provis‘ous of the state Constitution, that plan should be given the support of every member of the legislature. —Duluth ‘Herald, Secured | FIRST NATIONAL HOLVUS MEETING Annual Meeting of Officers and Directors of the First Nation- al Bank Is Held. On Thursday afternoon of last week ithe officers and directors of tao First National bank of Grand Rapids held their annual meeting and transacted such bus.ness as the nat- ional banking laws require. Thé& di- rectors made a thorough examinat.on 7 whe condition of the ‘inst.tution and found everything satisfactory in ‘the aeveral accounts, cash, etc. Divi- dends were declared, and. thils feature of the work was also very satiisfac- tory to the stockholders,as the First National bank has always done a thriving business. They found the past year had been a prosperous one. waich is only a continuation of its long established record. The following officers were re-elect ed: President, F. P. Sheldon; vice- president, A. G. Wedge; cashier, C. bk. Aiken; assistant cashier, J. G. Peterson. The ‘.-ectors named were the fol- lowing: F. P. Sheldon, A. G. Wedge, BE. Aiken; assistant cashier, J. G. bert, John Beckfelt, H. D. Powers. PRACTICAL SIDE OF COOPERATION Grand Rapids a Heavy Shipper to Duluth Producers Cooperative Association This Season. From the Duluth News Tribune. The Producers Cooperative Mar- ket association of Duluth has been the means of finding a market for thousands of dollars worth of ag- nicultural products of Northern Min- nesota that otherwise would have been icult to market, Sixteen. cars of produce have been shipped from Grand Rapids alone in the lasc three or four months. it is believed that the association has a large future, and that the farmers of northern Minnesota will in the coming year find it a greater and more satisfactory system of mar- ketiing than any other. H. A. Hop- kins, manager of the association, says that produce iis coming in more freely at present than heretofcre. The local producers cooperative & )scriattiion, at Grand Rapids plans the construction of a large potato warehouse. Manager Hopkins, the head of the association in Duluth, has notified the Grand Rapids branch that iif the farmers will pledge themselves to market. a certain per- centage of their products in Duluth thlat he can secure a loan of $5,000 to $10,000 to put the Gramd Rapids branch on a cash bapis. Ik iis con- ceded that farmers dealing through the association are surer of proitec-\ tion and as a rule receive a better prices for their preducts. NO APPEAL FROM DECISION ON LID Members of Minnesota Congres- sional Delegation Believe Wil- lard Ruling Wiil Stand. Members of the Minnesota delega- tion have expressed the opinion ibat |there will be mo appeal from the de |cision of Judge Willard in the Be | tuidji liquor case, and that the en Ure ligucr situation will be cleared up <n ithe near future by the abro- | which will leave the administration of | liquorf laws entirely up to the state. This @pinion is based on the be- lief that the department of the im- |texlor amd the president prefer to |have Judge Willard’s decision stand as the law in the case. | “I am satisfied there will be no ap- jpeal,” said one of the delegation. |“I have every reason to believe that | the administration wants to have the {question settled in conformance with |the decision in the Bemidji case, and that the officials here incline tq the | optmien that the regulation of the Liquor traffic should be left entirely |gation of the treaties of '63 and ’67 | | | with the several states, whatever the previsiions of Indian treaties may | have been. For this reason I pre- det that, the president will speed- y annul the treaties of 63 and ‘67. | “In the event there is something in the Willard decision that would cause complications in other cases \if permitted to stand) without an ap- | peal, then an appeal might be taken. | But I have studied the decision care- | fully, and I don’t think there is any- \thing of that sort in it.” | §. E. Nicholson, legislative repre- saw . President Taft on the li- quor question. Mr. Nicholson holds that there is a decision of the su- preme court that is practically im di- rect contravention of Judge Willard’s die the presi- j den making that |the basis of an argument that the | government should carry the Bemidji | case up to supreme court. | é Wolves Pientiful. According to the number of pelts that have been brought to the county duditor’s office to be punched and on which to receive bounty, wolves are more plentiful in Itasca county this winter than they have been for some time. During the past two weeks over twenty pelts have been brought in, principally from the vicin- ity of Ballclub lake. Louis Degon- ais of Bail ‘Club, brought in a num- ber of pelts Friday, while eight were brought in by Mike Brown a few daye previous. While in conversation, with a Herald-Review representative Mr. Degonais stated they were unusual- ly plentiful in that vicinity and, although many were trapped, a ma- jerity are killed with strychn‘ne. The bounty on full grown wolves, both male amd fema! Fe that on cubs is $5. entative of the Anti-Saloon league, | CURIOSITY sTORE IN NEW QUARTERS A. H. Wick Moves Into Lar- ger Room and Better ion. A. H. Wick, proprietor of the Curiosity store, has moved his stock of goods into the Marr building at the corner of Third strecé and) Kin- dred avenue. He has been busy for several days arranging the thous- ands of articles that comprise his stock, and the end is not yet. It will be some days before Mr. Wick will be alble to serve his Krade satis: | actorily, ibut