Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 10, 1912, Page 6

| BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY | OF GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. A. C. BossarD President FIRST STATE BANK L. M, Boursa Cashier Savings Department Farm Mortgage Loans @RAND BAPIDS MINNESOTA FRANK MYERS Dray and Express Line PHONE 218 Stand—Oorner dré Street:andsLeland Ave GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. A. L. ROECKER Merchant Tailor Leland Avenue between 8rd and 4th Streets GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. D, M. GUNN POKEGAMA HOTEL FIRST CLASS ACCOMODATIONS Corner Leland Avenue and Third Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. J. 0. JOHNSON & CO. Meats and Provisions FEED AND HAY Corner Leland Avenue sud 4th Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN KREMER & KING ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Rea! Estate and Fire Insurance Office Pokeranra Hotel Block GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. REISH US-REMER LAND CU. REAL ESTATE AND FARM LANDS Office on 4th St. between Leland and Sleeper Avenves GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. W. ©. MYERS CITY LIVERY Office and Barn beteeen Fifth and Sixth Streets on Kindred Avenue GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ‘THWING & ROSSMAN Attorneys at Law @fiice in Itasca Mercantile Co. Building Opposite Post Office GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. CHESTER L. PRaTY Attorney at Law COURT COMMISSIONER Office on Second Floor of Court House GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. DR. F. R HARRISON DENTIST Office in the McAline Biock Phone No. 6 GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. wereee: DR. G. F. SCHMIDT Physician and Surgeon @fice in the McAlpine Block, Phone 6. GRAND Rapips, MINN. HERALD REVIEW Belead Ave, Between ith and 5th Seroote Guamp Rariws, Mum. F. P. SHELDON, P. J. SHELDON President Vice-President . E. Arken. Cashier FIRST NATIONAL BANK Transacts a General Banking Business GRAND RAPIDS, MINN *” |\from the effects which he died with-|even yet sick, co far as we this scotion, was one|Mr. Maxfield did not change his line|hold goods that are moved through DR. COSTELLO DENTIST Office n First National Bank Building GEAND BAPIDS MINNESOTA JOHN COSTELLO Costello’s Ice Cream BOTTLING WORKS, MINERAL WATERS Between 3rd and 4th Streets on Hoffman Aye. GRAND BAP1Ds, MINNESOTA FRANK F. PRICE LAWYER CROUTY ATTORNEY Office in First National Bank Building GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. C, C. McOARTHY LAWYER Office in Marr Building. Corner Kin ired Ave- nueand Third Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. H. FE. GRAFFAM Lands and Insurance Leland Avenue Opposite the Postoffice GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. GEORGE BOOTH Cigar Manufacturer Bootn's BoqueTs Between 2nd and 3rd Streets on Kindred Ave. GRAND KAPIDS, MINN. EEL OE TIERONE DDR. CARROL C. CARPENTER M. Physician and Surgeon Office over Itasca Mere. Co. Residence first house North of Library GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. CHARLES W. FOREST City Dray and Express Line Phone 134-2 Stand—Ccrner Leland Avenue and ard Strees GRAND Rapips, MINN. | I. YWILL NISBETT | Practical Watchmaker and EnFdaver COMOLETE CEWERLRY LINE Bet. 2nd and 3rd Streetson Kindred Avenue GRAND Rapips, MINN. DR. THOMAS RUSSEL Physician and Surgeon Office and Residence Corner Leland Avenue and-Sixth Street GRAND KAPIDS, MINNESOTA EK, BR. BROWNE Heating and Plumbing OFFICE AND SHOP On Leland Avenue between 4t" and 5th Bt. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. W. Q. YOST Farm, Meadow, Timber & Mineral Lands LOANS OF FARM AND CITY PROPERTY Office Pokegama Hotel Bidg. GRAND RAPIDS MINN. WANAAAAARONE4 900000000 0000000008, boob 008440 F, E. REUSSWIG Alfred Blomberg Wants to buy all the Ties on Great Northern or Minne- apolis & Rainy River. PAY HIGHEST MARLET PRICE FOR SAME’ ALFRED BLOMBERG Furniture and Undertaking LICENSED EMBALMER Phones: Res. No. 127, Office No. 335 nennnn nennnnnnoosesonoonsonoorooes NILES & AITON Flour, Feed and Hay FARM SUPPLIES AND MACHINERY Minnesota | | 4F¢ 8t. Between Kindred and Houghton Ave GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. sissippi Has Feta! Fall in Ele- vator Shaft at Duluth io of Remer, formerly of Aitkin, ac- poteay: fell down the elevator shaft | in the Lonsdale building at Duluth, timers in of the pioner lumbermen of the upper Missiscippi. Just how the accident happened is not given in the Duluth press reports. The Tribune of Saturday gives the fol- lowing: William Rogers, the tie and post man of Remer, who was accidently killed by falling down the elevator shaft in the Lonsdale building, is sui- vived by a widow, and 11 children, the youngest of whom is two years. He was 64 yearns of age and a very busy and active man, whose opera- tions in the timber businese centered around “Rogers” siding, on the Soo Line, ten miles from Remer. The siding was named after him. There he delivered much freight for the road. He