Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 13, 1912, Page 5

’ @f the Deer ia ver ees es ne Mir Trans epas Hoerai-Aevien Published Every Wednesd: | By E. C. KILEY. WO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. ids, Minn., as Second Class Matter. - | ————————eeeeeooos | Official Paper of Itasca County | Game Should Be Arranged. The following taken from-the Daily Virginian, is not entirely correct in, 5 | but that paper has the right | : “Both Two Harbors and| a@etail, idea. It say Grand Rapids are disputing the claim) ef the Virginia High school football} team to the range championship. From the record that Grand Rapids | kas made this season it would seem | that that to claim the championship than, has | "wo Harbors. The Grandi Rapids} team has a better right | | Boys have defcated Hibbing, Grand | Yorks, Fosston, Deer River and Be~| midji. Two Harbors has only suc-| weeded in defeating Ely and Aurora. | A game should be arranged betwe n | the Grand Rapids boys and Virgix to decide the championship. Seven Senators Bill Defeated- | According to advices from St. Paul the “seven senators” amendment to the constitution was defeated at Isst Tuesday’s election. The report gays that while returns are meager} and from some districts not report-| #6 at all, there is every indication! that the Constitutional amendment| permitting the legislature to increase | the road and bridge tax to 1 mill | earried in the recent election. It is| eertain that the proposed amend- ment limiting representation in the genate to seven members from any| ene district has heen snowed under, | everwhelmingly. Little can be said about the other | Constitutional amendments voted up- on according to Julius A. Schmahl,| secretary of state, except that the) vote on the proposed increase of the railroad gross earning tax to 5 per emt apparently will be very close. “The vote on increasing the road | and bridge tax was parts of the state,” “and appears to have carried by al The vote against the so-called seven-senator bill was heavy| strong in all} Mr. Schmahl said,| strong vote. im the cities, while some sections of mural Minnesota opposed it strongly. Z think no question seal the amendment was defeated by a| decisive vote.” The state canvassing beard will meet November 26- It is composed of | Chief Justice Start, . Associate Jus- | tice Brown, Judge P. W. Morri-| son of Norwood and Judge Wilbur! ¥. Booth of Minneapolis. | there is Lumbering in Itasca. Littlefork Times: Tio larg been established py th Lumber C Inter at the south en range 24, hes: wi ards of 100 men, and the they wi i pine- Several carlo n and equipment have been taken jp! there during the past two weeks. Ad- ditional camps will pe established be- tween this place and that point along the railway. This work has been un- der the supervision of Bert Weeks, sagresenting the company, To the east of us equally extensive @laps are under way, with Wm. Car- Rer at the helm, Mr. Carter has, for some time past, had a crew of men ®earding in cars at the Brown spur } i Se-A-Mo., just north of here on the M. & L. railroay. They are preparing & put in a connection with the M. & Z at the point where the logging rail | way crossed last winter. A switch is | already in place and a curve will per | mit of the connection. This logging | woad will penetrate the territory east, | Wb branches both norh and south. | will take timber from camps in sec- “tar I of this township, section 36! % the township adjoining this on the | zerth and in sections 32 and 16 in! ®ownship 69 in range 24, The last | @imber borders the Pa Root river at | the pend where the stream reaches | the point/ farther west. The operations above outlined a @ure unusual activity here this winter fm addition the Rat Portage Lumber | Go., James Anderson, local represen- tative, is daily making contracts — the settlers and this will result in a! large operation in the aggregate, ‘The cedar dealers show no lack of Gsterest in their line and the output will doubtless equal the usual activit along this line oy up | Eufaula. | SHERMAN MUCH Serious Symptoms of Last Few Days) | his physici DARING ACT OF YOUNG BANDITS Set Fire to Trestle to Com: pel Engineer to Stop. DASH THROUGH FLAMES | Lecomotive and Express Car Detachec | and Run Over Dynamited and Rifled. Muskogee, Okla. Oct. 30.