Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 10, 1912, Page 8

ee ——— GOLLMAR BROTHERS BIG SHOWS HER Big Gollmar Circus Will Show inj™re- Grand Rapids Saturday July 20 Gollmar Brothers big circus, billed @s America’s greatest show, will be here Saturday, July 20, with 890 people—a city in itself—495 horses and ponies, 50 cages of wild animals ‘and 200 circus performers. Herr Dreosbock’s European circus of trained wild animals, is now unit- ed with the Gollmar brothers’ show, and these are joined under two tents exhipiting fcr one price of admission} Some of the world’s best riders, gerialists and gymnasts wiil be seen,| together with spectacular feats in| bare back riding. One of the latest features is the | LaTorio sextette, imported novelty | widers, who present some new stunts in bareback riding, and another fea- ture will be Marie Renaud, the only woman somersault rider ever seen in America. WILL ENGAGE IN STOGK RAISING Wm. A- Hawkins of North Dakota has bought the Hugh Brown home- stead on Pokegama Jake of McAlpine & McDonald. This tract consists of 116 acres located on Pokegama lake shore, adjoining the Hotel Ogema property on the east. Mr. Haw- kins will take possession of the placq next October and start a stock and dairy farm. The price paid was $30 per acre. It is admirably located, convenient to town and, according to Mr. Hawkins’ plans, will become @& money-maker from the start. Twenty- five years or more ago Mr, Hawkins was employed in the woods of Itasca county as a lumberjack. While ne- «gotiating with Mr, McAlpine for the purchase of the Brown place he in- cidently remarked that a long time ago he knew a Mike McAlpine here- wpouts, “But you are not the Mc- ‘Alpine I knew” he added. “The one I knew wag 4 young, tall slim gaffer, He was a cook in the woods.’ A ! price was only a fraction of its pre- sent value. Another rare chance 20 available fs Pokegama lake frontage. That wonderful work of nature will be the resort of thousands upon thousands of people in the near fut- It has only just begun to at- tract attention. Nearby residents do not appreciate it, and probably will not until the choicest tracts of lake frontage have been quietly picked up by outsiders and held at prohibitive prices. Today it can be purchased for a mere pittance, compared with its real value. After a while we'll wake up, when its too Jate, and wonder what our judgment was do- ing when these opportunities were of- fered. The same is true as relates | to the price of good farm lands near- by at the present time and what it will be a few years hence. NOT MEETING WITH SUCCESS Plan to Petition Taft and Roosevelt to Retire. MOVE IS NOT NATIONWIDE Agitation So Far Said to Be Confined to Progressive Republicans in the | Lower Branch of Congress—Draft | of Document Not Satisfactory to All of Them. Washington, July 10.—Publicity giv- en to the plans of progressive Repub- lican members of the house to circu- late petitions calling upon President Taft to withdraw as head of the Re publican national ticket had the effect of retarding development if not actual ly circumventing the scheme. Further inquiry developed the fact that what was proclaimed as a gen- eral nationwide movement tocirculate petitions amongst voters bad thus far | been confined almost entirely to a number of well known progressives ot | the house, The reported support of | conservative. Republicans, it Was ad- mitted, probably will not be forthcom- ing. Representative Charles R. Davis of little reminescence soon elicited the ¢ fact that the portly Mike McAlpine | of today was the long, lean camp exook of a quarter century-ago that Hawkins had known. beak ” “Missouri Girl” Pleased. Fred Raymond and Wanita Wal- lace in “The Missouri Girl” with a} strong supporting company pleased a fair business at the Power theatre Jast evening. The piece has been een in Hibbing before, but has lost none of its old time fascination. It is a comedy-drama of the pastoral type, refreshingly free from over- drawn situations, while sometimes melodramatic. A fine line of spec- dalties was introduced in the second act. Miss Beth Hansell’s singing of | “Mother” and “Machree” was es- pecially pleasing while the character songs of Mr. Raymond, Joe Weaver and J. S. Nerington were also well received.