Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 25, 1912, Page 1

Vou, XXIN. —No 26 STATE AUDITOR IN FAVOR OF HELPING Iverson Thinks State L-nds Should Pay Their Share in Cost of Development. SETTLER NOW BEARS THIS BURDEN He is Forced to Pay for Improve-' ments That Baaefit State Lands Vastly -- Legisla- tion to be Urged. “T’am beartily in sympathy with the movement started in northern Minnesota. to secure an appropria- tion from thestate legislature equal to what, the tax would be on state and°school lands for the purpose of! building schools and roads in the now undeveloped portions of the state,” said S. G. Iverson, state auditor while in Duluth last week. “T think the plan tha posed atthe Crookston meeting of the ‘Northern~ Minnesota Develop- ment association is a good one,” continued’ Mr. Iverson. “While the state constitution sp, ly pro- hibits the taxing of stale and schools-and, still an. appropriation secured-in’ this:Wway, will get around the constitutional provisions, I believe. é , “Tt is-tertain that good schools and goods roads must be provided. If they are not the farmers will nass this section of the state by in heir search for a new location in ‘hich to begin life anew. This is jpecially true in Lake, Cook St. iuguis, Ttesca, hiching and Roseau counties, where there is such a vast acreage of stale land still remaining unsold. “Under the present plan, if, say 40 families settle in a township where the balance of the land is owned by the state, they are tax- ed for all the improvements that are made, despite the fact that these same improvements advance the price of the adjoining tracts. Of course there is state aid, but it is a small amount. An appropriation was also made by the 1911 legisla- ture of $50,000 for school aid. This was supposed to be at the rate of five cents per acre for all state lands. The appropriation was too small, however, and in reality it amounted to only three cents an acre. This was made with the pro- vision that no school should re- ceive more than $250. “Tam of the opinion that the leg- islature will be found in a recep- tive mood for any plan that will tend toward the development of northern Minnesota. It is no more than fair that the state should pay for the benefits that acrue through the efforts of the settlers. They should not be compelled to pay a tax rate that keeps them im- poverished when the state will in time reap a harvest from the fact that these pioneers have made the improvements that will bring in oth- ers. “They are entitled to all the bene- fits possible under the existing laws. Theirs are the hardships. Theirs is all the suffering and pri- vation, and I think that it is only a simple act. of justice to make this talked-of oppropriation.” THE STATE SHOULD PAY TAXES ON LAND E. L. Buck of Cohasset, Tells Du- luth Paper That Farmer Shoule be Helped. “T heartily favor the proposition to get a bill through the legisla- ture providing for an appropria- tion equal to the tax there would be on state and school lands if they were privately owned,” said E. L. Buck of Cohasset to a News Tribune reporter while in Duluth last week. This question was discusesd at the Crookston meeting of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion, and a resolution was adopted approving it. j in speaking of the good results s pro-| | Grand Rapid INNESOT \ STORICA! . | Socicty, Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnespay, December 25, tg12 ston Mr. Buck said: “Better in- ducements must be offered to the settlers. We have the finest Sec- tion of country in the northwest. tax rates however, will keep farm- jers away, and in a new country such as this, where so much of the land is owned by the state and is not taxable, the burden of the jeost of all the improvements rests jon the settlers. “This should not be. Men are needed to develop northeastern Min- nesota. It will be the greatest dairy and truck garden district in will be delayed unless the people jalready here awake to a realiza- {tion of the fact that settlers are passing up this section and settling jin Canada, the Dakotas and Mon- tana. | “Yhe first thing a new country ineeds is good roads. The fext is !schools. Without them the better ‘class of farmers will not locate, here. | They want a place where they can visit with their neighbors, and {where their children will have an | opportunity to acquire an