Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 2, 1912, Page 1

eigen ye “Grand Uapids Herald-Neview. Ze ‘Vou, XXIII. —No 14 ONE-MILL ROAD TAX AMENDMENT Important Measure Which Will be Submitted to Voters at Gen- eral Election. MUST RECEIVE MAJORITY OF VOTES Failure to Vote on Amendment Will Count Against Important Measure for Northern Minnesota. The constitution of the state of Minnesota, provides that the legis- lature may levy an annua] tax upon the property of this state not to ex- ceed one-quarter of a mil] to be used in the construction and improve- ment of public highways (the term “highways” includes bridges.) At the last regular session of the legisla- ture am amendment was proposed, chamging this section so that the legislature might provide for an an- nual tax levy of one mill instead of one-quarter of a mill to be used in the construction and improvements of public highways. The change is a simple one. It increases the tax levy | for the purpose mentioned only three- quarter of one mill and this produces law provides for a road tax of one- quarter on one mil] and this producse a little more than $300,000 a year. A one mil] tax levy would raise approx- imately. one million, two hundred’ thousand dollars annually to be ex pended by the state upon the high ways and bridges, and in a manner that would not be felt by any tax- payer, The pending amendment in; | creasing the levy from one-quarter of a mill to one mill becomes vitally important for the reason that the only manner in which aid may be ob- tained from the state tor the con- struction of highways and bridges, is through the State Highway Commis- sion The rule governing the adoption | of amendments to the constitution of the state of Minnesota, makes it mecessary ivr the amendment to re- ceive a majority of all the votes cast at the election at which the amend- | ment is supmitted. It is not suf- ficient that more voters vote for the amendment than vote against it. To | illustrate—suppose there are 300,000 votes cast at the genera] election in November, 1912, and suppose that only 200,000 vote upon a given con- stitutional amendment, 101,000 would be. a majority of the 200,000 vot- ing upon the amendment, but this would not adopt the amendment. In fact, it would be lost. For the amend- ment to carry and be adopted, it would | be necessary that it receive affirma- | tive votes amounting to a majority Oa 300,000 votes, the total number cast at the election. For instance, 151,000. Many persons not feeling that they { understand the amendment fail to veRe at all upon it. Such failure to vote at all counts as a negative vote | just as effectively as if the voter had | voted no on the amendment. This rule places the burden upon the ad- vocates of al] constitutional amend- | ments. A burden much greater than is planned upon the advocates of a certain person for election to of- | fice. For a candidate-to be elected governor or any other office within the state, it is only necessary that he receive more votes than any oth- er candidate for the same office. It is not necessary that he receive a majority of all the votes cast at election. Thus, it will be noted that it is made much more difficult to | were cast on the general ballots and adopt a constitutional amendment than to elect any officer within the | Democratic votes were cast, 275 Pub- state. Friends and advocates of the | lic Ownership and a scattering Pro-| one-mil] tax amendment should fully understand and bear this rule in mind in their efforts to secure the adoption of this amendment at the coming general election. The object of this tax is so meri- torious and the amount thereof to be borne by the average voter is so very insignificant that every one should be especially interested in securing the adoption of this amend- ment. All public spirited citizens; all associations having for their object ‘the development of the state; all com- | held the controlling interest in the | gers were compelled to pay trackage | complajnt, | fact being brought out at the hear- Granp RapipDs, Jrasca County, MINN., WepnesDay, OCTOBER 2, 1912 in the state are solicited to take up @ campaign in favor of this amend- ment, to the end that the voters thoroughly understand the purpose of the amengment before the Novem- ber election. Speakers and literature will be furnished upon request made to any one of the undersigned. ‘C. M. King, president of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion, Deer River, Minn. F, W. Murphy, president, West Cen- tral Minnesota Development associa- tion, Wheaton, Minn. T. R. Bonnallie: president Southern Minnesota Better Development league, Tracy, Minn, RAILROAD RATES WHITTLED DOWN Minneapolis & Rainy River Rail- road Must Lower Rates—Big Fork Country Profits Lower rates on merchandise, tim- per products and farm produce went into effect on the Minneapolis & Rainy River railroad last Wednesday, as ordered