Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 15, 1911, Page 4

PAGE FOUR GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1911. Gravd Rapids Weralds 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. Official Paper of Itasca County men, and that he already has been working on the matter over a year before the building started. They also say that 5 and 7 per cent is the usual rate fixed by architects and that it would be impossible to secure a good architect: at a salary and that the building of the state prison made Architect Johnston’s job an unsually good one in 1910. Mr. Johnston has an office in St. Paul and the state of Minnesota is only one of his clients. ot + An attempt is heing made by the board of regents of tae university to force the hands of the men in the senate who are supporting the Rockne | resolution, which demands that Min- nesota material be used in the con- SHARP DEBATE ON REFERENDUM Amended Ptaender Bill Geis, Through the House, =| JULIUS SCHMAHL EXONERATED Committee Decides He Did Not Pay) Too Much for Automobile Tags, as Had Been Alleged. (Special Correspondence). St. Paul, March 13.—Initiative and referendum, at percentages of 20 and 10, has passed the house. In the passage of the bill the Democrats have won prestige and have secured the passage of the bill introduced by} the Democratic floor leader, Albert Pfaender of New Ulm, and known as} the Pfaender bill. Following the de- feat of the Campbell bill of the day before, which fixed the percentages at 10 and 7, the house, Friday, passed the Pfaender bill by a vote of 63 to 50, or fourteen majority for the measure. Seventeen of the twenty-four Demo- cratic members voted for the bill. The perce fixed, is the highest in the Ur 1 States. The passage of the Pfaender bill followed a vigorous de- bate, which included personalities at; times, so much so that the speaker was compelled to caution the mein- } s to hold their tempers as well as} wagging tongues. The measure | mended in several different ways | sfore it was passed and members they refused to vote for it, in! some cases, because they did ‘not | know what it really meant. The bill} does not give the people the right to! initiate constitutional amendments, but appropriation measures are not barred. One of the provisions of the! bill, inserted for the purpose of pre- | ve use of the initiative by | ng the some small section of the state, is that which requires the petition to initiate, | in addition to the required 20 per cent, | to have 7 per cent of the voters from | three-fifths of the counties. The bill} allows only such measures to be in- itiated as have been defeated by the! legislature +r + The committee on public accounts and expenditures holds that Secretary | of State Julius Schmahl] did not pay ; too much for automobile tags, as has | been charged. It was alleged that the secretary of state had paid 35 cents | for the tags that he could have se-| cured for 15 cents. The report of the sub-committee, headed by Representa- tive F. L. Farley, completely exoner- ates the s etary of state, holding | that while a good price was paid there | is no evidence to show they could | have been obtained any cheaper. ab ee) The special investigating committee which is looking into the charges | against State Engineer George Ralph | is going thoroughly into the work. | This committee is made up of fair minded men and if there is anything | wrong with the situation they will | find it out. The men under investiga- | tion will also be given a fair hearing While the investigation is in progress | it will be well to remember that the | men making up the investigation com- | mittee are Representatives Knapp, | chairman; Robertson, Moriarty, Crane and Fowler. They are among the | cleanest and ablest men in the house. | Last week State Auditor Iverson was | ene of the principal witnesses. a ae aa | It cost the state of Minnesota some- | thing like $60,000 to engage the serv- ices of Architect Clarence H. Johnston during the year 1910. When the board } of control was first organized one of the strong arguments for it was that a state architect could be engaged for something like $7,500. Instead of en- | gaging an architect on a salary basis the board now pays him 2 per cent on all buildings costiag over $50,000 and 8 per cent on buildings costing less than $50,000. During the year 1910 the construction of buildings aggre- gating $2,793,258 was authorized. The biggest slice of this was the state prison at Stillwater, which will cost $2,000,000. This leaves $793,258 for other state buildings. Allowing the state architect 2 per cent for the plans and construction of the state prison he would receive from this one job $40,000. Allowing him 3 per cent for the other buildings, although this is possibly more than he actually receives, as some of the contracts may be over $50,000, he would receive an additional $23,797.74, or $63,797.74 in all for his year’s work. It is explained fn the board of control that the archi- tect, in addition to drawing the plans tor the building, superintends its con- struction, employs his owa draughts- | the two measures a law. struction of state buildings at the uni- versity or elsewhere. The board of control is holding up the letting of | contracts for the main medical build- | ing, the anatomy building and the en- | gineering building on the ground that if the Rockne resolution should pass they will be up against the proposition of being compelled to have the con- tracts let all over again. They profess to believe that the use of Minnesota material would