Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 16, 1912, Page 1

rald-Review. rey ’ — 1 a VoL, XXIII. —No 16 RICH GOAL STRIKE AT GRAND RAPIDS Eight-Foot Ledge Discovered on Philip Smith Farm South of Village. LIGNITE OF EXCELLENT QUALITY Strike Made About a Mile From Rich Ore Bodies--Specimens Gone Forward for Analysis. What is believed to be a strike of high-grade lignite coal has been made on the Philip Smith farm, two miles While drilling for a well J. S. Schultz struck an eight-foot ledge of coal at a depth of 20 feet. Samples were burned, the coal burning readily) and clearly, leaving a fine, white ash. Specimens were sent at once to the analyzing chemist at the state university and the chemist’s report is being awaited with interest. Prior to this time several minor strikes have peen made, but the coal in the ledges struck heretofore has only been in one-foot ledges and at @ much greater depth that that dis- covered on the Smith property: The formation of the land in this district leads to the conclusion that rich beds of coal may underlie it, and if this is the case, the rich beds of iron ore in the district will pale into insignificance when compai-; ed with this latest indication of vast mineral] wealth in this section of the range country. GOVERNORS SELECT THEIR STATE DAYS Special State Days Planned for Northwestern Products Expo- sition in Minneapolis. Governors of the seven, Northwest- ern States wihich will be represented at the Northwestern Products Expo- sition in Minneapolis in November, have selected their special state days when the entire exposition will. be conducted with special reference ta the state in whose honor the day, has been set aside.. The governors and their represen- tatives will speak in the lecture halls; the commissioners in charge of exhibits will give away samples of'|slaught and on the last scrimmage, their products and souvenirs; the bio- graph halls will be devoted to the showing of motion pictures and ster- eopticon views, illustrating life on their farm, im their orchards and cities. When it is “Minnesota Day,” all will be Minnesota and each in their turn will be paramount. Here are the special days select- ed by the governors and set aside for doing honor to the states and cities or special interests repre- sented: Tuesday, Nov. 12: school children’s day. Wedmesday, Nov. 13: Agricultural College day. Thursday, Nov. 14: Minnesota day. Friday, Nov. 15: St- Paul day. Saturday, Nov. 16: Oregon State day. Monday, Nov. 18: North and South Dakota State day. Tuesday, Nov. 19: Minnesota State day. Wednesday, Nov, 20: State day. Thursday, Nov. 21—Washington an Alaska day. Opening and Montana Friday, Nov. 22: Seven States day|E. Erskine .. and Conservation day. Saturday, Nov. 23: Idaho and Clos- ing day. The Exposition will be closed on Sunday, Nov: 17, and will not be op-|McIntyre .. .. .. LG. .. en for even a sacred concert. Minneapolis Civic and Comme; organizations will attend) the exposi- tion in a body on the afternoon and: evening of their respective days and T. Erskine .. ..RH.. Jecture halls. | for either side. - } GRaNnD Rapips, ITasca County, CITY TEAM WINS FROM COLERAIN ‘Range Pigskin Kickers Not Fast | Enongh for Grand Rapids | Players in Initial Game. | In a game replete with good situa- tiong the Grand Rapids players ran | away from the Coleraine team by the , ‘pig end of a 6 to 3 score.last Sun- {day afternoon. | The local boys warmed up fast, put the Coleraine team looked) the heav- iest and able to put up a good game, | They were outclassed however, by the local eleven, who had it on them | at all stages and most of the time the ball was in Coleraine territory. Grand Rapids scored on aj forward pass and the Coleraine eleven on a drop | kick, | Grand Rapids winning the toss-up, | defended the east goal, receiving the | kick. Upon lining up, the locals start- | ed a series of fake plays and for- | ward passes that took the visitors completely off their feet, going down the field for gains of from 10 to 20 yards. On the twenty yard line the ball was fumbled and Coleraine fell on it. After smashing the line to no avail, the miners were forced to punt. Lofberg recovered the ball and returned it 10 yards. Again the for- ward pass was put into play and the ball wasi brought to the 4 yard line, but owing to an incomplete forward pass and a fumble, Grand Rapidis lost the ball. Colerain