Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 5, 1911, Page 1

i | { Grand Uapids Herald-Review. VoL, XXI.—No, 40 GRAND Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, IgII Two Dollars a Year DANGER FROM FIRE A GReVE QUESTION Too /;-t Care Cannot Be Exercis- 4d to Protect Life and nan LAWS SHOULD BE ENFORCED Farmers More Apt to Be the Vic- tims of Forest Fires Than Any Other Class and Should Plow Fire Breaks. (By Supt. A. J. McGuire of the Northeas* .xxperiment Farm.) A farmer recently left his place in the morning, and when he returned at night he found his home in ashes. His home, barn, every building on th place, all his machinery, hay feed and everything he owned except his live stock were burned by a fire someone had set in an adjoining swamp. His wife had gone through all the terrors of seeing her home that she had worked so hard for laittie protection—stand until etd tion is forgotten—and then in ungarded time be entirely Miastvorea Over one-half the farmers’ places and | villages and tewns in the timber} secuon of Northern Minnesota are without ample fire protection. Noth- ing but a plowed field or a tract that | a Se SE has been burned over is protection on the edge of a forest. : AN ORGANIZATION Farmers, plow a fire break around er . wg bilikée where the < plated} Association Continues to fiekis do not give protection. The Prosper clearing itself is not protection un-j less it is plowed. Make that fire | break an important and necessary pas! of each years work. ‘HAS BUILT MANY HOMES. Village officials entrusted with for- | | fire protection should do some- —— aes thing more than tack up the sign sent out from the firewarden’s of- | Since October 1903 This Local In- fice, warning against setting fire. tituth All vrush and dead timber.for a space mn Has been a Marked of three hundred feet surrounding Success and a Substantial the entire vill age should be burned. | Benefit A few men and a few days’ work at the proper time can give more pro tection to a town from forest fires in this way than any state law can- possibly give. A day given to pro tection before the fire is worth a | A local Building and Loan as- sociation, when properly and en- onomically conducted, is one of the THAT DOES 6000 j ‘Grand Rapids Building and Loan GIANT MERGER OF GREAT INTERESTS Report Says That Steel, Iron Ore | and Shipping Concerns Will Organize. TF COLE ETAL AT THE HEAD) == = The Purpose Is to Compete With ' | the United States Steeh Corpor- sociated In the Report. A stir was created the other day ‘in financial and tupiness circles in of the new organization, that the big sieel corporation developeé and be- came Lie power it now is. LIBRARY BENEFIT WELL PATRONIZED The Library Benefit, Given By the High School Chorus, Netted Nice Sum The Grand Jury Finishes its Job It took the grand jury for the March! term of district court just a week | to investigate matters in Hasca coun- ty and at 10 o'clock this morning their complete report was submitted to Judge McClennahan. Foreman W. B. O'Donnell handed in some papers that may have been indict- ments, together with the report, but as No arraignments have been made ‘o the hour of going to press the Sey Review is unable to make the important announcements in this is- sue. The indictments on which arraign- ments have been made are the fol- lowing The grand, jury has returned five indictments and is stlil in session at the hour of going to press. A true bill was found agaisnt Eli Morian, Nashwauk, charging hiin wit! ® statutory offense. His step daugh- ter is the alleged victim. PROGRAM OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT Boys and Girls’ Glees, Ladies’ Quartette, Chorus Work and Solos by Miss Benton and Dr. Carpenter The library benefit recital given at the auditorium Monday evening by the high school chorus, assisted by the ladies’ quartette and Miss year afterward. Self protection is the first and greatest law. The farmer living at a distance in the woods without near neighbors and without telephone connections should realize this most of all. In spite of all the disaster of the past season from’ forest fires, fires are still set and allowed to run. Peo- yery best institations that any com- Duluth when it was announced that munity can be possessed of. It is a/* &!