greatly raise the cost of the buildings. The regents also claim that it is necessary for them to go outside for material for the pur- pose of preserving the architectural harmony of the university building scheme, which was long ago decided upon. This doesn’t greatly appeal to the members of the legislature who would like to see Minnesota material encouraged and they say that if the regents made a mistake long ago there is no reason why they should con- tinue it now. 1 t+ + Senator James P. Boyle of Eveleth would make the tramp work. He has introduced a bill, fathered by the as- sociated charities, providing for the establishment of an institution where the tramp could be absolved from the microbe of laziness and injected with the microbe of energy. It is assumed that when Mr. Tramp comes out of this institution he will be inspired with a feverish energy which would put the former strenuous president to shame. He will tackle wood piles and down other obstacles with alacrity and enthusiasm. The bringing about of this radical change would cost only $100,000, according to Senator Boyle, and he wants the state to appropriate that sum. +e + The senate, by a majority of three, passed the house measure which would make an exception, relative to the anti-pass bill, in favor of policemen and firemen. This is the measure which has been severely criticised as letting down the bars for a final abro- gation of the anti-pass law and it may be vetoed by the governor. The exec- utive is looking over the bill very carefully and it is understood he has grave doubts about its wisdom. It is understood that he would feel more kindly towards it had it made it obli- gatory upon the street car people to give the policemen and firemen passes, Tather than optional. As it is he fears that it will furnish the street railway corporations in the cities an oppor- | tunfty to build up political machines | for their own advantage besides be- ing the first step in the direction of | the abolition of the anti-pass law. t+ + Good roads for Minnesota is now a| The senate passed the} possibility. Dunn good roads bill, introduced by Robert C. Dunn of Princeton. The measure caused some debate in the senate, where some amendments of a minor character were offered. The bill then went back to the house, where it was quickly passed as amended. The governor’s signature will make poses to appropriate $150,000 for the use of the highway commission and organize the machinery by which the money for good roads is to be spent in the future. The other proposes a constitutional amendment levying a 1-mill tax for the support of the good Toads propaganda in the state. ++ + The investigation of the Red Wing state industrial school has been in progress during the week and this week the committee will visit the school. A number of friends of Su- perintendent Whittier have been on the stand to testify to the good work of the school. The question resolves itself into one of whether or not cor- poral punishment will be continued in the institution. ++ + Reapportionment had its first in- ning in the senate last week. The Congdon bill, passed by arn overwhelm- ing majority in the house, has been Tecommended to pass by the senate reapportionment committee. Several minor amendments relative to repre- sentative districts and one senatorial district were tacked on in the com- mittee. The recommendation to pass was carried by a vote of 12 to 6. +t + Lawyers fared pretty well in the election contests that were before the state senate this winter. The expense bills submitted show that it cost the men involved $15,636.16 to prosecute and defend their cases. Of this sum the lawyers received $9,880 for fees, or two-thirds of the entire amount. sae Ta. Committee reports appear to be worthless in the house. In nearly every instance the house overturns them and goes gleefully on its course. The habit of allowing authors of bills to have them placed on the calendar has grown so that the calendar is be- ing cluttered up with useless timber that will never be passed and which is saddling a large and needless ex- pense on the state. One pro-| Woman suftrage had some unique experiences in the senate last week Some of the women of Minneapolis have petitioned that the bill be killed, a fact that has had a tendency to make the bill a little stronger. A mo- tion was made in the senate to indefi- nitely postpcae and this was lost by a vote of 23 to 23. Another motion to recommend the bill for passage was defeated by a vote of 26 to 20 he chair decided to leave the bill on gen. tral orders. ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, DISASTER ON THE IRON RANGE Twenty-six Men Killed by an Ava- lanche in the Norman Mine at Virginia. Death in the form of 500,000 tons of iron ore, rock, earth, ice and snow shot down upon thirty men working in the Norman open pit mine at Vir- ginia. Only four escaped being blotted out by the terrible avalanche sud three of these are in a hospital suffering from injuries that are likely to prove fatal. Most of the victims were Finns and Austrians. The miners, who were taking up one of the two tracks in the pit in order to permit the great steam shovel to work in another section of the mine, were for the most part bent over with bars and claws when the avalanche swept upon them. There was no ehance for escape. The great mass struck them to earth and gouged, maimed or flattened their bodies al most instantly. The pit was 125 feet deep and sev- enty-five feet wide and the rock and ore and earth filled this bow! to the depth of fifty feet and shot out its