by the state railroad and warehouse commission, the time for appeal from the order having ex- pired. | The road has headquarters at Deer River and has two lines, the princi- pal one running to Big Fork. The freight tariffs are lowered from 15 to 50 per cent and certain track- age charges are abolished. The com- missioner’s order also provides for a lower car capacity. The action that brought this low- ering of schedules about was insti- tuted about a year by the merchants, loggers and farmers tributary to the road. It was claimed that the rates then in existence were so excessive that the developement of the country was retarded end that the indepen) dent loggers were being frozen out in} favor of the Itasca and Deer River lumber companies, The same intér-| ests that owned these properties also road, and it was claimed that sup- plies, houses, logging machinery and men were hauled practically without charge for them. On the other hand, it was claimed, the independent log- charges and twice the amount of the ordinary hauling charge to Deer} River where logs, posts, poles and ties. were transferred to the Great North- ern, The farmers claimed that as a re-} sult of the independents being frozen out, they were compelled to sell their timber products to the Itasca and Deer River companies at prices that would not per! them to make a effort to clear their lands. Als a re- sult, no progress was made in the settlement of the country and no new settlers came in, it was sitted in the During the investigation made, the | fact was established to make a re-| port on gross earningss amounting; to nearly $5,000,000. This was on mer-} chandise, and timber products the compeny claimed it was under con-| trica to haul at cut rates for the two lumber concerns. On account of this | ing, the state recoverey back gross earnings taxes totaling nearly $10.7) 000. \ Three hearings were held before all the evidence was taken, one at Deer River and two at St. Paul, Charles F,. Staples, a member of the state railroad and warehouse commission, presided. Board Finished Thursday. The county canvassing board fin- ished its labor last Thursday and re- turns were made to the state board that day The count showed that 2252 votes 476 onthe woman's ballot, About 300 hibition and Socialist-Labor vote. As usual Itasca county goés strongly | Republican, which was empha- | sized by — the provisions of the laws requiring voters to call | for their party ballot at the primar- ier. There are, however, 2 number of Democratic candidates who will poll a big majority at the genera] elec- tion when the party ballot restriction is removed. pe The state campaign has again dem- onstrated that the few do the loud |tello, 1. t.; George More, 1. g.; Rob- talking, but the $43 Nye voting. PIGSKIN KICKERS PLAN SCHEDULE High School Team Will Play Hib- bing at Opening Game Saturday. FINE SERIES OF GAMES OUTLINED Coach Carson Has Team in Good Shape for Initial Kickoff-- Will Pl-y Hibbing, Vir- ginia and Eveleth. A schedule of games that will oc cupy the football] season up to the big Thanksgiving game has been planned by the high school football team’ which, under the direction of Prof. Fred F. Carson, director of ath- letics, will play the first game of the 1912 season at Hibbing Saturday afternoon, The games arranged are: Hibbing, at Hibbing, Saturday, Oc- | tober 5. Coleraine. at Grand Rapids, urday, October 12- : Bemidji, at Grand Rapids, Saturday, October 19. Virginia, at Grand Rapids, Satur- day, October 26. Hipbing, at Grand Rapids, Satur- day, November 2. Sat- Virginia, at Virginia, Saturday, No-) vember 9. Eveleth, at Grand Rapids, Thanks- giving, day, November 28. Coach Carson has his men in good shape for the first of the season but the Hibbing team are said to be in good form and the game Saturday will undoubtedlyieshow, where the weak spots are. The lineup for Saturday’s game is: Wayne Gilbert, 1. €;, John Cos- ert Gilbert, ¢.; Richard Fischer, r. g.; Fred Rosholt; r. t.; David Kribs, r. e.; Edward Farrall. f. b.; William Whalen, 1. h. Walter Aikin, r- h.; Harold Lee, quarter. The strike of twenty-four hours in the textile mills of Lawrence, SOONERS NABBED Warden Harry Rounds Up Bunch of Bovey Offenders Last Saturday. i | PAY FINES FOR ILLERAL KILLING Game Birds Plentiful This Year! and Good Sport for Hunters in Sight—Partridge Sea- son Now Open. Abunch of “sooners’ were round- ed up by Game Warden Jesse Harry last Saturday at Bovey, charged with Killing partridges before Oct. first, and were given hearings before Jus- tice Trescott at Coleraine Monday. Dominick Karteno, Tony Gronger, James Larry and Jerry Vacell, all Bovey men, pleaded guilty to the charge preferred of killing game birds out of season, and were fined $10 and! cosis each. Jam<«s MacPherson of Taconite fell a victim to Game Warden C. V. Smith Monday, on a charge of shooting the {birdies before the game laws de- clare them ripe, and