had come to Duluth on business with Curry & Whyte, G. G. Hartley, McLeod & Davis, and others. He wae ono of the first settlers of Aitkin, and a logger of long experi- ence and large operations, in north- ern Minnesota. The funeral ard in- terment will be at Aitkin. Ralph Rogers of emer, a son, ar- rived at the Lenox hotel last even- ing. He was accompanied by G. A. Waterman, who had been with his father for the past 15 yearns. The son came to claim the body, ar- range for the funeral, and find out, if possible, just how the accident ha> pened. News of the death of the! lumberman did not reach the son un- til yesterday forencon about 11 o'clock. An extra train had run down to Rogers siding, and the conductor brought the message, which had been addressed to Remer. The Rogers family resides on a farm some distance from Remer. Ralph dispatched a messenger to his mother with the news, ard he and Mr. Waterman came to Duluth. The 1i chidren of the Rogers family are: Edward, 2n attorney of Walker; Mrs. John Warren, White Earth; Charles, of Seattle; Arthur, an electrician, of Walker; Miss Ma- bel, a teacher, Fleshor, N. D; Mrs. Mrs. Frank Leonard, Aitkin; Silvey, attending schoo] in Aitkin; Ralph of Remer; Williem in schcol at Welker; Sperl, at school in Aitkin, and Catherine, the baby, aged 2 years, Mr. Rogres hed been a resident of Minnesota for 35 years. KOLL ANSWERS DULUTH HERALD M. N. Koll of Cas Lake sends a communication to the Duluth News Tribune in which he criticeses the attitude of the Duluth Herald for its comments on the appointment of 'H. J. Maxfield as immigration commis- sioner. Mr. Koll quotes from the Herald and comments as follows: “The Northern Minnesota LDevelop- ment associaijon at its St. Cloud con- vention failed to embarrass Gov-| ernor Eberhart by requesting that he do his duty and call an extra ses sion for reappointment, and H. J. Maxfield of Wadena, then president of the association, used all his in- fluence to that end. “Governor Eberhart has appointed as immigration commissioner, H. J. Maxfield, of Wadena, late president of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association. meeting in St. Cloud is in favor of the movement I | submit to the wishes of the majority.” The tenor of Mr. Maxfield’s notion of having or not having a special ses- sion resolution is plain. He was against it. Now the point I am try- On Thursday of last week Wm. Rog|ing to make is that at the time Mr. |! Northwestern Maxfield gave out that interview, former immigration Commissione Welsh bad not died, nor was he knew. of action after Welsh died, but went forward along the same lines. Is it then fair to try to create the impression that there was an under- | standing between the appointive pow- er—the governor and others—that) Maxfield was to receive the appoint- ment? The former commissioner was not dead nor even sick when | Mr. Maxfield took this position in the matter—in fact Mr. Maxfield took his position in the closing days of the last legislative session when the executive committee met and kept it all the way along and it looks to me like mighty poor taste for a big} newspaper to attempt to make poli | tics out of the appointment. If Max- field got his appointment as politics, it is very evident that he did not set his sail to catch the passing breeze, and if he got it after being consistent, he cannot be blamed in the least. At St. Cloud the association adopt- ed @ resohition asking that an im- migration commissioner be appointed who “is well qualified from experi- e1ce and conversant with conditions in those sections where state lands @re located.” Mr. Maxfield is such aman Many others could have bee | named who would also have answer- ed that description, but inasmuch as @ man who answers the description has been appoiated, the development association members should be sat- isfied and get ready to cooperate with him to the extent that we may it the largest possible benefit from » efforts. Another thing that comes to my mind is that in watching the ex- changes that come to the Cass Lake/ Times table I notice that quite ar large proportion of those which ex press diseatisfection at the way the St. Cloud meeting resolved, are edit- ed by men who were not there, nor even in most instances ever attend- ed a meeting of the a‘scciation. If sentiment in their respective locali- ties was so different, as they would heve us believe, why didn’t they come to the convertion and help to mould sentiment? It seems to me to be mighty poor boosting for nor- thern Minnesota for newspapers to use their space in finding our faulis only, instead of giving us a little pat on the back for the good we have accomplished. An honest difference of opinion is to be respected, but a rule or ruin policy never. JACK FROST HITS RAILROADS HARD Cold Cuts Down Enginé Power 50 Per Cent and Freezes Greased Car Bearings. The railroads of the northwest had suffered more than the general pub- lic is aware. The past week was the hardest seven days in railroading in the history of the business in the northwest, even as it has been a rec- ord breaking period