rim 150 feet. anything in the history of iron mining on the range and also different in Many respects from the casualties that strew the records of mining the world over. The difference was that it came in the form of an avalanche. Behind and above the pit were thousands of tons of ore, rock, earth, snow and ice and the rapid warming of the atmos- phere simply released them upon the toiling miners. Supreme Lodge, A. O. U. W., Sues Minnesota Grand Lodge. The supreme lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, through its President, William N. Narvis, has filed a bill in equity against the grand lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the state of Minne- sota and A. F. Floerkey, grand mas- ter workman; C. E. Larson, grand re- corder, and J. T. MeGuire, grand re- | ceiver, all officers of the state organi- ‘ zation, in the circuit court of the United States at St. Paul. The supreme lodge alleges that the | grand lodge has held back the pay- | ment of about $408,495 due them on different funds. The bill is return- able the first Monday in April. The supreme lodge asks that a de- cree be returned restraining the de- | fendants from paying or transferring | any part of the funds except in pay- | ment of the supreme lodge. They de- their object to have each cent ac- | counted for. If the funds are found | short they ask that the court order an assessment made on all members | in the state in order that the de- | ficiency may be made up. | SENG | POSTAL CLERK UNDER ARREST St. Paul Man Accused of Stealing Vai- uable Furs. M. J. Burns, for ten years a clerk in the inquiry department of the St. Paul Postoffice, is under arrest charged with “embezzlement of ordinary mail,” which, in this case, means the stealing of about 150 valuable furs. In ‘the basement of the postoffice building was found the “plant” where Burns had hidden the furs and which he had about ready to ship away. The robbery with which Burns is charged is an amazing one. In Inspec- tor Simmons’ office the skins are piled high on tables and the wrappers from which they were taken make a pile several feet high. The furs were all shipments from Canadian points to firms in St. Louis. Being liable to duty the packages came through the St. Paul postoffice that the customs officials might have ‘ an opportunity to inspect them. PIONEER OF STATE DEAD W. W. Paddock Member of Party That Located City of Mankato. W. W. Paddock, the last surviving first settler of Mankato, is dead in | that city. Mr. Paddock was born in New York Noy. 4.1828. He reached St. Paul in 1851 and in February, 1852, joined a party to make the first trip to the mouth of the Blue Earth river to found the present city of Mankato. ‘The party left St. Paul on Feb. 15 and after eight days’ travel reached the mouth of the Blue Earth on Feb. 88 and made camp there for the night. ‘The next day his party proceeded to Duild a log shack, the first white hab- i The catastrophe was quite unlike CLAIMS $400,000 IS DUE; sire an accounting and will make it/ Reusswig’s Furniture Store a te te Is Now Open For Business and carries a full line of Furniture and Undertaker’s Supplies Everything of the latest designs; quality good; prices as low as the lowest. We solicit your patronage F. E. REUSSWIG LICENSED EMBALMER. Phones: Residence No. 127, Store 33 ete botebeedeete ded beh heheh FE ee hry ALVIWOOD. bts tt tt ts ne a ee a eae a Otis Vandervoit broke camp last Saturday. He has been landing 10gs on the Popple river for Mr. Johnson. Walter Clark has been busy all winter hauling begs and ties to Ottis. Walt is a hustler. Paul McGowan finished his tie con- ract last week. He is an ox team- ster that you do not meet every day. S. C. White came in from Squaw lake last week where he has been skidding logs for McVeordy Bros. Mr. White has had a prosperous winter. Louis Delap the veteran trapper and hunter captured a very large fisher last week,amd has also cap- tured a number of wolves and other fur bearing animals. J. M. Price and son L. H. will leave for Bemidji where J. Price | they | have contracts moving buildings. We | they are hustlers and don’t get scar-} ed by the case of “keep your should- | er to the wheel, if you want things | to move.” A. H. Delap, the Alvwood dairy- man and farmer, is busy these days putting up ice and gathering up hay to spring out on. Mr. Delap has a fine flock of sheep and young cat- tle and is keeping the best blooded stock that can be had. It is a pleas- ure for one to stop at the farm. house | of Mr. Delap where one can rest and look over the farm and see what has been done in a space of seven years. Farmers take notice. Miss Bargsley called home Thursday last by illness of her invalid mother. Dan Long, the Shallow Pond hust- ler, was compelled to break camp Saturday. Dan says it is hard work sleighing on bare ground. Mr. Whitinger will soon move back on his homestead He has been in camp all winter getting out logs for the Orth Lumber Co. Dick goes some when he gets started. County Commissioner C. M. King was up in the north end of his dis- trict last week and according to} the Northome Record we will soon have some better roads. It is nearly | time we were getting something in the line of good roads, the people have been waiting long enough and think if they had some of the coun- ty commissioners up here and carted them 25 or 30 miles over some of these roads before breakfast they might be convinced to let lose a little. i our teacher was | the Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale Notice is hereby given, that de-; fault has been made in