—Hibbing Tribune. OPPORTUNITIES ARE BEING GRABBED UP People who have lived in Grand Rapids and Itasca county for many years have lived amidst many oppor- tunities. Some have taken advant- age of them, while some have per- mitted golden chances to slip by through carelessness, indolence or jack of foresight and improvidence. ; It is not infrequent the complaint is heard of an old-timer who overlook- ed the opportunities offered in years goneby to take a valuable homestead | or timber and stone claim in Itasea county. Many a man laid the foun- dation for a prosperous business car-: -eer by taking a tract of government land in Itasca county. Today these chances are nearly all gone, and the regrets we hear expressed by those who let slip the liberal offering of | Uncle Sam would total up a considery able number. But what’s the use looking back? about us today. While the good timper claims and farming lands have passed to private ownership, there are opportunities in other directions that are no less valuable and desir-: able. Grand Rapids village property, is an excellent investment right now | gnd the town is full of real estate snaps that will yield surprising profits in a comparatively short time. The! day is not far distant when many a/ a Minnesota has been actively advocat- ing the drafting of petitions to be sent out through the country for voters’ signatures. He had a conference with Senator Dixon, campaign manager for Colonel Roosevelt, and it is under- stood the scheme was discussed at | that time. \ a -Plan Lacks Support. | No agreement was reached by the progressives to take up the petition plan and it was rumored that lack of | general support was responsible for | the delay. | A draft of a petition to be signed | by members of the house was shown to Representatives Davis and Lind- bergh of Minnesota; Jackson, Rees, | Murdock and Young of Kansas; Kent | of California; Warburton of Washing- | ton, and several others. They did not agree upon its terms and thus far: none has signed it. Anti-Taft members of the senate, to- gether with several from the house, have decided to draw up a statement | criticising the nomination made at Chicago and setting forth their belief that President Taft was not legally nominated. This will be offered to all ; progressives for signature, to be used as a campaign statement in the forth- coming struggle. | WORKMEN FLEE FROM BUGS Lightning Insects Settle Down on Ni- troglycerin Tank. | Aetna, Ind., July 10.—Thousands of | lightning bugs caused terror among | workmen employed in the powder . mills here, following a thunder storm. | The little insects, driven from the Kankakee marshes by the storm, set- tled down upon a tank containing sev- eral hundred gallons of nitroglycerin. The employes saw the brilliantly il- luminated bugs near the great tank and immediately scattered, running terror stricken in all directions, in the fear that the tank would explode. It required nearly an hour for fore- men of the mills to dispel the fears of the employes and induce them to re- turn to work. THIRTY MINERS ARE KILLED Second Explosion Cuts Off the Res- cue Brigade. Conisbrough, Yorkshire, England, and two others injured in an explo- sion which occurred in the Cadeby colliery here. ‘A second explosion occurred in the Cadeby colliery later and was fol- lowed by a fall of the roof in some of the galleries, which cut off the res- cue brigade of about thiru: men who were in the mine at the time. The government mine inspecter and the manager of the pit are kun to have been killed by the second explosion. man now living in Grand Rapids will ‘point to this or that piece of pro- perty and gloomily relate to a friend how he lost a chance to make a littiqfew day’s visit with friends. She fortune by not buying it when the (wall return Sunday. i@Mrs. W. E White of Deer Lake went to Minmeapolis today for a JOKER FOUN IN NEW LAW Corrupt Practices Act in Effect Legalizes Bossism. MANAGER NOW A NECESSITY Alone Given Right to Maintain Head- quarters, Employ Help and In- cur Other Expenses. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, July 9.—You fellows who have been crying out against the boss; you whose every effort has been di- rected at curtailing the activities of this pestiferous cuss; you who fought for a primary law and later saw it ex- tended so as to take in the state at large, what would you say if I told | a scramble for places on the supreme | you that the latest in progressive leg- islation for Minnesota practically le- galizes bossism? It does, and further- | more it makes bossism a recognized profession. If you want to run for office under the latest thing in prima- ries and not go counter to the most drastic corrupt practices act yet known, you must have a manager or | @ personal campaign committee: It) is impossible to avoid the affliction and it applies to the humblest office state has to offer. This little joker in the law was discovered the other day the Spooner forces were contemplat- ing mandamus procedings to compel why he allowed the Republican desig- nation, but this was later denied by the Spooner managers. He issued a statement to the effect that he had no intention of interfering. Governor Eberhart was another