—Thre: youthful robbers held up a south | bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas‘ train’ south of Bufaula, compelled the engineer to detach the express an. baggage cars and then run ther | ahead. They then blasted and rifiec the express safe. Company officials believe the rob bers got several thousand dollars. By setting fire to a trestle near the town of Wirth the bandits had nc trouble in flagging the train to a halt Although the flames threatened te} destroy the trestle before their wor | was accomplished the robbers moved deliberately. Covering the engineer and firemar | with their revolvers they ordered them from the locomotive cab. J. A Dolan, the conductor, leaped from ¢/ coach and he was lined up beside tht engineer. A porter also fell a victir to his curiosity and was made tc @tand beside the conductor. Run Cars Over Burning Trestle. While one robber held the line o) | employes the other two uncoupled the engine, baggage and express car from the coaches. They then forced the trainmen into the cab and ordered the engineer to open the throttle. The en gine, pulling the two cars, shot acros, the burning bridge. What remained of the structure fell into the water a minute after the cars had passed. Half a mile on the other side of the bridge the bandits ordered the engi meer to stop. The safe in the express | ear was dynamited and the robbers fled to the woods with their plunder Express officials fear several thou sand dollars was stolen. The alarm was soon given an | Posses were sent from Crowder and! Other posses left an hour later on special trains from McAlester | | and Muskogee. According to the de scription given all of the bandits are} less than twenty-five years old. CONTRACTOR'S BODY FOUND, Sioux City Police Fear Four Others, Perished in Auto Wreck. Sioux City, river near Winnebago, Neb., as that of George Miller, a contractor of this city, has started an investigation by authorities here of a report that an automobile party of five had perished in the river. Miller, with Bertha Holbrook, Sioux City, Frank Stamper and Louis Mat wig, Danbury, la., and Ida Hall, Omaha, left here for Omaha in Mat wig’s automobile Oct. 1. Investigation elicited no informa tion as to the whereabouts of the| Other four members of the party. IMPROVED Disappear. Utica, N. Y., Oct. 30.—Vice Presi- dent Sherman spent a good night and| Was regarded as much improved ‘when n left him. The physician, Dr. F. H. Peck, spent the night at the Sherman home. He gave out the following statement at 6 o'clock: “From midnight until about 5:30 | o’clock Mr Sherman had a quiet sleep, He is now resting quietly and feeling much better; in fact, is physically and mentally much improved. The seri- | ous symptoms of the last few days have disappeared and the patient now is comfortable.” SIX SLAIN IN IN TEXAS TRAGEDY | Negro Kills Rich Plan Planter, Four Oth ers, Then Himself. Mount Pleasant, Tex., Oct. 30.—After | killing Lerry Taylor, negress, as she| | Was picking cotton, and three others, Josh Stanbury, a negro, shot his em- ployer, Samuel Wilson, wealthy plant er. A posse surrounded the negro and he put a bullet through his heart to avoid being lynched. | WIRELESS TEST | A SUCCESS) Great Navy Pinta at Arlington Is, Meeting Expectations. Washington, Oct. 30.—First tests of the navy’s new high powered wireless station at Arlington, Va., were a com- plete success. Officers in charge de- cline to discuss the performance of the world’s greatest wireless plant, further than to say that the first step has been taken successfully, Mabel Barrison Dying. Burning Structur. | dust Before It Collapses—Safe Ther | Ia., Oct. 30.—Identifica | | ton of a body found in the Missour AGAINST HOCKIN Witness Tells How He As: sisted Prosecution. GIVEN RUN OF THE OFFICF | | Public Accountant Relates How De fendant in Dynamite Case Handed Over Letters and Other Papers of | Service to the Government. | Indianapolis, Oct. 30.