immediately punted out of damger. At the end of the first quarter, the ball was on Coler- aine’s 20 yard line in the local’s pos- Session, | Grand R aids began with the fake plays, but upon getting within 10 or 20 yards Of the goal would lose the } ball. Coleraine could not gain on line | their off-tackle smashes, and end | runs each time being forced to punt. The ball was pushed back and forth from the center of the field’ tothe visitor's 20-yard line, the City team | making good gains but would lose the, ball whem a touch down looked sure. | The first half ended with no score On beginning the second haif, the locals shifted their line-up, Fraser going to full back, E. Erskine to left takle and Rogers to right end. | Grand Rapids kicked off and both | teams went into the game with a de- termination to score, Coleraine push- ed the ball through to the 25-yard line, and on their fourth down with 8 yards to gain, Hall fell back to drop-kick but the oval went wide of the posts and was brought out to the 25-yard line and put in play by the City team. They immediately punted. Coleraine lost the ball on, downs and Grand Rapids smashed the line and worked the forward pass but could not score. The quarter end- €d with the ball im the center of the field in the local’s possession. The last quarter was by far the best. Grand Rapids started) the play with a speed that bewildered the visitors. Nothing could stop the terrific on- a long forward pass by Lofberg to A. Doran, the ball was carried over for a touch down. Grand Rapids failed to kick goal. This seemed to put more life into the visiting eleven and they played their pest during the last five minutes of the game, going down the field in a fast snappy man- ner, but were brought to a halt on the local’s 20-yard line. As a last resont to score, Hall again dropped back and put over a perfect drop kick. This netted the visitors three points. The game ended with the ball on Colerainme’s 30-yard line in Grand Rapids’ possession. The features of the game were the long forward jpasses by Lofberg, T. Erskine and A. Doran, E- Erskine and H. Doran, who received the most of the passes, handled them in, good shape, making constant gains. A. Doram also figured strongly in re- ceiving the passes. For Coleraine, Hall was the star, making most of their gains in the line plays, and by phis excellent booting, which, no perge saved the visitors from a bad defeat. Following is the line up: Grand Rapids— Coleraine— O'Brien .. .. .. RT.. .. Wickluck Miller .. .. .. RG@.... ..MeGuire Seamens .. .. .. C. .. Bi Carlson Maney H. Doran .. .. ..LE.. .. .. Coffee . Gale Rogers.. .. .. ..FB .. Br, , THE WHIPPED ; you to arise after he had knocked CUR YELPED! } Cass Lake, October 15, 1912. To J. LeFevre, Coward and Liar: z My attention has been called to the defense of yourself in last week's issue of your blackmailer, the Exam- Since I have thus far compromised myself to address you I will vem ure to reproduce this remarkable extract from your “‘defense:” “Tt was down in Cal Gilman’s place and a certain democrat in town—still iner. In that attempted defense you | here—was abusing Mr. Kiley for quit- make frequent use of my name—to: ting the democratic party and going what purpose I am unable to undey- stand. I didn’t lick you, nor did I con- spire to have you licked. I do notev- en know by sight the splendid young man who administered a well- deserved licking to you. The Herald- Review is a newspaper and in jus- tice to its readers interesting events of the week are truthfully chronicled, | without regard to the feelings of your self or any other scoundrel. The people of Grand Rapids and Itasca county were de-lighted to read a full and accurate account of the why and how Mr. Carson trimmed your dir- ty hide and made you beg for mer- cy. If you were a newspaper man, you would appreciate the enterprise and absolute truthfulness shown by the Herald-Review. But what’s the use? You are not a newspaper man, or any other kind of a man—you are a moral degenerate. It is easy, however, to read be-| tween the lines that you aimed to get away from the subject and at- tract attention to “Mr. Kiley.” It even hurts you to think about that thrashing, and so you just put togeth- er a few falsehoods about the very respectable editor of this very res-} pectable and reliable newspaper, hop- ing thereby to divert attention from the