education. These things cost money. If an ap- |propriation is made by the legisla- turesufficient to cover what the tax on state land would amount to, they could be be provided without tax- ing the settler to death. I hope the} bill carries. “T am glad this proposi brought up. Miss Annie Shel- land, supreintendent of schools of Koochiching county, has the honor of putting forward the plan, Mbe- n was E. lieve, and with men like G. G. Hartley and W. A. McGonagle to urge on the project, I think there should be no question of its suc- cess. However, all who are alive to their interests and those of north- ern Minnesota should write their senators and representatives re- questing them to give the propo- sition their aid.” ITASCA LOGGERS ARE ~ PLEASED AT OUTLOOK B. P. Munson of Grand Rapids, and M. Callahan of Ray, Look for Average Season. While in Duluth the other day, B. P. Munson, one of the Jeading cedar loggers of Itasca county, gave out an interview in which he states that he is far from through operat- ing in th ection. Mr. Munson es- timates that he will get out about 60,000 ties this winter. In speaking of the cedar siutation, he said: “While cedar is becoming more scarce, I will not be compelled to worry over contracts for a year or two yet. I recently completed a deal for 11,000 aeres of standing timber, the biggest part of which is cedar. “IT have already secured options ‘on standing stuff to fill my 1913 contracts and will not be compelled to touch this stand until next fall.” M. Callahan, of the firm of O'Brien & Callahan, loggers at Ray, Minn., was in Duluth last week in regard to a logging contract. He re- ports that all indications point to a prosperous season in the woods, {and that while there has been con- siderable difficulty in securing help, men are hiring out, now that actual winter has set in. While the season’s cut has not yet been estimated, Mr. Callahan says that his firm will get out a bigger bunch of ties, posts, poles and small stuff than ever before, and that they will employ about 300 men. Curious Russian Law. Russia has a law which to outside ob- servers seems almost to put a premium on theft by which stolen goods become prove that he has had possession of them for over five years. In the thieves’ | market—which is, of course, licensed by the police—goods that adinittedly have been stolen (more than five years be- fore) are openly offered for sale, and prising friends. as also for the more honest members of society, who secure many a tempting bargain. j An Even Break. Mr. Jinks—You’ve spent fourteen | you got to show for it? One hat worth about $3.50, Mrs. Jinks—True. And Jast week you spent five days and $118, and what have you got to show for it? One fish story about a big trout that got away and an awful cold in your ‘head.—Country Gentleman. the world some time, but that day ; the property of the thief if he can | the place is a veritable Mecca for the | light fingered gentry and their enter- | {mortal hours and $35 and what have | that will accrue from the ques- |. zZ tions that were taken up at Crook- | [A = MEETING JAN, 9 |i is well wooded, well watered and | Itasea County Development Asso- the soil is unusually fertile. High | ciation Will Have Interesting Program. | -The program commiltee for the |January 9 meeting of the -Itagca ‘County. Development association to | be held at Deer Rixer will announte \the subjeets and speakers next | week. The arrangements committee | at Deer River will have everything | in readiness for the reception abd entertainment of guests when they arrive in that hospitable town. The Herald-Review is assured that an interesting and important program is being arranged and it is hoped representatives will be present from all sections of the count attei's pertaining to county affairs will be iseussed and plans proposed for arrying out of certain improve jments in many directions. Paes ie eve et CHRISTMAS GIFTS BY SUNDAY SCHOOL Presbyterian Remember Those Less | Fortunate in Their Cele- | brations. The annual Chirstmas entertain- ment of the Sunday schoo] pupils ot the Presbyterian chureh was held ‘on Sunday evening, with an appropriate service of song and story, entitled. “In Quesi of the King.” It is a very pretiy story of the birth of the Savior and was well attended and muéh enjoy As is the ¢ school, the gifts to rendered on the o@éasion Christmas program, and on this | Oecasion these amounted tu $16.30 {in money besides $3.99 donated for foreign mission by the Surday -schaol..on. Sunday vensiiae: 1e | gifts and the purposes for which ent classes were as follows: Class No. 4, one dollar for toys to be presented to children who other- wise were likely to receive none. Ch No. 5, $41.65 to be added to the fund for new singing books. Class No. 6, Christmas gifts to the sick child in the hospital. Cl. vo. 7, Christmas dinner to family in need. Class No. 8, dinner and cloth- ing to needy family. Class No. 9, $1.00 worth of candy and fruit te help out a family’s Christmas din- ner. Bible clags $4.85 worth of groc- eries and provisions to needy fam- ies. The Junior Endeavor society dressed dolis and presented them to needy children. The plate col- lection, amounting to $7.80 will be expended for Sunday school or charitable work under the direction of' the Sunday school. The primary department, Class- es Nos. 1, 2, and 3 held their party Tuesday and it was well at- tended, the parents and smaller brothers and sisters haviing been especially invited to this gather- ing. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND. St. Paul Prelate Has Been Fifty-one Years a Priest. 1 | | | } | | | | | | clusion of his home at St. Paul the ; fifty-first anniversary of his ordination i as a priest. The archbishop declared j-that he was in the best of health and expected to see many repeti- tions of the day. y|Hoolihan of they were tendered by the differ-}. DEFECTIVE PAGE ‘THINKS FARMERS ARE MAKING MISTAKE: Grand Rapids Business Man Be- lieves That Holding Potatoes | Will Not Help Market. ~ Farmers in Itasea county are hold- ing onto over 100,000 bushels of po- tatoes in the hope of receiving bet- ter prices in the spring, according to Henry Hughes, one of the lead- ing merchants, who gave his views to a Duluth paper last week. ; Mr. Hughes stated that the in- creasé in the country’s yield of po- tatoes for the present year over 1911 is 198,000,C90 bushels, and to this fact he ascribes the cause of the present low price, 25 cents per ‘bushel. He does not believe the re- port that the eastern potatoes have been ‘attacked by rot in the cel- jlars and warehouses is true, and is of the opinion that unless con- | ditions change perceptably during {the next two months, the present low prices will hold next spring, “There is an overproduction of potatees,” he said, “and I believe farmers who are holding onto their crops will be doomed to disappoint- ment if they are doing so with the hope of better prices. Potatoes are a drug on the market, even at the present time. Conditions in Itasea county is typical of northern Min- nesota, I believe, and next spring you will see the market flooded. “I took a canvass in the vicinity rand Rapids recently and rtained that at La Prairie, Grand |Rapids and Cohasset there are still cars in the cellars and root houses. Big potato raisers like N. Mullins of La Prairie, and William Grand Rapids, have not yet marketed any of” their crop.” Mr. Hughes was on his way to Columbus, Wis., where he will it over the holidays with relati 1 YINS MINE “CASE ON TRIAL |Fee Owners Seeking to Restrain | Operators From Taking Out Low Grade Ore. The case of the Mississippi Land | company, fee owner-of the Hawkins mine, against the Wisconsin steel smpany, operators and lease hold- which is being beard in the dis- trict court at Duluth before Judge McClennahan is of vital interest to the citizens of Nashwauk because it might result in the closing down of the concentrating plant and the clos ing down of the mine temporarily, or until the fee owner and operator effect a settlement. In‘this action the fee owner is seeking to restrain the operating company from mining and shipping iss declared to be ore below merchantable grade, and Capt. Sell- wood was questioned as to what merchantable ore really is, and as to whether the washer plant was constructed for the purpose of mak- ing unmerchantable ore merchant- able, and as to the quantity and quality of ore lying in the Hawkins The witness testified that the wash- ev was put into commission for the purpose ef making low grade mer- chantable.