that need not keep anybody away should anything in h's line be desired. From a very small begiinning a few years ago the Curio- sity store has steadily grown until today a large and complete stock is cared. In the 5 and 10 kent line jthe Curiosity siore is a close com- petitor with the city estab] samentp. Locksley Court Installs. Installation of officers of Locksley Court No. 109, Independent Order of Foresters, was held at Masonic hall las: evening. The meeting was hon- ored by tae presence of High Secre- tary Harry Milnes and Mrs. Milnes of Duluth, who took charge cf the ceremonies and inducted the new of- ‘cials imo office. At the conclusion the work of instalation, a dainty lunch was served by the ladies of the order. Fellowing are the offic- ers who will direct the affairs of Locksley court during the ensuing year: Martha Longhurst, P. C. R.; Isabelle Tully, C. R.; Nina Vipond, V. C. R.; Katherine Lent, chaplain; Annie Gunn, treasurer; Margaret Finnegan, secretary; Alice Miller, C, R.; Eleanor Fearson, I. W.; Hattie Kearney, O- W. Death of Mrs. Esther Johnson Mrs. Esther Johnson, 25 years of age, wife cf Fred Johnson, d’ed_ at at her late home at Bovey on Wed- nesday of fast week. Interment was made in, Itasca cemetery on Friday. last. The deceased was a daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Carlson of Trout lake She leaves three smail children, the youngest being but six months old, besides her husband. The cause of death was tuberculos's. Mrs. Johnson was a member of the order of Royal Neighbors, under whose d'rection the funeral took place. Grand Rapids Five Victorious The Grand Rapids high school basket ball team, endeavoring to re- gain. their old reputation for being invincible, went to Hibbing Friday and defeated the high school team ait’ thait/ place by @ score of 26 to 14. The game was a good) cne, but a } tle rough at times. The line-up fol- iows: Wm. Powers and Ralph Bran- don, forwards; Carl Hepfel, center; Thos. Erskine and Will Whaling, guards; Edward Erskine and Webster Tyndall, subs. They will play the Keewatin team here Friday evening, February 3, in the high school gym- nasium, ‘SENATE TO CUT MANY SIDES TO PENSION BILL Committee Favors Adding nly $12,000,000 to Rolls. HOUSE MUCH MORE LIBERAL. Congressman Butler of Pennsylvania Says There Is Absolutely No Danger of War, but He Will Vote For Two Battleships—Beveridge Busy as His Term Ends. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. ‘Washington, Jan. 27.— [Special.J— Those old soldiers whose hepes were raised by the passage of the Sulloway pension bill in the house may be dis- appointed when the senate gets through with the measure. The senate committee is inclined to materially change the bill and reduce it. Instead of providing for pensions which will increase the appropriation by $45,000,000 the senate committee is considering a bill of about $10,000,000 or $12,000,000, which is said to be more in line with the measure recommend- ed by the Grand Army. If such a bill is passed by the sen- ate there will be a strong fight made in the house for the Sulloway bill, for the house members believe that the only fault in that measure was that | it did not go far enough. They really wanted a dollar a day pension bill for old soldiers. Hale Sees Awful Abyss. Several times during every session of congress, and especially near the end of each session, Senator Hale utters weekly and often daily warnings about | the awful abyss which the senate is approaching. More especially is he concerned over the probability of an extra session of congress and uses the words “deplorable,” “disastrous,” “fearful” and such like to picture the calamity that would follow a called session of congress to attend to na- tional business fer which there is no time in the present session. These warnings by the Maine sena- tor year after year are amusing to those who have heard them, although | every senator feels it his bounden duty to lock solemn and duly impressed with all that is said. 2 Just who will take Senator Hale’s place as the signpost of disaster can- not now be predicted. For a score of years no one has attempted to even become an understudy. and perhaps the senate wil! allow the place to dis- appear with the retirement of the Maine senator. Kutter Food Chopper. nuts. Help for Housekeepers There is nothing that will help more in the planning and preparation of meals than a Keen Hundreds of delicious surprises can be made from raw and cooked meats, vegetables, fruits and The hard work of half an hour by the old method is done easily and better in a minute. KEEN KUTTER Food Chopper saves its slight cost in a few days by enabling you to util- ize bits of left over meats or fish. Simple, strong, durable —nothing to get out of order. Cleaned by passing a bit of dry bread or cracker through it and rinsing with hot water. trademark guarantees its quality and assures you satisfaction or money back. Prices from $1.25 to $2.50 The The Keen Ketter name and your Putting Down the War Scare. Peace is the prospect for many years, according to the view of nearly every man in congress whe has ex pressed an opinion on The debates have shown that the ef- forts to alarm the country have not affected members of congress who handle the appropriations. During one of the discussions Con- gressman Butler of Pennsylvania re- marked, “There is no more danger of war than snow in August—not a par- ticle.” Butler is one of the Quakers in the house and naturally might be a‘peace man, but he will be found supporting the plan for two battle- ships when the naval bill is