for continuous low temperature. The operating departments of the roads have been, and are, strictly “up against it,” for the cold has seri- ously cut down the efficiency of lo comotives. One railroad superinten- SEEKERS ARE FINDING MINNESOTA “Minnesota is growing rapidly and will grow more rapidly in popula- tion’ and wealth as a result of the| land development, in the future, “saft Will A. Campbell, secretary of the! Development associz- tion, who was in Duluth with the Louis W. Hill party. “Minnesota is getting about 51 per! cent of the cars laden with house-| the Twin Cities. Out of every 1,000 cars there are about 520 that havei destinations in Minnesota. I look for very extensive immigration from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa dur-; ing the next few years. Many of the people in those states are get- ting restless and lcoking for oppor- tunity to establish new homes. The Hill roads are diverting homeseekers | from the southwest and from the Harriman lines to the northwest. “Effort is now being made to have the United States adopt a domestic ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers. 'GOMPANY HELD RESPO"SIBLE State Raliroad Commission Recom- mends Criminal Prosecution for Disaster at Odessa. Placing blame on the railroad com-* pany for “winking at” its employes who violate train rules and on thet employes for violating them the state railroad and warehouse commission | filed with the attorney general |a report on the wreck of the Columbian limited on the St. Paul road and rec ommended criminal prosecution. At least nine men were guilty of & violation of rules which resulted in the death of ten persons and the policy of immigraticn, and that in| maiming of eighteen, the commission connection with the states, will more than meet the Canadian competition. Secretary of the Interior Fisher and the northwestern states are in ac- cord. his policies. “J lock to see northern Minnesota ecquire from 15,000 to 18,000 new settlers during the years 1912. and 1913. The Great Northern road is going to be quite a factor in that connection.” OFFICIAL i a E N ‘ PROCEEDINGS OF THE These states all approve of| holds. Wearied, too, with the claims ad vanced by numerous roads that the cars of their finest trains are of all steel construction the commission rec; ,; ommends a system of government in-+ spection of the construction of cars. rails and all steel work used in the manufacture of cars. { “The increasing number of accidents: caused by broken rails,” the commis | sion’s report says, “and switches, | the imperfect condition of certain por- | tions of equipment, make it very ap | parent that the interests of both the | public and the railway companies ‘will | be best subserved by having such in | spection.” Three of the guilty employes, cays | the report, knew that they were vio lating the rules. “The practice of vio- , lating rules,” the commissioners say, {“taken in connection with certain ad- | |miasions made at the hearing, shows | |that the railroad company should be charged with knowledge that their {rules are frequently disobeyed and |the commission cannot refrain from | condemning this condition.” The 1912. {block in which the wreck occurred A regular meeting of the Village | fs twenty miles long and is declared Council of the Village of Grand Rap- |too long for practical operation, so ids, Itasca County, Minn, was h ad | employes a moenpelled e = a 9 chance,” an ir acts hav. aN this 8th day of January, 1912, at che | [yee ae nigker pes i. Council rooms, Village Hall, at 8 ceria a es boy WRECK ON GREAT WESTERN Members present: sard, Trustee Agscott, Russel] and 2 neem! ss | Three Coaches Derailed and Five Per-' King and Recorder Sherman. j = sons Injured. Minutes of the former meeting| Fivi i was read, correcticn was made in| vin os aie Taleb ihe sehiyne i : aE ‘others badly shaken up when Chicago reading, referring to application for Great Western passenger train No. 42, abatement of real estate assessment! bound from Minneapolis to Rochester, on M. E. parsonage, after which min-|was ditched by a broken rail and utes were approved. jecrashed into an embankment ten Village Attorney Price rendered his, Mes north of Red Wing written opinion on application for on two engines: pulling: the tram the first two cars passed over the abatement of asscssment and tax<S, proken rail safely, but the dining ear, from Trustees of M. E. Church 00 | parlor car and smoker were derailed + parsonage, end from the Great Nor-/and crashed into the high biuff. Had thern Railwey Co. for abatement of |they left the track on the other side + all taxes levied against said | the cars would have toppled down a Northern Railway Co. i eicpari embankment into the Can- Motion made by Trustee Arscoti,! 