—Nashwauk Herald. ‘Home Cures for a Cold. A man once forgot to speak to a Missouri mule when he wanted to scrape the mud from the left hind foot. Many attended the funeral. Another man forgot to take off his wet shoes when he went home at night and contracted pneumonia. The minister remarked that the floral offerings were profuse. Fooling with the left hind foot of a Missouri mule and neglecting to take care of one’s body in the win- ter time, are equally dangerous. Both usually pave the way for a long Journe! unaccompanied. The hazzard may be removed from each | with proper eare. If the man had ibeen affable and approached the [sok in a gentlemanly way, and i spoken, he probably would have liv- ed longer. If the man with the wet shoes had removed them when he | monia. There is no‘better treatment for cold that the old fashioned time- tried remedy, “the kind that moth- er used to make” a hot bath to Two Dollars a Year the feet, some ginger tea, then al warm bed, and blankets, may ward off an impending cold and possible pneumonia. Of. all things, beware of patent medicines as you would of a pesti- tience. Remember that a mustard} bath for the feet will do more to ward off a cold than will a gallon] j and that two dollars for a doc- cheaper than one hundred dollars for a funeral. Many a cough } jends in a coffin, all beeause of neglect at the outset. Remember the man who had the mule and the one who had wet shoes.. Take eare in time. | A VERY ANCIENT TUNE. It Is Also Probably the Most Popular One in the World. Perhaps the most firmly established popular song in the world is the aér fa- miliar te Americans as “We Won't Go Home Till Morning.” The origin of the tune is obscure, but Louis Elson be- Heves that the music was composed as a love song in the tenth century or earlier by one of the troubadours, the wandering minstrels of southern | France. Chateaubriand, the French writer, heard it sung by the Arabs, and he suggested that it might have been carried to the orient by the French cru- saders. It was certainly sung by the French soldiers during the war in which the first Duke of Marlborough won his| fame. It was the lullaby of the baby son of Marie Antoinette. It became one of the most popular songs of the | French revolution. Napoleon whistled and sang it throughout bis life. Beetho- ven used it as one of the themes of his | ; “Battle Symphony.” It has been for more than a century one of the most popular street songs in Europe. And there is probably not a does not know the tune. | The French words, beginning “Mal-| brook s‘en va-t-en guerre,” were invent- ed by some forgotten French soldier during the war of the Spanish succes- sion. They describe the supposed death | and funeral of the Duke of Marlbor- ough, which death, in the words of Father Prout, “did not then take place, by some mistake,” since “the subject of the pathetic elegy was at the time of its | composition. both alive and kicking all before him.” i France when Marie Antoinette caught ! it up from the pessant nurse she had employed for her baby: thereupon it spread rapidly, as songs do in France. Beaumarchais introduced it into “The The song had nearly died out in . NORTHERN CIRCUIT MAY GE FORMED North Central Counties May Band Together to Hold Exhibits Later in the Fall. MEETING AT AITKIN ON DEC. 30 Might Prove Advisable to Include: Koochiching County and Thus Extend Circuit to Boundary Line. A special from Wadena te Sun News Tribune says that “Ait- unty has taken the initiative in starting a movement to band six counties into a fair circuit. It is desired that Wadena county join the circuit, which will, if formed, ia- clude the ocunties of Aitkin, Carl ton, Cass, Crow Wiug, Itasca an Wadena. Secretary J. H. Mark of the Wi dena County Agricultural society, has received a letter from GC. E. Warner of Aitkin; requesting that the Wadena society send a repre~ sentative to Aifkin on Dec. 30, a which time the matter of forming the proposed circuit will be consid ten-year-old boy or girl in America who | ,,,. is pointed out that such @ fair circuit as is proposed would be a good thing for all the counties concerned. Fair dates could be ar- ranged so as not to conflict, aud ne doubt some uniformity to rules, premiums, purses, could be arranged. el ng the above proposition, 1 trom Grand Rapids to the paper ou Monday morning ys: The announceinent in Sunday's }News Tribune that Aitkin county had started a movement to bring about the forming of a county fair circuit was received with satisfae- same } Marriage of Figa and it was used by the red republicans for incen¢ vy purposes of their own. Several sets of words have been sur to the tune in the ‘se of its history and it has itself vu rgone some mod fications. Bit -its identity clear through alf the changes. Probably it is familigr, to 4 greater number of people at the vpbesent time than’any other tune in théayorld.