@at merger of steel, iron ore and home builder. It is a sure money- | shipping interests was to be perfect- saver for the share holder. It is a|€d to compete with the United States safe investment. It does the mast Steel corporation, with prominent good where agsistance is needed, Duluth men and others at the head Since the organiztion of the Grand ° it says the Duluth News Tribune. Rapids Building and Loan association’ ‘It was said that former heade of in October 1903, about forty homes ‘te steel corporation, including B. A. Hunter, who has been in jail since January is held on three charg- es by the jury. He wae arrested at Cohasset by the marshal, on suspi- tion, and was found to have on his person nitro glycerine, revolvers, burgular’s tools, etc. He is changed with these offences and also with Benton and Dr. Carpenter, was very much enjoyed and was liberally pat- ronized and was one of the most en- joyable affairs of the season. The high school chorus was under the direction of Miss Annie M. Beck- er, supervisor of music and drawing, and the renditions were so good and the parts so delicately attuned burned, after she had tired in vain to stop the approach of the fire. The state legislature in its sent session is giving much attention | to improve the forest fire laws, but’ gives no concern to it, dealt with to the Hmit of the ple have been lenient in dealing with men who start fires for clearing land, jbut a man who starts a fire for any pre- | Purpose and allows it to run, and shouki be law, have been erected, through its aid, Thomas F. Cole, would merger their in this village. About forty families 2Oldings and fight the older corpor- are today living im their own homes #ion, just as soon as the supreme who would otherwise be paying rent. court renders its decision in the It is safe to say that! they are bet-' 4m@erican Tobacco and the Standard ter off to the extent of the value of , Ol! cases. mo law can ever be made that will give positive protection to the set- tler. The settler must do more to protect himself, and the villages and towns of the timbered sections must look more to their own protection. The state can so patro) the forests that a fire can be prevented from epreading over a large area, and it can do more to prevent ‘the careless starting of fires and the criminal neglect of them by men who careless-| jy ‘Start them at their own doars where there is combustible material between the fire and the buildings. The settler in the timber must. do as the settler on the prairie did in the early @ays—put out a fire break. The prairie farmers expected a fire every fall and prepared for it | According to report G. A. Tomlin- having resisted an officer. that Miss Becker can well be proud Jerome B. Atwood, a former police-|of the progress her pupils have made man of Keewatin, is indicted on the |since their last public appearance. charge of having carnal know-{ the quartette work by the ladies ledge and abuse of a female child. | quartette and the solos by Miss His wife is alao indicted 46 an 4€-| penton and Dr. Carpenter also came made too severe. Bena Man Dies Napolean Lavoie, aged fifty-three years, died at Bena from a complica- tion of diseases Saturday. He was at the hospital here for some time, but they were unable to do any thing for him, the diseases being too far gerne. and a law in thie respect cannot bo | these homes than they otherwise | would be. Those who bought shares 8°’ lime of ore freighters will be as an investment are well satigfieq ‘he lake transportation end of the because the returns are sure and the USiNess. Mr. Tomlinson was asked profits ample. aSout the proposed merger last night Applications for stock have constan Ut declined to talk. Mr. Cole is ly increased from the start, the past not in Duluth. Joseph B. Catton, year being greater in that respect Wem Beked to make a statement as than ever before, (to what knowledge.he had of the The total expense for conducting | | proposed enterprise, said ‘he: had the affairs of the associxtion during ‘heard of it from outside sources but the year 1910, was 136.65. This ig thought there wes no truth in the fu-’ cessory before the fact. Oscar Staja and John Mykkana are: held for trial om a charge of grand larceny. They are alleged to have robbed the warehouse of J. J. Me- ‘Donald of Swan River, Anton Moricca was alleged to have assaulted a railway brakeman at for their share of applause and men- tion should also be mention made of Misses. Reusawig and Kremer, who acted ag accompanists. We publish below the program in full. i—a “Clang of the Forge’’.. Rodney b “The charge” Wellings High School Chorus. certainly a showing that care to be satisfactory to the share holders. very dollar paid into the association works the year around for the in- vestor, except the small expemse ac- ATale of Two Cities. The pictoria] reproduction of that famous. story, “A Tale of Two Cities,’ will be shown at the Gem theatre |count, which is certainly maintained Friday evening, April 7,.There arejat the minimum. The agsociation 3,000 feet of pictures and the drama,!now has about $25,000 out in real There is greater need of prepara, | tion on the part of farmers living in’ as it unfolds, is an intensely inter-| estate mortgages. As an illustration esting one. The doors of the theatre |of the earning capacity of stock in mor, | Together with Thomas F. Cole, formerly president of the Oliver Iron | Mining company, the