who denied any activity in this respect. He declared that it was none of his business. Po- | lities is certainly making some strange bed fellows this year and no one knows where it will end. The old idea of accepting any old thing sim- | ply because it bore the party label is a thing of the past. Governor Eber- hart is the only one in the game just now who seems to be playing the reg- ular order of things and he is dis- creetly silent. Mr. Spooner is anoth- er who is not discussing the national situation. W. E. Lee, whose slogan is county option and who is alone on | that issue, repudiated Mr. Taft some weeks ago. He said he would not vote for him. t+ + | One St. Paul paper is very much | concerned less the nonpartisan judi- | ciary idea, which is a feature of the | new primary law, will be nullified by | bench. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul is preparing to file for one of the asso- ciate justiceships through the me- | dium of a petition and he will be pit- ted against Justice Bunn, a Democrat appeinted by Governor Eberhart to fill the vacancy caused by the death | of the late Justice Jaggard. This is what is worrying the St. Paul paper. Much of the activity in behalf of a nonpartisan judiciary during the extra session of the state legislature was in Democrat on the supreme bench. This | fact was not generally known at the the secretary of state to show cause | i { This ‘is a splendid Couch Hammock made of heavy canvas over a strong wood frame. As complete as a bed. Complete with wind shield -__-..._....--._...- $8.75 \ We have a very large able prices. things in Porch Chairs and Rockers at very reason- assortment of the newest ORGE F OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE . KREME ry: G FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING Crand Rapids, Minn | | on the list as well as the best the | the interest of Judge Bunn, the lone | ABOUT THE STATE and while the state legal department | time, but such was the case and now | would not give its official sanction to | the St. Paul paper in question is trying | the extent of an opinion Secretary of State Schmahl thought enough of it to order a large number of blanks for the use of candidates in making affi- davits of campaign managers or per- sonal committees as required by the law. The nigger in the woodpile is found in sections 16 and 17 of the corrupt practices act relating to what constitutes a legal expenditure. Can- didates may spend money for travel- ing expenses, postage and telegraph; rent halls for public speaking, pay speakers and even pire yuusicians, Several other minor expenditures af Peymitted, but there is nothing re- Fe ‘ding ne maintenence of headquar- re, clérfeal help or the various other thirigs generally recognized as need- ful and perfectly legititiate in connec- tion with the average campaign. Do- ing other than what the new law pro- vides, and especially that relating to campaign expenditutes, constitutes a criminal offense and it is here where the managerial game comes in. Under section 17 political managers or per- sonal committees are recognized and strange to relate expenditures that a man as a candidate cannot incur are | permitted in the case of his manager, if he has any. He or a committee can | maintain pojitical headquarters, he may employ clerical help, have stenog- raphers and incur other expenses de- nied the individual candidate, so you see if you are a candidate and want to | play safe you simply have to have a manager. I may not have made the new order of things perfectly plain, but if you are in doubt just read the law. + + + Campaign expense accounts, with W. E. Lee, S. Y. Gordon and L. C. Spooner as the names attached to the affidavits filed, were features of the political happenings at the state capi- tol. All three are candidates for the Republican nomination for governor. The expense accounts as filed were the first efforts toward a compliance with the new corrupt practices. act. Mr. Lee acknowledged to a personal expenditure of $40 odd, Mr. Spooner about half that amount and 8. Y. Gor- don a trifle over $200. Each gave the mames of those composing his cam- paign committee. The law ‘specifies minute details in the filing of expense lists, which must be made once a month, but it must be said that the accounts filed were not any too exact in that respect. The absence of the proper blanks was given as excuse. ++ + The third party movement is now _on, but as I pointed out in a previous | letter there is no unusual scramble on the part of the politicians to get aboard. It is hardly possible that the movement will get beyond the nation- al stage. Hugh T. Halbert is push- ing the Roosevelt cause in the Fourth district and has perfected an organiza- tion, but