fact that young Mr. Carson— about half your size—chased you around ‘town umti] he caught you and proceeded to administer the thrashing he promised you in event] that you failed to retract the false- hoods and slanders you had. publish- | ed regarding the teachers in our public schools. Now you claim he as- saulted you with steel or brass} knuckles. You told Dr. C. M. Storch, who fixed up your badly bruised facsimile of Famst’s Mephisto, that the young man g@ve you a fair and square thrashing; that he was a gen- tleman; that he manfully assisted you out; that he helped you to your home; that he expected to be arrest- ed; that he was willing to abide the consequences; that he promised to lick you again on similar provocation. You admitted to Dr. Storch that Car- son was quite capable of putting it @ll over you in the manly art of self-defense. Did you lie to Dr. Storch, or did you lie in your pub- lished defense? You dare not walk up to Mr. Carson and say to him that he is guilty of a cowardly at- tack or that he used kmuckies, ex- cept as nature provided him. You physical and moral coward, you dare not do it. Mr. Carson walked into your of- fice between the hours of four and six o'clock in the afternon, and shak- ing his clenched fist under your Me- Phisto probosis, called you a liar and a coward, and them and there invited you to prepare for a licking. Coward and cur that you are, you protested that if anything had been published in your paper regarding the schools that was not true you would make re- traction in your next issue; that you had been misinformed as to the facts. Mr. Carson thereupon invited you toaccompamy him! to the high school for the purpose of investigating the works in question. You declined to accompany him, and he literally fore- ed you to go, on penalty of getting licked on the spot- You went, and Mr. Carson compelled you to remain at the high school building until after 12 o'clock at night reading school books. You admitted to him that the books contained nothing objection- able. You promised to retract what you’ had published. Mr. Carson promised to administer corporal punishment to you if you failed to do so, You violated your pledge. Mr. Carson man- fully lived up to his. You are a coward, a bluffer, a braggart, and Carson will catch you again if you don’t watch out. IGHWAY COMMISSION FAVORS FEDERAL AID State’s Road Improvement Popu- lar in Minnesota. At the next meeting of the S Highway commission, to be called b over into the republican, ranks, when, this ‘honorable and patriotic’ Mr. Kiley said: ‘What would you do if $1,000 were offered to you, would you take it or -would you let it get c+ Why, take it, of course. What do I care about the people. The people be damned, they will let you. starve in the ditch. I am in where the money is and that’s the place to e. Then this ‘honorable’ booster, for Itasca county went on to tell more about it and he said: ‘Dan came to me and made me the offer and told me I could have the county, printing too. I doubted his ability to deliver this, but he took me dow before the commissioners, told them what he wanted, and he didn’t have to say much either; I wag prom- ised the printing.’” ‘The man who would write and print the foregoing and expect any, sensible person to believe it should haye some fear of the foolkiller find- ing him. You ask if I deny the truth of it? No, it’s a damned lie on the foo) face of it and needs no de- nial. You call my attention to the criminal records of Itasca county and find my, naihe thereon. Yes, that’s so and | under similar circumstances it will appear there again, Yes, again. Frank Price and Jake Cole attempted through perjury to haye me indicted, and as a result of the attempt, Price was | indicted. That wasn’t my fault, any more than it was my fault that Mr. Cgrson licked you. Price committed perjury and “the grand jury indicted ow, jist a little pit, Deadbeat? Yes, You have swindled nearly every nierchant in Grand Rapids. You have | nit paid fo the provisions provid- | ed by local merchants to feed your fagiily, L-intidence man? Yes. | You conned” Senater D. M. Gunn | out of $300, for which he could and should have sent you to the peniten- tiary for obtaining money under false | pretenses. ; Perjurer? Yes. In\a case on trial in St. Louis county you were a witness, and Judge Cant pronounced your testimony to be unworthy of