Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 15, 1911, Page 1

Grand Uapids Herald-Neview. Ce RaRAnok dihicn Saini each + VoL. XXII. —No 20 Granpv Rapipbs, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, [QII Two Dollars a Year ITASCA COUNTY IRON MINES GIVEN A RAISE IN VALUATION State Tax Commission Announces Changes on Ore Properties That Will Make Valuation About $25,500,000 Auditor Spang has just received figures from the Minnesota tax commission fixing the valuation of Itasca county ore properties for the year 1911, on which taxes are due in 1912. The valuation of the county for the year 1910 was $23,649,878 and for 1911 it will be about $25,500,000, an increase, approximately of $2,000,000. Following are some of the largest raises made on ore properties: DONT SHOOT MA, We've Got Some Great Dope For You. BUT DON BE A SOLDIER BOY The Army and Navy Will Make Town of Nashwauk. You Shoot Your Ma and Your 1910 1911 Pa and a Whole Lot of Giiver reserve No. 13 $ 67 335 $ 73 329 Working Men. Bray reserve 273 731 262 202 Missabe Chief { 341 606 151 852 Pearson mine 90 331 81 600 LaRue mine 580 762 255 34% My boy, listen to the voice of wis- Crosby mine 120 588 $7 271 |dom as it falls from the lips of Hawkins mine 807 618 774 674 |truth. Listen to us, while we tell Oliver reserve No. 81 52 144 46 929 |you what to do. We know it all. Oliver reserve No, 24 $ 124 626 $ 119 879 | We've made a gréat success of the Mississippi mine 189 645 448 492 | Whole works. Of course, we’ve nev- Bennett reserve No, 2 360 667 365 312 |er done any real manual labor. Mississippi reserve 5 250 104 20g | We've always hunted up a job as Edmunds reserve No. 2 60 575 52 299 |foreman of other men, or some snap Village of Marble. of that kind, thus managing to sub- Hill reserve $ 18 798 $ 23 968 sist on the actua) labors of others. Hill reserve 66 319 80 444. | We've faked around one way and Hill reserve 204 462 188 gg2 |@nother and managed to get three Hill reserve 1 164 055 1 097 336 |Sauares a day without producing Hill reserve 867 479 853 615 |™much of anything worth while. Hill reserve 9 534 12 156 | That’s why we're fighting for the Hill reserve 7 540 9 614 |laboring man. He's always made Hill mine 1 207 250 1.560 403 |Our living for us. ‘We’d die before Oliver reserve No. 17 222 363 260 159 we’d work, and hence we'd die fight- Oliver reserve No, 18 92 287 117 666 |ime for the working man. If we Gross reserve 151 703 193 422 can’t keep the working man suffi- Walker-Hill No, 4. 207 586 256 483 ciently interested in us to contri- Village of Taconite. bute from what he earns to support Arcturas prospect $ 222 558 $ 267 630 | U5 we'll have to go to work. ‘We'd Deamone prospect 140 000 210 000 die first. That’s why we want you Oliver reserve, No, 21 82 162 71 691 |t© listen to us and believe what we Holman mine 406 373 716 216 |S4y- We've got some great dope to Town of Greenway. hand out. ‘We want to talk to you, (Walker mine $ 796 399 $1142 s2g | ™Y boy, about this navy and army Walker-Hill No. 3 169 168 198 837 business. It’s a bad thing, my boy. Canisteo mine 944 385 1 669 770 | The first thing they'll make you do Oliver reserve No, 6 3 368 $ 116 801 will be to walk straight. Then they'll ‘Snyder No 1 80,957 81 247 | make you shoot your ma. Her life will Oliver No. 2 1°575 68 61g | 8° away some place, and they won’t Town of Grand Rapids. even allow you to cry and feel real Smith reserve $ 27 159 $ 24 443 bad. ;Wouldn’t that be awful? Then Oliver reserve 5 250 70 432 | theyll make you go out in the corn Lind reserve 54 733 69 795 | field and shoot a whole lot of work- Brown reserve 47 289 525 | men who are enjoying a husking bee. Higgins No. 3 30 798 19 14g | Then they'll try to teach you to re- ‘Bennett reserve 3 185 73 699 |SPect the stars and stripes and your A short time ago the tax commission made a trip of inspection and investigation over the Mesaba and Vermilion ranges and as a conse quenze, especially wherever property has been developed, the valuation has been raised. In the town of Grand Rapids there are a number of undeveloped propositions that last year were placed at $168,414 while this year it is given at $259,032. The largest individual mine raise was the Canisteo, which was raised from $944,385 to $1,669,770. at Coleraine, SOME STRIKE If Ritri, BuT A SURE WAY IS: jalleged country. It isn’t your coun- try, because you don’t ownit. Don’t respect the country unless you can get a warranty deed of it signed by Bill Taft himself, and counter- signed by Pierpont Morgan. Keep away from that recruiting office at the Riverside hotel, my boy. They'll make a butcher of you, and then you'll be just