consid- ered. Busy Days For Beveridge. With only six weeks of senatorial life ahead of him, Senator Beveridge has much to do. He made a minority report against Lorimer and is anxious for a vote on that case. He was the author of the original tariff commis- sion bill and is particularly anxious that it should become a law the subject. : W. J. & H. 0. POWERS He has been struggling for months for the passage of his bill known as the anti-coupon bill, relating to pack- ages of tobacco, but that measure has been sleeping in the finance commit- tee. He is one of the most earnest champions of the resolution for the election of senators by direct vote of the people. The Indiana senator has urged the senate to have early action upon each of .these important measures, but everybody knows that a determined minority will be able to defeat all of them if filibustering tactics are em- ployed. Opportunity For Du Pont. In the general scheme of things in the senate and even in looking forward to all possible contingencies it was never intended by those who direct the destinies of that mighty body that Senator du Pont of Delaware would become chairman of the committee on military affairs. But nothing is quite so uncertain as valities THE QUESTION Lively Fight Promised on Sub- ject of Reapportionment. COUNTY OPTION MEASURE IN Bill is’ of Considerable Length, but | is Simple Enough in Its | | Provisions. | | | St. Paul, Jan. 23—While as yet nothing has been done towards fram- ing a reapportionment bill and all al- leged’ plans are based on mere con- jecture, reapportionment continues to be a live topic of corridor discussion | at the state capitol. The joint reap portionment committee has held its | first meeting and as a basis on which to work agreed substantially that the senate shall be composed of not more than sixty-three members and the house of not more than 126. + + As a result of this tentative agree | ment resolutions were simultaneously introduced in both houses declaring it to be the opinion of the members that the limitation of membership should be as above stated. This for the pur- pose merely of testing the sentiment of the iegisiature. Neither branch, how- ever, was quite ready to go even so far as this, and the reluctance to make a declaration of any kind is taken to indicate the disposition of the opposi- tion iv reapportionment to play for de | | lay at every turn. t+ + One thing which, at all events on the surface, appears, more than any other, to give the country members reason for delay, is the greatly in- creased representation which any bill based solely on population, as it must ve to comply with the constitution, will give the large cities. They pro- fess to fear that this will make the delegations from these cities practi- cally the rulers of this state. It is said that, by combining, as it is alleged they do, the representatives of these cities already wield an influence detri-| mental to the state at large. If their| representation is greatly increased, it is claimed, the people of the state will be practically at the mercy of the cit- ies and the interests which ordinarily | control the greater part of their rep- resentation. he ; Whether this plea is made in good | faith or whether it is merely a pre tense under which senators anxious to hold th.ir seats or interests which have ulierior objects to gain by their retentign in office hope to stave off re- apportionment is not cl At all events it is plain that there is a pow- erful and determined faction in both house and senate which wil! exhaust every effort to defeat the enactment | of a reapportionment law ai this ses sion. A bill for a constitution end- } | ment introduced by Senator Works of | | Mar: who is openly: opposed to cument at this session, indi-| one of the devices which will be | ma se of to defeat the project. Un- | der this bill it is required that twice | the number of vo: n cities of over | 100,000 population shall be necessary to elect a representative or a senator that are ricts in which | the population is more widely dis-} persed. It is not believed that there | is ich ch e of the legislature sub- | g a constitutional amendment of | mittix | this kind to the people, but it will cer-! | tainly evoke a lively, and quite bly an acrimonious debate, wh at least serve the purpose of those anxious to delay the enactment of a reapportionment law. With the introduction of the resolu- tion to which I have referred the r work of the senate has commenced Activity in another direction will be | induced by the in uction of the | county option bill, which has long been anticipated with interest. The bill as} prepared by the committee, though | quite lengthy, is simple enough in its provisions. All elections under the county option bill must be held on some day other than that on which a general election held. The elec- tions are by petition, which must be signed by at least 25 per cent of the/ voters, the vote for governor being | | taken as a basis. Upon receipt of the | petition it is the duty of the county auditor to call an election and give the required notice. A county option elec- | tion can cnly be held once in three | years. No matter which party wins three years must elapse before an- other such election can be held cS vee On the carrying of a county option election in favor of the prohibition of the liquor traffic within that county, all local option laws, city, township or village, are suspended. In other words, every township, city and vil- lage in the county must go dry no mat- ter what may have been decided pre- viously by the voters of such