consideration. Politi¢al charlatan? Yes. Two years ago you appeared! before | the county auditor and made affida- vit that you were a Republican, in, order to get on the Republican bal- lot as\a candidate. Prior to that time, for a number of years, you claim- ed to be a Socialist. With Socialists you campaigned as a Socialist. With Republicans you claimed to have en- tered the Socialist councils for the purpose of betraying them and break- ing up the party in Itasea county. A dangerous demagogue? Yes. You pretend to be conducting a Socialist paper, when, as a matter of fact, you are being fed and fatten- ed by men who do not know the mean- ing of the word “Socialist.” You and your publication are being supported by those who would destroy, and are destroying, Socialism in this com- munity. Bnough for this time. I have only touched you with the goad-stick. just to hear you roar with wrath. But, J. LeFevre, take it from your master, that I will continue to re- move the mask until] your naked) nastiness is revealed to an outraged people. When I have finished the task that I assume today it will be when you have folded your tent to quietly sneak forever out of the community. My campaign is progressing nicely, thank you, and I confidently predict my election as one of the represen- tatives from the Fifty-second) dis- trict to the state legislature on No- aie 5. tive to federal aid to post roads in various states, Nearly fifty bills have been intro- duced in Congress providing federal, aid in different ways, and all these, have been referred to the joint com- mittee. Some recommendations have N., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1912 | RUESSWIG WAIVED EXAMINATION Preliminary Hearing Tuesday—Case Will Go to Grand Jury Which Convenes Nov. 12. F. E. Reusswig, charged with know- ingly allowing fraudulent claims to be paid while director of school dis- trict No. One, waived examination | at the preliminary hearing Tuesday in Judge Bailey’s court and the case will go to the grand jury, when that body convenes here November 12. The present poard of directors ask- ed that an examination of the books of the district be made, and, on ad- vice of the prosecuting attorney, the county commissioners had an exami- ation made by a firm of expert ac- countants, with the result that a warrant was issued for Mr. Reusswig’s arrest. The alleged fraudulent claims were issued during the year 1910-11, when of school district No. One have been board, the warrants issued in several cases being te teachers who were not at that time employed in the district. The exact figures of the alleged | Shortage have not been given out, but will total several hundred dol- lars. Bail in the case was fixed at $750. The case will be one of the most interesting that will come be- fore the grand jury, as the affairs of school district No. One have been in the lime light for some time, and the present board of directors are anxious thatathorough investigation and complete checking up of the af- fairs of the district be made. ie ea lock over your record, QUESTION OF IDLE MINES TAKEN: UP Problem of Companies Paying Min- imum Royalties is Raised at St. Paul. Question of the right of companies | | holding leases on siate iron mines to let them lie idle and pay the state only $1,250 a year the minimum royal- ty, has attracted much attention in | the office of the state auditor and at- | torney general the last few days: and is looked upon as one of the gravest | matters which has come up for con- | sideration in recent years. The Consumer's Ore company oper- | ating the Wacootah and Hanna mines’ | near Virginia, Minn., found a strata of iron ore near the surface which contained so much alumina and sur- | phur, the company declared the pro- duct unmerchanfable and asked per- mission to stockpile it. This wag re- |fused. R. F. Grant, general counsel | of the company wrote S. G. Iverson, | state auditor as follows: | | “In my opinion, the Consumer's Ore | |! company has the absolute right to | mine all the ore it wamts to, merchant- able or unmerchantable, and stock- pile it on the premises without the | payment of royalty till it is actually | removed, provided the company pays | | the state minimums in the meantime and the royalty on ore actually re- moved.” | According to Mr. Iverson, if this | were true, millions of iron ore, on | which the state should be realizing ja