paid a fine of $10 and costs in justice court at Tac- onite Monday afternoon. Four shot guns, seized by Game Warden Harry, were sent down to the state game and fish commission at St. Paul. The game wardens report all kinds of birds unusually plentiful this year, owing in a measure to the bounti- ful crops of the season. The season for shooting partridges opened Tuesday, October first, and | evelp hunter in townjewas away at daylizht yesterday for the first shot at the beauties. The law provides that turtle doves, snipe, prairie chick- en, pinnated, white-breasted or sharp-tailed grouse, wocdcock, up- land plover and golden plover may be killed between the 7th of September and the 7th of Novemper. Quail, partridge, ruffed grouse or pheasant, other than the Mongolian, Chinese, ring-neck or English pheas- ant may be killed between the first of October and the first of December, Mass., when 12,000 operators went out, ended yesterday, and normal conditions. have, been resumed. following. The law further prevides that no person may kill in one day, more than | | profit. For this reason they made no HEAD OF IMMIGRATI ’ DEPARTMENT LIKES BOOKLETS ON H. J. Maxfield Commends Work Done by Commercial Clubs of of Itasca County---More Complete Than That of Any Other County in th In a recent letter to the e J, Maxfie:d, commissioner of the gives his impression of the bookl e State, He Says. ditor of the Herald-Review, H. siate board of immigration, ets which are being published by the commercial clubs of Itasca county. Mr. Maxfield’s opinion is that of an expert, his work at partment, putting him in touch being employed by the several states, the head of the immigration de- with the best publicity methods and his commendation, therefore} shows that the publicity work for Itasca county is not falling short of the high s' in charge. Mr. Maxfield’s E. C. Kiley, Est, Grard Rapids, Dear Sir: Tam Coming County. I made quite a i, ‘sg a concentrated effor' ttamdard set for it by the men letter follows? St. Paul, Sept. 27, 1912. n. in receipt cf your booklet entitled “Itasca County—The I have looked over the same very carefully, © heartily congratulate you upon the effort. As i long been in favor of this kind of publicity. In campaign for these county book- t+ for .good advertising. More than that, it tells the facts about your county in a forceful d readable manner, Through twenty. counties in the state'lave cut the year, perhaps fifteen or published pooklets of one kind or another. Without hesitation’? believe I can say that the Itasca county bock More nearly covers all of the points that I think should be contained in a work of this sort, than any of those published vy the other counties; DEFECTIVE PAGE although we have some very good bookjets from other counties. The map idea is a good one. send this office, at least a couple of hundred of these book- lets at an early date, as we get many specific inquiries for in- formation about Itasca county. If it is possible for you to sive us a few separate maps,I would appreciate that as well. I tiust that you will be able to BY GAME WARDEN upland plover, golden plover, or any for all cf the same combined, of 50; JURY UST DRAWN | Andersen; Two Dollars a Year 15 birds, or have in his possession at | amy time more that 15 turtle dove, | prairie chicken, white-breasted or sharptajled grouse, quail, partridge, | ruffed grouse or pheasant, woodcock, snipe, wild duck, goose, brandt or any variety of acquatic fowl. FOR FALL TERM fis i These Will Serve at October Term of District Court in Grand Rapids The following list of grand and petit jurors for the term of district court which begins October 22; was drajwn last Friday: ‘Grand Jurors, John Van Patter, Cohasset; H. Hamgen, Nashwauk; Homer Wright, Cohasset; Henry Thelin, Goodland; C. Brown, Nashwauk; Jas. Mattison, Bovey; Ben Larson, Bovey; Thomas | Box, Otenegan; J. M. Price, Alvwood; Charles Attiv, Orth; S. P. Hegdahl, Harris; Stanley Booth, Togo; Ralph | Whitmas, Bovey; Axel V. Anderson, | Blackberry; Frank Voight, jr., Deer | Lake; James Higgins, Holman; | Claude Fish, Ardenhurst; Wm. Hen-| ry, Feeley; J. H. Grady, Cohasset; | Cal Gilman, Grand Rapids; Ed Keer, Bass Lake; A. Johnson, Nashwauk; Louis Courtemanche, Grand Rapids. Petit Jurors. John Larson, Bigfork; A. C. Stahl, Nashwauk; Frank Larson, Bigfork; | Joe Wolf, Cohasset; James Passard, | Grand Rapids; C. S. Todd, Grattan; Tim Mahon, Grand Rapids; G. F. Leyde, Marcell; Charles Sumner, La- Prairie; Sd Kerr, Cchasset; oJhn Doran, Grand Rapids; David Cochran, Cohasset; J. M. Garner, Balsam, Wil- | liam Anderson, Goodland; Adolph F. | John Lom, Goodhope; Emil Seaburg, Marble; Albert Hach- | ey, nd Rapids; James Duffy, | Grand Rapids; A. H. DeLap, Alv- | wood; Carl Heyman, Warba; C. S.