steel corpora- tion's iron ore branch and G. A. Tomlinson of the Tomlinson steam- ship line, are associated the names of W. E. Corey and Charles M. Scwab, former presidents of the steel corporation, and W. B. Dixon, for- | the timber, and yet this preparation will be open at 6:30 o’chock and the tion is commonly neglected for the first show will start] at promptly 7 (mer vice president. the Grand Rapids association we The decisions in the American To- will take ten shares of the first series reason that a sweeping fire in the woods is uncommon. Fires) may ap- péar for days and weeks in the wood: and burn and die.out without doing damage. The settler’s place and the village may stand for years with ahreee shows will be given, and more if necessary, in order to accomodate the crowds. They start at 7, 8 and 9 o'clock. The admission price will be the same as usual, 10 cents. o'clock. Chats aire Wity Floating from place to place withcu: a harbor--a raft upon the sea the man without money issued. Up to October, 1910, the hold ers would have paid in $840, and at that time could have withdrawn $1,- 110.30; or a total profit om the in- stallment investment at $10 per month of $270.30. It should be re- membered this is not a flat invest- ment of $840, but is made gradually month by month. Members who have money to loan consider this good investment. All officers who have the handling of money are required to furnish a surety bond in a sum sufficient to cover any possible misappropriation. The present officers: C. H. Dickin- son, president; Framk E. King, vice- president; Fred A. King secretary; Emil Litchke, treasurer. The board of directors are: D. M. Gunn, W. A. Rossman, A.C. Bossard, T. R. Pravitz, F. E. Reusswig, Frank B. King, Emil Litchke, C. H. Dickinson, Fred A. King. The regular semi-annual meeting will be held on Monday, April 10th at the office of the secretary. At this time the sixteenth series of shares wlil be issued. Commissioners Meeting The board of county commissioners held a regular monthly meeting yes- terday, ness was transacted. at which considerable busi-' bacco company and the’ Standard Oil | company cases are expected to indi-| favor of Johnson. cate what the eupreme court thinks | o. the merging of large interests and, according to report, the big consoli- | dation is being held off for that rea- | Peter Radakovich, the defendant fail- son. Both cases are based on the ,ed to put inan ppernce and a ver- principle and if the sup- | dict was directed for the plaintiff. reme court decides that the lo- bacco and Standard companies are | to recover the sum of $228.45 trusts and in violation of the Sher- | leged at.ormmey’s fees. The defend- mam act the reported merger might | ent ignored the proceedings and the pau be attempted, according to in- | Plaintiff was given a verdict for the ‘formation which comes from New | amount claimed to be due. York sources, but on different lines | from those on which the tobacco and | oil companies were formed. Mr. Schwab has been a competitor | of the big steel corporation as a big owner in the Bethleham Steel com- pany, one. of the largest independent | companies, since he ceased to de | stead on Prairie River. president of the steel corporation in | action is the Prairie river dam, which 1903, Mr. Cole resigned as head of | Mr. Brown alleges overflows his farm ‘the steel corporation’s iron ore com- pany more than a year ago. Mr. | case is being Corey ceased to be head of the steel | this afternoon. was dismissed. Jacob N. against W. C. corporation several months ago. In its report the grand jury calls | ; When Mr. Dixon resigned as vice | attention to the fact that the pest Lresident about two weeks ago | house is located on a public highway and recommends that it be moved to a more suitable place. stee] men said he was angered be- | cause he was not elected to succeed Mr. Corey. All four men who are mentioned are said to have very good reaséns for wanting to carry on a supervised but needs some repairs on the buildings. Baliclub in. the firs: degree. A true}. Courier of Moscow” .. Rodney Dill was. returned against time. b “The Mighty Deep’... .Jude Judge Stanton was retained on the Dr. Carpenter. bench until Thursday evening hear- 3—e “March Onward” Gebiet ing the civil case of Zazon Serkacki b “Mrs. Winslow”... Harrington against J. W. Snyder and EK. Engalls. Boys’ Glee. The case was one involving the own- 4—a “‘And the Glory of the Lord” ership of @ boat on Trout lake. A b “Glory to God”.. ““Measiah”— | verdict was returned for the defend- | a Handel ge | Chorus. Friday morning Judge McClen- ehan relieved Judge Stanton and will |‘ “Spartacus to the Roman Envoys” finish the term. J. W. Johnson vs. eilees - Recitation W. L. Perkins & Co, was a case Will Powers, involving the ownership of a cash |6—a “While You Are Mine’ Powell register. A