41 three coaches that left the track seconded by Trustee King, that ap-'were badly smashed and 2re almost plications for abatement of laxes,|a total loss. Although coal fires were from Trustees of the M. E. Church, | burning in all the cars they were ex- and from the Great Northern Rail- |tinguished before the fire could spread. way Co., be rejected in compliance | with opinion from the Village Attor-| WINONA STRIKE STILL ON bey, and that said applications be) returned to the County Auditor, to- | Federal Court Snetones Petition of gether with a copy of the Village} Metormen to Interfere. Attorney’s opinion in each applica-| The striking street railway motor- tion, Motion carried by an -unani-|™men at ‘Winona have received word SIE lof the denial by Judge Willard of x |the federal court at Minneapolis to Monthly reports from Justice Of /igsne an crder requiring the company the Peace Bailey and Treasurer Mc-|to show cause why the striking men Mehon were read, approved and or-| should not be reinstated. dered filed. | An international officer of the mo- icari |tormen’s union is expected and Seinen Bie ae eee Bag efforts will be made to end the Cal. Gilman and Mohr & Dibber 4) Most of the cars mow are in opera- date of hearing on said applications! tion and there has been no trouble for was sei for Friday evening, January | over a week. sage os ty ate oe iWITH MERCURY 22 BELOW - Upon motion made by King seconded by Trustee Arscott,| spectacular Minnaapotis Fire Does y $175,000 Damage. Village Council Grand Rapids Minutes of meetmg of January 3, Great Trustee | “But of course no politics was as-|dent says that the less of locomotive sociated with the throttling of the|DOwer is fully 50 per cent. An en- extra session demand at St. Cloud”—|8ine that in ordinary weather can Duluth Herald. handle a load of 5,600 tons is wheez- On Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1911, the ing along with half that amount, or aforesaid H. J. Maxfield in his capac-|lese. The inability to keep steam up ity as president of the Northern Min-|to 4 high working pressure, and the nesota Development aassociation,|frozen condition of the greased stopped off at Cass Lake to consult| bearings of the cars, combine to re- with me, a member of the executive |duce the efficiency. committee of said association, ex-| In addition to that, the trainmen pecting to find Secretary Mackenzie|@re half frozen and cannot perform here also, in order that the program|the usual] amount of work. Every for the St. Cloud convention might drop of water that falls on the parts be talked over. At that time Mr.|Of @ locomotive freezes and the oil Maxfield telephoned to the Bemidji|©2 the axles of the cars congcels or Pioneer the following interview con-|becomes so stiff that it is difficult cerning his attitude toward an extra|t0 Move a car. session of the legislature. © Nearly all the passenger trains are “The association has not since the|Tunning behind schedule, from 30 legislature adjourned advocated an minutes to several hours. Some of extra session. At its Duluth meeting |the passengers arriving at the hotels in June the committee on resolutions|¢Omplain that coaches are so cold discussed the advisability of urging|that one hae to wear an overcoat or an extra session and decided that it} wraps. The passenger trains have to would not be advisable. The agso- run with special care, especially on ciation decided at St. Paul at a meet-|curves, on account of the great ing of the executive committee in) amount of frost in the rails, and they of the session not, to|#re not allowed to make up time. $945.36 from the Interest Fund to the credit of the Contingent Fund. Upon motion the following bills were audited amd allowed and war- rants were ordered issued to pay eame, viz: A. L. LaFreniere, ceedings ...... E. C. Kiley, pubijslites proceedings ee gecs 21.00 W. J. & H. OD. Powers, 1 Wb. 14x20 glazed glass .... 45 E. R. Browne, cutting niaietete and 38 feet 8 inch sewer pipe 11.25 John Costello, 1% cords dry hard- no SRS Fae pew agrees St SE C. W. Forrest, plowing sidewalks and publishing pro- fire run .... 6.50 Mesaba ‘Telephone Co. Telephone R. H. Bailey, Justice fees.. 4.00 Upon motion meeting adjourned un-) til Friday, January 26th, 1912, at 8 o'clock P. M. A. C, BOSSARD, | Village President. Attest: FRANK SHERMAN, Village Recorder. that the Village Treasurer be in- structed to transfer the sum of} while the mercury was hovering |around 22 degrees below zero Min- |meapolis experienced a fire loss of more than $175,000, the most disas trous confia@ration since the destruc- tion of the Syndicate block nine months ago, when the loss aggregated more than a million dollars. The Waterman-Waterbury building, owned by James J. Hill, was completely de- stroyed and with it the Continenta? hotel and saloon, owned by the Schlits Brewing company. The fire was speo tacular. * GLOVE BOUT ENDS FATALLY Participant in Spooner (Minn.) Con- test Is Dead. Attorney D. R. Middleton of Ban- dette has been retained by County Attorney Torrance of Beltrami county for the purpose of investigating a box- ing match that is alleged to have taker place New Year's night in the city hall at Spooner. “Pike” Anderson of Spooner, one of the contestants, died the following morning. Anderson is + said to have been in a groggy condi- tion at the close of the bout. “Bud” Ferrier, also of Spooner, was his op ponent, according to the authorities. F ll |