it alone has the boards in a boom way. Lieutenant Governor Gor- don gave evidence of where he stood the early part of the week by accom- panying the filing of his candidacy with a statement jn which he repeat- ed his previous stand on the presiden- tial question. He gave it out cold that he was not for Mr. Taft and he denied Look ahead and | jy)y 19—Thirty miners were killed |the right of any one to question his Republicanism because of that fact. E. T. Young, who is expected to file this week, went Mr. Gordon one bet- ter. He practically came out with well wishes for Woodrow Wilson, the Dem- ocratic nominee, making the point that the New Jersey man offered a solution ef the problem for those who could not stomach the alleged high handed action of the Chicago convention. The third party movement did not appeal to him. It would avail honest progres- sives nothing, he said. ie How Lieutenant Governor Gordon could practically deny the national candidate and yet file as a Republican | bothered several at the state capitol | to save him. In some quarters this | sudden interest in behalf of a single | | individual is exciting considerable | suspicion and it is likely the whole | thing will receive, considerable atten- | tion at the hands of the country press when the facts become known. ot | Judge Bunn’s elevation to the su- preme bench, as I stated, was as a re- | sult of the death of the late Justice Jaggard. For years his residence was the Minnesota ¢lub at St; Paul. Hig brother is high In a fegal capacity | with the Northern Pacific railroad. As a judge of the Ramsey county district bench Judge Bunn Was always regard: ed highly and his election to the dis- trict bench was seldom hotly contest- Friends and the newspapers saw | to it that dangerous rivals were elim- imated. Who is responsible for the sudden attack on Judge Hallam and others who have the temerity to climb on the supreme bench via Justice | Bunn’s place I would not like to say, | but as I remarked I would not be | surprised if what is back of some of the press work now being done in an effort to free Mr. Bunn of rivals comes out in due time It is a case of being suspicious when some peo- | themselves in the interest of any par- | tieular individual or thing. + + + As expected E. E. Lobeck of Alex- |andria is the Prohibition choice for | governor. At the state convention Lobeck was selected to head the tick- et and he was given George H. An- |drews of Winnebago City as a run- |ning mate. Liquor never had a more | uncompromising foe than Mr. Lobeck. As a member of the legislature in 1909 his entire efforts were directed to the passage of drastic legislation covering many things in addition to the liquor traffic, but his uncompro- mising methods won him few support- ers. He is a fervent exhorter and is said to be the best there is in the crusade line. The Prohibition party always polled a fairly large vote in | Minnesota until its alliance with the Anti-Saloon league and it will try to recover its old time force this year by going it alone. | ++ + A shorter ballot has been the cry for years, but the Prohibitionists in convention declared for one that would tax the state to print. The jleaders of that party want all the of- | ficers at the command of the governor jand the two legislative bodies which \are now appointive made elective. ;As there are close to 150 of these appointive offices the placing of the same on a ballot would be some job. ++ + John Zelch of Washington county, one of the old legislative veterans, has filed for the house after an ab- sence of two years. He has picked |class 1, a feature of the new primary \law, and will go after the scalp of Dr. Oscar,Hauge of St. Paul Park, the present house member from that dis- trict. Shortly after the passage of the primary law there was talk of jhaving the class feature of the new law tested in the courts and it was reported that Mr. Zelch was behind the movement. He has evidently de- cided to take advantage of the class feature. ++ + In the retirement of L. W. Hill from the presidency of the Great Northern, the stepping down of his father from the head of the executive board of that road and the resignation of J. N. Hill, another son, from the vice presidency of the Northern Pacific, a number of persons profess to see in it all the passing of the Hills. There is a story here that New York interests are at the back of it and that some -of the retirements were not entirely THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. ‘ple and certain corporations busy | held by that party in Minneapolis Mr. | News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, ‘THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED Two Others Sustain Serious Injuries in an