“Youth’s Companion. WON THE JURY. is Railroad Lost Its Case. A number of years ago Be’ Butler was a guest of friends in Brook lyn. During bis visit he noted the rul of the street railway companies com- pelling conductors to register fares as soon as passengers entered the cars and before the fares were actually col- lected. Two or three years afterward he represented the plaintiff in a damage suit for $15,000 in which a Brooklyn street railway company was the de- fendant. The principal witness for the company was the conductor of the ear on which the accident occurred, and his testimony was so strong as to make things look bad for Butler's cli- | ent. But Butler recalled the unusual rule he had remarked years before, and | on cross examination he said: “Your company requires you to ring up fares as soon as passengers enter the car, doesn’t it?” “Yes,” “Suppose a passenger boards your car and then finds he is on the wrong line. Do you state that fact to your superiors, and do they make allowance | on your returns for that fare?” “No. I lose the nickel.” “Do you mean to say the company won't take your word for 5 cents?” “No, they won't.” “Yet.” said the shrewd veteran, turn- 1 | ing to the jury, “the company asks you H to take this conductor's word for $15,- 000.” Butler's client received a verdict— Brooklyn Eagle. “Spanish Mutton.” | Dog meat, we learn from the Frank- ! furter Zeitung, is largely sold in Ger- | | many, and more especially in Saxony, | but rarely under its own name. Trad- | ers describe it as Spanish mutton, and ! their customers are less chary of ask- | ing for it. Catfish in England is treated In the Archbishop John Ireland, venerable jreached home, he probably would! game euphemistic way. There was a prelate, celebrated quietly in the se--/have avoided the subsequent pneu- | time when this fish was never seen in the shops. Then some fishmongering haitine invented the name of “rock salmon,” and bestowed it upon the despised catfish, which now has an es- tablished piace in the market—London ‘Chronicle. A Couple of Shrewd Queries and the) tion by the farmers and business men here who could be reached }for an opinion today. The ouly tm sled the pre- | provement 8 that Koochich ram outlined 6 | y be included as part of fhe r years the papers aud people ‘of Itasca county have advo d the holding of a fair later than the siate lexhibit, at which the fu jproduets of northern |might be shown. It that the state fair dat et do not give the northern sec- tion an opportunity to display its roducts to the best advantage, and sort of supplementary circuit fair jwould meet with enthusiastic -en- jdorsement on all sides. | Itasea county will undoubtedly jbe well represented at the Aitkin |meeting on Dec. 30, although it is thought here that a more satis~ factory gathering would result if the meeting were to take place af fer the holida Garingar-Avery Wedding, Christmas will be a memorable celebration for Earl Garinger, man- {ual training teacher in the Oleott school at Marble, for today he will marry Miss Edith Avery of Grand Rapids. They will be wed- ded in a new home all ready fer them on Kate street, Rey. Mr. Or- ris Suver of Hill City, formerly loo- al preacher, officiating. Mr. Garin- ger came to Marble from Traverse City, Mich., where he was dires- tor of manual training, twe years ago. He has been very successful and. is well known in schoo! and church affairs of the Western Me- saba.. Miss Avery came te Marble from. Kansas about two years age. She was closely identified with loo~ al Sunday school work until she re- |moved to Grand Rapids where she jlas been identified with church work; being a member of the choir lof the Methodist church, also pres~ ident of the Epworth league. Taconite Mines Active. Stripping operations are te ‘pe {prosecuted in the vicinity of Tac- ;onite during all of the winter by jthe Oliver Iron Mining cempany. Two shovels are now removing ov- erburden at the Judd properties and it is said that another will be added in a short time. The three shovels will keep a large number of men employed throughout the winter months. " a | J / item