} Attic, Nore; Charles Parmenter, Ar | denhurst; Sam Pettle, Grand Rap- | ids. | ISOLATED FAMILIES CAN'T HAVE SCHOCL Attorney General’s Opinion Holds | No Comfort for People in | District No. Six. | hand- An interesti ed down last week by Attorne Genera] Lyndon A. Smith in regar to a peculiar situation in schoo] 2f- fRirs in district No, Six. A part of the school rict is cut off by the Mississippi river and | Islend lake from the main territory | of the ditsrict, which is one of the | largest in the state. The isolated | m contains five or six famil- | ies with children of schoo] age, and thees families petitioned the dis- trict officials to build them a school house in their s m, but this re- quest was refused. Seeking further relief, the isolated ! portion petitioned the county com- missioners to attach them to district ! No. Ten. This the commissioners were willing to grant, but the resi- dents of district No. Ten presented a counterpetition in which they stat- ed their disinclination to have the territory in question included in their domains, The matter was laid before the at- torney general, as his opinion in schoo] matters is binding until re- versed by actofthe legislature, and his opinion states that the county authorities cannot compe] the school board of district No. Six to build the desired schoo] house, neither cam it | attach the territory to district No. | Ten against the wishes of the people: Under this decision there is no re- lief for the isolated schoo] children | of district Six until the next annual {school meeting, when the voters can | | express their wishes in the matter, | and if a majority desire the build- | ing erected, the board will be com- | pelled to follow the voters’ instruc: | tione. gs decision was District Court Today. | A special term of district cour{ is: being held today, about 55 applica. | tions for citizenship papers coming | on for hearing, Some 15 of these | were left over from the spring term. will convene Tuedsay, October 22, but present indications point to a jers would get at leas | that the U. S. | imported | Rochester fair and at "Nhe regular October term of court | POTATO CROP I$ NOT T00 LARGE Returns From Early Fields Indicate Yield Will Not Reach 1911 Mark. /OIGGING GENERAL NEXT WEEK Cold and Rainy Weather Has Re- duced Itasca County’s Crop —Neighboring Farmers Will Store Tubers. The impression has seemed to pre vail that the potato crop of Itasca county woukl be as large as last year, but later and closer investiga- tion dces not appear to bear out this idea, and if similar conditions exist elsewhere: and reports are to the effect that they do to a great- er cr less extent, the crop will not be as large as last year, and spuds } will command a fair price, instead of being a glui on the market as sonieé predicted in the earlier part . Last year was a ban- ner year in Northern Minnesota for potatees, the crop being the largest ever produced, and the quality was prime, but weather conditions this season have not been the most orable for the crop. The dry weather of the early summer reduced quantitv of the and the unus- ual’y coo;, wet the last month has not been conducive to the maturing of the crop in the best manner. From the fields on the heavy of the s ye weather of clay lands comes the repor that, some of the potatoes are rott yy the ground on acc t of the uel wet weather, "a grub have attacked them in somé« In addition to this the aver will not be as large, anyhow, 2s season, In view of these it begins to look as thoug for their potatoes med by good autho there is a reasonable prof hi the » cents per where the xtraordinarily yora he cause of the v last year was the y in extensive portions of ddle west and the South, t is said these conditions do this year to any great ext . potatces were imported to the U. last spring and summer on 2¢cc of the shortage in this country, author ed a bam on imported potat for the reason that much of stock has been fo’ be diseased, and they propose to stop the danger if possible. This might have the effect of making a better demand for the hom oduc if it is true that the size of thecr in this country has been over mated. KING BAGK FROM SOUTHERN PART Spoke to Southern Minnesota Citi- zens on Dunn Amendment Last Week. Cc. M. King returned this morning from a trip through the southern part of the state, speaking at other poi in the south counties for the Dunn amendment. While in St. Paul, Mr. King ¢ a meeting of the presidents oft development leagues of the st so that the. different organiza may work as a unit in boosting good roads movement. “I consider the Dumn amendment one of the most important measu in the good roads campaign,” said Mr. King, “and I shall work in be- half of the amendment from now un- til the genera] election, making 4 state-wide campaign in its behalf.” rtage of a The attorney general has ruled that women can mot be policemen in Min- nesota, answering a query of the club women of Minneapolis, who want light criminal calendar, though the civil calendar will pe well filled. a woman officer.