Automobile Accidert at Duluth, ene cor _ 3° a Instant death was the fate of Mrs. William White, Duluth; Miss Gladys Richardson, Bridgeport, Conn., and Langford Middigan, Duluth, a chauf- feur, on a country pike near Duluth | when a touring car in which they were returning home skidded from the road and overturned, pinioning its occu- pants beneath. William White, Jr., was, seriously ‘injured about the back and is at a Du- luth hospital. Miss Nannie Tarrish, daughter of Henry C. Tarrish, the lumberman, was severely shocked and lay apparently lifeless at the roadside until carried to a nearby farmhouse, | where she was resuscitated. Charles W. Fitzgerald, the sixth member of the party, was thrown | Clear of the wreckage and escaped | without injury. Gaining his feet, he found an effort to move the heavy au- tomobile fruitless and ran to a farm, secured four men, who pried the car |from the bodies. The women and the chauffeur were dead. | Miss Gladys Richardson was twen- ty years old. She was the guest of Miss Tarrish and had been at her home for some days. Mrs. White was about fifty-five years old. She was the wife of Will- iam White, a prominent retired mer- chant. THREE DROWN NEAR DULUTH Bodies of None of the Victims Are Recovered. Three drownings among pleasure seekers occurred at Duluth when Mabel and Josephene Sanders, sisters, laged eighteen and twenty years, \daughters of Chris Sanders, a promi- nent business man, perished in Rice ‘lake, a summer resort, twelve miles out, and John Renauld, twenty years old, lost his life in the harbor. The Sanders girls were capsized in a rowboat in which they were cross- jing the small lake. Persons who saw the accident were too late to reach them, although the victims made a desperate fight to cling to the over- turned craft. Renauld lost his life while attempt- jing to learn to swim, using a frag- ment of a life preserver. He was one of a party of twenty who were on a day’s outing. Three of his compan- ions were with him and tried to save jbim. None of the bodies was recov- ered. WOUNDS WIFE; KILLS HIMSELF Red Wing (Minn.) Man Angered Be- cause Spouse Left Him. —— of age, who resides with her daughter, Mrs. Theodore Nelson, at Red Wing, was shot and perhaps mortally wound- ed by her former husband, Phillip Tennis. He then fired a bullet into his own head, dying almost instantly. Tennis entered the kitchen and found his former wife eating dinner. He was in an ugly mood and appeared intoxicated. “Well, you are not going to leave Me any more,” he said, taking a re- volver from his hip pocket and firing it at the woman twice, a bullet taking effect in the neck. She ran scream- ing from the house and fell in the yard, but regained her feet and ran Mrs. Frances Tennis, fifty-two years | Ttasca County Abstract Office Abstracts Real Estate Fire Insurance Conveyances Drawn, TaxeS Paid for Non-Residents Kremer & King Props. Grand Rapids - = Minn. Eyes Dr. Larson, the eye specialist, will make his next regular visit to Grand Rapids on usual dates the 15th and 16th of every month. All those having defective eyes or in need of the proper service for the fitting of glasses, are cordially invited to call at Hotel Pokegama the 15th and 16th of every month. LARSON & LARSON. | around the house, the enraged man in pursuit. He fired again but missed her. Then he turned the weapon on himself. MOB AFTER A POLICEMAN Latter Taken Out of Town to Prevent: Lynching. Herbert Haack, aged twenty-five, a resident of North Mankato, was shot while in one of the main streets of Mankato and almost instantly killed by Policeman Charles Pollei, who had placed Haack under arrest on a charge of insulting women. After his arrest Haack walked a short distance with the officer, when. he broke into a run. Then Policeman: Pollei shot. A mob immediately formed and sur founded the police station. The demonstration became sc strong that Sheriff Osten spirited Po: liceman Pollei out of town. Fires House, Then Ends Life: Ole Windingstad, a farmer livine eight miles southwest of Dawson, set fire to his house and barn and then committed suicide by hanging himsel to a tree. His wife and five children were absent and neighbors discovered the fire.. The barn was destroyed while the house was saved. Winding- Btad was sixty years old. Family trou- ble is the reason given for his acts. Minister Is Drowned. Rev. Joseph Johnson, aged twenty- ‘five, in charge of the Lutheran missions in Minneiska and Weaver, Winona county, and Millville, Wa- basha county, was drowned while: swimming in White Water creek, near Weaver. ONE YEAR TWO DOLLAR FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW E. C, KILEY, EDITOR AND PUB. For a short time the Herald-Roview may be} had for the above price for cash. GET IT NOW