verdict was returned in} b “If You'll Remember Me” ° . stikve Ball The case of Erik Johnson vs. Mike | Miss Mae Benton, | Kalember is on trial this afternoon. | “Sleep Little Baby of Mine’... In ithe case of Max Markel vs. | pol ard ES ees Dennee b Indian Serenade Bresford George Spear sued A. H. Randahl | as al-| On motion of the plaintiff the case | of Allie Johnson against the Itasca | | Paper company, for personal damages | Brown has brought suit | Gilbert and Geo. H. | Pricefor allegd damages to his home- The cause of | | stead. Hes asks $3,500 damages. The | tried before a jury) The poor farmwas found to be well | { Girls Glee | s— Mendelssohn Giese “Spring Song “Forget-menot Ladies Quartette Blue’ -a “Ocean Petrie b “Minnesota Richard | Chorus | 10—a Bridal Chorus “Rose Maide | HEE A Cow { b “Italia” Donizetti Chorus. She Could Walk Mrs. J. M. Joues who was at Grand Rapids Friday was informed at the | depot that she couia not ride on the | accommodation freight as it was against the rules to allow women jon the train. This rule is in force | periodically and at different places on ‘the line. At present ladies can ride on this freight fram Grand Rapids to the range, but not this side !Grand Rapids. There many people coming with her to Deer | River, but all their entreaties were ‘in vain to the conductor. Mrs. Jones of were of life, without anchor, rudder or sf , in the bank. Your bank account is your harbor in stress of weather; and with the confidence that com your passage across the sea of life ies with money, to fill your sail: will be smooth and safe. Ki it D Dational Bank D RAPIDS. 3 MINK. Sue acl aRAND President, F. P. Sheldon. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. | commercial warfare against the Unit- A contract was awarded to C. R. ed States steel corporation. McLear of Duluth to build a re-| Negotiations were opened some taining wall on the south side of the time ago, according to report, with court house. Mr, McLean was the owners of extensive iron ore proper- lawest bidder, his figures being$7,-| ties on the range by the men said to gene etn a ey era | declared she would not wait for are reported to ‘have adop' acl | amd at once she set that is not receiving proper care. The recommendation is made that the district and probate courts and the county attorney cause the case to the night train, out to walk heme, fifteen miles. Ar riving at Cohasset she found the local there, and again her friends tried to persuade the trainman to let OFFICERS DIRECTORS 788. jon the work, the highest being near- ty ten thouganx dollars. More vault room in the court house 1s NOW necessary and a rearrange- ment of those now in use is also nec- to advertise for bids for this work cn plans submitted by D. V. Case & Bromhall of Duluth. The village of Warba wants to be born and a petition for that purpose || Was presented to the boaru by P. P. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Ass’t. Cashier, J. G. Peterson F. P. Sheldon. D. M. Gunn. Scott. Warba is the old townsite of A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. Fe 3. ition was granted Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt H. D. Powers. ook ‘eae enm@ April 26 fixed as the date for | election. _ [_ DEFECTIVE PAGE There were ten bids submitted | essary. The auditor was instructed | be behind the merger. The properties of Schwab, Corey, Dixon and Cole, while in themselves great in extent, are only the nucleus |of the giant concern that is reported te be in the making. Other inde- pendent steel, iron and iron ore op- erators are expected to join in the consolidation which may be consum- mated goon after the decisions of the supreme court are made. Such a merger as has been said is coming into existence would present a giant array in competition with the United States steel corporation. It wag during the administration of t* men who are believed te be back be investigated more fully and to be found nec. her on, but he wowki not. Mrs. Jones take such steps era re et continued her lonely “hike.” When pana sors e child. |the train arrived here friends in- formed Mr. Jones of his wife's under- taking and he procured a speeder and Deer River Young People Wed went down to meet her. He met Last week a license was granted bY! ner about three miles this side of Clerk of Court I. D. Rassmussen to! Cohasset and she seemed to be en- Clyde W. Channell and Corrie E. Mc-| joying the walk. She had traveled Gee, both of Deer River, Both are |eight miles. Mre. a Pes anx- * ious to get home as she left a young among Deer River’s most popular aire ras Gahvaih aah wash te young people and Miss McGee ié well|j aye it until after mid-night. She known here, she having graduated |did not know women were barred from the Grand Rapids high echool|from the train as sabe knew it car two years ago. ried passengers.—Deer River News.