gigam fund, would lie idle for} j years amd the siate get nothing. Assistant Aittorney General Steven- | son gave am opinion in which he cited a clause im the lease that | provides that the mine operators on state land shaJl open, use and work them in the manner which is usual and customary in skilled mining. Stock piling ore, he declared, would not comply with this section of the lease. “It isa grave matter for the state,” Mr. Iverson said. “Most of the mines have been leased for periods of fifty years, and have from thirty- five to forty years to run, If the ore igs not taken from them im the usual and customary manner, the state will lose thousands of dollars. Instead of the mine being worked and made to pay $100,000 a year, it j the peorle.of Grand Rapids jto see the action taken by Two Dollars a Year CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE MADE Editor of Examiner Arrested Mon- day on Charge Preferred by Supt. E. A. Freeman. PUBLIC SENTIMENT 1S ARD USED Unwarranted Attack on Superin- tendent of Schools~-Culmina- tion of a Long Series of Insults. J, LeFevre, editor of the Ex. miner, was arrested Monday on a charge of criminal libel, proferred by Supt. EL A. Freeman, head of the schools of district No. One. In a foul and slanderous article in last week’s issue of the Examiner, Mr. Freeman was charged with being a grafter and with being implicated in misuse of the funds of the school district. Mr. Freeman immediately placed the matter in his ‘attorney's hands, and a warrant for LeFevre’s arrest was issued. The case came on for hearing Tuesday afternoon and Le- Fevre, through his attorney, asked for a continuation, which was grant- ed and the date for the hea fore “Judge Kearney set for day, October 22. LeFevre thas ‘been sin members of the teachi: the Grand Rapids schoo attacks and petty insu for six months, the af ed in the foul and m of last week, Public sentiment has oughly aroused im the mai thor- been, ter man. If there is anything wren the school system they want to know it. If LeFevre has any grounds for the statements made aga‘nst Mr. Free man, the people should know it and what it consists of. If, on the other hand, it is proven that there is no foundation for the attacks which have been made on the teachers of the schools amd the sup- erintendent of the district, then it is time for the people to act and of thi.district have been subjected, may be pug for all time to the insult and annoyance to which the teachers of this district have been subjected and which is imparing the efficien- cy, injuring the discipline and crip- pling the usefulness of the Gramd Rapids schools, King Keeping Up Good Work. C. M. King, president of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion, is making a strenuous cam- paign in behalf of the Dunn one-mill road tax amendment, which will be | presented to the voters this fall. Mr. King, acting jointly with F. W. Murphy, president of the West Centra] Development association, and T. R. Bonnallie, president of the Southern Minnesota Better Develop- ment league, is sending out litera- ture to all the papers of the state urging their cooperation in a cam- paign of publicity, that the Dunn amendment may be thoroughly un- derstood by the voters. “Owing to the fact that the amend- ment may be lost quite as easily through refraining to vote on it as by a vote against it,” said Mr. King, “we are making every effort to have the people realize that the measure must receive a majority of all the votes cast— not only on this amendment alone, but on the ballot. The press of the state is cooperat- ing splendidly with us in our labor to carry this measure, which will pe the most beneficient of the laws design- ed to further development and ration- al progress throughout the state.” W. M. Bisson, employed as garden- would lie idle and pay only $1,250 a/er by Superintendent Godfrey of the year. We cannot take the view that/Oliver Iron Mining Oo., committed Sam Fullerton Injured. Bisson had been in ill health for some time and was subject epeliptic Sam Fullerton, deputy state fire|fits, which are believed to have un- marspall, was hurt in a wreck at| palanced his mind. Chisholm a few days ago and is con-| His body was found Sunday morn~ fined to the hospital there. ing in the chicken yard of the God- frey home, with a deep cut in the throat amd a blood-stained razor ly- _ ing near by: ‘ . —