—Herbert S | Hockin, accused of being a dynamiter. | equally guilty with the McNamara brothers, again was charged by a wit- mess at the “dynamite conspiracy” trial with having given evidence to | the government secretly. } Charles E. Freeman, a public ac- | countant, testified that during the fed- | eral grand jury investigation of al- leged illegal shipment of explosives Hockin voluntarily turned over hun- | dreds of letters taken from J. J. Me- Namara’s office. “We went to the iron workers’ head- quarters last December,” said Free- man. “Hockin was there. He pointed out such letters, books and other pa- pers as we wanted and then left us undisturbed to do as we wished.” Two other witnesses had said Hock- {m aided the prosecution and District Attorney Charles W. Miller charged him with having “betrayed” the other defendants. SUSPECT SOUGHT BY POLICE Baltimore Young Woman Murdered in Chicago, Chicago, Oct. 30.—Miss Sophia Springer, twenty-nine years old, daugh- ter of Mrs. O. H. Springer, a Balti- more widow, was found murdered, her arms and legs bound with rope, a chlo- roformed handkerchief stuffed into her mouth and her body wrapped in a blanket, in an Indiana avenue room- | ing house by William E Wharthen, who accompanied her here from the Eastern city three weeks ago and to whom, according to his story, he was |to have been married. The woman’s | skull had been crushed. Charles D. Conway, said to be a high diver, and his wife, who also is known as Beatrice Diall and May Monte, a variety actress, who roomed in the | same house, and who had been be- friended by Wharthen, are being | sought in connection with the crime. ‘Two SOLDIERS A ARE KILLED | two Others Probably F Fatally Hurt in i Canadian Wreck. Toronto, Oct. 30.—Two soldiers of the Toronto garrison were killed, two {Probably fatally injured and thirty- seven others badly hurt when a train on which the troops were returning from a sham battle at Milton was wrecked near Streetsville Junction, twenty-two miles west of this city. The special troop train crashed into the engine of the Canadian Pacific express bound for Detroit, which was ; just moving from Streetsville Junc- | tion after taking water. The force of the impact lifted the heavy baggage car of the troop train | from its trucks and shot it back into | the first of the passenger coaches in which the soldiers were crowded. CUBAN PARTIES SIGN TRUCE | Agree to Suspend All Political Meet- | ings and Muzzle Press. Havana, Oct. 30.—The leaders of |the rival parties having signed an agreement to suspend all political ;Meetings and having requested the partisan press to abstain from excit- ing utterances it appears reasonably probable that no further political dis- orders will occur. | The election will be held Nov. 1 and the government is not relaxing its precautions to crush any outbreak. The cavalry patrols were doubled, Troopers fully armed are riding in pairs in the principal streets, but there is not the least sign of trouble. READY TO SAIL FOR CUBA Two American Warships Prepared to Respond to Sudden Call. Washington, Oct. 30.—In prepara- tion for any sudden call for American intervention in Cuba the cruiser Bal- timore of the reserve fleet in Phila- delphia navy yard, is being made , Feady to sail within the next forty- | sight hours. | The Baltimore is being made ready for service in case of a call, because of the lack of small vessels which , could be used in West Indian waters. | "The Yankton is being held at New York ready for a similar call. BROKEN HEART KILLS FATHER Body of Son Missing Since July 2 Is | Found. | Highland Falls, N. ¥., Oct. 30.—The 1 \ body of John Clonan, a young athlete who mysteriously disappeared from Toronto, Ont., Oct. 30.—Mabel Bar. bis home here on July 2, was found in tison, the actress, is dying of tubercu-|® Patch of woods by a rabbit hunter. losis at the home of a relative here.| Clonan’s father died only last week She has been ill for several months.|f ® broken heart, mourning for his Her husband, Joseph Howard, is at|!ost son. The coroner has begun an her bedside. {nvestigation of the young man’s death. _ MISS ETHEL SMITH. Girl Saved by Heroic News- boy Again Critically Ill. RUGH DIED iN VAIN PERHAPS Girl Newsboy Gave Life to Save Near Death From Pneumonia. | Gary, Ind., Nov. 13.