the condi-| tions of a certain mortgage, contain- ing a power of sale, made, execut-/ ed and. delivered by Frederick J. | Martin and Luella L. Martin, his} wife, mortgagors, to Archibald A. Hall, mortgagee, dated January 6th A. D., 1910, and recorded in the of- fice of the Register of deeds of Itas- ca county, Minnesota on August 11th, 1910, at 5 o’clock p. m., in book “P” of mortgages on page 568, which said mortgage was thereafter duly assign-| ed by Archibald A. Hall to Advance | Land company, a Minnesota corpora- | tion, by written assignment thereof) dated August 6th, 1910, and record- | ed in the office of the register of | deeds of Itasca county, Minnesota, | on August lith, 1910, at 5 o'clock: p. m., in book “G” of mortgages on | page 473, and that said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale at public | vendue, to the highest bidder there for, for cash, of the premises in such mortgaga described, situated in| Itasca county, Minnesota, to-wit: The west haif of the northwest quarter (W% of NW%) of section thirty-four (34), township fifty-four (54) north of range twenty three (23) west of the 4th Principal Meridian, containing eighty (80) acres, more or less, according to the United | ty-eight | (54) |half of the southwest quarter The Diamond Feed Co. Carries on hand a full line of Hay, Rough Feeds, Shorts, Bran, Oilmeals, pared to attend your Deliveries made to any Part of the village. Phone orders will receive prompt attention W. C. TYNDALL etc and is per- wants on short notice La an eh ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee a ee ee ee eed In 10 cord lots—1!16 inch dry tam- arack, - - Per single cord, Soft wood per cord, - - $17.50 $2.00 $1.50 Leave Your Orders at H. W. Hilling’s Store and They Will Receive Prompt Attention. RAY VIPOND DOPOD ieee States government survey thereof; Also lot eight (8) in section twen- (28), townghip fifty-four north of range twenty-three (23) west of the 4th Principal Meri- dian according to the United States government survey thereof; Also all that part of the south-half of the northeast quarter of the south- east quarter (S% of NB% of SE%) of section twenty-eight (28), in town- ship fifty-four (54) north of range twenty-three (23) west, lying south and west of the right of way of the Great Northern Railway company as said right of way was, at the date of such mortgage as above laid out, surveyed and lecated over, upon and across said northeast quarter of the | southeast quarter (NB% of SE%) of said section twenty-eight (28); Also all that part of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter (N W% of NE) of section thirty four (34) in township fifty four (54) north of range twenty three (23) west, ac- cording to the United States govern- ment survey thereof, which lies south! and west of the right of way of the Great Northern Railway company as said right of way was, at the date of said mortgage, surveyed laid out and located over, upon and across said northwest quarter of the north-j east quarter (NW% of NE%) of said section thirty four (34), subject, how- ever, to the mineral reservation and all rights reserved to the St. An- thony Lumber company, a corpora- tion, in that certain deed from St. Anthony Lumber company, a cor- poration, to William C. Yancey, bear- ing date March 2nd, 1904, and filed May 3rd, 1904, and recorded in book 15 of deeds on page 281 in the of- fice of the register of deeds of | said Itasca county; Also the east half of the north- west quarter (E% of NW%) of section thirty-four (34), the north (N% of SW%4) of section thirty four (34), and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter (NW\% of SE%4) of section thirty four (34), all in township fifty four (54) north of range twenty three (23) west of the 4th Principal Meridian, according to the United States government sur- vey thereof; Also that parcel of land lying with- in the following described lines, te- wit: Commencing at a point one hun- dred twenty five (125) feet east of the southeast corner of lot two (2) in block seven (7) in the townsite of Feeley, according to the plat thereot jon file and of record in the office of the register of deeds in and for Itas ca courmy, Minnesota, and running thence east one hundred and seven- ty five (175) feet, thence north one hundred and twenty four (124) feet, thence west one hundred and sevea- ty-five (175) feet, thence south one hundred twenty-four (124) feet to the !place of beginning, being a tract of land one hundred twenty four feet wide and one hundred and severty five feet long, and being the same land conveyed by Andrew Johnsom and wife to Archibald A. Hali, by deed bearing date November 4th, 1909, and recorded in the office of | the register of deeds of Itasca county Minnesota, on the 20th day of De cember, 1909, in book 57 of deeds em age 4. | Such sale will be made by the sher iff of said Itasca county, Minnesota, at the front door of the county court house in the village of Grand Rapids im said county, at 1:30 o'clock p. m., on May Ist, 1911. The amount due and claimed to be due on said mort- gage at the date of this notice, ia $7,258.00, together with the sum of $100 attorney's fees, as stipulat- ed in said mortgage in case of fore closure, Dated March 6, 1911. ADVANCE LAND COMPANY Assignee of said Mortgage. H. G. Gearhart, Attorney for Assignee of Mortgage Suite 513, Palladio, Duluth, Minn. H. R. Mar. 15-Apri. 26. For Sale, Eighty acre farm, two miles from Grand Rapids, with stock, machinery, and one-half mineral right goes with land. For particulars inquire at this office. 37tt. “=