like Oppegaard or Johnson or Billy Lehman. ~ There’s a lot more things we know, but we’d rather talk than write and print. It’s easier. Come in and we’ll tell you all about it. Then gimme a dollar on subscription. We need the money and its easier to talk you out of it There is no doubt about money in the bank, it is sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there is the satisfaction that it is sure. in every way, both that it will grow, and that it is safe. First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MINH. Capital $2 5,000,00 Sutplus $ 5,000, 00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Positive Cashier, C. E. Aiken. Ass’t. Cashier, J. G. Peterson DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. es D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aikena John Beckfelt H. D. Powers. than to work for it. We just. hate work. But we love the workman. ATTORNEY J. N. TRUE IS IN CALIFORNIA Former Grand Rapids Lawyer Writes to Fred A. King and Mentions Politics. Attorney J. N. True, who will be well remembered by all the old-time residents of Grand Rapids, writes a business letter to Fred A. King, and incidentally makes a few remarks on the recent election held in Cali- fornia, where he now resides, and practices law at Red Bluff in that state. Mr. True says: “Referring to the remainder of your letter: yes, we had an elction hre on the 23 Constitutional amendments, all carried. I voted yes on sixteen of them and gave seven the no. The country counties stood loyally for woman suffrage, but San Francisco and Oakland reported an aggregate majority of over 23,000 against it, thus reducing the state ‘majority to less than 3,500 in a total of 3,116 precincts in the state. So you will see how close it stood: Those cities ought to be ashamed of themselves, even in their corrupt- | | (continued on page 5) COME AND SEE US |Now Is the Time to Subscribe— STATE BUILDS STRONG CASE ‘OHOT FOR MOOSE AGRINST WOODS FOR MURDER. 47 BQWSTRINGLAKE Although Evidence Is Purely Cir- cumstantial, It Is Forging Strong Chain of Connecting Links. ! 40 rods from the railroad track, face ‘down, with two bullet wounds in the back. He said he was near when the body was discovered, and he gave orders that nothing should be disturbed. He River for the Coroner. On cross-ex- amination he admitted that the shots heard might have been fired by someone fishing along the river. ‘STAR WITNESS ON THIS AFTERNOON Zade Cochran, Who Heard Conver- sation In Adjoining Room Will John Frazer, a member of the! Be on the Wet crew, testified he heard two shots Rens Ps State but could not tell their direction. omorrow. John Doyle, another driver, he heard three shots fired. Ole Nelson, who with Paul Beau- dry discovered the dead foreman, de- scribed in detail its appearance and said that he heard two shots on the Wednesday evening referred to and that they sounded to him, as though coming from the direction of the saloon. On cross-examination he admitted they could have been fired by some one fishing in the Bigfork river. Wm. Herried, of the firm of Her- ried brothers, undertakers at Deer said eee tee JURY IN WOODS CASE. t t t ; P, P, HLAAOTT ; A. HAGLEB F. W. ESTABROOK z i JOHN VANPATTER ry | H i J. Cc. MeKUSICK HENRY WASBURN HENRY SWANSON ‘WM. WILLIS A. E. DURHAM L, F. ROMANS WM. HANSON CHAS. W. ALDRICH Stanley Friday afternoon, April 21, and that he viewed the body and then took it back to Deer River in his pick-up box; that the following day in company with Sheriff Riley, he made another trip up there and ae ee ee oe Oe eo ca The case of Vincent Wood, ac- cused of the murder of Vincent {looked over the ground. He was Murphy, at ° Stanley, Wednesday|presen* when the coroner’s jury ey@ning, April 19) is now on tria].|imade their findings and also when Dr. G. F. Schmidt, of Grand Rapids, perforned an autopsy and post mor- tem examination. He also identi- fied the clothing, watch and other personal effects that were shown up in court as belonging to the mur- dered man, From the regular parcel only two jurors were secured, and it re- quired two special venires of 30 and 35 talesmen, respectively, to complete the jury. The twelfth man was accepted Monday evening and the examination of the state’s wit- the arrangement of the rooms, both| were all more or less drunk. on the ground and second floor, the) Dr. G. F. Schmidt was next, placed partitions and kind of wood they!on the stand. He testified that he were composed and the location of | performed the autopsy over the re- the wagon bridge across Bigfork | mains of Murphy and that two bul- river. He stated the last time he/lets entered the back and came out | saw Murphy alive was Wednesday | Paul Beaudry and Ole Nelson, mem- bers of the crew, in the brush about Riyer, testified he was summoned to|°r moose, the families of all John Rudtmark Shot and Instantly Killed By Brother-in-Law, Jonas Olson. then ent to Deer/ HS COMPANION ALSO INJURED ‘Same Bullet That Killed One Mam Plowed Furrow Alongside Head of the Other as They Were Skinning Out Moose. John Rudtmark was shot and im stantly killed and his companion, ‘Jos. Lindahl, was badly injured aa the result of Jonas Olson mistaking @ coat fer a.deer. The accident hap ipened in the Bowstring country, 12 miles north of Deer River Thursday | morning. Rudtmark and Albert Harlene made up one party and Olson and Lindahl composed another that started out Thursday morning to secure a deer four men being nearly destitute of pre visions. About 9 o’clock Rudtmark ‘and Harlene got on the track of @ moose and trailed it until Rudtmark downed the animal. They then re ‘moved their coats, hung them on @ stump and commenced skinning i out. Olson and Lindah! started off iz another direction, but did not get on the trai] of anything, They thew decided to separate and Olson, whe made a statement to the county at torney, which he afterward sign said he finally got on the-track of & deer, but left this when he came te) neives was commenced Tuesday Peter Beaudry, one of the men who;4 moose track. He followed the ore found the body in the woods, testi-|moose for about a mile and them The first witness examined was|fied that he was the first to dis-| heard 6 or 6 shots. At first he start- John Walley, postmaster and store-| cover it and described in detail how |€d retracing his footsteps thinking kéeper at Stanley, who testified to| it laid. On cross-examination he/Lindahl had made a kill, but = the the location of the Woods building, stated the members of the crew | moose tracks were sO fresh he de- cided to continue to follow them. Shortly after this he came to @ place where it was evident the moose i stopped for the night. Realizing it could be no great distance a , he hurried with all possible speed and evening about 7 o'clock. i (Continued on page eight.) E. O. Walley was the next to} testify. He is a son of John Wal-| 2 ley and conducts a saloon at Stan- ley. His testimony was in the na-; ture of corroboration of that given! by his father, only more in detail,| and especially so as to the acoustic | hit N if la properties of the building. He said; : j ‘ay » all the crews made his saloon head- quarters and that Murphy’s crew ‘Was there a large portion of — the time while they were waiting for| supplies. He said the last time he saw Murphy alive was Wednesday evening about 7 o’clock, when he, came in and called for a glass of |f* gin. Horace Carnahan, who ruts ‘anotheq camp in the town of Wirt for the! Namakan Lumber Co., for which company Murphy was also employed, said that together with his clerk and crew he was also tied up at (Continued on page eight.) Stanley with his wannigan’ waiting} for supplies. He said he saw Mur- phy there two or three times and) on the Wednesday evening the crime is supposed to have taken place, heard two shots about 9 o'clock, seemingly coming from the direction’ of the river. He thought nothing of it at the time and at 10 o’clock was shown up to his room, which he oc-! cupied jointly with. Zade Cochran | his camp clerk, by Woods. When) he entered he found Cochran very! wide-awake and the latter related a Dear Qmy:- Bou and Bot must take Thanksgiving dinner with us. John fAoom set. S want “to I'm not bLashful conversation he overheard in the} . x room occupied by 'Woods : and his nan os old friend Lik common law ife. They discussed sig bee fove pretty homes. this conversation and then fell ean easily afford it, asleep. The next morning, the wit- AMD piness they could ness said, he went down stairs about 6 o’clock and as he passed the adjoin ing room, the door of which was | ajar, he noticed Woods’ in _ bed, asleep. At the breakfast table he was joined by Cochran and suggested to him that on account of the conver- sation he overheard and related, they better search for Murphy. They did so and failing to find him Thursday, got out the crew Friday morning | ana the body was finally found by huy whot they wanted, bly, though? tute and Augs from ean NS F. EB. aE U S S Ww I has just made a good husiness deal, and Lought me a new dining show it off.” akhout confessing this e you, Amy. We wowen Sf husbands, who only knew how much give their wives Ly tusning them loose in a furniture store, to wouldn't the furniture Lovingly, Lou. ®. S.-John bought my new dining Avom furni- G id UNDERTAKING