town- ship, city or village. If licenses have been granted they must be surren- dered and the legalized traffic cease within sixty deays. Provision is made, however, on the surrender of the li- cense for the return to the licensee of the unearned portion of his license money. eal | cents. of the bill. Other sections refer to the manner of holding elections, forms of notice, penalties for violation of the law, police regulation, prosecutions and so on. The bill has been carefully prepared and its terms are, in a gen- eral way, understood to meet the ap- proval of representatives favorable te the enactment of a county option law. te + It seems probable that the house will consider the bill to increase the | gross earnings tax intrcduced by Rep | resentative Warner of Aitkin county rather than that introduced by Mr. Spooner. Indeed, I am given to un derstand that Mr. Spooner himself prefers to give the Warner bill the right of way. Both propose an in- crease of the gross earnings tax from 4 to 5 per cent. Mr. Warner's bill, however, differs from Mr. Spooner’s in this important respect—he would turn the 1 per cent over to the state | road and bridge fund es ia Mr. Warner argues that his bill ought to be the more acceptable to the railroads, because in this state ev- ery public highway is a railroad feeder. The more and the better the roads the greater the traffic turned over by them to the railways. The proposed increase in the gross earnings taxes will net the road fund some $900,000. The 1-mill tax it is proposed to levy will bring the fund $1,000,000. As Mr. Warner says, “The wise expenditure | of these sums will soon work won ders for our material development.” 5s aie A great deal of sentiment has de veloped this session in favor of the Cashman distance tariff or equal rate bill. It has been introduced in the house by Mr. Crane of Mower county and will be considered concurrently in both branches. The speaker made a distance tariff a part of his cam- paign and the railroad committee ap- pointed by him is understood to favor the measure. The measure is de- signed to make rates equal for equal tonnage of the same class from and to all points. The discriminations of which Mr. Cashman compiains are largely in favor of the Twin Cities, although there are discrepancies in the rates charged all over the state. Mr. Cashman’s bill does not name any rate whatever. This is to be done by the railroad commission. As illustrat- ing the discrepancies of which he com- plains his remarks in explaining his bill before the railroad committee of the senate may be briefly quoted. e % “It costs 9 cents,” said Senator Cashman to the railroad committee, “to ship wheat the sixty-eight miles between my home at Owatonna and St. Paul, and yet you can ship it on up to Duluth, a distance of 169 miles, for 5 Is that square? It costs $1.40 a ton to ship coal from Duluth to my home, and yet you can ship Illinois coal—a distance of more than 500 miles—at exactly the same rate. Do you call that square? You've got a big packing plant here in ‘St. Paul to which we'd like to ship our cattle and our hogs, and yet it costs us 12 cents per hundred to get our stock to it. The railroads charge us $26.40 for moving a 22 000-pound car from Owa- tonna here, a distance of sixty-eight miles. And you can move that same car from St. Paul to Duluth, a distance of 169 miles, for $19.40, just $7 cheaper. Do you call that square? Manufactur- rs don’t come to St. Paul, Minneapo- lis or Duluth of their own choice. Taxes are higher in the cities; labor is higher; property costs more. The reason is that freight rates are lower. That’s why we have no manufacturing industries in our interior cities. Don’t you see the need of a distance tariff to prevent discrimination against the country districts? If this distance tar. iff becomes law there'll be an equali- zation.” + Antecedent to the enactment of any legislation affecting public schools an | education conference was held last week with the house committee. The subjects discussed were: rst, com pulsory attendancee; ond, consoli xe dated scheols; and, third, the need of ediftational qualifications for county superintendents. Sentiment seemed to favor the granting of state aid for consolidated schools, which were unanimously favored, as follows: For schools having four departments, $1, 000 annually and one-fourth the cost of school buildings; three depart- ments, $750 a year; two departments, $500 a year. In consolidated schools elementary instruction in industrial work, including agriculture, was fa- vored, each consolidated school to have a tract of land of at least two acres. It was suggested that a law be passed to provide for the election of a county board of school trustees, to elect a county superintendent, fix his salary and assume charge of all edu- cational matters now delegated to the board of county commissioners. +’ + County members gasp when they see the list of appropriations asked for by the board of regents of the state university. Not counting the large revenue from the university fund the legislature is asked this year to ap- propriate $5,500,000 for the use of the school and its departments, including the agricultural college and stations. This includes the deficiency appropri- tion, however, which amounts this year to over $600,000. Ca po The wrongs of railway mail clerks was the subject of an interesting de bate in the house. From what was said they are being overworked and underpaid. ,The legislature passed a resolution asking the Minnesota con- gressional delegation to get busy in their behalf. JOHN LAWSON. +