—Billy Rugh’s Sacrifice of his life to save that of Miss Ethel Smith, when he gave 150 square inches of his skin to graft on her burns, probably will be in vain. Miss Smith was prostrated with grief when she heard of the news- boy’s death and never rallied. She has been taken to the Gary hospital critically. ill with pneumonia, with which she was seized after her re- lapse. Rugh allowed his leg to be amputat- ed to furnish the skin for Miss Smith, who was seriously burned in a gaso- line explosion while riding a motor- cycle. He died from shock after the operation. SEVEN STATES REPRESENTED Land Products Exposition Opens at Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Noy. 13.—The second Northwestern Land Products Exposi- tion opened at the Minneapolis Ar- mory on time to the minute. The opening presented a gala scene, for everything was in shape and there was scarcely a booth or an exhibit needing a final touch. The land show is the biggest of its kind ever held. The exposition repre- sents the products of 21 per cent of the area of the United States and shows just what the Northwest can produce from its soil, its mills, for- ests, factories and the like. The states represented are Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wash- ington and Oregon, while Alaska has also a display of its wealths. Caustic. Scene—Train stopping at small road- side station. Irritable Old Gentleman— What on earth do they stop at a sta- tion like this for? Objectionable Pas- senger (alighting)—To allow me to get out. Irritable Old Gentleman—Ah! I see it has its advantages, then! THANKSGIVING LINEN SALE ———ee To anyone in need of linens these offerings should ap peal with double force.—The qualities are the best that money can buy—All of these goods were bought before the several advances in the linen pricec that has taken place the last sea- son—The assortment is large enough for the most fastidious— The prices are made with a view of crowding in to one week the linen business of the season—Come early in the day if possible and avoid the afternoon crowd—You will have a better opportunity to make your selections. wide all y and lil- Damask—% linen dam ly pattern. Our this sale at yard 59c Pearl bleached damask, soft Napkins—In these we show a line of the genuine Greeves linen, imported direct from Ireland. 19 inch napkins, rose, pansy and snowflake patterns, $2.25 values, at dozen $1 78 finished. $1.25 quality at : 98c 21 inch napkins in lilly. fern and rose patterns, $3.00 values All linen bleached damas: at dozen in stripe patteon. Tic valu $2 39 at yard 2 Dinner size napkins in-as- 66c sorted patterns, $2,75 and $3.00 Lunch Cloths, Etc Lace edge and ao out lunch cloths and scarfs, 25 values ateach $1. 13 Sideboard scarfs with 4 rows of drawn work and hemstitch- ed. 40c values at each 30c Embroidered scarf with but- tonholed corded edges. 69c values in this sale at each 39c values at dozen $2.39 Pattern:cloths—Greeves da- mask with full border. 3!yards long, worth $2.70. For this sale, the pattern $1.98 Hemmed cloths, 2 yards long ready to use. $4.50 values in this sale at the pattern $3.48 Itasca Dry Goods Co. COMING! ENTERTAINMENT By Home Talent and BASKET SOCIAL By the M. E. Sunday School WATCH FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENTS eR Special Sale 3 ANOTHER BARGAIN for FRIDAY and 3 SATURDAY, cheap because we want to get rid of it, but some good, staple article NOVEMBER 15 AND 16 3 that you are using right along. Remember that we sell for CASH ONLY, and believe in “Quick Sales and Small Profits.” us an extra profit to make up cost of book keeping or loss on bad accounts, You do not have to pay You pay for what YOU get, but not for the other fellows’ stuff. It will pay you to watch our windows for these SPECIAL FRIDAY SALES. This week’s bargain will be displayed FRIDAY morning and will be offered for sale FRIDAY and SATURDAY, but only until our supply is sold. ONE to a customer and for CASH ONLY. Our CASH COUPONS go with every purchase--a savirg§ f4 cents on every dollar. Be on hand FRIDAY morning. : WW have something else to interest you this week. Not some article sold Very truly yours, Itasca Mercantile Co. “ ‘ er een